daily current affairs- 13 october 2021

Daily Current Affairs- 13th October 2021

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Headlines

1) Delhi Launched ‘Desh Ke Mentor’ Programme

2) PM Launched Indian Space Association

3) OneWeb Entered into Arrangement with NSIL to Launch Satellite

4) India, Nepal collaborate to boost train services

5) Indian Navy to Host Ex Milan in February 2022

6) Appointment of CJ of 8 High Courts & Transfer of 5 CJs

7) Turkish Grand Prix 2021

8) Anshu Malik becomes the first Indian woman to win silver at WWC

9) ISSF Junior World Championship

10) FIDE World Women’s Team Chess Championship 2021

11) Iran’s first President Abolhassan Banisadr dies in Paris

12) Book - ‘Quest for a Stable Afghanistan: A View from Ground Zero”

13) Territorial Army Celebrates its 72nd Raising Day

14) World Mental Health Day 2021 – October 10

15) International Day of the Girl Child 2021 – October 11







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National News

Delhi Launched ‘Desh Ke Mentor’ Programme

• Delhi has launched the “Desh Ke Mentor”

programme, which enables the citizens who

are successful in respective fields to provide

guidance on career choices to the students

of Delhi government schools.

• Actor Sonu Sood is the brand ambassador of

the “Desh Ke Mentor” Programme.

• As a part of the initiative, interested citizens

can adopt 1 to 10 students of Delhi

government schools and mentor them in an interested field.

PM Launched Indian Space Association

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched

the Indian Space Association, a private industry body to

help boost space technology in India.

• Its founding members include Larson & Toubro,

Nelco (Tata Group), OneWeb, Bharti Airtel, Mapmyindia,

Walchandnagar Industries, and Ananth Technology

Limited among others.







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OneWeb Entered into Arrangement with NSIL to Launch Satellite

• OneWeb has entered into an arrangement with

NewSpace India Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO,

to use Indian-built PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch

Vehicle) and the heavier GSLV (Geosynchronous

Satellite Launch Vehicle)-MkIII as potential platforms

to launch OneWeb’s satellites in India from 2022.

• OneWeb is building its initial constellation of 648 LEO

(Low Earth Orbit) satellites and has already put 322

satellites into orbit.

NewSpace India Limited (NSIL):

• CMD – G. Narayanan

• Headquarters – Bengaluru

India, Nepal collaborate to boost train services

• India and Nepal have signed two agreements

worth USD 3.15 billion, aimed at boosting cross-

border train services and to improve regional

connectivity and trade.

• A total of 136 to 198 km rail line will be laid to

connect Raxual and Kathmandu.

• The construction of the Jaynagar-Kurtha railway

line was funded by India.

• India and Nepal are mulling at least five different cross-border railway lines.







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Defence News

Indian Navy to Host Ex Milan in February 2022

• India’s largest Naval exercise, Ex Milan, was scheduled to be hosted by the Indian Navy in February 2022.

• 46 countries have been invited to attend the exercise.

• It is a biennial multilateral naval exercise conducted by the Indian Navy and it was first started in 1995 to bring together the Navies of all the countries in the Indian Ocean region.

• So far the exercise was conducted in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar and now, it is being shifted to

Visakhapatnam,

Appointments & Resignations

Appointment of CJ of 8 High Courts & Transfer of 5 CJs

• The appointments have been made in the exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India in consultation with the Chief Justice of India.

Justice Name & Current high court Appointed as CJ to Succeeding

Rajesh Bindal, Acting CJ of Calcutta HC Allahabad HC Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari (Acting CJ)

Justice Prakash Shrivastava of Madhya Pradesh HC

Calcutta HC Justice Rajesh Bindal (Acting CJ)







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Justice Ranjit Vasantrao More of Meghalaya HC Meghalaya HC Justice Biswanath Somadder

RV Malimath, the Acting CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC

Madhya Pradesh HC

Justice Mohammad Rafiq

Satish Chandra Sharma, the Acting CJ of Karnataka

Telangana HC Justice Hima Kohli

Justice Aravind Kumar of Karnataka HC Gujarat HC Justice R. M. Chhaya (Acting CJ)

Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi of Allahabad Karnataka HC Justice Satish Chandra Sharma

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra of Chhattisgarh Andhra Pradesh HC Justice Arup Kumar Goswami

Name of the CJ Transfer from Transfer to

AA Kureshi Tripura Rajasthan

Indrajit Mahanty Rajasthan Tripura

Mohammad Rafiq Madhya Pradesh Himachal Pradesh

Biswanath Somadder Meghalaya Sikkim

Arup Kumar Goswami, Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh

Sports

Turkish Grand Prix 2021

• Valtteri Bottas wins the Turkish Grand Prix 2021

which was held in Istanbul Park, Turkey..

• Verstappen finished second

• Red Bull’s Sergio Perez finished third Turkey:

• President – Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Capital – Ankara • Currency – Turkish lira







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Anshu Malik becomes the first Indian woman to win silver at WWC

• Anshu Malik becomes the first Indian woman to win a silver medal at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships.

• The 17th edition of World Wrestling Championship was held in Nye Jordal Amfi stadium at Oslo, Norway

• Sarita Mor wins bronze in 59kg category

• With this win, she became the sixth Indian woman wrestler to win a bronze medal at the World Championships.

