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People in News

Forbes Richest American – Bill Gates Mauritius Prime Minister -Navinchandra Ramgoolam New Chief Justice of India – Altamas Kabir South Africa President-Jacob Zuma Indian Author in the Man Booker Prize Race – Jeet Thayil CMD of Coal India Limted- Mr S. Narsing Rao. Uzbekistan President-Islam Karimov Romania President who gave Resign-Train Basescu Fiji President-Ratu Epeli Nailatikau Afghan Defence Minister Who Resign-Abdul Rahim Wardak US Defence Secretary-Leon Panetta China Finance Minister -Liu Weimin President of Tajikistan-Emomali Rahmon South Korea Prez: Lee Myung Bak President of Pakistan- Asif Ali Zardari Bhutanese PM- Jigme Y Thinley Syria President-Bashra-al-Assad U.S Defence Secretary -Leon Pnetta Prime Minister of Singapore- Mr. Lee Hsien Loong

APPOINTMENTS National :

New Indian envoy to Israel – Jaideep Sarkar New Indian envoy to Canada – Nirmal Kumar Verma New Secretary Gen. of Rajya Sabha – Shumsher K Sheriff New Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulation – Shailesh Gupta New President of Indian Boxing Federation – Abhishek Matoria New President of Indian Newspaper Society – Tilak Kumar New Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau – Rajiv Mehta New FMC (Forward Markets Commission) Chairman – Ramesh Abhishek

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New Director on the Central Board of Directors of the RBI - Y C Deveshwar

New Finance Minister- P Chidambaram (Privious: Home Min.) New Home Minister-Sushil Kumar Shinde(Pri: Power Min.) New Power Minister- Veerappa Moily New Science and Technology Minister-Vayalar Ravi New Economic affairs secretary-Arvind Mayaram New Chief Economic Advisor-Raghuram Rajan New Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL)Chairperson - Shyamala

Gopinath Re-appoint Deputy Governer of RBI: K C Chakrabarty New President of India- Pranab Mukherjee Re-elected Vice President-Hamid Ansari(loss-Jashwant Sing) New CBDT Chairperson- Poonam Kishore Saxena New Union Railway Minister- C.P.Joshi New Aviation Secretary-K N Srivastava New Union Aviation Minister- Ajit Singh New Election Commissioner-S. Nasim Ahmad Zaidi New Chief Election Commissioner-V.S. Sampath New secretary to the Prez of India-Omita Paul Head of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Committee - Rajyavardhan

Singh Rathore New CEO of Prasar Bharti – Jawhar Sircar LIC new Chairman-D.K Mehrotra New Navy chief-D.K.Joshi New CMD of Union Bank - D. Sarkar New CMD of Syndicate Bank- M.G. Sanghvi New CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce- S.L. Bansal New Executive Director of PNB-S. R Bansal New CMD of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank- Nagendra Murthy (Pri-Mr K.T

Jagannathan) New Chairman of Indian Medical Association - Dr. Narendra Saini New IBA Chairman-Alok Misra New director of IBPS- Anup Sankar Bhattacharya New Coach of Indian Hockey Team-Jack Nobbs New President of FICCI- R.V. Kanoria

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New President of International Chamber of Commerce India New Country Director of World Bank for India – Onno Ruhl Harsh Pati

Singhania New CMD of GIC – A.K.Roy New CMD of OICL-Dr. A.K. Saxena New Director-General of Indian Coast Guard- M.P. Muralidharan New Chief Justice of India-Altamas Kabir US Ambassador to India - Nancy J Powell New Ambassador to Cambodia – Dinesh K. Patnaik New CM of Karnataka -Jagadish Shettar (Previous : Sadananda Gowda) New Chief Minister of U.P.- Akhilesh Yadav New Chief Minister of Punjab – Prakash Singh Badal New Chief Minister of Goa- Manohar Parikar New Chief Minister of Uttrakhand- Vijay Bahuguna New Chief Minister of Manipur- Okram Ibobi Singh Governor of Andhra Pradesh - E S L Narasimhan (reelect) Governor of Maharashtra - K. Sankaranarayanan (reelect) Governor of Rajasthan-Margaret Alva New Supreme Court Judge- F. M. Ibrahim Kalifulla Next Army chief of India-Lt. General Bikram Singh. New Communication Advisor to the Prime Minister - Pankaj Pachauri President of ASSOCHAM- Mr Rajkumar Dhoot Reelected NASSCOM President-Som Mittal Chairman of NASSCOM-N Chandrasekaran Indian High commissioner to U.K. – Jaimini Bhagwati TRAI Chairman-Rahul Khullar New Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha-PJ Kurien New CII President-Adi Godrej New President of Hockey India- Mariamma Koshy World Bank Chief Economist-Kaushik Basu

