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• Fertiliser major IFFCO announced that it has • The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated been ranked as the biggest cooperative in the the first Assembly of the International Solar world by 'Word Cooperative Monitor' report 2018. Alliance in . • According to a report named QS Asia University • Municipal Corporation (KMC) launched a Rankings 2019 by Quacquarelli Symonds, Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System doubled their presence in the ranking. India has (FFEWS) for Kolkata City. the third largest number of universities and • A parliamentary panel headed by Kirit Somaiya institutes (75), after mainland China (112) and will examine the functioning of retirement fund Japan (89). body Employees Provident Fund Organisation • According to a report titled ‘Nation Brands 2018’ (EPFO), its coverage and recovery of arrears. released by Brand Finance, India has secured • The Union Government constituted a four- ninth rank out of top 50 valuable national brands. member Group of Ministers headed by Rajnath • India's first engine-less train, "Train 18", Singh to examine and strengthen the existing developed by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) legal and institutional frameworks for dealing with and seen as a successor to the prestigious matters of sexual harassment of women at the Shatabdi Express, was unveiled by Railway workplace. Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani. • Odisha government launched the State’s own • PM Narendra Modi inaugurated Sardar food security scheme to cover the poor people. Vallabhbhai Patel's memorial on the leader's • The Government constituted a seven-member 143rd birth anniversary in Gujarat's Narmada ministerial panel headed by Bihar Deputy Chief district. Called the Statue of Unity. Minister Sushil Modi to examine modalities for • India will become the world's third largest aviation revenue mobilisation in case of natural calamities market around 2024 surpassing the UK, and disasters. according to global airlines' body International Air • In pursuance of its objective of ensuring that Transport Association (IATA). Legislation is in sync with the needs of strong • The Supreme Court ruled that no Bharat Stage-IV economic fundamentals, the Government has vehicle shall be sold across the country with constituted a Competition Law Review effect from April 1, 2020. Committee to review the Competition Act. The • Angriya, India’s first luxury cruise ship, has been Committee was headed by Injeti Srinivas. inaugurated at . • ICGS Varuna, an indigenously-designed training • The government has announced 100 crore rupee vessel built by Reliance Naval and Engineering award for states that would complete the Limited for the Indian Coast Guard, was launched household electrification early under the in Pipavav. Saubhagaya scheme. • North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) • Minister of State for Textiles, Ajay Tamta has biggest military manoeuvres since the Cold War stated that the Ministry will release 7.8 crore was held in Norway. rupees for the construction of a textile tourism • India, Japan and the U.S. are set to elevate the complex in Nongpoh, Ri-Bhoi district of bilateral ‘Cope India’ air exercise to a trilateral Meghalaya. format. • The country’s first India-Israel Innovation Centre • India and Japan are all set to hold the first-ever (IIIC), an entrepreneurial technology hub, was joint military exercise 'DHARMA GUARDIAN- launched in Bengaluru. 2018' involving the Indian Army and Japan • The country's biggest skill competition, India Ground Self Defence Force in Mizoram. Skills 2018 was held in New Delhi. • The sixth edition of IBSAMAR, a joint Multi- • The Centre has assured Karnataka government National Maritime Exercise between the Indian, that nearly 450 crore rupees will be reimbursed to Brazilian and South African Navies, was held at it in connection with the expenditure incurred for Simons Town, South Africa. procuring cereals and coarse cereals. • Shahi Litchi of Muzaffarpur, Bihar has got official • The Election Commission has announced the poll recognition as it receives the geographical schedule for Assembly elections in Madhya indication (GI) tag. Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and • Alphonso Mango from Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Telangana. other adjoining areas in Maharashtra, got a • Assam launched launched Asia's first cannisters Geographical Indication (GI) Tag. based Methanol Cooking Fuel Program. • The cabinet has approved the new telecom • As many as 21 countries in the Indian Ocean Rim policy, now named National Digital Association, IORA, adopted the Delhi Declaration Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018, which on Renewable Energy in the Indian Ocean aims to attract USD 100 billion investment and Region. create 4 million jobs in the sector by 2022.

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• The Supreme Court declared the Centre's • The National Nutrition Month (September) is flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally being celebrated across the country to mark the valid. The Supreme Court ruled that linking the fight against malnutrition. Aadhaar card to PAN card is mandatory and is • NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant needed for filing income tax returns. The apex announced that India will shortly unveil a One court, however, said Aadhaar is not mandatory Nation-One Card policy for public transport that for opening bank accounts and linking with will entail connectivity between various modes of existing accounts. transport. • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched • India along with 23 other nations participated in a Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya major Indian ocean-wide tsunami mock drill which Yojana from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Under this will involve evacuation of thousands of people scheme, over 10 crore families will be provided from coastal areas in over half a dozen coastal health assurance worth five lakh rupees each, states. every year. • Rima Das’ National Award-winning feature • The Union Cabinet has approved an ordinance Village Rockstars has been chosen to represent making triple talaq a punishable offence. India in the Best Foreign Language category at • The Union Minister for Railways and Coal, Piyush the 91st Academy Awards next year Goyal inaugurated the ‘first ever’ India Tourism • In order to fight the growing problem of Mart (ITM 2018) in New Delhi. counterfeit drugs in India, NITI Aayog and Oracle • The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched the signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to pilot a real ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ Movement, to boost drug supply-chain using blockchain distributed nationwide public participation in the Swachh ledger and Internet of Things (IoT) software. Bharat Abhiyan, and catalyse the fulfilment of Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a Clean India. India And UN Signed A Five-Year Sustainable • The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) Development Framework for 2018-2022 released the report HIV Estimations 2017. As per • The government of India-United Nations the report, Maharashtra has the highest number Sustainable Development Framework (SDF) of people living with HIV in India. Andhra Pradesh 2018-2022 outlines the work of UN agencies in and Karnataka were on second and third place, India, to support the achievement of key respectively. development outcomes that have been identified • The Union cabinet approved a proposal for the in consultation with the government and are complete electrification of Indian Railways by aligned to the national priorities. 2021-22, reducing dependence on imported fossil • BSNL has inked a pact with Japan’s Softbank fuel and saving revenue for the national carrier. and NTT Communications to roll out 5G and • The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has internet of things (IoT) technology in India. announced the implementation of the Human • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired exchanged the MoUs with the Tata Trusts and Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (Prevention Dell to provide a technological platform for nation and Control) Act, 2017. wide prevention, control, screening and • The act criminalises any kind of discrimination management program of Non-Communicable against people suffering from AIDS in terms of Diseases (NCDs). treatment, employment and workplace. • The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Indian • The first of its kind university in the country in the Space Research Organization (ISRO), transport sector, the National Rail and Department of Space signed an MoU for setting Transportation Institute (NRTI), started up of an state-of-the-art Integrated Control Room operations in Vadodara. for Emergency Response (ICR-ER) in Ministry of • The first ever mid-air refuelling of the Home Affairs. indigenously developed light combat aircraft • Cisco, a U.S.-based firm, that makes networking Tejas was successfully carried out, placing India telecommunications equipment, has signed two in an elite group of countries having air-to-air agreements with the NITI Aayog and Bharat refuelling capacity for military planes. Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to speed up its • The Supreme Court abolished Section 377 of the Country Digital Acceleration programme in India. Indian Penal Code (IPC), the 1862 law which • NITI Aayog, Intel and Tata Institute of criminalised homosexuality. Fundamental Research (TIFR) are collaborating to set up a Model International Center for • Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). Aviation, Suresh Prabhu launched Coffee • Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Connect - India coffee field force app and Coffee Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri KrishiTharanga - digital mobile extension services inaugurated the first regional workshop on RERA for coffee stakeholders at a function in New Delhi. (Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act) • The Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium in . Enterprises (MSME) approved a proposal by the • Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Inaugurates 4th World Summit on Accreditation to increase the wages of artisans by over 36%. (WOSA-2018) at New Delhi.

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• Prime Minister Modi inaugurated India's first • Government has approved 122 new research Global Mobility summit 'MOVE' in New Delhi. projects of 112 crore rupees under its Impacting • A Conference on “E-Mobility in Indian Railways” Research Innovation and Technology ‘IMPRINT- organized by Ministry of Railways through 2’ scheme. The initiative aims to advance Institution of Railways Electrical Engineers research in energy. (IREE) in association with NITI Aayog concluded • Santhali (Santali), a tribal language primarily in New Delhi. spoken in India, Bangladesh and , received • The government has set up an eight-member global recognition when it got a Wikipedia edition Lokpal Search Committee under the in its own script. Chairmanship of former Supreme Court Judge, • The Union Government has unlocked green Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. funds worth over Rs.66,000 crore to increase the • The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation country’s forest cover. (ESIC) has approved a new scheme- Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna for Insured Persons covered The Global Innovation Index 2018 was launched in under the Employees’ State Insurance Act. This New Delhi by Ratan P Watal, Principal Adviser, NITI scheme is a relief payable in cash directly to their Aayog. India’s rank on the Global Innovation Index Bank Account in case of unemployment and (GII) has improved from 60 in 2017 to 57 in 2018. while they search for new engagement. • The Global Innovation Index (GII) provides • The third edition of World’s Biggest Open detailed metrics about the innovation Innovation Model - Smart India Hackathon 2019 - performance of 126 countries which represent was launched by the Union Minister for Human 90.8% of the world’s population and 96.3% of Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar in global GDP. New Delhi. • The Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (in • India’s largest business incubator the Sikkim) has become the 11th Biosphere Reserve Bhamashah Techno Hub was inaugurated in from India that has been included in the . UNESCO designated World Network of • The Supreme Court ruled that the ‘None of The Biosphere Reserve. Above’ (NOTA) option will not be applicable for • The 123rd Constitutional Amendment Bill giving voting in the Rajya Sabha elections. constitutional status to the National Commission • With an aim to provide country’s poor access to for Backward Classes (NCBC) has got quality and affordable healthcare, government on Parliamentary assent. announced the launch of Ayushman Bharat (now • AIBD India has been elected as the President of Jan Aarogya Abhiyan) covering 50 crore people. the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting • The Statistics from 14 cities across India have Development (AIBD) for a period of two years. been analysed for clean and low carbon mobility • Google announced Project Navlekha at its 4th and the title reported ‘The Urban Commute’ edition of Google for India Event held in New • Bhopal tops for lowest overall emissions and Delhi. energy use. • Former President Pranab Mukherjee launched • Kolkata emits least among six megacities due to the National Electoral Transformation (NETA) high usage of public transport and walking. mobile application to rate Members of Parliament • The Ease of Living Index 2018 was released by (MPs) and Members of Legislative Assembly Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Of total 111 (MLAs). cities ranked under the index, Pune has been • NITI Aayog has launched “Pitch to MOVE” - a ranked first while Navi Mumbai has surfaced as mobility pitch competition that aims to provide the second preferred spot in terms of 'liveability'. budding entrepreneurs of India a unique • India has jumped 22 places to 96th rank to break opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a into the top 100 of the United Nation’s E- distinguished jury. Government Development Index (EGDI) 2018. • The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has Denmark, with an index value of 0.9150, topped rolled out the Smart City projects that will help the 2018 E-Government Development Survey. New Delhi emerge as a world-class city. • India successfully flight tested the indigenously • The Ministry of HRD has embarked on a major developed helicopter launched Anti-Tank Guided and new initiative Project called 'Study Webs of Missile ‘HELINA’ from Pokhran in Rajasthan. Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' • Exercise 'Maitree’ 2018 is a joint military exercise (SWAYAM), which will provide one integrated between Indian Army and Royal Thai Army which platform and portal for online courses. This is held in Thailand. covers all higher education subjects and skill • Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari sector courses. signed an MoU with six states for the construction • Startup India has launched the Startup Academia of the Lakhwar multi-purpose project in the upper Alliance programme, which is a unique Yamuna basin to deal with water crisis. mentorship opportunity between academic • The Centre unveiled a draft scheme for extending scholars and startups working in similar domains, the affordable air travel programme UDAN to to fulfill the Indian Government’s mission to international circuits, with state governments promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in the identifying the routes for operation. country.

