• Sir David Attenborough was conferred with the prestigious Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2019.

• He is an English broadcaster and a historian.

• He is popular for writing and presenting the BBC Natural History Unit.

• He worked to make aware to preserve and protect the biodiversity of the planet.

• The Indira Gandhi Peace Prize award is for peace, disarmament and development.

• It has been named after the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

• It Is being conferred every year since 1986 by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. It consists of a monetary award of Rs 25 lakhs.

• The Memphis Grizzlies’ Ja Morant has been named the 2019-20 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year.

• The 6-foot-3 guard is the second player to win the Rookie of the Year Award with the Grizzlies, joining Pau Gasol (2001-02).

• Morant received 99 first-place votes from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earned 498 total points.

• Miami Heat guard Kendrick Nunn finished in second place with 204 points. New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson received one first-place vote and finished in third place with 140 points.

• Solapur based social activist Ganesh Vilas Lengare has been awarded the Star 2020 Certificate by the World Book of Records, London.

• The organisation, found in 2017, honours personalities for their outstanding contribution towards humanity and universal peace.

• Recognizing his efforts to help the needy during the coronavirus induced lockdown, Ganesh Lengare has been awarded the Star 2020 e-citation certificate.

• Out of the 21 schemes that were launched by him to assist the people, the most important was the COVID patient contact tracing, that was implemented with the help of Solapur district authorities.

• West Indies cricket icon Dwayne Bravo has been appointed as the first cricket ambassador of SBOTOP sportsbook brand.

• Isle of Man betting group Celton Manx has confirmed his appointment.

• Bravo is recognised as one of Caribbean cricket’s best ever ‘all-rounders’, representing the West Indies in all formats of the sport.

• He has represented the country in 256 test matches and 120 one-day-internationals and is also considered as one of the best ever ‘all-rounders’ of the sport.

• An American commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been named after fallen NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the first India-born woman to enter space, for her key contributions to human spaceflight.

• Northrop Grumman, an American global aerospace and defence technology company, announced that its next Cygnus capsule will be named the “S.S. Kalpana Chawla”, in memory of the mission specialist who died with her six crewmates aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

• The S S Kalpana Chawla capsule is scheduled to launch on the NG-14 mission atop a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on September 29. The spacecraft will arrive at and be attached to the space station two days later.

• For the NG-14 mission, the Cygnus spacecraft will deliver approximately 3,629 kg of cargo to the space station.

• Chawla was born in Karnal, Haryana on March 17, 1962. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from Punjab Engineering College in India in 1982.

• Joint secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Usha Padhee has been given additional charge as Director-General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).

• She is the first woman and third IAS officer to have been appointed to the post.

• The central deputation tenure of Usha is scheduled to end on 16th July 2022.

• She succeeds Rakesh Asthana (IPS) who was appointed as the Director-General of Border Security Force (BSF) on 17th August 2020.

• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of the current chairman of the Railway Board VK Yadav as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

• The chairman and CEO will be the cadre controlling officer responsible for human resources (HR) with assistance from a DG (HR).

• The Cabinet had earlier approved the restructuring of the Railway Board, whose strength has been cut from eight to five, as part of large scale reforms initiated by the national transporter.

• The process to merge eight railway-related wings into a single central service called the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) is underway.

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved the appointment of Murali Ramakrishnan as Managing Director and CEO of the South Indian Bank for a period of three years with effect from October 1, 2020.

• Ramakrishnan had retired from ICICI Bank as Senior General Manager at Strategic Project Group on May 30, 2020, and joined the South Indian Bank as an advisor on July 1, 2020.

• He represented the bank in the board of CIBIL and the risk advisory board of VISA for the Asia Pacific.

• S Krishnan has been appointed as Managing Director and CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank.

• Prior to this appointment, he was an Executive Director at Canara Bank.

• He will replace S Harishankar, the current MD and CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank.

• Punjab & Sind Bank is among the few state-owned banks that had not been brought into the bank consolidation efforts of the Central Government.

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• Maruti Suzuki MD and CEO, Kenichi Ayukawa has been elected as the new President of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) for a term of two years.

• He will replace Rajan Wadhera.

• Ashok Leyland MD and CEO, Vipin Sondhi has been elected as the new vice president of SIAM.

• SIAM is the apex body of the Indian automotive industry.