Days in Focus
- Theme for 2019 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation (12 September) – “From Commitment to Action — Follow up to Buenos Aires Plan of Action+40”
Environment
- The 1995 Basel Ban Amendment prohibits all export of hazardous wastes from 29 wealthiest countries of this group to non-member countries - Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
International
- First place in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 - University of Oxford, United Kingdom (followed by California Institute of Technology US, University of Cambridge UK).
- First place in world military spending, as per the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report - U.S. (third of world spending).
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, third president of this country, died on 11 September 2019 – Indonesia.
- City that topped the ‘Safest Cities Index 2019’ released by the Economist Intelligence Unit – Tokyo, Japan (followed by Singapore, Japan’s Osaka, South Korea’s Seoul).
National
- India’s rank in world military spending, as per the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report - fourth.
- Indian institute that included in the top 350 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 – IISc Bangalore, IIT Ropar.
- India’s tallest Air Traffic Control tower - Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi.
- New Curriculum that designed by University Grants Commission (UGC) on 11 September 2019 - Life Skills (JeevanKaushal).
- Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2019, a massive countrywide awareness, launched in – Mathura, UP.
- New member that joined the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub on 12 September 2019 - India.
- The National Animal Disease Control Program for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) launched on 12 September 2019 to eradicate FMD by - 2030.
- India's first International Women's Trade Centre (iWTC) – Kozhikode, Kerala.
Persons in News
- Author of the Book titled “Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883-1924” - Vikram Sampath.
- UAE President has bestowed the First Class Order of Zayed II award to the Indian Ambassador, named - Navdeep Singh Suri.
Sports
- Person who breaks world record to take the SM6 200m medley at the Para-Swimming World Championships 2019 in London - Maisie Summers-Newton.
Science and Technology
- World’s Largest Single Radio Dish Telescope - China’s FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope) (305 meter dish).
- Astronomers have for the first time discovered water vapour in the atmosphere of a exoplanet called - K2-18b.
General Knowledge
- The Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub was launched in - May 2018.
- With the establishment of the first UN technical aid programme by the Economic and Social Council, the history of the South-South cooperation starts in – 1949.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Founded in: 1965; Headquarters: New York, USA.
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Founded in: 1967; Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia.
- The Basel Convention, a global waste dumping prohibition, was adopted in - 1995.