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• Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu every State to meet the rising demand for skilled launched a logo and tagline for Geographical manpower in the country. Indications (GI) to increase awareness about • India has become the Vice-Chair (Regional intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the country. Head) of the Asia Pacific Region of World The slogan for the GI tag is- 'Invaluable Customs Organisation (WCO) for a period of two Treasures of Incredible India’. years (from July 2018 to June 2020). • The IT ministry launched a desktop software e- • The Telecom Commission has approved the Aksharayan in a conference for Indian Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) Languages Technology Industry ‘Bhashantara’, in net neutrality recommendations that bar service New Delhi. providers from discriminating against internet • Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) made content and services by blocking, throttling or public 13 standardised state-of-the-art ship granting them higher speed access. designs suitable for large barge haulage on river • The Union Government has granted the Ganga (National Waterway-1). Institutions of Eminence (IoEs) status to six • The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs institutions including 3 from Public Sector and 3 chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave its from Private Sector. approval for implementation of an umbrella scheme ‘Ocean Services, Technology, Three Public Universities granted the Institutions of Observations, Resources Modelling and Science Eminence (IoEs) status: (O-SMART)’. 1. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay, • A National Viral Hepatitis control programme 2. IIT-Delhi, aimed at eliminating the deadly condition by 2030 3. IISc . was launched by the Ministry of Health and Three Private Universities granted the Institutions of Family Welfare in collaboration with the World Eminence (IoEs) status: Health Organisation. 1. Jio Institute by Reliance Foundation • The government has decided to set up a (recommended for a letter of intent), committee under the Chairmanship of Mr Anil 2. BITS Pilani, Swarup, to suggest measures to strengthen 3. Manipal Academy of Higher Education. National Cadet Corps (NCC) and National Service Scheme (NSS). • Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has • The Madhya Pradesh State Government launched India Smart Cities Fellowship (ISCF) launched an outstanding power bill waiver and Internship (ISCI) program that will provide scheme and subsidised power scheme called the youth with an opportunity to experience the ‘Sambal’ for labourers and poor families. aspects of Urban planning and governance. • The government has set up a 13-member • The Union Environment Ministry has issued a committee to upgrade the norms for computation notification setting noise standards for all airports of economic data at states and districts level in across the country. The limits, however, exclude the backdrop of plans to revise the base year for defence aircrafts, and those that are landing and National Accounts or GDP calculation. taking off. • According to the US-based Institute for Energy • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) President Moon Jae-in visited Noida and report, Karnataka is the new national leader in inaugurated the New Mobile Manufacturing Plant renewable energy generation. of Samsung at Noida, which will be the world's • According to the Public Affairs Index 2018, Kerala largest mobile factory. is the best-governed state in the country. • The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs • Haryana has topped other states in per capita (CCEA) has approved proposal for expanding the revenue collection under GST and is also the scope of Higher Education Financing Agency fourth highest generator of e-way bills in the (HEFA) by enhancing its capital base to Rs. country. 10,000 crore and tasking it to mobilise Rs. • Andhra Pradesh has been ranked first in the 1,00,000 crore for Revitalizing Infrastructure and 2018 Ease of Doing Business, followed by Systems in Education or RISE by 2022. Telangana and Haryana. • Election Commission has launched Android- • The Indian Railways launched ‘Mission based mobile application named ‘cVigil’ for Satyanishtha’ and a programme on Ethics in citizens to report any violation of the model code Public Governance, in a first-of-its-kind event. of conduct during elections. • The Parliament approved a legislation, fugitive • The government has decided to sharply increase Economic Offenders Bill, 2018 to help the the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Kharif government bring back fugitives involved in crops. The MSP for common variety paddy, the white-collar crimes to stand trial in India. most important Kharif crop, will be raised by Rs • Union Minister for Skill Development and 200 over last year’s Rs 1,550 per quintal. Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan • Union minister of chemicals and Fertilisers announced that the Centre is planning to set up Ananth Kumar announced that the country’s first one National Skill Training Institute (NSTI) in e-waste recycling unit will come up in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

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• The Archaeological Survey of India decided to • India and Russia signed the $5 billion S-400 air allow photography within the premises of all defence system deal during the annual bilateral centrally protected monuments/sites. summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi • Rajya Sabha has, for the first time in 76 years and Russian President Vladimir Putin at since it came into being, entered into a House. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a • Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the foreign counterpart for promoting inter- Government of India signed a $150 million Loan parliamentary dialogue. Venkaiah Naidu has Agreement in New Delhi to establish a Global become the first Chairman of Rajya Sabha to Skills Park (GSP) in Madhya Pradesh. sign such an agreement when he inked an MOU • The government of India and the Asian with the visiting President of the Senate of the Development Bank (ADB) signed $240 million Republic of Rwanda, Bernard Makuza. loan for providing safe and sustainable drinking • The National Security Guard will be the first water to people of West Bengal. central paramilitary force to opt for e-ticketing • The world's largest airport terminal "under one instead of the railway warrant under an roof" with a capacity to serve 90 million agreement signed with the IRCTC. passengers has been officially opened in • Airports Authority of India (AAI) will set up a Istanbul, Turkey. state-of-the-art Civil Aviation Research • The 20th Water, Energy, Technology, and Organization (CARO) at Hyderabad’s Begumpet Environment Exhibition (WETEX) 2018 was held Airport to find indigenous solutions to meet the in Dubai. challenges posed by the growing air traffic and • A Chinese company has tested the 'world's for enhancing safety, capacity and efficiency of largest' cargo drone Feihong-98 (FH-98) which aircraft operations in the country. can carry a payload of 1.5 tonnes (1,500kg). • Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) in Assam has • has become the second country after become the first oil public sector undertaking Uruguay to legalize possession and use of (PSU) to adopt an online legal compliance recreational cannabis. system by introducing 'Legatrix'. • India and China have launched their first joint • The Bhitarkanika National Park (Odisha) has programme for Afghanistan to train its diplomats. become the largest habitat of the endangered • India has been elected to the United Nations' estuarine crocodiles in the country with a record Human Rights Council with the highest vote number of their nesting sites spotted in it. among all candidates. • Ukraine began a series of large-scale air force INTERNATIONAL exercises with the United States and other NATO countries. • India and Bangladesh signed several agreements • The 13th Annual Summit between India and for enhancing inland and coastal waterways Japan was held in Tokyo. connectivity between the two countries for trade • Second Plenary Session of ‘2nd International and cruise movements. Conference on Primary Health Care was held in • Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has won an Astana, Kazakhstan. additional $777 million contract to supply LRSAM • The first trilateral meeting among India, air and missile defence systems to seven ships in Afghanistan and Iran of the Coordination Council the Indian navy. of the Chabahar Agreement took place in Tehran, • India and Croatia signed two agreements to Iran. strengthen cultural and diplomatic cooperation • The 27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC between the two countries. 2018) has started in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. • India and has signed two MoU for • The 17th Council of Heads of Government, CHG, construction of 1200 houses through 50 model meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation villages, using Indian grant assistance of 60 crore Organization (SCO) was held in Dushanbe, Srilankan rupees. Tajikistan. • India and Azerbaijan have agreed to take • According to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) measures to enhance bilateral trade relations. report titled 'Asian Economic Integration Report • Delhi government signed a twin-city agreement 2018’, most of the international migrants in 2017 with the government of Moscow for cooperation were from India, followed by China and in various fields like environment, culture and Bangladesh education, for the next 3 years. • The 2018 Global Hunger Index (GHI) indicates • UNICEF and NASSCOM Foundation have signed that the level of hunger and undernutrition an agreement to strengthen child rights through worldwide falls into the serious category, at a "meaningful business interventions. value of 20.9, down from 29.2 in 2000. As per the • The government of India and Asian Development index, India was ranked 103rd. Bank (ADB) signed a $110 million loan to finance • The World Bank released the Human Capital the upgrade of 2,800 kilometers all-weather rural Index (HCI) as part of the World Development roads in Madhya Pradesh. Report 2019. Singapore topped the poll after it was highly rated for its universal health care

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system, education exams results and life • International tourist arrivals hit record high in expectancy figures. It is followed by South Korea, 2017 with India leading the growth in South Asian Japan, Hong Kong and Finland. India was ranked region. According to data from the UN’s tourism at the 115th position. organisation, a total of 1,323 million international • Japan's passport has been named the most tourist arrivals recorded in destinations around powerful in the world, overtaking Singapore, the world. according to the Henley Passport Index 2018. • ‘High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis was held at • Apple displaced Google to become the top brand 73rd session of United Nations General in the world in 2018 in the top 100 brands Assembly (UNGA) at New York’. globally. • The Global Climate Action Summit 2018 was held • India and Morocco signed an MoU for deepening at San Francisco, California, United States. cooperation between MSME sectors of the two • G-20 Trade and Investment Ministerial meeting countries in Rabat, Morocco. was held in Argentina • India and Niger signed an MoU for the • India, Iran and Afghanistan held their first implementation of Mahatma Gandhi International tripartite meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan during Convention Centre (MGICC) in Niamey, Niger which implementation of the Chabahar port with the Indian government's grant assistance. project and a host of other issues including ways • India and Morocco signed the revised Air to deepen counter-terror cooperation were Services Agreement between the two countries discussed. enabling greater connectivity through a • The three-day World Hindu Congress was held in modernized agreement. Chicago, the USA. • India and Sri Lanka signed an MoU for • India and the US held the first edition of the two- construction of a 5000-metric ton temperature plus-two talks in New Delhi. controlled warehouse in Dambulla, Sri Lanka. • The International Women Entrepreneurs Summit • A Loan Agreement for IBRD Credit of US$74 2018 is being held in Kathmandu, Nepal. million equivalent for the Uttrakhand Workforce • The International Aviation Summit was held in New Delhi, India. Development Project (UKWDP) was signed th between India and the World Bank. • The 6 East Asia Summit- Economic Ministers’ Meeting (EAS-EMM) and 15th India-ASEAN • Bangladesh's Cabinet has approved a draft Economic Ministers’ Meeting (AEM) was held in agreement with India to enable New Delhi to use Singapore. the Chittagong and Mongla ports for the • Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik movement of goods to and from northeast India. inaugurated the Fourth International Ayurveda • The Delhi government signed an MoU with the Congress (IAvC) at the Netherlands. Seoul Metropolitan Government to work closely in • The UN has declared period from 2019 to 2028 the fields of environment, tourism, wastewater as the Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace. and solid waste management, infrastructure and • Germany has rolled out the world’s first public health. hydrogen-powered train.

