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1 National News 3
2 International News 22
3 State News 28
4 Schemes 44
5 Banking and Finance 51
6 Business and Economy 68
7 Agreements and MoUs signed 72
8 Summit and Conference 80
9 Science and Technology 82
10 Nature 87
11 Power 88
12 Acquisitions and Mergers 92
13 Appointments 94
14 Ranks and Indices 106
15 Reports 108
16 Awards and Recognitions 109
17 Books and Authors 113
18 Obituary 114
19 Sports News 116
20 Important Days 122
21 Defence 132

NATIONAL NEWS
CABINET APPROVAL
☞ The Cabinet Committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the continuation of the
central sector plan 'Exploration of Coal and Lignite scheme' with an estimated expenditure of Rs 2,980
crore.
☞ They also approved a revival plan for the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) worth Rs 89,047
crore.
☞ They also had removed the procurement ceiling of 40 per cent on three pulses tur, urad and masur under
the price support scheme (PSS) for the 2023-24 crop year (July-June) to enhance domestic production.
☞ They also hiked the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy by Rs 143 to Rs 2,183 per quintal for the
2023-24 crop year (July-June) in order to encourage farmers to bring more area under the crop and boost
their income.
☞ They also approved metro connectivity from HUDA City Centre to Cyber City in Gurugram with a spur line
to Dwarka Expressway at a cost of Rs 5,452 crore.
☞ The Union Cabinet cleared the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill.
☞ The Cabinet had reportedly cleared amendments to the Mines and Minerals (Development and
Regulation) Act, 1957, to allow commercial mining of lithium and other critical minerals, including
beryllium, titanium, niobium, tantalum and zirconium.
☞ The Union Cabinet had also approved Rs. 1.3 trillion ($17 billion) worth of investments to drive the next
stage of the government's ambitious Bharatnet project which aims to provide every Indian village with
fixed-line broadband connectivity.
☞ The Cabinet Committee had also approved seven projects of the Ministry of Railways with an estimated
cost of around 32 thousand 500 crore rupees, with 100% funding from Central Government.
☞ Cabinet also approved extension of Digital India project with an outlay of Rs 14,903 crores.
☞ The Cabinet Committee also upped the existing subsidy for Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries by Rs 200, taking
the overall subsidy per cylinder to Rs 400.
☞ The Union Cabinet had also approved a scheme for providing viability gap funding (VGF) for developing
battery storage of 4 gigawatt (Gw) by 2030-31.
☞ The Government had approved the continuation of the Central Sector Scheme “Broadcasting
Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND)” with an outlay of 2539.61 crore rupees for the period
2021-26 for upgradation of broadcasting infrastructure and network development of Prasar Bharati
(Akashvani and Doordarshan).
☞ The Union Cabinet had also approved the extension of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) for release
of 75 lakh LPG connections over three years from Financial Year 2023-24 to 2025-26.
☞ The union cabinet also approved the FDI proposal for foreign investment of up to Rs.9589 crore in M/s
Suven Pharmaceuticals Limited by M/s Berhyanda Limited, Cyprus.
☞ The cabinet also approved the eCourts Project Phase III as a Central Sector Scheme spanning four years
(2023 onwards) with financial outlay of Rs.7210 crores.
☞ The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave its approval for introduction in
Parliament, a Bill, namely, the Central Universities (Amendment), Bill, 2023 further to amend the Central
Universities Act, 2009 for setting up of Sammakka Sarakka Central Tribal University at Mulugu District in
the State of Telangana as provided in the Thirteenth Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation
Act, 2014 (no. 6 of 2014), as per the official announcement.
☞ Union Cabinet had also approved an increase in LPG subsidy, raising it from the current 200 rupees per
cylinder to 300 rupees per cylinder for the beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.

☞ The Union Cabinet has also approved the proposals for the promulgation of ordinances for the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands Tenancy Regulation, 2023, the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Tenancy
Regulation, 2023 and the Lakshadweep Tenancy Regulation, 2023.
☞ The Cabinet also gave approval to a proposal of the Ministry of Jal Shakti to complete the balance works
of the North Koel Reservoir Project in Bihar and Jharkhand at a revised Cost of around 2 thousand 431
crore rupees.
☞ The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, had approved establishment of an
autonomous body Mera Yuva Bharat (MY Bharat) to serve as an overarching enabling mechanism
powered by technology for youth development and youth led development and provide equitable access
to youth to actualize their aspirations and build Viksit Bharat across the entire spectrum of the
Government.
BILLS
☞ Parliament passed the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which entails provisions for sharing
benefits of biodiversity commerce with locals and also decriminalises biodiversity offences.
☞ Parliament also passed Multi-State Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill 2023.
☞ Rajya Sabha passed the Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2023.
PRESIDENT OF INDIA
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu graced the flagging off ceremony of an All Women Bike
Rally, organized by Navbharat Times.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that PM MITRA mega textile parks will be set up in Tamil Nadu,
Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
☞ President Droupadi Murmu unveiled a 12 feet high statue of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi
and a 'Gandhi Vatika' at Gandhi Darshan near Rajghat in New Delhi.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu released the ₹100 commemorative coin on Late Shri NT
Rama Rao on his centenary year at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu released a postage stamp in memory of Dadi Prakashmani,
former chief of Brahma Kumaris at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre.
☞ President Draupadi Murmu inaugurated the national festival of India's folk and tribal expressions
"Utkarsh" and the international literature festival "Unmesh" in Bhopal.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu virtually launched the Ayushman Bhav Campaign from Raj
Bhavan, Gandhinagar.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the first 'Global Symposium on Farmers' Rights'
(GSFR) at the ICAR Convention Centre, National Agricultural Science Centre Complex in New Delhi.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu presented the National Service Scheme Awards for the year
2021-2022 at Rashtrapati Bhavan
☞ President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the Women's Reservation Bill which was passed by
both the Houses during the recent special session of Parliament.
VICE PRESIDENT
☞ Honourable Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar flagged off the Har Ghar Tiranga rally from Pragati Maidan,
New Delhi.

PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the International Museum Expo 2023 at Pragati Maidan.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first-ever National Training Conclave at the International
Exhibition and Convention Centre in Delhi's Pragati Maidan.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed 12 projects costing Rs 1,21,300 crore and relate to 10 states in a
meeting of the 42nd edition of Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, or PRAGATI, – a
digital platform aimed at bringing e-transparency.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission in Shahdol
district of Madhya Pradesh.
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated 17th Indian Cooperative Congress on the theme
‘AmritKaal: Prosperity through Cooperation for a Vibrant India’ at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi also launched the e-commerce website for Cooperative Marketing and
the Cooperative Extension and Advisory Service portal.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 3rd session of National Platform for Disaster Risk
Reduction (NPDRR) 2023, Member Secretary National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Kamal
Kishore.
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated 17th Indian Cooperative Congress on the theme
‘AmritKaal: Prosperity through Cooperation for a Vibrant India’ at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the International Exhibition-cum-Convention
Centre (IECC) complex at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam at Bharat
Mandapam in Delhi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Urea Gold in Rajasthan's Sikar.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the e-portal of ‘Bhartiya Vastra evam Shilp Kosh’ a Repository of
Textiles and Crafts developed by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the redevelopment of 508 railway stations at
a cost of Rs 24,470 crore in the country.
☞ Shri Narendra Modi chaired the 18th G20 Summit held in Bharat Mandapam International Exhibition-
Convention Centre, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of India International Convention and Expo
Centre (IICC), named YashoBhoomi, in Dwarka and also the extension of Delhi Airport Metro Express line
from Dwarka Sector 21 to a new metro station at Dwarka Sector 25.
☞ The old parliament building will be called "Samvidhan Sadan (Constitution House)," Prime Minister
Narendra Modi announced in his last speech from the old building.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off nine Vande Bharat trains to help improve connectivity across 11
states through video conferencing.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a unique week-long programme for aspirational blocks in the
country called ‘Sankalp Saptaah’ at Bharat Mandapam in the national capital, the 'Sankalp Saptaah', is linked
to the effective implementation of the aspirational blocks programme (ABP).
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of development projects worth more than 26
thousand crore rupees in Jagdalpur, the divisional headquarters of tribal Bastar division in Chhattisgarh.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
☞ Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Integrated Simulator Complex (ISC) ‘Dhruv’ at
Southern Naval Command, Kochi.
☞ The ISC ‘Dhruv’ hosts modern state-of-the-art indigenously-built simulators which will significantly
enhance practical training in the Indian Navy.
☞ The Ministry of Defence had emerged as the leading Ministry among the 56 Ministries/Departments
participating in the Government eMarketplace (GeM), holding the top position in both order value and
order quantity.

☞ Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has dedicated to the nation 90 infrastructure projects of Border Roads
Organisation (BRO), worth over Rs 2,900 crore, spread across 11 States/Union Territories at an event in
Jammu.
☞ To promote ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence and innovation, a number of big-ticket announcements were
made by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh during the plenary session of ‘Swavlamban 2.0’, the two-day
seminar of Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO), which commenced in New Delhi.
☞ The main highlight was the release of the fifth Positive Indigenisation List of Department of Military
Affairs (DMA) comprising 98 items.
☞ He also launched 76 challenges for the industry under 10th Defence India Start-up Challenges (DISC 10) &
DISC 10 PRIME of Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) and five problem statements under iDEX for
Fauji.
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of ‘Sahakar
Samridhi Soudha’ and inaugurated various development works of Karnataka
☞ The government had issued directives to 9 states and 2 union territories with maritime borders to secure
their coastal frontiers with a new set of guidelines to curb smuggling and anti-national activities.
☞ The Ministry of Home Affairs had notified the creation of a new category of Ayush visa for foreign
nationals for treatment under Ayush systems/Indian systems of medicine.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah chaired the 38th meeting of the
Committee of Parliament on Official Language in New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF COOPERATION
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah inaugurated the National Mega
Conclave on FPO in the cooperative sector and released the action plan for formation of 1100 new FPOs
by PACS in New Delhi.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah presided over the 31st meeting of the
Northern Zonal Council in Amritsar, Punjab.
MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

☞ The Rural Development Ministry had said that about 88 per cent of the wage payment had been made
through Aadhaar Based Payment Bridge System (ABPS) till May this year.
☞ It said that States will organise camps and follow up with beneficiaries to achieve hundred per cent ABPS.
☞ Auto manufacturers will soon had to install air conditioners inside driver cabins of trucks, according to
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.
☞ Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) drafted a notice proposing motor third-party
premiums and liability rules for the financial year 2023-24 after consulting the insurance regulatory and
development authority of India (Irdai).
☞ India's road network grows 59% in 9 years to become second largest in world
☞ Union Minister Nitin Gadkari addressed 'Management Development Program on Infrastructure Financing'
organised by IIM Kozhikode.
☞ The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), with the technical assistance of Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), had developed five guidelines aimed at enhancing mountainous
road infrastructure in India.
☞ Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) had issued new guidelines for the provision of signages
on Expressways and National Highways.
☞ Government of India is developing eleven Industrial Corridor Projects as part of the National Industrial
Corridor Programme across the country in a phased manner.

☞ During 53rd National Planning Group meeting, held in New Delhi under PM GatiShakti six infrastructure
projects cost of Rs. 28,875.16 crore rupees which includes three projects each are related to Railways and
Road Transport and Highways.
☞ In the 56th Network Planning Group meeting under PM GatiShakti six project proposals, including four
projects of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and two projects of Ministry of Railways
(MoR) with the total project cost of about Rs. 52,000 Crore were assessed.
☞ Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched the India Jewellery Shopping Festival
(IJSF) 2023 in New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
☞ The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, had released an amount of Rs. 7,532 crores to 22
State Governments for the respective State Disaster Response Funds (SDRF).
☞ Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the Corporate
Debt Market Development Fund (CDMDF) and initiated the muhurat trading on Limited Purpose Clearing
Corporation mechanism called AMC Repo Clearing Limited (ARCL), in Mumbai.
☞ The Finance Ministry approved various welfare measures for Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
agents and employees.
☞ Online gaming, betting, casinos, gambling, horse racing, and lottery will attract twenty-eight percent
Goods and Service Tax (GST).
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS

WELFARE
☞ Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated an integrated biological control laboratory
(BC-Lab) at Hyderbad-based National Institute of Plant Health Management (NIPHM).
☞ A National Workshop on “Per Drop More Crop (PDMC)” was organised by Department of Agriculture&
Farmers Welfare (DA&FW), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India discussed
various effective measures and approaches to micro irrigation in the country.
☞ Government taken five decisions for strengthening Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
☞ AITMC Ventures Pvt Ltd (AVPL) had joined hands with National Skill Development Corporation and its
subsidiary NSDC International to promote drone technology in the agriculture sector.
☞ Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare is organizing a national workshop in New Delhi on formation
and promotion of 10 thousand Farmers Producers Organisation, FPOs across the country.
☞ The ‘World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan in the Cooperative Sector’ will be rolled out as a Pilot Project to
revolutionise agricultural infrastructure and empower farmers.
☞ With paddy production under cloud due to excess rains in Punjab and Haryana, and deficient showers in
east India, the government in a latenight notification clamped an export duty of 20 per cent on parboiled
rice which will be applicable from October 16.
☞ Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in partnership with FICCI, CII & PHDCCI organised a National
Conclave “Unleashing the Potential of AgriTech Startups for the Benefit of Farmers,”.
☞ The government will launch a series of transformative initiatives, aimed at revolutionizing agriculture in
the country in New Delhi. These initiatives will be launched by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and
Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar.
☞ The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare organized a Millets Farmer Producer Organizations
(FPO) Exhibition at the BSF Camp in Chhawala, Delhi.
MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

☞ 75 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) women 'Daredevils' embarked on 1,848 km bike rally from India
Gate here in the national capital to Naxal bastion Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.
MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS

☞ Ministry of Tribal Affairs Transforms Lives and Empowers Tribes with Landmark Achievements
☞ Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda launched the ‘Awareness Campaign and Training of
Trainers’ as a part of the ‘Mission for Elimination of Sickle Cell Anaemia' in New Delhi.
☞ Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda inaugurated the Aadi Mahotsav - the National Tribal
Festival, at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
☞ Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda inaugurated the 4th EMRS National Cultural & Literary
Fest and Kala Utsav- 2023, in the presence of Chief Minister, Uttarakhand, Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami, at
Dehradun was organized by the National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) under Union
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and hosted by Eklavya Vidyalaya Sangathan Samiti (EVSS), Uttarakhand at
Maharana Pratap Sports College, Dehradun.
MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD

DEVELOPMENT
☞ NIPCCD under the Ministry of women and child Development organized an online Workshop on
‘Communication & Counselling Skills’ for Trainers & Functionaries of Women Care Institutions & NGOs at
NIPCCD, Delhi.
☞ The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India organized a one-day
Regional Symposium on Child Protection, Safety and Child Welfare at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
☞ The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) organized the fourth one-day Regional
Symposium on Child Protection, Child Safety, and Child Welfare at Darbhanga Hall, Central Coalfields
Limited, Ranchi.
☞ The fifth one-day Regional Symposium on Child Protection, Child Safety, and Child Welfare at Srimanta
Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati was organised by Ministry of Women and Child Development.
☞ Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani launched Protocol for Management of
Malnutrition in Children to combat acute malnutrition at a function in New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

☞ The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Startup India initiative
launched the first edition of the ‘National Incubator Capacity Building Program’ to support the growth of
incubators across the country.
☞ The commerce and industry ministry organized a two-day regional workshop in Srinagar to promote
integrated planning and implementation of infrastructure projects using PM Gati Shakti national master
plan (NMP) platform.
☞ The 14th edition of the World Spice Congress (WSC) began at Vashi in Navi Mumbai. The three-day event
has been organized by the Spices Board India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in association with
various trade bodies and export forums.
MINISTRY OF TEXTILE

☞ Ministry of Textiles announced the launch of 02 Quality Control Orders (QCOs) for 31 items consisting of
19 Geo Textiles and 12 Protective Textiles in the Phase-I, following due process of notification of Technical
Regulations.
☞ Honarable Union Minister of Textiles, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs and Food & Public
Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal presided over the sixth interactive meeting with the Textile Advisory
Group (TAG), to review the progress of initiatives for cotton value chain, as part of the Saurashtra Tamil
Sangamam which is being conducted under the 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat' Initiative in Gujarat in
Rajkot.
☞ To provide products from more than 35 Lakh Handloom weavers & 27 Lakh Handicraft artisans directly to
the consumers while eliminating the middlemen, the Ministry of Textiles had developed an E-Commerce
portal for handicrafts and handloom sector and launched by Shri Piyush Goyal.
☞ Union Minister Piyush Goyal chaired 6th Mission Steering Group meeting of National Technical Textiles
Mission.
☞ Union Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution,
Shri Piyush Goyal chaired the 7th Meeting of the Mission Steering Group (MSG) of National Technical
Textiles Mission in New Delhi.
☞ The Union Ministry of Textiles has introduced Quality Control Orders (QCOs) for 6 medical- textile and 20
agro-textile products that will come into effect from April 1, 2024.
☞ Ministry of Textiles, under its flagship scheme National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM), organized
National Conclave on Agrotech emphasizing on the importance of accelerating productivity of agriculture
& horticulture products in India in association with ITTA and SASMIRA.
MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND

PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
☞ Government had said that 19 crore 79 lakh ration cards had been digitized under the Public Distribution
System reforms in the country.
☞ Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal had launched the sale of subsidised
Chana Dal under the brand name ‘Bharat Dal’ at the rate of 60 rupees per kilogram for one-kilogram pack
and 55 rupees per kilogram for 30 kilogram pack.
☞ The Centre will complete rice fortification (with vitamins) in all the districts of the country by the end of
the current fiscal, after which the cost of the programme will rise to Rs 2,680 crores annually.
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
☞ The University Grants Commission (UGC) had announced a new initiative titled ‘NEP SAARTHI- Student
Ambassador for Academic Reforms in Transforming Higher Education in India’ to involve students in the
implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
☞ Union Minister of Education and Skill Development, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan released the UGC
(Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2023 in the presence of Prof. Jagadesh Kumar,
Chairman, UGC and Shri Sanjay Murthy, Secretary (Higher Education), Ministry of Education.
☞ Union Minister of State for Education Smt. Annapurna Devi inaugurated the multimedia exhibition
showcasing best practices in education, FLN, digital initiatives, research and skill development.
☞ A two-day National Conference on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy also commenced in Pune.
☞ Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
launched the Malaviya Mission - Teachers Training Programme by the University Grants Commission at
Kaushal Bhawan, New Delhi and also inaugurated the Portal of the Programme and released its
information brochure.
☞ The Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, in conjunction with the All India Council of Technical
Education (AICTE), had announced the launch of the sixth edition of the Smart India Hackathon (SIH)
2023.

☞ Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released the revised guidelines for existing higher
education institutions to get the deemed to be status by simplifying the eligibility criteria in order to
establish more quality-focused deemed universities.
☞ The Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education in association with EDCIL organised a Study in
India (SII) workshop at AICTE auditorium, New Delhi.
☞ With an aim to empower nearly 60,000 youth and improve their livelihood, Union Minister for Education
and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan has launched 'Skills On Wheels'
initiative.
☞ According to the New Curriculum Framework (NCF) announced by the Ministry of Education Class 10 and
12 board examinations will be held at least twice a year to ensure that students have enough time and
opportunity to perform well.
MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
☞ The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar launched the 3rd SemiconIndia futureDESIGN Roadshow at
IIT Delhi.
☞ Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar had said NextGen devices & electronics products will be architected, designed
and co-designed in India, through these schemes like Semicon India Future Design Program.
☞ The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), in collaboration with Generation India
Foundation (GIF) and Amazon Web Services India Private Limited (AWS India) is providing ‘cloud’ skills
training to 1,500 learners and connecting them to employment opportunities, under project AMBER.
☞ Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), organized a brainstorming workshop with
Sending Organizations (SOs), empaneled by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to facilitate a
comprehensive dialogue and promote knowledge sharing amongst the stakeholders responsible for
mobility of skilled candidates to Japan under Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) and Specified Skill
Workers (SSW) program.
☞ Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar inaugurated
the 'Manthan 2023 - North Eastern Region Skill & Entrepreneurship Conclave' in Guwahati.
☞ Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and IT, Shri Rajeev
Chandrasekhar held bilateral meetings with the ministerial delegations and other senior representatives
from Bangladesh, South Korea, France and Türkiye at the Fourth Meeting of G20 Digital Economy
Working Group.
☞ The Special Campaign 2.0 for Disposal of Pending Matters (SCDPM) and Swachhata Drive is going on in
full swing in the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship.
☞ Minister for Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan launched a two-
day Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav and Technology & Bharatiya Bhasha Summit in New Delhi.
☞ Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
launched ‘CRIIIO 4 GOOD’, a new online, life skills learning modules, to promote gender equality among
girls and boys.
MINISTRY OF COAL
☞ India had adequate coal reserves, Union Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said the country will start exporting
the dry fuel by 2025-26.

MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM

ENTERPRISES
☞ Shri Narayan Rane, Hon'ble Minister of MSME, announced the launch of FIRST, the Forum for Internet
Retailers, Sellers, and Traders in the presence of over 400 retailers and seller organizations.
☞ Union MoS Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma inaugurated the MSME Technology Centers Conclave 2023 at Jyoti
Chitraban Society, Guwahati.
☞ Union Minister for MSME Shri Narayan Rane launched the MSME Competitive (LEAN) Scheme.
☞ ₹3 lakh 61 thousand crore rupees loan had been given to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSME
under Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme.
☞ Encouraging informal micro enterprises (IMEs) for Udyam registration to access to the benefits of priority
sector lending (PSL), the MSMEs ministry had made the Aadhaar authentication for such enterprises
voluntary.
MINISTRY OF PORTS, SHIPPING AND

WATERWAYS
☞ 23 river systems will be developed for cargo and passenger vessel movement, as the government's focus is
on increasing the movement through river systems, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
☞ Shri Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated infrastructure projects worth Rs 148 crore to augment capacity in
Chennai & Kamarajar Ports
☞ Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (MoPSW) and Ayush Shri Sarbananda Sonowal launched
‘SAGAR SAMRIDDHI’ the online dredging monitoring system - in order to accelerate ‘Waste to Wealth’
initiative of the Ministry.
☞ The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (MoPSW) and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
launched Port Health Organisation (PHO) module under Sagar Setu - National Logistics Portal (Marine) -
in an attempt to enable faster and simpler ecosystem to promote Ease of Doing Business (EODB).
☞ The Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Shri Sarbananda Sonowal chaired the 19th
meeting of the Maritime State Development Council (MSDC) at Kevadia in Gujarat.
☞ The Union minister of ports, shipping and waterways Sarbananda Sonowal along with Goa chief minister
Pramod Sawant inaugurated the India’s first lighthouse festival from Goa’s Fort Aguada Lighthouse in
Panjim, and participate in a two-hour long session– ‘Vanguards of Our Shores: Lighthouses as Testaments
of India’s Past and Present’.
MINISTRY OF AYUSH
☞ Ayush Ministry will organize Yoga Mahotsav - 2023 at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.
☞ International Ayurvet conclave on the theme 'Veterinary and Ayurveda', was inaugurated at Rishikul
campus of Ayurvedic University at Haridwar.
☞ Shri Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated two-day National Ayush Mission (NAM) Conclave in New Delhi
☞ Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal received the first over-
dimensional cargo (ODC) transported via waterways at Numaligarh Refinery jetty.
☞ This is the first consignment transported by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), the nodal
agency of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways in charge of inland waterways in the country, for
the expansion of Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) capacity from 3 MMT to 9 MMT.
☞ Ministry of Ayush and Ministry of Rural development signed Memorandum of Understanding to
collaborate in developing skilled personnel by imparting training to rural poor youth and women’s for

Ayush healthcare system under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya-Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) for 3
years.
MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND

EMPOWERMENT
☞ Union minister Virendra Kumar had said 52 banks in the country had disbursed Rs 15,700 crore to more
than one lakh 'divyangs' (differently-abled persons) so far.
☞ Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, NMBA was launched in 372 most vulnerable districts under which a
massive community outreach is being done through more than 8000 youth volunteers.
☞ Social, Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar had said that more than 9 crore 58 lakh
people had so far become part of Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan.
☞ The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment organized ‘Samajik Adhikarita Shivirs’ across 74 locations
nationwide.
MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

☞ The Centre had notified a hike in wage rates under the rural job guarantee programme for the 2023-24
financial year with Haryana having the highest daily wage at Rs 357 per day and Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh the lowest at Rs 221.
☞ A three-day conference and exhibition on the steel industry named 'India Steel 2023' was inaugurated by
Union Minister of State for Steel and Rural Development Faggan Singh Kulaste in Mumbai.
☞ Ministry of Rural Development Additional Secretary Shri Charanjit Singh and Director of Department for
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Smt. Supriya Devasthali inaugurated One District One
Product Wall at SARAS Aajeevika Store.
☞ National Media Campaign of the Department of Land Resources (DoLR) was launched by Minister of Rural
Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh in New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

☞ Two-Days National Writeshop on Panchayat Development Index Portal for Preparation of Baseline
Report and Computation of Panchayat Development Index was organised at Dr. Ambedkar International
Centre, New Delhi by Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
☞ The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is organizing a two-day National Stakeholder Consultative Workshop at
National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) in Hyderabad to deliberate upon
emerging and pressing issues of Panchayats and the roadmap/way ahead for enabling Panchayats as
“Change Makers” or “Agents of Change”.Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel Jyotiraditya M Scindia
highlighted the various aspects of the development of the Indian aviation industry while addressing the
CAPA India's Aviation Summit
MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

☞ Aviation safety regulator DGCA had approved the night landing facility at Kalaburagi Airport in Karnataka.
☞ Union Minister of Steel and Civil Aviation Sh. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia unveiled the new logo of National
Mineral Development Corporation NMDC at New Delhi.
☞ 12 greenfield airports had been operationalised in our country out of 21 Greenfield Airports.
☞ Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated the integrated office complex for aviation
regulators in the national capital.

☞ The Ministry of Civil Aviation had notified the new Drone (Amendment) Rules 2023 for drone pilots,
effective from the 27th September 2023.
MINISTRY OF STEEL
☞ The Ministry of Steel had signed 57 MoUs’ with 27 companies for specialty steel under the Production
Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme.
☞ Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia and Minister for Information and Broadcasting
Anurag Thakur flagged off the first Indigo Airline Delhi-Dharamshala-Delhi flight in New Delhi.
☞ Union Minister of Steel and Civil Aviation, Sh. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia held a press conference on the theme
9-years of Government's "Seva, Sushadan and Gareeb kalyan" focusing on the Steel sector, at Rajiv
Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
☞ 238 Vande Bharat Metro trains will be procured under the ambitious Mumbai Urban Transport Project-III
(MUTP-III) and 3A (MUTP-3A), which are being held by the Railway ministry and the Maharashtra
government to augment the capacity of the metropolis' suburban train network.
☞ The Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament for the Ministry of Railways resolved to upgrade
1,275 railway stations under Amrit Bharat Station, decision was taken at a meeting in New Delhi.
☞ With a view to optimize utilization of accommodation in trains, Ministry of Railways had decided to
delegate powers to Zonal Railways to introduce discounted fare scheme in trains with AC sitting
accommodation including Anubhuti & Vistadome Coaches
☞ In India 14 States/ Union territories that are 100% electrified.
☞ Central Railway had inaugurated the New Amravati station third station of Central Railway CR to be a
Pink Station to be fully managed by women staff.
☞ Indian Railways will establish Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJKs) in 50 railway
station.
☞ Union Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw virtually inaugurated
the nation India’s first 3D-printed post office located in Bengaluru’s Cambridge Layout.
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
☞ The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) under the Ministry of Communications had offered the
usage of 5G Test Bed free of cost to the Start-ups and MSMEs recognised by the Government of India up
to January 2024.
☞ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India had announced the launch of
‘Learning Science via Standards’, a unique initiative for students for learning science via standards.
MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY
☞ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India had announced the launch of
‘Learning Science via Standards’, a unique initiative for students for learning science via standards.
☞ The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar launched the 3rd SemiconIndia futureDESIGN Roadshow at
IIT Delhi.

☞ Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) launched the Indian Web Browser
Development Challenge (IWBDC) at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
☞ State Capacity Building Workshops are being offered by National e-Governance Division, Ministry of
Electronics & Information Technology, under its Capacity Building Scheme in collaboration with their
knowledge partners.
MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

☞ The second edition of 'World Food India-2023’ will be organised by the Ministry of Food Processing
Industries, Government of India, from 3-5 November, 2023 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
☞ Over 4,439 crore rupees had been allocated under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana during 2017-18
to 2022-23.
☞ A total of 269 districts in 27 states had started distributing about 105 LMT of fortified rice under Targeted
Public Distribution System (TPDS), achieving a 100% target set for Phase II by March 2023 in Rice
Fortification Programme, informed Shri Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary Department of Food and Public
Distribution.
MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

☞ Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel had said that over 11 crore Toilets and 2.23 lakh
Community Sanitary Complexes had been built across All States and UTs Under Swachh Bharat Mission-
Grameen.
☞ Ministry of Jal Shakti had conducted the first-ever census of water bodies across the nation.
☞ The census provides a comprehensive inventory of India's water resources, including natural and man-
made water bodies like ponds and lakes.
☞ The National Water Mission, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga
Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti organized a work shop- cum- orientation programme for Central Nodal
Officers (CNO) and Technical Officers (TO) in New Delhi.
☞ Ministry of Jal Shakti had conducted the first-ever census of water bodies across the nation.
☞ Jal Shakti Ministry organized orientation program for action-oriented implementation of "Catch the
Rain" campaign
☞ The Central Water Commission under Ministry of Jal Shakti organized a one-day national workshop on
“Integrated Management of Sediments in River Basins and Reservoirs for Sustainable Development” at
India International Centre in New Delhi.
☞ The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the pan-India Swachhata
Pakhwada - Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2023 campaign virtually from Jaipur, Rajasthan.
MINISTRY OF POWER
☞ Country’s power generation capacity from solar had increased 197 percent in the last five years.
☞ The solar capacity of the country had increased from 21,651 mega-watt to 64,380 mega-watt in the last
five years.
☞ The study titled "Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat" stated India can achieve energy independence by
2047, when it celebrates 100 years of independence also India's energy infrastructure needs an investment
of USD3 trillion in the coming decades.
☞ Coal India Ltd had breached its annual production target of 700 million tonnes, the first time it had
surpassed its goal since the fiscal year that ended in March 2006.
MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

☞ The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) will be submitting a proposal to the Ministry of
Shipping for developing the ports of Pipavav (Gujarat) and Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), to make them ready
for handling offshore wind project cargo.
☞ India needs an investment worth USD 540 billion by 2029 to meet its ambitious targets for electricity
generation from renewable sources, said S&P Global Ratings.
☞ The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India joined the worldwide celebrations of
15th June as Global Wind Day, through the organization of a day-long event in New Delhi.
☞ Held with an intent to celebrate the success so far and discuss the potential ways forward for accelerating
wind energy adoption in India, the event had the central theme of “Pawan – Urja: Powering the Future of
India”.
MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

☞ Meri LiFE, Mera Swachh Shehar campaign aims to champion, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle (RRR) concept
of waste management
☞ The stage is all set for the 8th edition of world’s largest urban swachhata survey, Swachh Survekshan
2023 – Mera Shehar, Meri Pehchan.
☞ Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the Field Assessment for Swachh Survekshan
(SS) 2023.
☞ To evaluate and accelerate the scale of planning and implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban
2.0, the Union housing and urban affairs ministry will organise a review-cum-workshop.
☞ The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs will organise a 2 day national conclave on urban planning at
Vigyan Bhawan.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

☞ Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the state-of-the-art National Training Centre for Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
☞ Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya announced that 25 lakh food business operators will be trained by FSSAI in the
next 3 years to ensure that food quality standards are met across the country.
☞ He also announced the setting up of 100 Food Streets across the country which meet the quality
benchmark for food safety, hygiene and nutrition.
☞ Shri Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had chaired a webinar for Medical
Officers of District Hospitals, Community Health Centres, and Primary Health Centres, focusing on Non-
Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases (NAFLD).
☞ Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prof. S P Singh Baghel addressed the two-day
Innovative TB Health Technologies Workshop of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
☞ The workshop will also provide a sharing platform for TB innovation health technologies which were
displayed in the Stop TB Summit held in Varanasi.
☞ The Union Health Minister, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya presided over the 42nd Foundation Day at the
NationalBoard of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) and delivered keynote address in the
presence of Prof. S.P Singh Bhagel, Minister of State, Dr. V.K Paul, Member, Health, Niti Aayog.
☞ Promotion and increased use of Hindi help us in communicating with a common national voice despite our
wide diversity, stated Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya during his
address at the meeting of Hindi Salahkar Samiti in Delhi.
☞ The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), in association with the Directorate
General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, demonstrated
its unwavering commitment to promoting organ and tissue donation during the Angdaan Mahotsav
campaign by organizing a National Webinar on Organ and Tissue Donation.
☞ Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya addressed the 7th Meeting of the
Central Institute Body (CIB) of AIIMS and Chintan Shivir at the National Institute for Health and Family
Welfare.
☞ The Union Health ministry's e-health initiative eSanjeevani had clocked over 14.17 crore
teleconsultations from April 2021 when it was launched till July 26 this year.

☞ Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had inaugurated second phase of the Annual Nationwide
Mass Drug Administration (MDA) initiative.
☞ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and National Health Authority organized a two-day event Arogya
Manthan in New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

☞ Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers chaired at the stakeholder
Workshop on Strategy for Promotion of Alternative Nutrition to reduce dependence on Chemical
Fertilizers for Soil health and Sustainability.
☞ Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers and Minister of Health & Family
Welfare launched the National Policy on Research and Development and Innovation in Pharma-MedTech
Sector in India and Scheme for promotion of Research and Innovation in Pharma MedTech Sector (PRIP)
in the presence of Shri Bhagwanth Khuba, Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers and
Renewable Energy and Dr V.K. Paul, Member, NITI Aayog.
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND

CLIMATE CHANGE (MOEFCC)
☞ Union Minister for Labour & Employment and Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Bhupender
Yadav launched Chemotherapy Services in 30 ESIC (Employees' State Insurance Corporation) Hospitals
across the country during the 191st meeting of the ESI Corporation at ESIC Headquarters in New Delhi
and also Inaugurated a Control Room with Dashboards of ESIC.
MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT

☞ Union Minister for Labour and Employment and Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Bhupender
Yadav addressed the Jan Aushdhi Diwas2023 program organized in Dwarka, Delhi.
☞ More than 9,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras had been opened across the country by the central government to
make health facilities accessible to all people.
☞ V.V. Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI), an autonomous body of Ministry of Labour & Employment
and Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) had entered into a strategic
alliance by signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

AND DAIRYING
☞ Sarbananda Sonowal and Parshottam Rupala laid the foundation stone of Modernisation and
Upgradation Works of Cochin Fishing Harbour at Thoppumpady in Kerala at an estimated cost of Rs
169.17 crores.
☞ Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying Minister Parshottam Rupala informed that there is an increase
of 83 Million Metric Tons in Milk production in the last nine years compared to the 121 Million Metric
Tons increase in the last 60 years.
☞ Union Minister for fisheries Parshottam Rupala inaugurated the celebrations, at Mahabalipuram near
Chennai, by opening an exhibition on fisheries start-ups and fish cooperatives.

☞ Under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and the Agriculture Working Group (AWG) of G20, Shri
Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying inaugurated an
International Symposium on Sustainable Livestock Transformation at NDDB, Anand.
☞ Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala inaugurated Second
Edition of ICAR-CIBA’s (ICAR-Central Institute of Brackish water Aquaculture) Shrimp Farmers Conclave-
2023 at the Navsari Agricultural University Campus in Gujarat.
☞ Regional Review Meeting for the Animal Husbandry and Dairy sector for Southern States/UTs took place
in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala was inaugurated by the Minister of Animal Husbandry and Dairy
Development for Kerala State, Smt. J. Chinchu Rani.
☞ Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala launched the Annual
Capacity Building Plan (ACBP) of Department of Fisheries in New Delhi.
☞ The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India launched the ‘A-HELP’
(Accredited Agent for Health and Extension of Livestock Production) programme in Jharkhand.
MINISTRY OF TOURISM
☞ The Centre is setting up a Civil Aviation Research Organisation (CARO) at the Begumpet airport,
Hyderabad, Telangana with an estimated expenditure of Rs 400 crore, Union Tourism and Culture
Minister G Kishan Reddy.
☞ Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region, G. Kishan Reddy said the
Centre had spent five lakh crore rupees in last eight and a half years in the north eastern region.
☞ Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO),
unveiled the G20 Tourism and SDG Dashboard.
☞ MakeMyTrip in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, is showcasing more than 600 destinations
within India that are lesser known.
☞ On World Tourism Day 2023, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India organised the Global Launch of
‘Travel for LiFE’, a sectoral program under Mission LiFE, targeted towards the tourism sector, in
partnership with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), United Nations
World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at
Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF CULTURE
☞ The first international conference on Shared Buddhist Heritage commenced in New Delhi.
☞ A sum of Rs 340.92 crore was spend on the conservation, preservation, and maintenance of centrally
protected sites during 2022-23 till March 1.
☞ Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region, Kishan Reddy flagged off
the "Ganga Pushkarala Yatra: Puri - Kasi - Ayodhya" Bharat Gaurav Tourist Train from Secunderabad
Railway Station.
☞ MyGov, in collaboration with Ministry of Culture, to launch ‘YUVA PRATIBHA – Painting Talent Hunt’
☞ Minister of State for Culture Meenakashi Lekhi unveiled the logo of the upcoming India Art Architecture &
Design Biennale (IAADB) 2023 at National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi.
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND

BROADCASTING
☞ Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur inaugurated the 11th edition of Jagran
Film Festival.

☞ Ministry of Information and Broadcasting organized the First National Workedshop and Consultation on
Draft AVGC (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming & Comics - Extended Reality) Policies at Vigyan Bhawan in
Delhi.
MINISTRY OF MINES
☞ Union Minister of Mines, Pralhad Joshi, had unveiled India's first-ever report on Critical Minerals for India.
☞ Ministry of Mines had notified three Quality Control Orders (QCOs) for seven items on August 31, 2023,
following the due process of notification of Technical Regulations.
MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM

ENTERPRISES (MSME)
☞ Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Minister Narayan Rane celebrated at Udyami Bharat-MSME Day in
New Delhi.
☞ The Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), organized National SC-ST Hub (NSSH)
Conclave at Town Hall, Gumla, Jharkhand to promote entrepreneurship culture and spread awareness of
the NSSH Scheme and other Schemes.
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

FOR THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTER OF STATE FOR
PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE; PERSONNEL, PUBLIC
GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS; DEPARTMENT OF
ATOMIC ENERGY AND DEPARTMENT OF SPACE.
☞ Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated bankers’ awareness
workshop at Srinagar.
☞ Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated Asia’s largest 4-metre International Liquid Mirror
Telescope at Devasthal in Uttarakhand.
☞ Dr Jitendra Singh said that StartUps in India grew 300 times in the last 9 years.
☞ Union minister Dr.Jitendra Singh announced that Udhampur Railway Station in Firozpur Division of
Northern Railway was formally renamed as Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan Railway Station.
☞ Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology, MoS PMO,
Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space launched the Capacity Building Plan
(CBP) for Government employees, at DoPT headquarters in New Delhi.
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

☞ Union Minister of Law Kiren Rijiju released the first edition of Dogri version of the Constitution of India at
the University of Jammu.

☞ Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal launched Tele-Law- 2.0 that Integrates Tele-Law and
Nyaya Bandhu App to ensure access to Justice in New Delhi.
OTHER NATIONAL NEWS

☞ India's first commercial passenger flight (AirAsia) using Sustainable Aviation Fuel successfully flies from
Pune to Delhi
☞ Ghaziabad-Aligarh Expressway created history, 100 Km road built in 100 hrs
☞ Ministry of Education and World Bank organised a one of its kind workshop on School-to-Work Transition
under the STARS Program in Mumbai.
☞ India's first luxury train Deccan Queen Express completes 93 years of service
☞ With reports on wage payments to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
(MGNREGS) workers failing due to frequent changes in the bank account numbers of the beneficiaries, the
Union government had urged State governments to ensure that the Aadhaar-based payment system
(ABPS) is enabled.
☞ The government had set up 733 One Stop Centres across the country so far and also sanctioned budget for
300 more such centers for women security
☞ National Archives of India is celebrating International Archives Day on 9 June 2023 and on this occasion,
an exhibition under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) entitled Hamari Bhadha, Hamari Virasat will be
organised.
☞ India will host the 71st Miss World 2023 beauty competition after 27 years
☞ Amazon signed pact with ICAR to empower farmers enrolled under Kisan store
☞ NTPC Kanti had launched the Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM)-2023, a four-week residential workshop
program for 40 underprivileged rural girls from Kanti block as part of its CSR initiative.
☞ The turnover of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) products had crossed Rs. 1.34 lakh crore.
☞ Government e-Marketplace (GeM), India's premier online procurement platform, is organizing Buyer-
Seller Workshops in all the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh from June 12 till 31st August, 2023. These
workshops aim to enhance the understanding of GeM's functionalities among buyers and sellers in the
state, as well as provide a platform to address any queries or concerns they may have.
☞ The Cabinet is likely to approve a Rs 25,000 crore scheme for semiconductor manufacturing in the
country.
☞ The government is expected to net an all-time high equity dividend of Rs 63,056 crore from 67 listed
public-sector undertakings (PSUs) for FY23, based on the final dividend proposed so far by these
companies for last fiscal year. The amount is 24.7 per cent higher than the dividend of Rs 50,583 crore the
government netted for FY22 from listed PSUs.
☞ The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate change had released the “National Working Plan Code-
2023” for scientific management of forests and evolving new approaches.
☞ The Institute of Heart Lungs Diseases & Research Centre (IHLD) will soon open in the country’s national
capital, New Delhi.
☞ A two-day National Workshop for “Finalization of Revised & Updated Manual on Water Supply and
Treatment”, was successfully organized by CPHEEO with the assistance of GIZ at Vigyan Bhawan, New
Delhi.
☞ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) license will be mandatory for 24 footwear products from the 1st of
July, 2023.
☞ The Director General of the BIS, Pramod Kumar Tiwari highlighted the importance of the Quality Control
Orders issued recently by the government for footwear and other products.
☞ The Centre will roll out the first batch of sleeper variants of Vande Bharat in March 2024 and the plans to
introduce these new trains are on track, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
☞ Government decided to link the Child Helpline with ERSS-112 under One Nation-One Helpline vision
☞ North India's first Skin Bank inaugurated at New Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital
☞ Union Cabinet had paved the way for setting up Micron’s $2.7 billion semiconductor test and packaging
unit in Gujarat, sources had confirmed
☞ Google to invest 10 billion dollars in India's digitisation fund; Amazon to infuse another 15 billion dollar
☞ Centre approved Rs 56,415 crore to 16 states for capital investment under 'Special Assistance to States
for Capital Investment 2023-24' Scheme for giving timely boost to capital spending by States.
☞ The country’s MSME sector contributes 30 percent to the GDP and nearly 50 percent to exports.

☞ Prime Minister visited Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and for the first time flagged off five Vande Bharat
trains connecting important cities in different parts of the country. These trains will improve connectivity
in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Bihar and Jharkhand.
☞ Indian government earmarks Rs 1,43,332 crore worth incentives to 12 states for power sector reforms
☞ ICA to hold international cooperative conference in India in June 2024
☞ The first Urban Climate Film Festival under U20 engagement events is being organised by the National
Institute of Urban Affairs.
☞ The government had decided to provide financial assistance to the States and Union Territories in Border
areas to set up Protection and Rehabilitation Homes for the victims of trafficking particularly for the
minor girls and young women.
☞ The government had said that over one lakh 60 thousand Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres
had been operationalised across the country.
☞ National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), which had been aggressively monetizing its road assets, had
come out with 300-km road stretch to be auctioned under the Tolling, Operation, Maintenance and
Transfer (TOT) Model.
☞ India is set to begin manufacturing of assemblies of C295 military aircraft ahead of the first aerial platform
flying into Delhi mid-September to steamroll the country’s indigenous private aerospace manufacturing
ecosystem.
☞ India’s exports of foodgrains had registered a steady growth in last few years which is reflected in the
increase in India’s share in world foodgrain exports from 3.38% in 2010 to 7.79% in 2022 as per UN
COMTRADE statistics.
☞ The government had approved the modernisation of the Semiconductor Laboratory as a brownfield chip
manufacuring unit.
☞ In a significant move, the Centre had implemented a key provision of the Competition (amendment) Act
2023 that vests power of appointment of Director General (Investigation) in the Competition Commission
of India (CCI).
☞ India is set to issue two commemorative coins to mark its G20 presidency. The coins will be of the
denominations of Rs 100 and Rs 75.
☞ Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released draft Telecommunication Consumers Education
and Protection Fund (Sixth Amendment) Regulation, 2023 for stakeholders’ comments.
☞ The Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC) launched at the side event
during the 4th Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group and Environment and Climate
Ministers meeting in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
☞ The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), the apex think tank for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs,
Government of India, commenced the "Two Day Familiarisation Programme for Independent Directors"
underscoring its commitment to advancing corporate governance excellence in India, aligning with the
government's vision.
☞ To promote digital health and improve healthcare accessibility for all citizens, the National Health
Authority (NHA) had introduced the 100 Microsites Project as part of the Ayushman Bharat Digital
Mission (ABDM).
☞ The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) imposed a financial penalty of Rs 30 lakh on IndiGo
airline for four tail strike incidents within a span of six months this year.
☞ The 50th meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was held
under the chairmanship of DG, NMCG, Shri G. Asok Kumar where Seven projects worth around Rs. 692
crores were approved.
☞ The government had received over Rs 3,400 crore as dividend tranches from NIIF and ECGC.
☞ On the basis of the information provided by the Central Pension Accounting Office (for Civil Pensioners),
Office of Controller General of Defence Accounts (for Defence Pensioners), Department of
Telecommunications (for Telecom Pensioners), Railway Board (for Railway Pensioners), and Department
of Posts (for Postal Pensioners).
☞ Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology was
conceptualised with the mission to spread awareness about cyber-crime and build capacities of Chief
Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials, across all government departments, for
ensuring adequate safety measures to combat the growing menace – Organisations need to defend their
digital infrastructures and become future-ready in tackling cyber-attacks.
☞ Along with the entire country, After Gujarat, Tripura had launched the celebration of "Meri Mati, Mera
Desh" campaign upon the theme of 'Mitti Ko Naman, Veero Ka Bandan'.
☞ India’s import on four critical minerals - lithium (apart from lithium ion), cobalt, nickel and copper – was
around ₹34,800 crores in FY23, and reliance across these minerals is anywhere between 93 per cent and
100 per cent.

☞ India observes 77th Independence Day, marking 76 years of freedom. The main theme for this year is
“Nation First, Always First,” as part of the larger “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” Celebration.
☞ NHAI had set up a Design Division that will formulate policy and guidelines for planning, designing,
construction and maintenance of bridges, structures, tunnels and RE walls on National Highways across
the country for effective review of design and construction of bridges, specialized structures and tunnels.
☞ The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the World Bank collaborated with the
Government of India as its knowledge partner on DPI in the Digital Economy Working Group.
☞ The Central Government extended the deadline for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) wage payments via the Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS) to
December 31, 2023.
☞ The world's tallest Nataraja statue had been installed at Bharat Mandapam, the venue of the G20 summit
in Delhi.
☞ RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das addressed the 4th edition of the Global FinTech Festival in Mumbai.
Theme - ‘Global Collaboration for a Responsible Financial Ecosystem - Inclusive | Resilient | Sustainable’.
☞ The Centre-run Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital in Delhi inaugurated India's first dedicated
Outpatient Department (OPD) for the transgender community on the occasion of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's birthday in New Delhi.
☞ The Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) had established 6467 Standard Clubs in schools and colleges across
the country.
☞ Shantiniketan was Established in rural West Bengal in 1901 by the renowned poet and philosopher
Rabindranath Tagore was declared as 41st UNESCO World Heritage site.
☞ The Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala — the famed Hoysala temples of Belur (Hassan district), Halebid
(Hassan district) and Somananthpura (Mysore district) in Karnataka had been declared as 42nd United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage list.
☞ V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority, Tamil Nadu successfully handled 3x20 ISO Green Ammonia
Containers, weighing 37.4 tons of Green Ammonia, from Damietta Port, Egypt, for M/s. Tuticorin Alkali
Chemical and Fertilizers Ltd (TFL).
☞ Global airlines' body IATA has allotted the three-letter code DXN for the upcoming international airport at
Jewar in Greater Noida
☞ Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has recognized Mithun as a ‘food animal’.
☞ A 2-day Workshop on Draft Development and Building Regulations, 2022 for the National Capital
Territory of Delhi was organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of
India on 26-27 September 2023 in New Delhi.
☞ The second edition of Himalayan Film Festival (THFF) had begun in Ladakh was organised by the
Department of Information and Public Relations of UT administration and Ladakh Autonomous Hills
Development Council Leh.
☞ The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched a new provision called the
“Special Category” in its online Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS) portal.
☞ DoNER (Development of North East Region) minister G Kishan Reddy launched India’s first 5G training abs
and 5G applications in health sector in all the eight northeastern states.
☞ The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has inaugurated a renovated Khadi India
outlet at the IIT Delhi campus in order to connect the youth with Khadi.
☞ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are
jointly organizing Workshop on “Cost Models for Data Services & International Connectivity” followed by
the first meeting of ITU-T Focus Group on “Cost Models for Data Services & International Connectivity” to
be held in New Delhi.
☞ The inaugural edition of the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) – NITI Aayog State Workshop
Series on Enabling Women-led Development through Entrepreneurship was organized at CSIR-National
Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Auditorium, Goa.
☞ The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) planned to establish gift shops in its monuments.
☞ The 13th edition of INMEX SMM India took place at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregoan East,
Mumbai.
☞ The second edition of the National Cyber Security Exercise 2023 ‘Bharat NCX 2023’ will be conducted as a
hybrid exercise over a period of twelve days was inaugurated by Principal Scientific Advisor to the
Government of India Ajay Kumar Sood.
☞ The 51st meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was held
under the chairmanship of Shri G. Asok Kumar, Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga
(NMCG) and Seven projects worth around Rs 285 crore were approved in the meeting.

