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Most Important Current Events of December 2013

National News

• Cabinet has approved Telengana with 10 districts where Greater Hyderabad area will be the common capital for up to 10 years.
• India’s first heritage transport museum has been opened near Gurgaon which will showcase history of transportation in India.
• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has dedicated GAIL India Ltd.’s 1000 km long Dabhol-Bengaluru gas pipeline to the nation in the 8th Asia Gas Partnership Summit.
• World Apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has been passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa at the age of 95.
• Raman Singh has been sworn as the Chief Minister of Chattisgarh for the third consecutive term.
• Vasundhara Raje Sindhiya has taken oath as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan for the second time.
• Lal Thanhawla has taken over as the Chief Minister of Mizoram.
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been sworn as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for the third time.
• The Andhra Pradesh Re-organization Bill 2013 has been introduced in both houses of Andhra Pradesh legislature.
• Union Cabinet has approved the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill.
• Rajya Sabha has passed the historic Lokpal Bill by a voice vote.
• According to the latest official data, Net Direct Tax Collections from April to December 2013 are up by 14 percent and revenue from corporate tax by 10 percent.
• Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has finally announced to form government. RTI activist and Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient, Arvind Kejriwal has taken oath as the Delhi Chief Minister. He has become the youngest and 7th Chief Minister of Delhi.
• Former Union Minister V.K. Duggal has been sworn as the new Governor of Manipur.
• Army Chief General Bikram Singh has taken over from IAF Chief Marshal N.K. Browne as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CoSC).
• Hon’ble President Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2013.
• AAP leader M.S. Dhir has been elected as the Speaker of Delhi Assembly.
• A committee appointed by the Reserve Bank of India has recommended a Universal Electronic Bank Accounts for every Indian resident above 18 years of age by January 1, 2016.

International News

• The 9th World Trade Organization Ministerial Meeting has been begun in Bali, Indonesia.
• Xavier Bettel has been sworn as the first openly gay Prime Minister of Luxemberg.
• French army has launched military operation in Central African Republic.
• The Bank of England has announced to use polymer, a thin flexible plastic film rather than a cotton paper which is in use to print currency.
• Mary T. Barra has been appointed as the first woman head of the General Motors, the biggest car makers in USA.
• Ms. Devyani Khobragade, India’s Deputy Consul-General in New York has been arrested after being charged with visa-fraud.
• Pope Francis has been named as the Person of the Year 2013 by prestigious TIME magazine for changing the perception of the Catholic Church within just nine months in office.
• Assistant general of Jammat-e-Islamic and 1971 war crimes verdict of Bangladesh Abdul Quadir Mollah has been executed at the Dhaka Central Jail.
• Michelle Bachelet has been elected as the President of Chile.
• Angela Merkel has been sworn as the German Chancellor for the third time.
• Abdalvi Sheikh Ahmad has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Somalia.
• Designer of fabled AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov died at the age of 94.
• Pakistan has appointed Abdul Basit as its new high commissioner to India.
• London-based economic consultancy, Cebr has projected that India will become world’s third largest economy by 2028, overtaking Japan.
• Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan has been appointed as the first woman judge of a federal sharia court in Pakistan.
• The Awami League led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won the Parliamentary elections by an absolute majority, winning 232 out of 300 elected seats.

Sports Updates

• India won bid to host the FIFA under-17 World Cup in 2017.
• Mahesh Mangaonkar has become the first Indian to win the IMET Open squash championship held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• India beat Pakistan retaining the 4th World Cup Kabaddi Championship title.
• Virat Kohli became the topmost Indian to score fastest century ever in just 52 balls in one India Vs Australia ODI.
• Deepika Kumari has created national record at 346 points in women’s 50m round in the 34th Senior National Archery Championship in Jamshedpur.
• South Africa defeat India by 10 wickets in the second test match in Durban, winning the series by 1-0.
• France won its maiden Hopman Cup title against Poland.
• India defeat Pakistan by 40 runs to win Under-19 Asia Cup title in Sharjah.
• Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 400th career goal as Real Madrid beat Celta Vigo by 3-0 in the Spanish League.

