Legend Magazine
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
LEGEND MAGAZINE (SEPTEMBER- 2018) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 13 | Page : 56 | Topic : Legend of September | Price: Not for Sale LEGEND OF SEPTEMBER 2018 MAGAZINE - INDEX S. NUMBER TOPICS PAGE NUMBER 1 NATIONAL AFFAIRS 1 2 STATES IN NEWS 6 3 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 9 4 BANKING AND BUSINESS 13 5 APPOINTMENTS 17 6 AWARDS & HONOURS 18 7 BOOKS AND AUTHORS 19 8 SPORTS 20 9 IMPORTANT DAYS / OBITUARY 24 10 CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 25 11 ENGLISH VOCABULARY 32 12 BANKING AWARENESS 44 13 SIMPLIFICATION 51 CURRENT AFFAIRS Gajendra Singh, Director (Marketing) from Bi-Annual Talks between Indian and GAIL (India) Limited. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Bangladeshi Border Forces Begin in New Environment Ministry Releases India‘s Delhi: ICAR organized conference on Motivating & National REDD+ Strategy: The bi-annual talks between Indian and Attracting Youth in Agriculture (MAYA) : The national Reducing Emissions from Bangladeshi border forces will begin in New The Indian Council of Agricultural Deforestation and Forest Degradation Delhi. Research, ICAR hasorganized a two-day (REDD+) strategy for India prepared Director General of Border Security Force conference on Motivating & Attracting Youth by Indian Council of Forestry and (BSF) KK Sharma will represent the Indian side in Agriculture (MAYA) . Education, Dehradun for the Government was while Director General of Border Guard Under this scheme, special efforts are being released in New Delhi by Union Minister for Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Md Shafeenul taken up to attract the rural youth under the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Islam will lead the Bangladeshi side in the talks. age of 35 years in agriculture so that the Harsh Vardhan. The meeting is aimed at increasing bilateral increase in the migration of rural youth towards The Paris agreement on climate change also cooperation in checking trans-border crimes cities is controlled. recognises the role of forests in climate change such as smuggling of drugs and narcotics, cattle The two day conference provides an mitigation and calls upon the party countries to lifting and gun running across the international opportunity to all stakeholders to interact and take action to implement and support REDD+. border between the two countries. discuss various options and avenues for not only REDD+ attracts highest attention in developing This is the 47th DG-level conference attracting youth to agriculture but even country like India where local communities and between the two sides since it began in 1975. A motivating them towards entrepreneurship in forest dwelling tribal communities have high joint record of discussion will also be signed agriculture and allied fields. The regional dependency on forests for their livelihoods. between the BSF and BGB. conference has attracted participants from Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. HRD Ministry Introduces ‗Atal Ranking‘ For Indian Railways And GAIL Sign MoU For Institutions: Use Of Natural Gas in Railway Workshops: ‗One-Nation-One-Card‘ Policy For The Union government has introduced Atal Indian Railways has signed a Memorandum Transport: NITI Aayog Ranking of Institutions on Innovation of Understanding (MoU) with M/s GAIL (India) India will shortly unveil a ‗One Nation-One Achievements (ARRIA) . It was announced Limited, to provide infrastructure facilities for Card Policy‘ for public transport that will entail by Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar. supply of Natural Gas to Indian Railways connectivity between various modes of ARIIA will rank educational institutions for Workshops, Production Units and Depots. transport. It was announced by NITI Aayog innovation output based on all major It aims to replace Industrial gases like CEO Amitabh Kant. indicators and parameters used globally. It Dissolved Acetylene, LPG, BMCG and Furnace Oil The road transportation segment alone was named after former Prime Minister Atal / High Speed Diesel (HSD) oil with environment contributes to around four per cent of India's Bihari Vajpayee. friendly Natural Gas. GDP with the segment still being heavily The cell has been established to systematically The MoU was signed by Shri Chetram, CAO dependent on fossil fuels. It aims to provide foster the culture of innovation in all higher Indian Railway Organization for Alternate Fuels sustainable mobility and accessibility by education institutions across the country. (IROAF) on behalf of Indian Railways and Shri switching to cleaner mode of transportation. Chennai | Puducherry | Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Erode | Namakkal |Tanjore| Tirunelveli | Trivandrum | Ernakulam|Bengaluru | Chandigarh |LEGEND MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER- 