Current Affairs - September 10, 2021 Current Affairs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chaired the 13th BRICS Summit virtually.

The PLI scheme has been announced in the Union Budget 2021-22, for 13 sectors, at an outlay of Rs 1.97 lakh crore.

Meghalaya's Whistling village, Kongthong, has been nominated by the Ministry of Tourism for the UNWTO (World Tourism Organisation) 'Best Tourism Villages' award.

S&P Global Ratings has revised India's growth forecast and now expects the economy to grow: 9.5 percent in 2021-22 (FY22).

Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister has been appointed as India's Sherpa for the G20 in 2023 (18th edition).

HDFC Bank has signed an MoU with the National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) for providing credit support to the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector.

Chhattisgarh government has decided to issue domicile certificates to the students studying outside the state.

Ministry of Coal has constituted two committees one is a task force to oversee the program and another is a committee of experts to give guidance to the Ministry to Prepare Road Map for Coal-based Hydrogen Production. The task force has been constituted under the chairmanship of Coal Additional Secretary Vinod Kumar Tiwari.

The Karnataka Bank has launched an all-in-one Point-of-Sales (POS) swiping machine dubbed as 'WisePOSGo', for its merchant customers to process business payments.

Union Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav launched a portal named PRANA, for the regulation of air pollution in 132 cities across the country.

The 2021 edition of the G20 meet will be held in Rome, Italy.

India's tallest air purification tower has been inaugurated in the Union Territory of Chandigarh.

The Union Minister of Culture Shri Kishan Reddy Gangapuram launched a programme named 'BujurgonkiBaat-DeshKeSaath' that aims at enhancing the interaction between the youth and the elder persons who are 95 years.

The UN-recognized International Day to Protect Education from Attack is observed on 9 September.

India will hold the G20 presidency from December 1, 2022, and will convene the G20 leaders' summit in 2023 for the first time.

The Chandigarh Railway Station of the Indian Railways' has been awarded the 5- star 'Eat Right Station' certification by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

S&P has kept the lowest investment grade 'BBB-' rating on India, with a stable outlook.

The Union Cabinet has approved the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the textiles sector with a budgetary outlay of Rs 10,683 crores over the next five years.

The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the Emergency Landing Facility on the Satta-Gandhav stretch of National Highway (NH) 925A in Barmer in Rajasthan.

The Union Minister of Culture Shri Kishan Reddy Gangapuram has launched a book titled "Gita Govinda: Jaydeva's Divine Odyssey" authored by Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee.