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 Banking & Economics News

Gujarat has been placed to top position in World
Banks first ever ranking of States on the ease of
doing business in India. The World Bank report
titled Assessment of State Implementation of
Business Reforms was released in New Delhi
under the aegis of the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)
SBI Card, a leading credit card issuer, on
Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with 7
of India's biggest e-commerce players for its
newest offering, the SimplyCLICK SBI Card. It is
the countrys 1st ever credit card that focuses on
online shopping across diverse categories.
The 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. The MoU was signed by RBIs
Executive Director Meena Hemchandra and Nepal
Rastra Banks Executive Director Narayan Prasad
Paudel in New Delhi. So far RBI has signed 27
such MoUs, one Letter for Supervisory Cooperation (LSC) and one Statement of Cooperation (SoC) in this regard.
Snapdeal-owned mobile transactions platform
FreeCharge announced its foray into the wallets
space in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Kunal Shah, CEO
and co-founder, FreeCharge, said that the wallet
was equipped with state of the art technology and
a robust partner network, "making it a truly gamechanging service that will bring value to
consumers and our partners in the ecosystem."
Paytm has introduced cashless payments in
educational institutions, which will enable users
to pay school fees and dues, cafeteria bill, buy
uniforms, books and merchandise.
Bankers Chanda Kochhar and Arundhati
Bhattacharya have been ranked as top two in a list
of most powerful women in Asia-Pacific prepared
by the global magazine Fortune. State-run oil
marketing company Hindustan Petroleum
Corporations Chairman and Managing Director,
Nishi Vasudeva, has also made it to the list at fifth
rank, same as the previous.The countrys third
largest private sector lender Axis Banks Managing
Director and chief executive, Shikha Sharma,
came in at the ninth spot in the list.
Indra Nooyi, CEO of food and beverage giant
PepsiCo is the sole Indian-origin executive in 2015
edition of Fortunes list of 50 Most Powerful
Women in Business. This edition of the list was
topped by General Motors CEO Mary Barra.
JK Tyre & Industries (JK Tyre) and JK Asia
Pacific Singapore Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of JK Tyre said that it has signed a
binding term sheet with Kesoram Industries Ltd

(KIL) to acquire 100 per cent equity in Cavendish

Industries Ltd (CIL) at a value of Rs. 2,200 crore.
A decline in merchandise imports helped the
country narrow its current account deficit (CAD)
to 1.2 per cent of GDP in the first quarter of the
current financial year compared with 1.6 per
cent in the year ago period. In absolute terms, the
CAD, which arises when a countrys total import
of goods, services and transfers is greater than
exports, was at $6.2 billion in the April-June
quarter, compared with $7.8 billion in the year
ago quarter

The FIPB on cleared 14 foreign investment

proposals including that of Shyam Sistema
Teleservices and IIFL Holdings. The Foreign
Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) chaired by
Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das in its
meeting considered 23 FDI proposals, deferred
decisions on five and rejected four.
'Narendra Modi Mobile App'; Connect with
the PM, Learn About his Day-to-Day Activities
Digitally
The Union Cabinet has allowed 100 per cent
foreign direct investment (FDI) under the
automatic route for white label ATM operations
(WLAO).
State-run power utility NTPC will raise up to Rs.
700 crore through tax free secured nonconvertible bonds.The government has approved
the companys raising Rs. 1,000 crore through tax
free bonds, including Rs. 700 crore through public
issue.
Union Cabinet cleared National Offshore Wind
Energy Policy to generate electricity from offshore

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windmills located in areas within Exclusive

Economic Zone (EEZ) of the country.

Gold Monetization Scheme(GMS)

The objectives of the Gold Monetization scheme are:
1. To provide a fillip to the gems and jewellery sector
in the country by making gold available as raw
material on loan from the banks.
2. To be able to reduce reliance on import of gold
over time to meet the domestic demand.

