Dear aspirants, we have compiled some of the important current affairs headlines in the form of important oneliners for the month April to July 2021, which may help you all in quick revision, ahead of any entrance exam.
Important Current Affairs One Liner – April to July 2021
- RBI extends deadline for processing auto-debit payments by 6 months till September 30, 2021
- SBI inks USD1 billion loan agreement with Japan Bank for International Cooperation
- India-US Special Forces military exercise ‘Vajra Prahar 2021’ held in Himachal Pradesh
- Noted Marathi writer Dr Sharankumar Limbale selected for Saraswati Samman 2020
- Odisha celebrates 86th statehood day dubbed as ‘Utkala Dibasa’
- Indian Army to participate in Multinational Military Exercise SHANTIR OGROSHENA 2021 in Bangladesh
- India ranks 140 among 156 nations in WEF’s gender gap index 2021
- Legendary Actor Rajinikanth to be honoured with 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award
- Subhash Kumar takes additional charge as CMD of ONGC
- Mukhmeet S. Bhatia takes over as Director General of ESIC
- NPCI transfers Bharat Bill Payments business to its new subsidiary NBBL
- Former RBI Governor Urjit Patel Names as Additional Director of Britannia
- Cabinet Appoints Mallika Srinivasan as Chief of Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB).
- New Book ‘Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’ by Nitin Gokhale
- Vice President Venkaiah Naidu releases book titled ‘Suparipalana’ by Dr Shailendra Joshi
- India’s biggest “floating solar power plant” to be set up at Ramagundam in Telangana
- ‘Tulip Festival’ Begins in Jammu & Kashmir
- Rajasthan becomes first state to launch “Health Insurance for All” its residents
- Jeff Bezos tops Forbes’ Annual Billionaire list fourth year in a row, Mukesh Ambani ranks 10th
- Cabinet Appoints Tarun Bajaj as new Revenue Secretary; Ajay Seth as Economic Affairs Secretary
- Digit Insurance ropes in Virat Kohli as Brand Ambassador
- Hubert Hurkacz of Poland and Ashleigh Barty of Australia wins 2021 Miami Open Tennis Tournament
- RBI to release Financial Inclusion Index (FI Index) annually
- RBI increases WMA limits for the State Governments/UTs to Rs 47,010 crore
- RBI enhances Loan limit under Priority Sector Lending against eNWR/NWR from ₹50 lakh to ₹75 lakh
- RBI enhances maximum balance limit per account in Payments Banks from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh
- Vivo Ropes in Virat Kohli as Brand Ambassador
- Govt sets trigger amount as Rs 10 lakh for MSME pre-packs scheme
- India contributes USD 500,000 to UN Trust Fund for counter-terrorism
- S A Bobde launches Supreme Court of India’s first AI-driven Research Portal ‘SUPACE’
- Government Appoints S Ramann as new Chairman & Managing Director of SIDBI
- Vjosa Osmani elected as new President of Kosovo
- SBI MF becomes first mutual fund company to cross Rs 5 lakh crore average AUM mark
- Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launches “NanoSniffer”, World’s First Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector
- India gifts Rs 100 crore patrol vessel “PS Zoroaster” to Seychelles
- Singapore becomes first country to ratify mega free trade agreement ‘RCEP’
- Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou sworn in as new Prime Minister of Niger
- Airtel Payments Bank Unveils ‘Rewards123’ Savings Account
- Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra named as next Chief Election Commissioner
- India Unveils first-ever app to learn Sanskrit called “Little Guru”
- Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation Issues India’s First Green Bonds
- Axis Bank acquires 12.99% stake in Max Life Insurance to become co-promoter
- NCAER appoints Poonam Gupta as new Director General
- RBI to set up Regulations Review Authority for one year from May 1
- India ranks 49th in Inclusive Internet Index 2021 by Facebook-EIU
- Former CBI Chief Ranjit Sinha passes away at 68
- Former Election Commissioner G.V.G. Krishnamurty passes away at 86
- RBL Bank Partners Mastercard to launch “Pay by Bank App “
- 8th India-Kyrgyz Joint Special Forces Exercise ‘Khanjar’ Begins at Bishkek
- Suresh Raina’s Autobiography ‘Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me’ to Release in May 2021
- RBI constitutes six-member panel headed by former ED Sudarshan Sen to review ARCs
