10. PERSONS IN NEWS
1. Arunima Sinha – a National-level volleyball player with an artificial limb geared up to climb the world's highest peak - the Mt Everest, accompanied by Sushen Mahto.
2. Xi Jinping takes - new China's President (succeeded Hu Jintao).
3. Li Keqiang - China's new Premier (succeeded Wen Jiabao). 4. Park Geun-hye - President of S. Korea (1st women president). 5. Uhuru Kenyatta- President of Kenya 6. Abdul Hamid - Bangladesh President.
7. Nicolas Maduro - New President of Venezuela 8. Uhuru Kenyatta - New President of Kenya 9. Giorgio Napolitano - re-elected as Italy's president.
10. Khil Raj Regmi (Chief Justice of Nepal) - Nepal's new Prime Minister to head an interim government 11. Rafael Correa - Ecuador’s President re-elected for a Third Term.
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12. Shinzo Abe - New PM of Japan.
13. Tony Abott – New Australian PM 14. Abdul Hamid - Bangladesh's new president. 15. Giorgio Napolitano Re-elected as the President of Italy. 16. Millionaire Horacio Cartes wins Paraguay presidency. 17. Bobby Ghosh - Eeminent Indian Journalist became First non-American Editor of Time International.
18. Pop Benedict XVI – resigned due to poor health.
19. Sreeramamurthy Janaki- Refused to take Padma bhushan.
20. David Coleman Headley – US federal court sentenced imprisonment for 35yrs.
21. Bhanu Athaiya – First Indian to win Oscar decided to return her trophy.
22. Michael Hussey (Australian Cricketer)- announced Retirement from Test Cricket. 23. Rahi Sarnobat - first Indian Pistol Shooter to clinch a gold medal in the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, Korea. 24. Sunil Dutt – Resigned from his post he was BlackBerry’s India Managing Director.
25. Subra Suresh – Indian American Appointed as president of Carnegie Mellon
26. Ratan Tata- Elected as member of National Academy of Engineering.
11. ORBITUARY
1. Margaret Thatcher- Britain's first female PM
2. K P Bhaskar - Indian Classical Dance Maestro
3. Prof Bratindra Nath Mukherjee(Padma Shri Awardee) - the renowned historian and an epigraphy expert
4. Dr Hilary Koprowski - Developer of First Successful Oral Vaccination for Polio.
5. Shakuntala Devi (The Indian Mathematician also known as mental calculator and human computer)
6. Profulla Chandra Borua - Veteran journalist
7. ATP chairman Brad Drewett - Veteran journalist.
8. Lalgudi Jayaraman - Renowned Violinist and Composer Died at 82
9. Shamshad Begum - Legendary Singer
10. Rituparno Ghosh - National Award Winning Filmmaker
11. Uttanur Rajamma - veteran Bandaya Writer
12. Ray Harryhausen - the Master of Visual Effects
13. Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar - Dhrupad Vocalist
14. Surendra Tiwari - Hindi story writer and playwright
15. Anand Shetty - Former International Sprinter
16. Baleshwar Aggarwal -the veteran journalist
17. Jetti Veera Raghavulu - Telugu music director and playback singer
18. V C Shukla - Veteran Congress leader
19. India’s only Women Chief Election Commissioner Ramadevi 79 (Former Governor of Karnataka) Died.
20. Padma Shree Awardee Madhubani painting artist Mahasundari Devi died
21. Douglas Engelbart, the U.S. inventor who was known as the father of the computer mouse died.
22. H.A.B. Parpia (91), renowned food scientist and former Director of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), passed away
23. Eminent Carnatic musician Nukala Chinna Satyanarayana passed away,a recipient of Padma Bhushan and several other prestigious awards
24. The winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Award and a veteran actor Pran died on About Pran Kishan Sikand
25. Veteran Tamil lyricist Vaali passes away at the age of 82 in Chennai.
26. British Indian actor Paul Bhattacharjee, who played the role of a doctor in James Bond film 'Casino Royale', has been found dead.
27. Veteran Communist leader Samar Mukherjee died in Kolkata.
28. L Brojeshori Devi, the Olympian judo player passed away at Coimbatore
29. National Research Prof at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Obaid Siddiqi, died.
30. Noted producer T.S. Narasimhan, who filled life to the fictional Malgudi created by novelist R.K. Narayan through “Malgudi Days”, directed by Shankar Nag, died.
31. Former Union Minister Arun Nehru passed away on
32. Veteran music director V Dakshinamoorthy passed 33. The Indian classical singer and music director, Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi passed away.
34. R P Goenka - Industrialist.
35. Zao Wou-ki - abstract Chinese painter.
36. Kamala Sadagopan - eminent Tamil Novelist and Writer.
37. Robert Edwards - Test-tube baby pioneer.
38. Professor Bratindra Nath Mukherjee - Renowned Historian
39. Leslie Claudius - Legendary hockey player and one of India's greatest Olympians, passed away in Kolkata
. 40. SK Varma - the former news editor of The Indian Express.
41. Hari Shankar Singhania, - the leading industrialist of India.
42. Radhakishan Malviya - the former Union Minister and Rajya
Sabha Member from Madhya Pradesh
43. Shanu Lahiri - Shanu Lahiri, the Renowned Bengali PainterPasses away
44. P.Shanmugam. - Veteran Congress leader and former Puducherry Chief Minister P Shanmugham died. in his Karaikal residence.
45. Jasuben Shilpi - Renowned sculptor Jasuben Shilpi, popularly known as ‘The Bronze woman of India’, passed away in
Gujarat. 46. M S Goplakrishnan- Violin maestro:
47. M.S. Udayamurthy – Tamil Writer.
48. Ravi Shankar- Music Composer.
49. Gerda Lerner - Founder member of National Organization for Woman.
50. Haradhan Bandopadhyay - Bengali Actor.
51. Koto Okubo - World’s Oldest Female died at 115.
52. Norman woodland- Inventor of Barcode.
53. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Oscar and Booker Prize winner writer.
54. K Venukuttan Nair - a well known theatre personality as well as the Malayalam film actor.
55. Anthony Lewis - Pulitzer Prize-winner.
56. Kallam Anji Reddy - Dr Reddy's Laboratories Founder.
57. Actor Richard Griffiths - the Renowned Vernon Dursley of Harry Potter.
58. Pietro Mennea - Italian Athlete.
59. Prof Veer Bhadra Mishra - Noted Environmentalist.
60. B Satyanarayana Reddy-Freedom fighter and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh
61. Yash chopra-Film Maker
62. Jaspal Bhatti-Comedian and satirist
63. Pt.Ravi Shankar- Music Composer
64. Joy Mukherjee- Film Actor
65. Mrinal Gore-Social Activist
66. Ranganath Misra -Former Chief Justice of India
67. Brajesh Mishra – First National Security Advisor of India
68. A.M. Govindarasu – Veteran communist leader & Freedom Fighter
12. SPORTS
1. Tennis Australian Open 2013:
Men Single- Novak Djokovic(Serbia) bt Andy Murray(Britain).
