Kamala Harris scripts history as she accepts Democratic Party’s nomination for US vice-president
Senator Kamala Harris has accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the vice president of the United States, scripting history by becoming the first Indian-American and also the first Black woman to be on a major political party’s national ticket. She has been nominated as the vice-presidential candidate at the virtual Democratic National Convention. She is also the first female African-American to become California’s attorney general. In 2017, she became the second African-American woman to join the Senate, winning the California seat vacated by Senator Barbara Boxer.
If elected in the November 3 presidential elections, Harris, whose mother is from India and father from Jamaica, would be the first-ever women vice president of the United States.

Maharaja heads back home to the Tatas after 68 years
The Maharaja has come a full circle. Come January, Air India will be piloted by the Tata Group, again after 68 years, with the government deciding to sell the national carrier to Talace Private Limited, a special purpose vehicle of Tata Sons. The government had set the reserve price at 12,906 crore. While Tata Sons’ SPV bid 18,000 crore enterprise value, the second bid was for 15,100 crore. Established by legendary industrialist and philanthropist JRD Tata, who was India’s first licensed pilot, the airline originally flew mail in the 1930s between Karachi in then-undivided, British-ruled India and Bombay, now known as Mumbai. Back then, it was known as Tata Airlines. Post world war II, the airline was taken over by the government of India, and named ‘Air India’. The government aims to complete the transaction by the end of 2021.

Fumio Kishida becomes Japan’s 100th Prime Minister 
Fumio Kishida has been officially elected as Japan’s 100th Prime Minister after winning a majority of votes in both houses of parliament on 4th October. Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) 64-year-old leader is succeeding Yoshihide Suga, who resigned after just one year in office. Kishida is reportedly expected to dissolve the parliament next week and call for a general election on October 31. Kishida has said that he wants to pursue policies that achieve “a new type of capitalism” that distributes more wealth to households and tackles Japan’s widening income gap.

California makes zero-emission self-driving vehicles mandatory by 2030 
California will require all light-duty self-driving vehicles to emit zero emissions starting in 2030. California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law, a bill sponsored by environmental groups that would eventually prohibit gas and hybrid-powered autonomous vehicles from operating in the state. Last year, Newsom had signed an order requiring only the sale of zero-emission passenger vehicles by 2035.

PM Modi’s visit to the United States of America
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States comes from a position of strength at a time when the Indian economy has gained momentum.More than a hundred members from the Indian Community gathered at the airport to welcome the Indian leader. This is Prime Minister Modi’s first visit abroad beyond the neighbourhood since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The Prime Minister is on a three-day visit to U.S., that started on September 22, 2021, for a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden and to attend the historic Quad summit. Biden will host PM Modi at the White House on September 24, this is going to be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders after Biden took over as the US President on January 20. PM Modi is extremely popular and liked not only in India but around the world.

PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee, Adar Poonawalla in TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla have been listed among TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People 2021. US President Joe Biden, US Vice President Kamala Harris and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have also been included. Former US President Donald Trump also features on the list. The list also includes tennis player Naomi Osaka, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, music icon Britney Spears, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council Manjusha P. Kulkarni, Apple CEO Tim Cook, actor Kate Winslet and the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

China developing megastructures in spaceACE
China is planning to build miles-wide ‘megastructures’ in orbit, including solar power
plants, tourism complexes, gas stations and even asteroid mining facilities. The
structures will require lightweight materials to allow larger objects to get into orbit
with existing rockets. Researchers will also need to adopt technology to allow for inorbit
assembly and control. The Chinese government said there is an ‘urgent need’ for
megaprojects in space that would require ultra-large spacecraft to keep them in orbit.
In terms of megastructures in space, the Voyager Station, expected to be operational in
coming years, will be the first hotel in space built by California based Orbital Assembly
Corporation. Decades after launching the first artificial satellite into orbit, Beijing is
strengthening its foothold in space.

