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TODAYS TOP NEWS

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1st October

1. PM Modi launched a unique week-long programme for Aspirational Blocks in the country called
‘Sankalp Saptaah’ at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

(a) The initial six days will focus on themes:

Sampoorna Swasthya (Comprehensive Health).

(b) Suposhit Pariwaar (Well-Nourished Families).

(c) Swachhta (Cleanliness)

(d) Krishi (Agriculture)

(e) Shiksha (Education)

(f) Samridhi Diwas (Prosperity Day)

2. India’s Solar Mission Aditya L1 successfully escaped the sphere of Earth’s influence by travelling
beyond a distance of 9.2 kilometres from Earth and is now navigating its path towards the Lagrange
point L1 that is 1.5 million kms from Earth.

3. National Museum in Delhi, home to a collection of rich ancient artefacts, is likely to be vacated by the
end of this year as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project. The collections will eventually be
housed in the proposed Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum which would be located in the North
Block and South Block of the Raisina Hill complex.
4. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said India will not only be self-reliant in drug manufacturing but will
be in a position to export Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) and Key Starting Materials (KSM) to
the world in the next ten years. He said while speaking at the inauguration of a permanent campus of
the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Ahmedabad at Palaj in
Gandhinagar.

5. PM Modi will attend the BJP’s Legislative Assembly election campaign at a public meeting in
Mahbubnagar on Sunday.

6. Eminent farm scientist M S Swaminathan was cremated in Chennai on Saturday with government
honours.

7. ASSAM CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and his MEGHALAYA counterpart Conrad Sangma held a meeting in
Guwahati.

Both the CMs announced that their governments jointly decided to request the CBI to take over the
probe into the 2022 Mukroh violence.

8. SWACHHATA HI SEVA: Several activities held in Maharashtra to commemorate 9th anniversary of

9. KARNATAKA CM Siddaramaiah on Saturday said a review petition has been filed before the Cauvery
Water Management Board regarding the Cauvery water release order.

10.. The 'RAIL ROKO' stir of Punjab farmers demanding compensation for crops damaged in the recent
floods, a legal guarantee on MSP and a sweeping debt waiver entered its third day on Saturday.

11. Dr. Dinesh Dasa, recently took the oath office and secrecy as a Member of the Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC).

12. Heavy rains continued to lash several parts of KERALA affecting normal life on Saturday.
13. TMC's Nirmal Chandra Roy takes oath as Dhupguri MLA in official ceremony at Raj Bhavan

Nirmal Chandra Roy won the September 5 Dhupguri bypolls defeating BJP candidate Tapasi Roy by a
margin of 4,309 votes.

14. Union government has extended the tenure of Nitin Gupta, the incumbent chairman of the Central
Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), till June 30, 2024.

15. Two Supreme Court judges set to retire this year. They played a pivotal roles in two significant
Constitution benches, each tackling crucial constitutional questions.

(a) Abrogation of Article 370 special status for J&K.

(b) Legal recognition of same-sex marriages in India.

Justice Ravindra Bhat

will retire on 20 October.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul 25 Dec.

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LEGAL REPORT

#Chief Justice of India:

Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal

#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Joan Donoghue

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1. Court in Punjab's Fazilka district sent Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira to 14-day judicial custody on
Saturday in connection with a 2015 drugs case.
2. National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested a man named Seiminlun Gangte from
Manipur for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to exploit the current ethnic unrest in the state
against the Indian government.

3. A man named Umar Farooq, in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district was arrested for hoisting a
distorted version of the Indian flag atop his house, he attached a picture of a green dome on the Indian
flag and hoisted it on his house terrace. The dome picture was placed at the centre, fully covering the
Ashok Chakra.

4. J&K: Security forces foil infiltration bid in Kupwara, two terrorists neutralized.

5. NIA has filed chargesheet in the Special Court at Ernakulam, against Shahrukh Saifi, a Delhi
Shaheenbagh youth, in connection with the train arson incident that took place near Elathur in
Kozhikode district in April.

6. Andhra Pradesh CID has served a notice to Telugu Desam national general-secretary N. Lokesh in New
Delhi on Saturday under Section 41-A of CrPC, directing that he should present himself at the CID office
in Tadepalli of Guntur district at 10 am on October 4. The notice is in connection with anomalies in
alignment of Amaravati Inner Ring Road. It lists Lokesh as accused number 14.

7. Communal tension erupted in Ramganj and nearby areas in Jaipur on Saturday after a man died
allegedly due to thrashing by a group of men over an accident between two motorcycles.

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FINANCE

#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.

#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal

#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das

#President of the World Bank :

Ajay Banga

#IMF MD:

Kristalina Georgieva
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USD ₹ 83.04

GBP ₹ 101.28

€ Euro : ₹ 87.91

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GDP rate (2023 ) : 6.5%

( $3.75 trillion)

India is the fifth largest economy in the world.

