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What is FAME and what is its objective?

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The FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacture of
Hybrid and) Electric Vehicles) Scheme is an incentive scheme for the promotion of electric and hybrid vehicles in the country.
The ultimate objective of the scheme is to promote electric mobility, and the scheme gives financial incentives for enhancing electric vehicle production and
creation of electric transportation infrastructure.

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What is Samagra Shiksha-Jal Suraksha Campaign?

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HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ will launch ‘Samagra Shiksha-Jal Suraksha’ to create awareness about Water Conservation in all schools of India.

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India’s first underwater train

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India’s first underwater train will be launched in Kolkata under the Hooghly river in Kolkata Metro project.

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Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th Birth Anniversary

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The founder of ISRO and Father of Indian Space Program, Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th birth anniversary is observed on August 12. The Indian Space Research Organisation is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bengaluru. Its vision is to “harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration.”

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What is Inter-State Council

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The Inter-State Council was reconstituted with Prime Minister Modi as its chairman.

Members: 6 Union Ministers and Chief Ministers of States and UTs
Amit Shah (Home) || Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance) || Rajnath Singh (Defence) || Narendra Singh Tomar (Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj) || Thaawar
Chand Gehlot (Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment) and Hardeep Singh Puri (Minister of State IC of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs).
Article 263 of the Constitution provides for the establishment of an Inter-State Council.

Inter-State Council is mandated to inquire into and advise upon disputes which may arise between states.

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APJ Abdul Kalam award

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Chairman of ISRO K Sivan was conferred with Tamil Nadu Government’s Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam award.

The Indian Space Research Organisation is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bengaluru. Its vision is to “harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration.”

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India’s first Space Science Museum

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India’s first Space Science Museum is opened in

Hyderabad. It’s a collaborative effort between the Indian Space Research Organization and the B M Birla Science Centre.

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the top emitter of sulphur dioxide

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According to NGO Greenpeace, India, India is the world’s top emitter of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide with more than 15% of all SO2 hotspots.

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What is ‘Super 50’ Programme?

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Maharashtra’s Tribal Development Department has launched an academic programme ‘Super 50’ for tribal students aspiring to be doctors and engineers.

‘Super 50’ is in association with the Pace Educational Trust.

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What is Bharatcraft Portal?

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Bharatcraft Portal will provide a platform for MSMEs to markets and sell their products. The government has set a target to increase the contribution of MSMEs in the manufacturing sector to 50% in the next five years.

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FASTag Mandatory

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FASTags will become mandatory for all vehicles from December 2019.

FASTag is an electronic toll collection system in India, operated by the National Highway Authority of India. It employs Radio Frequency Identification technology for making toll payments directly from the prepaid or savings account linked to it or directly toll owner.

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Ocean energy gets renewable energy status

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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has declared Ocean Energy as renewable energy status. It has clarified to all stakeholders that energy produced using various forms of ocean energy such as tidal, wave and ocean thermal energy conversion and shall be eligible for meeting the non-solar Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPO).

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R-27 Air-to-Air Missile

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India has signed a deal to acquire R-27 Air-to-Air Missiles from Russia to be equipped on Su-30MKI combat aircraft.

The JSC Sukhoi Company is a major Soviet and now Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, and designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design
Bureau.

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QS Best Student Cities Ranking

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QS Best Student Cities Ranking is compiled by Global Education
Consultancy ‘QS Quacquarelli Symonds’.
1. London
2. Tokyo
3. Melbourne
Bengaluru at 81st, followed by Mumbai at 85th, Delhi at 113th and
Chennai at 115th.

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ASEAN summit

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Foreign Ministers from South East Asia attended the 52nd ASEAN summit in Bangkok.

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Water Stress Index

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India is among 17 countries at 13th position facing ‘Extremely High’ water stress.

The World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas says that these 17 countries are also close to ‘Day Zero’ scenario, when taps will run completely dry.

The most water-stressed countries are—in order of their ranking—
Qatar, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, UAE, San Marino, Bahrain, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Oman and Botswana.
These countries are home to a quarter of the world’s population.

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Meeting of BRICS Minister of Environment

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The 5th Meeting of BRICS Minister of Environment was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The Indian delegation was led by Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar.

BRICS is the acronym coined for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as “BRIC”, before the induction of South Africa in 2010.

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World’s first negative interest home loan rate

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Jyske Bank of Denmark has launched the world’s first negative interest home loan rate where the interest charge is minus 0.5% a year. Negative interest rates effectively mean that a bank pays a borrower to take money off their hands, so they pay back less than they
have been loaned.

