Daily Current Affairs for MBA Exams: 16th September 2021

By Aditi Joshi|Updated : September 16th, 2021

International Appointments

1. Gurmit Singh sworn-in as the new Governor of Uttarakhand

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  • Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh was sworn as the new Governor of Uttarakhand with effect from 15th September 2021.
  • His oath of office was administered by Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice RS Chauhan at Raj Bhawan
  • He is a retired Deputy Chief of the Indian Army and is a highly decorated former Army officer
  • He succeeds Baby Rani Maurya, who resigned three years before completing her tenure.
  • Chief minister of Uttarakhand: Pushkar Singh Dhami 

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International Appointments

1. Gurmit Singh sworn-in as the new Governor of Uttarakhand

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  • Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh was sworn as the new Governor of Uttarakhand with effect from 15th September 2021.
  • His oath of office was administered by Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice RS Chauhan at Raj Bhawan
  • He is a retired Deputy Chief of the Indian Army and is a highly decorated former Army officer
  • He succeeds Baby Rani Maurya, who resigned three years before completing her tenure.
  • Chief minister of Uttarakhand: Pushkar Singh Dhami
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Important Dates

2. National Engineer’s Day

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  • National Engineer’s Day is observed every year on September 15 to recognise the contribution of engineers in the development of our nation.
  • The day marks the birth anniversary of India’s engineering pioneer, Sir Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya, who was regarded as the Father of Modern Mysore
  • Theme 2021: Engineering for A Healthy Planet- Celebrating the UNESCO Engineering Report.
  • The day was celebrated for the first time in 1968.

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 Honours & Awards

3. Susanna Clarke wins Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

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  • English author Susanna Clarke has won 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her second novel ‘Piranesi’.
  • Women’s Prize for Fiction: It is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, since 1996.
  • Piranesi is a mystery about a man living alone in a labyrinthine house.

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 Summits & Conferences

4. PM Modi to attend Quad Summit at White House on 24th September

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  • PM Narendra Modi will attend first-ever in-person QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) Leaders’ Summit at White House in Washington D.C. on September 24, 2021.
  • Quad nation: India, Japan, US and Australia.
  • Aim: To deepen ties and increase cooperation in areas such as combatting COVID-19, addressing the climate crisis, partnering on emerging technologies and cyberspace.
  • PM Modi will also address UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 25, 2021.

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 Banking & Finance

5. RBI announces opening of Third Cohort under Regulatory Sandbox

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  • RBI has announced the opening of Third Cohort under Regulatory Sandbox (RS) with the theme of ‘MSME Lending’.
  • It will be kept open from Oct 1 to November 14, 2021.
  • Prior to this, RBI has launched 2 cohort under regulatory sandbox. These are:
    • First Cohort: It was launched in November 2019, with the theme as ‘Retail Payments’. Six entities have completed the testing phase of the cohort.
    • Second Cohort: It was announced in December 2020 with the theme ‘Cross Border Payments’

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 Banking & Finance

6. India, Singapore announces linking of UPI and PayNow fast payment systems

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  • RBI and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have announced project to link their respective fast payment systems viz. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and PayNow.
  • It will enable users of each of the two fast payment systems to make fund transfer from India to Singapore and vice versa using UPI and PayNow.
  • It will made operational by July 2022.
  • It will foster cross-border interoperability of payments using cards and QR codes, between India and Singapore.

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 National Affairs

7. PM Modi lays foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University

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  • PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
  • It is being established in the memory and honor of noted figure, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who was a great freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer
  • It will be spread over an area of over 92 acres at Lodha village and Musepur Kareem Jarouli village of Kol tehsil in Aligarh.
  • It will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division

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 National Affairs

8. Sansad TV to be launched today

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  • VP M. Venkaiah Naidu, PM Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will jointly launch Sansad TV at Main Committee Room, Parliament House Annexe today
  • Sansad TV is being formed after merging Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV
  • Sansad TV programming will primarily be in 4 categories: functioning of Parliament and democratic institutions, governance- implementation of schemes/policies, history and culture of India and issues/interests/concerns of contemporary nature.

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 Important Dates

9. World Lymphoma Awareness Day

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  • World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is observed every year on 15th September to raise awareness of lymphoma, an increasingly common form of cancer.
  • WLAD was initiated in 2004 by Lymphoma Coalition (LC), a non-profit network organization of 83 lymphoma patient groups from 52 countries across the world.
  • Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system that includes the lymph nodes (lymph glands), spleen, thymus gland and bone marrow.

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 Banking & Finance

10. DBS Bank partners with SWIFT to launch cross-border payment tracking

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  • DBS Bank in partnership with SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (GPI) has launched real-time online tracking for cross-border payments for its corporate clients
  • It can be availed using bank’s corporate online banking platform ‘DBS IDEAL’
  • DBS is the first bank in India and Asia-Pacific to offer this service to corporate clients without any additional cost.
  • It will allow corporates customers to see when a payment is on its way and when it is arriving at the beneficiary.

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 Books & Authors

11. Subramanian Swamy comes out with book on Human Rights and Terrorism

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  • BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has launched his new book titled as ‘Human Rights and Terrorism in India’.
  • The book has shed light on how the combating of terrorism can be harmonized with human and fundamental rights within reasonable restrictions that are permitted by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court
  • It is the thesis of this study that to deter terror, India as a nation must foster a concept of identity

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 Sports

12. Joe Root, Eimear Richardson named ICC Players of the Month for August 2021

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  • England Test skipper Joe Root has been named as the ICC Men’s Player of the Month for August 2021.
  • He scored 507 runs in three Tests against India in August.
  • He also scored 3 important centuries, including an unbeaten 180* at Lord’s, and MRF Tyres ICC Test Rankings for batters.
  • Ireland’s Eimear Richardson has bagged the ICC Women’s Player of the Month for August 2021.

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 Sports

13. Brendan Taylor of Zimbabwe Announces Retirement from International Cricket

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  • Former Zimbabwe skipper and wicket-keeper batsman Brendan Taylor (34 years) has announced his retirement from international cricket.
  • He made this announcement while playing third final ODI match against Ireland.
  • He made his ODI debut for Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka in 2004.
  • He has scored 6677 runs from 204 ODI matches and is just 112 short of former Zimbabwe batsman Andy Flower's national record of 6786.

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