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General Knowledge Current Affairs october,2012

1. Strategic Thinker and Analyst Brahma Chellaney won Bernard Schwartz Award2. Edinburgh Napier University honoured Sharmila Tagore with Honorary Doctorate of

Arts

Sports Current Affairs october,2012

Sydney Sixers wins CLT20 Championship by defeating Highveld Lions in the finalmatch played at Johannesburg, South Africa

Joshna Chinnapa wins IJM Land Penang Open Squash Title 2012

1. Indian Women Cricket Team won ACC T20 Asia Cup 2012

0. Pankaj Advani wins the World Billiards Championship Title by beating EnglishmanMike Russel

1. Argentine striker Lionel Messi wins The Golden Boot Award as Europes Top Scorer Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One Indian Grand Prix 2012 SUN TV Network acquires Hyderabad IPL franchise for a sum of Rs 85.05 crore per

annum

0. Sun TV Network Acquired Hyderabad IPL Franchise

Lance Armstrong stripped of from seven Tour de France titles, imposed life ban, afterfacing doping charges

0. Indias Saina Nehwal wins Denmark Open Badminton Title1. Anaka Alankamony clinches her second WISPA Squash title

London Olympics silver medallist shooter Vijay Kumar named the Services BestSportsman 2012

Multiple Asian Games gold medallist, Jaspal Rana, has been appointed chief coach forjunior pistol shooters by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI)

0. Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray to win Shanghai Masters1. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner goes faster than the speed of sound
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Jeevan Neduncheziyan and Prerna Bhambri emerge champions in the Fenesta OpenNational Tennis Championship

0. Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wins Macau Open1. World champion Viswanathan Anand first time defeated by Norwegian Magnus

Carlsen in the Final Master chess Championship

0. Anil Kumble appointed chairman of ICC Cricket Committee1. Monisha Kaltenborn becomes the first Woman Team Principal in Formula One

0. Former England all-rounder Dermot Reeve appointed as the coach for Maharashtra

Ranji Team

1. Former Zimbabwe Cricket Player Kevin Curran passes Away

0. West Indies wins the ICC World Twenty20 Tournament by defeating Srilanka by 36runs

1. Australian Cricketer Shane Watson named Player of the Tournament in the ICCWorld Twenty20 Tournament

0. Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins Japanese Grand Prix1. Australia retain Womens World Twenty20 title by defeating England by 4 runs

Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal Launches Hockey and Cricket League under theAssociation of Indian Universities (AIU)

Formula one driver Michael Schumacher announces retirement India moves up by one place to become 168th in FIFA Football Rankings German Footballer Michael Ballack quits his Career Indian judokas win 2 silver, 3 bronze in Asian Championship

Astronomy Current Affairs october,2012

Valles Marineris : Largest canyon in solar system A new planet which is called PH1 has been discovered by researchers NASAs Swift satellite discovers Swift J1745-26 , a new blackhole towards the centre of

the Milky Way Galaxy
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Indias heaviest satellite GSAT-10 launched from the Kourou launch pad in FrenchGuiana, South America.

Personalities Current Affairs october,2012

Kateri Tekakwitha- known as Lily of the Mohawks becomes the first American Indianto be canonized in St Peters Square by Pope Benedict XVI

Actor and Satirist Jaspal Bhatti dies in a road accident in Punjab

1. Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes India rich list2. Rajat Kumar Gupta sentenced to two years in prison for Inside Trading3. Gen Fang Fenghui appointed as the Chief of the Headquarters of the General Staff of

the 2.3 million strong Peoples Liberation Army, (PLA).

Ms Manju Seth appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Madagascar Justice Yatindra Singh takes oath as the new Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court First woman chief of African Union Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma became the first

woman to take office as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) atthe A.U. headquarters in Addis Ababa

Former India football goalkeeper, Bandya Kakade passes away Ravi Narain elected Chairman of Working Committee of World Federation Exchanges Hyderabads last Nizam Osman Ali Khan named all-time richest Indian

0. Former King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk dies in China1. Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup resigns

Mukesh Ambani named The Richest Indian by survey conducted by Chinese researchform, Hurun

Mukesh Ambani named The Richest Indian as per survey conducted by Chineseresearch form, Hurun

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner visits India

0. Pakistani Sufi legend Abida Parveen honoured with lifetime achievement award byKaladharmi Begum Akhtar Academy of Ghazal in New Delhi

1. Vivek Rae appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Micro, Small and MediumEnterprises(MSME)
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2. S.Vishwanathan elected as New Managing Director of State Bank of India Freedom fighter and former UP Governor B Satyanarayana Reddy is dead Ajit M Saran appointed as Secretary in National Commission for Women(NCW)

0. Social activist Arvind Kejriwal forms political party1. A. Raja, Kanimozhi and Suresh Kalmadi nominated as the members of the

Parliamentary Standing Committees on Energy, Home Affairs and External Affairsrespectively

2. Renowned mathematician, Gandhian activist and the convenor of Azadi BachaoAandolan Professor Banwarilal Sharma passes away

Justice Altamas Kabir sworn in as 39th Chief Justice of India by the President. Sanjay Mitra appointed as new Chief Secretary of West Bengal Brajesh Mishra, the first National Security Advisor of India passes away

Honours And Awards Current Affairs october,2012

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) awarded the Japan InternationalCooperation Agency (JICA) President Award for 2012

1. Amitabh Bachchan, wins the Best Television Host for the popular game show Kaun

Banega Crorepati by Peoples Choice Award of Colour Television channel

2. The 2012 International Crop Science award given to Dr. C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda,scientist of the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT)

0. Strategic thinker and analyst, Brahma Chellaney wins the 2012 Asia Society Bernard

Schwartz Book Award for his book " Water: Asia's New Battleground"

1. Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar conferred the Col C K Nayudu LifetimeAchievement award at the annual BCCI awards function

0. IT giant Infosys founder, N.R. Narayan Murthy honoured with Hoover Medal for

promoting science at Global Humanitarian Technology Conference in Washington

1. Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore awarded with Honorary Doctorate of Arts by theEdinburgh Napier University
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Former Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of India, late Babu Jagjivan Ramawarded with the Friends of Liberation War Honour by the Government ofBangladesh

Singham Bravery Award posthumously given to Mr.Narendra Kumar IPS and SecurityPersonnel

The Folded Earth written by Anuradha Roy and A Free Man by Aman Sethi wins the11th Economist Crossword Book Award

0. Martin Guptill wins the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for 2011-121. Poet-writer Chandrasekhar Kambar conferred with the Jnanpith Award

0. Sachin Tendulkar to be the first Indian sportsperson to be conferred with the

Membership of the Order of Australia

1. British Writer Hilary Mantel wins Booker Prize for second time for her novel Bringup the Bodies

American economists Alvin E Roth and Lloyd S Shapley shares Nobel Prize 2012 forEconomics

Nobel Peace Prize 2012 awarded to European Union Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka wins Nobel Prize 2012 for Chemistry Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland shares the 2012 Nobel Prize

in Physics

British researcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka wins NobelPrize 2012 in Medicine

Banaras Hindu University VC Dr. Lalji Singh wins MV Pylee award for bestacademician