Draft GMS:
1. The minimum quantity of gold that a customer
can bring is proposed to be set at 30 grams, so
that even small depositors are encouraged. Gold
can be in any form (bullion or jewellery).
2. Opening of Gold Savings Account with the
banks: When the customer produces the
certificate of gold deposited at the Purity Testing
Centre, the bank will in turn open a Gold Savings
Account for the customer and credit the quantity
of
gold
into
the
customers
account.
Simultaneously, the Purity Verification Centre will
also inform the bank about the deposit made.
3. Interest payment by banks: The bank will commit
to paying an interest to the customer which will be
payable after 30/60 days of opening of the Gold
Savings Account. The amount of interest rate to be
given is proposed to be left to the banks to decide.
Both principal and interest to be paid to the
depositors of gold, will be valued in gold. For
example if a customer deposits 100 gms of gold
and gets 1 per cent interest, then, on maturity he
has a credit of 101 gms.
4. Redemption:The customer will have the option
of redemption either in cash or in gold, which will
have to be exercised in the beginning itself (that
is, at the time of making the deposit).
5. Tenure: The tenure of the deposit will be
minimum 1 year and with a roll out in multiples of
one year. Like a fixed deposit, breaking of lock-in
period will be allowed.
6. Tax Exemption: Transfer of Gold to the
Refiners In the Gold Deposit Scheme (1999), the
customers received exemption from Capital Gains
Tax, Wealth tax and Income Tax.
SOVEREIGN GOLD BOND SCHEME (SGBS):
Sovereign Gold Bonds will be issued on payment of
money and would be linked to the price of gold.
Objective:
Need for a Sovereign Gold Bond

1.

The main idea is to reduce the demand for

physical gold.
2. Shift part of the estimated 300 tons of physical
bars and coins purchased every year for
Investment into demat gold bonds.
Agency:
Bonds will be issued on behalf of the Government of
India by RBI.
2. Issuing agency will need to pay distribution costs and
a sales commission to the intermediate channels, to
be reimbursed by Government.
1.

Sale to Indian entities:

The bond would be restricted for sale to resident
Indian entities.
2. The cap on bonds that may be bought by an entity
would be at a suitable level, not more than 500
grams per person per year.
1.

Features:
1. The Government will issue bonds with a nominal
rate of interest (which will be linked to
international rate for gold borrowing).
2. An indicative lower limit of 2% may be given but
the actual rate will have to be market determined.
On maturity, the investor receives the equivalent
of the face value of gold in Rupee terms.
3. The rate of interest on the bonds will be payable
in terms of grams of gold. The interest will be
calculated on 10,000 at a certain per cent say 2 or
3%.
4. The price of gold may be taken from NCDEX/
London Bullion Market Association/RBI and the
Rupee equivalent amount may be converted at the
RBI Reference rate on issue and redemption.
Banks/NBFCs/Post Offices may collect money /
redeem bonds on behalf of government (for a fee,
the amount would be as decided).
5. Gold bonds will be issued in denominations of 5,
10, 50, 100 grams of gold.
6. The tenor of the bond could be for a minimum of 5
to 7 years so that it would protect investors from
medium term volatility in the gold prices. Since
the bond will be a part of the sovereign borrowing,
these would need to be within the fiscal deficit
target for 2015-16 and onwards.
7. Bonds to be used as collateral for loans. The Loan
To Value ratio be set equal to ordinary gold loan
mandated by RBI from time to time.
8. Bonds to be easily sold, traded on commodity
exchanges.
9. KYC norms to be the same as that for gold.
10. Bonds to have a sovereign guarantee.
11. Capital gains tax treatment will be the same as for
physical gold. This will ensure that an investor is
indifferent in terms of investing in these bonds

