Prologue
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The present article is PIN 2013. Dealing from Jan2013 upto
13th Oct2013. Mainly keeping IBPS PO/MT/Clerk, UPSC’s CAPFCDS-IFOS and other upcoming State PCS, PSU, SSC exams in
mind.
For optimum results: copy paste this data in MS word (or separate
excel spreadsheets or onenote), then keep updating these tables
from magazines and newspapers until you get selected in your
dream job. Otherwise ‘firefighting” style of preparation e.g. once
IBPS is over I’ll not prepare current affairs until I get some interview
call letter/ some other exam notification=#epicfail.
If there are any additions, corrections, do post them in
comments.
By the way RAS Prelim exam halltickets have been uploaded click
me (Sarkari servers always slow so try during non-office hours.)
[PIN] Indian Politics, Constitutional, Statutory, Bureaucrats
PM
Ofcourse everyone knows: Mohan. But in Jun 2013, He
took oath as Rajya Sabha MP from Assam (five times in
a row).
CJI
P.Sathashivam replaced Altamas Kabir.
CAG
Shashikant Sharma replaced Vinod Rai. And Vinod Rai
became UN Audit panel Chief.
CEC
V. S. Sampath replaced SY Qureshi
CVC
Pradeep Kumar
CIC
Deepak Sandhu. First lady CIC, replaced Satyanand
Mishra.She served in Indian information services.
UPSC
Chairman DP Aggarwal. Been on this post since 2008.
Hope he retires soon.Ex.CBI director AP Singh became
new member.
Attorney
General
Goolam Vahanvati
Solicitor
General
Mohan ParasaranResigned: Rohinton Nariman, for
difference with law minister. Law Minister Ashwini Kumar
also resigned for vetting a CBI report on its coal block
investigations thus cycle of Karma is complete.
Derek
O’Brian
1st Anglo Indian MP (Rajya Sabha) to vote in
Presidential Elections (of Pranab).Note that Anglo-Indian
“nominated” MPs cannot vote in Presidential elections.
But Derek is not “nominated” he is elected from West
Bengal as Rajya Sabha MP.The two nominated Anglo
Indian MPs in 15th LS areDr. Charles Dias (Kerala) and
Mrs.Ingrid Mcleod (Chhattisgarh).
Advisor to
President
T.K. vishwanathan. Lok sabha secretary, recently retired
. Now became advisor to the president of india on
constitutional matters. This is the newly created
post.Selection by collegium of speaker,leader of house
and leader of opposition.
Delhi
LT.Governor
Najib Jung replaced Tejinder Khanna.
Gujarat
lokayukta
Justice R.A Mehta .Refused to accept the job.
CM Tripura
Manik Sarkar
CM Nagaland Neiphiu Rio
Amrita Patel, National dairy Development board. Been in
news for she wants to resign.
NDDB
National commissions
Human rights Justice KG Balkrishnan
Women
Mamta Sharma
Minorities
Wajahat Habibullah the former CIC
SC
P.L. Punia
ST
Rameshwar Uraon,
OBC
Justice Vangala Eswariah replaced Justice M.N.Rao
Children
Kushal Singh
Service Chiefs
Navy
Admiral Devendra Joshi replaced Nirmal Verma
Airforce Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne replaced Pradeep Vasant Naik
Army
Gen. Bikram Singh. He replaced VK Singh, who remains in
news for controversy related to Destabilizing JK government
Security/Space/Strategic related
ISRO
K. Radhakrishnan
Atomic Energy
Ratan Kumar Sinha
commission
CRPF
DG Pranay SahayFirst woman special DG in
CRPF=Aruna Bahuguna
BSF
Subhash Joshi
CBI
Ranjit Sinha
IB
S.A. Ibrahim. (First Muslim chief of IB)Important for ACIO interview.
NIA
Sharad kumar
RAW
Founder:B.Raman,Dead.Current chief: Alok
Joshi.
DRDO
New Chief Avinash Chander
National Disaster
Response Force
Krishna Chaudhari
Senior security
advisor in home
ministry
K. Vijaykumar.For anti-Naxal operations.
Secretary
Foreign
Affairs
Sujatha Singh (IFS). She is the third woman foreign
Secretary of India.
Home
Anil Goswami
Defense
R.K.Mathur.
Finance
Rajiv Takru
Diplomatic
High Commissioner to Pakistan TCA Raghavan.
India’s permanent
representative to UN
Asoke Kumar Mukerji. He replaced
Hardeep Singh.
To USA
S. Jaishankar
To China
Ashok K Kantha
Education/Arts related
UGC
Ved Prakash replaced Yogendra yadav, who was
removed for his joining AAP.
News Broadcasting
standards authority
Justice RV Ravindran
Lalit Kala Academy
Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Sangeet Natak
Academy
Leela Samson. Was in controversy after she said
90 per cent of Censor board members are
“uneducated” and an “embarrassment”.
IGNOU Vice
Chancellor
M.Aslam
Committees Commissions Task forces
7th Pay
Commission
To revise salary of 80 lakh workers and pensioners. Its
recommendations will be effective from January
2016.6th PC was formed in 2006.
Adi Godrej
Arvind
Mayaram
Corporate governance
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FDI relaxation
to Define FDI and FII
Bimal Jalan
To scrutinize application for New Bank Licenses
BK Chaturvedi
Revamping power sector
Chindu
GoM for CBI autonomy
Cyrus Mistry,
Anil Ambani
Advisory group for electricity sector. For power ministry
Dr. Saroj
Illegal sand mining by MoEF
JS Mathur
To review the rate revisions of newspaper
advertisements. By Ministry of information and
broadcasting
Justice Bilal
Nazaki
Functioning of Haj Committee
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Justice BN
SriKrisha
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Telengana
Financial sector legislative reform commission: to
get the need of unifying SEBI, IRDA, PPFRDA
and FMC into a single regulator
Justice DK Jain 20th Law commission of India
Justice JS
Verma
Justice Mukul
Delhi Gangrape.Dead. was a part of the nine-judge
bench in 1994 which gave the landmark verdict in the
S R Bommai case relating to proclamation of
President’s Rule under Article 356 of the Constitution
in Karnataka. Presidential rule can be invoked only
after parliament approval.Chief Justice of India,he was
also a former Chairman of National Human Rights
Commission. and the 1st Chairperson of News
Broadcasting Standards Authority.
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IPL Spot fixing. Formed by SC
Mudgal
Justice RC
Gandhi
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Walmart Lobbying, by Corporate Min.
By JK government for Kishtwar Communal riots
Justice
Judicial Commission on Armed Forces Special Powers
Santosh Hegde Act (AFSPA) by SC
Justice Usha
Mehra
For probing lapses in Delhi Gangrape.
K Ratnaprabha
Indecent Representation of Women in Media
K. Vijay
Raghavan
Evaluation of Research And Rankings of higher edu.
Institutes
KK Vohra
By RBI for loan products
MBN Rao
For setting up All-women’s bank
Mudgal
For reviewing Cinematograph Act 1952. By Ministry of
information and broadcasting
Nachiketi Mor
RBI Committee for FINANCIAL INCLUSION (financial
services to small business)
Parthasarathi
Shome
Tax administration reform commission.
Raghuram
Panel
To determine a new index of backwardness to see
which states need special assistance. Most
Developed: GOA,KERALALeast developed:
ODHISSA,BIHAR.
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Rangarajan
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Gas princing, LNG imports
Sugar pricing
Ranjit
Roychaudhari
Clinical trials, drug bans.
Sam Pitroda
For restructuring Prasar Bharti. By Ministry of
information and broadcasting
Sanjay Dhande For National Testing Agency (NTA) by HRD
SK Roongta
By planning commission. For reforms in Central PSUs
Srikant Malte
Dhule Riots in Maharashtra
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Vijay Kelkar
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Virginius Xaxa
Fiscal consolidation
Energy security. By Natural Gas ministry
He is NAC member
Earlier Sacchar Committee was made for
muslims, same way this Xaxa Committee is for
tribals.
