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[PIN-Sept] Part 1/3: Leaders, Diaspora, Committees and
Sports in News
1. SPIN: Sarkaari People in News
2. CIN: Committee in news
3. DSPIN: Diaspora in news
4. FIN: Foreigners in News
5. Sports
1. Mary Kom
2. Tennis
3. Other games
4. Asian Games 2014 (Incheon)
6. FAQ and usual Moral disclaimers
SPIN: Sarkaari People in News
RBI assistants exam 2014: asked about Ministers vs portfolios. You can check
the list on PMO site. click me
not dwelling into CEC, CAG, service chiefs, commission chairman etc. You can
get the list under previous PIN-2014 click me (although some names may be
outdated).
AEC R.K. Sinha Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Lok
Sabha
LK Advani became new chairman of ethics Committee.
NCW National commission for women. Lalitha Kumaramangalam new chief
NGT National green tribunal. Justice Swatanter Kumar
PFRDA New chief Hemant Contractor
SC
Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu replaced R.M.Lodha
as new CJI
Dattu will retire in Dec 2015. (so thankfully I wont have to update
PIN series soon)
If NJAC (National Judicial Appointments Commission) system
becomes effective, then Dattu will retire as the last person selected
from Collegium system.
TN Paneer-selvam became new CM after Jayalalitha was jailed.
TRAI Chairman Dr. Rahul Khullar.
CIN: Committee in news
Bibek Debroy
(Economist)
Railways restructuring.
Bezbaruah (IAS)
Safery of North Eastern people working in rest of India. Home
ministry.
GC Mishra by Delhi Government for metro safety
Gopalkrishna
RBI Panel for Capacity building in banks and non-banks.
Recommended job rotation, transfer reforms etc in Public sector
banks
HR Khan
(Dy.Gov.RBI)
How to utilize unclaimed PPF money for senior-citizen welfare.
Justice VC Daga NSELs forensic audit
Mahayuti
Coalition of BJP, Shivsen and other smaller parties for
Maharashtra elections. But later they decided to fight
independently.
PJ Nayak
RBI, to reduce Governments ownership to below 50% from
sarkari banks. report given long time back, in news because of
Wilful defaulter topic.
TSR Subramanian
(Ex-cabinet
Secretary)
former cabinet Secretary. Green law panel to reform existing
environment laws.
DSPIN: Diaspora in news
America
Ami Bera California, House of representative.
Bobby Jindal Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party
Fareed
Zakaria
works for CNN. in his interview, Modi said for the first time that
Indian muslims will fail Al-Quaeda.
Nikky Haley S.Carolina Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party
Tulsi
Gabbard
1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their Lok Sabha). Elected
from Hawai State.
Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita, Served in US army, was
deployed in Iraq.
Gave that Gita to Modi during his visit.
Krittika
Biswas
Daughter of Indian diplomat. Earlier jailed for another persons crime.
Court gave her millions in compensation
Maneesh K.
Goyal
Obama appointed him as member of prestigious J. William Fulbright
Foreign Scholarship Board.
Richard
Rahul Verma
nominee for the post of Ambassador to India
Served in US airforce
Others
Alok
Shetty
Times leaders of tomorrow
He is an Architect working for floor-proof houses for slum people.
New
Zealand
Mahesh Bindra and Parmjeet Parmar elected as Member of Parliament
Spelling
bee
Obama meets Spelling Bee co-champions Sriram Hathway and Ansun
Sujoe. In that meeting, Obama couldnt spell two words correctly
Corpsbruder (a close comrade) and Antigropelos (waterproof
leggings)
Desi-Videshi awards
Padma, Bharat etc not covered because not given in September 2014 and dead
topic. Although, older list available in PIN-2014 click me
Noble etc. not covered because 2014s yet to be declared and 2013s is dead
topic. although if you want to see 2013 list click me
In videshi awards Im including foreigners as well e.g. snowden.
Alternative Nobel
Right livelihood award
Edward Snowden
Pakistani activist Asma Jahangir
Fields prize Mathematician Manjul Bhargava
Rolf Nevanlinna
prize
Subhash Khot Professor of computer science at New York
University
Won Rolf Nevanlinna prize of International mathematical
union
Gandhi seva award
SN SubbaRao
By Karnataka Government
FIN: Foreigners in News
Complete list of PM/President given in earlier PIN-2014 (although some may have
become outdated)
Here are the leaders in news during Sep-2014.
New President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. He replaced Hamid Karzai who
Afghanistan had been misruling the country since 2001.
Australia
PM Tony Abbott: visited India, signed nuke deal, wants to legalize
marijuana for medicinal use.
Bangladesh New law that empowers parliament to impeach judges
Denmark
PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Sent F16 figher jets to destroy ISIS
militants in Iraq.
EU
Ex-Polish PM Donald Tusk will become EU President from December
2014.
Fiji
PM: Voreqe Frank Bainimarama. President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau. 37%
of Juntaa Indian origin.
Indonesia
New bill to provide indirect elections at local bodies. Only President
will be elected directly.
Iran
President Hassan Rouhani. terms US led anti-ISIS coalition
ridiculous
Iraq Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu met Modi in USA
Kiribati
President of Kiribati Anote Ton- visited Arctic to understand climate
change threat.
New
Zealand
PM Jonh Key. Wants to redesign flag and remove UKs royal emblem
from it.
Palestine
President Mahmoud Abbas seeks U.N. deadline to end Israeli
occupation
Philippines President Benigno Aquino survived impeachment
Poland President Bronislaw Komorowski. PM Ewa Kopacz
Thailand
PM Prayuth Chanocha . Thinks opposition parties doing black magic
on him!
Tibet Prime Minister-in-Exile (Sikyong) Lobsang Sangay

World organizations
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
DG Jose Graziano da Silva, visited India in Sep.
WHO DG Margaret Chan
UNGA
President Sam Kutesa of Uganda.
Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon of S.Korea.
Sports
Mary Kom
Hot topic for competitive exams because of the movie. Just like in past, Milkha Singh
was hot favorite because of his movie. Here is the brief biography of Mary Kom.
full name Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom
Coach: Narjit Singh.
Hails from Imphal, Manipur
Five time World ametuer boxing champ
Plays in the flyweight category. (Her weight ~51 kg)
Won bronze in London Olympics 2012.
Won gold at Asian games 2014, at Incheon South Korea.
Autobiography Unbreakable
Priyanka Chopra player her role in the movie Mary Kom. Director Omung
Kumar, Producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Civilian awards: Padma shree, Bhushan, Arjun Award, Rajiv Khel Ratna.
Tennis
Grand Slam involves four Opens-
1. Australian (covered in earlier PIN-2014 article series)
2. French (same as above)
3. Wimbledon (given below)
4. US (given below)
Wimbledon 2014, June July
CATEGORY WON DEFEATED
Men Single Novak Djokovic, Serbia Roger Federer, Swiz.
Men doubles Vasek Pospisil, Jack Sock Not important
Women
single
Petra Kvitov, Czech
Eugenie Bouchard,
Canada
Women
doubles
Italy Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci Not important
Mixed
Serbia Nenad Zimonjic, Australia Samantha
Stosur
Not important
Men Single Serbia Novak Djokovic
Switzerland Roger
Federer

US Opens 2014, Aug-September
CATEGORY WON DEFEATED
men single Marin Cilic (Croatia) Nishikori (Jap)
men single Marin Cilic (Croatia) Nishikori (Jap)
men doubles Bob and Mike Bryan, US not important
women single Serena Williams, USA
Caroline Wozniacki,
Denmark
women
doubles
Ekaterina Makarova, Elena Vesnina
(Russia)
not important
mixed
Sania Mirza (India), Bruno Soares
(Brazil)
Not important

Tennis: Misc.
