Current Affairs & today's facts- Sep 13, 2013

Ex-Infosys Americas head, Ashok Vemuri is new iGate CEO. He served Infosys for 15 years. He was said to be in race to be the next CEO of Infosys succeeding S D Shibulal.


Leander Paes's triumph in the men's doubles at the US Open not only earned him a 14th Grand Slam crown but also made him - at 40 years and three months - the oldest man to win a major title in the Open Era


Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is now the world’s second-most-valuable IT services company — ahead of Accenture and Hewlett-Packard but behind IBM.


The per capita annual income in the national capital, NEW DELHI has increased to Rs. 2.01 lakh in 2012-13 compared to Rs 1.73 lakh in the previous fiscal, which is three times the national average and highest in the country


According to data released by UN department of economic and social affairs on 12 Sep, 2013, 3.2 million Bangladeshis living in India are the single largest bilateral group of international migrants in developing world.
UAE and Saudi Arabia are top draw for Indian Migrants with 2.9 million Indians living there. The biggest rise in the number of Indians migrating to a single country was to the US with 2.1 million in 2013.

Online card use grows 50% annually in contrast to 35% growth in physical transactions. It is now 25% of card swipes on internet. At present one in four card transactions is happening online and slated to grow by leaps and bounds in future as well.


A popular China's online shopping website TAOBAO began selling aircraft and helicopters over internet on 12 Sep, 2013