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and in physical gold- as far as the tax treatment is

concerned. This is still under examination.
The World Federation of Exchanges (WEF), in the
first week of September 2015, announced that the
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has the highest
number of listed companies in the world. By the
end of June 2015, a total number of 5689
companies were listed with the BSE. However, out
of 5689, only one company was a foreign
company. The National Stock Exchange of India
(NSE) had 1750 listed companies by the end of
June 2015.
FedBook Selfie: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
launched Federal Banks FedBook Selfie, Indias
first mobile app for bank account opening.
The government has decided to provide an
additional 50 days of manual work under the
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the current
financial year in those regions where drought has
been declared. The MGNREGA otherwise
provides 100 days of assured work to each rural
family
A higher-than-expected 4.2% growth in the Index
of Industrial Production (IIP) or factory output
number for July compared to 4.4% (revised from
3.8%).
As on March 2015, gross NPAs of the banking
sector stood at 4.6 per cent of advances as
compared to 4.1 per cent in the previous year.
Further, gross NPAs of public sector banks stood
at 5.17 per cent of advances as of March-end 2015
while the stressed assets (NPAs and restructured
loans) were 13.2 per cent.
Reserve Bank of India has cancelled the certificate
of registration of the Sahara India Financial
Corporation
as
Non-bank
financial
company with effect from 3rd of September. The
company was registered in December 1998. Now,
the company cannot transact business as a NBFC.
We Care Solar on 14 September 2015 won 1
million US dollar Powering the Future We Want
grant given by the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Dr. Laura
Stachel, co-founder of We Care Solar, accepted the
award at a ceremony held at UN Headquarters in
New York.

New National Appointments:

J Manjula: was appointed as the DirectorGeneral of the Electronics and Communication
Systems cluster of Defence Research and
Development Organization (DRDO). With this,
Manjula became the first woman DG of DRDO.
Ashok-Alexander Sridharan, who won a
recent mayoral election in German city of Bonn,
has his roots in the South Indian state of Kerala.

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Prabhat Kumar Singh: took over as the new

Managing Director and CEO of Petronet LNG Ltd,
Indias biggest liquefied natural gas importer.
Prof. Ramesh Chand: Agriculture expert has
been appointed as new full time member of
National Institution for Transforming India
(NITI) Aayog. Earler, Mr Chand has been working
as Director of New Delhi based National Institute
of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research
(NIAP).
Hormusji N Cama: elected as Chairman of
Press Trust of and Riyad Mathew was
unanimously elected as the Vice Chairman of the
PTI.
Rakesh Sharma: appointed as Managing
Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of Bengaluru-headquartered Canara Bank. Prior
to this appointment, Sharma was the MD and
CEO of Lakshmi Vilas Bank
Shashidhar Sinha: The CEO of IPG
Mediabrands India, was elected as chairman of
ABC during the 67th Annual General meeting for
the year 2015-16.
L Venkat of EENADU: was unanimously
elected as the Deputy Chairman and Madhan
Kumar: from Mudra Communications will
function as treasurer of ABC
Ravi Shastri: has been retained as the Team
Director of the Indian cricket team till the 2016
T20 World Cup at home, based on the
recommendations of the BCCI advisory
committee. Earlier, Shastri was appointed Team
Director in August 2014, has been given another
seven-month extension till the completion of the
World T20 in April.
New International Appointments:
Malcolm Turnbull: appointed as Australias
fourth prime minister in just over two years, after
Tony Abbott was ousted by his party in a
leadership challenge. He belongs to the Liberal
Party.
Jagdeep Grewal: Indian American chosen as
postmaster for Sacramento. The post service in
Sacramento has got a female postmaster after a
span of 166 years.
In recently concluded 2015 Singapore General
Elections, Peoples Action Party (PAP) led by
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has emerged
victorious.
Jeremy Corbyn: has been elected leader of the
British Labour party, in a stunning first-round
victory that dwarfed even the mandate for Tony
Blair in 1994.
Seema Malhotra and Lisa Nandy: Indianorigin British Members of Parliament (MPs), were
appointed as to the shadow cabinet of Jeremy
Corbyn, the newly-elected leader of Labour Party
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in the United Kingdom (UK) in third week of

