18 september 2021 current affairs

1. CURRENT AFFAIRS
18 SEPTEMBER 2021
Dr.A.PRABAHARAN
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2. WORLD’S LARGEST EXPRESSWAY IN INDIA
• Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways
Nitin Gadkari on September 17, 2021, announced
that Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway is being
constructed as the world’s longest highway in India.
• The project is expected to be completed by March
2022. Gadkari made these announcements on day
two of the two-day aerial survey of the Delhi-
Mumbai Express after inspecting the Bharuch
section of the expressway on September 17.
• Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, and
Sushma Swaraj had laid the foundation stone on
March 8, 2019.
• The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will have India’s first
8-lane bridge that is being built across the Narmada
river near Bharuch, Gujarat, tweeted Gadkari.
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3. NOBEL LAUREATE KAILASH SATYARTHI APPOINTED AS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ADVOCATE BY UN
• The United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres on
September 17, 2021, appointed Nobel Laureate
Kailash Satyarthi as the new Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) Advocate ahead of
the start of the 76th United Nations General
Assembly.
• According to the press release by the UN, along
with Kailash Satyarthi, Microsoft President Brad
Smith, STEM activist Valentina Munoz Rabanal
and K-pop superstars BLACKPINK has also been
appointed as new SDG advocates.
• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, while
talking about the SDG Goals, said that we are at
a pivotal moment.
• The choices we make now could put us on a
path towards breakdown and a future of
perpetual crisis; or a breakthrough to a safe and
greener world.
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4. RENOWNED THEORETICAL PHYSICIST THANU PADMANABHAN PASSES AWAY AT 64
• Renowned theoretical physicist and professor at the Inter-
University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
• Thanu Padmanabhan passed away on September 17, 2021,
after suffering a heart attack at his residence in Pune.
• Padmanabhan was 64-years-old.
• He had authored more than 300 research papers and
several books on quantum gravity, gravitation, and the
structure and formation of the universe.
• Among the most remarkable contributions of
Padmanabhan was the discovery of new connections
between thermodynamics and the general theory of
relativity.
• He also contributed largely towards the analysis and
modeling of dark energy in the universe and interpreting
gravity as an emergent phenomenon.
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5. 45TH GST COUNCIL MEETING: CONCESSIONAL GST RATES ON
COVID-19 RELATED MEDICINES EXTENDED TILL DEC 31ST
• 45th GST council meeting: Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman chaired the 45th Meeting of the Goods and
Services Tax (GST) Council in Lucknow on September
17, 2021.
• While addressing the media on the outcomes of 45th
GST Council meeting, FM Sitharaman said that the
Council has taken quite a few people-friendly
decisions.
• The 45th GST Council meeting was attended by finance
ministers from all states and several senior officers and
hosted by Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Uttar
Pradesh.
• This is the first time that a GST Council meeting took
place in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh. It is also the
first physical meeting of the GST Council following the
outbreak of COVID-19.
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6. SOMALIA: PRESIDENT SUSPENDS PM’S POWER TO
HIRE AND FIRE OFFICIALS AS COUNTRY AWAITS
ELECTIONS
• The President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi
Mohamed announced on September 16, 2021, that he
has suspended Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein
Roble’s power to fire and fire the officials.
• This has further escalated a destabilizing row in the Horn
of Africa.
• The dispute between Somalian President Mohamed and
Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble, nominally
over a murder investigation, has generated months of
tension in Somalia which is already driven by militant
attacks and clan rivalries.
• The President of Somalia in an official statement said that
the Prime Minister has violated the constitution and
mentioned that the suspension will last until the
conclusions of elections later in 2021.
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