September 2018 current affairs

# Tamil Nadu will soon have its fourth open-air prison at Thirumalaisamudiram village in Thanjavur district. First three are Coimbatore, Salem, and Sivaganga districts.

# Tamil Nadu receives five awards from Centre. Tuticorin got a national award for achieving self-sufficiency under seven schemes under Grama Swaraj Abhiyan.

# The Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority (TNSDMA) is going to launch an app called ‘TN-SMART’ for real-time risk assessment.

# Tamil Nadu is going to conduct the 20th livestock census, which is the 1st technology-aided livestock census.

# Table Tennis star G Sathiyan has been conferred with Arjuna Award in the National Sports Awards 2018.

# Table Tennis coach A Srinivas Rao has been conferred with Dronacharya Award.

# New corporation in the state –Nagercoil (13 th).

# NITI Aayog ‘s Mobility Week (31 August to 6 September 2018).

# Prime Minister launched the India post payments bank (IPPB) on September 01, 2018.

# National Nutrition Week – September 1 to 7.

# NITI Aayog flagged off MOVE Cyclathon, a cycle rally to promote cleaner, accessible modes of transport.

# National Clean School Award -Pavendhar Bharathidasan government primary school (Puducherry).

# Indians became the third largest air travelers by nationality according to World Air Transport Statistics

# 4th Annual Sustainable Smart Cities India Conference was held at Bengaluru.

# India's first railway university –Vadodara.

# Plan Bee - to prevent speeding trains from hitting elephants crossing tracks (Indian Railways).

# Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan- It aimed atensuring remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce as announced in the Union Budget for 2018.

# Chairman of Lok Sabha ethics panel -L.K.Advani.

# Minority Affairs launched country's first National Scholarship Portal mobile app - NSP Mobile App.

# First tribal circuit project –Chhattisgarh.

# India’s 1st ‘Smart Fence’ Pilot Project in jammu.

# Chennai Central Railway Station has received the ‘Indian Green Building Council Certification’ for adopting Green building features and concepts in the Station.

# Jaipur Literature festival – Texas.

# D.K.Jain committee – ISRO Spy Case.

# Atal Bimit Vyakti Kalyan Yojna for Insured Persons (IP) covered under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (ESI).

# India and Russia joint air exercise Aviaindra 18 was held in Lipetsk, Russia from September 17 to 28, 2018.

# India’s first Coal-gasification fertilizer plant - Talcher, Odisha (September 22).

# PM inaugurates Jharsuguda airport –Odisha (powerhouse of Odisha).

# Prime Minister launched (September 23) ambitious Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), under Ayushman Bharat umbrella at Ranchi, Jharkhand.

# Committee to Look into Jail Reforms -Justice Amitava Roy.

# Lokpal Search Committee - Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai

# Sabarimala temple verdict - on 28 September 2018, upheld the right of women of all ages to worship in places of their choice. The court was ruling on a PIL filed in 2006 by non-profit body
Indian Young Lawyers’ Association.

# Injeti Srinivas High Level Committee –Corporate Social Responsibility.

# 4th BIMSTEC Summit held in Kathmandu, Nepal with the theme “Towards a Peaceful Prosperous, and Sustainable Bay of Bengal Region”.

# Minister of AYUSH inaugurated the Fourth International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) at the Netherlands.

# China-Maldives Friendship Bridge (It connects Maldives capital city Male and neighboring Hulhule island).

# KAZIND 2018 - Indo-Kazakhstan Joint Army Exercise.

# Ukraine-NATO Joint Military Exercises - Rapid Trident 2018.

# The International Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2018 is being held in Kathmandu, Nepal.

# Sri Lanka Navy and Indian Navy Joint exercise SLINEX-2018 held at Trincomalee from September 7 to 13.

# The World Hindu Congress was held in Chicago, USA.

# COMCASA Treaty - India and the United States initiated a new generation of military and security cooperation.

# India & USA Combat Exercise – yudh abhyas.

# Milex – 2018 :The first-ever Bimstec anti-terror military exercise held at Pune in Maharashtra.

# New digital bridge with Africa : e-VidyaBharati and e-ArogyaBharati Network Project.

# Nomadic Elephant Exercise -2018 (Indo-Mongolia joint exercise).

# Sagarmatha Friendship - 2018 - Nepal-China joint military exercise.

# Sudan’s New PM - Moutaz Mousa Abdallah.

# 7th UNWTO Global Summit on Urban Tourism was held in Seoul with the theme “A 2030 Vision for Urban Tourism”.

# World Health Organisation has released a report called Global status report on alcohol and health 2018, which presents a comprehensive picture of alcohol consumption.

