Yak September 2018 Electrical Flow Affairs Of Import Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of September 2018. These one-liners embrace all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees as well as Sports affairs of September calendar month (from 1st to 30th September 2018). You volition larn pdf versoin of this listing past times this evening. All the Best as well as Happy Reading :)

September 2018 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners) 

• 10th September 2018 was observed every bit World Suicide Prevention Day with the subject ‘Working Together to Prevent Suicide’.
• 15th September 2018 was observed every bit the International Day of Democracy with the subject "Democracy nether Strain: Solutions for a Changing World".
• 16th September 2018 was observed every bit International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (International Ozone Day) with the subject 'Keep Cool as well as Carry on: Montreal Protocol'.
• 2 solar daytime Regional Conference on Good Governance with Focus on Aspirational Districts was of late held inward Bhopal (capital of Madhya Pradesh).
  
• 21st September 2018 was observed every bit International Day of Peace / World Peace Day with the subject “The Right to Peace - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70”.
• 23rd September 2018 was observed every bit International Day of Sign Languages with the subject “With Sign Language, Everyone is Included!”.
• 27th September 2018 was observed every bit World Tourism Day with the subject "Tourism as well as the Digital Transformation".
• 28th September 2018 was observed every bit World Rabies solar daytime with the subject ‘Rabies: Share the message. Save a life’.
• 29th September 2018 was observed every bit World Heart Day with the subject "My Heart, Your Heart".
• 2nd September 2018 was observed every bit World Coconut Day with the subject 'Coconut for Good Health, Wealth & Wellness'.
• 30th September 2018 was observed every bit International Translation Day with the subject "Translation: promoting cultural heritage inward changing times".
• 31st coming together of the Central Hindi Committee was of late held inward New Delhi nether the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Chief Ministers of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, as well as Gujarat, as well as other members of the commission participated inward this meeting.
• 3rd ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Conference on ‘Global Ageing as well as Human Rights of Older Persons’  was held inward Seoul, uppercase of South Korea.
• 3rd Summit of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was of late held inward Beijing. During the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $60 billion (over ₹4 lakh crore) inward financial back upwards to Africa.
• 4th BIMSTEC Summit concluded inward Kathmandu (Nepal's Capital) with signing as well as adoption of Kathmandu Declaration past times all the 7 BIMSTEC members (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar as well as Thailand). Theme of fourth BIMSTEC Summit 2018 : ‘Towards a Peaceful Prosperous, as well as Sustainable Bay of Bengal Region’.
• 4th International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) was recentlhy held at Leiden, Netherlands.
• 51st Engineer's Day was observed inward Bharat on 15th September 2018 with the subject 'Engineering Challenges for Knowledge Era'.
• 5th coming together of Boundary Working Group (BWG) betwixt Bharat as well as Nepal held inward Kathmandu. During this meet, both countries stimulate got agreed to explore possibility of using high resolution satellite images inward boundary survey work. 
• 6th Eastern Asia Summit – Economic Ministers coming together EAS-EMM) & 15th India-ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM) was held inward Singapore.
• 6th edition of India, Sri Lanka articulation naval exercise SLINEX-2018 was held at Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
• 6th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Trade Ministers’ Meeting was of late held inward Singapore. Indian delegation was led past times Union Minister of Commerce & Industry as well as Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu.
• 7th coming together of National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) of Ministry of AYUSH was held nether the chairpersonship of Minister of State for AYUSH, Shripad Yesso Naik at New Delhi.
• A 10-foot-tall bird, Vorombe titan, known to stimulate got go extinct about 1,000 years agone inward Madagascar, has been declared every bit the world's largest bird. With a 650-kg hateful trunk mass, it belonged to the identify unit of measurement of flightless animals including the kiwi as well as the ostrich.
• A Bilateral coming together on Tourism Cooperation betwixt Bharat as well as Kingdom of Morocco led past times the Minister of Tourism, Air Transport, Handicraft as well as Social Economy, Kingdom of Morocco, Mr. Mohamed Sajid as well as the Minister of State for Tourism (IC), Government of India, Shri. K. J. Alphons, held inward New Delhi. During this coming together both the Ministers agreed to elevate the tourism cooperation betwixt Bharat & Kingdom of Morocco as well as to piece of work towards increasing tourist arrivals betwixt both countries.
• According to recent report, Islamic Republic of Pakistan could go world’s 5th largest nuclear weapons province after Russia, United States, French Republic as well as mainland People's Republic of China inward terms of possession of total nuclear warheads. Islamic Republic of Pakistan currently has 140 to 150 nuclear warheads as well as its stockpile is expected to increment to 220 to 250 past times 2025 (surpassing United Kingdom) if its electrical flow proliferation tendency continues.
• According to the 2018 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index released past times United Nations, over 270 ane K 1000 people inward Bharat moved out of poverty inward the decade since 2005-06. The Report stated that India's poverty charge per unit of measurement came downward to 27.5% from 54.7% during the period.
• Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani was on a see to India. This see comes ahead of adjacent month’s parliamentary polls inward the landlocked country.
• After the launch of payments bank, the Indian Postal subdivision has announced that it is going to set upwards an Insurance home every bit a especial job organisation unit of measurement inside 2 years. At present, the postal subdivision offers Life Insurance Schemes including Postal Life Insurance (PLI), Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI), with others.
• Ahead of US sanctions on Iranian oil, Republic of Iraq has replaced Kingdom of Saudi Arabia every bit India's largest crude oil supplier inward August. 
• Amazon Bharat launched a Hindi version of its mobile website as well as app for Android smartphones. None of India's other leading e-commerce portals similar Flipkart, Snapdeal or Paytm Mall currently stimulate got a local linguistic communication version of their apps or websites.
• American electronic commerce as well as cloud computing society Amazon is going to launch its checkout-free 'Amazon Go' grocery shop inward New York. The cashierless shop requires customers to scan a code on an app patch entering.
• American multinational investment depository financial establishment as well as financial services society Goldman Sachs downgraded Indian equities for the first of all fourth dimension since March 2014 citing expensive valuations as well as upcoming elections. The investment depository financial establishment cutting India's rating to the equivalent of a 'hold' from 'buy'.
• American multinational engineering society Microsoft partnered with the Data Security Council of Bharat to launch a three-year programme, called CyberShikshaa. Aim of CyberShikshaa : To prepare 1,000 women from underserved communities inward cybersecurity. 
• American online social media as well as social networking service society Facebook announced that it is going to build its 1st Asian information pump inward Singapore. This 11-storey  information pump is expected to opened upwards inward 2022.
• American security as well as aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has entered into an understanding with Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) to manufacture wings of its F-16 fighter jets inward India.
• Amid a ascension inward rape cases, Nepal has announced a ban on websites with adult content inward the country.
• Argentina has received $57.1 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aimed at boosting the country's struggling economy. This is the biggest loan parcel e'er from the global body.
