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Current Affairs: Important Days

Date	Important days	Theme
September 8	International Literacy Day	Literacy and Multilingualism
September 8	World Physical Therapy Day	–
September 10	World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD)	Working Together to Prevent Suicide
September 12	United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation	From Commitment to Action — Follow up to Buenos Aires Plan of Action+40
September 14	Hindi Diwas	–

Current Affairs: National

1. Government constitutes task force headed by Atanu Chakraborty to identify infrastructure projects worth Rs 100 lakh crore
2. Project for the welfare of Children of Construction Workers ‘Bal Basera’ inaugurated at AIIMS Rishikesh
3. PM Modi, Nepal PM to jointly inaugurate Motihari-Amlekhganj cross border petroleum Pipeline
4. PM Modi launched National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP)in Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
5. PM Modihas inaugurated India’s second Multi-Modal Terminal built at Sahibganj in Jharkhand

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Jharkhand Capital	Ranchi
Jharkhand CM	Raghubar Das
Jharkhand Governor	Draupadi Murmu

6. Government announces target,of degraded land rehabilitate by 2030, revised from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares
7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2019at Mathura
8. PM Modi launched ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana’ in Jharkhand
9. Government to develop 3 Indian Institute of Skills (IIS) at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Kanpur
10. National Green Tribunal (NGT) has set up a committee to stop illegal groundwater extraction

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National Green Tribunal Chairman	Adarsh Kumar Goel

11. Centre to set up 12,500 Ayush Health and Wellness Centres across the country
12. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched the maritime communication services in Mumbai
13. India has become a member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hubs

Current Affairs: International

1. India has announced a humanitarian assistance of USD 1 mn to help people in The Bahamas

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Bahamas Capital	Nassau
Bahamas Currency	Bahamian dollar
Bahamas Prime Minister	Hubert Minnis

2. India Pavilion inaugurated at 44th Toronto International Film Festival
3. Typhoon Faxai has hit Tokyo, Japan

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Japan Capital	Tokyo
Japan Currency	Japanese yen
Japan PM	Shinzo Abe

4. Vietnam has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s largest solar power farm

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Vietnam Capital	Hanoi
Vietnam Currency	Dong
Vietnam President	Nguyen PhuTrong

5. UK government has announced 2 year post study work visa for all foreign studentsfrom the academic year 2020-21

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UK Capital	London
UK Currency	Pound Sterling
UK Prime minister	Boris Johnson

6. Sri Lanka flagged off ‘Make In India’ train Pulathisi Express from Colombo Fort Railway station

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Sri Lanka Capital	Colombo, Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Lanka Currency	Sri Lankan rupee
Sri Lanka President	Maithripala Sirisena

7. Thailand becomes the first country in Asia to roll out plain cigarette packaging

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

Current Affairs: State

1. India’s first ‘water-grid’ costing Rs 3,50,000 crore will come in the parched Marathwada region of Maharashtra

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Maharashtra Capital	Mumbai
Maharashtra CM	Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Governor	Bhagat Singh Koshyari

2. Visakhapatnam railway station sets up ‘fun zone’ for kids

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

3. UNESCO and Rajasthan government join hands to promote state’s intangible cultural heritage
4. Rajasthan government has launched ‘Jan Soochna’ a public information portal

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Rajasthan Capital	Jaipur
Rajasthan CM	Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Governor	Kalraj Mishra

5. Kerala to set up the country’s first International Women’s Trade Centre (iWTC)

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Kerala Capital	Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala CM	Pinarayi Vijayan
Kerala Governor	Arif Mohammad Khan

6. Gurugram traffic police have tied up with Google maps for traffic updates
7. Haryana CM launched two insurance schemes ‘Mukhyamantri Vyapari Samuhik Niji Durghatna Beema Yojana’ and ‘Mukhyamantri Vyapari Kshatipurti Beema Yojana’

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Haryana Capital	Chandigarh
Haryana CM	ManoharlalKathar
Haryana Governor	Satyadev Narayan Arya

8. GeM and Punjab Government sign MoU for Setting up Project Management Unit

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Punjab Capital	Chandigarh
Punjab CM	Amarinder Singh
Punjab Governor	V P Singh Badnore
GeM CEO	Talleen Kumar

9. Madhya Pradesh government’s Happiness Department is planning to set up a Time Bank

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Madhya Pradesh Capital	Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh CM	Kamal Nath
Madhya Pradesh Governor	Lal Ji Tandon

