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Global News HeadlinesVladimir Putin becomesPresident of Russia

Putin won the Presidentialelections on 4th March 2012.

Webcams were used in majority of pollingstations to ensure transparency.

'Toulouse shootings' in France

In March 2012, there were a series of shootingstargeting Jewish civilians and French armypersonnel in the cities of Toulouse andMontauban.

The perpetrator was identied and shot dead

after a 30 hour siege.

India launches Agni V missile

On 23rd April 2012,the Agni V missile wassuccessfully test red by

India's DRDO.

India joins the Intercontinental Ballistic missile(ICBM) club, as the Agni covers over 5000 kmrange and can hit targets deep inside Chinaand whole of Pak, south Asia, Europe andparts of Africa.

2012 US Republican PartyPrimaries

The US Republican PartyPresidential primaries arethe selection processes fornominating a candidate to run

for the 2012 Presidential elections. Currently,Mitt Romney, is the likely candidate having wonthe majority votes.

France votes for new President

Francois Hollande is elected the new Presidentof France. He defeated the incumbentPresident, Nicolas Sarkozy.

'Make Kony Famous' hits social media

Kony 2012 was a short lm

released on 5th March 2012about the Ugandan war lord,Joseph Kony. The lm spread

virally through the social mediachannels like Youtube, Vimeo.

Burmese leader Aung San SuiKyi elected to parliament

Aung San Sui Kyi, the pro-democracyleader in Myanmar (Burma) waselected to the lower house of

Parliament on 1st April 2012. She was awardedthe Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

Multiple attacks byinsurgets in Afghanistan

On 15th April 2012, heavily armedTaliban insurgents and suicide

bombers launched attacks on governmentbuildings, military bases and embassies in fourprovinces, including the capital, Kabul. A totalof over 40 were killed and the attack on Kabullasted almost 18 hours.

2012 Assembly Elections in India

Legislative Assembly elections were held in

ve Indian states:

Goa - BJP wins Manipur - Congress wins Punjab - won by BJP and SAD Party Uttarakhand - Congress wins Uttar Pradesh - Samajwadi Party won

Avalanche buries over 100 Pakistanisoldiers in Siachen glacier

An avalanche hit a Pakistani military base near

the Siachen Glacier on 7th April 2012. Over 135soldiers were trapped under the deep snow.

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Year: 2012Issue: 3

Stops print edition after244 years.

Sports, Showbiz

Indias Rahul Dravid retiredfrom cricket on 9th March 2012.

Saina Nehwal won

the 2012 SwissOpen Badmintontournament

Leander Paes wins 50thdoubles title with the MiamiMasters title.

He became only the 24th playerin the ATP World Tour history to

win 50 doubles title.

Tiger Woods won theArnold Palmer InvitationalGolf tournament.

This is the seventh timehe has won here.

Euro 2012 Football Finals The Euro 2012is scheduled from 8 June to 1 July. It will beco-hosted by Ukraine and Poland.

UEFA Champions Trophy Chelsea andBayern Munich will play the nals.

World Series Hockey started on 29th February2012 with eight teams in India. Sher-e-Punjabwon the series defeating the Pune Strykers.

100-hundreds

Sachin Tendulkarscored his100th international hundredon 16 March 2012, againstBangladesh in the Asia Cup.

He became the rst cricketerto achieve this feat

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Five time world

championMCMary Kom andSarita Devi clinchedgold medals in the6th Asian BoxingChampionshipsin Ulan Bator,Mongolia.

India nished

second inthe overallstandings.

Formula One 2012 Jenson Button wins Australian Fernando Alonso wins

Malaysian GP Nico Rosberg wins China GP Sebastian Vettel wins

Bahrain GP

Its 100 years since the Titanic disaster

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Commonwealth Bank Tri-nationCricket ODI Series 2011-12

Australia, Sri Lanka and India participated Australia won the series 2-1 defeating

Sri Lanka in the nals

Roger Federer won theATP Indian Wells MastersTennis Championship.

Veteran actor,SoumitraChatterjee,received the2012 DadasahebPhalke award.

59th National Film awards of India

Best actor, Girish Kulkarni Best actress - Vidya Balan Best feature lm - Byari and Deool

Asia Cup Cricket 2012

Pakistan won the cup defeatingBangladesh in the nal Five time world

champion.

