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World Tourism Day

This day is celebrated on the 27th of September

every year. Since 1980, The United Nations World

Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism

Day as international observances. 27th September

was chosen as the World Tourism Day because on

that day in 1970, the Statutes of the UN World

Tourism Organization (UNWTO) were adopted. The adoption of these Statutes is considered

a milestone in global tourism. The day aims at creating awareness on social, political,

cultural and economic values among international community.

This year, the theme of World Tourism Day is "Tourism and jobs: a better future for all" and

is being hosted by India. India was chosen because India can offer a tourist different tourism

choices, diverse cuisines, faiths, arts, music forms, adventures places,language and history.

Indian leaders have urged the youth to explore India and its diverse cultural heritage. Chief

Ministers of various states have also invited various people to visit their states.

The main objectives of the theme are to maximise the potential of tourism through fresh

policies so that it can create more jobs for both youth and women. According to UNWTO,

Tourism generates 10% of world jobs. As per the International Labor Organization

unemployment around the world is a great cause of concern. More than 190 million people

are unemployed so it is very essential to create jobs. The main focus of UNEWTO is creating

equitable employment to achieve social inclusion, peace and security.

UNGA 2019

It refers to United Nations General Assembly. It is

the parliament of the world. It is one of the six

principal organs of the United Nations, the only one

in which all member nations have equal

representation, and the main deliberative, policy-

making, and representative organ of the UN. It not

only takes decision on important matters such as peace and security but also discusses

various global issues and budgetary matters. It decides on matters such as the admission of

new members.Every year in September, all the Members meet in this unique forum at

Headquarters in New York for the General Assembly session.

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The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was currently on at the

UN headquarters in New York. The meeting was held amid the global concerns like the US-

Iran tensions and rising extremism,recent attacks on major Saudi Arabian oil facilities, rift

between India and Pakistan, climate change after massive fire in the world's largest Amazon

rainforest.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address at the 74th session of the UN General

Assembly (UNGA) on Friday in New York urged all the world's nations to unite in the fight

against terrorism, saying that it was the greatest threat to humanity and the biggest global

challenge. He highlighted the reform agenda of his government, and also about actions

taken to tackle climate change, as well as health and cleanliness initiatives.PM Modi was the

fourth speaker to deliver a speech at UNGA.

China's Amphibious Assault Ship

The new ship is the first in China's Type 075 class of

amphibious assault ships. It is also defined as a type

of landing helicopter dock. It has been

independently developed by China. The ship will

have a strong capability to carry out attacks on the

enemy territory from the sea after undergoing

equipment debugging, mooring and navigational trials.

Its first amphibious assault ship with strong capacity in amphibious operations and

performing a variety of tasks has been launched by the Chinese Navy in Shanghai. This

amphibious assault ship will enable Chinese army to carry out attacks on the enemy

territory from the sea.

Kristalina Georgieva

She is a 66 year old economist from Bulgaria. She is

a former World Bank CEO. she also served as the

Vice-President of the European Commission under

Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2016. She even

served in a number of positions and eventually

becoming the vice president and corporate

secretary in March 2008 in the World Bank Group from 1993 to 2010. She served as a

member of the trustee board and associate professor in the Economics Department of the

University of National and World Economy in Bulgaria previously. According to an unwritten

rule, a European has led the IMF since its creation in 1945 after the Second World War and

the leader of the World Bank has been designated by the United States. Kristalina Georgieva

is the first person from an emerging economy to lead the IMF.


Kristalina Georgieva was selected as the new chief and Managing Director of International

Monetary Fund on September 25, 2019 by the 24-member Executive Board of the IMF. She

has become the second-ever woman to lead the IMF. IMF comprises 189 member states.

She is to take up her position as managing director on October. She will replace Christine

Lagarde, who is set to take over the European Central Bank (ECB).

Gully Boy

It is a hindi bollywood film directed by Zoya Akhter.

This film is about the street rappers in Mumbai.The

story revolves around the underground rap

movement in India. It is inspired by the lives and

work of rappers Naezy and Divine. The film features

Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles and

Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Raaz and Vijay Varma in pivotal roles. The film

Gully Boy showcases Murad's (Ranveer Singh) journey from the slums of Dharavi to the

centrestage of rap.

The movie Gully Boy has been selected as India's official entry to the 92nd Oscar Awards in

the 'Best International Feature Film' category. The film also received the Promotion of Asian

Cinema (NETPAC) Award held at South Korea including the NETPAC Award for Best Asian

Film at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. Bollywood is the Indian Hindi-

language film industry based in Mumbai.

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Oscar Award - It is the Academy Awards, also officially and popularly known as the Oscars.

It is given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for an

international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the

Academy's voting membership. The winners for various categories in cinema are awarded a

copy of a golden statuette, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit" or the Oscar. It is

the most prestigious award ceremony of Hollywood.