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Order of Zayed to PM Modi

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United Arab Emirates will honour Prime Minister Modi with the ‘Order of Zayed’.
The Order of Zayed is the United Arab Emirates’ highest civil decoration.
Capital of the UAE: Abu Dhabi || Currency: Dirham.

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Indonesia’s New Capital

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo has formally
proposed to parliament a plan to move the country’s capital from Jakarta to Borneo. Official language: Indonesian || Capital: Jakarta || Currency: Indonesian rupiah

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RuPay in Bhutan

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Prime Minister Modi has launched RuPay Card in Bhutan by making a purchase at Simtokha Dzong.

Reserve Bank of India and the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan would integrate the financial switches of the two countries in order to simplify cross border transactions.
RuPay card scheme was conceived and launched by National
Payments Corporation of India on 26 March 2012.

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Time’s list of world’s Greatest Places 2019

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The Statue of Unity in Gujarat and Soho House in Mumbai were featured in Time’s list of world’s Greatest Places 2019.
Soho House is an 11-storey building that comprises a library, a movie theatre with 34 seats and a rooftop bar and swimming pool, overlooking the Arabian Sea.

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World’s first Floating Nuclear Reactor

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Akademik Lomonosov is the world’s first floating nuclear power plant is currently being built at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Floating nuclear power stations are vessels designed by Rosatom.
They are self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants. The stations are to be mass-produced at shipbuilding facilities and then towed to the destination ports of the cities and towns experiencing a deficit of power due to industrialization.

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The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance

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PM Modi was conferred ‘The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance by the King of Bahrain.
Bahrain: Capital: Manama || Currency: Bahraini dinar

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Narendra Modi launches RuPay card in UAE

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Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has launched the RuPay card, making the UAE the first country in the Middle East to initiate the Indian indigenous system of electronic payment. RuPay card scheme was launched in 2012 to fulfil the Reserve Bank of India’s vision to have a domestic, open and multilateral system of payments.

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45th G7 Summit begins in Biarritz, France

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The Group of 7 or G7 Summit has begun in Biarritz, France. It is an informal meeting between France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada as well as the European Union. These world powers, which represent 50% of the global economy, also share the values of freedom and democracy, as well as a collective ambition to deal with the world’s major issues.

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Sushma Swaraj

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Minister of External Affairs from 2014 to 2019. She was the first woman to independently hold the charge. Mrs. Indira Gandhi held the charge additionally to her Prime Ministership.
Chief Minister of Delhi from Oct to Dec 1998
Awarded the Best Parliamentarian Award twice in 2008 and 2010.

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Arun Jaitley

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Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs from 2014 to 2019.
He was also the Minister of Defence and Minister of
Information and Broadcasting for shorter durations during the period.
He was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting under the Prime Ministership of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019

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Indian journalist Ravish Kumar has been awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for the year 2019.

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Champions of Empathy Award

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DD News was awarded with ‘Champions of Empathy Award’ by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for spreading awareness about hepatitis.
Director-General of DD News: Mayank Agrawal.
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Viruses cause most cases of hepatitis

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Global GDP Rankings by World Bank

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  1. USA
  2. China
  3. Japan
    According to the World Bank, India has been pushed to the 7th place in Global GDP Rankings in 2018 from the 6th place in 2017.
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Bharat Ratna 2019 Award

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  1. Former President Pranab Mukherjee
  2. Assamese singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika
  3. Social Activist Nanaji Deshmukh
    Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh also known as Nanaji
    Deshmukh was a social activist from India. He worked in the fields
    of education, health, and rural self-reliance. He was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1999.
    Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet is film-maker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha.
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National Film Awards

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Best Feature Film: Hellaro (Gujarati Film)
Best Director: Adhitya Dhar for Uri: The Surgical Strike
Best Actor: Ayushmann Khuranna for Andhadhun and Vicky
Kaushal for Uri: The Surgical Strike
Best Actress: Keerthy Suresh for Mahanati
Best Popular Film: BadhaaiHo
Best film on Social Issues: Padman

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Interim Chairman of Café Coffee Day

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Café Coffee Day has appointed SV Ranganath as its interim Chairman after the death of founder-chairman VG Siddhartha.