• The second edition of Nepal-China joint military India and France have signed an implementation exercise (JME) named Mt Everest Friendship agreement on 'Mobilise Your City' (MYC). Mobilise Exercise-2018 (Sagarmatha Friendship-2018) Your City (MYC) is part of an international initiative commenced in China’s southwestern Sichuan which is supported by the French and the German province. Governments and was launched at 21st Conference • Russia has launched its biggest military exercise of Parties (COP21) meeting. since the Cold War named "Vostok-2018", • The MYC aims at supporting three pilot cities viz. involving about 300,000 service personnel, in Nagpur, Kochi and in their efforts to eastern Siberia. reduce their Green House Gas (GHG) emissions • Indian navy ships and aircraft have arrived in Sri related to urban transport by implementing urban Lanka to take part in the joint exercise SLINEX- mobility plans at local level and to help India at 2018 to be held with Sri Lankan navy at national level to improve their sustainable Trincomalee. transport policy. • India and Bulgaria sign five pacts on Investment, • India and US have signed the Communications Tourism, Civil Nuclear Cooperation, science and Compatibility and Security Agreement technology cooperation and Establishment of (COMCASA) that will facilitate India to obtain Hindi Chair at Sofia University. critical defence technologies from the US, and • Ukraine has launched annual joint military access critical communication network to ensure exercise named Rapid Trident with the United interoperability among the US and the Indian States and other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty armed forces. Organization) member countries. • As per a UN report on the ‘state of food security • The 4th BIMSTEC Summit was held in and nutrition in the world’, the number of Kathmandu, Nepal. undernourished globally increased to 821 million • The fourth Asian electoral stakeholders forum in 2017, which means that one in every nine (AESF-IV) was held in Colombo to discuss the people, does not have enough to eat. state of elections and democracy in the region.

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• Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong the L-Band 3D Air Surveillance Radar, RAWL-03, chaired the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers co-developed by BEL and Saab. meeting in Singapore. • India signed a revised travel agreement with • India and Singapore have signed the Second Bangladesh to ease visa restrictions for citizens Protocol amending the Comprehensive Economic from the neighbouring country. Cooperation Agreement in New Delhi which will • India and the United Kingdom signed an boost bilateral trade between the two countries. agreement on the exchange of experience by • India and Germany have signed an agreement on legal professionals and government functionaries financial and technical cooperation focusing on for resolution of disputes before various courts sustainable urban development and renewable and tribunals. energy. • The 10th BRICS summit was held in • The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released Johannesburg, South Africa. the Global Liveability Index 2018, the ranking of • Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister for Social 140 global cities based on their living conditions. Justice & Empowerment attended the Global The Top three cities on the list are: Disability Summit held in London, UK. 1. Vienna, • The 8th BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting was 2. Melbourne, held at Durban, South Africa. 3. Osaka • Human Resource Development Minister Prakash • Exercise Shanghai Cooperation Organization Javadekar inaugurated the 17th World Sanskrit (SCO) Peace Mission 2018, the latest in 'Peace Conference held at Vancouver, Canada. Mission' series was held at Chebarkul, Russia. • The 5th Regional Comprehensive Economic • Iran unveiled its first domestic fighter jet named Partnership (RCEP) Intersessional ministerial 'KOWSAR. meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan. • The first-ever joint air exercise involving the • The UK has topped an annual global ranking of Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Royal Malaysian nations' soft power, with France placed second Air Force (RMAF) commenced at Subang Air on the list of 30 countries. Base in . • The Global Innovation Index (GII) has ranked • The 4th BIMSTEC Summit was held in India as the 57th most innovative nation in the Kathmandu, Nepal. world. • The First South Asian Association for Regional • The Top 3 Countries in Global Innovation Index Cooperation (SAARC) Agri Cooperative Business are: Forum was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. 1. Switzerland, • The G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting 2. The Netherlands, was held in Salta, Argentina. 3. Sweden. • External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj • The United States has eased export controls for inaugurated 'Panini Language Laboratory' at high-technology product sales to India by Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) at Port Louis in elevating its status to a Strategic Trade Mauritius. Authorisation-1 (STA-1) country. • The UK government has announced new plans to • The UN Security Council adopted a resolution change the law for organ and tissue donation to 2427, aimed at a framework for mainstreaming address the urgent need for organs within the protection, rights, well-being and empowerment Indian-origin communities in the country. of children throughout the conflict cycle. • The Government of India has released 470 • The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport million Nepali rupees grant for Terai roads project (MRIA) which is dubbed the “world’s emptiest in Nepal airport” due to lack of flights would be operated • The 11th World Hindi Conference has started in as a Sri Lanka-India joint venture. Port Louis the capital of Mauritius. • The world’s first digital art museum was opened • The 24th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) to public in Tokyo, Japan. was held in Beijing, China. • Asia's first arbitration centre specialised in • India and signed four MoUs in various intellectual property is slated to open in Tokyo. fields including the areas of defence, diplomatic • Myanmar joined the India-initiated International ties, cultural exchange and material testing Solar Alliance (ISA), thus, becoming the 68th laboratory. signatory to the Framework Agreement of the ISA • India and Rwanda signed eight agreements that aims for optimum utilisation of solar energy. following delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rwandan President BANKING AWARENESS Paul Kagame in Kigali. • India and Ghana signed two agreements in an • State Bank of India (SBI) and payments solution effort to enhance the bilateral cooperation provider Hitachi Payment Services India has between the two countries. entered into an agreement to form a joint venture • Defence public sector undertaking Bharat for establishing a card acceptance and digital Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed an MoU payment platform. with Saab, Sweden, recently for jointly marketing • IDFC Bank proposed to change its name to 'IDFC First Bank Ltd' in the wake of its amalgamation

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with the non-banking financial company Capital • The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural First. Development (NABARD) has approved • State Bank of India has signed an MoU with Rs.65,634.93 crore loan so far to 93 prioritised Kathmandu-based National Banking Institute irrigation projects under the government's (NBI) for the development of human resources of flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai the latter. Yojana • National Housing Bank (NHB) has decided to India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has partnered with increase the Refinance Limit from Rs.24,000 Financial Software and Systems aimed to create crore to Rs.30,000 crore for the Current Year payments acceptance network for unorganized retail (July 2018-June 2019) towards refinancing including small merchants and kirana stores where eligible institutions. consumers can make payments. • The Centre in consultation with the Reserve Bank • FSS a payments technology company to ensure of India has decided to issue Sovereign Gold that micro-merchants are able to accept Bonds 2018-19. The Bonds will be sold through payments over any channel – online, unified banks, Stock Holding Corporation of India payments interface (UPI), quick-response (QR) Limited, designated post offices and recognised codes, Aadhaar and IPPB accounts. stock exchanges National Stock Exchange of India Limited and Bombay Stock Exchange The RBI has reviewed the arrangement and issued Limited. revised directions under Section 35 A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 in the form of ‘Internal The Reserve Bank of India issued guidelines for Ombudsman( IO) Scheme, 2018. operating Electronic Trading Platforms (ETPs) to It states that All Scheduled Commercial Banks in transact trade in eligible instruments. (‘Eligible India having more than ten banking outlets (excluding Instruments’ shall mean securities, money market Regional Rural Banks), are required to appoint IO in instruments, foreign exchange instruments, their banks. derivatives, or other instruments of like nature, as • The Banking Ombudsman Scheme is an may be specified by the RBI). expeditious and inexpensive forum for bank • As per the norms issued by the central bank customers for resolution of complaints relating to ETPs will mean any electronic system, other than certain services rendered by banks. a recognised stock exchange. ETP Operator’ • All Scheduled Commercial Banks, Regional Rural shall mean an entity authorised by the Reserve Banks and Scheduled Primary Co-operative Bank to operate an ETP. Banks are covered under the Scheme. • On the occasion of Birth Anniversary of Mahatma • HDFC ERGO, India's third-largest non-life Gandhi, Small Industries Development Bank of insurance provider in the private sector, India (SIDBI), had launched a National Level announced the launch of 'E@Secure', a Cyber Entrepreneurship Awareness Campaign, Udyam Insurance Policy for individuals. This policy aims Abhilasha. at providing comprehensive protection to • The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a individuals and their families against any cyber- penalty of Rs.5 crore on Karur Vysya Bank for attacks, cyber frauds or digital threats that could non-compliance of its directives. lead to a financial loss and or reputational loss. • The BRICS' New Development Bank has • National Bank for Agriculture and Rural approved a $525-million loan for infrastructure Development (NABARD) has sanctioned an projects in India. amount of Rs.335 crore under the Rural • Yes Bank has paid Rs.38 crore in fines to the Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) to West GST department for alleged violations in Bengal. domestic remittances. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the India • Insurance regulator IRDAI has raised the Post Payments Bank (IPPB) at Talkatora Stadium in minimum insurance cover for owner-driver to New Delhi. IPPB is the largest payments bank in the Rs.15 lakh for a premium of Rs.750 per annum, a country by network size. move to provide some assistance to road • Payments bank can carry out banking operations accident victims. but can’t advance loans or issue credit cards. • Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry • As per the new Reserve Bank of India (Note of Finance and National Informatics Centre (NIC) Refund) Amendment Rules, 2018, "the undivided have jointly developed a mobile app called Jan area of the single largest piece of the note" for a Dhan Darshak as a part of financial inclusion (FI) damaged Rs 2000 note must be 88 square cm for initiative. a full refund, and 44 square cm for half refund. The Rs.2000 note is 109.56 square cm in • SEBI approved a slew of proposals, including a dimension. For a damaged Rs 200 note, the revised framework for settlement of cases and criteria is 78 square cm for a full refund, and 39 new KYC norms for foreign portfolio investors. square cm for half refund. • The government has proposed amalgamation of • DBS Bank has been named the world's best bank Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank, and Dena Bank to by Global Finance magazine, in a reflection of its create India’s 3rd largest globally competitive ability to invest in digital innovation while still Bank. maintaining stable operations for its customers.

