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Current Affairs of January 2012

The film, directed by Zoya Akhtar, which has bagged the Best Film award at the 57th Filmfare Awards function on 29 Jan

2012

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

India's per capita income as per the latest quick estimates released by the Central Statistical Organisation is

Rs. 53,331/-

The Serbian tennis player who has won the Australian Open Men's title defeating Rafael Nadal in the longest Australian

Open Finals lasting 5 hours 53 minutes

Novak Djokovic

The rank of India in 2012 Environmental Performance Index released by Yale University of Davos

125

The European country which has approved a ban on face-covering clothing, such as a burqa, a niqab etc.

The Netherlands

The state which has added nine new districts on 01 Jan 2012 thus increasing the total number of districts from 18 to 27

Chhattisgarh

The Indian tennis player who has become the first Indian to win a career Grand Slam by winning the Australian Open men's

doubles title with Czech player Radek Stepanek in January 2012 (a career Grand Slam means winning all the four major

tournaments during a career)

Leander Paes

The best marching contingent among the three services at the Republic Day parade 2012

Indian Air Force

The best marching contingent among para-military forces and other auxillary marching contingents at the Republic Day

parade 2012

Border Security Force

The Belarusian player who has won the Australian Open Women's title defeating Russia's Maria Sharapova in the final

Victoria Azarenka

The billiards player who has retained the National Billiards Championship crown at the 79th Senior National Billiards and

Snooker Championship being held at Pune

Pankaj Advani

The Army officer who has been awarded Ashoka Chakra on 26 Jan 2012

Lt. Navdeep Singh

The IAF Officer who for the first time in Indian history has led the IAF contingent at the Republic Day parade on 26 Jan

2012

Flt. Lt. Sneha Shekhawat

The Chief Guest at the 63rd Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, Mrs Yingluck Shinawatra is the Prime Minister of
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Thailand

The badminton player who has won the women's title at the 76th Senior National Badminton Championship held in

Bangalore from 17 to 25 Jan 2012 defeating Neha Pandit in the finals

P.V. Sindhu

The badminton player who has won the men's title at the 76th Senior National Badminton Championship in Bangalore

defeating Sai Praneeth in the finals

Saurabh Verma

The name of the train which has been chosen as the theme of the Railway Tableau at the Republic Day parade 2012, for

being the first train to achieve distinction of entering its 100th year on Indian Railways broad gauge network.

Punjab Mail

The joint winners of National Communal Harmony Award 2011 in the individual category

Shri Khamliana (Mizoram) and Shri Md. Abdul Bari (Odisha)

Mana airport which has been renamed as Swami Vivekananda Airport is located in

Raipur, Chhattisgarh

The golfer who has won the All India Amateur golf title defeating Gagan Verma at the final in Chandigarh on 23 Jan 2012

Angad Cheema

The team which has retained the Ranji Trophy after winning it for the first time in 2011. (The team defeated Tamilnadu on

the basis of first innings lead.)

Rajasthan

The 7th State Level Philatelic exhibition of Delhi Circle being held from 22 Jan to 24 Jan 2012 at Delhi is named

Dharohar-2012

The Sri Lankan author who has been awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 for his book Chinaman

Shehan Karunatilaka

The village in Assam which has become first village in the country to have full insurance coverage

Rangati Misamara

The venue of India International Coffee Festival 2012 being held from January 18

New Delhi

The new Swedish coach appointed to train Indian tennis players, particularly juniors and sub-juniors

Henrik Ekersund

China's first supercomputer built with "domestically-produced" microprocessors and capable of performing around one-

thousand-trillion calculations per second which became officially operational in January 2012 is named

Sunway Bluelight

The theme of 5th World Future Energy Summit being held in Abu Dhabi

Sustainable Energy for All

The venue of the 5th World Future Energy Summit which began on 16 Jan 2012, India being represented by Union Minister

for Renewable energy resources, Dr. Farooq Abdullah


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Abu Dhabi

The year 2012 has been declared by the Health Ministry of Government of India as the year of

Intensification of Routine Immunisation

The Russian space craft which failed on its mission to Phobos, (a moon of Mars) and crashed into the Pacific Ocean two

months after its launch in November 2011

Phobos Grunt

The Italian cruise ship that ran aground off the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea on January 14 killing at least 5

people

Costa Concordia

The playback singer and classical vocalist who has been chosen for the first Harivarasanam award of the Travancore

