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UP become India’s top vegetable producer
Uttar Pradesh has become the top producer of vegetables, getting back its first position by demoting West Bengal to the second position, with a differ...
World’s Biggest Electric Cruise Ship
The largest electric cruise ship in the world has returned back to port in Yichang in central Hubei province, China after travelling up and down the Y...
G20 Summit
The Indian delegation, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was in Rome to attend the G20 Leaders’ Summit. PM Modi held a series of bilateral me...
Facebook changes name of parent company to ‘Meta’
Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta” as the tech giant tries to move past being a scandal-plagued social network to its virt...
Justice Raveendran committee
The Supreme Court recently appointed retired apex court judge justice RV Raveendran to supervise a three-member expert committee that will investigate...
Urban Mobility India conference
Surat won the award for the city with the best public transport system, while Kochi was judged the city with most sustainable transport system by the ...
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine drive
Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya launched a nationwide expansion of Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) under the Universal Immu...
Suicides among farm workers rose 18% in 2020
The number of agricultural labourers who died by suicide in 2020 was 18% higher than the previous year, according to the National Crime Records Bureau...
Climate vulnerability index
Environmental think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water has carried a first-of-its-kind district-level climate vulnerability assessment, or ...
Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, one of the largest pan-India schemes for strengthening health...
WMO report on CO2 emissions
A report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the increase in CO2 from 2019 to 2020 was slightly lower than that observed from 2018 t...
Coup in Sudan
Sudan has descended into crisis after the military dissolved the country’s power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency. Gen. Abde...
Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA)
The Centre has proposed amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, to liberalise forest laws. The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, came into f...
Cyclone Gulab
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...
Asian Junior Boxing Championship
Indian boxers Rohit Chamoli (48kg), Bharat Joon (+81kg), Vishu Rathee (girls 48kg), and Tanu (girls 52kg) notched up contrasting victories to clinch g...
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Vinod Kumar bagged bronze
India’s Vinod Kumar wrote his name in history books as he clinched the bronze in the men’s discus throw to add the third medal to the coun...
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Bhavina Patel bagged silver medal
India’s Bhavinaben Patel scripted history on 29 August, 2021 becoming only the 2nd Indian woman to win a Paralympic medal. The 34-year-old bagge...
India’s first Quantum Computer Simulator toolkit
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India launched the country’s first ‘Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) To...
First Ever G20 Ministerial Conference On Women’s Empowerment
The Union Minister of Women & Child Development, Smriti Irani addressed the First ever G20 Ministerial Conference on Women’s Empowerment which was...
India’s first green hydrogen plant
India’s largest oil firm Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will build the nation’s first ‘green hydrogen’ plant at its Mathura refi...
Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary notified as Eco-sensitive zone
On August 25, 2021 the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified the eco-sensitive part of the Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the...
Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22 – Series VI
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22 Series VI, which will be open for subscription for the period Aug...
Govt introduces new BH number series for vehicles
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways introduced a new registration mark for new vehicles. Called BH (Bharat series), it will free vehicle owner...
Right to be Forgotten
Recently, the Delhi High Court upheld the view that the “Right to Privacy” includes the “Right to be Forgotten” and the “Right to be Left Alone”. The ...
Jallianwala Bagh memorial renovated
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the renovated Jallianwala Bagh complex in Amritsar on 28th August, 2021. The monument was first ope...
Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Nishad Kumar bagged silver
India’s Nishad Kumar made history as he clinched the silver in the men’s high jump to add the second medal to the country’s tally in...
Gaganyaan propulsion system
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 28th August, 2021 successfully conducted the first hot test of system demonstration model (SDM) of th...
India-Maldives mega-infra project
Maldives government officially signed an agreement with Mumbai-based company AFCONS, for the construction of the Greater Malé Connectivity Project (GM...
Tamil Nadu government to open 10 new arts and science colleges
Tamil Nadu’s Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi announced that the government was planning to establish 10 arts and sciences colleges across the stat...
Indian researchers discover merger of three super massive black holes
In a major breakthrough, Indian researchers have discovered three super massive black holes merging together to form a triple active galactic nucleus....
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with Morocco
Algeria announced that it has severed diplomatic relations with Morocco due to “hostile actions”, following months of resurgent tensions between the N...