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MD-CEO of Vodafone Idea

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Ravinder Takkar has been appointed as the MD and CEO of IdeaVodafone replacing Balesh Sharma

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Team India’s Batting Coach

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Vikram Rathour will replace Sanjay Bangar as India’s new Batting Coach.
Bowling Coach: Bharath Arun
Fielding Coach: R Sridhar

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Microsoft’s New Acquisition

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Microsoft has acquired Data Privacy and Governance start-up ‘BlueTalon’.
BlueTalon, Inc. was a private enterprise software company that provides data-centric security, user access control, data masking, and auditing solutions for complex, hybrid data environments. BlueTalon was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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SBI Shanghai Branch

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State Bank of India’s Shanghai branch has become first Indian bank to link up with National Advance Payment System of China. National Advance Payment System was launched in 2008 by People’s Bank of China provides real-time settlement services for all payments

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Monetary Policy Committee

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RBI has cut Repo Rate for 4th Time and is lowered by 35 bps to a 9- year low of 5.4%.
Repo Rate: 5.40%
Reverse Repo Rate: 5.15%
Marginal Standing Facility: 5.65%
Bank Rate: 5.65%
Cash Reserve Ratio: 4%
SLR: 18.75%
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Reliance’s New Acquisition

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Reliance will acquire an 87.6% stake in Shopsense Retail
Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which runs the fashion portal Fynd. Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications

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NEFT on a 24×7 basis

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RBI has decided to allow fund transfers through NEFT on a 24×7 basis from December.
RBI had last month removed charges it levied on NEFT and RTGS transactions.

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Saudi Aramco with Reliance Industries Ltd

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Saudi Aramco will buy 20% stake of Reliance Industries Ltd’s Oil and Chemicals Business for about $15 billion.
It is the second biggest FDI deal in the country after Walmart in Flipkart.
Saudi Aramco, officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

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Huawei’s New Operating System

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Huawei Technologies has launched its own Operating System named HarmonyOS.

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Global Investors Summit 2019

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Global Investors Summit 2019 starting from October 12, 2019 will be held in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
Confederation of Indian Industries with Jammu and Kashmir Trade Promotion Organisation will be national partner for the investor’s summit.

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Top-paid Bank CEO in India for FY19

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  1. Aditya Puri || HDFC Bank || Rs 89 lakh per month
  2. Amitabh Chaudhry|| Axis Bank || Rs 30 lakh per month
  3. Uday Kotak || Kotak Mahindra Bank || Rs 27 lakh per month
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India’s Forex Reserves

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India’s forex reserves has spotted the highest ever valuation of $430.57 bn due to rise in foreign currency assets.
Foreign Currency Assets (FCA) that is the most important component of the RBI’s foreign exchange reserve are the assets like US Treasury Bills bought by the RBI using foreign currencies. The FCA is the
largest component of the forex reserve.

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India’s first airline to operate a commercial flight over

North Pole

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Air India has become first airline of India to operate a commercial flight over North Pole. It was achieved by Air India flight AI173 from Delhi to San Francisco. Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered at New-Delhi. It is owned by Air India Limited, a government-owned enterprise, and operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving 94 domestic and international destinations.

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RBI to transfer Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the government

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The Reserve Bank of India has approved the transfer of record Rs 1.76 lakh crore dividend and surplus reserves to the government. The sum of Rs 1,76,051 crore comprises Rs 1,23,414 crore of surplus for the year 2018-19 and Rs 52,637 crore of excess provisions identified as
per the revised Economic Capital Framework.
The receipts from the RBI will give a stimulus to the government’s efforts to boost the economy from a five-year low. It is the highest ever surplus amount transferred by the RBI to the government.

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Forbes’ Highest-Paid Female Athletes

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  1. USA Tennis Player Serena Williams with estimated total earnings of $29.2 million
  2. Japan Tennis Player Naomi Osaka with estimated total earnings of $24.3 million.
  3. German Tennis Player Angelique Kerber with estimated total earnings of $11.8 million.
    Indian Badminton Player PV Sindhu is in the 13th position with $5.5 million.
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Forbes’ Highest-Paid Male Athletes

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  1. Footballer Lionel Messi with $127 million
  2. Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo with $109 million
  3. Footballer Neymar with $105 million
    Cricket Virat Kohli is at 100th Position with $25 million
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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

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  1. Wrestler Bajrang Punia.
  2. Para Athlete Deepa Malik
    The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, officially known as Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games, is the highest sporting honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India who served the office from 1984 to 1989.
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World Archery Youth Championships

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World Archery Youth Championships was held in Madrid, Spain.