☞ Ircon International Limited (IRCON) and RITES Ltd(RITES) both Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE)
under the Ministry of Railways, have been announced as 15th and 16th Navratna respectively among CPSEs
by Ministry of Finance.
☞ The ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has proposed the establishment of
mariculture parks to enhance coastal fish production of the country, in view of the growing food and
nutritional demand anticipated in the coming years.
☞ Government of India (GoI) had formulated a Greenfield Airports (GFA) Policy, 2008 which prescribes the
procedure and conditions for development of new Greenfield airports in the country.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
☞ Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Dr. L. Murugan will lead an Indian Delegation to
Cannes International Film Festival this year.
☞ Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya addressed the G7 Ministerial
meeting on Health Innovation in Nagasaki, Japan.
☞ The first Ministerial meeting of India- European Union Trade and Technology Council (TTC) took place in
Brussels, Belgium.
☞ Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande is on a three-day visit to Egypt to enhance bilateral Defence
Cooperation and strengthen ties in areas of mutual interest of both countries.
☞ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras had signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Israel to build an ‘India-
Israel Center of Water Technology’ (CoWT) in Water Resources Management and Water Technologies.
☞ The first group of 10 start-up companies under the 50 start-ups exchange programme between India and
Bangladesh returned to Dhaka after completing a successful five-day visit to India.
☞ The two High Impact Community Development Projects, namely, the construction of Malagiri Shanti
Yogashram, Ramechhap District and Kedar Jyotipunja Multiple Campus, Doti District of Nepal shall be
implemented through Ramechhap Municipality and Badikedar Rural Municipality, respectively at a total
cost of approx NRs 80.33 million.
☞ The seventh Nepal Chamber Expo 2023 kick-started in local Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida held talks focusing on
boosting bilateral cooperation in areas of green hydrogen, high technology, semiconductors and digital
public infrastructure.
☞ Japan assumed the G7 Presidency in 2023. 49th G7 Summit held at Hiroshima, Japan.
☞ Ausaf Sayeed, secretary (CPV & OIA), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) co-chaired the 6th Foreign Office
Consultations (FOC) with Bahrain and both sides noted the growth of bilateral trade and economic
collaboration with bilateral trade reaching close to USD 2 billion in FY 2022-23, according to the statement
released by MEA.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepal's counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' jointly unveiled
the e-plaque of the Kurtha-Bijalpura section of the Railway.
☞ Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, during his Malaysia visit, jointly inaugurated
the first-ever PIO Malaysia Event organised by GOPIO Malaysia together with the Minister of Human
Resources of Malaysia.
☞ Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan, who kickstarted his Maldives, inaugurated
an eco-tourism zone in Addu City.
☞ Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal flagged off the maiden
International Cruise Vessel - MV Empress, India's first international cruise vessel - from Chennai to Sri
Lanka in Chennai.
☞ External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar inaugurated the Namibia University's fully equipped IT center,
known as The India Namibia Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (INCEIT) built with Indian
assistance.
☞ Indian Ambassador to Argentina, Dinesh Bhatia, Chief of Argentine Air Force, Brigadier General Xavier
Isaac discussed cooperation in Tejas Combat Aircrafts and a variety of helicopter options manufactured by
the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
☞ The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) elected five countries as the non permanent members of
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for two-year terms starting on January 1, 2024.

☞ The High Commission of India in Sri Lanka organized the India Sri Lanka Defence seminar cum exhibition
at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo.
☞ The United Arab Emirates (UAE), had emerged as the fourth largest investor in India during 2022-23
compared to the seventh in 2021-22. Singapore was the largest investor in India with USD 17.2 billion
investment in FY23, followed by Mauritius (USD 6.1 billion) and the USA (USD 6 billion).
☞ India and the UAE set a target to increase the non-oil trade from USD 48 billion to USD 100 billion by 2030.
☞ China had recently completed the construction of the most powerful wind tunnel in the world, located in
the mountainous Huairou district of northern Beijing.
☞ The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)had taken a ''momentous''
decision to initiate joint civil works on five development projects along the 4,096 kms of shared boundary
which will help the local population on both sides.
☞ Union Minister of Education and Skill Development Dharmendra Pradhan flagged off Gabon’s first Agri-
SEZ project in New Delhi.
☞ Shoolini University, India's top-ranked private university, had teamed up with the prestigious University of
Melbourne, offering unparalleled opportunities for international education to Indian students.
☞ In a bid to accelerate the pace of economic development between India and Guyana, an India/Guyana
Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) had been launched in Guyana.
☞ India and Africa can go beyond doubling the bilateral trade to $200 billion by 2030, considering that both
regions together had 3 billion population with very favourable demographics, Commerce & Industry
Minister Piyush Goyal.
☞ Collaboration in space, mining and sports are among 15 new areas mutually identified by India and
Australia for negotiations under the comprehensive free trade agreement.
☞ Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra led the Indian delegation at the Annecy
International Animation Festival in France to showcase India's prowess in creating animation and VFX
(visual effects) content for global audiences.
☞ The UN General Assembly had adopted a draft resolution introduced by India to establish a memorial
wall in the UN Headquarters to honour fallen peacekeepers.
☞ Indian Navy's state-of-the-art submarine, INS 'Vagir', is all set to embark on an operational visit to
Colombo.
☞ Kerala’s start-ups will generate 20,000 jobs during the current financial year, said Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan, while participating in the opening of the first-ever ‘Infinity Centre’ in Dubai.
☞ NITI Aayog and the United Nations in India signed the Government of India-United Nations Sustainable
Development Cooperation Framework 2023-2027 in New Delhi.
☞ The Asia pacific Plant Protection Commission unanimously elected India as chair of the Standing
Committee on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for the biennium 2023-24 during the 32nd Session of
the Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) held in Bangkok during November 2022.
☞ Intel and the German government signed a deal that would see the U.S. company investing more than 30
billion euros ($32.8 billion) in a chip manufacturing site in the German city of Magdeburg, with financial
support from Berlin.
☞ The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National
Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) entered into a collaborative partnership aimed at empowering
women to make well-informed career choices in the field of entrepreneurship.
☞ After having inked a deal for the BrahMos missile systems, India had signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) to further financial technology (fintech) cooperation with the Philippines.
☞ India and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) had signed an agreement to
enhance cooperation and identify areas of mutual interest, on the sidelines of the two key events of the
influential bloc being hosted in Goa.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden at the White House in
Washington DC.
☞ The United States and India announced plans to create a payment security mechanism that will facilitate
the deployment of 10,000 Made-in-India electric buses in India.
☞ India and the US had signed a pact to jointly produce engines for next generation combat fighter jet
aircraft.
☞ India and UAE signed Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) for authorised economic operators (AEOs)
of both countries.
☞ Addressing the US-India Strategic partnership forum (USISPF) in Washington, DC, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said that in the last two years, American companies had invested around USD 16 billion in
India.

☞ Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Good and Public Distribution and Textiles,
Shri Piyush Goyal had highlighted the resolution of six outstanding World Trade Organisation (WTO)
disputes between US and India through mutually agreed solutions as jointly communicated by the Prime
Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi and President of the United States of America, H.E. Mr. Joseph
Biden during the official state visit of the Prime Minister to the USA.
☞ India and Belgium had signed Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) in criminal matters which
obligates both the countries to execute each other’s search warrants and summons against fugitives
wanted by individual investigating agencies.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived for a two-day state visit during which he will hold talks with the
Egyptian leadership, including President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, as the two nations seek to enhance their
strategic partnership.
☞ India inaugurated an exquisitely designed ‘New Delhi Hall’ at Beijing.
☞ The second edition of the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) meeting between India and
Tanzania was held in Arusha, Tanzania.
☞ India and Philippines decided to expand their defence partnership through upgraded official level
interaction among defence agencies, opening of the resident Defense Attaché office in Manila, and
consideration of India’s offer for concessional Line of Credit to buy defence equipment.
☞ India and Vietnam had discussed measures for cooperation in the areas of law and justice.
☞ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma flagged off the first methanol consignment to Bangladesh
from Assam Petrochemicals Plant at Namrup.
☞ The UAE-India Economic Summit, themed “Fostering Synergies – Uniting the Falcon and Tiger
Economies,” took place, at the ADGM Auditorium in Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi.
☞ An India-UK electric propulsion technical workshop was held in New Delhi to foster collaboration,
exchange knowledge, and explore the exciting possibilities in the field of electric propulsion, the Ministry
of Defence.
☞ SBI Capital Markets Limited (SBICAPS), a wholly-owned subsidiary and investment banking arm of State
Bank of India (SBI) announced the opening of its first overseas branch office in Abu Dhabi Global Market
(ADGM), an international financial centre and free zone located on Al Maryah Island in UAE's capital, Abu
Dhabi.
☞ The Budhanilkantha Dharamshala (Atithi Griha) built with Government of India’s grant assistance of
around Rs. 5 crores was inaugurated by the Vice President of Nepal, Rt. Hon’ble Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav
at Budhanilkantha Municipality in Kathmandu Valley.
☞ The 67th convention of the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) had kick-started in the vibrant
capital city of Colombo.
☞ The Election Commission of India and Electoral Tribunal (ET) of Panama signed a Memorandum of
Understanding in Panama City to establish the institutional framework for their ongoing cooperation in
the field of election management and administration.
☞ Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles,
Piyush Goyal, will start his three-day visit to the United Kingdom with a focus on the Free Trade
Agreement (FTA).
☞ India and Malaysia reviewed the diverse pillars of the extensive bilateral defence engagement.
☞ Larsen and Toubro's Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai had qualified for the Master Shipyard Repair
Agreement (MSRA) and the Indian conglomerate had signed an agreement with US Navy for repairing of
vessels.
☞ India and Bangladesh had started bilateral trade in rupees.
☞ The 34th edition of the International Biology Olympiad (IBO) implemented over 8 days (from 3 to 10 July
2023) in Al Ain City.
☞ All 178 countries, including associate members, of the International Maritime Organization had committed
to ensure that international shipping operations achieve net zero emissions “by or around” 2050.
☞ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the regional office of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in
Kuala Lumpur to facilitate close defence industrial collaboration between India and Malaysia.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with French President Emmanuel Macron witnessed the Bastille Day
Parade in Paris. Mr. Modi attended the parade as the Guest of Honour.
☞ India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) issued a joint vision statement in 2022 outlining their shared
goals and strengthening their bilateral relationship.
☞ India and France had announced a slew of defence agreements, including “ground-breaking” cooperation
in advanced aeronautical technologies on the joint development of a combat aircraft engine, but
abstained from announcing in the joint statement issued after bilateral talks between Prime Minister
Nadrendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron about the acquisition of 26 maritime Rafale for
Indian Navy.

☞ India gifted 84 vehicles to various organisations working in health and education sectors across Nepal, the
Indian Embassy in Nepal.
☞ Minister for Education, Skills Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India, Shri Dharmendra
Pradhan, and Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Finance, Mr. Lawrence Wong felicitated
the winners of 3rd Edition of Singapore - India Hackathon in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
☞ Ms. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia, and the Union Minister for Finance and
Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, launched the “India – Indonesia Economic and Financial
Dialogue”.
☞ Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Foreign
Ministers first ever meeting started in Bangkok, Thailand.
☞ ASEAN Foreign Ministers and Secretary-General of ASEAN Dr Kao Kim Hourn witnessed the signing of the
Instrument of Accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC) by the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on the sidelines
of the 56th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and Related Meetings in Jakarta.
☞ The Tata Group, which owns Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR), plans to invest 4 bn pounds (around $5.2 bn) in an
electric car battery factory to produce 40 GWh cells annually in the UK.
☞ The third meeting of the Working Group on Military Cooperation of the Indian-Russian
Intergovernmental Commission on Military and Military-Technical Cooperation concluded at Manekshaw
Centre in New Delhi.
☞ India and Sri Lanka had agreed to improve economic ties by increasing cooperation in renewable energy
and studying the feasibility of building an oil pipeline and a land bridge between the two countries.
☞ After a successful journey in the automotive industry, India and Japan signed a memorandum of
cooperation (MoC) on semiconductor supply-chain partnership for government-to-government and
industry-to-industry collaboration.
☞ India and Sri Lanka had agreed to establish high-capacity power grid interconnection between the two
nations to enable bidirectional electricity trade between the island nation and other regional nations.
☞ India will hand over its in-service missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam in reflection of growing strategic
partnership between the two sides.
☞ India and Sri Lanka had agreed to improve economic ties by increasing cooperation in renewable energy
and studying the feasibility of building an oil pipeline and a land bridge between the two countries.
☞ After a successful journey in the automotive industry, India and Japan signed a memorandum of
cooperation (MoC) on semiconductor supply-chain partnership for government-to-government and
industry-to-industry collaboration.
☞ India and Bangladesh signed a contract for installation of computer based interlocking signalling system
for Dhaka-Tongi-Joydebpur rail line at Rail Bhaban, Dhaka.
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh held a high-level delegation with
Governor of Santa Fe province of Argentina, Omar Angel Perotti.
☞ India and United Kingdom had concluded the eleventh round of talks for the UK- India Free Trade
Agreement (FTA).
☞ Power Finance Corporation had announced joining “Asia Transition Finance Study Group” (ATFSG) during
the Bilateral Ministerial Meeting between Hon’ble Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy Mr.
R. K. Singh and His Excellency Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimura, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry,
Government of Japan on the side lines of G20 summit at Goa. Mr B.S. Bhalla, Secretary(MNRE), Mr. Ajay
Tewari, Additional Secretary (Power), Mrs. Parminder Chopra, CMD (Addl. Charge), PFC and Senior Officials
from both countries were present.
☞ India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) technology will now be accepted in neighbouring Sri Lanka. So
far, France, UAE, and Singapore had partnered with India on emerging fintech and payment solutions.
☞ The 8th India-Australia Defence Policy Talks (DPT) was held at Canberra in Australia.
☞ The 15th India-Japan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue was held in New Delhi.
☞ Deepika Deshwal, who had entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest Indian to
deliver a speech at the UN for the third time.
☞ Pune-based Bajaj Auto will set up its first overseas manufacturing factory in Brazil through its wholly-
owned arm, Bajaj Do Brasil.
☞ India and Bhutan had reviewed the entire spectrum of bilateral cooperation and discussed ways to
further strengthen it across diverse sectors.
☞ India and Singapore are accelerating their plans to establish a power grid through an underwater cable
passing via the Andaman & Nicobar region.

☞ Shobha Karandlaje, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and Vladimir Bolea, Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries of Moldova, met at Krishi Bhawan in New
Delhi in a significant move aimed at enhancing bilateral ties.
☞ External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, highlighted four key pillars of cooperation between India and Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC region) and said that the two economies can target USD 100 billion in
trade by 2027.
☞ India had handed over ₹45 crores in advance to Sri Lanka to fund its unique digital identity project, the
most crucial step in the island nation's digitalisation programme being implemented through the Indian
grant assistance.
☞ India and Lesotho held the 5th round of Joint Bilateral Commission for Cooperation in Maseru, Lesotho.
☞ India and Peru had agreed to recommence negotiations for a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
aimed at boosting trade and investment between the two countries.
☞ In Nepal, the construction work of the Indian Buddhist Culture and Heritage Centre had begun in Lumbini
after Bhumi Pujan ceremony with special recitation by Buddhist monks.
☞ Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Textiles, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution, Shri
Piyush Goyal participated in the “7th BRICS Industry Ministers’ meeting” hosted virtually with South
Africa as the Chair.
☞ In a first, India, Nepal and Bangladesh are working on a tripartite power trade deal under which Nepal will
supply up to 500 megawatts (MW) of hydropower to Bangladesh using India’s transmission line, a move
that can further boost cross-border electricity trading in South Asia.
☞ UN Women, a United Nations body working for gender equality and empowerment of women, had joined
hands with Kerala Tourism to promote the Women-Friendly Tourism initiative launched by the State
government.
☞ India and Uzbekistan conducted their 16th India-Uzbekistan Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) in
Tashkent.
☞ India will be providing support worth $700,000 from the India-UN Development Partnership Fund to the
project in Tuvalu to store and provide clean water in school.
☞ India and Vietnam, held the fifth meeting of Joint Trade Sub-Commission (JTSC) in New Delhi, where the
two countries discussed the challenges in logistics that affect their bilateral trade.
☞ India had extended support amounting to USD 246,852.71 for project aimed at bolstering early flood
warning services to communities in Suriname.
☞ At Virtual event the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Academy joined the Interpol Global Academy
Network.
☞ The first India-Angloa Inaugural Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) was held in Luanda, Angola.
☞ An interactive meeting organized between India & Taiwan for an in-bound Taiwan Trade Mission at Taipei
World Trade Center Liaison Office in Mumbai.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on four-day visit to South Africa and Greece.
☞ India and the ASEAN countries reached an agreement to review their free trade pact for goods and set a
2025 goalpost for concluding the review aimed at addressing the “asymmetry” in bilateral trade.
☞ United Arab Emirates remained the top country to which exports are made through Cochin Port. Coir/Coir
products and Food Products continued to be the major exports through the port.
☞ The 14th Joint Group of Customs (JGC) meeting between India and Bangladesh was held in New Delhi.
☞ India participates in 20th ASEAN-INDIA economic minister's meeting held in Semarang, Indonesia.
☞ Bilateral trade between India and Kuwait had touched an all time-high of USD 12.5 billion, Indian
ambassador to Kuwait Adarsh Swaika.
☞ Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and will join Brazil, Russia,
China, India and South Africa as the New Members of BRICS from January 01, 2024.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted Bidri work pair of 'Surahi' from Telangana to South African
President Cyril Ramaphosa.
☞ India and Greece had agreed to double the bilateral trade by 2030.
☞ The Embassy of India in Bahrain hosted an open house session, under the guidance of Ambassador
Designate Vinod Kurian Jacob.
☞ India had handed over the B20 presidency to Brazil to host G20 in 2024.
☞ The 3rd High Level Dialogue (HLD) was co-chaired by the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry,
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Shri Piyush Goyal and the European Commission
Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People& Trade Commissioner Mr. Valdis
Dombrovskis.

☞ Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Pranay Verma and Bangladesh Minister of State for Information
and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak jointly laid the foundation stone of the Knowledge
Park at Chattogram.
☞ Sri Lanka hosted its very first Karnataka cultural festival.
☞ Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Defence, Aden Bare Duale, arrived in New Delhi embarking on a three-day
visit to India.
☞ Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Textile and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public
Distribution of India and Hon Damien O’Connor, Minister for Trade and Export Growth of New Zealand,
had a bilateral meeting at New Delhi.
☞ Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia one of the state in USA had formally designated October as "Hindu
Heritage Month" to recognize and appreciate the valuable contributions made by the vibrant Hindu-
American community residing in the state.
☞ The three day long 2nd edition of Kathmandu-Kalinga Literary Festival concluded at Lalitpur, Nepal.
☞ The International Monetary Fund and World Bank, announced their intention to intensify their
institutions’ collaboration in the field of climate change, debt, and digital transition.
☞ Indian Coast Guard participated in the 19th Heads of Asian Coast Guard Agencies Meeting (HACGAM) at
Istanbul, Türkiye.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the India-Middle East-Europe mega economic corridor. The
project includes India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the European Union, France, Italy, Germany and the USA.
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi along with the leaders of Singapore, Bangladesh, Italy, USA, Brazil,
Argentina, Mauritius and UAE, launched the Global Biofuel Alliance, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in
New Delhi.
☞ India and Saudi Arabia had begun discussions on settling their trade in local currencies.
☞ The 12th Round of Ministerial India-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue was held in New Delhi.
☞ The Consulate General of India in Dubai welcomed a delegation of 15 Indian startups in a bid to foster
collaboration and innovation between Indian and UAE entrepreneurial ventures.
☞ India and Japan discussed important areas of bilateral cyber cooperation, and reviewed the progress
achieved in the areas of cyber security and Information and Communication Technologies including 5G
technology.
☞ India had become the 13th country in the world that can issue Internationally Accepted OIML
(International Organisation of Legal Metrology) Certificates.
☞ Secretary (East) Saurabh Kumar (Ministry of External Affairs) concluded his three-day visit to Mongolia.
During the visit, both sides discussed further strengthening of India-Mongolia Strategic Partnership and
maintaining high-level engagements.
☞ The 10th meeting of the India-Malaysia Joint Sub-Committee on Defence Science, Technology and
Industry Cooperation was held in New Delhi.
☞ The 12th meeting of Malaysia-India Defence Cooperation Committee (MIDCOM) was held in New Delhi.
☞ India has won the bid to host the prestigious International Congress on the Chemistry of Cement (ICCC)
at New Delhi in 2027.
☞ India and the United Nations launched a joint capacity-building initiative for the Global South.
☞ India-US 7th 2 + 2 Intersessional Dialogue was held in Washington.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari addressed the Ministerial Session at
the 27th World Road Congress in Prague, Czech Republic, focusing on Road Safety.
☞ The Commerce Secretary co-chaired the 6th meeting of the India-Brazil Trade Monitoring Mechanism
(TMM) with Secretary of Foreign Trade for the Federative Republic of Brazil, Ms. Tatiana Lacerda Prazeres
in Brasília.
☞ India and Tanzania announced elevating their ties to strategic partnership and agreed on a five-year
roadmap to significantly expand defence cooperation following talks between Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
☞ India hosted 46th edition of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Travel Mart 2023 from Oct 4 to Oct 6 at
the International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre (IECC), Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi.
☞ The India-European Union (EU) Trade & Technology Council (TTC) Working Group 2 (WG2) convened a
two-day international workshop on “Green & Clean Energy Technologies” during October 10-11, 2023 was
organized by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and hosted by the
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in hybrid mode.
☞ European Union lawmakers approved new standards for companies issuing "green" bonds to help
investors pick sustainable companies and avoid greenwashing or misleading climate-friendly claims.
☞ India has launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return from Israel of its citizens who wish to return.
☞ The 20th round of India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting was held at Chushul-Moldo border
meeting point, Leh, Ladakh.

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Visakhapatnam (Capital) - Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (CM) - S. Abdul Nazeer (Governor) – Telugu
(Language)
☞ The Central government had agreed to sanction Rs 12,911 crore to Andhra Pradesh for completing the
first phase of Polavaram Project.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy inaugurated the ₹100 crore edible oil refinery,
Godrej Agrovet, at Chintalapudi, Eluru district.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Sai Hira Global Convention Centre in Puttaparthi,
Andhra Pradesh via video conferencing.
☞ Commemorating former chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh Y S Rajasekhar Reddy's birth
anniversary as 'Rythu Dinothsavam' (farmer's day), Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, and his son, Y S Jagan
Mohan Reddy disbursed Rs 1,117 crore to more than 10 lakh farmers in the state as crop insurance
compensation for 2022 Kharif season.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone for 3 NH
Projects at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
☞ Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of 108 feet tall statue of Lord Shri Ram in
Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh through video conferencing.
☞ The government had identified 113 projects for implementation in Andhra Pradesh under the Sagarmala
Programme at an estimated cost of around Rs 1.2 trillion.
☞ Andhra Pradesh had witnessed a notable increase in the number of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in the last
four years and the total number of SHGs went up to 11.16 lakh from 8.71 lakh in 2019.
☞ Union Minister for Education and skill development Dharmendra Pradhan laid the foundation stone for
the Central Tribal University at Saluru, Parvatipuram Manyam district of Andhra Pradesh.
☞ Union Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways for & AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated four
projects worth Rs. 333.56 crores at the Visakhapatnam port, Andhra Pradesh.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy honoured more than 2.3 lakh ward and village
volunteers and presented them with cash awards to the tune of Rs 243 crore for their services in taking a
plethora of the state government’s schemes to the masses.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy inaugurated five new government medical colleges.
He inaugurated the Government Medical College in Vizianagaram, and virtually inaugurated medical
colleges at Rajamahendravaram, Eluru, Machilipatnam and Nandyal.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy virtually launched Greenlam South Group’s
industrial unit which was set up at a cost of ₹800 crores at Naidupeta in Tirupati district, and a 42,000-
tonne capacity cocoa butter and chocolate manufacturing unit by DP Chocolates set up at a cost of ₹325
crores at Sri City.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Itanagar (Capital) – Pema Khandu (CM) – Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Governor) – English
(Language)
☞ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister launched an app called 'Arunpol App' of Arunachal Pradesh Police and
flagged-off an APP awareness generation vehicle from the Civil Secretariat, Itanagar.
☞ Chief Minister Pema Khandu also launched another app called E-Vigilance app for the state government
employees.

☞ The Wihu Kuh Festival, meaning "paddy transplantation festival," not only signifies the beginning of the
agricultural season but also serves as a cultural extravaganza for the Tangsa Tribe, Arunachal Pradesh.
☞ Arunachal Pradesh Tourism Secretary Swapnil Naik launched the Yuva Tourism Club in a function
organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Arunachal Pradesh State Tourism Dept at State Food Craft
Institute in Itanagar.
☞ Chachin grazing festival was celebrated with great fervour by the local graziers of Tawang region near
Bumla Pass, Arunachal Pradesh from July 14-15.
☞ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu set off the registration process for the forthcoming
sporting event Tawang Marathon by launching the event website, mascot and T-shirt.
☞ The Bugun (Khowa) tribe celebrated its central Pham-Kho Sowai festival with great enthusiasm and
grandeur here in West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.
☞ Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Minister for Civil Aviation and Steel inaugurated the newly developed
infrastructure of Tezu Airport in Arunachal Pradesh.
ASSAM
Dispur (Capital) – Himanta Biswa Sarma (CM) – Gulab Chand Kataria (Governor) – Assamese &
Boro (Language)
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the 4-Lane Section
between Nagaon Bypass-Teliagaon, and Teliagaon-Rangagara and laid the foundation for Mangaldai
Bypass and the 4-lane section between Daboka-Parakhuwa in Assam through video conferencing.
☞ Giving new momentum to the development of Tezpur, Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma
opened a series of infrastructure projects in Tezpur.
☞ In Guwahati, Union Minister of State (Ind. Charge) Science & Technology, MoS PMO, DoPT, Pensions,
Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated the 'Purvoday' conclave showcasing the
incredible transformation in Northeast during the last nine years.
☞ The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal laid the
foundation stone of Inland Waterways Transport (IWT) terminal to be developed at Bogibeel in
Dibrugarh, by the bank of the River Brahmaputra (National Waterways 2) in Dibrugarh, Assam.
☞ The Assam government had decided to ban packaged drinking water bottles of less than one litre from
October 2.
☞ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for infrastructure
projects worth over Rs 555 crore in Bongaigaon district.
☞ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma unveiled different development projects worth Rs 85 crore in
Golaghat district of the state.
☞ The Assam government led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is all set to organise 'Khel Maharan'
from November 1.
☞ Assam's Guwahati will host North-east defence technology exhibition in October 2023 at Maniram
Dewan Trade Center, Guwahati.
☞ The Assam Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma “created” four “new” districts “to
enhance decentralisation of governance and better convergence of the line departments”. The four
districts are Bajali, Biswanath, Hojai, and Tamulpur.
☞ PepsiCo India will set up of a new manufacturing plant in Nalbari, Assam, with an investment of Rs 778
crore.
☞ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Biswanath Ghat of Sonitpur district has been
selected as the Best Tourism Village of India 2023 by the Ministry of Tourism.
BIHAR
R Patna (Capital) – Nitish Kumar (CM) – Rajendra Arlekar (Governor) – Hindi (Language)
☞ After seeing the increasing number of tigers in Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) the Bihar government has
initiated to develop second tiger reserve in Kaimur forests.

CHHATTISGARH
Raipur (Capital) - Bhupesh Baghel (CM) - Biswabhusan Harichandan (Governor) – Chhattisgarhi &
Hindi (Language)
☞ The Chhattisgarh government presented the annual budget of Rs 1,21,500 crore for the financial year
2023-24 and announced scheme for youth.
☞ Under the scheme, unemployed youth in the age group of 18 to 35 years who passed class 12, and with an
annual family income of less than 2.50 lakh, will be given an allowance of Rs2,500 per month.
☞ Engrossed so deeply in devotion to lord Hanuman, Akhilesh Sharma had collected over 5000 pictures
(separate photos) of 'Bajrangbali' and published a book 'Mere Hanuman' and got his name enrolled in the
Golden Book of World Record.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh capital Raipur, where he is scheduled to inaugurate
and lay foundation stones of ten projects worth around Rs 7,600 crore.
☞ On World Tribal Day Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel dedicated 2,848 development projects
worth Rs 1,000 crore in Bastar.
☞ In a major development in PM GatiShakti Rail Corridor Projects in Chhattisgarh, Rupee Term Loan
documents were executed between the Central Bank of India under sole banking and the promoters, i.e.,
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), Ircon International Limited (IRCON), CSIDC and CERL, towards
development of Phase-II of Chhattisgarh East Railway Limited (CERL).
☞ President Draupadi Murmu launched the state level program of “Year of Positive Change” at Prajapita
Brahmakumari Ishwariya Vishwavidyalaya in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
☞ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel laid the foundation stone of three projects commercial hub,
aerocity and Shaheed Memorial during an event in Raipur.
☞ Prime Minister launched rail sector projects worth more than Rs. 6 thousand crores in the public
programme in Raigarh.
☞ Union Minister for Information Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports Anurag Singh Thakur launched the
State Level Youth Festival organised by Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan in Raipur.
☞ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the Model Library of the Advocates Association,
built at a cost of Rs 33 lakh in the District Court premises in Durg district.
GOA
Panaji (Capital)– Pramod Sawant (CM) – PS Sreedharan Pillai (Governor) – Konkani (Language)
☞ Goa's Information and Technology Minister Rohan Khaunte had said his department will introduce the
artificial intelligence-based chatbots to deliver services in a more efficient manner and to help people in
addressing their grievances.
☞ Goa had become the first Indian state to offer free in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.
☞ Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant released a biodiversity atlas of Mayem village in North Goa, which he
termed as "India's first village atlas" at Mahamaya Devalaya Mandap in Mayem village located in
Bicholim taluka.
☞ The central government plans to establish a training centre at the cost of Rs 200 crore to support micro,
small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Goa.
GUJARAT
Gandhinagar (Capital) - Bhupendrabhai Patel (CM) - Acharya Devvrat (Governor) – Gujarati &
Hindi (Language)
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated two National Highway
projects in Vadodara, Gujarat at a cost of Rs.48 crores.

☞ Tata Group will set up a lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility in Gujarat through its subsidiary with an
initial capacity of 20 GWh at a cost of Rs 13,000 crore, the Gujarat government.
☞ Procter & Gamble Co (P&G), the world’s second-biggest consumer goods maker plans to invest Rs 2,000
crore in Gujarat to set up an export hub in India that will make healthcare products, especially digestives.
☞ Under the Sagarmala programme, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is developing a National
Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC), a world-class facility at Lothal, Gujarat.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah launched -Made in India at a cost of ₹15
crores 'Akshar River Cruise' on Sabarmati Riverfront developed by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
and Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation Limited through video conferencing.
☞ Union Minister for Shipping Sarbananda Sonowal launched a campaign to transform iconic 75 Lighthouses
into Tourism Spots from Dwarka in Gujarat.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of Shri
Motibhai R Chaudhary Sagar Sainik School run by Dudhsagar Research and Development Association in
Mehsana, Gujarat through video conferencing.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of changing rooms on
floating jetties at 6 ghats of Kashi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the redevelopment of two cremation ghats (The 'Raja
Harishchandra Ghat' and 'Manikarnika Ghat) in Varanasi.
☞ Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel laid the foundation stone and inaugurated development projects,
including an outer Ring Road of 14.59 kilometers, worth Rs 482.21 crore in Surat.
☞ One District One Product (ODOP) program, an initiative under the Department for Promotion of Industry
and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, launched its first collaboration with the
Government of Gujarat in New Delhi to promote the indigenous crafts and artisans of the State.
☞ Gujarat will get the country’s first ‘Satellite Network Portal Site’.
☞ The Gujarat government had unveiled the Semiconductor Policy (2022-2027). This strategic initiative
reflects the state's unwavering commitment to fostering accelerated and inclusive growth within the
domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing sector.
☞ The ‘SemiconIndia 2023’ exhibition was inaugurated at Gandhinagar by Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri
Bhupendrabhai Patel, in the presence of Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
and Electronics & IT, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Semicon India 2023 conference in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
☞ On the occasion of World Tribal Day, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel launched the state-wide
‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ campaign to honour those bravehearts who had laid their lives for the country.
☞ In Gujarat, World lion day is being celebrated with great enthusiasm in over 8500 educational institutions
across the ten districts of Saurashtra.
☞ Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone and inaugurated various development works
worth Rs 1052 crore in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
☞ Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for IFFCO Nano Urea Plant at
Gandhidham in Kutch, Gujarat.
☞ Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the Amrita Patel Centre of Public Health in Anand in Gujarat.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation Stone for Akashvani Dahod FM Relay Station Project in
Gujarat.
☞ TATA Projects has bagged the contract to build Micron Technology’s advanced semiconductor assembly
and test plant in Sanand, Gujarat.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah inaugurated the permanent campus of
the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
☞ Gujarat had been organising pre-Vibrant Gujarat events across districts spearheaded by Agriculture
Minister Raghavji Patel said that memorandums of understanding (MoU) worth Rs 1,200 crore have been
signed in Junagadh district.

HARYANA
Chandigarh (Capital) – Manohar Lal Khattar (CM) – Bandaru Dattatreya (Governor) – Hindi
(Language)
☞ Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated two CGHS wellness centres in Panchkula and
Chandigarh calling quality healthcare priority of the Narendra Modi government.
☞ Shadhank Manu had set a Guinness World Record for covering all 286 metro stations of the Capital city
within 15 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds.
☞ The DMRC said HUDA City Centre station on the Delhi Metro's Yellow Line will be renamed Millennium
City Centre Gurugram, hours after announcing that it will be rechristened Gurugram City Centre.
☞ Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that the state government is constantly working to
expand the horticulture sector.
☞ The Haryana government is planning to build a dam at a cost of 6,134 crore rupees.
HIMACHAL PRADESH
Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala (Winter) (Capital) – Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (CM) – Shiv Pratap
Shukla (Governor) –Hindi (Language)
☞ Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu inaugurated the new Secretariat building, built
at a cost of Rs 43.07 crore and featuring all modern amenities.
☞ Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) would
set up an ethanol plant at Jeetpur Baheri in Una district at a cost of Rs 500 crore.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, approved the advance release of 2nd
installment of Central Share of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) amounting to Rs. 180.40 crore, for
the year 2023-24, as an interim relief to Himachal Pradesh.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari approved Schemes worth Rs 154.25
crores for Una and Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh under the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund
CIRF have been approved.
JHARKHAND
Ranchi (Capital)– Hemant Soren (CM) – CP Radhakrishnan (Governor) – Hindi (Language)
☞ Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced that his government will set up a Skill Development
College in Ranchi at a cost of Rs 300 crore.
☞ Shravani Mela, also known as Shravani Mela Deoghar, is a major religious festival celebrated in the
Deoghar district of Jharkhand, India.
KARNATAKA
Bengaluru (Capital) – Basavaraj Bommai (CM) –Thawarchand Gehlot (Governor) – Kannada
(Language)
☞ Defence Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajnath Singh inaugurated the 'Vijay Sankalp
Yatra' in the poll-bound state Karnataka.
☞ Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj on Rajhansgad fort near Yellur in Belagavi district.

☞ Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai inaugurated
the NaMo Free Dialysis Centre and unveiled the 100th Janaushadhi Kendra in Bengaluru.
☞ The Dialysis centre is set up under the MPLADS fund of Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya at the KSRTC
Hospital in Jayanagar in Bengaluru.
☞ Under its Sagarmala Programme, the Ministry of Ports, shipping, and waterways had provided in-principle
approval to four floating jetty projects in Karnataka.
☞ At the State Level Single Window Clearance Committee (SLSWCC) meeting chaired by the Minister for
Large and Medium Scale Industries Murugesh R Nirani the State Industries and Commerce Department
had cleared a total of 78 investment proposals worth Rs 5,298.69 crore promising 13,917 jobs.
☞ Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
(RGUHS), which controls all the medical colleges in the State, will be renamed after the late former Chief
Minister Kengal Hanumanthaiya.
☞ PM Modi inaugurated Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Muddenahalli in
Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka was established by Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence.
☞ He also inaugurated a new metro line between Whitefield and K R Puram covering 13.71 kms built at a
cost of around 4250 crore rupees.
☞ Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai laid the foundation for construction of a 2.93-km ropeway to
Nandi Hills, on outskirts of Bengaluru, to be taken up at a cost of ₹93.40 crore.
☞ With the aim to facilitate farmers of the Krishna basin, the Karnataka government had started irrigation
projects worth Rs 2,800 crores.
☞ Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, Shri Rajeev
Chandrasekhar will be addressing a Digital India Dialogues session on the recently revised production
linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware in Bengaluru.
☞ Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presents the Rs 3.27 lakh crore state Budget of his government in
Assembly, he said through the five 'guarantees' (poll promises), the government will be providing an
average additional financial assistance of Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 a month to each household.
☞ Foxconn, a major iPhone assembler for Apple, had proposed to set up a Rs 8,800 crore supplementary
plant to that of the unit at Devanahalli Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) in Karnataka,
the state’s Large and Medium Industries Minister M B Patil.
☞ Kellton, a leading global IT solutions provider, announced that it had secured a highly prestigious, multi-
year large-scale project from the Karnataka State Government’s Finance Department to develop and
implement HRMS Version 2.0 for over 600,000 state government employees in Karnataka.
☞ Ministry of Textiles is implementing National Handloom Development Programme to provide need based
financial assistance to eligible handloom agencies and handloom workers through various interventions
like Cluster Development Programme including Hathkargha Samvardhan Sahayata (HSS), Design &
product development, Marketing support, Weaver’s Mudra loan, Weavers welfare etc. for development
of handlooms and welfare of handloom workers across the country including Karnataka.
☞ Bengaluru had become the first Indian city to become part of the World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF) a
global network of cities that share research and intelligence, and explore the role of culture in future
prosperity.
☞ International Battery Company (IBC) had signed an investment pact worth Rs 8,000 crore ($971.89
million) with the Karnataka government to build a battery manufacturing facility.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the upgradation of Mangaluru Junction
railway station to international standards through video conferencing.
KERALA
Thiruvananthapuram (Capital) - Pinarayi Vijayan (CM) - Arif Mohammad Khan (Governor) –
Malayalam (Language)
☞ The 5th edition of the Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF-2023) will be held in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram
district from December 1 to 5.
☞ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched the KFON, Kerala Fibre Optic Network project at
Shankaranarayanan Thambi Hall of the State Legislative Assembly.
☞ The Adani-run Vizhinjam Port, being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 7,700 crore, will be
commercially commissioned in May 2024, Kerala Minister for Ports Ahammed Devarkovil.

☞ Two GST appellate tribunals will be set up in Kerala at Thiruvananthapuram and Ernakulam, State Finance
Minister K N Balagopal. Each tribunal will have two members one judicial and one technical.
☞ Kerala got the country’s first Construction Innovation Hub (CIH) that seeks to promote affordable and
sustainable building facilities so as to foster collaboration, innovation and knowledge-sharing among the
stakeholders.
☞ The Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode had given its approval to the
proposal of setting up an “India-Japan Study and Research Centre” for enhancing management education
and research competencies in specific areas of mutual interest between both two countries.
☞ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had launched the statewide membership card of Kerala Startup
Mission’s (KSUM) ‘LEAP Coworks’ and also inaugurated the refurbished headquarters of KSUM in
Thejaswini Building, Technopark Phase 1, Thiruvananthapuram.
☞ ‘Graphene-Aurora program’ was launched by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY)
Secretary Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma at Maker Village Kochi, Kerala.
☞ Government of Kerala had started Kerala Athidhi Portal Migrant Worker Registration – Athidhi Portal
Kerala to register the migrant workers of the state, through this portal the registration of migrant workers
will be done by the state government.
☞ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had inaugurated the import cargo terminal of Cochin International
Airport (CIAL) and launched DigiYatra software developed by CIAL and the modernisation of airport
emergency services at a function held on the airport premises.
☞ Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshotham Rupala inaugurated the 16th
Agricultural Science Congress in Hotel Le Méridien, Kochi, Kerala.
MADHYA PRADESH
Bhopal (Capital) - Shivraj Singh Chouhan (CM) - Mangubhai C. Patel (Governor) – Hindi (Language)
☞ Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal had become the first city in India to accept the localization of the United
Nations (UN)-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
☞ Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh attended Kisan Kalyan Mahakumbh organized in Rajgarh district of Madhya
Pradesh.
☞ Union Home Minister Amit Shah will flag off the Virangana Rani Durgavati Gaurav Yatra from Balaghat in
Madhya Pradesh.
☞ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had announced a four per cent hike in the
dearness allowance (DA) for the state government employees.
☞ The Madhya Pradesh cabinet gave its nod to a proposal to provide e-scooters to the girls and boys who
top the Class 12 exam at government schools.
☞ The Madhya Pradesh government will set up 9,000 'CM Rise' schools to provide quality education.
☞ Madhya Pradesh had introduced a policy for the rapid expansion of 5G network in the state and laid
emphadis on speeding up the process of granting government approvals for the expansion of such services
by telecom and internet service providers.
☞ Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Union Minister of Civil Aviation and
Steel, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, laid the foundation stone of Datia Airport in Madhya Pradesh.
☞ Patel Engineering Limited (PEL) joint venture had bagged a Rs 1,275.30 crores order in Madhya Pradesh.
☞ Diversified group ITC will invest around Rs. 1,500 crore to set up an integrated food manufacturing and
logistics facility and a sustainable packaging products manufacturing facility at Sehore in Madhya
Pradesh.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of development projects worth more
than Rs. 50,700 crores in Bina, Madhya Pradesh.
☞ Madhya Pradesh government will provide LPG gas cylinders at a subsidised rate of ₹450 under the
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and the Mukhyamantri Ladli Bahna Yojana from September 1.
☞ In Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan unveiled the 108 feet high 'Statue of Oneness'
of Adi Shankaracharya on Mandhata mountain at Omkareshwar in Khandwa district and laid the
foundation stone of Advaita Lok.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation
development projects in sectors like road, rail, gas pipeline, housing and clean drinking water worth more
than Rs 12,600 crore in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

MAHARASHTRA
Mumbai (Capital) – Eknath Shinde (CM) – Ramesh Bais (Governor) – Marathi (Language)
☞ Union Minister of State Kapil Patil said, India's first carbon neutral Village is being developed in Bhiwandi
Taluka of Thane district.
☞ After renaming of Aurangabad and Osmanabad districts, the Maharashtra government had now decided
to rename Ahmednagar district after Ahilyadevi Holkar, the Queen of Malwa Kingdom.
☞ Va Tech WABAG Ltd (WABAG), a leading player in the water technology space, had bagged an order worth
about ₹420 crores from the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO) to
design, build, and operate (DBO) a water treatment plant with a capacity of 270 million liters per day
(MLD) at Jite, Raigad.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the Shelad to Nandura
project costing Rs 816 crore on Amravati-Chikhali National Highway 53 at Khamgaon, Buldhana,
Maharashtra.
☞ An art exhibition titled ‘Maharaja’s Treasure: Select Works of Art from the Famed Air India Collection’
hosted by the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, under the Union Ministry of Culture was
inaugurated by Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi.
☞ The Maharashtra government had decided to change the name of Itwari station in Nagpur district to
'Netaji Subhadh Chandra Bose Itwari ' station.
☞ One of the largest Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will be deployed by next year for digging India’s first
undersea rail tunnel as a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project.
☞ Construction major Larsen & Toubro announced that its heavy civil infrastructure business had received an
order worth more than Rs 7,000 crore from the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL)
to construct the 135.45 km stretch of MAHSR – C3 package, a part of the Mumbai Ahmedabad high-speed
rail project.
☞ The heritage Byculla Railway station which had been restored to its original glory, received the UNESCO
award.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi flagged off metro trains marking the inauguration of completed
sections of Pune Metro.
☞ Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde launched a mobile app and WhatsApp helpline for the Chief
Minister's Medical Assistance Fund.
☞ Union Road transport and Highway minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the multi-purpose “One Pune
Card” for metro travel.
☞ The Union Minister for Roads Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the
quadranglement of Nandura to Chikhli section of 45 km length on National Highway 53 worth Rs.800
crores at Malkapur in Buldhana district, Maharashtra.
☞ Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) introduced, an e-billing system for the
online payment of service charges to the tenants and residents of MHADA of all Divisional Circles, including
Konkan, Pune, Nagpur, and Amravati.
☞ The Maharashtra government in collaboration with Marut Drones had introduced Marut’s AG365 drones
to farmers of the Buldhana district of Maharashtra.
☞ Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde gave approval to establish an Independent Scheduled Tribes
Commission for Maharashtra on the lines of the Central Government.
MANIPUR
Imphal (Capital) – N. Biren Singh (CM) – Anusuiya Uikey (Governor) – Manipuri (Language)
☞ Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh inaugurated the Institute of Driving Training and Research Centre
constructed in Imphal East under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).

MEGHALAYA
Shillong (Capital) – Conrad Sangma (CM) – Phagu Chauhan (Governor) – English (Language)
☞ Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the ''The Travellers Nest'' at Kyiem village in
Mawphlang in East Khadi Hills to cater to visitors to the sacred groves.
☞ Government of Meghalaya organised Meghalaya Pineapple Festival 2023 at the iconic Dilli Haat, INA,
New Delhi.
MIZORAM
Aizawl (Capital) – Zoramthanga (CM) – Kambhampati Hari Babu (Governor) – Mizo & English
(Language)
☞ State-owned construction company NBCC had received an order worth Rs 448 crore from the Ministry of
Home Affairs for laiding an 88.58-kilometre-long road in Mizoram along the Indo-Bangla border.
☞ The National Health Authority (NHA) had announced 100 Microsites project for accelerated adoption of
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) across the country. In Mizoram Aizawl was the first Microsite
Project established
NAGALAND
Kohima (Capital) - Neiphiu Rio (CM) - La. Ganesan (Governor) – English (Language)
☞ Nagaland had rolled out the first phase of Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 5.0 immunisation drive
with special emphadis targeting partially vaccinated or drop out children and pregnant women.
☞ State Minister for Women Resource Development and Horticulture, Salhoutuonuo Kruse had inaugurated
the Nagaland’s first Naga Traditional Cuisine lab had been launched at Japfü Christian College, Kohima
district.
☞ Nagaland had become the first State in the North Eastern Region to initiate Aadhaar Linked Birth
Registration (ALBR).
☞ Union Minister of State for Railways and Textiles Darshana Jardosh inaugurated the Nagaland Women
Vocational Training Institute Emporium located at Lerie in Kohima.The Emporium is supported by the
Ministry of Textiles.
☞ Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the Nagaland Institute of
Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) in Kohima, Nagaland which is the first medical college in the
northeastern state.
ODISHA
Bhubaneswar (Capital) – Naveen Patnaik (CM) – Ganeshi Lal (Governor) – Odia (Language)
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched Special Development Councils (SDCs) in 14 more districts
with an aim to carry out development of tribals. Earlier, these were launched in nine districts.
☞ PM Modi launched multiple railway projects in Odisha worth Rs 8,200 crore.

☞ PM Modi flagged off the state's first and nation’s 16th Vande Bharat Express that will connect Puri to West
Bengal's Howrah.
☞ Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off 24 new Basic Life Support (BLS) and 299 Advanced Life Support
(ALS) ambulances to boost emergency medical service delivery in the state.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved a budget of Rs 423.87 crore for the implementation of
development projects in 37 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across ten districts within the central Revenue
Divisional Commission Division.
☞ Raja or Raja Parba or Mithuna Sankranti is a three-day-long festival of womanhood celebrated in Odisha,
India.
☞ The first day of the festival is called ‘Pahili Raja’, the second day is called ‘Majhi Raja’ ‘Raja Sankranti’ or
‘Mithuna Sankranti’, the third day is ‘Bhudaha’ or ‘Basi Raja’ or ‘Sesha Raja’.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved Rs 225.53 crore in favour of 36 urban local bodies
covering 10 districts under the state-funded flagship scheme 'MUKTA' for the financial Year 2023-24.
☞ The world famous annual Rath Yatra or Chariot Festival began at Puri in Odisha.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched 'Ama Pokhari' project to rejuvenate all water bodies in
the urban areas of the state.
☞ Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had sanctioned Rs 1 crore for the development of Bahanaga Bazar
and its adjacent villages in Odisha's Balasore district, where a recent train accident left 293 people dead.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced Rs 56-crore financial assistance for over 8 lakh
kendu leaf puckers and others engaged in such a trade.
☞ Odisha state cabinet headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had approved a budget of Rs 1001.14 crore
for expanding Comprehensive Cancer Services across the State It aims to provide cancer care facilities
nearer to the household of the patients.
☞ Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik became the second-longest-serving chief minister in the country, replacing West
Bengal’s Jyoti Basu.
☞ Paying rich tributes to freedom fighter and Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi on his death
anniversary, Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the much awaited four-laning of
Kamakshyanagar-Duburi section of National Highway-53 on EPC (Procurement and Construction) mode
here in presence of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
☞ Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, and
Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman launched Kuwi and Desia books
at Bhubaneswar.
☞ The Centre is preparing a Rs 12,000-crore inland waterway on the Brahmani river in Odisha to move
goods from four key industrial clusters to the ports of Paradip and Dhamra.
☞ The Odisha government approved nine new projects worth investment of Rs 873 crore which will create
employment opportunities for 2,500 people in the state.
☞ Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia along with General Vijay Kumar Singh (Rtd.) MoS,
Ministry of Civil Aviation inaugurated Utkela Airport and a direct flight between Utkela and
Bhubaneshwar.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off 181 vehicles to provide livestock healthcare and animal
husbandry services at the doorstep of people.
☞ Odisha government expected ₹10,000 crore investment over 5-10 years in the stainless park being
developed by Jindal Stainless on 300 acres for the downstream industry.
☞ To empower the retailer community in the states of Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, the National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC), working under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship (MSDE), announced a partnership with Coca-Cola India to launch the Super Power
Retailer Program under the Skill India Mission.
☞ Odisha Police launched the Cyber Safety Campaign 2023 with the primary objective of enhancing
awareness and educating the public about the multifaceted aspects of cybercrime.
☞ Odisha Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved the Scheme titled ‘Location Accessible
Multi-modal Initiative’ (LAccMI) to establish a seamless public transport network across the State from GP
level to the State Capital.

