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September Month – CA

● Prime Minister Modi Launches India Post Payments Bank of the department
of Posts that will take banking to the doorstep of every citizen through an
unmatched network of post offices.

● 4th International Ayurveda Congress was held at Netherlands.

● GDP Growth Soars To 8.2% in 1st Quarter Of Current Fiscal

● Binoy Kumar Assumes Charge Of Secretary In Steel Ministry

● Amit Panghal Wins Gold Medal In 49KG Boxing Event At Asian Games
2018

● Pranab, Shibnath Wins India's 1st Ever Bridge Gold At Asian Games 2018

● Mumbai Airport Renamed As Chhatrapati Shivaji ‘ Maharaj ’ International

Airport

● Indian Women's Hockey Team Win Silver Medal at Asian Games 2018

● Indian Men's Hockey Team Win Bronze Medal at Asian Games 2018

● Indian Bank Association Elects PNB's Sunil Mehta as Chairman

● Kohli Becomes Second Fastest Indian To Reach 6000 Test Runs

● Ishant Sharma Becomes Third Indian to Scalp 250 Test Wickets

● Luka Modric Wins UEFA Men’s Player of the Year Award

● Home For Widows ‘Krishna Kutir’ Inaugurated in UP’s Vrindavan

● RBI Approves Re-Appointment of Rana Kapoor As Yes Bank CEO

● Mumbai Neurosurgeon Dr B.K. Misra Named For Dr B.C. Roy Award

● “Shades Of Truth: A Journey Derailed” Authored by Kapil Sibal Released

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● Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan Appointed As CEO of Vedanta Resources

● Indian Women’s Squash Team Wins Silver Medal at Asian Games 2018

● 4th BIMSTEC Summit Held In Kathmandu, Nepal

● Abhay K the First Indian Poet to Record Poems at Library of Congress

● R Madhavan Assumes Charge as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) CMD

● Justice Ranjan Gogoi to Take Charge As Chief Justice Of India On October 3

● 1st International Kho Kho Championship organised in England from 1-4

September 2018

● Japan’s Swimmer Ikee Named Asian Games’ Most Valuable

Player.

● 2 September: World Coconut Day

● 15th India-ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting Held in Singapore

● 6th East Asia Summit- Economic Ministers’ Meeting Held In Singapore

● India Finishes With Biggest Ever Medal Tally of 69 Medals in Asian Games
2018

● Census 2021 for First Time To Collect Data On Other Backwards Castes

● Licence of Bhilwara Mahila Urban Co-operative Bank Cancelled By RBI

● ICICI Bank Reappoints Chanda Kochhar On Board Of ICICI Securities

● Mauritius Remains Top Source Of FDI Into India In 2017-18 : RBI

● MOVE Cyclathon Organized By NITI Aayog To Promote Clean Mobility

● Sanjay Dutt To Be Uttarakhand’s Anti-Drug Brand

Ambassador.

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● PM Inaugurates India's 1st Global Mobility Summit In New Delhi

● Piyush Goyal Launched ' AAPOORTI ' App of Indian Railways e-

Procurement System

● 6th Edition of Bengaluru Space Expo Inaugurated By ISRO Chairman Dr. K

Sivan

● 87th Izmir International Tradeshow Begins In Turkey

● India-Sri Lanka Joint Exercise SLINEX-2018 Begins In Sri Lanka

● Monetary Limit For Filing Cases In DRT Doubled To Rs 20 Lakh

● ISSF World Championship: Saurabh Chaudhary Clinches Gold

● CM Yogi Launched Official Website and App for Kumbh Mela 2019, the
website is www.kumbh.gov.in

● Indian E-Commerce Market To Cross $100 Billion By 2022: Report

● HDFC Bank Is India’s Most Valued Brand for 5th Year In A Row

● ISSF World Championship: Hriday Hazarika Bags Gold In 10M Air Rifles

● SBI Appoints Anshula Kant as Managing Director

● Homosexuality Not A Crime In India Anymore: SC Abolishes Section 377

● Javadekar Launches Book And Curriculum Ln Gandhi Ji ' Nai Talim '

