Today Current Affairs: 21st August 2021 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Day: August 21, 2021
US-India Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
US-India Bilateral Free Trade Agreement: Recent comment by Minister of Commerce and Industry about the prospects of US-India bilateral free trade agreement being very bleak now Other key highlights of the speech This is the first time the position of the new administration has been made official by both the government Despite this, both the […]
Fifth Edition Of The National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC)
Fifth Edition Of The National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC): The Department of Biotechnology has launched the fifth edition of the National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC). NBEC is conducted as a part of the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) Regional Entrepreneurship Centre, established at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) in partnership with BIRAC. […]
PRASHAD Scheme
PRASHAD Scheme: The Prime Minister has inaugurated various projects in Somnath, Gujarat under PRASHAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive) scheme at a total cost of over Rs 47 crore. The Somnath Exhibition Centre, developed on the premises of ‘Tourist Facilitation Centre’, displays the exhibits from dismantled parts of the old Somnath temple and […]
G-sec Acquisition Programme 2.0
G-sec Acquisition Programme 2.0: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that it will conduct an open market purchase of government securities of Rs 25,000 crore under the G-sec Acquisition Programme (G-SAP 2.0). Earlier, under G-SAP 1.0, the first purchase of government securities for an aggregate amount of Rs. 25,000 crore was made. Government […]
Hazara Ethnic Group
Hazara Ethnic Group: Taliban militants in Afghanistan have vandalised and blown up a statue of Shiite militia leader Abdul Ali Mazari in the province of Bamiyan, the unofficial capital of the Hazara ethnic group. Mazari, widely known as a champion of the Hazaras, was executed by the Taliban in 1995. The Hazaras are an ethnic […]
Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) 5.0
Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) 5.0: Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh launched Defence India Startup Challenge (DISC) 5.0 under Innovations for Defence Excellence – Defence Innovation Organisation (iDEX-DIO) on August 19, 2021. Thirty five Problem Statements – 13 from the Services and 22 from Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) – were unveiled under DISC 5.0. […]
Re-Imagining Urban Rivers
Re-Imagining Urban Rivers: National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the National Institute for Urban Affairs (NIUA) had organised ‘Re-Imagining Urban Rivers’, a national level thesis competition in September 2020, under a joint project that the two organizations are implementing to promulgate river- sensitive development in our cities. This is a first of its kind […]
Draft Electricity (Late Payment Surcharge) Amendment Rules, 2021
Draft Electricity (Late Payment Surcharge) Amendment Rules, 2021: The Ministry of Power has proposed to amend rules for facilitating electricity producers to sell power to a third party, which it said can pare fixed costs and cut retail tariff for end consumers. The ministry circulated the draft Electricity (Late Payment Surcharge) Amendment Rules, 2021, seeking […]
