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Regulars

To our readers 3

Letter from Editor 4

Articles

FDI in Multi-brand retail 6

Better to die in battle with a God.... 14

Change of Guard in China 15

The corruption Perception Index 2012 17

GAAR: Is India Ready? 18

UN Climate Change Conference 21

Kasab sent to Gallows 27

Obama Re-elected 31

Gujaral Leaves Gujaral Doctrine behind 34

Palestine gets the country status 35

Nobel Prizes 2012 37

HIV estimation 2012 Report 44World Diabetes Day 2012 47

Indian Space Odyssey 48

Olympics 2012 53

Aadhaar enabled Services Delivery 59

Riging the Libor 61

What is PAN? 63

Vettel: The New King of F1 65

The 16th NAM summit 67

11th Conference of the Parties..... 70

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National Aairs 74

International Aairs 90

Awards & Honours 101Books and Authors 110

Persons & News 112

Meetings & Summits 120

Environment & Climate Change 124

Defence in News 128

Science & Technology 134

Health 139

Sports 142

Economy in News 157

The World Development Report 2013 163

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FDI in Multi Brand Retail

A Double Edged Sword

National Issue

Its less about the sword and more

about the swordsman who uses it

FDI in Multi Brand Retail is the issue which has

gripped the imagination of the entire nation. Govern-

ments decision to allow 51% FDI in the Multi Brand

Retail has given enough salvo to the people in op-

position and to the people in power to fire it at each

other in order to gain the political mileage. But the is-

sue in itself is very important from the countrys eco-

nomic perspective, as the retail sector is the second

largest employer after the Agriculture sector. Indian

Council for Research on International Economic Re-

lations (ICRIER) study says that Indian retail sector is

expected to contribute around 22 per cent of Indias

GDP by 2012. According to the various estimates

more than 4 crore retail-

ers are having employ-

ment from the sector.

These 4 crore job hold-

ers are the breadwin-

ners of around 20 crore

population. Agriculture

is one of the sectors

which is directly associ-

ated with the retail sec-tor and Agriculture and

allied activities contrib-

utes around 14% in the

Indias GDP. More than

two third of countrys

population is still de-

pendent on agriculture

and allied activities.

Indian retail market is one of the fastest growing retail

markets in the world and is valued at around US $

450 billion. Indian Retail market is considered as one

of the five biggest retail markets of the world. India is

one of the most attractive destinations for the globalinvestors as India is having a rapidly growing middle

class economy with the high levels of disposable

income. More than 30 percent of Indian population

is living in urban area and the rapid growth of

urbanization contributes further positively. Around

64 percent of Indias population is in the working age

group, this makes India even more lucrative from

the FDI in retail perspective. Apart from this Indias

organised retail market is growing with the rate of

around 39 percent per annum in compared to around6 percent of the unorganised retail.

One of the important distinguishing feature of Indian

Retail market is its structural aspect. Around 94

percent of Indian retail market is in the unorganised

sector, whereas in case of US, 85% of its retail

market is in the organised form. This is why also

Biggest Retailers of the World

Rank Company Country of Origin

1 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. US

2 Carrefour S.A. France

3 Tesco PLC UK

4 Metro AG Germany

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margins, they virtually would be wiped out as

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giants in place of number of retailers, the

competition will shrink, and the big retail giants

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and thus will be fixing the arbitrary prices and

thus may fuel the inflation especially in case of

the essential commodities like food products,

and this it may jeopardize the interest of the

ordinary consumer.

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Just five days before the Fourth anniversary of the

26-11-2008 Mumbai Attack, Pakistan national and

LeT terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone

survivor of the Pakistan-based militant squad that

consisted of 10 terrorist which were responsible for

a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people,

was hanged till death amid great secrecy on 21st

November 2012 at 7.30 am at the Yerwada central

prison in Pune. Kasab signed his death warrant

before being moved to the Pune jail on November

19. Later kasab was buried inside the Yerwada

jail at 9.30 am. Yerawada is one of the two jails in

Maharashtra (the other being Nagpur Central Jail)

where hanging facilities are available.