Yashwant
Sinha
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance-Report
on Guidelines of new banking licenses
YV Reddy
14th Finance commission. Under Art280. He was exgov. of RBI
Defense
The core compilation article is here:
http://mrunal.org/2013/03/defense-current-affairs-compilation-2012-13missiles-joint-exercises-operations-organizations.html
Most of the missiles, fighter jets etc remain one and same. Here are
some new developments
303 Black
Panthers
first fighter squadron for navy with MiG29
Aadesh
Fast petrol Indian vessel for indian coast Guard.
Abhilash tommy
Navy officer first indian to circum navigate the
globe in 150 days.
C-154
New interceptor boat for Coast guard. For
Maharashtra coast.
Cheetal Helicopter
light utility, multi-role helicopter is a variant of the
Cheetah helicopter being manufactured by HAL,
which is already operational in the high altitude
regions.
Coast guard
C402: Interceptor boat for coastguard.H191: air
cushion vehicle. For helping small boats in
distress at sea
Daulat Beg oldi /
Raki Nala
in Ladakh. Chinese troops made intrusions here in
Apr’13.
Dornier 228
Maritime Surveillance aircraft. Indian donated
them to Seychelles.
DRDO
New Chief Avinash Chander
Ekuverin2012
Joint army exercise: India and Maldives
@Belgaum
GSAT7
For Navy, by ISROSent to space via Ariane 5
rocket, from French Guiana (S.America)
Haft-4
Nuke capable Paki Missile. 900km range
INS Sindhurakshak Submarine. Sunk because of accident.
INS Trikhand
By Russia. Stealth frigate for Indian navy
INS Vikramaditya
Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov carrier.Likely to join by
2013 end.
INS Vikrant
1961: we bought first aircraft carrier INS
vikrant1997: it was decommissionedAug’13: New
INS Vikrant launched. India’s first Indigenous
aircraft carrier. Will join active navy duty from
2018
Iron Fist 2013
Exercise in Pokharan by Indian Airforce.
Izumo
Japan’s biggest ever naval warship since WW2.
Jamaran-2
Iran’s destroyer ship with guided missile.
Deployed in Caspian sea.
June 26
Kargil Victory day
K15
Submarine launched missile. Range 1500km
Machhalipattnam,
Andhra
DRDO setting up new missile testing range here.
MIRV
Multiple independently targetable vehicles by
DRDO.
NCTC
Will function under IB.
Nirbhay
Surface to Surface subsonic cruise missile
Nirbhay
DRDO’s long range sub sonic missile. 1000km
range.
Nomadic Elephant
Joint training exercise between Indian and
Mongolian army
Norway
Becomes the first NATO country to make military
service compulsory for both men and women
Operation three
star
Codename for Afzal guru’s hanging.
OSA AK-M
Surface to air missile for Indian airforce.
PAC-3
Japan’s Anti-Missile Air Defense Units Deployed
After North-Korea warned South-Koreans for a
War in April-2013.
Prithvi II
Nuke capable, Surface to SurfaceRange
350kmsBy DRDO under Integrated guided missile
Development program
Qaher F313
Iran’s indigenous stealth fighter jet
Raj-rathan
Inshore petrol vessel for coast guard.
Rudra helicopter
First Indigenous Attack heli. With missiles. They’re
weaponized version of Dhruva helicopter by HAL
Bangalore.
S-3002
Russia will sell these anti-aircraft missiles to Iran
Unha-3
N.Korea, Long range rocket with 3000km range.
International Relations (IR)
CDS and CAPF examiners are fond of setting MCQs on International
current affairs.
[IR] Summits/Treaties 2013/Controversies
Arctic council
India gets observer status
ASEAN human
rights declaration
In Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2012
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ASEAN summit
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2012: 21st ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh
Combodia with theme:“ASEAN: One
Community, One Destiny”
2012: ASEAN – India Commemorative
Summit 2012. To mark the 20th year
anniversary of the ASEAN – India dialogue.
Theme: ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace,
Progress and Shared Prosperity.
2013: 22nd ASEAN summit in Brunei, theme:
Our People, Our Future Together.
BASIC ministerial
meeting on climate Chennai
change
BRICS 2013
At Durban, S.Africa (5th Summit)Theme: BRICS
and Africa: Partnership for development, Integration
and industralizationeThekwini
DeclarationDiscussed to create an infrastructure
focused “development bank”
Convention on
Biodiversity (CBD)
Conference of Parties (COP)11th Summit in
Hyderabad (2012)12th Summit in PyeongChang,
S.Korea (theme = Biodiversity forSustainable
Development)
Falkland islands
Voted for British rule
First Arctic Summit Oslo, Norway
G20 summit
2013: St.Petersburg, Russia2013: Finance
ministers meeting held in Moscow, Russia2012:
Los Cabos.
G8
Lough Erne, N.Ireland. Theme: tax evasion and
transparency
Global Arms trade
treaty of UN
India abstained from voting.
High seas
conference
Paris
IBSA resolution for
women
India signed this.
empowerment
Indian chapter of
World Economic
Forum sumit
Will be held in Kochi, Kerala.
Indian ocean rim
USA became dialouge partner.
Indian ocean rim
First economic and business conference held in
Mauritius
IPCC
Its fifth assessment report will come in 2014.
Mekong-Ganga
Summit
Delhi, Dec12
In Minamata city of Japan, to sign the world’s first
Minamata Mercury
legally binding treaty on mercury pollution under
treaty
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
National
conference on Egovernance
Jaipur
NATO
General Joeseph Dunford (USA)Afghani forces
tookover the security ops from NATO in June 2013.
Pravasi Bharatiya
Diwas 2013
Kochi, Kerala
Silk road festival
Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Surajkund
Organized by Haryana government in Surajkund,
International Crafts Faridabad district. This year focus was Karnataka
Mela 2013
state.
Tokyo Summit’12
In Tokyo for rebuilding of Afghanistan.
UN resolution on
Death Penalty ban
India voted against
UN Resolution on
Syria
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2012: new sanctions against President
Bashar Al Assad’s regime= India voted favour
of this.
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2013: for rapid progress on a political
transition in Syria= India abstained from
voting.
UNHRC resolution
on Sri Lanka
Condemning Sri Lanka for violation against Tamil
minorities. India voted against Sri Lanka.
WCIT-2012
World Conference on International
telecommunication @Dubai
WHO SEARO
International conference for traditional medicine in
south-east Asia was held in Delhi. Led to Delhi
declaration.
Visits to India
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
US Vice Prez Biden
French President Hollande
UK PM David Cameroon
Egyptian President Morsi
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
Liberian President Ellen Johnson
Afghani President Hamid Karzai
Visits from India
1. Pranab to Mauritius
2. Mohan to Japan, Thailand, Germany
3. AK Antony to Singapore, China
[IR-PIN] Prez/PM of Foreign countries
Some carried forward from 2012’s news items:
African national
congress
President Jacob Zuma
African Union
Nkosazana Zuma, first woman
Asian forum of
parliamentarians
Rajyasabha Dy.Chairman PJ Kurien became its
President
Australia
PM Tony Abbott (liberal) defeated Kelvin Rudd
(Labour)
Bangladesh
President Abdul Hamid.PM Sheikh Hasina (Awami
League party)Speaker: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury.
First lady speaker in Bangladesh
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Bhutan
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King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck:
was chief guest at 26th Jan parade in 2013.
PM Tshering Tobgay
Elections in Jul’13. India had provided EVM.
India stopped kerosense and LPG
subsidy=bitterness
Bhutan has became first country of the world
to ban pesticides and herbicide sale to
become a 100% organic food growing
country .
Currency swap agreement with India.
Boby Ghosh
New editor of TIME international.
Brazil
Dilma Rousseff
Central African
Republic
President Michel Djotodia belonging to Seleka
rebels.
China
Prez Xi Jinping replaced Hu JintaoPremeir Li
Kequiang replaced Wen Jiabao. Li also got
Pakistan’s highest civilian award “Nishan-ePakistan”.
Congo
Made peace agreement with M23 rebels.
Cuba
Prez Raul Castro Replaced Fidel Castro
Czech Republic
PM Milos Zeman. Capital Prague
Ecuador
President Rafel Correa. Capital Quito
Egypt
Adil Mansour interim prez after army threw out
Mohd.MorsiMohd. El Baradei became VPPM:
Hazem Al BeblawiTamarod campaign:AntiMorsey campaign, massive street demonstration.
