Dear aspirants, we have compiled some of the important current affairs headlines in the form of important oneliners for the month August to November 2021, which may help you all in quick revision, ahead of any entrance exam.
Important Current Affairs One Liner – August to November 2021
- Rajasthan Government launches ”Mission Niryatak Bano” to boost exports from state
- Legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle selected for Maharashtra Bhushan Award for 2021
- Serum Institute Chairman Cyrus Poonawalla wins Lokmanya Tilak National Award
- India takes over UNSC presidency for August 2021 with focus on maritime security, peacekeeping, counter-terrorism
- Deepak Das takes charge as new Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
- PV Sindhu Wins Bronze in Women’s Badminton at Tokyo Olympics
- Sri Lanka bowling all-rounder Isuru Udana retires from international cricket with immediate effect
- NPCI launches digital payment solution e-RUPI
- SBI launches ‘SIM Binding’ feature for YONO and YONO Lite
- Nikol Pashinyan Re-appointed as Prime Minister of Armenia
- Centenarian Sprinter Man Kaur passes away at 105
- Seven Indian Companies Feature in Fortune Global 500 list for 2021, Walmart top Company by Revenue
- HDFC Bank launches ‘Dukandar Overdraft Scheme’ for small retailers
- Germany’s Alexander Zverev wins Tennis Men’s Singles Gold at Tokyo Olympics
- USA beats Mexico in extra-time to clinch 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup in Football
- Uttarakhand unveils India’s first earthquake early warning mobile app ‘Uttarakhand Bhookamp Alert’
- INS Khanjar becomes first Indian Navy ship to call at heritage coastal port of Gopalpur in Odisha
- BRO Builds World’s Highest Motorable Road In Ladakh at 19,300 ft
- Pakistani climber Shehroze Kashif becomes youngest mountaineer in the world to scale Mt. K2
- Indian Economists Dr Jagdish Bhagwati and Dr C Rangarajan conferred with inaugural Prof CR Rao Centenary Gold Medal
- World Bank approves $250 million project to make India’s existing dams safe and resilient
- Kumar Mangalam Birla steps down as Non-Executive Chairman of Vodafone Idea
- Mini Ipe takes charge as Managing Director of LIC
- Ebrahim Raisi sworn in as new President of Iran
- Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama written by Manan Bhatt
- Boxer Lovlina Borgohain settles for bronze medal in Tokyo Olympics 2020
- Indian Men’s Hockey Team Beats Germany To Win Bronze at Tokyo Olympics
- India’s first heart failure biobank unveiled in Thiruvananthapuram
- Suryoday Small Finance Bank launches ‘Health and Wellness Savings Account’
- Dhriti Banerjee appointed first woman director of Zoological Survey of India
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award rechristened as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
- India’s Olympian footballer SS ‘Babu’ Narayan passes away at 86
- TRIFED Celebrates 34th Foundation Day on August 06, 2021
- DBS Bank recognised as ‘Most Innovative in Digital Banking’ globally by ‘The Banker’
- Centre Approves One-Year Extension to Rajiv Gauba’s term as Cabinet Secretary
- India-UAE Navy undertakes bilateral exercise ‘Zayed Talwar 2021’ off coast Abu Dhabi
- Indian Contingents Concludes with 7 Medals at 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Games
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes first Indian PM to Chair a UNSC Debate
- Karnataka becomes first Indian state to issue order regrading implementation of NEP 2020
- ADB approves USD 300 million additional loan for rural roads projects in Maharashtra
- Centre Approves 3-year extension for Rekha Sharma as Chairperson of National Commission for Women
- Veteran Indian film and television actor, Anupam Shyam Ojha passes away at 63
- RBI raises limit for collateral free loans to Self-Help Groups (SHG) under the DAY-NRLM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission) from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 20 Lakhs.
- RBI to impose monetary charges on banks if ATMs run out of cash from October 1
- Sudha Murty launches new book ‘How The Earth Got Its Beauty’
- Novelist Anuradha Roy pens new novel ‘The Earthspinner’
- SIDBI launches app based lending platform ‘Digital Prayaas’ for small entrepreneurs
- Quad Navies to undertake Ex-Malabar 2021 off the coast of Guam
- India ranks 122 among 181 countries on new Global Youth Development Index; Singapore Tops: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Indore declared India’s first ‘Water Plus’ certified city
- RBL Bank picks AWS as preferred cloud provider
- India-Saudi Arabia holds first-ever naval exercise “Al-Mohed Al-Hindi 2021”
- NPCI appoints Noopur Chaturvedi as CEO of NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd
- Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla gets One-year extension
- PM Modi addresses Investor Summit in Gujarat virtually and launches ‘Vehicle Scrappage Policy’
- Indian Navy takes part in US Navy-led multinational SEACAT exercises in Singapore
- Pakistan successfully test-fires nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Ghaznavi
- India sends largest ever 54-member contingent for Tokyo Paralympic Games. Shot-putter Tek Chand was India’s flag-bearer at the Tokyo Paralympics
- PM Modi declares August 14 to be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’
- Ministry of Social Justice launches TAPAS, an e-study platform for social defence
- MoHUA launches brand and logo for urban Self-Help Group (SHG) products- ‘SonChiraiya’
- Dr. Jitendra Singh released “IndiGau’, India’s first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of indigenous cattle breeds
- Ministry of Women and Child Development launches 2nd phase of SAMVAD (Support, Advocacy & Mental health interventions for children in Vulnerable circumstances And Distress).
