Current affairs 2021

  🟢 IMPORTANT MILITARY EXERCISE 

 

📌 MITRA  SHAKTI

🔷 India + Sri Lanka 

🔶 Venue – Pune

📌 SLINEX

🔷 India + Sri Lanka

🔶 Venue – Visakhapatnam

📌 SURYA KIRAN

🔷 India + Nepal

🔶 Venue – Saljhandi, Nepal

📌 HAND IN HAND

🔷 India + China

🔶Venue – Umroi,Meghalaya

📌 ZAIR -AL- BAHR

🔷 India + Qatar

🔶Venue – Doha Qatar

📌 INDRA

🔷 India + Russia

🔶Venue – Babina (Jhansi ) , Pune ,Goa

📌 DUSTLIK 

🔷 India + Uzbekistan

🔶 Venue – Uzbekistan

📌 SAMUDRA  SHAKTI

🔷 India + Indonesia

🔶 Venue –  Bay of Bengal

📌 CORPAT

🔷 India + Bangladesh

🔶 Venue – Bay of Bengal

📌 SHINYUU MAITRI

🔷 India + Japan

🔶 Venue – West Bengal

📌 DHARMA GUARDIAN

🔷 India + Japan

🔶 Venue – Vairangte, Mizoram

📌 IMNEX

🔷 India + Myanmar

🔶 Venue – Visakhapatnam

📌 NOMADIC ELEPHANT

🔷India + Mongolia

🔶 Venue – Bakloh, HP

📌 EKUVERIN

🔷 India + Maldives

🔶 Venue – Pune

📌 SAMUDRA LAKSHMANA 

🔷India + Malaysia

🔶 Venue – Malaysia

📌 KAZIND

🔷India + Kazakhstan

🔶 Venue – Pithoragarh, UK

📌 SIMTEX

🔷 India + Singapore +Thailand

🔶 Venue – Port Blair, Andaman

📌 VINBAX

🔷India + Vietnam

🔶Venue – Hanoi Vietnam

📌 MALABAR

🔷India + USA+ Japan

🔶Venue – Sasebo, Japan

📌 GARUDA

🔷 India + France

🔶 Venue – France

📌 SHAKTI

🔷 India + France

🔶 Venue – Jaipur Rajasthan

📌 VARUNA

🔷 India + France

🔶 Venue  : 19.1 – Goa

🔶 Venue  : 19.2 – Djibouti

📌 TIGER  TRIUMPH

🔷 India + USA 

🔶 Venue – Visakhapatnam

📌 VAJRA  PRAHA

🔷 India + USA

🔶 Venue – Seattle, USA

📌 YUDH  ABHYAS

🔷 India + USA

🔶 Venue – Washington DC

📌 BOLD KURUKSHETRA

🔷India + Singapore

🔶 Venue – Jhansi UP

📌 AUSINDEX

🔷India + Australia

🔶Venue – Visakhapatnam

📌 AL NAGAH

🔷 India + Oman

🔶 Venue – Oman

📌 NASEEM-AL-BAHR

 🔷India + Oman

 🔶Venue – Goa

📌SAMPRITI 

🔷 India + Bangladesh

🔶 Venue – Umroi Meghalaya

📌 AJEYA WARRIOR

🔷 India + UK

🔶 Venue – Salisbury Plains UK

📌 SAHYOG – KAIJIN

🔷 India + Japan

🔶 Venue – Chennai TN

📌 BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise 2020

🔶 Venue – Odisha

📌 INDRA DHANUSH

🔷 India + UK

🔶 Venue – Hindon Air Force Station Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.

📌 EXERCISE ‘SAREX-2020 ‘

🔷 Conducts – Indian Coast Guard

🔶 Venue – Goa

📌 PASSES Exercise 

🔷 India + Japan 

🔶 Venue – Indian Ocean Region

  •         “”New Cabinet Ministers””

  • Education Minister- Dharmendra Pradhan.

  • Sports Minister- Anurag Thakur.

  • Information and Broadcasting- Anurag Thakur.

  • Foreign Minister- Meenakshi Lekhi.

  • Food Processing Minister- PashuPati Paswan.

  • Railway Minister- Aswani Vaishnav.

  • Textile Minister- Piyush Goyal.

  • Petroleum Minister- Hardeep Singh Puri.

  • Health Minister-  Mansukh L. Mandaviya.

  • Minister of Civil Aviation-

Jyotiraditya Scindia.