• Around 129 countries at the United Nations pledged to combat drug problem, signing a US-drafted one-page "call to activity on the world drug problem".
• As a component of the Bay of Bengal initiative for multi-sectoral technical as well as economical cooperation (Bimstec), a land grooming military machine exercise (MILEX-18) was held at Foreign Training Node at Aundh inward Pune, Maharashtra. All fellow member BIMSTEC countries, except Thailand as well as Nepal took active component inward this exercise. Theme of MILEX xviii : Counter-terrorism inward semi-urban terrain.
• As component of it's 'Saudi Vision 2030' programme, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia inaugurated a high-speed rail describe connecting the holy cities of Mecca as well as Medina.
• Australia's Perth Mint has unveiled the most valuable money e'er made inward the province to run into growing demand for high-end collectables. The 2-kg coin, which is encrusted with rare pinkish diamonds worth ₹12 crore, depicts a sailing ship, a gilded prospector as well as boab trees. Called 'Discovery', the money is considered legal tender as well as volition live sold to the highest bidder.
• Bengaluru International Airport has announced plans to innovate Paperless Boarding for passengers of some airlines from adjacent year, as well as volition piece of work facial recognition engineering for the same.
• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay has recommissioned India’s oldest nuclear inquiry reactor named ‘Apsara’, which was unopen downward permanently inward 2009 for repair. The refurbished version of this reactor has been named every bit ‘Apsara-upgraded’ (Apsara-U) as well as also has double capacity compared to its before version. 
• British racing driver Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) has won the Italian Grand Prix 2018 held at Autodromo Nazionale Monza track, inward Italy.
• British racing driver Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) won the Singapore Grand Prix 2018 at Marina Bay Street Circuit, inward Singapore.
• Cab-hailing startup Ola launched a security programme called 'Guardian' inward Bharat to monitor rides inward existent time.
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved 100% electrification of broad approximate routes of Indian Railways (IR) past times the yr 2021-22. The 100% electrification volition trim piece of work of imported fossil fuels thereby amend unloosen energy security.
• China as well as Islamic Republic of Pakistan stimulate got decided to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projection towards Afghanistan. The CPEC projection aims to strategically link China's Xinjiang with Pakistan's Gwadar port.
• China is planning to convey its Second Space Lab, Tiangong-2 dorsum to reason inward July 2019 inward a "controlled deorbit".
• China participated inward Exercise Kakadu, Australia's largest maritime drill for the first of all time. Other nations participated inward the drill include India, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, New Zealand as well as Pakistan.
• China successfully launched a novel marine satellite called HY-1C aboard a Long March-2C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre inward northward China’s Shanxi Province. Objectives : Oetter monitor China's maritime waters as well as study the comport on of climate change.
• China-Maldives Friendship Bridge was of late opened for traffic. It is 1st cross-sea span to live built inward Maldives.
• Congress MP Kapil Sibal volition live releasing a novel volume titled "Shades of Truth : Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Journey Derailed". This volume is going to live published past times New Delhi-based Rupa Publications inward September.
• Cyient Solutions & Systems Pvt. Ltd, a articulation venture betwixt information technology home Cyient as well as BlueBird Aero Systems of Israel,  has bagged monastic tell from Indian Army to provide SpyLite mini UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems for high height aerial surveillance.
• Cyient Solutions & Systems, a articulation venture of information technology home Cyient as well as BlueBird Aero Systems of Israel) bagged monastic tell from Indian Army to provide SpyLite mini UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) systems for high height aerial surveillance. SpyLite mini UAV unmanned aerial scheme has endurance of 4-5 hours as well as maximum flying ceiling of 30,000 feet, making it ideal for Indian Army operations along border with mainland People's Republic of China as well as Siachen glacier.
• Delhi authorities started its 'Doorstep Dlivery of Services' programme to brand forty authorities services including Driving License, New Water connexion as well as Ration Card available at residents' doorstep inward the first of all phase. Available at an extra fee of ₹50, applicants stimulate got to telephone weep upwards the helpline number 1076 to asking for the services.
• Denmark's largest lender Danske Bank's CEO Thomas Borgen resigned next an investigation into payments of nigh $234 billion through the bank's Estonian branch, many of which were suspicious. Bharat has signed a $74 ane K 1000 financing loan understanding with the World Bank for Uttarakhand Workforce Development Project (UKWDP). Objective of UKWDP : To amend the character as well as relevance of grooming at priority Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) as well as to increment the number of labour-market-relevant workers through brusk term grooming inward Uttrakhand.
• Elon Musk-led startup SpaceX revealed that Yusaku Maezawa, founder of Japan's largest article of apparel website Zozotown, has signed upwards to live the world's first of all private rider to wing about the Moon. The 42-year-old with $2.9 billion meshing worth volition live travelling to infinite aboard SpaceX's BFR launch vehicle.
• England’s opener Alastair Cook has announced his retirement from all formats of the cricket. Cook has scored 12,254 runs as well as made 32 centuries inward 160 Tests all England records.
• England's James Anderson bowled India's Mohammad Shami inward the 5th Test  to go past times onetime Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath's tally of 563 wickets to go the highest wicket-taking pacer inward Test cricket history. 
• European railway manufacturer Alstom has launched world’s first of all hydrogen fuel prison home cellphone train. The French society said that the CoradiaiLint used fuel cells that plough hydrogen as well as oxygen into electricity.
• Ex-England captain Alastair Cook slammed his 33rd Test Century inward his last-ever Test innings against India. Cook is the 5th cricketer to score a century inward his first of all as well as lastly Tests.
• Ex-Team Bharat captain M southward Dhoni has go India's second-most capped cricketer, achieving the feat against Islamic Republic of Pakistan inward the Asia Cup.
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj led the Indian delegation at the 23rd coming together of India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission (IRIGC-TEC). This coming together was co-chaired past times External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj as well as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.
• Fields Medal as well as Abel Prize-winning mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah demonstrated a proof of the 159-year-old Riemann Hypothesis, which is ane of the "Millennium Problems", carrying a $1-million abide by for a confirmed solution.
• Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar has announced that the boards of state-run Dena Bank, Vijaya Bank as well as Bank of Baroda stimulate got been advised to merge the 3 banks. The amalgamated entity would live the 3rd largest depository financial establishment inward India.
• For the first of all fourth dimension inward the history of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) international football game squad rankings, 2 teams are sharing the top spot. They are French Republic & Belgium.
• Foreign government minister Sushma Swaraj as well as Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held the 1st high-level 2+2 talks with their US counterparts Mike Pompeo as well as Jim Mattis. They discussed issues of strategic as well as security interest. Both the countries stimulate got agreed to piece of work together towards India's entry inward the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
• Former celluloid actress, author, columnist as well as producer Twinkle Khanna launched her tertiary volume titled 'Pyjamas are Forgiving'. She has previously written 2 books, 'Mrs Funnybones: She's Just Like You as well as a Lot Like Me' (2015) as well as 'The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad' (2016).