September 2015.
Awards and Honors:
Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh Prime Minister has
been announced as one of the winners of the
United Nations Champions of the Earth award in
recognition of her countrys initiatives to address
climate change.
Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2014:
President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the award
to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar on behalf of the
organisation received the prize.ISRO was chosen
for its contribution in development of space
technology and satellite-based services, making
space technology a catalyst of development of
India and bringing societal transformation and
provided the service to the common man and
nation.
SwethaPrabakaran: A 15-year-old IndianAmerican girl has been selected by the White
House for the prestigious Champions of Change
award. She was chosen for the award in
recognition of her efforts for empowering the
community by imparting education of Internet
coding through her non-profit Organisation.
Swetha was born in Indianapolis to Indian
parents who had immigrated from Tamil Nadus
Tirunelveli in 1998. She is the founder and CEO of
Everybody Code Now, a non-profit body working
to empower the next generation of youth to
become scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
AnupamKher: received the Certificate of
Recognition from the California legislature for his
dedication
to
helping
Kashmiri
Hindu
community.
Dr G Satheesh Reddy: DRDO scientist in the
first week of September 2015 was conferred with
the Silver Medal of the prestigious Royal
Aeronautical Society (RAeS).
DRDO stands for Defence Research and Development
Organisation.
Three IIA members were felicitated at the 10th
Asia Brand Ceremony, which is also termed as the
Oscars of Industry awards in Asia.During the
ceremony, IIA members like
1. MD of Celestial Knit & Fabs Private Limited,
Noida got the Asia Brand Annual Personality
Award and Top 500 Asia Brand Award,
Noida's Rajiv Bansal,
2. Manali Pigments Private Limited 's MD
Manmohan Agrawal from Lucknow feted
with awards such as Top 10 Most Influential
Brand Award, Asia Famous and Fine Brand

and Asia's Annual Innovative Enterprise

Award,
3. Similarly Puri Industries' MD Kush Puri, was
felicitated with Asia Famous and Fine Brand
Award
Sunjeev Sahota: Indian-origin author, has been
short-listed for the prestigious 2015 Man Booker
Prize for Fiction. Sunjeev Sahotas novel The
Year of the Runaways has been shortlisted
which deals with the life experience of illegal
immigrants from the Indian subcontinent in
Britain.
Anupam Kher:Veteran actor has been presented
with the Honored Guest award by Deputy Mayor
of Houston Ed Gonzalez on behalf of Texas
Governor Greg Abbot.
Anirudh Kathirvel: A Nine-year-old Indianorigin boy,has been crowned champion of the first
Great Australian Spelling Bee contest., winning a
50,000-dollar scholarship. Anirudhs parents
Prithiviraj and Sujatha migrated to Australia from
Tamil Nadu 16 years ago.
Conference and Summits
The Tenth World Hindi Conference (

) has begun in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

with the theme of Hindi Jagat-Vistar and
Sambhavnaye. The three-day conference was
inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It
has been organised in Madhya Pradesh for the
first time and being held in India after 32 years.
The First World Hindi Conference was organized
in Nagpur by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
It was held from 10 to 12 January 1975. Since then
every year 10th January is being observed as the
World Hindi Day
e-Payments Literacy Workshop: organised
by National Payments Corporation of India
(NPCI), under the aegis of Nabard and Karnataka
Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) at Dharwad district
Karnatka .The event was hosted by NPCI
representatives in 28 States at 120 centres
supported by all 56 RRBs in the country.
Sub-Regional Drug Focal Point Meeting and
Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme
(CPDAP), South Asia under the Drug Demand
Reduction (DDR) Expert Group Consultation has
begun in New Delhi.
Global Investors Meet: Tamil Nadu is wooing
the captains of Indian industry at its first ever
Global Investors Meet in Chennai, as it aims to
attract investments of at least Rs 1 lakh crore and
create 150,000 jobs in the next three years.

