1. Hindi Diwas is being observed all over the country on Saturday as President Pranab Mukherjee gave away Official Language Awards for outstanding contributions made towards promotion of Hindi language. Hindi was adopted as a language for official transaction by the constituent assembly on 14th September 1949.
2. BJP students' wing ABVP has won three out of the four top posts in Delhi University Students Union elections. ABVP candidate Aman Awana was elected President while Utkarsh Chaudhary, Raju Rawat were elected as vice-president and joint secretary respectively. Karishma Thakur of National Students Union of India, NSUI, has been elected as the secretary. The elections were held yesterday.
3. The industrial output for July grew by 2.6 percent over the corresponding month of the previous year, government data showed on Thursday; The factory output, measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), however, contracted 2.2 percent in June.
4. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to offer two-day funds to banks through the marginal standing facility (MSF). The MSF window will be open on Saturday between 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. Funds will be repayable on Monday, i.e. on September 16.
5. The government approved the proposal of Rs 700 crore capital infusion in Export-Import Bank of India to support future growth of the lender.
6. Japan successfully launched a new rocket Saturday that it hopes will be a cheaper and more efficient way of sending satellites into space. The three-stage Epsilon lifted off from a space centre on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, following a two-week postponement. The Epsilon is the first new rocket design for Japan since the H2A was introduced in 2001.
7.US and Russia agree that Syria's chemical weapons must be destroyed or removed by mid-2014.
8. The brown Chihuahua named “Miracle Milly” is the world's smallest dog, Guinness World Records announced. She is shorter than a soup can, standing at 3.8 inches (9.65 centimeters) tall when measured from backbone to paw.
9. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched a deep ultraviolet (DUV) solid-state laser device, making the country first-ever in the world to possess such technology.
10. The Government has appointed M.K. Goel, who is also the Director (Commercial), as the Chairman and Managing Director of Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
11. Hollywood writer-director-actor Woody Allen will be honoured with the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards to be held in January next year.
12. A project with funds provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) would overhaul the entire 53-year-old water supply system in Tripura capital Agartala, officials said here on Saturday. The ADB has recently sanctioned the Rs.130 crore project to replace the 408-km water supply pipelines, commissioned in 1960.
13. Union Minister for Industry and Commerce Anand Sharma has launched the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project in Madhya Pradesh. At a function held in capital Bhopal, he also unveiled the foundation stone of National Institute of Design (NID).
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