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Current Affairs: Important Days

Date	Important days	Theme
September 1	National Nutrition Week	–
September 2	World Coconut Day	Coconut for Family Wellness
September 5	International Day of Charity	–
September 5	National Teachers’ Day	–

Current Affairs: National

1. September month to be celebrated as ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’
2. VP Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates India’s longest electrified rail tunnel in Andhra Pradesh

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Andhra Pradesh Capital	Hyderabad, Amaravathi
Andhra Pradesh CM	Jagan Mohan Reddy
Andhra Pradesh Governor	Biswabhusan Harichandan

3. Election Commission launched Electors Verification Programme (EVP) across the country
4. KVIC launched ‘Terracotta Grinder’ at Varanasi to re-use wasted pottery

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Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC)
KVIC Headquarters	Mumbai
KVIC Chairman	Vinai Kumar Saxena

5. Prakash Javadekar unveiled the new logo, certificate design of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)
6. Information and Broadcasting Ministry decides to discontinue single-use plasticinside the official premises of the units under it

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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Union Minister	Prakash Javadekar
Constituency	Rajya Sabha (Madhya Pradesh)

7. Cultural event ‘Namaste pacific’ held in New Delhi
8. Harsh Vardhan inaugurates 72nd Session of WHO Regional Committee of South-East Asia meet

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World Health Organization (WHO)
Headquarters	Geneva, Switzerland
Director General	Tedros Adhanom

9. Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGA) gets India’s tallest ATC Tower
10. India to contribute USD 22 mn to Global Fund for AIDS, TB, malaria (GFTAM) for 2020-22
11. Tinsukia Junction in Assam becomes India’s 4000th railway station to get free public WiFi
12. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir has been adjudged as the ‘Best Swachh Iconic place’ in the country in the ‘Swachh Iconic Places’ list
13. Rs 125 crore allotted to IIT- Kharagpur for Centre’s Sophisticated Analytical and Technical Help Institute (SATHI) initiative
14. Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry has decided to ban single-use plastic from Sep 15

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Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Union Minister	Ramvilas Paswan
Constituency	Not Contested in Election

15. Government has launched the updated Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) for MSMEs

Current Affairs: International

1. Nepal inaugurates educational institution built with India’s assistance

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Nepal Capital	Kathmandu
Nepal Currency	Nepalese rupee
Nepal President	Bidya Devi Bhandari

2. The 3rd India-Australia Cyber Policy Dialogue 2019 was held in New Delhi

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Australia Capital	Canberra
Australia Currency	Australian dollar
Australia Prime Minister	Scott Morrison

3. WHO South-East Asia Region sets 2023 target to eliminate measles, rubella

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World Health Organization
Headquarters	Geneva, Switzerland
Director General	Tedros Adhanom

Current Affairs: State

1. Centre approves Gorewada International Zoo in Nagpur, Maharashtra
2. PM Modiinaugurated the Mumbai Metro’s first coach built under ‘Make in India’

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Maharashtra Capital	Mumbai
Maharashtra CM	DevendraFadnavis
Maharashtra Governor	Bhagat Singh Koshyari

3. Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma has launched ‘walk to work’ Fit India campaign in the state

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Meghalaya Capital	Shillong
Meghalaya CM	Conrad Sangma
Meghalaya Governor	Tathagata Roy

4. Haryana government waives Rs. 4,750 crore interest, penalty on crop loans

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Haryana Capital	Chandigarh
Haryana CM	Manoharlal Kathar
Haryana Governor	Satyadev Narayan Arya

5. One nation-one ration card scheme was implemented on a pilot basis in the Odisha capital
6. Nuakhai is a festival to celebrate newly harvested food by the farmers in Odisha

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Odisha Capital	Bhubaneswar
Odisha CM	Naveen Patnaik
Odisha Governor	Ganeshi Lal

7. Uttar Pradesh Police has launched a ‘C-Plan’ app to aid Community Policing

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Uttar Pradesh Capital	Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh CM	Yogi Adithiyanath
Uttar Pradesh Governor	Anandiben Patel

8. Delhi to include OBC, General category students in Jai Bheem Mukhyamantri Yojana to enhance financial assistance from Rs. 40,000 to Rs. one lakh for coaching for various competitive exams.