• Former Indian hockey squad captain Sardar Singh announced his retirement from international hockey.
• Germany has announced to provide soft loan of euro 120 ane K 1000 (Rs. 990 crore approximately) to Bharat to strengthen sewage H2O handling infrastructure inward Uttarakhand inward an seek to create clean River Ganga nether Clean Ganga Mission.
• Germany launched the world's first of all zero-emission hydrogen trains which volition run on a 100-kilometre stretch.
• Government has constituted 8-member search commission to recommend names for posts of Lokpal chairperson as well as members. The commission volition live headed past times : Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai (former Supreme Court judge).
• Haryana Government has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to set upwards Ethanol industrial plant life at Bohali hamlet inward Panipat district with an outlay of over Rs. 900 crore.
• ICICI Bank announced that it is going to larn 8.85% stake inward Avenues Payment Bharat for ₹10 crore inward cash.
• In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court scrapped the 150-year old Section 497, which deals with Adultery maxim it is unconstitutional. According to the adultery law, a adult man tin live punished for having a sexual human relationship with a spouse without the consent of her husband.
• India along with 23 other nations participated inward major Indian ocean-wide seismic sea wave mock exercise known every bit IOWave18. The exercise is existence organized past times Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. Aim of IOWae18 : To increment seismic sea wave preparedness, evaluate response capabilities inward each province as well as amend coordination throughout the region. 
• India as well as Republic of Cyprus stimulate got signed 2 MoUs inward the land of sharing of financial intelligence as well as environment.
• India as well as French Republic announced a working grouping for Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) first of all manned infinite mission Gaganyaan. The mission would brand Bharat ane of the iv countries inward the world after Russia, China, as well as the US to launch a manned infinite flight.
• India as well as USA conducted their annual combat exercise “Yudh Abhyas” at Chaubatia inward Uttarakhand from xvi to 29 September, 2018. Aim of Yudh Abhyas : To elevate interoperability betwixt armies. It volition also focus on enhancing counter-terror cooperation.
• India Blue cricket squad has won 2017-18 Duleep Trophy past times defeating defending champion Bharat Red inward the terminal fit played at NPR College reason inward Dindigul, Tamilnadu. Himachal Pradesh batsman Nikhil Gangta was named Man of Match.
• India captain Virat Kohli has go the fastest batsman to make 18,000 runs inward international cricket. He surpassed ex-Windies captain Brian Lara, who took 411 innings to make the milestone.
• India celebrated the 2nd Anniversary of Surgical Strikes every bit Parakram Parv during 29th to 30th September 2018.Ministry of Housing as well as Urban Affairs has partnered with Google to launch Loo Review crusade on Google Map. The articulation crusade has been launched nether aegis of Swachh Bharat Mission – Urban (SBM–U).
• India defeat People's Republic of Bangladesh to win Asia Cup for the minute forthwith fourth dimension as well as overall 7th time.
• India has been included inward the UN's listing of 38 "shameful" nations for intimidating people cooperating with the global trunk on human rights. China, Russia, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as State of Israel stimulate got also been included inward the list.
• India has contributed $1 ane K 1000 to United Nations (UN) Headquarters’ Solar Project, nether which solar panels volition live installed on roof of world body’s headquarters at New York, US. This contribution makes Bharat first of all responder to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ telephone weep upwards for climate action.
• India has improved its ranking past times ane spot from 2016 as well as at nowadays stands 19th inward the ‘Theft Ranking’ for countries with weapons usable nuclear materials, according to of late released Nuclear Security Index. The index was released past times the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), which is co-chaired past times Sam Nunn as well as Ernest Moni. Australia, which was at the top inward 2012, 2014, as well as 2016 with the 22 countries with weapons-usable nuclear materials, this fourth dimension shares the top spot with Switzerland.
• India has lost its tag every bit Asia-Pacific's best-performing stock marketplace this yr to New Zealand.
• India has signed 2 loan understanding with Nippon International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for construction of Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project as well as Kolkata East West Metro Project. Under these agreements, Nippon is going to provide Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan of about Rs 5,500 crore every bit tranche 1 for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet prepare projection Rs.1619 crore for tranche 3 Kolkata East-West Metro Project .
• India is going to assist Nepal build a railway describe connecting Raxaul (Bihar) to Kathmandu (Nepal).
• India is going to purchase xviii bullet trains from Nippon at a cost of ₹7,000 crore inward a bargain where the seller volition also stimulate got to transfer engineering for local production. Each prepare volition stimulate got 10 coaches as well as stimulate got cruising speeds of 350 kmph.
• India is going to provide 160 railway rider coaches to Sri Lanka valued at about $82.64 million. The understanding to provide the coaches custom-made inward Bharat was signed betwixt state-owned RITES as well as the Sri Lankan government.
• India is Partner Country inward 87th Izmir International tradeshow inward (Izmir) Turkey. Bharat also launched its mega job organisation pavilion ‘Source India’ hosting 75 Indian companies inward the tradeshow. 
• India observed National Nutrition Week from 1st of September to 7th of September 2018. Theme of the yr 2018 : 'Go Further with Food'.
• India retained the top WHO topographic point inward South-East Asia Region with Dr. PoonamKhetrapal Singh unanimously re-elected every bit Regional Director for some other five-year term kickoff Feb 2019.
• India signed the Communications Compatibility as well as Security Agreement (COMCASA) with the US during the 2+2 talks inward Delhi. This bargain volition enable Bharat to access advanced technologies from US.
• India, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan as well as Islamic Republic of Iran held the 1st-ever trilateral coming together at the Deputy Foreign Minister story inward Kabul.
• India, Republic of Kazakhstan articulation regular army exercise KAZIND was held betwixt Indian as well as Republic of Kazakhstan Army inward Otar region, Republic of Kazakhstan from tenth to 23rd September 2018. Aim of KAZIND : To build as well as promote bilateral regular army to regular army relations as well as telephone commutation skills as well as experiences betwixt armies of both countries.
• India, Mongolia articulation exercise Nomadic Elephant 2018 commenced at Mongolian Armed Forces (MAF) Five Hills Training Area inward Ulaanbaatar (capital of Mongolia).
• India’s biggest cyclotron facility named Cyclone-30 became operational at Kolkata-based Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), which comes nether Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
• India’s first of all underwater robotic drone EyeROV TUNA was handed over to Naval Physical as well as Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) of Defence Research as well as Development Organisation (DRDO).
• Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully exam fired indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) Astra from Su-30 figher aircraft.
• Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully carried out it's 1st e'er mid-air refuelling of indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas MK-1 at an height of 20,000 feet. During the process, 1,900 kg fuel was transferred. 
• Indian e-commerce payment scheme as well as digital wallet society Paytm has started testing the facial recognition characteristic that tin unlock its payments app on a user's smartphone. The platform is going to innovate the engineering for wallet payments, which do non require the second-factor authentication. 
