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Current Affairs June 2011The India-Malaysia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) - The India-

Malaysia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) is in effect starting July 1, 2011.

India-Malaysia CECA is Indias fourth bilateral Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement,

after Singapore, South Korea and Japan. The CECA envisages liberalisation of trade in goods, tradein services, investments and other areas of economic cooperation.

Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory under Threat from Wildfire - A fast-moving wildfire forced

officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to close the site.

Sri Lanka Included Chinese Currency Renminbi in Banking Deals-The Sri Lankan Central Bank

Monetary Board on 27 June 2011 announced that Chinese Renminbi would be included in the list of

designated currencies permitted for international transactions

Supreme Court Stayed the Return of Singur Land to Farmers - The Supreme Court on

Wednesday stayed the return of land acquired from farmers in Singur in West Bengal for the TataMotors Nano project till the final order on the issue by the Calcutta High Court.

Common Written Exam for Bank P.O.A Common Written Examination (CWE) will be conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel

Selection (IBPS) as a pre-requisite for selection of personnel for Probationary Officer/

Management Trainee posts in the Public Sector Banks mentioned below.

Current Affairs July 2011

National

Introduction of LokPal bill in Lok Sabha-The much awaited Lok Pal bill will be introduced in LokSabha. The green signal was given by the government to Speaker Meira Kumar to allow the two day

period needed to present the bill.The Minister of State Personnel Mr. V Narayaswamy gave the

notice to Meira Kumar regarding the matter of Lok Pal bill. Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal said that all

the parties were in favour of introducing the bill at the earliest. The copies of the bill have been

distributed to all the parties. The bill has been finalised by the government after a number of

meetings during the last month.The government has kept out Prime Minister and other higher

judiciary from the ambit of the bill. This decision has been strongly opposed by the all the activists

of the bill. The BJP has demanded that the bill should include the Prime Minister into the bill.

Regarding the matter the government has said that the prime minister will be questioned if

necessary but only when he has stopped working and this can be done only in a limited amount of

time i.e. 7yrs at most. Anna Hazare has again threatened to go on hunger strike again if the

government does not introduced a lok pal bill that handles every aspect of corruption and if the

government fails to do so then he will go on strike on Aug 16.

Most Influential Scientists

A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present
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The list below is from the book The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and

Present, Citadel Press (2000), written by John Galbraith Simmons.

1 Isaac Newton the Newtonian Revolution

2 Albert Einstein Twentieth-Century Science

3 Neils Bohr the Atom

4 Charles Darwin Evolution

5 Louis Pasteur the Germ Theory of Disease

here are over 200 countries in the world and each is unique in its own way. Some have access tothe sea ,some dont, some are very densely populated as Japan, India or China and some are

extremely sparsely populated such as Mongolia or Central African Republic. There are countries

that are spread on several continents such as Russia, which is the largest country in the world,

Kazakhstan and Turkey. All in all, each state deserves to be given equal attention and to be

equally respected. These are the smallest countries in the world that deserve equal attention as

the largest ones.

1. Vatican

The Vatican is called a state within a state, and its smallest in the world. Vatican is a very specific

country and attracts many tourists from around the world. Vatican is the seat of the Catholic

Christian belief. The St. Peters Square, which is one of the most visited squares in the world ever,

is located in the centre of Vatican. In this little country, a few times a year, the Pope is speaking

to faithful people from the balcony. Vatican is located in the center of Rome, which is capital of

Italy. Vaticans area is only 0.4 km and it has 770 inhabitants, none of which dont ordinarily stay

in this country, because next to St. Peters square, are located musem complexes. Although its

the smallest one, its still one of the most specific states ever.

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Aminatta Forna British-born Sierra Leonean novelist Aminatta Forna has won the

2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize for her novel, The Memory of Love, set in the aftermath of

Sierra Leone s devastating civil war in which thousands of people were killed.The prize for the

Best First Book went to Craig Cliff of New Zealand for A Man Melting, a collection of short

stories. He received 5,000.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzais powerful half-brother and the head of

the Kandahar provincial council, was assassinated by a bodyguard at his home in Kandahar .