EU
Herman Van Rompuy
Fiji
President Ratu Epeli NailatikauNew Constitution
France
President Francois Hollander replaced Sarkozy
Germany
Chancellor Angela Markel won again.
IOC, International
olymic Committee
Thomas Batch (Germany) repalced Jacques
Rogge.
Iran
President Hassan Rouhani. He replaced
Ahmadinejad.Iran’s supreme leader: Ayatollah
Khamenei.
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Israel
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Prez. Simon Peres
PM. Benjamin Netanyahu
Their parliament is called Knesset.
Stephen Hawkings boycotted academic
conference in Israel to protest for Palestine.
Italy
President Giorgio NapolitanoEnrica Lexie: name
of the ship from which two Italian marines killed
Indian fishermen.
Japan
PM Shinzo Abe. DyPM Taro Aso. Their parliament
is called Diet
Jordan
King Abdulla II setup parliament for his country.
Kenya
Prez Uhuru Kenyatta
Liberia
President Ellen Johnson, had came to India
Malaysia
PM Najib Razak
Maldives
President Nasheed N Waheed replaced Nasheed
after coup
Mali
Ibrahim Keita new President.Problem: Tuareg
rebels.
Mexico
Enrique Nieto
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Myanmar
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President Thein Sein
Government Signed peace treaty with Wa
rebels
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
(National league for democracy)
Ceasefire with Kanchi rebels
N.Korea
Kim Jong-Un
Nepal
Khil Raj Regmi
Pakistan
Prez Mamnoon Hussain replaced Zardari.PM:
Nawaz Sharif (PML-N) party replaced Mir Hazar
Khan Khoso
Fair trial bill 2012 in Pakistan. It allows intelligence
agency to collect electronic data of citizens.
Mohhammed sarwar: Pakistani- Britain’s first
muslim lawmaker. Served 3 terms as MP of
Glasgow. Now Punjab province
(Pakistan)Governor.
Palestine
Pres. Mahmud AbbasPM Salam Fayyad
resigned.Became Observer state in UN
Paraguay
President Horacio Cartes.Country admitted back in
UNASUR
Pope
Bennedict XVI, German, Resigned.New Pope:
Francis I, (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) first South
American pope. He is from Argentina
Ramsar
Convention
Christopher Briggs became the new SecretaryGeneral
S.Korea
President Park Geun-Hye replaced Lee myung
Bak. First Lady prez.
Scotland
Will hold referendum in 2014 to decide whether
Scotland should get independence from rest of
United Kingdom.
Srilanka
Mahinda Rajpakshe. He threw out CJI Shiran
Bandaranyake. Gen.Sarath Fonseca was Ex-Was
jailed after power struggle with President.
Syria
Prez Bashar Al AsadPM Wael Nader al-Halqi
Thailand
Yingluck Shinawatra, first lady PM
Tunisia
PM Hamadi Jebali resigned after protests. Capital
Tunis
UK
PM David Cameron (Conservative)DyPM Nick
Clegg (liberal democrats)Ex-PM Margaret
Thatcher,Dead.Conservative Party. Known as Iron
Lady.
UN
Secretary General Ban ki Moon.
President for 68th session: John Ashe of Antigua.
Head of UN Women: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
From south Africa.
Venezuela
Prez Nicolas Maduro after Huge Chavez died.
Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe won again. New
Constitution approved. Now President can be
elected for two 5-year terms only.
USA Related
Edward Snowden: Exposed NSA’s project PRISM. Given temporary
asylum in Russia. For more on PRISM project, click me
Private Bradley Manning: American Soldier, leaked confidential cables
to wikileaks. Jailed. Later went through sex-change. New name is
Chelsea Manning.
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President Obama (Democratic party). Defeated Mitt Romney
(Republican) Term ends in 2017.
VP Joe Biden
Secretary of state:John Kerry, replaced Hilary Clinton.
FBI: James Comey.
CIA: John Brennan
NSA: Susan Rice
Federal reserves: Janet Yallen will replace Ben S Bernanke
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FDA: Gave permission to anti-HIV drug TRUVADA.
US Envoy to UN: Samantha Power
[IR-PIN] Diaspora/ Indians awarded abroad
Ami Bera
California, House of representative.
Amol Rajan
Editor of The Independent, in Britain
Anil
Ananthaswami
UK, won Physics journalism prize.
Autar Kaw
US professor of the year. Teaches Mechanical
engg.
Bobby Jindal
Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican
party
CNR Rao
Got Chinese award for international cooperation in
Science.
Gayatri
Chakravorty
Spivak
Educationist, Literary critic. Won Kyoto Prize –
Japanese equivalent of Nobel.
Halimah Yacob
First woman speaker of Singapore.
Jawaharlal Darda
Indian Freedom fighter from Maharashtra. Britain’s
house of commons gave him lifetime achievement
award.
Kamla Harris
First Indian American to become attorney general in
USA.
Kamla Persad
PM of Trinidad and Tobago. Chief Guest of PBD-
Bissessar
2012.
Kiran Mazmudar
Shaw
Founder of Biocon. She is selected as trustee in
United States Pharmacopeia convention.
Krishna Arora
Won Order of Australia medal for her community
service
Lisa Sthalekar
Australian woman cricketer, retired.
Natwar Gandhi
CFO of Washington DC. Resigned.
Nikki Haley
Governor of South Carolina state in US(republican
party)
Nisha Desai
Biswal
US Asst.Sec. South and Central Asia
Patricia Maria
Rozario
UK Musician. Won PBD 2013.
Perilla Bhandari
Swatz
Only Indian woman captian in US Marines. Cease
from Sikkim.
Rajkeswur
Purryag
President of Mauritius. Chief guest of Pravasi
bharatiya divas-2013
Rangaswami
Srinivasan
Cofounder of LASIK Eye surgery. Given national
medal for tech and innovation in USA.
Rasu
Ramachandran
Won award in Singapore for Development of
Libraries.
Sangeet Chowfla
New President of GMAC- this non profit body
conducts GMAT exam.
Sardar Ramesh
Singh Arora
First Sikh to be elected in Punjab provincial
assembly of Pakistan
Savita
Halappanavar
Dentist, Died in Ireland during pregnancy. After her
death, Ireland made law to permit woman have
abortion in case of life danger/abnormality.
Shanti Gandhi
Great grandson of Gandhi.Won Kansas state
assembly election.
Sri Srinivas
Judge of US court of appeals in DC circuit.
Srinivasan
Venkatakrishnan
New CEO of Anglogold-Ashanti ltd – one of the
largest producers of Gold.
Sunetra Gupta
Indian born scientist now joined prestigious royal
society of London.
Sundar Pichai
Head of Google’s Android business. From IIT-K
Sunil Kulkarni
First Indian judge in N.Carolina
Tulsi Gabbard
1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their
Lok Sabha). Elected from Hawai
State.Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita,
Served in US army, was deployed in Iraq.
Vandana Gandhi
UAE’s business excellance award for her nursery
education chain Orchard nursery.
Vince Girdhari
chhabaria
Appointed judge in California.
Venkatesh
Mannar
Scientists got highest civilian award in Canada. His
work in Micronutrient deficiency.
Vijay Singh
Indian-American professor.Won top US
environment award.
Economy: Regulators/Top Bodies
IMF
Christine Lagarde
World Bank
Jim Yong Kim. (For whom UPSC admitted setting
Wrong MCQ)
WTO
Roberto Azevedo (Brazil) replaced Pascal Lamy.
ADB
Takehiko Nakao, Japan
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RBI
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Raghuram Rajan replaced D.Subbarao as
23rd Governor of RBI
Studied @IIT Delhi, IIM-A
Was youngest ever chief economist @IMF
Served as chief economic advisor to
Finance minister
Book: Fault Lines: How hidden fractures
still threaten the world economy.
SEBI
UK Sinha replaced C. B. Bhave
CCI
Ashok Chawla
NABARD
Snehlata Shrivastava
IRDA
TS Vijayan replaced J Hari Narayan
PFRDA
Yogesh Agarwal
Forward Market
commission
Ramesh Abhishek
GST Panel
Abdul Rahim Rather replaced Sushil Modi.
