Daily Current
Affairs from 14 September 2013
National
1) Hindi Diwas celebrated across India-
September 14 is celebrated as Hindi Diwas to mark the importance of Hindi
language. It was back in 1949, that the constituent assembly decided to
acknowledge Hindi as the official language and in 1950, the Constitution of
India adopted Hindi in Devanagri Script as the official language of the union.
Hindi was adopted as a language for official transaction by the constituent assembly
on 14th September 1949. President Pranab
Mukherjee gave away Official Language Awards for outstanding contributions made
towards promotion of Hindi language.
2) Central government has approved a plan
to set up 70 medical institutes for treating cancer, diabetes and
cardiovascular diseases, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announced today.
3) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit
Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh for an on-the-spot assessment in the district
that witnessed deadly communal riots about a week ago.
4) Chief Justice of India, P Sathasivam
today defended the collegium system for appointment of judges in higher
judiciary but said it is a prerogative of the Centre to bring a bill to change
it.
5) 14 Maoists were killed in a fierce gun
battle with police in Odisha's Malkangiri district.
6) India against military intervention in
Syria, says Salman Khurshid, India's External Affairs Minister
Technology & Achievements
1) A second test flight of long range,
nuclear capable ‘Agni-V’ missile might be taken up on September 15 from Wheeler
Island on Odisha's coast, if the weather permits. The surface-to-surface, three
stage solid propellant missile is designed to deliver nuclear warheads of 1000
kg at a range of 5000 km.
2) Japan launches new, cheaper rocket named
'Epsilon'. Japan hopes it will be a cheaper and more efficient way of sending
satellites into space.
3) NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36
years ago - and now 19 billion kilometres from the Sun - has become the first
man-made object to venture into interstellar space
4) The brown Chihuahua named “Miracle
Milly” is the world's smallest dog, Guinness World Records announced. She is
shorter than a soup can, standing at 3.8 inches (9.65 centimeters) tall when
measured from backbone to paw.
International
1) Health Ministers of Southeast Asian
countries committed themselves to eliminating measles from the region by 2020.
This was taken at the 66th session of the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
regional committee for Southeast Asia, held Sep 10-13.
2) United States and Russia have agreed on
a proposal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, Secretary of State
John Kerry said.
3) In a new twist, a renegade Taliban
militia, the Suicide Group of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, has taken
responsibility for killing Indian author Sushmita Banerjee
4) US President Barack Obama said that the
use of chemical arms by Syria is a ‘criminal act’ and therefore becomes
important for the international community to respond
Economy/Business
1) Gold prices fell for the fourth straight
day falling Rs 450 to Rs 30,300 per ten grams on sustained selling amid a weak
global trend.
2) Despite fag-end selling pressure, both
the indices, S&P BSE Sensex and CNX Nifty, ended in the green for the 3rd
consecutive week on persistent buying by foreign funds
3) To boost foreign fund inflows into the
capital markets, regulator Sebi allowed overseas entities to invest in
government securities without any auction mechanism.
4) Reserve Bank said that bank branches
would work full time on September 14 & 15 (Saturday and Sunday) to
facilitate receipt of advance tax challans for income tax and corporate tax
from the public.
5) Prime Minister's key economic advisor C
Rangarajan lowered the growth forecast for the current fiscal to 5.3 percent
from 6.4 percent projected earlier.
Appointments
1) Government has appointed M.K. Goel, who
is also the Director (Commercial), as the Chairman and Managing Director of
Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
Sports
1) Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan by 24 runs in
dramatic final Test. Chatara's Test-best figures of five for 61 proved the
crucial difference despite an unbeaten 79 by Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq.
The two-match series finished tied at 1-1 after Pakistan won the first Test at
the same venue by 221 runs.
2) Indian weightlifters bagged a rich haul
of 25 medals so far in the ongoing Asian Inter-Club Championships and Asian Cup
being held at Pyongyang, North Korea.
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