  • Labour Minister and Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadhav     

 

  • Minister of Ayush- Sarbananda Sonowal

  • Law and Justice Minister-  

Kiren Rijiju

SPORTSPERSON WHO ACHIEVE PADMA SHRI 

  • P. Anitha (Padma Shri),

  • Mouma Das (Padma Shri),

  • Anshu Jamsenpa (Padma Shri),

  • Madhavan Nambiar (Padma Shri), 

  • Sudha Hari Narayan Singh (Padma Shri), 

  • Virender Singh (Padma Shri), 

  • KY Venkatesh (Padma Shri) have been awarded the prestigious award in the sports category for the year 2021

LAUREUS SPORTS AWARD OF 2021

  • Laureus Sports Awards 2021: Tennis legend Rafael Nadal won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award 2021 at the virtual awards  ceremony conducted from Seville, Spain on May 6, 2021.  Naomi Osaka won the prestigious Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award 2021.

List of all athletes to get Khel Ratna and Arjuna award nomination for 2021

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

Hockey (Hockey India)

  • PR Sreejesh

PR Sreejesh, born on (8 May 1988) is India’s goalkeeper who has been playing for more than a decade now for India. He is the former captain of the national team and his international debut came way back in 2006 at the South Asian Games in Colombo, and since then, he has been part of many international assignments. He was part of the 2012 Olympics and 2016 Olympics, in which he was the captain of the side, taking India into the quarterfinals. He was already awarded with Arjuna award and Padma Shri in 2015 and 2017 respectively

  • Deepika Thakur

Deepika Thakur born on (7 February 1987) is a former Indian women’s hockey player who represented India from 2006-2018. She played as a defender in the national team. The 34-years-old holds the record of being the highest capped player of Indian women’s team and was also the vice-captain of the Indian team at 2016 Rio Olympics. The former player was honoured with the Arjuna award in 2020.

Shooting (National Rifle Association of India)

  • Ankur Mittal

Ankur Mittal born on (30 March 1992) is a sports shooter who first represented Indian in 2013 when the national team went to trap shooting World cup in Mexico. He rose to fame when he won the gold in double trap and a bronze in team double trap at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting championship at South Korea. In the same year 2018, he was honoured with Arjuna award

  • Anjum Moudgil

Anjum Moudgil born on (5 January 1994) is a sport shooter who represents India in various events such as 10m air rifle, 50m rifle 3 position and 50m rifle prone. She has won two silver medals in the 2018 world championships, one in the 10m air rifle and another one in the 10m team air rifle. She is currently ranked 2 in women’s 10m air rifle ISSF ranking and will be heading to her debut Olympics at Tokyo.

Table tennis (Table Tennis Federation of India)

  • Sharath Kamal

Sharath Kamal born on (12 July 1982) is a table tennis player who will be representing India in men’s singles & mixed doubles at Tokyo Olympics. This would be the fourth straight Olympics for him, who has been competing at the quadrennial event since the 2004 Athens Olympics. He has eight commonwealth medals and two Asian games medals to his name. The 38-years-old was awarded with Padma Shri in 2019, which happens to be India’s fourth highest civilian award

Golf (Indian Golf Union)

  • Shubhankar Sharma

Shubhankar Sharma born on (21 July 1996) is a professional golfer from India. He became the youngest Indian winner on the European Tour when he won the Joburg open title in December, 2017 and then he followed it up with a win at the Maybank championship in February, 2018. The 24-years-golfer has also represented the country in five majors – Masters, US Open, The Open Championship (twice) and the PGA Championship.

Archery (Archery Association of India)

  • Jyothi Surekha Vennam

Jyothi Surekha Vennam born on (3 July 1996) is an Indian archer who is also the three-time world cup silver medallist. She competes in the compound category of archery. The 24-years-old had won a team silver at the 2017 World championship, in Mexico and individual bronze at the 2019 World championship, in the Netherlands. The compound archer was awarded with the Arjuna award in 2017.

Athletics (Athletics Federation of India)

  • Neeraj Chopra

Neeraj Chopra, born on (24 December 1997) is a field athlete who represents India in Javelin throw at the global stage. This is the fourth consecutive year that Neeraj Chopra’s name is being recommended for the Khel Ratna award. Previously, he was honoured with the Arjuna award for winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth games. The 23-years-old athlete holds the national record of 88.07 m which he threw at the Indian Grand Prix in March 2021 and he will be going to his first Olympics this month.

Football (All India Football Federation)

  • Sunil Chhetri

Sunil Chhetri born on (3 August 1984) is a Indian footballer who represented the country in 118 international matches and has scored 74 goals, both of which are Indian records for most capped player and most goals scored by an Indian footballer. He made his international debut in 2005 and since then has been part of winning teams in tournaments like 2008 AFC Challenge cup, SAFF championship (2011,2015), Nehru cup(2007,2009,2019). The 36-years-old footballer was honoured with the Arjuna award in 2011 and Padma Shri in 2019.

