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Current Affairs
September 2
Anirudh Reddy

India’s first transgender-exclusive clinics
 Kerala
 first clinic will be set up at the government medical college of Kottayam

PRANAM Bill - Assam
 Parental Responsibility And Norms for Accountability and Monitoring
 mandatory for state government employees to take care of their parents and
needy siblings

Chakma Buddhists and Hajong Hindus
 Refugees from East Pakistan(Bangladesh), living in North East
 Govt. will grant citizenship

Operation Insaniyat by India
 to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
 humanitarian crisis due to mass influx of refugees from Myanmar

foreign exchange reserve
 has crossed the $400 billion mark for the first time
 $300 billion mark in 2008
 Dollar, Gold, SDR

Shinzo Abe visit to India
 India’s first high speed bullet train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
 Upgrade Alang-Sosiya Shipyards
 India’s First Lithium-Ion Battery Unit in Gujarat- for automobiles –
Suzuki,Toshiba,Denso

Shaheed Gram Vikas Yojana
 Jharkhand
 developing the villages of freedom fighters in the state
 Ulihatu Village is the birth place of freedom fighter and Jharkhand’s tribal icon,
Birsa Munda.

Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
–‘Saubhagya’
 electrification of all households in India

PENCIL (Platform for Effective Enforcement
for No Child Labour)
 PENCIL portal has five components namely:
 · Child Tracking System
 · Complaint Corner
 · State Government
 · National Child Labour Project
 · Convergence.

committee to deal with hate speech on
internet
 TK Viswanathan
 formed after Supreme Court struck down Section 66 A of the Information
Technology (IT) Act
 Shreya Singhal vs. Union of India...

Divyang Sarathi
 Mobile App for the differently abled
 ‘Divyangans’ (differently abled)
 easy access of information regarding schemes, scholarships, statutes, institutional
support systems

 Hindi Diwas (Day) – September 14 - Hindi is official language along with English
 Force Motors ties up with Rolls Royce to set up engine plant
 Engineers day-15th September-Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
 International Day of Peace-September 21
 Tripura is first state to set up district family welfare committees
 Kandla Port in Gujarat renamed as Deendayal Port

Chennai-Vladivostok sea route
 natural resources
from Northeast Asia
and Western Pacific
region
 counter china’s
OBOR project

first UN envoy for oceans
 Peter Thomson, was president of the General Assembly
 efforts to protect world’s oceans
 Secretary general of UN : António Guterres

Global Human Capital Index 2017
 By World Economic Forum (WEF)
 India ranked 103
 based on the knowledge and skills people possess
 Norway /Finland /Switzerland

Global Competitiveness Report
 World Economic Forum (WEF)
 1st Switzerland.
 2nd US
 3rd Singapore
 40th India
 Institutions, Infrastructure, Macroeconomic environment, Health and primary education
 Higher education and training
 Goods market efficiency, Labour market efficiency
 Financial market development, Technological readiness
 Market size, Business sophistication, Innovation

Global Financial Centres Index 2017
 China Development Institute (CDI) in Shenzhen and Z/Yen Partners in London
 Mumbai ranked at 60th position
 competitiveness for the major financial centres around the world.
 London /New York /Hong Kong

 Tata Steel and German steel company ThyssenKrupp signed a MoU to combine
their European steel operations, will become second largest European steelmaker

India’s help in atomic energy plant
 India is collaborating with Russia
 to build the Roppur power plant in Bangladesh
 Bangladesh’s first atomic energy project

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2017
 Given to scientists below 45

Cassini–Huygens
 Saturn and its system
 plunged into atmosphere

world’s largest radio telescope
 Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China
 nicknamed Tianyan

world’s fastest bullet train
 Beijing-Shanghai
 350 kilometres per hour

World’s Most Valuable Brand
 Global Brands ranking
 Apple/google/microsoft

World’s first ‘molecular robot’
 University of Manchester in UK
 Each individual robot is capable of manipulating a single molecule
 In the future such robots could be used for medical purposes, advanced
manufacturing processes
 robot responds to a series of simple commands that are programmed with
chemical inputs by a scientist.

Ozone layer
 September 16, International day for the preservation of Ozone layer
 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
 Vienna Convention
 discovered by Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1840
 Greek for ‘to smell’ which is ‘ozein’
 Stratosphere
 absorbing harmful solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation

Ban Ki-moon
 head of IOC(International Olympic Committee) Ethics Commission
 was the United Nations General Secretary from 2007-2016

Global Diversity Award
 Salman Khan
 given to Salman Khan by Keith Vaz, the longest serving Indian-origin MP in British
Parliament.

Mikhail Kalashnikov
 inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle
 most lethal weapon ever made

Stanislav Petrov
 “the man who saved the world”
 Soviet military officer credited with preventing a possible nuclear disaster

Liliane Bettencourt
 world’s richest woman passed away at 94
 L’Oréal heiress
 Francoise Bettencourt

Hui Ka Yan
 became Asia’s richest man
 chairman of Chinese real estate giant Evergrande Group

World’s Oldest Person Dies At 117
 Violet Mosse Brown , Jamaica

 ‘Father of nephrology in India’ Dr.K.S.Chugh dies of cancer at 85

Books
 Unstoppable: My Life So Far -- Maria Sharapova

Maharashtra Mission 1 Million
 10 lakh (1 million) students across the state would play football

Tokyo/ Paris/ LA
 Olympics
 2020/2024/2028

 Korean Open Super Series 2017 - PV Sindhu
 Chris Gayle becomes first batsman to hit 100 sixes in T20Is

Astra – Beyond Visual Range Air to Air
Missile (BVRAAM)
 developed by DRDO and IAF (Indian air force)

INS Kalvari
 first of the six Scorpene-class submarines
 designed by French naval defence and energy company DCNS
 Built by Mazagon Dock Ltd

Yudh Abhyas 2017
 India & US armies

Pralay Sahayam
 Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise
 Hyderabad
 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Armed Forces

radar-evading J-20 stealth fighter
 China

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