Latest Current Affair
1.
T elev ision journalist Karan T hapar has won the International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism.
2.
American Singer Bruce Springsten has been named as Person of the y ear by MusiCares the charitable arm of Grammy Awards'
Gov erning Body .
3.
Founder of SEWA (Self Employ ed Women Association), Ela Ramesh Bhatt has been honored with Indira Gandhi Peace, Disarmament
and dev elopment Award 201 1 .
4.
ICC Women's cricket world cup 201 3 was won by Australia by beating west indies in Mumbai, India.
5.
India's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) Growth Rate in FY 201 2 1 3 Stay ed at 5 %, lowest in last decade.
6.
Indian Economist and Nobel Laureate Amarty a Sen has been giv en highest civ ilian honor "Commander De La Legion d'honneur".
7.
Indian Railway s signed a pact with French Railway s for technical Co- 0operation.
8.
Indian Scientist CNR Rao honored by top Chinese scientific honor for boosting Indo China Scientific Co- Operation.
9.
Justice Shiv a Kirti is the newly appointed chief of Allahabad High Court.
1 0.
Malala Y ousafzai has been giv en the tipperary international peace prize 201 2 giv en by Ireland gov ernment.
11.
Manisha Kulshreshtha has been giv en the Lamhi Award 201 2 which is giv en in memory of Legendary Nov elist Munsi Premchand.
1 2.
Mereechika Written by Dr. Rajan Kapoor.
1 3.
Prime Minister of UK, Dav id Cameron Visited India.
1 4.
Ranchi Rhinos beat Delhi Wav eriders to win Inaugural Hockey India League T ournament 201 3.
1 5.
Sea of Innocence written by Kishwar Desai.
1 6.
South Korea launched its first ev er space satellite called ST SAT 2C on a launch rocket called NARO - 1 .
1 7.
South Korea launched its first ev er space satellite called ST SAT 2C on a launch rocket called NARO - 1 .
1 8.
T he National Lake Conserv ation Plan and National Wetlands Conserv ation Program hav e been combined into a single scheme called
National Plan for conserv ation of Aquatic Eco Sy stems.
1 9.
T he National Lake Conserv ation Plan and National Wetlands Conserv ation Program hav e been combined into a single scheme called
National Plan for conserv ation of Aquatic Eco Sy stems.
20.
T irush Kamini, Indian Cricketer who became the first Indian to score a hundred in ICC Women's Cricket World Cup T ournaments.
21 .
Vinod Mehta has been honored with Lokmany a T ilak Rashtriy a Patrakarita award 201 2.
22.
Y ukiy a Amano, Chief of International Atomic Energy Agency (IKEA) v isited India.
23.
21 February - - International Mother Language Day.
24.
21 st international Book Fair was organized in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
25.
27th International Surajkund Handicraft Fair was organized in Hary ana with special focus on Karnataka State.
26.
27th Rameshwar Das Birla National Award giv en to Dr. B .S. Singhal.
27.
44th Meet of Gov ernors of states was held in New Delhi.
28.
Accidental Apprentice is written by Vikas Swaroop.
29.
Devaluing to Prosperity is written by Surjeet S Bhalla.
30.
Revolution 2020 is written by Chetan Bhagat.
31 .
Winter Evenings is written by Nav tej Sarna.
32.
A large asteroid recently fallen in chely abinsk city of central Russia.
33.
A new T ax sav ing scheme called Rajiv Gandhi Equity Sav ing Scheme is launched for attracting Small Inv estors towards Share Market.
T he scheme can be av ailed by Persons with annual income Under Rs: 1 2 lakhs and Permits inv estments totalling up to a maximum of Rs:
50,000, of which, 50% is tax deductible
34.
American News Magazine Newsweek changed its name to Newsbeast.
35.
American President Barack Obama appointed Sally Jewel as new Home Minister of America.
36.
American Sailor General Joseph Donford appointed as chief of NAT O mission in Afghanistan.
37.
An Indian person named Smita Singh has been appointed as a member in USA President Obama's Global Dev elopment Council.
38.
Ashok Kumar Mukherjee appointed as India's permanent representativ e in the United Nations replacing Hardeep Singh Puri.
39.
Ashok Mago, an Indian Businessman honored by 'Minority Business Leader Award' by the US Based Dallas Business Journal.
40.
Ashwani Kumar New gov ernor of Nagaland.
41 .
Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) prov ides a USD 1 00 Million Loan Uttarakhand State for urbanization in fiv e of its towns.
42.
Badminton Play er Saina Nehwal and Boxer Mary Kom hav e been chosen as y outh icon by Election Commission of India.
43.
Bansagar nahar scheme of Uttar Pradesh has been giv en two y ears extension by Planning Commission of India.
44.
Basant Kumar Gupta is India's New Env oy to Italy .
45.
Belarusian T ennis Play er Victoria Azarenka won Australian Open T ennis T ournament after beating Lee Na from China.
46.
Bharati Airtel launches "Apna Chaupal" - India's first v oice based one stop solution portal for v alue added serv ices for Rural and Semi
Urban Areas.
47.
Bob Carr, Foreign Minister of Australia v isited India for talks on Civ il Nuclear Co- operation agreement.
48.
CISF Unit was marked as Best Marching Contingent in the Parade of 63rd Republic Day .
49.
Centre and States solv e the issue of CST (Central sales taxes) for implementation of GST (Goods and Serv ice T ax). GST is meant to
solv e taxation issues as it will replace all indirect taxes in Country by a single simplified taxation sy stem.
50.
China commissioned its Guided missile destroy er Ship named Changchun.
51 .
China tested its indigenously built largest military transport aircraft named Y un 20 or T ransport 20.
52.
Committee for analy sis of rules for censoring of films has been formed under chairmanship of Mukul Mudgal, Ex- Chief Justice of
Punjab and Hary ana High Court.
53.
Dr. Agnes M. Kalibata, Minister of Agriculture and animal resources of Central African Country Rwanda v isited India.
54.
Dr. Keshav rao Sadashiv Shastri Musalgaunkar awarded by Kalidas Award giv en by Madhy a Pradesh Gov ernment.
55.
Dr. Kusuma Ansal honored by Achary a Vidhy a Niwas Mishra award for her nov el T apsi.
56.
Dubai Open tennis tournament won by Serbian Nov ak Djokov ic by beating Czech Republic's T omas Berdy ch.
57.
FDA (U S Food and Drug Administration) approv ed bionic ratina named 'Argus II' for clinical and commercial use.
58.
Faith and Freedom : Gandhi in History written by Prof. Mushirul Hasan.
59.
Federation cup v olley ball tournament won by Kerala by beating T amilnadu.
60.
Former CBI Chief Amar Pratap Singh is appointed as a Member of UPSC (Union Public Serv ice Commission).
61 .
Former chief justice of Karnataka High Court, Y . Bhasker Rao is appointed as Lokay ukta of Karnataka.
62.
Four scientists were honored with Lifetime Achiev ement Award by Prime Minister. Named Rav i Bhushan Grov er (Contribution in
Indo- US Nuke deal), K.Balaramamoorthy (Non- - Destructiv e missile techniques), R. Balasubramaniam (Mathematics), S.K. Sikka
(Nuke tests 1 974 and 1 998).
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Francois Hollande, President of France v isited India.
Gatapara Gram panchay at in Kanker District in Madhy a Pradesh has been awarded for excellence in implementation of MNREGA
(Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employ ment Guarantee Act).
65.
IPI India Award 201 2 for excellence in Journalism was giv en to "T he T ribune".
66.
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) launched Marine Research Satellite "SARAL" along with 67 other foreign satellites
through its launched v ehicle PSLV C 20 from Satish dhawan space centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
67.
India signed a USD 1 50 Million Loan agreement with Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) for dev eloping hy dro power projects in
Uttarakhand.
68.
India successfully tested Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) Sy stem.
69.
India's DRDO (Defence Research and Dev elopment Organization) dev eloped a new marine security technique called 'Duck Drop'.
70.
India's first Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) under the NBFC (non banking finance company ) structure was formally launched by
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram by handing first IDF- NBFC licence to India Infra Debt Limited (Infradebt).
71 .
India's first women's Post Office has been opened in New Delhi.
72.
India's per capita income for Financial Y ear 201 1 1 2 was Rs. 51 30/Month. It showed an increase of 1 3.7 % ov er last y ear's per capita
income (It was 451 3 in 201 0 - 1 1 ).
73.
India's third stock Exchange MCX (Multi Commodity Stock Exchange) started operations.
74.
Indian American scientist Rangaswamy Sriniv asan has been honored by prestigious USA National Medal of technology and Innov ation.
75.
Indian Nav y commissioned INS Sary u, its largest Patrolling v essel for maritime surv eillance around Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
76.
Indian Origin Halimah Y acob appointed as first female speaker of Singapore Parliament.
77.
Indian archery play ers Rajat Chauhan and Manjuda Soy won Silv er in Arhcery world cup archery 201 3 in T urkey .
78.
Indian origin lady Krishna Arora won the Order of Australia Medal for her serv ices to the Indian community .
79.
Iran recently unv eiled its Fighter Plane Kahar F 31 3.
80.
Jerry Pinto has been giv en Hindu Literary Prize 201 3 for his First Nov el named Em and T he Big Hoom.
81 .
John Kerry is appointed as new Foreign Minister (Secretary of State) of USA (United States of America).
82.
K 1 5 Ballistic Missile that can be launched from Submarines was tested successfully .
83.
Kav eri Water dispute in news recently . It is dispute in Karnataka and T amilnadu related to sharing of water of Riv er Kav eri.
84.
MT NL (Mahanagar T elephone Nigam Limited)'s v ideo telephony serv ice was recently started by Union Communications and IT
Minister, Kapil Sibbal.
85.
Madhy a Pradesh State's Exhibition was not shown In 63rd Republic Day parade on Jan 26, 201 3.
86.
Maharashtra's Lower Dudhana Irrigation project has been extended for two y ears.
87.
Michael Clarke declared as Australian T est play er of the Y ear.
88.
Miloz Zeman is the new (3rd) president of Czech Republic.
89.
Minamata conv ention for controlled use of mercury to av oid dangerous health problems was signed in by 1 47 countries in Minamata,
Japan.
90.
NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Dev elopment )'s Net capital has been increased to Rs. 20000 Crore from Rs. 5000
Crore Initially .
91 .
National Grass court T ennis Championship 201 3 won by Ram Kumar Ramnathan and Ankita Raina in Men's and Women's categories.
92.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Germany written by Anita B. pfaff.
93.
North Korea recently did its third Nuclear test despite international resistance.
94.
Nov elist Hari Mrudul has been honored with Vartaman Sahity a Kamleshwar Kahani Award 201 2.
95.
Padma Awards 201 3
Padma Vibhushan - 4 Awards
Sh. Raghunath Mohapatra (ART )
Sh. S. Haider Raja (ART )
Prof. Y ahspal (Science)
Prof. Roddam Narsimha (Science)
Padma Bhushan - 24 Awards
Sharmila T agore, Abdul Rashid Khan, Rajesh Khanna, Jaspal Bhatti, Rahul Drav id and 1 9 Others
Padma Shri - 80 Awards
Sridev i Kapoor, Ramesh Sippy and 78 Others
96.
Patrick Suckling has been appointed as Australia's new high commissioner to India.
97.
Pay audi : Nawab of Cricket written by Suresh Menon
98.
Premlata Agarwal is the first Indian Lady to climb highest peaks of all sev en continents In the world.
99.
RBI Hiked FII (Foreign Institutional Inv estment) Limit in Gov ernment Securities and Corporate Bonds by USD 5 Billion Each taking
the total cap in domestic debt to USD 75 Billion for bridging the current account deficit.
1 00.
RBI issued norms for opening of new banks. It say s that the new banks will hav e a least worth of Rs. 500 Crore and hav e to maintain
25 % branches in Rural or Semi Urban Areas.
1 01 .
Rafael Nadal(Spain) won Brazil Open T ennis T ournament 201 3 after beating Dav id Nalbandian (Argentina).
1 02.
Rajnath singh appointed as chief of Political Party BJP (Bharatiy a Janata Party ).
1 03.
Rest Of India won the Irani T rophy 201 3 by beating Mumbai.
1 04.
S C Jameer New gov ernor of Odisha.
1 05.
Samudra Manthan has been written by C Raja Mohan.
1 06.
Sanjay Krishan Kaul appointed as Chief Justice of Punjab and Hary ana High Court.
1 07.
Sanjeev Goenka has been honored by '201 3 Business leader of the y ear Award' at the Global India Business Meeting 201 3 in UK.
1 08.
Santosh Football T rophy 201 3 has been won by Serv ices by beating Kerala.
1 09.
Saurav v erma and Arundhati Pantawane won All India Senior Ranking Badminton T ournament held at Bangalore respectiv ely in men
and women's catergories.
1 1 0.
SerbianT ennis play er Nov ak djokov ik won Australian Open T ennis T ournament consecutiv e 3rd time after beating Andy Murray from
Britain.
111.
State Bank of India launched 'Mobicash Easy ' a mobile wallet Serv ice that allows users to transfer funds and make bill Pay ment easily
using Mobile Phone.
1 1 2.
Swatanter Kumar has been appointed as the new chief of National Green T ribunal.
1 1 3.
T S Vijay an is the new chief of IRDA (Insurance Regulatory and Dev elopment Authority of India).
1 1 4.
T he 20th Asia Athletic Championships 201 3 were hosted by India in Pune. China took the top spot (1 6 Golds, T otal 27 Medals) with
India at the sixth Place in medals tally (2 Golds, T otal 1 7 Medals).
1 1 5.
T he Hague (Netherlands) based International Court of Justice gav e its decision in fav or of India regarding the disputed water projects
on Kishanganga Riv er between India and Pakistan.
1 1 6.
T shering T obgay is the New Prime Minister of Bhutan.
1 1 7.
UDAAN is the Special Industry Initiativ e for generating employ ment for y outh of Jammu and Kashmir.
1 1 8.
UNESCO has designated India's Nicobar Islands as a world biosphere reserv e under its Man and the Biosphere Programme. UNESCO
stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
1 1 9.
USA'S NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) found smallest satellite outside our solar sy stem named Kepler 37b.
1 20.
Uhuru Keny atta has been appointed as New President of Keny a, an East African Country .
1 21 .
Vishwanath Prasad T iwari, an expert Hindi Literature is the new chief of Sahity a Academy .
1 22.
World Bank chief Jim Y ong Kim (South Korea) v isited India.
1 23.
World Economic Forum's annual meet held in Dav os (Switzerland).
1 24.
World bank gav e a loan of USD 60 million to Karnataka for Its Watershed Dev elopment Project Phase 2.
1 25.
Y oung Indian researcher Dr. Mahav ir Golechcha awarded by Y oung Inv estigator Scholarship award.
1 26.
T he Countries inv olv ed in T API gas Pipiline (T urkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) project signed a Gas Pipeline
Framework Agreement (GPFA) for co- operation in completion of the project.
1 27.
'Operation Amla' of Indian Coast Guard meant to increase safety against terrorist activ ities through oceanaic routes has been
completed successfully .
1 28.
02 Feb MNREGA Day . Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ ment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) was started on Feb 02, 2006.
1 29.
04 Feb - Sri Lankan Independence Day .
1 30.
1 Oct - World Vegetarian Day .
1 31 .
1 0 Commonwealth women’s affairs Ministers Meetings (WAMMS) conference was organized in Dhaka, Capital of Bangladesh.
1 32.
1 0 June is Underground water day .
1 33.
1 2 June is World Day against child labour.
1 34.
1 2th Law Conference of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Countries held in T himphu, Capital of Bhutan. In
this conference, Chief Justices of supreme courts of all 7 SAARC Countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldiv es, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri
Lanka) participated.
1 35.
1 3 y r Indian- American Arv ind Mahankali won the USA’s National Spelling Bee.
1 36.
1 6th national conference on E Gov ernance was organized recently in city of Jaipur (Rajasthan).
1 37.
1 7th Vy angy ashri award giv en to Hari Joshi.
1 38.
20 June is World Refugee Day .
1 39.
201 3 Special Oly mpics World Winter Games were organized in Py eongchang, South Korea.
1 40.
21 June is World Music Day .
1 41 .
23 June is Oly mpics Day .
1 42.
28 Feb - - National Science Day .
1 43.
29 June is National Statistics Day .
1 44.
39th G - 8 Countries’ meet held in Ireland. G - 8 is a grouping of 8 countries that are considered dev eloped. Members are - Canada,
Russia, Italy , France, Japan, Germany and USA.
1 45.
5th June is World Env ironment Day .
1 46.
66th World Health Assembly meet was organized in Genev a, Switzerland by WHO (World Health Organization).
1 47.
8 June is World Oceans Day .
1 48.
Global Peace Index 201 3 report issued by United Nations has ranked India on 1 41 st place In total 1 62 countries in the list. Iceland is
the most peaceful country in this report.
1 49.
T he people of S unaput written by Rishikesh Pandey .
1 50.
T ravel and tourism competitiveness index 201 3 Report released by World Economic Forum has ranked India at 65th place in
welcoming foreign v isitors into country . Switzerland is first in this list.
1 51 .
Economic Policies and Indian Reform agenda written by Y V Reddy (Former RBI Gov ernor and head of Recently formed
1 4th Finance Commission of India.)
1 52.
In the shadow of Freedom writtenby Lakshmi T endulkar Dhaul.
1 53.
Patriots and Partitions by Ramachandra Guha
1 54.
T he Sunshine Lanes written by Prasoon Joshi.
1 55.
National women’s commission’s new head office is named as Nirbhay a Bhav an.
1 56.
A committee formed under chairmanship of Sam Pitroda for analy sis on Institutional framework and operations of Prasar Bharti.
1 57.
A new base of Nav al Warships has been established in T amilnadu.
1 58.
A new nuclear power plant is being built in Chutka Village in Mandla district, Madhy a Pradesh.
1 59.
American Foreign Minister John Kerry Visited India.
1 60.
American National Space society has honored Indian Missile scientist and former President APJ Abdul Kalam with Warner Won Brown
Memorial Award.
1 61 .
American Nov elist A M Homes won one of Britain’s highest literary honor Women’s Prize for Fiction for her nov el May We be
Forgiv en.
1 62.
1 63.
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Marcos T imerman v isited India.
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Héctor Marcos T imerman v isited India for attending the 4th India- Argentina Joint Commission Meeting
(JCM) along with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
1 64.
Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Nabam T uki was conferred the Lifetime Achiev ement for Peace Award by the United Nationsaffiliated International Association of Educators of World Peace (IAEWP).
1 65.
Arv ind May aram Committeee on analy sis of maximum inv estment caps in v arious sectors submitted its report and suggested
increasing FDI Limits in v arious sectors. Suggestions include FDI in Defence to be 49 % from 26 % Currently and in Multi Brand Retail it
should be increased to 74% from 51 % Currently .
1 66.
Arv ind May aram led committee on FDI (Foreign Direct Inv estment) submitted its report.
1 67.
Astronautical Society of India (ASI) has announced its Ary abhatt awards for Y ears 201 0 and 201 1 . For 201 0, this award was giv en to
Former secretary of Marine Dev elopment department A E Muthunay agam. For 201 1 , T his award was giv en to Former DRDO (Defence
Research and Dev elopment Organization) Chief V K Saraswat.
1 68.
Ay esha Farooq is the first female fighter plane Pilot of air force of Islamic Country Pakistan.
1 69.
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) decided to stop historical T elegram serv ice.
1 70.
Badar durrez ahmed is the new chief justice of Delhi High Court.
1 71 .
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Led Janata Dal (United) decided to break alliance with NDA (National Democratic Alliance).
1 72.
Bihar started a new health welfare scheme called "Dus Ka Dam".
1 73.
Britain started a mov able research centre named Halley - 6 in Antarctica.
1 74.
CELAC (An association of Latin American and Caribbean Nations) expressed its desire of joining BRICS (Brazil Russia India China
South Africa).
1 75.
Carbon Aerogel - world's lightest material made by Chinese scientists.
1 76.
Central gov ernment started a new Employ ment training program called Roshni In Naxalism affected areas for bringing T ribal people
in frontline.
1 77.
Chhattisgarh Gov ernment started Navjeevan Y ojana for Comply ing Naxalists to promote them to liv e a normal life through v arious
rehabilitation measures.
1 78.
China recently started construction of world's first fourth generation nuclear reactor.
1 79.
China beat South Korea to win Sudiraman Cup Badminton tournament for the fifth consecutiv e time.
1 80.
China created world’s largest Cable wire bridge of length 1 0 KM in Shaoxing Prov ince of China.
1 81 .
China has created world’s fastest supercomputer called T ianhe - 2.
1 82.
China launched its fifth space mission called S henzhou 1 0. China wants to establish its own space station by 2020.
1 83.
China signed an agreement with UK for swapping currencies if needed. It is done by china as a step towards establishing its Y uan
currency ourside china.
1 84.
China takes ov er operational control of Pakistan's Gwadar Port.
1 85.
Chinese Li Xuerui won Indonesian Open Badminton T ournament 201 3 in Female Category .
1 86.
Commerce minister Anand Sharma attended East Asian world economic forum meet 201 3 in Nay py adaw, Capital of My ammar.
1 87.
Commodity T ransaction T ax (CT T ) to be effectiv e from July with a lev y of 0.01 per cent of the transactional v alue being applicable on
the seller in trading of items such as gold, silv er, crude oil, base metals, sugar, soy a and mentha oil etc. Note that sev ere agricultural
commodities are exempted from this tax.
1 88.
Competition commission of India signed information exchange agreement with Australia’s ACCC (Australian Consumer and
Competition commission).
1 89.
Craig emerson, Australian Minister for T rade and Competitiv eness recently v isited india.
1 90.
Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla Visited India.
1 91 .
Delhi became the first State in the country to introduce E- Court fee sy stem.
1 92.
Delhi won Vijay Hazare T rophy Cricket T ournament after beating Vishakhapatnam.
1 93.
Egy pt’s Supreme Court inv alidated the laws through members of Shura Council (Upper house of Egy pt’s Parliament) was elected.
1 94.
England beated Egy pt to win WSF (World Squash Federation) men T eam championship in France.
1 95.
England's Justin Rose won US Open Golf T ournament 201 3.
1 96.
Ex- Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigme T hinley v isited India.
1 97.
Famous Oria Writer Manoj Das is honored by NT R National Literary award. He was also giv en giv en Padamshree in 201 3 Padam
awards.
1 98.
First Indian women to climb mount Ev erest, Bachendri Pal has been honored by Veerangana Lakshmibai National Brav ery award by
Madhy a Pradesh Gov ernment.
1 99.
200.
First annual T agore Award for Cultural Harmony has been giv en to Sitar Maestro late Pandit Rav i Shankar.
Following Shy amala Gopinath Committee suggestions on Post Office Small Sav ing Schemes, Gov ernment reduced Interest rate on all
schemes run by post offices by .1 %. Note that Interest rate on deposit schemes (4 %) and fixed deposits upto one y ear (8.2 %) are
unchanged. Current Rates on Various Post Office Sav ings Schemes are - >
Sch em e Na m e
Pr ev i ou s Int er est Ra t e
Cu r r ent Int er est Ra t e
Sa v i ngs Deposi t
4%
4%
1 Y ea r Fi x ed Deposi t
8.2 %
8.2 %
2 Y ea r Fi x ed Deposi t
8.3 %
8.2 %
3 Y ea r Fi x ed Deposi t
8.4 %
8.3 %
5 Y ea r Fi x ed Deposi t
8 . 5%
8.4 %
5 Y ea r Recu r r i ng Deposi t
8.4 %
8.3 %
5 Y ea r Seni or Ci t i zen Sa v i ng Sch em e
9 .3 %
9 .2 %
5 Y ea r Mont h l y Incom e Sch em e
8 . 5%
8.4 %
Na t i ona l Sa v i ng Cer t i fi ca t e wi t h 5
8.6 %
8 . 5%
8.9 %
8.8 %
8.8 %
8.7 %
(SCSS)
Y ea r s Ma t u r i t y
Na t i ona l Sa v i ng Cer t i fi ca t e wi t h 10
Y ea r s Ma t u r i t y
Pu bl i c Pr ov i dent Fu nd (PPF)
201 .
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has been honoured with USD 1 0,000 'Nomura Award' in Singapore for her humanitarian works.
202.
Fujifilm launches India's first 3d camera in name of Finepics Real 3D.
203.
Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership is written by Pascal Alan Nazareth
204.
Gov ernment created a Sectoral Innov ation Council (SIC) headed by Minister of Human Resources Dev elopment, M Pallam Raju to
create a roadmap for innov ations in both higher and school education sectors.
205.
Gov ernment decided to expand old age pension scheme by increasing pension for those abov e 70 y rs to 1 500 and those between 60 69 y rs to get Rs. 1 000 as monthly pension.
206.
207.
Gov ernment decided to reconstitute Medical Council of India with central health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad as its new chief.
Gov ernment decided to start T UFS (T echnology Up- gradation Fund Scheme) Scheme for promoting better output in textile Industry
by prov iding subsidies for purchasing machinery for production purpose.
208.
Gov ernment decided to take off AFSPA (Armed forces special powers Act) from some areas of T ripura state after seeing decline in
terrorist activ ities. AFSPA empowers armed forces personnel with rights to take immediate action in case of emergencies without prior
permission.
209.
Gov ernment increased import duty on Gold to 1 0%.
21 0.
HAL (Hindustan Aeronautice Limited) handed ov er first Rudra Fighter Helicopter to the Indian Army
21 1 .
Harish Pathak has been giv en Baburao Vishnu Paradkar Journalism Award 201 2.
21 2.
Hary ana gov ernment started Priy adarshini Awaas Y ojana under which prov ide free 1 00 Square Feet land is prov ided to BPL (Below
Pov erty Line) Families.
21 3.
Hasan Rouhani is elected as the new President of Iran.
21 4.
Himachal pradesh gov ernment decided to prov ide food items under scheme "Aam Aadmi ki Dukan". Food items in these shops will be
bought directly from company and without any intermediaries.
21 5.
Hun sen is re- elected as Prime Minister of Cambodia.
21 6.
IBA (Indian Banks’ Association) appointed K R Kamath as its Chief for FY 201 3 - 1 4.
21 7.
Important T ennis Grand Slam T ournaments 201 3 - >
French Open 201 3
Men - Rafael Nadal (Spain) Beated Dav id Ferrer(Spain).
Women - Serena Williams (USA) beated Maria Sharapov a (Russia).
Wimbeldon 201 3
Men - Andy Murray (UK) beated Nov ak Djokov ic (Serbia)
Women - Marion Bartoli (France) beated Sabina Lisciki (Germany )
Australian Open 201 3
Men - Nov ak Djokov ic (Serbia) beated Andy Murray (UK)
Women - Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) beated Li Na (China)
21 8.
In Financial Express Banking awards 201 3, Best gov ernment owned bank award was won by Bank of Baroda and best Priv ate bank
award was giv en to HDFC Bank.
21 9.
In the 'Ease of Doing Business' ranking of 1 89 economies, India has dropped from 1 31 spot last y ear to 1 34 T his Y ear while Singapore
continues to remain at the top, according to a recent report by World Bank.
220.
In the company of a poet Guljar written by Nasreen Muni Kabir.
221 .
India agreed to donate USD 1 60 Million to Nepal to help fulfill its growing energy needs.
222.
India signed a USD 21 6 Million loan with World bank for improv ising roads infrastructure in state of Kerala.
223.
India signed a USD 250 Million loan agreement with World Bank for Implementation of National Aids Control Program (NACP).
224.
India signed a USD 84 Million loan with World bank for strengthening panchay ats in state of Bihar.
225.
India started Inter Voice Response Sy stem (IVRS) to monitor Large Scale Mid - Day scheme under which meal is prepared for 1 0 - 1 1
Crore school children in the country
226.
India started using satellite imaging and tracking to sav e the endangered bird spceics 'Great Indian Bustard'.
227.
India wins Asian T eam Snooker Championship by beating Iran in Doha, Capital of Qatar.
228.
India won ICC Champions trophy cricket tournament beating England in the final.
229.
India won three top awards in SAARC film festiv al 201 3.
Paan Singh T omer was named best mov ie
Paan Singh T omer's director T igmanshu Dhulia named as the best director
Kaushal Oza receiv ed special jury award for his documentary 'Afterglow'
230.
India's Metroman E Sridharan who directed sev eral tough projects such as Konkan Railway s and Delhi Metro has been honored by
"For the sake of Honor" Award giv en by Rotary International.
231 .
Indian inv entor Ajay Bhatt at Intel has been honored by European Inv entor Award 201 3 for dev eloping rev olutionary USB (Univ ersal
Serial Bus) T echnology .
232.
Indian - American Sneha Singh first India women to get admission in Prestigious United State Military Academy .
233.
Indian Gov ernment gav e 'Maharatna' status to T wo Large Public Sector Units BHEL (Bharat Heav y Electricals Limited) and GAIL
(Gas India Limited).
234.
Indian Gov ernment started CMS (Central Monitoring Sy stem), a new mass electronic surv eillance program operated by T elecom
Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (T ERM) Cells. IT giv es India's security agencies and income tax officials access to India's
telecommunications network and the ability to listen in on and record mobile, landline calls and read priv ate emails, SMS and MMS and
track the geographical location of indiv iduals in real time. It is considered analogous to USA’s Prism project being used for same purpose
in USA.
235.
Indian Person Amol Rajan is the new chief of UK based newspaper T he Independent. He is the first non- white perosn ev er to head this
famous and historical newspaper.
236.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee laid foundation stone for Atal Bihari Vajpay ee Hindi Vishwav idy alay a in Bhopal, Madhy a Pradesh
which will focus on educating Children about rich Hindi Literature.
237.
238.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Visited T hailand. Met T hai PM Y ingluck shinawatra and v isited Bangkok, capital of T hailand.
Indian Scientist Harminder Dua discov ered a new Lay er in Human Ey e’s Cornea. It is expected to help in discov ering better way s for
operating the v arious diseases related to Cornea.
239.
Indian Sculpturist Anish Kapoor has been honored with Knighthood, one of britain's highest honors.
240.
Indian air force to soon include its first Boeing C - 1 7 Globemaster 3 T ransportation Ai rcraft.
241 .
Indian and Mangolian Army participated in joint Military Exercise Nomadic Elephant 201 3.
242.
Indian gov ernemnt set up a goal of achiev ing 80% literacy rate in the country by 201 7. Note that according to 201 1 Census, Literacy
rate is 73 % across country . Women literacy is 65 % and men are 81 % Literate.
243.
Indian gov ernment decided to giv e Non- Human Person status to Dolphin.
244.
Indian person and founder of Sulabh International, Bindeshwar Pathak is honored by Legend of Planet award by France.
245.
Indian play er K Srikant won T hailand open Badminton T ournament as his first International title win.
246.
Indian signed T IEA (T ax Information Exchange Agreement) With Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein's ambassador Madam Dorris Frick
signed on Behalf of her country .
247.
India’s CCI (Competition Commission of India) signed up a memorandum with ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission) for promoting co- operation in researching better technologies for election process management.
248.
India’s United Bank of India became the first Indian Bank to set up a representativ e office in My anmar.
249.
Iqbal khande appointed as chief secretary of Jammu & kashmir.
250.
Irish Author Kev in Barry has been honored by Impac Dublin Literary Award for his first nov el City of Bohane.
251 .
Iron Irom written by Minnie Vaid.
252.
J S Verma Committee on suggestions for safety of women submitted its report.
253.
James Comey is appointed as the new chief of USA's FBI (Federal Bureau of Inv estigation).
254.
Jammu and Kashmir’s Pashmina, Konji and Sonji Shawls hav e been giv en Geographical Indication (GI) mark for their notable quality
status.
