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Indian Affairs
bull
Government planned Indiarsquos longest 600 km(5-6 hours) expressway to connect Delhi and Katran(JampK) -INR 15000Cr
bull Union Gov released Rs 2000Cr for Employeesrsquo Pension Scheme
bull Smart National Common Mobility Card(NCMC- 47 cr) model for seamless travel across India -
MVenkaiah Naidu( Urban Development )
Developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
bull Gov launched Sakhi One Stop Crisis Center (OSCC) at Karnal district in Haryana by Haryanarsquos Women
and Child Development Minister Kavitha Jain
To help the women who are suffering from sexual mental and emotional harassments
bull Manipur assembly passes Protection of Manipur People Bill 2015
2 amendment bills Shops and Establishments (2nd Amendment) Bill 2015 and Land
Revenue and Land Reforms (7th Amendment) Bill 2015
bull Rajasthan High Court declared Santhara as illegal which involves voluntary fast-unto-death illegal and
an offence punishable under the Indian Penal Code (IPC)
bull Law Commission of India submitted its report on Death Penalty after 53 years -272 page draft report
bull Maharashtra gov given permission to amend Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities (MPDA)
Act 1981 by CM Devendra Fadnavis
bull India host the World Hindi Conference after a gap of 32 years in Bopal MP-organised by Ministry of
External Affairs - Theme ldquoHindi Jagat Vistar evam Sambhavnairdquo
bull Cabinet Approved Marginal Fields Policy(MFP) for development of hydrocarbon discoveries made by
National Oil Companies - principle of lsquoMinimum Government Maximum Governancersquo
bull Arun Jaitely announced that the gov has accepted the recommendations of the Justice AP Shah
Committee on MAT(indirect tax)- under Section 115JA pay a MAT 185
bull Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI- Ashish Bahuguna) reduced Permitted Levels of
Trans-Fat in Edible Oils from 10 to 5 DG of WHO ndash Margaret Chan
bull Cabinet approved reimbursement (Rs11340Cr) to 4 PSUs for import of pulses
1National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) 2Project and Equipment
Corporation (PEC) 3State Trading Corporation (STC) and 4Metals and Minerals Trading Corporation
(MMTC)
bull SAARC conference on Disaster Mitigation held in Delhi - South Asian Annual Disaster Management
Exercise (SAADMEx)
Table Top Exercise (TTx) the Field Training Exercise (FTx) and the After Action Review
(AAR)
bull Railway launches 3 IT initiatives developed by Centre For Railway Information Systems (CRIS)
Paperless unreserved ticket ATVMs (Automatic Ticket Vending Machines) and
lsquoParichalaanrsquo mobile application for freight operations
bull
Gov to infuse Rs 85 lakh cr in Railways focus on infrastructure development in railways to boostgrowth
bull Indian Wind Atlas is an online GIS (Geographic Information Tool) for identification of the regional and
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local wind energy potential launched by MNRE
bull Western Central Railway- HQ in Jabalpur Madhya Prades -1st to close all the unmanned railway
crossings
bull PM released Rs 125 and Rs 10 coins to honour of former President Dr S Radhakrishnan On Teachersrsquo
day
bull
Non-profit NGOlsquos FCRA(Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) registration of NGO Greenpeacecanceled by the Ministry of Home affairs(MHA)
bull Centre planned a new major port at Colachel lies at the southern-most tip of Tamil Nadu and will serve as
a southern gateway for transshipment- Rs 21000Cr
bull AP Legislative Assembly passed the Andhra Pradesh Special Courts Bill-aims to recover ill-gotten
wealth
bull Special cell of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) cell set up in
Punjab to facilitate effective implementation of the scheme -outlay of Rs 233 crore
bull eSagu(electronic cultivation)- spreading modern crop protection awareness among farmers- Media Lab
Asia and IIIT Hyderabad and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)bull Gov announced One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen by the Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar
bull PM Narendra Modi(3rd PM) participated in the concluding ceremony of the 3-day International
Buddhist Conclave concluding ceremony at Bodh Gaya-Delegates from 47 countries
bull Government to develop Bodh Gaya as spiritual capital
bull Indian Navy missile frigate INS Trikand to take part in Exercise KONKAN 2015 in London ndash India and
UK
bull Odisha gov named Wheeler Island as Abdul Kalam Island by CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Maharashtra Gov decided to provide training to over 50000 employees as part of its Key Result Area
(KRA) programme to enhance their performance - Ajit Deshmukh
bull PM Narendra Modi inaugurated Delhi-Faridabad Metro line ndash Rs2500 crore
bull Delhi High Court granted Permanent Commission for Women in Indian Navy ndash 14 years
bull Indian Railways to tie-up with ISRO for improving safety and enhancing efficiency via GPS-aided
system
bull Haryana Legislative Assembly passed Haryana Police (Amendment) Bill 2015 abolishing the Police
Recruitment Board - CM Manohar Lal Khattar
bull Bilateral Defense Tie-up with India amp Thailand - Air Chief Marshal Arup Raharsquos visit to Thailand for
ldquoAct East policyrdquo Gen Worapong Sanganetra Chief of Defence Forces of Thailand
bull Arun Jaitley launched e-version of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi(CWMG) in New Delhi - 100
volumes
bull Haryana gov passed Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill 2015 and fixes minimum educational
qualification relating to eligibility criteria for elections to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) - second
state after Rajasthan
bull Maharashtra gov decided to abolish the Local Body Tax (LBT) alternate tax will be imposed by State
Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar
bull World Economic Forum (WEF) released a new survey based report called lsquoThe Inclusive Growth and
Development Report 2015rsquoGlobal Competitiveness Index 2014ndash2015 rankings is 71 out of 144
countries
bull BSNL to Boost Minimum Broadband Speed to 2 Mbps - Ravi Shankar Prasad Union minister for
Communication and Information Technology and Anupam Srivastava chairman of BSNL
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bull India gave the first tranche of $500000 for distressed Syrians
bull India and Belarus agreed to increase the trade target from present level of USD 400 million to an
ambitious USD 1 Billion by 2018 at7th session of the India-Belarus Intergovernmental Commission on
Trade Economic Scientific Technological and Cultural Cooperation
bull Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced 33 reservation to women in all para-military
forces Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will recruit women under 33reservationsbull AP Cabinet approved the launch of AP State Enterprise Architecture (APSEA) e-Pragati a
comprehensive architecture to leverage the latest advances in e-governance tools which will bring all the
gov services under one roof - Rs1528Cr
bull Ministry of Home Affairs have asked Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) bans import
of Ammonium Nitrate in loose form
bull Cabinet approved a proposal to increase dearness allowance by 6 for central government employees
and pensioners-119 from 113
bull Indian Air Force is organising an lsquoUltra Marathonrsquo from Air Force Station Pathankot to Air Force Station
Hindon-574 km over a period of 11 days to mark the golden jubilee of the 1965 Indo-Pak warbull First-ever Census on Indiarsquos Leopard presented - 12000 to 14000
bull Haryana gov has announced the ban on gutka panmasala and other products that are containing tobacco -
Health Minister Anil Vij
bull Gov announced to give nod to Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS) and Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme as
announced in Union Budget 2015-16
bull India and Indonesia inked a pact to cooperate on criminal matters including collecting evidence
bull Union Cabinet approves National Offshore Wind Energy Policy-more than 23000 mw(Power Coal and
New amp Renewable Energy Minister ndash Piyush Goyal)
Ministry for new and renewable energy (MNRE)
National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE)
bull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the latest establishment of Indian Navy INS
Vajrakosh at Karwar in Karnataka - Worldrsquos largest naval base east of the Suez Canal
bull Union Cabinet approved constitution of the 21st Law Commission of India for a period of three years by
the Charter Act of 1833
bull Rajnath Singh inaugurates South Asian Sub-Regional Drug Focal Point Meeting in New Delhi organized
by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) UNODC ndash 40 countries
bull CCI imposed penalty on Kerala Film Exhibitors Federation for Contravening Competition Law - Section
3 of the Competition Act 2002 - Penalty of Rs 82414
bull
central gov decided to decrease its shares of funding in the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme which
aimed at the universalisation of elementary education from 65 to 50
bull Railways to invest $140 billion Japan to modernize station - Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu
bull Global Investor Conference inaugurated by state chief minister J Jayalalitha in Chennai - Rs24 Lakh
Crore investment Partner Reliance Jio
bull Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani launched national web portal at New Delhi for
promotion of a national apprenticeship scheme for Graduates Diploma holders and 10+2 pass-outs- Logo
and a Slogan ndash ldquoSashakt Yuva Samarth Bharatrdquo
bull Rajasthan ndash 1st state to submit Atal Mission action plan under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation (AMRUT - Rs 555 crore ) Rajasthan CM ndash Vasundhara Raje
bull Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata joined hands for the Indian Gov initiative Call to Action for a TB-free
IndiaMumbai Dialogue lsquoTowards a TB-Free Indiarsquo
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bull E-Tourist Visa scheme extended to 37 more countries to attract maximum foreign tourists by Tourism
ministry at Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO)
bull West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee release 64 files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - display at Kolkata
Police Museum
bull Centre approved to buy 10 Heron TP Drones worth of 400million US$ from Israel
bull
Maharashtra gov set to hold a three-day lsquoTadoba festivalrsquo in Mumbai in Chandrapur MaharashtraTourism Development Corporation (MTDC)
bull Bilateral Maritime Exercise between India and Australia lsquoAUSINDEX-15rsquo conducted on the east coast
of India at Visakhapatnam
bull Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced to decided to raise the wage eligibility limit
to 21000 per month as against Rs 10000 or below at present under the Payment of Bonus Act - 3500 to
Rs 7000 per month
bull MoRTH(Ministry of Road Transport and Highways) will add 50000km of roads to National Highways in
next six Month by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari
bull
Centre imposed 20 safeguard duty on imported steel from China and the countriesbull Indian Institute of Science Bangalore(IISc) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D)
placed 147 and 179 in the QS World University Rankings for 2015-16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ndash 1stHarvard ndash 2nd
bull Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion with technical assistance from the World Bank
consultancy firm KPMG and CII and FICCI has released a state-wise report on the ease of doing
business - Gujarat topped with 7114
bull Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recognized the Indian Kalarippayattu Federation (IKF) as Regional
Sports Federation (RSF)
bull Kerala CM Chandrababu Naidu launched the lsquoNew Tourism Policy-2015-20 to develop AP as one of the
most preferred tourist destinations - Rs 10000 crore
bull Union Govt formed Mihir Shah Committee(7 member committee) to restructure water agencies headed
by Mihir Shah
bull Supreme court seek review of ban on CMsrsquo photos in ads - ExceptionPrime Minister President and
Chief Justice of India
bull Centre decided to provide additional 50 days of work in drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme ndash presently 100days
bull TN CMJ Jayalalitha announced to set up Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation in order to implement the
Central Governmentrsquos Bharatnet scheme to link 12524 villages through optical fibre network -Rs 3000
Cr
bull Indian Railways tie up with Google and RailTel to provide free Wi-Fi services under Project Nilgiri -
400 railway stations across the country
bull Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) framed regulations for products based
on ayurveda sidhha and unani
bull Union Cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission(SPMRM) -514208 Crore - to
create 300 Rurban growth clusters ndash 14 components
bull Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal approves ldquoVictim Compensation Schemerdquo
bull Compensation in cases of death- Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh from earlier 3-5 lakh
bull
For rape victims-Rs5 lakh from existing Rs3 lakh
bull To the victims of acid attack-Rs7 lakh from Rs3 lakh
bull Arun Jaitley launched the Hinduja Ventures Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) a digital initiative under the
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brand name NXT DIGITAL - broadcasting platform will provide over 500 TV channels to cable
operators
bull Andhra Pradesh accomplished countryrsquos first river linking project Godavari and Krishna - agreement
between Maharashtra MP and AP
bull TN CM Jayalalitha has announced the housing scheme of worth Rs 1700 crore- to
build 2300 flats with all facilities at Ambattur in Chennaibull Union Cabinet banned Naga militant group NSCN-K for five years for killing of 18 soldiers of the Army
in Manipur - under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)
bull Cabinet approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for 2 nd time to
make prosecution easier in cheque bounce cases by allowing filing of cases where it is presented for
receiving payments
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881-undersection 138
bull Gov decides to withdraw postal stamps of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - ldquoBuilders of Modern India -
Union Minister Ravi Sankar Prasad
bull Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) decided to increase the Employees Deposit Linked
Insurance (EDLI) scheme from Rs 360 lakh to Rs 6 lakh
bull Govt mulls raising FDI limit in private banks to 100 from 74
bull Indiarsquos ranking slipped to 81st in Global Innovation Index 2015 - Central and Southern Asian Region
(CSA) -141 economies and 79 indicators
bull Union Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru
Dattatraya launched three new mobile based services for Employeesrsquo Provident Fund (EPF) members
Mobile Application(app in epfindiagovin) SMS based UAN Activation(SMS to
7738299899) and Missed Call service(01122901406)
bull Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) launched by Minister of mines and steel ndash
Narendra Singh Tomar
Welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations - District Mineral
Foundations (DMFs)
bull Keralarsquos Perumanna Grama Panchayat becomes 1st Panchayat to declare a water policy ndash 13 point action
plan - garbage free by 2020
bull PM launches financial inclusion initiative in Varanasi
101-rickshaws 501 pedal rickshaws and bank accounts and RuPay cards under (PMJDY)
bull 4th edition of the International textile fair lsquoVASTRArsquo held at Sitapura based Jaipur Exhibition amp
Convention Centre (JECC) -300 overseas buyers from 56 countries - Mrs Veenu Gupta RIICO
bull
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare banned the sale of Diclofenac in multidose based on Ministry of
Environment recommendations
bull Actor Vishwanath Nana Patekar established Naam Foundation to donate money to farmers with SBI
bull MP School Education Minister Paras Jain has launched M-Shiksha-Mitramobile app for teachers by
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
bull Supreme Court launched a public access portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) - ecourtsgovin
for district courts to demystify the judicial process for the ordinary citizen by Supreme Court
judge Justice MB Lokur
bull Indian Railways Develops Hybrid Vacuum Toilets fitted in Dibrugarh Rajdhani for trail
bull
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards shifted to theadministrative control of the ministry of communication and information technology from NITI Aayog
bull Delhi Mumbai among worldrsquos cheapest cities to live in Swiss Bank UBS - Ukrainian capital Kyiv the
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cheapest city in the world
bull Election Commission of India (ECI) launched the new symbol for the ldquoNone of The Aboverdquo (NOTA)
designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
bull PM Modi launches Rs 45000 crore IPDS(Integrated Power Development Scheme) scheme to strengthen
power distribution - Union Power Minister ndash Piyush Goel
bull
India and Laos signed two MoUrsquos on air services and Quick Impact Projectsbull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar adopted Barauliya village in Amethi under Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Gram Yojna
bull Leaders of the Apatani and Nyishi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh signed an accord in presence of AP CM
Nabam Tuki
bull Narendra Modi addressed the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on ldquoStart up India Stand up
Indiardquo as part of his US visit organized by IT industry NASSCOM
bull All India Banjara Sangh(AIBS) formed to fight for pending issues of the Banjara community- MLC
Haribhau Rathod 1st national president
bull
Government hikes import duty by 5 on edible oils -Central Board of Excise and Customsbull Swavlamban Health Insurance Schemerdquo for persons with disabilities - Department of Empowerment of
People with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed MoU with New India
Assurance Company Limited(DGM Neera Saxena)
18 years and 65 years and annual income of less than Rs 300000 per annum
bull Indiarsquos first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Prakasham district in AP
bull GOI decided to set up an expert committee IC4(Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) to tackle child
pornography and online abuse - Rs 400 crore
bull Cabinet Committee on Security approved purchase of Boeingrsquos Apache(22) and Chinook
helicopters(15) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) - $25 billion
bull 2 Indian Coast Guard Ships(ICGS) Apoorva and interceptor boat C-421 were commissioned in Mumbai -
Vice Admiral Surindar Pal Singh Cheema
bull Rajasthan 5th State to pass Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015 other bills - Prisons
(Amendment) Bill Rajasthan Police (Amendment) Bill
bull Haryana gov will develop Gurgaon as a Smart City with its own resources - 500 cr for 5 years ndash
(Faridabad and Karnal)
bull GOI approved Rs 157538-crore highway project in Odisha under its National Highways Development
Project (NHDP)
bull Nagaland CM TR Zeliang launched its official website wwwchiefminister nagalandin
bull National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) sanctioned Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) assistance of Rs 113474 crore to Odisha
bull GOI approved to setting up an Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in New
Delhi - under the Societies Registration Act 1860
bull India falls to 155th place from 113 in UNrsquos broadband penetration ranking ndash lsquoThe State of Broadbandrsquo ndash
UN Broadband Commission
bull Union minister for health and family welfare J P Nadda released National Health Profile (NHP ndash 11th)-
2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
bull Union Cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education
bull
Brigade Commander level flag meeting held at Chakkan-Da-Bagh LoC (Line of Control) Crossing point
in Poonch in J amp K between India and Pakistan
bull NITI Aayog constituted an expert group(10 member) on land leasing headed by former Commission for
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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local wind energy potential launched by MNRE
bull Western Central Railway- HQ in Jabalpur Madhya Prades -1st to close all the unmanned railway
crossings
bull PM released Rs 125 and Rs 10 coins to honour of former President Dr S Radhakrishnan On Teachersrsquo
day
bull
Non-profit NGOlsquos FCRA(Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) registration of NGO Greenpeacecanceled by the Ministry of Home affairs(MHA)
bull Centre planned a new major port at Colachel lies at the southern-most tip of Tamil Nadu and will serve as
a southern gateway for transshipment- Rs 21000Cr
bull AP Legislative Assembly passed the Andhra Pradesh Special Courts Bill-aims to recover ill-gotten
wealth
bull Special cell of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) cell set up in
Punjab to facilitate effective implementation of the scheme -outlay of Rs 233 crore
bull eSagu(electronic cultivation)- spreading modern crop protection awareness among farmers- Media Lab
Asia and IIIT Hyderabad and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)bull Gov announced One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen by the Defence Minister
Manohar Parrikar
bull PM Narendra Modi(3rd PM) participated in the concluding ceremony of the 3-day International
Buddhist Conclave concluding ceremony at Bodh Gaya-Delegates from 47 countries
bull Government to develop Bodh Gaya as spiritual capital
bull Indian Navy missile frigate INS Trikand to take part in Exercise KONKAN 2015 in London ndash India and
UK
bull Odisha gov named Wheeler Island as Abdul Kalam Island by CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Maharashtra Gov decided to provide training to over 50000 employees as part of its Key Result Area
(KRA) programme to enhance their performance - Ajit Deshmukh
bull PM Narendra Modi inaugurated Delhi-Faridabad Metro line ndash Rs2500 crore
bull Delhi High Court granted Permanent Commission for Women in Indian Navy ndash 14 years
bull Indian Railways to tie-up with ISRO for improving safety and enhancing efficiency via GPS-aided
system
bull Haryana Legislative Assembly passed Haryana Police (Amendment) Bill 2015 abolishing the Police
Recruitment Board - CM Manohar Lal Khattar
bull Bilateral Defense Tie-up with India amp Thailand - Air Chief Marshal Arup Raharsquos visit to Thailand for
ldquoAct East policyrdquo Gen Worapong Sanganetra Chief of Defence Forces of Thailand
bull Arun Jaitley launched e-version of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi(CWMG) in New Delhi - 100
volumes
bull Haryana gov passed Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill 2015 and fixes minimum educational
qualification relating to eligibility criteria for elections to Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) - second
state after Rajasthan
bull Maharashtra gov decided to abolish the Local Body Tax (LBT) alternate tax will be imposed by State
Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar
bull World Economic Forum (WEF) released a new survey based report called lsquoThe Inclusive Growth and
Development Report 2015rsquoGlobal Competitiveness Index 2014ndash2015 rankings is 71 out of 144
countries
bull BSNL to Boost Minimum Broadband Speed to 2 Mbps - Ravi Shankar Prasad Union minister for
Communication and Information Technology and Anupam Srivastava chairman of BSNL
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bull India gave the first tranche of $500000 for distressed Syrians
bull India and Belarus agreed to increase the trade target from present level of USD 400 million to an
ambitious USD 1 Billion by 2018 at7th session of the India-Belarus Intergovernmental Commission on
Trade Economic Scientific Technological and Cultural Cooperation
bull Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced 33 reservation to women in all para-military
forces Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will recruit women under 33reservationsbull AP Cabinet approved the launch of AP State Enterprise Architecture (APSEA) e-Pragati a
comprehensive architecture to leverage the latest advances in e-governance tools which will bring all the
gov services under one roof - Rs1528Cr
bull Ministry of Home Affairs have asked Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) bans import
of Ammonium Nitrate in loose form
bull Cabinet approved a proposal to increase dearness allowance by 6 for central government employees
and pensioners-119 from 113
bull Indian Air Force is organising an lsquoUltra Marathonrsquo from Air Force Station Pathankot to Air Force Station
Hindon-574 km over a period of 11 days to mark the golden jubilee of the 1965 Indo-Pak warbull First-ever Census on Indiarsquos Leopard presented - 12000 to 14000
bull Haryana gov has announced the ban on gutka panmasala and other products that are containing tobacco -
Health Minister Anil Vij
bull Gov announced to give nod to Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS) and Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme as
announced in Union Budget 2015-16
bull India and Indonesia inked a pact to cooperate on criminal matters including collecting evidence
bull Union Cabinet approves National Offshore Wind Energy Policy-more than 23000 mw(Power Coal and
New amp Renewable Energy Minister ndash Piyush Goyal)
Ministry for new and renewable energy (MNRE)
National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE)
bull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the latest establishment of Indian Navy INS
Vajrakosh at Karwar in Karnataka - Worldrsquos largest naval base east of the Suez Canal
bull Union Cabinet approved constitution of the 21st Law Commission of India for a period of three years by
the Charter Act of 1833
bull Rajnath Singh inaugurates South Asian Sub-Regional Drug Focal Point Meeting in New Delhi organized
by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) UNODC ndash 40 countries
bull CCI imposed penalty on Kerala Film Exhibitors Federation for Contravening Competition Law - Section
3 of the Competition Act 2002 - Penalty of Rs 82414
bull
central gov decided to decrease its shares of funding in the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme which
aimed at the universalisation of elementary education from 65 to 50
bull Railways to invest $140 billion Japan to modernize station - Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu
bull Global Investor Conference inaugurated by state chief minister J Jayalalitha in Chennai - Rs24 Lakh
Crore investment Partner Reliance Jio
bull Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani launched national web portal at New Delhi for
promotion of a national apprenticeship scheme for Graduates Diploma holders and 10+2 pass-outs- Logo
and a Slogan ndash ldquoSashakt Yuva Samarth Bharatrdquo
bull Rajasthan ndash 1st state to submit Atal Mission action plan under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation (AMRUT - Rs 555 crore ) Rajasthan CM ndash Vasundhara Raje
bull Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata joined hands for the Indian Gov initiative Call to Action for a TB-free
IndiaMumbai Dialogue lsquoTowards a TB-Free Indiarsquo
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bull E-Tourist Visa scheme extended to 37 more countries to attract maximum foreign tourists by Tourism
ministry at Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO)
bull West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee release 64 files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - display at Kolkata
Police Museum
bull Centre approved to buy 10 Heron TP Drones worth of 400million US$ from Israel
bull
Maharashtra gov set to hold a three-day lsquoTadoba festivalrsquo in Mumbai in Chandrapur MaharashtraTourism Development Corporation (MTDC)
bull Bilateral Maritime Exercise between India and Australia lsquoAUSINDEX-15rsquo conducted on the east coast
of India at Visakhapatnam
bull Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced to decided to raise the wage eligibility limit
to 21000 per month as against Rs 10000 or below at present under the Payment of Bonus Act - 3500 to
Rs 7000 per month
bull MoRTH(Ministry of Road Transport and Highways) will add 50000km of roads to National Highways in
next six Month by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari
bull
Centre imposed 20 safeguard duty on imported steel from China and the countriesbull Indian Institute of Science Bangalore(IISc) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D)
placed 147 and 179 in the QS World University Rankings for 2015-16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ndash 1stHarvard ndash 2nd
bull Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion with technical assistance from the World Bank
consultancy firm KPMG and CII and FICCI has released a state-wise report on the ease of doing
business - Gujarat topped with 7114
bull Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recognized the Indian Kalarippayattu Federation (IKF) as Regional
Sports Federation (RSF)
bull Kerala CM Chandrababu Naidu launched the lsquoNew Tourism Policy-2015-20 to develop AP as one of the
most preferred tourist destinations - Rs 10000 crore
bull Union Govt formed Mihir Shah Committee(7 member committee) to restructure water agencies headed
by Mihir Shah
bull Supreme court seek review of ban on CMsrsquo photos in ads - ExceptionPrime Minister President and
Chief Justice of India
bull Centre decided to provide additional 50 days of work in drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme ndash presently 100days
bull TN CMJ Jayalalitha announced to set up Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation in order to implement the
Central Governmentrsquos Bharatnet scheme to link 12524 villages through optical fibre network -Rs 3000
Cr
bull Indian Railways tie up with Google and RailTel to provide free Wi-Fi services under Project Nilgiri -
400 railway stations across the country
bull Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) framed regulations for products based
on ayurveda sidhha and unani
bull Union Cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission(SPMRM) -514208 Crore - to
create 300 Rurban growth clusters ndash 14 components
bull Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal approves ldquoVictim Compensation Schemerdquo
bull Compensation in cases of death- Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh from earlier 3-5 lakh
bull
For rape victims-Rs5 lakh from existing Rs3 lakh
bull To the victims of acid attack-Rs7 lakh from Rs3 lakh
bull Arun Jaitley launched the Hinduja Ventures Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) a digital initiative under the
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brand name NXT DIGITAL - broadcasting platform will provide over 500 TV channels to cable
operators
bull Andhra Pradesh accomplished countryrsquos first river linking project Godavari and Krishna - agreement
between Maharashtra MP and AP
bull TN CM Jayalalitha has announced the housing scheme of worth Rs 1700 crore- to
build 2300 flats with all facilities at Ambattur in Chennaibull Union Cabinet banned Naga militant group NSCN-K for five years for killing of 18 soldiers of the Army
in Manipur - under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)
bull Cabinet approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for 2 nd time to
make prosecution easier in cheque bounce cases by allowing filing of cases where it is presented for
receiving payments
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881-undersection 138
