Your Daily Current Affairs - 27th Sept 📰
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has announced the setting up of ''digital de-addiction centers'.
1. The Quad group has launched an infrastructure partnership and fellowship program on 24 September 2021. The Quad Fellowship has been stewarded by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative, and supported by Accenture, Blackstone, Boeing, Google, Mastercard, and Western Digital
2. The US Department of Energy along with its Indian counterparts launched a new public-private Hydrogen Task Force as well as a Biofuels Task Force. These groups have been launched under Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP).
3. The HDFC Bank Ltd. has been voted 'Overall Most Outstanding Company in India,' in a poll conducted by reputed publication Asiamoney.
4. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) along with IIT-Gandhinagar has decided to launch the online series 'Eklavya'. Online sessions of '3030 Eklavya' would be held every Sunday afternoon starting September 26, 2021.
5. Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) has launched an Innovators Premier League (IPL) 2021 as part of its flagship IEDC(Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) program. The IPL seeks to provide a gamified learning platform to students and institutions to explore as well as experiment with unconventional ideas.
6. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on 25 September 2021 has announced the setting up of ''digital de-addiction centers''. The center aims to bring children addicted to online games into the mainstream society.
7. PM Narendra Modi addressed the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 25 September 2021. He highlighted the issues related to coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, climate change, and global terrorism.
8. Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto's first statue was unveiled in Budapest, Hungary in September 2021. The bronze statue acknowledges the immense contribution to the disruption of traditional currency.
9. The Naga Cucumber from Nagaland has recently been granted the Geographical Indication tag under agricultural products of the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act of 1999.
10. Author Vijay Gokhale has come up with his new book titled “The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India”. Vijay is the former Foreign Secretary of India and also served as the Ambassador of India to China.
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