ICAI (Chartered
accountants)
Subordinate dh Kumar Agrawal
Banks/Public-NBFC/PSUs
only covering those who were in news for 2013. Otherwise it’ll be a mile
long list.
Allahabad Bank
Subhalakshmi PAnse
Axis Bank
Shikha Sharma
Bank of America- India
head
Kaku Nakhate
Bank of India
VR Iyer
Bank of India
Vijayalakshmi Iyer
Canara Bank
RK Dubey
Central Bank
Rajeev Rishi
HDFC
Renu KArnad
HSBC India
NAina Lal Kidwai
ICICI
Too cliched. Chanda Kochher
IDBI
CMD MS Raghvan
IDFC
Rajiv Lall
IFCI
CEO and MD Santosh B Nayar
JP Morgan India
Kalpana Morparia
Royal Bank of ScotlandMeera Sanyal
Indian operatis
SBI
Arundhati Bhattacharya replaced Pratip
Chaudhari and became 1st woman to head
SBI
State Bank of Bikaner
B.Sriram
and Jaipur
United Bank of India
Chairman and MD Archana Bhargava
UTI asset Management
Leo Puri
Companies, Associations
Only covering those who were in news for 2013. Otherwise it’ll be a mile
long list.
Air Asia
Joint venture of Tata Sons Malaysian LCC and
Telestra.CEO: Mittu ChandaliyaChairman: SK
Ramadoli
ASSOCHAM
Rana Kapoor of Yes Bank became the new
President
BALCO, under
Vedanta
Ramesh Nair
BBC
Tony Hall
Berlshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett
Bharat Forge
Baba Kalyani
Bharat Petroleum
S.Varadarajan
BSE
Ashish Kumar Chauhan
CII
S.Gopalkrishnan.Co-founder of Infosys.
Dr.Reddy’s
GV Prasad
Editors Guild
N.Ravi of the Hindu.
General Electronics
India
Banmali Agrawala
Hindustan uniliver
Sanjiv Mehta
IMF executive
director from India
Rakesh Mohan
Infosys
Narayan Murthy returns as Executive chairman of
the board, and KV Kamath (former-ICICI) steps
down.
International
chamber of
commerce
Sunil Bharti became Vice President
International coffee
council
Javed Akhtar new chairman.
LIC
SK Roy replaced DK Malhotra
Maruti Suzuki India
Kenichi Ayikawa
NALCO
CMD Anshuman Das
NASSCOM
Krishnakumar Natarajan of Mindtree
Nestle India
Etienne Benet
Procter & Gamble
AG Lafley
Ranbaxy
Malvinder Singh. Keeps getting notices/penalties
Laboratories
in USA
TVS Automobiles
Sanjay Nigam
Twitter
Jack Dorsey is chairman, Evan Williams is
founder. Planning for $1 billion IPO
[News] Economy related
For White label ATM, NSEL crisis etc read the articles in this google
folder:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0DPgaYAtDgmQUNCLXgtYzR6VUU/ed
it?usp=sharing
Here are some more news: I’m not going into details but you should
prepare for MCQs/ interviews:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Company Bill passed in parliament
NABARD act amended to increase cap to 20k crore.
Custom duty on gold, silver, platinum hiked
Our Forex reserves slips down below $280 billion.
RBI’s Q1 review
RBI: Unique Customer Identification Code (UCIC). For
strengthening Know Your Customer (KYC)/Anti-Money Laundering
(AML)/Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CFT).
7. RBI’s KK Vohra panel for loan products
8. RBI’s CDS norms for corporate bonds
9. SEBI: Gold ETF permission
10.
RBI penalized 6 banks for flouting KYC norms after sting
operation from Cobrapost.
11.
RBI and gold import curbs
12.
National Housing bank to get $ 100 million loan from World
Bank
13.
Green Banking: attempts to reduce paper wastage/Carbon
footprints in banking. Example using net banking instead of
cheque-book
14.
Rupee downfall. Import duty on gold
15.
Foreign investment limit in government securities (G-sec) : $
5 billion
16.
Chindu’s 10 points action plan to strengthen economy.
17.
5 PSUs come up with 4000MW solar projects
18.
Committee: Parthasarathi Shome commission for Tax
administration reform.
19.
Sovereign Wealth funds
20.
Disinvestment cleared for STC and ITDC
21.
Banking licenses. Winners to be announced by 2014.
22.
Cement cos get fined for cartelization
23.
Civil Aviation regulation authority
24.
Mittal exits Odisha steel project.
25.
FDI norms relaxed in Aug
26.
Urea investment policy
27.
Money laundering bill
28.
Tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with
Liechtenstein.
29.
Human development report 2013
30.
EU imposed anti-dumping duty on Indian steel
31.
Russia became the 156th member of WTO
32.
Maharatna status for BHEL and GAIL
33.
RRB act Amendment bill.
34.
Inflation indexed bonds
35.
Universal commodity exchange
36.
MCX-SX: third online shock exchange after BSE and NSE.
37.
SEZ norms liberalized.
38.
EPFO to give 8.5% interest
39.
Saxo Bank Denmark, entered India.
40.
Sugar price decontrol after Rangarajan Panel.
41.
SARADHA groups scam, West Bengal.
42.
Debt Waiver scheme: launched in 2008. CAG report talks
about scam in this.
43.
Forward market commission’s Administrative control:
a. Before: Department of consumer affairs under Agro min
b. Now: under Chindu (Finance ministry)
c. FMC statutory body. This move done because of NSEL scam
d. RBI asks Banks to end Zero interest EMF(Equated Monthly
interest ) Scheme
e. SBI to expand CASH DEPOSIT MACHINES(CDM) to tap
portion of currency within people
f. SEBI debarred DSQ software from entering capital market for
7 years
g. SEBI merges FIIs and QFIs into new FPIs category
h. INDIA BANK launches Combo loan(Home, Vehicle &
Consumer Durables loan @ 10.2%)
[News] Infrastructure related
Transport/Communication
1.
2.
3.
4.
Double decker trains between Chennai to Bangalore.
Mumbai’s eastern Free way
Benihal Qazigunz rail link
World’s highest railbridge @River Chinab- will connect Baramulla
& Srinagar to Jammu.
5. Andaman Grand Trunk Road: SC Banned Tourists to protect jarva
tribe
6. Ghat ki guni Tunnel-Links jaipur with agra via NH-11
7. Kishan Ganga Hydro Project, Gurez valley North Kashmir. Court of
Arbitration permitted India to go ahead under Indus-Water Treaty
1960
8. Biotoilets in all trains by 2019
9. Metro rail= Already in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Banglore. New
plans for Lucknow (2014), Raipur, Cochi, Hyd, Mumbai.
10.
Pir Panjal tunnel: connect Jammu’s Banihal with Kashmir’s
Kazigund. (railways). This will be Asia’s 2nd longest railway tunnel.
11.
Jawahar Tunnel or Banihal Tunnel: connecting between
Banihal and Qazigund on NH 1A (Highway).
12.
SMS based railway ticket booking: 139 or 5676714
13.
DIESEL LOCOMOTOIVE engines roll out India’s most
powerful engine -5500 CC(WGD5 prototype)
14.
Cabinet gave approval to setup ports @Sagar, WB. And
@Andhra
15.
Gobalpur port, Odisha: new all-weather port.
16.
Telegram service permanently stopped. 1850: first telegram
was between Kolkata and Diamond Harbour
17.
Mukesh will use Anil’s optical fiber network to laydown 1.2
lakh km national fiber network for his Reliance Jio Infocomm. This
will help in 4G broadband.
18.
National internet registry for managing IP addresses.
19.
SISTEMA SHYAM TELESERVICES(MTS BRAND) become
the 1st company to get Unified License from Gov.
Economy related IR
1.
2.
3.
4.
Gwadar Port: Pakistan handed over to china
Colombo port Project: China developing this.
Chabahar port, Iran: India helping to develop this.
Sri Lanka’s Northern Railway project: Indian railministry’s IRCON
financed this.
