Tennis Grand Slam Winners 2013!
Gujar Mal Modi Awards (1988-2013)!
Grammy Awards 2013 Winners Consolidated List! 😃
Important Dates in a year COMPILED!
no worry about Gk for CMAT...
as MBA CET likely to come back....
Important Awards in September 2013
1) Bunker Roy and Malala Yousafzai Selected for Clinton Global Citizens Awards
.2) Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan was awarded with the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013.
3) Navneet Kaur Dhillon won the Multimedia Award at the Miss World 2013.
4) Bollywood Actor John Abraham was on 16th September, 2013 conferred the Pride of theNation Award.
5) OASS movie won best film Award at Ladakh International Film Festival.
6) Eight eminent scientists on 26th September, 2013 selected for Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Award for the year 2013.
7) Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl presented with the 2013 Peter J. GomesHumanitarian Award by Harvard University on 27th September, 2013.
8.) A Senior Indian Journalist, Ravi Shankar Narsimhan, on 29th September, 2013 was presented with Friendship award by China.
9) Rafiq Kathwari, an Indian-American poet on 29th September, 2013 selected for 2013 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for the collection of his debut poems.
10) The Minister of State for Commerce and Industry on 30th September, 2013 presented the Export Promotion Council for EOUs and SEZs (EPCES) Export Awards
Credit Rating Agencies In India (Registered with SEBI )
1.CRISIL Limited (Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited)
2.Fitch Ratings India Private Ltd.
3.ICRA Limited
4.Credit Analysis & Research Ltd. (CARE)
5. Brickwork Ratings India Private Limited
6. SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. (SMERA)
Constitutional Bodies and their Chiefs:
1) Attorney General: GE Vahanvati
2) Comptroller and Auditor General: Shashi Kant Sharma
3) Election Commission: VS Sampath
4) Finance Commission: YV Reddy
5) National Commission for Schedule Castes: PL Punia
6) National Commission for Schedule Tribes: Rameshwar Oraon
7) Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities: Nandlal Jotwani
8) Union Public Service Commission: DP Agrawal
9) State Public Service Commission: State wise
Chief Ministers of Indian States
Andhra Pradesh— Shri Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh— Shri Nabam Tuki
Assam— Shri Tarun Gogoi
Bihar— Shri Nitish Kumar
Chhattisgarh— Dr. Raman Singh
Delhi (NCT) — Smt. Sheila Dikshit
Goa— Shri Manohar Parrikar
Gujarat— Shri Narendra Modi
Haryana— Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Himachal Pradesh— Shri Virbhadra Singh
Jammu and Kashmir— Shri Omar Abdullah
Jharkhand— Shri Hemant Soren
Karnataka— Shri Siddaramaiah
Kerala— Mr Oommen Chandy
Madhya Pradesh— Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Maharashtra— Shri Prithviraj Chavan
Manipur— Shri Okram Ibobi Singh
Meghalaya— Dr. Mukul Sangma
Mizoram— Shri Lal Thanhawla
Nagaland— Shri. Neiphiu Rio
Odisha— Shri Naveen Patnaik
Puducherry (UT) — Shri N. Rangasamy
Punjab— Shri Parkash Singh Badal
Rajasthan— Shri Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim— Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling
Tamil Nadu— Selvi J. Jayalalithaa
Tripura— Shri Manik Sarkar
Uttar Pradesh— Shri Akhilesh Yadav
Uttarakhand— Shri Vijay Bahuguna..
West Bengal— Km. Mamata Banerjee
DANCE FORMS STATE WISE
Dance- State
Ankia Nat- Assam
Bahaka wata- Orrisa
Bhangra- Punjab
Bhavai -Gujarat, Rajasthan
Bihu- Asom
Chakiarkoothu- Kerala
Chakri- Jammu & Kashmir
Chamar Ginad- Rajasthan
Chappeli- Uttar Pradesh
Chhau- West Bengal
Chavittu natkam- Kerala
Chiraw (Bamboo dance)- Mizoram
Dahikala- Maharashtra
Dandanate- Orrisa
Damdiya ras- Gujarat
Gangore- Rajasthan
Garba- Gujarat
Gidda- Punjab
Gidda parhaun- Himachal Pradesh
Hikat- Jammu & Kashmir
Jat- Jatin- Bihar
Jatra- West Bengal
Jhulan Leela- Rajasthan
Kaikotti Kalli- Kerala
Kummi- Tamil Nadu
Kajri- Uttar Pradesh
Kayanga- Himachal Pradesh
Karan- Uttar Pradesh
Kathi- West Bengal
Kayanga Bajavanga- Rajasthan
Khayal- Rajasthan
Kokattam- Tamil Nadu
Koodiyattam- Kerala
Kottam -Andhra Pradesh
Krishnanathani- Kerala
Kumanon- Uttar Pradesh
Lai Haroba- Manipur
Lavani- Maharashtra
Lezim- Maharashtra
Lota- Madhya Pradesh
Luddi- Himachal Pradesh
Macha- Madhya Pradesh
Maha Rassa- Manipur
Mudivettu -Kerala
Munzra -Himachal Pradesh
Nautanki- Uttar Pradesh
Ojapali- Asom
Pandvani- Madhya Pradesh
Rasila- Gujarat
Rauf- Jammu & Kashmir
Swang- Haryana
Tamasha- Maharashtra
Tappatrikali- Kerala
Therukoothu -Tamil Nadu
Theyyam- Kerala
Tippani- Gujarat
Veethi Bhagavata- Andhra Pradesh
Current Affairs September 2013: SUMMARY
Most oF tHe iMPORTANT ONES ARE HIGHLIGHTED.
