📰 Current AffairsOne Liners,
📅 4 July 2021

👤 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat Resigned From Post

⏳ He Served As 9th Chief Minister Of Uttarakhand From 10 March - 02 July , 2021

✅ He Was The Chief Of BJP Uttarakhand From 9 Feb. 2013 To 31 Dec. 2015

⏳ He Was The 1st Education Minister Of Newly Formed State Uttarakhand (2000-02)

✌️ He Was Elected As MP From Garhwal Lok Sabha Constituency On 23 May 2019

🏦 Indian Overseas Bank Has Become The 2nd Most Valued Listed Public Sector Bank

🇦🇷 Argentina Becomes The 1st Country In The World To Ban Salmon Farming

📱 Former US President Donald Trump's Aide Launches Social Media Platform ' GETTR '

👔 Gujarat First State To Provide Uniforms For Anganwadi Kids

🚫 2022 Commonwealth Archery & Shooting C'Ships In Chandigarh Have Been Cancelled

🔶 WAKO India Kickboxing Federation Gets Govt Recognition As National Sports Federation

🏢 WAKO INDIA Came Into Existence In India With The Name IAKO In The Year 1993

⏳ Organization Was Renamed As " National Kickboxing Federation " In The Year 2013

✅ In June , 2017 , WAKO INDIA Is Now Known As " WAKO India Kickboxing Federation "

👤 WAKO INDIA Is Now Headed By Mr. Santosh K. Agrawal As President & HQ : Faridabad

🏢 WAKO : World Association Of Kickboxing Organization (Formation In 1976 & HQ : Italy)

👩‍🚀 Sirisha Bandla Will Become The 2nd Indian Born Woman To Fly Into Space On July 11

✅ She Will Be One Of The Five People To Travel To Space (Unity 22 : Crewed Test Space Flight)

✅ Bandla Started Working At Virgin Galactic In 2015 & Is Currently VP Of Govt Affairs

🇮🇳 Sirisha Bandla Will Be The Fourth Indian Origin Person To Fly To Space

✅ Other 3 Indians : Rakesh Sharma , Kalpana Chawla And Sunita Williams

👤 Pushkar Singh Dhami Elected As 10th Chief Minister Of Uttarakhand

✅ He Is MLA From Khatima Assembly Constituency Of Udham Singh Nagar District

🔶 Pakistan Army Has Recently Included China-Made VT-4 Battle Tanks In Its Arsenal

📒 The Book Titled " Nathuram Godse : The True Story of Gandhi’s Assassin "

✍️ Authored By Dhaval Kulkarni Will Be Published By Pan Macmillan India In 2022

🇮🇳 Para High-Jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu Named Flag-Bearer For Tokyo Paralympics

🥇 2016 Rio Paralympics , He Won The Gold Medal In The Men's High Jump T–42 Event

🏆 Mariyappan Thangavelu Awards : Padma Shri & Arjun Award In 2017 , R G Khel Ratna In 2020

📅 16th Paralympics To Be Held In Tokyo Between 24 August To 5 September 2021

🇯🇵 This Will Mark The 2nd Time Tokyo Has Hosted The Paralympics

✅ As They Were 1st Hosted There In 1964 Alongside The 1964 Summer Olympics

✅ 540 Events In 22 Sport Will Be Held During The 2020 Summer Paralympics

⏳ The First Official Paralympic Games , Was Held In Rome , Italy In 1960

🤼‍♂️ Indian Wrestler Sumit Malik Was Banned For 2 Years By The UWW

⏳ UWW : United World Wrestling (Formation In 1912 & HQ : Lausanne , Switzerland)

👤 United World Wrestling (Current President : Serbia's Nenad Lalović)

✅ He Had Qualified For The Tokyo Games In The 125 kg Category

😔 Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Passes Away Recently

✅ He Is The Only Person To Serve Twice As Pentagon Chief (1975-77 & 2001-06)

🔶 President Kovind Laid Foundation Stone For Ambedkar Memorial & Cultural Centre In Kanpur

♻️ Largest Island in the World ♻️
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🔹 Greenland
➨ Location: between Arctic and Atlantic Oceans
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 2,175,600

🔹 New Guinea
➨ Location: South-west Pacific Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 785,753

🔹 Borneo
➨ Location: between Indian and Pacific Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 748,168

