Current Affairs September 2013 for IBPS/Banking & SSC Exams

Here we are sharing important current affair updates and general knowledge to boost up your preparations for upcoming IBPS PO recruitment and various SSC Exams.

• India Won First Under-21 Johor Cup of Hockey tournament by defeating Malaysia.
• Malala Yousufzai has been honored with 2013 Peter J Gomes humanitarian,a prestigious award, by Harvard Univversity.
• Ravinder Kumar, Editor of ‘The Statesman’ newspaper has been elected as the president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for the year 2013-14.
• Chief of the Odisha Cricket Association, Ranjib Biswal was appointment as the new Chairman of the IPL who succeeds Rajiv Shukla, who resigned at the end of his tenure.
• Narayanaswamy Srinivasan has been re-elected as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for a third term.
• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare named former Indian cricket team captain Rahul Dravid as the brand ambassador for its National Tobacco Control Campaign.
• The Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, allotted a Customized Pin Code to the Supreme Court of India. The Pin Code allotted to the Supreme Court is ‘110 201’.
• Rafiq Kathwari, an Indian-American poet on 29 September 2013 selected for 2013 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for the collection of his debut poems.
• Venkat Rahul Ragala from Andhra Pradesh on 7 September 2013 won weightlifting gold at Asian youth Games in Guangzhou.
• Indian social activist Anna Hazare has been honored with the inaugural Allard Prize for International Integrity conferred by the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law at a function held in Vancouver, Canada.
• Sudha Singh of Railways won gold medal in women’s 3000m steeplechase in 53rd National Open Athletics Championship.
• Megan Young of Philippines on 28 September 2013 was crowned Miss World 2013 at the Bali Nasa Dua Convention Center in Bali, Indonesia.
• Ruchira Kamboj was appointed as the Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO, Paris with the rank of Ambassador.
• Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel won a third term by in German elections.
• Ravindra Kumar, Editor of The Statesman was elected President of The Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2013-14.
• India beat China in the 8th Asia Cup Women hockey tournament at Kuala Lumpur to win the Bronze on 27 September 2013.
• Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was awarded with the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013. 
• Pond’s Femina Miss India World 2013 Navneet Kaur Dhillon won the Multimedia Award at the Miss World 2013 held in Bali, Indonesia.
• The Supreme Court of India on 27 September 2013 held that citizens have the right to reject all candidates contesting an election.
• Sri Srinivasan was on 26 September 2013 sworn in as judge of the US Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• Horticultural mail order company Thompson & Morgan developed a plant called The TomTato, which can produce tomatoes and potatoes.
• Randall Oliphant, Executive Chairman of the Canadian gold producer New Gold Inc., has been appointed as the Chairman of the World Gold Council (WGC) . 
• Chinese table tennis player Liu Shiwen clinched Women’s Table TennisWorld Cup 2013 after beating teammate Wu Yang in the final play of the tournament held in Kobe, Japan.
• Australia unveiled its most powerful super computer Raijin in Canberra on 31 July 2013.
• Sarah Outen (28), an adventurer from Britain who spent 150 days at sea to become the first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska.

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