DAILY GK: 01 OCT 2021
1. EXPERT GROUP FOR
MINIMUM WAGES RECONSTITUTED
• Barely three months after the committee
was set up, the Labour Ministry reconstituted the expert group responsible for
determining the national floor level minimum wages under the Code on Wages.
• Economist and statistician SP Mukherjee
will lead the 9-member group.
• In January 2019, the seven-member
committee suggested a national minimum wage at Rs 375 per day or Rs 9,750 per
month irrespective of sectors, skills, occupations and rural-urban locations.
2. INDIA EXPORT
INITIATIVE AND INDIAXPORTS 2021 PORTAL
• The Union Minister for Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Narayan Tatu Rane virtually inaugurated the India
Export Initiative and SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) Forum’s portal IndiaXports
2021 India in New Delhi.
• It will enhance the exports and ensure
localisation.
• It will work as a global manufacturing
powerhouse by improving India’s manufacturing base.
3. ATAL COMMUNITY
INNOVATION CENTER LAUNCHED
• India’s 1st Atal Community Innovation
Center (ACIC) launched at Vivekananda Global University (VGU), Jaipur,
Jagatpura, Rajasthan.
• It will be set up by Atal Innovation
Mission (AIM) and NITI Aayog.
4. ‘DIGITAL QUALITY OF
LIFE INDEX 2021
• India was positioned at an overall rank of
59th among 110 countries in the 3rd edition of ‘Digital Quality of Life Index
(DQL) 2021’ prepared by cybersecurity company ‘Surfshark’.
• This is 2 positions lower than the 57th
rank secured by India in the 2020 Index.
• For the 2nd consecutive time, Denmark
topped the ranking, followed by South Korea & Finland in 2nd & 3rd
positions.
• Note – India shares 49th rank along with
Thailand, in the ‘2021 Inclusive Internet Index’ by The Economist Intelligence
Unit (EIU), where the ranking was topped by Sweden.
5. RBI TAKES IOB OUT OF
PCA FRAMEWORK
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) removed Indian
Overseas Bank (IOB) from the Prompt Corrective Action Framework (PCAF) as the
performance of bank is compliant with the PCA parameters.
• With this, IOB committed to comply with
the norms of Minimum Regulatory Capital, Net NPA (non-performing assets) and
leverage ratio on an ongoing basis.
• Currently, Central Bank of India is the
only lender under the RBI’s PCA framework.
6. SURYODAY SFB TO SHUT
DOWN ITS ATMS
• Suryoday Small Finance Bank (SFB) is set
to shut down its Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and discontinue its ATM
services from 1st October 2021.
• The customers can use their ATM or Debit
card at other Banks’ ATMs to withdraw cash and for other services, the
customers can use internet banking and mobile banking.
• Suryoday SFB has become the first lender
to discontinue its ATM services.
7.2021 RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
AWARD
• Delhi-based environmental organisation
Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) has won the 2021 Right
Livelihood Award, for empowering communities in areas ranging from child
protection to environmental defence.
• The award is also known as Sweden’s
alternative Nobel Prize given by the Swedish Right Livelihood Foundation.
8. NEW PM OF JAPAN
• Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida(64
years old) has been elected as the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic
Party(LDP) and set to become the next and the 100th Prime Minister(PM) of
Japan.
• He will be succeeding Yoshihide Suga, who
stepped down as Japan’s PM.
9. NORTH KOREA
TEST-FIRED HWASONG-8
• The North Korean Academy of National
Defense Science has test-fired a newly-developed hypersonic missile, ‘the
Hwasong-8’.
• Hwasong series missiles used
liquid-propellant engines with an ampoule fuel system.
• North Korea has used the ampoule fuel
system for the 1st time.
10.2021 OSTRAVA OPEN
WOMEN’S DOUBLES TITLE
• Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Shuai
Zhang won the 2021 Ostrava Open women’s doubles title by defeating the pair of
Kaitlyn Christian and Erin Routliffe in the women’s doubles final of the
Ostrava Open held in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
11. BOOK- “JUNGLE NAMA:
A STORY OF THE SUNDARBAN”
• “Jungle Nama: a story of the Sundarban”
authored by Jnanpith Awardee Amitav Ghosh has been released as an audiobook
voiced by Ali Sethi, US-based Singer-writer, who has also created the
background music and ambient sound for the audiobook.
12. INTERNATIONAL
TRANSLATION DAY 2021 – SEPTEMBER 30
• The United Nations (UN)’s International Translation
Day is annually observed across the globe on September 30th as a tribute to the
language professionals.
• The theme of 2021 is “United In Translation”, which was
chosen by the International Federation of Translators(FIT- Fédération
Internationale des Traducteurs).
13. WORLD MARITIME DAY
2021 – SEPTEMBER 30
• The United Nations (UN)’s World Maritime
Day (WMD) is annually observed across the globe during the last Thursday of
September to recognise the contribution of the international maritime industry
towards the world’s economy and sustainable development.
• The day is annually observed by the
International Maritime Organization (IMO).
• The theme of 2021 is “Seafarers at the
core of shipping’s future”.
