Current Affairs Day Wise- Sept 9, 2017
1-Former Indian cricketer, Devika Palshikar to work on Tamil film on women’s cricket.
2-UN General Assembly President is Peter Thomson
3-Jammu and Kashmir Governor is N.N. Vohra, Chief Minister is Mehbooba Mufti
4- US President Donald Trump has signed a bill to provide $15.25 billion in assistance for victims of Hurricane Harvey
5- Russian Foreign Minister is Sergey Lavrov
6- ICRC- The International Committee of the Red Cross
7-Iran and South Korea signed an agreement on banking cooperation
8- UNSC- UN Security Council
9-Filmmaker S.S Rajamouli chosen for the prestigious Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR) award for 2017
10-NASA’s asteroid-bound spacecraft is OSIRIS-REx
11-Facebook is all set to invest $1bn in original TV content
12-Twitter has allowed account sharing feature for Android, iOS
13-Newly appointed Chairman of the Railway Board is Ashwani Lohani
14-AEOI- Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
15- 290,000 Rohingya Muslims have recently fled to Bangladesh to escape from violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
16-Sri Lankan Foreign Minister is Tilak Marapana.
17-Kiko Milano, the Italian cosmetic brand, has celebrated 20 years of beauty with the first store in Mumbai
18-Total direct tax payers have doubled in the last three years from 3.7 crores to 6.4 crores, BJP National President Amit Shah said.
19-Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed singer Adnan Sami and Roya’s daughter Medina.
20-Karan Johar and Hrithik Roshan have come out for a noble cause in support of preventing suicide in the country on the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day 2017.
21- Manipur Chief Minister is N. Biren Singh
22-FIFA Under-17 World Cup will be held from October 6 to 28 in India.
23-Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh presented development grants of Rs 21,000 each to 72 Mahila Mandals or women’s groups.
24-Congress promoted AICC Secretary Deepak Babaria as a party in charge of Madhya Pradesh in place of Mohan Prakash.
25-The GST Council formed a five-member ministerial panel to oversee technical glitches in filing returns at a meeting held in Hyderabad.
26-SpiceJet has launched daily flights on the Silchar-Guwahati-Dibrugarh route with effect from October 3
27-Secret tunnels, explosives factory found inside the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters near Haryana’s Sirsa town
28-Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has inaugurated a ‘New India-We Resolve To Make’ program in Bhubaneswar to commemorate the 75 years of the Quit India Movement
29-Snapchat is Popular photo-sharing app.
30-Union Consumer Affairs Minister is Ram Vilas Paswan
31-MGNREGA- Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
32-Maharashtra’s late Col. Santosh Mahadik‘s widow Swati Mahadik has been commissioned into the Indian Army as a Lieutenant