- India’s first Drone Forensic Lab comes up in Kerala
- Kaziranga becomes India’s first national park with satellite phones
- WHO forms Advisory Group named SAGO to study the emergence of future emerging pathogens with pandemic potential
- Government announces Rs 100 lakh crore ‘Prime Minister Gatishakti Scheme’ for holistic infrastructure growth and employment
- Union Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar flags off ‘Operation Blue Freedom’ to create a World Record at Siachen Glacier
- Chhattisgarh gets 4 new districts to take total administrative districts to 32. The four new districts are: Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh, Shakti, Manendragarh.
- HCL Foundation launches ‘My e-Haat’ portal to empower artisans
- German Football Legend Gerd Müller passes away at 75
- Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurates world’s second-largest refurbished gene bank in New Delhi
- AIIMS Delhi becomes first Indian hospital to house fire station inside premises
- Chhattisgarh becomes first state to recognise Community Forest Resource rights in an urban area
- President Ram Nath Kovind confers 144 Gallantry awards in 2021
- Former U-19 World Cup winning India captain Unmukt Chand announces retirement to play for USA T20 League
- Pune-based Harshit Raja becomes India’s 69th Chess Grandmaster
- RBI introduces the Financial Inclusion Index
- INS Tabar Participates in Exercise Konkan 2021 with Royal Navy of UK
- Indian GM Raunak Sadhwani wins 2021 Spilimbergo Open Chess Tournament
- Hakainde Hichilema Wins 2021 Zambia Presidential Election
- Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin resigns . Ismail Sabri Yaakob appointed as new Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan written by Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad to hit stands on August 23
- Maki Kaji, creator of Sudoku puzzle passes away at 69
- Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur confers National Youth Awards for 2017-18 and 2018-19 to 22 awardees
- Mirabai Chanu appointed as brand ambassador of Amway India
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launches Defence India Startup Challenge- DISC 5.0
- J&K Army organises 400 Km “JAZBAA-E- TIRANGA” Relay Marathon
- All-women team of three armed forces summits Mt Manirang in Himachal under ‘Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav’
- RBI to launch PRISM platform to strengthen compliance by supervised entities
- Nitin Chugh resigns as MD & CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
- Kotak Mahindra Bank launches DIY Digital Repayment platform- ‘Neo Collections’
- NPCI partners with Mashreq Bank to launch UPI in the UAE
- Amitabh Bachchan Becomes India’s First Celebrity Voice For Amazon’s Alexa
- Govt forms Committee for doubling the production of handlooms; Chairman- Sunil Sethi
- Apple tops Hurun Global 500 Most Valuable Companies list 2021; Reliance top Indian
- Shanti Lal Jain appointed MD and CEO of Indian Bank
- India’s highest herbal park inaugurated in Uttarakhand
- India’s largest Floating Solar PV Project commissioned in Andhra Pradesh by NTPC
- Delhi-Chandigarh Highway becomes India’s first e-vehicle friendly highway
- Hisar Airport in Haryana renamed as Maharaja Agrasen International Airport
- World Bank Unveils New Cybersecurity Multi-Donor Trust Fund
- CVC re-appoints T M Bhasin as Chairman of Advisory Board for Banking Frauds
- BPCL launches AI-enabled chatbot ‘URJA’
- Former UP CM Kalyan Singh passes away
- India’s first smog tower inaugurated in Connaught Place, Delhi
- IIT Madras develops ‘NeoBolt’- India’s first indigenous motorised wheelchair vehicle
- Finance minister launches ‘Ubharte Sitaare Fund’ for export-oriented MSMEs
- HDFC Bank, Paytm tie up to build comprehensive solutions across payment gateway
- India, ADB sign $500 million loan to expand Metro Rail Network in Bengaluru
- Senior Tamil Nadu BJP Leader La Ganesan appointed as Manipur Governor
- Nakul Chopra appointed as Chief Executive Officer of BARC India
- India’s Evacuation Mission From Afghanistan named as ‘Operation Devi Shakti’
- Swedish company ‘HYBRIT’ develops world’s first fossil-free steel
- New Delhi ranks 48th while Copenhagen tops EIU’s Safe Cities Index 2021
- ‘Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest’ by Boria Majumdar and Kushan Sarkar
- Ritu Menon authors new book titled “Address Book: A Publishing Memoir In the time of COVID“
- 2nd edition of India-Qatar bilateral maritime exercise ‘Zair-Al-Bahr’ culminates in Persian Gulf
- Ministry of Electronics & IT launches SAMRIDH programme to boost start-up ecosystem in India
- Ministry of Jal Shakti launches 100 days ‘SUJALAM’ Campaignto create more and more Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus villages by undertaking waste water management at village level
- India’s first green hydrogen electrolyser manufacturing unit starts at Bengaluru
- World’s tallest observation wheel ‘Ain Dubai’ to be unveiled in UAE
- India Ranks Second In Global Manufacturing Risk Index 2021, China Tops: Cushman & Wakefield Report
- 5th India-Kazakhstan Joint Training Exercise “KAZIND-21” to Commence from August 30
- RBI approves re-appointment of Sandeep Bakhshi as ICICI Bank MD & CEO
- HDFC Bank divests over 2% stake in Central Depository Services (India) Ltd (CDSL) for Rs 222.71 crore
- BharatPe launches P2P lending app ‘12% Club’
- Infosys becomes 4th Indian company to touch $100 bn market cap
- Govt replaces UAS Rules, 2021 with the liberalised Drone Rules, 2021
- Finance Minister unveils 4th edition of Public Sector Bank Reforms Agenda (EASE 4.0)
- RBI includes PM SVANidhi Scheme beneficiaries under PIDF Scheme
- SBI becomes the Overall winner of the EASE Reforms Index Award 2021
- RBI clears appointment of Hitendra Dave as CEO of HSBC India
- Carol Furtado named interim CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
- Former Union Minister K J Alphons presents his book ‘Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government’ to PM Modi
- NITI Aayog Releases North Eastern Region District SDG Index 2021–22; Top- East Sikkim
- Mansukh Mandaviya appointed Chairperson of Stop TB Partnership Board
- China, Pakistan, Thailand, Mongolia to hold military exercise- “Shared Destiny-2021”
- Former England Skipper Ted Dexter passes away at 86
- Rajnath Singh names Army Sports Institute, Pune as “Neeraj Chopra Stadium”
- Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh Commissions Indigeneously built ICGS ‘Vigraha’in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Built by Larsen & Toubro Ship Building Limited.
