101. The Lok Sabha approved the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University Bill, 2013 to set up the country’s first aviation university in Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
102. A Bill seeking to prohibit employment of individuals as manual scavengers by prescribing stringent punishment, including imprisonment up to five years, was passed by Parliament.
103. Tokyo won the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time in 2020.
104. Iran plans to send its second monkey into space onboard home-made rocket Pishgam (Pioneer) II within 45 days.
105. Akhilesh Yadav government appointed a one-man inquiry commission headed by retired High Court judge Vishnu Sahay to probe the causes behind Muzaffarnagar riots.
106. The Forward Markets Commission will be overseen by the Ministry of Finance instead of the Department of Consumer Affairs under the Ministry of Food.
107. The Indian Election Observers team came at the invitation of the Elections Commission of Maldives to observe the presidential elections on September 7.
108. Mr. Gopalaswami was in Sri Lanka as an observer of SAARC team in the Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.
109. Mamnoon Hussain was sworn in as Pakistan’s 12th President. He replaced Asif Ali Zardari. Mr. Hussain was born in Agra in 1940.
110. Bangladesh decided to take legal action against Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Government also decided to bring Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank under the central bank’s jurisdiction amid controversy.
111. German Thomas Bach was elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He succeeds Belgium’s Jacques Rogge.
112. After three days of intensive talks in Geneva, Russia and the United States have reached an agreement on a timetable for the swift elimination of Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons.
113. Russia has taken a “principled” decision to sell Iran an improved version of the S-300 air defence missiles and to build a second nuclear reactor at Bushehr.
114. The Union Cabinet approved a second vehicle assembly building at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
115. Union Ministry of Women & Child Welfare has drawn up a national plan Titled “Shubh” under the Nirbhaya Fund to provide protection to vulnerable women.
116. BJP named Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
117. Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council scaled down its GDP growth projection for the current fiscal to a more realistic 5.3 per cent from 6.4 per cent estimated earlier. The PMEAC expects agriculture and industry to grow by 4.8 per cent and 2.7 per cent, respectively while the growth of the services sector is pegged lower at 6.6 per cent for this fiscal.
118. The Defence Ministry gave its nod for purchase of six more C-130J “Super Hercules” aircraft from the United States in a deal worth over Rs. 4,000 crore.
119. Ministry of Environment and Forests will counter pressure from the USA to phase out the use of the refrigerant gas — Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — in refrigerators and air-conditioners on grounds that there is no “environment-friendly, technically proven and economically viable” alternative available. U.S. is exerting pressure on India to enter into a pact under the Montreal Protocol to phase out HFCs.
120. India’s prestigious 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) under development at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu is all set to ‘go critical’ in a year’s time.
121. The 15-day-old Jal Satyagraha by villagers affected by the Indira Sagar Dam was called off in the Khandwa, Dewas and Harda in Madhya Pradesh after 40 protestors were admitted to hospitals with fever, rashes and peeling skin.
122. The Karnataka State government has proposed to link Bangalore and Mysore with a bullet train with Japanese technology.
123. The Republic of Latvia will start its embassy in New Delhi from January 1, the day when the nation will enter the Euro zone. Latvian currency ‘lats’ would disappear and be replaced by euro coins on January 1, 2014. Latvia will be the 18th out of 28 European Union countries to have euro.
124. The duty on import of gold and silver jewellery has been raised to 15 per cent from 10 per cent in order to protect the domestic industry.
125. The Reserve Bank of India asked banks to close the accounts of customers using credit or debit card for online forex trading transactions, which are prohibited.
126. The government-appointed panel, headed by M Damodaran, has recommended a string of legal, administrative and regulatory reforms to make the country a better and easier place for doing business.
127. Social scientist Yogendra Yadav was sacked from the UGC for being a member of Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
128. U.S. Federal Reserve chose to hold firm to its $85bn-a-month monetary stimulus policy of quantitative easing (QE) despite speculation that it may trim down this bond-purchase programme by $10bn.
129. India appointed M.K. Lokesh as ambassador to Switzerland.
130. Government departments have been banned from holding meetings in 5-star hotels and officials barred from executive class air travel as part of measures to cut non-plan expenditure by 10 per cent and. Aiming to restrict the fiscal deficit to 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2013-14, the Finance Ministry has ordered all ministries and departments not to buy new vehicles, create new jobs or fill posts lying vacant for over one year.
131. The Bihar Cabinet approved a proposal of the Disaster Management department to declare 33 of the State’s 38 districts drought-hit.
132. In a strong message, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called off her trip to Washington to protest the electronic surveillance conducted against her and her government by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
133. Nepalese Army Chief General Gaurav Shamsher J.B. Rana will undertake a week-long visit to India from September 29 to strengthen military-to-military ties.
134. Fitch Ratings has scaled down its projections on India’s growth to 4.8 per cent for the current fiscal from the earlier estimate of 5.7 per cent made in June.