PUNJAB
Chandigarh (Capital) – Bhagwant Singh Mann (CM) – Banwarilal Purohit (Governor) – Punjabi
(Language)
☞ Punjab’s state government will provide incentives worth around Rs 300 crore in the next three years to
promote the adoption of electric vehicles and reduce pollution. These incentives will be provided on
electric two-wheelers, e-cycles, e-rickshaws, e-autos and electric light commercial vehicles.
☞ The Punjab Cabinet approved the new sports policy, 2023, which lays emphadis on training, incentives,
robust infrastructure, and jobs for athletes.
☞ Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann laid the foundation stone of a Saragarhi memorial in Ferozpur
and directed officials to complete it within next six months.
RAJASTHAN
Jaipur (Capital) - Ashok Gehlot (CM) - Kalraj Mishra (Governor) – Hindi (Language)
☞ The Rajasthan government in had sanctioned funds amounting to ₹13.48 crore for development projects
at temples and dargahs in three districts to promote pilgrimage and religious tourism.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation
stone of 11 NH projects worth Rs 5600 Crore in Pratapgarh, Rajasthan.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate and lay the foundation stone of development projects worth
over 24,300 crore rupees in Bikaner.
☞ The Rajasthan government is setting up facilities for hi-tech teaching in educational institutions of the
state. As part of that, 66 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) will had smart classrooms.
☞ Minister of State for Transport Brijendra Singh Ola said the Rajasthan government received Rs 1,024.4
crore green tax between 2018-19 and 2022-23.
☞ The Ashok Gehlot government tabled the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill, 2023, which
effectively seeks to cover the entire adult population of the state with guaranteed wages or pension.
☞ Rajasthan government tabled the Rajasthan Platform Based GIG Workers (registration and welfare) Bill,
2023 - country's first such - which seeks to guarantee social security to gig workers.
☞ The Rajasthan Cabinet approved the proposal of a high-level committee to form 19 new districts and
three new divisions in the State.
☞ Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had approved a financial proposal of Rs 11.73 crore for setting up a
cybercrime investigation centre at the Rajasthan Police Academy.
☞ The Rajasthan government plans to allocate over Rs 5,200 crore to strengthen the road network in the
state during this financial year.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, addressed Sahakar Kisan Sammelan in
Gangapur City, Rajasthan.
☞ Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had approved an increase in minimum wages for labourers by Rs
26 per day, will be effective from January 01, 2023.
☞ Rajasthan's Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot unveiled a sprawling 30-hectare park built at a cost of Rs 120
crore to provide a serene and stress-free environment for coaching institute students.
☞ Udaipur, the city of lakes, in Rajasthan is all set to become the country’s first wetland city.
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone and dedicate multiple development
projects worth about 5000 crore rupees in sectors like road, rail, aviation, health, and higher education at
Jodhpur.
☞ Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the formation of three new districts in poll-bound Rajasthan,
taking their total number to 53.
☞ Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a proposal to offer a 90% discount on bus fares for
girls and women in Rajasthan who obtain monthly roadways passes.

SIKKIM
Gangtok (Capital) – Prem Singh Tamang (CM) – Lakshman Acharya (Governor) – Nepali,
Sikkimese, Lepcha, English (Language)
☞ Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang laid the foundation stone for the Sikkim Organic Agriculture University
(SOAU) at Mondegaon in Soreng district.
TAMIL NADU
Chennai (Capital) – MK Stalin (CM) – RN Ravi (Governor) – Tamil (Language)
☞ As many as 500 Urban Health and Wellness Centres (UHWCs), spread across the State were virtually
inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin.
☞ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin inaugurated completed projects worth Rs 1367 crore in Salem, and
laid the foundation for new initiatives at an estimated Rs 236 crore.
☞ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin laid foundation stone for setting up a Fintech City and a Fintech
tower, both of which are expected to create about 90,000 job opportunities jointly.
☞ Investments worth Rs 1,723.05 crore were confirmed at the International Micro Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) Day function held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister M K Stalin while a special
government scheme for SC/ST entrepreneurs was also launched.
☞ Tamil Nadu Start-up and Innovation Mission, (StartupTN), functioning under the Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, as the nodal agency for start-up and
Innovation, and Guidance Tamil Nadu had decided to work jointly to boost the ecosystem for investments
across industries
☞ Chennai-based Atsuya Technologies had been selected to participate in Class 7 of Google's Startup
Accelerator Program.
☞ Aviation regulator DGCA had given approval for the first flying training organisation in Tamil Nadu.
☞ Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting L. Murugan flagged off the newly constructed renowned
heritage train, the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (Ooty Train), at Mettupalayam Railway Station which runs
between Mettupalayam and Udhagamandalam.
☞ Sol India Pvt Ltd, an industrial and medical gas manufacturer, and supplier, will set up an integrated, state-
of-the-art new gas manufacturing plant at a cost of ₹145 crore at SIPCOT, Ranipet.
☞ Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), through its MAK lubricants division, had introduced a
revolutionary product in Agri Spray segment with the launch of MAK ADJOL Banana, an adjuvant for the
fungicides used in Banana cultivation, in association with the National Research Centre for Banana
(NRCB).
☞ Tamil Nadu had the highest amount of outstanding debt among all States and Union Territories. It was
followed by West Bengal (₹6.08-lakh crore), Rajasthan (₹5.37-lakh crore) and Karnataka (₹5.35-lakh
crore). The Tamil Nadu government launched several green initiatives in partnership with the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
☞ Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman laid the foundation stone for the world-class museum at
Adichanallur, near Srivaikundam in Thoothukudi district.
☞ Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) will set up a new manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu with an
investment of Rs 515 crore over the next five years.
☞ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin unveiled the 'logo' for the State government's ambitious Global
Investors Meet scheduled to be held on January 7 and 8 in 2024.
☞ Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) CEO Ms. Anita Shah Akella, flagged off a cycle
rally via video conference, with more than 50 girl students from Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School in
Kanchipuram participating in the cycle rally on the theme “From Unawareness to Financial
Independence.” on occasion of 77th Independence Day.
☞ The country’s first common testing centre for unmanned aerial systems (drones) will be established at an
outlay of Rs 45 crore in Tamil Nadu.

☞ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced of ₹926.88-crore package for fishermen.
☞ Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched the Chief Minister’s Green Fellowship Programme (CMGFP) at the
Secretariat and met the 40 Green Fellows selected for the programme.
☞ During the past two years, Tamil Nadu had attracted a total of 241 investment proposals in the
manufacturing sector to the tune of ₹2.97 lakh crores.
☞ The Tamil Nadu government in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, hosted a public-private
discussion for establishing the ‘India Centre for Advanced Manufacturing’ in Chennai.
☞ The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) in Tirupathur district, Tamil Nadu, had set a new world
record by constructing 1546 farm ponds in 208 village panchayat in just 30 days.
☞ Chief Minister MK Stalin launched the Revamped Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Policy 2023.
☞ Tamil Nadu's government approves subsidies for Garuda Aerospace, an Indian drone startup, as part of
its agricultural mechanization program.
☞ Australia will be a partner country for the Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet in January 2024.
TELANGANA
Hyderabad (Capital) – K Chandrashekar Rao (CM) – Tamilisai Soundarajan (Governor) –Telugu
(Language)
 Telangana's per capita income grew to Rs 3,17,115 from Rs 1,24,104, even as the Gross State Domestic
Product went up to Rs 13 lakh crore from a little over Rs 5 lakh in the past nine years.
 An international plastic expo, titled HIPLEX 2023, will be held at Hitex in Hyderabad from August 4 to 7.
 The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for several crucial infrastructure
development projects in Telangana worth around Rs 6,100 crores in Warangal, Telangana.
 A festive atmosphere prevailed in Hyderabad especially in parts of Old city as the annual Bonalu (बोनालू )
festival during the Hindu Lunar month of Ashada Masam (आषाड़ा मासम) was celebrated.
 Government of Telangana and World Economic Forum (WEF) launched ‘Saagu Baagu’ project phase-I
Insights report. Telangana’s “Saagu Baagu” (agricultural advancement) pilot project with the guidance of
the World Economic Forum (WEF) had impacted the lives of over 7,000 chilli farmers in the State and the
second phase of the project is set to take off.
 At Rs 3,08,732 in 2022-23, Telangana leads the list of Indian states with the highest per capita income at
current prices, data released by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) showed.
 A four-day international plastic expo HIPLEX 2023, being organised by the Telangana and Andhra Plastics
Manufacturers Association, got under way at Hitex in Hyderabad.
 India’s first Agricultural Data Exchange (ADeX) and Agriculture Data Management Framework (ADMF)
was launched by Telangana IT and Industries Minister K Taraka Ramarao in Hyderabad.
 Telangana government had announced a farm loan waiver up to ₹99,999, amounting to ₹7753.43 crore
rupees, of over 16,66,000 farmers will be cleared.
 The Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) Department of the Government
of Telangana and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will be
collaborating to implement the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) after
a Letter of Intent was signed.
 The Central government had decided to take up 30 railway projects including 15 new railway lines in
Telangana with a total outlay of ₹83,543 crores.
 Corning Inc. had chosen Telangana to set up their gorilla glass manufacturing facility, a first-of-its-kind
investment in India.
 The Telangana government and UAE-based leading cooling utility player Tabreed had decided to
collaborate for developing cooling infrastructure in industrial parks, including the proposed Hyderabad
Pharma City, as well as a few other places.
 Telangana had created history opening nine new medical colleges in different districts in one go. Chief
Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao virtually inaugurated the medical colleges set up in Karimnagar,
Kamareddy, Khammam, Jayashankar Bhupalpalli, Kumrambheem Asifabad, Nirmal, Rajanna Sircilla,
Vikarabad and Jangaon districts.

TRIPURA
Agartala (Capital) – Manik Saha (CM) – Satyadev Narayan Arya (Governor) – Bengali, English,
Kokborok (Language)
☞ Tripura Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha inaugurated a one-day National Conference on Buyers and Sellers
of agricultural products in, Agartala.
☞ Tripura presented state budget for 2023-24 with an outlay of Rs 27,654.40 crore, with around Rs 5,358.70
crore allocated for capital expenditure.
☞ Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the ‘GST Bhawan’,
a project for CGST, CX and Customs Office, Agartala, Guwahati Zone under CBIC, at Agartala, Tripura.
☞ Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha inaugurated the 'Weekend Tourist Hub' in front of the historic
Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala.
☞ Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has launched the e-cabinet system at the state secretariat to develop
digital infrastructure in the state.
☞ The Tripura government had allocated a plot of 2.36 acre to the National School of Drama (NSD) to set up
a campus in the state.
☞ Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha launched the “Yuba Tripura, Natun Tripura, Atmanirbhar Tripura" to
encourage youth to set up industrial and business units in the state.
UTTAR PRADESH
Lucknow (Capital) – Yogi Adityanath (CM) – Anandiben Patel (Governor) – Hindi (Language)
☞ The Lal Bahadur Shastri International (LBSI) Airport,Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in this city is the first in India
to provide a reading room was supported by National Book Trust (NBT).
☞ Gram Vikas Yojana Distribution program under Chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission
(KVIC) Shri Manoj Kumar was organized in Nanpur village of Garh Mukteshwar tehsil, Hapur, Uttar
Pradesh conducted by the KVIC's Divisional office Meerut.
☞ Realty firm Group 108 said it had proposed to invest Rs 2,000 crore to develop new projects in Noida and
Greater Noida as part of its expansion plan.
☞ Uttar Pradesh emerged as the largest buyer of goods and services among all states and Union Territories
from government portal GeM in 2022-23 procured worth Rs 12,152 crore.
☞ Uttar Pradesh had received private and cooperative sector investment of more than Rs 5,400 crore in 31
greenfield alcohol distillation plants across the state.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stones for ten National
Highways (NH) projects worth more than Rs 8,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government had approved investment proposals worth about Rs 36 lakh crore that
emerged out of a memorandum of understanding signed during the state's investor summit a year ago,
chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
☞ In a ceremony held at the Yogiraj Baba Gambhirnath Auditorium, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath
inaugurated the ‘Sampark Smartshala-Smart Block’ programme.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off two Vande Bharat Express trains in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh,
increasing the number of semi-high speed trains in the country to 25.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled 29 development projects worth Rs 12,100 crores in his Varanasi
parliamentary constituency. Prime minister launched the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction-Son
Nagar railway line of the Dedicated Freight Corridor.
☞ Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, officially unveiled India’s first park, Ved Van Park,
with a Vedic theme in Sector 78 in Noida.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government is looking to boost the state’s agricultural value by investing about Rs
3,800 crore in agri start-ups during the financial year 2023-24 (FY24).
☞ Raksha Mantri and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh will inaugurate and lay the foundation of many
development projects today in Lucknow.

☞ The Uttar Pradesh Government had launched five DTH television channels under the PM e-Vidya
program to enhance children's learning experiences at home.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet approved a policy that aims at making the state a water tourism and
adventure sports destination.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government will groom nearly 3 million rural women associated with self-help groups
(SHGs) as micro agri-preneurs, a move the state hopes would increase their annual income to at least Rs 1
lakh in the next three years.
☞ President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the first Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show in India Expo
Centre and Mart in Greater Noida.
UTTARAKHAND
Dehradun (Winter), Gairsain (Summer) (Capital) - Pushkar Singh Dhami (CM) -Gurmit Singh
(Governor) – Hindi (Language)
☞ In Uttarakhand, a four-day millet festival (Shri Ann Mahotsav) began in Dehradun to create public
awareness about the health benefits of coarse grain and deliberate on the state's potential to grow the
crop in this category.
☞ Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami laid the foundation stone for first Aroma Park in the
state.
☞ Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated Vidya Samiksha Kendra in Dehradun.
☞ Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami laid the foundation stone for various projects at a cost of
Rs 941.39 lakh in the Bhalla Stadium complex in Haridwar.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation multiple
development projects worth about Rs 4200 crore in sectors including rural development, road, power,
irrigation, drinking water, horticulture, education, health and disaster management, among others in
Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand.
WEST BENGAL
Kolkata (Capital) - Mamata Banerjee (CM) - C. V. Ananda Bose (Governor) – Bengali & English
(Language)
 Kolkata Metro achieved a new milestone when a Metro rake completed a journey under the bed of river
Hooghly through a tunnel 32 metres below water level.
 As many as one thousand projects in agriculture and allied sectors had been sanctioned with a total
investment of ₹1,325 crores as a part of the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund rolled out by the West Bengal
government.
 The West Bengal government will build a greenfield modern dairy project worth Rs 65.48 crore at
Haringhata in Nadia district, the first since 1970s.
 President Droupadi Murmu launched 'My Bengal, Addiction Free Bengal' Campaign under the 'Nasha
Mukt Bharat Abhiyan', organized by Brahma Kumaris at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata.
DADRA AND NAGAR HADLI AND DAMAN AND DIU

Daman (Capital) - Praful Khoda Patel (Administrator) – Hindi & English (Language)
☞ Prime Minister inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for various projects worth 4 thousand 800 crore
rupees at Silvasa, Dadra and Nagar Hadli.
☞ These include the first-ever Medical College- NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute at Silvasa.

JAMMU & KASHMIR

Srinagar (May–October) & Jammu (Nov-April) (Capital) – Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor) –
Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi, English (Language)
☞ Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated the two-day ''Lavender Festival'' in Jammu and Kashmir's
Bhaderwah Valley and said the Union Territory had emerged as the lavender capital of India and a
prominent agri-startup destination
☞ Hon’ble Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri,
and Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir Shri Manoj Sinha laid the centre’s foundation
stone Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited is funding the construction of National Disaster
Mitigation Centre and Yatri Niwas in Sidhra, Jammu.
☞ Dr Jitendra Singh while addressing media on the sidelines of an event on '9 years of Seva’ 9 years of
achievements of the government at Udhampur told that, the ‘Udhampur-Doda-Kathua’ Parliamentary
Constituency is the most developed constituencies in India among the 550 Parliamentary Constituencies
in the country having seen the tremendous development in last nine years under PM Narendra Modi.
☞ In Jammu and kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha addressed the 12th Residential Meet of
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) members in public service at Srinagar.
☞ Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of a central forensic science laboratory in
Samba and inaugurated several development projects in Jammu.
☞ Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud laid the foundation stone of the new complex of Jammu and
Kashmir and Ladakh High Court in Raika area of Jammu.
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today inaugurated a multimedia
exhibition of the Central Bureau of Communication (CBC) at Srinagar.
☞ As a part of last point delivery programme ‘I Had Space’, Amazon India had announced to open its first
ever floating store in famous Dal Lake in Srinagar.
☞ Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the traditional two days Bangus valley
festival in the Kupwara district, along with Chinar Corps Commander Lieutenant General DP Panday and
became a part of the two-day celebrations.
☞ Indian Army in collaboration with civil agencies organized the Gulmarg Festival at the Ice Skating Rink
near Gondola Base in Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir in order to boost tourism and promote local talent.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari in a post said in Jammu & Kashmir the
construction of a 250- meter viaduct (2-lane) in conjunction with a 395- meter (2-lane) Maroge Tunnel, at
an estimated cost of ₹82 Crores has been successfully completed.
NEW DELHI
Delhi (Capital) – Arvind Kejriwal (CM) – Vinai Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor) – Hindi
(Language)
☞ Shashank Manu had set a Guinness World Record for covering all 286 metro stations of the Capital city
within 15 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds.
☞ The Aurangzeb Lane in the Lutyens' Delhi had been renamed Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lane. The NDMC had in
August 2015 changed the name of Aurangzeb Road to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road.
☞ Promotion and increased use of Hindi help us in communicating with a common national voice despite our
wide diversity, stated Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya during his
address at the meeting of Hindi Salahkar Samiti in Delhi.
☞ Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister for Civil Aviation and Steel inaugurated a new runway and a
dual-way elevated taxiway at New Delhi International Airport.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah inaugurated the Aviation Security
Control Center (ASCC) of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Mahipalpur campus in New Delhi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated newly constructed the International Exhibition-cum-
Convention Centre (IECC) complex 'Bharat Mandapam' in New Delhi.

☞ Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Shri Giriraj Singh launched the Annual Capacity Building
Plan of Department of Rural Development, Department of Land Resources and Ministry of Panchayati Raj
in New Delhi.
☞ iHub Anubhuti-IIITD Foundation (Technology Innovation Hub of IIIT-Delhi) and iHub Foundation for
Cobotics (IHFC, Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi) have inaugurated their joint medical facility,
‘MCC-Medical Cobotics Centre’ on the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi
campus.
SCHEMES
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
☞ Under Azadi ka Amrit Kaal, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) celebrates a new milestone of ensuring safe and clean
drinking water through taps to more than 12 Crore rural households of the country.
☞ The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had clarified by a way of notification that TDS under Section
194A will be applicable on the interest earned from Mahila Samman Savings Scheme.
☞ The PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and
Urban Affairs on June 01, 2020 for providing affordable Working Capital loan to street vendors to resume
their livelihoods that had been adversely affected due to Covid-19 lockdown.
☞ Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced three major schemes for disaster management worth over Rs
8,000 crore.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi had lauded the new initiative of celebrating ‘Pradhan Mantri
Matru Vandana Yojana’ as ‘God Bharai' ceremony in Dausa, Rajasthan.
☞ The union ministry of new and renewable energy had extended the scheme for ‘Development of Solar
Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Park Projects’ till FY26.
☞ Before the start of Jal Jeevan Mission, only 5.16 lakh families had access to pure drinking water from the
tap. Now more than 1.30 crore families had access to pure drinking water from the tap in Uttar Pradesh.
☞ Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani launched a scheme to provide shelter, food
and legal aid for pregnant minor victims of sexual assault who had no family support.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah chaired a meeting with Ministers of
Disaster Management of the States/Union Territories in New Delhi
☞ Union Home Ministry had launched a scheme for the expansion and modernization of fire services in the
states with a total outlay of five thousand crore rupees.
☞ The National Pension Scheme (NPS) is expected to add 13 lakh new subscribers in the current financial
year, PFRDA chairman Deepak Mohanty.
☞ The government's pension scheme for unorganised workers, Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan
(PM-SYM), saw the exit of about 21% subscribers in less than six months, raising questions on the viability
of the scheme.
☞ Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Bhupender Yadav visited Tamil Nadu and launched a
mangrove plantation programme in Kovalam creek in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district.
☞ The government is considering a comprehensive scheme to promote coal gasification projects for both
government public sector undertakings (PSUs) and the private sector with an outlay of Rs 6000 crore.
☞ Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry
and Dairying announced the launch of a new credit guarantee scheme.
☞ Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched the registration for the Congress government's 'Gruha
Lakshmi' scheme, which provides ₹2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family in the
state.
☞ ‘Seva Bhoj Yojna’ is a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
☞ The central government had extended the unemployment scheme, the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana,
under the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation for a period of two years up to June 30, 2024.

☞ Under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), the growth in per capita consumption increased from
3.01 to 3.71 in FY 2022-23, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
☞ Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel launched RCS UDAN 5.2.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 14th installment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi
(PM-Kisan) scheme worth over Rs 17,000 crore to more than 8.5 crores farmers on July 27, 2023.
☞ Ministry of Tribal Affairs is implementing ‘Pradhan Mantri Vanbandhu KalyanYojana (PMVKY)’ which
includes many schemes for development and welfare of tribal communities.
☞ A total of 108 projects worth Rs.2273.44 crore had been sanctioned under “North East Special
Infrastructure Development Scheme” (NESIDS) during the period from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
☞ As on 30.06.2023, 31.14 lakhs handicraft artisans had been registered under PEHCHAN scheme across the
country to benefit of this programme. These registered artisans with Pehchan card can avail the benefits of
the National Handicraft Development Programme (NHDP) and Comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster
Development Scheme (CHCDS) of Ministry of Textiles.
☞ The government launched the Vivad se Vishwas-2 scheme for settling contractual disputes involving the
government and government undertakings.
☞ Keeping in view India's vision of becoming 'Atmanirbhar', production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes for
14 key sectors had been announced with an outlay of Rs 1.97 trillion to enhance India's manufacturing
capabilities and exports.
☞ The Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) Scheme came into existence in 1998 under then
Planning Commission.
☞ National Health Authority (NHA) had launched Digital Health Incentive Scheme (DHIS) for digitization of
patient's health records.
☞ Ministry of Minority Affairs implemented ‘Naya Savera’ scheme (‘Free Coaching and Allied’ scheme).
☞ Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare launched Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization Scheme
(SMAM) in 2014-15. Under it, subsidy is provided for purchase of various types of agricultural equipment
and machinery to the extent of 40-50% for States other than NER (North Eastern Region) States and for
NER States it is 100% limited to Rs.1.25 lakhs per beneficiary.
☞ Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are the top three states with the highest number of beneficiaries of
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMMY) in 2022-23.
☞ The union cabinet approved ‘PM-eBus Sewa’ for augmenting city bus operation under which will spent
₹57,613 crores on 10,000 e-buses will be deployed across cities in the country and will support bus
operations for 10 years.
☞ The Centre had rolled out a Rs 5,000 crore research-linked-incentive (RLI) scheme for pharmaceuticals
and med-tech sector to strengthen the research infra in the country and promote more industry-academia
linkages for research and development (R&D).
☞ The government will launch the 'Mera Bill Mera Adhikar' invoice incentive scheme, which offers cash prize
from ₹10,000 to ₹1 crore, from September 1, starting with six States and Union Territories. The GST lucky
draw 'Mera Bill Mera Adhikar' scheme was launched in six states and Union Territories (Assam, Gujarat,
Haryana, Puducherry, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu).
☞ As per the 6th census report on minor irrigation schemes released by Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department
of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. Maharashtra is the second-highest
State that possesses the largest number of minor irrigation (MI) schemes in the country after Uttar
Pradesh.
☞ The government had decided to extend the Rs 25,938-crore production-linked incentive scheme for the
automotive sector by one year.
☞ The Union Cabinet approved the Promotion of Research & Innovation in Pharma-MedTech sector (PRIP)
scheme with an outlay of ₹5,000 crores for five years, from 2023-24 to 2027-28.
☞ The Centre had extended the date of inviting applications under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI)
Scheme in Textiles for a further two months.
☞ The Pradhan Mantri Dakshata Aur Kushalata Sampanna Hitgrahi (PM-DAKSH) Yojana, a Central Sector
Scheme, was launched during 2020-21.
☞ The Centre is in the process of announcing a second round of production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for
processing of millet-based foods in the country.
☞ The cabinet had approved the central sector industrial development scheme 2017 (IDS, 2017) for
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand for additional fund requirement to meet the committed liabilities
under the scheme up to 2028-29.

☞ Union Minister Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala launched a unique
program, Matsya Sampada Jagrukta Abhiyan on the occasion of completion of three successful years of
implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matasya Sampada Yojna (PMMSY).
☞ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched ‘PM Vishwakarma Scheme’ for traditional artisans and
craftspeople on the occasion of Vishwakarma Jayanti, from New Delhi and also launched the PM
Vishwakarma logo, tagline and portal.
☞ Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd. (TRIFED) under Ministry of Tribal
Affairs, would be launching the phase 2 of the ‘Promotion of Tribal Products for North East Region’ (PTP-
NER 2.0) scheme, from 21st September to 10th November, 2023.
☞ The country has achieved yet another major milestone under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen)
Phase II with three-fourth of the total villages in the country i.e., 75% villages achieving ODF Plus status
under Phase II of the Mission.
☞ The Centre extended the tenure of the export-boosting scheme Remission of Duties and Taxes on
Exported Products (RoDTEP) for nine more months.
ANDHRA PRADESH
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy flagged off over 2,000 tractors along with other
farm machinery worth Rs 361 crore under the government's subsidised 'YSR Yandra Seva Pathakam'
scheme.
☞ Andhra Pradesh government will be implementing a new Guaranteed Pension Scheme (GPS) for its
employees.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Generation Corporation (APGenco) and Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC) will
jointly construct three new projects with an aggregate capacity of 98 MW on the upstream and
downstream of Machkund Project.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy distributed free kits to more than 43 lakh students
under the 'Jagananna Vidya Kanuka' scheme in Palnadu district.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy disbursed Rs 142 crore financial assistance to
18,883 newly married eligible couples under YSR Kalyanamasthu and YSR Shaadi Tohfa schemes.
☞ Under the 'YSR Sunna Vaddi' scheme Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had
disbursed interest reimbursement money into the bank accounts of more than 1 crore eligible women.
☞ Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship launched Direct Bank Transfer
(DBT) in National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS).
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Vishwakarma Yojana with an allocation of Rs 13,000-
15,000 crore for people belonging to Other Backward Castes (OBC).
☞ The state government released Rs 109.74 crores to 1,46,324 tenant farmers under the YSR Rythu Bharosa
scheme.
☞ The Andhra Pradesh government disbursed Rs 124 crore into the bank accounts of 1.2 lakh fishermen
families under the 'YSR Matsyakara Bharosa' scheme as financial assistance during the breeding season
between April 15 and June 14 when they refrain from venturing to sea.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the 'Jagananna Amma Vodi' scheme for
the fourth year, under which financial assistance of Rs 6,393 crore will be deposited into the bank
accounts of 43 lakh beneficiaries, at Kurupam in Parvathipuram Manyam district.
☞ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy disbursed Rs 194 crore financial assistance to
80,686 handloom weavers as part of the 'YSR Nethanna Nestham' scheme at Venkatagiri in Tirupati
district.
☞ Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the construction of 50,793 houses for
the poor women beneficiaries under Navaratnalu Pedalandariki Illu at 25 layouts in the R5 Zone of
Amaravati.
☞ Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has unveiled the “Jagananna Arogya Suraksha” program in Andhra
Pradesh, bringing affordable healthcare to the people.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH

☞ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu had announced the rollout of a new scheme titled
'Mukhya Mantri Shramik Kalyan Yojana' for the welfare of the labour force of the state.
☞ Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari in a post said in Arunachal Pradesh
under the Setu Bandhan Scheme approval has been granted for 7 bridge projects with a cumulative cost
of ₹118.50 Crores, in the fiscal year 2023-24.
ASSAM
☞ Assam government will roll out MODI scheme which stands for 'Most Outstanding District Initiative' with
Rs 100 crore to reward the cleanest district.
CHHATTISGARH
☞ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will transfer a total amount Rs 20.18 crore to the
beneficiaries of Godhan Nyaya Yojana in a program organised at his residence office in Raipur.
☞ The Chhattisgarh government had procured cow-dung worth over Rs 247 crore from cattle herders over
the past three years.
☞ Chhattisgarh government had announced new housing scheme named Gramin Awas Nyay Yojana to
provide free housing for poor in the state, there are certain families who are not eligible for PM Awas
Yojana based on 2011 SECC list, Gramin Awas Nyay Yojana will cover such families based on the new
survey conducted by Department of Panchayat & Rural Development
☞ Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel transferred Rs 2,055.6 crore into the accounts of beneficiaries as part of
the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana (RGKNY) and other schemes.
☞ Under the Mukhyamantri Gramin Awas Nyay Yojana, the Chhattisgarh government has announced plans
to provide cemented houses for 47,000 impoverished individuals residing in the state's rural areas.
GOA
☞ “Gramin Mitra” was launched by Goa government to provide doorstep delivery of government services
across the state and promote digital empowerment in rural areas.
GUJARAT
☞ In Gujarat, the state government had doubled the insurance cover under Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya
Yojana.
☞ Government of Gujarat had implemented One District One Product (ODOP) scheme with a grant of 58
crores rupees to promote its indigenous products at the international level.
☞ Gujarat State Minister of Tourism, Forest and Environment and Climate Change, Mulubhai Bera, marked
the commencement of live trading of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Ahmedabad.
HIMACHAL PRADESH
☞ The ‘Sashakt Mahila Rin Yojna’ is an initiative of Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Bank (HPSCB),
which will provide loans to women for pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams, engage in livelihood
activities, fulfil their day to day needs and uplift their families.

☞ Himachal Pradesh state government had decided to relax the provisions of the Vidhayak Ksetra Vikas
Nidhi Yojana (VKVNY) during the financial year 2023-24 by including protection works of retaining
walls/breast walls and channelisation of nullahs under it.
☞ Aimed at providing appropriate care, protection, development, and self-reliance to orphans, specially-
abled children, destitute women, and elderly individuals, the Himachal Pradesh government launched first
of its kind scheme - ‘Mukhyamantri Sukh Ashraya Yojana’.
☞
JHARKHAND
☞ Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren announced the launch of 'Abua Awas Yojna' at a cost of Rs
15,000 crore to build homes for the needy in the next two years.
☞ Jharkhand government had approved the proposal of Mukhyamantri Rajya Samajik Suraksha Pension
Yojana Rs 1,000 per month for transgender people under the social assistance scheme.
KARNATAKA
☞ Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar launched free travel
scheme for women in Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and Bengaluru Metropolitan
Transport Corporation (BMTC) under 'Shakti Yojana'.
☞ The Karnataka Government Led by Shri. Siddaramaiah and Shri DK Shivakumar had launched the Gruha
Jyothi Scheme 2023 under which all the households in Karnataka will get Free Electricity up to 200 Units.
☞ The Congress government in Karnataka, which is struggling to procure rice for its ambitious Anna Bhagya
scheme received a ray of hope after the Aam Admi Party (AAP) government in Punjab agreed in-principle
to supply the requisite quantum of rice even as the State government is trying to procure rice from
national-level cooperative agencies.
☞ The Siddaramaiah government had projected to spend around Rs 52,000 crore in the Congress five poll
guarantees but even then it managed to retain the fiscal deficit at 2.6 per cent of the gross state domestic
product (GSDP) for 2023-24, the same as was pegged by the previous Bommai government in the full
budget for the current financial year.
☞ Karnataka government under Gruha Lakshmi Scheme at a function in Kudmul Ranga Rao Town Hall,
Dakshina Kannada.
KERALA
☞ The Kerala government had launched a new scheme to provide employment opportunities to the
transgender community in diverse and innovative sectors.
☞ The Kerala government has announced an insurance scheme dedicated to the MSMEs in the state against
business risks and instil confidence in their operations.
MADHYA PRADESH
☞ Madhya Pradesh government is launching a unique scheme to make women financially independent. In
this scheme, named Ladli Bahna, each woman will be given 1000 rupees per month.
☞ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Rs 1,000 per month that is being given to
women beneficiaries as part of state government's Ladli Behna scheme will be hiked three times in a
phased manner.
☞ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan implemented the Mukhyamantri Seekho-Kamao
yojna means 'Chief Minister's Learn-Earn' scheme.

MAHARASHTRA
☞ The Maharashtra government launched a new initiative Shadan Aplya Dari (government at your
doorstep), aimed at providing citizens the necessary information and full benefits of various schemes.
☞ The Maharashtra Cabinet announced the implementation of Bhagwan Birsa Munda Road Scheme that
aims to enhance road connectivity in tribal areas of the 17 districts of the state.
☞ Maharashtra Government has approved the ‘Lek Ladki’ (Beloved Daughter) scheme.
MANIPUR
☞ In Manipur, seventy-five percent of households received tap water under the Jal Jeevan Mission which is
a centrally sponsored scheme of the Central Government, said the State Public Health Engineering
Department Minister L. Sushildro.
☞ First National Sports University of country in the North-eastern state of Manipur at a total sanctioned cost
of Rs.643.34 crore.
MEGHALAYA
☞ Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma unveiled solar mission with the aim of achieving an installed
power capacity of 200-300 MW.
ODISHA
☞ The Odisha state government will soon launch ‘Mo Jungle Jami Yojana’ to saturate recognition of rights
pertaining to the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and speed up the post-rights recognition activities within the
prescribed time frame.
☞ The Odisha government will provide free uniforms to students of classes 9 and 10 in state-run and aided
schools under the 'Mukhymantri Chhatra Chatri Paridhan Yojana'.
☞ Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the ‘Aam Pokhari’ scheme to revive ponds lying unused in the
urban areas of the state.
☞ The Odisha Cabinet approved ₹4,000 crores “Ama Odisha, Nabin Odisha (Our Odisha, New Odisha)”
scheme for rural development and to spread “Lord Jagannath culture”.
☞ Odisha Cabinet approved Mission Shakti Scooter Yojana to provide mobility support to SHG federations.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Sampoorna Pushti Yojana’ in the
state for fulfilling the nutritional needs among the mothers, adolescent girls and children, in addition to
this CM also launched the ‘Pada Pushti Yojana’.
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik disbursed Rs 900 crore an amount of Rs 2,000 each was directly
transferred to the bank accounts of 43.88 lakh small and marginal farmers and other 68,750 landless
farmers in Odisha under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA)
scheme for Rabi crop.
PUNJAB
☞ Punjab is the leading beneficiary among states under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana (ABRY), a
scheme initiated by the Centre during the pandemic to give a fillip to formal employment.

☞ Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann rolled out a ‘Student Police Cadet’ (SPC) scheme to make students
familiar with functioning of the police department.
RAJASTHAN
☞ Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot released a payment of ₹146.74 crore to the ‘Labharthis’
(beneficiaries) of Palanhar Yojana.
☞ The state government will incur Rs 700 crore during this financial year in providing subsidies for
wholesome meals to the needy under the Indira Rasoi Yojana.
☞ Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot distributed smartphones among women under a new scheme.
TAMIL NADU
☞ Over the past five years, the Central government had approved project proposals to the tune of ₹897.55
crore for development of fisheries in Tamil Nadu, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and
Dairying, Parshottam Rupala.
☞ Under the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Thiranari Thervu Thittam, 1,000 students would be chosen from
government schools to receive guidance in premier institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras.
☞ Women with an annual family income of less than ₹2.5 lakh; family land holding not exceeding 5 acres
(wetland) and 10 acres (dryland); and annual household electricity consumption below 3,600 units would
be eligible to avail themselves of a monthly aid of ₹1,000 in Tamil Nadu under ‘Kalaignar Magalir Urimai
Thogai’ scheme
☞ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin inaugurated a scheme to provide 50,000 more free agriculture
electricity connections to farmers.
☞ Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated the Chief Minister's Breakfast Schemeat a Panchayat School in
Thirukkuvalai, Nagapattinam district.
☞ The Tamil Nadu Government launched Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam wherein One Crore Women will
be benefited as they will be paid 1,000 rupees - per month.
☞ The Tamil Nadu government announced a new Samadhan scheme with waivers and concessions to pave
the way for the settlement of the pending tax dues of about ₹25,000 crores, of which a majority are under
the erstwhile Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax and other legacy tax legislations.
TELANGANA
☞ In Telangana, the Department of Posts had released a special cover on the Mahila Samman Savings
scheme.
☞ Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao established a unique program called Geeta Karmikula
Bhima or insurance for toddy tappers that offers toddy tappers an insurance cover of Rs. 5 lakhs.
☞ The Telangana government had released Rs 65,000 crore to over 70 lakh farmers under the Rythu
Bandhu Scheme during the past five years.
☞ Since the launch of Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana, Telangana State had achieved 100 percent
household coverage of banking services extending them to all sections of people.
☞ The Telangana Government had decided to provide one lakh rupees financial assistance under the
Financial Assistance Scheme to the poor among the minority communities, on the lines of backward
classes.
☞ Telangana State government enhanced its financial assistance to Divyangs under the Aasara pension
scheme.

UTTAR PRADESH
☞ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the 'Matrubhumi Yojna' with an aim to help
people working in cities or abroad to ''reconnect'' with their villages, and donate money for development
projects, if they so wish.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government had finally launched the portal (https://familyid.up.gov.in) for creation of
Family ID under 'One Family One Identity' scheme to establish a live comprehensive database of family
units of the state and to connect at least one member of each family with employment.
☞ In a bid to make Uttar Pradesh a leading state in the field of milk development and milk production as per
the intention of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Nand Baba Milk Mission was launched at a cost of Rs
1,000 crore.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government had given administrative and financial approval of an advance amount of
Rs 100 crore as state share for the smooth operation of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana under the Medical Department (Family Welfare)
☞ The government launched ‘Swadesh Darshan Scheme’ (SDS) in the year 2014-15 for integrated
development of Theme-Based Tourist Circuits in the country and there are 08 projects of identified
thematic circuits in Uttar Pradesh.
☞ Ghaziabad Police launched the ‘Savera Yojna’, an initiative of the Uttar Pradesh Police, to provide security
and quick police assistance to senior citizens in case of any emergency.
☞ On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced an increase of Rs 10,000 in
the amount of the Mukhyamantri Kanya Sumangla Yojana from 2024-25.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to implement the Mukhyamantri Khet Suraksha Yojana across
the State in order to protect crops from stray animals.
NEW DELHI
☞ The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, distributed Honey Bee-Boxes and Toolkits to
130 beneficiaries.
☞ India is now all set to open a climate change and health hub in New Delhi in partnership with the Asian
Development Bank (ADB).
BANKING AND FINANCE
Monetary Policy Rate (As of August 01)

Repo Rate 6.50%
Standing Deposit Facility Rate 6.25%
Marginal Standing Facility Rate 6.75%
Bank Rate 6.75%
Reverse Repo Rate 3.35%
Cash Reserve Ratio 4.50%
Statutory Liquidity Ratio 18.00%
Small Savings Scheme

Rates of interest from 01.07.2023 to Rates of interest from 01.10.2023 to
Instrument
30.09.2023 (%) 31.12.2023 (%)
Savings Deposit 4 4
1 Year Time Deposit 6.9 6.9
2 Year Time Deposit 7 7
3 Year Time Deposit 7 7

5 Year Time Deposit 7.5 7.5
5 Year Recurring Deposit 6.5 6.7
Senior Citizen Savings
8.2 8.2
Scheme
Monthly Income Account
7.4 7.4
Scheme
National Savings
7.7 7.7
Certificate
Public Provident Fund
7.1 7.1
Scheme
Kisan Vikas Patna 7.5 (will mature in 115 months) 7.5 (will mature in 115 months)
Sukanya Samriddhi
8 8
Account
GST Collection
Month Amount Collected
June ₹161,497 crore
July ₹1,65,105 crore
August ₹1,59,069 crore
September ₹1,62,712 crore
UPI Transaction
Volume Value
Month Number of Banks
In Crores In Lakh Crores
June 458 934 ₹14.75
July 473 996 ₹15.34
August 484 1059 ₹15.76
September 1052 ₹15.80
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA (RBI)

01/04/1935 (Founded) – Mumbai (HQ) – Shaktikanta Das (Governor)
Penalty
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a penalty of Rs 1.73 crore on HSBC for non-compliance with
norms.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had imposed a monetary penalty on Mizoram Rural Bank and Tripura
Gramin Bank for violations of rules.
☞ The central bank imposed Rs 5 lakh penalty on Mizoram Rural Bank and Rs 2 lakh penalty on Tripura
Gramin Bank.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 2.92 crore on Canara Bank for violation
of various norms.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had imposed late submission fees (LSF) of ₹2,000 crores on ONGC Videsh
Ltd (OVL), Indian Oil Corp. Ltd, GAIL (India) Ltd, and Oil India Ltd for delayed reporting of their overseas
investments.
☞ The central bank imposed Rs 1.50 lakh each on Vita Urban Co-operative Bank and Shri Vinayak Sahakari
Bank, Rs 1 lakh on Shreeji Bhatia Cooperative Bank, and Rs 20,000 on Mizoram Urban Cooperative
Development Bank.
☞ RBI penalised Bihar State Co-op Bank Rs 60.20 lakh for various shortcomings
☞ The Reserve Bank had imposed a penalty of Rs 20 lakh on Manappuram Finance for non-compliance with
certain provisions of the NBFC norms.
☞ The central imposed a penalty of Rs 2.50 lakh on Nabapalli Co-operative Bank and Rs 1 lakh on Bally Co-
operative Bank.
☞ A penalty of ₹4 lakhs, the highest among the banks, on Walchand Nagar Sahakari Bank, Maharashtra.

☞ A penalty of ₹3 lakhs on Devika Urban Cooperative Bank, Udhampur, Jammu Kashmir or non-compliance
with the directions on sanction of loans and advances to directors, relatives and firms or concerns in which
they are interested.
☞ A penalty of ₹1 lakh on Dahanu Road Janata Cooperative Bank, Maharashtra for non-compliance with
specific directions issued by RBI under the supervisory action framework (SAF).
☞ A penalty of ₹50,000 on Shree Cooperative Bank, Vadodara, Gujarat for non-compliance with direction
issued by RBI on loans and advances to directors, relatives, firms or concerns in which they are interested.
☞ The central bank had imposed a penalty of ₹1.3 crore on State Bank of India and ₹1.62 crore on Indian
Bank for non-compliance with guidelines on ‘Loans and Advances – Statutory and Other Restrictions’.
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹2.00 Lakh on The Gandevi People’s Co-operative Bank Ltd., Navsari,
Gujarat
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹1.50 Lakh on The Karnavati Co-operative Bank Ltd., Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹1.50 Lakh on Vidyasagar Central Co-operative Bank Limited,
Midnapore, West Bengal
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹ 1 Lakh on The Santragachi Co-operative Bank Ltd., West Bengal
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹6.00 Lakh on The Sarvodaya Sahakari Bank Limited, Modasa, Gujarat
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹6.50 Lakh on Dhanera Mercantile Co-operative Bank Ltd., Dhanera,
Gujarat
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹3.50 Lakh on The Janata Co-operative Bank Ltd., Godhra, Dist.
Panchmahal, Gujarat
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹1.00 Lakh on Maninagar Co-operative Bank Ltd., Ahmedabad, Gujarat
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹5.39 Crore on Paytm Payments Bank Limited
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹1.00 lakh on Janata Urban Co-operative Bank Limited, Wai,
Maharashtra
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹1.00 lakh on The Jawhar Urban Co-operative Bank Limited, Palghar,
Maharashtra
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹1.20 lakh on Finquest Financial Solutions Private Limited, Mumbai,
Maharashtra
☞ RBI Imposed monetary penalty of ₹4.00 lakh on Annasaheb Magar Sahakari Bank Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had fined ₹64,00,000 on RBL bank for its failure to obtain an annual
declaration in Form B from one of its major shareholders within the stipulated time frame of one month
after the close of the financial years ending on March 31, 2018, March 31, 2019, and March 31, 2020.
☞ The central bank also fined ₹1 crore on Union Bank of India for its failure to comply with specific
directions.
☞ The central bank also fined ₹8,50,000 on Bajaj Finance for non-compliance with the 'Monitoring of Frauds
in NBFCs Directions, 2016,' a set of guidelines issued by the RBI.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India imposed a monetary penalty of ₹6.00 lakh on The Citizens’ Co-operative Bank
Ltd., Jammu.
☞ The RBI imposed a monetary penalty of ₹11.00 lakh on HCBL Co-operative Bank Ltd., Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh.
☞ The RBI imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1.00 lakh on Shree Warana Sahakari Bank Ltd., Kolhapur,
Maharashtra.
☞ The Reserve Bank imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2.00 lakh on The State Transport Co-operative Bank
Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had imposed a penalty of Rs 2 lakh each on Baramati Sahakari Bank and
The Becharaji Nagarik Sahakari Bank, as mentioned in the releases.
☞ Furthermore, it had imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh each on The Waghodia Urban Co-operative Bank and
The Viramgam Mercantile Co-operative Bank.
Restriction
☞ The Reserve Bank of India imposed ₹5,000 cap on withdrawals by individual customers from Tamil Nadu-
based Musiri Urban Co-operative Bank as part of several restrictions slapped on the lender due to its
deteriorating financial condition.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had imposed certain restrictions on Bengaluru-based ailing The National
Co-operative Bank Ltd and capped deposit withdrawal at Rs 50,000 per account.

License Cancellation
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cancelled the banking licence of Kerala-based Adoor Co-operative
Urban Bank and had allowed it to function as a non-banking institution.
☞ The RBI cancelled the licence of two cooperative banks Sri Sharada Mahila Co-operative Bank, Tumkur,
Karnataka and Harihareshwar Sahakari Bank, Wai, Satara, Maharashtra as the lenders do not had
adequate capital and earning prospects.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cancelled the licence of Uttar Pradesh-based United India Co-
operative Bank Limited, citing lack of adequate capital and earning prospects.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cancelled the licence of Nagar Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd.,
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
☞ The central bank had also cancelled the licence of Lucknow Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd., Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the Certificate of Registration of Chennai-based Ind Bank
Housing Ltd.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cancelled the licence of The Ananthasayanam Co-operative Bank.
Others
☞ The Reserve Bank of India said a special 100 days campaign will be launched under which banks trace and
settle their top 100 deposits in every district of the country. The banks will commence the campaign from
June 1, 2023.
☞ RBI asks banks to ensure complete move away from LIBOR by July
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cancelled permits of seven non-banking finance companies (NBFC).
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the withdrawal of its highest value currency note, Rs 2,000,
from circulation, adding that the notes will continue to be legal tender.
☞ The Reserve Bank approved Rs 87,416 crore dividend payout to the central government for 2022-23,
nearly triple of what it paid in the previous year
☞ RBI announced draft cyber security norms for payment system operators
☞ Reserve Bank of India imposed a penalty of Rs 2.20 crore on state-owned Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) for
non-compliance of income recognition and other deficiencies in regulatory compliance.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had come up with a Financial Inclusion Dashboard named Antardrishti, a
platform that will provide insights to assess and monitor the progress of financial inclusion
☞ RBI's North East push: Opened sub-office at Kohima
☞ RBI injected ₹75,000 crores into the banking system as liquidity tightens due to tax outflows
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) purchased $7.7 billion on a net basis in April through intervention in the
foreign exchange market – highest in 22 months.
☞ Credit card NPAs for state-run banks zoom to 18 pc at FY23-end: RBI
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had granted permission to UBS, the owner of Credit Suisse, to retain the
banking license for operations in India.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had embarked on a major change in its information management
framework for handling the massive data flow, aggregation, analysis, public dissemination and data
governance following the launch of its Centralised Information Management System (CIMS).
☞ RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar said the RBI is aiming to increase the number of Central Bank Digital
Currency (CBDC) to 10 lakh per day by the end of 2023.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had proposed rules that could potentially restrict card issuers from engaging in
exclusive agreements with card networks like Mastercard, Visa or RuPay. The central bank also proposed
that rules would be applicable to both banks and non-banking financial companies that issue credit cards,
debit cards, or prepaid cards.
☞ In the exercise of the powers conferred under section 42 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, the RBI
had directed the inclusion of the NongHyup Bank in the list of Scheduled Banks.
☞ The Banks had written off bad loans worth Rs 14.56 lakh crore in the last nine financial years starting
2014-15.
☞ Reserve Bank of India’s Digital Payments Index, a measure of the extent of digitisation of payments across
the country, rose to 395.57 in March 2023 from 377.46 in September 2022 and 349.30 in March 2022.
☞ RBI had selected McKinsey and Accenture to develop systems using artificial intelligence and machine
learning for its supervisory functions

☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had approved the amalgamation of Twin Cities Co-operative Urban Bank
Ltd with Kranti Co-operative Urban Bank Ltd from August 23, 2023.
☞ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had issued fresh guidelines to the Regulated Entities (REs) such as commercial
and other banks, Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) and other lenders to ensure reasonableness
and transparency in disclosure of penal interest.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched a centralised Web portal, UDGAM (Unclaimed Deposits
Gateway to Access Information), for members of the public to make it easier to search their unclaimed
deposits across multiple banks at one place.
☞ The Public Tech Platform for frictionless credit is an end-to-end digital platform that had been developed
by the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve bank of India.
☞ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had announced a transparent framework will be introduced to reset interest
rates on floating-interest loans such as home loans.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had sanctioned the amalgamation of Akola Merchant Co-operative Bank
with The Jalgaon Peoples Co-operative Bank.
☞ The Reserve Bank enhanced the upper limit of an offline payment transaction to Rs 500 from the existing
Rs 200 to promote the use of UPI-Lite wallet in areas where internet connectivity is weak or not available.
☞ Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) can now enable payments through a pre-sanctioned credit line for
individuals, with prior customer consent, for transactions using the UPI (unified payments interface)
system.
☞ RBI had decided to discontinue Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio which was put in place to absorb surplus
liquidity following the withdrawal of ₹2,000 currency notes, in a phased manner.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to launch the pilot of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for
transactions for interbank borrowing or call money market by this October.
☞ Reserve Bank of India had asked all the financial institutions to release all movable/immovable property
documents within 30 days upon receiving full repayment and closure of personal loan accounts.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had sanctioned the Scheme of Amalgamation of The Suvikas People’s Co-
operative Bank Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat with The Kalupur Commercial Co-operative Bank Limited,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India has decided to extend the prompt corrective action (PCA) framework for non-
banking financial companies (NBFCs) to government NBFCs (except those in base layer) with effect from
October 1, 2024.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, directed Bank of
Baroda to suspend, with immediate effect, any further onboarding of their customers onto the ‘bob
World’ mobile application.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue a framework to recognise self-regulatory organisations (SROs)
for regulated entities (REs) and harmonise rules for the internal ombudsman mechanism of REs, seeking to
strengthen governance and protect customers.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up an external Working Group on Expected Credit Loss (ECL)
based Framework for Provisioning by Banks Headed by R Narayanaswamy, former Professor, IIM
Bangalore.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India has sanctioned the Scheme of Amalgamation of Mumbai-based Sahebrao
Deshmukh Co-operative Bank Ltd with Pune-based Cosmos Co-operative Bank Ltd with effect from
September 26, 2023 under Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
☞ The RBI has introduced norms on the Basel III capital framework, fund raising, exposure guidelines, and
norms on classification and valuation of investment portfolios for All India Financial Institutions (AIFIs),
which will come into effect from April 2024.
☞ Reserve Bank of India said 15 large non-banking financial corporations (NBFC) will be subject to enhanced
regulatory requirements in FY24. The central bank has categorised NBFCs into Base Layer (NBFC-BL),
Middle Layer (NBFC-ML), Upper Layer (NBFC-UL) and Top Layer (NBFC-TL). A list of 15 large Non-Banking
Finance Companies (NBFCs) falling in the Upper Layer category has been released.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

(SEBI)
12/04/1988 (Founded) – Mumbai (HQ) – Madhabi Puri Buch, (Chairman) – Ministry of Finance
(Parent)
☞ SEBI along with BSE and NSE had established an Investor Service Center (ISC) at New Delhi
☞ SEBI, levied fines totalling ₹50 lakh on ten entities for indulging in non-genuine trades in the illiquid stock
options segment on BSE.The regulator imposed a fine of ₹5 lakhs each on Auroplus Marketing Pvt Ltd,
Baba Iron Industries, Atlantic Invest Advisory, Avinash V Mehta HUF, Navneet Agarwal and Sons HUF,
Neeraj Gandhi HUF, and Athwani Shrichand
☞ Capital markets regulator Sebi slapped fines totalling Rs 77 lakh on 16 entities for manipulating the share
price and violating other norms in the matter of Gayatri Sugars Ltd.
☞ SEBI slapped ₹87 lakh fine on 15 individuals for manipulating share prices of Kapil Raj Finance
☞ The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore on Fidelity
Management & Research Company (FMRC) for operating as a foreign portfolio investor (FPI) without
proper registration.
☞ Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI) levied penalties totalling Rs 45 lakh on nine entities for
indulging in non-genuine trades.
☞ Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had imposed a penalty of Rs 7 lakh on Shapoorji Pallonji
and Company for flouting disclosure norms.
☞ Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) in coordination with capital market
regulator SEBI had enabled the National Pension System (NPS) subscribers to view their pension fund
corpus along with their demat securities and MF holdings under a single consolidated account statement
(CAS).
☞ The Securities and Exchange Board of India had slapped a penalty of ₹15 lakh on Reliance Home Finance
for violation of LODR regulations and failure to disclose the adverse findings of a forensic report.
☞ Securities and Exchange Board of India had imposed a fine of Rs 35 lakh on MI Research for violating
regulatory norms.
☞ Securities and Exchange Board of India imposed penalties totalling Rs 6 crore on 15 entities, including
Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan, for flouting disclosure norms in the case of Deewan Housing
Finance Corp Ltd (DHFL).
☞ Securities and Exchange Board of India had levied penalties totalling Rs 55 lakh on 11 entities for
indulging in non-genuine trades in illiquid stock options segment on the BSE.
☞ And also imposed Rs 65 lakh fine on 13 entities for indulging in non-genuine trades in illiquid stock options
segment on the BSE.
SMALL INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT BANK OF

INDIA (SIDBI)
02/04/1990 (Founded) – Lucknow, UP (HQ) - Sivasubramanian Ramann (Chairman & MD)
☞ Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) had sanctioned ₹1,000-crore loan to Karnataka-
based Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) under its PRAYAAS Scheme for
direct credit to micro enterprises under partnership arrangements.
☞ Sebi resolves 2,838 complaints through SCORES platform in March
☞ Small Industries Development Bank of India had announced the launch of a pilot scheme for better
financing terms in electric vehicle space and strengthening the whole ecosystem.
☞ SIDBI signed pact with HDFC Bank to offer financial solutions to MSMEs
☞ Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) had received in-principal approval from SIDBI for
designing and structuring a sustainable and scalable NBFC Growth Accelerator Program (NGAP).

