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🗞 English : The Hindu | Times of India | Indian Express | Hindustan Times | Business Standard

🗞 Hindi : Dainik Jagarn | Jansatta

🗞 Marathi : Loksatta | Lokmat

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🗓️ 1 to 7 September: National Nutrition Week


INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS.

- UNSC approves resolution to cut strength of UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon from 15,000 to 13,000


- Indian origin WWII spy Noor Inayat Khan gets honoured with blue plaque in London


- India co-sponsors UN resolution tabled by Indonesia on women’s role in peace keeping missions


- US actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43; well-known for his role in movie Black Panther (2018)


- The International Day Against Nuclear Tests observed on August 29; Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site in Kazakhstan closed on this day in 1991


- 17th ASEAN-India Economic Ministers’ Consultations held; co-chaired by Piyush Goyal (Minister of Commerce and Industry & Railways) and his Vietnamese counterpart


- India withdraws its participation in Kavkaz 2020 multinational defence exercise in Russia in September


🏆 NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS

- August 29 is the birth anniversary of hockey legend Dhyan Chand and is celebrated as National Sports Day in India.


- Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju announces hike in the prize money in four of the seven categories of the National Sports and Adventure Awards


- The hike will come into effect from this year.


- The prize money for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award increased to Rs 25 lakh from the previous amount of Rs 7.5 lakh, while Arjuna Award s been enhanced to Rs 15 lakh from Rs 5 lakh.


- The Dronacharya (Lifetime) awardees, who were earlier given Rs 5 lakh, will now be richer by Rs 15 lakh, while Dronacharya (Regular) winners will be given Rs 10 lakh instead of Rs 5 lakh.


- ⭐ The prize money of Dhyan Chand Award has been increased to Rs 10 lakh from Rs 5 lakh.


🏆 AWARDS

- ⭐ Online Chess Olympiad: India-Russia declared joint winners


- Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins Formula One Belgian Grand Prix


NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

- PM inaugurates College and Administration Buildings of Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi (UP) through video conferencing


- Covid-19: Home Ministry announces Unlock 4.0 from Sept 1 to 30; metro train services can resume and social & other functions will be allowed with a limit of 100 people


- Telugu Language Day celebrated on August 29; day is birth anniversary of Telugu poet Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy


- September will be observed as “Nutrition Month”: PM Modi says in “Mann ki Baat” radio programme


- Delimitation Commission headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Desai (retd) to visit 4 northeastern States (Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh), J&K UT after preparing framework to redraw constituencies


- Indian jails remained overcrowded and under-staffed in 2019: NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data


- IIT Bombay students launch AIR Scanner mobile app – a free Indian alternative to Chinese document-scanning apps


📈 ECONOMY & CORPORATE

- Reliance Retail to buy Future Group’s retail business for Rs 24,713 crore; Future group’s brands include Big Bazaar, Easyday, Nilgiris, Central and Brand Factory


- CBDT directs banks to refund charges taken since Jan 1 on UPI, RuPay payments; refrain from continuing to impose such charges


😔 HONORABLE DEATH 

- ⭐ Former President Pranab Mukherjee Dies at 84


- Bihar Congress MLA Ramdeo Rai dies at 81


- Veteran Athletics coach Purshottam Rai dies at 79; won 2020 Dronacharya Award


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