NATGRID

It means National Intelligence Grid. It is an

integrated intelligence grid connecting databases of

core security agencies of the Government of India

(GoI)to collect comprehensive patterns of

intelligence that can be readily accessed by

intelligence agencies. It was first proposed in the

aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008. The project is worth Rs.3400 crores.

The government of India in July 2016 appointed Ashok Patnaik as the Chief Executive Officer

of the National Intelligence Grid. The work on the NATGRID has been speeded up after

Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the progress recently. The NATGRID is likely to be

operational by January 2020. The data recovery centre of the NATGRID has been

constructed in Bengaluru, Karnataka and its headquarters is nearing completion in Delhi. It

will have data related to all immigration entry and exit, banking and financial transactions,

credit card purchases, telecom, individual taxpayers, air and train travels besides others to

generate intelligence inputs. The work on the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) is set up

to track any terror suspect and prevent terrorist attacks with real-time data.

In the first phase 10 users agency which are, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research & Analysis

Wing (R&AW), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED),

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Central Board of

Direct Taxes (CBDT), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Directorate General of

Central Excise and Intelligence (DGCEI) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will be able to

access the NATGRID data on real-time basis. Along with it 21 service providers too will be

connected with the NATGRID while in the later stages 950 organisations and in subsequent

years another 1,000 organisations will be connected with it. Initially, no state agencies will

be given direct access to the NATGRID data.


ICGS Varaha

It is a Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel. The ICGS

Varaha is the fourth in the series of seven 98-m

Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) of the Indian Coast

Guard (ICG). It has been designed and built

indigenously by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) at its

Katupalli ship building yard in North Chennai. It is fit

with the latest technology, navigation and communication equipment.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh formally commissioned the Coast Guard offshore patrol

vessel 'Varaha' at the Chennai Port Trust.The ship would be based at New Mangalore under

the administrative and operational control of Commander Coast Guard region (west) from

where it will operate covering up to Kanyakumari.It will have on board 14 officers and 89

men.The ship will add to the strength of ICG in responding to threats of smuggling, drug

trafficking, collision, grounding and oil spills, maritime terrorism and challenges of maritime

enforcement.

International Day of Sign Languages

It is celebrated annually across the world on 23

September every year along with International

Week of the Deaf. The choice of 23 September is

the same date that the World Federation of the

Deaf was established in 1951. The UN General

Assembly decided to commemorate the day as the

International Day of Sign Languages in order to raise awareness of the importance of sign

language in the full realisation of the human rights of people who are deaf. The first

International Day of Sign Languages was observed across the world on September 23, 2018

with the theme “With Sign Language, Everyone is Included!”

International Day of Sign Languages” was celebrated by Indian Sign Language Research and

Training Centre (ISLRTC) under Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

(Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment with Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar,

Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment was the Chief Guest on the occasion.


ECI

It is the Election Commission of India (ECI). Chief

Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora announced

the elections dates for the Assembly elections in

Maharashtra and Haryana. The elections in both the

states will be held on 21st October 2019 and

counting will be held on the 24th of October 2019.

The term of the Maharashtra assembly and Haryana

assembly ends on November 9th and November 2nd respectively. Model Code of Conduct

(MCC) will now come into force, following which the current state governments will not be

able to roll out last minute schemes.

Karnataka Bypolls 2019

The bypolls to 15 Karnataka seats, which the

Election Commission will be held on December 5,

according to a new notification issued. The counting

will take place on December 9. As per the new

schedule, the nomination process will restart on

November 11 as per the new schedule and

November 21 will be the last date of withdrawing

from the polls.

Dantewada Assembly by-poll

Congress' Devti Karma won the bypoll for the seat,

reserved for Scheduled Tribes, by a margin of

11,192 votes, a poll official said. Devti Karma is the

wife of senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma

who was killed in the Jhiram Valley Maoist attack in

2013. Opposition BJP's Ojaswi Mandavi stood

second with 38,836 votes and Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate Bhimsen Mandavi

stood third 7,664 votes.Voting was held on September 23.

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UNMID, NIDAN

UNMID refers to the Unique Methods of

Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders

whereas NIDAN refers National Inherited Diseases

Administration.

The Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth

Sciences and Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh

Vardhan today launched UMMID initiative and inaugurated NIDAN (National Inherited

Diseases Administration) Kendrawhich is being supported by Department of Biotechnology

(DBT),M/o Science and Technology to tackle the menace of genetic diseases in new born.

The main aim of UNMID initiative is the expensive treatment of genetic diseases in new

born cheaper so that it is within the reach of all the people.

The NIDAN kendra have been established under the UMMID initiative. These centres will

provide counselling, prenatal testing / diagnosis and management in government hospitals

of the country. Another objective is to produce skilled technicians in Human genetics to

screen pregnant women and new born babies for inherited genetic diseases. Five NIDAN

kendra have been launched and established.