Devaswom Board (TDB), the statutory body that manages major temples in south Kerala, including the famed Sabarimala

hill temple

KJ Yesudas

Homai Vyarawala who passed away on 15 Jan 2011 was a well known

Photographer

The Indian shooter who has won a gold medal in the Mens 10-metre Air Rifle event at the 12th Asian Shooting

Championships in Doha

Abhinav Bindra

The venue of 17th National Youth Festival - 2012, a festival organised to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami

Vivekananda since 1995

Mangalore

The music director who has composed the signature tune of the Indian Customs Department, launched on the occasion of

golden jubilee of Indian Customs Act, 1962. The tune is named Pragati ki Dhadkan.

Aadesh Srivastava

The theme of India Post Calendar 2012 is

India's Sculptural Heritage

The sector in which the Government has notified 100 percent FDI

Single Brand Retail

The Argentinean footballer who has been awarded the Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year

Lionel Messi

The Indian Nobel laureate on whose works Raja Ram Mohan Roy Foundation has compiled a web-bibliography, which was

launched by Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in Jan 2012

Rabindranath Tagore

Pixel, a new model of car has been unveiled at the 11th Auto Expo in New Delhi by

Tata Motors

The Serbian player with whom Leander Paes partnered to win the Chennai Open Tennis Doubles title

Janko Tipsarevic


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The Canadian player who has won the Chennai Open Tennis Tournament

Milos Raonic

The venue of 11th Auto Expo being held from 05 Jan to 11 Jan 2012

Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

The place in Gujarat where new National Law University was inaugurated by Vice-President Hamid Ansari

Gandhinagar

The Chess player from Andhra Pradesh who has become the 26th Indian chess player to become a Grandmaster

M. Lalith Babu

The scientist from Vietnam who was awarded the Kalinga Chair Award at the 99th Indian Science Congress

Trinh Xuan Thuan

The venue of 99th Indian Science Congress held from 02 Jan to 07 Jan 2012

KIIT University, Bhubaneswar

Ms. Kamla Prasad Bissesar, the chief guest at the 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas being held in Jaipur with the theme Global

Indian-Inclusive Growth is the Prime Minister of

Trinidad and Tobago

The place at which a nearly 400-year-old temple, which was standing tilted for more than 100 years after it was damaged in

an earthquake, was rebuilt by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)

Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

The Tibetan leader who has been presented with Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation by the

Gandhi Development Trust

Dalai Lama

The University in Uttar Pradesh which has been recognised as University with Potential for Excellence

Banaras Hindu University

KJ Sarasa, the first woman nattuvanar, the guru of Ms Jayalalitha, who died on 02 Jan 2012 was associated with

Bharat Natyam

The first Indo-Italian co-production film based on a short story by well-known writer Mahasweta Devi which has bagged theNETPAC Jury award at the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2011 at Mumbai.(the film is directed by Italo Spinelli)

Gangor

The tribal efforts to conserve biodiversity and develop climate resilient farm practices of this place in Odisha have been

recognised by UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS)

Koraput

The category of foreign investors who have been allowed to invest directly in India Equity market by government

Qualified Foreign Investor

The Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation fondly known as Metroman who relinquished office on 31 Dec 2011

E. Sreedharan


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The first car of Bajaj Auto, India's leading two-wheeler manufacturer is named

RE 60


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February 2012

The joint exercise conducted by the Armies of India and Indonesia at the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS),

Vairengte in Mizoram was named

Exercise Garuda Shakti

The pilot project launched by the Union Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region to promote adventure activities isnamed

Youth to the Edge

The state which has been awarded the National Tourism Best State Award for developing tourism related infrastructure

Madhya Pradesh

The film which has been awarded 5 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Score, and Best Costume

Design

The Artist

Sailen Manna, who passed away on 27 Feb 2012, was a former

Football player

The country with a per capita GDP of 88,000 dollars, which has been ranked the world's richest country by Forbes magazine

Qatar

With the removal of India from the WHO list of polio-endemic countries, the number of countries in the list has been reduced to

Three (Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan)

The joint military exercise of Indian and US armies scheduled in the first week of March 2011 in Mahajan field firing ranges in

Rajasthan is code-named

Yudh Abhyas

RBI has decided to issue new Rs. 5 coins top commemorate freedom fighter and martyr

