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PARA 13.2 GA CAPSULE

(Covered MARCH to AUGUST 2021)
Index
No. of Chapter Topics Name Page No.
Chapter 1 Important Appointment (National, International) 4-21
Chapter 2 Awards (National, International) 22-51
Chapter 3 Government Scheme/ campaign 51-57
Chapter 4 Summit/ Conference 57-61
Chapter 5 Ranking Index 61-69
Chapter 6 Partnership/ Agreement 69-77
Chapter 7 loans agreement for India from different 77-80

organizations
Chapter 8 Mergers and Acquires 80-82
Chapter 9 APP/Website/Card 82-85
Chapter 10 India’s GDP Forecast FY21 &22 (Last Update 12th 85-86
Jan 2021)
Chapter 11 Budget 2020 & Atma Nirbhar Package 86-94
Chapter 12 Important Committee 94-97
Chapter 13 Banking & Financial 98-117
Chapter 14 Current Affairs (National) In Short 117-133
Chapter 15 Current Affairs (International) In Short 133-138
Chapter 16 Defence News 138-149
Chapter 17 Sports News 149-162
Chapter 18 Upcoming Sports Events & Venues 162-164
Chapter 19 List of Important Book and Author 2020 164-166
Chapter 20 Important Day and Theme 2020 166-184
Jobs
Chapter 21 Obituary 184-188
Chapter 22 Science related News 188-190
Chapter 23 Banks Name & CEO of Bank & Headquarter & 190-193
Tagline
Chapter 24 State Chief Ministers and Governors 193-195
Chapter 25 Cabinet ministers of India with their constituency 195-200
Chapter 26 List of Union Ministry Secretary 200-201
Static
No. of Chapter Topics Name
Chapter 1 Dams in India
Chapter 2 Folk Dance
Chapter 3 List of International & Domestic Airport: State wise
Chapter 4 International borders / Boundary lines
Chapter 5 International Organizations & Headquarter
Chapter 6 List of Lakes
Chapter 7 List of Important Indian Cities on Rivers banks
Chapter 8 List of National Parks of India
Chapter 9 Nuclear Power Plants in India
Chapter 10 Thermal Power Plants in India
Chapter 11 Solar Power Plant in India
Chapter 12 List of Ports in India: State Wise
Chapter 13 List of River a Cross State
Chapter 14 Stadiums in India
Chapter 15 Famous Temple in India
Jobs
Chapter 16 List of Tiger Reserve in India
Chapter 17 List of Indian National Trophies and Cups associated with sports
Chapter 18 Capital & Currency
Chapter 19 Wildlife Sanctuary
Chapter 1: Important Appointment (National & International)

National Level Appointment
(National, March)
Organization Person
Additional charge of CRPF director general (DG) Kuldiep Singh
Additional charge of Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj
Chief Statistician of India (CSI) Dr G P Samanta
Director and chief executive of the Indian Council for

Research on International Economic Relations Deepak Mishra
(ICRIER)
Next Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana

Managing director and CEO of Mahindra and
Anish Shah
Mahindra
Chairman of Airports Authority of India Sanjeev Kumar
Chairman and Managing Director of Food

Atish Chandra
Corporation of India
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique

Saurabh Garg
Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Chairperson of Standing Conference of Public

Soma Mondal
Enterprises (SCOPE)
Jobs
(National, April)
Organization Person
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil

Subhash Kumar
and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC)
Director General of Employees’ State Insurance

Mukhmeet S. Bhatia
Corporation (ESIC)
Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection

Mallika Srinivasan
Board (PESB)
Head of the BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Unit Shabir Hussein
Mission Director of Atal Innovation Mission Chintan Vaishnav
Chairman and Managing Director of Small

S Ramann
Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
First woman director general of National

Poonam Gupta
Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra
National Anti-Doping Agency’s Director-

Siddharth Longjam
General
Murali Natarajan
Managing Director & CEO of DCB Bank
(Reappointment)
Chairperson of National Association of

Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Rekha M. Menon
for 2021-22
HDFC Bank’s part-time chairman Atanu Chakraborty
MD & CEO of NCDEX Arun Raste
Jobs
Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank

Ajay Seth
of India
Amitabh Chaudhry
Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank
(Reappointment)
Chairman of Bajaj Auto Neeraj Bajaj
Chairman Emeritus of Bajaj Auto Rahul Bajaj
(National, May)
Organization Person
Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of BEML Limited Amit Banerjee
Managing director of Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance

Mahesh Balasubramanian
Company Limited
MD & CEO of Kotak General Insurance Suresh Agarwal
Chairman and managing director of THDC India Ltd Vijay Goel
Director of ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research (ICAR-

Raman Meenakshi Sundaram
IIRR), Hyderabad
38th National President FICCI FLO Ujjwala Singhania
Chairman and managing director of Bharat Petroleum

Arun Kumar Singh
Corporation Ltd (BPCL)
CEO of National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd Padmakumar M Nair
New chief executive officer of Bata India Gunjan Shah
CEO of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub Rajesh Bansal
(National, June)
Organization Person
Jobs
Lieutenant General Pradeep Chandran Nair

21st Director General of the Assam Rifles
(Update 2 June)
T V Narendran
President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
(Update 2 June)
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Arun Mishra

Commission (NHRC) (Update 2 June)
Vice-Admiral Ravneet Singh

Deputy Chief of Naval Staff
(Update 2 June)
Chairman of IBF’s self-regulatory body Digital Vikramjit Sen

Media Content Regulatory Council (DMCRC) (Update 3 June)
Vishwavir Ahuja
Managing Director and CEO of RBL Bank
(Update 7 June)
Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar

Director General Naval Operations
(Update 8 June)
Anup Chandra Pandey

Election Commissioner of India
(Update 9 June)
M R Kumar
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) chairman
(Update 10 June)
Brand ambassador of Biotechnology company Akshay Kumar

MyLab Discovery Solutions (Update 14 June)
Re-elected as Chairman of Cellular Operators’ Ajai Puri

Association of India (COAI) for 2021-22 (Update 15 June)
Director (Counsellor) in India’s Permanent Aashish Chandorkar

Mission in the World Trade Organisation (Update 18 June)
‘Ambassador of Forest Frontline Heroes’ at WWF Upasana Kamineni

India (Update 22 June)
Additional charge as the Boards Chairman of Meenesh Shah

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) (Update 28 June)
Manesh Mahatme
Head of Payments of WhatsApp in India
(Update 28 June)
Jobs
KK Venugopal
Re-appointed as the Attorney General of India
(Update 28 June)
Acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) of Suresh N Patel

India (Update 29 June)
Praveen Sinha
Special Director of CBI
(Update 29 June)
(National, July)
Organization Person
Vivek Ram Chaudhari

Vice Chief of Indian Air Force
(Update 1 July)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Institution for Amitabh Kant

Transforming India (NITI Aayog) (Update 1 July)
Nitin Gadkari
“Brand Ambassador” of Khadi Prakritk Paint
(Update 7 July)
N Venudhar Reddy
Director General of All India Radio
(Update 8 July)
Re-appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Shyam Srinivasan

Officer of Federal Bank (Update 10 July)
Piyush Goyal
Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
(Update 15 July)
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
(Update 20 July)
C Vijayakumar
Managing director of HCL Technologies Ltd
(Update 24 July)
Noopur Chaturvedi
CEO of Bharat Bill Payment System
(Update 30 July)
(National, Aug)
Jobs
Organization Person
Deepak Das
Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
(Update 2 Aug)
SN Ghormade
New Vice Chief of the Naval Staff
(Update 2 Aug)
Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation of Mini Ipe

India (Update 4 Aug)
Himanshu Kapania
Non-Executive Chairman of Vodafone Idea
(Update 5 Aug)
Stepped down as the Non-Executive Director and Kumar Mangalam Birla
Non-Executive Chairman of the Vodafone Idea (Vi)
Board (Update 5 Aug)
1st woman Director of Zoological Survey of India

Dhriti Banerjee
(ZSI)
Rekha Sharma
Chairperson of the National Commission for Women
[3-year extension]
(NCW)
(Update 11 Aug)
New chairman of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Kamlesh Kumar Pant

Authority (NPPA) (Update 12 Aug)
Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Chairperson of Jio MAMI Film Festival
(Update 18 Aug)
New President of Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) N K Singh

Society (Update 21 Aug)
Chief Executive Officer of Broadcast Audience Nakul Chopra

Research Council (BARC) India
Sandeep Bakhshi
MD & CEO of ICICI Bank
(Update 25 Aug)
Ajay Kumar
Executive director (ED) of RBI
(Update 26 Aug)
Carol Furtado
Interim CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Jobs
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HSBC Bank (India) Hitendra Dave
Chairman of ‘Stop TB Partnership Board’ Mansukh Mandaviya
(International Level Appointment)
(International, March)
Organization/ Country Persons
Chairman of the ‘Champions and Veterans’ committee of the

MC Mary Kom
International Boxing Association (AIBA)
Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York

Office of the United Nations Environment Programme Ligia Noronha
(UNEP)
Chairman of APRACA (Asia Pacific Rural and Agricultural

G R Chintala
Credit Association)
1st Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the

Naureen Hassan
Federal Reserve Bank
Chairman of the Panel of External Auditors of the United

Girish Chandra Murmu
Nations for the year 2021
President of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach
Samia Suluhu Hassan

Tanzania's First Female President Capital: Dodoma
Currency: Tanzanian shilling
Mark Rutte
Prime Minister of Netherlands Capital: Amsterdam
Currency: Euro
Jobs
(International, April )
Organization / Country Person
Vjosa Osmani
President of Kosovo Capital: Pristina
Currency: Euro
Prime Minister of Vietnam Pham Minh Chinh
Nguyen Xuan Phuc
President of Vietnam Capital: Hanoi
Currency: Vietnamese dong
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou
Prime Minister of Niger Capital: Niamey
Currency: West African CFA franc

Joseph Jouthe
Resigned as Prime Minister of Haiti Capital: Port-au-Prince
Currency: Haitian gourde

Miguel Díaz-Canel
President of Cuba Capital: Havana
Currency: Cuban peso (CUP)
Kim Boo-kyum
Prime Minister of South Korea Capital: Seoul
Currency: South Korean won
(International, May)
Athlete ambassadors for International Olympic

PV Sindhu and Canada’s Michelle Li
Committee’s (IOC)’s ‘Believe in Sport’ campaign
Jobs
New Chief at the United Nations Office for the Coordination

of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Martin Griffiths
Moctar Ouane
Note: About Mali
Reappointed as Mali’s Prime Minister
Capital: Bamako
Currency: West African CFA franc
Collinet Makosso
Note: About Congo
Republic of Congo’s new Prime Minister
Capital: Kinshasa
Currency: Congolese franc
Re-elected as the President of the International Hockey

Federation (FIH) Narinder Batra
Guillermo Lasso
Note: About Ecuador
Ecuador’s first right-wing President
Capital: Quito
Currency: United States Dollar
CEO of Amazon Andy Jassy
Bashar Al-Assad
Note: About Syria
Re-Elected as Syria's President
Capital: Damascus
Currency: Syrian pound
President of the International Narcotics Control Board

(INCB) Jagjit Pavadia
(International, June)
Jobs
Isaac Herzog
(Update 3 June)
President of Israel Prime Minister: Naftali Bennett
Capital: Jerusalem
Currency: Israeli Shekel
Chairman of the World Health Organisation Dr Patrick Amoth (Kenya)

(WHO) Executive Board
(Update 3 June)
Ranjitsinh Disale
World Bank Education Advisor
(Update 7 June)
Abdulla Shahid (Maldives)
President of UN General Assembly (UNGA)
(Update 8 June)
Ukhnaa Khurelsukh
President of Mongolia (Update 11 June)

Capital: Ulaanbaatar
Currency: Mongolian tögrög
Benedetto Vigna
CEO of Ferrari
(Update 11 June)
K Nagaraj Naidu
UNGA President's Chef de Cabinet
(Update 12 June)
Head of United Nations Conference on Trade Rebecca Grynspan (Costa Rica)
and development (UNCTAD)
(Update 13 June)
Naftali Bennett
New Prime Minister of Israel
Honorary member of WHO’s Global Air Mukesh Sharma

Pollution and Health – Technical Advisory
Group (GAPH-TAG) (Update 16 June)
Satya Nadella
Chairman of Microsoft
(Update 17 June)
Jobs
Ebrahim Raisi
President of Iran (Update 19 June)

Capital: Tehran
Currency: Iranian Toman
Member of World Bank-IMF High Advisory Montek Ahluwalia

Group
(Update 22 June)
International Criminal Court’s chief Karim Khan
prosecutor
(Update 23 June)
(International, July)
Abiy Ahmed
Re-elected as Prime Minister of Ethiopia Capital: Addis Ababa
Currency: Ethiopian birr
Sher Bahadur Deuba
Capital: Kathmandu
Nepal’s Prime Minister
Currency: Nepalese rupee
President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari
(Update 13 July)
Pedro Castillo
Note: About Peru
President of Peru Capital: Lima

Currency: Sol
(Update 21 July)
Jobs
Ariel Henry
Note: About Haiti
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Haiti's Prime Minister
Currency: Haitian gourde
Continent: North America
(Update 22 July)
Rashmi Ranjan Das
Member of UN Tax Committee for the term period 2021 to 2025
(Update 23 July)
Najib Mikati
Note: About Lebanon
Prime Minister of Lebanon Capital: Beirut

Currency: Lebanese pound
(Update 28 July)
(International, Aug)
Nikol Pashinyan
Capital: Yerevan
Re-appointed as Prime Minster of Armenia
Currency: Armenian dram.
(Update 3 Aug)
Min Aung Hlaing
Capital: Naypyitaw
Myanmar’s interim Prime Minister
Currency: Kyat
(Update 3 Aug)
Global brand ambassador of Italian luxury brand Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Bvlgari
(Update 4 Aug)
Mohammad Mokhber
Capital: Tehran
First Vice President of Iran
Currency: Iranian toman
(Update 11 Aug)
Jobs
Hakainde Hichilema
Capital: Lusaka
Zambia's new president
Currency: Zambian kwacha
(Update 17 Aug)
Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Malaysia’s Prime Minister • Capital: Kuala Lumpur

• Currency: Malaysian ringgit
(Update 20 Aug)
Mansukh Mandaviya
Chairperson of Stop TB Partnership Board
(Update 29 Aug)
Important Brand Ambassador
Brand Ambassador
▪ New brand ambassador of Reebok ▪ Varun Dhawan, Katrina Kaif
▪ New brand ambassador of FanMojo ▪ Prithvi Shaw

▪ Hero MotoCorp new brand ambassador ▪ Yerry Mina
▪ RedBus, Dream 11, Mastercard ▪ Mahendra Singh Dhoni
▪ PhonePe , Vivo, Ceat Tyres ▪ Aamir Khan

▪ Bharat Pe, Pepsi ▪ Salman Khan
▪ Educated Girl ▪ Katrina Kaif
▪ Bata ▪ Kriti Sanon
▪ Myntra ▪ Virat and Anushka, Kiara Advani,
Disha Patani
▪ Maruti Suzuki ▪ Varun Dhawan
▪ Uber, Mobile Premier League, Great ▪ Virat Kohli
Learning’s
▪ GST ▪ Amitabh Bachchan
▪ Skill India ▪ Varun Dhwan and Anushka sharma
▪ Tribes India ▪ Marry kom
▪ Fit India, Acer India’s ▪ Sonu Sude
▪ Swasth Immunised India, Puma ▪ Kareena Kapoor Khan
▪ New brand “V-Nourish” ▪ Shah Rukh Khan

▪ TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment) ▪ Askhay Kumar
brand ambassador
Jobs
▪ JBL’s New global brand ambassador ▪ Bollywood Actor Ranveer Singh
▪ Brand ambassador for Gatorade by ▪ Hima Das

PepsiCo India
▪ New brand ambassador of Madhya ▪ Actor Govinda
Pradesh
▪ Visa ▪ PV Sindhu
▪ Maharashtra Assembly polls 2019 ▪ Madhuri Dixit
▪ IOC's 2020 Olympics athlete ▪ M. C. Mary Kom

ambassadors’ group
▪ Ambassador of Global Investors’ Meet ▪ Yami Gautam
2019 by Himachal Pradesh govt
▪ National Anti-doping Agency brand ▪ Suniel Shetty

ambassador
▪ PUMA brand ambassador ▪ Sunil Chhetri, Virat Kohli, Sara Ali
Khan, MC Mary Kom and Dutee Chand,
Kareena Kapoor Khan
▪ Ambassadors for ‘Bharat Ki Laxmi’ ▪ Deepika Padukone and shuttler PV

Sindhu (by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi)
▪ Tata Power as brand ambassador ▪ Shardul Thakur
▪ JSW Steel as brand ambassador ▪ Rishabh Pant
▪ Brand ambassador for Mobile Premier Actress Tamannaah Bhatia, Virat Kohli
League
▪ New Ambassador for World Wildlife Five-time World chess champion Viswanathan
Fund (WWF) Anand
▪ Brand ambassador for edtech company Ajinkya Rahane
ELSA Corp & Hudle
▪ United Nations Environment Dia Mirza (extended 2yrs, December 2022)
Programme (UNEP) Goodwill
Ambassador
▪ Adidas brand ambassador Manushi Chhillar joins Rohit, Hima
▪ IIFL Finance as its first-ever brand Rohit Sharma
ambassador, Oakley’s
▪ UNADAP Goodwill Ambassador Thirteen-year-old M. Nethra daughter of C.
Mohan an owner of salon in Madurai
▪ Brand Ambassadors for JSW Cement Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Chhetri
▪ Luxury Ride as brand ambassador Sukhbir Singh
▪ New brand ambassador of SportsAdda Brett Lee
▪ ebikeGo New brand ambassador Harbhajan Singh
Bajaj Allianz Life’s brand ambassador Ayushmann Khurrana
Brand ambassador of Paytm First Games Sachin Tendulkar

Brand ambassador for 9stacks Suresh Raina
Bengal Peerless brand ambassador Sourav Ganguly
Brand ambassador for Indian brand Chetan Anand
‘Transform’
Parle agro brand ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Healthcare brand Dr Trust, Vega Rohit Sharma
‘Fit India’ Movement Ambassador Kuldeep Handoo
Jobs
Horlicks Protein Plus new brand Akshay Kumar

ambassador
Equitas Small Finance Bank brand Smriti Mandhana
ambassador
India ambassador to BAFTA's AR Rahman
(Updated 1 Dec)
Brand ambassador of Digit Insurance Virat Kohli
Brand ambassador of Vivo Virat Kohli
Punjab state’s covid vaccination ambassador Sonu Sood
Brand ambassador of Elista Suresh Raina
TECNO’s India brand ambassador for 2021 Ayushmann Khurrana
Brand ambassador of Puma Washington Sundar, Devdutt Padikkal
Brand ambassador of ASICS Ravindra Jadeja
Yuvraj Singh
Brand ambassador of PUMA Motorsport in India
(Update 18 June)
Jasprit Bumrah
Brand ambassador OnePlus wearables
(Update 23 June)
John Abraham
Eurosport India’s MotoGP™ Brand Ambassador
(Update 9 Aug)
MS Dhoni
First brand ambassador of HomeLane
(Update 10 Aug)
Ambassador for RBI’s digital banking fraud public Neeraj Chopra

awareness campaign (Update 10 Aug)
Rajkummar Rao
First brand ambassador of Cashify
(Update 12 Aug)
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

Brand ambassador of Amway India
(Update 18 Aug)
Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh

Brand ambassador of Kerala adventure tourism
(Update 20 Aug)
Jobs
Brand ambassador for Samsung India’s Galaxy Z Alia Bhatt

Series foldable smartphones (Update 27 Aug)
Brand ambassador for the Delhi government’s Sonu Sood

ambitious ‘Desh Ke Mentor’ initiative (Update 27 Aug)
List of Chief Justices
▪ Supreme court chief justice N.V Raman (48th)

▪ Madhya Pradesh High Court Mohammad Rafiq
▪ Patna High Court Chief Justice Sanjay Karol
▪ New Chief Justices Himachal Pradesh Ravi Malinath
High Court
▪ New Chief Justices Punjab and Haryana Ravi Shanker Jha

High Court
▪ New Chief Justices Rajasthan High Court Indrajit Mahanty
▪ New Chief Justices Sikkim High Court Meenakshi madan Rai

▪ New Chief Justices Tripura High Court Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi
▪ New Chief Justices Gauhati High Court Sudhanshu Dhulia
▪ New Chief Justices Andhra Pradesh Arup Kumar Goswami

High Court
▪ New Chief Justices Kerala High Court S. Manikumar
▪ New Chief Justice of Gujarat HC RM Chhaya

▪ New Chief Justice of Chhatisgarh HC Prashant Kumar mishra
▪ New Chief Justice of Delhi HC Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel
▪ New Chief Justice of Karnataka HC Satish Chandra Sharma
▪ New Chief Justice of Bombay HC Justice Dipankar Datta

▪ New Chief Justice of Manipur HC PV Sanjay Kumar
▪ New Chief Justice of Meghalaya HC Biswanath Somadder

▪ New Chief Justice of Odisha HC Dr. S. Muralidhar
▪ New Chief Justice of Madras HC Sanjib Banerjee
Jobs
▪ New Chief Justice of Telangana HC Ms. HimaKohli

▪ New Chief Justice of Allahabad HC MN Bhandari
▪ New Chief Justice of Calcutta HC Rajesh Bindal
▪ New Chief Justice of Jharkhand HC Ravi Ranjan

▪ New Chief Justice of Uttrakhand HC Raghvendra Singh Chauhan
New CJO High Court of Jammu & Kashmir Pankaj Mithal
and Ladakh
Chiefs and DGS

Department Chief/DGS
▪ Chief of Defence Staff ▪ Bipin Rawat
▪ Army Chief ▪ Manoj Mukund Naravane
▪ Naval Chief ▪ Karambir Singh

▪ Air Chief ▪ Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
▪ IB ▪ Arvind Kumar
▪ BSF ▪ Pankaj Kumar Singh
▪ CRPF Kuldiep Singh
▪ CISF ▪ Sudhir Kumar Saxena
▪ ITBP ▪ Sanjay Arora
▪ NSG ▪ M. A. Ganapathy
▪ NDRF SN Pradhan
▪ CBI ▪ Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
▪ RAW ▪ Samant Goel
▪ NIA ▪ Kuldiep Singh (Additional Charge)
▪ Attorney General KK Venugopal
▪ Chief justice N. V. Ramana
List of Chairman of Important Organisation

Organisation Chairman Name
▪ SIDBI ▪ - S Ramann
▪ SEBI ▪ Ajay Tyagi
▪ NABARD ▪ Chintala Govinda Rajulu
▪ NHRC ▪ Arun Mishra
▪ NITI Aayog ▪ PM Narendra Modi
▪ ISRO ▪ K.Sivan
▪ UIDAI ▪ Saurabh Garg(CE0), J. Satyanarayana hai
(Chairman)
▪ UGC ▪ Dhirendra Pal Singh
▪ DRDO ▪ G Satheesh Reddy
▪ Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) ▪ J.B. Mohapatra
Jobs
▪ FICCI (President) ▪ Uday Shankar

▪ LIC (MD) ▪ Mini Ipe
▪ NTPC ▪ Gurdeep Singh
▪ ONGC ▪ Subhash Kumar
▪ IOC ▪ Shrikant Madhav Vaidya
▪ GAIL ▪ Manoj Jain
▪ SAIL ▪ Soma Mondal
▪ Chief Election Commission of India ▪ Sushil Chandra (Election Commissioner:
Anup Chandra Pandey and Rajiv Kumar)
UPSC chairman ▪ Pradeep Kumar Joshi
▪ RBI ▪ Governor: Shaktikanta Das
▪ Deputy Governor: Mahesh Kumar Jain
▪ Deputy Governor: M. D. Patra
▪ Deputy Governor: M Rajeshwar Rao
▪ Deputy Governor : T Rabi Sankar
▪ Executive director (ED): Ajay Kumar
▪ SBI SBI New chairman- Dinesh Kumar Khara (For
3yrs)
SBI new chief financial officer (CFO)-Charanjit
Surinder Singh Attra
SBI Cards& Payment Services MD & CEO-
Ashwini Kumar Tewari
SBI General Insurance MD & CEO - Prakash
Chandra Kandpal
SBI Mutual Fund MD & CEO- Vinay Tonse
SBI MD - Ashwani Bhatia
Chapter 2: Awards
National Level
(National, Aug)
Award Person/Organization Purpose/ Field
The Maharashtra Bhushan Selection Committee chaired
Maharashtra Bhushan by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has unanimously
Asha Bhosle
award 2021 selected legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle for the
prestigious award.
Jobs
Asha Bhosle is best known for her playback singing in

Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire.
The founder of the Serum Institute of India (SII) in

Pune will be commended for his work during the COVID-
National Lokmanya Tilak 19 pandemic and how his company helped save many
Cyrus Poonawala
Award 2021 lives by creating the Covishield vaccine and then
making provided the medicine to the citizens of the
country at an affordable price.
The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) Trust has

selected two renowned economic scholars for the Prof.
C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Jagdish Bhagwati and C C.R. Rao Centenary Gold Medal award. Renowned
Medal award Rangarajan economists Jagdish Bhagwati and C Rangarajan have
been conferred with the inaugural Prof CR Rao Centenary
Gold Medal (CGM).
Indian Wrestler Labhanshu Sharma won the Bharat

Kesari Wrestling Dangal 2021 organised in Tamil
Bharat Kesari Wrestling
Labhanshu Sharma Nadu. 20 years since the formation of Uttarakhand,
Dangal 2021
Labhanshu has broken the drought and won the title of
Bharat Kesari for the state.
Maharashtra government has announced for creation

of a new award named “Rajiv Gandhi Award for
Excellence in Information Technology (IT)”.
Rajiv Gandhi Award for
Excellence in Information According to Minister of State for Information and
Technology (IT) Technology, Satej Patil, award will be given to institutions
and companies for their outstanding performance in
information technology sector on the occasion of birth
anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Mohammad Azam from Karimnagar district in

Telangana has been awarded the National Youth
Award recently by the Union Youth Affairs and Sports
Minister Anurag Singh Thakur in Delhi for displaying
exemplary leadership qualities.
National Youth Award
Mohammad Azam
2021
He has conducted many service programmes like blood
donations, plantation drives and awareness
programmes about population control, earning him
several awards. He received the ‘Indira Gandhi NSS
Award’ from then President of India Pranab Mukherjee.
ASI Babu Ram, J&K
Ashok Chakra
Police (Posthumous)
Shri Altaf HUSSAIN

KIRTI CHAKRA BHAT, CONstable, j&K
Police (Posthumous)
Jobs
(National, July)
Journalist and Malayalam language playwright Omchery N
N Pillai has been selected for the Bahrain Keraleeya
BKS Literary Award Samajam (BKS)’s Literary Award for 2021.
Omchery N N Pillai
2021 BKS president P V Radhakrishna Pillai, general secretary
Varghese Karackal and literary wing secretary Firoz
Thiruvathra announced the award.
Cachar Deputy Commissioner, Keerthi Jalli received the

National Silver SKOCH Award a few days ago for ‘Pushti
National Silver SKOCH
Cachar district Nirbhor’ (nutrition-dependent), a convergence project on
award
transformation and development entailing setting up Nutri-
gardens at houses in Dinnathpur Bagicha village.
(National, June)
Arunachal Pradesh’s Water Burial has bagged

Best film National Award at the best film National Award on environment
Arunachal Pradesh’s Water
67th National Films Awards conservation at 67th National Films Awards
Burial
2021 2021. The film, which is directed by independent
filmmaker Shantanu Sen.
Airport Council Cochin International Airport has consistently

International (ACI) Director delivered excellence in customer service by
Cochin International Airport
General’s Roll of Excellence winning multiple awards for five years in past 10
(CIAL)
honour in Airport Service years. It is one among six airports across the
Quality world that will receive recognition in 2021.
Uttar Pradesh was ranked as top performing

state under India Smart Cities Award Contest
2020. Madhya Pradesh came second while Tamil
Smart City awards 2020 Nadu at third position.
Surat and Indore won best award for their
overall performance in 2020. Best union
territory award was conferred to Chandigarh.
Jobs
(National, May)
Indian Renewable Energy for being the Leading Public Institution in
Green Urja Award Development Agency Ltd. Financing Institution for Renewable Energy this
(IREDA) year by Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Shaji .N.M., fondly called as ‘Tuber Man’ of

Kerala has been awarded the India Biodiversity
Award 2021 in the individual category of
‘Conservation of domesticated species’.
Mr. Shaji, who conserves a wide array of around
200 tuber crops including greater yam, lesser
India Biodiversity Award 2021 Shaji N.M yam, elephant foot yam, arrow root, colocasia,
sweet potato, cassava and Chinese potato in his
farm has received State awards seven times for
his efforts.
He has also received the Plant Genome Savior
Reward 2015, instituted by PPV&FR Authority,
New Delhi.
(National, April)
Union Information and

Broadcasting Minister Prakash
Javadekar announced on 1 April
that the 51st Dadasaheb Phalke
Award will be honored to
51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award superstar Rajinikanth.
Rajinikanth
2019
On the jury that selected
Rajinikanth for the award were
singers Asha Bhosle and Shankar
Mahadevan, actors Mohanlal and
Biswajeet, and filmmaker
Subhash Ghai.
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Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu

conferred Odisha-born Andhra
Pradesh Governor
Biswabhusan Harichandan
with the prestigious Kalinga
Ratna Samman for 2021 in
Kalinga Ratna Samman Biswabhusan Harichandan Cuttack on the occasion of the
40th annual day of the Sarala
Sahitya Sansad at the Sarala
Bhawan. The Kalinga Ratna
Samman carries a silver idol of
Goddess Saraswati, a copper
plaque and a shawl.
Sumon Chakraborty is a faculty

member at the
IIT, Department of Mechanical
Engineering in Kharagpur.
30th GD Birla Prize for
Sumon Chakraborty He has been shortlisted for the
scientific research prize for his outstanding
contribution to the science of
engineering and its applications
in the development of
technologies for affordable
healthcare.
Indian sprinter, Dutee Chand

has been chosen for the
inaugural edition of the
Chhattisgarh Veerni Award, by
the Chhattisgarh state
Chhattisgarh Veerni Award Dutee Chand government. The award, which
recognises the contribution of
Indian women in different
fields, including sports, was
given virtually on April 14,
2021.
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The Uttar Pradesh government

won the “E-Panchayat
Puraskar 2021”, ranking first
in Category I. It was followed
by Assam and Chhattisgarh at
the second position, while
Odisha and Tamil Nadu stood
e-panchayat award 2021 Uttar Pradesh third.
Every year, the Union Ministry of

Panchayati Raj awards those
states, which ensure maximum
use of information technology to
keep a tab on the work done by
gram panchayats.
National, March
Bihari Puraskar 2020 Mohankrishna Bohara for his Hindi book of Criticism, titled
Taslima: Sangharsh Aur Sahitya. The
K.K. Birla Foundation announced this in
New Delhi.
The award is one of the three literary
awards instituted by the K.K. Birla
Foundation in 1991.
Baton of Honor Kiran Bedi President Ram Nath Kovind presented

a baton of honour and a letter of
appreciation to former Puducherry
Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi.
BBC’s Indian Koneru Humpy World rapid chess champion Koneru

sportswoman of the Humpy has won the BBC Indian
year Sportswoman-of-the-Year award.
The Lifetime Achievement award went to
veteran athlete Anju Bobby George.
English cricket star Ben Stokes
announced the 19-year-old Indian
Shooter, Manu Bhaker as the winner of
the Emerging Player-of-the-Year award
category.
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Gandhi Peace Prize for Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year
the Year 2019 Said 2019 is being conferred on (Late) His
Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said
of Oman. Gandhi Peace Prize recognizes
the unparalleled vision and leadership of
the Late H.M. Sultan Qaboos Bin Said in
strengthening relations between India
and Oman, and his efforts to promote
peace and non-violence in the Gulf
region.
Gandhi Peace Prize for Bangabandhu Sheikh Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2020
the Year 2020 Mujibur Rahman is being conferred on Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The
Committee selected the name of Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman in recognition of his
outstanding contributions towards
social, economic and political
transformation through non-violent and
other Gandhian methods.
‘Great Place To ESAF Small Finance Bank ESAF Small Finance Bank had been
Work’ Certification awarded ‘Great place to work’
certification by the Great place to Work
Institute.
The certification is the result of an
employee survey conducted by the third-
party global authority on recognising
high-trust and performance culture at
workplaces.
Vyas Samman 2020 Sharad Pagare He will be awarded the 31st Vyas
Samman for his novel ‘Patliputru Ki
Samragi.’
The work should be authored by an
Indian citizen and published during the
last 10 years. It carries an award of Rs 4
lakh along with a citation and plaque.
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‘Maharashtra Bhushan’ Asha Bhosle Legendary singer Asha Bhosle will be

Award 2020 honoured with the prestigious
Maharashtra Bhushan Award for the
year 2020. A committee chaired by Chief
Minister Uddhav Thackeray decided to
select Ms Bhosle for the award for the
year 2020.
Ms Bhosle received the Dadasaheb
Phalke Award for 2000.
Asiamoney Best Bank HDFC Bank HDFC Bank was adjudged the ‘India’s
Awards 2021 Best Bank for SMEs’ at the Asiamoney
Best Bank Awards 2021.
Saraswati Samman Sharankumar Limbale Noted Marathi writer Dr

2020 Sharankumar Limbale will receive
Saraswati Samman, 2020 for his book
Sanatan.
The award carries fifteen lakh rupees, a
citation and a plaque. Saraswati Samman,
instituted by K K Birla Foundation in
1991, is recognised as the most
prestigious and highest literary award in
the country.
International Level
(International, Aug)
An influential US lawmaker from New York on

16th August reintroduced a resolution in the US
House of Representatives to posthumously award
US Congressional Gold the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to
Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi in recognition of his
Medal
promotion of peace and nonviolence.
The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest

civilian award in the United States.
(International, July)
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Deepti Pillay Sivan’s most touted documentary,

“Decoding Shankar” about the life and career of the
Toronto International celebrated musician Shankar Mahadevan, recently won the
‘Decoding Shankar’
Women’s Film Festival Best Film Award in the Documentary section (Best
Biographical) at the Toronto International Women Film
Festival, 2021.
Korean Air has been announced the winner of one of the

Air Transport World’s
Korean Air most prestigious honours in the aviation industry: Air
Airline of the Year Award
Transport World’s (ATW) 2021 Airline of the Year.
Hyderabad’s hunger activist Syed Osman Azhar Maqsusi,

Commonwealth Points of Syed Osman Azhar who has been feeding thousands of people every day as part
Light award Maqsusi of his food drive ‘Hunger Has No Religion’ was awarded a
top UK award recently.
Nobel laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus will be

present at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, which
Olympic Laurel Muhammad Yunus will begin on July 23. Yunus is set to receive the prestigious
Olympic Laurel Award at the Tokyo Olympics. He has created
a social organisation called ‘Yunus Sports Hub’.
Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) Mumbai-based filmmaker Payal Kapadia has bagged the
award for Best Payal Kapadia Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) award for Best Documentary for her
Documentary at Cannes film 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' at Cannes Film Festival.
Indian-origin British author, Sunjeev Sahota is among

the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021
Booker Prize for fiction for his novel ‘China Room’,
alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize
Sunjeev Sahota among winner Richard Powers.
Booker Prize Longlist
13 contenders for fiction
The 2021 longlist or “The Booker Dozen” of 13 novels was
unveiled after judges evaluated 158 novels published in the
UK or Ireland between October 1, 2020, and September 30,
2021.
(International, June)
for efforts in tobacco control.

`WHO Director-General
Special Recognition Dr Harsh Vardhan Every year, WHO recognises individuals or organisations in
Award` each of the six WHO Regions for their accomplishments in
the area of tobacco control.
International Booker French novelist David Diop on 3rd June won the
David Diop
Prize 2021 prestigious International Booker Prize for books
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translated into English with his World War I-set novel,

'At Night All Blood is Black'.
The book's translator Anna Moschovakis won half the
£50,000 ($70,850) prize, which recognises the major role
of translators.
International Business
Nitin Rakesh and Jerry for their recently launched book “Transformation in
Book of the Year Award
Wind Times of Crisis”, published by Notion Press.
2021
Kerala-based Thomas Vijayan, who is now settled in

Canada, has won the 2021 Nature TTL Photography
Nature TTL Photographer
Thomas Vijayan Awards for his photo of an Orangutan clinging to a tree.
of the Year 2021
The photograph is titled ‘The World is Going Upside
Down’.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted

Zimbabwean writer who was arrested last year in Harare
while protesting against corruption, has been awarded the
PEN Pinter prize, praised for her “ability to capture and
PEN Pinter prize 2021 Tsitsi Dangarembga communicate vital truths even amidst times of
upheaval”.
Dangarembga was also shortlisted for the 2020 Booker
Prize for her work, This Mournable Body.
for her role in the film Raahgir: The Wayfarers.

Best Actor award at The film has been directed by Goutam Ghose. The UK Asian
the 2021 UK Asian Tillotama Shome Film Festival (UKAFF) 2021 was the 23rd edition of the
Film Festival (UKAFF) annual event. Apart from Tillotama, filmmaker Goutam
Ghose has also won the Best Director award at the UKAFF.
Familial Forestry of Rajasthan, a unique concept that

relates a tree with a family, making it a green “family
member.”
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
organises the Land for Life Award every two years to
2021 Land for Life Familial Forestry of recognize excellence and innovation in efforts towards land
Award by UNCCD Rajasthan in balance. The theme for the 2021 Award is “Healthy
Land, Healthy Lives”.
About: Familial Forestry is an environment conservation
concept by climate-activist Shyam Sunder Jyani, an
Associate Professor for Sociology in Rajasthan, who has
been campaigning for Familial Forestry for over 15 years.
European Inventor for being the first to have successfully integrated

Sumita Mitra nanotechnology into dental materials to produce stronger
Award 2021
and more aesthetically pleasing fillings, has been honoured
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with the European Inventor Award 2021 in the ‘Non-

European Patent Office countries’ category.
Announcing the award, President and Rector of CEU,

Central European Michael Ignatieff said, "As minister of public health in the
University (CEU) Indian state of Kerala, during the COVID-19 pandemic, KK
KK Shailaja
Open Society Prize for Shailaja Teacher, demonstrated to the world that
2021 determined leadership, community based public health and
effective communication can save lives.
Journalist Palagummi Sainath has been awarded the

Fukuoka Grand Prize Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021. He is a
Palagummi Sainath committed journalist who has continued to investigate
2021
impoverished farming villages in India and captured the
reality of the lifestyle of the residents in such areas.
(International, May)
Bengaluru based Shyamala Ganesh is a Japanese

teacher at the Septuagenarian institution and also at
Japan’s Order of the Rising
Shyamala Ganesh the Ohara School of Ikebana in RT Nagar, Bengaluru.
Sun honour
She has tutored more than hundreds of students since its
inception 38 years ago.
The $25,000 prize “recognizes outstanding contributions

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano to the defence or promotion of press freedom especially
World Press Freedom Prize Maria Ressa in the face of danger,” according to UNESCO. The prize
2021 was named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, the Colombian
journalist.
for his performance in the short film Happy Birthday.

Best actor award at New The film has been directed by Prasad Kadam and
York City International Film Anupam Kher produced by FNP Media. Besides Anupam, Happy
Festival Birthday stars Aahana Kumra. The film also won the Best
Short Film award at the festival.
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Mumbai born, Dr Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of

Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago,
recently became the first person of Indian origin to
15th Sheikh Zayed Book win the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Tahera Qutbuddin
Award The award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of the
Arab world. She won the award for her latest book,
“Arabic Oration – Art and Function” published by Brill
Academic Publishers of Leiden in 2019.
Former Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court,

Justice Gita Mittal, has been declared as one of the two
Arline Pacht Global Vision recipients of the Award by IAWJ.
Gita Mittal
Award 2021
She shares the honour with Margarita Luna Ramos
from Mexico.
She is a global nutrition expert of Indian descent,

Shakuntala Haraksingh who won the award for her groundbreaking research
World Food Prize 2021
Thilsted in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to
aquaculture and food systems.
A church worker from Nagaland has won the Whitley

Award, also known as the ‘Green Oscar’, for his efforts
to create a network of community-owned forests in the
state and protect the rare Amur falcon.
Whitley Award 2021 Y Nuklu Phom
Over the years, Phom has been working towards creating
what he calls a “Biodiversity Peace Corridor”, a
network of villages across four districts in Nagaland to
promote community conservation.
After a tough competition with 73 other candidates, Miss

Mexico Andrea Meza has been crowned the 69th Miss
Universe during a three-hour televised competition
held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
Hollywood in Florida.
Miss Universe 2021 Andrea Meza
List of Rank
2nd Spot: Miss Brazil Julia Gama
3rd Spot: Miss Peru Janick Maceta del Castillo
4th Spot: Miss India Adeline Castelino
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The Emmy Award-nominated Indian choreographer

Suresh Mukund, has won the 10th Annual ‘World
Choreography Award 2020’, (also known as Choreo
World Choreography Awards), becoming the first Indian to win the prestigious
Suresh Mukund honour.
Award 2020
He won the award in the ‘TV REALITY
SHOW/COMPETITION’ category, for his work on the hit
American TV reality show ‘World of Dance’.
The naturalist Jane Goodall has been announced as

the 2021 winner of the Templeton prize in
recognition of her life's work on animal intelligence
2021 Templeton prize Jane Goodall
and humanity. Goodall, 87, built her global reputation
on her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees in
Tanzania in the 1960s.
Indian economist and Nobel Laureate, Amartya

Kumar Sen, was conferred with “Princess of Asturias
Princess of Asturias Award” in social sciences category which is Spain’s top
Amartya Sen prize.
Award
It comprises of a Joan Miro sculpture as a symbol, an
insignia, a diploma, and a cash prize of 50,000 Euros.
Padma Bhushan awardee and noted

gastroenterologist Dr D Nageshwar Reddy, who is
also the chairman of AIG Hospitals, has won the
Rudolf V Schindler Rudolf V Schindler Award from the American Society
Dr Nageshwar Reddy of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).
award
Rudolf V Schindler Award is the highest category in the
prestigious Crystal Awards named after Dr Schindler
who is considered as “the father of gastroscopy.”
for his research in renewable energy sources and

energy storage.
Professor C.N.R Rao has been working on hydrogen
energy as the only source of energy for the benefit of all
International ENI Award
CNR Rao mankind. Photochemical and electrocemical production
2020
of hydrogen, hydrogen storage, non-metallic catalysis,
and solar production of hydrogen were the highlights of
his work.
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Corporal Yuvraj Singh was serving at the United Nations

Corporal Yuvraj Singh, Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) while civilian
civilian peacekeeper Ivan peacekeeper Ivan Michael Picardo was associated with
UN’s prestigious medal
Michael Picardo, and UNAMISS as a civil peacekeeper. Moolchand Yadav was
Moolchand Yadav associated with the United Nations Assistance Mission in
Iraq (UNAMI).
A jury comprising of Milan Chakraborty, Nathan Fischer

and Jenn Wilson declared Thamizh’s ''Seththumaan'' as
19th edition of Indian
the winner of Grand Jury Award for Best Feature.
Film Festival of Los
Karishma Dube’s Bittu, which was in the race for a
Angeles
nomination at the 2021 Oscars, bagged the Grand Jury
Prize for Best Short.
(International, April)
Lawrence Gussman Professor

Emeritus of Computer
Science, Alfred V. Aho has won
the 2020 Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM)
A.M. Turing Award, known
informally as the “Nobel Prize
of computing.” Aho shares the
award with his long-time
collaborator Jeffrey David
2020 ACM Turing Award Alfred Aho
Ullman.
The Turing Award carries a $1

million prize, with financial
support provided by Google,
Inc. It is named for Alan M.
Turing, the British
mathematician who articulated
the mathematical foundation
and limits of computing.
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Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi,

Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al
Nahyan has honoured Indian-
origin businessman Yusuffali
MA and 11 other individuals
with Abu Dhabi’s top civilian
award for their noble and
charitable contributions to the
Top Civilian Award In UAE Yusuffali MA community.
The prestigious award was

given to Mr Yusuffali, who was
born in Kerala, for his
outstanding contribution to Abu
Dhabi’s business, industry and
support to various philanthropic
initiatives.
Knight of the Order of Arts

and Letters (Chevalier dans
Knight of the Order of Arts
Guneet Monga I’Ordre des Arts et des
and Letters honour
Lettres) is the second-highest
civilian French honour.
The Marathi film “Puglya” has

won the Best Foreign
Language Feature award at
Best Foreign Feature at Moscow International Film
Marathi film Puglya
Moscow Film Fest 2021 Festival, 2021. The film Puglya
has been directed and produced
by Vinod Sam Peter under the
banner Abraham Films.
Software-engineer turned
social entrepreneur; Rumana
Sinha Sehgal has been awarded
Nelson Mandela World the prestigious ‘Nelson
Rumana Sinha Sehgal
Humanitarian Award 2021 Mandela World Humanitarian
Award 2021’ by
the Diplomatic Mission
Global Peace earlier this month.
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Dr Krithi K Karanth, Chief

Conservation Scientist at
Bengaluru-based Centre for
Wild Innovator Award Krithi Karanth Wildlife Studies (CWS), has
been chosen as the first Indian
and Asian woman for the
2021 ‘WILD Innovator Award’.
International, April
ACI-ASQ Award for Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Annual Airports Council

2020 International Airport (IGIA) International (ACI)- Airport
Service Quality (ASQ) Awards
2020 recognises Delhi Airport in
over 40 Million Passengers Per
Annum (MPPA) category in the
Asia-Pacific region.
Delhi Airport retains the best
airport position under the highest
category for three consecutive
years- 2018, 2019 and 2020 in
Asia-Pacific region.
‘Champion Publisher The Hindu Group The Hindu Group won two golds
of the Year 2020’ and two silvers at South Asian
Digital Media Awards given by
WAN IFRA (World Association
of News Publishers),
culminating in being named
‘Champion Publisher of the
Year’, owing to the highest tally
on the points table.
Cambridge Energy Narendra Modi for his commitment to

Research Associates expanding India's leadership in
Week (CERAWeek) sustainable development to meet
Global Energy and the country's, and the world's,
Environment future energy needs.
Leadership Award
Top 20 Global Women Tamilisai Soundararajan The international award is given

of Excellence Award by the Multi Ethnic Advisory Task
2020 Force, Illinois headed by US
Congressman Danny K. Davis.
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FIAF Award 2021 Amitabh Bachchan The International Federation of

Film Archives (FIAF) and
worldwide organisation of film
archives and museums from
across the globe conferred the
prestigious 2021 FIAF Award to
Amitabh Bachchan at a virtual
showcase on March 19, 2021.
International Woman Gowsalya Shankar The U.S. Consulate honoured

of Courage 2021 Tamil Nadu-based anti-caste
activist and human rights
defender Gowsalya Shankar
with a nomination for the
International Woman of
Courage (IWOC) Award.
International Ranger Mahinder Giri Mahinder Giri range officer of

Award Rajaji Tiger Reserve for being
the only ranger from Asia to
win the prestigious
International Ranger Award for
his contribution towards
conservation.
The award has been announced
for 10 professionals across the
world by the International Union
for Conservation of Nature IUCN
and World Commission on
Protected Areas WCPA.
National Book Critics Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, an

Circle prize for fiction imagined take on the death of
Shakespeare’s son from the
bubonic plague, has won the
National Book Critics Circle prize
for fiction.
Tom Zoellner’s Island on Fire:
The Revolt That Ended Slavery
in the British Empire won for
nonfiction, and Amy Stanley’s
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A
Japanese Woman and Her World
was the winner in biography.
EASE Reforms Index Award 2021
• Smart Lending for Aspiring India: Bank of Baroda
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• Tech-enabled ease of Banking: SBI

• Institutionalised Prudent Banking: Bank of Baroda
• Governance and Outcome centric HR: Union Bank of India
• Deepening FI and Customer Protection: Union Bank of India
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards 2021

Here is the full list of winners of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM)
2021:
• Best Feature Film – Soorarai Pottru

• Best Performance Male (Feature) – Suriya Sivakumar (Soorarai Pottru)
• Best Performance Female (Feature) – Vidya Balan (Sherni) & Honourable
mention to Nimisha Sajayan (The Great Indian Kitchen)
• Best Director – Anurag Basu (Ludo) & Honorary Mention Prithvi Konanur
(Pinki Elli?)
• Best Series – Mirzapur Season 2
• Best Actress in a Series – Samantha Akkineni (The Family Man 2)
• Best Actor in a Series – Manoj Bajpayee (The Family Man 2)
• Equality in Cinema (Short Film) – Sheer Qorma
• Equality in Cinema Award (Feature Film) – The Great Indian Kitchen
• Best Indie Film – Fire in the Mountains
• Diversity in Cinema Award – Pankaj Tripathi
• Disruptor Award – Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
• Best Documentary Film – Shut Up Sona
Cannes Film Festival Awards 2021: Complete winners list

The Cannes Film Festival 2021 concluded on 17 July 2021. The jury, presided by
Spike Lee, presented the awards at the Closing Ceremony. Julia Ducournau won the
Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or, for her film Titane, making her the second woman
ever to win the award.
List of Winners
• Palme d’Or: Julia Ducournau for Titane (France)

• Grand Prix (TIE): Ashgar Farhadi for A Hero (Iran) and Juho Kuosmanen for
Compartment No.6 (Finland)
• Best Director: Leos Carax Annette (France)
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• Best Actress: Renate Reinsve for Worst Person in the World (Norway)
• Best Actor: Caleb Landry Jones for Nitram (US)
• Best Screenplay: Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Takamasa Oe for Drive My Car
(Japan)
• Jury Prize (TIE): Shared by Nadav Lapid for Ahed’s Knee (Israel) and
Apichatpong Weerasethakul for Memoria (Thailand)
• Best First Film: Antoneta Kusijanovic for Murina (Croatia)
• Best Short Film: Hong Kong’s All The Crows In The World Tang Yi
• Short Film Palme d’Or: Tian Xia Wu Ya by Tang Yi
• Special Jury Mention for Short Film: Ceu de Agosto by Jasmin Tenucci
BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Complete winners list

The winners of the BAFTA TV Awards 2021 were announced. The ceremony itself,
filmed at London’s Television Centre and hosted by Richard Ayoade.
British Academy Television Awards are presented annually to recognize the
outstanding work in British Television.
List of Winners:
• Leading Actress-Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You
• Leading Actor-Paul Mescal, Normal People
• Drama Series-Save Me Too
• Best Comedy Performance-Charlie Cooper and Aimee Lou Wood
• Best Comedy Series-Inside No. 9
• Original Music-Harry Escott, Roadkill
• Sports England v West Indies Test Cricket – Sky Sports Cricket
Pulitzer Prize 2021

The 105th class of Pulitzer Prize 2021 winners in Journalism, Books, Drama and
Music were announced. The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper,
magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United
States.
• Established-1917
• Reward– US $15,000
JOURNALISM
Category Winner
Public service The New York Times
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Criticism Wesley Morris of The New York Times
Editorial writing Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times
International Reporting Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek

of BuzzFeed News
Breaking News Reporting Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.
Investigative Reporting Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan

Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe
Explanatory Reporting Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi

Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters
Local Reporting Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay
Times
National Reporting Staffs of The Marshall Project; AL.com, Birmingham;

IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute,
Chicago
Feature Writing Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor, Runner’s

World
Commentary Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond (Va.) Times-

Dispatch
Breaking News Photography Photography Staff of Associated Press
Feature Photography Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press
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Audio Reporting Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little
of National Public Radio
BOOKS, DRAMA, AND MUSIC
Fiction The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Drama The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall
History Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, by

Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton)
Biography or autobiography The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les
Payne and Tamara Payne
Poetry Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
General nonfiction Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898

and the Rise of White Supremacy by David
Zucchino
Music Stride, by Tania León (Peermusic Classical)
Special Citation Darnella Frazier, The teenager who recorded the

killing of George Floyd
Laureus World Sports Awards 2021: Complete winners list

The Laureus World Sports Awards is an annual award ceremony honouring
individuals and teams from the world of sports along with sporting achievements
throughout the year. It was established in 1999 by Laureus Sport for Good Foundation
founding patrons Daimler and Richemont.
• Laureus World Sportsman of the Year: Rafael Nadal

• Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year: Naomi Osaka
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• Laureus World Team of the Year: Bayern Munich

• Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year: Patrick Mahomes
• Laureus World Comeback of the Year: Max Parrot
• Laureus Sport for Good: KICKFORMORE by KICKFAIR
• Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award: Billie Jean King
• Laureus Athlete Advocate of the Year: Lewis Hamilton
• Laureus Sporting Inspiration: Mohamed Salah
• Laureus Sporting Moment of the Year: Chris Nikic
BAFTA Awards 2021: Complete winners list
The 74th edition of British Academy Film Awards, often shortened to BAFTA or
Bafta, are being held virtually in London’s Royal Albert Hall. The awards, the British
equivalent of the Oscars, honour the best in national and international cinema.
Indian actor Adarsh Gourav, who has been nominated in the Best Actor category for
his performance in Netflix’s The White Tiger.
Here are the winners as per their categories:
• Best Film: Nomadland

• Best Leading Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
• Best Leading Actor: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
• Best Animated Film: Soul
• Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
• Best Cinematography: Nomadland
• Sound: Sound of Metal
• Outstanding British Film: Promising Young Woman
• Best Supporting Actress: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
• Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
• Best Film Not in English Language: Another Round
• Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: His House,
Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)
• Best Documentary: My Octopus Teacher
• Best Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell
• Best Adapted Screenplay: The Father, Christopher Hampton and Florian
Zeller
• Best Original Score: Soul, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Best Casting: Rocks
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• Bafta Academy Fellowship: Ang Lee

• EE Rising Star award: Bukky Bakray
• Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer: His House,
Remi Weekes (Writer/Director)
• Special Visual Effects: Tenet
• Production design: Mank
• Costume design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Make up and hair: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• British short animation: The Owl and the Pussycat
• British short film: The Present
Lilavati Awards 2020

The Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank recently presented
the AICTE Lilavati Awards, 2020 in New Delhi. The awards were presented based on
the theme “Women Empowerment”. The winners were selected by AICTE (All India
Council for Technical Education) in six sub themes.
• SWEAT (Sona Women Entrepreneurship and Training) from Sona College of

Technology, Tamil Nadu won the award under the ‘Women Entrepreneurship’
sub theme.
• Another college from Tamil Nadu, Paritrana from St. Joseph’s College of
Engineering won the award for the ‘Self Defense’ sub theme.
• Under the ‘Literacy’ sub theme, Bharatiya Vidyapeeth of Institute of
Management and Entrepreneurship Development Pune won the award.
• The Lilavati Award under “Women’s Health” sub theme was won by WIT
Women Health Coalition from Walchand Institute of Technology,
Maharashtra.
• Radiant Seetha from Thiagarajar Polytechnic College won the contest in the
‘Legal Awareness’ sub theme.
Wisden Award 2021

“To perpetuate the 50th anniversary of the first One-Day International, five ODI
cricketers of the decade have been listed in the Wisden Almanack’s 2021 edition.
”One cricketer has been selected from each decade between 1971 and 2021, with Indian
captain been granted the award for the 2010s.
• England all-rounder Ben Stokes is ‘Cricketer of the Year’

• Australia’s Beth Mooney is ‘Leading Women’s Cricketer in the World’
• India captain Virat Kohli Wisden Almanack’s ODI player of the 2010s
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• Sachin Tendulkar is the ODI Cricketer of the 1990s

• Kapil Dev was named as the ODI Cricketer for the 1980s
• West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard was adjudged the ‘Leading T20 Cricketer
in the World’.
• Meanwhile, Jason Holder, Mohammed Rizwan, Dom Sibley, Zak Crawley, and
Darren Stevens have been awarded the Wisden Cricketers of the Year 2021.
93rd Oscars Awards 2021: Complete winners list

Complete list of winners of the 93rd Academy Awards:
• Best picture: Nomadland

• Best actress: Frances McDormand
• Best actor: Anthony Hopkins
• Best supporting actress: Yuh-Jung Youn
• Best supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya
• Best director: Chloe Zhao
• Best original screenplay: Promising Young Woman
• Best adapted screenplay: The Father
• Best animated feature: Soul
• Best documentary feature: My Octopus Teacher
• Best international feature: Another Round
• Best original song: ‘Fight for You’ from Judas and the Black Messiah
• Best original score: Soul
• Best cinematography: Mank
• Best visual effects: Tenet

• Best film editing: Sound of Metal
• Best costume design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Best sound: Sound of Metal
• Best production design: Mank
• Best make-up and hairstyling: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Best live action short: Two Distant Strangers
• Best animated short: If Anything Happens I Love You
• Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Tyler Perry
• Best documentary short: Colette
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78th Golden Globe Awards 2021: Winners List
• Awarded for: Excellence in film and television

• Country: United States
• Presented by: Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1943
• First awarded: January 20, 1944
Film Awards
Award Category Winner
Best Motion Picture — Drama Nomadland
Best Director — Motion Picture Chloé Zhao for Nomadland
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Chadwick Boseman for “Ma Rainey’s Black
Picture — Drama Bottom”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Andra Day for “The United States vs. Billie
Picture — Drama Holiday”
Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Sacha Baron Cohen for “Borat Subsequent
Picture — Musical or Comedy Moviefilm”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Rosamund Pike for “I Care A Lot”
Best Performance by an Actress in a

Jodie Foster for “The Mauritanian”
Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Daniel Kaluuya for “Judas and the Black
Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Messiah”
Best Motion Picture — Animated Soul
Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language Minari- USA
Best Screenplay — Motion Picture “The Trial of the Chicago 7”— Aaron Sorkin
“Soul” – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon
Best Original Score — Motion Picture
Batiste
Best Original Song — Motion Picture “Io Si,” from “The Life Ahead”
Television Awards
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Award Category Winner

Best Television Series — Drama The Crown
Best Performance by an Actor in a
Josh O’Connor — “The Crown”
Television Series — Drama
Emma Corrin — “The Crown”
Television Series — Drama”
Best Television Limited Series or Motion
The Queen’s Gambit
Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited

Anya Taylor-Joy for “The Queen’s Gambit”
Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited

Mark Ruffalo for “I Know This Much is True”
Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy Schitt’s Creek

Jason Sudeikis for “Ted Lasso”
Television Series — Musical or Comedy

Catherine O’Hara for “Schitt’s Creek”
Television Series — Musical or Comedy

Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series John Boyega for “Small Axe”
or Motion Picture Made for Television

Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series Gillian Anderson for “The Crown”
or Motion Picture Made for Television
Sahitya Akademi Award 2020: 20 Winners List
Language Author Name Category

English Arundhathi Subramaniam “When God is a Traveller” (poetry)
Telgu Nikhileswar Agniswaasa (2015-17) (Poetry)
“Sri Bahubali Ahimsa
Kannada M Veerappa Moily
Digvijayam” (poetry)
Gujarati Harish Meenakshi Banaras DaPoetry Category
Konkani RS Bhaskar Poetry Category
Hindi Anamika Poetry Category
Manipuri Irungbam Deven Poetry Category
Nikhileshwar Telugu Poetry Category
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Santali Rupchand Hansda Poetry Category

Tamil Imaiyam “Novel Category”
Marathi Nanda Khare “Novel Category”
Mahesh Chandra Sharma
Sanskrit “Novel Category”
Gautam
Assamese Apurba Kumar Saikia short stories
Kashmiri Hiday Koul Bharti short stories
Bodo Dharanidhar Owari short stories
Punjabi Gurdev Singh Rupana short stories
Maithili Kamakant Jha short stories
Marathi Nanda Khare Udya (Novel)
Sindhi Jetho Lalwani Jehad (Plays)
Urdu Hussain-ul-haque Amawas main khwab (Novel)
Grammy Awards 2021: Full winners list

The 63rd Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles in a unique socially distanced
fashion. The 63rd Grammys were hosted by Trevor Noah.
• Record of the year: Everything I Wanted by Billie Eilish
• Album of the year: “Folklore” by Taylor Swift
• Song of the year: “I Can’t Breathe” by Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas
• Best pop solo performance: “Watermelon” by Harry Styles
• Best pop duo/group performance: “Rain on Me” by Lady Gaga and Ariana
Grande
• Best R&B album: “Bigger Love” by John Legend
• Best R&B performance: “Black Parade” by Beyonce
• Best traditional R&B performance: “Anything For You” by Ledisi
• Best progressive R&B album: “It is what it is” by Thundercat
• Best R&B song: “Better Than I Imagined” by Robert Glasper, Meshell
Ndeogeocello & Gabriella Wilson
• Best new artist: Megan Thee Stallion
• Best rap performance: “Savage” by Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyonce
• Best rap song: “Savage” by Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyonce
• Best rap album: “King’s Disease” by Nas
• Bets melodic rap performance: “Lockdown” by Anderson .Paak
• Best traditional pop vocal album: “American Standard” by James Taylor
• Best music video: “Brown Skin Girl” by Beyonce
• Best song written for visual media: “No Time to Die” by Billie Eilish
• Best compilation soundtrack for visual media: Jojo Rabbit
• Best score soundtrack for visual media: Joker by Hildur Guonadottir
• Best global music album: “Twice as Tall” by Burna Boy
• Best dance recording: “10%” by Kaytranada featuring Kali Uchis
• Best dance/electronic album: “Bubba” by Kaytranada
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• Best contemporary instrumental album: “Live at the Royal Albert Hall” by

Snarky Puppy
• Best rock performance: “Shameika” by Fiona Apple
• Best metal performance: “Bum-Rush” by Body Count
• Best rock album: “The New Abnormal” by The Strokes
• Best rock song: “Stay High” by Brittany Howard
• Best alternative music album: “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” by Fiona Apple
• Best country solo performance: “When My Amy Prays” by Vince Gill
• Best country duo/group performance: “10,000 Hours” by Dan + Shay & Justin
Bieber
• Best country album: “Wildcard” by Miranda Lambert
• Best country song: “Crowded Table” by Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby & Lori
McKenna
• Best new age album: “More Guitar Stories” by Jim “Kimo” West
• Best jazz vocal album: “Secrets Are the Best Stories” by Kurt Elling Featuring
Danilo Pérez
• Best improvised jazz solo: “All Blues” by Chick Corea, Soloist Track From:
Trilogy 2 (Chick Corea, Christian Mcbride & Brian Blade)
• Best jazz instrumental album: “Trilogy 2” by Chick Corea, Christian McBride &
Brian Blade
• Best large jazz ensemble album: “Data Lords” by Maria Schneider Orchestra
• Best Latin jazz album: “Four Questions” by Arturo O’farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz
Orchestra
• Best gospel performance/song: “Movin’ On” by Jonathan McReynolds & Mali
Music
67th National Film Awards: Winners List

FEATURE FILM CATEGORY
• Best Feature Film: ‘Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham’ (Malayalam)

• Best Hindi Film: ‘Chhichhore’
• Best Direction: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan (‘Bahattar Hoorain’)
• Best Actress: Kangana Ranaut (‘Manikarnika’, ‘Panga’)
• Best Actor: Manoj Bajpayee for ‘Bhonsle’ and Dhanush for ‘Asuran’
• Best Supporting Actress: ‘The Tashkent Files’, Pallavi Joshi
• Best Supporting Actor: ‘Super Deluxe’, Vijaya Sethupathi
• Best Children Film: ‘Kastoori’ (Hindi)
• Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of Director: Helen (Malayalam)
• Special Mention: ‘Biryani’ (Malayalam), ‘Jonaki Porua’ (Assamese), ‘Lata
Bhagwan Kare’ (Marathi), ‘Picasso’ (Marathi)
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• Best Tulu Film: ‘Pingara’

• Best Paniya Film: ‘Kenjira’
• Best Mishing Film: ‘Anu Ruwad’
• Best Khasi Film: ‘Lewduh’
• Best Haryanvi Film: ‘Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti’
• Best Chattisgarhi Film: ‘Bhulan The Maze’
• Best Telugu Film: ‘Jersey’
• Best Tamil Film: ‘Asuran’
• Best Punjabi Film: ‘Rab Da Radio 2’
• Best Odiya Film: ‘Sala Budhar Badla’ and ‘Kalira Atita’
• Best Manipuri Film: ‘Eigi Kona’
• Best Malayalam Film: ‘Kalla Nottam’
• Best Marathi Film: ‘Bardo’
• Best Konkani Film: ‘Kaajro’
• Best Kannada Film: ‘Akshi’
• Best Bengali Film: ‘Gumnaami’
• Best Assamese Film: ‘Ronuwa- Who Never Surrender’
• Best Stunt: ‘Avane Srimannarayana’ (Kannada)
• Best Choreography: ‘Maharshi’ (Telugu)
• Best Special Effects: ‘Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham’ (Malayalam)
• Special Jury Award: ‘Oththa Seruppu Size-7’ (Tamil)
• Best Lyrics: ‘Kolaambi’ (Malayalam)
• Best Music Direction Songs: ‘Viswasam’ (Tamil)
• Best Music Direction: ‘Jyeshthoputro’
• Best Make-Up Artist: ‘Helen’
• Best Production Design: ‘Anandi Gopal’
• Best Editing: ‘Jersey’ (Telugu)
• Best Audiography: ‘lewduh ‘(Khasi)
• Best Screenplay Original Screenplay: ‘Jyeshthoputro’
• Best Adapted Screenplay: ‘Gumnaami’
• Best Dialogue Writer: ‘The Tashkent Files’ (Hindi)
• Best Cinematography: ‘Jallikkettu'(Malayalam)
• Best Female Playback Singer: ‘Bardo’ (Marathi)
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• Best Male Playback Singer: ‘Kesri’, ‘Teri Mitti’ (Hindi)

• Best Film on Environment Conservation: ‘Water Burial’
• Most Film-Friendly State: Sikkim
• Best Book on Cinema: ‘A Gandhian Affair: India’s Curious Portrayal of Love in
Cinema’ by Sanjay Suri
• Special mention– ‘Cinema Paharana Manus’ written by Ashok Rane and
‘Kannada Cinema: Jagathika Cinema Vikasa-Prerane Prabhava’ written by PR
Ramadasa Naidu
Non-Feature Film Category

• Best Narration: Wild Karnataka, Sir David Attenborough
• Best Editing: Shut Up Sona, Arjun Gourisaria
• Best Audiography: Radha (Musical), Allwin Rego and Sanjay Maurya
• Best On-Location Sound Recordist: Rahas (Hindi), Saptarshi Sarkar
• Best Cinematography: Sonsi, Savita Singh
• Best Direction: Knock Knock Knock (English/Bengali), Sudhanshu Saria
• Best Film on Family Values: Oru Paathiraa Swapnam Pole (Malayalam)
• Best Short Fiction Film: Custody (Hindi/English)
• Special Jury Award: Small Scale Societies (English)
• Best Animation Film: Radha (Musical)
• Best Investigative Film: Jakkal
• Best Exploration Film: Wild Karnataka (English)
• Best Education Film: Apples and Oranges (English)
• Best Film on Social Issues: Holy Rights (Hindi) and Ladli (Hindi)
• Best Environment Film: The Stork Saviours (Hindi)
• Best Promotional Film: The Shower (Hindi)
• Best Art and Culture Film: Shrikshetra-Ru-Sahijata (Odia)
• Best Biographical Film: Elephants Do Remember (English)
• Best Ethnographic Film: Charan-Atva The Essence of Being a Nomad (Gujarati)
• Best Debut Non-Feature Film of a Director: Khisa (Marathi)
• Best Non-Feature Film: An Engineered Dream (Hindi)
66th Filmfare Awards 2021: Winners List
• Best Film: Thappad
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• Best Film (Critics): Prateek Vats (Eeb Allay Ooo!)

• Best Director: Om Raut (Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior)
• Best Actor in a Lead Role (MALE): Irrfan Khan (Angrezi Medium)
• Best Actor (Critics): Amitabh Bachchan (Gulabo Sitabo)
• Best Actor in a Lead Role (Female): Taapsee Pannu (Thappad)
• Best Actress (Critics): Tillotama Shome (SIR)
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male): Saif Ali Khan (Tanhaji: The Unsung
Warrior)
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female): Farrokh Jaffar (Gulabo Sitabo)
• Best Story: Anubhav Sushila Sinha and Mrunamayee Lagoo Waikul (Thappad)
• Best Screenplay: Rohena Gera (SIR)
• Best Dialogue: Juhi Chaturvedi (Gulabo Sitabo)
• Best Debut Director: Rajesh Krishnan (Lootcase)
• Best Debut Female: Alaya F (Jawaani Jaaneman)
• Best Music Album: Pritam (Ludo)
• Best Lyrics: Gulzar – Chhappak
• Best Playback Singer (male): Raghav Chaitanya – Ek Tukda Dhoop (Thappad)
• Best Playback Singer (Female): Asees Kaur – Malang
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD– Irrfan Khan
• Best Action: Ramazan Bulut, RP Yadav (Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior)

• Best Background Score: Mangesh Urmila Dhakde (Thappad)
• Best Cinematography: Avik Mukhopadhyay (Gulabo Sitabo)
• Best Choreography: Farah Khan (Dil Bechara)
• Best Costume Design-Veera Kapur Ee (Gulabo Sitabo)
• Best Editing: Yasha Pushpa Ramchandani (Thappad)
• Best Production Design: Manasi Dhruv Mehta (Gulabo Sitabo)
• Best Sound Design: Kaamod Kharade (Thappad)
Chapter 3: Government Scheme/ campaign
August
SCHEME PURPOSE
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The Reserve Bank of India has announced to include street vendors of tier-
1 and tier-2 centres, identified as part of the PM Street Vendor’s
AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi Scheme) as beneficiaries under the
PM SVANidhi Scheme Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) Scheme.
(RBI)
Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) Scheme was launched
by RBI to encourage deployment of Points of Sale (PoS) infrastructure
(both physical and digital modes) in tier-3 to tier-6 centres and
northeastern states.
‘Mission Niryatak Bano’ The Rajasthan government’s industries department and the Rajasthan
State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO)
(Rajasthan Government)
have launched the ‘Mission Niryatak Bano’ campaign to promote aspiring
exporters in the state.
'Gati Shakti' Infra Scheme Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th Aug announced an ambitious
₹100 lakh crore holistic infrastructure development programme
(Central Government)
''Gatishakti'', which is aimed at boosting employment opportunities and
productivity of industries.
Gatishakti will be a national master plan which will lay the foundation of
the overall infrastructure in the country and give an integrated and holistic
path to the economy.
'Naadu-Nedu-2' Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on 16th August launched the
second phase of the Nadu-Nedu initiative at ZP High School in P
(Andhra Pradesh)
Gannavaram mandal in East Godavari district, with a budget of Rs 4,500
crore to remodel 16,000 government schools across Andhra Pradesh.
Earlier, he also started the distribution of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka kits to
4.73 crore students studying in government and aided schools for the
academic year 2021-22.
‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched an ambitious ‘Ubharte
Sitaare Fund’ on August 21, 2021. It will be launched for export-oriented
(Finance Ministry) firms and startups.
Ubharte Sitaare fund has been set up jointly by Exim Bank and SIDBI.
‘Rajiv Gandhi Grameen provision of ₹200 crores benefiting 12 lakh landless families.
Bhumihin Majdur Nyay Yojana’
The aim of the scheme is to support rural landless labourers with
(Chhattisgarh) minimum wages so that they can access basic amenities. The beneficiaries
are expected to receive their benefits before the end of this financial year,
on March 31, 2022.
The families of the beneficiaries will each be ensured the amount of

₹6,000 annually. There is also in place a mechanism to resolve any
discrepancy related to a beneficiary’s bank account, within 15 days.
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‘SUJALAM’ Campaign Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched a ‘100 days campaign’
named SUJALAM to create more and more Open Defecation Free (ODF)
(Ministry of Jal Shakti) Plus villages by undertaking wastewater management at the village level.
SAMRIDH programme “Start-up Accelerators of MeitY for pRoduct Innovation, Development
and growth (SAMRIDH)” programme.
(Ministry of Electronics &
Information Technology) The programme was launched by Shri Ashwini Vaishnav, Union Minister
MeitY. The objective of the SAMRIDH programme is to create a conducive
platform to Indian Software Product start-ups to enhance their products
and securing investments for scaling their business.
Mission Vatsalya Maharashtra government launched a special mission called “Mission
Vatsalya” in order to help women who lost their husbands to COVID-19.
(Maharashtra) Mission Vatsalya will provide several services and some 18 benefits under
one roof to those women.
Under this mission, schemes like Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Yojana and
Gharkul Yojana will benefit those for women.
July
SCHEME PURPOSE
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched the
‘YSR Bima’ scheme with new guidelines, where the government itself will
directly pay the insurance amount to the family of the deceased to make the
‘YSR Bima’ scheme
insurance claims easier.
(Andhra Pradesh)
In order to support 1.32 lakh families through the YSR Bima scheme, the State
government allocated Rs 750 crores for the year 2021-22. In the last two years,
the State government had spent Rs 1307 crore for YSR Bima.
Electric Vehicle Policy-2021 The policy announced by the State Environment Minister, Aaditya Thackeray
aims to accelerate the adoption of Battery Electric Vehicles in the country.
(Maharashtra)
The new EV policy introduced in Maharashtra is a revision of the 2018 policy. It
is introduced with an aim to make Maharashtra the “topmost producer of
battery-powered electric vehicles in India.” The policy also aims for electric
vehicles (EVs) to make up 10 per cent of all new vehicle registrations, by 2025.
‘One Block, One Product’ to encourage and promote small industries in the rural areas.
scheme
Under the scheme, the state government plans to connect every block of the state
(Haryana) with some industrial vision and the government is working expeditiously on this
scheme.
‘Stand Up India Scheme’ The Government of India has extended the duration of the ‘Stand Up India
(Government of India) Scheme’ up to the year 2025.
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The scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on 05 April 2016 to facilitate
loans to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and women borrowers, to
promote entrepreneurship among them.
“Dalit Bandhu’ scheme ‘Telangana Dalita Bandhu’ scheme will be launched soon for Dalit
empowerment.
(Telangana)
Huzurabad Assembly Constituency has been selected to implement the
‘Telangana Daltha Bandhu’ scheme, under the pilot project.
Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Union Government is implementing Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati
Padhati (BPKP) as a sub scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since
2020-21.
(Government of India)
It aims to promote traditional indigenous practices. The scheme focusses on
exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs and promotes on-farm biomass
recycling. Under BPKP, financial assistance of Rs 12200 per hectare for 3 years is
provided for cluster formation.
‘Devaranya’ scheme In order to promote AYUSH in Madhya Pradesh and to link it with
employment, the government has made the ‘Devaranya’ scheme.
(Madhya Pradesh)
The scheme has been made to provide employment to the people living in the
tribal areas of the state.
‘Pink Protection’ project for the protection of women in public, private and digital spaces. For the
project, 10 cars, 40 two-wheelers, including Bullet bikes and 20 bicycles, were
(Kerala police)
allotted, which were flagged off by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The
"Pink Protection" project aims to prevent dowry-related issues, cyber-bullying
and humiliation in public places.
June
SCHEME PURPOSE
Ankur scheme a scheme under which citizens will be awarded for planting trees during
(Madhya Pradesh) monsoon.
Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur, launched the YounTab scheme

YounTab scheme for students. Under the scheme, about 12,300 tablets were distributed among
(Ladakh) students from Class 6th to 12th in government schools in Leh. It is an initiative of
Department of School Education.
Knowledge Economy to boost job prospects in the state by supporting knowledge workers. Project
Mission’ will be launched to bring ongoing efforts of providing employment to educated
(Kerala) people and support ‘knowledge workers’ under a single programme.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is
Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U) implanting this mission which was launched in June 2015 to address the problem
of shortage of urban housing, It seeks to provide pucca houses to all eligible urban
(Central government) households by 2022.
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‘Yuva Shakti Corona Mukti

Abhiyan’ to raise awareness among people on covid-19 pandemic. Yuva Shakti Corona
Mukti Abhiyan means “free from corona with the help of youth power campaign”.
(Madhya Pradesh)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on 19th June launched two ambitious
'Mukhya Mantri Udyaymi schemes christened as the 'Mukhya Mantri Yuva Udyaymi Yojna' and the
Yojna' scheme 'Mukhya Mantri Mahila Udyami Yojna' to promote entrepreneurship among
(Bihar) youth and women of all sections under the state's 'Mukhaya Mantri Udyami
Yojna' scheme.
to provide financial assistance to the families who lost a member due to Covid-19
Mukhyamantri Covid-19 pandemic.
Pariwar Aarthik Sahayata
According to notification by Social Welfare Department, Rs 50,000 ex-gratia
Yojana
will be provided to every family that has lost a member amid pandemic. A
(Delhi) pension of Rs 2,500 per month would also be given to those families that lost the
sole breadwinner to covid-19 pandemic.
May
SCHEME PURPOSE
for journalists. Odisha has declared the journalists as frontline Covid
warriors. Under this Yojana, a health insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh will be
Gopabandhu Sambadika
provided to each Journalist.
Swasthya Bima Yojana
Under the scheme, financial assistance of Rs 15 lakh will be provided to
(Odisha Government)
the families of journalists who died from COVID-19 while performing
duty.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently released the eighth instalment

of Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi.
PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Under the Scheme: The Government of India transfers Rs 6,000 to the
account of small and marginal farmers. These funds are transferred in three
(Central Government)
instalments. The first instalment of Rs 2,000 is made between April and
June. Second Instalment is made between August and November. The third
instalment is made between December and March.
‘COVI Van’ a helpline number for senior citizens who are struggling with their
(Delhi Police) essential needs amid Covid-19.
‘Ayush Ghar-Dwar’
program to keep the home isolated Covid-19 positive patients healthy by
practising Yoga. This program has been started by the Department of
(Himachal Pradesh AYUSH in collaboration with the Art of Living organization.
Government)
‘Marun Gaam: Corona-Mukt

Vijay Rupani launched this campaign on the occasion of the state's
Gaam’ (My Village: Corona-
foundation day.
Free Village)
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(Gujarat chief minister) The campaign was launched to check the spread of infection due to
coronavirus at village level to ensure the villagers remain free from the
pandemic.
Smart Kitchen Scheme Under the scheme, women of state will be given loan to refurbish their
kitchen. Loan will be provided with a low-interest rate in instalment
(Kerala) schemes. Scheme seeks to reduce workload of women’s domestic labour.
Family Pension under Firstly, the government have decided to provide family pension to such
Employees State Insurance families and secondly, provide them with enhanced & liberalised insurance
Corporation (ESIC) compensation.
(Central Government) This benefit will be applicable with effect from 24 March 2020 till 24 March
2022.
Employees Provident Fund The amount of maximum insurance benefit has been increased from Rs 6
Organization- Employees’ lakh to Rs. 7 lakhs. The provision of minimum insurance benefit has been
Deposit Linked Insurance retained at Rs. 2.5 lakh.
Scheme (EDLI)
This benefit will apply retrospectively from 15 February 2020 for the next
(Central Government) three years, that is 15 February 2022.
(April)
SCHEME PURPOSE
The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of

India (TRIFED) operating under Ministry of Tribal Affairs
SANKALP SE SIDDHI recently launched the “SANKALP SE SIDDHI”.
(TRIFED) It is a hundred-day drive. The main aim of the drive is to activate

the Van Dhan Vikas Kendras located in tribal villages. It aims to
cover 1,500 villages in India in hundred days.
The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh

“Aahaar Kranti” Mission Vardhan recently launched “Mission Aahaar Kranti”.
(Union Minister of Health and Family
The mission aims to spread the message of the importance of
Welfare)
nutritionally balanced diet. It will also promote the importance of
accessibility to local fruits and vegetables.
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy
recently released the first tranche of Rs 672 crores under the
Jagananna Vidya Deevena Scheme Jagananna Vidya Deevena Scheme for the year 2021-22. This
(Andhra Pradesh) reimbursed the fees for 10.88 lakh students. So far, a total of Rs
4, 879 crores have been disbursed under the Jagananna Vidya
Deevena Scheme.
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SCHEME PURPOSE
''Gharoki Pechan, Chelik Naam'' Trivendra Singh Rawat launched "Gharoki Paachan, Chelik
scheme Naam" (daughter's name is a home's identity) programme and
(Uttarakhand CM) development schemes worth Rs 42 crore in Nainital.
Gram Ujala Scheme To provide the cheapest LED bulbs in the rural areas. The scheme
(Union power and new and was launched by the Union power and new and renewable
renewable energy minister) energy minister, Raj Kumar Singh.
“SAAMAR Campaign” The SAAMAR campaign was started with the aim of identifying the
(Jharkhand) anaemic women and malnourished children.
Mission Gramodaya Mission Gramodaya has been started for the overall
(Madhya Pradesh) development of rural areas.
Ashok Gehlot announced that his government’s much anticipated

Universal Health Scheme (UHS) will be launched on May 1 this
year.
Universal Health Scheme (UHS) Every family will get an insurance benefit of ₹ 5 lakhs under
(Rajasthan) the Universal Healthcare scheme. Those covered under
Ayushman Bharat Mahatma Gandhi Rajasthan Swasthya Bima
Yojana along with contract workers and small and marginal
farmers can avail this scheme for free.
“Poshan Abhiyan” for the Elderly to provide them ‘nutrition support’. Under the
(Ministry of Social Justice and mission, supports will be provided to indigent elders who are not
Empowerment) staying in Old Age Homes and are victims of malnutrition.
Tribal TB Initiative Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched the “Tribal TB Initiative”, as a step
(Union Health Minister) towards achieving 'TB Mukt Bharat' by 2025.
Chapter 4- Summit/ Conference

August
Summit/Conference Location About
Meenakashi Lekhi, the Minister of State for Culture of
G20 Culture Ministers’
Hosted by Italy India participated in the G20 Culture Ministers’
Meeting
Meeting on behalf of the Government of India.
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The two-day meeting was hosted by Italy on July 29 and

30 July 2021, during their ongoing Presidency of G20 in
2021.
The Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has virtually

8th SCO Meeting of Ministers Hosted by attended the eighth meeting of Ministers of Justice of
of Justice Tajikistan the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The
three days’ meeting was hosted by Tajikistan.
The Minister of State for External Affairs, Dr Rajkumar

Ranjan Singh led India’s delegation to the 28th ASEAN
28th ASEAN Regional Forum
Hosted by Brunei Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers Meeting. The
Ministerial Meeting
Meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Brunei
Darussalam.
The World Economic Forum’s annual Sustainable

WEF’S Sustainable Development Impact Summit will take place on
Geneva, September 20-23, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. The
Development Impact Summit
Switzerland United Nations General Assembly, the summit convenes
2021
under the theme “Shaping an Equitable, Inclusive and
Sustainable Recovery”.
July
Hosted by New Zealand New Zealand is the revolving host of the Asia-
Asia-Pacific Economic
Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. It is
Cooperation (APEC) 2021 (virtual mode) headquartered in Singapore.
The Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

inaugurated and addressed the World Universities
Summit as Chief Guest.
The Union Education and Skill Development Minister
O.P. Jindal Global
World Universities Shri Dharmendra Pradhan also addressed the summit.
University, Sonipat,
Summit 2021 The Summit was organized by O.P. Jindal Global
Haryana
University, located at Sonipat, Haryana.
The theme of the summit was “Universities of the
Future: Building Institutional Resilience, Social
Responsibility and Community Impact”.
The G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting 2021 is

one of the ministerial meetings organized as part
of the G20 Leaders’ Summit 2021, which will be
G20 Environment hosted by Italy in October 2021.
Hosted by Italy
Ministers’ Meeting 2021
The 2021 G20, under the Italian Presidency, will focus
on three broad, interconnected pillars of action:
People, Planet, Prosperity.
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Uzbekistan has hosted a high-level International

Conference titled “Central and South Asia: Regional
Central-South Asia
Uzbekistan Connectivity. Challenges and Opportunities” at
conference 2021
Tashkent. The conference was an initiative of the
President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
June
BRICS Foreign Ministers India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will chair a
Virtual mode
meeting BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting virtually on June 1, 2021.
This year’s summit was hosted by the UK. The last G-7
summit was in France in 2019, with last year’s event in the US
canceled due to the pandemic. Indian Prime Minister
47th G7 Summit 2021 UK addressed the 47th G7 Summit 2021 through video
conferencing.
Summit Theme 2021: "Building Back Better".
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi virtually addressed the

5th edition of VivaTech. VivaTech is one of the largest
digital and startup events of Europe, held in Paris every
year since 2016.
5th edition of VivaTech Paris PM Modi was invited as a Guest of Honour to deliver the
keynote address at VivaTech 2021, which has been organised
from 16-19 June 2021 in Paris. During his address, PM Modi
invited the world to invest in India based on the five pillars:
Talent, Market, Capital, Eco-system and, Culture of
openness.
May
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was on a four-day
visit to London from 3rd May primarily to attend a meeting
G7 Foreign Ministers' Summit London, UK
of foreign ministers of Group of Seven (G7) rich nations. India
has been invited to the meeting as a guest country.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to take part in the

India-European Union Leaders’ European Council on May 8,2021. the India-European
Portugal
meeting Union Leaders’ Meeting is to be hosted by Portugal. Portugal
currently holds the chair of the grouping..
Summit on Financing of Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan

Paris, France reiterated India’s commitment to build a more resilient
African Economies 2021
and stronger Africa. He was delivering India’s message at
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the Summit on Financing African Economies hosted by

French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Global G20 Health Summit was co-hosted by

European Commission along with Italy as part of its G20
Global G 20 Summit Italy
presidency amid the surge and spread of the coronavirus
cases.
Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Chairman of

74th World Health Assembly WHO Executive Board, Dr Harsh Vardhan, chaired 74th
World Health Assembly in virtual mode on March 24, 2021.
April
India hosted a Meeting of BRICS Finance Ministers
and Central Bank Governors virtually on April 6,
First Meeting of BRICS 2021. The meeting was jointly Chaired by Union
Hosted by India Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala
Finance Ministers and Central
(Virtual mode) Sitharaman and Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Shri.
Bank Governors
Shaktikanta Das. Participants included Finance
Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the BRICS
countries.
Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman participated virtually in
2nd Virtual G20 Finance Hosted by Italy the Second G20 Finance Ministers and Central
Ministers and Central Bank Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting under the Italian
Governors Meeting (Virtual mode) Presidency to discuss policy responses to global
challenges to restore strong, sustainable, balanced and
inclusive growth.
103rd Meeting of World Bank Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman
through video participated in the 103rd Meeting of
Development Committee
conferencing the Development Committee Plenary of World
Plenary
Bank through video conferencing.
The Raisina Dialogue was recently organised by the
Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research
6th Edition of Raisina Foundation.
Dialogue
Theme: viral World: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out of
Control
PM Shri Narendra Modi participated in the
“Leaders’ Summit on Climate”, hosted by the
Hosted by U.S.A. President of the U.S.A. Joe Biden.
Leaders’ Summit on Climate
(Virtual mode)
The theme of the summit: Our Collective Sprint to
2030.
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‘2+2 ministerial dialogue’ India and Russia announced the establishment of a

between foreign, defence new 2+2 dialogue at the foreign and defence minister
ministers level between the two countries.
March
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and Prime
Minister of the King-dom of Sweden H.E. Stefan
India - Sweden Virtual Summit Virtual mode Löfven held a Virtual Summit where they discussed
bilateral issues and other regional and multilateral
issues of mutual interest.
The First Quad Leaders’ Summit was held virtually

on March 12, 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
1st Quad Leaders’ Summit Virtual mode Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, Japanese
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and US President Joseph
R. Biden participated in the Summit.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr

Harsh Vardhan, addressed the 7th annual summit
7th annual summit of
Virtual mode of NATHEALTH in virtual mode on March 26, 2021.
NATHEALTH
The summit focused on ‘Indian Health system
expansion in post-COVID era’.
External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar reached

Dushanbe on a three-day visit to Tajikistan. He
9th Ministerial Conference of Dushanbe,
attended the 9th Ministerial Conference of Heart of
Heart of Asia Tajikistan
Asia – Istanbul Process on Afghanistan on March 30,
2021.
Chapter 5: Ranking Index 2021
August
Index released
Index India’s Rank 1st Rank
by
1st: Walmart
Fortune Global • Reliance Industries
Fortune
500 list for 2021 (155)
“Global Youth Commonwealth

Development Secretariat in Rank 122nd Rank 1: Singapore
Index 2020” London
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The list of India’s airports Rank 1: Doha Hamad

in World’s Top 100
Airports 2021 Rank 2: Tokyo Haneda
World’s 100 best Delhi at number 45 Rank 3: Singapore Changi

Skytrax
airports list 2021
Hyderabad at 64 Rank 4: Seoul Incheon
Mumbai at 65 Rank 5: Tokyo Narita
Bengaluru at 71
Most Polluted city in the

world
Top 4 Polluted country in the
Rank 1: Hotan, Xinjiang world
‘Most polluted province, China
British company Rank 1: Bangladesh
cities’ in the world
HouseFresh Rank 2: Ghaziabad, India
in 2020 report
Cleanest city in the world Rank 2: Pakistan
Rank 3: India
Rank 1: Judbury, Australia
Top 3 Companies:
1. Apple (USD 2,443 billion)

2. Microsoft
Reliance Industries (USD
Hurun Global 500 188 billion) ranked at 57 3. Amazon
Most Valuable Top countries:
Hurun
Companies list
2021 India is ranked 9th with 12
US - 243 companies
companies
China - 4
Japan - 30
UK - 24
Rank 1: China
Cushman Global Rank 2: India
Cushman &
Manufacturing Rank 2: India
Wakefield
Risk Index 2021
Rank 3: US.
1. Copenhagen
Economist 2. Toronto
Safe Cities Index New Delhi at 48th
Intelligence Unit 3. Singapore
2021 Mumbai at 50th
(EIU)
Bottom of the index: Yangon
(Myanmar)
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(July, 2021)
Index Index released by India’s Rank 1st Rank
Global Startup Ecosystem Startup Blink 20th Rank 1: US

Index 2021
Rank 2: UK
Global Cybersecurity International 10th Rank 1: US

Index (GCI) 2020 Telecommunication
Union (ITU).
(June, 2021)
Index Index released by India’s Rank / Bottom Rank 1st Rank
World University Centre for World Global Rank 415: IIM Rank 1: Harvard University
Rankings 2021-22 University Rankings Ahmedabad Rank 2: Massachusetts
(CWUR) Institute of Technology
(68 Indian Institutes in Top
2000)
SDG India Index 2020-21 Niti Aayog The worst-performing states The top-performing states
and UTs include: and UTs as per the report
Chhattisgarh, Nagaland and are:
Odisha with a score of- 61 Kerala with a score of- 75
Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh and

Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh at a Tamil Nadu with a score of -
score of- 60 74
Assam scored- 57 Andhra Pradesh, Goa,

Karnataka and Uttarakhand
scored- 72
Jharkhand scored- 56
Sikkim scored- 71
Bihar at-52
Maharashtra with a Goal

score of- 70
The State of India’s Centre for Science and Rank 117: India
Environment Report Environment (CSE)
2021 on 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
adopted as a part of the
2030 agenda by United
Nations
THE Asia university Times Higher Rank 37: IISc Bangalore Rank 1: Tsinghua
rankings 2021 Education (THE) University, China
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Rank 55: IIT Ropar Rank 2: Peking University
Rank 78: IIT Indore
‘The Times 50 Most Times 1st Spot: Rhea Chakraborty

Desirable Women 2020’ 2nd Spot: Miss Universe
2020, 3rd runner-up Adline
Castelino
3rd Spot: Actress Disha

Patani
QS World University Quacquarelli Symonds · Indian Institute of Science Rank 1: Massachusetts

Rankings 2022 (QS) (IISc), Bengaluru (186th Institute of Technology
position) (MIT)
· Indian Institute of Rank 2: University of
Technology (IIT) Bombay Oxford
(177th position)
Rank 3: Stanford University
· IIT Delhi (185th rank)
University of Cambridge
World’s Best Banks 2021 Forbes with market Rank 1: DBS Bank
research firm Statista
Global Skills Report Coursera Rank 67: India Rank 1: Switzerland
2021 Rank 2: Luxembourg
Rank 3: Austria
World Giving Index 2021 Charities Aid Rank 14: India Rank 1: Indonesia
Foundation (CAF) Rank 2: Kenya
Rank 3: Nigeria
“Global House Price Knight Frank Rank 55: India Rank 1: Turkey
Index” – Q1 2021. Rank 2: New Zealand
World Competitiveness Institute for Rank 43: India Rank 1: Switzerland

Index 2021 Management Rank 2: Sweden
Development (IMD)
Rank 3: Denmark
15th edition of Global Institute for Economics Rank 135: India (5th in South Rank 1: Iceland since 2008
Peace Index 2021 and Peace (IEP) Sydney Asia region) Bottom: Afghanistan
Sustainable Sustainable Rank 120: India Rank 1: Finland

Development Report Development Solutions Rank 2: Sweden
2021 (6th Edition) Network (SDSN) and
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the Bertelsmann Rank 3: Denmark

Stiftung
Ease of Living Index Centre for Science and Rank 1: Bengaluru

2020 Environment (CSE) Rank 2: Chennai
Rank 3: Shimla
‘Annual Bank Statistics Swiss National Bank Rank 51: India Rank 1: United Kingdom
of 2020’ (SNB), the Central Bank (UK)
of Switzerland. Rank 2: US
QS Executive MBA Quacquarelli Symonds IIM Bangalore: Rank 1 in India

Rankings 2021 (QS) Rank 39 globally
Global list of biggest Hurun and Edelgive Rank 1: Jamsetji Tata Rank 2: Bill Gates and his
philanthropists of last Foundation now-estranged wife Melinda
century
Rank 3: Henry Wellcome
World Investment UN Conference on Rank 5 (largest recipient of Top 3

Report 2021 Trade and FDI inflows in world): India- US-USD 156 billion
Development USD 64 billion
(UNCTAD)
China-USD 149 billion
Hong Kong-USD 119 billion
(May, 2021)
Brand Finance London-based Most valuable insurance Most valuable insurance

Insurance 100 report consultancy firm Brand companies companies
for 2021 Finance Rank 1: PingAn Insurance of
Rank 10: LIC with $8.65 China-$44 billion.
billion.
Strongest insurance brands
Strongest insurance
brands Rank 1: Italy’s Poste Italiane
Rank 3: India’s LIC.
2021 ranking of global Deloitte Fastest growing retailer List of Global Powers of
retail power houses in the world Retailing
Rank 2: Reliance Retail Ltd Rank 1: US giant Walmart Inc
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List of Global Powers of Rank 2: Amazon.com Inc

Retailing
Rank 3: Costco Wholesale
Rank 53: Reliance Retail Corporation
Ltd
Fortune’s World’s 50 Fortune Magazine Rank 10: Adar Poonawalla, Rank 1: Jacinda Ardern, PM of
Greatest Leaders 2021 CEO of Serum Institute of New Zealand
India (SII)
EY’s Renewable Rank 3: India Rank 1: US
Energy Country Rank 2: China
Attractiveness Index
(impressive show on
solar PV segment)
April, 2021
Global Gender Gap World Economic Forum 140th Rank 1: Iceland

Report 2021
Rank 2: Finland
Rank 3: Norway
35th Forbes’ annual Forbes Rank 10: Mukesh Rank 1: Jeff Bezos
billionaire list Ambani Rank 2: Elon Musk
Rank 3: Bernard Arnault
Academic Ranking of ShanghaiRanking Best higher Rank 1: Harvard University

World Universities Consultancy education institutes Rank 2: Stanford University
(ARWU 2020) in India: Indian
Institute of Science
(IISc) Bangalore Rank 3: University of
Best varsity in Cambridge
India: Calcutta
University Category of 501- 600- IISc
Bangalore
Internet inclusion and Facebook and 49th Rank 1: Sweden

gender equality report Economist Intelligence Rank 2: United States
Unit (EIU)
Rank 3: Spain
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Henley Passport Index Henley & Partners 84th Rank 1: Japan

2021 Rank 2: Singapore
Rank 3: Germany, South

Korea
Rank 110: Afghanistan

(Bottom)
World Press Freedom Reporters Without 142nd Rank 1: Norway

Index 2021 Borders Rank 2: Finland
Rank 3: Sweden
Global Energy World Economic Forum 87th Rank 1: Sweden

Transition Index 2021 (WEF) Rank 2: Norway
Rank 3: Denmark
Chandler Good Chandler Institute of 49th Rank 1: Finland

Government Index Governance, Singapore Rank 2: Switzerland
2021
Rank 3: Singapore
SIPRI’s TRENDS IN Stockholm International 3rd Rank 1: United States

WORLD MILITARY Peace Research Institute Rank 2: China
EXPENDITURE report (SIPRI)
2020
March 2021
Ease of Living Index Union Housing and More than 10lacs More than 10 lacs
2021 Urban Affairs Ministry Population Population: Bengaluru
Rank 2: Pune
Less than 10 lacs
Rank 3: Ahmedabad Population: Shimla
Less than 10 Lacs

Population
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Rank 2: Municipal Performance Index

Bhubaneshwar 2020 (More than 10
lacs): Surat
Rank 3: Silvassa
Municipal
Performance Index Municipal Performance Index
2020 (More than 10 2020 (less than 10
lacs) lacs): Tirupati
Rank 2: Bhopal
Rank 3: New Delhi

Municipal Council
Municipal
Performance Index
2020 (less than 10
lacs)
Rank 2: Gandhinagar.
List of aspirational Niti Aayog Rank 1: Nawada (Bihar)

districts ranking in Rank 2: Kiphire (Nagaland)
January
Rank 3: Namsai (Arunachal
Pradesh)
11th QS World Rank 172: Indian Rank 1: Massachusetts Institute

University Rankings Institute of of Technology (MIT) (US)
2021 Technology (Bombay)
Economic Freedom Heritage Foundation, a 26th in Asia-Pacific Rank 1: Singapore

Index 2021 US Conservative think- 121st globally Rank 2: New Zealand
tank
Rank 3: Australia
Business to Consumer United Nations Rank 71 Rank 1-Switzerland

(B2C) E-commerce Conference on Trade Rank 2-Netherlands
Index 2020 and Development
Rank 3-Denmark
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World Air Quality Swiss organisation, 22 of world’s 30 most Most polluted capital city
Report 2020 IQAir polluted cities are in Rank 1-Delhi
India
Most polluted city
Rank 1-Xinjiang, China
Rank 2 – Ghaziabad
World Happiness United Nations Rank 139 Rank 1- Finland

Report 2021 Rank 2- Iceland
Rank3- Denmark
Bottom (149)- Afghanistan
International US Chamber of 40th Rank 1: US

Intellectual Property Commerce Global Rank 2: UK
Index 2021 Innovation Policy Centre
(GIPC)
Rank 3: Germany
Military Direct’s study Military Direct 4th Rank 1: China

on strongest armed Rank 2: USA
forces
(February 2021)
Global 500 ranking of the Brand Finance Rank 5th Reliance · Rank 1: Chinese Mobile app
strongest brands globally Jio WeChat
Number of new cases of World Health Organization 1st · Rank 2: Brazil

leprosy in the world (WHO) · Rank 3Indonesia
annually
International Economic PHDCCI 2nd most resilient · Rank 1:Germany

Resilience (IER) Rank economy in 2021
Democracy Index 2020 Economist Intelligence 53rd · Rank 1: Norway
Unit · Rank 2: Iceland
· Rank 3: Sweden
Chapter 6: Partnership/ Agreement
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Partnership/Agreement (March)
Partnership/ Agreement Aim
The Goa state government has collaborated with IBM to
provide free skills training to the youth. The collaboration
Goa Government joined hands with IBM aims to upskill 10,000 learners across 10 institutions over one
year in the state. IBM will work with the director of technical
education, Goa.
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and SBI

Payments have partnered to launch “RuPay SoftPoS” for Indian
NPCI partnered SBI Payments merchants.
The RuPay SoftPoS solution will provide a cost-effective
acceptance infrastructure to retailers at a nominal cost.
IBM announced a collaboration with Samagra Sikhsha

Uttarakhand, the Government of Uttarakhand's education
mission, to introduce the 'IBM STEM for Girls' program in 130
IBM signed an MoU with Uttarakhand secondary and higher secondary schools across five districts in
Government the state.
The program will advance the skills and careers of close to
25,600 students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
(STEM) fields.
SBI and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) will sign the
first Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) linked external
commercial borrowing (ECB) deal.
SBI and IOCL inked India’s First Libor
Alternative Rate Deal The deal will be signed because the de facto international
benchmark reference rate called the London Interbank Offered
Rate (LIBOR) will no longer work as the benchmark after
December 2021.
UNESCO has joined the USO India and Toonz Media Group
over the water conservation awareness programme for
students.
UNESCO joined USO India and Toonz For the water conservation programme, the students have
Media Group created the animation videos which will be unveiled on the
occasion of World Water Day on March 22, 2021. It will be
unveiled as a part of “H2Ooooh! – Waterwise Program” for the
school students.
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The “Labour Bureau”, which is an attached office under the

Ministry of Labour & Employment had signed an agreement
with the “Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
(BECIL)”, which is an enterprise under Ministry of Information
Labour Ministry & BECIL signed an and Broadcasting, have signed a service level agreement in order
agreement to provide the technical and manpower support to the Labour
Bureau.
This support from BECIL will help in conducting All India Surveys
on Migrant Workers as well as the All-India Quarterly
Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES).
a three-year MoU to offer financial assistance for the purchase of

the company's range of small and light commercial vehicles.
Tata Motors signed an MOU with SBI The collaboration with State Bank of India (SBI) will allow Tata
Motors' commercial vehicle (CV) customers to avail of loans in a
hassle-free manner as well as access SBI's unique technology-
laden offerings.
Partnership/Agreement (April)

SBI has inked a loan agreement with Japan State Bank of India, has raised $1 billion from
Bank for International Cooperation Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(JBIC) to extend loans to supply chain of Japanese
automobile industry in India.
SBI signed a loan agreement with JBIC, taking the

total facility to $2 billion. It has inked similar
agreement for $1 billion in October 2020, SBI said in
a statement.
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Bharti AXA Life and Fincare SFB joined Bharti Axa Life and Fincare Small Finance
hands for bancassurance partnership Bank have joined hands for a bancassurance
partnership under which the bank will sell
insurance policies to its customers.
Under the partnership, Bharti AXA Life Insurance
will offer its comprehensive suite of life insurance
products, including protection, savings and
investment plans, to the customers of Fincare Small
Finance Bank across its 747 branches and digital
network presence across the country.
RBL Bank partnered with Mastercard RBL Bank and Mastercard have announced their
partnership to launch a mobile-based consumer-
friendly payment solution ‘Pay by Bank App’, a
first-of-its-kind payment functionality in India.
Indian Bank has signed an MoU with BSNL Indian Bank signed an MoU with Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited to provide seamless telecom services
to the bank at a competitive rate.
The bank is already using services of BSNL and

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited for its
Wide Area Network across the country.
Partnership/Agreement (May)

ICICI Lombard tied up with to strengthen and automate the quality control processes.
Microsoft
The insurer will make use of Microsoft’s Azure Speech Services and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to screen its daily service calls made
by customer service reps.
Bharti AXA Life signed a for the distribution of its life insurance products through the bank’s
bancassurance pact with Shivalik pan-India network of branches.
Small Finance Bank
CESL-Ladakh signed an MoU with State-owned Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL) which is a
Administration of Ladakh wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL)
signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Administration of
Ladakh to make Ladakh Carbon-neutral.
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Bharti Airtel and TATA Group for implementing 5G network solutions for India, which will be
partnered available for commercial development from January 2022.
SBI General Insurance entered into for distribution of non-life insurance Solution.
bancassurance tie-up with IDFC
Under this strategic agreement, SBI General Insurance will offer
First Bank
insurance products such as health, personal accident, home, motor and
travel along with the commercial line of insurance products such as
property, marine and engineering insurance to the bank’s customers.
SBI Card partnered with Fabindia launched an exclusive co-branded contactless credit card named
“Fabindia SBI Card”.
The card is designed with curated benefits and privileges to offer a
rewarding shopping experience to its premium customers and comes in
two variants — Fabindia SBI Card SELECT and Fabindia SBI Card.
Jio and Google Cloud comprehensive, long-term strategic relationship with a goal of
powering 5G in enterprise and consumer segments nationwide.
Partnership/Agreement (June)

ICICI Lombard tied up with to strengthen and automate the quality control processes.
Microsoft
The insurer will make use of Microsoft’s Azure Speech Services and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to screen its daily service calls
made by customer service reps.
Bharti AXA Life signed a for the distribution of its life insurance products through the bank’s
bancassurance pact with Shivalik pan-India network of branches.
Small Finance Bank
CESL-Ladakh signed an MoU with State-owned Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL) which is a
Administration of Ladakh wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL)
signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Administration of
Ladakh to make Ladakh Carbon-neutral.
Bharti Airtel and TATA Group for implementing 5G network solutions for India, which will be
partnered available for commercial development from January 2022.
SBI General Insurance entered for distribution of non-life insurance Solution.

