🔰Consumer Price Index (CPI)🔰

⭐️ A Consumer Price Index measures changes in the price level of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.

⭐️ A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically.

⭐️ This report is published by NSO (National Statistics Organization/Office).

⭐️According to CPI report of 2021:-
🔸January:- 4.06%
🔸Febuary:- 5.03%
🔸March:- 5.52%
🔸April:- 5.14%
🔸May:- 6.03%
🔸June:- 6.26%
🔸July:- 5.59%

🔰Wholesale Price Index (WPI)🔰

⭐️ A Wholesale Price Index (WPI) measures and tracks the changes in the price of goods before they reach consumers.

⭐️ The Goods that are sold in bulk and traded between entities or businesses (rather than consumers).

⭐️ Wholesale Price Indexes (WPIs) are one indicator of a country's level of inflation.

⭐️ This report is published by Office Of Economic Advisory (Ministry of Commerce & Industry).

⭐️ According to WPI report of 2021:-
🔸January:- 2.03%
🔸February:- 4.17%
🔸March:- 7.39%
🔸April:- 4.29%
🔸May:- 12.94%
🔸June:- 12.07%
🔸July:- 11.16%

🟢 Famous Martial Arts of India 🟢

♦️ Gatka:- Punjab
♦️ Paika:- Odisha
♦️ Thag Ta:- Manipur
♦️ Kalaripayattu:- Kerala
♦️ Choliya:- Uttarakhand
♦️ Pang Lhabsol:- Sikkim
♦️ Musti Yudha:- Uttar Pradesh
♦️ Mardani Khel:- Maharashtra
♦️ Pari Khanda:- Bihar

PM has declared that August 14 will be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ to acknowledge the pain undergone by Indians due to the partition of India in 1947.

The recorded horrors of partition:-

📍About 2 million people killed in the most brutal ways.
📍An estimated 1,00,000 women kidnapped and raped.
📍More than 15 million men, women and children displaced.
📍Loss of territory and people to the west and the east.
📍Worst of the horrors seen in Punjab and Bengal (colonial insensitivity in the thoughtless partition).

✅ About United States (US) ✅

🔘Capital:- Washington, D.C
🔘Largest city:- New York City
🔘Currency:- US Dollar
🔘First President:- George Washington
🔘46th President:- Joe Biden
🔘Yudh Abhyas Exercise:- India & US
🔘Tiger Trump Exercise:- India & US
🔘Vajra Prahar Exercise:- India & Us
🔘Malabar Exercise:- IND, US, AUS & JAP
🔘India's Ambassador to US:- Taranjit Singh Sandhu

✅ Latest Important City Index 2021 ✅

🔰India Smart Cities Awards Contest (ISAC) 2020🔰

🏆Best City Award:- Indore and Surat
🏆Best State Award:- Uttar Pradesh
🏆Best UT Award:- Chandigarh

🔰India’s Most Liveable City in Ease of Living Index 2020🔰

🥇Top:- Bengaluru
🥈2nd:- Chennai
🥉3rd:- Shimla

🔰Global Liveability Index 2021🔰

🥇Top:- Auckland (New Zealand)
🥈2nd:- Osaka (Japan)
🥉3rd:- Adelaide (Australia)

🔰Global Prime Residential Index 2020🔰

🥇Top:- Shenzhen (China)
🥈2nd:- Shanghai (China)
🎖32nd:- New Delhi (India)
🎖36th:- Mumbai (India)
🎖40th:- Bengaluru (India)

🏦 International Organisations (Part-1) 🏦

🚦INTERPOL
🔷Founded:- 1923
🔷Headquarter: - Lyon France
🔷President:- Kim Jong Yang

🚦World Customs Organisation (WCO)
🔷Founded :- 1952
🔷Headquarter:- Brussels Belgium
🔷Secretary-General:- Kunio Mikuriya
🔷Members:- 182

🚦Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
🔷Founded:-16 Oct 1945
🔷Headquarter:- Rome Italy
🔷Director-General:- Qu Dongyu (China)
🔷Member:- 197

🚦International Labour Organisation (ILO)
🔷Founded:- 1919
🔷Headquarter:- Geneva (Switzerland)
🔷Director-General:- Guy Ryder
🔷Member:- 187

🚦Association of Southeast Asian Nation
🔷Founded:- 1967
🔷Headquarter:- Jakarta Indonesia
🔷Director-General:- Lim Jock Hoi
🔷Members:- 10

🚦Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
🔷Founded:- 2016
🔷Headquarter:- Beijing China
🔷President:- Jin Liqun

🚦Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
🔷Founded:- 1996
🔷Headquarter:- Beijing China
🔷Secretary-General:- Vladimir Norov
🔷Members:- 8

🚦World Economic Forum (WEF)
🔷Founded:- 1971
🔷Headquarter:- Cologny Switzerland
🔷Director-General:- Klaus Schwab

