Today Current Affairs for Competitive Exams – Current Affairs 2021 Online 9th August 2021
Anupam Shyam passes away indigenously grown coffee beans, the bulk of it coming from tribal-dominated • Veteran actor Anupam Shyam passed Koraput. away in August 2021. • Tata Coffee will procure the produce • He was best known for his work on the from Koraput and market it by TV show "Mann Kee Awaaz: Pratigya" maintaining its uniqueness without and appearances in films like tampering with its quality or flavor. "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Bandit • The state government has granted Queen". 46,000 acres of forest land for coffee • In his nearly three-decade-long plantations. career, Shyam featured in films like "Satya", "Dil Se", "Lagaan", "Hazaaron James becomes third-highest wicket-taker Khwaishein Aisi", etc. • James Anderson surpassed Anil Equitas launches fintech accelerator programme Kumble (619) to become the third- highest wicket-taker in Test cricket on • Equitas Small Finance Bank has Day 3 of the first England v India Test launched Equitech. in Nottingham, in August 2021. • It is a fintech accelerator aimed at the • With 620 wickets, he is only behind startup ecosystem that will help Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and Shane fintechs curate their products and Warner (708) on the list of highest define a market strategy. wicket-takers in the longest format of • The program was launched on 7 the game. August 2021 and the application • He had already become the most process for enrolment has prolific fast bowler in Tests. commenced. • Equitech will focus on banking ITBP inducts two women officers in combat technology such as payments, lending, CASA, transaction banking, • In a first, the India-China LAC etc. guarding the Indo-Tibetan Border Police force (ITBP), on 9 Aug'21, Tata to market Odisha's Koraput Coffee commissioned its first two women officers in combat after they • The Odisha government has roped in completed their training in Mussoorie. Tata Coffee to promote the
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• The two women officers Prakriti and Ayyankali and Buddha sculptures at Diksha will be posted as company Venganur and Koduman. commanders in ITBP battalions. • Known for his rendition of a string of • A first-ever 'History of ITBP' folk songs, including the popular book containing many unknown facts 'Tharaka Pennale', he was working as of ITBP was also released. a graphic designer in an IT firm in Thiruvananthapuram. UP government renames Kakori Kand Rabindranath Tagore’s 80th death anniversary • Uttar Pradesh government has renamed the 'Kakori Kand' to 'Kakori • The 80th death anniversary of Train action'. Rabindranath Tagore was observed in • It has been renamed since the word West Bengal on 8 August 2021. 'Kand' denotes a sense of insult to this • Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali incident under India's Independence polymath – poet, writer, playwright, struggle. composer, philosopher, social • The UP govt celebrated the reformer, and painter. anniversary of the 'Kakori Train action' • He founded the Visva-Bharati on 9 August 2021 under the program University at Santiniketan in 1921. 'Chauri Chaura Mahotsav' which is • He became the first non-European to going to complete 100 years in 2022. win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. First Deputy NSA level meeting held International Cat Day: 8 August • The first Deputy NSA level meeting took place in Colombo in • International Cat Day is observed Aug'21. every year on 8 August. • The meeting was held under the • The day was started by the Colombo Security Conclave and was International Fund for Animal Welfare attended by India, Maldives, and Sri in 2002. Lanka. • The theme of the day for 2021 was • Countries including Bangladesh, “Be Cat Curious- Training for Cats and Seychelles, and Mauritius also their Humans”. participated as observers. • The official “custodian” of the • After the NSA Trilateral Meeting on International Cat Day is the Maritime Security in Nov'21, this organisation, International Cat Care. grouping was renamed as `Colombo Security Conclave’. BOI AXA appoints Anthony Heredia as CEO
Noted Kerala sculptor P.S. Banarji passes away • Anthony Heredia has been announced as the Chief Executive Officer of BOI • Cartoonist, sculptor, and folk singer AXA Investment Managers Private P.S. Banarji passed away in August Limited with effect from August 5, 2021. 2021. • A recipient of the Lalithakala Akademi • His last assignment was with Baroda Fellowship, Banarji was noted for his Asset Management. 2 | P a g e
