Current Affairs - September 29, 2019 Current Affairs

Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Friday took charge as Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) from outgoing IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa.

Forest-PLUS 2.0, the second set of pilot projects, is meant to enhance sustainable forest landscape management after Forest-PLUS completed its five years in 2017.

According to the latest report of the International Institute for Management Development's (IMD) World Digital Competitiveness Rankings (WDCR) 2019, India has moved up by 4 places from 48th rank in 2018 to rank at 44th position in 2019.

World Tourism Day is celebrated every year on 27th September.

Geetanjali is a book of poems written by the obel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. This book contains the translated versions of 103 Bengali poems written by the famous poet.

Pench National Park is in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh in India and includes Pench Tiger reserve.

There are a total of 15 member nations and dependencies. The countries that are part of CARICOM cover a total area of over 177,000 square miles, and the total population among the 15 countries is more than 18 million. There were four founding members of CARICOM. It is an organisation having primary objectives to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy.

The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party, is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Facebook has won exclusive digital content rights for ICC events in the Indian subcontinent till 2023.

The book 'The Wealth of Nation' was written by Adam Smith.

President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the sixth "India Water Week-2019" being organised with the theme of "Water cooperation-coping with 21st-century challenge' at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi

Infosys announced that it has won the United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the 'Climate Neutral Now' category. The company is the only corporate from India to earn the recognition for its efforts to combat climate change, says a press release from the company

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was established by the Government of India under the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act 1985.

Jammu and Kashmir Government has become issued more than 11 lakhs golden cards under Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) within 90 days of the launch of the scheme.

Indian track and field athlete PT Usha has been honoured with the International International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Veteran Pin Award during the 52nd Congress of the IAAF which was held in Qatar.

Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva was selected as the new chief and Managing Director of International Monetary Fund on September 25, 2019. Kristalina Georgieva has become the second-ever woman to lead the IMF. IMF comprises 189 member states.