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- Vice President Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Vaidyaratnam P.S. Varier, an ayurvedic physician, at Kottal in Kerala. In 1902, he founded the Kottakal Arya Vaidyasala for the manufacture and sale of Ayurvedic medicines in India. He also established an Ayurvedic Patasala in 1917. In recognition of his services to humanity, he was conferred the title “Vaidyaratna” in 1933.
- The Gujarat government has launched the country’s first ‘Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)’, which is being described as the world’s first market for trading in Particulate Matter (PM) emissions. Launched in Surat, it aims to encourage and incentivize the industrial units to cut air pollution.
Amitabh Bachchan - Amitabh Bachchan has been selected for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2018 for his ‘outstanding contribution for the growth and development of Indian cinema’. He has also been honoured with Padma Shri (1984), Padma Bhushan (2001) and Padma Vibhushan (2015). Introduced by the government in 1969, Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the country’s highest film honour.
- The International Day of Sign Languages is observed globally on 23rd September annually to raise awareness of the importance of sign language in full realization of human rights of people who are deaf. It is observed as a part of the International Week of the Deaf, which takes place from 24th to 30th September every year. The theme for 2019 is ‘Sign Language Rights for All!’ The day was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 19th December 2017.
- Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan has launched two initiatives – The Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders (UMMID) and National Inherited Diseases Administration (NIDAN) – to tackle the menace of genetic diseases in newborns. The objective of UMMID is to make the treatment of expensive genetic diseases in newborns within the reach of all people and to establish NIDAN kendras.
- Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issued an order to setup the National E-Assessment Centre (NeAC) in New Delhi as a part of the Central Government’s ambitious plan to launch faceless and nameless assessment for income tax payers from October 2019. It will be headed by a Principal Chief Commissioner of Income-tax (PCCIT) as its chief and will have 16 officials in total. K M Prasad, a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer has been appointed as its chief.
- Saudi National Day is observed every year on 23rd September, 2019 to commemorate the renaming of the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The year 2019 marks the 89th edition of Saudi National Day. In the early 1900s, the ruler of Nejd, King Abdul Aziz, known as Ibn Saud, reconquered his family’s home city of Riyadh and by the year 1932, the King’s forces managed to gain control over most of Central Arabia and then, he changed the name of his realm to ‘the House of Saud’.
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