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Daily Current Affairs 5 October 2021
The World Expo 2020 has been organised in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. Union minister Piyush Goyal said that India received the largest and strategically located plot from the Dubai authorities for the pavilion. Among the 192 participating countries, India will have the biggest pavilion in the expo. The main theme of the Dubai Expo 2020 is “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”. Among the 192 participating countries, India will have the biggest pavilion in the expo
“Dubai authorities gave us a strategic location and one of the largest land plots. PM Modi personally gave us ideas and guidance on how to make the India pavilion one of the best,” Goyal said.
The Expo was originally scheduled to take place from 20 October 2020 to 10 April 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Expo 2020 is the first to be held in the MENA & SA (the Middle East and North Africa & South Asia) region.
Purpose: World Expos provide a platform to showcase the greatest innovations that have shaped the world we live in today. The grand event will have 191 country pavilions.
India Pavilion
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in the launch of the India Pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020 through video conferencing on October 01, 2021. He invited global investors to invest in India and be a part of India’s growth story. The theme of the India pavilion at the Expo is “Openness, Opportunity, and Growth”
It will showcase resurgent India’s march to becoming a USD 5 Trillion economy, the exceptional fightback against COVID-19, and the country’s emergence as a global business hub presenting huge opportunities for the world.
American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on October 04, 2021. for discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch which the award-giving body said could pave the way for new painkillers.
They have been honoured for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new painkillers. The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million).
Japan’s parliament elected former foreign minister Fumio Kishida as the new prime minister on October 04, 2021. Kishida replaces his predecessor, Yoshihide Suga. The 64-year-old Kishida received 257 votes, from 249 parliament members to be sworn in as the 100th Prime Minister of the country. He replaces Yoshihide Suga, who submitted his resignation along with his entire cabinet on October 04, 2021.
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya was sworn in as Interim President of the coastal West African country of Guinea. Colonel Doumbouya, who led the overthrow of President Alpha Conde on the 5th of last month was sworn in by Supreme Court Head Mamadou Sylla for a transition period of unspecified length. Doumbouy, led the military coup in September 05, 2021, to overthrow 83-year-old President Alpha Conde.
The former French legionnaire, 41, becomes Africa’s second-youngest leader, after Mali’s Assimi Goïta, 38, who also staged a military takeover. The 41-year old Col Doumbouya is Africa’s second-youngest leader, after Mali’s 38-year-old Assimi Goïta. Doumbouya will serve as transitional president until the country returns to civilian rule.
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has inaugurated the country’s first “Sports Arbitration Centre of India” in Gujarat which will serve as an independent body to fast track disputes in the sports sector. This Sports Arbitration Centre of India (SACI) will serve as an independent body to fast track disputes in the sports sector and serve as a mechanism to redress issues related to sports.
Rijiju said this centre will have “a far-reaching impact” and play an important role in expanding the country’s sports sector.
In India, the ‘Ganga River Dolphin Day’ is observed every year on October 5, to raise awareness and encourage conservation of Ganga River Dolphins. Since 2010, India celebrate Ganga River Dolphin Day annually. On 5 October, the dolphins were declared as National Aquatic Animal (NAA).
Then, in 2012, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Uttar Pradesh government jointly began the dolphin conservation campaign in the country.
World Teachers’ Day, also known as International Teachers Day, is held annually on 05 October since 1994. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.
The Day aims to focus on appreciating, assessing, and improving the educators of the world and to provide an opportunity to consider issues related to teachers and teaching.
The Theme for 2021 International Teachers Day is “Teachers at the heart of education recovery”.
Indian Super League side FC Goa have crowned champions of the 130th Durand Cup football championship, beating local outfit Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 at the end of extra time in a climactic culmination to the event at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) on October 03, 2021 night.
FC Goa Captain Eduardo Bedia scored the all-important goal in the 105th minute after the final match went into the extra time. The 2021 Durand Cup was the 130th edition of the Durand Cup, the oldest football tournament in Asia. The tournament was held from September 05 to October 03, 2021, in West Bengal. This was FC Goas’ first triumph in Indias oldest football tournament.
2021 Season awards winners
Golden Glove for the best goalkeeper – Naveen Kumar (FC Goa)
Golden boot for top scorer – Marcus Joseph (Mohammedan)
Golden ball for the best player – Edu Bedia (Goa)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in Monday (October 04, 2021) for a second five-year term running a country in the grip of a nearly year-long war against Tigray forces he described as “hateful” toward the nation, while a handful of visiting African leaders urged him to hold things together.
Mr. Abiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is serving as prime minister of Ethiopia since 2018. He was administered the oath of office by Supreme Court Chief Justice Meaza Ashenafi.
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of September was ₹1.17 lakh rupees, which included a CGST component of 20,578 crores, SGST is 26,767 crore, and IGST component of 60,911 crore rupees. The revenue for September was 23% higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year. During the month, revenue from import of goods was 30% higher and the revenues from the domestic transactions (including import of services) are 20% higher than the revenues from these sources during the same month last year.
The revenue for September 2020 was, in itself at a growth of 4% over the revenue of September 2019 of ₹ 91,916 crores.
GST Collection previous months:
- January 2021: ₹ 1,19,847 crore
- Feb 2021: Rs 1,13,143 crore
- March 2021: Rs. 1.24lacs cr.
- April 2021: ₹1.41 lakh crore(All time Highest)
- May 2021: Rs 1,02,709 crore
- June 2021: Rs 92,849 crore
- July 2021: Rs 1,16,393 crore
- August: Rs 1.12 lacs cr.
BC Patnaik has taken charge as Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation of India. He was appointed as Managing Director vide a government notification dated July 5, 2021, LIC said in a statement. Prior to taking charge as Managing Director of LIC, Patnaik was Secretary-General, Council for Insurance Ombudsmen, (CIO) Mumbai. He joined LIC of India in March 1986 as a Direct Recruit Officer.
Indian Steel Association (ISA) announced Friday that former executive director of state-owned SAIL NSE -0.54 %, Alok Sahay has assumed office as its new Secretary-General and Executive Head from 1st October 2021, taking over from Bhaskar Chatterjee. Sahay who is the former executive director of the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has experience of almost four decades in the steel industry.
Sahay has worked closely with the steel industry and the Government as one of the core industry representatives to advocate on trade-related matters at national and international forums. His experience also includes training at British Steel and tenure as visiting fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University.