Women Single-Victoria Azarenka bt Li Na( china)
Men Double- Bob & Mike Byan bt Robin haase & Igor Sijsling.
Women Double- Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy) bt Ashlegh Barty and Casey Dellaqua
Wimbledon – 2013
Men’s Single: Andy Murray(Britain) defeated Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
Women’s Single: Marion Bartoli (France) defeated Sabine Lisick (Germany)
Men’s Doubles: Bob and Mike Bryan defeated Dodig & M. Melo
French Open 2013
: Men’s Single: Rafael Nadal Defeated David Ferrer.
Women’s Single: Serena Willimas Defeated Maria Sharapova
Men’s Doubles: Bob and Mike Bryan Defeated Michael Llodra & Nicolas Mahut
Mixed doubles: Frantisek Cermak and Lucie Hradecka defeated Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic
Miami Open 2013
Andy Murray beat David Ferrer
Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova.
Italian Open 2013
Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federar
Serena Williams defeated Victoria Azarenka
Madrid Open 2013 Rafael Nadal beat Stanislas Wawrinka
Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova.
Australian Open 2013:
Men Single: Novak Djokovic(Serbia) bt Andy Murray(Britain).
Women Single-Victoria Azarenka bt Li Na( china)
Men Double: Bob & Mike Byan bt Robin haase & Igor Sijsling.
Women Double: Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy) bt Ashlegh Barty and Casey Dellaqua
2. Summer Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.
3. Sudirman Cup – China defeated South Korea
4. PV Sindhu won Malaysia Badminton Grand Prix Title Gu Juan of Singapore.
5. Brazil beats Spain to win Confederations Cup 2013
6. Ace discus thrower Vikas Gowda clinched the first gold for India in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune
7. Chris Martin, the fast Bowler of New Zealand has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
8. K Srikanth clinched defeated Boonsak Ponsana to clinch the Thailand Open Grand Prix Badminton 2013
9. Sebastian Vettel defeated Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso to win Canadian Grand Prix
10. 4th Kabaddi World Cup will be held in Punjab in November 2013
11. BCB (Bangladesh Cricket Board) Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful match-fixing charges in Bangladesh Premier League.
12. Bayern Munich won German Cup 2013 defeated Stuttgart
13. Ananya Gupta claimed a bronze medal in the World School Chess championship held at Haldikki in Greece
14. Ragala Venkat Rahul bags three Golds in Asian Youth Weightlifting
15. MS Dhoni becomes first captain to win all ICC trophies
16. Boxer Manjeet Singh won Silver medal at China Open:
17. Bolt won Jamaican 100 title to reach World Championships
18. Pune host Asian Athletic Championship meet in July
19. Delhi to host South Asian Junior Table Tennis
20. India win silver in Archery World Cup: Rajat Chouhan and Manjudha won silver medal at the World Cup (Stage-II) Archery competition in Turkey.
21. Prasanna new Grand Master : V Vishnu Prasanna celebrated his new Grandmaster status by outwitting seasoned GM Boris Chatalbashev of Bulgaria
22. Punjab beat Odisha to lift HI Jr. Men's National Ch'ship:
23. Australia became the third country after Japan and hosts Brazil to reach next summer's World Cup after sealing a dramatic late win against Iraq.
24. Australia (CA) sacked Mickey Arthur and appointed Darren Lehmann as the new coach of the Australian team.
25. V Vishnu Prasanna celebrated his new Grandmaster status by outwitting seasoned GM Boris Chatalbashev of Bulgaria
26. Somyajeet Ghosh - become the youngest national Table Tennis Champion
27. Rupesh Shah clinched the 12th Asian Billiards championship title after beating compatriot Alok Kumar in the final
28. Preeti Beniwal won gold in 2013 Senior National Women's Boxing Championship
29. ICC Women’s World Cup 2013 - Australia defeated West Indies at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
30. Grenke Chess Classic Trophy 2013 - Viswanathan Anand (India) after defeating Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany.)
31. Irani Trophy 2013 – Rest of India defeated Mumbai to clinch
the title.
32. National Weightlifting Championship 2013 - Manpreet Kaur. 33. Air India won Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament against Bharat Petroleum
34. Chandrika Tarafdar becomes the first Indian to win a medal in
Youth World Weightlifting Championship in Slovakia.
35. Jamjang Deru won silver in the 50 kg boys’ category at Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the world youth weightlifting championships 2013.
36. Rupesh Shah, the world champion won the 12th Asian Billiards championship at Indore Tennis Club, Indore in April 2013.
37. India wins 8 medals at the first Asian Grand Prix Archery Championship at Bangkok.
38. Djokovic retains ATP rankings leadin the men’s tennis rankings in the latest list issued on Monday by the ATP.
39. Anita Chanu wins bronze in Asian Judo Championships by defeating the judokas from Korea, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
40. Prayag Chauhan wins Asian Junior Boxing event by beating local boy Azat Ilyubayev in the lightweight category (60kg) in Kazakhstan.
41. Thomas Cup, Uber Cup finals to be held in India.
42. AITA nominates Somdev for Khel Ratna for the year 2013. 43. Hockey India recommends Sardar Singh for Khel Ratna award 2013.
44. PV Sindhu won Malaysia Badminton Grand Prix Title by defeating lower seed, Gu Juan of Singapore.
45. Men's National Hockey Championship for the Rangaswamy Cup hosted by Karnataka.
46. Indian Women's Compound Team which comprised Gagandeep Kaur, Trisha Deb, and P Lily Chanu won Bronze in Archery at Shanghai.
47. Rafael Nadal won Italian open 2013 by deafeating Roger Federar in the final match to lift his 7th Italian Open title.
48. Preeti Beniwal won gold in 2013 Senior National Women's Boxing Championship 2103 in the event held at Khatima, uttarakhand, Preeti out-punched Manipur's Y Sandhya in the final of the 60kg category.
49. The International Cricket Council has decided to withdraw elite panel umpire Asad Rauf from the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 that will be staged in England and Wales next month.
50. The 3rd Hockey India senior men's national championship held in Pune at the Shiv Chattrapati Sports Complex and Major Dhyan Chand Hockey stadium in nearby Pimpri town from 28th May to 10th June.
51. England will host 2019 Cricket World Cup.
52. Odisha clinched the boy’s title while Haryana won the girl’s championship at the 3rd National Sub-Junior Hockey tournament.
53. Asian Athletics Ch’ships to be held in Pune from July.
54. K Srikanth clinched the Thailand Open Badminton 2013 by defeating Boonsak Ponsana in Bangkok. 55. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel wins Canadian Grand Prix by defeating Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso in Montreal.
56. Asian Athletic Championship held in Pune from 3rd to 7th July.
57. ICC to hold its 1st World Test Ch’ship in Eng in 2017.
58. Top seeded Indian Grand Master Parimarjan Negi won the Continental Chess Association Open title.
59. World soccer body FIFA again banned Iraq from holding any friendly football matches due to soaring violence, just three months after the ban was lifted.