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Delhi Capital	New Delhi
Delhi CM	Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Governor	Anil Bijal

9. Gujarat government and Delaware State of America signed MoU for sister state

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Gujarat Capital	Gandhinagar
Gujarat CM	Vijay Rupani
Gujarat Governor	Acharya Dev Vrat

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. World Bank to fund pro-poor tourism development projects worth $57 mnto top tourist hotspots of Agra and Braj-Mathura regions in Uttar Pradesh

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World Bank
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
President	David Malpass

2. DBS lowers India’s GDP growth to 6.2% for FY20

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DBS bank MD & CEO	Piyush Gupta
Headquarters	Singapore

3. ECL Finance, a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services and Central Bank of India partner to co-lend to MSMEs
4. IRDAIsets up panel headed by Atul Sahai to revisit 3-yr old trade credit insurance guidelines

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IRDAI- Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
Chairperson	Subhash Chandra Khuntia
IRDAI Headquarters	Hyderabad

5. ESIC signs Agreement with SBI for payments to ESIC beneficiaries on Real Time Basis

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State Bank of India Headquarters	Mumbai
State Bank of India Tagline	The Banker to every Indian
State Bank of India Chairperson	Rajnish Kumar

6. ICICI Bank deploys ‘robotic arms’ to count currency notes

ICICI Bank Headquarters	Mumbai
Tagline	Hum Hain Na!
MD & CEO	SandeepBakhshi

7. GST Revenue collection in August stands at Rs. 98,202 crore
8. Cabinet approves Rs 9,300 crore capital infusion in IDBI Bank

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IDBI Bank  MD & CEO	Rakesh Sharma
IDBI Bank  Headquarters	Mumbai
IDBI Bank  Tagline	Aao Sochein Bada

9. The RBI has made it mandatory for banks to link retail loans with external benchmarks from October 1

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RBI Headquarters	Mumbai
RBI Governor	Shaktikant Das
RBI Deputy Governor	BP Kanungo, N S Vishwanathan, and Mahesh Kumar Jain

10. Crisil cuts India’s GDP forecast to 6.3% FY20 (2019 – 2020)
11. Rating agency CARE cuts India’s GDP growth to 6.4-6.5% for FY20
12. Standard Chartered Banklaunched its “DigiSmart”credit card

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Standard Chartered Bank CEO	Bill Winters
Standard Chartered Bank Headquarters	London, United Kingdom

13. NDB to provide Rs 6,000 crore loan to Andhra Pradesh for social infrastructure projects

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New Development Bank (NDB)
NDB President	K. V. Kamath
NDB Headquarters	Shanghai, China

14. Centre to infuse Rs. 12,000 crore in three state general insurance firms

Current Affairs: Appointments

Tamilisai Soundararajan	Governor of Telangana
Arif Mohammed Khan	Governor of Kerala
Kalraj Mishra	Governor of Rajasthan
BandaruDattatreya	Governor ofHimachal Pradesh
Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Governor ofMaharashtra
Vivek Kumar Johri	Director General (DG) of Border Security Force (BSF)
Lt Gen Manoj MukundNaravane	Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCAS)
Lt Gen Anil Chouhan	Eastern Army Commander
Justice Harish Chandra Mishra	Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
OleksiyHoncharuk	Ukraine’s new Prime minister
Sunil Arora ( Chief Election Commissioner)	Chairman of the Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) for 2019-21
JaideepSarkar	Next High Commissioner of India to the Kingdom of Lesotho
B BalaBhaskar	Next Indian Ambassador to Norway

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1.	PM Modi	‘Global Goalkeeper Award’ by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan
2.	John Mondal	CSIR Young Scientist Award 2019 in the field of Chemical Sciences (cash prize of ₹50,000 and a plaque)
3.	Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh Professor)	‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis ‘ award by the Vatican (for his contribution towards establishing peace and harmony)
4.	Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA)	IT Excellence Award-2019 for SATARK app

1. HRD Ministry has awarded the status of Institute of Eminence to the IIT-Madras, the IIT-Kharagpur, Delhi University, Benares Hindu University and the University of Hyderabad

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index	India’s Rank	Top	Least	Other info
Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR)	34th (140 countries)	Spain	–	Released by World Economic Forum’s (WEF)
Global Liveability Index for 2019	New Delhi – 118 Mumbai – 119	Vienna	Damascus, (Syria)	Released by Economist Intelligence Unit

Current Affairs: MOU

1. IIT Kharagpur has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop National Artificial Intelligence resource platform
2. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Google tie up to Build for Digital India

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Ministry of Law and Justice, Minister of Communications; & Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Union Minister	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Constituency	Patna Sahib, Bihar

3. Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) signs MoU with Zhengzhou Comm Exchange

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Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX)
MCX Chairman	Mr.Saurabh Chandra
MCX Headquarters	Mumbai

