Current Affairs

Current Affairs -September 1, 2015

1-CPI(M) today slammed New Delhi Municipal Council''s (NDMC) move to rename Aurangzeb Road after late President APJ Abdul Kalam, terming it as "first step in a campaign to rename historical places and roads on communal grounds".

2-Monthly season tickets and platform tickets will soon go paperless as railways is planning to launch a mobile-based application for the same shortly.

3-Shillong: Air Marshal C H Kumar today took over as the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Indian Air Force''s Eastern Air Command here.

4-Ira Singhal, who topped the civil services examination, has been given home cadre-union territories-to work as Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.

5-Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi will lead a ''Save Farmer March'' in Bargarh district during his two-day visit to Odisha to highlight alleged failure of both the Centre and BJD regime in the state

6-The Tamil Nadu government today informed the Madras High Court that the statue of thespian late Sivaji Ganesan at a main road junction in the city would be shifted to the proposed memorial.

7-India has emerged as the 8th largest tourism market for Australia with over 2 lakh Indians visiting the country last year, spending a record of 1 billion dollars.

8-NTPC''s Director (Technical) A K Jha today took additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director of the company as an interim measure.

9- Urban Development Ministry has come out with a Smart National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) to enable seamless travel by different metros and other transport systems across the country besides retail shopping and purchases.

10-Country''s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today launched the mild hybrid version of mid-sized sedan Ciaz priced between Rs 8.23 lakh and Rs 10.17 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

11-Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, part of the Tata group,  said it has exited the management of Taj Palace Hotel, Dubai, after 14 years of operations.

12-Soccer star David Beckham has added another tattoo to his ever growing collection, dedicating it to his eldest son, Brooklyn.

13-Colombo:India today broke a 22-year-old jinx on Sri Lankan soil with a117-run win over the hosts in the third and final cricket Test, recording their first ever overseas series triumph.

14- Playing a pivotal role in India's 2-1 series win against Sri Lanka, pace spearhead  Ishant Sharma  joined the 200 Test wickets-club after taking the key scalp of centurion Angelo Mathews.

15-India''s Test captain Virat Kohli was declared the No 1 ranked batsmen in T20 Internationals according to ICC''s latest rankings.

16-Colombo: Ishant Sharma and three SL players Dhammika Prasad, Dinesh Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne have been charged by the ICC for getting into an altercation at 3rd Test.

17-Haryana to change names of Metro stations in state.

18-Chinese handset-maker Gionee on Tuesday launched its F series of lifestyle smartphones by introducing the F103 phone priced at Rs.9,999.

19-US based Junglee Games on Tuesday said it was launching another Indian theme-based game called Arranged Marriage which will add to the current low number of Indian theme-based games on Google Play.

20- The Andhra Pradesh assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the central government to accord special status to the state and to implement all provisions contained in the state reorganisation act.

21-The Reserve Bank of New Zealand on Tuesday launched new  5 and 10 New Zealand dollar banknotes which will go into circulation later this year.

22-Domestic handset-maker Karbonn on Tuesday launched a new smartphone -- the Titanium S200 -- priced at Rs.4,999 in an exclusive partnership with Indian e-commerce portal Snapdeal.

23-Bollywood music composer Aadesh Shrivastava is battling with Cancer.

24-A major Japanese real estate company has planned to construct a 390-metre high skyscraper in central Tokyo which will be the country's tallest building.

25-Akhil' audio to be released on September 20 to coincide with the birth anniversary of late legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR).

26-NASA and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched a joint project to strengthen regional environmental monitoring in five countries in the lower Mekong region of Southeast Asia.