Current Affairs Notes

First Labour Day in India was hosted by the Labour Kisan Party in Madras in 1923. It was initiated from the Labour Union Movement.

Expenditure Secretary T V Somanathan was recently designated as the Finance Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

Currently he is the senior most officer among all the secretaries in the Ministry of Finance.

The Porsche has joined with Siemens Energy to produce eFuel by 2022. The project of production is called Haru Oni project. It is based in Chile due to its windy climate. The joint project aims to produce 130,000 litres of eFuel by 2022.

India made a deal with Bangladesh where Indian companies will develop the transmission lines of Bangladesh Rooppur Nuclear power plant.

People of Indian origin and the Indian diaspora having Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) cards will not have to carry their old, expired passports for travel to India, as was required earlier, according to a government notification.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended restrictions on withdrawals & deposits in Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank till 30 June, 2021.

As central bank is working to finalize an investor for scam-hit multi-state cooperative bank.

Supreme Court of India, on March 26, 2021, refused to stay sale of fresh set of electoral bonds from 1 April 2021.

Decision was taken ahead of assembly elections across 4 states; Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and in Union Territory of Puducherry.

Just as self-discipline is the key to , the lack of self-discipline is the major cause of failure, frustration, underachievement, and unhappiness in life.

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a competency-based assessment framework.

Assessment framework was launched for classes 6-10 for three subjects namely, English (reading), Science, and Maths.

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network released “World Happiness Report, 2021”.

India ranked at 139th position out of 149 countries.

10 countries ranked behind India are Burundi, Yemen, Tanzania, Haiti, Malawi, Lesotho, Botswana, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan.

‘Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF)’ has launched “US India Artificial Intelligence Initiative”.

The initiative will focus on the Artificial Intelligence cooperation in priority critical areas for both nations.

Parliament cleared Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020

Bill was passed with objective of amending Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. It seeks to increase upper limit of legal abortions to 24 weeks for special categories of women