- RBI enhances limit under Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility to Rs 2 lakh
- RBI enhances the incentive for distribution of coins over the counter by banks to Rs 65
- World’s Highest Altitude Movie Theatre launched in Ladakh at 11,562 ft
- LIC launches ANANDA mobile app for Agents/Intermediaries
- NSG commandos undertake mock counter-terrorist drills ‘Gandiv’
- PFRDA increases the entry age in National Pension System (NPS) to 70 years
- IDBI Bank to divest its entire stake of 19.18% in Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Limited (ARCIL).
- Govt sets up panel to develop technological platform for streamlining revenue litigation; Head- Ashish Shiradhonkar
- Former SBI Chief Rajnish Kumar appointed as independent director of HSBC Asia
- PhonePe receives direct broking licence from IRDAI
- Indian cricketer Stuart Binny announces retirement from all forms of cricket
- Ladakh based Dorje Angchuk becomes first Indian to be inducted as Honorary Member of the International Astronomical Union
- PayU to acquire Indian digital payments provider BillDesk for $4.7 bn
- South African Pacer Dale Steyn announces retirement from all forms of cricket
- Axis Bank ties up with BharatPe for PoS business of Bharat Pe, BharatSwipe
- SBI unveils floating ATM on houseboats at Dal Lake in Srinagar
- 5th India-Kazakhstan Joint Military Exercise “KAZIND-21” Beginsat Training Node Aisha Bibi, Kazakhstan.
- Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit gets additional charge of Punjab and Chandigarh
- Snow Leopard and Black Necked Crane declared state animal and bird of Ladakh
- New Development Bank approves UAE, Uruguay and Bangladesh as a new member
- RBI to setup committee on New Umbrella Entity (NUE) licenses: Head- P. Vasudevan
- RBI imposes Rs 25 lakh fine on Axis Bank for flouting KYC norms
- Pankaj Kumar Singh takes over as new DG of Border Security Force (BSF)
- 12th Defence Expo-2022 to be held at Gandhinagar in Gujarat in March
- I&B Ministry constitutes 12-member Committee to review guidelines of Journalist Welfare Scheme; Head-Ashok Kumar Tandon
- IMF increases India’s quota of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to 13.66 billion SDR
- HDFC Life to acquire Exide Life Insurance for Rs 6,687 crore in stock and cash deal
- India third largest Unicorn ecosystem in the world; Top- USA: Hurun Research Institute
- Dr. PPK Ramacharyulu appointed as Secretary General of Rajya Sabha
- India becomes first Asian nation to launch ‘Plastics Pact’
- 28th Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise ‘SIMBEX-2021’ Concludes
- Indian Army to take part in military exercise ‘ZAPAD 2021’ in Russia
- PhonePe launches first Indian digital payment interactive geospatial platform- Pulse platform
- LIC buys 3.9% stake in Bank of India via open market acquisition
- Angelina Jolie Pens new Book ‘Know Your Rights And Claim Them: A Guide For Youth’
- “A Rude Life: The Memoir” by Vir Sanghvi
- India secures record 19 medals at Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020. Complete List of Indian Medal Winners
- Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge passes away at 79
- India’s first dugong conservation reserve to come up in Tamil Nadu
- India’s first bio-brick based building inaugurated at IIT Hyderabad
- ADB approves $150 million loan for urban poor housing project in Tamil Nadu
- 4th bilateral Naval exercise between India and Australia- ‘AUSINDEX’ begins
- Tamannaah Bhatia launches her book titled ‘Back to the Roots’
- Equitas Small Finance Bank appoints hockey player Rani Rampal & cricketer Smriti Mandhana as brand ambassadors
- Harsha Bhupendra Bangari appointed as MD of EXIM Bank
- SL Tripathy appointed as CMD of United India Insurance
- Government Approves Appointment of Arun Kumar Singh as CMD of BPCL
- India to host G-20 summit in 2023; Piyush Goyal to be the Sherpa
- India’s tallest air purifier tower installed in Chandigarh
- IIT Madras Retains Top Spot in Overall Category of NIRF India Ranking 2021
- Centre Forms Panel To Frame New Law For Drugs, Cosmetics, Medical Devices; Head – Dr VG Somani
- RBI takes UCO Bank out of PCA Framework
- Bank of Baroda’s launches digital platform ‘bob World’
- RBI approves re-appointment of V. Vaidyanathan as MD & CEO of IDFC FIRST Bank
- Govt appoints 10 merchant bankers for managing IPO of LIC
- ADB approves $112 million loan to improve water supply infrastructure in Jharkhand
- ADB approves $300 million loan to expand rural connectivity in Maharashtra
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs 13th BRICS Summit
- India’s first emergency landing strip on national highway inaugurated in Barmer, Rajasthan
- World’s largest Plant to capture Carbon Dioxide from Air commissioned in Iceland
