29th September, 2022

1. For the first time, all the 23 IITs of the country will organize a mega Research & Development Fair, named ‘IInvenTiv’, to be held at the IIT-Delhi on October 14-15, 2022.
2. Central Govt has set a new target of a 40% reduction in particulate matter concentration in cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) by 2026.
3. 13th edition of FICCI Skill Summit was organized at New Delhi on the theme of ‘Education to Employability – Making it Happen’.
4. Bathukamma is the state festival of Telangana, which falls in September or October based on the Satvahanna calendar.
5. Odisha became the first state in India to start an Encyclopaedia on Tribal Communities to document their age-old and unique traditions.
6. President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, has inaugurated the Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing Facility of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Bengaluru.
7. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted two successful test flights of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missiles capable of neutralising low altitude aerial threats at short ranges.
8. Swedish defence major Saab has announced to set up a manufacturing facility in India for production of its Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon systems.
9. Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) has successfully demonstrated its Loitering munition’s ability to strike targets during tests at Pokhran, Rajasthan.
10. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has successfully crashed into asteroid Dimorphos, the minor moon of the asteroid Didymos.
11. Dubai has introduced vending machines- ‘BREAD FOR ALL’ to distribute bread free among the poor as consumer prices surged in the emirate.
12. India has attended the Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) Foreign Ministers meeting as an observer in US to support the Pacific region.
13. Asian Development Bank has announced a USD 14 billion fund to tackle the food security crisis in the Asia-Pacific region, emanating from climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war, for a period of 2022 to 2025.
14. Fintech unicorn Razorpay has acquired PoshVine (fintech startup).
15. JMC Projects (India) has signed a contract to develop the Hanimaadhoo International Airport Development Project in Maldives.
16. The central government has appointed C S Rajan as the Non-Executive Chairman of IL&FS Ltd.
17. Britannia Industries Ltd. has appointed Rajneet Singh Kohli as the company’s CEO and Varun Berry as its MD.
18. Veteran actor Asha Parekh will be conferred the 52nd Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2020.
19. Britain’s Indian-origin Home Secretary Suella Braverman has won the first-ever Queen Elizabeth II Woman of the Year award at a ceremony in London.
20. Khosta-2 variant of coronavirus has been detected in Russian bats in Sochi National Park in Russia.
21. “WILDLIFE INDIA@50 Saving the Wild, Securing the Future” has been authored by Manoj Kumar Misra.

National News

1. For the first time, all the 23 IITs of the country will organize a mega Research & Development Fair, named ‘IInvenTiv’, to be held at the IIT-Delhi on October 14-15, 2022.
   • The event is aimed at creating holistic awareness around the research and innovation work being done by the IITs.
   • IInvenTiv is a mega fair on research and development that aims to promote innovation-led growth and development of affordable technologies in line with the government’s flagship initiatives like Make in India and Digital India.
2. Central Govt has set a new target of a 40% reduction in particulate matter concentration in cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) by
   • Earlier, the goal was 20-30% reduction by
   • According to the Union Environment Ministry, 95 of the 131 non-attainment cities covered under the NCAP have witnessed an “overall improvement” in PM10 levels in 2021 as compared to 2017 levels.
3. 13th edition of FICCI Skill Summit was organized at New Delhi on the theme of ‘Education to Employability – Making it Happen’.
   • The Summit would look from the National Education Policy’s perspective and focus on how India can become the “Skill Capital of the World” keeping the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) as an underpinning theme.

State News

1. Bathukamma is the state festival of Telangana, which falls in September or October based on the Satvahanna calendar.
   • It is also celebrated in parts of Andhra Pradesh. It is celebrated for 9 days.
   • In Telugu, ‘Bathukamma’ means ‘Mother Goddess come Alive’.

2. Odisha became the first state in India to start an Encyclopaedia on Tribal Communities to document their age-old and unique traditions.
   • As per the 2011 Census, tribal people constitute 22.85% of Odisha’s total population.
   • Though their numbers as a percentage of the total population are higher in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
   • With 62 tribes, Odisha has the most diverse tribal communities found in the country.

Defence News

1. President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, has inaugurated the Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing Facility of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in
   • She also laid the foundation stone for the Zonal Institute of Virology (South Zone) virtually on the occasion.
2. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted two successful test flights of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missiles capable of neutralising low altitude aerial threats at short ranges.
   • VSHORADS missiles were launched from a ground-based portable launcher at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) of the DRDO at Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha.
   • The missile is a Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPAD) designed and developed indigenously by DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad.
3. Swedish defence major Saab has announced to set up a manufacturing facility in India for production of its Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon systems.
   • It will be the firm’s first manufacturing facility for Carl-Gustaf M4 outside Sweden.
   • The production of the shoulder-fired weapons having a range of 1,500 metres will start in 2024.

4. Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) has successfully demonstrated its Loitering munition’s ability to strike targets during tests at Pokhran, Rajasthan.
   • The munitions are called ALS 50.

International News

1. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has successfully crashed into asteroid Dimorphos, the minor moon of the asteroid Didymos.
   • Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs).
   • The probe was launched in November 2021.
2. Dubai has introduced vending machines- ‘BREAD FOR ALL’ to distribute bread free among the poor as consumer prices surged in the emirate.
3. India has attended the Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP) Foreign Ministers meeting as an observer in US to support the Pacific region.

Banking and Economy

1. Asian Development Bank has announced a USD 14 billion fund to tackle the food security crisis in the Asia-Pacific region, emanating from climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war, for a period of 2022 to 2025.
   • The announcement was made at ADB’s 55th annual meeting at its headquarters in Manila, Philippines from September 26-30.
   • Nearly 1.1 billion people lack healthy diets due to poverty and food prices in Asia and the Pacific, which have soared to record highs this year.
   • While USD 3.3 billion of the total funding is used in 2022, the rest of USD 10.7 billion will be spread over 2023-25.
2. Fintech unicorn Razorpay has acquired PoshVine (fintech startup).
   • Founded in 2011, PoshVine offers payments-linked loyalty and engagement solutions to banks, payment networks, and businesses.
3. JMC Projects (India) has signed a contract to develop the Hanimaadhoo International Airport Development Project in Maldives.
   • India is providing $800 million financing for this project.

Appointments

1. The central government has appointed C S Rajan as the Non-Executive Chairman of IL&FS Ltd.
   • Nand Kishore, who was serving as an executive director, has been made the Managing Director.
2. Britannia Industries Ltd. has appointed Rajneet Singh Kohli as the company’s CEO and Varun Berry as its MD.

Awards

1. Veteran actor Asha Parekh will be conferred the 52nd Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2020.
2. Britain’s Indian-origin Home Secretary Suella Braverman has won the first-ever Queen Elizabeth II Woman of the Year award at a ceremony in London.

Miscellaneous

1. Khosta-2 variant of coronavirus has been detected in Russian bats in Sochi National Park in Russia.
2. “WILDLIFE INDIA@50 Saving the Wild, Securing the Future” has been authored by Manoj Kumar Misra.

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