(11-30)th September current affairs

• First time Happenings
• Olympic bronze-medallist has become the first Indian to be picked as the International Boxing Association's representative for the IOC Athletes' Forum - MC Mary Kom
• South Asian boxing Championship (SABC) for the first time will be hosted by - India
• first ever players handbook '100 things every professional cricketer must know' has launched by - Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in New Delhi.
• first Indian state to launch electric bus service - Himachal Pradesh
• first Indian state to set up family welfare district committees to examine the complaints of women against their husbands and in-laws and find an amicable solution - Tripura.
• India’s first State of art virology laboratory at Dr Anjali Chatterjee Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy in - -Kolkata
• the first-ever National Conference on “Mission Mode to address Under-Nutrition” HELD IN - New Delhi
• first ‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’ conducted in - New Delhi
• first woman Chief Proctor of Banaras Hindu University - Royana Singh
• first Chairman of the five-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC- PM) - Bibek Debroy
• bank has launched India’s first bond index series for overseas investors at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) - State Bank of India
• India's foreign exchange reserves swells to life high of - USD 394.55 billion
• Latest Appointments
• Chief Executive Officer of Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank - KV Rama Moorthy
• Governor of Meghalaya - Ganga Prasad
• Governor of Arunachal Pradesh - B D Mishra
• Governor of Andaman and Nicobar - Devendra Kumar Joshi
• Tamil Nadu Governor - Banwarilal Purohit
• Assam Governor - Prof Jagdish Mukhi
• Governor of Bihar - Satya Pal Malik
• President of Angola - Joao Lourenco
• CMD of ONGC - Shashi Shanker
• CMD of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) - Balraj Joshi
• CMD of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) - P. Alli Rani.
• NPCI’s (National Payments Corporation of India) interim Chairman - B Sambamurthy
• Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan - Ajay Bisaria
• Brand Ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Uttarakhand - Akshay Kumar.
• Director General (DG) of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) - Y.C Modi
• Peruvian Prime Minister - Mercedes Araoz
• Chair of Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee - Ban Ki-moon
• chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of the United India Insurance Co. Ltd - M. Nagaraja Sarma
• chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of IRCTC - Mahendra Pratap Mall
• first special envoy for the oceans - Peter Thomson
• President of Singapore - Mdm Halimah Yacob
• Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI) - Viveck Goenka
• Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NMDC - N Baijendra Kumar.
• woman ambassador in 'Friends of Australia' (FOA) advocacy panel - Parineeti Chopra
• Union Minister of Railways - Piyush Goyal
• U.S ambassador to India - Kenneth I. Juster
• Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education - Anita Karwal
• Secretary in the Department of Financial Services - Rajiv Kumar
• Union Home Secretary - Rajiv Gauba
• Head of the Newly constituted Group of Ministers (GoM) to monitor and resolve the IT challenges faced in the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) - Sushil Kumar Modi.
• Summits/inaugurations/ festivals/melas
• 57th National Open Athletics Championships 2017 has begun at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in - Chennai
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched an anti-corruption investigation in - Sri Lanka
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched an anti-corruption investigation in -
• World Cup 2019 will be played from 30th May to 15th July in 2019 in - United Kingdom
• four-day annual Border Security Force (BSF) sports meet has begun in - Jammu
• Junior Asian Wrestling Championship (JAWC)- 2018 hosted in - India
• Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Senior Badminton Championship has begun at - Kochi
• 9th BRICS summit has begun in the Chinese city with theme “BRICS: Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future" - Xiamen
• National Institute of Ayurveda has entered the Guinness Book for 'Most people receiving Nasya Panch Kararma simultaneously' in - Jaipur
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• South Asian Women Development Forum (SAWDF) has organized the two days ‘Across Barriers-International Business Women’s Summit’ held at - Kathmandu, Nepal
• Dr. Harshvardhan has launched 'Pt Deen Dayal Upadhayay Vigyan Gram Sankul Pariyojana' in - Uttarakhand
• second International Yoga Festival and International Yoga Sports Championship 2017 inaugrated in - Kashmir
• ‘Ye India ka time hai’ event has been organized at National Institute of Technology at - Raipur, Chattisgarh.
• Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated the fourth Government Medical College in - Koraput
• Ramnath Kovind laid the foundation stone for link - 4 of Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation Scheme (SAUNI) Yojana in - Rajkot, Gujarat
• Coast Guard launched an aviation infrastructure including a multi-mission maritime aircraft hanger, MMMA in - Bhubaneswar.
• third India International Science Festival will be held from 13-16 October at - IIT-Chennai
• 13th Formation Day of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) held in - New Delhi
• 6th edition of the four-day international textile and apparel fair VASTRA 2017 held in - Jaipur, Rajasthan