- NPCI launches RuPay credit card stack, ‘nFiNi’ to enable fintech to co-create bank-sponsored credit cards
- ICICI Lombard ceases to be subsidiary of ICICI Bank post merger with Bharti AXA
- Income Tax Returns filling deadline for FY21(AY 2021-22) extended till December 31
- Tata AIA Life Insurance appoints Neeraj Chopra as Brand Ambassador
- PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Sardardham Bhavan in Ahmedabad
- Sanjeev Barnwal appointed as CEO of Ujjivan Financial Services
- Yahoo Appoints Jim Lanzone as its new CEO
- India’s largest open air fernery inaugurated in Uttarakhand
- India’s first long-range nuclear missile tracking ship INS Dhruv commissioned
- Bhupendra Patel named as the new CM of Gujarat
- Chhattisgarh Launches ‘Millet Mission’ To Become Millet Hub Of India
- Nuakhai, harvest festival celebrated in Odisha
- Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace becomes first Spacetech startup to formally tie-up with ISRO
- Aziz Akhannouch elected as new PM of Morocco
- Daniil Medvedev (Russia) and Emma Raducanu (Great Britain) wins 2021 US Open Tennis Title
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in UP’s Aligarh
- RBI announces Opening of Third Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox- Theme ‘MSME Lending’
- India and Singapore to link their Fast Payment Systems – Unified Payments Interface and PayNow
- Subramanian Swamy comes out with book titled Human Rights and Terrorism in India
- Brendan Taylor of Zimbabwe Announces Retirement From International Cricket
- Niti Aayog launches ‘Shoonya’ programme to promote zero-pollution delivery vehicles
- Cabinet approves 100% FDI under automatic route in Telecom Sector
- Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha launches Mission ‘One Gram Panchayat-One DIGI-Pay Sakhi’
- Power Finance Corporation (PFC) issues India’s first-ever Euro Green Bond
- Ministry of Defence constitutes High Level Expert Committee for a comprehensive review of NCC; Chairman: Shri Baijayant Panda
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses 21st SCO Meeting of the Council of Heads of Stateunder the Chairmanship of President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon.
- Indo-Nepal joint military exercise Surya Kiran -XV to begin from September 20 at Pithoragarh
- Ministry of Law and Justice launches “Ek Pahal” campaign for Justice Delivery at doorstep
- Deadline to link PAN-Aadhaar extended by six months till March 2022
- Centre forms GoM for better implementation of schemes meant for SC, ST, OBC, minorities, women; Head-Rajnath Singh
- Manipur’s Sirarakhong Chilli and Tamenglong Orange gets GI tag
- ‘Katley’ declared as state fish of Sikkim
- Rajnath Singh launches ‘Shining Sikh Youth of India’ written by Dr Prabhleen Singh
- Pankaj Advani wins Asian Snooker Championship 2021
- M.S. Dhoni named mentor for Indian Men’s Team for T20 World Cup 2021
- IRCTC Partners with Cordelia Cruises to launch India’s first indigenous luxury cruise liner
- India ranked 46th in the Global Innovation Index 2021; Top- Switzerland: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Warangal-based R. Raja Rithvik becomes India’s 70th Chess Grandmaster
- Iran becomes 9th member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
- Centre forms panel to firm up India’s sustainable finance road map; Head-DEA Secretary Ajay Seth
- Third India – Indonesia bilateral maritime exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ begins in Sunda Strait
- Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari appointed as next Chief of Air Staff
- Justin Trudeau wins historic third term as Prime Minister of Canada
- Zee Entertainment sign merger deal with Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited
- Government sets up India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL) for managing bad loans
- Pankaj Advani wins 6Reds Snooker World Cup 2021
- Chetan Bhagat releases cover of his upcoming book ‘400 Days’
- World’s Highest EV Charging Station Inaugurated At Kaza in Himachal Pradesh
- Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto’s first-ever statue unveiled in Budapest, Hungary
- Education ministry constitutes panel to develop new national curriculum frameworks (NCFs); Head- Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan
- First in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit held in Washington
- Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale pens “The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India”
- Nirupama Rao Pens book titled “The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations”
- PM Narendra Modi addresses 76th UNGA in New York
- RBI fixes minimum ticket size for issuance of securitisation notes at Rs.1 crore
- Jyothi Surekha Vennam wins silver medal at World Archery Championship.
