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Current Affairs Today – 1st and 2nd September 2019

BANKING CURRENT AFFAIRS

Samsung India inks with Mastercard RBL Bank for mobile payments through Samsung Pay

• RBL Bank and Samsung India jointly launched the Samsung Pay for RBL Bank’s Mastercard credit card customers.
• The tie-up will allow the customers of RBL bank to make contactless transactions with enhanced security on their Samsung Pay-compatible smart phones efficiently.

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RBL Bank:

• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Founded: August 1943
• MD & CEO: Mr. Vishwavir Ahuja

 Mastercard:

• Founded: 1979 (as Mastercard)
• Headquarters: New York, U.S.
• President and CEO: Ajaypal Singh Banga

ICICI Bank installs Robotic-arm to count currency notes

• India’s ICICI Bank declared to be the first bank in the country to deploy industrial robotic arms to count currency notes.
• The main aim is to brings in a frictionless and completely mechanized process of note-sorting, leading to higher accuracy and flexibility to handle large volumes continuously.

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ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian multinational banking and financial services company.

• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Founder: Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
• CEO: Sandeep Bakhshi

FINANCE AND ECONOMY

GST collection in August stands at Rs 98,202 cr

• GST collection in the month of August stood at 98 thousand 202 crore rupees.
• The total number of GSTR 3B Returns filed for the month of July up to 31st of August is around 76 lakh.
• The government has settled 23 thousand 165 crore rupees to CGST and 16 thousand 623 crore rupees to SGST from IGST as a regular settlement.

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Goods and Services Tax is an indirect tax imposed in India on the supply of goods and services. It is a comprehensive multistage, destination based tax. Comprehensive because it has subsumed almost all the indirect taxes except few.

• The GST was launched at midnight on 1 July 2017 by the President of India, and the Government of India.

MeitY partners with Google for Build for Digital India programme

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) signed a statement of intent (SoI) with Google.
• The agreement aimed to implement Build for Digital India programme.
• The aim of the initiative is to motivate the college students across India to innovate and produce some good technology solutions for major social challenges of India.

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Google: Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

• Founded: 4 September 1998, Menlo Park, California, United States
• Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
• CEO: Sundar Pichai

Indian Oil to build 1GW electric vehicle battery plant

• State-run oil refiner Indian Oil Corporation Ltd will set up a 1 Giga Watt (GW) plant to make batteries used for running electric vehicles (EVs) in partnership with an overseas start-up using a non-lithium ion raw material.

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Indian Oil Corporation Limited, commonly known as IndianOil is an Indian state government owned oil and gas company.

• Headquarters: New Delhi
• Chairperson: Sanjiv Singh

NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

CGHS services to be made available in 100 cities by 2022

• Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched a new scheme of Annual Health Check-up for CGHS beneficiaries who are pensioners of the age of 75 years and above.
• He also inaugurated state-of-the-art CGHS Bhawan in New Delhi.
• CGHS services should be made available in 100 cities by 2022.
• The CGHS services which started in 1954 from Delhi expanded to only 25 cities till 2014.
• In the last five years under the NDA Government, the services have been extended to as many as 71 cities.

Varun Dhawan’s ‘Coolie No.1’ first Bollywood film set to go plastic-free

• Bollywood has taken lead to promote India’s plastic free movement with Varun Dhawan’s upcoming movie “Coolie No. 1”.
• Coolie No. 1 become the first Bollywood film to go plastic-free.
• Producer of this movie is Deepshikha Deshmukh.

EC launches Electors Verification Programme

• The Election Commission launched new mega Electors Verification Programme (EVP) across the country.
• The programme, which seeks to electoral rolls through crowdsourcing, will go on till 15th of October.
• Under the programme, a voter from each family will get a username and password, allowing a person to upload all documents related to electoral registration and tag similar details about his or her family members.
• The EVP programme can be effected both online and offline.
• On the occasion of the nationwide mega million launch of Electors Verification Programme, a special camp was held at Election Commission Headquarters in New Delhi.

September month to be celebrated as ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’

• The entire month of September beginning today will be celebrated as the Rashtriya Poshan Maah.
• This year the theme is Complementary Feeding. Prime Minister’s Overreaching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment – POSHAN Abhiyaan is a multi- ministerial convergence mission with the vision to address malnutrition with a targeted approach by 2022.
• Due to lack of awareness, both poor and affluent families are affected by it.

Govt puts restrictions on imports of Agarbatti

• Union government has put restrictions on the import of Agarbatti and other similar products.
• Now importers of these goods require a licence from the government.
• Restrictions have also been imposed on imports of other odoriferous preparations used for deodorizing room.

HM Amit Shah to address BJP’s Maha Janadesh Yatra

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address BJP’s Maha Janadesh Yatra in Solapur, Maharashtra.
• Mr Shah will join Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at the Yatra in Solapur district.
• The Home Minister will first arrive in Dadra and Nagar Haveli where he will inaugurate several projects in the morning at the SSR College in Silvassa.

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BJP: The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress. As of 2018, it is the country’s largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies, and it is the world’s largest party in terms of primary membership.

