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     📚 Daily Current Affairs | 10-10-2021 📚

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Q.1. Who has become the first Indian player to take the highest number of 29 wickets in an IPL season?

Ans. Harshal Patel

Q.2. Which has been declared as a customs notified airport by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)?

Ans. To Kushinagar Airport

Q.3. In which city the "National Mission on Edible Oil - Oil Palm Business Summit" has been organized for the North-Eastern states of India?

Ans. Guwahati

Q.4. From which state of India, the first consignment of GI tag sweet Mihidana has been exported to Bahrain?

Ans. West Bengal

Q.5. Recently, the central government has given its approval to set up how many PM Mitra Park?

Ans. 7 Park

Q.6. Which country's writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced to be honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2021?

Ans. Tanzania

Q.7. Which Nobel Prize for the year 2021 has been announced to Philippine journalist Maria Resa and Dmitry Muratov of Russia?

Ans. Nobel Peace Prize

Q.8. How many Indian companies have joined the Unicorn Club this year?

Ans. 28 Companies

Q.9. What is the rank of Mukesh Ambani in the Forbes India Rich List, 2021?

Ans. First

Q.10. Which day is celebrated all over the world on 9th October?

Ans. World Post Day

1) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh presented gallantry and meritorious service medals President’s Tatrakshak Medal (PTM) and Tatrakshak Medal (TM) to Indian Coast Guard personnel at the Investiture Ceremony being held at National Stadium Complex in New Delhi.

➨The Indian Coast Guard was formally established on 18 August 1978 by the Coast Guard Act, 1978 of the Parliament of India as an independent Armed force of India. It operates under the Ministry of Defence.

2) Telangana has developed the country's first smartphone-based e-voting solution, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that has rushed the world into all-digital operations.

▪️Telangana :-

➨CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao

➨Amrabad Tiger Reserve 

➨Kawal Tiger Reserve

3) The Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) KV Subramanian announced that he has decided to return to academia after the completion of his three-year term in the Finance Ministry of India.

4) The Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati was handed over to the Adani Group for operations, management and development responsibilities.

5) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB), sponsored by Canara Bank, has bagged two national awards ('APY Big Believers' and 'Leadership capital') for significant enrolment under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) from the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).

▪️Karnataka:- 

CM :- Basavaraj Bommai

Governor :- Thawarchand Gehlot

Formation :- 1 November 1956

Language :- Kannada

Port :- New Mangalore Port

6) India’s athletes and coaches dominated at the FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2020-21.

➨Athletes Gurjit Kaur (Best Player, Women), Harmanpreet Singh (Best Player, Men), Savita (Best Goalkeeper, Women), PR Sreejesh (Best Goalkeeper, Men), Sharmila Devi (Best Rising Star, Women) and Vivek Prasad (Best Rising Star, Men) as well as the coaches of India’s women’s team, Sjoerd Marijne (NED) and India’s men’s team, Graham Reid (AUS) grabbed the highest number of votes in their respective categories.

7) Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil has directed officials to set up an 'Anti-Drug Cell' in each district after the state's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) nabbed Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in a drug raid.

▪️Maharashtra :- 

CM - Uddhav Thackeray

Governor - Bhagat Singh Koshiyari

Trimbakeshwar Temple 

Bhimashankar Temple 

Grishneshwar Temple

8) Ssarita Singh, the Managing Trustee of Priyadarshani Group of Schools, has been awarded the Champions of Change Award by the Interactive Forum of Indian Economy (IFIE), a non-profit organization recognized by Govt. of India, for her outstanding contributions in the education sector.

9) India’s rank has slipped by six places from last year to 90 on the Henley Passport Index, which lists the world’s most travel-friendly passports.

➨ The Henley Passport Index comes at a time when countries are easing travel rules for international visitors after almost two years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

10) Lotus Petal Foundation, a Gurugram based NGO, has been conferred with the prestigious Mahatma Award 2021 for Social Impact.

➨The award was received by Lotus Petal Foundation Co-Founders, Kushal Chakravorty, and Saloni Bhardwaj.

11) Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani joined the world’s most exclusive wealth club with a fortune of at least $100 billion. Asia’s richest person Mukesh. 

➨As per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Mukesh Ambani is now worth $100.6 billion, after his wealth increased by $23.8 billion in 2021.

12) Vice-President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, who is in Guwahati as part of his Northeast tour , inaugurated the Mahabahu Brahmaputra River Heritage Centre in presence of Governor Prof. Jagdish Mukhi and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at Panbazar in Guwahati, Assam.

▪️Assam 

➨Dibru Saikhowa National Park

➨Kaziranga National Park

➨Nameri National Park

➨Manas National Park

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