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1.  D Purandeswari was appointed an

independent director on the board of Air
India Ltd.

2. Kalraj Mishra was appointed the

chairman of the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Defence.

3.  Moutaz Mousa Abdallah has become

Sudan‘s new Prime Minister. Capital: Khartoum. Currency: Sudanese
pound.

4. Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar joined the board of the

US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF).

5. Tajinder Mukherjee took charge as the Chairman and Managing

Director (CMD) of National Insurance Company Limited (NIC).

6.  Financial Commissioner of Delhi Anindo Majumdar was appointed

Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).

7. Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas has been appointed Secretary,

Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman, Atomic Energy
Commission.

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1. The government has increased, interest rates
on small saving schemes. New interest rates
are:

PPF and NSC: 8 %

Sukanya Samriddhi: 8.5%

Senior Citizens Savings Scheme:  8.7%

Kisan Vikas Patra: 7.7% (will now mature or double in 112 months)

2.  Ministry of Power, Government of India launched an ambitious

program to encourage the deployment of Energy Efficient chiller
systems in the country.

3. Tamil Nadu government announced a scheme for the protection

of the exotic Neela kurinji (Strobilanthus kunthianus) plants in Nilagiri
district of Tamilnadu.

4. West Bengal government rolled out the scheme, Swayangsiddha,

in its different districts to combat human trafficking.

5.  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu flagged off

the ‘Swachh Dhara’ programme at Amravati.

6. UP police launched the ‘e-FIR’ or ‘dial-FIR’ scheme for the first time
in the country. To help the citizens lodge a report and FIR online.

7. The governments of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir signed an

agreement for renewing work on Rs. 2793 crore Shahpurkandi dam
project.

8.  20 lakh people have joined the modified Pradhan Mantri Jan
Dhan Yojna (PMJDY) as on September 5, 2018.

9.  The Employee’s State Insurance (ESI) has rolled out Atal Bimit
Vyakti Kalyan Yojna for providing unemployment allowance to
workers rendered jobless due to changing employment pattern.

1.  The government recently appointed MD and

CEOs of 10 PSBs. The names are: Allahabad
Bank: SS Mallikarjuna Rao, Bank of
Maharashtra: AS Rajeev, Punjab & Sind
Bank: S Harisnakar, United Bank of India:
Ashok Kumar Pradhan, UCO Bank: Atul Kumar
Goel, Syndicate Bank: Mrutyunjay Mahapatra,
Central Bank of India: Pallav Mohapatra,
Indian Bank: Padmaja Chundru, Andhra Bank: J Packirisamy, Dena
Bank: Karnam Shekhar.

2.  Revathy Iyer and Raghvendra Narayan Dubey have been appointed
as a member in the Northern local board of RBI.

Rakesh Jain and Sachin Chaturvedi have been appointed as a

member in Southern local board and Eastern local board of RBI.

Revathy Iyer and Sachin Chaturvedi have also been nominated as

Director on the central board of RBI.

3.  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved PayU India to operate its
own non-banking financial company (NBFC).

4.  State Bank of India appointed Prashant Kumar as the Chief

Financial Officer (CFO) of the Bank.

5.  BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and NSE (National Stock

Exchange) have received approval from SEBI (Securities and
Exchange Board of India) to launch commodity derivatives segment from
1st October 2018.

1. NSE and London Stock Exchange Group

(LSEG) signed a pact on a dual listing route
for masala bonds as well as foreign currency
bonds of Indian issuers.

2. Fitch Ratings in its Global Economic

Outlook report increased India’s growth
forecast for the current fiscal to 7.8
percent, from 7.4 percent.

3. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) raised

the minimum insurance cover for owner-driver to Rs.15 lakh for a
premium of Rs.750 per annum.

4. Infosys acquired Finnish company Fluido, a top consulting partner of

Salesforce, for 65 million euros (about Rs 545 crore).

5. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has signed two agreements with state-
run telecom firm BSNL and Niti Aayog related to technology and
innovation.

6. German insurer Allianz signed up as a global Olympic sponsor for

a 4-Games period of 10 years between 2021 and 2028.
 1. Anushka Sharma received the Smita
Patil Memorial Award at Priyadarshini
Academy 34th Anniversary Global Awards, in
Mumbai.

2. Union Rural Development Minister

Narendra Singh Tomar awarded chief
engineer of the Uttarakhand Rural Road
Development Agency (URRDA) for making Uttarakhand the best among
States in the country under PMGSY, in New Delhi. 

3. India climbed one spot to 130 out of 189 countries in the latest human

development rankings released by the  United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP). India’s HDI value for 2017 is 0.640.

4.  UN’s annual multi-agency flagship report on the State of Food

Security and Nutrition in the World, hunger remains the same as was
ten years ago in 2017. The increase from 777 million to 821million
hungry people in 2017.

