current affairs 27 September 2021 (In English)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak launches space startup "Privateer Space".

• Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak has joined hands with Ripcord Inc. founder Alex Fielding to announce a new space company, Privateer Space.
• Privateer will be a private company whose mission will be to keep space safe and accessible to all mankind.

G. Kishan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the development of "Parashuram Kund" in Arunachal Pradesh.

• The project under the scheme Development of Parshuram Kund, Lohit District Arunachal Pradesh was approved by the Ministry of Tourism in January 2021 at a cost of Rs 37.88 crore.
• The approved components include intervention near parking area, tourist information centre, rain shelter, kiosk, intervention near mela ground, view point, souvenir shops, water supply line, approach road, food court/prasadam centre, etc.

Nirupama Rao authored the book "The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows are Present in India-China Relations".

• Nirupama Menon Rao, a former Foreign Secretary of India, has come out with the book titled The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations.
• The book describes India's path to war with China in 1962.
• The book describes how India and China treated each other in their early years, from friendship dating back to the 1962 war, from the early 1950s.

Gordon Brown has been appointed WHO's ambassador for global health funding.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as its Ambassador for Global Health Financing on September 20, 2021.
• As an ambassador, Brown will continue to work to enhance and support the work of WHO to raise global awareness of the great need for global health financing, particularly from G20 and G7 countries.

Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed the first "National Cooperative Conference" in New Delhi.

• Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah inaugurated and addressed the first ever National Cooperative Conference (Cooperative Conference) at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on September 25, 2021.
• The minister outlined the government's vision and roadmap for the development of the cooperative sector.
• This conference was the first such cooperative conference in India, which provided a platform to accelerate and strengthen Indian cooperatives on the global stage.
• The conference was jointly organized by IFFCO, National Cooperative Federation of India, Amul, Sahakar Bharti, Nafed, Kribhco and all cooperative societies.
• More than 2,100 delegates from different states and various cooperative sectors across the country participated in the conference to contribute in realizing the dream of self-reliant India.