🔹 Madagascar
➨ Location: Indian Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 587,713

🔹 Baffin
➨ Location: North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 503,944

🔹 Sumatra
➨ Location: Indian Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 443,066

🔹 Honshu
➨ Location: Pacific Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 225,800

🔹 Great Britain
➨ Location: North Atlantic Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 229,957

🔹 Victoria
➨ Location: Arctic Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 220,548

🔹 Ellesmere
➨ Location: Arctic Ocean
➨ Area (Sq. Km.): 183,965

📰 Current Affairs One Liners,
📅 06 July 2021

📆 06 July: World Zoonoses Day

📌 Theme 2021: " Let's Break The Chain Of Zoonotic Transmission"

📌 World Zoonoses Day Commemorates The Work Of French Biologist Louis Pasteur

💉 Pasteur, Successfully Administered The Ist Vaccine Against A Zoonotic Disease In 1885

✅ Zoonosis Is The Spread Of Infectious Disease From Animals To Humans

👤 Amand Shah Takes Over Charge As The Acting Chairman Of NAA

✅ Amand shah Is An Officer of The 1991 Batch Of The Indian Revenue Service

✅ NAA Was Established Under Section 171of The Central Goods & Services Tax Act, 2017

👤 The NAA Consists Of A Chairman Along With Four Senior Govt Official

✅ NAA: National Ant Profiteering Authority

✈️ Army Chief Manoj Mukund Naravane To Visit UK & Italy From 05 July

👮 Manoj Mukund Naravane Current And 27th Chief of The Army Staff (COAS)

✅ He Served As 40th Vice Chief Of The Army Staff From 1 Sept - 30 Dec, 2019

👮 Naravane Was Commissioned Into 7th Battalion The Sikh Light Infantry In June 1980

✅ Naravane Is the 3rd Officer From The Sikh Light Infantry To Become Army Chief

🔖 US Added Pakistan And Turkey To Its Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) List

🔶 Afghanistan's Herat City To Be Listed As UNESCO (Cultural) World Heritage Site

⚠️ UNESCO Also Provided $30,000 To The Govt To Use In Gathering Data About The City

⏳ United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (Founded In 1945)

🏢 Headquarter: Paris, France & Director General: Audrey Azoulay (France)

💉 Sri Lanka Becomes Ist Country in South Asia To Acquire Contingent Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccines

☕️ Assam Govt Launched Assam Tea Industries Special Incentive Scheme (ATISIS)

🛰 China Launched A New Meteorological Satellite Fengyun-3E (FY-3E)

✅ Lanched By A Long March-4C Rocket From Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

✅ Satellite &Rocket Were Developed By The Shanghai
Academy Of Spaceflight Technology

✅ This Is The 377th Flight Mission of The Long March Rocket Series

🏏 Stafanie Taylor Becomes 2nd West Indian To Take T201 Hat-Trick In Women's Cricket

🆚 Taylor Achieved The Feat In The Third And Final T201 Against Pakistan

✅ Previous Pakistan Hat-Trick For West Indies Was Taken By Anisa Mohammed Against South Africa In 2018

🇵🇰 The Ist Women's T20 Hat-Trick Was Taken By Asmavia lqbal Of Pakistan (2012)

🚂 India's Coal Production Declines 2.02% To 716.084 Million Tonnes (MT) In 2020-21

🏆 Armenia's Levon Aronian Wins Goldmoney Asian Rapid Online Chess Title

🏆 China's Hou Yifan Wins FIDE Chess. com Women's Speed Chess Championship

🏎 Max Verstappen Of Red Bull Wins Formula One Austrian Grand Prix 2021

✅ This Is 8th Round of The 2021 Formula One World Championship

👨‍🚀 Chinese Astronauts Have Successfully Performed China's Ist Tandem Spacewalk

✅ 2of The Astronauts Exited The Station For 7 Hours Of Work In lst Spacewalk At Tiangong

🔶 Education Minister R Pokhriyal Nishank Virtually Launched NIPUN Bharat

✅ NIPUN: National Initiative For Proficiency In Reading With Understanding & Numeracy

