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The Hindu Review September 2019 PDF
The Hindu Review September 2019 PDF
Government Appoints Four Supreme Court ➢ Punjab and Haryana High Court: Chief Justice
Judges Krishna Murari
➢ Rajasthan High Court: Chief Justice S. Ravindra Bhat
➢ The Centre has cleared four names recommended by ➢ Kerala High Court: Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy
the Supreme Court Collegium for elevation as judges ➢ The Supreme Court vacancies had increased its
of the apex court. The four appointed judges are judicial strength from 31 to 34 following the
➢ Himachal Pradesh High Court: Chief Justice V. enactment of the Supreme Court (Number of Judges)
Ramasubramanian Bill of 2019.
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20th Edition of IIFA Awards 2019 in Mumbai 71st Emmy Awards 2019 Declared
➢ The 20th Edition of NEXA International Indian Film ➢ The 71st annual primetime Emmy Awards
Academy Awards (IIFA Awards) for 2019 was held at honours handed out at the Microsoft Theater in Los
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai, Angeles.
Maharashtra. ➢ Here is the complete list of winners of EMMY
AWARDS 2019:
Here’s the complete list of winners:
Sl.
S. No. Category Winners Category Winner
No.
1. Best Film Raazi OUTSTANDING Game of Thrones
1.
DRAMA SERIES (HBO)
Best Actor in a
2. leading role Alia Bhatt (Raazi) OUTSTANDING
2. Fleabag (Amazon)
(Female) COMEDY SERIES
Best Actor in a LEAD ACTOR,
Ranveer Singh 3. Billy Porter, Pose
3. leading role DRAMA
(Padmaavat)
(Male) LEAD ACTRESS, Jodie Comer, Killing
4.
Best Actor In DRAMA Eve
Aditi Rao Hydari
4. Supporting Role LEAD ACTOR,
(Padmaavat) 5. Bill Hader, Barry
(Female) COMEDY
Best Actor In LEAD ACTRESS, Phoebe Waller-
Vicky Kaushal 6.
5. Supporting Role COMEDY Bridge, Fleabag
(Sanju)
(Male)
SUPPORTING Peter Dinklage, Game
Sriram Raghavan 7.
6. Best Director ACTOR, DRAMA of Thrones
(Andhadhun)
SUPPORTING
Best Playback Arijit Singh (Ae 8. Julia Garner, Ozark
7. ACTRESS, DRAMA
Singer (Male) Watan from Raazi)
SUPPORTING Tony Shalhoub, The
Harshdeep Kaur 9.
Best Playback ACTOR, COMEDY Marvelous Mrs Maisel
8. and Vibha Saraf
Singer (Female) SUPPORTING Alex Borstein, The
for Dilbaro (Raazi) 10.
ACTRESS, COMEDY Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Sonu Ke Titu Ki
9. Best Music OUTSTANDING
Sweety 11. Chernobyl (HBO)
LIMITED SERIES
Lifetime Legendary actor
OUTSTANDING Black Mirror:
10. Achievement and comedian
12. TELEVISION Bandersnatch
Award Jagdeep Jaffery
MOVIE (Netflix)
Best Debut Sara Ali Khan
11. LEAD ACTOR,
Award (Female) (Kedarnath) Jharrel Jerome, When
13. LIMITED SERIES
Best Debut Ishaan Khatter They See Us
12. OR MOVIE
Award (Male) (Dhadak)
LEAD ACTRESS,
20 Years Best Michelle Williams,
13. Deepika Padukone 14. LIMITED SERIES
Actor (Female) Fosse/Verdon
OR MOVIE
Outstanding SUPPORTING
performance by a Rajkumar Hirani Ben Whishaw, A Very
14. 15. ACTOR, LIMITED
director in the (Sanju) English Scandal
SERIES OR MOVIE
last 20 years
SUPPORTING
20 Years Best Patricia Arquette, The
15. Ranbir Kapoor 16. ACTRESS, LIMITED
Actor (Male) Act
SERIES OR MOVIE
Best music in the COMPETITION
16. Pritam 17. RuPaul’s Drag Race
last 20 years PROGRAM
Best film of the VARIETY SKETCH
17. Kaho Na Pyaar Hai 18. Saturday Night Live
past 20 years SERIES
Agreement/Memorandum Of Understanding
(MoU)
⚫ ECL Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of Edelweiss
Financial Services, and Central Bank of India have
signed an agreement for priority sector lending to
(MSME's) customers.