Nirupama Rao India s current Foreign SecretaryNirupama Rao has been appointed as the next

Ambassador to the United States . She succeeds Meera Shankar.The 1973-batch IFS officer assumed

the office of the Foreign Secretary in August 2009, becoming the only second woman to become

the Foreign Secretary after Chokila Iyer.She has served in various key positions and has been

Indias envoy to various countries, including China and Sri Lanka . She has also been the only

woman spokesperson in the MEA.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan received a Green Globe Award at the fourth edition of thePanasonic Green Globe Foundation Awards. The actor will be honoured for his efforts towards

creating a greener environment at a function here and Hollywood action hero Arnold

Schwarzenegger will present him the award.

The Supreme Court on 31 January 2012 set aside the Delhi High Court order refusing to pass anydirection to the Prime Minister for taking a decision on sanction of prosecution in 2G case

Four-member committee headed by Justice D. M. Dharmadhikari submitted report on Air India andIndian Airlines merger to Civil Aviation Minister

Bangalore artist Sheela Gowda, who uses unconventional materials to make sculptures wasshortlisted for UKs contemporary art prize, Artes Mundi

Freedom fighter and one of the doyens of Indian diplomacy, Ambassador A K Damodaran passedaway in New Delhi on 31 January 2012

Review Committee on Delhi School Education Act and Rules 1973 chaired by former Delhi ChiefSecretary Shailja Chandra submitted its report to CM Sheila Dikshit

Rajasthan government decided to form Jaisalmer Fort Development Authority to resolve the vexedand inter-connected problems relating to constructions and encroachments within the Jaisalmer

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President conferred the Ashoka Chakra on Lt. Navdeep Singh (posthumous) on the occasion of the63rd Republic Day Parade 2012

Environmental historian and political commentator Mahesh Rangarajan was selected and appointedas director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

Kerala governor and three-time Puducherry chief minister and MP, M O H Farook died in Chennai on26 January 2012

The Padma awards for the year 2012 were announced on the eve of Indias 63rd Republic Day.Padma Awards 2012 comprise 13 Padma Vibhushan, 31 Padma Bhushan and 84 Padma Shri Awards

The Supreme Court of India on 24 January 2012 criticized the Union government for total inactionin dealing with the prolonged imprisonment of several foreign nationals in Indian jails

Sukumar Azhikode, award-winning Malayalam writer, scholar and one of the most influentialGandhian intellectual in Kerala, died on 24 January 2012

Senior congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh C. Jagannatha Raodied on 23 January 2012

The Controller and Auditor General, CAG indicted the Uttar Pradesh Government of anomaliesin spending around 5000 crore rupees under the National Rural Health Mission(NRHM)

The home ministry of India launched the first batch of RICs (Resident Identity Cards) atPorthrapur village in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Inter-ministerial committee for tourism sector decided to extend Visa-on-Arrival facility toGoa, Hyderabad, Kochi & Bangaluru airports to help double the foreign tourist arrivals

The Supreme Court of India on 20 January 2012 dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to thegovernment to restore the Army Chief Gen V K Singh's date of birth as 10 May 1951

Noted Times of India film critic, Nikhat Kazmi who had been suffering from s breast cancerdied on 20 January 2012

India was ranked the sixth most innovative country in the world in GE's Annual GlobalInnovation Barometer published on 18 January 2012

ADB(Asian Development Bank) on 18 January 2012 signed an agreement with Union governmentof India to give a loan of 24.3 million US dollars to boost investment in Maharashtra

Agribusiness Infrastructure

Environment & Ecology Current Affairs 2012. Planning commission of India approved investmentclearance for the scheme, Rudrasagar Drainage Development Scheme, Tripura

The Government of India and the World Bank on 20 January 2012 signed an IDA credit of 130million US dollars to finance the project called NERLP (North East Rural Livelihoods Project)


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Senior television journalist Pankaj Pachauri as was appointed as Communication Advisor in thePrime Ministers Office on 19 January 2012. Harish Khare resigned as media advisor to Prime

Minister Manmohan Singh after Pankaj Pachauri was appointed as Communication Advisor in the

PMO

The Law Commission of India on 18 January 2012 recommended the dilution of Anti-Dowry lawto make it less stringent

Siddharth Varadarajan succeeded N. Ram as the Editor of The Hindu. N. Ram stepped down asEditor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Hindu , Business Line , Frontline , and Sportstar

Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves, India's first music arranger died on 18 January 2012 Himachal Tourism Department signed a pact with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism

Corporation for managing its establishments in the hill State.

