Current Affairs September, 2011

This time I'am presenting some current affairs of September, 2011. Though these are very few in number, still I hope viewers may like these. Please send us various informations on current affairs.

• 71st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences held from September 3rd, 2011 in Hyderabad.
• Painter Jhangir Sabavala, passed away on Sep 2nd, 2011.
• Goa was the venue of first ever World Gaming Festival held from Sep 23, 2011.
• Typhoon Talas recently lashed Japanese island of Shikoku and Honshu.
• The rank of India is 56 in The Global Competitiveness Index rankings published by World Economic Forum recently.
• Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER) under DRDO has developed Lukoskin, a herbal product for Leucoderma.
• NASA on Sep 10, 2011 launched a pair of washing-machine-sized satellites on a mission to map the Moon's inner core for the first time. The spacecrafts are named GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B
• BC Khanduri is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand replacing Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
• The Australian tennis player Samantha Stosur has won the US Open 2011 Women's singles title.
• The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has won the US Open 2011 Men's singles title.
• According to America's Census Bureau's annual report for 2010 released recently the overall percentage of poverty in the USA is 15.1% or 46.2 million.
• 51st National Open Athletics Championship was held in Sep 2011, in the Kolkata venue.
• Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Shield for effective implementation of Official language Hindi.
• The first aircraft developed by Mahindra Aerospace (which made its maiden flight in Sep 11) in partnership with CSIR-Nal and GippsAero is named C-NM5.
• the renowned photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha who passed away on 13 Sep 2011.
• Scrub Typhus which has taken the lives of at least 12 people in Himachal Pradesh is caused by the bite of an infected mite.
• Assam has resorted to culling of birds to prevent spread of avian flu reported in some of its districts.
• The largest ever joint naval exercise between India and Sri Lanka being conducted off the coast of Trincomalee is code-named SLINEX II.
• Helle Thorning-Schimdt is the new and the first woman Prime Minister of Denmark
• Goa has become the first state in the country to have launched Swarnajayanti Aarogya Bima Yojana providing health insurance cover for the entire resident population of the state.
• Typhoon Roke struck Japan on 21 Sep 11, killing people and disrupting public transportation in northeastern Japan including the tsunami-crippled Fukushima .
• Shoaib Akhtar is the author of the controversial book "Controversially Yours"
• The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai of Kenya died on 25 Sep, 2011. She was the first African woman to receive Noble prize.
• Saudi Arabia has granted its women citizens the right to vote and contest in elections for the first time.
• Formalin (originally used to preserve dead bodies in mortuaries), has been found to be used to preserve fish during transportation by unscrupulous businessmen in Punjab.
• Typhoon Nesat lashed Luzon, the main island of Phillipines on Sep 28, 2011. The typhoon later moved on to China and Vietnam.
• The experimental module, the first of series in China's programme to finally launch a space station, launched by China from the Jiuquan launch centre on 29 Sep 2011 is named Tiangong - I.
• 4th SAARC Folklore and Heritage Festival was held from September 30, 2011 in Agra.
• 19 killed as small plane crashes in Nepal on September 25, 2011.
• 11 people were killed and at least 62 others injured in a powerful blast outside Delhi high court gate number 5 on 7th September, 2011. The bomb was kept in a briefcase.
• Indian public on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 shocked after hearing about the sad news of ex-cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin's son Ayazuddin's death. The 19-year-old, who was critically injured in a road accident five days ago, passed away earlier in the day.
• Formar Indian Cricketer Sir Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passes away on Thursday, September 22, 2011.
• A horrible earthquake took place on Sunday, 18th September, 2011 in India of 5.8 intensity. Mostly effected states are West Bengal and Assam. Next to them Nepal faces the most damages.