Narendra Modi won the Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education at 30th First Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

• PM Narendra Modi won the Medical Education Prize of Ig Nobel Prize 2020 at the 30th First Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony over virtual platform.
• He became the 2nd Prime Minister from India to win the Ig Nobel Prize after Atal Bihari Vajpayee who won the 1998 Peace Award for "Aggressively peaceful explosion of atomic bombs".

Ig Nobel Prize

• The Ig Nobel Prize is an annual sarcastic or a parody award presented by the magazine "Annals of Improbable Research", which is dedicated to scientific humors as a mockery of the standard academic journal.
• The word "Ignoble" is an antonym of nobel. The Ig Nobel Award was instituted in 1991 by Marc Abrahams with an objective to honor the achievements that make people laugh and then think.
• The award comprises a paper box trophy along with a real fake 10 trillion-dollar bill from Zimbabwe

Narendra Modi won the Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education at 30th First Ig Nobel Ceremony

• Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education Prize
• The Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education is shared among Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan for "Using the Covid-19 pandemic to show the world that politicians can have more impacts on life and death than scientists and doctors".
• Peace Prize to India and Pakistan
• The Government of India and Pakistan together won the Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for peace for "having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other's doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door."

PK Mishra Panel to Initiate Action in Advance for Managing Air Pollution

• A high-level task force led by Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister reviewed the action taken by agencies and firm up plans for the coming harvesting and winter season during a meeting with Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, Secretaries of different departments / ministries of the central government including Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Agriculture, Road, Petroleum and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
• Its objective was to initiate proper precautionary and preventive measures in advance for the management of air pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR).

About Delhi

• CM - Arvind Kejriwal
• Governor - Anil Baijal

SCTIMST develops device to prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis

• Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum (SCTIMST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, has indigenously developed a device for the prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT).
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of blood clots in deeply located veins usually in the legs.

India delivered two modern DMUC Trains to Nepal Railways

• Konkan Railways (operated by Konkan Railway Corporation) handed over two modern Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit (DMU) trains to Nepal Railways for the Jaynagar-Kurtha Broad Gauge Line.
• The Rails will run between Jaynagar (Bihar) and Kurtha in Dhanusa district from December, 2020.
• The trains have been manufactured by Integrated Coach Factory, Chennai with modern amenities and latest AC-AC Propulsion Technology.
• They were procured by Nepal's Railway Department for a price of 84 Crore 65 Lakhs Nepali Rupees.
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• India delivered two modern DMUC Trains to Nepal Railways

About Nepal

• Capital - Kathmandu
• PM - Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
• President - Bidhya Devi Bhandari
• Currency - Nepalese rupee

SBI started Women Self-Reliance Program in Assam

• SBI initiated "Mahila Atmanirbharshil Aachani (Women Self-Reliance Program)" in Assam on the lines of the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan accelerate Self Help Group (SHG) finance in a mission mode.
• In this regard, SBI branches of Assam sanctioned 856 SHGS sponsored by NRLM with financial outlay of Rs. 38 crore.

About SBI

• Chairperson - Rajnish Kumar
• Tagline - The Nation banks on us, Pure Banking Nothing Else, With you all the way
• HQ - Mumbai

India's Nominal GDP to grow by 19% in FY22 as per Finance Ministry

• Krishnamurthy Subramanian, chief economic advisor in the finance ministry, Government of India informed that as per the estimate of Finance Ministry, India nominal GDP is expected to grow by 19% in FY 22(2021-22) on a low base.
• The nominal GDP in the first quarter of this financial year contracted by 22.6% to Rs 38.08 lakh crore compared to Rs 49.18 lakh crore in the same period last year.
• It measures a country's gross domestic product (GDP) using current prices, without adjusting for inflation.

Visa & IFundWomen launched a program in India to support Women Entrepreneurs

• Visa Inc. (Visa) along with its global partner IFundWomen launched a grant program in India to support women entrepreneurs.
• This program enables India's women entrepreneurs to receive funding from Visa to grow and expand their business.
• As a digitization partner for the program in India, Visa has partnered with FLO (the ladies wing of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry-FICCI) and Instamojo.

About the Program

• Visa will seek applications from women entrepreneurs across all sectors from September 21 to October 20.
• Applicants must submit details of their business and online presence, with a short video about their business to www.ifundwomen.com/visa-india.
• Visa & IFundWomen launched a program in India to support Women Entrepreneurs

About Visa Inc.

• HQ - California, USA
• Chairman- Alfred F. Kelly,

About IFundWomen

• HQ - New York, USA
• Founder and CEO - Karen Cahn

Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner passed away at 91

• John Turner, the former Prime Minister of Canada, who served as the Prime Minister for just 79 days in 1984, the 2nd shortest term in the office recorded in the history of Canada passed away at the age of 91 at this residence in Toronto, Canada

About Canada

• Capital - Ottawa
• PM - Justin Trudeau
• Currency - Canadian dollar

International Red Panda Day 2020 September 19

• The International Red Panda Day is annually celebrated on the third Saturday of September which aims to create and raise awareness about the red panda among the general public and to support the conservation of red pandas.
• The International Red Panda Day 2020 falls on 19th September 2020.
• The Red Panda Network (RPN) with the support of Nicki Boyd, Associate curator of behavior Husbandryy for the San Diego Zoo launched the International Red Panda Day in 2010.
• The first international red Panda day was celebrated on 18th September 2010.