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Committee 9. China to host top defence and Top 50 current security forum in October. The Beijing affairs September Xiangshan Forum is scheduled to be held from October 20 to 22. Theme – 1. Rajnath Singh commissions INS ‘Maintaining International Order and Khanderi into Indian Navy Promoting Peace in the Asia-Pacific 2. The 14th conference of Parties (COP Region’. 14) to the UN Convention to Combat 10. Russia formally accepts 2015 Paris Desertification was held in Greater climate accord. It first signed the deal Noida. in April 2016. 3. Tripura High Court has ordered to ban 11. Facebook buys CTRL-labs the centuries-old tradition of animals 12. India ranked 44th in the IMD World sacrifice in religious places across the Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2019 state. (WDCR). US ranked first 4. Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for 13. Payal Jangid becomes the first Indian the first time to receive the Changemaker Award 5. President Ram Nath Kovind on Sept. 2019 26 unveiled the country’s first 14. Former president Pranab Mukherjee indigenous High-Temperature Fuel has released a book titled ‘Reset: Cell System which has been Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’ developed by the Council of Scientific authored by BJP MP Subramanian and Industrial Research (CSIR) Swamy. 6. Cochin International Airport Ltd has 15. Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva has been selected as the best airport in been selected as the new head of the terms of services it offered to International Monetary Fund(IMF). passengers, based on a survey
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16. The Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and 25. India conducted a two-week special Aditya Mehta has won the IBSF World training programme for Maldivian civil Snooker Team title at Mandalay, servants in Delhi and Mussoorie. Myanmar. 26. The government has appointed PK 17. Largest private sector lender HDFC Mishra as the Principal Secretary to Bank has emerged as the most valued Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Indian brand at USD 22.70 billion. 27. The Indian Air Force (IAF) resurrected 18. The International Cricket Council (ICC) the Air Force Station Ambala-based 17 has given exclusive digital content Squadron ‘Golden Arrows’, which will rights to Facebook for all events of operate the first squadron of Rafale the ICC in the Indian sub-continent. fighter jets in the near future. 19. Prime Minister Modi receives “Global 28. India and Asian Development Bank, Goalkeeper” award for Swachh Bharat ADB, signed 200-million dollar loan Abhiyan agreement for upgrading rural roads 20. India announces 12 million dollar in 34 districts of Maharashtra to grant for high impact developmental improve road safety. projects in Pacific Island countries 29. India has announced a humanitarian 21. World Bank to provide Rs 3,000 crore assistance of one million dollar to help aid for food parks people in the Bahamas affected by 22. India and the United States are set to Hurricane Dorian. hold their first tri-services exercise 30. Standard Chartered Bank launched named “Tiger Triumph” at “DigiSmart” credit card to offer Visakhapatnam and Kakinada (Andhra instant discounts and benefits across Pradesh) in November 2019. key e-commerce categories of travel, 23. The documentary film named Moti entertainment, fashion, groceries and Bagh based on the life of Vidyadutt, a food delivery round the year. farmer living in Pauri Garhwal region 31. World Tourism Day is celebrated on of Uttarakhand has been nominated 27 September. for Oscars. 32. India has made a landmark 24. Bangladesh government has proposed announcement of a line of credit to set up a monument in Tripura in worth 1 Billion US dollars for the memory of the martyrs of 1971 development of the Far East region of Bangladesh Liberation War. Russia.
