DAILY GK: 10,11 OCT 2021
1.TATA SONS WON THE BID FOR ACQUIRING AIR INDIA FOR RS 18,000 CRORE
• Tata
Sons Private Ltd subsidiary Talace Pvt Ltd has won the final bid for acquiring
the national carrier Air India by submitting Rs 18,000 crore bid. The Cabinet
Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) –
empowered Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism (AISAM) approved the highest
price bid of Talace Pvt Ltd.
• The
bid involves sale of 100 percent stake AI (the shareholding of Government of
India), 100 percent stake in AI’s subsidiary Air India Express (AIXL) and 50
percent in the joint venture Air India SATS (Air India SATS Airport Services
Private Limited ).
• The
AISAM comprises Union Minister for Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah;
Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman; Union
Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Union Civil Aviation
Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
2.‘KARUPPUR
KALAMKARI PAINTINGS’ FROM TAMIL NADU RECEIVES GI TAG
• Karuppur
kalamkari paintings, Kallakurichi Wood carvings & Kanyakumari Clove were
awarded with Geographical Indication (GI) tags.
• Karuppur
Kalamkari paintings – They are Traditional dyed paintings made on pure cotton
cloth, mainly used in temples for umbrella covers, cylindrical hangings,
chariot covers.
• Kallakurichi
Wood carvings – Traditional wood carvings that are indigenous art of Madurai
• Kanyakumari
Clove – Known for its rich aromatic oil content
3.MULTIDIMENSIONAL
POVERTY INDEX (MPI) RELEASED BY UNDP & OPHI
• Analysis
is produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford
Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
• India
has a maximum number of people, 381 millions, living in multidimensional
poverty.
• The
Scheduled Tribe (ST) accounts for 9.4% of the population and is the poorest
with 65 million of the 129 million people living in multidimensional poverty.
• UNDP
Headquarters– New York, United States
4.FOURTH
BI-MONTHLY MONETARY POLICY OF FY21-22
• The
Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 6-members Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
released its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy statement for FY22 (April 2021 –
March 2022).
• Policy
Rates: RBI kept the rates unchanged (maintains status quo) for the 8th
consecutive time
• Growth:
The MPC has retained India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth
projection for FY22 at 9.5 %. Real GDP growth for Q1 FY23 is projected at 17.2
per cent.
• Inflation:
Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation was projected at 5.3 percent in FY22, CPI
inflation for Q1 FY23 was projected at 5.2 percent.
• Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) decided to extend the on tap Special Long-Term Repo
Operations (SLTRO) facility for small finance banks (SFBs) till December 31,
2021.
• RBI
proposed to increase the per-transaction limit in Immediate Payment Service
(IMPS) from Rs 2 lakh (effective from January 2014) to Rs 5 lakh for channels
other than SMS and Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS).
• RBI Established – April 1, 1935,Headquarter –
Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Governor
– Shaktikanta Das,
• Deputy
Governors – Mahesh Kumar Jain, Michael Debabrata Patra, M. Rajeshwar Rao, T.
Rabi Sankar
5.AVEEK
SARKAR RE-ELECTED AS THE CHAIRMAN OF PTI
• Aveek
Sarkar, the Editor Emeritus and Vice Chairman of the Ananda Bazar Group of
Publications, has been re-elected as the Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI)
for a period of 2 years.
6.INDIA
WON 3 BRONZE MEDALS IN 2021 ASIAN TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN DOHA, QATAR
• For
the first time in the history, Indian table tennis contingent has won 3 Bronze
medals in the 2021 Asian Table Tennis Championship organised by the
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at Doha, Qatar .
• Medal
Winning Teams:
• Indian
Men’s Team – Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Harmeet Desai
• Men’s
Doubles Team – Sharath Kamal Achanta & Satihyan Gnanasekaran
• Men’s
Doubles Team – Manav Thakkar & Harmeet Desai
• Terms
related to Table Tennis – Twiddle or Twirl, Sidespin, Backhand, Racket or
Paddle, Chop
• ITTF-Headquarter
– Lausanne, Switzerland
7.BOOK
“THE CUSTODIAN OF TRUST”
• Book
by Rajnish Kumar, former Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), named “The
Custodian of Trust” released . Rajnish Kumar joined SBI as a Probationary
Officer in 1980
8.WORLD
POST DAY 2021 – OCTOBER 9
• The
United Nations (UN)’s World Post Day is annually observed across the globe on
October 9th to commemorate the anniversary of the establishment of the
Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874.
• The
theme of 2021 World Post Day is “Innovate to recover”.
• UPU
is a United Nations specialized agency .
• Headquarters-
Berne, Switzerland