• Founded: 6 April 1980
• Headquarters: New Delhi
• Founders: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
• President: Amit Shah

HM Amit Shah meets his Singaporean counterpart K Shanmugam in New Delhi

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday met his Singaporean counterpart K Shanmugam in New Delhi and discussed several issues of mutual interest.
• India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi always looks forward to further strengthening India-Singapore ties.
• They agreed to strengthen the existing bilateral institutional mechanisms on security issues.
• The two leaders also exchanged views and concerns on the challenges posed by terrorism and extremism.
• Both the sides also agreed to enhance cooperation in dealing with trans-national organized crimes including drug trafficking and economic offences.

Culture & Tourism Minister inaugurates gallery of confiscated & retrieved antiquities at Purana Quila

• Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Prahlad Singh Patel on Saturday inaugurated gallery of confiscated and retrieved antiquities at Purana Quila in New Delhi.
• It is a matter of pride that it has been possible to retrieve the historical pieces of the heritage from abroad.
• The retrieved items will enhance the knowledge about our rich culture and heritage.
• The gallery was established by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
• The displayed antiquities will sensitize the public towards the illegal trade of nation’s heritage. The gallery will remain open for public from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Tinsukia Junction becomes 4000th railway station to get free public WiFi

• Tinsukia Junction in northeast region has become the 4000th railway station in the country to have free public WiFi.
• According to the Indian Railway, on average they have been rolling out WiFi in 83 stations every day.
• RailTel CMD Puneet Chawla said that the journey started from Mumbai Central in January 2016 and in the coming few weeks all railway stations over Indian Railway (except the halt stations) will have fast and free Railwire WiFi.
• Indian Railway is the largest public transport of the country, while free WiFi is a pro-passenger initiative of the Ministry which in line the Prime Minister’s ‘Digital India’ programme.

VP M Venkaiah Naidu dedicates country’s longest electrified rail tunnel to nation

• In Andhra Pradesh, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu today dedicated the country’s longest electrified rail tunnel between Cherlopalli and Rapuru and the electrified railway line between Venkatachalam and Obulavaripalli.
• The length of the rail tunnel is 6.6 kilometre.
• Vice-President also flagged-off a new inter-city super fast express train between Guduru and Vijayawada.

Development projects inaugurated in Dadra & Nagar Haveli

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah dedicated series of developmental projects at Silvassa the headquarters of Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
• Shah also laid the foundation stone for education hub at Zanda Chowk and Tokarkhada in Silvassa which will come up at the cost of Rs.61 crore.
• This will cater to the educational needs of more than 15 thousand students, which accounts for 27 per cent of the total school students of the union territory.
• The Project includes a paramedical Institute building at the cost of Rs 8 crore.

Union cabinet approves establishment of 75 new medical colleges

• Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar and Piyush Goyal the government approved the establishment of 75 new medical colleges in the country.
• The main addition would lead to the creation of 15,700 more MBBS seats in India.

Airports to get Full body scanner

• Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has announced that all airports in the country will be equipped with full-body scanners in the next two years.
• BCAS has made it mandate to equip all airports with body scanners.
• The introduction of such scanning is to improve the security in all the airport.
• The current equipment at airports cannot detect non-metallic explosives.

STATE CURRENT AFFAIRS

Leh: Fire and Fury Corps celebrates 20th Raising Day

• It was on September 1, 1999, in the aftermath of the Kargil War that this elite Corps was raised.
• The elite Fire and Fury Corps today celebrated its 20th raising day at Leh, with all its personnel reaffirming their wholehearted support to the people of Ladakh region.
• Fire and Fury Corps, Lieutenant General Yogesh Kumar Joshi led his men to lay the wreath at a solemn ceremony to honour the ‘martyrs of Ladakh’ at war memorial, Hall of Fame, at Leh.

Arun Jaitley’s statue to be installed in Bihar

• Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said a statue of former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would be installed in Patna.
• Mr Kumar also announced that Jaitley’s birthday on 28th of December would be celebrated as state function every year.
• Jaitley who became the BJP’s In-charge for Bihar in 2005, played a very big role in the formation of the NDA government in the state.

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Bihar: Capital City (Patna) CM (Nitish Kumar  ) Governor (Fagu Chauhan)

TamilNadu signs three agreements for healthcare collaborations in UK

• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami signed three agreements for collaboration in the healthcare sector on the first day of his UK tour.
• The Chief Minister is on the first leg of his three-nation tour.
• The three agreements, two were Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) and one was Statement of Intent.
• The one MoU was signed between the government of Tamil Nadu and International Skills Development Corporation.

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Tamilnadu: Capital City (Chennai) CM (Edappadi K.Palanisamy) Governor (Banwarilal Purohit)

West Bengal passed anti lynching Bill

• The West Bengal State Assembly passed West Bengal (Prevention of Lynching) Bill, 2019.
• The Bill aims to prevent and punish mob assaults and lynching.
• The State describes lynching as social malice.
• The State also urged the Centre and other State governments to bring similar legislation.