UNITING THE WORLD TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
A major conference on climate change - COP26 - is due to take place in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12, 2021. The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. While India is the third-largest emitter on a country basis, it is also the second-most populous. As a result, emissions per head are extremely low, ranking 134, according to the Global Carbon Atlas project. Under the 2015 agreement, world leaders had agreed to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. Average global temperatures have increased by more than 1.1 degree Celsius since 1980, and this has been cited by experts as the cause of severe heat waves, droughts and storms.

Apple CEO receives shares worth $750 million
Apple’s Tim Cook has received 10th and final tranche of the pay deal he received a decade ago when he took over as CEO.  Cook has received 5 million Apple shares worth roughly $750 million. The 60-year-old, who currently has a net worth of $1.5 billion, plans to give most of his fortune away. The company’s revenue is forecast to increase to $425.7 billion in 2025. Meanwhile, company shares have increased about 12 percent this year alone.The future looks just as bright for Apple, which will be run by Cook for at least another five years. Apple was started by Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976, going public four years later in 1980.

Richest female musician with $1.7 bn wealth
Forbes has declared 33-year-old Barbadian singer Rihanna a “billionaire” and the “wealthiest female musician in the world” with a $1.7 billion fortune. Forbes said that an estimated $1.4 billion of Rihanna’s net worth comes from the value of her cosmetics brand Fenty Beauty. It added that Rihanna’s stake in her lingerie company Savage x Fenty is worth $270 million. The 33-year-old was born in Barbados and released her first studio album in 2005. She has since released seven more albums and won nine Grammys. She’s known on Instagram, where she has 103 million followers.

China unveils fastest ground vehicle available globally
China has unveiled its new high-speed maglev train capable of a top speed of 600 kmph and it’s the fastest ground vehicle available globally. At 600 kmph, it’d only take 2.5 hours to cover over 1,000-km distance from Beijing to Shanghai. The train uses electromagnetic force to “levitate” above the track with no contact between body and rail. China has been using the technology for almost two decades on a very limited scale. Countries from Japan to Germany are also looking to build maglev networks, although high costs and incompatibility with current track infrastructure remain hurdles to rapid development.

PM’s New Cabinet To Be The Youngest In India’s History
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet will be the youngest ever in India’s history.  The Modi government is eyeing younger leaders for its future course of leadership in its second term. A total of 36 new minister have been inducted in to the Cabinet.  Among the 36 new members, the average age of the Cabinet stands at 56 years. The minimum age among the 36 leaders is 35 years and the maximum is 69 years. Nisith Pramanik, a Rajbongshi leader in North Bengal, is the youngest leader in the Cabinet. Of the 36 newly elected leaders, 5 fall in the 65-69 age group. The average age of women in the Union Cabinet is 52 years, with minimum age being 40 and maximum age being 61 years. The new cabinet represents the lives, hopes and aspirations of 130 crore Indians.

Remembering ‘The Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh
Legendary Indian sprinter
Milkha Singh passed away on
18th June at the age of 91 after
battling with COVID-19 for
over a month. Milkha Singh
was the first Indian male to
reach the final of an Olympic
athletics event where he was
placed fourth in the 400-metre
race at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Across his sporting career,
Milkha Singh won 4 Gold Medals in Asian Games, 1 in the 1958
Commonwealth Games and 3 in Cuttack National Games. He was also
awarded the prestigious Padma Shri in the year 1959. He acquired the
nickname of The Flying Sikh, in a post -race comment by the then
Pakistan General Ayub Khan.

Australia, UK agree on post-Brexit free trade deal 
The UK and Australia have agreed to a free trade deal following talks between British PM Boris Johnson and his counterpart Scott Morrison. The agreement is the first trade deal to be built from scratch since the UK left the EU. The UK is Australia’s eighth-largest trading partner and Australia the UK’s 20th-largest, with two-way trade worth 26.9 billion Australian dollars ($20.7bn). Before the UK joined the then European common market in 1973, it was Australia’s most lucrative trading market.

Meghan and Harry name baby daughter
after Queen Elizabeth and Diana
Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of
Sussex, has given birth to her second
child, a girl, whom she and husband
Prince Harry have named after
Queen Elizabeth and his late mother
Princess Diana. Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana
Mountbatten-Windsor was born on
4th June. Harry and Meghan said Lilibet’s middle name was chosen to
honour her grandmother, Princess Diana, who died in a Paris car crash
in 1997.The birth of Lilibet comes almost a year and a half after Harry
and Meghan announced that they intended to step down from their royal
roles, plunging the family into crisis.