Pankaj Advani wonthe Asian Billiardstitle.

World record price for painting Edvard

Munchs The Scream was sold for$119.9Mat an auction.


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Weird newsMusically inclined elephant An elephant, named Shanthi, in the National

Zoo, Washington DC, is learning to play theharmonica with her truck.

Shanthi also likes to tap things, ap her ears

against objects to make noise and rub herleg up and down shrubs to repeat noises

A soccer ball swept up by Japanese tsunamiwas found on the Alaskan shores. The ball isfrom the Osabe School in the Iwate Prefecture,an area that was hit by the devastating tidalwave unleashed March 11, 2011.

Referee gives out ve red cards in dressing

room A referee sent off ve players in the dressing

room after a post-match brawl. This occurred at an English League Two

game between Bradford City and CrawleyTown.

The town of Buford, Wyoming was sold for$900,000 at an online auction. This town,with a population of 1, was called TheUSAs smallest town was purchased by anunidentied buyer from Vietnam.

A 45ft-long paper airplane was released intothe sky over Arizona by helicopter. The model,

which has a 24ft wingspan, could be theworld's largest paper plane.

Ghost white baby born without any blood. Olivia Norton, in England, was born

completely white because she had such alow count of hemoglobin.

Emergency blood transfusions thentransformed her into a glowing healthy pinkcolour.


Science & Tech NewsNew iPad tablet launched Four times faster than iPad 2

with the new quad-core A5xchip

Retina display for sharperscreens

5 MP camera 4G network ready

Google Glasses launched This prototype has all

the functionality of asmartphone and placesit into a wearable devicethat resembles eyeglasses

A concept video was released onYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

Google Play launched

Google launched a new online store calledGoogle Play. It offers customers a one stopmarketplace for music, movies, applicationsand digital content

Microsoft will partner with Barnes & NobleNook e-reader

Microsoft with Barnes & Noble aim tocompete with Amazon Kindle and AppleiPad

Runaway planets found New research has indicated the existence

of runaway planets travelling at speeds upto 30 million MPH

These planets are called Hypervelocityplanets

One World Trade Centerbeing built at the site of thefallen twin towers became thetallest tower in NY City

One World Trade Center willstand at 1,776 feet to the tipof its antenna

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Yellowstone National Park

The YellowstoneNational Park inWyoming, USA isthe worlds oldestnational park

It was establishedin 1872

The Kalashnikov assault rie is named after

its inventor, Russian Mikhail Kalashnikov.

In Georgia, USA there is a law No one maycarry an ice cream cone in their back pocket

if it is Sunday

The very rst TV commercial was for Bulovawatches in 1941, and it aired in the middleof a pro baseball game. The spot cost ninedollars.

In 1969, Czechoslovakia became the rstcountry to make seat belts compulsory.

Do not turn upside down (Printed on thebottom of the box). Tescos Tiramisu Desert.

The shortest war in history: This was a38 minute war between Great Britain andZanzibar in 1896.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degreesto fall down.

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Sobriquets for

Abdul Gaffar Khan

BBC

Alektorophobia

Frontier Gandhi

British Broadcasting Corporation

Fear of chickens

Florence Nightingale

GATT

Enochlophobia

William Shakespeare

ISBN

Pteromerhanophobia

The Bard of Avon

International Standard Book Number

Fear of ying

Joan of Arc

POTA

Scolionophobia

Maid of Orleans

Prevention of Terrorism Act

Fear of school

General Rommel

VAT

Xenophobia

Desert Fox

Value Added Tax

Fear of strangers

Some Abbreviations

A few phobias

Lady with the Lamp

General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

Fear of crowds

GK mart

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Some Greek mythological gures

Athena

Hades

Zeus

Aphrodite

God of wisdom, warfare and reason.

King of the Gods and God of the sky,thunder, law and order.

Goddess of love and beauty.

Some types of Government

Theocracy

Government ruled by a religious authority.

Democracy

Government through elected representatives of the people as in India, USA.

Autocracy

Government by one person with absolute power; also called dictatorship.

Aristocracy

Rule by a small group of members of a privileged class.