135. Shareholders of the Bangalore Stock Exchange unanimously approved the ‘voluntary dissolution’ of the 50-year-old institution.
136. Russia has offered to set up manufacturing facilities in the country for joint production of defence hardware and also reached an understanding for setting up two major projects in a joint venture for producing civil choppers and aircraft. This was decided during the meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin and Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov in St. Petersburg.
137. Gyan Correa’s debut Gujarati movie The Good Road was nominated as India’s official entry to next year’s Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category.
138. A Pakistani delegation led by Mirza Asif Baig arrived for the 109th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission.
139. India will build 4,000 MW solar project, the world’s largest, in Rajasthan. The project would be built in two phases in an area close to Sambhar Lake, about 75 km from Jaipur.
140. A Parliamentary Committee has sought people’s suggestions on the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2013, aimed at keeping political parties out of the purview of the transparency law.
141. BlackBerry said it has signed a letter of intent with a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited to buy BlackBerry for $ 4.7 billion.
142. BSE signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs to collaborate and develop a CSR index and increase awareness about corporate social responsibility (CSR). The new Companies Act 2013 has mandated eligible companies to spend 2 per cent of their profits on CSR activities.
143. Supreme Court said the Aadhaar card was not mandatory for one to avail oneself of government services.
144. The Central Bank has instructed banks to stop offering zero interest EMI (equated monthly instalment) schemes for the purchase of consumer goods.
145. The government announced the constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission to revise salary and pension. Its recommendations are likely to be implemented with effect from January 1, 2016.
146. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay set a March 2014 deadline for the Sri Lankan government to engage in a credible national inquiry into reported cases of human rights violation.
147. TRAI recommended implementation of mobile number portability across the country within six months.
148. A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has recommended a new index of backwardness in States. The new methodology ranks Odisha as India’s most backward State, Bihar as the second most backward. Goa is India’s most developed State. The committee has proposed an index of backwardness composed of 10 equally weighted indicators. The 10 States that score above 0.6 (out of 1) on the composite index have been classified as the “least developed,” the 11 States that scored from 0.4 to 0.6 are “less developed” and the seven that scored less than 0.4 are “relatively developed.”
149. The Election Commission welcomed the Supreme Court order directing it to add “None of the Above”
(NOTA) button in the EVM. The button will give voters the option of not voting for any candidate.
150. The draft report of the JPC on 2G spectrum allocation exonerated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram of any wrongdoing and blamed then Communications Minister A. Raja. Mr. Raja was accused of “misleading” the Prime Minister.
102. A Bill seeking to prohibit employment of individuals as manual scavengers by prescribing stringent punishment, including imprisonment up to five years, was passed by Parliament.
103. Tokyo won the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time in 2020.
104. Iran plans to send its second monkey into space onboard home-made rocket Pishgam (Pioneer) II within 45 days.
105. Akhilesh Yadav government appointed a one-man inquiry commission headed by retired High Court judge Vishnu Sahay to probe the causes behind Muzaffarnagar riots.
106. The Forward Markets Commission will be overseen by the Ministry of Finance instead of the Department of Consumer Affairs under the Ministry of Food.
107. The Indian Election Observers team came at the invitation of the Elections Commission of Maldives to observe the presidential elections on September 7.
108. Mr. Gopalaswami was in Sri Lanka as an observer of SAARC team in the Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.
109. Mamnoon Hussain was sworn in as Pakistan’s 12th President. He replaced Asif Ali Zardari. Mr. Hussain was born in Agra in 1940.
110. Bangladesh decided to take legal action against Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Government also decided to bring Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank under the central bank’s jurisdiction amid controversy.
111. German Thomas Bach was elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He succeeds Belgium’s Jacques Rogge.
112. After three days of intensive talks in Geneva, Russia and the United States have reached an agreement on a timetable for the swift elimination of Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons.
113. Russia has taken a “principled” decision to sell Iran an improved version of the S-300 air defence missiles and to build a second nuclear reactor at Bushehr.
114. The Union Cabinet approved a second vehicle assembly building at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
115. Union Ministry of Women & Child Welfare has drawn up a national plan Titled “Shubh” under the Nirbhaya Fund to provide protection to vulnerable women.
116. BJP named Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
117. Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council scaled down its GDP growth projection for the current fiscal to a more realistic 5.3 per cent from 6.4 per cent estimated earlier. The PMEAC expects agriculture and industry to grow by 4.8 per cent and 2.7 per cent, respectively while the growth of the services sector is pegged lower at 6.6 per cent for this fiscal.
118. The Defence Ministry gave its nod for purchase of six more C-130J “Super Hercules” aircraft from the United States in a deal worth over Rs. 4,000 crore.
119. Ministry of Environment and Forests will counter pressure from the USA to phase out the use of the refrigerant gas — Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — in refrigerators and air-conditioners on grounds that there is no “environment-friendly, technically proven and economically viable” alternative available. U.S. is exerting pressure on India to enter into a pact under the Montreal Protocol to phase out HFCs.