10-12 cr Covaxin doses to be produced by July-end
Bharat Biotech is going to increase the production of Covaxin to 10-12 crore doses per month by July-end. Nearly 25 crore made-in-India vaccine doses are expected to be available by August. SII will also manufacture 10-12 crore doses by June-end. Bharat Biotech is a pioneering biotechnology company known for its world-class R&D and manufacturing capabilities.

2 school students in Mumbai raise funds for Mucormycosis patients 
Amid growing cases of mucormycosis during the ongoing second wave of Covid-19, two school students from Cathedral and John Connon School, Fort are raising money for the treatment of patients suffering from the black fungus infection. With the aim to help such patients financially in their treatment, two Class 10 students — Arnav Gupta and Ranai Loonkar, both aged 15 years — have started an initiative to raise 2 lakh. In the past one week, they have been successfully raised over 1.89 lakh on the crowdfunding portal Impactguru.

India’s Adline Castelino Bags Fourth Place At Miss Universe 2021
This year, the coveted Miss Universe title has been bagged by Miss Mexico, Andrea Meza.  With her win, Andrea has become the third Mexican to win the Miss Universe title. Miss Brazil Julia Gama and Miss Peru Janick Maceta del Castillo won the second and third spots, respectively. The event held in Florida saw India’s Adline Castelino coming in at the fourth spot. The 22-year-old, who traces her roots to Udupi in Karnataka, won Miss Diva 2020 making her India’s representative at Miss Universe, this year.

China’s population grows to 1.41 billion
China’s population has grown at its slowest pace in decades. The average annual growth rate was 0.53% over the past 10 years, down from a rate of 0.57% between 2000 and 2010, bringing the population to 1.41 billion. The pool of potential workers aged 15 to 59 shrank to 894 million. China conducts a census every ten years to determine population growth, movement patterns and other trends. The sensitive data plays a major role in government policy planning. Beijing had changed family planning rules in 2016 to allow families to have two children as fears grew about China’s fast-ageing population and shrinking workforce.

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg buys 600 acres of land in Hawaii
Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have bought 600 more acres of land in Hawaii for $53 million (over ₹391 crore). This brings the total land holdings in Hawaii by Zuckerberg, who already owns land there, to more than 1,300 acres. The latest purchase in the island of Kauai includes land fronting Larsen’s Beach.

Australia to send 500 ventilators, 1M surgical masks & other supplies to India
The Australian government has said that it will provide emergency medical supplies to India amid a surge in coronavirus cases here. Australia said it will ‘rapidly deploy’ 500 non-invasive ventilators in India, with a capacity to deploy up to 3,000 ventilators. It will also send “a significant package” of personal protective equipment (PPE) including one million surgical masks.

India to start vaccinating all adults over 18
India has widened its vaccination programme as infections surge and the capital goes into lockdown. All adults over the age of 18 will be offered a coronavirus jab starting from 1 May. Three vaccines were initially approved for use in India - two manufactured by Indian companies Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech, and the third Russia’s Sputnik V. Since then, it has said that vaccines approved for use in other countries could also be used in India.

France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights
French lawmakers have moved to ban short-haul internal flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. Airlines around the world have been severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with website Flightradar24 reporting that the number of flights last year were down almost 42% from 2019.

Russian President Putin signs law allowing him to stay in power till 2036
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law, a change to the country’s constitution that will allow him to run for two more six-year terms, granting himself the chance to remain in power until 2036. The Russian leader, 68, has already run the country for more than two decades, and with his recent crackdown on political opponents and civil society, he has made it clear that there’s little room for dissent. The constitutional amendment was approved by referendum last year. The 68-year-old has already been in power for more than two decades. Prior to the new law, Putin would have been required to step down after his fourth and current term in 2024.

