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[PIN 2013] Persons in News, Committees, Summits, Awards, Books,Authors, Sports, Places, current compilation for IBPS-PO/MT,CAPF,CDS,SSC

1. Prologue

2. [PIN] Indian Politics, Constitutional, Statutory, Bureaucrats

1. National commissions

2. Committees Commissions Task forces

3. Defense

4. International Relations (IR)

1. [IR] Summits/Treaties 2013

2. [IR-PIN] Prez/PM of Foreign countries

3. [IR-PIN] Diaspora/ Indians awarded abroad

5. Economy: Regulators/Top Bodies

1. [News] Economy related

2. [News] Infra related

3. Schemes

4. [News]Polity

6. Civilian Awards/Achievements

1. [Awards] Nobel 2013

2. [Awards] Public service/media/Courage

3. [Awards] Movies/Beauty

4. [Awards] Academic/Arts

7. Books in News

1. [Books] Non-Booker Awards

2. [Books] List of Books and Authors

8. Sports

1. Football

2. Cricket

3. Hockey

4. Tennis 2013

5. Badminton

6. Olympics

7. Sport Mascots

9. Places in News

10. Dead

11. Stamps in News

12. Space/Sci-Tech related

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Prologue

The present article is PIN 2013. Dealing from Jan2013 upto 13th Oct2013.Mainly keeping IBPS PO/MT/Clerk, UPSC’s CAPF-CDS-IFOS and otherupcoming State PCS, PSU, SSC exams in mind.For optimum results: copy paste this data in MS word (or separate excelspreadsheets or onenote), then keep updating these tables from magazines andnewspapers until you get selected in your dream job. Otherwise ‘firefighting”style of preparation e.g. once IBPS is over I’ll not prepare current affairs until Iget some interview call letter/ some other exam notification=#epicfail.If there are any additions, corrections, do post them in comments.By the way RAS Prelim exam halltickets have been uploaded click me (Sarkariservers always slow so try during non-office hours.)

[PIN] Indian Politics, Constitutional, Statutory,Bureaucrats

PMOfcourse everyone knows: Mohan. But in Jun 2013, He took oath asRajya Sabha MP from Assam (five times in a row).

CJI P.Sathashivam replaced Altamas Kabir.

CAGShashikant Sharma replaced Vinod Rai. And Vinod Rai became UNAudit panel Chief.

CEC V. S. Sampath replaced SY Qureshi

CVC Pradeep Kumar

CICDeepak Sandhu. First lady CIC, replaced Satyanand Mishra.She servedin Indian information services.

UPSCChairman DP Aggarwal. Been on this post since 2008. Hope heretires soon.Ex.CBI director AP Singh became new member.

AttorneyGeneral

Goolam Vahanvati

SolicitorGeneral

Mohan ParasaranResigned: Rohinton Nariman, for difference with lawminister. Law Minister Ashwini Kumar also resigned for vetting a CBIreport on its coal block investigations thus cycle of Karma iscomplete.

DerekO’Brian

1st Anglo Indian MP (Rajya Sabha) to vote in Presidential Elections(of Pranab).Note that Anglo-Indian “nominated” MPs cannot vote inPresidential elections. But Derek is not “nominated” he is electedfrom West Bengal as Rajya Sabha MP.The two nominated AngloIndian MPs in 15th LS areDr. Charles Dias (Kerala) and Mrs.IngridMcleod (Chhattisgarh).

DelhiLT.Governor

Najib Jung replaced Tejinder Khanna.

Gujaratlokayukta

Justice R.A Mehta .Refused to accept the job.

http://www.rpsconline.rajasthan.gov.in/admissionCard



CM Tripura Manik Sarkar

CMNagaland

Neiphiu Rio

NDDBAmrita Patel, National dairy Development board. Been in news for shewants to resign.

National commissions

Women Mamta Sharma

Minorities Wajahat Habibullah the former CIC

SC P.L. Punia

ST Rameshwar Uraon,

OBC Justice M.N.Rao

Children Kushal Singh

Service Chiefs

Navy Admiral Devendra Joshi replaced Nirmal Verma

Airforce Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne replaced Pradeep Vasant Naik

ArmyGen. Bikram Singh. He replaced VK Singh, who remains in news forcontroversy related to Destabilizing JK government

Security/Space/Strategic related

ISRO K. Radhakrishnan

Atomic Energy commission Ratan Kumar Sinha

CRPF

DG Pranay Sahay

First woman special DG in CRPF=ArunaBahuguna

BSF Subhash Joshi

CBI Ranjit Sinha

NIA Sharad kumar

RAWFounder:B.Raman,Dead.Current chief: AlokJoshi.

DRDO New Chief Avinash Chander

National Disaster Response Force Krishna Chaudhari

Senior security advisor in homeministry

K. Vijaykumar.For anti-Naxal operations.

Secretary

ForeignAffairs

Sujatha Singh (IFS). She is the third woman foreign Secretary ofIndia.



Home Anil Goswami

Defense R.K.Mathur.

Finance Rajiv Takru

Diplomatic

High Commissioner to Pakistan TCA Raghavan.

India’s permanent representative toUN

Asoke Kumar Mukerji. He replaced HardeepSingh.

To USA Nirupama Rao

To China S. Jaishankar

Education/Arts related

UGC Ved Prakash

NewsBroadcastingstandardsauthority

Justice RV Ravindran

Lalit KalaAcademy

Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty

Sangeet NatakAcademy

Leela Samson. Was in controversy after she said 90 per cent ofCensor board members are “uneducated” and an“embarrassment”.

IGNOU ViceChancellor

M.Aslam

Committees Commissions Task forces

7th PayCommission

To revise salary of 80 lakh workers and pensioners. Its

recommendations will be effective from January 2016.6th PC wasformed in 2006.

Adi Godrej Corporate governance

ArvindMayaram

FDI relaxationto Define FDI and FII

Bimal Jalan To scrutinize application for New Bank Licenses

BKChaturvedi

Revamping power sector

Chindu GoM for CBI autonomy

CyrusMistry, AnilAmbani

Advisory group for electricity sector. For power ministry

Dr. Saroj Illegal sand mining by MoEF



JS MathurTo review the rate revisions of newspaper advertisements. ByMinistry of information and broadcasting

Justice BilalNazaki

Functioning of Haj Committee

Justice BNSriKrisha

TelenganaFinancial sector legislative reform commission: to get the needof unifying SEBI, IRDA, PPFRDA and FMC into a singleregulator

Justice DKJain

20th Law commission of India

Justice JSVerma

Delhi Gangrape.Dead.Had given verdict for art 358 : presidential rulecan be invoked only after parliament approval.

JusticeMukulMudgal

IPL Spot fixing. Formed by SCWalmart Lobbying, by Corporate Min.

Justice RCGandhi

By JK government for Kishtwar Communal riots

JusticeSantoshHegde

Judicial Commission on Armed Forces Special Powers Act(AFSPA) by SC

Justice UshaMehra

For probing lapses in Delhi Gangrape.

KRatnaprabha

Indecent Representation of Women in Media

K. VijayRaghavan

Evaluation of Research And Rankings of higher edu. Institutes

KK Vohra By RBI for loan products

MBN Rao For setting up All-women’s bank

MudgalFor reviewing Cinematograph Act 1952. By Ministry of informationand broadcasting

NachiketiMor

RBI Committee for FINANCIAL INCLUSION (financial services tosmall business)

ParthasarathiShome

Tax administration reform commission.

RaghuramPanel

To determine a new index of backwardness to see which states needspecial assistance. Most Developed: GOA,KERALALeast developed:ODHISSA,BIHAR.