60. Parvez Rasool first from J&K team in Indian cricket squad.
61. Indian woman shooter Lajja Goswami has bagged a silver medal in 50 meter riffle three position in I S S F, World Shooting Championship in Spain.
62. Shiva Thapa reaffirmed his status as the rising star of Indian boxing as he became the youngest pugilist to clinch a gold medal in the 56 kg category at the Asian Championships in Amman, Jordan.The silver medals came through L Devendro Singh (49kg) and Mandeep Jangra (69kg), while the bronze was bagged by Manoj Kumar (64kg).
63. The International Cricket Council has announced that the ace Leg spinner Shane Warne will be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
64. Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has won the Commonwealth Chess Championship title.
65. Devendra Jhajharia became the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships by winning the javelin throw at the sixth edition of the event in Lyon, France and he will be rewarded Rs five lakh by the Railways
66. India's K Jennitha Anto has won the 13th IPCA World Women's Individual Chess Championship title for the disabled players.
67. Shane Warne, the spin legend retired from all forms of cricket officially. He announced retiring from Twenty20 League, thereby ending the overall competitive cricket career.
68. India lift SAFF U-16 football title by winning against Nepal
69. Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi, the chess player from India won the Denmark's Politiken Cup at Copenhagen, Denmark
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70. Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova topped the Forbes list of highest-paid female athletes for the ninth straight year.
71. Star Sports appointed Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as brand ambassador to promote Premier League football in India.
72. India's rising shuttler P V Sindhu settles for bronze medal in World Championship
73. Sowjanya Bavisetti of India has emerged winner in the 10,000 dollar Internalional Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Tennis Tournament in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
74. India named Sardar Singh as the captain of the 18-member squad in the Asia Cup hockey tournament, which is scheduled to take place in Ipoh, Malaysia.
75. French Lawn Tennis Player and Wimbledon 2013 (Women’s Singles) winner Marion Bartoli announced her retirement during the Western & Southern Open at Lindner Family Tennis Centre in Cincinnati, Ohio.
76. Second seed Victoria Azarenka defeated World No. 1 Serena Williams to win her first Western and Southern Open tennis title.
77. Asian Games will be held in Incheon, South Korea in September 2014
78. Jamaican track star Usain Bolt is considering retiring after the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janerio
79. Sudhakar Jayant has won gold medal at the IWF World Masters weightlifting championships, held in Turin, Italy.
80. Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position to clinch his first victory of a frustrating season
. 13. AWARDS
1. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 – Pran Krishan Sikand (Bollywood actor, mostly known as Pran). 2. Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari, ( the Malayalam poetess for the poetry collection ‘Manalezhuthu’, which means The Writing on the Sand in English.
3. Moorti Devi Award (2012) – Gopichand Narang.
4. Bihari Puraskar (2012) – Hariram Meena for his hindi novel Dhooni Tape Teer
5. Vyas Samman (2012) – Narendra Kohli for his novel “Na bhooto na bhavishyati”
6. Indira Gandhi International Award - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for 2012(president of Liberia)
7. Indira Gandhi Award for National Intergration – Sampooran Singh Kalra (GULJAR)
8. The Oscars 2013 (ceremony was held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California). Life of Pi, with 4 awards a) Best Directing: Ang Lee for Life of Pi b) Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda for Life of Pi c) Best Music-Original Score: Mychael Danna for Life of Pi d) Best Visual Effects: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott for Life of Pi e) best film award ;Argo (with 3 awards) f) best Actor award :Daniel Day-Lewis wins for 'Lincoln'. g) best Actoress award: Jennifer Lawrence for 'Silver Linings Playbook'
9. 'Women of courage award' - The US State Department awarded one of the 2013 International Women of Courage Awards to Nirbhaya posthumously
10. Tagore Peace Prize- Shihab Ghanem (the first Arab) he will officially receive the Tagore award in a ceremony to be held in Kolkata, India on May 6, 2013.
11. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee on 4 March 2013 conferred with the Liberation War Honour Award for his contribution to 1971 war by the President of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman.
12. Five Writers honoured with SAARC Literature Award 2013. a) Abhay K (A poet-diplomat)- India. b) Farheen Chaudhary- Pakistan. c) Abdul Khaliq Rashid- Afghanistan. d) Suman Pokhrel – Nepal. e) Daya Dissanayake- Sri Lanka(novelist).
13. Global Competition Review (GCR) Awards 2013 - Competition Commission of India (CCI) (Nominated).
14. Madhya Pradesh bagged two national tourism awards: One for the best civic management of a tourist destination and other for the most innovative and unique tourism project in the 23rd National Tourism Award.
15. ICSI Life Time Achievement Award for the year 2012 was conferred upon Deepak S. Parekh, Chairman, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd.
16. 44th Dada Saheb Phalke Award (2013)- Legendary actor, Pran Krishan Sikand.
17. First timr an Indian-Origin Economist Raj Chetty the professor in the Department of Economy at the Harvard University Won John Bates Clark Medal For 2013, which is also called Baby Nobel.
18. Navjot Singh conferred with the Sher-i-Kashmir Award who became the youngest (16 years) athlete of Jammu and Kashmir to be conferred with the Sher-i-Kashmir Sports Award.
19. Ravuri Bharadwaja, 86, the Telgu writer was selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award 2012 for his contributions to Telgu Literature.
20. The Malayalam film directed by Ranjith has won the P A Backer Foundation award for best movie `Spirit’ in the year 2012.
21. Singer Asha Bhosle, actress Mala Sinha, late filmmaker Yash Chopra, and late superstar Rajesh Khanna among several others conferred with Phalke Academy awards.
22. Major Anup Joseph Manjali was awarded the second-highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi for killing three foreign militants in Jammu and Kashmir.12 defence personnel were awarded the Shaurya Charkra for their acts of bravery including Captain A Rahul Ramesh and Naik Krishna Kumar who were given the honour posthumously.
23. Jenita Mary a young woman scientist from Meghalaya has been selected for this year's ISRO Young Scientist Award.
24. The Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (15), UNA-USA's Global Leadership Award called Champion for Global Change Award for 2013. 25. The Madhya Pradesh Government’s Cottage and Village Industry Department has bagged United Nations Public Service Award for year 2013
26. Kerala CM Oommen Chandy won UN’s Public Service Award for 'mass contact programme'on the occasion of UN Public Service Day ceremonies held from 24th to 27th June, 2013 in Bahrain.
27. Pratibha Ray Conferred With the 47th Jnanpith Award for the Year 2011 in may 2013 at Balyogi Auditorium in New Delhi. The award includes cash prize of 11 lakh Rupees, a citation as well as bronze replica of Goddss Saraswati.
28. In recognition of her work with Adivasi (Indigenous) communities in India, Dayamani Barla was chosen by Cultural Survival, an Indigenous Peoples rights organization, as the winner of the 2013 Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award.
