Latest Current Affairs - September 2013

       1.  Election Commission of India started a New technology called 'VVPAT' for                                   Enabling voters to verify their vote after polling. In this, after polling a paper will come out

       and voter will be able to see and verify his choice. In case of any error, the same wil be             rectified. It stands for Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail.

2.    Kerala Government Started construction of a world Class Bio Sciences Park named

       Bio 360 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

3.    Government honored Oriental Bank of Commerce with Rajbhasha Samman Award.

4.    Indian Airforce Inducted its biggest Transport Aircraft C - 17 Globemaster III

       with a capacity of Carrying 80 Tonnes and 150 Troops.

5.    14 Sep is declared as Hindi Day. Hindi was declared our National Language on 14 sep,

       1949.

6.    15 Sep is celebrated as National Engineer's Day in memory of Famous Engineer M

       Vishwaraiya

7.   16 Sep is celebrated as Global Ozone Layer Conservation Day.

8.   21 September is International Peace Day.

9.   24 September is International Girl Child Day.

10.  27 September is world Tourism Day.

11.  33rd Meet of Asian & Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators was held in

       Delhi.

12.  5 September is celebrated as India's national Teachers's Day. It is birthday of S

       Radhakrishnan , India's Second President.

13.  53rd Senior National Athletics Championships held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

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14.  8 Sep is International Literacy Day as declared by UNESCO.

15.  8th G - 20 Countries' Meet organized in St. Petersburg, Russia.

16.  Bhavishya Nahi Vartman hai has been written by Vijay Ratan Shankar.

17.  Fly on the wall and Other Stories is written by Shubha Sharma.

18.  India and Malaysia : Interwined Strand is written by Veena Sikri

19.  Kanoon Lugat, the first Urdu law dictionary in India has been released.

20.  Revolution From Above is written by Deepankar Gupta.

21.  Science and Technology in China is written by Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra.

22.  A Committee Headed by Raghuram G Rajan about allocation of funds to states in

       case of division of states submitted its report to Government. Note that Raghuram G

       Rajan is Currently 23rd Governor of RBI.

23.   A committee headed by former Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)

       Chairman M Damodaran was formed for Suggesting measures for increasing ease of

       doing business in India after a world bank report In 2012 ranked India at 132th place

       in world as far as Ease of business in India is Concerned. The Committee has suggested

       creation of an authoritive panel to study impact of Laws related to Companies and their

       Operations in India.

24.   Actor Aamir Khan has been selected by USA Organization America Abroad Media

        (AAM) for his television show 'Satyamev Jayate'.

25.   Actor has been John Abraham honoured with Pride of the Nation award.

26.   Afghanistan Education Minister Abdullah Obaid Visited India.

27.   Afghanistan Vice-President Karim Khalili Visited India.

28.   Afghanistan for the first time sent trade objects directly to India Through

        Oceanic Route through the Chabahar Port.

29.   Afghanistan won SAFF football championship 2013 after beating India.

30.   Angela Merkel has been made Chancellor of Germany for historic third time.