⚫ The Bangladesh government has signed an
agreement with Reliance Power of India for gas-
based power plant. The plant will set up a 750 MW
gas-based power plant in Meghnahat near
Dhaka.
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⚫ The Gurugram traffic police have tied up with ⚫ Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Google maps for real time traffic updates. The Yojana (AB-PMJAY) has partnered with Ola, a
traffic related information will be shared in real time mobility platform, to extend the welfare to its
for public use. drivers.
⚫ National Institution for Transforming India has ⚫ Tata Communications has partnered with Cisco to
selected McKinsey & Company to set up India’s offer enterprises a secure, fully-managed, multi-
first Digital Capability Centre (DCC). channel, intelligent and cloud-based Cisco Webex
⚫ The Industrial Development Bank of India and Contact Center solution.
Life Insurance Corporation of India Credit Cards ⚫ The Directorate General of Training (DGT), under
Services will launch a co-branded credit card, the skill development and entrepreneurship
which will be marketed to customers, agents, and ministry, has signed an agreement with IT major
employees of the corporation and its subsidiaries. IBM to carry out a nationwide Train-the-Trainer
⚫ India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) has programme in basic artificial intelligence.
signed 200 million dollar loan agreement to ⚫ Nasscom’s Data Security Council of India (DSCI)
upgrade rural roads in 34 districts of Maharashtra collaborated with the electronics and IT ministry
to improve road safety. (MeitY) and Google India to launch a nationwide
⚫ The International Finance Corporation, part of awareness campaign ‘Digital Payment Abhiyan’.
the World Bank Group, has signed a MoU with the ⚫ The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) hosted a 31st
Finance Industry Development Council to international conference on Sindh in London.
collaborate on the training of NBFCs in the country. ⚫ 7th World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF) 2019
⚫ The Railway Ministry signed a MoU with held in Mumbai, Maharashtra with the theme of
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for “Prosperous Society: Stronger Society”.
evaluating the green initiatives and rate the
performance of its industrial units pursuing Awards & Recognition
environmentally sustainable practices. ⚫ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be honoured
⚫ Kerala signs a memorandum of understanding with the prestigious ‘Global Goalkeeper Award’.
(MoU) with the Maldives to strengthen cancer care He will be felicitated by the Bill and Melinda Gates
in the island nation. Foundation for his leadership and commitment to
⚫ The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) the Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan.
joined hands with Defence Research and ⚫ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and
Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Kashmir has been adjudged as the "Best Swachh
development of human-centric systems for the Iconic place" in the country in the ‘Swachh Iconic
Human Space Mission to demonstrate its human Places’. This list released by the Ministry of Jal
space flight capabilities. Shakti, Department of Drinking Water and
⚫ Defence PSU Bharat Earth Movers Limited Sanitation.
(BEML) and Wipro Infrastructure Engineering ⚫ Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus from
(WIN) have signed an MoU to work together in the Bangladesh was conferred the 'Lamp of Peace of
areas of aerospace, industrial automation, 3-D Saint Francis' award by the Vatican.
printing, artificial intelligence and hydraulic system ⚫ Odisha State Disaster Management Authority
engineering. (OSDMA) has won the IT Excellence Award, 2019.
"SATARK" (System for Assessing, Tracking and
Alerting Disaster Risk Information based on
Dynamic Risk Knowledge) application has been
chosen for the award.
