1) Odisha- 16th state to ratify Goods and Services Tax
(GST) bill
2) The 2-day “BRICS
Convention on Tourism” started at Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh) (Brazil, China,
India, Russia and South Africa)
3) The Senate of the Brazilian Parliament impeached Dilma Rousseff,
country’s first female president, and removed her from office for the rest of
her term
4) First U.S. commercial
flight in last 5 decades landed in Cuba from Fort Lauderdale (U.S.) to Santa
Clara (Cuba)
5) A person booking a
train ticket through the IRCTC website will
be able opt for travel insurance cover 10 lakh for a premium of 92 paise
It does not cover children
up to 5 years of age and foreign citizens. It is for passengers holding tickets
such as confirmed, RAC and wait-listed ones.
The scheme offers
travellers/nominees/legal heirs a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh in the event of
death or total disabilty, Rs.7.5 lakh for partial disability, up to Rs. 2 lakh
for hospitalisation expenses and Rs. 10,000 for transportation of mortal
remains from the place of a train accident or where an untoward incident,
including terrorist attack, dacoity, rioting, shootout or arson, occurs.
The scheme has been
implemented by IRCTC in partnership with ICICI Lombard General Insurance, Royal
Sundaram General Insurance and Shriram General Insurance selected through a
bidding process.
6) Banks to allow
customers to register their mobile numbers through any ATM. Mobile numbers are
also used to send one-time passwords (OTPs) in transactions where the credit
card is not present.
7) Supreme Court quashed
the allotment of 1,000 acres by the former CPI (M)-led government in West
Bengal to Tata Motors it’s allotted in 2006
8)
9) Sony Pictures Networks
India acquire TEN Sports Network from Zee Entertainment in $385 million (Rs
2,600 crore).
10) Rs. 350 per day new
minimum wage for unskilled non-farm.
11) A panel of the
European Union ordered Apple Inc. (US) to
repay $14.5 billion (€13 billion) to Ireland as penalty for tax benefits it
enjoyed from a selective tax treatment provided by a European country.
12) Indian wrestler (60
Kg) Yogeshwar Dutt got an Olympic medal (Silver
Medal) upgrade for his 2012
(London Olympic) bronze medal as a Russian wrestler Besik Kudukhov was found
guilty of using banned substances.
13) England posted the
highest ever one-day international (ODI) total of 444 runs as they beat
Pakistan by 169 runs at Trent Bridge
14) Michel Temer sworn in
as new Brazil president
15) PV Sindhu is brand
ambassador of CRPF and bestow the
honorary rank of Commandant (as Superintendent of Police (SP) on the ace
badminton player.
16) Dogri writer Padma Sachdev gets Saraswati Samman-2015.
for her autobiography 'Chitt-Chete' in Dogri language.
17) Ananth Kumar launches
‘Pharma Sahi Daam’ mobile App for Availability, Affordability and Accessibilityof
Pharma.
18) National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched
Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) with 26 Bharat Bill Payment Operating Units
(BBPOUs). like electricity, water, gas, telephone and Direct-to-Home (DTH).
19) First military
heritage website launched (coloursofglory.org) at Chennai.
20) Jharkhand becomes first state to implement PFMS-Public Fund Management System (PFMS).
21) 14th ASEAN-India Summit and 11th East Asia Summit held
at Vientiane, Lao PDR
Association of South East
Asian Nation-(10 nations)
HO –Jakarta
(Indonesia)
22) Islamic banking provide interest-free loan
23) Canada’s British
Columbia became the first foreign government issuer of masala bonds, to raising
Rs.5 billion through a rupee-denominated bond on the London Stock Exchange
(LSE).
24) Pope Francis officially declared Mother Teresa a saint now she knows as St. Teresa
of Calcutta
She was the founder of the
‘Missionaries of Charity’ in India she got Nobel
Peace Prize in 1979.
25) Urjit Patel appointed
24th RBI Governor. He replaced Raghuram Rajan.
Worked at the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1990 to 1995
Osborne
Smith (1
April 1935 to 30 June 1937)
26) 11th G20 Summit Concludes in Hangzhou,
China
19 Countries with
European Union
Xi Jinping, President of China.
