Sports
India’s Rahi Sarnobat won the gold medal in the
women’s 25 meters pistol event at the ISSF
Shooting World Cup in Osijek, Croatia.
Rahi shot 39 out of 50
in the 25m pistol final to win the first gold for India in the ongoing World
Cup.
The silver went to France’s Mathilde Lamolle, who scored 31 in the final.
Also, in the women’s 25m pistol team event she along
with Chinki Yadav and Manu Bhaker won the team gold medal.
Deepika Kumari completed a hat-trick of gold medals at the Archery World Cup stage 3 after winning
the women’s individual recurve event.
She best Elena Osipova of Russia 6-0 in the women’s
individual recurve final.
She also won gold
medals in the mixed team and women’s recurve team events.
Deepika’s 2nd
gold medal came with her husband Atanu
Das in the mixed team recurve event.
Deepika, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari
decided Mexico in the women’s recurve team event.
In chess, Abhimanyu Mishra becomes the youngest Chess grandmaster.
He breaks the record
of 12 years, four months, and seven months set by Sergey Karjakin in 2002.
Abhimanyu reached the milestone in 12 years, four months, and 25 days.
He defeated 15-year-old
Indian GM Leon Luke Mendonca.
Abhimanyu is from New Jersey, USA.
National & International Appointments
Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari has been appointed
as the new Vice Chief of the Indian Air
Force.
He will succeed Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora.
He is currently
serving as commander in chief of the IAF’s Western
Air Command(WAC)
Air Marshal Arora
retired from service in June 2021.
Chief of the Air
Staff: RK Singh Bhadauria.
The centre has granted
a one-year extension to Amitabh Kant,
CEO of NITI Aayog till June 2022.
He has also been
piloting the Union government’s ease of doing business initiative.
He was appointed as
the CEO of the public think tank in 2016.
NITI Aayog Est. in 1 st January.
Ex officio chairman: PM of India.
National Affairs
India ranked 20th
among the 100 countries in the Global
Start-up Ecosystem Index 2021 by start-up Blink.
The country was in the
17th spot in 2019 and
slid six spots down in 2020 and stood at
23.
Like last year, the US, the UK, Israel, Canada and Germany are in the top five spots.
India started Start-up India in January 2016.
The govt’s flagship program- Digital India has completed 6 years on 1 st July 2021.
PM modi had launched this program on 1st
July 2015.
It has positively
impacted all aspects of the lives of Indian citizens through Adhaar, Direct
Benefit Transfer, Common services centres. Digi Locker and mobile based UMANG services.
State Affairs
Andhra Pradesh govt. came out with the new Information Technology Policy 2021-24
It is expected to
generate more than 55k jobs over the
next 3 yrs.
The new policy is also
expected to create 1.65lakh indirect
employment thereby ensuring a holistic ecosystem development.
The policy would be in
force till March 31,2024
The govt. would
establish an IT Emerging Technologies Research University in Vishakhapatnam.
AP CM: YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Governor: Biswabhusan Harichandan.
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