- India Clinches 14 medal including 5 Gold, 3 Sliver and Six Bronze at 2021 Senior Asian Wrestling Championship
- New Zealand introduces world’s first climate change law for financial firms
- India Ranks 142 in World Press Freedom Index 2021; Norway Tops: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
- Children’s Book Titled “The Christmas Pig” by J.K. Rowling to be out in October 2021
- Stefanos Tsitsipas Wins 2021 Monte Carlo Masters to capture maiden Masters 1000 title
- Former RBI Governor Maidavolu Narasimham passes away at 94
- Priyanka Mohite Becomes First Indian Woman To Scale Mt Annapurna
- India Ranks 87th in WEF Global Energy Transition Index 2021; Sweden Tops
- Chennai Teen Arjun Kalyan becomes India’s 68th Grandmaster
- 19th India-Franch Naval Exercise VARUNA – 2021 to begin in Arabian Sea
- Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana takes oath as 48th Chief Justice of India
- Former RBI Governor M Narasimham “The Father of Banking Reforms” Passes Away at 94
- India Ranks Third Biggest Military Spender in World in 2020, the US Tops: SIPRI Report
- Book Titled “The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times” by Amitav Ghosh to be Released in January 2022
- Jhumpa Lahiri Comes Out With New Novel ‘Whereabouts’
- Rafael Nadal beats Stefanos Tsitsipas to clinch 12th Barcelona Open title
- India Ranks 49th in Chandler Good Government Index 2021, Finland Tops
- SEBI Appoints Arun Raste as MD and CEO of NCDEX for 5 years
- HDFC Bank top arranger of corporate bond deals in FY21
- ICICI Bank launches Digital banking Platform ‘Merchant Stack’
- Expenditure Secretary T V Somanathan Replaces Ajay Bhushan Pandey as Finance Secretary
- Japanese Sportswear Brand ASICS Ropes in Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja as Brand Ambassador in India
- US Army-led Massive NATO Joint Military Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 21 Begins in Albania
- SIDBI launches SHWAS and AROG Loan Schemes for MSMEs for COVID Preparedness
- LIC Among Top Ten Most-Valuable Insurance Brand Globally: Brand Finance Report
- Amitabh Chaudhry Re-appointed as MD & CEO of Axis Bank for 3 Years
- Indian Navy launches Operation Samudra Setu-II for Speedy Shipment of Oxygen-filled Containers to India From Other Nations
- T Rabi Sankar appointed fourth Deputy Governor of RBI, succeeding BP Kanungo
- Lewis Hamilton wins 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix
- Sri Lankan all-rounder Thisara Perera Announces Retirement from International Cricket
- RBI imposes Rs 3 crore penalty on ICICI Bank for Violating Specific Directions Issued by RBI
- Mahesh Balasubramanian Appointed as MD of Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance
- Mamata Banerjee Sworn-in as Chief Minister of West Bengal for Third Consecutive Term
- RBI Announces Term Liquidity Facility of Rs. 50,000 Crore For Healthcare
- Philippines Journalist Maria Ressa Honored with 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
- Former Sri Lanka Bowler Nuwan Zoysa banned for six years for breaching ICC anti-corruption code
- World’s Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge Arouca 516, Unveiled in Portugal
- RBI sets up an advisory group headed by SBI MD, S Janakiraman, to assist RRA 2.0
- N Rangasamy Sworn in as Chief Minister of Puducherry for Record Fourth Time
- MK Stalin Takes Oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu along with 33 Cabinet Ministers
- Himanta Biswa Sarma Replaces Sarbananda Sonowal as Assam’s New Chief Minister
- Lewis Hamilton clinches his fifth successive Spanish Grand Prix
- Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus beat World No 1 Ashleigh Barty to win her Maiden Madrid Open Women’s singles title
- Naomi Osaka and Rafael Nadal wins top title at 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards
- Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Alyssa Healy of Australia Wins ICC Players of the Month for April 2021
- Alexander Zverev Defeat Matteo Berrettini to clinch 2021 Madrid Open
- HDFC Bank Partners CSC to Launch Chatbot ‘Eva’
- Padmakumar Nair Appointed As CEO Of National Asset Reconstruction Company
- Former US Senator Bill Nelson sworn in as 14th Administrator of NASA
- Ujjwala Singhania Appointed as 38th National President of FICCI FLO
- India was largest recipient of remittances in 2020: World Bank report
