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Headlines/One-liners
1. 40th Meeting of National Capital Region Planning Board and Launch of Pariman Geo-
Portal
2. Goa becomes 1st Indian state to give Free Water to People
3. Ladakh Declared Snow leopard, Black-necked crane as its State Animal and Bird
4. Mizoram Govt Launched Online Payment System in Transport Dept
5. Delhi Tops Forbes India’s List of World’s Most Surveilled Cities
6. World’s largest & Tallest Observation Wheel
7. Alar Karis Elected as the President of Estonia
8. UNICEF Report- “Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on
the move”
9. Rajasthan Govt nominates Shooter Avani Lakhera as Brand Ambassador for ‘Beti Bachao
and Beti Padhao’ Project
10. Chief Justice for High Courts of Telangana, Sikkim & Karnataka
11. Phone Pe received Approval from RBI & Insurance Broking Licence from IRDAI
12. PayU Acquired Billdesk
13. Kotak Mahindra Bank to Sell Shares of APBL to Bharti Enterprises
14. Clix Housing Finance partners with IMGC
15. South African Cricketer Dale Steyn Retires from All forms of Cricket
16. Princepal Singh Becomes 1st Indian to be a Part of NBA Championship Roster
17. Bengali Author Buddhadeb Guha Passed Away
18.
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National News
40th Meeting of National Capital Region Planning Board and Launch of Pariman Geo-Portal
• Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Housing and

Urban Affairs and Petroleum and Natural Gas
chaired the 40th meeting of the National Capital
Region Planning Board
• Hardeep Singh Puri launched the Combined

Reciprocal Common Transport Agreement for the
carriage facilities among the governments of
Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
• Combined Reciprocal Common Transport

Agreement launched by Hardeep Singh Puri who
also a chairman of National Capital Region Planning Board
• Online geo portal- “Pariman” based on remote sensing and GIS technology developed by NIC for NCR
Planning Board was launched.
• To cover information of sectors like land use, transport, industries, water, power, health etc presented as
Line, Point and Polygon features. Help in sub- regional planning.
Goa becomes 1st Indian state to give Free Water to People
• Goa has launched ‘Save Water to Get Free

Water’ scheme under which state
households will not be charged for water
consumption up to 16,000 litres.
• Goa becomes the first Indian state to supply

water free of cost to its citizens
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Ladakh Declared Snow leopard, Black-necked crane as its State Animal and Bird
• The government of Union Territory of Ladakh

has declared ‘Snow leopard’ (Panthera uncia) as
its state animal and ‘Black-necked crane’ (Grus
nigricollis) as its state bird.
• Earlier Jammu and Kashmir had the Black-

necked crane and Kashmir stag (Hangul) as its
state bird and animal.
• The estimated population of Black-necked

Crane in Ladakh region is between 80-100.
• The estimated population of individual Snow -

Leopard in Ladakh alone is between 200-300.
Mizoram Govt Launched Online Payment System in Transport Dept
• Transport Minister of Mizoram has

launched an online payment system in the
Transport department of the state.
• The payment system was developed by the

State Transport Department in
collaboration with the National Informatics
Centre and State Bank of India to make a
shift from physical to digital mode payment.
• The system was divided into 2 components

viz, Vahan and Sarathi.
• Vahan: It deals with new vehicle registration, permits renewal, issue of a duplicate permit, tax payment,
issue of special permit, fitness renewal fee, ownership transfer fee, issue of No Objection Certificate,
registration renewal, duplicate registration certificate.
• Sarathi: It is a platform for submission of applications such as learner licence, driving licence, conductor
licence, licence renewal, change of name, address and photos, duplicate driving licence, etc.
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Delhi Tops Forbes India’s List of World’s Most Surveilled Cities
• Delhi tops the the Forbers India Report on

the Most Surveilld Cities in the World with 1,826.6
CCTV cameras per square mile.
• Delhi is followed by London with 1,138 and

Chennai with 609.9 CCTV Cameras per sq miles in
2nd and 3rd spot respectively.
• Mumbai, Maharashtra has secured 18th spot

with 157.4 cameras per sq miles.
International News
World’s largest & Tallest Observation Wheel
• The World’s largest and tallest observation

wheel named ‘Ain Dubai’ is set to be
opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirateson
• The ain Dubai is located at Bluewaters

Island.
• Hyundai Engineering & Construction and

Starneth Engineering were the primary
design and construction contractors of Ain
Dubai.
• The Ain Dubai is around 2 times taller than

the London Eye, which will take the visitors to a height of 250 meters.
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Alar Karis Elected as the President of Estonia
• Alar Karis, Director of the Estonian National

Museum has been elected as the 5th President of
Estonia. He will be succeeding Kersti Kaljulaid, the
first female president of Estonia.
• Prime Minister– Kaja Kallas
• Capital– Tallinn
• Currency– Euro
UNICEF Report- “Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on the move”
• In accordance with the report titled