🚦United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
🔷Founded:- 1964
🔷Headquarter:- Geneva Switzerland
🔷Secretary-General:- Mukhisa Kituyi
🔷Members:- 194

🚦United Nations (UN)
🔷Founded:- 24 oct 1945
🔷Headquarter:- New york USA
🔷Secretary-General:- Antonio Guterres
🔷Deputy S.G:- Amina J Mohammad
🔷Members:- 193

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🏦 International Organisations (Part-2) 🏦

🚦Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
🔷Founded:- 6 June 1997
🔷Headquarter:- Dhaka Bangladesh
🔷Secretary-General:- M.Shahidul Islam
🔷Members:- 7

🚦Asian Development Bank (ADB)
🔷Founded:- 1966
🔷Headquarter:- Mandaluyong Philippines
🔷President:- Masatsugu Asakawa
🔷Members:- 68

🚦World Bank (WB)
🔷Founded:- 1944
🔷Headquarter:- Washington DC
🔷President:- David Malpass
🔷MD/CFO:- Anshula Kant
🔷Members:-189

🚦International Monetory Fund (IMF)
🔷Founded:- 1945
🔷Headquarter:- Washington DC
🔷MD:- Kristalina Georgieva
🔷Chief Economist:- Gita Gopinathan
🔷Members:- 189

🚦International Atomic Energy Agency
🔷Founded:- 1957
🔷Headquarter:- Vienna Austria
🔷Director-General- Rafael Mariano Grossi
🔷Members:-171

🚦UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
🔷Founded:- 5 June 1972
🔷Headquarter:- Nairobi Kenya
🔷Director:- Inger Andersen

🚦International Court of Justice
🔷Founded:- 1945
🔷Headquarter:- The Hague Netherland
🔷President:+ Abdulqawi Yusuf
🔷Members:- 193

🚦North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
🔷Founded:- 1949
🔷Headquarter:- Brussles Belgium
🔷Secretary-General:- Jens Stoltenberg
🔷Air force General:- Tod. D Wolters
🔷Members:- 30

🚦Amnesty International (AI)
🔷Founded:- 1961
🔷Headquarter:- London
🔷Secretary-General:- Kumi Naidoo

🚦Federation International De Football Association (FIFA)
🔷Founded:- 1904
🔷Headquarter- Zurich Switzerland
🔷President:- Gianni Infantino

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🏦 International Organisations (Part-3) 🏦

🚦Goulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
🔷Founded:- 1989
🔷Headquarter:- Riyadh Saudi Arabia
🔷Secretary-General:- A. Bin Rashid Zayani
🔷Members:- 6

🚦Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
🔷Founded:- 1989
🔷Headquarter:- Paris France
🔷President:- Xiangmin Liu
🔷Members:- 39

🚦World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
🔷Founded:- 1967
🔷Headquarter:- Geneva Switzerland
🔷Director-General:- Francis Gurry

🚦World Trade Organisation (WTO)
🔷Founded:- 1 Jan 1995
🔷Headquarter:- Geneva Switzerland
🔷Director-General:- Roberto Azevedo
🔷Members:- 164

🚦World Health Organisation (WHO)
🔷Founded:- 7 April 1948
🔷Headquarter:- Gevena Switzerland
🔷Director-General:- Tedros Adhanom
🔷Members:- 194

🚦Organisation for Econoy Cooperation
🔷Founded:- 1948
🔷Headquarter:- Paris France
🔷Director-General:- Jose Angel Gurria
🔷Members:- 36

🚦Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
🔷Founded:- 1960
🔷Headquarter:- Vienna Austria
🔷Secretary-General:- Mohammad Barkindo
🔷Members:- 13

🚦United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
🔷Founded:- 4 Nov 1946
🔷Headquarter:- Paris France
🔷Director-General:- Audrey Azouley
🔷Members:- 193

🚦United Nations Children Fund
🔷Founded:- 1946
🔷Headquarter:- New york USA
🔷Executive-Director:- Henritta H. Fore
🔷Members:- 191

🚦UN Development Programme (UNDP)
🔷Founded:- 1965
🔷Headquarter:- New york USA
🔷Director-General:- Achim Steiner

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🛰Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Balasore Odisha

🛰National Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Hyderabad Telengana

🛰Indian Institue of remote sensing
🚩Dehradun Uttarakhand

🛰Central Regional Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Nagapur MH

🛰Eastern Regional Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Kharagpur WB

🛰Western Regional Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Jodhpur Rajsthan

🛰Northern Regional Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Dehradun Uttarakhand

🛰Southern Regional Remote Sensing Centre
🚩Banglore Karnataka

🗓 26th August 🗓

🙍‍♀ Women's Equality Day 🙍‍♀

🙎‍♀ Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the US to mark the 19th Amendment ratified in 1920 giving women the right to vote.

🙎‍♀ It was first celebrated in 1973.