Rangarajan Gas princing, LNG importsSugar pricing



RanjitRoychaudhari

Clinical trials, drug bans.

Sam PitrodaFor restructuring Prasar Bharti. By Ministry of information andbroadcasting

SanjayDhande

For National Testing Agency (NTA) by HRD

SK Roongta By planning commission. For reforms in Central PSUs

Srikant Malte Dhule Riots in Maharashtra

Vijay KelkarFiscal consolidationEnergy security. By Natural Gas ministry

VirginiusXaxa

He is NAC memberEarlier Sacchar Committee was made for muslims, same waythis Xaxa Committee is for tribals.

YashwantSinha

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance-Report on Guidelinesof new banking licenses

YV Reddy 14th Finance commission. Under Art280. He was ex-gov. of RBI

Defense

The core compilation article is here:

http://mrunal.org/2013/03/defense-current-affairs-compilation-2012-13-missiles-joint-exercises-operations-organizations.html

Most of the missiles, fighter jets etc remain one and same. Here are some newdevelopments

303 BlackPanthers

first fighter squadron for navy with MiG29

Aadesh Fast petrol Indian vessel for indian coast Guard.

Abhilash tommyNavy officer first indian to circum navigate the globe in 150days.

C-154 New interceptor boat for Coast guard. For Maharashtra coast.

CheetalHelicopter

light utility, multi-role helicopter is a variant of the Cheetahhelicopter being manufactured by HAL, which is alreadyoperational in the high altitude regions.

Coast guardC402: Interceptor boat for coastguard.H191: air cushionvehicle. For helping small boats in distress at sea

Daulat Beg oldi /Raki Nala

in Ladakh. Chinese troops made intrusions here in Apr’13.

Maritime Surveillance aircraft. Indian donated them to

http://mrunal.org/2013/03/defense-current-affairs-compilation-2012-13-missiles-joint-exercises-operations-organizations.html



Dornier 228 Seychelles.

DRDO New Chief Avinash Chander

Ekuverin2012 Joint army exercise: India and Maldives @Belgaum

GSAT7For Navy, by ISROSent to space via Ariane 5 rocket, fromFrench Guiana (S.America)

Haft-4 Nuke capable Paki Missile. 900km range

INSSindhurakshak

Submarine. Sunk because of accident.

INS Trikhand By Russia. Stealth frigate for Indian navy

INS Vikramaditya Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov carrier.Likely to join by 2013 end.

INS Vikrant

1961: we bought first aircraft carrier INS vikrant1997: it wasdecommissionedAug’13: New INS Vikrant launched. India’sfirst Indigenous aircraft carrier. Will join active navy duty from2018

Iron Fist 2013 Exercise in Pokharan by Indian Airforce.

Izumo Japan’s biggest ever naval warship since WW2.

Jamaran-2Iran’s destroyer ship with guided missile. Deployed in Caspiansea.

June 26 Kargil Victory day

K15 Submarine launched missile. Range 1500km

Machhalipattnam,Andhra

DRDO setting up new missile testing range here.

MIRV Multiple independently targetable vehicles by DRDO.

NCTC Will function under IB.

Nirbhay Surface to Surface subsonic cruise missile

Nirbhay DRDO’s long range sub sonic missile. 1000km range.

NomadicElephant

Joint training exercise between Indian and Mongolian army

NorwayBecomes the first NATO country to make military servicecompulsory for both men and women

Operation threestar Codename for Afzal guru’s hanging.

OSA AK-M Surface to air missile for Indian airforce.

PAC-3Japan’s Anti-Missile Air Defense Units Deployed After North-Korea warned South-Koreans for a War in April-2013.

Prithvi IINuke capable, Surface to SurfaceRange 350kmsBy DRDOunder Integrated guided missile Development program

Qaher F313 Iran’s indigenous stealth fighter jet

Raj-rathan Inshore petrol vessel for coast guard.

Rudra helicopterFirst Indigenous Attack heli. With missiles. They’reweaponized version of Dhruva helicopter by HAL Bangalore.



S-3002 Russia will sell these anti-aircraft missiles to Iran

Unha-3 N.Korea, Long range rocket with 3000km range.

International Relations (IR)

CDS and CAPF examiners are fond of setting MCQs on International current affairs.

[IR] Summits/Treaties 2013/Controversies

Arctic council India gets observer status

ASEANhuman rightsdeclaration

In Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2012

ASEANsummit

2012: 21st ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh Combodia withtheme:“ASEAN: One Community, One Destiny”2012: ASEAN – India Commemorative Summit 2012. Tomark the 20th year anniversary of the ASEAN – India dialogue.Theme: ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace, Progress andShared Prosperity.2013: 22nd ASEAN summit in Brunei, theme: Our People,Our Future Together.

BASICministerialmeeting onclimatechange

Chennai

BRICS 2013

At Durban, S.Africa (5th Summit)Theme: BRICS and Africa:Partnership for development, Integration andindustralizationeThekwini DeclarationDiscussed to create aninfrastructure focused “development bank”

Convention onBiodiversity(CBD)

Conference of Parties (COP)11th Summit in Hyderabad (2012)12thSummit in PyeongChang, S.Korea (theme = BiodiversityforSustainable Development)

EdwardSnowden

Exposed NSA’s project PRISM. Given temporary asylum in Russia.

Falklandislands

Voted for British rule

First ArcticSummit Oslo, Norway

G20 summit2013: St.Petersburg, Russia2013: Finance ministers meeting held inMoscow, Russia2012: Los Cabos.

G8 Lough Erne, N.Ireland. Theme: tax evasion and transparency



Global Armstrade treaty ofUN

India abstained from voting.

High seasconference

Paris

IBSAresolution forwomenempowerment

India signed this.

Indian chapterof WorldEconomicForum sumit

Will be held in Kochi, Kerala.

Indian oceanrim

USA became dialouge partner.

Indian oceanrim

First economic and business conference held in Mauritius

IPCC Its fifth assessment report will come in 2014.

Mekong-Ganga Summit

Delhi, Dec12

MinamataMercurytreaty

In Minamata city of Japan, to sign the world’s first legally bindingtreaty on mercury pollution under United Nations EnvironmentProgramme (UNEP)

Nationalconference onE-governance

Jaipur

NATOGeneral Joeseph Dunford (USA)Afghani forces tookover thesecurity ops from NATO in June 2013.

PravasiBharatiyaDiwas 2013

Kochi, Kerala

Silk roadfestival

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

SurajkundInternationalCrafts Mela2013

Organized by Haryana government in Surajkund, Faridabad district.This year focus was Karnataka state.

TokyoSummit’12

In Tokyo for rebuilding of Afghanistan.

UN resolutionon DeathPenalty ban

India voted against


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UNResolution onSyria

2012: new sanctions against President Bashar Al Assad’sregime= India voted favour of this.2013: for rapid progress on a political transition in Syria=India abstained from voting.

UNHRCresolution onSri Lanka

Condemning Sri Lanka for violation against Tamil minorities. Indiavoted against Sri Lanka.

WCIT-2012 World Conference on International telecommunication @Dubai

WHO SEAROInternational conference for traditional medicine in south-east Asiawas held in Delhi. Led to Delhi declaration.

