14 September 2015 – 20 September 2015 Weekly The Hindu Current affairs

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Here we are providing some current affairs from 14 September – 20 September 2015 “THE HINDU” for exam and interview point of view only. This Current affairs will be useful for IBPS PO/MT mains, IBPS Clerk mains exam.

Abbreviation

IMEI- International Mobile Station Equipment Identity

PESO- Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization

IRRC- India Rapid Reaction Cell

ILO- International Labour Organization

PAHAL- Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh

SCWEC- SAARC Chamber Women Entrepreneurs Council

ULFA- United Liberation Front of Assam

ISAC- ISRO Satellite Centre

EMMC- Electronic Media Monitoring Centre

NJDG- National Judicial Data Grid

Personalities

Convener of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti- Shri Hardik Patel

British High Commissioner to India- Sir James David Bevan

British Deputy High Commissioner to India- David Lelliott

Chairman of Delhi Urban Art Commission- Shri P.S.N. Rao

Minister of State for Finance- Shri Jayant Sinha

Miss America 2016- Betty Cantrell

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights- Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein

India’s Ambassador to the United Nations- Shri Ashok Mukerji

Prime Minister of Combodia- Hun Sen

Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka- Mangala Samaraweera

Chairperson of the Federal Reserve System- Janet Yellen

Director of ISAC- M.Annadurai

Prime Minister of Israel- Benjamin Netanyahu

New Appointments

Retained Director of Indian Cricket Team- Shri Ravi Shastri

New President of Press Trust of India-Hormusji N. Cama

New Vice President of Press Trust of India- Riyad Mathew

New Prime Minister of Australia- Malcolm Turnbull ( 29th PM )

New Chairman of NHAI-Shri Raghav Chandra

New President of Indian Newspaper Society- P.V.Chandran

Book , Artist & author

“Rehan par Ragghu” & “Kashi Ka Assi” written by- Shri Kashi Nath Singh

“The Year of the Runaways” (Shorlisted for Man Booker 2015) written by- Sanjeev Sahota

“The Big Indian Wedding” written by- Sakshi Salve

Sports

Floyd Mayweather Jr. related to- Boxing

U.S.Open 2015 women winner- Flavia Pennetta (Italy)

Runner up- Roberta Vinci (Italy)

U.S.Open 2015 Men winner- Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Runner up- Roger Federer (Switzerland)

U.S.Open 2015 Women’s Double winner- Martina Hingis (Slovakia) & Sania Mirza (India)

Rugby World Cup 2015 host by- England

National & International Days

Hindi Diwas- 14th September

International Day of Democracy- 15th September

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer- 16th September

Awards

Bharat Bharti award- Shri Kashi Nath Singh

Download : Computer Capsule 2015 for Bank exams 

Business & Economy

World Bank Ranking of the states on the ease of doing business in India-

1st– Gujart

2nd-Andhra Pradesh

3rd– Jharkhand

4th– Chhattishgarh

5th– Madhya Pradesh

Total No. of application received for Small Bank by RBI- 72

Total no. of companies allowed to set up Small Bank- 10

Time Period to set up the Small Bank to get full fledge Licences- 18 Months

Place

Head Quarter of PESO- Nagpur

National Affairs

Pattiseema Project- Pump water from Godavari into Krishna River

Director of Nehru Museum and Library, Shri Mahesh Rangrajan resigned.

Attempt: IBPS PO Prelims Speed test 

International Affairs

Sanjeev Sahota shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2015.

Biggest Largest Cash Transfer Program in World- PAHAL in India

Death

Kalamandalam Satyabhama- An Acclaimed Mohiniyattam Choreographer

All The Best.

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