Bhagat Singh

Bhavnath Temple at which a stampede killed several people on Shivratri day is located in

Junagadh, Gujarat

The renowned photographer who was awarded Padma Shri this year has subsequently been awarded Padma Bhushan (as the same

Padma Award cannot be awarded twice to the same person)

Sunil Janah

The Indian cricketer who has been awarded the fifth ESPNcricinfo best batting performance award in Tests

Sachin Tendulkar

The public sector insurance company which is celebrating its platinum jubilee year of its formation in 2012

United India Insurance

The city which is the least expensive in the world to live in, according to Worldwide Cost of Living Survey carried out by

Economic Intelligence Unit of the Economist

Karachi
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The city which is the most expensive in the world to live in, according to Worldwide Cost of Living Survey carried out by

Economic Intelligence Unit of the Economist

Zurich, Switzerland

The university which has been awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy for best performance in sports for the

year 2010-11, by the Government of India's Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

Punjabi University

The place in Kerala where setting up of Rail Coach Manufacturing unit has been approved by Union cabinet

Palakkad

On Feb 15, guards from merchant vessel Enrica Lexie shot and killed Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast. The ship Enrica Lexie

belongs to

Italy

The noted Indian economist who has been presented the National Medals of Arts and Humanities award by the US President

Barack Obama

Amartya Sen

The former Australian first-class pacer who has been appointed the Indian cricket team's bowling coach after Eric Simons' tenure

comes to an end

John Dawes

The winner of 44 Jnanpith Award, who died on 13 February 2012

Dr. Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'

Ustad Shamim Ahmed Khan who died on 14 February 2012 was an exponent of

Sitar

The state Assembly which has been selected for the national award for e-governance instituted by the Union Government's

Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances for 2011-12 in recognition of its unique online answering

information system

Rajasthan Assembly

The sub-glacial lake in Antarctica reaching whose surface has been confirmed by Russian scientists recently

Lake Vostok

The veteran music director who has been bestowed the Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Madhya Pradesh government

Rajesh Roshan

The Bio-chemist who has been awarded the G.D. Birla Award for scientific research for 2011 by the KK Birla foundation

Prof Tapas Kumar Kundu

The state which has recorded the highest decline in the forest cover in two years as per the latest India State of Forest 2011 released

by the Forest Survey of India

Andhra Pradesh

The Maldivian President who announced his resignation following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a

senior judge

Mohamed Nasheed


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The state which has become the first in the country to issue e-stamp papers of all denominations by bringing non-judicial stamp

papers of Rs 500 and below under the ambit of e-stamp process in February 2012

New Delhi

The 50-kilogram micro satellite launched by Iran in February 2012 to collect data useful for weather forecasting and natural disaster

management is named

Navid

The biennial congregation of naval forces of 13 countries in Indian Ocean near Andaman and Nicobar islands which began on 01

Feb is named

Milan

The Bollywood actor who has been chosen to receive Green Globe award for outstanding efforts in fighting climate changes by a

celebrity

Abhishek Bachchan

Current Affairs of March 2012

The country which has severed all ties with the United Nations Human Rights Council, following its decision to launch a fact-

finding mission into the countrys settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem

Israel

The Chandigarh girl who has been crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2012

Vanya Mishra

The NASA spacecraft to Mercury which has discovered ice inside the shadowed craters of Mercury

Messenger

The country which has won the Asia Cup Cricket trophy by defeating Bangladesh in the finals in Bangladesh

Pakistan

Open Government Platform, a software platform to provide enhanced public access to government data and documents, launched

by Shri Kapil Sibal on 30 Mar 2012 has been jointly developed by India and

United States

According to a report by Knight Frank & Citi Private Bank., the year by which India will become the world's largest economy

2050

The Tibetan leader who has been chosen for the 2012 Templeton Prize by the US-based Templeton Foundation

Dalai Lama (original name Tenzin Gyatso)

The venue of Fourth BRICS Summit held on 29 March 2012

New Delhi

The venue of 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, India being represented by Dr. Manmohan Singh

Seoul, S. Korea
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The veteran actor who has been selected for the J C Daniel Award, Kerala Government's highest film honour instituted in memory

of the director of first Malayalam movie Vigathakumaran (the actor passed away on Mar 24, a day after the nomination)