12th G20 summit 2017 to be
held in Hamburg, Germany.
27) Now extended days of
ULIP- unit-linked insurance plans revival option for 90 days to 2 years by
IRDAI
28) Pellet guns replaced by chilli-based PAVA shells
-Pelargonic Acid Vanillyl Amide (Nonivamide)
29) The Guinness World Records officially declared
India’s Majuli Island (Assam) as the World’s
largest river island (fluvial island) Till now Brazil’s Marajo Island (in the Amazon River) was till now the largest
river island in the World
Majuli Island is surrounded
by Subanisri River (Main Brahmaputra River) The island has total 144 villages
with 160,000 population and a density of 180 individuals per square km.
30) Life Insurance
Corporation (LIC) completed 60 years (1956-2016)
LIC
nationalized in 1956 by 250 private life insurance companies
Estimated asset value of LIC is Rs.
1,560,482 crore (US$230 billion).
31) Trinamool Congress (TMC) declared as a National Party
It is a recognised State
party in West Bengal, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh.
India has seven recognised
national parties – the Congress, the BJP, the BSP, the CPI, the CPI (M), the
NCP and the All India Trinamool Congress.
32) Bank stressed assets
permitting to be sold to other lenders, including non-banking financial
companies (NBFCs) and financial institutions.
Till now the banks were
permitted to sell stressed assets to securitisation companies and
reconstruction companies.
33) Navjot Singh Sidhu, as
announced new party Awaaz-e-Punjab
34) Kiran M Shaw appointed 'Chevalier del' Ordre
National de la Legion d'Honneur' (Knight of the National Order of the French
Legion of Honour)
35) SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, satellite destroyed in
explosion at Cape Canaveral launch pad during a test also destroying a
commercial satellite that Facebook had planned to use to extend Internet access
in Africa.
36) CCI slaps Rs 6700 crore fine on 10 cement
companies
ACC, Lafarge, Ultratech,
Jayprakash Associates, Binani and their trade association the Cement Manufacturers
Association (CMA) on charges of cartelisation in the sector.
37) World's first
made-in-India leprosy vaccine out on pilot basis
38) Serena Williams sets women's record of 307
victories in grand slams Martina Navratilova's record of 306 wins.
39) India Post releases
commemorative postage stamp on Saint Teresa
40) Kerala appoints Sachin as brand ambassador for
anti-liquor campaign
41) Abhinav Bindra announces retirement from shooting
42) Rajasthan launches
e-stamping facility
43) Section 124 A define sedition case in the Indian
Penal Code-IPC (1860) but this section included in 1870.
44) The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) stated
that the Giant Panda is now classified as a “vulnerable” instead of
“endangered” species This reflects its growing numbers in the wild in southern
China.
Its Symbol of WWF- World
Wildlife Fund for Nature
45) Australia scored ever
263 run in T20 internationals against SriLanka
46) World number one
Serena Williams set a new Grand Slam record of 308 victories with a win over
Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan at the US Open in New York
47) Sikkim is the cleanest State in the country its survey
carried by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)-2015
Kerala (2) Mizoram (3) Worst is Bihar
Mandi (Hills) and Sindhudurg (Plains) cleanest district
48) ICICI first bank in
India to deploy ‘software robots’
49) Samsung Galaxy
Note 7 was banned by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on board aircrafts in India
50) Indian Railways
implemented the dynamic surge pricing system (or flexi-fare system) on an
experimental basis in the air-conditioned and Chair Car coaches of the three
trains – Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto
51) INSAT-3DR India’s third meteorological satellite
launched by GSLV-F05 rocket by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Others are Kalpana-1, INSAT-3D. Launched from shri Harikota (AP)
52)
53) The first edition of
Internet of Things (IoT) India Congress started at Bengaluru. For collaborate,
ideate and share a common road-map for IoT implementation.
Information
Technology (IT) and Electronics Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
54) Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook launched iPhone 7 and
iPhone 7 Plus
55)
#Gas4India campaign was launched by the Union Petroleum and Natural Gas
Ministry for promoting the use of gas in the
country.