☞ SIDBI launched mission EVOLVE in association with NITI Aayog, World Bank, others for loans to EV
MSMEs
☞ Sivasubramanian Ramann, CMD, SIDBI, said multiple-level interventions by the DFI in this regard are
expected to culminate in enhancing the level of corporate governance in the smaller NBFC segment,
accelerate the access of such NBFCs to institutional credit at competitive rates, and mainstreaming of a
larger number of NBFCs, resulting in channelising higher credit in the MSME space.
☞ The National Health Authority (NHA) and IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of
India) jointly organized an exclusive three-day Accelerator Workshop to help insurance companies
complete their Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) integration and to facilitate adoption of Health
Claims Exchange (HCX) specifications and e-Claim standards for insurance companies and Third-Party
Administrators (TPAs) in New Delhi.
INSURANCE REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITY OF INDIA (IRDAI)
1999 (Founded) – Hyderabad (HQ) - Debasish Panda (Chairman) – Ministry of Finance (Under)
☞ The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) had selected Tata AIG General
Insurance as the lead non-life insurer for the State of Maharashtra.
☞ Max Life Insurance Company Ltd. had been appointed as the “Lead Insurer” for the State of Uttar Pradesh
by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).
☞ Liberty General Insurance, one of the leading non-life insurance companies in India, had been appointed
as the "Lead Insurer" for Delhi by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).
☞ ManipalCigna Health Insurance, one of India's fastest-growing standalone health insurance company had
been appointed as lead health insurer for the Karnataka State Insurance Awareness Plan by Insurance
Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).
☞ Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) had slashed the minimum capital
requirement for foreign reinsurance branches (FRBs) from Rs 100 crore to Rs 50 crore with the provision
to repatriate any excess assigned capital to attract more foreign reinsurers to establish operations in India.
☞ The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) had approved changes to
withdrawn life insurance policies that will benefit existing customers.
☞ India Exim Bank (Export Import Bank of India) inaugurated its subsidiary Exim Finserve IFSC Pvt Ltd as it
launched the trade financing activities at GIFT City in Gandhinagar.
☞ Insurance regulator IRDAI had identified SBI Life Insurance as acquirer insurer of the life insurance
business of Sahara India Life Insurance Co Ltd (SILIC).
☞ The Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India had granted certificate of registration to Go
Digit Life Insurance to start business in India. With this, the number of insurers operating in life insurance
segment had gone up to 26.
☞ Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India had appointed Chola MS Insurance as lead
insurer for West Bengal
OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTE

☞ Exim Bank projected merchandise exports to fall to $111.7 billion
☞ NABARD had sanctioned Rs 1,974.07 crore to the Rajasthan government under the Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) for 2023-24.
☞ State-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) had signed a loan agreement with Japan Bank for
International Cooperation (JBIC) for JPY 1.85 billion or $1.28 million for a waste-to-energy project in
Karnataka.
☞ Power Finance Corporation (PFC) had entered into a pact with Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) as part
of which it will provide Rs 4,527.68 crore loan to set up a 1,320 MW project at Raghunathpur in West
Bengal.

WORLD BANK
December 1944 (Founded) – Washington DC (HQ) – Ajay Banga (President)
☞ The World Bank will offer India's public healthcare sector infrastructure two complementary loans totaling
$500 million each.
☞ The World Bank had approved a $108 million loan to help Assam improve disaster preparedness and
enhance flood forecasting.
☞ The World Bank's Executive Board of Directors approved a USD 363 million loan to Karnataka to provide
clean drinking water supply to two million rural households in the state through a piped water
connection. The loan had a maturity of 13.5 years including a grace period of two years.
☞ The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved an $82 million loan towards the adoption of
global best practices for animal health management to prevent, detect, and respond to endemic zoonotic,
transboundary, and emerging infectious diseases.
☞ The World Bank had approved a grant of Rs 51 crore to set up an integrated road safety enforcement
system in Shimla and Nurpur police districts and develop the Palampur-Sheela chowk in Kangra as a “safe
corridor”.
☞ World Bank approved $148M loan to support West Bengal for better irrigation practices in rural areas
☞ The World Bank's Board of Directors had approved a $150 million loan to support the Resilient Kerala
Program to continue strengthening the state's preparedness against natural disasters, climate change
impacts, and disease outbreaks.
☞ The Assam State Secondary Healthcare Initiative for Service Delivery Transformation (ASSIST) Project,
for which $251 million was approved, will improve access to high-quality secondary healthcare services in
Assam and directly serve at least 1.8 million people.
☞ For Tripura Rural Economic Growth and Service Delivery Project, $140 million had been approved,
intending to promote socioeconomic development and improve the quality of life of 1,42,000 households
in select tribal blocks, territories where tribal communities live and work.
☞ The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors also approved a $300 million loan to help expand and
improve the quality of education in government-run schools in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
☞ The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of $200 million to the Government of
Himachal Pradesh to facilitate power sector reforms in the state and increase the share of renewable
energy (RE) in the state’s electricity generation.
☞ The World Bank had approved a USD 255.5 million loan to assist India in raising the standard of its
technical education and expanding the number of jobs prospects available to students.
☞ The World Bank had approved USD 1.5 billion in financing to accelerate India's low-carbon energy
infrastructure.
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)

19/12/1966 (Founded) - Mandaluyong, Philippines (HQ) - Masatsugu Asakawa (President) - 68
countries
☞ The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $130 million loan to increase
agricultural productivity, improve access to irrigation and promote horticulture agribusinesses to raise
farmers’ income in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
☞ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) had approved a $295 million loan to widen and upgrade around 265
kilometers of state highways, improving transport connectivity and safety in the state of Bihar in India.
☞ The Government of India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $200 million loan as additional
financing for the ongoing Rajasthan Secondary Towns Development Sector Project to expand water
supply and sanitation systems and enhance urban resilience and heritage living in selected towns.

☞ Asian Development Bank (ADB) had approved a $40.5-million loan for integrated early childhood
development (ECD) and maternal mental health programme in Meghalaya.
☞ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Fourth Partner Energy Private Limited (Fourth Partner) signed a
long-term loan of up to 1.2 billion Indian rupees (about $14.7 million) to construct and operate a 25-
megawatt solar photovoltaic-based power plant to increase clean and low-cost energy supply to
commercial and industrial customers.
☞ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $200 million loan to strengthen flood and riverbank
erosion risk management along the 650 kilometers (km) long main stem of the Brahmaputra River in
Assam, India.
ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK

(AIIB)
16/01/2016 (Founded) - Beijing, China (HQ) - Jin Liqun (President) – 106 member countries
☞ Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a host member
agreement to officially open the bank's first overseas office, an Interim Operational Hub (the Hub), in Abu
Dhabi.
☞ The Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announced that its ninth
Annual Meeting will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September 2024.
PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

☞ Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund had announced the launch of Baroda BNP Paribas Value Fund, an open-
ended equity scheme following a value investment strategy
☞ The government had appointed IDBI Capital, BOB Capital and SBI Capital to manage the initial public offer
(IPO) of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).
☞ Maharashtra government signed MoU with Bajaj Finserv to invest Rs 5,000 crore in Pune
☞ The State Bank of India had launched Project Kuber having four transaction banking hubs and one
corporate salary package hub in Bengaluru were inaugurated by the Chief General Manager of State Bank
of India Bengaluru Circle, Nand Kishore, and are located at the SBI Administrative Building, Mysore Bank
Circle, KG Road, Bengaluru, and Sampige Road, Malleshwaram.
☞ Bank of Baroda announced launch of Interoperable Cardless Cash Withdrawal (ICCW) facility wherein a
customer can withdraw cash using UPI from the bank's ATMs.
☞ Punjab National Bank (PNB) becomes the first public sector bank to introduce an IVR-based UPI solution -
UPI 123PAY, aligning with the Digital Payment Vision 2025 towards a cashless and cardless society.IVR -
interactive voice response
☞ Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) had launched a new deposit scheme ‘Vikas Ashadeep 400 days’.
Shreekant M Bhandiwad, Chairman of KVGB, who launched this scheme, said the scheme is of a tenor of
400 days with an interest rate of 7.50 per cent for senior citizens and 7 per cent for general public.
☞ Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) had introduced a scheme that lets customers choose any name as their
savings account number with the Chennai-based lender. The bank’s managing director and chief executive
officer launched the scheme called ‘My Account My Name’ virtually from its Central Office in Chennai.
☞ The scheme will be available at all 49 regional offices of the IOB in India.
☞ SBI and PNB’s investment in priority sector lending certificates surge in FY23
☞ State Bank of India (SBI) paid a dividend of Rs 5,740 crore for the financial year 2022-23 to Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
☞ Bank of Maharashtra (MahaBank) was expecting to recover more than Rs 1,200 crore from written-off
accounts in the current financial year (FY23) as part of steps to enhance its asset quality profile. The bank
is looking to recover over 5 per cent from the written-off accounts pegged at Rs 20,000 crore.
☞ Punjab & Sind Bank is offering special fixed deposit PSB FD-555 Days.

☞ Union Bank of India had debuted four specialised bank accounts. Union Unnati, Union Samriddhi, Union
Samman, and Union SBCHS
☞ Quick response codes, or QR codes, had had a big impact on India's digital payment landscape, owing
largely to non-banking apps like Paytm, PhonePe, and Google Pay.
☞ Canara Bank had become the first public sector bank in India to introduce UPI (Unified Payments
Interface) payments for merchants through its RuPay Credit Card. This exciting feature is now accessible
within the bank’s ‘Canara ai1’ Banking Super App, thanks to a partnership with the National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI).
☞ Public sector banks' profit tripled to Rs 1.04 lakh crores in nine years
☞ SBI starts 34 transaction banking solutions hubs, 21 district centres
☞ Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) unveiled all new RuPay Select Debit card via tweet. Rupay Select debit card
will provide with “luxury, convenience, and security, all in one card.”
☞ Bank of India pays dividend of Rs 668 crore to government for FY23
☞ State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) announced the launch of a virtual branch, PNB Metaverse.
☞ Bank offering Mahila Samman Savings Certificate (MSSC) Scheme were Bank of India (1st), Canara Bank,
Bank of baroda and Union Bank of India.
☞ Punjab National Bank (PNB) announced the launch of its environmental initiative 'PNB Palaash', an eight-
month period campaign to embrace sustainability. Punjab National Bank (PNB) launches Mahila Samman
Certificate, 2023 for its women customers.
☞ PNB is the fourth bank to offer this small savings scheme.
☞ Karnataka Bank hosted the first edition of ‘KBL - FinOne’, a fintech partnership event, in Bengaluru with
the objective of forging collaborations to develop innovative business models, providing seamless banking
experience and offering a complete product suite.
☞ Union Bank of India had identified eight troubled accounts worth Rs 3,000 crore to be sold to the national
bad bank NARCL this fiscal.
☞ Canara Bank topped the list of public sector banks with the highest lending to corporations and PSUs of
States and Union Territories for the fifth year in a row.
☞ Union Bank of India, a prominent public sector bank, is taking bold strides towards a future-ready and
customer-centric approach through its ambitious Digital Transformation initiative.
☞ State-owned UCO Bank had opened four special rupee vostro accounts with Russian banks. The bank had
also received permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for opening eight more accounts
☞ Union Bank of India (UBI), which posted its highest net profit in 30 quarters at Rs 2,782 crore in the fourth
quarter of FY23, aims to become the third largest public sector bank in terms of profitability by 2025.
☞ Bank of Baroda customers can now complete re-KYC digitally in just a few minutes in a secure manner
without even having to visit their branch.
☞ Canara Bank launched the UPI Interoperable Digital Rupee mobile application as a part of the Reserve
Bank of India’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project.
☞ Indian Bank became the First Public Sector Bank to extend facility of execution of on-line locker
agreement through Digital Document Execution (DDE) Platform of National E-Governance Services
Limited (NeSL).
☞ Canara Bank had introduced Canara Jeevan Dhara, a special savings bank account for pensioners, and
prospective pensioners.
☞ Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) Chairman, Shreekant M Bhandiwad launched WhatsApp banking
services in Dharwad.
☞ Indian Bank had set up 10 startup cells across different centres in the country commemorating the bank's
117th Foundation Day to serve its specialised banking requirements.
☞ Punjab National Bank (PNB) had launched a mobile application based on the GST Sahay scheme, an end-
to-end digital product under which lending can be done using GST invoices
☞ The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) had introduced a facility to allow customers to enrol
in social security schemes by just furnishing an Aadhaar card.
☞ Bank of Baroda UAE, the sole Indian bank in the UAE offering comprehensive banking services,
commemorated its golden jubilee, marking its 50th year of glorious presence in the UAE.
☞ Bank of Baroda (BoB) had enabled UPI ATM facility, which will allow QR-based cash withdrawals, at its
over 6,000 ATMs across the country.
☞ State Bank of India had launched the “RuPay NCMC Prepaid Card” to facilitate easy digital ticketing fare
payments in metro, buses, water ferries, parking, etc., through a single card.
☞ Punjab National Bank (PNB) launched Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) with Unified Payments
Interface (UPI) interoperability feature in its digital rupee mobile application.

☞ Indian Bank had collaborated with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) to deploy future
ready infrastructure to enhance scalability and agility.
☞ Indian Bank had partnered with OneCard, aimed at introducing state-of-the-art, mobile-first, contactless,
metal co-branded credit cards.
☞ State Bank of India (SBI) had introduced UPI interoperability in its Digital Rupee (e rupee), also known as
the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
☞ Maruti Suzuki India Ltd had partnered with Indian Bank to provide financing solutions to its dealers.
☞ Bank of Baroda (BoB) has launched a festival campaign, whereby it has cut home and car loan interest
rates by 20 basis points (bps) and up to 10 bps, respectively. Under the campaign, which will run up to
31st December, 2023, the public sector bank has also cut education and personal loan interest rates by 60
bps and 80 bps, respectively.
☞ State Bank of India (SBI) unveiled the ‘Nation First Transit Card’ for seamless and convenient digital fare
payments.
☞ Assam government has tied up with the State Bank of India (SBI) to provide 1,181 former rebels loans of
Rs 3 lakh and FDs worth Rs 4 lakh each.
☞ State Bank of India had unveiled a ‘mobile handheld device’ for its financial inclusion customers for
enhancing accessibility and convenience in availing banking services such as cash withdrawal, cash deposit,
fund transfer.
☞ Central Bank of India has entered into a strategic Co-Lending Partnership with M/s. ECL Finance Limited
to offer MSME Loans at competitive rates, subject to compliance with the applicable law(s) including the
applicable guidelines issued by Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
☞ Bank of Baroda had implemented UPI LITE - Small Value on Device Wallet.
☞ Indian Bank Managing Director and CEO S L Jain launched the 'IB SAATHI'. The full form of IB SAATHI is IB
Sustainable Access and Aligning Technology for Holistic Inclusion.
PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS

☞ ICICI Prudential Life Insurance launched a debt fund ICICI Pru Constant Maturity Fund (the first such fund
in the life insurance market), which will enable customers to lock in their investments at current high-
interest rates and build long-term wealth.
☞ HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd announced the launch of the country's first mutual fund focussed
on defence sector, a move that will provide investors an opportunity to participate in growth potential of
this space.
☞ Paytm partnered with SBI Card, NPCI to launch next-gen co-branded RuPay credit cards
☞ HDFC Pension Management Company Ltd., the fastest growing legacy Pension Fund Manager under the
National Pension System (NPS) had crossed the milestone of Rs. 50,000 crores of Assets Under
Management (AUM) on May 15th 2023.
☞ Bajaj Allianz Life, a one of the leading private life insurer in India, had launched India’s first Small-Cap fund
in the ULIP segment that offers customers the opportunity to achieve capital appreciation by investing in a
diversified portfolio of small-cap stocks.
☞ Yes Bank announced the launch of a mobile application, YES PAY EASY, enabling small-scale merchants
such as traders, retailers, and professionals, to accept instant cashless payments from their customers. The
app had been developed in collaboration with Mastercard and Worldline India.
☞ RBL Bank launched ACE Fixed Deposit Scheme with 8.5% interest
☞ Federal Bank undertaken 'I am Adyar, Adyar is me' campaign
☞ South Indian Bank had introduced SIB SWIFTe, an innovative and customer-centric digital account opening
platform that eliminates the hadsle of paper-based documentation
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had allowed HDFC Bank to hold commercial papers issued by HDFC Ltd.
☞ Axis Bank had launched the ‘one-view’ feature on its mobile application which enables account
management across multiple bank accounts, including non-Axis accounts.
☞ Kotak Mahindra Bank customers can now use RuPay credit cards on UPI
☞ The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, through an e-gazette notification permitted all
Public Sector Banks and eligible Private Sector Banks to implement and operationalise the Mahila
Samman Savings Certificate, 2023.
☞ E-commerce marketplace Flipkart had teamed up with Axis Bank to introduce a personalised loan service
catering to its customer base of 450 million. The new offering will provide customers access to competitive

loan options, enabling them to secure amounts of up to Rs 5 lakh, and flexible repayment cycles ranging
from 6 to 36 months
☞ HDFC Bank, the country’s largest private sector lender, had become the first commercial bank to
implement interoperability between United Payment Interface (UPI) and Central Bank Digital Currency.
☞ The merged entity of HDFC Bank and HDFC became the world’s seventh-most-valuable bank with its
market capitalisation soaring to $154 billion, or Rs 12.66 lakh crore. ICICI Bank is ranked 16th and SBI is at
the 22nd spot in the list of the world’s most valuable banks.
☞ Federal Bank, on the occasion of the start of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, had announced the launch of
an exclusive NR savings account scheme, specifically curated for NRI women.
☞ Dvara KGFS, HDFC Bank in co-lending pact to support micro businesses in rural India
☞ Axis Bank, one of the largest private sector banks in India partners with Kiwi, the revolutionary credit on
UPI platform to bolster 'Credit on UPI' accessibility on RuPay credit cards.
☞ IndusInd Bank and Tiger Fintech - a Bajaj Capital Group company, announced the launch of the IndusInd
Bank Tiger Credit Card, a co-branded credit card powered by Visa.
☞ Bandhan Bank announced a partnership with the Odisha government to ramp up the state tourism
department's payment solutions.
☞ DBS Bank India had announced its partnership with five badminton players – Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj
Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, and Gayatri Gopichand.
☞ DBS Bank had partnered with Infor Nexus™ and had launched a pre-shipment financing solution for small
and medium-sized enterprises (SME) suppliers in the former's supply chain ecosystem.
☞ Axis Bank announced the launch of two lending products powered by the Public Tech Platform for
Frictionless Credit (PTPFC), introduced by the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH).
☞ IndusInd Bank in partnership with British Airways Executive Club and Qatar Airways Privilege Club had
launched a first-of-its-kind multi-branded credit card - 'IndusInd Bank Avios Visa Infinite Credit Card' for
all customers.
☞ YES Bank co-branded Corporate Credit Card in collaboration with spend management platform Zaggle, to
empower businesses to reimagine their payment processes, streamline reconciliation, and efficiently
manage company expenditures.
☞ Axis Bank, a private sector lender, launched its 'Infinity Savings Account' offering special features for its
customers, including no domestic transaction charges in exchange for monthly fees.
☞ Bandhan Bank had been appointed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as an authorised pension
disbursement bank on behalf of the Central Pension Accounting Office (CPAO), Ministry of Finance, for
civil pensioners.
☞ DBS, in partnership with commodities trader Maptrasco, announced the completion of the first “live”
transaction of electronic Bills of Lading (eBL) for shipments between Singapore and India.
☞ Axis Bank had announced the introduction of UPI interoperability functionality on its central bank digital
currency (CBDC) application (Axis Mobile Digital Rupee).
☞ HDFC Bank had become the first bank in India to launch a partnership with Marriott Bonvoy, the global
loyalty programme of Marriot, making it the first co-branded credit card in India for a hospitality chain.
☞ Federal Bank Ltd. had announced the introduction of what it called WhatsApp Lending Platform through
which customers can apply for pre-approved personal loan.
☞ YES Bank had gone live with Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Interoperability on the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) app.
☞ Ashok Leyland had partnered with CSB Bank Ltd for offering vehicle financing solutions to its customers.
☞ ICICI Bank had received a green signal from the Reserve Bank to make I-Process Services (India) Private
Ltd a wholly-owned subsidiary of the lender.
☞ HDFC Bank has entered into a co-lending agreement with technology-driven NBFC Credit Wise Capital for
two-wheeler financing in tier-2, 3, and 4 towns.
☞ YES Bank, in partnership with BriskPe, had launched BriskPe A2A, which offers a suite of solutions to
exporters and importers.
☞ IndusInd Bank had launched a virtual commercial card in tie-up with Visa and Juspay.
☞ Axis Bank has launched a transaction banking platform for the Indian Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs) called NEO for Business.
☞ Kamats Restaurants had collaborated with IDFC First Bank for easy registration and recharge of FASTag at
its outlets along the highways in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
☞ Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd., a Cyrus Poonawalla group-promoted non-banking finance company, said it has
received permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to issue a co-branded credit card with IndusInd
Bank.

☞ Karnataka Bank has partnered with SahiBandhu, an aggregator platform for gold loans backed by the
Manipal Group, for launching ‘doorstep gold loan’ facility named ‘KBL-Swarna Bandhu’.
☞ IndusInd Bank has launched its mobile banking super app ‘INDIE’ through which it aims to add about 1
crore customers over the next three years.
☞ Axis Bank had launched its ‘open by Axis Bank’, its digital bank proposition in its latest advertising
campaign.
☞ YES Bank had become the first bank in the country to issue an 'ONDC Network Gift Card'.
☞ Axis Bank had partnered with Fibe’s tech arm Social Worth Technologies Pvt. Ltd. to Launch India’s First
Numberless Credit Card.
SMALL FINANCE BANK

☞ AU Small Finance Bank (SFB) claims to be India's first bank to offer 24/7 video banking facility for 365
days.
☞ AU Small Finance Bank Ltd had introduced the Zenith + Super Premium Metal Credit Card, expanding its
range of banking solutions.
☞ Shivalik Small Finance Bank had joined hands with fintech company Falcon for developing financial
products like instant Digital FDs and savings accounts
☞ Bajaj Markets, a subsidiary of Bajaj Finserv, had partnered with AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB) to
provide an avenue for booking AU Fixed Deposits (FDs) online.
☞ AU Small Finance Bank and Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, a private life insurer, has entered into a strategic
partnership.
☞ AU Small Finance Bank has taken a significant step in enhancing its customer services by sealing
bancassurance deals with Star Health and Allied Insurance Company.
☞ Ujjivan Small Finance Bank announced the introduction of the Maxima Savings Account and Business
Maxima Current Account for the premium customer segment.
☞ AU Small Finance Bank had launched the ‘Swadesh Banking’ initiative to improve rural banking.
☞ Utkarsh Small Finance Bank Limited ("USFBL" or the "Bank"), announced the launch of an innovative
service, set to revolutionise cash withdrawal experiences.
PAYMENT BANKS
☞ Fino Payments Bank joined Hubble to introduce spending account
☞ Payments company Mastercard launched a global project to recycle credit and debit cards as part of a
plan to save the billions of cards in circulation across the industry from landfill.
☞ One97 Communications Limited (OCL), which owns the brand Paytm, announced a partnership with NBFC
Shriram Finance Limited to offer financial services to its users, including loan products. Through this
partnership, Shriram Finance’s products will be made available on Paytm’s platform digitally to further
expand access to credit and drive financial inclusion in the country.
☞ PhonePe had launched a new device called point-of-sale (POS) that allows merchants to accept payments
through debit cards, credit cards, and UPI
☞ PhonePe Insurance launches monthly subscriptions for health policies
☞ Cashfree Payments had launched a service that enables businesses to increase the visibility of payment
options for customers. 'BNPL Plus' is a widget that integrates on a company's website and helps it in
reducing customer drop-offs by 30 per cent.
☞ One97 Communications Limited (OCL) that owns the brand Paytm, had launched a new ad campaign ‘India
Kahe Paytm Karo’. The campaign depicts the nuances of everyday life, showcasing the impact of Paytm
QR codes and mobile payments in the lives of Indians.

☞ Airtel Payments Bank announced the launch of an eco-friendly debit card for its customers with savings
bank accounts, underlining the company's 'commitment to sustainability and promoting eco-friendly
practices within the financial sector.'
☞ Airtel Payments Bank had partnered with Frontier Markets and Mastercard to support one lakh women-
owned small businesses in India.
☞ Paytm launched its latest innovation Card Soundbox, which is intended to empower merchants to accept
both mobile and card payments across all Visa, Mastercard, American Express and RuPay networks.
☞ Paytm Payments Bank has announced ‘7 People in 7 Days for UPI Mission’ in support of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s call to the nation to bring new users to the mobile payments.
FOREIGN BANKS
☞ HSBC India announced that it had partnered with Tata Motors for a corporate employee financing solution
to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission Electric Vehicles
☞ IIT Bombay had partnered with HSBC to pursue technological advancements towards making green
hydrogen production more efficient, cost-effective, and scalable.
☞ HSBC India launched 'ONDC in a Box', a one-stop-shop proposition for corporates towards seamless
enablement on ONDC.
INSURANCE COMPANIES
☞ Bajaj Finserv Asset Management had launched its first equity scheme in the flexi-cap category, where a
fund manager can choose to invest in companies across the market capitalisation spectrum
☞ Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) had introduced a new life insurance plan called 'LIC Jeevan Kiran',
which offers both life cover and return of premium. The plan caters to 18 to 65-year-old subscribers.
☞ General insurance companies in India witnessed an 18.3 per cent increase in premiums in July, amounting
to Rs 23,259 crore.
☞ Star Health and Allied Insurance announced its collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank to enhance
its distribution network.
☞ Bajaj Finance partners with new partner ICICI Lombard General Insurance to offer motor insurance
policies
☞ IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company had launched a non-linked and non-participating product Guarantee of
Life Dreams (G.O.L.D.) Plan, that offers policyholders regular long-term income.
☞ Go Digit General Insurance, a digital full stack insurer, had partnered with Vetina Healthcare LLP, an
animal healthcare solutions provider, to extend pet insurance coverage for dogs.
☞ Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and Mumbai-headquartered Saraswat Cooperative Bank had
entered into a partnership under which the bank will sell the insurance major’s products.
☞ Star Health & Allied Insurance Company Ltd is devising a new growth strategy under which it seeks to
grow at a Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20 per cent during this decade to deepen its focus on
Bharat (rural and semi-urban locations) and strengthen schemes and coverage for out-patient department
expenses.
☞ SBI Life Insurance, launched its very first ‘LifeVerse Studio’, on Metaverse to connect with the next
generation of internet users.
☞ ICICI Prudential Life Insurance had launched a new income plan, ICICI Pru GIFT Pro, which provides
customers the option to receive either a year-on-year increasing income or a constant regular income.
☞ Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company announced the launch of its latest campaign, #AdvisorsForLife.
The campaign had two digital films that celebrate the Life Advisors (LAs) and Bank Relationship Managers
(RMs) who serve customers and support the company’s brand promise of ‘Hum Hain…Hamesha’.
☞ Max Life Insurance had partnered with DCB Bank to provide a variety of life insurance products to the
latter’s customers.
☞ SBI Life Insurance signed a bancassurance pact with the State Bank of Sikkim (SBS) at the bank's
headquarters in Gangtok, Sikkim.

OTHERS
☞ National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is exploring options for further tie-ups to strengthen the
global acceptability of RuPay debit cards.
☞ Bajaj Markets, a subsidiary of Bajaj Finserv, offers several pocket insurance products tailored to suit the
requirements of each individual.
☞ RuPay had now introduced the CVV (Card Verification Value) free payment experience for its debit, credit
and prepaid cardholders who had tokenized their cards on the merchant application or webpage, National
Payments Corporations of India.
☞ Food aggregator platform Zomato had partnered with ICICI Bank to launch its very own unified payments
interface (UPI) offering called Zomato UPI, for some of its users
☞ Mobile wallets market in India to surpass $5 trillion in 2027, says GlobalData
☞ Japan's international payment brand JCB International Co will partner with National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI) and offer 40 per cent cashback to RuPay JCB cardholders on in-store purchase.
☞ Finance Ministry said that any payments by an individual using their international Debit or Credit cards
upto seven lakh rupees per financial year will be excluded from the Liberalized Remittance Scheme, LRS
limits and will not attract any Tax Collection at Source (TCS).
☞ Unified Payment Interface (UPI) transactions in May scaled a new high of Rs 14.3 lakh crores in terms of
value and 9.41 billion in volume.
☞ ESAF Small Finance Bank adopted paperless initiative
☞ Hinduja group flagship Ashok Leyland had entered into a strategic partnership with Cholamandalam
Investment and Finance Company Ltd to offer financing to dealers
☞ The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation had formed three committees to frame draft schemes for
pension, provident fund and insurance under the retirement fund body, in line with the provisions of the
Social Security Code, 2020.
☞ Google Pay had introduced UPI verification via Aadhaar card.
☞ JPMorgan (JPM) had teamed up with six Indian banks to settle interbank dollar transactions on its
blockchain-based trading platform, Onyx.The investment bank will run a pilot project over the coming
months alongside HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, IndusInd Bank and JPM's own banking
unit in Gujarat, India.
☞ Tata Motors Finance had entered into a strategic partnership with CJ Darcl Logistics, a leading multimodal
logistics solutions provider, to extend Rs 125 crore limit for various facilities, including vehicle operating
lease, invoice financing and fuel financing.
☞ Digital lenders' disbursement grows 2.5 times to Rs 92,848 crore in FY23
☞ Education loans registered 17% growth in FY23
☞ The National Bank for Financing Infrastructure Development (NaBFID) expected to end FY24 with final
loan sanctions of ₹1 lakh crore and disbursements of close to ₹60,000 crores.
☞ National insurer Life Insurance Corporation launched a new close-ended plan Dhan Vridhhi.
☞ Bank loans to NBFCs under RBI scanner
☞ India's average health insurance claim is Rs 42,000; 15% exceed Rs 100,000
☞ UPI transactions down marginally by 1% in June to Rs 14.7 trillion
☞ Tata AIA Life Insurance had announced new forms of digital payments through WhatsApp and Unified
Payments Interface (UPI).
☞ IDFC FIRST Bank, Club Vistara and Mastercard Launch New Credit Card to Redefine Travel Experiences
☞ Razorpay launches international payment gateway in Malaysia through Curlec
☞ Payments service provider PayU announced the launch of a 45-day fintech accelerator program, inFINity
for early-stage Indian startups in collaboration with AWS India (Amazon Web Services) and venture capital
firm Chiratae Ventures.
☞ Google Pay had started rolling out the UPI Lite feature for users in India.
☞ European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending arm of the European Union, plans to invest about €1 billion
in India’s renewable energy sector.
☞ Power Finance Corporation (PFC) had entered into loan agreements worth more than Rs 2.37 lakh crore
with 20 companies.
☞ Bajaj Finserv Asset Management had launched its first equity scheme in the flexi-cap category, where a
fund manager can choose to invest in companies across the market capitalisation spectrum

☞ The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) held a Logistics Data Bank Project
(LDB) Meeting to review the measures taken by Port Authorities to improve port performance.
☞ NARCL acquired Rs 21K crore of bad loans in Q4FY23
☞ Food delivery platform Swiggy had launched a co-branded credit card with HDFC Bank, adding on to the
larger trend of ecommerce platforms launching co-branded cards. Swiggy’s co-branded credit card will be
hosted on Mastercard’s payment network.
☞ IDFC Mutual Fund is all set to adopt its new brand identity as Bandhan Mutual Fund from, March 13,
2023.
☞ Bajaj Finance had partnered with ICICI Lombard General Insurance along with other partners to provide
car and two-wheeler insurance plans on the platform Bajaj Finance Insurance Mall.
☞ Net collections under small savings schemes such as National Savings Certificate (NSC) and Public
Provident Fund (PPF) dipped for the first time in 11 years in the last fiscal year (FY23).
☞ India’s card payments market is expected to almost triple from $262.1 billion in 2022 to $728.2 billion in
2027, driven by rising consumer spending, says GlobalData, a data and analytics company.
☞ Prominent fintech firm CRED introduced RuPay credit card-based Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
payments for its members, in collaboration with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
☞ The central government’s fiscal deficit increased to 25.3 per cent or Rs 4.5 lakh crore for the first quarter
of the current financial year 2023-24.
☞ 15th Finance Commission had allocated a total corpus of Rs 1,28,122.40 crore to the State Disaster
Response Force (SDRF) in all States for the Award Period (2021-22 to 2025-2026), Union Minister for State
(Home Affairs) Nityanand Rai.
☞ The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had introduced the third edition of its UPI Safety
Awareness campaign, titled "UPI Chalega."
☞ Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 48,461.44 crore pertaining to 16,79,32,112 accounts had been transferred
by the banks to Depositor Education & Awareness Fund.
☞ Public sector banks and five major private sector banks, including Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank,
ICICI Bank and IDBI Bank, collected over Rs 35,000 crore in charges since 2018 on account of non-
maintenance of minimum balance, additional ATM transactions and SMS Services.
☞ SBI Card and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had announced the linking of SBI credit card
on RuPay platform with UPI starting from August 10, 2023.
☞ Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed a penalty of ₹40 lakhs on Axis Bank for its failure to
notify the competition watchdog on its 9.91 percent stake buy in CSC e-governance.
☞ Light Microfinance had partnered Chennai-based fintech firm IppoPay to power digital lending to micro,
small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in rural and semi-urban micro-markets of Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka.
☞ Ooty-based agri-technology company Lawrencedale Agro Processing India (LEAF) had joined hands with
Andhra Pradesh State Co-operative Bank Ltd (APCOB) to promote sustainable livelihoods for marginalised
farmers in Andhra Pradesh.
☞ The Central Government extended the deadline for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) wage payments via the Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS) to
December 31, 2023, or until further direction.
☞ The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), launched Falcon — an open-source project that aims
to simplify the management and use of blockchains based on ‘Hyperledger Fabric' and supported on
Kubernetes clusters.
☞ The Centre is likely to infuse capital in certain regional rural banks (RRBs) during 2023-24, depending on
their performance and adoption of digitisation.
☞ Muthoot Fincorp Ltd launched a digital platform, offering various financial services to its customers
through a single application (Muthoot FinCorp ONE).
☞ BankSathi, a pioneering fintech social commerce startup, had recently announced its remarkable
achievement as the third-largest credit card issuer in India with an impressive 3.6 lakh Annual Run Rate of
card issuance.
☞ Forex services company Thomas Cook (India) Ltd and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
had launched India's first RuPay prepaid forex card for Indians travelling to the United Arab Emirates
(UAE).

☞ UPI Merchant UDIR (Unified Dispute and Issue Resolution) system was successfully completed by NPST &
NPCI.
☞ Mastercard had partnered with KredX, a supply chain finance platform, in a strategic move aimed at
revolutionising B2B digital payments, ensuring benefits for both enterprises and vendors.
☞ SBI Card had launched ‘SimplySAVE Merchant SBI Card’ for micro, small, and medium enterprises
(MSMEs), with the offer of short-term credit options and other exclusive benefits.
☞ National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the developer of UPI, had unveiled several new products
— Credit Line on UPI, UPI LITE X and Tap & Pay, Hello! UPI - Conversational Payments on UPI, BillPay
Connect - Conversational Bill Payments — with an aim to create an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable
digital payments ecosystem.
☞ Cashfree Payments, a leading payments and API banking solutions company, had partnered with
Jamboree, a leading educational consultancy, to simplify fee payments for Indian students studying
overseas.
☞ Hitachi Payment Services, a subsidiary of Japan-based Hitachi Ltd, launched India's first-ever UPI-ATM as
a White Label ATM (WLA) named Hitachi Money Spot UPI ATM, with the National Payments Corporation
of India (NPCI).
☞ Bajaj Auto Consumer Finance Limited, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Bajaj Auto Limited, had received on
31 August 2023 from RBI a Certificate of Registration, bearing No. N-13.02465 dated 29 August 2023 under
section 45-IA of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 to commence/carry on the business of nonbanking
financial institution without accepting public deposits, subject to the conditions given.
☞ Agrim Housing Finance (AHF) and Vastu Housing Finance Corporation (VHFC) had entered into a co-
lending partnership for affordable housing projects.
☞ Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, had launched an ALT ID solution for
guest checkout transactions.
☞ Buoyed by strong equity and debt market performance, National Pension System (NPS) assets under
management (AUM) —including the corpus on Atal Pension Yojana (APY) —hit a milestone of ₹ 10 lakh
crore on August 25.
☞ Loan disbursed by non-banking companies acting as Micro Finance Institutions (NBFC-MFIs) rose by 45.8
per cent year-on-year to Rs 30,398 crore in April-June 2023 (Q1 FY24) as against Rs 20,845 crore in April-
June 2022 (Q1 FY23).
☞ Fintech company Cashfree Payments has launched ‘AutoPay on QR’ in collaboration with the National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
☞ Cashfree Payments launched UPI Plug-in, which enables mobile-first businesses to collect UPI payments
from customers without needing them to exit the application in partnership with NPCI and Axis Bank.
☞ NPCI had unveiled the “OTG Ring” which is the first contactless payment wearable ring made in India, in
collaboration with Indian startup LivQuik.
☞ WhatsApp had partnered with Razorpay and PayU to allow Indian users to shop and make payments via
the app.
☞ India’s current account deficit (CAD) widened to $9.2 billion (1.1% of GDP) in the April-June quarter, from
$1.3 billion (0.2% of GDP) in the preceding three months, as exports of goods shrank even as imports rose
and net receipts from services also declined quarter-on-quarter. The overall value of transaction value rose
nearly 42% y-o-y to Rs 15.79 lakh crore in September 2023 from Rs 15.76 lakh crore in August 2023.
☞ The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) has entered into a collaboration with the Japan
Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to launch a $600 million India-Japan Fund (IJF) with JBIC and
Government of India (GoI) as anchor investors.
☞ The disbursal of small business loans under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) registered a record
38% growth in the first half of the current financial year ended September 2023, compared to the same
period last year.
☞ The India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) has given approval for loans amounting to Rs
8,800 crore for the development of airports and civil aviation infrastructure within the nation.
☞ India’s NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) will assist in developing the first national domestic card
scheme (DCS) for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of a strategic partnership.

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
Institute/Organisation/Company FY24 Inflation

Morgan Stanley 6.4% 5.7%
NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani 6.5%
Fitch Ratings 6.3%
J.P.Morgan 5.5%
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 6.3% 5.3.%
Goldman Sachs 6.3%
Asian Development Bank 6.3%
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 6.5% 5.4%
World Bank 6.3% 5.9%
S&P Global Ratings 6%
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 6.3% 5.5%
Finance Ministry 6.5%
☞ Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that India's exports of agricultural
and allied products had crossed four lakh crore rupees.
☞ JSW Infrastructure will invest ₹152 crores at Mangalore Container Terminal as part of phase-II container
capacity expansion.
☞ Zomato had changed its brand name to ‘Mazoto’, in a video, to reiterate the fact that ‘Ma’ always comes
first.
☞ According to Morgan Stanley, India is benefitting from a combination of cyclical and structural tailwinds
and is expected to contribute 16 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP) over 2023-24.
☞ Data centres in India are expected to lead the next wave of real assets investments by growing at a
compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 40% to reach a capacity of around 1,700 MW by 2025,
on the back of investments worth $5 billion.
☞ Malabar Gold and Diamonds, one of the largest gold and diamond retail chains of the country, had
become the first jewellery group in India to obtain a TRQ (Tariff Rate Quota) license from the Director
General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) whereby they can import gold through India International Bullion
Exchange (IIBX).
☞ Tata Motors Finance, one of India’s leading NBFC pioneering in the vehicle finance industry, and Pasco
Motors, a authorised dealer of Tata Motors in North India will introduce what they claim is an industry-
first strategic partnership to offer a seamless digital credit line for an array of maintenance and servicing
needs of commercial vehicles.
☞ The government is planning to come up with a quarterly payment mechanism under the Rs 25,938-crore
auto PLI scheme to incentivise auto manufacturers.
☞ India's merchandise trade deficit rose to its highest level since December 2022 to $22.12 billion in May.
☞ India exported 17,35,286 tonnes of seafood worth ₹63,969.14 crores ($8.09 billion) during 2022-23, with
frozen shrimp remaining the major export item in terms of quantity and value, while the United States and
China turned out to be the major importers of India’s seafood, said a release from the Marine Products
Export Development Authority (MPEDA).
☞ SBI Capital Markets expects India's real GDP growth for the current financial year 2023-24 to be 6 per
cent, and noted that risks are evenly balanced.
☞ Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution had announced a reduction in the import duty
on refined soyabean oil and sunflower oil by 5 percentage points, bringing it down from 17.5 per cent to
12.5 per cent.
☞ Net direct tax collection for the first quarter of FY24 soared by 36 per cent to Rs 3.78 trillion, indicating
better corporate performance and a sustained economic growth trend.
☞ Agri start-up Poshn had launched a trading platform Poshn Nucleus that will help match a buyer’s
procurement demand with the most likely fulfilment partner.

☞ The figures of Direct Tax collections for the Financial Year 2023-24, as on 17.06.2023 show that net
collections are at Rs. 3,79,760 crores, compared to Rs. 3,41,568 crores in the corresponding period of the
preceding Financial Year i.e. FY 2022-23, representing an increase of 11.18%.
☞ Minister of State of Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar virtual addressed to
the annual Conference of the Global Indian Technology Professionals Association.
☞ Boeing had announced a significant investment of $100 million in infrastructure and pilot training
programs in India.
☞ Goldman Sachs had predicted the Indian economy and market will be among the top globally by 2050 and
even surpass the US by 2075.
☞ Procurement of goods and services from government portal, GeM had touched ₹50,000 crore-mark in the
first quarter of this fiscal year.
☞ The amount of money spent on apps is projected to reach around $800 billion (₹64 lakh crore) by 2030,
and given that the Indian economy is expected to be around $6,600 billion by 2030, the app spending is
likely to be around 12 per cent of the GDP.
☞ The GST Council is likely to discuss a demand of industrial units located in 11 Himalayan and North
Eastern states for reimbursement of full Central GST and 50 per cent of net Integrated GST paid.
☞ E-commerce major Amazon is on track to enable $8 billion in cumulative exports by the end of 2023, up 60
per cent from $5 billion last year.
☞ Finance Ministry had decided to continue with relaxations under cash management guidelines (CMG) for
the quarter (second quarter) beginning July 1.
☞ Agri-drone maker IoTechWorld Avigation had secured a large contract from cooperative fertiliser major
IFFCO for supplying 500 drones, which will be primarily used for spraying nano liquid urea and DAP.
☞ The National Housing Bank (NHB) had operationalised the ₹10,000-crore Urban Infrastructure
Development Fund (UIDF) announced in this year’s Budget for creation of urban infrastructure in tier-2
and tier-3 cities.
☞ India is poised to become the second-largest economy in the world by 2075, surpassing not only Japan and
Germany but also the United States, according to a Goldman Sachs report.
☞ India’s direct tax collection soared 16 per cent to touch Rs. 4.75 trillion this finacial year, showing
continuity in revenue growth despite external headwinds.
☞ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair the 50th GST Council meeting at Vigyan Bhawan in New
Delhi.
☞ Only 21 tonnes of gold had been mobilised in the last eight years under the gold monetisation scheme
(GMS) which was announced by the Government of India in November 2015.
☞ The study by Reserve Bank of India staffers said for India to become a developed country by 2047-48,
would require real GDP to grow at 7.6 per cent per annum over the next 25 years, raising its current per
capita GDP of $ 2,500 to $ 22,000.
☞ The National Company Law Tribunal had approved a ₹1,814-crore resolution plan for the private hill
station Lavasa, nearly five years after the initiation of the insolvency resolution process.
☞ The Central government had ratified the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) decision of
March 28 to set the interest rate at 8.15 per cent for 2022-23 in respect of the provident fund
accumulations in members accounts.
☞ The Indian government had stopped releasing subsidised rice for the production of ethanol after it banned
the export of non-basmati white rice.
☞ India will become the third largest economy by FY28, two years earlier than projected, said SBI Research
economists.
☞ India's GDP will nearly double in the next seven years to $6 trillion, and per capita income will increase to
$4,000 by 2030, Standard Chartered Bank Research.
☞ IoTechWorld Avigation, a leading agricultural drone manufacturer based in Gurugram, proudly announced
that its indigenous AGRIBOT A6 krishi-drone has received the prestigious 'Type Certificate' from the
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
☞ Output of eight key infrastructure sectors known as the core sector expanded to a five-month high of 8.2
per cent in June.
☞ The government extended the deadline to apply for benefits under the production-linked incentive
scheme for IT hardware products such as laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, servers, and edge computing
devices till August 30.
☞ LIC Mutual Fund (LIC MF) had completed the takeover of schemes of IDBI Mutual Fund.

☞ Softening its stance, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council decided to implement a 28 per cent tax on
electronic gaming, casinos, and horse racing, but this would be applied on the initial amount paid upon
entry, and not on the total value of each bet placed.
☞ The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) put under restricted category the import of laptops,
tablets, personal computers, ultrasmall form factor computers and servers with "immediate effect".
☞ Expressing confidence in the medium-term growth potential of the Indian economy, S&P Global projected
an average annual growth of 6.7 per cent from the fiscal year 2023-24 (FY24) to FY31, with capital
accumulation as the main driver of this growth.
☞ The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said that the FAO All Rice Price Index
rose 2.8 per cent in July from a month ago, to an average of 129.7 points.
☞ During the annual Maharashtra Green Infrastructure Conclave 2023 K V Kamath, chairman of the National
Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID), expressed his confidence in India’s potential
to achieve the $5-trillion economy target within 18 months.
☞ Meesho, backed by SoftBank, had announced it is the first horizontal e-commerce firm in India to reach
profitability.
☞ The Finance Ministry had imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on certain optical fibre imports from
China, South Korea and Indonesia to give some relief to the domestic optical fibre industry reeling under
the adverse impact of low-price and low-quality imports.
☞ India's toy exports increased 60 per cent from $203.46 million in 2018-19 to $325.72 million in 2022-23.
Import on the other hand dipped 57 per cent from $371.69 million in 2018-19 to $158.70 million in 2022-
23.
☞ ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode, and Tata Trusts had entered into a contract to carry
out pan-India action research project on the improvement of spice value chains with special focus on
ginger and turmeric.
☞ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that it had been chosen as a strategic partner to transform the
Government e-Marketplace (GeM) by bringing in more transparency and efficiency into the public
procurement process.
☞ The gross direct tax collection had registered growth of around 16 per cent to 6 lakh 53 thousand crore
rupees and Net direct tax collection stands at 5 lakh 84 thousand crore rupees, which is over 17 per cent
higher than corresponding period last year.
☞ The wholesale price based inflation remained in the negative territory for the fourth straight month in
July at (-)1.36% on easing prices of fuel, even though food articles turned costlier.
☞ India’s goods exports fell 15.88 per cent (year-on-year) to $32.25 billion in July, posting a decline for the
sixth straight month.
☞ A research report by State Bank of India.
☞ The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation rate jumped to 7.44 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in July
from 4.87 per cent in June.
☞ IT giant Wipro had inaugurated a new centre of excellence (CoE) focused on generative artificial
intelligence (GenAI), in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
☞ Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar told that India’s digital economy had been seeing accelerated
growth and is expected to account for 20% of the country’s GDP by 2026.
☞ Cutting-edge material sciences firm, Carborundum Universal Limited (CUMI), had entered into a
technology partnership with private sector drone maker, ideaForge Technology.
☞ Moody’s Investors Service had affirmed India’s long-term local and foreign-currency issuer ratings at Baa3
and retained a stable outlook.
☞ Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh had said that India is set to achieve 150 billion dollars Bio-Economy by
2025 during ‘Implementation Arrangement’ signed between the Department of Biotechnology and the
United States-National Science Foundation in New Delhi.
☞ Aditya Birla Group company Hindalco Industries planned to invest ₹2,000 crores in first-of-its-kind copper
and e-waste recycling facility in India.
☞ The advent of UPI (unified payments interface) had triggered the growth of fintech firms in the country.
☞ Accelerated growth, increased efficiency and unwavering trust propel Government e-Marketplace (GeM)
to achieve an impressive milestone, crossing ₹1 lakh crore in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) within a
remarkable span of 145 days in the current financial year, FY 2023-24.
☞ The Competition Commission of India had levied fines totalling Rs 55 lakh on Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority (ADIA) and TPG Group for making false declarations before the regulator while availing the

green channel facility in a deal related to the acquisition of a stake in UPL Sustainable Agri Solutions Ltd
(UPL SAS).
☞ E-commerce firm Meesho had announced its aim to onboard 10 million small businesses by 2027,
assisting them in finding success online.
☞ Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) had fined ₹50 crores on Electric motorcycle maker Revolt Motors for
violating the guidelines under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME)
scheme.
☞ The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh launched the CSIR Prima ET11, which is
claimed to be the first indigenous e-tractor developed by the Central Mechanical Engineering Research
Institute (CMERI), Durgapur.
☞ Financial Software & Systems (FSS), a provider of payments solutions, had announced the launch of its
new payments technology platform, 'Blaze'.
☞ According to Crisil, The combined capital outlay for roads and renewables in the current and next fiscal is
seen rising to around ₹13-lakh crore, a 35 per cent growth compared with the preceding two fiscals,
backed by strong execution speed.
☞ Fintech company PayNearby partnered with Grameen Foundation for Social Impact (GFSI), a non-profit to
uplift underserved communities, to upskill 1.5 lakh business correspondents (BC) in rural areas.
☞ Lignite and power major NLC India Ltd had formulated its Corporate Plan 2030, under which it had
proposed a massive capex of ₹82,174 crores for enhancing mining, power generation, and diversification
businesses.
☞ Garuda Aerospace had launched the Equality Drone Training program, along with the Bharat Drone
Association and National Drone Pilot Association, specifically designed for persons with disabilities.
☞ Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd government got Navratna status by Government of India.
☞ PhonePe announced its foray into stock broking business with the launch of a new mobile application
called ‘Share(dot)Market’, under its subsidiary PhonePe Wealth Broking.
☞ Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), organised a workshop on Business Responsibility and
Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) in collaboration with UNICEF and National Stock Exchange at the NSE
premises in Mumbai.
☞ Aditya Birla Capital Digital Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary company of Aditya Birla Capital Limited,
announced the introduction of Payment Lounge, powered by PhiCommerce.
☞ Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT)-the first common forum of dispute resolution
between Centre and States-will have 31 benches across the 28 states and Union Territories.
☞ Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) Chairman Siddhartha Mohanty presented a dividend cheque of Rs
1,831.09 crore to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
☞ Dhanuka Agritech Ltd has introduced a new herbicide ‘Tizom’ that will help farmers in controlling weeds
in sugarcane crop. ‘Tizom’ has been introduced in collaboration with Nissan Chemical Corporation, Japan.
☞ National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS), under Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs, launched
the Phase II of the ‘Amazon Future Engineer Programme’ in 54 Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS)
spread across Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana.
☞ Finance Ministry has exempted ocean freight for CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) import from Integrated
Goods & Services Tax (IGST).
☞ The gross GST revenue collected in the month of September, 2023 is ₹1,62,712 crores out of which CGST is
₹29,818 crores, SGST is ₹37,657 crores, IGST is ₹83,623 crores (including ₹41,145 crores collected on
import of goods) and cess is ₹11,613 crores (including ₹881 crores collected on import of goods).
☞ Ahead of the festival season, the manufacturing sector slowed down a bit as Purchasing Managers’ Index
(PMI) dipped to a five-month low of 57.5 in September, a report released by S&P Global Market
Intelligence.
☞ India is unlikely to get a longer implementation period or special dispensation for its MSMEs, under the
EU’s stringent Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the transitional phase for which started on
October 1.
☞ The WTO has slashed its projection for world trade growth in 2023 by half to 0.8% from its earlier estimate
of 1.7% in April this year as the “abrupt” slowdown in world output and trade in the fourth quarter of the
last year spilled over into the current year.
☞ The International Monetary Fund has made no change to its forecast for next year and continues to see
India's GDP growing by 6.3% in 2024-25.

☞ India’s net direct tax collections grew 21.8% to ₹9.57 lakh crore by October 9, surpassing over half of the
Budget estimates for this year, with personal income tax revenues rising 32.5% and corporate taxes
increasing 12.4%.
☞ The Indian space economy will need an overall investment of $22 billion in the next 10 years to reach its
potential of $44 billion in revenue by 2033, making up 8 per cent of the global share, according to the
Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe), an autonomous agency in the
Department of Space (DOS), Department of Science, Government of India.
☞ GST Authority has imposed a fine of Rs 36,844 on Life Insurance Corporation for lower payment of taxes.
☞ On the lines of the World Economic Forum, some co-operative sector leaders and experts have formed the
World Cooperative Economic Forum (WCEF), to be based in New Delhi, claiming to provide voice to over
three million co-operatives spread over all countries.
☞ Since 2018, Walmart Foundation through its market access programme it has invested over $39 million in
India to reach 500 Farmer Producer Organizations/Farmer Producer Groups targeting 8,00,000 farmers,
of which more than half are women.
AGREEMENTS AND M O U S
☞ Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with T-Hub
(Technology Hub), a premier innovation hub and ecosystem-enabler based out of Hyderabad, India.
☞ In order to realize green energy and green hydrogen objectives and the GOI’s efforts towards energy
transition, NTPC Green Energy Limited (NGEL) and HPCL Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi.
☞ In an endeavor to bring the corporate companies and Ex-Servicemen on a common platform to generate
more employment opportunities for them, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between
Directorate General Resettlement under Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare.
☞ The H K Sherwani Centre for Deccan Studies (HKSCDS) at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University
(MANUU) here entered into an MoU with Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology
Hyderabad (IITH) to jointly work on the emerging initiative of Science and Heritage for 3 years.
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)
and Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU).
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Directorate General Resettlement (DGR)
under Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence and M/s Kotak Mahindra Life
Insurance Company Limited to generate employment opportunities for the esteemed Ex-Servicemen of
the Defence Services.
☞ HCL Foundation had partnered with the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) to train over 5,000
women, youths and artisans from marginalised communities for sustainable income-generating
opportunities.
☞ Online accommodation hosting platform Airbnb had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
the Union Ministry of Tourism to showcase India's heritage stays and promote cultural tourism.
☞ State-owned telecommunications firm ITI Ltd had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with
Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) and Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL)
to produce new products and services for smart cities.
☞ Directorate General Resettlement (DGR) under Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of
Defence signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IBM to engage ex-servicemen and to
facilitate their seamless integration into the civilian workforce.
☞ The Union Agriculture Ministry had signed an MOU with Pixxel Space India Pvt Ltd to develop various
geospatial solutions, mainly for monitoring the health of crops and soil.
☞ The Confederation of Indian Industry’s Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Start-
ups (CII CIES) announced its strategic partnership with Vedanta Ltd to promote corporate-start-up connect
and also provide support to technology-based start-ups through its corporate accelerator program.
☞ The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Automotive Industry Development
Centre (AIDC) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen the global
competitiveness of the local automotive industry.
☞ To foster academic collaboration and promote research initiatives, the University of Jaffna and the
prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras had signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

☞ THDC India Limited (THDCIL) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National
Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to provide technical services as the technical consultant.
☞ International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA) had signed a MoU at IIM (Indian Institute of
Management) Lucknow EIC, Noida campus in Uttar Pradesh.
☞ The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and Climate Policy Initiative - India (CPI)
had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for mutual assistance and cooperation to increase
mobilisation of global sustainable capital flows into India.
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote use of millets and healthy eating practices among
the Armed Forces and ensure availability of safe & nutritious food was signed in the presence of Raksha
Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh and Minister of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) Dr Mansukh Mandaviya in
New Delhi.
☞ In a remarkable initiative to revive and preserve the 2000-year-old technique of shipbuilding known as the
‘stitched shipbuilding method’, the Ministry of Culture and the Indian Navy had entered into a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
☞ An MoU had been signed between the Ministry of Culture and Canara Bank for disbursal of financial
assistance to the selected beneficiaries under the “Scheme for Financial Assistance for Veteran Artists”
earlier known as “Scheme for Pension and Medical Aid to Artists”.
☞ ACME Group had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State-run REC amounting to over
₹21,000 crore of loans for setting up various power- green ammonia and pumped hydro projects.
☞ Electric commercial vehicles manufacturer PMI Electro Mobility had signed an agreement with public-
sector enterprise REC Limited to provide finance for its commercial EVs.
☞ In order to foster collaboration in the field of AI and Emerging Technologies, ‘India AI’ – an IBD under
Digital India Corporation and Meta, India had signed an MoU.
☞ The first Global DPI Summit was organised by Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) in Pune,
Maharashtra.
☞ Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL) and GAIL India had signed an interconnection agreement to
connect the North East Gas Grid (NEGG) of IGGL with the Barauni Guwahati Pipeline (BGPL) of GAIL.
☞ The Ministry of Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship signed 106 Memorandum of
Understanding (MoUs) with various esteemed organizations and institutions, on the occasion of the Akhil
Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam 2023 and the 3rd anniversary of the National Education Policy.
☞ Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) had
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish mechanism of technical and institutional
cooperation in telecommunications.
☞ Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET) under the Ministry of
Railways, and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) had signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to establish the India 5G Test bed.
☞ The AIIMS Delhi had signed an agreement with the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
Limited (IREDA) to initiate the technical assessment of the hospital campus for converting it into one
which is powered by solar energy.
☞ For the first time ever, Subroto Mukherjee Sports Education Society (SMSES) signed MoU with the All
India Football Federation (AIFF) to promote football at the grassroots level.
☞ IIM Ahmedabad’s CIIE.CO and SIDBI had partnered to establish a pre-seed fund, especially for deep-tech
start-ups.
☞ Bureau of Indian Standards, the National Standards Body of India signed Memorandum of Understandings
(MoUs) with 35 prestigious institutions across the country for fostering collaboration in standardization
and conformity assessment.
☞ Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) announced that it had signed an MoU with Greenstat Hydrogen
India Pvt. Ltd. for “potential collaboration opportunities in Green Hydrogen and derivatives in the
Hydrogen Value Chain.”
☞ Amazon India had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Entrepreneurship
Development Institute of India (EDII) and the Cottage and Rural Industries Department, Government of
Gujarat, to help drive e-commerce exports from the state.
☞ NHPC Limited and Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding, under which NHPC will provide CSR support for distribution of aids and
assistive devices to around 1,000 Divyangjans (Persons with Disabilities) in the vicinity of NHPC Projects
located in North and North Eastern states.
☞ UNDP Indonesia and India’s eGov Foundation had signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to
tackle the critical challenge of infectious medical waste management in Indonesia.

☞ SJVN Ltd had signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
(ONGC) and Sambhar Salts Limited (SSL), a subsidiary of Hindustan Salts Limited for development of solar
parks and projects.
☞ The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for providing QR code-based DMRC tickets through
the IRCTC platform.
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Central Drugs Standard Control
Organization (CDSCO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of the Republic of India and
Ministry of Health, Government of the Republic of Suriname on cooperation in the field of Medical
Product Regulation.
☞ NHPC Limited, India’s premier hydropower company, had signed an MoU with RITES, a Miniratna Schedule
'A' Central Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Railways, for construction of railway siding at
Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, for NHPC’s 2,880 MW Dibang Multi-Purpose Project.
☞ Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) and United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), in the presence of Minister of State for Ministry of DoNER and Ministry of
Cooperation, Shri B.L.Verma and UN Assistant Secretary-General & Director of the UNDP Bureau of
External Relations and Advocacy (BERA), Ms Ulrika Modéer, entered into an MoU.
☞ Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), a Mini Ratna (Category – I) had signed a
performance-based Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy.
☞ Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development
Corporation (NSKFDC) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the fiscal years 2023-24 and
2024-25.
☞ Indian Railways’ Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) Vadodara and Airbus entered into collaboration to
significantly strengthen the Indian aviation sector.
☞ NTPC Limited and Oil India Limited (OIL) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore
collaboration in the areas of renewable energy, green hydrogen, and its derivatives.
☞ The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Education and Meta signed a three-
year partnership to take digital skills to the grassroots, thus building talent pool capacities and seamlessly
connecting students, youth, and micro-entrepreneurs across the country.
☞ The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with
global biotech and agri-major Bayer for resource-efficient technology development and enhancing
farmers' income through regenerative agriculture.
☞ Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) had signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL), to finance renewable energy
projects.
☞ Department of Posts entered into an agreement with Bigfoot Retail Solution Pvt Ltd (Shiprocket), one of
the leading e-commerce enablement platforms to create an export ecosystem for e-commerce in the
country.
☞ Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) had signed Memorandums of Understanding
(MoUs) with Union Bank of India (UBI) and Bank of Baroda (BoB).
☞ Union Ministry of Education signed an agreement with global software major Adobe to help children
develop creative expression in classrooms using the application Adobe Express.
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration opportunities on 6G wireless
technologies in India and other parts of the world was signed between Bharat 6G Alliance and Next G
Alliance, an initiative of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).
☞ In a stride towards advancing the landscape of skill development and entrepreneurship in India, Indian
Institute of Management Indore has entered into a partnership with the National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC).
☞ NTPC Green Energy Limited (NGEL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of India’s leading integrated power
producer NTPC Limited, and Nayara Energy, a new-age international downstream energy company of
international scale, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities in
the Green Hydrogen and Green Energy space.
☞ The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD) have signed an MoU to collaborate on data-driven innovations in agriculture and
food systems.
☞ The Indian Navy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s Uber to provide reliable,
convenient, safe and economical mobility solutions for personal travel and commute of Naval personnel
and families across the country.

☞ Amazon Web Services (AWS) had signed a memorandum of understanding with ISRO and IN-SPACe to
support space-tech innovations through cloud computing.
☞ Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Small
Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to provide accessible financing options to micro, small, and
medium enterprises (MSMEs) looking to adopt solar solutions.
☞ The Ministry of Labour and Employment signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading
private job portals, companies/employers and skill providers to integrate with National Career Service
(NCS) portal of the Ministry.
☞ The Geological Survey of India Training Institute (GSITI), Hyderabad has signed a memorandum of
understanding with ISRO, Bengaluru under the National Natural Resources Management System
programme.
☞ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
ICICI Bank to fuel start-up innovation in India.
☞ Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been exchanged between NHPC Ltd and Vidhyut Utpadan
Company Ltd (VUCL), Nepal, in august presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of
Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, for development of Phukot
Karnali Hydro Electric Project (480MW) in Nepal.
☞ India’s Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited and Germany-based Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems (TKMS)
signed an MoU for cooperation in submarine production, as a precursor to join a bid for an estimated Rs.
42,000 crore project to build six diesel-electric submarines for the Indian navy.
☞ Bar Council of India had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Bar Council of England and
Wales and Law Society of England and Wales for an exchange programme of lawyers and students for
training and learning about each other's jurisdiction.
☞ Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) and the Indian Chamber of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) had
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at promoting mutual growth and development in
the food and agriculture sectors of the UAE and India.
☞ NADA India signed an MoU with South Asia Regional Anti-Doping Organization (SARADO), comprising of
Anti-Doping Organizations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, at the NADA India –
SARADO Cooperation Meet in New Delhi, in the presence of Shri Anurag Singh Thakur Minister of Youth
Affairs & Sports and Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, Ms. Sujata Chaturvedi, Secretary
(Sports), Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India, SARADO Secretariat & Member Country
Representatives of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
☞ The Bureau of Water Use Efficiency (BWUE) and Indian Plumbing Association (IPA) had signed an MoU
with the aim of achieving a Water Positive India.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India and the Central Bank of UAE (CBUAE) signed two MoUs related to the
promotion of local currencies for cross-border transactions and interlinking their payment systems UPI
with the Instant Payment Platform (IPP) of UAE.
☞ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Absolute®, a bioscience company, signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the government of India’s flagship Pradhan Mantri
Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and enhance the resilience of the farmers.
☞ India and UAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding for planning to establish Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) - Delhi in Abu Dhabi, which could be the second IIT abroad after Tanzania.
☞ The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and AOAC INTERNATIONAL (AOAC) had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and enhance the food safety analytical ecosystem
in India.
☞ Five Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between India & LAO PDR (Laos) for the
implementation of five Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) in the fields of education, health, water facility and IT.
☞ Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TMS), the Germany-based leading naval company, had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian defence PSU Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited
(MDL) for the overhaul and modernisation of submarine INS Shankush to extend its operational capability.
☞ NTPC, the largest power-generating utility in India, and Chempolis India, a Fortum group associate
company and a leading Finnish bio-refining technology provider, had signed Memorandum of
Understanding to explore the feasibility of setting up a Bamboo-based Bio-Refinery in Bongaigaon.
☞ As part of its commitment to reduce carbon footprints, Indian Railways had signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with United States Agency for International Development/India (USAID/India) for
collaboration on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the railways.
☞ The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions, and the Public Service Division, of the Republic of Singapore signed a protocol
document, extending for five years the current memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in
the field of personnel management and public administration till 2028.

☞ Reliance Industries and Brookfield Asset Management had signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to explore opportunities to manufacture equipment for renewable energy and decarbonisation in
Australia.
☞ The Indian embassy in Kathmandu and the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration of
Nepal signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in Sports was signed between the Ministry of
Youth Affairs and Sports and the Department of Health and Aged Care of the Government of Australia.
☞ India and Trinidad and Tobago had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sharing INDIA
STACK a collection of open APIs and digital public goods that aim to facilitate identity, data, and payment
services on a large scale.
☞ Nepal government planned to increase the export of electricity to neighbouring India from 450 MW to
10,000 MW in the next 10 years.
☞ Indian Coast Guard had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Philippine Coast Guard
(PCG) on enhanced maritime cooperation.
☞ The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) had signed a MoU with the Numaligarh Refinery Limited
(NRL) to use National Waterways-2 (Brahmaputra) and Indo Bangladesh Protocol Route (IBPR) for export
of petroleum products to Bangladesh and other south east Asian countries.
☞ Goa Shipyard Ltd and Kenya Shipyard Ltd signed an MoU for capacity building and collaboration in ship
design and construction following Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for
Defence Aden Bare Duale’s bilateral talks here to promote military industry cooperation and deepen
maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region.
☞ The Government of India and the Government of New Zealand had signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to boost cooperation in civil aviation.
☞ India had entered into eight memorandums of understandings with countries such as Armenia, Sierra
Leone, Suriname, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Papua New Guinea and Mauritius, offering
them the India Stack and digital public infrastructure (DPI) at no cost and with open-source access.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina held a bilateral talk in New
Delhi and also signed three memorandum of understanding (MoUs). The MoU on cooperation in Digital
Payment mechanism was signed between National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Bangladesh
Bank. Another MoU focused on the renewal of the Cultural Exchange Program (CEP) between India and
Bangladesh for 2023-2025. The third MoU was signed between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) and the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (BARC).
☞ India and Saudi Arabia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of
energy.
☞ To strengthen the collaboration between the Netherlands and India, stakeholders from both countries
have jointly signed 27 Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), with a special focus on areas such as
sustainable food systems, key enabling technologies and medical technology.
☞ The National Judicial Academy of India signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the
Singapore Judicial College of the Supreme Court of the island city-state on advancing cooperation in
judicial education and research.
☞ Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology had signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia, Ministry of Information and
Communications of the Republic of Sierra Leone & Ministry of Information, Communications
Technologies, Utilities and Energy of the Antigua & Barbuda on Cooperation in the field of sharing
successful Digital Solutions implemented at Population Scale for Digital Transformation.
☞ Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma attended the signing of Memorandum of Understanding
between the Government of Assam and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for the establishment of
Srimanta Sankardev Chair at the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies of the country's premier education
institution dedicated to higher education.
☞ In a significant development, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Guwahati, Assam,
which aims to facilitate the creation of a ‘Riverine Based Religious Tourism Circuit’ in the region.
☞ The Tamil Nadu government signed memoranda of understanding (MoU) worth Rs 800 crore with
Japanese firms during Chief Minister M K Stalin's ongoing visit of that country.
☞ Six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed between Tamil Nadu government agencies and
various organisations in Singapore in the presence of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Singapore’s Minister
for Transport and Minister in charge of Trade Relations S. Iswaran.
☞ The Assam government signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to ensure hadsle-free rail
and river travel, the first pact was signed with the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) for transfer of the
Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC)'s land in Paltanbazar here to the railways for setting up a
second entry point to Guwahati railway station, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

☞ Lupin Ltd, said that its corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm, Lupin Human Welfare and Research
Foundation (LHWRF) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Maharashtra
government to address the growing prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) and Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the Palghar district of Maharashtra.
☞ After signing agreements with the Madhya Pradesh and the Tamil Nadu governments, the government-
backed e-commerce marketplace the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) signed an agreement
with the Kerala government to improve access and business opportunities in various sectors in the State.
☞ Paytm Payment Services Limited (PPSL) signed an MoU with Arunachal Pradesh Innovation and
Investment Park (APIIP) to create a startup ecosystem for the youth in the northeastern state.
☞ Micron Technology signed MoU with Gujarat Government for setting up semiconductor facility in Sanand.
☞ The India Startup Foundation (ISF) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TiE (The
Indus Entrepreneurs - Hyderabad) and start-up ecosystem enabler, T-Hub, to promote a robust ecosystem
to create, incubate, fund, and mentorship in the region.
☞ International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA) and PIEDS BITS Pilani, had signed a MoU at BITS
Pilani PIEDS Finxcelerator, Pilani Campus in Rajasthan
☞ The Gujarat government and the Centre signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a PM MITRA
textile park on a 462-hectare plot in Navsari district.
☞ Paytm had signed an exclusive memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Goa government for
digitisation of all its departments.
☞ Electronics, home appliances, IT & mobile accessories brand Elista had signed an MoU with the
Government of Andhra Pradesh to invest Rs 100 crore in setting up its second manufacturing plant in
Andhra Pradesh.
☞ Tezpur University and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to assess the net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide in Kaziranga National Park.
☞ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with
the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) as a step towards enhancing its expertise in international
affairs and foreign policy.
☞ The Punjab government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with British Council Education India to
start an English language training course for government college students.
☞ Walmart and Flipkart announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telangana
government to create an ecosystem to aid capacity building for MSMEs in the state.
☞ The Odisha government signed an agreement with the University of California, Berkeley, in the US for
cooperation in research, impact assessment of schemes and exchange of academic publication
☞ As part of a slew of projects launched by the Tamil Nadu State government, the Environment department
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom to set up a botanical garden in
Chengalpattu in partnership with the Kew Gardens, London.
☞ Tamil Nadu (TN) signed an agreement with Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics
manufacturer, to build a mobile component manufacturing facility in the Kancheepuram district at a
proposed investment of Rs 1,600 crore, likely employing 6,000 people.
☞ The Retailers Association of India (RAI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the
Facilitating MSMEs Tamil Nadu (FaMeTN).
☞ The Bharti Institute of Public Policy of the Indian School of Business (ISB) signed an MoU with the Goa
government to commence a knowledge partnership, with focus on evidence-based policy formulation
and impact in the State.
☞ Arunachal Pradesh government allotted 12 hydropower projects to three Central Government PSUs by
signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with them at State Banquet Hall in Itanagar.
☞ A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was inked between Jharkhand Police and State Bank of India
(SBI) to provide additional benefits to police personnel and officials as part of their salary package.
☞ The Goa government had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CSC eGovernance Services
India Limited to facilitate the implementation of various e-governance initiatives and services across rural
areas of the coastal state.
☞ A memorandum of understanding will be signed between Jharkhand government and TCPL Green Energy
Solution Pvt. to pave way for the establishment of the country’s first hydrogen fuel industry in Jharkhand’s
Jamshedpur.
☞ A Memorandum of Agreement was signed by Numaligarh Refinery Limited with Indian Institute of
Technology, Guwahati to develop technology for production of marketable Grade Green Activated
Carbon from bamboo dust.
☞ The Andhra Pradesh Food Processing Society (APFPS) and the State Bank of India (SBI) had entered into
an agreement on Tuesday to upgrade and support the establishment of at least 7,500 micro food
processing units in the state.

☞ Amazon India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with five State Governments, including
Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, to train employable Persons with Disabilities
(PwDs) and bring them to the mainstream workforce.
☞ Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CRML) signed three contract agreements with Rail Vikas Nigam Limited
(RVNL) for a combined value of Rs. 4058.20 crore.
☞ Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd’s (IRCTC) signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to enable travellers to book bus
journeys through IRCTC’s bus booking portal.
☞ The Odisha government had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with six public sector banks
for catering to all unbanked gram panchayats.
☞ IDBI Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland
for a channel financing partnership of its dealers. The MoU is for collaboration to provide personalized
financial solutions specifically designed for dealers by the partnering entities.
☞ South Indian Bank (SIB) had signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mahindra and Mahindra
Ltd (Automobile division) for providing the latter’s dealers with financing solutions.
☞ Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi’s Innovation and Incubation Centre (IIITD-
IC), had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with YES BANK.
☞ Mahindra Logistics Limited (MLL) announced a collaboration with Flipkart for providing a dedicated fleet
of heavy commercial vehicles, assistance in route management and network operations, among others for
the latter's pan India operations.
☞ A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Ashok Leyland and the Uttar Pradesh
government in a program organized in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
☞ United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay have
signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) for contributing towards improving food security,
nutrition, climate resilience and livelihoods.
☞ Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) along with Ministry of MSME had signed three separate
MoUs with Prasar Bharati, NBCC (India) Limited, and Digital India Corporation and laid foundation stone
of 'Modern Khadi of New India' in the Amritkal of Independent India.
☞ Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) had signed a significant Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Bank of Maharashtra (BoM).
☞ National Highways Logistics Management Ltd (NHLML), a company owned by NHAI had signed an
agreement for the development of Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) at Bengaluru Muddelinganahalli
district, proposed to be developed under the Public Private Partnership (DBFOT) model at an estimated
cost of Rs 1,770 crore.
☞ The Gujarat government signed five MoUs for the proposed investment of 1,095 crore rupees in the
State.
☞ India Global Forum and World Governments Summit have signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to develop an Emerging Economies Programme.
☞ Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the premier Telecom R&D Centre of the Department of
Telecommunications (DoT) and CSIR-National Physical laboratory (NPL) signed an agreement for
‘Development of NavIC based IST traceable Primary Reference Time Clock (PRTC) for Telecom Sector’.
☞ NHAI had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for review
of designs of various bridges/ structures, safety aspects of NHAI projects and capacity building of NHAI
officials.
☞ Power Finance Corporation (PFC) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with state-owned
hydro power firm SJVN Ltd, committing to finance the latter's renewable energy and thermal power
projects.
☞ Andhra Pradesh had signed an MoU with American educational agency International Baccalaureate (IB) in
the presence of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at the Secretariat at Velagapudi.
☞ Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy
Development Agency (UPNEDA) have signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to make direct
financing options available for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
☞ Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) had signed an agreement with the Digital Lenders
Association of India (DLAI) to boost the country's fintech sector.
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding between Indian Navy (IN) and Indian institute of Science (IISc),
Bengaluru was signed at New Delhi for technical collaboration and joint research & development.
☞ The Iran-India Joint Chamber of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with
Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) to strengthen trade, investment, quality standards and
technology transfer.

☞ Arunachal Pradesh government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Norwegian
Geotechnical Institute (NGI) to explore feasibility of harnessing geothermal potentials that the state’s
numerous hot springs offer.
☞ State-run REC had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Punjab National Bank (PNB) for
co-financing loans worth ₹55,000 crores for projects in the sectors of power as well as infrastructure and
logistics in the next three years.
☞ Union Minister of Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
presided over the signing of 8 MoUs between agencies of Ministries of Education and Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship and IBM.
☞ An MoU for investment worth Rs 2,000 crore was signed with Aager Technology and another for
investment worth Rs 1,000 crore with Fira Barcelona were signed during Uttarakhand Chief Minister
Pushkar Singh Dhami's current tour to United Kingdom.
☞ The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has signed a pact with the Vivekananda Kendra
Vidyalaya Arunachal Pradesh Trust (VKVAPT) for infrastructure development in six schools as part of its
corporate social responsibility. The six schools are Balijan, Sunpura, Jairampur, Banderdewa, Ziro and
Kharsang kendriya vidyalayas.
☞ Tata Steel had signed an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation Limited and its business associate to
further reduce carbon footprint at its Ferro Alloys plant.
☞ Arunachal Pradesh has signed a MoU with the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) to explore
feasibility of harnessing geothermal potentials that the state’s numerous hot springs offer.
☞ The Indian Railways has signed a supply contract with the Indo-Russian joint venture (JV), Kinet Railway
Solutions, for manufacturing Vande Bharat trains.
☞ Warehousing Development Regulatory Authority (WDRA) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with a Bank of India (BoI), to facilitate farmers and traders in providing low interest rate loans.
☞ India and Argentina signed an agreement to ensure legal rights of professionals in each other’s domain
that will assist in risk-free international mobility.
☞ SAP Labs India, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Institute of
Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) to enable continuous upskilling and ensuring the talent
remains at the forefront of innovation.
☞ The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and
Industry and GatiShakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) entered into collaboration to advance India's
infrastructure and logistics sectors.
☞ NPCI International Payments Ltd, the international arm of the National Payment Corporation of India,
signed an agreement with Al Etihad Payments in Abu Dhabi to facilitate cross-border transactions.
☞ Online travel tech platform EaseMyTrip and the government of Uttarakhand have signed a memorandum
of understanding (MOU) to elevate Uttarakhand's standing as a global tourism hotspot, under a deal worth
over Rs 250 crore.
☞ The Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute (NRFMTTI) has signed Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with one of India's foremost manufacturers of tractors and agricultural machinery
Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd., Mumbai.
☞ Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) has signed an MoU with llT Guwahati for Establishment
of Common Engineering Facility Center titled “Digital Twin Center for Emerging Automotive Systems” in
Hub and Spoke model.
☞ India and Saudi Arabia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Riyadh in the fields of Electrical
Interconnections, Green / Clean Hydrogen and Supply Chains.
☞ The MoU was signed between the visiting Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Shri
R.K. Singh and the Minister of Energy, Government of Saudi Arabia, Mr. Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud on
the sidelines of the MENA Climate Week in Riyadh.
☞ Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar met his Dominican Republic counterpart Raquel Peña Rodríguez and
discussed enhancing cooperation in sectors such as trade, pharmaceuticals and agriculture and two
memorandums of understanding (MoUs) were signed.
☞ The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and WHO have signed a four-year memorandum of
understanding (MOU) to allow experts from both international organizations to collaborate and share
information on issues where anti-doping and public health intersect.
☞ India and Italy signed an agreement on cooperation to promote engagement in various defence domains
— such as security and defence policy, research and development, industrial co-development, co-
production and setting up of joint ventures — in the presence of visiting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto in Rome.
☞ Assam government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian Army for upskilling of ex-
servicemen and their dependents.

☞ Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had signed Memorandum of Understanding on
cooperation in the field of sharing successful Digital Solutions implemented at Population Scale for
Digital Transformation with Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Papua New
Guinea (for 3 years), Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France (for 5
years) and Ministry of Digital Transformation Technology of Trinidad and Tobago (for 3 years).
☞ Pioneer in Light Fidelity (LiFi) technology, the Ahmedabad-based Nav Wireless Technologies Pvt Ltd
(NavTech) has signed an MoU with Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organization
(ISRO).
☞ Maruti Suzuki India has signed an initial pact with IDBI Bank to offer financing solutions for dealers.
☞ India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) and the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) entered
into a strategic partnership to promote extension of formal financial services and other support services to
MSMEs, especially enterprises in rural and remote areas of the country.
☞ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Pusa Krishi, ICAR- Indian Agricultural
Research Institute and Start-up Incubation & Innovation Centre (SIIC), IIT Kanpur.
☞ The REC (formerly Rural Electrification Corporation Limited), Ministry of Power had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s National Informatics Centre Services Inc. (NICSI) under
National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology for various
Information & Communications Technology (ICT) and Digital Transformation Services.
☞ The Department of Industries and Commerce has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of
Management, Kozhikode for conducting a comprehensive study on diversification and optimization of
revenue from plantations in Kerala as part of various plans envisaged in wake of the formation of the
Plantation Directorate under DIC.
☞ Indian Bank Ltd signed an agreement with Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd (TMPVL) and Tata
Passenger Electric Mobility Ltd (TPEML) to provide inventory financing solutions to their authorised
dealers for electric as well as other passenger vehicles.
☞ During the 2nd annual Indian Space Conclave Indian Space Association (ISpA) had signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with GIFAS (Groupement des industries françaises aéronautiques et spatiales) of
France.
SUMMIT AND CONFERENCE
☞ Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri,
addressed two-day Asian Petrochemical Industry Conference on the theme, ‘Ushering in a Sustainable
Future’ at the, at New Delhi.
☞ Britain will host a global summit on artificial intelligence safety later this year.
☞ Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav addressed the Plenary Session at the 111th
International Labour Conference in Geneva.
☞ The two-day Summit for a New Global Financing Pact kicked off in Paris, France with more than 300
participants from various sectors.
☞ Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers and Health & Family Welfare Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya
addressed the 8th Global Pharmaceutical Quality Summit 2023 in Mumbai.
☞ The Government of India is organizing an International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH-2023) at
Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, to bring together the global scientific, policy, academic and industrial leaders
to discuss recent advances and emerging technologies in the entire green hydrogen value chain.
☞ To celebrate the International Year of Millets, Ministry of Agriculture and Famers Welfare, Government
of India and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Government of Kenya will be co-
hosting the ‘India-Africa International Millet Conference’ in Kenya with support of International Crops
Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
☞ New & Renewable Energy Secretary Bhupinder Singh Bhalla addressed the US India Energy Summit.
☞ Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated a two day long Swasthya
Chintan Shivir- the 15th Conference of Central Council of Health and Family Welfare, in Dehradun.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah chaired Regional Conference on ‘Drugs
Smuggling and National Security’ in New Delhi.
☞ The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal launched the
curtain raiser of Global Maritime India Summit (GIMS), 2023 in Mumbai.

☞ Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the maiden Global
Food Regulators Summit 2023 in the presence of Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare Shri
Narendra Tomar and special guest Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Govt. of Nepal, Dr.
Bedu Ram Bhusal.
☞ India will host the ASEAN Countries Conference on Traditional Medicines in New Delhi.
☞ The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurated a two-day National
Conference on Rural WASH Partners' Forum (RWPF) at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, to celebrate 1st
anniversary of formation of RWPF.
☞ The 2 day Global Food Regulators Summit was inaugurated by Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister
for Health and Family Welfare.
☞ Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel inaugurated Heli Summit 2023 in
Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.
☞ UAE Minister for Foreign Trade Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi had been elected as the chair of the World Trade
Organisation’s 13th Ministerial Conference that will be held in Abu Dhabi in February 2024.
☞ The Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers in association with the Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is organizing the 3rd edition of the Summit on “Global Chemicals and
Petrochemicals Manufacturing Hubs in India” (GCPMH 2023) at New Delhi.
☞ Minister of State for Health Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar inaugurated a national conference on “Moving
Mental Health Beyond Institutions”, in New Delhi.
☞ India would host the fifth World Coffee Conference (WCC) for the first time in Asia from September 25 to
28 in Bengaluru.
☞ India to participate in a two-day conference on Ukraine’s peace plan that will take place in the coastal city
of Jeddah.
☞ Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar had described the
India-Japan partnership as pivotal for the future of Asia, Indo-Pacific region, and the world.
☞ Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pawar inaugurated the Fourth National
Conference of ERMED Consortium under Empowering Libraries for Digital Health Transformation in New
Delhi and also launched ERMED Access Booklet and Newsletter by National Medical Library.
☞ MSME Development Forum organized 9th India International MSME Expo & Summit 2023 at Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi and was inaugurated by Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha of Jammu and Kashmir.
☞ Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar inaugurated the National
Conference on The Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED) Consortium: Empowering Libraries for
Digital Health Transformation at National Media Library in New Delhi.
☞ Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated the ninth India Region Conference of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association in Rajasthan's Udaipur.
☞ Madhya Pradesh Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Science & Technology Minister Om Prakash
Sakhalecha inaugurated the 26th National Conference on e-Governance began in Indore to deliberate on
providing better facilities to the citizens.
☞ Dr. N Kailaiselvi, Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research & Secretary, Department of
Scientific and Industrial Research virtually inaugurated the Third International Conference on Structural
Integrity (ICONS 2023) at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu.
☞ Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) is organizing a conference on “Review of PLI-Auto Scheme - Excellence
through Aatmanirbharta at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
☞ Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways organised a road show on Global Maritime India Summit,
2023 in Guwahati, Assam.
☞ The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is planning to host the first edition of Global
IndiaAI 2023 in October 2023.
☞ Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Union Minister for Civil Aviation & Steel today inaugurated the ‘International
Aerospace Conference: Moving Towards Inclusive Global Value Chains’ 2023 in Gwalior, Madhya
Pradesh.
☞ The second edition of three days Naval Commanders' Conference, 2023 began in New Delhi.
☞ Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala chaired National KCC
Conference for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying in Maharashtra.
☞ The Vice President of India, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the International Conference on the
theme “Safe & Secure Dams Ensure Nation’s Prosperity" organised by the Department of Water
Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti at Rajasthan International
Centre (RIC) in Jaipur, where the world's foremost experts and leaders in the field will assemble to
strengthen capacities for enhancing dam safety.

☞ The IGs Level Border Co-ordination Conference between Border Security Force (BSF), India and Border
Guards Bangladesh (BGB) concluded in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
☞ Bengaluru is hosting the fifth World Coffee Conference which will showcase the Indian coffees to global
buyers was inaugurated by the Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the ‘International Lawyers’ Conference 2023’ at
Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
☞ Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, Shri Rajeev
Chandrasekhar, participated in a virtual conference organized by the World Bank known as the “South-
South Knowledge Sharing Series.”
☞ Union Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh inaugurated the ‘India Energy Summit
2023' in New Delhi.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu graced the India Smart Cities Conclave 2023 at Indore,
Madhya Pradesh
☞ The 13th Indo-Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference (IPACC) convened at the prestigious Manekshaw Centre in
New Delhi.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu inaugurated Annual General Meeting and Biennial
Conference of the Asia Pacific Forum on Human Rights in New Delhi.
☞ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah inaugurated a two-day anti-terror
conference organized by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in New Delhi.
☞ The AtoZero (Accelerate To Net Zero) ASEAN Summit, was a 3-day event co-organised by Constellar and
the Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
☞ Union Minister of State for Ayush and Women and Child Development Dr Mahendrabhai Munjapara
inaugurated the conference on Homeopathy at Kolkata with the aim to achieve “Sarvajnaya Swasthya,".
☞ The 1st Annual Pathology Conference of newly formed Haryana Chapter of Indian Association of
Pathologists and Microbiologists (IAPM) was held at ESIC Medical College & Hospital, Faridabad,
Haryana.
☞ The 8th BRICS International Competition Conference 2023 (BRICS ICC 2023), hosted by the Competition
Commission of India (CCI) during October 11-13 2023, concluded in New Delhi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 9th G20 Parliamentary Speakers' Summit (P20) at India
International Convention Centre, Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, Delhi.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
☞ A second super pressure balloon had been launched from Wānaka Airport by NASA.
☞ The government launched ''Meri LiFE'' (My Life) mobile application to empower young people and
encourage their participation in tackling climate change.
☞ Union Minister for Communications Ashwini Vaishnaw launched a Citizen Centric Portal named Sanchar
Saathi Portal at a function in New Delhi through which mobile users can now track and block their lost
mobile phones.
☞ Skill development project Adani Saksham said its Adani Skill Development Centre (ASDC) had become the
world's first skill centre to enter the metaverse, beginning by introducing two courses.
☞ Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it plans to invest ₹1,05,600 crores ($12.7 billion) into cloud
infrastructure in India by 2030 to meet the growing customer demand for cloud services in India.
☞ The University Grants Commission (UGC) had launched a new portal named UTSAH to monitor the
implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in Higher Education Institutes (HEIs).
☞ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the State Dashboard, a data and analytics-powered
platform which will streamline performance monitoring of government schemes, aiding data-driven
decision-making.
☞ India planned to launch an unmanned mission and send a female robot in the first and second missions,
respectively, preceding the Gaganyaan human space-flight programme by the end of 2023 or in 2024,
Union Minister Jitendra Singh.

☞ In line with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India a global electronics powerhouse,
Government launched Electronics Repair Services Outsourcing ERSO Pilot initiative to validate certain
transformational policy and process changes to make India the Repair Capital of the World.
☞ The country conducted Asia’s first ever demonstration of performance-based navigation for helicopters
on May 31, 2023.
☞ Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Directorate General of Training (DGT)
under the Ministry of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) to train 6,000 students and 200
educators in digital and cyber-security skills in the country.
☞ The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the Unified Registration Portal
for GOBARdhan which will act as a one stop repository to assess investment and participation in
Biogas/CBG sector at pan India level and more importantly streamline the process of setting up
CBG/Biogas plants in India.
☞ Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space Dr. Jitendra Singh had said that in the last nine years, out of
424 foreign satellites 389 foreign satellites had been launched by India.
☞ Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) had launched its revamped website and the new mobile app in
Mumbai.
☞ The Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) of Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice for Judicial
Infrastructure, with technical assistance of NRSC, ISRO is catering to a user-friendly and transparent web
portal to facilitate better delivery of judicial infrastructural projects via Nyaya Vikas Portal.
https://bhuvan-nyayavikas.nrsc.gov.in.
☞ IT major Wipro Limited, announced the launch of the Wipro Industry Innovation Experience for Financial
Services, featuring a new suite of banking and financial services solutions built on Microsoft Cloud.
☞ GalaxEye will construct the world’s first multi-sensor earth observation satellite with its support of a
visible spectrum camera offering synchronized imaging that can take several pictures at the same time.
☞ Nabard's venture investment arm announced a Rs 10 crore investment in Satyukt Analytics, a satellite
agri-analytics startup.
☞ Former Chief Justice of India M. N. Venkatachaliah launched the multi-lingual India Legal App, legal
helpline accessible to the citizens to obtain legal assistance from their homes.
☞ Google News Initiative (GNI) announced the launch of the Indian Languages Program, an initiative by
Google, designed to support local news publishers in India.
☞ To give Digital India initiative, the Infrastructure Finance Secretariat (IFS), department of economic affairs
under the Finance Ministry launched a revamped website for submitting applications which will be
considered under India Infrastructure Project Development Fund (IIPDF) scheme.
☞ Union minister of heavy industries Mahendra Nath Pandey launched the groundbreaking “Dugdh
Sanakalan Sathi Mobile App" in Mussorie, Uttarakhand.
☞ International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) and Goldman Sachs announced the
partnership to establish a Center of Excellence for artificial intelligence and emerging technologies at IIITH
campus.
☞ A new online course ‘Dakshta’ (Development of Attitude, Knowledge, Skill for Holistic Transformation in
Administration) for young professionals, is now live on the iGOT Karmayogi platform, the Personnel
Ministry.
☞ The PM-Kisan Mobile App with Face Authentication Feature was launched by Union Agriculture and
Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar under the central government's ambitious and
popular scheme for income support to farmers "Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi".
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the Artemis Accords with the nation's national space
administration.
☞ Skyroot Aerospace successfully conducted the flight qualification test of the Raman-I engine, intended for
roll attitude control in the Vikram-I rocket.
☞ First Made-in-India chips are expected to be rolled out by December 2024, Union Minister for
Communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw.
☞ The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur had successfully conducted a test flight for cloud seeding.
☞ Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, MoS PMO, Department of
Atomic Energy and Department of Space and MoS Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr Jitendra
Singh launched the GEMCOVAC® -OM, an Omicron-specific mRNA-based Booster vaccine.
☞ Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Parshottam Rupala launched NANDI (NOC
Approvals for New Drugs & Inoculation System).
☞ The NANDI portal had been developed to pave the way to a resilient Animal Health Sector in India by
streamlining and digitising the regulatory approval process.

☞ Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala launched an android-
based mobile app known as "Report Fish Disease" in the presence of Dr L. Murugan, Minister of State for
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
☞ Taking another step of strengthening marketing support for products made by women of Self-help Groups
(SHGs), Deendayal Antyodaya Yojna- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) launched eSARAS
mobile App which will add to eCommerce initiatives for products made by the SHGs.
☞ Global major in microcontroller solutions, Microchip Technology Inc opened a new research and
development (R&D) facility in Hyderabad and also announced an investment of $300 million for the next
few years to expand its operations in India.
☞ The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had entered into a pact with European regulator EASA
for cooperation in the areas of unmanned aircraft systems and innovative air mobility.
☞ Tata Consultancy Services had deepened its partnership with Microsoft by announcing plans to
significantly scale its Azure Open AI expertise, and launching its new Generative AI Enterprise Adoption
offering on Microsoft Cloud to help customers jumpstart their generative AI journey.
☞ The Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) had announced that the Chandrayaan-3 mission had
integrated the spacecraft with the launch vehicle — Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) to the Moon on July
14 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
☞ Tech giant Meta released its standalone Twitter rival, Threads app.
☞ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched National Cadet Corps (NCC) integrated software in the national
capital.
☞ SpaceX launched and deployed 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit by Falcon-9 rocket from Space
Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida.
☞ Odisha Television Limited (OTV) had introduced the state's first artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor
named Lisa.
☞ Voyager Space had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL),
the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), to foster collaboration in spacecraft
launch and deployment opportunities on-board NSIL’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) and Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
☞ To further the digital initiative in maritime sector the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways,
Shri Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the indigenous Differential Global Navigation Satellite System
(DGNSS) ‘SAGAR SAMPARK’ in the presence of Shri Shripad Y. Naik, the Minister of State of Ports,
Shipping and Waterways; Shri TK Ramachandran, IAS Secretary, MoPSW and other senior officials from
the ministry and Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships.
☞ Chandrayaan-3 is the third lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It
consists of a lander and the Pragyan rover similar to Chandrayaan-2, but does not had an orbiter.
☞ 24/7 Kannada news channel Power TV launched Soundarya, Kannada’s first AI news presenter.
☞ Close on the heels of Power TV, another channel News First Kannada also launched their AI-assisted
anchor, Maya.
☞ In Jammu and Kashmir, a path-breaking Mobile-Dost-App had been launched in sync with the vision of
Apka-Mobile-Hamara-Daftar, a pioneering initiative for mobile-based delivery of citizen-centric services in
the Union Territory.
☞ Karnataka Industries Minister MB Patil, said that the state government of Karnataka plans to create an
integrated platform to enable the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of the state to get
access to all the fintech platforms.
☞ Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched CRCS-Sahara Refund Portal in New Delhi.
☞ To promote electric vehicles in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government launched a subsidy portal which
will allow customers who bought e-vehicles after October 14, 2022, to claim financial support.
☞ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Indian Navy jointly carried out the trials on July 20 with
the ship identified for the recovery operations during the first Development Mission of the Test Vehicle.
☞ Telecom regulator Trai had imposed a penalty of Rs 34.99 crore on service providers for failing to curb
pesky calls and sms on their network.
☞ Health Ministry had launched an online portal to facilitate reporting of violations under the Prohibition of
Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage
and Advertisement) Act (PECA). The portal, www.violation-reporting.in, will allow faster action against
any reported violations.
☞ After 17 years with an iconic blue bird that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world,
billionaire Elon Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo, marking a focus on building an
"everything app."

☞ Bharti Airtel become the first Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service provider in India
to connect over 20 million devices through its Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
☞ High performance adaptive computing major AMD announced an investment of USD 400 million (about
Rs 3,300 crore) in India over five years, and opening of a 500,000-square-foot R&D campus in Bengaluru,
which it said is its largest in the world.
☞ The Union Minister of State for Culture, Law & Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal,
launched the virtual portal of Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar at Qutub Minar premises in New Delhi.
☞ Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren launched a mobile application-based elephant movement
tracking system on the occasion of the 74th Van Mahotsav in Ranchi to reduce human-elephant conflicts
in the state.
☞ The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched C56 (PSLV-C56) with seven co-passenger
satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.
☞ ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) mobile application was launched at the Bharat
Mandapam in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, to facilitate widespread access to basic literacy.
☞ National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had developed an application ‘MASI’ -
Monitoring App for Seamless Inspection for real time monitoring of the Child Care Institutions (CCIs) and
their inspection mechanism across the country.
☞ The Directorate General of Training (DGT) will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) India to
upskill students in cloud computing, data annotation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
☞ Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) Research team led by Dr. Partho Sarathi Gooh
Pattader had developed a fast, accurate, and reliable device to detect specific bacteria that cause Urinary
Tract infection (UTI).
☞ Google India had announced two significant developments that work in the way of supporting the Indian
language news ecosystem and expanding the Indian language web.
☞ The government launched the Study In India (SII) portal, a one stop platform to simplify the journey of
international students in India.
☞ The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had launched 'Rajmargyatra,' a citizen-centric unified
mobile application.
☞ SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intelsat G-37 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Space
Force Station in Florida.
☞ ISRO had transferred the IMS-1 Satellite Bus Technology to Alpha Design Technologies Pvt. Ltd in a step
towards enhancing private industry participation in the country's space sector.
☞ Union Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah launched the digital portal of the Central Registrar of
Cooperative Societies in Pune.
☞ Bharti Airtel announced the launch of Airtel Xstream AirFiber, India's first 5G wireless Wi-Fi service
designed to provide internet to areas without fibre-based internet connections.
☞ The Ring Nebula, also called Messier 57, is a cloud of gas and dust shed from a dying star about 2,600
light-years away in the constellation Lyra.
☞ The Central government will launch e-CARe (e-clearance for after life remains) portal to facilitate fast
transfer of mortal remains of Indian nationals who die abroad, Union Health Minister Mansukh
Mandaviya.
☞ Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRL) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
had made a significant achievement in the field of unmanned aerial systems.
☞ Tata Play will commence the use of the GSAT-24 satellite, which is now in its orbital position.
☞ First moon-landing spacecraft was launched by Russia in 47 years in a bid to be the first nation to make a
soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold coveted pockets of water ice.
☞ The first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun - Aditya-L1, is getting ready for its launch next
month.
☞ The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) will launch its live bus tracking app.
☞ Ministry of Defence had announced that it will replace Microsoft Windows with an indigenously
developed operating system called Maya OS on all its computers by the end of this year.
☞ Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched the ‘The Advantage Health Care
India – One Stop Digital Portal for Patient’ and ‘Workforce Mobility’ at One Earth One Health Advantage
Healthcare India event at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
☞ Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)/ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully
conducted a series of Drogue Parachute Deployment Tests at the Rail Track Rocket Sled (RTRS) facility of
the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh.

