the union government

8/2/2019 The Union Government

1/12

1. The Union government of India on 1 March 2012 sanctioned a special package of 130crore Rupees for Arunachal Pradesh for the modernisation of the police forces in troubled

Tirap and Changlang districts of the state

2. Advisory group on asset reconstruction firms favoured $20 billion limit for investmentsby foreign institutional investors in SRs issued by securitisation firms

3. A survey compiled by Fortune India and global management consultancy Hay Groupwhich was released on 13 March 2012

4. In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad set 7 May 2012 as the date for parliamentaryelections. This would be the third election for parliament since President Bashar Al Assad

became the President of Syria

5. Rupert Murdoch-led News Corp on 12 March 2012, sold its entire 17.3 per cent stake inHathway Cable & Datacom for 358 crore Rupees

6. The apex decision-making body of the communications ministry cleared the proposal toenable the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to act like a civil court

7. Report of the probe by the income-tax department into the allegations labeled againstjustice KG Balakrishnan was submitted to the Supreme Court

8. As per data released by the Commerce Ministry, India's merchandise exports in Februarygrew only by 4.3 per cent to $24.6 billion

9. Indias leading tyre manufacturer CEAT, on 12 March 2012, appointed Anant Goenka asits new Managing Director

10.Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh announced national award forsanitation & water in name of Maharashtrian saint Sant Gadge Baba

11.As per the data released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation on12 March 2012, Indian industrial sector registered a growth of 6.8 per cent


2/12

12.Researchers in the second week of March 2012 invented fibre-optic technology, under aproject called Sardana to run ultra-fast Internet

13.India and Colombia on 12 March 2012 signed a Cultural Exchange Programme (CEP) inNew Delhi for the Years 2012-2016

14.RBI reduced the CRR from 5.50 per cent to 4.75 per cent of deposits to ease the liquiditycrunch being faced by banks

15.Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India went up by 31 per cent to 27.5 billion USDollars in 2011 despite uncertain global economic slowdown

16.Task force, appointed by the steel ministry to provide the basis for the new steel policy

recommended underground mining in the Western Ghats

17.Reliance Communications on 12 March 2012 unveiled Indias first CDMA networktechnology driven tablet computers

18.The Assam government inked an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on9 March 2012

19.The Nagaland government on 9 March 2012 signed a Memorandum of Understandingwith NABARD

20.Indias ace Badminton player Saina Nehwal suffered a straight-game defeat in thewomen's singles quarterfinals of theAll England Championship

21.BJP-MGP combine emerged victorious in the Goa assembly elections 2012 the alliancepocketed 26 seats

22.Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro(L&T) on 9 March 2012 elevatedShailendra Roy as a whole-time director of the company


3/12

23.Indias largest engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) on 9March 2012 appointed director and board member K.Venkataramanan

24.Kolkata based Hindustan Motors on 11 March 2012 launched the Mitsubishi Pajero SportSUV in India

25.Indian batting maestro and former captain Rahul Dravid, on 9 March 2012, announcedhis retirement from international cricket

26.The Congress party emerged as the single largest party in Uttarakhand Assembly Election2012

27.Scientists claimed to find the treatment for Glaucoma in rats, which could lead to an

effective treatment for blindness in humans

28.The alliance of Shiromani Akali Dal and Bhartiya Janata Party emerged victorious inPunjab Assembly Polls 2012

29.The Assam government introduced the Mamoni scheme in the state under the NationalRural Health Mission. The aim of the scheme is to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio

30.PE investors in February 2012 offloaded stakes worth $751.45 million across eight openmarket transactions

31.Mulayam Singh Yadav led Samajwadi Party recorded a landslide victory in Uttar PradeshAssembly Polls 2012

32.Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan named Best Actress at the 59th National Film Awards33.State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) on 8 March 2012 resumed oil

supplies to Kingfisher Airlines after the airline agreed to pay for daily fuel off-take


4/12

34.The incumbent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won the Russian Presidential Election with63.75 percent of votes as per the result declared by the Russian Central Election

Commission (CEC) on 5 March 2012

35.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Indian Power giant Tata Power on 5 March 2012, joinedhand with South African firm Exxaro to explore opportunities in South African

electricity generation market

36.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Hyundai Motor India on 5 March 2012 appointed BoShin Seo as the new managing director of company

37.Sports Current Affairs 2012. Veteran Anjum Chopra was slated to captain the Indian

women's cricket team in the limited-over series against Australia

38.India Current Affairs 2012. Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) on 5 March 2012 hiked theselling price of CNG by 1.70 Rupees per kg in Delhi

39.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Indias largest private sector lender ICICI Bank alongwith Bank of Baroda, Citicorp Finance India Ltd, Life Insurance Corporation launched