bull Gov decides to withdraw postal stamps of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - ldquoBuilders of Modern India -
Union Minister Ravi Sankar Prasad
bull Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) decided to increase the Employees Deposit Linked
Insurance (EDLI) scheme from Rs 360 lakh to Rs 6 lakh
bull Govt mulls raising FDI limit in private banks to 100 from 74
bull Indiarsquos ranking slipped to 81st in Global Innovation Index 2015 - Central and Southern Asian Region
(CSA) -141 economies and 79 indicators
bull Union Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru
Dattatraya launched three new mobile based services for Employeesrsquo Provident Fund (EPF) members
Mobile Application(app in epfindiagovin) SMS based UAN Activation(SMS to
7738299899) and Missed Call service(01122901406)
bull Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) launched by Minister of mines and steel ndash
Narendra Singh Tomar
Welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations - District Mineral
Foundations (DMFs)
bull Keralarsquos Perumanna Grama Panchayat becomes 1st Panchayat to declare a water policy ndash 13 point action
plan - garbage free by 2020
bull PM launches financial inclusion initiative in Varanasi
101-rickshaws 501 pedal rickshaws and bank accounts and RuPay cards under (PMJDY)
bull 4th edition of the International textile fair lsquoVASTRArsquo held at Sitapura based Jaipur Exhibition amp
Convention Centre (JECC) -300 overseas buyers from 56 countries - Mrs Veenu Gupta RIICO
bull
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare banned the sale of Diclofenac in multidose based on Ministry of
Environment recommendations
bull Actor Vishwanath Nana Patekar established Naam Foundation to donate money to farmers with SBI
bull MP School Education Minister Paras Jain has launched M-Shiksha-Mitramobile app for teachers by
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
bull Supreme Court launched a public access portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) - ecourtsgovin
for district courts to demystify the judicial process for the ordinary citizen by Supreme Court
judge Justice MB Lokur
bull Indian Railways Develops Hybrid Vacuum Toilets fitted in Dibrugarh Rajdhani for trail
bull
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards shifted to theadministrative control of the ministry of communication and information technology from NITI Aayog
bull Delhi Mumbai among worldrsquos cheapest cities to live in Swiss Bank UBS - Ukrainian capital Kyiv the
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cheapest city in the world
bull Election Commission of India (ECI) launched the new symbol for the ldquoNone of The Aboverdquo (NOTA)
designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
bull PM Modi launches Rs 45000 crore IPDS(Integrated Power Development Scheme) scheme to strengthen
power distribution - Union Power Minister ndash Piyush Goel
bull
India and Laos signed two MoUrsquos on air services and Quick Impact Projectsbull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar adopted Barauliya village in Amethi under Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Gram Yojna
bull Leaders of the Apatani and Nyishi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh signed an accord in presence of AP CM
Nabam Tuki
bull Narendra Modi addressed the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on ldquoStart up India Stand up
Indiardquo as part of his US visit organized by IT industry NASSCOM
bull All India Banjara Sangh(AIBS) formed to fight for pending issues of the Banjara community- MLC
Haribhau Rathod 1st national president
bull
Government hikes import duty by 5 on edible oils -Central Board of Excise and Customsbull Swavlamban Health Insurance Schemerdquo for persons with disabilities - Department of Empowerment of
People with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed MoU with New India
Assurance Company Limited(DGM Neera Saxena)
18 years and 65 years and annual income of less than Rs 300000 per annum
bull Indiarsquos first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Prakasham district in AP
bull GOI decided to set up an expert committee IC4(Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) to tackle child
pornography and online abuse - Rs 400 crore
bull Cabinet Committee on Security approved purchase of Boeingrsquos Apache(22) and Chinook
helicopters(15) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) - $25 billion
bull 2 Indian Coast Guard Ships(ICGS) Apoorva and interceptor boat C-421 were commissioned in Mumbai -
Vice Admiral Surindar Pal Singh Cheema
bull Rajasthan 5th State to pass Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015 other bills - Prisons
(Amendment) Bill Rajasthan Police (Amendment) Bill
bull Haryana gov will develop Gurgaon as a Smart City with its own resources - 500 cr for 5 years ndash
(Faridabad and Karnal)
bull GOI approved Rs 157538-crore highway project in Odisha under its National Highways Development
Project (NHDP)
bull Nagaland CM TR Zeliang launched its official website wwwchiefminister nagalandin
bull National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) sanctioned Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) assistance of Rs 113474 crore to Odisha
bull GOI approved to setting up an Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in New
Delhi - under the Societies Registration Act 1860
bull India falls to 155th place from 113 in UNrsquos broadband penetration ranking ndash lsquoThe State of Broadbandrsquo ndash
UN Broadband Commission
bull Union minister for health and family welfare J P Nadda released National Health Profile (NHP ndash 11th)-
2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
bull Union Cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education
bull
Brigade Commander level flag meeting held at Chakkan-Da-Bagh LoC (Line of Control) Crossing point
in Poonch in J amp K between India and Pakistan
bull NITI Aayog constituted an expert group(10 member) on land leasing headed by former Commission for
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull India gave the first tranche of $500000 for distressed Syrians
bull India and Belarus agreed to increase the trade target from present level of USD 400 million to an
ambitious USD 1 Billion by 2018 at7th session of the India-Belarus Intergovernmental Commission on
Trade Economic Scientific Technological and Cultural Cooperation
bull Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced 33 reservation to women in all para-military
forces Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will recruit women under 33reservationsbull AP Cabinet approved the launch of AP State Enterprise Architecture (APSEA) e-Pragati a
comprehensive architecture to leverage the latest advances in e-governance tools which will bring all the
gov services under one roof - Rs1528Cr
bull Ministry of Home Affairs have asked Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) bans import
of Ammonium Nitrate in loose form
bull Cabinet approved a proposal to increase dearness allowance by 6 for central government employees
and pensioners-119 from 113
bull Indian Air Force is organising an lsquoUltra Marathonrsquo from Air Force Station Pathankot to Air Force Station
Hindon-574 km over a period of 11 days to mark the golden jubilee of the 1965 Indo-Pak warbull First-ever Census on Indiarsquos Leopard presented - 12000 to 14000
bull Haryana gov has announced the ban on gutka panmasala and other products that are containing tobacco -
Health Minister Anil Vij
bull Gov announced to give nod to Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS) and Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme as
announced in Union Budget 2015-16
bull India and Indonesia inked a pact to cooperate on criminal matters including collecting evidence
bull Union Cabinet approves National Offshore Wind Energy Policy-more than 23000 mw(Power Coal and
New amp Renewable Energy Minister ndash Piyush Goyal)
Ministry for new and renewable energy (MNRE)
National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE)
bull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the latest establishment of Indian Navy INS
Vajrakosh at Karwar in Karnataka - Worldrsquos largest naval base east of the Suez Canal
bull Union Cabinet approved constitution of the 21st Law Commission of India for a period of three years by
the Charter Act of 1833
bull Rajnath Singh inaugurates South Asian Sub-Regional Drug Focal Point Meeting in New Delhi organized
by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) UNODC ndash 40 countries
bull CCI imposed penalty on Kerala Film Exhibitors Federation for Contravening Competition Law - Section
3 of the Competition Act 2002 - Penalty of Rs 82414
bull
central gov decided to decrease its shares of funding in the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme which
aimed at the universalisation of elementary education from 65 to 50
bull Railways to invest $140 billion Japan to modernize station - Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu
bull Global Investor Conference inaugurated by state chief minister J Jayalalitha in Chennai - Rs24 Lakh
Crore investment Partner Reliance Jio
bull Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani launched national web portal at New Delhi for
promotion of a national apprenticeship scheme for Graduates Diploma holders and 10+2 pass-outs- Logo
and a Slogan ndash ldquoSashakt Yuva Samarth Bharatrdquo
bull Rajasthan ndash 1st state to submit Atal Mission action plan under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation (AMRUT - Rs 555 crore ) Rajasthan CM ndash Vasundhara Raje
bull Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata joined hands for the Indian Gov initiative Call to Action for a TB-free
IndiaMumbai Dialogue lsquoTowards a TB-Free Indiarsquo
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bull E-Tourist Visa scheme extended to 37 more countries to attract maximum foreign tourists by Tourism
ministry at Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO)
bull West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee release 64 files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - display at Kolkata
Police Museum
bull Centre approved to buy 10 Heron TP Drones worth of 400million US$ from Israel
bull
Maharashtra gov set to hold a three-day lsquoTadoba festivalrsquo in Mumbai in Chandrapur MaharashtraTourism Development Corporation (MTDC)
bull Bilateral Maritime Exercise between India and Australia lsquoAUSINDEX-15rsquo conducted on the east coast
of India at Visakhapatnam
bull Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced to decided to raise the wage eligibility limit
to 21000 per month as against Rs 10000 or below at present under the Payment of Bonus Act - 3500 to
Rs 7000 per month
bull MoRTH(Ministry of Road Transport and Highways) will add 50000km of roads to National Highways in
next six Month by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari
bull
Centre imposed 20 safeguard duty on imported steel from China and the countriesbull Indian Institute of Science Bangalore(IISc) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D)
placed 147 and 179 in the QS World University Rankings for 2015-16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ndash 1stHarvard ndash 2nd
bull Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion with technical assistance from the World Bank
consultancy firm KPMG and CII and FICCI has released a state-wise report on the ease of doing
business - Gujarat topped with 7114
bull Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recognized the Indian Kalarippayattu Federation (IKF) as Regional
Sports Federation (RSF)
bull Kerala CM Chandrababu Naidu launched the lsquoNew Tourism Policy-2015-20 to develop AP as one of the
most preferred tourist destinations - Rs 10000 crore
bull Union Govt formed Mihir Shah Committee(7 member committee) to restructure water agencies headed
by Mihir Shah
bull Supreme court seek review of ban on CMsrsquo photos in ads - ExceptionPrime Minister President and
Chief Justice of India
bull Centre decided to provide additional 50 days of work in drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme ndash presently 100days
bull TN CMJ Jayalalitha announced to set up Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation in order to implement the
Central Governmentrsquos Bharatnet scheme to link 12524 villages through optical fibre network -Rs 3000
Cr
bull Indian Railways tie up with Google and RailTel to provide free Wi-Fi services under Project Nilgiri -
400 railway stations across the country
bull Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) framed regulations for products based
on ayurveda sidhha and unani
bull Union Cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission(SPMRM) -514208 Crore - to
create 300 Rurban growth clusters ndash 14 components
bull Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal approves ldquoVictim Compensation Schemerdquo
bull Compensation in cases of death- Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh from earlier 3-5 lakh
bull
For rape victims-Rs5 lakh from existing Rs3 lakh
bull To the victims of acid attack-Rs7 lakh from Rs3 lakh
bull Arun Jaitley launched the Hinduja Ventures Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) a digital initiative under the
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brand name NXT DIGITAL - broadcasting platform will provide over 500 TV channels to cable
operators
bull Andhra Pradesh accomplished countryrsquos first river linking project Godavari and Krishna - agreement
between Maharashtra MP and AP
bull TN CM Jayalalitha has announced the housing scheme of worth Rs 1700 crore- to
build 2300 flats with all facilities at Ambattur in Chennaibull Union Cabinet banned Naga militant group NSCN-K for five years for killing of 18 soldiers of the Army
in Manipur - under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)
bull Cabinet approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for 2 nd time to
make prosecution easier in cheque bounce cases by allowing filing of cases where it is presented for
receiving payments
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881-undersection 138
bull Gov decides to withdraw postal stamps of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - ldquoBuilders of Modern India -
Union Minister Ravi Sankar Prasad
bull Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) decided to increase the Employees Deposit Linked
Insurance (EDLI) scheme from Rs 360 lakh to Rs 6 lakh
bull Govt mulls raising FDI limit in private banks to 100 from 74
bull Indiarsquos ranking slipped to 81st in Global Innovation Index 2015 - Central and Southern Asian Region
(CSA) -141 economies and 79 indicators
bull Union Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru
Dattatraya launched three new mobile based services for Employeesrsquo Provident Fund (EPF) members
Mobile Application(app in epfindiagovin) SMS based UAN Activation(SMS to
7738299899) and Missed Call service(01122901406)
bull Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) launched by Minister of mines and steel ndash
Narendra Singh Tomar
Welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations - District Mineral
Foundations (DMFs)
bull Keralarsquos Perumanna Grama Panchayat becomes 1st Panchayat to declare a water policy ndash 13 point action
plan - garbage free by 2020
bull PM launches financial inclusion initiative in Varanasi
101-rickshaws 501 pedal rickshaws and bank accounts and RuPay cards under (PMJDY)
bull 4th edition of the International textile fair lsquoVASTRArsquo held at Sitapura based Jaipur Exhibition amp
Convention Centre (JECC) -300 overseas buyers from 56 countries - Mrs Veenu Gupta RIICO
bull
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare banned the sale of Diclofenac in multidose based on Ministry of
Environment recommendations
bull Actor Vishwanath Nana Patekar established Naam Foundation to donate money to farmers with SBI
