This year, GST Revenue collection has gone up last month & shows an upward trend as compared to August.Total gross GST revenue collected in September was Rs. 94,442 crores. Sixty-seven lakh GSTR 3B Returns have been filed for the month of August so far.
GST introduced via- 122nd Constitutional amendment bill.
RBI has announced that it will inject 36,000 crore rupees into the system through the purchase of government bonds in October to meet the festival season demand.The auction is a part of Open Market Operations (OMOs).
Urjit Patel is the governor of RBI.
On Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, IIT Mumbai has organized a unique program to train more than 1 lakh school students across the country on how to assemble solar lamps. The objective is to sensitize them about the importance of solar technology.
Solar Mamas: A group of African students trained in India.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of ‘immune checkpoint therapy,’ a cancer treatment. The discovered treatment takes advantage of the immune system’s ability to attack cancer cells.
Emil Adolf von Behring- First Medicine Nobel Prize Winner.
The 23rd meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council was held at Kolkata. The meeting was attended by the Chief Ministers or minister representative of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha. Meeting aims to foster Inter-State co-operation and co-ordination.
State’s Reorganization Act, 1956 sets 5 zonal council.
Russia may train Indian astronauts at a space training centre near Moscow before they fly India’s first manned mission Gaganyaan in 2022, widening in the process the four-decade-old partnership in the space sector.
Roscosmos - Russian space agency.
South Korea has begun clearing mines from two sites inside the heavily fortified border with North Korea under a package of tension-reduction deals between the rivals. The Koreas' militaries agreed on a range of deals aimed at lowering their rivalry.
Seoul is the capital of South Korea.
Ambiguity overcharging protocol is likely to subside with government accepting the Europe-based combined charging system (CCS) for electric vehicles. CCS uses a single connector for both Alternate Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC).
India's first electric car was launched in 2001 by REVA.
The government has permitted imports of pet coke, used for fuel purpose, by graphite electrode industry. Import of pet coke for fuel purpose is prohibited. However, the import was allowed to only four industries so far.
Petcoke is over 90% carbon and emits more CO2
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved the takeover of IL&FS board by government nominees, saying mismanagement at the crisis-ridden financier makes it a fit case of supersession of the board under Article 241 of the Companies Act.
Justice Eradi committee suggested NCLT resolve insolvency.