1. Election Commission bans display of election advertisements on governmenttransport buses.(V. S. Sampath, Chief Election Commissioner(CEC))
2. Tennis players Sania Mirza(Telengana) and Saketh Myneni(Andhra Pradesh), hailing from these two states, have scored big time, an Asian Games gold medal for India.
3. September 29: Formation Day of National Disaster Management Authority(NDMA)( The Secretary, NDMA, S. N. Mohanty).I over laps with World Heart Day.
4. 27 September 2014. : World Tourism Day (WTD). Theme of the World Tourism Day 2014 is “Tourism and Community Development”. It is promoted by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) .
5. Yoga Day on 21 June: Prime Minister Modi called for celebration of International Yoga Day on 21 June every year in UN General Assembly Meeting.
6. Third Global Citizen Festival was held at the Central Park in New York.This festival aims to secure new commitments to health, education, equality of women and global partnerships.
7. The central bank kept the key repo rate unchanged at 8 per cent.RBI Governor has vowed to bring consumer price inflation down to 8 per cent by January 2015and to 6 per cent by 2016.(current CPI : 7.8 per cent in August).
8. Spain’s constitutional court declares Catalonia’s ‘independence referendum’ illegal. Catalonia, a north-eastern region of Spain, will hold independence referendum on 9 November 2014.
9. Ryder Cup: Biennial men’s golf competition between teams from Europe and theUS. This year it was 40th edition held in Gleneagles, Scotland. Europe defeated the United States for the 8th time in last 10 events.
10. Jaipur Literature Festival, the world’s largest free literary festival, introduces a new prize ‘The Ojas Art Award‘. The prize, worth Rs. 51,000 and Rs. 31,000, will be given to two Indian artists.
11. Abbreviation:Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).
12. Abbreviation: Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) .
13. The Board of Cricket for control in India (BCCI) working Committee extendedRavi Shastri’s tenure as Director of Indian Cricket team till finish of 2015 icc Cricket world cup. The icc Cricket world cup is to be played in Australia and NewZealand from fourteen Feb to twenty nine March 2015.
14. State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender on twenty six September 2014 declared that it has signed a Line of Credit (LoC) ofwith Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank).
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