06th September, 2023

1. Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and Metahave entered into partnership for digital skilling of students, educators, and entrepreneurs.
2. Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has launched the Malaviya Mission – Teachers Training Programme by the University Grants Commission at Kaushal Bhawan, New Delhi.
3. Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has unveiled the G20 Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals Dashboard.
4. Department of Posts has entered into an agreement with Bigfoot Retail Solution Pvt Ltd (Shiprocket), to enhance e-commerce exports by leveraging India Post’s extensive presence and reliable shipping solutions.
5. President Droupadi Murmu has unveiled a 12-foot-high statueof ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ and inaugurated a ‘Gandhi Vatika’ at Gandhi Darshan near Rajghat in Delhi.
6. Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh (HP) has launched Mukhya Mantri Sporting Abilities, Rebuilding Aspirations and Livelihood Scheme (SABAL) from Nadaun in district Hamirpur, HP during the event jointly organized by Sarv Shiksha Abhiyanand Sampark Foundation.
7. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the inclusion of pre-sanctioned credit lines as funding accounts in Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
8. Indian Bank Limited has collaborated with IBMfor the deployment of innovative front-end banking applications.
9. Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and their Control (Invasive Alien Species Report) has been released.
10. 5th September- National Teacher’s Day
11. 5th September- International Day of Charity
12. International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships 2023 held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 14th August to 1st September 2023 has been concluded.
13. Divya Deshmukh has won the women’s rapid title of Tata Steel Chess India 2023 Tournament at the National Library in Kolkata.
14. Amul has been named as the official sponsor of the Indian Contingent for the 19th Asian Games 2022 to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8, 2023.
15. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL), to provide long-term financial assistance to renewable energy projects.
16. Union Ministry of Education has signed memorandum of understanding with Adobe to help children develop creative expression in classrooms using the application Adobe Express.
17. India has entered into memorandums of understandings (MoUs) with eight countries, to offer them India Stack and digital public infrastructure (DPI).
18. Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman and Managing Director(CMD) ofCognizant India has been appointed as Chairperson of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).
19. Sato Kilman has been elected as the Prime Minister of Vanuatu for the 5th time.

National News

1. Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and Metahave entered into partnership for digital skilling of students, educators, and entrepreneurs.
• 3 Letters of Intent (LoI) have been exchanged between Meta and key institutions, namely the National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
• Within the next three years, Meta plans to train 500,000 entrepreneurs in digital marketing through its partnership with NIESBUD.
  • NIESBUD is a premier organization of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, engaged in training, consultancy, research and publication in order to promote entrepreneurship and Skill Development.

Source: ET

2. Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has launched the Malaviya Mission – Teachers Training Programme by the University Grants Commission at Kaushal Bhawan, New Delhi.

Highlights of the mission

• The Mission aims to enhance the capabilities of faculty members in higher educational institutions.
• The program will work towards building the capacities of 15 lakh teachers in higher education institutions (HEIs) across India.
• It will establish 111 Malaviya Mission centres throughout the country to ensure widespread coverage.
• The program aligns with the goals of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
• The training program will focus on 8 thematic areas-
  • Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education
  • Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS)
  • Academic Leadership
  • Governance and Management
  • Higher Education and Society
  • Research and Development
  • Skill Development
  • Student Diversity and Inclusive Education
  • Information and Communication Technology
• Human Resource Development Centres (HRDCs) have also been renamed as Madan Mohan Malaviya Teachers’ Training Centre.

Source: PIB

3. Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has unveiled the G20 Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals Dashboard.
• The dashboard will serve as a comprehensive online public platform, amalgamating the collective knowledge of the G20 Tourism Working Group.
• It consolidates survey results, case studies, and best practices from G20 countries.

Source: NoA

4. Department of Posts has entered into an agreement with Bigfoot Retail Solution Pvt Ltd (Shiprocket), to enhance e-commerce exports by leveraging India Post’s extensive presence and reliable shipping solutions.
• This agreement will facilitate technical integration between Dak Ghar Niryat Kendra (DNK) and Shiprocket, enabling India-based sellers using Shiprocket to generate electronic Postal Bill of Export (PBE) and shipping labels directly from the Shiprocket platform

Source: PIB

5. President Droupadi Murmu has unveiled a 12-foot-high statueof ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ and inaugurated a ‘Gandhi Vatika’ at Gandhi Darshan near Rajghat in Delhi.

Source: ET

State News

1. Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh (HP) has launched Mukhya Mantri Sporting Abilities, Rebuilding Aspirations and Livelihood Scheme (SABAL) from Nadaun in district Hamirpur, HP during the event jointly organized by Sarv Shiksha Abhiyanand Sampark Foundation.
• The scheme intends to improve the lives of specially-abled children in the state by integrating them into the mainstream.

About the scheme

• The State Government plans to support approximately 400 schools in Hamirpur, Solan, and Shimla districts to provide essential facilities and opportunities to specially-abled children.
• They have also allocated a 2% reservation in government jobs for such individuals. The education stipend for specially-abled children will increase to 1000.
• The HP government envisages to empower more than 7,000 specially-abled children in HP.