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33. India has moved up six places to rank 41. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won Belgian 34th on world travel and tourism Grand Prix 2019. competitiveness index, in the latest 42. In Tennis, Sumit Nagal has won the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness men’s singles title of ATP Challenger Report (TTCR) of WEF. Tournament at Buenos Aires in 34. Nobel Laureate from Bangladesh Argentina. He defeated Facundo Professor Muhammad Yunus was Bognis. conferred the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint 43. In Badminton, Indian shuttler Kaushal Francis ‘ award by the Vatican Dharmamer won the men’s singles 35. Gujarat Government and Delaware title at the Maldives International State of America signed MoU - Challenge with a win over Siril Verma Memorandum of Understanding for in Male. sister state. 44. Indian shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer 36. Joint military training, Exercise ‘Yudh won the Myanmar International Abhyas – 2019’ was conducted at Series over Indonesia’s Karono Karono Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord, 45. In Badminton, Sourabh Verma won Washington, the USA (5-18th the Vietnam Open Super 100 title, September 2019). defeating China’s Sun Fei Xiang at the 37. India has announced a contribution of Ho Chi Minh City. USD 22 million to the Global Fund for 46. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen won AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFTAM) for the men’s singles title of Belgian 6th replenishment cycle (2020-22). International Challenge over Victor 38. September month to be celebrated as Svendsen of Denmark ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’ 47. Pankaj Advani, has won IBSF World 39. Tech giant ‘Google’ has signed a Billiards Championship in Myanmar. statement of intent with the Ministry He defeated Nay Thway of Myanmar. of Electronics and IT (MeitY) for rolling 48. The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, out ‘Build for Digital India’ to be hosted by India, will be held programme. from 2nd to 21st November next year. 40. Yashaswini Singh Deswal won gold in 49. Rafael Nadal has won US Open Men’s the women’s 10meter Air Pistol event singles beating Daniil Medvedev at the ISSF World Cup at in Rio de 50. Russian tennis player Oksana Janeiro in Brazil. Selekhmeteva paired with Latvian
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player Kamilla Bartone won junior magazine in its second annual list of doubles trophy at US Open. the 2019 World’s greatest places, a compilation of 100 new and newly
“noteworthy destinations to experience right now”. Top 50 current 6. Children are the happiest in Kerala affairs August and the least happy in Madhya Pradesh. The India Child Well-Being New Policy rates- Report released on Tuesday analysed the well being of children based on 24 Repo Rate – 5.40% government data indicators. The Reverse Repo Rate – 5.15% report has been compiled by non- MSF – 5.65% profit World Vision India and the Bank Rate – 5.65% Institute of Financial Management CRR – 4% and Research. SLR – 18.75% 7. Canara Bank has launched India’s first 1. India has become the first country in one-time password (OTP) facility for the world to issue Biometric Seafarer ATM withdrawals. Identity Document, BSID,capturing 8. The Central Vigilance Commission the facial biometric data of seafarers. (CVC) has constituted Advisory Board 2. China plans to issue its own for Banking Frauds (ABBF) to examine crytocurrency as early as November bank fraud of over 50 crore rupees 11. and recommend action. The panel in 3. Microsoft Indialaunched a scheme to its previous avatar called the Advisory provide 5000 government employees Board on Bank, Commercial and over the next year on AI (artificial Financial Frauds. The ABBF is headed intelligence) and cloud computing by former Vigilance Commissioner T skills. The program, called ‘Digital M Bhasin. Governance Tech Tour’, will comprise 9. The ten-day annual festival of the of physical and virtual workshops. famous Madurai Meenakshi Amman 4. Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi will temple began in Tamil Nadu. be renamed as Arun Jaitley Stadium. 10. Gujarat topped the second Round of 5. The 597-ft tall ‘Statue of Unity’ in Composite Water Management Index Gujarat and Mumbai’s Soho House (CWMI 2.0) released by NITI Aayog. have been featured by the Time
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11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Index -SARAL in New Delhi. Karnataka awarded the King Hamad Order of the has been placed at the first rankin the Renaissance by Bahraini King Hamad Index followed by Telangana and bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. PM Gujarat. Narendra Modi also received the 17. Divyang Satendra Singh Lohia from Order of Zayed, UAE’s highest civilian Madhya Pradesh has become the first award. Asian swimmer to cross the Catalina 12. Union Government is planning to Channel of America yesterday. launch an e-commerce portal named Satendra holds the Asian record of “Bharatcraft” for MSME’s to provide a crossing both the English and Catalina platform for MSMEs to market and channels. sell their products and in turn boost 18. The Board of Control for Cricket in the sector. India (BCCI) announced that mobile 13. Punjab chief minister Captain payments and e-commerce company Amarinder Singh launched universal One 97 Communications Pvt. Ltd, health insurance scheme — Sarbat which operates under the Paytm Sehat Bima Yojana in Mohali .It will brand, has retained the title benefit nearly 46 lakh families. sponsorship rights for all cricket Beneficiaries can avail annual cashless matches, domestic and international, treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per family played in India for five years. per year, including pre-existing 19. Google and the Telangana diseases. government signed a Memorandum 14. Nepalese authorities have banned of Understanding (MOU) to improve single-use plastics in the Everest and get more local language content region in a bid to cut down on waste online using Google’s digital left by climbers. publishing tool – Navlekha. 15. Union Home Minister Amit Shah 20. K Thangaraj, chief scientist at the chaired the 24th meeting of Western Centre for Cellular and Molecular Zonal Council at Panaji in Goa.It is a Biology(CCMB), Hyderabad, forum for the Centre and states to Telangana, won this year’s J C Bose exchange ideas on issues like health, Fellowship. The award is given for his security and social welfare. outstanding contribution in the field 16. Power Minister R K Singh launched of population and medical genomics the State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness on August 17, 2019.