2018| 2 For instance in London, you can buy one card Digital Disha" programme across vocational related to e-tendering and e-auction related (Oyster card) and can travel on the bus, metro institutes in India. activities of the national transporter. and even suburban trains using that card. The programme is focused on helping Users of this mobile app can see details related vocational institutes leverage the power of a free to tenders published, tenders closed as well as ISRO plans its first overseas ground base at online and mobile graphic design app "Adobe purchase orders that have been placed. North Pole: Spark" to integrate creativity and digital literacy The Indian Space Research Organisation into classrooms and curriculum. Former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan to Head (ISRO) plans to set up its first overseas "Adobe Spark" -- a storytelling Creative Panel To Select New CEA: ground station at the North Pole. This would Cloud application that runs in any web or The government has appointed a panel bolster the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) mobile browser -- is now available free of charge under former Reserve Bank of India operations which are critically important in for education and skill development. governor Bimal Jalan to select the next chief times like disaster management. This will enable students quickly express economic adviser in the finance ministry. This ground station will provide an opportunity themselves via graphics, web stories and video The secretary of the department of personnel to download complete data within the same orbit to creatively approach their assignments as well and training C Chandramouli and economic and enable the use of onboard resources in as develop digital portfolios. affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg will every orbit. be members of the panel. The maximum age The Indian Space Research Organisation is the Tourism Ministry sanctions Rs. 80.37 crore limit for the position has been fixed at 56 years. space agency of the Government of India for developing: Arvind Subramanian has resigned from his headquartered in the city of Bangalore. The Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned CEA post before his tenure ends in May 2019 Founder: Vikram Sarabhai Malanad Malabar Cruise Tourism Project citing personal reasons. He has since joined as a Director: Kailasavadivoo Sivan under Swadesh Darshan Scheme for visiting professor at Harvard University. development of a rural circuit in Kerala. Government launches Coffee Connect app The Union Tourism Minister K.J. Alphons Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana to cover and Krishi Tharanga project: has announced that under this project, the child cancer treatment: The Minister for Commerce & Industry and ministry will be developing three cruises with a The government has announced that Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu has launched budget of Rs 80.37 crores. treatment of childhood cancer will be Coffee Connect - India coffee field force The project will be focusing on the covered under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya app and Coffee Krishi Tharanga - digital development of water-based thematic cruise Yojana. mobile extension services for coffee experiences in and around Valapattanam and The scheme will provide health insurance cover stakeholders. Kuppam Rivers of Kannur District. of five lakh rupees to poor families. Both BPL The mobile app Coffee Connect has been The total length of the navigation route in and lower-middle-class families will benefit from developed to ease the work of field Kerala is 1900 km. Kerala has 44 Rivers and it. functionaries and to improve the work 7 Backwater regions. Nearly 1.5 lakh Health and Wellness efficiency. It will also help in transparency in the Centres will be opened in the country by 2022 activities of the extension officers and officials, BNS Somudra Joy arrived Visakhapatnam under Ayushman Bharat. transparency in subsidy disbursement and real on a goodwill visit: The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana or time report generation. The Bangladesh Naval Ship Somudra Joy Ayushman Bharat scheme will be launched by The Coffee KrishiTharanga services are arrived Visakhapatnam on a four day visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the birth aimed at providing customized information and the Eastern Naval Command. anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay services to increase productivity, profitability, BNS Somudra Joy is a Hamilton Class on September 25, 2018. and environmental sustainability. frigate and it is one of the largest ships of the NABARD has partly funded the Pilot project. Bangladesh Navy. The ship earlier visited PM Narendra Modi to launch Swachhata hi These initiatives are aimed at benefiting all Visakhapatnam in Feb 2016 and participated in Seva Campaign: stakeholders in