• Indian Information Technology Services corporation Wipro has announced that it has bagged its biggest e'er bargain of $1.5 billion from US-based Alight Solutions that provides technology-enabled health, wealth, HR as well as finance solutions.
• Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri has participated inward the exercise. 
• Indian Navy has signed contract with Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) located inward Visakhapatnam for construction of 2 Diving Support Vessels (DSV).
• Indian pacer Jhulan Goswami became the 1st bowler inward women's cricket to pick 300 International Wickets after reaching the landmark figure inward India's nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka. 
• Indian Pacer RP Singh announced his retirement from cricket, precisely xiii years after making his international debut. He was a component of India's 2007 World T20-winning team, as well as played 82 international matches betwixt 2005 as well as 2011.
• Indian state-owned telecommunication society Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has signed a bargain with Japan's SoftBank as well as NTT Communications to launch 5G meshing service as well as Internet of Things engineering inward India.
• India's 37-year-old wicketkeeper M southward Dhoni became the oldest instrumentalist to captain Bharat inward an ODI after he led the Indian squad against Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan inward Rohit Sharma's absence inward the Asia Cup. 
• India's first of all all-electric hypercar concept, Vazirani Shul, designed as well as developed past times Mumbai-based Vazirani Automotive has been officially unveiled inward the country. The machine comes with an electrical motor on each wheel, making it an all-wheel-drive production with a single-ratio gearbox.
• India's first of all dedicated multi-wavelength infinite observatory ASTROSAT has completed 3 years inward Earth's orbit. Launched on September 28, 2015, ASTROSAT has helped scientists confirm the presence of younger stars inward globular clusters, before believed to comprise exclusively old stars.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Bharat (SBI) is going to to run 10,000 ATMs on solar mightiness inward the adjacent 2 years. At present, the depository financial establishment has 1,200 ATMs which run on solar power.
• India's second-largest information technology services society Infosys has formed a articulation venture with Singaporean belongings society Temasek to back upwards the investment company’s digital transformation. Shveta Arora (Vice President at Infosys) has been appointed every bit the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the novel venture.
• Insurance regulator IRDAI has raised the minimum personal accident embrace for owner-drivers to ₹15 lakh as well as has fixed the premium for the embrace at ₹750 per annum. Earlier, the mandatory embrace was ₹2 lakh for cars as well as ₹1 lakh for two-wheelers. 
• Island land Republic of Mauritius remained the top source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Bharat inward 2017-18 followed past times Singapore, a of late released information past times the Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) stated.
• ISRO Chairman K Sivan announced that Bharat volition larn meshing speeds of over 100 Gbps before the goal of adjacent year. He added that India's GSAT-19, launched inward 2017, as well as the yet-to-be-launched GSAT-11, GSAT-29 as well as GSAT-20 volition together provide high bandwidth connectivity as well as span the digital divide. 
• Junior Shooters Divyansh Singh Panwar as well as Shreya Agarwal bagged the Bronze medal inward the Junior 10m air rifle mixed squad lawsuit at the ISSF World Championship.
• Justice Mukul Mudgal, who headed the Supreme Court-appointed probe into the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, has been named Chairman of the 11-member choice commission to pick this year's Dronacharya as well as Dhyanchand awardees.
• Left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav has go the quickest Indian spinner to accept fifty wickets inward ODI cricket, achieving the feat inward his 24th ODI against Hong Kong inward Asia Cup. The previous quickest Indian spinner to attain the milestone was Amit Mishra, who reached the 50-wicket score inward 32 ODIs.
• Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh's capital) is going to host its 1st International fit inward 24 years after the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket inward India) announced that the Indian cricket squad volition confront the Windies inward a T20I fit on Nov 6.
• Maldives opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has won the Presidential elections after having received 134,616 votes every bit compared to 96,132 votes received past times incumbent President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom.
• Man Kaur, a 102-year-old Chandigarh-based athlete, won the 200m race inward the 100-104 historic flow grouping category at the World Masters Athletics Championships inward Spain.
• Modi inaugurated a novel airdrome inward Jharsuguda. It is first of all airdrome inward Odisha to provide necessary connectivity to Bhubaneswar, Raipur as well as Ranchi nether Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN (UdeDesh Ka AamNaagrik) Scheme.
• Moroccan Defence Minister Abdeltif Loudyi  was on a 2 solar daytime see to India. This was the first of all e'er see of a Moroccan Defence Minister to India. During this see Bharat as well as Kingdom of Morocco stimulate got agreed to elevate bilateral cooperation inward the fields of Defence as well as Security.
• Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio is going to piece of work satellites to provide 4G services in  rural as well as remote areas of India. It volition piece of work capacity from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as well as satellite engineering from Hughes Communications. 
• Multilateral lender Asian Development Bank (ADB) is going to provide US $150 ane K 1000 loan for establishing first of all multi-skills common inward key Indian province of Madhya Pradesh. This novel flagship GSP campus volition live established inward province uppercase Bhopal from where nigh 20,000 people are expected to live benefited.
• Municipal elections were held inward Syrian Arab Republic for the first of all fourth dimension since the civil state of war broke out inward the province inward 2011. Over 40,000 candidates are competing for to a greater extent than than 18,400 council seats.
• National Stock Exchange of Bharat (NSE) as well as London Stock Exchange (LSE) stimulate got signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on creating dual listing route for masala bonds as well as unusual currency bonds of Indian issuers.
• Nepal flagged off a double-decker service betwixt its uppercase Kathmandu as well as the Buddhist pilgrimage town of Bodhgaya (Bihar).
• Nepal has refused to participate inward the 1st e'er articulation military machine exercise with the armies of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical as well as Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) Nations that was hosted past times India.
• Nepal took component inward 'Sagarmatha Friendship-2' a 12-day-long military machine exercise with China. The exercise took identify inward China's Chengdu city.
• New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became the 1st  woman mortal world leader to attend the United Nations General Assembly with a newborn. 
• North as well as South Koreas opened a Liaison component inward the North Korean metropolis of Kaesong for the first of all fourth dimension since the Koreas were divided at the goal of World War II inward 1945.
• One of the "Big Three credit rating agencies (other 2 are Moody's as well as Standard & Poor's), Fitch Ratings inward its Global Economic Outlook has revised upwards India’s growth forecast for electrical flow financial yr (2018-19) to 7.8% from 7.4% projected earlier.
• Pakistan hiked its key involvement charge per unit of measurement past times 100 bps to a three-year high of 8.5%, citing rising inflation as well as concerns over large financial as well as electrical flow job organisation human relationship deficits. The hike comes amid speculation that Islamic Republic of Pakistan may demand some other bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged to implement the country's citizenship laws that would grant citizenship to all Afghan as well as Bangladeshi refugees born on Pakistani soil.
• Policy hollo back tank of the Government of India, NITI Aayog has singed Statement of Intent (SoI) with US multinational estimator engineering corporation Oracle to airplane pilot existent drug supply-chain using blockchain distributed ledger as well as Internet of Things (IoT) software to struggle growing job of counterfeit drugs inward India.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Nepal PM K P Sharma Oli inaugurated 400-bed Nepal-Bharat Maitri Pashupati Dharamshala inward Kathmandu, uppercase of Nepal. 
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina stimulate got launched 3 key projects via video conferencing. They are : Rehabilitation of Kulaura-Shahbazpur subdivision of People's Republic of Bangladesh Railways, 500 MW additional mightiness provide from Bharat to People's Republic of Bangladesh via Bheramara-Baharampur interconnection, fifteen km Akhaura–Agartala Rail Link.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated the construction of the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project through video conferencing. The 130-kilometre-long pipeline volition connect Siliguri inward West Bengal as well as Parbatipur inward Bangladesh's Dinajpur district.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the authorities volition number a policy on electrical vehicles as well as vehicles running on alternative fuels. The novel policy volition live aimed at strengthening e-mobility drive inward the country.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited to the swearing-in ceremony of Maldives' President-elect, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the foundation stone for a ₹13,000-crore projection to revive Talcher fertiliser industrial plant life inward Odisha. Once commissioned, it volition create 1.27 ane K 1000 tonnes of neem-coated urea per annum.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched commencement of piece of work for India’s first of all Coal-gasification based fertilizer industrial plant life with pet coke blending at Talcher (Odisha).
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bharat Post Payments Bank (IPPB) which volition go alive with 650 branches as well as 3,250 access points. The authorities aims to link all 1.55 lakh post offices to the Bharat Post Payments Bank scheme past times Dec 31.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ' Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)' scheme, deemed every bit the world's largest government-funded healthcare programme roofing over fifty crore beneficiaries. This scheme offers an annual embrace of ₹5 lakh to economically weaker sections of society. This is the world's largest world health insurance scheme.
• Prime Ministyer Narendra Modi inaugurated Pakyong Airport close Gangtok inward Sikkim. This is India's 100th airdrome as well as the state's first of all airdrome situated at an height of 4,500 feet inward a higher identify sea level. southward
• Qatar amended its residency laws to allow unusual workers to leave of absence the province without go out permits from their employers.
• Qatar has go the 1st Gulf land to offering permanent residency to expatriates ( a mortal temporarily or permanently residing inward a province other than their native country).
• Rajasthan’s 1st Lion safari was inaugurated at Nahargarh Biological Park. The common is located on Delhi-Jaipur National Highway inward the Aravalli foothills, nearly 12 kilometers from province uppercase Jaipur (known every bit Pink City).
• Russia began delivering the S-300 surface-to-air missile scheme to Syrian Arab Republic which volition make inward 2 weeks. Russian Federation approved the sale after its military machine jet was mistakenly shot downward past times Syrian Arab Republic before this month.
• Russia of late began 'Vostok-2018' at eastern Siberia. This is Russia's biggest military machine exercise since the Cold War, involving about 3 lakh troops, 36,000 vehicles as well as over 1,000 aircraft.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to see Bharat from Oct 4-5. During this visit, he volition attend the 19th India-Russia Annual Summit. The chief highlight of the coming together is probable to live the gifting of 3 Mig-21 fighter jets to Russia.
• Russia's Mikhail Youzhny, who is nicknamed 'Colonel', retired from professional person lawn tennis ane win brusk of 500 career wins.
• Sara Iftekhar, a Pakistani-origin pupil from northern England became the 1st hijab-wearing finalist of the Miss England beauty pageant.
• South Africa entered recession for the first of all fourth dimension since 2009 inward the minute quarter.  Its economic scheme contracted past times 0.7% inward the minute quarter, led past times declines inward the agricultural, carry as well as retail sectors.
• South African conglomerate Naspers-owned online payments service provider PayU has received a licence from the Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) to opened upwards its ain Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC). The licence volition live used to start a novel credit business, PayU Credit. Through the service, PayU volition number personal loans as well as equated monthly instalments for consumers. MD of PayU (India) : Jitendra Gupta.
• South Korea's BTS band became the 1st K-Pop grouping to address the United Nations.
• State-owned Bharat Post Payments Bank (IPPB) as well as private life insurer Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co Ltd (BALIC) stimulate got entered into strtegic partnership to provide life insurance solutions. It volition allow IPPB customers across segments to access broad array of life insurance products as well as services at doorstep.
• State-owned Oil as well as Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has made crude oil as well as gas discoveries inward Madhya Pradesh as well as West Bengal that may potentially opened upwards up 2 novel sedimentary basins inward country. They are category-III basins, having hydrocarbon as well as are considered geologically prospective for exploration.
• State-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has bagged an monastic tell worth Rs. 9,200 crore for provide of 7 Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LRSAM) systems to Indian Navy.
• Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven became the country's first of all leader to live ousted inward a no-confidence vote. 
• Tamil Nadu authorities has announced Scheme for protection of exotic Neela kurinji (Strobilanthus kunthianus) plants that bloom exclusively in ane lawsuit inward 12 years. This scheme comes next complaints that these rare as well as ecologically unique flowers are existence packaged as well as sold on the commercial basis.
• Tamil Nadu has issued an monastic tell banning the manufacture, sale (including online sale) as well as possession of e-cigarettes with immediate effect. 
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became the 2nd Indian society to cross ₹8 trillion inward marketplace capitalisation after Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries. 
• Thailand's Royal Police Cadet Academy has announced it volition non acknowledge woman mortal candidates from the adjacent academic year. The academy, which began admitting woman mortal students inward 2009, has produced nigh 700 policewomen.
• The 182-member Gujarat Assembly passed a nib to increment MLAs' monthly salaries past times over ₹45,000. The MLAs who were before paid ₹70,727 volition at nowadays larn ₹1,16,316, which is effective from Dec 22, 2017, so they volition also have the arrears.
• The 2 solar daytime Regional Conference on Good Governance with Focus on Aspirational Districts was held inward Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh).
• The Andhra Pradesh authorities launched an app titled e-Rythu, to digitise agricultural marketplaces as well as payments. This app volition assist farmers buy, sell as well as have payments for their products through phones inward an slow as well as secure way.
• The Asia Index Pvt Ltd has launched S&P BSE Private Banks Index to stair out the performance of private banks. This index is designed to provide marketplace participants with transparent as well as rules-based benchmark that measures performance of private banks listed inward India.
• The bi-annual talks betwixt Bharat as well as People's Republic of Bangladesh border forces of late held inward New Delhi. The coming together was aimed at increasing bilateral cooperation inward checking trans-border crimes such every bit smuggling of drugs as well as narcotics, cattle lifting as well as gun running across the international border betwixt the 2 countries.