With respect to the hanging of kasab, Union Minister

of Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde said: Ajmal

Kasab was hanged at 7:30am. It took the Maharashtra

government less than two weeks to hang Kasabafter President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy

petition on November 5. Two days later, Union

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde signed on the

file. It was sent to the Maharashtra government on

November 8 and November 21, today, was fixed

as the date of execution. Union home secretary R

K Singh said: Family members of Kasab informed

about the hanging through a letter sent by courier.

It is to be noted here that after nearly a four-year-

long legal battle, the Supreme Court on August 29

had confirmed the death penalty awarded to the

Lashkar-e-Taiba operative by a trial court which was

later upheld by the Bombay high court.

Execution of Kasab may have brought an end to one

chapter of the 26/11 and may give a temporary sigh

of relief and a reason to rejoice, but the real justice

is still elusive as the real perpetrators are still at

large and roaming free in the neighbouring country.

India should try and put international diplomatic and

other type of pressures in order to bring the real

culprits to the book. Along with this, in the wake of

such terrorist attack there is a need to establish a

separate dedicated mechanism and enactment of

a separate law dealing with such heinous and anti

national crimes.

Kasab sent to Gallows

Fighting Terror

Noted Sand Artist

Sudarshan Patnaik

made this creation to

tribute the victims of

26/11 innocents.


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The Democratic nominee and incumbent US

President Barack Obama, and his running mate

and incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, were

elected to a second term of Four years in the 57th

quadrennial United States presidential election

held on November 6, 2012. Barack Obama

defeated the main challengers, Republican

nominee and former Massachusetts Gover-

nor Mitt Romney and his running mate,Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Obama carried 26 states and the Washington

DC while Romney won in the

24 states. Obama won in all

those states which he had

won in the 2008 election

except North Carolina,

Indiana and Nebraskas

2nd congressional district.

Obama will assume the

charge of the second

tenure of 4 years on 20th

January, 2013. Obama is the

44th person to become

the President of US.

In the elections, Obama Sec-

ured 332 Electors Votes in

the total 538 electoral votes

of the Electoral College from

the 50 states and the District ofColumbia. The US President is

indirectly elected to a four-year term

by an Electoral College consisting of 538 electors.

The 538 electors, includes 435 representatives and

100 senators, plus the three electors from the District

of Columbia. California (55), Texas (34), New York

(29), Florida (29), Illinois (20) and Pennsylvania (20),

are the states which are having the larger numbers

of electors in the electoral college. Obama won in

the Five out of those Six largest states, Romney

could win only in Texas. Alaska, Delaware, Montana,

North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming

are the states which have three electors each, least

among the states.

Obama Re-elected

US Elections

Graphical representation of statewise Seats won by

Democratic and Republican Parties


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The principal deliberative Organ

of UN, United Nations General

Assembly (UNGA) voted by an

overwhelming majority on the historic

day of 29th November to grant the

Non - Member Observer State

status to Palestine. The resolution

was passed by the 138 votes in favourof the resolution while 9 members

(Canada, Czech Republic, Israel,

Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru,

Panama, Palau, United States) voted

against. 41 countries abstained from

the voting and 5 countries were

absent. Germany, South Korea, and

UK were the prominent among the

countries which abstained. UNGA

consist of all (193) members of the

UN and every member country have

one vote each.

While the resolution was being

brought before the UNGA, Mahmoud

Abbas, President of the Palestinian

Authority said that this is the last

chance to save the long elusive

two-state solution. And he further

said the objective is to Breathe New

Life into Peace Process.

This vote of 29th November is a step in the direction of Palestinian Statehood. Now Palestine would be able to

join various UN agencies. Most importantly, it can now apply to sign the Rome Statute of International Criminal

Court and thus can press the charges against Israel for committing crimes against the people of Gaza.

