Current Affairs Guiide

NEWS FEED 9TH DECEMBER

1. Iran launches own 'YouTube' website
Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to compete against Google's popular YouTube whose content is deemed inappropriate by the Islamic regime.**

2.World Human Rights Day-- December 10th***

3.India ranked 94th in TI corruption report
The latest report of Transparency International (TI) has ranked India 94th in the corrupt practices ranking among the 176 nations. The survey was topped by Denmark followed by Finland.**

4.Three Indian projects were figured in the list of global infrastructure to be showcased at the forthcoming Global Infrastructure Leadership Forumbeing held in New York in Feb-March, 2013. the projects listed from India are
1.The Hyderabad Metro Rail
2. Gujarat International Financial Tech city(GIFT city)
3. the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High speed Rail project.*

5.Hockey/Australia wins 5th Champions Trophy in a row(by defeating Netherlands in final)
Pakistan beats India in bronze medal match. **

OTHER
1.Present Revenue secretary -- Sumit Bose**

2. National Thermal Power Corporation of India(NTPC) chairman --Arup Roy choudhary**

3.UNFCCC-United Nation Frame work Convention on Climate change **

4. President of Maldives -- Mohammed Waheed *

5. NABARD-National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
chairman of NABARD - Prakash Bakshi**

NEWS FEED DECEMBER 7TH And 8TH

1. Double blow for boxing federation
The Indian Amateur Boxing Association (IABF) received a double blow when it was suspended by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) late on and then by the Union Sports Ministry on Friday over allegations of irregularities in its elections held on September 23.**

2. IT giant Microsoft has planned to establish 100 Microsoft Innovation Centres(innovation hubs) in the country over the next two years.*

3. Sports ministry derecognizes Archery Association of India (AAI).
Archery Association of India (AAI) president – V.K.Malhotra *
4. Wipro to acquire fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company L.D.Waxsons Group.**

5. US Supreme Court to hear same-sex marriage cases for the first time.*

6. Hollywood adventure film Life of Pi is all set to receive two National Tourism Awards from the Government for promoting India as a tourism destination, especially Puducherry and Munnar in Kerala. **

7.Global tech giant Apple has launched its iconic online digital media store iTunes in India to offer songs , albums and movies at cheaper rates.**

8.Senoir NCP leader Ajit pawar sworn in as deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.**

9. Asian Developmant Bank(ADB) lowered India’s growth forecast to 5.4% for 2012-13.*

10. World Junior Table tennis Championship begins in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh**

OTHER
1. Punjab Governor- Shivraj V.Patil **

2.IABF – Indian Amateur Boxing Federation
Chairman of IABF- Abhey Sing Chaatala**

3. DCGI- Drug Controller Genaral of India**

4. Hamad Al-Attiyah was the president of World Climate Change Conference 2012(COP18)**

5.ADB--Asian Development bank
President of ADB – Haruhiko Kuroda**

NEWS FEED DECEMBER 5TH 2012

1. Maldives wins airport dispute with GMR
The Maldives has won a court case allowing it to cancel a $511 million airport development contract for Ibrahim Nasir International Airport with GMR Infrastructure, clearing the way for it to take over its main airport.*

2. John McAfee denied asylum
Software company founder John McAfee was denied political asylum in Guatemala. (refer yesterday's news point 7)*

3. India's domestic air traffic growth to be world's 2nd highest

Global airlines' body International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its Airline Industry Forecast 2012-2016, saying only Kazakhstan, India and China would experience double-digit growth in domestic passenger traffic during the period, recording 22.5, 13.1 and 10.1 per cent growth respectively, adding a total of 49.3 million new passengers.*

4.P T Usha, P Gopichand, Dilip Tirkey in Indian Olympic Association's new Advisory panel to guide the office bearers on the problems faced by the athletes.*

5.Kerala High Court quashes case against former Chief Minister and veteran CPI(M) leader Achuthanandan in land allotment case.*

6.India has appointed Rajeev Shahare as the new High Commissioner to Maldives replacing incumbent D M Mulay.***