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KCST

It refers to Kalam Centre for Science and

Technology. The Defence Research and

Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of

Defence and Central University of Jammu (CUJ)

signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for

the establishment of Kalam Centre for Science and

Technology (KCST) at the university. The MoU was signed in a ceremony was held in the

presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi.

The main objective of the MoU is to undertake and facilitate multidisciplinary directed basic

and applied research and technology development in the identified research verticals,

specifically the computational system security and sensors. KCST will also be equipped with

state-of-the-art facilities and equipment leading to increase in research scholars in these

areas.

Krishi Kisan Mobile app and CHC Farm Machinery

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday launching two

mobile apps – CHC Farm Machinery and Krishi Kisan

App for Geo-Tagging - for farmers to have easy

access to high value and technical agricultural

equipment at their doorstep. The apps were

launched with an aim to help farmers take benefit of field demonstration of new farm

technologies, seed hubs as well as weather advisories. The Minister encouraged the farmers

to utilize these services for betterment of their cultivation methods and thereby ensuring

higher agricultural productivity.

Krishi Kisan App :Krishi Kisan App will provide farmers information of best demonstration of

high-yielding crops and seeds at nearby area. Officials in the Ministry Informed that Farmer

with high quality of crops can demonstrate his best practices of cultivation to other farmers

so that production of these farmers could increase to a significant level. Besides providing

demonstration of high-yielding variety (HYV) of crops and seeds the App will also help in

geo-fencing and geo-tagging of crop.It isfree of cost and can be downloaded easily. The

Farmers have to login and get details of nearest crop demonstration fields. The government

is distributing seed mini-kits to farmers for multiplication and since as they are geo-tagged,

the government can track whether mini-kits are being used or not. This app will also be

useful in providing the farmers information about the weather forecast. Bhopal (Madhya

Pradesh), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), and Nanded (Maharasthra) will be

provided farm level weather advisory on a pilot basis by the government.


CHC App: The Custom Hiring Service Centres or CHC App will allow farmers to avail the

custom hiring services of CHCs located in the radius of 50 Kilometres. This App will help

small level farmers to get agriculture Machinery on rental basis to enhance their production.

The App will connect the farmers with Custom Hiring Service Centres in their area.

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes 2019

It is the highest multidisciplinary science awards in

India which is presented for outstanding Indian work

in science and technology. It is presented annually

by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

for notable and outstanding research,

applied/fundamental, in environmental science,

biology, mathematics, Physics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine. This prestigious

science award is named after the founder Director of CSIR, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. It was

1st awarded in 1958.

President of India Ram Nath Kovind presented awards for outstanding contributions in

science and technology. The awards were presented on the occasion of Council of Scientific

and Industrial Research (CSIR) Foundation Day.

Prize Recipients of the prestigious awards are :-

Biological Sciences winners: Dr. Kayarat Sai Krishnan (Indian Institute of Science Education

and Research, Pune); Dr. Soumen Basak (National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi)

Chemical Sciences: Dr. Raghavan B Sunoj (IIT, Bombay); Dr. Tapas Kumar Maji (Jawaharlal

Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru).

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences: Dr. Subimal Ghosh (IIT, Bombay)

Engineering Sciences: Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru) Mathematical

Sciences: Dr. Dishant Mayur Bhai Pancholi (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai), Dr.

Nina Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

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Medical Sciences: Dr. Dheeraj Kumar (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and

Biotechnology, New Delhi), Dr. Mohammad Javed Ali (LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad)

Physical Sciences: Dr. Aninda Sinha (IISc, Bengaluru), Dr. Shankar Ghosh (TIFR, Mumbai)

Hazzaa Al Mansoori

He is a 35 year old former pilot in the The United

Arab Emirates (UAE) armed forces. He will be the first

Emirati astronaut and first Arab on orbiting

laboratory of ISS. Before him Prince Sultan Bin

Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud from Saudi Arabia and

Muhammed Faris from Syria - have been to space.

Both of their missions took place in the 1980s.

On 25 September 2019 he launched aboard the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft to the International

Space Station accompanied by Oleg Skripochka of Russia and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir

onboard. He will stay for eight days at International Space Station (ISS) doing scientific

experiments with other international astronauts.

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center provided Al Mansoori with a 10kg bag, which

includes important elements of Emirati heritage, culture and history, which will be placed in

museums upon his return.

As part of UAE’s space plans, the Arab nation has announced its aim to also become the first

Arab country to send an unmanned probe to orbit Mars by 2021. The country has named its

Mars mission as “Hope”. In the long-term, UAE also plans to build a “Science City” to

replicate life on Mars. It also aims to create the first human settlement on red planet by

2117.


