Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: September 18, 2021
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for September 18, 2021
INDIA
– PM’s gifts being e-auctioned from Sept 17, proceeds to go to Namami Gange Mission
– Education & Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan presents Kaushalacharya Awards 2021 to 41 skill trainers
– Almost 90% of people in Mumbai have COVID-19 antibodies, finds new sero survey
– Defence Ministry sets up expert committee under the chairmanship of former MP Baijayant Panda for a comprehensive review of the National Cadet Corps (NCC)
– PM Modi participates virtually in the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation SCO) organised in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
– EAM S. Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Dushanbe
– Bangladesh: High Commission of India celebrates 57th Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) day in Dhaka
– New Passenger Terminal (I) Building inaugurated at the Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Petrapole on Bangladesh border
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– NITI Aayog for building 500 ‘healthy cities’ to fight Covid-like crisis
– Railways to train 50,000 youths under the Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana
– Byju’s, NITI Aayog partner to provide free education to children in 112 Aspirational Districts
WORLD
– ‘Ebola is defeated’, says Congolese professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe who discovered virus
– World Patient Safety Day observed on September 17
– Hungary: Statue of Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled in capital Budapest
– China astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2021