Komalika Bari of India has become a recurve cadet world champion at World Archery Youth Championships in Madrid.

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What is UEFA and winners

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Liverpool Football player Virgil van Dijk has won UEFA’s Player of the Year award. He was beating Barcelona captain Lionel Messi and Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, while England footballer Lucy Bronze taking the Women’s Player of the Year award.

UEFA also handed out positional awards for male players, with Van Dijk for Champions League Defender of the Season.

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WHom did PV Sindhu play against in World Championship 2019

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Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu has won the World Championships title defeating Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in the final at Basel, Switzerland. Sindhu defeated her Japanese opponent Nozomi Okuhara to 21-7, 21-7.
This was Sindhu’s third straight World Championships final. With this victory, the 24-year-old shuttler has become the first Indian to book a gold medal at the World Championships.

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What is Aadi Mahotsav?

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National Tribal Festival ‘Aadi Mahotsav’ has begun in Leh-Ladakh.
Theme: ‘A celebration of the spirit of Tribal Craft, Culture and Commerce’. It was inaugurated by Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda.

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Air India to ban single-use plastic on flights

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Air India, India’s national airline, will ban the usage of single-use plastic aboard its flights from October 2, 2019. The ban will come into effect on all flights of Air India Express and Alliance Air flights. Air India will replace plastic teacups and tumblers with sturdy paper cups and tumblers

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What is “Janaushadhi Sugam”?

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Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers launched a mobile application “Janaushadhi Sugam”. This app will enable people to search for Janaushadhi generic medicines and the stores at the tip of their fingers.

“Janaushadhi Sugam” mobile application would have user-friendly options like- to locate nearby Janaushadhi kendra, direction guidance for the location of the Janaushadhi kendra through Google Map, search Janaushadhi generic medicines, analyze product comparison of Generic vs Branded medicine in form of MRP & overall Savings, etc. The mobile application is available on both Android & iOS platforms.

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What is Index–SARAL

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State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index–SARAL is released by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
It ranks ease of setting up roof top solar project in a particular state.
1. Karnataka
2. Telangana
3. Gujarat
4. Andhra Pradesh

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What is Shagun

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Union Human Resource Development Minister launched one of the world’s largest Integrated Online Junction for School Education ‘Shagun’ in New Delhi. Shagun is coined from two different words- ‘Shala’ meaning Schools and ‘Gunvatta’ meaning Quality. School Education Shagun is an over-arching initiative to improve the school education system by creating a junction for all online portals and websites relating to various activities of the Department of School Education and Literacy in the Government of India and all States and Union Territories.

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“Assam’s National Register of Citizens List”

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The state coordinator of the National Register of Citizens, Prateek Hajela has released the most awaited Assam’s final National Register of Citizens list. The list has been made accessible online and at all NRC seva kendras in the state.
The process of NRC Update was started in the state of Assam as per the order of the Supreme Court of India in 2013. The NRC took five years and Rs 1,220 crore before getting published.
The NRC list is the biggest exercise India has undertaken to expel illegal immigrants residing illegally in India. The updation process of NRC was carried out under The Citizenship Act, 1955, and according to the rules framed in the Assam Accord.

Important findings of the NRC:
• From the 3.29 crore applicants, a total of 3.11 crore people has been found eligible for inclusion in final NRC list.
• 19.06 lakh people have been excluded from the final NRC list.
• Those excluded from the final NRC list will have 120 days to approach the Foreigners’ Tribunals. If a person is dissatisfied with the tribunal’s decision, he/she can appeal against it.
• Foreigners tribunals is a place where bona fide citizens, whose names do not figure in the final NRC, can approach to challenge their exclusion.
• To accommodate excluded people, detention camps have been set up across the state of Assam.

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Number of Supreme Court Judge

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Cabinet has approved increasing the number of Supreme Court Judges from 30 to 33, excluding Chief Justice of India.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian jurist serving as the 46th and current Chief Justice of India since 3 October 2018.
Ranjan Gogoi is the first person from Northeast India to become Chief Justice of India.

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One Nation-One Ration Card scheme

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The government has launched ‘One Nation-One Ration Card scheme’ on a pilot basis in four states Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.

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Gandhi Nagar model village in Sri Lanka

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Gandhi Nagar model village in Sri Lanka was built with Indian assistance.
100 model villages are being built with Indian assistance and are named after Mahatma Gandhi.

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