International : New President of Russia- Vladimir Putin (3rd Time) New President of Yemen-A.Mansour Hadi New President of Somalia - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

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New Secretary General of SAARC-Ahmed Saleem New ISI Director general-Zaheer-ul-Islam Nepal’s Army Chief- Gaurav Shumsher Rana New president of World Bank - Jim Yong Kim (Koreanborn) New President of Germany - Joachim Gauck New President of Malawi - Joyce Banda New President of Libya: Mohammed Magarief New PM of Greece - Antonis Samaras New PM of Pak- Raja Pervez Ashraf. New PM of Syria- Wael al-Halki(Replace: Riyad Hijab) New PM of France-Jean Marc Ayrault New IFC Head – (Indian International Finance Corp.) – Jim Yong Cai New PM of Egypt- Hisham Kandil UN-Arab League envoy for Syria-Lakhdar Brahimi New President of Egypt/ Misra- Mohamed Morsi (Freedam & Jasits

Party) bt Ahmad Sarif New President of Serbia- Tomislav Nikolic New President of Maldives - Mohamed Waheed New Pakistan High Commissioner to India - Salman Bashir New CEO of Deutsche Bank-Ravneet Gill New CEO of ICC-David Richardson(Pri-Haroom Largat)(SA) New President of ICC-Alan Issac(N.Z.)(Pr-S.Powar) New Italian Finance Minister-M-Vittorio Grilli New World Bank Chief Economist-Kaushik Basu Prez of the European Council - Herman Van Rompuy (reelected) ICC President-Allan Isaac(NZ)(Privious-Sharad Pawar) New UN mediator in Syria-Lakhdar Brahimi President of Nicaragua - Daniel Ortega (re-elected) President of Guyana - Donald Ramotar New Mauritius President-Rajkeshwur Purryag (Anerood Jugnauth) New President of Mexico-Enrique Pena Nieto (from Dec- 12,

Current:Philip Cardelon) New Paragawe President-Fedrico Franco(VP)(Privious who have given

resign-Fernando Armindo(given Resign)

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HEADS OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS

Comptroller and Auditor General of India - Shri. Vinod Rai Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India - Shri. Pradeepkumar Chief Election Commissioner Of India - Shri V.S. Sampath Chief Justice of India - Shri. Althamas Kabir Army Chief - General Bikram Singh Naval Admiral - Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi Air Chief Marshal - Norman Anil Kumar Browne Boarder Security Force - Director General - U K Bansal Central Bureau of Investigation - A P Singh Securities and Exchange Board Of India - U K Sinha Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority - J Harinarayan Telcom Regulatory Authority Of India – Rahul Khullar

NATIONAL FILM AWARDS - 2011

Best Feature Film: - 'Devur' (Marathi) & 'Byari' (Kannada) Best Director:- Gurvinder Singh, 'Anhe Ghorey Da Daan' Best Actor: - Girish Kulkarni, 'Deool' Best Actress:- Vidya Balan, 'The Dirty Picture' Best Children's Film: - 'Chillar Party'

International Film Awards - OSCAR - 2011

Best Film: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius Best Actor: Jean Dujardin Best Actress: Meryl Streep

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NOBEL PRIZE - 2011

LITERATURE : o Tomas Tranströmer

PHYSICS : o Saul Perlmutter o Brian P. Schmidt o Adam G. Riess

CHEMISTRY : o Dan Shechtman

MEDICINE : o Bruce A. Beutler o Jules A. Hoffmann o Ralph M. Steinman

PEACE : o Ellen Johnson Sirleaf o Leymah Gbowee o Tawakkul Karman

ECONOMICS : o Thomas J. Sargent o Christopher A. Sims

MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011 – Julian Barnes (The Sense of An Ending)

MISS INDIA 2012 : VANYA MISHRA

MISS WORLD 2012 : Wenxia YU ( China )

MISS UNIVERSE 2011 : Leila Lopes IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS AND SUMMITS New Members

– United Nation – Total– 193 (Last– South Sudan) – WTO – Total– 156 (Last - Russia) – World bank and IMF – Total– 188 (Last – South Sudan)

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– European Union – Total– 27 (Next member will be Croatia in July 2013)

Nuclear security summit – 2nd Summit 2012(Current) – Seoul (South Korea) – 3rd Summit 2014(Next) : Neitherland

BRICS summitCountry: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South-Africa. – 4th Summit 2012(Current): New Delhi – 5th Summit 2013(Next) : South Africa

G 8 Summit – 38th Summit 2012 :David camp, USA – 39th Summit 2013 : United Kingdom

G 20 Summit – 7th Summit 2012 – Los Kabos, Mexico – 8th Summit 2013-St. Petersberg, Russia

NAM Summit – 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit- Tehran(Iran) – 17th Summit(Next)-In 2015- Venezuela – 26-31 August at Attended By(India): Prime Minister – Theme: Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance. – Country:120,New-Fiji, Azerbaijan

SCO Summit – 12th Summit 2012-Beijing - Attended by:SM Krishna(Forgien

Minister) – 13th Summit 2013-Kyrgyzstan

National youth Festival – 17th-Mangalore (Karnataka) – 18th –Patna(12-16) January

Nato Summit-Chikago Arab summit 2012 - Baghdad (Iraq) World Economic Forum Summit 2012 Nov- Gurgaon(Haryana) 20th ASEAN Meeting 2012 – Phnom penh, Cambodia 10th BASIC Summit - New Delhi Earth Summit : -Rio de Janeiro United Nation conference on Sustanable Devlopment- Rio de Janeiro World Economic Forum – Davos (Switzerland) World Polio Summit 2012 - New Delhi FM Trilateral Talks(China& India & Russia)-Moscow

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11th Energy Efficiency Summit organized by (CII – Confederation of Indian Industries) – Hyderabad

ECONOMIC NEWS

Current Rates of RBI o CRR – 4.5% o SLR – 23% o Repo – 8% o MSF– 9% o Bank Rate – 9% o Reverse Repo– 7%

12th Five Year Plan (2012-17)

• Theme – Faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth • 9 - 9.5% GDP growth • 4% agriculture growth • Literacy rate – 100% • Extra Power generation capacity – 76000 MW

11th Five year plan recorded 8.2% GDP Growth. Agriculture growth 3.3% Basel norms will be implemented in India from 1 January 2013 to 2018 (in

world 2013 to 2019) Govt. of India Approved FDI in Insurance and Pension Sector as 49%. ICICI Bank to extend its net banking services through social media platform

‘Face book’ Indian banks would need Rs 3,90,000-5,00,000 crore capital over the next

six years in the wake of Basel III capital regulations announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Largest home loan provider - State Bank of India (one lakh crore Rs. to 20 lakh families)

Top three according to per capita income: - Goa, Delhi, Haryana. Seoul-headquartered Woori Bank has set up its first Indian branch in Chennai. Cheque and Draft is valid for 3 month from 1 April 2012.

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After SBI and NABARD ownership of National Housing Bank (Now RBI hold 100% share) will be transferred from RBI to Government

Reserve Bank has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit notes. With a tagline 'Pehchano Paise

Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai', India will help Sri Lanka to establish special economic zone in auto and

pharma. Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has allowed Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) to

open branches in Tier-II cities (Population -50,000 to 99,999 as per 2001 census) without taking its permission.

India signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Monaco in August 2012.

Odisha became the First Indian state to commence epayment facility for government employees.

The Reserve Bank has asked banks to convert the existing ‘no-frills’ accounts into ‘Basic savings bank’ deposit accounts.

SAIL will sponsor all medal winners of the London Olympics for the next Olympics to be held in 2016 at Rio De Janeiro

(Brazil). Apple has won USD 1 billion in a massive victory over South Korean giant

Samsung in a patent case. World Bank Sanctions loan for Rural Livelihoods Project in Bihar The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered $150 million loan for the

expansion of railway tracks and improving overall service in the country. Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced to provide $74.8 million loan

to improve road connectivity in the North East states. World Bank approved an 1100 crore rupees loan for Himachal Pradesh to

promote green initiatives and sustainable development. The NSE is now the world's largest bourse in terms of the number of trades

in equity segment for the first six months of 2012 India and Pakistan have agreed to allow two banks each from both the

countries to set up branches across the border. The two Indian banks are State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of India (BoI). And two Pakistani bank are National Bank of Pakistan and United Bank Ltd.

