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 1 | P a g e • 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.