1. Nigerian
Lawyer Zanna Mustapha wins 2017 UNHCR Nansen Refugee
Award . He will be bestowed with this award at a ceremony taking place
in Geneva on 2nd Oct2017.He had negotiated and helped
secure the release of more than 100 school girls from
Chibok kidnapped from Boko Haram Millitant group. The UNHCR
called him a champion for the rights of the displaced children growing up amid
violence in North East Nigeria.
2. World’s
richest woman and L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt (94) passed
away at her home in Paris.
3. NASA’s Hubble Space
Telescope have spotted an unusual object called 2006
VW139/288P having two asteroids orbiting each other with comet-like
features was found by International team of astronomers. These include bright
halo of material, called a coma, and long tail of dust. The odd object is first
known binary asteroid that is also classified as a main-belt comet.
4. The first of its
kind electric bus service for tourist spot in India and first in world at an
altitude of 13,000 feet was launched at Rohtang Pass area in Himachal Pradesh. It was launched
amid concern over environment degradation in Rohtang Pass area due to plying of
diesel taxis. The initiative aims to curb carbon emission which is resulting in
melting of glaciers in Himalayas. The electric bus service will ply between
Manali and Rohtang and there will be 10 electric buses in fleet. Himachal
Pradesh Government was forced to introduce zero-emission transportation
facility in ecologically fragile areas after National Green Tribunal (NGT) had
taken stringent step of imposing restriction on entry of vehicles to Rohtang
Pass.
5. Hindi film “Newton”, a black comedy on
foibles of democracy , directed by Amit Masurkar was
selected .by the Film Federation of India (FFI) to represent India in
Best Foreign Language category at 90th Academy Awards (Oscars) to
be held in February 2018. The film is political satire
revolving around an honest election officer’s (Newton Kumar) attempt to conduct
a free and fair poll in naxal-controlled town in the conflict-ridden jungles of
Chhattisgarh.
6. The National
Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog and International
Road Federation (IRF), Geneva have signed Statement of Intent (SoI) to
cooperate in field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with
the objective to create National Platform, involving all relevant
Union Government stakeholders, Indian and foreign companies active in sector.
7. The Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) has increased corporate bond investment limit for foreign investors
by taking out Masala bonds (rupee-denominated bonds) from ambit of
total debt investment limit. They will be considered as part of External
Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) and will be monitored accordingly. Currently,
masala bonds are reckoned both under combined corporate debt limit (CCDL) for
FPI (Foreign Portfolio Investments) and external commercial borrowings (ECBs).
8. India’s first bond
index series for overseas investors. FTSE SBI Bond Index series at London
Stock Exchange (LSE) was launched by State Bank of India (SBI) along
with FTSE Russell, global index and data provider.
9. Deendayal Hastkala
Sankul, a trade facilitation centre and Crafts Museum for handicrafts was
inaugurated by PM Modi at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh . The
centre will help to promote rich traditional craft of ancient Varanasi. It will
provide enabling platform and environment to showcase Indian handloom and
handicrafts in both domestic and international markets.
10. SATH (Sustainable
Action for Transforming Human capital) Program was launched
in Guwahati, Assam by National Institution for Transforming
India (NITI) Aayog with the aims to provide structured support
to Assam in identifying key health priorities and implement the solutions towards
transforming the health and improving the well-being of people of state.
11. Pradhan Mantri LPG
Panchayat scheme to distribute LPG connections among rural areas where
conventional fuel is used for domestic purposes was launched country-wide by
the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas at Mota Ishanpur village in
Gandhinagar district in Gujarat. It is backup scheme to
existing Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. The LPG Panchayat scheme aims
at spreading awareness among LPG users about how to properly use clean fuel and
its useful benefits.
12. Pralay Sahayam,
Multi-Agency humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise was jointly
organised by Telangana state government in association with all
central and state agencies National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) and
Armed Forces was recently held in Hyderabad to create
public awareness about man-made and natural climate change and urban disasters
including flooding.
13. Pandit Deen Dayal
Upadhayay Vigyan Gram Sankul Pariyojana. has launched by the Ministry
of Science & Technology to formulate and implement appropriate
S&T interventions for sustainable development through cluster approach in
Uttarakhand. Under the scheme, Department of Science and Technology
(DST) will adopt few clusters of villages in Uttarakhand and transform them to
become self-sustainable in time bound manner through tools of S&T.
14. To find a permanent
solution to Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has
floated a five-point peace proposal at United Nations .She called
for immediate steps to end ethnic cleansing of Rohingya minority as it has
deepened crisis along Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar where over 430,000
refugees fleeing violence in Rakhine State since August 2017.
15. INS Kalvari, the
first of 6 Scorpene –Class submarine was delivered to the Indian Navy by
Mazagaon Dock Limited ( MDL) . This submarine will be soon commissioned into the Indian
Navy.
16. 50 nations have signed
the United Nations treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons. Brazil was the first country to sign onto the ban followed by
nations from Algeria to Venezuela
17. India has announced
collaboration with Russia to build a nuclear plant in Bangladesh.
This is the first initiative under the Indo –Russia deal to undertake atomic
energy projects in the third- world nations.
18. The Union
Government has announced a new PPP policy for affordable housing . The policy seeks to
assign risks among the government, developers and financial institutions and to
those who can manage them the best besides the leveraging underutilized and un-
utilized private and public lands towards meeting the Housing for All Target by
2022.
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