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• Punjab National Bank (PNB) has announced that Nearly two dozen Banks and Financial Institutions, the Department of Financial Services report has including SBI and LIC, have signed the inter-creditor rated it as number one state-owned bank in terms agreement (ICA) framework to speed up the of digital transactions. resolution of stressed assets which are under the • Exim Bank of India has signed a multilateral 500-crore rupee bracket. cooperation agreement with member • The objective of ICA is to resolve stressed assets development banks of BRICS to undertake fast, and will primarily focus on NPAs in the 50 “collaborative research” in distributed crore to 500 crore bracket. ledger/blockchain technology. • The framework is part of the Project SASHAKT, • Axis bank has become the first bank in the the report on bad bank drafted and submitted by country to introduce Iris Scan Authentication the committee headed by Non-executive feature for Aadhaar -based transactions through Chairman of PNB, Sunil Mehta. its micro ATM tablets. • Federal Bank has received the regulatory nod to Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has entered into a open offices in , Kuwait and Singapore. bancassurance deal with Vijaya Bank. • Jana Small Finance Bank announced the • Bancassurance means selling insurance product commercial launch of its banking operations, the through banks. Banks and insurance company last microfinance company to convert itself into a come up in a partnership wherein the bank sells small finance bank (SFB), three years after the the tied insurance company's insurance products Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gave its in-principle to its clients approval. • PayPal, a digital payments platform has • Oxigen and Fincare Small Finance Bank signed announced its strategic partnership with and an agreement to roll out the Branchless Banking HDFC Bank to offer safer, faster and convenient services, using Oxigen's flagship Point of Sale payment experiences for the bank's cardholders. device called the Oxigen Micro ATM Super PoS. • Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has launched a new digital platform The finance ministry has approved an infusion of 'MyDeal' to simplify capital raising process Rs.11,336 crore in five state-owned lenders including through capital markets by providing real-time PNB, Corporation Bank and Andhra Bank to help access to information such as investors' them meet the regulatory capital requirement. feedback, profiles, client orders and deal pricing. • Capital requirement is also known as regulatory • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will transfer capital or capital adequacy. Rs.50,000 crore of its surplus money to the • The capital norms recommend Capital Adequacy government, the highest since 2015-16. ratio (CAR) be increased to 8 per cent internationally, while in India it is 9 per cent. CAR Mauritius-based SBM Group has received Reserve is a ratio of a bank’s capital to its risk. Bank of India’s approval to operate in the country • The board of Life Insurance Corporation of India through a wholly-owned subsidiary route. It is the first (LIC) has approved the proposal for the insurer to foreign lender to receive such a licence. hold a 51% stake in IDBI Bank. • SBM, which has been in India since 1994, • State Bank of India and National Bank for currently operates through four branches, in Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and have joined hands to provide collateral-free credit Ramachandrapuram. through Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) in Telangana. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs.772 crore for eight compulsory to incorporate purchaser’s name on water projects in the rural areas of Haryana. the face of payment instrumentalities like demand In 3rd Bi-monthly Policy Statement, the Reserve bank draft, pay order, banker’s cheques and other of India’s (RBI’s) monetary policy committee (MPC) instruments to prevent money laundering. raised policy rates by 25 basis points to 6.5% on • HDFC securities announced the launch of Mutual account of inflationary pressures arising due to hike in Funds transactional capabilities on minimum support price. Messenger through their virtual assistant, Arya. • Reverse Repo- 6.25% • Marginal Standing Facility Rate- 6.75% Airtel Payments Bank has received requisite • Bank rate – 6.75% approvals from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to • Cash reserve Ratio- 4% begin taking new customers. • Statutory Liquidity Ratio – 19.5% • The development comes nearly seven months • India Banking Conclave 2018 was held in New after Airtel, along with Airtel Payments Bank, Delhi. The India Banking Conclave 2018 was came under fire for allegedly opening payments organized by Centre for Economic Policy bank accounts of its mobile subscribers without Research (CEPR). their consent. • The value of transactions made through mobile India has become the 69th shareholder of the wallets touched a record Rs14,632 crore in June, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) (EBRD). data.

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• European Bank for Reconstruction and foreign labour certification for the H-1B visas for Development is a multilateral development bank the fiscal year 2018. set up in 1991. • Paytm has launched a QR-based smartphone • Headquarters: London UK payment settlement service in Japan in • Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved collaboration with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan 503-million US Dollar lining project of the Son Corporation. canal in Shahabad-Bhojpur region of Bihar which In a move aimed at promoting digital transactions, the would benefit the agriculture sector immensely in Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released operational the region. guidelines to facilitate payments among prepaid • The Reserve Bank of India has announced that instruments (PPI) such as mobile wallets. the licence of Alwar Urban Co-operative Bank in • Currently, a mobile wallet does not allow Alwar, Rajasthan has been cancelled as it is not customers to send or receive money from a in a position to pay its depositors in full as and wallet run by another company. when their claims accrue, among other reasons. TCS became the world’s largest pure-play information • Globally, America's JPMorgan Chase is the most technology (IT) and consulting firm servicing valuable with a market cap of $353 billion, megabanks and insurers. followed by Bank of America at $282 billion. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed state- There are four lenders from India that now rank owned oil companies to borrow long-term working among the world's 500 most valuable companies. capital from overseas. HDFC Bank is followed by its housing finance • Till now oil marketing companies were not cousin Housing Development Finance allowed to raise External Commercial Borrowing Corporation (HDFC), Kotak Mahindra Bank and (ECB) for working capital needs on a long-term State Bank of India. basis. • YES Bank announced that it has received final IFC, International Finance Corporation, the World regulatory approval from the Securities & Bank’s lending arm, has launched its $1 billion Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to start mutual masala bond programme in the US and Europe. fund business. These bonds are aimed at funding the rapidly • ICICI Bank has announced that its mortgage loan expanding investment activities of IFC in India. portfolio crossed the Rs 1.5-trillion milestone, • Masala bonds are rupee-denominated making it the largest private player in the borrowings issued overseas. segment, and the lender is targeting to grow it to • As per the IMF's latest report, India is projected Rs 2 trillion by FY20. to grow at 7.3% in 2018 and 7.4% in 2019. • China, UAE, Cyprus and significantly, Mauritius, • As per the RBI, India's external debt declined along with 21 other countries have been tagged 2.8% to USD 514.4 billion at June-end over the as “high-risk jurisdictions” by global banks acting previous quarter on account of a decrease in as custodians for foreign funds which comprise commercial borrowings, short-term debt and non- the largest group of investors in the Indian stock resident Indian (NRI) deposits. market. • The Reserve Bank of India has notified that it will • The Reserve Bank of India licensed Bank of inject Rs.40,000 crore through open market China to operate in India. operation (OMO) into the system in November • The Sunil Mehta Committee, set up to look into through the purchase of government securities. the faster resolution of stressed assets, has • The Reserve Bank of India has kept the policy recommended the creation of an asset repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility management company for the resolution of (LAF) unchanged at 6.5%. Consequently, the stressed loans worth more than Rs500 crore. reverse repo rate under the LAF remains at The Lok Sabha passed the Negotiable Instruments 6.25%, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) (Amendment) Bill, 2017 which has the provision of rate and the Bank Rate at 6.75%. Growth allowing a court trying an offence related to cheque projection for 2018-19 has also been retained at bouncing, to direct the drawer to pay interim 7.4%. compensation to the complainant. • The Republic of Seychelles launched the world’s • The interim compensation will not exceed 20% of first Sovereign Blue Bond, a financial instrument the cheque amount and will have to be paid by designed to support sustainable marine and the drawer within 60 days of the trial court’s order fisheries projects. to pay such a compensation. • According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2018, by World Economic Forum India has been BUSINESS AND ECONOMY ranked 58th most competitive economy. The Top 5 countries on the Index are: US, Singapore, • IBM has acquired software company Red Hat in a Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. $34 billion cash and debt deal, marking its • According to an international survey, India's biggest ever acquisition till date. overall ranking on the government's adoption of • According to data from the US Department of e-payments has moved up to 28th in 2018. Labour, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the Norway leads the pack in the 73-country ranking, only Indian company among top 10 firms to get followed by France and Denmark.

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• Mukesh Ambani has emerged as the richest and the US with 121 firms,according to the ‘Credit Indian for the 11th consecutive year with a net Suisse Family 1000 in 2018’ study, published by worth of USD 47.3 billion, according to Forbes the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI). magazine. As per the ‘Forbes India Rich List • The Reserve Bank of India has released its 2018’, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has retained annual report. Due to the evolving economic the second spot, followed by Lakshmi Mittal. conditions, real GDP growth for 2018-19 is • According to Association of Mutual Funds of expected to increase to 7.4% from 6.7% in the India’s (AMFI) statistics, Maharashtra tops the previous year. chart for state with the maximum penetration and • The government has raised interest rates on Assets Under Management (AUM). Small Savings Schemes (SSS), including • India Banking Conclave 2018 was held in New National Savings Certificate (NSC) and Public Delhi. The India Banking Conclave 2018 was Provident Fund (PPF) by up to 0.4% for the organized by Centre for Economic Policy October-December quarter, in line with rising Research (CEPR). deposit rates in the banks. • The value of transactions made through mobile • The Union Cabinet approved new Umbrella wallets touched a record Rs14,632 crore in June, Scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Sanrakshan Abhiyan, PM-AASHA. The new data. Umbrella Scheme includes the mechanism of • Global research agency Fitch has raised India’s ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers. growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.8 per • The Union Government has appointed former cent from the earlier 7.4 per cent. Reserve Bank of India governor Bimal Jalan as • Inflation based on wholesale prices eased to a the head of the panel that has been tasked with four-month low of 4.53% in August on softening selecting India’s next chief economic advisor of prices of food articles, especially vegetables. (CEA). • The Government has decided to make the The government has announced an array of steps to Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) an check the rising Current Account Deficit (CAD), and open-ended scheme and added more incentives the fall in rupee. The steps include removal of to encourage people to open bank accounts. The withholding tax on rupee-denominated bonds known Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stated that the as Masala bonds issued till March 2019, relaxation for overdraft facility has been doubled from Rs.5,000 Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI), and curbs on non- to Rs.10,000 under the Yojana. essential imports. FDI in the telecom sector has jumped nearly five • The current account deficit is a measurement of a times in the last three years – from USD 1.3 Billion in country's trade where the value of the goods and 2015-16 to USD 6.2 Billion in 2017-18. services it imports exceeds the value of the PayU India has received Reserve Bank of India’s goods and services it exports. (RBI) approval to operate its own non-banking • India’s overall exports (Merchandise and financial company (NBFC). Services combined) in April-August 2018-19 (as • PayU India is a digital payments firm owned by per the RBI Press Release) are estimated to be South Africa’s Naspers Ltd. USD 221.83 Billion, exhibiting a positive growth • Samsung has opened its biggest experience of 20.70% over the same period last year. centre Opera House in Bengaluru, Karnataka. • According to the data released by Central • The Haryana government signed an MoU with Statistics Office (CSO), Index of Industrial Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to set up an ethanol production (IIP) grew at 6.6% in July on the back plant in Panipat with an outlay of over Rs.900 of good performance by the manufacturing sector crore. and higher offtake of capital goods and consumer durables. • The Reserve Bank of India has released its • The government of India has doubled the annual report in Mumbai. It was mentioned in the monetary limit to 20 lakh rupees for filing loan report that due to the evolving economic recovery application in the Debt Recovery conditions, real GDP growth for 2018-19 is Tribunals (DRT) by banks and financial expected to increase to 7.4% from 6.7% in the institutions. previous year. • Indian economy grew by 8.2% in the first quarter • The Indian economy is expected to grow by (April-June) of the current fiscal, the highest in around 7.5% in 2018 and 2019 as it is largely over two years. resilient to external pressures like those from • India ranks 158th in the world for its investments higher oil prices, according to Moody's Investors in education and health care, according to the Service first-ever scientific study ranking countries for • Google re-branded its made-in-India Tez app as their levels of human capital. Finland topped the 'Google Pay' list, followed by Iceland and Denmark. • Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) became the first • India ranks third globally in terms of number of Indian company to cross Rs 8 trillion market family-owned businesses with 111 companies capitalization. having a total market capitalisation of $839 • The Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL) billion. India closely follows China with 159 firms announced that Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has