Cricket (Board of Control for Cricket in India)

  • Mithali Raj

Mithali Raj born on (3 December 1982) is an Indian woman cricketer who made her international debut on June 26, 1999. She is the only woman cricketer to have a career spanning more than 22 years. The 38-years-old is the highest run-scorer and only female cricketer to have scored more than 7000 runs in women’s international cricket. The cricketer was awarded with the Arjuna award in 2003 and Padma Shri in 2015.

  • Ravichandran Ashwin

Ravichandran Ashwin born on (17 September 1986) is an Indian cricketer who made his international debut in One Day Internationals in 2010 against Sri Lanka. He has been an amazing bowler for India in the test in which he made his debut next year in 2011 and has picked 413 wickets from 79 tests. The 34-years-old became the fastest Indian bowler to pick 400 test wickets in terms of matches. For his exceptional performance in 2014, he was honoured with the Arjuna award in the same year.

Badminton (Badminton Association of India)

  • Sai Praneeth

Sai Praneeth born on (10 August 1992) is an Indian professional badminton player. In 2016, he rose to fame when he defeated three-time Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia in the 1st round of the All England Badminton championship. In 2019, he won a bronze medal in the World championship which made him the first Indian male shuttler to win a championship medal since 1983.

  • Srikanth Kidambi

Srikanth Kidambi born on (7 February 1993) is an Indian professional badminton player. His major break came in the year 2015 when he won the Swiss open by defeating Viktor Axelsen. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals and lost to Lin Dan in the quarters. The shuttler’s gold medal in the mixed event of the 2018 Commonwealth games made him the World number one in rankings which lasted for only for a week.

Motorsports (Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India)

  • Musa Sherif

Musa Sherif born on (7 September 1971) has been India’s most successful co-driver in rally races. Along with Gaurav Gill, a recipient of the Arjuna Award, has represented Indian in 65 rallies with 38 overall wins. He has been into rallying for the past 30 years and has partnered with 49 drivers over the years. For his exceptional career in motorsports, Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) has nominated him for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

Chess (All India Chess Federation)

  • Koneru Humpy

Koneru Humpy born on (31 March 1987) is an Indian chess player who is also current Women’s world rapid champion. She had won two gold medals for India in 2006 Doha Asian games. In 2019, making her comeback from maternity sabbatical, she became women’s World Rapid champion.

Arjuna Award

Hockey (Hockey India)

  • Harmanpreet Singh

Harmanpreet Singh, born on (6 January 1996) plays as a defender for the Indian team. He was part of the 2016 Olympics and also was part of the 2016 Junior World cup winning team. Since then, the 25-years-old has been a regular feature for the India team and will go to his second Olympics this month. The 25-years-old has been nominated for the 2nd consecutive time this year.

  • Vandana Katariya

Vandana Katariya, born on (April 15th 1992) is from Uttarakhand who plays as a forward for the Indian team. She came into the limelight when she was the top goal-scorer for India in the 2013 Women’s hockey junior world cup. Since then, she has been a regular feature for India in every tournament, making more than 200 appearances for India. The striker was part of the last Olympics and will be up for her second Olympics at Tokyo.

  • Navjot Kaur

Navjot Kaur, born on (March 7th 1995) is from Haryana who plays as a midfielder for the Indian team. She made her debut for India in 2012 and is one of the most experienced players in the midfield with more than 150 appearances for India. The 26-years-old has represented India in the Rio Olympics and it will be her second Olympics this month.

Shooting (National Rifle Association of India)

  • Elavenil Valarivan

Elavenil Valarivan born on (2 August 1999) is a sports shooter who will be representing India in women’s 10m Air rifle & 10m Air Rifle at the Tokyo Olympics. She is the only Indian shooter to get the Tokyo slot without winning a quota. Her previous achievements are a silver medal at the 2018 ISSF World championship at Changwon, gold medal at the ISSF World cup at Rio de Janeiro and Putian in 2019.

  • Abhishek Verma

Abhishek Verma born on (1 August 1989) is a sports shooter who will be representing India in the 10m air pistol & 10m air pistol mixed team event at Tokyo Olympics. He is currently ranked World number one in the 10m air pistol.

Table Tennis (Table Tennis Federation of India)

  • Sutirtha Mukherjee

Sutirtha Mukherjee born on (10 October 1995) is a table tennis player who is currently ranked number two Indian player in women’s singles behind Manika Batra. Her major achievement came at the 2018 Commonwealth games when she won a team gold at the games. She has qualified for the Olympics and will be heading to her first Olympics.