President confers Shastri Award to ISRO scientist Ms.Tessy ThomasCulture Current Affairs october,2012

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to establish a national data basefor tigers

Arabic makes its debut as official language at Vatican Delhi Government ties up with INTACH for Conservation of Monuments
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India and France signs an agreement in the Field of sustainable Urban Development

1. Save Ganga, Save Dolphin campaign initiated in Uttar Pradesh by theUttar Pradesh Forest Department in association with the World WildlifeFund (WWF)

2. Dolphin Day observed in Bihar to create awareness about Gangetic Dolphins

0. Ministry of Rural Development launches Nirmal Bharat Yatra1. 100-member team of Elite Forest Protection Force set up at the Kaziranga National

Park to save Rhinos from Poachers

Shadman Chowk in Lahore renamed as Bhagat Singh ChowkWorld History Current Affairs october,2012

Renowned British Historian Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95Economics Current Affairs october,2012

Gujarat tops in private sector investments across India, as per ASSOCHAM France provides carmaker Peugeot Citroen, a 7 billion ($9.1 billion) bailout package Hyderabad named worlds 3rd best city to visit in 2013 by travel guide book Lonely

Planet

1. Tata Starbuck, a joint venture between Tata Global Beverages (TGBL) and

Starbucks Coffee Company opens its first store in India at HornimanCircle, South Mumbai

2. DGCA suspends the license of the debt-ridden aircraft carrier, Kingfisher Airlines IOC signs MoU with Korea Gas Corporation(KOGAS) to jointly explore and produce

Gas

Global Hunger Report 2012: India ranked at 65th position IMF slashes Indias growth forecast for 2012 to 4.9 Percent DGCA issues Show-Cause notice to Kingfisher Airlines

0. Government approves 49% FDI in insurance & pension sectors1. Government approves 12th Five-Year Plan(2012-2017)
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India slips to 7th position from 6th in Coffee production World RankingBusiness Current Affairs october,2012

Indias NSDC inks pact with Ausralias industry skills council SkillsDMC Nokia India signs deal with football club, FC Barcelona Bharti Airtel becomes Worlds Fourth Largest Mobile Operator after China Mobile,

Vodafone Group and American Movil Group

India and Austria signed an MoU to strengthen bilateral cooperation on Rail and RoadTechnology Current Affairs october,2012

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 in India Apple launches smaller Mini i-Pad tablet MiniFlame Virus, a New Cyber Espionage Tool is Infecting Computers in Middle East

countries like Lebanon and Iran

Union Cabinet approves proposals to procure Brahmos and Invar Missiles Mahindra Satyam Ties up with Dehradun-based University of Petroleum and Energy

Studies

1. Air India receives its third Boeing 787 Dreamliner from the new North Charleston

Facility of the American manufacturer

2. Indian Railways launches RailRadar, the new online application to trace trainlocations on Google Maps

Indian Navy successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile capable ofcarrying conventional warhead of 300 kg

0. India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Dhanush missile1. Australia launches worlds fastest radio telescope- The Australian Square Kilometre

Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)

Nuclear Capable Prithvi II Ballistic Missile sucessfully test fired from Odisha Bhupinder Singh Hooda green signals the trial run of Rapid Metro in Gurgaon

Inventions Current Affairs october,2012

A Humanoid Robot with common sense called Baxter designed in USA
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1. Scientists of the City University of New York develops a Superhero Mice that sniff out

explosives

2. Astronomers discover new Earth Sized Planet named Exo Planet in the neighboringAlpha Centauri Solar System

Maruti Suzuki Launches Alto 800 in India Gold producing bacteria discovered by scientists at Michigan State University

Environment Current Affairs october,2012

1. Hurricane Sandy a Category 2 cyclone strikes US, Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba

2. Uttarakhand named Best Performing State by Planning Commission in terms ofenvironmental standards

Ministry of Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs releases Atlas Aquifer Systemof India for six states

Days And Years Current Affairs october,2012

World Food Day celebrated World observes the first ever International Day of the Girl Child Global James Bond Day was celebrated

Political Current Affairs october,2012

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 4 years in jail and suspended himfrom public service for 3 years for tax fraud

The Cabinet Reshuffle: Reshuffling of 5 ministers along with induction of 17 new faces African Union (A.U.) readmits Mali after a meeting of the A.U. Peace and Security

Council (AUPSC)

The 2nd India-Japan 2+2 Dialogue held in Tokyo India & Pakistan in consultations to introduce a common currency called Papee South Korea, Luxembourg, Argentina, Australia and Rwanda elected to the UN

Security Council

Asia Co-operation Dialogue Summit being held in Kuwait Ali Zidan elected by the 200 member National Congress as Libyas new Prime Minister
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Presidents son Abhijit Mukherjee wins Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll Presidents son Abhijit Mukherjee wins Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll UP Revenue minister Vinod Singh resigns due to involvement in CMO abduction case1. Huge Chavez Re-elected as President of Venezuela for the third time

2. Abdi Farah Shirdon Said chosen as the new Prime Minister of Somalia Maldivian Court issues an arrest warrant against ex-President Mohamed Nasheed

0. Imran Khan leads Peace March to South Waziristan tribal belt to protest US dronestikes

1. Social Activist Arvind Kejriwal launches Bijli-Paani Satyagraha in DelhiEducation Current Affairs october,2012

ZEE Launches Edutaintment Channel Zee Q for children India and World Bank Signed 500 Million Dollar Deal for Secondary Education Project

named Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA)

Cinema Current Affairs october,2012

The Seventh South Asia Film Festival (SAFF)-2012 begins at Kala Academy at Panaji inGoa

Well known film maker Yash Chopra passes away Films Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India to

establish first Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai

Literature Current Affairs october,2012

China blocks access to the English as well as Chinese-language website of the NewYork Times after the website publishing an article alleging the Chinese Prime Minister

Eminent Writer and President of the Sahitya Akademi, Sunil Gangopadhyay dies Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi releases Ek Thhi Kusum, a short stories

collection authored by former State Assembly Speaker Prakash Pant

Newsweek, the eighty year old print magazine announces shut down of its printoperations completely and go all-digital
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Sports Current Affairs november,2012

2014 FIFA World Cup,to be held in Brazil will be addressed to the worldbyFULECO- name of the mascot,ArmadilloFuleco is the fusion of the words futebol and ecologia which are terms related to

ecology

Sebastian Vettal bagged the F1 Championship for the season after having a tightcompetition with Fernando Alonso who was just 3 points behind after the race. Vettalrepresented Team Redbull.

Indian legendary openerSunil Gavaskar (former indian captain too)was awardedwith BCCI's prestigious Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award.

1. Asian under 10 Girls Chess Champion: Nuthaki Priyanka Won World Youth Chess

Championship

The Czech Republic won the Davis Cup for the first time in its history with a 3-2 defeatof Spain

0. The Spanish pair ofMarcel Granollers and Marc Lopez on 12 November 2012

defeated the Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in the Men'sDoubles title clash of theATP World Tour Finals in London

0. American Olympic champions Allyson Felix and Ashton Eaton were named winners

of the 2012 Jesse Owens Award for their outstanding performance in 2012

1. United Sikkim Football Club (USFC) will have CEO Baichung Bhutia as its interimcoach till a new one is identified.

2. ATP World Tour Final 2012: World No.1 Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer infinals to maintain his position.

