22nd September 2018 Daily Current Affairs - PDF Download

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Dear Great Ambitionists, here are today's (22nd September 2018) Important Current Affairs updates. You can download the pdf version of these current affairs from below link. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 22nd September 2018

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International Current Affairs

• India has called off the meeting of the Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers scheduled in New York a day after announcing it. 
• The meeting was proposed by Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan but was cancelled in protest against the killing of policemen in Kashmir, the mutilation of a BSF jawan's body and issuance of Burhan Wani stamps by Pakistan.
• Pakistan has invited Saudi Arabia to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as the 3rd strategic partner.
  
• Note : CPEC, a part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, aims to link Pakistan's Gwadar port with China's Xinjiang.  
• Amid a rise in rape cases, Nepal has announced a ban on websites with adult content in the country. 
• Such websites promote sexual violence and perversion, the government said.  

National Current Affairs

• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today announced that the state ranks 1st in the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. 
• He said that the state has been successful in providing houses to 11 lakh poor families. 
• In urban areas, this scheme has benefited over 4 lakh families.

Deaths

• Yashvir Singh, who was India's national wrestling coach when Sushil Kumar won the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, passed away following a prolonged illness. 
• He was honored with the 'Coach of the Year' award by the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) after Sushil's 2010 World Championship gold. 
• Yashvir had also mentored Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a ₹13,000-crore project to revive Talcher fertiliser plant in Odisha. 
• Once commissioned, it will produce 1.27 million tonnes of neem-coated urea per annum. 
• Talcher Fertilizers, a joint venture between GAIL, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers, Coal India and Fertilizer Corporation of India, was constituted to revive the plant.
• Insurance regulator IRDAI has raised the minimum personal accident cover for owner-drivers to ₹15 lakh and has fixed the premium for the cover at ₹750 per annum. 
• Earlier, the mandatory cover was ₹2 lakh for cars and ₹1 lakh for two-wheelers.  
• ICICI Bank today announced that it is going to acquire 8.85% stake in Avenues Payment India for ₹10 crore in cash. 
• Avenues Payment provides a global remittance platform catering to both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) market segments.  

Awards & Honors

• Assamese film 'Village Rockstars' directed by Rima Das, has been announced as India's official entry for 2019 Oscars' Best Foreign Language Film category. 
• The film is about a 10-year-old girl from a village in Assam who wants to be a guitarist.
• The National Sports Awards 2018 were officialy announced.  
• Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli and weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu are going to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award- India's highest sports honour. Here is the complete list of winners :
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2018
• S. Mirabai Chanu – Weightlifting
• Virat Kohli – Cricket
• Dronacharya Awards 2018
• Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa – Boxing
• Vijay Sharma – Weightlifting
• A. Srinivasa Rao – Table Tennis
• Sukhdev Singh Pannu -Athletics
• Clarence Lobo – Hockey (Life Time)
• Tarak Sinha – Cricket (Life Time)
• Jiwan Kumar Sharma – Judo (Life Time)
• VR Beedu – Athletics (Life Time)
• Arjuna Awards 2018
• Neeraj Chopra – Athletics
• Naib Subedar Jinson Johnson – Athletics
• Hima Das – Athletics
• Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy – Badminton
• Subedar Satish Kumar – Boxing
• Smriti Mandhana – Cricket
• Shubhankar Sharma – Golf
• Manpreet Singh – Hockey
• Savita – Hockey
• Col. Ravi Rathore -Polo
• Rahi Sarnobat – Shooting
• Ankur Mittal – Shooting
• Shreyasi Singh – Shooting
• Manika Batra – Table Tennis
• G Sathiyan – Table Tennis
• Rohan Bopanna – Tennis
• Sumit – Wrestling
• Pooja Kadian – Wushu
• Ankur Dhama – Para-Athletics
• Manoj Sarkar – Para-Badminton
• Dhyan Chand Award 2018
• Satyadev Prasad – Archery
• Bharat Kumar Chetri – Hockey
• Bobby Aloysius – Athletics
• Chougale Dadu Dattatray – Wrestling

Sports Current Affairs

• Russia's Mikhail Youzhny, who is nicknamed 'Colonel', retired from professional tennis one win short of 500 career wins. 
• The 36-year-old Youzhny won 10 tour titles and reached a career-high ranking of eighth in 2008.

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