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29 AUGUST 2021 CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQs
India has received the elections for membership of two key bodies of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), during the twenty-seventh UPU Congress in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
On the third day of his visit to Uttar Pradesh, President Ram Nath Kovind laid the foundation stone of the state's first AYUSH University. He also inaugurated the Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath Vishwavidyalaya in the city.
The Prime Minister (PM) chaired the 37th edition of Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation (PRAGATI) - the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based totally multimodal platform, involving Central and State governments.
The agreement between Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and New York University Abu Dhabi to establish a Visiting Professorship in Social Science at NYUAD was signed.
Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship Vigraha is the seventh in the collection of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs).
In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Commandant General, Home Guards and SDRF, V.K Singh and Principal Government Medical College, Jammu, Dr Shashi Sudan inaugurated SUKOON, a 24x7 Mental Health Helpline at SDRF Headquarters, Jammu.
Indian Grandmaster S. P. Sethuraman won the Barcelona Open chess tournament 2021 recently.
Madhya Pradesh becomes the second state after Karnataka to implement the National Education Policy 2020.
President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, to discharge the functions of the Governor of Punjab, in addition to his own duties from the date he assumes charge of the office of the Governor of Punjab.
Noted elocutionist of West Bengal Gouri Ghosh passed away in Kolkata after a prolonged illness. She was 83.