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Current Affairs - September-2014
Current Affairs - September-2014
5.
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September 2014.
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16.
Senior IAS officer Subhash Chandra
Garg was appointed as the Executive
Director (ED) of World Bank.
17.
Former Chief Justice of India,
Palaniswamy Sathasivam was appointed as
the new Governor of Kerala. He will replace
Sheila Dikshit.
18.
Former U.S. spy agency contractor
Edward Snowden and Alan Rusbridger,
editor of The Guardian won Right Livelihood
Award.
19.
Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and Steve
Waugh of Australia were selected as
Bradman Honouree 2014.
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22.
The World Health Organisation honoured
Bangladesh and Timor-Leste with South East
Asia Regional Award for Excellence in Public
Health.
23.
Court, an Indian movie written and
directed by Indian writer Chaitanya
Tamhane won the Lion of the Future Luigi De
Laurentiis award for a Debut Feature at the
71st Venice Film Festival.
24.
J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu was found guilty in the
disproportionate assets case by the Special
Court in Bangalore. The Court pronounced a jail
term of 4 years and fined 100 crore rupees to
her.
29.
Sushma Swaraj, the Union Minister of
External Affairs and Minister for Overseas
Indian Affairs visited Bahrain.
30. Former
International
cricket
umpire
Mohammad
Ghouse died following a
brief illness.
32.
Freedom fighter and veteran journalist
Jitendra Chandra Paul.
33.
Prominent Bangladeshi Nazrul Sangeet
singer Firoza Begum died in Dhaka due to
heart and kidney problems.
39.
World population will reach 11 billion by
2100 and it was highly unlikely that global
population will stabilize by the end of 2100
according to UN report.
34.
Legendary US comedian and talk-show
host Joan Rivers died.
37.
People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China
on 20 September 2014 pitched seven tents at
Point 30R Post in Chumar area of Ladakh within
the Indian Territory.
38.
The Forbes India magazine released The
100 Richest Indian List 2014. As per the list,
the top 100 richest tycoons in India are all
billionaires for the first time.. According to the
Forbes India List, the Top 10 Richest people of
India: 1. Mukesh Ambani; 2. Dilip Shanghvi; 3.
Azim Premji; 4. Pallonji Mistry; 5. Lakshmi
Mittal; 6. Hinduja brothers; 7. Shiv Nadar; 8.
Godrej family; 9. Kumar Birla; 10. Sunil Mittal.
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The two brothers, Achin and Sarthak
Narula of Delhi became the first ever
contestants to win 7 crore rupees in the
television show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, hosted
by Amitabh Bachchan.
47.
Operation Megh Rahat a rescue
operation undertaken by Indian Army during
Jammu and Kashmir floods Indian Army on 19
September 2014 completed rescue Operation
Megh Rahat in Jammu and Kashmir.
48.
SRPF (Special Rhino Protection Force) is
to be setup to protect Rhinos from poaching in
Assam. It will be created in Assam with the
help of Central funds.
49.
Barauni bound Lucknow Barauni
express collided with the coaches of Lucknow
bound Maduadih-Lucknow Krishak Express near
Gorakhpur station at Nandnagar railway
crossing.
50. Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah
released his autobiography And then
One Day: A Memoir.
51.
50 years of man in space was
authoured by Garik Israelien, Brian May
and David J Eicher.
52.
The Supreme Court of India formed a
five member committee to evaluate the
damage caused by devastating floods in
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in September 2014.
53.
H Devaraj Committee reported that
most of the deemed universities are not fit for
being a university. It said that out of 41 C
category deemed universities only 10
universities are found to be fit for being a
university.
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54.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
constituted H R Khan panel to assess the
amount of unclaimed deposits in the PPF
accounts and Post Office saving schemes.
57.
Union Government declared 25
September as Antyodya Diwas. Antyodya
diwas was observed to mark the 98th
birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal
Upadhyay.
58.
National Hindi Divas (Hindi Day) was
observed across India on 14 September 2014.
59.
The India-US Combined Military
Training
63.
India's largest naval offshore patrol
vessel INS Sumitra was commissioned into
Indian Navy.
64.
Indo-Nepal joint military exercise Surya
Kiran-VII concluded on 31 August 2014 at
Pithoragarh.
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Targeting a five-fold jump in Indo-US
trade to USD 500 billion, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama
pledged to deepen economic cooperation and
will set up a joint program to boost business
investment.
69.
US government welcomes India's offer
for US industry to be the lead partner in
developing smart cities in Ajmer (Rajasthan),
Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and
Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh).
72.
India and US agreed to extend their
defence agreement for another 10 years which
is expected to give a big boost to cooperation
in this key area between the two countries.
73.
The government announced setting up
of four task forces to lay down the roadmap for
developing four new regulatory agencies
Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA),
Financial Sector Appellate Tribunal (FSAT),
Financial Data Management Centre (FDMC) and
Resolution Corporation (RC).
74.
PM Narendra Modi and President Barack
Obama issued an India and the US vision
statement "Chalein Saath Saath: Forward
Together We Go" promising that their "strategic
78.
Standard and Poor's warned that it could
downgrade rating of crisis ridden Syndicate
Bank if its asset quality deteriorates. It has
raised the rating outlooks on 11 Indian banks
and financial institutions to stable from
negative. These include, Bank of India, HDFC
Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Indian Bank, IDFC,
Kotak Mahindra Bank, Kotak Mahindra Prime,
State Bank of India and Union Bank of India.
79.
Revising India's GDP upwards by 0.3 per
cent to 6.3 per cent in 2015, Asian
Development Bank (ADB) has said the
economy shows a new promise of turnaround
after the election brought a stable government
in May.
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The Union government said the
proposed Goods and Services Tax could
become a reality from April 1, 2016. The
finance ministry is set to introduce the
Constitution (115th Amendment) Bill in the
winter session.
83.
India and China inked 12 pacts in a
range of areas including railways and outer
space as Beijing pledged investments of USD
20 billion over five years in a bid to boost
economic ties and address India's concerns
over trade deficit.
84.
The Indian Railways will get assistance
from its counterpart in China for semi-high
speed corridors, which allow trains to run at a
speed of up to 200 km per hour.
89.
To sort out the liability issue plaguing
Indian nuclear reactors, the Centre has asked
General Insurance Company (GIC) to work on a
model that could be applied to insure such
facilities in the country.
92.
Boeing has delivered the fifth maritime
patrol aircraft P-8I to India as part of a deal for
eight aircraft to support the Indian Navy's
maritime patrol requirements.
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely
to attend the G-20 finance ministers and
central bank chiefs meeting in Cairns,
Australia, on September 20 and 21, as he is
recovering from a diabetes management
surgery. Minister of state (finance and
commerce) Nirmala Sitharaman will attend the
meeting instead.
94.
The Expenditure Management
Commission headed by Bimal Jalan, will submit
its interim report by January, in time for its
recommendations to be incorporated in the
FY16 Budget.
99.
India has signed the free trade
agreement (FTA) in services and investments
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