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AWARDS and honors Yuri Milner Award – Ashok Sen Chameli Devi Jain Award- Tushita Mittal Sastra Ramanujan Prize - Zhiwei Yun Abel Prize: Eedre Szemereredi(Hungry Mathematician) Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award - D.R.Mehta Miss World 2012-Wen xia YU(China) Miss Asia Paisific-Himangini Sing Brand Ambassador of BMW-Sachin Tendulkar Egtek Egale Award(Best Award of Mexico):-R.K.Pachauri RGN Sadbhavana Award-D.R. Mehta Seoul Peace Award-Bank Ki Moon Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award- Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2011 - Soumitra Chatterjee (Bengali actor) Saraswati Samman (2011) - Dr AA Manavalan (Tamil) for his work

'Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalum' (Ramakatha and Ramayanas). Moorti Devi Award (2011) - Dr Gulab Kothari for his book “Mein Hi

Radha, Mein Hi Krishna” Bihari Puraskar (2011) - Rajasthani poet Dr Arjundeo Charan for his work

“Ghar To Ek Naam Hai Bharose Ro” Vyas Samman (2011) - Hindi writer Ramdarash mishra for his work “aam

ke patte” Life time achievement award at 8th Dubai International film festival – A.R.

Rahman International Gandhi Award-Dr. Caire Veult & Dr. J.D. Samant World Food Prize- Dr. Daniel Hillel(Israeli Scientist) India who won Magasaysay Award-Kulandeai Francis Indusharma Katha Samman-Pradeep Saurabh(Book- ‘Teesri Tali’) ICC Awards 2012

– ICC ODI Cricketer of the year-Virat Kohli – ICC Cricketer of the year- Kumar Sangakkara – Emerging Cricketer of the Year-Sunil Narine

59th National Film Awards – Best Film: Deool(Marathi) & Byari(Kannad) – Best Actor : Girish Kulkarni

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– Best Actress : Vidya Balan Best Banker Prize Award – Jammu & Kashmir Bank Castrol Lifetime Achievement Award – Ajit Wadekar Shiksha Ratna Award - AN Purohit SHANTI SWAROOP BHATNAGAR AWARD 2012:

– Suman Kumar Dhar – Biology – Amit Sharma & Rajan – Biotechnology – Balsubramaniam – Chemistry – Mohan MJ & Plus Sarkar – Maths – K Narayana – Medical – Siraj Minawala – Physics

Ramon Magsaysay Award winners 2012: Kulendei Francis (India) – Community Leadership

BOOKS AND authors

“Those were the Days and then-The Life & Times of Lal Krishna Advani”-Mira Govind Advani

Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam Diamond Dust & Other Stories- Anita Desai My Unforgettable Memories-Mamata Banerjee Mind Positive-Life Positive-S.Joginder Singh Aawan Main Baarahon Maas-Ambika Dutta "Muslim in Indian cities”- Hamid Ansari Ye Jo Hai Pakistan'- Shivendra Kumar Singh What Young India Wants – Chetan Bhagat Joseph Anton - Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography) Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam Diamond Dust & Other Stories- Anita Desai My Unforgettable Memories-Mamata Banerjee

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Sports LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 (Important) Venue – 2012 - London 2016 – BraZil ( Rio ) First – Us With 104 Total Medal ( 46 Gold ) Second – China With 88 Toatal medal ( 38 Gold ) 55th Place – India (With 2 Silver and 4 Bronze) India’s performanace – Total 6 medal ( 2 Silver and 4 Bronze ) Indai’s Medals –

Medal Name Sport Event

Silver Vijay Kumar Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol

Silver Sushil Kumar Wrestling Men's 66 kg freestyle

Bronze Gagan Narang Shooting Men's 10 m air rifle

Bronze Saina Nehwal Badminton Women's singles

Bronze Mary Kom Boxing Women's flyweight

Bronze Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling Men's 60kg Freestyle

Who leads India’s March past in Inaguaration – Sushil Kumar

Who leads India’s March past in Closing ceremony – Mary Kom

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Issue Maker in March Past of Opening ceremony - Madhura Nagendra Women’s Hockey- Netherlands bt Argentina Men’s Hockey- Germany beat Netherlands In Men’s Basketball, US beat Spain to win gold Andy Murray(Eng) defeated Roger Federer (Switzerland) to clinch tennis

men’s singles gold Mascots for London Olympics were Wenlock and Mandeville.