0. High Court lifts life-ban on Mohammad Azharuddin, former Indian Cricket Team

captain.

1. World Discus Throw champion Russias Darya Pishchalnikova may face life ban fordoping.

2. Indian cricket team Captain M.S. Dhonis Superbike championship team changes itsname from MSD R-N Racing Team India to Mahi Racing Team India.

3. Gaganjeet Bhullar becomes the youngest Indian to feature in the Top 100 GolfersList.
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Kerala becomes the overall champions in the 28th National Junior AthleticsChampionship-2012 which concluded in Lucknow.

0. South African pace bowler Vernon Philander named Sportsman of the year.1. Order of Australia membership presented to Indian cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar.2. Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok to represent India at the Race of

Champions, in Bangkok scheduled next month.

Pakistan lifts Asian Kabbadi Championship Trophy

0. Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen Wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix1. Indian pair Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhupathi wins the Paris Masters Tennis

Doubles Title 2012

Hironmoy Chatterjee, Secretary of the Bengal Tennis Association appointed CEO ofThe All India Tennis Association (AITA)

0. Virat Kohli Selected for BCCI Polly Umrigar Award

Virat Kohli chosen for BCCI Polly Umrigar Award for top International cricketer in2011-12

Honours And Awards Current Affairs november,2012

CNBC Tourism Award for the year 2012 was conferred to Kerala for being the besttravel and tourism state

Miss Czech Republic Tereza Fajksova was elected as the Miss Earth 2012. The pageantwas held at Manilla, capital city of Philipines.

Noted poetAttoor Ravi Varmahas been awarded the Kerala government'sprestigiousEzhuthachan Puraskaram 2012 on account of his outstandingcontribution to state's literature

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian president and Nobel laureate, will get this year'sIndira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for being an"inspiration" to women and ensuring return of peace and democracy in her country,

1. Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai, who became the face of her countrys struggle against

the Taliban, has been awarded for her bravery and advocation of education for girlsin adverse conditions in Swat by World Peace and Prosperity Foundation ChairmanPrince Ali Khan
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0. Urdu Scholar Gopi Chand Narang Awarded Moortidevi Award for 2010 for his

outstanding work on Urdu Ghazal aur Hindustani Zehan wa Tehzeeb at a functionorganized by Bhartiya Jnanpith

0. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Katherine Boo on 14 November 2012

won thenational book award for nonfiction for Behind the BeautifulForevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, which sheds lighton the lives of India's poor as well as government corruption

The short story collection Alphonsammayude Maranavum Savasamskaravum byZakaria bags the O V Vijayan Memorial Literary Award.

0. Kavalam Narayana Panicker to receive the first K Karunakaran Memorial Award1. Veteran Actor Madhu to be conferred with Satyam Foundation Award2. Minister K G Balakrishnan selected as the winner of the Sahakari Ratna Award3. Dr. G SanjeevaReddy, President of AITUC selected for the first K Karunakaran

Memorial Award

0. Mathura Refinery Bags 13th Annual Greentech Environment Award1. Shoppers Stop awarded Top Class Brand Award 2012-13 by National Education

And Human Resource Development Organization

0. Lyricist Gulzar Conferred with Indira Gandhi National Award1. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Conferred with French Award The Knight of the Order of

Arts and Letter

Lyricist Gulzar conferred with Indira Gandhi National AwardPersonalities Current Affairs november,2012

Joseph Edward Murraywho performed world's first kidney transplant is dead. Healso received Nobel Prize forMedicine in 1990.

Tony Hall will serve as the newdirector general ofBBC succeeding George Entwistle. TonyHall served as the chief executive of the Royal Opera House till then.

Ranjit Sinha, senior IPS officer was appointed the next Director ofthe Central Bureau ofInvestigation on a two-year term.
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Australian best-selling author Bryce Courtenay and the author of "The Power Of One"(1989) and 20 other titlespassed away.

1. The Shiv Sena Supremo Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray died on 17 November 2012 at

the age of 86

Bishop of Durham Justin Welby named Archbishop of Canterbury Founder of Super 30Anand Kumar declared Peoples Hero

Geography Current Affairs november,2012

Storm Athena hits New York and other cities in USA. INS Mhadei flagged off from Mumbai to begin the Sagar Parikrama-II

Cinema Current Affairs november,2012

The Chinese film, 11 Flowers on 17 November 2012 won the Network for thePromotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award at 18th Kolkata InternationalFilm Festival.

Late Malayalam Movie Actor Sathyan's 100th birthday being celebrated on 9thNovember 2012.

The director of the controversial film The Innocence of Muslims, Mark BasselyYoussef put to prison.

Kerala State Film Awards for 2011 distributed.For details,Click Here

International Film Festival opens at Dharmasala, Himachal PradeshEconomics Current Affairs november,2012

Union finance minister P Chidambaram disclosed that amendments to the GeneralAnti-Avoidance Rules, or GAAR, the controversial law against tax avoidance throughforeign investments, have been finalised

Europe slipped into recession for the second time in three years against a backdrop of large andoften violent demonstrations against austerity measures adopted by several European governmentsaimed at restructuring their ailing, debt-ridden economies.

2G spectrum auction ends, less than Rs 10,000 cr bids received South African Government introduces currency notes with the face of Nelson Mandela,

as a mark of respect for the leader.
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Master Card Worldwide and Thomas Cook tie up to launch Travel prepaid Cards Ashish Kumar Chauhan appointed as the MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange

Environment Current Affairs november,2012

1. Operation sea quence- Researchers fromAustralia and Saudi

Arabia launched a project which they hope will help them understand the geneticmakeup of corals and how they react to climate change. Reefs around the worldare under threat from bleaching due to climate change, as well as storms andpredatory starfish, and scientists want to learn more about coral resilience to helphead off further destruction.

Koshik-The Asian elephant that can reproduce human speech

0. Storm which hit East Coast of USA on 30th October-Sandy1. Cyclone which hit Tamil Nadu coast on 31st October-NilamCulture Current Affairs november,2012

1. Discovery Communication launches kids channel-Discovery Kids in

Andhra Pradesh

2. T Samuel renowned for Pocket-cartoons, dies at the age of 86Business Current Affairs november,2012

Ms. Chitra Ramakrishnan is appointed as the Managing Director andCEO ofNSE(National Stock Exchange) for a period of 5 years from the next financialyear.

Mr. Joginder Singh is appointed as the President and MD of Ford India. Airtel completes largest network transformation in Africa

1.

World Travel Market-LONDON: the leading global event for thetravel industry - is a vibrant must attend four-day business-to-businessevent presenting a diverse range of destinations and industry sectors toUK and International travel professionals. It is a unique opportunity forthe whole global travel trade to meet, network, negotiate and conductbusiness under one roof

0. Inflation declined marginally to 7.45 per cent in October
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0. Shree Krishna Khaitan, Chairman of Khaitan Group passes away.1. Cyrus Mistry appointed as Deputy Chairman, Tata Motors.