5. India’s Currency swap agreements with Japan and Bhutan.
6. Social security agreement with Portugal, Austria.
7. Tax information exchange agreement with Gibraltar.
8. Teesta water treaty with Bangladesh
9. Double taxation avoidance treaty/convention/treaty (DTAC) with
Latvia, Albania, Sweden, South Korea, UK
10.
Indo-Japan pact on rare earths.
Power/Energy/Environment/Science
1. India’s first Geo-thermal power Plant: at Tatapani, Balrampur,
Chattisgarh by NTPC.
2. Okhla Compost Plant, Delhi: India’s first plant to receive carbon
credit under UNFCC.
3. Rashtriya Adarsha Vidhyalaya by Union government + Indian
corporates via PPP
4. Kundankulam Nucl plant, TN, by NPCIL. SC gave it permission
5. Asia’s largest solar project @Jodhpur Rajasthan by Welspun
energy.
6. Tawang Hydel project: Tawang chu river in Arunanchal.
7. 4000MW Ultra Mega green solar power project @Sambhar lake,
Rajasthan
8. Barmer, Rajasthan: Cairn India found oil in Rageshwari Block.
9. Bureau of water use efficiency=>National watermission=>National
action plan on climate change.
10.
National plan for aquatic ecosystems by merging Lake
conversation and Wetland conservation programs.
11.
GM trials for castor oil, maize and wheat cleared by MoEF’s
GEAC.
12.
Karnataka watershed project gets $60 million loan from world
bank
13.
E-business portal, designed by Infosys for Commerce
Ministry to promote government to business connectivity.
14.
Coal gate, missing files.
15.
RTS,S Vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline for Malaria trial
successful
16.
JENVAC- India’s Indigenous Vaccine to prevent Japanese
Encephalitis(Mosquito born)-Produced by PPP mode (Bharat
Biotech & Indian council of Medical Research)
Schemes
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Education schemes: Click ME
SC/ST/OBC/PH related: Click ME
Women related: Click ME
Public Health/ maternity / childcare: Click ME
E-Governance related: Click ME
Some new Schemes/initiatives:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
All women University @Rae Bareli in UP
Urban Health mission 2013
National skill development agency, autonomous body.
Roshni skill development project for Naxal hit areas
First public health university in India: at Bhuveneshwar Orissa.via
PPP.
6. Rashtriya Bal Swastha Karyakram launched from Thane.
7. MyIndia Initiative- Digital Volunteer Programme. By Ministry of Info
and Broadcasting, to talk about Government schemes and
programmes on different social media platforms
8. Adhar/UIDAI unnecessary for government scheme benefitsGovernment tells SC
[News]Polity
list definitely not exhaustive.
Bills/ Acts
1. India became the first country in South Asia to ban cosmetic
product testing on animals. Guilty will be punished under drugs and
cosmetics act
2. Himachal Pradesh becomes the first smoke-free state in the
country under the cigarettes and other tobacco products at 2003
3. Kerala: Liquor purchase age is increased from 18 to 21
4. Tamil Nadu’s new litigation policy
5. National water framework bill
6. Sexual harassment bill
7. Land acquisition bill
8. Electronic delivery of services bill
9. Ordinance/bill to protect convicted MPs.
10.
Manual scavenging bill
11.
Judicial appointment bill
12.
Pension bill
13.
SEBI amendment bill
14.
Banking Amendment
15.
Criminal law (Amendment) bill 2013 against rape, Anti-Rape
ordinance
16.
Juvenile Justice Act & Delhi rape case.
17.
Citizen’s charter bill
18.
Food security bill/ordinance
19.
Real Estate regulation bill
20.
Telengana the 29th State
21.
CIC’s order on Political parties coming Right to information
act vs Government trying to amend RTI act to counter it.
SC Decisions
1. Disqualifying Convicted legislators (vs Governments ordinance/bill
to counter it)
2. Voters get NOTA (none of the above) choice. Allied topic: VVAP:
Voter verified paper audit trail
3. Andaman Grand Trunk Road: SC Banned Tourists to protect jarva
tribe
4. CBI autonomy
5. Cauvery Water dispute tribunal
Civilian Awards/Achievements
[Awards] Nobel 2013
category
who
1. Martin Karplus
2. Michael Levitt
3. Arieh Warshel
Chemistry
why?
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will be announced on 14th Oct. This
article was written on 13th
Economics ??
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Literature
Alice Munro (Canada)
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Medicine
Developing computer models
that can predict chemical
reactions for use in creating
new drugs and other tasks.
1. James E.
Rothman
2. Randy W.
Schekman
3. Thomas C.
Sudhof
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Master of the contemporary
short story.
often called “Canada’s
Chekhov”
Notable books: “The Moons
of Jupiter,” ”The Progress of
Love” and “Runaway.”
2009 Man Booker
International Prize for her
lifetime body of work
in understanding how key
substances move within a
cell.
They developed better
understanding of vesicles,
tiny bubbles that deliver their
cargo within a cell to the right
place at the right time.
Disturbances in that delivery
system can lead to
neurological diseases,
diabetes or immunological
disorders.
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Peace
Organization for the
Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons.
(OPCW)
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Physics
1. Peter Higgs
2. Francois Englert
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190 nations signed its treaty.
deploys teams worldwide to
find chemical weapons and
their manufacturing sites.
Currently planning the
destruction of chemical
weapons stockpiles and
facilities in Syria.
HQ: Hague, Netherlands
Chief: Ahmet Uzumcu
Theory about how subatomic
particles get their mass.
Their theory made headlines
last year when the CERN
laboratory in Geneva
confirmed it by discovering
the so-called Higgs particle.
Nobel 2012
Category
Who?
Why?
Chemistry
Lefkowitz,
Kobilka
Protein receptors that let body cell
respond to signals.
Economics Roth, Shapley.
Stable allocation + market design.
Litt.
Mo Yan
First Chinese writer to get this award.
Medicine
Gurdon,
Yamanaka
Regenerative medicine. Cure disease by
growing tissues in lab.
Peace
EU
Lolz
Physics
Haroche,
Wineland
Measure quantum particles, without
destroying them.
Nobel: Indian
1. Venkatarama Ramakrishnan
Chemistry
2. Amartya Sen
Economics
3. Tagore
Litt.
4. Rudyard Kipling
Litt.
5. VS Naipaul
Litt.
6. Dr. Hargobind Khorana
Medicine
7. Mother Teresa
Peace
8. S. Chandrasekhar
Physics
Nobel Facts
1. Nobel prize recipients are called laureates. started in 1901
2. The award consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash
prize (8-million Swedish kroner (SEK) – almost $1.2 million U.S.
dollars as of September 2013). Money comes from fund created by
Swedish inventor of Dynamite Alfred Nobel.
3. The Economics medal has no inscription.
4. Nobel prizes are announced in advance but awarded
on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
5. The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and
Economics are awarded at a ceremony inStockholm, Sweden.
6. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded at its own ceremony in Oslo,
Norway. Periodically, no prize has been awarded. This happened
most recently in 1972.
7. The number of winners is limited to three per category.
8. A person must be alive to be nominated. If they die during the
consideration period, their name will be removed. Only if a person
is announced as a winner and dies prior to the ceremony, will a
posthumous award be given.
[Awards] Public service/media/Courage
Indira Gandhi award for 2012: Gulzar2013: Agro Scientist MS
National integration
Swaminathan
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Indira Gandhi peace
prize
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2011: Ela Ramesh Bhatt. SEWA founder.
Actually won for in 2011, but was
awarded that prize in 2013. SEWA= Self
Employed Women’s Association
2012: Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf
Desmond TuTu
South African peace icon . Supporter of gay’s
right.
G.D. Agarwal
Former professor of IIT. Fasting for to stop
construction along ganga.
Lokmanya tilak award
2013
Metro man E. Shreedharan
Legend of the planet
Award, France
Bindeshwar Pathak for his ecofriendly toilets
“Sulabh Sauchalayas”.
Liberation of war honor
Given to Pranab. By Bangladeshis for his
contribution in 1971
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Magsaysay award
2013
2012: Kulandei Francis (India) for
Microenterprises in TN. but for 2013 No
Indian selected.