⚫ “Oscars of science” awarded to Event Horizon
Telescope Team, with prize money $3 million.
⚫ Noted Odia writer Pradeep Dash will be conferred
with the 40th edition of prestigious Sarala
Puraskar for his poetry work Charu Chibar O
Charjya. Sarala Puraskar is recognised as the
foremost literary award of Odisha.
⚫ Dr Yusuf Hamied, chairman of Cipla, a
pharmaceutical company has been inducted as an
honorary fellow of the Royal Society for his service
to the cause of science.
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⚫ Managing Director and Chairman of Hero MotoCorp, ⚫ Super 30 founder and noted mathematician Anand
Pawan Munjal will be inducted into the 2019 Asia Kumar has been felicitated in the US with a
Pacific Golf Hall of Fame. He will be inducted for prestigious Education Excellence Award 2019.
his support to “Golf” in India and around the world. ⚫ Twenty-two scientists across the country were
⚫ England cricket greats Geoffrey Boycott and awarded the National Geoscience Awards for the
Andrew Strauss have been honoured with year 2018. The National Geoscience Awards were
“Knighthoods” by Theresa May in her resignation given in ten disciplines.
honours list. ⚫ The Film Federation of India (FFI) has chosen ‘Gully
⚫ Navdeep Singh Suri, India’s envoy to United Arab
Boy’ as India’s official entry to the Oscars.
Emirates, has been honoured with the First Class
⚫ Kerala Tourism has won three prestigious Pacific
Order of Zayed II award.
Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold awards in
⚫ Five Indian women police officers were honoured
by the United Nations for their commendable Nur-Sultan (Astana), Kazakhstan.
services in the world body’s mission in South Sudan. ⚫ Physicist Thanu Padmanabhan, a professor of
The women officers who were conferred the UN Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and
medal were: Reena Yadav, Gopika Jahagirdar, Astrophysics received the M P Birla Memorial
Bharati Samantray, Ragini Kumari and Kamal Award 2019 for his contributions to the world of
Shekhawat. cosmology.
⚫ Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received ⚫ A documentary on Srinagar-based football club Real
the Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Kashmir FC has nominated in the prestigious
Award 2019 in Dhaka. British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
⚫ Arcadia Education Project which involves Awards.
construction of floating school for marginalised ⚫ Senior journalist and Ramon Magsaysay awardee,
children in South Kanarchor of Bangladesh, has Ravish Kumar has received the 1st Gauri Lankesh
been awarded the prestigious Aga Khan National Award for Journalism.
Architecture Award 2019. ⚫ Popular Bollywood playback singer Sonu Nigam has
⚫ Bollywood actor Neena Gupta has won 2 awards at been honoured with the Magnificent Performing
Indian International Film Festival of Boston. The
Arts Award at the annual 21st Century Icon Awards
actress won the Best Actress award for ‘Badhaai Ho‘
in London.
and her film ‘The Last Color‘ emerged victorious in
⚫ Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the 2019
Best Feature Film category.
⚫ Meghalaya-based rights activist Agnes Kharshiing, Global Goalkeeper Award. He received the award
who survived an assault by the coal mafia almost a for Swachh Bharat Mission from Bill and Melinda
year ago, received the 11th International Hrant Gates Foundation. Swachh Bharat Mission was
Dink Award. launched on October 2, 2014, aims to accelerate the
⚫ The Union Minister for Skill Development & efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage in
Entrepreneurship, Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, the country.
awarded Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman of Railway ⚫ The SASTRA Ramanujan prize for 2019 will be
Board with Eminent Engineers Award. awarded to Adam Harper. Mathematician Adam
Harper is an Assistant Professor with the University
of Warwick, England.
⚫ The country’s highest film honour, the Dadasaheb
Phalke award, will be presented this year to
Amitabh Bachchan.
⚫ Rajasthan’s Payal Jangid, aged 17, became the first
Indian to receive the Changemaker Award 2019 at
the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards 2019.
⚫ IT major Infosys has received the United Nations
Global Climate Action Award in the ‘Climate
Neutral Now’ category.
⚫ Airport Council International has recognised Cochin
International Airport Limited as the best airport
in terms of services offered to passengers.
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⚫ Odisha’s Tapan Kumar Mishra has been honoured Miscellaneous Current Affairs
with the National Tourism Award for the Category
of “Best Tourist Guide” for the year 2017-18 during ⚫ Russia will train four Indian astronauts for India’s
celebration of the World Tourism Day. ambitious manned mission to space, Gaganyaan.
⚫ India’s Kallie Puri has been awarded with “India’s ⚫ Health minister has announced that the Central
Most Powerful Women in Media” award at the Government Health Scheme's services would be
famed Confluence Excellence Awards. available to 100 cities by 2022.
⚫ Khadi and Village Industries Commission has
launched a ‘Terracotta Grinder’ at Sewapuri in
Science and Technology
Varanasi. The machine will be able to grind the
⚫ The 5th edition of India International Science wasted and broken pottery items for re-using in
Festival (IISF) will be held in Kolkata from pottery-making.
November 5-8. IISF is the largest science festival in ⚫ Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting
the world. The theme for this year’s festival is Prakash Javadekar unveiled the new logo and
‘RISEN India – Research, Innovation, and Science certificate design of the Central Board of Film
Empowering the Nation’. Certification (CBFC).
⚫ The High Commissions of Australia, New Zealand,
Books & Authors Papua New Guinea, and Fiji jointly organised a
cultural event 'Namaste Pacific' held in Delhi,
⚫ A new book on the history of Indian Railways named India.
"A Short History of Indian Railways", has been ⚫ National Disaster Response Force, Nehru Yuva
penned by veteran journalist and author Rajendra B Kendra Sangathan under the Department of Youth
Aklekar. Affairs of MoYAS will prepare Block Level Disaster
⚫ The book, "India's Lost Frontier the Story of the Response Teams.
North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan", has ⚫ Income Tax Department announced that it will
been penned by veteran civil servant Raghvendra automatically issue PAN to all taxpayers who do not
Singh. have a Permanent Account Number and are using
⚫ The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Aadhaar for filing income tax returns (ITR).
will release 2nd editions of ‘Loktantra Ke Swar ⚫ Indian Army team from 18th battalion, the Mahar
(Khand 2)’ and ‘The Republican Ethic (Volume 2) Regiment successfully summited Mount Leo
in New Delhi. Pargyil (6773M).
⚫ ‘Fortune Turners: The Quartet That Spun India ⚫ Indian Cricket team vice-captain Rohit Sharma is
To Glory’, book on India’s spin quartet: Bishan launching Rohit4Rhinos campaign, in partnership
Singh Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat with WWF India and Animal Planet.This campaign
Chandrashekhar and S. Venkataraghavan, written by helps to build awareness for the need to conserve
Aditya Bhushan and Sachin Bajaj has been the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros or the Indian
launched. Rhino.
⚫ A book titled “Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten ⚫ Asia's first 5th Generation - Virtual Reality based
past, 1883-1924” which describes the life of Advanced Driver Training Simulator Centre was
freedom fighter and Philosopher Vinayak Damodar launched at the Automobile Association of Southern
Savarkar, is penned by Vikram Sampath and India Centre (AASI), Chennai.
published by Penguin.
⚫ The book titled “The Cousins Thackeray: Uddhav,
Raj and the Shadow of their Senas” written by the
journalist Dhaval Kulkarni was released. It is
published by Penguin Random House.
⚫ A new book titled “Being Gandhi” written by
award-winning author Paro Anand released.
⚫ A new comic book series ‘Professor Ayushman’
conceived by the National Medicinal Plants
Board(NMPB) was unveiled by the Ayush ministry
in New Delhi.
⚫ Former president Pranab Mukherjee released a
book named ‘Reset: Regaining India’s Economic
Legacy’. The book was written by BJP MP
Subramanian Swamy.
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⚫ High Commissioner of India to Canada Vikas ⚫ The first ever “Jammu International Film Festival”
Swarup inaugurated the India Pavilion at the 44th will be held in Jammu. 37 short films and
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2019. documentaries from 11 countries will be screened at
⚫ A fun zone, the first of its kind in India, has been set the inaugural edition of Jammu International Film
up by the Railways at the Visakhapatnam Railway Festival.
Station, Andhra Pradesh. ⚫ The Telangana government has decided to declare
⚫ India announced humanitarian assistance of USD 1 2020 as Artificial Intelligence year by organising
million to help people in the Bahamas affected by various activities related to the emerging
Hurricane Dorian. technology.
⚫ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal’s Prime ⚫ Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
Minister K.P.Sharma Oli will jointly inaugurate Thaawarchand Gehlot launched the (Management
Motihari-Amlekhgunj cross border petroleum Information System) MIS portal in New Delhi.
products pipeline. ⚫ The 16th Session of the Joint Economic
⚫ Scientists have unveiled a newly discovered species Commission (JEC) between India and Belgium
of a pterosaur "Cryodrakon boreas" roughly Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) was held in
translates to ‘frozen dragon of the north wind’, the New Delhi.
largest ever flying animal according to a study ⚫ Shondol dance, which is known as the royal dance
conducted by Queen Mary University in London. of Ladakh, has created history by entering into the
⚫ Astronomers have found water for the first time in Guinness Book of World Records as the largest
atmosphere of habitable exoplanet K2-18b which Ladakhi dance.
orbits in its star’s “habitable zone”. ⚫ Nepal Rastra Bank issued three coins (100, 1000
⚫ The United Nations Educational, Scientific and and 2500 Nepali rupees) bearing the Sikh symbol
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has decided to to commemorate the 550th Birth Anniversary of
translate and publish an anthology of the writings of Guru Nanak Dev.
Guru Nanak Dev in world languages to mark his ⚫ Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
550th birth anniversary. launched 2 mobile apps named CHC Farm
⚫ Moti Bagh, a documentary film based on the Machinery and KrishiKisan App for geotagging
struggle of a farmer in a remote Uttarakhand purposes in for easy access of technical agricultural
village, has been nominated for the Oscars. equipment at farmers’ doorstep.
⚫ American breast cancer survivor Sarah Thomas ⚫ World University of Design (WUD) hosted Global
became the first person to swim across the English Goals Jam 3.0. The Indian edition of the global
Channel four times non-stop in a 54-hour feat of event focusing on design thinking and service design
endurance. methodologies was hosted with the theme: eWaste.
⚫ Beijing 2022 Paralympic and Olympic mascots ⚫ Bangladesh has lifted the ban on the exports of
unveiled. The mascot, named Bing Dwen Dwen, is a Hilsa fish to India as a goodwill gesture during the
chubby giant panda wearing a suit of ice was Durga Puja.
revealed as the official mascot for Beijing Winter
Olympics 2022 and Chinese lantern Shuey Rhon Obituaries
Rhon was declared as the official mascot for Winter
Paralympics 2022. ⚫ The 4 Times Emmy Award-winning actress Valerie
Harper passed away.
⚫ Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe
passed away.
⚫ Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer Kiran
Nagarkar passed away.
⚫ Veteran Congress leader and former MP Sukhdev
Singh Libra passed away.
⚫ Pakistan’s master leg-spinner Abdul Qadir passed
Away.
⚫ Ram Jethmalani, one of India’s finest lawyers and a
former union minister has passed away. He was 95.
⚫ Actor and Kathak dancer Veeru Krishnan passed
away.
⚫ Rajasthan born freedom fighter of India Heeralal
Sharma has passed away at the age of 95.