  • Ayhika Mukherjee

Ayhika Mukherjee born on (10 June 1997) is a table tennis player who was part of the Indian team in the 2018 Asian games. She became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the women’s singles category when she won in 21st edition of the Commonwealth Table tennis championship in 2019.

  • Manav Thakkar

Manav Thakkar born on (14 April 2000) is a table tennis player who was part of the Indian team in the 2018 Asian games. In December 2019, he became the world no.1 in under-21 men’s singles category by winning at the ITTF Challenge Plus Benemax-Virgo North American Open in Canada.

Golf (Indian Golf Union)

  • Udayan Mane

Udayan Mane born on (24 February 1991) who hails from Maharashtra is a professional golfer who will be representing India in the men’s individual gold at the Tokyo Olympics. He is currently ranked at 354th and qualified for the Olympics with the withdrawal of Argentine Emiliano Grillo who was ranked world number 74.

  • Rashid Khan

Rashid Khan born on (15 February 1991) is an Indian professional golfer who was part of the 2010 Asian games team that won silver. He is a two-time Asian tour winner and has 12 professional wins under his belt.

  • Diksha Dagar

Diksha Dagar born on (14 December 2000) is an Indian professional golfer. She is deaf and she represented Indian at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics. The golfer was also part of the 2018 Asian games team. In 2019, she became the youngest Indian woman golfer to win the Ladies European tour when she achieved the feat at the age of 19.

Archery (Archery Association of India)

  • Muskan Kirar

Muskan Kirar born on (14 April 2000) is an Indian archer who has won gold medal in the women’s compound final event at the Archery Asia cup, stage-1 competition in Bangkok on March 7, 2018.

Wrestling (Wrestling Federation of India)

  • Ravi Kumar Dahiya

Ravi Kumar Dahiya born on (12 December 1997) is a freestyle wrestler who will be representing India in the 57kg category at the Tokyo Olympics. Some of his notable performances are two gold medals in 2020 & 2021 Asian Championship and bronze in 2019 World Championship.

  • Deepak Punia

Deepak Punia born on (19 May 1999) is a freestyle wrestler who will be representing India in 86kg category at the Tokyo Olympics. He won a gold medal in the 2019 junior World Championship and also a silver medal in the senior World Championship.

  • Anshu Malik

Anshu Malik born on (5 August 2001) is a freestyle wrestler who will be representing India in the 57kg category at the Tokyo Olympics. Recently, she won a gold medal in the 2021 Asian Championships and she will be making her Olympics debut at Tokyo.

  • Sarita Mor

Sarita Mor born on (16 April 1995) is an Indian freestyle wrestler who has won silver medal in the 2017 Asian Championship, Gold in the 2019 Asian championship and again gold in the 2021 Asian championship in 59kg category. For her consistent performance, she has been nominated for the Arjuna award.

Tennis (All India Tennis Association)

  • Ankita Raina

Ankita Raina born on (11 January 1993) is an Indian professional tennis player who has won 11 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF circuit. She is currently ranked at world no.180 and is the no.1 Indian woman singles player. She rose to fame when she won a bronze medal in the 2018 Asian games. It is likely that she will be pairing up with Sania Mirza at the Tokyo Olympics.

  • Prajnesh Gunneshwaran

Prajnesh Gunneshwaran born on (12 November 1989) is an Indian professional tennis player who has won 2 ATP challenger and 8 ITF titles in singles. He is currently ranked 148 in ATP Ranking for men, 2021 and is the no.1 Indian men’s singles player. His notable performance was a bronze medal finish in the 2018 Asian games.

Boxing (Boxing Federation of India)

  • Simranjit Kaur

Simranjit Kaur born on (10 July 1995) is an amateur boxer who will be representing India in the 60kg category at Tokyo Olympics. Earlier, she had won a bronze medal in the 2018 World championships, silver medal in the 2019 Asian championship and bronze medal in the 2021Asian championship.she will be heading to her first Olympics which will be held in Tokyo.

  • Gaurav Solanki

Gaurav Solanki born on (21 January 1997) is an amateur boxer who competes in the 52kg category. His best performance came in the 2018 Commonwealth games where he had won the gold medal. He didn’t make the cut to the Tokyo Olympics.

  • Sonia Chahal

Sonia Chahal born on (3 October 1997) is an Indian amateur boxer who competes in the 57kg category. Some of her notable performances are silver medal in the 2018 World championship and bronze medal in the 2019 Asian championship. She also didn’t make the cut to the Tokyo Olympics.

