India's teenage Grandmasters Arjun Erigaisi and R Praggnanandhaa are placed second and joint fourth respectively after 12 rounds in the preliminary phase of the Julius Baer Generation Cup online rapid chess tournament in New York

World champion Magnus Carlsen is on top of the standings with 25 points, one ahead of Erigiasi, while Quang Liem Le (China) is third on 20 points.

Australia produced a fine batting show to beat hosts India by four wickets in the first T20I in Mohali on Sep 20.

Invited to bat, Hardik Pandya (71 not out) and KL Rahul (55) scored scintillating half-centuries to help India post 208 for six.

In reply, opener Cameron Green put India on the back foot with his 30-ball 61 before Matthew Wade (45 not out off 21) took the visitors over the line with four balls to spare.

With the win, Australia took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Brief Scores: India 208/6 in 20 overs (Hardik Pandya 71 not out, KL Rahul 55; Nathan Elis 3/30, Josh Hazlewood 2/39) Australia: 211/6 in 19.2 over (Cameron Green 61, Matthew Wade 45 not out; Axar Patel 3/17) 

Q1. Name the Gujarati film  which is India's official entry for the 95th Academy Awards ?

1. Chhello Show
2. Chaal Jeevi Laiye
3. Chal Man Jeetva Jaiye
4. Hellaro
5. None of These

Q2. The Centre  on Sep 20 said the country's tourism sector will strive to recover to the pre-pandemic level by mid-2024 and contribute USD 250 billion to the country's GDP by

1. 2025
2. 2030
3. 2035
4. 2040
5. None of These

Q3. Name the CM who  has ordered a job quota scheme for locals in the private sector from Oct 2022?

1. Nitish Kumar
2. Mamata Banerjee
3. Hemant Soren
4. Manohar Lal Khattar
5. None of These

Q4. Name the  comedian who passed away in Delhi on  Sep 21 at the age of 58?

1. Sunil Pal
2. Raju Srivastav
3. Ahsaan Qureshi
4. Kunal Kamra
5. None of These

Q5. Name the country which has faced international criticism on  Sep 20 over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests, including clashes with security forces in the capital and other unrest that claimed at least three lives ?

1. Pakistan
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Iran
4. Iraq
5. None of These

Answers

1-------------------1   Chhello Show

2--------------------2   2030

3--------------------3    Hemant Soren

4--------------------2  Raju Srivastav

5--------------------3  Iran

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on  Sep 20 called for the "decentralisation" of urban planning stating that the planning should be done at the state level.

The Prime Minister further said that with the development of satellite towns, the pressure on cities will reduce.

Addressing a conference of Council of Mayors and Deputy Mayors of BJP in Gujarat via video conferencing, PM Modi said, "Urban planning has been stressed upon in this year's budget. It is necessary that the urban-planning should be decentralised. There should be an urban planning at the state level, everything cannot be done from Delhi. There are numerous satellite towns in the country which are developing around the big cities. Work should be done to develop the satellite towns strategically. Only then, the pressure on the cities will reduce".

The Prime Minister also hailed the conduct of the conference and said that it has a "major role to play in preparing a road map of India's urban development for the next 25 years during Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav".

PM Modi reminded the Mayors of the responsibility to work from the grassroots level. The Prime Minister remembered former Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who was once a member of Ahmedabad Municipality and said that the work done by him is still respected.

DMK deputy general secretary Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan has announced her decision to quit her post and from the party.

The 75-year-old Jagadeesan, who represented Tiruchengode constituency in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009, was Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in the same period, also said she was ending her over four-decade stint in active politics.

Srinagar people will experience cinema-going after 32 years with the first multiplex set to be thrown open at the Kashmiri capital on Sep 20.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will formally inaugurate the complex while it will be ready for the general public starting September 30.

Meanwhile, L-G Manoj Sinha on  Sep 18 inaugurated one multipurpose cinema each in militant hit districts of Pulwama and Shopian in south Kashmir. The cinema halls in Kashmir were shut in 1990 after militants ordered their closure.

Controversial seer Yati Narshinganand, an Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha functionary and her husband have been booked by the police for allegedly making inflammatory statements against a particular community.

The head priest of Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, national general secretary of the Hindu Mahasabha Pooja Shakun Pandey and her husband Ashok Pandey allegedly made the provocative statements during a religious programme held in the city on Sep 18 night.

Narsinghanand has been involved in hate speech cases in the past as well.

An FIR was lodged in Haridwar against him for making highly provocative speeches against Muslims at the Dharma Sansad, which was held in the holy city from December 17 to December 19 last year.

At an event in Delhi, he had allegedly exhorted Hindus to take up arms to fight for their existence.

The country's longest river cruise service between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Bogibeel in Assam will begin from early 2023, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said.

It will cover a distance of more than 4000 kilometres through the Ganga, Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route (IBPR) and Brahmaputra.

This will give the people of Assam a chance to use waterways to promote trade and livelihood in tourism and cargo transportation, the minister added.

On Sep 19 , the minister launched multiple projects for the development of the Bogibeel region near Dibrugarh in Assam.

In this regard, the minister laid the foundation stones to construct two floating jetties at Bogibeel and Guijan.

He also inaugurated Bogibeel riverfront passenger jetty.

Both the jetties are being constructed by Inland Waterways Authority of India over the National Waterways - 2 (NW-2), popularly known as river Brahmaputra.