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8. General Bipin Rawat takes over as
Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee
9. China to host top defence and security forum in October. The Beijing Xiangshan Forum is scheduled to be held from October 20 to 22. Theme – ‘Maintaining International Order and Promoting Peace in the Asia-Pacific

Region’.

Top 50 current

affairs September

1. Rajnath Singh commissions INS
Khanderi into Indian Navy
2. The 14th conference of Parties (COP
14) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification was held in Greater Noida.
10. Russia formally accepts 2015 Paris climate accord. It first signed the deal in April 2016.
3. Tripura High Court has ordered to ban

the centuries-old tradition of animals sacrifice in religious places across the state.
11. Facebook buys CTRL-labs 12. India ranked 44th in the IMD World
Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2019 (WDCR). US ranked first
4. Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for

the first time
13. Payal Jangid becomes the first Indian to receive the Changemaker Award 2019
5. President Ram Nath Kovind on Sept.

26 unveiled the country’s first

indigenous High-Temperature Fuel Cell System which has been developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
14. Former president Pranab Mukherjee

has released a book titled ‘Reset: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’

authored by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.
6. Cochin International Airport Ltd has

been selected as the best airport in terms of services it offered to

15. Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva has

been selected as the new head of the International Monetary Fund(IMF).

passengers, based on

a

survey

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16. The Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and
Aditya Mehta has won the IBSF World Snooker Team title at Mandalay, Myanmar.
25. India conducted a two-week special training programme for Maldivian civil servants in Delhi and Mussoorie.
26. The government has appointed PK
Mishra as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
17. Largest private sector lender HDFC
Bank has emerged as the most valued Indian brand at USD 22.70 billion.
18. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given exclusive digital content rights to Facebook for all events of the ICC in the Indian sub-continent.

19. Prime Minister Modi receives “Global
Goalkeeper” award for Swachh Bharat

Abhiyan
27. The Indian Air Force (IAF) resurrected the Air Force Station Ambala-based 17

Squadron ‘Golden Arrows’, which will

operate the first squadron of Rafale fighter jets in the near future.
28. India and Asian Development Bank,
ADB, signed 200-million dollar loan agreement for upgrading rural roads in 34 districts of Maharashtra to improve road safety.
20. India announces 12 million dollar grant for high impact developmental projects in Pacific Island countries
21. World Bank to provide Rs 3,000 crore aid for food parks
29. India has announced a humanitarian assistance of one million dollar to help people in the Bahamas affected by

Hurricane Dorian.

22. India and the United States are set to

hold their first tri-services exercise

30. Standard Chartered Bank launched

“DigiSmart” credit card to offer

instant discounts and benefits across key e-commerce categories of travel, entertainment, fashion, groceries and food delivery round the year.

named

“Tiger

Triumph”

at

Visakhapatnam and Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) in November 2019.
23. The documentary film named Moti
Bagh based on the life of Vidyadutt, a farmer living in Pauri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand has been nominated for Oscars.
31. World Tourism Day is celebrated on
27 September.

32. India has made

a

landmark

24. Bangladesh government has proposed to set up a monument in Tripura in memory of the martyrs of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. announcement of a line of credit worth 1 Billion US dollars for the development of the Far East region of Russia.

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33. India has moved up six places to rank
34th on world travel and tourism competitiveness index, in the latest Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR) of WEF.

41. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won Belgian

Grand Prix 2019.
42. In Tennis, Sumit Nagal has won the

men’s singles title of ATP Challenger

Tournament at Buenos Aires in Argentina. He defeated Facundo Bognis.
34. Nobel Laureate from Bangladesh
Professor Muhammad Yunus was

conferred the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis ‘ award by the Vatican

43. In Badminton, Indian shuttler Kaushal

Dharmamer won the men’s singles

title at the Maldives International Challenge with a win over Siril Verma in Male.
35. Gujarat Government and Delaware

State of America signed MoU

-

Memorandum of Understanding for

sister state.