India's first infrastructure debt fund

40.India Current Affairs 2012. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights(NCPCR) on 4 March 2012 released guidelines to eliminate physical punishment and to

discipline schools. The NCPCR survey disclosed that the use of physical punishments is

common in Indian schools

41.India Current Affairs 2012. UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa recorded the highest evervoting percentage in their history in the recently concluded Assembly elections

42.Sports Current Affairs 2012. Indian national women Kabaddi team clinched maidenwomen World Cup Kabaddi championship title on 4 March 2012


5/12

43.Sports Current Affairs 2012. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) appointed Dav Whatmore asits national team coach on 4 March 2012

44.Sports Current Affairs 2012. South Africa made a 3-0 clean sweep against New Zealand45.Sports Current Affairs 2012. Indian Tennis pair of Mahesh Bhupati and Rohan Bopanna

won the doubles title of Dubai Open on 3 March 2012

46.Sports Current Affairs 2012. World no. 2 Roger Federar defeated third seeded AndyMurray in the singles final of Dubai Open on 4 March 2012

47.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Uninor and Sistema Shyam filed a petition on 2 March2012 seeking review of Supreme Court's order to cancel their 2G licences

48.India Current Affairs 2012. The Union government on 1 March 2012 sanctioned a specialpackage of 130 crore Rupees for the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh

49.India Current Affairs 2012. Uttarakhand government on 2 March 2012 introduced e-stamping in the state, which would ensure a secure way of paying non-judicial stamp

duty to the government

50.India Current Affairs 2012. Uttarakhand government on 2 March 2012 introduced e-stamping in the state, which would ensure a secure way of paying non-judicial stamp

duty to the government

51.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. A Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices justices HL Dattu and C K Prasad on 2 March 2012 recused itself from hearing a Public Interest

Litigation

52.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. RK Tyagi took charge as Chairman of HindustanAeronautics Limited (HAL), the defence enterprise of the government of India


6/12

53.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. The Company Law Board (CLB) on 1 March 2012returned the petitions of Telenor and Unitech for technical errors

54.India Current Affairs 2012. The Delhi high court on 1 March 2012 quashed petitions filedby 12 Delhi councillors in which they had challenged the notification issued by state

election commission

55.Environment & Ecology Current Affairs 2012. Current Affairs 2012. The Supreme Courtof India ruled that the states and Union Territories could now grant leases for mining

minor minerals in less than 5 hectares and to renew them they needs prior approval from

the Union Environment Ministry

56.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Sesa Goa Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary ofVedanta Resources on 1 March 2012 acquired Goa Energy Private Limited from

Videocon

57.International Current Affairs 2012. India and China decided to have maritime cooperationto build confidence. This was decided during the talks between the External Affairs

Minister S M Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in New Delhi

58.India Current Affairs 2012. The Supreme Court of India on 2 March 2012 appointed itsformer judge, Justice H S Bedi as the chairman of the monitoring authority. He will

investigate the case of 22 alleged fake encounter killings in Gujarat between 2002 and

2006

59.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Asia Pacific's leading media technology company,Komli Media acquired South East Asia's largest digital media network Admax Network

on 29 February


7/12

60.International Current Affairs 2012. A US (United States) federal judge dismissed alawsuit filed against the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The lawsuit alleged

that the human rights abuses occurred during the civil war in Sri Lanka

61.Economy Current Affairs 2012. Department of Disinvestment listed eight CPSEs whosecash surpluses amount to more than Rs 55580 crore for the purpose of buy back under

disinvestment norms

62.Internatioanl Current Affairs 2012. India handed over 20 million Dollars standby loan toMaldives in view of the difficult financial situation

63.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. MindTree Limited on 29 February 2012 appointed

Subroto Bagchi as its chairman. Bagchi who is also the co-founder of Mindtree

64.India Current Affairs 2012. The Union cabinet of India approved the proposed changes inthe Motor Vehicle Act 1988, which includes longer jail terms and higher fines for repeat

traffic violations

65.Economy Current Affairs 2012. As per the data released by CSO, Indias economic

growth rate dipped to 6.1% in the third quarter (October-December) of 2011-12

66.India Current Affairs 2012. Union government on 29 February 2012 gave its approval tothe long-pending drainage basin flood control project

67.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Varun Berry, Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo IndiaFood resigned from the company on 29 February 2012

68.India Current Affairs 2012.The National Tourism Awards 2010-11 were conferred bythe President of India Pratibha Devisingh Patil on 29 February 2012 in New Delhi

69.International Current Affairs 2012. As per Unicefs State of the Worlds Children Report2012, 18% of those below 15 years and 47% of those below 18 years are married in India


8/12

70.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. James Murdoch on 29 February 2012 stepped down asExecutive Chairman of News International, UK news paper arm of News Corporation

