Current Affairs 28 September 2022

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Current Affairs 28 September 2022 includes all newspapers such as The Hindu, The Economic Times, Business Standard, Times of India, PTI, Indian Express, and all Government official websites.

 News Headlines 

1. Samsung Axis Bank Visa credit card launched
2. Google’s India policy head Archana Gulati resigns
3. Centre launches JALDOOT app for Rural Development
4. Govt commits Rs. 7,385 crore under Fund of Funds for Startup India Investment
5. Uttar Pradesh tops GeM chart with GMV of more than Rs 24,000 crore
6. India achieves significant landmarks in Child Mortality Reduction
7. Indian-origin UK minister Suella Braverman wins first Queen Elizabeth II award
8. RINL bags National Energy Leader Award for the fourth time consecutively
9. Kerala awarded ‘best performing state’ in providing free healthcare
10. Piramal Financial, Zurich Insurance to form partnership for Reliance General Insurance Company
11. Eliud Kipchoge breaks the world record at the 2022 Berlin marathon
12. Health minister inaugurates Arogya Manthan 2022 to mark 4th anniversary of AB PM-JAY
13. Telangana’s state festival Bathukamma off to a colourful start
14. Op ‘Megha Chakra’: CBI conducts searches in 21 states/UT against child abuse material
15. Reliance acquires 20% stake in US-based tech firm Caelux for $12 million
16. AAI to deploy private security personnel at 60 airports for non-core duties
17. President Draupadi Murmu confers NSS Awards 2020-21 at Rashtrapati Bhawan

 News Details 

1. Samsung Axis Bank Visa credit card launched

• Consumers can choose between two variants – Visa Signature and Visa Infinite.
• On the Signature variant, cardholders can avail up to INR 10000 cashback annually, with a monthly cash back limit of INR 2500.
• On the Infinite variant, cardholders can avail up to INR 20000 cashback annually, with a monthly cash back limit of INR 5000.
• About Axis bank:
  • MD and CEO: Amitabh Chaudhry.
• About Samsung:
  • Samsung is a South Korean Company.

2. Google’s India policy head Archana Gulati resigns

• Google’s head of public policy for India has resigned just five months after taking the job, at a potentially critical time for the U.S. tech giant as it awaits the outcome of at least two antitrust cases in the country.
• She was a long-time Indian government employee, having worked until March 2021 as a joint secretary for digital communications at NITI Aayog.
• About Google:
  • CEO: Sundar Pichai.
  • Headquarters: California, United States.
  • Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

3. Centre launches JALDOOT app for Rural Development

• The Rural Development Ministry has developed the JALDOOT App to capture the water level of selected wells in villages across the country.
• The Jaldoot app will enable Gram Rojgar Sahayak to measure the water level of selected wells twice a year (pre-monsoon and post-monsoon).
• In every village, an adequate number of measurement locations (2-3) shall need to be selected.

4. Govt commits Rs. 7,385 crore under Fund of Funds for Startup India Investment

• Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS), launched under Startup India initiative in 2016 by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has committed Rs. 7,385 crore to 88 Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) as of 24th September 2022.
• These AIFs in turn have invested Rs. 11,206 crore in 720 startups.
• FFS has been playing a monumental role in mobilizing domestic capital in the Indian startup ecosystem.
• FFS was announced with a corpus of Rs. 10,000 crore.
• About AIF:
  • It is a special investment category that differs from conventional investment instruments.

5. Uttar Pradesh tops GeM chart with GMV of more than Rs 24,000 crore

• The Uttar Pradesh government has emerged as the top buyer on the Government e-Marketplace portal with a gross merchandise value (GMV) of more than Rs 24,000 crore.
• The central government’s GeM portal, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2016, is an end-to-end e-marketplace, where commonly used goods and services are procured by the government agencies.
• About Uttar Pradesh:
  • Governor: Anandiben Patel.
  • Capital: Lucknow.
  • Chief minister: Yogi Adityanath.

6. India achieves significant landmarks in Child Mortality Reduction

• As per the Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report 2020 released on 22nd September 2022 by Registrar General of India (RGI), the country has been witnessing a progressive reduction in IMR, U5MR and NMR since 2014 towards achieving the SDG’s.
• SDG = Sustainable Development Goals.

7. Indian-origin UK minister Suella Braverman wins first Queen Elizabeth II award

• Britain’s Indian-origin Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been named winner of the first-ever Queen Elizabeth II Woman of the Year award at a ceremony in London.
• The 42-year-old barrister, who was appointed to the Cabinet earlier this month by British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
• More about UK:
  • Currency: Pound sterling.
  • Capital: London.