Books and Authors

30 Women in Power-Their Voices, Their Stories
By :NainaLalKidwai.

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 To the Brink and Back-Indias 1991 Story, do you

think Modinomics is working or are they pushing
India again back to the brink? by Jairam Ramesh .
Feminist and Orientalist Perspectives A Study
of Lady Mary Montagus Turkish Embassy
Letters authored by Dr. Farha Hiba Parvez
The Year of the Runaways : By Sunjeev Sahota

States News
In a good news to farmers, Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will release water
of river Godavari into Krishna on Wednesday to
mark the formal linking of the two rivers.
IFCs Lighting India program that aims to provide
safe, affordable, and quality solar lights to people
with limited or no access to electricity, is
increasing the availability of solar lighting
products in rural parts of Rajasthan through a
consumer awareness campaign, Suryoday.
Rajasthan has become the first state in the
country to submit State Annual Action Plan under
Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation (AMRUT). AMRUT is the new
avatar of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
Haryana Assembly has passed Haryana
Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2015 that seeks
to fix matriculation as minimum educational
qualification for elections to Panchayati Raj
institutions (PRIs).With this Haryana became
second state in India after Rajasthan to fix
educational and other qualifications for the
candidates contesting Panchayat elections.
The Jharkhand Government on 8 September 2015
approved the formation of an Anti-Terrorism
Squad (ATS) in the state. The State cabinet also
gave its approval to create 243 ATS posts.
Miscellaneous News
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi are two
India institutes to figure in the top 200 in QS
World University Rankings of 2015-16.In this
edition of annual global university ranking list,
IISc Bangalore ranked 147th and IIT- Delhi
ranked 179th respectively. It was the 12th edition
QS World University Rankings, has been topped
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of
United States (US) for record fourth time.
India and Pakistan have started a three-day
Director General (DG)-level border dialogue in
New Delhi.
Union Government has announced to extend eTourist Visa Scheme to 37 more countries in

order to attract maximum foreign tourists in the

country. With this extension, the total 150
countries will come under the ambit of eTourist Visa Scheme from present 113
countries.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-affiliated Akhil
Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has for the
second consecutive year trounced National
Students Union of India (NSUI) to win all four
seats in the student union elections of Delhi
University.
The road transport and highways ministry will
add nearly 50,000 km of roads to the National
Highways (NH) network in the country in the next
six months.
Russian astronaut Gennady Padalka has
returned to Earth with the record for having spent
the most time in space. The 57-year-old's latest
mission lasted 168 days, bringing his total to 879
days in space over five trips. This is two months
longer than the previous record set in 2005 by
Russian Sergei Krikalev over six missions. Mr
Padalka and two other members from the
International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in
Kazakhstan on their Soyuz spacecraft just before
sunrise.
Law Commission of India: The Union Cabinet
chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi, has given its approval on the Constitution
of the 21st Law Commission of India, for a period
of three years w.e.f. 1st September. 2015 to 31st
August, 2018.
Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britains longestreigning Monarch
Supreme Court of Pakistan on 8 September
2015 ordered immediate adoption of Urdu as
official language of the country. With this order,
Urdu will be used as an official language at the
government offices of Pakistan.
The government has set a target of achieving
100% literacy in villages adopted under the
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana by March 2016. The
HRD ministry is collaborating with the MPs who
have adopted villages located in 410 districts. It
has made an appeal to state and district
representatives to take pledge for their respective
operational areas.

Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana: It is a village

development project under which each Member of
Parliament will take the responsibility of developing
physical and institutional infrastructure in three
villages by 2019.The Project was launched on the
occasion of birth anniversary of Lok Nayak Jai
Prakash Narayan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday
inaugurated a new terminal at Chandigarh

