Important Days of the year

• National Youth Day: 12th January

• International Custom Day: 26th January
• International Women’s day: 8th March
• World Health Day: 7th April
• International Biodiversity Day: 22nd May
• World No Tobacco Day: 31st May
• World Environment Day: 5th June
• International Yoga Day: 21st June
• World Population Day: 11th July
• World Youth Skill Day: 15th July
• International Youth Day: 12th August
• National Sports Day: 29th August
• World Tourism Day: 27th September
• World AIDS Day: 1st December
• Human Rights Day: 10th December

Nobel Prizes 2021

Field Winners Contribution
Medicine David Julius for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and
Ardem Patapoutian touch
Chemistry Benjamin List for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
David W.C. MacMillan
Physics Giorgio Parisi for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and
fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to
planetary scales.
Syukuro Manabe for the physical modelling of Earth's climate,
Klaus Hasselmann quantifying variability and reliably predicting global
warming
Peace Maria Ressa Journalists Maria Ressa, of the Philippines, and Dmitry
Dmitry Muratov Muratov, of Russia, have won this year’s Nobel Peace
Prize, recognised “for their efforts to safeguard
freedom of expression”, which the prize-giving
committee described as being under threat worldwide
Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah for his "uncompromising and compassionate
penetration of the effects of colonialism".
Economics David Card, Joshua Card won one half for his empirical contributions to
Angrist and Guido labour economics, while Angrist and Imbens shared
Imbens the other half for their methodological contributions
to the analysis of causal relationships.

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 Books and Authors 2021

• Jhumpa Lahiri: Translating Myself and Others

• Vir Sanghvi: A Rude Life: The Memoir
• Amitav Ghosh: Jungle Nama
• Indra Nooyi: My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future
• Anuradha Roy: The Earthspinner
• Sudha Murty: How the Earth Got Its Beauty
• Bimal Jalan: The India Story
• Ashok Lavasa: An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation
• Amartya Sen: Home in the World
• Suresh Raina: Believe-What Life and Cricket Taught Me
• Ruskin Bond: It’s a Wonderful Life
• Shakoor Rather: Life in the Clock Tower Valley
• Vikram Sampath: Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-1966)
• JK Rowling: The Christmas Pig
• Sanjaya Baru: India’s Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution
• Dalai Lama: The Little Book of Encouragement
• Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Unfinished
• R. Giridharan: Right Under Our Nose

Cabinet Ministers List 2021

SL Cabinet minister Ministry

No
1 Narendra Modi Prime Minister, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;
Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space, All
important policy issues, All other unallocated portfolios.
2 Rajnath Singh Minister of Defence
3 Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs, Ministry of Cooperation.
4 Nitin Jairam Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Gadkari
5 Narayan Tatu Rane Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
6 Kiren Rijiju Ministry of Law and Justice
7 Nirmala Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
Sitharaman
8 Piyush Goyal Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Commerce and
Industry
9 Narendra Singh Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Tomar
10 Giriraj Singh Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
11 Dharmendra Ministry of Education, Ministry of Skill Development and
Pradhan Entrepreneurship

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12 Jyotiraditya M. Ministry of Civil Aviation
Scindia
13 Raj Kumar Singh Ministry of Power, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
14 Hardeep Singh Puri Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of Housing and
Urban Affairs
15 Bhupender Yadav Ministry or Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of
Labour and Employment
16 G. Kishan Reddy Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of
Development of North Eastern Region
17 Ashwini Vaishnav Ministry of Railways
Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and
Information Technology.
18 Pashu Pati Kumar Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Paras
19 Dr. Virendra Kumar Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
20 Dr Subrahmanyam Minister of External Affairs.
Jaishankar
21 Sarbanada Sonowal Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Ministry of AYUSH
22 Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs.
23 Smriti Irani Minister of Women and Child Development
24 Mansukh Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Ministry of Chemical
Mandaviya Fertilizers.
25 Anurag Singh Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Ministry of Youth
Thakur Affairs and Sports
26 Piyush Goyal Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry,
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
27 Ramchandra Minister of Steel
Prasad
28 Mukhtar Abbas Minister of Minority Affairs.
Naqvi
29 Pralhad Joshi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister
of Mines.
30 Dr Mahendra Nath Ministry of Heavy Industries.
Pandey
31 Arvind Ganpat Minister of Public Enterprise
Sawant
32 Parshottam Rupala Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
33 Gajendra Singh Minister of Jal Shakti
Shekhawat

