Current Affairs 21st September 2017

Current Affairs 21st September 2017

NATIONAL

• Tripura has become the first state in the country to set up family welfare district committees
• Three Indian entrepreneurial legends, Ratan Tata, Lakshmi Mittal and Vinod Khosla have been included in Forbes’s special list of the world’s ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds.
• India to Conduct the First ‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’
• First ever National Conference on ‘Mission Mode to address Under-Nutrition’ held in New Delhi
• Government to launch mobile app for retiring government staff

INTERNATIONAL

• 13th Inter-Governmental Commission Meeting in Kazakhstan
• 40 million people trapped in modern slavery: UN report

BANKING & ECONOMY

• World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Hits $1 Trillion Value For First Time

APPOINTMENT

• Akshay Kumar Appointed Uttarakhand Swachh Bharat Mission Brand Ambassador
• India Appoints Ajay Bisaria New High Commissioner to Pakistan

SPORT

• Sri Lanka qualify for ICC Cricket World Cup 2019