255.
Japan's Arata Ijumi is the first foreign play er to be elected into Indian Football T eam
256.
Jharkhand social activ ist Day amani Barla is honored by Alan L Lutz indigenous award.
257.
Jigmi T hinley , Prime Minister of Bhutan Visited India.
258.
Joginder Sanger has been honored by Pride of India award for his contribution in promoting art and culture of India in UK.
259.
John W Ashe is appointed as chief of 68th session of United Nations General Assembly .
260.
June's T hird Sunday is Father's day .
261 .
K K Birla Foundation gav e Vy as Samman 201 1 to Ramadarsha Mishra for 'Aam ke Patte'and Vy as Samman 201 2 to Narendra Kohli for
'Na Bhuto Na Bhav ishy ati'.
262.
Kathak expert Vijay a Shankar is honored by prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 201 2.
263.
Kerala launched country 's first tourist seaplane serv ice to enable holiday ers enjoy the distant scenes of the Kerala through easy
connectiv ity to distant backwater destinations.
264.
Kev in Rudd is appointed as new Prime Minister of Australia.
265.
Kharung irrigation project in Chhattisgarh has been extended for two y ears.
266.
Madhy a Pradesh first state in the country to completely use the allotted capital by central tourism ministry for tourism dev elopment
in the state.
267.
Major Anup Joseph has been giv en the prestigious Keerti Chakra for outstanding brav ery .
268.
Malay sian Lee Chong wei beaten Germany ’s Mark Jeweler in Indonesian Open Badminton T ournament 201 3 in Male Category .
269.
Malay sian writer T an T wan Eng is Declared Winner of Walter Scott Prize 201 3 for his book Garden of the ev ening Mists.
270.
Manmohan Singh inaugurated the longest railway tunnel in country (1 8 KM) between Banihal and Kanjikund in Jammu and Kashmir
which is also called Pir Panjal T unnel.
271 .
Michael Froman is appointed as the new US T rade Representativ e.
272.
Michel Djotodia is appointed as new President of Central African Republic, a country in central Africa.
273.
Ministry of Information and Communication form a committee under the direction of Former chief Justice Mukul Mudgal which
prev iew current law of film sensor .
274.
Mobile World Congress conference held in Barcelona, Spain for people related to Mobile industry .
275.
Mohan Parasaran is appointed as new Solicitor General of India. (T he Solicitor General of India assists Attorney General for
India(Indian gov ernment's chief legal adv isor, and its primary lawy er in the Supreme Court of India)
276.
Mumbai won Ranji T rophy 201 2 by beating Saurashtra.
277.
National Dairy Dev elopment Scheme started with a USD 353 Million Support from world bank.
278.
National Food Security Scheme launched on birth anniv ersary of Rajiv Gandhi. Salient Features are
Priority households will be entitled to 5 kg of foodgrains per month per person. While Anty day a households will be giv en 35kgs of
foodgrains in a month to the whole family . T hese two categories (Priority and Anty oday a) are called eligible families in Food
security scheme. It will cov er 75 % rural and 50% urban population.
Public Distribution Sy stem (PDS) will prov ide rice @ Rs. 3/KG, Wheat @ Rs 2/KG and Coarse Grains @ Rs. 1 /KG.
T he Bill has been deemed to come into force from July 5, 201 3 when national Food Security Ordinance came into force.
At the current terms of the bill, about 61 2.3 Lakh tonnes of foodgrains will be required and corresponding estimated subsidy for
its implementation will be About 1 .25 Lakh Crores.
279.
New Cabinet Ministers of India Mallikarjun Kharge - Railway s
Sis Ram Ola - Labour and Employ ment
Oscar Fernandes - Road transport and Highway s
Girija Vy as - Housing and Urban Pov erty
Kav uru Samba Siv a Rao - T extiles
280.
New National Dinosaurs Museum to be established in Dhar District of Madhy a Pradesh.
281 .
Nicos Anastasiades is elected as President of Cy prus.
282.
Nik Wallenda became the first man to cross Grand Cany on on a T ightrope ov er Colorado riv er in USA.
283.
Nisar Ali Khan is appointed as the new home minister of Pakistan.
284.
OECD (Organization for Economic and Cultural Dev elopment) has rated India as world’s third largest economy in its report titled “Economic Outlook Report 201 3”.
285.
ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) started first unit of its water electricity project in Palantana, T ripura. It’s a huge Project of
ONGC to bring sufficiency of light electricity in North- Eastern region. T he project is approv ed by UNFCCC (United Nations framework
connection on Climate Change), an organization that awards Carbon Credits to companies worldwide that emit less carbon radiations
than stipulated criteria by UNFCCC.
Carbon Credits - Carbon Credits are a measure to control industrial radiations across globe by assigning points called Carbon
Credits to companies worldwide that emit less carbon radiations than stipulated criteria by UNFCCC. T hen the company gets paid
amount equiv alent to carbon credits it earned by emitting as loess radiations as possible without affecting its productiv ity . Carbon
Credit is the difference between the allowed radiation amount and the amount actually radiated by the unit. T he lesser amount
radiated means the larger is the difference, the more the company gets paid.
286.
Pankaj Subir has been honored with Indu Sharma Katha Samman 201 3.
287.
Park Geun- hy e is appointed as new and First woman president of south korea.
288.
R V Rav indran is appointed as new chief of NBSA (News Broadcasting Standards Authority )
289.
RBI increased the import duty on Gold from 8 % to 1 0 % to discourage import of gold.
290.
Rafael Correa is re- elected President of Ecuador for the third time.
291 .
Rafael Correa is the new President of Ecuador. It is his second term as president.
292.
Rajasthan Gov ernment started Mukhy amantri Bijli Bachat Y ojana under which 2 CFLs are prov ided to v illagers and BPL families in
urban areas.
293.
Rami Hamdallah is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Palestine.
294.
S K Rai is the new chairman of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation).
295.
S Ramadorai is appointed as the chief of New Airline Air Asia India.
296.
Sardar Ay aaj Sadik is appointed as chairman of Pakistan’s new national Assembly .
297.
Search engine Google started a new project called "Loon" for prov iding internet serv ices to the areas where landlines amnd mobile
networks are hard to reach. In this, internet serv ices dev ices are fitted in high altitude baloons that keep roaming in area to prov ide
access to internet.
298.
Seeing like a Feminist written by Niv edita Menon.
299.
Seoul International Book Fair 201 3 organized in Seoul, South Korea and India was giv en status of Guest Country in this exhibition.
300.
Serv e T o Win is written by Nov ak Djokov ic.
301 .
Shambhunath Sriv astav a is appointed as new lokay ukta of Chhattisgarh.
302.
Sir Edmond Hilary Mountain Legacy Medal 201 3 (Meant for Mountain Expeditions) has been giv en to Indian person Harshwanti Bisht
for her v arious acts meant to spread harmony in Mountain areas. In 1 981 , she successful climbed Nanda Dev i Mountain. Harshwanti
Bisht has become the first Asian to get this title.
303.
South Asian Autism Network conference held in New Delhi.
304.
Sporting T imes is Written by Boria Majumdar.
305.
Star Guild Awards 201 3
Best Film - Barfi
Best Actor - Ranbir Kapoor (Barfi)
Best Actress - Vidy a Balan (Kahani)
306.
Stev en Spielberg has been honored with Golden Ady filmmaker of the y ear award 201 3.
307.
Sudha Sharma is appointed as new chief of Central board of Direct T axes.
308.
Sujatha Singh became new foreign secretary of India replacing Ranjan Mathai.
309.
Supreme Court of Egy pt has quashed (Dismissed) Upper of house of Egy pt’s National assembly for not implementing the new
constitution formed by public referendum (Polls).
31 0.
Susan Rice is the new security adv isor of USA president Barack Obama.
31 1 .
Swedish T omas Brunegard is appointed as chief of World association of newspapers and publishers.
31 2.
T CA Raghav an is the India's new Env oy to Pakistan.`
31 3.
T amilnadu gov ernment started Amma Mineral water scheme for prov iding mineral water at low rates of Rs. 1 0/Litre to BPL People
(Below Pov erty Line).
31 4.
T amilnadu state's women's commission has been reconstuituted with T ripurari Venkatratnam as its new chief.
31 5.
T elecom Regulatory Authority of India (T RAI) imposes a limit of 1 2 Minutes per hour on duration of adv ertisements on any T V
Channel.
31 6.
T he Lonely Monarch is written by Sunil Gangopadhy ay .
31 7.
T he Orphan Master's Son is written by Adam Johnson.
31 8.
T he gov ernment of India raised the cap on supply of Liquid Petroleum Gas cy linders to Nine from six per y ear prev iously .
31 9.
T wo Day long war- exercise of Indian Air Force named as 'Iron Fist 201 3 held in Rajasthan.
320.
USA’s National Intelligence agency has confirmed that America is collecting internet usage information of its citizens for analy sis for
security purpose under a new project called PRISM.
321 .
United Nations Env ironment Program’s annual Env ironment day (June 5th) conference was held in Mangolia.
322.
Uttar Pradesh Increased Retirement age for teachers from 60 to 62.
323.
World Bank issued its annual economy analy sis report 201 3 and expected a growth rate of 5.7 % for India in FY 201 3 - 1 4, 6.5 % in
201 4 - 1 5 and 6.7 % in 201 5 - 1 6. It expected global growth rate of 2.2% in FY 201 3 - 1 4.
324.
Worldwide dev elopers conference was held in San Francisco, USA and Apple launched its new operating Sy stem called IOS - 7.
325.
Worldwide dev elopers conference was held in San Francisco, USA and Apple launched its new operating Sy stem called IOS - 7.
326.
Wrestling has been opted out of 2020 Oly mpics games.
327.
"An Uncertain Glory : India and its Contradictions" is written by Jean Breeze and Amarty a Sen .
328.
"Dard - E - Dil Likhoon Kab T ak" is a Book written by Rukhsar Amrohi and unv eiled by Vice - President Hamid Ansari.
329.
"Making Peace with the Earth" is written by Vandana Shiv a.
330.
"Mukhamantri Shubh Lakshmi Y ojana" is started by Rajasthan Gov ernment in which girl childs taking birth in Gov ernment hospitals
are giv en compensation of Rs. 21 00 on birth and R. 31 00 after 5 y ears for study purpose.
331 .
"Mukhamantri Shubh Lakshmi Y ojana" is started by Rajasthan Gov ernment in which girl childs taking birth in Gov ernment hospitals
are giv en compensation of Rs. 21 00 on birth and R. 31 00 after 5 y ears for study purpose.
332.
"My Chaplin " is written by Mranal Sen.
333.
"T he Cuckoos Calling" is written by J.K. Rolling (Robert Galbraith) .
334.
"T he Lowland" is written by Jhumpa Lahiri.
335.
E Business portal created by Infosy s has been launched by Gov ernment to prov ide better connectiv ity between Inv estors, business
owners and Gov ernment.
336.
Election Commission of India started a New technology called 'VVPAT ' for Enabling v oters to v erify their v ote after polling.
In this, after polling a paper will come out and v oter will be able to see and v erify his choice. In case of any error, the same will be
rectified. It stands for Voter Verifiable Paper Audit T rail.
337.
J Shashikumar has been awarded by J C Daniel Award, kerala's top Film Honor.
338.
Kerala Gov ernment Started construction of a world Class Bio Sciences Park named Bio 360 in T hiruv ananthapuram, Kerala.
339.
Gov ernment honored Oriental Bank of Commerce with Rajbhasha Samman Award.
340.
Indian Airforce Inducted its biggest T ransport Aircraft C - 1 7 Globemaster III with a capacity of Carry ing 80 T onnes and 1 50 T roops.
341 .
'Enrico Letta' is appointed as the new prime minister of south European Country Italy .
342.
'Life of Pi' has receiv ed two national tourism awards for promoting Puducherry and Munnar in Kerala as tourist destinations.
343.
'My T ry st with Justice' by Justice (Retd.) P.N. Bhagwati.
344.
'Operation Jaal' has been started in Naxalism affected districts of Jharkhand to ev acuate Naxalists from these areas.
345.
'T he Sanjay Story ', Biography of Sanjay Gandhi written by Vinod Mehta.
346.
'World economic situation and prospects 201 3(WESP)' report was released in the month of January 201 3 by United Nations.
347.
03 March is National Defense Day
348.
04 March is National Security Day
349.
07 April is celebrated World health Day .
350.
08 March is International Women's Day
351 .
1 Aug is Friedship day .
352.
1 July is celebrated as National Doctors Day to honor the legendary phy sician and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan
Chandra Roy .
353.
1 Oct - China's National Day
354.
1 0 Nov - Malala Day . United Nations decided to celebrate 1 0 Nov as Malala Day ev ery y ear from 201 2 Onwards to honor Pakistani
Child rights activ ist and social Reformer Malala Y ousafzai.
355.
1 0 Nov ember - World S cience Day for Peace and Dev elopment.
356.
1 00th Indian Science Congress held in Kolkata, West Bengal.
357.
1 0th December - United Nations Human Rights Day .
358.
1 1 July is World Population Day . It is celebrated from 1 1 July , 1 987 when world's population became 5 Billion.
359.
1 1 Nov - National Education Day . It is the Birth day of India's first Education Minister Abul Kalam Azad who was Posthumously
awarded Bharat Ratna in 1 992. He oppposed formation of Pakistan and worked for Religious Harmony at the time partition of India and
afterwards.
360.
1 1 Oct - United Nations' International Day of Girl Child.
361 .
1 1 Oct - World Sight Day
362.
1 1 th ASEM (Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) Foreign Ministers Meeting was Held in New Delhi.
363.
1 2 Aug is World Y outh Day .
364.
1 2 January - National y outh day (birthday of Swami Viv ekanand).
365.
1 2 July is declared by United Nataions as Malala Day on the name of a Pakistani Social Activ ist Malala Y ousafzai for her brav e against
taliban and in support of of Girl's Education in Islamic Country Pakistan. 1 2 July is Her Birthday . Bureau of Indian Standards
366.
1 2 Nov - National Public Serv ice Broadcasting day . On 1 2 Nov 1 947, M K Gandhi addressed Indian Public after the Partition of India
throgh AIR (All India Radio).
367.
1 2th Lay men Global Meet Organized in New Delhi and more than 500 heart specialists from all around the world participate in the
meet.
368.
1 3th India Russian annual meet organized in New Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin v isited India.
369.
1 3th Meet of Indian Ocean RIM Association (IORA) waa held in Australia (Perth City ). In this Meet, Australia took ov er the
chairmanship of IORA from India and Indonesia became the v ice- chair for a two- y ear period.
Notes About Indian Ocean RIM Association (IORA)
T he Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) is an international organization with 20 member states. It was formerly known as
the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co- operation.
It was established in Mauritius on March 1 995 and was formally launched in March 1 997 by the conclusion of a multilateral
treaty known as the Charter of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co- operation.
370.
1 4 Sep is declared as Hindi Day . Hindi was declared our National Language on 1 4 sep, 1 949.
371 .
1 4 - April is Dr. Bheem Rao Ambedkar anniv ersary , Fire fighters day and T amilnadu day .
372.
1 4 Nov - National Children's Day . It is the Birthday of India's First Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru.
373.
1 4 Oct - World Standards Day .
374.
1 4th World Athletics Championships were held recently in Moscow, Russia.
375.
1 5 Sep is celebrated as National Engineer's Day in memory of Famous Engineer M Vishwaraiy a
376.
1 5 April is Himachal Day (Himachal Pradesh was constituted on April 1 5, 1 948).
377.
1 5 August - Independence Day
378.
1 5 January - Army Day (India).
379.
1 5 March - Consumer Day
380.
1 5 March is World Consumer Day .
381 .
1 57 Countries AT T (Arms T rade T reaty ) for controlling and checking trade of armed weapons between countries. India and 22 other
countries did not v ote in UN General Assembly while Iran, North Korea and Sy ria v oted against this resolution.
382.
1 5th Asian Y oung weightlifting championships - Akshay B. Gaikwad won three gold medals.
383.
1 6 Sep is celebrated as Global Ozone Lay er Conserv ation Day .
384.
1 6 Nov ember - National Press Day .
385.
1 6 Oct - World Food Day .
386.
1 6th Gollapudi Sriniv as National Award has been giv en to Film Director Kamal KM for his film "I.D.".
387.
1 7 Nov - International Students' Day .
388.
1 7 Oct - International Day for the Eradication of Pov erty .
389.
1 8 April is celebrated as World Heritage Day .
390.
1 8th ICFFI (International Children's Film Festiv al India ) was Organized in Hy derabad (Andhra Pradesh), India. T he Dutch film "
Kauwboy " directed by Boudewijn Koole, won the golden elephant trophy for the best liv e action feature film at the ICFFI.
391 .
1 8th July is International Nelson Mandela Day . It is celebrated top honor legendary South African Reformist.
392.
1 9 Nov - International Men's Day / World T oilet Day .
393.
1 9 August - World Photography Day
394.
1 976 Batch IPS Officer Subhash Joshi is the new Chief of Border Security Force (BSF).
395.
1 979 Batch IAS officer Dr. Sy amal Kumar Sarkar has been appointed as Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources.
396.
2 Oct - Birth anniv ersary of Gandhi Ji and Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji. Declared as International Day of Non- Violence by UN.
397.
20 August - National Sadbhav ana Diwas (the birth anniv ersary of Rajiv Gandhi).
398.
20 Nov - World Children's Day .
399.
21 April is Civ il Serv ices Day .
400.
21 March is World Forestry Day
401 .
21 Nov - World T elev ision Day .
402.
21 September is International Peace Day .
403.
21 st Asian T able tennis championship was held in Bussan, South Korea. China won most Medals and India performed bad and could not
get Medal.
404.
21 st Rajeev Gandhi Sadbhav ana Award has been giv en to Sarod Maestro Amjad Ali Khan.
405.
22 April is EART H Day .
406.
22 April is World Earth Day .
407.
22 December - National Mathematics Day (T he Birthday of Great Mathematician Sriniv asa Ramanujan).
408.
22 March - Water Day
409.
22 March is world Water Day
41 0.
22nd Bihari Award (201 2) giv en to Hariram Meena for his Nov el "Dhuni T ape T eer ".
41 1 .
23 April is World Book and Copy right Day .
41 2.
23 December - Farmer's Day .
41 3.
24 September is International Girl Child Day .
41 4.
24 April is Panchay ati Raj Day .
41 5.
24 Oct - United Nations Day & World Polio Day
41 6.
24 Oct - World Polio Eradication Day .
41 7.
25 April is World Malaria Day .
41 8.
26 July is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Div as.
41 9.
27 September is world T ourism Day .
420.
27th North - East Region games were organized in Manipur's Capital Imphal. Manipur won Ov erall team championship by topping the
medal charts.
421 .
27th July is India's National Dance Day .
422.
28 July is World Nature Conserv ation Day .
423.
29 April is International Dance Day .
424.
29 August - National Sports Day (Birthday of legendary hockey Play er Dhay nchand).
425.
2nd Asian Y outh Games were held in Nanjing, China and T he host country , China was at the top of the Medal T ally . Kush Kumar won
gold for India in Squash.
426.
30 July is International Friendship Day . It was declared by General Assembly of the United Nations On 27 April 201 1 .
427.
33rd Meet of Asian & Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators was held in Delhi.
428.
4 July is Independence day of United States of America. USA got Independence from Kingdom of Great Britain on July 4, 1 776.
429.
43rd International Fim Festiv al organized in Goa. Awards are Golden Peacock: "Anhey Ghode Da Daan" T he Best Film.
Best Director: Ky u- Hwan Jeon for south korean film "T he Weight". He receiv ed a Silv er Peacock.
Best Actor (Male): Marcin Dorocinski for Polish- Russian Mov ie "Rose". He receiv ed a Silv er Peacock
Best Actor (Female): Anjali Patil for "With Y ou, Without Y ou". She receiv ed a Siv er Peacock.
430.
45th Session of Indian Labor Conference was held in New Delhi with a resolution to prov ide univ ersal social security cov erage and
assured pension to entire working population.
431 .
47th Jnanpith award giv en to odia writter Dr.Pratibha Rai.
432.
48th Jnanpith Award for y ear 201 2 has been giv en to T elugu Nov elist Rav uri Bharadwaja.
433.
4th BRICS Countries' security meet organized in New Delhi.
434.
4th December - Indian Nav y Day .
435.
4th world T elugu conference inaugurated in tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) by President Pranab Mukherjee.
436.
5 September is celebrated as India's national T eachers's Day . It is birthday of S Radhakrishnan , India's Second President.
437.
53rd Senior National Athletics Championships held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
438.
58th Filmfare awards 201 3
Best Film - Barfi
Best Director - Sujoy Ghosh (Kahani)
Best Actor - Ranbir Kapoor (Barfi)
Best Actress - Vidy a Balan (Kahani)
439.
5th Brics (Brazil, Russia, INDIA, China, South Africa) meet held in Durban, South Africa.
440.
6 Aug is Hiroshima Day (USA Bombed Japan's Hiroshima with nuke weapons on Aug 06, 1 945).
441 .
60th National Film Awards Best Film - Paan Singh T omer
Best Actor - Irfan Khan and Vikram Gokhale
Best Actress - Usha Jadhav
442.
61 st National Squash Championship was organized recently in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Aaurav Ghoshal in Men's Category and Joshna
Chinappa in Women's Category won the title.
443.
66th BAFT A (British Academy Film and T elev ision Arts) awards 201 3
Best Film - Argo
Best Director - Ben Affleck (Agro)
Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (For Lincoln)
Best Actress - Best Actress Emmanuelle Riv a (Amor)
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz (for Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway (for Les Miserables)
444.
66th Cannes Film Festiv al Best Film (Palm d'Or Award) - Blue is the Warmest Colour (Director - Abdellatif Kechiche)
Best Director - Amat Escalante (Film - Heli)
Best Actor - Bruce Dern (Film - Nebraska)
Best Actress - Berenice Bejo (Film - Le Passe (T he Past))
Note that Bolly wood actress Vidy a Balan and 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee were part of the prestigious 66th Cannes Film Festiv al's
nine- member jury , headed by Holly wood director Stev en Spielberg.
445.
66th Cannes Film Festiv al organized in Cannes, France.
446.
70th Golden Globe Awards 201 3
Best Film - Argo
Best Director - Ben Affleck (For Argo)
Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (For Lincoln)
Best Actress Jessica Chastain (For Zero Dark T hirty )
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz (for Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway (for Les Miserables)
447.
8 Sep is International Literacy Day as declared by UNESCO.
448.
8 Oct - Indian Airforce Day
449.
85th Oscar Awards
Best Film - Argo
Best Director - Ang Lee (For Life of PI)
Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (For Lincoln)
Best Actress - Jennifer Lawrence (For Silv er Linings Play book)
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz (for Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway (for Les Miserables)
Most Nominations - Lincoln
450.
8th G - 20 Countries' Meet organized in St. Petersburg, Russia.
451 .
9 Aug is Nagasaki Day (USA Bombed Japan's Nagasaki with nuke weapons on Aug 09, 1 945).
452.
9 Nov - Natonal Legal Serv ices Day . On 9 Nov , 1 995 the Legal Serv ices Authority act was started.
453.
1 283 (One two Eight T hree) has been written by Pele (Brazilian Football Play er).
454.
24 Akbar Road has been written by Rashid Kidwai.
455.
A Garland of Memories written by Ruskin Bond.
456.
A shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold written by Abhinav Bindra .
457.
Almost S ingle written by Adv aita Kala.
458.
Amrita S hergill : A Life written by Y ashodhara Dalmia.
459.
An Ordent Patriot:Dinesh goswami written by Kumar Deepak Das.
460.
Argumentative Indians written by Amarty a Sen.
461 .
Bhavishya Nahi Vartman hai has been written by Vijay Ratan Shankar.
462.
Congress After Indira written by Joy a Hassan .
463.
Courage and Convictions is the Autobiography of Ex- Army Chief V K Singh.
464.
Development Misplaced has been written by Krishan Bir Chaudhary
465.
Faith and Freedom : Gandhi in History written by Mushirul Hasan.
466.
First Women President of India : Pratibha Patil written by Sunaina Singh.
467.
Fly on the wall and Other S tories is written by Shubha Sharma.
468.
For the Grains is a Book about problems is India's Agricultural Sector, written by K V T homas.
469.
Gandhi Before India has Been written by Ramachandra Guha.
470.
Garland Of Memories written by Ruskin Bond .
471 .
India and Malaysia : Interwined S trand is written by Veena Sikri
472.
India at Risk has been written by Jaswant Singh.
473.
India's Nuclear Energy Programme : Future Plans, Prospects and Concerns is Book written by R Rajaraman and released by Vice
President Hamid Ansari.
474.
India's Voice at the united nations written by E. Ahmed.
475.
Jaber Al- Mubarak Al- Hamad Al- S abah is appointed as new Prime minister of western Asian country Kuwait.
476.
Kanoon Lugat, the first Urdu law dictionary in India has been released.
477.
Letters not so Ordinary written by Madhumita Mukharjee .
478.
Lok S abha approv ed the 1 1 8th Constitutional Amendment about Inserting a New article 371 - J in Indian Constitution. T he New
Article will empower Gov ernor of Karnataka to take necessary steps for dev elopment of six Districts in Hy derabad - Karnataka Region
named Gulbarga, Bidar, Raichur, Koppal, Y adgir and Bellary .
479.
Maharani written by Ruskin Bond.
480.
My Father, Our Faternity is Written by Sarod Maestro Amjad Ali Khan about his relartionship with his Father Hafij Ali Khan.
481 .
My Journey:T ransforming Dreams into Actions is written by Abdul Kalam.
482.
Narendra Modi : T he Man of the times written by Nilanjan Mukhopadhy ay
483.
Naushadnama : T he Life and Music of Naushad is written by Raju Bharatan Hay .
484.
Novelist T agore written by Radha Chakrabarthy .
485.
Of Mothers and Others written by Jaishree Mishra .
486.
On Warne written by Gideon Haigh.
487.
Our India written by Valmiki Prasad.
488.
Pankaj : Bangal's Forfotten Hero is Cricketer Pankaj rai's Biography written by Gautam Bhattachary a.
489.
Playing to Win : My life on and off court is Saina Nehwal's Autobiography .
490.
Politics in India is written by Rajni Kothari.
491 .
Pranab Mukherjee : T he all season Man By Sukhendu Shekhar Re.
492.
Rajya S abha approv ed the 1 1 7th Constitutional Amendment about reserv ation in Promotion for SC/ST s in Gov ernment Departments.
493.
Religion, Patriarchy and Capitalism is written by Jay anti Alam.
494.
Remember to Forget written by Neel Kamal Puri
495.
Revolution From Above is written by Deepankar Gupta.
496.
S cience and T echnology in China is written by Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra.
497.
T he Ashes Diary has been written by Australia Cricketer Michael Clarke.
498.
T he Bankster written by Rav i Subramaniam.
499.
T he Good, T he Bad and the Ridiculous has been written by Khushwant Singh.
500.
T he Light Within has been written by Sipra Das.
501 .
T he Maoist Movement by India written by Santosh Pal.
502.
T he Moonballer is written by Nirupama Sanjeev .
503.
T he NaMo story, A Political Life written by Kingshuk Nag.
504.
T he Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish T ripathi.
505.
T he Outsider written by Jimmy Connors.
506.
T he Virgins is written by Siddarth T ripathi.
507.
T hird Curve has been written by Mansoor Khan.
508.
T hree Chancellors written by Nilanjan Bannerjee.
509.
T rozen Horse written by Mark Rasinowitch.
51 0.
T urn Around India written by R P Gupta.
51 1 .
Understanding Bhagat S ingh written by Chaman Lal.
51 2.
Upbhog ki lakshman rekha is written by Ramchandra Guha.
51 3.
Walking with the lions written by K Natwar Singh.
51 4.
When hope and History Rhyme - Aamina Kasalia
51 5.
Borut Pahor appointed as new President of Slov enia.
51 6.
Rajasthan gov ernment started free T eerth Y atra Y ojana for old age persons and did an agreement with IRCT C (Indian Railway
Catering and T ourism Corporation) for the same.
51 7.
Economy Analysis 2012 - 13 - - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented Economy Analy sis 201 2 - 1 3 report in Parliament
one day before presenting the Union Budger 201 3 - 1 4. Main Points are As per CSO (Central Statistical Organization) Reports, During 201 2 - 1 3, contribution of v arious Sectors in GDP Agriculture - 8 %
Industries - 27 %
Serv ices - 65 %
Various Financial Statistics of India in last Fiv e Y ears
Met r ic/Yea r
GDP Gr ow t h Ra t e
(%)
Ra t es In cr ea se (Wh olesa le Pr ice In dex ) (%
Ch a n g e)
Rev en u e Deficit a s % of
GDP
For eig n Reser v es
(USD)
Foodg r a in s
Pr odu ct ion
2 009 - 1 0
8.6
3 .8
6 .5
2 7 9 .1
2 1 8.1
2 01 0 - 1 1
9 .3
9 .6
4 .8
3 04 . 8
2 4 4 .5
2 01 1 - 1 2
6 .2
8.9
5. 7
2 9 4 .4
2 59 . 5
2 01 2 - 1 3
5. 0
7 .6
5. 1
2 9 5. 5
2 50. 1
2 01 3 - 1 4
6 . 1 - 6 . 7 (Ex pect ed) 6 . 2 - 6 . 6 (Ex pect ed)
Contribution of serv ices sector in India's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has been increased to 65.6 % in 201 2 - 1 3 from 33.3 % in
1 950 - 51 .
Chandigarh tops the list in GSDP (Gross State Domestic Product) across country with 85% Contribution. Delhi at second place
(81 .8 %).
Fiscal Deficit 5.3 % in 201 2 - 1 3. Expected Fiscal Deficit 4.8 % in 201 3 - 1 4 and 3.0 % in 201 6 - 1 7.
Non Performing Assetsof banks increased to 3.57 % in 201 2 - 1 3 as compared to 2.36% in 201 0 - 1 1 .
51 8.
Rail Budget 2013
A New T rain called Azaadi Express to be started for trav el to places related to freedom struggle of country .
T otal Planned Expenditure - 63363 Crores, which is highest till now.
New Factories/Units to be Established
A new Forged Wheel Factory to be established in Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh) with help of Rashtriy a Ispat Nigam Limited
(RINL).
Greenfield mainline electrical multiple units (MEMU) to be establishd in Rajasthan with collaboration of Rajasthan
Gov ernment and BHEL (Bharat Heav y Electricals Limited).
A new Coach Manufacturing unit to be established in Sonipat District (Hary ana).
A new Mid- Life Rehabilitation (MLR) Workshop to be established in Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh).
A New Goods Coach Maintenance Workshop in Kalahandi (Odisha).
51 9.
Union Budget 2013 - Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented Union Budget on Feb 28, 201 3 which is presented on last working
day of February ev ery y ear. Main Points are All Gov ernment banks' Branches to hav e AT M (Automatted T eller Machine) facility installed by March 31 , 201 4.
Planned Expenditure for 201 3 - 1 4 - - 555322 Crores, Non- Planned Expenditure - 1 1 09975 Crores (T otal 1 665297 Crores).
Expected GDP Growth Rate of India in 201 3 - 1 4 - > 6.1 - 6.7 % (Expected)
Estimates of various Deficits Fiscal Defict (Rajkoshiya Ghata) to be 4.8 % of GDP
Rev enue Deficit (Rajasva Ghata) to be 3.3 % of GDP
Primary Defict (Prathamik Ghata) to be 1 .5 % of GDP
Defence Expenditure - 203672 Crores (1 4.1 %
)
Subsidies - 231 084 Crores (
of 1 1 % from 201 2 - 1 3).
