Current Affairs : September 8, 2011

September 8, 2011

International Literacy Day: September 8

UNs’ International Literacy Day is observed every year on 8^th September since 1966
Theme for the year 2009-2011 of the UN Literacy Decade: “Literacy and Empowerment”
The day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its partners promote the day to underline the significance of literacy for healthy societies, with a strong emphasis on epidemics and communicable diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria
Year 1990 was marked as the “International Literacy Year” by the UN General Assembly

New Kerala Governor: Mr. M.O.H. Farooq

Shri M O H Farooq took over as the Governor of Kerala
Mr Farooq, three time chief minister of Puducherry, had also served as Governor of Jharkhand and Union minister

Dr Bhupen Hazarika’s Birthday Celebrated as “People’s Music Day” in Assam

Numerous functions were organized in Assam, to mark the 86^th birthday of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award winning multifaceted genius, legendary singer, poet and cultural icon Dr. Bhupen Hazarika
The day was observed as the ‘People’s Music Day’ (Gana Sangitor din) all over Assam
Bhupen Hazarika has been the only person in the past 40 years to propagate the better cinema movement for integrating all the seven north-eastern states, including tribal culture

New Governor of Madhya Pradesh: Ram Naresh Yadav

Step up in the management of hydrocarbon exploration needed: CAG

CAG in its report has urged for a larger role of Centre in operational control and high value procurement decisions and suggested for improvement in the management of hydrocarbon exploration and production
The report even pointed that the profit sharing method is not perfect and stressed the demand to change the method which was designed in the late 1990s
It suggested that development plans should be considered from financial perspectives also apart from technical aspects
It urged for yearly work programmes and opined that the budgets should be strictly in line with the approved development plans

Mechanisms set up to prevent imports for Chinese products

Government to establish various institutionalized mechanisms in order to avoid imports of Chinese products
Micro and small enterprises in India are unjustly affected by the Chinese products
Government has referred the concerns of the Small Scale Industries Association on the issue of imports of Chinese products to the Director General of Anti Dumping and allied duties for examination

10 MP districts to implement the “Sakshar Bharat Yojna”

“Sakshar Bharat Yojna” is being carried out in 10 districts in MP in the initial phase to eliminate illiteracy
Objective: To boost literacy rate to 80% in the particular 10 districts
Via this scheme, efforts are being made to lessen the gap b/w male and female literacy up to 10%
The 10 districts are: Betul, Datia, Jhabua, Katni, Khargone, Mandla, Mandsaur, Morena, Sheopur and Tikamgarh

PM Dr. Manmohan Singh and his wife Ms Gursharan Kaur pledge to donate eyes

On the occasion of the “National Eye Donation Day”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur have pledged to donate their eyes by signing the pledge form
As per the Doctors, of over 4.5 million visually challenged persons in India, nearly three million can gain their sight through cornea transplant
Restore of vision among the corneally-blind can happen via the Eye donation
More than 400 organisations are registered with Eye Bank Association of India
These Organizations are airing consciousness about eye donation and alleviating eye donation
A Toll Free number 1919 has been furnished by BSNL and MTNL in India to ease access to the nearby eye bank

Mr. Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s Chairman, fired the Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz
Due to her dismal performance, the decision was taken over by the Yahoo board
Yahoo’s CFO Timothy Morse took over as interim CEOw
Ms Bartz, was made CEO in 2009 to replace co-founder and then CEO Jerry Yang after he resigned in 2008
Her term however botched to bring in a large amount course and success for Yahoo in the last few years
Revenue and earnings began to slip for Yahoo
Yahoo’s brand also become fuzzy as Ms Bartz announced a swing towards being a digital media leader with original content in early 2011