Top GKToday’s News Headlines – 29 SEPTEMBER 2019

Here are the top News Headlines of 29 September 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.

National Current Affairs

  • SC sets up a five-judge Constitution bench to hear a batch of pleas related to abrogation of Article 370
  • Stealth frigate INS Nilgiri launched for sea trials at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai
  • Defence Minister Rajnath Singh commissions the second Scorpene submarine Khanderi into the Navy in Mumbai
  • West Bengal’s Midnapore becomes 5000th Wi-Fi enabled railway station; RailTel providing Wi-Fi facility RailWire
  • NMCG holds a special session on ‘Rejuvenation of the River Ganga’ during India Water Week 2019 in New Delhi
  • Saraswati Samman of the KK Birla Foundation presented to K. Siva Reddy for his Telugu poetry collection ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’
  • Writer V J James’s novel ‘Nireeswaran’ (Atheist) wins Vayalar Ramavarma Memorial Literature Award in Kerala
  • Corps of Army Air Defence at Gopalpur in Odisha honoured with President Colours
  • Aadi Mahotsav (Tribal Festival) organized by Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) at Noida (UP) from September 28 to October 8.

Economy & Business Current Affairs

  • Deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar extended till December 31: CBDT

International Current Affairs

  • Nepal launches three commemorative coins of denominations of 100, 1000 and 2500 Nepalese rupees to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak
  • India hands over a new school building in Kathmandu costing Rs 2.41 crores to Nepal govt.
  • 3 Senegalese UN peacekeepers killed in helicopter crash in Central African Republic
  • International Day for Universal Access to Information celebrated by UNESCO on September 28 with theme as ‘Leaving No One Behind!’
  • World Rabies Day observed by WHO on September 28 — death anniversary of Louis Pasteur who developed rabies vaccine

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