✅ This Initiative Will Be A Part Of School Education Programme, Samagra Shiksha

✅ NIPUN Bharat Initiative Will Be Implemented By School Education Department

👤 South Africa's Former President Jacob Zuma Has Been Sentenced To 15 Months

✅ He Served As Fourth President Of South Africa From 2009 To 2018

✅ Zuma Also Served As 3rd Deputy President Of South Africa From 1999 To 2005

🇮🇳 Mary Kom, Manpreet Singh To Be Indid's Flag Bearers At Olympics Opening Ceremony

🇮🇳 Wrestler Bajrang Punia Will Be The Flag Bearer At The Closing CeremonyY

🏟 The Tokyo Olympics Would Be Held From July 23 To August 8, 2021

⏳ Abhinav Bindra Was India's Flagbearer At The Rio Olympics 2016

⏳ Central Govt Has Increased The Retirement Age Of LIC Chairman To 62 Years

✅ By Making Amendments To The Life Insurance Corporation Of India (Staff) Regulations, 1960

🏢 Life Insurance Corporation of India (Founded In 1 September 1956 & HQ: Mumbai)

👤 Life Insurance Corporation of India Chairman: M R Kumar (Till 13 March, 2022)

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Legendary actor Dilip Kumar, who was popularly known as the tragedy king of Bollywood

💎He was the first actor to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actor in 1954, and won it a total of 8 times. He and Shah Rukh Khan jointly hold the record for most Filmfare trophies.

💎Dilip Kumar is listed in the Guinness World Records for winning the maximum number of awards by an Indian actor. He is also credited as the first method actor in India.

💎He was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 and Padma Vibhushan in 2015.

💎He debuted in films with 1944’s Jwar Bhata

💎Dilip Kumar was last seen in the 1998 film Qila

📰 Current Affairs One Liners,
📅 08 July 2021

📆 07 July: World Chocolate Day

⏳ World Chocolate Day Was First
Celebrated In The Year 2009

👤 Ismail Sabri Yaakob Appointed As The Deputy Prime Miníster Of Malaysia

🐯 Rajasthan Govt Has Planned To Develop A Tiger Coridor

✅ To Connecting Ranthambore,
Ramgarh Vishdhari & Mukundra Tiger Reserves

✅ A Tiger Corridor Will Be Developed By Relocating Eight Villages

🤝 lst Edition Of Indo Pacific Business Summit Is Being Organised By CIl

🏢 Confederation Of Indian Industry (Founded In 1895 & HQ: New Delhi)

👤 Current Chairman Of Confederation Of lIndian Industry: T. V. Narendran

🎯 Indian Army Has Named A Firing Range In Gulmarg After Vidya Balan

✅ Vidya Balan Firing Range Is Situated In Gulmarg, Kashmir

📱 Giriraj Singh Has Launched The Online Course Mobile App " Matsya Setu

✅ App Developed By The ICAR-Central Institute Of Freshwater Aquaculture

👤 Jim Whitehurst Has Announced He Is Stepping Down As President Of IBM

🏢 International Business Machines Corp. (Founded In 1911 & HQ: Armonk, NY)

👤 Current CEO Of International Business Machines Corp.: Arvind Krishna

✈️️ Korean Air Wins Air Transport World's Airline Of The Year Award

🏆 Indian Economist Kaushik Basu Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

✅ The Alexaınder Von Humboldt Foundation Awarded The Humboldt Research Award

✅ Award Honours Scientists & Economists From Across The World For Their Work

👤 Kaushik Basu Is Currently A Professor Of Economics At Cornell University

✅ Basu Was The Chief Economist of The World Bank From 2012 To 2016

✅ From 2009 To 2012, Basu Served As The Chief Economic Adviser To The GOlI

🏆 Basu Is Also A Recipient Of The Padma Bhushan (2008) 3rd Highest Civilian Award

👤 ADB Has Appointed Arnaud Cauchois As The New Country Director For Nepal

🏢 Asian Development Bank (Founded In 1966 & Headquarter: Manila, Phillipines)

👤 current President Of Asian Development Bank: Masatsugu Asakawa (Japan)

🏌Udayan Mane Becomes 2nd Indian Male Golfer To Qualify For The Tokyo Olympics

✅ Anirban lst Indian Male Golfer To Qualify For Tokyo 2020 (Female: Aditi Ashok)

🔶 I&B Minister P Javadekar Inaugurates India Pavilion During 74th Cannes Film Festival