Union Ministry for Human Resource Development announced that there would be a GrievanceRedressal mechanisms in higher educational institutions

Pioneers J Gopikrishnan & CNBC-TV18s Udayan Mukherjee were adjudged Journalist of theYear at the 5th Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism

Tamil Nadu government decided to start an integrated Urban Development Scheme at a cost of6653 crore rupees with the objective of improving basic infrastructure facilities in cities and

urban areas in the state

Indias first woman photo-journalist Homai Vyarawala popularly known as Dalda 13died on 15January 2012 in Vadodara, Gujarat

The 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas was held in the pink city of Jaipur, Rajasthan. The event is heldannually between 7th to 9th January

The Union government of India on 14 January 2012 directed all the states to tighten norms ingranting licences to open new medical institutes

Total number of family planning acceptors in India increased by 3.5 per cent between 2010 and2011

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on 11 January 2012 launched the signature tune ofthe Indian Customs, Pragati ki Dhadkan in New Delhi

The Ministry of Rural Development sanctioned 3 road projects using latest Polymer-basedtechnologies, under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Chhattisgarh


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Diplomat Pavan K. Varma's new book, When Loss is Gain launched in the New Delhi by AshiDorji Wangmo Wangchuck, the Queen Mother of Bhutan.

Archaeologist discovered remains of Shiva temple supposed to have been built during the Guptaperiod near Bundi district town in Rajast

The Union Cabinet of India on 12 January 2012 approved the Narcotics Drugs and PsychotropicSubstances (NDPS) policy

The Cabinet Committee on Security approved the setting up of a National Counter TerrorismCentre (NCTC) to counter terrorism effectively.

Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan & IASS jointly organised 15th World Sanskrit conference from 5 to10 January 2012 in New Delhi

The Union Ministry of Animal Husbandry directed the Odisha Government to kill all the birds inorder to prevent the spread of bird flu to other areas

The Election Commission of India asked the government to with hold 4.5 per cent sub-quota forminorities in five poll bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur for

now

Delhi HC directed FSSAI to hold deliberations with the experts and frame necessary guidelinesto make healthy food available in school canteens

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on 11 January 2012 inaugurated a 5-MW solar energyplant by Sun Edison in Phalodi

Hunger and Malnutrition Survey monitored over 100000 children showed forty-two percent ofchildren in India younger than 5 are underweight

Madhya Pradesh government launched its Panch Parmeshwarscheme on 9 January 2012. Theobjective of the scheme is to further empower village Panchayats

Six researchers from five science streams were honoured with the Infosys Prize-2011 by theformer President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Survey of elementary education funds of seven States for 2009-2010 showed that only 1% of theeducation fund is spent on improving quality of education

National Commission for Protection of Child Right (NCPCR) on 9 January 2012 directed the stategovernments to propose a system called Shiksha Samvad


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D Bala Venkatesh Verma, Joint Secretary Disarmament in the Ministry of External Affairs wasconferred with the first S K Singh Award for excellence in the Indian Foreign Service on 6

January 2012

The Union government of India on 6 January 2012 sanctioned seven more tourism projectsworth 36.22 crore rupees to Jammu and Kashmir for up gradation of tourist infrastructure in

the state

The Union government of India on 4 January 2012 approved an additional fund of 19 thousandcrore rupees for completion of Katra - Quazigund Railway line project in Jammu and Kashmir

Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan took charge as the 19th Director-General of the Indian CoastGuard in January 2012

The Central Information Commission(CIS) held that all information in possession of the office ofthe Chief Justice of India is not completely exempt from disclosure under the Right to

Information( RTI) act.

