Current Affairs September 2021

PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Sardardham Bhavan in Ahmedabad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated via video conferencing the Ahmedabad-based Sardardham Bhavan and, in the same function, also performed the “Bhoomi Pujan” of the Sardardham Phase-II Kanya Chhatralaya (girls’ hostel). The two establishments, as their names suggest, are dedicated to the “Iron Man of India,” Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Sardardham Bhavan: The state-of-the-art Sardardham Bhavan […]

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Govt adds dairy products under TMA scheme for Specified Agriculture Products’

The government has enhanced the scope of the Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for specified agriculture products scheme by including dairy products under its purview and increasing the rates of assistance. Department of Commerce (under Ministry of Commerce & Industry) had introduced ‘Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) for Specified Agriculture Products Scheme’ in 2019. The objective of TMA was

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CAG GC Murmu gets elected as ASOSAI chairman

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India GC Murmu on Tuesday was elected as the chairman of the assembly of Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) for a period of three years from 2024 to 2027.Murmu was elected by the 56th governing board of ASOSAI and approval for the same was conveyed by the 15th assembly of

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Daily Current Affairs 11 September 2021 – Gkseries

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Defence Minister held a bilateral meeting with Australian counterpart in New Delhi

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday held wide-ranging talks with his Australian counterpart Peter Dutton to boost overall bilateral strategic ties. The talks took place a day ahead of the inaugural “two-plus-two” dialogue between foreign and defense ministers of India and Australia. Peter Dutton is on his first official visit to India along with a

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Co-WIN develops a new API called KYC-VS: Know Your Customer’s/Client’s Vaccination Status

Over 72 crore vaccine doses have been administered since the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 was flagged off on January 16 this year by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. To provide proof of vaccination for each of these individuals, Co-WIN is already issuing a digitally verifiable certificate. This certificate can be saved on a digital

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Income Tax Returns filling deadline for FY21(AY 2021-22) extended till December 31

Income Tax Returns filing deadline for FY21(AY 2021-22) extended till December 31

In a major relief to thousands of taxpayers, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Thursday has extended the income tax return (ITR) filing deadline for the financial year 2020-21 to December 31, 2021 from September 30. The decision to extend the deadline for filing Income Tax returns has been taken keeping in view the coronavirus

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ICICI Lombard ceases to be a subsidiary of ICICI Bank post-merger with Bharti AXA

ICICI Bank mentioned General Insurance has ceased to be its subsidiary, as shareholding of the financial institution has come down to 48 percent after the merger of Bharti AXA with the insurer. ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company (ICICI Lombard) had on September 8, 2021, allotted fairness shares of the corporation to the eligible shareholders of

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NPCI launches RuPay credit card stack, ‘nFiNi’ to enable fintech to co-create bank-sponsored credit cards

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Fiserv, Inc., provider of payments and financial services technology, have entered into an understanding that will enable the launch of plug and play RuPay credit card stack, ‘nFiNi’. nFiNi is a ready stack of services required for fintechs and banks to issue RuPay credit cards and will enable

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China successfully launches new Earth observation satellite “Gaofen-5 02”

China successfully launched a new Earth observation satellite, Gaofen-5 02, into space, aboard a Long March-4C rocket on September 07, 2021, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China’s Shanxi Province. Gaofen-5 02 is a hyperspectral satellite that will be used for comprehensive environmental monitoring, to improve the country’s hyperspectral observation capacity of the atmosphere, water, and land.

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