Jose Prakash

The African nation which has witnessed a military coup overthrowing the government led by President Amadou Toumani Toure

Mali

The iconic Bengali actor who has been chosen for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2011

Soumitra Chatterjee

As per the Planning Commission, the percentage of population which was below poverty line in 2009-10 (The poor being defined

as ones who spend less than Rs. 28 per day in urban area and less than Rs. 22.50 in rural areas)

29.8%

The district in Bihar, which has surpassed the Chinese record of wet paddy production of 19 tonnes per hectare, by producing 22.4

tonnes of wet paddy per hectare

The feat has been achieved at Darbespura panchayat in Katri Sarai block

Nalanda

The new Union Minister for Railways, who hitherto held the charge of Minister of State for Shipping

Mukul Roy

As per a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India has become the world's largest arms importer

during the period 2007-11. India's share of total global arms sales is

10%

The Indian badminton player who has won the Swiss Open Grand Prix Trophy for the second time in a row

Saina Nehwal

The venue of eighth National Film Festival being organised by Kerala State Chalchitra Academy from March 18

Ernakulam

The venue of India Aviation-2012, the 3rd edition of the premier international exhibition and conference on civil aviation being held

from 14 March 2012

Hyderabad

The Tehelka mediaperson who has been chosen for Chameli Devi Jain Award 2012

Tushar Mittal

The Carnatic musician who has been chosen for Kerala Government' Swathi Puraskaram for 2012

M. Balamuralikrishna

The university whose scientists have successfully cloned world's first pashmina goat

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural & Technological Sciences

The shawl unique to Gujarat, which has been granted the Geographical Indicator tag

Kutchi Shawl

Aahar, the high shelf life dal and roti pack to cater to the needs of the Aam Aadmi, during long journeys, nutritional feeding,

catering programmes and other similar civilian applications has been developed by (the product was recently launched by Shri

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy Chairperson, Planning Commission)


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DRDO in collaboration with BASIX and FICCI

The former Chairman of Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation, who has been chosen for this year's V Gangadharan Memorial Trust

award

Verghese Kurien

With effect from 10 March 2012, the advance reservation period for booking railway tickets has been extended from 90 days to

120 days

The sanctuary in Karnataka which has been notified as India's first vulture sanctuary

Ramadevarabetta Vulture Sanctuary

The Indian NGO which has been chosen for America's first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls, for

training and organizing wastepickers and eliminating child labour from recycling

Chintan (Founder Bharati Chaturvedi)

The rank of India as per a report released by Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organisation, listing countries as per

participation of women in politics

105th

The team India defeated to win the women's World Cup Kabaddi Championship held at Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna from 01 -

04 Mar 2012

Iran

The Indian pair which has won the ATP Dubai Open 2012 defeating Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the

finals

Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna

The state which has become the ninth in the country to introduce e-stamping of paying non-judicial stamp duty to the government

Uttarakhand

Current Affairs of April 2012

The full-scale naval base commissioned by the Indian Navy at Kavaratti in Lakshadweep on 30 Apr 2012 is named

INS Dweeprakshak

The new Governor of Goa

B.V. Wanchoo

The new governor of Uttarakhand

Aziz Qureshi

The place at which Guru Gobind Singh Refinery has been dedicated to the nation by the PM Dr. Manmohan Singh

Bhatinda, Punjab

The Radar Imaging Satellite - 1 (RISAT-1) was launched from Sriharikota on 26 April 2012 aboard

PSLVC19

The Indian nominee who has been elected to the post of a judge in the International Court of Justice
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Justice Dalvir Bhandari

The Talwar-class stealth frigate which has been commissioned into the Indian Navy on 27 April 2012

INS Teg

The place at which the Government has launched a National Crop Forecast Centre to prepare in-season forecasts for major

crops such as rice, wheat, sugarcane and maize

New Delhi

To commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, a one-time honour called Tagore Samman

has been instituted by

Sangeet Natak Akademi

The latest version of Agni missile which was launched from Wheeler Island on 19 Apr 2012

Agni V

The strength of judges in the Supreme Court with swearing in of Justice Ranjan Gogoi on 22 April has gone up to

27

The venue of the 5th World IT Forum (WITFOR) being held from 17 Apr to 18 Apr 2012

New Delhi

The new name of Hindi Star News channel is

ABP News

The two-day Coastal Security Exercise, conducted along the Lakshadweep coast from 17 April to 18 April by the Southern

