Current Affairs One-Liner: 12th October 2021

October 12, 2021
  • Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: It is awarded in one half to Canadian-born David Card and the other half jointly to Israeli-American Joshua D Angrist and Dutch-American Guido W Imbens. David Card has won the prize for his empirical contributions to labour economics. Joshua D Angrist and Guido W Imbens have won the prize for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.
  • River Ranching Programme: It was launched by Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Parshottam Rupala at Brijghat, Garh Mukteshwar, Uttar Pradesh. The states like Orissa, Uttarakhand, Tripura, and Chhattisgarh along with Uttar Pradesh also participated in the program. In total, 8.85 lakh fingerlings were ranched from 5 states at the program.
Current Affairs One-Liner: 12th October 2021

Question: 

Q.1 Who is the author of a book titled ‘The Custodian of Trust – A Banker’s Memoir’?
a. Raghuram Rajan
b. NS Kannan.
c. Rajnish Kumar
d. Arvind Subramanian

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