TNPSC Current affairs – September 26,2021

TNPSC Current affairs – September 26,2021

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INDIA

• Ministry of Rural Development and National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) felicitate 75 Divyangjan with Hunarbaaz Awards
• Birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on Sept 25 observed as Antyodaya Diwas

• Union Minister – (Youth Affairs and Sports Minister) Anurag Thakur announces month-long nationwide  Clean India Drive from Oct 1  to clean waste, mainly single-use plastic from 1st October to 31st October this year.
• He said  it will be the largest cleanliness drive of the world in which more than 75 lakh tonnes of waste, primarily plastic waste, from different parts of the country will be collected and further processed in a Waste to Wealth model.

• Kerala CM announces welfare fund for IT, ITES sector, pension for employees

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• DIPAM (Department of Investment and Public Asset Management) shortlists Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas as legal advisor for LIC IPO
• Nirmala Sitharaman addresses 74th AGM of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) in Mumbai
• HAL signs pact with Alliance Air for deployment of civil Do-228 Aircraft in Arunachal Pradesh

IMPORTANT DAYS – September 26

• World Rivers Day celebrated on Sept 26, theme: ‘waterways in our communities’
• International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons observed on September 26

WORLD AFFAIRS 

SPORTS

Ostrava Open tennis, Czech Republic

• Sania Mirza & her Chinese partner Shuai Zhang win women’s doubles title at Ostrava Open tennis in Czech Republic
• The Ostrava Open is a tennis tournament organised for female professional tennis players, and part of the WTA tour

• Jyothi Surekha Vennam wins silver in the women’s compound event at World Archery Championship in US
• Jyothi Surekha Vennam is a right handed Indian archer. At the age of 4, she was entered in the Limca Book of Records after crossing the Krishna River three times with a distance of 5 km in three hours, 20 minutes and six seconds. In various national and international competitions, she bagged 70 medals.