Naval Command along with Coastguard unit at Kavaratti is named

Nepture-05

The noted author and journalist who has been awarded the prestigious International Indu Sharma Katha Samman-2012 for his

novel Teesri Tali

Pradeep Saurabh

The Indian wrestler who has become the first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics

Geeta Phogat

The Sri Lanka cricketer who has been named Wisden Leading Cricketer of the Year 2011

Kumar Sangakkara

The Committee constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for framing a National Corporate Governance Policy is

headed by

Shri Adi Godrej

The bi-annual coastal security exercise conducted jointly by civil administration and armed forces to safeguard the coast of

Andaman and Nicobar Island to be held from April 11 to Apr 13 is named

Tat Suraksha

The veteran actress who has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 12th Telecine Awards 2012 for her

contribution to Indian cinema

Mousumi Chatterjee


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The Indian billiards player who has won the 11th ONGC Asian Billiards Championship title after defeating Thawat

Sujaritthurakarn of Thailand in the final in Panaji, Goa

Pankaj Advani

The language of Meghalaya which has been withdrawn from UNESCO's Atlas of World's Languages in Danger after being

considered safe

Khasi

The health magazine programme launched by the Union Health & Family Welfare Ministry, to be telecast/ broadcast through

30 regional kendras of Doordarshan and 29 stations of All India Radio covering 27 states is named

Swasth Bharat

The 10-day annual naval exercise Malabar 2012, scheduled to be held between 07 and 09 April 2012 in the Bay of Bengal is

joint effort by the navies of India and

United States

The place in Rajasthan where a spice park has been inaugurated by Commerce and Industry Minister Shri Anand Sharma

Rampura Bhatia

The former Indian Hockey captain who has become the first sportsperson to be named India's Chef-de-Mission for the

London Olympic Games

Ajit Pal Singh

The Myanmerese leader who has been chosen for the first International Bhagwan Mahavir World Peace award instituted by

Pune based organisation, Sarhad

Aung San Suu Kyi


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Current Affairs of May 2012

The new Chief of Army Staff who succeeded General VK Singh on 31 May 2012

General Bikram Singh

As the revised estimates released by Central Statistical Organisation the per capita national income of India at 2004-05 prices

is

Rs. 37,851/-

The frightening virus which has infected the PCs in Iran and other middle east countries (discovered by Kaspersky) is named

Flame

The Israeli chess player whom Viswanathan Anand defeated to win the FIDE World Chess Championship 2012

Boris Gelfand

The team which has bagged the Santosh Trophy 2012, the final of which was held at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack

Services

The French film directed by Michael Haneke which has been awarded the Palme D'Or (Golden Palm) Award at the Cannes

Film Festival in May 2012

Love (Amour)

The former Indian defence minister who has been awarded the International Jurists Award 2012 alongwith Pakistan's Chief

Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry

Mulayam Singh Yadav

The winner of 2012 edition of Indian Premier League cricket championship

Kolkata Knight Riders

The aircraft which is being acquired by the Indian Air Force to replace its HPT-32 trainer aircraft

PC-7 MkII from Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, Switzerland

The Expert Technical Group set up by the Govt of India to revisit the Tendulkar methodology for estimation of the poverty

and identification of the poor is headed by

Dr. C. Rangarajan

The place in Maharashtra at which High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory was inaugurated by the Minister of Science &

Technology and Earth Sciences Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh on 24 May

Mahabaleshwar

The first rocket launched by a private company Space X carrying cargo capsule Dragon to the International Space Station is

named

Falcon 9

The place at which Pakistan is developing its 4th nuclear reactor

Khushab

The Hindi movie directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, which has figured in the TIME magazine's 10 greatest movies of the

millenium
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Devdas

The venue of 38th G-8 summit held on 18-19 May 2012

Camp David, Maryland (USA)

The 73-year old Japanese woman who has become the oldest woman in the world to conquer Mt. Everest on 19 May 12

Tamae Watanabe

The year by which India is expected to achieve total sanitation coverage, as per the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of

India

2017

The disease which has been declared by the Union Government to be a mandatorily notifiable disease in order to provide

better diagnosis and treatment and reduce its transmission

Tuberculosis

The new Chairman of the Asian Development Bank Board of Governors elected at the 45th Annual meeting of the ADB at

Manila

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee

The sitar maestro who has been nominated for the first Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, instituted by the government to

commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, for promoting values of universal

brotherhood.

