Current Affairs One-Liner: 1st August 2021

• The ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank took the stakes in IBBIC Pvt Ltd, which is the blockchain financial technology firm.
• Vantika Agarwal: She has won National Women Online Chess with a score of 9.5 points from 11 rounds. The 2nd rank was secured by Arpita Mukherjee of West Bengal. The performance in this online chess will be utilised by the All India Chess Federation to select players for the Asian individual championship and other events.
• Awards and Recognition: Asha Bhosle: She will be honoured with Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2021.

• Anand Radhakrishnan: He is a Graphic Artist and has won Will Eisner Comic Industry Award as ‘Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)’.
• Dr Cyrus Poonawalla: He will be awarded Lokmanya Tilak National Award for 2021.
• Important Days and Themes: 1st Aug to 7th Aug 2021: World Breastfeeding Week (WBW)
• Theme: ‘Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility’
• PV Sindhu (Indian badminton player): She won a Bronze medal in Badminton Women’s single title at Tokyo Olympics 2020 by defeating China’s He Bingjiao.
• 36th CORPAT Exercise
• PM Modi launched initiatives on 1st Anniversary of NEP
• ISRO-NASA Joint Mission NISAR to be launched in 2023
• ‘Krishikarna’ Project-- Kerala
• ‘e-RUPI’ -- Digital Payment Solution

Question: 

Q.1 Who will be awarded Lokmanya Tilak National Award for 2021?
a. Adar Poonawalla
b. Krishna Ella
c. Dr Cyrus Poonawalla
d. Azim Hashim Premji