Food Subsidy Increased to 90000 Crore from 5000 Crores.
Fertilizer Subsidy - 65971 Crores
Petroleum Subsidy - 65000 Crores
Schemes and Expenditure Rural Dev elopment - 801 94 Crores (
of 46 %)
Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employ ment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) - 33000 Crores (No Change)
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Y ojana - 21 700 Crores (1 0 %
Indira Awaas Y ojana - 1 51 84 Crores (
)
of 37 %)
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission - 1 4873 Crores (51 %
Ajeev ika Mission - 4000 Crores (2.5 %
)
)
Drinking Water and Sanitary - 1 5260 Crores (9 %
Sarv a Shiksha Abhiy aan - 27258 Crores (6.5 %
)
)
Mid Day Meal - 1 321 5 Crores (1 4 %
)
SC Wajeefa - 1 500 Crores (No Change)
ICDS (Integrated Child Dev elopment Serv ices) - 1 7700 Crores (1 1 %
)
NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) - 20999 Crores (2.2 %
)
Modernization of Postal Department - 532 Crores
Skill Dv elopment Programme - 1 000 Crores
Nirbhay a Nidhi for Women Empowerment of 1 000 Crores.
Rashtriy a Krishi Vikas Y ojana - 9954 Crores
National Food Security Mission - 2250 Crores
Funds for PSU banks - 1 4000 Crores
Rashtriy a Pashu Mission - 307 Crores
New Establishments
National Institue of Sports Coaching to be opened in Patiala (Punjab) - 250 Crores
Indian Institute of Agricultural biotechnology to be opened in Ranchi (Jharkhand).
IIB (Inflation INdexed Bonds) to be started to combat high rate of Inflation.
T axation
T hose with annual income upto 5 Lakh to be giv en a tax exemption of 2000 Rupees.
No change in existing T ax Slabs.
T hose with annual income ov er Rs. 1 Crore to pay 1 0 % Surcharge as compared to 5% Earlier.
In rajeev Gandhi Equity Sav ing Scheme, Income limit for participation in tax exemption is increased to 1 2 Lakh from 1 0
Lakh Earlier.
520.
Bharat Ratna 201 4 - Cricketer Sachin T endulkar and Chemistry Scientist C N R Rao hav e been Honored By Bharat Ratna Samman.
T hey will be honored by the same on Jan 26, 201 4.
Notes About Bharat Ratna Award
Bharat ratna Award was Started in 1 954. First T hree recepients were Dr. Sarv apalli Radhakrishnan (India's First Vice
President, C. Rajgopalachari (India's Last Gov ernor- General) and Dr. C V Raman (Famous Phy sicist and Nobel Prize Winner
in 1 930)).
Bharat Ratna awardees are sev enth in Indian Order of Precedence.
T ill now, total 43 Persons hav e been honored by India's Highest civ ilian honor, Bharat Ratna.
First Posthumous (After Passing Away ) Bharat Ratna Samman was Giv en to Sh. Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1 966. T ill no, 1 2
Posthunous Bharat Ratna awards Hav e been giv en.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was accorded Bharat Ratna but it was withdrawn in 1 992. It is the Only case till date of Bharat
Ratna being withdrawn.
T ill Now, 2 Foreign people hav e been honored by Bharat Ratna. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1 987) & Nelson Mandela (1 990).
Bharat Rtana is awarded for outstanding Contribution in any of Arts, Literacy , Science or Social Serv ice. In December 201 1 ,
the Gov ernment of India modified the criteria to allow sportspersons to receiv e the award. Since then, the award may be
conferred "for performance of highest order in any field of human endeav our.
T ill Now, Fiv e Presidents, 6 Prime Ministers and 5 Chief Ministers Hav e been Honored By Bharat Ratna.
Presidents - Rajendra Prasad, Sarv apalli Radhakrishnan, V V Giri, Zakir Hussain, A P J Abdul Kalam.
Prime Ministers - Jawahar Lal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajeev Gandhi, Gulzari Lal Nanda and
Moraji Desai.
Chief Ministers - G B Pant (Uttar Pradesh), B C Rai (West Bengal), K Kmaraj (T amilnadu), M G Ramachandran
(T amilnadu), Gopinath Bardolai (Assam).
521 .
522.
E-Vidhan project for better connectiv ity between People and MLAs has been started in Himachal Pradesh.
Eleanor Catton, New Zealand author of age 28 years has been honored by 201 3 Man Booker Prize for her novel T he
Luminaries. She has become y oungest ev er to win this prestigious literary honour.
523.
Final Population Census 201 1 Report India's Population - 1 .21 Billion
Rural Areas - 68.85%
Urban Areas - 31 .1 5 %
Population Density - 382 Persons/ Km2
Sex Ratio - 943 (It was 933 in 2001 census)
Literacy - 63%
524.
Live Wire is the Indian Air Force war exercise held in Changhara Fire Range (Rajasthan) .
525.
Nobel Awards 201 3 - >
Physics - > Francois Englert (Belgium) & Peter Higgs (Britain).
Medicine - > James E Rothman (USA) & Randy W Schekman (USA) & T homas C Sudhof (Germany )
Chemistry - > Martin Karplus (USA), Michael Lev itt (USA- Israel), Arieh Warshel (USA- Israel)
Literature - > Alice Munro (Canada)
Peace - > Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Reason - T heir Anti Chemical Weapons work in Sy ria, Headquarters
is in T he Hague, Netherlands)
Economics - > Eugene Fama (USA), Robert J Shiller (USA), Lars Peter Hansen (USA)
526.
Pulitzer Awards 201 3 Fiction - T he Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
Drama - Disgraced (Ay ad Akhtar)
History - Embers of War: T he Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Fredrik Logev all)
Poetry - Stag's Leap (Sharon Olds)
Inv estigativ e reporting - New Y ork T imes
527.
Recent Indian VIP Visits to Foreign Countries - >
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Visited USA and Met USA President Barack Obama.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee Visited Belgium and Met Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid Visited Brazil and Met Brazilian Foreign Minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo.
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee Visited T urkey and Met T urkish President Abdullah Gül.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Visited Indonesia and Met Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Y udhoy ono.
Indian Prime Minister's Special Env oy to Japan Ashwani Kumar v isited Japan and Met Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida.
528.
Sarabjeet : a mistaken identity is written by Ov aish Shekh (Lawy er of Sarabjeet).
529.
T ennis T ournaments
AT P World T our Finals - Serbia's Nov ak Djokov ic won by Beating Spain's Rafael Nadal.
Swiss Open Indoor T ennis Championship - Argentina's Juan Del Potro won by Beating Swis Roger Federer.
Paris Masters - Serbia's Nov ak Djokov ic won by Beating Spain's Dav id Ferrer.
530.
T he City of Devi written by Manil Sury ,Bloomsbury .
531 .
T he Spinning T ree written by Sri Kumar Sen .
532.
T he T est of My Life is autobiography of cricketer Y uv raj Singh.
533.
A Committee Headed by Raghuram G Rajan about allocation of funds to states in case of div ision of states submitted its report to
Gov ernment. Note that Raghuram G Rajan is Currently 23rd Gov ernor of RBI.
534.
A Coal Saty agraha has been started In Hajaribagh district of Jharkhand to protest allocation of Coal Blocks and Mining Rights to Priv ate
Companies.
535.
536.
A Committee formed under chairmanship of MBN Rao for deriv ing structure for Country 's First Women's Bank.
A Group of Ministers (GoM) chaired by finance minister P Chidambaram has been constituted to suggest measures for the
independence and functional autonomy of CBI (Central Bureau of Inv estigation).
537.
A New Zoological Park and Zoo is to opened in Kerwa (Madhy a Pradesh) for conserv ation of v arious protected species.
538.
A T wo- day meeting of health secretaries and senior adv isors of BRICS Countries was held in January in New Delhi.
539.
A committee created by RBI for improv ising Electronic Bill Pay ment Sy stem under chairmanship of Gov indarajan Padmanabhan. T he
committee suggested creation of a new GIRO (Gov ernment Internal Rev iew Order) Based Indian Bill Pay ments Sy stem (IBPS) to be
enacted for a new and better bill pay ments sy stem with more facilities for citizens.
540.
A committee created by RBI for improv ising Electronic Bill Pay ment Sy stem under chairmanship of Gov indarajan Padmanabhan. T he
committee suggested creation of a new GIRO (Gov ernment Internal Rev iew Order) Based Indian Bill Pay ments Sy stem (IBPS) to be
enacted for a new and better bill pay ments sy stem with more facilities for citizens.
541 .
A committee headed by former Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman M Damodaran was formed for Suggesting
measures for increasing ease of doing business in India after a world bank report In 201 2 ranked India at 1 32th place in world as far as
Ease of business in India is Concerned. T he Committee has suggested creation of an authoritiv e panel to study impact of Laws related to
Companies and their Operations in India.
542.
A four Y ear Old Child 'Robert T ufts' is appointed as May or of USA's Dorset T own.
543.
A major Oil Block found In Barmer, Rajasthan by Vedanta Group.
544.
A meet of Directors of NIT s (National Institiutes of T echnology ) was Organized in New Delhi.
545.
A meeting for Conserv ation of Child Rights in the Asia and the Pacific Region Countries was held in New Delhi, India hav ing participants
from 33 Countries.
546.
A mega Food Park to be opened in Khagadia of Bihar. It will be on the basis of Public Priv ate Partnership (PPP) Meaning State
Gov ernment to Collaborate with a Priv ate Firm for Its Dev elopment.
547.
A new Academy in memory of Verghese Kurien has been opened in Mehsana (Gujarat ) for prov iding B.T ech. in Dairy T echnology . Mr.
Kurien is said to be founder of white rev olution (Milk Rev olution) in India.
548.
549.
A new Postal T icket launched on 92nd anniv ersary of poet and songwriter Sahir Ludhianiv i.
A special Postage Stamp was Issued by India Post to Honor the Legendary Cricketer Sachin T endulkar On the Occasion of his 200th
T est.
550.
A welfare scheme called 'Amma Hastham' is started in Hy derabad (Andhra Pradesh) under which 9 food commodities are supplied at a
packet of just Rs. 1 85 to white card house - holds.
551 .
552.
A.F.M. Ruhal Haque, the Health minister of Bangladesh v isited India.
ADB (Asian Dev elopment bank) projected 6 % Growth rate for India in FY 201 3 - 1 4. ADB is headquartered in Manilla (Phillipinnes)
with Japanese T akehiko Nakao as its 9th and current chief.
553.
Abdul Hamid is the New president of south Asian Country Bangladesh.
554.
Abdulla Y ameen Gay oom is the Newly Elected President of Maldiv es.
555.
Abdullah Ensour is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Jordan.
556.
According to Ernst & Y oung's Latest Capital Confidence Barometer Report, India is the Most Attractiv e Inv estment Destination
Surpassing China and USA.
557.
According to International Debt Statistics 201 3 report of World Bank, China has most external Debt in the world (USD 685 Billion)
while India is at 4th Position (USD 335 Billion).
558.
According to a Recent Announcement by IRDA (Insurance Regulatory and Dev elopment Authority ), any Insurance company must
complete 1 0 y ears in business to participate in fund - raising through IPO (Initial Public Offering).
559.
According to a recent report by T RAI (T elecom regulatory Authority of India) , Uttar Pradesh has most Mobile phone subscribers in
the country .
560.
561 .
According to a recent report, Israel is the biggest Drones (Human Less Fighter Planes) Exporter country in the world.
According to a surv ey by GIREM (Global Initiativ e for restructuring Env irnoment and Management), Bangalore (Also Known as Silicon
City ) is Commercially the most desirable Destination of India.
562.
According to recent reports, ev ery Indian has an av erage foreign debt of Rs. 1 4692 in FY 201 1 - 1 2. Note that it was Rs. 1 1 51 7 in FY
201 0 - 1 1 .
563.
Actor Aamir Khan has been selected by USA Organization America Abroad Media (AAM) for his telev ision show 'Saty amev Jay ate'.
564.
Actor has been John Abraham honoured with Pride of the Nation award.
565.
Actor Shahrukh Khan has been honored by Shiv aji Ganeshan award 201 2.
566.
Actor Shahrukh khan Giv en the Malay sian Brand Laureate Legendary Award.
567.
Actress Swaroop Sampat Rawal Honored by the Karmv eer prize 201 2.
568.
Actress Waheeda Rehman has been honoured by the inaugural Centenary Award (S hatabdi Award) for Indian Film Personality of the
Y ear at the International Film Festiv al of India (IFFI).
569.
Adam Scott (Australia) won the Augusta Masters Golf Championship Beating Angel Cabrera from Argentina.
570.
Adity a Mehta, the Professional Snooker Play er of India won Gold Medal in World Games 201 3 in Snooker discipline in Colombia.
571 .
Adly Mansour is appointed as Acting President of Egy pt.
572.
Afghanistan Education Minister Abdullah Obaid Visited India.
573.
Afghanistan Vice- President Karim Khalili Visited India.
574.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Visited India.
575.
Afghanistan for the first time qualified for the ICC Cricket World Cup 201 5.
576.
Afghanistan for the first time sent trade objects directly to India T hrough Oceanic Route through the Chabahar Port.
577.
Afghanistan won SAFF football championship 201 3 after beating India.
578.
Afifa Patel, 7 y ear old African Girl of Indian Origin awarded by wild life protection award in South Africa.
579.
African Country Angola announced to put Prohibition on Islam Religion in T he Country .
580.
African Country Ethiopia has put a Ban on Its people going Abroad for work to protest their Harassing and Misuse in foreign countries.
581 .
African Country Gambia Decided to Leav e Commonwealth of Nations. (T he Commonwealth of Nations is an organisation of 53 member
countries that were mostly territories of the former British Empire.)
582.
Agricultural Research (ICAR) organized a two- day Agri- T ech Inv estors Meet (AT IM) in New Delhi to showcase ready - tocommercialize agri- technologies from different sectors of agriculture and promote business incubation serv ices.
583.
Air Marshal Arup Raha is appointed as new v ice- chief of Indian Air Force and Vice Admiral Jay want Korde became the chief of logistics
of Indian Nav y .
584.
Ajay manikrao khanv ilkar appointed as new Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.
585.
Ajay Singh, A Catholic priest in Odisha has been awarded the Minority Rights Day Award by the National Minority Commission.
586.
Ajeet Gulabrai is appointed as chairman of National Skill Dev elopment Agency (NSDA).
587.
Ajmad Ali Khan has been honored with the doctorate by Jadhav pur Univ ersity .
588.
Alexander Stubb, T he commerce Minister of Finland Visited India.
589.
All bank Accounts are to be linked to Aadhaar Number in order to Connect LPG Gas Subsidy to direct Cash T ransfer Scheme.
590.
America launched "Geo- 2" satellite for observ ing Missile launches by nations worldwide.
591 .
American Gov t. started a scheme named Passport to India to encourage its y outh to study in Indian univ ersities.
592.
American Software Company Nv idia launched world fastest speed mobile processor T egra - 4.
593.
American Space Agency NASA 's rov er " Opportunity " makes history by completing 35.760 kms in 9 y ears trav elling on 'Mangal
Planet' .
594.
American Writer Ly dia Dav is won 5th Man Booker International Prize.
595.
American v ice president Joe Biden v isited of India.
596.
Amitabh Rao take oath as a chief justice of Rajasthan Height court.
597.
Amrita Dev i Bishnoi Wildlife conserv ation award 201 0 has been giv en to Saurabh and Gaurav Gupta.
598.
An Ashok pillar is being built in Y amunanagar, Hary ana. It was bought to delhi by Firoj Shah T uglaq of T uglaq Dy nasty in 1 5th century .
599.
An Uncertain Glory has been written by Amarty a Sen.
600.
Andhra Pradesh gov ernment started promoting 'Bhoochetana' scheme, aimed at boosting agricultural productiv ity with technological
support from ICRISAT .
ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid T ropics) is an Indian Agricultural Research Organization
based in Andhra Pradesh. Its Motto is to increase agricultural productiv ity through Adv ance Research T echniques.
601 .
Angela Merkel has been made Chancellor of Germany for historic third time.
602.
Anil Ananthaswamy won the Inaugural Phy sics Journalism prize for his article Hip Hip Array .
603.
Anil Chait T ook ov er as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (ICS) that was set up by the Gov ernment to ensure a high degree of sy nergy
between the Armed forces.
604.
Anil Goswami, a 1 978 batch IAS Officer is appointed as new Home Secretary of India.
605.
Anil Kumar Sinha is appointed as a Special Director Chief in CBI (Central Bureau of Inv estigation).
606.
Anshu Jamshenpa of Arunachal Pradesh made new record of being the only mother in world to hav e scaled the Mount Ev erest T hrice.
607.
Anup Wadhawan is the New Chief of PFRDA (Pension Fund Regulatory and Dev elopment Authority ).
608.
Army won 67th Santosh T rophy National Footbal championship after defeating Kerala.
609.
Artist Ela Menon has been honored by Day awati Modi Award 201 3.
61 0.
Aruna Bahuguna has been appointed as first women special DG (Director General) of CRPF (Central Reserv e Police Force).
61 1 .
Arundhati Bhattachary a is the new chief of SBI (State bank of India).
61 2.
Arundhati Bhattachay a is appointed as new chief of SBI (State Bank of India).
61 3.
Arup Raha is the New Chief of Indian Air Force.
61 4.
Arv ind May aram committee submitted its report to the gov ernment regarding irregularities in operations of National spot Exchange
Limited.
61 5.
As per a Recent Report by WGC (World Gold Council), China is the Biggest Gold Consumer Nation of the world. India has seen a huge
decline in Gold Usage subject to limitation put by Indian Gov ernment on amount of Gold to be imported and that too on a high Import
Duty rate as high as 1 0%.
61 6.
As per a recent ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) Report, Gujarat State tops the chart in
attracting priv ate sector inv estors.
61 7.
As per a recent report, Sikkim is the only Indian State to increase its Forest Cov er in the last T wo Decades. It has also launched a new
Rs. 31 Crore project to enhance its forest cov er by 1 000 Hectares in Next Fiv e Y ears.
61 8.
As per reports, India's GDP Growth Rate in Quarter 2 (July - September) of 201 3 stood at 4.8 % which is better than the Q1 (Apr June) Growth Rate that was 4.4 %.
61 9.
Ashwani Kumar has been appointed as New Gov ernor of Manipur. Note that currently he is also the gov ernor of Nagaland.
620.
Ashwani Kumar is PM Manmohan Singh's Special env oy for Japan.
621 .
Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) will giv e loan of USD 2 billion y early for 5 y ears till 201 7 to India to create jobs, improv e inv estment
reforms, and improv e infrastructure.
Notes about Asian Development Bank
T he Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) is a regional dev elopment bank established on 22 August 1 966 to facilitate economic
dev elopment of countries in Asia.
ADB now has 67 members - of which 48 are from within Asia and the Pacific and 1 9 outside.
ADB has weighted v oting sy stem like World Bank where v otes are distributed in proportion with member's capital
subscriptions.
By the end of 201 2, both the United States and Japan hold the two largest proportions of shares each at 1 2.78%. China holds
5.45%, India holds 5.36%.
ADB Headquarters is in Manilla, Capital of Phillipinnes.
Japan's T akehiko Nakao is the Current Chief of ADB.
Notes about the World Bank
T he World Bank is an international financial institution that prov ides loans to dev eloping countries for capital programs. T he
World Bank's official goal is the reduction of pov erty .
T he World Bank comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Dev elopment (IBRD - 1 88
Countries) and the International Dev elopment Association (IDA - 1 72 Countries).
World Bank is different from World Bank Group. Infact world Bank group has World Bank, the International Finance
Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Inv estment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of
Inv estment Disputes (ICSID).
United States is the Largest shareholder in World Bank.
WB's Headquarters is in Washington, United States of America.
South Korea's Jim Y ong Kim is the Current Chief of World Bank.
622.
623.
Asian Dev elopment Bank forecast India's Lowest Growth 5.4 %.
Asian Dev elopment Bank's 46th Annual Meeting held in Greater Noida, India. ADB Promised a loan of USD 6 Billion to India ov er next
3 Y ears.
624.
Asian Junior Wrestling Championship was held in Bishkek (Capital of Ky rgy zstan). India performed well with Women stay ing at T op
and Men stay ed Fourth in Medal T ally .
625.
Australia appointed Pattrick Suckling as new High Commissioner to India.
626.
Australia beat Malesia to win Sultan Ajlan Shah Hockey T ournament for the record 7th time.
627.
Australia recently rev ealed its fastest super computer named Raijin.
628.
Australia won Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey T ournament beating Malay sia in Malay sia. It was 7th Azlan Shah Cup v ictory for Australia.
629.
Australian Citizen of Indian Origin Dewanand Sharma is appointed as Australia’s Env oy to Israel.
630.
Australian Prime Minister Jullia Gillard introduced a new taxation Bill for Disabled people in Australia that would fund better care for
Australians with sev ere phy sical and mental disabilities.
631 .
Av inash Chander is the new chief of DRDO (Defence Research and Dev elopment Organization).
632.
Ay aj Sadik is appointed as speaker of National assembly of Pakistan.
633.
B Ashok is appointed as the new chief of IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation).
634.
B S Y eddy urappa launch Karnataka Janata Party .
635.
B.Sudarshan Reddy former justice of Supreme court appointed as first Lokay ukta of Goa.
636.
BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) banned Sahara Group Endorsed Pune Warriors T eam from Participating in IPL
Championship T ournaments on grounds of Pay ment Defaults.
637.
BRAIN Project has been started by USA for solv ing my steries related to operations of a human brain. It stands for 'Brain Research
T hrough Adv ancing innov ativ e neurotechnologies'.
638.
BSF (Border Security Force) decided to recruit women officers for the first time.
639.
BSF (Border Security Force) Appointed Virat Kohli as Its Brand Ambassador. Its first time that any armed force has made someone its
brand ambassador.
640.
Bal Shekhar is appointed as new Secretary General of the Lok Sabha replacing T K Vishwanathan.
641 .
Bal T hakre and the rising of the Shiv sena written by Vaibhav Purandare.
642.
Bangalore Based Indian Institute of Science's Scientists hav e dev eloped a new technique called "Supersonic Shock Wav es T echnology "
that enables inserting medicine in body without injecting sy ringes.
643.
Bangalore Centralized Processing Center (CPC), a record managing Sy stem was awarded 'ISO 1 5489- 1 : 2001 ' certificate by British
Standards Institution (BSI). With this, CPC became the first organization in the world to receiv e this certification.
644.
Bangalore International Airport has been renamed as Kempegowda International Airport.
645.
Bangladesh Dev eloped its first Warship called - BNS Padma.
646.
Bangladesh Gov ernment honored Former Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Prime Minister Guljari Lal Nanda with Mukti
S angram Honor 201 3 for their Contribution in Bangladesh Liberation war in 1 971 .
647.
Bansagar Nahar Y ojana in Uttar Pradesh giv en extension of two y ears.
648.
Basant Kumar Gupta is India's New Env oy to Italy .
649.
Basketball (January 201 3)
650.
Belgian Mathematician Pierre Deligne won Abel Prize 201 3 in field of Mathematics .
651 .
Bev erages major Coca- Cola Appointed Indian Person Atul Singh as Company 's Group president for Asia Region.
652.
Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has been appointed as the Vice- Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce
Uttarakhand beat Punjab in 63rd Senior National Basketball Championship.
(ICC).
653.
Bhimnsen Bassi is appointed as new Commissioner of Delhi Police.
654.
Bihar State introduced 35 % Quota for Women in recruitment of constables and sub- inspectors in state police.
655.
Bihar has Been Awarded By President for Achiev ing Best GDP Growth Rate During the 1 1 th Fiv e Y ear Plan.
656.
Bihar started a new health welfare scheme called "Dus Ka Dam".
657.
Bikram Singh, the Chief of Indian Army Visits Sri Lanka.
658.
Bimal Julka is new Secretary in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
659.
Bolat akchulakov , the oil minister of kazakhstan v isited India for 1 0th inter gov ernmental meet of both countries.
660.
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) joins hand with S& P (Standard and Poor's) international Finance Agency .
661 .
Book "Smritiy an" is written by Garima Sanjay .
662.
Book "T he New Bihar: Rekindling Gov ernance and Dev elopment" is written by Lord Nicolas and N. K. Singh.
663.
Bosnia and Herzegov ina qualified to appear in the FIFA World Cup 201 5 to be held in Brazil.
664.
Brazilian Footballer Nemar chosen best Footballer of South America.
665.
Brazilian Roberto Azev edo is the new chief of Genev a, Switzerland based World T rade Organization.
666.
Britain and Other G - 8 Countries created a Global Centre for cy ber security capacity for checking increasing amount of cy ber crimes.
667.
Britain decide to start production of plastic notes.
668.
Britain started a new scheme called S uper Priority Visa for Indians. It say s that India persons that want to trav el immediately will get
immediate v isa on a pay ment of Rs. 50000 extra charges.
669.
Britain's Nehal Bhogaita has won the title of Miss India Worldwide, making her the first deaf to win this beauty pageant.
670.
Britain's Roy al Geographical Society gav e Whitley Award (also called 'Green Oscar Award') to Aparajita Datta of Arunachal Pradesh for
her work towards sav ing Hornbill birds Species.
671 .
British Indian billionaire brothers Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja hav e been presented a Lifetime Achiev ement Award for their
contributions to UK's Asian community .
672.
British Businessman of Indian origin Angad Paul has been giv en Y outh Icon Award by London Based NRI Institute.
673.
British Person Sean Conway Became the first Person to swim from North end of Britain (John O'Groats ) to south End (Land's End).
Her completed 1 407 KM Swim in 1 35 Day s.
674.
Brunei has become first East Asian Country to implement Islamic Sharia law into its national penal code on Its Muslims Citizens which
are about 70% of the T otal Polucation.
675.
Brzail won Confederation Cup Football tournament for the third consecutiv e term after beating Spain.
676.
C Rangarajan Led Prime Minister's Economic Adv isory Council (PMEAC) has predicted India's GDP Growth Rate to stay at 5,.3% in FY
201 3 - 1 4.
677.
C Rangrajan Led PMEAC (Prime Minister's Economy Adv isory Council) expected 6.4 & GDP growth Rate for India in 201 3 - 1 4.
678.
C Rangrajan Led PMEAC (Prime Minister's Economic Adv isory Council) Expects 6.4 % GDP Growth in 201 3 - 1 4. Various Stats of
PMEAC's Report are Sect or Na m e
Sh a r e i n GDP (A s Per FY 2011 -12)
Gr owt h Ra t e i n FY 2012 - Ex pect ed Gr owt h Ra t e i n
Ser v i ces
6 5%
6 .6 %
7 .7 %
A gr i cu t u r e
17%
1 .8 %
3 . 5%
Indu st r y
1 8%
3 .1 %
4 .9 %
13
FY 2012 - 13
How T o calculate Expected GDP Growth Rate - > ((Serv ices Sector Growth Expectation*Serv ices Sector Share)/1 00) + ((Agri.
Sector Growth Expectation*Agri. Sector Share)/1 00) + ((Industry Sector Growth Expectation*Industry Sector Share)/1 00)
(7.7 * .65) + (3.5*.1 7) + (4.9*.1 8) = 6.5
So, PMEAC Expects Indian Economy to grow at 6.5 % in FY 201 3 - 1 4.
679.
C Rangrajan Led PMEAC (Prime Minister's Economic Adv isory Council) has recommended to Cut Stake in Gov ernment Banks from 58
% to 51 % to help raise the Additional Capital Required to Implement the Basel III Norms.
680.
C Viswanath, IAS of Andhra Pradesh cadre has been appointed as the chairman and managing director (CMD) of Food Corporation of
India (FCI).
681 .
CBSE (Central Board for Secondary Education) decided to include an optional subject of NCC (National Cadet Corps) in sy llabus of 1 1 th
and 1 2th to motiv ate children for making career with armed forces.
682.
CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs) has decided to continue a special plan of Rs. 20000 Crore for Bihar under Backward
Region Grant Fund (BRGF) for the remaining four y ears of 1 2th Fiv e y ear Plan.
683.
CQK Mustaq Ahmed, Home Secretary of Bangladesh Visited India.
684.
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approv ed new Integrated Processing Dev elopment Scheme (IPDS) during 1 2th
Fiv e Y ear Plan (201 2- 1 7) under which the Indian textiles industry will become globally competitiv e by using env ironmentally friendly
technology and create new processing parks. In this, 4 - 6 brown field projects and 3 - 5 green field projects addressing the env
ironmental issues faced by textile processing units will be created with an allotment of Rs. 5 billion.
685.
Cabinet committee of economy affair (CCEA) allow (National Inv estment fund) NIS to purchase share of v arious public sector company .
686.
Cairn India, an Indian oil and gas exploration and production Company has been ranked as the fastest growing energy company in the
world With a compound growth rate of 1 21 percent in past three y ears as per a report by Platts T op 250 Global Energy Company
Rankings.
687.
Canada and Colombia signed a memorandum of understanding to increase defence cooperation.
688.
Central Gov t. started a scheme named Bharat Mobile Scheme under which mobile phones will be prov ided to people working under
MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ ment Guarantee Act).
689.
Central Human welfare minister MM Pallam Raju started annual report 'Annual State of Education Report (ASER)' for child education.
690.
Central PSE (Public Sector Enterprise) ONGC has become India's largest company in terms of market capitalization leav ing IT
Company T CS Behind.
691 .
Central gov ernment approv es a special package of Rs 1 2,000 crore for Bihar state for the remaining period of the 1 2th Fiv e Y ear Plan.
T he decision came at a time when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party JD(U), which is the senior partner in Bihar gov ernment, has
strained relations with BJP.
692.
Central gov ernment formed a Committee called Cabinet Committee on Inv estment (CCI) under chairmanship of Manmohan Singh for
quick approv al for large inv estments proposals.
693.
Ceremony of 50th Anniv ersary of African Union was organized in it's headquarter in Addis Adaba, Ethiiopia. African Union is union of
all African nations except Morocco.
694.
Chandigarh Has become India's First Slum Free City under Slum Free India Scheme after all the People Liv ing in slum areas were
giv en Flats made under Rajeev Awaas Y ojana.
695.
Chankay a's new manifesto written by Pawan Kumar Verma
696.
Chaudhary Av adesh Kumar is the new chief of Volley ball Federation of India.
697.
Chess (December 201 2)
Anna Ushenina of Ukraine on wins the women's world Championship Crown of Chess.
Vidit Santosh Gujarathi becomes the 30th Grandmaster of India.
698.
Chhattisgarh has bagged the National Literacy Awards 201 3. T his is for the first time that state has receiv ed awards in all the three
categories- state, district and panchay at.
699.
700.
Chhattisgarh First Indian State to pass legislation on food security .
Chief Justice Altamas Kabir appointed three new judges in Supreme Court - M Y Iqbal, V Gopal and Vikramajit Sen. T otal number of
judges in supreme court is now 27 (Max permissible 32).
701 .
Chief Justice of India P. Sathasiv am constituted a Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) in the Supreme
Court to receiv e and decide complaints against sexual harassment. It will be headed by Justice Ranjana Desai.
702.
China Open T ennis T ournament 201 3 - >
Nov ak Djokov ic (Serbia) won in men's Category by beating Rafael Nadal (Spain).
Serena Williams (USA) won in Women's Category by beating Jelena Jankov ic (Serbia).
703.
China Started operations at World's Highest Civ ilian Airport named daocheng y ading airport.
704.
China Successfully tested its First Stealth Drone Fighter Called S harp S word.
Notes About Stealth T echnology
Stealth aircrafts are designed to av oid detection using a v ariety of adv anced technologies that reduce reflection/emission of
radar, infrared, v isible light, radio- frequency (RF) spectrum, and audio, collectiv ely known as stealth technology . Use of T his
T echnology makes it tough to recognize Aircraft as it sails through the sky .