📆 The 74th Annual Cannes Film Festival Is Taking Place From 6 To 17 July 2021

🎞 French Director Leos Carax's " Annette Will Serve As The Opening Film Of The Festival

😔 Actor Dilip Kumar (Mohammed Yusuf Khan) Passed Away Recently

🎞 Kumar Debuted As An Actor In The Film Jwar Bhata, Produced By Bombay Talkies

✅ Jwar Bhata Is A 1944 Black & White Drama Film Directed By Amiya Chakravarty

✅ He Was The First Actor To Win The Filmfare Best Actor Award (For Daag)

📕 Autobiography: Dilip Kumar: The Substance And The Shadow (Published In 2014)

🏆 Awards: Padma Bhushan (1991), Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1994), Padma Vibhushan (2015)

👤 Appointed As The Sheriff Of Bombay By The Governor Of Maharashtra (1979-82)

🇵🇰 In 1998 Pakistan Honoured Him With Its Highest Civilian Honour, The Nishan-e-Imtiaz

✅ Only Indian Recipient of Pakistan's Highest Civilian Award, Nishan-e- Imtiaz

✋Kumar Was Nominated As A Member of The Rajya Sabha (2000-06, Maharashtra)

🔶 WB Assembly Passed A Resolution For Creation Of A Legislative Council (Article 169)

📩 Govt Was Able To Pass The Resolution With 196 Votes In Favour And 69 Against

✅ According To Law, West Berngal Can Have A Maximum Of 94 Members In Legislative Council

✅ 6 States Have A Legislative Council: Up, Bihar, AP, Maharashtra, Telangana & Karnataka

🔶 Government Announced For Creation Of A New Ministry Of Cooperation

📢 First Proposed By FM Nirmala Sitharaman While Delivering Union Budget Speech In 2021

✅ Ministry of Cooperation Is 2nd Ministry To Be Created Since 2019 (1st: Jal Shakt)

🔶 DMRC Launched India's lst FASTag Or UPI Based Parking Facility

✅ This Facility Was Launched At Kashmiri Gate Metro Station, New Delhi

📊 Trafficking In Persons Report 2021 Was Recently Released By US State Department

📰 Current Affairs One Liners,
📅 11 July 2021

📆 11 July: World Populaton Day

✅ Established By The Governing
Council Of The UN Development Programme In 1989

👤 Joe Biden Has Nominated Eric Garcetti To Become US Ambassador To India

👤 RBI Approved The Re-Appointment Of Shyam Srinivasan As MD & CEO Federal Bank

🥇 Delhi Govt Announced A Grant Of 03 Cr To The Olympic Gold Medalist

✅ Silver Medalists Would Be Given Prize Money Of 2Cr & Bronze Medalists 1Cr

💰10 Lakhs Will Also Be Awarded To All The Coaches Of Athletes Who Receive Medals

👤 Athletes From Delhi: Deepak Kumar, Manika Batra, Amoj Jacob And Sarthak Bhambri

🤝 EAM Dr. S. Jaishankar To Attend scO Foreign Ministers Meeting On 13-14 July In Dushanbe

🇹🇯 Tajikistan, The Chair Of This Year's SCO Heads Of The States Council (16-17 Sept, 2021)

🔵 SCO Counties: Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Tajkistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

👁 SCO observer Countries Mongolia, Belarus, Afghanistan And Iran

🚶Gurpreet Singh Will Represent India In The Men's 50KM Race Walk Event At Tokyo 2020

✅ Gurpreet Is The Only Indian Athlete To Qualify For 50KM Race Walk Event

🧕 Nagma Mohamed Mallick Appointed India's Next Ambassador To Poland

🏆 Zaila Avant-Garde Becomes lst African American To Win Scripps National Spelling Bee

✅ The Only Previous Black Winner Of The Bee Was Jody-Anne Maxwell Of Jamaica In 1998

⚽️ 2021 Copa América ls The Ongoing 47th Ecition Of The Copa América

🆚 Final Match Between Brazil Vs Argentina Will Be Held At Maracaná Stadium, Brazil

🏢 Organised By South America's Football Ruling Body CONMEBOL

✅ Pibe Was Selected As The Official Mascot For The Tournament

🎵 * La Gozadera * By Cuban Duo Gente de Zona Was Revealed As The Official Song Of The Tournament

