Daily Current Affairs- 22 October 2021

Daily Current Affairs- 22nd October 2021

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Headlines

1) Archaeological Survey of India illuminates 100 Monuments in Tri-color to celebrate

the landmark achievement of 100 crore vaccinations

2) Launch of NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission Digi-Book Innovations for You Sector

in Focus – Health Care

3) AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV RUN FROM GWALIOR TO NEW DELHI

4) Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corp signs agreement for BharatNet project implementation

5) Haryana launches Swasth Haryana mobile app

6) Madhya Pradesh announces Implementation of "Mukhyamantri Ration Aapke Dwar

Yojana"

7) Air Quality Early Warning System integrated with a Decision Support System

8) Global Food Security Index 2021

9) ASI Confers Aryabhata Award

10) NMDC Bags Two Prestigious Environment Awards

11) Rupifi Tie-up with Muthoot Finance

12) Capt Alok Mishra Appointed as MD of India Ports Global

13) Balasubramanian elected as Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds

14) Bhavani Devi won Charlellville National Competition 2021 in France

15) Book - "The Origin Story of India's States"







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National News

Archaeological Survey of India illuminates 100 Monuments in Tri-color to

celebrate the landmark achievement of 100 crore vaccinations

• The Archaeological Survey of India of

Ministry of Culture is illuminating 100

Monuments in Tri-color across the country as

India achieved the landmark milestone of

administrating 100 crore COVID vaccinations

in one of the World’s largest and fastest

vaccination drive. The illumination is taking

place as a mark of respect and gratitude to

corona warriors who have contributed

relentlessly in the fight against covid

pandemic.

• The 100 monuments being lit up in Tri-color include UNESCO World Heritage Sites - the Red Fort,

Humayun’s Tomb and QutbMinar in Delhi, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh, Konark Temple

in Odisha, MamallapuramRath temples in Tamil Nadu, St Francis of Assisi Church in Goa, Khajuraho, the

forts of Chittor and Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan, the excavated ruins of the ancient Nalanda University in

Bihar and Dholavira (recently accorded world heritage status) in Gujarat.

Launch of NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission Digi-Book

Innovations for You Sector in Focus – Health Care

• NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has

launched – “Innovations for You” an attempt to showcase

the success stories of Atal Innovation Mission’s Startups in

different domains.

• The book is a compilation of 45health tech

startups, incubated at Atal Incubation Centres spread

across the country. These startups are leveraging frontier

technologies such as AI, IoT, ICT and others to provide

socially relevant solutions to problems likeAnemia,

Malaria, dental care, mental health, neonatal and child care and monitoring human vitals, among others.







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• The digi-book series - Innovations for Youby Atal Innovation Mission brings to you the best of innovations

and entrepreneurs to the forefront.

AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV RUN FROM GWALIOR TO NEW DELHI

• As a part of “AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV”, a tri-

service run was organised by Headquarters

Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS). The run

commenced from Maharani Laxmibai

Smarak, Gwalior with seven members that included

two women officers.

• On 21 Oct 21, the last leg of run to Delhi was

flagged off by Rear Admiral Manish Sharma

Assistant Chief of Integrated Defence Staff HQ IDS

from Air Force Station Faridabad.

• The run culminated at National War Memorial, New Delhi

Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corp signs agreement for BharatNet project

implementation

• Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corporation Ltd accepts

the agreement for the implementation of

BharatNet Project in Tamil Nadu.

• BharatNet, the world’s largest rural broadband

project, is to provide broadband connectivity to

all the 2.5 lakhs gram panchayats across India.

• The project covers Gram Panchayat through

optical fibre cable with high-speed bandwidth

connectivity with a minimum of 100 Mbps

speed.

• Bharat Broadband Network Limited was created to implement the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)

project.The entire project is being funded by Universal service Obligation Fund (USOF).







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Haryana launches Swasth Haryana mobile app

• Haryana launched "Swasth Haryana" mobile app to provide people relief from long queues at civil hospitals.

• Patients can register themselves at any civil hospital and three medical colleges of the State for healthcare facilities through mobile App

• The App contains information on the nearest blood bank

Madhya Pradesh announces Implementation of "Mukhyamantri Ration Aapke Dwar Yojana"

• Madhya Pradesh has announced the

implementation of the scheme ‘'Mukhyamantri

Ration Apke Dwar Yojana‘’.

• Under this scheme, ration will be provided at

the doorstep of the villagers where there are

no Fair Price Shops

• The government will provide a subsidy of INR

4981 crore under Griha Jyoti Yojana and INR

15,722 crore subsidy will be given for the

agricultural sector consumers.







