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Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 October to 8

October 2021

National News
• Nata Sankiratana festival begins in Manipur
• AU SFB- NABARD to boost rural development projects
in Rajasthan
• Hurun India Rich List 2021: Mukesh Ambani tops
• GoI launches ‘Waste to Wealth’ web portal
• PM Modi launches Jal Jeevan Mission App and Rashtriya Jal
Jeevan Kosh
• Varanasi to Become First City in India to Use Ropeway
Services for Public Transportation
• Alibaug white onion gets GI tag for health benefits
• PM distributes 7 lakh e-property cards of Svamitva
scheme in M.P
• GI tagged Mihidana from West Bengal exported to Bahrain
• Andhra Pradesh government launched ‘Swechha’ programme
• Palghar’s famed Wada Kolam rice gets GI tag

International News
• Facebook launches Creator education programme in India
• Najla Bouden Romdhane appointed as first woman PM of
Tunisia
• Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed takes oath for a second term
• India joins Seychelles’ Tax Inspectors Without Borders
programme
• India Slips Six Ranks To Rank 90 On Henley Passport Index
2021, Japan and Singapore tops

Banking and Financial

• ADB Approves $251 Million for Integrated Flood
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• AIIB approves USD 356.67 million loan for expansion of

the Chennai Metro Rail System
• IOB out of RBI PCA Framework
• Government collects Rs 1.17 lakh crore as GST for September
• IFSCA has constituted an Expert Panel on Sustainable
Finance which will be chaired by K. Mishra
• World Bank approves $150 million loan for Chennai’s
Sustainable Urban Services
• SBI, Indian Navy launch NAV-eCash card
• Paytm acquires 100% stake startup CreditMate
• Ola acquires GeoSpoc to build next-generation location
technology
• RBI grants licence to NARCL
• Fitch cuts India’s FY22 GDP growth forecast to 7%
• BharatPe launches ‘buy now, pay later’ platform, postpe
• Kotak Bank gets approval from the government to collect
direct, indirect taxes
• Air India privatisation: Tata wins bid to buy Air India for Rs
18,000 cr

Appointment and Resignation

• NSDL appointed Padmaja Chunduru as MD & CEO
• Vinod Aggarwal appointed Automotive Skills Development
Council (ASDC) president
• Sunil Kataria elected as the chairman of the Indian Society of
Advertisers (ISA)
• Soma Sankara Prasad likely to be next UCO Bank MD
• Kangana Ranaut named brand ambassador of UP’s ‘one
district one product’ scheme
• Amish Mehta appointed as new MD & CEO of CRISIL
• B C Patnaik appointed as MD of LIC
• CoinDCX onboards Amitabh Bachchan as brand
ambassador to raise crypto awareness
• Sanjay Bhargava to head Starlink satellite broadband venture
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• K V Subramanian steps down as govt’s chief economic adviser

Awards
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2021 announced: READ
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• S. scientists David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian get Medicine
Nobel for discovery of temperature, touch receptors
• Shiv Nadar to be awarded Global Leadership Award 2021
• Indian Organisation LIFE receives 2021 Right Livelihood
Award
• Nobel physics prize goes to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus
Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their work on complex
physical systems
• Venkaiah Naidu presented Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award
• Nobel Prize 2021 in Chemistry awarded to Benjamin
List and David MacMillan
• Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel
literature prize
• Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won Nobel Peace
Prize 2021

Defence
• ‘AUSINDEX’: India, Australia Participate In 4th Edition Of
Biennial Maritime Series
• India, Australia sign ‘Terms of Reference’ for navy to navy talks
• India- Sri Lanka to take part in ‘Mitra Shakti 21’ Exercise
• Fifth Edition Of Japan-India Bilateral Maritime
Exercise ‘JIMEX’ will be held in Arabian Sea

Sports
• India won Bronze at Asian Table Tennis Championships
• Kiren Rijiju inaugurates India’s first Sports Arbitration
Centre in Gujarat
• Birendra Lakra and SV
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• FC Goa Beat Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 to Clinch Maiden

Durand Title
• Magnus Carlsen won Meltwater Champions Chess Tour title
• Wrestler Anshu Malik Becomes First Indian Woman To Win
World Championships Silver

Important day
• 30th September: International Translation Day (Theme 2021:
“United in translation.”)
• 30th September: World Maritime Day (Theme 2021: ‘Seafarers
at the core of shipping’s future’)
• 1st October: International Day of Older Persons (Theme 2021:
Digital Equity for All Ages.)
• 1st October: International Coffee Day
• 1st October: World Vegetarian Day
• 2nd October: Gandhi Jayanti and International Day of Non-
Violence
• 2nd October: Lal Bahadur Shastri’s 117th birth anniversary
• 4th October: World Animal Welfare Day
• 5th October: World Teachers’ Day (Theme 2021: ‘Teachers at
the Heart of Education Recovery.’)
• 8th October: 89th Indian Air Force Day
• 7th October: World Cotton Day 2021 (Theme 2021: “Cotton for
Good”)

Obituary
• Actor Ghanshyam Nayak passed away
• Arvind Trivedi, best known for his role as ‘Raavan’ in Ramayan,
passes away

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Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 9 October to 16

October 2021

National News

• Bathukamma festival begins in Telangana

• India’s Newest Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh
• Maharashtra Government launches ‘Mission Kavach Kundal’
• Railways launch two long haul freight trains ‘Trishul’, ‘Garuda’
• GI Tag for Karuppur kalamkari paintings, Kallakurichi wood
carvings
• GoI launched ‘My Port App’ for digital monitoring of port
operations
• Delhi Government launched ‘Desh Ke Mentor’ Programme
• Gati Shakti: Modi launches 100-lakh crore national master
plan for multi-modal connectivity
• AIIMS launches ‘Healthy Smile’ Mobile App

International News

• India, Kyrgyz Republic agree on 200 million US Dollar Line of

Credit to support development projects
• Alexander Schellenberg appointed Austria’s new Chancellor
• International Energy Agency (IEA) invites India to
become full-time member
• Germany launches World’s First Self-Driving Train
• PM Modi participates in G20 Extraordinary
Summit on Afghanistan hosted by Italy
• India at 3rd position in RE Investment attractiveness
index, US Tops
• Global Hunger Index 2021 ranks India at 101 out of 116
countries
• India re-elected to UN Human Rights Council for 2022-24
• Reliance Industries tops in Forbes World’s Best Employer
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Banking and Financial

• TCS, SBI extend partnership for 5 years to drive innovation,

enhance customer experience
• PNB launches ‘6S Campaign’ under customer outreach programme
• Ficci projects 1% GDP growth for FY22
• Reliance New Energy Solar acquires REC Solar
Holdings for $771 million
• Indian economy to grow at 5% in 2021, 8.5% in 2022: IMF
• RBI grants banking licence to Unity Small Finance Bank
• Kotak Mahindra Bank launches Micro ATMs across India
• ADB Raises 2019–2030 Climate Financing Goal to $100 Billion

Appointment and Resignation

• Former State Bank of India chief Rajnish

Kumar joins BharatPe as chairman
• Fire-Boltt ropes in Virat Kohli as new brand ambassador
• Former IAS Amit Khare appointed as advisor to PM Modi
• Prashant Kumar Mishra Sworn In As New Chief
Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court
• Sajjan Jindal appointed chairman of World Steel Association
• UCO Bank MD A K Goel elected new chairman of IBA
• RBI clears re-appointment of Amitabh Chaudhry as MD &
CEO of Axis Bank
• Ritesh Chauhan named as CEO of PM Fasal Bima Yojana

Awards

• Three US-based economists, David Card, Joshua D Angrist, and

Guido W Imbens won 2021 Nobel Prize for economics
• 2021 Nobel Prize List Read More…
• Telugu Filmmaker B Gopal Chosen for Satyajit Ray Award
• Malayalam writer Benyamin bags Vayalar Award
• Dr Randeep Guleria bags 22nd Lal Bahadur Shastri National
Award

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Defence

• India, UK begin 6th edition of military exercise “Ajeya

Warrior” in Uttarakhand
• Indian Navy To Participate In 2nd Phase Of Maritime Exercise
Malabar From Oct 12-15
• Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2021 start between India and the United
States
• PM Narendra Modi dedicates 7 new Defence PSUs to the nation