Monarchy

Rule of a King or Queen.

King of the Underworld and God of the Dead.

GK mart

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Our World

Slice of History

Ayers Rock is also known asUluru.

It is located in central Australiaand is sacred to the aborigines.

The Uluru National Park is hometo over 150 types of birds and 26types of mammals.

The rock is covered with cavesand has grooves running along itssides.

It appears to glow red at dawnand sunset.

It appear to change colour atdifferent times of the day andyear.

Joan of Arc

She was a peasant girl, born in 1412 in the easternpart of France.

Believing that she was acting under divine guidance,she led the French armies to victories against theEnglish forces in the Hundred Years war.

She was captured by the English and their Frenchcollaborators.

She was burnt at the stake as a heretic when she was19 years old.

She was canonized as a saint in 1920.

She is nicknamed The Maid of Orleans'.

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It is a large sandstoneformation and is a WorldHeritage site.

It is over 800m above sealevel and has acircumference of about 9 km.

Ayers Rock

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V

As

R

Down01. What is the Parliament

in Japan called?

02. Lavani is a dance form

in which Indian state?

05. The Indian IndependenceCommittee was formed in

this country during the

British Rule

07. The capital city of Qatar

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Across03. Which country won the 2012

Asia Cup cricket tournament?

04. Capital of the US State of

Michigan is

06. Winner of the 2012 SpanishPremier League Football

season

08. Unit of length to measure the

depth ofwater

09. National airline of Russia

10. Who won the 2008 European

Football Championship?

General Knowledge Crossword

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Aamir Khan George Clooney Priyanka Chopra Julia Roberts

Kajol ShahRukh Khan Jackie Chan Brad Pitt

Vidya Balan Will Smith Johnny Depp Katrina Kaif

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General Knowledge1. What is the capital of Somalia?

(a) Baidoa (b) Burao (c) Mogadishu (d) Hargeisa

2. The largest inland sea is

(a) Baltic Sea (b) Caspian Sea (c) South China Sea (d) Arabian Sea

3. Who was the rst actress to appear on a postage stamp?

(a) Marilyn Monroe (b) Katherine Hepburn (c) Audrey Hepburn (d) Grace Kelly

4. Name the world famous university on the banks of the river Isis(a) Oxford (b) Cambridge (c) Bath (d) Manchester

5. How many states of India shares its borders with Bhutan?

(a) Two (b) Four (c) Three (d) Five

6. The 'Earth Hour' is organized by

(a) UNESCO (b) World Bank (c) World Wildlife Fund (d) Earth Hour Foundation

7. The 'Fourth Estate' refers to the

(a) The Press (b) The Police (c) The Judiciary (d) The military

8. The book 'Origin Of Species' was written by

(a) William Shakespeare (b) Charles Darwin (c) Thomas Hardly (d) George Bernard Shaw

9. The Fire Temple is the place of worship of(a) Sikhs (b) Jains (c) Buddhists (d) Parsis

10. The Hundred Year War was fought between?

(a) France and Germany (b) England and France (c) England and Germany (d) Germany and Austria

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HISTORY QUIZ

11. Who was the India's First Test Cricket Captain?(a) MAK Patandi (b) CK Nayadu (c) Lala Amarnath (d) Vijay Merchant

12. How is actor Rajiv Hariom Bhatia better known as?(a) Sanjeev Kumar (b) Akshay Kumar (c) Govinda (d) Dilip Kumar

13. KLM Airlines belongs to which country?(a) Germany (b) Spain (c) England (d) Netherlands

14. What is the capital of Uruguay?(a) Montevideo (b) Sao paolo (c) Salto (d) Rivera

15. Who wrote the book ' The Songs of India '?(a) Lata Mangeshkar (b) Asha Bhosle (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Shreya Ghosal

16. Leukemia is a disease of the(a) Heart (b) Blood (c) Teeth (d) Lungs

1. A famous Phoenician colony, founded around 750 BC was___________.

2. ___________ This 'Veda' was written during the Iron Age.

3. ___________ This ancient city was called 'Rome of The East'.

4. In 1815, Napolean's army was defeated in the Battle of ___________.

5. The language of learning in the Middle Ages was ___________.

6. ___________ This city was the summer capital of India during the British rule.

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