Visits to India

1. US Vice Prez Biden2. French President Hollande3. UK PM David Cameroon4. Egyptian President Morsi5. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang6. Liberian President Ellen Johnson7. Afghani President Hamid Karzai

Visits from India

1. Pranab to Mauritius2. Mohan to Japan, Thailand, Germany3. AK Antony to Singapore, China

[IR-PIN] Prez/PM of Foreign countries

Some carried forward from 2012’s news items:

African nationalcongress

President Jacob Zuma

African Union Nkosazana Zuma, first woman

Asian forum ofparliamentarians

Rajyasabha Dy.Chairman PJ Kurien became its President

Australia PM Tony Abbott (liberal) defeated Kelvin Rudd (Labour)

BangladeshPresident Abdul Hamid.PM Sheikh Hasina (Awami Leagueparty)Speaker: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury. First lady speaker inBangladesh

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck: was chief guest at26th Jan parade in 2013.PM Tshering Tobgay



BhutanElections in Jul’13. India had provided EVM.India stopped kerosense and LPG subsidy=bitternessBhutan has became first country of the world to banpesticides and herbicide sale to become a 100% organicfood growing country .Currency swap agreement with India.

Boby Ghosh New editor of TIME international.

Brazil Dilma Rousseff

Central AfricanRepublic

President Michel Djotodia belonging to Seleka rebels.

ChinaPrez Xi Jinping replaced Hu JintaoPremeir Li Kequiang replacedWen Jiabao. Li also got Pakistan’s highest civilian award “Nishan-e-Pakistan”.

Congo Made peace agreement with M23 rebels.

Cuba Prez Raul Castro Replaced Fidel Castro

Czech Republic PM Milos Zeman. Capital Prague

Ecuador President Rafel Correa. Capital Quito

EgyptAdil Mansour interim prez after army threw outMohd.MorsiMohd. El Baradei became VPPM: Hazem Al Beblawi

EU Herman Van Rompuy

Fiji President Ratu Epeli NailatikauNew Constitution

France President Francois Hollander replaced Sarkozy

Germany Chancellor Angela Markel won again.

IOC,InternationalolymicCommittee

Thomas Batch (Germany) repalced Jacques Rogge.

IranPresident Hassan Rouhani. He replaced Ahmadinejad.Iran’ssupreme leader: Ayatollah Khamenei.

Israel

Prez. Simon PeresPM. Benjamin NetanyahuTheir parliament is called Knesset.Stephen Hawkings boycotted academic conference in Israelto protest for Palestine.

Italy

President Giorgio Napolitano

Enrica Lexie: name of the ship from which two Italian marineskilled Indian fishermen.

Japan PM Shinzo Abe. DyPM Taro Aso. Their parliament is called Diet

Jordan King Abdulla II setup parliament for his country.



Kenya Prez Uhuru Kenyatta

Liberia President Ellen Johnson, had came to India

Malaysia PM Najib Razak

Maldives President Nasheed N Waheed replaced Nasheed after coup

Mali Ibrahim Keita new President.Problem: Tuareg rebels.

Mexico Enrique Nieto

Myanmar

President Thein SeinGovernment Signed peace treaty with Wa rebelsOpposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (National league fordemocracy)Ceasefire with Kanchi rebels

N.Korea Kim Jong-Un

Nepal Khil Raj Regmi

Pakistan

Prez Mamnoon Hussain replaced Zardari.PM: Nawaz Sharif(PML-N) party replaced Mir Hazar Khan KhosoFair trial bill 2012in Pakistan. It allows intelligence agency to collect electronic dataof citizens.

PalestinePres. Mahmud AbbasPM Salam Fayyad resigned.Became Observerstate in UN

Paraguay President Horacio Cartes.Country admitted back in UNASUR

PopeBennedict XVI, German, Resigned.New Pope: Francis I, (JorgeMario Bergoglio) first South American pope. He is fromArgentina

RamsarConvention

Christopher Briggs became the new Secretary-General

S.KoreaPresident Park Geun-Hye replaced Lee myung Bak. First Ladyprez.

ScotlandWill hold referendum in 2014 to decide whether Scotland shouldget independence from rest of United Kingdom.

SrilankaMahinda Rajpakshe. He threw out CJI Shiran Bandaranyake.Gen.Sarath Fonseca was Ex-Was jailed after power struggle withPresident.

Syria Prez Bashar Al AsadPM Wael Nader al-Halqi

Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra, first lady PM

Tunisia PM Hamadi Jebali resigned after protests. Capital Tunis

UKPM David Cameron (Conservative)DyPM Nick Clegg (liberaldemocrats)Ex-PM Margaret Thatcher,Dead.Conservative Party.Known as Iron Lady.

UNSecretary General Ban ki MoonPresident for 68th session: JohnAshe of Antigua.

President Obama (Democratic party). Defeated Mitt



USA

Romney (Republican) Term ends in 2017.VP Joe BidenSecretary of state:John Kerry, replaced Hilary Clinton.FBI: James Comey.CIA: John BrennanNSA: Susan RiceFed: Janet YallenFDA: Gave permission to anti-HIV drug TRUVADA.

Venezuela Prez Nicolas Maduro after Huge Chavez died.

ZimbabwePresident Robert Mugabe won again. New Constitution approved.Now President can be elected for two 5-year terms only.

[IR-PIN] Diaspora/ Indians awarded abroad

Ami Bera California, House of representative.

Amol Rajan Editor of The Independent, in Britain

AnilAnanthaswami

UK, won Physics journalism prize.

Autar Kaw US professor of the year. Teaches Mechanical engg.

Bobby Jindal Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party

CNR Rao Got Chinese award for international cooperation in Science.

GayatriChakravortySpivak

Educationist, Literary critic. Won Kyoto Prize – Japaneseequivalent of Nobel.

Halimah Yacob First woman speaker of Singapore.

JawaharlalDarda

Indian Freedom fighter from Maharashtra. Britain’s house ofcommons gave him lifetime achievement award.

Kamla Harris First Indian American to become attorney general in USA.

Kamla PersadBissessar

PM of Trinidad and Tobago. Chief Guest of PBD-2012.

KiranMazmudar Shaw

Founder of Biocon. She is selected as trustee in United StatesPharmacopeia convention.

Krishna Arora Won Order of Australia medal for her community service

Lisa Sthalekar Australian woman cricketer, retired.

Natwar Gandhi CFO of Washington DC. Resigned.

Nikki Haley Governor of South Carolina state in US(republican party)

Nisha DesaiBiswal US Asst.Sec. South and Central Asia

Patricia MariaRozario

UK Musician. Won PBD 2013.

Perilla BhandariSwatz

Only Indian woman captian in US Marines. Cease from Sikkim.



RajkeswurPurryag

President of Mauritius. Chief guest of Pravasi bharatiya divas-2013

RangaswamiSrinivasan

Cofounder of LASIK Eye surgery. Given national medal for techand innovation in USA.

RasuRamachandran

Won award in Singapore for Development of Libraries.

SangeetChowfla

New President of GMAC- this non profit body conducts GMATexam.

Sardar RameshSingh Arora

First Sikh to be elected in Punjab provincial assembly of Pakistan

SavitaHalappanavar

Dentist, Died in Ireland during pregnancy. After her death, Irelandmade law to permit woman have abortion in case of lifedanger/abnormality.

Shanti Gandhi Great grandson of Gandhi.Won Kansas state assembly election.

Sri Srinivas Judge of US court of appeals in DC circuit.

SrinivasanVenkatakrishnan

New CEO of Anglogold-Ashanti ltd – one of the largest producersof Gold.

Sundar Pichai Head of Google’s Android business. From IIT-K

Sunil Kulkarni First Indian judge in N.Carolina

Tulsi Gabbard1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their Lok Sabha).Elected from Hawai State.Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita,Served in US army, was deployed in Iraq.

Vandana GandhiUAE’s business excellance award for her nursery education chainOrchard nursery.

VenkateshMannar

Scientists got highest civilian award in Canada. His work inMicronutrient deficiency.

