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 Punjab government announced a waiver of Rs 590 crore worth of loans under the farm debt waiver scheme for labourers and the landless farming community.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui has been covering the situation in Kandahar over the past few days for the Reuters news agency.
Prime Minister Modi has inaugurated a newly-built 318-room five-star hotel atop the redeveloped Gandhinagar railway station and various other development projects in Gujarat.
The Export-Import Bank of India has extended a USD 35.26 million loan for a power transmission project being executed by Kalpataru Power Transmission in Senegal.
India's first grain dispensing ATM has been installed at Farrukhnagar in the Gurugram district of Haryana under a pilot project, to make ration dispersal hassle and complaint-free for citizens.