120. India’s prestigious 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) under development at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu is all set to ‘go critical’ in a year’s time.
121. The 15-day-old Jal Satyagraha by villagers affected by the Indira Sagar Dam was called off in the Khandwa, Dewas and Harda in Madhya Pradesh after 40 protestors were admitted to hospitals with fever, rashes and peeling skin.
122. The Karnataka State government has proposed to link Bangalore and Mysore with a bullet train with Japanese technology.
123. The Republic of Latvia will start its embassy in New Delhi from January 1, the day when the nation will enter the Euro zone. Latvian currency ‘lats’ would disappear and be replaced by euro coins on January 1, 2014. Latvia will be the 18th out of 28 European Union countries to have euro.
124. The duty on import of gold and silver jewellery has been raised to 15 per cent from 10 per cent in order to protect the domestic industry.
125. The Reserve Bank of India asked banks to close the accounts of customers using credit or debit card for online forex trading transactions, which are prohibited.
126. The government-appointed panel, headed by M Damodaran, has recommended a string of legal, administrative and regulatory reforms to make the country a better and easier place for doing business.
127. Social scientist Yogendra Yadav was sacked from the UGC for being a member of Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
128. U.S. Federal Reserve chose to hold firm to its $85bn-a-month monetary stimulus policy of quantitative easing (QE) despite speculation that it may trim down this bond-purchase programme by $10bn.
129. India appointed M.K. Lokesh as ambassador to Switzerland.
130. Government departments have been banned from holding meetings in 5-star hotels and officials barred from executive class air travel as part of measures to cut non-plan expenditure by 10 per cent and. Aiming to restrict the fiscal deficit to 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2013-14, the Finance Ministry has ordered all ministries and departments not to buy new vehicles, create new jobs or fill posts lying vacant for over one year.
131. The Bihar Cabinet approved a proposal of the Disaster Management department to declare 33 of the State’s 38 districts drought-hit.
132. In a strong message, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called off her trip to Washington to protest the electronic surveillance conducted against her and her government by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
133. Nepalese Army Chief General Gaurav Shamsher J.B. Rana will undertake a week-long visit to India from September 29 to strengthen military-to-military ties.
134. Fitch Ratings has scaled down its projections on India’s growth to 4.8 per cent for the current fiscal from the earlier estimate of 5.7 per cent made in June.
135. Shareholders of the Bangalore Stock Exchange unanimously approved the ‘voluntary dissolution’ of the 50-year-old institution.
136. Russia has offered to set up manufacturing facilities in the country for joint production of defence hardware and also reached an understanding for setting up two major projects in a joint venture for producing civil choppers and aircraft. This was decided during the meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin and Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov in St. Petersburg.
137. Gyan Correa’s debut Gujarati movie The Good Road was nominated as India’s official entry to next year’s Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category.
138. A Pakistani delegation led by Mirza Asif Baig arrived for the 109th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission.
139. India will build 4,000 MW solar project, the world’s largest, in Rajasthan. The project would be built in two phases in an area close to Sambhar Lake, about 75 km from Jaipur.
140. A Parliamentary Committee has sought people’s suggestions on the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2013, aimed at keeping political parties out of the purview of the transparency law.
141. BlackBerry said it has signed a letter of intent with a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited to buy BlackBerry for $ 4.7 billion.
142. BSE signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs to collaborate and develop a CSR index and increase awareness about corporate social responsibility (CSR). The new Companies Act 2013 has mandated eligible companies to spend 2 per cent of their profits on CSR activities.
143. Supreme Court said the Aadhaar card was not mandatory for one to avail oneself of government services.
144. The Central Bank has instructed banks to stop offering zero interest EMI (equated monthly instalment) schemes for the purchase of consumer goods.
145. The government announced the constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission to revise salary and pension. Its recommendations are likely to be implemented with effect from January 1, 2016.
146. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay set a March 2014 deadline for the Sri Lankan government to engage in a credible national inquiry into reported cases of human rights violation.
147. TRAI recommended implementation of mobile number portability across the country within six months.
148. A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has recommended a new index of backwardness in States. The new methodology ranks Odisha as India’s most backward State, Bihar as the second most backward. Goa is India’s most developed State. The committee has proposed an index of backwardness composed of 10 equally weighted indicators. The 10 States that score above 0.6 (out of 1) on the composite index have been classified as the “least developed,” the 11 States that scored from 0.4 to 0.6 are “less developed” and the seven that scored less than 0.4 are “relatively developed.”
149. The Election Commission welcomed the Supreme Court order directing it to add “None of the Above”
(NOTA) button in the EVM. The button will give voters the option of not voting for any candidate.
150. The draft report of the JPC on 2G spectrum allocation exonerated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram of any wrongdoing and blamed then Communications Minister A. Raja. Mr. Raja was accused of “misleading” the Prime Minister.
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