56) Hindustan Petroleum
Corp. Ltd (HPCL) launched dynamic fuel pricing. It means the cost of a product
could be flexible.
57) Deepak Pental and his
colleagues at the Delhi University developed GM mustard. its first indigenously
developed GM food crop of India.
58) Former India captain
Anjum Chopra awarded an honorary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club
(MCC).
59)
60) Asia's biggest digital library started at Silchar (Assam)
61) WHO certifies Sri
Lanka free from Malaria.
62) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited
(GRSE)-Kolkata handed over the Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC), “Tihayu”
to Indian Navy. INS Tarmugli is the first ship
of the same series.
63) UN Charter translated into Sanskrit (English,
French, Mandarin ,Arabic, Russian)
The Charter is available
in all six official languages of the UN.
64) Helpline no. 14401 for
info on power cuts launched
65) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)-Bengaluru has
successfully completed test flight of indigenous Light
Utility Helicopter (LUH) at Bengaluru. The LUH will replace fleet of Chetak and Cheetah helicopters
66) Raam Reddy’s Kannada
film Thithi was conferred the Best Film
award at 1st BRICS Film Festival. Earlier won 68th Locarno International Film
Festival, Marrakech International Film LP,Festival, 19th Shanghai International
Film Festival and 63rd National Film Awards.
67) 15th Summer Paralympic Games began at
Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
68) PepsiCo CEO and Chairman Indra Nooyi was ranked
2nd on the list of Fortune's 51 Most
Powerful Women list. Topped by Mary Barra, CEO and Chairman of General Motors.
69) Former IAS officer J
Satyanarayana has appointed as part-time chairperson of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The post has
been lying vacant following resignation of Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s
resignation in 2014.
70) NASA launches first mission to collect samples
from asteroid. The unmanned spacecraft, known as OSIRIS-REx, blasted off from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station.
71) India’s Mariyappan
Thangavelu won gold medal in the men’s high jump at the Rio Paralympics.
Deepa Malik won silver medal in shotput event
Varun Singh Bhatti won Bronze medal in men’s high jump.
In Paralympics history,
India’s other two gold medals were
Murlikant
Petkar (swimming
in 1972 Heidelberg, West Germany)
Devendra
Jhajharia (javelin
throw in 2004 Athens)
72) The United States and Russia announced a landmark
agreement for military partnership in Syria for Cease fire
73) Stanislas Wawrinka
(Switzerland) won US open against World No. 1 Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Angelique Kerber (Germany)
won US open against Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic)
74) Maharashtra’s Aundh
District Hingoli has been chosen for LIGO
(Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) project that proved
existence of gravitational waves.
Its third laboratory
1) Hanford, Washington 2)
Livingston, Louisiana.
75) The Union Cabinet
approved setting up of the GST Council for
The decision on the final GST rate under Constitutional Article 279A
76) The Supreme Court modified
of its earlier order to release 15,000 cusecs
water to 12000 Cusec water from Cauvery River to Tamil Nadu in a day
77) Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh has commissioned the offshore
patrolling (OPV) vessel, Sarathi, at Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL),
78) For maintaining the
records and database of Indian students studying abroad, Government of India
has launched a Student Registration module in MADAD portal (madad.gov.in).
79) Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) have
awarded Odisha as Best Agriculture State-2016
80) West Indies opener Chris Gayle launches his autobiography 'Six
Machine' in India
81) HDFC Ergo General
Insurance Company (HDFC ERGO) has acquisition of 100 percent shares of L&T
General Insurance Company (L&T Insurance) for Rs. 551 crore.
82) World’s 1st robotic
eye operation performed in Britain
83) Government launches
toll-free number 1924 for postal complaints (Dalhousie)
84) Army Green beat Neroca
FC to win Durand Cup football title.
85) BS Baswan Committee
for reform in UPSC pattern also advice to reduce Age for General Categories
from 32 to 26
86) The 17th Summit of the
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is held at
Margarita Island (Venezuela) Participated by Vice-President Hamid Ansari not
attained by Prime Minister.