Vijay Singh Indian-American professor.Won top US environment award.



Economy: Regulators/Top Bodies

IMF Christine Lagarde

World BankJim Yong Kim. (For whom UPSC admitted setting WrongMCQ)

WTO Roberto Azevedo (Brazil) replaced Pascal Lamy.

ADB Takehiko Nakao, Japan

RBI

Raghuram Rajan replaced D.SubbaraoStudied @IIT Delhi, IIM-AWas youngest ever chief economist @IMFServed as chief economic advisor to Finance ministerBook: Fault Lines: How hidden fractures still threatenthe world economy.

SEBI UK Sinha replaced C. B. Bhave

CCI Ashok Chawla

NABARD Snehlata Shrivastava

IRDA TS Vijayan replaced J Hari Narayan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/97816112@N02/10241613894/

http://mrunal.org/2013/08/rti-upsc-indirectly-admits-settingup-bogus-question-in-apfcepfo-2012-written-exam-provides-official-answerkeys.html



PFRDA Yogesh Agarwal

Forward Marketcommission

Ramesh Abhishek

GST Panel Abdul Rahim Rather replaced Sushil Modi.

ICAI (Charteredaccountants)

Subordinate dh Kumar Agrawal

Banks/Public-NBFC/PSUs

only covering those who were in news for 2013. Otherwise it’ll be a mile long list.

Allahabad Bank Subhalakshmi PAnse

Axis Bank Shikha Sharma

Bank of America- Indiahead

Kaku Nakhate

Bank of India VR Iyer

Bank of India Vijayalakshmi Iyer

Canara Bank RK Dubey

Central Bank Rajeev Rishi

HDFC Renu KArnad

HSBC India NAina Lal Kidwai

ICICI Too cliched. Chanda Kochher

IDBI CMD MS Raghvan

IDFC Rajiv Lall

IFCI CEO and MD Santosh B Nayar

JP Morgan India Kalpana Morparia

Royal Bank of Scotland-Indian operatis

Meera Sanyal

SBIArundhati Bhattacharya replaced Pratip Chaudhari andbecame 1st woman to head SBI

State Bank of Bikaner andJaipur

B.Sriram

United Bank of India Chairman and MD Archana Bhargava

UTI asset Management Leo Puri

Companies, Associations

Only covering those who were in news for 2013. Otherwise it’ll be a mile long list.

Air AsiaJoint venture of Tata Sons Malaysian LCC and Telestra.CEO:Mittu ChandaliyaChairman: SK Ramadoli

ASSOCHAM Rana Kapoor of Yes Bank became the new President

BALCO, underRamesh Nair



Vedanta

BBC Tony Hall

Berlshire Hathaway Warren Buffett

Bharat Forge Baba Kalyani

Bharat Petroleum S.Varadarajan

BSE Ashish Kumar Chauhan

CII S.Gopalkrishnan.Co-founder of Infosys.

Dr.Reddy’s GV Prasad

Editors Guild N.Ravi of the Hindu.

General ElectronicsIndia

Banmali Agrawala

IMF executivedirector from India

Rakesh Mohan

InfosysNarayan Murthy returns as Executive chairman of the board,and KV Kamath (former-ICICI) steps down.

Internationalchamber ofcommerce

Sunil Bharti became Vice President

International coffeecouncil

Javed Akhtar new chairman.

LIC SK Roy replaced DK Malhotra

Maruti Suzuki India Kenichi Ayikawa

NALCO CMD Anshuman Das

NASSCOM Krishnakumar Natarajan of Mindtree

Nestle India Etienne Benet

Procter & Gamble AG Lafley

RanbaxyLaboratories

Malvinder Singh. Keeps getting notices/penalties in USA

TVS Automobiles Sanjay Nigam

TwitterJack Dorsey is chairman, Evan Williams is founder. Planningfor $1 billion IPO

[News] Economy related

For White label ATM, NSEL crisis etc read the articles in this google folder:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0DPgaYAtDgmQUNCLXgtYzR6VUU/edit?usp=sharing

Here are some more news: I’m not going into details but you should prepare forMCQs/ interviews:

1. Company Bill passed in parliament

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0DPgaYAtDgmQUNCLXgtYzR6VUU/edit?usp=sharing



2. NABARD act amended to increase cap to 20k crore.3. Custom duty on gold, silver, platinum hiked4. Our Forex reserves slips down below $280 billion.5. RBI’s Q1 review6. RBI: Unique Customer Identification Code (UCIC). For strengthening Know

Your Customer (KYC)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Combating of Financingof Terrorism (CFT).

7. RBI’s KK Vohra panel for loan products8. RBI’s CDS norms for corporate bonds9. SEBI: Gold ETF permission

10. RBI penalized 6 banks for flouting KYC norms after sting operation fromCobrapost.

11. RBI and gold import curbs12. National Housing bank to get $ 100 million loan from World Bank13. Green Banking: attempts to reduce paper wastage/Carbon footprints in banking.

Example using net banking instead of cheque-book14. Rupee downfall. Import duty on gold15. Foreign investment limit in government securities (G-sec) : $ 5 billion16. Chindu’s 10 points action plan to strengthen economy.17. 5 PSUs come up with 4000MW solar projects18. Committee: Parthasarathi Shome commission for Tax administration reform.19. Sovereign Wealth funds20. Disinvestment cleared for STC and ITDC21. Banking licenses. Winners to be announced by 2014.22. Cement cos get fined for cartelization23. Civil Aviation regulation authority24. Mittal exits Odisha steel project.25. FDI norms relaxed in Aug26. Urea investment policy27. Money laundering bill28. Tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with Liechtenstein.29. Human development report 201330. EU imposed anti-dumping duty on Indian steel31. Russia became the 156th member of WTO32. Maharatna status for BHEL and GAIL33. RRB act Amendment bill.34. Inflation indexed bonds35. Universal commodity exchange36. MCX-SX: third online shock exchange after BSE and NSE.37. SEZ norms liberalized.38. EPFO to give 8.5% interest39. Saxo Bank Denmark, entered India.40. Sugar price decontrol after Rangarajan Panel.41. SARADHA groups scam, West Bengal.42. Debt Waiver scheme: launched in 2008. CAG report talks about scam in this.



43. Forward market commission’s Administrative control:a. Before: Department of consumer affairs under Agro minb. Now: under Chindu (Finance ministry)c. FMC statutory body. This move done because of NSEL scam

[News] Infra related

Transport/Communication

1. Double decker trains between Chennai to Bangalore.2. Mumbai’s eastern Free way3. Benihal Qazigunz rail link4. World’s highest railbridge @River Chinab- will connect Baramulla & Srinagar to

Jammu.5. Andaman Grand Trunk Road: SC Banned Tourists to protect jarva tribe6. Ghat ki guni Tunnel-Links jaipur with agra via NH-117. Kishan Ganga Hydro Project, Gurez valley North Kashmir. Court of Arbitration

permitted India to go ahead under Indus-Water Treaty 19608. Biotoilets in all trains by 20199. Metro rail= Already in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Banglore. New plans for

Lucknow (2014), Raipur, Cochi, Hyd, Mumbai.10. Pir Panjal tunnel: connect Jammu’s Banihal with Kashmir’s Kazigund. (railways).

This will be Asia’s 2nd longest railway tunnel.11. Jawahar Tunnel or Banihal Tunnel: connecting between Banihal and Qazigund on

NH 1A (Highway).12. SMS based railway ticket booking: 139 or 567671413. Cabinet gave approval to setup ports @Sagar, WB. And @Andhra14. Gobalpur port, Odisha: new all-weather port.15. Telegram service permanently stopped. 1850: first telegram was between

Kolkata and Diamond Harbour16. Mukesh will use Anil’s optical fiber network to laydown 1.2 lakh km national

fiber network for his Reliance Jio Infocomm. This will help in 4G broadband.17. National internet registry for managing IP addresses.

Economy related IR

1. Gwadar Port: Pakistan handed over to china2. Colombo port Project: China developing this.3. Chabahar port, Iran: India helping to develop this.4. Sri Lanka’s Northern Railway project: Indian railministry’s IRCON financed this.5. India’s Currency swap agreements with Japan and Bhutan.6. Social security agreement with Portugal, Austria.7. Tax information exchange agreement with Gibraltar.8. Teesta water treaty with Bangladesh9. Double taxation avoidance treaty/convention/treaty (DTAC) with Latvia, Albania,



Sweden, South Korea, UK10. Indo-Japan pact on rare earths.

Power/Energy/Environment

1. India’s first Geo-thermal power Plant: at Tatapani, Balrampur, Chattisgarh byNTPC.

2. Okhla Compost Plant, Delhi: India’s first plant to receive carbon credit underUNFCC.

3. Rashtriya Adarsha Vidhyalaya by Union government + Indian corporates via PPP4. Kundankulam Nucl plant, TN, by NPCIL. SC gave it permission5. Asia’s largest solar project @Jodhpur Rajasthan by Welspun energy.6. Tawang Hydel project: Tawang chu river in Arunanchal.7. 4000MW Ultra Mega green solar power project @Sambhar lake, Rajasthan8. Barmer, Rajasthan: Cairn India found oil in Rageshwari Block.9. Bureau of water use efficiency=>National watermission=>National action plan

on climate change.10. National plan for aquatic ecosystems by merging Lake conversation and Wetland

conservation programs.11. GM trials for castor oil, maize and wheat cleared by MoEF’s GEAC.12. Karnataka watershed project gets $60 million loan from world bank13. E-business portal, designed by Infosys for Commerce Ministry to promote

government to business connectivity.14. Coal gate, missing files.

Schemes

1. Education schemes: Click ME

2. SC/ST/OBC/PH related: Click ME

3. Women related: Click ME

4. Public Health/ maternity / childcare: Click ME

5. E-Governance related: Click ME

Some new Schemes/initiatives:

1. All women University @Rae Bareli in UP2. Urban Health mission 20133. National skill development agency, autonomous body.4. Roshni skill development project for Naxal hit areas5. First public health university in India: at Bhuveneshwar Orissa.via PPP.6. Rashtriya Bal Swastha Karyakram launched from Thane.7. MyIndia Initiative- Digital Volunteer Programme. By Ministry of Info and

Broadcasting, to talk about Government schemes and programmes on differentsocial media platforms

8. Adhar/UIDAI unnecessary for government scheme benefits- Government tells

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[News]Polity

list definitely not exhaustive.

Bills/ Acts

1. India became the first country in South Asia to ban cosmetic product testing onanimals. Guilty will be punished under drugs and cosmetics act

2. Himachal Pradesh becomes the first smoke-free state in the country under thecigarettes and other tobacco products at 2003

3. Kerala: Liquor purchase age is increased from 18 to 214. Tamil Nadu’s new litigation policy5. National water framework bill6. Sexual harassment bill7. Land acquisition bill8. Electronic delivery of services bill9. Ordinance/bill to protect convicted MPs.

10. Manual scavenging bill11. Judicial appointment bill12. Pension bill13. SEBI amendment bill14. Banking Amendment15. Criminal law (Amendment) bill 2013 against rape, Anti-Rape ordinance16. Juvenile Justice Act & Delhi rape case.17. Citizen’s charter bill18. Food security bill/ordinance19. Real Estate regulation bill20. Telengana the 29th State21. CIC’s order on Political parties coming Right to information act vs Government

trying to amend RTI act to counter it.

SC Decisions

1. Disqualifying Convicted legislators (vs Governments ordinance/bill to counterit)

2. Voters get NOTA (none of the above) choice. Allied topic: VVAP: Voterverified paper audit trail

3. Andaman Grand Trunk Road: SC Banned Tourists to protect jarva tribe4. CBI autonomy5. Cauvery Water dispute tribunal

Civilian Awards/Achievements



[Awards] Nobel 2013

category who why?

Chemistry1. Martin Karplus2. Michael Levitt3. Arieh Warshel

Developing computer models that canpredict chemical reactions for use increating new drugs and other tasks.

Economics ??will be announced on 14th Oct. This article was

written on 13th

LiteratureAlice Munro(Canada)

Master of the contemporary short story.often called “Canada’s Chekhov”Notable books: “The Moons of Jupiter,””The Progress of Love” and “Runaway.”2009 Man Booker International Prize forher lifetime body of work

Medicine

1. James E.Rothman

2. Randy W.Schekman

3. Thomas C.Sudhof

in understanding how key substancesmove within a cell.They developed better understanding ofvesicles, tiny bubbles that deliver theircargo within a cell to the right place at theright time.Disturbances in that delivery system canlead to neurological diseases, diabetes orimmunological disorders.

Peace

Organization for theProhibition ofChemical Weapons.(OPCW)

190 nations signed its treaty.deploys teams worldwide to find chemicalweapons and their manufacturing sites.Currently planning the destruction ofchemical weapons stockpiles andfacilities in Syria.HQ: Hague, NetherlandsChief: Ahmet Uzumcu

Physics1. Peter Higgs2. Francois

Englert

Theory about how subatomic particles gettheir mass.Their theory made headlines last yearwhen the CERN laboratory in Genevaconfirmed it by discovering the so-calledHiggs particle.



Nobel 2012

Category Who? Why?

ChemistryLefkowitz,Kobilka

Protein receptors that let body cell respond tosignals.

Economics Roth, Shapley. Stable allocation + market design.

Litt. Mo Yan First Chinese writer to get this award.

MedicineGurdon,Yamanaka

Regenerative medicine. Cure disease by growingtissues in lab.

Peace EU Lolz

PhysicsHaroche,Wineland

Measure quantum particles, without destroying them.

Nobel: Indian

1. Venkatarama Ramakrishnan Chemistry

2. Amartya Sen Economics

3. Tagore Litt.

4. Rudyard Kipling Litt.

5. VS Naipaul Litt.

6. Dr. Hargobind Khorana Medicine

7. Mother Teresa Peace

8. S. Chandrasekhar Physics

Nobel Facts

1. Nobel prize recipients are called laureates. started in 19012. The award consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash prize (8-million

Swedish kroner (SEK) – almost $1.2 million U.S. dollars as of September2013). Money comes from fund created by Swedish inventor of Dynamite



Alfred Nobel.3. The Economics medal has no inscription.4. Nobel prizes are announced in advance but awarded on December 10, the

anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.5. The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics

are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.6. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded at its own ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

Periodically, no prize has been awarded. This happened most recently in 1972.7. The number of winners is limited to three per category.8. A person must be alive to be nominated. If they die during the consideration

period, their name will be removed. Only if a person is announced as a winnerand dies prior to the ceremony, will a posthumous award be given.

[Awards] Public service/media/Courage

Indira Gandhi awardfor Nationalintegration

2012: Gulzar2013: Agro Scientist MS Swaminathan

Indira Gandhi peaceprize

2011: Ela Ramesh Bhatt. SEWA founder. Actuallywon for in 2011, but was awarded that prize in 2013.SEWA= Self Employed Women’s Association2012: Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf

Legend of the planetAward, France

Bindeshwar Pathak for his ecofriendly toilets “SulabhSauchalayas”.