- British Diplomat Martin Griffiths appointed new UN Humanitarian Chief
- Airline Company GoAir Rebrands itself as ‘Go First’
- Punjab CM Amarinder Singh Declares Malerkotla as 23rd District
- Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted Wins World Food Prize 2021
- KP Sharma Oli Re-appointed as Prime Minister of Nepal
- Airtel Payments Bank Unveils ‘DigiGold’ for Digital Gold Investment
- Footwear Brand Bata India appoints Gunjan Shah as new CEO
- Amazon India launches video streaming service miniTV
- Mexico’s Andrea Meza Crowned Miss Universe 2020; India’s Castelino Adline Third Runner-up
- Nuklu Phom of Nagaland Wins 2021 Whitley Awards
- Book Titled “Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance” Written by Preet Mohan Singh Malik
- Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek win Italian Open 2021 (tennis)
- India’s First Agriculture Export Facilitation Centre Launched in Pune
- Iran Develops Its Most Powerful Supercomputer “Simorgh”
- Kobe Bryant Posthumously Inducted Into Basketball Hall Of Fame Class 2020
- India Ranks Third in 2020 EY Index; The US Retains Top Position
- India emerges as second-largest insurance technology market in Asia-Pacific region after China
- Suresh Mukund Becomes First Indian to Win Annual ‘World Choreography Award 2020′
- Government Extends Income Tax Return Filing Deadline for FY21(AY 2021-22) From July 31 to September 30
- Indian Navy’s first destroyer INS Rajput decommissioned after 41 years of service
- Pinarayi Vijayan takes oath as 12th Chief Minister of Kerala for second time in row
- RBI increases the limit for Full-KYC PPIs to Rs 2 lakh from Rs 1 lakh
- RBI to transfer Rs. 99,122 crore surplus to Central Government for FY21
- Microsoft to retire iconic Internet Explorer (IE) browser on 15 June 2022
- Six more Indian sites added to Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, taking total tally to 48
- China successfully launches new ocean observation satellite ‘Haiyang-2D’
- Narinder Batra re-elected as FIH President
- Barcelona Defeats Chelsea 4-0 to win their first UEFA Women’s Champions League title
- Rajesh Bansal Takes Charge as CEO of RBI Innovation Hub
- Indian Diplomat Shivshankar Menon Authors Book titled “India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present”
- India to Host 2022 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup
- Max Verstappen wins Monaco Grand Prix 2021
- Atletico Madrid clinch 2020-21 La Liga Title
- Badminton Association of India President Himanta Biswa Sarma elected to BWF Council
- UFC Champion Conor McGregor Tops Forbes’ Highest-Paid Athletes for 2021
- World’s largest iceberg A-76 breaks off in Antarctica
- NASA plans to send Rover ‘VIPER’ on Moon in 2023 to search for water, other resources
- NASA Partners ISRO to develop Earth System Observatory to address Climate Change with better Disaster Management
- Subodh Kumar Jaiswal Appointed new Director of CBI for Two Years
- Phil Mickelson wins 2021 PGA Championship to Become Oldest Major Winner in Golf History at 50
- Punjab’s Mohali International Hockey Stadium renamed after Balbir Singh Senior
- Anatole Collinet Makosso Takes Charge as Prime Minister of Republic of the Congo
- Guillermo Lasso sworn in as President of Ecuador
- Norway’s Casper Ruud wins Men’s Singles Tennis Title at 2021 Geneva Open
- IFSCA constitutes an expert committee on Investment Funds under Nilesh Shah
- Aashritha V Olety Becomes India’s First Woman Flight Test Engineer
- Bashar Al-Assad Re-Elected ss Syrian President for Fourth Term
- Government launches YUVA – Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors
- India to launch mobile tech platform ‘UNITE AWARE’ for UN peacekeepers in August 2021
- IIT Ropar develop ‘FakeBuster’ tool to detect imposters in video conferences & manipulated Faces on social media
- IBF to be renamed as Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF)
- Government Extends Tenures of RAW Chief Samant Kumar Goel and IB Chief Arvinda Kumar by One Year till June 2022
- Madhya Pradesh Government launches ‘Ankur’ scheme to award people for planting trees
- Hockey India Wins Etienne Glichitch Award, Odisha CMs Secretary VK Pandian Awarded With FIH Presidents Award
- Ravi Shahtri’s Debut Book Titled ‘Stargazing: The Players in My Life’ to be Released in June 2021