bull MP School Education Minister Paras Jain has launched M-Shiksha-Mitramobile app for teachers by
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
bull Supreme Court launched a public access portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) - ecourtsgovin
for district courts to demystify the judicial process for the ordinary citizen by Supreme Court
judge Justice MB Lokur
bull Indian Railways Develops Hybrid Vacuum Toilets fitted in Dibrugarh Rajdhani for trail
bull
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards shifted to theadministrative control of the ministry of communication and information technology from NITI Aayog
bull Delhi Mumbai among worldrsquos cheapest cities to live in Swiss Bank UBS - Ukrainian capital Kyiv the
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cheapest city in the world
bull Election Commission of India (ECI) launched the new symbol for the ldquoNone of The Aboverdquo (NOTA)
designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
bull PM Modi launches Rs 45000 crore IPDS(Integrated Power Development Scheme) scheme to strengthen
power distribution - Union Power Minister ndash Piyush Goel
bull
India and Laos signed two MoUrsquos on air services and Quick Impact Projectsbull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar adopted Barauliya village in Amethi under Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Gram Yojna
bull Leaders of the Apatani and Nyishi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh signed an accord in presence of AP CM
Nabam Tuki
bull Narendra Modi addressed the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on ldquoStart up India Stand up
Indiardquo as part of his US visit organized by IT industry NASSCOM
bull All India Banjara Sangh(AIBS) formed to fight for pending issues of the Banjara community- MLC
Haribhau Rathod 1st national president
bull
Government hikes import duty by 5 on edible oils -Central Board of Excise and Customsbull Swavlamban Health Insurance Schemerdquo for persons with disabilities - Department of Empowerment of
People with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed MoU with New India
Assurance Company Limited(DGM Neera Saxena)
18 years and 65 years and annual income of less than Rs 300000 per annum
bull Indiarsquos first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Prakasham district in AP
bull GOI decided to set up an expert committee IC4(Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) to tackle child
pornography and online abuse - Rs 400 crore
bull Cabinet Committee on Security approved purchase of Boeingrsquos Apache(22) and Chinook
helicopters(15) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) - $25 billion
bull 2 Indian Coast Guard Ships(ICGS) Apoorva and interceptor boat C-421 were commissioned in Mumbai -
Vice Admiral Surindar Pal Singh Cheema
bull Rajasthan 5th State to pass Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015 other bills - Prisons
(Amendment) Bill Rajasthan Police (Amendment) Bill
bull Haryana gov will develop Gurgaon as a Smart City with its own resources - 500 cr for 5 years ndash
(Faridabad and Karnal)
bull GOI approved Rs 157538-crore highway project in Odisha under its National Highways Development
Project (NHDP)
bull Nagaland CM TR Zeliang launched its official website wwwchiefminister nagalandin
bull National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) sanctioned Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) assistance of Rs 113474 crore to Odisha
bull GOI approved to setting up an Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in New
Delhi - under the Societies Registration Act 1860
bull India falls to 155th place from 113 in UNrsquos broadband penetration ranking ndash lsquoThe State of Broadbandrsquo ndash
UN Broadband Commission
bull Union minister for health and family welfare J P Nadda released National Health Profile (NHP ndash 11th)-
2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
bull Union Cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education
bull
Brigade Commander level flag meeting held at Chakkan-Da-Bagh LoC (Line of Control) Crossing point
in Poonch in J amp K between India and Pakistan
bull NITI Aayog constituted an expert group(10 member) on land leasing headed by former Commission for
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull E-Tourist Visa scheme extended to 37 more countries to attract maximum foreign tourists by Tourism
ministry at Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO)
bull West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee release 64 files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - display at Kolkata
Police Museum
bull Centre approved to buy 10 Heron TP Drones worth of 400million US$ from Israel
bull
Maharashtra gov set to hold a three-day lsquoTadoba festivalrsquo in Mumbai in Chandrapur MaharashtraTourism Development Corporation (MTDC)
bull Bilateral Maritime Exercise between India and Australia lsquoAUSINDEX-15rsquo conducted on the east coast
of India at Visakhapatnam
bull Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya announced to decided to raise the wage eligibility limit
to 21000 per month as against Rs 10000 or below at present under the Payment of Bonus Act - 3500 to
Rs 7000 per month
bull MoRTH(Ministry of Road Transport and Highways) will add 50000km of roads to National Highways in
next six Month by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari
bull
Centre imposed 20 safeguard duty on imported steel from China and the countriesbull Indian Institute of Science Bangalore(IISc) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D)
placed 147 and 179 in the QS World University Rankings for 2015-16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ndash 1stHarvard ndash 2nd
bull Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion with technical assistance from the World Bank
consultancy firm KPMG and CII and FICCI has released a state-wise report on the ease of doing
business - Gujarat topped with 7114
bull Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recognized the Indian Kalarippayattu Federation (IKF) as Regional
Sports Federation (RSF)
bull Kerala CM Chandrababu Naidu launched the lsquoNew Tourism Policy-2015-20 to develop AP as one of the
most preferred tourist destinations - Rs 10000 crore
bull Union Govt formed Mihir Shah Committee(7 member committee) to restructure water agencies headed
by Mihir Shah
bull Supreme court seek review of ban on CMsrsquo photos in ads - ExceptionPrime Minister President and
Chief Justice of India
bull Centre decided to provide additional 50 days of work in drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme ndash presently 100days
bull TN CMJ Jayalalitha announced to set up Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation in order to implement the
Central Governmentrsquos Bharatnet scheme to link 12524 villages through optical fibre network -Rs 3000
Cr
bull Indian Railways tie up with Google and RailTel to provide free Wi-Fi services under Project Nilgiri -
400 railway stations across the country
bull Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) framed regulations for products based
on ayurveda sidhha and unani
bull Union Cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission(SPMRM) -514208 Crore - to
create 300 Rurban growth clusters ndash 14 components
bull Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal approves ldquoVictim Compensation Schemerdquo
bull Compensation in cases of death- Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh from earlier 3-5 lakh
bull
For rape victims-Rs5 lakh from existing Rs3 lakh
bull To the victims of acid attack-Rs7 lakh from Rs3 lakh
bull Arun Jaitley launched the Hinduja Ventures Headend-In-The-Sky (HITS) a digital initiative under the
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brand name NXT DIGITAL - broadcasting platform will provide over 500 TV channels to cable
operators
bull Andhra Pradesh accomplished countryrsquos first river linking project Godavari and Krishna - agreement
between Maharashtra MP and AP
bull TN CM Jayalalitha has announced the housing scheme of worth Rs 1700 crore- to
build 2300 flats with all facilities at Ambattur in Chennaibull Union Cabinet banned Naga militant group NSCN-K for five years for killing of 18 soldiers of the Army
in Manipur - under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)
bull Cabinet approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for 2 nd time to
make prosecution easier in cheque bounce cases by allowing filing of cases where it is presented for
receiving payments
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881-undersection 138
bull Gov decides to withdraw postal stamps of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - ldquoBuilders of Modern India -
Union Minister Ravi Sankar Prasad
bull Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) decided to increase the Employees Deposit Linked
Insurance (EDLI) scheme from Rs 360 lakh to Rs 6 lakh
bull Govt mulls raising FDI limit in private banks to 100 from 74
bull Indiarsquos ranking slipped to 81st in Global Innovation Index 2015 - Central and Southern Asian Region
(CSA) -141 economies and 79 indicators
bull Union Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru
Dattatraya launched three new mobile based services for Employeesrsquo Provident Fund (EPF) members
Mobile Application(app in epfindiagovin) SMS based UAN Activation(SMS to
7738299899) and Missed Call service(01122901406)
bull Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) launched by Minister of mines and steel ndash
Narendra Singh Tomar
Welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations - District Mineral
Foundations (DMFs)
bull Keralarsquos Perumanna Grama Panchayat becomes 1st Panchayat to declare a water policy ndash 13 point action
plan - garbage free by 2020
bull PM launches financial inclusion initiative in Varanasi
101-rickshaws 501 pedal rickshaws and bank accounts and RuPay cards under (PMJDY)
bull 4th edition of the International textile fair lsquoVASTRArsquo held at Sitapura based Jaipur Exhibition amp
Convention Centre (JECC) -300 overseas buyers from 56 countries - Mrs Veenu Gupta RIICO
bull
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare banned the sale of Diclofenac in multidose based on Ministry of
Environment recommendations
bull Actor Vishwanath Nana Patekar established Naam Foundation to donate money to farmers with SBI
bull MP School Education Minister Paras Jain has launched M-Shiksha-Mitramobile app for teachers by
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
bull Supreme Court launched a public access portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) - ecourtsgovin
for district courts to demystify the judicial process for the ordinary citizen by Supreme Court
judge Justice MB Lokur
bull Indian Railways Develops Hybrid Vacuum Toilets fitted in Dibrugarh Rajdhani for trail
bull
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards shifted to theadministrative control of the ministry of communication and information technology from NITI Aayog
bull Delhi Mumbai among worldrsquos cheapest cities to live in Swiss Bank UBS - Ukrainian capital Kyiv the
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cheapest city in the world
bull Election Commission of India (ECI) launched the new symbol for the ldquoNone of The Aboverdquo (NOTA)
designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
bull PM Modi launches Rs 45000 crore IPDS(Integrated Power Development Scheme) scheme to strengthen
power distribution - Union Power Minister ndash Piyush Goel
bull
India and Laos signed two MoUrsquos on air services and Quick Impact Projectsbull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar adopted Barauliya village in Amethi under Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Gram Yojna
bull Leaders of the Apatani and Nyishi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh signed an accord in presence of AP CM
Nabam Tuki
bull Narendra Modi addressed the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on ldquoStart up India Stand up
Indiardquo as part of his US visit organized by IT industry NASSCOM
bull All India Banjara Sangh(AIBS) formed to fight for pending issues of the Banjara community- MLC
Haribhau Rathod 1st national president
bull
Government hikes import duty by 5 on edible oils -Central Board of Excise and Customsbull Swavlamban Health Insurance Schemerdquo for persons with disabilities - Department of Empowerment of
People with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed MoU with New India
Assurance Company Limited(DGM Neera Saxena)
18 years and 65 years and annual income of less than Rs 300000 per annum
bull Indiarsquos first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Prakasham district in AP
bull GOI decided to set up an expert committee IC4(Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) to tackle child
pornography and online abuse - Rs 400 crore
bull Cabinet Committee on Security approved purchase of Boeingrsquos Apache(22) and Chinook
helicopters(15) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) - $25 billion
bull 2 Indian Coast Guard Ships(ICGS) Apoorva and interceptor boat C-421 were commissioned in Mumbai -
Vice Admiral Surindar Pal Singh Cheema
bull Rajasthan 5th State to pass Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015 other bills - Prisons
(Amendment) Bill Rajasthan Police (Amendment) Bill
bull Haryana gov will develop Gurgaon as a Smart City with its own resources - 500 cr for 5 years ndash
(Faridabad and Karnal)
bull GOI approved Rs 157538-crore highway project in Odisha under its National Highways Development
Project (NHDP)
bull Nagaland CM TR Zeliang launched its official website wwwchiefminister nagalandin
bull National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) sanctioned Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) assistance of Rs 113474 crore to Odisha
bull GOI approved to setting up an Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in New
Delhi - under the Societies Registration Act 1860
bull India falls to 155th place from 113 in UNrsquos broadband penetration ranking ndash lsquoThe State of Broadbandrsquo ndash
UN Broadband Commission
bull Union minister for health and family welfare J P Nadda released National Health Profile (NHP ndash 11th)-
2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
bull Union Cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education
bull
Brigade Commander level flag meeting held at Chakkan-Da-Bagh LoC (Line of Control) Crossing point
in Poonch in J amp K between India and Pakistan
bull NITI Aayog constituted an expert group(10 member) on land leasing headed by former Commission for
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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brand name NXT DIGITAL - broadcasting platform will provide over 500 TV channels to cable
operators
bull Andhra Pradesh accomplished countryrsquos first river linking project Godavari and Krishna - agreement
between Maharashtra MP and AP
bull TN CM Jayalalitha has announced the housing scheme of worth Rs 1700 crore- to
build 2300 flats with all facilities at Ambattur in Chennaibull Union Cabinet banned Naga militant group NSCN-K for five years for killing of 18 soldiers of the Army
in Manipur - under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)
bull Cabinet approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for 2 nd time to
make prosecution easier in cheque bounce cases by allowing filing of cases where it is presented for
receiving payments
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881-undersection 138
bull Gov decides to withdraw postal stamps of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi - ldquoBuilders of Modern India -
Union Minister Ravi Sankar Prasad
bull Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) decided to increase the Employees Deposit Linked
Insurance (EDLI) scheme from Rs 360 lakh to Rs 6 lakh
bull Govt mulls raising FDI limit in private banks to 100 from 74