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become the first public sector enterprise to make • According to the data of the commerce and a transaction on the "TReDS platform". industry ministry, India's wholesale inflation grew • TReDS is an online electronic institutional 5.77% in June, a four-and-half-year high, driven mechanism for facilitating the financing of trade by some food items and fuel price. receivables of micro, small and medium • Invest India and the UAE Minister for Artificial enterprises (MSME) through multiple financiers. Intelligence (AI) signed an MoU for India - UAE • Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has launched Artificial Intelligence Bridge in New Delhi. BSNL WINGS a VOIP based service. In WINGS, • Invest India and Business France have signed an there is no SIM or cable wiring as VOIP is a MoU to promote investment facilitation and service through an app. cooperation between startups of India and • State Bank of India (SBI) is considered to be the France. most patriotic brand, according to a survey • A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed between conducted by UK-based online market research NITI Aayog and Lupin Foundation to collaborate and data analytics firm YouGov, followed by Tata in Aspirational Districts Programme. Motors, Patanjali, Reliance Jio and BSNL. • UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has • Seven Indian companies have been listed in entered into a partnership with search engine Fortune’s 500 list 2018 of world biggest giant Google to monitor the impacts of human corporations. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is the activity on global ecosystems by using highest ranked company from India followed by sophisticated online tools. RIL which jumped 55 places. The US-based retail • Microsoft has signed an MoU with the Rajasthan company, Walmart has topped the list. government to provide free digital training to • In the 29th meeting, GST council approves cash 9,500 college students in one year. incentives to promote Digital transactions. • Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has entered into Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announces 20% an agreement with the Bombay Metal Exchange Cashback upto Rs 100 for the Digital (BME) for the growth and systematic Transactions done via BHIM, Rupay or USSD development of commodity derivatives markets in mode. the non-ferrous metals complex. • The government of India and the Asian • With a view to resolve the stress and revive such Development Bank (ADB) signed a $375 million assets, the Government has decided to set up a loan agreement to contribute to double farming High-Level Empowered Committee headed by incomes in Madhya Pradesh by expanding Cabinet Secretary, Pradeep Kumar Sinha with irrigation networks. representatives from the Ministry of Railways, • The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Power, Ministry of (FSSAI) constituted a group of experts from the Coal and the lenders having major exposure to health and nutrition sector to look into the issue of the power sector. food labelling. • Insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory and • The World Bank launched ‘bond-i', the world’s Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has first bond to be created, allocated, transferred constituted a 16-member committee to examine and managed by using distributed ledger motor third party insurance pricing aspects and technology. make recommendations on the premium rates for • Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has 2019-20. IRDAI Member P.J. Joseph has been now integrated its Mobile Apps namely DND 2.0 appointed as the Chairman of the committee. & MyCall with UMANG (Unified Mobile • The Union Government has reduced the Application for New-age Governance) Platform. minimum annual deposit requirement for • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the accounts under Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana from Government of lndia signed a $346 million loan to Rs 1000 to Rs 250. finance improvement of over 400 kilometers of • The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has state highways that will enhance connectivity and constituted a 10 Member Committee, headed by access to economic centers across 12 districts in the Secretary of Ministry of Corporate Affairs Mr Karnataka. Injeti Srinivas, for review of the penal provisions • The Department of Telecom (DoT) has given final in the Companies Act, 2013. approval to the merger of Vodafone India and • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut Idea Cellular. India’s GDP growth forecast by 10 basis points to • World Bank Group member IFC (International 7.3% in the year 2018 and by 30 basis points to Finance Corporation) has invested $100 million in 7.5% in 2019. Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. • India has become the world's sixth-biggest (Mahindra Finance). economy, pushing France into seventh place, • The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue according to updated World Bank figures for Rs100 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma 2017. Gandhi (New) Series. The new denomination has • According to the study titled 'The start of a new Motif of “RANI KI VAV” on the reverse, depicting poverty narrative' and published in the Brookings’ the country’s cultural heritage. has already overtaken India as the

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country with the largest number of extreme poor • India (Union Ministry of Agriculture) has written to in early 2018. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of • The law commission recommended that gambling United Nations (UN) proposing declaration of and betting on sports, including cricket, be year 2019 as “International Year of Millets” allowed as regulated activities taxable under the • Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and direct and indirect tax regimes and used as a Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified rules for source for attracting foreign direct investment utilisation of more than Rs 66,000 crore (FDI). afforestation funds by states/UTs and for setting up authorities to monitor its use for afforestation and conservation. ENVIRONMENT • National Wildlife Genetic Resource Bank was inaugurated at Centre for Cellular and Molecular • According to recently released Global Soil Biology’s (CCMB) Laboratory of Conservation of Biodiversity Atlas prepared by World Wide Fund Endangered Species (LaCONES) facility in for Nature (WWF) India among nations that face Hyderabad, Telanagana. grave danger to soil biodiversity. • National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) had • The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research organised Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan in five (CSIR) scientists has developed less polluting main Ganga basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar green firecrackers named SWAS,SAFAL,STAR. Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. • International Conference on Status and • UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has Protection of Coral Reefs (STAPCOR – 2018) entered into partnership with search engine giant was held at Bangaram Island, Union Territory of Google to monitor impacts of human activity on Lakshadweep. global ecosystems. • UN-backed fund Green Climate Fund (GCF) has • According to recent study published international approved US $43.4 million for enhancing climate journal Ecological Engineering, climate change is resilience for millions of people living in India’s threatening the Nilgiri tahr,. It is estimated that coastal communities as part of its efforts to endangered wild goat could lose approximately combat extreme impacts of climate change. 60% of its habitat, starting from 2030s. • National Dolphin Research Centre (NDRC) will • According to recent study, if Indian farmers make be set up on the banks of the Ganga river in big switch from growing rice and wheat to Patna University campus in Patna. alternative cereals such as maize, sorghum and • Nepal become first country in the world to double millet, it could reduce demand for irrigation water its tiger population in a decade as part of World by 33%. Wildlife Foundation’s (WWF) ‘Tx2’ programme • The standing committee of National Board for which aims to double number of tigers in the Wildlife (NBWL) has recently added four species- world all over the world by 2022. Northern River Terrapin, Clouded Leopard, • Tamil Nadu government has announced Scheme Arabian Sea Humpback Whale and Red Panda for protection of exotic Neela kurinji plants that into Centre’s Recovery Programme for Critically flower only once in 12 years. Endangered Species. • India has contributed $1 million to United Nations (UN) Headquarters’ Solar Project, under which solar panels will be installed on roof of world SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY body’s headquarters at New York, US. • Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and • Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Climate Change (MoEFCC) on eve of World (IRCTC) has launched Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ozone Day (16th September) released draft India powered chatbot– Ask Disha ((Digital Interaction Cooling Action Plan. It makes India first country in to Seek Help Anytime) to help its users answer world to develop such document. various queries. • According to recent study conducted by IIT- • Scientists from US claimed that they have Kharagpur, River Ganga has witnessed developed world’s first bioelectronic medicine unprecedented low levels of water in several which is implantable, biodegradable wireless lower reaches in last few summer seasons. device that speeds nerve regeneration and • The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), improves healing of damaged nerve. one of India’s premier avian research institutes, • Scientists at Rice University in the US have will start operating its first regional centre or developed tiny spheres that can catch and avifauna observatory in Odisha. destroy bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical • Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) used to make plastics that often contaminates under Ministry of Commerce and Industry has water. banned import of petcoke for use as fuel. • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and • Supreme Court has accepted Ministry of Road Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos State Transport and Highways (MoRTH) proposal to Corporation for Space Activities (ROSCOSMOS) use hologram-based coloured stickers on vehicle have agreed to work together for first manned plying in Delhi NCR. space mission Gaganyaan.