10. Tamil Nadu’s Srivilliputtur ‘Palkova’ set to get Geographical Indications Tag

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Tamil Nadu Capital	Chennai
Tamil Nadu CM	E. Palanisamy
Tamil Nadu Governor	BanwarilalPurohit

11. Uttarakhand CM Rawathas launched ‘MukhyaMantri Dal PoshitYojana’ to provide 2kgs of pulses at subsidised rates every month to the ration card holders in the state

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Uttarakhand Capital	Dehradun
Uttarakhand CM	Trivendra Singh Rawat
Uttarakhand Governor	Baby Rani Maurya

12. Arunachal Pradesh CM PemaKhandu dedicated the Dikshi Hydroelectric Project to the people of the state

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Arunachal Pradesh Capital	Itanagar
Arunachal Pradesh CM	PemaKhandu
Arunachal Pradesh Governor	BD Mishra

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. RBI to launch mobile app for visually impaired to identify banknotes
2. RBI increased loan exposure limit of banks to a single NBFC (excluding gold loan companies) from 15% to 20%
3. RBI has reduced the risk weight requirement for consumer loans to 100%from 125%

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

4. India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has rolled out Aadhaar enabled payment system (AePS) services

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India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
IPPB CEO	Suresh P. Sethi
IPPB Headquarters	New Delhi
IPPB Tagline	Aapka Bank AapkeDwaar

5. India & ADB sign $200 million loan to improve rural connectivity in 34 districts of Maharashtra

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
President	TakehikoNakao
Headquarters	Mandaluyong, Philippines

6. IDBI to launch co-branded credit card with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)

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IDBI Bank  MD & CEO	Rakesh Sharma
IDBI Bank Headquarters	Mumbai
IDBI Bank Tagline	AaoSocheinBada
Life Insurance Corporation
LIC Chairman	M R Kumar
Headquarters	Mumbai

7. World Bank will provide Rs 3,000 crore funds to finance mini and mega food parks across the country

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

Current Affairs: Appointments

Justice Harish Chandra Mishra	Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
Vijay Kumar Chopra	Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI)
Vineet Jain	Press Trust of India (PTI)’s vice-chairman
Rajiv Kumar	Managing directorof Microsoft India R&D
Justice VikramNath	Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court
Ranveer Singh	global brand ambassador of JBL
Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra	Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
AbhijitGuha (retired Indian lieutenant general)	head of theUN mission in Hodeida, Yemen
Hima Das	Brand ambassador for Gatorade (Sports drink of PepsiCo)

1. Karnataka Bank chief Mahabaleshwara MS has been inducted into Indian Banks’ Association committee member

Current Affairs: Resignation

Jack Ma	Chairman of Alibaba
Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani	Chief Justice of Madras High Court (HC-CJ)

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1.	Lata Mangeshkar	Daughter of the Nation title ( on her 90th birthday )
2.	Odia writer Pradeep Dash	40th Sarala Puraskar Award for his poetry work Charu Chibar O Charjya (cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a citation)
3.	Pandit Harmohan Khuntia	‘Ila Panda Sangeet Samman’ (cash award of Rs 1,50,000)
4.	Lalat Mohan Patnaik	‘Ila Panda Chitrakala Samman’ (cash award of Rs 1,50,000)
5.	Geoffrey Boycott & Andrew Strauss (England cricketer)	Knighthood Award by Theresa May
6.	Navdeep Singh Suri (outgoing Indian Ambassador to the UAE)	Order of Zayed II
7.	UshaKhanna	“Lata Mangeshkar Award” for 2019-2020 by Maharashtra government (cash reward of Rs 500,000,)

1. 23-Year Old AnupriyaLakra becomes first woman pilot from Odisha’s Maoist-hit region

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index	India’s Rank	Top	Least	Other info
“Insights on Co-living – An Asia-Pacific Perspective.” index	Mumbai – 5th New Delhi – 11th Bengaluru – 19th	Beijing	–	Released by Knight Frank
global malaria cases in 2017	India – 4th	Nigeria	–	By Lancet journal

1. Eritrea topped the list of the 10 most censored countries in a report released by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

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Eritrea Capital	Asmara
Eritrea Currency	Eritrean nakfa
Eritrea President	Isaias Afwerki

2. University of Oxford of United Kingdom has topped the ‘Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020’
3. Gujarat has retained its first position in the country in the ‘Logistics Ease Across Different States’ (LEADS) report 2019