into bancassurance tie-up with
Under this strategic agreement, SBI General Insurance will offer
IDFC First Bank
insurance products such as health, personal accident, home, motor and
travel along with the commercial line of insurance products such as
property, marine and engineering insurance to the bank’s customers.
SBI Card partnered with Fabindia launched an exclusive co-branded contactless credit card named
“Fabindia SBI Card”.
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The card is designed with curated benefits and privileges to offer a

rewarding shopping experience to its premium customers and comes in
two variants — Fabindia SBI Card SELECT and Fabindia SBI Card.
Jio and Google Cloud comprehensive, long-term strategic relationship with a goal of
powering 5G in enterprise and consumer segments nationwide.
Partnership/Agreement (July)

MoU inked between AJNIFM and Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM)
Microsoft and Microsoft have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies
Centre of Excellence at AJNIFM.
PhonePe partnered Flipkart to enable digitized pay-on-delivery service for the e-commerce major's
orders.
PhonePe's dynamic QR code solution will enable customers who earlier
opted for 'cash on delivery' to pay digitally through any UPI app at the
time of delivery.
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, a corporate agency agreement which will enable distribution of Bajaj
Bank of India in distribution tie- Allianz General Insurance’s products through the bank’s vast network of
up 5,084 branches, 80 retail business centres and 60 SME city centres
across the country.
Razorpay partnered with to launch ‘MandateHQ’ – a payment interface that will help card-
Mastercard issuing banks to enable recurring payments for its customers. Razorpay,
which is backed by Sequoia Capital, GIC, and others, aims to integrate
MandateHQ with more than 50 banks in the next 12 months.
Max Bupa Health Insurance and This partnership will help provide comprehensive health insurance
Axis Bank entered a solutions to Axis Bank’s employees and customers.
Bancassurance partnership
The tie-up will enable millions of Axis Bank customers across 4,500
plus branches to gain access to quality healthcare solutions through a
range of health insurance products offered by Max Bupa.
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Axis Bank partnered NIIT IFBI to launch digital banking academy

NIIT Institute of Finance Banking and Insurance (NIIT IFBI) and
Axis Bank have launched a fintech professional programme to build
future-ready professionals for the private sector lender.
The programme offers graduates with zero to three years of experience
an opportunity to join Axis Bank as a deputy manager (IT).
Ladakh signed MoU with Sikkim To make Ladakh organic, the administration of Ladakh on 14th July
signed an MoU with the Sikkim State Organic Certification Agency
(SOCCA).
A tripartite MOU has been signed between Ladakh and SSOCA regarding
the implementation of Prampragat Krishi Vikas Yojana and Mission
Organic Development Initiative (MODI) in the Ladakh region with
the aim to convert Ladakh into organic by 2025.
IAHE signed pact with University The Indian Academy of Highway Engineers (IAHE), under the
of New South Wales Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MORTH), has signed an
Agreement with University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
for setting up a Centre for Advanced Transportation Technology
and Systems (CATTS) at IAHE, Noida.
Axis Bank signed an MoU with offering a defence service salary package under Axis bank’s "Power
Indian Army Salute" initiative.
The Defence service salary package will offer different benefits to all
ranks of army officers. The benefits of the MoU will cover both serving
Defence personnel as well Defence pensioners.
Kotak Mahindra Bank signed KMBL will offer its salary account proposition to all personnel of the
MoU with the Indian Navy Indian Navy – both serving and retired.
It also provides 'Special Education Benefit for Children & Additional Girl
Child Benefit' that covers dependent children of up to 22 years in the
event of an accident claim by the salary account holder.
U GRO Capital & Bank of Baroda for co-lending to the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME)
in tie-up sector. Under the co-lending programme Pratham, Bank of Baroda and
U GRO will together disburse loans worth Rs 1,000 crore to MSMEs.
The loan amount ranges from ₹50 lakh to ₹2.5 crores to be offered at
an interest rate starting from 8% with a maximum tenure of 120
months.
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BIAL signed a deal with IBM Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), has signed a ten-
year partnership with the company IBM to set up the ‘Airport in a Box’
platform.
The partnership is designed to help Bangalore International
Airport Limited (BIAL) improve its productivity, automate its
information technology services, increase operational flexibility to
handle future growth in passenger traffic and reduce costs.
August 2021

Indian Bank signed an MoU with SINE, IIT for funding Start-ups and MSMEs.
Bombay
Indian Bank, entered into an MOU with Society for Innovation
and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay an initiative of
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for extending
exclusive credit facility to Start-ups and MSMEs.
ICICI Prudential Life tied up with NPCI to provide a Unified Payments Interface Autopay facility to its
customers.
The UPI Autopay e-mandate can be activated by customers by
using their smartphones to make regular renewal premium
payments in a paperless format.
SBI General partnered with SahiPay to increase insurance penetration in the rural markets.
SahiPay, the fastest growing tech-enabled financial inclusion
platform of Manipal Business Solutions, provides digital and
financial services to customers in semi-urban and rural India.
Indian Navy has inked an MoU with the to initiate ‘Honour FIRST’, a premium banking solution for
Infrastructure Development Finance serving personnel and veterans of the Indian Navy.
Company (IDFC) FIRST Bank
With zero – balance salary account feature, Honour FIRST
account holders will receive up to 5 per cent interest per annum
and a net banking and customised mobile app.
Indian Bank signed an MoU with Paralympic as one of the banking partners of the Paralympic Games which
Committee of India (PCI) commenced from August 24 in Tokyo, Japan.
The President of the Paralympic Committee of India is Deepa
Malik.
Paytm & HDFC Bank tie-up to build comprehensive solutions across payment gateway,
point of sale machines and credit products. This includes
Paytm Postpaid which is a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution,
Eazy EMI and Flexi Pay. The partnership will also deliver
enhanced SmartHub solutions to the market. HDFC Bank
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SmartHub solutions is an integrated platform offering merchants

a one-stop solution shop for all their business needs payments.
Intel has collaborated with CBSE, Ministry of announced the launch of the AI For All initiative with the
Education purpose of creating a basic understanding of artificial
intelligence (AI) for everyone in India.
Based on Intel’s AI For Citizens program, AI For All is a 4-hour,
self-paced learning program that demystifies AI in an inclusive
manner.
Haryana govt signed an MoU with Walmart to create a pathway for Indian MSMEs’ products to move to the
Vriddhi and ‘Haqdarshak’ international markets.
To promote MSMEs apart from large industries, many important
concessions have been given to investors in ‘Haryana Enterprises
and Employment Policy-2020’.
BRICS signed a deal with ISRO Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) signed
an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite
data sharing, according to the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO).
IIM Ahmedabad has partnered with Bank of to launch a Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT). The
America Centre aspires to become a knowledge hub for academia,
policymaking, and the private sector by facilitating cutting-edge
research on digital transformation and innovation.
Chapter 7: list of loans agreement for India from different

organizations
Loan (August, 2021)
Organization/Bank Loan Amount Purpose
The Government of India, the Central Water

Commission, government representatives from
10 participating states and the World Bank
World Bank $250 million signed a $250 million project for long-term dam
safety program and improving the safety and
performance of existing dams across various
states of India.
ADB has approved a USD 300 million loans as

additional financing for the ongoing Maharashtra
Asian Development Bank USD 300 million Rural Connectivity Improvement Project for
upgrading rural roads and connecting remote
areas with markets.
India has signed a USD 500 million loans

Asian Development Bank USD 500 million agreement with the ADB in order to
expand metro rail network in Bengaluru.
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Metro Rail Network in Bengaluru will be expanded

with the construction of two new metro lines of 56
kilometers.
Loan (July, 2021)
to support India's informal working class to

overcome the current pandemic distress.
$500 million
Of the USD 500 million commitment, USD 112.50
World Bank million will be financed by its concessionary lending
(about Rs 3,717.28
crore) arm International Development Association and USD
387.50 million will be a loan from International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).
Loan (June, 2021)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) USD 2.5 million A project readiness financing (PRF) loan to Upgrade
(approx Rs 18.23 Road Infrastructure In Sikkim
crore)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) USD 484 million to improve transport connectivity and facilitate
industrial development in the Chennai–Kanyakumari
Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in the state of Tamil Nadu
World Bank USD 500 million A Raising and Accelerating Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprise (MSME) Performance (RAMP) Program to
help boost India’s MSME sector
World Bank USD 32 million Mizoram Health Systems Strengthening Project for
improving healthcare services in Mizoram
World Bank USD 125 million to support Kerala’s preparedness against natural
disasters, climate change impacts, disease outbreaks
and pandemics
World Bank USD 250 million (Rs for Initiatives of ‘Supporting Andhra’s Learning
1,860 Crore) Transformation’ (SALT) Programme in Andhra Pradesh
Loan (April, 2021)
World Bank USD 32 million to improve management capacity and quality of

health services in Mizoram.
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The project titled “Mizoram Health Systems

Strengthening Project” will strengthen the
governance and the management structure of the
Mizoram Health department and its subsidiaries
World Bank, Asian Infrastructure USD 300 million approved about Rs 2,190 crore for canal-based
Investment Bank drinking water projects in Punjab. The project is
aimed at ensuring quality drinking water and
minimise water losses for Amritsar and Ludhiana.
The entire project will be co-financed by IBRD
(World Bank) – USD 105 million, Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank – USD 105
million and the Punjab government – USD 90
million.
Asian Development Bank 484 million USD for CKIC (Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial
Corridor) in Tamil Nadu. The project will upgrade
590 km of state highways in the CKIC influence
areas.
The Climate Change adaptation measures are to be
incorporated in the highway upgrades. The project is
to strengthen road safety programmes through
advanced technologies for road monitoring.
Asian Development Bank USD 1.5 billion ADB has provided USD 1.5 billion to India to deal
with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The institution had announced a package of USD 20
billion in April 2020 to provide financial support to
26 countries to help fight the pandemic.
Loan (March 2021)
World Bank $100 million The World Bank plans to introduce a $100-
million credit guarantee scheme to boost India’s
rooftop solar programme, which has not gained
enough traction. The scheme will allow micro, small, and
medium enterprises (MSMEs) to avail concessional debt
financing for setting up rooftop solar units.
The World Bank scheme, along with State Bank

of India (SBI) and the MSME ministry to
accelerate adoption of rooftop solar units, will
help MSMEs access credit of around $1 billion.
Loan (February, 2021)
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim $400 Million It will provide the fund for the Greater Male
Bank) Connectivity Project.
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The Greater Male Connectivity project is the Male to

Thilafushi Link project in Maldives.
New Development Bank (NDB) $100 Million to invest into the NIIF Fund of Funds (FoF).
NIIF Fund of Funds (FoF): The FoF was established in
the year 2018. It was established with the objective of
providing the access of the homegrown Indian private
equity fund managers to the institutional investor that
operates at scale with focus on India. The FOF has
made commitments to four funds till date. The
aggregate commitment stands over ₹2,750 crore.
World Bank $100 million Indian Govt and Chhattisgarh Govt has signed a
loan for CHIRAAG (Chhattisgarh Inclusive Rural
and Accelerated Agriculture Growth) project.
Purpose: Develop sustainable production systems that
allow tribal households in remote areas of Chhattisgarh
to practice round-the-year production of diversified
and nutritious food.
Asian Infrastructure Investment $304 million Assam Intra-State Transmission

Bank (AIIB) System Enhancement Project to improve reliability,
capacity and security of the power transmission
network in the State of Assam.
World Bank 68 million dollars project to enhance the governance of schools across
Nagaland as well as to improve teaching practices
and learning environments in select schools.
The “Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching and
Resources Project” will improve classroom instruction;
create opportunities for the professional development
of teachers.
Chapter 8: Merger and Acquires
Merger and Acquisition (February)

Merger Company About
DHFL was sent to bankruptcy court in December 2019 after
the company defaulted to its lenders on debt worth Rs
Acquisition of Diwan Housing Finance Corporation 90,000 crore.
(DHFL) by Piramal Capital And Housing Finance
Piramal’s plan is to recover Rs 37,250 crore over the
next five years for DHFL’s lenders.
Merger and Acquisition (March)

Acquisition of global tech company Capco by Wipro announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire
Wipro Capco, a global management and technology consultancy
providing digital, consulting and technology services to
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financial institutions in the Americas, Europe and the Asia

Pacific for $1.45 billion.
Merger and Acquisition (April)
Hitachi Ltd said on 31st March, it will buy U.S.

software company GlobalLogic Inc for $9.6 billion, as
Hitachi will buy US software developer GlobalLogic
the Japanese industrial conglomerate aims to expand from
electronics hardware to digital services.
Merger and Acquisition (May)

Indian renewable energy company Adani Green Energy Ltd

(ADNA.NS) said on 19th May it would buy SoftBank Group Corp-
backed (9984.T) SB Energy Holdings Limited for an enterprise value
India's Adani Green will buy SoftBank- of $3.5 billion.
backed SB Energy
The deal would allow Adani Green to achieve its targeted renewable
portfolio of 25 gigawatts (GW) four years ahead of its expected
timeline.
Tata Digital has acquired a majority stake in online grocery

BigBasket, a deal that pits the country’s largest conglomerate against
Tata Digital acquired 64% stake in entrenched e-commerce players.
BigBasket
Regulatory filings showed that it has acquired around 64% stake in
Supermarket Grocery Supplies that owns BigBasket.
Merger and Acquisition (June)

BharatPe has acquired a multi-brand loyalty platform, PAYBACK

India, to help its 6 million offline merchants roll out rewards and
BharatPe acquired loyalty platform loyalty programmes for customers.
PAYBACK India The acquisition is expected to give an exit to American Express and
ICICI Investments Strategic Fund, which hold 90% and 10% stake
respectively in the entity.
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HDFC Bank all set to buy all Shares from parent company to group
HDFC Bank will buy stake in ‘Ergo firm HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Housing
General Insurance’ and ‘Borderless Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).These shares are worth
Softtech’ Rs 1,906.43 crore This means that their total return is Rs 536 per
share.
Merger and Acquisition (July and August)

Adani Group led by Gautam Adani has completed the takeover of

‘Mumbai International Airport’ from GVK group. Adani Airport
Adani Group has taken over Mumbai Holdings presently own a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport.
Airport
India is going to become world’s third largest aviation market by
2024.
Microsoft has reached a deal to acquire RiskIQ, a San Francisco-

based provider of cybersecurity services, including malware and
Microsoft acquired cybersecurity firm spyware monitoring and mobile app security.
RiskIQ
Microsoft has valued the deal paying more than $500 million for
RiskIQ.
Edtech major Byju's has acquired US-based kids learning platform

Epic in a $500 million cash-and-stock deal, making this its second-
Byju's acquired US edtech firm Epic
biggest acquisition after it bought brick-and-mortar coaching
network Aakash Institute for close to $1 billion earlier this year.
The Reserve Bank of India has accorded its approval to the

Government of the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh to acquire 8.23
Govt of UT of Ladakh will acquire
per cent of the paid-up equity capital of Jammu and Kashmir Bank
8.23% stake in J&K Bank
Ltd as on the date of enforcement of Jammu and Kashmir
Reorganisation Act, 2019 ( October 31, 2019)..
Chapter 9: APP/Website/Card
August
App/ Website/Portal Company / Department Purpose
PM Modi launched e-RUPI on August 2. The

National Payments Corporation electronic voucher-based digital payment system
e-RUPI
of India (NPCI) has been developed by the National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI) on its UPI platform.
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E-Rupee: E-Rupee is a cashless and contactless means of

digital payment. It is a QR code or SMS string-based e-
voucher, which is delivered to the mobile of the
beneficiaries. With the help of e-RUPI payment service, a
user will be able to redeem the voucher without a card,
digital payments app, or internet banking access.
to safeguard the interest of its customers. The new

version of these platforms will protect customers from
‘SIM Binding’ feature in various digital frauds.
SBI
YONO and YONO Lite With the SIM Binding feature YONO and YONO Lite will
work only on those devices which have SIM of mobile
numbers registered with the bank.
an app-based digital-lending platform to facilitate loans

to entrepreneurs from low-income groups.
“Digital Prayaas” lending
SIDBI The objective is to sanction a loan by the end of the
platform
day. The platform has engaged in the promotion,
financing and development of MSMEs.
Platform for Regulated a web-based end-to-end workflow automation system,

Entities for Integrated to strengthen compliance by supervised entities (SEs).
Reserve Bank of India This is aimed at helping supervised entities to
Supervision and
strengthen their internal defences and resilience and
Monitoring (PRISM)
bringing focus on root cause analysis (RCA).
It is a Do It Yourself (DIY) Digital Repayment
‘Neo Collections’ Digital Platform for missed loan repayments. Kotak
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Repayment platform Mahindra Bank has launched the Neo Collections
platform in tie-up with Creditas Solutions.
mobile application of LIC’s digital paperless
ANANDA mobile app LIC solution, “ANANDA” for LIC agents. ANANDA stands for
Atma Nirbhar Agents New Business Digital Application.
This mobile app project was sponsored by Uttarakhand
State Disaster Management Authority (USDMA).
Earthquake Early Warning
(EEW) Mobile App for IIT Roorkee Earthquake early warning system will alert people
Uttarakhand regarding the onset of calamity on mobile application. It
can detect onset of the Earthquake and issue warnings
before significant tremors take place in state.
Dr. Virendra Kumar, Union Minister for Social

Justice and Empowerment has launched ‘PM-DAKSH’
Portal and ‘PM-DAKSH’ Mobile App.
‘PM-DAKSH’ Portal and Ministry for Social Justice and This portal and app has been developed by the Ministry
‘PM-DAKSH’ Mobile App Empowerment of Social Justice and Empowerment, in collaboration
with NeGD, to make skill development schemes
accessible to the target groups of Scheduled Castes,
Backward Classes and Safai Karamcharis.
for improving the safety and security of the UN

UNITE Aware Tech peacekeepers. The launch of the UNITE AWARE platform
India in collaboration with UN
Platform came as India assumed the Presidency of the 15-nation
UN Security Council for the month of August.
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“WEP Nxt” Women next phase of the Women Entrepreneurship Platform

Entrepreneurship NITI Aayog and Cisco (WEP) titled “WEP Nxt” to foster women
Platform entrepreneurship in India.
July
Social Media Giant Facebook has announced a

set of publishing and subscription tools
named Bulletin, aimed to promote
"Bulletin" Facebook independent writers in the US.
Bulletin will include support focused on creation
of content, monetisation and audience growth.
June
Company /
App/ Website/Portal Purpose
Department
The Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri
Thaawarchand Gehlot virtually launched an initiative called,
SAGE Programme and Ministry of Social Justice SAGE (Seniorcare Aging Growth Engine) on June 04, 2021, and
Portal and Empowerment also the SAGE portal to support India’s elderly persons. The SAGE
portal will act as a “one-stop access” of elderly care products and
services by credible start-ups.
IndusInd Bank announced the launch of 'IndusEasy Credit', a

comprehensive digital lending platform that enables customers
to meet their financial requirements from the comfort of their
IndusEasy Credit - a homes.
IndusInd Bank
digital lending platform A first of its kind proposition, 'IndusEasyCredit' offers a fully
digital end to end process that leverages the power of India's
public digital infrastructure - 'Indiastack' to offer personal loans
and credit cards in a paperless, presence less and cashless manner.
Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs,

Anurag Singh Thakur launched the six modules of short films
of Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) titled
“Hisab Ki Kitaab” IEFPA “Hisaab Ki Kitaab”.
These short films developed by Common Services Centers (CSC)

eGov as a part of their training tool.
May
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Launched on CSCs Digital Seva Portal to support the

HDFC Bank and Common
Chatbot 'Eva' Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) in providing banking
Services Centres (CSCs)
services for the last mile rural consumers.
This new feature gives the bank’s existing and new

‘I choose my number’
Jana Small Finance Bank customers the option to select their favourite numbers as
feature
their savings or current account number.
DigiGold”, a digital platform for customers to make

investments in gold. This has been rolled out in
partnership with SafeGold, a provider of digital gold.
Digigold Airtel Payments Bank With DigiGold, Airtel Payments Bank’s saving account
customers can invest in 24K gold using the Airtel Thanks
app. Customers can also gift DigiGold to their family and
friends, who have a savings account with Airtel Payments
Bank.
April
‘Rewards123’ provides customers

with perks and rewards. Airtel
‘Rewards123’ savings Payments Bank says that its Rewards123
Airtel Payments Bank
account savings bank account will give multiple
benefits to users with annual earnings of
up to ₹960.
Union Minister for Communication &
“Online Grievance IT and Law & Justice Ravi Shankar
Management Portal of Prasad launched the “Online Grievance
Ministry of Information Technology
National Commission for Management Portal of National
Scheduled Castes (NCSC)” Commission for Scheduled Castes
(NCSC)”
digital and contactless banking

platform, especially for retail
merchants.
Digital banking Platform
ICICI Bank The service, called ‘Merchant Stack’, is
‘Merchant Stack’
targeted at the over 2 crore retail
merchants in the country, covering
grocers, supermarkets, large retail
store chains, online businesses and
large e-commerce firms.
Chapter 10 India’s GDP Forecast FY21 &22 (Last Update 2nd Sept
2021)
Organization 2020-21 FY 22 (2021-22)
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Fitch (-)9.4% (Update-8 Dec) 9.5% (Update 7 May)
HSBC Bank 11.2%
RBI forecasted (-)7.5%(Update-4 Dec) 9.5% (Update 5 june)
Moody (-)7%(Update-25feb) 9.6% (2021), 7%(2022)
(Update 23 June)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) (-)8%(Update-15 Dec) 10% (Update 20 July)

World Bank (-)9.6%(Update-6 Oct) 8.3% (Update -13 June)
World Economic Outlook released by (-)8% (Update-27th Jan 2021) 9.5%(Update -28 July 2021)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
FICCI (-)8% (Update 27Jan)
Organisation for Economic Co- (-)9.9% (Update-2dec) 9.9% (Update 1 June 2021)
operation and Development (OECD)
DBS Bank (-)6% (Update 22 July)
Goldman Sachs (-)10.3% (Update 18 Nov) 11.1% (Update 4th May 2021)
CRISIL (-)7.7%(Update 15 Dec) 9.5% (Update 7th June)
UN (United Nation) (-)9.6%(Update 26th Jan 2021) 7.5%(Update 12 May)
Confederation of Indian Industry between (-)0.9 per cent and 1.5 9.5% (update 18 June)
(CII) per cent
India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) (-)7.6% 9.4% (Update 19 Aug)
Economy Survey (-)7.7 11% (Update 1 feb)
National Council of Applied (-)7.3%(Update-26 Dec)
Economic Research (NCAER)
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) (-)7.7% Update-14 Dec) 9.5% (Update 25 June)
ICRA (-)7% (Update-26 feb) 8.5%(Update 15 June)
State Bank of India (SBI) (-)7(Update-11 Feb) 7.9%(Update 1 June,2021)
Morgan Stanley 10.5% (Update 1 sept2021)
CARE Ratings (-)8% (Update-14 sept) 8.8 to 9%%(Update 27 July 2021)
Normura -6.7% (Update-14th Jan 2021) 10.8% (Update 11 May 2021)
Oxford Economics 10.2%
Brickwork Ratings 11% (Update 12 Jan)
UBS -7.5% (Update-14 Jan 2021) 10% (Update 19th April 2021)
Barclays 7.7% (Update 26May 2021)
Chapter 11: Union Budget 2021-22: Highlights and RBI Annual

Report 2021
Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the Union Budget 2021
for the 3rd time in a row. The Union Budget is the yearly financial report estimating
the income and expenditure presented to outline future policies to be adopted by the
government for sustainable growth and development.
Union Budget 2021
”Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark”. -
Rabindranath Tagore
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(Fireflies – A Collection of Aphorisms)
• 1st Paperless Budget
• On a Tab Made in India
According to Speech of FM Nirmala Sitharaman
COVID Relief
• The Prime Minister announced the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana,
valued at 2.76 lakh crores
• free food grain to 800 million people,
• free cooking gas for 80 million families for months,
• and cash directly to over 400 million farmers, women, elderly, the poor and
the needy.
Total financial impact of all AtmaNirbhar Bharat packages including measures taken by
RBI was estimated to about `27.1 lakh crores which amounts to more than 13% of
GDP.
• PART A : In Part A, I wish to lay a vision for AtmaNirbhar Bharat.
♦Budget Proposals 2021-22
Pillars
1)Health and Wellbeing
2)Physical & Financial Capital, and Infrastructure
3)Inclusive Development for Aspirational India
4)Reinvigorating Human Capital
5)Innovation and R&D
6)Minimum Government and Maximum Governance
♦1. HEALTH SYSTEM
• PM AtmaNirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana: outlay of about 64,180 crores over

6 years.
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• Support for 17,788 rural and 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centers.
• Setting up of 15 Health Emergency Operation Centers and 2 mobile hospitals.
Universal Coverage of Water
• The Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) = 86 crores household tap connections

• 5 years, with an outlay of `2,87,000 crores.
Swachch Bharat, Swasth Bharat
• The Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 = 1,41,678 crores over a period of 5
years from 2021-2026.
Clean Air
• 2,217 crores
Vaccine
• Rs. 35,000 crores for Covid-19 vaccine
Note: OVERALL outlay for Health and Wellbeing is Rs. 2,23,846 crores (increase of
137%)
♦2. Physical and Financial Capital and Infrastructure
AtmaNirbhar Bharat – Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI)
• AtmaNirbhar Bharat have been announced for 13 sectors.

• For this, the government has committed nearly Rs. 1.97 lakh crores, over
5 years starting FY 2021-22 (Manufacturing Hub)
Textiles
• A scheme of Mega Investment Textiles Parks (MITRA)

• 7 Textile Parks will be established over 3 years
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Infrastructure financing – Development Financial Institution (DFI)
• Government to set up a DFI

• A sum of Rs. 20,000 crores to capitalise this institution
• Lending portfolio of at least Rs. 5 lakh crores for this DFI in three years time
National Monetisation Pipeline of potential brownfield infrastructure assets will be

launched
• NHAI & PGCIL have sponsored one InvIT each

• 5 operational roads with an estimated enterprise value of 5,000 crores are
being transferred to the NHAI InvIT.
• Transmission assets of a value of Rs. 7,000 crores will be transferred to
the PGCIL InvIT
• InvIT = Infrastructure Investment Trusts
• PGCIL = Power Grid Corporation of India
Capital Budget
• Capital Expenditure = Rs.5.54 lakh crore (+34.5% vs. FY21 BE)

• FY21 = Rs.4.39 lakh crore
• Sum of more than Rs. 44,000 crores in the Budget head of the Department
of Economic Affairs
• More than Rs. 2 lakh crores to States and Autonomous Bodies for their
Capital Expenditure
Roads & Highway Infrastructure
• More than 13,000 km length of roads of which 3,800 kms have been
constructed
• By March 2022, another 8,500 kms and complete an additional 11,000 kms
of national highway corridors.
• 3,500 km corridor in Tamil Nadu (Madurai-Kollam corridor, Chittoor-
Thatchur corridor)
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• 1,100 km in Kerala at investment of Rs 65,000 cr (MumbaiKanyakumari

corridor)
• 675 km in West Bengal at a cost of Rs 95,000 cr (upgradation of existing
road-Kolkata – Siliguri.)
• 1,300 km in Assam in the next 3 years
Railway Infrastructure
• National Rail Plan for India – 2030

• 100% electrification of Broad-Gauge routes will be completed by December,
2023
• 1,10,055 crores for Railways of which Rs. 1,07,100 crores is for capital
expenditure.
Urban Infrastructure
• 18000 cr = Expand Transport Services

• ‘MetroLite’ and ‘MetroNeo’ technologies in Tier- II metros.
Petroleum & Natural Gas
• Ujjwala Scheme= Covered 8 cr households and will be extended to 1 cr more

beneficiaries
• City Gas Distribution network = add 100 more districts in next 3 years.
• A gas pipeline project will be taken up in Union Territory of Jammu &
Kashmir.
Financial Capital
• 1,000 crores = Solar Energy Corporation of India

• 1,500 crores = Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
Increasing FDI in Insurance Sector
• Insurance Act, 1938 = FDI limit from 49% to 74%
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• Stressed Asset Resolution by setting up a New Structure
Recapitalization of PSBs
• Recapitalization of 20,000 crores for bank is proposed in 2021-22
Deposit Insurance
• DICGC Act, 1961 = Rs.1 lakh to Rs.5 lakh

• Revised definition for NBFCs with minimum asset size of Rs.100 crores,
minimum loan size eligible for debt recovery under (SARFAESI) Act, 2002 is
proposed to be reduced from the existing level of Rs. 50 lakhs to Rs.20 lakhs.
Company matters
• Revise the definition under the Companies Act, 2013 for Small Companies by
increasing their thresholds for Paid up capital from not exceeding 50 Lakh to
not exceeding Rs. 2 Crore and turnover from not exceeding Rs. 2 Crore
to not exceeding 20 Crore.
Disinvestment
• Target for FY22 = Rs.1.75 lakh cr

• Disinvestment will be completed by 2021-22:
• BPCL, Air India, Shipping Corporation of India, Container Corporation of India,
IDBI Bank, BEML, Pawan Hans, Neelachal Ispat Nigam limited
• Other than IDBI Bank, Privatization of two Public Sector Banks and one
General Insurance company in the year 2021-22
• IPO of LIC
♦3. Inclusive Development for Aspirational India
Agriculture
• MSP = 1.5 times the cost of production across all commodities

• Farmers benefited from MSP in Paddy & Wheat = 54 cr
• Amount paid to Farmers for Wheat in FY21 = Rs.75060 cr
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• Ans for Paddy in FY21 = 1.72 cr

• For Pulses = Rs. 10530 cr
• Under SVAMITVA scheme = about 1.80 lakh property-owners in 1,241
villages have been provided cards
• Agricultural credit target = Rs.16.5 lakh crores in FY22
• Allocation to the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund from Rs. 30,000
crores to 40,000 crores.
• Micro Irrigation Fund= Rs. 5,000 crores , created under NABARD
• ‘Operation Green Scheme’ = Tomatoes, onions, and potatoes, will be
enlarged to include 22 perishable products.
Fisheries
• 5 major fishing harbours – Kochi, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, and

Petuaghat
Migrants Workers
• Under One Nation, One Ration

• 69 crores beneficiaries – that’s a total of 86% beneficiaries covered
• 32 states and UTs
Financial Inclusion
• Reduce the margin money requirement from 25% to 15%, and to also
include loans for activities allied to agriculture.
• MSME sector allocation to be doubled = 15,700 crores in FY22
4. Reinvigorating Human Capital
• The National Education Policy (NEP) announced recently has had good
reception
• 100 new Sainik Schools will be set up
• Set up a Central University in Leh.
• A target of establishing 750 Eklavya model residential schools in our tribal
areas
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5. Innovation and R&D
• Worked out the modalities and the NRF outlay will be of 50,000 crores, over
5 year
• 1500 crore for a scheme to boost Digital Payment
• Gaganyaan mission = 4 Indian astronauts are being trained on Generic Space
Flight aspects, in Russia.
• The first unmanned launch is slated for December 2021
• Deep Ocean Mission = more than Rs. 4,000 crores, over five years
♦6. Minimum Government, Maximum Governance
• The forthcoming Census could be the first digital census in the history of India
allocated 3,768 crores in the year 2021-2022.
• 300 crores = Govt of Goa as grant for celebration of 50 years of Independence
from the Portugues
• 1000 cr = Bengal, Assam Tea workers
Fiscal Position
• FY21 fiscal deficit at 5% of GDP

• FY21 Gross Expenditure = Rs.34.5 lakh cr
• FY21 Capital Expenditure = Rs.4.39 lakh cr
• FY22 fiscal deficit target = 6.8% of GD
• FY22 Gross Expenditure = Rs. 34.83 lakh cr
• FY22 Capital Expenditure = Rs.5.54 lakh cr
Market borrowing in Fy22 = Rs.12 lakh cr
•
Note: Hope to get Fiscal Deficit by FY26 = below 4.5%
Part B
Relief to Senior Citizens
• Pensioners over 75 years of age are exempt from filling returns Exemption from
Audit
• Turnover exceeds Rs. 5 crore increased to Rs.10 crore if 95% transaction in

digital form
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RBI Annual Report 2021

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) published its annual report and highlights “asset quality of
banks and their preparedness requires close monitoring for higher provisioning for
upcoming quarters.
• RBI in its semi-annual financial stability report earlier highlighted, bad loan
ratio of banks could rise to 13.5% under baseline stress scenario by
September 2021.
• Provision Coverage Ratio (PCR) of banks improved from 66.6% in March
2020 to 75.5 % by December 2020, because of prudent provisioning by
banks above regulatory prescriptions on accounts availing moratorium and
undergoing restructuring.
• Capital to risk-weighted assets ratio (CRAR) of banks increased to 15.9% by
December 2020, in March it was 14.8%.
• In its report, RBI cautioned “banks being lenders will have to provide true
picture of bad loans after Supreme Court lifted interim stay on classifying
non-performing assets (NPA) in March 2021.
• According to it, waiver of compound interest on all loan accounts opted for
moratorium during March-August 2020 would put stress on financial
health of banks.
• Gross NPA ratio of banks decreased from 8.2% in March 2020 to 6.8% in
December 2020.
• Gross NPA ratio for non-banking financial institutions (NBFCs)
increased from 6.8% in march to 5.7% in December 2020.
• Capital adequacy ratio of NBFCs increased from 24.8% in December 2020
from 23.7% in March.
Chapter 12: List of Important Committee 2021
August
Committee Headed by Purpose
RBI appointed panel under the chairmanship
of N. S. Vishwanathan suggests 4-tier structure
for Urban Co-operative Banks; minimum CRAR
Committee on (Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio) for them
suggesting 4-tier N. S. could vary from 9 per cent to 15 per cent.
structure for Urban Vishwanathan
Co-operative Banks A Reserve Bank-appointed committee has
suggested a four-tier structure for the urban
cooperative banks (UCBs) depending upon the
deposits and prescribed different capital adequacy
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and regulatory norms for them based on their

sizes.
The RBI committee said that UCBs can be split

into four categories — Tier-1 with deposits up
to Rs 100 crore; Tier-2 with deposits between Rs
100-Rs 1,000 crore, Tier-3 with deposits between
Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 10,000 and Tier-4 with
deposits of over Rs 10,000 crore.
June, 2021
Variable Capital K.P. Krishnan Dr. K.P. Krishnan committee on “Variable Capital
Company Company” has submitted its report to
International Financial Services centres Authority
(IFSCA) regarding feasibility of Variable Capital
Companies in International Financial Services Centres
in India.
Four-member N. K. Sodhi SEBI has reconstituted its four-member Takeover

Takeover Panel by Panel Under the chairmanship Former Justice N. K.
SEBI Sodhi, which looks into the applications that seek
exemption from the mandatory open offer that an
acquirer needs to make to minority shareholders.
Members of the Panel are:
• Chairman: N. K. Sodhi
• Member: Darius Khambata
• Member: Thomas Mathew
• Member: N Venkatram
High-level committee Recently, a high-level committee has been formed

for consultations on for the consultations on the creation of integrated
theatre commands triservice theatre commands. The committee will
examine all issues and find a way forward before a
formal note on their creation is sent to the Cabinet
Committee on Security.
The Shekatkar committee (in 2015) had
recommended the creation of 3 integrated theatre
commands — northern for the China border, western
for the Pakistan border, and southern for the maritime
role.
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(May, 2021)
Advisory group to assist S Janakiraman The committee will assist the authority to identify
the second Regulatory areas, guidelines, regulations and returns. It will
Review Authority (RRA 2.0) submit reports periodically to RRA that will
provide suggestions and recommendations.
RRA 2.0 was established in April 2021. The

authority is to function for a period of one year. It
will review the regulatory prescription internally.
Also, it will examine and suggest changes required
in the dissemination process of RBI instructions
and circulars.
IFSCA’s expert committee Nilesh Shah The International Financial Services Centres
on Investment Funds Authority, IFSCA has constituted an expert
committee on Investment Funds.
The Committee under the Chairmanship of
Nilesh Shah, Managing Director of Kotak
Mahindra Asset Management Co. Ltd, will
recommend the road map for the funds industry
in the International Financial Service Centres,
IFSCs. The Committee comprises leaders from the
Fund Management sector.
April, 2021
Regulations Review Authority M Rajeshwar Rao The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(RRA 2.0) will set up a new Regulations
Review Authority (RRA 2.0)
from May 1, 2021, to review the
regulations, circulars, reporting
systems and compliance
procedures of the central bank for
streamlining them and making
them more effective. The RRA will
be set up for a period of one year
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unless the timeline is extended by

the RBI.
Asset Reconstruction Sudarshan Sen The Reserve Bank of India

Companies (ARC) recently set up a committee to
study about the Asset
Reconstruction Companies
(ARC) in the country. The
committee will evaluate the role of
ARCs in debt resolution and will
review their business model.
The Committee will also review

the role of ARC in stressed asset
resolution under the IBC
(Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Code).
March 2021
Panel to Evaluate Bank Shyamala Gopinath The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a
Applications “standing external advisory committee
(SEAC)” on March 23, 2021. This panel will
evaluate the applications for the universal
banks and small finance banks (SFBs).
This committee comprises of five members.
February-2021
Expert Committee on Urban co- N. S. Vishwanathan The committee is being set in accordance
op Banks by RBI with the provisions of the Banking
Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020. The
act became applicable to the Primary or
the Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) from
June 26, 2020.
Chapter 13: Banking & Financial
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Note: List of GST Collection previous months
• August: Rs 1.12 lacs cr.

• July 2021: Rs 1,16,393 crore
• June 2021: Rs 92,849 crore
• May 2021: Rs 1,02,709 crore
• April 2021: ₹1.41 lakh crore(All time Highest)
• March 2021: Rs. 1.24lacs cr.
• Feb 2021: Rs 1,13,143 crore
• January 2021: ₹ 1,19,847 crore
Feb 2021 mosquitoes, ticks, etc. For instance, vector-

borne diseases can include Dengue fever,
Govt pegs FY21 fiscal deficit at 9.5% of Malaria, etc.
GDP
Policy framework
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
said on 1 Feb the fiscal deficit for FY21 The minimum sum insured under Standard
has been pegged at 9.5 per cent of the GDP Product shall be ₹10,000 wherein the
and will come down to 6.8 per cent in amount can be increased in the multiples of
FY22. The fiscal deficit will reach below ₹10,0000 and maximum limit can go up to ₹2
4.5 per cent by FY26. lakh. Besides, the minimum entry age shall
be 18 years for principal insured and
Sitharaman said while gross expenditure is maximum age at entry shall not be less than
seen at Rs 34.5 lakh crore, the capital 65 years for all the insured members
expenditure is expected to be Rs 4.39 lakh including principal insured.
crore in FY21.
PayPal to Stop Domestic Payment
Banks wrote off Rs 62,000 cr loans of top Services from 1 April 2021
100 willful defaulters: RBI
The American Digital payment solutions
Banks have written off almost Rs 62,000 provider PayPal announced that it will
crore of loans of top 100 wilful defaulters stop offering the domestic payment
as of March 2020, with Jatin Mehta’s services within India beginning from April
Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery topping 1, 2021.
the list at Rs 3,098 crores.
RBI to adopt “One Nation One
IRDAI issues guidelines on Standard Ombudsman” approach
Vector-Borne Disease health policy
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
In order to convince public for getting announced that it will integrate the
health insurance coverage to specified consumer grievances redressal under a
Vector-Borne Diseases, the Insurance single ombudsman as opposed to the three
Regulatory and Development Authority grievance redressal schemes working at
of India (Irdai) has encouraged all general present.
and health insurers to offer Standard Vector-
Borne Disease health policy “Mashak There are dedicated ombudsman schemes
Rakshak”. This health policy can for the consumer grievance redressal in
preferably be available by 1 April 2021. the banking, non-bank finance
companies and digital transactions.
Vector-borne diseases generally happen
from an infection transmitted to humans and Federal Bank launches ‘FedFirst’ savings
other animals by blood-feeding insects like account scheme for children
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Federal Bank has announced the launch affordable for the small and marginal
of “FedFirst”, a special savings account farmers (SMFs).
scheme for children below 18 years of age.
Projects amounting to ₹78,910 crores
The account holder is provided with a
grounded under AMRUT
FedFirst contactless Debit Card with a daily
cash withdrawal limit of ₹2,500 and POS/e- Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
com limit of ₹10,000. Transformation (AMRUT) was launched
on 25 June 2015 in 500 selected cities
Bharti AXA General Insurance launches
across the country. The Mission focuses on
#EkNayaNazariya Campaign
the development of basic urban
Bharti AXA General Insurance has infrastructure in the sectors of water supply;
launched a new campaign called sewerage and septage management; storm
#EkNayaNazariya by asking everyone to water drainage; non-motorised urban
express their gratitude with the transport and development of green spaces
#IssJungMeinHumSangHai statement. and parks.
The aim of this campaign is to acknowledge Following are the achievements of
the caregivers who are supporting cancer AMRUT scheme:
survivors. And for this Bharti AXA General
Insurance collaborated with spoken word • Projects amounting to ₹78,910
poet and caregiver, Priya Malik for a crores have been grounded.
poignant tribute, ‘NayaNazariya’ to shed • Work worth ₹47,703 crores have
light on the selfless devotion of caregivers been carried out including
everywhere. completed projects worth ₹16,449
crores.
Govt allocates Rs16000 crore for 2021- • 97 lakh water tap connection and 62
22: PMFBY lakh sewer household connections
have been provided under AMRUT
The Central government has allocated
and in convergence with other
Rupees 16,000 crores for the Pradhan
scheme.
Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for
• Sewer Treatment Plants (STPs) of
the upcoming fiscal year 2021-22.
capacity 1,090 MLD (Million Litre
This allocation was done in order to boost per Day) have been developed
the safety of farmers’ crops. The amount will against the target of 6,000 MLD.
also ensure that maximum benefit of crop
ICICI Lombard launches Corporate India
insurance reaches to the farmers.
Risk Index
Govt Rs. 1050 crore budget has been
Private general insurer ICICI Lombard
allocated Sub Mission on Agricultural
has launched the ‘Corporate India Risk
Mechanization Scheme
Index’. This is intended to be a unified,
In the Union Budget 2021, Rs. 1050 crore standardised corporate risk index that spans
budget has been allocated for Sub Mission industries and companies.
on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM)
This will help companies understand the
for the financial year 2021-2022.
level of risk that their business is facing
About Scheme: The SMAM scheme was and also assist in developing a successful
launched in the year 2014-15. The scheme risk aversion plan.
was launched by the government of India
with the aim of ‘reaching the unreached’. The India recorded $1422 million FDI inflow
scheme seeks to reach to the unreached by from UK in 2019-20
making the farm machines accessible and
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The FDI inflow from the UK to India has was held by the United States, since 2018-
increased from $898 million in 2015- 16 19. The two-way trade between India and
to $1,422 million in 2019-20, according to China stood at $77.7 billion in 2020 despite
Grant Thornton Bharat’s Britain Meets India the conflict along the Line of Actual Control
report released on 17th Feb. (LAC) and the rising anti-China sentiment.
Maharashtra has come out as the top The India-US bilateral trade stood at
investment destination for UK $75.9 billion, according to provisional data
companies, followed by Haryana, Delhi, from the commerce ministry. Meanwhile, the
Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Karnataka. UAE continues to remain India’s third-
biggest trading partner.
State Bank of Sikkim under Reserve Bank
of India's regulatory purview SBI joins JPMorgan’s blockchain
payments network
brought State Bank of Sikkim under its State Bank of India has tied up with
regulatory purview. The bank, established JPMorgan to use the US bank’s blockchain
five years before Sikkim acceded to India technology to speed up overseas
in 1973, provides treasury operations for transactions.
the state government. It only operates within
The tie-up is expected to reduce SBI
Sikkim and is wholly-owned by the state
customers’ transaction costs and time taken
government.
for payments. SBI has joined Liink, a new
LIC launches new Bima Jyoti plan blockchain-based interbank data
network developed by JPMorgan. By
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
integrating the technology, the bank expects
has launched a non-linked, non-
to reduce transaction costs and improve
participating, individual savings plan
cross-border payments for its customers.
called Bima Jyoti.
March 2021
The plan offers a combination of protections
and savings. While it will provide life cover Fino Payments Bank upgraded to
in case of unfortunate death of the scheduled commercial bank status
policyholder, it also provides guaranteed
lumpsump payment at maturity. Reserve Bank of India has notified that it
has included Fino Payments Bank in the
The minimum entry age for Bima Jyoti is 90 Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of
days, while the maximum is 60 years. India Act, 1934.
RBI ropes in Punjabi rapper for All banks which are included in the Second
awareness campaign on cyber fraud Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act,
1934 are Scheduled Banks. These banks
As cyber frauds continue to increase, the
comprise Scheduled Commercial Banks and
Reserve Bank of India, has undertaken an
Scheduled Co-operative Banks.
unusual measure to spread awareness.
The RBI has roped in Punjabi singer- SBI Mutual Funds Launched First
rapper Viruss in its public awareness Overseas Fund
campaign.
The State Bank of India (SBI) Mutual
China Surpasses US to become India’s top Funds has launched its first overseas
trade partner in 2020 offering on 1 March 2021. The fund titled
SBI International Access — US Equity FOF
China has regained its position as the top
is an open-ended fund of funds scheme
trading partner of India in 2020, which
investing in mutual fund scheme/ETFs that
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invest in US markets, which are domiciled continued to be the top source of FDI for
overseas. India in April-September 2020-21.
EPFO retains interest rate for 2020-21 at SEBI canceled Sahara India Financial
8.5% Corp’s registration as sub-broker
The Central Board of Trustees of retirement Markets regulator Sebi has cancelled the
fund body Employees’ Provident Fund certificate of registration of Sahara India
Organisation (EPFO) will keep the interest Financial Corporation Ltd as a sub-broker
rate for the financial year 2020-21 citing its failure to fulfil the “fit and proper”
unchanged at 8.5 per cent. criteria.
India attracted total FDI inflow of US$ HDFC Bank launched SmartUp Unnati
67.54 billion during April to December programme
2020
The HDFC Bank has launched the
India has attracted total FDI inflow of US$ “SmartUp Unnati mentoring
67.54 billion during April to December Programme”. This programme was
2020. It is the highest ever for the first ninth launched to provide its support to the
months of a financial year and 22% higher as women entrepreneurs. This programme
compared to the first ninth months of 2019- was launched on the occasion of
20 (US$ 55.14 billion). International Women’s Day.
FDI equity inflow grew by 40% in the first 9 MeitY released the list of “Digital
months of F.Y. 2020-21 (US$ 51.47 billion) Payment Scorecard”
compared to the year ago period (US$ 36.77
The Ministry of Electronics & Information
billion).
Technology (MeitY) has released the list of
HDFC ERGO launched Business Kisht “Digital Payment Scorecard”. In the list, the
Suraksha cover State Bank of India (SBI) has topped for
the third consecutive months.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance has
launched the “Business Kisht Suraksha” SBI maintained the top remitter bank by
cover. It is a unique cover which was recording highest UPI transaction volume
launched with the aim of protecting the which accounted for nearly Rupees 640
balance sheet of Micro finance Institutions million. SBI has also emerged as the largest
(MFIs), financial institutions and banks if issuer of debit cards.
any catastrophe or natural disaster occurs.
RBI removed PCA restrictions on IDBI
India FDI Apr-Sep 2020: Singapore with Bank
$8.30 Billion Topped the List, US 2nd
Biggest Source
removed IDBI Bank from restrictions
The US has emerged as the second biggest placed on it due to its poor capital, asset
source of foreign direct investment (FDI) quality and leverage position four years
into India, replacing Mauritius, during the ago.
first half of the current financial year,
That the decision was taken in a review by
according to data of the commerce and
the central bank's internal Board of Financial
industry ministry.
Supervision (BFS) in a meeting on February
During April-September 2020, India 28.
attracted FDI worth $7.12 billion from
Axis Bank launched “Wear N Pay”
the US and $2 billion from Mauritius.
contactless payment wearable devices
Singapore with $8.30 billion foreign inflows
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Axis Bank has launched a range of The Central Government has announced
wearable contactless payment devices to infuse Rs 14,500 crore in four state-
under the brand Wear ‘N’ Pay. These owned lenders namely Central Bank of
devices come in different forms of wearables India, Indian Overseas Bank, Bank of
like a band, key chain and watch loop and are India and UCO Bank in 2020-21, by issuing
available starting at Rs 750. non-interest-bearing bonds to these banks.
This infusion will complete
NITI Aayog submitted the first list of 12 the government’s total capital infusion of
PSUs for Privatisation Rs 20,000 crore in public sector banks for
the current financial year 2020-
The government’s think tank, NITI Aayog 21. Earlier in December 2020, it infused
has submitted the first list comprising of Rs 5,500 crore in Punjab and Sind Bank.
12 Public Sector Undertakings that will be
privatized under the centre’s RBI has decided to open up RTGS, NEFT
privatisation drive. facilities for payment system operators
The list submitted by the NITI Aayog
includes the PSUs in strategic sectors. This In a major move in the online payments
list will now be reviewed by Department of segments, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Investment and Public Asset Management has decided to allow payment system
(DIPAM) and Core Group of Secretaries on operators to take direct membership of
Divestment (CGD) which is headed by Centralised Payment Systems (CPS), such
cabinet secretary. as RTGS and NEFT. Membership in
Centralised Payment Systems (CPS) RTGS
Govt will sell 15% stake in Rail Vikas and NEFT for entities other than banks are
Nigam Ltd via OFS so far limited to banks, with a few
exceptions, such as specialised entities like
The government on 24th March said it clearing corporations and select
will dilute 15 per cent stake in Rail Vikas development financial institutions.
Nigam Ltd via an offer for sale to raise
nearly Rs 750 crore. Govt. would divest
10% equity with a 5% Green Shoe option. RBI has increased WMA limits for the
About RVNL: RVNL was incorporated as a State Governments/UTs

100 per cent owned PSU of the Ministry of
Railways on January 2003. The Reserve Bank of India has increased
the limit for Way and Means Advances
April 2021 (WMA) for the State Governments/UTs
from Rs. 32,225 crore (fixed in February
Centre has proposed up to 25% tax 2016) to Rs. 47,010 crore based on the
concession on purchase of new vehicles recommendation of a committee headed by
Shri Sudhir Shrivastava. This represents an
The Ministry of Road, Transport, and increase of about 46%. RBI has extended
Highways has proposed a concession of the enhanced interim WMA limit of ₹ 51,560
25% in road tax against the scrappage crores (a 60 per cent increase in the current
certificate of personal vehicles and 15% limits allowed by the Reserve Bank during
for transport vehicles. As a part of the the last fiscal to help states/UTs to tide over
newly introduced vehicle scrappage policy, the difficulties faced by them during the
this rule is proposed to come into effect pandemic) for a further period of six months
from October 1st, 2021. i.e., from April 1, 2021, up to September 30,
2021.
Government has announced Rs
14,500 crore capital infusion in 4
PSBs
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Aceware has launched first neobank in

RBI has enhanced maximum balance Kerala
limit per account in Payments Banks
Aceware FinTech Services, a leading
The Reserve Bank of India has enhanced fintech services company in Kerala, has
the limit of maximum balance at end of the launched the state’s first neobank, Ace
day maintained in Payments Bank from Rs Money Neobank, in partnership with YES
1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh per individual Bank and ICICI Bank. In the first phase, start-
customer. The extant “Guidelines for ups, traders and business entities can open
Licensing of Payments Banks” issued current accounts with the neobank.
on November 27, 2014, allow payments
banks to hold a maximum balance of ₹ 1 RBI has restricted American Express
lakh per individual customer. Banking Corp, Diners Club International
Ltd from adding new customers
SBI MF has become first mutual fund Reserve Bank of India has imposed
restrictions on American Express
company to cross Rs 5 lakh crore AAUM Banking Corp and Diners Club
International Limited from adding new
SBI Funds Management Pvt. Ltd has customers to their card networks from 1st
informed that it has become the first mutual of next month.
fund house in India to cross the Rs. 5 lakh
crore average assets under management RBI has allowed commercial banks to pay
(AAUM) mark. up to 50% of pre-Covid dividends
Ghaziabad has issued India’s first The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
municipal green bonds allowed commercial banks to pay
dividends on equity shares for FY21, from
Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam (GNN) on 9th the profits for the fiscal ended March 31,
Arpil announced successfully raising and 2021, subject to certain conditions and
listing India’s first Green Municipal bond limits. The new notification of RBI allows
issue. GNN raised ₹150 crore at a cost of commercial banks to pay dividends not
8.1 per cent. Money will be used clean up more than 50 per cent of the amount
dirty water by setting up a tertiary water determined as per the dividend payout
treatment plant and supply piped water ratio prescribed. This means that banks
through water-meters to places like may pay dividends up to 50% of what they
Sahibabad. paid before the Covid scenario.
RBI has capped the Tenure of Private