87) former Chief Minister
Nabam Tuki, all the Congress MLAs of Arunachal Pradesh including Chief Minister
Pema Khandujoined a new political front People’s Party of Arunachal Pradesh
(PPA)
88) India free from Avian Influenza (H5N1).
89) Bayer AG is a German
multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company takeover of GM seeds business
Monsanto.
90) Anil Ambani-led
Reliance Communications (RCom) will merge its wireless business with Aircel to
create the country’s third-largest mobile operator by subscriber base. It’s behind
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone.
91) Typhoon Meranti, also
known as Typhoon Ferdie hit Philippines
92) Its fourth time in its
history, the heads of states gathered for the UN General Assembly meeting for
discussions on a burning global health is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) It is
the fourth such health concern after Ebola, non-communicable diseases and HIV.
93) India’s Devendra
Jhajharia won gold in the men’s javelin throw event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics
Four medals – two golds,
one silver and a bronze.
94) Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) set an
agency to raise Rs. 20,000 crore from loans and bond sales to fund
infrastructure development at central higher educational institutions. including
the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institute of Technology
(NITs) and central universities.
95) iOS 10 latest release
of the iOS operating system released by Apple Inc.
96) 14th September celebrated as a Hindi Divas because
on this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly of the country adopted the Hindi
language as the official language of the Republic of India.
97) Andhra Pradesh becomes second state to achieve
100% electrification after Gujarat
98) HP, Acquire Samsung Printer Business in $1.05
Billion
99) Jim Yong Kim heads for second term as World Bank president
IBRD-ICSID-IDA-MIGA-IFC
100) Gautam Gambhir-led
India Blue has won Duleep Trophy Cricket
tournament held at Greater Noida. Defeated India Red, captained by Yuvraj Singh
101) 27 cities declared smart city mission under third
list
Union Urban Development
Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.
A maximum of five cities from Maharashtra (Aurangabad,
Kalyan-Dombivali, Nagpur, Nashik and Thane) Rajasthan (Ajmer and Kota). Gujarat (Vadodara), Sikkim (Namchi) and Nagaland
(Kohima) has been selected in this round.
102) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance issued IPO worth
Rs. 6,057 crore is the first initial offering by an Indian insurance company.
Its second biggest IPO after
Coal India Limited (CIL), which raised Rs. 15,000 crore via the capital market
route in 2010.
103) Brahamdagh Bugti Baloch
leader of Pakistan he will formally file asylum papers to the Indian Government
now he is currently living in exile in Switzerland. India last granted
political asylum to the Dalai Lama in 1959.
104) Param-Ishan supercomputer launched at IIT Guwahati.
Is the fastest supercomputer of the Northeastern region of the country
Supercomputer has been developed jointly by C-DAC and IIT Guwahati. It has the
computing power of 250 Teraflops per second and capacity up to 300 Tera bites.
105) Alka Sirohi new
Chairman of the UPSC
The UPSC is headed by a
chairman and can have a maximum of 10 members. It conducts civil services
examination of Indian Administrative Service (IAS),
Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.
106) Former RBI Governor
Raghuram Rajan resumed his academic role in Booth School of Business
(University of Chicago)
107) 18 soldiers of the
Indian Army were killed at Army camp Uri (Baramulla
108) The Indian Navy’s deployed
destroyer ship, INS Mormugao, from Mumbai’s Mazgaon Docks
The first ship under P-15B
was INS Visakhapatnam (2011)
109) SC stayed an order of
the NGT that directed authorities like
railways to seek prior environmental clearances (ECs) for their projects
110) 2016 Rio Paralympics
China won total 237
medals including 105 gold medals, 81 silvers and 51 bronze.
Britain was second 147
medals (64 gold medals, 39 silvers and 44 bronze)
Ukraine was third with 117
medals (41 gold medals, 37 silvers and 39 bronze).
India at 42nd
Rank with 4 medals (2 gold medals, 1 silver
and 1 bronze)
111) India has
successfully test-fired its new, long-range surface-to-air missile jointly
developed with Israel from Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur.
112) Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a huge victory in the country’s
parliamentary election.
113) First Indian
music-dance festival starts in Australia
114) Deaf shooter Priyesha
Deshmukh wins bronze in first-ever, first World Deaf Shooting Championships
held in Kazan, Russia. (10m air rifle category)
115) Punjab National Bank
appointed Virat Kohli as its new brand ambassador
116) China, launched its second experimental space station
Tiangong 2, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi
Desert in northern China.
117) 68th Emmy Awards,
television's biggest award ceremony, was held in Los Angeles 'Game of Thrones'
won the best Drama Series award.
118) The Government
planned to extend DBT to 147 schemes by March 2017.
Now working 74 Scheme of
17 Department
119) World's largest ship
lift begins trial run in China. Designed by Chinese and German engineers on
China's Three Gorges Dam began.
120) Indira Awas Yojana
Renamed as Prime Minister Awas Yojana
Government is aiming to
construct one crore houses by 2019 in Rural Areas.
121) Government merges
Railway Budget with Union Budget advised by Bibek Debroy Committee
Separation advised in 1924 by Acworth Commission it was set up in 1921
The Cabinet also approved
the date of presentation of the Union Budget to February 1, as against the
current practice of presenting it on the last working day of February.
122) Bengaluru based Flipkart becomes 1st e-commerce in India to cross
100 million customers
123) Delhi's Race Course
Road (PM residence Road) renamed as Lok Kalyan Marg
124) Mukesh Ambani tops
Forbes' 100 Richest Indians list
Dilip Shanghvi remains at
2nd.
125)
Centre appoints three members to Monetary Policy Committee
Chetan
Ghate, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute
Pami
Dua, Director, Delhi, School of Economics
Ravindra
Dholakia, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
The
members will have a term of four years
126) 500th test match of
India held at Green park Kanpur against New
Zealand. Ravindra Jadeja ,Man of the Match
India played its first
Test against England at Lord’s in 1932. C.K. Nayudu led the Indian team.
127) HDFC Bank named
India’s most valuable brand followed by Airtel and SBI in the list.
128) 36 Rafale Dassault Fighter
plane deal cleared with France, cost 7.878 billion Euros. (58k Crore)
129) Oxford tops the list as the world's leading
university followed by the California
Institute of Technology, Stanford and Cambridge.
According to Times Higher Education world rankings index.
130) "Citizen and
Society" Book written by Vice President Hamid Ansari’s Role of women in a
multicultural society to other dynamics of a democratic nation.
131) Navtej Sarna
appointed Ambassador to the US
132) India International
Seafood Show held at Vizag (Visakhapatnam) Andhra Pradesh.
133) Visaranai, the Tamil documentary drama crime
thriller film has been chosen India’s official entry to Best Foreign Language
Film category at the 89th Oscar Academy Awards
to be held in 2017.
134) Japan to host 2026
Asian Games
South Korea Winter
Olympics at Pyeonchang in 2018, 2022-Beijing (WO)
Tokyo hosts the 2020
Summer Olympics
135) 100th Birthday of
former Jan Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal
Upadhyay was celebrated on 25 September 2016. Upadhyay was born on 26 September
1916 in Mathura. BHU
136) Number 1969 has been chosen help line for Swachh
Bharat Mission (SBM) because Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869 & its centenary
year of Birth.
137) Google launched ‘Allo’, instant messaging app
iMessage (Apple) Facebook,
WhatsApp messenger
138) ‘Indra-2016’, the joint military exercise
between Russia and India started from Primorsky Territory
139) India’s first
inter-State river interlinking project is Ken-Betwa Project Madhya Pradesh and
Uttar Pradesh, in Bundelkhand.
140) Hindustan Diamond
Company Private Limited (HDCPL) is a 50:50 joint-venture between Government of
India and De Beers Centenary Mauritius Ltd (DBCML). It was formed in 1978 with the primary objective of serving the
small and medium diamond jewellery exporters, who have no direct access to
rough diamonds. Now it’s defunct
141) 86 tourist MoUs worth
15,000 crores.
Gujarat 9000 crores,
Karnataka 2600 crores, Rajasthan 1000 crores, Uttarakhand 500 crores and
Chhattisgarh with 12 crores.