• His previous work experiences include • The bomb that was dropped on tenures with Morgan Stanley Nagasaki was code-named the 'Fat Investment Management as Managing Man'. Director; HSBC Asset Management • It killed over 80,000 people. India as Senior Vice President, etc. Nifty 50 Index to fall to 15,500 by June 2022 International Army Games to be held in Russia • The NSE Nifty 50 Index will fall to • A 101 member contingent of the 15,500 by the end of June 2022, Indian Army will proceed to Russia to according to the UBS Group AG. participate in International Army • Of the Nifty companies that have Games - 2021 from 22 August to 4 reported so far, profits for about 58% Sept 2021. have missed analyst estimates. • The contingent will participate in Army • Meanwhile, the surge in share prices Scout Masters Competition (ASMC), has the Nifty trading at 21.3 times Elbrus ring, polar star, sniper frontier, estimated 12-month earnings, much and safe route games. higher than its five-year average of 18 • The contingent will also contribute two times. observers (one each) for the Open Water and Falcon Hunting games. Cyclothon event ‘Pedal for Dal’ flagged off
CPI-M to hoist the flag in its headquarters • J&K Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha flagged off a cyclothon event ‘Pedal for Dal’ • For the first time in its history, the from the shores of Dal Lake on 7 Communist Party of India August 2021. (Marxist) (CPI-M), in West Bengal, will • The event was a part of the hoist the national flag in its celebrations of ‘Azadi ka Amrut headquarters Alimuddin and all other Mahotsav’. party offices across the state on the • It witnessed the participation of more 75th year of India's independence. than 200 boys and girls from different • The central committee has given age groups along with professional permission to the state, after a written cyclists. proposal by the Left leader and former MLA Sujan Chakraborty. Punjab announces reward for Neeraj Chopra
Nagasaki Day: 9 August • Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has announced a • Japan's Nagasaki marked the 76th special cash reward of Rs 2 crore for anniversary of the US atomic bombing Neeraj Chopra for winning gold at the on 9 August 2021. Tokyo Games. • On August 9, 1945, the United States • BCCI also announced a cash reward dropped the second nuclear bomb on for medal winners at Tokyo Olympics. Nagasaki, three days after Hiroshima • Neeraj will be given Rs 1 cr. was destroyed by the first one - a • Rs 50 lakh each will be given to silver- uranium bomb- 'Little Boy'. medalist – Mirabai Channu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya. 3 | P a g e
• Rs 25 lakh each to be given to bronze Chopra secured a gold medal in the medalist. Javelin throw.
Gujarat CM launches eNagar mobile app Int'l Day of the World's Indigenous People
• Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani • The United Nations's International Day has launched eNagar mobile of the World's Indigenous People is application and portal. observed on August 9 each year. • The eNagar covers 10 modules with • It aims to promote and protect the 52 services including property tax, rights of the world’s indigenous professional tax, water and drainage, population. complaints and grievance redressal, • The theme of the day for 2021 is building permission, fire and “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous emergency services. peoples and the call for a new social • Gujarat Urban Development Mission contract.” has been appointed as a nodal • On December 23, 1994, the UN agency for the eNagar project. decided to observe this day on 9 August every year. SAI felicitates Tokyo Olympics medal winners Golfer Forrest wins maiden European Tour title • The Sports Authority of India (SAI) felicitated India's Tokyo 2020 medal • Scotland's golfer Grant Forrest won winners on 9 August 2021. his first European Tour title at the • PM Narendra Modi also took part in Scottish Championship on 8 August the felicitation, via a video conference. 2021. • The felicitation ceremony took place at • England's James Morrison finished the iconic Major Dhyan Chand second, followed by Spain's Santiago Stadium, New Delhi. Tarrio in third. • India ended at the 48th spot and • The 2021 European Tour is the 50th returned with their best-ever Olympic season of golf tournaments since the showing, winning as many as 7 European Tour officially began in 1972 medals. and the 13th edition of the Race to Dubai. 