4. 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
5. Chakma Buddhists and Hajong Hindus
Refugees from East Pakistan(Bangladesh), living in North East
Govt. will grant citizenship
6. Operation Insaniyat by India
to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
humanitarian crisis due to mass influx of refugees from Myanmar
7. foreign exchange reserve
has crossed the $400 billion mark for the first time
$300 billion mark in 2008
Dollar, Gold, SDR
8. 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
9. 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.
10. Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
–‘Saubhagya’
electrification of all households in India
11. 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.
12. 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...
13. Divyang Sarathi
Mobile App for the differently abled
‘Divyangans’ (differently abled)
easy access of information regarding schemes, scholarships, statutes, institutional
support systems
14. 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
17. Chennai-Vladivostok sea route
natural resources
from Northeast Asia
and Western Pacific
region
counter china’s
OBOR project
18. 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
19. Global Human Capital Index 2017
By World Economic Forum (WEF)
India ranked 103
based on the knowledge and skills people possess
Norway /Finland /Switzerland
20. 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
21. 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
22. Tata Steel and German steel company ThyssenKrupp signed a MoU to combine
their European steel operations, will become second largest European steelmaker
24. 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
30. 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.
32. 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
