Weekly Current Affairs Capsule September 2017 3rd Week

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Weekly Current Affairs Capsule September 2017 3rd Week

National

1.Nalsar University of Law in Hyderabad has established India’s first Centre for Animal law.

2.Assam Assembly has passed a first of its kind Bill that has made it mandatory for Assam government employees to look after their aged and dependent parent/s and physically challenged siblings, if any, who don’t have their own source of income.

3.Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has launched the ‘Maharashtra Mission 1 Million’ initiative under which over 10 lakh students across the state will play football.

4.Exercise Yudh Abhyas – 2017, a joint military exercise between Indian and US armies commenced at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, USA with a brief and impressive opening ceremony.

5.The Centre will soon grant citizenship to nearly one lakh Chakma and Hajong refugees, who came from the erstwhile East Pakistan five decades ago and are living in camps in the northeast.

6. Nation’s first Govt. mobile vet clinics launched in Telangana.

7.Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh launched ‘Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shram Anna Sahayata Yojna’ under which nutritious meal for Rs 5 will be provided to labourers in the state.

8.BJP president Amit Shah launched the ‘Shaheed Gram Vikas Yojana’ during a programme at Ulihatu in Khunti district of Jharkhand.

9.Maharashtra will be the first Indian state to start DNA database which will also help law enforcement agencies in tracking maoists as well as terrorists besides repeat offenders.

10. Bandhan Tod: An Android app to fight child marriage in Bihar launched by Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi

11.The Ministry of Women and Child Development will hold the first ever National Conference in New Delhi tomorrow on Mission Mode to address Under-Nutrition in the country.

12.Tripura has became the first state in the country to set up family welfare district committees to deal with the issue of fake and biased complaints by women against their husbands, in-laws and husband’s relatives.

13.Tata Steel has in association with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched an initiative to create awareness about environment issues in school campuses in Odisha’s Jajpur district.

14.The fifth edition of the North East Festival, which brings together the numerous colours and talents of the region, will begin in New Delhi on November 3.

15.The Government of Singapore will set up a Skill Center at Guwahati which will cater to the entire North-Eastern region

16.The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the first ‘Pension Adalat’ on 20th September.

17.Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan will be visiting Astana, Kazakhstan from 19 – 20 September 2017 to co-chair the 13th Meeting of Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) with Kazakhstan.

18.The 6th Edition of the 4-day international textile and apparel fair, ‘VASTRA’ will be organized in Jaipur during September 21 – 24, 2017 at Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre (JECC), Sitapura.

19.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu released ‘People First’ mobile application for grievance redressal at the Collectors’ conference in Vijayawada.

20.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has declared the year of 2017 as e-pragati year.

21.The state-owned Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai delivered the first of six scorpion class submarines to the Indian Navy. The submarine, INS Kalvari will be commissioned soon.

Internationals

22.Zipjet, Stuttgart Germany is the least stressful city in the world. Baghdad, Iraq is the most stressful city in the world while Delhi is the 9th most stressful city.

23.International Day of Democracy: 15 September. 

• This year’s theme is ‘Democracy and Conflict prevention’.

24. 30th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol and 23rd World Ozone Day was observed on 16th September 2017. 

• The theme for the year 2017 is ‘Caring for all life under the Sun’.

25.The Tunisian government has lifted a ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims on the recommendation of the president, who says Tunisia needs to modernise.

26.India ranks 128th in terms of meeting the UN’s health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

• Singapore, Iceland and Sweden were the highest performing countries in terms of the overall health- related SDGs.
• Somalia, Central African Republic, and Afghanistan ranked lowest

27. Japan releases postage stamps on Indian yoga experts  Bishnu Charan Ghosh, his son Biswanath Ghosh, daughter Karuna Ghosh and Karuna’s father in law Asutosh Ghosh,

28.WHO grants $175,000 for Rohingyas’ healthcare

29.India ranked third among the countries that have faced the most natural disasters in the last half century.

• The United States, followed by China, India, the Philippines and Indonesia, have experienced the most disasters since 1995.

