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Indian President Pranab Mukherjee

National Affairs● 01 Sept - The Ministry of Defence, Government of India has sanctioned construction of a National War Memorial and National War Museum in New Delhi.

● 02 Sept - Rajasthan and Puducherry governments unanimously ratified the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST) passed by Parliament.

● 03 Sept - The Guinness World Records has declared Majuli in Assam as the largest river island in the world.

● 03 Sept - The Rajasthan High Court launched the e-stamp facility in its Jodhpur and Jaipur benches simultaneously. Rajasthan has become the fourth state in the country to provide the facility.

● 06 Sept - India and Vietnam signed 12 agreements, signalling a strong upward push in their strategic ties in the field of defence, IT, space, double taxation and sharing white shipping information.

● 07 Sept - Tourism Ministry has approved projects worth about Rs 450 crore under Swadesh Darshan scheme for five states, including Uttar Pradesh.

● 07 Sep - United Nations, has included Sanskrit, the most ancient and traditional language of India into its charter.

● 08 Sept - Indian President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the GST constitution amendment bill that enables the implementation of this indirect tax reform and the government has managed to close out processes within deadlines, raising expectations that GST will be rolled out on 1 April next year.

● 08 Sept - Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Siddhu formally launched his new political front ‘Awaaz-e-Punjab’ in Chandigarh.

● 09 Sept - Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has dedicated 2 mbps download and 512 kbps upload digital connectivity to 6,000 villages.

● 13 Sept - Haryana government approved a Rs 143 crore project for re-construction of Jawahar Lal Nehru (JLN) Canal system to achieve the goal of ‘Har Khet Ko Pani’ (water to every field). The work would be completed by March 2018.Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani

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Joint miliary drill between India and US

● 15 Sept - The Yudh Abhyas 2016 joint miliary drill between the Indian and US began at Chaubattia in Uttarakhand with the unfurling of the national flags of the two countries.

● 16 Sept - Former Home Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was appointed as Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs.

● 16 Sept - The possession of Aadhaar number of an individual by Agencies should not be allowed to publish or display the information publicly and would have to ensure security and confidentiality of the 12-digit resident identification number under the Aadhaar Act.

● 17 Sept - Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the water supply and irrigation projects worth of Rs 4800 crore under the Gujarat Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojna at Limkheda in Dahod district, Gujarat on his 66th birthday anniversary celebrations.

● 18 Sept - Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi launched Coastal Clean Up as part of the ‘ 31st International Coastal Clean Up Day ’. The drive was being carried out in all coastal pockets in Puducherry.

● 19 Sept - Chief Minister of Goa Laxmikant Parsekar and Telangana IT minister K T Rama Rao signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together in IT development.

● 20 Sept - Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh concluded his three day Israel Visit. The Union Minister led a four member official delegation to Israel to deepen bilateral engagement in agriculture.

● 21 Sept - The rural housing scheme Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), started by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has been restructured and renamed as Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY), which would be launched next month.

● 22 Sept - Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off two passengers trains between Bhiwani and Hisar in Haryana.

● 23 Sept - In the backdrop of the continued challenging global environment being faced by Indian exporters, Department of Commerce had extended support to certain new products and enhanced the rate of incentives for certain other specified products under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS).

● 24 Sept - The Gujarat High Court rejected the government’s notification granting 10 percent quota for EBCs (economically backward classes) in educational institutions. The Anandiben Patel government had approved the reservation to placate the Patidar community.

Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojna

Adhaar act

Shri Radha Mohan Singh

Gujarat High Court


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● 25 Sept - Tea Board of India and The United Planters Association of Southern India (Upasi) were jointly conducted the India international Tea convention at Ooty in Nilgiris.

● 26 Sept - Rajasthan became the first state to adopt centre’s Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP) in all its urban local bodies (ULB). Almost 5 lakh conventional street lights were replaced with LED street lights across the state.

● 27 Sept - The government decided to suspend Indus water commission talks with Pakistan. This decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan amid a heightening tension between the two countries.

● 29 Sept - India's army carried out "surgical strikes" against suspected terrorists along the de-facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir. It started around 2.30 am (IST) on Thursday and continued till 8 am (IST) on Thursday. Significant casualties have been caused to terrorists and those trying to shield them.

International Tea convention

Street Lighting National Programme

International Affairs● 02 Sept - The World Bank has recently released a Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2016 report titled “Connecting to Complete 2016”. India has now been ranked 35 amongst 160 countries compared to rank of 54 in LPI 2014.