705.
China ended the decades old One Child Policy and Allowed Couples to hav e T wo Children.
706.
China has appointed Wei Wei as new ambassador in India.
707.
China started construction 4th generation nuclear plant.
708.
China started world's highest altitude civ ilian airport called highest Daocheng Y adin (At a height of 441 1 metres).
709.
China tested its largest transport aircrafts called Y un - 20 and T ransport - 20.
71 0.
China wanted to sign BDCA (Border Defence Co- Operation Agreement) with India to solv e cross border troops Patrolling Issues. India
has currently kept it on Hold looking at its terms that could be sensitiv e for India's Border safety .
71 1 .
China won Sudiraman Cup Badminton T ournament beating South Korea in Malay sia.
71 2.
China's Ding Junhui won Indian Open Snooker T ournament by Beating India's Adity a Mehta's in T he Finals.
71 3.
Chine tested its new telecom satellite called Chongxing - 1 1 .
71 4.
Chinese President Li Keqiang Visited India.
71 5.
Chitra Ramakrishnan is the new chief of NSE (National Stock Exchange).
71 6.
Chuck Hagel appointed as Defence Minister of USA.
71 7.
Classic T amil Award 201 2 Giv en to Archaeologist Gov indranagar and French Professor Francois Gross.
71 8.
Clifford Ray es Miranda was honored with the Dilip Sardesai Award for sports excellence for the y ear of 201 3- 1 4.
71 9.
Co- founder of tech giant Infosy s N.R. Murthy has been honored with the James C Morgan Global Humanitarian Award.
720.
Committee formed under Justice J S Verma for rev iew of law for women security .
721 .
Competition of Commission of India (CCI) cleared the proposed of sale of 24% stake sale of India's Jet Airway s to Abu- Dhabi- based
Etihad Airway s.
722.
Congress Leader Dr. Mukul M. Sangama appointed as new Chief Minister of Meghalay a.
723.
Congress wins the State Assembly Elections in Himachal Pradesh and Virbhadra Singh become the CM of Himachal Pradesh.
724.
Cooking on the run written by Boria Majumdar.
725.
Corruption 2020 transforming business for tomorrow world written by Pav an sukhdev .
726.
Country 's First National Institute of Disaster Response (NIDR) to be Opened in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
727.
Creator of Y ashi Film, Ajay Kumar has been honored by Mauritius president Rajkeshwar Pray ag Honor.
728.
Cricket (December 201 2)
Indian Cricketer Sachin T endulkar Announces his retirement from one- day cricket.
Legendary Australian Cricketer Ricky Ponting retires from International T est Cricket.
Rav indra Jadeja became first Indian and eighth across world to hit three triple centuries in first Class Cricket.
729.
Cricket (January 201 3)
Australia Cricketer Michael hussey announces retirement from test cricket.
Mumbai beat Saurashtra to won Ranji trophy 201 2 in mumbai.
730.
Cricket World cup 201 9 is to be hosted in England.
731 .
Cricketer Sachin T endulkar has been made UNICEF's brand ambassador for South Asia. UNICEF is United Nations Children's Rights &
Emergency Relief Organization.
732.
Cy clone Phailin Hits Coastal Areas of odisha and affected sev eral states of INDIA along with Nepal and Bangladesh.
733.
Czech Republic Won the Dav is Cup T ennis 201 3 T itle Beating Serbia.
734.
Czech Republic's Jiri Menzel has been Giv en Lifetime Achiev ement Award at the 44th International Film Festiv al of India (IFFI)
Organized in Goa.
735.
D K Jain Appointed Chairman of 20th Law Commission.
736.
D P Buch has been appointed as New Lokay ukta for Gujarat State.
737.
D V K Group Chief Deepak Kuntawala Presented with Asian Leadership award.
738.
D. Bala Venkatesh Verma is appointed as India's permanent env oy for United Nation Disarmament Summit, Genewa.
739.
DELHI Chief Minister Sheela Dixit approv ed a new tagline for Delhi - "Dildaar Delhi".
740.
DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy and promotion) approv ed New FDI (Foreign Direct Inv estment) Policy Pakistani Companies allowed to inv est in India through FDI.
New FDI Inv estment Caps Multi Brand Retail - 51 %
Electricity T rading - 49 %
Single Brand Retail - 1 00 %
Broadcasting - 74 %
Civ il Av iation - 49 %
741 .
DRDO (Defence Research and Dev elopment Organization) dev eloped a New Ballistic Misslie of 1 50 KM Range Called 'Prahar' as a
substitute of Prithv i Missile.
742.
DRDO is looking forward to dev elop MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry v ehicle) Capability to boost country 's defence
powers. A multiple independently targetable reentry v ehicle (MIRV) is a ballistic missile pay load containing sev eral warheads, each
capable of hitting one of a group of targets.
743.
DRDO successfully tested K- 1 5 missiles capable of launching from underwater submarines.
744.
DRDO's Scientist Dr. Satish Reddy has been honored by Bhabha Memorial Award 201 3.
745.
Dada Saheb Phalke Academy Awards 201 2 ->
Dadasaheb Phalke Award - Pran
Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award - Asha Bhonsle and Y ash Chopra.
First Superstar of Indian Cinema - Rajesh Khanna
Best Actor - Akshay Kumar (For Rowdy Rathore)
746.
Day a Ratnay ake is New Chief of Sri Lankan Army .
747.
Deepak Gupta appointed as new Chief Justice of T ripura High Court.
748.
Deepak Sandhu has become the First Female ev er to be appointed on key post of Chief Information Commissioner of India.
749.
Defence minister's technical adv iser BK Sarswat awarded by Ary abhat Award 201 1 .
750.
Delhi CM Sheila Dixt awarded Classical Singers Abdul Rashid Khan and Anjali Ila Menon with Lifetime Achiev ement Award 201 3.
751 .
Delhi Gov ernment Started S aral Money Cards for Sending money to Aadhaar Card Holders.
752.
Delhi Gov ernment expanded scope of Annashree Scheme to benefit larger number of Families. Under T his scheme, Rs. 600 per month
is deposited in account of Elder People of Families with annual Income Less than One lakh.
753.
Delhi Metro’s Principal Adv isor and former Managing Director, Dr. E Sreedharan, has been conferred with the prestigious ‘Order of the
Rising Sun, Gold and Silv er Star’ award by the gov ernment of Japan.
754.
Delhi Univ ersity became first central univ ersity in country to start a four y ear graduation course.
755.
Delhi beat Punjab in national softball championship in Jaipur.
756.
Department of T elecom announced a New T hree Digit helpline 1 81 for Helping Girls in need after the case of Brutal Incident with a
dehradun Girl in delhi.
757.
Desmond T utu to be honored with T emplton Prize 201 3 for his acts for establishing communal harmony in South Africa.
758.
Dev endra Jhajharia became the first differently - abled Indian to win gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships as he bagged the
Gold in jav elin throw in World Athletics Championship in France.
759.
Dewanand Konwar appointed as new gov ernor of T ripura .
760.
Dewanand Konwar is appointed as new Gov ernor of T ripura.
761 .
Dileep T riv edi is the new chief of CRPF (Central Reserv e Police Force).
762.
Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards 201 2 giv en to Jay a Bachchan, Suresh Wadker and Vandana Gupte.
763.
Dinesh Kumar Sarraf is appointed as New Chief of ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation).
764.
Div y a Goel awarded Edword Janer Y oung Scientist Award 201 2.
765.
Dr Vinod Prakash Sharma has been awarded with Gujar Mal Modi Award for Innov ativ e Science & T echnology 201 3.
766.
Dr. Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary and Alternativ e Medicine was awarded to Indian Person Dr. Sunita Vohra.
767.
Dr. Ashwani Kuamr appointed as new gov ernor of Nagaland .
768.
Dr. Charulata of Ranchi awarded with Y oung Scientist Award for contribution in Plant Bio T echnology .
769.
Dr. D.Y . Patil appointed as new gov ernor of Bihar .
770.
Dr. Keshav Rao Sadashiv Shastri Musalgaonkar giv en kalidas samman for his literature in Sanskrit.
771 .
Dr. Prakash Naray an of Jharkhand Became may or of Cy prus city of America for the second time.
772.
Dr. Ramsharan Gaur honoured with 1 5th Dr. Vishnu Shridhar wakankar national award.
773.
E Sridharan has been honored by Lokmany a T ilak Award. E Sridharan is the man Behind Ambitious Delhi Metro and Konkan Railway s
Projects.
774.
EPFO (Employ ee Prov ident Fund Organization) to keep interest rate on PF at 8.5% in 201 3- 1 4.
775.
EPFO (Employ ee Prov ident Fund Organization) to keep interest rate on PF at 8.5% in 201 3- 1 4.
776.
Edi Rama is appointed as new Prime Minister of Southeastern Europe country Albania.
777.
Edword Snowden who leaked details of USA's secret surv eillance program ‘Prism' has been giv en 1 y ear political asy lum by Russia.
778.
Edword Snowden, (Former CII officer who leaked detais of USA's National Surv ieleience Program) has been honored by Sam Adams
Award by Sam Adams Association (An association of Ex- CII Personnel).
779.
Egy ptian President Mohammed Morsy signs Country 's new Constitution into law.
780.
Elev en African Countries signed an Agreement in Addis Ababa (Capital of Ethiopia) for expanding peace process in central African
country Congo.
781 .
Emomalii Rahmon has been re- appointed as the the President of T ajikistan. He has been president of Central Asian country T ajikistan
since 1 992.
782.
Env ironment ministry initiated preserv ation of Kashmiri deer Hangul.
783.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn appointed Chief of African Union for one y ear.
784.
Europe's first cy ber crime centre opened in the Hague, Netherland's capital.
785.
Ex - Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma is the new Comptroller General of India (CAG).
786.
Ex- Loksabha Speaker P A Sangma Created a new Political party called "National People's Party ".
787.
FDI (Foreign Direct inv estment) T erms eased and limits extends in v arious sectors T elecom sector - FDI Inv estment cap enhanced to 1 00%
Defence - 26 %
Single brand Retail - 1 00 %
Credit Rating Agencies - 74 %
Gov ernment now allowed inv estors to open multi brand retail stores in cities with population less than ten lacs
788.
789.
FDI (Foreign Ditect Inv estment) limit in Asewt Reconstruction Companies has been raised to 74 % from 49%.
Famous Film Director Rituparno Ghosh has been posthumously (After Passing Away ) giv en the Bengal Sangeet Samman 201 3 in
Ly ricist Category .
790.
Famous Agricultural Scientist M S Swaminathan has been honored by 28th Indira Gandhi National Integration Award 201 2.
791 .
Famous Businessman and Founder of Wipro, Azim Premji topped the List of Indian Donators with His Donations in v arious Social
Welfare causes totalling to Rs. 8000 Crore in 201 2 - 1 3.
792.
Famous Film Actor Pran honored with Biggest Cinema Award in India - Dada Saheb Phalke Award 201 2.
793.
Famous Indian Cricketer Sachin T endulkar Announced His Retirement From International T est Cricket.
794.
Famous Poet Nida Fajli has been Been Honored by Shailendra Samman 201 2.
795.
Famous Scientist Stephen Hawking won the Special Fundamental Phy sics Prize for His Extraordinary Contributions in study of Black
Holes and Other aspects.
796.
Famous Space Scientist and Quantum Phy sicist Stephen Hawking decided to Boy cott (Refuse) an offer of honorary v isit hosted by
Middle East Country Israel.
797.
798.
Famous Singer Zubin Mehta organized a Poet Meet in Srinagar called 'Ehsas - E - Kashmir'.
Fifth India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Women's Forum meet held in New Delhi. It was signed by Krishna T irath, Minister for Women
and Child Dev elopment (India), Mrs. Lulama Xingwana, Minister for Women & Children (South Africa) and Mrs. Maria do Carmo
Godinho Delgado, Chief of the Secretariat of Policies for Women (Brazil).
799.
Fiji's President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has giv en his assent to a new constitution for the country .
800.
Fikrat Mammadov who recently v isited India is Justice Minister of Azerbaijan.
801 .
Filmfare Awards Best Actor - Ranbir Kpoor,
Best Actress - Vidy a Balan
Best Film - Barfi
Best Director - Sujoy Ghosh
Lifetime Achiev ement - Y ash Chopra
Best Music Director - Pritam
802.
803.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram Presented with Karunakaran Award for excellence in Political Career.
Finance Minister of India P. Chidambaram and Finance Minister of Bhutan Ly onpo Wangdi Norbu signed an agreement for prev enting
theft of Income tax.
804.
Finance Minister of India P. Chidambaram and Finance Minister of Bhutan Ly onpo Wangdi Norbu signed an agreement for prev enting
theft of Income tax.
805.
Finance Ministry Issued New coins of Rs. 20 & Rs.5 in memory of First Education Minister of Country , Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Note
that his Birthday , 1 1 Nov is also celebaterd as National Education Day in India.
806.
Finance Ministry constituted a committee under chairmanship of Arv ind May aram for clearly Defining and distinguishing FDI (Foreign
Direct Inv estment) and FII (Foreign Institutional Inv estors).
807.
Finance Ministry created a Committee under the chairmanship of Chief Economic Adv iser Raghuram G Rajan for determining
backwardness of v arious states of India.
808.
Finance and Economic minister of Sudan, Ali Mahamood Muhammad v isited India.
809.
First Sree Naray an Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 201 3 presented to Shashi T haroor.
81 0.
First Katha Samman (201 2- 1 3) has been giv en to Indian Nov elist Kiran Singh.
81 1 .
First Mahathir Global Peace Award has been giv en to Ex- South African President and Human Rights Activ ist Nelson Mandela.
81 2.
First Public Health Univ ersity to be set up in Indian State of Odisha Under PPP (Public Priv ate Partnership).
81 3.
First time Saudi Arabia has giv en to women a 20 per cent quota in Consultativ e Assembly .
81 4.
Following Shy amala Gopinath Committee suggestions on Post Office Small Sav ing Schemes, Gov ernment reduced Interest rate on all
schemes run by post offices by .1 %.
81 5.
Football (December 201 2)
Argentinian Footballer Lionel Messi scored Maximum Goals in a Calendar Y ear and set up a new record.
81 6.
Football (January 201 3)
81 7.
For Increasing Liquidity , Reserv e Bank India extended SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) by 1 .5% to 24.5% from 23% initially .
81 8.
For the first time, Saudi Arabian Girls hav e been allowed to participate in Sports Activ ities.
81 9.
Foreign Leaders Visits to India.
Argentina's football play er Lionel messi honored AS FIFA Play er of the Y ear.
Vietnam’s T op leader (General Secretary of the Communist Party ), Nguy en Phu T rong v isit to India.
Vietnam's Public Security Minister T ran Dai Quang Visited India.
Britain's Prime Minister Dav id Cameron Visited India.
Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al- Hamad Al- Sabah Visited India.
Hungary 's Prime Minister Viktor Orban Visited India.
Prince Charles of Britain Visited India and participated in Ganga Arti in Rishikesh.
Japanese Emperor Akihito and His Wife Empress Michiko Visited India.
Y un By ung- se, Foreign Minister of Korea Visited India.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop Visited India
820.
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Mr. Elmar Mammady arov v isited India.
821 .
Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla v isited India
822.
Foreign Minister of Romania, T itus Corlatean v isited India recently .
823.
Foreign Minister of Romania, T itus Corlatean v isited India recently .
824.
Foreign Ministry allow Aadhaar card as a legal ID prov e for Passports.
825.
Former African President Bozize has taken Political Shelter (Asy lum) in France after he was deposed from his country by Current
Presdient Michel Djotodia.
826.
Former National Volley ball play er Arunima Sinha has become the first Indian Amputee to scale Mount Ev erest (Amputee is a Person
with a body part remov ed due to any injury ). Arunima Sinha was injured badly after being thrown out of a train as she was protesting
some chain snatchers in T rain.
827.
Former SEBI Member M S Sahoo appointed as secretary in Institute of Company Secretaries (ICS).
828.
Former Secretary of Marine Dev elopment Department Muthuny agam awarded by Ary abhat Award for 201 0.
829.
Former head of Russian department at the kerala univ ersity , K Gov indan Nair has wo the Pushkin Award 201 2 of Russian Federation.
830.
Fortune Magazine rated T CS (T ata Consultancy Serv ices) as the most reputed Company of India. T CS has left behind T AT A Steel for
this title.
831 .
Foul Eagle is the recent Joint military Exercise of South Korea and USA.
832.
Four senior scientists (Rav i Bhushan Grov er, K Balrammurti, R Balasubrhamany am, S. K. Sikka) awarded by Life T ime Achiev ements
Award by Nuclear Energy Department.
833.
France became 1 4th nation across world to legalize marriage with same gender.
834.
France declares its peace mission in West African country Mali as completed and decided to call off its soldiers by end of 201 3.
835.
France won Under - 20 FIFA Football world Cup beating Uruguay in T urkey .
836.
Franck Ribéry , a Spanish Footballer has been named as europe's Best Footballer for 201 2 - 1 3.
837.
French Defence Minister Jean- Y v es Le Drian Visited India.
838.
French defence minister Jean- Y v es Le Drian Visited India.
839.
G - 7 Countries' meet held in Ay lesbury , England. G- 7, is a group consisting finance ministers of sev en industrialized nations: USA, UK,
France, Germany , Italy , Canada and Japan. Japan was giv en green light to take measures to galv anize (Secure) its Economy .
840.
G K Pillai is the New Chief of MCX - SX, the Financial T echnologies- promoted stock exchange.
841 .
G Y ashwantrao Patil is Bihar's New Gov ernor.
842.
G. Satish Reddy is appointed as new Director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI).
843.
Gauhati High Court's ordered and declared the Central Bureau of Inv estigation or CBI as "unconstitutional" stating that it can noty act
as a Police Force. Supreme court has Put the decision on Stay till the Next Hearing.
844.
Gauri Shanker Gupta is appointed as India's env oy for T rinidad and T obago.
845.
Geological Surv ey of India Accquired Korean Origin Deep water exploration sea Called 'Samudra Ratnakar'.
846.
George Vella who recently v isited India is the Foreign Minister of Malta.
847.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Offered India an aid of Euro 1 Billion for Green Energy Corridor in the country as Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh v isited Berlin, capital city of Germany .
848.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been Choosen for Indira Gandhi Peace, Disarmament and Dev elopment prize' 201 3.
849.
German Health Minister Daniel Bahr v isited India.
850.
Germany won European Women Football Cup for the sixth consecutiv e term.
851 .
Germany 's 23rd Marine Festiv al called Hanse Sail was organized recently .
852.
Germany 's T homas Bach has been appointed as new chief of IOC (International Oly mpics Committee).
853.
Geun- hy e becomes First woman President of South Korea.
854.
Giorgi Margv elashv ili is the New President of Georgia.
855.
Giorgio Napalitano is re- appointed as President of south European country , Italy for second term.
856.
Giorgio Napolitano is re- elected as President of South European Country Italy .
857.
Girija Dev i, who is known as 'T humri Queen' has been honored by Adity a Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award 201 3.
858.
Girish B Pradhan Is appointed as New chief of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.
859.
Global Hunger Index Report 201 3 (Presented by International Food Policy Research Institute)
860.
Global meet for control of Mercury uses named Minamata T reaty organized in Genev a, Switzerland.
861 .
Goa Gov ernment launched a digital Krishi Card which is supposed to help farmers in making use of benefits such as subsidies and loans
India Ranked 63rd out of 1 20 Countries (Has Improv ed from 67 from Last Y ear)
giv en by the State Gov ernment by av oiding repeated paperwork that is done by farmers to gain subsidies. T he mechanism is based on
the database created by the State Agriculture Department.
862.
Golden Globe Award 201 2
Best Actor in - Daniel de Lewis
Best Actress - Jessica Michelle Chastain
Best Original - Life of PI
863.
Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh will hav e longest railway s platform in the world with its length of 1 380 Meters. Second will be Khadagpur
in West Bengal with length 1 072.5 Meters.
864.
Gov ernment enhanced import duty on Gold to 1 5 % from 1 0 % Initially .
865.
Gov ernment issued a New Postal T icket in Memory of Famous Freedom Fighter and Writer Lala Jagat Naray an.
866.
Gov ernment Appointed A P Shah (Former Chief of Delhi High Court) as chief of a Panel formed for ev aluating measures for Road
Safety .
867.
Gov ernment Decided to Double the Amount to be giv en to Bihar under National Food Security Mission. Now Bihar would get 5.6 Million
T ons of Foodgrains instead of 2.8 Million tons allotted prev iously .
868.
Gov ernment Decided to transorm swaran Jay anati Shahri Rojgar Y ojana into Natioal Urban Liv elihoods Mission (NULM).
869.
Gov ernment Started 'Jiy o Parsi' Scheme as An Attempt to Contain Parsi Population Decline in India.
870.
Gov ernment allotted 50 Lac T ons of Food grains to be distributed to BPL Families (Below Pov erty Line) in 201 3 - 1 4. Planning
Commission stated that Person who spends more than 32 Rs. Per day in Urban and 26 Rs. per Day in Rural areas cannot be considered
Poor.
871 .
Gov ernment allowed increase in amount of Indira Awaas Y ojana 45000 to 70000 (for general area) and 48500 to 75000 (for hill
areas).
872.
Gov ernment announced a special package of 71 0 Crores for Rural roads renov ation in Jammu and Kashmir and a package of 41 30
Crores for Rural roads renov ation in Bihar under PMGSY (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Y ojana).
873.
Gov ernment approv ed Setting up of World's largest Solar Power Project in SSL (SAMBHAR Salts Limited) in Rajasthan. It will hav e
capacity of 4000 MW that will be highest in thw world for any solar Power Plant.
874.
Gov ernment approv ed amendments in SEBI act and empowered SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) to keep track of all
account activ ities of inv estors and companies in case of any doubt regarding unfair practices.
875.
Gov ernment approv ed constituting the National Skill Dev elopment Agency (NSDA) in the Ministry of Finance for better coordination in
skill dev elopment efforts of the Gov ernment and the priv ate sector to achiev e the skilling targets of the 1 2th Plan and bey ond. Ajeet
Gulabrai is appointed as chairman of National Skill Dev elopment Agency (NSDA).
876.
Gov ernment approv ed creation of National Capital Region T ransport Corporation (NCRT C) for better connectiv ity and timely journey
across Various cities in National Capital Region.
877.
Gov ernment approv ed setting up of Bharat Rural Liv elihoods Foundation (BRLF) to facilitate upscaling liv elhoods and Liv es of Rural
Households with special emphasis on women.
878.
Gov ernment approv ed setting up of a Vidhan Parishad in Assam.
Notes About Vidhan Parishad
Vidhan Parishad is the Upper House of the State Assembly which is analogous to Rajy a Sabha at the National Lev el.
Vidhan Parishad is Not Present in each State. T here are total 8 States now in India Hav ing a Vidhan Parishad.
States with a Vidhan Parishad are Uttar Pradesh, J & K, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan &
Assam.
Assam is T he Newest State in the List to exhibit a Vidhan Parishad in its Assembly .
879.
Gov ernment approv ed setting up of an Oil Refinery Project in Badmer, Rajashthan. Large oil resources hav e been found in
Rajashthan's Badmer Region Recently .
880.
Gov ernment approv ed the Modified Industrial Infrastructure Up gradation Scheme (IIUS) Schemes during the 1 2th Fiv e Y ear Plan
period ending March 201 7 to enhance the industry 's competitiv eness by prov iding infrastructure through the public- priv ate partnership
model in selected functional clusters.
881 .
Gov ernment created a Committee under chairmanship of Arv ind May aram for Clearly Distinguishing Between FDI (Foreign Direct
Inv estment) & FII (Foreign Institutional Inv estors).
882.
Gov ernment created a committee comprising Finance Ministers of states for analy zing Goods and Serv ice T ax (GST ). Abdul Rahim
Rather, Finance minister of Jammu and Kashmir has been appointed as Chairman of this Committee.
883.
Gov ernment decided to Change FDI (Foreign Direct Inv estment) limit in Various Sectors. Current Values of FDI Limits in Various
Sectors are T elecom - 1 00 % ( 74 % Initially ).
Civ il Av iation - 49 % (Unchanged).
Insurance - 49 % (26 % Initially )
Pension - 49 % (26 % Initially )
Defence - 26 % (Unchanged)
Basic and cellular serv ices - 1 00 % (74 % Initially )
Single brand retail - 1 00% (Unchanged),
Petroleum - 49%
Power exchanges - 49%
Asset reconstruction companies - 1 00% (74 % Initially ),
Credit information companies - 74% (49% Initially )
Stock exchanges - 49 %
T ea Plantation - 1 00 %
Courier serv ices - 1 00 %
** Note T hat in T elecom, Single Brand Retail, Asset reconstruction companies and T ea Plantation, 49% of FDI in T hese Sectors will be
through automatic route and does not require Gov ernment permission and rest 49- 1 00% through FIPB (Foreign Inv estment Promotion
Board).
884.
Gov ernment decided to Change criteria in NRLM (National Rural Liv elihoods Mission) to include loans to women Self Help Groups
(SHGs) at less Interest Rate of 7%. It is being done to empower SHGs and make women become more self- dependent.
885.
Gov ernment decided to decrease number of v arious central dev elopment schemes from 1 40 to 66 by merging and dissolv ing many of
them in order to keep a good check on their implementation and better administration.
886.
Gov ernment decided to form a new defence unit called Mountain S trike Corps of 50000 Jawans to patrol and guard Himalay an
borders of India spread from J & K to Arunachal Pradesh to encounter Chinese border Activ ities specially . Its headquarters will be in
Panagarh, West Bengal.
887.
Gov ernment decided to increase Dearness allowance foe central gov ernment employ ees from 72 % to 80 %.
888.
Gov ernment decided to liberalize norms for setting and operating of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to restore interest of inv estors in
SEZs that was decreased after implementation of Minimum Alternate T ax (MAT ) and Div idend Distribution T ax (DDT ) in SEZs.
889.
Gov ernment decided to set up Common Serv ice Centers (CSC) for creation of Passports. People can apply for new passports through
these Centers.
890.
Gov ernment decided to simplify Serv ice tax refund norms for SEZs (Special Economic Zones) to enhance export and employ ment
opportunities in SEZs. SEZ dev elopers and units will not be required to pay tax on certain serv ices for which they had to seek refund.
T hough the SEZs hav e been exempted from serv ice tax, dev elopers and unit owners hav e to first pay the tax and then they can claim
the refund.
891 .
Gov ernment decided to start National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) for helping urban poor people solv e health related problems at
no or less cost. In the budget 201 3 - 1 4, Rs. 22 crore hav e been allotted for the same.
892.
Gov ernment extended import duty on Silv er and Platinum to 1 0% and Gold to 1 5 %.It is being done to discourage import of these
commodities and restrict Current Account Deficit within targeted and manageable limits (3.7 % of GDP).
893.
Gov ernment formed a New CAA (Civ il Av iation Authority ) to control, Monitor and Regulate Civ il Av iation Industry in the Country .
894.
Gov ernment gav e tiger reserv e status to RajaJi national park of Uttarakhand.
895.
Gov ernment has set up a Draft Bill to establish Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) to regulate the research, transport,
import, manufacture and use of organisms and products of modern bio- technology in the country .
896.
897.
Gov ernment increased Import Duty on Sugar to 1 5 % from 1 0 % initially .
Gov ernment made a committee under the direction of B.N. Krishna for creation of separate state T elangana by div iding Andhra
Pradesh.
898.
Gov ernment notified a list of 1 58 products from engineering and electronics to be included in focus product scheme (FPS) to giv e a
boost to exports as these products will be entitled for 2 per cent duty credit scrip benefits.
Duty Credit Scrip - T he duty credit scrips may be used for import of any capital goods including spares, office equipments furniture
etc. at a specified amount of Gain. For example, if y ou buy a duty credit scrip with a face v alue of Rs 1 00 at say Rs 80, then that can
be used to pay duty of Rs 1 00 on imported goods. So, pay ing Rs 80 to the seller of the scrip and sav ed duty of Rs 1 00, makes a neat
gain of 20 %. Duty Credit scrip may also be used to regularize defaults in export obligation under schemes cov ered in Foreign T rade
Policy .
899.
900.
Gov ernment of India Approv ed MCX (Multi comodity stock exchange) as contry s third stock exchange.
Gov ernment of India appointed Justice Vangala Eswaraiah, former Acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court as the
Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC).
901 .
Gov ernment of India has has appointed Dr. Y . V. Reddy as Head of 1 4th Finance Commission.
902.
Gov ernment permitted formation of a new state called T elangana by departing State of Andhra Pradesh. T elangana is India's 29th
State..
903.
Gov ernment sanctioned a total of 1 58 Eklav y a Model Residential Schools (EMRS) for tribal students in 23 states under Art 275 (1 ) of
constitution.
904.
Gov ernment set up a committee under Chairmanship of Prof. Virginius Xaxa to suggest measures to be taken for welfare of Scheduled
Castes and T heir Multidimensional dev elopment.
905.
Gov ernment started 'Seekho aur Kamao' Scheme to encourage people belonging to minority Communities and their Skill Dev elopment
to bring down unemploy ment rate among them.
906.
Gov ernment started Pahal scheme as an extension of Janani Suraksha Y ojana. In this scheme, 3.5 lakh women to be giv en Intra
Uterine Dev ices (IUD) for better family planning.
907.
Gov ernment started Crime and Criminal T racking and Network Sy stems (CCT NS) with aim of automating and bringing all police
stations across the country in a network for ease of sharing information.
908.
Gov ernment started DBT Scheme (Direct Benefit T ransfer). T his program aims to transfer subsidies directly to the people liv ing below
pov erty line.
909.
Gov ernment started a Pension and Life Insurance fund scheme called Mahatma Gandhi Prav asi Suraksha Y ojana (MGPSY ) for the
Ov erseas Indian workers hav ing Emigration Check Required (ECR) passports.
91 0.
Gov ernment started to stop functioning of DRDA (District Rural Dev elopment Agencies) till April 201 4 that ov ersees the
implementation of anti- pov erty programs of the Ministry of Rural Dev elopment at the district Lev el. T he decision is taken according to
Suggestions of V Ramachandran Committee formed for analy sis of DRDA.
91 1 .
Gov ernment started to stop functioning of DRDA (District Rural Dev elopment Agencies) till April 201 4 that ov ersees the
implementation of anti- pov erty programs of the Ministry of Rural Dev elopment at the district Lev el. T he decision is taken according to
Suggestions of V Ramachandran Committee formed for analy sis of DRDA.
91 2.
Gov ernment will set up a new Bureau of Water Use efficiency as an authority for optimizing usage of water in irrigation, municipal and
industrial areas. It was decided in first meeting of National Water Mission adv isory Board as part of National Action Plan on Climate
Change.
91 3.
91 4.
Gujarat to hav e 7 new districts, T aking total districts count in the state to 33.
Gujarat's Ahmadabad city first in Asia to introduce a heat action plan. It will be used to warn citizens regarding increasing heat in the
atmosphere and measures to control it will be dev eloped.
91 5.
Gujarati film 'T he Good Road' has been nominated for Oscar awards in the best foreign Films Category .
91 6.
Gurv inder Singh bags Golden Peacock at IFFI 201 2, Centenary Award goes to Mira nair.
91 7.
H- 1 89, T he third of the series of twelv e Air Cushion Vehicles designed and built for Indian Coast Guard has been commissioned in
serv ice.
91 8.
Halima Y akub, person of Indian origin appointed as ladies speaker of Singapore.
91 9.
Hary ana CM Bhupendra singh Hudda start UIDAI national data centre in Gurgaon.
920.