☞ The Chairman of Central Water Commission Kushvinder Vohra launched the FloodWatch mobile app in
New Delhi
☞ The Sector Skill Council at Nasscom unveiled a ‘Nasscom Talent Connect’ portal.
☞ Government will launch Tele-Law – 2.0 that Integrates Tele-Law and Nyaya Bandhu App to ensure access
to Justice in New Delhi.
☞ India is the fourth country to land on Moon and first country to land on South Pole of the Moon.
Chandrayaan-3 is the third Indian lunar exploration mission under the Indian Space Research
Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan programme.
☞ Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel launched the Panchayati Raj Accounting Information System
Automation, or PRAISA, at a state-level programme of ‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ in Gandhinagar.
☞ The newly revamped website was launched by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Nitin
Gupta at the 'Chintan Shivir', organised by the Directorate of Income Tax (Systems), at Udaipur.
☞ The Income Tax Department had revamped its website with a user-friendly interface, value-added
features, and new modules.
☞ ISRO's Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun will be launched from
Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh.
☞ The Indian Council for Agricultural Research-Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (ICAR-IIHR) had
collaborated with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to set up seed testing centre that will had lot of automation
built into the processing facility.
☞ Investment adviser Savart had launched a portfolio management service called Ad Astra Fund featuring an
end-to-end research automation, from investment opportunity discovery until exit.
☞ The new US-India Renewable Energy Technology Action Platform (RETAP), under the Strategic Clean
Energy Partnership, was launched during a meeting between the United States Department of Energy
(DOE) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India.
☞ Inception, a unit of Abu Dhabi AI company G42, had released 'Jais', the world's most advanced Arabic
large language model.
☞ Aditya-L1 had been launched by PSLV C57 rocket from Sathish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
☞ Researchers had fabricated an optically active biodegradable nanocomposite film with excellent
mechanical properties that can be used as a stretchable optical devices like flexible display, flexible
organic LED, etc.
☞ Identity and biometric solutions provider IDEMIA had joined hands with Airtel Payments Bank and HMD
Global to expand the reach of Digital Rupee applications on feature phones.
☞ Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur researchers had developed a Novel Cold-plasma Detergent in
Environment ‘CODE’ device for good Indoor Air Quality.
☞ Japan launched a lunar lander aiming to become the fifth nation to achieve a soft landing on the moon's
surface following India's success in a similar mission last month.
☞ US-based chipmaker NVIDIA has inked partnerships with India’s biggest conglomerates, Reliance
Industries and Tata Group, to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India and upskill and reskill
the country’s talent base.
☞ The Samudrayaan Mission is India’s first manned mission to explore the deep ocean. The Matsya 6000 is
designed with the capability of operating in the deep sea for 12 hours while in case of emergency it can
also operate up to 96 hours with all the necessary measures for human safety.
☞ Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, unveiled Skill India Digital (SID) With the mission of enhancing
access to quality skill development, relevant opportunities, and entrepreneurial support for every Indian.
☞ Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions Dr Jitendra Singh launched a
Special Campaign 3.0 portal at a function in New Delhi.
☞ Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria has launched the ‘Sarpanch Samvad’ app.
☞ Member of NITI Aayog, Professor Ramesh Chand officially launched the Unified Portal for Agricultural
Statistics (UPAg Portal- www.upag.gov.in).
☞ Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a new e-Bhoomi portal that promises to further
ease the process of purchasing land for the development of government projects with the consent of
landowners.
☞ Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India launched AI Chatbot for the Pradhan
Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme at New Delhi.
☞ India, Israel, the UAE, and the United States have come together to unveil an innovative platform, a
website designed to empower young entrepreneurs and private enterprises.
☞ PhonePe is opening its mobile app store to developers. The soon-to-be-launched app store—Indus—will
offer localised services for Indian users.

☞ The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti has introduced a
Unified Registration Portal for GOBARdhan (gobardhan.co.in) to streamline the registration of
Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) and biogas plants nationwide.
☞ Google has introduced "Android Earthquake Alerts System" in India in consultation with the National
Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Seismology Centre (NSC). Introducing the
Android Earthquake Alerts System in India.
☞ The Government E-Marketplace (GeM) will launch GeM Sahay 2.0 for the sellers to provide easy access to
loans up to 10 lakh rupees.
☞ HP Inc is collaborating with Google to manufacture Chromebooks in India.
☞ With an aim to enhance the economic and financial sustainability of micro, small and medium enterprises
(MSME), the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) is in the process of launching an app-
based 'invoice financing' loans platform 'GST Sahay'.
☞ Serum Institute of India said the World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved a malaria vaccine,
paving the way for the global roll-out of the world's second such vaccine. The R21/Matrix-M malaria
vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the Serum Institute of India (SII), leveraging Novavax's
adjuvant technology, has been recommended for use by the WHO.
☞ Meesho had made the platform inclusive for non-GST sellers.
☞ Tata Elxsi has announced a joint venture with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to develop advanced
Automotive Cyber Security Solutions.
☞ REC Limited, the Maharatna Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Power, has launched a
mobile application, exclusively for current and future investors in REC’s 54EC Capital Gain Tax Exemption
Bonds.
☞ The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), planned to commence uncrewed flight tests for the
Gaganyaan mission, has started to make preparations for the Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1).
☞ The Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) has received approval from the markets regulator to initiate its
new commodity derivatives platform (CDP), which was suspended on September 28.
☞ In Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in collaboration with Vijnana
Bharati (VIBHA) is organizing an exhibition called "Space on Wheels" program in East Siang District.
☞ The ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) may create a special scheme to support
semiconductor chips focused on artificial intelligence (AI) along with platforms for datasets and
computing.
NATURE
☞ A team of biologists had recorded the Gekko mizoramensis as a new species of parachute gecko, so
named because of skin flaps along the body and tail enabling it to glide.
☞ A new green tree frog species had been discovered from Arunachal Pradesh by a team of researchers
from Dehradun (Uttarakhand)-based Wildlife Institute of India, Dresden (Germany)-based Senckenberg
Natural History Collections, and the Namdapha Tiger Reserve (NTR).
☞ Scientists had uncovered a new species of gliding geckos Gekko mizoramensis in Mizoram.
☞ The United Nations had adopted the first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas. UN
Secretary-General António Guterres hailed the historic agreement as giving the ocean a fighting chance.
Delegates from the 193 member nations approved the treaty with jubilation.
☞ Researchers had documented the presence of a new spider species in Mumbai, and had fittingly
christened it ‘Hadarius mumbai’, after the city.
☞ Union Minister Bhupender Yadav launched PM MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats &
Tangible Incomes) Programme a mangrove plantation drive in Dwarka in Gujarat and said efforts were
required to identify and restore historical mangrove areas, which are in degraded condition.
☞ India’s tiger population increased to 3,682 in 2022, up from 2,967 in 2018. This also indicates significant
growth over the last decade; there were 2,226 tigers reported in 2014, up from 1,706 in 2010. In 2022,
the maximum number of tigers, 785, were reported to be in Madhya Pradesh, followed by Karnataka
(563), Uttarakhand (560), and Maharashtra (444).

☞ A groundbreaking discovery in the world of paleontology had shed enough light on an extinct whale
species- Perucetus colossus, believed to be the largest mammal ever to had lived on Earth.
☞ National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had approved Dholpur-Karauli Tiger Reserve as 54th tiger
reserve of India and 5th tiger reserve of Rajasthan after Ranthambore, Sariska, Mukundra Hills and
Ramgarh Vishdhari.
☞ E-commerce major Amazon will make an initial investment of USD 3 million in nature-based projects in
India. The allocation is part of the company's USD 15 million fund it had allocated for nature-based
projects in Asia Pacific (APAC).
☞ Researchers at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) have identified a new species of
marine tardigrade which they have named after the late former President and scientist A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam. The new species, discovered from Mandapam in south-east Tamil Nadu, belongs to the genus
Batillipes and has been named Batillipes kalami.
☞ Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve will be the 54th tiger reserve in India and seventh in Madhya
Pradesh.
☞ The scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new species of a vibrant orange
coloured deep water marine fish from Digha Mohana in West Bengal. Named Pterygotrigla intermedica, it
has characters quite similar to species like Pterygotrigla hemisticta, said Anil Mohapatra, a senior
scientists and in-charge of ZSI’s Estuarine Biology Regional Center, Gopalpur in Odisha, who led the
discovery of the new species.
☞ MIT-World Peace University researchers in Pune have found a damselfly of the ‘Armageddon Reedtail –
Protosticta Armageddonia’ species.
☞ Scientists have recently discovered a new fish species from the Milak river, Nagaland. The newly
discovered species Badis limaakumi has been named after Limaakum, assistant professor and head of the
zoology department at Fazl Ali College, Nagaland.
☞ Ten months after the announcement, the Tamil Nadu government launched an exclusive project for the
conservation of Nilgiri Tahr, the state animal which once inhabited a large portion of the biodiversity-rich
Western Ghats.
☞ A group of scientists from India and the United Kingdom have discovered a new species of toads, the third
of a genus found only in a very narrow area in northeast India. The discovery of the new species –
Bufoides bhupathyi – found in the Dampa tiger reserve of Mizoram was published in the latest issue of
Biodiversitas, a journal published in Indonesia.
P OWER
☞ The government said green hydrogen bunkering and refuelling facilities shall be established at all major
ports by 2035 to reduce the country's carbon footprint.
☞ Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal made five major
announcements focusing on green shipping and digitisation of the ports at the end of the ministry’s
second Chintan Shivir held in Kerala’s Munnar.
☞ Renewable energy solution provider Suzlon had bagged a 300 MW wind energy project from Torrent
Power in Karnataka and expected to be commissioned in 2025.
☞ India will had 65 percent of its power generation capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2030.
☞ Adani Green Energy Ltd subsidiary, Adani Wind Energy Kutchh Five Ltd (AWEK5L), formerly known as
Adani Green Energy Five Ltd, had commissioned a 130 Megawatt (MW) wind power facility at Kutch in
Gujarat.
☞ Leading wind energy solutions provider Inox Wind had bagged an order for a 150 MW wind power project
from NTPC Renewable Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Green Energy, which is the renewable
energy business vertical of NTPC.
☞ India's top oil and gas producer ONGC will invest Rs 1 lakh crore by 2030 on energy transition projects as it
targets net zero carbon emissions by 2038, its chairman Arun Kumar Singh.
☞ Power trading solutions provider PTC India had signed two agreements for purchase of 215 MW electricity
on a long term basis.

☞ The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ltd will begin a feasibility study for a 130-MW floating
solar power plant on Dumbur Lake in Tripura’s Gomati district.
☞ The National Stock Exchange (NSE) had launched the rupee-denominated NYMEX WTI Crude Oil and
Natural Gas futures contracts in its commodity derivatives segment.
☞ Suzlon Group had received an order from Vibrant Energy for 33 wind turbine generators featuring its new
3 MW (each) series with a Hybrid Lattice Tubular tower for a 99 MW wind power project which is
expected to be commissioned by FY25.
☞ Renewable energy solutions provider Suzlon had secured a 69 MW wind energy order from the Indian
subsidiary of a leading Nordic Energy Company.
☞ Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a leading oil and gas company in India, is pleased to
announce its ambitious expansion plans worth Rs. 49,000 Crore, further increasing the Company’s
footprints in petrochemical segment and renewable energy, together with augmenting marketing
infrastructure.
☞ Rays Power Infra had bagged a water project worth Rs 650 crore in Uttar Pradesh, which aims to provide
clean drinking water to over one crore households by March 2024.
☞ India's total plant load factor (PLF) or capacity utilisation of thermal plants is expected to rise to 65.1 per
cent this fiscal over 64.2 per cent in the preceding financial year (FY) 2022-23, according to Icra.
☞ India's non-fossil fuel-based power generation capacity is likely to increase to 68.4 per cent of the total
installed capacity in 2031-32 from 42.5 per cent at present as per the National Electricity Plan (NEP)
unveiled by the power ministry.
☞ NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL) subsidiary of NTPC Ltd had signed an agreement with the Uttar Pradesh
Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (UPRVUNL) for the development of renewable energy parks in the
state.
☞ The rooftop solar capacity in India increased by 6.35 per cent to 485 megawatt (MW) in the January-
March quarter of this year, according to Mercom India.
☞ Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) had commissioned a 110 mega watt (MW) solar energy
project at Bikaner, in Rajasthan.
☞ Torrent Power Limited had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Maharashtra
government for the development of three pumped storage hydro projects of 5,700 MW capacity over a
period of 5 years.
☞ State-owned hydropower company NHPC Limited had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the Maharashtra government for the establishment of energy storage systems along with
other renewable energy sources (Solar/ Wind/ Hybrid) of total 7,350 MW capacity.
☞ Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation Ltd. (NHDC Ltd.) is going to construct a 525 MW
Pumped Storage Project near Indira Sagar Dam, Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh using the existing reservoirs
Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar of the Indira Sagar Project.
☞ Inox Wind Ltd, India’s leading wind energy solutions provider, had bagged an order for a 100 MW wind
power project from ABEnergia Renewables Pvt Ltd (ABEnergia), an Independent Power Producer.
☞ Central Electricity Authority (CEA) had accorded concurrence to Upper Sileru Pumped Storage Project
(PSP) of 1350 MW being developed at Sileru, Alluri Sitharama Raju district of Andhra Pradesh by APGENCO
(A Government of Andhra Pradesh Undertaking) in record time of 70 days against the stipulated timeline
of 90 days.
☞ The Ministry of Power had chalked out ₹40,000 crores capital investment for building transmission
infrastructure to evacuate renewable power from Gujarat and Rajasthan.
☞ The Ministry of Power announced the Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation Ltd (NHDC Ltd.)
will construct a 525 MW pumped storage project near the Indira Sagar Dam in Khandwa, Madhya
Pradesh.
☞ State-owned SJVN Ltd arm SJVN Green Energy bagged a 200 MW wind power project entailing an
investment of Rs 1,400 crore in a tariff-based competitive bidding conducted by Solar Energy Corporation
of India.
☞ SJVN signed an agreement with Mahagenco to develop renewable energy projects with a total capacity of
5,000 megawatts (MW) in Maharashtra.
☞ NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN) had commissioned its first rooftop solar PV project at IIT Jodhpur,
Rajasthan.
☞ Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) participated in the three-day "Intersolar Europe
2023" exhibition held in Munich, Germany. IREDA, had set up a pavilion at the exhibition to educate
visitors about the organization. The pavilion was inaugurated by CMD, IREDA, Pradip Kumar Das.

☞ NTPC had entered into agreements FSA (Fuel Supply Agreement) and Supplementary Agreement with SCCL
(The Singareni Collieries Company Ltd) for its stations at Ramagundam, Kudgi and Solapur. This agreement
consists of FSA for Kudgi 2 Units (2x800 MW) for 67.50 lakh metric tonne, Supplementary Agreement to
the FSA of Solapur Unit-2 (2x 600 MW) and also will add as a supplementary agreement to the existing FSA
of Ramagundam.
☞ India had achieved the milestone of 101 Million Metric Standard Cubic Meters per Day of gas production.
It is a significant step towards becoming a gas-based economy.
☞ Adani Power Limited it had achieved commercial operations of its power project located in Godda district
of Jharkhand. The Unit 2 of 800 MW capacity of the 2×800 MW Ultra-supercritical power project of Adani
Power (Jharkhand) Limited situated in Godda District in Jharkhand.
☞ India’s first hydrogen plant is being set up near the railway junction in Jind district. The first prototype of
the hydrogen train is expected to be introduced in the financial year 2023-2024 between Jind and Sonipat
on the Northern Railway.
☞ Renew Energy Global Plc (ReNew), one of the leading renewable energy companies, had announced the
commissioning of an investment in a renewable energy project at Kudligi in Vijayanagara district of
Karnataka.
☞ India's first indigenously developed 700 MW nuclear power reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project
(KAPP) in Gujarat started commercial operations.
☞ Torrent Power is implementing a green hydrogen pilot project for blending in the CGD network. The pilot
project based on alkaline electrolyser will blend 2.5 per cent green hydrogen (GH2) into CGD network,
marking an important milestone in the company's foray into GH2 business in India. The pilot project
underway in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, is expected to complete in 8 months.
☞ State-owned REC Ltd will provide a loan of Rs 4,785 crore to HRRL's project in Rajasthan. HRRL is setting up
a green field refinery cum petrochemical complex, with a capacity of 9 MMTPA at a project cost of Rs
72,937 crore.
☞ Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri had said that 20 percent ethanol
blended petrol, E20, will be available across India by 2025.
☞ The group installed electricity generation capacity of NTPC, India's leading integrated power producer, had
touched 73,024 MW.
☞ The Uttar Pradesh government approved two 'Obra D' thermal power projects of 800 MW each to be
built at the cost of Rs 18,000 crore in Sonbhadra's Obra, a move aimed at providing cheaper electricity to
the people of state.
☞ South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), one of the largest coal-producing subsidiaries of Coal India Ltd, will be
developing rooftop and ground mounted solar power projects of 600 MW capacity in the coming years as
part of the company’s strategy to expand and diversify its business and achieve the "Net Zero Energy"
goal.
☞ Renewable energy solutions provider Suzlon Group had bagged an order for a 47.6 MW wind power
project from KP Group in Gujarat.
☞ Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) had floated a tender for setting up a production facility of 4.5
lakh tonne of green hydrogen in India under the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition
(SIGHT) scheme.
☞ The government had begun working on the third phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of
Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME III) financial support scheme, which is likely to cover hydrogen-
powered vehicles, additional support for electric three-wheelers and a curtailed version for two-wheelers.
☞ Indian Oil Corp, the country's top refiner, had signed long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) import deals
with United Arab Emirates' s Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co Ltd (ADNOC LNG) and France's
TotalEnergies.
☞ Gurgaon-based ReNew had signed a 50:50 joint venture with Gentari, a green energy company of
Malaysian energy major Petronas.
☞ Hartek Solar, part of the Chandigarh-based Hartek group, had bagged a Rs 80-crore contract to build a 22
MW floating solar plant on the reservoir of the Bhakra Nangal dam.
☞ Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL), a subsidiary of Tata Power, had inked two significant
Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited
(MSEDCL) for the commissioning of two solar power projects.
☞ GE Power India had bagged an order worth Rs 440 crore from Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd.
☞ NLC India Ltd is planning to set up a 2,400 MW coal-based plant in Odisha.
☞ NLC India Ltd had entered into a joint venture with the UP government to set up a thermal power plant at
a cost of Rs 19,406 crore.

☞ Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) had collaborated with the World Bank to prepare
a roadmap for hydrogen blending in natural gas and their transmission through gas pipelines in the
country.
☞ Adani Energy Solutions Limited (AESL) had achieved financial closure for its USD 1 billion green high
voltage direct current (HVDC) link project, that will increase renewable energy supply to Mumbai.
☞ Energy solution provider Apraava Energy had inked initial pacts with state-owned firms REC Ltd and
Power Finance Corporation (PFC) to get finance of Rs 9,120 crore for funding its wind, transmission, and
advanced metering projects in the country.
☞ Tata Power announced a Rs 13,000 crore investment for setting up two pumped hydro storage projects
(PSPs) in Maharashtra.
☞ India's greenhouse emissions rate dropped by a faster-than-expected 33% in 14 years as renewable
energy generation rose and forest cover increased.
☞ Adani Green is targeting to set up 45 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
☞ Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN Ltd) had inked two pacts with Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL)
to supply 1,200 MW of solar power from its projects, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
☞ Coal Ministry PSUs are diversifying revenue streams by adding coal-based power capacity of 6,640
megawatts (MW), for which an investment of more than ₹60,300 crores had been planned.
☞ NTPC Ltd, India's largest power producer and a central PSU under Ministry of Power, had started a trial
run of a hydrogen bus in Leh.
☞ Shell Energy India will invest Rs 3,500 crore in Gujarat to set up a renewable energy facility, charging
stations for electric vehicles, and an LNG regasification terminal, which would create nearly 4,300 jobs.
☞ Suzlon Group, a renewable energy solutions provider, announced that the company had received an order
for the development of a 31.5 megawatts (MW) wind power project for Integrum Energy Infrastructure
Private Limited.
☞ State-owned Gail India Ltd (Gail) is mulling a capital expenditure Rs 30,000 crore, mainly in pipelines,
petrochemical projects and city gas distribution, over the next three years, while its total capital
expenditure for FY23 was Rs 10,000 crore.
☞ Uttar Pradesh government had planned three hydropower projects totalling 3,250 megawatts (MW) in
the traditionally underserved Eastern UP region to reinforce its commitment to green energy.
☞ NHPC Limited, India’s premier hydropower company, had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with
Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation (APGENCO) Limited for implementation of Pumped
Hydro Storage Projects and Renewable Energy Projects in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
☞ Renewables solution provider Suzlon Group had bagged a large order for a 201.6 MW wind energy project
from Teq Green Power XI.
☞ Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari launched the world's first 100 percent
Ethanol-fueled car variant of Toyota's Innova HyCross car in New Delhi.
☞ Reliance Industries is accelerating its green energy initiatives to realise its ambitions to lead India as a
world leader in energy transition.
☞ Ayana Renewable Power, one of the largest Independent Power Producers (IPP) in India and backed by
National Infrastructure and Investment Fund (NIIF), British International Investment (BII) and Green
Growth Equity Fund, had signed a Power Purchase Agreement with Hindalco Industries Limited, the
metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, for the supply of 100 MW of Round-the-Clock (RTC)
renewable energy to Hindalco’s smelter plants in Odisha.
☞ Tata Power Renewable Energy (TPRL) had signed a Power Delivery Agreement (PDA) with Neosym
Industry for a 26 megawatt (MW) AC group captive solar plant at Jamkhed, Ahmednagar in Maharashtra
with an anticipated electricity generation capacity of 59 million units (MU) annually will start in March
2024.
☞ Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated country's first solar city Sanchi in Raisen district.
☞ Tata Power Renewable Energy (TPREL) had entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to develop a
12MWp on-site solar project at Tata Motors’ Pune commercial vehicle manufacturing facility.
☞ Oil India Ltd aims to invest 165 billion rupees ($1.98 billion) in clean energy projects to meet its 2040 net
zero carbon emissions goal, said two sources familiar with state-run energy companies' net zero strategy.
☞ The American government’s development finance institution has approved investing up to $425 million in
TP Solar, a subsidiary of Tata Power Renewable Energy (TPREL), for the Indian firm’s greenfield solar cell
plant in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
☞ Coal India Limited (CIL) has planned a capital investment of about Rs. 24,750 crores in the next few years
on 61 First Mile Connectivity (FMC) projects.

☞ Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri flagged
off 1st two Green Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus from Kartavya Path, New Delhi under National Green Hydrogen
Mission.
☞ Tata Power Renewable Energy (TPREL), a subsidiary of Tata Power Company, plans to construct a 41-
megawatt (MW) captive solar plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu.
☞ IOC to invest over Rs 2,600 crore to set up greenfield units, expand facilities in northeast over next few
years.
ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS
☞ Infrastructure investment trust India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) had signed a share purchase agreement for
the acquisition of 100 per cent units in Virescent Renewable Energy Trust at an enterprise value of up to
Rs 4,000 crore for cash consideration.
☞ The Reserve Bank had given its approval to SBI Funds Management (SBIFML) to acquire up to 9.99 per
cent stake in HDFC Bank.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves the proposed merger of Credit Suisse Group AG
with UBS Group AG.
☞ Eiko LifeSciences Limited (ELL), had acquired a 25.01 per cent stake in Reflux Pharmaceuticals Private
Limited (RPPL), a pharmaceutical company that specialises in manufacturing and exporting active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates.
☞ Abrdn (Mauritius Holdings) had sold its entire 1.66% stake in HDFC Life Insurance via block deals.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had approved the acquisition of an additional stake of 4.04
per cent in Acko Tech by General Atlantic.
☞ Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India increased its stake in the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) by
2.001 per cent to 8.687 per cent from 6.686 per cent earlier.
☞ Canada Pension Plan Investment Board divested around 1.66 per cent (3.30 crore shares) stake in
private lender Kotak Mahindra Bank for Rs 6,123 crore through an open market transaction.
☞ Bain Capital had sold 2.25 crore shares or 0.7% stake in the lender at a weighted average price of Rs 968
apiece in private lender Axis Bank via block deal and bagged about Rs 2,178 crore.
☞ TVS Motor Company had sold its entire holding of 11,12,19,512 equity shares constituting 43.54% in
Emerald Hadn Realty Limited for Rs 166.83 crore to TVS Holdings, a promoter group company.
☞ Max Life Insurance Company Limited (Max Life), had picked a 2.99 per cent equity stake in Jalandhar-
headquartered Capital Small Finance Bank (CSFB) for a consideration of ₹49.50 crores.
☞ The central government will sell 92.44 lakh shares of Coal India, representing 0.15 per cent of the total
equity share of the company, to its eligible employees via Offer for Sale route.
☞ Private Equity players Barings and ChrysCapital and associates will acquire 90 per cent stake in
education loan company HDFC Credila Financial Services Ltd (HDFC Credila), from mortgage major HDFC
for over Rs 9,060 crore.
☞ TPG India Investments II Inc sold its entire 2.65 per cent stake, or 99.2 lakh shares, in Shriram Finance
via multiple block deals on the BSE for ₹1,390 crores.
☞ The Executive Committee of the Central Board (ECCB) of the State Bank of India (SBI) had accorded
approval to the Bank for acquiring the entire 20 per cent stake held by SBI Capital Markets (SBICAPS) in
SBI Pension Funds.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved the acquisition of TCNS Clothing Co Limited by
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited.
☞ The proposed combination involves acquisition of 51 per cent of the expanded share capital of TCNS
Clothing Co Limited by Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited.
☞ Promoter company Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC) had further bought 0.77% stake in its
subsidiary HDFC Life through bulk deals.
☞ ICICI Securities announced that it will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICICI Bank upon delisting.
☞ Coromandel International, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Coromandel Technology Limited (CTL),
is acquiring an additional 32.68 per cent equity stake in Dhaksha Unmanned Systems (Dhaksha), a
Chennai-based differentiated drone start-up at an outlay of Rs 204 crore.

☞ State-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) plans to sell up to 49 per cent stake in credit card business arm BOB
Financial Solutions Ltd.
☞ India The Board of Directors of IDFC FIRST Bank Limited (“IDFC FIRST Bank” or “the Bank”) at its
meeting, had approved the Scheme of Amalgamation of IDFC Limited with IDFC FIRST Bank.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved the acquisition of Marnix Lux by Concentrix
Corporation and shareholding in the combined company by the shareholders of Marnix Lux.
☞ Education group Narayana is looking to buy the stakes of Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia and
BanyanTree Finance in its group firm Nspira Management Services for around Rs 1,400 crore.
☞ Bharti Airtel had bought an additional 20.6% stake in Bengaluru-based technology startup Lavelle
Networks, taking its holding to 45.6%.
☞ SoftBank arm SVF India Holdings had offloaded 2.01 per cent shares in fintech unicorn Paytm, reducing
the Japanese investment firm's stake in the company to 9.15 per cent.
☞ After investing in Adani Group companies, GQG Partners had now pumped in around ₹2,400 crores for
acquiring a 5.96 per cent stake in Baba Ramdev-led FMCG company Patanjali Foods.
☞ Bandhan Financial Holdings (BFHL) had entered into an agreement to acquire the entire stake of Aegon
and Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL) in Aegon Life Insurance.
☞ Diversified business conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) had picked up a 3.53 per cent stake
in private sector lender RBL Bank for Rs. 417 crores.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves the proposed combination involving acquisition of
shareholding up to 59.38% of Unichem Laboratories Limited by Ipca Laboratories Limited.
☞ Walmart had bought stake in one of India's most popular e-commerce firm, Flipkart. The company had
paid $1.4 billion to buy out hedge fund Tiger Global's investment in e-commerce firm.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had sanctioned the Scheme of Amalgamation of The Navanirman Co-
operative Urban Bank Ltd with Rajadhani Co-op. Urban Bank Ltd. Both urban co-operative banks are
Hyderabad-based.
☞ Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Paytm's parent One97
Communications, had agreed to purchase a 10.3 per cent stake in the fintech firm from Antfin
(Netherlands) Holding BV.
☞ The West Asian-based sovereign investment fund, Qatar Investment Authority, acquired a 2.7 per cent
stake in Adani Green Energy (AGEL) for Rs 3,920 crore via block deals.
☞ Ananya Birla’s Svatantra Microfin Private Ltd (Svatantra), had entered into a definitive agreement to
acquire Chaitanya India Fin Credit Private Ltd (Chaitanya), a wholly owned subsidiary of Navi Group
(Navi) for a Rs 1,479 crore.
☞ Axis Bank will raise its stake in insurer Max Life Insurance to 16.2% from 9.99% by infusing ₹16.12 billion
($194.6 million).
☞ Promoter JSW Investments Pvt. pared a 1.27% stake in JSW Energy Ltd. for Rs 717 crore through open
market transactions.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approves acquisition of 30% of stake of IBS Software Pte
Limited (Target) from Techware Singapore Holdings Pte. Ltd., a portfolio company of Blackstone Inc.
(Seller) by Pelipper HoldCo SARL (Acquirer).
☞ Jewellery maker Titan announced increasing stake in its subsidiary and new-age jewellery brand
CaratLane to 98.28% by acquiring an additional 27.18% share for ₹4,621 crores.
☞ Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) had acquired 6.66% stake in Jio Financial Services, the demerged non-
banking financial services unit of the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group.
☞ Reliance Capital sold a 45% stake in listed subsidiary Reliance Home Finance for ₹54 crore in the open
market, a move that will improve recovery for lenders.
☞ Chinese tech giant Antfin had sold 3.58% in fintech major Paytm for about Rs 2,037 crore through block
deals.
☞ The Japanese conglomerate Softbank divested a 1.16% ownership stake (10,00,00,000 shares) in online
food ordering company Zomato for Rs 947 crore.
☞ Cloverdell Investment, an affiliate of private equity major Warburg Pincus, sold 4.2% in IDFC First Bank.
As of June 2023, Cloverdell had a 7.12% stake in IDFC First Bank.
☞ Infosys had completed the acquisition of Danske Bank’s IT center in India.
☞ The Competition of Commission of India (CCI) had approved merger of Tata SIA Airlines into Air India,
and acquisition of certain shareholding by Singapore Airlines in Air India subject to compliance of
voluntary commitments offered by the parties.
☞ Morgan Stanley PE Asia had acquired a majority stake in ClearMedi Healthcare, which runs a chain of
cancer care hospitals in India, for ₹280 crores.

☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had approved the acquisition of up to 29.9% equity stake in
RHI Magnesita NV by Ignite Luxembourg Holdings S.a.r.l.
☞ Fintech platform Razorpay had acquired Mumbai-based digital invoicing and customer engagement
startup BillMe.
☞ LIC had sold 2% of its holding in Sun Pharma for Rs 4,699 crore via open market sale.
☞ Mahindra Finance acquired a 20% stake in Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd (MIBL) for Rs 206.39 crore
to make it a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.
☞ Leading music label Saregama had acquired a 51.8% stake for ₹174 crores in digital entertainment start-
up Pocket Aces.
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the proposed acquisition of 100%
shareholding of Lanco Amarkantak Power Limited (LAPL) by PFC Projects, REC Limited, SJVN Limited and
Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).
☞ Fintech credit and payments startup Slice and Guwahati-based North East Small Finance Bank (NESFB)
have announced their intention to merge the two entities.
☞ SoftBank, through SVF Python II (Cayman) Ltd and SVF India Holdings (Cayman), has offloaded further
1.14 crore shares of PB Fintech, owner of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar.
☞ UK clothing brand Superdry had signed an IP joint venture agreement with Reliance Brands Holding UK
for the sale of Superdry’s intellectual property (IP) assets, including the Superdry brand and related
trademarks in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
APPOINTMENTS
CABINET MINISTERS/SECRETARY
☞ Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal had been assigned the
independent charge as Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice in addition to his existing
portfolios.
☞ Kiren Rijiju who was serving as Law and Justice Minister will now hold the portfolio of Ministry of Earth
Sciences.
☞ SP Singh Baghel who was Minister of State for Law and Justice now been assigned as Minister of State in
the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
☞ Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar appointed eight members of his personal staff on 20
committees under the ambit of the Upper House Secretariat.
☞ Anurag Jain, who was appointed as secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
☞ Richa Sharma, additional secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, had been
moved to the Department of Food and Public Distribution to replace Singh.
☞ Shyam Jagannathan, who is currently posted as development commissioner of the Santa Cruz Exclusive
Export Processing Zone, Special Economic Zone, Mumbai, will now be the director general (shipping) in the
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
☞ Senior bureaucrat Sanjeev Kumar Chadha will be additional secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child
Development, Vumlunmang Vualnam will be additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs
and Ramesh Krishnamurthi will be additional secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
☞ Senior IAS officer Sudhansh Pant had been named as the new Union Health Secretary, who is currently
Secretary in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterway.
☞ Chanchal Kumar, Managing Director of National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation
Ltd., had been named as the new Civil Aviation Secretary.
☞ Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba given one-year extension, beyond August 30, 2023, in service by the
government.
☞ S Krishnan appointed as new Electronics and Information Technology Secretary.
☞ Neeraj Mittal appointed as Telecom Secretary.

☞ Vumlunmang Vualnam appointed as Civil Aviation Secretary.
☞ Chanchal Kumar appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Development of the North-Eastern Region.
☞ V.L. Kantha Rao who belongs to the 1992 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Madhya
Pradesh cadre assumed charge as the new Secretary of the Ministry of Mines.
☞ Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had approved the extension in Mr Amit Khare tenure beyond
October 12, 2023, for a period co-terminus with the term of Prime Minister.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
☞ Hindustan Zinc trains India's 1st ever all women mining rescue team to ensure utmost safety maintenance
in mining operations.
☞ The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) had announced the appointment of Sunil Deshmukh,
CMA, as Chair-Elect, Global Board of Directors.
☞ Former coal secretary Anil Kumar Jain had been appointed chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas
Regulatory Board (PNGRB) by succeeding Dinesh Kumar Sarraf for five years.
☞ The government had appointed Ravneet Kaur as the Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India
(CCI).
☞ Educationist Manoj Soni took oath as chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
☞ Shri Ajay Yadav, a 2005 batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre had assumed the charge of Managing Director,
Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI).
☞ Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) said Amarendu Prakash assumed the charge as the company's
Chairman by succeeding Soma Mondal.
☞ Janardan Prasad had been appointed as the new Director General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI)
by succeeding Dr S Raju.
☞ Sanjay Varma had taken charge as managing director (additional charge) of Mangalore Refinery and
Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) here following an order issued by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas.
☞ Abhai Raj Singh Bhandari had taken over as the Executive Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Limited (BPCL) Kochi Refinery.
☞ The Centre approved the extension of the term of CCI’s Director General (DG) Atul Verma by three
months.
☞ Amit Agrawal, additional secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, had been
appointed as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority in the rank and pay of
additional secretary to the Government of India
☞ Subodh Kumar Singh, who is currently additional secretary in the Department of Food and Public
Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, had been named as the
NTA's director general.
☞ Rashmi Chowdhary, additional secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training, had been
appointed as secretary in the Central Information Commission.
☞ Shri Uttam Lal had taken over as Director (Personnel) at NHPC Limited, India’s premier hydropower
company.
☞ Sanjay Kumar took over as the new director for marketing in state gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd.
☞ Kamal Kishore Chatiwal took over as the new managing director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), the largest
CNG distribution company in the country.
☞ Mining major NMDC’s Director (Finance) Amitava Mukherjee, who had been holding additional charge as
chairman and managing director since March, had got an extension of the additional charge as CMD, for
three months.
☞ The government had nominated Sunil Jeevrajji Singhi as the chairman of the National Traders Welfare
Board, which advises the centre on reducing compliance burden and improving the availability of funds for
traders.
☞ Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) announced that Ministry of Defence, Department of Defence Production,
Government of India vide its Office Memorandum, conveyed the approval of the Competent Authority for
the appointment of A. Madhavarao Director as Chairman and Managing Director on the Board of the
company with effective from the date of his assumption of charge of the post till the date of his
superannuation.

☞ Ms. Nivruti Rai joined as the Managing Director & CEO of Invest India on July 12, 2023.
☞ Vice-Chancellor of the Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University B. Neeraja Prabhakar
had been nominated chairperson of the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) of ICAR-Indian Institute of
Oil Palm Research (IIOPR) at Pedavegi in Andhra Pradesh.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved a 2-year extension of Centre for
Development of Telematics (C-DoT) chief executive officer (CEO) Rajkumar Upadhyay.
☞ ITC Ltd’s board had recommended the reappointment of Sanjiv Puri as chairman and managing director
for an additional period of five years with effect from 22 July 2024.
☞ Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman had been appointed as the new chairperson of the International Financial
Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), succeeding Injeti Srinivas for three years.
☞ Four IRS officers of the Income Tax Department had been appointed as Members in the Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) under the Union finance ministry. Two Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers of the
1987 batch Pravin Kumar and Harinder Bir Singh Gill and two from the 1988 batch Sanjai Kumar Verma
and Ravi Agrawal had been appointed as Members in the CBDT.
☞ Coal India Limited announced the appointment of P M Prasad as the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of
the company with effect from 1st July 2023.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had approved re-appointment of the Tushar Mehta as
Solicitor General of India.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet also approved the re-appointment of other six law officers
Vikramjit Banerjee, KM Nataraj, Balbir Singh, SV Raju, N Venkataraman and Aishwarya Bhati as
Additional Solicitor General for the Supreme Court for a period of three years.
☞ Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) had appointed Krishna Kumar Thakur as the new Director of its
Human Resources (HR) team.
☞ Rohit Jawa appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hindustan Unilever Ltd
(HUL) and replaced Sanjiv Mehta.
☞ The Government of India had given Additional charge of the post of Managing Director, National
Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) under Department of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare to 2005-batch IAS officer Ritesh Chauhan of Himachal Pradesh cadre for three months
w.e.f. 01.05.2023 or till the appointment of regular incumbent or until further orders, whichever is the
earliest.
☞ Shivendra Nath had been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Engineering
Projects (India) Ltd., a public sector undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises.
☞ IRS officer Sanjay Kumar Agarwal had taken charge as the Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect
Taxes and Customs (CBIC) by succeeding Vivek Johri who superannuated as CBIC chief on May 31.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had approved the proposal of the Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural Gas for re-employment on a contract basis of Shri Shrikant Madhav Vaidya,
chairman, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd for a period of one year.
☞ The government had extended the tenure of Prem Sagar Mishra as Chairman-cum-Managing Director
(CMD) of South Eastern Coal Fields (SECL) till January 31, 2025.
☞ Parminder Chopra became the first woman to lead Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) as Chairman
and Managing Director (CMD).
☞ Faiz Ahmed Kidwai 1996 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, who is the Additional Secretary in
the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, had been retrospectively appointed to the
additional role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA).
☞ Neelkanth Mishra had reportedly been appointed by the Union government as the part-time chairperson
of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
☞ The Centre extended the tenure of Mohit Gupta, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) in the Central Bureau of
Investigation for a further period of one year from September 4, 2023 to September 3, 2024.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had approved the appointment of Jaya Verma Sinha,
Indian Railway Management Services (IRMS), Member (Operations & Business Development), Railway
Board to the post of Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Railway Board for one year till August 31,
2024.
☞ Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) had announced cricketer Rahul Dravid as its new brand
ambassador.
☞ Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IndianOil) continues to expand its business in the commercial and industrial
LPG segment as the PSU oil major had launched a new video commercial involving Celebrity Chef Sanjeev
Kapoor, who will endorse the Indane XTRATEJ LPG brand.

☞ V Raja Ram appointed as Director (Production) of Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL).
☞ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had extended the deputation of its Director-General Atul
Verma by three months with effect from September 1 till November 30.
☞ Actor-filmmaker R Madhavan was nominated as president and chairman of Film and Television Institute
of India (FTII), Pune.
☞ Shri Manish Desai had assumed charge as Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau (PIB) by
succeeding Rajesh Malhotra.
☞ National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) appointed Rajesh Nambiar,
Chairman and Managing Director, Cognizant India, as its chairperson by succeeding Anant Maheshwari,
former president of Microsoft India.
☞ National Asset Reconstruction Company of India (NARCL) Chairman Karnam Sekar resigned, soon after a
proposal for merging public sector NARCL with India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL) was suggested.
☞ Shyam Sunder Gupta had taken over as the Principal Chief Operations Manager of Central Railway at
Pune by succeeding Mukul Jain.
☞ Sindhu Gangadharan, senior vice president and managing director, SAP Labs India and Head, SAP User
Enablement, has been appointed as vice chairperson of the National Association of Software and Service
Companies (Nasscom).
☞ IRS officer Rahul Navin was appointed as in-charge director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) by
replacing Sanjay Kumar Mishra.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had approved the appointment of Prof. Abhay Karandikar,
Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to the post of Secretary, Department of Science &
Technology (DST) by replacing Dr. Rajesh Gokhale from the date of assumption of charge of the post till
the date of his attaining the age of 60 years.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had approved appointing three new Members to the
Competition Commission of India (CCI).
☞ Malayalam actor-politician Suresh Gopi was nominated as the president of Kolkata-based Satyajit Ray Film
& Television Institute (SRFTI) and chairman of its governing council.
☞ Deepak Anurag, a retired Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) assumed charge as a Member of
the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
☞ The government has appointed Anuj Jain as director (finance) at Indian Oil Corporation.
☞ Arun Alagappan, Executive Vice Chairman of Coromandel International Ltd, has been elected the
President of the Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI).
☞ Akash Tripathi, chief executive of MyGov, was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of India
Semiconductor Mission.
☞ The government of India has extended the tenure of UIDAI CEO Amit Agrawal by one year till November 2,
2024.
☞ The Centre has appointed Anupama Anand, an Indian Revenue Service Officer, as the Secretary of the
Competition Commission of India (CCI), the country’s competition watchdog.
☞ Mr. Nitin Gupta Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) head tenure period extended by nine-month
extension.
☞ Dr Dinesh Dasa takes oath of Office and Secrecy as Member, UPSC.
☞ K.N. Shanth Kumar of The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd was elected Chairman of the Press Trust of India's
Board of Directors for a one-year term.
☞ The 56th Governing Board elected Shri Girish Chandra Murmu, Comptroller and Auditor General of India
(C&AG), as the host of the 16th Assembly of Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI)
in 2024 and the Chairman of ASOSAI from 2024-2027.
☞ F R Singhvi's was appointed as President of Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC) by replacing
Vinod Aggarwal.
☞ Sudhakar Rao Desai, Chief Executive Officer of Emami Agrotech Ltd, has been unanimously re-elected
President of the IVPA (Indian Vegetable Oil Producers’ Association) at the 46th annual general meeting of
the association.
☞ Ajay Jhunjhunwala, Managing Director (MD) of JR Agro Industries Pvt Ltd, Lucknow, has been re-elected as
the President of the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) for 2023-24.
☞ The Association of Mutual Funds in India has elected Navneet Munot, the Managing Director and CEO of
HDFC Asset Management, as the Chairman at its Board meeting, held recently.

DEFENCE SECTOR
☞ Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar had assumed the charge of the Vice Chief of the Army Staff.
☞ Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi took charge as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of the
Mumbai-headquartered Western Naval Command (WNC).
☞ Group Captain Shaliza Dhami had become the first woman officer in the Indian Air Force to command a
front line combat unit.
☞ After the Indian Army recently cleared women officers for command roles, Colonel Geeta Rana of the
Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers had become the first woman officer to take over
command of an independent field workshop in the Eastern Ladakh sector with China.
☞ Vice Admiral Atul Anand, AVSM, VSM assumed charge as the Director General Naval Operations (DGNO).
☞ Vice Admiral Suraj Berry took over as the new Chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy.
☞ Ministry of Defence, Department of Military Affairs, had approved amendment to existing cadre
management provisions for Women Officers of the Territorial Army (TA).
☞ Air Marshal Saju Balakrishnan, AVSM, VM had taken over as the 17th Commander-in-Chief of the
Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN).
☞ Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C), South
Western Air Command (SWAC) at Gandhinagar.
☞ Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit took over as the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, according to the Minister of
Defence.
☞ Lieutenant General Devendra Sharma took over as the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army’s Western
Command.
☞ Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar Anand, Vishisht Seva Medal took over as Air Officer-in-Charge Administration
(AOA) informed Ministry of Defence.
☞ Air commodore Prashant Shriram Vaidya took over as Air Officer Commanding, in charge of the Air Force
Station, Avadi by succeeding S Sivakumar.
☞ Air Commodore VM Reddy assumed the charge of Deputy Director General of NCC Directorate (Andhra
Pradesh & Telangana), Secunderabad.
☞ Vice Admiral Atul Anand took over as Additional Secretary, Department of Military Affairs on July 03,
2023.
☞ Rakesh Pal had been appointed as the 25th Director General of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
☞ Maj Gen Amita Rani assumed the appointment of Addl Director General, Military Nursing Service (MNS).
☞ Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar, AVSM, VSM assumed charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief
(FOC-in-C), Eastern Naval Command(ENC) at an impressive Ceremonial Parade held at the Naval Base.
☞ Maj Gen Ignatius Delos Flora had taken charge as the Additional Director General of Military Nursing
Service (MNS).
☞ Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor took over as Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel (AOP).
☞ Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan assumed charge as Chief of Personnel.
☞ Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti, AVSM, VSM assumed charge as Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff on 01 Oct 2023.
☞ Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan took over as the 28th Director General of the Border Roads
Organisation (BRO) following the superannuation of Lieutenant General Rajeev Chaudhry.
AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS OF

INDIA TO OTHER COUNTRIES
☞ The Ministry of External Affairs appointed Upender Singh Rawat as India's next High Commissioner to
Uganda.
☞ The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) appointed Shilpak N Ambule as the next High Commissioner of India
to Singapore, earlier, Ambule was serving as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs.
☞ Namgya C Khampa, India's High Commissioner to Kenya, had been concurrently accredited as India's next
Ambassador to Somalia.

☞ Sandeep Chakravorty, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Officer of the 1996 batch, had been appointed as
India's next Ambassador to Indonesia.
☞ Manish Gupta, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of batch 1998, had been appointed as India's next
High Commissioner to Ghana.
☞ Special Secretary (Ministry of External Affairs) Prabhat Kumar had been appointed as India's next High
Commissioner to South Africa.
☞ Geetika Srivastava appointed as India's new charge d'affaires at its High Commission in Islamabad by
succeeding Dr M Suresh Kumar.
☞ Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Atul Malhari Gotsurve had been appointed as
India’s next Ambassador to Mongolia by replacing MP Singh.
OTHER NATIONAL APPOINTEMENTS

☞ Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha was appointed as the chief of the country's external spy agency RAW for 2
years by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, succeeding Samant Kumar Goel who will complete his
four-year tenure on June 30.
☞ Government had constituted an eight-member high level committee to examine One nation, One
election. Former President Ram Nath Kovind had been appointed as Chairman of the committee.
☞ Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar constituted an all-women panel of Vice-Chairpersons in Rajya
Sabha in view of the Women’s reservation Bill.
☞ Ministry of Corporate Affairs had extended the tenure of the Company Law Committee by one year till
September 16, 2024.
AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS

☞ Mrs Marje Luup, Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia
☞ Dr Oleksandr Polishchuk, Ambassador of Ukraine
☞ Dr Desire Boniface Some, Ambassador of Burkina Faso
☞ Mrs May-Elin Stener, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway
☞ Eric Garcetti, Ambassador of the United States of America
☞ Mohammed Hadsan Jabir Al-Jabir, Ambassador of Qatar
☞ Didier Gamerdinger, Ambassador of Monaco
COUNTRY
☞ Jujjavarapu Balaji, a 2001 batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, had been appointed to the
post of Minister (Agriculture), Embassy of India, Rome.
☞ Balaji's batchmate from Manipur, Nidhi Mani Tripathi will be Minister (Economic), High Commission of
India, London for a tenure of three years.
☞ Debjani Chakrabarti, a 2002 batch Odisha cadre IAS officer, had been appointed as Minister (Economic &
Commercial), Embassy of India, Tokyo for three years.
☞ Venkatesh Palani Samy, Agricultural Research Service (2007), will be the adviser (Agriculture and Marine
Products), Embassy of India, Brussels.
☞ Mr. Syed Algazi had been officially appointed as, India’s Honorary. Consul General of Republic of
Liberland in India for 3 years.
☞ Respected economist Ludovit Odor was made Slovakia's interim prime minister by replacing Eduard
Heger and will lead the country until early elections are held in September.
☞ Petteri Orpo, the leader of the conservative National Coalition Party, become Finland’s 47th prime
minister by replacing Sanna Marin.

☞ Greece's New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be sworn in as prime minister for the
second term by replacing Ioannis Sarmas.
☞ Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev was re-elected as president.
☞ Dr TV Nagendra Prasad presently serving as the Consulate General of India, San Francisco, had been
appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
☞ Out of nine Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), 3 Indian-origin Singaporeans (Raj Joshua
Thomas, Nimil Rajnikant and Chandradas Usha Ranee) had been made members for parliament in
Singapore.
☞ Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni had appointed former Prime minister Hun Sen's son Hun Manet as
the new prime minister of the country.
☞ Raman Sukumar, an authority on the Asian elephant, had been elected a vice-chair of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during the recent election held at the United Nations
Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi.
☞ Pakistani senator Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar had been named as caretaker prime minister until the next general
elections.
☞ The anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was elected president of Guatemala.
☞ Srettha Thavisin of the populist Pheu Thai party had become 29th prime minister of Thailand by replacing
Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan (Acting).
☞ Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa was re-elected for a second and final five-year term.
☞ General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, chief of the Republican Guard, was designated as 4th president of
Gabon.
☞ Indian-origin Economist and Former Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam won the presidential
election in Singapore (9th President).
☞ Thailand King Maha Vajiralongkorn swore in Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and cabinet ministers in a
coalition government made up of 11 parties.
☞ Vanuatu's parliament elected Sato Kilman as the nation's new prime minister.
☞ Pro-China leader Mohamed Muizzu was elected as 9th President of Maldives.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
☞ Celeste Saulo of Argentina had been appointed as the first female Secretary-General of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO).
☞ A meteorologist of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Dr Abdulla Al Mandous had been elected as the new
President of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for a four-year term from 2023 to 2027.
☞ Dennis Francis made history as the first TT citizen to be elected president of the UN General Assembly
(UNGA).
☞ BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BRICS CCI) had appointed Ruby Sinha as the president of
BRICS CCI WE, the women's vertical of the body, for three years.
☞ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will stay in office for another year until October 1 2024, the 31-
nation military alliance decided.
☞ Indian-origin satellite industry expert Aarti Holla-Maini was appointed as the Director of the United
Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna by the United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres will succeed Simonetta Di Pippo of Italy.
☞ QU Dongyu was re-elected to a second term as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO).
☞ Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana had been appointed as member of the International
Mediator Panel of Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC).
☞ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced the appointment of Bhargav Dasgupta as vice-president
for Market Solutions for three years.
☞ Sri Lanka now assumed as Chairman of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).
☞ India has assumed the position of Vice Chairman in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).
☞ India has been elected as President of Asia- Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD)
General Conference (GC) for the 3rd successive term to lead the prestigious international organisation in
an unprecedented development where India had already served two terms as President, ABID GC from
2018 – 2021 and 2021 – 2023.