o Wenlock was mascot for Olympics and Mandeville was mascot for Paralympics.

o Next Olympics : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016 52nd National Open Athletics Championships 2012:

o Venue – Chennai o Winner - Railways Runner up – Services

U-19 World Cup 2012 o Venue-Australia o Winner-India ;Runner-Australia o Man of The Match-Unmukt Chand(Indian Captain)

Azlan Shah cup o Venue: Malaysia o Winner-NZ; Runner-Argentina; 3rd Place-India

Thailand Open Grand Prix Single o Venue-Bangkok; Winner-Saina Nehwal o Runner-Ratchanok Inathon(thiland)

Indonesia Open Single o Venue: Jakarta; Winner-Saina Nehwal o Runner :Li Xuerui(China)

Euro Cup-2012 o Venue- Poland And Ukrain; Winner-Spain; Runner- Italy

Cincinnati Masters o Men Single: Roger Federer bt Novak Djokovic o Women Single: Li Na bt Angelique Kerber (Germany)

US Open 2012 o Men Single: Andy Murray(Britain) bt Novak Djokovic(Serbia) o Women Single-Serena Williams bt Victoria Azarenka o Women Double: Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy)

French Open o Men Single: Rafael Nadal(Spain) bt Novak Djokovic(Serbia)

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o Men Double-Max Mirnyi(Belarus) and Danial Nestor(Canada)bt Bob and Mike Bryan(USA)

o Women Double: Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy) bt Maria Kirileko and Nadia Petrova(Russia)

Wimbledon 2012 o Men Singles - Roger Federer bt Andy Murray o Women Singles - Serena Williams bt Agnieszka Radwanska o Men Doubles - Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen bt Robert

Lindstedt and Horia Tecau o Women Doubles - Serena Williams and Venus o Williams bt Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka o Mixed Doubles Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond bt Leander Paes-

Elena Vesnina.

Sport Terms Table (in Alphabetical Order)

Athletics

Relay, Photofinish, Track, Lane, Hurdles, Shotput, Discuss Throw, Hammar Throw, Triple Jump, High Jump, Cross Country, etc.

Badminton Drop, deuce, smash, double-touch, clash, service, love, service-line, etc.

Base Ball Bunting, hole, pitcher, put-out, strike, etc.

Baseball Pinching, Home run, Base runner, Throw, Perfect game, Strike, Put out, etc.

Billiards Cue, cannon, baulk, pot scratch, long jenny, short jenny, frame, spider, short and long rest, in-off, etc.

Boxing Round, knock-outs, countdown, flyweight, jab, uppercut, hook, punch, etc.

Bridge Contract bridge, duplicate bridge, tricks, suite , rubber, trump, grand slam, little slam, etc.

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Billiards & Snooker

Pull, Cue, Hit, Object ball, Break shot, Scoring, Cushion billiards, etc. , etc.

Boxing Knock. out, Round, Ring Stoppage, Punch, Upper-cut, Kidney punch, Timing, Foot work, etc.

Chess Gambit, stalemate, move, resign, checkmate, etc.

Cricket

Hat-trick, maiden, follow-on, declare, bowled, caught, run-out, leg before wicket(LBW), stumped, striker, slips, gully, short leg, silly, mid-on, point, cover, mid-off, bouncer, beamer, googly, full toss, drive, cut, pull, hook, flick, etc.

Cycling Sprint, Time trial, Point race, Trackrace, etc.

Football

Kick off, goal, corner-kick, throw-in, penalty, offside, red card, yellow card, foul, hat trick, dribble, pass, forward, defender, half, goalkeeper, tie-breaker, trapping, heading, etc.

Golf Course, links, tee, hole, caddie, threesome, foursome, niblic, club, putt, iron, birdie, eagle, etc.

Gymnastics Parellel bar, Horizontal bar, Floor exercise, Uneven bar, Push up, Sit up. etc.

Hockey

Centre, defender, forward, half, penalty-stroke, penalty corner, push-in, free-hit, striking circle goal, goal-line, touch-line, goal keeper, off-side, foul, stick, carry, dribble, tiebreaker, trapping, etc.

