Indian Current Affairs -September, 2010

• The University of Alberta based in Edmonton, Canada will honor an Indian agriculture scientist with an honorary doctorate to recognize his contribution to food security in the world. M. S. Swaminathan of that Indian Scientist.
• India country is listed as the third most powerful country in the world after USA and China according to “Global Governance 2025″ jointly issued by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) of USA and the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).
• Sushil Kumar became the first Indian wrestler to win a gold medal in the World Wrestling Championship in Moscow by beating Russia’s Gogaev Alan in the final match.
• The ace Indian shooter Ronjan Sodhi won a Gold medal in the final of Double Trap event at World Cup in Izmir, Turkey.
• Shooter Gagan Narang Indian won four gold medals in Commonwealth Games 2010.
• Sachin Tendulkar (403) runs in 2 test match is Man of the Series between India – Australia cricket Series recently held in India.
• 54 many member states are there in Commonwealth Nations.
• Nandita Devidayal is the author of recently published book “Aftertaste”.
• Bijoy Krishna Handique is the Union Minister of Mines.
• TC Mathew has been appointed as the Convener for South Zone by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
• Kaushik Basu, C. Rangrajan is the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Counsil is the Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister.
• Christopher Nolan is director of the recently released famous hollywood movie “Inception”.
• Bollywood Super Star Shahrukh Khan is appointed as Brand Ambassador of Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd, India’s leading paint manufacturer.
• T K Viswanathan has been appointed as Secretary General of the Lok Sabha.
• President Pratibha Patil will give a National Award to the Headmaster of a madarsa (Orgram Chatuspalli High Madarasa) in West Bengal’s Bardhaman district. The madarsa has distinguished itself in being secular. Anwar Hossain is the headmaster of this Madarsa.
• Commonwealth Games are going to be held in New Delhi from this October 2010. In 1930 year, the first commonwealth games took place.
• Elephant animal will soon be declared a national heritage animal of India in order to step up measures for its protection.
• Rajiv Dube has been elected as the chairman of The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI).
• Veteran playback singer and Indian classical musician KJ Yesudas has been chosen for the prestigious Sree Chithira Thirunal Award for 2010.
• “Your Place in the Sky” is the slogan of Air India of the following Airline Company.
• Indian athlete Tintu Luka smashed Shiny Wilson’s 15-year-old national record en route to fifth place in the 800 metres at the Continental Cup athletics meet in Split, Croatia.
• Spanish Ferrari driver and two-time world champion Fernando Alonso won the Italian Grand Prix (Formula One title)..
• Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom won the World Boxing Championship title in Bridgetown beating Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6 in the final.
• Shooter – Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang won first gold medal for India in Commonwealth Games 2010.
• Sachin Tendulkar is the first sportsperson who was conferred an Indian Air Force (IAF) Honorary Group Captain.
• Inderjit Singh Reyat has been convicted of committing perjury in the June 1985 bombing of the Air India Kanishka flight 182 from Montreal to Delhi in which all 329 people on board were killed.
• England all-rounder Andrew Flint off announced his retirement from all forms of cricket recently after years of battling injury..
• Pratibha Patil, President of India, recently laid the foundation for the Asian Textiles Museum in a country in Southeast Asia. Cambodia is that country.
• Prime Minister of Somalia Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke announced his resignation on September 21, 2010 after a weeks-long dispute with President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
• An American company, which had launched designer shoes carrying pictures of Hindu deities recently apologised to the Hindu community and immediately withdrew shoes from the market. The Converse shoe company of that shoe company.
• Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister has been honoured with the 2010 World Statesman Award by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith coalition which promotes mutual understanding, tolerance and peace.
• Famous Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala O.N.V.Kurup won Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007.
• Rajya Sabha MP and a well-known developmental economist Arjun Kumar Sengupta served as Indian ambassador to Belgium and the European Union in the early 1990s, died recently at the age of 73.
• The first Indian-origin provincial minister in Canada, Sindi Hawkins (earlier Satinder Kaur Ahluwalia) died in Calgary on September 21, 2010 after a prolonged battle with leukemia.
• Name of the three Indian-Americans Farooq Kathwari, Amardeep Singh and Sunil Puri are appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
• The name is cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test-fired recently as part of trials by the Indian Army from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast.
• One of the most successful woman weightlifters in India Sanamacha Chanu has tested positive a second time in the doping test during the trials for the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
• Indian nuclear scientist and a chemical engineer, Homi N. Sethna remained the head of Atomic Energy Commission of India during India’s first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974 died recently at the age of 86.
• South Indian actor Murali died at Chennai on 8th September 2010 due to massive heart attack.
• Solar Probe Plus With a proposed launch date of 2018, Solar Probe Plus will carry a variety of scientific instruments to measure the solar wind and the Sun’s magnetic field. The space craft will also sport a new carbon-composite heat shield capable of withstanding over 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The new shield will protect the probe from both heat and radiation as it makes the closest-ever approach to our Sun.
• Vivek Nair is named as the Chairman of Hotel Leela Venture Ltd, an Indian hotel company based in Mumbai.