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National  The Indira Gandhi International Airport had  Indian Army has successfully conducted surgical become -Pacific‘s only and one of the strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of world‘s few airports to achieve a ―carbon Control (LOC) in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir neutral‖ status. (PoK) i.e. along India‘s de-facto border with  India had assumed the Presidency of BRICS in Pakistan. The surgical strikes were India‘s first February,2016 and hosting the 8th BRICS direct military response to attack on Uri army Summit 2016 under India‘s Chairmanship base by Pakistan-based militants that had killed scheduled to be held on 15th-16th October, 2016 18 Indian soldiers. at Goa. The theme of India‘s BRICS  The Union Cabinet has given its approval to Chairmanship is ―Building Responsive, Inclusive ratify the Paris Agreement (on Climate Change) and Collective Solutions‖. on Gandhi Jayanti i.e. on 2nd October 2016. The  The 16 trees located in Aravali and NCR to be Paris Agreement was adopted by 185 nations in notified as ―protected‖ natural heritage, on the December 2015. India had signed the agreement lines of recognising special monuments in Delhi, in New York in April 2016. So far, 191 countries announced by Delhi Cabinet Minister Kapil have signed the agreement and 61 have ratified Mishra. Some of the tree in the list are banyan, it. ailanthus, mango, arjuna, and ashok.  India will not take part in the South Asian  Department of Information Technology, Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Electronics & Communication of the Telangana summit in Islamabad (Pakistan) to be held in government signed a Memorandum of November 2016. This decision was taken in view Understanding (MoU) with the ISRO‘s of the continuous cross border terrorism by Development & Educational Communication Pakistan which has created environment which is Unit (DECU) to improve services of its not conducive to successful holding of Summit. educational channel ‗Mana TV‘.With the help of In this regard, the Union Ministry of External ISRO, 6,000 schools in the state will launch Affairs (MEA) has conveyed to current SAARC digital classes from October 14 announced by IT Chair Nepal. Besides, , Bangladesh Minister K.T. Rama Rao. and Bhutan also have conveyed their reservation  The Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare about attending the Summit. So the summit has Minister, ShriRadha Mohan Singh inaugurated been cancelled. the four day Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Krishi  The University Grants Commission (UGC) has Unnati Mela – 2016, in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. brought out the syllabus for National Eligibility  Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurated six Test (NET) examination for the subject of major Railway projects in Kerala. yoga. H R Nagendra (PM Modi‘s Yoga guru)  Manik Sarkar lead Tripura became 23rd state to committee has recommended that the NET exam, ratifies the Constitutional Amendment Bill on the qualification criterion for university teachers Goods and Services Tax (GST) on September 26, should be held in the subject of yoga. 2016.  India has moved up 16 positions to rank 39th on  The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has a Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2016-17, cleared proposals worth 1,900 crore rupees released by the World Economic Forum (close to $3 billion). All these approved (WEF). Switzerland has retained its top position proposals will be executed under ‗Buy India‘ by as the world‘s most competitive economy for Indian contractors. seventh year in a row.  The 2016 BRICS Labour & Employment  The committee headed by the Chairman of Ministerial Meet was held in from Parliamentary Standing Committee on September 27- 28, 2016 to deliberate on issues FinanceM. Veerappa Moily to review the all including job creation and social security for budgetary reforms. The panel will give workers. The two day meeting saw the its report on the ramifications of the Union participation of the five major emerging BRICS Cabinet‘s decision of merging the Railway economies viz. Brazil, Russia, India, China and Budget with the General Budget and submit its South Africa. report before the commencement of next  Union Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhakar Parliament session. Prabhu, launched and dedicated a number of services to the nation during a function held at

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Rail Bhawan as a part of fulfillment of Budget by Goa Shipyard Ltd for Mauritius Coast Guard Announcements 2016-17. GSL. A) Liberalized station to station special freight  Government of India signed a15-year rates policy contract with the International Seabed Authority B) Policy providing sub quota of 33 % to (ISA) for exploration of polymetallic sulphides women within reserved categories for the (PMS) in Indian Ocean. allotment in catering units.  India is going to invest 2 billion dollars in Sri C) Policy giving preference to local domicile Lanka in the next three-four years. It was holders for commercial licenses at stations. announced by Union Minister for State (MoS) D) New system of allocating vacant berths after Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman final charting to wayside stations. during her visit to . E) Launch of the new ―Train at a Glance‖ and  The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the new Time Table effective from 1st October Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the 2016. field of Industrial Property Cooperation. The  Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba MoU will be signed at the upcoming official Mufti launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala state visit of ‘s Prime Minister to India Yojana (PMUY) to provide free LPG from 4 to 7 October, 2016. connections to BPL households on September 29, 2016 in Jammu Kashmir in the presence of International State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra  Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan had moved Pradhan out of the Saarc summit inPakistan in A) They gave away free LPG connections to 11 November, citing an ―unsuitable environment‖ women from BPL households. for the annual gathering of South Asian leaders. B) A target of 35 lakh connections has been set Apart from India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and under PMUY out of which one Bhutan had also pulled out of lakh connections are to be provided during the SAARC Summit indirectly next 15 days. blaming Pakistan for creating the unfavorable Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana : environment which is not right for the successful A) PMUY was launched by PM Narendra holding of the meet, resulting in its collapse. Modi in May 2016.  Pakistan‘s parliament (lower house) has passed the B) 5 crore LPG connections will be provided to Hindu Marriage Bill (first ever national law) to BPL families across the country during the enable the Hindu community (minority) to register next three years. their marriages. The bill sets the minimum age for  Ignoring Karnataka Assembly resolution not to marriage for Hindus at 18 year. share Cauvery water the Supreme Court directed  A 26-year-old woman Kate McWilliams Karnataka to release 6000 cusecs of water to from UK become the world‘s youngest ever Tamil Nadu for 3 days. commercial airline captain of easy jet. She first became interested in planes after attending an air Bilateral show at age four.  The government decided to suspend Indus water  It is pathetic to know that more than 9 out of 10 commission talks with Pakistan. This decision people worldwide live in areas with excessive air was taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister pollution, contributing to strokes, heart Narendra Modi to review the Indus Water disease, lung cancer and other problems, Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan amid a heightening says WHO Report on Ambient Air Pollution tension between the two countries. 2016. has the highest rate of  India and China hold a high level dialogue in deaths per capita due to ambient air pollution in , China, where they discussed ways to the WHO‘s classification, followed enhance security and cooperation to by Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Egypt combat terror as officials from the two sides and China. exchanged information on policies and  Russia and Cuba had signed an agreement on legislation to deal with terrorism at the first high- the peaceful use of nuclear energy, an Interfax level dialogue and they reached ―important correspondent reported from the signing consensus‖. ceremony, which took place during the  Indo-Mauritius defence co-operation got another International Atomic Energy Agency‘s 60th fillip with the delivery of first fast patrol vessel, General Conference in Vienna. MCGS VICTORY, designed and built in-house

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 Measles has been eradicated from The UPI interface was billed as a revolutionary the Americas due to decades of of sorts in digital banking by theNCPI.DCB UPI vaccination efforts, making it the first region of app provides a convenient payment method for the world to rid itself of the disease was customers to send and receive funds anytime, announced by global health authorities. anywhere, from their smart phones with  China for the first time had deployed a robot their registered mobile numbers. ―The Anbot‖ to maintain security at one of its  The pharmaceutical company Sun Pharma has busiest airports in Guangdong Province. signed a deal with the Delhi unit of the  The Colombian Government and left-wing International Centre for Genetic Engineering and FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Biotechnology (ICGEB) to develop a dengue Colombia) rebels have signed a historic vaccine. agreement that formally brings an end to 52  Karnataka Bank has inked a memorandum of years of civil war. The agreement was signed by understanding(MoU) with Birla Sun Life Asset President Juan Manuel Santos and rebel leader Management Company for distribution of mutual Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko at the fund products. ceremony in Cartagena.  Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft-  The US and navies began their 7th have joined hands to announce a historic annual Naval Engagement Activity NEA, partnership on AI and machine learning. These Vietnam 2016 at Tien Sa Port in Da Nang. companies will discuss advancements and conduct  A nearly 1,000-year-old wooden pagoda in research in AI and how to develop best products China‘s northern Shanxi province, was declared and services powered by machine learning. the world‘s tallest wooden pagoda by  As per report Indian unemployment rate has the Guinness World Records. raisin to 5 year high of 5% in 2015-16 as per  Saudi Arab announced pay cut for govt. Labour Bureau Survey. employees due to economic slowdown.  Govt. has hiked EPFO investment in ETF to Rs. 13000 cr. Economy & Banking  Govt. has slashed interest rate on Small Saving  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given Scheme by 0.1%. So KVP will by 7.7% PPF 8% approval to Rs. 26 thousand crore cash credit and KVP will mature in 112 months. Sukanya limit (CCL) for purchasing paddy in poll-bound Samridhi at 8.5% etc. Punjab. Paddy procurement in Punjab will commence from 1st October and the state is Person in News expecting procurement of 150 lakh tonne of the  Former petroleum secretary Vijay Kelkar has crop from the state. The state government will been elected president of the Indian Statistical seek approval of the Centre by sending the RBI‘s Institute (ISI). approval letter for the release of funds for the  Senior IFS officer Yashvardhan Kumar purchase of paddy. Sinha has been appointed as India‘s High  According to New World Wealth, India‘s Commissioner to the UK . He is the successor of financial capital Mumbai, home to 45,000 Navtej Sarna. millionaires and 28 billionaires, is the wealthiest  United States have appointed Jeffrey De city in the country with total wealth of $820 Laurentis as the first Ambassador of United billion. Top 3 cities : Mumbai, Delhi and States to Cuba in 55 years since 1960 Bangalore  Former Israeli Prime Minister (PM) and  Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Prime President Shimon Peres (93-year) passed away Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its due to massive stroke. approval for closure of Hindustan Cables  Eminent Bangla poet, playwriter and essayist Limited (HCL), Kolkata as per the provisions Syed Shamsul Haq (81-year) has passed away in of the Companies Act, 1956/2013, Industrial Dhaka. Disputes Act, 1947 and other relevant Acts.  Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker  Tech giants Microsoft and Adobe announced a known as the ―godfather of gore, ―was died. major partnership to promote the use of each other‘s cloud-computing tools among their Sports mutual customers.  Indian shuttler Rituparna Das has clinched the  Maharashtra based DCB Bank launched Polish Open after defeating fellow Indian Rasika its Unified Payment Interface (UPI) application.