- Historian Vikram Sampath Authored Book ‘Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924-1966)’ to hit stands in July 2021
- Mary Kom Settles with Silver Medal at 2021 Asian Boxing Championships
- Former Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter, Passes Away at 92
- CRPF Director General Kuldeep Singh gets additional charge as NIA Chief
- Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
- NATO Organise Multilateral Military Exercises ‘Steadfast Defender 2021’
- Online Medical Platform ‘PharmEasy’ acquires rival ‘Medlife’ to become India’s Largest e-pharma Company
- CII Elects Tata Steel’s MD & CEO T.V. Narendran as its President for 2021-22
- J B Mohapatra Gets Additional Charge as CBDT Chairman
- IBF Appoints Justice (retd.) Vikramjit Sen as Chairman of Digital Media Content Regulatory Council
- WhatsApp appoints Paresh B Lal as Grievance Officer for India
- Dr Patrick Amoth of Kenya Appointed as Chair of WHO Executive Board, Replacing Dr Harsh Vardhan
- Isaac Herzog Elected as President of Israel
- ICC Expands Men’s ODI Cricket World Cup to 14 teams for 2027 & 2031 Editions
- China to Host Second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference in October 2021
- WHA Declares January 30 as World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
- Dr R S Sodhi, MD of Amul, Unanimously elected to Board of International Dairy Federation
- Kerala Tops SDG India Index 2020–21 Released by NITI Aayog
- RBI launches On-Tap Liquidity Window worth Rs 15,000 crore for Contact-Intensive Sectors
- Former President and Prime Minister of Mauritius Sir Anerood Jugnauth Passes Away at 91
- Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari appointed Vice Chief of Air Staff
- French Novelist David Diop wins 2021 International Booker Prize
- Indian-Origin Photographer Thomas Vijayan Wins Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021
- Novak Djokovic wins 2021 Belgrade Open Tennis Tournament to lift 83rd ATP trophy
- CBSE partners with Microsoft to introduce Coding and Data Science as new subjects in 2021-22 academic session
- United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: 2021-2030
- Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind Wins International Business Book of the Year Award 2021
- World Bank approves USD 500 mn program to boost MSME sector in India
- Global Teacher Award Winning Indian Educationist Ranjitsinh Disale Appointed as Education Advisor to World Bank
- Vishwavir Ahuja re-appointed as MD & CEO of RBL Bank
- Sergio Perez wins 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
- Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Declares Raimona Reserve Forest as Sixth National Park in State
- IISc, Bengaluru Ranked Best Indian University in Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2021
- Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ releases Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 for States and Union Territories
- India elected as member of UN Economic and Social Council for 2022-24 term
- Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid Elected as President for 76th UNGA
- Hitendra Dave Named as CEO of HSBC India Business
- Inaugural FIH Hockey5s World Cup to be held in Oman in January 2024
- IISc Adjudged World’s Top Research University in QS World University Rankings 2022
- El Salvador becomes world’s first country to declare bitcoin as legal tender
- Virender Sehwag launches Experiential Cricket Learning Portal CRICURU
- Mahesh Kumar Jain gets two-year extension as RBI Deputy Governor
- Anup Chandra Pandey Appointed as Election Commissioner of India
- Centre extends LIC Chairman M R Kumar’s term till March 13, 2022
- Assam Officially Declares Dihing Patkai as States 7th National Park
- India’s first international maritime services cluster to be set up at GIFT City
- RBI approves re-appointment of GC Chaturvedi as part-time Chairman of ICICI Bank
- Facebook Appoints Spoorthi Priya as Grievance Officer for India
- Zimbabwean Novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins 2021 PEN Pinter Prize
- India’s Tillotama Shome wins Best Actor award at UK Asian Film Festival for Raahgir: The Wayfarers
- United States Tops Bitcoin Investment Gains in 2020; India Ranks 18th: Chainalysis Report
- Auckland Adjudged as World’s most liveable city in EIU’s Global Liveability Index 2021