Inflation rate : 4.7%

Population : 141.81 cr (17.7% of the total world population).

Unemployment : 7.8%

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BSE Sensex

65,828.41 +320.09 (0.49%)

NIFTY

19,638.30 +114.75 (0.59%)

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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai

GOLD : ₹ 58,500/10gm (24 krt)

SILVER : ₹ 74,700/KG

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FUEL in DELHI
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PETROL : ₹ 97/Ltr

DIESEL : ₹ 90/Ltr

CNG : ₹ 74/Ltr

LPG : ₹ 903/14.2 Kg

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FUEL in MUMBAI

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PETROL : ₹ 107/Ltr

DIESEL : ₹ 95/Ltr

Auto Gas : ₹ 60/Ltr

CNG : ₹ 79/Ltr

LPG : ₹ 903/14.2 Kg

1. Reserve Bank of India has extended the last date to exchange the 2,000 rupee denomination
banknotes to October 7.

2. Saugata Gupta, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marico Ltd, has been appointed new
Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), at the board meeting of the self-regul.

3. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently endorsed capital management reforms, unleashing a
substantial $100 billion fund over the next ten years. These reforms, integrated into ADB’s updated
Capital Adequacy Framework (CAF), mark a vital step in addressing the multifaceted crises and climate
challenges faced by Asia and the Pacific region.

4. Managing Director and CEO of the Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB), S Krishnan, resigned from the
post days after the bank mistakenly credited Rs 9,000 crore to a cab driver in Chennai.

5. Elon Musk stands on the first position in the list of Richest Man in the World. He is the Richest Man in
the World with the net worth of $239.3B.
6. India's Lohum, a company in the sustainable energy and battery materials space, has become the first
company outside of China and one of only five globally to successfully produce Lithium in its pure
metallic form at a large scale.

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur

#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :

R Madhavan

#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi

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1. Tamil actor Vishal on Saturday expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
for ordering an immediate inquiry into his corruption allegations against the Mumbai office of Central
Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

Vishal had alleged that he had to pay Rs 6.5 lakh to the CBFC's Mumbai office for the screening and
certification of the Hindi version of his film Mark Antony.

2. K.N. Shanth Kumar, a seasoned media professional, has elected as the Chairman of the Press Trust of
India's Board of Directors for a one-year term.

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DEFENCE

#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President

#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh

#Def Minister of State :

Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah

#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval

#Chief of Defence Staff:

Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM

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1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently unveiled the Enhanced Collaborative Autonomous Rover
System (ECARS) in an annual North Tech Symposium at IIT-Jammu. The specially designed ECARS is a
cutting-edge 4X4 multi-terrain operative unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), which has been developed by
Kalyani Strategic Systems Ltd from Pune.

2. Arunachal's SELA TUNNEL near completion, likely to be opened by year end. The Sela Pass connects
the Tawang district with the rest of Arunachal Pradesh. It is being built by the Border Roads Organisation
(BRO).

On completion, this would be the longest bi-lane road tunnel in the world, at an altitude above 13,000
feet.

3. The Indian and US Armies carried out a joint tactical exercise in Alaska as part of the ongoing Exercise
Yudh Abhyas.The two armies on Friday carried out field training drills in Alaska, the joint exercise will
take place from September 25 to October 8 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, US. Indian Army contingent
comprising 350 personnel.

4. Army along with IAF to procure 6,425 Multi Spectral Camouflage Nets designed for High Altitude
Areas (HAA) with emphasis on 'Buy (Indian-IDDM)' classification.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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#External affairs Minister: S Jaishankar

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1. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reiterated the stand that India is ready to look at any
information shared by the Canadian side regarding its allegations about the killing of Khalistani terrorist
Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

2. The Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Vikram Doraiswami was stopped from entering
a gurdwara in Glasgow, Scotland. According to a purported video posted on the Instagram channel of
‘Sikh Youth UK,’ a man reportedly a pro-Khalistani activist was seen blocking Doraiswami from entering
the Glasgow Gurdwara.

3. United Kingdom Minister of State for the Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan on Saturday said that she
was "concerned" to see that the Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami was stopped from
meeting the Gurudwara Committee in Glasgow.

Trevelyan said that the security and safety of foreign places is of utmost importance and places of
worship in the United Kingdom should be open to all.

4. A Special representatives and senior officials from India, Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan took part in the fifth meeting of the Moscow
Format Consultation on Afghanistan in the Russian city of Kazan on Friday.

5. A Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, along with New Zealand’s Prime
Minister Chris Hipkins took part in the 1st India Business Summit 2023.

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WORLD NEWS

UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres.