⚽️ UEFA Euro 2020 Is The 16th UEFA European Championship

🆚 Final Match Between England Vs Italy Will Be Held At Wembley Stadium, England

🏟 Tournament, Being Held In 11 Cities In I1 UEFA Countries (12 June - 12 July)

✅ The Competition Has Been Held Every Four Years Since 1960

✅ Except For 2020, When It Was Postponed Until 2021 Due To The COVID-19

🧑‍🏫 21st Session Of The India-Italy Joint Commission For Economic Cooperation Was Held Virtually

🏢 India's First Maritime Arbitration Center To Set Up In Gandhinagar, Gujrat

📕 A New Book Titdled The Light Of Asia Authored By Jairam Ramesh

✅ Is A Biography Of An Epic Bio-Poem On The Buddha

🗓 National Fish Farmers' Day Is Celebrated Every Year On 10 July

✅ Day Is Commemorated Annually In Remembrance Of Scientists Dr K H Alikunhi & Dr HL Chaudhury

👤 ICC CEO Manu Sawhney Has Resigned From His Position

🏢 International Cricket Council (Founded In 1909 & Headquarter: Dubai)

👤 International Cricket Council's Current Chairman: Greg Barclay (New Zealand)

🔶 Karnataka Is Planning To Introduce The Model Tenancy Act In The State

🔶 Indian Army Has Inaugurated A War Memorial In Memory Of Captain In Gulmarg Near The LOC

✅ Captain Gurjinder ingh Suri Had Died During The Operation "Birsa Munda In 1999

✅ Birsa Munda Operation Was A Raid Conducted Against A Pakistani Post By A Bihar Battalion

🔶 ICCR Wll Set Up A Bangabandhu Chair At Delhi University

✅ The Chair Will Focus On Better Understanding Of Developments In Bangladesh

✅ The Chair Will Be Occupied By A Foreign Visiting Professor Or Subject Expert On Bangladesh

✅ It is The First Of Its Kind Initiative Of Setting Up A Chair On Bangladesh In India

🏢 Indian Council For Cultural Relations (Founded In 1950 By Maulana Abul Kalam Azad)

🗓 CPWD Will Celebrate 167th Year Of Its Service To The Nation On Monday (12th July)

👤 CPWD Under The Ministry Of Housing & Urban Affairs (UM: HardeepS Puri)

🏢 Central Public Works Department (Came Into Existence In July 1854)

🔶 MOD Implements Web-Based Integrated System SPARSH °For Defence Pension

✅ SPARSH: System For Pension Administration (Raksha)

🏆 Australia's Ashleigh Barty Won Women's Singles Title At Wimbledon 2021

✅ This Is Barry's Second Grand Slam Singles Title (lst: French Open: 2019)

📰 Current Affairs One Liners,
📅 15 July 2021

📆 15 July : World Youth Skills Day

📌 WYSD Theme 2021: Reimagining Youth Skills Post-Pandemic

✅ In 2014, The UNGA Declared To Celebrate The World Youth Skills Day On 15 July

🏏 Babar Azam Becomes Fastest Cricketer To Slam 14 ODI Centuries (81 Innings)

✅ Amla, Who Previously Held The Record Took 84 Innings To Reach The Milestone

🇵🇰 Babar Azam Becomes The lst Pakistan Captain To Hit 150+ Runs In An ODI Inning

👤 Sher Bahadur Deuba Sworn In As The Prime Minister Of Nepal (5th Time)

☀️ NTPC To Set Up India's Largest Solar Park At Rann Of Kutch

✅ This Solar Park Will Have The Capacity Of 4.75 Gigawatt (GW)

🏢 National Thermal Power Corporation (Founded In 1975 &HQ: New Delhi)

👤 Current CMD Of National Thermal Power Corporation: Gurdeep Singh

📕 "The Great Big lion " Drawn & Written By child prodigy Chryseis Knight

🏢 India's First 5 Star Hotel Atop Railway Track In Gandhinagar

✅ Luxury Hotel Atop The Railway Station Is Having 318 Rooms

✅ Hotel Is Spread Across 7,400 Square Meters (Cost Of Rs 790 Crore)

✅ It Has The Height Of 76.99 Metres With 3 Towers Of 9-11-11 Floors

✅ It Will Be Largest Ever Contingent Of Athletes From India At Olympics

🗓 Tokyo Olympics, Is Scheduled To Be Held From July 23 To August 8, 2021

🇯🇵 Tokyo Has Become The lst city In Asia To Host Summer Games Twice (lst: 1964)

