Important CURRENT AFFAIRS : 5th September 2013

1.  Teacher’s Day Celebrated across India on the Birth Anniversary of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. On this day, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee also presented the National Awards to meritorious teachers from all over India. These awards were instituted in 1958 in order to givethe public recognition to the teachers of the country in primary, middle as well as secondary schools.

 

2. The two-day summit of the Group of Twenty (G-20) has begun at St. Peters burg in Russiaon Thursday (September 5). The summit will focus on issues pertaining to the economic growth throughout the developed world.


3. President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday administered oath of office to Deepak Sandhu who became the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the Central Information Commission.

4. New RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has announced the setting up of few committees to look intocritical areas of functioning, like monetary policy and screening of applications for licences to open new bank branches. In his maiden press conference in Mumbai last evening, Rajan announced an external committee, under the chairmanship of former Governor Bimal Jalan, to screen applicants for new bank licences, from January next year.

5. The Union Health Ministry today announced former Indian cricket team captain Rahul Dravid as brand ambassador for its National Tobacco Control Campaign.

6. ICICI Bank, the country’s largest private sector bank, launched its ‘Branch on Wheels’ to offer basic banking services in remote areas which have so far been devoid of banking facilities.

7. In a big setback for Indian athletes, the International Olympic Committee or IOC has decided that India will remain suspended from the international Olympic movement.

8. The Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari released the book titled Ahmev Radha, Ahmev Krishnah at New Delhi on 4 September 2013. The book is written by Gulab Kothari, Chief Editor of Hindi newspaper Rajasthan Patrika. Ahmev Radha, Ahmev Krishnah is the collection of poems in Sanskrit language.

9. Raj Kundra, the millionaire businessman has written a book titled, How Not to Make Money.This is the first book written by Raj Kundra and it narrates a story of three childhood friends – Jai, Mike and Aziz – who made a decision to get rich quick.

10. Indian Author Sushmita Banerjee, who became famous after her best seller book “Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou” (A Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife) about her escape from the Taliban in 1995, was shot dead in Afganistan. She was killed outside her home in Paktika province.

11. Unstoppable Rafael Nadal won his 20th straight hardcourt match to storm into the semifinals of the U.S. Open, showing no mercy to Tommy Robredo in a 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 beatdown on Wednesday.

12. India’s Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Jie Zheng stormed into the semifinals of the women’s doubles with a straight sets victory over fourth seeds SuWei Hsieh and Shuai Peng.

13. Jamaican track star Usain Bolt is considering retiring after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he said on Wednesday.

14. Yahoo has adopted a new logo for the first time since its founding 18 years ago. The redesigned look was unveiled lateon Wednesday is part of a makeover that Yahoo Inc. has been undergoing since the it hired Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new CEO to turn around the former internet giant.