Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Current Affairs 14 & 15 Sep

¨14 September- National Hindi Divas

¨15 September- Engineers Day (The Engineering Community across India is celebrating Engineers Day as a remarkable tribute to the greatest Indian Engineer Bharat Ratan Visvesvaraya )

¨Andhra Pradesh Government has unveiled ‘New Tourism Policy-2015-20 to boost tourism sector in the state.

¨Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information.

¨Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was ousted from power as leader of the ruling centre-right Liberal Party by challenger Malcolm Turnbull.

¨Gujarat has been placed to top position in World Bank’s first ever ranking of States on the ease of doing business in India. The largest recipients of foreign investments Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu were placed at eighth and twelfth position respectively.

¨Bankers Chanda Kochhar (ICICI) and Arundhati Bhattacharya (SBI) have been ranked as top two in a list of most powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared by the global magazine Fortune.

¨Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has recognized the Indian Kalarippayattu Federation (IKF) as Regional Sports Federation (RSF). Kalaripayattu sport is a Martial art played/performed in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

¨Hormusji N Cama unanimously elected as the new chairman of the Press Trust of India (PTI). 

¨The Constituent Assembly of Nepal has overwhelmingly rejected the proposal to declare Nepal a Hindu state and reaffirmed to remain secular.

¨Classical dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passed away in Palakkad district of Kerala.

¨US Open Titles of Tennis 2015:-
Men’s Singles title-Novak Djokovic of Serbia
Men’s Doubles Title:- Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of French
Women’s Singles Title:- Flavia Pennetta of Italy
Women’s Doubles Title:- Sania Mirza of India and Martina Hingis of Switzerland
Mixed Doubles Title:- Leander Paes of India and Martina Hingis of Switzerland


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