As many as three people were killed in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha after Cyclone Gulab made landfall at Kalingapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Two fishermen los...
UN Food Systems Summit
ª There is a need to achieve the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030 and address climate change in view of food produc...
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 September, 2021 launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, under which a digital health ID will be provide...
First woman Speaker of Gujarat Assembly
Senior MLA from Bhuj constituency of Kutch district, Nimaben Acharya, became the first woman Speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly after she was ele...
World Social Protection Report
Over half of the global population lacks any form of social protection, a report released on September 1 by the International Labour Organization (ILO...
India scripted history at Tokyo Paralympics 2020
India has created history at the Tokyo Paralympics, returning home with as many as 19 medals, their best-ever tally in a single edition of the Paralym...
Tokyo Paralympics: Pramod Bhagat won historic gold medal in badminton
Pramod Bhagat scripted history as he became India’s first-ever para-badminton gold medalist at the Games. The 33-year-old won the gold medal in ...
Tokyo Paralympics: IAS officer Suhas Yathiraj won silver in badminton
Suhas Yathiraj has scripted history by becoming the first Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer to win a medal at the Tokyo Paralympics. The 38-...
Tokyo Paralympics: Krishna Nagar won gold in badminton
India’s Krishna Nagar won the country’s 2nd gold medal in badminton at Tokyo Paralympics after reigning supreme in the men’s singles...
Inspiration4
Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced that ‘Inspiration4’, its first all-civilian, non-governmental spaceflight, is on track for launch on Septemb...
India: First Asian Country to launch a plastics pact
World-Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have joined hands to develop a platform to promote a circu...
TODAY’S CURRENT AFFAIRS (07-09-2021)
NATIONAL Karbi Anglong Agreement ª A tripartite agreement among five insurgent groups of Assam, the Centre and the State government was signed recentl...
Tokyo Paralympics: Manoj Sarkar won bronze
India’s Manoj Sarkar won the bronze medal in the men’s singles (SL3) badminton event to better India’s medal tally at the Tokyo Para...
India’s 1st dugong conservation reserve
The Tamil Nadu government announced plans to set up India’s first Dugong Conservation Reserve in the Palk Bay on the southeast coast of the state. Dug...
TN govt will celebrate Periyar’s birth anniversary as social justice day
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to celebrate every year the birth anniversary of reformist leader E V Ramasamy Periyar on September 17 as “Socia...
Indian economy grows by 20.1% in first quarter of current financial year
India’s economy grew by 20.1% during the April-June quarter of this financial year, as against a 24.4% contraction seen during the same period last ye...
India’s month-long Presidency of powerful UNSC ends
India’s month-long Presidency of the powerful UN Security Council has ended with “substantive” outcomes on key global issues including a strong resolu...
China’s new maritime law
From 1st September, 2021 China’s new maritime rules designed to control the entry of foreign vessels in what Beijing calls “Chinese territorial waters...
World’s highest motorable road at 18,600 ft inaugurated in Ladakh
A strategically important road, which connects Leh to the Pangong Lake, was inaugurated in Leh by Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who said that the...