Palestine will Join the Holy See ( Vatican City ) as the Non - Member Observer State to the United Nations.

It can be recalled that earlier, in 2011, Palestine applied for the full membership of the UN, but the bid was

cut short after UN Security Council did not approve the same. UN Membership decision is taken by the UN

General Assembly on the recommendation of the UN Security Council and the Five Permanent Members of the

Palestine Gets the Country Status

International Issue

Palestine (Westbank and Gaza)


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Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly

to Serge Haroche (French National born in Moocco)

and David J. Wineland (US) for ground-breaking

experimental methods that enable measuring and

manipulation of individual quantum systems.Haroche and Wineland have opened the door to a

new era of experimentation with quantum physics by

demonstrating the direct observation of individual

quantum particles without destroying them. For

single particles of light or matter the laws of classical

physics cease to apply and quantum physics takes

over. But single particles are not easily isolated from

their surrounding environment

and they lose their mysterious

quantum properties as soon as

they interact with the outside

world. Thus many seemingly

bizarre phenomena predicted

by quantum physics could

not be directly observed, and

researchers could only carry out

thought experiments that might in principle manifest

these bizarre phenomena.

Their ground-breaking methods have enabled this

field of research to take the very first steps towards

building a new type of super fast computer based on

quantum physics. This research has also led to the

construction of extremely precise clocks that could

become the future basis for a new standard of time,

with more than hundred-fold greater precision than

present-day caesium clocks.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded

jointly to Robert J. Lefkowitz (US) and Brian K. Kobilka

(US) for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.

Nobel Prizes 2012

Awarding Achievements

Sir Alfred Nobel

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland :Nobel Prize in Physics, 2012


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pics 2012 took place

in London, United

Kingdom, from 27

July to 12 August

2012. London be-

came the first city to

host the Olympicsthree times, London

earlier have hosted

the games in 1908 and in 1948. London was select-

ed as the host city on 6 July, 2005 during the 117th

IOC Session in Singapore, defeating bids from Mos-

cow, New York City, Madrid and Paris. The first event,

the group stage in womens football, began two days

earlier, on 25 July. More than 10,000 athletes from

204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) partici-

pated in the London Olympics

The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics

was called Isles of Wonder. It was directed by

the Oscar winning director Danny Boyle. Inspire a

Generation was the Motto of the London Olympics.

Survival by Muse was announced as the official

song of the Olympics 2012.

The Games were officially opened by Queen Eliza-

beth II, Queen of the United Kingdom accompa-

nied by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. These

were the second Games, personally declared

opened by queen herself, the first being the 1976

Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Sarah

Stevenson, a British Taekwondo athlete, adminis-

tered the Athletes Oath in the Olympics.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic

Games (LOCOG) was chaired by Lord Coe, the two

time gold medalist in the 1500 m in 1980 Moscow

Olympics and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

The 2012 Summer Olympic programme featured 26

sports (2 Sports less than that of in Beijing Olympics)

encompassing 39 disciplines. Womens boxing was

included for the first time and thus the 2008 Olympics

became the first Olympics in which every sport

had female competitors. In tennis, mixed doubles

returned to the Olympic programme for the first time

since 1924. IOC voted to drop baseball and softballfrom the 2012 Games two days after it had selected

London as the host city.

Around 10,820 athletes from 204 National Olympic

Committees (NOCs) took part in London Olympics.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei entered female

athletes for the first time, so that every currently

eligible country has sent a female competitor to at

least one Olympic Games.

During the Games, eight competitors in the badmintonwomens doubles were disqualified for not using

best efforts, when they tried to lose matches in the

group stage to obtain more favourable fixtures in the

knockout rounds.

Nadzeya Ostapchuk, a Belarusian shot putter was

stripped of London 2012 gold medal as she failed in

the Dope test she was tested positive for metenolone

and the medal was awarded to New Zealand shot

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putter Valerie Adams. Bronze medalist Uzbekistani

wrestler Soslan Tigiev, was stripped of the medal

after he was tested positive for the banned stimulant

methylhexaneamine.