bull Indiarsquos ranking slipped to 81st in Global Innovation Index 2015 - Central and Southern Asian Region
(CSA) -141 economies and 79 indicators
bull Union Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru
Dattatraya launched three new mobile based services for Employeesrsquo Provident Fund (EPF) members
Mobile Application(app in epfindiagovin) SMS based UAN Activation(SMS to
7738299899) and Missed Call service(01122901406)
bull Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) launched by Minister of mines and steel ndash
Narendra Singh Tomar
Welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations - District Mineral
Foundations (DMFs)
bull Keralarsquos Perumanna Grama Panchayat becomes 1st Panchayat to declare a water policy ndash 13 point action
plan - garbage free by 2020
bull PM launches financial inclusion initiative in Varanasi
101-rickshaws 501 pedal rickshaws and bank accounts and RuPay cards under (PMJDY)
bull 4th edition of the International textile fair lsquoVASTRArsquo held at Sitapura based Jaipur Exhibition amp
Convention Centre (JECC) -300 overseas buyers from 56 countries - Mrs Veenu Gupta RIICO
bull
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare banned the sale of Diclofenac in multidose based on Ministry of
Environment recommendations
bull Actor Vishwanath Nana Patekar established Naam Foundation to donate money to farmers with SBI
bull MP School Education Minister Paras Jain has launched M-Shiksha-Mitramobile app for teachers by
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
bull Supreme Court launched a public access portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) - ecourtsgovin
for district courts to demystify the judicial process for the ordinary citizen by Supreme Court
judge Justice MB Lokur
bull Indian Railways Develops Hybrid Vacuum Toilets fitted in Dibrugarh Rajdhani for trail
bull
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which issues Aadhaar cards shifted to theadministrative control of the ministry of communication and information technology from NITI Aayog
bull Delhi Mumbai among worldrsquos cheapest cities to live in Swiss Bank UBS - Ukrainian capital Kyiv the
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cheapest city in the world
bull Election Commission of India (ECI) launched the new symbol for the ldquoNone of The Aboverdquo (NOTA)
designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
bull PM Modi launches Rs 45000 crore IPDS(Integrated Power Development Scheme) scheme to strengthen
power distribution - Union Power Minister ndash Piyush Goel
bull
India and Laos signed two MoUrsquos on air services and Quick Impact Projectsbull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar adopted Barauliya village in Amethi under Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Gram Yojna
bull Leaders of the Apatani and Nyishi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh signed an accord in presence of AP CM
Nabam Tuki
bull Narendra Modi addressed the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on ldquoStart up India Stand up
Indiardquo as part of his US visit organized by IT industry NASSCOM
bull All India Banjara Sangh(AIBS) formed to fight for pending issues of the Banjara community- MLC
Haribhau Rathod 1st national president
bull
Government hikes import duty by 5 on edible oils -Central Board of Excise and Customsbull Swavlamban Health Insurance Schemerdquo for persons with disabilities - Department of Empowerment of
People with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed MoU with New India
Assurance Company Limited(DGM Neera Saxena)
18 years and 65 years and annual income of less than Rs 300000 per annum
bull Indiarsquos first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Prakasham district in AP
bull GOI decided to set up an expert committee IC4(Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) to tackle child
pornography and online abuse - Rs 400 crore
bull Cabinet Committee on Security approved purchase of Boeingrsquos Apache(22) and Chinook
helicopters(15) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) - $25 billion
bull 2 Indian Coast Guard Ships(ICGS) Apoorva and interceptor boat C-421 were commissioned in Mumbai -
Vice Admiral Surindar Pal Singh Cheema
bull Rajasthan 5th State to pass Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015 other bills - Prisons
(Amendment) Bill Rajasthan Police (Amendment) Bill
bull Haryana gov will develop Gurgaon as a Smart City with its own resources - 500 cr for 5 years ndash
(Faridabad and Karnal)
bull GOI approved Rs 157538-crore highway project in Odisha under its National Highways Development
Project (NHDP)
bull Nagaland CM TR Zeliang launched its official website wwwchiefminister nagalandin
bull National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) sanctioned Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) assistance of Rs 113474 crore to Odisha
bull GOI approved to setting up an Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in New
Delhi - under the Societies Registration Act 1860
bull India falls to 155th place from 113 in UNrsquos broadband penetration ranking ndash lsquoThe State of Broadbandrsquo ndash
UN Broadband Commission
bull Union minister for health and family welfare J P Nadda released National Health Profile (NHP ndash 11th)-
2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
bull Union Cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education
bull
Brigade Commander level flag meeting held at Chakkan-Da-Bagh LoC (Line of Control) Crossing point
in Poonch in J amp K between India and Pakistan
bull NITI Aayog constituted an expert group(10 member) on land leasing headed by former Commission for
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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cheapest city in the world
bull Election Commission of India (ECI) launched the new symbol for the ldquoNone of The Aboverdquo (NOTA)
designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
bull PM Modi launches Rs 45000 crore IPDS(Integrated Power Development Scheme) scheme to strengthen
power distribution - Union Power Minister ndash Piyush Goel
bull
India and Laos signed two MoUrsquos on air services and Quick Impact Projectsbull Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar adopted Barauliya village in Amethi under Pradhan Mantri
Adarsh Gram Yojna
bull Leaders of the Apatani and Nyishi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh signed an accord in presence of AP CM
Nabam Tuki
bull Narendra Modi addressed the India-US Startup Konnect and share his vision on ldquoStart up India Stand up
Indiardquo as part of his US visit organized by IT industry NASSCOM
bull All India Banjara Sangh(AIBS) formed to fight for pending issues of the Banjara community- MLC
Haribhau Rathod 1st national president
bull
Government hikes import duty by 5 on edible oils -Central Board of Excise and Customsbull Swavlamban Health Insurance Schemerdquo for persons with disabilities - Department of Empowerment of
People with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed MoU with New India
Assurance Company Limited(DGM Neera Saxena)
18 years and 65 years and annual income of less than Rs 300000 per annum
bull Indiarsquos first National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in Prakasham district in AP
bull GOI decided to set up an expert committee IC4(Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) to tackle child
pornography and online abuse - Rs 400 crore
bull Cabinet Committee on Security approved purchase of Boeingrsquos Apache(22) and Chinook
helicopters(15) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) - $25 billion
bull 2 Indian Coast Guard Ships(ICGS) Apoorva and interceptor boat C-421 were commissioned in Mumbai -
Vice Admiral Surindar Pal Singh Cheema
bull Rajasthan 5th State to pass Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015 other bills - Prisons
(Amendment) Bill Rajasthan Police (Amendment) Bill
bull Haryana gov will develop Gurgaon as a Smart City with its own resources - 500 cr for 5 years ndash
(Faridabad and Karnal)
bull GOI approved Rs 157538-crore highway project in Odisha under its National Highways Development
Project (NHDP)
bull Nagaland CM TR Zeliang launched its official website wwwchiefminister nagalandin
bull National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) sanctioned Rural Infrastructure
Development Fund (RIDF) assistance of Rs 113474 crore to Odisha
bull GOI approved to setting up an Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in New
Delhi - under the Societies Registration Act 1860
bull India falls to 155th place from 113 in UNrsquos broadband penetration ranking ndash lsquoThe State of Broadbandrsquo ndash
UN Broadband Commission
bull Union minister for health and family welfare J P Nadda released National Health Profile (NHP ndash 11th)-
2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI)
bull Union Cabinet gives nod to amend MoU on Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education
bull
Brigade Commander level flag meeting held at Chakkan-Da-Bagh LoC (Line of Control) Crossing point
in Poonch in J amp K between India and Pakistan
bull NITI Aayog constituted an expert group(10 member) on land leasing headed by former Commission for
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) chairman T Haque
bull Telangana gov entered into a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Chhattisgarh for supply
of 1000MW Power for 12 years
bull United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) will provide support in the implementation
of Arunachal Vision 2030 and Mission on Skill Development and Employment Generation in AP -Dr
Jaco Cilliershead of UNDPbull Gov cleared proposal of Rs 8000Cr project for Indian Air Force Integrated Air Command and Control
System (IACCS)
bull Kerala Tourism and St Petersburgrsquos tourism department signed MoU to promote tourist arrival from the
Russian city to Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi
bull AP gets Rs1000 crore special assistance from Centre under the state reorganisation Act
bull Union gov is all set to unveil Green Highways policy under which bushes and trees will be grown along
all the highways in a phased manner ndash Rs100 Cr for this year
bull INS Viraat - oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world expected to be decommissioned by next year
bull
Kerala governmentrsquos official website wwwkeralagovin hacked by ldquosuspected Pakistan-based hackersrdquo -wwwFaisal1337com
bull Expert committee formed by the gov to examine various issues related to age relaxation eligibility
syllabus and pattern of civil services examinatio-headed by BS Baswan
bull Suresh Prabhu Launches Indian Railway Knowledge Portal ldquoOne Stoprdquo Hub
wwwkportalindianrailwaysgovin - interface through e-Granthalaya by NIC
bull TN CM J Jayalalithaa announced an ldquoAmma mobile phone schemerdquo to help women Self-Help Group
(SHG) trainers supervise work as a part of ldquoAmmardquo brand
bull Tendulkar lends voice to Swachh Bharat anthemsong written by lyricist Prasoon JoshiComposer ndash
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Singer ndash Shankar Mahadevan
bull India set up the Department of Ayush in Dubai as Indian Consulate by Minister of Health and Family
Welfare ndash Jagat Prakash Nadda
bull Union HRD Minister Smt Smriti Zubin Irani launches National Institutional Ranking Framework
Document and Web portal and also Govt to roll out domestic ranking system
bull Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu adopts Siddhapuram village
bull Dr Mahesh Sharma launched the NOC Online Application Portal and Processing System (NOAPS) for
the National Monument Authority (NMA) Ministry of Culture at Samrat Hotel in New Delhi -
httpnmanocnicin
bull India ranked 55th in Global competitiveness Index - World Economic Forum
Top 5 SwitzerlandSingaporeUnited StatesGermanyNetherlands
bull India($31 billion) overtakes China($28 billion) and US($27 billion by grabbing the crown of FDI in the
Financial Times report
bull Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on Dr
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar with a commitment that it will also launch a coin in his honour
bull NLC(Neyveli Lignite Corporation) set up its first 10 MW solar power plant - Rs 7460 crore by BHEL
become the first renewal energy project of the company announced by Surender Mohan CMD
bull Govt cuts natural gas prices by 16 to $ 424 per unit
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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International Affairs
bull Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley(25th US president) renamed as Denali by Obama
bull Indian-origin Sikh migrant driver named lsquoAustralian of the Dayrsquo for feeding the homeless in Darwin by
Commonwealth Bank of Australiabull Australian Minister of Defence Mr Kevin Andrews and Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Kiren
signed Bilateral Co-operation in the field of intelligence sharing combating international terrorism and
security
bull NASA and US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a joint project ldquoSERVIR-
Mekongrdquo to strengthen regional environmental monitoring -Burma Cambodia
Laos Thailand and Vietnam
bull Russian spacecraft Soyuz with 1st Danish astronaut launches towards International Space Station-
500th manned launch in space travel history
bull
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved the draft 2030 Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda- 17 goals
bull Myawaddy- Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section (256 km long) of the Asian Highway No1 which
links India to Thailand via Myanmarbus-service between Imphal amp Mandalay started
bull Canada Entered 1st Technical Recession in 6Years-GDP is 05 in Q2(Aprilamp June) followed a by a
contraction of 08 in Q1(first 3 months) PM Stephen Harper
bull Russia rejects Francersquos proposal to limit the use of veto in the UNSC at 70th celebration- Flight MH17
bull India UAE agreed to increase bilateral trade by 60 by Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
and Foreign Minister of UAE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan - $75 billion at 11th session of
the India-UAE Joint Commission held in New Delhi bull Akshay KumarHrithik Roshan and AR Rahman join lsquoGlobal Goal Campaignrsquo is to create and raise
awareness about sustainable development
bull G-20(group of 20 major economies) and OECD(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ndash 34countries) issued a new corporate governance code - Host LeaderAhmet Davutoğlu
bull Rajavarothiam Sampanthan became 1st Tamil politician to be chosen as the Sri Lankan leader of
opposition National Alliance(TNA) in 32 years
bull G20 launches W20 grouping for gender inclusive economic growth-1st Summit of W20 (Group of 20
women leaders from G20 nations) will be hosted next month in IstanbulTurkey-Gulden Turktanthe 1st
president of W20
bull Indian Ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae inaugurated the renovated Bala Tripura Sundari Devi Temple at
Tripurakot located on the bank of glacial river Thuli Bheri in Dolpa district of Nepal
bull Chinese and Pakistani forces launched a joint air drill named lsquoShaheen (Eagle)-4rsquo held in Pakistan
bull Japan reopens radiation-hit town Naraha after four years - Fukushima Daiichi plant
bull India announced a cash assistance of USD 500000 to Jordan to meet the enormous impact of Syrian
refugee crisis - Indian Ambassador to Jordan Anil Trigunayat
bull lsquoEx-Ekuverin 2015prime is the sixth of the at Pangode Military Station Trivandrum
bull 7 Indians Feature in Forbes Asiarsquos Heroes of Philanthropy List
Infosys co-founders Senapathy Gopalakrishnan Nandan Nilekani and SD ShibulalRohan
Murthy another co-founder of Infosys Entrepreneur Sunny Varkey founder of GEMS Education
Entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan the founders of Whitcomb amp
Shaftesbury Tailors Bill Gates and Warren Buffet