October 21, 2021

 Tokyo Olympics 2020 (XXXII Olympiad)
Venue: Japan
Declared open by: Japanese Emperor Naruhito
Olympic cauldron was lit by: Naomi Osaka
Motto: United by Emotion
Mascot; Miraitowa, a fictional character named after the Japanese words for "future"
(mirai) and "eternity" (towa)
Indian flag bearers at the Opening ceremony: Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh
Medals tally
# Country G S B Total
1. USA 39 41 33 113
2. China 38 32 18 88
3. Japan 27 14 17 58
4. Great Britain 22 21 22 65
5. ROC 20 28 23 71
48. India 1 2 4 7

*ROC Russian Olympic Committee

Indian Medal Winners

# Athlete Medal Event
1. Neeraj Chopra Gold Javelin throw
2. Mirabai Chanu Silver Weightlifting (49 kg)
3. Ravi Kumar Dahiya Silver Wrestling (57 kg)
4. PV Sindhu Bronze Badminton Womens' Singles
5. Bajrang Punia Bronze Wrestling (65 kg)
6. Lovlina Borgohain Bronze Boxing (Welterweight)
7. Men's Hockey team Bronze Field Hockey

Indian Athletes and their Coaches

# Athlete Coach Nationality
1. Neeraj Chopra Uwe Hohn Germany
2. Mirabai Chanu Vijay Sharma India
3. Ravi Kumar Dahiya
Murad Gaidarov Belarus
4. PV Sindhu Park Tae-Sang Korea
5. Bajrang Punia 1. Shako Bentinidis Georgia
2. Jagminder Singh India
3. Yogeshwar Dutt India
6. Lovlina Borgohain 1. Raffaele Bergamasco Italy
2. Sandhya Gurung India
3. Padum Boro India
7. Men's hockey team Graham Reid Australia
8. Women's hockey team Sjoerd Marijne The Netherlands

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 Summer Paralympics 2020 (XVI Paralympiad)
Venue: Tokyo
Declared open by: Japanese Emperor Naruhito
Motto: United by Emotion
Mascot: Someity, a fictional character named after someiyoshino, a type of cherry blossom
Indian flag bearer at the Opening ceremony: Tek Chand, shot put thrower
Indian flag bearer at the Closing ceremony: Avani Lekhara, shooter

Medals tally
1. China 96 60 51 207
2. Great Britain 41 38 45 124
3. United States 37 36 31 104
4. RPC 36 33 49 118
24. India 5 8 6 19
*RPC: Russian Paralympic Committee

Indian Gold Medal Winners

# Athlete Event, Class
1. Sumit Antil Javelin throw, F64
2. Krishna Nagar Badminton Men's Singles, SH6
3. Pramod Bhagat Badminton Men's Singles, SL3
4. Manish Narwal Shooting, SH1
5. Avani Lekhara Shooting, SH1

Important dams and their locations

• Indira Sagar Dam: Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh

• Mettur Dam: Cauvery River, Tamil Nadu.
• Koyna Dam: Koyna River, Maharashtra.
• Maithon Dam: Barakar river, Jharkhand.
• Rihand Dam: Rihand River, Uttar Pradesh.
• Tungabhadra Dam: Tungabhadra River, Karnataka.
• Krishna Raja Sagar dam: Cauvery River, Karnataka
• Hirakund Dam: Mahanadi River, Odisha

October 21, 2021

 Tennis Grand Slams 2021 Winners

Men’s Singles Winners

YEAR TOURNAMENT WINNER RUNNER-UP
2021 French Open Novak Djokovic Stefanos Tsitsipas
2021 U.S. Open Daniil Medvedev Novak Djokovic
2021 Australian Open Novak Djokovic Daniil Medvedev
2021 Wimbledon Novak Djokovic Matteo Berrettini

Women’s Singles Winners

YEAR TOURNAMENT WINNER RUNNER-UP
2021 French Open Barbora Krejčíková Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2021 U.S. Open Emma Raducanu Leylah Fernandez
2021 Australian Open Naomi Osaka Jennifer Brady
2021 Wimbledon Ashleigh Barty Karolína Plíšková

October 21, 2021