Football (All India Football Federation)

  • Bala Devi

Bala Devi born on (2 February 1990) is an Indian women’s footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Women’s Premier club Rangers and Indian women’s national football team. She has played more than 50 matches for the country since 2010 and will play a vital role for the team during AFC Women’s Asian cup next year.

Cricket (Board of control for cricket in India)

  • Shikhar Dhawan

Shikhar Dhawan born on (5 December 1985) is an Indian cricketer who opens batting for the team. He was the highest run-scorer for India in the 2013 Champions trophy where India lifted the trophy. He has scored 5977 from 142 matches in One-day international and is one of the consistent scorers in this format.

  • KL Rahul

KL Rahul born on (18 April 1992) is an Indian cricketer who made his international debut when India played against Australia in 2014. He was part of the Indian team at the 2019 World cup.

  • Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah born on (6 December 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays in all three formats for the Indian team. His best performance came in 2018 and was even named by ICC both in the World test XI and ODI XI.

Badminton (Badminton Association of India)

  • HS Prannoy

HS Prannoy born on (17 July 1992) is an Indian professional badminton player who has won medals for India in events such as Commonwealth games, Asian championships, South Asian games and Youth Olympic games. His notable performance was gold in mixed team event at the 2018 Commonwealth games.

  • Pranav Jerry Chopra

Pranav Jerry Chopra born on (6 September 1992) is an Indian professional badminton player who was also part of the gold medal winning mixed team at the 2018 Commonwealth games. His other notable performances are two gold medals in 2016 South Asian games (Mixed doubles, Men’s team).

  • Sameer Verma

Sameer Verma born on (22 October 1994) is an Indian professional badminton player. In 2018, he became the first Indian badminton player to secure a position in World tour finals when he played the semi-finals of the World tour final.

Motorsports (Federation for Motorsports clubs of India)

  • Jehan Daruvala

Jehan Daruval born on (1 October 1998) is an Indian racer competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Carlin Motorsport. He became the first driver from India to win a Formula 2 race when he finished 1st at the Sakhir sprint race in Bahrain.

Odisha sports

  • Dutee Chand

Dutee Chand born on (3 February 1996) is a track athlete representing India in 100m and 200m race events. Recently, she set a new national record in 100m by clocking 11.17 seconds at the Indian National Grand Prix-4 at Patiala. The 25-year-olds most notable performance is her silver medals in both 100m and 200m at the 2018 Asian games.

Chess (All India Chess Federation)

  • Vidit Santosh Gujrathi

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi born on (24 October 1994) is an Indian chess player. Currently, he is the third highest rated player in India (behind Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna).

  • Adhiban Baskaran

Adhiban Baskaran born on (15 August 1992) is currently the fourth highest rated player in India. He won a bronze medal for India in the 2010 Asian games.

  • S.P. Sethuraman

S.P. Sethuraman born on (25 February 1993) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

  • M.R. Lalith Babu

M.R Lalith Babu born on (5 January 1993) is an India chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2012.

  • Bhakti Kulkarni

Bhakti Kulkarni born on (19 May 1992) is an Indian chess women grandmaster. She was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2012.

  • Padmini Rout

Padmini Rout born on (5 January 1994) is an Indian chess player who holds both the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.

Swimming( Swimming Federation of India)

  • Sajan Prakash

Sajan Prakash born on (14 September 1993) is an Indian swimmer who specializes in freestyle, butterfly and medley events. He had won a record 6 gold medals and 2 silver medals at the 2015 National games of India in Kerala. He was also part of the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he finished at 28th position in the 200m butterfly. Recently, he became the first Indian swimmer to make the Olympics ‘A’ cut to automatically qualify for the Olympics, clocking 1:56.38 minutes in 200m butterfly at the Settecolli in Italy. With the timing of 1:56.38, he holds the national record in this category

List of Important Books Released in 2021

  • Book Name     Authors Name

  • All You Need is Josh: Stories of Courage and Conviction in 21st century India    Supriya Paul

  • Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020    Salman Rushdie

  • All Roads Lead North: Nepal’s Turn To China    Amish Raj Mulmi

  • 1232km: The Long Journey Home    Vinod Kapri

  • Skill It, Kill It    Ronnie Screwvala

  • Home in the World    Amartya Sen

  • Believe-What Life and Cricket Taught Me    Suresh Raina

  • The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis    Amitav Ghosh

  • Monk in a Merc    Ashok Pangariya

  • The 7 Sins of Being a Mother    Tahira Kashyap Khurrana

  • Habba Khatoon    Kajal Suri

  • What is Consciousness?    Dr Vipin Gupta

  • What is Para Consciousness?    Dr Vipin Gupta

  • Will    Will Smith and Mark Manson

  • My Joys and Sorrows- as a Mother of a Special Child    Krishna Saksena

  • It’s a Wonderful Life    Ruskin Bond

  • Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story    Sundeep Mishra

  • Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux    Khemlata Wakhlu

  • Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DC    Kaushik Basu

  • Climate Change Explained—For One and All    Aakash Ranison

  • The Bench    Meghan Markle

  • Elephant in the Womb    Kalki Koechlin

  • Life in the Clock Tower Valley    Shakoor Rather

  • 1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness    Borai Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya

  • All Time Favorites for Children    Ruskin Bond

  • Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance    Preet Mohan Singh Malik

  • Buddha in Gandhara    Sunita Dwivedi

  • Nehru, Tibet and China    Avtar Singh Bhasin

  • India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present    Shivshankar Menon

  • Sach Kahun Toh    Neena Gupta

  • Stargazing: The Players in my Life    Ravi Shastri

  • Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-1966)    Vikram Sampath

  • Names of the Women    Jeet Thayil

  • Paripalana    Dr Shailendra Joshi

  • Agriculture in India: Contemporary Challenges- in the context of doubling farmers income    Dr Mohan Kanda

  • Cinema Through Rasa: A Tryst with Masterpieces in the Light of Rasa Siddhanta    Prachand Praveer

  • Wisdom for Start-ups from Grownups: Discovering Corporate Ayurveda    R Gopalakrishnan and R Narayanan

  • Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life    Nitin Gokhale

  • Neelimarani- My Mother, My Hero    Dr Achyuta Samanta

  • Odisha Itihaas    Utkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab

  • Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar    Yatindra Mishra

  • India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural revolution    Sanjay Baru

  • The Christmas Pig    JK Rowling

  • Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through its Languages    Peggy Mohan

  • The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times    Amitav Ghosh

  • Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis    Anindya Dutta

  • The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the case of the foreigner in the English Village    Shrabani Basu

  • Joe Biden: American Dreamer    Evan Osnos

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds    Rajiv Malhotra

  • Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph    Anant Vijay

  • The Green Queens of India- A Nation’s Pride    Prakash Javadekar

  • Karunanidhi: A Life    AS Pannerselvan

  • Baanjh: Incomplete Lives of Complete Women    Susmita Mukherjee

  • Hunchprose    Ranjit Hoskote

  • Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma    Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan

  • My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future    Indra Nooyi

  • Undertow    Jahnavi Barua

  • Battle Ready for 21st Century    Lt Gen AK Singh and Brig. Narendra Kumar

  • India’s Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution    Sanjaya Baru

  • The Pain-Free Mindset: 7 Steps to Taking Control and Overcoming Chronic Pain    Dr. Deepak Ravindran

  • Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Dividend World    Katharine Hayhoe

  • Bringing Governments and People Closer    Dr M Ramachandran

  • My Experiments with Silence    Samir Soni

  • Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London    Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan

  • Names of the Women    Jeet Thayil

  • Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization    Namit Arora

  • From Incremental to Exponential    Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla and Alex Salkever

  • Wild and Wilful: Tale of 15 Iconic Indian Species    Neha Sinha

  • Name Place Animal Things    Daribha Lyndem

  • Yearbook    Seth Rogen

  • Yes Man: The Untold Story of Rana Kapoor    Pavan C. Lall

  • The Little Book of Encouragement    Dalai Lama

  • Whereabouts    Jhumpa Lahiri

  • 1857- The Sword of Mastann    Vineet Bajpai

  • Parliamentary Messenger in Rajasthan    Dr K N Bhandari

  • Beautiful Things’ A Memoir    Hunter Biden (Son of US President Joe Biden)

  • Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic World    Sangeet Paul Choudary

  • By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life    Former Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari

  • The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News    Meghna Pant

  • Turn Around India: 2020- Surmounting Past Legacy    RP Gupta

  • Unfinished    Priyanka Chopra Jonas

  • Kamala’s Way: An American Life    Dan Morain

  • Mapping Love    Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

  • Tipane Kashmirchi (Notes on Kashmir), Untold Stories    Arun Karmarkar

  • ASOCA: A Sutra    Irwin Allan Sealy

  • Sarasvati’s Gift    Kavita Kane

  • The Epic Battle of Longewala    Air Marshal Retd Bharat Kumar

  • Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis: impact of Coronavirus and the Road Ahead    Arun Kumar

  • Louiz Banks: A Symphony of Love    Ashis Ghatak

  • Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Rama Rao    Ramesh Kandula

  • Agriculture Acts 2020    Justice A K Rajan

  • They Found What/They Made What?

