Current & Upcoming Courses ❑ LIC AAO 2021 Selection Batch - 25th March ❑ SBI PO 2021 Selection Batch - 31st March ❑ IB ACIO Tier 2 Descriptive Crash Course - 12th April ❑ SSC CGL 2021 Crash Course - 15th April Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live News Time Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Banking News ▪ South Africa’s second-largest lender FirstRand Bank exited India 12 years after setting branch in the country. ▪ FirstRand which has $118 billion in assets, became the second global bank to exit India just within a week of Citigroup's decision. The Johannesburg, South Africa-based lender broke the news in a videoconference on Tuesday. ▪ The bank's India CEO Rohit Wahi released an official statement declaring the shutdown of its only branch in Mumbai. The move will impact 50 jobs. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live International News: Appointment ▪ India's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has been chosen as the external auditor by (Netherland) Hague-based Conference of State Parties of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), for a three-year term starting 2021. ▪ India was also selected as the member of the executive council of the OPCW representing Asia group for another two-year term. ▪ Founded: 29 April 1997 ▪ Director General: Fernando Arias Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live RBI in News ▪ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to Cancel Licence of Sambandh Finserve ▪ RBI has issued a show-cause notice prior to cancelling the licence of fraud-hit Sambandh Finserve Pvt Ltd. after its net worth eroded below the regulatory minimum. ▪ According to the RBI norms, NBFC is required to maintain minimum capital levels consisting of Tier-I and Tier-II capital, of not less than 15 per cent of their aggregate risk-weighted assets. ▪ The Managing Director and CEO of Sambandh, Deepak Kindo. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Appointment ▪ Accenture India's chairperson Rekha M Menon has been appointed as chairperson of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), becoming the first woman to take the top role in the software lobby group's 30- year history. ▪ TCS President Krishnan Ramanujam will be the vice-chairperson. ▪ She succeeds U B Pravin Rao, chief operating officer of Infosys as Nasscom's chairperson. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live ➢ International News ▪ India has been elected by acclamation to three bodies of the UN Economic and Social Council. 1. India was elected by acclamation to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 2. UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) 3. And Executive Board of the World Food Programme, for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2022. ▪ Headquarters: New York, United States ▪ Founded: 24 October 1945 ▪ Secretary general: António Guterres Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Appointment ▪ Global sportswear brand Puma has roped in Indian cricketers Washington Sundar and Devdutt Padikkal as the brand ambassador. ▪ The duo has signed a long-term endorsement deals with the company, to join the likes of cricketers associated with Puma, that include Indian captain Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, women’s national cricketer, Sushma Verma, Yuvraj Singh etc. ▪ Puma is a German sports brand Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Financial News ▪ World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) will make a debt investment of $150 million (about Rs 1,132 crore) in non-bank lender Bajaj Finance Limited. ▪ The five-year loan is essentially to support micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) loans. ▪ The Bajaj Group holds 56.12% stake in Bajaj Finance through Bajaj Finserv Ltd. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live ➢ Index: 2021 Energy Transition Index : The report is published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), prepared in collaboration with Accenture . ▪ India is placed at the 87th position among 115 countries ▪ Sweden has topped the 10th edition of the index, followed by Norway (2nd) and Denmark (3rd), Switzerland (4), Austria (5), Finland (6), the United Kingdom (7), New Zealand (8), France (9) and Iceland (10). ▪ Zimbabwe is the last ranked country in the index. ▪ Current performance of their energy systems across three dimensions: ▪ economic development and growth, ▪ environmental sustainability ▪ energy security and access indicators ➢ List of India’s Rank Different Index 2020 ▪ World Happiness Index 2020-139th ▪ Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom 2020-121st ( Singapore) ▪ Global Economic Freedom Index 2020 (Fraser Institute, Canada): 105th (New Zealand) ▪ International Intellectual Property (IP) Index-40th ▪ Global passport Index 2021-84th (Japan tops the list) ▪ Global Press Freedom Index 2020-142 (Norway) ▪ IMD’s World Competitiveness Index 2020: 43rd ▪ Global Innovation Index 2020-48th (Switzerland) ▪ Global Talent Competitive Index: 72nd (Switzerland) ▪ Democracy Index 2021: 53rd (Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand ) ▪ Global Hunger Index: 94 among 107 countries ▪ Asia Power Index 2020: 4th position (USA, China, Japan) ▪ Inclusive Internet Index 2021: India 49th ( Sweden) Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live ➢ International Summit ▪ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in the “Leaders’ Summit on Climate”, hosted by President of U.S.A. Joe Biden. ▪ The two day conference has been organised virtually on 22-23 April 2021, which coincides with the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Paris Agreement on climate change for signature. ▪ Theme : Our Collective Sprint to 2030. ▪ The Summit is being held in the run up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) that will take place in November 2021 in Glasglow. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live National News ▪ Priyanka Mohite has became the first Indian woman to scale Mt Annapurna, the tenth highest mountain in the world. ▪ The 26-year-old mountaineer achieved the feat on April 16, 2021. Mt Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal situated 8,091 metres (26,545 ft) above sea level. ▪ Priyanka hails from Satara district in Maharashtra. ▪ She also holds the record for being the first woman in India to scale Mt Makalu, the fifth highest mountain in the world at 8,485 metres in May 2019. ▪ Apart from this Priyanka has previously climbed Mt Everest in 2013 Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Sports News ▪ Tamil Nadu teenager Arjun Kalyan became India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster when he crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia. ▪ Viswanathan Anand became the country's first Grandmaster, in 1988. ▪ Goa's 14-year-old Leon Mendonca has become India's 67th chess Grandmaster ▪ The World Chess Federation, known as FIDE headquarters : Lausanne (Switzerland). Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Sports News ▪ ITBP Water Sports & Adventure Institute, Tehri (Uttarakhand) Inaugurated ▪ Water Sports and Adventure Institute (WSAI) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) [S. S. Deswal, DG, ITBP] established at Tehri Dam (Uttarakhand) was Inaugurated. ▪ ITBP’s Mountaineering and Skiing Institute (M&SI), Auli, will independently run this institution and that the institute will impart the training in Aero, water and land related sports and adventure sports. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Important Day ▪ Earth Day is observed on April 22 every year and dedicated to Mother Earth. ▪ The theme for Earth Day 2021 is "Restore Our Earth and it ''focuses on natural processes and emerging green technologies that can restore the world's ecosystems. ▪ Earth Day is observed on April 22 since 1970. In 1990, Earth Day became an ''environmental movement. Daily Current Affairs @8AM Live Important Day ▪ International Girls in ICT Day is observed on the fourth Thursday of April by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Member States. ▪ In 2021, the day falls on 22nd April. ▪ 2021 theme: Connected Girls, Creating Brighter Futures. ▪ It provides an initiative to create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider studies and careers in the growing field of information and communication technologies (ICT). ▪ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) headquarter- Geneva, Switzerland .