1. Habiba Sarabi,Afghanistan’s first and
only female governor.
2. Ernesto Domingo, from the Philippines.
3. Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi
(Corruption Eradication Commission),
4. Lahpai Seng Raw, from Myanmar,
5. Shakti Samuha (“Power Group”), from
Nepal
Mahatma Gandhi
international award for
peace reconciliation
Brigalia Bam for 2013. for her work in human
rights
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Malala Yousafzai
Mountaineering
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Youngest nominee for noble peace prize.
Addressed UN assembly in Jul 13.
UN declared 12 July as Malala Day.
1. First Amputee to scale Everest: Arunima
Sinha, UP.
2. First Paki woman to scale Everest:
Samina Baig.
3. First Saudi woman to Everest: Raha
Moharrak
4. Youngest to climb Mt.Kilimanjaro in
Africa: Aaryan Balaji.
National Florence
Nightingale award
By Health ministry for Nursing professionals
National Youth Icons
Selected by election Commission of India, to
attract young voters: Mary Kom, Saina, Dhoni
and Kalam.
Nomura Award
Kiran Bedi for her public service.
Outstanding
parliamentarian 2012
JDU MP Sharad Yadav. This selection by
parliamentary award Committee.
Vibhushan
Padma awards
1. Raghunath Mohapatra, Sculpture, Orissa
2. S Haider Raza, Painter, Delhi
3. Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering,
Uttar Pradesh
4. Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and
Engineering, Karnataka
Padma Bhushan=24, Shri=80=list is not worth
the ‘majoori’.
Prem Bhati awards for
political reporting
Shalini Singh of The Hindu
Pritzker award
Richest award in Architecture.
Pulitzer prizes 2013
No award given in ‘fiction’ category, just like
2012. New York times won 4 awards
Rajiv Gandhi
Sadbhavna award
2013
Sarod maestro ustad amjad ali khan. Given on
august 20 on Rajiv’s Birthday.
Tagore Award 2013
Zubin Mehta for cultural harmony. Jury
included prime minister. Zubin had done music
concert in Sri Nagar. Organized by German
Embassy.
TED Prize
For individual with great vision to change
world. 2013′s award went to Prof. Sugata
Mitra, an educationist.
UN Public service
awards
1. Kerala’s mass contact program
2. Swavalamban of Dhanbad district
3. MP’s Graamin Haat.
UN Youth courage
award
Razia Sultana, UP for helping child labourers.
Whitney awards
Considered green oscars. Indian wildlife
biologist Aparajita Datta for protection of
Hornbill in Arunanchal.
[Awards] Movies/Beauty
1. Miss India 2013: Navneet Kaur Dhillon
2. Miss America 2014: Nina Davuluri. Subjected
to racist remarks on Twitter.
3. Miss India Worldwide: Nehal Bhogaita, deaf
and mute.
4. Miss World 2013: Megan Young, Philippines.
Venue: Bali, Indonesia
5. Miss universe 2013: Yet to be decide
because contest in Nov 2013. Venue:
Moscow.
Beauty
Dada Saheb
Pran.
Phalke award 2012
Golden bear award
Given in Berlin film festival.
National film award
2012
Best film: Paan Singh Tomar
1. Argo: best film
2. Life of pie: best visual effects, direction etc.
3. Indian entry: Barfi by Anurag Basu (Hindi)
Oscar 2013
Oscar 2014
Indian entry : The Good Road, by Gyan Correa
(Gujarati)
SAARC film festival
Held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Paan Singh Tomar
won best film award.
[Awards] Academic/Arts
Abel Prize
Considered Noble for maths. Given to Belgaian
Mathematician Pierre Deligne.
Chameli Devi
Jain Purasarkar
For Outstanding Woman Mediaperson.Alka Dhupkar
of IBN’s Marathi channel won it.
Dan David Prize
For one field each in three time dimensions: past,
present and future. For science, arts and humanities.
Education Nobel
Dr.Madhav Chawan. @Doha
Prize
Giving pledge
Started by Bill Gates + Warren Buffet. To encourage
rich people to give part of their wealth for charity.
Azim Premji first Indian to sign up.
Goldman prize
Considered oscars for environment movements /
green nobel.
Highest IQ
Lauren Marbe, 16yo schoolgirl from UK. Has IQ
Higher than Einstein.Neha Ramu: another UK girl of
Indian origina has IQ 162.
Life Science
breakthru prize
Started by Mark Zuckerberg (facebook) and Sergey
Brin (google)
National
bioscience
award
Also called N-BIOS prize. Given to scientists below 45
age. Venkat Mohan got it.
Sand artists
Sudarshan Patnayak. Has won Russian award for
sand art competition in Russia.
Sangeet Natak
Academy
awards
awards started in 2006 in memory of shehnai maestro
Ustad Bismillah Khan.2013: more than 30 people
given this award hence list is not worth the ‘majoori’.
Shaw prize
Given for astronomy, medicine and maths.
Yuri Milner
award
Richest academic prize for medicine and biology: 3
million USD each.
[Books in News]
Man Booker Fiction 2012
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Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the bodies. She has won this prize twice.
Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis-Tale of mumbai’s opimioum addiction.
Booker price shortlisted but did not win.
Man Booker Fiction Shortlisted for 2013
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Harvest
Jim Crace
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary
Colm Tóibín
Man Booker International 2013
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American writer Lydia Davis.
Given every two year, to a living author.
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Work in English or translated in English.
Indian author UR Ananthamurty was also nominated for his book
novel “Samskara”
[Books] Non-Booker Awards
Asom Ratna
Indira Goswami, Literature.
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Commonwealth book
prize 2013
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Death of Bees, Lisa O’Donnell
Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi
Munaweera (Sri Lanka)
Sterile Sky, E.E. Sule (Nigeria)
DSC Prize for South
Asian literature
Jeet Thayil for his novel Narcopolis.
Hindu Literary prize
Jerry Pinto’s novel “Em and the Big hoom”.
Jnanpith 2012
Ravuri Bharadwaj, Telugu writer.
SAARC literature
award
@Agra in 2013. Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K.
won. His books; Seduction of Delhi, Enigmatic
love etc.
Saraswati samman
Given by KK Birla foundationSugathakumari,
Malyalam poetess for 2012
Surjit hans
Indian professor won award in london for
translating Shakespeare’s work into Punjabi.
Walter Scott Prize
For historical fiction, UK
[Books] List of Books and Authors
A garland of memories
Ruskin Bond
Ambedkar’s World: The
Making of Babasaheb and
Dalit Movement
Eleanor Zelliot
An uncertain Glory: India
and its contradictions
Jean dreze,Amrathya Sen
Ash in the Belly- India’s
unfinished battle against
Hunger
Harsh Mander
Bangladesh: The Prize of
freedom
By noted photographer Rahu Rai
Breakout Nations: In
pursuit of the next
economic miracle
Ruchir Sharma. Won Tata lit. award for first
book.
Calcutta: Two years in the
city
Amit Chaudhuri
Cuckoo’s Calling
JK Rowling (Harry Potter fame) she wrote
this novel with a pseudonym “Robert
Galbraith”. Her previous novel Casual
vacancy.
Dare to Do! For the new
Generation
Former IPS Kiran Bedi
Daughter of Empire
Pamela Hicks
Dear Life
Alice Munro, Canada
Durbar
Tavleen Singh
Earth Songs
WB CM Mamata Benerjee
Economic Policies and
YV Reddy
India’s reform agenda
Em and the Big hoom
Jerry Pinto’s novel. Won Hindu Literary
prize.
FIFTH ESTATE
Biopic on JULIAN ASSANGE (Wikileaks
founder)
Fractured Times: Culture
and society in 20th
Century
Eric Hobsbawn
Freethinker’s prayerbook
Khushwant Singh
Grammatica Grandonica
Sanskrit grammar book written by a Jesuit
Missionary For.Hanxlenden. Restored after
300 years.
Hilary Mantel
Won two man booker prizes. This time for
book “Bring up the bodies”.
How not to make money
Raj Kundra (Shilpa Shetty’s husband) and
allegedly involved in IPL spot fixing 2013.