32nd Summer Games conclude Bilateral exercise ‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ held • The 32nd Summer Games closing ceremony was held at the Olympic • Indian Navy undertook bilateral Stadium in Tokyo on 8 August 2021. exercise ‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ with • The Tokyo Olympic Games was UAE Navy off the coast of Abu Dhabi delayed by a year due to the COVID- on 7 Aug 2021. 19 pandemic. • INS Kochi, with two integral Sea King • India’s campaign in the Tokyo edition MK 42B helicopters, deployed in the was the most successful one yet that Persian Gulf, participated in the brought the country a first-ever gold exercise. medal in track and field as Neeraj • UAE participated with UAES Al – Dhafra, a Baynunah class-guided 4 | P a g e
missile corvette, and one AS – 565B • The developed unit is portable and Panther helicopter. has initially been installed in five schools of rural areas of U'khand CM names Vandana as brand Rajasthan. ambassador Mercedes-Benz inks pact with DSEU • Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has named Indian • The Mercedes-Benz India has signed women's hockey team player a memorandum of understanding with Vandana Kataria as the state's Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship Department of Women Empowerment University (DSEU) for the and Child Development brand mechatronics program. ambassador. • It would offer a highly specialized • Earlier, Pushkar Singh Dhami had course under the Auto Mechatronics announced a cash reward of Rs 25 Research Centre (AMRC), DSEU. lakh to Vandana Katariya. • It would also extend apprenticeship • Vandana Katariya made history as and placement support to students of she became the first Indian woman to the Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship score a hat-trick at Tokyo Olympics. University.
Handicraft project 'Ujjwal Abahan' launched India exports 8 LMT coal to neighbours
• Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas • India exported 8 lakh tonnes of coal to Rameswar Teli has launched the 3rd its neighbouring nations, including ONGC handicraft project 'Ujjwal Nepal, in the fiscal year ended March Abahan'. 2021, according to the Coal Ministry's • It would support and train over a Provisional Coal Statistics 2020-21. hundred artisans of Assam in • Of the said quantity, the maximum Hathkharga handicraft. 77.20 percent was exported to Nepal, • This project is in line with the followed by 13.04 percent to government's observance of "Azadi Bangladesh. Ka Amrit Mahotsav", under which • In the year 2020-21, the import of coal ONGC has earlier launched two decreased by 13.50 percent over the projects supporting the indigenous previous year. handicrafts of the country. SEBI amends rules to empower independent Dir. IIT develops low-cost water purification unit • Capital markets regulator Securities • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Jodhpur has developed a low-cost has amended the rules to empower water purification and treatment unit. independent directors. • The water purification unit uses • It has overhauled rules about the membrane-assisted sorption-based appointment, removal, and Ultrafiltration (UF) technology to make remuneration of independent directors sure the water is purified and retreated to ensure their independence and for efficient usage. effectiveness. 5 | P a g e
• To give effect to the new rules, Sebi has launched a dedicated portal for has amended LODR (Listing the first time. Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations. PM Modi to launch Ujjwala Yojana 2.0
Punjab to cover farming families under HIC • Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 'Ujjwala 2.0' (Pradhan Mantri • The Punjab government has decided Ujjwala Yojana-PMUY) by handing to bring nearly 8.5 lakh farming over LPG connections at Mahoba families under the ambit of the health district of Uttar Pradesh on 10 Aug'21. insurance cover (HIC) for the year • Along with a deposit-free LPG 2021-22. connection, Ujjwala 2.0 would provide • All the farmers having 'J' forms and the first refill and hotplate free of cost 'sugarcane weighment slips' would be to the beneficiaries. eligible for this health scheme. • Ujjwala 2.0 would help achieve the • To facilitate the farmers to apply for Prime Minister's vision of universal this scheme, the Punjab Mandi Board access to LPG.
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