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Sree Current Affairs SEPTEMBER-32Pages.Pmd CONTENTS Honours & Awards - 2 News Makers - 4 Appointments - 6 Places in News - 7 Science Snippets - 8 Defence - 9 Space Science - 10 Deaths - 11 Economic Scenario - 12 Corporate Briefs - 13 Environment - 14 Sports - 15 Summits - 17 Committees - 19 NationalRound-Up - 20 International Round-Up - 23 Knowledge Capsules - 25 Banking Awareness - 26 (For Bank PO & Clerks Exams) Current MCQ Capsules - 28 Disclaimer : All Readers of this book undertake responsibility for the relevance and accuracy of its content. The Publisher cannot Guarantee the accuracy and Reliability of Content Current News & Events 2 Latest Current Affairs Khan. The other members include Honours & Awards Rajkumar Sangwan (boxing), Gujarat's GIFT bags World Dhanraj Pillai (hockey), Shiny Finance award Dronacharya Award 2012 Wilson (athletics), Morad Ali Khan The names of six sporting (shooting), Karnam Malleswari Gujarat International coaches were recommended for (weightlifting), Bahadur Singh Finance Tec City (GIFT), the the Dronacharya Awards for the (athletics), Bhupender Dhawan upcoming liberalised financial year 2012. Wrestling coach Yashvir (powerlifting,G S Sandhu (boxing), service centre in the state, was Singh, Boxing Coach BI Fernandez, Ramphan Mann(wrestling,Prem recently adjudged 'Best Industrial Athletics Coach Virender Poonia, Chand Degra (body building). Development & Expansion' project by London-based magazine World Kabaddi Coach Sunil Davas, About Dronacharya Award Parathletics Coach Dr. Satyapaul Finance. and Hockey Coach Harinder Singh The Dronacharya Award The project was judged on are the six coaches who have been was instituted by the government the basis of its infrastructure, selected for the coveted award, of India in 1985. The award has scope, size and complexity as well given to the coach of different been given to 72 people until 2011. as in terms of its potential for sports, for their excellent The award carries five lakh rupees enabling economic growth in the region through the relocation and contribution to the sports. and a citation and is conferred to centralization of India's financial Boxing Coach BI Fernandez, coaches of different sports for their and IT sectors, said a GIFT who is a Cuban national, became noteworthy contribution. The the first foreign coach to be statement. awards will be presented by GIFT outclassed projects recommended for the Dronacharya President Pranab Mukherjee at Award. Fernandez has been like Moscow International Finance Rashtrapati Bhawan on 29 August instrumental in India’s impressive Centre in Russia and Songdo in 2012, the National Sports Day. performances in Boxing in the South Korea. international tournaments. The Dronacharya Awards Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2012 committee was headed by former Indian hockey captain Aslam Sher The Government has announced the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Awards for the year 2012. A large number of nominations were received for these awards this year, which were considered by Selection Committee consisting of eminent sports persons and sports administrators; headed by Col Rajya Vardhan Singh Rathore. Based on the recommendations of the Committee and after due scrutiny, the Government has approved to confer awards upon the following sportspersons. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award - 2012: 1. Shri Vijay Kumar (Shooting) 2. Shri Yogeshwar Dutt (Wrestling) Current News & Events 3 Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award Chennai scientist bags UNESCO Award Pakistan government on 14 Chennai based Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) scientist has August 2012 honoured Urdu been selected for the UNESCO'S Man and the Biosphere Programme author, Gopi Chand Narang with (MAB) awards. V M Sathish Kumar, works with the Southern Regional sitara-i-Imtiaz, the third highest Center of ZSI in Chennai, was selected as one among the 12 civilian honour given by the nation. international scientists for their projects on ecosystems, natural In the past, former Prime Minister resources and biodiversity. Morarji Desai and matinee idol Dilip Kumar has been selected for his research on developing Kumar were bestowed Pakistan's strategies and a regulatory framework for the sustainable fishing of highest civilian honour, Nishan-i- sea cucumbers in the Gulf of Manner biosphere reserve. He is the only scientist selected from India for the awards announced under Imtiaz. The award will be given to 'Laureates of Young Scientists and Michel Batisse Awards' category. Gopi Chand Narang in Pakistan on The award was announced by the International Coordinating 23 March, 2013, Pakistan's Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO (MAB) Republic Day. in Paris. Since 1989, the Man and the Biosphere Programme has Gopi Chand Narang was been awarding yearly scholarships of up to US$5,000 to ten young born on 11 February, 1931, in Dukki, researchers, to encourage them to work on ecosystems, natural Pakistan. He is an Indian scholar resources and biodiversity. Since 2010, two special fellowships are of Urdu language and literature, an also being