‘Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes
the experiences of children on the move’
by the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF), the number of persons living
outside their birth country or citizenship
reached a record high of 281 million in
2020. In this, 36 million of them were
recorded as children.
• This number is increased among boys and

girls younger than 18 years to 35.5 million
in 2020.
• 10 million child refugees were displaced due to conflict and war.
• In a year, there were almost 15 million new displacements
• Nearly two-thirds of all international migrants in 2020 (including refugees) were born in middle-income
countries. Only 13% were born in low-income countries.
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Appointments & Resignations

Rajasthan Govt nominates Shooter Avani Lakhera as Brand Ambassador for ‘Beti Bachao and Beti
Padhao’ Project
• The government of Rajasthan nominated

Gold Medalist of Tokyo Paralympics, shooter
Avani Lakhera as the brand ambassador of the
‘Beti Bachao and Beti Padhao’ project under the
Department of Woman and Child Development.
• Avani Lakhera is 19 years old and belongs to

Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• She became the first Indian woman to secure

gold medal in 10m Rifle (Class SH-1)at games and
also made a world record equalling total of 249.6
points which is a new paralympic record.
• She along with Devendra Jhajharia and Sundar Gurjar, who won medals in Tokyo Paralympic Games,
have been appointed by the State Government as Assistant Conservator of Forests in the Forest
Department on out-of-turn basis.
Chief Justice for High Courts of Telangana, Sikkim & Karnataka
• The President has appointed the Acting

Chief Justice for the High Courts of
Telangana, Sikkim & Karnataka by
exercising his power conferred by Article
223 of the Constitution of India.
• Justice Satish Chandra Sharma will take

charge as the ACJ, succeeding Justice Abhay
Shreeniwas Oka
• Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai will take

charge as the ACJ succeeding Justice
Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari.
• Justice Mamidanna Satya Ratna Sri Ramachandra Rao will take charge as ACJ succeeding Justice Hima
Kohli.
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• The President of India accepted the recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium and appointed 9
Supreme Court Judges by exercising the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution
of India.
• The appointment of the 9 Judges including 3 women, takes the total strength of judges of the Supreme
court to 33 (including the Chief Justice of India (CJI)), the maximum possible strength of the Supreme
Court is 34.
• The 9 judges are,
• Justice AS Oka – CJ of the Karnataka HC
• Justice Vikram Nath – CJ of the Gujarat HC
• Justice Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari – CJ of the Sikkim HC
• Justice Hima Kohli – CJ of the Telangana HC
• Justice B V Nagarathna – Judge of the Karnataka HC
• Justice C T Ravikumar – Judge of the Kerala HC
• Justice M M Sundresh – Judge of the Madras HC
• Justice Bela M Trivedi – Judge of the Gujarat HC
• Justice P S Narasimha – Senior advocate & Former Additional Solicitor General
• Justice M Fathima Beevi, appointed to the Supreme court in 1989, became the first woman judge of the
Supreme court of India.
• Justice AM Khanwilkar has been appointed as the Chairman of Supreme Court Legal Services Committee.
He succeeded Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman
• He was nominated by the Central Authority in the exercise of the powers conferred by Section 3A of
Legal Service Authorities Act, 1987(39 of 1987) read with rule 10 of the National Legal Services
Authority Rules.
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Banking & Finance

Phone Pe received Approval from RBI & Insurance Broking Licence from IRDAI
• PhonePe Account Aggregator Pvt Ltd received

in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of
India to operate as an Account Aggregator to
share financial information.
• The license will enable PhonePe to launch its

AA platform, which will facilitate the free
exchange of financial information between the
financial information users and financial
information providers on the AA Ecosystem
• The AA could not support transactions in

financial assets by customers. AA was allowed only to transfer the client’s data but not store it.
• The RBI has announced the AA framework via a Master Directive in June 2016 to enable the customers to
get benefits like viewing statements of their accounts, track deposits, plan investments and avail credit
cards on a single window.
• In October 2020, IndusInd Bank became the 1st bank in India to go live as a FIP under the AA
Framework of the RBI.
• Other entities that have already received an AA licence from the RBI are Cookiejar Technologies, FinSec
AA Technologies, NESL Asset Data, and CAMSfinserv.
• PhonePe has received an insurance ‘broking licence’ from the Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDAI).
• Headquarters – Bangalore, Karnataka
• CEO – Sameer Nigam
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PayU Acquired Billdesk
• PayU Payments Private Limited, a

subsidiary of Prosus has entered into an
agreement with IndiaIdeas.com Limited
(BillDesk) to acquire 100% of its Equity
shares for 4.7 Billion USD
Kotak Mahindra Bank to Sell Shares of APBL to Bharti Enterprises
• Kotak Mahindra Bank is set to sell its 20 crore

equity shares of Airtel Payment Bank Limited to
Bharti Enterprises Limited of Rs 294.8 crore.
Kotak Mahindra Bank:
• MD & CEO- Uday Kotak
• Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
Airtel Payment Bank Limited:
• MD & CEO– Anubrata Biswas
• Headquarters– New Delhi
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MoU & PArtnerships