71.India Current Affairs 2012. In National Tourism Awards 2010-11, which was conferredon 29 February 2012, Madhya Pradesh emerged victorious by bagging maximum number

of awards

72.Economy Current Affairs 2012. union government decided to boost public spending inthe health sector to 2.5 per cent of GDP from the current 1.4 per cent over five years

73.International Current Affairs 2012. North Korea agreed to suspend its nuclear anduranium enrichment programme in return for US food aid. USA had promised North

Korea 240000 tonnes of nutritional assistance and food aid

74.Economy Current Affairs 2012. As per the data released by CAG, fiscal deficit stood atRs 4.34 lakh crore, or 105% of the total annual target in April-January period of 2011-12

75.Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Public sector lender Syndicate Bank on 29 February2012 appointedMadhukant Girdharlal Sanghvi as its new Chairman


9/12

International Current Affairs 2012. India and ADB Signed the third and last tranche of loan

agreement to support electricity transmission and distribution capacity in Assam

India Current Affairs 2012. Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry on 28 February 2012

launched a web portal for implementation of the National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for

Secondary Education (NSIGSE) in New Delhi

International Current Affairs 2012. India on 29 February 2012 took over the chair of assembly

and governing board of Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI)

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Indian IT major Tata Consultancy Services on 28 February 2012

joined hand with US based business application software services firm Infor

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Fujitsu India, Indian subsidiary of Japanese IT equipment and

services company Fujitsu, launched its new notebook series on 28 February 2012

India Current Affairs 2012. Sushil Kumar Modi, the deputy chief minister and the finance

minister of Bihar, on 23 February 2012, presented the budget of state for the year 2012-13

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Kotak Securities, the stock broking and distribution body of the

Kotak Mahindra Group, on 28 February 2012 unveiled a ready to trade kit

India Current Affairs 2012. A four member expert panel on Kudankulam nuclear plant project

headed by S. Iniyan submitted its report on 28 February 2012

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Tata Capital on 28 February 2012 joined hand with private

sector lender Axis Bank to launch a travel card


10/12

Economy Current Affairs 2012. According to data released by the ministry of commerce and

industry, output of eight core segments of manufacturing sector dipped to 0.5% in January 2012

International Current Affairs 2012. The UN Human Rights Council asked Syria to immediately

stop the attacks on civilians by the security forces

India Current Affairs 2012. 1977 batch IAS officer and additional chief secretary (finance) CK

Mathew was named be the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan on 28 February 2012

International Current Affairs 2012. USA refused to change its Afghanistan strategy in view of

the recent violence

India Current Affairs 2012. The marines of Italian ship Enrica Lexie Latore Massimiliano and

Salvatore Girone on 15 February 2012 allegedly killed two Kerala fishermen

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Online shopping major Flipkart on 27 February 2012 unveiled

its digital music store Flyte

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, a Navratna company

owned by the government, on 28 February 2012 appointed R.P. Singh as the Director

NourishCo Beverages, a joint venture between Pepsi co and Tata Global Beverages appointed

Pratik Pota as its new CEO on 27 February 2012

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Indias largest bank, State Bank of India on 27 February 2012,

announced to reduce its interest rate on education loan by 1 percent

India Current Affairs 2012. Delhi government on 28 February 2012 hiked the reservation for

OBC [Other Backward Classes] in higher education institutions from 21 percent to 27 percent


11/12

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Norwegian Telecom company Telenor and its Indian joint

venture partner Unitech on 27 February 2012 moved a fresh petition before Company Law Board

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. Indias leading telecom company Airtel on 28 February 2012

joined hand with IT major Infosys for its Mobile Wallet service across the country

International Current Affairs 2012. The 84th Academy Awards ceremony/Oscars was hosted by

the AMPAS at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood on 26 February 2012

India Current Affairs 2012. JKLF chief Yasin Malik was charged by a local court under the

Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota) for allegedly raising funds to strengthen armed activity

India Current Affairs 2012. Indian soccer legend Sailendra Nath Manna, popularly known as

Sailen Manna, died in Kolkata on 27 February 2012

Economy Current Affairs 2012. Trade unions rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal

to call off the all-India strike called on 28 February 2012

International Current Affairs 2012. United Nations (UN) on 23 February 2012, appointed former

UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria

Science & Technology Current Affairs 2012. A new research into bird flu suggests that the

disease may be far less deadly to humans than previously thought

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. US banking major Citi group on 25 February 2012 sold its 9.85

percent stake in HDFC, Indias biggest mortgage lender, for around 1.9 billion dollar

Sports Current Affairs 2012. South African Women Hockey team on 25 February 2012, defeated

Indian Women Hockey Team to qualify for the London Olympics 2012


12/12

Corporate Current Affairs 2012. The mining giant Vedanta on 25 February 2012 merged its

Indian subsidiaries, Sterlite Industries into sister concern and iron ore miner Sesa Goa

the union government

Documents