Daily Current Affairs September 27

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September 27 | Daily Current Affairs 2021

IMPORTANT DAYS – Daily Current Affairs September 27

1. World Tourism Day is observed on ____?
A) September 21
B) September 23
C) September 27
D) September 26
E) September 22
Answer: C) September 27

Theme of World Tourism Day:

• This year, the theme of World Tourism Day is “Tourism for Inclusive Growth,” focusing on growth and inclusive recovery.
• The UNWTO is focusing on the fact that there are people behind every tourism statistic and aims to acknowledge the same.

World Deaf and Dumb Day:

• World Deaf Day is celebrated on 26th September every year but is currently more known as World Deaf and dumb Week.
• It is celebrated only in the last week of September.
• The World Deaf Association established the World Deaf Day in 1958.

International Week of Deaf People 2021:

• In the year 2021, September 20 to September 26 will be observed as the International Week of Deaf People with varying themes.
• The theme for this year is “Celebrating Thriving Deaf Communities”.

SPORTS – Daily Current Affairs September 27

2. Who won The Russian Grand Prix?
A) Lando Norris
B) Max Verstappen
C) Valtteri Bottas
D) Sergio Pérez
E) Lewis Hamilton
Answer: E) Lewis Hamilton

• Lewis Hamilton took his 100th Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in the Russian GP that started in dry conditions and ended under the rain at Sochi.

Rank	Name	Country	Company
1	Lewis Hamilton	UK	Mercedes
2	Max Verstappen	Belgium	Red Bull Racing
3	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Spain	Ferrari

 

3. Visnu Shivaraj Pandian is related to which sports?
A) Volleyball
B) Shooting
C) Table Tennis
D) Tennis
E) Cricket
Answer: B) Shooting

• India’s Visnu Shivaraj Pandian won the bronze medal in the 10m air rifle event at the International Online Shooting Championship (IOSC).
• The 17-year-old Visnu was the only Indian in the final after shooting the fifth highest qualification score of 621.1.
• The gold was won by Mireia Rossello of Spain with a score of 250.7 (625.9) while the silver was bagged by Ukraine’s Tetyana Halkina with 247.9 (619.3).

4. Who becomes first Indian batter to score 10,000 runs in T20 format?
A) Ravindra Jadeja
B) Cheteshwar Pujara
C) Shikhar Dhawan
D) Rohit Sharma
E) Virat Kohli
Answer: E) Virat Kohli

BANKING AND FINANCE – Daily Current Affairs September 27

5. Vistara partners with which Bank to launch co-branded credit card?
A) Federal Bank
B) Punjab National Bank
C) IndusInd Bank
D) RBL Bank
E) Bank of Maharashtra
Answer: C) IndusInd Bank

6. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) fined the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) State Co-operative Bank, Srinagar with an _______ penalty for inadequacy in regulatory adherence?
A) Rs 21 lakh
B) Rs 31 lakh
C) Rs 41 lakh
D) Rs 51 lakh
E) Rs 11 lakh
Answer: E) Rs 11 lakh

7. Which bank has partnered with Amazon India to offer overdraft (OD) facility upto ₹25 lakh to individual sellers and small businesses registered on the e-commerce marketplace amazon.in?
A) Federal Bank
B) Punjab National Bank
C) IndusInd Bank
D) ICICI Bank
E) Bank of Maharashtra
Answer: D) ICICI Bank

• ICICI Bank announced that it has partnered with Amazon India to offer overdraft (OD) facility upto ₹25 lakh to individual sellers and small businesses registered on the e-commerce marketplace amazon.in.
• Leveraging advanced data analytics, ICICI Bank has developed this new facility that functions on the back of a scorecard to instantly evaluate credit worthiness of sellers based on their financial profile, including Credit Bureau scores, it further said.

APPOINTMENTS – Daily Current Affairs September 27

8. Lieutenant General Gurbirpal Singh took over as _____ Director-General of the National Cadet Corps (NCC)?
A) 35th
B) 36th
C) 37th
D) 38th
E) 34th
Answer: E) 34th

• Lieutenant General Gurbirpal Singh took over as the 34th Director-General of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) on September 27, 2021.

9. Who has been elected as the chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the year 2021-2022?
A) Guna Mukherjee
B) Prabhu Mukherjee
C) Debabrata Mukherjee
D) Siva Mukherjee
E) Varuna Mukherjee
Answer: C) Debabrata Mukherjee

AWARDS – Daily Current Affairs September 27

10. How many persons received the country’s highest science award Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology 2021?
A) 11
B) 12
C) 13
D) 14
E) 15
Answer: A) 11