7.Obama tops the Forbes power list 2012 followed by German chancellor Angela Merkel.
INC president Sonia Gandhi stood at 13th spot. PM manmohan stood at 19th position.***

8.Indian's win in Wiki mega photo contest
Safdarjang's tomb clicked by Pranav Singh bagged the first prize while Narendar Kumar's photo of Taj Mahal got sixth place in the Wikimedia Loves Monuments 2012 online contest . **

9. Internet giant Google expanded Gmail attachment size to 10GB.

10. Parthasarathi Shome is appointed as adviser to Finance Minister Chidambaram.
Already shome was holding post as the chairman of committee on General Anti Avoidance Rules(GAAR).**

11. World Allergy Organisation's(WAO) four-day International scientific conference(Dec 6-9) was inaugurated by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in Hyderabad.*

OTHER:

1.Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme(RGESS)-- a government initiative aimed at attracting small investors into the capital market.**

2.Present Sports secretary --PK Deb *

3.Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra has won the 'Worlds Sexiest Asian Woman' crown, according to an on-line survey conducted by a weekly magazine.*

4.v.k.Malhotra was made life president of Indian Olympic Association(IOA).*

5.Atomic Energy Regulatory Board(AERB) chairman--S.S.Bajaj**

1. 20th Commonwealth Games will be held in
A. Glasgow
B. Sydney
C. Toronto
D. Britain
ans: A
2. Winner of 59th National Award for Best Actress
A. Aishwarya Rai
B. Vidya Balan
C. Priyanka Chopra
D. Tabu
ans: B
3. Which foreign restaurant chain is planning to launch 1000 stores in India by 2015 ?
A.Pizza Hut
B.Dominos
C. Subway
D. KFC
ans: D
4.Where will be the 46th Asian Development Bank Meeting of 2013 will be held?
A. New Delhi
B. Tokyo
C. Colombo
D. Kathmandu

Answer: New Delhi

NEWS FEED DECEMBER 5TH 2012

1.India, Bangladesh to sign extradition treaty in Jan next year.

2.Facebook to replace Infosys on Nasdaq 100.
Facebook's entry into the index comes after Infosys'(first Indian company to list on Nasdaq) move to shift its American Depositary Shares to the NYSE Euronext. *

3.A four member committee of Press Council of India(PCI)
headed by PCI member Rajeev Ranjan Nag was formed to look into whether there are instances of paid news during assembly elections.**

4.Chief Justices of Highcourts
M.Y.Eqbal-- Madras
Vikramjit Sen -- Karnataka
V.Gopalagowda--Odisha will be elevated as Supreme Court judges. With this elevation of three judges the strength of SC will go up to 28 as against the scheduled number of 31.***

5.Besse Cooper - the woman who was listed as the world's oldest person died yesterday in U.S at age 116.**

6.Supreme Court directs Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of Cauvery water per day to its neighbouring state Tamilnadu and asked the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) to hold its meeting to decide the amount of water required by the states.*

7.Fugitive John McAfee seeks asylum in Guatemala
American Internet pioneer John McAfee, wanted for questioning over the murder of his neighbour last month in Belize, is seeking political asylum in Guatemala .*

8. Bangalore has emerged as the best city to live in India, pipping other metro cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, in terms of overall quality of living, according to a latest worldwide survey of cities by global HR consultancy Mercer which was topped by Vienna.

Amongst Indian cities, Bangalore (139) ranks higher than New Delhi (143), Mumbai (146), Chennai (150) and Kolkata (151) in overall quality of living, according to Mercer's 2012 Quality of Living Index.**

9.India among nations most impacted by terrorism: Study
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan were among the nations most impacted by terrorism in 2011. The inaugural Global Terrorism Index (GTI) said Pakistan, India and Afghanistan accounted for 12 per cent, 11 per cent and 10 per cent of global terrorist incidents respectively from 2002 to 2009.*

SPORTS:

1. Golf/Rory McIlroy won four PGA Tour titles this year, including the PGA Championship by a record eight strokes has been named as the PGA Tour Player of the Year .**

OTHER:

CIS- Commonwealth of Independent States

SCO- Shangai Cooperation Organisation
Member states are CHINA , RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN, TAJIKISTAN, UZBEKISTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN.