U.N.

It referes to The United Nations. It is an

intergovernmental organization tasked with

maintaining international peace and security,

developing friendly relations among nations,

achieving international co-operation, and being a

centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Antonio Guterres is the present UN Secretary-General.

UN Climate Action Summit : The purpose of the Summit is to bring leaders from around the

world together urgently to address climate change and achieve the goals of the Paris

Agreement. The first summit had taken place in California in 2018. According to the U.N.

reports Average global temperature between 2015-2019, 2019 set to be hottest on record.

The UN Climate Change Summit, 2019 was held in New York. It launched an initiative to

guide heavy industries towards low-carbon economy. Along with other World leaders Prime

Minister Modi too attended the summit where he urged world leaders to take actions to

protect the environment and to ban single-use plastic.

AURANGABAD

A new species of snakes has been discovered in the

Western Ghats in Maharashtra and named after

Tejas Thackeray, the younger son of Shiv Sena chief

Uddhav Thackeray, for his contribution to the find.

The species falls in the category commonly called as

cat snakes and belong to the genus Boiga. The first

Boiga to be described from the western ghats in 125 years. It is Known to feed exclusively

on tree frogs & their eggs. It is found on trees over hanging rain fed streams in it's misty

montane rainforest habitat. The new species was found in the Koyna region of Satara

district in western Maharashtra.

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Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of Gujarat

The country's first 'Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)’

has been launched by the Gujarat chief minister

Vijay Rupani in Surat to encourage and incentivize

the industrial units to cut air pollution. Gujarat

Pollution Control Board (GPCB) chose Surat as the

pilot city for the project because it is a densely-

populated industrial centre and its textile and dyeing industries emit heavy pollution.As

industries in Surat have already installed Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems so that

makes it possible to estimate the mass of PM being released.

ETS is a regulatory tool that is aimed at reducing the pollution load in an area and at the

same time minimising the cost of compliance for the industry. GPCB spent two years

developing pollution monitoring devices (called Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems,

or CEMS.

The ETS will function by defining the total total mass of pollution that can be released into

air over a certain fixed period by all industrial units or factories collectively, under the cap

and trade market.

Gandhi Solar Park

Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with UN chief

Antonio Guterres and other world leaders

inaugurated the Gandhi Solar Park and Gandhi

Peace Garden at the UN headquarters in New York.

This gesture highlighted India's attempt to not only

talk about climate change but also take action.

The 50 kilowatt Gandhi Solar Park is a $1 million-solar park that will produce 50 kilowatts of

electricity from the roof of the conference building at the UN headquarters.The energy

generated in park is equivalent to energy that would have been created through use of

30,000 kilograms of coal. It also has a carbon sequestration of 1000 seedlings which will

grow into trees over a period of 10 years.India gifted 193 solar panels for the project—one

panel each for every UN member state.

Gandhi Peace garden : It was inaugurated at the State University of New York at Old

Westbury in Long Island. About 153 trees were planted in the garden to honour Mahatma

Gandhi on his 150th anniversary. The peace garden is a crowd project which will give people

a chance to adopt trees in memory of their loved ones.


The leaders also launched a United Nations (UN) postage stamp of Mahatma Gandhi that

marks his 150th anniversary. On the very same day, Narendra Modi was also conferred with

the Global Goalkeeper Award for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) launched

by his government. He received the award from Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

World Rhino Day

This day is celebrated on September 22 every year

to celebrate the world’s five rhinoceros species, and

to reflect on the challenges facing them. Non-

Governmental Organisation (NGO), zoos, and public

celeberate rhinos in their own unique ways.

The World Rhino Day was launched by World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-South Africa on

September 22 in the year 2010. The day is internationally observed across both African and

Asian rhino bearing countries.

World’s Five Rhinoceros Species living in Africa and Asia– Javan Rhinos (Rhinoceros

sondaicus), Critically Endangered (IUCN), Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis),

Critically Endangered (IUCN) Black rhinos (Diceros bicornis), Critically Endangered (IUCN)

White rhinos (Ceratotherium simum), Near Threatened (IUCN) Greater One-Horned Rhinos

(Rhinoceros unicornis), Vulnerable (IUCN).

International Coastal Clean-up Day

It is celebrated every year on the third Saturday of

September. This year it was celebrated on 21st of

September. It was started in 1986. It was begun by

Linda Maraniss and Kathy O Hara. They worked on

ocean conservancy. Around 2,800 volunteers

participated in the first clean up session. The

International Coastal Cleanup Day is celebrated so as to encourages people to clean

beaches, remove the garbage plaguing it. It has now has 6 million volunteers participating

from 90 countries globally. The theme of this year is marine animal, The Pelican.