🏟 2020 Games Will Be The Fourth Olympic Games To Be Held In Japan

✅ 4 Olympics In Japan:Summer: 1964 & 2021, Winter: 1972 & 1998

📱 IIT Mandi Have Developed An App To Detect Potato Disease

✈️️ Indian Navy Received 10th Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft P-81 From Boeing

✍ Contract For Eight P8I Aircraft Was Signed By Defence Ministry In 2009

✅ in 2016, Ministry Signed A Contract For Four Additional P-81 Aircraft

🗓 9th Aircraft Was Received By Indian Navy In November 2020

✅ P-81 Is A Patrol Aircraft And An Integral Part Of Indian Navy's Fleet

🏢 Boeing (American Company: Founded In 1916 & HQ: Chicago)

👤 Current Chairman Of Boeing: Larry Kellner

🇮🇳 India Will Host The World Badminton Championships In 2026

✅ This Will Only Be The 2nd Time That India Will Be Hosting The World C'ship

🇮🇳 India Hosted World Badminton C'ships 2009 In Hyderabad, Telangana

⏳ Ist World Badminton Championships Hosted By Sweden In 1977

🇮🇳 India Won Total 10 Medals In World Badminton Championships

👩 PV Sindhu Won Total 05 Medals (15 25 2 3) In World Badminton Championships

🏸 Suzhou, China Will Host The TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2023

🏢 Badminton World Federation (Founded In 1934 & HQ: Kuala Lumpur)

👤 Current President Of Badminton World Federation: Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen (Denmark)

👤 Union Minister Piyush Goyal Will Be The Leader Of The House In The Rajya Sabha

✅ He Will Replace Thawar Chand Gehlot, Who Is Now The Governor Of Karnataka

🏢 United Arab Emirates Becomes Ist Gulf State To Open Embassy In Israel

☀️ Singapore Unveiled One Of The World's Largest Floating Solar Panel Farms

✅ One Lakh 22 Thousand Solar Panels On The 45 Hectare Site

✅ Farm Has Been Built By A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sembcorp Industries

✅ Farm Could Help To Reduce Carbon Emissions By About 32 Kilo Tonnes Annually

💰 Google Has Been Hit With A 500 Million Euros Fine By France's Competition Authority

✅ For Failing To Negotate In Good Faith With News organisations Over The Use Of Their Content

✍ NEET-UG 2021 To Be Conducted In 13 Languages (Punjabi + Malyalam)

✅ NEET 2021 Exam Will Now Be Held On 12th September 2021

🏟 Roger Federer Pulls Out Of The Tokyo Olympics Over Knee Injury

✅ He Has Competed In The Olympics Four Times (2000, 04,08, 12)

🎖 2 Olympic Medals: Won A Silver In Singles In 2012 & A Gold In Doubles In 2008

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📰 Current Affairs One Liners,
📅 08 September 2021

📅 08 September : International Literacy Day

📌 Theme 2021 : Literacy For A Human-Centred Recovery Narrowing The Digital Divide

⏳ 8th Of September Was Proclaimed International Literacy Day By UNESCO In 1966

🏏 Jasprit Bumrah Becomes Fastest Indian Pacer To Claim 100 Test Wickets

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bumrah Reached The Feat In 24 Tests , Against England Team At Oval

📌 Kapil Dev Who Had Taken 25 Tests To Reach The 100 Wicket Mark In 1980

📌 I Pathan Took 28 Tests & Moh. Shami 29 To Get To Their 100 Test Wickets

🔝 R Ashwin Who Reached 100 Wickets In 18 Tests Is Fastest Among Indians

🇮🇳 Bumrah Is Now 22nd On The List Of Highest Wicket Takers For India (Tests)

👶 Cuba Becomes 1st Country To Start Vaccination For Children Aged 2 And Above

💉 Cuba’s Health Quthorities Will Be Administered 3 Doses Of The Vaccine " Abdala "

🚫 Abdala Vaccine Is Not Recognised By The World Health Organization

🎵 The Three Shot Abdala , Named After A Poem By Apostle Jose Marti

💉 Health Regulators Approved The Homegrown Abdala Vaccine For Emergency Use In July