NEWS FEED DECEMBER 4TH 2012
1.Vienna tops quality of life global survey of cities
Austria's capital Vienna offers its residents the best quality of life of any city in the world and Baghdad the worst, according to the latest global survey from consultant group Mercer.*\

2. Global ratings agency Moody's retained its negative outlook on Indian banking system citing the challenging nature of domestic operating environment.**

3. Microsoft launches Dynamics AX 2012 in India
Microsoft launched Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 - a single, powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that is purpose-built for five industries (manufacturing, distribution, retail, public sector and service industries) and includes rich capabilities to support administrative business processes.*

4. Golden Cards for industrialists in Uttar Pradesh
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to issue 'Golden Cards' to industrialists and industrial associations for easy access to its offices.
"The Golden Card facility is part of the larger endeavour of creating an industry-friendly environment in Uttar Pradesh .**

5. The Indian couple from Andhra Pradesh , V.Chandrasekhar and Anupama , wre sentenced for 20 months and 15months respectively by the District Olso Court on the charge of violating child rights and maltreatment of their seven-year-old son.*

6.The Internatioanl Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Indian Olympic Associayion(IOA) for ignoring its warning against holding elections under the National Sports Code.*

7.Naresh Fernandes has won the 2012 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for his “Tajmahal Foxtrot : The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age.***
8.Japan(BOJ- Bank of Japan ) and India(RBI) signed a Bilateral Swap Agreement(BSA) which enables both countries to swap their local currencies , either Japanese yen or Indian rupee against the U.S dollar for an amount up to $15billion.***


SPORTS:
1.London Olympics silver medallist Vijay Kumar(category:men's 25-metre rapid fire pistol) equalled his best ranking when he scaled to the number 2 spot in the world.*

2.Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha was the best-placed Indian at number five in the latest ICC Test Rankings , while Sachin Tendulkar was the only batsman to have found a place in the top-20 list.

Ojha dropped a place with 767 points, and so was Sachin Tendulkar, who was placed 18th with 669 points.

Seamer Zaheer Khan was ranked 14th in the bowlers' list with 652 points.
Pujara, who dropped a place, was ranked 21st with 665 points.*

3.Shooting/ Three time world champion and Asian Games Champion Abdullah Alrashidi of Kuwait won the S***t Gold(men) in the Asian Shotgun Championship at the New Moti Bagh Gun Club, Patiala.**

Other:
Present commerce secretary -- C.S.Rao.
ICAR- Indian Council of Agricultural Research
ICAR President – Sharad Pawar
Chairman – Gurubachan Singh
FEMA – Foreign Exchange Management Act
FCTC – Framework Convention On To***co Control

News feed December 3rd
1.Andhra Pradesh state creates history by enacting India's first legiaslation to implement sub-plans for SCs,STs.***

2.United Nations International Telecommunications Union(ITU) meet is going to be held in Dubai from Dec 3-14.**

3.International Disability Day - December 3rd***

4.Gigabit Internet comes to India at Kochi's Startup Village
Startup Village, the first public-private partnership model incubator in India, jointly promoted by the Central Government's Department of Science and Technology and Technopark, the country's largest IT park, has become the first place in the country to get an Internet connection capable of reaching Gigabit (1000Mbps) speed.**

5.Innoz touches one billion mark on SMS queries
Innoz, one of India's youngest and fastest growing mobile and wireless innovation company, said on the 20th anniversary of the first SMS message Monday it has touched the one billion queries mark on their flagship product 55444.*

6.Senior IPS officer Ranjit Sinha on Monday took over as the new CBI Director.Mr Sinha, who is also holding charge as Director General Indo-Tibetan Border Police, succeeds A P Singh who retired on November 30.***

7.Muhammad Ali, former world heavyweight boxing champion and widely considered to be the greatest pugilist of all time, will be named "King of Boxing" at the 50th convention of the World Boxing Council(WBC).**

