Today's Event – 15th September 2021

• 1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.

• 1530 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912

• 1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.

• 1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.

• 1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.

• 1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.

• 1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.

• 1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema),the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

• 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.

• 1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.

• 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.

• 1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).

• 1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.

• 1954 – Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene during filming for The Seven Year Itch is shot

• 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

• 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that set into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

• 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

• 1971 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.

• 1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.

• 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

• 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

• 2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.

• 2001 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs

• 2020 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

National Events- 

•  India to increase nuclear power to reduce carbon footprints in the next 10 years

•  21k new covid cases recorded in India in the last 24 hours

•  Former CM of Tripura Manik Sarkar says that Tripura is a base for BJP to establish a fascist regime

•  India and UK to talk about free trade agreements by November 2021

• National level kho-kho player killed in UP after resisting rape from a labourer

International Events- 

•  US president Joe Biden denies that Xi Jinping turned down the offer to attend the meeting

•  Pakistan PM Imran Khan spoke with Russian PM Vladimir Putin regarding the Afghanistan issue

•  The UK to offer covid-19 booster jabs to people above 50 years of age

•  China imposes lockdown on a local basis as covid-19 cases are on the rise

• The water crisis in the Middle East could lead to the conflict in major regions

Job alerts-

• Gurdaspur Court Jobs for Stenographer Grade 3 and other posts. Last date 22nd September 2021

• BPCL Jobs for Apprentice and other posts. Last date 24th September 2021

• NIDMP Jobs for Assistant, Warden, Superintendent and other posts. Last date 30th September 2021

• JNU Non-Teaching Jobs for a personal assistant and other posts. Last date 4th October 2021

• KMLM Jobs for apprentice and other posts. Last date 30th September 2021

Sports-

•  Record 600 coaches and athletes applied for sports awards and honours

•  Pele transferred out of intensive care unit after tumour treatment

•  Manchester United learned that Cristiano Ronaldo’s role cannot be enough to win the Champion’s League

•  Afghan female footballers reach Pakistan by evading Taliban

Awards and honours-

•  Goa announced 10 names for a higher education award

Technology-

•  iPhone 13 launched in India with a price range from Rs.69k to Rs. 1.79 lakhs

•  Microsoft to buy back shares worth 60 billion dollars

•  Massachusetts to investigate T-Mobile data breach 

•  The cybercrime rate increased in Australia due to covid-19

• Realme working on a phone with a 2k display and fast charging

Economy – 

•  Nifty at a record high at 17,641.50; Sensex high at 58,579.86

•  Petrol at Rs. 101.19; diesel at Rs. 88.62

•  China’s economy suffers as Delta variant of covid-19 disrupts trade

•  MNC tech centres in India to recruit 2 million people in India by 2025

• Litecoin price falls after Walmart debunks fake news of the partnership

Environment –

•  As per IMD, more rainfall is about to occur in India

Local –

•  More women vaccinated than men in 4 districts of Rajasthan

•  Only 0.35% of fully vaccinated people in Mumbai (Maharashtra) were infected with covid

•  Calcutta University to extend PG admission deadline by two days

•  103 fresh cases of covid-19 recorded in Puducherry 

• Rs. 1k crore allotted by Rajasthan Government for road repairs

Person in News – 

•  Hammer throw world record holder Yuriy Sedykh dies at age 66

GK – 

PayNow, with which India has announced the linking of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI),is a payment interface of which country?

[A] Singapore
[B] Nepal
[C] Bhutan
[D] Australia

Who has won the Italian Grand Prix 2021?

[A] Max Verstappen
[B] Daniel Ricciardo
[C] Lando Norris
[D] Lewis Hamilton

Which country has commenced the world’s biggest trial of a blood test where they will detect more than 50 types of cancer?

[A] China
[B] Russia
[C] France
[D] the United Kingdom

Which organization along with Infosys has entered into a multi-year strategic engagement with Ausgrid to accelerate its cloud transformation journey?

[A] Google
[B] Facebook
[C] Microsoft
[D] NITI Aayog

Eminent writer Aziz Hajini who passed away recently belonged to which state/UT?

[A] Ladakh
[B] Jammu and Kashmir
[C] Himachal Pradesh
[D] Uttarakhand