Horse Racing Race course, steeplechase, bets, bookies, jockey, punter, etc.

Judo Cocoa, Blue, white, Green belt, etc.

Polo Mallet, bunker, chukker, handicap, goal, sixty yarder, etc.

Shooting Bag, bull’s eye, marksmanship, plug, skeet, etc.

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Swimming Freestyle, Breast stroke, Back stroke, Butterfly, Lane, Pool, Crawl, etc.

Table Tennis Smash, drop, deuce, spin , let, service, etc.

Tennis

smash, cross-court, passing shot,backhand, forehand,slice, top-spin,serve, dropshot, lob, down-the-line, deuce, tie-breaker, set, game, grand slam, ace, volley, etc.

Volleyball Blocking, doubling, heave, smash, point, serve, volley, etc.

Weight Lifting Snatch, Jerk, etc.

Wrestling Free style, Hal Nelson, Point, Heave, etc.

OBITUARIES

Ravi Shankar- Music Composer Joy Mukherjee- Film Actor Vilas Rao Deshmukh-Union Science and Technology Minister Mehdi hassan-Ghazal legend Dara Singh-Film Actor Rajesh Khanna- Film Actor Bingu wa Mutharika-Malawi’s President Ahmed Ben Bella- first President of Algeria R.H. Patil- First MG of NSE Mrinal Gore-Social Activist P.M.Rungta-Director of BCCI A.K. Hangal-Film Actor Neil Armstrong-first man to set foot on the moon(FromUS) Meles Zenawi-Ethopia Prime Minister Verghese Kurien- Founder of white revolution(Amul Milk) Ranganath Misra -Former Chief Justice of India K.S. Sudarshan – Former RSS Chief Brajesh Mishra – First National Security Advisor of India A.M. Govindarasu – Veteran communist leader & Freedom Fighter Dinesh Thakur – Indian theatre director and actor

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Indian boxer Mary Kom to be conferred Lt Colonel rank. Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (health insurance scheme) was

launched in Maharashtra Mangalam village became the first village in India where all households

were provided banking facilities, it is situated in Pondicherry M S Dhoni becomes brand ambassador of cricket in Nepal IOC on 83rd place.132 company of USA is in this list Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station is in Rajasthan. Google’ Buying ‘Meebo’ To Help Social Networking Push Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar) Accepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late. China won both Thomas cup and Uber Cup of Badminton. Venue of Both were in China. India’s First River-lake link project launched In Bundelkhand Kofi Annan resign as the UN special Envoy to Syria India has allowed foreign direct investment(FDI) from Pakistan. Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) granted permission to MCX Stock Exchange (MCXSX) to operate

as a full-fledged stock exchange 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2013 will be held in Cochin (Kerala). Last

meeting was held in Jaipur. Iran has tested Fateh 110 missiles (Range - 300 km). Home Ministry declined permission to three Iranian banks (Eghtesad-e-

Novin, Parsian Bank and Bank Kasargad) to open branches in India. 9th World Hindi Conference was held in South African city Johannesburg

from 22 to 24 of September this year. The main theme of the conference is “Bhasha Ki Asmita Aur Hindi Ka

Vaishvik Sandarbh”. South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma became the first woman head of

African Union (A.U.) Commission. State Bird of Delhi-Sparrow States which ban Gutka-MP, Kerela, Maharashtra, Bihar Rajsthan,Gujrat

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Russia and India will conduct sixth joint INDRA-2012 antiterrorism military exercises in the Siberian republic of Buryatia. The last INDRA was held in India in October 2010.

Coal India Ltd will be investing Rs 7,500 crore to develop railway infrastructure in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha.

Abhijeet Gupta has won the Sixth Kavala International Chess Tournament in Greece.

Sunita Williams became the second woman in history to take command of ISS

Mariamma Koshy appointed as the full-time IRCTC introduced Interbank Mobile Payment System

Indian Rank in Global Competitiveness Index-59th Bank of India Open in 1st Branch in South Africa India and Singapore will provide list of Black money holders to each other. SBI, Bank of India & PNB will open their Branch in Pakistan RBI punished two foreign banks for Money Laundering – HSBC &

Chartered Accountant Banks. India won the Nehru Cup Football Cup 2012 Tournament by defeating

Cameroon India will not provide more than 3 months mobile connection to the foreign

tourists. India & China agreed to set up a joint working group to look their trade and

investment RBI issued a guide lines that all the cheques should be cleared in two days Winner Asian Chess Championship 2012 – Parivarjan Negi World Trade Award 2012 – will be held in Gurgaon (India) LIC completed 56 year of its glorious and purposeful existence on 1st Sept

2012 Maruti Suzuki plans to start its new plant in Mehsana in Gujarat Axis Bank launched Happy Ending Home Scheme related to Home Loans According to IBA (Indian Banking Association) guidelines duration of

education loans would be increased 7 – 10 yrs. In special case it would extend to 15 yrs.

