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[Misc.GK] Persons in News (2012-13), Sports, Books, Awards for SSC-CGL, SBI-PO, UPSC-CSAT

1. Introduction

2. Drawing the line

3. International (Political)

4. International (Non political)

5. Indian in India (Non political)

6. Indian Diaspora abroad

7. Sports

8. Tennis

9. Sports Mascots

10. Books/Literature

11. Nobel-2012

12. Nobel winners associated with India

13. Astro

14. Beauty

15. Clichéd

Introduction

The previous list of [PIN] Persons in News (2011-12) was given in separatearticle, click me (some names will overlap here).Now this new article, is for [PIN] 2012-13, mainly keeping the upcomingSBI-PO, SSC-CGL exams in mind. It contains list of PIN + Sports + Books +awards.This list is not exhaustive. This is just “minimum essential systemrequirement”, otherwise Government gave more than 6 dozen Padma Shrisin 2012, but time is not a luxury we cannot afford right now.This is list is subject to revision (based on your additions via comments.)

Drawing the line

As the exam date comes near, people start making more and more ambitiousplans (like I’ll finish all Pratiyogita Darpan issues of last 2 years. I’ll cover allThe Hindu newspapers of last 12 months from its website and so on…).But, Ambitious studyplans =often unrealistic studyplans= #EPICFAIL.So, when it comes to Persons in News (PIN), Sports, Books and Misc.GK ,you’ve to draw a line somewhere otherwise book market is flooded with“current affairs” material worth 10000 pages (and more will come, as theMarch-April floods approach.).But beyond a point it starts giving “diminishing rate of return”.The “core” areas for GK/GS for the upcoming exams are following:

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1. UPSCCSAT

NCERT+NIOS+Laxmi+YearbookCurrent Affairs (Polity, Economics,Enb, Sci-Tech.)

2. SSC-CGL

Static+Science+Crap (already explained in separate article. Click me)

3. SBIPO

Economics (Current + theory) + International Affairs + Marketing +Computer. (elaborate plan coming soon).

International Leaders

Country Name Info

BhutanJigme KhesarNamgyelWangchuck

King of Bhutan. Chief guest for 26th Jan. 2013.

Brazil Dilma RousseffFirst woman President of Brazil. She replacedLula Desilva. (Lula got Indira Gandhi peaceprize.)

China Xi JingpingReplaced Hu Jintao, China. He is expected tobecome President, in March 2013.

China Li Kequiang New PM of China. Replaced Wen Jiabao.

China Bo Xilai corrupt leader in Chinese politbureu. Expelled

Cuba Raul Castro President of Cuba. Replaced Fidel Castro

Egypt Mohd. Morsy President of Egypt.

EuHerman VanRompuy

PM of Belgium. President of European Council

FranceFrancoisHollande

President of France. He defeated Sarkozi.Belongs to Socialist party

Greece Atonis SamrasPM Greece. Name is important only becauseGreece=#EPICFAIL economy.

IranAytollahKhamenei

Supreme leader of Iran

Iran Ahmedijad President of Iran.

Israel

PresidentShimon Peres.PM BenjaminNetanyahu.

Their parliament =Knesset.

Japan Shinzo AbePM japan. Defeated Yoshiko Noda. Theirparliament =Diet.

Liberia Ellen SirleafPresident of Liberia, got Indira Gandhi peaceprice. (2012)

Maldives -CoupNasheed NWaheed

after coup, Nasheed was replaced by Waheed

http://mrunal.org/2013/01/studyplan-ssc-cgl-2013-combined-graduate-level-exam-general-awareness-tier-1-booklist-approach-free-study-material.html



Mali-coup Diarra N Traore After coup, Diarra was replaced by Traore

MauritiusRajkeshwurPurryag

President of Mauratius. He was chief guest@Pravasi bharatiya Divas 2013. Click me formore details

Mexico Enrique Nieto Mexico new President

Myanmar Thein Sein Myanmar president

MyanmarAung San SuuKi

Nobel peace 91. Opposition leader in Myanmar.Party National league for democracy. VisitedIndia in Nov 12

N.Korea Kim Jong-UnNorth Korea President. After his father KingJong-il Died

Pak Raja Parvez PM of Pakistan, SC ordered his arrested.