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull United States and South Korea conduct Joint anti biochemical exercises against Republic of Korea - Able
Response (AR) ndash 15 exercise is the fifth in the series
bull More than 13 million people died in South-East Asia by the consumption of tobacco-WHO
bull An Indian-origin entrepreneur Payal Kadakia CEO and co-founder of ClassPass has been named among
the most promising businesswomen of 2015 by Fortune magazine
1
Brit Morin ndash Founder and CEO Brit + Co2
Jody Miller ndash Co-founder and CEO Business Talent Group
3
Payal Kadakia ndash CEO and co-founder ClassPass
bull India was among 119 nations that voted in support of a UN General Assembly resolution granting the
right to non-member observer States of Palestine
8 against Australia Canada Israel Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia
Palau Tuvalu and the US
bull Number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60000 in Japan in 2015 September
bull Singaporersquos ruling party PAP wins 2015 General Elections -56-year grip on power -13th Parliament
bull
Egyptrsquos PM Ibrahim Mahlab and his cabinet resigned amid corruption probebull PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (2nd) in Fortunersquos 50 powerful women in business list
bull Russian Cosmonaut Genady Padalka(totally 879 days) returned to Earth with a new record for the most
time spent in spaceSergei Konstantinovich Krikalev of Russia who spent 803 days
bull US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will organize 3rd International Hindi Conference at Rutgers
University New Jersey to promote Hindi in America from March 4-6 2016
bull Indian bankers Chanda Kochhar(1st ) and Arundhati Bhattacharya(2nd) ranked as top two in a list of most
powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune
bull Indian-origin Ashok Sridharan becomes Mayor of Germanyrsquos Bonn city
bull Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif inaugurated five lsquoPakistan ndash China Friendship Tunnelsrsquo - 275$ million in
order to restore a strategic road link to China Via Gilgit-Baltistan
bull China builds museum in honour of first nuclear space scientists on the Huairou campus of CAS
University
bull Betty Cantrell won the Miss America 2016 Pageant - 89th Miss America
bull December 9 declared as International Genocide Commemoration Day - UN
bull UN General Assembly adopted a negotiating text for the Security Council reforms setting the stage for
talks on the long pending process at the 70th session of the global body
bull India Ranks 142 in Ease of Doing Business Among 189 Economies World Bank
Singapore(1st) New Zealand(2nd) and Hong Kong SAR (China-3rd)
bull Constituent Assembly of Nepal rejected the proposal to declare Nepal as a Hindu State
bull Hungary declares a state of emergency in two countries shares their border with Serbia
bull Yongbyon nuclear plant of North Korea continues operation -manufactured the fissile material - shut
down in 2007
bull Nepal approves new constitution after 7 years of painstaking efforts and deliberations It replaced Interim
Constitution of Nepal 2007
bull India Cambodia ink 2 MoU for bilateral cooperation in Tourism Mekong Ganga Project -Vice President
Hamid Ansari and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh - $50000
bull Pentagon established a first-ever country special cellIndia Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to speed up its
defence ties with India(only) - IRRC is headed by Keith Webster
bull National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) set up a separate global body ndash NHAI International to
build roads and highways in Iran Sri Lanka Nepal and Bhutan
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull 4th edition of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group on Hydrocarbons was held in New Delhi - Ashutosh
Jindal(Joint Sec)Ministry of Petroleum amp Natural Gas and Dr Ahmad Al-Qattan representative of the
Kuwaiti Oil Sector
bull Indian Chinese firms ink 15 MOUs in the field of Infrastructure energy agriculture IT electronics and
pharmaceuticals worth $590 million at Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference 2015 in
Ahmedabadbull India and the US have created a ldquojoint challenge coin to Mark Partnership in Navy
One side of the coin Forward Together We Go and Chale Chale Saath Saath
bull Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey of Hotelscom ndash Singapore 1st for Indian travelersDubai (UAE ndash 2nd)
and Bangkok (Thailand-3rd)
bull Cow is declared as the national animal of Nepal
bull China to open museum with rare Buddhists statues in Hebei -more than 200 statues
bull AusIndex-2015 the first ever naval exercise(every 2 years) between India and Australia concluded
bull Indian diaspora in the US launched ldquoMission 2022rdquo in partnership with the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)bull 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas(RPBD) in Los AngelesCalifornia on Nov 14-15
Theme - ldquoThe Indian Diaspora Defining a New Paradigm in India-US Relationshiprdquo
bull Iranian airline Mahan Air to operate its first flights between Denmark and Iran
bull India to invest Rs 1 00000 crore in Iran to supply natural gas at $295 per mmbtu for urea plant that will
set up at Chabahar port on the Persian Gulf
bull PM Modi second Indian PM to visit Ireland - Jawaharlal Nehru in 1956
1 Ireland support for Indiarsquos membership of UN Security council
2 Science and technology and education Cooperation
3 Direct flight between the two countries
4 Irish Prime Minister ndash Enda Kenny President ndash Michael D Higgins
bull Mukesh Ambani Indiarsquos richest for 9th consecutive year Forbes
bull Sachin and Binny Bansal (founders of Flipkart) ndash 86th position
bull Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) released the International Migration
Outlook 2015 ndash India 4th
bull European Union (EU) imposed a provisional anti-dumping duty of up to 312 on imports of water and
sewage pipes from India for six months
bull UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals(17) for the next 15 years at 70 thsession of
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft - 169 specific targets - USD 35 trillion
to USD 5 trillion
bull First Bhagavad Gita Conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS) University of
London UK
bull Nigeria removed from the list of polio endemic countries ndash WHO
bull Indo Sri Lanka Joint Exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2015 began at Aundh Camp Pune - 14days
bull PM Modi visit to US
1 Meeting With Ceos Of Fortune 500 Theme of ldquoMedia Technology And Communications ndash
Growth Story For Indiardquo
2 Modi Addressed UN Sustainable Development Summit ndash 17 goals - New framework ndash
ldquoTransforming our world the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentrdquo
3 PM Modi hosted a G-4 Summit with leaders of G-4 nations Brazil Germany and Japan in
New York
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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4 Visit to Silicon Valley amp San Jose - Google to provide India a set up base for free Wi-Fi at
500 railway stations
5 Startup Konnect was held by NASSCOM in partnership with TiE Silicon Valley and IIM
Ahmedabadrsquos CIIE India
6 MoU between Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and the California Institute for
Quantitative Biosciences IIM Ahmedabadrsquos Centre for Innovation andEntrepreneurship(CIIE) and Lester Centre for Entrepreneurship of the Haas Business School
of the University of CaliforniaCIIE and Los Angeles Cleantech IncubatorCIIE and Google
CIIE and Tata Trust
7
$25-billion helicopter deal of Chinook and Apache was signed
bull Foreign ministers of India(Sushma Swaraj) Japan(Fumio Kishida) and the US(John Kerry)held their first
trilateral meeting in New York
Japan will participate in the 2015 MALABAR exercise(naval exercise of US amp India)
bull Taliban militants captured northern Afghan city of Kunduz - control a major urban area for 1st time since
the 2001 US-led invasion
Banking amp Finance
bull Central Statistics Office (CSO) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released
the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) Q1 of 2015-16
Q1 of 2015-16 is estimated at 2713 lakh Cr growth rate of 70
bull RBI proposes formula to calculate Base Rate- include cost of funds negative carry on CRRSLR un-
allocable overhead costs and average return on net-worth
bull
RBI to issue Rs 5 coin on golden jubilee of 1965 Indo-Pak war-Coinage Act 2011bull ICICI Lombard General Insurancetied up with Catholic Syrian Bank(CSB) for sale of its products
through 431 branches of the bank
bull Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) received USD 11 billion from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under
the currency swap agreement - CBSL Governor Arjuna Mahendran
bull SEBI notified Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations 2015- time period of ninety
days provisions of Companies Act 2013
bull RBIrsquos proposal to allow Non-Competitive bidding in T-bills for retail -Government Securities (G-Secs)
have short-term maturity long-term maturity
bull SEBI has directed banks and depositories to defreeze the bank and securities accounts of Gemini
Communications after it recovered pending dues of over Rs 11 lakh
bull Sahara India Pariwar the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cancelled the license of its holding
company Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited (SIFCL)
bull Union Cabinet allowed 100 FDI in White Label ATM operations -more than 182 lakhs ATMs operated
in the country by 54 banks
Rs100 cr Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act 2007 Tata Communications
Payment Solutions Limited(Indi Cash)Indiarsquos first White Label ATM ldquoIndicashrdquo
at Chandrapada in Thane Maharashtra
bull Odisha State Cooperative Bank Limited (OSCB) launched lsquoBanks of Wheelsrsquo scheme in 20 backward
blocks to reach the farmers and other people in remote areas of the state by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
bull Managing Director and CEO Satish Kumar Andhra Bank e-launched the 2600th branch at Yadgirigutta
and the 3000th ATM at Sunshine Hospital in Secunderabad
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull Bank of Maharashtra Launch of Soil amp Water Health Card in Mumbai and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
(PMMY) in Delhi Zone - Mr RKGupta Executive Director
bull RBI signed MoU on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information with Nepal
Rastra Bank (NRB) Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
bull SBI launches SimplyCLICK an online specific credit card in association with seven of biggest e-
commerce partners - Indiarsquos 1st ever credit card - more than Rs2 lakhbull Paytm to launch Indiarsquos first payments bank-Rs 10000 crore in deposits
bull RBI Names 10 Companies to Set Up Microfinance Banks
1 Au Financiers (India) Limited Jaipur
2 Capital Local Area Bank Limited Jalandhar
3 Disha Microfin Private Limited Ahmedabad
4 Equitas Holdings P Limited Chennai
5 ESAF Microfinance and Investments Private Limited Chennai
6
Janalakshmi Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
7
RGVN (North East) Microfinance Limited Guwahati
8
Suryoday Micro Finance Private Limited Navi Mumbai
9
Ujjivan Financial Services Private Limited Bengaluru
10
Utkarsh Micro Finance Private Limited Varanasi
bull Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) gets RBI nod for using Rs 2500 crore reserve as
provision against bad loans ndashMP ndash 3 districts
bull SEBI has slapped its highest ever fine of 7269 crore on PACL and its directors
bull Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) launched MUDRA Card for Micro and Small entrepreneurs - loans up to Rs
500 lakh by Shri S Muhnot CMD of BOM
bull RBI allowed banks to use e-payments for imports with Online Payment Gateway Service Providers
(OPGSPs) - not exceeding USD 2000
bull Gov decided to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent follow the model of Axis Bank
bull RBI would allow banks to convert the status of their loans to a company into standard ones if the entity is
sold to a new major stakeholder - existing promoterpromoter group ndash 51 capital under Strategic Debt
Restructuring Scheme
bull IDFC Bank announced no ATMs free service at other machines ndash motto is ldquohatke bankrdquo MD amp CEO ndash
Mr Vikram Limaye
bull SEBI to absorb FMC(Forward Markets Commission) will be absorbed seven director-level officials by
the capital market regulator
bull
Forward Markets Commission (FMC) merged with SEBI first ever merger of two regulatory bodies -
Union Budget of 2014-15
bull RBI cuts Repo Rate from 725 Percent to 675 Percent Reverse Repo Rate ndash 575 CRR ndash 4 and SLR
ndash 215
Business
bull Googlersquos logo gets a new look by Larry Page Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt
bull Overseas arm of ONGC ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) bought a 15 stake in Vankorneft a subsidiary of
the Russian oil giant Rosneft for $125 billion
bull Ratan Tata invests(14th investment) in Food Tech Startup Holachef -$1 billion
bull Snapdeal will invest USD 100 million (about Rs 665 crore) in Shopo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull Siemens the German Conglomerate will invest 1 Billion Euros in India - Joe Kaeser Chief Executive of
Siemens - Make in India programme
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd(RDL) signed an MoU with Abu Dhabi Ship Building(ADSB) to
set up a strategic partnership for construction of naval ships
bull Doha Bank tied up with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group to generate business opportunities in the Gulf
Cooperation Council nations and Indiabull Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) has the highest number of listed companies in the world by World
Federation of Exchanges (WEF) report - 5689 companies
bull Snapdeal launched instant refund facility to help its customers get refunds within 1 hour of receiving the
returned products using Immediate Payments System (IMPS)CEO of Snapdeal Kunal Bahl
bull Mahindra Group enters e-commerce segment with M2ALL launch -169 billion USD
bull India ranks 34th out of 60 in business growth environment ndash Thornton
53rd out of 60 983145983150 983156983144983141 983111983108983113 983145983150 business operating environment
bull Toronto and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) signed MOU to engage
in mutual co-operationbull Lycos(Suresh Reddy) and Apollo International Ltd(Raaja Kanwar) signed an agreement to launch a joint
venture (JV) that will provide B2B e-commerce
bull Telecom operator Uninor renamed as Telenor(Vivek Sood) and tagline changed from lsquoSabse Sastarsquo
to lsquoAb life full paisa vasoolrsquo
bull Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd signed a pact with UAErsquos Emirates Defence Industries Company
(EDIC) to work together in the defence sector in maintenance repair and overhaul category
bull Wipro selected as Dow Jones Sustainability World Index member and Emerging Markets Indices
Awards
bull Punjab Gov won award for achievement in rooftop solar power output by Piyush Goyal Union Minister
of State for Power Coal and New and Renewable Energy
bull UNESCO prize lsquoAward of Excellencersquo 2015- Asia Pacific Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage
Conservation to Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple Thrissur
bull UNESCOrsquos ldquoAward of Meritrdquo to Sino-Portuguese former residence of a Thai aristocrat
bull Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to Indian-American Jhumpa Lahiri
bull Haryana wins the Skoch Order-of-Merit National Award for e-governance and IT initiatives-163 e-
Governance services bull The prestigious Seacology Prize to be awarded to seaweed collector M Lakshmi(1st Indian Woman) for
her contribution in conversing the marine resources and cultural traditions of Chinnapalam
