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Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 28th August 2021. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 28th August 2021. covering the following news headlines: Shared Destiny-2021, G20 Ministerial Conference on Women’s Empowerment, Stop TB Partnership Board, e-Shram Portal, Universal Postal Union.

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Miscellaneous News

International News

China, Pakistan, Thailand, Mongolia to hold military exercise “Shared Destiny-2021”

Armed forces of countries China, Pakistan, Mongolia and Thailand will participate in a multinational peace exercise called “Shared Destiny-2021”. This exercise will be conducted in China in the month of September 2021.
The four countries will participate in the first multinational peacekeeping exercise “Shared Destiny-2021” at the PLA’s Joint Arms Strategic Training Base in Queshan County, Henan.
All the four countries will dispatch more than 1,000 troops to participate in the drills, involving units of infantry, fast response, security, helicopter, engineering, transportation and medical services.
The scenario of the exercise is joint operations of multinational peacekeeping forces and the exercise will be held in a close-to-real battlefield environment set in accordance with the international, professional and realistic combat standards.

National News

Ministry of Labour & Employment launches e-Shram Portal

The Ministry of Labor and Employment has launched the e-Shram Portal to link the unorganized workers with the social security schemes being implemented by the Central and State Governments.
Labor and Employment Minister, Bhupendra Yadav has launched the portal where 38 crore unorganized workers can register themselves and in return can avail benefits of various social security schemes.
Every unorganised worker who registers on the eSHRAM Portal will get Rs2.0 Lakh Accidental Insurance cover. (Rs2.0 Lakh on death or permanent disability and Rs 1.0 lakh on partial disability).
Upon registration on the eSHRAM Portal, the worker will get an eSHRAM card with a unique 12 digit Universal Account Number (UAN) and will be able to access the benefits of the various social security schemes through this Card anywhere anytime.
eSHRAM Portal will help in the creation of a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW).

India elected to CA And POC of Universal Postal Union

India has won elections for membership of the two principal bodies of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) during the 27th UPU Congress in Abidjan, Cte d’Ivoire.
India was elected to the Council of Administration (CA) with 134 votes out of 156 countries. The country got the highest number of votes in the CA elections from the South Asia and Oceania region.
Apart from this, India has also been elected to the Postal Operations Council (POC) by 106 votes. India will now work with all to strengthen cooperation in the Universal Postal Union.

Defence News

BPR&D collaborates with AICTE to launch India’s first hackathon “MANTHAN 2021”

The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) in collaboration with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have launched a unique national Hackathon named ‘MANTHAN 2021’.
The basic objective of this hackathon is to identify innovative concepts and technology solutions for addressing the security challenges of the 21st century faced by the intelligence agencies of the country and empower these enforcement agencies.
The Hackathon is scheduled to be held from November 28 to December 01, 2021, in an online mode.
The winning team will receive a number worth Rs. 40 Lakh.
The Hackathon will be held under 6 themes for 20 different challenge statements using new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Augmented reality, Machine Learning among others.

NSG commandos undertake counter-terrorist drills ‘Gandiv’

The third edition of the week-long annual exercise called ‘Gandiv’ was launched at these locations by the NSG from August 22 and it will continue till August 28.
Multiple cities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and the National Capital Region are hosting synchronised commando drills as part of a national mock exercise being carried out by the counter-terrorism force National Security Guard (NSG) to check its response time and reaction to hostage and hijack-like situations. Gandiv was the name of Arjuna’s bow in Mahabharata.
The drills are aimed to “validate the planning parameters” of the commando force in the event of a terrorist attack, hijack of an aircraft or hostage situation.
The NSG was raised as a federal counter-terrorism force in 1984 to undertake surgical commando operations in order to neutralise terrorist and hijack threats. It also has a special squad that provides armed security cover to at least 13 high-risk VVIPs at present.

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National Security Guard Headquarters: New Delhi.
The motto of the National Security Guard: Sarvatra Sarvottam Suraksha.

Miscellaneous News

A book title ‘Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government’ by K J Alphons

Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal has announced that Bollywood actor Sonu Sood will be the brand ambassador of the Delhi government’s ‘Desh Ke Mentors’ programme. The programme will be soon launched by Delhi Government.
The programme entails “adopting” one to ten government school students who can be mentored by citizens who are successful in their respective fields. Mentors will take out 10 minutes every week to guide students over the phone.
Interested citizens can adopt between one to ten children studying in the city’s government schools as part of the initiative.

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