● 04 Sept - The World’s largest LEGO ship named Jubilee Seaways has created Guinness world record for set in Denmark, where employees of a shipping company successfully constructed the incredible 2,860 kg boat using over one million interlocking plastic bricks.

● 05 Sept - Sri Lankan Prime minister Ranil Wickremsinghe inaugurated the five day long 69th session of WHO (World Health Organisation) Regional committee meeting at Colombo. ● 07 Sept - The union cabinet signed an agreement with Chile to expand the India - Chile Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) which was approved in April which 86 per cent of India’s exports to Chile will get concession.

● 10 Sept - India along with 10 other member countries of WHO’s South-East Asian Regional Committee has decided to set up a dedicated fund in the 69th session of WHO Regional Committee Meeting at Colombo.

Sri Lankan Prime minister Ranil Wickremsinghe

The World Bank

Preferential Trade Agreement


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● 11 Sept - World’s longest bullet train network length of 2000 kms established by China Railway. Construction of the line started in December 2012.

● 13 Sept - India and Mauritius on September 13 explored greater collaboration in the area of defence and security even as discussions on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Partnership Agreement (CECPA) between the two countries restarted.

● 16 Sept - US President Obama designated the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, protecting fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the coast of New England as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.

● 18 Sept - The US government had decided to become a partner country for the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, which was prepared to be held in January 2017.

● 21 Sept - Founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma was appointed as adviser to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) announced by UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi.

● 23 Sept - India, the US and Afghanistan have reaffirmed their shared interests in combating terrorism and advancing peace and security in the region.

● 24 Sept - China’s Yangzhou city was set to host India Week celebrations with a business and investment meeting to be attended by chief executives officers (CEOs) of top Indian firms. It was regarded as a key partner in promoting investments in India.

● 27 Sept - India dubbed Pakistan as a country with terror as its “calling card” and urged the United Nations to isolate such countries which permit terrorists to carry on their activities unimpeded.

● 27 Sept - India and China hold a high level dialogue, where they discussed ways to enhance security and cooperation to combat terror as officials from the two sides exchanged information on policies and legislation to deal with terrorism at the first high-level dialogue and they reached “important consensus”.

● 29 Sept - Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan had moved out of the Saarc summit in Pakistan November, citing an “unsuitable environment” for the annual gathering of South Asian leaders.

Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit

CECPA between India and Mauritius

India, US and Afghanistan a�rmation

India and China Cooperation

China bullet train


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Mahindra and Mahindra honouredIndia’s Rio Olympics women medallists

● 24 Sept - India’s Squash player Velavan Senthilkumar defeat Jordan’s Mohammad Al-Sarraj to won the U-19 Asian Junior Individual squash championship title in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on September 24, 2016.

● 26 Sept - India made a historic win in the 500th test match against New Zealand at Green Park, Kanpur to take a 1-0 lead in the 3-match series. India’s match against New Zealand was be the country’s 500th, a feat achieved only by England, Australia and the West Indies

● 27 Sept - Sathiyan Gnanasekaran has become only the second Indian table tennis player to win an ITTF event as he clinched the men’s singles title of the Belgium Open.

● 27 Sept - Gaurav Gill of Team MRF won the 2016 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship fourth time in the 2016 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship held at Obihiro, Japan.

AIFF launched GSP

Velavan Senthilkumar

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

Sports● 02 Sept - Former Indian pacer Zaheer Khan has been made an honorary life member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), becoming the 24th Indian cricketer to be bestowed the honor.

● 05 Sept - The 33 year old shooter Abhinav Bindra officially announced his retirement from shooting after 2016 Summer Games.

● 06 Sept - India’s Test captain Virat Kohli retained his second spot while opener Rohit Sharma slipped a place to seventh in the latest One-day International (ODI) cricket batting rankings.

● 08 Sept - Mahindra and Mahindra honoured India’s Rio Olympics women medallists, shuttler P V Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik by gifting them its true blue 4X4 off-roader, the ‘Thar’.

● 10 Sept - Pankaj Arjan Advani became the first cueist from India to win a medal at the prestigious Sangsom 6 Red Snooker World Championship as he settled for a bronze after losing the semifinal to Chinese Ding Junhui.

● 15 Sept - The Sports Authority of India (SAI) and All India Football Federation (AIFF) had jointly launched an online portal for its Global Scouting Programme (GSP). The portal was launched by Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel in New Delhi.

● 17 Sept - Indian football giants East Bengal on 16 September 2016 won the Calcutta Football League (CFL) for the seventh consecutive time.