29. A short film based on the project- affected people of Tarapur Atomic Power Station has won the 'Yellow Oscar' award at the Uranium Film Festival at Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil.
30. NTR Literary Award which carries a cash prize of 1 lakh Rupees and citation presented to Noted Oriya writer Manoj Das for contribution to literature, both in Odiya and English.
31. American writer Lydia Davis has won the 5th Man Booker International Prize.
32. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s won the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award for 2013.
33. Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was conferred with the US-based National Space Society’s (NSS) Wernher von Braun Memorial Award in San Diego.
34. Sathwik Karnik Wins National Geographic Bee Contest
35. Asom Ratna Award (posthumously) to Late Smt. Indira Goswami.
36. Srimanta Shankardeva Award to Smt. Sharmila Tagore, she is said as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
37. Anupam Kher Won 3rd Asian Award for his performances in movies like “Silver Linings Playbook“, “Bride & Prejudice“, and “Bend it Like Beckham“.
38. Triple Emmy Award winning actor James Gandolfini dies after a heart attack
. 39. India bagged 3 top awards including the Best Feature Film (“Paan Singh Tomar”), the Best Director (Tigmanshu Dhulia ) and Special Jury Certificate of Recognition (Kaushal Oza for his documentary “Afterglow” )at the third SAARC Film Festival in Colombo.
40. Kevin Barry, the Irish author won 100000 Euro International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, “City of Bohane”.
41. Huga Chavez was posthumously awarded Venezuela journalism prize.
42. Healthcare Economist Dr Mukesh Hariawala was recently conferred the prestigious ‘Indian Healthcare Visionary of the Decade’ award for Unveiling a unique and novel customized universal health insurance model for all 1.2 billion Indians calling it ‘Womb to Tomb’, concept.
43. The International Data Group (IDG) Computer world Honours Program, Computer world Honors Laureate has honored Government of India initiative UIDAI with 21st Century Achievement Award 2013 under the category ‘Economic Development’.
44. Adam Johnson’s novel “The Orphan Master’s son” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013.
45. The 3 times World Formulae One champion Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel from Germany won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2013 on 21 April 2013 by defeating Lotus drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean.
46. Djokovic won the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters Tournament by defeating Nadal.
47. Assam Topped the Medal Tally of 20th National Archery Championship by claiming four gold medals.
48. Rupesh Shah Won ONGC 12th Asian Billiards championship at Indore Tennis Club, Indore on 7 April 2013
. 49. Singer Hariharan Conferred With the Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 2013.
50. American writer Lydia Davis won 5th Man Booker International Prize 2013.
51. US singer-songwriter Carole King Became the First Woman to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
52. Indian-origin boy Sathwik Karnik, 12 from Massachusetts has won National Geographic Bee contest after grueling rounds testing his geographic knowledge about lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia and port cities in England. National Geographic Bee is an annual geography contest sponsored by the National Geographic Society since 1989.
53. Tan Twan Eng, the Malaysian author was declared as the winner of Walter Scott Prize 2013 for his English fiction novel The Garden of Evening Mists.
54. Former CAG Vinod Rai received Manappuram award under the category of civil servant achieving excellence in public administration.
55. Russian Film “the Major” won Golden Goblet for best feature film at the 16th at Shangahi International Film Festival.
56. Vandana Gandhi became the first ever Indian woman to receive Dubai Government's coveted Emirates Woman Award for business excellence in June 2013.
57. IIFA 2013: a) Vidya Balan got the Best Actress Award at for Kahaani. b) Ranbir Kapoor was named Best Actor for Barfi
c) The best debut actors are Yami Gautam and Ayushmann Khurrana.
d) 'English Vinglish' helmer Gauri Shinde bagged the best debut director award.
e) Former couple Ranbir and Deepika Padukone won best Jodi award.
f) Gangs of Wasseypur won two awards, one for Best Action (Shyam Kaushal) and the other for Best Dialogue (Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh, Sachin Ladia and Anurag Kashyap) was shared with Juhi Chaturvedi for Vicky Donor.
g) The award for Best Editing was won by Kahaani (Namrata Rao) and Best Choreography went to Ganesh Acharya for Agneepath.
h) Ek Tha Tiger won the award for Best Special Effects (Pankaj Khanopur, Sherry Bharda and Vishal Anand).
58. Noted Maestro Zubin Mehta has been named for the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural harmony.
59. Shalini Singh, a Deputy Editor with The Hindu, has bagged the prestigious Prem Bhatia Award for Political Reporting-2013. She has been selected for her ‘excellent coverage of several key issues,’ particularly her ‘reporting of the telecom and Coalgate scandals.’
60. Afghanistan's first and only female governor and a humanitarian worker from the Kachin minority in Myanmar, Habiba Sarabi, is among this year's recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.Sarabi was honoured for helping build a functioning local government and pushing for education and women's rights in Afghanistan's Bamyan province despite discrimination and poverty.
61. Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland has been listed among 13 novels longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013.
62. Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the widest US global surveillance operations, was awarded German Whistleblower Prize 2013 worth 3900 Dollars in absentia.Snowden has exposed the substantial and unsuspecting monitoring and storage of communication data by US and other western intelligence agencies, which cannot be accepted in democratic societies.
63. Four Indian-American Professors Kannan Soundararajan, Rajeev Alur, Salil P Vadhan and Senthil Todadri in fourth week of July 2013 won Simons Investigators Awards 2013. Apart from these, 9 other mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists were also selected for the Simons Investigators Awards for their cutting edge research.
64. "Metro Man" E. Sreedharan has been selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013 for his outstanding contribution to society.
65. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan will be honoured with the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award for promotion of communal harmony peace and goodwill.
66. Vinod Prakash Sharma an eminent scientist won the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013. He received the award for his contribution in the field of basic and applied research of Malaria and Vector Biology.
67. Professor of economics, conservationist and mountaineer Harshwanti Bisht was selected to receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal. 23. Angelina Jolie to receive Honorary Oscar for humanitarian work. 24. First Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 presented to Shashi Tharoor 25. Vocalist Bombay Jayashri to get Indira Sivasailam endowment medal for this year.. Italian documentary 'Holy GRA' wins Venice Golden Lion 26. Indian American Kavita Shukla won INDEX Design Award 27. British Indian billionaire brothers Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja won a Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions to UK's Asian community.
68. Asian Award: Indian homeopath Mukesh Batra has been honoured with Asia's "most promising leader" award at a recent function in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for pioneering work in healthcare, using natural medicine.
69. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan was the guest of honour at a reception hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife, Samantha Cameron at their official residence for a charity (‘Silver Star’.) initiative for diabetes.
70. Kapil Parakh, an Indian-origin cardiologist chosen for White House fellowship programme. A Zambia University graduate, Parakh is the director of heart failure at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre and assistant professor in the Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Behaviour and Society.