Hary ana Gov ernment started issuing of Shikhsa Setu Cards to students in all gov ernment schools in order to enhance quality of
education. It will act like a report card of students. T his can be considered as a state Gov ernments step towards implementation of the
Section 1 34 A of the Right to Education Act, which env isages for admission of children belonging to poor and needy families in priv ate
schools.
921 .
Hary ana Receiv ed Krishi Karma Award for 2nd Consecutiv e y ear.
922.
Hary ana Sanskrit Gaurav Samman giv en to Dr. Ramdatta Sharma by Hary ana Sanskrit Academy .
923.
Hary ana state gov ernment decided to grant cabinet minister's status to Hary ana state's former Chief Ministers.
924.
Hary ana's Prime Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda starts Direct Benefit T ransfer(DBT ) scheme.
925.
Hazem Al Beblawi is appointed as Acting Prime Minister of Egy pt.
926.
Healing Memories written by Zeenat Shaukat Ali.
927.
Health Ministry decided to stop usage of Popular Polio Medicine called 'T riv alent Vaccine' by 201 5 due to no new reported cased of
Polio in India from 201 0 onwards.
928.
Health ministry has raised the criterion of annual income from Rs. 75,000/- to Rs. 1 ,00,000/- to be eligible for the Health Minister's
Discretionary Grant (HMDG).
929.
Hema Malini selected for Bharat Muni Samman.
930.
Hemant Soren of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party became the 5th Chief Minister of Jharkhand.
931 .
High Rise in Use of KCC ( Kisan Credit Cards) has been reported. It prov ides Loans at 7 % to farmers.
932.
Hillary Mantel, a British Nov elist won the Costa Book Award 201 2 for her Nov el Bring Up T he Bodies. Note that she had earlier won
the reputed Man Booker Prize 201 2 also for the same nov el.
933.
Himachal Pradesh recently launched helicopter serv ice for remote tribal areas.
934.
Himachal Pradesh's first Food Park will soon be made in UNA District's Siga Village.
935.
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited deliv ered the first Hawk Mk- 1 32 adv anced jet trainer aircraft to the Indian Nav y in Bangalore.
936.
Hockey (December 201 2)
Australia win Hockey Champions T rophy 201 3 by beating Netherlands and Pakistan beat India to clinch bronze.
Australia won once again Hockey Champions T rophy for fifth Consecutiv e y ear.
Pakistan win Champions T rophy Hockey T ournament after beating India in Doha, Qatar.
937.
Hockey (January 201 3)
Hary ana won 39th National women hockey championship after beating Uttar Pradesh.
Manipur create a new record after beating Maharashtra with 22 - 0 in 39th National Women Hockey Championship (Under 20).
Ranchi Rhinos win Hockey Indian League after beat to Delhi Wav eriders.
938.
Hockey Play er Sardar Singh chosen as captain of Indian Hockey team for the upcoming Asia cup tournament 201 3.
939.
Holly wood Actress Angelina Jolie has been Honored by prestigious Gov ernor's Awrad giv en by Academy of Motion Pictures, arts and
Science.
940.
Home ministry started 'Crime and Criminal T racking Network (CCT N)' for connecting Police stations and chief Police officers across
country .
941 .
Horacio Manuel Cartes is the new president of South American Country Paraguay .
942.
IBSA (India, Berzail and South Africa) Foreign Minsters' 1 0th Meet held during 68th Session of United Nations General Assembly in
New Y ork, USA.
943.
ICC (International Cricket Council) announced to start T est Championship from 201 7. First one will be organized in England.
944.
ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chandra Kochhar has been named as the most powerful women in business in India.
945.
IIFA awards 201 3 Best Film - Barfi
Best Actor - Ranbir Kapoor (Barfi)
Best Actress - Vidy a Balan (Kahani)
Best Director - Anuy rag Basu (Barfi)
946.
IMF (International monetary Fund) recognized Gov ernment of East African Country Somalia again after it's de- recognition in 1 990 due
to Home war in Somalia. IMF is based in Washington and Chief is Christina Lagrade.
947.
IRAN Allowed IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency )'s Officials to inspect sites of its Disputed Nuclear Programme.
948.
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) gav e y oung scientist award to Jenita Mary Nongky nrih from Meghalay a.
949.
ISRO called off T he launch of geo - stationary v ehicle GSLV - D5 due to technical reasons. It is built by cry ogenic rocket engine meant
to take Communication satellite GSAT - 1 4 Into space.
950.
ISRO successfully launched IRNSS - 1 (Indian Regional Nav igational Satellite Sy stem) with PSLV C - 22 Rocket. It is Indias first
Regional satellite Nav igation Sy stem for Monitoring Marine Activ ities.
951 .
ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organization) Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) successfully placed in Mars transfer trajectory .
Notes about India's MARS Mission
India's Mars Orbiter Mission was launcherd from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
rocket C25 on 5 Nov ember 201 3.
T he MOM probe spent about a month in Earth orbit before trans- Mars injection on 30 Nov ember 201 3.
It is India's first interplanetary mission and ISRO would now become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Sov iet
space program, NASA, and European Space Agency .
T he current plan is for insertion into Mars orbit on 24 September 201 4.
952.
ISSF World Shooting Championship was recently held in Spain. India won only one Silv er through Lajja Goswami.
953.
IT Company IBM has dev eloped world's smallest feature film called 'A Boy and His Atom'. In this, the atoms hav e been shown as 20
Crore times bigger. T he mov ie has been included In Guinness book of world records.
954.
IT and Communications Minister Kapil Sibbal issued released the National Cy ber Security Policy 201 3 With an aim to protect
information and build capabilities to prev ent cy ber attacks to safeguard both phy sical and business assets of the country .
955.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is appointed as new president of East African Country Keny a.
956.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is the New President of West African Country Mali.
957.
Iceland became first European Country to sign Free T rade Agreement with China. It is a major up for china as part of its plans for entry
in resource rich arctic region.
958.
Ilham Aliy ev is appointed as president of Azberjaan. It is his T hird term as President.
959.
Implementation of GAAR (General Anti Av oidance Rule) differed for two y ear.
960.
Import T ax on Gold and Platinum increased to 6 % from 4 % initially .
961 .
In 1 9th Commonwealth T able T ennis Championship held in Delhi recently , all Gold Medals were won by Singapore except Women's
Singles (It was won by Zhang Mo from Canada).
962.
In 1 9th screen awards Pan Singh T omar and Barfi - best film award
Y ash Chopra - Life time achiev ement award.
Vidy a Balan - Best Actress
963.
In Boston Marathon 201 3, Lelisa Desisa (Ethiopia) win in men's and Rita Jeptoo (Keny a) win in Women's Categories.
964.
In London Marathon 201 3, T segay e Kebede(Ethiopia) win in men's and Rita Priska (Keny a) win in Women's Categories.
965.
In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court for the first time gav e Right to Reject and allowed v oters to cast negativ e v ote by
pressing a button say ing none of the candidates is worthy of his v ote.
966.
In a recent meeting, gov ernment decided to reduce number central sponsored welfare schemes to 70 from 1 47 Initially in order to
manage them in a better way during 1 2th fiv e y ear plan.
967.
In a surv ey of the Public Sector Enterprises of the country , ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) is the most profitable CPSE in the
country .
968.
In recent 'World Gender Gap Report' Issued by WEF (World Economic Forum), India has been giv en 1 01 th Place which is better then
1 05th Place assigned to India in Last Y ear's Report.
969.
In the Freshly Issued Ratings by ICC (International Cricket Council), India's Virat Kohli is the Best Bestman and R Ashwin is the Best
Allrounder in the world Currently .
970.
In the Global Hunger Index Report Issued by Wahington, USA Based IFPRI (International Food Policy Research institute), India has
been ranked at 63rd Place. T he ranking has slightly Improv ed from the Last Y ear (65th Rank), But still lags Much Behind T he Other
Emerging Economies.
971 .
In the recent Annual Supplementary Foreign T rade Policy 201 3 - 1 4, Gov ernment decided to extend Zero Duty EPCG (Export
Promotion Capital Goods) Scheme Bey ond March 201 3 and to all sectors to enhance countries exports. In EPCG Scheme, manufacturers
in different sectors are allowed to import machinery to be used for production at high discount in import duties and in return the gov
ernment puts a certain amount of Export obligation of produced goods that the manufacturer will hav e to complete before he can
mov e the equipments outside the manufacturing unit.
972.
In the shadow of Freedom written by Dhaul Zabban.
973.
India granted help of USD 800 Million for North Railway Project in Sri lanka.
974.
India American scientist Shashank Priy a has worked on a project to create a Robotic Spy Jelly fish called 'Cry o' to be used in USA Nav y .
975.
India Beat Malay sia to win Sultan of Johar Cup Hockey T ournament 201 3 by beating Malay sia in Malay sia.
976.
India China agree to hold joint military excercises. Xu Qiliang, Vice chairman of China's Central Militrary Commission Visited India..
977.
India China decided to hold joint Military exercise called Hand In Hand after a gap of Fiv e Y ears.
978.
India Collaborate with USA to dev elop Joint Solar Energy Project Named SERIIUS (Solar Energy Research Initiativ e of India and
United States) with Use of CSP (Concentrated Solar power) T echnology .
979.
India Decided to End DT AA (Double T axation Av oidance Agreement) with European Country Cy prus due to Non receipt of Enough
T axation Information from Cy prus as part of T he Agreement.
980.
India Dev elopment Market Places Conference was organized in Indore, Madhy a Pradesh and World Bank honored 20 organizations for
excellent work in education, lifesty le and social dev elopment.
981 .
982.
India Parliament has approv ed the Foreign Direct Inv estment (FDI) in retail.
India Post launched instant electronic money transfer serv ice in partnership with Wall Street Exchange, (a company of UAE's Emirates
Post Group).
983.
India Ranked as 8th powerful country across world by 'Foundation for national security Research'. USA First and China ranked second
in this list.
984.
985.
India Russian Combine Army T raining complete in Mumbai named Indra 201 2..
India Signed BDCA (Border Defence Co- Operation Agreement) with China to resolv e border patrolling issues and other disputes related
to Border between T wo Countries.
986.
India Signed T IEA (T ax Information Exchange Agreement) with Central European Country , Liechtenstein.
987.
India Signed a USD 360 Million Loan agreement with World Bank for Uttar Pradesh Water Sector Restructuring Project Phase - 2.
988.
India accepted as an observ er state in the Arctic Council. North Pole county Arctic is v ery rich in natural resources and India is set to
take adv antage of this acceptance as observ er state in the arctic council.
989.
India and America including 23 countries started a Joint Military Exercise Shanti Pray as - 2 in Kathmandu(Nepal) .
990.
India and Bangladesh decided to work fast on rail link scream called maitree express.
991 .
India and Bangladesh signed Exchange T reaty . Persons - Sushil Kumar Shinde (Home Minister, India) and M K Alamgir (Home
Minister, Bangladesh)
992.
993.
India and Bhutan Sign DT AA (Double T axation Av oidance Agreement) to stop taxation Av oidance.
India and Canada T ourism Ministers Meet in New Delhi. Persons - Maxime Bernier (T ourism Minister, Canada) and K.
Chiranjeev i(T ourism Minister, India).
994.
India and China completed Joint Anti T errorism Exercise called Hand in Hand 201 3 in Chengdu city of China.
995.
India and China decided to set up a Contact Hotline between Defence Headquarters of two countries for the first time in order to
enhance mutual cooperation.
996.
India and China held a Bilateral defence dialogue and agreed on joint Military Exercises after as Long T ime.
997.
India and France Held their First T echnology Meet which was attended by Francois Richier (French Ambassador to India) and Jaipal
Reddy (India's Minister of Science and T echnology ).
998.
India and Liby a signed a Memorandum of Undertaking in New Delhi, for cooperation in the field of election Management and
administration.
999.
India and Malta signed Double T axation Av oidance Agreement (DT AA) for checking av oiding of taxes.
000.
India and Russia recently held joint nav al exercise named Indra.
001 .
India and Russia started Joint Militraty Exercise Indra 2013 in Rajashtan's T har Desert.
002.
India and Sweden signed DT AA (Double T axation Av oidance Agreement) for prev enting taxation av oidance.
003.
India and T urkey hav e agreed to enhance their cooperation in the field of Renewable Energy .
004.
India and USA Completed T heir Joint Nav al Exercise Called Malabar 201 3.
005.
India and USA started a new program called Connect to India to facilitate expansion of co- operation in Higher Studies. As part of this
initiativ e India will prov ide more facilities and awards to Americans coming here for higher studies USA will inv ite y oung Indians to
study in its noted univ ersities.
006.
India and Ukraine signed 5 agreements to enhance cooperation in the areas of Defence, Nuclear Safety , Science and T echnology ,T rade
and Commerce.
007.
India and Vietnam sign a pact on Co- operation in Defence. Persons - Salman Khurshid (Foreign Minister, India) and Wu Wan Ninh
(Vice Prime Minister, Vietnam)
008.
India announced to giv e USD 20 Million to Vietnam for its v arious Hy dropower Projects.
009.
India beat Iran to win the inaugural Asian T eam Snooker Championships in Doha, Qatar.
01 0.
India became 90th member of Madrid Protocol for easing up process of Indian companies to get International registration and
Recognition.
1 01 1 .
India dev eloped GSLV D - 5 Rocket based on the Cry ogenic Rocket Engine T echnology for launching communication satellite GSAT 1 4.
01 2.
India finished fourth in Archery World Cup in Colombia after Deepika Kumari shoot an Indiv idual gold and a Mixed team Bronze after
pairing with Atnu Das.
01 3.
India finished on top of the table with 52 medals at the second South Asian Junior Athletics Championships held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
01 4.
India has appointed Rajeev Shahare as the new high Commissioner to Maldiv es.
01 5.
India has approv ed loan of 600 Crore for Salma Dam Project in Afghanistan.
01 6.
India has become 1 7th Country that has been granted status as 'authorizing nation' under the International Common Criteria
Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) to test and certify electronics and IT products with respect to cy ber security .
1 01 7.
India has been ranked 38th out of 1 65 countries in 'Index of dem,ocracy ' report by UK Based Economist Magazine. Iceland was ranked
first in this report.
01 8.
India has signed a $ 1 00 million loan with World Bank to help low- income families secure housing loans.
01 9.
India hosted 31 st Meeting of Health Ministers of Countries of the WHO (World Health Organization) South- East Asia Region.
020.
India in 1 7th India- Iran Ministerial Meet in T ehran agreed to dev elop Chahbahar Port of Iran to help economical dev elopment in
Afghanistan.
021 .
India is elected to the gov erning council of the prestigious Statistical Institute of Asia Pacific (SIAP) ,one of the most activ e organs of the
UN. SIAP was established in T oky o in 1 970 by 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Dev elopment Programme
(UNDP) as an international centre to bring about regional co- operation in training Gov ernment statisticians from dev eloping countries of
the region.
022.
023.
India is making world's largest solar park at bhadla in Jodhpur district in Rajasthan.
India is ranked 1 36 out of total 1 87 countries in terms of Human Dev elopment Index according to a report titled 'T he Rise of the South:
Human Progress in a Div erse World,' issued by UNDP (United Nations Dev elopment Programme). T his Report had Norway at the top.
024.
India is the first country in South Asia to ban the testing of cosmetics and its ingredients on animals.
025.
India qualified for World Cup Wrestling T ournament for the first time. World cup 201 4 will be held in Uzbekistan.
026.
India recently made rotav irus v accine named Rotavac for cure of sev ere diseases caused by rotav irus such as diarrhoea and
dehy dration that kills lakhs of Children and adults ev ery y ear.
027.
028.
India set up foundation for joint research in Ay urv eda with Switzerland. It is called Indo- Swiss Ay urv eda Foundation (ISA).
India signed 51 Million USD Loan Agreement with International Fund for Agricultural Dev elopment (IFAD) for T ribal Empowerement
of T ribal Communities in Jharkhand.
029.
030.
India signed DT AA (Double T axation Av oidance Agreement) with Mauritius.
India signed DT AA (Double T axation Av oidance Agreement) with Southeastern Europe country Albania. Fatos Kerciku, Albania's
Env oy in India signed it on behalf of his country .
031 .
India signed Double T axation Av oidance Conv ention (DT AC) with Morocco. On India's Behalf, it was signed by Dr Sudha Sharma,
Chairperson of Central Board of Direct T axes and H.E. Mr. Larbi Reffouh who is Ambassador of Morocco signed it on behalf of Morocco.
032.
India signed a US $300 million loan agreement with Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) for upgradation of 254 deteriorated highway s in
Bihar.
033.
India signed a US $300 million loan agreement with Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) for upgradation of 254 deteriorated highway s in
Bihar.
034.
035.
India signed an agreement with Australia for better co- operation for skill dev elopment in the field of Agriculture.
India signed an agreement with Six East Asain Nations (Australia, Cambodia, Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Laos) for cooperation in renov ation of Nalanda Univ ersity .
036.
India successfully launched its new adv anced weather satellite called INSAT – 3D and placed it into its geosy nchronous orbit.
037.
India successfully test - fired its indigenously dev eloped nuclear capable Agni- I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700 km from a
test range off the Odisha coast.
038.
India successfully test fired Prathv i- 2 ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 KMS.
039.
India successfully test fires Astra Interceptor Missile (700 KM Range).
040.
India successfully tested Indian Made (MBRL) Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher Called Pinaka.
041 .
India to Host Hockey World Cup 201 8 as per an announcement by FIH (International Hockey Federation).
042.
India to set up a new Sukhoi - 30 MKI squadron in T hanjav ur, T amilnadu to keep strategic ey e on Indian ocean for security purpose.
043.
India wants BIT A (Bilateral Inv estment and trade agreement) with Germany to boost bi- lateral trade and co- operation.
044.
India was giv en the status of guest country at the 66th Cannes Film Festiv al for its completing 1 00 y ears of existence in 201 3.
045.
India will set up languages labs in Sri Lanka for three- tier English Language T raining Sy stem.
046.
India won 4 Gold and 9 T otal Medals in International Boxing Championship Held in Serbia. A Silambarasan and Manoj Kumar won
Golds in Male while Rajesh Kumari and Chanda Udanshiv e won Golds in Female Category .
047.
India Proposed to set up a JBWG (Joint Border Working Group) to settle border disputes with My ammar and clear demarcation of
border lines between two countries.
048.
India's Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) signed an MOU (Memorandum opf Understanding) with Argentina's Capital
Market Regulator Called Comision Nacional de Valores (CNV) to Enhance Mutual Co- operation.
049.
India's Abhijeet Gupta won Commonwealth Chess Championship 201 3 in South Africa.
050.
India's Amit Kumar Won Silv er and Bajrang Kumar won Bronze in World Wrestling Championships in Budapest city of Hungary .
051 .
India's Amit Kumar won gold medal in Asian Wrestling Championship In New Delhi.
052.
India's Andaman - Nicobar and Lakshwadeep Islands hav e been named as the new "hope spots" by the International Union for
Conserv ation of Nature (IUCN) for conserv ation of underwater habitats and wildlife.
053.
India's BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited) has signed agreement with Israel'S IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries) for dev elopment of Long
- Range Surface to Air Missliles. T he Missiles will be of S eeker ty pe means it will be guided to target by itself and not by a seperate panel
like India's other Existing Missiles.
054.
India's Bharti Airtel has acquired 1 00 per cent stake in Wireless Business Serv ices (WBSPL), a company founded by US chipmaker
Qualcomm.
055.
India's Billiards Play er Alok Kumar won Silv er in World Billiards Championship.
056.
India's Boxing Play er Nikhat Zareen won silv er in AIBA Women’s Y outh World Boxing Championships being held at Bulgaria.
057.
India's CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) Shashikant Sharma is appointed on United Nations' Board of Auditors.
058.
India's DRDO (Defence Research and Dev elopment Organisation) display ed its newly dev eloped Pragati surface- to- surface missile in
the Seoul International Aerospace & Defence (ADEX - 201 3) exhibition in South Korea's Capital Seoul.
059.
India's Deepika Pallikal Won World Squash Championship Beating Rachael Grinham from Australia.
060.
India's Ex - Permanent Representativ e to United Nations, Hardeep singh Puri has been awarded by T homas Jefferson Eternal
Vigilance Award 201 3 by United Nations.
061 .
062.
India's First National Av iation Univ ersity Opened in Raibarelli, Uttar Pradesh.
India's First Rapid Metro Serv ice Started in Hary ana's Gurgaon City . It is first Metro Rail In country made on the Basis of Public
Priv ate Partnership.
063.
India's First sports car manufacturing Plant is being set up In Raipur District of Chhattisgarh.
064.
India's Former President Abdul Kalam has been honored with US - Based National Space society 's Wernher v on braun memorial
Award.
065.
India's Former President and Missile Scientist AP J Abdul Kalam Honored Famous Cartoonist R K Laxman with Bharat Bhushan
Award.
066.
India's GDP Growth Rate for Q3 (Oct - Dec) was 4.5 %, Q4 (Jan - Mar) was 4.8 % and Ov erall GDP of FY 201 2 - 1 3 stay ed at 5%.
067.
India's IT Company T CS (T ata Consultancy Serv ices) buy s French Company ALT I SA for Rs. 530 Crores.
068.
India's NSE (National Stock Exchange) became world's largest stock exchange in terms of equity T rading according to a report by WFE
(World Federation of Exchanges).
069.
India's National Stock Exchange and Japan Exchange Group signed an agreement for Launching Nifty Futures, a representativ es stock
index of India on Osaka Securities Exchange.
070.
1 071 .
072.
073.
India's P V Sindhu Won Bronze in World Badminton Championships organized in Guangzhou city if China.
India's Rahi Sarnobat won gold medal in world Shooting Championship in Changwon, South Korea.
India's Sixth Commodity Exchange UCX (Univ ersal Commodity Exchange) started operations.
India's Space Agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) has launched SARAL Satellite (Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa) Bulit
in Collaboration with France. T he PSLV- C20 rocket was used for launch from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
074.
India's Various Financial Stats for FY 201 2 - 1 3 and Comparison with FY 201 1 - 1 2.
Met r i c
V a l u e i n FY 2012 - 13
V a l u e i n FY 2011 - 12
GDP Gr owt h
5. 0
6 .2
Ex por t s
$ 3 00. 6 0 Billion
$ 3 05. 9 Billion
Im por t s
$4 9 1 . 4 8 Billion
$4 8 9 . 3 1 Billion
T r a de Defi ci t (Im por t s -
$1 8 3 . 4 Billijon
$1 9 0. 9 1 Billion
Cu r r ent A ccou nt Defi ci t
4 . 2 % of GDP
4 . 9 % of GDP
Ex t er na l Debt
$ 3 4 5 Billion
$ 3 9 0 Billion
Foodgr a i ns Pr odu ct i on
2 59 . 3 2 Million Ton n es
2 55. 3 6 Million Ton n es
Ex por t s)
Ch a nge
19 %
1 .7 %
44%
4 .1 %
1 6 .6 %
13%
1 . 5%
075.
India's economic growth sliped down at nearly three- y ear low of 5.4% during Q2 (July - September) of 201 2- 201 3.
076.
India's external affairs minister v isited T ehran (Capital of Iran) for 1 7th Ministerial lev el meet of India and Iran.
1 077.
India's first satellite dev elop exclusiv ely for defence purpose GSAT - 7 was successfully launched by European space consortium
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket from in French Guiana to giv e a major push to the country 's maritime security .
078.
India's first 6 D T heatres IRIDO 6 is installed at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.
079.
India's first high commissioner to Britain, V K Krishna Menon will be honoured posthumously with a blue plaque award at the north
London residence where he stay ed when he first came to london before India's Independence.
080.
India's first nav igation satellite was successfully placed in orbit by PSLV C - 22 rocket. It was successful launch of the first of the sev en
satellites planned under the Indian Regional Nav igation Satellite Sy stem (IRNSS). T his sy stem of Sev en satellites will help in hav ing a
hawk ey e ov er activ ities in Indian Ocean and required marine areas of national interest.
081 .
India's first priv ate sector port has been opened in Pipav av , Gujarat.
082.
India's first women's post office was inaugurated on International Women's day (March 08) in New Delhi.
083.
India's largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) has signed an agreement with Spain's bank Banco Bilbao Vizcay a Argentaria, (BBVA), to
support business operations of clients of both banks in both countries.
084.
IndiaSigned DT AA (Double T axation Av oidance Agreement) with North European Country Latv ia On occasion of Latv ia's Foreign
Minsiter Edgars Rinkev ics Visiting India.
085.
Indian Badminton Play er Saina Nehawal awarded by 22nd Y uddhweer memorial foundation Award.
086.
Indian Coast Guard Ship commissioned a new patrolling v essel called 'ICGS Rajdoot'.
087.
Indian Origin American Phy sician Kapil Prakash has been awarded Whitehouse Fellowship 201 3 along with 1 1 other awardees.
088.
Indian Origin Person Sunil Gulati, president of the United States Soccer Federation is elected to a four- y ear term on the FIFA
Executiv e Committee.
089.
Indian Social Activ ist Anna Hazare has been awarded inaugural Allard Prize for International Integrity by Univ ersity of British
Columbia in Canada.
090.
Indian Student Nisarg Patel awarded by Pitchfork Award in America for creating bacteria less water purification sy stem.
091 .
Indian Writer Jhumpa Lahiri has been shortlisted for USA National Book Awards 201 3 for her nov el T he Lowland.
092.
Indian env ironmentalist Bunker Roy and Pakistan's teenage education activ ist Malala Y ousufzai were declared winners of this y ear's of
the prestigious 'Clinton Global Citizens Awards'.
093.
Indian origin Ajay Kakkar has been appointed as the chairman of House of Lord (Upper house of parliament of United Kingdom).
094.
Indian - American Person Rahul Jindal has been honored by Outstanding American By Choice Award 201 3 for his contribution in USA's
Medical T echnologies Enhancements.
095.
096.
Indian Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been awarded by Global Div ersity Award by UK's House of Commons.
Indian Air Force landed its largest transport plane C- 1 30J Super Hercules at the world's highest airstrip, Daulat Beg Oldie in Ladakh. It
is being seen as a strategic respose to china's increasng number of chinese cease fire v iolations.
097.
Indian American Raj chetty has been awarded by John Bates Clark Medal (Also called baby nobel) for his contribution in economics.
098.
Indian American political person Raj Mukherjee has won local body elections in the US state of New Jersey , becoming one of the
y oungest people to do so.
099.
Indian American student Asha khare has dev eloped a 'Super Capacitor' that charges any mobile phone battery within 20 Seconds.
1 00.
Indian Archery T eam consisting of Deepika Kumari, Bombay la Dev i & Rimil Buruli won Gold Medal in 4th Round of Archery World Cup
Beating South Korea in Poland.
1 1 01 .
Indian Badminton Play er P V Sindhu won Bronze Medal in women's singles category in world badminton championships 201 3 held in
Guangzhou, China.
1 02.
Indian Badminton Play er P V Sindhu won Malay sia Open tournament by beating Zuan Zu from Singapore.
1 03.
Indian Chef Kunal Kapoor was Giv en the Sir Edmond Hillary Fellowhip 201 2 by New Zealand Gov ernment.
1 04.
Indian Coast Guard Ship C - 402 commissioned into Serv ice.
1 05.
Indian Coast Guard Commissioned a New Patrolling Vessel called "ICGS Vaibhav ".
1 06.
Indian Coast Guard Chief Anurag G. T hapliy al commissioned new patrol v essel ship called "ICGS Vaibhav ".
1 1 07.
Indian Coast Guard Started Operation Oliv er As part of its annual mission to ensure the safe mid- sea sojourn of breeding Oliv e Ridley
sea turtles.
1 08.
Indian Coast Guard commissioned its new interceptor boat (IB) with new generation Arneson Surface Driv e (ASD) named C- 1 54.
\T ennis (Nov ember 201 2)
Dav is Cup 201 2 won by Czech Republic beating Spain in Prague.
Delhi wins the National Women's Championship Beating Hary ana.
1 09.
Indian Cricketer Laxman Siv aramakrishnan has been elected to ICC (International Cricket Council) panel. India's Anil Kumble is the
current chief of ICC.
1 1 1 0.
Indian Doctor Pankaj Chaturv edi awarded by Zudi Wilkenfeld Award for International tobacco control excellence.
1111.
Indian Female shooter Heena Sidhu created history by becoming the first from India to win a gold medal at the ISSF Shooting World
Cup Held in Germany .
1 1 1 2.
1 1 1 3.
Indian Film Director Madhur Bhandarkar honored by New Y ork Citizen Achiev ement Award.
Indian Finance Minister on a USA to v isit said that fall in growth of Indian Economy is temporary and GDP growth rate could touch 8%
in next T wo Y ears.
1 1 1 4.
Indian Golfer Jeev Milkha Singh awarded Lifetime Achiev ement Award in Brunei.
1 1 1 5.
Indian Industrialist Suhail Rizv i Bought 1 5.6% Stake in Famous Social Messages Sharing Website T witter for $3.8 Bn. He Inv ested in T
witter in 201 1 and was Bought in spotlight after v ery successful IPO (Initial Public Offering) of T witter in 201 3 that resuled in worth of
stake in twitter to rise exponentially upto $3.8 bn.
1 1 1 6.
Indian Junior Women's Hockey T eam won Bronze medal in World Cup tournament Organized In Germany .
1 1 7.
Indian Lady Vandana Gandhi has been honored by Emirates Women's award for her contribution towards promoting business
excellence and nursery education in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
1 1 1 8.
Indian Lawy ers Dinoo Muthappa and Nawat Satarawala were honored with Anti - T rust Writing Award in USA.
1 1 1 9.
Indian Medicine Maker firm Ranbaxy 's USA branch USA Ranbaxy has been fined Rs. USD 5 Billion by USA Law Ministry for producing
low quality zeneric medicines.
1 20.
1 1 21 .
Indian NAVY lost Russian made Submarine INS Sindhurakshak along with 1 8 Nav al Personnel in a terrible blast in it.
Indian NGO SEWA (Self Employ ed Women's Association) and European Union (EU) are among those honoured by the United Nations
food agency for their contributions to dev elopment issues. SEWA from India was honoured for its innov ativ e efforts to lift extremely
poor women out of pov erty and hunger.
1 1 22.
Indian NGO SEWA (Self Employ ed Women's Association) has been honored by Jacques Diouf award in 38th summit by United Nation's
Food & Agriculture Organzation.
1 1 23.
Indian Nav y Inducted Light Weight Helicopter Called ALH - Dhruv and Fourth Generation Adv anced Jet T rainer Hawk - 1 32.
1 1 24.
Indian Nav y Inducted its Largest Offshore Patrolling Vessel Called 'INS Sunaina'.
1 1 25.
Indian Nav y Lt. Cdr Abhilash T omy became the first Indian to circumnav igate the globe, solo and nonstop ov er a 1 50 day s v oy age.
1 1 26.
Indian Nav y commissioned its first fighter squadron with the name 303 Black Panthers. It operates MIG 29 K Fighter Planes.
1 1 27.
Indian Nav y inducted its first Indian Made Nuclear Submarine Called "INS Arihant".
1 1 28.
Indian Nav y inducted its new Indian made aircraft carrier INS Vikrant.
1 1 29.
Indian Nov elist Jeet T hay il won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in the Jaipur Literature Festiv al for His Nov el Narcopolis.
1 30.
1 1 31 .
Indian Origin Business Person Prem Vats signed an agreement to accquire Mobile Phone Maker 'Blackberry '.
Indian Origin Person Nina Daluv uri has won Miss AMERICA 201 4 Contest. It is first time ev er that any Indian has won Miss America
contest since its inception in 1 921 .
1 1 32.
Indian Origin Person Srikant Sriniv asan appointed as Judge in district of Columbia circuit Court by Barack Obama.