📌 Making Cuba The 1st Latin American Country To Develop A Successful Covid Vaccine

🏭 Centre Launches Five Food Processing Projects In Assam , Gujarat , Karnataka

👨‍🌾 These Projects Will Benefit The Farmers And Provide Employment Opportunities

📌 Prahlad Singh Patel Virtually Inaugurated These Projects Worth 124 Crore Rupees

🏆 Author Namita Gokhale Honoured With 7th Yamin Hazarika Woman Of Substance Award

📌 Award Honours Hazarika , The 1st Woman From Northeast India To Be Selected For DANIPS

👮‍♀️ DANIPS : A Federal Police Service That Administered Delhi And The Union Territories

📌 The Award Is Given Every Year By A Collective Of Women Professionals Since 2015

🇸🇻 El Salvador Becomes First Country To Adopt Bitcoin As An Official Currency

🔶 India’s First Bio-Brick Based Building Inaugurated At IIT Hyderabad

📌 It Is Part Of The BUILD Project To Demonstrate The Strength & Versatility Of The Material

📌 BUILD : Bold Unique Idea Lead Development

💰 ADB Approves $150 Million Loan For Urban Poor Housing Project In Tamil Nadu

📒 Bollywood Actress Tamannaah Bhatia Launched Her Book " Back To The Roots "

📌 She Has Co-Authored The Book With Celebrity Lifestyle Coach Luke Coutinho

😔 Former France Footballer Jean-Pierre Adams Passes Away Recently

🇫🇷 He Made Total 22 Appearances For France National Football Team From 1972–1976

📌 At Club Level , Adams Played As A Defender For Paris Saint-Germain , Nîmes & Nice

👩 Suman Sharma Appointed As Managing Director Of Solar Energy Corporation Of India Ltd

📌 Suman Sharma Is An Indian Revenue Service (IRS) Officer Of The 1990 Batch

📅 Ministry Of Food Processing Industries Celebrates Food Processing Week (6th - 12th Sept.)

😔 Former South Africa Allrounder John Watkins (98) Passed Away Recently

📌 He Made His Debut In 1949 Against Australia & Ended Up Playing 15 Test Matches.

*🚸Uttar Pradesh📚*

• Statehood: 24 January 1950
• Capital: Lucknow
• Number of District : 75
• Governor: Anandiben Patel
• Chief Minister: Yogi Adityanath
• Members of the Legislative Assembly: 403 ( members excluding one Anglo-Indian member )
• Lok Sabha Seats : 80
• Rajya Sabha Seats : 31


*🗼History of Uttar Pradesh🗼*

● It was created on 1 April 1937 as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh during British rule, and was renamed Uttar Pradesh in 1950.
● On 9 November 2000, a new state, Uttarakhand, was carved out from the state's Himalayan hill region.
● President's rule has been imposed in Uttar Pradesh ten times since 1968, for different reasons and for a total of 1,700 days.
● First CM of UP : Govind Ballabh Pant
● Sarojini Naidu was the first governor of Uttar Pradesh.


💃 *Dances of Uttar Pradesh*🕺

● Swang
● Charkula Dance
● Raslila
● Nautanki
● Ahir Dance

📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 10 February 2022

#English

1) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman, Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the country’s first Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
▪️Uttar Pradesh :-
Governor - Smt. Anandiben Patel
➨Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dudhwa National Park
➨National Chambal Sanctuary
➨Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar Lake
➨Kashi Vishwanath Temple

2) Indian documentary “Writing With Fire” has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 94th edition of the Academy Awards.

3) An Alliance Air flight from Mumbai to Gujarat's Bhuj with 70 on board flew without its engine cover, which was later retrieved from the runway. The Alliance Air ATR 72-600 aircraft landed safely at Bhuj in Gujarat.

4) The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has bagged the prestigious SKOCH Silver Award in the "Power & Energy" category.
➨Instituted in 2003, SKOCH Award salutes people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation.