• The other bronze medallists — Alka Tomar in 2006, Geeta Phogat 2012, Babita Phogat 2012, Pooja Dhanda 2018 and Vinesh Phogat 2019.

• Till date, Sushil Kumar is the only Indian to win world champion wrestling in 2010.

ISSF Junior World Championship

• 2021 International Shooting Sport Federation Junior World Championship Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun held in Lima, Peru

• India finished the 2021 ISSF Junior World Championships at the top with 43 medals which include 17 gold, 16 silver and 10 bronze.

• The United States of America(USA) ranked 2nd in the medal tally with 21 medals followed by Italy with 10 medals, France with 9 and Germany with 10.

• Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar(20-year-old) broke the junior finals world record won the gold medal in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior

• Naamya Kapoor(14-year-old) won the gold medal in the 25m Pistol Women Junior and became the youngest to win a medal at the ISSF Junior World Championships 2021.

• Dhanush Srikanth from Hyderabad became the 1st Indian and the only shooter in the world with hearing and speech impairment to win a gold medal in the regular ISSF World Championship.







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India’s Gold Medals:

Individual Event Gold Team Event Gold

50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar

10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Junior

Manu Bhaker Sarabjot Singh

25m Pistol Women Junior Naamya Kapoor 10m Air Rifle Team Men Junior

Dhanush Srikanth Rajpreet Singh Paarth Makhija

Double Trap Women Junior

Manvi Soni 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team Men Junior

Adarsh Singh Vijayveer Sidhu Anish

Double Trap Men Junior Vinay Pratap Singh Chandrawat

25m Pistol Team Women Junior

Rhythm Sangwan Naamya Kapoor Manu Bhaker

25m Standard Pistol Men Junior

Vijayveer Sidhu Skeet Team Women Junior Areeba Khan Raiza Dhillon Ganemat Sekhon

50m Pistol Men Junior Arjun Singh Cheema 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team Junior

Vijayveer Sidhu Rhythm Sangwan

50m Pistol Women Junior Shikha Narwal 10m Air Pistol Team Men Junior

Sarabjot Singh Naveen Shiva Narwal

10m Air Pistol Women Junior

Manu Bhaker 10m Air Pistol Team Women Junior

Rhythm Sangwan Manu Bhaker Shikha Narwal

25m Standard Pistol Women Junior

Rhythm Sangwan

FIDE World Women’s Team Chess Championship 2021

• India won its first ever medal in the FIDE World

Women’s Team chess championship 2021. It was organised in Sitges, Spain.

• India clinched a silver medal after losing to Russia in the final match







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Obituary

Iran’s first President Abolhassan Banisadr dies in Paris

• Abolhassan Banisadr, who became Iran’s first president following the country’s 1979 revolution, has died in Paris

• He was impeached by the newly formed Islamic parliament in June 1981.

Iran:

• President – Ebrahim Raisi

• Supreme leader – Ali Khamenei • Capital – Tehran • Currency – Iranian rial

Books & Authors

Book - ‘Quest for a Stable Afghanistan: A View from Ground Zero”

• A book ‘’Quest for a Stable Afghanistan: A View from Ground Zero” was authored by Sujeet Sarkar,

• Sujeet Sarkar also authored another book named ‘’In Search of a New Afghanistan‘’







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Important Days

Territorial Army Celebrates its 72nd Raising Day

• Territorial Army commemorated its 72nd Raising Day by organising a cycle rally in New Delhi.

• This rally was flagged off by Director General of TA, Lieutenant General Preet Mohindera Singh

• The idea of the cycle rally was to spread the message of ”Swasth Bharat Abhiyan”.

• It was established by Territorial Army Act on August 18, 1948. It was formally raised by the first Governor General C Rajgopalachari on 9 October 1949. Since then it has been celebrated as Territorial Army Day.

World Mental Health Day 2021 – October 10

• World Mental Health Day is annually observed on October 10th to create awareness about the issues of mental health and educate the general public on the importance of Mental Health.

• World Mental Health Day is a global initiative supported by the World Health Organisation & World Federation for Mental Health

• The green ribbon is a symbol of mental health.

• The theme of World Mental Health Day 2021, as per WFMH, is “Mental Health in an Unequal World”.

• The slogan of the WHO’s World Mental Health Day Campaign is “Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality”.

• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare(MoHFW) has launched the Mental Health Awareness Week which started on 5th October and culminated on 10th October 2021(World Mental Health Day).

• In 2018 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO identified mental health as an area that needed accelerated action, and established the WHO’s Special initiative for Mental Health, covering a







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period of 5 years (2019 – 2023).

• The Initiative is to be implemented in 12 countries, of which 7 have been identified (Bangladesh, Jordan, Nepal, Paraguay, the Philippines, Ukraine and Zimbabwe).

• 100 million more people have access to quality and affordable mental health care by 2023

International Day of the Girl Child 2021 – October 11

• The United Nations International Day of the Girl Child has been annually observed across the globe on October 11th to highlight the need to address the challenges faced by girls across the globe.

• The International Day of the Girl Child 2021 is celebrated under the theme “Digital generation. Our generation”.







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