4. Wipro bags $300-million deal from ICICI Bank to provide a comprehensive suite of services
5. India and South Korea signed two MoUs to boost defence cooperation

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South Korea Capital	Seoul
South Korea Currency	South Korean won
South Korea President	Moon Jae-in

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. The Election Commission of India to host the 4th General Assembly of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) at Bengaluru

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Chief Election Commissioner	Sunil Arora
Election Commissioner	Ashok Lavasa, Sushil Chandra
ECI Headquarters	New Delhi

2. COP14 to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification begins in Greater Noida
3. A 3-day International Snacks Festival 2019 was inaugurated in Hyderabad, Telangana

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Telangana Capital	Hyderabad
Telangana CM	Chandrasekhar Rao
Telangana Governor	Tamilisai Soundararajan

4. One day Joint India – New Development Bank (NDB) Workshop held in New Delhi

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New Development Bank (NDB)
NDB President	K. V. Kamath
NDB Headquarters	Shanghai, China

5. CBI’s 1st national conference on cyber crime investigation inaugurated in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Defence

1. The Indian Air Force inducted eight US-made Apache AH-64E attack helicopters at the Pathankot airbase
2. 15th Indo-US Joint Military Exercise YudhAbhyas 2019 to be held in Washington
3. Iranian Army unveiled a new homegrown jet-propelled drone, named KIAN, with pinpoint accuracy

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Iran Capital	Tehran
Iran Currency	Iranian rial
Iran President	Hassan Rouhani

4. ASEAN-US Maritime Exercise Begins in Thailand

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Thailand Capital	Bangkok
Thailand Currency	Thai baht
Thailand Prime Minister	Prayut Chan-o-cha

5. India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between the navies of the two countries held in Thailand

Current Affairs: Science and technology

1. India to join developed nations in ocean studies with ‘Samudrayaan’ project
2. Asia’s first 5th Generation – Virtual Reality based Advanced Driver Training Simulator Centre was launched at Chennai

Current Affairs: Books

Book	Author
“A Short History of Indian Railways”	Rajendra B Aklekar
“First They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks”	Sophie Ansel(France)
‘LoktantraKeSwar (Khand 2)’ and ‘The Republican Ethic (Volume 2)’	Selected speeches of President of India during his second year in office (July 2018 to July 2019).
‘Shiksha: A Journey’	Manish Sisodia (Delhi Deputy CM & Education Minister)

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc beat Lewis Hamilton to win the Belgian Grand Prix
2. India’s Sasikumar Mukund ended runner-up in both singles and doubles at ATP Challenger Tour, in Baotou, China.
3. Tejinderpal Singh Toor wins silver medal in shot put at Czech Republic athletic meet
4. 36th National Games to be held in Goa in October-November 2020
5. The India Under-15 team beats Nepal to won the SAFF U-15 Championship 2019 title held in Kalyani Stadium, West Bengal
6. Former India women’s team skipper Mithali Raj announced retirement from T20 Internationals
7. Nadubhagam Chundan, the snake boat of Pallathuruthy Boat Club, lifted the 67th Nehru Trophy in Alappuzha
8. Steve Smith dethroned India captain ViratKohli to reclaim the No.1 spot in ICC Test rankings
9. Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary win gold as India finish on top in ISSF World Cup
10. FIFA unveiled the official emblem for Qatar World Cup 2022

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FIFA Headquarters	Zurich, Switzerland
President	Gianni Infantino

11. Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza announced retirement from international cricket
12. Misbah-ul-Haq named as Pakistan men’s cricket head coach and chief selector
13. Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma has launched ‘Rohit4Rhinos’ campaign to save Rhinos in India
14. Anupama Swain wins bronze in World Martial Arts Mastership‘Jiu-Jitsu 2019’at Chungju in South Korea
15. Bob Carter appointed as head coach of New Zealand women’s cricket team
16. The 2019 World Wrestling Championships will be held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan Capital	Nur-Sultan
Kazakhstan Currency	Kazakhstani tenge
Kazakhstan Prime Minister	Askar Mamin

17. Afghanistan test cricket captain Rashid Khanbecoming the youngest test cricket captain

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person	Field
Valerie Harper	Emmy Award-winning actress
Jessica Combs	American professional Women racer
UditPratapDeo	Former Kalahandi king
Robert Mugabe	Former Zimbabwe President
KiranNagarkar	Novelist and Playwright
Sukhdev Singh Libra	Congress leader and former MP

 

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