Germany Angela Markel German Chancellor

Palestine Mohd.Abbas President of Palestine Authority

S.Korea Park Geun-hyefirst female President of S.Korea. She replacedLee Myung-bak

SrilankaGen.SarathFonseca

Ex-General of Sri Lankan army. Was jailed afterpower struggle with President.

SrilankaMahindaRajpakshe

Sri lankan President. He threw out CJI ShiranBandaranyake.

Syria Wael Halqi PM of Syria.

SyriaBashar AlAssad

President of Syria

ThailandYingluckShinawatra

First female PM of Thailand. She was chief guest

of 26th Jan parade in 2012.

Uk David CameronPM of UK. (Conservative party) He replacedGordon Brown.

Uk Nick Clegg Deputy PM of UK. (liberal democrats)

UsaObama(Democrat)

won second time Presidential election. His VPcandidate was Joe Biden.

UsaMitt Romney(Republican)

Contested against Obama. His VP candidate was Paul Ryan.

Ven Hugo ChavezPresident Venezuela. Right now getting treatmentfor cancer in Cuba.

International Org (non political)

name Org

Ban-Ki-Moon UN General Secretary

Jim Yong Kim World Bank

Justice DalveerBhandari

Indian. became Judge of International court of Justice.

Christine Lagarde Chief of IMF

Pascal Lamy Chief of WTO

Jacques Rogge President IOC, olympic Committee.

first Indian to become chairman of World Assco. Of Nuke

http://mrunal.org/2013/02/diplomacy-11th-pravasi-bharatiya-divas-2013-highlights-issues-awards.html



SK Jain operators.

Nkosazana Zuma Head of African Union (AU): First woman

Indian in India (Non political)

Name Org

AdmiralDevendraJoshi

replaced Admiral Nirmal Verma

Air MarshalN.A.K.Browne

He replaced Pradeep Vasant Naik

Ashok Chawla CCI. Competition Commission of India

BrajeshMishra

India’s first National Security Advisor. During VajpayeeGovernment. Dead

Chief Justiceof IndiaAltamas Kabir

replaced SH Kapadia.

DuvvuriSubbarao

RBI Governor.

Urjit Patel recently appointed deputy RBI Governor.

Ela RameshBhatt

Founder of SEWA. Got Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace. (actually wonin 2011, but was awarded that prize in 2013).

Gadgil Committee on Western Ghat ecology.

Gen. BikramSingh

he replaced Gen.VK Singh

Gopi ChandNarang

associated with Urdu litt. Got Pakistani award Sitara-i-Imtiaz. Thehighest civilian award in Pakistan is Nishan-i-Imtiaz, earlierMorariji Desai and Dilip Kumar got it

Gulzar Indira gandhi award for national integration.

JS Verma Committee on women safety after Delhi gangrape

Justice DKJain

20th law commission

Kaushik Basu World bank Chief economist

KCChakrabary

Committee : financial inclusion. Deputy Governor RBI ,

Major Abup J.Manjali

Kirti Chakra.

Mrinal Gore Noted socialist. Dead.

Naina Kidwai chief of HSBC India. Became first woman President of FICCI.

ParthsarthiShome

Committee GAAR . General anti avoidance rules.

RaghuramRajan

Previously with IMF. Now Chief Economic Advisor to Financeministry



Rahul Khullar TRAIRangachari Committee Taxation in IT sector

RangarajanDomestic gas price. Rangarajan is also the Chairman of PrimeMinister’s Economic Advisory Council.

Ranjit Sinha CBI

Sam Pitroda National Knowledge Commission.