The Supreme Court of India ruled that a person cannot be detained under the preventivedetention law like National Security Act (NSA) without justifiable reasons.

United Nations Resource Centre for the North-East was set up in Assam on 2 January 2012 Former Delhi state footballer Mohd Akram passed away in New Delhi on 3 January 2012 Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was presented the Mallikarjun Mansur award in recognition

of his achievements on 3 January 2012

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was presented the Mahatma Gandhi InternationalAward for Peace and Reconciliation on 4 January 2011

The Rajasthan state cabinet on 4 January 2012 approved the proposal to develop the RajivGandhi Biosphere Reserve. The biosphere reserve will link a dozen wildlife sanctuaries and the

prestigious Ranthambhore National Park. This will help in facilitating movement of tigers and

other wild animals.

India became free from bird flu, H5N1. The government made a declaration to this effect India on 4 January 2012 approved 6600 crore rupees acquisition of 490 French advanced missile

systems to arm the Mirage-2000 fighter jets

Noted mathematician & Pro-Vice Chancellor, IGNOU Prof. Parvin Sinclair was appointed theDirector of NCERT


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Former Textiles Secretary, Rita Menon took over as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of theIndia Trade Promotion Organisation

President Pratibha Patil visited the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota and inauguratedthe new Mission Control Centre

The Union Cabinet of India on 24 January 2012 approved renaming of the Mana Airport atRaipur in Chattisgarh as the Swami Vivekanand Airport, Raipur.

Union government revised economic growth rate for 2010-2011 to 8.4 percent in comparison tothe previous estimate of 8.5 percent

The deficit between April and December 2011 at Rs 3.81 lakh crore reached 92.3% of the 2011-12 estimate

Net FII buying crossed the $2-billion mark in January 2012 making January the best month interms of foreign fund flows since November 2010

Telecom Commission decided to allow mobile phone companies to share spectrum. TheCommission has however limited this facility to 2G airwaves alone

Union finance ministry urged the department of industrial policy and promotion to design FDIpolicy for power exchanges on lines of commodity exchanges

SEBI decided to enhance the minimum investment amount per client managed by portfoliomanagers to Rs.25 lakh from Rs.5 lakh

C R Sundaramurti Committee report to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee suggested acomplete overhaul of government accounting norms

PFRDA changed the incentive structure for the distributors from a fixed sum to a percentage ofthe investment amount

RBI cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 50 basis points from 6 per cent to 5.5 per cent witheffect from 28 January 2012

GJEPC reported 15%dip in gems and jewellery exports which went down to $3 billion inDecember 2011

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) estimated Corporate Indias sales to grow 21.6% in2011-12

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on 20 January 2012 asked telecom companies to blockbulk international SMS

RBI allowed banks to grant permission to listed and unlisted companies to hedge price risk incommodities other than precious metals

. Indian rupee rose to a two-month high and shares climbed on 18 January 2012 as a result ofrevival of US dollar flows

Cheaper food items, including fruit and vegetables, pulled down the Consumer Price Index(CPI) by 0.44 per cent month-on-month in December 2011

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India proposed a fee of Rs.20 crore for a national-level unifiedlicence under the new regime

Union government nearly doubled the import duty on gold and silver by changing the customsand excise duty structure on precious metals


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India's exports recorded a subdued growth of 6.7 per cent year-on-year in December 2011 onaccount of poor demand in Europe and the US

As per the WPI published by the government , reduced food prices caused the inflation to dipto a year low at 7.47% in December 2011

India extended for five years anti-dumping duty on import of four Chinese products in the faceof widening trade gap with China

Market regulator SEBI unveiled rules for direct investment in stocks by foreign investors,including individuals

Foreign exchange reserves fell to a 15-month low. Reserves dipped $3.2 billion to $293.5 billionas on 6 January 2012

RBI issued guidelines on compensation of wholetime directors, chief executive officers andother risk takers in private and foreign banks

Industrial production bounced back with a growth of 5.9 per cent in November 2011, marking afive-month high

