1. China had conducted its first -ever nuclear test on October 16, 1964 - two years after the border war fought between India and China. Test. Generally Nuclear test / explosion produce "Mushroom clouds".
A mushroom cloud is an iconic mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke/debris that forms in the sky following an extremely large explosion. Although it’s usually associated with a nuclear explosion, a mushroom cloud can be formed following any event that results in a rapid release of heat, like a volcano, a forest fire, an impact event (a large-scale collision between astronomical objects) or a particularly powerful explosion (like those caused by vacuum bombs).
2. GST (Goods and Service Tax) council is chaired by Finance Minister "Arun Jaitely".
3. New Home minister of Karnataka: R. Ramalinga Reddy, who was minister for transport until now, replaces G.Parameshwara who resigned from his post in June to focus on next year’s assembly elections.
4. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of AYUSH : Sripad Yasso Naik.
The Ministry of AYUSH was formed on 9th November 2014 to ensure the optimal development and propagation of AYUSH systems of health care.
2. GST (Goods and Service Tax) council is chaired by Finance Minister "Arun Jaitely".
3. New Home minister of Karnataka: R. Ramalinga Reddy, who was minister for transport until now, replaces G.Parameshwara who resigned from his post in June to focus on next year’s assembly elections.
4. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of AYUSH : Sripad Yasso Naik.
The Ministry of AYUSH was formed on 9th November 2014 to ensure the optimal development and propagation of AYUSH systems of health care.
Earlier it was known as the Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H) which was created in March 1995 and renamed as Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in November 2003.
5. Karnataka is the sixth largest fertilizer - consuming state in India in terms of NPK Nutirents.
6. Neem coated urea can bring better paddy outputs, finds study.
Neem coated urea puts the fertilizer in a slow - release mode, thereby nourishing the sapling for a longer period. It helps avoid repeated use of fertilizer and economises the quantity of urea required by crops, resulting in better crop yield and efficient pest control management.
7. Horticulture: Horticulture is the science and art of growing (plants) -fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture. In contrast to agriculture, horticulture does not include large-scale crop production or animal husbandry.
8. Chief of Indian Air force: - Air Chief Marshal Birendra Singh Dhanoa
9. Onam is an annual Hindu festival with origins in the state of Kerala in India. It falls in the Malayalam calendar month of Chingam, which in Gregorian calendar overlaps with August–September.
The festival commemorates the Vamana avatar of Vishnu, the subsequent homecoming of the legendary Emperor Mahabali and mythologies of Hinduism related to Kashyapa and Parashurama.
10. First 3D Sanskrit Feature Film : Anurakthi
- Director and Co -Producer: P. K. Asokan
- It's a 80 minute film, shot on about Rs 28 lakhs, is in 'colloquial' Sanskrit.
- There's a Koodiyattom performance as well and noted artiste Kalamandalam Sivan namboodri essays a key character in it.
11. India's indigenously developed third generation anti-tank guided missile Nag has been successfully flight tested by premier defence research organisation DRDO in the deserts of Rajasthan, marking the completion of development trials.
12. Minister of Tourism : K. J. Alphons
13. As per the estimates released by the central statistics office on August 31, India's economy, as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP), grew by 5.7 % in the first quarter of 2017-18 , compared with 7.9 % in the same quarter a year ago. This is slowest pace of GDP growth recorded since the NDA came to power in May 2014.
14. NITI Aayog Vice-chairman : Rajiv Kumar
15. Handy Cancer Detector: A handheld pen-like device invented by the university of Texas researchers enables rapid diagnosis of cancerous tissues. A major challenge during surgery is determining the boundary between cancerous and normal tissue. The mass spectrometer attached to pen tip identifies cancerous tissue.
16. IGIB team discovers skin bacterium with antimicrobial activity.
Bacteria found on the skin are known to harbour a large repertoire of antimicrobial agents. A new bacterial strain of Staphylococcus capitis identified by scientists at Delhi's CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) has a strong anti bacterial activity against Gram - positive bacteria , including Staphylococcus aureus.
17. Gender Transition: It is a mathematical concept and can be used to understand how an orderly arrangement of atoms, like in diamonds, changes into a disorderly mess in glass and amorphous materials.
The objects what we touch and are familiar with exist in three dimensions but the Gardener Transition - named for the pioneering physicist Elizabeth Gardner shows how imagined materials with infinite dimensions go through a glassy phase.
18. Stomach cancer is the second most common cancer among men and third -most among women worldwide.
19. Anderson is the lowest ranked (32) man to reach a US open singles final since the inception of the ranking system in 1973.
20. Angad Vir singh Bajwa spoilt his chances with two rounds of 22 but was the best among Indian skeet shooters, as he placed 24th with a total of 119, in a strong field of 113 in the Shotgun World Championship here n saturday.
21. Anshu won India's second gold as the women's wrestling team finished second behind Japan in the Cadet World Championship.
Abbreviations:
GST- Goods and Service Tax
BWSSB - Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board
ICRA - Credit Rating Agency of Inida
SIT- Special Investigation Team
KSTDC - Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation.
HAL - Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
PGIMER - Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research.
AIMS- Amrita Institue of Medical Sciences
AIIMS- All Inida Institute of Medical Science
Books - Authors - Publisher
The Econocracy : On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the experts - Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward - Perkins - Penguin Press
Doughnut Economics: Seven ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist - Kate Raworth - Penguine Random House
I do What I do - Raghuram Rajan - HarperCollins
Becoming China: The Story Behind the State - Jeanne Marie Gescher - Bloomsburry India
The People Next Door: The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan - T.C.A. Raghavan - HarperCollins
How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century - Shyam Saran - Juggernaut
Speaking of the self: Gender, Performance and Autobiography in South Asia - Siobhan Lambert - Hurtley, Anshu Malhotra - Zubaan
The Lost World of Sarala Devi : Selected writings - Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty - Oxford University Press
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of caste - Diane Coffey and Dean Spears - HarperCollins
Analysing China's soft power strategy and comparative Indian initiatives - Parama Sinha Palit - Sage Publications
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