  • Dr Darlie O Koshy ‘Runway to Skilled India    Shweta Taneja

  • Leadership Lessons from 22 Yards    Srikanth Ram

  • Because India Comes First    Ram Madhav

  • Stories I Must Tell: The Journey of an Actor    Kabir Bedi

  • The Lost Soul    Olga Tokarczuk

  • #METOO    Karan Puri

  • The Last Light of Glory Days: Stories from Nagaland    Dr Avinuo Kire

  • India: A Scamstar Born Every Minute    Snigdha Poonam

  • Sabarimala Vijnanakosam    KS Vijayanath

  • Vahana Masterclass    Alfredo Coveli

  • Right Under Our Nose    R. Giridharan

  • India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia    R. Kaushik

  • Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo    Lt. Gen. Konsam Himalay Singh

  • Gazing Eastwards: Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957    Romila Thapar

  • Unscripted: Conversations on Life and Cinema    Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi

  • The Commonwealth of Cricket    Ramachandra Guha

  • Manohar Parrikar-Off the Record    Waman Subha Prabhu

  • Abdul Kalam- Ninaivu Kadhalukku Maranamillai    Dr APJM Nazema Maraikayar and Dr Y S Rajan

  • Flying Blind: India’s Quest for Global Leadership    Mohamed Zeeshan

  • India 2030: The Rise of a Rajasic Nation    Gautam Chikermane

  • The Law of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law Perspectives    Dr Abhishek Singhvi and Prof. Khagesh Gautam

  • Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry and Painting    Arun Sengupta and Partha Mukherjee

  • Race With Me!    Andre De Grasse and Robert Budd

Important Days in January 2021

  • List of Important Days in January

1st January    English New Year, Army Medical Corps Establishment Day,

Global family day, World Peace Day

4th January    World Braille Day

6th January    World War Orphans Day

8th January    African National Congress Foundation Day

9th January    Pravasi Bharatiya Divas NRI Day

10th January    World LAughter Day, World Hindi Day

11th January    Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri

12th January    National Youth Day (Birthday of Swami Vivekanand)

15th January    Army Day (Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa took over the

command of Army on this day in 1949 from the British), Pongal,

Makar Sankranti

23rd January    Netaji Subhash Chandra bose birthday

24th January    National Girl Child day of India

25th January    International Customs Duty Day,

India Tourism Day,

National Voters Day

26th January    Republic Day of India and International Customs day

27th January    International Holocaust Day (The largest Nazi death

camp, Auschwitz- Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan

27, 1945.), International Day of Commemoration

28th January    Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai

28th January    Data protection day

30th January    Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s day)

World Leprosy Eradication Day

  • Important Days in February 2021

List of Important Days in February

1st February    Indian Coast Guard Day

2nd February    World Wetlands Day

4th February    World Cancer Day

4th February    National Day of Sri Lanka

6th February    International day against female genital mutilation

7th February    International Development Week

11th February    World Day of the Sick

2nd Sunday of February    World Marriage Day

12th February    Darwin Day

12th February    Abraham Lincoln;s Birthday

13th February    Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary

14th February    Saint Valentine’s Day

18th February    Taj Mahotsav

20th February    World Day of Social Justice

21st February    International Mother Language Day

22nd February    World Scout Day

23rd February    World peace and understanding day

24th February    Central Excise Day

27 February    World Sustainable Energy Day

28 February    National Science Day

  • Important Days in March 2021

List of Important Days in March

1st March    Zero Discrimination Day

World Civil Defence Day

3rd March    World Wildlife Day

World Hearing Day

4th March    National Safety Day

8 March    International Women’s Day

10 March    CISF Raising Day

13 March    No Smoking Day (Second Wednesday of March)

14 March    Pi Day

International Day of Action for Rivers

15 March    World Consumer Rights Day

16 March    National Vaccination Day

18 March    Ordnance Factories Day (India)

20 March    International Day of Happiness

World Sparrow Day

21 March    World Forestry Day

World Down syndrome Day

World Poetry Day

22 March    World Water Day

23rd March    World Meteorological Day

24 March    World Tuberculosis (TB) Day

27 March    World Theatre Day

  • Important Days in April 2021

List of Important Days in April

1 April    Orissa Day, Prevention of Blindness week

2 April    World Autism Awareness Day

4 April    International Day for Mine Awareness

5 April    National Maritime Day

7 April    World Health Day

10 April    World Homeopathy Day

11 April    National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day

13 April    Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day (1919)

17 April    World Haemophilia Day

18 April    World Heritage Day

21 April    National Civil Service Day, Secretaries’s Day

22 April    World Earth Day

23 April    World Book and Copyright Day

24 April    National Panchayati Day

25 April    World Malaria Day

26 April    World Intellectual Property Day

28 April    World Day for Safety and Health at Work, World Veterinary Day

  • Important Days in May 2021

List of Important Days in May

1-May    International Labour Day

3-May    Press Freedom Day

4-May    Coal miner’s day

May (2nd Sunday)    Mother’s Day

8-May    World Red Cross Day

9-May    Victory day

11-May    National Technology Day

12-May    International Nurses day

14-May    World Migratory day

15-May    International Day of the Family

17-May    World Telecommunication Day (Information Society Day)