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21. India to host the World Youth Chess 28. Denmark’s third-largest lender, Jyske Championship 2019 in Mumbai, Bank, has launched 10-year mortgage Maharashtra. deals at a negative interest rate of 0.5 22. World Humanitarian Day (WHO) is percent observed every year on 19 August. 29. Palani panchamirtham has been Theme of 2019 WHD – #Women granted the Geographical Indication Humanitarians (GI) tag. It is given as ‘prasadam’ at 23. Lucknow’s famous Hazratganj the Murugan temple Chauraha renamed as “Atal Chowk” . 30. The Ministries of Earth Sciences and It is named in the memory of former Agriculture have launched a mobile Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. application named Meghdoot that will 24. Chennai Lions beat Dabang Delhi to provide location, and crop and win the 2019 Ultimate Table Tennis livestock-specific weather-based agro league title at Jawaharlal Nehru advisories to farmers in local Stadium in New Delhi. It is a languages. professional level table tennis league 31. India has contributed one million US in India launched in 2017. Dollarsto the United Nations Special 25. The 5th Meeting of India-Nepal Joint Purpose Trust Fund for the Resident Commission held in Kathmandu on Coordinator System. 21- 22 August. 32. Indian Institute of Technology Madras 26. The chief minister of TamilNaduShri (IIT-Madras) researchers have Edappadi K Palaniswami announced developed a multimodal robotic trifurcation of Vellore district. Ranipet system called‘GraspMan,’with good and Tirupattur will be the new grasping, manipulation and districts carved out of Vellore. After locomotion abilities for use in the trifurcation, TamilNadu will have industrial and field applications. The 37 districts. system comprises a pair of graspers 27. Tribal Affairs Ministry and Tribal that are capable of holding objects Cooperative Marketing Development securely and manipulate it much like Federation of India (TRIFED) jointly the human hand. organized 9 – Day Aadi Mahotsav in 33. Priyam Chatterjee has become the Leh – Ladakh.Theme – “A celebration first Indian chef to be awarded the of the spirit of Tribal Craft, Culture ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mrite and Commerce” Agricoleto’by the French Government.
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He received this award in contribution 40. Mohali traffic police has launched the towards reinventing the gastronomic 3-D Smart Traffic Signal system based scene in India. on Artificial Intelligence. 34. Google India announced a continued 41. The Statue of Unity has been long-term collaboration with Prasar shortlisted for ‘The Structural Awards Bharati to bring all the live action on 2019’ of the UK-based Institution of YouTube and Google Search for Structural Engineers (IStructE). events of national importance such as 42. Maharashtra has granted USD 10 the Independence Day and Republic billion (about Rs. 70,0000 crores) plan Day telecast. to establish the world’s first ultra-fast 35. Alejandro Giammattei was elected as hyperloop project to link Mumbai the President of Guatemala. with Pune. 36. Home minister Amit Shah released a 43. Kolkata to get India’s first underwater book title – Listening, Learning and Metro Leading on Vice President Shri 44. Gujarat CM launches ‘Vhali Dikri Venkaiah Naidu’s two years in office. Yojna’ 37. Andhra Pradesh government 45. Aadi Perukku festival being celebrated launched the Navodayam scheme. in Tamil Nadu The scheme is for thousands of ailing 46. India’s NDTV journalists Ravish Kumar Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has won the ‘Magsaysay award 2019’ (MSMEs) in the state.Navodayam will for his news show ‘Prime Time’ provide a lifeline to stressed MSMEs 47. The 4th South Asian Speaker’s by ensuring that all eligible units are Summit will be held in Male, Maldives permitted for the one-time from 1st to 2nd September restructuring of accounts up to March 2019.Theme – “Achieving Sustainable 31, 2020. Development Goals”. 38. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) 48. Netherlands bans face-covering has approved a loan of $200 million to clothing upgrade rural roads to all-weather 49. Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected standards in 34 districts of India’s Ukraine president Maharashtra State to better connect 50. Jharkhand govt launches new scheme rural areas with markets and services. – ‘Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad 39. India contributes USD 5 million to UN Yojana. Under the scheme, Palestine refugee agency beneficiaries having farm land of less