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1. Mathematician Ruixiang Zhang, an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, 🇺🇸USA,
has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. This award
recognizes his remarkable contributions to the field of mathematics.
2. A Pakistan🇵🇰 soldier was killed during an encounter with terrorists in the Parachinar area of Kurram
district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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SPORTS

#Minister: Anurag Singh Thakur

#BCCI president:

Roger Binny

#Hockey India President:

Dilip Tirkey

#16th President of the Indian Olympic Association : P. T. Usha

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ASIAN GAMES 2023 medal tally Updates

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Rank #Country#

Gold Silver Bronze Total

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1 China 111-66-33= 210

2 Japan 28-38-38= 104

3 S.Korea 27-29-53= 109

4 India 10-14-14= 38

5 Uzbekistan 10-11-16= 37

This was India’s best performance at the Asian Games since 1982.

(b) Sport Gld -Slvr -Brz =Total

Rowing 0-2-3 =05

Cricket 1-0-0 =01

Sailing 0-1-2 =03

Equestrian 1-0-1 =02

Wushu 0-1-0 =01

Tennis 1-1-0 =02

Squash 1-0-1 =02

Athletics 0-1-2 =03

(c) India has won a gold medal in men’s squash team event after beating Pakistan 2-1 at the Asian
Games. In a tightly contested match, the team led by Abhav Singh outperformed their rivals in the final
round.

(d) Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale claimed mixed doubles gold with a 2-6 6-3 10-4 win over Chinese
Taipei’s Yu-hsiou Hsu and Hao-ching Chan. It was India’s second medal in tennis at the continental event
after Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni had won a silver in men’s doubles.

( For Information : A 655-member Indian contingent is competing at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou,
the People’s Republic of China. The 19th edition of the continental multisport event officially began on
September 23 and will conclude on October 8.)

FOR INFORMATION :

The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, from 23 Sep to 08 Oct 2023. (a) Total Olympic sports : 45

(b) 61 disciplines

(c) 11,000 athletes

(d) 45 countries and territories.

(e) A 655-member Indian contingent

2. In Football, India won the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Under-19 Championship after
defeating Pakistan 3-0 in a dominating display in the finals at the Dashrath Rangasala Stadium in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Himachal Pradesh :

Capital: Shimla

Before was

Punjab States Agency

As state: 25 Jan 1971

Formation

1 November 1956

Districts: 12

Governor :

Shiv Pratap Shukla

CM: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (INC)

State Symbols

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Bird: Western tragopan

Fish: Golden Mahseer

Flower

Pink rhododendron

Mammal: Snow leopard

Tree: Deodar cedar

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In India there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.

Population of India:
142 cr (2023)

President of India,

Smt Droupadi Murmu

Vice President

Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar

Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi

Speaker Lok Sabha:

Shri Om Birla (BJP)

Rajyasabha Seats: 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)

Loksabha : 550 members (530 States + 20 Union Territories)

Chief Election Commissioner:

Shri Rajiv Kumar

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🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳

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V. Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian
actor and producer. (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001).

He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which gave him also the
Tamil nickname Nadigar Thilagam (The pride of actors). He had acted 288 films in Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi.
Ganesan was the first Indian film actor to win a "Best Actor" award in an International film festival, the
Afro-Asian Film Festival held in Cairo, Egypt in 1960.

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Thought of the day

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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WHY❓❓❓

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why high tension wires make noise*

The audible noise emitted from high-voltage lines is caused by the discharge of energy that occurs when
the electrical field strength on the conductor surface is greater than the 'breakdown strength' (the field
intensity necessary to start a flow of electric current) of the air surrounding the conductor.

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LEARN Sanskrit

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सव परवशं दु ः खं सवमा वशं सुखम् ।

एतद् िव ात् समासेन ल णं सुखदु ः खयोः ॥

sarvaṃ paravaśaṃ duḥkhaṃ sarvamātmavaśaṃ sukham।

etad vidyāt samāsena lakṣaṇaṃ sukhaduḥkhayoḥ॥

Everything that is in other’s control is painful. All that is in self-control is happiness. This is the definition
of happiness and pain in short.

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HOW IT WORKS ⁉ =======================

How a serial ropeway works *

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GK TODAY

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October - International Coffee Day

International Coffee Day is celebrated on 1 October every year to recognise millions of people across the
world from farmers, roasters, baristas, and coffee shop owners, etc. who do hard work to create and
serve the beverage in the consumable form.

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Uttar Pradesh is the highest sugarcane producing State in sub tropical zone having area about 22.77
Lakh ha. It produced 105.62 lakh tonne of sugar till April 2021.

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BORN TODAY

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Ram Nath Kovind (born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician and the 14th President of India (25 July
2017 – 25 July 2022). Previously he had served as the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and was a
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2006.Before entering politics, he was a lawyer for 16
years and practised in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court until 1993.

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IDIOMS & PHRASES

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‘ No pain no gain ’ – You have to work hard for something you want.

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ANTONYMS

Genuine × Spurious

SYNONYMS
Genuine : Absolute

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