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Raje in the women‘s singles final of the the impact of rabies on humans and animals. The International challenge badminton event. day also marks the anniversary of French  India bagged their first gold medal at the 5th chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur‘s with the women‘s beach death, which developed the first rabies kabaddi in Danang, Vietnam. Indian beat vaccine. The theme for World Rabies Day-2016 Thailand 41-31 in a hard-fought summit clash at is ―Rabies: Educate, Vaccinate, Eliminate‖. Bien Dong Park.  The World Tourism Day (WTD) is being  will host the in 2026 after observed annually on 27th September (since- and its capital were 1980) to raise awareness about the importance of confirmed as the venue for the multi-sport event tourism. The theme of this year is ‗Tourism for by the (OCA). The all – promoting universal accessibility‘. Japanese bid was the only one put forward to host  The ninth edition of the largest gathering of the continental gathering, which will be staged in tourism stakeholders ―Kerala Traval mart‖ and , in 2018 and the begins at Kochi. Chinese city of in 2022. Japan will host  109th birth anniversary of revolutionary socialist 2017 , 2019 Rugby World Shaheed Bhagat Singh was observed across India Cup and 2020 Summer Olympics. on 28th September 2016.Delhi Government  Indian table tennis player from Chennai Sathiyan decided to commemorate the day by Gnanasekaran (24-year) has become only the organising Shaheed Utsav. second to win an International Table Tennis  The Spice Route Culinary Festival held Federation (ITTF) event in Belgium. in Kochi from September 23 to 26, 2016 .This  India‘s Harish Banghel has won silver in the festival was organised by the Tourism men‘s middleweight Muay Thai event in the 5th Department in association with Asian Beach Games in Danang, Vietnam. the UNESCO and the the Union Tourism  Gaurav Gill of Team MRF won the 2016 FIA Ministry. Asia Pacific Rally Championship fourth time in  Uttar Pradesh and Bihar‘s populations have the the 2016 FIA Asia Pacific Rally lowest median ages-or youngest populations —in Championship held at , Japan. India while Kerala and Tamil Nadu have  India made a historic win in the 500th test the highest median ages, according to Census match against at Green Park, 2011 data, compiled by Bengaluru-based think Kanpur to take a 1-0 lead in the 3-match tank Takshashila Institution. series. India‘s match against New Zealand was  International Day for the Total Elimination of be the country‘s 500th, a feat achieved only by Nuclear Weapons was observed every year on26 England, and the West Indies. September 2016.First observed in 2014.  Indian women‘s beach kabaddi team has won the  World Environmental Health Day is observed gold medal at the 5th Asian Beach Games held in every year on September 26 across the world, Danang, Vietnam. In the final match, Indian which was inaugurated in 2011 in Indonesia. team defeated Thailand by 41-31 score. 2016 theme: ―Tobacco Control… a response to the global tobacco pandemic‖. Award  The World Maritime Day is observed across the  Veteran Music director Uttam Singh has been world on 29 September to highlight the awarded the ‗Lata Mangeshkar Award for importance of shipping safety, maritime security Lifetime Achievement‘ instituted by and the marine environment. 2016 Theme: the Maharashtra government. ―Shipping: indispensable to the world‖.  Indian NGO Slum Soccer won the  A new species of a ground-dwelling lizard has inaugural FIFA Diversity Award in Manchester been discovered in Goregaon‘s Aarey Colony on September 27, 2016 in Manchester, UK. It and Thane‘s Badlapur forested belts in was received by Abhijeet Barse, CEO of Soccer. Maharashtra. It has been named as Cyrtodactylus  Noted Dalit voice, poet and Telugu writer Varadgirii or Giri‘s Geckoella after a Bengaluru- Prof.Kalakaluri Enoch was conferred with the based scientist Varad Giri. It was discovered 130 prestigious Moortidevi Award of Bharatiya years after the last such gecko was discovered. Jnanpith for the year 2015.  World Heart Day is observed on 29 September. Miscellaneous 2016 Theme: ―Heart-healthy environments‖.  World Rabies Day takes place each year on 28th September (since-2007) to raise awareness about

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