Impossible Indian: Gandhi
Faisal Devji
and Temptation of violance
Indignez Vous
Book by Stephane Hessel. Had inspired
Occupy wallstreet movement. Author is
dead.
Inferno
Dan Brown (he wrote Da Vinci Code,
Angels and Demons, Lost Symbol)
Inside Out
Autobiography of Paki cricketer Mustaq
Mohammad
Jesus of Nazaeth: the
Infancy narratives
Pope Benedict XVI
Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife.
By Sushmita Bangerjee. It details her
escape from Taliban ruled Afghanistan in
1995. She was recently murdered by
Talibans.
Land of seven rivers
Sanjeev sanyal
Law’s Empire
Ronald Dworkin. Dead
Life of Pi
Yann Martel. Made into movie by Ang Lee.
Suraj Sharma played hero.
My father, our fraternity
Sarod Maestro Amjal Ali Khan
My journey: transforming
dreams into actions
APJ Kalam
My tryst with justice
Justice PN Bhagwati
Netaji Subhash Chandra
Bose and Germany
By his daughter Prof Ania Pfaff
New Market Tales
Jayant Kriplani
Pataudi-Nawab of Cricket
Suresh Menon
Patriots and Partition
Ramchandra Guha
Samudra Mantha: SinoIndian rivalry in the Indo
Pacific
C.Raja Mohan.
Sanjay story
Vinod Mehta
Sethji
Shobha De
Sounding Off
Resul Pookutty- he had won Oscar for
soundtrack in Slumdog Millionaire
Sunshine Lence
Prasun Joshi, Noted lyricist.
The games Indians play
why we are the way we
are.
V Raghunathan.
The Great Gatsby
P.Scott Fitzerland
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri. shortlisted for Booker 2013
for fiction.
The NaMo story
Kingshuk Nag
The Prabhakaran Saga
S Murari
The Race of my life-an
autobiography
Milkha Singh
The Sea of innocence
Kishwar Desai. About rape of Scarlet Jones
in Goa.
The test of my life: from
Yuvaraj Singh
cricket to cancer and back
The Wildlings
Nilanjan Roy
Untold story of people of
Azad Kashmir
Christopher Snedden
Walking the lions: Tales
from a diplomatic past
Natwar Singh
Sports
Football
Australia
became a member of ASEAN’s football federation.
David
Beckham
Retired. Played for Manchester united.
Durand
Cup
India’s oldest football tournament. The prize money
increased from 20 lakh to 50 lakh. Kolkata’s Mohammedan
Sporting defeated defeated ONGC
FIFA 2014
will use Goal line technology to determine ball had passed
through goal line or not.. Will be Hosted in Brazil. Mascot:
Armadillo called “Fuleco”.Lydia Nsekera, Burundi, First
women in FIFA executive committee
Golden
Boot 2012
Lionel Messi.
Praful
Patel
President of all India Football Federation.
SAFF
South Asian football championship. Afghanistan defeated
India.
Santosh
Trophy
Services won against Kerala.
Cricket
Ashes series 2013
England won Against Australia
ICC Champions
Trophy 2013
India Won against England at Birmingham.
ICC Women’s
World Cup
Australia defeated West Indies at Mumbai.
IPL-2013
Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai
Parvez Rasool
Asgar
First person from J/K in Indian cricket team.
Ranji Trophy 2013
Mumbai defeated Suarashtra.
T-20 World Cup
England defeated New Zealand at Auckland.
Thirush Kamini
India’s woman opening batsman. First Indian
player to hit century in women’s world cup 2012.
Vijay Hazare
Trophy
Delhi Won.
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World Cup 2015
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Jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand
in February 2015.
Two groups of Seven Teams
Both India and Pakistan are in pool-B.
Hockey
Asia Cup Hokey
Held @Ipoh, Malayasia.South Korea defeated
India.India’s VR Raghunath=Player of the
tournament.
Hockey India
League
Ranchi Rhinos won.
Indian Hockey
Federation
President V.Dinesh Reddy
Leslic Claudius
Triple Olympic Gold Medalist from India.Dead.
New coach for
India
Maharaj Kishan Kaushik
Sultan Azlan
Shah
Australia defeated Malaysia
Tennis Tournaments 2013
Name
Won
Lost
Australia open
Man: Djokovic, Serbia 1st man
to win this tournament three
times in a row.
Man: Andy Murray,
UK
Woman: Vicoria Azarenka,
Belarus.
Woman: Li Na
Nadal
Not important.
Brazil Open,
Madrid Open,
Italian Open
Dubai Open
French Open
Men’s Doubles
BhupathiWomen’s Doubles
Sania Mizra
Not important.
Nadal. Became first player to
win eight singles at the same
grand slam tournament.
David Ferrer.
Serena Williams, US
Sharapova.
Ande Murray. First Briton to win
after 1936.
Djokovic
Marion Bartoli. Her first grand
slam single, French
Sabine Lisicki
Nadal, Spain
Djokovic, Serbia
Serena Williams, US
Vicoria Azarenka,
Belarus.
Doubles: Leander Paes and
Stepanek (Czech)Paes’
Grandslams: 8 doubles, 14
overall.
Some players from
brazil and Australia
Nadal, Spain
Some unseeded
player, hence
name not
important.
Azarenka (Belarus)
Serena Williams
(USA)
Wimbledon
US Open
Cincinnati
Masters
Davis Cup Commitment award: to Leander Paes and Jaidip Mukherji
Badminton
Indian Badminton
League
Indian Badminton league: similar to IPL.Lee Chong
Wei costliest player went to mumbaiSaina Nehwal’s
“Hyderabad hotshots” won it.
Indian open
Ratchano, ThailandLee Chong in Men
Malaysian grand
prix
PV Sindhu defeated Singapore’s Juan Gu
Thomas cup &
Uber Cup
Will be hosted in India in 2014
World Badminton
championship
in Guangzhou, ChinaGold: Ratchanok Intanon
(Thailand) female. Lin Dan (China) Man.Silver: not
important.Bronze: PV Sindhu (India)
Olympics
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IOC, International Olympic Committee: Thomas Batch (Germany)
replaced Jacques Rogge.
2020 (Summer) Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
Motto: Discover Tomorrow. and Wrestling is included.
Special Olympics for disabled. India won 46 medals
@Pyhongchang China.
Olympics for Mentally disabled. Held in S.Korea
Indians @London Olympic 2012
Gagan
Narang
Bronze. 10 air-rifle
Krishna
Poonia
discus throw. Did not win
Mary Kom
Bronze. Women flywt. Boxing
Saina Nehwal
Bronze. Single badminton
Sushil Kumar
Silver Wrestle 66kg. He was flag-bearer. He got bronze
in 2008 Beijing.
Vijay Kumar
Silver. 25 rapid fire pistol. Rajiv G.Khel ratna
Yogeshwar
dutt
Bronze. 60kg wrestle. Rajiv G.Khel ratna.
Chess
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These Indians won some foreign tournaments: Parimarajan Negi,
P.Harikrishna.
Widith Gujrathi: 30th Grandmaster
Abijit Gupta: Commonwealth Chess Championship
K.Jennitha: World chess championship for disabled.
Grenke Chess classic 2013: Anand won
Miscellaneous
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Rupesh Shah: Asian Billiards
Ronnie O’Sullivan: World Snooker-Became champion for the fifth
time
PGA 2013 Tigerwoods.
Australian Grand prix 2013: Kimmy Raikkonel.
Malkhamb: Madhya Pradesh declared it as state’s sport
Henry Rebello: athlete from India, participated in London
Olympics’48. Dead.
Anand Shetty (Flying Bunt): Sprinter. Dead
World cup for shooting: Rahi Sarnobat -1st Indian woman to win
gold in pistol shooting.
Archery World cup @Shanghai: Bronze by Indian women’s team.
National Archery Championship at Raipur Chhattisgarh. Assam
won.
Sport Mascots
Beijing Olympics 2008
Fuwa (good-luck dolls)
Cricket World Cup
2011
Stumpy, the elephant.
CWG, 2011
Shera, the tiger.
Kabbadi world cup
2012, India
JAANBAZ, the eagle.