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airport, which will handle both domestic as well as

international flights.
The Ministry for Water Resources has constituted
a seven-member committee led by former
Planning Commission member Mihir Shah to
restructure the Central Water Commission (CWC)
and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) to
encourage optimal development of water
resources in the country.
Google and Indian Railways have partnered to
launch a new Google Fiber project under the code
name Project Nilgiri, that will deliver free Wi-fi
access to around 400 railway stations across
India.
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 11
September 2015 adopted the resolutions that
proclaims 9 December as International Day of
Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the
Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this
Crime.
Mount Aso : The largest volcano of Japan erupted
on 14 September 2015.
Budget carrier SpiceJet on 11 September 2015
became the first-ever civil airliner to make night
landing on Veer Savarkar International Airport at
Port Blair. The successful operation of the flight
SG-251 paves the way for similar flight
movements after sunset.
Mumbai Dialogue: Towards a TB-Free India: Goal
to engage corporate to end TB in India
The Mumbai Dialogue: Towards a TB-Free India was
launched on 10 September 2015 by the US
Ambassador to India Richard Verma along with
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata,
Chairman, Tata Trusts.

The Govt plans to build strategic partnerships

with the private sector and has appointed a
committee to formulate the guidelines for forging
such partnerships in an effort to speed up defence
procurements and build domestic expertise in
critical areas. A committee headed by VK.
Aatre .
Defence
minister
Manohar
Parikkar
commissioned INS Vajrakosh, the latest
establishment of the Indian Navy in Karwar,
Karnataka.
1965
Indo-Pak
War
Exhibition
named
Shauryanjali was inaugurated in New Delhi by
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 15
September 2015. The exhibition celebrates the
victory of India over Pakistan and remembers the
supreme sacrifice of Indian soldiers.

MoUs between Countries:

India and Indonesia have signed a pact for
repatriation of wanted prisoners and cooperate in
all criminal matters, including gathering evidence.
India and Belarus have set the bilateral trade
Sports News
target of $1billion dollar by 2018. The decision
Hangzhou, city of China to host 2022 Asian
was taken at the Seventh Session of the IndiaGames, the Olympic Council of Asia announced at
Belarus Intergovernmental Commission held in
its General Assembly in Ashgabat.
Minsk, Belarus.
Indian Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav has
Science and Defence News
secured quota for India in the 2016 Olympic
The Pentagon has established a first-ever
Games. He qualified for Olympic Games after
country special cell to speed up its defence ties
winning a bronze medal in the Mens 74 kg
with India and accelerate the process of coFreestyle category at the World Wrestling
development and co-production of hi-tech
Championship held at Las Vegas, United States
military equipment in the country.Established
US Open 2015 winner and Runners:
soon after Defence Secretary Ashton Carter
assumed Pentagons leadership role in February,
Title
Winner
Runner
India Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) is headed by
Mens
Novak
Roger Federer
Keith
Webster,
Director,
International
Single
Djokovic(Serbia)
(Switzerland)
Cooperation Office of the Under Secretary of
Women
Flavia
Roberta Vinci
Defence for Acquisition, Technology and
s Single
Pennetta(Italy)
Logistics.
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Women
s Double
Mixed
Double

Mens
Double

Martina Hingis
(Switzerland)
& Sania Mirza
(India)
Leander
Paes(India) &
Martina
Hingis(Switzerla
n)
P. Herbert and N.
Mahut. (French
Pair)

Casey Dellacqua
(Australia) Yaroslava
Shvedova(Kazakhsta
n)
Bethanie MattekSands and Sam
Querrey (Both are
from USA)