Liberation of warhonor

Given to Pranab. By Bangladeshis for his contribution in1971

Magsaysay award2013

2012: Kulandei Francis (India) for Microenterprisesin TN. but for 2013 No Indian selected.

1. Habiba Sarabi,Afghanistan’s first and only femalegovernor.

2. Ernesto Domingo, from the Philippines.3. Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption

Eradication Commission),4. Lahpai Seng Raw, from Myanmar,5. Shakti Samuha (“Power Group”), from Nepal

Mahatma Gandhiinternational award forpeace reconciliation

Brigalia Bam for 2013. for her work in human rights

Malala YousafzaiYoungest nominee for noble peace prize.Addressed UN assembly in Jul 13.



UN declared 10 Nov as Malala Day.

Mountaineering

1. First Amputee to scale Everest: Arunima Sinha, UP.2. First Paki woman to scale Everest: Samina Baig.3. First Saudi woman to Everest: Raha Moharrak4. Youngest to climb Mt.Kilimanjaro in Africa: Aaryan

Balaji.

National FlorenceNightingale award

By Health ministry for Nursing professionals

National Youth IconsSelected by election Commission of India, to attract youngvoters: Mary Kom, Saina, Dhoni and Kalam.

Nomura Award Kiran Bedi for her public service.

Outstandingparliamentarian 2012

JDU MP Sharad Yadav. This selection by parliamentaryaward Committee.

Padma awards

Vibhushan

1. Raghunath Mohapatra, Sculpture, Orissa2. S Haider Raza, Painter, Delhi3. Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh4. Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering,

Karnataka

Padma Bhushan=24, Shri=80=list is not worth the‘majoori’.

Prem Bhati awards forpolitical reporting Shalini Singh of The Hindu

Pritzker award Richest award in Architecture.

Pulitzer prizes 2013No award given in ‘fiction’ category, just like 2012. NewYork times won 4 awards

Rajiv GandhiSadbhavna award 2013

Sarod maestro ustad amjad ali khan. Given on august 20 onRajiv’s Birthday.

Tagore Award 2013Zubin Mehta for cultural harmony. Jury included primeminister. Zubin had done music concert in Sri Nagar.Organized by German Embassy.

TED PrizeFor individual with great vision to change world. 2013′saward went to Prof. Sugata Mitra, an educationist.

UN Public serviceawards

1. Kerala’s mass contact program2. Swavalamban of Dhanbad district3. MP’s Graamin Haat.

UN Youth courage



award Razia Sultana, UP for helping child labourers.

Whitney awardsConsidered green oscars. Indian wildlife biologist AparajitaDatta for protection of Hornbill in Arunanchal.

[Awards] Movies/Beauty

Beauty

1. Miss India 2013: Navneet Kaur Dhillon2. Miss America 2014: Nina Davuluri. Subjected to racist

remarks on Twitter.3. Miss India Worldwide: Nehal Bhogaita, deaf and mute.4. Miss World 2013: Megan Young, Philippines. Venue:

Bali, Indonesia5. Miss universe 2013: Yet to be decide because contest in

Nov 2013. Venue: Moscow.

Dada Saheb Phalkeaward 2012

Pran.

Golden bear award Given in Berlin film festival.

National film award2012

Best film: Paan Singh Tomar

Oscar 20131. Argo: best film2. Life of pie: best visual effects, direction etc.3. Indian entry: Barfi by Anurag Basu (Hindi)

Oscar 2014 Indian entry : The Good Road, by Gyan Correa (Gujarati)

SAARC filmfestival

Held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Paan Singh Tomar won best filmaward.

[Awards] Academic/Arts

Abel PrizeConsidered Noble for maths. Given to Belgaian Mathematician PierreDeligne.

ChameliDevi JainPurasarkar

For Outstanding Woman Mediaperson.Alka Dhupkar of IBN’s Marathichannel won it.

Dan DavidPrize

For one field each in three time dimensions: past, present and future.For science, arts and humanities.

EducationNobel Prize

Dr.Madhav Chawan. @Doha

Givingpledge

Started by Bill Gates + Warren Buffet. To encourage rich people togive part of their wealth for charity. Azim Premji first Indian to signup.



Goldmanprize

Considered oscars for environment movements / green nobel.

Highest IQLauren Marbe, 16yo schoolgirl from UK. Has IQ Higher thanEinstein.Neha Ramu: another UK girl of Indian origina has IQ 162.

Life Sciencebreakthruprize

Started by Mark Zuckerberg (facebook) and Sergey Brin (google)

Nationalbioscienceaward

Also called N-BIOS prize. Given to scientists below 45 age. VenkatMohan got it.

Sand artistsSudarshan Patnayak. Has won Russian award for sand art competitionin Russia.

SangeetNatakAcademyawards

awards started in 2006 in memory of shehnai maestro UstadBismillah Khan.2013: more than 30 people given this award hence listis not worth the ‘majoori’.

Shaw prize Given for astronomy, medicine and maths.

Yuri Milneraward

Richest academic prize for medicine and biology: 3 million USDeach.

[Books in News]

Man Booker Fiction 2012

Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the bodies. She has won this prize twice.Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis-Tale of mumbai’s opimioum addiction. Booker priceshortlisted but did not win.

Man Booker Fiction Shortlisted for 2013

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We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo

The Luminaries Eleanor Catton

Harvest Jim Crace

The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri

A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki

The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín

Man Booker International 2013

American writer Lydia Davis.Given every two year, to a living author.Work in English or translated in English.Indian author UR Ananthamurty was also nominated for his book novel“Samskara”

[Books] Non-Booker Awards

Asom Ratna Indira Goswami, Literature.

Commonwealth bookprize 2013

Death of Bees, Lisa O’DonnellIsland of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera (SriLanka)Sterile Sky, E.E. Sule (Nigeria)

DSC Prize for SouthAsian literature

Jeet Thayil for his novel Narcopolis.

Hindu Literary prize Jerry Pinto’s novel “Em and the Big hoom”.

Jnanpith 2012 Ravuri Bharadwaj, Telugu writer.

SAARC literatureaward

@Agra in 2013. Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K. won. Hisbooks; Seduction of Delhi, Enigmatic love etc.

Saraswati sammanGiven by KK Birla foundationSugathakumari, Malyalampoetess for 2012

Surjit hansIndian professor won award in london for translatingShakespeare’s work into Punjabi.

Walter Scott Prize For historical fiction, UK

[Books] List of Books and Authors

A garland of memories Ruskin Bond

Ambedkar’s World: TheMaking of Babasaheb andDalit Movement

Eleanor Zelliot

An uncertain Glory: Indiaand its contradictions

Jean dreze,Amrathya Sen



Ash in the Belly- India’sunfinished battle againstHunger

Harsh Mander

Bangladesh: The Prize offreedom

By noted photographer Rahu Rai

Breakout Nations: In pursuitof the next economicmiracle

Ruchir Sharma. Won Tata lit. award for first book.

Calcutta: Two years in thecity

Amit Chaudhuri

Cuckoo’s CallingJK Rowling (Harry Potter fame) she wrote this novelwith a pseudonym “Robert Galbraith”. Her previousnovel Casual vacancy.

Dare to Do! For the newGeneration

Former IPS Kiran Bedi

Daughter of Empire Pamela Hicks

Dear Life Alice Munro, Canada

Durbar Tavleen Singh

Earth Songs WB CM Mamata Benerjee

Economic Policies andIndia’s reform agenda

YV Reddy

Em and the Big hoom Jerry Pinto’s novel. Won Hindu Literary prize.

