Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: September 17, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for September 17, 2021

– Centre agrees to reinstate Justice A.I.S Cheema as Acting Chairperson of NCLAT

– PM inaugurates 2 new defence office complexes which are part of the Central Vista project

– Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Arpita Ghosh resigns

– Madras High Court stays certain sub-clauses of new IT Rules; the sections provide for a three-tier structure for addressing the grievances made in relation to publishers

– Ensure those buying liquor are not treated as cattle: Kerala HC to govt

– Uttarakhand HC allows Chardham Yatra, sets daily limit on devotees visiting Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri

– Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar inaugurates five NIELIT (National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology) Centres in North East Region

– Union Cabinet clears decks for National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL); approves government guarantee to Rs. 30,600 crores on security receipts that will be used to buy bad loans of lenders

– RBI approves Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (SFB) to form a special committee of directors to oversee operations in the absence of an MD and CEO

– BSE Sensex closes above 59,000 points for the first time

– Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines with help from UK, US

– Australia, the U.K. and the US announce new trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific called AUKUS

– International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (World Ozone Day) observed on September 16; theme: ‘Montreal Protocol – Keeping us, our food and vaccines cool’

– Three Indians in Time Magazine’s list of ‘100 most influential people of 2021’: PM Narendra Modi, West Bengal CM Minister Mamata Banerjee, Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla

– Time Magazine’s list of ‘100 most influential people of 2021’ grouped these 100 into five categories of: ICONS, PIONEERS, TITANS, ARTISTS, LEADERS & INNOVATORS

– SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip