Current affairs notes on 25/09/2018-28/09/2018

1.Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the Maldive's presidential election on 24th September 2018. He defeated Maldives President Abdulla Yameen.

2.Luka Modric broke a decade of award dominance by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi after being crowned world footballer of the year by FIFA. Modric beat out Liverpool's Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah and Ronaldo. 

3.Indian actress Jaya Prada appointed goodwill ambassador for Nepal tourism.She is also a former Member of Parliament.

4.Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) has now become second largest metro rail network in India. It is also the world's largest metro project under the public-private-partnership (PPP) model. The Hyderabad metro now has an operational network of 45 km.

5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN's highest environmental honour, also given to five other individuals and organisations, for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledge to eliminate single use plastic by 2022.  Cochin International Airport was given the award for its leadership in the use of sustainable energy.

6.25th September is observed as Antyodaya Diwas every year to mark the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.Each of these team will work on Open Defecation Free activities in their villages. 22 States and UTs have been declared Open Defecation Free so far.

7.The Indian Air Force successfully test fired the indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile Astra from a Su-30 aircraft.Astra, deemed to be the best in the class weapon system, has undergone more than 20 developmental trials.

8.World Tourism Day is observed every year globally on 27th September. "Tourism and the Digital Transformation" is the theme of this year's World Tourism Day (WTD). Hungary is the host country for this year's WTD.

9.India will organise 'Gandhi March' from the iconic Peace Palace at the Hague in the Netherlands.  October 2 is also marked as International Day of Non-Violence.

10.The first-ever women-only foreign minister conference was held in Montreal, Canada on September 21-22, 2018 . The aim of the conference was to highlight women’s key role in politics and decision-making processes.

11.Andhra Pradesh has topped the charts among States in terms of “2018 Ease of Living Index” rankings launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Odisha and Madhya Pradesh bagged second and third best performing awards.

12.Dr Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated air pollution control device – Wind Augmentation Purifying Unit (WAYU) at ITO in New Delhi to mitigate air pollution at traffic junctions.

13.he United Nations (UN) has recently declared the period from 2019 to 2028 as the Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in New York on 24 September 2018.

14.The Union Cabinet has approved the National Digital Communication Policy (NDCP) 2018 which aims to provide universal broadband connectivity at 50 megabit per second (MBPS) to every citizen.

15.Nepal is set to become the first country in the world to double its tiger population as part of the World Wildlife Foundation’s (WWF) ‘Tx2’ programme which aims to double the number of tigers all over the world.

16.Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance will release an Annual Financial Inclusion Index (FII). The Index will have three measurement dimensions: 
1.      Access to financial services.
2.      Usage of financial services.
3.      Quality.

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