J.Murray and J.Peers

Note:
1. shortly after collecting her trophy, Pennetta,
announced her retirement from tennis
2. The 33-year-old Italian became the oldest woman
to win a debut Major championship in the modern
era.
Aditi Ashok clinched the Singha Thailand
Amateur Championship after carding a one-over
73 to finish the tournament at two-under 286,
five shots ahead of Australian Gennai Goodwin
and Thailand's Chakansim Khamborn.
Human resource development minister Smriti
Irani on Thursday launched the national web
portal for promotion of a national apprenticeship
scheme.
The
scheme,
which
provides
opportunities for practical training, is for
graduates, diploma holders and 10+2 pass
vocational certificate holders. A slogan
"Sashakt Yuva, Samarth Bharat" was also
released for the portal.
After picking up minority stake in the Goa
franchise of the Hero Indian Super League (Hero
ISL) last year, Indian test captain Virat Kohli has
now invested in the Dubai frnachise of Mahesh
Bhupati-promoted
Coca-Cola
International
Premier Tennis League (IPTL). The franchise,
called UAE Royals
Deepak Lather: Indian weightlifters on 8
September 2015 won a gold medal in the 62 kg
category of the 2015 Commonwealth Youth
Games (CYG) being held in Apia, Samoa.
Anirban Lahiri : Ace Indian Golfer has become
the first Indian to qualify for the prestigious
Presidents Cup of Golf. Presidents Cup is a series
of mens golf matches between a team
representing the USA and an International Team
representing the rest of the world minus Europe.
The International team is set to take on United
States team in the biennial Presidents Cup 2015
to be held at Incheon, South Korea.
Abitha Mary Manuel and Anamika Das on
9 September 2015 won bronze medals at the 5th
Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in Apia in
Samoa. Manuel won the medal in girls 800m

race, while Das won it in shot put event on the

third and final day of athletics competitions.
Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (75kg) won the
silver medal in the 2015 Asian Boxing
Championships. In the summit clash at Bangkok,
Thailand, Vikas was defeated 0-2 by reigning
Youth Olympic champion Bektemir Melikuziev of
Uzbekistan.
Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has
recognized the Indian Kalarippayattu Federation
(IKF) as Regional Sports Federation (RSF).
55th National Open Athletics Championship
gets underway at SAI Complex in Kolkata. Indias
top athletes, including the Olympics-bound trio
of Inderjeet Singh, Lalita Babar and Tintu Luka
will vie for honours at the event.
Floyd Mayweather Jr : American Boxer on 12
September 2015 announced retirement from the
19-year-long career in the ring.

Imp. Days
September-9: Himalaya Diwas was celebrated in
Uttarakhand with noted environmentalist
Sundarlal Bahuguna administering an oath to
children to conserve the Himalayas.
September-10: The Tenth World Hindi
Conference has begun in Bhopal, Madhya
Pradesh with the theme of Hindi Jagat-Vistar
and Sambhavnaye.
September 14: National Hindi Day. The day was
observed to promote the Matra Bhasha the
mother tongue of India and show its importance
as a language in the country and the world at
large.
September-15: International Day of Democracy
,theme of this year is: Space for Civil Society
September-15: celebrated as "Engineers' Day",
theme of this year is: Engineering
Challenges for Knowledge Era.
September-16: International Day for the
Preservation of the Ozone Layer, Theme of
this year is: 30 Years of Healing the Ozone
Together - "Ozone: All there is between
you and UV.
Obituary
Ramaswamy R. Iyer: Renowned water policy
expert passed away. He was from Thakkalai
district of Tamil Nadu.
Kalamandalam Sathyabhama: doyen of
classical dance form Mohiniyattam passed away
in Palakkad district of Kerala.
Brian Close: Former Yorkshire and England
captain, one of the most physically courageous
players in cricket history, has died

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Frank D Gilroy: American playwright,

screenwriter and film producer and director
passed away in Monroe, New York.

Exercise Between Countries:

AUSINDEX-15: Maritime exercise between
India and Australia commenced off coast of
Visakhapatnam. It is a naval exercise held in line
with the Framework for Security Co-operation.
The framework was announced by the Australian
and Indian Prime Ministers in 2014.
EKUVERIN-VI: The Sixth Joint Military
Training Exercise between the Indian Army and
the Maldives National Defence Forces held at
Pangode Military Station, Trivandrum, Kerala
from 31 Aug to 13 Sep 2015.

Abbreviations:
LTV: Loan to Value
BOATs: Board of Apprenticeship Training
BOPTs: Board of Practical Training
REER: Real Effective Exchange Rat
NEER: Nominal Effective Exchange Rate
IRRC: India Rapid Reaction Cell
Important Days of 2nd & 3rd Week From
September
8th September
World Literacy Day
14th September
Hindi Divas
15th September
Engineers Day
16th September
Ozone Day

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