Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: September 11, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for September 11, 2021

– Co-WIN develops new API (Application Programming Interface) to enable checking of individual’s status of COVID-19 vaccination

– Defence Minister Rajnath Singh holds held bilateral meeting with his Australian counterpart Peter Dutton in New Delhi

– India, Japan hold sixth Maritime Affairs Dialogue in virtual format

– 4th Conference of the Protectors of Emigrants was held on September 10, 2021, coinciding with the date of enactment of the Emigration Act, 1983

– Digital Population Clock inaugurated at Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar

– Subramania Bharati’s death anniversary declared as ‘Mahakavi’ Day in Tamil Nadu

– Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura takes charge as the Chairman, National Commission for Minorities

– Compulsory leave for Punjab govt employees if even one Covid vaccine dose not taken

– UP govt imposes ban on sale of meat, liquor within 10 sq km radius of Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura

– Tamil Nadu ban on festivals, political, religious gatherings to continue till October 31

– RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat launches mobile app on ‘National’ thinkers

– Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh, who retired as the deputy chief of Army in 2016, appointed governor of Uttarakhand, a post which fell vacant after Baby Rani Maurya resigned

– Banwarilal Purohit appointed new Governor of Punjab

– RN Ravi shifted from Nagaland to Tamil Nadu as its new governor

– Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi to hold additional charge of Nagaland

– Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri & U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm launch revamped US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP)

– Foreign exchange reserves reach a record high of USD 642.453 billion in the week ended September 3

– Moroccan voters hand Islamists big defeat in parliamentary elections

– World’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide from air starts in Iceland

– World Suicide Prevention Day observed on September 10

– Fifth and final Test between India, England at Old Trafford, Manchester called off due to Covid-19 fears