German luxury car-maker Volkswagen enters into the multi-brand pre-owned carbusiness in India under Das WeltAuto brand.

M A Yousaf Ali, the MD of Emke-Lulu Group selected as the most influential Asianbusiness man of Middle East and North African region

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) lifts ban on certain milk productsEducation Current Affairs november,2012

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam receives invitation for teaching at Peking University of ChinaPolitical Current Affairs november,2012

The first Constitution was drafted and then approved by the Constituent Assembly ofArab Republic of Egypt(official name of Egypt) here in Cairo after the death of former President HosniMubarak.

Arvind Kejriwal- anti corruption activist alongwith his followers renamed theirpolitical party 'India Against Corruption' asAam Aadmi Party (AAP) whichconcentrates on the ideology of constitution focussing on the ideology of decentraliseddemocracy

Ajmal Kasab, the working head behind 26/11 terror attack, was hanged to death at theYerawada Jail in Pune

Barack Obama re-elected as US President for the second consecutive term, defeatingRepublican candidate Mitt Romney

1. India and Canada tie up for supply of Uranium to India.

2. Communist Party of China(CPC) week-long Party Congress begins at the Great Hallof the People

0. Irom Sharmila- Iron Lady from Manipur, completes 12 years of her fasting

demanding cancellation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA).

1. Russias Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov fired from Ministry over the allegationsof massive corruption scandal in his agency.

0. Bo-Xilai expelled from Chinese Communist Party
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1. Mahesh Jethmalani quits BJP National Executive Government Nod to Grant Ex-Serviceman Status to the Retired Paramilitary staff

General Science Current Affairs november,2012

New Zealand scientists spot rare species of Whale in the Pacific Ocean.World Organisations Current Affairs november,2012

1. The three-day review meeting ofMinisters of Education and heads of

delegation of the E-9 countries comprising India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,China, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Mexico ended in New Delhi on10 November 2012 with the adoption of the New Delhi Commitment. E-9 nationsdecided to expand their cooperation in Inclusive, Relevant Quality Educationfor All. It took stock of the progress towards the Education for All goals and to renew

cooperation in consolidating the gains and addressing remaining challenges.

Mireille Balestrazzi becomes the first ever Woman President of the InterpolGeneral Knowledge Current Affairs november,2012

1. India and Japan Signed Earths Pact on Rare Earth Minerals that will enable the latter

to import the rare Earth minerals from India

Tulsi Govinda Baruah, the Chairman of Assam Tribune Group of Newspapers died on17 November 2012 at his residence in Rajgarh

Tobacco Board on 16 November 2012 launched the first tobacco e-auctioningplatformlocated at Periyapatna in Mysore district in Karnataka

Virangana-Assam government has raised a specialwomen commandoforce to prevent crime against women in Guwahati. The commando force namedVirangana is the first of its kind in the country. Force has been trained in martial artsand motor driving alongwith handling of modern weapons. State government willreview the success of the force and later extend its service to other cities.

0. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is among the three Indian-Americans invited by U.S.

President Barack Obama as part of his wider consultations on the current economiccrisis.

1. Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in India after a long term of 4decades and will deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture as part of childrensday celebrations.
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2. Indiaex-2012- Joined India -U.S naval exercise held in goa tested the compatibilityof the submarine rescue system of the U.S. Navy with Indian Navy submarines forthe first time.

3. David Wehner -newly appointed vice-president of 'corporate finance and businessplanning' of FACEBOOK after his resignation from San Francisco-based Zynga Inc.

4. Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year which is defined as "a situationthat has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blundersand miscalculations"

Current Affairs Current Affairs november,2012

SupremeSAT1: The first communication satellite launched by Srilanka with thehelp of China

Operation X- Complete procedure undertaken for Hanging the Gunman of26/11Ajmal Kasab to death.

C-7096 was the Jail code issued forAjmal Amir Kasab inArthur Road JailMumbai. This code was used for all the procedures regarding his sentence and death

Technology Current Affairs november,2012

IRINN ( Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers) started allocating newversion of IP addresses i.e. IPv6 instead of IPv4. IPv6 will provide specific identity toeach user.

1. TITAN - U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu yesterday announced that Titan, a new

supercomputer located at the Energy Departments Oak Ridge National Laboratory inOakRidge, Tennessee, has been named the worlds most powerful according to theTOP500 list of the worlds fastest supercomputers. Ten times more powerful than itspredecessor, the Jaguar system, Titan will provide unprecedented power to acceleratescientific discoveries using technologies first developed for video game systems likeXbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on 11 november 2012 in New Delhi launchedthe new tabletAakash-2 which is an improved version od India's super-cheap tabletcomputer on the ocassion of the National Educaton Daywhich is observed on 11November every year.
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Sports Current Affairs december,2012

Former Australian pace bowler Glenn McGrath will be inducted into the ICC CricketHall of Fame

Australian cricketer Michael Hussey announces retirement from Test Cricket, at theage of 37.

All India Football Federation has banned the I-League football club Mohun Bagan forabandoning their match against East Bengal

Pakistan wins the Asian Champions Hockey Tournament, defeating arch rivals India inthe finals by 5-4

Shiva Keshavan retains the Gold medal by winning the Asian Luge Championships2012

Rajastans Apurvi Chandela wins Gold Medal in Womens Air Rifle in the 56th SaharaNational Shooting Championship

The 58th Senior National ball badminton championship to be held at the MEI Layoutgrounds, Bagalagunte near Bangalore from December 26 to 30

India's Parupalli Kashyap wins the Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Goldsingles title

Indian cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement from One-day cricket Renowned Indian Hockey player, Leslie Claudius passes away at the age of 85 after

prolonged illness

Praful Patel re-elected as the President of All India Football Federation South Africa tops the list in the latest released ICC Test Championship Rankings World No 2 Tennis player Roger Federer is selected as the Swiss Male Athlete of the

Year 2012.

England secures a Test series win in Indian soil after 28 long years.It was in 1984-85under the captaincy of David Gower that England had won a series in India before

China wins the boys and girls titles of Volkswagen 2012 World Junior Table TennisChampionship

Sardar Singh becomes the highest paid player in the auctions held for 2013 HockeyIndia League

Athlete Usain Bolt to be awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year-2012
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Indian Men and Women teams win the World Cup Kabbadi Tournament-2012 bybeating Pakistan and Malaysia respectively

India beat Pakistan in the Finals to lift the first ever SBI T20 World Cup for the Blind2012

Director of Mercedez Motorsport division, Mr Norbert Haug to leave the company Bhausaheb Babasaheb Nimbalkar, who holds the record of highest individual first-

class cricket score passes away

Yahoo and NBC Sports Group join hands to promote each others sports news onInternet and Television media

Australia lifts the Champions Trophy 2012 Hockey Tournament Title defeatingNetherlands by 2-1 in the finals

Argentine Foot ball team Captain and the star-striker of FC Barcelona, Lionell Messibecomes the player to score most goals in a calendar year, breaking the earlier recordof West German Gerd Mueller

Kobe Bryant of Los Angeles Lakers becomes the youngest player to reach the milestoneof 30000 career points in NBA Basketball

England Cricket team captain, Mr.Alistair Cook becomes the youngest player in thehistory of Test Cricket to score 7000 runs

Ministry of Sports de-recognizes Indian Amateur Boxing Federation & ArcheryAssociation of India

Air India beat Bharat Petroleum to lift the 23rd Lal Bahadur Shastri HockeyTournament

Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland wins the World Challenge Golf Tournamenthosted by Tiger Woods, defeating Keegan Bradley

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspends the membership of IndianOlympic Association (IOA) for holding elections by ignoring the IOC warnings

Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand wins $300,000 Hero womens Indian Open at theDLF Country Club, defeating defending champion Caroline Hedwall

Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Mahendra Singh Dhoni released a book onformer Indian opener Pankaj Roy titled Pankaj,Bengals Forgotten Hero

Former Australian Cricket Team captain, Ricky Ponting announces retirement fromInternational Test Cricket


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Anna Ushenina of Ukraine defeated Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria inthe womensWorld Championship crown and gained the title for the year 2012

Kabaddi World Cup Opening ceremony being held in Bathinda, LudhianaIndian Polity Current Affairs december,2012

Union Law and Justice Minister Dr. Ashwani Kumar has announced that the NationalJudicial Appointments Commission Bill will be tabled in Cabinet next month

Madhya Pradesh State Government forms a Senior Citizen Commission to look intothe problems of the elderly.

Central Government to set up a Commission headed by Former Chief Justice of IndiaJ.S. Verma and consisting of Former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramaniamand Justice Lalitha Seth as its members to study about Safety of Women in the country

Loksabha passes the Banking Amendment Bill which opens foreign investment tobanking industry and allows Reserve Bank of India to issue new banking licenses

Rajya Sabha approves Constitution Amendment Bill which sanctions quotas forGovernment job promotion to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes

Loksabha passes the Companies Bill-2011 which will replace Companies Act-1956 andimprove the existing corporate governance rules

The Union Ministry has decided to extend the ban on United Liberation Front ofAssam (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)

The Union Cabinet approves Land Acquisition Bill in Parliament Indian and Japan governments signed 2 agreements on Social Security

and Memorandum between the Department of Atomic Energy of India and theMinistry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan on Cooperation in the Rare EarthsIndustry in India. The agreements were signed in Tokyo.

Political Current Affairs december,2012

Congress, under the leadership of Mr. Vir Bhadra Singh wins the Himachal PradeshAssembly elections, winning 36 seats out of the total of 68 seats

Narendra Modi led BJP, voted to power for the third consecutive time in Gujarat,Congress returns to pwer in Himachal Pradesh
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Late Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackerays structure removed from Shivaji Park, one monthafter his cremation

Meghalaya Assembly passes the Lokayukta Bill 2012 BJP leader and the first Chief Minister of the state of Uttarakhand Nityanand Swami

passes away at the age of 84

The Union cabinet approves creation of a new body named Cabinet Committee onInvestment(CCI) to speed up decisions on infrastructure and manufacturing projects

Supreme Court dismisses P A Sangmas petition against Pranab Mukherjees electionas President of India

B.S.Yeddyurappa, former Chief Minister of Karnataka who resigned from BJP haslaunced a new political party named Karnataka Janatha Party(KJP)

Hamas Chief, Mr.Khaled Mashal makes his first ever historic visit to the Gaza strip. India and Pakistan holds bilateral talks to resolve Sir Creek Dispute.Sir Creek, locally

called Baan Ganga is a 96 km narrow strip of water in the Rann of Kutch region,which separates the two countries.

Senior Congress leader and Former Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mr.NarhariAmin quits party and joins BJP

Susan Rice leads the race to become the successor of Hilary Clinton to the post of USSecretary of State, whose term ends early next year

Ajit Pawar, the senior NCP leader and nephew of NCP President Mr.Sharad Pawarsworn in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister

Chinese Government-run agency Great Wall Industry Corporation(GWIC) launchesSrilankas first satellite.

India and Russia held joint naval exercise INDRA in Mumbai. Enrique Pena Neito sworn in as Mexicos new President The National Security Advisor Mr.Shiv Shankar Menon is the first Indian official to

visit China after changes in the Communist Party of China

I.K. Gujral, Former Indian Prime Minister and the author of key foreign policydoctrine, dies at 92. He was Indias 12th Prime Minister from April 1997 to March1998.

Astronomy Current Affairs december,2012

NASAs next mission as part of the New Frontiers program is being named Venus In-Situ Explorer(VISE)
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NASA Scientists discover the longest ever extra-terrestrial river system on Saturnsmoon, Titan

NASAs spaceship Voyager-1 has entered Magnetic Highway, an unknown spacetowards the edge of solar system

Sunita Williams has spent in space, a total of 322 days. The biggest blackhole, having a mass equivalent to 17 billion Suns discovered in

Galaxy NGC-1277

NASA Scientists discover huge mass of ice at Mercurys North PoleEconomics Current Affairs december,2012

Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India(RBI) Subir Gokarn retires from his post S Raman, former Chairman & MD, Canara Bank being appointed as the third

wholetime member of Securities And Exchange Board of India(SEBI), Prashant Saranand Rajeev Kumar Agarwal being the other two.

The National Development Council (NDC) cuts down the average annual growth ratefor the 12th five-year plan period to 8%

The Union Government decides to increase the minimum support price of wheat by Rs65 to Rs.1350 per Quintal

Government extends the tenure of Saumitra Chaudhuri Committee studying on therevision of Wholesale Price Index

Karnataka becomes the first state in the country to propose an exclusive Budget forAgriculture

India and Russia sign pact for a 2 billion dollar Investment Fund to strengthen theeconomic ties between the two countries

Russian sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Mondaysigned a pact with State Bank of India (SBI) for setting up a $2 billion investmentconsortium for promoting investments between the two nations.

Axis Bank , the leading private sector Bank launches e-Gift Card facility to customers,thereby becoming the first bank to provide such a facility

Lok Sabha passes the Banking Bill Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Facebook Inc donates USD 500

million health and education charity works

The Government in its Mid-Year Economic Analysis lowered the growth projection forthe current fiscal year from earlier estimated 7.6% to 5.7%-5.9%
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Delhi Government introduces debit card Saral Money for Aadhar cardholders whichautomatically opens a bank account in the name of the beneficiary

Fortune-500 List of Indian Companies names Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) as thecompany with highest revenue. Reliance Industries (RIL) is ranked second in the list

The American Depository Shares(ADS) of IT giant Infosys starts trading in NYSEunder the ticker name INFY

Naina Lal Kidwai, Country head of HSBC India is appointed as the President of FICCI(Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry)

Consumer Price Index(CPI) data for the month of November 12 released.The retailinflation rate rises to 9.9%

Indian, Harmit Singh is appointed as the new CFO of the international apparel brandLevi Strauss & Co

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) launches SME Index which now comprises of SmallAnd Medium Enterprises(SMEs) which helps to track the market conditions andgrowth of investment

ICICI bank opens 101 Gramin branches in villages with no banking facility spreadacross 6 states, as part of its financial enclosure plan

The Union Cabinet approves a Rs.6779 crore revival package to The Fertilizers andChemicals Travancore Limited(FACT), Udyogamandal

Indias Index of Industrial Production (IIP), soared to 16-month high of 8.2 per cent inOctober 2012

Reserve Bank of India(RBI) sets up Supervisory college for State Bank of India(SBI)and ICICI Bank

Tax expert, Parthasarathi Shome appointed as the Advisor to the Union FinanceMinister, Mr.P Chidambaram

Only cheque books that follow Cheque Truncation System(CTS) to be accepted fromJanuary 1st, 2013 onwards.