• The names of 11 scientists, who received the country’s highest science award Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology 2021, were announced during the 80th foundation day of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
• The prize is given to Indian scientists below the age of 45 for outstanding research in seven fields—Biology, Chemistry, Environment Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics.
• For Biological Sciences, Dr Amit Singh, department of microbiology and cell biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Dr Arun Kumar Shukla, department of biological sciences and bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, were awarded.
• An expert in microbiology, Singh worked on deciphering the role of genes involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) pathogenesis during his PhD. Shukla is an Indian structural biologist (cell scientist), who has been working at IIT Kanpur since 2014.
• In chemical sciences, two researchers from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, Dr Kanishka Biswas from the International Centre of Materials Science and Dr T Govindaraju, from the Bio-organic Chemistry Laboratory, announced as recipients.
• While Biswas’ research field includes thermoelectric materials and devices that utilize the waste heat to generate electricity, Govindaraju’s work focuses on chemical biology and is engaged in solving challenging problems related to human health and society.
• For Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Dr Binoy Kumar Saikia from Coal and Energy Research Group, CSIR North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, was named recipient.
• The coal and energy group is one of the excellent research groups working in the area of coal sciences and technology and energy-environment interface in India and abroad.
• Dr Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, received the award under the engineering sciences category.
• At IIT Kharagpur, he initiated the Secured Embedded Architecture Laboratory (SEAL), with a focus on embedded security and side-channel attacks.
• In the mathematical sciences category, Dr Anish Ghosh, school of mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and Dr Saket Saurabh, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, were announced winners.
• Ghosh works at the interface of ergodic theory, Lie groups, and number theory.
• Fundamental to statistical mechanics is an ergodic theory, which offers a mathematical means to study the long-term average behaviour of complex systems, such as the behaviour of molecules in a gas or the interactions of vibrating atoms in a crystal.
• Saket has been performing research of the highest quality in multiple areas of algorithms.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – Daily Current Affairs September 27

11. Which country emerges as Dubai’s second biggest trade partner after China?
A) Australia
B) India
C) Russia
D) Zimbabwe
E) USA
Answer: B) India

• India has emerged as Dubai’s second biggest trading partner after China with the overall volume touching 38.5 billion dirham in the first half of 2021, according to official data released.
• According to a Dubai government statement, the emirate had a trade volume of 86.7 billion dirham with China in H1 (first half) of 2021, followed by India and the US at third position.
• Trade with India grew 74.5 per cent year-on-year to 67.1 billion dirham from 38.5 billion dirham in H1 2020.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS – Daily Current Affairs September 27

12. Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurated the country’s first ”Sports Arbitration Centre of India” in which state?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Gujarat
D) Madhya Pradesh
E) Tripura
Answer: C) Gujarat

13. Who launches ‘Dekho Hamari Delhi’ app that provides info about city’s tourist spots?
A) Yogi Adityanath
B) Narendra Modi
C) Hardeep Singh Puri
D) Anurag Singh Thakur
E) Arvind Kejriwal
Answer: E) Arvind Kejriwal

• On World Tourism Day, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched a mobile app that provides information about tourist spots along with their brief history, popular local cuisines, market places, and heritage walks in the national capital.
• That (gap) has now been plugged by this mobile app.
• It will show fun parks, eating joints, monuments, popular markets, and even public conveniences within a 5 km radius of you.

14. Who launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission to provide a digital health ID to people which will contain their health records?
A) Yogi Adityanath
B) Narendra Modi
C) Hardeep Singh Puri
D) Anurag Singh Thakur
E) Arvind Kejriwal
Answer: B) Narendra Modi

15. Who launched NIDHI 2.0 and India Tourism Statistics – At a Glance, 2021 in New Delhi?
A) Yogi Adityanath
B) Narendra Modi
C) Hardeep Singh Puri
D) G. Kishan Reddy
E) Arvind Kejriwal
Answer: D) G. Kishan Reddy

• Tourism Ministry launched NIDHI 2.0 and India Tourism Statistics – At a Glance, 2021 in New Delhi at a special event to celebrate World Tourism Day.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Tourism Minister G. Kishan Reddy were present at the occasion.

16. Which organisation has launched a country-wide training and capacity building programme for women in dairy farming?
A) IFCI
B) NCW
C) CII
D) CCI
E) NHAI
Answer: B) NCW

17. Who launched the seventh consecutive edition of Swachh Survekshan (SS), the world’s largest urban cleanliness survey conducted by Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) at New Delhi?
A) Yogi Adityanath
B) Narendra Modi
C) Hardeep Singh Puri
D) Anurag Singh Thakur
E) Subhas Sarkar
Answer: C) Hardeep Singh Puri

18. Which state has launched a welfare fund and pension for employees in the field of IT and information technology-enabled services (ITeS) in the State?
A) Karnataka
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala
D) Madhya Pradesh
E) West Bengal
Answer: C) Kerala

• The Kerala government has launched a welfare fund and pension for employees in the field of IT and information technology-enabled services (ITeS) in the State.
• Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said women workers would be given a financial aid of ₹15,000 during pregnancy and ₹10,000 at the time of their marriage.
• He said over 1.5 lakh employees would benefit from this assistance.

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