China sets sights on Middle East
China and Iran have signed a deal over the weekend that their foreign ministers said was designed as a strategic partnership to last for the next quarter of a century. China, in defiance of American sanctions, will buy Iranian oil. It will, in turn, invest some of its wealth in Iran. Sanctions have starved Iran of foreign investment. It is the latest extension to China’s vast infrastructure project, the Belt and Road initiative, which is creating the connections Beijing needs to continue its expansion as a global power. China believes that the US is in a long-term, irreversible decline. It sees itself as the world’s rising power of the 21st Century and beyond. A power of that magnitude cannot ignore the Middle East.

Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs’ job application sells for 1.6 crore 
A single page job application written by Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs in 1973 has been sold for 1,62,000 GBP (1.6 crore). The questionnaire is believed to have been written around the time Jobs dropped out of Reed College. In the application, Jobs mentioned English Literature as his major and “electronic tech or design engineer – digital” as his special abilities. Steve Jobs memorabilia items typically fetch a high price at auction as anything related to the late Apple co-founder is valued immensely by people around the world. A copy of the Fortune magazine signed by Jobs had a minimum bid of $11,000 in an auction last A copy of the Newsweek magazine dating back to October 1988 and signed by Jobs sold for more than $50,000 at an auction in 2017year.

Female Directors Break Record for Most Nominations in One Year
For the first time in the Academy Awards’ nearly century-old history, more than one female director has been nominated in the best director category. Directors Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) and Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) were both nominated in the best director category for the 93rd Academy Awards, with Zhao also becoming the first nonwhite woman to be nominated. In total, only five women have been nominated in the best director category. The first was Lina Wertmüller in 1977 for Seven Beauties, followed by nominations for Jane Campion (The Piano, 1994), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, 2003), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, 2010) and Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, 2018). Bigelow is the first and only woman to win in the category.

Chinese beauty app becomes first major company to buy Ethereum
Meitu, a Chinese company that makes a photo editing app, has purchased bitcoin and ether, becoming the latest firm to buy cryptocurrencies. Meitu follows the likes of electric car company Tesla and Square in purchasing bitcoin. But the Chinese appmaker appears to be the first major company to buy ether, a cryptocurrency that works on the ethereum blockchain. Meitu has also bought 379.1 Bitcoins for $17.9 million. The purchase is the first tranche of Meitu’s plan to buy up to $100 million worth of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is based on its own blockchain, the technology that underpins it. Ethereum is a completely different network. It’s an open-source blockchain that allows developers to build apps on top of it. The cryptocurrency ether can be used to pay or interact with services built on top of the ethereum network. These are often called decentralized applications or dApps.

Jack Ma loses title as China’s richest man
Jack Ma, the embattled co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , has lost his title as China’s richest person after the billionaire’s business empire came under regulatory scrutiny. Ma and his family had held the top spot for China’s richest in the Hurun Global Rich List in 2020 and 2019 but now trail in fourth place behind bottled water maker Nongfu Spring’s Zhong Shanshan, Tencent Holding’s Pony Ma and e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo’s Collin Huang. China’s current richest man, Zhong, made his first appearance at the top spot with a fortune of 550 billion yuan ($85 billion), largely thanks to the share price performances of Nongfu Spring and vaccine maker Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise, which he also controls.

Pfizer vaccine found 94% effective in first big real-world test
The first big real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing Covid-19, in a potentially landmark moment for countries desperate to end lockdowns and reopen economies. Up until now, most data on the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines has come under controlled conditions in clinical trials, leaving an element of uncertainty over how results would translate into the real world with its unpredictable variables. The research in Israel - two months into one of the world’s fastest rollouts, providing a rich source of data - showed two doses of the Pfizer shot cut symptomatic Covid-19 cases by 94 per cent across all age groups, and severe illnesses by nearly as much.

5 Indian-origin persons feature in TIME magazine’s list
Five Indian-origin personalities, including Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and UK’s finance minister Rishi Sunak, and an Indian activist have featured in TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future”. Other Indian-origin personalities on the list are Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, doctor and Executive Director of nonprofit Get Us PPE Shikha Gupta and founder of nonprofit Upsolve Rohan Pavuluri. Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad is also on the list.

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