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1. SBI Mutual Fund appointed Ashwani

Bhatia as Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer.

2. State Bank of India appointed Anshula

Kant as Managing Director of the Bank till the
date of her superannuation i.e. September 30,
2020.

3. R Madhavan took over as Chairman and Managing Director of

defense PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

4. Binoy Kumar has been appointed as the as Secretary, Ministry of

Steel, Government of India.

5.  Akshay Kumar was made the first honorary ambassador of Lal
Bahadur Shastri Memorial Foundation.

6.  Poonam Khetrapal Singh was unanimously re-elected as Regional

Director of WHO for another five-year term.

7. Justice Tahira Safdar was sworn in as the first woman chief

justice in Pakistan’s Balochistan High Court.

8. Dr. Arif Alvi, was elected as the new President of Pakistan.

9. Justice Ranjan Gogoi will be the 46th Chief Justice of India.

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1.  Madhya Pradesh launched a first of its
kind initiative called “Mil -Banche” in all
government schools across the state.

2. Suresh Prabhu launched Coffee Connect -

India coffee field force app and Coffee
KrishiTharanga - digital mobile extension
services for all the stakeholders of the coffee
industry. 

3. Pindara Thakur village in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh was recently made

fully digital under Digital India Programme of the Union government.

1. HDFC Bank has retained its top spot for

the 5th consecutive year, in the `WPP and
Kantar Millward Brown’s BrandZ 75 Most
Valuable Indian Brands’ ranking.

2.  The enrolment age for Atal Pension

Yojana has been relaxed further to 65
years, taking into consideration the rise in
average age-expectancy.

3.  National Housing Bank (NHB) has announced a refinance

assistance of Rs 200 crore. Rs 3 lakh in rural areas and up to Rs 6 lakh in
urban areas in the flood-hit state of Kerala.

4. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently bought 8.46 tonne of gold in

the financial year 2017-18.

5. RBI directed all SCBs with more than 10 branches to appoint an

internal ombudsman for a maximum tenure of five years. RRBs are not
included in this directive. This direction of RBI is under ‘Internal
Ombudsman Scheme, 2018’ which gives ombudsman statutory
powers under section 35 A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

6. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company announced the launch of

‘E@Secure’, a Cyber Insurance Policy for individuals.

7.  Recently a financial assistance of Rs. 929.89 crore for Shimla

water supply and sewerage project was approved by the World Bank.

8.  Prime Minister launched the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
with a capital of Rs 14.35 billion at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. IPPB
branches have opened across 650 districts and 3,250 access points. IPPB
has partnered with PNB and Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance for third-
party products like loans and insurance.

9. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has asked banks to

set Bank Aadhaar Kendras in one out of every 10 branches.

10. According to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, Mauritius was top
source of foreign direct investment (FDI) into India in 2017-18 followed
by Singapore.

1. Airtel Payment Bank has partnered with

Empays to enable users to withdraw cash from
ATMs, without the need for a physical debit card.

2. Search engine giant Google has launched

Dataset Search, a new search engine for the
scientific community that will help them make
sense of millions of datasheets present online.

3. BSNL signed in Indian Boxer Mary Kom as the brand ambassador of

the company.

4.  Facebook has announced it will invest more than $1.4 billion to
construct its first data center in Asia in Singapore.

5. KPMG has been appointed by Kerala Government as project

consultant partner for rebuilding state ravaged by recent massive floods.

1. According to the biennial Nuclear Security

Index released by US-based Nuclear Threat
Initiative (NTI), India ranks 19th in the
‘Theft Ranking’ for countries with weapons-
usable nuclear materials.

2.  According to a report by the UN World

Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
(Headquarter: Spain, Madrid), international
tourism hits a record high of 1,323 million international tourist arrivals
across the globe in 2017. India topped the tally in the South Asian
region.

3.  Dr. B.K. Misra from Mumbai has been named for 2018 Dr. B.C.
Roy National Award as an Eminent Medical Person of the Year.
4. Abhay K has recently become the first Indian poet to be invited to
record his poems at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. This
reading series is called: ‘The Poet and the poem’.

1.  US-India Business Council (USIBC), an

American business advocacy group held its
two-day India Ideas Summit in Mumbai.

2. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu visited United

States of America to address the 2nd World
Hindu Congress being held in Chicago.

3. India was the Partner Country in the 87th Izmir International

tradeshow which was held in Turkey.

4. 6th edition of the biennial Bengaluru Space Expo was inaugurated

by ISRO Chairman Dr. K Sivan in Bengaluru. The theme is “Creating
dynamism in Indian space ecosystem”.

5. Indian navy ships and aircraft arrived in Sri Lanka to take part in the
8th edition of joint exercise SLINEX-2018 with Sri Lankan navy.

6.  Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister of Social Justice and

Empowerment attended the 3rd ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting)
Conference on ‘Global Ageing and Human Rights of Older Persons’
held on 5th to 7th September 2018, in Seoul, South Korea.

7.  6th East Asia Summit- Economic Ministers’ Meeting (EAS-EMM)

and 15th India-ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting (AEM) were held in
Singapore. Suresh Prabhu represented India in the summit.

8. Next ASEAN-India Business Summit will be held in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, in November 2018. The theme of the meeting would be:
“Towards Building Strategic.

9.  Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Defence & Homeland Security

Expo and Conference – 2018, in New Delhi.

10. India, Kazakhstan joint army exercise KAZIND will be conducted

between Indian and Kazakhstan Army in Otar region, Kazakhstan.

11.  International Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2018 was held in

Kathmandu, Nepal. Theme: “Equality begins with Economic
Empowerment”.

12. Organised by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and (International

Air Transport Association) IATA, International Aviation Summit was
held in New Delhi.
13.  Kathmandu, Nepal recently hosted the fourth Bay of Bengal
Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
(BIMSTEC) summit. The theme of the summit was ‘Towards a Peaceful
Prosperous, and Sustainable Bay of Bengal Region’.

14.  Minister of State, (IC), for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik, inaugurated
the fourth International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) held in Leiden,
Netherlands. The Congress was jointly organized by International
Maharishi Ayurveda Foundation, Netherlands; All India Ayurvedic Congress,
New Delhi.

15. World coconut day: September 02

16. International Day of Charity: September 05 

17. National Teacher’s Day: September 05 

1.  Supreme Court approved a scheme that

grants a compensation of minimum Rs 4
lakh and maximum Rs 7 lakh to the survivors
of rape and sexual assault. The scheme was
framed by the National Legal Services Authority
(NALSA) in consultation with the Centre.

2.  Minister of External Affairs Sushma

Swaraj and Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman held a 2+2
Dialogue with US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and
Secretary of Defence James N. Mattis to India for the inaugural India-
U.S. Ministerial 2+2 Dialogue.

3. Supreme Court decriminalized part of the law under Section 377

of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) which criminalizes consensual unnatural
sex.

4. Maryland-based Lockheed Martin announced that the wings of F-

16 Block 70 fighter jets will be produced in India as a part of Make in
India‘ initiative.

5.  Written by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, book “Moving On,

Moving Forward – A Year in Office” was released by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.

6. Book named “Experiential Learning – Gandhiji’s Nai Talim” (basic

education) was released by Union Minister of Human Resource
Development Prakash Javadekar, on the occasion of National Teachers’
Day.
7.  Government gets Rs 3,000 crore from Advance Pricing
Agreements (219) with MNCs.

8. Union has approved Jharkhand Government’s proposal to rename

Nagar Untari town and railway station as Banshidhar Nagar, after
Banshidhar Temple, which is dedicated to Lord Krishna.

1.  Major Indian ocean-wide tsunami mock

exercise known as IOWave18 will be
organized by Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. India along with
23 other nations will be participating.

2. Ukraine will conduct joint military

exercise named Rapid Trident with the
United States and other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) member
countries.

1. Former India fast bowler RP Singh has

announced his retirement from cricket.

2. Lewis Hamilton has won the Italian Grand

Prix.

3.  Eighteenth Asian Games concluded in

Jakarta, Indonesia. China topped the
medals tally, India stood at eighth position
with 69 Medals (Gold: 15, Silver: 24, Bronze: 30). Flag-Bearer Opening
Ceremony: Neeraj Chopra (Javelin Throw). Flag-Bearer Closing Ceremony:
Rani Rampal (Hockey). Chef de Mission: Brijbhushan Sharan Singh.

Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the games:  Japanese woman swimmer

Rikako Ikee (18) for winning for winning 6 gold and 2 silver medals.

4.  Former India and Tamil Nadu batsman Subramaniam Badrinath

and England batsman Alastair Cook announced his retirement from all
forms of cricket.

5. India participated in the 1st International Kho-Kho Championship

in England.

1.  Gujarati author and journalist

Bhagwatikumar Sharma passed away. 

2. Maharashtra football player Arthur

Pereira passed away after fighting cancer. 

3. Jain monk Tarun Sagar died following a

long-term illness, at Radhapuri temple, in Delhi.

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