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5 September, 2018 •Dr Arif ur Rehman Alvi

(69) was elected as the 13th President of Pakistan.

•He is one of the founding members of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

NEW PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN

APPOINTMENTS

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14 September, 2018 •President of India Ram

Nath Kovind has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India.

•He will assume office of Chief Justice on 3rd October, 2018 after retirement of incumbent Chief Justice, Justice Dipak Misra.

•He is native of Assam and is son of former Assam Chief Minister Keshab Chandra Gogoi.

RANJAN GOGOI IS NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA

19 September, 2018 •Renowned scientist Kamlesh

Nilkanth Vyas has been appointed as Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

•Mr. Vyas at present is the Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from MS University, Vadodara.

CHAIRMAN OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

28 September, 2018 •Senior IPS officer

S S Deswal has been appointed as Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).

•Prior to this appointment he was a DG of Border Security Force (BSF).

•SSB is one of India’s Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). It is entrusted with guarding the country’s border with Nepal and Bhutan.

NEW DG OF SASHASTRA SEEMA BAL

28 September, 2018 •Senior IPS officer Rajni Kant

Misra has been appointed as Director General of Border Security Force (BSF).

•BSF is a primary border guarding organisation of India and termed as the First Line of Defence of Indian Territories.

NEW DG OF BSF

1 September, 2018 •Mumbai-based eminent neurosurgeon Dr BK Misra

was named for prestigious Dr BC Roy National Award for year 2018 as Eminent Medical Person of the Year.

DR BC ROY NATIONAL AWARD

AWARDS

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•Mr. Misra is the Head of Department of Surgery as well as Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at Mumbai’s PD. Hinduja Hospital.

•BC Roy Award is the highest recognition for medical practitioners in India. It was instituted by the Medical Council of India (MCI) in 1976 in memory of renowned physician and former West Bengal Chief Minister Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy.

28 September, 2018 •Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French

President Emmanuel Macron were jointly awarded 2018 Champions of the Earth Award, UN’s highest environmental honour.

•They were chosen in Policy Leadership category of the award for their pioneering work in championing International Solar Alliance (ISA) and promoting new areas of levels of cooperation on environmental action.

16 September, 2018 •The International Day for Preservation of Ozone

Layer (or World Ozone Day) is observed every year on September 16 for the preservation of the Ozone Layer.

•This year, the theme for the Day is ‘Keep Cool and Carry On: The Montreal Protocol’.

2018 CHAMPIONS OF THE EARTH AWARD

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PRESERVATION OF OZONE LAYER

15 September, 2018 •Rajasthan’s first lion safari was inaugurated at

Nahargarh Biological Park. •The park is located on

Delhi-Jaipur National Highway in the Aravalli foothills, nearly 12 kilometers from the state capital Jaipur.

•Visitors will be able to see lions in their natural habitat in the park enclosed by a fence. They will be taken on a nearly 4 kilometer safari in a closed bus.

RAJASTHAN’S FIRST LION SAFARI INAUGURATED

ENVIRONMENT

22 September, 2018 •Tamil Nadu government has announced scheme

for protection of exotic Neela kurinji ( S t ro b i l a n t h u s kunthianus) plants that flower only once in 12 years.

SCHEME FOR PROTECTION OF EXOTIC NEELA KURINJI

•This scheme comes following complaints that these rare and ecologically unique flowers are being packaged and sold on a commercial basis.

25 September, 2018 •Nepal become the first country in the world to

double its tiger population in a decade as part of World Wildlife Foundat ion’s (WWF) ‘Tx2’ programme.

•It aims to double number of tigers in the world all over the world by 2022.

•It has been largely attributed to Nepal’s political commitment and adoption of innovative tools and approaches towards tiger conservation.

NEPAL DOUBLES ITS TIGER POPULATION

14 September, 2018 •National Hindi Divas

is observed every year on 14 September in Hindi speaking regions of India and other countries with Hindi speaking population.

•It seeks to promote Hindi as matra bhasha (mother tongue) of India and show its importance as a language in the country and the world at large.

NATIONAL HINDI DIWAS

IMPORTANT DAYS

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21 September, 2018 •India’s biggest cyclotron facility named Cyclone-30

has become operational. •It is at Kolkata-based Variable Energy Cyclotron

Centre (VECC), which comes under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

•Cyclotron is used to produce radioisotopes for diagnostic and therapeutic use for cancer care. Radiations from these isotopes are used to destroy cancer cells.

21 September, 2018 •International Day of Sign Languages aims to raise

awareness of the importance of sign language in the full realisation of the human rights of people who are deaf.

•The day was proposed by the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), a federation of 135 national associations of deaf people, representing around 70 million deaf people’s human rights worldwide.

INDIA’S BIGGEST CYCLOTRON BECOMES OPERATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SIGN LANGUAGES

29 September, 2018 •The World Rabies Day raises

awareness about rabies disease and its preventable measures.

