Your Daily Current Affairs - 25th Sept 📰
World's highest electric vehicle charging station was inaugurated in Kaza of Lahaul and Spiti district
1. NASA is splitting its human spaceflight department into two separate bodies.
2. Cryptotech industry is expected to reach $241 million in India by 2030 and $2.3 billion by 2026 globally.
3. A treatment combining two antibodies (casirivimab and imdevimab) is recommended for two specific groups of patients with covid-19 by a WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG) panel of international experts.
4. The world's highest electric vehicle charging station was inaugurated in Kaza of Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh on 23 Sept 2021.
5. India has inked a nearly ₹20,000 cr contract with Airbus Defence and Space, Spain to procure 56 C-295 medium transport aircraft to replace the Avro-748 planes of the Indian Air Force.
6. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has kickstarted a campaign under ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
7. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of shares in Fullerton India Credit Company Limited by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
8. Author Chetan Bhagat released the trailer of his upcoming book “400 Days” on 23 September 2021.
9. Former Commissioner of Delhi Police, Yudhvir Singh Dadwal passed away in Sept'21.
10. Former United Nations under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, has been named recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award.
11. Union Minister for Tourism G. Kishan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the development of Parshuram Kund, Lohit district, Arunachal Pradesh on 23 September 2021.
12. A national-level orientation workshop on the People’s Plan Campaign 2021 for North Eastern States (Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas) was organized on 23 Sep'21.
13. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG), as part of the Government’s E&P industry outreach programme, organised an interactive meet with industry and business leaders.
14. Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Department of Biotechnology, has entered into a research collaboration with Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC.
15. NHPC’s 510 MW Teesta-V Power Station, Sikkim has been conferred with the Blue Planet Prize by International Hydropower Association (IHA).
16. Two-day virtual “National Tribal Talent Pool Conclave” was held from 23-24 Sept21 in Odisha.
17. Odisha will host the junior men's World Cup Hockey from 24 November to 5 December 2021.
18. Somalia hosted its first public film-screening in 30 years, in September 2021.
19. Union Commerce, Industry and Textile Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the Centre of Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering) in Mumbai on 23 Sept 2021.
20. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya released the National Comprehensive Guidelines on post-COVID management, on 23 Sept'21.
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