London Olympics
2012
Wenlock + Mandeville. They symbolize Britain’s
industrial revolution.
FIFA 2014
Armadillo named “Fuleco”
Sports Awards
RG Khel
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Shooter Ronjan Sodhi. He had also won ISSF
Ratna
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Laureus
Awards 2013
shooting world cup: (silver, double trap).
Before him Khel Ratna was given to Wrestler
Yogeshwar Dutt.
Usain Bolt (male) and Jessica Ennis (Female) for their
Olympic 2013 records.
Arjun Awards 2013
Mr. Abhijeet Gupta
Chess
Mr. Amit Kumar Saroha Athletics (Para)
Mr. Dharmender Dalal
Wrestling
Mr. Gagan Jeet Bhullar
Golf
Mr. Ranjith Maheshwari Athletics
Mr. Rupesh Shah
Billiards & Snooker
Mr. Virat Kohli
Cricket
Ms. Chekrovolu Swuro
Archery
Ms. Joshna Chinnappa
Squash
Ms. Kavita Chahal
Boxing
Ms. Mouma Das
Table Tennis
Ms. Neha Rathi
Wrestling
Ms. P.V. Sindhu
Badminton
Ms. Rajkumari Rathore
Shooting
Ms. Saba Anjum
Hockey
Dronacharya 2013 Award for Coaches
K.P. Thomas
Athletics
Mahavir Singh
Boxing
Narinder Singh Saini Hockey
Poornima Mahato
Archery
Raj Singh
Wrestling
Places in News
Ahmedabad
First city in South Asia to have a
comprehensive heat action plan
Arunanchal Pradesh
New wild banana species found-Musa Velutina
Bangalore International renamed after Hiriya Kempegowda. He was a
airport
ruler under the Vijayanagar empire
Betul
In Gawilgarh hills, MP. ASI has found 12000
year old paintings from here.
Bushehr Province
Iran earthquake in april
Cyclone Phailin
Odisha and Andhra
Hanumangarha
a major trade hub during Harappa period
Jaisalmer Fort
First inhabited world heritage monument under
UNESCOOther five forts that got world heritage
statute: Amber, Chittorgarh, Gangron,
Kumbhalgarh.
Javadi Hills
Vellore district TN. Neolithic bedrocks found.
They were used for sharpning axes and stone
tools.
Kalimantan forest
In Borneo island, Indonesia. World’s largest
project for REDD+
Kshripra river, Ujjain
Gold coins of vikram aditya found belonging to
first century Bc.
Kutch
India’s first marine eco sensitive zone by MoEF
Maenam Wildlife
Sanctury, Sikkim
First wild life sanctury to have a skywalk and
22km ropeway
Malayalam language
Union cabinet gives it classical status, along
with Tamil, Kannada and Telugu.
Mauratia
Ancient Microcontinent. Its evidence found in
W.Indian ocean.
Meghalaya, Tripura,
Manipur.
Got their own high courts.Total HC (before)
=21. After =24.This was done via amending
North Eastern areas reorganisation act 1971
Mount Fuji, Japan
World Heritage status under UNESCOIn
Honhu Island
Mukundra Hills
Third Tiger reserve in Rajasthan. Other two are
Sariska and Ranthambhore
Nyoma, Leh
Highest Krishi Vigyan kendra
Palacole, Andhra
Nepoleaon era french gold coins found
Popocatépetl volcano
Mexico
Praneshwara Temple,
Shimoga district,
Karnataka
Ancient copper plates from Kalachurya
dynasty.
Samoa Airline
First airline to charge passengers based on
their weight
Serbia
Agreed to cede some areas to its former
province Kosovo.Under EU accord.SerbiaCapital BelgradeKosovo-Capital Pristina-Uses
Euro as Currency.
Shanghai
Started visa-free transit scheme with Beijing.
Shenzhen Province
China Launched its first carbon trading scheme
here
Sichuan Province
China earthquake of ritchers scale-7.
UK
Banned sale of non-native aquatic plants to
prevent entry of invasive species.
Uttarakhand Disaster
Covered here: click me
Wayanand, Kerala
Pre historic rock art found in Edakkal caves in
Ambukuthy hills.
Xisha
Disputed islands in South China sea. China is
offering tourists rides while Vietnam opposes.
Dead
Only covering import ones, else this will be a mile long list.
Aaron swartz
Helped creating early version of RSS and Internet.
Afzal Guru
In Feb’13. Hanged for parliament attack on
13/12/2001.Operation three star=codename for his
hanging.
Ahalyachari
Educationist. Associated with NCERT
Ajmal Kasab
Hanged for 26/11/2008 terrorist attack.
AK Narayan
Historian and archaeologist
Amar G. Bose
Founder of Bose corp- Radios, speakers and audio
systems
Arun Dey
Historian, Kolkata
Asgar Ali
Engineer
Islamic scholar. Dawoodi Bohra movement.
Batindra Nath
Mukharji
Ancient Indian historian
Bruce Reynold
Carried the Great Train robbery in Britain.
Chinua Achebe
father of modern African Literature.
C.P. Srivastava
He was the Secretary general of IMO (international
maritime org). Elected for four consecutive terms.
Longest serving secretary general of IMO. Ex IAS.
Doctor Hilary
Koprowski
First successful oral vaccine for polio.
Douglas
Engelbart
Father of Computer mouse.
Ganesh Pyne
Painter. W.Bengal.
H.A.B. Parpia
Food Scientist and former director of central food
research institute. Hold post in FAO and UN.
Henry Rebello
athlete from India, participated in London
Olympics’48. Dead.
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Creator of Mario and Donkey Kong games. Nintendo
Company
HS Singhania
President of JK Singhania group.
Ieng Sary
Founder of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge
movement.
Jia Dagar
Drupad Singer.
John E Karlin
Inventor of phone keypad.
Kallam Anji
Founder of Dr.Reddy’s lab.
Reddy
KP Bhaskar
Indian classical dancer in Singapore.
Mahasundari
Sevi
Sujani craft, Mithila painting
MS
GopalKrishnan.
Violin maestro
N.Seshagiri
Founder DG of NIC.
Ottavio
Quattrocchi
Bofors scandal.
Narendra
Dabholkar
Anti superstition activist. murdered for his
campaigning. Recently Maharastra govt passed a
anti superstition bill for that Dabolkar was
campaigning for.
N. Rangbashyam
eminent surgeon. He started first M.Ch. degree
course in India.
Obaid Siddiqui
biologist and professor @ national centre for
biological science. He setup molecular biology unit in
tata institute of fundamental research.
Pandit Ram
Sneezehi Shukla
Freedom fighter. Gandhi’s follower.
PV Indresan
Educationist. Ex-Director of IIT Madras
Raghunath
Panigrahi
Classical singer. Jaydev’s Git Govind.
Ramankutty Nair
Kathakali maestro. Autobiography “Thiranottam”
Ray Dolby
Dolby sound.
Rituparno Ghosh
Filmmaker. Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Last Lear etc.
Robert Edward
Father of IVF technology. Won noble for
Rochus Misch
Hitler’s bodyguard. Dead
Ronald Coase
Coase theorm. Noble prize for economics. Dead.
RP Goenka
CEAT, Saregama, Philips carbon black etc.
Sagar Singh
Part of Azad Hind Fauj during freedom struggle.
Sakar khan
Kamicha maestro of rajasthan.Belong to manganiyar
folk musician community of rajasthan . Born in
jaislmer. Padma shree, tulsi samman by Mp govt.,
Sangeet natak akadmi award. Died. Imp for RPSC
pre
Sarabjit Singh
attacked in Lahor Jail in Pakistan, died.
Shakuntala Devi
Maths Genius, wrote many books on puzzles.
Shanu Lahiri
Painter from Bengal school
Sushmita
Bangerjee
Bengali author. “Kabuliwala’s Bengali wife”. Killed by
Talibans.
Vidarbha Mishra
Environment activist. Cleaning ganga through his
Sankan Mochan foundation.
Vinod Raina
Educationist. Brain behind Right to education act.
VS Ramadevi
First woman Chief election Commissioner of India
Lt. Col Yograj
puri
died- Founder of first sainik school
Zafar Futehally
Ornithologist