Japanese tennis player Kei
Nishikori
First time made it to US Open Finals. Modi wished
him best of luck
Chinese tennis star Li Na Two grand slams won in career. Retired in Sep 2014.
Other games
Im not dwelling into cricket, because I dont follow it on TV/newspaper and directly
make note out of current affairs magazines. But Septembers current magazines are yet
to reach my home.
Chess
Magnus Carlsen agreed to play against Vishwanathan a Sochi, Russia.
Carlsen was scared because Russian intervention in Ukrain. Sochi not far
away from the troubled region.
Oscar
Pistorius
Handicapped Athlete. Guilty of culpable homicide of his girlfriend in
South Africa.
Basketball Sikh Players allowed to wear turbans.
Football
First ever Indian women football referees: Maria Rebello Piedade and
Uvena Fernandes. They served at Asian Games 2014.
Dutee
Chand
Rejected in CWG-2014, after a test showed higher level of androgen
(male hormone) in her body.
Asian Games 2014 (Incheon)
Theme Diversity shines here
2014: Games at Incheon, S.Korea
2018: Games at Indonesia.
Indias flagbearer: Indian hockey team captain Sardar Singh.

Mascots of 2014
games
Vichuon light
Barame Wind
Chumuro dance
Im not going into medals by Indian sportspersons at the moment, because event will
end on October 4. After that hopefully some news website will prepare full list thus
saving me the time and trouble.
For other parts visit Mrunal.org/PIN.
FAQ and usual Moral disclaimers
Q. Youve added too many trivial GK type things in it.
Ans.
After observing the trend of general awareness questions in SSC, RBI grade B office
and RBI assistant exams of 2014 round- (thanks to comments by readers), it seems
that the trend of trivial-GK type current affairs is back.
SSC walla asking height of actresses
RBI officer asking Vidhya Balan movie
RBI assistant focused too much in number type factoids and so on.
So need to adapt accordingly.
Q. Youve not added xyz thing in it. This coverage is far superficial than what is
available under xyz current affairs magazine..
Ans.
Imran
Hashmi
(In once upon a time in Mumbai)
. [If I keep worrying about the road, then the destination will feel
upset].
Mrunal [PIN] [Current-series] .
I didnot specifically research on any of these topics. I simply noted down the
factoids while reading Hindu and Indianexpress for the ongoing [Current] Series.
And today, Ive sorted, tabulated and published them in three parts.
In other words, these three articles are by-products of my [Current] series.
Beyond that, I lack the time and manpower to specifically research on PIN
series, like I had done in past- for the [PIN-2014] series.
If you feel that xyz topic must be prepared then please do add in the comments
below.
Q. What about PIN July and August.
Ans.
Not possible because of same Imran Hashmi problem. But there is a desi-jugaad
available. Goto library, check the current-affairs magazine- Pratiyogita, Wizard,
chronicle etc. and update stuff from it in your database.
Q. Will you release PIN October 2014?
Ans. Most likely yes, Because PIN is merely a byproduct of my [Current-series]. But
then again, unlike Bhai, I make no commitments.
Q. I read xyz current affairs magazine and your PIN articles, is that sufficient for
cl earing IBPS exam?
Ans. No. If you really want to join banking sector then you must pursue one English
newspaper on daily basis- for comprehension, vocabulary, banking and economy. And
maintain notes It doesnt need to be as comprehensive as UPSC note, but an just
overview of all current affairs especially in banking and economy.
Because even if you clear the written stage through aptitude, the lack of current affairs
will hurt you severely at the interview stage. And Interview stage is the deciding factor
in bank allotments- sometimes people from borderline cutoffs get selected and
sometimes, aptitude-wizards fail to get even the last khopche-walli bank. It all
depends on your interview- Ask those who got allotted/failed in Round 3 of IBPS.
Published on 02/10/2014 @ 11:04 pm under Category: Current-Archive
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