bull Maharaj Sayyajirao Bhasha(Founder) Samman introduced by Bank of Baroda for creating awareness and
spreading Hindi
bull National Literacy Award is given to three districts for implementation of the Total Literacy Campaign
(TLC) Post Literacy Programme (PLP) and Continuing Education Programme (CEP)-Bastar
Chhattisgarh Haveri in KarnatakaDharampuri in Tamil Nadu and the Gram Panchayat of Girod
bull 15yr-old prodigy K Vilasini is a holder of 5 world records including the highest IQ and IELTS
(International English Language Testing System)
bull A nine-year-old Indian-origin Anirudh Kathirvel crowned champion of ldquoThe Great Australian Spelling
Bee Contestrdquo
bull Veteran actor Anupam Kher presented with the ldquoHonoured Guestrdquo award by the US state of Texas for
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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his contribution to cinema and art
bull President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) - ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar
bull Royal Aeronautical Society honoured Dr G Satheesh Reddy with Silver Medal for work contributing to
major advances or contributions in aerospace
bull
Venezuelan film From Afar (Desde Alla) won top award The Golden Lion prize at the Venice filmfestival and became the first ever Latin American film
bull Rajeev BansalManmohan AgarwalKush Puri ndash 3 members of Indian Industries Association (IIA) receive
awards at the 10th Asia Brand Ceremony or Oscars of Industry Awards organized by the Asia Brand
Association
bull President of India presents Rajbhasha awards on the occasion of Hindi Divas to SK Biswas Director
(Personnel) THDCIL
bull Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recognised with ldquoUnited Nations Champions of the Earth awardrdquo her
initiatives to address climate change
bull
CEO Swetha Prabhakaran(among 11) won Champions of Change award by the White Housefor empowering the community by imparting Internet coding
bull Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota was shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for
Fiction for 2015 -novel ldquoThe Year of the Runawaysrdquo
bull Afghan refugee Aqeela Asifi won 2015 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - October 5 th in Geneva
bull Press Freedom Awards
1 Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque ndash Malaysia
2 Candido Figueredo Ruiz ndash Paraguay
3 Raqqandash Syria
4 Zone 9 bloggers ndash Ethiopia
bull
Former West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul awarded with the Icon Award by the Indo-
Caribbean Alliance in a ceremony held in Flushing New York
bull Indian Amateur boxer Mandeep Jangra received the Arjuna Award from the Sports Minister Sarbananda
Sonawal
bull Actor Anupam Kher gets Certificate of Recognition from the California legislature for his dedicated
efforts to the community of 500000 Kashmiri Hindus
bull Pranab Mukherjee presented National Tourism Awards for 2013-14 at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan
New Delhi - Tourism Minister ndash Mahesh Sharma ndash Gujarat(4 awards)
bull Minister of State for Labour amp Employment (Independent Charge) Shri Bandaru Dattatreya presented
Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA)2013 - 28 award
winners out of a total of 193 applications
bull Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project (TCRIP) conferred the Global Road Achievement
Award (GRAA) 2015 by the International Road Federation (IRF)
bull Eminent Urdu Scholar Shamim Hanfi received Jnangarima Manad Alankaran award by Bharatiya
Jnanpith
bull Director of CVRDE P Sivakumar elevated as Distinguished Scientist by the Union Ministry of Defense
bull Bank of Baroda(Ranjan Dhawan) won 1st prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar Scheme of GOI
bull 67th Emmy Awards ndash Dominated by Game of Thrones(12 awards) and Veep at the Microsoft Theater in
Los Angeles California
bull PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Hindustan Times Group chairperson Shobhana Bhartia presented
with the 2015 Global Leadership Award of the US India Business Council (USIBC)
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull Marathi film lsquoCourtrsquo selected as Indiarsquos official entry under Best Foreign Film Category to
the 88th Academy Awards 2016
bull Hindi writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka conferred with 24th Vyaas Samman for the year 2014 for
lsquoPremchand ki Kahaniyon ka Kaal Kramanusaar Adhyayanrsquo by KK Birla Foundation
bull Konte Venkata Narayana CMD of TSNPDCL has received the prestigious lsquoSkoch Order-of-Merit
Awardrsquo at the 41st Skoch Summit held in New Delhibull Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai from Odisha wins lsquoCommunity Impact Awardrsquo at the prestigious Google
Science Fair in California ndash bio absorbent based water purifier
bull Gaia Vince becomes 1st woman to win Royal Society Winton Prize National Cadet Corps enters Limca
Book of Records for the largest Yoga performance concurrently by NCC at multiple venues on
International Day of Yoga on 21st June 2015
bull Indian-Singaporean doctor Dr Uma Rajan won tabla Community Champion Award by Indranee
Rajah the Minister of State for Law and Education Singapore
bull Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio receive Screen Actors Guildrsquos Actors Inspiration Award
at 30th Anniversary Celebration of SAG will be held in Beverly Hills Novemberbull Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology announced prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
award1 Biological Science Categor Balasubramanian Gopal2 Field Of Earth Atmosphere Ocean And Planetary Sciences Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray
3
Field Of Engineering Science Yogesh Joshi
4 Field Of Mathematical Sciences Ritabrata Munshi and K Sandeep
5
Field Of Medical Science Category Vidita Vaidya
6
Field Of Physical Science Category Bedangadas Mohanty and Mandar Deshmukh
7
Field Of Chemical Science Category D Srinivasa Reddy and Pradyut Ghosh
bull
Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman conferred with SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2015bull Actor Shashi Kapoor honoured with lifetime achievement award at 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai
bull Veteran Russian Activist Wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize by Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (PACE) President Anne Brasseur
bull Porter Prize 2015
1 Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities - JSW Steel
2 Porter Prize on Industry Architectural Shift - Mahindra Rural Housing and Finance
3 Porter Prize on Exploiting Tradeoffs - Abbott India
4 Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value- DHL
5
Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare - Apollo6
Porter Prize on Creating Shared Value - Jain Irrigation and JSW Group
7
Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress - Reliance Foundation
8
Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration amp Governance - Tata Power
bull Indo-British van driver Dee Patel honoured with Pride of Britain Award ndash he risked his life to save
others
bull Indo-American Kartik Chandran an environmental engineer conferred with 2015 MacArthur Fellow his
area is treatment of wastewater by transferring it into useful resources
bull Sprinter Machettira Raju Poovamma (Athletics) and Wrester Babita Kumari honoured with Arjuna
Award 2015 by Minister of State for Youth affairs and Sports Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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Appointments amp Resigns
bull Delhirsquos Deputy CM Manish Sisodia given the additional charge of the Law Ministry of the city will
replace Kapil Mishra
bull AK Jha appointed as interim Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Limited
bull
S A V Satya Murty is the new Director of IGCAR(Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)Kalpakkam-TN replaced P R Vasudeva Rao
bull ABB appointed Bazmi Husain(1st Indian) MD of ABB India as the global CTO (Chief Technology
Officer)
bull Vinod Dasari appointed as President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
bull Edelweiss Financial Services roped Saina Nehwal as the brand ambassador
bull Smita Purushottam appointed as Indian Ambassador to Holy See
bull Ashok Kumar appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Minister of State for Prime Ministerrsquos
Office Jitendra Singh
bull
DrRamesh ChandAgriculture expert appointed as a new member of NITI Aayog(The National Instituteof Transforming India) by the govt
bull Brij Raj sharma appointed as chief secretary of Jammu amp kashmir
bull Manjula becomes the first woman chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
bull JSW Energy to acquire 100 stake in 500MW Bina Thermal power plant for Rs3500 crore which is
located in Sagar Madhya Pradesh
bull Senior bureaucrat Ramnganing Muivah took charge as secretary of the North Eastern Council
bull Rakesh Sharma appointed as Canara Bank MD and CEO
bull Professor Kumkum Dhar was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of Bhatkhande Music Institute
replaced by Shruti Sadolikar Katkarbull Shashidhar Sinha elected as chairman of ABC(Audit Bureau of Circulation)
bull FC Goa to appoint Sukhvinder Singh as CEO
bull Hormusji N Cama MD of Bombay Samacha elected as Chairman of PTI(Press Trust of India)
bull Malcolm Turnbull sworn in as 29th Prime Minster of Australia
bull Indian-Origin Britsh MP Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy appointed as the shadow chief secretary to
the Treasury and secretary for energy and climate change
bull Union Cabinet agreed to create 4 posts of directors for National Institute of Design (NIDs) - National
Design Policy 2007
1KurukshetrandashHaryana2 BhopalndashMP 3JorhatndashAssam and 4VijayawadandashAPbull Dr Nikolai Snesarev resigned as National Athletic coach due to poor infrastructure and a lack of facilities
bull CTS appointed former president of Pepsico Zein Abdalla to its Board of Directors
bull United Liberation Front of Asom ULFA (Independent) claimed that Dr Abhijit Asom is
their chairman and not Dr Mukul Hazarika
bull Mahesh Rangarajan resigned as director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
bull Elattuvalapil Sreedharan Principal adviser of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in UN high
level advisory group
bull PV Chandran elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Replaced of Kiran B
Vadodariabull Vikas Purohit leader of Amazon Indialsquos fashion and lifestyle category quit
bull Sunil Duggal appointed as CEO of Hindustan Zinc Limited
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull Ms Krati Tiwari (17) All India IIT-JEE
bull Mr Ankit Fadia (30) Author amp Ethical Hacker
bull Shri Pranav Mistry (34) ndash Computer Scientist and Author of 6th Sense Global VicePresident of Research at Samsung USA
bull Neelesh Garg appointed MD and CEO of Tata AIG General Insurance successor of KK Mishra
Acquisitions amp Mergers
bull Snapdeal acquires Silicon Valley tech-startup Reduce Data(Asaf Ali)
bull SEBI-FMC (Forward Markets Commission) merged to to strengthen regulation and reduce wild
speculation of market
bull Dr Reddyrsquos Laboratories Ltd and PanTheryx entered into a licensing agreement to market and distribute
PanTheryxrsquos nutritional intervention
bull Online auto classified portal CarDekho set to acquire Zigwheels an auto portal owned by Times
InternetCarDekho founder - Amit and Anurag Jain
bull JK Tyre Industries Indiarsquos third largest tyre manufacturer to buy Haridwar manufacturing unit of
Kesoram Industries for 2200 crore ndashJK Chairman Raghupati Singhania
bull Bengaluru-based Practo(Shashank ND) online healthcare platform acquired Insta Health(Ramesh Emani)
hospital information management Solutions company for $12 million (Rs79 crore)
bull Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquired the US-based eye care firm InSite Vision
bull Axis Bankrsquos Business Correspondent (BC) Suvidhaa Infoserve buys Aasaan Pay the first Indian mobile
Point of Sale (MPoS) technology platform - Paresh Rajde founder of Suvidhaa Infoserve
bull Punjab based Hero cycles(Pankaj Munjal) bought Firefox Bikes(Shiv Inder Singh ) for an undisclosed
amount
bull
Blackstone Group LP(Amit Dixit)US based Private investment banking company acquired India based
BPO operations of UKrsquos Serco Group Plc for Rs2558crore
bull Aditya Birla Chemicals Ltd (ABCL) completed the acquisition of the Jayashree Chemicals Ltdrsquos chlor-
alkali division - 212 crore
bull Healthcare platform Practo(4th) has acquired Qikwell
bull Chicago-based Azur Global(Ranghan Venkatraman) announced acquired Chennai-based Sybrant
Technologies Limited(V Thiyagarajan) to builds multi-channel internet products
bull Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals complete the deal with Novartis vaccines business
Science amp Technology
bull HIV prevention drug PrEP(Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) showed positive results
bull Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) successfully test-fired an indigenously developed anti-tank guided
missile called Amogha-1(2nd generation) at Babina Army Range in MP
bull GOI launching its own OS lsquoBOSS(Bharat Operating System Solutions) to replace Microsoft Window
developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)
bull Facebook unveiled a news gathering tool- ldquoSignalrdquo for journalists
bull China successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket from ldquoLong March -
6rdquo in the northern province of Shanxi
bull Microsoft launches Office 2016 with ldquoCollaborativerdquo new office software provides real-time
collaboration on documents - available in 40 languages
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull India signed an agreement to launch 23 foreign satellites as per Antrix Cooperation and to launch 6
Singapore satellites Antrix Corporation signed pact with US to launch 9 small satellites
bull ISRO launched Indiarsquos 1st dedicated multi wavelength space observatory satellite ASTROSAT for
astronomical research from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota along with six foreign
satellites(Inodonesia Canada and USA) - Vehicle PSLV ndash 30
bull
Evidence of flowing water on MARS - hydrated salt crystals containing molecules of water - CompactReconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)
bull China launched navigation satellite BDS I2-S(plough or big dipper constellation)- featured with hydrogen
atomic clock ) - 20th satellite for its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System launched by Long March3B
carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan
Environment
bull Over 3 Trillion Trees currently grow on Earth - lsquoBillion Tree Campaign
bull
25 million years older fossil found in South America - more than six feet longbull Scientists discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South
Africa
bull Ancient twin caves discovered in Nalgonda Telangana - Department of Archaeology and Museums
bull worldrsquos longest chain of volcanoes stretching for over 2000 km discovered in Eastern Australia - past 33
million years - Rhodri Davies
bull Indian scientists made an interesting breakthrough towards understanding the medicinal value of the
famous Queen of herbs Tulsi(Ocimum tenuiflorum-40 special chemicals) -Team led by Sowdhamini
Ramanathan from the National Centre of Biological Science Bengaluru
bull
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2015 report worldrsquos forests shrunken by 3 since 1990 -India Vietnam and Ghana -losing their forest cover faster than others
bull China renovated a 2000-year-old Ashoka Stupa in a remote town of Tibet-symbol of the Buddhism
arrival from India to China - Gyalwang Drukpa
bull Coast of Chile hit by 83 Magnitude of earthquake - Michelle Bachelet President of Chile
bull Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa inaugurates butterfly park at at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at