Important Days
• September 5 Teacher's Day
• September 7 Forgiveness Day
• September 8 International Literacy Day
• September 14 Hindi day,World First Aid Day
• September 16 World Ozone Day
• September 21 International Day of Peace, World Alzheimer's day
• September 25 Social Justice Day
• September 27 World Tourism Day
Person Appointed
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed Rakesh Sood as his new Special envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
• Deepak Sandhu Became the First Woman Chief Information Commissioner
• Harish Lakshman Elected New President of Automotive Component ManufacturersAssociation
• Ashok Vemuri appointed as the President and CEO of iGate Corporation
• Poonam Khetrapal Singh Elected Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia Region
• P. Sudhakar Appointed as the CMD of Electronics Corporation of India Limited
• Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant Appointed New Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High
Court
• Nancy Gibbs Appointed as Managing Editor of Time Magazine
• Jawaid Akhtar Elected Chairperson of International Coffee Council
• Justice Darmar Murugesan Appointed as NHRC Member
• Justice Vangala Eswaraiah Appointed as The Chairperson of NCBC
• Ramlubhya Appointed as Rajasthan State Election Commissioner
• BN Talukdar appointed Director General of DGH
• TV Narendran Named Tata Steel New Managing Director
• Randall Oliphant Appointed as The Chairman of The World Gold Council
• Association of Mutual Funds in India Appointed Sundeep Sikka as Its Chairman
• Sanjay Govind Dhande Appointed as UGC Member
• Sri Srinivasan was sworn in as Judge of US Court
• Ruchira Kamboj appointed the Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO
• Ranjib Biswal Appointed as Indian Premier League Chairman
• Ravindra Kumar Elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
• Ranjan Mathai Appointed as India's High Commissioner to United Kingdom
Person Resigned
• Three expert members- Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Siddiqui resigned
from the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on 20 September 2013.
• Yogendra Yadav sacked from University Grants Commission.
Obituary
• Polly Anthony, the Former Epic Records President Died At 59
• A.K.Kutty, Indian Athletics Coach Died at 75
• Alvaro Mutis Jaramillo, Colombian Writer Died at 90
• Freedom Fighter Ranjit Singh Died at 97
• Mohan Singh, the Veteran Samajwadi Party Politician Died at 68
• Ken Norton, the Former Heavyweight Champion Died at 70
• Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Third President of Nintendo, Died
• Former BCCI Secratary Jaywant Lele Passed Away
• Eiji Toyoda, Key Figure in Toyota's Rise, Died
• World's Oldest Man Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez died at the Age of 112
• Ray Dolby, the pioneer of Noise Reduction in Audio Recordings died
• Sunila Abeysekera, the Sri Lankan Activist, Died in Columbo at 61
• Rochus Misch, the last Bodyguard of Adolf Hitler died
• Ronald H. Coase, Nobel Prize Winner and Known Economist, Died At 102
• Tommy Morrison, the former Heavy Weight Champion died
Person to Visit
• Prime Minister of Bhutan Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay visited India
• A four-member delegation from the African Union Commission (AUC) visited India
during 4-7 September 2013
• Filippo Grandi,Commissioner-General of UNRWA visited India
• President of Republic of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited India
• Salman Khurshid Visited Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan
• A five-member Pakistani delegation of Indus Water Commission visited India from
22 to 25 September 2013.