1 1 33.
Indian Origin Person Sunil R Kulkarni is appointed as Judge in California State court in USA.
1 1 34.
Indian Origin Person Veerbhadran Ramnathan has been honored by Champions of the earth award by UNEP (United Nations
Env ironmental Program).
1 1 35.
Indian Person Lord Swaraj Paul has been Honored by International Indian of the Decade Award 201 3.
1 1 36.
Indian Person Madhav Chav an (CEO of Pratham, an NGO) won the 201 2 WISE Prize for Education at the WISE Summit in Doha,
Qatar. WISE Stands for World Innov ation Summit for Education. T he Saty a Bharati School Programme, an Initiativ e of Bharati
Foundation also won a special award in WISE Summit 201 2.
1 1 37.
Indian Person Mr Murli Kewalram Chanrai was presented the Outstanding Member of the South Asian Diaspora award by Singapore
President Dr T ony T an Keng Y am.
1 1 38.
Indian Person Neeraj Sahay is appointed as head of Rating department of the Famous International Credit Rating Agency Standard and
Poor's (S & P).
1 1 39.
Indian Person Smitha Singh appointed as a member of Global Dev elopment Council in America. T he council was created by Barack
Obama in 201 2.
1 40.
Indian Person Sunder Pichai Appointed as Chief of Google's Android Arm.
1 1 41 .
Indian Person Venkatesh Mannar was honored by highest National award of Canada - 'Officer of the Order of Canada'.
1 1 42.
Indian Person Vijay Singh was named recipient of 201 3 Lifetime Achiev ement Award by the American Society of Civ il Engineers
Env ironmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE- EWRI).
1 1 43.
Indian Premier League Champion T eam Mumbai Indians won the Champions League T - 20 T ournament 201 3.
1 1 44.
Indian President Pranab Mukharji and Mauritius Prmie minister Nav in Chandra Ramgoolam signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) in the area of health, medicine ,tourism.
1 1 45.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh v isited Berlin, capital city of Germany .
1 1 46.
Indian Railway s appointed Arunendra Kumar as chairman of Railway Board.
1 1 47.
Indian Railway s decided to reduce window for adv ance reserv ation of tickets to 60 day s from 1 20 day s prev iously .
1 1 48.
Indian Railway s decided to enhance Max speed of Fastest T rains of India named Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duranto express to 200
KM/H from Existing 1 60 KM/H.
1 1 49.
Indian Reserv e Bank of India (RBI)'sGov ernor Raghuram G Rajan has been honored by Deutsche Bank Prize for Economical Economics
201 3.
1 50.
1 1 51 .
Indian Sand Artist Sudarshan Patnaik won gold medal at 1 2th International Sand Art Competition in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Indian Scientist U.R. Rao, who led the country 's space programme between 1 984 and 1 994, has become the first Indian to be inducted
into the prestigious Satellite Hall of Fame of USA,
1 1 52.
Indian Signed an agreement with World Bank for assistance of US$ 70 million for Financing of Health Sy stem Dev elopment and Reform
Projects in Karnataka .
1 1 53.
Indian Software Serv ices Firm WIPRO's Chief Ajeem Premji has been honored by Asian Business Leaders Award 201 3 by London
based Asia House.
1 1 54.
Indian VIP Visits T o Foreign Countries :
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Visited Moscow, Capital City of Russia and Met Vladimir Putin, President of Rusaia.
India's Rev enue Secretary of the Ministry of Finance Sumit Bose v isited India and Met Ghulam Hussain, Chairman of the National
Board of Rev enue (NBR) of Bangladesh.
Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari Visited Lima, Capital of Peru. He also Visited Britain and cuba and Met Fidel Castro,
Rev olutionary Hero of Cuba (1 5th Prez and 1 6th PM of Cuba).
1 1 55.
Indian Woman Basketball team beat magnolia to win first FIFA Asian basketball championship organized in Doha (Qatar).
1 1 56.
Indian Won Sultan Johar Bahru Cup under - 21 Hockey T ournament beating Malay sia In Malay sia.
1 1 57.
Indian Y oung Chess play er Parimarjan Negi won Politiken Cup 201 3 which was organized in Kopenhagen, Denmark.
1 1 58.
Indian artist Anup Mathew T homas is among fiv e winners of popular Dubai's Abraaj Group Art Prize for artists from the Middle East,
North Africa and South Asia.
1 1 59.
1 60.
1 1 61 .
Indian boxer Shiv a T hapa won gold in Asian Boxing Championship Organized in Jordan.
Indian female Hockey T eam won bronze in Asia Cup Female Hockey tourmanent 201 3 by beating China in Malay sia.
Indian origin person Vince Girdhari Chhabria is nominated by US Prez Barack Obama for District Judge of the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California.
1 1 62.
Indian origin scientist Venkatesh Mannar awarded by Order of Canada by Canada Gov ernment.
1 1 63.
Indian railway s completed its 1 60 y ears of operations. India's first train was operated on April 1 6, 1 853 between Chatrapati Shiv aji
terminus and T hane.
1 1 64.
Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik was recently awarded Moscow choice prize for creating a sand sculpture of Lord Ganesh at World
sand art championship 201 3, Russia.
1 1 65.
Indian signed T IEA (T ax Information Exchange Agreement) With Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein's ambassador Madam Dorris Frick signed
on Behalf of her country .
1 1 66.
Indian table tennis play er Saumy ajeet Ghosh won IT F world tour Brazil Open T able T ennis T ournament 201 3 in.
1 1 67.
Indira Gandhi National women's univ ersity Opened in Raibarelli, Uttar Pradesh
1 1 68.
Indira Gandhi Super National T hermal Power Plant has been started in Jhajjar, (Hary ana).
1 1 69.
Indonesia's T ommy Sugiarto won Singapore Open tournament beating T hailand's Bunsak Ponasana.
1 1 70.
Infosy s is the First Indian IT Company to to trade on NY SE Euronext, London and Paris Markets.
1 1 71 .
Inna Shev chenko, a Ukranian activ ist has been giv en political asy lum by France.
1 1 72.
Intercepter Vessel 'C- 1 54 'delpoy ed by Indian Coast Guard in Mumbai.
1 1 73.
International Data Group (IDG) awarded UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) with Visionary Application of Information
T echnology Award.
1 1 74.
International Maritime Defence exhibition and Conference - Asia 201 3 was organized in Singapore. It's an international Maritime
Exhibition show organized on a interv al of ev ery two y ears.
1 1 75.
International Meet of Chief Justices of 60 participating countries organized in Lucknow.
1 1 76.
International Oly mpics Committee has decided to Retain Wrestling (Kushti) in Oly mpics Games 2020.
1 1 77.
International Rating Agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) decided to Lower Indias sov ereign credit rating to negative (BBB- ) and warned
that the Rating May further get downgraded to speculative within a y ear if the low economic growth is not tackled Well from its
current state.
1 1 78.
International T ennis Federation announces world Champions for 201 2. T he award Giv en to Nov ak Djokov ic of Serbia in Male Category
and Serena Williams of USA in Females.
1 1 79.
International Union for Conserv ation of Nature (IUCN) has listed T he Great Indian Busterd as an Endangered Species as there are
now only 250 Birds in India Belonging to this Species.
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Internet Company Microsoft corporation launched 8.1 v ersion of its popular Windows Operating sy stem software.
1 1 81 .
Internet search engine Y ahoo announced to buy popular Blogging App 'T umblr' in a USD 1 000 Million Deal.
1 1 82.
Iran Creates a New Satellite Named "Nahid".
1 1 83.
Iran T ested its Gadar Missile of range 200 KM in bay of Oman.
1 1 84.
Iran agreed to Limit Its Disputed Nuclear Program and signed a Pact with US and fiv e other World Powers accepting restraints on Its
Nuclear Program in Exchange for Partial Relief from strict sanctions made on it by other Countries.
1 1 85.
Iran and western powers (European Union) held an unsuccessful meet for demy stify ing Iran's controv ersial Nuclear Program to ensure
that Iran's Nuke energy will not be used in creating Nuclear Weapons.
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Iran recently deploy ed warship "Jamran - 2" in Caspian Sea.
Iranian Nav y Personnel detained Indian Crude Oil Carry ing Ship MT Desh Shanti. Iran accused this Indian ship for allegedly polluting
the sea.
1 1 88.
Ireland gov ernment approv ed Abortion Bill that allows Abortion Only in case of critical danger of life.
1 1 89.
Irna Solberg is appointed as New Prime Minister of Norway .
1 90.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is the 266th pope of catholic church.
1 1 91 .
Jack Lew appointed as a United States Secretary of the T reasury .
1 1 92.
Jacob Zuma Re- elected African National Congress Leader.
1 1 93.
Jamaican racer Usain Bolt equaled the world record of eight gold medals.
1 1 94.
Jang Jong Nam is the new defence minister of East Asian country North Korea.
1 1 95.
Japan Conflict with China Ov er Senkaku Island in East China Sea.
1 1 96.
Japan Prov ided Rs. 1 1 000 Cr loan to India for creation of Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) between Mumbai and Delhi.
1 1 97.
Japan T ested a new T alking Robot named Kirobo by sending it into space.
1 1 98.
Japan Unv eiled Its largest Warship Called Izumo.
1 1 99.
Japan agreed to supply amphibious planes US - 2 to India. Amphibious planes can work in both air and water.
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Japan inducted a new technology to launch light Satellites and tested by launching Sprint A Satellite.
201 .
Japan recently boosted its defence budget for the First time in ten y ears.
202.
Japan's T oky o City will Host 2020 Summer Oly mpics.
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Japan's Mount Fuji has been included in UNESCO world Heritage Sites List. Japan has total 1 6 UNESCO world Heritage Sites.
204.
Japanese T akihiko Nakao is appointed as new Chief of Manila (Philippines) based Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB).
205.
Japenese T akehiko Nakao is appointed as new Chairman of Asian Dev elop Bank (ADB). Asian Dev elopment bank is headquartered in
Manila (Philippines).
206.
Jawaharlal Darda, an Indian Freedom Fighter has been posthumously conferred a 'Lifetime Achiev ement Award' at UK's House of
Commons for his contribution during India's independence mov ement.
207.
Jawed ludin, the Deputy Prime minister of Afghanistan v isited India.
208.
Jean Y v es le Drian, the French defence Minister v isited India.
209.
Jharkhand Gov ernment awarded 1 1 y s Old Prasannata Shandily a with Uttam Jeev an Rakshak Padak.
21 0.
John Brennan appointed as chief of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency ).
1 21 1 .
John Dramani Mahama re- elected the president of Ghana.
1 21 2.
John Kerry to be Appointed USA's new Foreign Minister (Secretary of State) replacing Hilary Clintan.
1 21 3.
Joint Military Exercise of America and South Korea named "Key Resolv e" in Seoul, South Korea.
1 21 4.
Joint Military Exercise of India and Bangladesh Sampreeti III organised in Malpura Droping Zone, Agra.
1 21 5.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio selected as new 266th pop of Roman Catholic Church in Vetican City .
1 21 6.
Jugal Kishore Mohapatra is appointed as new chief secretary of Odisha.
1 21 7.
Justice Ajit Prakash Shah takes ov er as Chief of 20th Law Commission. T he post of the Chairman of 20th Law Commission had fallen
v acant due to the resignation of Justice D. K. Jain, who has taken ov er as the President, National Consumer Disputes Redressal
Commission.
1 21 8.
1 21 9.
Justice D.H.Waghela is appointed as the Chief justice of Karnataka High Court .
Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee Submitted its Report ov er Reforms Needed in Anti- Doping Programmes in Country . It Suggested
that NADA (National Anti Doping Agency ) should be Freed from Control of Sports Agencies so that it can work more independently and
Efficiently .
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K N Santkumar is appointed as New chief of Press T rust of India.
Kabaddi (December 201 2)
India win Kabaddi World Cup 201 2 in punjab by Beating Pakistan in Male Category and Malay sia in Females Category .
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Kaly an Sen Gupta is appointed as the chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court.
223.
Kapil Sibal is the New Law Minister of India. Note that he is also the Communication and Information T echnology Minister of India.
224.
Karnataka Beat Uttar Pradesh to win Rangaswamy Cup Hockey T ournamnent.
225.
Karnataka Gov ernment started a New Health Awareness Helpline "Arogy a Vani".
226.
Karnataka gov ernment sent a proposal to include T ULU language in eighth schedule of the constitution. Nearly one crore people in
Karnataka speak T ulu Language.
1 227.
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy won United Nation's Public Serv ice award for his Mass Contact Program and his actions for
addressing griev ances of people of Kerala.
228.
Kerala's Kannur District has been declared as first zero- landless district in country .
229.
Khil Raj Regmi Former Chief Justice of Nepal selected as new Prime Minister of Nepal .
230.
Kirti Parekh Committee on determining Changes in Policies of Setting Prices of Petroleum Products submitted Its report and adv ised to
hike Prices of Diesel and Petrol to end Rs. 72000 Crores of Subsidy on Prices of T hese Products.
1 231 .
Kishan Kant Pal is appointed as new Gov ernor of Meghalay a.
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Krishan Kumar Natarajan is appointed new chief of NASSCOM.
233.
Krishna Chaudhary is appointed as new chief of NDRF (National Disaster Relief Force) and Civ il Defence.
234.
Kumar Ay y ar is the India's new Vice- env oy to Britain.
235.
Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant in T amilnadu started working after Green signal from supreme Court. T here were obligations
regarding safety measures of this Plant but they hav e been cleared and allowed to start operations.
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1 237.
Kunnath pharmaceuticals giv en Platinum T echnology Award 201 2.
Kush Kumar, the squash play er who gav e India its first Gold medal of second Asian Y outh Games in Nanjing, China.
238.
Kushal singh is the new chief of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
239.
Lata Mangeshkar has been honored with Y ash Chopara Memorial Award 201 3.
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Latest GDP Growth Rate Predictions for India by Various Financial Agencies - >
Asian Dev elopment Bank - 4.7% (6% Prev iously )
World Bank - 4.7% (6.7 % Prev iously )
International Monetary Fund - 3.75% (5.7% Prev iously )
Credit Suisse - 6.0 % (6.5% Prev iously )
Crisil- 4.8 % (5.5 % Prev iously )
PMEAC (Prime Minister's Economic Adv isory Council (Led by C Ranrajan)) - 5.5% (6.4 % Prev iously )
1 241 .
Latv ian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkev ics v isited India.
242.
Laureus World Sportsman of the Y ear award 201 3 giv en to Usen Bolt .
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Laureus World Sportswoman of the Y ear award 201 3 giv en to Jessika Ennis .
244.
Law T rob Univ ersity Global Citizenship Award giv en to India's Amitabh Bachchan by Law T rob Univ ersity of America .
245.
Lawreus Sports Awards 201 3
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Legendary Singer Lata Mangeshkar has been honored by First Ev er Y ash Chopra Memorial Honor 201 3.
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Li keqiang is appointed as 7th President of China.
Liberian President Alan Johnson Sirleaf Visited India and was honored by Indira Gandhi Peace, Disarmament and Dev elopment Award
201 2.
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Lieutanant Commander Abhilash T ommy first Indian to complete Marine journey around the world.
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Listening in : the secret height house recording of john F. Kennedy written by T ed Widmer and Caroline Kennedy .
1 251 .
Los Angeles City Council has giv en 'City Proclamation Award 201 3' to Anupam Kher.
252.
M Balachandran is appointed as Chief of NPCI (National Pay ments Corporation of India).
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M F Farooqui took charge as the secretary of the Department of T elecommunications (DoT ).
254.
M. Subhashini appointed as India's env oy for Barbados.
255.
MT NL (Mahanagar T elecom Nigam Limited) started v ideo call facility .
256.
Madhy a Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv raj Singh Chouhan started Kany a Abhibhav ak Pension Scheme for prov iding Rs. 500 Monthly
pension to Girl Child Parents.
1 257.
Madhy a Pradesh First State in country to implement E- Muster scheme for better management of MNREGA (Mahatama Gandhi
National Rural Employ ment Guarantee Act).
258.
Madhy a Pradesh Gov ernment declared its Mission Oly mpic - 2020 for preparing state's y oungsters for upcoming Oly mpics - 2020
Games.
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Madhy a Pradesh Gov ernment started two new awards - Mahatama Jy otiba Phule (in Social Serv ice) and Sav itri Bai Fule (Education).
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Madhy a Pradesh Sports Awards 201 3 Lifetime Achiev ement Award - Ramlal Verma (Volley ball)
New Award Named Prabhas Joshi Award was started this y ear in Malkhamb Sport and the winner was Ajay Waktarita.
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Madhy a Pradesh chief minister Shiv raj Singh Chauhan made it necessary to include a chapter from Shrimad Bhagv ad Gita in School
Curriculam.
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Madhy a Pradesh gov ernment expanded its ambitious Atal Jy oti scheme for meeting electricity requirements in the state.
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Madhy a Pradesh gov ernment expanded its ambitious Atal Jy oti scheme for meeting electricity requirements in the state.
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Mahamay i written by Chadrasekhar Kambar
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Maharaj Krishan Kaushik appointed as men's hockey team's coach .
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Maharaj Krishan Kaushik is appointed as Indian men's hockey T eam coach.
1 267.
Maharashtra became the first state in country to giv en Salaries to gov ernment employ ees v ia Bank Accounts attached with ADHAAR
Card.
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Maharashtra Gov t.'s music award giv en to Classical Singer Pandit Jasraj.
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Maharashtra becomes first state in the country to pass a Anti Superstition Ordinace Bill.
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Mahathir Global Peace Foundation of Malay sia has awarded Nelson Mandela with inaugural Mahathir Award for Global Peace.
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Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation 201 3 is giv en to Brigalia Bam, former Chairperson of South Africa's
election body .
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Major Abup J. Manjali of the Rashtriy a Rifles awarded by Kirity Chakra for his extraordinary brav ery efforts in country terrorist
operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
1 273.
Malala Y ousafzai, a Pakistani education rights activ ist has been giv en 201 3 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award by Harv ard
Univ ersity , UK.
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Malala Awarded by Semon de Beber honour in Russia.
1 275.
Malala Y ousafzai got T ipperary international peace prize by Ireland Gov ernment.
1 276.
Malala Y ousafzai has been awarded with Dutch Kids Rights Foundation's International Child Peace Award.
1 277.
Malay a Mishra is appointed as India's env oy for Hungary .
1 278.
Malay alam Film Colour of Sky got nominated for Oscar Awards 201 2.
1 279.
Malay alam Nov elist A Arv indakshan has been giv en Hindi Ratan Samman 201 3.
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Malay alam Poetess Sugatha Kumari has been honored by Saraswati Samman 201 2 for her Poetry Collection Manalezhuthu.
Malay alam language has been giv en status of Classical Language by the union gov ernment. Malay alam is now 4th classical language of
South India along with Kannada, T amil and T elugu.
282.
Malay sian Li Chang Wei beat Japanese Kenichi T ago to win Indian Open Super Series badminton T ournament 201 3.
283.
Malay sian writer T an T wng Eng won "T he Man Asian Literary Prize 201 3" for his book 'T he Garden of Ev ening Mist'.
284.
Maldiv es has been suspended from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group - the most powerful panel of the Commonwealth body
due to the recent dev elopments in the country including the ousting of its President Mohamed Nasheed.
285.
Malkhamb is declared as state sport of Madhy a Pradesh.
286.
Mallikarjun Kharge is the New Railway s Minister of India.
1 287.
Mamnoon Hussainis appointed as new president of Pakistan.
288.
Manik Sarkar selected as new Chief Minister of T ripura .
289.
Manila (Philippines) based ADB (Asian Dev elopment Bank) expects a GDP growth rate of 6 % in 201 3 - 1 4 and 6.5 % in 201 4 - 1 5 for
India in its Asian Dev elopment Outlook 201 3 Report.
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Manila, Philippines Based ADB (Asian Dev elopment Bank) decided to prov ide $ 1 8.4 million to Champion Agro to set up cold storage
facilities for fruits and v egetables focusing on Gujarat. It is ADB's first ev er loan to priv ate agri- business in India.
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Manish Ranjan has been awarded National T rurst Spandan Award. He is director of NRHM (National Rural Health Mission).
292.
Manoj Kumar honored with Lifetime achiev ement award 201 2 in 5th Nashik Film Festiv al.
293.
Maria Gabriela Isler from Venezuela has won Miss Univ erse T itle 201 3 in a ceremony held in Moscow Russia.
Notes About Miss Universe Beauty Pageant
Miss Univ erse is an annual international beauty contest run by the Miss Univ erse Organization like the Miss Earth and Miss
World contests.
T he contest was founded in 1 952 and is now acquired by Donald T rump.
T here hav e been 63 Miss Univ erse contests so far since Its Inception.
USA has won the T itle most T imes (8) Followed by Venezuela (7).
India Has won it twice with Sushmita Sen (1 994) & Lara Dutta (2000).
Notes About Miss World Beauty Pageant
Miss World pageant is the oldest surv iv ing major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric
Morley in 1 951 and after his death in 2000, Morley 's wife, Julia Morley , co- chairs the pageant.
T here hav e been 66 Miss World contests so far since Its Inception.
Venezuela has won the T itle most T imes (6) Followed by India (5) & UK (5).
India Has won it Fiv e T imes with Reita Faria (1 966), Aishwary a Rai (1 994), Diana Hay den (1 997), Y ukta Mookhey (1 999) &
Priy anka Chopra (2000). India's Reita Faria was the first Asian ev er to win Miss World T itle.
Current Miss Univ erse is Megan Y oung (Phillipinnes) and she was crowned the same on Sep 28, 201 3 in a Concert Organized
in Bali, Indonesia.
Notes About Miss Earth Beauty Pageant
Miss Earth is an annual international beauty pageant promoting env ironmental awareness. It is an annual international
beauty contest like Miss Univ erse and Miss World contests.
T he contest was started in 2001 .
Miss Earth winner is the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the United Nations Env ironment Programme (UNEP)
and other env ironmental organizations.
T raditionally , Miss Earth liv es in Manila during her reign.
T here hav e been 1 3 Miss Earth contests so far since Its Inception.
Venezuela and Brazil hav e won the T itle most T imes (2 each).
India Has won it Once with Nicole Faria (201 0).
T he current Miss Earth titleholder is Aly z Henrich from Venezuela who was crowned on December 7 , 201 3
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Maricheeka written by Rajan Kapoor
Martha Dodray , a polio worker in Bihar was honoured by Global Leadership Award 201 3 by United Nations Foundation for her work in
protecting children from the Polio disease.
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Matt Prior is named as England's cricketer of the y ear 201 2 - 1 3.
May 08 is Red Cross Day .
May 1 is International Labor Day . It is also Maharashtra and Gujarat Day as these states were created on Aug 1 , 1 960 after div iding
Bombay Presidency .
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May 1 1 is National T echnology Day .
300.
May 1 2 is International Nurses Day .
301 .
May 22 is International Bio- Div ersity Day .
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May 31 is No T obacco Day .
303.
Meeting of Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Iron Idrisov and Indian foreign Minister held in New Delhi on Nuclear Energy and other
areas of mutual interest.
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Meeting of Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Iron Idrisov and Indian foreign Minister held in New Delhi on Nuclear Energy and other
areas of mutual interest.
305.
Megan Y oung From Philippines has won Miss world 201 3 T itle in a ceremony Held in Bali, Indonesia.
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Megan Y oung of Philippines has won Miss World 201 3 Contest in Bali, Indonesia.
307.
Member countries of UN Env ironment meet in Doha (Qatar’s Capital)agreed to increase the time period of Ky oto Protocols to 2020.
308.
Microsoft Launched New v ersion of its famous Operating Sy stem Software Called Windows 8.1
309.
Milos Zeman become Czech Republic's first elected President T hought direct elections.
31 0.
Ministry of steel became first central gov ernment ministry to get ISO 9001 : 2008 certification status..
1 31 1 .
Ministry of Civ il Av iation created a Committee under Rav indra Dholakia for analy sis of Operations of Air India.
1 31 2.
Ministry of Home Affairs inaugurated RAF Academy of Public Order in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh to train personnel of Rapid Action Force
along with selected members of other paramilitary forces and civ il police for riot control, crowd management and Other Simliar
Situations.
1 31 3.
Miss Nigeria, Obabiy i Aishah Ajibola has won Miss Muslimah world Contest 201 3.
1 31 4.
Miss India Awards 201 3 Miss India World (1 st Position) - Nav neet Kaur Dhillon
Miss India Earth (1 st Runner- Up) - Sobhita Dhulipala
Miss India International (2nd Runner up) - Zoy a Afroz
1 31 5.
Miss USA Oliv ia Culpo has been crowned miss Univ erse 201 2 in USA.
1 31 6.
Mittu Chandily a is the CEO and Ratan T ata Appointed as Chief Adv isor of New Airline called - Air Asia India.
1 31 7.
Mohammad Irfan Abdullah Rehman who recently v isited India is the Chief Election Commissioner Of Mauritius.
1 31 8.
Mohan Peiris is the new Chief Justice of Sri Lanka.
1 31 9.
Mohd. Nasheed (former President of Maldiv es) took political asy lum in Indian Embassy .
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Moussa Faki Mahamat who is Foreign Minister of Chad, v isited India.
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Ms. Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch Minister for Foreign T rade and Dev elopment v isits India.
322.
Mukul Mudgal Committee Submitted Its Report on Gov erning Indian Cinema by rev iewing Cinematograph Act, 1 952.
323.
Mukundra Hills tiger reserv e in hadoti (Rajasthan) is noted by state gov ernment as the third tiger reserv e of the state.
324.
Mulatu T eshome is appointed as New President of Ethiopia.
325.
Multinational Company PepsiCo announced to Inv est Huge amount of Rs. 33000 Crore in India till 2020 to Expand Its Ventures in
India.
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Muradian Khalmuratov won gold medal in Asean Cy cling championship 201 3.
My Dear Bapu written by Gopal Krishn Gandhi.
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My T ry st With Justice by P N Bhagwati.
329.
My anmar's Nav y Chief T hura T het Swe Visited India.
330.
N N Vohra re- appointed as Gov ernor of Jammu and Kashmir.
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N R Vasan has been appointed as new chief of NIA (National Inv estigation Agency ).
NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Dev elopment) approv ed assistance of Rs. 500 crores for dev elopment works Assam
state.
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NASA announced to reactiv ate its Wide- field Infrared Surv ey Explorer (WISE) to serv ice for three more y ears in September 201 3. It
was placed in hibernation after discov ering and characterizing tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar sy stem. And will be
brought back to help in identify ing the population of potentially hazardous Near- Earth objects (NEOs).
334.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has discov ered two earth like planets named Kepler - 62f and Kepler - 62e.
T hey also discov ered a new giant galaxy called HFLS3.
335.
NASA's Unmanned Moon Mission, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Env ironment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft successfully put in its orbit
around moon.
336.
NASA's Voy ager Spacecraft that was launched n 1 977 has become first craft ev er to cross Boundaries of Our Solar Sy stem and enter
into interstellar space. It is still sending Clear Signals and expected to be operational since 2025.
1 337.
Naina Lal Kidwani Appointed as the first Women President of Federatio of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry .
338.
Najeeb Rajak Re- appointed as Prime Minister of Malay sia.
339.
Nameerakapam Chinkheingaba is the y oungest mount ev erest climber from North - East region of India.
340.
Narendra Kumar v erma is Appointed as new chief of ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation).
1 341 .
Narendra Modi re- elected the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
342.
Naresh Fernandes won the Shakti Bhatt First Book prize 201 2 for his Book T aj Mahal Foxtrot : T he S tory of Bombay's Jazz Age.
343.
Naresh Saxena and Om T hanv i awarded by Shamsher Awaed.
344.
National Brav ery Awards on 67th Independence Day 1 Ashok Chakra (Prasad Babu (Sub Inspector in Andhra Pradesh))
T hree Kirti Chakras (Mahesh Kumar, Abhilash T omy , Lohit Soniwal)
1 0 Shaury a Chakras
21 Sena Medals
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National Hockey 201 3 - In Senior Category - Hary ana Beat Railway s and in Junior Category - Hary ana Beat Madhy a Pradesh to win
the tournaments.
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National Integration Council's 1 6th Meet Held in New Delhi.
National Sports Awards 201 3 (Awards Committee headed by Mitchell Ferrera)
Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award - Ranjan Sodhi (Shooter)
1 5 Arjun Awards (Notable are P V Sindhu (Badminton), Virat Kohli (Cricket))
Dronachary a Award (Best Coach) - Purnima Mahto (Archery ), Mahav ir Singh (Boxing), Narinder Saini (Hockey )
Dronachary a Lifetime Award - K P T homas (Atheletics), Raj Singh (Wrestling)
Dhay anchand Award - Mary D'souza Sequeira (Athletics), Sy ed Ali (Hockey ), Anil Mann (Wrestling), Girraj Singh (Parasports)
Rashtriy a Khel Protsahan Puruskar - 4 Winners
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National Sub - Junior Hockey T ournament 201 3 - Odisha win Boy s title by beating Jharkhand and Hary ana won Girls' T itle by beating
Madhy a Pradesh.
349.
National T ansen Award for Excellence in Classical Music has been Giv en to Rajan and Sajan Mishra.
350.
National T eeka Express was launched by Gov ernment, aimed at protecting children from life - threatening childhood diseases.
1 351 .
National T hermal Power Corporation (NT PC), the largest power utility of India was awarded the most Efficient Maharatna- in
Manufacturing for the y ear 201 2 award by Stock Magazine at 4th DSIJ Awards.
352.
National T ourism Award 201 1 - 1 2 has giv en to State Andhra Pradesh for sustainable dev elopment in the tourism sector.
353.
National Urban Liv elihoods Mission (Rashtriy a Shahri Ajeev ika Mission) to be started in 1 2th Fiv e Y ear Plan to take place of Swaran
Jay anti Shahri Rojgar Y ojana.
354.
Nav neet Kaur Dhillon won the crown of 'Ponds Femina Miss India World 201 3 '.
355.
Neiphiu Rio of Naga People's Front party is appointed as new chief Minister of Nagaland.
356.
Nepal's President Ram Baran Y adav Visited India.
1 357.
Nepali T V host Rav i Lamichhane set up a Guinness world record by hosting a T V show for 62 hours consecutiv ely .
358.
Nepali social worker Pushpa Basnet has won 201 2's CNN Hero of the Y ear prize.
359.
Netherlands' Foreign T rade and Dev elopment Minister Lilianne Ploumen Visited India.
360.
Netherlands' Dutch Kids Rights Foundation has honored Pakistani Child Rights Activ ist Malala Y ousafzai with International Child Peace
Award.
1 361 .
New State Sy mbols announced by Bihar Gov ernment State
State
State
State
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Bird - Sparrow
Flower - Marigold
Animal - Ox
T ree - Peepal
New Chief Justices of High Courts Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar - Madhy a Pradesh High Court
Rajesh Kumar Ararwal - Madras High Court
D V Chandrachud - Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad) High Court
R Banumathi - Jharkhand High Court
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New Chief Justices of v arious high Courts in the country .
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal - New chief justice of Madras
R Banumathi - New Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
N V Ramana - New Chief Justice of Delhi High Court
P C Pant - New Chief Justice of Meghalay a High Court
364.
New Delhi recently hosted for the first time T he ASEAN India Commemorativ e Summit.
365.
New Indian Coast Guard Interceptor Boat C - 425 was commissioned at Paradip, Odisha.
366.
New Russian built Warship INS T rikand has been inducted into Indian Nav y .
1 367.
New T echology Boeing Posidon - 8 I (P - 8 i) with Anti Submarine warfare capacity has been included in Indian Nav y .
368.
New constitution approv ed in Southern African country Zimbabwe.