# Times Higher Education’s (THE) world university rankings 2019 - The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (251-300 band).

# Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace -2019-2028.

# First-Ever Women-Only Foreign Minister Conference held in Canada.

# Global Wetland Outlook Report, first-ever global report on the state of the world's wetlands, was released by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

# Nepal becomes first country to double its tiger population.

# Financial Inclusion Index - released by Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance.

# Kerala’s calamity cess demand - aimed at meeting cost of reconstruction in Kerala in the aftermath of floods.

# The Offshore Patrol Vessel ICGS Vijaya (OPV-2) has delivered to the Indian Coast Guard on 30 August 2018.

#  The United Arab Emirates has selectedits first two astronauts to go on a mission to the International Space Station.

# Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned to set up first overseas ground station at the north pole.

# HY – 1C: China launched a marine satellite to help improve understanding of maritime waters and climate change.

# Asia’s First airport use Face recognition - Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru.

# India's first commercial underwater drone- EyeROV TUNA

# Cyber Security Conference ‘COCON XI’ – Kerala police.

# Union Ministry of Home Affairs has launched e-Sahaj portal to facilitate individuals and private companies in seeking security clearance for setting up businesses in certain sensitive
sectors.

# World’s first hydrogen-powered train –Germany.

# Tripura CM inaugurated ISRO’s first Space Technology Incubation Centre at the National Institute of Technology Agartala via remote from Bengaluru.

# Sikkim gets Sensor-based ‘Landslide warning system’ (country’s second).

# NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered two new earth-like exoplanets namely “super-Earth” and “hot Earth”.

# Finance Ministry has launched Mobile Application Jan Dhan Darshak as a Part
of Financial Inclusion.

# The Nagaland government has declared the Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary as an
elephant reserve. It has become 30th reserve for elephants in the country.

# The 2018 Global Summit on Climate Action held at San Francisco in California, United States.

# Typhoon Mangkhut - Luzon island in the Philippines.

# Air Pollution Control Device ''WAYU''.

# Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has partnered with Google to launch Loo Review campaign on Google Map.

#Krishna Kutir - a special home for 1000 widows at Vrindavan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh created by the Ministry of Women & Child Development (MoWCD) under Swadhar Greh
scheme.

# Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh launched PUDA 360, an e-properties module to facilitate online property transactions.

# Madhya Pradesh government organized a day-long mass teaching programme, 'Mil Banchey Madhya Pradesh'.

# Delhi government has launched its Home Delivery of Public Services on September 10 which is being done for the first time in the country.

# The agricultural festival of Nuakhai has started in Odisha on 13th September 2018.

# In an attempt to combat human trafficking, the West Bengal government has rolled out a scheme, Swayangsiddha, in different districts of the State.

# Andhra Pradesh is going to launch ‘YuvaNestam scheme’ for providing ‘unemployment allowance’ to the state’s youth from October 2018.

# 1st ever dedicated Dog Park –Hyderabad.

# Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu flagged off the 'Swachh Dhara' programme at Amravati in Andhra Pradesh with the main objective of providing clean drinking water across the state.

# Maharashtra Government is setting up new Cyber University dedicated to mitigating cyber threats.

# The Uttar Pradesh Police are set to launch a first of its kind dial-FIR scheme in the country.

# The Government of Karnataka has launched ‘Airavata Scheme’, a first-of-its-kind scheme that will create more self-employment opportunities.

# Naropa Festival concluded in Ladakh with a Guinness World Record in Ladakhi Dance.

# Jharsuguda airport to be renamed after freedom fighter - Veer Surendra Sai.

# 1st Kashmiri Muslim woman pilot -Iram Habib.

# B.C. Roy Award – 2017 - Dr. V. S. Negi.

# The Praful Bidwai Memorial Award for 2018 was given to Ulka Mahajan, co-founder of Sarvahara Jan Andolan.

# Ranjan Gogoi will on 3rd October succeed Dipak Misra as the 46th Chief Justice of India.

# Anna Rajam Malhotra, first Indian woman IAS officer after Independence, died in Mumbai on 17th September.

# V.R.Lalithambika to Head India’s Gaganyaan project.

# Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awarded the United Nations' Champions of the Earth award for the year 2018.

# Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee became the first female athlete to be named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) at an Asian Games.

# China topped the medal list with 289 medals followed by Japan (205) and Korea (177) IN Asian Games - 2018.

# All-women crew of INSV Tarini has bagged the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award.

# Former Member of Parliament and Bollywood actress Jaya Prada has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Nepal tourism.