Pt. Ravishankar

The film actress who has been selected as the brand ambassador ofNirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a programme of the rural

development ministry to spread awareness about sanitation and cleanliness in the country

Vidya Balan

The new President of France who defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy

Francois Hollande

The new Chairman of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Personnel Public Grievances, Law and Justice

Shantaram Naik.

The noted Tamil writer who has been chosen for the 6th NTR National Literary Award by the NTR Vignan Trust

Ashokamitran

The new chairman of Atomic Energy Commission

Ratan Kumar Sinha

The joint exercise carried out by the Army and the Indian Air Force in the desert of Rajasthan is named

Exercise Shoorveer

The newsletter released by Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge on the occasion of May Day to

provide extensive awareness regarding a number of good labour practices and initiatives taken by the Central as well as state

governments to all concerned stakeholders on a regular basis is named

Shram Sansar


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Current Affairs of June 2012

Apna Khata, a land record computerisation project which was awarded the public choice award at the E-World Forum 2012

organised in New Delhi is a programme launched by

Rajasthan

The venue of the 2nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing(ICNP-2) to be held from 2-6 July, 2012.

New Delhi

The Indian industrialist who has been awarded lifetime achievement award for innovation in philanthropy by the New York

based Rockefeller Foundation

Ratan Tata

The state which has topped the meet scores at the GREENKO 52nd National Inter-State Sr Athletics Championship-2012

Kerala

The new President-elect of Egypt belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood organisation

Mohammed Morsi

Hare Krushna Behera who died in New Delhi on 24 Jun 2012 was an exponent of

Odissi

The venue of National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships-2012 being held from 23 Jun 2012

Hyderabad

The new Prime Minister of Pakistan succeeding Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was disqualified by the Pakistan Supreme Court

from holding office

Raja Pervez Ashraf

The Indian contestant who has won the Miss Asia Pacific title at the beauty pageant held at Busan, South Korea

Himangini Singh Yadu

The Indian archer who has been ranked as No. 1 in the world

Deepika Kumari

The Israeli scientist who has been awarded the World Food Prize (established in 1987 by Nobel Peace Prize winner and

Green Revolution champion Norman Borlaug) for pioneering a radically innovative way of bringing water to crops in

arid and dry-land regions.

Daniel Hillel

The line of tablet PCs launched by Microsoft to run Windows RT and Windows 8 operating system is named

Surface

The venue of 3rd Asian Beach Games being held from June 16

Haiyang, China

The venue of G-20 Summit 2012, being held From Jun 18 to 19, India being represented by Dr. Manmohan Singh

Los Cabos, Mexico
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Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal who won the Indonesia Open 2012 (winning the title the third time) defeating Xuerui Li who

belongs to

China

The rank of India in terms of funds belonging to overseas clients in Swiss banks as disclosed by Swiss National Bank (SNB),

Switzerlands central bank

55th

The Indian table-tennis player who has won the Under-21 men's final of Brazil Open TT tournament in Santos, becoming the

first Indian to achieve such a feat

Harmeet Desai

The new Chief Election Commissioner of India who took charge on 11 June 2012, in the place of Mr. S.Y. Quraishi

Mr. V.S. Sampath

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal who won the Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton gold title defeating Ratchanok

Inthanon in the final of the event on 10.06.12. Ratchanok Inthanon belongs to

Thailand

The Spanish tennis player who has won the French Open Men's Singles title, thus winning a record seven French Open titles

Rafael Nadal

The Russian tennis player who has won the French Open Women's Singles title, thus becoming the 10th woman to win all

four Grand Slam titles

Maria Sharapova

The tennis duo which has won the French Open Mixed Doubles title defeating Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Klaudia

Jans-Ignacik of Poland in the final

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza

The first ever bilateral maritime exercise between India and Japan beginning 09 Jun 2012 off Tokyo is named

Jimex 12

The place at which the Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of North East Centre for Technology Application and

Reach (NECTAR) in order to facilitate access to various technologies to the north eastern region

Shillong, Meghalaya

The Indian chess player who has won the Asian Junior Championship in Girls category

Ivana Furtado

The Indian chess player who has won the Asian Junior Championship held in Tashkent

N. Srinath

The environment-friendly vans launched by Mother Dairy on the ocassion of World Environment Day to sell milk in loose

form are named

Kamdhenu vans

The theme for World Environment Day 2012

Green Economy: Does it include you?