- “Sweet Cucumber” of Nagaland gets geographical indication (GI) tag
- Mastercard ropes in World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen as its Global Brand Ambassador
- Lt Gen Gurbirpal Singh takes charge as DG of National Cadet Corps (NCC)
- England all-rounder Moeen Ali announces retirement from Test cricket
- Sojat Mehndi from Rajasthan and Judima rice wine from Assam gets GI tag
- RBI sets WMA Limit for Central Government for (October 2021 to March 2022) at Rs. 50,000 crore
- Centre extends existing foreign trade policy (FTP) till March 2022
- Govt sets up GoM to rationalise GST rates; Head- Karnataka CM Basavaraj S. Bommai
- MCA extends the tenure of Company Law Committee by 1 year until September 16, 2022; Head- Rajesh Verma
- CAG GC Murmu appointed as external auditor of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for 6 years
- 11 Scientists Receive 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes
- United States Wins 2021 Ryder Cup Golf Tournament
- Government extends ECLGS Scheme till 31.03.2022 (or till Rs 4.5 lakh crore guarantee)
- RBI takes Indian Overseas Bank out of PCA Framework
- IFSCA Constitutes an Expert Committee on Sustainable Finance; Head – Shri C.K. Mishra
- Padmaja Chunduru appointed MD, CEO of National Securities Depositories (NSDL).
- PK Purwar to continue as MTNL CMD till Oct 2022
- Mukesh Ambani tops Hurun India Rich List 2021 for 10th straight year
- Kiren Rijiju Inaugurates India’s First Sports Arbitration Centre in Ahmedabad
- Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari takes over as “The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS)”
- Amish Mehta appointed as MD & CEO of CRISIL
- Indra Nooyi launches her memoir “My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future”
- World’s largest Khadi National Flag hoisted in Leh, Ladakh
- 8th India-Sri Lanka Joint Exercise – Mitra Shakti 21
- Government launches web portal ‘Waste to Wealth’ to find solutions to India’s waste problems
- Government reconstitutes Expert group for determining minimum wages and national-floor wages. Head- SP Mukherjee
- Paytm acquires 100% ownership of lending startup CreditMate
- World Bank approves $150 million for Chennai Sustainable Urban Services Programme
- Najla Bouden Romdhane appointed as first woman Prime Minister of Tunisia
- American Scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Fumio Kishida sworn in as 100th Prime Minister of Japan
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed takes oath for second five-year term
- FC Goa beat Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 to lift maiden Durand Cup football trophy
- 5th India-Japan Bilateral Maritime Exercise JIMEX-21 held in Arabian Sea
- Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi wins Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
- BC Patnaik sworn in as new managing director of LIC
- Alibaug white onion from Maharashtra gets GI tag
- RBI superseded the board of directors of SIFL and SEFL; appoints Rajneesh Sharma as administrator
- Moody’s upgrades India’s rating outlook to ‘stable’ from ‘negative’
- Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Professor Eric Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji wins 2021 Yidan Prize
- Wada Kolam Rice (Zini Rice) from Maharashtra’s Palghar gets GI Tag
- BharatPe launches ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ platform- “postpe”
- Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes India Rich List 2021 with net worth of $92.7 billion
- Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Economist Gandhi: The Roots and the Relevance of the Political Economy of the Mahatma by Jaithirth Rao
- Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov wins 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
- Chhattisgarh gets its fourth Tiger Reserve. The combined areas of the Guru Ghasidas National Park and Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary in Chhattisgarh has been declared as a Tiger Reserve by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
- RBI announces the Theme for Fourth Cohort under Regulatory Sandbox as ‘Prevention and Mitigation of Financial Frauds’
- 6th India-UK joint military exercise ‘AJEYA WARRIOR’ begins in Uttarakhand
- Bathukamma, the unique festival of flowers begins in Telangana
- UNDP Releases 2021 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report
- Former SBI Chief Rajnish Kumar launches memoir ‘The Custodian of Trust’
- USA economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens Wins 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Centre accords “Maharatna” status to state-owned PFC Ltd.
- World’s first driverless-automated train launched in Germany’s Hamburg
- India Ranks Third in 2021 EY Index; The US Retains Top Position
- Varanasi To Become India’s first City to Start Ropeway Service in Public Transportation
- Telangana develops India’s first smartphone-based eVoting solution
- Assam launches app ‘Fishwaale’, India’s first e-fish market
- Punjab National Bank launches ‘6S Campaign’ under customer outreach programme
- Tata Sons wins bid to acquire Air India for Rs 18,000 crore
- 17th Edition of Indo-US Joint Military Exercise “Ex Yudh Abhyas 2021” organised in Alaska (USA) from Oct 15 to 29
- Ritesh Chauhan appointed as CEO of PM Fasal Bima Yojana
- Indian entrepreneur Sajjan Jindal elected Chairman of World Steel Association for 2021-22
- UCO Bank chief A K Goel elected as Chairman of Indian Bank’s Association (IBA)
- India ranks 101 in Global Hunger Index 2021
- India re-elected to UN Human Rights Council for new three year term from 2022-2024
- China- Russia holds naval drill “Joint Sea 2021” in Sea of Japan
- SEBI constitutes 4-member high powered advisory committee on settlement orders; Head – Vijay C Daga
- RBI approves re-appointment of Amitabh Chaudhry as MD,CEO of Axis Bank
- Pradeep Kumar Panja appointed as Chairman of Karnataka Bank
- Navrang Saini gets additional charge as Chairperson of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
- Chennai Super Kings wins 2021 IPL title
- NASA launches Lucy Mission to study the Jupiter Trojan asteroids
- Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapour in Jupiter’s moon ‘Europa’
- 90-year-old Canadian Actor William Shatner becomes oldest person in history to fly to space
- Jonas Gahr Store Assumes Charge as Prime Minister of Norway
- India beat Nepal 3-0 to win 2021 SAFF Championship
- Centre forms panel to suggest alternative model of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana; Head – CEO of PMFBY, Ritesh Chauhan
- India ranks 40th in 2021 Mercer CFS Global Pension Index survey; Top- Iceland
- RBL Bank working on a new digital platform Abacus 2.0
- Gulzar pens book titled “Actually… I Met Them: A Memoir”
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Kushinagar International Airport in Uttar Pradesh
- NPCI launches card tokenisation platform ‘NTS’
- India ranks 71st on 2021 Global Food Security Index among 113 nations
- Indonesia and China Lifts 2020 Thomas Cup and Uber Cup respectively