• The biography of Dutee Chand, who rose from abject poverty to go ane of India's biggest sprinting stars, is going to live punished every bit a volume with the entitle "Story so far". The volume is existence written past times journalist, writer as well as filmmaker Sundeep Misra, who has previously authored a biography of hockey legend Dhanraj Pillay.
• The Board of Control for Cricket inward Bharat (BCCI) has hired onetime left-handed Sri Lankan cricketer Nuwan Seneviratne every bit Team India's throwdown specialist to assist Indian batsmen prepare for left-arm fast bowlers inward the Asia Cup. 
• The Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a $455-million loan for a route projection inward rural areas of Andhra Pradesh. The projection aims for construction as well as upgradation of to a greater extent than than 6,000 km of roads connecting about 3,300 rural habitations inward Andhra Pradesh.
• The board of state-run Vijaya Bank gave in-principle approving for merger with Bank of Baroda as well as Dena Bank.
• The BRICS' New Development Bank has approved a $525-million loan for infrastructure projects inward India. The loan aims to amend connectivity of the rural interior with the national as well as province highways.
• The Cabinet approved the New telecom policy titled National Digital Communications Policy-2018. Aim of National Digital Communications Policy-2018 : To attract $100 billion inward investments as well as create 4 ane K 1000 jobs inward the sector past times 2022.
• The Cabinet chaired past times PM Narendra Modi approved Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) to protect income of farmers growing pulses, oilseeds as well as copra. It volition live a mix of sub-schemes involving direct procurement from farmers, involvement of private players for procurement on a airplane pilot basis, as well as paying farmers the deviation betwixt the MSP as well as the selling price.
• The Cabinet cleared a proposal to convert GST Network (GSTN) into a 100% government-owned company. 50% stake volition live owned past times the Centre as well as the remaining past times the states.
• The Defence Ministry announced that Aero Bharat 2019 volition live held inward Bengaluru from Feb 20-24 adjacent year.
• The Defence Research as well as Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flying tested the indigenously developed surface-to-surface tactical missile ‘Prahar’, from Launch Complex-III, ITR, Balasore, Odisha.
• The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) nether Union Ministry of Science as well as Technology has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with International Energy Agency (IEA) for enhancing excogitation for Clean Energy Transition. The MoU seeks to deepen co-operation inward back upwards of create clean unloosen energy innovations to accelerate research, development, as well as demonstration (RD&D) of create clean unloosen energy technologies inward India.
• The EU as well as Islamic Republic of Iran stimulate got announced to create a novel payment scheme to enable legal merchandise with Islamic Republic of Iran inward a bid to avoid the US' sanctions.
• The authorities has appointed a panel nether Bimal Jalan (former Reserve Bank of Bharat governor) to select the adjacent Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) inward the finance ministry.
• The authorities has doubled the Overdraft Cap from ₹5,000 to ₹10,000 nether the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana. The scheme, which before aimed to provide a depository financial establishment job organisation human relationship to every Indian household, volition at nowadays provide a depository financial establishment job organisation human relationship to every individual. The historic flow confine for availing overdraft has been increased to 65 years.
• The authorities has hiked Interest charge per unit of measurement on pocket-sized savings schemes including Public Provident Fund (PPF), which volition at nowadays fetch 8% involvement charge per unit of measurement for the October-December quarter, upwards from existing 7.6%. The 5-year Senior Citizen Savings Scheme volition fetch 8.7%, patch Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme 8.5%.
• The authorities has raised Import duties on nineteen "non-essential items" including air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines as well as jewellery items inward a bid to trim the Current Account Deficit. The total value of imports of these items inward FY18 was nigh ₹86,000 crore.
• The authorities has set upwards a Panel to review the Competition Act to ensure that the legislation is inward describe with the changing job organisation environment. The nine-member panel volition live headed past times Injeti Srinivas (Corporate Affairs Secretary).
• The Haryana cabinet approved a scheme nether which a Monthly pension volition live provided to Acid Attack survivors. Any adult woman or daughter who suffered an acid set on on or after May 2, 2011 volition live eligible for the pension. 
• The Haryana authorities has settled the first of all claim of ₹9,000 nether the world insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat for a infant daughter born inward Karnal's Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College. The scheme's first of all beneficiary Mousami gave nascency to Karishma through a caesarean subdivision on August 17 as well as the claim amount was paid to the treating infirmary on August 31.
• The Home Ministry has announced it volition collect information on Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for the first of all fourth dimension inward the 2021 Census.
• The initiatory General Assembly of International Solar Alliance (ISA) is going to live held on 2nd Oct 2018 inward New Delhi.
• The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully carried out first of all e'er midair refuelling of indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas. The midair refuelling exam conducted involved dry out linkup, important no fuel was truly transferred betwixt IAF Il-78 tanker as well as Tejas fighter jet through its air-to-air refuelling probe.
• The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has commissioned indigenously built patrol vessel ICGS Vijaya inward Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is minute inward the serial of 98 m offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) commissioned past times ICG.
• The Indian Navy has defeated teams from 22 other nations to win Kakadu Cup 2018 which was organised past times the Australian Navy every bit component of its multi-nation maritime exercise. INS Sahyadri had participated inward the Cup which involved swimming, running, crossing H2O as well as dry reason obstacles.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to behavior nineteen missions, including 10 satellites as well as nine launch vehicles, inward the adjacent 7 months betwixt September as well as March. It volition include the launch of India's minute Luna mission Chandrayaan-2.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to set upwards a Satellite reason command station at the North Pole for a "14-orbit coverage" to efficiently download information from India's Earth-observing satellites. The infinite agency already has 2 reason stations, IMGEOS at Telangana's Shadnagar (built inward 2011) as well as AGEOS inward Antarctica.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is setting upwards 3rd launch pad at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh to undertake Gaganyaan manned infinite flying programme. 
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its PSLV-C42 rocket carrying 2 British reason observation satellites from Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota. The 2 satellites, NovaSAR as well as S1-4, are intended to amend UK's disaster administration capabilities.
• The Institute of Nuclear Medicine as well as Allied Sciences (INMAS) has developed India’s first of all indigenous medical kit for protection against nuclear warfare or radioactive leakage. The kit volition ensure protection from serious injury as well as assist faster healing of wounds due to nuclear warfare or radioactive leakage.
• The International Aviation Summit which was organized past times the Airports Authority of Bharat (AAI), Ministry of Civil Aviation as well as International Air Transport Association (IATA) was of late held at New Delhi.
• The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has predicted that India’s unemployment charge per unit of measurement inward 2018 volition remain at 3.5 per cent patch China’s would border upwards from 4.7 per cent to 4.8 per cent.
• The International Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2018 was of late held at Kathmandu (Nepal's capital). Theme of  International Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2018  : “Equality begins with Economic Empowerment”.
• The Internet Society (ISOC) has signed an MOU with Internet Service Providers Association of Bharat (ISPAI) to undertake activities to promote security of network infrastructure inward Bharat to brand the spider web rubber for job organisation as well as consuers alike.
