17 July 2021 Current Affairs
According to the annual UN-FAO report titled "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021", how many people in the world faced hunger in 2020?
The annual UN-FAO report titled "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021" states that between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020.
The Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has launched a Chief Minister's COVID-19 Widows Support scheme wherein social and financial security would be provided to women who have lost their husbands to the coronavirus disease.
The RBI has barred global card player Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte Ltd from onboarding new domestic customers on its network with effect from July 22, 2021, over non-compliance with local data storage regulations.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui has been covering the situation in Kandahar over the past few days for the Reuters news agency.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu released the book titled 'Palleku Pattabhishekam' on rural India and agriculture written by former MP Shri Yalamanchili Sivaji.