44. Indian shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer

won the Myanmar International

Series over Indonesia’s Karono Karono

45. In Badminton, Sourabh Verma won the Vietnam Open Super 100 title,

defeating China’s Sun Fei Xiang at the

Ho Chi Minh City.

36. Joint military training, Exercise ‘Yudh
Abhyas – 2019’ was conducted at

Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord, Washington, the USA (5-18th September 2019).
37. India has announced a contribution of
USD 22 million to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFTAM) for the 6th replenishment cycle (2020-22).
38. September month to be celebrated as

‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’

46. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen won

men’s singles title of Belgian

International Challenge over Victor Svendsen of Denmark
47. Pankaj Advani, has won IBSF World
Billiards Championship in Myanmar. He defeated Nay Thway of Myanmar.

48. The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup,

to be hosted by India, will be held from 2nd to 21st November next year.

49. Rafael Nadal has won US Open Men’s

singles beating Daniil Medvedev

39. Tech giant ‘Google’ has signed a

statement of intent with the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) for rolling

out ‘Build for Digital India’

programme.
40. Yashaswini Singh Deswal won gold in

the women’s 10meter Air Pistol event

at the ISSF World Cup at in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
50. Russian tennis player Oksana
Selekhmeteva paired with Latvian

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player Kamilla Bartone won junior doubles trophy at US Open. magazine in its second annual list of

the 2019 World’s greatest places, a

compilation of 100 new and newly

“noteworthy

destinations

to

experience right now”.

6. Children are the happiest in Kerala and the least happy in Madhya Pradesh. The India Child Well-Being Report released on Tuesday analysed the well being of children based on 24 government data indicators. The report has been compiled by nonprofit World Vision India and the Institute of Financial Management and Research.

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Repo Rate – 5.40% Reverse Repo Rate – 5.15% MSF – 5.65% Bank Rate – 5.65% CRR – 4% SLR – 18.75%

7. Canara Bank has launched India’s first

one-time password (OTP) facility for ATM withdrawals.
1. India has become the first country in the world to issue Biometric Seafarer Identity Document, BSID,capturing the facial biometric data of seafarers.
2. China plans to issue its own crytocurrency as early as November 11.
8. The Central Vigilance Commission
(CVC) has constituted Advisory Board for Banking Frauds (ABBF) to examine bank fraud of over 50 crore rupees and recommend action. The panel in its previous avatar called the Advisory Board on Bank, Commercial and Financial Frauds. The ABBF is headed by former Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin.
3. Microsoft Indialaunched a scheme to provide 5000 government employees over the next year on AI (artificial intelligence) and cloud computing

skills. The program, called ‘Digital Governance Tech Tour’, will comprise

of physical and virtual workshops.
4. Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi will be renamed as Arun Jaitley Stadium.

5. The 597-ft tall ‘Statue of Unity’ in
Gujarat and Mumbai’s Soho House

have been featured by the Time
9. The ten-day annual festival of the famous Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple began in Tamil Nadu.
10. Gujarat topped the second Round of
Composite Water Management Index (CWMI 2.0) released by NITI Aayog.

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11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awarded the King Hamad Order of the Renaissance by Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. PM Narendra Modi also received the

Order of Zayed, UAE’s highest civilian

award.
Index -SARAL in New Delhi. Karnataka has been placed at the first rankin the Index followed by Telangana and Gujarat.
17. Divyang Satendra Singh Lohia from
Madhya Pradesh has become the first Asian swimmer to cross the Catalina Channel of America yesterday. Satendra holds the Asian record of crossing both the English and Catalina channels.
12. Union Government is planning to launch an e-commerce portal named

“Bharatcraft” for MSME’s to provide a

platform for MSMEs to market and sell their products and in turn boost the sector.
18. The Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) announced that mobile payments and e-commerce company One 97 Communications Pvt. Ltd, which operates under the Paytm brand, has retained the title sponsorship rights for all cricket matches, domestic and international, played in India for five years.
13. Punjab chief minister Captain
Amarinder Singh launched universal health insurance scheme — Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana in Mohali .It will benefit nearly 46 lakh families. Beneficiaries can avail annual cashless treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year, including pre-existing diseases.