30.The First ‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’ (BIMSTEC DMEx-2017) will be conducted by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as the lead agency from October 10-13, 2017 in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR).

31.India and Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to upgrade Thondaman Vocational Training Centre(TVTC), Hatton located in Nuwara Eliya District of Sri Lanka.

32.International Day of Peace: 21 September

   The theme for International Day of Peace 2017 is “Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All.

33. World Alzheimer’s Day: 21 September

• World Alzheimer’s Day 2017 Theme is “Remember me”.

34.New Zealand and Canada have been singled out as the countries that best prepare students for the future,

• The Worldwide Educating for the Future Index, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the Yidan Prize Foundation, evaluates education systems in 35 economies across 16 indicators.
• The five highest ranked countries are New Zealand, Canada, Finland, Switzerland and Singapore.
• The two countries supplying the largest pool of workers in the world, India and China, are also below average (at 29th and 31st respectively).

35.The US will provide a humanitarian aid package worth $32 million to the Rohingya Muslim minority who have fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh.

Sports

36.Elite athletes preparing for Tokyo Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will receive a stipend of Rs 50,000 per month to meet their pocket expenses, sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore announced.

37.PV Sindhu won the Korea Open Super Series title with a 22-20, 11-21, 21-18 win over Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara.

38.Lewis Hamilton wins Singapore Grand Prix.

39.India won its first athletics gold, through Purnima Hembram in women’s pentathlon, in the fifth Asian indoor and martial arts games at Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Appointments

40.Shri Harsh Kumar Jain, (IFS: 1993) has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Slovak Republic.

41.Akshay Kumar Appointed Brand Ambassador For Swachh Bharat Mission In Uttarakhand.

42.Senior IPS officer Y.C Modi, was named chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

43.Economist Mercedes Araoz sworn in as Peru’s new prime minister.

44.India TV chairman and editor-in- chief Rajat Sharma will be the new president of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for 2017-18.

45.India has appointed Ajay Bisaria as the new high commissioner to Pakistan replacing Gautam Bambawale.

46.. Sambamurthy appointed as NPCI interim Board chairman .

Banking & Finance

47.The Government of India signed a loan deal worth $76 million with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for a project to upgrade the environment management plan at Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards.

48.E-commerce giant Amazon India has tied up with Bank of Baroda to offer unsecured micro loans as small as Rs 1 lakh up to Rs 25 lakh in a short span of three-five days.

49.IndusInd Bank has secured up to $200 million (about Rs 1,282 crore) loan from Asian Development Bank (ADB) to serve low-income women borrowers in rural areas.

50.India likely to be 3rd largest economy by 2028: HSBC report

51.India has replaced China as the numero uno retail destination in 2017 as part of the global retail development index, according to industry experts.

52.India gets its first high horse power 12000 HP loco  from France.

• This is the first major FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) project in the rail sector.

53.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said India’s economy will likely grow 6.7% in FY18, lower than its estimate of 7.3% in June.

54. State Bank of India (SBI) is India’s most trusted and most popular bank according to a survey conducted by Brand Finance, a business valuation and strategic consultancy headquartered in London.

Awards

55. Indian economist Bina Agarwal wins Balzan Prize.

56.Bollywood star Salman Khan has received a Global Diversity Award at Britain’s House of Commons.

57.Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu felicitated film-maker S S Rajamouli with the prestigious ANR National Award for his contribution to the Telugu film industry.

58.Zannah Mustapha was given the annual Nansen award for his ‘crucial mediating’ role as well as his work helping children affected by the long-running conflict.

59.Riz Ahmed has become the first man of Asian descent to win an acting award at the Emmys. He is a British actor of Pakistani descent.

60.The Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has been awarded by President of India, Ramnath Kovind with Rajbhasha Keerti Award 2016-17.

61.Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP), a Pune-based non-governmental organisation working among women farmers, has won this year’s UN Equator Prize.

Death

62. Arjan Singh, India’s first ever IAF Marshal, passes away

63. BJP MP Mahant Chand Nath dies of cancer at 61.

64.Dr Kirpal Chugh, India’s father of nephrology, dies at 85.

65.Bollywood actress Shakila passes away.