awarded under the programme. eminent Urdu writer, scholar, critic and linguist. He is author of many Chen Shu-Chu, Taiwan: Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, books in Urdu, Hindi and English. She is being recognized for Indonesia: Nisan-i-Imtiaz Award “the pure altruism of her personal He is being recognized for giving, which reflects a deep, “his sustained advocacy for Acclaimed Pakistani writer consistent, quiet compassion, and community-based natural Saadat Hasan Manto on 14 August has transformed the lives of the resource management in 2012 was honoured with the Nisan- numerous Taiwanese she has Indonesia, leading bold i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest civilian helped.” campaigns to stop illegal forest award. Manto is best known for his Romulo Davide, Philippines: exploitation, as well as fresh social Urdu short stories, especially those He is being recognized for enterprise initiatives that engage that explored the impact of the “his steadfast passion in placing the forest communities as their full partition of the subcontinent into the power and discipline of science partners.” India and Pakistan in 1947. Toba in the hands of farmers in the This year’s Magsaysay Award winners will each receive a Tek Singh, Bu (Odour), Khol Do Philippines, who have certificate, a medallion bearing the (Open It) and Thanda Gosht (Cold consequently multiplied their yields, created productive farming likeness of the late President, and Meat) were written by him. communities, and rediscovered a cash prize. PIFA Award the dignity of their labour.” Established in 1957, the Syeda Rizwana Hasan,Bangladesh: Ramon Magsaysay Award is Asia’s Indian American Rajan highest honour and is widely She is being recognized for Gangahar has won the "best story" regarded as the region’s equivalent “her uncompromising courage and award for the movie "Khushiyaan" of the Nobel Prize. It celebrates the impassioned leadership in a at the Punjabi International Film memory and leadership example campaign of judicial activism in Academy Award (PIFAA) held in of the third Philippine President. Toronto. Bangladesh that affirms the people's right to a good Magsaysay Awards, 2012 environment as nothing less than their right to dignity and life.” Kulandei Francis, India: Yang Saing Koma, Cambodia: He is being recognized for He is being recognized for “his visionary zeal, his profound faith “his creative fusion of practical in community energies, and his science and collective will that has sustained programs in pursuing inspired and enabled vast the holistic economic numbers of farmers in Cambodia empowerment of thousands of to become more empowered and women and their families in rural productive contributors to their India.” country's economic growth.” Current News & Events 4 News Makers Miss China bags the title of Miss World 2012 Miss China, Wenxia Yu won the title of Miss World 2012 while Miss Wales Sophie Elizabeth Moulds and Miss Australia Jessica Michelle Kahawaty came second and third respectively. Miss China had to compete with 116 candidates to win the crown. Miss India Vanya Mishra made it to the list of top 7 finalists, but could not go beyond that. While the charm of the pageant, first held in 1951, has waned in the West, it continues to be an object of interest in Asian countries. Sweden's Kiki Hakans son was the first Miss World, while Oscar-winning US actress Halle Berry was a finalist in 1986. Venezuela has produced the most Miss Worlds, with six winners, while India and Britain Forbes World's Most most powerful women list. The other four Indian women in the list claim five titles each. Powerful Women 2012 are Indira Nooyi (12), Padmashree Rita Faria was the first Indian Warrior (58), Chanda Kochar (59) to bag the title in 1966, followed by Sonia Gandhi ranked number six in the Forbes and Kiran Mazzomdar Shaw (80). Aishwarya Rai(1994), Diana Gandhi was figured on 7th position Hayden(1997), Yukta Mookhey magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. Sonia in the list of powerful women in (1999) and Priyanka Chopra(2000). Gandhi, the chairperson of the 2011. China has already hosted ruling United Progressive Alliance German Chancellor Angella the competition five times. and the Congress party is among Markel topped the list for a second the five Indian women who have successive year. She was followed been named in the world’s 100 by US Secretary of State Hillary Delhi Government presented Lifetime Achievement Awards Celebrated Sarod exponent Amjad Ali Khan, vocalist Girija Devi and famous writer Ruskin Bond were conferred the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Awards on 24 August 2012. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit presented the award acknowledging the outstanding contribution of the awardees to their respective fields at the national and international level. The award was consisted of a cash prize of 11 lakh rupees and a citation. The award was instituted by the Delhi government's Sahitya Kala Parishad in 2004 to felicitate on eminent personalities for their outstanding contributions to the fields of music, dance, theatre, visual arts, sports and literature.
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