- India Ranks 79th in WJP Rule of Law Index 2021; Denmark tops
- Australian Pacer Pattinson announces retirement from international cricket
- Barbados elects Sandra Mason as its first-ever president to replace British Queen as head of state
- Tamil drama film Koozhangal is India’s official entry for Oscars 2022
- “Writing for My Life” anthology of Ruskin Bond released
- South Korea flight tests first homegrown space rocket “Nuri”
- Viktor Axelsen and Akane Yamaguchi wins 2021 Denmark Open
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches pan-India Rs. 5,000-crore ‘Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission’ from Varanasi
- NITI Aayog launches “Innovations for You” Digi-Book
- India, UK and Australia to jointly launch Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS)” initiative at COP26
- Government sets up National Steering Committee for implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission; Head: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
- Legendary Actor Rajnikanth conferred upon 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award
- Former NIO Scientist Dr. Rajiv Nigam Selected for 2022 Joseph A. Cushman Award
- Ahmedabad and Lucknow are the two new teams of the Indian Premier League (IPL)
- India’s first state-owned Wildlife DNA testing facility unveiled in Nagpur
- India-UK conducts maiden Tri-Service exercise ‘Konkan Shakti 2021’
- India and ADB inks $4.5 million project readiness financing loan to support urban mobility in Mizoram
- AU Small Finance Bank launches QR Code Sound Box
- PM Modi addresses 16th East Asia Summit virtually under the Chairmanship of Brunei.
- Microsoft launches AI Innovate initiative to empower startups in India
- CCI approves acquisition of 4.99% stake in HDFC ERGO by HDFC Bank
- ADB and India sign $251 million loan for Integrated Urban Flood Management in Chennai
- Biography titled “Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman” written by Chidanand Rajghatta released
- PM Modi attends 18th ASEAN-India summit virtuallyunder the Chairmanship of Sultan of Brunei.
- RBI approves appointment of Baldev Prakash as MD & CEO of J&K Bank
- Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev wins second 5-year term
- France successfully launches military communications satellite ‘Syracuse 4A’
- Karnataka tops State Energy Efficiency Index (SEEI) 2020
- Maharashtra becomes first state launch its own Wildlife Action Plan
- Facebook Inc. Rebrands Corporate name as ‘Meta’
- Government approves reappointment of Shaktikanta Das as Governor of RBI for three-year term
- Netherlands all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate announces retirement from international cricket
- India’s biggest aromatic garden opened in Nainital, Uttarakhand
- National Small Matchbox Manufacturers Association increases price of matchbox from Re 1 to Rs 2
- World’s Largest Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Plant Inaugurated in South Korea
- Govt approves interest rate on employees’ provident fund (EPF) for FY21 at 8.5%
- ADB approves $250 million loan for India’s National Industrial Corridor Development Program (NICDP)
- Chennai-Mysore-Chennai Shatabdi Express becomes first train of Southern Railway to receive Integrated Management Systems (IMS) certification.
- Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh dedicates ‘Sardar Patel Leadership Centre’ to the Nation in Mussoorie
- Centre appoints former SC Judge Ashok Bhushan as National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) Chairperson
- New Zealand names critically endangered native long-tailed bat as Bird of the Year
- ‘Vax’ selected as Oxford English Dictionary’s 2021 Word of the Year
- India and World Bank sign USD 40 million agreement to strengthen health systems in Meghalaya
- Australian Cricket legend, Alan Davidson, passes away at 92
- Azim Premji tops Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021
- PM Narendra Modi Unveils Shri Adi Shankaracharya Samadhi and Statue in Kedarnath
- China launches earth science satellite, Guangmu
- RBI issues revised PCA Framework for banks
- Finance Ministry issues uniform staff accountability framework for NPA accounts up to Rs 50 crore
- PhonePe launched tokenisation solution ‘SafeCard’ to help users meet RBI norms
- Damon Galgut wins 2021 Booker Prize for “The Promise”
- Rahul Dravid appointed head coach of Indian men’s cricket team till 2023 ODI World Cup
- Indian-origin C.S. Venkatakrishnan appointed as CEO of Barclays
- Indian Boxer Akash Kumar settles for bronze in 2021 AIBA Men’s World Championships
- Meghalaya Cabinet approves creation of new district named Eastern West Khasi Hills District
- Sudha Murty authors “The Sage with Two Horns”
- Dronacharya Awardee Eminent Cricket Coach Tarak Sinha passes away at 71
- Cabinet approves to observe November 15 as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas
- Srinagar joins UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN)
- Tripura launches India’s first cricket bats and stumps made of Bamboo
- 17 Scientists Receives SwarnaJayanti Fellowships Award 2020-21
- USA becomes 101st member country of International Solar Alliance (ISA)
- India Placed at 10th Ranks in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022
- Gujarat Retains Top Spot in Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) Index 2021
- RBI launches its First Global Hackathon named HARBINGER 2021
- India bags 5 medals at inaugural ISSF President’s Cup
- Odisha government launches road safety initiative ‘Rakshak’
- Nykaa CEO Falguni Nayar becomes India’s richest self-made woman
- Rajeev Srivastava appointed as CEO of Standard Chartered Securities
- India’s first National Yogasana Sports Championships organised in Bhubaneswar
- Novak Djokovic beat Daniil Medvedev to win 2021 Paris Masters title
- West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo retires from international cricket
- Nobel Laureate and former South African President FW de Klerk passes away at 85
- Ram Nath Kovind confers honorary rank of ‘General of Indian Army’ on Nepal Army Chief Gen Prabhu Ram Sharma
- 6th India-France bilateral Army exercise EX SHAKTI 2021 to begin on November 15 in Frejus, France
- Book titled “Sunrise over Ayodhya” authored by Salman Khurshid released
- Professor Bimal Patel of India elected to International Law Commission for 5-yr term
- Satya Narayan Pradhan appointed as Director-General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
- Centre brings ordinance to extend tenure of CBI & ED Directors to 5 years from present 2 years
- Bhopal’s Habibganj Railway Station renamed as Rani Kamlapati Station
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates first operationalised private sector defence manufacturing facility in Lucknow
- 32nd Indo-Thai CORPAT Begins in Andaman Sea
- Former CBDT Chief PC Mody appointed as new Secretary General of Rajya Sabha
- Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar releases a book titled ‘FORCE IN STATECRAFT’
- Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi has been renamed as Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA).