369.
New high Courts in North Eastern States Meghalay a High Court - Meena Kumari is Chief Justice
Manipur High Court - Mohan Sapre is Chief Justice
T ripura - Deepak Gupta is the Chief Justice
370.
Newly Appointed Lieutenant Gov ernors Najeeb Jung - Delhi
A K Singh - Andaman and Nicobar
Virendra Kataria - Puducherry
1 371 .
Nicolas Maduro is appointed as president of new president of south American country Venezuela.
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Nicolas Maduro is appointed as the new president of Venezuela.
1 373.
Nidhi Prakash, an eight y ear old Student Became writer at smallest age in the world with Her first Book Animation World beaing
Published.
1 374.
Nigeria Won African Cup of Nations Football T ournament By beating Burkina Faso in Soweto, South Africa.
1 375.
Nikhil Kumar appointed as new gov ernor of Kerala .
1 376.
Nikhil Kumar is the new Gov ernor of Kerala.
1 377.
Ninth Meeting of Chief Justices of SAARC Nations (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) was held in T himphu, Capital of
Bhutan.
1 378.
North Korea successful launch of long- range rocket namerd UNHA - 1 with range of about 6000 KM.
1 379.
North Railway created largest tunnel of Country from Banihal to Kanjikund in Jammu Kashmir with total length of 1 1 .21 5 kms.
380.
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382.
383.
North and South Korea resume mutual trade in disputed Kaesong Business Park.
North and West Zone collectiv ely named as winners of Dileep T rophy Cricket T ournament.
Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won the chess world championship beating India's Viswanathan Anand.
Noted Assamese writer Indira Goswami was posthumously (After Passing Away ) awarded Assom Ratan Award by President Pranab
Mukherjee.
384.
Noted Indian scientist Dr. CNR Rao has been conferred with China's T op science award for his important contribution in boosting SinoIndia scientific cooperation.
385.
Nouri al- Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq Visited India.
386.
Nov elist Y ogita Y adav and Poet Arunabh Saurabh hav e been honored by Jnanpith (Read as Gy anpeeth) Nav lekhan Award 201 3.
1 387.
388.
Number 1 66 launched by UPA Gov ernment for implementation of mobile gov ernance.
OBC Creamy Lay er Income Limit has been increased from 4.5 Lakh T o 6 Lakh. Now those OBC Candidates with family income upto 6
Lakh will hav e benefits of reserv ation in jobs in Gov ernment enterprises.
389.
OBC Creamy Lay er Income Limit has been increased from 4.5 Lakh T o 6 Lakh. Now those OBC Candidates with family income upto 6
Lakh will hav e benefits of reserv ation in jobs in Gov ernment enterprises.
390.
Odia Litterateur Harprasad Das has been giv en Moortidev i Literary Award for His Nobel '
Wamasa'.
1 391 .
Odisha gov t announces Agriculture loan at two per cent interest to farmers.
392.
Odisha's Paradip port has been conferred the 'Major Port of the Y ear' award in recognition of its excellent performance in 201 2- 1 3.
393.
Oly mpic bronze medalist Y ogeshwar Dutt became brand ambassador of Hary ana Health Department.
394.
One Consensus Society in Uttarakhand started an Initiativ e named "Ek Mutthi Beej Sahy og" to help farmers whose land and crops
were affected during recent monstrous natural disasters in the state.
395.
Operation S amna is the Joint Operation of Jharkhand Police and CRPF (Central Reserv e Police Force) against Naxalis.
396.
Operation Aswamegh started by Gujarat gov ernment to help people in case of stolen v ehicles.
1 397.
Operation Aswamegh started by Gujarat gov ernment to help people in case of stolen v ehicles.
398.
Operation Rahat is name Indian Air Force's Operation for sav ing people trapped in huge natural disaster in Uttarakhand. While Indian
Army named their operation as "Sury a Hopes".
399.
Oprah Winfrey , an American media proprietor, talk show host and actress has been named as most powerful celebrity by Forbes
Magazine.
400.
Others (January 201 3)
401 .
Oxford Dictionaries has declared the word 'Selfie' as the word of the y ear 201 3. It means a Self Portrait, ty pically on a Smartphone or
Oldest Marathon Runner of world Fauja Singh (1 01 y ear old) retired after Hong Kong marathon.
Webcam.
402.
Padma Awards 201 2
Padma Vibhushan - Raghunath Mohapatra(sculptor), S Haider Raza (Painter), Y ash Pal (Phy sicist), Roddam Narasimha (space
scientist).
Padma Bhushan - Sharmila T agore, Rajesh Khanna, Jaspal Singh Bhatti, Rahul Drav id, Abdul Rashid Khan and 1 9 Others
Padam Shri - total 80 recepients
403.
Pakistan Child Rights Activ ist Malala Y ousafzai has been honored by Sakharaov Human Rights Honor by European Union.
404.
Pakistan Conferred its highest Civ il Award 'Nishan - e - Pakistan' to Chinese President Li Keqiang during his recent v isit to Pakistan.
405.
Pakistan National Assembly completed its tenure for the first time in history . Nawaj Sharif became new Prime Minister for the T hird
T ime.
406.
Pakistan Social Activ ist Malala Y ousafzai has been honored by Civ il Society Award by Queen Rania of Jordan.
407.
Pakistan Wins Asia Men's Hockey Championship T rophy By Beating Japan in Japan.
408.
Pakistan tested the Hatf- V nuclear- capable ballistic missile with a range of 1 ,300 km.
409.
Pakistan to hav e "Right to Reject" Option in General Elections for the first time. If 51 % candidates choose "none of these"option than
there will be re- election on that seat.
41 0.
1 41 1 .
Pakistan's first Cubesat satellite, iCUBE- 1 , was launched from Y asny launch base in Russia.
Pakistani Child Rights and Social Activ ist Malala Y ousafzai has been Choosen for European Union's Prestigious International Sakharov
Award 201 3.
1 41 2.
Pakistani Film 'Zinda Bhaag' based on Illegal Migration to other country is nominated for Oscar Awards. It is the first Pakistani Film in
Last Fifty Y ears to get nominated for these Prestigious Cinema Awards.
1 41 3.
Pakistani Nav y inducted its First Aircraft Carrier Warship Named PNS - ASMAT .
1 41 4.
Pakistani Social Activ ist Malala Y ousufzai selected for UNA - USA's Global Leadership award called 'Champions for global change'.
1 41 5.
Pakistani Social and Child Rights Activ ist Malala Y ousafzai has been Honored by Mexico's Prestigious International Prize for Equality
and Non- Discrimination.
1 41 6.
Palanisamy Sathasiv am is appointed as the new (40th) Chief Justice of India.
1 41 7.
Palestine won a historic UN General Assembly v ote which will upgrade its status to Non- Member Observ er State.
1 41 8.
Pandit Rav ishanker has been Honored with Lifetime Achiev ement Grammy Award 201 2 after his demise.
1 41 9.
Parthasarathi Shome has been appointed as the adv isor to Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
420.
Paulo Portas, the foreign Minister of Portugal Visited India .
1 421 .
Paulo Portas, the foreign Minister of Portugal Visited India .
422.
Peace Mission 201 3 is Joint Military Exercise of China & Russia.
423.
Pearlman Award 201 3 for Business plan competition has giv en to Indian American Venkat Jonla and John Mathews.
424.
People of Falkland Islands choose to stay with Britain ov er argentina as result of a democratic Poll.
425.
Perihelion the recent cosmic incident in which the Earth came nearest to the sun.
426.
Peter Hassan, the Consul for Russian Federatiobn (Federation) and Adv isor for FICCI has been chosen for Argentina's Highest Civ il
Award, Order De May o. It Means Officer of T he Order.
1 427.
Planning Commission expresses its v iews on expected Growth Rate during 1 2th fiv e y ear plan and said that it could be lowered to 7 %
from current projection of 8 %.
428.
Planning Commission of India launched IBIN (India Backbone Implementation Network) for effectiv e implementation of its core
programs and policies during 1 2th Fiv e Y ear Plan (201 2 - 1 7).
429.
Poet Nida Fajli is awarded by Shailendra Samman 201 3.
430.
Poland has become twentieth Country in the world to eliminate death punishment.
1 431 .
Poonam Khetrapal Singh is appointed as WHO (World Health Organization)'s chief for South Asis Region.
432.
Pradeep Kumar Sinha appointed as Secretary in the Ministry of Power (Energy ).
433.
Prafull Chandra Pant is appointed as the new Chief of Meghalay a High Court.
434.
Prafulla Chandra Pant is the First Chief Justice of Meghalay a High Court.
435.
Preethi Rajgopalan, An Indian climate change activ ist who works with local communities and gov ernments for env ironmental change
has been awarded the Commonwealth Y outh Award.
436.
President Pranab Mukherjee presented National Communal Harmony Awards 201 1 & 201 2
For 201 1 , Odisha's MD Janab Haji Abdul Bari and Mizoram's Khamliana jointly .
For 201 2, T he award was giv en to Foundation for Amity and National Solidarity , Delhi in Organisational category .
1 437.
President Pranab Mukherjee appointed Sanjay Kishan Kaul as the New Chief Justice of Punjab and Hary ana High Court.
438.
President Pranab Mukherjee gav e National Y outh Awards 201 3 to 27 people and One Organization.
439.
President Pranab Mukherjee gav e Sangeet Natak Academy Fellowships (Academy Ratna) awards - N. Rajam (Violinist), T H Vikku
Viny akaram (Percussionist), Ratan T hiy am (Play wright).
440.
1 441 .
442.
President conferred the honorary rank of General of the Indian army on General Gaurav Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana.
President of Egy pt, Mohammad Morsi v isited India.
President of Liberia, Alan Sirleaf Johnsson is the has been honored by Indira Gandhi Peace, Disarmament and Dev elopment Award
201 2 during Her Official Visit to India.
443.
President started postal ticket for the honor of famous Islamic expert Mahmud Hassan.
444.
President's Rule applied in Jharkhand after appeal of gov ernor Saiy ad Ahmad.
445.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid down the foundation stone for India's first Defence univ ersity called Indian National Defence
Univ ersity (INDU) in Gurgaon, Hary ana.
446.
1 447.
Prime Minister of Bhutan, Ly onchhen T shering T obgay , v isited India.
Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration was giv en to Sikkim State for its work In rural dev elopment.
448.
Prince Philippe has been sworn in as king of Western European country Belgium.
449.
Pro Jon Lov e of Britain's Exeter Univ ersity has created an oil with Bacteria named E Coli that is v ery identical in properties to the BioDiesel and can be used as a replacement of it.
450.
Prof D K Bandy opadhy ay , Former Vice- chancellor of Indraprasdhtha Univ ersity of Delhi has been Honored by Radhakrishna Award
for His Excellent Contribution in the Field of Education.
1 451 .
Punjab Gov ernment decided to expand Bhai Kanhaiy a Bima Y ojana to prov ide 1 .5 Lakh insurance cov er to all its citizens.
452.
Punjab win Federation Cup hockey tournament by beating Uttar Pradesh.
453.
RBI Directed all banks to ban zero Percent Interest Schemes say ing that 0% interest in unconstitutional.
454.
RBI (Reserv e Bank of India) banned import of Gold keeping in v iew the increasing pressure on Rupee against international currencies
specially US Dollar.
455.
RBI (Reserv e Bank of India) sets up an adv isory group for national bill pay ment sy stem.
RBI Will Constitute a GIRO Adv isory Group (GAG) to implement a national GIRO- based Indian Bill Pay ment Sy stem such that
households will be able to use bank accounts to pay school fees, utilities, medical bills and make remittances electronically . T he nine
members GAG will be headed by Umesh Bellur, a Professor at the Indian Institute of T echnology , Bombay .
456.
RBI (Reserv e Bank of India) sets up an adv isory group for national bill pay ment sy stem.
RBI Will Constitute a GIRO Adv isory Group (GAG) to implement a national GIRO- based Indian Bill Pay ment Sy stem such that
households will be able to use bank accounts to pay school fees, utilities, medical bills and make remittances electronically . T he nine
members GAG will be headed by Umesh Bellur, a Professor at the Indian Institute of T echnology , Bombay .
1 457.
458.
RBI Created a committee Under Former RBI Gov ernor Bimal Jalan to scrutinise the Applications for New Banking Licenses.
RBI Decided to Relax the terms on the Foreign inv estments by Indian Companies and allowed to inv est up to 400 per cent of their net
worth prov ided that the company has raised the funds through external commercial borrowings (ECBs).
External commercial borrowings - External commercial borrowing (ECB) is an instrument used in India to facilitate access
to foreign money by Indian priv ate and public sector companies and includes v arious forms of incoming money such as commercial
bank loans, buy ers' credit, suppliers' credit, securitized instruments such as floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds etc., credit from
official export credit agencies such as International Finance Corporation (Washington), ADB, AFIC, CDC, etc. ECBs cannot be used
for inv estment in stock market or speculation in real estate.
459.
RBI Directed all Banks to Prov ide Loans to Women SHG (Self Help Groups) at less Interest Rates of 7% to make them gain in Interest
Rates as per terms of Swarn Jay anti Gram Swarojgar Y ojana.
460.
1 461 .
RBI Extends last date for implementation of CT S - 201 0 (Cheque T runcation Sy stem) to July 31 from Mar 31 , 201 3 initially .
RBI Has Directed Banks to pay Interest on Sav ings and Fixed T erm Deposits in 3 Months Instead 6 Months Earlier.
462.
RBI Permitted urban co- operativ e banks with More than 750 Crores of Deposits to be conv erted into Scheduled Banks.
463.
RBI Stated that India's fresh Reserv e of Foreign Capital has increased upto 277.3 Billion Dollars.
464.
RBI allowed Kerala Gov ernment to start bank based on Islamic T rading Principles.
465.
RBI appoints Committee on Financial Inclusion (Comprehensiv e Financial Serv ices for Small Businesses and Low- Income Households)
under thy e chairmanship of Nachiket Mor.
466.
1 467.
RBI defer the implementation of CT S (Cheque T runcation Sy stem) till April 201 3.
RBI extended deadline for issuance of new standard cheques by 3 month from March 31 201 3..
468.
RBI formed a committee Under Deputy Gov ernor Urjit Patel for rev ising and strengthening Monetary Policy .
469.
RBI in its Monetary and Credit Policy 201 3 - 1 4, expected a growth rate of 5.7 % for 201 3 - 1 4 and it decided to increase the loan limit
for Micro and Small enterprises (MSEs) in the serv ices sector from 2 crore to 5 crore per borrower.
470.
RBI issued new regulations for Credit Default Swap (CDS) in corporate Bonds.
1 471 .
RBI makes it manadatory to hav e a net worth of Rs. 500 Crore and at least 25% branches in rural areas for a new Bank license.
1 472.
RBI postponed Basel - 3 implementation by three months to 01 April, 201 3.
1 473.
RBI sets up Expert Committee to rev ise and strengthen Monetary Policy Framework. Urjit Patel, Deputy Gov ernor of Reserv e Bank of
India is the chairman of this committee.
1 474.
RBI signed a bilateral Swap Arrangement with the Bank of Japan for swapping of the local currencies.
1 475.
Rachna Samagra Award for 201 2 has been giv en to Kahsinath (hindi), Lakshminandan Bora (Assamese), Ashok Mitran (T amil),
Mohanjeet (Punjabi)
1 476.
Radha Dubey from Ray sen District and Pandajheer v illage receiv ed 'Best Farmer Award'.
1 477.
Radha Krishan Mathur is the new Defence secretary of India.
1 478.
Rafiq Kathwari, an Indian- American Poet Won Ireland's Patrick Kav anagh Poetry Award 201 3. He has become the first Non- Irish to
win this award.
1 479.
480.
Raghav Juneja became y oungest Indian to climb Mount Ev erest at the age of 1 5 Y ears.
Raghuram G Rajan is appointed as new gov ernor of Reserv e Bank of India (RBI) for a T hree Y ears T erm. He has taken place of exRBI Gov ernor D V Subbarao.
1 481 .
Raghuram G Rajan Committee submitted its report regarding ev aluation of backwardness of States and distribution of dev elopment
funds. According to it, Goa is Most and Odisha is Least dev eloped state in Country at present.
482.
Raghuram G Rajan is appointed as new gov ernor of Reserv e Bank of India (RBI) for a T hree Y ears T erm. He has taken place of ex- RBI
Gov ernor D V Subbarao.
483.
Raha Moharak is the first Saudi Arabian lady to climb Mount Ev erest.
484.
Raheel Sharif is appointed as new Chief of T he Pakistani Army .
485.
Railway s rev ised its refund rules under which in the case of cancellation of tickets, passengers will hav e to present their confirmed
tickets at least 48 hours before the journey instead of existing 24 hours to get the maximum refund.
486.
Railway s to set up New MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit) coach factory in Bhilwara, Rajasthan.
1 487.
488.
Rajan Bharati Mittal is the new chief of ICC India (International Chamber of Commerce).
Rajashthan's Gov ernor Margret Alv a honored Rajasthanl Writer Hari Ram Meena with Bihari Award 201 2 for his Nov el Dhooni T ape
T eer, based on the century - old incident of killing of the tribals of Banswara by the British.
489.
Rajasthan Cabinet Approv es Creation of a upper house in State (Vidhan Parishad). Rajasthan will be sev enth state in country to hav e
bicameral legiuslature (Vidhan Sabha (Lower House) and a Vidhan Parishad (Upper House)). At National Lev el, Vidhan Sabha is
counterpart of Lak Sabha and Vidhan Parishad is counter part of Rajy a Sabha. Other Six States with a Vidhan Parishad are Uttar
Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharshtra, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir.
490.
Rajasthan Gov t. Started Bio- div ersity project phase 2 for preserv ing state bird 'Godawan'.
1 491 .
Rajasthan High Court has ruled out the Vidy arthi Mitra Y ojana Started by Rajasthan Gov ernment stating that it is Unconstitutional.
492.
Rajasthan Sahity aAcademy gav e its Annual Sahity a awards to 26 People. Famous Meera Award was giv en to Author Bhawani Singh.
493.
Rajasthan's Kalisindh T hermal power Plant's cooling tower is highest cooling tower in the world (202 Meter).
494.
Rajeev Sahare is appointed as India's env oy to Maldiv es.
495.
Rajeev T akru appointed as finance secretary in Finance Ministry .
496.
Rajendra Kumar appointed Chief of Uttar Predesh Council of Agricultural Research (UPCAR).
1 497.
498.
Rajiv Rishi is appointed as Chief of Central Bank of India.
Rajy a Sabha Approv ed 1 20th Constitutional Amendment related to appointment of Judges on Key Judicial Posts such as Supreme
Court and High Courts. Now the task to be handled by a Separate commission to be made by T he Gov ernment.
499.
Rajy a Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien elected as chief of Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Dev elopment
(AFPPD).
500.
Ramon Magsay say Award 201 3 - Habiba Sarabi (Afghanistan's first woman gov ernor), My anmar civ il society organiser Lahpai Seng
Raw and Ernesto Domingo (Phy sician in philippines).
501 .
Rangaswamy Sriniv asan, a well known Indo- American Inv entor has been nominated by barack Obama for the prestigious USA
National Medal for T echnology and Innov ation.
502.
Rav i Mathur, a 1 979 Batch IAS Officer Appointed as Secretary in Disinv estment Department.
503.
Rav i Shankar gets Lifetime Achiev ement Grammy award.
504.
Renowned Jurist and Supreme Court Lawy er Harish Salv e has been Honored by Capital Foundations Award in the Field of
Constitutional and Civ il Law.
505.
Reserv e Bank of India gov ernor Raghuram Rajan has been awarded the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 201 3, in
recognition of his ground- breaking research work which influenced financial and macro- economic policies around the world.
506.
507.
Reserv e Bank OF India (RBI) nominated Nachiket Madhusudan Mor as the Director of the Central Board of RBI.
Reserv e Bank of India announced to close the Special Window Scheme for banks to meet the cash requirements of mutual funds
(MFs).
508.
Retd. Lieutenant Colonel Kartar Singh has been awarded by 'First Citizen of Indian Army ' Honor.
509.
Retired Lieutenant General Nirbhay Sharma is appointed as new Gov ernor of Arunachal Pradesh.
51 0.
Retirement fund body EPFO is to pay an interest rate of 8.5 percent on prov ident fund deposits for 201 3- 1 4 to its ov er fiv e crore
subscribers, it's the same as that prov ided in 201 2- 1 3.
1 51 1 .
Rev ised Food security Bill has been cleared by Cabinet. It giv es legal entitlement to 67 % Population of country (75 % Rural and 50 %
Urban) under the PDS (Public Distributed Scheme). T he beneficiary will get 5 KG of rice, Wheat or Coarse ev ery month at Rs. 3, Rs. 2,
Re 1 respectiv ely .
1 51 2.
Robert Blake is USA's new env oy to Indonesia.
1 51 3.
Robert Mugabe is reelected as president of Zimbabwe for sev enth T erm .
1 51 4.
Robert S. Ford is USA's new env oy to Egy pt.
1 51 5.
Rogers Cup T ennis T ournament 201 3 Men's - Rafael Nadal (Spain) beat Milos Raonic (Canada)
Women's - Serena Williams (USA) Beat Sorana Cîrstea (Romania)
1 51 6.
Ronnie O'Sulliv an (UK) beats Barry Hawkins (UK) In World Snooker Championship 201 3 held in Sheffield, UK.
1 51 7.
Roshan Vagary is appointed as Home Miniuster of Meghalay a.
1 51 8.
Ruchira Kamboj is appointed as India's new env oy to UNESCO Paris.
1 51 9.
Rupesh Kumar won 1 2th Asian Billiards championship in Indore, Madhy a Pradesh.
520.
1 521 .
Russia Launched Bion - M as the world's first Bio Satellite from Baikonur launch station in Kazakhstan with Soy uz Rocket.
Russia and China held their joint Nav al Exercise called Joint C - 1 3.
522.
Russia gav e political asy lum to Edword Snowden, an American computer specialist who worked for the CIA and the NSA and leaked
details of sev eral top- secret United States and British gov ernment mass surv eillance programs to the press.
523.
524.
Russia start our biggest nav y training in Black ocean and Mediterranean Ocean.
Russian Made India's Largest Warship INS Vikramadity a Started its journey from Russia to India for Inclusion In Indian Nav y . It is
expected to reach Karwar Port, Karnataka in India by end of January 201 4.
525.
Russian Maria Sharapov a beats Chinese Li Na to win Stuttgart tennis championship.
526.
Russian Origin Supersonic Fighter Plane 'Mig 29 K' has been included in Indian Nav y .
1 527.
Russian President v isit to India during India - Russia Bilateral Summit.
528.
S B Mainak has been appointed as new Managing Director of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation).
529.
S Gopal Krishanan is appointed as Chief of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
530.
S P Y adav (Vice- Chief of National T iger Conserv ation authority ) has been honored by Rajeev GandhI Wildlife Conserv ation award
2009.
1 531 .
S P y adav has been honored with Rajeev Gandhi Wildlife Conserv ation Award 2009.
532.
S Sriniv asan is appointed as new chief of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) for the third term.
533.
S Vardarajan is appointed as new chief of Bharat Petroleum Corporation.
534.
S.C. Jameer appointed as new gov ernor of Orrisa.
535.
S.Venkat Mohan, a scientist of Indian Institute of Chemical T echnology won National Bioscience Award 201 2.
536.
SAARC Countries' (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Ministerial lev el meet on pov erty was held in Kathmandu
(Nepal).
1 537.
SAARC Nations (South Asian Regional Co- operation association) Ministerial lev el meet for Pov erty Elimination held in Kathmandu,
Nepal.
538.
SAARC Nations agreed to enhance target for achiev ing 22 decided goals by 201 5 from 201 2 earlier in a ministerial lev el meet held in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
539.
SBI (State Bank of India) Signed a US $ 2 billion Pact with RDIF (Russian Direct Inv estment Fund) for Enhancing Mutual Collaboration
and Inv estments.
540.
1 541 .
SBI (State Bank of India) decided Not to prov ide Car Loan on anu annual income of Rs. 6 Lakhs.
SCO (Shanghai Co- Operation Organization)'s 1 3th Meet was held in Ky rgy zstan. SCO is a Grouping of China, Kazakhstan, Ky rgy zstan,
Russia, T ajikistan, and Uzbekistan as its members and Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Iran and India as its Observ er States.
542.
SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has allowed mutual funds to accept inv estor funds in new offers under the new Rajiv
Gandhi Equity Sav ings Scheme (RGESS) for 30 day s, as against a 1 5- day subscription period in other schemes.
543.
SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has approv ed country 's first in house funded telecom/IT start up fund 'Startup Village'
also called angel fund of $1 0 million that could go up to $20 million. Kris Gopalakrishnan Infosy s co- founder is the Startup Village chief.
544.
SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has eased up terms for attracting more Foreign Inv estment into the country by
introducing a New class of Foreign Inv estors called FPI (Foreign Portfolio Inv estors). FPI is made by combining prov isions of FII
(Foreign Institutional Inv estors) & QFI (Qualified Foreign Inv estors) and Risk Factor has been reduced to attract more inv estment.T he
proposals are based on former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar committee report.
545.
SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has eased up terms for attracting more Foreign Inv estment into the country by
introducing a New class of Foreign Inv estors called FPI (Foreign Portfolio Inv estors). FPI is made by combining prov isions of FII
(Foreign Institutional Inv estors) & QFI (Qualified Foreign Inv estors) and Risk Factor has been reduced to attract more inv estment.T he
proposals are based on former Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar committee report.
546.
SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has made it mandatory for Insurance Companies to hav e a net worth of Min 500 Crores
in order to open branches in Foreign Countries.
1 547.
548.
Sajjan Singh Kothari, the former justice of Rajasthan High court is appointed as Lokay ukta of Rajasthan .
Sally Ride (American phy sicist and astronaut) has been posthumously (After Passing Away ) honored by USA's Highest Civ il Honor T he Presidential Medal of Freedom.
549.
Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Ev erest.
550.
Samuel Santos Lopez, the Nicraguan Foreign Minister Visited India.
1 551 .
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship 201 3 Award has been Giv en to Kanak Rele, R Saty anaray ana and Mahesh Elkunchwar.
552.
Sania Nehwal Led Hy derabad Hotshots won T he First Indian Badminton League after Beating Awadh Warriors in the Final.
553.
Sanjeev Bhatt awarded with Mother T eresa international award by harmony foundation.
554.
Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora Became the First Sikh Ev er to be a Member in Assembly of Pakistan's Punjab Prov ince.
555.
Sarv ottam Jeev an Raksha Padak giv en to PK Vinita, Ramy a Rajappan and Sangeeta Agrawal.
556.
Sathwik Karnik, an Indian- origin 1 2 y ear old boy from Massachusetts has won this y ear's USA’s National Geographic Bee contest after
thorough testing of his geographic knowledge about lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia and port cities in England.
1 557.
Saudi Arabia became the first country to reject a seat on the UN Security Council. It reportedly did so on grounds of Intransparency in
Its Security measures.
558.
Saudi Arabia introduced a new law named 'Nitaqat' for reduction of unemploy ment in the country . It is meant to send back to home the
foreign workers without v alid paperwork and permits.
559.
Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba and Russia hav e been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
560.
Saurabh Gupta and Gaurav Gupta hav e been giv en the Amrita Bishnoi Wildlife Conserv ation Award 201 0.
1 561 .
Scientist of IIT Madras dev eloped artificial blood.
562.
Scientists Discov ered Largest Volcano so far, named 'T amu Massif' near East Japan Sea.
563.
Second International Child Film Festiv al organized in Kolkata, West Bengal.
564.
Seleulim Reserv oir in Goa is to be made free from mines pouring Mangesium and Iron ore into it due to high dependence of nearby
areas on this reserv oir.
565.
Senay angwa Chubatoshi Jamir appointed as a Gov ernor of Odisha.
566.
Senior IPS Officer Arun Choudhary has been appointment the chief of Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB).
1 567.
Shah Rukh Khan Ranked First in Inaugural Forbes India 1 00 Celebrities' List.
568.
Shah of Saudi Arabia nominated 30 Women in Shura Council for the First time.
569.
Shahrukh Khan Honoured with Brand Laureate Legendary Award Malasia.
570.
Shalini Singh, a Deputy Editor of the Hindu has been awarded by Prem Bhatia Memorial Awards 201 3 for Best Political Reporting in
Y ear 201 3.
1 571 .
Shalini Singh, a Deputy Editor with T he Hindu, has been giv en the Prem Bhatia Award 201 3 for Political Reporting.
1 572.
Shambhunath Sriv astav a is the new Chief Lokay ukta of Chattisgarh.
1 573.
Shane Warne, Legendary Australian Bowler has been included in Hall of Fame of ICC (International Cricket Council).
1 574.
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnnagar Prize 201 3 for Scientfic Research has been Giv en to 8 Prominent Scientists.
1 575.
Sharad Kumar has been appointed as Director General of National Inv estigation Agency .
1 576.
Sharad Kumar is the new chief of National Inv estigation Agency (NIA) replacing N R Vasan.
1 577.
Shareen Sharmin Chaudhary is appointed as new and first lady Chairman of parliament of Bangladesh.
1 578.
Sheikh Jaber Al - Mubarak selected as a new Prime Minister of Kuwait.
1 579.
Shinzo Abe become Prime Minister of Japan.
580.
1 581 .
Shiv endra Singh Dungarpur won Bimal Rai Awad 201 3 for his film Celluloid Man.
Shiv shankar Menon, T he national Security Adv isor Visited Beijing, China to hold talks ov er Boundary Conflicts and Strategic Issues of
Common Interest.
582.
Shooting (December 201 2)
Apurv i Chandela win Gold medal national shooting championship.
Rajv ardhan Singh win Gold medal in 56th National Shooting Championship in Delhi.
583.
Shrimant Shankardev Award 2008 has been giv en to actress Sharmila T agore.
584.
Siddharth Birla is the new chief of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry ).
585.
Singapore Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam v isited India.
586.
Singer Hariharan honored with Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran 201 3.
1 587.
588.
Singer Jubin Mehta has been giv en T agore Award 201 3 for Promoting Cultural Harmony .
Sitanshu Y ashchandra, a pioneer in Gujarati poetry and literature, has been awarded with the
prestigious Kusumagraj national award for his contribution to Marathi literature.
589.
Sitar Maestro Rav ishankar Presented Posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achiev ement Award.
590.
Sitaram Sharma is appointed as new chief of Kolkata's Maulana Abul Kalam Institute of Asean Studies.
1 591 .
Six hill forts of Rajasthan are now in UNESCO World Heritage List - Amber, Chittorgarh, Gangron, Jaisalmer, Kumbhalgarh and
Ranthambore.
592.
Social Activ ist Anna Hajare has been honored by Allard Award in Canada for his fanous Anti Corruption in India.
593.
Social Networking website Facebook launched new search engine 'Graph Search'.
594.
Software Company Microsoft Announced to Buy Cellphone maker Nokia in a 7.2 Billion Dollar Deal.
595.
South African Politician Mlambo- Ngcuka is appointed as New chief of UN Women. UN Women is T he United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women with headquarter in New Y ork, USA.
596.
1 597.
South Korea Has won Asia Cup Hockey T ournament after beating India in the Final. It was Organized in Ipoh, South Korea.
South Korea and United States launched their joint military exercise called Ulchi Freedom Exercise.
598.
South Korea won the Asia Cup Hockey T ournament after beating India in Malay sia.
599.
Spain win Under- 21 European Football Championship by beating Italy .
600.
Spanish Rafael Nadal beat Nicol Alamgro rom spain to win hios 8th Barcelona Open T itle.
601 .
