14th September 2013 Current Affairs
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1. Hindi Diwas is being observed all over the country on Saturday as President Pranab Mukherjee gave away Official Language Awards for outstanding contributions made towards promotion of Hindi language. Hindi was adopted as a language for official transaction by the constituent assembly on 14th September 1949.
2.BJP students' wing ABVP has won three out of the four top posts in Delhi University Students Union elections. ABVP candidate Aman Awana was elected President while Utkarsh Chaudhary, Raju Rawat were elected as vice-president and joint secretary respectively. Karishma Thakur of National Students Union of India, NSUI, has been elected as the secretary.
The elections were held yesterday
3. The industrial output for July grew by 2.6 percent over the corresponding month of the previous year, government data showed on Thursday; The factory output, measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), however, contracted 2.2 percent in June.
4. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to offer two-day funds to banks through the marginal standing facility (MSF). The MSF window will be open on Saturday between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. Funds will be repayable on Monday, i.e. on September 16.
5. The government approved the proposal of Rs 700 crore capital infusion in Export-Import Bank of India to support future growth of the lender.
6. Japan successfully launched a new rocket Saturday that it hopes will be a cheaper and more efficient way of sending satellites into space. The three-stage Epsilon lifted off from a space centre on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, following a two-week postponement. The Epsilon is the first new rocket design for Japan since the H2A was introduced in 2001.
7.US and Russia agree that Syria's chemical weapons must be destroyed or removed by mid-2014.
8. The brown Chihuahua named “Miracle Milly” is the world's smallest dog, Guinness World Records announced. She is shorter than a soup can, standing at 3.8 inches (9.65 centimeters) tall when measured from backbone to paw.
9. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched a deep ultraviolet (DUV) solid-state laser device, making the country first-ever in the world to possess such technology.
10. The Government has appointed M.K. Goel, who is also the Director (Commercial), as the Chairman and Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
11. Hollywood writer-director-actor Woody Allen will be honoured with the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards to be held in January next year.
12. A project with funds provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) would overhaul the entire 53-year-old water supply system in Tripura capital Agartala, officials said here on Saturday. The ADB has recently sanctioned the Rs.130 crore project to replace the 408-km water supply pipelines, commissioned in 1960.
13. Union Minister for Industry and Commerce Anand Sharma has launched the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project in Madhya Pradesh. At a function held in capital Bhopal, he also unveiled the foundation stone of National Institute of Design (NID).
15th September 2013 Current Affairs
1. Engineer's day is celebrated today (15th September) across the country. This day is celebrated in the honor of "Sir Dr. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya" who was born on the same day in 1860.
2. Kerala: CM Oommen Chandy inaugurates week-long Onam festivities organised by Tourism Department in Thiruvananthapuram.
3. India holds Guinness World Record for both world's tallest and shortest woman. Siddiqa Parveen was measured to be atleast 7 feet 3.5 inches. The doctor estimates her standing height to be atleast 7 feet 8 inches. Jyoti Amge's standing height is 24.7 inches.
4. China is likely to achieve its growth target of 7.5 per cent this year despite planned structural reforms to re balance the world’s second largest economy, the World Bank president said.
5. The United Nations has formally accepted Syria's application to join the chemical weapons convention, a spokesperson said. The UN welcomed Syria joining the Chemical Weapons Convention, after it received the formal instrument of accession to it by the Assad regime.
6. Syria's opposition National Coalition on 14 September 2013 elected "Ahmad Toameh" as its interim Prime Minister to run the regions in the country under rebel control.
7. India on Sunday conducted a second test flight of its indigenously developed nuclear- capable 'Agni-V'(surface to surface) long-range ballistic missile, which has a strike range of more than 5000 km, from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. The three stage, solid propellant missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at about 8:50 AM, defence sources said on Sunday.
8. The move will leave the world's third largest economy without atomic energy for the second time since the Fukushima crisis erupted in March 2011.
9. Japan to be nuclear free as last reactor switched off
10. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 14 September 2013 inaugurated the train service, built by the Indian Railways, to the Northern Province.
11. After low-cost tiffin centres, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday launched a scheme to provide 1 litre mineral water at Rs. 10 a bottle, to ensure quality and affordable drinking water to the poor and middle class. She inaugurated the state-run ‘Amma Drinking Water’ plant with a daily capacity of three lakh litres at Gummidipoondy, about 50 km from Chennai.
12. Drugmakers from India, the biggest overseas source of medicines sold in the US, have got more than 100 generic drug approvals from the American health regulator FDA this year so far. This has taken India's share in the Original Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) approvals to nearly 40 per cent in the US market so far in 2013.
13. Popular actress Drashti Dhami of Colors' Madhubala- Ek Ishq Ek Junoon was declared the winner of 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa'.
14. Japan earned a berth in the Davis Cup World Group with a 3-2 win over Colombia.
15. Miss India 2012 finalist Purva Rana was crowned Vice-Queen at the Miss United Continent 2013 held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on September.
16. Yuvraj Singh staked his claim for national team selection as he struck a brutal 89-ball 123 to lead India 'A' to a thumping 77-run victory over West Indies 'A' in the first of the three-match one-day series on Sunday.
17. India has retained its third position in the latest ICC Test rankings after South Africa and England.
18. Taking note of some of its staffers wearing clothes “that did not bring any repute”, the Karnataka Government has prescribed a “decent” dress code for them — pant and shirt or ‘pyjama/kurta’ for men and saree or ’churidar’ for women.
16th September 2013 Current Affairs
1. International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer was observed on 16 September 2013 across the world to bring awareness about the depletion of Ozone layer in the atmosphere.
2. Kanoon Lugat, an Urdu law dictionary, a first of its kind in the country was released in Mumbai. The dictionary, encompassing 52000 legal terms, has been translated in Urdu for the first time. Supreme Court advocate Muhammad Irshad Hanif authored the translation of this dictionary.
3. Google celebrated MS Subbulaksmi’s 97th Birth day. She is the country’s first musician who has awarded Bharat Ratna in 1998. In 1974, she was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award.
4. tan Company is famous for watches. Now company has emerged as lifestyle Products Company by launching Perfumes into the market. Perfumes for both men and women are launched.
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