14. BOOKS AND AUTHORS
1. “Ahmev Radha, Ahmev Krishnah” - Gulab Kothari (Chief Editor of Hindi newspaper Rajasthan Patrika)
2. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions - Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen.
3. A Brush with Life- Satish Gujral
4. A Bend in the river- V.S. Naipaul
5. God of Small things- Arundhati Rai
6. Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai.
7. Joseph Anton- Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
8. “Khushwantnama-The Lessons of My Life “ –Khushwant singh
9. Lajja- Taslima Nasrim.
10. My Unforgettable Memories-Mamata Banerjee
11. "Muslim in Indian cities”- Christophe Jaffrelot & Laurent Gayer
12. My country My Life- L.K.Advani
13. My Music My Life- Pt Ravi Shankar 14. Revolution 2020- Chetan Bhagat 15. Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
16. Satenic versus- Salman Rushdi 17. True Colours — Adam Gilchrist 18. The Heritage of Sikhs — Harbans Singh 19. The Jewels of Happiness – Indian spiritual guru Sri Chinmoy. 20. The Things About Thugs — Tabish Nair 21. The Test of My Life'- Indian cricketer Yuvraj singh
22. “Those were the Day and then-The Life & Times of Lal Krishna Advani”-Mira Govind Advani
23. Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam
24. What Young India Wants – Chetan Bhagat
25. Ye Jo Hai Pakistan'- Shivendra Kumar Singh. 26. Smritiyan - Garima Sanjay 27. My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions - former President of India, Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (APJ
28. How Not to Make Money -Raj Kundra, the millionaire businessman.
15. IMPORTANT ORGANIZATION AND SUMMIT
1. New Member
United Nation – Total– 193 (Last– South Sudan)
WTO – Total– 159 (Last - Tajikistan)
World bank and IMF – Total– 188 (Last – South Sudan)
European Union – Total– 28 (Last- Croatia)
1. UN Human Rights forum held in Beijing (CHINA)
2. World Economic Forum’s “summer Davos” meeting held in the north-eastern Chinese city of Dalian ( China).
3. The 7th India-Laos Joint Commission Meeting on bilateral cooperation was held in Vientiane.
4. 31st meeting of Health Ministers of WHO South-East Asia countries held in India.
5. Sixth Global Skills Summit held in New Delhi. The Theme of the Summit is “Industry Leads”. New Zealand is the country partner this time for the Summit.
2. Nuclear security summit
2nd Summit 2012 – Seoul (South Korea), 3rd Summit 2014(Next) : Netherland
3. BRICS summit
Country: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South-Africa.
4th Summit 2012: New Delhi 5th Summit 2013 : South Africa: Held in Durban from 26 to 27 March 2013 at the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC). PM Manmohan Singh attended the BRICS Summit from India. The central area of discussion was under the overarching theme, BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialisation. The possibility of setting up of a development bank and investment fund and promoting trade within this group in local currencies are particularly encouraging and progress in finalising these. Brazil and China Signed the Currency Swap Agreement: BRICS Summit 2013.
4. G 8 Summit:
38th Summit 2012 :David camp, USA
39th Summit 2013: United Kingdom
40th Summit (next 2014): Russia G-8 Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the US
5. G 20 Summit:
7th Summit 2012 – Los Cabos, Mexico 8th G-20 Leader’s Summit held in St. Peters burg (Russia). G-20 Labour Summit held in Mosscow (Russia).
6. NAM Summit:
16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit 2012- Tehran(Iran)
17th Summit(Next)-In 2015-Caracus (Venezuela)
26-31 August at Attended By(India): Prime Minister
Theme: Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance.
Country:120,New-Fiji, Azerbaijan
7. ASEAN Summit:
20th ASEAN Meeting April 2012 – Phnom penh (Cambodia). 21st ASEAN Summit Nov 2012 - Phnom Penh (Cambodia ). 22nd ASEAN Summit 2013 – Brunei
8. SCO Summit:
13th Summit 2013-Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
Attended by:Salman Khurshid(Forgien Minister)
12th Summit 2012-Beijing
Attended by:SM Krishna(Forgien Minister)
9. National youth Festival:
17th-Mangalore (Karnataka)
18th –Patna(12-16) January
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10. NATO Summit- 2010 Summit- Lisbon (Portugal) 2012 Summit- Chicago (United States) 11. SAARC Summit: SAARC journalists' summit 2013- Indore. 3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation 2013 – Kathmandu (Nepal) 17th SAARC Summit 2011- Addu City (Maldives) 18th SAARC Summit 2013- Kathmandu (proposed)
12. Arab league Summit 2013 - Doha.
13. 6th IBSA Summit2013 – New Delhi
14. 10th BASIC Summit - New Delhi
15. Earth Summit(2012) : -Rio de Janeiro
16. United Nation conference on Sustanable Devlopment(2012)-
Rio de Janeiro
17. The international biodiversity meet– Hyderabad
18. UN biodiversity meet in 2014 -South Korea
19. 58th Commonwealth Parliamentarian conference (2012) held
in Colombo. Johannesburg, South Africa (2013).
20. Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) summit (2013)– Cairo (Egypt) 21. 14th Meet of Environment Ministers of BASIC countries - Chennai
22. 13th India-Russia Annual Summit – New Delhi
23. 11th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas(2013) – Kochi(Kerala), Theme- 'Engaging diaspora: The Indian growth story'
24. 18th National Level Meeting b/w Myanmar and India (2012)– New Delhi
25. 4th World Telugu Conference - Tirupati. (Inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherje) 26. 3 day long International Buddhist Conference – Patna.
27. 11th Meeting of India-Canada Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism 2012 held in New Delhi and the 12th meeting of the Joint Working Group will be held in Canada in 2013
28. United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Doha extends the Kyoto Protocol till 2020..
29. UN Conference on Climate Change get held at Doha.
30. 14th North East Book Fair held in Guwahati. Fair is dedicated to Poet Hiren Bhattacharya.
31. 2014 Mrs India International will be held place in Kolkata.
32. Fourth meeting of India-Mongolia Joint Committee held in New Delhi
33. 3 days Dubai World Conference on Consumer Rights (DWCCR) held at the World Trade Center in Dubai.
34. 'India Calling China Business Partnership Summit' held in China from April 7 to 12 this year.
35. The 8th India-Yemen Joint Committee Meeting for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (JCM) took place in New Delhi.
36. Microfinance India Summit 2013 to be held at New Delhi.
37. 3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation held in Nepal on 5th April 2013
38. WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council) Global Summit held in UAE Abu Dhabi 2013.
39. Two Day India-China Counter-Terrorism Dialogue on Afghanistan ended on 12 April 2013 in Beijing China.
40. The 8th World Chambers of Congress held at Qatar in Doha under the theme, “Opportunities for all”.
41. 8thIndia-Seychelles Joint Commission Meet concluded at New Delhi
42. Indonesia moves Miss World final to Bali after protests.
43. The 63rd edition of the Miss World pageant opened in Indonesia
44. Foreign Minister of Nicaragua,Samuel Santos Lopez visited India, to participate in the India-SICA (Central American Integration System) Foreign Ministers' meeting.