Science

• PM Narendra Modi launches Indian Space Association

Sports

• Turkish Grand Prix 2021: Bottas notches up first win of the

season
• Divya Deshmukh becomes India’s 21st WGM, wins at First
Saturday Grand Master
• CSK won IPL 2021 for fourth title
• Indian Football Team Wins SAFF Championship
2021 Against Nepal

Book and Author

• The Custodian of Trust: A Banker’s Memoir Book by Rajnish

Kumar

Important day

• 9th October: World Postal Day (Theme 2021: “Innovate to

recover”)
• 9th October (Second Saturday of October) : World Migratory
Bird Day 2021 (Theme 2021:“Sing, Fly, Soar – Like a Bird!”)
• 10th October: World Mental Health Day (Theme 2021: ‘Mental
Health In An Unequal World’)
• 11th October: International Day of the Girl Child (Theme
2021:“Digital Generation. Our Generation.”)

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• 9th October: Indian Foreign Service day

• 10th October: World Day Against the Death Penalty (Theme
2021: “Women Sentenced to Death: An Invisible Reality.”)
• 12 October: World Arthritis Day (Theme 2021: Don’t Delay,
Connect Today: Time2Work..)
• 13th October: International Day for Disaster
Reduction (Theme 2021: “International cooperation for developing
countries to reduce their disaster risk and disaster losses”.)
• 14th October: World Standards Day (Theme 2021: ‘Standards
for sustainable development goals- a shared vision for a better
future’.)
• 14th October: International E-Waste Day (Theme 2021:
“Consumer is the key to Circular Economy!”)
• 15th October: World Students’ Day (Theme 2021:”Learning for
people, planet, prosperity and peace”)
• 15th October: Global Handwashing Day (Theme 2021: “Our
Future is at Hand – Let’s Move Forward Together.”)
• 16th October: World Food Day (Theme 2021: “Safe food now for
a healthy tomorrow”)
• 15th October: International Day of Rural Women (Theme
2021:“Rural women cultivating good food for all”.)
• 17th October: International Day for the Eradication of
Poverty

Obituary

• Father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb AQ Khan passes away

• National Award-winning actor Nedumudi Venu passes away at 73
• Abolhassan Banisadr first Iran’s president passes away

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Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 17 October to 24

October 2021

National News

• Khadi exhibition and Khadi Kareegar Sammelan inaugurated

in Varanasi to strengthen artisans and traditional arts
• Telangana developed India’s first smartphone-based eVoting
solution
• Punjab CM Charanjit Channi launched ‘Mera Ghar Mere
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• Rajasthan launched ‘Prashasan Gaon ke Sang’ Campaign to
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• J&K Administration signed an MoU with Dubai, UAE
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• Centre has launched India’s 1st ‘One Health’
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• Union Minister launched Development Projects in Andaman
and Nicobar Islands; Mount Harriet to be named Mount
Manipur
• NITI Aayog launched Geospatial Energy
Map of India with ISRO
• Working Group Constituted to overhaul Pradhan Mantri Fasal
Bima Yojana (PMFBY) headed by Ritesh Chauhan
• MP Govt announced Implementation of “Mukhyamantri Ration
Aapke Dwar Yojana”
• Chhattisgarh CM launched “Shri Dhanwantri Generic Medical
Store” Scheme
• PM Modi inaugurated Kushinagar International Airport in UP
• NABARD sanctioned Rs 608 Crores to GoI for Assam’s
Infrastructure Projects
• Tamil Nadu CM launched ‘e-munnetram’ web portal
• Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGOS) set up to review and
monitor the implementation of the PM GatiShakti NMP; headed
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• Jonas Gahr Store has assumed charge as Norway’s new PM