• Aga Khan, a Swiss-Born Philanthropist and Muslim Spiritual Leader Visited India
Awards
• Haraprasad Das was conferred the Moortidevi Award for 2012
• President of India Presented the National Awards to Teachers on Teacher's Day
• Zubin Mehta was Conferred Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2013
• Vice President Hamid Ansari Presented Capital Foundation Awards
• Indian American Kavita Shukla won INDEX design award for her innovative design,
FreshPaper
• Hindujas won Lifetime Achievement Award in Britain
• First Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 presented to Shashi Tharoor
• Jhumpa Lahiri's book the Lowland shortlisted for Man Booker 2013
• Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development conferred on Johnson
Sirleaf
• John Abraham honoured with the Pride of the Nation Award
• OASS movie won best film Award at Ladakh International Film Festival
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• NTPC Awarded Indira Gandhi Official Language Award for Propagation of Rajbhasha on
Hindi Divas
• Malala Yousafzai and Harry Belafonte received Ambassador of Conscience Award 2013
• Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National Safety Awards for the Year 2011 Presented
• Tigmanshu Dhulia Won Best Director Award at Norway Bollywood Film Festival
• Freedom Fighter Jawaharlal Darda Conferred House of Commons Award Posthumously
• Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola Won Miss Muslimah World 2013 Title
• National Communal Harmony Award conferred by The President of India
• Aamir Khan Selected For a US Award for His TV Show Satyamev Jayate
• Bunker Roy and Malala Yousafzai Selected for Clinton Global Citizens Awards
• Nelson Mandela Honoured with Humanitarian Achievement Award
• Eight Scientists Selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards 2013
• First Ever Allard Prize for International Integrity Presented to Anna Hazare
• Navneet Kaur Dhillon won the Multimedia Award at the Miss World 2013
• Raghuram Rajan awarded with the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize
• Malala Yousafzai Presented with Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award by Harvard
University
• Rafiq Kathwari, an Indian-American Poet Won Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2013
• D. Purandeswari Presented the EPCES Export Awards to EOUs and SEZs
• A senior Indian journalist, Ravi Shankar Narsimhan, on 29 September 2013 was presented
with Friendship award by China
Person in News
• Anjana Padmanabhan became the First Winner of Indian Idol Junior
• Diana Nyad, 64, Became First Woman to Swim Across Florida Straits without Shark
Cage
• Swati Dandekar, an Indian-American announced her candidature for US Congress
• Raghuram Rajan succeeded Subbarao as the 23rd Governor of RBI
• Indian Writer Sushmita Banerjee was killed in Afghanistan
• Campbell became the Youngest Pilot to fly across the World on Single Engine Aircraft
• Puneet Talwar appointed as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military
Affairs
• Syria's Opposition National Council elected Ahmad Toameh as its Interim Prime
Minister
• Siddiqa Parveen of India declared the World's Tallest Woman
• Nina Davuluri Became First Indian-Origin Contestant to Win the Miss America
Pageant
• Indian rollerskater Rohan Kokane entered into Guinness Book
• Malala Yousafzai, Edward Snowden Nominated for EU's Sakharov Prize
Malala Yousafzai wins Sakharov prize
Malala Yousafzai wins Sakharov prize
Pakistani schoolgirl and campaigner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has won the EU s Sakharov human rights prize. The 16-year-old activist was shot a year ago for campaigning for better rights for girls. The Sakharov Prize for free speech is awarded by the European...
• Ratan Tata Nominated as Board Member of Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
• Dutch Cyclist Sebastiaan Bowier Broke World Land Speed Record
• Virat Kohli Appointed As the Brand Ambassador of Border Security Force
• Pawan Goenka Appointed as Executive Director of Mahindra & Mahindra
• UN-backed Court upheld War Crimes Convictions of Charles Taylor
• Megan Young of Philippines was crowned Miss World 2013
• Rahul Dravid named as Brand Ambassador for National Tobacco Control Campaign
• Rajnath Singh Appointed the BJP Campaign Committee Chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha
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do we need to send the pdf print out (of online filled form) by post to K J SOMAIYA office after putting signature i.e hand written?
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can any one share iift gk compendium 2013
Found this.. might be helpful in some way! 😃
Revolutions :-----
Green ---------- Food grains
Yellow ---------- Oil seeds
White ----------- Milk
Blue -------------- Fish
Grey ------------- Fertilizers
Golden ------------ Horticulture
Pink ----------- Onion
Golden fiber ------ Jute
Black -------- Petroleum production
Red ------- Meat and Tomato
Round ------- Potato
Silver -------- Eggs / Poultry
Brown ------- Leather / Cocoa
Silver Fiber ---- Cotton
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Length of Coastline of Indian mainland is 6100 km.
Length of coastline of India including the coastlines of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal and Lakshwadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea is 7517 km.
Coastline of Indian mainland is surrounded by Arabian Sea in the west, Bay of Bengal in the east, and Indian Ocean in the south. length of total coastline of India.
The total land boundary of India is about 15,200 km
This implies that land border of India is approximately twice of the coastline of the country.
State : Coastline (In Kms)
Gujarat : 1915.29
Andhra Pradesh : 1037
Tamil Nadu : 864.73
Kerala : 560
Maharashtra : 510.31
Orissa : 457.2
West Bengal : 374
Karnataka : 258.15
Goa : 113.03
Daman & Diu : –
Total : 6089.71
The largest producer of paddy in India West Bengal
The lagest producer of wheat in India Uttar Pradesh
The lagest producer of sugarcane in India Uttar Pradesh
The lagest producer of groundnut in India Gujarat
The largest producer of tea in India Assam
The largest producer of coffee in India Karnataka
The largest producer of jute in India West Bengal
The largest producer of tobacco in India Andhra Pradesh
The largest producer of bananas in India Tamilnadu
The largest producer of saffron in India Jammu & Kashmir
The largest producer of onion in India Maharashtra
The largest producer of black pepper in India Kerala
The largest producer of cotton in India Gujarat*
The largest producer of bamboos in India Assam
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