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• NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully space mission dubbed as Gaganyaan to be completed flyby of Venus at distance of about launched in 2022. 2,415 kilometres during its first gravity assist from • Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare planet. issued advisory to all states and Union Territories • The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to not allow manufacture, sale and advertisement (JAXA) landed a pair of rovers on an asteroid, of e-and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery marking the world's first moving, robotic Systems (ENDS). observation of an asteroid surface. • Kadaknath chicken meat from Jhabua district of • India successfully conducted an interceptor Madhya Pradesh has received Geographical missile test off the Odisha coast, achieving a Indication (GI) tag from Chennai based major milestone in developing a two-layer Geographical Indication Registry and Intellectual Ballistic Missile Defence system. Property India. • Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb • NASA’s 'Parker Solar Probe' will travel directly inaugurated ISRO’s first Space Technology into the Sun's atmosphere, about four million Incubation Centre(STIC) at the National Institute miles from its surface, and more than seven of Technology Agartala. times closer than any spacecraft has come • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) before. successfully launched PSLV C 42 with two British • Facebook has confirmed it is working on a new earth observation satellites NovaSAR and S1-4 in satellite project, named Athena, that will provide precision from the Sathish Dhawan Space broadband internet connections to rural and Centre. underserved areas. • NASA launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation • The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Satellite-2, known as ICESat-2, which will use an successfully carried out a flight test named ‘Pad extremely precise laser to collect measurement Abort Test’ for a newly-designed Crew Escape data to track the Earth's shrinking polar ice. System. It is meant for saving lives of astronauts • Indigenously developed weapon system Man in an exigency. Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM), • India's supersonic cruise missile (SCM) BrahMos was successfully flight tested for the second time was test fired from Odisha's Chandipur range from the Ahmednagar range, Maharashtra. launch pad under extreme conditions. • Defence Research and Development • India’s first private sector unit for manufacturing Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) and light bullet the indigenously developed surface-to-surface proof vehicles (LBPV) will be set up in Kota, tactical missile ‘Prahar’ from launch Complex-III, Rajasthan. ITR, Balasore, Odisha. • Scientists have developed world’s fastest rotor, • The India Air Force successfully test fired the which will help in studying quantum mechanics. indigenously developed Beyond Visual range Air- The rotor can spin at more than 60 billion to-Ait Missile Astra from a Su-30 aircraft. revolutions. • India’s first first-ever environment friendly biofuel • Ministry of Earth Sciences has unveiled state-of- powered flight between and Delhi was the-art Air Quality and Weather Forecast propelled by blend of oil from jatropha seeds and System– SAFAR (System of Air Quality and aviation turbine fuel. Weather Forecasting at Chandni Chowk in Delhi. • European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has launched wind-sensing satellite named Aeolus. developed TreadWill, an online tool to help • Tokyo 2020 will be first Olympics to use facial people cope with issues related to mental health. recognition technology to increase security • The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras around all venues. has commissioned remotely operable Local • The world’s first-ever thermal battery plant owned Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) microscope. by Bharat Energy Storage Technology Private • BSNL through its mobile app ‘Wings’ launched Limited (BEST) was inaugurated in Amravati, India’s first internet telephony service. Andhra Pradesh. • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have PERSONS IN NEWS developed first of family of six industry-standard microprocessors under Project Shakti. • Jair Bolsonaro has won a sweeping victory in • Telangana State Information Technology, 's presidential election. Electronics and Communication department • Mahinda Rajapakse was sworn in as the new (ITE&C) signed Memorandum of Understanding Prime minister of Sri Lanka. (MoU) with Tech Mahindra to launch India’s first • Ethiopia appointed diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde block chain. as its first-ever female President. • Facebook has launched “Digital Literacy Library” • Paytm Payments Bank has appointed veteran to help young people build skills they need to banker Satish Kumar Gupta as its new Managing safely enjoy online technology. Director and CEO • Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) • JSW Steel CMD Sajjan Jindal was elected as the unveiled details of its first indigenous human Treasurer of the World Steel Association.

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• Online financial services marketplace • The President of India has appointed Justice BankBazaar has appointed former RBI Deputy Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India. Governor (DG) S S Mundra as an advisor to the • HDFC Life appointed Vibha Padalkar as its new company. managing director and CEO for a period of three • Nimesh Shah, Managing Director and Chief years Executive Officer of ICICI Prudential Mutual • India’s ace sprinter Hima Das was appointed as Fund, has been elected as Chairman of Sports Ambassador of Assam to inspire budding Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). players of northeastern state to aim big and • Priyank Kanoongo appointed to the post of young generation to take up sports seriously. Chairperson, National Commission for Protection • Axis Bank announced that Amitabh Chaudhry of Child Rights (NCPCR). has been appointed as its managing director & • Tushar Mehta has been appointed as the new CEO. Solicitor General of India. • Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) roped in • The government has appointed Pravin Indian boxer MC Mary Kom as its brand Srivastava, a senior officer with the Ministry of ambassador for two years. Statistics and Programme Implementation • India retained the top WHO position in South- (MoSPI), as the Chief Statistician of India. East Asia Region with Dr Poonam Khetrapal • IDBI Bank has announced that Rakesh Sharma Singh unanimously re-elected as Regional has taken charge as the managing director and Director for another five-year term beginning chief executive officer of the bank. February 2019. • The National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) MD and • Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi was elected as the 13th CEO Vikram Limaye has been appointed the President of . chairman of the working committee and director • WPP Plc, the world’s largest communication on the board by the international industry body– services group, announced the appointment of World Federation of Exchanges Mark Read as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) • Sanjay Verma, has been appointed as India’s and Executive Director . Ambassador to Spain. • Binoy Kumar has taken over as Secretary, • Pankaj Sharma has been appointed the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. ambassador and India’s permanent representative to the United Nations Conference The government of India cleared the appointment of on Disarmament (UNCD) in Geneva, Switzerland. Chief Executive Officers and Managing Directors • Iraq's Parliament has elected a veteran Kurdish (CEOs and MDs) at 10 Public Sector Banks. Politician Barham Salih as the country's new 1. Padmaja Chundru - Indian Bank. President. 2. Mrutyunjay Mahapatra - Syndicate Bank. • Justice Ranjan Gogoi has sworn-in as new Chief 3. Pallav Mohapatra - Central Bank of India. Justice of India. 4. Packirisamy - Andhra Bank. • The Centre has appointed former IAS officer 5. Karnam Sekar - Dena Bank. Rangachari Sridharan as chairperson of the 6. SS Mallikarajuna Rao - Allahabad Bank National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA). 7. AS Rajeev - Bank of Maharashtra • India-born Harvard University professor Gita 8. Atul Kumar Goel - UCO Bank Gopinath has been appointed as the Chief 9. S Harisankar - Punjab & Sind Bank Economist of the International Monetary Fund 10. Ashok Kumar Pradhan - United Bank of India (IMF) by IMF's Managing Director Christine 11. Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India’s second- Lagarde. most valued firm ‘Reliance Industries’, has • Eminent Gandhian Natwar Thakkar, popularly topped the ‘Barclays Hurun India Rich List 2018’ known as Nagaland's Gandhi has passed away for the seventh consecutive year, with the total recently. net worth of INR 371,000 crore. • Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas has been appointed the Dr G Satheesh Reddy, appointed as Chairman of the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy Defence Research and Development Organisation and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. (DRDO) and Secretary in Department of Defence • Tajinder Mukherjee has taken over as the Research & Development (DDR&D). Chairman and Managing Director of National • Uday Kumar Varma was appointed as Secretary Insurance Company Limited (NICL). General of Assocham. • Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma have been • Scott Morrison has been elected the new Prime signed on to promote and endorse the Skill India Minister of Australia. Mission, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra • S S Mundra has been appointed as Independent Modi. Director on the Board of Indiabulls Housing • State Bank of India announced that Prashant Finance Ltd Kumar has taken charge as the Chief Financial • Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has Officer (CFO) of the Bank. been re-elected for a five-year term. • Moutaz Mousa Abdallah has become Sudan’s • Mario Abdo Benitez was sworn in as the new new Prime Minister. President of Paraguay for a five-year term.

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• The United Nations announced that UN • Payments Council of India (PCI), an apex body Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen representing the companies in the payments and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be settlement system, has announced the the UN’s new human rights chief. appointment of Vishwas Patel, CEO of Infibeam • Harivansh Narayan Singh was elected the Rajya Avenues, as its new chairman. Sabha Deputy Chairman with 125 votes. • UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has • Ivan Duque was sworn in as the newly elected appointed a veteran Uruguayan Army official President of Colombia. Major General José Eladio Alcain as head of the • S Gopakumar was appointed Director and United Nations mission tasked with monitoring General Manager of United India Insurance. the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan. • The nominating committee of Internet • Uttam Dhillon, an Indian-American top White Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers House lawyer, has been appointed as the new (ICANN) has selected Ajay Data, as a new head of the crucial Drug Enforcement Agency council member of Country Code Supporting that combats the smuggling and use of narcotics Organisation (ccNSO). He is the first Indian to in the US. have been selected as a member of ccNSO. • Saraswati Prasad has taken over the additional • Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa charge as chairman and managing director of won the country’s landmark election in steel PSU Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Zimbabwe. • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been elected • Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan have made it to as Mexico's President. the Forbes’ list of World’s Highest-Paid Actors • Janardan Singh Gehlot was elected the president 2018, which was topped by George Clooney. of the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) for Akshay and Salman made it to spot seven and the next four years. nine, respectively. • Serena Williams (with earnings of $18.1 million) Four persons of India-origin, including three women, was the highest paid female athlete for a third have been named by Fortune among 40 of the most consecutive year in 2018, according to "List Of influential and inspiring young people in business Highest Paid Female Athletes 2018" published by under the age of 40. Forbes 1. Dhivya Suryadevara (4th), CFO of General • Smitha V. Crishna, a third-generation heir of the Motors Godrej family, ranks first in the Kotak Wealth 2. Anjali Sud (14th), CEO of Vimeo Hurun-Leading Wealthy Women 2018 list with an 3. Baiju Bhatt (24th), Cofounder and Co-CEO of estimated wealth of Rs.37,570 crore. Robinhood • BBC History Magazine conducted a reader's poll 4. Anu Duggal (32nd), founding partner of Female of 100 women who changed the world. In this Founders Fund. poll, Marie Curie has been voted the woman who • Satyarup Siddhanta has become the second made the most significant impact on world Indian mountaineer after Malli Mastan Babu to history. climb Mt Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in • Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan took oath the world.

as Pakistan's new prime minister. AWARDS • Film actor Akshay Kumar was appointed ambassador for road safety by Union Minister for Road transport. • Prof. MS Swaminathan, chief architect of India’s • Balesh Sharma takes over as Vodafone Idea's Green Revolution was awarded the World first CEO. Agriculture Prize for 2018. • Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has • Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, passed away aged 93 in Delhi. Atal Bihari won the World Health Summit Startup award, Vajpayee was three times Prime Minister of India. 2018 for his invention, Manovue – the world’s first • Surendra Rosha was appointed Chief Executive intelligent personal assisting system for the Officer for HSBC India. visually impaired. • Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij • Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a Mini Bhushan Saran Singh is set to be named the Ratna Public Sector Undertaking, under the Chef de Mission of the Asian Games-bound Ministry of Defence, received the prestigious ‘Top Indian contingent. Challengers Award 2018’ for the excellent • Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki was performance during the financial year 2017-18. given the additional charge of Himachal Pradesh • Prof Ashis Mukherjee, a senior faculty member of by President Ram Nath Kovind. the prestigious Tezpur University was awarded • Dhanlaxmi Bank Limited has appointed T Latha the prestigious Indian National Science Academy as the Managing Director andCEO. (INSA) Teachers Award (2018). • Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who retired from the • India has won the Commonwealth Association for Supreme Court of India has been appointed as Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) the new Chairperson of the National Green Award, 2018. Tribunal (NGT).