• India signed an MoU with Russia for Di-ammonium Phosphate
Fertilizer Supply
• India signed an MoU with Russia for Collaboration in Coking
Coal Sector
• WHO Global TB report for 2021: India worst-hit country in TB
elimination
• Devusinh Chauhan participated in Ministerial Roundtable
Session of ITU Digital World 2021
• 71st Global Food Security Index
2021: India ranked 71st; Ireland topped
• India, Israel, UAE, U.S. decide to launch quadrilateral
economic forum
• 2021 Mercer CFS Global Pension Index
(MCGPI) survey: India ranked 40th ; Iceland topped
• World Justice Project’s (WJP) Rule of Law Index
2021: India ranked 79th; Denmark topped
• HDFC Bank, Mastercard, DFC, USAID launched a $100 Million
Credit Facility for Indian MSMEs
• Barbados elected its first-ever president Dame Sandra
Mason, removing UK’s Queen Elizabeth
• FATF retained Pakistan in ‘Grey List; Turkey,
Jordan, and Mali also added

Banking and Financial

• SEBI formed 4-Member Advisory Committee on Settlement

Orders Chaired by Vijay C Daga
• RBI authorised Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) to collect Direct taxes
• BSE Signed MoU with Business Leadership League To Help
SMEs
• IndiaFirst Life Introduces ‘Saral Bachat Bima’ Insurance Plan
• RBI imposed Rs 1 crore penalty on SBI for non-compliance
• Federal Bank has tied up with CredAvenue for Securitisation
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• RBI imposed a fine of Rs 1.95 crores on Standard Chartered
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• Expert Group by government on Tobacco Tax Policy headed

by Vikas Sheel
• NPCI launched NPCI Tokenization System (NTS) platform
for card tokenization
• Centre extended Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan
Package insurance scheme for another 6 months
• RBI imposed ₹1 crore penalty on Paytm Payments Bank
• Rupifi tied up with Muthoot Finance to Support 15 Million SMEs
• Bharti AXA Life Insurance entered into a Bancassurance
Partnership with Utkarsh Small Finance Bank
• DA/DR for central government
employees and pensioners hiked from 28% to 31%

Appointment and Resignation

• Pradeep Kumar Panja appointed as the Chairman of Karnataka

Bank
• Sahdev Yadav appointed as President of Indian Weightlifting
Federation
• Navrang Saini has got the additional
charge as Chairperson of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of
India (IBBI)
• Amit Rastogi appointed new Chairman & Managing
Director of NRDC
• Ayushmann Khurrana joined CoinDCX for ‘Future Yahi Hai’
campaign
• A Balasubramanian elected as the Chairman of Association of
Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)
• Alok Mishra appointed as the MD of India Ports Global Limited
(IPGL)
• Imtiaz Ali appointed as ambassador of Russian Film Festival in
India
• OnePlus appointed Navnit Nakra as OnePlus India
CEO and Head of India region
• Realme appointed KL Rahul as Brand Ambassador
• Adidas roped in Deepika Padukone as Global Brand
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Awards

• Indian American scientist Vivek Lall got Lifetime Achievement

Award at Ritossa Family Summits
• Assam’s Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award – Literaturist
‘Nirod Kumar Barooah’ among the 3 recipient
• India’s Vidyut Mohan has won inaugural ‘2021 Earthshot
Prize’ under ‘Clean Our Air’ Category
• Aryabhata Award conferred to Dr G Satheesh
Reddy by Astronautical Society of India (ASI)
• Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny won EU’s Sakharov
Prize 2021
• Martin Scorsese and Istevan Szabo to be honored with Satyajit
Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at IFFI
• Parambikulam Tiger Conservation Foundation won Earth
Guardian Award at 11th NatWest Group Earth Heroes Awards
2021

Defence

• Indian Army has won gold medal in the Cambrian Patrol

Exercise 2021

Science

• China has launched 1st Solar Exploration Satellite

• NASA launched Lucy Mission to study the Jupiter’s Trojan
asteroids
• Vodafone-Idea joined hands with L&T for testing 5G based
Smart City solutions

Sports

• Chennai Super Kings set to become India’s first sports unicorn

• China and Indonesia won Uber Cup and Thomas
Cup Respectively
• Bhavani Devi won 2022 Charlellville National
Competition, France

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• Australia’s fast bowler James

Pattinson retires from international cricket
• FIFA Ranking 2021: India ranked 106th; Belgium topped
• Ridhima Veerendra Kumar broke 7-year National record
and bagged gold medal in swimming