• The Ministry of Health as well as Family Welfare announced implementation of the HIV as well as AIDS (Prevention as well as Control) Act, 2017. The human activity criminalises whatever variety of discrimination against people suffering from AIDS inward terms of treatment, occupation as well as workplace.
• The Nagaland authorities has declared the Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary every bit an elephant reserve making it the 30th reserve for Elephants inward India. This reserve is located inward Monday district of Nagaland as well as spreads over an expanse of 5825 acres (2357 hac).
• The National Aeronautics as well as Space Administration (NASA) launched its most advanced infinite laser, ICESat-2, a $1-billion mission that volition shoot lasers towards reason to rails the planet's melting ice.
• The Nelson Mandela Peace Summit was of late held at New York city. Bharat was represented past times Externatl Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj.
• The Ocean Cleanup foundation (founded past times 24-year-old Dutch innovator Boyan Slat) launched world’s first of all sea cleanup array titled System 001, from San Francisco, marker start of cleanup of Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of marine debris inward North Pacific Ocean. The patch is larger than expanse of France.
• The Oscar-winning duo of composer Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 R Rahman as well as lyricist Gulzar is creating the Anthem vocal for the upcoming Men's Hockey World Cup 2018, which is set to live held inward Odisha afterwards this year.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) asked all Scheduled Commercial Banks with to a greater extent than than 10 branches to appoint an Internal Ombudsman (IO).
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) barred Bandhan Bank from opening novel branches, as well as also ordered freezing of the bank's CEO salary over failure to stick to shareholding rules. Headquartered inward Kolkata, Bandhan, which started every bit a micro-finance society inward 2001, received banking licence past times Reserve Bank of Bharat inward 2014.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has announced that the undivided expanse of the unmarried largest slice of a damaged ₹2,000 annotation must live 88 foursquare cm for a total refund as well as 44 foursquare cm for one-half refund. For exchanging ₹200 notes, 78 foursquare cm of undivided expanse is needed for a total refund, as well as 39 foursquare cm for one-half refund.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has asked Yes Bank's Managing Director as well as CEO Rana Kapoor to stair downward after a term extension upwards to Jan 31, 2019.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has bought Gold for the first of all fourth dimension inward nearly nine years inward the financial yr 2017-18.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has imposed a ₹10 ane K 1000 penalization on Union Bank of Bharat for failing to uncovering as well as study fraud on time.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has imposed a total penalization of Rs 3 crore on 3 state-run banks (Union Bank of India, Bank of Bharat as well as Bank of Maharashtra) for delay inward detection as well as reporting of fraud inward some accounts.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) is going to purchase Government securities (G-secs) worth Rs 10,000 crore on September 19, a displace aimed at inducing liquidity inward the system. The purchase of the authorities securities volition live done through Open Market Operations (OMO).
• The province governments of Punjab as well as Himachal Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)  to build a ₹250-crore ropeway connecting  2 renowned Sikh as well as Hindu shrines. The 3.5 km-long ropeway project, expected to live completed inward 3 years, volition connect the birthplace of Khalsa Panth at Takht Kesgarh Sahib inward Punjab as well as Himachal's Mata Naina Devi temple.
• The Supreme Court lifted the centuries-old ban on entry of women aged betwixt 10 as well as fifty years inward Sabarimala Temple (Kerala), thereby allowing women of all ages to go into the 800-year-old temple.
• The Supreme Court ruled that the linking of a person's Aadhaar to his/her depository financial establishment accounts is non mandatory. However, the courtroom said that a mortal may take away to give Aadhaar voluntarily every bit identity proof. 
• The Supreme Court scrapped parts of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the 1862 law which criminalised homosexuality. With this, the courtroom ruled that homosexuality is non a criminal offense inward Bharat anymore.
• The Supreme Court set upwards a 3-member commission to aspect into issues afflicting Indian prisons as well as recommend steps towards prison home reforms. Head of this Committee : Amitava Roy.
• The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held its 1st-ever coming together on corruption as well as its linkages to global conflicts. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that corruption is linked to illicit trafficking of arms, drugs as well as people every bit good every bit terrorism.
• The Union Cabinet approved the ordinance making Triple Talaq a punishable offence, after the nib to criminalise triple talaq got stuck inward the Rajya Sabha.
• The Union Cabinet cleared a ₹5,500-crore incentive parcel for the Sugar industry. Under the package, the authorities volition give carry subsidies of ₹1,000-3,000 per tonne to saccharide mills, depending on their distance from ports.
• The Union Cabinet has approved National Digital Communications Policy-2018 (NDCP 2018).  It replaces existing National Telecom Policy-2012 to cater to the modern needs of the digital communications sector of India.
• The Union Health Ministry has released Draft Rules on sale of Drugs past times e-pharmacies inward monastic tell to regulate online sale of medicines. The draft rules province that all the e-pharmacies volition stimulate got to live registered compulsorily with the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization. The e-pharmacies volition non live allowed to sell tranquiliser, psychotropic drugs, narcotics as well as habit-forming drugs.
• The Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has constituted a High Level Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – 2018 (HLC-2018) nether Chairmanship of Injeti Srinivas. It volition review existing framework as well as guide as well as formulate roadmap for coherent policy on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
• The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has cleared proposal of Jharkhand Government to rename Nagar Untari town as well as railway station every bit Banshidhar Nagar, after Banshidhar Temple, which is dedicated to Krishna inward Garhwa district of state.
• The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has announced that it is going to participate inward Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) after gap of 9  years. It volition ship squad of officers to Paris to negotiate India’s terms of participation inward PISA 2021.
• The Union Ministry of Tourism has inaugurated India’s first of all tribal circuit projection connecting xiii tourism sites inward Chhattisgarh nether Swadesh Darshan Scheme. The circuit connects Jashpur, Kunkuri, Mainpat, Kamleshpur, Maheshpur, Kurdar, Sarodadadar, Gangrel, Kondagaon, Nathiya Nawagaon, Jagdalpur, Chitrakoot, as well as Tirthgarh inward Chhattisgarh.
• The Union Ministry of Women as well as Child Development had inaugurated a widows’ abode titled ‘Krishna Kutir’ at Vrindavan inward Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Krishna Kutir is especial abode for 1000 widows set nether Swadhar Greh scheme as well as is the largest e'er facility of its variety created past times authorities organization.
• The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the administrative trunk for association football game inward Europe,  has announced that FRG volition host the 2024 European Championship. This is Germany's first of all major football game entitle since the World Cup 2006.
• The US military machine has decided to cancel 300 ane K 1000 dollars assist to Islamic Republic of Pakistan over its failure to accept decisive actions against terror groups.
• The World Hindu Congress (WHC-2018) was held Chicago, USA from 7th to ninth September 2018. Theme of WHC-2018 : “Sumantrite Suvikrante”, which agency - "Think collectively, attain valiantly”.
• The World Summit on Accreditation (WOSA-2018) was of late held New Delhi. Theme of WOSA 2018 : “Challenges as well as Opportunities inward Outcome Based Accreditation”.
• The world's first of all self-driving tram, fitted with multiple radar, LiDAR, as well as photographic idiot box camera sensors, has successfully been tested inward Potsdam, Germany. The tram, which relies on AI algorithms, tin react to trackside signals as well as answer to hazards similar crossing pedestrians as well as vehicles. 
• To boost dairy sector, the Union Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has launched Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 10881 crore. Under this scheme, eligible milk organisations volition live provided financial assistance inward the shape of a loan at 6.5% involvement for edifice an efficient milk procurement scheme as well as other dairy processing infrastructure.
• To ensure a high criterion of cleanliness across the province before Mahatma Gandhi's nascency anniversary (2nd October), Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 'Swachhata Hi Seva' movement.
• To assist scientists, information journalists as well as others uncovering information required for their work, search Engine gaint Google launched a novel search engine called 'Dataset Search'. 'Dataset Search' volition permit people uncovering "datasets wherever they're hosted, whether it's a publisher's site, a digital library," Google said.
• To assist prepare medical students, US-based society Gaumard Scientific has developed a kid robot called HAL. The robot, which is worth about ₹35 lakh. is made of sensors which give the robot a pulse, assist answer to surely questions, bleed as well as convulse.
• To score struggle against malnutrition, the National Nutrition Month (Rashtriya Poshan Maah) is existence observed across Bharat inward September 2018.
• To score the minute anniversary of Surgical Strike carried out past times the Indian Army, Bharat observed a three-day lawsuit titled 'Parakram Parva (पराक्रमपर्व)' from 28th to 30th September 2018.
• To promote local handset production, the authorities has waived basic customs duty on 35 uppercase goods used for making mobile telephone components. Items such every bit motherboard coating machine, PCB assembly loader as well as unloader were exempted from the customs duty.
• Triple jumper Arpinder Singh created history past times becoming the 1st Indian to win a medal inward the IAAF Continental Cup every bit he clinched the Bronze Medal.
• Ukraine has launched annual articulation military machine exercise titled Rapid Trident with USA as well as other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) fellow member countries. Aim of Rapid Trident 2018 : To do countering armed aggression inward atmospheric condition of the hybrid war.
• Union Bank of Bharat has announced that it volition unopen its branch inward the global diamond hub of Antwerp inside a year.
• Union Cabinet has approved MoU signed betwixt Export-Import Bank of Bharat (Exim Bank) as well as fellow member banks nether BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism on Collaborative Research on Distributed Ledger as well as Block chain Technology inward context of evolution of digital economy.
• Union Finance Ministry has doubled Pecuniary confine to Rs. twenty lakh from Rs.10 lakh for filing loan recovery application inward Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRT) past times banks as well as financial institutions. It agency that depository financial establishment or financial establishment or consortium of banks or financial institutions cannot approach DRTs if pecuniary confine amount due is less than Rs twenty lakh.
• Union Government has enhanced its contribution inward State Disaster Response fund (SDRF) from 75% to 90%. Now, Central authorities volition contribute 90% as well as all States volition contribute 10% to the SDRF.
• Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated 3-day Defence & Homeland Security Expo as well as Conference – 2018 inward New Delhi. It was jointly organised past times PHD Chamber of Commerce as well as Industry inward association with Ministry of Micro, Small as well as Medium Enterprises (MSME).
• Union Minister for Science & Technology as well as reason Sciences as well as Environment Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated air pollution command device WAYU (Wind Augmentation PurifYing Unit) for traffic junctions at ITO intersection as well as Mukarba Chowk inward New Delhi.
• Union Ministry for Minority Affairs has launched India's 1st National Scholarship Portal Mobile App (NSP Mobile App). It aims to provide smooth, accessible as well as hassle-free scholarship scheme for students from misfortunate as well as weaker sections.
• Union Ministry of Commerce & Industry has launched National Mission on Government eMarketplace (GeM) for increasing awareness as well as accelerating piece of work of GeM past times major key Ministries, State Governments as well as their agencies.
• Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) as well as Telecommunications Consultants Bharat Ltd (TCIL) stimulate got signed understanding for implementation of e-VidyaBharati as well as e-AarogyaBharati (e-VBAB) Network Project inward Africa.
• Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has launched India’s National Database of Sexual Offenders (NDSO). With this, Bharat became the ninth land to maintain such thorough database. 
• Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to set upwards of state-of-the-art Integrated Control Room for Emergency Response (ICR-ER).
• Union Ministry of Power has launched Chiller Star Labelling Program to encourage deployment of unloosen energy efficient chiller systems inward the country. It was launched every bit component of occasion of 24th World Ozone Day as well as 31st Anniversary of Montreal Protocol, which were observed on 16th September 2018.
• US President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods, intensifying the merchandise state of war betwixt the world's largest economies. mainland People's Republic of China also announced tariffs on US goods worth $60 billion, inward retaliation to the 10% import tariffs.
• US President Donald Trump signed an executive monastic tell enabling sanctions on unusual countries or people who seek to interfere inward the US political process.
• US engineering giant Google has agreed to shop information from its payment service Google Pay inward Bharat every bit mandated past times the Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI).
• US-based aircraft maker Boeing is setting upwards an electronics manufacturing as well as avionics assembly facility inward Bengaluru at an investment of ₹1,152 crore. The 36-acre facility volition live Boeing's second-largest after its Seattle, Washington unit of measurement as well as is said to create nigh 2,600 direct jobs on completion. President of Boeing Bharat : Pratyush Kumar.
• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that the province ranks 1st inward the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
• Uttarakhand passed a resolution to declare Cow the 'Rashtra Mata' (Mother of the Nation).
• Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated Indian Culinary Institute (ICI) inward Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. The chief objective of ICI  is to institutionalize machinery to back upwards efforts intended to preserve, document, promote as well as disseminate Indian Cuisine.
• Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's novel volume titled 'Fear: Trump inward the White House' is of late inward tidings due to it's controversial claim maxim that the US President Donald Trump mocked Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
• West Bengal authorities has made it compulsory for all moving-picture exhibit home halls as well as multiplexes inward the province to shroud Bengali films with immediate effect. 
• Women belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families inward Rajasthan volition before long larn gratuitous mobile phones nether the Bhamashah Yojana.
• World Bank board has approved ambitious 5-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Bharat that is inward describe with Government of India’s objectives of high, sustainable as well as inclusive growth. The framework is aimed at supporting India’s transition to higher middle-income province past times addressing some of its key evolution priorities resources efficient as well as inclusive growth, task creation as well as edifice human capital.
• World number nineteen Naomi Osaka won her maiden Grand Slam entitle after defeating her childhood idol as well as 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams inward the US Open women's singles final.

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