Your Daily Current Affairs - 22th Sept 📰
OECD cut its growth forecast for India by 20 basis points to 9.7% for FY22
1. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has cut its growth forecast for India by 20 basis points to 9.7% for FY22.
2. Iran has become a permanent member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
3. The former England striker Jimmy Greaves passed away in September 2021.
4. French artificial heart maker Carmat carried out the first implant of its Aeson artificial heart in a woman in September 2021.
5. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down at the end of 2021 after serving 16 years as the head of Germany's government.
6. The International Week of Deaf People is celebrated during the last full week of September.
7. World Alzheimer's Day is observed on September 21 every year.
8. Noted theoretical physicist and recipient of Padma Shri, Professor Thanu Padmanabhan passed away in September 2021.
9. Madhya Pradesh government is organising a Public Welfare and Suraj Campaign from 17th September to 7th October 2021.
10. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a roundtable of world leaders on 21 September 2021.
11. India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has announced a strategic alliance with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance to distribute its non-life insurance products across the country.
12. Power Finance Corp. Ltd (PFC) is set to become the 11th Maharatna central public sector enterprise (CPSE).
13. Economic activity in 2022 in Malaysia and India, two of the countries most affected by Covid-19, is expected to recover faster than earlier forecast.
14. All India Council of Human Rights, Liberties and Social Justice (AICHLS) and Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) jointly organized the 11th International Peace Conference on 21 Sept 2021, in Leh.
15. In J&K, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nishith Pramanik inaugurated a Youth Conclave in Pulwama on 20 Sept'21.
16. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put on hold funds to Afghanistan amid the rising uncertainty in the country.
17. The government of Bangladesh has given permission to 52 trading organizations to export Hilsa fish to India on the occasion of the Durga Puja.
18. National Commission for Women, NCW has launched a country-wide capacity building and personality development program for women undergraduate and post-graduate students.
19. Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal virtually flagged off the dwarf container train service from Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) on 20 September 2021.
20. President of the Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad and Mahant of Bade Hanuman temple of Prayagraj, Narendra Giri, passed away in September 2021.
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