28th September, 2022

1. Indian Railways is installing Real-Time Train Information System (RTIS) to automatically track train movements in real-time.
2. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched an operation named Megha Chakra to curtail the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
3. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has announced to launch the ‘Swachh Toycathon’ – a convergence between the National Action Plan for Toys (NAPT) 2020 and SBM 2.0 – to explore solutions for use of waste in creation or manufacturing of toys.
4. ‘Make in India’ scheme – launched in 2014 – has completed 8 years.
5. Chandigarh airport has been named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary that falls on September 28.
6. Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare will inaugurate “Arogya Manthan 2022” to celebrate four years of implementation of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and one year of implementation of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).
7. Ministry of Rural Development has developed “JALDOOT App” to capture the water level of selected wells in a village.
8. “One Week One Lab” theme-based campaign has been launched to showcase the technological breakthroughs and innovations in each of the 37 CSIR laboratories/institutes spread across the country.
9. The Central govt has provided 7,385 crores to 88 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) from the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS).
10. Indian Oil Corporation has developed the indigenously-developed AVGAS 100 LL, a special aviation fuel meant for piston engine aircrafts and unmanned ariel vehicles.
11. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has set up a corporate advisory group, headed by Pranav R Mehta, a domain expert.
12. Former J&K CM Ghulam Nabi Azad has launched the ‘Democratic Azad Party’.
13. INS Sunayna, an offshore patrol vessel of the Navy based in Kochi, has entered Port Victoria in Seychelles to participate in the annual training exercise Operation Southern Readiness of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF).
14. Plenipotentiary Conference of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was held in Bucharest, Romania.
15. ETC Group has released the “Food Baron 2022: Crisis Profiteering, Digitalization, and Shifting Power”
16. State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has signed an agreement with Petrobras (Brazilian national oil company) for sourcing crude oil from the Latin American nation as part of plans to diversify its sourcing needs.
17. Central government has extended the current Foreign Trade Policy (2015-20) for six months e.f., October 1, 2022 at the request of Export Promotion Councils and leading exporters.
18. WAPCOS Ltd, a central public sector enterprise, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, has filed the Red Herring Prospectus with SEBI for its proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO).
19. Union Bank of India has inaugurated the Ethical Hacking Lab at the Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (CCoE) in Hyderabad.
20. S&P has forecasted 3% growth rate for India in 2022-23.
21. Moody’s Analytics forecasted that global economy will grow at 2.7% in 2022 and slow to 2.3% in 2023.
22. Senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar has been appointed the director general of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation.
23. Italy’s first far right-led government has won the majority in the national elections since World War II.
24. Innerwear firm Lux Industries Limited has appointed cricketer, and president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador for its brand Lux Cozi.
25. World Pharmacist Day; Theme – “Pharmacy united in action for a healthier world”
26. International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear-Weapons
27. September 27 – World Tourism Day; Theme – Rethinking Tourism
28. Elton John (singer) has received the National Humanities Medal from US President Joe Biden for work done by Elton John AIDS Foundation.
29. Norway’s Magnus Carlsen has won the Julius Baer Generation Cup chess online tournament by defeating India’s Arjun Erigaisi.
30. ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 will be held in South Africa.
31. US team has won the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club, North Carolina, US.
32. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) shattered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon 2022 with a marathon time of 2:01:09.
33. Jhulan Goswami (Indian cricketer) has announced retirement.
34. Vice President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar has released the book titled “Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay – Jeevan Darshan Aur Samsamyikta” (five volumes) in New Delhi.

National News

1. Indian Railways is installing Real-Time Train Information System (RTIS) to automatically track train movements in real-time.
   • The RTIS was jointly developed by the Indian Railways and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
   • It is currently being executed by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS).
2. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched an operation named Megha Chakra to curtail the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
3. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has announced to launch the ‘Swachh Toycathon’ – a convergence between the National Action Plan for Toys (NAPT) 2020 and SBM 2.0 – to explore solutions for use of waste in creation or manufacturing of toys.
   • NAPT was introduced to promote the Indian toy industry including traditional handicrafts and handmade toys with the objective of establishing India as a global Toy hub.
   • Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), along with 14 ministries of Central Government, is currently implementing various aspects of the NAPT.
   • The second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM 2.0) was launched on 1st October 2021 to create ‘Garbage Free’ cities by 2026.
   • The competition will be hosted on MyGov’s Innovate India portal.
4. ‘Make in India’ scheme – launched in 2014 – has completed 8 years.
   • Progress made by the scheme –
     • A total of 27 sectors impacted.
     • FDI flows – increased from $45.15 billion in 2014-15 to $83.6 billion in 2021-22
     • FDI investments from 101 countries across 31 UTs and States and 57 sectors in the country.
5. Chandigarh airport has been named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary that falls on September 28.
6. Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare will inaugurate “Arogya Manthan 2022” to celebrate four years of implementation of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and one year of implementation of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).
   • ‘Ayushman Pakhwara’ (fortnight celebration) will be organized from 15th to 30th September 2022.
   • A Digi Health Expo will bring innovators from public and private sector exhibiting innovative digital health solutions.
   • NHA will also present the Ayushman Utkrishtata Puraskaar 2022 (Ayushman Excellence Awards) to felicitate the top performing states, PMAMs (Pradhan Mantri Arogya Mitra) and public hospitals under the AB PM-JAY and best performing states/ UTs, districts, private & government health facilities and digital health solutions under ABDM.
7. Ministry of Rural Development has developed “JALDOOT App” to capture the water level of selected wells in a village.
   • The Jaldoot app will enable Gram Rojgar Sahayak (GRS) to measure the water level of selected wells twice a year (pre-monsoon and post-monsoon).
8. “One Week One Lab” theme-based campaign has been launched to showcase the technological breakthroughs and innovations in each of the 37 CSIR laboratories/institutes spread across the country.
   • It was announced during the first-ever CSIR Leadership Meet attended by the Directors and Head of Departments of all the 37 CSIR labs across the country.
9. The Central govt has provided 7,385 crores to 88 Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) from the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS).
   • The Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) was launched under Startup India initiative in 2016 for mobilizing domestic capital in Indian startup ecosystem.
   • The FFS has committed 11,206 crores in 720 startups.
   • FFS was announced with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crores. The corpus is to be built up over 14th and 15th Finance Commission Cycles (FY 2016-2020 and FY 2021-2025) through budgetary support by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
   • Under FFS, support is extended to SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), which in turn invest in startups.
   • Collectively, the AIFs supported by FFS have a target corpus of over 48,000 crores.
10. Indian Oil Corporation has developed the indigenously-developed AVGAS 100 LL, a special aviation fuel meant for piston engine aircrafts and unmanned ariel vehicles.
11. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has set up a corporate advisory group, headed by Pranav R Mehta, a domain expert.
    • Mehta is the founder and chairman of the National Solar Energy Federation of India and director of the Global Solar Council.
    • India will host the 14th Clean Energy Ministerial in 2023.
    • India’s bio-economy is expected to reach $150 billion by 2025.

State News

1. Former J&K CM Ghulam Nabi Azad has launched the ‘Democratic Azad Party’.

Defence News

1. INS Sunayna, an offshore patrol vessel of the Navy based in Kochi, has entered Port Victoria in Seychelles to participate in the annual training exercise Operation Southern Readiness of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF).
   • The joint training exercise is being attended by representative delegations from the U.S., Italy, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and ship participation from the U.K., Spain and India.

International News

1. Plenipotentiary Conference of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was held in Bucharest, Romania.

Reports and Indices

1. ETC Group has released the “Food Baron 2022: Crisis Profiteering, Digitalization, and Shifting Power”
   • The report examines the leading corporations that control each of 11 key industrial “agrifood” sectors: seeds, agrochemicals, livestock genetics, synthetic fertilizers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals, commodity traders, food processors, Big Meat, grocery retail and food delivery.
   • China’s Syngenta Group is now the world’s largest agrochemical input firm covering seeds, pesticides and fertilizers. Besides, China’s COFCO Group is the second largest agricultural commodity trader in the world after Cargill of the U.S.
   • Industrial agri-food companies in the global south are flourishing by replicating the practices of the global north.
     • For e.g., Mahindra & Mahindra of India that are manufacturing driverless or autonomous tractors that use AI, GPS and other features.
     • The I2U2 grouping of (India, Israel, U.S. and UAE) are creating food parks that would be using technology and Big Data.

Banking and Economy

1. State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has signed an agreement with Petrobras (Brazilian national oil company) for sourcing crude oil from the Latin American nation as part of plans to diversify its sourcing needs.
   • Bharat PetroResources Limited (BPRL), the upstream oil and gas exploration and production subsidiary of BPCL, plans to invest USD 1.6 billion to develop an oil block in Brazil.
2. Central government has extended the current Foreign Trade Policy (2015-20) for six months e.f., October 1, 2022 at the request of Export Promotion Councils and leading exporters.
3. WAPCOS Ltd, a central public sector enterprise, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, has filed the Red Herring Prospectus with SEBI for its proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO).
   • WAPCOS was engaged in engineering consultancy services and construction in the fields of water, power and infrastructure sectors for businesses and communities in India and overseas.
4. Union Bank of India has inaugurated the Ethical Hacking Lab at the Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (CCoE) in Hyderabad.

GDP Forecasts

1. S&P has forecasted 7.3% growth rate for India in 2022-23.
   • 2023-24 GDP growth rate – 6.5%
2. Moody’s Analytics forecasted that global economy will grow at 2.7% in 2022 and slow to 2.3% in 2023.

Appointments

1. Senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar has been appointed the director general of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation.
2. Italy’s first far right-led government has won the majority in the national elections since World War II.
   • Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first female premier.
3. Innerwear firm Lux Industries Limited has appointed cricketer, and president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador for its brand Lux Cozi.

Important Days

1. September 25 –
   • World Pharmacist Day; Theme – “Pharmacy united in action for a healthier world”
   • World Rivers Day (4th Sunday of September); Theme – ‘The importance of Rivers to Biodiversity’
   • Antodaya Diwas (birthday of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay)
2. September 26 –
   • International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear-Weapons
   • World Environment Health Day; Theme – ‘Strengthening Environmental Health Systems for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals’
   • World Contraceptive Day
3. September 27 – World Tourism Day; Theme – Rethinking Tourism

Awards

1. Elton John (singer) has received the National Humanities Medal from US President Joe Biden for work done by Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Sports

1. Norway’s Magnus Carlsen has won the Julius Baer Generation Cup chess online tournament by defeating India’s Arjun Erigaisi.
2. ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 will be held in South Africa.
   • ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 – Bangladesh
   • ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 – England
3. US team has won the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club, North Carolina, US.
   • Presidents Cup is a biennial golf competition between Americans and an international team open to players outside the United States and Europe.
4. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) shattered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon 2022 with a marathon time of 2:01:09.
5. Jhulan Goswami (Indian cricketer) has announced retirement.

Miscellaneous

1. Vice President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar has released the book titled “Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay – Jeevan Darshan Aur Samsamyikta” (five volumes) in New Delhi.

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