Citigroup will exit consumer banking Banks MD & CEO at 15 Years
business in India The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has

capped the tenure of Managing Director
Citigroup on 16th April Announced it will and Chief Executive of commercial banks
exit its retail banking business in India to 15 years. The same limit will also be
and 12 other countries, choosing to deploy applicable to whole-time directors
its capital and resources in investments that (WTD). This means that the same
offer better returns and growth. The move incumbent cannot hold the post for more
will see the bank also exit consumer than 15 years. The revised instructions will
businesses across parts of Asia and the be applicable to all the Private Sector Banks
Europe, including Australia and China. including Small Finance Banks (SFBs) and
wholly owned subsidiaries of Foreign Banks.
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Shivalik Small Finance Bank Limited (SLTRO) of Rs 10,000 crores for Small
Begins Operations Finance Banks.
Shivalik Small Finance Bank Limited has The RBI will conduct the SLTRO for each
commenced operations as a small finance month starting from May 2021. This is to
bank with effect from April 26, 2021.The continue till October 2021. The SLTRO will
Reserve Bank has issued a licence to the be valid for three years. All the Small Finance
bank under Section 22 (1) of the Banking Banks shall participate in the SLTRO.
Regulation Act, 1949 to carry on the
business of small finance bank in India. Bajaj Finance got RBI approval for
prepaid payment business
It must be remembered that the Shivalik Bajaj Finance is all set to join the likes of
Mercantile Co-operative Bank (SMCB) is the
Paytm and Amazon in the prepaid payment
first urban co-operative bank (UCB) in India
segment with the Reserve Bank of India
to receive license from RBI to operate as a
Small Finance Bank (SFB). (RBI) approving the non-bank lender’s
foray with perpetual validity.
RBI has joined network for greening UN raised global economic forecast to
financial system 5.4% growth in 2021
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has The United Nations on 12th May
joined the Central Banks and Supervisors responded to the rebounding Chinese
Network for Greening the Financial and U.S. economies by revising its global
System (NGFS) as a member. The central economic forecast upward to 5.4%
bank joined the NGFS on April 23, 2021. growth for 2021, but it warned that surging
COVID-19 cases and inadequate availability
Benefit: The RBI expects to benefit from the of vaccines in many countries threaten a
membership of NGFS by learning from and
broad-based recovery.
contributing to global efforts on green
finance, which has assumed significance in In raising its projection from January of 4.7%
the context of climate change. growth, the U.N.’s mid-2021 World
Economic Situation and Prospects report.
May 2021 RBI announced Second Tranche of

purchase under G-SAP 1.0
RBI announced ₹50,000 crore priority
lending by banks for COVID-related The Reserve Bank of India recently
healthcare infrastructure announced that the second tranche of
open market purchase of Government
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will give Securities is to be held on May 20, 2021.
banks Rs 50,000 crore to enable them to This is to be held under G-Sec Acquisition
lend further for "healthcare needs" in the Programme. This second tranche is to be
Covid-19 crisis, said governor Shaktikanta conducted for Rs 35,000 crores.
Das on 5th May.
In April 2021, the Reserve Bank of India
“On-tap liquidity of Rs 50,000 crore at repo launched the Government Security
rate is being opened till March 31, 2022. Acquisition Programme 1.0. It was held
RBI will conduct first SLTRO for small on April 15, 2021. RBI purchased Rs 25,000
finance banks crores of Government securities.
The Reserve Bank of India recently Earlier in May 2021, RBI announced that the
announced that it is to conduct the first second tranche is to be purchased under G-
Special Long Term Repo Operation SAP 1.0.
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India received $83 billion in remittances inflation for the month of April 2021 was
in 2020: World Bank 10.49%. The WPI for the month of April
2021 stood at 128.1. The base year in
India received over USD83 billion in
calculating WPI is fixed as 2011-12.
remittances in 2020, a drop of just 0.2 per
cent from the previous year, despite a RBI will transfer Rs. 99,122 crore surplus
pandemic that devastated the world to Central Government for FY21
economy, according to a World Bank.
The Reserve Bank of India will transfer Rs
Note: Top 5 99,122 crore surplus to the Central
Government for the accounting period of
2nd Place: China- USD 59.5 billion
nine months ended March 31, 2021 (July
3rd Place: Mexico-USD42.8 billion 2020-March 2021). The Contingency Risk
Buffer will remain at 5.50%. This year RBI
4th Place: Philippines USD34.9 billion has changed its Accounting year from July-
5th Place: Egypt- USD29.6 billion June to April-March to coincide with the
accounting year of Government.
6th Place: Pakistan- USD26 billion
RBI increased the limit for Full-KYC PPIs
PayPal introduced digital foreign inward to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1 lakh
remittance advice
The Reserve Bank of India has increased
Digital payments provider PayPal has the maximum amount outstanding in
introduced an automated process to respect of full-KYC PPIs (KYC-compliant
obtain monthly foreign inward PPIs) from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2 lakh.
remittance advice (FIRA), allowing Indian
merchants to download their monthly digital Note: RBI has also permitted cash
FIRA issued by banks. withdrawal from Full-KYC PPIs of Non-
Bank PPI Issuers. The condition on such
RBI excluded Lakshmi Vilas Bank from cash withdrawal shall be:
second schedule of RBI Act
• Maximum limit of Rs. 2,000 per
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it transaction with an overall limit of
has excluded Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) Rs. 10,000 per month per PPI.
from the Second Schedule of the RBI Act • All cash withdrawal transactions
after it was merged with DBS Bank India Ltd performed using a card/wallet shall
(DBIL) last year. be authenticated by an Additional
LVB is the second private sector bank after Factor of Authentication (AFA) /
Yes Bank which has run into rough weather PIN;
during this year. In March, capital-starved • RBI has increased the limit of cash
Yes Bank was placed under a moratorium. withdrawal from Points of Sale (PoS)
The government rescued Yes Bank by terminals using debit cards and open
asking the state-run State Bank of India to system prepaid cards (issued by
infuse Rs 7,250 crore and take a 45 banks) to Rs 2000 per transaction
percent stake in the bank. within an overall monthly limit of Rs.
10,000 across all locations (Tier 1 to
India’s WPI Inflation Surged To 10.49% 6 centres). Earlier this limit was Rs
For April 2021 1000 for Tier 1 and 2 cities while Rs
2000 for Tier 3 to 6 cities.
The Department for Promotion of
Industry and Internal Trade recently Kotak Mahindra Bank issued India’s first
released Wholesale Price in India for the FPI licence to GIFT AIF
month of April 2021. The annual rate of
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Kotak Mahindra Bank has issued the Frauds reported by banks fell by 25% in
first-ever foreign portfolio investor (FPI) value terms in just one year to Rs 1.38
licence to the GIFT IFSC alternative lakh crore at the end of fiscal year ended
investment fund (AIF) of True Beacon March 2021, data released by the RBI as
Global. This is the first FPI licence issued to part of it annual report showed.
an AIF incorporated in GIFT IFSC by any
During the same period last year total frauds
custodian bank or designated depository
reported by lenders was at Rs 1.85 lakh
participant (DDP) in the country.
crore. In number terms fraud reporting was
Foreign direct investment jumped 19% down by 15 percent on a year basis to 7363.
to $59.64 billion in 2020-21 Public sector banks contributed to more
than 59 percent of the total value of frauds
Foreign direct investments (FDI) into the
at Rs 81,901 crore while private sector
country grew 19 per cent to USD 59.64
banks contributed 33 percent at Rs
billion during 2020-21 on account of
46,335 crore.
measures taken by the government on the
fronts of policy reforms, investment June 2021
facilitation and ease of doing business.
Wipro became third Indian IT firm to
Total FDI, including equity, re-invested touch Rs 3 trillion market cap
earnings and capital, rose 10 per cent to the
Wipro on 3rd June touched Rs 3 trillion in
"highest ever" of USD 81.72 billion during
market capitalisation for the first time,
2020-21 as against USD 74.39 billion in
becoming the third Indian IT firm to
2019-20. In terms of top investor countries,
achieve the milestone after Tata
Singapore is at the top with 29 per cent
Consultancy Services and Infosys. The
share. It was followed by the US (23 per cent)
company won its largest deal ever from
and Mauritius (9 per cent) during the last
German retailer Metro and has seen deal
fiscal. "FDI equity inflow grew by 19 per cent
wins of $7.1 billion.
in 2020-21 (USD 59.64 billion), compared to
2019-20 (USD 49.98 billion). ICICI Bank Became 2nd Globally to offer
‘SWIFT gpi Instant’ facility
Value and volume of banknotes in
circulation increased by 16.8% and 7.2% ICICI Bank on June 2 announced that it
respectively in 2020-21: RBI has tied up with SWIFT to offer instant
facility for cross-border inward
The Reserve Bank of India on 27th May
remittances.
said banknotes in circulation witnessed
higher than average increase during This facility will help overseas partner
2020-21, on account of precautionary banks to send instant remittances on
holding of cash by people due to the COVID- behalf of their customers to the
19 pandemic, and its prolonged continuance. beneficiary in India, thus making ICICI
The value and volume of banknotes in Bank first lender in Asia-Pacific and the
circulation increased by 16.8 per cent and second globally to offer the facility, called
7.2 per cent, respectively, during 2020- ‘SWIFT gpi Instant’, for cross border
21, as against an increase of 14.7 per cent inward payments.
and 6.6 per cent, respectively, witnessed
during 2019-20. RBI lowered FY22 GDP forecast to 9.5%,
CPI inflation projected at 5.1%
Frauds reported by banks fell by 25% in
value terms to Rs 1.38 lakh crore in 2020- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut
21: RBI its projection for gross domestic product
(GDP) growth for fiscal 2021-22 (FY22) to
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9.5 per cent from the earlier forecast of 10.5 Canara Bank to participate in NARCL as
per cent. sponsor. The board of Canara Bank has given
in-principle approval for taking stake in
Consumer price inflation (CPI), the central
NARCL.
bank said, is likely to be at 5.1 per cent in
FY22 as compared to the earlier forecast of The proposed NARCL would be 51%
5.2 per cent (5.2 per cent in Q1; 5.4 per cent promoted by PSBs and remaining by
in Q2; 4.7 per cent in Q3; and 5.3 per cent in private sector lender. Banks have
Q4) with risks evenly balanced. identified around 22 bad loans worth Rs
89,000 crore to be transferred to the
India: 4th largest Forex Reserves holder
NARCL in the initial phase.
India’s forex reserves crossed $600 mark
IDFC First Bank launched 'Ghar Ghar
for the first time and as on June 4, it stood
Ration' program
at $605 billion. With this, India equals
Russia as the fourth largest reserve holder IDFC First Bank has announced the launch
worldwide. India’s forex reserve was of the "Ghar Ghar Ration" Program, an
$605.008 billion while for Russia it was Employee-funded program for its low-
$605.2 billion. income customers whose livelihoods are
affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
SBI launched Kavach Personal Loan for
Covid-19 patients Government allowed HFCs above Rs 100
crores to use to SARFAESI law
State Bank of India (SBI) has launched a
collateral-free “Kavach Personal Loan” to The Ministry of Finance has given its
enable its customers to meet medical allowance to housing finance companies
expenses of self and family members for (HFCs) with asset sizes of more than Rs.
Covid treatment. Under this scheme, 100 crore to recover the dues using
customers can avail of loans up to ₹5 lakhs at SARFAESI law.
an effective interest rate of 8.5 per cent per
Prior to this, Finance Ministry allowed HFCs
annum for 60 months, which is inclusive of
with assets over Rs. 500 crore to use
three months moratorium.
SARFAESI law to recover dues.
Policybazaar got insurance broking
Kotak Mahindra Bank launched ‘Pay Your
licence
Contact’ service
Policybazaar said it has got approval
Kotak Mahindra Bank has announced the
from regulator IRDAI to undertake
launch of ‘Pay Your Contact’ the new
insurance broking, a development that will
feature that enables its customers to send
help the company augment business and
money or make payments to any of their
expand bouquet of services.
contacts across all payment apps simply by
Canara Bank will be lead sponsor of bad the beneficiary’s mobile number.
bank, will pick up 12% stake
SBI launched Aarogyam healthcare
State-owned Canara Bank said it will be business loan
the lead sponsor of National Asset
The State Bank of India (SBI) has launched
Reconstruction Company Limited
the Aarogyam healthcare business loan to
(NARCL) or bad bank with 12 per cent
provide enhanced support to the
stake in the entity. Bad bank refers to a
healthcare sector amid the pandemic.
financial institution that takes over bad
Under this new product, entire healthcare
assets of lenders and undertakes resolution.
ecosystem such as hospitals, nursing
"The Indian Banks' Association (IBA), vide
homes, diagnostic centres, pathology
their letter dated May 13, 2021 requested
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labs, manufacturers, suppliers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on

importers, logistic firms engaged in 28th June announced Rs 1.1 lakh crore loan
critical healthcare supply can avail of guarantee scheme for Covid-affected sectors,
loans up to Rs 100 crore (as per the including health sector, which includes
geographic location) repayable in 10 years. guarantee cover for expansion or for new
projects. Besides, an additional Rs 1.5 lakh
In metro centres loans under Aarogyam can
crore limit enhancement was also
be availed up to Rs 100 crore, Tier I &
announced for Emergency Credit Line
Urban centres up to Rs 20 crore and in Tier
Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) scheme
II to Tier VI centres upto Rs 10 crore.
expanding the existing limit of Rs 3 lakh
LIC introduced Technology Platform ‘e- crore by 50%.
PGS’
FM Sitharaman’s announced relief
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has package worth Rs 6,28,993 crore against
launched a centralized web-based COVID-19
workflow-based IT platform called “e-PGS”.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
New technology platform, e-PGS, has
announced a relief package worth Rs
been designed to provide a centralized
6,28,993 crore to support Indian
collection and payment accounting with
economy in the fight against COVID-19
high level of bank integration.
pandemic.
BIS: India’s bank credit-to-GDP ratio
A total of 17 measures amounting to Rs
grew 56% in 2020
6,28,993 crore were announced 3 broad
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), categories. Economic Relief from Pandemic
incremental credit growth has decreased to (8), Strengthening Public Health (1),
59-year low at 5.56% in Financial Year Impetus for Growth & Employment (8).
2021.
About Relied Fund
As per data, bank credit-to-GDP ratio has
Economic relief from COVID-19 Pandemic
increased to a five-year high at about 56% in
- Rs 3,76,244 crores
2020. However, this increase is way behind
its peers and is half of the G20 average. New scheme for Public Health - Rs 15,000
Crores
Total outstanding bank credit was at
$1.52 trillion in 2020 at the credit-to-GDP Impetus for Growth and Employment - Rs
ratio of 56%. However, this was the second 2,37,749 Crores
lowest among all other Asian countries.
Total - Rs 6,28,993 Crores
Sitharaman announced Rs 1.1 lakh crore
loan guarantee scheme for Covid-hit
sector
Policy Rates
Repo Rate 4.0%
Reverse Repo Rate 3.35%
Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) Rate 4.25%
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Bank Rate 4.25%
Cash reserve Ratio (CRR) 4.0%
Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 18%
ATM cash withdrawal rule changed ICICI Bank announced the launch of the
country’s most comprehensive banking
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has changed
solutions for medical doctors. Called
some rules regarding cash withdrawal
‘Salute Doctors’, it provides customized
from automated teller machine (ATM).
banking as well as value-added services for
• Free cash withdrawal limit from every doctor, beginning from a medical
own bank: Bank customers can now student to a senior medical consultant to an
do five free financial and non- owner of a hospital or a clinic.
financial transactions every month HDFC Bank launched ‘Salaam Dil Sey’
from their own bank ATMs. initiative
• Free ATM transaction limit from
other bank: ATM card holders can HDFC Bank launched a SalaamDilSey
do three free financial and non- initiative to show gratitude to doctors for
financial transactions in metro their tireless service during the pandemic,
centres while five in non-metro to pay tribute to doctors across the
transaction from other bank ATMs country.
• Charges on ATM cash withdrawal
India recorded current account surplus
beyond free limit: RBI allowed
of 0.9% in FY21
banks to increase charges on ATM
transactions beyond free ATM According to the data released by the
transaction limit. Reserve Bank of India, India reported a
• Rise in interchange fee: current account surplus of 0.9% of GDP in
Interchange fee per transaction FY 21. In FY 20 there was a current account
changed from Rs 15 to Rs 17 for deficit of 0.9%. The reason for the Current
financial transactions while from Rs Account Surplus in FY21 is a sharp
5 to Rs 6 for non-financial contraction in the trade deficit to US$ 102.2
transactions in effect from August 1, billion from US$ 157.5 billion in 2019-20.
2021. India has seen a Current account surplus for
• New charges on ATM withdrawal the first time in 17 years.
beyond free transaction limit:
LIC launched Saral pension plan
Bank customer will have to pay Rs 21
(currently it is Rs 20) for each ATM The Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of
cash withdrawal beyond free India on 1st July 2021 launched Saral
transaction limit in effect from pension plan — a non-linked, non-
January 1, 2022. participating, single premium, individual
immediate annuity plan. This LIC Saral
pension plan offers two annuity options to
July 2021 the policy holders after one-time lump sum
amount payment. The plan also offers loan
ICICI Bank launched a comprehensive facility to the policy holder after six months
banking solution for doctors of the plan purchase. In this LIC of India
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pension plan, the policy holder will can pay a Dearness Relief to pensioners to 28 per cent.
lumpsum as purchase price and get a fixed This hike represents an increase of 11 per
payment at regular intervals for the rest of cent over the existing rate of 17 per cent
its life. The minimum annuity that a policy of the basic pay/pension. The increased
holder can avail is ₹12,000 per annum. DA and DR rates will be effective from
July 1, 2021.
Indian Overseas Bank became the second
most-valued public lender FDI limit in NPS fund managers hiked to
74% from 49%
Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has become
the second most-valued listed public The government notified a hike in the
sector bank (PSB) with a market foreign direct investment limit in pension
capitalisation of over Rs 50,000 crore. fund management to 74% from 49%
PNB was valued at Rs 46,356 crore and under the national pension system (NPS).
BoB at Rs 44,060 crore, which are now Pension Fund Regulatory &Development
ranked third and fourth among PSBs, Authority (PFRDA) Act links the FDI ceiling
respectively. in the insurance sector.
Paytm launches ‘Postpaid Mini’ to Federal Bank launched “FEDDY” AI-
provide small-ticket instant loans Powered virtual assistant for customers
Paytm has announced the launch of The Federal Bank has launched “FEDDY”,
Postpaid Mini, small-ticket loans that will an Artificial Intelligence-powered virtual
give users the flexibility to access loans assistant to help customers with banking-
ranging from Rs 250 – Rs 1,000, in related queries anytime. FEDDY can be
partnership with Aditya Birla Finance Ltd. accessed via Alexa, Google Assistant and
Paytm Postpaid is offering a period of up to WhatsApp.
30 days for repayment of loans at 0%
SBI selected Paisalo as its National
interest.
Corporate Business Correspondent
RBI Launched ‘Retail Direct Scheme’
State Bank of India (SBI) has selected
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13th “Paisalo Digital” as the National Corporate
July announced the ‘RBI Retail Direct’ Business Correspondent of the Bank for
scheme for retail investors, through financial inclusion by providing banking
which they can directly buy and sell services through kiosks.
government securities (G-Secs), both
RBI increased loan limit of bank directors
primary and secondary.
to Rs 5 cr from Rs 25 lakh
As per the central bank, under the ‘RBI Retail
The Reserve Bank of India on 23rd July
Direct’ scheme, retail investors (individuals)
increased the limit of personal loans
will have the facility to open and maintain
given to any director of a bank to Rs 5
the ‘Retail Direct Gilt Account’ (RDG
crore, from Rs 25 lakh earlier.
Account) with the RBI. “RDG account can be
opened through an online portal Government has permitted FDI up to
provided for the purpose of the scheme. 100% under the automatic route for
renewable energy projects
Cabinet approved increase in DA and
Dearness Relief from 17% to 28% Government has permitted Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) up to 100
The Union Cabinet headed by Prime
percent under the automatic route for
Minister Narendra Modi has approved an
renewable energy projects, including
increase in the Dearness Allowance to
offshore wind energy projects.
Central Government employees and
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August 2021 IndusInd Bank now joins few other private

banks of the country listed as Agency Bank of
GST collection recovers to a 3-month high
RBI, to carry out general banking business
of Rs 1.16lac Cr. in July
on behalf of the central and state
The Goods and services tax (GST) government, apart from offering its
collection recovered to a three-month customers the convenience of undertaking
high in July, exceeding the Rs 1.1 trillion routine financial transactions through its
mark, as economic activity resumed with banking platform.
most states easing Covid-19 restrictions,
RBI revises retail inflation projection for
official data showed on 1 August.
FY22 to 5.7%
The GST mop-up in July stood at Rs 1,16,393
crore, as against Rs 92,849 crore in June,
revised upwards retail inflation
according to the data released by the finance
projection for FY 22 to 5.7 per cent from
ministry.
5.1 per cent, even as it retained real GDP
HDFC Bank launched ‘Dukandar projection at 9.5 per cent.
Overdraft Scheme’
The revised quarterly retail inflation
HDFC Bank announced the launch of an projections are: 5.9 per cent in Q2 (5.4 per
overdraft facility for small retailers in cent earlier projection); 5.3 per cent in Q3
partnership with CSC SPV. Known as (4.7 per cent); and 5.8 per cent in Q4 (5.3 per
‘Dukandar Overdraft Scheme’. The scheme cent) of 2021-22.
by HDFC Bank is aimed at helping
Sebi allows payments banks to act as
shopkeepers and merchants ease their cash
investment bankers
crunch.
Sebi has allowed payments banks to carry
According to the bank, retailers operating for
out the activities of investment bankers
a minimum of three years are eligible for
to provide easy access to investors to
the scheme by providing six months bank
participate in public and rights issues by
statement from any bank.
using various payment avenues, markets
HDFC Bank will approve an overdraft limit regulator.
from a minimum of Rs 50,000 to a
Non-scheduled payments banks, which have
maximum of Rs 10 lakhs based on the
prior approval from the Reserve Bank of
statements.
India (RBI), will be eligible to act as a banker
Importantly, HDFC Bank won’t seek to an issue (BTI).
collateral security, business financials, and
Suryoday Small Finance Bank Launched
income tax returns from retailers who apply
‘Health and Wellness Savings account
for the scheme.
Suryoday Small Finance Bank (SSFB) has
RBI Authorises IndusInd Bank to act as an
launched a ‘Suryoday Health and
‘Agency Bank’
Wellness Savings Account’ to help
The IndusInd Bank has been empanelled customers grow their wealth and also
by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to act take care of their family’s health amid the
as an ‘Agency Bank’. As an Agency Bank, covid-19 pandemic.
IndusInd becomes eligible to carry out
The account offers an attractive interest rate
transactions related to all kinds of
and comes with three major benefits for a
government-led businesses.
family of four — top-up health insurance of
₹25 lakh, annual healthcare package and on-
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call emergency ambulance medical care Number Of Billionaires In India Dropped

services. From 141 to 136
RBI to impose monetary penalty on ATMs In the pandemic-hit financial year of
that run out of cash from October 1 2020-21, the number of billionaires in
India dropped from 141 in FY20 to 136 in
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided
FY21, as per a statement issued by Finance
to charge penalties on banks for non-
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Rajya
availability of cash in ATMs.
Sabha.
Starting October 1, 2021, cash-out at any
The count is based on the gross total income
ATM of more than 10 hours in a month will
declared in the income tax returns. In FY
attract a flat penalty of Rs 10,000 per ATM.
2018-19, the number of individuals with a
In case of White Label ATMs (WLAs), the
gross total annual income of more than Rs
penalty would be charged to the bank which
100 cr is 77.
is meeting the cash requirement of that
particular WLA.
RBI increase collateral-free loans to Self SBI Life launches new-age term insurance
Help Groups policy “SBI Life eShield Next”
The Reserve Bank of India has raised the
• SBI Life Insurance
limit for collateral-free loans to Self-Help announced the launch of a
Groups (SHG) under the DAY-NRLM unique new age protection
(Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National solution called ‘SBI Life eShield
Rural Livelihoods Mission) from Rs. 10 Next’, which ‘levels up’ the
lakhs to Rs. 20 Lakhs. protection coverage as the
insured achieves life’s major
The DAY-NRLM is the flagship program of milestones.
Govt. of India for promoting poverty
reduction through building strong • This means that the policy is
institutions for the poor, particularly neither linked to the stock
women, and enabling these institutions to market nor shares any profit or
dividends with the policyholders.
access a range of financial services and
livelihoods.
HCL Technologies becomes 4th IT firm to RBI will introduce ‘Regulatory GAAR’ for
hit Rs 3 trillion market-cap
round-tripping
HCL Technologies' market capitalisation
(market-cap) touched Rs 3 trillion for the • The Reserve Bank of India
first time on 13th Aug, becoming the fourth (RBI) has come up with a draft
Indian information technology (IT) firm to rule with modifications in the
existing regulation related to
achieve this milestone after Tata
foreign investment to
Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and
discourage round-tripping. The
Wipro. central bank is looking to tweak
Shares of HCL Tech hit a fresh record high of the existing regulations and has
Rs 1,118.55, up 2 per cent on the BSE in come up with draft rules around
round-tripping.
intra-day trade, surpassing its previous high
of Rs 1,101 touched on 12th Aug in intra-day • Some of the largest Indian
deal. companies, startups and
multinationals with an India
presence have put their
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outbound investment, • In 2019, RBI had permitted authorized

fundraising and restructuring card payment networks to offer card
plans on hold as the RBI looks to tokenisation services to any token
introduce fresh regulations requestor (i.e., third-party app provider)
around “round-tripping.” through mobile phones and tablets.
• Now RBI has extended the scope of
tokenization to include consumer devices
RBI introduced Financial Inclusion Index
– laptops, desktops, wearables
(wristwatches, bands, etc.), Internet of
• The Reserve Bank of India Things (IoT) devices, etc.
introduced the financial
inclusion index on August 17, • The permission for tokenization extends to
2021. various channels [e.g., Near Field
Communication (NFC) / Magnetic Secure
• The Financial Inclusion Index will Transmission (MST) based contactless
be used to capture the extent of transactions, in-app payments, QR code-
financial inclusion in India. This based payments, etc.] or token storage
index was part of the mechanisms (cloud, secure element,
announcements made in first bi- trusted execution environment, etc.
monthly monetary policy of April
2021.
• About: Financial Inclusion Index RBI enhances limit under Indo-Nepal
has been conceptualised as a Remittance Facility to Rs 2 lakh
comprehensive index comprising
the details of banking, insurance, • The Reserve Bank of India has increased
investments, postal and pension the limit of fund transfer under the Indo-
sector in consultation with Nepal Remittance Facility Scheme from
government and sectoral Rs 50,000 per transaction to Rs 2 lakh per
regulators. transaction. Earlier there was a ceiling limit
of 12 transactions in a year.
Infosys becomes 4th Indian company to • This limit has also been removed. However,
for cash-based transfers under the Indo-
touch $100 billion m-cap Nepal Remittance Facility, the per
transaction limit of Rs 50,000 will still be
• Infosys crossed the $100 present with a maximum number of
billion mark in terms of transfers in a year allowed at 12.
market capitalisation on 24th
Aug, becoming the fourth
Indian company. PhonePe receives direct broking licence
• Reliance Industries (m-cap of from IRDAI
$140 billion), Tata Consultancy
Services (m-cap $115 billion) and • Flipkart-owned digital payments
HDFC Bank (m-cap $100.1 platform PhonePe has received an
billion) are the other Indian firms insurance broking licence from the
in the club with Infosys. Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDAI). This means
RBI extends card payment tokenisation that with the new ‘direct broking’ licence,
PhonePe can now distribute insurance
facility to laptops, wearable devices products from all insurance companies in
India, on its platform.
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• Earlier in January 2020, PhonePe entered restricted it to partner with only three
the insurtech sector, but with a limited insurance companies per category.
insurance ‘corporate agent’ licence, which
List of Banks who has been imposed penalty by RBI in 2021 (Covered
January to August)
RBI slaps penalty of Rs 2 crore on Standard Chartered The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a
Bank monetary penalty of Rs 2 crore on Standard Chartered
Bank–India for delays in reporting of frauds. The penalty
has been imposed on the bank for non-compliance with
certain directions issued by it contained in the ‘Reserve
Bank of India" Directions 2016’.
RBI fines Bajaj Finance Rs 2.5 crore for recovery agent The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed Rs 2.50
harassment crore monetary penalty on Bajaj Finance for violating
RBI’s directions on fair practices code (FPC) and
outsourcing of financial services by a non-banking
financial company.
RBI slaps Rs 2 crore fine on Deutsche Bank for non- The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs
compliance 2 crore on Deutsche Bank AG for non-compliance with
certain provisions of directions concerning interest rate
on deposits.
RBI imposed Rs 2 crores penalty on SBI for paying Reserve Bank of India on March 16, 2021 imposed a
commission to employees penalty of Rs 2 crore on State Bank of India (SBI) for
contravention of norms, including specific directions
to the lender on remuneration to its employees in the
form of commission. The penalty has been imposed for
contravention of certain sections of Banking Regulation
Act and its specific directions of RBI issued to the bank on
payment of remuneration to employees in the form of
commission.
RBI imposed a Rs 3-cr penalty on ICICI Bank for The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3rd May fined
violating prudential norms ICICI Bank Rs 3 crore for violating prudential norms
on the operation of its investment portfolio.
RBI imposes a penalty on City Union Bank, 3 other The RBI has imposed monetary penalty on City Union
lenders Bank, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank and two other
lenders for contravention of certain directions issued
by the central bank. A penalty of Rs 1 crore has been
imposed on City Union Bank Limited for contravention
of/non-compliance with certain provisions contained in
the RBI (Lending to MSME Sector) Directions and Rs 1
crore on Tamilnad Mercantile Bank for non-
compliance.
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RBI imposed Rs 10 crore penalty on HDFC bank over The Reserve Bank has imposed a penalty of Rs 10
irregularities in auto loan portfolio crore on HDFC Bank for deficiencies in regulatory
compliances with regard to its auto loan portfolio. The
order imposing the fine was issued on May 27 for
contraventions of certain provisions of the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949.
Reserve Bank imposed penalty on Bank of India, PNB The RBI on 7th June imposed penalty aggregating to Rs 6
totalling Rs 6 crore crore on Bank of India and Punjab National Bank for
contravention of norms, including one related to
"Frauds Classification and Reporting". A penalty of Rs 4
crore has been imposed on Bank of India and Rs 2
crore on Punjab National Bank.
RBI imposed Rs 25 lakh penalty on Punjab & Sind The Reserve Bank of India imposed a penalty of Rs 25
Bank lakh on Punjab and Sind Bank for non-compliance
with certain provisions of directions on ‘Cyber Security
Framework in Banks. This penalty has been imposed in
the exercise of powers vested in RBI under the provisions
of section 47 A (1) (c) read with sections 46 (4) (i) and 51
(1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
RBI imposed monetary penalty on 14 banks for non- The RBI on 8th July said it has imposed penalties on
compliance SBI, Bank of Baroda, IndusInd Bank, Bandhan Bank
and 10 other lenders for contravention of various
regulatory norms, including on lending to NBFCs. The
penalty imposed on the 14 banks totals Rs 14.5 crore,
with a maximum Rs 2 crore fine on Bank of Baroda.
Note:
Rs. 2Cr: Bank of Baroda.
Rs. 1Cr: Bandhan Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Central
Bank of India, Credit Suisse AG, Indian Bank, IndusInd
Bank, Karnataka Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Punjab and Sind
Bank, South Indian Bank, The Jammu & Kashmir Bank, and
Utkarsh Small Finance Bank.
Rs 50 lakhs: SBI
RBI fined Axis Bank Rs 5 crore for non-compliance The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 28th July imposed
with certain rules Rs 5-crore fine on Axis Bank for non-compliance with
certain provisions of the central bank's norms on
payment ecosystem between banks as a corporate
customer, cyber security, and financial inclusion norms.
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RBI imposes Rs 1 crore penalty Cooperatieve Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 13th Aug said it has
Rabobank U.A. imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore on Cooperatieve
Rabobank U.A. for deficiencies in regulatory compliances.
The penalty has been imposed for contravention of certain
provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and
directions related to 'transfer to reserve funds'.
RBI imposes penalty of Rs 50.35 lakh on Janalaxmi Co- Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs 50.35
operative Bank lakh on Janalaxmi Co-operative Bank, Nashik for non-
compliance with certain regulatory requirements.
The penalty on Janalaxmi Co-operative Bank has been
imposed for non-compliance with directions issued by RBI
on ‘Placement of Deposits with Other Banks by Primary
(Urban) Co-operative Banks’ and ‘Membership of Credit
Information Companies (CICs)’.
List of Banks whose licence has been canceled by RBI in 2021

(Covered January to August)
RBI cancels the licence of Vasantdada The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of
Nagari Sahakari Bank Vasantdada Nagari Sahakari Bank Ltd., Osmanabad,
Maharashtra to carry on banking business, with effect from the
close of business on January 11. Osmanabad, Maharashtra is
prohibited from conducting the business of ‘banking’ which includes
acceptance of deposits and repayment of deposits as defined in
Section 5(b) read with Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act,
1949 with immediate effect.
RBI cancels license of Kolhapur's Shivam The RBI on 30th Jan said the licence of Maharashtra-based
Sahakari Bank due to inadequate capital Shivam Sahakari Bank has been cancelled as it does not have
adequate capital and earning prospects.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will Cancel the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a show-cause notice
Licence of Sambandh Finserve prior to cancelling the licence of fraud-hit Sambandh Finserve
Pvt Ltd. after its networth eroded below the regulatory minimum
and financial situation worsened beyond redemption over the recent
months. Sambandh is registered as an NBFC-MFI. The Managing
Director and CEO of Sambandh, Deepak Kindo, who was allegedly the
main perpetrator of the fraud, has been arrested by Economic
Offence Wing, Chennai.
RBI canceled licence of United Co-operative Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of United
Bank Co-operative Bank Ltd over inadequate capital, regulatory non-
compliance, based in Bagnan, West Bengal.
RBI said it cancelled the licence as United Co-operative Bank did not
have adequate capital and earning prospects. "As such, it does not
comply with the provisions of section 11(1) and section 22(3)(d)
read with section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
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RBI cancelled license of Pune-based The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of
cooperative bank Shivajirao Bhosale Sahakari Bank, Pune as the lender does not
have adequate capital and earning prospects. As such, it does not
comply with the provisions of section 11(1) and section 22 (3) (d)
read with section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
The bank has failed to comply with the requirements of section
22(3) (a), 22 (3) (b), 22(3)(c), 22(3) (d) and 22(3)(e) read with
section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. "Consequently,
the bank ceases to carry on banking business, with effect from the
close of business on May 31, 2021.
RBI's ban on Mastercard may hit card Card issuance by banks and credit card issuers that have co-
issuance of private lenders branded credit cards with vendors on the Mastercard platform
or exclusive tie-ups with the payment network for their own credit
card issuance will take a hit for the time being now that the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) has barred Mastercard from onboarding
new customers over non-compliance with local data storage
regulations.
RBI canceled licence of Dr Shivajirao Patil The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of Dr
Nilangekar Urban Co-operative Bank Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd,
Nilanga, Latur, as it does not have adequate capital and earning
prospects.
RBI canceled licence of Goa-based Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the licence of Goa-
Madgaum Urban co-op bank. based Madgaum Urban Cooperative Bank, with effect from July
29, 2021. RBI said the decision was taken as the bank doesn't have
adequate capital and earning prospects, and its would be unable to
pay its present depositors in full in its present financial position.
RBI cancels licence of Karnala Nagari The Reserve Bank has cancelled the licence of Karnala Nagari
Sahakari Bank, Panvel in Maharashtr Sahakari Bank, Panvel in Maharashtra for not having adequate
capital and being unable to pay its present depositors in full.
Chapter 14: Current Affairs (National) In Short
Important India’s First Woman in News

First Name
First woman fighter pilot to fly Rafale Shivangi Singh
1st woman fighter pilot at R-Day parade Bhawana Kanth
First women Navy officers to be posted on Indian Sub Lt Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lt Riti Singh
warship
First time lead woman army officer Parade at Tania Shergill
Republic day
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World’s first female spacewalking- Christina Koch and Jessica Meir

First Female Flight Commander Shalija Dhami
First Woman Flight Engineer of Indian Air Force Hina Jaiswal
First Woman To Qualify To Go To Day Missions Bhawana Kanth

First Indian Woman Who Flew a Fighter aircraft Avani Chaturvedi
Solo
First Woman Fighter Pilot to Undertake Missions by Mohana Singh
day on Hawk
India's First Female Military diplomat Anjali Singh
First Woman Pilot of Indian Navy Shivangi
World’s first female spacewalking Christina Koch and Jessica Meir
first female match referee by icc GS Lakshmi
List of Recently Cyclone/ Typhoon

Cyclone/ Typhoon Country/ State
Cyclonic storm ‘Bulbul’ Bangladesh and West Bengal
Typhoon hagibis Japan
Tropical Storm Fay New Jersey
Tropical storm Amanda El Salvador and Guatemala.
Tropical Storm Cristobal Louisiana, Mississippi Coasts

Cyclone Kyaar south Gujarat, Saurashtra (cyclonic storm “Kyaar”
hovering over the Arabian Sea.)
Typhoon Faxai Tokyo, Japan
Typhoon Kammuri Philippines
Typhoon Phanfone Philippines
Tropical Cyclone Sarai, Cyclone Tino, Cyclone Fiji
Sarai
Typhoon Faxai, Typhoon hagibis Japan
Tropical cyclone Seroja Australia
Typhoon Kammuri, Typhoon Phanfone Philippines
Cyclone Taukate Goa, Maharashtra

Cyclone Yaas West Bengal and Odisha
Recent GI Tag List

Item State
“Dalle Khursani” Famous Chilli of Sikkim
Sweet dish ‘Khaje’, spicy Harmal Chilli and Goa
Myndoli Banana (Moira Banana)
Kodaikanal Malai Pandu, Garlic Tamil Nadu
Tezpur Litchi Assam
Zeerafool, Rice (CG),Thirubuvanam Slik Sari Tamil Nadu
DindiGul Lock & Kandangi Saree Tamil Nadu

Pathama Dai Mat Tamil Nadu
‘Panchamirtham’ of Palani temple Tamil Nadu
Marayoor Jaggerry Kerala
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Tirur Supari Kerala

Arcanut (Sirsi Supadi) Karnataka
TavlohoPuan Mizoram
Green and White Tea Darjeeling
Srivilliputtur Palkova” Channai
Mizo Paunchei, Coloured Shawl Mizoram
Rasogulla Odisha
Chak-Hao Manipur
terracotta Gorakhpur (UP)
Kashmiri Saffron Kashmiri
Sohrai Khovar painting Jharkhand
Telia Rumal Telangana
Arumbavur wood carvings Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur netti Tamil Nadu
List of Changing Name

Old Name New Name
'Miyon ka Bara’ station in Jodhpur Mahesh Nagar
Mohali International Hockey Stadium Balbir Singh Senior

Common High Court of J&K and Ladakh 'High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF).

Hisar Airport Maharaja Agrasen International Airport
Kakori Train Conspiracy Kakori Train Action
Mohali International Hockey Stadium Olympian Balbir Singh Senior International Hockey
Stadium.
Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF).
Haveri Railway station Mahadevappa Mailara Railway Station

Ayodhya airport Maryada Purshottam Shriram Airport
Bengaluru’s Bowring Medical College Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Naugarh Railway Station Siddharthnagar (UP)
Hubli Railway Station: Siddharoodha Swamiji Railway Station
Manduadih Station 'Banaras' Station
Gwalior-Chambal Expressway Atal Bihari Vajpayee Chambal Progressway
Mumbai-Nagpur expressway Bal Thackeray
Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh Atal tunnel (mark the 95th birth anniversary of
former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee)
Chenani Nashari Tunnel Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee (Chenani Nashri Tunnel
on NH 44 in Jammu & Kashmir as Dr Syama Prasad
Mookerjee Tunnel)
Habibganj Railway Station Atal Bihari Vajpayee Railway Station
Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium Arun Jaitley Stadium
Bhopal Metro Rail Raja Bhoj
Bogibeel Bridge Atal Setu
Naya Raipur Atal Nagar
Bundel Section Express-Way Atal Path
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Hazratganj intersection Atal Chowk

Deoghar Airport (Jharkhand) Atal Bihari Vajpayee Airport
Aligarh Harigarh
Howrah-Kalka Mail “Netaji Express”

Maharashtra renames Gorewada international Bal Thackeray
zoo
Gujarat to Rename Dragon Fruit ‘Kamalam’
Indian Govt, target important project list
Aims Target Time
▪ PM vision of $ 5 trillion Economy 2025
▪ self-reliant in fertilisers production 2023
▪ To Eliminate TB 2025
▪ 100 MT coal gasification target 2030
▪ Housing for All 2022
▪ Doubling Farmers income 2022
▪ One Nation One Ration Card 2021
▪ To generate solar Power (500GW) 2030
▪ Har Ghar Jal 2024

▪ Utkarsh (Road Plan by RBI) 2022
▪ Clean Drinking water to all by 2024
▪ TAPI gas pipeline project is expected to be 2022
completed by
▪ Bharatmala project 35000km highway by 2018-22
▪ India to surpass china’s population 2027
▪ Net zero carbon emitting in indian railways 2030
▪ Fulfil Jal Jeevan Mission 2024
▪ Railways to run 100% on electricity 2024
▪ zero road accident fatalities 2030
▪ Green Railway’ 2030
India brings forward target of 20% ethanol- 2023

blending in petrol
‘Energy independent’ 2047
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Rice under all scheme to be fortified 2024
Six lakh villages to get internet connectivity by 2024
Festival
State/UT City Festival
Andhra Pradesh • Flamingo Festival

• Magh Bihu
• Rongali or Bohag Bihu
• Dwizling Festival
Assam
• Parag Festival
• Ambubachi Mela
• Wanchuwa
Chhattisgarh Raipur • National Tribal Dance Festival
• International Film Festival of India
Goa
(IFFI)
Gujarat Ahmedabad • International Kite Festival
Himachal Pradesh • Losar Festival

• Mela Kheer Bhavani
J&K • Jhiri Mela
• Bungus Awaam Mela”
Karnataka Mangalore • Karavali Utsav
• Onam
• Dragonfly Festival or Thumbi
Kerala Mahotsavam (1st-ever of state in
2020)
• Pooram Festival
• Naropa Festival
Ladakh • Addi Mahotsav
• Hemis
Khajuraho • International Film Festival
• Tansen Music Festival or the Tansen

Gwalior
Sangeet Sammelan or the Tansen Utsav
Madhya Pradesh
Mandu • Mandu festival
• Namaste Orchha festival (1st-ever in

2020)
• Lokrang Festival
Pune • Owl Festival
Maharashtra
Nagpur • Khasdar Mahostav
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• Orange Festival
Imphal • Sangai Festival

Manipur Ukhrul • Shirui Lily Festival
• Sangai Festival
• Behdinkhelam Festival
Meghalaya
• Cherry Blossom Festival
Nagaland • Hornbill Festival
Delhi New Delhi • National Tribal Festival - Aadi Mahotsav
• Nuakhai Festival
• Raja Parba festival
Odisha • Konark Festival
• International Sand Art Festival
Cuttack • 'Bali Yatra' festival
Rajasthan Bikaner • Camel Festival

• Nagoba Jatara festival
Telangana • Bathukhamma Floral
• 'Bonalu'
• Hornbill Festival (1st-ever of state in
Tripura 2020)
• Khrachi Puja
Sikkim • Pang Lhabsol
Uttar Pradesh Agra • Bear Festival
• Ganga Kayak Festival