Fractured Times: Cultureand society in 20th Century

Eric Hobsbawn

Freethinker’s prayerbook Khushwant Singh

Grammatica GrandonicaSanskrit grammar book written by a Jesuit MissionaryFor.Hanxlenden. Restored after 300 years.

Hilary MantelWon two man booker prizes. This time for book“Bring up the bodies”.

How not to make moneyRaj Kundra (Shilpa Shetty’s husband) and allegedlyinvolved in IPL spot fixing 2013.

Impossible Indian: Gandhiand Temptation of violance

Faisal Devji

Indignez VousBook by Stephane Hessel. Had inspired Occupywallstreet movement. Author is dead.

InfernoDan Brown (he wrote Da Vinci Code, Angels andDemons, Lost Symbol)

Inside Out Autobiography of Paki cricketer Mustaq Mohammad

Jesus of Nazaeth: theInfancy narratives

Pope Benedict XVI

Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife.By Sushmita Bangerjee. It details her escape fromTaliban ruled Afghanistan in 1995. She was recentlymurdered by Talibans.



Land of seven rivers Sanjeev sanyal

Law’s Empire Ronald Dworkin. Dead

Life of PiYann Martel. Made into movie by Ang Lee. SurajSharma played hero.

My father, our fraternity Sarod Maestro Amjal Ali Khan

My journey: transformingdreams into actions

APJ Kalam

My tryst with justice Justice PN Bhagwati

Netaji Subhash ChandraBose and Germany

By his daughter Prof Ania Pfaff

New Market Tales Jayant Kriplani

Pataudi-Nawab of Cricket Suresh Menon

Patriots and Partition Ramchandra Guha

Samudra Mantha: Sino-Indian rivalry in the IndoPacific

C.Raja Mohan.

Sanjay story Vinod Mehta

Sethji Shobha De

Sounding OffResul Pookutty- he had won Oscar for soundtrack inSlumdog Millionaire

Sunshine Lence Prasun Joshi, Noted lyricist.

The games Indians play whywe are the way we are.

V Raghunathan.

The Great Gatsby P.Scott Fitzerland

The LowlandJhumpa Lahiri. shortlisted for Booker 2013 forfiction.

The NaMo story Kingshuk Nag

The Prabhakaran Saga S Murari

The Race of my life-anautobiography

Milkha Singh

The Sea of innocence Kishwar Desai. About rape of Scarlet Jones in Goa.

The test of my life: fromcricket to cancer and back

Yuvaraj Singh

The Wildlings Nilanjan Roy

Untold story of people ofAzad Kashmir

Christopher Snedden

Walking the lions: Talesfrom a diplomatic past

Natwar Singh

Sports

Football

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Australia became a member of ASEAN’s football federation.

DavidBeckham

Retired. Played for Manchester united.

DurandCup

India’s oldest football tournament. The prize money increased from 20lakh to 50 lakh. Kolkata defeated ONGC

FIFA2014

will use Goal line technology to determine ball had passed through goalline or not.. Will be Hosted in Brazil. Mascot: Armadillo called“Fuleco”.Lydia Nsekera, Burundi, First women in FIFA executivecommittee

GoldenBoot2012

Lionel Messi.

PrafulPatel

President of all India Football Federation.

SAFF South Asian football championship. Afghanistan defeated India.

SantoshTrophy

Services won against Kerala.

Cricket

Ashes series 2013 England won Against Australia

ICC ChampionsTrophy 2013

India Won against England at Birmingham.

ICC Women’sWorld Cup

Australia defeated West Indies at Mumbai.

IPL-2013 Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai

Parvez RasoolAsgar

First person from J/K in Indian cricket team.

Ranji Trophy 2013 Mumbai defeated Suarashtra.

T-20 World Cup England defeated New Zealand at Auckland.

Thirush KaminiIndia’s woman opening batsman. First Indian player to hitcentury in women’s world cup 2012.

Vijay HazareTrophy

Delhi Won.

World Cup 2015

Jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in February2015.Two groups of Seven TeamsBoth India and Pakistan are in pool-B.

Hockey

Asia Cup HokeyHeld @Ipoh, Malayasia.South Korea defeated India.India’s VRRaghunath=Player of the tournament.



Hockey IndiaLeague

Ranchi Rhinos won.

Indian HockeyFederation

President V.Dinesh Reddy

Leslic Claudius Triple Olympic Gold Medalist from India.Dead.

New coach forIndia

Maharaj Kishan Kaushik

Sultan AzlanShah

Australia defeated Malaysia

Tennis Tournaments 2013

Name Won Lost

Australia openMan: Djokovic, Serbia 1st man to winthis tournament three times in a row.

Man: Andy Murray,UK

Woman: Vicoria Azarenka, Belarus. Woman: Li Na

Brazil Open,Madrid Open,Italian Open

Nadal Not important.

Dubai OpenMen’s Doubles BhupathiWomen’sDoubles Sania Mizra

Not important.

French Open

Nadal. Became first player to win eightsingles at the same grand slamtournament.

David Ferrer.

Serena Williams, US Sharapova.

Wimbledon

Ande Murray. First Briton to win after1936.

Djokovic

Marion Bartoli. Her first grand slamsingle, French

Sabine Lisicki

US Open

Nadal, Spain Djokovic, Serbia

Serena Williams, USVicoria Azarenka,Belarus.

Doubles: Leander Paes and Stepanek(Czech)Paes’ Grandslams: 8 doubles,14 overall.

Some players frombrazil and Australia

CincinnatiMasters

Nadal, SpainSome unseeded player,hence name notimportant.

Azarenka (Belarus)Serena Williams(USA)

Davis Cup Commitment award: to Leander Paes and Jaidip Mukherji

Badminton



IndianBadmintonLeague

Indian Badminton league: similar to IPL.Lee Chong Wei costliestplayer went to mumbaiSaina Nehwal’s “Hyderabad hotshots” won it.

Indian open Ratchano, ThailandLee Chong in Men

Malaysiangrand prix

PV Sindhu defeated Singapore’s Juan Gu

Thomas cup &Uber Cup

Will be hosted in India in 2014

WorldBadmintonchampionship

in Guangzhou, ChinaGold: Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand) female.Lin Dan (China) Man.Silver: not important.Bronze: PV Sindhu(India)

Olympics

IOC, International Olympic Committee: Thomas Batch (Germany) replacedJacques Rogge.2020 (Summer) Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Motto: DiscoverTomorrow. and Wrestling is included.Special Olympics for disabled. India won 46 medals @Pyhongchang China.Olympics for Mentally disabled. Held in S.Korea

Indians @London Olympic 2012

Gagan Narang Bronze. 10 air-rifle

KrishnaPoonia

discus throw. Did not win

Mary Kom Bronze. Women flywt. Boxing

Saina Nehwal Bronze. Single badminton

Sushil KumarSilver Wrestle 66kg. He was flag-bearer. He got bronze in 2008Beijing.

Vijay Kumar Silver. 25 rapid fire pistol. Rajiv G.Khel ratna

Yogeshwardutt

Bronze. 60kg wrestle. Rajiv G.Khel ratna.

Chess

These Indians won some foreign tournaments: Parimarajan Negi, P.Harikrishna.Widith Gujrathi: 30th GrandmasterAbijit Gupta: Commonwealth Chess ChampionshipK.Jennitha: World chess championship for disabled.Grenke Chess classic 2013: Anand won

Miscellaneous

Rupesh Shah: Asian Billiards



Ronnie O’Sullivan: World Snooker-Becamechampion for the fifth timePGA 2013 Tigerwoods.Australian Grand prix 2013: KimmyRaikkonel.Malkhamb: Madhya Pradesh declared it asstate’s sportHenry Rebello: athlete from India,participated in London Olympics’48. Dead.Anand Shetty (Flying Bunt): Sprinter. DeadWorld cup for shooting: Rahi Sarnobat -1stIndian woman to win gold in pistol shooting.Archery World cup @Shanghai: Bronze byIndian women’s team.National Archery Championship at RaipurChhattisgarh. Assam won.

