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INDIA
- PM Modi addresses 75th United Nations General Assembly; calls for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of UN Security Council.
- L. Adimoolam (Health and The Antiseptic publication) elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society.
- Economist and former chairperson of ICRIER (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations) Isher Judge Ahluwalia dies aged 74; Padma Bhushan awardee (2009)
- Shiromani Akali Dal snapped ties with NDA ‘out of compulsion’: Sukhdev Dhindsa
WORLD
- India extends $15 mn assistance to Sri Lanka for promoting Buddhist ties
- Three million Uyghurs detained in concentration camps by Beijing: Activist
ECONOMY
- UK India Business Council signs MoU with West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC)
- NCAER sees GDP shrinking by 12.6% in 2020-21, falling in three remaining quarters
- Centre offers processed moong, urad to states at subsidised rate for retail sale
INDUSTRY
- Finance Ministry may provide capital support to some PSBs in third quarter
- LVB crisis deepens as shareholders vote out current management
- Swedish furniture retailer IKEA to adopt omni-channel approach for expansion in India
- BPCL pays for defaulting Videocon in Brazil oil block
- Power plants, non-regulated sector consumers agree to substitute imported coal with CIL supply
CURRENT AFFAIRS: INDIA
JIMEX 2020: India-Japan Bilateral Maritime Exercise commences
- The bilateral Maritime Exercise, JIMEX, conducted between India & Japan biennially is to be in the North Arabian Sea between Sep 26, 2020 & Sep 28, 2020.
- JIMEX will show high level joint operational skills and high degree of inter-operability between the countries.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS
Infosys’s data and analytics business is now worth nearly $3 billion
- BENGALURU: Infosys NSE 3.70 %’s data and analytics (DNA) practice, which started five years ago, has grown into a nearly $3 billion service line, employing over 20,000 employees. The revenue is almost a quarter of the company’s total business.
Reserve Bank of India to introduce: Positive Pay System” to check Cheques
- RBI is to introduce “Positive Pay System” from Jan 2021. The system makes it mandatory to re-confirm key details of cheques that need payments beyond Rs 50,000.
| RBI Governor | Shaktikanta Das |
| Headquarters | Mumbai |
| Founder | British Raj |
| Founded | April 1, 1935, Kolkata |
CURRENT AFFAIRS: ECONOMY
National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority(NPPA) caps prices of oxygen cylinders
- NPPA capped the prices of oxygen cylinders & medical oxygen cylinders.
- The demand of medical oxygen in India has increased by 4 times due to COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, demand for medical oxygen in the country has increased from 750 metric tons per day to 2,800 metric tonnes per day.
| National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority(NPPA) | Government agency |
| Founded | 29 August 1997 |
| Headquarters | New Delhi |
| Agency executive | Shubhra Singh (Chairperson) |
