Published by Roma Rahul Gupta for Chhattisgarh Online
International News : September 2011
International News : September 2011
- Jamaica's Usain Bolt won the Men's 4x100 Relay final and set a world record at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu
- Australia’s Samantha Stosur defeated Serena Williams to win the US Open crown and her first grand slam singles title
- Leila Lopes became the first woman from Angola to be crowned Miss Universe on 12 September 2011 in Sau Paulo
- Helle Thorning-Schmidt elected Denmark's first female Prime Minister following elections
- Sri Lankan golfer Anura Rohana won the Global Green Bangalore Open
- Mad Men took the best drama Emmy at 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony organised at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles
- The government-run Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) setup its first overseas campus in Kampala, Uganda to assist students of African nations
- Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber killed in Kabul on 20 September
- Australia under the captaincy of skipper Michael Clarke won the Test series 10-0 gainst Sri Lanka
- Russian grandmaster Peter Svidler won the Chess World Cup title by defeating Alexander Grischuk
- WikiLeaks founder founder Julian Assange’s unauthorised autobiography was released by publishers Canongate on 22 September 2011
- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on 25 September 2011 granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections
- Former Pakistani Cricketer Shoaib Akhtar’s autobiography, Controversially Yours launched
- Hewlett-Packard Co named former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman its president and CEO
- Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany won the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore.
- Chen Long won the men's singles badminton title at the Japan Open .
- World Tourism Day (WTD) is observed anually on 27 September. In 2011 WTD was celebrated with the theme Tourism – Linking Cultures. World Tourism Day (WTD) 2011 highlighted the role of the tourism industry in bringing together the cultures of the world and promoting global understanding through travel. Egypt was the host country for the official celebration of WTD 2011.
- Kenyan environmentalist & Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai died on 25 September 2011 in Nairobi.
- Three distinguished Indian Americans, two inventors and a researcher were named by US President Barack Obama on 27 September 2011 as recipients of National Medal of Science, and for Technology and Innovation. New York University’s Srinivasa SR Vardhan, Purdue University’s Rakesh Agarwal, and North Carolina State University’s B Jayant Baliga were the three Indians selected dozen to receive the National Medal of Science, and for Technology and Innovation, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers as well as inventors.
- CAG was appointed as external auditor of two major UN organisations, the IAEA and WIPO
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