India has been ranked 94th out of 176 countries in Transparency Internationals 2012Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Last year, India was ranked 95 out of 183 countriesthat were studied.

"Aapka Paisa, Aapke Haath"(Your money in Your hands) is the slogan for the DirectCash Transfer scheme introduced by the Government

Department of Financial Services Secretary D. K. Mittal has been accorded additionalcharge of the Department of Disinvestment following the retirement of MohammadHaleem Khan as DoD Secretary on November 30.


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Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) issues eviction notice to KingfisherAirlines

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) launches, countrys first carbon based thematicindex, BSE Carbonex

The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) signs a three year pact,Bilateral SwapAgreement(BSA) with Bank of Japan

UK based News Corp to restructure the top management into two entities-thepublishing house, News Corporation and the entertainment & media house Fox Group

IT major Infosys decides to shift its American shares from Nasdaq to NYSE The number of deaths in the country this year till November 15 due to dengue has

touched 216, with Tamil Nadu topping the list with the death of 60 people.

GDP (gross domestic product) growth dipped to 5.3 per cent in the second quarter(July-September) of 2012-13 from 6.7 per cent in the same quarter during the previousfiscal, mainly owing to dismal performances by the farm and manufacturing sectors

Bharti Infratel Ltd., the telecom tower business of Bharti Airtel, is entering the capitalmarket with an initial public offer (IPO) to raise over Rs.4,500 crore. This will be thebiggest IPO since that of Coal Indias two years ago.

Personalities Current Affairs december,2012

Ashwani Kumar has been appointed as the new Chairman & MD of Dena Bank, one ofthe leading banks in the Public sector

C R Biswal takes charge as the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Public ServiceCommission(APPSC)

Sheela Balakrishnan appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu. Shesucceeds Debendranath Sarangi

The Delhi Gangrape victim passes away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore Renowned Cricket commentator and former England Team captain, Mr.Tony Greig

passed away at the age of 66, following lung cancer

Union Minister Kamal Nath is appointed as the new ex-officio member of the planpanel, replacing Jairam Ramesh General Norman Schwarzkopf, the US commander who lead the international coalition

forces in Kuwait against Iraq (Operation Desert Storm) in the first Gulf war dies inFlorida at the age of 78

Dr Aditya Arya has been appointed as the Director General of Home Guards in Delhi
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Hon'ble Mr. Justice Swatanter Kumar,Judge Supreme Court of India, has joined asChairperson in National Green Tribunal

Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Justice M Yusuf Eqbal, Chief Justice of OrissaHigh Court Justice VenkateGowda and Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court JusticeVikramjit Sen are appointed as judges of the Supreme Court

Research-In-Motion(RIM), the manufacturer of the Blackberry Smartphone hasnamed Ranbir Kapoor as its brand ambassador in India

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti submits his resignation to the President Japanese Jiroemon Kimura (115 years) becomes the Worlds oldest person Ajay Chadha appointed as the head of Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force(ITBP) US President Barack Obama to nominate veteran Senator John Kerry as the next

Secretary of State

Israels Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns from the post Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit India on December 24th Advocate R S Goswami elected As the Chairman of Bar Council of Delhi Justice Arun Kumar Mishra appointed as the Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court Norman Woodland, the inventor of bar code dies at the age of 91 in New Jersey Devendra Lal, geophysicist and visiting professor at the Scripps Institution of

Oceanography (SIO) of the University of California, San Diego, dies at the age of 83.

Brazilian architect,Oscar Niemeyer dies at the age of 104.He was the designer ofBrasilia

Suresh Vaswani being appointed as the President of Dell Services.He was the Co-CEOof Wipro before.

Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse committed suicide in London after falling victim to ahoax call by two Australian radio presenters

World renowned Jazz Pianist and Composer , Dave Brubeck passes away due to heartfailure. His album named Time Out released in 1959 was the first million-sellingJazz album of the modern times.

Kensaburo Nakumaro who popularized the Japanese classical drama art form Kabukidies at the age of 57

Shreya Singal, a 21 year old from Delhi came into news by filing a public interestlitigation in the Supreme Court against the Section 66(A) of the IT Act


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Besse Cooper, the woman who was listed as the world's oldest person has died in aGeorgia nursing home at age 116. The title now belongs to 115-year-old DinaManfredini, of Johnston, Iowa.

The Competent Authority approves appointment of S. A. Ibrahim the IPS (MP-77) asofficer on Special Duty in the Intelligence Bureau and also as the Director forIntelligence Bureau for a next two years

Atbir Singh, lodged in Tihar Jail, New Delhi, is the first death-row convict whosesentence has been commuted to life imprisonment by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Sachin Dev Pavithran, an Indian-American is appointed by the US President to headthe independent US agency devoted to people with disabilities named Access Board.

Jeff Zucker named as the President of CNN Worldwide Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Friday joined as chairman emeritus of the

governing board of the GVK-EMRI that runs the popular 108 emergency services

World Organisations Current Affairs december,2012

UNICEF and WHO suspends polio campaign in Pakistan following gun attacks onpolio workers

The Comptroller And Auditor General of India, Mr. Vinod Rai is re-elected as theChairman of UN Panel of External Auditors

39 countries including India votes against UN resolution banning death penalty

Palestine gets United Nations non-member status , despite strong protest from US andIsrael

Days And Years Current Affairs december,2012

Christmas,the birth of Jesus Christ being celebrated on December 25th across theworld with religious fervour and gaiety.

December 22 is being celebrated as the National Mathematics Day in remembrance ofSrinivasa Ramanujam

The National Commission of Minorities celebrates 18th December as Minorities RightsDay.

World Human Rights Day being observed on December 9th World AIDS Day observed on 2nd December , across the world

Culture Current Affairs december,2012
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Hon President of India, Pranab Kumar Mukherjee inaugurates the 4th World TeluguConference(WTC) being held at the temple town of Tirupati

South Korean rapper Psys hit song Gangnam Style has become the first video toreceive more than one billion views on YouTube

Government of Madhya Pradesh to set up Kamadhenu Cow Sanctuary, the countrysfirst cow sanctuary in Salriya village of Shajapur district

International Kuchipudi Dance Convention kick starts at the Indoor Stadium atGachibowli Sports Complex, Andhra Pradesh

Delhi Zoo to exchange White Tigress for a pair of Puma from Russia. Mysore Zoo and Leipzig zoo in Germany signs an agreement to transport four sloth

bears to Germany

Adlabs Entertainment announced building up of Rs 1600 crore theme park AdlabsImagica spread over 110 acres near Mumbai

Rare James Bond manuscript 'Diamonds Are Forever' to fetch 80,000 pounds inauction.

Technology Current Affairs december,2012

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully testlaunches the underwater missile K-15 off the Visakhapatnam coast

The Union Government decides to set-up a five-year action plan to beef up the securitysystems of the critical sectors in the country

The State of Karnataka announces fixing of surveillance cameras as well as GPS intaxis and auto-rickshaws for improved safety of travellers

NASA develops sophisticated next-generation spacesuit named Z-1 PrototypeSpacesuit and Portable Life Support System (PLSS) 2.0

India successfully test fires indigenously built Air-To-Air Interceptor Missile namedAstra from Chandipur test range in Odisha

India successfully test-fires from Chandipur Prithvi-II, a nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile having a strike range of 350 kms

India and Israel sign Memorandum of Understanding to develop surface-to-air missileBarak-8

Scientists at Grande Ecole d'Ingenieurs Paris-Laval, France develops a headset(FlyVIZ) that gives humans 360 degrees vision
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India successfully test fires surface to surface ballistic missile, Agni-I from its testrange in Odisha

Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN) starts issuing next versionof Internet addresses IPv6

Apple launches i-Pad Mini and i-Pad 4G in India World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is being held in

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from December 3rd -14th , 2012.

Hyderabad based Hyderabad Batteries Limited (HBL) has developed a new anticollision safety device for Railways.

Indian IT Services company i-Gate launches advertisement campaign ConspiracyUncovered in the US against the time and material model client billing system

Boeing, the US aircraft manufacturer tests a new missile codenamed CHAMP whichuses electromagnetic pulses which can permanently blackout the electronics of thecountry without causing any harm to people

Employees Provident Fund Organization(EPFO) launches e-Passbook portalInventions Current Affairs december,2012

American mathematicians claim to have solved the cryptic formula which is belived tohave come in the minds of renowned mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujans dreamswhich is popularly known as deathbed puzzle

Tata Steel has developed Super Bainite , an anti-ballistic steel which can be used inwar fronts

Scientists of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) develops super sensitiveexplosion detection laser device

British scientists announces development of Emmident-the first ultrasoundtoothbrush for cleaning teeth

Software engineers and Neuroscientists at University of Waterloo, Canada havedeveloped a closest model of the functioning human brain, known as Spaun.

World History Current Affairs december,2012

Russian President signs Dima Yakovlev Law, that bans US citizens from adoptingchildren of Russian origin

United States suspends embassy operations in rebel-hit Central African Republic Iran President sacks Health and Medical Education Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi,

the first woman minister of the country
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The Worlds longest high-speed rail having a distance of 2298 kms linking Beijing withGuangzhou is being inaugurated in China

The Government of Pakistan gives official recognition to Kosovo which separated fromSerbia in 2008

Russian Government announces demolition of the only Hindu temple in the country,ISKCON by 15th January,2013

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves the Parliament after the resignation ofthe Prime Minister Mario Monti

European Union decides to further tighten the trade sanctions imposed on Iran. Park Geun-hye becomes the president of South Korea, after defeating Moon Jae-in.She

is the first woman president of the country.

Queen Elizabeth attends Cabinet meeting.She is the first monarch to attend a cabinetmeeting after George-III

Japans Liberal Democratic Party who got a landslide victory has announced ShinzoAbe as the next Prime Minister of the country

20 year old Adam Lanza kills 27 people in Sandy Hook Elementary School,Connecticut, US

North Korea launches long-range rocket, Unha-3 inspite of strong opposition fromworld countries including the US

Bangladesh celebrates the 41st Anniversary of Independence as Victory Day Pak scientist Mohammed Khalil Chishti is cleared of murder charges by the Supreme

Court of India

Global Terrorism Index released by an Australian Institute puts India at fourth placeafter Iraq,Pakistan and Afghanistan in the list of nations worst hit by terrorism

Scientists in Northern Mexico discover a new dinosaur with very wide nose namedLatirhinus Uitstlani which lived almost 73 million years ago

Pakistan test fires mid-range nuclear capable Hatf-V Ghauri Ballistic missile A 200-year-old letter written in code by Napoleon Bonaparte in which he vows to blow

up the Kremlin has been sold for a whopping $243,500, 10 times its estimated pre-saleprice. Its first line reads: On the 22nd at 3 a.m. I will be blowing up the Kremlin.

Cinema Current Affairs december,2012

Noted Cinematographer, Bobby Singh passed away.He has worked for the hit filsGangster, The Dirty Picture etc.,
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Veteran US actor Jack Klugman who starred in a handful of Hollywood movies, passedaway at the age of 90 in Los Angeles

Bollywood actress Vidya Balan weds UTV head Siddharth Roy Kapoor PVR takes over the big screen multiplex giant Cinemax for Rs.395 crore, in one of the

biggest deals ever in the Indian movie industry

Hollywood film Life of Pi to be awarded two National Tourism Awards for promotingIndia as a tourism destination, especially Puducherry and Munnar in Kerala

The 8-day 17th International Film Festival of Kerala(IIFK) begins inThiruvananthapuram.Alfred Hitchcock's silent drama "The Ring" to be screened withlive orchetstra background during the inauguration ceremony

Rajnikanth starrer Sivaji 3D which releases on December 12th to be the first Indianfilm to use the latest Dolby Atmos technology which provides enhanced audio effects

Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan has been awarded the prestigious Medal ofHonour by the Prince of Morocco at the 12th Marrakech International Film Festival

Business Current Affairs december,2012

Budget airlines, Air India Express (AIE) to have its headquarters at Kochi Tea Board and ETC join hands to protect Darjeeling Tea, a rare coveted brew which is

desired globally

Ratan Naval Tata steps down as Chairman of Tata Sons, Cyris Mistry to take over Car maker Maruti announces plan to set up its second plant facility in the State of

Gujarat

Mitsui Corp announces buying marginal stake in the Gurgaon based Guardian Lifecare US based Cognizant has announced that it will acquire six companies of the C1 Group,

an independent consulting and IT services firm based in Germany

Real Estate firm DLF sells Luxury Hotel Chain Aman Resorts in a deal of Rs.1637crores

Infosys becomes the only Indian company to be featured in the list of the 100 keyliaison service outsourcing companies released by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce

General Motors appoints Rajesh Singh as its new Vice President-Sales, Marketing,Aftersales replacing Ashwani Muppasani

Samsung pushes Nokia to second spot to become the Worlds leading mobile brand for2012
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Cyrus Mistry takes over the Chairmanship of Tata Sons from Ratan Tata Temasek, the Singapore-based investment company, to acquire 19.99 per cent stake in

Godrej Agrovet Ltd. (GAVL), a subsidiary of Godrej Industries, for Rs.572 crore

Bupa Group buys 64% stake in the dental clinics business of Fortis Healthcare Ltd inAustralia

Marks & Spencer decides to add the Anti-bribery clause to all its contracts executed inIndia

Reliance Group signs joint venture pact with Chinese retail major, Dalian WandaGroup

Jet Airways tie up with Hyderabad based Ghar Pay to introduce cash-on-deliverypayment system for online tickets

Realty business group Lodha Developer buys Washington House, the residential towerin Mumbai for Rs. 342 crores