Sport Mascots

BeijingOlympics2008

Fuwa (good-luck dolls)

CricketWorld Cup2011

Stumpy, the elephant.

CWG,2011

Shera, the tiger.

Kabbadiworld cup2012, India

JAANBAZ, the eagle.

LondonOlympics2012

Wenlock + Mandeville. Theysymbolize Britain’sindustrial revolution.

FIFA 2014 Armadillo named “Fuleco”

Sports Awards

RG Khel Ratna

Shooter Ronjan Sodhi. He had also won ISSF shooting worldcup: (silver, double trap).Before him Khel Ratna was given to Wrestler YogeshwarDutt.

LaureusAwards 2013

Usain Bolt (male) and Jessica Ennis (Female) for their Olympic2013 records.



Arjun Awards 2013

Mr. Abhijeet Gupta Chess

Mr. Amit Kumar Saroha Athletics (Para)

Mr. Dharmender Dalal Wrestling

Mr. Gagan Jeet Bhullar Golf

Mr. Ranjith Maheshwari Athletics

Mr. Rupesh Shah Billiards & Snooker

Mr. Virat Kohli Cricket

Ms. Chekrovolu Swuro Archery

Ms. Joshna Chinnappa Squash

Ms. Kavita Chahal Boxing

Ms. Mouma Das Table Tennis

Ms. Neha Rathi Wrestling

Ms. P.V. Sindhu Badminton

Ms. Rajkumari Rathore Shooting

Ms. Saba Anjum Hockey

Dronacharya 2013 Award for Coaches

K.P. Thomas Athletics

Mahavir Singh Boxing

Narinder Singh Saini Hockey

Poornima Mahato Archery

Raj Singh Wrestling

Places in News

AhmedabadFirst city in South Asia to have a comprehensive heat actionplan

Arunanchal Pradesh New wild banana species found-Musa Velutina

BangaloreInternational airport

renamed after Hiriya Kempegowda. He was a ruler under theVijayanagar empire

BetulIn Gawilgarh hills, MP. ASI has found 12000 year old paintingsfrom here.

Bushehr Province Iran earthquake in april

Cyclone Phailin Odisha and Andhra

Hanumangarha a major trade hub during Harappa period

Jaisalmer Fort

First inhabited world heritage monument under UNESCOOtherfive forts that got world heritage statute: Amber, Chittorgarh,Gangron, Kumbhalgarh.

Javadi HillsVellore district TN. Neolithic bedrocks found. They were usedfor sharpning axes and stone tools.



Kalimantan forest In Borneo island, Indonesia. World’s largest project forREDD+

Kshripra river,Ujjain

Gold coins of vikram aditya found belonging to first centuryBc.

Kutch India’s first marine eco sensitive zone by MoEF

Maenam WildlifeSanctury, Sikkim

First wild life sanctury to have a skywalk and 22km ropeway

Malayalam languageUnion cabinet gives it classical status, along with Tamil,Kannada and Telugu.

Mauratia Ancient Microcontinent. Its evidence found in W.Indian ocean.

Meghalaya, Tripura,Manipur.

Got their own high courts.Total HC (before) =21. After=24.This was done via amending North Eastern areasreorganisation act 1971

Mount Fuji, Japan World Heritage status under UNESCOIn Honhu Island

Mukundra HillsThird Tiger reserve in Rajasthan. Other two are Sariska andRanthambhore

Nyoma, Leh Highest Krishi Vigyan kendra

Palacole, Andhra Nepoleaon era french gold coins found

Popocatépetlvolcano

Mexico

PraneshwaraTemple, Shimogadistrict, Karnataka

Ancient copper plates from Kalachurya dynasty.

Samoa Airline First airline to charge passengers based on their weight

SerbiaAgreed to cede some areas to its former provinceKosovo.Under EU accord.Serbia-Capital BelgradeKosovo-Capital Pristina-Uses Euro as Currency.

Shanghai Started visa-free transit scheme with Beijing.

Shenzhen Province China Launched its first carbon trading scheme here

Sichuan Province China earthquake of ritchers scale-7.

UKBanned sale of non-native aquatic plants to prevent entry ofinvasive species.

UttarakhandDisaster

Covered here: click me

Wayanand, KeralaPre historic rock art found in Edakkal caves in Ambukuthyhills.

XishaDisputed islands in South China sea. China is offering touristsrides while Vietnam opposes.

Dead

Only covering import ones, else this will be a mile long list.

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Aaron swartz Helped creating early version of RSS and Internet.

Afzal GuruIn Feb’13. Hanged for parliament attack on13/12/2001.Operation three star=codename for his hanging.

Ahalyachari Educationist. Associated with NCERT

Ajmal Kasab Hanged for 26/11/2008 terrorist attack.

AK Narayan Historian and archaeologist

Amar G. Bose Founder of Bose corp- Radios, speakers and audio systems

Arun Dey Historian, Kolkata

Asgar AliEngineer

Islamic scholar. Dawoodi Bohra movement.

Batindra NathMukharji

Ancient Indian historian

Bruce Reynold Carried the Great Train robbery in Britain.

Chinua Achebe father of modern African Literature.

Doctor HilaryKoprowski

First successful oral vaccine for polio.

DouglasEngelbart

Father of Computer mouse.

Ganesh Pyne Painter. W.Bengal.

Henry Rebello athlete from India, participated in London Olympics’48. Dead.

HiroshiYamauchi

Creator of Mario and Donkey Kong games. Nintendo Company

HS Singhania President of JK Singhania group.

Ieng Sary Founder of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge movement.

Jia Dagar Drupad Singer.

John E Karlin Inventor of phone keypad.

Kallam AnjiReddy

Founder of Dr.Reddy’s lab.

KP Bhaskar Indian classical dancer in Singapore.

MahasundariSevi

Sujani craft, Mithila painting

MSGopalKrishnan.

Violin maestro

N.Seshagiri Founder DG of NIC.

OttavioQuattrocchi

Bofors scandal.

Pandit RamSneezehi Shukla

Freedom fighter. Gandhi’s follower.

PV Indresan Educationist. Ex-Director of IIT Madras

RaghunathPanigrahi

Classical singer. Jaydev’s Git Govind.

Ramankutty Nair Kathakali maestro. Autobiography “Thiranottam”



Ray Dolby Dolby sound.Rituparno Ghosh Filmmaker. Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Last Lear etc.

Robert Edward Father of IVF technology. Won noble for

Rochus Misch Hitler’s bodyguard. Dead

Ronald Coase Coase theorm. Noble prize for economics. Dead.

RP Goenka CEAT, Saregama, Philips carbon black etc.

Sagar Singh Part of Azad Hind Fauj during freedom struggle.

Sarabjit Singh attacked in Lahor Jail in Pakistan, died.

Shakuntala Devi Maths Genius, wrote many books on puzzles.

Shanu Lahiri Painter from Bengal school

SushmitaBangerjee

Bengali author. “Kabuliwala’s Bengali wife”. Killed by Talibans.

Vidarbha MishraEnvironment activist. Cleaning ganga through his Sankan Mochanfoundation.

Vinod Raina Educationist. Brain behind Right to education act.

VS Ramadevi First woman Chief election Commissioner of India

Zafar Futehally Ornithologist

Stamps in News

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Space/Sci-Tech related

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