5) Jammu & Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to be onboarded on the National Single Window System (NSWS), a digital platform that helps investors get government approvals for projects.
➨ NSWS is linked with India Industrial Land Bank (IILB), which hosts 45 industrial parks of J&K.
▪️Jammu and Kashmir :-
➨L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha
➨Rajparian Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Hirapora Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Dachigam National Park
➨Salim Ali National Park

6) The Union Cabinet approved phase 2 of the green energy corridor under an intra-state transmission system to facilitate grid integration and power evacuation of approximately 20 gigawatts of renewable energy projects in 7 states.
➨The scheme is expected to help achieve the target of 450 GW installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and contribute to the long term energy security of the country.

7) Senior IPS officer Viresh Kumar Bhawra has been appointed as the new director-general of Punjab police.
➨Bhawra, who was the DGP of Punjab Home Guards, replaced officiating DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya.

8) The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the signing of Agreement between India and Spain on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters.

9) India is among the six Indo-Pacific nations participating in a multi-lateral anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Pacific Ocean.
➨ The Sea Dragon 22 exercise began in which the navies of US, India, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea are participating.

10) The Kerala-based lender South Indian Bank has won the UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under Crisis for Business Continuity.

11) Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated the 9th edition of the North East Festival (NEF).
▪️Assam
CM - Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma
Governor - Prof Jagdish Mukhi
➨Dibru Saikhowa National Park
➨Kaziranga National Park
➨Nameri National Park
➨Manas National Park

12) Uttar Pradesh has been awarded the first prize in Third National Water Awards-2020 in the best state category, followed by Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
▪️ Rajasthan:-
Governor - Kalraj Mishra
➭Amber Palace
➭Hawa Mahal
➭Ranthambore National Park
➭City Palace
➭Keoladeo Ghana National Park
➭Sariska National Park.
➭ Kumbhalgarh Fort

▪️Tamil Nadu :-
➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)

📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 13 February 2022

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1) In a historic first, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory has detected the highest-energy light ever emerging from Jupiter.
➨ The light detected by the telescope is X-ray radiation and is also the highest-energy light ever detected from a solar system planet other than Earth.
▪️NASA :-
➨Headquarters - Washington, D.C.
➨Formed - July 29, 1958
➨Preceding agency - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

2) National Monuments Authority held the first ever global webinar on monuments protection.
➨ The webinar was organised in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations, on ‘Protection of the Monuments and their significance for the Preservation of National Heritage’.

3) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has asserted that the government’s inflation management is robust and the inflation rate stands at 6.2 percent despite the challenges posed by the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.

4) Bharti-backed OneWeb announced the successful deployment of 34 satellites by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

5) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed to extend the term-liquidity facility of Rs 50,000 crore offered to emergency health services by three months till June 30, 2022.
◾️Reserve Bank of India:-
➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, 
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

6) Tata Sons board has approved the re-appointment of Executive Chairman N Chandrasekaran for another five years.
➨He was appointed as the additional director of the company in 2016, a day after Cyrus Mistry was removed from the position of chairman.

7) World Radio Day is observed every year on February 13 to underline the importance of radio in modern world.
➨The Theme of World Radio Day 2022 is "Radio and Trust".

8) The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index 2021 was released. As per the index, India was ranked at 46th position with a score of 6.91 out of 165 countries.
➨ The ranking list was topped by Norway with the highest score of 9.75.

9) Minister for State for Education Dr Subhas Sarkar presented 5th National Award for Innovations and Good Practices in Educational Administration virtually.
➨The National Award or Certificate of Appreciation were presented to the selected District and Block level education officers from 29 states/ UTs of the country. This year, more than hundred officers received Award or Certificate of Appreciation.

10) Scientists in the United Kingdom have achieved a new milestone in producing nuclear fusion energy, or imitating the way energy is produced in the Sun.
➨The energy was produced in a machine called a tokamak, a doughnut-shaped apparatus, and the JET site is the largest operational one of its kind in the world.

11) Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has been facilitated for the first time with the 18th late Madhavrao Limaye award in the category of Karyakram Khaasdar (Efficient Member of Parliament) for the year 2020-21.


12) Eminent industrialist and former chairman of the Bajaj group Rahul Bajaj passed away.
➨Bajaj was recipient of many awards, including the Padma Bhushan and honorary doctorates from many universities.
➨One of the most successful business leaders of India, Bajaj was elected to Rajya Sabha in June 2006 and remained a member till 2010.

13) According to the Law Ministry, Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari has been appointed Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
➨ A communication to this effect was signed by the President of India and issued.
▪️Tamil Nadu :-
➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)