In India, on this day programmes were conducted in several coastal cities like, Mumbai and

Chennai. Thousands of volunteers joined the cleaning of the shores and beaches

programmes t Chennai Besant Nagar beach and Mumbai Versova Beach. Huge quantity of

non – biodegradable waste and handed over to municipal authorities for proper disposal.


Kyle Abbott

He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He

represented South Africa in Test, One Day

International and Twenty20 International cricket

between 2013 and 2017, before retiring to take up

a contract with Hampshire in English county cricket.

He created history with a total of 17 wickets in

120th Specsavers County Championship in Hampshire. He recorded the best match figures

in first-class cricket this century.

The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for

sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales

and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board. It became an official title in 1890.

The Best FIFA Football Awards 2019

It is an Association football award presented

annually by the sport's governing body, FIFA. The

first awarding ceremony was held on 9 January

2017 in Zurich, Switzerland. The award is aimed at

reviving the FIFA World Player of the Year.

Football legend Argentinian Lionel Messi bagged his

sixth FIFA's Best Men's Player Award for his outstanding performance throughout the year.

He defeated his biggest rival Cristiano Ronaldo. On the other side, in women’s category,

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USA World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe received her first FIFA best player award for 2019 at

the Best FIFA Football Awards 2019 ceremony held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.

The other FIFA Best Player 2019 Awards were awarded to :-

FIFA Best Men’s Coach 2019 to Jurgen Klopp

FIFA Best Women’s Coach 2019 to Jill Ellis

FIFA Puskas Award to Daniel Zsori

FIFA Best Men's Goalkeeper 2019 to Marc-Andre ter Stegen

FIFA Best Women's Goalkeeper 2019 to Sari van Veenendaal

FIFA Best Fan Award 2019 to Silvia Grecco

FIFA Best fair play award to Leeds United and Marcelo Bielsa

World Boxing Championships

It is The AIBA World Boxing Championships and the

AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships are

biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by

the International Boxing Association (AIBA), which

is the sport governing body. Alongside the Olympic

boxing programme, it is the highest level of

competition for the sport.

Amit Panghal a young boxer Amit Kumar Panghal from Rohtak created history by becoming

the first Indian male boxer to reach final World Boxing Championships 2019. He defeating

Kazakhstan's Saken Bibossinov by split decision (3-2) in the 52kg semi-final on Friday in

Ekaterinburg, Russia. He is the reigning Asian Games gold medallist. Manish Kaushik finished

with a bronze after losing the 63kg semi-final

World Wrestling Championships

It is an Amateur Wrestling World Championships

organized by the United World Wrestling. The

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling tournament began

in 1904, and the Men's Freestyle Wrestling

tournament began in 1951. The Women's Freestyle

championships were first staged in 1987.

Indian wrestler Deepak Punia secures quota for 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He became the fourth

athlete from the country to secure quota for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after booking his


place in the semi-finals of the on-going World Wrestling Championship at Nur Sultan,

Kazhakstan. He won silver in men’s 86 kg freestyle and Rahul Aware bagged a bronze medal

in men’s 61kg category while other wrestlers to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in their

respective weight categories are Bajrang Punia, Ravi Kumar and Vinesh Phogat. India

finished with its best-ever medal haul at World Championships by winning 5 medals in Nur-

Sultan. The 5 medal includes- 1 silver and 4 bronze medals.

IAAF Veteran Pin Award

It is The International Association of Athletics

Federations Veteran Pin Award. The award is given

to those players who have made matchless

contributions to athletics. IAAF president Sebastian

Coe presented IAAF Veteran Pin Award to former

India’s track and field and Olympian legend P.T.

Usha for her outstanding service to the sport. She received the award at the 52nd IAAF

conference in Doha.

P.T. Usha or Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha is a retired Indian track and field athlete.

She has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She is often called the "queen of

Indian track and field". She won five gold medals in 100 metres(m), 200m, 400m, 400 m

hurdles and the 4x400 m relay besides a bronze in the Asian Games which were held at

Jakarta in 1985 .

Adille Sumariwalla

He is an Indian Parsi athlete and entrepreneur,

popular for representing India at the 1980 Moscow

Olympics. He is also an entrepreneur and owns

many media businesses in India, after tenures at

some media companies including the American

Media Company. has been re-elected as member of

Council of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for a second four-year

term during the 52nd Congress of the sport’s world governing body. He received 121 votes

to get elected as one of the 13 individual members of the IAAF Council.


IAAF

It is the International Association of Athletics

Federations and is the international governing body

for sport of athletics. It was established on 17 July

1912 in Stockholm, Sweden. It is headquartered in

Monaco. it consists of 215 member federations.

St Petersburg Open

It is a professional men's tennis tournament played

on indoor hard courts. It is part of the ATP World

Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis

Professionals World Tour. India's Divij Sharan and

partner Igor Zelenay of Slovakia won Men’s Doubles

Title at ATP Tour Tennis Tournament held in St.

