Current Affairs 2 - 2009

1. India beat Syria to lift their second successive Nehru Cup title held in Delhi.
2. The Election Commission announced dates for Assembly Elections for three states Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh would go to polls on 13th October.
3. India and Namibia have signed crucial agreements for strengthening cooperation in trade, investments and economy.
4. Indian economy grows by 6.1 pc in the first quarter of the current fiscal (Q1), against 7.1% a year ago.
5. JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav unanimously re-elected as national president of the party.
6. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has launched its new equity scheme named as 'ICICI Prudential R.I.G.H.T. Fund (Rewards of Investing and Generation of Healthy Tax Savings)'.
7. Democratic party sweeps Elections in Japan, Yukio Hatoyama to be new PM.
8. Infrastructure major IL&FS acquires Maytas Infra.
9. Indian Space research Organization (ISRO) chairman G. Madavan Nair said that India would launch a mission to Mars by 2013.
10. Entertainment major Walt Disney Company will acquire Marvel Entertainment, the firm well known for comics of super heroes, for an estimated USD 4 billion in a cash and stock deal.
11. Celebrity Indian-American fashion designer Anand Jon sentenced to 59 years in prison by a court for sexually assaulting aspiring models.
12. India's exports slipped 28.4% in July to $13.6 billion as against $19 billion in the same month last year. The decline in exports is for 10th month in a row.
13. Government sanctioned 29 new police stations in Delhi in addition to 6,478 personnel for the force. Thus reaching total number of police stations in the capital will increase to 155.
14. Defying the global meltdown, Karnataka earned $17 billion (Rs.74,929 crore) from software exports last fiscal (2008-09) as against Rs.60,800 crore the previous year, registering a 23 percent growth.
15. Oscar-winning musician A R Rahman won the 'Grassroot Grammy' which was held in the US.
16. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of World's 10 top earnings cricketers compiled by Forbes Magazine followed by Sachin(2),Yuvraj Singh(3).
17. Punjab Frontier of Border Security Force (BSF) is all set to deploy women constables at the highly sensitive Indo-Pak Border, as first batch(178)of the Battalion would be deployed.
18. 89 US banks went down due financial meltdown.
19. Andhra CM YSR Reddy dies in Chopper Crash.
20. K.Rosiah sworn-in as interim AP Chief minister.
21. Senior Congress leader and former Punjab chief minister Harcharan Singh Brar died .