Zahir Khan


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Agriculture Leadership Summit

Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang

Awards● 01 Sept - Aishwaryaa, the eldest daughter of Tamil star Rajnikanth and wife of Actor Dhanush joined the UN Family of Women, when she was appointed as UN Women’s Advocate for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in India.

● 03 Sept - United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has selected Human Resource and Development Ministry’s Jan Sikshan Sansthan (JSS) project implemented in Malappuram for the international UNESCO Confucius Prize for literacy 2016.

● 08 Sept - Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang has received ‘Pangkor Dialogue Award 2016‘ in Malaysia for the efforts made by the people of the state for environmental preservation and promotion.

● 11 Sept - Odisha bagged 9th Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2016 and Haryana has bagged ‘Best Horticulture State’ award for increasing the income of the farmers in horticulture at the National Level gathering of important stake-holders in agriculture development at the Agriculture Leadership Summit at New Delhi.

● 13 Sept - Indian Writer Meghna Pant to be honored with Kumaon Literary Festival’s FON – Fellows of Nature South Asia Short Story Award in Nature writing in October for her short story “People of the Sun”.

Aishwaryaa

● 15 Sept - Priyanka Chopra has become the first Indian star to enter the Forbes list of highest paid television actresses in the world.

● 17 Sept - India batsmen, Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma were awarded with the prestigious Arjuna Award for 2016 and 2015 respectively, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.

● 18 Sept - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar would be honored as the 2016 humanitarian of the year by students and faculty at the Harvard Foundation.

● 20 Sept - Better Performing Project Award won by Virbhadra Singh lead Himachal Pradesh government for development of infrastructure by tourism department under the ADB Funded Project.

Priyanka Chopra

Aung San Suu Kyi


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Business● 01 Sept - Digital payments platform, MobiKwik and Samagra, an NGO serving urban poor launched “M-Gullak” in Pune to promote the habit of savings among Urban Poor.

● 02 Sept - South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc is partnering with Amazon.com Inc on smart-home services, enabling the Amazon services such as the Alexa virtual assistant on some of the electronics maker’s devices.

● 05 Sept - Rajasthan’s education department has partnered with US-based technology firm Cisco to promote digital learning across the state using virtual digital room solutions.

● 08 Sept - The IoT India Congress 2016 is India’s first completely integrated IoT platform that aims to bring together the key stakeholders across the value chain and verticals to collaborate, ideate and share a common road map for IoT implementation.

● 12 Sept - Bank Bazaar.com, India’s leading financial marketplace, had launched the world’s first multi-brand, paperless e-KYC platform for instant loan approval.

● 14 Sept - Gionee mobile phones signed an MoU (Memorandum Of Understanding) with the Haryana state government to set up its phone manufacturing hub in Haryana with an initial investment of Rs 500 crore.

● 17 Sept - Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited had joined hands with mobile payments’ company Paytm to provide health insurance to cab and auto drivers.

CISCO

Mobikwik

MoU between Gionee and Haryana state

● 24 Sept - The leading newspaper ‘The Hindu‘ has been awarded the Silver and Bronze awards in the ‘ Best Reader Engagement ’ category of the South Asian Digital Media Awards at the WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers) India 2016 conference in Kolkata.

● 25 Sept - The Delhi government would now have its own bravery awards and these awards would be given out on Independence Day and Republic Day every year.Every year, the Centre gives National Bravery Awards to 25 children from across India for their meritorious acts of bravery against all odds.

● 28 Sept - Indian NGO Slum Soccer won the inaugural FIFA Diversity Award in Manchester on September 27, 2016 in Manchester, UK. It was received by Abhijeet Barse, CEO of Soccer.

The Hindu

National Bravery Awards


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Science and Technology● 02 Sept - NASA Scientist discovered young cryovolcano in isolated mountain, analysis of images from NASA’s Dawn mission has revealed. The Scientists believe that it would have spewed freezing.

● 05 Sept - Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) handed over the Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC), “TIHAYU” to Indian Navy.

● 07 Sept - Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL) completed the first test flight of its an indigenously developed prototype helicopter, Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) successfully.

● 08 Sept - The Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO successfully placed INSAT-3DR,an advanced weather satellite in the GSLV-F05 rocket into the intended orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. ISRO successfully launched INSAT-3DR

NASA discovered young cryovolcano

● 09 Sept - NASA set to launch of its first ever mission to collect dust from an asteroid that may have delivered life giving materials to Earth billions of years ago.

● 16 Sept - Public Broadcaster Prasar Bharati would launch a website and mobile app for All India Radio’s Balochi service to reach out to the people who speak the language across the globe.