Petersburg in Russia. In the final, the duo defeated Italian pair of Matteo Berrettini and

Simone Bolelli. The 49th-ranked Divij has won five Tour titles ,16 Challenger and 19 Futures

doubles titles.

World Athletics Championships

The IAAF World Athletics Championships, is a

biennial athletics event organized by the

International Association of Athletics Federations

(IAAF). It is held between 27 September and 6

October 2019 in Doha, Qatar.

Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich won the world

championship midnight marathon on Friday, in a gruelling test of survival that saw nearly a

third of the 70 starters fail to reach the finish line.


EAC-PM

It refers to Economic Advisory Council to PM. It is

an independent body constituted to advise the

government (especially prime minister) on

economic and related issues. It has reconstituted

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

(EAC-PM) under existing Chairman Bibek Debroy.

The reconstitution is for a period of two years, with effect from 26 September 2019. Ratan P

Watal will continue as Member Secretary of the EAC-PM. The EAC-PM will have 2 part-time

members as against 3 in outgoing panel. Ashima Goel will continue to be one of part-time

members and Sajjid Chinoy (Chief India economist at J.P. Morgan) has been added as the

new member. Two existing part-time members, Rathin Roy and Shamika Ravi have been

dropped in reconstituted EAC-PM.

Preventive Vigilance portal

Punjab National Bank (PNB) launched a Preventive

Vigilance (PV) portal during a function held at PNB

Corporate Office, chaired by Central Vigilance

Commissioner Sharad Kumar. The portal aims to

facilitate its staff members to check procedural

lapses as well as promote good practices.

Besides PV portal e-pledge mission was inaugurated. About Preventive Vigilance portal To

promote vigilance awareness in the banking system, PNB introduced the first of its kind

technology based solutions through Preventive Vigilance portal. PV portal will facilitate all

staff members to contribute towards arresting procedural lapses and unhealthy practices. It

will also usher in a coherent climate conducive to banking for modern age. It's the first of its

kind portal which includes other activities, such as the inauguration of the e-pledge mission,

social outreach through technological platforms. The bank promoted the portal under the

central theme Integrity-A way of Life.

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CBDT

It refers to The Central Board of Direct Taxes

(CBDT), that frames policy for the Income-tax

department. It will set up National e-Assessment

centre (NeAC) in New Delhi as part of the

government’s ambitious plan to launch faceless and

nameless assessment for income tax payers from

October 2019.

NeAC : It will be an independent office that will look after the work of e-assessment scheme

which headed by a Principal Chief Commissioner of Income-tax (PCCIT) as its chief. It is the

recently notified scheme for faceless and nameless assessment for income taxpayers. It will

have 16 officials. CBDT has appointed K M Prasad, a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS)

officer as chief or PCCIT of NeAC while Ashish Abrol, a 1993-batch IRS officer has been

appointed as the Commissioner or second-in-command of new unit. NeAC will also serve

notices to assess specifying the issues for selection of their case for assessment and once a

response is received from them within a period of 15 days, the centre will allocate case to

an assessing officer using an automated system.

e-assessment scheme : It is a scheme set up to facilitate faceless assessment of income-tax

returns via completely electronic communication between tax officials and taxpayers. The

scheme will be rolled out from ‘Vijayadashami’ on 8 October 2019.

Multipurpose ID Card

It refers to one single use card for all utilities like

Aadhaar, passport, bank account, driving licence &

voter card. On 23 September 2019 Union Home

Minister Amit Shah proposed the idea of a single

multipurpose identity card for citizens. He also said

the Census 2021 data will be collected through

mobile app. moving away from traditional pen and paper, to promote Digital India. He said

that National Population Register was being prepared for the first time in the 2021 census.

He laid the foundation stone of a new building of the Registrar General of India and Census

Commissioner in New Delhi. He stated that there should also be a system that when a

person dies, the information is updated automatically in the population data. The massive

nationwide exercise will be carried out in 16 languages at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore.


Digital Census 2021

It is the 16th in the series which was first conducted

in the 1860s. It will have about 60 questions, right

from the amenities available in a household, source

of drinking water and power, to the religion,

occupation, and the languages spoken by the

family. The exercise will be carried out during the

house-listing phase of Census 2021, during April to September 2020, in all the states and

union territories, except Assam, where a National Register of Citizens was recently released.

Then the Census data will be collected through a mobile app which will be used for the

census exercise. He said the 2021 census will help in future planning of the country,

especially for development initiatives and welfare schemes, and it will be a ‘Jan Bhagidari’

(people’s participation) exercise.

