1. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage crosses 87 crore.
2. Election Commission announces bye-elections to three Lok Sabha seats, 30 Assembly constituencies in 14 States.
3. They include five constituencies in Assam, four in West Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Rajsthan, Bihar and Karnataka. One constituency each in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Nagaland and Telangana will go to bye-polls. The voting for the Assembly bye-polls will also be held on 30th of next month.
4. Petrol, diesel prices hiked; more to come Petrol price on 28 Sep was hiked by 20 paise per litre and diesel by 25 paise as international oil prices neared $80 per barrel mark for the first time in three years.
The price of petrol was hiked to Rs 101.39 a litre in Delhi from Rs 101.19 and to Rs 107.47 per litre in Mumbai, Diesel rates went to Rs 89.57 a litre in Delhi and Rs 97.21 in Mumbai.
5. The sword of the first Indian woman fencer to qualify for Olympics, Bhavani Devi is now in e-auction of gifts and mementos received by PM Modi. The auction proceeds will go to ‘Namami Gange Kosh’.
6. Union Home Minister Amit Shah releases training manual of Aapda Mitra Scheme, plan documents of Aapda Mitra and Common Alerting Protocol. He was speaking at the 17th Foundation Day celebrations of National Disaster Management Authority as the Chief Guest in New Delhi. The theme of this year's Foundation Day is 'Stopping Impact of Disaster Incidents in the Himalayan Region'.
7. Andhra Pradesh : The Vizag-based Indian Navy chopper with night vision cameras has rescued a stranded villager in Swarnamukhi River during night at Parvatipuram in Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh. Victim was marooned in the middle of the river due to flash floods caused by the cyclone Gulab.
8. Assam : Maoist leader Tingraj Orang surrendered before Additional Director General of Police, Special Branch Hiren Chandra Nath on 28 Sep in Guwahati.
9. He is the convener of Assam State Organizing Committee (ASOC) of CPI (Maoist), formed in 2017 in a meeting of Eastern Regional Bureau ( ERB) held in Jharkhand Orissa border. He was General Secretary of Barak and Bramhaputra Valley Zonal Committees of CPI (Maoist) in Assam.
10. Delhi : Court has ordered a salary cut of Rs 5,000 of the responsible cops for casual approach in The 2020 Delhi riots or North East Delhi riots, were lmultiple waves of bloodshed, property destruction, and rioting in North East Delhi, beginning on 23 February 2020, result: 53 people killed.
11. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on 28 Sep launched 'Desh bhakti Curriculum' in a programme organised at Chhatrasal Stadium in the national capital.
12. Gujarat : Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on 28 Sep launched ‘Amul Honey- a product of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. under active cooperation with ‘National Bee Board’.
13. J&K : One terrorist captured alive, another killed as Army foils infiltration bid in Uri sector. The military operation started in the night of 18th Sep when a search party observed the movement of infiltrators on LoC.
14. Karnataka govt is seriously considering bringing in a law against religious conversion either by force or through inducement in the state, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on 28 Sep.
15. Kerala High Court on 28 Sep dismissed two pleas challenging the Karnataka govt's decision to restrict entry from at borders of Kasaragod and Mangalore only to those having a negative RT-PCR report.
16. Maharashtra : Heavy rains and floods in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra killed 10 people.
17. 2 Mumbai metro lines to be operational in 4 months : Mumbai Metro's red line 7 and yellow line 2A are likely be operational within the next three to four months, informed the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
18. Punjab : Navjot Sidhu Quits As Punjab Congress Chief, Solidarity With Navjot Sidhu": Punjab Minister Razia Sultana Resigns
An urgent Punjab cabinet meeting was underway in lthe state following the resignation by Razia Sultana and Navjot Singh Sidhu.
19. Tamil Nadu : The Centre has granted permission to Tamil Nadu to admit 850 students to undergraduate courses in seven new medical colleges this academic year, health minister Ma Subramanian said on 28 Sep. This will take the total MBBS seats in the state to 4,300.