Book and Author

• New Book ‘Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion And

Nation’ authored by Professor Shafey Kidwai
• A book titled “Actually… I Met Them: A Memoir” authored
by Gulzar
• Defence Minister launched the book “Veer Savarkar: The Man
Who Could Have Prevented Partition” authored by Uday
Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit
• Divya Dutta will release her 2nd Book ‘The Stars in My Sky:
Those Who Brightened My Film Journey’
• A book titled “The Origin Story of India’s States” authored
by Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan

Important day

• 16thOctober: National Security Guard Raising Day

• 20th October: World Statistics Day
• 20th October: World Osteoporosis Day
• 20th October: International Chef’s Day (Theme 2021: Healthy
Food for the Future.)
• 21st October: Police Commemoration Day
• 21st October: World Iodine Deficiency Day
• 22nd October: International Stuttering Awareness
Day (Theme 2021: “Speak the change you wish to see”.)
• 23rd October: International Snow Leopard Day
• 24th October: United Nations (UN) Day (Theme of UN concert
2021: “Building Back Together for Peace and Prosperity”)
• 24th October: World Polio Day (Theme 2021: Delivering on a
Promise)

Obituary

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• Saurashtra Cricketer Avi Barot passed away

• Sri Lanka’s first Test captain Bandula Warnapura passed away
• Former hockey player Saranjeet Singh passed away

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October 2021

National News

• India’s 1st State Government-owned Wildlife DNA testing

analysis lab inaugurated in Nagpur
• Goa became the 1st state to
achieve ODF and Electricity for each household
• PM Modi launched ‘Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure
Mission’
• UP Govt approved renaming of Faizabad Railway
Junction to Ayodhya Cantt
• Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel launched ‘Go Green’ Scheme to
provide subsidized e-vehicles to workers
• India’s first Radio over Internet Protocol system for Major
Ports launched in Kolkata
• Maharashtra became India’s 1st state to pass its own Wildlife
Action Plan 2021-30
• SC set up a committee to Probe unauthorized
surveillance using Pegasus in India; headed by R V Raveendran
• ECI launched ‘Garuda App’ for Digital Mapping of Polling
Booths
• BSE signed MoU with Chhattisgarh to promote listing of SMEs
• 7 Member Economic Advisory Council to the PM reconstituted
under Chairman Bibek Debroy
• MSME
Ministry launched “SAMBHAV” to promote Entrepreneurship in
India
• Civil Aviation Minister launched Krishi UDAN 2.0 to promote
Agri-Products Transportation by Air

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• Agriculture Minister inaugurated “Apple Festival” in Jammu

and Kashmir
• India’s largest aromatic garden inaugurated in Uttarakhand
• Tamil Nadu launched Unique Academic Scheme ‘Illam Thedi
Kalvi’
• Delhi Govt launched “Paryavaran Saathi” chatbot & Website
• State Energy Efficiency Index (SEEI) 2020: Karnataka topped
• Public Affairs Index (PAI 2021): Kerala topped in governance
performance

International News

• 7th Meeting of BRICS Communications Ministers 2021 chaired

by Devusinh Chauhan
• India, UK, and Australia planned to jointly launch IRIS
initiative at COP26
• “Invest India” elected as The President Of World Association
of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA)
• Sitharaman virtually attended 6th Annual Meeting of Board of
Governors of AIIB
• GoI & ADB signed $4.5 million loan for Mizoram to support
Urban Mobility
• Shavkat Mirziyoyev elected as President of Uzbekistan for 2nd
term
• MeitY Startup Hub and Google partnered to launch ‘Appscale
Academy’ Programme
• “Global Climate Tech Investment trend” report: India ranked
9th, US topped
• South Korea inaugurated World’s Largest Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Power Plant
• THE’s World Reputation Rankings 2021; IISc
Bengaluru among Top 100, Harvard University topped
• PM Narendra Modi co-chaired the 18th India-ASEAN Summit
2021 & participated in 16th EAS 2021
• Facebook Inc. corporate name rebranded as ‘Meta’

