current affairs june 2011
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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
Fort
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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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