Weekly factsheet for 12-17 September 2022

The following article is a compilation of all the news in short from  12-17 September 2022. This article is for revision purpose. These news were discussed in detail in the General Awareness Quiz . Links are provided in the end. 

• United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation : September 12
• National Mission for Clean Ganga organized Himalayan Diwas on September 09,
• Rajasthan government : to provide 100 days of employment to needy families in urban areas on the lines of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA.
• HDFC Bank :Bank on Wheel’ van in Gujarat.
• Axis Bank-PayNearby collaborate: A top executive of Axis Bank stated that partnerships like the one with branchless banking network
• According to Fortune India’s list of ‘India’s Richest’ for 2022, Gautam Adani richest
• UNGA approved Volker Türk of Austria to be the global body’s Human Rights Chief
• NITI Aayog and World Resources Institute (WRI), launched India’s first National Electric Freight Platform- E-FAST India (Electric Freight Accelerator for Sustainable Transport-India)
• Admiral Sunil Lanba has been conferred Singapore’s prestigious military award,
• Bihar :India’s longest rubber dam ‘Gayaji Dam’ on the Falgu River in Gaya
• Odisha government : rainwater harvesting scheme named ‘Community Harnessing and Harvesting Rainwater Artificially from Terrace to Aquifer (CHHATA)
• King Charles III ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom
• International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit (IDF WDS) 2022  in Greater Noida.
• China :first fully solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) named : Qimingxing-50
• An international research team has just announced the discovery of two “super-Earth” planets orbiting LP 890-9, a small, cool star 
• Indian Navy launched Taragiri, the Third Stealth Frigate of P17A in Mumbai, Maharashtra by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL).
• Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Justice Mr. Munishwar Nath Bhandari :Chairman of the Appellate Tribunal under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
• Formula One Italian Grand Prix was won by Max Verstappen.
• 4th Cyber Crime Investigation and Intelligence Summit-2022 organised by the Madhya Pradesh Police.
•  Union Cabinet had approved a policy on long-term leasing of Railways’ land as well as a proposal to develop 300 Gati Shakti cargo terminals over the next five years.
• 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): Samarkand in Uzbekistan
• The SETU(Supporting Entrepreneurs in Transformation and Upskilling) initiative : to connect Indian entrepreneurs with investors in the US
• Dr. Kalubhai: Science behind Surya Namaskar
• Pavan C Lall, book titled ‘Forging Mettle: Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story,‘
• According to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) rules for data protection, PhonePe declared that it had tokenized 14 million credit and debit cards
• Former director general – Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Braj Basi Lal Passed away
• Former Chief Justice of India Kamal Narain Singh passed away
• All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), under the Ministry of Ayush, has launched the Ayurveda Day 2022 programme.
• Khadi India organised an Exhibition and a Fashion Show ‘Aheli Khadi’ at NIFT Gandhinagar
• HPCL and the Indian Army  implementing a CSR project to coach and mentor less privileged girl students : project is known as ‘Kargil Ignited Minds’,
• Indian Army’s Kharga Corps and the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted a joint exercise ‘Gagan strike’ in Punjab.
• HSBC committed Rs 125 crore over the next 5 years to support green causes like wetland conservation and energy transition projects in India.
• Max Life Insurance Company Ltd has launched ‘Smart Flexi Protect Solution’, 
• The month of September is recognized as International PCOS Awareness Month.
• US Air Force Global Strike Command successfully test-fired Minuteman III (Minuteman III ICBM) missile
• Operation London Bridge is the planning of events in the UK following the death of the head of state
• Norway central bank develops National digital currency using Ethereum
• City of Los Angeles : September 17 Squid Game Day
• Uttar Pradesh :first state in India to construct 8,642 Amrit Sarovar (Lakes) in India.
• The military camp at Kibithu Garrison,  in Arunachal Pradesh, renamed as ‘Gen Bipin Rawat military garrison’.
• Army Chief General Manoj Pande visited the Ladakh sector to review Exercise Parvat Prahar
• Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set to be appointed the 14th Attorney General for India again after KK Venugopal
• Shahrukh Khan : ambassador of Burjheel Holdings
• National Defense MSME Conclave and Exhibition in Kota, Rajasthan.
• World dairy summit : Greater Noida
• SCO summit : Samarkand, Uzbekistan
• HDFC Bank,  first bank in the country to issue an Electronic Bank Guarantee (e-BG) in partnership with National E-Governance Services Limited (NeSL).
• The 2021 Global Estimates for Modern Slavery, which was recently released by the International Labour Organization (ILO),
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly published a report titled “Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report”.
• Andhra Pradesh has ranked one on the list of states in attracting industrial investments i
• Delhi : ‘country’s first virtual school’ called the ‘Delhi Model Virtual School’,
• Roger Federer Retirement:  following the Laver Cup in London.
• Robin Uthappa has announced his retirement from all forms of Indian cricket
• Virat Kohli :the first cricketer who have notched up 50 million followers on Twitter.
• Rahul Sharma, an Indian spinner, has declared his retirement from both local and international cricket.
• Indore to become the country’s first ‘Smart City’ with ‘Smart Addresses’:
• India has launched Joint Whitepaper on ‘Urban Wastewater Scenario in India’, with Denmark at World Water Congress and Exhibition 2022 in Copenhagen.
• National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) : Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005 to protect the child rights and other related matters in the country.
• P.C. Balasubramanian (PC Bala) authored  book “Rajini’s Mantras: Life lessons from India’s most­loved Superstar”
• world’s largest museum of Harappan culture is coming up in Rakhigarhi in Haryana
• Google acquire Mandiant: Google for $5.4 billion acquired Cybersecurity company Mandiant
• Twitter announced the availability of Twitter Circle
• ANGAN 2022 organised by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, in collaboration with Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC) under the Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP)
• Eight African cheetahs are all set to move from Namibia into their new habitat at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, the five female and three male cheetahs
• Dr Laurie Marker, who has been an advisor to the Indian government on the cheetah relocation project
• Pranav Anand from Bengaluru, Karnataka became India’s 76th Chess GrandMaster
• Chainalysis published its global crypto adoption index for 2022 :India ranking fourth in the list, two spots down from last year ,the global index is led by Vietnam for the second consecutive year
• Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) in West Bengal’s Darjeeling
• World Patient Safety Day is observed every year on 17 September
• In India, Engineer’s Day is celebrated on September 15 every year.
• World Ozone Day or the International Day for the preservation of the Ozone Layer is observed on the 16th of September
• India is going to have its first Forest University:Telangana
• Jharkhand has become the third state after Bihar and Odisha in eastern India to have Food Security Atlas for its rural areas.
• The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved the acquisition of 100 percent equity of Indiaideas.com (Billdesk) by PayU Payments.
• Kantar’s BrandZ report said: IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services became India’s most valuable brand in 2022,
• CSIR’s popular science magazine “Vigyan Pragati” : National Rajbhasha Kirti Award
• SEBI chief M. Damodaran to examine and suggest appropriate measures to address regulatory issues to scale up investments by venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE).
• BVR Subrahmanyam (lAS) new Chairman & Managing Director of the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO).
• Sanjay Kumar Rakesh :managing director of the CSC e-Governance

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