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September 4 , 2019 1826 days 1017 0
  • Union government has put restrictions on the import of Agarbatti and other similar products from China and Vietnam.
    • The Directorate General of Foreign Trade has ordered that importers of these goods require a licence from the government.
  • India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora assumed Chairmanship of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) for the term 2019-21. India has taken over the AWEB Chair from Romania for a two-year period.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘Garvi Gujarat’, the second state bhawan of the Gujarat government in the national capital New Delhi.
    • This is the ‘first eco-friendly’ state Bhawan in national capital.
  • About 70 hatchlings of the rare Black Softshell and Indian Softshell turtles bred in the ponds of two temples in Assam were released by in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam.
    • Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is often called ‘Mini Kaziranga’ because of similar landscape and a sizeable population of the one-horned rhino.
  • Ashok Leyland has become 1st Indian Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to meet BS-VI emission norms across its entire range of heavy-duty trucks.
    • It has received compliance certificates from the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI).
  • Reliance Power has signed a partnership agreement with Japanese energy major Japan’s Energy for a New Era (JERA). They will jointly set up 750-megawatt gas-based combined cycle power project at Meghnaghat, Bangladesh.
  • Rishabh Pant became fastest Indian wicket-keeper to claim 50 dismissals in Test cricket in 11 matches. He broke previous record (16) held by MS Dhoni for India.
    • Kraigg Brathwaite of West Indies team was his 50th wicket.

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