Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: September 4, 2022

September 4, 2022

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for September 4, 2022

INDIA

– Govt to set up country’s first-ever Night Sky Sanctuary in Ladakh to boost Astro tourism
– Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah chairs the 30th Southern Zonal Council meeting in Thiruvananthapuram
– Five JD(U) MLAs merge with ruling BJP in Manipur
– Supreme Court Judge Justice DY Chandrachud nominated as Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority
– Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya virtually inaugurates ‘Swasth Sabal Bharat’ Conclave; emphasizes on ‘Jan Bhagidari’ to encourage people for organ donation
– National Green Tribunal (NGT) slaps Rs 3,500 cr penalty on WB govt for huge gap in waste management
– Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla unveils bust of Indian freedom fighter Dr Pandurang Khankhoje at Chapingo University in Mexico

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

– India has overtaken the UK to become world’s fifth-largest economy

WORLD

– Sri Lanka’s ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns from Thailand; had fled country on July 13
– Russia scraps deadline to resume gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 pipeline
– G7 finance ministers agree to impose price cap on Russian oil: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen