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Current Affairs September 2013: SUMMARY
Most oF tHe iMPORTANT ONES ARE HIGHLIGHTED.
Important Days
β’ September 5 Teacher's Day
β’ September 7 Forgiveness Day
β’ September 8 International Literacy Day
β’ September 14 Hindi day,World First Aid Day
β’ September 16 World Ozone Day
β’ September 21 International Day of Peace, World Alzheimer's day
β’ September 25 Social Justice Day
β’ September 27 World Tourism Day
Person Appointed
β’ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed Rakesh Sood as his new Special envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
β’ Deepak Sandhu Became the First Woman Chief Information Commissioner
β’ Harish Lakshman Elected New President of Automotive Component ManufacturersAssociation
β’ Ashok Vemuri appointed as the President and CEO of iGate Corporation
β’ Poonam Khetrapal Singh Elected Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia Region
β’ P. Sudhakar Appointed as the CMD of Electronics Corporation of India Limited
β’ Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant Appointed New Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High
Court
β’ Nancy Gibbs Appointed as Managing Editor of Time Magazine
β’ Jawaid Akhtar Elected Chairperson of International Coffee Council
β’ Justice Darmar Murugesan Appointed as NHRC Member
β’ Justice Vangala Eswaraiah Appointed as The Chairperson of NCBC
β’ Ramlubhya Appointed as Rajasthan State Election Commissioner
β’ BN Talukdar appointed Director General of DGH
β’ TV Narendran Named Tata Steel New Managing Director
β’ Randall Oliphant Appointed as The Chairman of The World Gold Council
β’ Association of Mutual Funds in India Appointed Sundeep Sikka as Its Chairman
β’ Sanjay Govind Dhande Appointed as UGC Member
β’ Sri Srinivasan was sworn in as Judge of US Court
β’ Ruchira Kamboj appointed the Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO
β’ Ranjib Biswal Appointed as Indian Premier League Chairman
β’ Ravindra Kumar Elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS)
β’ Ranjan Mathai Appointed as India's High Commissioner to United Kingdom
Person Resigned
β’ Three expert members- Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Siddiqui resigned
from the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) on 20 September 2013.
β’ Yogendra Yadav sacked from University Grants Commission.
Obituary
β’ Polly Anthony, the Former Epic Records President Died At 59
β’ A.K.Kutty, Indian Athletics Coach Died at 75
β’ Alvaro Mutis Jaramillo, Colombian Writer Died at 90
β’ Freedom Fighter Ranjit Singh Died at 97
β’ Mohan Singh, the Veteran Samajwadi Party Politician Died at 68
β’ Ken Norton, the Former Heavyweight Champion Died at 70
β’ Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Third President of Nintendo, Died
β’ Former BCCI Secratary Jaywant Lele Passed Away
β’ Eiji Toyoda, Key Figure in Toyota's Rise, Died
β’ World's Oldest Man Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez died at the Age of 112
β’ Ray Dolby, the pioneer of Noise Reduction in Audio Recordings died
β’ Sunila Abeysekera, the Sri Lankan Activist, Died in Columbo at 61
β’ Rochus Misch, the last Bodyguard of Adolf Hitler died
β’ Ronald H. Coase, Nobel Prize Winner and Known Economist, Died At 102
β’ Tommy Morrison, the former Heavy Weight Champion died
Person to Visit
β’ Prime Minister of Bhutan Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay visited India
β’ A four-member delegation from the African Union Commission (AUC) visited India
during 4-7 September 2013
β’ Filippo Grandi,Commissioner-General of UNRWA visited India
β’ President of Republic of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited India
β’ Salman Khurshid Visited Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan
β’ A five-member Pakistani delegation of Indus Water Commission visited India from
22 to 25 September 2013.
β’ Aga Khan, a Swiss-Born Philanthropist and Muslim Spiritual Leader Visited India
Awards
β’ Haraprasad Das was conferred the Moortidevi Award for 2012
β’ President of India Presented the National Awards to Teachers on Teacher's Day
β’ Zubin Mehta was Conferred Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2013
β’ Vice President Hamid Ansari Presented Capital Foundation Awards
β’ Indian American Kavita Shukla won INDEX design award for her innovative design,
FreshPaper
β’ Hindujas won Lifetime Achievement Award in Britain
β’ First Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 presented to Shashi Tharoor
β’ Jhumpa Lahiri's book the Lowland shortlisted for Man Booker 2013
β’ Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development conferred on Johnson
Sirleaf
β’ John Abraham honoured with the Pride of the Nation Award
β’ 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...
β’ NTPC Awarded Indira Gandhi Official Language Award for Propagation of Rajbhasha on
Hindi Divas
β’ Malala Yousafzai and Harry Belafonte received Ambassador of Conscience Award 2013
β’ Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National Safety Awards for the Year 2011 Presented
β’ Tigmanshu Dhulia Won Best Director Award at Norway Bollywood Film Festival
β’ Freedom Fighter Jawaharlal Darda Conferred House of Commons Award Posthumously
β’ Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola Won Miss Muslimah World 2013 Title
β’ National Communal Harmony Award conferred by The President of India
β’ Aamir Khan Selected For a US Award for His TV Show Satyamev Jayate
β’ Bunker Roy and Malala Yousafzai Selected for Clinton Global Citizens Awards
β’ Nelson Mandela Honoured with Humanitarian Achievement Award
β’ Eight Scientists Selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards 2013
β’ First Ever Allard Prize for International Integrity Presented to Anna Hazare
β’ Navneet Kaur Dhillon won the Multimedia Award at the Miss World 2013
β’ Raghuram Rajan awarded with the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize
β’ Malala Yousafzai Presented with Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award by Harvard
University
β’ Rafiq Kathwari, an Indian-American Poet Won Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2013
β’ D. Purandeswari Presented the EPCES Export Awards to EOUs and SEZs
β’ A senior Indian journalist, Ravi Shankar Narsimhan, on 29 September 2013 was presented
with Friendship award by China
Person in News
β’ Anjana Padmanabhan became the First Winner of Indian Idol Junior
β’ Diana Nyad, 64, Became First Woman to Swim Across Florida Straits without Shark
Cage
β’ Swati Dandekar, an Indian-American announced her candidature for US Congress
β’ Raghuram Rajan succeeded Subbarao as the 23rd Governor of RBI
β’ Indian Writer Sushmita Banerjee was killed in Afghanistan
β’ Campbell became the Youngest Pilot to fly across the World on Single Engine Aircraft
β’ Puneet Talwar appointed as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military
Affairs
β’ Syria's Opposition National Council elected Ahmad Toameh as its Interim Prime
Minister
β’ Siddiqa Parveen of India declared the World's Tallest Woman
β’ Nina Davuluri Became First Indian-Origin Contestant to Win the Miss America
Pageant
β’ Indian rollerskater Rohan Kokane entered into Guinness Book
β’ 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...
β’ Ratan Tata Nominated as Board Member of Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
β’ Dutch Cyclist Sebastiaan Bowier Broke World Land Speed Record
β’ Virat Kohli Appointed As the Brand Ambassador of Border Security Force
β’ Pawan Goenka Appointed as Executive Director of Mahindra & Mahindra
β’ UN-backed Court upheld War Crimes Convictions of Charles Taylor
β’ Megan Young of Philippines was crowned Miss World 2013
β’ Rahul Dravid named as Brand Ambassador for National Tobacco Control Campaign
β’ Rajnath Singh Appointed the BJP Campaign Committee Chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha
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