Uttarakhand
• Harela Festival
August Ten (10) nuclear power reactors with 8000

MW capacity (including 500 MW PFBR being
Bhubaneswar became first Indian city to implemented by Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut
vaccinate 100% against COVID-19 Nigam Limited {BHAVINI}) are under
Bhubaneswar has become the first Indian construction.
city to achieve 100 per cent COVID-19 Chhattisgarh became 1st state to
vaccination. The Bhubaneswar Municipal recognise Forest Resource Rights in
Corporation (BMC) had launched a massive Urban Region
vaccination drive against Covid-19.
Chhattisgarh became the first state to
India nuclear power capacity is expected recognise Community Forest Resource
to reach 22,480 MW by 2031 Rights in an urban area, with the state
India’s nuclear power capacity is government recognising the rights of
expected to reach 22,480 Mega Watts by residents of Dhamtari district over 4,127
2031 from the current 6,780 MegaWatts. hectares of forests. Under Forest Rights
Act, 2006, Community Forest Resource
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Right gives gram sabhas the right to protect, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed
regenerate or conserve or manage any forest the nation on the occasion of 75th
resources used by the entire community, or Independence Day and announced that
village. 75 ‘Vande Bharat’ trains would connect
different parts of the country in 75 weeks of
India Celebrated 75th Independence Day the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
As the country celebrates 'Azadi ka Amrit The 75 Vande Bharat trains will connect
Mahotsav' marking the 75th every corner of the country, in 75 weeks of
Independence Day, Prime Minister the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, which is being
Narendra Modi today hoisted the national celebrated from March 12, 2021, upto
flag and delivered the customary address to August 15, 2023.
the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort 'Nation First, Always First,' theme of 75th
in New Delhi. Independence Day
Four more Indian wetlands added to The theme of the 75th Independence Day
Ramsar list this year is 'Nation First, Always First' to
Four more wetlands from India have honour the sacrifices made by our freedom
been added to the Ramsar list and have fighters for the nation.
been recognized as wetlands of global Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel
importance in accordance with the Ramsar announced 4 new districts
Convention. With the latest addition, the
number of Ramsar sites in India have Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh
reached to 46. Baghel has announced the creation of
four new districts and 18 new tehsils in
Four sites that have been included are: the state. The four new districts are: Mohla
Thol from Gujarat, Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh, Shakti,
Manendragarh. Now, the total number of
Wadhwana from Gujarat, administrative districts in the state have
reached 32.
Sultanpur from Haryana and
India’s highest herbal park inaugurated
Bhindawas from Haryana.
in Uttarakhand
Bharat Petroleum launched door-to-door
India’s highest altitude herbal park
delivery of ‘High-Speed Diesel’
situated at a height of 11,000 feet was
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited inaugurated on 21st August at Mana
(BPCL) has launched door-to-door delivery village close to the Indo-China border in
of 'High Speed Diesel' to meet the growing Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, officials
demand.. said. Mana is the last Indian village in
Chamoli bordering China and is adjacent to
Kaziranga became India’s first national the famous Himalayan temple of Badrinath.
park with satellite phones
Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated
Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam world’s second-largest refurbished gene
has become the first national park in India bank
to be equipped with satellite phones.
Assam Chief Secretary Jishnu Barua handed The Union Minister for Agriculture and
over 10 satellite phones to the forest Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh
personnel of the Kaziranga National Park. Tomar has inaugurated the world’s
BSNL will be the service provider of these second-largest National Gene Bank at the
phones. National Bureau of Plant Genetic
Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi.
75 new Vande Bharat trains will connect
all parts of India The refurbished state-of-the-art National
Gene Bank provides the facility for
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germplasm, to secure the heritage of seeds Digital India initiative has completed its
for years in minus 20 degrees Celsius six years on 1 July 2021. Digital India is a
temperature. government’s flagship scheme to transform
NTPC launched India’s largest floating India into a digitally empowered society and
solar project in Simhadri knowledge economy. It was launched by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 July
State-run electricity producer NTPC 2015.
Limited began commercial operations at
India’s largest floating solar PV project at 52nd IFFI will be held in November 2021
its Simhadri thermal station in Goa
in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh on 21
Aug. The 52nd edition of the International
Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be held in
The project was declared open after Goa from 20th -28th November 2021.
commissioning a 15 MW floating solar
project, taking the total installed capacity Ramgarh Visdhari got Centre nod to
at the facility to 25 MW. The floating solar become 4th tiger reserve of Rajasthan
project is the to be set up under the
Flexibilisation Scheme, notified by the Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary
Government of India in 2018. received all clearances to become the
Rajasthan’s 4th and country’s 52nd tiger
India’s Evacuation Mission from reserve. Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife
Afghanistan named as ‘Operation Devi Sanctuary under Section 5 of the Rajasthan
Shakti’
Wild Animals and Birds Protection Act, 1951.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
has given a name to India’s complex List of 3 tiger reserve in Rajasthan
mission of evacuating its citizens from • Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in
war-torn Afghanistan, as ‘Operation Devi Sawai Madhopur
Shakti’.
• Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve in
Govt introduced “Bharat series (BH- Kota
series)” registration • Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways Alwar.
has introduced a new registration mark Dept of Public Enterprises brought under
for new vehicles i.e. “Bharat series (BH- Finance Ministry
series)”. The vehicles bearing the BH-series
mark will not have to require the assignment Central government has decided to bring
of a new registration mark when the owner Department of Public Enterprises (DPE)
of the vehicle shifts from one State to under finance ministry. DPE was earlier
another. under Ministry of Heavy Industries and
Format of Bharat series (BH-series) Public Enterprises. Finance ministry now
Registration Mark: comprises of six departments, after
inclusion of DPE.
YY – Year of first registration
Other five departments are:
BH- Code for Bharat Series
• Department of Economic Affairs,
####- 0000 to 9999 (randomized)
• Department of Expenditure,
XX- Alphabets (AA to ZZ) • Department of Revenue,
• Department of Investment & Public
July Asset Management and
Digital India completed six years • Department of Financial Services.
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India’s first maritime arbitration centre Kutch region in Gujarat, the largest salt
will be set up in Gandhinagar desert in the country and host to two of
India’s largest coal-fired power plants,
The Gujarat Maritime University has
will now add another feather to its cap.
signed a Memorandum of Understanding
NTPC, through its renewable energy arm,
(MoU) with the International Financial
will construct what would be India’s largest
Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) in
single local solar power park of 4.75
GIFT City to set up the Gujarat
Gigawatt (Gw) in Kutch.
International Maritime Arbitration
Centre (GIMAC). It will be part of a maritime Home Minister inaugurated National
cluster that is being set up by the Gujarat Forensic Science University in
Maritime Board (GMB) at GIFT City in Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar.
National Forensic Science University,
Manipur entered India’s railway map as erstwhile known as ‘Gujarat Forensic
first passenger train reaches the state Science University’ is dedicated to forensic
and investigative science. The Union Home
A passenger train Rajdhani Express from
Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the newly
Assam’s Silchar railway station has
built Center of Excellence for Research &
reached the Vaingaichunpao railway
Analysis of Narcotics and Psychotropic
station in Manipur for a trial run, putting the
Substances of the National Forensic Science
state on the Indian Railways map.
University in Ahmedabad.
India’s first Cryptogamic Garden
PM Modi inaugurated International
Inaugurated in Uttarakhand
Cooperation & Convention Centre
India’s first cryptogamic garden, with ‘Rudraksh’ in Varanasi
around 50 different species grown, has
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th
been inaugurated in Deoban area of
July inaugurated the International
Dehradun in Uttarakhand. Located in the
Cooperation and Convention Centre –
district’s Chakrata town, the garden was
Rudraksh in Varanasi, which has been
inaugurated by social activist Anoop
constructed with Japanese assistance.
Nautiyal.
India’s first pod taxi will be operate
Nitin Gadkari inaugurated India’s first
between Noida Airport and Film City
private LNG Facility plant at Nagpur
Indian Port Rail and Ropeway
The Union Minister for Road Transport
Corporation Ltd (IPRCL) has prepared a
and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, inaugurated
Detailed Project Report or DPR for the
India’s first private Liquefied Natural Gas
pod taxi service between Noida Airport at
(LNG) facility plant at Nagpur in
Jewar and Film City. This will cost about Rs
Maharashtra.
862 crore, according to the detailed project
UP population draft bill proposes two- report (DPR) submitted to the Yamuna
child policy Expressway Industrial Development
Authority (Yeida). This is a 14 km stretch.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi This will be India’s first pod taxi service.
Adityanath has launched a population
policy that aims to incentivise couples who Government will set up country’s top
do not have more than two babies. heritage institute in Noida
NTPC will construct India's largest solar The government has decided to set up the
power park in Kutch Indian Institute of Heritage at Noida,
Gautam Buddha Nagar.
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IOC will build India’s first green hydrogen Puri became India's first city to achieve
plant at Mathura 24*7 quality drinking water supply under
Sujal project
IOC, India’s largest oil firm will build the
country’s first ‘green hydrogen’ plant at Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on
its refinery in Mathura. This project will be 26th July inaugurated the 'Drink From
the India’s first ever green hydrogen unit. Tap' mission in Puri, making it "the first
city in India" to achieve a 24*7 quality
UNESCO: Historic Urban Landscape
drinking water supply, an official said.
project launched for Gwalior, Orchha
Indore Became the First Indian City To Be
In the state of Madhya Pradesh, the cities
Selected For International Clean Air
of Orchha and Gwalior have been selected
Catalyst Programme
by UNESCO under its ‘Historic Urban
Landscape Project.’ This project was The Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, or the
started in the year 2011. Six cities of South cleanest city of India, has become the only
Asia, including Indian cities of Varanasi and city from the country to be selected for
Ajmer are already involved in this project. International Clean Air Catalyst
Gwalior and Orchha have been included as Programme. The project will be operated
the 7th and 8th cities of South Asia. for a period of five years to purify the air in
the city with the cooperation of Indore
800-year-old Ramappa Temple in
Municipal Corporation and Madhya Pradesh
Telangana got the UNESCO World
Pollution Control Board.
Heritage Site tag
Centre announced 27% OBC, 10% EWS
UNESCO has conferred the World
reservation in AIQ Scheme for medical
Heritage inscription to the historic
courses
Rudreswara Temple, also known as the
Ramappa Temple, at Palampet in Mulugu The Centre on 29th July announced that
district of Telangana. The Rudreswara 27% reservation for OBCs and 10%
temple was constructed in 1213 AD during reservation for the Economically Weaker
the reign of the Kakatiya empire by Recharla Section will be given under the All India
Rudra, a general of Kakatiya king Ganapati Quota Scheme for undergraduate and
Deva. The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva postgraduate programmes related to
and worshipped by devotees. medicine. This will be enforced from the
current academic year 2021-22.
Dholavira, the Harappan City in the Rann
of Kutchch, Gujarat inscribed on June
UNESCO’s World Heritage List
India brought forward the target of 20%
India’s nomination of Dholavira, the ethanol-blending in petrol to 2023
Harappan City in the Rann of Kutchch,
Gujarat has been inscribed on UNESCO's The government has brought forward the
World Heritage list. India submitted the target date for achieving 20 per cent
nomination dossier for Dholavira: A ethanol-blending with petrol by two
Harappan Cityto the World Heritage years to 2023 to help reduce India’s
Centre in January 2020. dependence on costly oil imports. Last year,
the government had set a target of reaching
Note: India has 40 world heritage properties 10 per cent ethanol-blending in petrol (10
overall, which includes 32 cultural, 7 natural per cent of ethanol mixed with 90 per cent of
and one mixed property. diesel) by 2022, and 20 per cent doping by
2030. Earlier this year, the target for 20 per
cent blending was brought forward to 2025.
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And now, it has been further advanced to Kingdom. Jardalu mangoes from
April 2023. Bhagalpur district were given GI
certification in 2018. Agricultural and
Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated
Processed Food Products Export
Indus Best Mega Food Park in
Development Authority, (APEDA) in
Chhattisgarh
collaboration with Bihar government, Indian
Union Minister for Food Processing High Commission & Invest India, exported
Industries, Narendra Singh Tomar Jardalu mangoes.
virtually inaugurated the Indus Best
World’s first GM Rubber planted in Assam
MegaFood Park along with Bhupesh Baghel,
Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh, and in presence Rubber Board has started field trial of
of Rameswar Teli, Union Minister of State for world’s first GM (genetically modified)
Food Processing Industries. rubber in the state of Assam. GM Rubber
was developed in biotechnology laboratory
Assam got its sixth national park
at Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII)
Raimona in Assam’s Kokrajhar district in Puthuppally, Kottayam. It was planted at
was declared as the state’s sixth national Rubber board’s Sarutari research farm in
park. The state’s Environment and Forest Guwahati.
Department has issued a notification
PM Modi Launched Japanese-style Zen
declaring Raimona as a national park. The
Garden and Kaizen Academy
chief minister said a process was on to also
convert the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
into a national park. virtually inaugurated a Zen Garden and
Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad
Haryana CM announced creating ‘Oxi-
Management Association (AMA) premises
van’ in Karnal
in Ahmedabad. These two new initiatives are
Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal part of PM’s vision of creating a ‘Mini-
Khattar, announced to create of 80 acres Japan’ in Gujarat.
of ‘Oxi-van’ (a forest) in the Karnal
district. Oxi-van will consist of 10 types of May
forests. Under this scheme, a pension 400th Prakash Purab of Guru Tegh
amount of Rs 2500 will be provided in name Bahadur
of Pran Vayu Devta to maintain trees above
75 years. On May 1, 2021, India is celebrating four
hundredth Prakash Purab of Guru Tegh
Dehing Patkai has been declared Assam's Bahadur. He was the ninth Sikh Guru.
7th National Park
He was born in Amritsar, Punjab in 1621.
Assam government agreed to designate He was the youngest son of Guru
Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary as the Hargobind Sahib. He wrote 115 hymns that
state's seventh national park. The Assam were included in Guru Granth Sahib. His
Valley's "last remaining stretches" of tropical martyrdom (the suffering of death on
wet evergreen forests have been designated account of adherence to a cause) is
as the state's seventh national park. commemorated as Shaheedi Divas of Guru
India exported GI certified ‘Jardalu’ Tegh Bahadur. It is commemorated on 24th
Mangoes to UK November every year.
Bihar exported the first commercial Indian Army’s First Green Solar Energy
consignment of GI certified Jardalu harnessing plant in Sikkim
mangoes from Bhagalpur to the United
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The Indian Army recently launched the provide comprehensive primary health care
first Green Solar Energy harnessing plant in rural areas. With a score of 90 out of 95,
in Sikkim. It was launched to benefit the the state ranks on top when it comes to the
troops of the Indian army. implementation of the project for the year
2020- 21 as per the health and family
The plant uses Vanadium based battery
welfare department.
technology. It was built at an altitude of
16,000 feet. The capacity of the plant is 56 Jharkhand ranked first in
KVA. It was completed in collaboration with implementation of Smart City Mission
IIT Mumbai. schemes
Puducherry achieved 100% tap water Jharkhand has clinched the 1st Position
connection in rural areas under Jal among the 36 States & UTs of India based
Jeevan Mission on the progress of implementation of Smart
City projects, Rajasthan came second in
Puducherry has achieved the target of
the rankings. The rankings were released
100% piped water connection in rural
by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
areas under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
(MoHUA).
Union Territory became the fourth State/UT
On the other hand, Delhi is at number 11 in
after Goa, Telangana and Andaman and
the list of states and union territories and
Nicobar Islands to provide assured tap
Bihar at number 27.
water supply to every rural home under the
Centre's flagship programme by 2024. Six Heritage Sites added to India’s
UNESCO World Heritage sites Tentative
Malerkotla will be Punjab's 23rd District:
List
Captain Amarinder Singh
The Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder
Patel recently announced that around six
Singh on 14th May announced the creation
cultural heritage sites have been added to
of Malerkotla, a new district in his state.
the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
It has been carved out of the state's only
The following six places have successfully
Muslim-majority town, 35 km from Sangrur
entered the tentative list of UNESCO World
district. Adjoining Amargarh and
Heritage sites.
Ahmedgarh will also be part of Punjab's 23rd
district. With this, the total number of sites in the
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Tentative list
India’s first Agriculture Export
has increased to 48.
Facilitation Centre set up at Pune
• Ganga Ghats of Varanasi,
The Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce
• Temples of Kancheepuram in Tamil
Industries and Agriculture and NABARD
Nadu,
(National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
• Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya
Development) recently launched the first
Pradesh,
Agricultural Export Facilitation Centre.
• Maharashtra Military Architecture
Karnataka topped in setting up health & • Hire Benkal Megalithic site,
wellness centres under Ayushman • Bhedaghat Lametaghat of Narmada
Bharat' Valley in Madhya Pradesh
Karnataka is ranked at the top in Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
establishing health and wellness centres Appointed ‘Guardian Ministers’
under Ayushman Bharat Programme to
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Similipal Biosphere Reserve is the first
Sarma has appointed ‘Guardian Ministers’ biosphere reserve of Odisha.
to oversee the implementation of
government policy decisions, administrative Maharashtra: Amboli named as
reforms, and other welfare schemes in all the biodiversity heritage site
34 districts of the state.
The Maharashtra government declared
13 ‘Guardian Ministers’ have been an area at Amboli in Western ghats in
appointed for all 34 districts in Assam, for Sindhudurg district, where a rare
balanced, speedy and sustainable freshwater fish species was discovered, as a
developments of these districts. biodiversity heritage site.
‘Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Tejas Thackeray, who is a wildlife
Award for Excellence in Cinema’ researcher, and his team had discovered the
introduced new freshwater fish species – “Schistura
Hiranyakeshi” near Amboli in Sawantwadi
India has instituted the 'Satyajit Ray
tehsil of Sindhudurg district.
Lifetime Achievement Award for
Excellence in Cinema' to be given at the
Central government has declared 14th
International Film Festival of India (IFFI) April, birthday of Dr B R Ambedkar as
every year, starting from this year, to mark public holiday for all its offices
Ray's birth centenary celebrations.
The central government has declared
April April 14, Dr. BR Ambedkar’s birthday a
Ramesh Pokhriyal inaugurated public holiday. Dr. B R Ambedkar was the
sculptor of the Indian Constitution and the
Happiness Centre at IIM-Jammu
country already celebrates his birthday as
Union Education Minister Ramesh Ambedkar Jayanti every year. It will
Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ inaugurated a be Ambedkar’s 130th birth anniversary
happiness centre at the Indian Institute of on April 14, 2021.
Management (IIM)-Jammu virtually on
30th March. ‘Anandam – the Centre for Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam in Uttar Pradesh
listed itself at BSE
Happiness’ aligns with the National
Education Policy 2020, aiming to achieve
Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam listed itself at
holistic wellbeing for all.
BSE and successfully raised Rs. 150
Mahendragiri: Odisha’s Second Crores by issuing Municipal Bond on
Biosphere Reserve Private Placement Basis using BSE BOND.
This is the first-ever green bond issuance by
The Odisha state government has any Municipal Corporation in the country.
proposed a second biosphere reserve in Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam is the 2nd Municipal
the southern part of the state at Corporation to raise funds in the state of
Mahendragiri. It is a mountain in the Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, Lucknow Municipal
Gajapati district of the state. It is at an Corporation had listed itself at BSE.
altitude of 1,501 metres. Mahendragiri is
also the second-highest peak in the state. Government will start issuing 14-digit
unique land parcel identification number
The area of the proposed 2nd biosphere
by March 2022
reserve of the state– Mahendragiri
Biosphere Reserve is approximately The ULPIN scheme has been launched in
470,955 hectares. ten States this year and will be rolled out
across the country by March 2022, the
Department of Land Resources told the
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Standing Committee on Rural Development. The Ministry of Health and Family

It would allot a 14-digit identification Welfare recently approved the “National
number to every plot of land in the country Policy for Rare Diseases, 2021”. The policy
within a year’s time. focuses on early screening and prevention of
rare diseases. This is to be achieved through
Indian Railways has achieved the highest Health and Wellness Centres. The screening
ever electrification of sections during is to be supported by the Nidhan Kendras set
2020-21 up by Department of Biotechnology.
The Indian Railways has covered 6,015 PM Modi declared Tika Utsav from April
kilo metres of electrification in a single 11-14
year. This is 37% higher than that
achieved in 2019-20. A special initiative- ‘Tika Utsav’ was
organised in all states from April 11 to 14 to
The Broad-Gauge network of Indian Railway ensure the maximum vaccination coverage
currently stand at 63,949 kilo metres. Of this of people aged above 45.
71% has been electrified. In the last seven
years, the electrification of Indian Railways Bohag Bihu Bird count began in Assam
has increased by seven times. Totally
45,881 kilometres has been electrified. Of Bohag Bihu Bird count began in Assam.
this 34% were electrified in the last three The Bohag Bihu Bird count was launched by
years. Bird Count of India (BCI). The BCI is a Non-
Governmental Organisation. This is the first
Biggest Floating Solar Power Plant of time BCI is launching Bohag Bihu bird count.
India in Telangana Bohag Bihu is also called Xaat Bihu. It is
the traditional ethnic festival celebrated in
The biggest floating solar power plant of Assam. It marks the beginning of Assamese
India is to be set up at Ramagundam in new year.
Telangana. The capacity of the solar
power plant is 100 MW. The solar power India’s 1st Floating LNG Storage and
plant is being set up at the Ramagundam Regasification Unit Arrived In
Thermal Power Plant reservoir. Maharashtra
India completed the arch of world’s India’s first Floating Storage and
highest railway bridge in J&K Regasification Unit (FSRU) has arrived at
H-Energy’s Jaigarh Terminal in Maharashtra.
The construction of the arch of the FSRU based LNG Terminals aim at providing
world’s highest railway bridge that soars the ability to enhance the pace of natural gas
359 metres above the bed of the Chenab import capability in an environment-
river in Jammu and Kashmir was friendly and efficient manner”. The port is
completed on 5th April, with the Northern the first Deepwater, 24×7 operational
Railways terming the achievement a private port in Maharashtra.
milestone.
Italy launched first ever mega food park
The 1.3-kilometre-long bridge aims to & food processing unit in India
boost connectivity to the Kashmir Valley
and it is being constructed at a cost of ₹ Italy launches its first ever mega food
1,486 crore as part of the Udhampur- park project in India, at Fanidhar
Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL) in Mehsana district of Gujarat. The project
project. aims to create synergy between agriculture
and industry of the two countries and
Government has approved national focuses on the research and development of
Policy for Rare Diseases 2021
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new and more efficient technologies in the the nation the 7500th Janaushadhi
sector. Kendra at NEIGRIHMS, Shillong during
the event.
Priyanka Mohite became the first Indian
woman to scale Mt Annapurna International Yoga festival inaugurated
in Rishikesh
Priyanka Mohite from Satara in western
The International Yoga Festival was
Maharashtra has scaled Mt Annapurna,
inaugurated by the Agriculture Minister
the 10th highest mountain peak in the
world, becoming the first Indian woman of Uttarakhand Subodh Uniyal, head of
climber to achieve the feat. Mount Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad (ABAP)
Annapurna is a massif in the Himalayas Narendra Giri and Patanjali Yogpeeth
located in Nepal that includes one peak chairman Acharya Balakrishna in Rishikesh.
over 8,000 metres and is considered to be
Udaipur Science Centre inaugurated at
one of the toughest mountains to climb.
Udaipur in Tripura
Glacier burst occurred in Sumna in The Udaipur Science Centre, at Udaipur,
Chamoli district, Uttrakhand Tripura was dedicated to the people by
the Governor of Tripura, Ramesh Bais on
A Glacier burst occurred in Sumna, Neeti February 28, 2021. Minister of State
Valley located in Chamoli district in
(Independent Charge) for Culture and
India-China border. A Border Road
Tourism, Govt. of India Prahlad Singh Patel,
Organisation Camp came under the
avalanche. The Indian Army has so far was the Chief Guest on the occasion. Udaipur
rescued 291 persons. Science Centre is the 22nd Science Centre
March which has been developed by NCSM
(National Council of Science Museums).
Kushinagar got DGCA clearance, became
Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV merged
third international airport in UP
into Sansad TV
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri
The Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha
announced that Uttar Pradesh got its
Television channels that broadcast the
third international airport in the form of
proceedings of the upper and lower
Kushinagar. Kushinagar Airport gets
Houses of Parliament, respectively, have
necessary clearances from DGCA to become
been merged into a single entity. The new
3rd licensed international airport of UP.
channel has been named the ‘Sansad
3rd Janaushadhi Diwas 2021 Television’.
celebrations held from March 1 to 7
New research building ‘Desikan Bhawan’
The 3rd Janaushadhi Diwas 2021 week- inaugurated at ICMR-NJIL & OMD, Agra
long celebrations held from March 1 to 7
Union Minister of Health and Family
2021. As part of the celebrations, Jan
Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated
Aushadhi kendras conducted more than
the new research building ‘Desikan
1000 Health Check-up Camps across the
Bhawan’ equipped with new COVID-19
country on March 1.
diagnostic facility at ICMR-NJIL & OMD
PM addressed ‘Janaushadhi Diwas’ (National JALMA Institute for Leprosy &
celebrations on 7th March Other Mycobacterial Diseases), Agra in the
presence of Director General ICMR &
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Secretary, Department of Health Research,
addressed the ‘Janaushadhi Diwas’ Prof. Balram Bhargava.
celebrations on 7th March, 2021 via video
conferencing. Prime Minister dedicated to
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‘Maitri Setu’ inaugurated on 9th March operate in Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow,
Between India-Bangladesh Varanasi, Agra, Gorakhpur, Kanpur,
Prayagraj and Hindon.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra
Modi, inaugurated the ‘Maitri Setu’ NTPC ready to commission India’s largest
between India and Bangladesh via video floating solar power plant at
conferencing on March 9, 2021. Ramagundam by May 2021
The ‘Maitri Setu’ is a bridge that has been NTPC Southern Region, which is in the
built in the River Feni. Feni river flows process of implementing about 450 MW
between the Indian boundary in the state of solar capacity, is all set to commission
of Tripura and Bangladesh. about 217 MW floating solar capacity,
including one of the largest floating solar
Passenger train service between Dhaka &
power plant of 100 MW at Ramagundam by
New Jalpaiguri started from March 26
May this year.
A new passenger train service between
PM inaugurated Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
Dhaka and New Jalpaiguri started from
from Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad
26th of March marking the 50th
Anniversary of the liberation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off
Bangladesh. The d train will run through the the ‘Padyatra’ (Freedom March) from
Chilahati-Haldibari cross border rail route. Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to re-enact
Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi Yatra. and
India’s first forest healing centre
inaugurated the curtain raiser activities of
inaugurated in Uttrakand’s Ranikhet
the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ (India@75)
The First Forest Healing centre of the on March 12, 2021.
country was inaugurated at Ranikhet in
Poshan Pakhwada Celebrated from 16th
Kalika Uttarakhand. It has been found in
to 31st March
various researches that these compounds
help to multiply natural killer (NK) cells in The Ministry of Women and Child
our blood, which help in fighting infections Development is celebrating the Poshan
and cancerous growth and enhance overall Pakhwada from March 16 to March 31,
immunity. 2021. The Department of Women & Child
Development or the Social Welfare
Union Cabinet approved Pradhan Mantri
Department will be the nodal department to
Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi
look after the Poshan Pakhwada across the
The Union Cabinet has approved the states and Union Territories.
Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Smarak
(PMSSN) on March 10, 2021 as a single non-
inaugurated in New Delhi
lapsable reserve fund.
The Union Minister of Education, Shri
This has been approved for the share of
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, virtually
Health from proceeds of Health and
inaugurated the Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Education Cess which is levied under the
Smarak in New Delhi on March 23, 2021.
Section 136-b of Finance Act, 2007.
The inauguration took place on the occasion
UP got its 8th Airport in Bareilly, became of a programme organised by the University
India’s highest flying state of Delhi on ‘Shaheed Diwas’.
Flight operations at the much-awaited Net Zero Emissions in India’s Energy

Bareilly airport have started. With this, System by 2050: TERI and Shell
Bareilly becomes the eighth airport to
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A recent modelling report titled ‘India: Chapter 15: Current Affairs

Transforming to a net-zero emissions energy
system’ jointly undertaken by TERI and (International) In Short
Shell maps out an illustrative August
technological pathway for India’s domestic India took over UNSC presidency for
energy system to move towards net-zero August 2021
emissions by 2050, while delivering
sustainable economic growth. India took over from France to assume
the presidency of the United Nations
Kurnool Airport inaugurated: Flight Security Council (UNSC) for the month of
operations started from 28th March 2021 August 2021.
under UDAN
This is the first presidency for India during
Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, MoS, I/C, Civil its 2021-22 tenure as a non-permanent
Aviation inaugurated the Kurnool member of the UNSC. Prime Minister
Airport, Orvakal, Andhra Pradesh in a Narendra Modi will be the first Indian PM to
virtual ceremony on 25th March. preside over a meeting of the UNSC.
Kurnool is the 6th airport in Andhra Pradesh Narendra Modi: 1st Indian PM to chair
to become functional after Kadapa, UNSC debate
Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Rajahmundry &
Vijayawada. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
virtually preside over an open debate at
Indo-Korean Bilateral Friendship Park United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
inaugurated in Delhi Cantt on August 9, 2021.
Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh Shehroze Kashif became world’s
and South Korean Defence Minister, Suh youngest mountaineer to scale K2
Wook have inaugurated “Indo-Korean
Bilateral Friendship Park” in Delhi Cantt A 19-year old Pakistani climber Shehroze
on March 26, 2021. Friendship Park has Kashif became the youngest person in the
been built to commemorate contribution of world to reach the summit of K2, the
Indian peacekeepers in the Korean War second-highest peak in the world.
from 1950 to 1953.
Shehroze Kashif from Lahore achieved the
UP CM inaugurates Shaheed Ashfaq Ulla feat of scaling the 8,611-metre high peak
Khan Zoological Park in Gorakhpur with the aid of bottled oxygen.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Germany became 5th country to sign ISA
Adityanath inaugurated Shaheed Ashfaq Framework Agreement
Ulla Khan Zoological Park in Gorakhpur
Germany became the 5th country to sign
28th March. This is the first zoo in
the International Solar Alliance
Purvanchal and the third in the state.
Framework Agreement after
Andhra Pradesh launched India’s First amendments to it entered into force on
Govt Run Animal Ambulance Network 8th January 2021, opening its Membership
to all Member States of the United Nations.
The state government of the Andhra
Pradesh has decided to set up “India’s Afghanistan govt transferred power to
first government-run ambulance Taliban; Ghani stepped down
network” for animals. This decision was
The Afghanistan government transferred
taken in order to further boost the animal
the power to the Taliban. Diplomatic
husbandry and veterinary sector in the state.
sources said Ali Ahmad Jilali, former Afghan
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interior minister, is likely to be named to World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge

head an interim administration in Kabul. opened in Amsterdam
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani resigned.
Amsterdam has unveiled the world’s first
Taliban fighters entered Kabul on 15th Aug
3D-printed steel pedestrian bridge. This
and sought the unconditional surrender
project has been opened on the Oudezijds
of the central government.
Achterburgwal canal in the city of
July Amsterdam. The opening ceremony of this
bridge was attended by the Queen of the
China is certified malaria-free by WHO Netherlands, Máxima. The length of the
bridge is nearly 40 feet. It is a 6-ton stainless
A 70-year effort China has been awarded
steel structure. This bridge has been
a malaria-free certification from WHO – a
constructed by MX3D an Amsterdam based
notable feat for a country that reported 30
3D metal printing company.
million cases of the disease annually in the
1940s. Globally, 40 countries and Sweden joined International Solar
territories have been granted a malaria- Alliance (ISA)
free certification from WHO.
Sweden has ratified the framework
Bhutan has become the First Foreign agreement for the International Solar
Country to Adopt UPI Alliance (ISA) and is now a member of the
global platform, which is an initiative of
Bhutan has become the first country to
India aimed at promoting renewable
adopt India’s Unified Payment Interface
energy and sustainable development.
(UPI) standards for its quick response
(QR) code. It is also the second country after Sunseap will build $2 billion world's
Singapore to have BHIM-UPI acceptance at largest floating solar farm in Indonesia
merchant locations.
Singapore's Sunseap Group says it plans
UAE became 1st Gulf nation to open to spend $2 billion to build the world's
embassy in Israel largest floating solar farm and energy
storage system in neighbouring Indonesian
The United Arab Emirates on 17th July
city Batam, which will double its renewable
became the first Gulf nation to open an
power generation capacity.
embassy in Israel, nearly a year after both
countries signed an agreement to normalise The floating photovoltaic system is expected
diplomatic ties. The new mission is located to have a capacity of 2.2 gigawatt-peak
in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange building. (GWp), and will be located on the
Duriangkang Reservoir in Batam Island
Singapore unveiled one of the world's
spanning around 1,600 hectares.
biggest floating solar panel farms
Singapore unveiled one of the world's June
largest floating solar panel farms,
TCS opened its first European innovation
spanning an area equivalent to 45 football
centre in Amsterdam, Netherland
fields and producing enough electricity to
power the island's five water treatment Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened
plants. The project is part of efforts by the its latest innovation hub in Amsterdam to
land-scarce Southeast Asian city-state to help use digital technology to solve
meet a goal of quadrupling its solar sustainability challenges. It will focus on
energy production by 2025 to help tackle sustainability challenges faced by
climate change. organizations and becomes the first in a
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network of hubs, known as TCS Pace Ports, El Salvador: First country to formally
in Europe. adopt bitcoin as legal tender
WHO named Covid-19 variants found in El Salvador has become the first country
India as ‘Kappa’ (B.1.617.1) and ‘Delta’ to formally adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
(B.1.617.2) Proposal to legalise cryptocurrency was put
forward by President Nayib Bukele which
The B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of
was later approved by Congress.
COVID-19, first identified in India, have
been named as ‘Kappa’ and ‘Delta’ Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, UAE
respectively, the World Health Organisation Elected to UNSC members for 2022-23
(WHO) announced on 1st June as it named term
various variants of the coronavirus using
Countries including Albania, Brazil,
Greek alphabets. The UN health agency
Gabon, Ghana and United Arab Emirates
named the B.1.617.1 variant of the COVID-
(UAE) have been elected unopposed to
19 as ‘Kappa’ while the B1.617.2 variant
powerful UN Security Council (UNSC) as
was dubbed ‘Delta’. Both the variants were
non-permanent members for 2022-23
first found in India.
term.
NTPC joined UN’s CEO Water Mandate
UN General Assembly (UNGA) has held
India’s largest power utility, NTPC Ltd, elections to elect five non-permanent
has become a signatory of UN Global members for UNSC.
Compact’s CEO Water Mandate. It is a UN
UN urged action to end AIDS epidemic by
Global Compact initiative which
2030
demonstrate commitment and efforts of
companies to enhance their water and The UN General Assembly
sanitation agendas in line with overwhelmingly approved a declaration
Sustainable Development Goals. calling for urgent action to end AIDS by
2030, noting “with alarm” that the COVID-
India elected to UN Economic and Social
19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities
Council
and pushed access to AIDS medicines,
India was elected to the United Nations treatments and diagnosis further off track.
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for
India, China, Pakistan expanding their
2022-2024 term. India has been selected
nuclear arsenals: SIPRI
in Asia-Pacific States category. Other
elected countries include Oman, Afghanistan China, Pakistan and India have 350, 165
and Kazakhstan. and 156 nuclear warheads respectively
as of January this year and the three
Elected African countries are- Cote
countries appear to be expanding their
d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Mauritius, Tunisia, and
nuclear arsenals, a study by Stockholm
United Republic of Tanzania. Among
International Peace Research Institute
eastern European states Croatia and Czech
(SIPRI) has said. It also said as per its
Republic were elected. Belize, Peru and Chile
assessment, Russia and the US together
are among elected Latin American and
possess over 90 percent of the estimated
Caribbean states. In by-election of
13,080 global nuclear weapons. There are
Economic and Social Council, New Zealand
nine countries in the world that have nuclear
& Denmark were elected for January to
weapons: the US, Russia, the UK, France,
December 2022 term while Israel was
China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North
elected for January 1, 2022 to December 31,
Korea.
2023.
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India will provide CoWIN technology to Nepal’s Kami Rita scaled Everest for
other countries record 25th time
India has decided to make CoWIN Nepalese climber, Kami Rita has scaled
platform an open source for other countries Mount Everest for the 25th time, breaking
in order to enable them to use this his own record for the most ascents of the
technology to run their own vaccination world’s highest peak. Rita, 51, first scaled
drives. Everest in 1994 and has been making the trip
nearly every year since then.
Co-WIN is a digital platform that helped in
implementation of nationwide COVID-19 Israel and Palestinians Conflict
vaccination programme in India. It is also
Hostilities between Israel and the
called as Covid Vaccine Intelligence
Palestinians are not new and have gone
Network. Countries including Vietnam,
on for decades. This time things escalated
Iraq, Peru, Mexico, Dominican Republic,
since the start of the holy Muslim month of
Panama, Nigeria, Ukraine, United Arab
Ramadan in mid-April 2021,a squad of
Emirates and Uganda have expressed their
Israeli police officers entered the Aqsa
interest in learning about CoWIN technology
Mosque in Jerusalem with nightly clashes
to run their vaccination programmes.
between police and Palestinians.
G7 deal on Minimum Global Corporate IMF proposed $50 billion global
Tax vaccination plan
Group of seven (G7) advanced economies The International Monetary Fund has
signed a landmark deal on taxing proposed a $50 billion global vaccination
multinational companies. As per the deal, plan that would cover at least 40 per cent
minimum global tax rate would be at least of the global population by the end of 2021
15 percent. Agreement was signed by and at least 60 per cent by the first half of
finance ministers of United Kingdom, 2022.
United States, Germany, Canada, France,
Italy and Japan. Hong Kong woman broke record for
fastest ascent of Everest
May
Hong Kong mountaineer, Tsang Yin-hung,
Congo declared the end of Ebola outbreak recorded “world’s fastest ascent of Everest
by a woman” in just 26 hours.
The Democratic Republic of Congo
recently declared the end of the twelfth Tsang climbed 8,848.86-metre mountain in a
outbreak of Ebola. The current Ebola record time of 25 hours and 50 minutes in
outbreak was genetically linked to that of the her third attempt. Earlier in 2017, Tsang
outbreak that occured in 2018-20. became first Hong Kong woman to climbed
the top. She broke the earlier record of
PESCO: EU approved US participation for
Nepali women Phunjo Jhangmu Lama
the first time
completed the climb in 39 hours 6
The European Union recently approved minutes.
the requests of Norway, Canada and
First Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt
United States to participate in Permanent
received UAE’s Golden Visa
Structured Cooperation (PESCO) defence
initiative. The countries will now
The UAE government awarded Bollywood
participate in the Military Mobility Project in
actor Sanjay Dutt with its Golden Visa.
Europe. The Golden Visa system essentially offers
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long-term residency to people with New Zealand became the first in the
outstanding talents. world to introduce climate change law for
financial firms
April
New Zealand has become the first country
Indian Army Officer Bharat Pannu broke
to introduce a law that will require banks,
2 Guinness World Records for Fastest insurers, and investment managers to
Solo Cycling report the impacts of climate change on their
business. All banks with total assets of
Indian Army’s Lieutenant Colonel Bharat more than NZ$1 billion ($703 million),
Pannu has earned two Guinness World insurers with more than NZ$1 billion in
Records for his fastest solo cycling feats from total assets under management, and all
October 2020. The first record was created equity and debt issuers listed on the
when Lt Col Pannu cycled from Leh to Manali country’s stock exchange will have to make
(472 km distance) on October 10, 2020, in disclosures.
just 35 hours and 25 minutes. Pannu
created a second record when he cycled India elected to 3 bodies of UN Economic
the 5,942-km-long ‘Golden Quadrilateral’ and Social Council
route, which connects Delhi, Mumbai,
Chennai and Kolkata, in 14 days, 23 hours India has been elected by acclamation to
and 52 minutes. three bodies of the UN Economic and
Social Council. India was elected by
United Arab Emirates named Noura al- acclamation to the Commission on Crime
Matroushi as its first female astronaut Prevention and Criminal Justice, UN Entity
for Gender Equality and the Empowerment
The United Arab Emirates named the next of Women (UN Women), and Executive
two astronauts in its space programme Board of the World Food Programme, for a
on 10th April, including the country’s first three-year term beginning January 1,
female astronaut. Noura al-Matroushi as 2022.
the UAE’s first female astronaut. Her male
counterpart is Mohammed al-Mulla. Bengaluru-based lady entrepreneur
Vibha Harish has made it to Forbes Asia’s
Tropical cyclone Seroja ripped across 30 ‘Under-30’ list
1000 kilometers stretch of Western Vibha Harish, CEO and founder of herbal
Australia nutrition and plant-based supplement
company Cosmix, has made it to the Forbes
Tropical cyclone Seroja has ripped across Asia’s 30 Under- 30 in just one year of
a 1,000km stretch of Western Australia, opening her venture.
leaving a trail of damage. The category
three storm made landfall near the town of
Kalbarri yesterday with windspeed of up UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David
to 170km/h. Beckham has led global vaccination drive
during World Immunization Week
‘Out of control’ fire broke out in Cape
Town’s Table Mountain National Park UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David
Beckham, is fronting a global initiative to
inspire confidence in vaccines and
The Table Mountain National Park is
encourage parents around the world to
located in Cape Town of South Africa.
vaccinate their children against deadly
Recently, a fire caught in the park and is
diseases.
burning it rapidly. It is included in the
UNESCO World Heritage site.
Jio Platforms, Byju’s in Time Magazine’s
first-ever list of 100 most influential
companies
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Two Indian firms, Reliance Industries’ facial coverings such as burqa and niqab
technology arm Jio Platforms and e- in almost all the public places. This
learning startup Byju’s have figured in the controversial proposal was passed following
Time Magazine’s first-ever list of 100 most a public referendum which was supported
influential companies. by around 51.21 percent of voters.
Australia will spend 747 million dollars World’s Largest Floating Solar Farms
for upgrading four defence bases to boost being built in Singapore
Indo-Pacific engagements
The largest floating solar farm of the
Australia will invest 747 million dollars world is being built in Singapore. The
in upgrading four key military training country has resorted to set up the energy
areas and ranges in the Northern plants off the coasts and reservoirs across
Territory to defend the country’s interests it.
and support greater engagement with the
Indo-Pacific neighbours and allies, Prime This floating solar farm is being set up in the
Minister Scott Morrison announced on 28th light that despite being one of the smallest
April, amid China’s increasing assertiveness countries across the world, it is one of the
in the region. biggest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in
India. This project is being built by Sembcorp
UK became the first country to allow Industries.
Driverless cars on roads
Italy joined International Solar Alliance
The United Kingdom has become the first The Ministry of External Affairs of India
country to announce regulation for the has informed that Italy has signed a
use of self-driving vehicles at low speeds. framework agreement with India on
The Government of UK forecasts that around
March 17, 2021 to join the International
40% of UK cars will have self-driving
capabilities by 2035. This will create 38,000 Solar Alliance (ISA). ISA is a treaty-based
jobs in the country. The speed limit of the intergovernmental alliance comprising
ALKS is to be set at 37 miles per hour. of 121 countries.
March World’s first Ship Tunnel will be built in

Norway
Australia is building world’s first
The Norwegian Coastal Administration
platypus sanctuary in New South Wales
has received the green signal to start
state
working on the construction of the
Australian conservationists on March 3, world’s first tunnel, being built
2021 unveiled plans to build the world’s exclusively for ships. .
first refuge for the platypus, to promote
Suez Canal in Egypt reopened after the
breeding and rehabilitation as the duck-
giant stranded ship is freed
billed mammal faces extinction due to
climate change. The giant container ship “Ever Given” that
blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for the last
Switzerland Banned Full Face Coverings
week resumed its journey, after being
in Public Places
successfully refloated. The efforts to float the
Switzerland has voted on March 7, 2021 delinquent Panamanian container ship Ever
in favour of the proposal to ban the full Given are successful.
Chapter 16- Defence News

August Operation Blue Freedom: Team Of Special
Forces Veterans
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The government of India has accorded The Defence Research and Development
sanctions to Team CLAW to lead a team of Organisation (DRDO) has successfully
people with disabilities to scale Siachen test-fired medium-range subsonic cruise
Glacier. It will be a new world record for the missile Nirbhay from the Integrated Test
largest team of people with disabilities. This Range (ITR) at Chandipur, off Odisha
expedition is being undertaken as part of coast. Nirbhay is India’s first Indigenous
‘Operation Blue Freedom’. Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM).
Indigenously designed INS Vikrant had Joint Guidance for the Australia – India
left port for maiden sea trials Navy to Navy Relationship
India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, Indian Navy and Royal Australian Navy
Vikrant set sail to begin its first sea trial. signed a ‘Joint Guidance for the Australia-
INS Vikrant was designed by the Indian India Navy to Navy
Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design (DND) Relationship’ document on August 18,
and built at Cochin Shipyard Limited 2021.
(CSL). INS Vikrant has 75 per cent
indigenous content and will be Joint Guidance will serve as a guideline
commissioned into the Eastern Naval document in order to showcase the
Command. It will be commissioned into the determination of both the Navies in order to
Indian Navy by August 2022. work together bilaterally or multilaterally.
ITBP inducted its first women officers in India finalised deal with Russia to
combat procure AK-103 rifles
For the first time, India-China LAC India has finalised a deal with Russia to
guarding the Indo-Tibetan Border Police buy a sizeable number of AK-103
(ITBP) force has commissioned its first two series of assault rifles for the Indian Army
women officers in combat. under the provisions of emergency
procurement.
The two women officers, Prakriti and Diksha
will be posted as company commanders in NSG commandos undertook counter-
ITBP battalions. terrorist drills ‘Gandiv’ across country
Indian Army contingent will participate Multiple cities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
in International Army Games 2021 in Pradesh, Gujarat and the National Capital
Russia Region are hosting synchronised
commando drills as part of a national
The 7th edition of the International Army mock exercise being carried out by the
Games, 2021, will be held from 22 August counter-terrorist force National Security
to 04 September 2021 in Russia. The Guard (NSG) to check its response time and
competition will be hosted in eleven reaction to hostage and hijack-like
countries in the 2021 Games. Over 280 situations. The third edition of the week-long
teams from 42 countries will compete in the annual exercise called ‘Gandiv’ was
game to show their combat skills, launched at these locations by the NSG.
professionalism and determination to win.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
The International Army Games also Commissioned Indigenously built ICGS
referred to as ‘War Olympics’, is an ‘Vigraha’
international military sports event, which
aims to strengthen military-to-military Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh has dedicated
cooperation between countries and trust to the nation, the indigenously built Coast
between the participating nations. Guard Ship ‘Vigraha’ in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
According to the defence ministry, the 98-
DRDO Successfully Test-Fired Nirbhay meter vessel will be based in Andhra
Missile Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam (Vizag) and will
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be operated by a company of 11 officers and Indian Army chief will inaugurate war
110 sailors. memorial for Indian soldiers in Italy
The ship has been designed and built Indian Army chief General MM Naravane
indigenously by Larsen & Toubro Ship will embark on an official visit to the
Building Limited. United Kingdom (UK) and Italy, during
Indian, Vietnam navies has undertaken which he will be meeting his counterparts
bilateral maritime exercise in South and the senior military leadership of these
China Sea countries. The Indian Army Memorial in the
famous town of Cassino, Italy. In the
In continuation with the ongoing
Battle of Monte Cassino during World
deployment of Indian Navy ships in the
War II, over 5,000 Indian soldiers laid
South China Sea, INS Ranvijay and INS
Kora undertook bilateral maritime down their lives while fighting to save Italy
exercise with Vietnam People’s Navy from fascist forces.
(VPN) frigate VPNS Ly Thai To (HQ-012) INS Tabar conducts military exercise with
on 18 Aug 21.
Italian Navy
A Joint Exercise Between Indian Navy and
Royal Bahrain Naval Force Indian Naval Ship (INS) Tabar recently
participated in military exercises with
The Maritime Partnership Exercise the frontline frigate of the Italian Navy.
between the Indian Navy and Royal INS Tabar joined Italian Navy and entered
Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) is set to Port of Naples on July 3 as part of the
begin in the Persian Gulf on 18th August. ongoing deployment in the Mediterranean.
INS Kochi, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Bharat Dynamics Ltd signed Rs 499-crore
Ajay Kochhar, Flag Officer Commanding
deal with Indian Air Force
Western Fleet (FOCWF) has reached
Manama, Bahrain as part of its Persian Gulf The Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) has
deployment. signed a contract with the Ministry of
India and Germany conducted joint Defence for the manufacture and supply
maritime exercise in Gulf of Aden of Akash missiles to the Indian Air Force
(IAF). The total worth of the deal is around
The Indian Navy and the German Navy Rs 499 crore.
carried out a joint exercise in the Gulf of
Aden near Yemen, in the Indian Ocean leg of Indian Army named military firing range
Indo-Pacific Deployment 2021. The Indian in Kashmir after Vidya Balan
Navy was represented by frigate “Trikand”
while the German Navy was represented by In recognition of Vidya Balan's
frigate “Bayern”. phenomenal contribution to Indian
cinema, the Indian Army has recently
July named one of its firing ranges after the
actor. The Vidya Balan Firing Range is
Indian Navy warship conducted military
located in Gulmarg, Kashmir.
drill with South Korean vessel
DRDO successfully flight-tested surface-
Indian Navy warship conducted military
to-air missile Akash-NG
drill with South Korean vessel in the East
China Sea. Indian Navy’s indigenous ASW Defence Research & Development
Corvette INS Kiltan undertook the exercise Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-
with Republic of Korea’s Ship ROKS tested the New Generation Akash Missile
Gyeongnam, a Daegu-class frigate, on June (Akash-NG), a surface-to-air Missile from
28. Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the coast of
Odisha on July 21, 2021. The missile system
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has been developed by Defence Research & Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved
Development Laboratory (DRDL), the budgetary support of Rs 498.8 crore for
Hyderabad in collaboration with other iDEX-DIO (Innovations for Defence Excellence
DRDO laboratories. – Defence Innovation Organisation) for the
next five years.
DRDO successfully flight-tested
India successfully test fired subsonic
indigenous Man-Portable Anti-Tank
cruise missile Nirbhay off Odisha coast
Guided Missile
The Defence Research and Development
The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired
Organisation (DRDO) on 21th July the subsonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ on June
successfully flight tested indigenously 24, 2021, from an Integrated Test Range (ITR) at
developed low weight, fire and forget Man- Chandipur in Odisha’s Balasore. This was the
Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile eighth test flight of the missile. The first test flight
(MPATGM). of Nirbhay was held on 12 March 2013. Nirbhay
is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise
INS Talwar participates in Exercise missile.It has a strike range of about 1500 km.
Cutlass Express 2021
India’s First IAC will be commissioned in
Indian Naval Ship Talwar is participating 2022
in Exercise Cutlass Express 2021, being
conducted from 26 July 2021 to 06 August India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)
named ‘INS Vikrant’ (meaning courageous)
2021 along the East Coast of Africa. The
will be commissioned in 2022 Said Defence
exercise is an annual maritime exercise Minister Rajnath Singh.
conducted to promote national and regional
maritime security in East Africa and the INS Vikrant is also called as Indigenous
Western Indian Ocean. Aircraft Carrier 1 (IAC-1). This aircraft carrier
is being constructed by Cochin Shipyard in Kochi,
June Kerala for Indian Navy. It will be the first aircraft
carrier to be built in India. Motto of the IAC is
Navy’s hydrographic survey ship Jayema Sam Yudhi Sprdhah. It is taken from
Sandhayak decommissioned Rigveda 1.8.3.
Indian Navy’s hydrographic survey ship, DRDO successfully flight tested new
Sandhayak decommissioned after serving the generation Agni P ballistic missile
nation for 40 years. The decommissioning
ceremony of INS Sandhayak was held at naval The Defence Research and Development
dockyard Visakhapatnam. Organisation (DRDO) on 28th June
successfully flight tested a new generation
India’s first International Maritime nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni P from
Cluster will be set up at GIFT City Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of
Odisha, Balasore.
Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) will set up the
country’s first international maritime Agni P is a new generation advanced variant of
services cluster at GIFT City. The maritime the Agni class of missiles. It is a canisterised
cluster will be developed as a dedicated missile with a range capability between 1,000
ecosystem comprising ports, shipping, logistics and 2,000 kms.
services providers and government regulators,
all present in the same geographic vicinity — May
GIFT City. GIFT City is India’s first operational
smart city and international financial services.
INS Rajput was decommissioned on May
21
Defence minister approved budgetary
support of Rs 499 crores for innovations The first destroyer of the Indian Navy, INS
Rajput, was decommissioned on May 21.
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It was commissioned on 04 May 1980. Indian Army participated in

After rendering service for 41 years, it will Multinational Military Exercise namely
be decommissioned at the Naval Dockyard of SHANTIR OGROSHENA -2021 in
Visakhapatnam. Bangladesh. The nine days exercise will
started on the 4th of April to commemorate
INS Rajput was built by Russia in the 61 the birth centenary of Bangladesh Father
Communards Shipyard. Its Original Russian of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh
name was ‘Nadezhny’. Mujibur Rahman and mark glorious 50
years of liberation. The theme of the
Defence Minister launched SeHAT OPD exercise is Robust Peace Keeping
Portal Operations.
Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, has
DRDO has developed an Advanced Chaff
launched ‘Services e-Health Assistance & Technology to safeguard naval ships from
Tele-consultation (SeHAT) OPD Portal. missile attack
Portal has been launched to provide

The Defence Research and Development
telemedicine services in Armed Forces, Organisation (DRDO) has developed an
further strengthening the commitment Advanced Chaff Technology to safeguard
governments towards e-governance and naval ships against missile attack. Chaff is a
digital India. passive expendable electronic
countermeasure technology used worldwide
Aashritha V Olety is India’s 1st woman
to protect naval ships from enemy’s radar
flight test engineer and Radio Frequency (RF) missile seekers.
Squadron Leader, Aashritha V Olety is the
first and only woman in the IAF qualified Defence Laboratory Jodhpur, a DRDO
for the role, and as a flight test engineer, she laboratory, has indigenously developed
three variants of this critical technology —
will be responsible for evaluating aircraft
Short Range Chaff Rocket, Medium Range
and airborne systems before their induction
Chaff Rocket and Long Range Chaff Rocket —
into the armed forces. meeting Indian Navy’s qualitative
Aashritha V Olety, a native of Karnataka, has requirements.
graduated as part of the 43rd Flight Test Indian Navy participated in multi-lateral
Course. maritime exercise La Pérouse
April Indian Navy Ships INS Satpura and INS

Kiltan alongwith P8I Long Range
Two French Naval Ships “Tonnerre and Maritime Patrol Aircraft are
Surcouf” arrived at Cochin Port Trust on a participating, for the first time in
goodwill visit multilateral maritime exercise La Pérouse,
being conducted in the Eastern Indian
French Naval Ships Tonnerre Ocean Region from 5th to 7th April 2021.
(Amphibious Assault Ship) and Surcouf “The Indian Navy ships and aircraft will
(Frigate Class Ship) are on a two-day exercise at sea with ships and aircraft of
goodwill visit to Kochi. The ships arrived at French Navy (FN), Royal Australian Navy
Cochin Port Trust on 30 Mar and were (RAN), Japan Maritime Self Defence Force
received by Senior Naval Authorities in the (JMSDF) and United States Navy (USN)
background of fanfare by the naval band. during the three day exercise at sea.
Indian Army has participated in The first edition of La Pérouse joint exercise,
Multinational Military Exercise ‘Shantir initiated by France in 2019, included ships
Ogroshena -2021’ in Bangladesh from Australia, Japan and the US. The
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exercise is named after the eighteenth March morning at the Chandipur test
century French Naval explorer. range in Odisha.
India Joined Rescue Ops for Missing Indian Naval Ships first-ever visit to
Indonesian Submarine “KRI Nanggala- historic port town of Mongla in
402” Bangladesh
The Indian Naval Ships are all set to make
The Indian Navy joined the rescue
operation for a Indonesian submarine the first-ever visit to historic port town of
and its 53-person crew that went missing. Mongla in Bangladesh. The ships will make
Indonesia had sought assistance from India part of the ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’
after its 44-year-old submarine, KRI celebration which will be commemorating
Nanggala-402, went missing while 50 years of the 1971 liberation war against
conducting a torpedo drill north of the island Pakistan. The celebrations will be held from
of Bali. March 8 to March 10, 2021.
DRDO successfully tested Python 5 Air to Air The Indian Naval Ships including the
Missile indigenously build offshore patrol vessel,
Sumedha and an indigenously built guided
The Defence Research and Development missile corvette, Kulish will take the port call
Organisation recently test fired a series at Mongla.
of missile trials. It included the Derby
missiles and the Python missiles. The Third Scorpene submarine INS Karanj
missiles were test fired in Goa and achieved commissioned into service
100% hits.
The Indian Navy has inducted into service
With this the DRDO announced that the the third Scorpene-class conventional
Python 5 Air to Air Missile has been diesel-electric submarine called INS
successfully added to the Light Combat Karanj on March 10, 2021.
Aircraft Tejas.
The watercraft called INS Karanj was
commissioned by the former Navy Chief,
Admiral V.S. Shekhawat.
March
About Mission: INS Karanj is the part of Six
India described Sri Lanka as “Priority Scorpene submarines which are being built
One” partner in the defence sphere under Project-75. It was built by Mazagon
Dock Limited which has also taken up the
India on February 28, 2021 described Sri
other projects.
Lanka as “Priority One” partner in the
defence sphere and said the participation of Under the project-75, the first submarine
its military aircraft in the 70th anniversary of the class called INS Kalvari was
celebration of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) commissioned in the month of December,
is indicative of the growing cooperation, 2017. The second submarine called INS
camaraderie and friendship between the Khanderi was commissioned in the month of
two militaries. The SLAF is celebrating its September, 2019. The fourth submarine INS
70th Anniversary on March 2. Vela was launched in May, 2019. In the
month of November 2020, the fifth
DRDO conducted successful flight test of
submarine called Vagir was commissioned.
SFDR missile propulsion system
Indian Army decommissioned Self
The DRDO said it successfully carried out
Propelled Catapult Guns, Tampella
a flight test of its solid fuel-ducted ramjet
Mortars
(SFDR) missile propulsion system on 5th
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Two of the longest serving Artillery systems, Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). India’s
the 130mm Self Propelled M-46 Catapult top three arms suppliers during 2016-20
Guns and the 160mm Tampella Mortars were Russia (accounting for 49% of
were decommissioned on March 16, 2021 at India’s imports), France (18%) and Israel
Mahajan Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan. (13%), the report.
KRAS released First batch of MRSAM Defence Ministry sealed a deal with BDL
Missiles to acquire 4,690 anti-tank guided
missiles
The Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems
(KRAS), which is a joint venture between The Defence Ministry on March 19, 2021
the Kalyani Group of India and Rafael sealed a deal with public sector
Advanced Defence Systems of Israel, have undertaking Bharat Dynamics Limited
released the first batch of Medium Range (BDL) to acquire 4,960 MILAN-2T anti-
Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM) kits. tank guided missiles at a cost of ₹ 1,188
crore for the Indian Army. The missiles,
INS Jalashwa Arrived at Port Anjouan as
having a range of 1,850 metres, are being
part of Mission Sagar-IV
produced by BDL under license from French
As part of Mission Sagar-IV, Indian Naval defence major MBDA Missile Systems.
Ship Jalashwa arrived at Port Anjouan,
Pabbi-Anti-Terror 2021: India, Pakistan
Comoros on 14 March 2021 to deliver
and China will hold anti-terror exercise
1,000 Metric Tonnes of rice.
The eight-member bloc said that the
This consignment of 1000 metric tonnes of
decision to hold the joint exercise 'Pabbi-
rice as food assistance were flagged off to
Anti-Terror 2021' was announced during
Comoros in the light of promise made by the
the 36th meeting of the Council of the
Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu
Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS)
during his brief visit to Comoros in the
held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 18.
month of October 2019.
Members of the Shanghai Cooperation
Note: List of Mission Sagar
Organisation, including India, Pakistan and
• Sagar -I Mission: INS KESARI to China, will hold a joint anti-terrorism
Indian Ocean Countries exercise this year.
• Sagar -II Mission: INS AIRAWAT to India, Madagascar Conducted 1st time
East African Countries Joint Navel Partrolling
• Sagar - III Mission: INS KILTAN to
Vietnam Indian Naval Ship INS Shardul made a
port call at Antsiranana, Madagascar as
India’s arms import down by 33%, says part of First Training Squadron’s (1TS)
SIPRI report Overseas Deployment from 21 – 24 Mar.
India’s arms imports fell 33% between INS Shardul and Malagasy Navy ship MNS
2011-15 and 2016-20, said a report Trozona carried out a Passage Exercise
released by the Stockholm International (PASSEX) on 24 Mar 21.
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held on 30 and 31 July 2021, in the Indian Ocean region.
36th edition of CORPAT India and Indonesia The basic aim of CORPAT is to keep the Indian Ocean Region safe
and secure for commercial shipping, international trade and
conduct of legitimate maritime activities.
The Indian Navy and UAE Navy conducted the bilateral naval
‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ India and UAE exercise ‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ on August 07, 2021, off the coast
of Abu Dhabi.
first-ever naval exercise between these two countries

AL-Mohed AL-Hindi India and Saudi Indian Navy's guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi reached Saudi
2021 Arabia Arabia on 10th August for the "Al-Mohed Al-Hindi 2021"
exercise.
conducted the annual Malabar naval exercises, from August

21, off the coast of Guam, in the Indo-Pacific.
India, US, Japan and
Malabar 2021 The objective of the Malabar series of Exercises is to increase
Australia
the interoperability of naval powers of the four QUAD
countries.
The Indian Navy participated in the U.S. Navy-led Southeast

Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) multinational
military exercise in Singapore, to demonstrate its maritime
SEACAT exercise 2021 Organized by US
manoeuvres. The 20th edition of the exercise was organised by
the U.S. Navy, in Hybrid format, and included 20 other partner
nations from the Indo-Pacific region, including India.
The Indian Navy’s Talwar-class frigate, INS Tabar, took part

in exercises with the British Royal Navy.
Konkan 2021 India and UK
It was docked into Portsmouth harbour and started the annual
bilateral exercise Konkan 2021 on 12 August.
The 5th edition of Indo- Kazakhstan Joint Training Exercise,

“KAZIND-21” India and Kazakhstan “KAZIND-21” will be held from August 30 to September 11, 2021,
at Training Node, Aisha Bibi, Kazakhstan.
India, Sri Lanka & A Tri Nation Tabletop Anti-Narcotics & Maritime Search and
‘Exercise Shield’ Rescue exercise (Exercise Shield) between Maldives National
Maldives
Defence Force, Sri Lanka Navy and Indian Navy was conducted
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in virtual mode for the first time on 14 and 15 July 2021 with
Indian Navy as the lead agency.
The exercise was coordinated by Maritime Warfare Centre
(MWC), Mumbai.
The Indian Navy took part in a two-day bilateral Passage

Passage Exercise Indian Navy & UK’s Exercise (PASSEX) with Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group
(PASSEX) Royal Navy (CSG)-21, led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, in the Bay of Bengal
from July 21 to 22.
The 12th Edition of the Indo-Russia joint military exercise

‘Exercise INDRA 2021’ India & Russia called ‘Exercise INDRA 2021’ will be held at Volgograd, Russia
from 01 to 13 August 2021.
India and Thailand started 31st edition of Coordinated

Patrols or CORPAT, with the aim of reinforcing maritime
CORPAT Exercise India & Thailand
links between two countries and to keep Indian Ocean safe and
secure for international trade.
Ships of the Indian Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense

Force (JMSDF) on 14th June participated in a joint naval exercise
at the Indian Ocean to realize "Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Joint Naval exercise India & Japan (FOIP).
Naval cooperation between India and Japan has increased in
scope and complexity over the years.
The Indian Navy conducted a two-day exercise with the

IN-EUNAVFOR naval European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) in Gulf of Aden.
India & EU
exercise Along with Indian Navy, other naval forces are from Italy, Spain
and France.
India and USA conducted Passage Naval Exercise on 23 June

2021. Indian naval ships carried maritime patrol & other aircraft
Passage Exercise India & USA
to participate the exercise with US Navy’s Ronald Reagan Carrier
Strike Group during its transit through Indian Ocean Region.
The Indian and Indonesian Navies conducted Passage

Exercise (PASSEX) in the southern Arabian sea on 9th May
Passage Exercise with a focus on further improving their interoperability.
India and Indonesia
(PASSEX) The last PASSEX between IN and Indonesian Navy was
conducted on 13 Mar 21 between INS Kalpeni, IN Dornier
and KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda.
The NATO recently launched the joint military exercises in

launched by North Albania called the “DEFENDER-Europe 21”. Thousands of
Atlantic Treaty military forces from the US are participating in the exercise.
DEFENDER-Europe 21
Organisation in
Albania In 2021, the exercise is to focus on building operational
readiness and interoperability.
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NATO is organising “Steadfast Defender 21 war games”

By North Atlantic military exercises in Europe as tensions with Russia
Steadfast Defender 21
Treaty Organisation increases. This war games are being organised with the aim
war games
in Europe of simulating response of 30-nation military organisation for
attack on any one of its members.
The 8th edition Indo-Kyrgyz Joint Special Forces Exercise

“Khanjar” was inaugurated at the Special Forces Brigade of
‘Khanjar’ India and Kyrgyzstan
National Guards of the Kyrgyz Republic in Bishkek, the
capital of the host Kyrgyzstan.
The 19th edition of the Indian and French Navy bilateral

“VARUNA” India and France exercise ‘VARUNA-2021’ conducted in the Arabian Sea from
25 to 27 April 2021.
The 11th edition of Indo-US joint special forces exercises

Vajra Prahar India-USA Vajra Prahar 2021 was conducted at Special Forces training
school located at Bakloh, in Himachal Pradesh.
India and the US began a two-day naval exercise in the

eastern Indian Ocean Region on 29th and 30th March. The
Passage exercise
India-USA Indian and US navies were part of joint drills in a passage
(PASSEX)
exercise (PASSEX) conducted earlier in the day, with Indian Air
Force fighters being part of such an exercise for the first time.
The India–Uzbekistan joint military exercise “DUSTLIK II”

held in the Foreign Training Node Chaubatia at Ranikhet in
the state of Uttarakhand. It is the 2nd edition of annual
DUSTLIK India-Uzbekistan bilateral joint exercise of both the armies.
The first edition of DUSTLIK was held at Uzbekistan in the
month of November, 2019.
Indian Navy on 18th March undertook Passage Exercise

(PASSEX) with Royal Bahrain Naval Force Corvette Al
Muharraq in the Persian Gulf under Operation Sankalp. The
Passage Exercise
India-Bahrain exercises are aimed at fostering interoperability and
(PASSEX)
reflecting the commitments of both, India and Bahrain, to
build cooperative partnerships in meeting emergent maritime
challenges.
Bilateral exercise
These exercises are conducted between two countries.