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The station at which the Science Express - Biodiversity Special (SEBS) flagged off on June 5 (World Environment Day)

will culminate on 22 December

Gandhinagar

The team which has won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament by defeating Argentina in the finals

New Zealand

The sand artist from Odisha, who has won the Copenhagen sand art Championship- 2012

Sudarshan Pattnaik


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Current Affairs of July 2012

The Indian cricketer who has topped the list of the world's highest earning cricketers compiled by Forbes magazine (The list

has six Indians in the top-10)

MS Dhoni

Indias southernmost naval air station which was formally opened by the Indian Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma atCampbell Bay in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is named

INS Baaz

The African country in which outbreak of the deadly viral disease Ebola has been confirmed

Uganda

The new operating system launched by Apple for its Mac range of personal computers, which is fully integrated into social

networks such as Facebook and Twitter, is named

X Mountain Lion

The founder of Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) in Krishnagiri (Tamilnadu) who has been chosen for the

2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award

Kulandei Francis

The veteran environmental philosopher and activist who has been chosen for this year's Fukuoka Grand Prize by Fukuoka

City Yokatopia Foundation

Vandana Shiva

The world's 9th largest economy whose President has signed the countrys accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

after approval by its parliament earlier in July 2012

Russia

Mukta Vidya Vani, a modern interactive, participatory and cost effective programme, on the World Wide Web, launched by

the Union HRD Minister Shri Kapil Sibal is an initiative of the

National Institute of Open Schooling

Suresh Saraiya, who died on 19 July 2012 was a renowned

Cricket commentator

The city in Punjab where a metro project has been approved by the Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal in July 2012

Ludhiana

The Indian sportsperson (a bronze medallist in wrestling at the Beijing Games) who has been chosen to be the flag-bearer of

the Indian contingent at the upcoming London Olympics

Sushil Kumar

The airline company which has won the prestigious SKYTRAX World Airline Awards of best low-cost airline in India and

Central Asia for the third time in a row

Indigo

The new Chief Minister of Karnataka who took over the office from Shri DV Sadananda Gowda

Shri Jagadish Shettar
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The city in which ISRO is hosting the event, the 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

with the theme 'Space - for the benefit of Mankind' (COSPAR 2012) a congregation of over 2500 scientists from 75

countries.

Mysore

The Australian city which has been selected to hold G-20 Summit in 2014

Brisbane

The state which has banned production, sale, distribution and storage of gutka and paan masala in the state

Maharashtra

The place where India and UNESCO have agreed to establish the Mahatma Gandhi Institute Of Education for Peace and

Sustainable Development

Paris

The place in Andhra Pradesh where India's first Mega Food Park was inaugurated by the Agriculture and Food Processing

Industries Minister, Shri Sharad Pawar

Chittoor

The software developed by Navanath Saharia and Kishori Mohan Konwar for using the Assamese language in an Unicode

compatible format is named

Luitpad

The venue of Summit on Family Planning hosted by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with

UNFPA on 11 July 2012

London

The Asian country which has been designated by the United States as its major non-NATO ally

Afghanistan

The Tennis player from Switzerland who has won the Wimbledon Men's Singles title by defeating Andy Murray of U.K.

(This is his 7th Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam title)

Roger Federer

The Indian badminton player who has become the first Indian to win the girls' singles title in the Asian Youth Under-19

Championships held at Gimcheon, Korea.

P.V. Sindhu

The Tennis player from United States who has won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title by defeating Agnieszka

Radwaska of Poland. (This is her 5th Wimbledon title)

Serena Williams

The organisation which has been awarded the Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award for promoting environment

conservation practices

Airport Authority of India

The Indian Chess player who has become the 28th Indian to attain the Grandmaster title

M.R. Venkatesh

Sahitya Akademi Award winning poet Hiren Bhattacharya who died on 04 Jul 2012 was poet of


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Assamese language

The city in Kerala which will be its first city to have a metro rail after the Cabinet cleared the project on 03 July

Kochi

The hill range in India which has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list for its exceptionally high level of biological

diversity

Western Ghats

The team which has won the Euro Cup 2012 by defeating Italy in the finals at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine

Spain

The new President of World Bank who took over office from outgoing President Mr. Robert Zoellick of the US

Jim Yong Kim


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Current Affairs of August 2012

The state in which the Department of Posts has launched 'Night post office services' (NPOS)

Jammu and Kashmir

The Chairman of the Expert Committee on General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) which submitted its its draft report after

analysis of the GAAR provisions and noting the concerns expressed by various shareholders on 30 Aug 2012.

