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1. Hindi Diwas is observed every year on 14 September to mark the popularity of Hindi as an official language of India.

2. Former England captain Andrew Strauss has been appointed as the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board's cricket committee.

3. The Defence Acquisition Council accorded approval for Capital Procurement for the Services amounting to approximately Rs 2,000 crores.

4. Legendary Cricket Kapil Dev has been appointed as the first Chancellor of the Haryana Sports University located at Rai in Sonipat.

5. The Railway Ministry signed a MoU with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for evaluating the green initiative and rate the performance of its industrial units.

6. The National Green Tribunal has constituted a committee to formulate steps to cease illegal groundwater extraction.

7. Rajasthan has launched "Jan Soochna Portal-2019" a public information portal to provide information about government authorities and departments to the public in the true spirit of the Right To Information Act.

8. Union Government has set a target of setting up 12,500 Ayush Health and Wellness Centres across the country.

9. The World Bank will provide Rs 3,000 crore assistance to finance mini and mega food parks across India.

10. Global Economic Freedom index 2019 published by FRASER Institute. India has been ranked at 79th place. Hongkong is at top position followed by Singapore on 2nd. Iraq is raked last.

11. Tata firm, Nelco, launched a maritime communication service, becoming India's first company to provide broadband services to the maritime sector.

12. The Army will conduct the Exercise 'HimVijay' in October 2019 in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam with its newly created Integrated Battle Groups (IBG).

13. Meity has formed an eight-membered Committee to study issues related to non-personal data and suggest how the government should look at regulating it. The committee is headed by Kris Gopalkrishnan, Infosys Co-Founder.