List of few bilateral exercises conducted by the military are given below:
Bilateral exercise Participating countries
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‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ India and UAE (Navy)
Sampriti India and Bangladesh
Harimau Shakti India and Malaysia
Ekuverin India and Maldives
Varuna India and France
Exercise SHAKTI
Ex Desert Knight-21
Red Flag India and US

Al Nagah India and Oman
‘Naseem-Al-Bahr’ India and Oman (Navy)
Bold Kurukshetra India and Singapore
Hand in Hand India and China
Ekuverin India and Maldives
Garuda Shakti India and Indonesia
Indra India and Russia
Khanjar India and Kyrgyzstan
Lamitye India and Seychelles
Maitree, CORPAT India and Thailand
Mitra Shakti India and Sri Lanka
Multi-national FTX ASEAN plus
Nomadic Elephant India and Mongolia
Prabal Dostyk India and Kazakhstan
Sampriti India and Bangladesh
Surya Kiran India and Nepal
Ajeya Warrior India and UK
Indradhanush India and UK (Airforce)
‘Sahyog Kaijin’ India and Japan
“Mainamati Maitree Exercise Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards
Bangladesh (BGB)
‘IN – VPN BILAT EX’ Indo-Vietnam (Navy)
“Passage Exercise #PASSEX
IMDEX India- Singapore

SIMBEX (Navel)
Al-Mohed Al-Hindi Indian Navy & Saudi Arabia Navy

SITMEX India- Singapore-Thailand (Navel)
“Tiger Triumph” India and US
SLINEX India and Srilanka(SL)
KAZIND India and Kazakhstan
Dharma Guardian India and Japan
Shinyuu Maitri’ India and Japan (Airforce)
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Exercise JIMEX Indian and Japanese (navies)

Dustlik India-Uzbekistan
• Samudra Shakti Indian Navy-Indonesian Navy bilateral
• CORPAT
• “PASSEX”
• Yudh Abhyas India and United States
• Vajra Prahar
Passex India, Australian and United States (Navy)
Chapter 17- Sports News
Australian Open 2021

Event Winner Runner-Up
Men’s Singles N. Djokovic (Serbia) Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
Women’s Singles N. Osaka (Japan) Jennifer Brady (US)
Men’s Doubles Filip Polášek ( Slovakia) Rajeev Ram (US)

Joe Salisbury (UK)
Ivan Dodig (Croatian)
Women’s Doubles Elise Mertens (Belgian) Barbora Krejčíková (Czech)

Aryna Sabalenka (Belarusian) Kateřina Siniaková (Czech)
Mix Doubles BarboraKrejčíková (Czech) Matthew Ebden (Australian)

Rajeev Ram (US) Samantha Stosur (Australian)
List of Winners French Open 2021

Title Winner Runner up
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)
Women’s Singles Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia)

Republic)
Men’s doubles Nicolas Mahut & Pierre-Hugues Andrey Golubev (Kazakhstan), Alexander
Herbert (France) Bublik (Kazakhstan)
Women’s doubles Barbora Krejcikova & Katerina Iga Świątek (Poland), Bethanie Mattek-
Siniakova (Czech Republic) Sands (USA)
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Mixed doubles Desirae Krawczyk (US) & Joe Elena Vesnina (Russia), Aslan Karatsev
Salisbury (UK) (Russia)
Wimbledon Championships 2021: Complete List Of Winners
Category Winner Runner Up
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Matteo Berrettini (Italian)
Women’s Singles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Karolína Plíšková (Czech Republic)
Men’s Doubles Nikola Mektić and Mate Pavić Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos
Women’s Doubles Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens Veronika Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina
Mixed Doubles Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk Joe Salisbury and Harriet Dart
List of F1 Race Winners 2021

Grand Prix Winning driver Winning
constructor
Bahrain F1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes- (Britain)
Emilia Romagna F1 Max Verstappen Red-Bull (Netherlands)
Portuguese Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Mercedes- (Britain)
Spanish Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Mercedes- (Britain)
Monaco Grand Prix Max Verstappen Red-Bull (Netherlands)
Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sergio Perez Red Bull (Mexico)
French Grand Prix Max Verstappen Red-Bull (Netherlands)
Styrian Grand Prix Max Verstappen Red-Bull (Netherlands)
Austrian GP Max Verstappen Red-Bull (Netherlands)
British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton Mercedes- (Britain)
Hungarian Grand Prix Esteban Ocon (Alpine Renault- France)
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List of Banned Players (Recently)

Name Sport Ban Time
Kiranjeet Kaur Long-Distance Runner 4 years

Sandeep Kumari Discus thrower 4 years
Youssef Hossam Egypt’s tennis player life time ban

Rémy di Grégorio French rider 4 years
Savita Kumari and Ankit Shishodia Powerlifters Provisionally suspended
Ramshad AR Weightlifter 2 years
Ravinder Kumar Wrestler 4 years
Amit Dahiya Javelin throwe 4 years
Umar Akmal Pak Cricketer 3yrs
Jhuma Khatun Middle distance runner 4 years
Sumit Malik Wrestler 2 yrs
Gomathi Marimuthu 800 m Runner 4 Years
CONCACAF Gold Cup. This was the

August American team’s first Gold Cup title since
Sri Lanka’s Isuru Udana announced 2017 and avenged a defeat to Mexico in 2019
retirement final.
Sri Lanka National Player Isuru Udana India won bronze medal in Tokyo, first
announced his retirement from national Olympic medal in hockey since 1980
duties, with immediate effect. Udana has India men's hockey team defeated
represented Sri Lanka in 21 ODIs and 35 Germany to won the bronze medal at the
T20I matches and picked 18 and 27 Tokyo Olympics on 5th August. This is
respectively. India's first Olympic medal in hockey since
Esteban Ocon won Hungarian GP 2021 they won the gold medal in the 1980
Olympics in Moscow.
Esteban Ocon, Alpine-Renault/ France,
has won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2021, Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver in Men's
at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary. wrestling
This is the maiden F1 race win for Esteban Ravi Kumar Dahiya won silver in the
Ocon. Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin- Men's 57Kg Freestyle category. It was a
Mercedes/Germany) came second. Lewis tough match against defending world
Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) finished champion Zavur Uguev as he won 7-4. Ravi
third. became the second Indian wrestler, after
USA beat Mexico 1-0 to won CONCACAF Sushil Kumar, to get a silver medal in the
Gold Cup Games.
United States clinched an exhilarating 1- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award has been
0 extra-time win over defending renamed as Major Dhyan Chand Khel
champion Mexico to claim a seventh Ratna Award
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August Amit Kumar has won silver medal in
6 announced that India's top sports World Athletics U20 Championships in
award Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Nairobi
will hereby be called the Major Dhyan
Chand Khel Ratna Award. Hockey greats India’s Amit Kumar bagged a silver medal
Dhyan Chand and KD Singh Babu were the when finished second in the men’s 10000
stars as India won six straight Olympic m race walk event of the World Athletics
tournaments between 1928 and 1956. Five U20 Championships at Kasarani Stadium
of their eight triumphs came after India's in Nairobi, Kenya on 21 Aug, with a time of
independence from British rule in 1947. 42 minutes 17:94 seconds. Hosts Haristone
Wanyonyi won a rare gold with a time of
The award was inaugurated in 1991-92, the 42:10.84s and Paul McGrath took home
award comprises a medallion, a bronze in 42:31.11s.
certificate, and a cash prize of ₹25 lakh.
Shaili Singh bagged Long Jump silver in
Neeraj Chopra won Olympic gold medal WAU20 Championships
in Javelin throw
Shaili Singh claimed the women’s Long
Neeraj Chopra won India's first Olympic Jump silver medal in the World Athletics
gold medal in athletics. The 23-year-old U20 Championships on 24th August.
registered a best attempt of 87.58m to finish
ahead of Czech Republic duo of Jakub Tekchand was India’s new flag-bearer in
Vadlejch and Vitezslav Vesely. It was India's Tokyo Paralympics
first gold medal at the ongoing Tokyo Mariyappan Thangavelu, 2016 Rio
Olympics and also the country's second Paralympic Games gold medalist will be
individual gold medal in its Olympic history replaced by Asian Games gold medalist
after Abhinav Bindra's heroics in Beijing Tekchand as the new flag-bearer of India
2008. at the opening ceremony.
Harshit Raja became India’s 69th Chess Discus thrower Vinod Kumar lost
Grandmaster Paralympics bronze, declared ineligible
The 20-year-old Chess player Harshit in classification reassessment
Raja from Pune, Maharashtra has become Indian discus thrower Vinod Kumar on
the 69th Grandmaster of India in Chess. 30th August lost his F52 category bronze
He achieved the feat of becoming the GM at medal at the Paralympics here after being
Biel Masters Open 2021 where he drew his found ineligible in disability classification
game against Dennis Wagner to get his final assessment by the competition panel. The
GM norm with one round to spare. 41-year-old BSF man, whose Army man
Odisha will sponsor Indian Hockey teams father was injured during the 1971 Indo-
for 10 more years Pakistan war, produced a best throw of
19.91m to finish third behind Piotr Kosewicz
The Odisha government will sponsor the (20.02m) of Poland and Velimir Sandor
Indian Hockey teams for 10 more years, (19.98m) of Croatia on 29th August.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
announced on 17th August. The state Rajnath Singh named Army Sports
government started sponsoring the national Institute, Pune as “Neeraj Chopra
hockey teams in 2018. Stadium”
Lionel Messi signed two-year Paris St- Raksha Mantri, Rajnath Singh visited the
Germain deal after leaving Barcelona Army Sports Institute (ASI), Pune and
named the Army Sports Institute stadium
Lionel Messi has signed a two-year as “Neeraj Chopra Stadium”. The Indian
contract with Paris St-Germain after Army’s “Mission Olympics” programme
leaving Barcelona. The 34-year-old’s deal was launched in 2001 with the intent to
also has the option of a third year.
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deliver medal-winning performances in the already reached the final twice in recent
Olympics and other international events. years — in 2000 and 2012 — whereas
England hasn’t got close until now.
July
Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah
Indian-origin American Abhimanyu announced retirement from Test cricket
Mishra became youngest ever chess
Bangladesh cricketer Mahmudullah
Grandmaster
Riyad has announced his retirement from
Indian-origin American Abhimanyu Test cricket. Mahmudullah made his Test
Mishra has become the youngest-ever debut in 2009 during Bangladesh’s tour of
chess Grandmaster in the world. At 12 the West Indies. The right-handed batsman
years, four months and 25 days, he in 50 matches and 94 innings has scored
obliterated the long-standing record held by 2914 runs.
Sergey Karjakin, who was 12 years and
India will host 2026 World Badminton
seven months old when he attained the title.
Championships
Archer Deepika Kumari became world
India will host the World Badminton
No. 1 after winning gold at WC
Championships in 2026, the sport's global
Archer Deepika Kumari became the governing body, BWF, said on 13th July.
world number one as World Archery India were scheduled to organize the
unveiled its latest rankings. She completed Sudirman Cup in 2023 but the Badminton
her hat-trick of gold medal at the Archery World Federation decided to award the
World Cup Stage 3 in Paris on Sunday by hosting rights of the world mixed team
winning the Recurve individual event by 6-0. championships to China.
Mumbai, Pune will host 2022 AFC Deepak Kabra became first Indian
Women's Asian Cup gymnastics judge at Olympics
Women's Asian Cup 2020 in India will be Deepak Kabra has become the first Indian
held in Mumbai and Pune after the Asian to be selected for judging the gymnastics
Football Confederation dropped competition of the Olympic Games. Kabra
Bhubaneswar and Ahemdabad as venues will be seen officiating the men's artistic
to minimise the travelling time for gymnasts at the Tokyo Games, which gets
participants and ensure an "optimum underway on July 23.
environment" for a bio-secure bubble.
Khelo India Youth Games 2022 will be
Argentina beat Brazil 1-0 to win Copa held in Haryana
America, 1st major title in 28 years
The state government of Haryana will
Argentina won their first major title in 28 organise the Khelo India Youth Games
years on 10th July and Lionel Messi 2021 in February 2022.
finally won his first medal in a blue-and-
Sophie Ecclestone, Devon Conway won
white shirt when an Angel Di Maria goal gave
ICC Player of the Month Award
them a 1-0 win over Brazil and a record-
equalling 15th Copa America. England Left-arm spinner Sophie
Ecclestone has been named as ICC
Euro 2020 Final: Italy beat England 3-2 on
Women Player of the Month for June. She
penalties
is the second English female to win the title
The European Championship final on 11th after Tammy Beaumont, who was awarded
July pits England and Italy against each the title in February 2021. In Men’s category,
other. Italy won 3-2 on penalties. Italy has
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New Zealand opener Devon Conway has Viswanathan Anand defeated Vladimir
bagged ICC Player of the Month for June. Kramnik to win the Sparkassen Trophy at
Dortmund on 20th July.
AR Rahman launched Tokyo Olympics
cheer song “Hindustani Way” Sandesh Jhingan named AIFF men’s
Footballer of Year
Singer Ananya Birla has teamed up with
music maestro AR Rahman to launch a Senior India defender, Sandesh Jhingan
cheer song for Indian sports personalities was named the AIFF men’s Footballer of
as they gear up for Tokyo Olympics. Titled the Year 2020-21 season.
“Hindustani Way”, the song has been sung
Ngangom Bala Devi named AIFF
by Ananya and composed by Rahman.
‘Women’s Footballer of the Year’ 2020-21
Karnataka will host second Khelo India
Indian Women’s National Team Forward,
University Games 2022
Ngangom Bala Devi has been named as
The second edition of the Khelo India the All India Football Federation (AIFF)
University Games has been awarded to Women’s Footballer of the Year 2020-21.
Karnataka. Jain University in Bengaluru Bala currently plays for Rangers Women’s FC
will host most of the events, although in Scotland.
others will be spread out across the state.
Pramod Bhagat named Differently Abled
ICC inducted Mongolia, Tajikistan and Sportsman of the Year 2019
Switzerland as new members
World No. 1 para shuttler Pramod Bhagat
The International Cricket Council (ICC) was named Differently Abled Sportsman
inducted Mongolia, Tajikistan, and of the Year at Indian Sports Honour for
Switzerland as members at its 78th 2019. The delay in the announcement was
Annual General Meeting. Mongolia and due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tajikistan as the 22nd and 23rd members of
Priya Malik won gold medal at 2021
the Asia region. Switzerland is Europe’s 35th
World Cadet Wrestling Championship
member. With the ICC now comprising 106
members in total, including 94 associates. India’s wrestler Priya Malik has won a
gold medal for the country at the World
Australia's Brisbane will host 2032
Cadet Wrestling Championship, which is
Olympic Games
taking place in Budapest, Hungary on 25th
The Australian city of Brisbane has been July. Malik secured the Gold medal by
selected to host the 2032 summer beating Belarus rival Kseniya Patapovich 5-0
Olympics, said the International Olympic in the 73 kg weight category.
Committee on 21 July.
Sumit Nagal became the third Indian to
Australia has become the second country won Tennis singles match at Olympic
after the United States to host the
Sumit Nagal became only the third Indian
Olympic Games in three different cities.
to win a men’s singles match at an
Prior to this, Melbourne had staged Olympics
Olympics edition and the first in 25 years,
in 1956 and Sydney had in 2000.
when he defeated Denis Istomin in the first
Viswanathan Anand won NC Masters of match at Tokyo Games.
Sparkassen chess trophy
Zeeshan Ali was the first Indian to win a
In a fascinating battle between two singles match at the 1988 Seoul Games
former World champions fought over when he beat Victo Caballero from Paraguay.
four games in a brand new format of chess, After that, Leander Paes won the men’s
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singles bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Games, Vinoo Mankad, Kumar Sangakkara and 8
beating Brazil’s Fernando Meligeni. others inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
ahead of WTC final
13-year-old becomes one of the youngest
Olympic gold medal winners ever The International Cricket Council (ICC)
announced a special edition intake of 10
Momiji Nishiya, 13, of Japan took home
cricket icons into the ICC Hall of Fame to
gold in skateboarding 25th July, making
celebrate the prestigious history of Test
her one of the youngest gold medal
cricket, and to coincide with the first ever
winners ever in the Olympic Games.
ICC World Test Championship Final.
Vantika Agarwal won national women
List of 10 Players: Aubrey Faulkner of
online chess title
South Africa,Monty Noble of Australia, Sir
Vantika Agarwal has won the National Learie Constantine of West Indies, Stan
Women Online Chess title. She scored 9.5 McCabe of Australia, Ted Dexter of England,
points from 11 rounds. Arpita Mukherjee of Vinoo Mankad of India, Desmond Haynes of
West Bengal took the second spot and Tamil the West Indies, Bob Willis of England, Andy
Nadu’s Sreeja Seshadri secured the third Flower of Zimbabwe, Kumar Sangakkara of
spot in the competition. Sri Lanka.
Wrestler Vinesh Phogat clinched gold
June medal in Poland open
Novak Djokovic has won his 83rd Career Asian champion and star wrestler Vinesh
Title in Belgrade open Phogat on Friday clinched gold in the 53kg
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic won the 83rd category at the Poland Open. The Indian
title of his career with victory on home wrestler was in top-notch form during the
soil at the Belgrade Open. The Serbian game as she defeated Khrystyna Bereza of
superstar defeated Slovakian qualifier and Ukraine 8-0 in Final.
first-time ATP Tour finalist Alex Molcan 6-4, India’s official Olympic theme song
6-3 in 88 minutes at the Novak Tennis ‘Lakshya Tera Samne Hai’ released
Center.
Ahead of the Tokyo Games, the official
BharatPe became ICC’s official partner till Olympic theme song for the Indian
2023 contingent was launched. Mohit Chauhan
Lending and digital payments startup has composed and sung the song titled
BharatPe on 7th June announced that it “Lakshya Tera Samne Hai”.
has inked a three-year long (till 2023) New Zealand has beaten India to won
deal to become an official partner with inaugural ICC World Test Championship
International Cricket Council (ICC).
A tenacious New Zealand lifted the
Sunil Chhetri overtook Messi to become inaugural World Test Championship title
2nd highest international goal scorer with a comfortable eight-wicket win over
Indian football team captain Sunil India on the sixth and final day of the
Chhetri added another feather to his marquee final at The Hampshire Bowl,
illustrious cap as he overtook Argentina Suthampton on 24th June.
star Lionel Messi to become the second- T20 World Cup 2021 has been shifted
highest active international goalscorer. from India to UAE
The T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in
India is being shifted to the UAE owing to
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the health safety concerns posed by COVID- with 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 and claimed the 2021
19. Madrid Open women’s singles title.
Deepika Kumari won Gold Medal at Aryna gets her 10th career WTA singles
Archery World Cup Stage 3 title, second WTA title of the season.
Madrid Open is known as a professional
The ace Indian archer Deepika Kumari,
WTA tennis tournament. it is played on
created a new world record as she
outdoor clay courts.
claimed three back-to-back gold medals
in a single day, during the Archery World Alexander Zverev beat Matteo Berrettini
Cup Stage 3, held in Paris. India topped the to won his 2nd Madrid title
medals tally with four gold medals. The
German Alexander Zverev earned his
fourth gold medal came by Abhishek Verma,
second Mutua Madrid Open title 2021
from men’s individual event in the
when he defeated Matteo Berrettini 6-7(8),
compound section.
6-4, 6-3 to lift his fourth ATP Masters 1000
Sajan Prakash became first Indian trophy. He won his first Madrid title in 2018
swimmer to qualify for Tokyo Olympics in a final against Thiem.
Sajan Prakash on June 26, 2021 became Manchester City crowned 2020-21
the first-ever Indian swimmer to Premier League champions
qualify for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics
Manchester City were crowned Premier
by breaching the ‘A’ standard time. He
League champions for the third time in
achieved the feat by clocking 1:56:38 in
four seasons after Manchester United
men’s 200m butterfly at the Sette Colli
crashed to a 2-1 defeat against Leicester
Trophy in Rome, Italy.
on 12th May.
May Ramesh Powar appointed Head Coach of
Sri Lanka all-rounder Thisara Perera Indian Women’s Cricket team
retired from international cricket The Board of Control for Cricket in India
Sri Lanka all-rounder and former captain (BCCI) announces the appointment of
Thisara Perera on 3rd May announced his Ramesh Powar as the Head Coach of
retirement from international cricket Team India (Senior Women).
with immediate effect. The 32-year-old, A former international, Powar played 2 Tests
represented Sri Lanka in six Tests, 166 ODIs and 31 ODIs for India.
and 84 T20s.
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2022 in New
Mark Selby beat Shaun Murphy to win Zealand
fourth World Snooker Championship
The dates for next year’s Women’s Rugby
Mark Selby has won a fourth World World Cup in New Zealand have been
Snooker Championship title, beating announced with the Tournament to run
Shaun Murphy 18-15 in an immense display from October 8 to November 12, 2022 in
from both men over four sessions at the Auckland and Whangarei.
Crucible.
FA Cup: Leicester Beat Chelsea To Won
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus won Maiden Title For First Time
Madrid Open Women’s singles title
Leicester won the FA Cup for the first time
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus beat world in the club's 137-year history on 15th
number one Ashleigh Barty of Australia May as Youri Tielemans's sensational
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strike beat Chelsea 1-0 at Wembley in Norway's Casper Ruud has won the ATP
England. Geneva Open final with a 7-6 (8/6), 6-4
victory over Denis Shapovalov.
Barcelona beat Chelsea 4-0 to win
Women's Champions League final for first Bayern Munich: Robert Lewandowski
time won European Golden Boot
Barcelona's slow start two years ago For the first time in his career, Footballer
doomed its European dream so this time Robert Lewandowski has won the
it came out firing against Chelsea, scoring European Golden Boot. The Bayern Munich
after just 32 seconds en route to a 4-0 striker scored an incredible 41 goals in 29
victory and its first Women’s Champions Bundesliga appearances to claim the top
League title on 16th May. scorer spot in Europe.
Rafael Nadal beat World No 1 Novak Chelsea beat Manchester City 1-0, won
Djokovic for 10th Rome Open title Champions League for second time
World No. 3 Spaniard Rafael Nadal on Chelsea won their second Champions
16th May overcame a mid-match surge League title and denied Pep Guardiola’s
from No. 1-ranked Serbian Novak Manchester City their first after Kai Havertz
Djokovic to win the Italian Open final 7-5, grabbed a first-half goal to secure a 1-0
1-6, 6-3 in two hours and 50 minutes for his win on 29th May all-English final at the
10th title. Estadio Do Dragao.
Arjan Bhullar became first Indian-origin Asian Boxing Championships 2021
fighter to win MMA title
Pooja Rani Bohra (75 kg) wins gold at
Arjan Bhullar became the first Indian- Asian boxing championships in Dubai;
origin fighter to win a world title in a top- Mary Kom (51 kg), Lalbuatsaihi (64 kg),
level MMA promotion when he beat Anupama (+81kg) win silver.
Brandon Vera to become the heavyweight
world champion at the Singapore-based One Women: 51kg: M.C. Mary Kom lost to Nazym
Championship. Kyzaibay (Kaz) 3-2; 64kg: Lalbuatsaihi lost
to Milana Saronova (Kaz) 3-2; 75kg: Pooja
Football: FIFA U-17 women’s World Cup Rani Bohra bt Mavluda Movlonova (Uzb) 5-
to be held in India in October 2022 0; +81kg: Anupama lost to Lazzat
The U-17 women’s World Cup will be held Kungeibayeva (Kaz) 3-2.
in India from October 11 to 30 next year, April
Fifa Council said on 21st May. India were Aniyan Midhun has won the gold at South
earlier scheduled to host the 2020 U-17 Asian Wushu tournament
World Cup but it was postponed to 2021
before being cancelled due to the Covid-19 Aniyan Midhun of Nattika won the gold at
pandemic. the South Asian Wushu Championship
that concluded in Nepal on March 31. The
Atletico Madrid clinched La Liga title
28-year-old youth represented the country
Atletico Madrid pipped city rivals Real in the 70-kg category in the championship.
Madrid to the La Liga title on 22nd May He is the first Wushu player from southern
Luis Suarez fired them to a 2-1 comeback India to reach the Indian team.
win at Real Valladolid.
Tashkent will host the 2023 AIBA Men’s
Casper Ruud won Men's Singles title at World Boxing Championships
Geneva Open tennis
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President of the International Boxing Stefanos Tsitsipas has won his first ATP
Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev during Masters 1000 series after a flawless
his visit to Uzbekistan officially announced performance against Andrey Rublev in
that AIBA Men’s World Boxing Monte Carlo. Rublev beat 11-time Monte
Championships will take place in Carlo champion Nadal in the quarter-finals.
Tashkent in 2023.
Tamil Nadu’s Arjun Kalyan became 68th
FIFA suspended Pakistan and Chadian Indian Grandmaster
football federations
Tamil Nadu’s, Arjun Kalyan became
FIFA has suspended the Pakistan Football India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster when he
Federation (PFF) and Chadian Football crossed the 2500 ELO mark after beating
Association (FTFA) with immediate effect Dragan Kosic in the fifth round of GM Round
due to claims of outside interference. The Robin “Rujna Zore-3” in Serbia. Viswanathan
suspension will be lifted once the relevant Anand became the country’s first
government decisions have been repealed. Grandmaster, in 1988.
Nethra Kumanan, the first Indian woman Haryana and Delhi will host Khelo India
sailor to qualify for Olympics Youth Games in November 2021
Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian The 2021 edition of the Khelo India Youth
woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics. Games will be held from November 21 to
She first made a mark with a bronze medal December 5 this year. The fourth edition of
in the World Cup last year after having the annual national-level grassroots event
competed in the Asian Games in 2014 and will be held in the cities of Panchkula,
2018. Ambala, Shahabad, Chandigarh – in the
state of Haryana – and capital New Delhi.
Asian Wrestling Championships: Vinesh
Phogat, Anshu Malik and Divya Kakran The inaugural edition in 2018 was held in
won gold medals New Delhi, the 2019 edition in Pune,
Maharashtra and last year in Guwahati,
India women win four gold medals in Assam.
Asian Wrestling Championships in
Almaty, Kazakhstan, Vinesh Phogat in 53- Manchester City has beaten Tottenham
kg, Anshu Malik in 57-kg, Divya Kakran in Hotspur in final at London to won League
72-kg and Sarita Mor in 59-kg. India won Cup football tournament
four gold, a silver and two bronze medals in
this edition. Manchester City won the League Cup for a
record-equalling fourth time in succession
Football: Barcelona won 2021 Copa del with a deserved victory over a disappointing
Rey Tottenham Hotspur side at Wembley.
Barcelona won the 2021 Copa del Rey Rafael Nadal has won 12th Barcelona
with a 4-0 victory against Athletic Bilbao Open Title
on 19th April. Barca earned the Spanish
King’s Cup trophy, scoring all their goals in Rafael Nadal won the Barcelona Open for
the second half of the final at La Cartuja the 12th time after saving a
Stadium, Seville. championship point to end Stefanos
Tsitsipas’ perfect record on clay this year in
Stefanos Tsitsipas has won Rolex Monte- a thrilling final.
Carlo Masters 2021 Title March
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Vinesh Phogat won gold in wrestling J&K topped medals tally at Khelo India
tournament in Kiev, Ukraine Winter National Games in Gulmarg
India’s Vinesh Phogat defeated V. Jammu and Kashmir topped the medals
Kaladzinskay of Belarus in the final to win tally in the 2nd edition of Khelo India
gold in women’s 53 kg freestyle at the Winter National Games. J&K won 11 gold,
Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and 18 silver and 5 bronze medals. The 5-day
Coaches Memorial tournament at Kiev, event was organized in the famous ski resort
Ukraine. Vinesh is the only Indian woman of Gulmarg in the north Kashmir's Baramulla
wrestler to have qualified for the Tokyo district. The 1st edition of the Khelo India
Games. Winter Games was also held at Gulmarg
in March 2020.
Deepak Kumar won silver at boxing
tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria IPL 2021: VIVO Back as Title Sponsor for
Indian Premier League
Deepak Kumar’s fantastic run at the 72nd
Strandja Memorial boxing tournament in Indian Premier League Governing
Sofia, Bulgaria ended with a silver medal, Council chairman Brijesh Patel revealed
after he lost the flyweight (52kg) final on a at the IPL 2021 Auction that VIVO is back
split verdict to Bulgaria’s Daniel Asenov, on as the title sponsor of the league. Brijesh
February 27, 2021. Patel announced that VIVO is back as the title
sponsor of the T20 league after Dream 11
Uganda International Badminton
had been roped in as sponsor for the 2020
tournament: India won both singles titles
season.
India’s Varun Kapur and Malvika Bansod
India qualified for ICC World Test
clinched the men’s and women’s singles
Championship Final, will face New
titles respectively at the 2021 Uganda
Zealand in June
International Badminton tournament in
Kampala. Varun beat compatriot Sankar Team India have qualified for the
Muthusamy 21-18, 16-21, 21-17 in the men’s inaugural ICC World Test Championship
singles final. Malvika beat compatriot final after beating England an innings and 25
Anupama Upadhyaya in the women singles runs in the 4th and final Test in Ahmedabad
summit clash 17-21, 25-23, 21-10. on 6th March.
Mumbai City FC won ISL League Football New Zealand had already qualified for the
Winners Shield WTC final with 420 points from 11 Tests
with 7 wins and 4 losses. The World Test
Mumbai City FC scripted a 2-0 triumph
Championship final will be played at the
over ATK Mohun Bagan (ATKMB) at the
Rose Bowl, Southampton from June 18.
GMC Stadium in Bambolim on February
28, 2021 to bag the ISL League Winners Wrestler Bajrang Punia won gold medal
Shield and the coveted AFC Champions at Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series;
League spot that comes with it. regained Top Position
Virat Kohli became first cricketer to have Indian wrestler, Bajrang Punia, has
100 million followers on Instagram regained the world number one ranking.
He gained his ranking after winning
India captain Virat Kohli became the first
second successive gold medal at Matteo
cricketer in the world to have 100 million
Pellicone Ranking Series.
followers on social media platform
Instagram. The 32-year-old Kohli is also the The wrestler defeated Tulga Tumur Ochir of
fourth most followed sportsperson on Mongolia by 2-2 criteria in 65 kg the final
Instagram.
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freestyle event which was organised in Bhavani Devi became the first ever Indian
Rome on March 7, 2021. fencer to qualify for the Olympics. The
sabre fencer secured an Olympic spot due to
Mithali Raj became 1st Indian woman
events in the ongoing Fencing World Cup on
cricketer to score 10,000 international
14th March.
runs
India will host Asian Boxing
The veteran Indian women’s cricketer
Championships 2021 from May 21 to 31:
Mithali Raj has become the first Indian
AIBA
woman cricketer that has completed
10,000 international runs in all the cricket International Boxing Association (AIBA)
formats. She also became the second woman on 16th March announced that Asian
cricketer at the international level to Boxing Championships 2021 will be
complete 10000 runs. Mithali Raj has joined hosted by New Delhi, India from May 21-
the Charlotte Edwards of England in elite 31. It will be the first boxing tournament in
club. Asia to be held in 2021.
ISL 2020-21: Mumbai City FC won title, S Dhanalakshmi won Federation Cup gold
defeated ATK Mohun Bagan 2-1
Sprinter S Dhanalakshmi beat national
Mumbai City FC has defeated ATK Mohun record holder Dutee Chand to win
Bagan 2-1 in the ISL 2020-21 final to lift yet women’s 100m sprint final in the
another trophy this year. Federation Cup Senior National Athletics
Championships in Patiala.
Related Awards
Another Tamil Nadu runner Archana
Golden Ball Award (Best Player of ISL
Suseendran was third in 11.76 seconds.
2020-21): ATK Mohun Bagan forward Roy
Hima Das was disqualified after a false start.
Krishna.
Sharath Kamal became first Indian
Emerging Indian Player of the Year:
paddler to qualify for Tokyo Olympics
NorthEast United midfielder Lalengmawia.
The seasoned Achanta Sharath Kamal on
Golden Boot Award (Top goal-scorer): FC
18th March became the first Indian
Goa striker Igor Angulo for 14 goals.
paddler to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic
Golden Glove Award (Best Goalkeeper): Games after a dominant win over
ATK Mohun Bagan custodian Arindam Pakistan’s Muhammad Rameez at the
Bhattacharja for ten clean sheets. Asian Olympic Qualification tournament in
Doha.
69th National volleyball championships
held in Bhubaneswar ISSF WC: Yashaswini won first gold for
India, Manu Bhaker clinched silver
Haryana men and Kerala women won the
69th National volleyball championships at Yashaswini Deswal bagged the first gold
the KIIT University in Bhubaneswar on medal for India in the Women's 10M Air
March 11, 2021. Pistol final of the International Shooting
Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup
Both the finals were won in straight sets with Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun on 20th March.
Haryana beating Assam and women’s Another Indian shooter Manu Bhaker won a
defending champion Kerala prevailing over silver medal with 236.7 points.
Railways.
Athlete Avinash Sable has Set a New
Bhavani Devi became first ever Indian National Record in Men’s 3000m
fencer to qualify for Olympics Steeplechase
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The Indian athlete Avinash Sable set a honour in the P1 – Men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1
new national record in the men’s 3000m final.
steeplechase event in the ongoing
Khelo India Scheme extended till 2025-
Federation Cup Senior National Athletics
26
Championships in Patiala, with timing of
8:20.20. "The Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has
decided to extend Khelo India scheme
India Legends won 2020-21 Road Safety
from 2021-22 to 2025-26. The Ministry has
World Series T-20
furnished an Expenditure Finance
In Cricket, India Legends defeated Sri Committee (EFC) memorandum to the
Lanka Legends by 14 runs to clinch the Ministry of Finance for
Road Safety World Series final title, held at extension/continuation of the Khelo India
Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Scheme from 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Stadium in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
‘Girl Gang’ announced Official Song of ICC
India’s Singhraj won gold in Para Women’s World Cup 2022
Shooting World Cup 2021
Girl Gang, a track by New Zealand singer
Indian para-athlete Singhraj won the gold Gin Wigmore, has been announced as the
medal in the 2021 Para Shooting World official song of the 2022 ICC Women’s
Cup at Al Ain in the UAE. He defeated World Cup. The tournament is set to be
Uzbekistan’s Server Ibragimov to get the top hosted in New Zealand from March 4 to April
3, 2022.
Tokyo Olympics 2020
Highlights
• 32nd Summer Olympic Games
• Opening-23 July 2021
• Closing-8 August 2021
• Host city-Tokyo, Japan
• Motto-United by Emotion
• Nations-205 (+ EOR team)
• Olympic 2024 (Next): Peris, France
• of Athletes-11,090
• of sports are there in Olympics– 33
• Opened by-Emperor Naruhito
• Cauldron-Naomi Osaka
• Stadium- Olympic Stadium
• Flag Bearer Opening Ceremony: Manpreet Singh & Mary Kom
• Flag Bearer Closing Ceremony: Bajrang Punia
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• Most Olympic medals by country 2021– 113 (39 Gold, 41 Silver, 33 Bronze)
• Number of players participating in Olympics 2020 from India- 127 (18
sporting events)
• Total medals won by India in Olympics 2020– 7 (1 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze)
• First Gold Medalist of Tokyo 2020: Yang Qian (10 M AIR RIFLE, China)
• First Medalist of Tokyo 2020 form India : Mirabai chanu (49KG Weighlifting)
• Number of maximum gold won by individual in Olympic 2020: Caeleb
Dressel (5 Gold, Swimming, USA)
Note: The 2020 Games are the fourth Olympic Games to be held in Japan, following the
Tokyo 1964 (Summer), Sapporo 1972 (Winter), and Nagano 1998 (Winter) games.
INDIA in Olympic 2020 (Tokyo)

• Neeraj Chopra-Javelin throw (GOLD)
• Saikhom Mirabai Chanu– Weightlifter (49Kg, Silver)
• Ravi Kumar Dahiya– Wrestler (57 kg category, Silver)
• PV Sindhu-Badminton (Bronze)
• Lovlina Borgohain-Boxer (Women’s welterweight, Bronze)
• Men’s Hockey (Bronze)
• Bajrang Punia- Wrestle, (65-kg Weight category, Bronze)
Chapter 18: Upcoming Sports Events & Venues

Summer Olympic • 2021- Tokyo, Japan
• 2024 - Paris, France
• 2028 - Los Angeles, USA
• 2032- Australia
Winter Olympic • 2022 - Beijing, China

• 2026 - Milan & Cortina , Italy
Asian Games • 2022 - Hangzhou, China

• 2026 - Nagoya, Japan
National Games of India • 2020 - Goa ( 36 )

• 2021 - Chhattisgarh ( 37 )
• 2022- Uttrakhand ( 38 )
• 2023 - Meghalaya ( 39 )
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FIFA World Cup • 2022 - Qatar

• 2026 - Canada, Mexico, US
FIFA U-17 World Cup • 2022 - Women's : India

• 2021- Men's : Peru
World Games • 2022 - Birmingham, US

Commonwealth Games • 2022 - Birmingham ,UK
Commonwealth Youth Games • 2023 - Trinidad & Tobago
World Athletics Championships • 2022 - Eugene, Oregon, US
• 2023 - Budapest, Hungary
Commonwealth Archery & Shooting • 2022 - India

Championships
Asian Youth Games • 2021 - China
Asian Para Games • 2022 - China
Badminton World Championship • 2021 - Spain
FINA Aquatics World Championships • 2022 - Fukuoka, Japan
Hockey World Cup • 2022 - Women : Spain and Netherland

• 2023 - Men's : Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, Odisha
National Hockey Championship • 2021 - Men's : Maharashtra
• 2021- Women's : Uttar Pradesh
AFC Women’s Asian Cup • 2022 - India

Asian youth Para Game • 2021- Bahrain
FIFA Women's World Cup • 2023 - Australia and New Zealand
ICC World Test Championship (Southampton,

UK 2021)
Men’s T20 World Cup (UAE, 2021)
Men’s T20 World Cup (Australia, 2022)
Women’s World Cup (New Zealand, 2022)
U19 Cricket World Cup (West Indies, 2022)
Women’s T20 World Cup (South Africa, 2022)
Men’s Cricket World Cup (India, 2023)
World Test Championship (2023).
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Chapter 19: List of Important Book and Author 2021

August
Book Author
“Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged
Manan Bhatt
Pulwama”
“My Own Mazagon” Captain Ramesh Babu
“The Earthspinner” Anuradha Roy
'Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government’ Released by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu
“The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of

Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad
Jayaprakash Narayan”
Vishram Bedekar, translated from the Marathi

‘Battlefield’
original Ranaangan by Jerry Pinto.
July
Book Author
“Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi’s
Dhaval Kulkarni
Assassin”
“The Pregnancy Bible” Kareena Kapoor Khan
“The Ramayana of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji” Baljit Kaur Tulsi
‘The India Story’ Bimal Jalan
‘The Stranger In The Mirror’ Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s autobiography
Dr. C K Garyali
‘Bank With A Soul: Equitas’ Unveiled by Former RBI Governor, Duvvuri
Subbarao
June
Book Author
'Home in the World' Amartya Sen's memoir
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‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’ Suresh Raina’s autobiography
‘The 7 Sins of Being A Mother’ Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
‘Will’ Will Smith’s autobiography
‘It’s a wonderful Life’ Ruskin Bond
“Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story” Sundeep Mishra
RV Raveendran
“Anomalies in Law and Justice”
Released by CJI NV Ramana
May
Book Author
Children’s Book ‘The Bench’ Meghan Markle
“Nehru, Tibet and China” Avtar Singh Bhasin
“Sach Kahun Toh” Neena Gupta’s autobiography
“Stargazing: The players in my life” Ravi Shastri
April
Book Author
‘Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’ Nitin Gokhale
Utkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab

‘Odisha Itihaas’
(Hindi version released by Narendra Modi)
“Exam warriors” (Updated version released by Narendra Modi)
Dr Ambedkar Jivan Darshan,
Dr Ambedkar Vyakti Darshan, Kishor Makwana

(launched by Narendra Modi)
Dr Ambedkar Rashtra Darshan,
Dr Ambedkar Aayam Darshan.
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Memoir of Suresh Raina

“Believe - What Life and Cricket Taught Me”
(co-authored by Bharat Sundaresan)
‘The Christmas Pig’ JK Rowling
“Living Mountain” Amitav Ghosh
March
Books Author
“Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis” Anindya Dutta
“Joe Biden: American Dreamer” Evan Osnos
The English translation of journalist-author

"Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of
Anant Vijay's book "Amethi Sangram:
Smriti Irani's Triumph"
Aitihasik Jeet Ankahi Dastan".
The autobiography of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

“The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle” translated into English by Imitiaz Ahmad
Sahibzada
“My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our

Indra Nooyi’s Memoir
Future”
co-edited by Lt Gen AK Singh and Brig Narender

“Battle Ready for 21st Century”
Kumar
Chapter 20: Important Day and Theme 2021

(January 2021)
Dates Day Theme
1st January Global Family Day
4th January World Braille Day
6th January Journalist Day Observed in Maharashtra
9 January Pravasi Bharatiya Divas or NRI Day Theme 2021:“Contributing to

celebrated Aatmanirbhar Bharat”
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10th January World Hindi Day 2021
11th January Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur 2nd PM

Shastri
12th January National Youth Day 2021 Birthday of Swami Vivekananda
14th January First Commander-in-Chief of

Indian Armed Forces celebrate Fifth Indian Armed Forces, Field
Veterans Day Marshal KM Cariappa, OBE who
retired on 14 Jan 1953.
15th January Indian Army Day 2021
January 18 to February National Road Safety Month
17 2021
23rd January “PARAKRAM DIWAS’ Government of India has decided

to celebrate the 125th Birth
Anniversary year of Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose.
24th January National Girl Child
24th January International Day of Education Theme 2021: “Recover and
Revitalize Education for the COVID-19
Generation.”
25th January National Voters Day Theme 2021:‘Making Our Voters
Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and
Informed’.
25th January National Tourism Day Theme 2021: ‘Dekho Apna Desh’.
26th January International Customs Day Theme 2021: “Customs bolstering
Recovery, Renewal and Resilience”.
27th January International Holocaust Remembrance
Day
28th January Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai

30th January Martyrs Day or Shaheed Diwas Death anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi
Last Sunday of January World Leprosy Day
(31st Jan 2021)
31st January 2021 Polio National Immunisation Day 1st time Celebrate
rescheduled
February
Date Day Theme/ Importance
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February 1 Indian Coast Guard Raising Day The Indian Coast Guard (ICG)
celebrated its 45th Raising Day on 01
February 2021. The ICG was formally
established on February 1, 1977, by the
Coast Guard Act, 1978 of the Parliament
of India.
February 2 World Wetlands Day Theme 2021: Wetlands and Water
February 4 International Day of Human Fraternity Theme 2021: A Pathway to the Future.
February 4 World Cancer Day Theme 2021: ‘I Am and I Will.’
February 6 International Day of Zero Tolerance Theme 2021: No Time for Global
for Female Genital Mutilation Inaction, Unite, Fund, and Act to End
Female Genital Mutilation
2nd day of the second Safer Internet Day Safer Internet Day was observed on
week of February February 9, 2021.
February 10 World Pulses Day Theme 2021: “Nutritious Seeds for a
Sustainable Future,”
February 10 National Deworming Day
February 11 International Day of Women and Girls Theme 2021: Women Scientists at the
in Science forefront of the fight against COVID-19
February 11 World Unani Day birth anniversary of great Unani scholar
and social reformer Hakim Ajmal Khan
February 11 Samarpan Diwas Deen Dayal Upadhyay 53rd Death
Anniversary
February 12 National Productivity Day
February 13 World Radio Day Theme 2021:“New World, New Radio”
February 13 National Women’s Day Sarojini Naidu’s birth anniversary
February 19 Soil Health Card Day
February 20 Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram 35th Statehood day
Statehood day
February 20 World Day of Social Justice Theme 2021: A Call for Social Justice in
the Digital Economy
Third Saturday of World Pangolin Day
February
February 21 International Mother Language Day Theme 2021: “fostering
multilingualism for inclusion in
education and society.”
February 22 World Thinking Day Theme 2021: Peacebuilding
February 22 World Scout Day
February 24 Central Excise Day
February 27 World NGO Day
February 28 National Science Day Theme 2021: “Future of STI: Impacts
on Education, Skills and Work”.
March
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Date Day Theme/Importance
1 March Zero Discrimination Day Theme 2021: “Zero Discrimination

against Women and Girls.”
1 March World Civil Defence Day Theme 2021: Civil Defence and the first
aider in every home
1 March Civil Accounts Day 45th Civil Accounts Day celebrated on

March 1, 2021.
3 March World Wildlife Day Theme 2021: “Forests and Livelihoods:

Sustaining People and Planet.”
3 March World Hearing Day Theme 2021: ‘Screen, Rehabilitate,

Communicate’
4 March Chabahar Day ‘Chabahar Day’ was held on March 4 on

the sidelines of the Maritime India
Summit 2021 held in New Delhi.
4 March National Safety Day Theme 2021: ‘Sadak Suraksha (Road

Safety).’
4 March National Security Day Rashtriya Suraksha Diwas is held every

year, in the honor of the Indian Security
Forces.
8 March International Women’s Day Theme 2021: “Women in leadership:

Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19
world”
10 March CISF Raising Day
Second Wednesday of No Smoking Day This year No Smoking Day was observed
March on 10th March 2021.
Second Thursday of World Kidney Day Theme 2021: “Living Well with Kidney
March Disease”.
This year World Kidney Day was

observed on 11th March 2021.
14 March Pi Day The approximate value of Pi is 3.14. It

is marked on March 14 which if written in
the format of month/day (3/14).
14 March International Day of Action for Rivers
15 March World Consumer Rights Day Theme 2021: “Tackle Plastic Pollution”.
16 March National Vaccination Day or National
Immunization Day
18 March Ordnance Factories Day (India)
18 March Global Recycling Day Theme 2021: “Recycling Heroes”.
19 March World Sleep Day 2021
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20 March International Day of Happiness Theme 2021: “Happiness For All,

Forever
20 March World Sparrow Day Theme 2021: “I Love Sparrows.”
20 March World Oral Health Day Theme 2021: “Be Proud Of Your Mouth”
20 March UN French Language Day
21 March World Forestry Day or International Day of Theme 2021:”Forest restoration: a path
Forests to recovery and well-being.”
21 March World Down Syndrome Day Theme 2021: “We Decide.”
21 March World Poetry Day
21 March International Day for the Elimination of Theme 2021: “Youth standing up against
Racial Discrimination racism”.
22 March World Water Day Theme 2021: “Valuing Water”
22 March Bihar Diwas
23 March World Meteorological Day Theme 2021: “The Ocean, Our Climate
and Weather.”
23 March Martyrs’ Day or Shaheed Diwas Indians in particular pay tribute
to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and
Shivaram Rajguru. These freedom
fighters had lost their lives on March 23
in 1931 during the struggle for India’s
independence.
24 March World Tuberculosis (TB) Day Theme 2021: ‘The Clock is Ticking’
25 March International Day of Remembrance of Theme 2021: “Ending Slavery’s Legacy
Victims of Slavery of Racism: A Global Imperative for
Justice”
27 March World Theatre Day
Last Saturday of March Earth Hour 2021 Theme 2021: “Climate Change to Save
Earth.”
31 March International Transgender Day of Visibility
April
1 April Utkal Divas or Odisha Day Utakala Dibasha is celebrated to remember the
formation of the Odisha state on April 1, 1936.
2 April World Autism Awareness Day
2 April Good Friday 2021 Good Friday is observed by Christians to

commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
and is observed on the Friday before Easter
Sunday.
It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday,

