IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS
OF SEPTEMPER 8th TO 11th , 2019
IMPORTANT
CURRENT AFFAIRS OF SEPTEMBER 8th TO 11th, 2019
1.
The World Suicide Prevention Day was
observed on 10th September 2019.
a. This day is
organized by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP).
b. The World
Health Organization (WHO) has been co-sponsor of the day.
c. Purpose of
this day : To raise awareness around the globe that suicide can be
prevented.
d. Theme of
World Suicide Prevention Day 2019 : ‘Working Together to Prevent Suicide’
2.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address
the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session on
September 27.
a. Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran Khan is also scheduled to address the General Assembly on the
same day. .
3.
President Ram Nath Kovind's 3-nation
tour to Slovenia, Iceland and Switzerland made
him the 1st Indian President to visit Slovenia.
4.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will wisit
France in the first week of October 2019.
a. In this
visit, he will receive the 1st of the 36 Rafale fighter jets in Paris on
October 8, which is celebrated as Air Force Day.
b. During this
visit, he will also hold extensive talks with the top defence brass of the
French government on ways to deepen defence and security cooperation with
India.
5.
Prime Minister of St. Vincent and Grenadines Dr. Ralph
Everard Gonsalves is on his first ever visit to India.
a. During this
visit, he met PM Modi and held talks.
b. He is also
participating in high-level United Nations Convention on Combating
Desertification (UNCCD) Symposium, a 12-day conference being held from 2-13
September 2019 at Greater Noida.
6.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepal
counterpart K P Sharma Oli jointly
inaugurated South Asia’s 1st cross-border petroleum products
pipeline from Motihari (in Bihar) in India to Amlekhgunj in Nepal
through video conference.
a. Both leaders
also expressed confidence that bilateral relations between India and Nepal will
continue to further deepen and expand across diverse sectors.
7.
PM Narendra Modi will launch the Kisan Maan Dhan
Yojana tomorrow (September 12) in Ranchi (Jharkhand).
a. The scheme
shall secure the lives of 5 crore small and marginal farmers by providing a
minimum pension of ₹3,000 per month, to
those who attain 60 years of age.
8.
Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh will become 2 separate Union
Territories from October 31 but will have a common high court,
J&K State Judicial Academy's Director Rajeev Gupta announced today.
a. 108 central
laws would be applicable for the two UTs, while 164 state laws would be
repealed and 166 state laws will continue to be applicable.
9.
PM Narendra Modi called for a global boycott of single-use
plastic at the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD) being held in Greater Noida, Uttar
Pradesh.
a. He said the
forest cover in India had gone up by 0.8 million hectares between
2015-17.
b. Trees cut for
development projects are compensated by planting more trees, PM Modi added.
10.
Madhya Pradesh government has decided to let people adopt Cows.
a. Lifetime
adoption will reportedly cost ₹3 lakh while adoption
for a year will cost ₹21,000.
11.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 10,000-acre Aurangabad
Industrial City (AURIC).
a. Note : This
is India's 1st greenfield industrial smart city.
12.
Indian Railways will help recharge phones of passengers if they use plastic
bottle crushing machines installed at stations.
a. The step is
in a bid to promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to junk single
use plastic.
13.
27 year old Anupriya Madhumita Lakra recently
became the 1st tribal woman from Maoist-affected Malkangiri district of
Odisha to become a commercial pilot.
a. Lakra will
join the Indigo airline as a co-pilot later this month. Lakra's father, who is
a police constable, said that it was difficult for him to fund her pilot
training but he took loans.
14.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's billionaire
Co-founder, Jack Ma, stepped down from his role as Chairman
on his 55th birthday today.
a. Note : Ma
co-founded Alibaba in 1999 and is currently the world's 20th richest
person with $41.8 billion wealth.
15.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan has announced that the exact location
of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander on the lunar
surface has been found.
a. The Vikram
lander is in a single piece, however, it's in a tilted position.
b. The orbiter
also clicked a thermal image of the lander through its high-resolution
camera.
16.
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport today
announced a 3-month trial of facial recognition entry system for
domestic passengers of Vistara airline at Terminal 3.
17.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
selected Daffodil Software Pvt Ltd to develop a mobile
app for the visually impaired to help them identify currency notes.
18.
India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) reduced
its lending rate by 10 basis points across all tenors.
a. This is the
5th reduction in lending rate from SBI in the Financial Year 2019-20, coming
down to 8.15% from 8.25% after it cut repo rates by 1.1% last week.
19.
China is planning to invest $1 billion in development
projects in Pakistan, seeking to boost bilateral ties, Yao Jing,
China's Ambassador to Pakistan, recently announced.
20.