21-May    Anti-terrorism day

24-May    Commonwealth Day

31-May    Anti-Tobacco Day

  • Important Days in June 2021

List of Important Days in June

1-June    Global Parents Day

4-June    International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

5-June    World Environment Day

7-June    International level crossing awareness day

8-June    World ocean day

12-June    World day against child Labour

14-June    World blood donor day

17-June    World day to combat desertification and drought

20-June    World Refugee day

21-June    Father’s day, World Music day

June (3rd Sunday)    Father’s Day

23-June    United Nations public service day

23-June    International Widows day

26-June    International day against Drug abuse & Illicit Trafficking

27-June    World Diabetes Day

  • Important Days in July 2021

ist of Important Days in July

1-July    National Doctor’s day

1-July    World UFO day, World Sports Journalists Day

July (1st Saturday)    International Day of Cooperatives

4-July    American Independence day

6-July    World Zoonoses Day

11-July    World Population Day

12-July    World Malala day

18-July    Nelson Mandela International Day

28-July    World Nature conservation day

29-July    International Tiger Day

  • Important Days in August 2021

List of Important Days in August

2-August    International Friendship Day

3-August    Independence day of Niger

5-August    Independence day of upper Volta

6-August    Hiroshima Day

9-August    International day of World’s indigenous people

9-August    Quit India Day and Nagasaki Day

12-August    International Youth day

14-August    Independence Day of Pakistan

15-August    Independence Day of India

19-August    World Photography day

20-August    Sadbhavna Diwas

23-August    International Day for the remembrance of

the slave trade and its abolition

29-August    National Sports Day

30-August    Small Industry Day

  • Important Days in September 2021

List of Important Days in September

5-September    Teachers’ Day (Dr. Radhakrishnan’s birthday), Forgiveness day

8-September    World Literacy Day

14-September    Hindi day, World First Air Day

15-September    Engineer’s day in India

16-September    World Ozone Day

21-September    Alzheimer’s Day, International day of peace

25-September    Social justice day

26-September    Day of the Deaf

27-September    World Tourism Day

  • Important Days in October 2021

List of Important Days in October

1-October    International day of the Older person

2-October    Mahatma Gandhi birthday,

International day of non-violence

3-October    World Habitat Day, World nature day

4-October    World Animal Welfare Day

5-October    World Teachers day

6-October    World Wildlife day, World Food Security day

8-October    Indian Air Force Day

9-October    World Post Office day

10-October    National Post Day

11-October    International girl child day

12-October    World Arthritis day

13-October    UN International Day for National disaster reduction

14-October    World Standards Day

15-October    World White Cane Day (guiding the Blind)

16-October    World Food Day

17-October    International day for the eradication of poverty

20-October    World statistics day

24-October    UN Day, World development information Day

30-October    World Thrift Day

31-October    Rastriya Ekta Diwas (in memory of Sardar Patel),

National Integration Day (In memory of Indira Gandhi)

  • Important Days in November 2021

List of Important Days in November

1-November    World vegan day

5-November    World Radiography day

7-November    Infant Protection day

World Cancer Awareness Day

9-November    World services day

10-November    Transport Day

14-November    Children’s Day in India

Jawaharlal Nehru birthday

16-November    International day for Endurance

17-November    World Student day

National Journalism day

18-November    World Adult day

19-November    World Citizen day

20-November    Africa Industrialization Day

Universal children day

21-November    World Television day

World Fisheries day

25-November    World Non-veg day

26-November    Law day

29-November    International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

30-November    Flag day

  • Important Days in December 2021

List of Important Days in December

1-December    World Aids Day

2-December    World Computer literacy day

International day of abolition of slavery

3-December    International Day of People with disabilities

World conservation day

4-December    Navy Day

5-December    International volunteer day for economic and social development

7-December    Armed Forces Flag Day

International civil aviation day

9-December    The International day against corruption

10-December    Human Right Day

11-December    International Mountain day

14-December    International Energy day

18-December    International Migrants day

19-December    Goa’s liberation day

20-December    International Human solidarity

23-December    Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day)

29-December    International Biodiversity day

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