NPR

It is the National Population Register (NPR). It is a

register of the ‘usual’ residents of the country. A

usual resident is defined as a person who has

resided in a local area for the past six months or

more, or a person who intends to reside in that

area for the next 6 months or more. The database

under the NPR is maintained by the Registrar

General of India and Census Commissioner of India, Ministry of Home Affairs. The NPR is

prepared at the local (Village or sub-Town), sub-District, District, State and National level,

under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and

Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. It is mandatory for every usual resident of

India to register in the NPR.


Sonu Nigam

He is an Indian playback singer, composer, live

performer, host, and actor. He sings predominantly

in Hindi and Kannada language films. He has also

sung in English, Bengali, Manipuri, Gujarati, Tamil,

Telugu, Marathi, Tulu, Assamese, Odia, Nepali,

Maithili, Malayalam and various Indian languages.

He has been honoured with the Magnificent Performing Arts Award at the annual 21st

Century Icon Awards in London. He was among a host of winners across a range of

categories at a gala awards ceremony last week, devised as a celebration of dynamic

entrepreneurs and successful individuals chosen from hundreds of nominations from

around the world.

Madhukar Kamath

He is the chairman emeritus of DDB Mudra group

and mentor of Interbrand India, has been elected

chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)

for 2019-20. Kamath has also been the president of

Advertising Agencies Association of India IAAAI)

and chairman of the Advertising Standards Council

of India (ASCI).He has more than 4 decades of experience in advertising and marketing

services. He was unanimously elected for the top post at the 71st annual general meeting of

the ABC. He has served as chairman of brand consultancy Interbrand and has led several

industry bodies.

ABC: It refers to Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) of India. It is a voluntary organisation

initiated in 1948 that operates in different parts of the world. It is a non-profit circulation-

auditing organisation. It certifies and audits the circulations of major publications, including

newspapers and magazines in India.

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Amitabh Bachchan

He is an Indian film actor, film producer, television

host, occasional playback singer and former

politician. He first gained popularity in the early

1970s for films such as Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay,

and was dubbed India's "angry young man" for his

on-screen roles in Bollywood. He was initially named

Inquilaab Srivastava later changed to Amitabh. His father was Harivansh Rai Bachchan who

was an Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement of early 20th century Hindi

literature and mother Teji Bachchan, who was a social activist. He has starred in a multitude

of films. Amitabh Bachchan's career spans over five decades in the Hindi film industry.

Amitabh Bachchan has been selected for the highest Indian film honour- Dadasaheb Phalke

award for the year 2019. The actor was awarded with the Padma Shri in 1984. In 2001, he

received the Padma Bhushan, 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015. He was also

bestowed with France's highest civilian honour, the Knight of the Legion of Honour, by the

French Government in 2007 for his "exceptional career in the world of cinema and beyond".

He also won the prestigious National Award for his performances in 'Agneepath', 'Black',

'Paa' and 'Piku'.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award: The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema

introduced by the Government of India to commemorate Dadasaheb Phalke's contribution

to Indian cinema. Dadasaheb Phalke who is often regarded as "the father of Indian cinema",

was an Indian filmmaker who directed India's first full-length feature film, Raja

Harishchandra (1913). It is presented anually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the

Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and

Broadcasting. It was first presented in1969. The award is awarded for "outstanding

contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema" and is selected by a

committee consisting of eminent personalities from the Indian film industry.As of 2017, the

award comprises a Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) medallion, a shawl, and a cash prize of

?1,000,000.

Greta Thunberg

She is a Swedish environmental activist focused on

the risks posed by global warming. Greta Thunberg

wins The Right Livelihood Award which is also

known as the Alternative Nobel. She is being

recognized 'for inspiring and amplifying political

demands for urgent climate action reflecting


scientific facts.' The teen activist, whose impassioned speech at the U.N. Climate Action

Summit made international headlines this week.

The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering

practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facrd by the world. The prize

was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and is

presented annually in early December.

Ponung Doming

She is the first woman army officer from Arunachal

Pradesh to become Lieutenant Colonel In Indian

Army. She is a resident of Pasighat in East Siang

district of Arunachal Pradesh. She was

commissioned into the Indian Army in 2008. She

then got a degree in civil engineering.She served

the UN Peace keeping force in Congo in 2014.She is currently posted in Pune, Maharashtra.

The Indian army for the first time in 2019 issued notification inviting female applicants for

the position of Soldier General Duty, personnel below officer rank. Initially, women in armed

forces were recruited only in the officer’s rank till 2018. In India, females are not allowed to

serve in combat units like armoured corps, infantry and Mechanised infantry. With the

introduction of Indian Military Nursing Service by the British Raj, the role of woman in the

Indian Army began and it was only in 1992 that the Indian Army started recruiting women in

non-medical roles also. Later in 2007, the UN first all female peace keeping force was

deployed to Liberia by India. This was first of its kind not only in India but throughout the

world.