OTHER INTERNATIONAL APPOINTEMENTS

☞ Indian-American Arun Subramaniam had been confirmed as first South Asian District Judge for the
Southern District of New York.
☞ The United States Senate confirmed Indian American Ravi Chaudhary as the Assistant Secretary of
Defence for the Air Force, one of the top civilian leadership positions in the Pentagon.
☞ IT veteran Dr Gopichand Katragadda, founder and CEO of Myelin Foundry, has been appointed 142nd
President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), an international professional engineering
institution.
☞ Twenty-one-year-old Shreya Dharmarajan from Chennai got the chance to live a day in the shoes of a
diplomat after winning a competition of the British High Commission.
STATES
☞ Siddaramaiah sworn in as 24th Chief Minister of Karnataka by replacing Basavaraj Bommai.
☞ DK Shivakumar sworn in as Karnataka's deputy CM.
☞ Former Chief Secretary of West Bengal Rajiva Sinha was appointed as the State Election Commissioner
(SEC).
☞ Assam government's Principal Secretary Anurag Goel had been appointed as the new Chief Electoral
Officer (CEO) of the state.
☞ Former Union Finance Secretary and retired Gujarat cadre bureaucrat Hadmukh Adhia, who is principal
advisor to chief minister Bhupendra Patel had been appointed as chairman of GIFT (Gujarat International
Finance Tec) City, and as Chairman and Director of the Vadodara based Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals
Ltd (GACL) and the Chairman and Director of the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC).
☞ Chhattisgarh minister T S Singh Deo will be the deputy chief minister of the state.
☞ Senior bureaucrat Shiv Das Meena had been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu,
succeeding V Irai Anbu.
☞ West Bengal Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi had got an extension of service for six months till December this
year.
☞ Senior IAS officer Anurag Verma took charge as chief secretary of Punjab.
☞ NCP leader Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
☞ Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan had designated P. Jawahar as the Puducherry Chief Electoral Officer
cum Development Commissioner.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTE
☞ The Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) had recommended Ramaswamy Narayanan as the
Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re) and
Rajeshwari Singh for the position of CMD in National Insurance Company Limited (NICL).
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had approved appointment of SBI managing director
Swaminathan Janakiraman to the post of deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India for a period of three
years.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had appointed P Vasudevan as Executive Director (ED) and he will look
after three departments, including that of currency management.
☞ The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) had given its official approval for
the appointment of Amit Jhingran as the managing director & CEO of SBI Life Insurance Company.
☞ Government had appointed R Doraiswamy as the managing director of Life Insurance Corporation of
India (LIC).
☞ The Ministry of Finance had appointed Kamlesh Chandra Varshney and Amarjeet Singh as full-time
members of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for 3 years.

☞ The Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC), the representative body for asset and loan financing of
Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs), had appointed Umesh Revankar as its new chairman.
☞ Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI) had reconstituted its alternative investment policy advisory
committee that advises it on a range of issues impacting further development of the AIF (Alternative
Investment Fund) space.
☞ The Association of Investment Bankers of India had appointed Mahavir Lunawat, Managing Director of
Pantomath Capital Advisors, as its Chairman for two years from September 2023.
☞ Shri Biranchi Narayan Sahootook charge as Executive Director, Securities and Exchange Board of India in
Mumbai.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Muneesh Kapur as Executive Director (ED) with effect from
October 3, 2023.
☞ Kamlesh Chandra Varshney has taken charge as Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of
India (SEBI) in Mumbai.
☞ The central government extended the term of M Rajeshwar Rao as the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI)
Deputy Governor by one year.
BANKS
☞ K. Prathapa Reddy, a banker with over two decades of experience, is the new chairman of the Warangal-
headquartered Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) took over the charge from K. Praveen
Kumar.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had given its approval for the re-appointment of P N Vasudevan as MD & CEO
of Equitas Small Finance Bank for 3 years, his term expires on July 22, 2023.
☞ Axis Bank had appointed former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor NS Vishwanathan as a part-
time Non-Executive Chairman for a period of three years.
☞ Madhivanan Balakrishnan had been elevated as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of IDFC
First Bank following the RBI's approval.
☞ DBS Bank India announced the appointment of Rajat Verma as managing director and head of
institutional banking for India.
☞ Newly-appointed Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Swaminathan Janakiraman will look after six
departments, including supervision and financial inclusion.
☞ Deputy Governor M D Patra will supervise 11 departments in the central bank, including the departments
of monetary policy and financial stability.
☞ Deputy Govenor M Rajeshwar Rao had been assigned with five departments while T Rabi Sankar had
assigned with the work of 11 departments.
☞ State Bank of India (SBI) had appointed four directors on the central board of the bank and reappointed
Ketan Shivji Vikamsey and Mrugank Madhukar Paranjape to its board and had added Rajesh Kumar
Dubey and Dharmendra Singh Shekhawat as directors.
☞ The State Bank of India (SBI), Bengaluru, appointed Krishna Sharma as the Chief General Manager of SBI,
Bengaluru Circle.
☞ State Bank of India (SBI) had appointed Kameshwar Rao Kodavanti as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with
effect from July 1, 2023.
☞ Reserve Bank of India approved the re-appointment of Shri B Ramesh Babu, Managing Director and CEO
of KVB for second term of three years with effect from July 29, 2023.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had approved the appointment of P. R. Seshadri as the Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer of South Indian Bank by replacing Murali Ramakrishnan.
☞ Uday Kotak, the managing director and CEO, had resigned MD & CEO of his term coming to an end by the
end of this year. Dipak Gupta appointed as interim chief.
☞ SBM Bank India, the wholly owned local subsidiary of Mauritius-headquartered SBM Bank (Mauritius),
had appointed Dipak Agarwal as its deputy chief executive officer and head of business.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India had approved the reappointment of ICICI Bank MD and CEO Sandeep Bakhshi
for three years.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the re-appointment of Sashidhar Jagdishan as the managing
director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of HDFC Bank for three years starting from October 27,
2023.

☞ Pankaj Sharma had been appointed as Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer of the Yes Bank.
☞ Yes Bank has announced the appointment of Manish Jain as the new country head of Wholesale Banking
he succeeds Ravi Thota, who resigned on August 2, 2023, citing personal and professional reasons
☞ Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) had appointed Pradeep Kumar Srivastava as its Chief Technology Officer
(CTO) effective from September 28, 2023.
☞ Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd. (TMB) announced that its Managing Director and CEO S. Krishnan has
tendered his resignation citing personal reasons.
☞ South Indian Bank has appointed P R Seshadri as its MD & CEO effective from October 1 by succeeding
Murali Ramakrishnan who served a successful tenure from October 1, 2020, till September 30, 2023.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cleared the appointment of K N Madhusoodanan as a part-time chairman
of Kerala-based Dhanlaxmi Bank.
☞ The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has given its nod for extending the tenure of SBI Chairman
Dinesh Kumar Khara till August 28, 2024.
Person Bank Previous Position
Sanjay Rudra Union Bank of India General Manager (Bank of Maharashtra)
Vijaykumar N Kamble UCO Bank General Manager
Bibhu Prasad
Punjab National Bank Chief General Manager
Mahapatra
Ravi Mehra Punjab & Sind Bank General Manager
Bhavendra Kumar Canara Bank Chief General Manager
Rajiv Mishra Bank of India Chief General Manager (Union Bank of India)
Brajesh Kumar Singh Indian Bank Chief General Manager (Bank of Baroda)
Rohit Rishi Bank of Maharashtra Chief General Manager (Indian Bank)
Lal Singh Bank of Baroda Chief General Manager (Union Bank of India)
Mahendra Dohare Central Bank of India Chief General Manager (Punjab National Bank)
Dhanaraj T Indian Overseas Bank Chief General Manager (Indian Bank)
FINANCE/INSURANCE COMPANIES
☞ The Board of Directors of Nippon India Life AMC had appointed UK Sinha as an Independent Director & as
Chairman of the Board, with effect from May 1, 2023.
☞ ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund had elevated Manish Banthia as CIO- Fixed Income.
☞ Axis Mutual Fund had appointed Shreyas Devalkar as the new Head of Equities.
☞ Liberty General Insurance appointed Parag Ved as its chief executive and a director on the board by
replacing Roopam Asthana.
☞ ICICI Lombard General Insurance had appointed Sanjeev Mantri as its Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer.
☞ General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re) has appointed Ramaswamy Narayanan as Chairman and
Managing Director, effective October 1.
OTHERS FINANCIAL APPOINTEMENTS

☞ Payment gateway and neo-banking platform Razorpay had roped in former RBI deputy governor NS
Vishwanathan and former State Bank of India managing director Arijit Basu to lead its newly-formed
advisory board.
☞ Fintech major BharatPe had appointed former ICICI Bank employee Sandeep Indurkar as its Chief Business
Officer- Banking and Alliances.
☞ Rajay Kumar Sinha had taken charge of SBI Capital Markets Limited (SBICAPS) with effect from July 14.

☞ Equifax Credit Information Services Pvt Limited had named Aditya B. Chatterjee as its Managing Director.
☞ Abhijit Chakravorty had taken charge as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, of SBI
Card by replacing Rama Mohan Rao Amara.
☞ SBICAP Securities Ltd. had appointed Suresh Shukla as Chief Business Officer (CBO).
☞ Banking industry veteran and former State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Rajnish Kumar had been
appointed the Chairman of Mastercard India.
☞ SBI Mutual Fund had elevated DP Singh to the post of joint chief executive officer.
SPORTS
☞ Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi had been re-elected for a second
term as the head of the organisation from 2024 to 2026.
☞ Sheikh Talal Fahad Al Ahmad Al-Sabah was elected the new President of the Olympic Council of Asia at
the 42nd OCA General Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand.
☞ Jhulan Goswami (India), Heather Knight and Eoin Morgan (England) had become the latest members of
the MCC's world cricket committee ahead of the body's meeting at Lord's.
☞ Royal Challengers Bangalore appointed the vastly experienced Andy Flower as their head coach, officially
ending the term of Mike Hesson and Sanjay Bangar.
☞ Veteran sports journalist Rajaraman was appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as the
contingents press attache for the upcoming Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China.
☞ The International Hockey Federation (FIH) President, Tayyab Ikram, had been appointed by the
International Olympic Committee’s President, Thomas Bach, to the IOC Olympic Solidarity Commission.
☞ Former Sri Lankan captain and batting legend, Kumar Sangakkara and former Hampshire captain-turned-
broadcaster, Mark Nicholas taken over as Chairman and President of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
World Cricket Committee respectively.
☞ The sixty year old iconic Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society (JNHTS); known for the prestigious
Nehru Senior Hockey Tournament has nominated Yash Bharwani, the grandson of the ‘Founding Father’ of
the Society, Shri Inder Mohan Kapur Ji; as it’s 7th President.
PRIVATE COMPANIES
☞ Godrej Consumer Products Limited (GCPL) had announced the appointment of Aasif Malbari as Chief
Financial Officer (CFO) of the company as part of a top-level reshuffle exercise.
☞ Indian auto major Tata Motors wholly-owned subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Automotive PLC, UK, had
appointed Adrian Mardell as chief executive officer for a three-year term.
☞ Edtech major Byju's had appointed upGrad's former chief Arjun Mohan as its CEO for international
business.
☞ Dineout cofounder Vivek Kapoor had quit food tech major Swiggy and had joined healthcare financing
start-up AyushPay.
☞ Microsoft India said that its India president Anant Maheshwari had stepped down from his position to
pursue other interest.
☞ Accenture announced that, Rajendra Prasad will become Accenture’s chief information and asset
engineering officer, a new role that oversees all internal technology development and support for
Accenture systems and Accenture assets for clients.
☞ The Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel's enterprise arm Airtel Business, Ajay Chitkara, had resigned
from the company.
☞ Quantum Ecosystems Technology Council of India (QETCI) announced that scientist and defence expert
Dr. Vijay Kumar Sarawat had been appointed as the chairman of its governing board.
☞ Qualcomm Incorporated announced the appointment of Savi Soin as senior vice president and president
of Qualcomm India.
☞ Indian IT services company Tech Mahindra announced that Atul Soneja, former CitiusTech and Infosys
veteran, would be joining the company as its Chief Operating Officer (COO).

☞ Tesla had appointed Indian-origin Vaibhav Taneja as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), as the organization
plans to make India its next key source of a new supplier ecosystem.
☞ Leading diversified professional services and investment management firm Colliers announced that Badal
Yagnik had been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, India.
☞ Infosys announced a three-year partnership with Rafael Nadal, onboarding the global tennis star as
ambassador for the brand and Infosys' Digital Innovation.
☞ The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), the apex body of the Indian Electric Vehicle
industry, had appointed R K Misra, co-founder of Yulu Bikes, and director at Magna Yuma, a battery-as-a-
service platform established by Yulu in partnership with Magna International, as its President for 2023-24.
☞ Puneet Dalmia will take over as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dalmia Cement
(Bharat) after Mahendra Singhi's decade-long tenure comes to an end on December 8.
☞ TVS Supply Chain Solutions Ltd (TVS SCS) announced that its founder and promoter R Dinesh had been
appointed as the Executive Chairman by its Board of Directors.
☞ Shell India announced the appointment of Mansi Madan Tripathy as the new chairman of the company,
effective 1 October by succeeding Nitin Prasad.
☞ OYO has elevated Rakesh Kumar to the position of deputy Chief Financial Officer (deputy CFO) of the
company.
☞ Azure Power Global Limited had announced that Non-Executive Director, M.S. Unnikrishnan, had been
appointed as Chairman of the Board of Azure Power Global Limited and Azure Power India Private
Limited after Alan Rosling resigned with immediate effect.
☞ Srinivasan K Swamy, Executive Chairman of R K Swamy Hansa Group, had been elected as the Chairman of
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the year 2023-2024.
☞ Jupiter, the neobanking start-up, had appointed Anuj Rathi, former senior vice president of revenue and
growth at Swiggy, as its inaugural chief product and marketing officer.
☞ Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA) had appointed Dhananjay Joshi as its new Chairman,
and Sandeep Girotra as Vice-Chairman.
☞ Nihar Malaviya, an Indian-origin publishing executive, has been named permanent CEO of New York-
based international publishing group Penguin Random House, nine months after he was appointed the
interim chief executive.
☞ Byju's has made Arjun Mohan the chief executive officer (CEO) of its India business, replacing Mrinal
Mohit as the struggling edtech firm battles lenders, challenges in raising fresh capital, and a markdown in
its valuation.
☞ Wipro Ltd. had appointed Aparna C. Iyer as Chief Financial Officer by replacing Jatin Dalal.
☞ Tata Group, has appointed Banmali Agrawala as the new chairman of Tata Advanced Systems (TASL) by
succeeding Vijay Singh.
☞ Intel Corporation has announced the appointment of Gokul Subramaniam as Intel India President,
currently working as vice president in the Client Computing Group (CCG) and serves as general manager of
Client Platforms and Systems within Intel.
☞ Japanese apparel retailer Uniqlo has appointed Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif as its first brand
ambassador in India as and attempts to woo affluent shoppers and plans to add to more stores.
☞ The chief executive officer of Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin, Bob Smith, will step down at the
end of the year and be replaced by former Amazon executive Dave Limp.
☞ Intel Corporation has announced the appointment of Gokul Subramaniam as the new President of Intel
India, responsible for overseeing the company's comprehensive engineering and design operations.
☞ Cognizant Technology Solutions appointed Jatin Dalal as its Chief Financial Officer effective in December
2023.
☞ Keshav S Dhakad is now the senior vice president and general counsel for the Flipkart Group.
☞ Prosus-owned fintech major PayU India’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Anirban Mukherjee has been
promoted to the role of global CEO of PayU by replacing Laurent Le Moal.
BRAND AMBASSADORS
☞ Swaraj Tractors had announced the appointment of Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MS Dhoni) as its official
brand ambassador.

☞ Parimatch Sports, a trendy sportswear brand dedicated to offering top-quality athletic clothes, had
announced Yaroslav Amosov as its new brand ambassador.
☞ Epson announced that film actress Rashmika Mandanna will be its brand ambassador in India.
☞ SUGAR POP Beauty, announced Bollywood actress Shehnaaz Gill as its brand ambassador.
☞ Sleep solutions provider Duroflex announced cricket icon Virat Kohli as its new brand ambassador to
further their mission of advocating the significance of quality sleep in fostering a long healthy life.
☞ Shah Rukh Khan was appointed as ICC World Cup 2023 brand ambassador.
☞ Parimatch had appointed West Indies cricketer Nicholas Pooran as its brand ambassador.
☞ Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will become a “national icon” of the Election Commission (EC)
and spread awareness regarding the need for greater voter participation in the electoral process.
☞ Casio India announced cricketer Shubman Gill as brand ambassador for watch brand G-SHOCK.
☞ Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar was announced as the Global Ambassador for the Men’s Cricket World
Cup 2023 by the International Cricket Council.
☞ JioMart has roped in cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its brand ambassador.
R ANKS AND I NDICES
☞ The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) had secured the second position among 66
ministries in the highly influential Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI) assessment for 2022-2023 (Q3).
☞ According to Prime Global Cities Index (PGCI) Q1 2023, Mumbai moved up from the 38th rank in Q1 2022
to sixth the quarter based on the annual growth in high-end or prime properties.
☞ Minister of State for Education and External Affairs, Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh released the India
Rankings 2023, which implements the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) drafted for this
purpose by the Ministry of Education in 2015.
☞ Kerala had topped the Food Safety Index 2022-23, replacing Tamil Nadu which had slipped to third
position in the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s 5th State Food Safety Index (SFSI),
which was released by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on the occasion of World Food Day.
☞ Tata group had breached the brand value-mark of $25 billion to feature in the top 100 of the Brand
Finance Global 500 2023 – the annual ranking of the world’s top 500 most valuable brands.
☞ 20th edition of 'The Global 2000' was published by Forbes.
☞ The 5th edition of Global Slavery Index (GSI) provides national estimates of modern slavery for 160
countries and was presented by Walk Free.
☞ Mumbai becomes the 18th most expensive city for luxury living according to Julius Baer’s Lifestyle Index
2023 which ranks the world’s 25 most expensive cities.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the world’s most popular leader with an approval rating of 75
percent.
☞ Global Competitiveness Index released by the International Institute for Management Development
(IMD).
☞ The World Economic Forum ranked India at the 67th place globally on its Energy Transition Index and said
it is the only major economy with energy transition momentum accelerating across all dimensions.
☞ 20th edition of QS Rankings 2024 was released and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is on top
of the rankings for the 12th year in a row.
☞ A 'Panchayat Development Index' had been formulated by the Centre to evaluate different indicators
responsible for ensuring targeted development in villages, Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Kapil
Moreshwar Patil.
☞ HDFC Bank will be the fourth most valuable bank in the world in terms of market capitalisation after the
merger with mortgage lender HDFC and also emerge as the second biggest company in India.
☞ Our biggest edition to date featuring 1,500 institutions QS World University Rankings 2024 introduces
three new indicators to reflect the changing priorities of students and the evolving missions of world-class
higher education institutions today: a commitment to sustainability; even greater emphadis on
supporting graduate employability and increased international research collaboration to solve the
world’s biggest challenges.

☞ Shoolini University had added another feather to its cap by becoming the No.2 Private University among
the young universities of the country as per The Young University Rankings 2023.
☞ The finalized Global Firepower ranking below utilizes over 60 individual factors to determine a given
nation's PowerIndex ('PwrIndx') score with categories ranging from quantity of military units and
financial standing to logistical capabilities and geography and India ranked fourth.
☞ According to the latest Henley Passport Index, Singapore had claimed the top spot as the world's most
powerful passport in 2023, granting visa-free access to 192 countries. Indian passport holders now enjoy
visa-free access to 57 destinations, an improvement from the 87th in 2022 to 80th in 2023.
☞ Teen chess champion Gukesh D ended Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand's 37-year reign as India's
highest-ranking chess player in the live world (FIDE) rankings.
☞ Sashidhar Jagdishan, HDFC Bank's Managing Director and Chief Executive, had emerged as the highest-
paid bank chief executive in FY23, with a significant increase of more than 62% in his remuneration in
fiscal year 2023, reaching ₹10.55 crore.
☞ Telangana state had secured the first position in the country in recovery of lost and stolen mobile devices
using Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal.
☞ Under Aspirational Districts Programme Haryana Nuh district had climbed to 2nd spot from 30th spot in
Niti Aayog’s Delta ranking.
☞ Internet Resilience Index was released by global non-profit organisation Internet Society.
☞ According to the Affordability Index released by real estate consultancy Knight Frank, In first six months of
2023 Ahmedabad (EMI to Income ratio 23%) is the most affordable city in India was followed by Pune and
Kolkata (26%).
☞ India had moved up to 11th position in the ranking of top markets of direct sellers, with retail sales of USD
3.23 billion (around Rs 26,852 crore) in 2022, global industry body World Federation of Direct Selling
Association (WFDSA).
☞ Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan -2023 conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board.
☞ The Central Banker Report Cards, an annual publication by Global Finance since 1994, assess and grade
the performance of central bank governors in 101 significant countries, territories, and regions,
encompassing entities such as the European Union, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the Bank of
Central African States and the Central Bank of West African States.
☞ Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav recently announced awards
under the Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan 2023 (clean air survey). A total of 131 cities were put in three
categories on the basis of their population for the purpose of the survey.
☞ Infosys is the only Indian firm in the top 100 of TIME Magazine's list of World's Best Companies of 2023.
The company ranked at the 64th spot out of 750 global companies with an overall score of 88.38.
☞ The US-based consultancy firm's Morning Consult released the 'Global Leader Approval Rating Tracker’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been remained in the top position for past two years.
☞ India ranked 126th in The World Happiness Report is a publication released annually by the United Nations
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Finland topped the report.
☞ India ranked 52nd in The Digital Quality of Life Index is an annual report according to digital wellbeing.
☞ India had ranked 87th position out of 165 countries in The 'Economic Freedom of the World: 2021 Annual
Report' by Canada's Fraser Institute has been released in India in conjunction with New Delhi-based think
tank Centre for Civil Society.
☞ India has retained its 40th spot in the latest Global Innovation Index 2023 released by the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
☞ India has been ranked first in grassroots crypto adoption, even amid a tough regulatory environment,
according to Chainalysis’ 2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index.
☞ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has retained the top spot as India’s most valuable brand, with a value of
$42.96 billion, according to Kantar’s BrandZ India ranking.
☞ Two MBA programmes offered by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) have been ranked in
the Global Top 50 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
☞ Hurun India released 360 ONE Wealth Rich List 2023 that named Mukesh Ambani and family of the
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) as India's richest Indians in 2023 with a worth of Rs 8,08,700 crore
followed by Gautam Adani and family, of the Adani Group with Rs 4,74,000 crore.
☞ India has been ranked at 111 out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2023, further lowering
its position to 107 (out of 121 countries) in 2022.
☞ India’s largest integrated energy conglomerate, NTPC Limited, has been recognized as one of the “World’s
Best Employers 2023” in the Forbes World’s Best Employers list 2023.
☞ According to the Knight Frank Global Residential Cities Index Q2 2023, Mumbai climbed to 19th position
and Bengaluru to 22nd globally.

REPORTS
☞ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will likely move for one more pause in the upcoming June Monetary
Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, as India’s consumer price inflation (CPI) moderated to almost 18-month
low of 4.70% in April, due to a sharp deceleration in fuel inflation, SBI Research’s ‘Ecowrap’ report.
☞ 145 million small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally are likely to spend $1.45 trillion on information
technology in 2023, driven by the post-pandemic trend towards digital transformation, said a report by
global management consultancy Analysys Mason.
☞ According to "The Anatomy of Fraud 2023" report by digital solutions platform Bureau and consultancy
firm Praxis.
☞ The report, tilted Turning off the Tap: How the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular
economy, had been launched just days ahead of a second round of negotiations on a legally binding
instrument to end plastic pollution (Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee-2 or INC-2) to be held in
Paris.
☞ The Reserve Bank of India annual dividend will overshoot budgeted estimates by about 0.15-0.2 per cent
of GDP, jumping to about Rs 80,000-95,000 crore, according to a research report by Emkay Global
Financial Services.
☞ India's exports of products like coffee, leather hides and paperboard worth USD 1.3 billion annually to the
European Union will get impacted due to the deforestation regulation adopted by the EU earlier this
week, a report by economic think tank Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI).
☞ 11th edition of the World of Work report was released by International Labour Organisation (ILO).
☞ In its first-ever report on ‘Sustainability’ was recently released by the union minister for road transport
and highways Nitin Gadkari, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) claimed that direct emission
was reduced from 18.44 per cent to 9.49 per cent due to less fuel consumption in three years between
2019-20 and 2021-22.
☞ With a population of 140 crores, India is poised to become a global leader in digital payments, with
households increasing non-cash transactions by 50 per cent, and 85 per cent of businesses in the country
being digitally enabled by FY26, according to Redseer and Plural by Pine Labs.
☞ India will become a $1 trillion internet economy by 2030, thanks to a continued shift in consumer and
merchant behaviour, matched with strong investor confidence, according to a report by Google, Temasek
and Bain & Company.
☞ Tech spending in India is projected to grow at 10.1 per cent, the highest rate in the Asia Pacific (APAC)
region, to reach ₹3.9 lakh crore in 2023, according to Forrester’s Asia Pacific Tech Market Forecast, 2022-
27.
☞ A report of the World Health Organisation (WHO) had highlighted significant impacts of ‘Har Ghar Jal’
program on public health and economic savings.
☞ Credit rating agency ICRA had projected steady growth for the Indian pharmaceutical industry, despite
headwinds and regulatory challenges. According to the report, the revenues of ICRA’s sample set of 25
Indian companies (which account for 60 per cent of the overall domestic pharma industry) are expected
to grow by 7-9 per cent in FY24, following a YoY growth of 10 per cent in FY23.
☞ The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) released the Centralized
Public Grievance Redressal and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) monthly report for May, 2023, which
provides a detailed analysis of types and categories of public grievances and the nature of disposal.
☞ The world food import bill is forecast to reach a new record this year, though it is predicted to grow at a
much slower pace compared to last year, as rising world prices, driven by higher quotations for fruits,
vegetables, sugar and dairy products, dampen demand, especially in the most economically vulnerable
countries, according to a report released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO).
☞ India had ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity an improvement of eight places
from last year according to the World Economic Forum's annual Gender Gap Report, 2023.
☞ The Economist Intelligence Unit released Global Liveability Index 2023 report on global livability index,
placing Austria’s capital Vienna as the top ranked city to live in this year.
☞ The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2023 (GSER 2023) is an in-depth analysis of startup ecosystems
worldwide.

☞ Scheduled commercial banks' net non-performing assets (NPA) ratio fell to a 10-year low of 3.9 per cent
in March 2023, the Reserve Bank of India noted in the latest edition of its Financial Stability Report.
☞ India had doubled its share of global commercial services exports to 4.4 percent in 2022 from 2 percent in
2005, according to 'Trade in services for development' report by World Bank and World Trade
Organisation (WTO) report.
☞ The size of India’s middle class will nearly double to 61 per cent of its total population by 2047, from 31
per cent in 2020-21, as continuing political stability and economic reforms with a sustained annual growth
rate of between 6 per cent and 7 per cent over the next two and half decades will make the country one
of the largest markets in the world, according to the report by the People Research on India’s Consumer
Economy (PRICE) and India’s Citizen Environment.
☞ The Ministry of Education released the report on performance grading index (PGI) 2.0 for states and
union territories for the year 2021-22.
☞ The report 'National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A progress of Review 2023' was released by Suman
Bery, Vice-Chairman, Niti Aayog.
☞ Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) had released the fifth edition of
‘National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA) Way Forward Monthly Report for
States/UTs’, which provides a detailed overview of status of e-service delivery across States/UTs.
☞ Card payments in India are likely to hit the Rs 27.9 trillion mark in 2023, up 28.6 per cent year-on-year
(YoY), suggests a recent report by GlobalData, a London-based leading data and analytics company.
☞ Amul had been ranked as the world’s strongest dairy brand by the Brand Finance Food and Drink Report
2023.
☞ The Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
released the report on the 6th census on minor irrigation schemes.
☞ Around 56 per cent of total new internet users will be from rural India by 2025, according to a report by
TransUnion CIBIL, which said that currently 36 per cent of digital payment users hail from rural parts of the
country.
☞ According to SBI Ecowrap Report, employee provident fund organisation (EPFO) is expected to generate
16 million net new payrolls in Financial Year 2023-24 (FY24).
☞ According to the report by Capgemini Research Institute, Non-cash transactions will touch 2.3 trillion in
transaction volumes by 2027, growing at the rate of 15% annually, as consumers and businesses adopt
new digital payment schemes.
☞ According to the "India Digital Payments Report for H1 2023" released by global payments service
provider Worldline, the number of UPI transactions in India rose 62% in the first six months of 2023
compared to the same period last year.
☞ In the survey involving 12,400 startups, India is ranked fourth with 429 scaleups, after the USA (7,184),
China (1,491), and the UK (623).
☞ Bank credit growth is likely to moderate to 13-13.5% this fiscal as compared with a growth of 15.9%
reported in last fiscal according to a report by CRISIL.
☞ According to Redseer report, The Indian e-commerce is expected to grow 5 times to USD 300 billion by
2030 and the number of shipments by third-party logistics providers may reach 17 billion in the next 7
years.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
☞ Prime Minister Modi had been conferred the highest honour of Fiji by the PM Sitiveni Rabuka of Fiji:
Companion of the Order of Fiji in recognition of his global leadership.
☞ H.E. Sir Bob Dadae, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (PNG) conferred Prime Minister Shri
Narendra Modi with the Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu (GCL) titled "Chief".
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the ‘Order of the Nile’ award, the country’s highest state honour,
from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi had become the first Indian premier to had been conferred with the Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honour, France's highest civilian and military honour, by French President
Emmanuel Macron.

☞ Prime Minister Modi had been conferred the highest honour of Greece by the PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis of
Grand Cross of the Order of Honour.
☞ Veteran astronomer Jayant Naralikar was conferred the first Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement
Award instituted by the Astronomical Society of India (ASI).
☞ The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually. 2023 - Arinze Ifeakandu
for God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
☞ Author and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi, who translated Siddique Alam’s The Kettledrum and Other
Stories from Urdu to English, had won the inaugural edition of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian
Literature in Translation.
☞ Tata Group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran had been given France's highest civilian award Chevalier de la
Legion d'honneur for his contributions to strengthen the trade relationship between India and France.
☞ The Naval Investiture Ceremony, 2023 for the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) was held in Visakhapatnam.
Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar conferred thirty-three gallantry and distinguished service awards during the
Naval Investiture Ceremony.
☞ President Droupadi Murmu was conferred with the highest civilian honour of Suriname ‘Grand Order of
the Chain of the Yellow Star’ by the President of Suriname at a ceremony held at the Presidential Palace.
☞ SBI Life Insurance, one of the most trusted private life insurers in the country, leveraged the new AI-
technology, ChatGPT to launch #IndiaKaPassionPledge campaign and created the GUINNESS WORLD
RECORDS title for ‘Most pledges received for a passion campaign in 24 hours.
☞ Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) had bagged the national award for significant enrolment under
Atal Pension Yojana (APY) from the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), New
Delhi.
☞ Jagdish Bakan, Wildlife Warden and District Forest Officer (DFO) of Ramanathapuram district, had won
the 2023 Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management from the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
☞ Indian-origin scientist Joyeeta Gupta had been awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch
science which is also sometimes referred to as the ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’.
☞ Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a leading 'Maharatna' and Fortune Global 500 Company,
had been recognized at the highly esteemed FIPI Oil & Gas Awards 2022 by securing five coveted
accolades.
☞ The awards were presented by Shri. Hardeep Singh Puri, Hon'ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
and Housing & Urban Development, Government of India.
☞ Chennai-based lawyer-activist Lalitha Natarajan had been awarded the 2023 Iqbal Masih Award for the
Elimination of Child Labour.
☞ Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das, who was conferred the Governor of the Year Award
2023 by Central Banking, had highlighted how monetary authorities went well beyond their traditional
briefs in response to unprecedented challenges over the last few years.
☞ The Recording Academy had added three new categories to the Grammy Awards, including best African
music performance, best pop dance recording and best alternative jazz album, the 66th Grammys, which
now had 94 categories, will air live in early 2024.
☞ Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar conferred the fourth National Water Awards in New Delhi, the Jal
Shakti Ministry had announced a total of 41 winners, covering 11 categories, including joint winners, for
the National Water Awards, 2022.
☞ Ministry of Culture had conferred The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 to Gita Press, Gorakhpur one of the
largest publishers of religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana and the Upanishads, in
recognition of its "outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through
non-violent and other Gandhian methods".
☞ actyv.ai, an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform with embedded B2B BNPL and insurance offerings, had
won the 'Startup 50 Trailblazer Award' - at the inaugural edition of the Dun & Bradstreet LEAP India
Startup Summit, 2023 in Bangalore.
☞ The Goa Institute of Management (GIM) had emerged as the proud recipient of the highly coveted
International Flourish Award 2023 for their remarkable story on Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG
10).
☞ Prof G Sankara Pillai Award for 2022 will be given away to theatreperson Maya Tangeberg at
Rangaprabhath Theatre Complex, Alumthara, Venjaramoodu.
☞ The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for 2023 had been awarded to British-American author Salman
Rushdie.

☞ Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (USFB) Limited, one of the leading small finance banks catering to the un-
served and under-served segments, won the 'Best CRM implementation' award.
☞ The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, was presented
with the Olympic Order by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach.
☞ Eminent poet, literary critic and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient Acharya N. Gopi had been selected for
Prof. Kothapalli Jayashankar Award instituted by Bharat Jagruthi, a cultural organisation and extended
arm of Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
☞ The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu presented the National Florence Nightingale Awards for the
years 2022 and 2023 to the Nursing professionals at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
☞ Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, one of the largest private insurers in India announced that it had won
‘Best Customer Experience and Servicing Platform’ at the 4th ELETS BFSI Game Changer Summit 2023, in
Goa.
☞ The Sahitya Akademi had announced a list of 22 recipients of its Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 20 winners of
its Yuva Puraskar for 2023.
☞ Noted singer and music composer Shankar Mahadevan was conferred with an honorary doctorate by
Birmingham City University (BCU) in London, England, to celebrate his contribution to music and the arts.
☞ Maternal quality improvement and certification initiative from India 'Manyata' had won the prestigious
Constellation Award by Asia's leading social investors' network Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
(AVPN).
☞ Twelve top start-ups from across 9 Indian states working in agriculture, ed-tech, women’s livelihood,
circular economy, and biodiversity were announced as winners at the 5th Edition of Youth Co:Lab
National Innovation Dialogue India.
☞ Zafin, the leading provider of SaaS products and pricing platform solutions for banks, had won the 2023
Microsoft Financial Services Global Partner of the Year Award.
☞ Ajay Banga, the President of the World Bank, had been recognised on the Carnegie Corporation of New
York's annual "Great Immigrants" list.
☞ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had honoured Rajindar Singh Dhatt, one of the last surviving Sikh
soldiers who fought in the Second World War with a Points of Light honour at a UK-India Week reception
at 10 Downing Street.
☞ Padma Bhushan Awardee Nageshwar Reddy, Chairman and Managing Director of AIG Hospitals, had been
conferred with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ instituted by the Federation of Telangana Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FTCCI).
☞ Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla presented the coveted Elephant Family environmental award
to Indian conservationists — filmmaker Kartiki Gonsalves behind Oscar-winning documentary ‘The
Elephant Whisperers’ and the Real Elephant Collective (TREC) of 70 Adivasi artists.
☞ Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, one of the leading private general insurers of India, hosted the first-ever
General Insurance Festival of India (GIFI) in Pune which officially set a new Guinness World Records
achievement for the Largest attendance for an insurance conference.
☞ NLC India Limited, a navratna company under the Ministry of Coal, bagged GeM award in the category
"Timely Payments (CPSEs)" for the year 2023 for its outstanding contribution in improving the reliability of
e-market practices in line with the vision of GeM.
☞ Hardayal Singh, the Program Director of United Sikhs, had won the prestigious International Sikh of the
Year award at the 2nd British Sikh Awards 2023 function held in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
☞ Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, one of the leading private life insurer in India announced that it had won the
Insurer Innovation Award 2023 for the APAC region at The World’s Digital Insurance Awards.
☞ Coal India Limited (CIL) is the recipient of the Rising Star Award in appreciation of its outstanding efforts
to enhance procurement through the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal in FY 2022–23.
☞ President Droupadi Murmu presented the Bhoomi Samman 2023 at a function in New Delhi.
☞ French Ministry of Culture, the award was intended to honour personalities for their creativity in cultural
spheres and their works that formed the wealth of the cultural heritage. Ms. Sairam and Mr.
Subramanyam were conferred the title of Chevalier De L’orde Des Arts Et Des Lettres.
☞ The Ministry of Coal had been awarded in “Best Engagement” category, Coal India Limited (CIL) had been
awarded “Rising Star” and NLC India Limited had been awarded in the “Timely Payments” category
☞ The Ministry of Coal had been awarded in “Best Engagement” category, Coal India Limited (CIL) had been
awarded “Rising Star” and NLC India Limited had been awarded in the “Timely Payments” category.
☞ The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Shri Anurag Thakur conferred the 8th and 9th
National Community Radio Awards. For the 9th National Community Radio Awards a total of 12 Awards
in 4 Categories are being given.

☞ iEnergizer, a leading global provider of Business Process Outsourcing solutions, is thrilled to announce its
remarkable achievement in being honoured with the esteemed award for "Operational Excellence &
Quality in BPO Industry" at National Awards' 10th Edition.
☞ The Maharashtra government had decided to confer the first 'Udyog Ratna' award on veteran industrialist
and chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata.
☞ Four Indian young leaders are among 50 social entrepreneurs, environmental champions, innovators,
and human rights activists from across the Commonwealth shortlisted for this year's Youth Awards.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi was conferred with Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune,
Maharashtra. He was the 41st recipient of the award.
☞ Established in 1954, the National Film Awards are overseen by the Directorate of Film Festivals.
☞ To recognize and promote excellence in implementation of e-Governance initiatives, DAR&PG presents
National Awards every year.
☞ Priyan Sain clinched the title of Miss Earth India 2023 during the Miss Divine Beauty 2023 national final
held in New Delhi and she will participate in the Miss World pageant to be held in Vietnam.
☞ Telangana Chief Innovation Officer Shanta Thoutam had received the World Innovation Award at the first
BRICS innovation forum held at Moscow, Russia.
☞ e-commerce technology landscape, N7 – The Nitrogen Platform's CEO Manoj Bubna had been conferred
the prestigious 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2023' award by the renowned 'Entrepreneur India' business
magazine.
☞ Dr Navneet Agrawal Chief Clinical Officer of BeatO, was awarded the ‘Diabetologist of the Year (National
Winner)-2023’ for his exceptional medical service and dedication to the cause of improving the lives of
people with diabetes.
☞ President Droupadi Murmu conferred the National Teachers' Award 2023 on 75 exceptional educators at
Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
☞ Assam Rifles Training Centre and School in Shokhuvi, Nagaland had been awarded the Union Home
Minister's Trophy 2021-22 for the best training institution.
☞ The 80th annual Venice International Film Festival held at Venice Lido, in Italy was hosted by Caterina
Murino.
☞ Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) faculty Rajnish Kumar has been recognised with the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
☞ Arundhati Roy had won the 45th Prix Européen de l’Essai (Charles-Veillon European Essay Prize) for
Lifetime Achievement award for her essays. First awarded to Jacques Ellul of France for his “Betrayal of
the West”.
☞ French Ambassador to India, Emmanuel Lenain presented Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier Of The
Order Of Arts And Letters) to Rahul Mishra at a ceremony held in France. Rahul Mishra was awarded this
prestigious award for his contributions to the fashion industry, especially for his role in promoting the
influence of arts globally.
☞ Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar presented the one-time Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit Awards to 84
artistes (70 men and 14 women) from varied fields of performing arts.
☞ Chetna Maroo's debut novel, Western Lane, has secured a place on the shortlist for the 2023 Booker
Prize.
☞ Dr Swati Nayak, an Indian scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), has been named the
2023 recipient of the prestigious Norman E Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, with the
World Food Prize Foundation describing her as an "outstanding young scientist."
☞ Kerala has once again won the Arogya Manthan award 2023, for providing free medical care to the
maximum number of people.
☞ Veteran actress Waheeda Rehman, had been named as the recipient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke
Lifetime Achievement Award, this year.
☞ The members of The Film Federation of India have chosen the Malayalam survival drama 2018(also known
as 2018: Everyone is a Hero) as India’s selection for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 96th
Academy Awards, that is scheduled to happen next year.
☞ Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA will be awarded with the
2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions in mathematics.
☞ The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute had decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó (Hungary) and Drew Weissman (USA) for their discoveries concerning
nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-
19

☞ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini (France), Ferenc Krausz (Hungary)and
Anne L’Huillier (France) "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study
of electron dynamics in matter".
☞ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi (France), Louis Brus (USA) and
Alexei Ekimov (Soviet Union & USA) “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
☞ The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative
plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.
☞ The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 was given to Narges Mohammadi of Iran for her fight against the oppression
of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
☞ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was given to Claudia
Goldin of USA for her work identifying drivers of gender differences in the labour market.
☞ Indian-origin professor Dr Joyeeta Gupta has received the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch
science for her work in the field of climate change at a ceremony in the Netherlands.
☞ Tamil writer Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) has been selected for the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement
Award that recognises and salutes sustained and outstanding contribution to writing and literature in
India. She won Sahitya Academy Award (2021).
☞ Kerala Tourism has received the prestigious Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in the
‘Marketing Campaign (State & city - Global)’ category, marking a sterling endorsement of the State’s
sustained efforts to devise innovative initiatives to attract visitors.
☞ Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was conferred an honorary doctorate by Jawaharlal Nehru
University becoming the first woman to be bestowed with the honour for her “pivotal role in fostering
stronger India-Tanzania relations, promoting economic diplomacy, and acheiving success in regional
integration and multilateralism”.
☞ Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) has won the ‘Best Innovation in Refinery’ award from
the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
☞ Noted author and activist Sivasankari was honoured with the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year
2022 for her memoir written in Tamil, Surya Vamsam, at the National Museum in Delhi.
☞ World Athletics has nominated Neeraj Chopra for the Men's Athlete of the Year award 2023.
☞ The prestigious Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award will be bestowed upon the renowned
Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas at the 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
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My Life as a Comrade Juggernaut Books
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The Invisible Enemy The Author: Girish Kuber
Global History of Chemical Translator: Subha HarperCollins
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Sudha Pai and Sajjan
Maya, Modi, Azad HarperCollins
Kumar
The Power of One Thought:
Master Your Mind, Master BK Shivani HarperCollins India
Your Life
The Last Courtesan: Writing
Manish Gaekwad HarperCollins
My Mother's Memoir
Balidan: Stories of India's
Greatest PARA Special Forces Swapnil Pandey HarperCollins India
Operatives
India’s Finance Ministers:
Ashok Kumar
From Independence to Penguin Business
Bhattacharya
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Heartfelt - A Cardiac P. Venugopal & Priya
HarperCollins
Surgeon's Pioneering Journey Sarkar
Author: K.R. Meera
Assassin Harper Perennial
Translator: J. Devika
Dr. Nazema Maraikayar Prabhat Prakashan Pvt. Union Minister Amit
Memories Never Die
and Dr. Y. S. Rajan Ltd Shah
Minister of State for
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Fire on the Ganges: Life
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OBITUARY
Name Field Award/Others

Eminent singer and the youngest daughter-
Kalyani Kazi
in-law of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam
Doyle Brunson Godfather of Poker
Robert Lucas American Economist Nobel Prize (1995)
Sheetla Singh Veteran journalist
13 Grand Slam doubles
Owen Davidson Australian tennis player
titles
Srichand Parmanand Hinduja chairman of Hinduja Group
Former Union minister and the BJP's
Rattan Lal Kataria
Ambala MP
Former Test cricketer and field hockey
Brian Booth
Olympian
Padma Shri awardee
Ved Kumari Ghai Veteran Sanskrit Scholar
(2014)
Sulochana Latkar Bollywood actress
Amir Raza Husain theatre actor and director
first man to break the 10-
Jim Hines US sprinter
second barrier for 100m
Gufi Paintal/ Sarabjeet Singh
Indian actor and casting director
Paintal
Nithin Gopi Kannada actor
Astrud Gilberto Brazilian singer
Ivan Manuel Menezes CEO of Diageo
Gitanjali Iyer Eminent Doordarshan news presenter
Alby D'Cruz Kerala’s Defence Personnel
Clive Barker South Africa Football Coach

Silvio Berlusconi Italian former PM
Cormac McCarthy American Author
Glenda Jackson British Actor & Law Maker
Poojapura Ravi Noted movie actor and theatre personality
Renowned sociologist, author and former
Imtiaz Ahmad professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU)
Former Kerala State Minister and Congress
M. A. Kuttappan
leader
Vidyaratan Bhadin BJP MLA in Chhattisgarh
BJP senior leader and Rajya Sabha member
Hardwar Dubey
from Uttar Pradesh
2019 Nobel Prize in
John Bannister Goodenough co-inventor of lithium-ion batteries
Chemistry
Kannada film director and producer,
CV Shivashankar
screenwriter, lyricist and dialogue writer
Namboothiri Well known painter and sculptor
Legendary Commander of Border Security
Parimal Kumar Gosh
Force
Luis Suarez legendary soccer player
Wife of Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal
Sita Dahal
Dahal “Prachanda”
Milan Kundera Czech-born writer
Ravindra Mahajani Veteran Marathi actor
Eminent mathematician and scientist
Dr Mangala Narlikar Wife of noted astrophysicist Dr Jayant
Narlikar
Oommen Chandy Former Kerala Chief Minister
Tony Bennett American singer
Madan Das Devi RSS Leader
Former Australia and New South Wales
Brian Taber
wicketkeeper
Former England striker and the first British
Trevor Francis
£1m footballer
Bishnu Pada Roy BJP MLA from Dhupguri
Jayant Savarkar Veteran Marathi actor
Former Kerala speaker and senior Congress
Vakkom Purushothaman
leader
Padma Bhushan 2012
Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor Noted Marathi poet and lyricist Sahitya Akademi Award
2000
Gaddar (Gummadi Vittal Rao) Renowned folk singer and balladeer
Hari Narke vice-president of Samata Parishad
Siddique Malayalam filmmaker
William Friedkin American filmmaker
P Jayarama Bhat Chairman of Karnataka Bank Ltd
Bikash Sinha Nuclear physicist
Manchanahalli Rangaswamy
Indian scientist Padma Shri 2010
Satyanarayana Rao
Kandlakunta Alaha Telugu, Sanskrit writer, scholar and
Singaracharyulu academician
Mohammed Habib Former Indian football team captain
founder chairman of Bengaluru based think
Dr V S Arunachalam tank Center for Science, Technology and
Policy (CSTEP)
Seema Deo Veteran actor
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao mathematician and statistician

Tamil cinema’s iconic film producer and
Arun Veerappan
studio owner
Jayanta Mahapatra India’s best known English poets
Giani Jagtar Singh Former Chief Granthi of Golden Temple
V Aravindakshan Nair Cinematographer
Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and
Surya Narayan Patra former speaker of the Odisha Legislative
Assembly
Heath Streak Former captain of Zimbabwe cricket team
N. Valarmathi ISRO scientist
Director of the Special Protection Group
Arun Kumar Sinha
(SPG)
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Malini Rajurkar Hindustani classical vocalist
awardee (2001)
Ajit Ninan Cartoonist
Ian Wilmut Embroyologist
Dennis Austin co-creator of PowerPoint presentation
Walter Alfred Former Press Trust of India (PTI) journalist
Mircea Snegur Moldova’s first president
Gita Mehta Renowned writer-filmmaker
N. Neela carnatic vocalist and senior flautists
Saroja Vaidyanathan Bharatanatyam dancer
Akhil Mishra Bollywood Actor
Giorgio Napolitano President of Italy
K. G. George Malayalam filmmaker
renowned agronomist, agricultural scientist
MS Swaminathan
and plant geneticist
Michael Gambon British-Irish actor
Ashwin Dani Asian Paints Co-Owner
Former Union minister and senior Bharatiya
Sartaj Singh
Janata Party (BJP) leader
Noted Malayalam film producer and
P.V. Gangadharan director of Mathrubhumi group of
publications
T. Shobheendran environmental activist
Manohar Singh Gill Former Chief Election Commissioner
Karthyayani Amma elderly learner Nari Shakti Puraskar
Milan art director in the Tamil film industry
SPORTS NEWS
ICC PLAYERS OF THE MONTH

Month Men Women
June Wanindu Hadaranga(Sri Lanka) Ashleigh Gardner(Australia)
July Chris Woakes(England) Ashleigh Gardner(Australia)
August Babar Azam (Pakistan) Arlene Kelly (Ireland)
September Shubman Gill (India) Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka)
☞ V.Prraneeth became Telangana’s sixth and India’s 82nd Grandmaster when he outwitted GM Hans
Niemann of US in the penultimate round of Baku Open 2023.