Great Friday, or Easter Friday.
2 April International Children’s Book Day Theme 2021: “The Music of Words”
4 April International Day of Mine awareness and
Assistance in Mine Action
5 April National Maritime Day
5 April International Day of Conscience
6 April International Day of Sport for Development
and Peace
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7 April World Health Day Theme 2021: “Building a fairer, healthier

world for everyone”.
9 April CRPF Valour Day (Shaurya Diwas) 2021 marks the 56th CRPF Valour Day.
10 April World Homoeopathy Day Theme 2021: “Homoeopathy – Roadmap for
Integrative Medicine”
10 April National Siblings Day
11 April National Safe Motherhood Day (NSMD)
11 April National Pet Day
12 April International Day of Human Space Flight
13 April Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day It took place on 13 April 1919 at Amritsar and
is also known as the Amritsar massacre.
13 April International Turban Day
13 April Siachen Day The 37th Siachen Day was celebrated by
Siachen Warriors Brigade of Fire & Fury Corps
on April 13, 2021 with tremendous zeal and
enthusiasm.
14 April Ambedkar Jayanti Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891. His
birthday is also celebrated as “Equality Day”.
14 April National Fire Service Day
15 April Himachal Day
15 April World Art Day
16 April World Voice Day Theme 2021: ONE WORLD|MANY VOICES
17 April World Haemophilia Day Theme 2021: “Adapting to Change”
18 April World Heritage Day Theme 2021: “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures
19 April World Liver Day Theme 2021: ‘Keep your liver healthy and
disease-free.’
20 April UN Chinese Language Day
21 April National Civil Service Day
21 April World Creativity and Innovation Day
22 April World Earth Day Theme 2021: Restore Our Earth – “focuses on
natural processes and emerging green
technologies that can restore the world’s
ecosystems”
23 April World Book and Copyright Day
23 April English Language Day
24 April World Veterinary Day Theme 2021: ‘Veterinarian response to the
COVID-19 crisis.’
24 April National Panchayati Raj Day
24 April International Day of Multilateralism and
Diplomacy for Peace
24 April World Day for Laboratory Animals or World
Day For Animals In Laboratories
24-30 April (last World Immunization Week 2021 Theme 2021:‘Vaccines bring us closer’
week of April)
25 April World Malaria Day Theme 2021: ‘Reaching the zero-malaria
target’
26 April World Intellectual Property Day Theme 2021: “IP and SMEs: Taking your ideas
to market.”
28 April World Day for Safety and Health at Work Theme 2021: “Anticipate, prepare and
respond to crises – Invest Now in Resilient
Occupational Safety and Health Systems”.
28 April Workers’ Memorial Day or International Theme 2021: “Health and Safety is a
Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured fundamental workers‘ right”
Workers
29 April International Dance Day Theme 2021: ‘Purpose of dance’.
30 April Ayushman Bharat Diwas
30 April International Jazz Day
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May
International Labour Day or May Day or
1 May
International Workers’ Day
The Bombay state was divided into Gujarat and

1 May Maharashtra Day and Gujarat Day
Maharashtra in 1960.
2 May (first Sunday

World Laughter Day
of May)
3 May World Press Freedom Day Theme 2021: 'Information as a Public Good'
4 May Coal Miners Day
4 May International Firefighters’ Day
4 May (first Tuesday Theme 2021: 'Uncovering Asthma

World Asthma Day
of May) Misconceptions'
5 May World Athletics Day 2021
6 May International No Diet Day
8 May World Red Cross Day or Red Crescent Day Theme 2021: 'Together we are unstoppable'
Every year, the World Migratory Day is

8 May (second celebrated on second Saturday of May and
World Migratory Bird Day October.
Saturday of May)
Theme 2021: Theme: Sing, fly, Soar – Like a Bird
Theme 2021: “Addressing Health Inequalities

8 May World Thalassemia Day
Across the Global Thalassaemia Community”.
9 May (second
Mother's Day
Sunday of May)
Theme 2021: 'Science and Technology for a

11 May National Technology Day
sustainable future'.
Theme 2021: A Voice to Lead - A vision for future

12 May International Nurses Day
healthcare.
15 May International Day of the Family Theme 2021: "Families and New Technologies."
16 May International Day of Living Together in Peace
16 May International Day of Light
16 May National Dengue Day
Theme 2021:‘Accelerating digital transformation

17 May World Telecommunication Day
in challenging times’
17-23 May UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) 2021 Theme 2021: Streets for Life
Theme 2021: “The Future of Museums: Recover

18 May International Museum Day
and Reimagine”
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World AIDS Vaccine Day or HIV Vaccine

18 May
Awareness Day
Theme 2021:“Bee engaged: Build Back Better for

20 May World Bee Day
Bees”
20 May World Metrology Day Theme 2021: Measurement for Health.
It was on this day in the year 1991 that former

21 May Anti-terrorism day Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was
assassinated.
21 May International Tea Day
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue

21 May
and Development
22 May International Day for Biological Diversity Theme 2021: "We’re part of the solution".
23 May World Turtle Day Theme 2021- ‘Turtle Rocks!’.
24 May (second
Commonwealth Day Theme 2021: Delivering a Common Future
Monday of March)
25 May World Thyroid Day
25 May International Missing Children’s Day
28 May World Hunger Day Theme 2021: Access Ends Hunger
International Day of Action for Women’s Health

28 May
(International Women’s Health Day)
Theme 2021: “The road to a lasting peace:

International Day of United Nations
29 May Leveraging the power of youth for peace and
Peacekeepers
security.”
It is observed on this day as Nepalese Tenzing

29 May International Mount Everest Day Norgay and New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary had
climbed the Mt. Everest on this day in 1953.
31 May World No Tobacco Day Theme 2021: Commit to quit
June
Theme 2021:'Sustainability in the dairy sector with

1 June World Milk Day messages around the environment, nutrition, and socio-
economics'.
Theme 2021: “Appreciate all parents throughout the

1 June Global Parents Day
world.”
2 June International Sex Workers' Day
2 June Telangana Formation Day
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3 June World Bicycle Day
International Day of Innocent Children

4 June
Victims of Aggression
5 June World Environment Day Theme 2021: 'Ecosystem Restoration.'
7 June World Food Safety Day Theme 2021: “Safe food today for a healthy tomorrow”
8 June World Oceans Day Theme 2021: “The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods”
8 June World Brain Tumour Day
12 June World Day Against Child Labour Theme 2021: Act now: End child labour
14 June World Blood Donor Day Theme 2021: “Give blood and keep the world beating”
15 June Global Wind Day
15 June World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Theme 2021: 'Access to Justice'
16 June Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev
16 June International Day of Family Remittances
World Day to Combat Desertification and

17 June
Drought
18 June International Picnic Day
18 June Autistic Pride Day
19 June World Sauntering Day
The Day is celebrated to honour the father of the ‘Library

19 June National Reading Day Movement in Kerala’, the late P.N. Panicker, whose death
anniversary falls on June 19.
20 June
(Third Sunday Father’s Day
of June)
20 June World Refugee Day Theme 2021: ‘Together we heal, learn and shine’.
21 June International Yoga Day Theme 2021:'Yoga for well-being'.
21 June World Hydrography Day
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21 June World Music Day
21 June World Humanist Day
Theme 2021: Stay healthy, stay strong, stay active with the
23 June International Olympic Day
#OlympicDay workout on 23 June.
Theme 2021: “Innovating the Future Public Service: New

23 June United Nations Public Service Day Government Models for a New Era to Reach the SDGs
[Sustainable Development Goals]”.
23 June International Widow’s Day Theme 2021: “Invisible Women, Invisible Problems”.
25 June Day of the Seafarer Theme 2021: “Seafarers: at the core of shipping’s future”.
26 June International Day against Drug Abuse Theme 2021: "Share Facts On Drugs, Save Lives".
Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Theme 2021: “MSME 2021: key to an inclusive and
27 June
Enterprises Day sustainable recovery.”
celebrated on the birth anniversary of Prof. P C

29 June National Statistics day
Mahalanobis.
29 June International Day of the Tropics
30 June World Asteroid Day
July
1 July National Doctor’s Day birth and death anniversary of Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy
India celebrated the 73rd Chartered Accountants day this

1 July Chartered Accountants Day (India)
year.
1 July National Postal Worker Day
1 July SBI Foundation Day SBI celebrated 66th Foundation Day
1 July Goods and Services Tax (GST) Day
United Nations has declared 'Watermelon' as the "Fruit Of

1 July International Fruit Day The Year 2021" with the motto to "Create Change
Together".
2 July World UFO Day
2 July World Sports Journalists Day
Jobs
3 July (First
Saturday of International Day of Cooperatives Theme 2021: “Rebuild better together”.
July)
French Biologist Louis Pasteur, successfully administered

the first-ever vaccine against rabies, a zoonotic disease,
6 July World Zoonoses Day on 6 July 1885.
Theme 2021: “Let’s Break the Chain of Zoonotic

Transmission.”
World Chocolate Day or

7 July
International Chocolate Day
Theme 2021: “Rights and Choices are the Answer: Whether

11 July World Population Day baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies
in prioritising all people’s reproductive health and rights."
United Nations has declared July 12, which is Malala

12 July Malala Day Yousafzai's birthday, as Malala Day in honour of the
young activist. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
12 July Paper Bag Day
Bastille Day (National Day of

14 July
France)
15 July World Youth Skills Day
World Day for International Justice

17 July or International Criminal Justice Theme 2021: “social justice in the digital economy”
Day
Nelson Mandela International Day Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the former president of
18 July
or Mandela Day South Africa. He was the president from 1994 to 1999
The day is dedicated to the mathematical constant pi (π). 22

22 July Pi Approximation Day July is observed as Pi Approximation Day and 14 March as
Pi Day.
22 July World Brain Day Theme 2021: “Stop Multiple Sclerosis”.
23 July National Broadcasting Day
24 July National Thermal Engineer Day
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) observed the 161st

24 July Aaykar Diwas (Income Tax Day)
Income Tax Day on 24 July 2021.
25 July (Fourth
National Parents Day
Sunday in July)
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), observed its 83rd

26 July Kargil Vijay Diwas
Raising Day on 27 July 2021.
27 July CRPF Raising Day
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28 July World Nature Conservation Day
28 July World Hepatitis Day Theme 2021: “Hepatitis Can't Wait”.
29 July International Tiger Day Theme 2021: "Their Survival is in our hands”.
World Day Against Trafficking in

30 July Theme 2021: Victims’ Voices Lead the Way.
Persons
30 July International Friendship Day
August
Government enacted the law against Triple Talaq on 1st

1 August Muslim Women Rights Day
August, 2019.
1 August National Mountain Climbing Day
On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the very

first deployed nuclear bomb in the city of Hiroshima.
The Manhattan Project, commissioned by the US, created

6 August Hiroshima Day two atomic bombs. The first one, called 'The Little Boy'
was dropped in the city of Hiroshima while the second
one, dubbed 'The Fat Man', was dropped in Nagasaki by
the US on August 6 and 9, respectively.
6 August (First
Friday of International Beer Day
August)
7 August National Handloom Day
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) decides to name

7 August Javelin Throw Day August 7 as 'Javelin Throw Day' in India to honour
Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold.
The Quit India Movement also known as the Bharat

Chhodo Andolan was launched by Mahatma Gandhi on
8 August Quit India Movement Day
August 8, 1942 at the Bombay session of the All India
Congress Committee (AICC).
9 August Nagasaki Day
International Day of the World's Indigenous Theme 2021: “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous
9 August
Peoples peoples and the call for a new social contract.”
10 August World Lion Day
10 August World Biofuel Day
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Theme 2021: “Transforming Food Systems: Youth

12 August International Youth Day
Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”.
12 August World Elephant Day
Lefthanders International Inc. founder Dean R

13 August International Lefthanders Day
Campbell first observed the day in 1976.
13 August World Organ Donation Day
14 August Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
19 August World Photography Day
Theme 2021: #TheHumanRace: a global challenge for

19 August World Humanitarian Day climate action in solidarity with people who need it the
most.
to commemorate the birth anniversary of former Prime
20 August Sadbhavna Diwas or Harmony Day
Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
20 August World Mosquito Day Theme 2021: “Reaching the zero malaria target”.
20 August Indian Akshay Urja Day
21 August World Senior Citizen Day
21 August World Entrepreneurs’ Day
International Day of Remembrance and

21 August
Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
22 August World Sanskrit Day It is celebrated on Shraavana poornima, that is the full
moon day of the Shraavana month in the Hindu calendar.
International Day Commemorating the
22 August Victims of Acts of Violence Based on
Religion or Belief
International Day for the Remembrance of

23 August
the Slave Trade and its Abolition
23-27 August World Water Week 2021 Theme 2021: ‘Building Resilience Faster’.
26 August International Dog Day
It is celebrated to make the anniversary of the 19th

26 August Women’s Equality Day Amendment to the United States Constitution giving
women the right to vote.
As a tribute to Dhyan Chand, his birthday is

29 August National Sports Day
commemorated as National Sports Day.
29 August International Day Against Nuclear Tests
Jobs
30 August National Small Industry Day
International Day for People of African The International Day for People of African Descent is
31 August
Descent celebrated for the first time on 31 August 2021.
September
Date Day
September 1-7 National Nutrition Week
September 2 World Coconut Day
September 3 Skyscraper Day
September International Day of Charity

5
Teachers' Day (India)
September 7 International Day of Clean Air for blue skies
September
International Literacy Day
8
September
International Day to Protect Education from Attack
9
September 10 World Suicide Prevention Day
September 12 World First Aid Day
September 14 National Hindi Diwas
Engineers Day
September 15
International Day of Democracy
September 16 World Ozone Day
September 17 World Patient Safety Day
World Bamboo Day
September 18 World Water Monitoring Day
International Equal Pay Day

International Day of Peace / World Peace Day
September 21
World Alzheimer's Day
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World Rose Day

September 22
World Rhino Day
September 23 International Day of Sign Languages
World Pharmacist Day

September 25
Antyodaya Diwas
Last week of September on
World Maritime Day
Thursday
World Environmental Health Day
26th September
25th September Nation observes Antyodaya Divas

Fourth Sunday of
International Daughters’ Day
September
26th September International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapon
29th September World Heart Day

30th September International Translation Day
October
Dates Day
1st October: International Day of Older Persons
1st October International Coffee Day 2020

1st October World Vegetarian Day
2nd October Non-Violence Day & Gandhi Jayanti & Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti
2nd October World Day For Farmed Animals
4th October World Animal Welfare Day

5th October World Teachers’ Day
First Monday of October (October 5) World Habitat Day
4 to 10 October: World Space Week
7th October World Cotton Day

8th October Air Force Day
Second Thursday of October World Sight Day
9th October World Postal Day or World Post Office Day
10th October World Mental Health Day

10th October World Migratory Bird Day
10th October World Day Against the Death Penalty
Jobs
12th October World Arthritis Day

13th October International Day for Disaster Reduction
14th October: World Standards Day
15th October World Students Day 2020
15 October International Day of Rural Women
15th October Global Handwashing Day
16th October World Food Day
17th October International Poverty Eradication Day
20th October World Statistics Day
20th October International Chefs Day
21st October Police Commemoration Day
22nd October International Stuttering Awareness Day
24th October United Nations Day
24th October World Polio Day
24th October World Development Information Day
29th October International Internet Day
31st Oct World Thrift Day
31st Oct National unity day
November
Dates Day
November 1 World Vegan Day
November 1
Foundation day of 8 Indian states
November 2 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
November 5 (First Thursday) International Day against Violence and Bullying at School,
including Cyberbullying
November 5
World Tsunami Awareness Day
November 7 National Cancer Awareness Day
Jobs
November 8 International Day of Radiology
November 9 Uttarakhand Day
November 9 National Legal Services Day
November 11 National Education Day
November 12 Public Service Broadcasting Day
November 13
World Kindness Day
November 13
National Ayurveda Day 2020
November 14 World Diabetes Day
November 14 Children's Day
November 14 International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property
November 15 Jharkhand Statehood Day
November 16 International Day for Tolerance
November 16 National Press Day
November 17 National Epilepsy Day
November 18 International Students’ Day
November 19 International Men’s Day
November 19 (Third Thursday) World Philosophy Day
November 19 Women's Entrepreneurship Day
November 19 World Toilet Day
November 20 World Children's Day
November 21 World Fisheries Day
November 21 World Television Day
November 24 Martyrdom Day of Guru Tegh Bahadur (Shaheedi Divas)
November 25
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
November 26
Constitution Day of India
November 26
National Milk Day
Jobs
November 29
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
December
Dates Day
December 1 World AIDS Day
• National Pollution Control Day

2nd December
• World Computer Literacy Day
International Day of Persons with Disabilities

December 3
December 3 Dr Rajendra Prasad Jayanti
December 4 Indian Navy Day
December 4 International Day of Banks
December 5 World Soil Day
December 5 International Volunteer Day
December 6 Mahaparinirvana Divas
December 07 Armed Forces Flag Day
December 07 International Civil Aviation Day
December 9 International Anti-Corruption Day 2020
Human Rights Day

December 10
UNICEF Day
11th December
11th December International Mountain Day
12 December International Day of Neutrality
12 December International Universal Health Coverage Day
14 December National Energy Conservation Day
15th December International Tea Day
17th December International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
18 December 18 December - Minorities Rights Day in India
18 December International Migrants Day
18 December World Arabic Language Day
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December 19 Goa Liberation Day
December 20 International Human Solidarity Day
December 22 National Mathematics Day 2020
December 23 Rashtriya Kisan Diwas
December 24 National Consumer Rights Day
25 December Good Governance Day
Chapter 21: Obituary

August
Person About
Former England and Derbyshire bowler
Mike Hendrick
Six-time world masters championship gold medalist and
Man Kaur multiple Asian Masters Championship medalist athlete
Padma Shri awardee Dogri writer and poet
Padma Sachdev
Shankar Subramaniam, alias “Babu” Two-times Olympian footballer
Nayaran
Veteran actor
Anupam Shyam
Malayalam film and television actor
Saranya Sasi
Renowned Ayurvedacharya, spiritual leader and
Dr Balaji Tambe proponent of Yoga
Former India footballer

Chinmoy Chatterjee
Tamil actor
Anandha Kannan
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Governor of
Kalyan Singh Rajasthan
Godfather of Sudoku
Maki Kaji
Malayalam actor
Chithra
Former national football player
Syed Shahid Hakim
Former England captain
Ted Dexter
Renowned cricket coach
Vasoo Paranjape
Eminent writer
Buddhadeb Guha
July
Jobs
Person About
Filmmaker
Richard Donner
Dilip Kumar Legendary film actor

Indian hockey legend
Keshav Datt
Former Himachal Pradesh CM and Congress leader
Virbhadra Singh
President of Haiti
Jovenel Moise
Veteran Indian Ayurveda Medicine Doyen and practitioner
Dr P K Warrier
Former Indian middle-order batsman
Yashpal Sharma
Former president of Pakistan
Mamnoon Hussain
Veteran actor
S Ramakrishnan
National Award-winning Actor
Surekha Sikri
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist
Danish Siddiqui
Renowned theatre personality and litterateur
Urmil Kumar Thapliyal
Veteran actress
Jayanthi
Arjuna Award-winning Badminton Legend
Nandu Natekar
June
Person About
Senior BJP leader, Former Karnataka Minister
Channabasappa Mahalingappa Udasi
N Dingko Singh Asian Games gold medalist boxer
National award-winning Bengali Filmmaker
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Noted environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee Professor
Radha Mohan
National award-winning Kannada actor
Sanchari Vijay
Mahavir Chakra recipient Brigadier
Raghubir Singh
Former Indian volleyball captain (wife of Milkha Singh)
Nirmal Milkha Singh
Veteran Bollywood actor
Chandrashekhar
Actor-cinematographer
Shaman Mithru
Track and field sprinter (known as Flying Sikh)
Milkha Singh
Zambia’s first President
Kenneth Kaunda
Ad filmmaker
Raj Kaushal
Cinematographer and director
Sivan
Jobs
May
Person About
Shooter, nicknamed ‘Shooter Dadi’
Chandro Tomar
Olympia Dukakis Oscar-winning Veteran stage and screen actor
TV Actor and anchor
Kanupriya
Eminent jurist and Former Attorney General of India
Soli Sorabjee
Actor
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Veteran Football Administrator and Hindustan FC Owner
Dilip Kumar Bose
Sitar maestro
Pandit Devabrata Chaudhuri
Former J&K Governor
Jagmohan
Aeronautical scientist
Manas Bihari Verma
Bollywood film editor
Ajay Sharma
Rashtriya Lok Dal chief and former Union minister
Chaudhary Ajit Singh
Former Head of Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church and the
Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom longest-serving bishop in India
Actress
Abhilasha Patil
Veteran Telugu playback singer
G Anand
Veteran Music Composer
Vanraj Bhatia
Rajya Sabha MP and eminent sculptor
Raghunath Mohapatra
Malayalam screenwriter-actor
Madampu Kunjukuttan
Veteran table tennis player and coach
Venugopal Chandrasekhar
Times Group chairperson
Indu Jain
Padma Shri awardee cardiologist and former national president of
Dr KK Aggarwal the Indian Medical Association
Ex-union minister & BJP leader

Chaman Lal Gupta
Renowned Tamil writer and novelist
Ki Rajanarayanan
Former Rajasthan CM and Bihar and Haryana governor
Jagannath Pahadia
Environmentalist
Sunderlal Bahuguna
Noted Indian mathematician
MS Narasimhan
Popular music composer
Raam Laxman
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Nuclear Scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy

Srikumar Banerjee Commission
Freedom fighter
H S Doreswamy
Vir Chakra awardee hero of the Battle of Poonch during the 1971
Colonel Panjab Singh Bangladesh Liberation War
April
Person About
Founder member of the Samajwadi Party and former
Bhagwati Singh UP minister
Shashikala Veteran film and TV actress

Padma Shri awardee journalist, academician and
chairman of Maulana Azad Educational Trust and
Fatima Rafiq Zakaria
Khairul Islam Trust Mumbai
Husband of Queen Elizabeth II

Prince Philip
Actor
Satish Kaul
Legendary shooting coach
Sanjay Chakravarty
Hockey Player
Balbir Singh Junior
Noted Pakistani human rights activist and Magsaysay
I.A. Rehman award winner
Tamil actor
Vivek
Padma Shri awardee renowned radiologist
Kakarla Subbarao
National Award-winning film director and writer
Sumitra Bhave
Former Assam Chief Minister
Bhumidhar Barman
Eminent poet and critic
Sankha Ghosh
Former RBI Governor
Maidavolu Narasimham
Former Olympian Indian footballer
Ahmed Hussain
Padma Vibhushan awardee Indian Islamic scholar
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and peace activist
Veteran actor
Kishore Nandlaskar
Popular Gujarati and Hindi film actor
Amit Mistry
Music Composer
Shravan Rathod
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Automobile industry veteran and former Managing

Jagdish Khattar Director of Maruti Suzuki India
National award-winning editor

Waman Bhonsle
Eminent Odia and English author
Manoj Das
TV journalist
Rohit Sardana
March
Person About
Chairman of Muthoot Finance
Mathai George Muthoot
Renowned Kannada poet, critic and translator
NS Lakshminarayana Bhatta
Former Governor of Rajasthan & Gujarat
Anshuman Singh
Veteran Indian Athlete
Ishar Singh Deol
Noted Kathakali Dancer
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair
Renowned painter
Laxman Pai
Audio cassette tape inventor
Lou Ottens
Noted filmmaker and writer
Sagar Sarhadi
Noted journalist and author
Anil Dharker
1971 Battle of Basantar hero
Lt Gen Walter Anthony Gustavo 'WAG'
Pinto
Chapter 22: Science (March to Aug)

ISRO-NASA joint mission NISAR Satellite Sriharikota, some 100 km from Chennai on
will be launched in 2023 August 12, 2021 morning failed to launch
earth observation satellite EOS-3 into the
The ISRO-NASA Joint Mission NISAR
intended orbit.
(NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
satellite, which aims to measure changes in Indian-American Sirisha Bandla travelled
the earth’s surface globally using advanced into space aboard ‘VSS Unity’
radar images, is scheduled to be launched in
India-origin woman Sirisha Bandla
early 2023. NISAR is one of the important
travelled to the edge of the space aboard
cooperation projects between ISRO and
‘VSS Unity’ of Virgin Galactic, which was
NASA.
scheduled to fly off on July 11 from New
GSLV-F10 failed to launch earth Mexico. This is significant as she became the
observation satellite into intended orbit third woman of Indian origin to go to space
after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita
The Indian Space Research Organisation
Williams.
(ISRO) 's GSLV-F10 rocket that blasted off
from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at
Jobs
ISRO will launch geo imaging satellite on Tools (CEOS COAST)”. CEOS COAST
August 12 programme is co-led by ISRO and NOAA
from US.
The Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO) is getting back into launch activity Microsoft Officially Launched ‘Windows
fully at Sriharikota spaceport with the 11’
planned orbiting of geo imaging satellite
Microsoft officially launched its new
GISAT-1 onboard GSLV-F10 rocket on
Windows operating system ‘Windows 11’.
August 12.
It is being called as the “next generation” of
GISAT-1 will be placed in a Geosynchronous Windows. The release comes nearly six-year
Transfer Orbit by GSLV-F10 and, after the current latest Windows Operating
subsequently, it will be positioned in the System ‘Windows 10’ was launched in July
final geostationary orbit, about 36,000 km 2015.
above earth’s equator, using its onboard
2DG- DRDO’s Anti-Covid Drug approved
propulsion system.
for emergency use
ISRO successfully conducted 3rd test on
The Drugs Controller General of India
Vikas Engine for Gaganyaan Program
recently approved an oral drug to treat
The Indian Space Research Organisation COVID-19 called the 2-DG. The 2-DG was
(ISRO) has successfully conducted the developed by the Defence Research
third long-duration hot test of the liquid Development Organisation for Emergency
propellant Vikas Engine for the core L110 Use. 2-DG is 2-Deoxy – D – Glucose. It was
liquid stage of the human-rated GSLV Mk III developed in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s
vehicle, as part of the engine qualification Laboratories.
requirements for the Gaganyaan
China’s First Mars Rover ‘ZhuRong’
Programme. The engine was fired for a
Successfully Landed on Mars
duration of 240 seconds at the engine test
facility of ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), China successfully achieved the feat of
Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. landing its first Mars Rover ‘Zhu Rong’ on
the red planet, on May 15, 2021, becoming
New Zealand will launch World’s First
the only second nation to do so. Till date,
Wooden Satellite
only the United States has successfully
European Space Agency (ESA) will launch landed its rover on Mars.
world’s first wooden satellite called WISA
Iran Developed Its Most Powerful
Woodsat in Earth’s orbit by the end 2021,
Supercomputer “Simorgh”
with a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. It will be
launched to test the applicability of wooden Iran has unveiled a new supercomputer
materials such as plywood in spacecraft named ‘Simorgh’, which is 100 times more
structures. It will be launched from Mahia powerful than the previous supercomputer
Peninsula launch complex in New Zealand. of the country to date. The supercomputer
Satellite has been designed and built in has been developed indigenously by
Finland. Tehran’s Amirkabir University of
Technology (AUT).
CEOS COAST: ISRO- NOAA Project has
been endorsed by UN Body China successfully launched new ocean
observation satellite Haiyang-2D
UN body has endorsed a multinational
project called “Committee on Earth China has successfully sent a new ocean-
Observation Satellites Coastal monitoring satellite into orbit as part of
Observations, Applications, Services, and its effort to build an all-weather and
Jobs
round-the-clock dynamic ocean The National Aeronautics and Space

environment monitoring system that would Administration is set to launch four
provide early warning on marine astronauts to the International Space Station
disasters. The satellite was launched by a on World Earth Day (April 22). NASA is to
Long March-4B rocket carrying the Haiyang- launch the mission along with SpaceX. It is
2D (HY-2D) satellite from the Jiuquan the second crewed operational flight of Crew
Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. Dragon Spacecraft. The mission will
transport four scientists to the International
Gaganyaan: ISRO signed an agreement
Space Station. The astronauts to travel to the
with France
International Space Station are from NASA,
The Indian Space Research Organisation JAXA and ESA.
recently signed an agreement with the
China has named its first-ever Mars rover
French Space Agency CNES. CNES is National
“Zhurong”
Centre for Space Studies. CNES stands for
Centre National d’etudes Spatiales. China has named its first-ever Mars rover
According to the agreement, CNES is to help “Zhurong” after an ancient fire god ahead of
India in its first Human Space Mission called a landing attempt on the Red Planet in May.
the Gaganyaan. The French Space Agency is
The China National Space Administration
to supply with space equipment to the Indian
(CNSA) revealed the name at the sixth China
crew.
Space Day held in Nanjing. The Chinese name
NASA has launched SpaceX Crew 2 on for Mars, “Huoxing,” literally means “fire
April 22 star.”
Chapter 23- Bank Name & CEO of Bank & Headquarter &
Tagline
• Total PSBs: 12
• Total Pvt. Bank: 22
• Total RRBs: 43
• Foreign Banks: 44
• Payment & Small Financial Banks: 16
PSBs Banks
Bank Name CEO of Bank Headquarter Tagline
Bank of Baroda Sanjiv Chadha Vadodara India’s International

Bank
Bank of India Atanu Kumar Das Mumbai Relationships beyond
Banking
Bank of Maharashtra A. S. Rajeev Pune One Family One Bank
Jobs
Canara Bank Lingan Venkat Prabhakr Bangalore Together we can
Central Bank of India Matam Venkata Mumbai Central To you Since

1911, Build A Better
Life Around Us
Indian Bank Shanti Lal Jain Chennai Your Tech-friendly
bank
Indian Overseas Bank Partha Pratim Sengupta Chennai Good people to grow
with
Punjab & Sind Bank S Krishnan New Delhi Where Service Is A
Way Of Life
Punjab National Bank Mallikarjuna Rao New Delhi The Name you can
Bank Upon
State Bank of India Dinesh kumar Mumbai With you all the way,
khara (Chairman) Pure Banking Nothing
Ashwani Bhatia (MD) Else, The Nation’s
banks on us
UCO Bank Atul Kumar Goel Kolkata Honors Your Trust
Union Bank of India Rajkiran Rai G. Mumbai Good people to bank

with
Private & foreign Bank

Bank name Headquarter Head/ CEO/ MD Tagline
Axis Bank Mumbai Mr Amitabh Choudhary Badhti Ka Naam Zindagi
Bandhan Bank Kolkata Mr Chandra Shekhar Aapka Bhala, Sabki Bhalai

Ghosh
Catholic Syrian Bank Thrissur, Kerala Shri C.VR. Rajendran Support All the Way
City Union Bank Tamil Nadu Dr.N Kamakodi Trust and Excellence
Corporation Bank Mangalore P.V. Bharathi Prosperity for All
Dena Bank Mumbai Shri. Karnam Shekhar Trusted Family Bank

Dena Hai Toh Bharosa Hai
Development Credit Tamil Nadu Murali M Natarajan We value you

Bank
Dhanlaxmi Bank Thrissur, Kerala JK Sivan Tann.Mann.Dhan
Jobs
ECGC Bank Mumbai M. Senthilnathan
Federal Bank Kerala Shri Shyam Srinivasan Your Perfect Banking Partner
HDFC bank Mumbai Mr Sashidhar Jagdishan We Understand Your World
HSBC London Noel Quinn The World’s Local Bank
ICICI Bank Mumbai Mr Sandeep Bakshi Hum Hai Na, Khayal Apka
IDBI Bank Mumbai Rakesh Sharma Banking For All, “Aao Sochein
Bada”, Bank Aisa Dost Jaisa
IDFC First Bank Mumbai Mr.V.Vaidyanathan Banking Hatke
IndusInd Bank Maharashtra Shri Sumant Kathpalia We Care Dil Se, We Make You
Feel Richer
ING Vysya Bank Banglore Uday Sareen Jiyo Easy

(MD & CEO)
Jammu & Kashmir Sri Nagar RK Serving To Empower

Bank Chhibber (Chairman),
Zubair Iqbal (MD)
Karnataka Bank Mangaluru, Shri Mahabaleshwara Your Family Bank Across

Karnataka M.S India
Karur Vysya Bank Karur, Tamil Nadu Shri Ramesh Boddu Smart Way to Bank
Kotak Mahindra Bank Mumbai, Shri Uday Kotak Let’s Make Money Simple, Ab
Maharashtra Kona Kona Kotak
Lakshmi Vilas Bank Chennai, Tamil Shri Subramanian The Changing Phase of
Nadu Sundar Prosperity
Nanital Bank Nanital, Dinesh pant Banking With Personal Touch

Uttrakhand
Ratnakar Bank Mumbai, Shri Vishwavir Ahuja Apno ka Bank

Maharashtra
South Indian Bank Thrissur, Kerala Murali Ramakrishnan Experience Next Generation
Banking
Syndicate bank Manipal T. N. Manoharan Faithful and Friendly

(Chairman)
Jobs
L. V. Prabhakar
(MD & CEO)
Tamilnadu Mercantile Thoothukudi, Shri Thiru K.V. Rama —-

Bank Tamil Nadu Moorthy
Vijaya Bank Bangalore Shri R.A. Sankara A Friend You Can Bank upon
Narayanan
Yes Bank Ltd Mumbai, Prashant kumar Experience Our Expertise

Maharashtra
Chapter-24: State Chief Ministers and Governors

S. NO State and U.T. Chief Minister Governor
1 Andhra Pradesh Jagan Reddy Bhushan Harishchandan
2 Andaman & Nicobar U.T Admiral (Retd) Devendra Kumar Joshi

(UT)
3 Arunachal Pradesh Shri Pema Khandu Retired Brigadier BD Mishra
4 Assam Sri Himanta Biswa Sarma Shri Jagdish Mukhi
5 Bihar Shri Nitish Kumar Phagu Chauhan
6 Chandigarh (UT) U.T Shri V.P. Singh Badnore
7 Chhatisgarh Shri Bhupesh Baghel Anusuiya Uikey
8 Dadra and Nagar U.T Shri Vikram Dev Dutt, IAS

Haveli (UT)
9 Daman and Diu (UT) U.T Shri Vikram Dev Dutt, IAS
10 Delhi (NCT) Shri Arvind Kejriwal Anil Baijal
11 Goa Shri Pramod Sawant PS Sreedharan Pillai
12 Gujarat Shri Vijaybhai R. Rupani Acharya Dev Vrat
13 Haryana Shri Manohar Lal Bandaru Dattatraya
14 Himachal Pradesh Shri Jairam Thakur Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
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15 Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha (Lt. governor)

(UT)
16 Jharkhand Hemant Soren Ramesh Bais
17 Kerala Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Aarif Muhammad
18 Lakshadweep (UT) U.T Shri Vijay Kumar IAS
19 Madhya pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
20 Maharashtra Shri uddhav thackeray Bhagat Singh Koshyari
21 Manipur Shri Nongthombam Biren La. Ganesan

Singh
22. Laddak (UT) RK Mathur (Lt. Governor)
23 Meghalya Conrad Sangma Satya Pal Malik
24. Mizoram Pu Zoramthanga Hari Babu Kambhampati ,
25. Nagaland Shri. Neiphiu Rio R.N Ravi
26. Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik Shri Ganeshi Lal
27. Puducherry (UT) N Rangasamy Tamilisai Soundararajan (additional

charge)
28. Punjab Capt. Amrinder Singh Shri V.P. Singh Badnore
29 Rajasthan Shri Ashok Gehlot Kalraj Mishra
30 Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang Shri Ganga Prasad
31 Tamil Nadu MK Stalin Shri. Barnwarilal Purohit
32. Telangana Shri K Chandrasekhar Rao Tamilisai Soundararajan
33. Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb Satyadev Narayan Arya
34 Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Aadityanath Anandiben Patel
35 Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami Baby Rani Maurya
36 West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee Jagdeep Dhankar
Jobs
37. Karnataka BS Yediyuraapa Thawarchand Gehlot
Chapter-25-Cabinet ministers of India with their

constituency
Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister and also in-charge of:
Constituency: Varanasi, UP • Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;

• Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space;
• All important policy issues; and
• All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
Cabinet Ministers 2021
1. Shri Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence
Constituency: Lucknow,UP
2. Shri Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation

Constituency: Gandhi Nagar, GUJRAT
3. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari Minister of Road Transport and Highways

Constituency: Nagpur, MAHARASHTRA
4. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Constituency: Rajhya Sabha (Karnataka)
5. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Constituency: Morena, MP
6. Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Minister of External Affairs

Constituency: Rajya Sabha, Gujarat
7. Shri Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs

Constituency: Khunti (Jharkhand)
8. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Women and Child Development

Constituency: Amethi, UP
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9. Shri Piyush Goyal • Minister of Commerce and Industry;

Constituency: Rajhya Sabha,
MAHARASHTRA • Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution; and Minister of Textiles
10. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan • Minister of Education;

Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, MP
• and Minister of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship
11. Shri Pralhad Joshi • Minister of Parliamentary Affairs;
Constituency: Dharwaad, KARNATKA
• Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines
12. Shri Narayan Tatu Rane Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Constituency: Rajya Sabha
13. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal • Minister of Ports, Shipping andWaterways; and

Constituency: Majuli, Assam
• Minister of AYUSH
14. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of Minority Affairs

Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, JHARKHAND
15. Dr. Virendra Kumar Minister of Social Justice and empowerment

Constituency: Tikamgarh, MP
16. Shri Giriraj Singh • Minister of Rural Development; and

Constituency: Begusarai
• Minister of Panchayati Raj
17. Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia Minister of Civil Aviation

Constituency: Rajya Sabha (MP)
18. Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh Minister of Steel

Constituency: Rajya Sabha from Bihar
19. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw • Minister of Railways;

Constituency: Rajya Sabha from Odisha
• Minister of Communications; and
• Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
20. Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras Minister of Food Processing Industries
Constituency: Hajipur (Bihar)
21. Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of Jal Shakti

Constituency: Jodhpur
22. Shri Kiren Rijiju Minister of Law and Justice

Constituency: Arunachal West
23. Shri Raj Kumar Singh • Minister of Power; and

Constituency :Arrah (Bihar )
• Minister of New and Renewable Energy
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24. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri • Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and
Constituency: Rajya Sabha from UP
• Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
25. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya • Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and
Constituency: Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)
• Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
26. Shri Bhupender Yadav • Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate

Constituency: Rajya Sabha (Rajasthan) Change; and
• Minister of Labour and Employment
27. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of Heavy Industries
Constituency: Chandauli (UP)
28. Shri Parshottam Rupala Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Constituency: Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)
29. Shri G. Kishan Reddy • Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; and

Constituency: Secunderabad (AP)
• Minister of Development of North Eastern
Region
30. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur • Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and
Constituency: Hamirpur (HP)
• Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. Rao Inderjit Singh • Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Statistics and Programme Implementation;
• Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Planning; and
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
2. Dr. Jitendra Singh • Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent
Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences;
• Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office;
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions;
• Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy;
and
• Minister of State in the Department of Space
Ministers of State
Jobs
1. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and
Waterways; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
2. Shri Faggansingh Kulaste Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel; and Minister of
State in the Ministry of Rural Development
3. Shri Prahalad Singh Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing
Industries
4. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food
and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry
of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
5. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs;
and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
6. General (Retd.) V. K. Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
7. Shri Krishan Pal Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and

Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries
8. Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways; Minister of
State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the
Ministry of Mines
9. Shri Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment
10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food
and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry
of Rural Development
11. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal
Husbandry and Dairying
12. Shri Nityanand Rai Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
13. Shri Pankaj Chaowdhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance

14. Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
15. Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice
16. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology
Jobs
17. Sushri Shobha Karandlaje Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare
18. Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises
19. Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
20. Shri V. Muraleedharan Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
21. Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
22. Shri Som Parkash Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
23. Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24. Shri Rameswar Teli Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
25. Shri Kailash Choudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare
26. Smt. Annpurna Devi Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
27. Shri A. Narayanaswamy Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment
28. Shri Kaushal Kishore Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs
29. Shri Ajay Bhatt Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
30. Shri B. L. Verma Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North

Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Ministry of
Cooperation
31. Shri Ajay Kumar Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
32. Shri Devusinh Chauhan Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
33. Shri Bhagwanth Khuba Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Jobs
34. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
35. Sushri Pratima Bhoumik Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment
36. Dr. Subhas Sarkar Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
37. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
38. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
39. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare
40. Shri Bishweswar Tudu Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
41. Shri Shantanu Thakur Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and
Waterways
42. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child
Development; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH
43. Shri John Barla Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
44. Dr. L. Murugan Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal

Husbandry and Dairying; and Minister of State in the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
45. Shri Nisith Pramanik Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Chapter 26: List of Union Ministry Secretary

• Defence Secretary-Ajay Kumar
• Cabinet sec- Rajiv Gauba
• Home secretary-Ajay Kumar Bhalla
• Revenue secretary-Tarun Bajaj
• Principal Secretary to PM- Dr. P. K. Mishra
• Power Secretary of India — Sanjiv Nandan Sahai
• Commerce Secretary of India — BVR Subrahmanyam
• Health Secretary of India — Rajesh Bhushan
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• Corporate Affairs Secretary — Rajesh Verma

• Joint Secretary of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy — Dinesh Dayanand
Jagdale
• Secretary of Ministry of Housing & Urban Affair — Durga Shanker Mishra
• Expenditure Secretary of India — T. V. Somanathan
• Foreign Secretary of India — Harsh Vardhan Shringla
• Economic Affairs Secretary — Ajay Seth
• Secretary of Parliamentary Affairs — Gyanesh Kumar
• Secretary of Department of Public Enterprises — Ali Raza Rizvi
• Secretary in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs — Anil Kumar Jha
Static GK
Chapter 1: Dams in India
State DAM and Location
Rajasthan • RanapratapSagar Dam(Chambal River), at Rawatbhata
• Mahi Bajaj Sagar Dam (Mahi River) at Banswara district
• Bisalpur Dam (Banas River), At Tonk district
• Srisailam Dam(Krishna River), at Kurnool district
Andhra Pradesh • Somasila Dam (Penna River), at Nellore district
• Prakasam Barrage (Krishna River), at Krishna and Guntur
• Tatipudi Reservoir(River Gosthani ), at Tatipudi, Vizianagaram
• Gandipalem Reservoir (River Penner)
• Ramagundam dam (Godavari), in Karimnagar
• Dummaguden Dam (river Godavari)
Telangana • Nagarjuna Sagar Dam (Krishna river), at Nagarjuna Sagar
Nalgonda
• Sri Ram Sagar (River Godavari)
• Nizam Sagar Dam (Manjira River)
• Dindi Reservoir (River Krishna), at Dindi, Mahabubnagar town
• Lower Manair Dam (Manair River)
• Singur Dam (river Manjira)
Bihar • Kohira Dam (Kohira River), at Kaimur district
• Nagi Dam (Nagi River), in Jamui District
Chhattisgarh • HasdeoBango Dam (Hasdeo River), at Korba district
Gujarat • SardarSarovar Dam(Narmada river), at Navagam
• Ukai Dam(Tapti River), at Ukai in Tapi district
• Kadana Dam( Mahi River), at Panchmahal district
• Karjan Reservoir (Karjan river), at Jitgadh village of Nanded
Taluka, Dist. Narmada
Himachal Pradesh • Bhakra Dam (Sutlej River) in Bilaspur
• The Pong Dam (Beas River )
• The Chamera Dam (River Ravi) at Chamba district
J&K • Salal Dam (Chenab River) at Reasi district
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• Baglihar Dam (Chenab River) at Doda district

Jharkhand • The Maithon Dam (Barakar River) at Dhanbad
• Panchet Dam (Damodar River) at Panchet in Dhanbad
• Tenughat Dam (Damodar River) at Bokaro district
Karnataka • Krishna Raja Sagara Dam at Mandya
• Tungabhadra Dam (Tungabhadra River) near the town of Hospet
• Bhadra Dam (Bhadra River) at border of Bhadravathi and
Tarikere
• Linganamakki dam (Sharavathi river) at Kargal village of Sagara
taluk
• Malaprabha dam (Malaprabha river) at Belgaum
• Raja Lakhamagouda dam (Ghataprabha River) at Belagavi
district
• Hemavathy Dam (river Hemavathy) at Gorur, near the city of
Hassan
• Supa Dam (Kali river) at Uttara Kannada district
• Lakya Dam (river Lakhya)
• Almatti Dam (Krishna River) at Bijapur district
Kerala • Kakki Reservoir (Pamba River) at Pathanamthitta district
• The Idukki Dam (Periyar River) at Kuravan and Kuravathi
• Cheruthoni Dam (Periyar River) at Idukki District
• Kulamavu Dam (Periyar river) Kulamavu, Idukki District
• Idamalayar Dam (Idamalayar River) At Ernakulam District
Madhya Pradesh • Gandhi Sagar Dam(Chambal River) at Mandsaur District
• Tawa Reservoir(Tawa Reservoir) at Hoshangabad District
• Indira Sagar Dam(Narmada River) at Narmada Nagar
Maharashtra • Koyna Dam(Koyna River) at Koyna Nagar
• Jayakwadi Dam (Godavari River) at Aurangabad district
• Isapur Dam (Penganga river) at Pusad
• Totladoh dam (Pench river) at Nagpur
• Warna Dam (Warna River) at Kolhapur District
• Bhatsa Dam (Bhatsa river) at Shahapur, Thane district
Odisha • Hirakud Dam (Mahanadi River) at Sambalpur District

• Rengali Dam(Brahmani River) at Angul district
• Indravati Dam(Indravati River) at Nabarangpur
• The Jalaput Dam(Machkund River) at boundary between the
states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh
• Mandira dam(Sankh river) at Kansbahal in Sundergarh district
Punjab • The Ranjit Sagar Dam (Ravi River) at Border of two states of
India Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
Tamil Nadu • Mettur Dam (river Cauvery) at Mettur, Salem District

• Solaiyar Dam at Coimbatore district
• Bhavanisagar Dam (Bhavani river) at Erode district
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Uttarakhand • Ramganga Dam (Ramganga River) at Pauri Garhwal district

• Jamrani Dam(Gola River) at Nainital District
• The Tehri Dam(Bhagirathi River) at Tehri
Uttar Pradesh • Rihand Dam or GovindBallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand River) at

Pipri in Sonbhadra District
• Matatila Dam (River Betwa) at Lalitpur District
• The Rajghat Dam (Betwa River) at Lalitpur
West Bengal • The Mukutmanipur Dam (Kansabati River ) at Bankura district
Chapter 2: FOLK DANCE

States/UT Folk Dance
Jharkhand Chhanu, Sarahul, Jat-Jatin, Karma, Danga, Bidesia, Sohrai.

Uttarakhand Gadhwali, Kumayuni, Kajari, Jhora, Raslila, Chappeli.
Andra Pradesh Kuchipudi (Classical), Ghantamardala, (Ottam Thedal, Mohiniattam, Kummi, Siddhi,
Madhuri, Chhadi.
Chhattisgarh Goudi, Karma, Jhumar, Dagla, Pali, Tapali, Navrani, Diwari, Mundari.
Arunachal Pradesh Mask dance (Mukhauta Nritya), War dance.

Himachal Pradesh Jhora, Jhali, Chharhi, Dhaman, Chhapeli, Mahasu, Nati, Dangi, Chamba, Thali, Jhainta,
Daf, Stick dance etc.
Goa Mandi, Jhagor, Khol, Dakni etc.
Assam Bihu, Bichhua, Natpuja, Maharas, Kaligopal, Bagurumba, Naga dance, Khel Gopal,
Tabal Chongli, Canoe, Jhumura Hobjanai etc.
West Bengal Kathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Marasia, Mahal, Keertan etc.
Kerala Kathakali (Classical), Ottam Thulal, Mohini-attam, Kaikottikali, Tappatikali, Kali
Auttam, Kutiyattam (Koodiyattam)
Meghalaya Laho, Baala etc.
Manipur Manipuri (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc.
Nagaland Chong, Khaiva, Lim, Nuralim etc.
Orissa Odissi (Classical), Savari, Ghumara, Painka, Munari, Chhau, Chadya Dandanata etc.
Maharashtra Lavani, Nakata, Koli, Lezim, Gafa, Dahikala Dasavtar or Bohada, Tamasha, Mauni,
Powara, Gouricha etc.
Karnataka Yakshagan, huttar, Suggi, Kunitha, Karga, Lambi
Gujarat Garba, Dandiya Ras, Tippani Juriun, Bhavai.
Punjab Bhagra, Giddha, Daff, Dhaman etc.
Rajasthan Ghumar, Chakri, Ganagor, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini, Ghapal, Panihari, Ginad etc.
Mizoram Khanatm, Pakhupila, Cherokan etc.

Jammu & Kashmir Rauf, Hikat, Mandjas, kud Dandi nach, Damali.
Tamil Nadu Bharatnatyam, Kumi, Kolattam, Kavadi,
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Uttar Pradesh Nautanki, Raslila, Kajri, Jhora, Chappeli, Jaita.

