1. Dipa Karmakar became the first-ever Indian green cess of 20-22% on diesel vehicles . EPCA is gymnast to receive the honour of ‘Gymnaste de known to be a Supreme court-appointed Green Panel Classe Mondaile’ (World class gymnast) by the for Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).T International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). 9. The Union Cabinet finally approved the National • she belongs from Agartala, Tripura Dipa Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme to train 50 Karmakar represents India at the international lakh apprentices by 2019-20 . This Scheme is circuit. involving an outlay of 10000 crore rupees which • she won a bronze medal at the 2014 will catalyze the entire apprenticeship ecosystem in Commonwealth Games, held at Glasgow becoming the country. It will also offer a winning situation for the first Indianfemale gymnast to do so in the all stakeholders and is expected to become one of history of the games. the most powerful skill-delivery vehicles in the 2. Deepak Singhal who is 1982 batch IAS officer has country. The Scheme is all set to be implemented by been appointed as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Director General of Training (DGT) under Ministry Pradesh of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 3. TRAI which is also known as The Telecom (MSDE). Regulatory Authority of India have launched the 10. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully entered MySpeed mobile application for measuring real into the orbit of Jupiter and started orbiting solar time mobile Internet speed of consumers . system’s most massive planet. NASA launched the However, the idea behind this app is that customers spacecraft as part of its New Frontiers program in should know about the experience of their as well as 2011 to study Jupiter’s composition, gravity field, other networks in order to select the best mobile magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. operator in their locality. Data will be made • The Juno Spacecraft is in a polar orbit to study available on TRAI Analytics portal. Through the Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, application, TRAI Myspeed App, TRAI will get real and polar magnetosphere. time data from customers. This will be put on TRAI 11 . Niranjan Mukundan who is a Para swimmer won Analytics Portal. This will show mobile data speed eight medals, including three gold medals, at the of each operator within a given area on real time International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports basis. This is the first application to be launched (IWAS ) U-23 World Games in Prague, Czech under the Digital India initiative which is directly Republic. trying to tackle the issue of poor data speeds. • Mukundan bagged gold medals in 200m freestyle, 4. FC Barcelona’s Superhero Lionel Messi his father 50m butterfly and 50m breaststroke, silver in 100m Jorge have been sentenced to 21 messimonths in fly and 50m freestyle, and bronze in 100m freestyle, prison for tax fraud , but the Barcelona forward is 100m breaststroke and 100m backstroke events. not expected to spend any time behind bars Know About Niranjan Mukundan – 5. R Thiruppathi Venkatasamy has been appointed • In the year 2015, Niranjan Mukundan was as the Accountant General of Economic and crowned as the Junior World Champion. Revenue Sector Audit of Tamil Nadu. 12. RBI has appointed Sudarshan Sen as an 6. The Union Cabinet gave the green signal to the Executive Director in place of NS Vishwanathan, Interest Subvention Scheme for farmers for the who has been elevated as Deputy Governor at the year 2016-17 and assigned a sum of 18276 crore central bank. Sen will look after Department of rupees for the purpose. The main aim of this Banking Regulation, Department of Co-operative scheme is to help farmers getting short term crop Bank Regulation and Department of Non-Banking loan payable within one year up to 3 lakhs rupees at Regulation. only 4% per annum. 13. Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (HMCL) country’s largest 7. Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail (ABFRL ) two-wheeler maker has inked a wage settlement acquired global clothing brand Forever 21 in the pact with its permanent workers at Gurgaon Indian market for 26 million US dollars. Forever Plant , entailing a hike of 12500 rupees spread over 21 has a network of more than 700 stores three years. worldwide. The three-year agreement will be implemented with Know About Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail - retrospective effect starting from 1 August 2015 till • In the beginning, the company was named as 31 July 2018. The previous wage settlement was Pantaloons Fashion and Retail Ltd (PFRL). also effective from 1 August 2012 to 31 July 2015. • After some time, it was formed as the 14. A New species of tarantula has been identified consolidation of the branded apparel businesses of near the home town of Gabriel Garcia tarantula Aditya Birla Group - Aditya Birla Nuvo, Madura Marquez , the late Nobel literature laureate Fashion division, Pantaloons Fashion and Retail Ltd 15. Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth clinched the Canada and Madura Garments Lifestyle Retail Company Open Grand Prix Badminton Men’s Singles title Ltd. at Calgary. Praneeth grab this title from Lee Hyun 8. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and II of Korea 21-12, 21-10.Whereas, men's doubles Control) Authority (EPCA) recommended a pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy also grabbed Men’s doubles title at the tournament.Also, 23. The Haryana Police has launched a 24-hour top seed doubles pair Attri and Reddy defeated helpline for people to report incidents of cow Adrian Liu and Toby Ng 21-8 21-14 in a lop-sided smuggling in the state, where cattle slaughter and final. However, the pair of Attri and Reddy is the beef sale are already banned. The police also said first Indian men's doubles pair to qualify for the Rio that barricades would be put up to check cow Olympics. smuggling. This comes after a recent incident 16. former Prime Minister of France Michel Rocard wherein two alleged beef smugglers were forced to at the age of 85 passed away in Paris.. eat cow dung. 17. The Haryana Government declared that it would 24. The Assam government announced a 100-day develop an industrial township in the state at an plan for the development of agriculture, urban expense of 5 billion dollar. In Sohna and Manesar infrastructure , and veterinary sectors in the state. areas of Gurgaon, the new industrial township will The plan includes issuing soil health cards to spread in over 1500 acres of land.Also for this farmers, building cold storages, setting up e- purpose, in New Delhi, the Haryana Industrial and tendering of seed distribution, and urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) infrastructure development. The government also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with plans to commercialise four of the 22 poultry farms China Fortune Land Development (CFLD) across Assam. Company. 25. The world’s largest ‘charkha’ or spinning wheel 18. ICC which is also known as The International was unveiled at Terminal-3 of Delhi’s Indira Cricket Council finally approved a change to the Gandhi International Airport by BJP President DRS (Decision Review System ) playing condition Amit Shah. The installation of the 27 feet long and relating to the LBW “Umpire’s Call”. 15 feet tall charkha commemorates the centenary What this amendment says - year of Mahatma Gandhi’s return from South • The size of the zone inside which half the ball Africa. Around 42 carpenters in Ahmedabad took 55 needs to hit any part of the stumps for a not out days to build the charkha. The Charkha weighs 4 decision. Currently, half of the ball would need to tonnes and is made from Burma teak wood be hitting a zone between the Centre of leg and off 26. Jawaharlal Nehru Port becomes the first port in stumps. the country to implement logistics data tagging of • From 1 October, this amendment will come into containers. Jawaharlal Nehru Port implemented effect. the logistics data bank tagging of containers , first 19. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (goalkeeper) who is an of its kind facility, which will help Indian footballer became the first Indian to play importers/exporters track their goods in transit in Europa League. Sandhu was named in through logistics data bank service. An RFID (Radio Norwegian club Stabaek FC's squad for their Europa Frequency Identification Tag) tag would be attached League qualifying match against Welsh Premier to each container which would be tracked through League side Connah's Quay Nomads FC. RIFD readers installed at different locations. 20. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh 27. Noel Neill, the first actress to play Superman’s has inaugurated country’s first commercial love interest, passed away at the age of 95 . Neill dispute resolution centre and commercial court was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1920, the in the state capital. The commercial court is located daughter of Minneapolis Star Tribune news editor in Naya Raipur area of the city. The court also David Neill and the New York vaudeville performer consists of arbitration centre and a mediation centre. LaVere Neill. As a teenager, she became a highly 21. The Supreme Court has ruled that 3% sought-after photographic model and her pin-up was reservation for promotions shall be provided to reportedly second only to Betty Grable’s in terms of the differently-abled in all posts under the popularity among American serviceman during Government of India . This comes after the Centre World War II. ordered the confining of such reservation to only 28. Regulator FSSAI has joined hands with ASCI in Group C and Group D posts. Ruling to provide its bid to check misleading advertisements in the reservation without any classification, the court food and beverages sector.