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1. India has finalized deal to buy four new Heron TP drones from Isarel used for surveillance. Also eventually upgraded under Project Cheetah.
2. India also looking to buy 30 MQ-9B High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) armed drones from US. Costing $10 billion for 10 drones.
3. Akash Prime missile: The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on September 28, 2021, successfully tested a new version of the Akash Missile known as Akash Prime. The test was conducted from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Odisha
4. Ministry of Defence will procure 118 Main Battle Tanks, MBTs Arjun Mk-1A for the Indian Army. The order was worth Rs 7,523 crore with Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi to sharpen the army’s combat edge. It will support the Make in India initiative in the defence sector and it will help in achieving the goal of Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
5. Lieutenant General Gurbirpal Singh took over as the 34th Director General of National Cadet Corps (NCC) on September 27, 2021.. He succeeds Lt Gen Tarun Kumar Aich.
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✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) extends ban on scheduled international commercial flights till October 31.
2. China has put in place new modular container-based accommodations for its troops in several high-altitude forward areas on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh in response to Indian deployment in the region.
3. Terrorist nabbed during failed infiltration bid exposes Pakistan Army : The 19-year-old terrorist captured by the Indian Army has exposed the Pakistan Army's role in training terrorists and facilitating infiltration bids across the LoC. Sources said the he is a resident of Okara, Pakistan, and the group had come to carry out a strike through the same route used in the 2018 Uri attack.
4. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) realized the phenomenon induced by information, and on 17 November 2015, announced that the International Day for Universal Access of Information (IDUAI) will be observed every year on September 28.
5. India signed the implementing arrangement on the joint development of a small satellite for Bhutan. The agreement was inked by Indian Space Research Organisation's Scientific Secretary R Umamaheswaran, and Director, Department of Department of Information Technology and Telecom, Bhutan, Jigme Tenzing, in a virtual signing ceremony dated 24 Sep.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Japan to shorten its COVID-19 quarantine period from 14 to 10 days starting October 1
2. The Child was executed in Takhar province by Taliban after his father was suspected of being in the Afghan Resistance Forces.
3. Thousands of women demonstrated in several Latin American cities on 28 Sep to commemorate the global day of action for access to safe and legal abortion. Earlier in Sept month Mexico's Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to criminalize abortion and, shortly after, the government said that those jailed on accusations of having terminated their pregnancy would be released.
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🚣🚴🏇🏊 SPORTS
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1. World Archery Championships : The team India archers settled for three silver medals at the 2021 World Archery Championships, held in Yankton, South Dakota, United States. Medals won by compound women’s team and mixed events and the lone individual win by V Jyothi Surekha also in the compound event.
2. Vennam Jyothi Surekha became the first Indian woman archer to win three silver medals at a world championship. The 25-year-old achieved this feat after she won the medal in each of the three categories.
3. IPL match on 29th Sep
RAJASTHAN ROYALS
Vs
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), 18:00 LOCAL
Match 43 Dubai International Stadium, Dubai.
4. IPL 41 match Result
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS : 130/7(18.2)
vs
DELHI CAPITALS : 127/9(20)
KKR Won by 3 wkts
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IPL Match 42
MUMBAI INDIANS : 137/4(19)
Vs
PUNJAB KINGS: 135/6(20)
MI Won by 6 wkts
5. England all-rounder Moeen Ali announced his retirement from Test cricket on 27 Sep. However, he will continue to play limited-overs cricket for England.