Bihar Jata-Jatin, Bakho-Bakhain, Panwariya, Sama-Chakwa, Bidesia, Jatra etc.
Haryana Jhumar, Phag Dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khor, Gagor etc.
Chapter 3: List of International & Domestic Airport: State

wise
State Airport
New Delhi • Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport
Maharashtra • Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja International Airport (Mumbai)

• Pune Airport (Pune)
• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (Nagpur)
• Akola Airport (Akola)
• Aurangabad Airport (Aurangabad)
• Jalgaon Airport (Nashik)
• Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj Airport (Kolhapur)
• Gandhinagar Airport (Nashik)
• Solapur Airport (Solapur)
Karnataka • Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru)

• Mangalore Airport (Mangaluru)
• Belgaum Airport (Belgaum)
• Hubli Airport (Hubli and Dharwad)
• Mysore Airport/ Mandakalli airport (Mysore)
• Jindal Vijaynagar Airport (Toranagallu)
Tamil Nadu • Chennai International Airport (Chennai)

• Tiruchirappalli International Airport (Tiruchirappalli)
• Coimbatore International Airport (Coimbatore)
Gujarat • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (Ahmedabad,
Hansol)
• Vadodara Airport (Vadodara)
• Kandla Airport (Kandla and Anjar)
• Porbandar Airport (Rajkot)
• Surat Airport (Surat)
Kerala • Cochin International Airport (Kochi)
• Calicut International Airport (Karipur)
• Trivandrum International Airport (Trivandrum, Nagercoil,
Kanyakumari and Kollam)
Odisha • Biju Patnaik International Airport (Bhubaneswar Airport)
• Jharsuguda Airport Also known as Veer Surendra Sai Airport
(Durlaga)
Jobs
Jammu and Kashmir • Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport (Srinagar)

• The Jammu Airport, officially known as Jammu Civil Enclave
(Jammu)
Madhya Pradesh • Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia Air Terminal (Maharajpur Air Force
Station Gwalior)
• Dumna Airport (Jabalpur)
• The Khajuraho Airport (Chhattarpur district)
• Khandwa Airport (Khandwa)
• Raja Bhoj Airport (Bhopal)
Jharkhand • Birsa Munda Airport (Ranchi)
• Dhanbad Airport (Dhanbad)
• Sonari Airport (in Jamshedpur)
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee Airport (at Deoghar)
Himachal Pradesh • Kangra Airport (Gaggal near Kangra)
• Shimla Airport (Shimla)
• Kullu–Manali Airport (Bhuntar)
Daman and Diu • Diu Airport (Union Territory of Daman and Diu.)
Chhattisgarh • Jagdalpur Airport (Jagdalpur)

• Swami Vivekananda Airport (Raipur)
Arunachal Pradesh • Tezu Airport (Tezu)

• Daporijo Airport (Daporijo)
Andhra Pradesh • Visakhapatnam Airport (Visakhapatnam)

• Vijayawada Airport
• Kadapa (Cuddapah) Airport (Kadapa)
Assam • Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (Guwahati)

• Dibrugarh Airport (Dibrugarh)
• Rupsi Airport (Dhubri town)
Punjab • Chandigarh International Airport (Mohali)
• Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport (Amritsar)
Bihar • Jay Prakash Narayana International Airport (At PATNA)\
• Gaya Airport (at Gaya)
Andaman and Nicobar Islands • Veer Savarkar International Airport (Port Blair)
Uttar Pradesh • Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (Varanasi)

• Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (Lucknow)
Goa • Goa International Airport also known as the Dabolim airport (at
Vasco da Gama)
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Telangana • Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (Hyderabad)
West Bengal • Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (Kolkata)
Uttrakhand • Atal Bihari Vajpayee Airport (at Dehradun)
Chapter 4: International borders / Boundary lines

Borders/Boundary Lines Between two Countries
Durand Line Afghanistan & Pakistan
Hindenburg Line Germany & Poland.
Mason-dixon Line Line of demarcation between four states in the United

States.
Mannerheim Line Russia-Finland border.
Macmahon Line India & China
Medicine Line Canada & the United States
Order-neisse Line Poland & Germany
Radcliffe Line India & Pakistan.
Siegfried Line Germany on its border with France.
17th Parallel North Vietnam & South Vietnam
26th Parallel south Africa, Australia & South America
30TH PARALLEL Equator & the North Pole
38th Parallel Separates North Korea&South Korea.
42nd Parallel north New York – Pennsylania Border.
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49th Parallel USA&Canada
Chapter 5: International Organizations & Headquarter

Headquarter International Organizations (Establishment)
New York, US • United Nations Organization (UN), 24 October 1945
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 11 December 1946
• United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), 1969
Geneva, Switzerland • United Nations Conference on Trade & Development
(UNCTAD), 30 December 1964
• World Health Organization (WHO), 7 April 1948
• World Economic Forum, January 1971
• International Labour Organisation (ILO), 29 October 1919
• World Trade Organisation, 1 January 1995
• World Meteorological Organisation, 23 March 1950
• World Intellectual Property Organisation, 14 July 1967
• International Committee of the Red Cross, 17 February 1863
Paris, France • United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO), 16 November 1945
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development
(OECD), 30 September 1961
Vienna, Austria • United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO),
17 November 1966
• International Atomic Agency, 29 July 1957
• Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC),September 1960
London, UK • Amnesty International, July 1961

• International Maritime Organisation, 17 March 1948
• Commonwealth of Nations, 11 December 1931
Washington DC, US • International Monetary Fund (IMF),27 December 1945

• World Bank, July 1944
Shanghai, China • New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank), 15 July

2014
Beijing, China • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), 16 January 2016
Manila, Philippines • Asian Development Bank (ADB), 19 December 1966
Kathmandu, Nepal • South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), 8

December 1985
Jakarta, Indonesia • Association of South East Nations (ASEAN), 8 August 1967
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Singapore • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC),November 1989
Brussels, Belgium • North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 4 April 1949
Dubai, UAE • International Cricket Council (ICC), 15 June 1909
Rome, Italy • Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 16 October 1945
The Hague, The Netherland • International Court of Justice, 26 June 1945
Lausanne, Switzerland • International Olympic Committee, 23 June 1894
Zurich, Switzerland • The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA),

21 May 1904
The Hague, The Netherlands • The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW), 29 April 1997
Gland, Switzerland • World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 29 April 1961
Chapter 6: List of Lake

Name of the State Name of the Lake
▪ Andhra Pradesh ▪ Kolleru Lake
▪ Pulicat Lake
▪ Assam ▪ Chandubi Lake
▪ Chapanala Lake
▪ Haflong Lake
▪ Son Beel Lake
▪ Bihar ▪ Kanwar Lake
▪ Gujarat ▪ Hamirsar Lake
▪ Kankaria Lake
▪ Lakhota Lake
▪ Sursagar Lake
▪ Thol Lake
▪ Vastrapur Lake
▪ Himachal Pradesh ▪ Brighu Lake
▪ Dashair and Dhankar Lake
▪ Kareri and Kumarwah lake
▪ Khajjiar Lake
▪ Macchial Lake
▪ Manimahesh Lake
▪ Nako Lake
▪ Pandoh Lake
▪ Prashar Lake
▪ Renuka Lake
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▪ Rewalsar Lake
▪ Seruvalsar and Manimahesh Lake
▪ Haryana ▪ Badkhal Lake
▪ Beauty lake
▪ Blue Bird Lake
▪ Brahma Sarovar
▪ Current lake
▪ Karna Lake
▪ Sannihit Sarovar
▪ Surajkund
▪ Tilyar Lake
▪ Jammu and Kashmir ▪ Dal Lake
▪ Manasbal Lake
▪ Mansar Lake
▪ Pangong Tso
▪ Sheshnag Lake
▪ Tso Moriri
▪ Wular Lake
▪ Karnataka ▪ Agara Lake
▪ Bellandur Lake
▪ Byrasandra Lake
▪ Hebbal Lake
▪ Kempambudhi Lake
▪ Lalbagh Lake
▪ Madiwala Lake
▪ Puttenahalli Lake
▪ Sankey Lake
▪ Ulsoor Lake
▪ Dalavai Lake
▪ Devanoor Lake
▪ Karanji lake
▪ Kukkarahalli lake
▪ Lingambudhi Lake
▪ Honnamana Kere
▪ Pampa Sarovar
▪ Kerala ▪ Ashtamudi Lake
▪ Kuttanad Lake
▪ Maanaanchira, Kozhikode
▪ Manakody Kayal
▪ Padinjarechira, Thrissur city
▪ Paravur Kayal
▪ Punnamada Lake
▪ Shasthamkotta lake
▪ Vadakkechira, Thrissur city
▪ Vanchikulam, Thrissur
▪ Vellayani Lake
▪ Vembanad Lake
▪ Madhya Pradesh ▪ Bhoj Wetland
▪ Lower Lake
▪ Moti lake
▪ Sarang pani lake
▪ Shahpura lake
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▪ Tawa Reservoir
▪ Upper Lake
▪ Maharashtra ▪ Gorewada Lake
▪ Khindsi Lake
▪ Lonar Lake
▪ Mehrun Lake
▪ Pashan Lake
▪ Powai Lake
▪ Rankala Lake
▪ Salim Ali Lake
▪ Shivasagar lake
▪ Talao Pali
▪ Upvan Lake
▪ Venna Lake
▪ Meghalaya ▪ Umiam Lake
▪ Manipur ▪ Loktak Lake
▪ Mizoram ▪ Palak dïl
▪ Tam Dil
▪ Odisha ▪ Anshupa Lake
▪ Chilika Lake
▪ Kanjia lake
▪ Punjab ▪ Harike Lake
▪ Kanjli Lake
▪ Ropar Lake
▪ Rajasthan ▪ Ana Sagar Lake
▪ Balsamand lake
▪ Dhebar Lake
▪ Jaisamand Lake
▪ Jal Mahal, Man Sagar lake

▪ Kaylana Lake
▪ Nakki Lake
▪ Pushkar Lake
▪ Rajsamand Lake
▪ Ramgarh Lake
▪ Talwara Lake
▪ Sambhar Salt Lake
▪ Fateh Sagar Lake
▪ Rangsagar lake
▪ Uday sagar Lake
▪ Sikkim ▪ Gurudongmar Lake
▪ Khecheopalri Lake
▪ Lake Tsongmo
▪ Lake Cholamu
▪ Telangana ▪ Alwal Cheruvu Lake
▪ Durgam Cheruvu (Secret Lake)
▪ Himayat Sagar
▪ Hussain Sagar
▪ Osman Sagar
▪ Safilguda Lake
▪ Saroornagar Lake
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▪ Shamirpet Lake
▪ Tamil Nadu ▪ Berijam Lake
▪ Chembarambakkam Lake
▪ Kaliveli Lake
▪ Kaveripakkam Lake
▪ Kodaikanal Lake
▪ Ooty Lake
▪ Perumal Eri
▪ Red Hills Lake
▪ Sholavaram Lake
▪ Singanallur Lake
▪ Veeranam Lake
▪ Uttar Pradesh ▪ Amakhera Lake
▪ Barua Sagar Tal
▪ Belasagar Lake
▪ Bhadi Tal
▪ Chando Tal Lake
▪ Keetham Lake
▪ Nachan Tal
▪ Ramgarh Tal Lake
▪ Sheikha Jheel
▪ Uttarakhand ▪ Skeleton Lake (Roopkund Lake)
▪ Bhimtal Lake
▪ Dodital
▪ Nainital Lake
▪ Naukuchiatal
▪ Sat Tal
▪ West Bengal ▪ Debar Lake
▪ East Calcutta Wetlands
▪ Jore Pokhri
▪ Mirik Lake
▪ Rabindra Sarobar
▪ Rasikbil
▪ Santragachhi Lake
▪ Senchal Lake
Chapter 7: List of Important Indian Cities on Rivers banks:

River wise
Ganges Baranagar (West Bengal), Haridwar (Uttarakhand), Kanpur (UP), Patna (Bihar),
Varanasi (UP), Mirzapur (UP), Farrukhabad (UP), Fatehgarh (UP),Kannauj (UP),
Shuklaganj (UP), Chakeri (UP), Munger (Bihar), Allahabad (UP)
Yamuna Agra (UP), New Delhi, Auraiya (UP), Etawah (UP), Allahabad (UP)
Saraswati Patan (Gujarat), Allahabad (UP)
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Godavari Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh), Nanded (Maharashtra), Golegaon (Maharashtra),

nashik (Maharashtra) , Nanded (Maharashtra),Ramagundam (Telangana), Nizamabad
(Telangana)
Krishna Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), Sangli (Maharashtra), Karad (Maharashtra), Amaravati

(Andhra Pradesh)
Kaveri Thiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), Erode (Tamil Nadu)
Mahanadi Banki (Odisha), Cuttack (Odisha), Sambalpur (Odisha)
Rushikulya Brahmapur (Odisha), Chhatrapur (Odisha)
Brahmaputra Dibrugarh (Assam), Guwahati (Assam)
Hooghly Kolkata (West Bengal), Murshidabad (West Bengal)
Narmada Jabalpur (MP), Bharuch (Gujarat)
Chambal Kota (Rajasthan), Gwalior (MP)
Gomti Jaunpur (UP), Lucknow (UP)
Sabarmati Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
Sarayu Ayodhya (UP)
Alaknanda Badrinath (Uttarakhand)
Banas Deesa (Gujarat)
Sutlej Ferozpur (Punjab)

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Hyderabad (Telangana)
Tawi Jammu
Tapi Surat (Gujarat)
Jhelum Srinagar
Vishwamitri Vadodara (Gujarat)
Vrishabhavathi Bangalore (Karnataka)
Teesta Rangpo (Sikkim)
Aji Rajkot (Gujarat)
Netravati, Gurupura Mangalore (Karnataka)
Rapti Gorakhpur (UP)

Girna River Malegaon (Maharashtra)
Brahmani Rourkela (Odisha)
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Tungabhadra Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh)

Shipra Ujjain (MP)
Koshi Purnia (Bihar)
Tunga River Shimoga (Karnataka)
Bhadra Bhadravathi (Karnataka)
Mula, Mutha Pune, (Maharashtra)
Vaigai Madurai (Tamil Nadu)
Kolhapur Panchaganga (Maharashtra)
Tungabhadra Hospet (Karnataka)
Kali Karwar (Karnataka)
Ghataprabha Bagalkot (Karnataka)
Sharavathi Honnavar (Karnataka)
Hathmati Himmatnagar (Gujarat)
Purna Navsari (Gujarat)
Chapter 8: List of National Parks of India

State National Parks
Andhra Pradesh • Papikonda National Park at East Godavari and West Godavari
districts of Andhra Pradesh and Khammam district of Telangana.
• Sri Venkateswara National Park at Chittoor and Cuddapah districts
Telanagana • Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park in Jubilee Hills in
Hyderabad, Telangana
• Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National Park at Vanasthalipuram
• Mrugavani National Park at Hyderabad district
Arunachal Pradesh • Namdapha National Park at Changlang district
• Mouling National Park at Jengging, East Siang
Assam • Dibru-Saikhowa National Park at Tinsukia district
• Kaziranga National Park at Golaghat and Nagaon districts
• Manas National Park or Manas Wildlife Sanctuary at Dist Baksa
• Nameri National Park at Sonitpur district
• The Orang National Park at Darrang and Sonitpur districts
Bihar • Valmiki National Park at West Champaran
Chhattisgarh • Indravati National Prak at Bijapur district
• Kanger valley at Bastar district
• Guru Ghasi das (sanjay) at Koriya district
Goa • Bhagwan Mahavir (Mollem) at Panaji district
Gujarat • Blackbuck (Velavadar) National Park at Bhavnagar district
• Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary at Talala Gir
• Marine National Park at Jamnagar district
• Vansda National Park at Navsari district
Haryana • Kalesar National Park at Yamuna nagar district
• Sultanpur National Park at Gurgaon district
Himachal Pradesh • Pin Valley National Park at Lahaul and Spiti district
• The Great Himalayan National Park at Kullu District
• Inderkilla National Park at Kullu District
• Khirganga National Park at Kullu District
• Simbalbara National Park at Sirmour District
Jammu And Kashmir/ • Dachigam National Park at Srinagar District
Ladakh • Hemis National Park at Ladakh region
• Kishtwar National Park at Kishtwar district
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• Salim Ali National Park at Srinagar district

Jharkhand • Betla National Park at Latehar District
Karnataka • Bandipur National Park at Mysore & Chamarajanagar districts
• Bannerghatta National Park at Bangalore district
• Kudremukh National Park at Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and
Chikmagalur districts
• Nagarahole National Park at Kodagu and Mysore districts
• Anshi National Park at Uttara Kannada district
Kerala • Eravikulam National Park at Idukki district
• Mathikettan Shola National Park at Idukki district
• Periyar National Park at Idukki & Quilon districts
• Silent Valley National Park at Palakkad district
• Anamudi Shola National Park at Idukki district
• Pambadum Shola National Park at Idukki district
Madhya Pradesh • Bandhavgarh National Park at Bandhavgarh, Tala
• Kanha Tiger Reserve at Mandla
• Madhav National Park at Shivpuri district
• Mandla Plant Fossils National Park at Mandla district
• Panna National Park at Panna & Chattarpur district
• Pench National Park at Seoni and Chhindwara districts
• Sanjay National Park at Koriya, Sidhi and Singrauli districts
• Satpura National Park at Hoshangabad district
• Van Vihar National Park at Bhopal district
Maharashtra • Chandoli National Park at Sangli, Satara, Kolhapur, and Ratnagiri
districts
• Gugamal National Park at Amravati district
• Navegaon National Park at Bhandara (Gondia) district
• Sanjay Gandhi (Borivilli) National Park at Thane & Mumbai districts
• Tadoba National Park at Chandrapur district
• Pench National Park across two states - Madhya Pradesh and
Maharashtra
Manipur • Keibul Lamjao National Park at Bishnupur district
Meghalaya • Balpakram National Park near at Garo Hills
• Nokrek National Park at East Garo Hills district
Mizoram • Murlen National Park at Champhai district
• Phawngpui Blue Mountain National Park at Lawngtlai district
Nagaland • Intanki National Park at Peren district
Odisha • Bhitarkanika National Park at Kendrapara district
• Simlipal National Park at Mayurbhanj district
Rajasthan • Sariska Tiger Reserve at Alwar district
• Ranthambore National Park at Sawai Madhopur district
• Mukundra Hills National Park at Kota
• Desert National Park at Jaisalmer district
• Keoladeo Ghana National Park at Bharatpur district
Sikkim • Khangchendzonga National Park at North Sikkim district
Tamil Nadu • Mukurthi National Park at Nilgiris district
• Mudumalai National Park at Nilgiris district
• Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) National Park at Coimbatore district
• Guindy National Park at Chennai district
• Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park at Ramanathpuram & Tuticorin
districts
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Tripura • Rajbari National Park

• Clouded Leopard National Park at the West Tripura district
UttarPradesh • Dudhwa National park at Lakhimpur-Kheri district
Uttarakhand • Gangotri National Park at Uttarkashi district
• GovindPashuVihar National Park at Uttarkashi district
• Jim Corbett National Park at Nainital district
• The Nanda Devi National Park at peak of Nanda Devi
• Rajaji National Park at Dehradun, Pauri Garhwal
• Valley of Flowers National Park at the Chamoli district
West Bengal • Gorumara National Park at Jalpaiguri district
• Buxa National Park at Jalpaiguri district
• Neora Valley National Park at Kalimpong district
• Singalila National Park at Darjeeling district
• Jaldapara National Park at Alipurduar District
• Sundarbans National Park at North & South 24-Paraganas district
Andaman And Nicobar • Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park at South Andaman
administrative district
• Middle Button Island National Park at Andaman district
• Mount Harriet National Park at Andaman district
• North Button Island National Park at Andaman district
• Rani Jhansi Marine National Park at Andaman district
• Saddle Peak National Park at Andaman district
• South Button Island National Park at Andaman district
• Campbell Bay National Park at Nicobar district of Andaman
• Galathea National Park at Nicobar district of Andaman
Chapter 9: Nuclear Power Plants in India

Uttar Pradesh • Narora Atomic Power Station (NAPS Narora, Bulandshahar District
Gujarat • Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (city of Vyara)
Karnataka • Kaiga Generating Station (Uttar Kannada district)
Tamil Nadu • Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (Tirunelveli district)

• Madras Atomic Power Station ( Chennai)
Maharashtra • Tarapur Atomic Power Station (T.A.P.S.) Tarapur, Palghar

• Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (Ratnagiri district)
Haryana • The Gorakhpur Nuclear Power Plant (Fatehabad district)
Andhra Pradesh • Kovvada Atomic Power Project
Gujarat • NPP at Mithivirdi (Talaja Taluka, Bhavnagar district)
Rajasthan • Banswara Thermal Power Station
MP • The Chutka Nuclear Power Plant (Chutka Village of Mandla district)
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Chapter 10: Thermal Power Plants in India

Uttar Pradesh • Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant (Shaktinagar in Sonebhadra
district), The power plant is the first power plant of NTPC
• National Capital Power Station (NCPS) Or NTPC Dadri (Dadri, G.Noida)
• Rihand Super Thermal Power Project (at Renukut, Sonebhadra in
Sonbhadra district)
• Anpara Thermal Power Station (Anpara in Sonbhadra district)
• Obra Thermal Power Project (Kanpur district)
• Rosa Power Plant (at Rosa village in Shahjahanpur)
• Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant (Unchahar in Raebareli
district)
Telangana • NTPC Ramagundam (at Ramagundam in Peddapalli district)
Odisha • Talcher Thermal Power station (Angul district)

• Vedanta Jharsuguda Power Station (Jharsuguda town in Jharsuguda
district)
• Hirakud Power Plant (Sambalpur district)
Chhattisgarh • Korba Super Thermal Power Plant (at Jamnipali in Korba district)
• Sipat Super Thermal Power Station or Rajiv Gandhi Super Thermal
Power Station (at Sipat in Bilaspur district)
• The NSPCL Bhilai Power Plant (at Bhilai in Durg district)
Madhya Pradesh • The Vindhyachal Thermal Power Station (Singrauli district)

• Satpura Thermal Power Plant (Betul district)
• Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Plant (Umaria district)
• Shree Singaji Super Thermal Power Project (Khandwa District)
• Amarkantak Thermal Power Plant (Anuppur district)
West Bengal • Farakka Super Thermal Power Plant (at Nabarun in Murshidabad
district)
• Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station (Bardhaman district)
Gujarat • Mundra Thermal Power Station or Mundra Thermal Power Project (at
Mundra in Kutch district)
• Sikka Thermal Power Station (Jamnagar)
• Wanakbori Thermal Power Station (in Kheda district)
• Ukai Thermal Power Station (located on the bank of the Tapi river.
• Gandhinagar Thermal Power Station (bank of Sabarmati river near
Gandhinagar)
• Hirakud Power Plant (Hirakud in Sambalpur district)
Maharashtra • Tiroda Thermal Power Station (at Tirora in Gondia district)
• Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (in Chandrapur district)
• Kaparkheda Thermal Power Station (Nagpur district)
• RattanIndia Amravati Thermal Power Project (Amravati district)
Bihar • Barauni Thermal Power Station (at Begusarai district)
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Karnataka • Bellary Thermal Power station (Kudatini Village, Bellary District)

• Udupi Power Plant (north of Mangalore)
Andhra Pradesh • Simhadri Super Thermal Power Plant (Visakhapatnam district)
Rajasthan • Chhabra Thermal Power Plant (Baran district)

• Kota Thermal Power Plant (west bank of the Chambal River near Kota.)
• Kalisindh Thermal Power Station (Jhalawar district)
Jharkhand • Bokaro Thermal Power Station B (BTPS - B) , at Bokaro district

• Patrata Thermal Power Station (Ramgarh district)
Tamil Nadu • The Mettur Thermal Power Station (Salem district)

• The Ennore Thermal Power Station (Chennai Ennore)
Chapter 11: Solar Power Plant in India

Gujarat • Charanka Solar Park (Patan district)
Madhya Pradesh • The Welspun Solar (Jawad tehsil of Neemuch district)
Maharashtra • Mahagenco plans 125 MW solar power project (Malkhed village in

Yavatmal district)
• Tata Power Solar (in Rajgarh)
• Sakri Photovoltaic solar energy project (Shivajinagar in Sakri taluka of
Dhule district)
Odisha • Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha Ltd. (GEDCOL)
Rajashtan • Welspun Energy 50MW Rajasthan Solar Project (Phalodhi, distt.
Jodhpur)
• The Dhirubhai Ambani Solar Park (Pokhran in the Jaisalmer district)
• Bhadla Solar Park (Bhadla, Phalodi tehsil, Jodhpur district)
Gujarat • Bitta Solar Power Plant (Bitta village)
•
Andhra Pradesh • Kurnool Ultra Mega Solar Park (Kurnool district)
Tamil Nadu • Kamuthi Solar Power Project
Kerala • Banasura Sagar Dam Floating Solar Power Plant (Wayanad)
Karnataka. • Pavagada Solar Park (Pavagada taluk, Tumkur district)
Chapter 12: List of Ports in India: State Wise

State Ports
Gujarat • Kandla Port Trust or Deendayal Port (Kutch District)
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Odisha • Paradip Port (Jagatsinghpur District)
Maharashtra • Jawaharlal Nehru Port/ Nhava Sheva (Mumbai)

• Mumbai Port Trust (Mumbai)
Andhra Pradesh • Visakhapatnam Port (Visakhapatnam)

• Krishnapatnam Port (Nellore District)
Tamil Nadu • Chennai Port (Chennai)

• V.O.Chidambaranar Port (Thoothukudi)
• Ennore Port (Chennai)
West Bengal • Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (Kolkata)
Karnataka • New Mangalore Port (Mangalore)
Kerala • Cochin Port (Kochi)
Goa • Mormugao port
Chapter 13: List of River a Cross State
Name of
Rivers A cross States Length Begin From Ends in
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, 2,525
Ganga Jharkhand, West Bengal K.M. Gangothri Bay of Bengal
Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh,Uttar 1,376
Yamuna Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi K.M. Garhwall in Yamunotri Bay of Bengal
2,900
Brahmaputra Assam, Arunachal,Tibet K.M. Lake Manasarovar Bay of Bengal
Mahanadi Chhattisgarh, Odisha 858 K.M. Amarkantak Plateau Bay of Bengal
Maharashtra, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, 1,465
Godavari Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry K.M. Nasik Hills Bay of Bengal
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, 1,400 Near Mahabaleshwar in
Krishna Andhra Pradesh K.M. Maharashtra Bay of Bengal
1,315 Amarkantak hill in
Narmada Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat K.M. Madhya Pradesh Arabian sea
Tapti Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat 724 K.M. Bettul Arabian sea
Gomti Uttarpradesh, Gujarat, 900 K.M. Gomat Taal Saidpur,Ghazipur
Shigatse Prefecture, Janakpur,
Koshi Sagarmatha, Koshi, Mechi Zones, Bihar 720 K.M. Ganga Ganga
Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
Gandaki Jharkhand, Bihar 630 K.M. Nepal Ganga
Betwa Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh 590 K.M. Vindhya Range Rajghat Dam
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Madhya pradesh,Uttar Pradesh,

Son Jharkhand,Bihar 784 K.M. Ganga Yamuna
1,500
Sutlej Himachal Pradesh, Punjab K.M. Mount Kailash Ropar
Ravi Himachal Pradesh, Punjab 720 K.M. Himachal Pradesh Chenab
Beas Himachal Pradesh, Punjab 470 K.M. Sutlej Mandi Plain
Jammu and
Chenab Himachal Pradesh, Punjab 960 K.M. Panjnad Kashmir
Jehlam Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, 725 K.M. Pir Panjal Range Chenab
Hills of Coorg,
Kaveri Karnataka, Tamilnadu, 765 K.M. Karnataka Bay of Bengal
1080 Shivalik Hills, Himachal
Ghaggar Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan K.M Pradesh Indus
Hugli
(Hooghly) West Bengal, Kolkata 260 K.M Ganga Bay of Bengal;
Chota Nagpur
Damodar Jharkhand, Bengal 592 K.M Hoogly River, Howrah plateau.
Gilgit-Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh 3180 In Tibet Kalish Range
Indus Tibet K.M 5080 mts. Arabian sea
Tungabhadra Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,Telangana 531 K.M Krishna Krishna
Gulf of Khambhat ,
Mahi Madhya Pradesh, Vindhyas 580 K.M Arabian Sea Sevalia
Bhagirathi Uttarakhand, 205 K.M Ganga Ganga
Sabarmati Aravalli Range, Udaipur 371 K.M Dhebar Lake Gujarat
Alaknanda Uttarakhand 190 K.M Ganga Nanda Devi
Sikkim, India, West Bengal,
Teesta India,Rangpur, Bangladesh 309 K.M Brahmaputra Rangeet River.
Indravati Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra 535 K.M Kalahandi Godavari
Bhima Maharashtra, Karnataka,Telangana 861 K.M Krishna River Pandharpur
Subarnarek Jharkhand, Odisha,West Bengal 395 K.M Bay of Bengal Bay of Bengal
Konya Maharashtra 130 K.M Krishna Rive Maharashtra
Ramganga Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh 596 K.M Ganga Ramganga Dam
Peena Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka 597 K.M Nandi Hills Bay of Bengal
Brahmani Odisha 480 Bay of Bengal Ganga
Periyar Kerala, Tamil Nadu 244 K.M Cardaman Hills Bay of Bengal
Lakshadweep Sea,
Mahanada West Bengal, Bihar 360 K.M Vembanad Lake Bay of Bengal
Benas Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh 512 K.M Rohtang Pass Chambal
Vaigai Tamil Nadu, 258 K.M Periyar Plateau Bay of Bengal
Sharda Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh 350 K.M Ganga Ghaghra River
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Longest River (Length Wise) of the World Nile (Egypt) Africa

Biggest River (Flow of Water Wise) of the world Amazon (South America)
Longest River of Europe Volga (Russia)
Longest River of Asia Yangtze (China)
Longest River of India Ganga
Longest River of South India Godavari (Also Called Dakshina Ganga)
River which makes estuary in India Narmada and Tapti
Sorrow of Bengal Damodar River
Chapter 14: Stadiums in India

Maharashtra • The Wankhede Stadium (Cricket stadium, Mumbai)
• The Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium or Subrata Roy
Sahara Stadium (Cricket stadium, Pune)
• The DY Patil Sports Stadium (Cricket/football stadium, Mumbai)
• The Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium (Cricket stadium,
Nagpur)
• Nehru Stadium (Multi-purpose stadium in Pune)
• The Brabourne Stadium (Cricket stadium, Mumbai)
• Mahindra Hockey Stadium (Hockey stadium at Mumbai)
• The Dadaji Kondadev Stadium called SR Bhosle Krida Sankul
Stadium (Thane)
Himachal Pradesh • Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium (cricket stadium,
Dharamshala)
Delhi • The Feroz Shah Kotla Ground (Cricket stadium)
• Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (National stadium of India)
• The Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium (Hockey stadium)
Tamil Nadu • M. A. Chidambaram Stadium or Chepauk Stadium (cricket
stadium in Chennai)
West Bengal • Eden Gardens (cricket ground, Kolkata)
Jharkhand • Jharkhand States Cricket Association International Cricket
Stadium, (Also known as JSCA International Stadium Complex,
Ranchi)
• Keenan Stadium (Cricket and football, Jamshedpur)
• Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium (football, Ranchi)
Gujarat • Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Also known as the

Khandheri Cricket Stadium( Cricket stadium in Rajkot)
• Reliance Stadium or Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd
Sports Complex Ground (Cricket stadium, Vadodara)
• Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground (Municipal Ground or
Racecourse Ground Corporation Ground, Rajkot)
• Motera stadium, also known as Sardar Patel stadium is now the
world's largest cricket stadiumand the second largest sports stadium
(Ahmedabad)
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MP • Holkar Cricket Stadium (Cricket stadium, Indore)

• Captain Roop Singh Stadium (Cricket stadium, Gwalior)
Telangana • The Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium (Hyderabad)

• The Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium (Cricket, Hyderabad)
Andhra Pradesh • Visakhapatnam ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium (Cricket

stadium,Visakhapatnam)
• Indira Gandhi Stadium (Cricket ,Vijayawada)
• Indira Priyadarsini Stadium (Cricket stadium,Visakhapatnam)
Rajasthan • Barkatullah Khan Stadium (Cricket ,Jodhpur)

• The Sawai Mansingh Stadium (Cricket ,Jaipur)
• Fort Maidan (a multi-purpose stadium, Kota)
Kerala • Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium (Cricket/football

stadium, Kochi)
• Kerala University Stadium (Football and also for athletics,
Thiruvananthapuram)
Goa • The Fatorda, officially known as the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, is
a multi-purpose stadium.
Jammu & Kashmir • The Maulana Azad Stadium (Cricket ,Jammu)
Haryana • The Nahar Singh Stadium (Cricket ,Faridabad)

Punjab • The Gandhi Stadium (Cricket, Amritsar)
• Guru Nanak Stadium (Football stadium in Ludhiana)
Odisha • The iconic Barabati Stadium (Indian sports stadium, Cuttack)

• Dilip Tirkey Stadium (Hockey stadium, Rourkela)
• The Kalinga Stadium (Multi-purpose stadium, Bhubaneswar)
Karnataka • The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Cricket, Bengaluru)

UP • The K D Singh Babu Stadium (Multi-purpose stadium, in Lucknow)
• Green Park Stadium (Cricket, Kanpur)
Chapter 15: Famous Temple in India: State wise

State Temple and Location
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Tamil Nadu • Meenakshi Temple at Madurai

• Ramanathaswamy Temple at Rameshwaram
• Ranganathaswamy Temple at Tiruchirapalli
• Brihadeshwara Temple at Thanjavur
• Suchindram Temple at Kanyakumari
• Airavateswara Temple at Darasuram
• Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram
• Kanchipuram Temples at Kanchipuram
Karnataka • Virupaksha Temple at Hampi
• Vitthala Temple at Hampi
• Gomateshwara Temple at Shravanbela Gola (Rural)
Andhra Pradesh • Lord Venkateswara Temple at Thirumala
Gujarat • Somnath Temple at Saurashtra

• Dwarakadhish Temple at Dwarka
Uttar Pradesh • KashiVishwanath at Varanasi
Maharashtra • ShirdiSai Baba Temple at Shirdi

• Siddivinayak Temple at Mumbai
Jammu and Kashmir • Vaishno Devi Temple at Katra

• Amarnath Cave Temple
Uttarakhand • Badrinath Temple

• Yamunotri Temple at Uttarkashi
• Gangotri Temple at Uttarkashi
• Kedarnath Temple at Garhwal area
Odisha • Jagannath Temple at Puri

• Lingaraja Temple at Bhubaneswar
• Konark Sun Temple at Konark
Punjab • Golden Temple at Amritsar
Rajasthan • Ranakpur Jain Temple at Pali
Madhya Pradesh • SanchiStupa at Raisen

• Khajuraho Temple at Khajuraho
Kerala • Padmanabaswamy Temple at Thiruvananthapuram
Bihar • Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya
Assam • Kamakhya Temple at Guwahati
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Chapter 16: List of Tiger Reserve in India: State-Wise

State Reserve
Uttarakhand • Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve
• Rajaji National Park
Uttar Pradesh • Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
• Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
Telangana • Kawal Tiger Reserve
• Nagarjunsagar
• Srisailam Tiger Reserve
Madhya Pradesh • Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
• Satpura Tiger Reserve
• Kanha Tiger Reserve
• Panna Tiger Reserve
• Pench Tiger Reserve
• Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve
Tamil Nadu • Anamalai Tiger Reserve
• Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
• Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
• Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
West Bengal • Buxa Tiger Reserve
• Sunderbans Tiger Reserve
Rajasthan • Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve
• Ranthambore Tiger Reserve
• Sariska Tiger Reserve
Odisha • Satkosia Tiger Reserve
• Simlipal Tiger Reserve
Mizoram • Dampa Tiger Reserve
Kerala • Periyar Tiger Reserve
• Parambikulam Tiger Reserve
Karnataka • Bandipur Tiger Reserve
• Nagarhole Tiger Reserve
• Bhadra Tiger Reserve
• Anshi Dandeli Tiger Reserve
Jharkhand • Palamau Tiger Reserve
Chhattisgarh • Indravati Tiger Reserves
• Udanti & Sitanadi Tiger Reserve
• Achanakmar Tiger Reserve
Bihar • Valmiki National Park
Maharashtra • Melghat Tiger Reserve
• Pench Tiger Reserve
• Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project
• Sahyadri Tiger reserve
• Nagzira-Navegaon Tiger Reserve
• Bor Tiger Reserve
Assam • Kaziranga Tiger Reserve
• Manas Tiger Reserve
• Nameri Tiger Reserve
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• Orang Tiger Reserve

Andhra Pradesh • Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve
Arunachal Pradesh • Namdapha Tiger Reserve
• Pakhui Tiger Reserve
Chapter 17: List of Indian National Trophies and Cups

associated with sports
Sports Trophies
Hockey • Aga Khan Cup
• All India Maharaja Ranjit Singh Gold Cup
• Beighton Cup
• Mumbai Gold Cup
• Chakola Gold Trophy
• Dhyan Chand Trophy
• Gurmit Trophy
• Jawaharlal Nehru Cup
• Kuppuswamy Naiduu Trophy
• Lady Ratan Tata Trophy (Women)
• Maharaja Ranjit Singh Gold Cup
• MCC Trophy
• Murugappa Gold Cup
• Nehru Trophy
• Obaidullah Gold Cup
• Rangaswami Cup
• Rene Frank Trophy
• Scindia Gold Cup
• Settu Cup
• Shani Trophy
• Surjeet Singh Cup
• Tommy Emar Gold Cup (Women)
Cricket • Coach Bihar Trophy
• Deodhar Trophy
• Duleep Trophy
• Irani Cup
• Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup
• Rani Jhansi Trophy
• Ranii Trophy
• Viiay Merchant Trophy
• Vizzy Trophy
• Wills Cup
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Football • Ashutosh Trophy

• Begum Hazrat Mahal Trophy
• Chakola Gold Trophy
• DCM Trophy
• Dr B.C. Roy Trophy
• Durand Cup
• F.A. Cup
• G.V. Raja Memorial Trophy
• I.F.A. Shield
• Mis lqbal Hussain Trophy
• Nagjee Trophy
• Nizam Gold Cup
• Raghbir Singh Memorial Cup
• Rovers Cup
• Saniay Gold Cup
• Santosh Trophy
• Sir Krishna Gold Cup
• Stafford Cup
• Subroto Mukerji Cup
• Todd Memorial Trophy
• Vittal Trophy
Badminton • Amrit Diwan Cup
• Hiralal Cup
• Vikas Topiwala Challenge Cup
• Yonex Cup
Basketball • Bangalore Blues Challenge Cup

Polo • EZAR Cup
• Prithi Singh Cup
• Radha Mohan Cup
• Winchester Cup
Rowing • Wellington Trophy

Weightlifting • Burdwan Trophy
Tennis • Dr. Rajindra Prasad Cup
Table Tennis • Ramanujan Trophy
• Rajkumari Challenge Cup
• Jayalakshmi Cup
Chapter 18: Capital & Currency

List of Countries having Rupee/Rupiah as their Currency
Country Capital Currency
India New Delhi Rupee
Indonesia Jakarta (Old), Island of Borneo Rupiah

(New)
Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese Rupee
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Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Sri Lankan Rupee
Seychelles Victoria Seychellois Rupee
Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani Rupee
Maldives Male Maldivian Rufiyaa
Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian Rupee
List of Countries having Dinar/Dirham as their Currency

Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar
Bahrain Manama Bahraini Dinar
Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar
Jordan Amman Jordanian Dinar
Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti Dinar
Libya Tripoli Libyan Dinar
Macedonia Skopje Macedonian Denar
Serbia Belgrade Serbian Dinar
Tunisia Tunis Tunisian Dinar
UAE Abu Dhabi UAE Dirham
List of Countries having Euro as their Currency

Country Capital Country Capital
Andorra Andorra la Vella Latvia Riga
Austria Vienna Luxembourg Luxembourg
Belgium Brussels Malta Valletta
Cyprus Nicosia Monaco Monaco
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Estonia Tallinn Montenegro Podgorica
Finland Helsinki Netherlands Amsterdam
France Paris Portugal Lisbon
Germany Berlin San Marino San Marino
Greece Athens Slovakia Bratislava
Ireland Dublin Slovenia Ljubljana
Italy Rome Spain Madrid
Lithuania Vilnius Vatican City Vatican City
List of Countries having Dollar as their Currency

Antigua and Barbuda Saint John’s Eastern Caribbean Dollar
Australia Canberra Australian Dollar
Bahamas Nassau Bahamian Dollar
Barbados Bridgetown Barbadian Dollar
Belize Belmopan Belize Dollar
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Dollar
Bermuda Hamilton Bermudian Dollar
Canada Ottawa Canadian Dollar
Dominica Roseau Eastern Caribbean Dollar
Fiji Suva Fijian Dollar
Grenada Saint George’s Eastern Caribbean Dollar
Guyana Georgetown Guyanese Dollar
Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar
Kiribati Tarawa Kiribati dollar
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Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar
Namibia Windhoek Namibian Dollar
Nauru Yaren District Australian Dollar
New Zealand Wellington New Zealand Dollar
Palau Ngerulmud United States Dollar
Panama Panama City United States Dollar
Singapore Singapore Singapore Dollar
Taiwan Taipei New Taiwan Dollar
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Dollar
Tuvalu Funafuti Australian dollar, Tuvaluan dollar
United States Washington, D.C. United States Dollar
Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe Dollar
Countries having Peso as their Currency

Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine peso
Chile Santiago Chilean peso
Colombia Bogotá Colombian peso
Cuba Havana Cuban convertible peso
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Dominican peso
Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso
Philippines Manila Philippine peso
Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan peso
Countries having Rial/Riyal as their Currency

Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel
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Iran Tehran Rial (New currency – Toman)
Oman Muscat Rial
Qatar Doha Riyal
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi Riyal
Countries having Pound as their Currency

United Kingdom Landon Pound sterling
Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound
Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound
South Sudan Juba South Sudanese pound
Sudan Khartoum Sudanese pound
Syria Damascus Syrian pound
Countries having Currency same as their Country name

Afghanistan Kabul Afghan Afghani
Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladeshi taka
Georgia Tbilisi Georgian lari
Israel Jerusalem Israeli new shekel
Japan Tokyo Japanese yen
Kazakhstan Nursultan (New) Kazakhstani Tenge
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani Som
Laos Vientiane Lao kip
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysian ringgit
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian Togrog
Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw Burmese kyat
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North Korea Pyongyang North Korean won
South Korea Seoul South Korean won
Tajikistan Dushanbe Tajikistani Somoni
Thailand Bangkok Thai baht
Turkey Ankara Turkish lira
Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmenistan Manat
Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani Som
Nicaragua Managua Nicaraguan Cordoba
Bolivia Sucre La Paz Bolivian boliviano
Paraguay Asunción Paraguayan Guarani
Venezuela Caracas Venezuelan bolivar
Albania Tirana Albanian Lek
Belarus Minsk Belarusian Ruble
Bulgaria Sofia Bulgarian lev
Croatia Zagreb Croatian Kuna
Czech Republic Prague Czech koruna
Denmark Copenhagen Danish krone
Hungary Budapest Hungarian forint
Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic krona
Norway Oslo Norwegian krone
Poland Warsaw Polish zloty
Romania Bucharest Romanian Leu
Russia Moscow Russian Ruble
Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leonean Leone
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Rwanda Kigali Rwandan Franc
Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Ariary
Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling
Ghana Accra Ghanaian cedi
Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birr
Angola Luanda Angolan kwanza
Countries having Different Currencies

China Beijing Renminbi
Peru Lima Sol
Mozambique Maputo Metical
Mali Bamako West African CFA franc
Bhutan Thimphu Bhutanese ngultrum
Chapter 19: Wildlife Sanctuary

State National Parks
Andhra Pradesh Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary, Kaundinya
Wildlife Sanctuary, Kolleru Bird Sanctuary, Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary,
Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam, Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary, Pulicat Lake Bird
Sanctuary, Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary, Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife
Sanctuary, Sri Venkateshwara National Park
Telanagana Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary, Eturnagaram Wildlife Sanctuary, Kawal

Tiger Reserve, Manjira wildlife sanctuary, Pocharam Wildlife Sanctuary,
Pranahita wildlife sanctuary
Arunachal Pradesh Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, The Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary,
Eaglenest or Eagle’s Nest Wildlife Sanctuary, The Kamlang Wildlife
Sanctuary, Kane wildlife sanctuary, Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, Pakke Tiger
Reserve, Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, Sessa Orchid Sanctuary, Talley Valley
Wildlife Sanctuary, Yardi-Rabe Supse Wildlife Sanctuary
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Assam Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, Borail Wildlife Sanctuary, Bornadi Wildlife

Sanctuary, Bherjan-Borajan-Padumoni, Bura Chapori Wildlife Sanctuary,
Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary, The Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary,
Garampani Wildlife Sanctuary, Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary, The
Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary, Nambor
Wildlife Sanctuary, Nambor – Doigrung Wildlife Sanctuary, Pobitora or
Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary, Pani Dihing
Wildlife Sanctuary
Bihar Bhimbandh Wildlife Sanctuary, GautamBudha Wildlife Sanctuary, The

KanwarTaal or KabarTaalKaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagi Dam Bird
Sanctuary, Nagi Dam Bird Sanctuary, Valmiki National Park and Wildlife
Sanctuary,VikramshilaGangetic Dolphin Sanctuary
Chhattisgarh The Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary, Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary,

Badalkholsanctuary,Bhairamgarh Wildlife Sanctuary,Bhoramdeo Wildlife
Sanctuary,Gomarda Wildlife Sanctuary, The Pamed Wildlife
Sanctuary,Sitanadi Wildlife Sanctuary,TamorPingla Wildlife Sanctuary,
Udanti Sanctuary
Goa Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, The Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary, The Mhadei
Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary, Netravali Wildlife
Sanctuary
Gujarat BalaramAmbaji Wildlife Sanctuary, Barda Wildlife Sanctuary, Gaga Wildlife
Sanctuary, Gir Forest National Park, Jambughoda is a Wildlife Sanctuary,
Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Kutch Bustard Sanctuar, Khijadiya Bird
Sanctuary, Marine National Park, Mitiyala Wildlife Sanctuary, NalSarovar
Bird Sanctuary, Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, Pania Wildlife Sanctuary,
Porbandar Bird Sanctuary, Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Rampara Wildlife
Sanctuary, Thol bird sanctuary, Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary,
Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary
Haryana Abubshahar Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary,

BirShikargah Wildlife Sanctuary, Chhilchhila Wildlife Sanctuary, Kalesar
National Park, Khaparwas Bird Sanctuary, Khol Hi-Raitan Wildlife
Sanctuary, Nahar Wildlife Sanctuary
Himachal Pradesh Bandli Wildlife Sanctuary, Chail Wildlife Sanctuary, Churdhar Sanctuary,
The Daranghati Sanctuary, Gamgul Wildlife Sanctuary, Kais wild life
sanctuary, Kalatop Khajjiar Sanctuary, Kanawar Wildlife sanctuary,
Khokhan wildlife sanctuary, Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary, Lipa Asrang
Wildlife Sanctuary, Majathal Sanctuary, Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary, Renuka
Wildlife Sanctuary, Sainj Wildlife Sanctuary, Rupi Bhaba Sanctuary, Sangla
Valley (Rakchham-Chitkul), Sechu Tuan Nala Wildlife Sanctuary, Shikari
Devi Sanctuary, Water Catchment Sanctuary, Talra Wildlife Sanctuary,
Tirthan wildlife sanctuary, Tundah Wildlife Sanctuary
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Jammu And Kashmir/ Ladakh Thajwas (Thajiwas) (Baltal), Changtang Wildlife Sanctuary, Hirpora
Wildlife Sanctuary, Jasrota Wildlife Sanctuary, Karakoram Wildlife
Sanctuary, Lachipora Wildlife Sanctuary, Kazinag National Park, Kazinag
National Park, Nandini Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary,
Ramnagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Trikuta Wildlife Sanctuary
Jharkhand Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary ,GautamBudha Wildlife Sanctuary ,Hazaribag

Wildlife Sanctuary ,Koderma Wildlife Sanctuary, The Lawalong Wildlife
Sanctuary , Mahuadanr (Wolf) Wildlife Sanctuary , Palkot Wildlife
Sanctuary , Parasnath wildlife sanctuary , Udhwa Lake Bird Sanctuary
Karnataka Adichunchanagiri Wildlife Sanctuary, Arabithittu Wildlife Sanctuary,

Attiveri Bird Sanctuary, Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhimgad Wildlife
Sanctuary, Biligiriranga Swamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, Brahmagiri
wildlife sanctuary, Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, Chincholi Wildlife
Sanctuary, Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Ghataprabha Bird Sanctuary, Malai
Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary, Melkote Temple Wildlife Sanctuary,
Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Nugu Wildlife Sanctuary, Pushpagiri
Wildlife Sanctuary, Ranebennur Blackbuck Sanctuary, Sharavathi Wildlife
Sanctuary, Shettihalli Wildlife Sanctuary, Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary,
Talakaveri Wildlife Sanctuary
Kerala Aralam Wildlife Sanctuary, Chimmini Wildlife sanctuary, Chinnar Wildlife

Sanctuary, Chulanur Peafowl (Peacocks) Sanctuary, Idukki Wildlife
Sanctuary, Kottiyoor, Kurinjimala Sanctuary, Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary,
Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary, Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary, Parambikulam
Tiger Reserve, Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary, Peppara Wildlife
Sanctuary, Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary
Madhya Pradesh Bagdara Wildlife Sanctuary,Bori Wildlife Sanctuary, Gandhi Sagar

Sanctuary, GhatigaonWildlife Sanctuary, Ken GharialSanctuary,Kheoni
Wildlife Sanctuary, National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary,
Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary,Orchha Wildlife Sanctuary, The Pachmarhi
Biosphere Reserve, Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Gangau is a mini wildlife
sanctuary, Pench National Park, Phen Wildlife Sanctuary, Ratapani Tiger
Reserve, Sailana Wildlife Sanctuary, Sanjay Dubri National Park, Sardarpur
Wildlife SanctuarSinghori Wildlife Sanctuary, Son Gharial Wildlife
Sanctuary, VeeranganaDurgawati Wildlife Sanctuary
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Maharashtra Tadoba Andhari Reserve, Anerdam Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhamragarh

Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary, Bor Tiger Reserve is
a wildlife, Chaprala Wildlife Sanctuary, Dnyanganga Sanctuary, Gautala
Autramghat Sanctuary, Jayakwadi Bird Sanctuary , Karnala, Katepurna
Sanctuary, Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary, Malvan Marine Wildlife Sanctuary,
Mansingh-Deo, Mayureswar Wildlife Sanctuary, Melghat was declared,
Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary, Mayureswar Wildlife Sanctuary, Nandur
Madhmeshwar Bird Sanctuary, Karnala is a protected wildlife park,
Navegaon National Park, Painganga Wildlife Sanctuary, Phansad Wildlife
Sanctuary, Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagareshwar Wildlife
Sanctuary, Tansa wildlife sanctuary, Tipeshwar wildlife sanctuary, Yawal
Wildlife Sanctuary
Manipur Khongjaingamba Ching Wildlife Sanctuary, Yaingangpokpi Lokchao

Wildlife Sanctuary
Meghalaya Baghmara Pitcher Plant Wildlife Sanctuary, Nongkhyllem Wildlife
Sanctuary, Siju Bird Sanctuary
Mizoram Dampa Tiger Reserve, Khawnglung Wildlife Sanctuary, Lengteng Wildlife
Sanctuary, Ngengpui Wildlife Sanctuary, Pualreng Wildlife Sanctuary, Tawi
Wildlife Sanctuary Thorangtlang Wildlife, Palak (Tokalo) Wildlife
Sanctuary
Nagaland Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary, The Pulie Badze Wildlife Sanctuary, Rangapahar
Reserve Forest
Sikkim Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary, Kitam Bird sanctuary, Kyongnosla Alpine
Sanctuary, Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, Varsey Rhododendron
Sanctuary
Tamil Nadu Cauvery North Wildlife Sanctuary, Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary, Indira
Gandhi National Park, Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve,
Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary, Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Karikili
Bird Sanctuary, Palani Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Koonthankulam Bird
Sanctuary, Mudumalai National Park, Oussudu Lake Bird Sanctuary, Point
Calimere Sanctuary, Vaduvur Bird Sanctuary, Vedanthangal Bird
Sanctuary, Vellode Birds Sanctuary, Vettangudi Bird sanctuary
Tripura Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary, Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary, Sepahijala Wildlife
Sanctuary, Trishna Wildlife Sanctuary
UttarPradesh The Bakhira Bird Sanctuary, The Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, The
Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary, Kaimoor Wildlife
Sanctuary,TheKishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary ,Lakh Bahosi Sanctuary ,
Mahavir Swami Sanctuary, The Okhla Bird Sanctuary , The ParvatiAranga
Bird Sanctuary , Patna Vihar Bird Sanctuary , Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary,
Saman Bird Sanctuary, Samaspur Sanctuary , Sandi Bird Sanctuary ,
SohagiBarwa Wildlife Sanctuary , Suhelwa Wildlife Sanctuary , SoorSarovar
Bird Sanctuary , Jai PrakashNarain Bird Sanctuary , Kachhua Sanctuary ,
VijaiSagar Sanctuary , Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
Uttarakhand Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, Askot Musk Deer Sanctuary, Askot Musk
Deer Sanctuary, GovindPashuVihar National Park, Kedarnath Wild Life
Sanctuary, Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary
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West Bengal Ballabhpur Wildlife Sanctuary, Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanctuary , The Buxa
Tiger Reserve , Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary , ChintamoniKar Bird
Sanctuary , The Haliday Island Wildlife , JorePokhri Wildlife Sanctuary ,
Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary , Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary , Ramnabagan
Wildlife Sanctuary , SajnakhaliWildlifeSanctuary , Senchal Wildlife
Sanctuary , The Sundarbans National Park
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PARA 13.2 GA CAPSULE

Chapter 1 Important Appointment (National, International) 4-21

Chapter 2 Awards (National, International) 22-51

Chapter 3 Government Scheme/ campaign 51-57

Chapter 4 Summit/ Conference 57-61

Chapter 5 Ranking Index 61-69

Chapter 6 Partnership/ Agreement 69-77

Chapter 7 loans agreement for India from different 77-80

Chapter 8 Mergers and Acquires 80-82

Chapter 9 APP/Website/Card 82-85

Chapter 11 Budget 2020 & Atma Nirbhar Package 86-94

Chapter 12 Important Committee 94-97

Chapter 13 Banking & Financial 98-117

Chapter 14 Current Affairs (National) In Short 117-133

Chapter 15 Current Affairs (International) In Short 133-138

Chapter 16 Defence News 138-149

Chapter 17 Sports News 149-162

Chapter 18 Upcoming Sports Events & Venues 162-164

Chapter 19 List of Important Book and Author 2020 164-166

Chapter 20 Important Day and Theme 2020 166-184

Chapter 21 Obituary 184-188

Chapter 22 Science related News 188-190

Chapter 24 State Chief Ministers and Governors 193-195

Chapter 25 Cabinet ministers of India with their constituency 195-200

Chapter 26 List of Union Ministry Secretary 200-201

Chapter 1 Dams in India

Chapter 2 Folk Dance

Chapter 3 List of International & Domestic Airport: State wise

Chapter 4 International borders / Boundary lines

Chapter 5 International Organizations & Headquarter

Chapter 6 List of Lakes

Chapter 7 List of Important Indian Cities on Rivers banks

Chapter 8 List of National Parks of India

Chapter 9 Nuclear Power Plants in India

Chapter 10 Thermal Power Plants in India

Chapter 11 Solar Power Plant in India

Chapter 12 List of Ports in India: State Wise

Chapter 13 List of River a Cross State

Chapter 14 Stadiums in India

Chapter 15 Famous Temple in India

Chapter 16 List of Tiger Reserve in India

Chapter 18 Capital & Currency

Chapter 19 Wildlife Sanctuary

Chapter 1: Important Appointment (National & International)

Additional charge of CRPF director general (DG) Kuldiep Singh

Additional charge of Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj

Chief Statistician of India (CSI) Dr G P Samanta

Director and chief executive of the Indian Council for

Next Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana

Chairman of Airports Authority of India Sanjeev Kumar

Chairman and Managing Director of Food

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unique

Chairperson of Standing Conference of Public

Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil

Director General of Employees’ State Insurance

Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection

Head of the BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Unit Shabir Hussein

Mission Director of Atal Innovation Mission Chintan Vaishnav

Chairman and Managing Director of Small

First woman director general of National

Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra