PV Sindhu became the 1st Indian to win badminton World Championships gold by beating Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in Basel. It was Sindhu's 5th World Championships medal. She won a silver in 2016 Rio Olympic Games, a silver at Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
BAI announced a cash reward of ₹ 20 lakh for PV Sindhu.
The Central Vigilance Commission has constituted Advisory Board for Banking Frauds headed by former Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin to examine bank fraud over Rs 50 crore and recommend action.
The ABBF is formed in consultation with the RBI.
PM Modi has announced to celebrate September as a month of nutrition to create awareness to fight malnutrition among children, particularly the girl child. In 2018, Gujarat launched a project, Poshan Abhiyan to eradicate malnutrition among children.
PURNA project was also launched by Gujarat.
Government has proposed a set of guidelines to regulate & maintain quality and safety of the products & processes. Regulations will oversee the use and spread of hundreds of NAIP & NAP to prevent nanoparticle toxicity in humans & the environment.
Dept of biotechnology (Min of Science &Tech) unveiled the Draft.
Komalika Bari became recurve cadet world champion at the World Archery Youth Championships in Madrid. She defeated Sonoda Waka of Japan in the final. Bari is the 2nd recurve cadet world champion (U-18) after Deepika Kumari who won the title in 2009.
India won a gold in the compound junior mixed pair event.
A National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology was inaugurated in Coimbatore. The centre would study the movement of environmental contaminants such as pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, etc & drugs via food chain & their harmful effects on birds.
Min of Envi & Forest Prakash Javadekar inaugurated the centre.
PM Narendra Modi will attend the 45th edition of G7 Summit in Biarritz, France. He will address sessions on environment, climate, oceans & digital transformation. The summit will focus on fighting income and gender inequality & protecting biodiversity.
First summit of G7was held at Rambouillet, France, in 1975.
National Housing Bank will provide additional liquidity support of Rs 20,000 crore to housing finance companies to boost credit support for the purchase of houses. It will increase the total liquidity support to Rs 30,000 crore.
National Housing Bank is headquartered in New Delhi.
Suzuki Ecstar rider Alex Rins has won the British Grand Prix by defeating the world champion Marc Marquez (Honda rider). He won the race for the first time since 2014. Maverick Vinales took the third position followed by Valentino Rossi.
Rins pipped Marquez by a margin of 0.013 seconds.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged two orders of Rs 2500 crore from NTPC for emission control equipment for thermal power plants. The orders involve supply and installation of flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) systems.
BHEL ,current CEO: Nalin Singhal