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Air Quality Early Warning System integrated with a Decision

Support System

• Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr

Jitendra Singh, Ministry of Earth Sciences

launched Air Quality Early Warning System

integrated with a Decision Support System for

Delhi-NCR

• The DSS was developed by scientists at the

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pune

• Contribution of emissions to the air quality

from Delhi and the surrounding 19 districts

• Contribution of emissions from 8 different sectors in Delhi

Reports & Indices

Global Food Security Index 2021

• The 10th edition of the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) 2021 of 113 countries was released

• The index is designed and constructed by Economist Impact and is sponsored by Corteva Agriscience.

• It is premised upon 58 indicators with four overarching categories viz. Affordability; Availability; Quality and Safety; and Natural Resources and Resilience.

• Among the 4 categories, India ranked 80th in Affordability; 29th in Availability; 74th in Quality and Safety; and 40th in Natural Resources and Resilience.

• In the region of Asia Pacific, Japan scored 1st rank with overall score of 79.3 which is followed by Singapore (77.4), and New Zealand (76.8).

• India ranked 14th under Asia Pacific.

• Head of the GFSI at Economist Impact– Pratima Singh







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Rank Country Score

1 Ireland 84

2 Austria 81.3

3 United Kingdom 81

4 Finland 80.9

5 Switzerland 80.4

71 India 57.2

113 Burundi 34.7

112 Yemen 35.7

111 Mozambique 35.9

110 Sudan 37.1

109 Malawi 37.3

Awards & Recognition

ASI Confers Aryabhata Award

• Secretary DDR&D ( Department of Defence Research and Development) and Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Dr G Satheesh Reddy has been conferred the prestigious ‘Aryabhata Award’ by the Astronautical Society of India for his outstanding life-time contribution to the promotion of astronautics in India.

Astronautical Society of India:

• President- Dr K Sivan







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NMDC Bags Two Prestigious Environment Awards

• National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. the country’s largest iron ore producer received a “Gold Award” in the Environmental Sustainability category and NMDC’s Kumaraswamy Iron Ore Mine received a “Platinum Award” in the Environmental Management category.

• This award event was organized by the Sustainable Development Foundation at the 10th conference in Dehradun, Uttarkhand.

Banking & Financial News

Rupifi Tie-up with Muthoot Finance

• Rupifi, the Digital business-to-business payment

startup for small and medium enterprises made a partnership with Muthoot Finance to facilitate 15 million SMEs

• Rupifi allows SMEs to flexibly repay their dues as and when required with a per-day interest pricing without any monthly EMIs (Equated monthly installments).

Rupifi:

• Co-Founder and CEO– Anubhav Jain • Headquarters- Bangalore Muthoot Finance:

• Managing Director– George Alexander Muthoot • Headquarter– Kochi







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Appointments & Resignations

Capt Alok Mishra Appointed as MD of India Ports Global

• Captain Alok Mishra appointed as the Managing Director of India Ports Global Limited.

• He is currently serving as the Head of operation and transformation lead at the Gateway Terminals India Pvt Ltd Mumbai

• IPGL was primarily formed to participate in the Chabahar Port development project.

• Alok Mishra succeeds Harjeet Kaur Joshi

Balasubramanian elected as Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds

• Balasubramanian, Chief Executive Officer of Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management, was elected as the Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India

• Balasubramanian has succeeded Nilesh Shah, Managing Director of Kotak Mutual Fund. He will also hold the office of ex-officio Chairman of the AMFI Financial Literacy Committee.

• Nilesh Shah has been elected to be the Chairman of the AMFI Valuation Committee.

• Radhika Gupta, CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management has been elected as the Vice-Chairperson of AMFI. She has also been re-elected as Chairperson of AMFI ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) Committee. She has replaced Invesco Asset Management (India) Private Limited CEO Saurabh Nanavati.

• Sanjay Sapre, the President of Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) was re-elected as the Chairman of AMFI Operations and Compliance Committee (O&CC).

• Vishal Kapoor the CEO of IDFC Asset Management has been elected as the Chairman of AMFI Standing Committee of Certified Distributors (ARN Committee).

• Chief Executive Officer- N. S. Venkatesh







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• Headquarters- Mumbai, Maharashtra

Sports

Bhavani Devi won Charlellville National Competition 2021 in France

• India’s top-ranked fencer Bhavani Devi has won the Women’s Sabre Individual event at the Charlellville National Competition (National Seniors Circuit) organised by the Charleville-Mézières Fencing Circle in France

• C A Bhavani Devi hails from Tamil Nadu became the first fencer from India to qualify for the Olympics Games (Tokyo 2020).

Books & Authors

Book - "The Origin Story of India's States"

• The book titled 'The Origin Story of India's States' is written by Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan

• It is a story about the birth of India's 28 states and 8 union territories.







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