SatyanandMishra

CIC. He replaced Wajahat Habibullah.

ShivshankarMenon

National Security Advisor (current). He replaced MK Narayan. FirstNSA was Brajesh Mishra who recently died.

Tessy ThomasDefense scientist, making India self reliant in missile tech. Won LalBahdur Shashtri national award.

UK Singha SEBI

Verghezekurien

Amul. NDDB. Father of white revolution. Norman Barlung wasfather of green revolution.

Vijay Kelkar Committee on Fiscal deficit. Ex-Chairman of Finance Commission

Vinod RaiCAG. Also Enemy #1 of Kapil Sibbal, Manish Tewari, A.Raja andcountless others in UPA. hahaha.

VS Sampath Chief election Commissioner (CEC). He replaced SY Quraishi.

YV ReddyHe is chairman of 14th Finance Commission. (period: 2015-2020)And Chairman of 13th Finance Commission was Vijay Kelkar.

Indian Diaspora abroad

Name Why

Ami Bera California, House of representative.

Bobby Jinda Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party

FareedZakaria

worked for CNN and TIME. Suspended for plagarism.

HalimahYacob

Singapore’s first woman speaker, of Indian origin.

JacinthaSaldana

she was a nurse in London, treating Kate William. She committedsuicide after two Australian radio DJ mocked her.

Kamla PersadBissessar

PM of Trinidad and Tobago. Chief Guest of PBD-2012.

Nikky Haley S.Carolina Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party

PatriciaMariaRozario

UK Musician. Won PBD 2013.

Rajat GuptaJailed for insider trading in USA. Was associated with GoldmanSachs

RajkeswurPurryag

President of Mauritius. Chief guest of PBD-2013

Rasik Joshi Sanskrit Litt. Mexico. Won PBD-2013 award

Tulsi Gabbard

1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their Lok Sabha). Electedfrom Hawai State.



Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita, Served in US army, wasdeployed in Iraq.

Tulsi Gabbard

Sports

Sport name why

Athletics Fauja Singh world’s oldest marathon runner.

Athletics Usain Bolt IAAF award. Got 3 gold in London Olympic

Athletics Allyson Felix IAAF award. Got 3 gold in London Olympic

Badminton PV Sindhu Asia under 19

Billiards Pankaj Advani won the world cup

Chess WorldCup

V.Anand defeated Boris Gelfand

CricketCpt. Unmuktchand

India cricket under 19 cpt, won world cup. defeatedAussies.

CyclingLancearmstrong

Cyclist, banned for drugs.

FootballLionelMessei

most goals in a calendar year. got Golden boot.

Football Sunil Chhetri AIFF player of the year.

HockeyLeslieClaudius

India’s triple olympic gold medalist. Hockey. Dead.

LondonOlympic Sushil

Silver Wrestle 66kg. He was flag-bearer. He gotbronze in 2008 Beijing.

LondonOlympic

Vijay Kumar Silver. 25 rapid fire pistol. Rajiv G.Khel ratna

LondonOlympic

Mary Kom Bronze. Women flywt. Boxing



LondonOlympic

Gagan Narang Bronze. 10 air-rifle

LondonOlympic

Yogeshwardutt

Bronze. 60kg wrestle. Rajiv G.Khel ratna.

LondonOlympic

Saina Nehwal Bronze. Single badminton

LondonOlympic

KrishnaPoonia

discus throw. Did not win

Shooting Ronjan Sodhi ISSF shooting world cup: .(silver, double trap).

Squash Dipika Pillia did not win but only Indian woman to enter semifinals

LondonOlympic

MichaelPhelps

Swimming. four golds and two silver medals

Tennis

Male Female

Aus.Open Djkovik, Serbia Azarenka, Belarus

French OpenNadal, Spain Sharapova, Rus

US Open Ande Murray, UKSerena Williams, US

Wimbledon Federer,Swiz Serena Williams,US

Bhupathi Sania won French open doubles.Andy Roddick, Tennis retired.