Clix Housing Finance partners with IMGC
• The India Mortgage Guarantee

Corporation entered into the partnership
with Clix Housing Finance Limited to offer
mortgage-backed home loan products
• At present, IMGC has partnered with more

than 18 lenders including banks, housing
finance companies, NBFCs.
• Chief Executive Officer- Mahesh Misra
Sports
South African Cricketer Dale Steyn Retires from All forms of Cricket
• South African Cricketer & Right-arm fast

bowler, Dale Willem Steyn has announced his
retirement from all forms of Cricket
• The Right arm bowler has played 93 Tests,

picking 439 wickets
• Steyn has played for Royal Challengers

Bangalore (RCB), SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) &
Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League
• He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers

of the year in 2013 & Wisden Leading Cricketer in
the World for 2013.
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Princepal Singh Becomes 1st Indian to be a Part of NBA Championship Roster
• Princepal Singh Bajwa from Punjab became

the 1st Indian to be part of an NBA title
winning team when his team Sacramento
Kings won the 2021 NBA Summer League
in Las Vegas in United States against the
Boston Celtics.
• He signed a professional contract with NBA

G League Ignite and became the 1st NBA
Academy global alumni to sign a G League
Contract and 1st ever NBA Academy India
alumni to sign a professional contract.
Obituary
Bengali Author Buddhadeb Guha Passed Away
• Eminent Bengali Author Buddhadeb Guha, a

professional chartered accountant and a noted
classical singer and a proficient illustrator has
passed away
• Buddhadeb Guha is well known for his novel

‘Madhukari’ which is considered as one of the
milestones in Bengali literature.
• He is well known as the creator of the

fictional characters in Bengali literature – Rijuda, a
hunter turned conservationist and Ribhu.
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Daily Current Affairs- 3rd September 2021

• Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Housing and

• Hardeep Singh Puri launched the Combined

• Combined Reciprocal Common Transport

Goa becomes 1st Indian state to give Free Water to People

• Goa has launched ‘Save Water to Get Free

• Goa becomes the first Indian state to supply

• The government of Union Territory of Ladakh

• Earlier Jammu and Kashmir had the Black-

• The estimated population of Black-necked

• The estimated population of individual Snow -

Mizoram Govt Launched Online Payment System in Transport Dept

• Transport Minister of Mizoram has

• The payment system was developed by the

• The system was divided into 2 components

Delhi Tops Forbes India’s List of World’s Most Surveilled Cities

• Delhi tops the the Forbers India Report on

• Delhi is followed by London with 1,138 and

• Mumbai, Maharashtra has secured 18th spot

• The World’s largest and tallest observation

• The ain Dubai is located at Bluewaters

• Hyundai Engineering & Construction and

• The Ain Dubai is around 2 times taller than

Alar Karis Elected as the President of Estonia

• Alar Karis, Director of the Estonian National

• Prime Minister– Kaja Kallas

• In accordance with the report titled

• This number is increased among boys and

• 10 million child refugees were displaced due to conflict and war.

• In a year, there were almost 15 million new displacements

Appointments & Resignations

• The government of Rajasthan nominated

• Avani Lakhera is 19 years old and belongs to

• She became the first Indian woman to secure

Chief Justice for High Courts of Telangana, Sikkim & Karnataka

• The President has appointed the Acting

• Justice Satish Chandra Sharma will take

• Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai will take

• The 9 judges are,

• Justice AS Oka – CJ of the Karnataka HC

• Justice Vikram Nath – CJ of the Gujarat HC

• Justice Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari – CJ of the Sikkim HC

• Justice Hima Kohli – CJ of the Telangana HC

• Justice B V Nagarathna – Judge of the Karnataka HC

• Justice C T Ravikumar – Judge of the Kerala HC

• Justice M M Sundresh – Judge of the Madras HC

• Justice Bela M Trivedi – Judge of the Gujarat HC

• Justice P S Narasimha – Senior advocate & Former Additional Solicitor General

Banking & Finance

• PhonePe Account Aggregator Pvt Ltd received

• The license will enable PhonePe to launch its

• The AA could not support transactions in

• Headquarters – Bangalore, Karnataka

• CEO – Sameer Nigam

PayU Acquired Billdesk

• PayU Payments Private Limited, a

Kotak Mahindra Bank to Sell Shares of APBL to Bharti Enterprises