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SEPTEMBER 2014 QUICK REVIEW

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Quick Review of September 2014

New Appointments

Abhishek Ganguly - Director, Puma India


Adi Zainulbhai - Chairman, Quality Council of India
(QCI)
Amit Mathew - Chairman, Audit Bureau of
Circulations (ABC)
Anand Grover - Special Public Prosecutor (2G
spectrum)
Ashraf Ghani - President, Afghanistan
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai President, Afghanistan
Chandrakala Padia - first Woman Chairperson, Indian
Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS)
Dr. Krishan Kant Paul - Governor, Manipur
(additional charge)
Ewa Kopacz - Prime Minister, Poland
Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu - 42nd
Chief Justice of India
Hardeep Singh Puri - Secretary General, Independent
Commission on Multilateralism (ICM)
Kaushik Basu - President, International Economic
Association (IEA)
Lalitha Kumaramangalam Chairperson, National
Commission for Women (NCW)
Leonardo DiCaprio - United Nations Messenger ,
Peace with a special focus on climate change
Marvan Atapattu - Heac Coach, Sri Lanka Cricket
Mayank Pareek - Head, Passenger vehicles of Tata
Motors
Mridula Sinha Governor, Goa
N. Chandrasekaran - CEO, TCS
Narendra Ambwani - Chairman, Advertising
Standards Council of India (ASCI)
O. Panneerselvam - Chief minister, Tamil Nadu
P. Sathasivam - Governor, Kerala
Palaniswamy Sathasivam - Governor , Kerala
Rajat Sharma - President, Broadcasting Association
(NBA)
Ravindra Nath CMD, National Small Industries
Corporation Limited (NSIC)
Richard Rahul Verma - US Ambassador to India

Rizwan Akhtar - Head of the Pakistans spy agency


Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
Subhash Chandra Garg - Executive Director (ED),
World Bank
Sumitra Mahajan - Chairman, Ethics Committee of
Lok Sabha
Syed Muazzem Ali - Bangladesh High Commissioner
to India
V.G. Mathew - MD & CEO, South Indian Bank
Voreqe Bainimarama - Prime Minister, Fiji

Deaths

Anandji Dossa - Cricket Historian


AP Venkateshwaran - Former foreign secretary
Bala Thampoe - Sri Lankas trade unionist
Bapu (Sattiraju Lakshminarayana) - Telugu Film
Director, Cartoonist
Bibi Prakash Kaur - Bhagat Singh's sister
Dr. Noel W. Hinners - former NASA chief scientist
Dr. Shakeel Auj - Dean, Karachi University (Shot
Dead)
Firoza Begum - Nazrul Singer
Goolam Essaji Vahanvati - Former Attorney General
Habib Wali Mohammad - Pakistani ghazal singer
Jitendra Chandra Paul - Freedom fighter, journalist
Joan Rivers - Comedian, Host (US)
K. Udayakumar - Volleyball player
Kavita Karkare - Wife of ATS chief Hemant Karkare
(26/11)
Kireet Joshi - Educationist
Maya Rao - Kathak dancer
Mohammad Ghouse - Cricket Umpire
Norman Gordon - World's Oldest Test cricketer
Posta Bahadur Bogati - Former Nepal Minister
Pottu Amman - Sri Lankan Tamil militant
Richard Kiel - Actor (James Bond Villain)
Shankar Baruah - Ex-Assam DGP
Uppalapu Srinivas - Mandolin Player
Yoshiko Yamaguchi - Japanies Actress

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Important Days

2nd September - World Coconut Day


4th September - Minority Welfare Day
5th September - National Teachers Day (Birth Day
of S. Radhakrishnan)
8th September - World Literacy Day
9th September - Himalaya Diwas Day
10th September - World Suicide Prevention Day
14th September - World Fraternity and Apology
Day
14th September - National Hindi Divas (Hindi Day)
15th September - Engineers Day
15th September - International Day of Democracy