Commerce Ministry lowered the minimum export price of onions by $100 a tonne to $150 atonne to boost exports

PMO directed cash-rich PSUs to invest around Rs.1.76 lakh crore, including Rs.1.41 lakh croredomestically to act as a stimulus

DIPP notified the rules allowing 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in single-brand retail Indirect tax collections increased 16.1 per cent to Rs 285787 crore during April-December 2011

driven by an increase in service tax

Moodys Investor Services upgrade the short-term country ceiling on foreign currency bankdeposit increasing from NP (not prime) to Prime (P-3)

Foreign direct investment into India went up by 56% to $2.53 billion in November 2011,indicating an improvement in investor sentiment

Union government decided to incentivise the unlisted PSUs to help them come up with initialshare offerings in the stock market in 2012-13

The turnover of the 21 commodity exchanges in India increased by 66% to Rs 137.22 lakh croretill December 2011

Ministry of Railways prepared draft policy which seeks increased private participation andopens the doors for foreign direct investors for expanding its network

Foreign exchange reserves fell by over $4.18 billion slipping below the long-held $300-billionmark in the week ended 30 December 2011

Union government cleared ADB loan to finance programme launched by the Ministry of RuralDevelopment in left wing extremism-affected villages

Food inflation, as measured by the wholesale price index, fell by (-)3.36% for the week ended24 December 2011, as per Commerce & Industry Ministry data

Insurance regulator IRDA on 4 January 2012 introduced uniform asset-liability managementnorms for market players to ensure their solvency

The Finance Ministry on 4 January 2012 clarified that the rates applicable on small savingsinstruments schemes would be announced on April 1 each year and the rate would remain valid

till the maturity of the scheme


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The report of the Department of Telecommunications, prepared by the working group onTelecom for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17)

Reserve Bank of India on 3 January 2011 decided to conduct an open market operation(OMO) to inject more liquidity into the system

SEBI allowed auctioning of securities through stock exchanges and introduced a newmethod for institutional placement of stocks

Parliamentary Standing Committee in its report recommended doubling of the maximumpenalty for trading rule violations to Rs 50 lakh

Implementation of levy on railway freight service was put off once again in the backdropof high inflation

RIL entered the media & entertainment sector by investing in one of Indias largestbroadcast companies, Network18 Group

Union government approved RIL's $1.529 billion investment plan for developing foursatellite fields in the flagging KG-D6 block

The Union government raised the ad valorem duty (export duty) on iron ore exports to 30per cent from 20 per cent

State-owned Coal India (CIL) announced on 2 January 2012 that its board approved in ameeting held on 30 December 2011 the switching over to internationally-accepted GrossCaloric Value-based pricing mechanism

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised red flags over the high dependability of non-bankingfinance companies (NBFCs)

As per the to Commerce Ministry data released on 2 January 2012, Indias exportsrecorded their slowest pace of growth in two years at 3.8 per cent in November 2011 as aresult of the global slowdown

The HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index ( PMI) - a headline index designed to measurethe overall performance of the manufacturing sector - registered 54.2 in December, upfrom 51.0 in November

Reserve Bank of India allowed non-residents to hedge their currency risk in respect ofexternal commercial borrowings (ECB) denominated in rupees

CCEA gave final approval to Vedanta Resources acquisition of a majority stake in CairnIndia Ltd for $8.48 billion

HUL appointed Hemant Bakshi, Executive Director of Sales and Customer Developmentas Executive Director-Home & Personal Care

132-year-old Photography Pioneer Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11bankruptcy protection on 19 January 2012

US beverage maker Coca Cola retained its top position in Inter brand's list of the top 100global brands in 2011

B K Batra appointed as Deputy Managing Director of IDBI Bank SIDBI entered into MOU with IOB to extend assistance to micro, small and medium

enterprises (MSME) customers of IOB

HDFC Life, private life insurance company from India launched its first internationaloperations with the opening of its representative office in Dubai


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The board of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) declared on 4 January 2012 thatit approved Rs.352.50-crore investment for producing oil from a marginal field off theMumbai coast
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