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India’s First Digital Substation Automation Competence Centre Inaugrated. September 2013 .

Alstom, a world leader in power generation and transmission inaugrated India’s first digital substation automation competence centre. September 12th, 2013.

Alstom’s new facility is located in Pallavaram, Chennai. The new facility has ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certification. Alstom provides services for a wide variety of energy sources including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal with a focus on smart grids. This new facility is also a milestone for Alstom from a global perspective.

 

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Independent India’s First Finance Minister . 1947 .

Sir Ramasamy Chetty Kandasamy Shanmukham Chetty ( R.K. Shanmukhan Chetty)was the first Finance Minister of Independent India.

He was Finance Minister when the country’s first budget was tabled in the Parliament on November 26th, 1947. He held the portfolio for the period 1947 – 1949.

R.K.Shanmukham Chetty was a lawyer, economist and legislator.

Born in Coimbatore (Madras Presidency)on October 17th, 1892 and expired at the age of 60 on March 05th, 1953.

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Nokia’s Launches First Device in India with Urdu Language Capability. September 2013 .

Nokia launched the Nokia 114 model, the first ever device with Urdu language capability / option in India.

It was launched at an event by Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology in the presence of P.Balaji, MD Nokia India in New Delhi. The Hon’ble Minister handed over the first Nokia 114 to Muzaffer Ali, noted filmmaker, poet, a revivalist and a social worker.

The launch is a part of Nokia’s strategy for democratising the reach of mobile telephones. India has over 15 crore urdu speaking people  making it one of the largest urdu speaking populations in the world.

 

First Indian to Receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1913 .

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to receive the Nobel prize for Literature . He was also the first Asian and simultaneously the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel for Literature. December 19th, 1913.

He was awarded the prize for Gitanjali, a collection of songs and poems. Tagore himself had translated the poems into English in 1912 with an introduction by W.B.Yeats who won the Nobel for literature a decade after his Indian friend in 1923.

This year (2013) marks the 100th anniversary of Tagore winning the Nobel prize in 1913.

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India’s First ‘Miss Diva’ 2013 . September 2013

Manasi Moghe was adjudged the Winner of the 1st edition of Miss.Indian Diva 2013, at a star studded gala evening held at the Westin Mumbai Garden City, Mumbai on Thursday – September 05th, 2013.

The Winner, Manasi Moghe will now represent India at the Miss Universe pageant to be held in Moscow, later on in November 2013. The 21-year old was born in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and is pursuing a degree in Engineering – in Electronics & Telecommunications from Nagpur.

The contestants were judged by a Panel comprising Zeenat Aman, Raveena Tandon, Atul Kasbekar, Malaika Arora Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Kunal Kapoor and Miss. Universe Canada 2012 Sahar Biniaz.

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First Indian Woman Recipient of the ‘ Jnanapith Award ‘. 1976

Ashapurna Devi was the first woman to win the Jnanapith Award in 1976 for her work ‘Pratham Pratisruti’ in Bengali. This prominent Bengali novelist and poet was also known as Ashapurna Debi or also as Asha Purna Devi.

She was also awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ by the Government of India in the same year 1976.

Ashapurna Devi was born on January 08th, 1909 in Potoldanga, Calcutta (now Kolkata). She passed away aged 86 in 1995.

The Jnanapith Award is a literary award in India. Alongwith the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship it is one of the 2 most prestigious literary honours in the country. The Jnanapith award was instituted in 1961.

The name of the award is taken from the Sanskrit words ‘jnana’ and ‘pitha’ (knowledge-seat). It carries a cheque for Rupees 11 lakhs, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian Goddess of knowledge, music and the arts.

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