● India And France To Collaborate On Human Space Mission ‘ Gaganyaan ’

● Aishwarya Rai Bachchan To Receive Meryl Streep Award For Excellence

● SBI Mutual Fund Appoints Ashwani Bhatia As CEO

● BSNL Signs Boxer Mary Kom As Brand Ambassador

● Indian Navy Beats 22 Other Teams To Win KAKADU-18 Cup In Australia

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● India To Be Biggest Passenger Car Market By 2030 : NITI Aayog

● Poonam Khetrapal Singh Was Elected As Regional Director Of WHO South-

East Asia

● Akshay Kumar Is Honorary Ambassador For Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial

Foundations

● International Women Entrepreneurs Summit Begins In Nepal

● Indo-Kazakhstan Joint Exercise ‘ KAZIND 2018 ’ To Be Held In Kazakhstan

● Adobe, Skill Development Ministry Launch ' Adobe Digital Disha ' Digital
Literacy Programme

● International Aviation Summit Held In New Delhi

● Rajasthan Govt to Provide Free Mobile Phones To Women Of BPL Families

● US-India Business Council Hold Its First Summit in Mumbai

● India Ranks 19th in ' Theft Rankings ' Regarding Nuclear Materials Security

● Facebook to Open Its 1st Ever Asian Data Centre In Singapore

● Google Launches New Search Engine ' Dataset Search ' For Scientists

● Centre Selected 3 Govt Schools In Haryana For ' Swachh Vidyala Puraskar '

● Justice Arup Kumar Goswami Made Acting Chief Justice Of Gauhati High
Court

● Qatar 1st Gulf Nation To Grant Permanent Residency To Expatriates

● Bangladesh Naval Ship ' Somudra Joy ' Arrives At Visakhapatnam On A

Goodwill Visit

● Telangana Dissolves 1st State Assembly 9 Months Before Tenure Ends

● Smriti Irani Inaugurated ' Digital Village ' In Amethi

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● TCS Becomes 2nd Indian Company To Cross Rs. 8 Trillion Market Cap

● Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu Made Aadhaar Mandatory For Organ

Transplant

● Conference on E-Mobility In Indian Railways Held In New Delhi

● Arif Alvi (PTI) Is Elected As President of Pakistan

● Swachhata Hi Seva Campaign Launch On 15 Sept

● China Launched ' HY-1C satellite ' To Monitor Sea Waters.

● Defence & Homeland Security Expo and Conference – 2018 held in New
Delhi

● India, US Hold 2+2 Dialogue Concluded In New Delhi

● Government Launches National Mission on Government E Marketplace

(GeM).

● 8 September: International Literacy Day

Theme 2018 “Literacy and Skill Development”

● 4th World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA-2018) At New Delhi

● Ayushman Bharat Call Centre Inaugurated In Bengaluru

● Axis Bank Appoints Amitabh Chaudhry As MD & CEO

● ' Sarala Puraskar ' To Be Honoured Odia Poet Satrughna Pandav For His
Poetry Collection " Misra Dhrupad "

● ISSF World Championship: Ankur Mittal Wins Double Trap Gold

● Japanese Naomi Osaka Beats Serena Williams To WIn U.S Open

● Nehal Chudasama to Represent India In Miss Universe 2018

● China Will Be Jharkhand's Partner Country At The Food Processing Summit

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● Air Marshal Butola Takes Over As Commandant Of Air Force Academy

(AFA)

● Puducherry Bagged Top Position in National Clean School Award Given By

HRD Ministry

● Nagaland Govt Declared Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary As An Elephant

Reserve

● 6th International Geriatric Orthopaedic Conference Held At AIIMS, New

Delhi

● Combat Exercise “Yudh Abhyas” Between Indian, US Armies in Uttarakhand

● 4th Annual Sustainable Smart Cities India Conference Was Held In

Bengaluru

● Bimal Jalan to Head Panel to Select the Next Chief Economic Adviser

● 2018 AIBA Youth Women’s & Men’s World Championships in Budapest,

Hungary

● Ukraine Launched ‘Rapid Trident ' Military Exercises With The U.S. And
NATO Countries

● India Blue Has Won 2017-18 Duleep Trophy by Defeating India Red Team

● Pakistan Could Become World’s 5th Largest Nuclear Weapons State: Report

● ONGC Discovers Oil, Gas Reserves In Madhya Pradesh, West

Bengal.

● India and France Signed Implementation Agreement on ' Mobilise Your City

● Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana to Cover Child Cancer Treatment

● Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Receives Meryl Streep Award for Excellence

● Novak Djokovic Wins Men’s Title in US Open Tennis

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● Triple Jumper Arpinder Singh, 1st Indian To Win Medal ( Bronze ) In IAAF
Continental Cup

● Nepal Not To Join 1st Ever BIMSTEC Military Drill In India

● Dr Arif Alvi Sworn In As 13th President Of Pakistan

● Hazratganj Chauraha Of Lucknow To Be Renamed As " Atal Chowk "

● 4th World Summit On Accreditation Held In New Delhi

● Bengaluru Airport Set To Become First In Asia To Use Face Recognition As

Boarding Pass

● World Hindu Congress 2018 Held In Chicago, United States

● Hima Das Appointed As Sports Ambassador of Assam

● Snow Leopard Spotted In Lippa-Asra Wildlife Sanctuary In Himachal

Pradesh.

● India, Iran, Afghanistan Hold First Tripartite Meeting In Kabul

● India Joins Elite Group of Countries Capable Of Air-To-Air Fuel Transfer

● 1st Regional Workshop on RERA Inaugurated By Hardeep Puri In Pune

● 1st Edition Of BIMSTEC Military Exercise MILEX-18 In Pune

● ( NRTI) India's 1st Railway University Starts Operations In Vadodara

● Forbes-Nominated Author Preeti Shenoy Pens New Book, ' The Rule
Breakers’

● India-Mongolia Joint Exercise ' Nomadic Elephant 2018 ' Starts In Mongolia

● Justice Om Prakash Mishra Sworn In As New Chief Justice of Nepal

● Jammu and Kashmir Becomes 3rd State To Adopt RADMS Software

● Vipin Tyagi ( Director : C-DOT ) Named WiFi Leader Of The Year

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● Pedda Cheruvu Irrigation Tank of Telangana: 1st from India to Get Heritage
Irrigation Structure Status

● Alok Amitabh Dimri the Next Ambassador of India to The Kyrgyz Republic

● B Vanlalvawna the Next Ambassabor Of India To The Republic Of

Azerbaijan.

● Indo-Kazakhstan Joint Exercise ‘ KAZIND 2018 ’ Begins

● 1st Ever Bus Services Between Bihar And Nepal Flagged Off

● Indo-US Joint Exercise ' Yudh Abhyas 2018 ' To Start In Uttarakhand

● Indian Railways Launches Web Portal ' Rail Sahyog '

● Russia Launches Biggest War Games ' Vostok-2018 '

● HDFC Life Appointed Vibha Padalkar As MD And CEO

● EC Removes NOTA Option From Rajya Sabha , Legislative Council Polls

● G S Garcha Won Bronze In The 52nd ISSF World Championships In Korea

● Jhulan Goswami 1st Player To Pick 300 International Wickets In Women's

Cricket

● Health Ministry Implemented HIV AIDS Act 2017

● India-UAE Partnership Summit (UPS) Will Be Held In Dubai

● Samsung Opens World’s Largest Mobile Experience Centre In Bengaluru

● Rajalakshmi Nandakumar Honoured US Award Young Scholar Award For

2018

● Asean World Economic Forum begins In Vietnam

● Asiad Gold Medal Winner Amit Pangal Nominated For Arjuna Award

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● Hero MotoCorp Signs Up Virat Kohli As Brand Ambassador

● Iraq Replaces Saudi Arabia As Top Oil Supplier To

India.

● Cabinet Approves New Umbrella Scheme ' Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay
Sanrakshan Abhiyan '

● PM Modi Announces Launch Of ‘ Swachhata Hi Seva Movement ’

Government Approves 100% Electrification Of Railways By 2021-22

● Sushma Swaraj Embarks On A Two-Day Visit To Moscow

● Hunger Reached ‘ Alarming ’ 10-Year High In 2017 : UN Report

● Samsung Opens World's Largest Mobile Experience Centre In Bengaluru

● Agri-Economist & Padma Bhushan Laureate Vijay Shankar Vyas Passes

Away

● LK Advani Renominated As Chairman Of Ethics Committee Of Lok Sabha

● Nepal Will Take Part In A 12-Day-Long ‘ Sagarmatha Friendship-2 ’ Military

Exercise With China

● Tamil Nadu Government Bans Manufacture And Sale Of e-Cigarettes

● Justice Mukul Mudgal to Head Selection Committee For Dronacharya And

Dhyanchand Awards

● Manoj Jhalani, AS & MD (NHM) Selected For UNIATF Award

● 2018 Global Summit on Climate Action Will Be Held At San Francisco, USA

● Uttar Pradesh Launched ' Khule Me Shauch Ki Ghanti Bajao – Siti Bajao '
Campaign

● Kolkata Tops With 90.7% Coverage in 4G Coverage in India: Report

● Sardar Singh Announces Retirement from International Hockey

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● 2-Day Conference on Good Governance concludes In Bhopal

● Former PepsiCo India Head D Shivakumar Elected As ASCI Chairman

● Afghanistan's DABS Ties Up With Tata Power

● IIT Kharagpur Signs MoU With Carleton University , Canada

● VC 11184 : HSL To Undertake Sea Trials Of India’s First Ocean Surveillance

Ship

● IIP Records 6.6% Growth In July 2018 .

● Minister For Minority Affairs Launched ' National Scholarship Portal ( NSP )
Mobile App

● Country’s 1st Tribal Tourism Circuit Launched in Chhattisgarh

● 23rd Meeting of India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission Held In

Moscow

● The Global Climate Action Summit 2018 Was Held At San Francisco, US

● G-20 Trade and Investment Ministerial Meeting Held In Argentina

● Index Of Industrial Production Grows At 6.6% In July

● Festival of Nuakhai Being Celebrated In Odisha

● PM Launches ' Swachhata Hi Seva ' Movement

● Wholesale Inflation Drops To Four-Month Low Of 4.53% In August

● Indigenously Developed Weapon System ‘ MPATGM ’ Successfully Flight

Tested

● Bengal Scheme To Combat Human Trafficking ' Swayangsiddha '

● India Gets Its 1st Ever Dedicated Dog Park In Hyderabad

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● India Ranks 3rd On Family-Owned Business List : CSRI Report

● Rajnath Singh Inaugurates 2 CIBMS Pilot Projects In Jammu

● Nepal and China Conducts 2nd Joint Military Exercise ' Sagarmatha
Friendship-2018’

● Jaipur Literature Festival Begins In Houston

● PayU India Gets RBI Approval to Operate Its Own NBFC

● ISRO Launched 2 British Earth Observation Satellites Onboard PSLV-C42

● Punjab National Bank (PNB) Bagged The " Rajbhasha Kirti " Award

● Moutaz Mousa Abdallah Becomes Sudan’s New PM

● MC Mary Kom Wins Gold At Silesian Open Boxing In Poland

● Maldives Defeats India to Lift SAFF Cup

● Kenya's Kipchoge Smashes Marathon World Record In Berlin ( New WR 2

hours 1 Minute 39 Second )

● India’s 1st ‘ Smart Fence ’ Pilot Project Inaugurated By Rajnath Singh In

Jammu

● India-Morocco Tourism Bilateral Meeting Held In New Delhi

● Delhi, Seoul Sign MoU To Tackle Air Pollution

● Piyush Goyal Inaugurates 1st Ever India Tourism Mart 2018 In New Delhi

● INSV Tarini Crew Bestowed With Tenzing Norgay Award

● Kerala Tourism Wins 2 PATA Gold Awards

● Centre Proposes To Merge Bank Of Baroda , Vijaya Bank And Dena Bank

● ISRO Technology Incubation Centre Inaugurated At NIT Agartala

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● MoU Signed For Establishing Mahatma Gandhi Convention Centre In Niger

● ESIC Approves " Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna " For Cash Relief

● Scientist KN Vyas Appointed Atomic Energy Commission Chief

● Virat Kolhi Honoured Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2018

● Mirabai Chanu Honored Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2018

● Dr. Raghupati Singhania Conferred With Civilian Honour Of Mexico

● Tajinder Mukherjee Takes Over As CMD of NICL

● Lewis Hamilton Won Singapore Grand Prix 2018

● Vodafone Idea Board Approved Merger With Aditya Birla Telecom

● Indian Air Force Plans To Set Up A ' Strategic Base ' In Andhra Pradesh

● Varun Dhawan And Anushka Sharma Signed As Ambassadors Of Skill India

Campaign

● Uttar Pradesh Police To Launch First-Ever ' Dial-FIR ' Scheme

● Germany Introduced Worlds First Hydrogen Powered Train

● India Gets First Ever Gender-Neutral Hostel In Mumbai's TISS

● Bangladesh Govt Approved India To Use The Chittagong And Mongla

Seaports

● Hangzhou Confirmed As Host Of 2022 Asian Para Games

● Time Magazine Acquired By Salesforce Founders For $190 Million

● State Bank of India Appoints Prashant Kumar as CFO

● Anna Rajam Malhotra First Indian Woman IAS Officer Passed Away

● Super Over Introduced For the 1st Time Ever In Asia Cup

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● UBI Bank Quit Its Antwerp Diamond Hub In Belgium

● India Ranks 130 in United Nation's Human Development Index

● ' Swachh Dhara ' Programme For Clean Water Flagged Off In Amaravati, AP

● Philippines Hit By 'Mangkhut' World's Strongest Storm This Year

● Mahindra & Mahindra To Become A Carbon Neutral Company By 2040

● Union Home Secretary Launches ‘ E-Sahaj ’ Portal For Grant Of Security

Clearance

● Delhi Airport Gets Top Honour At ASQ Awards 2017

● Sundeep Misra to Write A Book On Sprinter Dutee Chand, “Story So Far”

● 21 September: International Day Of Peace

Theme: “The Right To Peace - The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights At
70”

● Romania Will Open a Consulate In Chennai

● India Contributes 1 Million US Dollars To UN's Ambitious Solar Project

● DRDO Successfully Flight Tested Tactical Missile ‘ Prahar ’

● Anushka Sharma Receives Smita Patil Award

● Vijay Amritraj Is Elected As The President Of TNTA

● 7th UNWTO Global Summit On Urban Tourism Held In Seoul , Republic Of

Korea

● PM Laid The Foundation Stone Of wmWorld Class Convention Centre In

Dwarka

● India and Morocco Signed Air Services Agreement Enabling Greater

Connectivity

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● Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna Launched For Unemployed Insured Persons:
ESIC

● ' Exercise Aviaindra-18 ' Joint Air Force Exercise Of India And Russia
commenced At Lipetsk, Russia

● Para Shuttler Raj Kumar Conferred With Arjuna Award

● D Purandeswari Appointed Independent Director On Board Of Air India

● New Kabaddi Federation Of India (NKFI) Launches Indo International

Premier Kabaddi League

● Odisha CM Launches Star-Rating System For Industries To Reduce Air

Pollution

● Anindo Majumdar Appointed Secretary, Central Vigilance Commission

(CVC).

● 22 September: World Car Free Day

● India to Host the Women’s Boxing World Championship 2018 At New Delhi

● 5th Track Asia Cup Cycling In New Delhi

● Mayuri Lute Won the Country's First Gold in the Women's junior 500M at
5th Track Asia Cup Cycling

● India Won Silver in Asian Team Snooker Championship (Gold: Pakistan)

● Border Security Force (BSF) Has Opened a New Hotline in New Delhi

● “Cyclone-30 “India’s Biggest Cyclotron Facility Becomes Operational

● Newly-Built Jharsuguda Airport to Be Renamed After Noted Freedom Fighter

Veer Surendra Sai

● India’s Growth Forecast for the Current Fiscal To 7.8% from 7.4%: Fitch
Ratings

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● First Time In FIFA Rankings History 2 Teams (France + Belgium) Sharing

Top Spot

● D Purandeswari Appointed Independent Director On Board of Air India

● RBI Trims Rana Kapoor's Term as Yes Bank CEO

● Anshu Malik Won Bronze At The Junior World Wrestling Championship At

Slovakia

● Richa Mishra Set Record in Women’s 400M Swimming (New Record -

4:59.17)

● Gitesh Sarma Appointed Secretary In Ministry Of External Affairs

● Lucknow Metro Won International ' Royal Society For The Prevention Of
Accidents ' (RoSPA) Award

● Assamese Movie ' Village Rockstars ' Is India’s Official Entry For Oscars
2019 .

● Madhya Pradesh Gets $525 Million Loan For Infra Projects From BRICS
Bank

● Saudi Arabia To join China -Pakistan Economic Corridor

● Ban On Russia By WADA Has Been Lifted

● Tamil Nadu Govt Announces Scheme for Protection Of Exotic Neela Kurinji
Plants

● ISRO Setting Up Third Launch Pad at Sriharikota For Gaganyaan Mission

● 1st General Assembly of International Solar Alliance To Be Held On 2

October In Delhi

● Anil Kumar Chaudhary Appointed As New Chairman of Steel Authority of

India Ltd

● PM Modi Inaugurates New Airport in Odisha's Jharsuguda

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● Israel, India to Commemorate Centenary of the Battle of Haifa

● ‘Airavata’ Scheme Launched For SC/ST Youth

● DRDO Successfully Flight Tested Tactical Missile ‘ Prahar ’

● Mousumi Khatua First Bengali Woman to Summit Mount Damavand

(5610M)

● Japanese Businessman Yusaku Maezawa to Become The First Private Moon

Tourist

● Fitch Raises India’s FY19 GDP Growth Forecast To 7.8%

● Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy Awarded To Guru Nanak Dev
University

● UGC Directs Universities to Celebrate 29 September as ‘Surgical Strike Day ’

● Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy Awarded To Guru Nanak Dev
University

● Madhya Pradesh Gets $525 Million Loan for Infra Projects from BRICS Bank

● Saudi Arabia to join China - Pakistan Economic Corridor1

● Ban on Russia by WADA Has Been Lifted

● Tamil Nadu Govt Announces Scheme for Protection Of Exotic Neela Kurinji
Plants
● 1st General Assembly of International Solar Alliance To Be Held On 2
October In Delhi

● PM Modi launches world’s largest healthcare scheme ‘Ayushman Bharat’

● Ibrahim Mohamed Solih Won Presidential Election In Maldives

● BRICS Bank Approves $525-mn Loan for Infra Projects in MP

● Fitch raises India growth forecast to 7.8% this fiscal

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● BSNL Signs Deal With SoftBank, NTT to Roll Out 5G In India

● FDI in Telecom Sector Jumped Five Times in Three Years

●Dr. Harsh Vardhan Inaugurated Air Pollution Control Device ''WAYU'' in

Delhi

● Google appoints Keith Enright as its Chief Privacy Officer.

● Croatia's Luka Modric Won FIFA's Best Player Of The Year Award

●Nepal to become world's first country to double its tiger population

● The 21st Central Zonal Council meeting was held in Lucknow, capital of
Uttar Pradesh.

● Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has joined SDG Media

Compact aimed at advancing awareness of Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). It is among more than 30 organisations from across the world that have
come together to form global media compact.

● National e-Vidhan Application: National Orientation workshop held in New

Delhi
● The cabinet has approved the new telecom policy, now named National
Digital Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018, which aims to attract USD 100
billion investment and create 4 million jobs in the sector by 2022

●Aadhaar Linking Must for PAN and Filing Income Tax Returns

● Supreme Court Allows Live Streaming Of Cases of Constitutional importance

● UN Declared Nelson Mandela Decade Of Peace 2019-2028

● Finance Ministry Launched Mobile App “Jan Dhan Darshak"

● Japan Landed Rovers On Asteroid In Historic Mission

● Finland Topped In ‘Human Capital’ Score, India Ranked 158th

● Mukesh Ambani Toped Barclays Hurun Rich List For 7th Time In A Row

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● Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley launched

Financial Inclusion Index in New Delhi.

● Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched

portal www.psbloansin59minutes.com to enable micro, small and medium
enterprises (MSMEs) to get in- principle approval of loans within hour without
need for branch visit.

● 25th September was observed as Antyodaya Diwas across the country to mark
the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, a noted philosopher,
historian and political activist.

● Adultery No Longer A Criminal Offence, SC Strikes Down Section 497 of

IPC

● India and Morocco Signed MoU to Enhance Cooperation In MSME Sector

● India and Oman Agree to Enhance Bilateral Cooperation

● Argentina Gets Biggest Loan in IMF's History At $57 billion

●World Tourism Day is observed every year globally on 27th September.

“Tourism and the Digital Transformation” is the theme of this year’s World
Tourism Day (WTD).

● PM Modi Got UN’s Highest Environmental Honour Award from UN Chief

‘Antonio Guterrers’

● IISc Bengaluru Tops India in Global List Of Best Institutes

● International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: September

26

● Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare launched online software

for processing applications Agmark quality certification mark for agricultural
products.

● The Union Cabinet has approved conversion of Goods and Services Tax
Network (GSTN) into government-owned company.

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● Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved

National Digital Communications Policy-2018 (NDCP 2018).

● India Won Asia Cup 2018 ( 7th Times Out of 14 ) by 3 Wickets

● Ravi Shankar Prasad Launched Centre of Excellence for Data Analytics and
DigiVaarta

●Tourism Minister Launches Incredible India Mobile App

● India and UN Signed A Five-Year Sustainable Development Framework

● PM Modi Inaugurated Parakram Parv Exhibition in Jodhpur

● High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis at 73rd Session Of UNGA Held In New

York

● World Rabies Day: 28 September

● Tourism Minister K J Alphons Presents National Tourism Awards 2016-17

● 8th Asian Yoga Sports Championship Begins In Thiruvananthapuram

● Narendra Modi, Emmanuel Macron jointly awarded UN’s Champions of

Earth Award

● ADB approves US $150 million loan for establishing first multi-skills park in
MP

● Senior IPS officer SS Deswal appointed as DG of Sashastra Seema Bal

● Senior IPS officer Rajni Kant Misra appointed Director General of BSF

● Cabinet approves conversion of GSTN into government entity Cabinet

approves National Digital Communications Policy-2018

● Government approves Rs 8,606 crore for 60 projects under scheme of Border

Infrastructure and Management

● NITI Aayog and Oracle Sign SoI to Pilot Drug Supply-Chain

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● Locate Public Toilets on Google Maps with LooReview Campaign

● India's 1st Corn Festival Starts in Madhya Pradesh

● PM Inaugurates Conference on Academic Leadership on Education for

Resurgence

● Indian Railways, Google Arts Launch ‘Rail Heritage Digitisation Project’

● World Heart Day: 29th September

● Vikram Misri Appointed India's Next Ambassador to China

● RBI Bars Bandhan Bank from Opening New Branches

● India, Japan signs Loan Agreement for Bullet Train Funds

● Government sets up Injeti Srinivas High Level Committee on Corporate

Social Responsibility

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