The government has constituted a Task force to
identify technically and economically viable infrastructure projects for ₹100 lakh crore investment by 2024-25.
a. It will also
guide the ministries in identifying appropriate sources of funding and suggest
measures to monitor the projects.
b. The task
force will be chaired by Atanu Chakraborty (Economic
Affairs Secretary) and will have 5 other members.
21.
Union government has constituted a 3-member committee to
oversee the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into 2
union territories and look into distribution of assets and
liabilities of J&K between two successor Union territories that will come
into existence on October 31.
a. Head of the
Committee : Sanjay Mitra (former defence secretary)
22.
The names of the winners for Visitor’s Awards 2019 for
research in various fields were announced by President’s Secretariat.
a. Professor
Sibnath Deb : He is from Pondicherry University. He will be awarded for his
research in field of child protection, especially his focus on child abuse and
neglect, student’s mental health and HIV/AIDS.
b. Professor
Sanjay Puri : He is from School of Physical Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU). He will be awarded for his research in field of
non-equilibrium statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics.
c. Professor
Asad Ullah Khan : He is from Inter-disciplinary Biotechnology Unit in
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). He will be awarded for identifying
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) problem in India: mechanism of spread and
control of AMR.
d. Dr Partima : She
is from Special Centre for Nanoscience in Jawaharlal Nehru University. She will
be awarded for her research on nano biosensors and nano-bio interactions
especially early-stage cancer diagnosis using nanomaterials bases biosensing
platform.
e. Dr Shaon Ray
Chaudhuri : She is from Department of Microbiology in Tripura
University. She is awarded for Technology Development, for developing microbial
biofilm reactor for conversion of dairy wastewater into biofertilizer.
f.
Note : The awards will be conferred by President Ram Nath Kovind at
an event to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan the date for which is yet to be
announced.
23.
Veteran Supreme Court lawyer and former Union Minister Ram
Jethmalani (95) passed away.
a. He had served
as the Law Minister and the Minister of Urban Affairs in the Atal Bihari
Vajpayee-led NDA government.
b. Some of the
high-profile cases handled by Mr. Jethmalani :
i) Defending
Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi's assassins.
ii) Represented
Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin encounter case.
iii) Contested on
behalf of Manu Sharma in the Jessica Lal murder case.
iv) He also
represented Kanimozhi, daughter of former Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi, in the 2G
scam case.
24.
Actor and Kathak dancer Veeru Krishnan passed
away.
a. Veeru is best
known for his roles in 'Raja Hindustani' and 'Ishq' and has also trained many
actors including Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif in Kathak.
25.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the
appointment of 1972 batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer, Dr. P.K.
Mishra, currently functioning as Additional Principal Secretary to
Prime Minister, as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister with
effect from today (11th September, 2019).
26.
The govt has appointed P.K. Sinha, currently
functioning as OSD in the Prime Minister's Office, as Principal
Advisor to Prime Minister with effect from 11th September,
2019.
27.
Former Union Minister Kalraj Mishra was
sworn in as the Governor of Rajasthan at an
oath-taking ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan in Jaipur.
a. Rajasthan
High Court Chief Justice Shripathi Ravindra Bhat administered the oath of
office to Mishra who replaced Kalyan Singh after the
completion of his five-year tenure.
b. Mishra became
the 22nd Governor of the state.
28.
Senior judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice
Vikram Nath, has been appointed as the Chief Justice of
the Gujarat High Court following the Supreme Court
Collegium's recommendation sent last month.
29.
World number two Rafael Nadal defeated world
number five and first-time Grand Slam finalist Daniil Medvedev to
win his 4th US Open title.
a. Here is
the Complete Winners List of US Open 2019
i) Men's
Singles : Rafael Nadal (Spain)
ii) Women's
Singles : Bianca Andreescu (Canada)
iii) Men's
Doubles : Juan Sebastián Cabal (Colombia) / Robert Farah
(Colombia)
iv) Women's
Doubles : Elise Mertens (Belgium) / Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)
v) Mixed
Doubles : Bethanie Mattek-Sands (United States) / Jamie Murray (United
Kingdom)
30.
The BCCI today lifted the Rajasthan Cricket
Association's (RCA) suspension which was imposed on it in 2014 after
it elected ex-IPL chief Lalit Modi as President.
a. BCCI also
approved RCA's new constitution which falls in line with the Lodha
recommendations.
b. Note : Jaipur's
Sawai Mansingh Stadium wasn't able to host a single international match since
October 2013 because of the ban.
31.
The BCCI has announced a two-year radio rights arrangement
with All India Radio (AIR) for live commentary of Team
India's matches at home.
a. The audio
commentary will commence from the first match of India's upcoming T20I series
against South Africa on September 15.
b. The
arrangement also includes domestic tournaments including Ranji Trophy, Irani
Cup and Deodhar Trophy among others.
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