India was the largest recipient of remittances in 2020, as per the report, “Migration and
Development Brief “released by the World Bank.

India attracts record FDI Inflow of $81.72 billion during 2020-21; Gujarat top recipient. Singapore
retained its position as the the largest source of FDI for India

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Declares Raimona Reserve Forest as Sixth National Park in
State

PM Modi Launches Japanese-style Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy in Ahmedabad

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) under the Ministry of Micro, Small &
Medium Enterprises has launched a unique project called ‘BOLD’.
BOLD stands for Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought.
The first-of-its-kind BOLD project aims to create bamboo-based green patches of land in arid
and semi-arid zones to solve environmental concerns such as land desertification and land
degradation.

India’s first maritime arbitration centre ‘GIMAC’ to be set up in Gandhinagar.

August 7 to be observed as ‘Javelin Throw Day’ each year in honor of Neeraj Chopra

Ministry of Social Justice launches TAPAS, an e-study platform for social defence

The base period for RBI-DPI is March 2018

N. S. Vishwanathan

DBS Bank Tops 2021 Forbes ‘World’s Best Banks’ List in India

increased to 74% from the present 49%

HDFC launches ‘green and sustainable’ deposits programme for retail clients.
Interest Rates : 6.55 percent

RBI introduces the Financial Inclusion Index. The FI-Index will be released in the
month of July every year.
 The annual FI-Index for the period ending March 2021 is 53.9 while for the
period ending March 2017 it is 43.4.

1. Governor of Punjab – Banwarilal Purohit (former Governor of Tamil Nadu)

• Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi chaired the 13th BRICS Summit on September 09, 2021, through video conferencing.
• BRICS is an association of five major emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
• The theme of the India-led Summit was “BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus.”

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted its approval for re-appointment of V. Vaidyanathan as the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (‘MD & CEO’) of the IDFC First Bank.

• Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India have signed a USD 112 million loan to develop water supply infrastructure and strengthen capacities of urban local bodies (ULBs) for improved service delivery in four towns in the state of Jharkhand.

1. President country of 2021 G20?- Italy
2. President country of 2022 G20?- Indonesia
3. President country of 2023 G20?- India

• Government has appointed Harsha Bhupendra Bangari as the new Managing Director (MD) of Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank).

Former France footballer Jean-Pierre Adams, who had been in a coma for 39 years, has passed away. He was 73.

Tamil Nadu state government has announced to setup India’s first dugong conservation reserve at the northern part of the Palk Bay.

Amitabh Bacchan

Noopur Chaturvedi

World Bank expands Coronavirus Vaccine Funding for developing countries to $20 billion from $ 12 billion to be used through 2022

Quad Navies (India, the US, Japan and Australia) to undertake Ex-Malabar 2021
off the coast of Guam in Indo Pacific.

Pooja Rani Wins 75kg Gold for India in 2021 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships

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Ashok Lavasa

Ashwini Vaishnaw

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Agra, Uttar Pradesh

Bahrain Capital – Manama; Currency – Bahraini Dinar

Kolkata, West Bengal

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Madhya Pradesh

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