Weekly factsheet for 25 September – 1 October 2022

The following article is a compilation of all the news in short from  25 September – 1 october 2022. This article is for revision purpose. These news were discussed in detail in the General Awareness Quiz . Links are provided in the end. 

• Make in India,, completes 8 years of path-breaking reforms on 25th September 2022.  Launched in 2014.
• According to the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022, Gautam Adani and family , Mukesh Ambani and family have been named as the 2nd richest in India
• REC Ltd. has been accorded the status of a ‘Maharatna’ Central Public Sector Enterprise
• TerraPay, a Dutch(Netherlands ) payments infrastructure company has joined forces with India’s NPCI International Payments (NIPL) to facilitate cross-border transactions for Indian consumers and merchants.
• Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy :Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany’s Darmstadt.
• Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry will launch Swachh Toycathon , a unique competition to make toys from waste
• Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Department of Youth Affairs confers every year the National Service Scheme Award to recognize and reward outstanding contributions towards voluntary community service
• Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan  that promotes ranking of 131 cities in the country for implementing City Action Plans
•  “Global Clean Energy Action Forum-2022” at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States
• The Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) in association with Indian mission in the Guatemala (Latin America) is organizing a Made in India – Trade Show Exhibition on Indian arts & crafts
• CBI has carried out ‘Operation Meghachakra’ at 56 locations in 20 states against the circulation and sharing of child sexual abuse material online.
• CBI Headquarters : Delhi
• CBI Director: Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
• The forthcoming DefExpo 2022, scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar will host the second edition of the India-Africa Defence Dialogue with invites extended to 53 African countries.
• Daniel Spielman has been announced as the winner of the Breakthrough Prize in mathematics.
• Meena Kandasamy has been announced the winner of the Hermann Kesten Prize.
• Dr.Radhika Batra : got 2022 Progress Award
• Ursula von der Leyen  President of the European Commission. :2022 Global Goalkeeper Award
• UCO Bank : first bank to receive the approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to open a special Vostro account with Gazprombank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees (INR).
•  State Bank of India Foundation (SBIF) and WWF India entered into a partnership to generate fine-scale information on the species at a transboundary level
• Former India captain Mr. Dilip Tirkey : new president of Hockey India (HI). 
• Rajiv Bahl as a Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) 
• NPCI approved the re-appointment of Dilip Asbe as the MD and CEO
• United States actress Louise Fletcher Passed away
• Dame Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga of historical novels, has Passed away
• Amazon establishing its first solar project in India in Rajasthan
• Chhattisgarh government  launch a campaign on women’s safety titled ‘Hamar Beti Hamar Maan’ (our daughter, our honour).
• Indian Army and the Defence Geoinformatics and Research Establishment (DGRE) installed the Avalanche Monitoring Radar in north Sikkim
• Sittanavasal :Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu, India. It is known for the Sittanavasal Cave, a 2nd-century Jain cave complex.
• ‘Panch Teerth’ (five key sites associated with B R Ambedkar) :include Amedbkar’s birthplace in Mhow, MP, the place in London where he stayed while studying in UK, ‘Deeksha Bhoomi’ in Nagpur, where he took education and ‘Mahaparinirvan Sthal’ in Delhi, and ‘Chaitya Bhoomi’ in Mumbai.
• Indian Spinner Deepti Sharma Mankaded England player Charlie dean
• JALDOOT : developed by Ministry of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. This app will be used across the country to capture the water level of selected 2-3 wells in a village.
• Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells (RBCs), and consequently their oxygen-carrying capacity, is insufficient to meet the body’s physiological requirements.
• The Center released the “Sign Learn” smartphone app, a 10,000-word lexicon for Indian Sign Language (ISL). Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry
•  Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2020 will be accorded to legendary actress Ms Asha Parekh.
• 13th FICCI Global Skills Summit 2022 on the theme of “Education to Employability – Making It Happen in New Delhi
• Sympho-NE aims to create a roadmap to showcase the unexplored beauty of north-east India and appreciate the tourism sector in the north-eastern region.
• DRDO conducted two successful test flight of Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missile  VSHORADS is a Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPAD) designed and developed indigenously by DRDO
• UNESCOdeclared 28 September as International Day for Universal Access to Information.
• Eliud Kipchoge shattered his own world record  with a time of 2:01:09 to win the Berlin marathon.
• Jhulan Goswami Retirement: The legendary Women’s Cricketer
• Giorgia Meloni is set to become the first female prime minister of Italy
• The G4 grouping comprising India, Japan, Germany and Brazil 
• Indigenously developed special aviation fuel AVGAS 100 LL was launched by the Indian Government. VGAS 100 LL was indigenously developed by the Indian Oil Corporation for the piston engine aircrafts and unmanned aerial vehicles.
• Indian Government has set a new target of 40 per cent reduction in the particulate matter concentration by 2026 in cities under the NCAP.
• NCAP was launched in 2019 as the first-ever national framework for air quality management with time-bound reduction target. It aims to bring down the concentration of PM10 and PM2.5
• TamiraSES project is being jointly implemented restore Thamirabarani river.
  The Asian Development Bank announced a $14 billion assistance to fight food insecurity in Asia Pacific.
• INS Sunayna participated in the capacity building exercise Operation Southern Readiness conducted by Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) at Seychelles
• Australia conducted Kakadu Exercise
• International Translation Day :September 30
• International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste : 29th September 
• World Heart Day :29th September.
• World Maritime Day is celebrated on the last Thursday of September of every year
• Integrated Cryogenic Engines Manufacturing Facility of HAL in Bengaluru
• Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launched the One Week One Lab theme-based campaign
• IT services major HCL Technologies has launched its new brand identity and logo,
• Samsung and Axis Bank have partnered to launch an exclusive co-branded credit card, powered by Visa, and named it the Samsung Axis Bank Credit Card.
• International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) signed an MoU.
• Maharashtra : Chipi greenfield airport in Sindhudurg district 
• Shailendra Singh, Anand-Milind, and Kumar Sanu with the award for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively with the National Lata Mangeshkar Award
• India has climbed to the 40th rank in the Global Innovation Index of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
• Swedish defence firm Saab :manufacturing facility in India for the Carl-Gustaf M4 shoulder-fired weapon system
• Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Anurag Singh Thakur : Swachh Bharat 2022 at Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh from 1st October 2022.
• Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. An Act to provide for the termination of certain pregnancies by registered Medical Practitioners and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
• A three-judge bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud also ruled that under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, the definition of rape must include marital rape
• As part of Iconic Week celebration of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Ministry of Tourism is organizing ‘Paryatan Parv – 2022’ (Tourism Festival) at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai

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