19. Google

and

the

Telangana

government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to improve and get more local language content
14. Nepalese authorities have banned single-use plastics in the Everest region in a bid to cut down on waste left by climbers.

online

using

Google’s

digital

publishing tool – Navlekha.
15. Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the 24th meeting of Western Zonal Council at Panaji in Goa.It is a forum for the Centre and states to exchange ideas on issues like health, security and social welfare.
20. K Thangaraj, chief scientist at the
Centre for Cellular and Molecular

Biology(CCMB),

Hyderabad,

Telangana, won this year’s J C Bose

Fellowship. The award is given for his outstanding contribution in the field of population and medical genomics on August 17, 2019.
16. Power Minister R K Singh launched the State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness

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21. India to host the World Youth Chess
Championship 2019 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
28. Denmark’s third-largest lender, Jyske
Bank, has launched 10-year mortgage deals at a negative interest rate of 0.5

percent

22. World Humanitarian Day (WHO) is

observed every year on 19 August. Theme of 2019 WHD – #Women Humanitarians
29. Palani panchamirtham has been granted the Geographical Indication

(GI) tag. It is given as ‘prasadam’ at

the Murugan temple

23. Lucknow’s

famous

Hazratganj

Chauraha renamed as “Atal Chowk” .

It is named in the memory of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
24. Chennai Lions beat Dabang Delhi to win the 2019 Ultimate Table Tennis league title at Jawaharlal Nehru
30. The Ministries of Earth Sciences and
Agriculture have launched a mobile application named Meghdoot that will provide location, and crop and livestock-specific weather-based agro advisories to farmers in local

languages.

Stadium in New Delhi. It is

a

professional level table tennis league in India launched in 2017.
31. India has contributed one million US
Dollarsto the United Nations Special Purpose Trust Fund for the Resident Coordinator System.
25. The 5th Meeting of India-Nepal Joint
Commission held in Kathmandu on

21- 22 August.

32. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

26. The chief minister of TamilNaduShri
Edappadi K Palaniswami announced trifurcation of Vellore district. Ranipet and Tirupattur will be the new districts carved out of Vellore. After the trifurcation, TamilNadu will have 37 districts.
(IIT-Madras) developed

researchers

have

a

multimodal robotic

system called‘GraspMan,’with good

grasping, manipulation and locomotion abilities for use in industrial and field applications. The system comprises a pair of graspers that are capable of holding objects securely and manipulate it much like the human hand.
27. Tribal Affairs Ministry and Tribal
Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) jointly organized 9 – Day Aadi Mahotsav in

Leh – Ladakh.Theme – “A celebration

of the spirit of Tribal Craft, Culture

and Commerce”

33. Priyam Chatterjee has become the first Indian chef to be awarded the

‘Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mrite Agricoleto’by the French Government.

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He received this award in contribution towards reinventing the gastronomic scene in India.
40. Mohali traffic police has launched the
3-D Smart Traffic Signal system based on Artificial Intelligence.
34. Google India announced a continued long-term collaboration with Prasar Bharati to bring all the live action on YouTube and Google Search for events of national importance such as the Independence Day and Republic Day telecast.
41. The Statue of Unity has been

shortlisted for ‘The Structural Awards

2019’ of the UK-based Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE).
42. Maharashtra has granted USD 10 billion (about Rs. 70,0000 crores) plan

to establish the world’s first ultra-fast

hyperloop project to link Mumbai with Pune.
35. Alejandro Giammattei was elected as the President of Guatemala.
36. Home minister Amit Shah released a book title – Listening, Learning and Leading on Vice President Shri

Venkaiah Naidu’s two years in office.
43. Kolkata to get India’s first underwater

Metro

44. Gujarat CM launches ‘Vhali Dikri
Yojna’

37. Andhra

Pradesh

government

45. Aadi Perukku festival being celebrated

in Tamil Nadu

launched the Navodayam scheme.