8. RINL bags National Energy Leader Award for the fourth time consecutively

• RINL has been awarded the National Energy Leader Award for the fourth time consecutively and the Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award for the sixth time in a row from 2017 onwards from the Confederation of Indian Industry Godrej Green Business Centre.
• It is a rare achievement in any Integrated Steel Plant and PSU to win the National Energy Leader Award Continuously for four years.
• More information:
  • Atul Bhatt: CMD, RINL.

9. Kerala awarded ‘best performing state’ in providing free healthcare

• Union Health Minister awarded the Ayushman Utkrishtata Puraskaar (Ayushman Excellence Awards) 2022 to felicitate the –
  • Top Performing State/UT (Andhra Pradesh).
  • Top Performing District (Parvathipuram Manyam, Andhra Pradesh).
  • Top Performing Government Facility (District Hospital Dharwad, Karnataka).
  • Best Performing Union Territories (Chandigarh, J&K).

10. Piramal Financial, Zurich Insurance to form partnership for Reliance General Insurance Company

• Piramal Financial and Zurich Insurance, who have submitted separate bids for the general insurance business of Reliance Capital, have decided to form an equal partnership to bid for the Reliance General Insurance.
• According to sources, both Piramal and Zurich will hold 50 per cent each in the proposed joint venture company.
• About Piramal Financial:
  • Jairam Sridharan is the MD of Piramal Capital & Housing Finance.

11. Eliud Kipchoge breaks the world record at the 2022 Berlin marathon

• Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge shattered his own world record on Sunday (25 September), with a time of 2:01:09 to win the Berlin marathon.
• Kipchoge’s previous best in an official 42.2km race was 2:01:39 set on the same course in 2018.
• Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa won the women’s race in a course record of 2:15:37, the third fastest time in history.
• About Kenya:
  • Capital: Nairobi.
  • Currency: Kenyan shilling.
  • President: William Ruto.

12. Health minister inaugurates Arogya Manthan 2022 to mark 4th anniversary of AB PM-JAY

• Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated “Arogya Manthan 2022” to celebrate four years of the implementation of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) and one year of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) on September 25.
• More information:
  • AB-PMJAY completed four years of its implementation on Sept 23, 2022 and Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission on 27 Sept.

13. Telangana’s state festival Bathukamma off to a colourful start

• Bathukamma, which means ‘Mother Goddess come Alive’ is celebrated towards the end of monsoon and heralds the abundance that nature has to offer.
• The festival begins on the day of Mahalaya Amavasya, and is celebrated with much fanfare for nine days.
• Bathukamma is a vibrant, colourful floral festival celebrated with great gusto by the women in Telangana.
• About Telangana:
  • Capital: Hyderabad.
  • Governor: Tamilisai Soundararajan.
  • Chief minister: K. Chandrashekar Rao.

14. Op ‘Megha Chakra’: CBI conducts searches in 21 states/UT against child abuse material

• The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out searches in 21 states/Union Territory in relation to the circulation and sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
• CBI launched the operation – code-named ‘Megha Chakra’ – following inputs from Interpol headquarters, Crime against Children unit in Singapore.
• Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, current CBI director.

15. Reliance acquires 20% stake in US-based tech firm Caelux for $12 million

• Reliance New Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of India’s biggest firm by market cap, has signed definitive agreements to invest in Caelux Corp., a Pasadena, California-based company engaged in the development of perovskite-based solar technology.
• About Caelux:
  • Caelux is an industry leader in R&D of perovskite-based solar technology.
• About Reliance:
  • Chairman & MD: Mukesh Ambani.
  • Director: Nita Dalal Ambani.

16. AAI to deploy private security personnel at 60 airports for non-core duties

• Airports Authority of India (AAI) will deploy 1,924 private security agency (PSA) security personnel across 60 airports in place of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
• AAI also said it has appointed 581 security personnel from Directorate General Resettlement (DGR)-sponsored security agencies for non-core posts at 45 airports.
• About AAI:
  • AAI Chairman: Shri Sanjeev Kumar.

17. President Draupadi Murmu confers NSS Awards 2020-21 at Rashtrapati Bhawan

• President Droupadi Murmu conferred the National Service Scheme NSS Awards for the year 2020-21 today, September 24 at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• A total of forty-two Awards were given.
• Two Universities, ten NSS Units, their Programme Officers, and 30 NSS Volunteers received the awards.
• About NSS:
  • NSS is a Centrally Sector Scheme that was launched in 1969.
  • Motto of NSS is “NOT ME, BUT YOU”.

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