5. Credit Suisse Family 1000 in 2018’ study, published by Credit Suisse

Research Institute (CSRI), India ranked third globally in terms of a number of
family-owned companies. India has a total of 111 companies and $839
billion total market capitalization. India follows China (159
companies) and the US (121 companies).
6. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu presented “Rajbhasha Kirti”
award to Punjab National Bank on the occasion of Hindi Divas. It
received the award for outstanding performance in implementing the
Official Language Policy during 2017-18.

7. Kerala Tourism bagged two prestigious gold awards of the Pacific

Asia Travel Association (PATA) for its innovative marketing campaigns.

8. The all-women crew of INSV Tarini has won the Tenzing Norgay
National Adventure award for completing the challenging task of sailing
across the world for 8 months.

9. Raghupati Singhania was awarded the ‘Mexican order of the Aztec

Eagle’ by Her Excellency Ms. Melba Pría, Ambassador of Mexico to India. 

1. The inaugural Naval Flight Test Seminar

was held at Goa recently. 

2. Union Minister for Railways and Coal, Piyush

Goyal inaugurated the ‘first ever’ India
Tourism Mart (ITM 2018) in New Delhi.
3. World Cultural Culinary Heritage Committee, under the aegis of
the World Association of Chefs' Societies (WorldChefs), will hold
the first edition of the World Heritage Cuisine Summit and food
festival from October 12-14 at the Qila Gobindgarh in Amritsar.

4.  The 3-day ‘first ever’ India Tourism Mart (ITM 2018) was
inaugurated by Union Minister for Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush
Goyal in New Delhi.

5. Suresh Prabhu participated in the 2-day G-20 Trade and

Investment Ministerial Meeting, held in Mar del Plata in Argentina.

The theme for the G-20 Trade and Investment Ministerial Meeting
was: “Building Consensus for Fair and Sustainable Development”.

6. The second edition of Nepal-China joint military exercise ‘Mt

Everest Friendship Exercise’ began in southwestern Sichuan province of
China.

7. 7th UNWTO Global Summit on Urban Tourism was held in Seoul,

capital of South Korea from 16 to 19 September 2018. The theme of the
summit was ‘A 2030 Vision for Urban Tourism’.

8. India and Russia joint air exercise Avia Indra 18 was held in
Lipetsk, Russia. The second session of Avia Indra 18 will be conducted in
Jodhpur,

9. 24th World Ozone Day: September 16 

 10. International Day of Peace: September 21

Theme: “The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at

70.

11. World Alzheimer’s Day: September 21

12. Engineers Day: September 15 

13. International Day of Democracy: September 15 

1.  Rajasthan’s first lion safari was

inaugurated at Nahargarh Biological Park.
The park is located in the Aravalli foothills.

2.  Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

signed MoUs with the Tata Trusts and Dell
to provide a technological platform for
nationwide prevention, control, screening, and
management program of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
3. Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu was on an official visit to
Serbia (Capital: Belgrade, Currency: Dinar), Malta (Capital: Valletta,
Currency: Euro) and Romania (Capital: Bucharest, Currency:
Romanian leu) Serbia Post and India Post have released commemorative
stamps on renowned Serbian Physicist and Innovator Nikola Tesla and
Swami Vivekananda.

4. Gujarat government increase in insurance cover compensation

for farmers in the event of accidental death or disability. Now,
Accidental death from Rs.1 lakh to Rs.2 lakh, and Partial disability losing
either a limb or an eye, from Rs.50,000 to Rs.1 lakh.

5. First-ever Mizoram International Short Film Festival (MISFF) was

inaugurated by Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla at the Aijal
Club in Aizawl, Mizoram.

6.  Book “Kashi: Secret of the Black Temple” written by Vineet

Bajpai was launched in New Delhi. The first two books are: “Harappa:
Curse of the Blood River” and “Pralay: The Great Deluge”.

7.14th report “HIV Estimations 2017” released by Health and Family Welfare
Ministry, Maharashtra has the highest number of people living with
HIV in India.

8.  India’s first underwater robotic drone –EyerovTUNA was

launched and handed over to the Naval Physical and Oceanographic
Laboratory (NPOL) of DRDO. It was developed by EyeROV Technologies
at Maker Village.

9.  For the first time in India, a dedicated dog park has been set up in
Hyderabad.

10. Germany launched the world’s first hydrogen-powered train with

costlier but eco-friendly technology.

11. Cyclone-30, the biggest cyclotron in India for medical

application became operational in at VECC, Kolkata. It is under the
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and will be commissioned in 2019.

12.  A bilateral meeting on Tourism Cooperation between India and

Morocco was held in New Delhi.

13. Smart fence’ pilot project was inaugurated by Union Home

Minister Rajnath Singh along with the Indo-Pak border at the Border
Security Force (BSF) frontier headquarters in Ploura, Jammu.

14.  DRDO successfully tested a low-weight indigenously developed

man-portable anti-tank guided missile (MPATGM) at its Ahmednagar
range.

15. ISRO launched its first-night flight launch of PSLV-C-42 with two

U.K. satellites named NovaSAR and S1-4 of Surrey Satellite Technology
Limited.

