PSC Current Affairs - October 07, 2021

Winners of 2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry - Benjamin List (Germany),

                                                                                David Mac Millan (Scotland – US)

(“For the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”)

World's first Anti - Malaria vaccine that got approval from World Health Organization in October 2021 - RTS, S/AS01 

Person who was dropped down from the world’s billionaires list in October 2021 due to an outage of social medias Facebook, WhatsApp for nearly 6 hours – Mark Zuckerberg

India's first digital platform to accept international remittances directly into digital wallet – Paytm

First country in the world that is going to make a movie in space – Russia

Name the country that withdrew from 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games’ hockey competition – India

 Name the hypersonic cruise missile that has been successfully test-fired from a submarine by Russia for the first time – Zircon (Tsirkon)

Place at which the statue of Kerala Gandhi K Kelappan was unveiled as part of his 50th death anniversary in October 2021 – Thurayur (Payyoli, Kozhikode) (Sculptor – Chithran Kunhimangalam)

Theme of World Habitat Day (October 4) 2021 – Accelerating urban action for a carbon – free world

Renowned malayali cartoonist who passed away in October 2021 - C J Yesudasan (Yesudasan)

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