Spanish Rafael Nadal win Madrid Open tournament beating Swiss Stenislas Vav rinka. In woman, USA's Serena Williams beat Russian
Maria Sharapov a to win the title.
602.
Spanish Rafael Nadal win Rome Masters tournament beating Swiss Roger Federer. In woman, USA's Serena Williams beat Belarusian
Victoria Azarenka to win the title.
603.
Sports authority of India sets up maximum age of Coaches for any sport in India as 70. No coach will serv e the game after the age of 70.
604.
Squash
Saurav Ghoshal and Joshna Chinappa won Men's and women's titles respectiv ely in 60th National Squash Championship.
Nicol Dav id from Malay sia won her sev enth Women's world squash T itle beating Laura Massaro of England.
605.
Srilal shukla smriti IFCO sahity a samman has been Giv en to Writer Sanjeev . T his award is giv en to writers who promote Solutions of
Agricultural Issues.
606.
607.
Sriniv as Patil is appointed as new Gov ernor of Sikkim by President Pranab Mukherjee.
State Bank of India (SBI) plan to set up 'by - inv itation- only ' branches under the 'Kohinoor' brand in 20 cities to serv e uber- rich clients
and NRIs.
608.
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), India's one of leading steel- making 'Maharatna' Public Sector Enterprise has been giv en
SCOPE Award for Best Practices in Human Resource Management for the y ear 201 1 - 1 2 by Preaident Pranab Mukherjee.
609.
Subhash Goswami is the New Chief of IT BP (Indo- T ibetan Border Police).
61 0.
Subodh Kumar appointed as chairman of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
1 61 1 .
Subrahmaniam Jaishankar is appointed as India's New Env oy to USA. He was prev iously India's Env oy to China.
1 61 2.
Sudha Sharma to be appointed as chief of Central Board of Direct T axes (CBDT ).
1 61 3.
Sugat Mitra, an Indian Education Analy st awarded by Annual Award of American Scientific Organization Named "T ed".
1 61 4.
Sugatha Kumari, a Malay alam poetess has been selected for Saraswati Samman 201 2 for her poetry collection named Manalezhuthu.
1 61 5.
Sugatha kumari, a Malay alam poetess won prestigious Saraswati Samman 201 2 for Her Poems collection Manalezhuthu (the Writings
on the Sand).
1 61 6.
Sujata Singh is the new foreign secretary of India.
1 61 7.
Sujatha Singh is India's new Foreign Secretary replacing Ranjan Mathai.
1 61 8.
Sunil Chopra appointed as new Deputy May or of Southwark city of Britain.
1 61 9.
Sunil Soni is appointed as new chief of BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards).
620.
1 621 .
Supertech Chief S P T ripathi honoured with Bharat Jy oti Award 201 2.
Supreme Court has cleared the way for construction of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor passing through Sanjay Gandhi National
Park in Mumbai. T he corridor from Vadodara to Jawaharlal Nehru Port T rust passes through the park and the Central Empowered
Committee (CEC) cleared the project after a hearing under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1 972.
622.
Susi Ganesh, Indian Film Director has receiv ed special honour from Mary land Gov ernor Martin O'Malley for his contribution to Indian
cinema.
623.
T able T ennis (January 201 3)
Shomy ajeet Ghosh win National T able T anis championship award in men's category .
K. Shamini win National T able T ennis championship award in women category .
624.
T able T ennis Federation of India (T T FI) chief Dhanraj Choudhary has become the first Indian to be elected on the Board of Directors to
the International T able T ennis Federation (IT T F).
625.
T ajikistan Joined WT O (World T rade Organisation) as its 1 59th Member.
626.
T amil Nadu decided to implement a 1 481 crore Rupees Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project with financial assistance from the
World Bank and managed by T amil Nadu Disaster Management Authority . Also, underground electric lines will be made in the Coastal
district of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam to reduce loss during natural disasters.
1 627.
T amil Nadu has proposed to set up a Multi Lay er Double Coated Board Plant near T iruchirapalli as part of state's plans to expand the
activ ities of profit making state owned T amil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Ltd.
628.
T amilnadu State Pollution Control Board started e- monitoring of Noy y al Riv er Water and Pollution Lev els upto Orathupalay am Dam.
629.
T ammam salam is appointed the new prime minister of East Mediterranean country Lebanon.
630.
T assaduq Jillani is Appointed as New Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court.
1 631 .
T aukalina Finikaso, Foreign Minister of T uv alu v isited India. T uv alu is a island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between
Hawaii and Australia.
632.
T elecom regulator T RAI tightened the norms for activ ation of VAS (Value added Serv ices) on Mobiles and made it necessary for
operators to take double confirmation from consumers before activ ating them and must complete deactiv ation requests in four hours.
633.
T elecom serv ices prov ider BSNL launched an internet ready phone for Rs 1 ,799 named as BharatPhone in association with Pantel
T echnologies.
634.
T ennis (December 201 2)
International T ennis Federation announces world Champions for 201 2. T he award Giv en to Nov ak Djokov ic of Serbia in Male
Category and Serena Williams of USA in Females.
635.
T ennis (January 201 3)
Belarusian Victoria Azarenka win Australian Open in women's category after defeting Li Na in final.
Nov ak Djkov ic wins World T ennis Championship in Abu Dhabi after defeating Nicolas Almagro.
Scottish Andy Murray Retains his Brisbane International T ennis T itle after defeating the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov .
Poland's Azarenka Radwanska beat Slov akia's Cibulkov a to win Sy dney Open T ennis T ournament 201 2 in Sy dney , Australia.
Serbian play er Djokov ic win Australian Open in men's category after defeting Scottish Andy Murray .
Serbia's Y anko T ipsarev ic best Spanish play er Roberto Bautista to win Chennai Open T ennis T ournament 201 2.
Spain win Hopman cup T ennis T ournament by beating Serbia in Australia.
636.
1 637.
T he 1 2th century Ahhichatragarh Fort of Nagaur (Rajasthan) is shortlisted for the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
T he 1 6th Hindi Conv ention hosted by Internatinal Hindi Conv ention in Houston city of USA.
638.
T he Asian Dev elopment Bank (ADB) prov ided a USD 1 1 0 million loan to help improv e urban serv ices in Jammu and Srinagar.
639.
T he book "Mareechika" is written by Dr. Rajan Kapoor .
640.
T he 1 0th Doha conference on Interfaith Dialogue was held in the Doha, Capital of Qatar.
1 641 .
T he 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Gov ernment Meeting (CHOGM) was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 1 5 to 1 7 Nov ember 201 3.
Notes about SRI Lanka and Human Rights Violation Records
During CHOGM 2009 Meet in T rinidad and T obago, Sri Lanka was slated to host the summit in 201 1 but it was accused of
committing Violation of Human Rights during the Sri Lankan civ il war and the summit was instead held in Australia. Sri
Lanka was giv en the 201 3 summit instead.
T he leaders of Canada, Mauritius, and India boy cotted the CHOGM 201 3 summit in Sri Lanka due to alleged human rights
v iolations by Sri Lanka against its T amil minority during its Civ il War.
T his was the first time in 40 y ears that the Head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth II, was not present at the CHOGM
Meet.
642.
T he Arctic Council's biennial meet was held in Kiruna, Sweden. In this meet, six new observ er nations were included in arctic council
including China and India.
643.
T he Asian Dev elopment Bank cut India's growth forecast to 5.4 % in 201 2- 1 3.
644.
T he Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA) approv ed the proposal of continuation of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidy utikaran
Y ojana (RGGVY ) in the 1 2th y ear Plan.
645.
T he Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approv ed setting up of a Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE) Exchange T
raded Fund (ET F) that will act like a share basket of v arious Central Public Sector Enterprises and each stock would hav e a fixed
weight age in the basket. T he mov e will help the Gov ernment in its disinv estment programs and managing portfolio of v arious CPSEs
altogether.
646.
T he Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approv ed the Rashtriy a Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiy an (RUSA), a Centrally
Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for reforming the state higher education sy stem.
1 647.
648.
T he Cultural Minister from Senegal Mr.Abdul Aziz Visited India.
T he Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked 80 countries on the basis of liv ing standards. Switzerland is on the top of the list with
Nigeria at bottom. India Ranked 66th in the list.
649.
T he Election Commission has made London Oly mpic medallists Saina Nehwal and M.C Mary Com as its "National icons" to help
promote v oter participation in polls.
650.
1 651 .
652.
T he Finance Minister P Chidambaram has giv en a statement "We must create at least 2- 3 world sized banks".
T he Fiv e Day Centenary session of the Indian Science Congress was held in January 201 3 at Kolkata.
T he Foreign Inv estment Promotion Board allowed British telecom major Vodafone's proposal seeking approv al for raising its stake in
India unit to 1 00%. With this, v odafone became first T elecom Company to opt for 1 00% FDI (Foreign Direct Inv estment).
653.
T he Ghat Ki Guni T unnel that link Jaipur with the National Highway No. 1 1 to Agra was inaugurated by T he Prime Minister.
654.
T he Gurkha Daughter written by Prajwal Parajuly .
655.
T he Indian Nav y recently Commissioned INS Sary u, its largest Shore petrol v essel for maritime surv eillance in Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
656.
T he Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) has slated its first launch of the y ear, the ocean study spacecraft SARAL, with the help
of France.
1 657.
T he International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that oil supplies from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) may
decline because of the conditions prev alent in Liby a and Iraq.
OPEC is group of 1 2 Petroleum Exporting countries. It Includes Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Qatar, Indonesia,
Liby a, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Angola.
658.
T he King of Sty le:Michael Jackson is biography of Michael Jackson written by Michael Bush.
659.
T he Lost Fragrance written by Amit DasGupta.
660.
T he Madhy a Pradesh Gov ernment set- up a Senior Citizen Commission to look into problems of the elderly in the State.
1 661 .
T he Mission Steering Group approv ed the increase in the monthly paid amount of Anganwadi Workers of Mini Anganwadi Centers
from Rs. 1 500- to Rs. 2250.
662.
T he National T echnology Award 201 3 was giv en to Biov et Priv ate Limited, Karnataka for successful commercial production of
Bluetongue pentav alent v accine and Johne's disease v accine for the first time in India.
663.
T he Ramsar Conv ention appoints Christopher Briggs as new Secretary General. T he Ramsar Conv ention (T he Conv ention on Wetlands
of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat) is an international treaty for the conserv ation and sustainable utilization of
wetlands. It is named after the city of Ramsar in Iran, where the Conv ention was signed in 1 971 .
664.
T he Secret Gardener written by Kalpana Swaminathan.
665.
T he Secret of Leadership written by Prakash Ay y ar.
666.
T he Securities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 201 3 was passed in Lok Sabha to empower Capital Markets Regulator SEBI (Securities and
Exchange Board of India).
1 667.
668.
T he Supreme Court banned all tourist mov ement in area of Jarawa T ribes' in Anndaman and Nicobar Island.
T he U.N. General Assembly approv ed an Arab- backed resolution calling for a political transition in Sy ria which is in contradiction with a
new U.S.- Russia effort to end the escalating conflict through a political solution between the Sy rian gov ernment and opposition to agree
to negotiations. Note that the resolution, which is not legally binding though it can carry moral weight, was approv ed by a v ote of 1 07- 1 2
with 59 countries absenting from v ote.
669.
T he Union Cabinet has approv ed the proposal of the Ministry of Railway s for setting up of an Electric Locomotiv e Factory at
Madhepura, Bihar and a Diesel Locomotiv e Factory at Marhowra, Bihar.
670.
T he Vijay Kelkar Committee has suggested raising diesel and kerosene rates.
1 671 .
T he World Future Energy Summit (WFES) was held in the month of January in Abu Dhabi.
1 672.
T he best film in Golden Globe Award 201 2 - Argo
1 673.
T he chief Guest at India's Republic Day for the y ear 201 3 was Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgy el Wangchuck.
1 674.
T he committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary has cleared the proposal to grant Maharatna status for BHEL (Bharat Heav y
Electricals Limited).
1 675.
T he finance ministry constituted a forum under Parthasarathi Shome (adv isor to the finance minister)to interact with industry groups
on a regular basis on tax- related issues or disputes and remov e their fears of aggressiv e taxation.
1 676.
T he first- ev er north east International T ourism Mart was held in the month of January in Guwahati.
1 677.
T he future of Indian Agriculture written by Y K Alagh.
1 678.
T he gov ernment approv ed creation of a NOFN (National Optical Fibre Network) for connecting all the 2.50 Lakh gram panchay ats in
country through Optical cable. Funding for this project will be done through USOF (Univ ersal Serv ice Obligation Fund).
1 679.
T he gov ernment has decided to set up a committee under chairmanship of Ramakrishna Ramaswamy for recommending changes to
the prov isions of the univ ersities for Research and Innov ation Bill, 201 2 and suggest a roadmap for future.
680.
T he gov ernment has set up a sev en- member panel under the chairmanship of Parthasarathi Shome to rev isit tax laws and recommend
measures for putting in place a stable taxation sy stem. It is called T ARC (T ax Administration reforms commission) and its term is 1 8
months.
1 681 .
682.
T he heart is Nobel written by Ogy en T rinley Dorje.
T he huge Rs. 1 0500 Crore FDI (Foreign Direct Inv estment) proposal of Swedish Furniture Firm IKEA has been approv ed by central
gov ernment.
683.
T he offshore inv estment limit in gov t. securities has been enhanced by USD 5 bn to total limit of USD 30 bn. Prov ided there are some
conditions imparted on FIIs to be eligible in this increase in Inv estment Cap.
684.
T he people of Falkland Islands chose the stay with Britain ov er Argentina.
685.
T he pity of Partition written by Ay esha Jalal.
686.
T he second ADMM (ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting) Plus meeting was held in Brunei.
1 687.
688.
T he second T agore Award for Cultural Harmony is giv en to western classical music maestro Zubin Mehta.
T he second T rilateral Maritime Security Cooperation meeting between India, the Maldiv es and Sri Lanka was held in Colombo (Sri
Lanka). It focused on an agreement for greater collaboration and information sharing among their nav al forces in the Indian Ocean.
689.
T he spring meeting of IMF - World Bank was held in Washington, USA.
690.
T he statement 'Multiple roles of RBI create conflict' was giv en by IMF.
1 691 .
692.
T he wav erider written by Ajeet Balkrishnan
T hird BRICS International Competition Conference was Held in New Delhi.
Notes About BRICS
BRICS is the acrony m for an association of fiv e major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa. South Africa was Included in 201 0.
T he fiv e BRICS countries represent almost 3 billion people, with a combined nominal GDP of US$1 6.039 trillion
Presently , South Africa holds the chair of the BRICS group, hav ing hosted the group's fifth summit in 201 3.
Sixth BRICS Summit will be held in 201 4 in Brazil.
693.
T hird generation anti - tank missile Nag ev aluation trials conducted successfully in Pokharan. NAG missile is also called as "Fire and
Forget" due to its intelligent targeting and attacking capabilities.
694.
T imes of India Film Awards 201 3 - >
Best Film - Barfi
Best Actor - Ranbir Kapoor
Best Actress - Priy anka Chopra
695.
T o ensure women's safety , Punjab gov ernment strated the Women Armed Special Protection Squads(WASPS) .
696.
T o control stem fall in rupee v alue, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has tightened the norms for currency deriv ativ es
that allow traders and inv estors to take forward v iews on v arious currency pairs, including rupee- dollar, as it was being felt that largescale speculations on their future mov ements might be adding to the downward pressure on the Indian currency .
1 697.
T oll- free helpline called "Khidmat" is started by Minority Affairs Ministry to prov ide information about welfare programmes for
minorities.
698.
T ony Abbott is the New Prime Minister of Australia.
699.
T oshimitsu Motegi (Japanese Minister of Economy , T rade and Industry ) v isited India.
700.
T ourism Department Started A Scheme called Working T ours under Its T ourism Dev elopment Program "Incredible India".
1 701 .
702.
T oy o Ito, a Japanese architect has been giv en Pritzker Prize 201 3 in field of Architecture.
T rinidad and T obago hav e Qualified for FIFA Football World Cup 201 4 to be held in Brazil. T hey will be areawise the shortest nation to
participate in this tournament.
703.
T ripura T ops the charts in prov iding employ ment to its rural people under MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ ment
Guarantee Act).
704.
T sakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re- elected as President of Mongolia for second T erm.
705.
T shering T obgay is the New Prime Minister of Bhutan.
706.
T urkey agreed to work with NAT O (North Atlantic T reaty Organization ) army coalition.
1 707.
T urkey did a test run of world's deepest rail tunnel with length of 1 3.4 KM and its 1 .4 KM part is at deepest in the world depth of 56
Metres.
708.
T urkey joined China based SCO (Shanghai Co- operation Organization) as a Dialog Partner.
709.
T wo day s Chintan Shiv ir of Congress party organized in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
1 71 0.
T wo new Judges in Supreme Court - Arv ind Kumar Sikri and Sharad Arv ind Bobde. Now number of judges in supreme court is 30.
Max permissible is 32.
1 71 1 .
U.P. gov t. prov ide Y ash Bharti Award 201 3 to Rajendra Y adav (Editor of Hans) ,Chhannu Lala Mishra (Classical Singer ) ,Suresh
Raina(Cricketer),Abhijeet Bhattachary a and Jav ed Ali (Singer),Ameer Raja Hussain (Artist),Pro. Saty amitra Dubey
(Socialogist),Waseem Varelav i (Shire),Ramkrishna Rajput(Archaeological) , Dr. Sarita Sharma (poet), Viv ek Gupta (Hockey Play er),
Mastram Kapoor (Writer),Mev alal Y adav ,Nar Singh Y adav and Anshu T omar(Fight) .
1 71 2.
UAE (United Arab Emirates) is the largest capital exporting country according to a report by UNCT AD (United Nations Council for
T rade and Dev elopment). It did USD 55 Billion of Inv estment in foreign markets in the FY 201 2 - 1 3.
1 71 3.
UAE's (United Arab Emirates) Etihaad Airway s to buy 24 % in India's Airline Jet Airway s.
1 71 4.
UK became first country to legalize In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) T echnology for Birth of Babies for families who want to av oid passing on
incurable diseases to their children.
1 71 5.
UNCT AD (United Nations Conference on T rade and Dev elopment)'s recent world inv estment report 201 3 ranked India as third most
preferred inv estment destination across world. It ranked China and America at First and Second Place respectiv ely .
1 71 6.
1 71 7.
UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) launched its world economic situation and prospect 201 3 report.
UNESCO has declared Incheon city of South Korea as World book capital of 201 5. Note that T hailand's Bangkok is world book capital in
201 3 and Nigeria's Port Harcourt will be world book capital in 201 4.
1 71 8.
UNESCO has suspended the v oting rights of the United States and Israel after both countries stopped pay ing dues to the U.N.'s cultural
arm, UNESCO to protest its granting full membership to the Palestinians. USA has 22 % Share in UNESCO's Budget and non Pay ment of
these day s has put UNESCO under threat of suspending its v arious activ isies and sev eral of its employ ees may also loose their Jobs.
1 71 9.
720.
UNSC allowed International African Army for fight against Extremists and Alkay da supporters in Mali, Africa.
US Open T ennis T ournament 201 3
Men's Singles - Rafael Nadal (Spain) has beaten Serbia's Nov ak Djokov ic to win US Open 201 3. It was his 1 3th Grand Slam T itle.
Women's Singles - USA's Serena Williams beaten Czech Republic's Lucie Hradecká to win US Open 201 3. It was Her 5th US Open
and 1 7th Ov erall Grand Slam T itle.
1 721 .
US President Barack Obama rated Person of the y ear by US Magazine T ime.
1 722.
US Scientists hav e successfully Dev eloped World's First Bionic Man called Frank Smithsonian.
1 723.
US Senate approv ed appointment of Indian Origin Person Rani Ramaswamy as a member of US National Council on the Arts.
1 724.
US Vice President Joe Biden v isited India.
1 725.
US singer and songwriter Carole King became the first woman to receiv e the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Which is giv en as a lifetime achiev ement in popular music.
1 726.
USA Based 'American and Pacific Islander' gav e Champions of Change award to to Indians Aparna Bhattachary a and Pramila Jaipal .
1 727.
USA Based Sy anford Univ ersity 's Scientists hav e dev eloped a Super Small Carbon Nano Computer Called Saidrik.
1 728.
USA Gov erment decided to bring a Shutdown of 7 Day s in Gov ernment offices to Cut Costs.
1 729.
USA President Barack Obama appoints Indian Person Ranee Ramaswamy to USA's Prestigious National Arts Council.
730.
USA President Barack Obama nominated Indian- American Nisha Biswal as assistant secretary of state for South Asia.
1 731 .
USA Successfully tested its first Human- less Fighter Plane X - 47B.
1 732.
USA and Russia agree to expand international o- operation for initiating peace process in war- torn western Asian country , Sy ria.
1 733.
USA made first completely solar energy operated plane "Solar Impulse" completed its first 2 months long flight.
1 734.
USA parliament Passed CISPA (Cy ber Information Sharing and Protection Act) to fight cy ber threats by enabling law officials to get
access to web data of priv ate and Public sector firms.
1 735.
USA's Fortune Magazine Prepared a List of T op 50 Females Industrialists across the world and has ranked India's Chanda Kochchar
(CEO Of ICICI Bank) at the Fourth Place.
1 736.
USA's Ex- Im Bank (Export Imprt bank) approv ed USD 2.1 Billion Loan to India's Reliance Industries.
1 737.
USA's Former Secret Agent Edward Snowden has been awarded by German Whistleblower Award 201 3.
1 738.
USA's NASA launched new satellite called IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) for analy sis of behav ior and atmosphere
around Sun.
1 739.
740.
USA's National Engineering Academy Famous Indian Industrialist Ratan T ata as its Board Member.
USA's Scientists hav e disov ered a new Element that was Named Ununpentium. It has been included into atomic table as the 1 1 5th
element.
1 741 .
USA's Space Agency NASA launched Its Mars Mission Called AT LAS 5/MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Ev aluation). It is
expected to reach T he MARS Orbit Few Day s before India's MARS Orbiter Mission called Mangalyaan in Sep 201 4.
1 742.
USA's T ennis Star Serena Williams has been named as WT A Play er of T he Y ear for the second Consecutiv e Y ear.
1 743.
USA's Human Rights organization 'Amnesty International' has giv en its highest honor called Ambassador of Conscience Award 201 3 to
USA's Singer and Human Rights Activ ist Mary Belafonte and Pakistani Child Rights Activ ist Mala Y ousafzai.
1 744.
Udipi Ramchandra Rao awarded by Satellite Hall of Fame by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization).
1 745.
Ukraine President Viktor Y anukov y ch Visited India.
1 746.
Union Gov ernment has planned to create a Rs. 43000 Crore Project called Green Energy Corridor (GEC) to facilitate the flow of
renewable energy into the national grid.
1 747.
Union Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily inaugurated first "Sy nthetic Rubber Plant" of the country at Panipat in Hary ana.
1 748.
United Arab Emirates' Poet Sihab Ganem awarded T agore Peace Prize 201 2.
1 749.
United Nation General Assembly 's 68th Session Started in New Y ork with John W. Ashe as its President.
750.
1 751 .
United Nation passed 'Arms T rade T reaty for controlling deals of arms in world.
United Nations appointed Sigrid Kaag (Netherlands) as Special Coordinator of the joint mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations in Sy ria, to restrict use of Chemical Weapons by Extremists.
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United Nations has appointed Lecturer of Harv ard Univ ersity , Paul Farmer as special Adv isor for Haiti.
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United States President Barack Obama nominated 30 Indian Person Vince Girdhari Chhabria as a federal judge on the US District
Court for the Northern District of California.
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Upcoming T hird Asian Hockey Championships to be held in Japan.
Ritu Rani is Choosen as the Captain of Indian Women's Hockey T eam.
Manpreet Singh is Choosen as the captain of Indian men's Hockey T eam.
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Urban Dev elopment Minister Kamal Nath appointed as the new ex- officio Member of Planning Commission.
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Urdu Poet Krishan Kumar T oor presented with Galib Awards 201 2.
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Urdu poet WASEEM BAREILVI, Hindi poet GOPAL DAS NEERAJ, Ms SHALINI JOSHI were honoured with Kaifi Azmi Award.
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Urjit Patel appointed as Deputy Gov ernor of RBI (Reserv e Bank of India).
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Usha Ananta Subrahmany am is to be appointed as first Chief of Nation's first Women's Bank.
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Usha Ananthasubramanian has been appointed as the First Chief Bharatiy a Mahila Bank. First Bharatiy a Mahila Bank Inaugerated in
Mumbai.
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Uttar Pradesh Gov ernment Started Hamari Beti Uska Kal Scheme for Welfare of Girls.
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Uttar Pradesh Started a new land fertilization program called "Bhoomi Sena" to fertilize the Infertile Land.
1 763.
Uttar Pradesh gov ernment started E- Stamping Scheme for easing up process of submitting fee for registration of property .
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Uttar Pradesh started a state- wide campaign to improv e family health across state with the name 'Hausla' to deliv er accessible health
programs and serv ices and increasing awareness and utilization of health serv ices by families.
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Uttar Pradesh to hav e its second T iger Reserv e in Pilibhit. Note that currently Dudhwa National Park is the only T iger Reserv e in UP.
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Uttar Pradesh's First Mega Food Park Opened in Jagdishpur of Amethi District.
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna launched the Mukhy amantri Balika Shiksha Protsahan Y ojana by presenting bicy cles and
cheques to girl students as a mov e to encourage the girl child to seek education.
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Uttarakhand Gov ernment started a new Metric named as Global Env ironment Product to include env ironment as a decisiv e index for
analy sis of dev elopmental activ ities.
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Uttarakhand became the first Indian State to create a special Mining Vigliance Force to stop Illegal Mining in State.
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V P Haran appointed India's new env oy to Bhutan.
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V. Sheshadri is appointed as director in Prime Minister's Office.
1 772.
Vice president Hamid Ansari v isited Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam.
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Vidhan Sabha Election results in T hree North Easten States
T ripura - - Party - MAKPA, Manik Sarkar Appointed as chief minister of T ripura for the consecutiv e fourth time.
Nagaland - - Party - Naga People's Front, Neiphiu Rio Appointed as chief minister of Nagaland for the consecutiv e T hird time.
Meghalay a - - Party - Congress, Mukul Sangma Appointed as Chief Minister of Meghalay a for the Second T ime.
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Vidhy a Subrahmaniam, associate editor of T HE HINDU is honored by Ramanath Goenka excellence in Journalism Award for the best
commentary and interpretativ e writing for 201 0
1 775.
Vietnam launched its first micro Satellite called "Pico Dragon".
1 776.
Vietnam's information and communications Minister Nguy en bac son v isited India.
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Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh v isited India.
1 778.
Vijay P Singh, an Indian American professor of biological and agricultural engineering has been honored by Lifetime achiev ement award
by the American Society of Civ il Engineers Env ironmental and Water Resources Institute (ASCE- EWRI).
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Vinay Chandra Mishra is appointed as Adv ocate General of the State of uttar Pradesh.
Vince Girdhari Chhabaria nominated as judicial post in California by Barack Obama .
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Vinod Rai (CAG of India) gets Second T erm as UN Audit Panel Chief.
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Weigt Lifting (January 201 3)
Chandrakant Mali from defence serv ices won 3 gold medals in national weightlifting championship 201 2 and broke an eight y ears
old record.
Manpreet Kaur wins Maiden National T itle in National Weightlifting Championship.
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West Bengal Gov ernment announced to start a new scheme called Kanyasri Prakalpa to encourage girls towards higher education.
Under this, State Gov ernment would prov ide Rs 500 a y ear as scholarship to girls belonging to families with an annual income of Rs
50,000 and aid of Rs 25,000 would be prov ided when she became 1 8 y ears.
1 784.
West Bengal gov ernment decided to come out with a social security scheme where people can deposit money and get "decent and
proper" returns after the shocking Multi Crore scam of Sharda Chit Funds.
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West Zone won Dev dhar T rophy cricket tournament by defeating north zone .
1 786.
What Y oung India Wants by Chetan Bhagat.
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White label AT M going to start in our country . Meant to be operated by Non- Banking Financial Companies without any Logo.
1 788.
Willem- Alexander was sworn in as the first Dutch king in more than 1 20 y ears after his mother, Queen Beatrix, left the throne.
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Women empowered in Kuwait to Become judges.
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Women's T ennis Association ranked Serena Williams (USA) as the best Female T ennis play er in the world.
Women's Wing being trained in Sy rian Army for the first T ime.
World Aquatic Championships were held in Barceolna, Spain. In a close competition with China, USA stay ed at the top of the Medal
tally .
1 793.
World Bank accepted a $37 million loan for a power transmission and trade project of India and Nepal.
1 794.
World Bank approv ed an aid of $250 million for Rehabilition Process in Uttarakhand.
1 795.
World Bank has approv ed a loan of $ 1 00 million for India's National Housing Bank (NHB) for implementation of a low- income housing
programme. T he loan has been granted under the concessional International Dev elopment Association window on a long- term basis for
25 y ears.
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World Bank issued its annual climate report titled "T urn down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for
Resilience". It warned that by the end of century the globe will be 4 Degree hotter. Especially in India there will be less rain and more
heat by 2050 as the natural resources such as Underground Water and forests are depleting fast. T he issue needs to be addressed at the
earliest.
1 797.
World Bank prov ided USD 1 00 million loan to Afghanistan for expanding basic health and essential hospital serv ices in the country .
1 798.
World Champion Jamaican Athelete Usain Bolt Has Been Athelete of T he y ear' for the Fifth T ime in Last Six Y ears.
1 799.
World Conference on International T elecommunications (WCIT 201 2) Organized in Dubai.
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World Human Capital Index Report 201 3 (Released by Genev a Based World Economic Forum) - >
Out of 1 22 Countries, Switzerland is ranked first in terms of Human Capital Index, Finland is the second.
India is Ranked at 78th Place out of 1 22 Conuntries.
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World Slav ery Index Report 201 2 (By Australian Walk Free Foundation)
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World bank approv ed a loan of USD 1 00 Million for Himachal Pradesh for greenery and Sustainable dev elopment in the state.
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World bank along with Asian dev elopment bank (ADB) decided to donate $ 400 mn to Uttarakhand , the huge natural Disaster hit state
India is at the top in this report showing India has most slav es in world.
of northern india.
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World bank to prov ide Rs. 20000 Crore Loan to Uttar Pradesh.
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World boxing council honored Former South African President Nelson Mandela with King of Human Equality award.
806.
World population prospectus 201 2 report issued by World health organization stated that India is expected to become world’s most
populous country in 2028 after surpassing china with 1 .45 Billion total expected population.
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World's First Eco Friendly (Green) Helicopter has been tested successfully in Germany . It is completely Noise and Pollutionn Free and
has been named as VoloCopter and has been made by German Company E- Volo.
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World's Oldest Sample Storage Sy stem found in Iran. It is about 5500 Y ears Old.
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World's fourth largest South Korean Iron Ore firm POSCO's planned $1 2 billion steel project in Odisha has been signled green by
Supreme court of India after it was abandoned by High court of Odisha. It is said to be India's largest FDI (Foreign Direct Inv estment) as
of now.
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World's largest high speed rail line started in China.
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Writer Khushwant Singh has been honored by Lifetime Achiev ement Award for His Contribution in Literature.
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Writers Ramesh Dav e (Hindi) and Gopichand Narang (Urdu) won the Kusumanjali Sahity a Samman 201 3.
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Y uichiro Miura, a professional Japanese mountaineer set a new record by becoming the oldest climber to reach the summit of Mount
Ev erest at the age of 80 y ears.
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Ziauddin Y ousufzai father of Malala made UN Education Adv iser.
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe signed Countries' new Constitution into law replacing 33 y ears old document of British Colonial
Rule's T imes.
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