● 19 Sept - Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has been conferred the prestigious membership of the Asia-Pacific Aerospace Quality Group (APAQG) under the category ‘Full Member with voting rights’.

● 22 Sept - Indian Oil Corporation Limited and GAIL (India) Limited had signed an MoU with Dhamra LNG Terminal Private Limited (DLTPL) for taking equity in the 5 MMTPA capacity LNG Receiving, Storage and Regasification Terminal being set up at Dhamra Port, Odisha.

● 24 Sept - India and France signed the €7.87 billion deal for Rafale fighter jets, equipped with latest missiles and weapon system besides multiple India-specific modifications that will give the IAF cutting edge capability over arch rival Pakistan.

● 27 Sept - Tech giants Microsoft and Adobe announced a major partnership to promote the use of each other’s cloud-computing tools among their mutual customers.

HAL and APAQG membership

MOU between GAIL and DLTPL

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● 17 Sept - The Indian Navy launched an advanced indigenously built guided-missile destroyer, Mormugao, in financial capital of the country (Mumbai).

● 19 Sept - IIT Guwahati unveiled one of India´s fastest and most powerful computer, PARAM-ISHAN. Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar launched the Param-Ishan super computing facility at IIT, Guwahati.

● 20 Sept - India successfully test fired a new surface-to-air missile – ‘Barak-8’, from a defense base in its eastern state of Odisha, was reported by state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR).

● 24 Sept - The Indian Air Force had successfully fired recently acquired long range air-to-air MICA missile on a maneuvering target from Mirage-2000 Upgrade combat aircraft.

● 25 Sept - China commissioned the world’s largest radio telescope which can search for more strange object, help in better understanding the origin of the universe and boost global hunt for extraterrestrial life.

● 26 Sept - The PSLV C35 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, carrying three satellites from India, three from Algeria, and one each from Canada and the US, lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and the launch was “100 percent successful”.

● 29 Sept -The world’s first child with genes from three people was born to a Jordanian couple. The baby was delivered in Mexico as there are no laws in the country that could block the revolutionary technique.

Mormugao

Barack 8 missile

PSLV C35 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

Obituary● 02 Sept - Veteran trade union leader Sharad Rao passed away.

● 03 Sept - Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov passed away.

● 05 Sept - Former union minister and senior BJP leader Arif Baig passed away.

● 11 Sept - Veteran journalist Ramsewak Shrivastava (84) passed away.

● 16 Sept - Former Union Minister and Captain Ayub Khan died.

● 17 Sept - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the former Italian president who played a crucial role in Italy’s adoption of the euro passed away.

● 20 Sept - First ever football referee of Odisha Narottam Mohanty passed away.

● 24 Sept - The chairman of Film Certification Appllate Tribunal (FCAT), Justice (retd) S K Mahajan passed away.

● 27 Sept - Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the “godfather of gore“passed away.


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Important Days● 01st September - Installation anniversary of Guru Granth Sahibji.

● 05th September - Teachers Day ( Birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)

● 08th September - World Literacy Day

● 13th September - World First Aid Day

● 14th September - Hindi Divas

● 15th September - Engineer’s Day

● 16th September - World Ozone Day

● 27th September - World Tourism Day

● 29th September - World Heart Day

Historical Dates to remember● 01 Sept, 1947 - Indian Standard Time was adopted.

● 02 Sept, 1946 - The Interim Government of India was formed. This government was entrusted the task of helping the transition of India and Pakistan from British rule to Independence as two separate nations.● 04 Sept, 1993 - New Bank of India merged with Punjab National Bank.● 05 Sept, 1962 - Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday declared as Teachers Day.● 07 Sept, 1906 - Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered.● 09 Sept, 1949 - Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.

● 11 Sept, 1893 - Swami Vivekananda delivered his first speech in the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.

● 12 Sept, 2001 - President George W. Bush announced War On Terrorism, after the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.● 14 Sept, 1953 - Andhra Pradesh was established. Hyderabad became the capital.

● 19 Sept, 1960 - The Indus River (also known as Sindhu River) water sharing settlement was signed in Karachi between India and Pakistan.● 20 Sept, 1954 - 1st FORTRAN computer program run. ● 22 Sept, 1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ended after the UN calls for a ceasefire.● 23 Sept, 1974 - First NCC Air Force Squadron (Women) was established at Vanasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan.

● 26 Sept, 1984 - The United Kingdom agreed to the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.● 27 Sept, 1925 - Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS) was established.● 29 Sept, 1998 - ISRO successfully launched its largest sounding rocket, Rohini.● 30 Sept, 1989 - INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay.


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