1. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said that the govt is constructing the world’s longest highway – Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway. According to Gadkari, the project will get over by March 2022.
2. Labour & Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav expressed happiness that in less than a month, over one crore people have registered on the e-Shram portal.
3. *e-SHRAM Portal* : Ministry of Labour & Employment India has started a new portal named e-SHRAM Portal for the welfare of Workers. Candidates who register for E Shram will get a Unique Identification Number (UAN) Card. Through the CSC NDUW EShram Card Online registration Online UP Bihar, MP & karnataka, aspirants can get jobs in Future.
4. PM Modi held a marathon meeting with the secretaries of central govt departments on 18 Sep (Saturday) and wondered why the bureaucrats, despite having vision for development, lacked in the execution.
5. The Congress’ Scheduled Castes Department on September 17, 2021, passed a resolution calling for senior leader Rahul Gandhi’s appointment as the president of the party. Sonia Gandhi had taken over as interim Congress president after Rahul Gandhi resigned from the top post in the wake of the party’s Lok Sabha poll debacle in May 2019.
6. Ministry of Civil Aviation increases passenger capacity from 72.5% to 85% amid COVID.
7. Assam : The BJP Saturday nominated Union Ministers Sarbananda Sonowal and L Murugan for the Rajya Sabha bye-elections, from Assam and Madhya Pradesh, respectively. The Election Commission announced bypolls on October 4 for one seat each in West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, and two in Tamil Nadu.
8. Delhi : Delhi Metro: Ropeway link for Blue & Red lines is the proposed ropeway link between Vaishali metro station on the Blue Line and Mohan Nagar station on the Red Line has submitted the document to the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA). The cost of the project has been pegged at Rs 487 crore and it is set to be completed by 2024.
9. Karnataka : Karnataka has vaccinated 75% of its eligible population against COVID-19, with the first dose and 24% with both doses.
10. Kerala : prepares to reopen schools from November 1st, after remaining closed for over one and half years amid Covid pandemic.
11. Class XI exams in Kerala to be held from Sept 24 to 18 Oct, adhering to COVID-19 protocol. General Education Minister V Sivankutty said.
12. Madhya Pradesh: Union Home Minister Amit Shah releases 5 lakh gas connections for poor families of Madhya Pradesh. While he was addressing the inauguration program of the second phase of Ujjwala Yojana in Jabalpur on 18 Sep.
13. Manipur: Chief Minister N. Biren Singh launched a program for distribution of benefits under the Economic Development Program (EDP) and Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK) at Imphal on 18 Sep.
14. Mahrashtra: Anant Chaturdashi 2021: Mumbai Police on High Alert Ahead of Ganpati Visarjan on 19 Sep Sunday. 10th and last day of immersion of Ganesh idols.
15. Nagaland: Nagaland Accepts New System of Opposition-less Govt at All-party Meet. A much awaited Naga peace accord and Naga peace settlement, the new nomenclature for having an opposition-less government was approved by way of a resolution on 18 Sep (Saturday).
16. Punjab : Captain Amarinder Singh quits as Punjab CM; accuses Congress Party of humiliating him continuously. He has tendered his resignation letter to the Governor of Punjab Banwari Lal Purohit.
17. The Punjab Congress Legislature party has passed a resolution giving powers to the Congress national president Sonia Gandhi to decide the new Chief Minister for the state.
18. Tamil Nadu : Ravindra Narayan Ravi was on 18 Sep (Saturday) sworn-in as the Governor of Tamil Nadu, succeeding Banwarilal Purohit who has since been shifted to Punjab. Ravi, shifted from Nagaland, said he saw his new role more as an opportunity than a challenge.
19. West Bengal: Former Union Minister Babul Supriyo joined Trinamool Congress Party in the presence of TMC’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. The two-term MP Babul Supriyo had unsuccessfully contested the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections as BJP candidate from Tollygunge Constituency. He was stripped of his ministry during the last cabinet reshuffle.
20. Bollywood: The CBDT on 18 Sep (Saturday) alleged that actor Sonu Sood and his associates evaded tax of Rs 20 crore and claimed that after the Income Tax Department raided him and a linked Lucknow-based infrastructure group it was found that he routed his “unaccounted income in the form of bogus unsecured loans from many bogus entities”. It also accused Sood of violating the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) while raising donations from abroad.
21. Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Bipin Rawat has said that India is “looking at creating a rocket force” as part of efforts to step up on enhancing its military capabilities. Alluding to hostile moves by India’s northern neighbour.
22. India’s command structure of theatre commands
: Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat formally outlined the structure of India’s theatre commands(TCs) – the existing 17 single-Service commands will be integrated into four geographical commands, each with elements from all three Services.
23. Army taps Bengaluru-based firm for specialised sights in use with forces abroad : The Army has placed orders with an Indian firm for specialised sights under emergency procurement to help some of its elite units operating in both urban warfare and at the borders.
24. 460 youth from J&K and Ladakh joined elite JAK LI Infantry of Indian Army. 460 passing out young soldiers from the union territories of J&K and Ladakh at JAK LI Training Camp, Dansal, district Jammu. The attestation parade was reviewed by Lt Gen MK Das, Commandant OTA Chennai.
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