- UNGA President-elect Abdulla Shahid appoints Indian IFS Officer K Nagaraj Naidu to lead UN Bureaucracy for one year
- European Space Agency to Launch ‘EnVision’ Mission to Venus in 2030
- DBS Bank Tops 2021 Forbes ‘World’s Best Banks’ List in India
- Former Mongolia PM Ukhnaa Khurelsukh wins 2021 Presidential Election
- Costa Rican Economist Rebeca Grynspan appointed as Secretary-General of UNCTAD
- Naftali Bennett Takes Charge as Israel’s new Prime Minister
- “Home in the World: A Memoir” by Amartya Sen to Hit Stands in July 2021
- Novak Djokovic and Barbora Krejčíková wins French Open Tennis Title 2021
- IIT Ropar develops India’s first power-free CPAP device ‘Jivan Vayu’
- Akshay Kumar Roped in as Brand Ambassador of Biotechnology company MyLab
- Scotland’s Kathryn Bryce and Mushfiqur Rahim of Bangladesh Named ICC Players Of The Month For May by ICC
- Grandmaster D. Gukesh wins $15,000 Gelfand Challenge Chess Title
- India ranked 14th in World Giving Index 2021; Top- Indonesia
- 47th G7 Summit Concludes in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- 2021 NATO Summit Held in Brussels, Belgium
- Bharti Airtel COO, Ajai Puri, Appointed as Chairman of COAI for 2021-22
- IAMAI Appoints Justice AK Sikri as Chair of Grievance Redressal Board
- Suresh Raina releases his autobiography titled “Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me”
- Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways sign MoU with Ministry of Culture for Development of National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal in Gujarat
- ADB inks USD 484 million loan with GoI to upgrade road network in Tamil Nadu industrial corridor
- Satya Nadella appointed as Chairman of Microsoft
- Maharashtra’s GI certified Jalgaon banana exported to Dubai
- Great June Uprising Unity Day being observed in Manipur
- India ranked 2nd in share of central bank surplus transfers; Top- Turkey
- India has sixth highest nuclear weapons stockpile, United States tops: SIPRI Yearbook 2021
- European Space Agency Set to Launch World First Wooden Satellite WISA Woodsat by 2021 End
- India Ranks 135 in Global Peace Index 2021; Iceland Tops
- Rajasthan-based Environmental Organisation ‘Familial Forestry’ wins prestigious UN Award
- Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda, passes away at 97
- India Ranks 43rd on IMD’s World Competitiveness Index 2021; Switzerland tops
- World’s Third-Largest Diamond Unearthed in Botswana
- Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran’s 2021 Presidential Election
- Ireland All Rounder Kevin O’Brien announces retirement from ODI cricket
- DPIIT Secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra Passes Away Due to Covid at 59
- Bengaluru Adjudged as India’s Most Liveable City in Ease of Living Index 2020
- Centrum, BharatPe to take over PMC Bank and re-launch it as Small Finance Bank
- SEBI reconstitutes Four-member Takeover Panel
- India-US Hydrogen Task Force Formed to Achieve Clean Energy
- India was fifth largest recipient of FDI in 2020, receiving $64 bn inflows: UN Report
- India ranked 51st in terms of money parked in Swiss Bank; Top- UK
- Amitav Ghosh’s new book ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’ to hit stands in October 2021
- Mawya Sudan Creates History by becoming first female fighter pilot from Jammu and Kashmir
- Finance Ministry allows HFCs above Rs 100 cr to use to SARFAESI law
- Ministry of Defence and Goa Shipyard Ltd signs contract for construction of two Pollution Control Vessels for Indian Coast Guard
- DR Tadang Minu becomes first Indian woman to be appointed as member of International Boxing Association(AIBA) coaches committee
- World’s first-ever genetically modified rubber planted in Assam
- Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani e-launches Agricultural Diversification Scheme-2021
- Bharti Airtel Partners with Tata Group to Roll Out 5G Network Solutions
- Jamsetji Tata tops inaugural list of Top Philanthropists of the Century by EdelGive and Hurun India
- Former Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja Awarded with CEU Open Society Prize 2021
- Kotak Mahindra Bank launches Payment app ‘Pay Your Contact’
- India and World Bank signs USD 32 million loan for improving healthcare services in Mizoram
- New Zealand wins first ICC World Test Championship