Ocial Mascots

Wenlock and Man-

deville were the of-

ficial mascots for the

London Olympics

and London Para-

lympics. They were

named after the town

of Much Wenlock inShropshire - which

hosted a precursor to

the modern Olympic

Games in the 19th

Century - and the birthplace of the

Paralympic Games, Stoke Mandeville

hospital in Buckinghamshire. It is be-

lieved that the Wenlock Games gave

inspiration to French Pierre de Couber-

tain for the start of modern Olympics in

1896. The two characters are the Drops

of steel with cameras for eyes.

The Olympic Torch Relay

The 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay

was run from 19 May until 27 July, prior

to the London 2012 Summer Olympics. It

toured the United Kingdom, three crown

dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and

the Isle of Man, and also the Republic ofIreland. The 2012 Olympic Torches were

made of aluminium alloy skin, perforated

by 8,000 circles to represent the 8,000

torchbearers who would carry the flame.

The triangular shape of torches represented:

The three London 2012 Olympic values

- respect, excellence and friendship,

three Olympic Games hosted by the UK

(1908, 1948 and 2012), the 2012 Olympics vision

of sport, education and culture. It also represented

the Three Motto of Olympic games - Citius, Altius,

Fortius (means faster, higher, stronger). Fuel used

for the torch ignition was combination of butane and

propane.

It is lit from the suns rays at the Temple of Hera in

Olympia in Greece. The Flame is then delivered to

the Host Country. The Olympic Flame stands for

peace, unity and friendship. It ends its journey as the

last Torchbearer lights the Cauldron at the Opening

Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium, marking the

official start of the Games. The Flame then stays lit

until it is put out at the Closing Ceremony, signifyingthe end of the Games.

Medals

Olympic and Paralympic were designed by

David Watkins for Olympics and Lin Cheung for

Paralympics. The medals were produced by the

Royal Mint at its headquarters in Llantrisant, South

Wales. 2012 Olympic medals weigh 375-400g, are

85mm in diameter and 7mm thick. The gold medal

(with a minimum of 6g of gold) is made up of 92.5%

silver and 1.34% gold, with the remainder copper.

The silver medal is made up of 92.5% silver, with the

remainder copper and the bronze medal is

made up of 97.0% copper, 2.5% zinc

and 0.5% tin. On the Obverse (Front

Side) of the medal, features Nike, the

Greek goddess of victory,

stepping from the

Panathinaiko Stadium

that hosted the firstmodern Olympic

Games in 1896, with

Parthenon in the

background; On the

reverse (Back side),

features the Games

logo and the River

Thames. Required amount of Gold, Silver, Copper

and Tin has been supplied by London 2012 sponsor

Wonlook & Man-deville :

Ocial Mascots, Olympics, 2012

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begining of the Season 2012 was not to the liking of

the vettel so was the begining of the last race of the

2012 season. He was dropped last at the end of the

lap one in the race following a collision, but he fought

back from that situation in an incident-packed, rain-

affected race, and finished sixth. His rival Fernando

Alonso of Ferrari finished second, and that means

Alonso needed Vettel to be lower than seventh to winthe title.

Jenson Button (British) of McLaren won the Brazilian

GP ahead of Fernando Alonso. Felipe Massa (Ferrari),

Mark Webber (Red Bull) and Nico Hulkenberg (Force

India) finished with the race at 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th

positions respectively.

Sebastian

Vettel:

Sebast ian

Vettel was

born on 3rd

July 1987 in

Heppenheim,

West Germany.