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• The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for the • The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation years 2014, 2015 & 2016 is being conferred on (ESIC) has won the ‘ISSA Good Practice Award’ the doyen of Manipuri dance Sh. Rajkumar for Administrative Solution for Coverage Singhajit Singh (For 2014); Chhayanaut (a Extension at the “Regional Social Security Forum cultural organization of Bangladesh, for 2015) for Asia and the Pacific” held at Kuala Lumpur, and on one of India’s greatest sculptors, Sh. Ram Malaysia. Vanji Sutar (for 2016). • Pakistan’s human rights activist and lawyer Asma The 2018 Nobel Prize were announced recently in 5 Jahangir has been posthumously awarded the different fields viz. Physiology or Medicine, Physics, 2018 UN Human Rights Prize along with three Chemistry, Peace, and Economic Sciences. This is other winners. Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, for the first time that no Literature Prize was given in Brazil’s first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana 70 years because of a MeToo scandal. and Ireland’s human rights organisation Front • Physiology or Medicine - James P Allison and Line Defenders are the other winners of the prize. Tasaku Honjo were awarded for their discovery • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative conferred with the Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for immune regulation. his contribution to international cooperation and • Physics - Arthur Ashkin , Gerard Mourou Donna fostering global economic growth. Strickland were awarded for ground breaking • The ‘Invest India’ initiative of the Union inventions in the field of laser physics Government won the top United Nations • Chemistry-1) Frances H. Arnold was awarded for Investment Promotion Award in recognition of its the directed evolution of enzymes 2) George P. efforts to boost investments in the renewable Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter were awarded energy sector in India. for the phage display of peptides and antibodies" • The Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an • Peace- Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad were annual award in the name of Netaji Subhash awarded for their efforts to end the use of sexual Chandra Bose for police and paramilitary forces violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. for commendable contributions in disaster relief • Economic Sciences- 1)William D. Nordhaus was operations. awarded for integrating climate change into long- • Minal Patel Davis won the US' Presidential Medal run macroeconomic analysis. 2) Paul M. Romer for her work against sex slavery and labor was awarded for integrating technological exploitation at a White House ceremony/ innovations into long-run macroeconomic • Union Minister Piyush Goyal will receive the analysis. prestigious Carnot Prize from the Ivy League • Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with University of Pennsylvania in recognition of his United Nations' highest environmental award- work for rural electrification. UNEP Champions of the Earth, along with French • Suheil F. Tandon has won the International President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi. Olympic Committee's Sport and Active Society • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded Commission's Grant Award for his contribution to with the UN’s highest environmental honour, for sports for development. his leadership of the International Solar Alliance • Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi, famous as and pledge to eliminate single use plastic by 'Khayyam', has been named for this year's 2022. Hridaynath Award for Lifetime Achievement. • All-women crew of INSV Tarini has bagged the • Northern Irish author Anna Burns has won the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure 2018 Man Booker Prize for her novel 'Milkman’. award for beating the odds in water with their • Dutch photographer Marsel van Oosten has been enduring skills and sailing across the world for awarded the most prestigious prizes in eight long months. photography, the Wildlife Photographer of the • Chairman and MD, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd., Dr. Year 2018. Raghupati Singhania has been conferred with • Prema Gopalan, founder of Swayam Shikshan 'Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle', the highest Prayog (SSP), was awarded the 8th Social honour accorded to non-nationals by the Entrepreneur of the Year award, 2018, for her Government of Mexico. work in promoting women’s entrepreneurship. • National Sports Awards are given every year to • Sikkim won the UN Food and Agriculture recognize and reward excellence in sports. Rajiv Organisation's (FAO) Future Policy Award 2018 Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is given for the for being the world's first 100% organic state. spectacular and most outstanding performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over a period • Indus Towers, world's largest telecom tower of four year. company (outside China), won the Deming Prize for 2018, being the first Indian company in the • Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2018: S. Mirabai service sector and the fifth in the world to achieve Chanu(Weightlifting), Virat Kohli ( Cricket). this. • Kerala Tourism has won two prestigious gold • Veena Sendre from Chhattisgarh has been awards of the Pacific Asia Travel Association chosen as India's first 'Miss Trans Queen’. (PATA) for its innovative marketing campaigns.

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• Punjab National Bank (PNB) bagged the Nabard 2018 award for its service to self-help "Rajbhasha Kirti" award for outstanding group (SHG) linkage in Tamil Nadu for the fiscal performance in implementing the Official year 2017-18. Language Policy during 2017-18. • Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel 'The English • Actress Aishwarya Rai was honoured with the Patient' was announced as the winner of the Meryl Streep Award for Excellence at the Women Golden Man Booker Prize. in Film and Television (WIFT) India Award. • Anjolie Ela Menon had received the National • Odia poet Satrughna Pandav will be honoured Kalidas Samman in Delhi for visual arts from the with the prestigious 'Sarala Puraskar' for his Madhya Pradesh government. poetry collection 'Misra Dhrupad'. • Former captains Rahul Dravid of India, Ricky • Indra Nooyi will be honoured with the Game Ponting of Australia and retired England Women Changer of the Year award by a global cultural wicketkeeper-batter Claire Taylor were inducted organisation Asia Society in recognition of her into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame 2018. business achievement. • Former England captain David Beckham will SPORTS receive the UEFA President's Award for his contribution to football and promoting the sport in • Roger Federer won his 99th career title after "every corner of the planet". winning the Basel Open for the ninth time in his • Delhi government’s additional director of health, career. SK Arora was awarded prestigious World Health • Indian golfer Khalin Joshi clinched the Panasonic Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day Open India title at the Delhi Golf Club. 2017 Award for his extraordinary contribution • In Men’s Hockey, India and Pakistan were towards tobacco control. declared joint winners of the Asian Champions • The United States government has awarded the Trophy at Muscat in Oman. Legion of Merit (Degree of Commander) to • India’s Sourav Kothari defeated Peter Gilchrist of General Dalbir Singh Suhag (Retired), of the Singapore to clinch the 2018 WBL World Billiards Indian Army. Championship title. • Three US scientists James Allison, Carl June and • In Wrestling World Championships, Pooja Steven Rosenberg were declared winners 2018 Dhanda won a bronze medal in the women’s Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and freestyle 57kg weight class in Budapest, Biomedical Research. Hungary. • Indian-American high school student Avi Goel • Wrestler Bajrang Punia won the silver medal after has won the world championship at the defeating Japan’s Takuto Otoguro in the 65kg International Geography Bee’s junior varsity final of the Wrestling World Championships in division which was held in Berlin, Germany. Budapest, Hungary. • Akshay Venkatesh, a renowned Indian-Australian • India captain Virat Kohli has become the fastest mathematician, is one of four winners of batsman to score 10,000 runs in the history of mathematics’ prestigious Fields medal, known as ODI cricket, achieving the feat in his 205th the Nobel prize for math. innings, against Windies. • The other three winners are: Caucher Birkar; • Mumbai has defeated Delhi by four wickets to win Germany’s Peter Scholze, and Alessio Figalli, an their third Vijay Hazare Trophy title at M Italian mathematician at ETH Zurich. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. • Gopalkrishna Gandhi has been chosen for the • Professional Boxer Canelo Alvarez has signed 24th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award the largest contract in the history of sports, for his contribution in promoting communal agreeing a five-year, 11-fight deal worth at least harmony, peace and goodwill. $365 million with streaming service DAZN. • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) was • In Hockey, Great Britain lifted the 2018 Sultan of awarded the INFRA Icon Award in the ‘Global Johor Cup. Great Britain defeated India in the Energy’ category at the mid-day INFRA Icons final. Awards 2018. • Leander Paes has won his second Challenger- • Mohun Bagan ‘Ratna’, the highest honour of level title of the season, lifting the Santo Domingo Mohun Bagan club was awarded to former India Open trophy with partner Miguel Angel Reyyes- international Pradip Chowdhury at its foundation Varela. day programme. • Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk are Youth Olympics: 2018 Youth Olympics was held in among six who have been declared winners of Buenos Aries, Argentina 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award, referred to as • Suraj Panwar won silver medal in the men's Asian version of the Nobel Prize. thers are are 5000m race walk event. Youk Chhang (Cambodia), Maria de Lourdes • Akash Malik won silver medal in archery. Martins Cruz (East Timor), Howard Dee • Saurabh Chaudhary has bagged the Gold Medal () and Vo Thi Hoang Yen (Vietnam). in the 10-meter air pistol. • Repco Micro Finance Ltd, a non-banking finance • shooter Manu Bhaker has become the first-ever company promoted by Repco Bank, received Indian woman to win gold at Youth Olympics.

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• Weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga has become • Triple jumper Arpinder Singh has created history India's first-ever gold medallist in the history of by becoming the first Indian to win a medal in the Youth Olympic Games IAAF Continental Cup. • The International Olympics Committee (IOC) has • Ankur Mittal claimed the men’s double trap gold picked its first African host of any Olympics, medal in the ISSF World Championship. formally awarding the 2022 Youth Games to • Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric has been Senegal. named UEFA Men's Player of the Year for • The third Asian Para Games took place in 2017-18. Jakarta, . India recorded its best-ever • Indian shooter Hriday Hazarika notched up a gold medal haul at the Asian Para Games by ending medal in the 10 m air rifle junior men's event of the 2018 edition with 72 medals (15 gold, 24 the ISSF World Championships in South Korea. silver, and 33 bronze medals). China were at the • England’s highest Test run-scorer Alastair Cook top of the medal tally with 172 gold and total 319 announced his retirement from International medals. cricket after final Test against India. • Indian under-19 cricket team has defeated Sri • Anjum Moudgil and Apurvi Chandela have Lanka by 144 runs in the summit clash of the become the first set of Indian shooters to secure 2018 ACC Under-19 Asia Cup in Dhaka, quota places for the 2020 Olympics. Bangladesh. • Japanese swimmer Ikee Rikako has been named • Prithvi Shaw has become the youngest Indian to as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the score a century on Test debut, achieving the feat recently-concluded 18th edition of the Asian aged 18 years and 329 days against Windies in Games. Rajkot, Gujarat. • India's 22-year-old boxer Amit Panghal defeated • Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting defeated Hasanboy Dusmatov in the men's 49kg final to Japan’s Kento Momota to take the Men’s singles bag gold at the Asian Games 2018. china Open title in Changzhou. Spain’s Carolina • India's 60-year-old Pranab Bardhan and 56-year- Marin defeated China’s Chen Yufei to take the old Shibnath Sarkar won the men's pair bridge women’s singles title. event to bag the country's first-ever gold in bridge • India won silver medal after losing to Pakistan in at the Asian Games. the final of the Asian Team Snooker • Luka Modric broke a decade of award dominance Championship. Pankaj Advani and Malkeet Singh by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi after represented India while Babar Masih and being crowned world footballer of the year by Mohammad Asif were from the Pakistani side. FIFA. • India will host the 2018 Women’s Boxing World • The 18th edition of Asian Games were being held Championship. in Jakarta Palembang, Indonesia • The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) • Arpinder Singh won a gold in triple jump at the confirmed that Hangzhou in China will host the Asian Games with an effort of 16.77m. fourth edition of Asian Para Games in 2022. • Swapna Barman created history by becoming the • Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix at first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Singapore. gold in Indonesia. • Japan Open: • India's sprinter Manjit Singh won the gold medal • Men’s Singles: Kento Momota (Winner) Khosit in the men's 800m event at the 2018 Asian Phetpradab (Runner) Games. • Women’s Singles: Carolina Marin(Winner) • PV Sindhu won first-ever silver medal for India in Nozomi Okuhara( Runner) badminton at Asian Games. • Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge set a new marathon • Neeraj Chopra became the first-ever Indian world record in Berlin (Germany), smashing the javelin thrower to win a gold medal at the Asian previous best as he clocked 2 hours 1 minute 39 Games. second. • Hima Das won the Silver medal in 400-meter • M C Mary Kom clinched her third gold medal in race. Dutee Chand also bagged silver medal in 48 kg category, while Jyoti Gulia picked up the women's 100 meter race. country’s lone gold in 51 kg of the youth category • Tejinder Pal Singh Toor wins the Gold medal in of the Silesian Open boxing Tournament for Men's Shot Put. women in Gliwice, Poland. • Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won their • Maldives won the 2018 South Asian Football maiden men’s tennis doubles gold medal . Federation (SAFF) Cup defeating India. • Shooter Rahi Sarnobat won the women's 25m • Udhayveer Singh has won an individual Gold Pistol event. Medal in Junior Men’s 25 metre pistol event in the • Vinesh Phogat, first Indian Woman Wrestler to World Shooting Championships in South Korea. bag Gold at Asian Games • US open: • India won gold in the women's 4X400 metre • Men's Singles: Novak Djokovic( winner) Juan event. India clinched the silver medal in the Martin del Potr( Runner) men's 4X400 metre event. • Women's Singles: Naomi Osaka ( winner) Serena • India’s Jinson Johnson claimed the gold medal in Williams ( runner) the men’s 1500m event.