Jammu and Kashmir

J&K becomes first state to issue highest number of

golden cards under Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan

Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). Within 90

days after the scheme was launched over 11 lakhs

of golden cards have been issued.

Under the scheme, 155 Hospitals including 126 public and 29 private hospitals have been

empanelled to provide free and cashless treatment to the entitled beneficiaries while as per

Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 6.30 lakh poor and vulnerable families of J&K are

entitled to it.

Ayushman Bharat Yojana

It is also known as Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya

Yojana (PMJAY) or National Health Protection

Scheme. It is a centrally sponsored scheme

launched in 2018, under the Ayushman Bharat

Mission of MoHFW in India.

The main of the scheme is making interventions in primary, secondary and tertiary care

systems, covering both preventive and promotive health, to address healthcare. It is a

combination of two major health initiatives namely, Health and Wellness centres and

National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS). Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Deputy

CEO of Ayushman Bharat Yojana is Indu Bhushan and Dr. Dinesh Arora respectively.

Kerala

Vice President inaugurates 150th Birth Anniversary

celebrations of Vaidyaratnam P.S. Warrier at Kottal

in Kerala.

Vaidyaratnam P S Warrier : He was an Ayurvedic

physician who founded Kottakal Arya Vaidyasala in

1902 for manufacture and sale of Ayurvedic medicines in India. The present Ayurveda

college, earlier known as Ayurvedic patsala in 1917. It has now 5 hospitals, 3 medicine

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factories, R&D centres, 200 acres of herbal gardens. The headquarters of Arya Vaidya Sala

The Arya Vaidya Sala institutions are at Kottakkal, Malappuram district.It also operates 5

hospitals and a charitable centre. The Ayurvedic pills discovered by the center has

revolutionized Ayurvedic medicines. It also assists in the Ministry of Ayush. It also works on

researches with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of Government of India (CSIR) .

Government of India has issued postage stamps in his honour. In 1933, he was conferred

with the title “Vaidyaratna” in recognition of his services to humanity by the then Governor

General of India.

Odisha

Department of Women & Child Development and

Mission Shakti, Government of Odisha, in

collaboration with United Nations International

Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) unveiled a

mascot named ‘Tikki Mausi’ with an aim to combat

malnutrition among children and women and their

development. Women and Child Development Minister Tukuni Sahu and UNICEF's state

Chief Monika O Nielsen unveiled the mascot and also launched the state level

communication strategy to make the public aware about child and woman's nutrition and

their development. The mascot Tikki Mausi has been named so in reference to second

mother of a child. It is projected to spread awareness for better health care of children and

their development. The mascot will also take care of providing the right information about

state government projects for women and children to every household for better future of

children in the state and thereby spread awareness for better health care of children and

their development.

Uttarakhand

A 14-day joint military exercise Between India and

Kazakhstan named KAZIND 2019 to counter-

terrorism operations is scheduled to be held in the

mountainous terrain from 3rd to 15th of Octoer

2019. It will be held in Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand.

The exercise will comprise of nearly 100 soldiers

from both Indian and Kazakhstan Army who would be sharing their experience gained

during conduct of various counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations in the past.


KAZIND 2019

It is the fourth edition of the annual event. The joint

military exercise is conducted alternatively in

Kazakhstan and India every year. The objective of

this exercise is to conduct company level joint

training and enhancing the level of defence

cooperation further fostering bilateral relations

between the two nations. It will help counter terrorism operations in mountainous terrain.

During the exercise, aspects of emerging trends of global terrorism and hybrid warfare have

also been included.

Ladakh

Ladakhi Shondol dance created history by entering

into the Guinness Book of World Records as the

largest Ladakhi dance. It was performed by 408

women dressed up in traditional dresses and

beautiful headgears and performed the dance. It

was performed on the occasion of the annual

Naropa Festival 2019. Swapnil Dangarikar, the official adjudicate of The Guinness Book of

World Records, presented the certificate to the Drukpa Thuksey Rinpoche who is chairman

of the Naropa Festival Organising Committee.

Shondol dance: It is also known as the the royal dance of Ladakh. It was performed by the

artists dressed up in traditional dresses and beautiful headgears and for the king of Ladakh.

Naropa Festival 2019

It is celebrated every 12th year of the Tibetan

calendar. It is also known as the Kumbh Mela of the

Himalayas. It aims to celebrate the life of Buddhist

philosopher and scholar Naropa. As many as 408

women attired in traditional dresses and beautiful

head gears performed the dance. It was held near

the Hemis Monastery. The Hemis Monastery is 11th-century world-famous monastery in

Ladakh.concluding day of the ongoing Buddhist carnival Naropa festival near the Hemis

Monastery. The festival had begun on September 16 and concluded on Friday.

The festival also aims to end the use of plastics and also sensitize the leaders of the religious

community on plastic waste management and recycling process.



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