National Sports Awards-2018 announced. Mirabai Chanu and Virat Kohli won Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. Mirabai Chanu is Weightlifting champion while Virat Kohli is associated with cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar is the only sportsman who received Bharat Ratna
Overall top performing university in inter-university tournaments is given Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy. For the year 2017-18 MAKA Trophy was awarded to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
Maulana Azad was first Education Minister of Independent India.
As per UNDP report, in 2015 global average suicide rate for men was 16.05 per 1 lakh people; for women-5.24. In India suicide rate for men 17.9 while for women it was 14.2. The suicide rate among women in India was among the highest in the world (7th/183).
Women’s average age is more than men’s average age.
DRDO successfully flight tested the indigenously developed surface-to-surface tactical missile Prahar. Prahar is a contemporary weapon system capable of carrying multiple types of warheads and neutralizing a wide variety of targets.
Akash is Surface to Air missile defence system.
The first-of-its-kind national sex offenders’ registry is launched which has names and details of some 4.4 lakh people convicted for various sexual offences across the country. The database is for those convicted for sexual offences 2005 onwards.
The database will be maintained by National Crime Records Bureau
Cyclonic storm 'DAYE' hits Odisha coast. The cyclonic storm brought heavy to very heavy rainfall in many places. The cyclone system lay centred over south Odisha, about 150-kilometre east-south-east of Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) was formed in 1875.
3rd International Business Conference ‘MahaBiz 2018’ will be held in Dubai. MahaBiz is a bridge for business opportunities between India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. GCC is a political and economic alliance of 6 middle eastern countries.
GCC headquartered at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Tamil Nadu govt has announced a novel scheme for the protection of the exotic Neela Kurinji plants that flower only once in 12 years. Following complaints that these rare and ecologically unique flowers are being packaged and sold on commercial basis.
The Neela Kurinji is native to the Western Ghats only.
The Gujarat government has doubled the monetary assistance to farmers under the state-run Farmers' Accident Insurance Scheme. The insurance scheme covers over 2.5 crore farmers who own agricultural land in the state.
Wheat is a Rabi crop and not a Kharip Crop.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has written to the Vice-Chancellors of all universities to celebrate Surgical Strike Day on September 29 to mark the event along the Line of Control that day in 2016.
UGC was established in 1965 by statute.