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• Bajrang Punia won gold medal at wrestling in • Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix 2018 Men’s Freestyle 65. held at Hockenheimring track in Germany. • India defeated Bangladesh in the final of the • The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee officially South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Under- launched its Olympic mascots 'Miraitowa' and 15 Women’s Championship in Thimpu, Bhutan. Paralympic mascot 'Someity' at a ceremony. • Teen cyclist Esow Alben has created history by • Sprinter Muhammed Anas Yahiya once again claiming India’s first ever medal – a silver- at the entered the record books as he broke his own UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships national record to win the 400 metres race at the in Aigle, Switzerland. Cena Noveho Mesta nad Metuji meet in the • Indian golfer Viraj Madappa became the Czech Republic. youngest Indian to win the Asian Tour title. • Indian badminton player Lakshaya Sen bagged • Rafael Nadal clinched his fourth Canadian the gold medal after defeating Indonesia’s top- Masters 1000 title at the Rogers Cup in Toronto. seeded Kunlavut Vitidsaran in the final match of He defeated Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas. the Badminton Asia Junior Championship in • The 2019 Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Jakarta, Indonesia. Championships will be held in the North Korean • India won 8 medals in the two day Junior Asian capital Pyongyang. Wrestling Championship which concluded in New • The U-20 Japan Women's National Team won Delhi. The medals comprised 2 gold, 3 silver and against the Spain at the final of the FIFA U-20 3 bronze. Sachin Rathi won the gold after winning Women's World Cup France 2018. the bout in the 74-kilogram category. Deepak • Novak Djokovic (Serbia) defeated Roger Federer Punia then won the gold in the 86 kilogram (Switzerland) at the 2018 Western and Southern category. Open in Cincinnati. • Alisson Becker of Brazil has become the World's • The Indian women chess team at the Asian most expensive goalkeeper while transferring Nations Cup 2018 clinched the gold in the Blitz clubs from Italy's Roma to England's Liverpool for event held in Iran. a world record £56 million. • Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won his maiden • The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has European Tour title at the Fiji International in added seven medal events to the 2022 Beijing Natadola Bay. Winter Games. The next Winter Olympics will • Netherlands won 2018 women’s hockey World now include: women’s monobob, Big Air freestyle Cup defeating Ireland. skiing for men and women, plus mixed team • World Badminton Championships 2018 events in short track speed skating, ski jumping, • Men's Singles: Kento Momota (winner), Shi Yuqi( ski aerials and snowboard cross. Runner) • Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has clinched a • Women's Singles: Carolina Marin( winner) P. V. gold medal at the Sotteville Athletics Meet in Sindhu(runner). France. • Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes won the Hungarian • Honda's Marc Marquez (of Spain) cruised to his Grand Prix for the 6th time, at the Hungaroring ninth consecutive German Grand Prix victory to circuit, in Hungary. extend his MotoGP lead. • Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won a gold • Nozomi Okuhara of Japan has won the Thailand medal in the Savo Games in Lapinlahti, Finland. Grand Prix defeating P V Sindhu. • Indian shuttler Sourabh Verma lifted the Russian • Wrestler Vinesh Phogat won gold at the Spanish Open Badminton trophy defeating Japan’s Koki Grand Prix in Madrid, conceding just one point in Watanabe. five bouts en route to the title victory in the • In Wrestling, Bajrang Punia has won his second women's 50kg freestyle category consecutive international gold medal at the Yasar • Indian boxers ruled the ring at the 36th Golden Dogu International in Istanbul, Turkey. Glove of Vojvodina youth tournament, ending • Indian driver Jehan Daruvala won the FIA with seven gold medals to claim the overall top Formula 3 European Championship in Belgium. spot in the event in Subotica, Serbia.

• The Indian women's compound archery team FIFA 2018 created history by scaling to the top of the world France won the FIFA world cup 2018 defeating rankings in the recently published chart. Croatia. • Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore • Golden Ball Award: Croatian captain Luka Modric announced that the rate of pension for • Golden Glove Award: Belgium's Thibaut Courtois sportspersons who have won medals in won the Golden Glove award for the best international competitions and have retired from goalkeeper active sports has been doubled. • Young Player Award: France's Kylian Mbappe • According to the revised rates, Olympic and Para • Fairplay Award: Spain was awarded the Fairplay Olympic medallists will get a sum of Rs 20,000 Award for being the most disciplined team in the per month each, while gold medallists at World tournament. Cups and World Championships in Olympic and • Man of the Match in Final: Antoine Griezmann Asian Games disciplines will receive Rs 16,000 (France). per month.

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The 2018 Wimbledon Championships is a Grand • September 5 – International Day of Charity Slam tennis tournament which takes place at the All • September 8- International Literacy Day England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in • September 10- World Suicide Prevention Day Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. • September 12 – United Nations Day for South • Men’s Singles : Novak Djokovic ( Winner) South Co-operartion Kevin Anderson ( Runner) • September 14 – Hindi Diwas • Women’s Singles : Angelique Kerber ( Winner) • September 15- National Engineers Day Serena Williams( Runner) • September 16 - International Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer • Hima Das created history by becoming the first- • September 16 – International Day for the ever Indian woman to win an athletics gold on the Preservation of Ozone Layer international stage. • September 21 – International Day of Peace • India has bagged four medals in the Asia Cup • September 23 – International Day of Sign World Archery Ranking Tournament Stage 3 in Languages Taipei, Taiwan. • September 26 – International Day for Total • India’s premier gymnast Dipa Karmakar clinched Elimination of Nuclear Weapons a gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic • September 27 – World Tourism Day Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin in Turkey. • ( Last Thursday of September) – World Maritime Day • The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has been renamed as Sports India. • September 28- International Day for Universal Access to Information • Australia has won the 2018 Hockey Champions Trophy defeating India. • September 28 – World Rabies Day • Anju Khosla has become the oldest Indian • September 29 – World Heart Day woman to complete an Ironman Triathlon – one • September 30 – International Translation Day of the toughest one-day sporting events. • August 7 – National Handloom day • Major General VD Dogra became the first serving • August 9 – International Day of the World’s Indian Army officer and the only General across Indigenous People the world to have completed a gruelling ‘Ironman’ • August 10- World Biofuel Day competition held in Austria. • August 12- International youth Day • August 19- World Humanitarian Day IMPORTANT DAYS • August 21- International Day of Remembrance and tribute to the victims of terrorism • October 1- World Habitat Day • August 23 - International Day for the International Day of Older Persons Remembrance of the slave Trade and its • October 2 – International Day of Non Violence Abolition • October 4- World Animal Day • August 29 – International day Against Nuclear • October 5- World Teachers Day Tests • October 8- Indian Air Force Day National sports Day • October 9- World Post Day • August 30 – International Day of the victims of • October 10- World Mental Health Day Enforced Disappearance • October 11- International Day of Girl Child • July 1 – Goods and Services Tax Day • October 13- International Day for Disaster Risk • July 7(first Saturday of July) – International Day Reduction of Co-operatives • October 15-International Day of Rural Women • July 12- NABARD Foundation Day • October 16- World Food Day • July 15- World Youth Skills Day • October 17- International Day for Eradication of • July 18- Nelson Mandela International Day Poverty • July 28 – World Hepatitis Day • October 24- United Nations Day • July 29 – International Tiger Day World Development Information Day • July 30 – International Day of Friendship • October 27 – World Day for Audio Visual • World Day Against Trafficking in Persons Heritage • October 31- National Unity Day • September 5 – International Day of Charity BOOKS AND AUTHORS • September 8- International Literacy Day • September 10- World Suicide Prevention Day • Maharana Pratap: The Invincible Warrior- Rima • September 12 – United Nations Day for South Hooja South Co-operartion • 'Building a Legacy, biography of late Anumolu • September 14 – Hindi Diwas Ramakrishna, a pioneer in the application of innovative systems and construction techniques • September 15- National Engineers Day in the Indian construction sector was authored by • September 16 - International Day for V Pattabhi Ram. Preservation of Ozone Layer • The Rule Breakers – Preeti Shenoy

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• Washington Black – Esi Edugyan • Treasured Epistles – K Natwar Singh • Atal Ji Ne Kaha" is the book on the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee - Authored and compiled by Brijendra Rehi. • VVS Laxman, has penned down his autobiography titled, "281 and Beyond". • Spin legend Shane Warne will talk about his extraordinary cricketing career and his life off the pitch besides unveiling several unknown facts in his autobiography titled 'No Spin' • Gandhi: The years that changed the world (1914- 1948) – Ramachandra Guha • Winning Like Saurav : Think and Succeed like Ganguly - Abhirup Bhattacharya • India Moving: A History of Migration – Chinmay Tumbe

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