🔰 Important Facts 🔰

💠 Indian railways conducted a ten day long campaign under theme "Each for Equal" to celebrate International Womens's Days (8March).

💠 Global Gender Gap Index 2021
✍ Iceland:- Top
✍ India:- 140

💠 Vidatha probably the most popular assembly in which even women enjoyed an equal status with men in the Early Vedic periods.

💠 United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-WOMEN)
🍁 Headquater:- Newyork
🍁 Anita Bhatia (Deputy Executive Director)

💠 National Organisation for Women (NOW)
🍁 Headquater:- Washington DC

💠 National Commission for Women (NCW)
🍁 Headquater:- New delhi EST: 1992
🍁 Chairperson:- Rekha Sharma

💠 Permanent commission to women in Army observed by Supreme Court is based on following articles -
🔹 Rule of law - Equality before law- Article 14 & Article 16

💠 As per the paper “Rethinking Gender Representation across Value Chains”released during the
3rd Gender Equality Summit 2020, If Women’s labour force is same as Men’s labour force then it can boost India’s GDP by 27%

💠 ARTICLE of the Constitution which has a bearing on the rights of women are:

🔹 Indian women equality (Article 14)

🔹 No discrimination by the State Article 15(1)

🔹 Equality of opportunity (Article 16)

🔹 Equal pay for equal work Article 39 (d)

🔹 Article 42 -To make provision for just and humane conditions for work and maternity relief

Arctic Council:-

1) It is an intergovernmental forum that addresses issues faced by Arctic Govts and indigenous people of the Arctic (Inuit, Aleut, Athabaskan, Gwich'in, Saami).

2) Ottawa declaration is related to the formation of Arctic Council in 1996.

3) There are 8 members: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and USA. Decisions are based on Consensus.

4) Observer States: India, China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, UK, France, Switzerland, Spain.

5) 1st country to chair Arctic was Canada, 2017 to 2019 Finland; 2019 to 2021: Iceland.

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Check it now:-
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✍ First in India : Male Personalities

1.The First President Of Indian Republic
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad

2.The First Prime Minister Of Free India
- Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

3.The First Indian To Win Nobel Price
- Rabindranath Tagore

4.The First President Of Indian National Congress
- W. C. Banerjee

5.The First Muslim President Of Indian National Congress
- Badruddin Tayyabji

6.The First Muslim President Of India
- Dr. Zakir Hussain

7.The First British Governer General Of India
- Lord William Bentinck

8.The First British Viceroy Of India
- Lord Canning

9.The First Governor General Of Free India
- Lord Mountbatten

10.The First And The Last Indian To Be Governor General Of Free India
- C. Rajagopalachari

11.The First Man Who Introduced Printing Press In Free India
- James Hicky

12.The First Indian To Join I.C.S.
- Satyengra Nath Tagore

13.India's First Man In Space
- Rakesh Sharma

14.The First Prime Minister In India Who Resigned Without Completing The Full Term
- Morarji Desai

15.The First Indian Commander-in-Chief Of India
- General Cariappa

16.The First Chief Of The Army Staff
- Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singh Ji

17.The First Indian Member Of The Viceroy's Executive Council
- S. P. Sinha

18.The First President Of India Who Died While In Office
- Dr. Zakir Hussain

19.The First Prime Minister Of India Who Did Not Face The Parliament
- Charan Singh

20.The First Field Marshal Of India
- S. H. F. Manekshaw

21.The First Indian To Get Nobel Price In Physics
- C. V. Raman

22.The First Indian To Recieve Bharat Ratna Award
- Dr. Radhakrishnan

23.The First Indian To Cross English Channel
- Mihir Sen

24.The First Indian To Receive Jnanpith Award
- Sri Shankar Kurup

25.The First Speaker Of The Lok Sabha
- Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar

26.The first Vice-President of India
- Dr. Radhakrishnan

27.The first Education Minister
- Abul Kalam Azad

28.The first Home Minister of India
- Sardar Vailabh Bhai Patel

29.The first Indian Air Chief Marshal
- S. Mukherjee

30.The first Indian Naval Chief   
- Vice Admiral R. D. Katari

31.The first judge of International Court of Justice
- Dr. Nagendra Singh

32.The first person to receive Paramveer Chakra
- Major Somnath Sharma

33.The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen
- Sherpa Phu Dorjee

34.The first Chief Election Commissioner
- Sukumar Sen

35.The first person to receive Magsaysay Award
- Acharya Vinoba Bhave

36.The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Hargovind Khurana

37.The first Chinese traveler to visit India
- Fahein

38.The first person to receive Stalin Prize
- Saifuddin Kitchlu

39.The first person to resign from the central cabinet
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

40.The first foreigner to receive Bharat Ratna
- Khan Abdul Ghaftar Khan

41.The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics
- Amartya Sen

42.The first Chief Justice of Supreme CourtJustice
- Hiralal J. Kania