Events of SEPTEMBER 2011

Events of SEPTEMBER 2011

1)The venue of 4th SAARC Folklore and Heritage Festival to be held from September 30	Agra
2)The team which has won the Federation Cup 2011 by defeating East Bengal in the finals	Salgaocar
3)The recipient of 2011 Right Livelihood Award for his outstanding success in the development and mass-deployment of cutting-edge technologies for harnessing solar energy	Huang Ming (China)
4)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
5)The venue of 1st Asian Men Circle Style Kabbadi Championship which India won defeating Pakistan in the finals	Tabriz in Iran
6)The typhoon which lashed Luzon, the main island of Phillipines on Sep 28, 2011. The typhoon later moved on to China and Vietnam.	Typhoon Nesat
7)The East Bengal footballer who has been awarded the Fan’s Player of the Year and also the FPAI Player of the Year 2011 by Football Players Association of India	Mehtab Hossain
8)The variety of fish which has been declared to the official fish of Madhya Pradesh by its Chief Minister	Mahaseer
9)The ship carrying valuable silver from India which was destroyed by the Germans during World War II and whose wreckage has been discovered in North Atlantic was named	SS Gairsoppa
10)The chemical which, (originally used to preserve dead bodies in mortuaries), has been found to be used to preserve fish during transportation by unscrupulous businessmen in Punjab	Formalin
11)The country which has granted its women citizens the right to vote and contest in elections for the first time	Saudi Arabia
12)The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, who died on 25 Sep belonged to	Kenya
13)India's most expensive living artist whose untitled painting sold for a record high of Rs. 7.19 crore	Tyeb Mehta
14)The author of the controversial book Controversially Yours	Shoaib Akhtar
15)The venue of 8th International Abilympics, a vocational skill competition among the person with disability	Seoul, Korea
16)A herbal formulation named Perfomax to improve physical and mental performance in High Altitude and Hypoxic Conditions has been developed by	DRDO
17)Sathyamangalam forest which has recently been declared a wildlife sanctuary is located in	Tamilnadu
18)The typhoon which struck Japan on 21 Sep 11, killing people and disrupting public transportation in northeastern Japan including the tsunami-crippled Fukushima was named	Typhoon Roke
19)The state which 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	Goa
20)The Hindi authors who have been chosen for Jnanpith Award 2009	Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla
21)The Kannada author who has been chosen for Jnanpith Award 2010	Chandrasekhar Kambar
22)The new and the first woman Prime Minister of Denmark	Helle Thorning-Schimdt
23)The new President of Board of Cricket Control of India	N Srinivasan
24)The largest ever joint naval exercise between India and Sri Lanka being conducted off the coast of Trincomalee is code-named	SLINEX II
25)The singer who has been conferred the Viswavikhyata Sangeetha Kala Saraswathi award by the T Subbarami Reddy Lalithakala Parishat	P Susheela
26)The company which has been awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Clean Technology for the year 2009-10	Lanco Tanjore Power Co. Ltd
27)The state which has resorted to culling of birds to prevent spread of avian flu reported in some of its districts	Assam
28)The country which has become the 62nd nation to ratify the Convention on Cluster Bombs	Afghanistan
29)The bio-diversity hot spot region in India where 12 new species of frogs have been discovered by the researchers from Bombay Natural History Society, the Zoological Survey of India and Belgium''s Vrije University	Western Ghats
30)Scrub Typhus which has taken the lives of at least 12 people in Himachal Pradesh is caused by the bite of an infected	Mite
31)Marcoule nuclear processing plant which witnessed an explosion resulting in death of 1 person and injury of 3 others is located in	France
32)Gautam Rajadhyaksha who passed away on 13 Sep 2011 was a renowned	Photographer
33)Miss Leila Lopes who was crowned Miss Universe 2011 at the pagaent held Sao Paulo, Brazil belongs to	Angola
34)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
35)The company which has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Shield for effective implementation of Official language Hindi	Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd
36)The team which topped the medals tally at the 51st National Open Athletics Championship with 17 gold, 13 silver and 8 bronze	Railways
37)The venue of 51st National Open Athletics Championship held in Sep 2011	Kolkata
38)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
39)The sportspersons who have been conferred the rank of honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army by President Pratibha Patil	MS Dhoni and Abhinav Bindra
40)The Indian cricketer who has been awarded the International Cricket Council's Spirit of Cricket Award 2011.	MS Dhoni
41)The Serbian tennis player who has won the US Open 2011 Men's singles title	Novak Djokovic
42)The Australian tennis player who has won the US Open 2011 Women's singles title	Samantha Stosur
43)The place at which Oceansat-2 ground station (data reception and processing system) has been set up to receive and process data from Ocean Colour Monitor on-board the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Oceansat-2	Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (Incois), Hyderabad
44)The new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand replacing Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank	BC Khanduri
45)The state which has been awarded the Decadal Literacy Award for achieving highest decadal growth in literacy rate in the country	Bihar
46)The venue of cultural programme "Remembering Tagore" held to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.	UNESCO HQs, Paris
47)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
48)The country which has won the Women's Asian Champions Trophy defeating China in the final at Ordos, China. Japan defeated India to take the 3rd place.	South Korea
49)This country's National Institute for the Education of Adults has been awarded the 2011 UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize for its Bilingual Literacy for Life Programme	Mexico
50)This country's National Literacy Service was awarded the 2011 UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize for its National Literacy Programme	Burundi
51)The organisation which has developed Lukoskin, a herbal product for Leucoderma	Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER) under DRDO
52)The country which topped the medals tally at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea.	United States of America
53)The Jamaican athlete who won the men's 100 meters event at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea after Usain Bolt was disqualified for a false start	Yohan Blake
54)The rank of India in The Global Competitiveness Index rankings published by World Economic Forum recently	56
55)The country which ranks first in The Global Competitiveness Index rankings as per the report of 2011-2012 published by World Economic Forum recently	Switzerland
56)The statutory body of Min. of Environment and Forests, which has been selected for Chief Dave Cameron Award 2010 for excellence in Environmental Crimes Enforcement and Education by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)	Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB)
57)The Typhoon that recently lashed Japanese island of Shikoku and Honshu	Talas
58)Venue of first ever World Gaming Festival to be held from Sep 23	Goa
59)Jhangir Sabavala, who passed away on Sep 2 was a renowned	Painter
60)The Indian who has been recently awarded the Special Book Award, China's highest literary award	Prof BR Deepak
61)The venue of 71st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to be held from September 3rd	Hyderabad