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Current Affairs, September 2015

 Shakeel Ahamed     Current Affairs-2015     No comments   

30th September:
• 5 of the 12 convicts have been sentenced to death while the other seven were given life imprisonment for the 2006 serial train blasts case by a special MCOCA court in Mumbai.
• Naval warship INS Kochi, indigenously built largest warship has been commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
• Bangladesh has been selected for a berth in ICC Champions Trophy for the first time since 2006. Bangladesh has replaced the West Indies who failed to secure position in top eight in ICC ranking.
• Russia launches airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria.

29th September:
• NASA scientists have found the first evidence that briny water may flow on the surface of Mars.
• Reserve Bank cut the benchmark repo rate by 50 basis points to a 4year low of 6.75 per cent.
• Former Delhi Law Minister and AAP MLA Somnath Bharti sent to two day police cutody by a court for domestic violence against his wife.

28th September:
• India's first space research observatory ASTROSAT successfully launched into orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota.
• Internet giant Google will provide free Wi-Fi facilities to 400 railway stations as announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit.
• Swollen "supermoon" and lunar eclipse combined for the first time in decades showing Moon in blood-red light.

27th September:
• World Tourism Day is celebrated today.
• PM Narendra Modi met the top IT leadership of the world's biggest technology companies in Silicon Valley.
• Manipur Governor Syed Ahmed passed away in Mumbai at the age of 73.
• Abhinav Bindra wins gold medal in 10m metre air rifle at Asian Air Gun Championship.
• Pankaj Advani wins the IBSF World Billiards Championship.
• Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis wins the Guangzhou Open title after defeating Chinese pair of Shilin Xu-Xiaodi 6-3, 6-1.

26th September:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted the G4 Summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

25th September:
• Muslims all over the World observe Eid-al-Adha.
• The General Assembly of the United Nations starts from today.

24th September:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New York on his second visit to the US to attend a high-level peacekeeping summit at the United Nations.
• At least 717 pilgrims were killed and more than 800 injured in a stampede at Mina, outside of Mecca, where some two million people are performing the annual Haj.
• Former India captain Sourav Ganguly unanimously chosen as the president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB).
• Los Angeles becomes the first city to declare homelessness as a 'state of emergency'.
• India's maiden mission to Mars Mangalyaan completed a year in space.

23rd September:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches Ireland on a day-long trip before leaving for US.
• The Film Federation of India jury has picked the Marathi language Film Court as India's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars next year.

22nd September:
• Volkswagen admitted that 11 million diesel cars worldwide were equipped with the same software that was used to cheat on emissions tests in the United States.

21st September:
• President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal at the age of 75.
• The 2015 Emmy Awards announced today in Los Angeles. Game of Thrones wins the Outstanding drama series.

20th September:
• Nine Kabbadi players were killed and five others injured in a road accident in Sundergarh district of Odisha.
• Nepal formally adopted the constitution after President Ram Baran Yadav formally promulgates the new constitution in Kathmandu.
• Ajay Jayaram defeated by current world champion Chen Long 14-21, 13-21 in the final of Korea Open.
• India lose Davis Cup tie 1-3 to Czech Republic.

18th September:
• The West Bengal government has declassified 64 confidential files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
• 33 people including 13 militants were killed Taliban terrorists attacks on a Pakistan Air Force base.

17th September:
• Ganesh Chaturthi festival observed in India.
• A 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit the South American country Chile on its northern coast killing 5 peoples.

15th September:
• Malcolm Turnbull has been officially sworn in as Australia's 29th Prime Minister after Tony Abbott resign from the post.

14th September:
• Today is celebrated as Hindi Divas.
• Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer to win Second US Open title by 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-4.
• Flavia Pennetta from Italy wins the US Open women's final after defeating Roberta Vinci by 7-6 (7/4), 6-2.
• Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza wins the US Open women's doubles crown, defeating Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova by 6-3, 6-3.

12th September:
• At least 82 people were killed and over 50 injured by a massive blast of the explosives kept inside a building in Petlwad town in Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh.
• Indian tennis player Leander Paes and Swiss player Martina Hingis wins the US Open mixed doubles title after defeating Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey 6-4 3-6 10-7.
• Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) wins all the four seats in Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections.

11th September:
• A Special MCOCA Court in Mumbai convicted 12 persons for criminal conspiracy and subsequently executing a series of bombings on Mumbai’s local trains on July 11 2006 in which 189 lives people died.
• 87 people died when a crane collapse at Grand Mosque in Mecca.
• President Barack Obama presented the 2014 National Medals of Arts and Humanities to Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri and 20 other persons in White House.

9th September:
• The Election Commission announced five-phase Bihar election which will begin in October 12.
• The Central Govt hikes Dearness Allowance by 6 per cent for Govt employees.
• Indian-origin boy Anirudh Kathirvel crowned as the Australian spelling bee champion.
• Queen Elizabeth II became longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom after suppressing the record of Queen Victoria who ruled for 63 years between 1837 and 1901.

8th September:
• Ahmad Javed appointed as the new Commissioner of Mumbai Police who will replaced Rakesh Maria.
• International Literacy Day observed today across the World.
• The result of first ever census of India's leopards published, which shows its count of 7,910 in and around tiger habitats across the country, except the northeast.

6th September:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Delhi-Faridabad Metro Line today.
• Australian allrounder Shane Watson announced his retirement from Test cricket.

5th September:
• Teacher's Day is celebrated across India in the memory of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
• The Union Government announced to implement the One Pension (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen which will be implemented from July 1, 2014 and the base year would be 2013.
• Music composer Aadesh Shrivastava died in Mumbai after battling cancer at the age of 51.
• Indian boxer Vikas Krishan wins silver at the Asian Boxing Championships after defeating Uzbekistan's Bektemir Melikuziev.

3rd September:
• Samajwadi Party decided to quit the Grand Alliance in poll-bound Bihar and to fight the Bihar election alone.
• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley left for Turkey to participate G-20 finance ministers and central bank Governors conference.

2nd September:
• Union Government decided to auction 69 small and marginal oil and gas fields which are taken away from ONGC and Oil India to private firms.
• 10 central trade unions went on a day-long nationwide strike to protest against changes in labour laws and privatisation of PSUs.
• The last date for filing income tax returns has been extended from the earlier deadline of 31st August to 7th September.

1st September:
• India wins a Test Series in Sri Lanka after 22 years as they beat Sri Lanka by 117 runs in the final Test to win the three-match series 2-1.
• At the age of 26, Virat Kohli becomes the youngest Indian captain to win an away series.
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