Current Affairs - September 2020

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7 Current Affairs were found in Month - Sep 2020 for Type - Persons on Visit/In News

Persons 1. American aerospace and defense Firm Northrop Grumman named its next space station resupply ship (NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft) as S.S. Kalpana Chawla, honoring Late Indian Astronaut Kalpana Chawla. 2. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Moscow (Russia), to attend Defence Ministers meet of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Collective Security Treaty Organization and Commonwealth Security Treaty Organization, in commemoration of 75th Anniversary of Russian victory in World War II. and Russia finalised a deal to manufacture AK-47 203 rifles in India. Indian Army needs around 770,000 AK-47 203 rifles. Of these, 100000 will be imported and rest will be manufactured in India. Russia also assured timely delivery of S400 missile defence systems to India, by end of 2021. India signed deal of 5 billion USD in 2018 to buy 5 - S400 missile defence systems. Rajnath Singh also Visited Iran, to dicsuss and improve bilateral defence relations. 3. Obituaries (Sep 2020) - David Capel - Former England Cricketer. Joe Ruby - Noted American Animator who created Scooby-Doo characrter. Notable deaths due to Covid-19 S Padmavati - India's first Female cardiologist. Sekhar Basu - Noted atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission. Govind Swarup - Noted Scientist, a pioneer of radio astronomy. Jaya Prakash Reddy - Noted Telugu Actor. Kesavananda Bharati - Noted Hindu monk, who served as Shankaracharya (head) of Edneer Mutt in Kerala. Johnny Bakshi - Noted Filmmaker. Jiri Menzel - Oscar-winning Czech film director. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh - Former Union Minister (Rural Development, in 2004). Diana Rigg - Noted British Actress. Swami Agnivesh - Noted social activist and founder of political party Arya Sabha. He had served as cabinet minister in Haryana. Ashok Gasti - Serving Rajya Sabja BJP MP from Karnataka. Balli Durga Prasad Rao Garu - Serving YSR Congress Party MP from . Jaswant Singh Jasol - Former Cabinet Minister (Also served in Army). He held Charge as Minister of External Affairs, Finance And Defense. Babu Sivan - Noted Tamil Director. Amitabha Ghosh - Former (16th) RBI Governor. He was shortest-serving RBI Governor, who stayed on this post for 21 days, in 1985. PR Krishnakumar - Noted Ayurveda physician from Tamilnadu. Moussa Traore - Former President of Mali (West Africa). He was a former military leader, who forcibly took over reign from Modibo Keita (known as ‘father of independence’). Kapila Vatsyayan - Noted scholar of Indian classical dance, art and architecture. She was founding Director of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. Sadashiv Patil - Former Maharashtra Cricketer. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam - Noted Musician and Singer. Suresh C. Angadi - Serving Union Minister of State (Railways). Winston Groom - Noted American Writer. He wrote Forrest Gump, which was made into a Oscar winning movie. Dean Jones - Australian Cricketer. Ashalata Wabgaonkar - Noted Marathi actress. Ang Rita Sherpa - Noted Nepal-based Mountaineer. He was first man to climb Mount Everest 10 times. John Turner -Former Canadian Prime Minister. Bibhuranjan Choudhury - Noted Assam Musician. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US Cultural and liberal icon (Also US Supreme Court Judge). Bhupesh Pandya - Bollywood Actor. Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah - 15th Ruler of Kuwait and the 6th Emir of the State of Kuwait. Abhilash - Noted songwriter. G S Amur -Noted Kannada writer and critic. Syeda Anwara Taimur - Former and Only Female chief minister of Assam. Isher Judge Ahluwalia - Noted economist. She served for 15 years as director of Delhi-based Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). 4. Persons Resigned /Retired (September 2020) - German Olympic gold medalist alpine ski racer Viktoria Rebensburg announced her retirement. England cricketer Ian Bell announced retirement. Serving Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from Central Government Cabinet. President gave Narendra Singh Tomar (Agri. and Farmers welfare Minister) the additional charge of Ministry of Food Processing Industries. Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon, Mustapha Adib announced his resignation following his failure to form a new cabinet. Mustapha Adib was named Prime Minister Designate of Lebanon in Aug 2020, after Earlier PM Hassan Diab had resigned amid public outrage over Beirut blasts. 5. Shivangi Singh became first woman fighter pilot to fly Rafale aircraft, which was inducted recently in Indian Air Force, 's No. 17 squadron, called Golden Arrows. 6. TIME magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2020 includes India's PM Narendra Modi, Actor Ayushman Khurrana and Bilkis, who emerged as face of Shaheen Bagh protests. 7. United Nations named Indian teenager Udit Singhal in list of 2020 Class of Young leaders for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) along with 17 others, organized biennially. Udit has been selected because of his Glass2Sand initiative, a zero waste ecosystem that converts glass to sand, aimed at addressing growing problem of glass in national capital region. Top

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