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USD 74.27 💷GBP 100.50
SIKKIM : Gangtok
CM : Prem Singh Tamang
Gvnr : Ganga Prasad
🥇Gold ₹47,598@10 gm 24 (Krt)
🥈 Silver ₹64,700@ Kg
⛽ Petrol ₹ 102.15
⛽ Diesel ₹ 91.95
*LPG : ₹ 1038/14.2 Kg*
*BSE Sensex* 59,667.60
*NIFTY* : 17,748.60
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🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳
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Father of Indian Green Revolution ..............Dr.M.S. Swaminathan. The Green Revolution in India refers to a period when Indian agriculture was converted into an industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology such as the use of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, tractors, irrigation facilities, pesticides, and fertilizers. the Green Revolution within India commenced in 1965 .
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😀Thought of the day
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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. ==========================
JOKE OF THE DAY
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Frnd : Kya Daru Pine se khaansi jati hai
Pappu : Kyu nai jayegi
Jab mera ghar, khet, paisa sab kuch chala gaya to teri khansi kya cheej hai🧐🤪
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😳WHY❓❓❓
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Why should one not sleep under the trees at night.
During the day, in presence of sunlight, the plants use up the CO2 and release O2 in the process of photosynthesis. But during night, plants won’t perform photosynthesis so they are unable to use the CO2 and this further leads to increase in the proportion of CO2 in the air. During night the trees breathe in oxygen and release CO2. If one sleeps under the trees, the amount of increased CO2 in the air around will certainly affect the health. So it is inadvisable to sleep under trees during night.
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LEARN Sanskrit🙏🏻
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Sarvaa Dharmeshu Madhyamaam
Choose always the middle path. Avoid going for extremes in anything
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🤔 HOW IT WORKS ⁉ =========================
How a weight machine works
Scales people use to weigh themselves often work this way. You stand on a platform and your weight, pushing down, compresses a pressure sensor called a piezoelectric transducer. This is a kind of crystal that makes an electric current when you squeeze it: the harder you push, the more current it makes.
Digital scales use a . A system of levers translates your weight standing on a scale into a bending force on a calibrated metal block, and the strain gauge measures how much it bends, producing a voltage proportional to the force. There may be two or even four strain gauges that measure the difference in strain between the two sides, to compensate for temperature dependence (the resistance of the gauge can change with temperature as well as with strain). The voltage is converted to numbers in an , Analog to digital convertor. manipulated in a small dedicated computer to set the zero and scale, and displayed on an LCD display.
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💁🏻♂ GK TODAY
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Lal-Bal-Pal
Bengali Tiger : Bipin Chandra Pal
Maratha Kesari : Bal GangadharTilak
Punjab Lion : Lala Lajpat Rai
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BORN TODAY 🐣💐
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Sayyid Mubarak Ali Khan II, popularly known as Humayun Jah (1810 – 1838), was born on 29 September 1810 to Ahmad Ali Khan and Nazib un-Nisa Begum.
He was the Nawab of Bengal from 1824 to 1838. He was succeeded by Mansur Ali Khan.
He built the famous and renowned Hazarduari Palace and Mubarak Manzil in Murshidabad
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🙏🏻 IDIOMS & PHRASES
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‘ To cost an arm and a leg ’–
something is very expensive.
“Fuel these days costs and arm and a leg.”
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🛕 VEDIK GYAN
(kindly inform, if given info is vary from actual facts🙏🏻) ==========================
Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata, the compiler of the Puranas.
There are 1 Maha Purana, 17 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over 400,000 verses.
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🧬 HEALTH CARE: HOME REMEDIES🩺
( Note : These home tips followed in villages/ancient traditions, it is up to you to use it or not🙏🏻) ==========================
Best foods for eye health
Fish oil can reverse dry eye,
Nuts are also rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Nuts also contain a high level of vitamin E, which can protect the eye from age-related damage.
Leafy green vegetables are rich in both lutein and zeaxanthin and are also a good source of eye-friendly vitamin C.
Carrots are rich in both Vitamin A and beta carotene. Beta carotene gives carrots their orange color.
Sweet potatoes are rich in beta carotene. They are also a good source of the antioxidant vitamin E.
Drinking plenty of water can prevent dehydration, which may reduce the symptoms of dry eyes.