2. The World Health Organisation is set to get its first woman Regional Director, South-East Asia region, in Poonam Khetrapal Singh.
3. India and Chile on 13 September 2013 agreed to enhance their cooperation in the field of Renewable Energy at Ankara during India’s Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah's visit to Chile.
4. Narendra Modi has been declared BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
5. Ankeet Chavan, Amit Singh banned for five years, while Siddharth Trivedi gets one year ban. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday has handed cricketer Sreesanth a life ban for spot-fixing. Ankeet Chavan has been banned for 5 years.
6. Prime Minister's key economic advisor C Rangarajan on Friday lowered the growth forecast for the current fiscal to 5.3 per cent from 6.4 per cent projected earlier and listed out host of measures including further liberalisation of FDI norms to improve economic condition.
7. The government on Thursday announced it decision to invest $4.3 billion (Rs 27,000 crore) the World Bank's special private placement bonds (SPPBs) so that the country could remain eligible for the global lender's low-cost funding for various domestic infrastructure projects.
8. Ray Dolby, the American Engineer and the pioneer of noise reduction in audio recordings died on 12 September 2013.
He was the founder of Dolby Laboratories.
9. Index of Industrial Production (IIP) with base year (2004-2005=100) released the data on Industrial output on 12 September 2013. The general Index for the month of July 2013 stands at 2.6 percent higher as compared to in the month of July 2012 due to improved performance of manufacturing and power sectors.
10. A Delhi court has handed out the death sentence to four men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old medical student on December 16, 2012.
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