Banking and Financial

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• AU Small Finance Bank launched QR Sound box for payment

alerts
• RBI introduced a revised Regulatory Framework for NBFCs –
Scale Based Regulation’ (SBR)
• National Steering Committee for NIPUN Bharat Mission setup
by govt; headed by Dharmendra Pradhan
• Union Bank partnered with Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (CDAC) to launch 1st of its kind
initiative on Cyber Security Awareness
• Kotak Mahindra Bank tied up with IndiGo to launch co-branded
Credit Card ‘Ka-ching’
• HDFC Ltd and India Post Payments Bank partnered to Offer
Home Loans
• ICICI Bank surpassed Hindustan Unilever in m-cap to
become 5th Most Valued Company of India
• Google Pay tied up with SBI General Insurance to offer Health
Insurance
• Tech Mahindra acquired Lodestone & WMW to enhance its
Digital Portfolio
• ADB signed a $251 mn loan for Integrated Urban Flood
Management in Chennai
• India, ADB signed $100 mn loan to promote agribusiness
network, reduce food losses in Maharashtra
• SAIPL partnered with SBI to provide financial support to Dairy
farmers in Maharashtra
• Max Life Insurance became 1st Life Insurer to Join Account
Aggregator (AA) framework
• Kotak Mahindra Bank partnered NPCI to launch Rupay Credit
Cards ‘Veer’ for Armed Forces
• IRCTC & Truecaller partnered to reduce fraud in the railways

Appointment and Resignation

• Ramnath Krishnan appointed as ICRA’s MD and Group CEO

• FloBiz Neobank signed Manoj Bajpayee as Brand
Ambassador for myBillBook
• Sunil Paliwal appointed as Chairperson of Chennai Port Trust

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• K V Kamath appointed as Chairperson of National Bank for

Financing Infrastructure and Development
• Rajesh Gokhale appointed secretary of Department of
Biotechnology
• RBI approved appointment of Baldev
Prakash as MD & CEO of J&K Bank
• S C Khuntia appointed as Jana Small Finance Bank Part-Time
Chairman
• RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das got 3-years extension

Awards

• Rajiv Nigam became 1st Indian to be selected for Joseph A.

Cushman Award 2022
• Rajinikanth honored with 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award
• Tsitsi Dangarembga became 1st Black Woman to win Peace
Prize of the German Book Trade 2021
• Tamil film Koozhangal is India’s official entry to the Oscars
2022
• TVS Motor Company has been awarded India Green Energy
Award 2020

Defence

• DRDO successfully tested Abhyas high-speed expendable aerial

target
• India and UK conducted maiden Tri-Service Exercise Konkan
Shakti 2021
• India successfully test-fired surface-to-surface ballistic missile
Agni-5
• Indigenous ICG Ship ‘Sarthak’ dedicated to the Nation

Science

• South Korea launched its first homegrown space

rocket named “Nuri”
• France launched Military Communications Satellite “Syracuse
4A”

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Sports

• Max Verstappen won US Grand prix title 2021

• Viktor Axelsen and Akane Yamaguchi won Denmark Open
2021
• IPL 2022: Ahmedabad and Lucknow became the two new
franchises
• Fabio Quartararo won MotoGP Title 2021
• Netherlands All-Rounder Ryan ten
Doeschate retired from International Cricket

Book and Author

• Anthology of Ruskin Bond titled “Writing for My Life” released
• Chidanand Rajghatta authored a new Book titled “Kamala
Harris: Phenomenal Woman”
• Former Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal gifted his
book ‘AIIMS Mein Ek Jang Ladte Hue’ to PM Modi

Important day

• 24th October: World Development Information Day (Theme

2021: Action for Sustainable Development Goal)
• 24th October: International Day of Diplomats
• 24th -31st October: Global Media and Information Literacy
Week 2021 (Theme 2021: Media and Information Literacy for the
Public Good.)
• 24th October: Indo-Tibetan Border Police Raising Day
• 27th October: World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (Theme
2021: “Your Window to the World”.)
• 27th October 2021: Indian Army celebrated 75th Infantry
Day
• 28th October: International Animation Day
• 26th October – 1 November: Vigilance Awareness Week
2021 (Theme 2021: “Independent India @75: Self Reliance with
Integrity”.)
• 29th October: International Internet Day

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