- American Actor Will Smith to Release his Autobiography ‘Will’ in November 2021
- OnePlus ropes in Jasprit Bumrah as Brand Ambassador for Wearables category
- Union Minister Harsh Vardhan unveils book titled ‘My Joys and Sorrows – as a Mother of a Special Child’ by Dr Krishna Saksena
- India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier to be commissioned in 2022
- India to host 9th Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable in 2022
- “It’s a Wonderful Life” by best-selling author Ruskin Bond
- Karnam Malleswari Appointed as First Vice-Chancellor of Delhi Sports University
- Indore and Surat Jointly Wins Smart Cities Award 2020; Uttar Pradesh Bags Best State Award
- PAN-Aadhaar Linking Deadline Further Extended till September, 30 2021
- LIC launches IT Platform ‘e-PGS’ for group business operation
- Amazon’s AWS Acquires Encrypted Messaging App Wickr
- World Bank Approves USD125 million financial support program for Green and Resilient Kerala
- Vigilance Commissioner Suresh N Patel appointed as acting CVC
- Reliance Jio and Google Cloud Join Hands for 5G Technology
- Praveen Sinha Appointed as Special Director of Central Bureau of Investigation
- Ukraine and US Navy Co-hosts ‘Exercise Sea Breeze 2021’ in Black Sea
- Turkmenistan’s Ashgabat is world’s most expensive city for foreign workers, Mumbai tops among Indian cities: 2021 Cost of Living Survey
- Indian Journalist P Sainath wins Japan’s Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021
- Book Titled “Fiercely Female: Story of Dutee Chand” by Sundeep Misra
- PM Modi Launches Japanese-style Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy in Ahmedabad
- Turkey & Azerbaijan Joint Military Drills ‘Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – 2021’ Begins in Baku
- Government Re-appoints KK Venugopal as Attorney General of India for One Year till June 2022
- WhatsApp appoints Manesh Mahatme as Head of Payments Business in India
- “Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington D.C” by Indian Economist Kaushik Basu
- Rahi Sarnobat wins gold medal in women’s 25m pistol event at ISSF Shooting World Cup in Croatia
- Asia’s longest high speed track “NATRAX” for automobiles inaugurated in Indore
- India ranked at 10th position in ITU’s Global Cybersecurity Index 2020; the US Tops
- Government Extends Tenure of Amitabh Kant as Niti Aayog CEO by One Year till June 2022
- Venue of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 moved from India to UAE and Oman
- MP Allrounder Anshula Rao Becomes First Indian Woman Cricketer to Face Four-Year Ban Following Failed Dope Test
- India records current account surplus of 0.9% in FY21
- India Ranks 20th in Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2021, the US tops: Startup Blink report
- World Bank expands Coronavirus Vaccine Funding to $20 billion to be used through 2022
- Flipkart launches Shopsy App, to enable Indians to start their online businesses
- Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari Takes Charge as Vice Chief of IAF
- 12-Year-old Indian-Origin Abhimanyu Mishra Becomes Youngest Grand Master in Chess History
- RBI changes interest rate on matured Term Deposit
- World’s third largest cricket stadium to be constructed in Jaipur
- 7th Indian Ocean Naval Symposium Concludes in France
- Grene Robotics develops India’s first indigenous drone defence dome ‘Indrajaal’
- Indian Wrestler Sumit Malik Gets Two-year Ban by UWW For Doping
- HDFC Bank Launches ‘Salaam Dil Sey’ initiative to pay tribute to doctors
- ICICI Bank launches comprehensive banking solution ‘Salute Doctors’ on Doctors’ Day
- Pushkar Singh Dhami appointed new CM of Uttarakhand
- Nathuram Godse’s biography by Dhaval Kulkarni to be released in 2022
- Rio gold medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu named India’s flag-bearer for Tokyo Paralympics
- Axis Bank inks cloud computing deal with AWS for digital transformation
- Ministry of Education launches NIPUN Bharat Programme
- 52nd IFFI to be held in November 2021 in Goa
- Flipkart partners with PhonePe to digitise cash-on-delivery payment orders
- Andy Jassy replaces Jeff Bezos to take over as Amazon CEO
- Kavitha Rao comes out with her new Book ‘Lady Doctors’
- Nitin Gadkari becomes “Brand Ambassador” of Khadi Prakritk Paint, India’s first paint made from Cow Dung
- Central Government creates a new ‘Ministry of Co-operation’
- Centre launches ‘Matsya Setu’ mobile app for Indian aqua farmers
- Paytm Launches small ticket loan product ‘Postpaid Mini’
- India’s first maritime arbitration centre to be set up in Gandhinagar
- World’s tallest sandcastle built in Denmark
- Amazon launches its first Digital Kendra in India in Surat, Gujarat
- Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh passes away at 87
- Government sets up 25-member Development Council for Cement Industry, under Dalmia Bharat Group CMD Puneet Dalmia
- Government brings Department of Public Enterprises under Ministry of Finance
- IDFC First Bank launches ‘Ghar Ghar Ration’ scheme
- Bharat Dynamics Ltd signs Rs 499-crore deal with Indian Air Force for Akash missiles
- “The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined The Buddha”, by Jairam Ramesh to be released in May 2022
- African-American Zaila Avant-garde Wins 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee
- Haiti President Jovenel Moise, Passes Away at 53 Following Assassination
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates India’s first private LNG Facility plant at Nagpur
- India’s first Cryptogamic Garden Inaugurated in Dehradun
- RBI approves Re-appointment of Shyam Srinivasan as Federal Bank CEO for 3 years till September 2024
- Twitter Appoints Vinay Prakash as Resident Grievance Officer for India
- Ashleigh Barty Beat Karolina Pliskova to Win Wimbledon 2021
- Novak Djokovic Beats Matteo Berrettini to win 2021 Wimbledon Men’s Single Title
- Argentina beats Brazil 1-0 to Lift Copa America 2021
- Abiy Ahmed Wins Second Five-Year Term as Prime Minister of Ethiopia
- Hyderabad-based Social Activist Syed Osman Azhar Maqsusi Wins UK Government’s Point of Light Award
- 2022 Khelo India Youth Games to be held in Haryana
- England’s Sophie Ecclestone and Devon Conway of New Zealand win ICC Player of the Month Award for June
- Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah announces surprise retirement from Test Cricket
- IIT Madras and Sony India jointly host national-level hackathon ‘SAMVEDAN 2021’
- NICL Launches First Ever Insurance Policy for Himalayan Yaks
- Nepal Inks USD 1.3 billion mega-deal with India to develop 679 MW Lower Arun Hydropower project
- ‘The Struggle Within : A Memoir of the Emergency’ by Ashok Chakravarti
- Italy Beat England to win UEFA EURO 2020
- Cabinet approves increase in Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief from 17% to 28% w.e.f July 2021
- Cabinet approves continuation of centrally sponsored scheme National AYUSH Mission for 5 years from FY 2021-2026
- HM Amit Shah inaugurates research-based center of excellence at National Forensic Science University in Gandhinagar
- Piyush Goyal succeeds Thaawarchand Gehlot to be appointed as Leader of House in Rajya Sabha
- Sher Bahadur Deuba Takes Charge as Prime Minister of Nepal for 5th time
- RBI Launches ‘Retail Direct Scheme’ to Allow Retail Investors to buy G-Secs
- The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 Report: UN-FAO
- PM Modi inaugurates the International Cooperation and Convention Centre ‘Rudraksh’ in Varanasi
- Ladakh signs MoU with Sikkim to become organic entity by 2025
- India’s first ‘Grain ATM’ launched in Gurugram
- RBI bans Mastercard from onboarding new customers on its network from July 22
- Manduadih Railway Station in Varanasi Renamed as Banaras Railway Station
- Adani Group takes management control of Mumbai International Airport from GVK Group
- India’s first driverless pod taxis will connect Jewar international airport with Greater Noida
- Zurich airport signs shareholder agreement with NIAL for development of Noida airport
- Government launches Digital Platform ‘Kisan Sarathi’ to facilitate farmers to get ‘right information at right time’ in their desired language
- Annual Bonalu Festival Kicks-off in Telangana
- India, Sri Lanka and Maldives conduct virtual trilateral table top exercise ‘TTX-2021’ on maritime security
- United States Navy hands over first two MH-60R multi-role helicopters to Indian Navy
- Former Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain Passes Away at 80
- 35% of tiger ranges in India are outside protected areas: WWF-UNEP report
- ‘Common High Court of UT of J&K and Ladakh’ renamed as ‘High Court of J&K and Ladakh’
- ‘Common High Court of UT of J&K and Ladakh’ renamed as ‘High Court of J&K and Ladakh’