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16th September - World Ozone Day
20th September - Railway Police Force (RPF)
Foundation Day
21st September - Alzheimers Day
21st September - World Peace Day
22nd to 27th September - World Green Building
Week
24th September - World Deaf Day and World Heart
Day
26th September - CSIR Foundation Day
27th September - World Tourism Day
28th September - Gunners Day
29th September - World Heart Day

Awards & Honors

ACCORD (African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes's) - Mahatma Gandhi International Award for
Reconciliation and Peace
Court (Movie) - Lion of the Future / Luigi De Laurentiis award (71st Venice Film Festival)\
Dr. Kamal Bawa - MIDORI Prize in Biodiversity 2014
Edward Snowden - Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel prize of Sweden)
Esplanade House - UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards 2014
G.P. Hinduja and S.P. Hinduja (Hinduja brothers) - Lifetime Achievement Award in UK
Govind Mishra (Dhool Paudhon) - Saraswati Samman
Liar's Dice - Indias entry to Oscars 2015
M.T. Vasudevan Nair - J.C. Daniel Award (2013)
Madhusudan - Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Shield
Manjulatha Kalanidhi (Creator of Rice Bucket Challenge) - Karmaveer Chakra Award
Manoj (Boxer) - Arjuna Award
Mrunalinidevi Puar - Best Manager award (Oxford Summit of Leaders U.K)
Nandan Nilekani - V. Krishnamurthy Award For Excellence
Priyadarsi Mukherji - China Book Award
Rohan Bopanna (Tennis Star) - Davis Cup Commitment Award
Shri Sakhargad Nivasini Devi Temple Complex - UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards 2014
The Amrita Institute for Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi - first British Medical Journal (BMJ) India Award
The Imitation Game - Toronto film festival audience prize
Vinod Mehta - G K Reddy Memorial Award 2014
Man Booker Prize 2014
o Joshua Ferris (US) - To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking)
o Richard Flanagan (Australia) - The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto & Windus)
o Karen Joy Fowler (US) - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Serpent's Tail)
o Howard Jacobson (British) - J (Jonathan Cape)
o Neel Mukherjee (British Indian) - The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus)
o Ali Smith (British) - How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton)

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Bhartendu Harishchandra Awards


o for 2011
Journalism and Mass Communication category:
First Prize: Vijay Dutt Shridhar for his manuscript Pehla Sampadakiya.
Second prize: Harish Chandra Barnwal for his book Television ki Bhasha.
Third prize: Santosh Kumar Nirmal for his book Filmein aur Prachar: Tab se ab tak.
Womens Issues category:
Gitashri for her manuscript Aurat ki Boli.
National Integration category:
Dr. Navratan Kapoor for the book Tyoharon Tatha Melon ki Vichitratain, Jansanchar Maadhyam aur
Rashtriya Ekta.
Childrens Literature category:
First prize: Bano Sartaj for her book Pakya aur Parichham.
Second prize: Shri Rajiv Saxena for Professor Khurana ka Clone.
o for 2012
Journalism and Mass Communication category.
First prize: Vijaya Lakshmi Sinha for her book Maine Awaaz ko Dekha.
Second Prize: Madhav Hada for his book Seedhiyaan Chadhta Media.
Third prize: Suresh Kumar for his book Online Media.
Womens Issues category:
First Prize : Urmila Kumari for her book Jaar Jaar Taar Taar.
Second prize : Sanjula Thanvi for her book Manavaadhikar, Panchayati Raj Se Sashakt Naari.
Childrens Literature category.
First Prize: Dr. Mohammed Arshad Khan for his book Mickey Mouse.
Second Prize: Pavitra Agrawal for her book Phoolon se Pyar.
Giants International Awards
Sachin Tendulkar - lifetime achievement award
Helen Salim Khan - lifetime contribution award
Tang Prize 2014
o Sustainable Development - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Premier of Norway.
o Sinology Chinese American and Historian, Yu Ying-shih.
o Biopharmaceutical Science - James P Allison of US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan.
o The Rule of Law - Albie Sachs, former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

All the Best

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