Mr. Parthasarathi Shome

The new Chief of Naval Staff who took over the command of Indian Navy from Admiral Nirmal Verma

Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi

The former Indian cricket captain who has been conferred the Castrol Cricket Lifetime Achievement Award

Ajit Wadekar

The Hindi writer who has been chosen for the 2nd Sita Smriti Award for her book "Kitne Shahron Mein Kitni Baar" instituted in

the memory of Late Dr. Sita Srivastava, a renowned educationist and scholar of Political Science

Smt. Mamta Kalia

The venue of Nehru Cup Football tournament being held from 22 Aug 2012

New Delhi

The JNU Professor who has been awarded the V.V. Giri Memorial Award 2011, (instituted by the V.V. Giri National Labour

Institute) in recognition of her outstanding contributions to labour studies

Prof. Utsa Patnaik

The place in Rajasthan where uranium deposits have been discovered by the Atomic Energy Commission

Rohil, Sikar dist.

The international footballer and a member of gold medal winning team at 2011 SAFF Games who has been awarded the Dilip

Sardesai Sports Award 2011-12 by the Goa Government

Sameer S Naik

The South African cricketer who has become the fastest to complete 3000 runs in 57 one day internationals (surpassing Vivian

Richards record of 69 matches)

Hashim Amla

The pollution control vessel of the Coast Guard which has been stationed permanently at Visakhapatnam is named

Samudra Pehredar

Amuay refinery, at which a blast resulted in ferocious killing several people on 25 Aug 2012 is located in

Venezuela

The venue of XVI Non Aligned Summit being held from 26 Aug 2012

Tehran, Iran

The state which has been awarded as the 'Best State for Pilgrimage Tourism' by Safari India, a prestigious regional tourism

magazine

Odisha
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Northern Railway's first AC Double Decker train which was flagged off on 24 August 2012 will run between Sarai Rohilla and

Jaipur

The company which has updated its logo for the first time in 25 years

Microsoft

The international cycling icon who has been stripped of seven Tour de France titles slapped with a lifetime ban from

competition.

Lance Armstrong

Meles Zenawi, who died on 20 August 2012, after serving as the Prime Minister of his country fro 17 years was the Prime

Minister of

Ethiopia

The new Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha elected unanimously by the members

PJ Kurien

The Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs who has taken over the new Minister for Science and Technology, previously

held by Late Vilasrao Deshmukh

Vayalar Ravi

The Chinese contestant who has won the Miss World 2012 title at the Miss World pageant at Ordos, China

Yu Wenxia

The Indian contestant who won the "Beauty with a Purpose" title and the 1st ever "Multimedia Award" at the Miss World 2012

pageant at Ordos, China

Vanya Mishra

The Pakistan air base which has been attacked by militants raising concerns about safety of nuclear arsenal in the country

PAF Minhas

The bird which has been declared State Bird of Delhi by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as part of a new campaign to save the

species

House Sparrow

The former World Boxing Association boxing champion (nicknamed Dynamite) who died of liver cancer in Aug 2012

Michael Dokes

The Serbian tennis player who has won the Rogers Cup for the second time in a row

Novak Djokovic

The state which has become the first in the country to issue bio-metric identity cards to its fishermen

Kerala

The fourth Indo-Russia joint military exercise to be held from Aug 07 in Siberian republic of Buryatia is named

Indra 2012

The eighth Indo-Mangolian joint military exercise being held in Belgaum district of Karnataka is named

Nomadic Elephant 2012


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The new web mail service launched by Microsoft providing virtually unlimited storage and integrating Skype is named

Outlook

The three-day operation launched by security forces against Maoist camps located on the Jharkhand-Chhatisgarh border is

named

Rainstorm

The country with which India has signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement on 01 Aug 2012

Monaco

The country whose citizen's or incorporated entities have been recently permitted to invest in India through Government route

Pakistan

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