• The union Govt. will introduce a curated food experience zone 'Food Street' at the global food fair in - New Delhi
• The Minister of State for Culture, EF & CC Dr. Mahesh Sharma has inaugurated the Aizawl Circle of Archeaological Survey of India (ASI) in - Mizoram
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe jointly laid the foundation stone for the high-speed bullet train project between - Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
• Manjeev Singh Puri, Indian Ambassador to Nepal laid the foundation stone for the proposed Pension Paying Office (PPO) at - Butwal Nepal
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the annual conference of ‘Rajaswa Gyan Sangam, 2017’ in - New Delhi.
• India’s first State of art virology laboratory at Dr Anjali Chatterjee Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy IN - Kolkata
• 38th meeting of Transport Development Council is scheduled to be held in - Vadodara
• Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe jointly laid the foundation stone for the high-speed bullet train project between - Ahmedabad and Mumbai
• fifth edition of the ‘Coastal Shipping and Inland Water Transportation Business Summit 2017’ hosted in - Kochi
• Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the new head quarter building of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) - in New Delhi
• India-Nepal joint military exercise ‘Surya Kiran XII’ was held at - Saljhandi, Nepal
• formation of an inter-ministerial task force to expedite implementation of the Centre’s Namami Gange mission by - Nitin Gadkari
• Sumitra Mahajan and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurated an exhibition Naya Bharat-Hum Karke Rahenge to aware the youth in - New Delhi.
• Important Tie ups ,Agreements , acquisitions & MOU's
• Nepal & UNDAF MOU - of USD 635 million for the next five years
• Maharashtra & Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd have signed a lease agreement - to set up a state of the art milk and milk products processing plant
• Assam & Google India’ MOU - to take Internet connectivity to the remotest part of the state
• Gujarat & Amul (Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation) MOU - to save the children of Anganwadi from malnutrition
• IndusInd Bank and Bharat Financial Inclusion - have signed a confidentiality agreement for the proposed merger between them
• India signed loan deal with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - to upgrade Alang-Sosiya Shipyards worth USD 76 million.
• Bharti Airtel & SK Telecom’ MOU - towards building an enabling ecosystem for the introduction of these technologies in the Indian context.
• Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative Bank - to offer its protection and savings products to the latter’s customers of Exide Life Insurance.
• Recent Prestigious Award winners
• Indian cyclist bagged two more Silver medals in the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - Deborah Herold
• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has nominated Padma Bhushan for his contribution to the game - Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Gold medal winner in women's pentathlon event at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan - Purnima Hembram
• 2017 BWF Korean Open Super Series Women’s Singles title winner - PV Sindhu
• Singapore Grand Prix winner - Lewis Hamilton
• India finishes in medals tally with one gold and two silver medals at Moscow Shotgun World Championships - 5th
• 2017 Italian Formula One Grand Prix tournament winner - Lewis Hamilton
• Indian pair has won the mixed doubles title at 2017 Hellas Open International Badminton Series - Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg.
• gold medal winner in 44kg weight category at Commonwealth Youth (boys & girls) weightlifting championships in Australia - Konsam Ormila Devi
• Indian sportsperson has won gold in the girls’ Under-12 category at the World Cadets Chess Championship - Divya Deshmukh
• India's boxer has won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, Germany - Gaurav Bidhuri.
• Sports ministry has recommended Olympic silver medallist shuttler for the prestigious Padma Bhushan to - P V Sindhu
• Eminent scientist has chosen for the prestigious Von Hippel Award for his immense contribution in materials research - Professor C.N.R Rao
• film will be India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars 2018 - Newton.
• best actor in drama series at the 69th Prime time Emmy Awards-2017 - Sterling K Brown
• television series has won the Outstanding Drama Series award at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Award - The Handmaid's Tale
• prestigious A Nageswara Rao (ANR) National Award for his contribution to the Telugu film industry winner - S S Rajamouli.
• ‘Global Diversity Award’ winner at Britain’s House of Commons - Salman Khan.
• According the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) World university ranking, Indian university has been names the top university in India - IISc-Bangalore
• Indian Badminton legend will receive Badminton Association of India’s (BAI) first lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Badminton - Prakash Padukone
• Indian personality has won the PLuS Alliance Prize for Global Leadership - N R Narayana Murthy
• National Award for ‘Excellence’ in Energy Management winner - Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
• Andhra Pradesh state’s CM has announced a reward of one crore rupees to Arjuna awardee archer - Vennam Jyoti Surekha
• India‟s most trusted and most popular bank according to a survey conducted by Brand Finance - State Bank of India (SBI)
• Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar (Region C) for the year 2016-17 Winner - Vijaya Bank