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than one acre to five acres, will get heavyweights Mohun Bagan at the 5,000 to 25,000 rupees in their bank Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata accounts. In Archery, the Indian team of Sukhbeer Singh, Sangampreet Singh Sports news- Bisla and Tushar Phadtare won a Indian team created history by bronze medal in the junior compound winning one gold, one silver and two men’s team event in the World Youth bronze medals at the 45th WorldSkills Championships in Madrid. Kazan 2019 competition, in Russia. S Constable Monali Jadhav from Aswatha Narayana won the gold Maharashtra won three medals, medal in water technology. Pranav including two golds, at World Police Nutalapati won silver medal in web and Fire Games International technologies. Sanjoy Pramanik and Championship held in Chengdu, Shweta Ratanpura won one bronze China. She won the gold in target and medal each in Jewellery and graphic field archery and won bronze medal in design technology. the ‘3D Archery’. India’s Komalika Bari became recurve India win gold at Under- 12 Asian cadet world champion at the World Tennis Team championship in Archery Youth Championships held in Kazakhstan Madrid (Spain) on 25th August. She Hima Das, Mohammad Anas win gold defeated higher-ranked Sonoda Waka at Athleticky Mitink Reiter in Czech of Japan in the final. Republic. Sindhu became the first Indian to win Wrestler Deepak Punia has become a Badminton World Championships India’s first junior World Champion in gold by beating Nozomi Okuhara of 18 years. He defeated Russia’s Alik Japan in Basel, Switzerland. Shebzukhov at Tallinn, Estonia. Sai Praneeth won a bronze and Rafael Nadal won the Montreal became only the second Indian men’s Masters Cup. He defeated Russian singles player after the legendary Daniil Medvedev. Prakash Padukone to win a medal at Bajrang Punia wins gold in Wrestling Badminton World Championships. at Tbilisi Grand Prix. He defeated In football, Gokulam Kerala FC won Iran’s Peiman Bibyani in the 65 the 129th Durand Cup, defeating 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. In Badminton, Indian junior shuttlers He beat Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew. won six medals at the Bulgarian Junior Aishwarya Pissay became the first International Championships which Indian to claim a world title in concluded in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. motorsports, annexing the FIM World The medals comprised three gold, a Cup ( Fédération Internationale de silver and two bronze. Motocyclisme) in the women’s The gold medals were won by Samiya category after the final round of the Imad Faruqui in women’s singles, the championship at Varpalota in duo of Edvin Joy and Shruti Mishra in Hungary. Mixed Doubles and pair of Tanisha Serena Williams topped the list of the Crasto and Aditi Bhatt in women’s highest-paid female athletes 2019 doubles. published by Forbes. Men’s doubles combination of Ishan German cancer researcher Fiona Bhatnagar and Vishnuvardhan won Kolbinger won the mixed annual silver medal. 4,000km(2,485 miles) cycling Malvika Bansod and Meiraba Luwang Transcontinental Race from Burgas in won a bronze each in other singles Bulgaria. She becomes the first events. woman to win one of the world’s Rogers cup winners- toughest cycling races. Australia’s Nick Kyrgios defeated Russia’s Daniil Medvedev to win ATP Men’s singles: Rafael Nadal defeated Washington Open title. Daniil Medvedev Satwiksairaj, Chirag 1st Indian doubles Women’s singles: Bianca Andreescu pair to win Super 500 title in Thailand defeated Serena Williams Open. Men’s doubles: Marcel Granollers, Lovlina Borgohain won gold at the Horacio Zeballos defeated Wesley Magomed Salam Umakhanov Koolhof and Robin Haase Memorial International Boxing Women’s doubles: Barbora Tournament 2019 held at Kaspiysk, Krejčíková, Kateřina Siniaková Russia defeated Demi Schuurs and Anna- Indian junior shuttlers win 6 medals at Lena Gronefeld Bulgarian Open
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placed the high-stake lunar probe into the designated highly elliptical orbit Top 50 current around the earth in just 16 minutes and 33 seconds. affairs July 13. Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi has won the Indonesia Open BWF Tour Super 1000 1. India ranked 103 in FIFA rankings tournament held in Jakarta, 2. Indian origin Priti Patel appointed Indonesia. Britain’s Home Secretary 14. Uttar Pradesh has decided to follow 3. ADB sanctions Rs. 1,925 Cr for power the ‘half glass water’ policy in order to projects in Tripura prevent wastage of water 4. According to Garg committee private 15. Sachin Tendulkar inducted into ICC cryptocurrencies should be banned Hall of Fame completely in India 16. In Tamil Nadu, two new districts are 5. Boris Johnson will take over as Prime going to be formed, taking the total Minister of Britain number of districts in the state to 35. 6. India ranked 52nd rank in global 17. WB govt to sign MoU with British innovation index 2019 Council to improve spoken English 7. The IMF projected India GDP growth skills of polytechnic students at the rate of 7% in 2019 18. Union Health Ministry has signed an 8. Abhay Singh and Tanvi Khanna win MoU with Ministries of Ayush, Bengal Open squash titles Defence and Railways to strengthen 9. Boris Johnson to be UK’s new PM the efforts towards a TB-Free India by 10. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 2025. Madras developed a smart agricopter. 19. HDFC Bank and Common Services It can be used to eliminate manual Centres (CSCs) launched a co-branded spraying of pesticides in agricultural ‘Small Business Money Back Credit fields and help identify crop health by Card’ for small traders and village- using a imaging camera. level entrepreneurs (VLEs) 11. Hima Das won a gold medal in the 20. The Russian space agency 400-meter race with a season-best ‘Roscosmos’ has successfully launched time of 52.09 seconds at Nove Mesto into space an all-sky-survey satellite, in the Czech Republic. Spektrum-Rontgen-Gamma “Spektr- 12. Chandrayaan-2 successfully launched It was carried by GSLV Mark III. It
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RG” on a Proton-M rocket from the 30. Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. has released a book titled 21. Amir Khan wins WBC international ‘Vivekadeepini’. The original book is welterweight title written by Sri Adi Shankaracharya and 22. World Bank would offer a loan of the conversion in different 10 $250 million to the Kerala languages has been done by Vedanta Government for the Resilient Kerala Bharati. project 31. Indian captain Sunil Chhetri has won 23. World population day is observed on the AIFF Men’s footballer of the year 11 July 2018-19 award. 24. The French government will impose a 32. The second India-Russia Strategic tax of up to €18 on plane tickets for Economic Dialogue will be held in all flights from airports in France from New Delhi 2020 to fund less-polluting 33. Serena Williams was fined USD 10,000 transportation projects. by the All England Club for damaging 25. Sri Lanka has become the fifth country one of Wimbledon’s courts with her in the World Health Organisation racket prior to the start of the (WHO) Southeast Asia region to tournament. eliminate measles. 34. Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes Greece’s 26. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board new PM has finalised a three- year roadmap 35. Ashutosh Gupta has been appointed named “Utkarsh 2022” to improve as the Country Manager for India of regulation & supervision and various LinkedIn other functions of the central bank. 36. The Border Security Force (BSF) has 27. Dutee Chand won Gold medal in 100- launched massive exercise, code- metres event at World Universiade named ‘Sudarshan’, to fortify the 28. Board of Control for Cricket in India ‘anti-infiltration grid’ along the (BCCI) has appointed former cricketer Pakistan border in Punjab and Jammu. Rahul Dravid as the head of National 37. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has Cricket Academy (NCA), Bengaluru. released a book titled ‘Land 29. Norwegian chess grandmaster Registration, Global Practices and Magnus Carlsen defeated Maxime Lessons for India’ – written by the B.K. Vachier-Lagrave (France) to win the Agarwal (Chief Secretary of Himachal Croatia Grand Chess Tour. Pradesh) in New Delhi.
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38. Brazil defeated Peru 3-1 to win its first 47. IMF appoints economist David Lipton Copa America title since 2007. as interim leader. He will replace 39. India’s wrestler Vinesh Phogat (in 53 Christine Lagarde who was nominated Kg category) and Divya Kakran (in 68 to head the European Central Bank. kg category) have won Gold Medal at 48. The Chattisgarh government has the Grand Prix of Spain. decided to increase the retirement 40. The annual Bonalu festival kicked off age of industrial labourers working in in the city at the historic Golconda private sectors to 60 years from the Fort of Hyderabad. current 58 years. 41. India ranked 86th in the Henley 49. Operation Khumaar launched in Passport Index 2019 with a mobility Jammu and Kashmir to make 312 score of 58. Japan and Singapore have panchayats tobacco-free ranked 1st with a score of 189 50. Tamil Nadu Government has declared 42. Poznan Athletics Grand Prix: Hima Das Tamil Yeoman (Cirrochroa thais) as wins Gold in women’s 200 metres the state butterfly, based on the 43. French lawmakers approve 3% tax on recommendation of state forest internet giants like Google, Amazon department. and Facebook.
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launched in Surat, Gujarat. 45. As per the Economic Survey 2018-19, Maharashtra state has achieved first rank in the NITI Aayog’s launched “Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index (AMFFRI). 46. Jio launches ‘Digital Udaan’, a digital literacy initiative in partnership with Facebook.The objective of the Digital Udaan’ is to provide digital literacy to first-time internet users who are using the connected internet ecosystem and apps for the very first time.
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