Source: HP

Banking and Economy

1. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the inclusion of pre-sanctioned credit lines as funding accounts in Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
   • This will be applicable to Scheduled Commercial Banks, excluding Payment Banks, Small Finance Banks, and Regional Rural Banks.
   • Before this expansion, UPI only allowed linking of savings accounts, overdraft accounts, prepaid wallets, and credit cards.
     • Now, payments through these pre-sanctioned credit lines, issued by Scheduled Commercial Banks to individuals, can be made through the UPI system with the prior consent of the individual customers.
   • Banks can establish terms and conditions for the use of these credit lines, including credit limits, credit periods, interest rates, in accordance with their board-approved policies.

Source: ET

2. Indian Bank Limited has collaborated with IBMfor the deployment of innovative front-end banking applications.
   • The Collaboration is a part of Indian Bank’s initiative Project PARADISE(Performance Augmentation by Resource Aggregation in Distributed Environment).
   • The collaboration aims to accelerate the bank’s modernisation path with flexible and secure infrastructure for deploying new front-end banking applications, while addressing the business growth of the Core Banking Solution workloads of the bank.

   Source: BS

Reports and Indices

1. Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and their Control (Invasive Alien Species Report) has been released.
   • Published by: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
   • IAS are plants, animals, pathogens and other organisms that are non-native to an ecosystem, and which may cause economic, environmental harm or adversely affect human health.
     • All Alien species are not invasive species.

   Key highlights of the report

   • 37,000 alien species have been introduced out of which 3,500 are invasive alien species.
   • Invasive species: One of the major drivers for bio-diversity loss
     • The other four are land and sea use change, direct exploitation of organisms, climate change, and pollution.
   • Play a key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions, damage by IAS accounts global economy losses exceeding $423bn annually in 2019.
   • Response of countries
     • In December 2022, governments have agreed to reduce the rate of introduction and establishment of invasive alien species by at least 50% by 2030under target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Source: IE

Important Days

1. 5th September- National Teacher’s Day
• Purpose: To commemorate the birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the country’s first Vice President and former President, scholar, philosopher, and Bharat Ratna awardee, who was born on this day in 1888.
• First celebrated: 5th September 1962, 77th birthday of Dr. Radhakrishnan.
• On the occassion of the National Teachers Day 2023, President of India, Droupadi Murmu, has conferred the National Award to Teachers’ 2023, to 75 selected Teachers across India at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

Source: LM

2. 5th September- International Day of Charity
   • Purpose: To sensitise and mobilise people, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and stakeholders all around the world to help others through volunteer and philanthropic activities.
     • To commemorate the anniversary of the passing away of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
   • The first-everInternational Day of Charity was observed on 5th September

   Source: UN

Sports

1. International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships 2023 held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 14th August to 1st September 2023 has been concluded.
   • India has won 14 medals(6 golds and 8 bronze) and secured 3rd
   • China has topped the medal tally with 28 medals followed by Ukraine in 2nd place with 12 medals.
   • ISSF World Championship 2023 is a qualifying event for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
   • India’s medal winners
     • Tiyana, Sakshi Suryavanshi and Kirandeep Kaur – Gold (50m pistol women’s team)
     • Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Niraj Kumar and Akhil Sheoran – Gold (50m rifle 3 positions men’s team)
     • Shiva Narwal and Esha Singh – Gold (mixed 10m air pistol team)
     • Amanpreet Singh – Gold (men’s 25m standard pistol)
     • Rhythm Sangwan, Esha Singh and Manu Bhaker – Gold (women’s 25m standard pistol)
     • Mehuli Ghosh, Tilottama Sen and Ramita – Gold (10m air rifle women’s team)

     Source: Olympics.com

2. Divya Deshmukh has won the women’s rapid title of Tata Steel Chess India 2023 Tournament at the National Library in Kolkata.

Source: ToI

3. Amul has been named as the official sponsor of the Indian Contingent for the 19th Asian Games 2022 to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8, 2023.

Source: TH

Memorandum of Understanding

1. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL), to provide long-term financial assistance to renewable energy projects.

2. Union Ministry of Education has signed memorandum of understanding with Adobe to help children develop creative expression in classrooms using the application Adobe Express.
   • Under the programme, Adobe will provide schools across the country with free access to Adobe Express Premium and the professional development of educators.
   • Also, training and certification in creativity and digital literacy will be provided to about 20 million students and 5,00,000 teachers by 2027 using Adobe Express-based curriculum.

   Source: TH

3. India has entered into memorandums of understandings (MoUs) with eight countries, to offer them India Stack and digital public infrastructure (DPI).
   • The countries are- Armenia, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Papua New Guinea and Mauritius.

Source: HBL

Appointments

1. Rajesh Nambiar, Chairman and Managing Director(CMD) ofCognizant India has been appointed as Chairperson of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM).
   • Nasscom is the premier trade body and chamber of commerce of the tech industry in India and consists of over 3,000 member companies.
   • The members include various industry stakeholders, ranging from startups to multinational firms and from products to services, global capability centers to engineering companies.

   Source: BS

2. Sato Kilman has been elected as the Prime Minister of Vanuatu for the 5th time.
• Vanuatu is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean.

Source: UNI

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