☞ Hriday Hazarika (India) won 10m Men’s Rifle & Sarabjot Singh & Divya Thadigol Subbaraju (India) won
10m Mixed Air Pistol in 2023 ISSF World Cup
☞ South Asian Youth Table Tennis Championship 2023 was the prestigious three-day international sporting
event, hosted in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh inaugurated by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. India won 16
Gold Medals and 4 silver medals.
☞ India’s compound mixed team duo of Ojas Deotale and Jyothi Surekha Vennam stunned heavyweights
Korea to grab successive World Cup gold medals at 2023 Archery World Cup stage 2, in Shanghai, China.
☞ India defeated Pakistan in the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2023 2-1 at the Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex
Stadium in Salalah, Oman to lift their fourth title.
☞ Australia opener David Warner will mark an end to his Test career that he will retire from Test cricket in
January 2024 against Pakistan.
☞ Top Indian sprinter Amlan Borgohain bagged two gold medals, one each in the men's 100 and 200-meter
races at the Flanders Cup 2023 athletics meet, known as the International Antwerp Athletics Gala, in
Merksem, Belgium.
☞ India’s Rezoana Mallick Heena won India’s first gold medal in the women’s 400m event at the Asian U20
Athletics Championship in Yecheon, South Korea.
☞ India won 15 medals at ISSF Junior World Cup 2023 in Suhl, Germany.
☞ Panjab University, (PB) topped the topped the medal table with 69 medals at Khelo India University
Games 2023.
☞ Grandmaster (GM) Aravindh Chithambaram of India won the 23rd Dubai Open 2023 for the second
consecutive year.
☞ India's Divya Deshmukh emerged champion, while Mary Ann Gomes finished runner-up in the women's
classical event of the Asian Continental Chess Championship.
☞ 2023 ICC World Test Championship was a test match played at the The Oval, London and Australia beats
India.
☞ In yet another major sporting achievement for the country, India’s Murali Sreeshankar finished third in the
men’s long jump event at the Paris Diamond League 2023 in France.
☞ In wrestling, Indian wrestlers had won 24 medals - eight gold, nine silvers and seven bronze in Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan.
☞ Pakistan women’s cricketer Nahida Khan the only woman cricketer to represent Balochistan, first played
for the national side in a One-day International against Sri Lanka in Bangladesh back in 2009 had
announced her retirement from international Cricket.
☞ The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) had revised the upper ceiling amount of boarding and
lodging for Indian athletes and team officials by 66 per cent.
☞ Chief Minister of Goa Dr Pramod Sawant launched the mascot ('MOGA' a bison representing the distinct
identity of Goa) for the upcoming 37th National Games.
☞ Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty won gold in 2023 Indonesia Open.
☞ The 2023 Intercontinental Cup (known as the 2023 Hero Intercontinental Cup for sponsorship reasons)
was the third edition of the Intercontinental Cup, a four-nation football tournament held at the Kalinga
Stadium, in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar. Winner: India (2nd Title/ 1st in 2018) & Runner: Lebanon
☞ Olympian C. A. Bhavani Devi had created history by defeating reigning World Champion Misaki Emura in
the Asian Fencing Championship quarterfinal and securing India its first-ever medal (Bronze) at the event.
☞ The Global Chess League announced JioCinema as the OTT partner for the inaugural edition.
☞ The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) had unanimously recommended Shyama Dey Shaw as a selector in
the Women's Selection Committee and V S Thilak Naidu as a selector for Junior Cricket Committee.
☞ The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal laid down the
foundation stone of Jalan Nagar Stadium by vertical extension at Boiragimoth in Dibrugarh in presence of
Union Minister of State Rameshwar Teli, MLA of Dibrugarh, Prashanta Phukan among other officials of
Dibrugarh administration as well as Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) and AOA.
☞ Union Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur flagged off "Bharat in Paris" campaign with a short marathon
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
☞ The ACBS Asian U-21 Men Snooker Championship took place in Tehran, Iran.
☞ The Indian women's doubles pair of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee won the World Table
Tennis, (WTT) Contender tournament in Tunis, after beating the Japanese pair of Miyuu Kihara and Miwa
Harimoto.
☞ The 2023 Special Olympics World Summer Games, officially known as the XVI Special Olympic World
Games and also Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 was the 16th Special Olympics, being held in
Berlin, Germany.

☞ In the 13th Hockey India Junior Women National Championship 2023, Uttar Pradesh Hockey,
Chhattisgarh Hockey, and Delhi Hockey registering victories in their respective matches at the Birsa
Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela.
☞ India beat Iran 42-32 in the final of the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 in Busan, Korea.
☞ Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra clinched the prestigious Diamond League title for the second
consecutive time by throwing his spear to 87.66m but the coveted 90m mark eluded the star Indian
javelin thrower yet again.
☞ The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced signing a deal with Dream11 as the lead
sponsor for Team India for 3 years.
☞ In Football, India had lifted the SAFF Championships trophy for the ninth time, beating Kuwait 5-4 in the
penalty shoot-out in the final at Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru.
☞ Bangladesh ODI captain and one of their most accomplished all format cricketers Tamim Iqbal announced
his retirement with immediate effect.
☞ Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched Men’s Singles title of the Canada Open 2023 badminton tournament
defeating Li Shi Feng of China in Calgary, Canada.
☞ India won 11 medals at the World Archery Youth Championships 2023 in Limerick, Ireland.
☞ 'Lord Hanuman', one of the most revered Gods in India, will be the official mascot during this edition of
the Asian Athletics Championships.
☞ The 10th edition of World Para Athletics Championships 2023 are set to commence at the Charlety
Stadium in Paris, France.
☞ Senior Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin achieved a rare distinction of getting the wickets of both
father and son in his illustrious Test career when he dismissed Tagenarine Chanderpaul on the opening
day of the first Test against the West Indies.
☞ The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced equal prize money for men's and women's teams at ICC
events.
☞ Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of Information & Broadcasting, Shri Anurag Thakur
unveiled the coveted trophy for Hero Asian Champions Trophy, Chennai 2023 at the Major Dhyanchand
National Stadium in New Delhi.
☞ Hyderabad-based Sports Local Area Network (SLAN) is conducting the first-ever international FIDE rates
chess tournament where more than 500 players will take part, from India and overseas including the US,
Sri Lanka, Cyprus and Switzerland.
☞ Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2023 held at Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida,
India. The Indian senior weightlifting contingent ended the campaign at the Commonwealth Weightlifting
Championships 2023 with a rich haul of 20 medals.
☞ Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin surpassed Harbhajan Singh to become the second-highest wicket-taker for
India in international cricket.
☞ The India surf team, participating for the first time, in the Asian championship had bagged the bronze
medal.
☞ The All India Football Federation (AIFF), after consultations with its competition committee, had decided
to introduce an U-20 national championship for men.
☞ Precisely a week after breaching the coveted 2700-mark in live rating, R. Praggnanandhaa won the Geza
Hetenyi Memorial chess title in Budapest.
☞ Asian Champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty continued their winning streak by lifting the
Korea Open Badminton men's doubles title in Yeosu.
☞ Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur felicitated Fit India Quiz 2022 State
round winners in Mumbai.
☞ Sri Lanka batter Lahiru Thirimanne had announced his retirement from international cricket after a 13-
year career.
☞ The Sports Authority of India will financially support four fencers for their participation in the upcoming
World University Games in Chengdu, China.
☞ India finished 2nd on the medals tally at the recently concluded ISSF Junior Shooting World
Championships 2023 in Changwon, South Korea.
☞ National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) had launched an Anti-Doping helpline number for the athletes and
athlete support personnel to provide information about Anti-Doping rules and guidelines.
☞ Hockey India announced the 20-member Indian junior men's hockey team that will participate in the 4
Nations Tournament from August 18 to 22 at Dusseldorf, Germany.
☞ Sumit Nagal clinched ATP Challenger men's singles title defeating Czech Republic's Dalibor Svrcina and
winning the final of Tampere Open 2023 in Finland.

☞ Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated the Asian Youth and
Junior Weightlifting Championships 2023, which is being held in India for the first time at Gautam Buddha
University, Greater Noida.
☞ Aditya Samant became India’s 83rd Grandmaster after earning his third GM norm at the Master
Tournament (MTO) in the Biel International Chess Festival, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
☞ India's Sanapathi Guru Naidu and M Tomchou Meetei claimed silver and bronze medals respectively in
55kg men's youth category in the Asian Youth (boys and girls) and Junior (men and women) Weightlifting
Championships.
☞ Indian contingent finished their Sri Lanka Athletics National Championships at Sugathadasa Stadium in
Colombo with 14 medals including nine gold, four silvers and a bronze.
☞ The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports had decided to recognise the Handball Association of India
(HAI) as National Sports Federation (NSF) for the promotion and regulation of the sport in the country
with immediate effect.
☞ The 2023 Japan Open (officially known as the Daihatsu Japan Open 2023) was a badminton tournament
which took place at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
☞ India had won 17 medals, nine gold, three silver and five bronze, and are second in the tournament at the
World University Games in Chengdu, China.
☞ Stuart Christopher John Broad, MBE is a former English cricketer who played Test cricket for the England
cricket team and was One Day and Twenty20 International captain announced his retirement following
the Ashes finale at The Oval.
☞ In Archery, the Indian women’s team created history when the trio of V. Jyothi Surekha, Aditi Swami, and
Parneet Kaur clinched their first-ever gold medal over top-ranked Mexico in the compound women’s
team final in the World Archery Championships in Berlin.
☞ Ministry of Law and Justice organised the second edition of the Inter-Ministry Bar & Bench Badminton
Championship at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex.
☞ England cricketer Alex Hales had announced retirement from international Cricket.
☞ Prarthana Thombare had clinched the doubles title at the women's tennis hardcourt event in Barcelona,
Spain.
☞ Aditi Swami created history by becoming the first-ever Indian to clinch the individual World Title at the
World Archery Championships final in Berlin.
☞ The 132nd edition of Durand Cup kicked off in Kokrajhar, Assam.
☞ Sports Authority of India (SAI) under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) is set to fund the
participation of the Indian Cadet Judo Team in the upcoming Judo World Cadet Championship to be held
in Zagreb, Croatia.
☞ Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will once again headline India's campaign in the World
Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, as the country will field a 28-member team in the
showpiece.
☞ Hockey India congratulated Indian Men's Hockey Team goalkeeper Krishan B Pathak for earning his 100th
international cap.
☞ The 69th edition of Nehru Trophy Boat Race held at the picturesque Punnamada Lake in Alappuzha
district, Kerala.
☞ The seventh edition of the Men's Asian Champions Trophy was held at Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium,
Chennai.
☞ Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) is funding the participation of the Indian contingent for the
upcoming ISSF World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan where a total of 34 Indian shooters, including
17 men and 17 women would be participating.
☞ Former England fast bowler Steven Finn retired from all form of cricket.
☞ Pakistani pace bowler Wahab Riaz announced his retirement from international cricket.
☞ Indian athlete Dutee Chand had been banned for four years by National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for
failing two out-of-competition dope tests for selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) in
December 2022.
☞ Indian grappler Priya Malik won Gold medal by beating Laura Celine Kuehn of Germany at the 2023 U20
World Wrestling Championships in Jordan.
☞ Shooters Esha Singh and Shiva Narwal brought cheers to the India camp, clinching the 10m air pistol
mixed team gold by defeating Ilayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec of Turkey in the final of the ISSF World
Championship at Baku, Azerbaijan.

☞ The Spain won the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 was hosted by Australia and New Zealand, making it
the first edition to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first Women's World Cup to be hosted by two
countries.
☞ Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur had announced that the Khelo India
Women’s League will officially be known as Asmita Women's League.
☞ Indian powerlifters, Honey Dabas and Rahul Jograjiya, clinched first ever gold and silver medals
respectively on the opening day of the World Para Powerlifting Championships in Dubai.
☞ The International Cricket Council (ICC) had revealed a significant collaboration with Mastercard, marking
the financial giant as a Global Partner for the highly anticipated ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
☞ The United World Wrestling (UWW) had suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) with immediate
effect for failing to conduct elections on time.
☞ The Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated 33 Khelo India
Centres at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
☞ Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the 10th edition of Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-
elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan.
☞ Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) had today sanctioned 634 athletes across 38 sporting
disciplines for participation in the upcoming Asian Games, who met the set selection criteria, against the
850 athletes recommended by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
☞ Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever gold with a throw of 88.77 metres at the World
Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
☞ The 2023 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which took place in Royal Arena,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
☞ BSA World Games (formerly IBSA World Championships and Games) or World Blind Games took place in
Birmingham, United Kingdom.
☞ S P Sethuraman of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board emerged champion with 9.5 points against
Mitrabha Guha (West Bengal) in the 60th National Chess Championship
☞ The Indian contingent won a total of four medals, including one gold and three bronze medals at the 30th
Asian Squash Junior Individual Championships 2023, held in China.
☞ Private sector lender IDFC First Bank had secured the title rights for the home international series of the
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
☞ Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated the projects worth Rs.
13 Crores, which included state-of-the-art Weightlifting Hall, Fitness centre, modern hostels and Guest
House.
☞ India won the inaugural Women’s Asian Hockey 5s World Cup Qualifier in Salalah, Oman against Thailand
and seal its berth in the next year’s World Cup.
☞ The WR Chess won the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship was organized by the International Chess
Federation (FIDE) in collaboration with WR Logistics GmbH in Dusseldorf, Germany.
☞ The Higher Organising Committee of the Zayed Charity Marathon had announced that the inaugural
edition of the marathon in India will be held in Kerala in 2024.
☞ The marathon will be held in collaboration with the authorities in Kerala State and the Indian community
in the UAE.
☞ Newly-crowned world champion Neeraj Chopra finished second with a final round throw of 85.71 m in the
men's javelin event of the Diamond League Meeting at Zurich, Switzerland.
☞ The Indian men’s table tennis team assured itself of a bronze medal at the Asian Table Tennis
Championships by defeating Singapore at Pyeongchang, South Korea.
☞ Max Verstappen won the Italian Grand Prix this is his 10 th win in a row.
☞ Mohun Bagan won the Durand Cup 2023 against East Bengal.
☞ Danielle McGahey (29) is set to become the first transgender player to feature in international cricket
after being named in Canada's squad for the Women's T20 Americas Qualifier, the pathway tournament
to the 2024 T20 World Cup.
☞ The Indian Olympic Association (IOA), unveiled official ceremonial dress and playing kit for the Indian
contingent that will compete at the forthcoming 2022 Asian Games scheduled to be held in Hangzhou,
China from September 23 to October 8.
☞ Star Indian sprinter Hima Das had been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency
(NADA) for three whereabouts failures in 12 months.
☞ Indian men’s team finished with a bronze medal at the Asian Table Tennis Championships 2023 at
Yongpyong Dome, South Korea.
☞ Induslnd Bank had agreed to a multi-year sponsorship deal with the International Cricket Council (ICC).

☞ 143rd US Open Tennis Championships was held at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (since
1978) in Queens, New York City, United States.
☞ Australian batter David Warner went past legendary Indian batter Sachin Tendulkar to become the
opener with the most number of centuries in international cricket.
☞ Germany won the 2023 edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup by defeating Serbia.
☞ Indian badminton player Kiran George clinched the men’s singles title at the Indonesia Masters 2023 in
Medan, North Sumatra and became the first Indian won Indonesia Masters 2023.
☞ Goa Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai launched ‘Mashaal’ for 37th National Games at a program held in
Durbar Hall Raj Bhavan, Donapaula.
☞ R Praggnanandhaa finished third in Open Blitz title of the Tata Steel Chess India 2023 in Kolkata.
☞ India’s U-16 team won the SAFF U-16 Championship 2023, defeating Bangladesh in final.
☞ Maharashtra beat Karnataka in the finals at the 5th National Wheelchair Rugby Championship 2023 held
at Balewadi, Pune.
☞ MotoGP Bharat had roped in IndianOil as the title sponsor for India’s first-ever MotoGP Grand Prix
scheduled to take place at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida from September 22-24.
☞ In Jammu and Kashmir, the Administrative Council under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Manoj
Sinha, gave its nod for the creation of the “Jammu and Kashmir Sports cadre” under the administrative
control of the Youth Service and Sports Department, along with the creation of 235 posts to be utilized for
appointment of outstanding sports persons, which include 10 Gazetted posts.
☞ Carlos Sainz had won the Singapore Grand Prix
☞ Indian shooter Elavenil Valarivan has won the gold medal in the women’s 10 metre air rifle event by
defeating Oceanne Muller of France and Nischal has won silver in the Women's 50m Rifle at the ISSF
World Cup 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
☞ India defeated Sri Lanka by registering a 10 wicket win and lifted the Asia Cup 2023 in Colombo.
☞ Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finished second in the men’s event at the Diamond League Final in
Eugene, Oregon, USA.
☞ Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the 44th PSPB Inter-Unit Golf Tournament at Royal
Springs Golf Course in Srinagar.
☞ International Cricket Council (ICC) released the official Anthem for the Men's Cricket World Cup beginning
on the October 5. The theme of the anthem is Dil Jashn Bole and it features Bollywood superstar Ranveer
Singh and other popular social media influencers.
☞ The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had tied up with insurance company SBI Life Insurance as
its official partner for the 2023-2026 domestic and international season.
☞ Young Indian wrestler Antim Panghal secured a bronze medal in the women's 53 kg category at the
ongoing World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
☞ Men’s Hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh and Olympic boxing medallist Lovlina Borgohain will be the
flag-bearers of the Indian contingent during the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in Hangzhou,
China.
☞ ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 is set to be co-hosted by USA and West Indies.
☞ Max Verstappen had won the Japanese Grand Prix by claiminig his 13th win in this season.
☞ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the International Cricket Stadium in Varanasi.
☞ Marco Bezzecchi had won the Indian Grand Prix 2023
☞ After the conclusion of MotoGP Bharat 2023, the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), the
global governing body of motorcycle racing, announced that the event will return to India in 2024.
☞ The Indian tennis icon Leander Paes, who emerged as the first Asian man to be nominated for the
International Tennis Hall of Fame in the player category.
☞ The ICC has announced that 'Blaze' and 'Tonk' have been unanimously chosen as the names of the mascot
duo for 2023 Cricket World Cup in India.
☞ Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have all but confirmed the UK and Ireland will host Euro
2028 after Turkey officially pulled out of contention to host the tournament.
☞ Spain, Portugal and Morocco will co-host the 2030 men’s Fifa World Cup – but only after Uruguay,
Argentina and Paraguay have staged the opening three games.
☞ Max Verstappen had won Qatar Grand Prix and also just the fifth driver to win three consecutive titles.
☞ Indian badminton player Ayush Shetty won a bronze medal at the BWF World Junior Championships 2023
in Spokane, USA.
☞ Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum set a world record to win Chicago Marathon men’s title in an unofficial time of two
hours and 35 seconds.

☞ The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Olympic Museum and Reliance Foundation announced
an agreement to promote Olympic values through sport among children starting with the Mumbai region
and soon expanding it across the state of Maharashtra.
☞ Services sprinter Manikanta H Hoblidhar broke the 100m national record at the 16th National Open
Championships in Bengaluru.
☞ Rohit Sharma now had most centuries in World Cup (7 Centuries in 19 matches?
☞ The International Olympic Committee's executive board imposed the suspension on the Russian Olympic
Committee for a breach of the Olympic Charter — a book of rules and principles for international sports
bodies — by incorporating sports councils in four regions in eastern Ukraine.
☞ Alastair Cook, England's leading Test run-scorer and one of the foremost batters of his generation, has
announced his retirement from the professional game.
☞ International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach had accepted a proposal by Los Angeles
organisers for Twenty20 cricket to be included as one of five new sports together with baseball/softball,
flag football (non-contact American football), squash and lacrosse for 2028 Los Angeles Games.
☞ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 141st International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Session in Mumbai.
☞ The trophy and mascot for the Women’s Asian Championship Trophy hockey were unveiled.
IMPORTANT DAYS
1st Observed Founded by

Date Day Theme/Others
/Edition Observed By
World Milk Day 2001 FAO Enjoy Dairy

June 01
The power of parenting: raising
Global Day of
2012 UNGA happy, healthy and hopeful
Parents
children
International
June 02 Whores’ Day or
International Sex
Workers’ Day Riding Together for a Sustainable
June 03 World Bicycle day 2018 UNGA
Future
International Day
June 04 of Innocent 2011 UN
Children Victims of
International
AggressionDay
for the Fight 2018 UNGA
June 05 against Illegal,
World and
Unreported
Environment
Unregulated Day 1972 UNEP Solutions to Plastic Pollution
(WED)
Fishing
UN Russian
2010 UNESCO
Language Day
June 06
Sustainable Solutions for Pest
World Pest Day 2017
Control
World Food Safety

June 07 2019 UN Food standards save lives
Day
International
World Brain Protect yourself- keep away from
June 08 2010 Brain Tumour
Tumour Day stress
Alliance (IBTA)

World Ocean Day 2008 UN Planet Ocean: Tides are Changing
World Accreditation: Supporting the

June 09 2007
Accreditation Day Future of Global Trade
World Doll Day
June 10 Second Saturday in June 14, 1986
June
International
World Day Against Social Justice for All, End Child
2002 Labour
Child Labour Labour
June 12 Organisation
International
(ILO)
International
1965 Council of Our Nurses. Our Future.
Nurses Day
Nurses (ICN)
International
June 13 Albinism 2015 UNGA Inclusion is Strength
Awareness Day
World (IAAD)
Blood Donor Give Blood, Give Plasma, Share
June 14 2004
Day (WBDD) Life, Share Often
Addressing Gender-Based
World Elder Abuse
2006 WHO Violence (GBV) in Older Age –
Awareness Day
Policy, Law and Evidence-based
World Kidney
We need toResponses
talk about living with
June 15 Cancer Day 2017
kidney cancer
3rd Thursday of
June European Wind
World Wind day 2007 Energy
Association
International Day (EWEA) &
June 16 of Family 2018 UNGA
Global Wind
Remittances (IDFR) Energy Council
World Day to (GWEC)
Combat 1995 UNGA Her Land. Her Rights.
June 17 Desertification and
Drought
World Crocodile
2017
Day
Sustainable Local Flavours, Preserving Global

2017 UNGA
Gastronomy Day Heritage
International Day
June 18 for Countering
Hate Speech
International
Father's Day June 18, 2023
third Sunday of
International
June Day “bridging the gender digital divide
for the Elimination 2015 UNGA to prevent, address and respond
June 19 of Sexual Violence to conflict-related sexual
in Conflict Building andviolence”.
strengthening Global
World Sickle Cell
2009 UNGA Sickle Cell Communities,
Awareness Day
Formalizing New-born Screening
and Knowing your Sickle Cell
June 20 World Refugee Day 2001 HopeDisease
Away from Home
Status
June 21 World Music Day Music on the Intersections

International Day
2015 UNGA Yoga – Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
of Yoga
International Day
of the Celebration UN
of the Solstice
International
World Hydrography – underpinning the
2005 Hydrographic
Hydrography Day digital twin of the ocean
Organization
International (IHO)
1948 Let's Move
Olympic Day
United Nations
June 23 2003 UN
Public Service Day
International Innovation and Technology for

2005
Widows Day Gender Equality
International Day Breaking Barriers, Shaping the
June 24 of Women in 2022 UNGA Future: Women in Diplomacy for
Diplomacy (IDWID) Sustainable Development
International Day People First: stop stigma and
Against Drug Abuse 1988 UNGA Discrimination, strengthen
and Illicit Prevention
International
TraffickingDay
June 26 in Support of 1997 UNGA
Victims of Torture
Next Generation Cooling;
World
2019 highlighting innovative
Refrigeration Day
technologies that improve energy
efficiency andMSMEs
Future-ready promotefor
World MSME Day 2017 sustainableIndia@100
practices going into
June 27 the future
International
Pineapple Day
National Insurance
June 28
Awareness Day
International Day
of the Tropics
June 29
Alignment of State Indicator
National Statistics
2007 Framework with National
Day
Indicator Framework for
International Day Monitoring Sustainable
1899 UN Parliaments for the
Development Planet
Goals
of Parliamentarism
June 30
World Asteroid
Day
National Doctor's Celebrating Resilience and Healing

1991
Day Hands
to commemorating the
July 01 National CA Day establishment of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India
To honour
(ICAI)the successful
in 1949
GST Day 6th implementation of the GST regime
in the country in 2017

National Postal
1997
Worker Day
International
Cooperatives for sustainable
Cooperative Day 1923 UNGA
development
first Saturday in
July The day is celebrated by some on
World UFO Day
June 24, and others on July 2
July 02
International
World Sports
1994 Sports Press
Journalist Day
Association
International (AIPS)
July 03 Plastic Bag Free
Day
to observe the special day when
World Zoonoses
July 06 the first vaccination came to be
Day
developed to fight Zoonoses
UN Swahili
2010 UN
Language Day
World Chocolate
July 07 2009
Day
World Kiswahili Unleashing Kiswahili’s Potential in

2022
Language Day the Digital Era
to commemorate the contribution
National Fish
July 10 of eminent fisheries scientist
Farmer's Day
professor Hiralal Chaudhary and
World Population his colleague Alikunhi
July 11 1989 UNDP
Day
to celebrate the life and legacy of
International
2013 Pakistani education activist and
Malala Day
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai
NABARD
July 12 1982/42nd
Foundation Day
If You’re ‘Fantastic’, Do Something
World Paper Bag
‘Dramatic’ To Cut The ‘Plastic’,
Day
Use ‘Paper Bags’
World Youth Skills Skilling teachers, trainers and
July 15 2014 UN
Day youth for a transformative future
World Day for It marks the anniversary of the
International adoption of the Rome Statute on
July 17 Justice 17 July 1998
World Emoji Day 2014
Nelson Mandela
July 18 2010 UN
International Day
International Chess International Chess Federation

1966
Day (FIDE)
July 20
International
2021 UNGA
Moon Day

Brain Health and Disability: Leave
World Brain Day
No One Behind
Pi Approximation July 22 looks like 22/7 - this is an

July 22
Day approximate value of Pi
National Day of the

Mango
Parents’ Day
July 23 fourth Sunday in 1994
July
International Self Resilience, adaptability and
Care Day thriving in adversity
July 24
Income Tax Day or
2010
'Aaykar Diwas'
World Drowning
2021 UNGA Anyone can drown, no one should
Prevention Day
July 25
On this day in 1978, Louise Brown
World IVF Day became the first baby born using
the IVF technique
International Day
for the 2015 UNESCO
July 26 Conservation of
the Mangrove honour of the soldiers who fought
Kargil Vijay Diwas
Ecosystem in the Kargil War in 1999
Central Reserve
July 27 Police Force (CRPF) 1939
Foundation Day
World Hepatitis World Hepatitis
2008 One Life, One Liver
Day Alliance
July 28
World Nature Forests and Livelihoods:
Conservation Day Sustaining People and Planet
International Tiger
July 29 2010
Day
World Day Against United Nations
Reach every victim of trafficking,
July 30 Trafficking in 2014 Office on Drugs
leave no one behind
Persons and Crime
(UNODC)
July 31 World Ranger Day 2007 30 by 30
Muslim Women
2020
Rights Day
World Wide Web

Day
August 01
World Lung Cancer
2012
Day
Yorkshire
Yorkshire Da 1975
Ridings Society

CLOVES
Cloves Syndrome
August 03 2010 Syndrome
Awareness Day
Community
International Beer (CSC)
August 04 Day 2007
(first Friday of
every August)
August 05 Hiroshima Day 1945
National Handloom Handlooms for Sustainable

August 07 2015
Day Fashion
Quit India
August 08 1942
Movement
International Day
Indigenous Youth as Agents of
of the World's
Change for Self-determination
August 09 Indigenous Peoples
Nagasaki Day 1945
World Lion Day 2013

August 10
Ministry of
World Biofuel Day 2015 Petroleum and
Natural Gas
World Steelpan
August 11 2023 UNGA
Day
International Youth Green Skills for Youth: Towards a

2000 UN
Day Sustainable World
August 12
World Elephant
2012
Day
World Organ Step up to volunteer; need more

2005
Donation Day organ donors to fill the lacunae
August 13
International Left
1976 Left-Handers in Sports
Handers Day
Partition Horrors
August 14 2021
Remembrance Day
August 16 Parsi New Year
World
No matter what
Humanitarian Day
August 19
World
2010
Photography Day
International Day
for the UNESCO
August 23 Remembrance of
the Slave Trade
National Space Day
and its Abolition 2023

International Dog
2004
Day
August 26
Women's Equality
1971
Day
International Day
against Nuclear 2010
August 29 Tests
National Sports birth anniversary of hockey
2012
Day legend, Major Dhyan Chand
Small Industry Day 2001
International Day
August 30 of the Victims of 2011
Enforced
Disappearances
International Day
2008
of the Whale Shark
World Sanskrit Day

1969
(Sanskrit Diwas)
August 31
International Day
for People of 2021 UN
African Descent
September
01
Asian and
September
World Coconut Day 2009 Pacific Coconut
02
Community
National Teachers (APCC)
1962
day
September
05
International Day
2012 UNGA
of Charity
International Day
of Clean Air for 2020 Together for Clean Air
September blue skies
07 International Day
of Police 2023 UNGA
Cooperation
Promoting literacy for a world in
International
1967 transition: Building the foundation
Literacy Day
September for sustainable and peaceful
08 societies
World Physical World Prevention and Management of
1996
Therapy Day Physiotherapy Osteoarthritis
World EV Day 2020
World First Aid Day

September
second Saturday of 2000 First Aid in the Digital World
09
every September
International Day
to Protect 2020 UNGA Justice for Victims
Education from
Attack

September World Suicide
Creating Hope Through Action
10 Prevention Day
Ministry of
September National Forest
2013 Environment,
11 Martyrs Day
Forest and
September Climate Change
Hindi Diwas day
14
International Day
2008 Empowering the next generation
of Democracy
September
15 To commemorate the birth
National Engineers'
1968 anniversary of Bharat Ratna
Day
(1955) Sir Mokshagundam
International Day Montreal Protocol: fixing the
Visvesvaraya
for the 1994 ozone layer and reducing climate
Preservation of the change
International
Ozone Layer Day
for Interventional 2022 UNGA
September Cardiology
16 International
Coastal Cleanup #SeatheChange
Day
(3rd SaturdayRed
International of Red Panda
Panda Day
September) 2010
Network
(3rd Saturday of
September September)
World Patient “Engaging patients for patient
WHO
17 Safety Day safety”
World Bamboo
World Bamboo Day 2009
Organisation
September
18 America's Clean
World Water
2003 Water
Monitoring Day
Foundation
1996 In 2020 United Nation established
September International Equal
By National September 18 as International
19 Pay Day
Committee on Equal Pay Day
International Day Pay Equity Actions for Peace: Our Ambition
1981 UNGA
of Peace for the #GlobalGoals
September
21
World Alzheimer's
1994 Never Too Early, Never Too Late
Day
The Welfare of Cancer Patients

World Rose Day
Day
September
22
World Wildlife
World Rhino Day 2010
Fund
September International Day A World Where Deaf People

2018
23 of Sign Languages Everywhere Can Sign Anywhere!
World Rivers Day
September
(fourth Sunday in 2005
24
September)
International
September World Pharmacist Pharmacy strengthening health
2009 Pharmaceutical
25 Day systems
Federation

To commemorate the birth
Antyodaya Diwas anniversary of Pandit Deendayal
Upadhyaya
‘Access to prevention and
World Lung Day
treatment for all.’
World The Global Environmental Public
Environmental 2011 International Health: Standing up to protect
September Health Day Federation of everyone's Health each and every
26 ten
Environmental day
World
2007 international
Health
Contraception Day
family planning
United Nations
organizations
September
World Tourism Day World Tourism “Tourism and green investment”
27
Organisation
International Day
for Universal 2019 UNESCO
Access to
Information Global Alliance
September
World Rabies Day 2007 for Rabies All for 1, One Health for all
28
Control &
World Maritime World Health "MARPOL at 50 – Our
Day 1978 Organization commitment goes on"
(last Thursday in
September) World Heart
September
World Heart Day 1999 Federation & “Use Heart, Know Heart”
29
WHO
September International Translation unveils the many faces
30 Translation Day of humanity
International
International
2015 Coffee
Coffee Day
Organization
North(ICO)
American
World Vegetarian
1977 Vegetarian
Day
Society
Fulfilling the Promises of the
International Day
October 01 1991 UNGA Universal Declaration of Human
of Older Persons
Rights for Older Persons: Across
International Music Generations
1975
Day
On 1 October 1869, the first
World Postcard
postcard was sent in Austria-
Day
Hungary, and quickly went on to
World Habitat Day become a global successCities
Resilient urban economies.
(first Monday of 1985 UN
as drivers of growth and recovery
October 02 October)
International Day
2007 UNGA
of Non-Violence
World Nature
October 03 World Nature Day 2010
Organization
World Animal Naturewatch

October 04 2003 "Big or small, we love them all"
Welfare Day Foundation
The Teachers We Need for the
World Teachers'
October 05 1994 UNESCO Education We Want: The Global
Day
Imperative to Reverse the Teacher
Shortage

World Smile Day
(first Friday in 1999
October 06 October)
World Cerebral Cerebral Palsy
2012
Palsy Day Alliance
Making cotton fair and sustainable

October 07 World Cotton Day 2019
for all: from farm to fashion
World Hydrogen
2015
and Fuel Cell Day
October 08
European
World Dyslexia
2013 Dyslexia Uniquely You
Awareness Day
Association
Together for trust: Collaborating
October 09 World Post Day 1969
for a safe and connected future
World Coalition
World Day Against
2003 Against the
the Death Penalty
Death Penalty
World
World Mental Mental health is a universal
October 10 1992 Federation for
Health Day human right
Mental Health
India Post was first established in
National Post Day
1854 by Lord Dalhousie
International Day Invest in Girls' Rights: Our

October 11 2011 UNGA
of the Girl Child Leadership, Our Well-being
World Sight Day
(second Thursday 2000 Eye Care in the Workplace
October 12 of October)
Living with an RMD at all stages of
World Arthritis Day 1996
life
International Day
for Disaster Risk 2009 UNGA
October 13 Reduction
World Egg Day
(second Friday in ‘Eggs for a healthy future’
October)
World
2006
MigratoryBird Day
October 14
World Standards
1946
Day
Global
2008 Clean hands are within reach
Handwashing Day
International Day
October 15 2008 UNGA
of Rural Women
World Students
2010 UN
Day

DEFENCE
EXERCISE
☞ INS Kavaratti, indigenously designed & built ASW Corvette, arrived at Batam, Indonesia to participate in
the 4th edition of India-Indonesia Bilateral exercise Samudra Shakti-23.
☞ Gajraj Corps of the Indian Army conducted a Joint Flood Relief ‘Exercise Jal Rahat’ at Hagrama Bridge on
Manas River, Assam to validate joint drills and coordinate preparedness by multi-agency flood relief
columns.
☞ Indian Navy divers and Marine Commandos are in the Maldives for the sixth edition of Exercise Ekatha
with Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF).
☞ The navies of India, France and the United Arab Emirates had carried out a two-day mega wargame in the
Gulf of Oman reflecting their growing cooperation to deal with challenges in the maritime sphere.
☞ Indian Naval Ships Satpura and INS Delhi with RAdm Gurcharan Singh, the Flag Officer Commanding
Eastern Fleet embarked onboard arrived at Singapore to participate in the Inaugural ASEAN India
Maritime Exercise (AIME-2023).
☞ The 12th edition of 14 day joint military exercise “Ex Ekuverin” between the Indian Army & the Maldives
National Defence Force had commenced at Chaubatia, Uttarakhand.
☞ Multinational Peacekeeping Joint Exercise “Ex Khaan Quest 2023” featuring participation from military
contingents and observers from over 20 countries had commenced in Mongolia.
☞ Indian Naval ships INS Rana, a guided missile destroyer, and INS Sumedha, an indigenously built offshore
patrol vessel undertook a Maritime Partnership Exercise (MPX) with French Navy ship FS Surcouf, in the
Bay of Bengal.
☞ The seventh edition of the bilateral Japan-India Maritime Exercise 2023 (JIMEX 23) hosted by the Indian
Navy, is being conducted at/ off Visakhapatnam.
☞ The navies of India and the US carried out a 11-day military exercise in Kochi that focused on boosting
interoperability and operational coordination.
☞ INS Sunayna participated in Op Southern Readiness 2023 conducted by Combined Maritime Forces(CMF)
in Seychelles.
☞ An Indian Army contingent comprising 43 personnel left for Mongolia to take part in a joint military
exercise 'Nomadic Elephant 2023' between India and Mongolia
☞ Two Indian Navy ships, INS Visakhapatnam and INS Trikand, arrived at Port Rashid in Dubai for a bilateral
exercise with the UAE Navy.
☞ Indian Navy's indigenously designed and constructed guided missile destroyer INS Chennai Mission
Deployed in the Red Sea Undertook Passage Exercise (Passex) with Royal Saudi Naval Ship HMS Al Jubail.
☞ Indian naval ships INS Visakhapatnam and INS Deepak port call in Bahrain, further strengthening the ties
between the two nations.
☞ The 27th edition of the multilateral naval exercise Malabar 2023 concluded in Sydney, Australia.
☞ INS Sunayna visited port of Durban, South Africa reinforcing India's ties with the maritime partners
towards and in accordance with Prime Minister’s vision of Security and Growth for All in the Region
(SAGAR).
☞ An Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent participated in Exercise BRIGHT STAR-23 a biennial multilateral tri-
service exercise scheduled to be held at Cairo (West) Air Base, Egypt.
☞ 4-days 5th edition of biennial AUSINDEX maritime exercise between Indian Navy and Royal Australian
Navy (RAN) was conducted at Sydney, Australia.
☞ The Maritime Partnership Exercise between Indian Navy and Sri Lanka Navy concluded at Port City.
☞ INS Sumedha arrived at Port Alexandria, Egypt to participate in ‘Exercise BRIGHT STAR- 23’.
☞ Phase II of the 21st edition of Varuna (Varuna-23) bilateral exercise between Indian and French Navy was
conducted in the Arabian Sea.

☞ The 30th edition of the Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) had commenced between
the Indian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) in Singapore.
☞ The 19th edition of “EXERCISE YUDH ABHYAS” will be conducted from in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, USA.
☞ The 30th edition of Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) has successfully concluded in
Singapore.
☞ India and Bangladesh commenced the 11th edition of annual joint military exercise, SAMPRITI in Umroi,
Meghalaya.
☞ The Annual Joint HADR Exercise (AJHE) is an outcome of Hon’ble PM’s directive promulgated during
Combined Commanders’ Conference-2015.
☞ Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh conducted the 5th Annual Defence Dialogue with French Minister of
Armed Forces Mr Sebastien Lecornu in Paris.
☞ Indian and Chinese armies participated in a 6-day-long multilateral exercise on counter-terrorism to be
held in Vladivostok in Russia.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
☞ India is all set to finalise a deal for acquiring MQ-9 Reaper armed drones from the US in a Defence
Acquisition Council meeting (DAC) headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi.
☞ Ministry of Defence (MoD) is organising brainstorming sessions ‘Chintan Shivir’ in New Delhi to discuss
various issues & challenges faced by its departments, with the aim to come out with new ideas for better
governance & functioning.
☞ Ministry of Defence had signed a contract for Medium Refit with Life Certification (MRLC) of Sub-Surface
Killer (SSK) Class of Submarine “INS Shankush” with M/S Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL),
Mumbai at an overall cost of Rs. 2725 Crores.
☞ Defence Secretary Shri Giridhar Aramane address at Workshop on QA Reforms in Military Aviation for
Promoting Indigenous R&D and Manufacturing in New Delhi.
☞ The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Anil Chauhan inaugurated LRMR Hangar & Dispersal at Naval Air
Station, INS Utkrosh in Port Blair.
☞ Explosives and Accessories manufacturer Premier Explosives announced that it had received an order
worth Rs 552.3 crore from the Ministry of Defence.
☞ The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) issued an Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for acqusition of 26
Rafale M fighter jets and 3 additional scorpene submarines.
☞ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chaired the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), accorded Acceptance of
Necessity (AoN) for capital acquisition proposals worth approximately ₹7,800 crores.
☞ Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), Visakhapatnam for
acquisition of five Fleet Support Ships (FSS) for the Indian Navy at an overall cost of approx. Rs 19,000
crore.
☞ The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) gave a nod for nine capital acquisition proposals worth ₹45,000
crores, including for 12 Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft with associated equipment from state-owned Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at a cost of ₹11,000 crores.
☞ The Defence Ministry has approved the purchase of a regiment of 'Pralay' ballistic missiles for the Indian
Army. These missiles will be deployed along the borders with China and Pakistan and will have a range of
150-500 km.
☞ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Bharat Drone Shakti 2023 being hosted at the Hindon
airbase.
INDIAN ARMY
☞ The Army had signed a contract with Bangaluru-based start-up Astrome Tech Pvt Ltd for procurement of
indigenously developed ‘Tactical LAN Radio’ for reliable and interception-free communication in difficult
terrain under the Make in India initiative to promote self-reliance in the defence sector.
☞ Mahindra Defence Systems (MDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra had started
delivering Armado, an Armoured Light Specialist Vehicle (ALSV) to the Indian armed forces.

☞ Army and the Indian Air Force conducted a joint heliborne training exercise in Rajouri district of Jammu
and Kashmir.
☞ A preliminary camp for Artificial Limb Replacement was conducted by the Indian Army at Ramsar
(Barmer), the border areas of Rajasthan in which 207 persons were screened.
☞ To commemorate 24 years of victory over Pakistan in the Kargil War of 1999 and to highlight the
indomitable spirit of women, Indian Army launched a Tri-Services ‘Nari Sashaktikaran Women
Motorcycle Rally’ from National War Memorial, Delhi to Kargil War Memorial, Dras (Ladakh).
☞ The Indian Army, in collaboration with the District Administration, West Kameng District, inaugurated the
Amrit Sarovar at Tenga Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, as part of the government's Mission Amrit Sarovar
initiative.
☞ The first Permanent Aadhaar Enrolment Centre (PAEC) for Indian Army had been inaugurated in New
Delhi.
☞ Dhaksha Unmanned Systems, an arm of Coromandel International, had bagged two orders for 600
drones with an aggregate value of ₹165 crore. The drone company bagged an order for 200 medium-
altitude logistics drones and accessories to the Indian Army.
☞ Boeing started production of the Apache choppers and will deliver six AH-64E Apaches to the Indian Army
by 2024.
☞ The Army had signed contracts for the procurement of 130 tethered drones and 19 tank-driving
simulators under Emergency Procurement (EP) and they will be delivered in 12 months.
☞ Indian Army had launched 'Project Naman' that will entail establishing facilitation and grievance redressal
centres for veterans and the next of kin of personnel who had lost their lives.
☞ The Indian Army which has ordered 114 Dhanush artillery guns, and has one regiment operational
already, is expecting to receive all the guns by 2026.
☞ The Indian Army has moved a ₹6,000 crore proposal to acquire next generation guns which will be
developed and manufactured by domestic companies and will be the mainstay component of its artillery
force.
☞ The Army has completed the fourth tranche of Emergency Procurements (EP) undertaken between
September 2022 to September 2023 with over 70 schemes concluded worth nearly ₹11,000 crores,
according to defence sources who said they have been utilised to fill up “critical capability voids”.
☞ The Indian Army has started an initiative, named Project Udbhav, to rediscover the “profound Indic
heritage of statecraft and strategic thoughts” derived from ancient Indian texts of “statecraft, warcraft,
diplomacy and grand strategy” in collaboration with the United Service Institution of India (USI), a
defence think-tank.
INDIAN NAVY
☞ ‘Sanshodhak’, the fourth of four ships of Survey Vessels (Large) (SVL) Project, being built by L&T/ GRSE
for Indian Navy was launched at Kattupalli, Chennai.
☞ The Indian Navy launched an outreach programme called ''Julley Ladakh'' (Hello Ladakh) with the aim of
raising awareness about the naval service in the Himalayan region and engaging with youngsters and civil
society members.
☞ Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Naval Command, officially
opened the Naval Airfield Integrated Security System (NAISS) and the Naval Anti-Drone System (NADS)
at INS Dega in Visakhapatnam, both of which were created in India.
☞ Naval ships deployed in the Indian Ocean region are visiting ports of friendly foreign countries and
spreading the message of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' on International Day of Yoga forming an 'Ocean Ring
of Yoga'.
☞ Indigenous INS Sunayna visited Mombasa, Kenya from towards boosting bilateral ties with maritime
neighbours on the theme of Ocean Ring of Yoga.
☞ Two frontline Indian Naval ships INS Sahyadri and INS Kolkata, mission deployed in South Eastern IOR,
arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia.
☞ INS Sunayna, based at Southern Naval Command Kochi, entered Port Beira, Mozambique.
☞ First Barge of the series LSAM 7 (Yard 75) had been delivered to Indian Navy.
☞ Indian Naval Ship ‘Khanjar,’ an indigenous Khukri class Missile Corvette reached Trincomalee as part of a
three-day visit.
☞ President Droupadi Murmu launched the ship 'Vindhyagiri', a Project 17A Frigate at the dock on the
banks of the river Hooghly in Kolkata.

☞ The Indian Navy Dornier aircraft was handed over to the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) by the Indian High
Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay to Sagala Ratnayaka, the Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser to the
President on National Security of Sri Lanka during a ceremony held at SLAF Base Katunayake, Western
Province of Sri Lanka.
☞ The Diving Support Craft (DSC), equipped with diving apparatus and tools, represents a significant
advancement in diving support technology, enabling it to operate effectively in various undersea
environments.
☞ Dr Sudesh Dhankhar, wife of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar launched the warship ‘Mahendragiri’ in
Mumbai.
☞ A two-day seminar on the Indian Navy's Vision- 2047 was held at Visakhapatnam by the Maritime
Warfare Centre under the aegis of Eastern Naval Command.
☞ Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari received the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas
twin-seater trainer aircraft from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chief Managing Director CB
Ananthakrishnan in Bengaluru.
☞ Indian Navy's indigenously built warship INS Sahyadri, mission deployed in Indo-Pacific, participated in the
maiden trilateral Maritime Partnership Exercise with the ships and aircraft from the Royal Australian Navy
(RAN) and Indonesian Navy.
☞ Indian Navy's Offshore Patrol Vessel INS Sharda visited Port Louis, Mauritius.
☞ Indian Naval Ship 'Nireekshak' made an official visit to Trincomalee port to conduct vital Mixed Gas Diving
training sessions for the Sri Lanka Navy.
☞ The Indian Coast Guard conducted 'Operation Sajag,' a Coastal Security Drill along the Western Coast
involving all stakeholders in the Coastal Security Construct.
☞ Indian Naval Ship 'Nireekshak' successfully conducted vital Mixed Gas Diving training sessions as part of
IN-SLN Divex 23.
INDIAN AIR FORCE

☞ An Indian Air Force heritage centre, the first of its kind in the country, had come up in Chandigarh’s sector
18 and is awaiting inauguration.
☞ The air force had received its first indigenously designed and developed loitering munitions, developed by
Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), the autonomous system is designed for Vertical Take Off and
Landing (VTOL) and had successfully demonstrated its capability to carry out precision strikes during trials
and tests.
☞ Chief of Air Staff Air Marshall VR Chaudhuri presented AN-32 Spares to Commander of Sri Lankan Air
Force for operationalisation of the Aircraft held by Sri Lanka.
☞ The Indian Air Force carried out Exercise ‘Ranvijay’ with a focus on integration.
☞ India-made Tejas Mk 2 light combat aircraft (LCA) could be ready for its maiden flight by 2025 with an
American engine, according to Prabhulla Chandran VK, director of avionics and weapons systems at the
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the nodal agency for the design of the indigenous fighter.
☞ The Indian Air Force conducted a Capstone Seminar at the Air Force Auditorium, New Delhi, marking the
culmination of the No. 2 Warfare & Aerospace Strategy Program (WASP).
☞ In a major step towards proving its ability to hold large-scale aerial operations, the Indian Air Force is going
to hold a major multilateral exercise codenamed 'Exercise Tarang Shakti' in October-November this year
in which 10-12 top air powers of the world would participate.
☞ Spacetech startup Pixxel, which closed a round of funding led by Google last month is set to manufacture
miniaturised multi-payload satellites for the Indian Air Force.
☞ In a major boost to India’s missile capabilities, the Indian Air Force had received the Israeli Spike Non-Line
Of Sight (NLOS) anti-tank guided missiles.
☞ The Indian Air Force is preparing to conduct a multi-national exercise Tarang Shakti that aims to bring
together air forces of several countries in next year.
☞ The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Naval trainer prototype NP5 successfully completed its maiden flight.
☞ The Indian Air Force, which is looking to procure Medium Transport Aircraft (MTA), is carrying out a
comprehensive study to identify the current and future payload-carrying requirements of the force.
☞ The annual training exercise, Trishul, of the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Western Air Command (WAC).
☞ Indian Air Force (IAF) is teaming up with the Drone Federation of India to co-host ‘Bharat Drone Shakti
2023’.

☞ Indian Air Force (IAF) received delivery of the first of the 56 C295 aircraft which are set to replace its
ageing Avro-748 fleet from Airbus production site in Seville, Spain.
☞ The first IAF squadron to be equipped with the C-295 is 11 Squadron (The Rhinos), which is based at
Vadodara and would replace ageing Avro-748 fleet.
☞ The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning massive acquisitions of aircrafts, helicopters and other weapon
systems over a period of seven to eight years at a staggering cost of ₹2.5 lakh crore to ₹3-lakh crore.
DRDO
☞ The two-day workshop on ‘Human Factors Engineering in Military Platforms’, organised by Defence
Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) in New Delhi.
☞ Centre of Fire, Explosive and Environment Safety (CFEES), a Delhi-based laboratory of Defence Research
and Development Organisation (DRDO) had designed and developed a Vertical Shaft based Underground
Ammunition Storage Facility.
☞ ‘Agni Prime’, the new-generation ballistic missile, was successfully flight-tested from an island off the
Odisha coast was conducted from the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island by the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO), and all objectives were successfully met.
☞ L&T and DRDO signed contract to make AIP modules for Indian Navy submarines
BRO
☞ Border Roads Organisation (BRO) had commenced the construction of the 64 km world's highest
motorable road that connect Likaru to Fukche which is situated three kilometre away from the Line of
Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh located at an altitude of 19,400 feet.
☞ The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) will construct the world's highest fighter airfield in the Nyoma
region of Ladakh 13,000 feet above sea level at estimated cost of Rs 218 crore.
OTHERS
☞ The Director, of SPG shall be appointed by the Central Government “at a level of not less than the
Additional Director General of Police [ADG] from the Indian Police Service”.
☞ The 53rd Director General Level Border Co-ordination Conference between Border Security Force and
Border Guard Bangladesh organized by BSF in Delhi.
☞ GE Aerospace had inked a pact with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to jointly produce fighter jet
engines for Indian Air Force’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Mk-II Tejas.
☞ Now Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), in collaboration with American company GE Aerospace, will
manufacture GE-F414 engines for fighter jets in India itself, which will provide modern engines to India’s
fighter jets.
☞ A month after German submarine builder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems signed an agreement with
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders to build six submarines for the Indian Navy, a competing partnership was
announced by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Spain’s Navantia.
☞ Ashok Leyland had won defence contracts worth Rs 800 crore that include the procurement of a field
artillery tractor called FAT 4x4 and a gun-towing vehicle named GTV 6x6.
☞ Tejas, Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) LSP-7 successfully fired the ASTRA indigenous Beyond Visual Range
(BVR) air-to-air missile off the coast of Goa.
☞ Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems Pvt Ltd (KRAS), a joint venture company between Kalyani Strategic
Systems Ltd and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Systems Ltd, had got a contract worth ₹287.51 crore from the
Ministry of Defence for supply of missile systems and expected to be executed over the next 12 months.
☞ Arrobot, an aerospace and defence start-up, launched an Unmanned Guided Vehicle (UGV) for the Armed
Forces that helps them in logistics, surveillance and reconnaissance in difficult terrain and environments.
☞ Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) had signed an MoU with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), for co-
operation in addressing India’s requirements in the domain of Short Range Air Defence Systems.

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