• National

PM Modi inaugurates Mahatma Gandhi Museum at Rajkot

• The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Mahatma Gandhi museum at Alfred High school in Rajkot, Gujarat.
• This Museum captures every nuance of Bapu’s philosophy and puts it in the context of history, spread across 40 rooms on two floors.
• The Prime Minister also unveiled a plaque to mark the inauguration of a public housing project of 624 houses.
• He witnessed the e-Gruh Pravesh of 240 beneficiary families.

• Sports

India clinch three medals at Archery World Cup

• India has clinched three medals at the Archery World Cup Final in Samsun, Turkey.
• Ace Indian Recurve archer Deepika Kumari won a bronze medal.
• Deepika defeated Germany’s Lisa Unruh in a shoot-off to bag her fifth medal in seven appearances in the tournament.
• This was India’s second bronze medal in the competition after Abhishek Verma had bagged a bronze medal in men’s compound event.

• Awards

Nobel Prize 2018: Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To James P Allison And Tasaku Honjo

• The Nobel Medicine or Physiology Prize has been awarded to James P Allison and Tasaku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”
• This is for the first time that no Literature Prize will be given in 70 years because of a #MeToo scandal.
• The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

• Appointments

Ajit Mohan appointed as Facebook India MD

• Ajit Mohan has been appointed as the Managing Director (MD) and Vice President of the Facebook (its India wing).
• Earlier, Mr Ajit has served as chief executive of Hotstar, a streaming platform owned by Twenty-First Century Fox’s Star India arm, since April 2016.

• Appointments

Jayant Mammen Mathew elected president of INS

• Jayant Mammen Mathew has been elected as the president of the prestigious Indian Newspaper Society, an apex body of the country’s print media industry for the year 2018-19.
• He succeeds Akila Urankar of Business Standard.
• Mr Mathew is the Executive Editor of Malayala Manorama.

• Appointments

Bangladesh appoints Susane Giti as first female major general

• Bangladesh has appointed a female officer as a major general for the first time in the country’s 47 year history.
• Dr Susane Giti has become the first woman to become Major General.
• Giti passed her MBBS from Rajshahi Medical College in 1985.
• In 1986, she joined the medical wing of the Bangladesh armed forces as a captain

• Important Days

International Day of Older Persons is being observed today

• The International Day of Older Persons is observed on 1st October every year to raise awareness about issues affecting the elderly, such as senescence and elder abuse.
• It is also a day to appreciate the contributions that older people make to society.
• The theme of the 2018 commemoration is “Celebrating Older Human Rights Champions”.

• Defence

India’s Largest war memorial of India will be built in Jharkhand

• According to Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das, the state government is constructing India’s biggest war memorial.
• Stories of the slain soldiers’ bravery will be written in the war memorial which will have a replica of the Kargil War so that the youth can understand their duties towards the nation.
• Jharkhand government has hiked compensation amount to the kin of the soldiers who died while serving the country from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.

• States

Assam govt to launch Wage Compensation Scheme for Pregnant Women in tea gardens

• Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal has launched Wage Compensation Scheme for Pregnant Women in tea gardens of the state in Guwahati.
• The scheme will provide better health and nutrition supplements to the pregnant women.
• An amount of Rs. 12,000 (in 4 instalments) will be given to the pregnant woman so that she could take care of herself and unborn baby without compromising the livelihood of her family.

• States

Good samaritan bill of Karnataka approved

• Karnataka has become the first state in the country to give legal protection to good Samaritans.
• President Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to Karnataka Good Samaritan and Medical Professional (Protection and Regulation during Emergency Situations) Bill, 2016.
• The bill aims to provide legal protection to the good samaritans in Karnataka, who help accident victims with emergency medical care.

• Miscellaneous

Peace Padyatra in the Red heartland

• Around 150 people, from various states affected by the Maoist insurgency, will begin a 186-km long ‘Peace Padyatra’ on 1 Oct.
• The Peace Padyatra will start from the Shabri Gandhi Ashram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh to the Jagdalpur town of Bastar.
• The padyatris will walk along the National Highway 30, that passes through the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

• Agreements

Canada agrees to join trade accord with US & Mexico

• Canada and the United States reached a deal for Canada, USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) to stay in a free trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico.
• It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
• The agreement will strengthen the middle class, and create good, well-paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly half billion people who call North America home.