Current Affairs: MOU

1. NITI Aayog joins hands with McKinsey for first digital capability centre(DCC)in New Delhi

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NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)
CEO	Amitabh Kant
Vice Chairman	Rajiv Kumar

2. Indian Railways signs MoU with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for facilitation of green initiatives

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Samsung unveiled two apps ‘Good Vibes’ and ‘Relumino’ to provide communication tools to the deaf-blind and people with low vision in the country

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to participate 8th Asian Ministerial Energy Round-tablein Dubai
2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Visit Maldives for 4^thIndian Ocean Conference

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Maldives Capital	Malé
Maldives Currency	Rufiyaa
Maldives President	Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

3. India will host the 6th India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue in New Delhi
4. International conference Augmenting Nature by Green Affordable New-habitat (ANGAN) focussed on energy efficiency begins in New Delhi
5. The India’s first-ever helicopter summit.
6. Ministry of Civil Aviation organised the First helicopter summit in Dehradun

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Uttarakhand Capital	Dehradun
Uttarakhand CM	Trivendra Singh Rawat
Uttarakhand Governor	Baby Rani Maurya

7. India Participated in 84th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in Greece

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Greece Capital	Athens
Greece Currency	Euro
Greece PM	Kyriakos Mitsotakis

8. National Conference on Crop Residue Management was held for the farmers from the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh & Delhi
9. 24th World Energy Congress is being held in Abu Dhabi, UAE

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UAE Capital	Abu Dhabi
UAE Currency	Dirham
UAE PM	Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum

10. National Conference on ‘Criminal Activities and Radicalization in Jails: Vulnerability of Inmates and Jail Staff and their Protection’ organized by BPR&D
11. 22nd Session of United Nations Committee on Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Held in Geneva

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Indo-Lanka maritime fleet exercise – SLINEX 2019 to be held at Visakhapatnam
2. DRDO successfully flight-tested indigenously-developed Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) system
3. DRDO has handed over the second ‘Netra’ Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS) system to the Indian Air Force (IAF)

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DRDO –Defence Research and Development Organisation
DRDO Chairman	G Satheesh Reddy
DRDO Headquarters	New Delhi

4. India’s 2nd Scorpene-class submarine INS Khanderi set to be commissioned into the Navy
5. India signs with Russian company to modernise radar missile systems on P-15 class ships
6. Indo-Thailand Joint Military Exercise ‘Maitree – 2019’ held at Umroi, Meghalaya

Current Affairs: Books

Author	Book
“Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924”	VikramSampath
‘Phoolproof: Indian flowers, their myths, traditions and usage’	Jhelum Biswas Bose
‘Fortune Turners: The Quartet that spun India to glory’ (The book on India’s 4 spin legends – Bishan Singh Bedi, ErapalliPrasanna, BhagwatChandrashekhar and S. Venkataraghavan)	AdityaBhushan and Sachin Bajaj
“The Daughter from a Wishing Tree”	Sudha Murthy

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has won Formula 1, Italian Grand Prix 2019
2. Bianca Andreescu clinched US Open Women’s singles title
3. India Red beat India Green to clinch Duleep Trophy title
4. Rafael Nadal beats Russia’s Daniil Medvedev to win US Open men’s final title
5. Mo Farah and Brigid Kosgei wins 2019 Great North Run event men’s and woman’s title respectively
6. The 8th edition of Ladakh Marathon concluded in Leh
7. Brazilian tennis player Diego Matos has been banned for life for match fixing
8. Hero MotoCorp MD Pawan Munjal Inducted Into 2019 Asia Pacific Golf Hall of Fame
9. Sports Ministry has de-recognised the Paralympic Committee of Indiafor sports code violation
10. National Basketball Association (NBA) has appointed Rajesh Sethi managing director of its India business
11. Megan Schutt scripted history by becoming the only woman cricketer from Australia to claim a hat-trick in One Day Internationals

US Open 2019

Category	Winner
Men’s Singles	Rafael Nadal
Women’s Singles	Bianca Andreescu
Men’s Doubles	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah
Women’s Doubles	Elise Mertens Aryna Sabalenka
Mixed Doubles	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jamie Murray

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person	Field
Ram Jethmalani	Veteran lawyer and former Union minister
Abdul Qadir	The legendary Pakistan leg spinner
Heeralal Sharma	Freedom fighter
DilipSatpathy	Senior Odisha journalist
Veeru Krishnan	Actor-Kathak dancer
Rajasekar	Tamil film actor & director
AkilisiPohiva	Tonga’s Prime Minister
BN Yugandhar	Former bureaucrat and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s father

 

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