Sports Mascots

Beijing Olympics 2008 Fuwa (good-luck dolls)

Cricket World Cup 2011 Stumpy, the elephant.

CWG, 2011 Shera, the tiger.

Kabbadi world cup 2012,India

JAANBAZ, the eagel.

London Olympics 2012Wenlock + Mandeville. They symbolize Britain’sindustrial revolution.

FIFA 2014 Armadillo.

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London Olympic Mascots (click to enlarge)

Books/Literature

author book/info

HilaryMantel

Won two man booker prizes. This time for book “Bring up the bodies”.

Shashitharoor

Pax indica. It details India’s international relations.

Jeet ThayilNarcopolis. Tale of mumbai’s opimioum addiction. Booker priceshortlisted but did not win. Another book is “These errors are correct”

RuskinBond

Maharani

JKRowling

The Casual Vacancy (Harry Potter author)

N.Vittal Ending corruption: how to clean up Iondia

KushwantSingh.

Free thinker’s prayer book

AmitavGhosh

River of smoke

SudheendraKulkarni

Music of spinning wheel

SalmanRushdie

Joseph Anton.

APJ Kalam Turning Points

AravindAdiga

Last man in tower

TarunTejpal

The Valley of Masks

TaslimaNasreen

Nirbasan

KuldeepNayar

Beyond the lines

Kushwantsingh

Turbaned Tornado: The Oldest Marathon Runner Fauja Singh

VergheseKurien

An Unfinished Dream

VergheseKurien

The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance

HamidAnsari

Muslim in Indian cities

I KGUJRAL

Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography

Pt. ravishankar

Living to Tell It All

VikramChandra

Red Earth and Pouring Rain



SyedMustafaSiraj

Aleek Manush – 1994

Authors Dead

Sunil GangopadhyayaBengali writer. Sahitya Acadamy chief.

Kamla Sadgopan Tamil novelist

Eric Hobsbawm Noted Marxist Historian from UK

Nobel-2012

Category Who? Why?

1. MedicineGurdon,Yamanaka

Regenerative medicine. Cure disease by growingtissues in lab.

2. PhysicsHaroche,Wineland

Measure quantum particles, without destroyingthem.

3. ChemistryLefkowitz,Kobilka

Protein receptors that let body cell respond tosignals.

4. Litt. Mo Yan First Chinese writer to get this award.

5. Economics Roth, Shapley. Stable allocation + market design.

6. Peace EU Lolz

Nobel winners associated with India

1. Dr. Hargobind Khorana Medicine

2. S. Chandrasekhar Physics

3. Venkatarama RamakrishnanChemistry

4. Mother Teresa Peace

5. Tagore Litt.

6. Amartya Sen Economics



7. Rudyard Kipling Litt.

8. VS Naipaul Litt.

Astro

Name Why

Cpt. NiveditaBhasin

First Indian woman to command boeing 787

Liu Yang first Chinese woman astro.

NeilArmstrong

Apollo 11. 1969. First man to land on moon. Dead.

Sally Ride First American woman astro. Dead. A Moon crate named after her.

SunitaWilliams

Take a command of international space station. second Indianwoman, first kalpana chawala.

Beauty

1. Olivia Culpo Miss Universe, USA.

2. TerezaFajksova

Miss Earth 2012. from czech.

3. wen xia yuMiss World 2012 (China). Last Indian to win was PriyankaChopra.

Clichéd

following names have become so clichéd in current affairs related books, magazinesand sites that they can be simply ignored for the exam:

Homai Vyarawala India’s first woman photojournalist. Dead.

Chanda Kochhar ICICI

Malala Yousufzai Pakistani girl, shot by Talibans, survived.

Indra Nooyi Pepsi

Pandit Ravi Shankar Sitar Maestro. Will get Grammy award posthumously.

ok so that’s it for the moment, if you feel any important names/terms have been leftout or if there is any correction in the tables, do post it in comments and I’ll updatethe article accordingly.

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