Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 01-September 2014

Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 01 September 2014

Legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao will be the first Indian actor to be honoured with a postage stamp by the U.S. Post Service (USPS).
The Akkineni Foundation of America (AFA) has said that the stamp will be issued on the birth anniversary of Nageshwara Rao, who died of cancer early this year.
A special release ceremony is being planned by AFA on September 20 in Dallas, Texas.
The AFA is also planning to release the stamp in India on December 17 at the first International Akkineni Awards Ceremony being planned at ANR College, Gudivada in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.

The first Ajmer Literature Festival will begin on September 4.
The three-day festival is being organised by the Ajmer Literary Society and its aim “is to build a civilised, cultured and sensitive society for the promotion of art, literature and culture in the country and the world.”
To be inaugurated by filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, Mira Ali and Justice (retd.) Dalvir Bhandari, thinkers, writers, art-lovers and journalists will deliberate on the contemporary challenges faced by the society at present.
Conceived by poet Ras Bihari Gaur, the event will be the first of its kind in Ajmer and it will be held in Hindi.

Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, Sulabh International kick-started its nationwide ‘Toilet for Every House’ campaign from Katra Sadatganj village in Badaun that has been in the news for the killing of two girls when they ventured out of their homes in the dark to relieve themselves.
A U.N. study in 2010 found that more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet … It’s a shame.

The Punjab-based Netaji Subhash Kranti Manch urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to visit the Renkoji temple in Tokyo where some believe that the ashes of the late freedom-fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose are buried.
In a statement here, the Manch observed that if Mr. Modi chose to visit the temple as was reported in a section of the media, it would send wrong signals about the “attitude and intentions” of his government towards Netaji.