•The 2018 theme was ‘Rabies: Share the message. Save a life’.

WORLD RABIES DAY

26 September, 2018 •International Day for

the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons aims to provide an occasion for world community to reaffirm its commitment to global nuclear disarmament as high priority.

•It provides an opportunity to educate the public and their leaders about the real benefits of eliminating such weapons and the social and economic costs of perpetuating them.

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

27 September, 2018 •World Tourism Day (WTD) raises awareness about

the importance of tourism. The observance of this day aims to foster awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic value.

•The theme of this year’s World Tourism Day is ‘Tourism and the Digital Transformation’.

WORLD TOURISM DAY

JAPAN TO TEST SPACE ELEVATOR

SCIENCE

6 September, 2018 •Japanese researchers from Shizuoka University

will conduct the world’s first experiment to test small prototype of space elevator in space by using two mini satellites.

•It is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system.

•Two ultra-small cubic satellites developed by Shizuoka University Faculty of Engineering will be used for demonstration of space elevator technology.

5 September, 2018 •Puducherry has bagged the top position in National

Clean School Award after seven schools from Puducherry were awarded for cleanliness.

NATIONAL CLEAN SCHOOL AWARD

MISCELLANEOUS

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•Tamil Nadu bagged second position in National Clean School Award. The third position was shared by Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.

•Fourth position was shared by Jharkhand, Haryana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

•National Clean School Award ranking and the list were issued by Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and was prepared by National Institute of Cleanliness Education and Research (NICER).

10 September, 2018 •Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in

Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka is set to become the first airport in Asia to introduce face recognition based passage system technology.

•The face recognition based passage system will allow passengers to board flights and move across different sections of the airport using automatic biometric boarding procedure instead of manual boarding passes verification.

KEMPEGOWDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO USE FACIAL RECOGNITION

18 September, 2018 •Germany has rolled

out world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train.

•These locomotives named iLint trains emit zero emissions making them eco-friendly.

•Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity by combining hydrogen with oxygen. This conversion process only emits steam and water.

WORLD’S FIRST HYDROGEN-POWERED PASSENGER TRAIN

24 September, 2018 •Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ambitious

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY),

WORLD’S LARGEST HEALTHCARE SCHEME LAUNCHED

under Ayushman Bharat umbrella at Ranchi, Jharkhand.

•It will provide an annual health insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh to 10.74 crore to the beneficiary families i.e. over 50 crore beneficiaries across.

•It is touted as the world’s largest healthcare scheme that will serve beneficiary population that equals 27-28 European countries and almost equal to the population of Canada, Mexico and US put together.

25 September, 2018 •Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated

Sikkim’s first-ever airport at Pakyong. •Pakyong airport is India’s 100th functional

airport and one of the country’s five highest airports.

•Prior to this airport, Sikkim was the only state in India remaining without a functional airport.

SIKKIM GETS ITS FIRST AIRPORT

2 September, 2018 •The 18th Asian Games concluded in Indonesia.

•This was the second time in the Asian Games history that Indonesia had hosted it after its first time in 1962 in Jakarta.

•The 18th Asian Games saw the participation of around 11,000 athletes from 45 countries from across Asian continent, who competed in 40 sports, 67 disciplines, 4 new Olympic sports and 8 non-Olympic sports.

18TH ASIAN GAMES CONCLUDES IN INDONESIA

SPORTS

3 September, 2018 •The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has chosen

Japanese woman swimmer Rikako Ikee (18) as

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER OF ASIAD 2018

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10 September, 2018 •India’s ace sprinter

Hima Das was appointed as Sports Ambassador of Assam to inspire budding players of

HIMA DAS IS AMBASSADOR OF SPORTS

winner of Most Valuable Player (MVP) Trophy Award in 2018 Jakarta and Palembang Asian Games.

•Rikako Ikee was recognised as MVP for winning 6 gold and 2 silver medals. She had won gold medals in 50m butterfly, 100m fly, 50m free, 100m free, 4 × 100m medley events and silver medals in 4 × 200m freestyle and mixed medley relays.

15 September, 2018 •Former world number one Novak Djokovic from

Serbia won the 2018 US Open title of tennis in men’s singles category by defeating Argentina’s Juan Martín del Potro (World no 3).

•Women’s singles title was won by Japan’s Naomi Osaka by defeating Serena Williams of US.

•Men’s Double title was won by US pair of Mike Bryan and Jack Sock. They defeated Łukasz Kubot (Poland) and Marcelo Melo (Brazil).

•Women’s Doubles title was won by Ashleigh Barty (Australia) and CoCo Vandeweghe (US). They defeated Tímea Babos (Hungary) and Kristina Mladenovic (France).

US OPEN 2018

northeastern state to aim big and to inspire the young generation to take up sports seriously.

•She is nicknamed ‘Dhing Express’ after her village in Assam.