Vandalur-Rs4Cr
bull 7-day celebration of Ladakh festival celebrated in Leh town of Jammu amp Kashmir
bull Magnitude 66 earthquake hits East Indonesia
bull
Nine new species of wild mushrooms discovered in Sikkim by Dr Kanad Dasbull 100 million year old dinosaur fossils found at an Australian archaeological site ndash 1930rsquos - Queensland
dinosaur museum curator Timothy Holland
bull Anindya Dutta Indian-origin scientist discovered new cancer gene mutations MCM8 and MCM9
Sports
bull Sports Ministry recognized lsquoYogarsquo as a sports discipline and place it in the lsquoPriorityrsquo category
bull Mumbai won Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy of Cricket defeated Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Districts (TNCA) in Chennaibull India beat Sri Lanka to won first test-series on the Lankan soil in 22 years The last series win in the
island nation in 1993
Cheteshwar Poojara named as Man-of-the-match
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull ICC Test rankings Cheteshwar Pujara (20th)Virat Kohli (11th) and Ishant Sharma- 18th in the bowler list
bull 2022 Commonwealth Games to be held in DurbanSouth Africa 2018 Games to be held in Gold Coast
Australia
bull Logo for 2020 Tokyo Olympics scrapped after plagiarism allegations - designer Kenjiro Sano
bull Indian football team secured 155th rank in the recent FIFA rankingsCoach Mr Stephen Constantine
Argentina(1st
)Belgium(2nd
)Germany(3rd
)Colombia(4th
) and Brazil(5th
)bull Marvan Atapattu resigned as Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) team
bull Apurvi Chandela Indian shooter secured silver medal in womenrsquos 10 meters air rifle event Ahmadi
Elaheh of Iran-gold medal at ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup final
bull Gagan Narang-Indian shooter No1 spot in Menrsquos 50m Rifle prone shooting category in Asia Jitu
Rai(well known as Pistol King) second place and Abhinav Bindra 5th rank in 10 metres air rifle shooting
bull Australian allrounder Shane Watson retires from International Test cricket
bull Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver medal in 75 kg category in Asia Championships
in BangkokUzbekistanrsquos Bektemir Melikuziev ndash Gold medal
bull
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain won 2015 Italian Grand Prix of Formula Onebull Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship
1 Womenrsquos singles titles Ruthvika Shivani Gadde defeated Thailandrsquos Supamart Mingchua
2 Menrsquos singles titles Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Chirag Sen
3 In menrsquos doubles Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy beat
Thailandrsquos Warit Sarapat and Panachai Worasaktyanan
bull Champion Joshna Chinappa clinched the womenrsquos title in the USD 15000 NSCI Open JSW Indian
Squash Circuit 2015 after beated Egyptian Habiba Mohammad
bull Wasim Akram and Rameez Raja signed contracts with PCB to be the brand ambassadors of the Pakistan
T20 Super League (PSL)
bull Ace golfer Anirban Lahiri becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Presidentrsquos Cup team- biennial Presidents
Cup in Korea
bull Indian weightlifter Deepak Lather won a gold medal in5th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in
Apia Samoa-new CYG record and 138 kg
bull Asian Amateur Boxing Championship 2015 in BangkokThailand
India wins 4 medals Vikas Krishnan (75Kg) won silver medal at the Asian
Championship Satish Kumar (95 Kg) L Devendro (49Kg) Shiva Thapa (56Kg) won
Bronze medals
1Kazakhstan 2Uzbekistan 3Thailand 4Mongolia5 Philipines
bull
Australian Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin announced his retirement from International cricket
bull Usain Boltrsquo of tortoises sets new Guinness record - covered 18ft (548m) in 1959 seconds
bull Tennis player Roger Federer joins UAE Royals in the 2nd season of the IPTL(International Premier
Tennis League)
bull Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Delhi Dynamos announced Serginho Greenersquos signing at the
Bravida Arena - U-16 and U-21 football teams
bull US Open Tennis Championships 2015
1 Menrsquos Singles Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez
2 Womenrsquos Singles Italian Flavia Pennetta defeated Roberta Vinci
3
Menrsquos Doubles French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won by
defeating Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and John Peers (Australia)
4 Womenrsquos Doubles Indiarsquos Sania Mirza and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis won the womenrsquos
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
7172019 Current Affairs -September 2015
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Current Affairs Pocket PDF
Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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Doubles trophy by defeating Casey Dellacqua (Australia) and Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan)
5 Mixed Doubles Indiarsquos Leander Paes and Switzerlandrsquos Martina Hingis pair won the Mixed
Doubles trophy of Final Grand Slam of the US Open by defeating American pair of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey
bull
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Singha Thailand Amateur championshipbull India Placed 22nd in New Asian Football Technical Ranking released by the AFC
bull India ranks 5th in commonwealth Youth Games 2015 at Samoa in Apia
Australia ndash 63 medals South Africa ndash 35England ndash 40 Malaysia - 17
India ndash 19(9gold 4 Silver and 6 Bronze)
1
Prachi Singh (women) Archery Gold
2 Prachi Singh ndash Pantelides Thomas (Mixed) Archery Gold
3 Sasi Kumar Mukund (Men singlersquos) Tennis Gold
4 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Women singlersquos) Tennis Gold
5 Sasi kumar Mukund ndash Dhruthi Tatachar (Mixed) Tennis Gold
6
Deepak Lather Weightlifting Gold
7 Jamjang Deru Weightlifting Gold
8 Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump-Men) Athletics Gold
9 Mohd Hadeesh (Javelin Throw-Men) Athletics Gold
10 Gourav Solanki Boxing (52 Kg) Silver
11 Nishant Kumawat (Boys Recurve Individual) Archery Silver
12 Jisna Mathew (400m) Athletics Silver
13 Velavan Senthil Kumar ndash Harshit Jawanda (Mixed) Squash Silver
14 Bhimchand Singh Leichombam Boxing (49 Kg ndash Men ) Bronze
15
Prayag Chauhan Boxing (64 Kg ndash Men) Bronze16 Anamika Das (Shot-put Women) Athletics Bronze
17 Velavan Senthil kumar (Singles ndash Men) Squash Bronze
18 Chandan Bauri (400m ndash Men) Athletics Bronze
19 Abitha Mary Manuel (800m ndash Women) Athletics Bronze
bull 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at Gold Coast City Queensland in Australia
bull Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav(1st Indian) qualifies 2016 rio olympic game he
clinches bronze medal in World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas USAin the Menrsquos 74kg
Freestyle category
bull
Ravi Shastri retained as Team Director till T20 World Cup 2016bull Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won Shanghai Challenger by defeating local player Di Wu
bull India bagged bronze in Archery World Cup - Indiarsquos second team finished its campaign with bronze
medal in the menrsquos compound team event at Archery World Cup Stage 4
bull Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa Sumeeth Reddy andManu Atri selected
under the Target Olympic Podium(TOP) scheme - funding from National Sports Development Fund
(NSDF)
bull Sourav Ganguly will train Under-16 and Under-19 teams of TripuraTripura Cricket Association (TCA)
secretary Sourav Dasgupta
bull
Hangzhou China confirmed as the host of 2022 Asian Games by OCA president Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-SabahGames 18th edition will be held in Jakarta Indonesia
bull US Boxer Floyd Mayweather announced his retirement after defeating Andre Berto in Welterweight
World Championships at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas USA
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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bull Belgium International Challenge championship at Lueven Belgium
Sumeeth Reddy and Manu Attri clinch the Menrsquos double title defeated Adam Cwalina and
Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland
bull Railways shot putter Manpreet Kaur shattered an 18-year-old national record(Harbans Kaur) en route to a
sixth title at the 55th National Open Athletics Championship at Kolkata
bull
International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced name of 5 cities to host 2024 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles ndash USParis ndash FranceRome ndash ItalyBudapest ndash Hungary and Hamburg ndash
Germany
bull Skeet shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan clinches 2016 Rio Olympics quota for India at the ISSF Shotgun
World Championship in Lonato Italy
bull Ajinkya Rahane conferred with honorary life membership by Cricket Club of India (CCI)
bull Indian Shuttler Ajay Jayaram lost the match against Chen Long of China and settled for a Silver medal in
the Korea Open Superseries in Seoul
bull Ferrarirsquos Sebastian Vettel has won 2015 Singapore Grand Prix F1 Championship at Marina Bay in Asia
bull
Kenyan veteran Kipchumba(41yr) won 2015 Beijing Marathon becoming 1
st
non-Ethiopian athletebull 5th International Pars Wushu Cup in Tehran ndash India ndash 12 medals(1gold 4 silver and 7 bronze medals)
bull Former West Indies cricket captain Richie Richardson inducted in to the Elite Panel of ICC Match
Referees by the International Cricket Council (ICC)
bull Yannick Noah appointed as Davis Cup captain
bull Goa to host AFC(Asian Football Federation)U-16 Championship 2016Stadium GMC
Bambolim and PJN Fatorda
bull Abhinav Bindra clinched gold in the menrsquos 10m Air Rifle event of the 8 th Asian Air Gun Championships
held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi
bull
Lewis Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix 2015 in Suzuka city Japanbull Indiarsquos billiard player Pankaj Advani bagged his 14th world title when he won the IBSF World Billiards
Championship Demolishin Singaporersquos Peter Gilchrist in Adelaide Australia
bull India bagged seven medals including five silver and two bronze at the 16th Asian Rowing
Championships in Beijing
bull Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis win Guangzhou Open title 2015 and in singles Jelena Jankovic of
Serbia defeated Denisa Allertova of Czech Republic
bull Badminton Association of India(BAI) appointed Sportzlive as its official marketing and sponsorship
partner for the second season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) scheduled to be held from January
2 to 17 2016
bull West Indies fail to qualify Bangladesh return to ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England
Obituary
bull Author and Neurologist Doctor Oliver Sacks passed away
bull Social Worker from Arunachal Pradesh Binny Yanga passed away
bull Former Goa Chief Minister Wilfred De Souza passed away
bull Worldrsquos shortest man Chandra Bahadur Dangi(Nepali) passed away
bull
Music Composer Aadesh Srivastava passed awaybull Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R Iyer passed away
bull Hollywood actor John P Connell passed away
bull Frank D Gilroy Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright screenwriter film producer and director
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
7172019 Current Affairs -September 2015
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Current Affairs Pocket PDF
Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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passed away
bull Mohiniyattam dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away
bull Former England goalkeepeer Springett passed away
bull Former England captain Brian Close passed away
bull South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo passed away after knocked out in the first round of a fight in
the Eastern Capbull Australian Boxer Davey Browne Jr died after he was knocked out by Carlo Magali of
the Philippines at IBF super-featherweight regional title
bull Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passed Away
bull Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away
bull British novelist Jackie Collins passed away - novel ldquoHollywood Wivesrdquo
bull Noted Odia lyricist Nizam passed away
bull Veteran Communist leader MP Sadhan Gupta passed away
bull Radhika Thilak Malayalam playback singer passed away
bull
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed awaybull Australiarsquos oldest cricketer Harold Stapleton passed away
bull Former England cricketer Frank Tyson passed away
bull Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away
bull Noted environmentalist Pokkudan passed away
bull Renowned Hindi poet and Sahitya Academy awardee Viren Dangwal passed away
Books amp Authors
bull The Duels of the Himalayan Eagle authored by Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
bull M Hamid Ansari released 5 volume set of books entitled lsquoKhirmanrsquo formed on the collection of Late Shri
Muztar Khairabadirsquos compiled by grandson of Muztar khairabadi ndash ShriJaved Akhtar
bull To the Brink and Back Indiarsquos 1991 Story by former Union Environment and Forest Minister
(Independent Charge) Jairam Ramesh
bull Kalburgi Murder - Kannada writer returned Pampa award
bull Vice President Releases the Book lsquoFeminist and Orientalist Perspectives ndash A Study of Lady Mary
Montagursquos Turkish Embassy Lettersrsquo by Dr Farha Hiba Parvez
bull ldquoTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nightsrdquo written by British Indian novelist Sir Ahmed
Salman Rushdie
bull Pranab Mukherjee received 1st copy of a book ldquoBuilding a Just World Essays in honour of Muchkund
Dubeyrdquo from Trustee of India International Centre Dr Kapila Vatsyayan
bull New York Yankees icon Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra passed away
bull Union Home MinisterRajnath Singhreleased a graphic booklet on Sardar Post at Rann of Kutch in the
1965 lndo-Pak War
bull Hungry Bengal War Famine Riots and the End of Empire authored by Janam Mukherjee
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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Important Days
bull Sep 2 World Coconut Day ndash lsquoCoconut for Family Nutrition Health and Wellnessrsquo
bull Sep 5 National Teachers Day ndash lsquoTeachers for gender equalityrsquo
International Day of Charity(death of Mother Teresa) -
bull
Sep 6 International Peace Day ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace ndash Dignity for Allrsquo
bull Sep 8 International Literacy Day ndash lsquoLiteracy and Sustainable Societiesrsquo
bull Sep 10 World Suicide Prevention Day ndash lsquoPreventing Suicide Reaching Out amp Saving Livesrsquo
bull Sep 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation - Scaling-up Global Support for South-South
bull Sep 13 World Chocolate Day
bull Sep 14 Hindi Diwas - lsquoHindi Meri Pehchanrsquo
bull Sep 15 International Day of Democracy ndash lsquoSpace for Civil Societyrsquo
National Engineerrsquos Day
bull Sep 16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer ndash lsquo30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Togetherrsquo
bull Sep 19 International Red Panda Day
bull Sep 21 International Day of Peace ndash lsquoPartnerships for Peace - Dignity for Allrsquo
World Alzheimerrsquos Day
bull Sep 22 World Rhino Day ndash lsquoWhat is Home Sweet Home For The Rhino lsquo
bull Sep 24 World Maritime Day - lsquoMaritime education and training lsquo
bull Sep 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ndash lsquoMaintaining the Caribbean
and Latin America as a Zone of Peace
bull Sep 27 World Tourism Day ndashlsquo One Billion Tourists One Billion Opportunitiesrsquo
World Deaf Day ndash lsquoConnect and Communicatersquo
bull Sep 29 World Heart Day ndash lsquoCreating heart-healthy environmentsrsquo
bull Sep 30 International Translation Day ndash lsquoThe Changing Face of Translation and Interpretingrsquo
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