Yashaswini Singh Deswal won gold in the women's 10 meter Air Pistol event at the ISSF World Cup at in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil securing an Olympic quota for India.
World no.1 Olena Kostevych of Ukraine claimed the silver
Entire month of September is to be celebrated as the Rashtriya Poshan Maah. 2019 theme is Complementary Feeding. PM's Overreaching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment - POSHAN Abhiyaan is a multi- ministerial convergence addressing malnutrition
Vision of the scheme is to fight malnutrition by 2022
Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been appointed as the new Governor of Maharashtra while former Union Minister Arif Mohammed Khan takes the responsibility of Kerala governor. Bandaru Dattatraya will be the new Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
President gives the oath of affirmation the respective Governors
No. of transactions via real-time payments system, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), were 1.2 times higher than number of debit card transactions in 2018-19, as per RBI report. 5.35 bn UPI-based transactions, seen compared to 4.41 bn debit card uses
NEFT will be available 24x7 from December 2019
Shot putter Tejinderpal Singh Toor clinched a silver medal during an athletic meet at Decin in the Czech Republic. The Asian Games gold medallist came up with the best throw of 20.09m.
He won gold medal at Asian Athletics Championship recently.
Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane took charge of Vice Chief of the Army Staff.
Naravane, who was earlier heading the Eastern Command of the Indian Army, succeeds Lieutenant General Devraj Anbu whose term ended recently.
He is recipient of 'Sena Medal' & Vishisht Seva Medal
LIC-owned IDBI is offering home loan for up to ₹75 lakh with a tenor of up to 35 years at an interest rate of 8.30% p.a. It has also introduced bulk deposits linked to the repo rate in select buckets of home and auto loan products
LIC infused up to Rs 12,000 Crore in IDBI Bank recently.
Under new rules, Driving under the influence of alcohol, will attract a penalty of Rs 10,000/imprisonment. Fine for jumping red-light has been revised to Rs 5000, while driving without wearing seat belt will attract Rs 1000 fine
Fine for driving without a license is now Rs 5,000
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Google signed a statement of intent to roll-out 'Build for Digital India', a programme that will give engineering students a platform to develop market-ready, technology-based solutions
Ravi Shankar Prasad- Minister for Electronics and IT
Mahindra & Mahindra is acquiring 55% stake in ride hailing & radio taxi operator Meru Travel Solutions for a cash consideration of up to ₹201.5 crore. M&M will make a primary investment of an amount not exceeding ₹103.5 cr for a stake of up to 55% in Meru
Hyundai & Kia announced investing $300 mn in Ola recently