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Tennis Grand Slam Winners 2013!

Gujar Mal Modi Awards (1988-2013)!

Grammy Awards 2013 Winners Consolidated List! 😃

Important Dates in a year COMPILED!

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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

Abhinav Shiv Tiwari s Oass wins three awards...

Indianexpress

Young filmmaker Abhinav Shiv Tiwari s Oass won three awards at the Ladakh International Film Festival (LIFF), including the honours for the best film and the best screenplay. The film, based on human trafficking, also saw actress Divya Chhetri picking up the best actress award, announced on the...

• 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

Bbc

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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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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