- India launches 41st Scientific Expedition to Antarctica
- India, Singapore and Thailand Trilateral Maritime Exercise SITMEX – 21 held in Andaman Sea
- Indian Teenage brothers Vihaan (17) and Nav Agarwal (14) wins 2021 International Children’s Peace Prize for waste project
- India inks USD 61 mn loan pact with ADB for development projects in Agartala
- Australia Defeat New Zealand to win their maiden T20 World Cup
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Purvanchal Expressway at KarwalKheri in Sultanpur district of UP
- ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ declared as Arunachal Pradesh’s State Butterfly
- Malayalam writer M. Mukundan’s ‘Delhi: A soliloquy’ wins 2021 JCB Prize for Literature
- VVS Laxman named as new head of National Cricket Academy (NCA)
- Eminent Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari passes away at 90
- India’s first ‘Grass Conservatory’ inaugurated in Uttarakhand’s Ranikhet
- India’s first fisheries business incubator launched in Gurugram Haryana
- BCCI President Sourav Ganguly appointed Chairman of ICC Men’s Cricket Committee
- Union Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurates India’s first food museum in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur
- President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates Adarsh Village ‘Sui’ in Haryana’s Bhiwani
- Uttar Pradesh’s first Anti-Air Pollution Tower inaugurated in Noida
- AIIB approves USD 150 million loan for implementation of Sustainable Urban services program for Chennai Metropolitan Area
- Centre extends Sanjay Kumar Mishra’s tenure as ED Director for one year till November 2022
- India re-elected to UNESCO Executive Board for 2021-25 term with 164 votes
- Spain’s Garbine Muguruza wins 2021 WTA Finals
- Veteran sports commentator and football pundit Novy Kapadia passes away at 68
- Telangana’s Pochampally village named among Best Tourism Villages by UNWTO
- Paytm Money launches AI-powered ‘Voice Trading’ facility
- SIDBI joins hand with Google for $15 million financial assistance programme to help MSMEs
- India Ranks 82nd in TRACE Global Business Bribery Risk Rankings 2021
- Alexander Zverev Beats Frances Tiafoe to win 2021 Erste Bank Open
- India has received USD 87 billion in remittances in 2021 as per the report titled “Migration and Development Brief 35” released by World Bank and KNOMAD. India is also the top country in receiving remittances in 2021.
- President Ramnath Kovind Presents 6th Swachh Survekshan Awards 2021; Indore wins Cleanest City title for 5th Straight Year
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi attends 56th Conference of Director Generals of Police (DGP) and Inspector Generals of Police (IGP) organised at Police Headquarters in Lucknow by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in hybrid format.
- Veteran actress Hema Malini and lyrics writer Prasoon Joshi conferred with the Indian Personality of the Year award for 2021 at the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi attends 56th Conference of Director Generals of Police (DGP) and Inspector Generals of Police (IGP) organised at Police Headquarters in Lucknow by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in hybrid format.
- Veteran actress Hema Malini and lyrics writer Prasoon Joshi conferred with the Indian Personality of the Year award for 2021 at the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa
- Andhra Pradesh Police tops ‘IPF Smart Policing’ Index 2021, among 29 states and Union Territories, released by Indian Police Foundation (IPF)
- Union Minister Smriti Zubin Irani has come out with her debut novel titled “Lal Salaam: A Novel”.
- Legendary player and former South Africa captain AB de Villiers announces retirement from all forms of cricket
- AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announces expansion of North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda and Folk Medicine Research (NEIAFMR) in Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh by developing new infrastructure within the campus.
- The Sadar Bazar police station in Delhi has been ranked as the best police station of India for the year 2021 in the annual list of the top 10 police stations in India released by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Geoff Allardice appointed as new CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC)
- India Concludes with 7 medals at 2021 Asian Archery Championships in Dhaka
- Andhra Pradesh has been named as the best marine state in the country by the Department of Fisheries on the occasion of the ‘World Fisheries Day’ 2021
- Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launches Centres For Nanotechnology & Centre for Indian Knowledge System at IIT Guwahati
- Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organises 20th edition of its flagship event ‘Connect 2021’ in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- El Salvador Plans to Build World’s First ‘Bitcoin City’
- Russia successfully test-fires Hypersonic Cruise Missile ‘Zircon’
- 8,573 Venezuelan musicians “El Sistema” set Guinness Record for world’s largest orchestra
- EPFO gets approval to park 5% of annual deposits in InvITs and other alternative funds
- Anita Desai conferred with 2021 Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award and Poet Laureate award for 2021 has been conferred upon Indian poet Adil Jussawala.
- Kento Momota and An Seyoung wins 2021 Indonesia Masters Badminton Tournament
- Home Minister Amit Shah lays foundation for ‘Rani Gaidinliu Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum’ in Manipur
- Traditional Odia festival Boita Bandana Celebrated in Odisha with fervor
- India & World Bank inks $250 million loan agreement to improve quality of learning in Andhra Pradesh
- ICICI Bank launches online platform ‘Trade Emerge’ for exporters and importers to offer them digital banking and value-added services.
- 37th edition of India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) held in Indian Ocean
- Mumbai-based NGO Pratham wins Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace for 2021
- India Vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win- Book by Syed Akbaruddin
- Shimla tops NITI Aayog’s inaugural SDG Urban Index and Dashboard 2021–22
- NASA launches world’s first DART Mission to crash Spacecraft into Asteroid
- JP Morgan Chase has topped the 2021 list of globally systemic banks (G-SIBs) released by the Financial Stability Board (FSB).
- India and ADB sign USD 300 million loan agreement to improve primary health care in India
- “Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World”, an autobiography of Ban Ki-moon
- Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjeepens book titled ‘Cooking to Save your Life’
- Alexander Zverev beat Daniil Medvedev to win his second ATP Finals title
- Tamil Nadu defeats Karnataka to win 2021-22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Cricket Trophy
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays foundation Stone of Noida International Airport at Jewar in Uttar Pradesh
- Cabinet approves extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) till March 31, 2022
- 15th Biennial Trilateral Coast Guard Exercise ‘Dosti’ Between India, Maldives & Sri Lanka Concludes in Maldives
- Ministry of Labour & Employment has changed the base year for Wage Rate Index (WRI) from 1963-65=100 to 2016=100.
- ADB approves USD1.5 bn loan to India for COVID-19 vaccine procurement
- Art historian BN Goswamy pens book on Indian arts titled ‘Conversations’
- Union Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw launches Ministry of Railways’ new theme-based circuit trains for tourism sector under the name Bharat Gaurav Trains.
- “Union Minister Jitendra Singh launches World’s First Multimodal Brain Imaging Data and Analytics ‘SWADESH’
- Collins Dictionary names ‘NFT’ as the Word of the Year 2021
- Kuwait reappoints Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah as Prime Minister
- Sweden’s first woman PM Magdalena Andersson steps down within hours of being elected
- Book titled ‘Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute’ released by Maroof Raza
- RBI announces higher cap on promoter stake in private banks at 26% after 15 yrs. Earlier it was 15%.
- RBI imposes Rs 1 Crore penalty on SBI for violating norms stated in sub-section (2) of section 19 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. The bank held shares in the borrower companies of an amount exceeding 30 percent of the paid-up share capital of those companies.
- Bihar has highest level of multidimensional poverty while Kerala is least poor state as per NITI Aayog’s inaugural Multi-dimensional Poverty Index
- Madhya Pradesh announces launch of India’s first Cyber Tehsil
- Indian Armed Forces undertake military exercise ‘Dakshin Shakti’ in Jaisalmer in the deserts of Thar to the Rann of Kutch.
- Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Director Praveen Sinha has been elected as ‘Delegate for Asia’ on the executive committee of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol).
- Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been elected as the new President of INTERPOL
- The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) shows the signs of a demographic shift in India. As per NFHS-5 the proportion of women exceeded men with 1,020 women for every 1,000 men.
- Indian Railways Constructing World’s Tallest Pier Bridge in Manipur
- 7th India International Science Festival (IISF) to be held in Panaji, Goa in December 2021
- National Cadet Corps celebrates 73rd Raising Day in November 2021
- Centre Constitutes 5 member committee to monitor implementation of Central Vista Project; Head- Ratan P Watal
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary Declares “Vaccine” As Word Of The Year For 2021
- South Korea to get world’s first floating city by 2025
- RBI approves to increase LIC’s stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank to 9.99% from 4.96%
- 6th BRICS Film Festival awards
Best Film – jointly shared by South African film ‘Barakat’ and Russian film ‘The Sun above Me Never Sets’
Best Actor (Male) – Dhanush for Asuran (Hindi)
Best Actor (Female) – Lara Boldorini for On Wheels (Brazil)
Best Director – Lucia Marat for Ana (Brazil)
Special Jury Mention Award – Director Yan Han for A Little Red Flower (China)” - Vivek Johri appointed as new chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
- Harshwanti Bisht appointed as first women President of Indian Mountaineering Foundation
- Petr Fiala appointed as new Prime Minister of Czech Republic
- Saurav Ghosal becomes first Indian to win Malaysian Open Squash Championship. Women’s single title won by Malaysia’s Aifa Azman.
- Jaishankar represent India at 20th Meeting of SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) in Nur-Sultan under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan