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CURRENT AFFAIRS
SEPTEMBER - 2022
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1. J & K Police launched online Mobile app 19. Cabinet approved MoU with UAE for
‘JK Ecop’. Cooperation in education sector.
2. Reliance Industries to build world’s largest 20. Odisha government launched rainwater
carbon fibre plant in Hazira, Gujarat. harvesting scheme named ‘CHHATA’.
3. Tata Steel signed an MoU with Punjab 21. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar inaugurated
government to set up steel plant in India’s longest rubber dam, Gayaji Dam
Ludhiana. on Falgu River.
4. Cabinet approved signing an MoU between 22. India’s first Forest University to be
India and Nepal on biodiversity established in Telangana.
conservation. 23. The veteran Bollywood actress Asha
5. Agrarian festival ‘Nuakhai’ celebrated in Parekh has been chosen to be awarded the
Odisha. Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2020.
6. India’s first LNG-fuelled green truck 24. National Maritime Heritage Complex to
launched by Blue Energy Motors. be built at Lothal, Gujarat.
7. Mohla-Manpur-Ambagh Chowki becomes 25. The well-known comedian and actor Raju
the 29th district of Chhattisgarh. Srivastavpassed away on 21.09.2022.
8. Rajpath in Delhi renamed as ‘Kartavya 26. Former Davis Cup captain Naresh Kumar
Path’. passed away
9. First Homoeopathy International Health 27. Former cricket umpire Asad Rauf passed
Summit held in Dubai. away
10. India overtakes UK to become world’s fifth 28. Nagaland Prison Department introduced
biggest economy. mobile attendance application.
11. India to host ‘Quad senior officials’ 29. Kashmir’s first-ever multiplex opened in
meeting in New Delhi. Srinagar.
12. Liz Truss elected as new PM of United 30. New Telangana Secretariat complex in
Kingdom. Hyderabad to be named after B. R.
13. Binesh Kumar Tyagi appointed as CMD Ambedkar.
of Shipping Corporation of India. 31. Indore to become the country’s first “Smart
14. Sanjay Verma appointed as next high City” with digital address.
commissioner of India to Canada. 32. BSF’s first female camel riding squad to
15. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev be deployed along the India- Pak border.
passed away. 33. Assam to use portable device ‘SAANS’ to
16. Former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus stop neonatal deaths
Mistry passed away. 34. Sikkim gets India’s first avalanche-
17. Bangladesh PM conferred Bangabandhu monitoring radar.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman scholarships on 35. Chhattisgarh government launched ‘Hamar
Indian students. Beti HamarMaan’ campaign.
18. Cabinet approved MoU with Maldives for 36. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
cooperation in disaster management. launched e-learning platform Bharat Vidya.
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37. Government of India launched JALDOOT
App to capture the water level of selected
wells in a village.
38. The chess player from Bengaluru Pranav
Anandhas become the 76th Grandmaster
from India.
39. The Indian cricketer Robin Uthappa has
announced retirement from all forms of
cricket.
40. Suresh Raina retirement from all formats
of cricket including IPL.
41. Bangladesh cricketer Mushfiqur Rahim
announced his retirement from T20Is.
42. New Zealand cricketer Colin de
Grandhomme announced his retirement
from international cricket.
43. Australia captain Aaron Finch took
retirement from ODI cricket.
44. Roger Federer announced his retirement
from international tennis.
45. Rohit Sharma becomes first player to score
3500 runs in T20I matches.
46. Anishka Biyani of India won gold medal
in Malaysian chess meet.
47. Indian GM Aravindh Chithambaram won
Dubai Open chess tournament.
48. Virat Kohli becomes first cricketer to have
50 million followers on Twitter.
49. Neeraj Chopra won first Diamond League
title, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
50. US Open 2022 concluded; Alcaraz Garcia
has won the trophy in men’s Singles and
IgaSwiatek has won the trophy in Women’s
Singles.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
i. Born: 21.04.1926; Passed away: 08.09.2022
ii. Queen of U.K. from 06 February 1952 to
08 September 2022
iii. Predecessor: King George VI (father)
iv. Successor: King Charles III (eldest son)
v. Longest serving British Monarch with 70
years and 214 days on throne.
INTRODUCTION OF CHEETAH IN INDIA
i. PM Narendra Modi launched world’s first
Cheetah Rehabilitation Project on 17th
September, 2022.
ii. Number of cheetahs brought: 08 (5 female
and 3 male).
iii. Country from which they were brought:
Namibia.
iv. National Park in which introduced: Kuno-
Palpur National Park (KNP) in Madhya
Pradesh.
v. Cheetah was declared extinct from India
in: 1952.
ASIA CUP, 2022
Hosts: Sri Lanka & UAE.
Teams: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong,
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
Winners: Sri Lanka (6th title).
Runners-up: Pakistan.
Player of the series: Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri
Lanka).
Most runs: Mohammad Rizwan (281)
(Pakistan).
Most wickets: Bhuvneshwar Kumar (11) (India).
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