London became no.1 Fashion City of the world (earlier it was Paris) Bank of India will open’s its first Branch in South Africa ISRO launches its 100th space program named – PSLV 21 form Sri Harikota

(Andhra Pradesh)

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Exchange Traded Fund (ETF): Mutual fund related to Gold India slips 169th in world rankings of Football New Rank of India In World Global Competitiveness Index 2012-13 – 59th

(earlier it was 56) UP govt. launch unemployment allowance scheme ICICI Bank to extend its net banking services through social media platform

‘Facebook’ Sachin Pilot commissioned as Lieutenant in Territorial Army ‘Bloomberg Markets’ magazine has included West Bengal Chief Minister

Mamta Banerjee in the list of 50 most influential people in the finance category.

‘Pieta’ the South Koran Film won Golden Lion Venice Top prize Lewis Hamilton became the winner of Italian Grand Prix 2012 HSBC agrees to sell banking business in Pakistan 2012 London Paralympics Games conclude in London India’s Virender Singh wins a bronze at the World Deaf Championship at

Sofia in Bulgaria. US Ambassador and 3 diplomats killed in Benghazi rocket attack (US

Ambassador to Libya – Christopher Evans) India ranks 2nd in retail reality investment Momentum Index. Fortis Escorts won FICCI Healthcare Excellence Award 2012. India, Myanmar & Thailand decided to implement Trilateral Connectivity

Project by 2016 Smiling Armadillo to be the official Mascot of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil UP Government launched the Samajwadi Swasthya Seva in the state Bhakti Kulkarni becomes Goa’s first woman Grandmaster Japan unveils plan to phase out nuclear power by 2030 58th Commonwealth Parliamentarian conference concluded in Colombo

(The next conference will be held in South Africa 2013) Haryana Govt. decides to implement e-pension scheme system Pakistan test fired cruise missile Babur with a range of 700km FICCI Gen. Secretary Rajiv Kumar resigned India offered Telecom Support to Turkmenistan HDFC Bank announced to launch of Credit Card for Teachers Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar grabbed third Asian tour title

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India test fired its nuclear capable strategic missile AGNI – IV (range – 4000 km) from a test range of Odisha Coast

Mynamar’s Suu Kyi gets Congress highest honour Chandrika Tarafdar becomes the first Indian to win a medal in Youth World

Weightlifting Championship in Slovakia 9th World Hindi Conference began at Johannesburg (Theme of the

conference – “Bhasha Ki Asmita aur Hindi Ka Vaishvik Sandarbh”) China test New generation inter-continental ballistic missile

– Dongfeng – 41 Range- 14,000 km Afghanistan & China to expand bilateral relations Ranbir Kapoor & Priyanka Chopra starrer Hindi film – Barfi has been

nominated for Oscar for next year film category UNAIDS (United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) appointed Bollywood

actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as International Goodwill Ambassador Mary Kom became the Brand Ambassador of Super Fight League (SPL)

Super Fight League promoted by IPL team Rajasthan Royal’s co-owner – Raj Kundra & Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt GDP Growth Rate Reduced

12th Five Year Plan reduce growth rate – 9 - 8.2% Standard & Poor reduce growth rate of India for 2012-13

- 6.5 – 5.5% Fitch reduce Growth rate of India for 2012-13 (6.5 – 6%) IMF fix Growth rate of India for 2012 – 6.1% & 2013 – 6.5% 5. ADB reduce growth rate of India – 6.5 – 6.1%

FDI Limits

o Defense 26% o Pension 26% o Insurance 26% o Print Media 26% o Civil Aviation 49% o Public Sec. Banks 49% o Private Sec. Banks 74% o Multi Brand 51%

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o Single Brand 100% o Tourism 100% o Pharmaceuticals 100% o FM Radio 20% o Telecommunication 74% o Broadcasting 74%

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