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West Bengal: Capital City (Kolkata) CM (Mamta Banerjee) Governor (Jagdeep Dhankhar)

Uttarakhand to set up a Special Tiger Force for Corbett Tiger Reserve

• The Uttarakhand government has determined to set up a Special Tiger Force for Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve.
• It will function as an abundantly required second layer of protection with the big cat.
• The force can have 85 posts.
• Special tiger force:
• The STPF is effective in checking outlaw human intrusion into the reserve through villages situated on its fringes for 250 tigers at the reserve.

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Uttarakhand : Capital City (Dehradun) CM (Trivendra Singh Rawat) Governor (Baby Rani Maurya)

Bihar State govt. bans Jeans, T shirts in its Secretariat

• The Bihar government has announced a ban on wearing jeans and T-shirts within the state secretariat.
• The officers and workers are asked to wear simple, soft and light-colored apparel in the workplace.
• The order was issued by the higher Secretary of the government, Mahadev Prasad.

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Bihar: Capital City (Patna) CM (Nitish Kumar  ) Governor (Fagu Chauhan)

Odisha police set up special cell to probe crime against women

• The Odisha police started a separate cell to deal with all cases of crime against women.
• The Odisha’s director general of police (DGP) Bijoy Kumar Sharma to headed by an additional superintendent of police will monitor all red flag cases and ensure prompt investigation and finalization of rape cases within 60 days.

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Odisha: Capital City (Bhubaneswar) CM (Naveen Patnaik) Governor (Ganeshi Lal)

INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

China to start 27 new CPEC projects in Pakistan

• China is planning to launch 27 new projects in Pakistan below the second phase of the $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic passageway (CPEC).

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Pakistan (Capital/Currency): Islamabad/Pakistani Rupees

• Prime Minister: Imran Khan
• President: Arif Alvi

China (Capital/Currency): Beijing/ Renminbi

• President: Xi Jinping

SUMMITS AND CONFERENCES

COP14 to UN Convention to Combat Desertification begins in Greater Noida

• The 14th Conference of Parties, COP14, to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification will get underway in Greater Noida.
• The Conference will focus on desertification and degradation of land and will go on till 13th of this month.
• OBJECTIVE: to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought or desertification.

APPOINTMENT

5 States get new Governers

STATE	NEW GOVERNOR	REPLACED
Maharashtra	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	C. Vidyasagar Rao
Kerala	Arif Mohammed Khan	P. Sathasivam
Himachal Pradesh	Bandaru Dattatraya	Kalraj Mishra
Rajasthan	Kalraj Mishra	Kalyan Singh
Telangana	Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan	Tamil Nadu

PK Sinha is appointed as OSD in Prime Ministers Office

• Former cabinet Secretary PK Sinha has been appointed as the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
• He will replace Nripendra Misra who is the Principal Secretary of PMO.
• Nripendra Misra 1967-batch retired IAS officer.

Rating Agency ICRA terminates CEO Naresh Takkar

• ICRA Ltd ousted its Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer Naresh Takkar. ICRA terminated the employment of Takkar with immediate effect.

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ICRA: ICRA Limited is an Indian independent and professional investment information and credit rating agency.

• Established: 1991
• Headquarters: India
• CEO: Naresh Takkar

Lt Gen Manoj Naravane took charge as VCAS

• Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane took charge of Vice Chief of the Army Staff in New Delhi on 1 September.
• He replaces Lieutenant General Devraj Anbu superannuated on August 31.

IndiGo appoints GE Healthcare official Aditya Pande as its new CFO

• Country’s largest airline IndiGo appointed GE-Healthcare official Aditya Pande as its chief financial officer.
• He replaces Rohit Philip leaves the company on 16 September.

SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

Romania set the record for the largest win in Twenty 20 Internationals

• Romania set the record for the largest win in Twenty20 Internationals after it defeated Turkey in the Romania Cup 2019.
• Romania scored 173 runs in the match.

Shooter Yashaswini Singh Deswal won gold at ISSF World Cup

• Shooter Yashaswini Singh Deswal won gold at ISSF World Cup 2019 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• She became the world champion in the women’s 10m Air Pistol event.
• Yashaswini Singh Deswal defeated Olena Kostevyc, 2004 Athens Olympic champion, by finishing 1.9 points ahead of her.
• With this win, she has secured India’s ninth Olympic quota in shooting.

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ISSF: The International Shooting Sport Federation, also known with the acronym ISSF, is the governing body of the Olympic Shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines, and of several non-Olympic Shooting sport events.

• Founded: 1907
• Headquarters: Munich, Germany
• President: Vladimir Lisin

AWARDS

DAY NULM bagged SKOCH Governance Gold Award for the year 2019

• Deendayan Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) is a flagship mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs .
• It conferred the prestigious SKOCH Governance Gold Award for its Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access (PAiSA)in a function held at the Constitution Club of India.

CCMB scientist Thangaraj bagged J C Bose Fellowship

• K Thangaraj who is the Chief scientist at the Centre for Cellular and biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad has bagged the celebrated J C Satyendra N. Bose Fellowship Award.
• He was awarded for his outstanding scientific contributions within the field of population and medical genetics.

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