- Centre extends ‘Stand Up India Scheme’ up to 2025
- IOC to set up first ‘green hydrogen’ plant at Mathura
- Maharashtra set to become first state to issue educational documents using blockchain technology
- IIT Ropar develops first-of-its-kind Oxygen Rationing Device ‘AMLEX’
- Centre Raises FDI limit in NPS Fund Managers from 49% to 74%
- Russia successfully test-fires S-500 missile system
- Mongolia, Tajikistan and Switzerland inducted as new Associate Members of ICC
- Viswanathan Anand Defeats Vladimir Kramnik to win Sparkassen Trophy
- Government plans to set up Indian Institute of Heritage at Noida
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi appointed as Deputy Leader of Rajya Sabha
- Byju’s acquires US-based digital reading platform Epic for $500 mn
- Bengaluru-Based JNCASR Ranked Among Top 50 Rising Institutions in ‘Nature Index 2021 Materials Science’
- World’s first 3D-printed stainless steel bridge opens in Amsterdam
- SBI selects Paisalo Digital as National Corporate Business Correspondent
- Aramane Giridhar gets additional charge of NHAI Chairman
- Indian FinMin Officer Rasmi Ranjan Das among 25 global tax experts appointed to UN Tax Committee
- Pedro Castillo Wins Presidential Election of Peru
- Ariel Henry appointed new Prime Minister of Haiti
- India score 90.32% in United Nation’s Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation
- Max Bupa Health Insurance rebrands itself as Niva Bupa
- Liverpool in UK removed from UNESCO World Heritage list
- Sandesh Jhingan and Bala Devi Named as AIFF Players of the Year for 2020-21
- RBI raises loan limit of other bank directors to Rs 5 crore from Rs 25 lakh
- ‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation’ by Ashok Lavasa
- Mirabai Chanu Wins Silver to open India’s medal tally at the Tokyo Olympics
- Rudreswara Temple (Ramappa Temple) of Telangana inscribed as India’s 39th UNESCO World Heritage List
- UNESCO grants World Heritage Status to Madrid’s Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park
- Philippines becomes world’s first country to approve genetically modified ‘golden rice’ for commercial production
- NASA Selects SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket for Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter
- Byju’s Acquires Learning App Toppr and Higher Education Platform Great Learning for $750 mn
- BS Yediyurappa Resigns as Chief Minister of Karnataka; Basavaraj Bommai elected as Karnataka’s new Chief Minister
- Shiv Nadar steps down as MD of HCL Tech
- Priya Malik wins Gold at 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championship
- Dholavira, the Harappan City in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutchch inscribed as India’s 40th UNESCO World Heritage Site
- INS Talwar Participates in Maritime Exercise Cutlass Express 2021, organised in Kenya’s Mombasa
- Indo-Russia Joint Military Drill ‘Exercise INDRA 2021’ to be held in August 2021 at Volgograd in Russia
- Indore become only Indian city to get selected for International Clean Air Catalyst Programme
- Madhya Pradesh announces Ayush-based economic upgradation scheme ‘Devaranya Yojana’
- Puri city of Odisha becomes first in India to provide 24×7 ‘safe to drink’ tap water facility
- Rakesh Asthana appointed as Delhi Police Commissioner
- Brazil landscape garden Sitio Burle Marx receives UNESCO World Heritage status
- PM Modi launches SAFAL (Structured Assessment For Analysing Learning) Assessment Framework for CBSE Students
- Karnataka becomes first State to provide 1% reservation for Transgender persons in Government Employment
- UT of Ladakh gets RBI nod to Acquire 8.23% stake in J&K Bank
- Alphabet launches new Robotics Software company Intrinsic
- Najib Mikati elected as new Lebanese Prime Minister
- 14 Tiger Reserves of India get Global Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) Recognition
- GI-tagged King Chilli ‘Raja Mircha’ from Nagaland exported to London for the first time
- Intel launches ‘AI For All’ drive in collaboration with Ministry of Education and CBSE
- 12th INDRA NAVY Exercise between India & Russia held in Baltic Sea
- Vantika Agarwal wins Inaugural Women’s National online chess title
- Peru President Pedro Castillo appoints Guido Bellido as new Prime Minister
- Former England Pace Bowler Mike Hendrick Passes Away at 72