45. 3rd India-Republic of Korea Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue held in Seoul. 4th India-ROK Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue will be held at New Delhi at a mutually convenient time in 2014.
16. IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
1. BHARAT NIRMAN:
It was implemented and extended in three phases i.e., from (2005 - 2009), (2009 - 2012), (2012- 2014)
It is centrally sponsored scheme for the rural development of India started in September 2005. There are 6 objectives in this scheme Objectives: a) To provide all weather road connectivity to the village which have more than 1000 population in plain areas and 500 population in hilly areas. b) To bring 10 million hectares of land under irrigation facility and to make 1.4 million hectares of additional land for arable land (for the use of agriculture). c) To provide clean drinking water to all villages by the end of 2012 under Rajiv Gandhi payjal yojana. d) To electrify 1, 76,000 villages by the end of 2012 under Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran yojna. e) To construct Pakka houses for BPL house- holds under Indira Awas Yojana (Now from April 1st 2013 cash assistance Rs. 70000 for plain areas and Rs. 75000 for hilly areas) previously it was Rs. 40000 for plain areas and Rs. 45000 for hilly areas. f) To provide telephone connectivity to all villages and all BPL holders by 2012. g) Note: All these objectives are extended till 2014.
2. JNNURM: Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission It was implemented and extended in two phases i.e., (2005 - 2012), (2012 - 2014) Started in the year 2005 to make million plus cities squatter (Slam area) free. There are 2 components a) To construct pakka houses for urban poor dwelling in squatter under Rajiv Awas yojana. b) To make transportation system faster and greener.
3. NRHM: National Rural Health Mission It was started on 12th April 2005 to enhance the health facilities in rural areas. The appointment of ASHA workers (Accredited social health activist) in Angonwadi Kendra to provide basic information on health and hygiene conditions as well as to guide people regarding conservation of water.
4. MGNREGA: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act It was on started on 2nd Feb 2006 to provide minimum 150 days from 1st April 2013 (previously its is 100 days) of employment to BPL house hold. This scheme is both for Urban and Rural areas. The old name of this scheme is NREGA and it was changed to MGNREGA on 2nd Oct 2009. The wages under the scheme is fixed on the basis of CPI-AL (Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers) which is calculated by the state government on the basis of their Per capita Income.
5. UIDAI: Unique Identification Authority of India. It was started in the year 2010 to provide multipurpose national identity card (MNIC) to every citizen aged above 5 years. Its name has been changed to Aadhar. Its model state was Karnataka (started) The retinal identification is taken from the age group of 14 and above. Scheme has 7 components like address, PAN no., Passport no., retinal identity etc, It consists of 12 digit number. Chairman: Nandan Nilkani 6. NFSM: National Food Security Mission This scheme is to reduce the poverty in India under national social assistance programme. Under Public Distribution System (PDS), government will provide rice @ Rs. 3/kg, wheat @ Rs. 2/kg to the BPL households.
7. IGNOAPS: Indira Gandhi National Old age Pension Scheme This Scheme is for the people who aged above 65 years. The amount of Rs. 400 per month (Central govt + State govt = Rs. 200 + Rs. 200) will be provided by both Central government and State government who aged between 65 – 80 years. Rs. 500 per month (Central govt + State govt = Rs. 250 + Rs. 250) for the people who aged more than 80 years.
8. IGNWPS: Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme The beneficiary is in between age group of 40-64 years in this scheme. Assistance of Rs. 400 per month (Central govt + State govt = Rs. 200 + Rs. 200) will be given to particular person.
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9. NFBS: National Family Benefit Scheme
Under this scheme a grant of Rs. 10000 is given in case of natural and accidental death of the primarily breadwinner of the family (he/she) of BPL households. 10. ANNAPURNA: Under this scheme 10 kg of food grains are provided to BPL households free of cost every month. But for this scheme the particular beneficiary shouldn’t be registered with IGNOAPS.
17. ORGANISATIONS & THEIR HEAD
RBI Raghuram Govinda Rajan
SEBI-U.K. Sinha
NABARD-Prakash Bakshi
FICCI-Naina Lal Kidwai
IBPS-K.R. Kamath
RAW-Alok Joshi
IB-Saiyad Ashif Ibrahim
CBI-Ranjeet Sinha
UPSC-D.P. Agarwal
SSC-Amitava Bhattacharyya
UGC-Ved Prakash
Indian Army-Gen. Bikram Singh
Indian Airforce-Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne
Indian Navy-Admiral D.K. Joshi
BSF-Subhash Joshi
ISRO-Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
NASSCOM-Krishna kumar Natrajan
ASSOCHAM-Rana Kapoor
DRDO-Avinash Chander
SBI-Pratip Chaudhary
IRDA-T.S.Vijayan
TRAI-Rahul Khullar
CCI-Ashok Chawla
World Bank-Jim Yong Kim
IMF-Christane Legarde
IFC-Jim Yong cai
WHO-Margrate Chan
WTO-Roberto Azevedo
National Stock Exchange-Chitra Ramkrishna
Bombay Stock Exchange Ashish Chauhan
CBDT-Sudha Sharma
National Security Council-Yakov Amridor
National Security Advisor-Shivashankar Menon
Chief Economic Advisor-Raghuram Raja
Attorney General of India-G.E. Vahanvati
PM Economic Advisor-C.Rangrajan
CAG-Shashi Kant Sharma
Chief Election Commissionor-V.S.Sampath
National Commission for women-Mamta Sharma
National Innovation Commission-Sam Pitroda
Press Council of India-Marandey Katju
Chief Economic advisor and Vice President of IMF-Kaushik Basu
Confederation of Indian Industries-S Gopalakrishnan
18. IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
1. Parthasarathi Shome. – for Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance
2. B. Shivraman Committee - Nabard 3. Suma Verma Committee - to update, and revise the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006
4. Damodran Committee: on improvement of customer services in banks
5. Shri M. Narasimham Committee: on Banking Sector Reforms
6. Shri Raghuram Rajan Committee: on Financial Sector Reforms,
7. Shri B. Mahapatra Committee: to review the existing prudential guidelines on restructuring of advances by banks/financial institutions
8. Shri Aditya Puri Committee: Dissemination of Credit Information 9. Shri K.U.B. Rao Committee: recommended aligning gold import regulations
10. K M Chandrasekhar committee : for rationalization of foreign investment norms
11. Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee: to study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present transactions
12. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India
13. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank
14. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII),
15. Committee Set Up On Uttarakhand Floods: The committee will be headed by AK Ganju (Chairman, Ganga Flood Control Commission, Patna)
16. JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.
17. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media
18. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying activities to enter India
19. Mukul Mudgal Committee: to look at process of film clearance
20. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank
21. SK Srivastava Committee: to formulate a policy on public-private partnership model to raise coal output
22. K M Chandrasekhar Committee – for rationalization of foreign investment norms
23. Arvind Mayaram Committee –for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII)
24. Janakiraman Committee - To investigate the security transactions of the bank
25. MS Ahluwalia committee - to evaluate aspects related to set up of Nalanda University
26. Sitakant Mahapatra committee - for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth schedule of constitution
27. N R Narayana Murthy committee - for evaluation of corporate sector participation in Higher Education.
28. C Rangarajan committee - for poverty scale estimates in the country
29. MB Shah committee - for inspection of illegal mining activities
30. N Rangachary committee - to examine taxation policies for I.T. sector
31. Parthasarathi Shome committee - implementation of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rule)
32. Deepak Parekh committee – for Financing Infrastructure sector
33. Naresh Chandra committee - 14 member task force on security issues
34. Bhandari Committee - Reconstruction of RRBs 35. RS Gujral Committee - suggest measures to boost MSME exports.
19. DEFENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1. Missiles in use of Indian Army:
a) Prithvi I - 150km
b) Prithvi II - 350km
c) Prithvi III - 350km - 600km
d) Agni I - 700km -1250km
e) Agni II - 2000km -3500km
f) Agni III - 3500km -5000km
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g) Agni IV - 3000km -4000km (test fired only)
h) Agni V - 5500km -5800km
i) Agni VI - 8000km -3500km
j) Akash- 30 km 2. NASA Spacecraft "Voyager 1" Drifted Into Unknown Region of the Space 3.
China became the World's Fifth-Largest Arms Exporter.
4. Indian Navy successfully test-fired the 290-km range Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile, capable of carrying a conventional warhead of 300 kg, from a warship off the Goa coast.
5. Pakistan test fired cruise missile Babur with a range of 700km 6. Iran has tested Fateh 110 missiles (Range - 300 km). 7. Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel INS Saryu inducted into Indian Navy. 8. Cochin Shipyard launched Aadesh the First Fast Patrol Vessel for Coast Guard..
9. K-5 ballistic missile(strike range around 1500 kms) successfully test fired from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal.
10. Indian Army gets its first indigenously-made Rudra attack chopper.
11. ISRO has launched Indo-French satellite 'SARAL'(410-kg) with the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20 from Sriharikota. It will support in marine meteorology and sea state forecasting, operational oceanography, seasonal forecasting, climate monitoring, ocean, earth system and climate research.
12. "EKUVERIN 2012" an India-Maldives joint military training exercise organized in Belgaum.
13. ISRO launches its 100th space program named PSLV C21 from Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) 14. US and South Korea did Joint Annual Military Drills called Key Resolve on 11 March 2013. apart from Key Resolve, another joint drill called Foal Eagle was on its way since the starting of March 2013.
15. Nepal & United States Conducted joint Military Exercises called Shanti Prayas-2 or Peace Initiatives in Panchkhal, 50 km east of Kathmandu from 25 March 2013 to 7 April 2013, India also participated in it.
16. Pakistan successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Hatf-IV ballistic missile of range of 900 km.
17. The medium range nuclear capable surface-to-surface 20-metre long missile Agni-II was successfully test-fired with a strike range of more than 2,000 km from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. It has a launch weight of 17 tonnes and can carry a payload of 1,000 kg over a distance of 2,000 km.
18. Pakistan Successfully Test-Fired Nuclear-Capable Hatf-IV Ballistic Missile on 10 April 2013. The missile has a range of 900 km Strategic Plans Division chief Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Ahmed Kidwai witnessed the launch of Hatf-IV missile.
19. Indo-Russian INDRA 2013 military exercise is scheduled to take place in October 2013 at Mahajan field firing range of Rajasthan.
20. French Nuclear of Areva Reactors will be 1st Tested in China before supplying the production to Jaitapur in Maharashtra.
21. Russia launched European telecom satellite SES-6 from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space centre. 22. Warfare aircraft MiG-29K fighter planes (Black Panther squadron) commissioned into Navy. 23. China launches a communications satellite, Zhongxing-11
24. Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Russia launched the world’s only returnable satellite called Bion-M1 on 20 April 2013.
25. Indian National Defence University for training and research in military studies will be set up in Gurgaon.
26. India's first International regional navigational satellite IRNSS -1A launched from Satish Dhawan Space centre.
27. 50,000 crore deal for supplying 126 Rafale combat aircraft Signed b/w India and French.The 126 medium-multirole combat aircraft deal is the biggest focus of the two sides at the moment.
28. India's Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher System , the PINAKA , developed by DRDO. Pinaka can fire a salvo of 12 rockets in 44 seconds from a launcher with a strike range of 40 km. 29. India launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, joining the elite club of nations with the capability of designing and building a warship of this size and capability.
30. The Indian space agency called off the launch of its heavy rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D5) due to leak in the second-stage engine.
31. Japan unveiled “Izumo”, its biggest warship since World War II amid tensions with China following maritime skirmishes between the two nations over disputed islands.The ship is nearly 250 meters (820 feet) long, is designed to carry up to 14 helicopters.
32. India’s first defence satellite GSAT-7 launched from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Friday. GSAT-7 is India’s first dedicated spacecraft for Defence applications.
33. China to launch 3rd lunar (Chang’e-3) mission this year
34. DHRUVA-3, a high performance computing system developed by Indian defence scientists. DHRUVA-3, developed by ANURAG, one of the labs under the Defence Research and Development Organisation, will be useful in computational fluid dynamics design for aircraft and air-borne systems, simulation of complex systems and stress analysis of materials.
35. India’s Chandrayaan helps NASA detect water on Moon. . Using data collected by India’s Chandrayaan mission, NASA has detected magmatic water locked under the surface of the Moon. 36. Boeing C-17 Globemaster III inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) is a large, versatile military transport aircraft capable of carrying heavy, oversize loads long distances and landing on rough and unprepared surfaces.
37. Wipro in partnership with Qatar Airways announced the launch of a range of information technology products for the aviation industry. 20.
International Organizations Headquarters
UNO (United Nations Org)New York
UNICEFNew York
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade & Development)New York
WHO (World Health Org)Geneva
ILO (International Labour Org)Geneva
WTO (World Meteorological Org)Geneva
World Intellectual Property OrgGeneva
International Standards Org.Geneva
IMF (International Monetary Fund)Washington DC
World BankWashington DC
UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Org)Paris
OECD (Org. for Economic Cooperation and Dev.)Paris
UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Dev. Org)Vienna
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)Vienna
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)Vienna
Amnesty InternationalLondon
Commonwealth of NationsLondon
IMO (International Maritime Organization)London
ICJ (International Court of Justice)The Hague
FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization)Rome
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)Brussels
Transparency InternationalBerlin
SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Coop.)Kathmandu
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)Jakarta
APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Forum)Singapore
Organization of Islamic Cooperation-Jeddah
DATE--DAY
12th January-National Youth day (Birthday of Vivekananda).15th January-Army day.
