Current Affairs September 2021

Subramanian Swamy comes out with book titled Human Rights and Terrorism in India

Subramanian Swamy comes out with a book titled Human Rights and Terrorism in India

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has launched his new book titled ”Human Rights and Terrorism in India”. He has come out with a book “Human Rights and Terrorism in India” which traces how the combating of terrorism can be harmonized with human and fundamental rights within reasonable restrictions that are permitted by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme […]

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Paytm Payments Bank launches India’s first FASTag-based metro parking facility in Delhi

Paytm Payments Bank on Monday said it has launched the country’s first FASTag-based Metro parking facility, in partnership with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). Paytm Payments Bank will be the acquiring bank to facilitate the processing of all FASTag-based transactions for cars having a valid FASTag sticker.The parking facility is also the first to accept payment via the UPI

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DBS Bank partners with SWIFT to launch real-time cross-border payment tracking

DBS has launched real-time online tracking for cross-border collections for businesses in India in partnership with SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi), the bank said on Monday. DBS said it is the first bank in India and Asia-Pacific to offer this service to clients, which is expected to benefit close to 4,000 corporate and small business

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India and Singapore to link their Fast Payment Systems – Unified Payments Interface and PayNow

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday announced a project to link their respective fast payment systems — Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and PayNow — to facilitate instant, low-cost, cross-border fund transfer. The linkage will enable users of each of the two fast payment systems to make

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RBI announces Opening of Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox- Theme ‘MSME Lending’

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the theme for the Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS) as ‘MSME Lending’. The application for the Third Cohort will be kept open from October 01, 2021 to November 14, 2021. With that, the central bank has announced the opening of the application window for the

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PM Narendra Modi to attend first in-person Quad Summit at White House on September 24

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the first in-person summit of the Quad leaders in Washington on September 24 that is expected to broadly focus on contemporary global challenges including ways to ensure a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.Quad nation comprise of India, Japan, the US and Australia. PM Modi will also address the

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India–Africa Defence Dialogue to be held biennially at every DefExpo

Two years after the first India-Africa Defence Ministers’ Conclave held in February 2020 in Lucknow, India will hold the India-Africa Defence Dialogue on the sidelines of DefExpo in March next year. India has proposed to make it a regular event, to be held with the biennial DefExpo military exhibition.The Government of India has proposed to

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in UP’s Aligarh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the work of the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday as he laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. Calling it a “big day for Aligarh and West Uttar Pradesh”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his speech by remembering late BJP leader and former UP

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MS Dhoni to mentor Indian team for the T20 World Cup

BCCI announced that the former India captain MS Dhoni will mentor the team for the tournament, which will be played in UAE and Oman in October and November. MS Dhoni, who had brought about a revolution in Indian cricket, as he led a young team to the title in the maiden ICC T20 World Cup in 2007, announced his retirement

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India and US launch the Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue

India and the United States of America (USA) have launched the “Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue (CAFMD)”. The CAFMD is one of the two tracks of the India-U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership launched at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate in April 2021, by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and US President Mr. Joseph Biden. About the

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