US based BPO company Sutherland Global Services acquires the outsourcing wing ofApollo Hospitals,Apollo Health Street for Rs.1000 crores

British Telecom(BT) sells its 9.1% stake in the IT firm Tech Mahindra in a deal worthUSD 183 million

Zynga, the creators of the widely popular game Farmville have decided to launch ownplatform, thereby parting ways with Face book

Google and Apple join hands to buy 1100 imaging patents of Eastman Kodak company US based Cargill India announces acquisition of Sunflower Vanaspathi brand from

Wipro Consumer Care & Lightings

Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL) acquires LD Waxson, the Singapore-based FMCG Company for 790 Crore Rupees

Maldivian Airport Company Limited(MACL), Government of Maldives takes charge ofMaldives Airport, expels the Indian company GMR Infra from the contract

Abudhabi based Etihad Airways may buy stake in the Indian carrier Jet Airways Uttar Pradesh Government decides to issue Golden Card to industrialists and

industrial associations for easy access to Secretariat and Government departments

Reliance Industries gets $2.1 billion credit from Export-Import Bank of US towardsexpansion of projects at Jamnagar, Gujarat

Mobile phone major Nokia to sell its headquarters building in Espoo, Finland to realestate investment firm Exilion Capital Limited for $223 million


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Bangalore based IT company MphasiS acquires US based data analytics companyDigital Risk for USD 200 million.

Jet Airways, the Indian carrier has expanded its code-share arrangement with JapansAll Nippon Airways

Books And Authors Current Affairs december,2012

Life of Pi is a 2012 American adventure drama film, based on the novel Life of Pi byYann Martel

Indian History Current Affairs december,2012

An event named Spandan being held at New Delhi in celebration of 150 years ofIndian Police

The state of Odisha to set up the country's first Public Health UniversityGeography Current Affairs december,2012

Tokyo selected as the highly decorated city of the world in a survey conducted by TripAdvisors

A researcher at Auckland Museum claims that Sandy Islands in South Pacific, whichwas displayed on the World maps as well as Google Earth does not really exist. Theisland has now been removed from the maps.

An earth quake of magnitude 7.3 struck North Eastern Japan.No immediate reports ofcasualty/loss.

Powerful typhoon Bopha hits southern regions of Philippines, killing around 500people

Honours And Awards Current Affairs december,2012

Astronomy Society of India(ASI) Aryabhatta Award for the years 2010 and 2011 to bepresented to Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam and Dr. V.K. Saraswat respectively

Venkatesh Mannar, a scientist of Indian origin is being awarded with the Order ofCanada

Oriya writer Pratibha Ray is selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for the year2011

Renowned poet and translator Shihab Ghanem of UAE selected for the prestigiousTagore Peace Prize

The study report released by the Planning Commission of India, Bihar becomes thefastest growing Indian state between 2006 and 2010
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A renowned Indian-American inventor at IBM, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, has beennominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for the prestigious National Medal ofTechnology and Innovation

Indian-American Smitha Singh is being named by US President Barack Obama asmember of the Presidents Global Development Council

Scientist Stephen Hawking to be awarded the Fundamental Physics Prize under specialcategory

Noted Malayalam poet, K. Satchitanandan selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards 2012. The President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav to be conferred with an honorary DLitt

degree by the Banaras Hindu University

K Karunakaran Foundation Best Administrator in India Award presented to the UnionFinance Minister, Mr.P. Chidambaram

TIME Magazines Person of the Year 2012 Award goes to US President, Mr.BarackObama

Outgoing Chairman Ratan Tata is being honoured with the Tilte of Chairman Emeritusby the Tata Group

Asia Pacific Brands Foundations BrandLaureate Legendary Award given away tonoted Bollywood Actor Shah Rukh Khan

Poet Sudip Sen becomes the first Indian to be invited as special guest to address theNobel Laureate Week held in St. Lucia.

Noted Bollywood actress Hema Malini selected as the winner of Bharat MuniSamman-2012

Bhanu Athaiya, the first Indian to win the Oscar Award has decides to return the awardwhich she won in 1982 for costume design in the film Gandhi

Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) to be awarded the Web RatnaAward-2012-Golden Icon Award

Pandit Ravishankar to be honoured with Lifetime Achivement Grammy Award

Second K Karunakaran Foundation Award to be presented to Union Finance MinisterMr.P Chidambaram

Web Ratna Award-2012 awarded to NIOS, AIR and DRDOs websites Peter Toghrille Hassan, the honorary Consul for Russian Federation has been chosen

for the Order de Mayo-Officer of the Order, the highest Civilian Award of the Republicof Argentina


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Congress Chief Ms.Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ranked12th and 19th positions in the Forbes List of Most Powerful People of the World

The photograph of Safdarjungs tomb in New Delhi taken by Mr.Pranav Singh securedthe first place in the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! (WLM), the online competitionorganised by Wikipedians all over the world.

NOted physicist E C G Sudarshan has been selected for the Kerala Science Award-2011. Renowned structural biologist Prof.M Vijayan has been selected for the Kerala Science

Award-2012

Goverment Plans And Schemes Current Affairs december,2012

The state of Assam to open around 50 public health centres with the help fromNational Rural Health Mission

Bhutan to provide 2000 MW Hydel Power to the state of Haryana

Botany Current Affairs december,2012

European Union(EU) to promote Potato to replace Rice in the rice consuming Asiancountries

The National Horticulture Research and Development Foundation, Nashik haddeveloped a new variety of Onion named NHRDF-RED-2

Education Current Affairs december,2012

Indian Institute of Management,Kozhikode to tie-up with Sharjah University, UAE tofacilitate international exchange programs The Union Government gives approval for setting up of the Indira Gandhi Centre for

Sustainable Development at Somerville College, University of Oxford

Karnataka State Womens University (KSWU) has decided to sign a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) with Gustavus Adolphus College and Concordia School ofBusiness of America

Environment Current Affairs december,2012

Kerala being declared as the number-one and most-searched travel destination inGoogle Search trends of 2012

Geologists fear extinction of North Pacific Hawaiian Islands in 1.5 Million years Recently released India State of Forest Report-2011 states that Madhya Pradesh is the

State in India with the largest forest cover
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The UN conference held at Doha decides to extend the Kyoto ProtocolMusic Current Affairs december,2012

Sitar maestro Bharath Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar passed away at the age of 92 in San-Diego

History Current Affairs december,2012

India to sign Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in criminal matters with four morenations-Israel, Azerbeijan, Nepal & Oman

India and Ukraine has signed 5 agreements to improve mutual co-operation in thefields of Defense, Science & Technology, Trade and Commerce during UkrainePresident Victor Yanukovichs visit to India

Pakistan Parliament asks its Government to declare the rights activist MalalaYousufzai as Daughter of Pakistan

Biology Current Affairs december,2012

Ireland to amend the laws to make abortions legal when the life of the mother is atrisk.The amendment follows the controversial death of Indian Savita Halappanavarwho died after being refused an abortion

Literature Current Affairs december,2012

Eminent Tamil Novelist, D Selvaraj wins the Sahitya Akademi Award for TamilLiterature 2012
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