. Miscellaneous & Financial current affairs

. P V Sindhu has lead Indian challenge at Korea Super Series, in Seoul, South Korea

. Star India has won the coveted Indian Premier League (IPL) media rights for 2018-23 .

. The US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has arrived in New Delhi on a two day visit to India

. Saudi Arabia will lift its ban on internet calling applications, easing restrictions online as the conservative kingdom faces new criticism over censorship.

.United States of America is considering closing its embassy located in Cuba

.India has started Operation Insaniyat to provided assistance to Bangladesh in response to the humanitarian crisis being faced due to the large influx of Rohingya refugees into that country from Myanmar

.Hurricane Irma cyclone affecting the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico, and threatening Cuba and the South-eastern United States

. President of Belarus AG Lukashenko arrived on a two day visit to India

. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the 2,500-years-old Temple Shwedagon pagoda located at the west of the Royal Lake in Yangon.

. sovereign ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah bin Muhammad Al- Qasimi is on a five-day visit to Kerala.

.The union govt. has approved 221 rural roads projects and bridges involving an expenditure of 782.24 crore rupees under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana’ (PMGSY) to Himachal Pradesh.

. Karnataka state govt has launched 'Vision-2025' project across the state

. Haryana has constituted a Screening Committee on anti-profiteering.

. Devendra Fadnavis has launched the ‘Maharashtra Mission 1 Million’ initiative to support the FIFA U17 World Cup

.Andhra Pradesh has fixed a target of constructing 5 lakhs 39 thousand houses in the next 15 months for the urban poor in the state

. Assam assembly has passed a bill seeking to deduct a fraction of the salary of state govt. employees for the benefit of their parents

. Assam will provide skill development training to 30 thousand surrendered militants

. Gujarat government has announced 1 lakh Rupees cash reward to those providing information about the administrators and curators of the deadly Blue Whale Challenge

. Nagaland government will start implementing Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under MGNREGA to ensure transparency and check corruption at all levels

. Tamil Nadu government has hiked the Freedom Fighters pension from 12-thousand rupees to thirteen thousand rupees per month

.Assam government has set up a Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Cell for the implementation of DBT across schemes in the country.

.Assam state government will upgrade employment exchanges to Modern Career Centres.

. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has launched Gyankunj e-class project at Shahpur primary school .

. Karnataka state govternment will provide free education to girls up to graduation.

.The ‘Kandla Port’ has been renamed as Deendayal Port.

.Energy Efficiency Services Limited will procure ten thousand electric vehicles from Tata Motors.

.Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), A monthly Jan Sampark program to enable the public to interact with its officials for seeking information related to adoption as well as flagging their concerns.

.Union Cabinet has approved the enhancement of age of superannuation of doctors other than Central Health Service (CHS) doctors to 65 years.

. PENCIL (Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour) has been launched for effective implementation of National Child Labour Project (NCLP).

. TARASA has been Commissioned into the Indian Navy at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai

. M Venkaiah Naidu has released a Commemorative Coin on Dr. MS Subbulakshmi on the occasion of her birth Centenary Commemoration.

. The Union Cabinet has approved increase of cost norms for supplementary nutrition provided in Anganwadis and for out of school adolescent girls under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).

. The Union Home Minister ‘Rajnath Singh’ made operational the New Intelligence Set-up of Sashastra Seema Bal

.National Green Tribunal has refused to lift ban on 10-year-old diesel vehicles in the Delhi-National Capital Region

.According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report, India's telecom subscriber base dipped marginally in July this year by 1.3 lakh to 121.07 crore.

.Contact@DGFT is the online facility has been launched by the Union government to resolve foreign trade issues

. Bharti Airtel has launched Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services in Mumbai.

. The union govt. allowed import of 3 lakh metric tonnes of raw sugar at concessional duty of 25%.

.Minister of State for Culture, EF & CC Dr. Mahesh Sharma has inaugurated the Aizawl Circle of Archeaological Survey of India (ASI) in Mizoram.

.PM Modi dedicated the Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada river at Kevadia in Gujarat to the nation.

. According TRAI , India's telecom subscriber base dipped marginally in July this year by 1.3 lakh to 121.07 crore.

.Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) has helped in creating 5.5 crore jobs.

. ‘Expert Task Force’ to provide a major thrust to job creation by enhancing India’s exports constituted by NITI Aayog.

. RBI has increased foreign portfolio investors' investment limits in central and state government securities by an aggregate Rs 14,200 crore for the October-December period

. State Bank of India (SBI) has lowered the minimum average monthly balance (MAB) requirement in a savings account to Rs. 3,000 from Rs. 5,000

. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned a USD 300 million loan facility for carrying forward fiscal reforms in West Bengal.

. India's first Payment Bank Airtel Payments Bank has launched integrated Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on its digital platform.

. The Union govt. has saved 65 thousand crore rupees through Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT) in various public schemes.

. RBI has introduced 100 rupees coin to mark the birth centenary of AIADMK founder, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Late Dr. M G Ramachandran.

. The Union Cabinet has approved the release of an additional ONE percentage of dearness allowance (DA) to Central government employees

. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has raised the upper age limit for joining the National Pension Scheme (NPS) existing 60 years to 65 years.

. State-run corporation Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) all set to become a ‘Maharatna company’ (presently Navratna firm).

.The black Money has been disclosed by 21 thousand people under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna (PMGKY) till 31st March this year is 4,900 crore rupees

Indian Council for Agricultural Research(ICAR) will be undertaking major research works on agriculture this year with the World Bank fund of 1100 crore rupees.

. Reliance General Insurance has received in-principle approval from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) for its IPO.

. The union govt. fiscal deficit at the end of July this year touched 92.4 percentage of the budget estimate.

. HDFC Bank topped the list of the country‟s top 50 brands. Airtel is at 2nd spot and State Bank of India is spotted at 3rd.

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