8.Shah Rukh Khan gets Morocco's medal of honour
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has been conferred with Morocco's prestigious Medal of Honour at the ongoing Marrakech International Film Festival. **

9. Law Day award winners
Chief Justice of Nepal Khil Raj Regmi and Justice V. S. Sirpurkar, Chairman of the Competition Appellate Tribunal, are among the winners of the prestigious International Jurists Awards and National Law Day Awards. The National Law Day Award-2012 was presented to J. Venkatesan, legal correspondent of The Hindu newspaper . *

10. GMR - MALDIVES
The highcourt of Singapore stayed the termination order of the Government of Maldives served on GMR Internatioanl Airport Ltd (GMAIL).*

11. First Sikh to guard Buckingham Palace (in turban)
An Indian-origin Sikhatinderpal Singh Bhullar is all set to be the first person guarding the Buckingham Palace in his turban after being given the privilege not to wear the mandatory bearskin on ceremonial duties.

SPORTS

1.South Africa retained the top spot in the ICC Test rankings after beating Australia by a mammoth 309 runs in the third and final Test clinch the series 1-0 in Perth.*

2.Tennis star Samantha Stosur received the award for Australia's most outstanding player of the year for a third consecutive year at the Australian Tennis Awards in Melbourne.**

3. Nutchaya Sutarporn of Thailand captured the women's s***t gold in Asian Shotgun Championship at Patiala.*

4.Golf- Thailand's Pelnanong Phatlum won the Hero women's Indian Open .

Miscellaneous

Union of European Football Associations(UEFA)-- president Michel Platini

International Cricket Council(ICC) president -- Alan Isaac

FIPB- Foreign Investment Promotion Board

UNCLOS -- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seal.

DECEMBER 2TH 2012
1. Punjab is all set to host the third Kabaddi World Cup..

2. Sachin Dev Pavithran has been appointed as Member of Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board in an independent US agency devoted for people with disabilities by the Obama administration.

3. Californian company Yahoo was ordered to pay $2.7 billion by a Mexican court in a lawsuit stemming from allegations of breach of contract and lost profits related to a yellow pages listing service.

4. Squash ace Dipika Pallikal on Saturday became the first Indian to break into the top 10 of the world rankings.Pallikal jumped three places to be ranked 10th by Women's International Squash Players Association (WISPA) with 5175.75 points. She was also the first Indian women to break into the top 20 in the WSA rankings.

5. Morgan Stanley has raised India's FY13 GDP growth forecast to 5.4 percent from 5.1 percent, citing better-than-expected GDP growth for the September quarter and also the stabilization in non-agriculture growth indicators.

Other:
1. National Aids Control Organisation (NACO)

2. Internatioanal Olympic Committee(IOC) President –C.Jacques Rogge
Indain Olympic Association(IOA) acting president : Vijay Kumar

3. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) acting Chairperson-
Dr.S.S.Mantha

Chhath festival is celebrated in which state every year ?

Chhath is a festival celebrated in which state every year ?

November 18th 2012

1.Phnom Penh, Cambodia hosts the 21st ASEAN Summit and 7th East Asia Summit.

2.Present election commissioner of india- V.S.Sampath

3.Indian junior hockey team lost 2-3 to Germany in the final clash in Sultan of Johar cup hockey tournament.

4.India's womens squash team finished a best-ever fifth in WSF Women's World Team Squash Championship(Nimes, France) by defeating Ireland 2-1 in the classification match.

5. KOLKATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Chinese film, 11 Flowers on 17 November 2012 won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) Award at 18th Kolkata International Film Festival.

6.U.S lifted ten decade old ban on imports from Myanmar ahead of
Obama's visit to Nati(Mayanmar).

7.Kuchipudi doyen-Guru Vedantam Satyanarayana Sharma passed away. Kuchipudi is a classical dance from Andhra Pradesh, India.
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DIPP- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

GAAR-General Anti-Avoidance Rules

DTC-Direct Tax Code

LOCOG-London Olympic organising committee and its chairman is Sebastian Coe

Fajr missile belongs to which country ?