Sebastian Vettelis currently driving

for the Austrian

racing team Red

Bull Racing. In his first

year driving for Red Bull

in 2009, Vettel finished the

season as the youngest-ever

World Drivers championship

runner-up. In 2010, Vettel

Vettel: The New King of F1

F1 Race

Sebastian Vettel Does the Hat Trick

Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel of Germany won a third

consecutive world drivers title by a margin of three

points over the second placed Fernando Alonso

(Spain). Now, Vettel has become the only third driver

to win three F1 races in a row after Argentine Juan

Manuel Fangio (won four in a row between 1954 and

1957) and German Michael Schumacher (won five in

a row between 2000 and 2004) who finished seventh

for Mercedes in his final race at the Brazilian GP.

Vettel also became the ninth driver ever to win three

titles or more in the F1 history.

This season was quite different than the last two

seasons were for the youngest ever F1 triple

Champion. In 2010 season, Vettel had a 15-point

deficit on Ferraris Fernando Alonso at the final race,

while in 2011 Vettel dominated the season in such a

comfortable manner that he won the championship with

four races to spare. F1 Championship was far

from over till the last race and both Alonso

and Vettel had opportunities to get a hand

on the trophy. Alonso was leading ahead

the vettel till the sixteenth race of the

season. In sixteenth race, Vettel took

the lead. He won Singapore Grand

Prix, Japanese Grand Prix, Korean

Grand Prix and Indian Grand Prix

in a row to strengthen his position

at the top. Vettel entered the final

race of the season with a 13-

point lead over

Alonso.

As the


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3PORTS

Sourth Africa Win the Test Series against Australia

South Africa retained the Number One ranking in the test cricket by defeating Australia in the 3rd and the

decider test match at Perth, Australia. South Africa won the test series by 1-0 as the first two tests at Brisbane

and Adelaide ended in a Draw. The South African cricket team toured Australia from 2 November to 4 December

2012 to play a three test match series. Australian Captain Michael Clarke,, who was the top run scorer in the

test series with 576 runs, adjudged as the Player of the Series. During the test series Michael Clarke also

created a record, when he became the first man to score four double-centuries in a calendar year.

South African fast bowler, Morne Morkel was the highest wicket taker in the series with a tally of 14 wickets.

3rd test of played at Perth was also the last test played by former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, as he

declared his retirement from the international cricket owing to his dismal performance in the last some series.


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Q.1 It is said that, in order to control inflation, foreign

inflow needs to be sterilized. Sterilization here

refers to:(a) Ensuring that counterfeit currency does not

enter circulation

(b) Ensuring that black money is accounted for

(c) Withdrawing equivalent local currency to

Q.5 Which of the following are the main causes of the

slow rate of growth of per capita income in India?

1. High rate of capital formation.2. High level of fiscal deficits.

3. High rate of growth of populations.

(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 only

(c) 1 and 3 only (d) 2 and 3 only

Asst. P. F. Commissioner (UPSC)-2012

Combined Defence Service (II)-2012

Directions :

The following seven (7) items consist of two statements,

statement I and statement II. You are to examine these two

statements carefully and select the answers to these items

using the code given below:-

Code :

(a) Both the statements are individually true and

Q.6 Statement I : Operation Parakram involved the

mobilization of Indian troops along Indias border

with Pakistan.

Statement II : After the year 2001 Parliament

attacks, India wanted to pressure Pakistan into

acting against terror groups operating from areas

under its control.

Combined Graduate Level (SSC)-2012

1 Who will head the Jury of the Awards Committees

of Padma, Ratna and other highest honorary

awards?

(a) Home Minister

(b) Prime Minister of India

(c) President of India

Q.6 Which one of the following market structures has a

kinked demand curve?

(a) Oligopoly

(b) Monopolistic competition

(c) Perfect competition

(d) Monopoly

Practice Questions : Current Afairs

Q.1 Who among the following was recently appointed

as Director-General of the Central Reserve Police

Force (CRPF)?(a) Bikram Singh (b) Pranay Sahay

Q.7 Who is recently appointed as the New Chief

Justice of India (39th) after the retirement of S. H.

Kapadia?(a) Altamas Kabir (b) J S Verma

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