Current Affairs Update – 19-20 September, 2015

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 19th and 20th September, 2015. These are Important for the upcoming IBPS PO V Exam.

• Housing.com has acquired Plat, an online network for agents
  and BigBHK, a property management software targeted at rental suppliers, to
  strengthen its supply side product portfolio. Housing.com did not disclose the
  acquisition cost.
• Earlier in August, Housing had acquired cloud-based startup
  HomeBuy360 for $2 million.
• With these acquisitions, Housing.com will bring onboard
  Chitransh Sahai, Gautam Prem Jain, Ayush Lodhi and Ankit Aggarwal from Plat and
  Ankur Kumar and Atul Yadav from BigBHK.

• India and Laos signed two key Memoranda of Understanding
  (MoUs) on air services and Quick Impact Projects (under the Mekong-Ganga
  Cooperation programme) to strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations.
• The work completion and handing over certificate of the
  Champassack Irrigation project was presented by Maykonh Phonephommavong,
  Director General, Department of Irrigation, Lao to R K Gupta, Chairman and
  Managing Director, WAPCOS Limited at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace
  “Ho Kham”.
• The pacts were signed during the state visit of Indian Vice
  President Hamid Ansari to Lao PDR.
• Ansari, who will conclude his two-nation four-day visit to
  Cambodia and Laos today, also called on Lao President Choummaly Sayasone and
  met Prime Minister Bounnhang Vorachith and discussed issues of mutual concern
  to both nations.
• The Vice President also visited That Luang, or the Great
  Stupa, in Vientiane. It is the national symbol and also the most sacred
  monument in the country.

• Ajinkya Rahane, India’s most consistent batsman in the last
  couple of years, has been conferred with the honorary life membership by the
  Cricket Club of India (CCI) here on Friday.
• Honouring the top-order batsman was CCI president Kekoo
  Nicholson in the presence of past president Sevanti Parikh and other members.
• Rahane joins an illustrious list of sportspersons, not just
  cricketers, to be conferred with the CCI membership and these include Sunil
  Gavaskar, Viv Richards, Geet Sethi, Michael Ferreira, Muttiah Muralitharan and
  MS Dhoni, to name a few.
• The timing of the membership could not have been better as
  it came eight days before Rahane’s first wedding anniversary. Rahane will be in
  Bengaluru attending Indian team’s camp ahead of the Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson
  Mandela Series on his wedding day (September 26). He will travel to Bengaluru
  on Sunday for the seven-day camp that begins the next day.

• Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president
  Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was admitted to a hospital here three days ago after
  complaining of chest pain, died on Sunday evening, hospital sources said. He
  was 75.
• The veteran cricket administrator was admitted to the B.M.
  Birla Hospital on Thursday night.
• On Saturday only, his condition was described as stable.
• Doctors attending to Dalmiya said on Saturday morning that
  the BCCI chief was responding to medicines and was in a stable condition. But
  they said he would still be under constant monitoring.

• Independent India’s first visually-challenged MP Sadhan
  Gupta has died following age-related illness.
• The veteran communist and eminent lawyer died late last night,
  CPI(M) party officials said.
• He was 98 and is survived by four daughters and a son.
• Left Front chairman and CPI(M) politburo member Biman Bose
  condoled the passing away of the veteran communist leader.
• Born in Dhaka, Gupta was educated at the Calcutta Blind
  School and went on to study Economics from Presidency College and law from the
  University of Calcutta.
• In 1953, the CPI(M) leader became India’s first
  visually-challenged parliamentarian when he won from the Kolkata southeast
  constituency.

• Renowned novelist Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer
  at the age of 77, her family said in a statement.
• The British-born writer passed away yesterday in Los Angeles
  after she was diagnosed with stage-four cancer six-and-a-half years ago, her
  spokeswoman said.
• She began writing as a teenager, making up racy stories for
  her school-friends. Her first novel, ‘The World is Full of Married Men’, was
  published in 1968 and became a bestseller. In 1985, her novel ‘Hollywood Wives’
  was made into a mini-series by ABC, starring Anthony Hopkins and Candice
  Bergen.

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