3. 24th Jan National Girl Child Day.
25th January-National tourism day/ Voters day
30th January National Martyrs day & World anti Leprosy Day
3rd Feb World Cancer Day.
28th Feb-National science day
8th March-International women day
9th March-World Kidney day
15th March-World Consumer rights day , (the theme for 2013 is, ‘Consumer Justice Now).
20th March-World Sparrow Day & International Happiness Day.
21st March-World Forestry day
22nd March-World water day (For the year 2013, the theme is ‘Water Cooperation’).
23rd March-World Meteorological day
24th March-World T.B. day
2 April-World Autism Awareness Day
7th April-World Health day
21st April-Civil service day
22nd April-World Earth day
23rd April-World Books day
24th April-Panchayat Divas
1st May-International Labour day
11th May-National Technology day
21st May-Anti Terrorism day (Death day of Rajiv Gandhi)
31st May-Anti Tobacco day (No smoking day)
5th June-World Environment day
1st July-Doctors day
11th July-World population day
6th August-Hiroshima day
9th August-Nagasaki day
12th August-International youth day
29th August-National Sports day (Birthday of Dhyan Chand)
5th September-Teachers day
8th September-World Literacy day
14th September-Hindi Divas
15th September-Engineers day
16th September-Ozone day
2nd October-International Non-violence day
8th October-Air force day
9th October-World post day
24th October-United nation day
17th November-Students day
18th November-Adults day
19th November-Citizens day
27th November-National law day
1st December-AIDS day
4th December-Navy day
10th December-Human Rights day
14th December-National consumers day & National Energy Conservation Day.
1. World health day - 7 April 2013, UNDER the theme was high blood pressure for this year.
2. 66th Himachal Day celebrated on 15 April 2013 at Dhalpur Ground, Kullu , Himachal Pradesh came into existence on 15 April 1948 with the merger of 30 princely states.
3. World Hemophilia Day observed on 17th April.
4. World Heritage Day observed on the 18th April , it is Also known as "International Monuments and Sites Day". The International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has decided a theme "Heritage in Education" and its " Expressions in Diverse Geo-cultural Contexts" for World Heritage Day 2013.
5. Earth Day being celebrated on 22 April. This year's theme is "the face of climate change".
6. World Asthma day being observed 7 may under the theme for this year is "You Can Control Your Asthma."
7. Anti Terrorism Day Observed on 21 may.
8. World Hypertension Dayon 17 may. 9. National Technology Day is being observed on 11 may.
10. World Day against Child Labour observed 12 June under the theme is - "No to Child Labour in Domestic Work".
11. World Music Day observed on 21 June. It is also called Fête de la Musique.
12. World Refugee Day marked on 20th June under the theme “Take One Minute to Support a Family Forced to Flee”.
13. 7th Statistics Day observed on 29th june under the theme “Labour & Employment Statistics”.
14. World Malaria Day being observed on 25th April. The global campaign theme for 2013 and the coming years is Invest in the future Defeat malaria as given by the World Health Organization.
15. World Intellectual Property Day is being observed 26 April, under thr theme “Creativity - The Next Generation”
16. International Dance Day celebrated on 29thApril. The aim of the “International Dance Day Message” is to revel in the universality of this art form that crosses all political, cultural and ethnic barriers.
17. Today is International Museum Day on 18th may under the theme for this year “Museum Memory + Creativity = Social Change.”
18. World Oceans Day observed 8th june under the theme for this year and 2014 is:Together we have the power to protect the ocean
. World Population Day that seeks to raise awareness about global population issues, is an annual event observed on 11th July. The theme for 2013 is Adolescent pregnancy with an aspiration of safe childbirth and that each pregnancy is wanted.
20. A special meeting of the UN General Assembly will mark the Nelson Mandela International Day on 18th July.
21. UN Declared 19 November as World Toilet Day
22. UN Declared 12 July as World Malala Day
23. Kargil Vijay Diwas observes on 26th July in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes.
24. World Tiger Day observed on 29th July
25. World Hepatitis Day was observed across the world on 28 July 2013.The theme for the year 2013 is This is Hepatitis, Know it, Confront it.
26. August 9 is the 71st anniversary of the Quit India Movement, which Mahatma Gandhi called the biggest struggle of his life. In August 1942, Gandhiji launched the Quit India Movement (“Bharat Chhodo Andolan”).
27. International Youth Day is being observed today across the globe on 12th august.The theme this year is-- Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward.
28. World Humanitarian Day is observed on the 19th of August every year to recognise those people who have lost their lives working for humanitarian causes.The theme for this year is - The World Needs More.
29. The French government announced 19 August as the World Photography Day. 30. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Divas is being observed today on the 20th August.
31. April 6 declared International Sports Day.
32. World No-Tobacco Day observed on 31st May under the theme is "Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship" for this years.
33. World Environment Day being observed 5 June under the theme “Think.Eat.Save.” for this year. 22.
ABBREVIATION IN NEWS
1. BSBDA - Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account
2. FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank
3. TARC - Tax Administration Reform Commission
4. ITEs: Intra-Group Transactions and Exposures
5. LCR: Liquidity Coverage Ratio
6. NSFR: Net Stable Funding Ratio
7. LRMT: Liquidity risk monitoring tools
8. CBS: Core Banking Solution
9. DEAF: Depositor Education and Awareness Fund 10. CRAR: Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio
11. External Commercial Borrowings (ECB)
12. SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
13. FSLRC: Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission
14. MIBOR: Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate
15. LIBOR: London Inter-Bank Offer Rate
16. LAF – Liquidity Adjustment Facility
17. GIRO - Government Internal Revenue Order
18. EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
19. FRBMA: Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act
20. ALM- Asset Liability Management
21. AMFI- Association of Mutual Fund in India.
22. TIEA – Tax Information exchange Agreement 23. CAR – Cash Adequacy Ratio
24. CCEA – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
25. CECA - Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
26. CEPA – Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
27. DTAA – Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
28. DTC – Direct Tax Code
29. ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings
30. EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
31. EFSF – European Financial Stability Facility
32. FEMA- Foreign Exchange Management Act
33. FII – Foreign Institutional Investor.
34. FINO- Financial Inclusion Network Operation
35. FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion board
36. FSLRC – Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission
37. FTA- Free trade agreement
38. GAAR - General anti avoidance rule
39. GSLV - Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle
40. MSF-Marginal Standing Facility
41. NBFC-Non Banking Finance Companies
42. NCTC - National Counter-Terrorism Centre
43. NEFT - National Electronic Funds Transfer
44. NSG – Nuclear Suppliers Group
45. PPP – Public Private Partnership & Purchasing Power parity
46. PSLV – Polar Satellite Launch vehicle
47. RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement
48. SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio 49. TAPI - Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India.
50. QFI -Qualified Foreign Investors 51. VVPAT -'Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail'
52. Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA)
