Current Affairs Update – 4th September, 2015

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 4th September 2015. These are important for the upcoming IBPS PO Exam.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 September 2015 released
  two commemorative coins of 125 rupees and 10 rupees in the memory of former
  President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
• Modi released the coins at a function of his interaction
  with the central school students at Zorawar hall, Manekshaw Centre in New
  Delhi. The interaction session was organised on the eve of Teachers Day, which
  is celebrated across India on 5 September 2015.
• Teachers Day celebrates the birthday of India’s second
  President and scholar Dr Radhakrishnan.

• NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission was in
  news recently as its first Joint Steering Group (JSG) meeting was held on 21
  July 2015.
• NISAR is a dedicated US and Indian InSAR mission, in
  partnership with ISRO, optimized for studying hazards and global environmental
  change.
• As part of it NISAR satellite, which will be the first radar
  imaging satellite to use dual frequency, is expected to be launched during the
  year 2021. The satellite will also be used for remote sensing to observe and
  understand natural processes of the Earth.

• Union Government cancelled the registration of Greenpeace
  India under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010. This move of
  the government will make the NGO ineligible to receive funds from abroad, which
  means it may force it to close down its operations in India.
• In an affidavit submitted to Delhi High Court on 3 September
  2015, the Union Home Ministry said Greenpeace violated FCRA by mixing its
  foreign and domestic contributions.
• Meanwhile, the NGO that has accused the Government of trying
  to shut it down and termed the action as an attempt to silence campaigns and
  said it will not be deterred.
• The high court will hear Greenpeace plea challenging the
  suspension of its licence under FCRA apart from freezing of its bank accounts
  on 4 September 2015.

• The term InSPA was in news in the first week of September
  2015 as the Union Government is planning to launch the global alliance on solar
  energy at a conclave in New Delhi.
• The conclave will be held in the third week of November 2015
  ahead of the COP-21 of The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
  Change (UNFCC) in Paris.
• InSPA stands for International Agency for Solar Policy &
  Application. Its launch event is expected to be attended by 107 member
  countries that are located between tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn
  including China and Australia.
• The members of the grouping are also called as sunshine
  countries as they receive high solar energy round the year.

• Union Government on 2 September 2015 launched the Indian
  Wind Resource Atlas at 100 metre level. The Atlas will help policy makers at
  Centre and State Governments to deal with issues related to tariff fixation,
  transmission, grade frequency, etc.
• It will also help in providing better infrastructure for the
  investors. The Indian Wind Atlas is an important online GIS (Geographic
  Information System) tool for identification of the regional and local wind
  energy potential in India.
• It contains average annual values of Wind Speed, Wind Power
  Density and Capacity Utilization Factor (CUF) calculated for an average 2 MW
  turbine at 100 m. In the atlas the resultant layers are at very high resolution
  and joint frequency tables have been derived for the entire country at 500 m
  resolution.
• Also, high resolution Re-analysis data set has been used for
  the study- NCEP/CFSR which enhanced the accuracy of the mapping. The Atlas uses
  dynamic meso-micro coupled WRF modelling technique.

• Vinod Dasari was on 3 September 2015 appointed as President
  of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), an automobile industry
  body. Dasari is the Managing Director of Ashok Leyland.

• Arvind Saxena, President of General Motors India, was
  elected as the Vice-President of the organisation.
• Kenichi Ayukawa, Maruti Suzuki India Managing Director and
  CEO, was appointed as the Treasurer of SIAM.

• Naxal-hit Bastar district of Chhattisgarh has now won a
  national award for achievement in the field of literacy.
• Giraud village panchayat in Raipur district, too, has been
  selected for the award constituted under ‘Literate India’ programme this year.
• The award will be presented on the International Literacy
  Day (September 8) by President Pranab Mukherjee at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi,
  an official release said here.
• Expressing happiness over the achievement, Chief Minister
  Raman Singh said it is a matter of honour for the State that despite fighting
  the menace of Naxalism, the people of Bastar have contributed in literacy
  mission with full enthusiasm.
• Similarly, the people of Giraud village panchayat, too, have
  brought laurels to the State, he said.
• Along with Bastar, two other districts – Haveri (Karnataka)
  and Dharmapuri (Tamil Nadu) will also receive the award.

• Haryana has bagged the Skoch Order-of-Merit national award
  in implementation of six e-Governance and IT initiatives in the state.
• The award will be presented to the state government on
  September 22-23, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said while addressing the
  members on the second day of Monsoon session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha, today.

• The Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) is all set to name one
  of its stadiums after Sachin Tendulkar.
• The KCA president T.C. Mathew said on Friday that while
  there was a pavilion at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi named after
  Tendulkar, the KCA was going to name a stadium after him.
• The new stadium built by the KCA in Wayanad recently hosted
  the two four-day matches between South Africa A and India A. It is one of the
  most scenic grounds in the country, with mountains on three sides.
• Mathew added that the KCA plans to work closely with
  Tendulkar as in another two years they will set up a state-of-the-art cricket
  ground in each of the 14 districts of Kerala.

• Some of the biggest names in the sporting world Frank
  Lampard, Jose Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic and
  many more have been included in the new Guinness World Records book and were
  honoured with certificates.
• English football champions Chelsea’s manager Mourinho was
  given four different awards, which included prizes for the most points in a Premier
  League season (95), most Champions League’s won at different clubs (two),
  youngest manager to reach 100 Champions League games (49 years 12 days) and
  most games unbeaten at home in the Premier League (77).
• Manchester United defender Chris Smalling also bagged two
  records after scoring the fastest goal in the Premier League by a substitute
  from kick-off, when he netted against Burnley in just five minutes nine seconds
  last season.
• He scored again to earn himself a second record, for the
  most goals in the Premier League scored by a substitute in the first half.

• Marvan Atapattu on 3 September 2015 announced his
  resignation as head coach of Sri Lanka cricket team. His resignation was accepted
  by the Sri Lanka’s Cricket Board.
• He resigned just two-days after the team’s Test series loss
  to India at home. The series loss was their first to India on home soil since
  1993. Apart from this, Sri Lankan team has lost four Tests out of six since
  June 2015.
• Atapattu first became the batting coach of Sri Lanka cricket
  team in 2011 and in April 2014 he was made interim head coach of the team
  following Paul Farbrace resignation.
• In September 2014, he was made the head coach of the team
  making him the first full-time coach of the team in 15 years.

• Llyod’s City Risk Index 2015-2025 was released on 3
  September 2015. The Index is the first of its kind as it quantified the
  expected loss to cities’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from various natural and
  manmade threats.
• While Taipei topped the Index with 181 billion US dollars,
  Mumbai is expected to face maximum risk in India with 47 billion US dollars.
• The selected 301 countries together are expected to see a
  loss of 4.56 trillion US dollars out of 372.56 trillion US dollars of total GDP
  during 2015-25 from 18 threats together.
• The share of emerging cities (cities outside G8) in the
  total loss is projected at around 72 percent.

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