National News :September 2011

Published by Roma Rahul Gupta for Chhattisgarh Online


National News :September  2011

• Veteran journalist Kalyan K. Chaudhuri died on 2 September 2011. He was a Special Correspondent for Frontline magazine from August 1991 till retirement in December 2003. Chaudhuri was known for his informed journalistic writing.
• Kapil Sibal released a commemorative Postage Stamp on noted freedom fighter & social worker, Surendra Nath Jauhar.
• Food inflation reached the double-digit limit, 10.05% for the week ended 20 August 2011 for the first time in five months.
• State-run Steel Authority of India (SAIL) announced the appointment of Anil Kumar Chaudhary as its director, finance.
•  Indian boxer Vijender Singh won gold and also bagged the Best Boxer award at the World Police and Fire Games in New York.
• Former Davis Cupper and secretary of the All-India Lawn Tennis Association Sumant Misra died on 3 September 2011.
• Durgesh Kumar Pal won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles in the Commonwealth Youth Games
• Major General (retd) BC Khanduri was appointed the sixth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand in place of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
• India defeated Pakistan 4-2 in the inaugural Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament
• Bollywood's legendary photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha passed away in Mumbai on 13 September 2011 
• 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Sikkim-Nepal border on 18 September 2011 and sent shockwaves across north & east India
• RBI hiked the short-term policy rate (repo rate) by 25 basis points from 8 per cent to 8.25 per cent .
• 44th Jnanpith Award for 2008 was presented to renowned Urdu poet Professor Akhlaq Mohammad Khan Shahryar.
• Veteran musician, musicologist and revered guru T.K. Govinda Rao passed away on 18 September 2011 
• India captain MS Dhoni moved up the order to the sixth position in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Player Rankings for ODI batsmen  
• Central Bereau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in a special court against former president of Medical Council of India Ketan Desai  .
• Kochi Tuskers' contract was terminated Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for an alleged non-payment of annual fee 
• Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Shivaraj Virupanna Patil resigned over charges of violating co-operative housing society laws 
• Hindi authors Amar Kant & Shrilal Shukla was chosen for Jnanpith Award for 2009, while Kannada litterateur Chandrasekhar Kambar won it for 2010 
• ONGC won Best Financial Performance award in Maharatna and Navaratna category 
• According to study, Mapping Murder, UP,Bihar & Jharkhand account for two-thirds of total 6219 firearm-related deaths in India
• Former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi nicknamed Tiger Pataudi died in New Delhi on 22 September 2011
• Goa became the first state in India to launch Swarnajayanti Aarogya Bima Yojana providing health insurance cover for the entire resident population of the State
• Congress veteran and former Union minister Vasant Sathe died 
• Surface to surface strategic PRITHVI (P-II) Missile developed by DRDO was successfully flight tested at on 26 September 2011, from Launch Complex-III, ITR, Chandipur, Balasore District in Orissa.
• Nuclear-capable surface-to-surface medium range missile, Shaurya, was test-fired from Chandipur-on-sea off the Orissa coast on 24 September 2011.
• The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on 26 September 2011 honoured  11 scientists with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for the year 2011. The list of the awardees in the different categories are as follows:
  
  
  • Biological Sciences
  
  Dr Amit Prakash Sharma (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi)
  Dr Rajan Sankaranarayanan (CSIR Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad).
  
  
  • Chemical Sciences
  
  Dr Balasubramanian Sundaram (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore)
  Dr Garikapati Narahari Sastry (CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad).
  
  
  • Earth, Atmosapere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences
  
  Dr Shanker Doraiswamy (CSIR National Institute of Oceanography, Goa)
  
  
  • Engineering Sciences
  
  Dr Sirshendu De (Indian Institute of Technology, Dharagpur)
  Dr Upadrasta Ramamurty (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  
  
  • Mahtematical Sciences
  
  Dr Mahan Mj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Howrah)
  Dr Palash Sarkar (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
  
  
  • Medical Sciences
  
  Dr Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy Balaji (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  
  
  • Physical Sciences
  
  
  Dr Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
  The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology  was first given in 1958. It is regarded as the country's highest award in science is named after the founder director of CSIR, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. It is given to a scientist up to 45 years of age and carries a prize of Rs 5 lakh

• Ministry of Finance appointed K. S. Sreenivasan as non-official director on the board of Oriental Bank of Commerce.
• Legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar honoured with the first Hridaynath award for her contribution to Indian music
• Rajiv Vastupal succeded Gautam Thapar as president of the All-India Management Association (AIMA)
• IGNOU conferred the Rajiv Gandhi International Prize for Technology in Education and Development on Azim Premji Foundation

National News :September 2011