The scheme is for thousands of ailing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the state.Navodayam will provide a lifeline to stressed MSMEs by ensuring that all eligible units are

46. India’s NDTV journalists Ravish Kumar has won the ‘Magsaysay award 2019’ for his news show ‘Prime Time’
47. The 4th South Asian Speaker’s

Summit will be held in Male, Maldives from 1st to 2nd September

2019.Theme – “Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”.

permitted

for

the

one-time

restructuring of accounts up to March 31, 2020.
38. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $200 million to upgrade rural roads to all-weather

standards in 34 districts of India’s

Maharashtra State to better connect rural areas with markets and services.
39. India contributes USD 5 million to UN
Palestine refugee agency
48. Netherlands clothing

bans

face-covering

49. Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected
Ukraine president
50. Jharkhand govt launches new scheme

– ‘Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad

Yojana.

Under

the

scheme,

beneficiaries having farm land of less

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than one acre to five acres, will get 5,000 to 25,000 rupees in their bank accounts. heavyweights Mohun Bagan at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata

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In Archery, the Indian team of Sukhbeer Singh, Sangampreet Singh Bisla and Tushar Phadtare won a bronze medal in the junior compound

men’s team event in the World Youth

Championships in Madrid.

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Indian team created history by winning one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the 45th WorldSkills Kazan 2019 competition, in Russia. S Aswatha Narayana won the gold medal in water technology. Pranav Nutalapati won silver medal in web technologies. Sanjoy Pramanik and Shweta Ratanpura won one bronze medal each in Jewellery and graphic design technology.
Constable Monali Jadhav from Maharashtra won three medals, including two golds, at World Police and Fire Games International Championship held in Chengdu, China. She won the gold in target and field archery and won bronze medal in

the ‘3D Archery’.

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India’s Komalika Bari became recurve cadet world champion at the World Archery Youth Championships held in Madrid (Spain) on 25th August. She defeated higher-ranked Sonoda Waka of Japan in the final.

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India win gold at Under- 12 Asian Tennis Team championship in Kazakhstan Hima Das, Mohammad Anas win gold at Athleticky Mitink Reiter in Czech Republic.

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Sindhu became the first Indian to win a Badminton World Championships gold by beating Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in Basel, Switzerland.
Wrestler Deepak Punia has become

India’s first junior World Champion in 18 years. He defeated Russia’s Alik

Shebzukhov at Tallinn, Estonia.
Sai Praneeth won a bronze and

became only the second Indian men’s

singles player after the legendary Prakash Padukone to win a medal at Badminton World Championships. In football, Gokulam Kerala FC won the 129th Durand Cup, defeating

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Rafael Nadal won the Montreal Masters Cup. He defeated Russian Daniil Medvedev. Bajrang Punia wins gold in Wrestling at Tbilisi Grand Prix. He defeated

Iran’s Peiman Bibyani in the 65 Kilogram category final of the men’s

free style competition in Georgia.

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Sourabh Verma clinched the Men’s

Singles title in the Hyderabad Open.

He beat Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew.

Aishwarya Pissay became the first Indian to claim a world title in motorsports, annexing the FIM World Cup ( Fédération Internationale de

Motocyclisme) in the women’s

category after the final round of the championship at Varpalota in Hungary.

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In Badminton, Indian junior shuttlers won six medals at the Bulgarian Junior International Championships which concluded in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. The medals comprised three gold, a silver and two bronze.

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The gold medals were won by Samiya

Imad Faruqui in women’s singles, the

duo of Edvin Joy and Shruti Mishra in Mixed Doubles and pair of Tanisha

Crasto and Aditi Bhatt in women’s

doubles.

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Serena Williams topped the list of the highest-paid female athletes 2019 published by Forbes.