16. Mountaineers Satyarup Siddhanta and Mousumi Khatua created

history by climbing Asia’s highest volcanic peak Mount Damavand
in Iran.

17. Actors Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma have been signed as
ambassadors of Skill India Campaign to promote the Skill India Mission,
chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

18. Narendra Modi: A Charismatic & Visionary Statesman”, Union

Ministers Prakash Javdekar and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi released a
book ‘The Making of A Legend’.

19. Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb inaugurated the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Technology Incubation Centre
in Agartala, through video-conferencing from Bengaluru.

20. Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has launched e-Sahaj

portal to facilitate individuals and private companies in seeking
security clearance for setting up businesses in certain sensitive 

21. Odisha government to name the newly-built Jharsuguda airport

after noted freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai.

22. Westland Books announced that journalist, author, and filmmaker

Sundeep Misra, would write a book on sprinter Dutee Chand, who
won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games.

1. Time Magazine has been sold by Meredith

Corp. to Marc Benioff, a co-founder of
Salesforce, for $190 million in cash. 

2. Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese

businessman, will be the first private moon
tourist, to fly on Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) of
SpaceX around the Moon in 2023. 

3.  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved a draft agreement

allowing India to use its Chittagong and Mongla ports to transport
cargo to and from its northeastern states.

4. Asian News International, ANI, and Emirates News Agency, WAM,

the official news agency of the UAE government have signed a MoU, for
bilateral cooperation in the area of the free news exchange in Abu
Dhabi.
5. NASA  Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered two
new Earth-like exoplanets namely: “super-Earth” and “hot Earth”.

6. India contributed one million US dollars for the installation of

solar panels on the roof of the imposing UN building in New York.

7. World Bank Board approved a 5-year Country Partnership

Framework (CPF) for India.

8. India and Niger signed an MOU for the establishment of the

Mahatma Gandhi International Convention Centre in Niamey, Niger.

1. National Awards 2018

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards (given to

outstanding sportspersons): Virat Kohli,
Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting)

Arjuna Award:  Smriti Mandhana (Cricket),

Savita (Hockey), Ankur Dhama (Para-Athletics),
Manoj Sarkar (Para-Badminton), Manika Batra, G.
Sathiyan (Table Tennis), Rahi Sarnobat, Ankur Mittal, Shreyasi Singh
(Shooting), Col. Ravi Rathore (Polo), Rohan Bopanna (Tennis), Sumit
(Wrestling), Pooja Kadian (Wushu), Neeraj Chopra (Javelin Throw), Jinson
Johnson     (Athletics), Shubhankar Sharma (Golf), Manpreet Singh
(Hockey),  Hima Das (Athletics), Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy (Badminton), Satish
Kumar (Boxing)

Head of selection committee of Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award:

Justice Indermeet Kaur Kochhar

Dronacharya Award (Given to coaches): Jiwan Kumar Sharma (Judo),

Clarence Lobo (Hockey), V.R. Beedu and Sukhdev Singh Pannu (Athletics)
Tarak Sinha (Cricket), A. Srinivasa Rao (Table Tennis) Chenanda Achaiah
Kuttappa (Boxing), Vijay Sharma (Weightlifting).

Head of Selection Committee:  Justice Mukul Mudgal

Dhyan Chand Award 2018: (life time contribution to sports):

Chougale Dadu Dattatray (Wrestling) Bobby Aloysius (Athletics), Bharat
Kumar Chetri (Hockey), Satyadev Prasad (Archery)

Head of selection Committee head: Justice Mukul Mudgal

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2018: Sports for Development (Isha

Outreach), Encouragement to Sports through Corporate Social
Responsibility (JSW Sports), Identification and Nurturing of Budding & Young
Talent (Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited).

Head of the selection committee: Rahul Bhatnagar

Selection Committee head: Ashok Kumar

Recipient of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2017-18:

Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

Selection Committee head: Ashok Kumar

2. Ahmet Comert Boxing Tournament was held in Istanbul, Turkey.

3. New Kabaddi Federation of India (NKFI) launched the first

edition of Indo International Premier Kabaddi League which would be
held in January next year.

4.  Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix at Marina Bay
Street Circuit, in Singapore.

1. Veteran film writer Brij Katyal, passed

away recently. 

2. Former Air Marshal Randhir Singh died

following a short-term illness in Chandigarh.

3. Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang died

due to a serious illness, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

4. Union petroleum minister Satya Prakash Malaviya passed away

after fighting prostate cancer in Delhi.

5. Freedom fighter and former Odisha Minister Dolagobinda

Pradhan died at his home following a short-term illness, in Bhubaneswar,
Odisha.

6. Revolutionary leader, writer and feminist Kondapalli

Koteswaramma passed away, in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

7. Asian Games champion wrestler Ganpatrao Andalka (83), passed

away in Pune.

8. India’s first woman IAS officer post-Independence, Anna Rajam

Malhotra, passed away at her home in Andheri, Mumbai.

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