Prize and Award Winners

• BCCI has conferred the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013 on Kapil Dev.
• Noted historian Bipan Chandra has been honoured with ‘Itihaas Ratna’ by the Asiatic Society, Bihar.
• Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has been named India’s best international cricketer for 2012-13.
• Gujarati-poet, Chinu Modi has been conferred the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry book Khara Zaran.
• The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has presented the Order of Merit to India’s missile-scientist A. Sivathanu Pillai, well known for his role in BrahMos cruise missile program. Murali Manohar Joshi has also been awarded the highest Russian award given to foreign nationals.

ICC Award 2013 Winners:

• Cricketer of the Year – Michael Clarke
• Test Cricketer of the Year – Michael Clarke
• ODI Cricketer of the Year – Kumar Sangakara
• Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year – Suzie Bates of New Zealand
• Emerging Cricketer of the Year – Cheteshwar Pujara
• T20 International Performance of the Year – Umar Gul
• T20 Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Sarah Taylor of England
• Spirit of Cricket Award – Mahela Jayawardena of Sri Lanka
• Umpire of the Year – Richard Kettleborough
• People’s Choice ICC Award – M.S. Dhoni

Science and Technology

• Iran has announced the sending of a monkey in space for the second time which is part of an ambitious program aimed at manned space flight.
• The Hubble Space Telescope has identified two huge plumes of water as high as 200km which occasionally erupt on Jupiter’s moon Europe.
• Indian scientist Sanyog Jain from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Educational and Research has developed an Insulin Pill that can save millions from the painful daily injection.
• The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister has launched an indigenous device, AV Magnivisualizer, a diagnostic kit to detect early cervical cancer.
• India’s super-computer PARAM Yuva-II, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is ranked first in India, 9th in the Asia Pacific Region and 44th in the world, among the most power efficient computer systems.

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Most Important Current Events of November 2013

National Affairs

• Current Account Deficit (CAD) dips to 1.2 percent of GDP at 5.2 billion-dollar in second quarter.
• The 11th Asia-Europe Meet (ASEM) of Foreign Ministers took place in Gurgaon.
• General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong visited to India to boost bilateral ties in the field of energy, defence and economy. The two nations signed 8 agreements.
• Indian Army successfully test-fired an advanced version of the 290-km BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in Pokhran, Rajasthan.
• The 18th International Children’s Film Festival of India began in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
• India’s largest warship, 45400-tonne INS Vikramaditya has been commissioned into Indian Navy. INS Vikramaditya was formerly known as Admiral Gorshkov.
• Assam Government has decided to accord the status of official State-Anthem to the song “O Mor Aponar Desh” which has been composed by Sahityarthu Lakshminath Bezbaroa in 1910.
• The 44th edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) has begun in Goa.
• The Supreme Court accepted the amended RP Act and allowed people in lawful custody in criminal cases.
• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the India’s first Women’s Commercial Bank, The Bhartiya Mahila Bank, in Mumbai.
• Prof. CNR Rao, who has been awarded Bharat Ratna in 2013, became the first Indian to be elected as an honorary foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Science.
• India has successfully test-fired the surface-to-surface ballistic missile, Dhanush, a naval variant of the Prithvi missile. It is capable of carrying conventional as well nuclear weapons of 500 kg-1000 kg.
• According to the global consultancy firm, Ernst & Young, has listed India as the most attractive investment destination.
• Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed as the UNICEF’s ambassador of South Asia to promote sanitization in the region.
• The first unit of Punjab’s largest thermal power plant, Talwandi Sabo Plant Limited has been inaugurated. It has a capacity to generate 1980MW electricity.
• Cyclone Helen, the 2nd major storm to hit Andhra Pradesh in four weeks.
• Emperor of Japan, Akihito and Empress Michiko has arrived in New Delhi for a five-day visit.
• The Indian Army successfully test-fired the surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile in Balasore, Odisha.
• Nelson Mandela has been passed away at the age of 95.
• The first heritage transport museum of India has been opened near Gurgaon which will showcase history of transportation in India.
• The journey of MiG-21 has come to an end after five decades.

International Affairs

• Three-day summit of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has begun in Colombo, Sri Lanka with heads/representatives of 50 commonwealth nations.
• The annual UN Global climate-talk has been started in Warsaw, Poland.
• Ms. Nisha Desai became the first person of Indian Origin to be appointed as an assistant Secretary of State in the US for South-Central Asia.
• Fredrisk Sanger, a two-time winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has been passed away at the age of 95. He is known as the Father of Genomics.
• China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cuba won seats on the UN Human Rights Council.
• Abdullah Yameen has been elected as the new President of Maldives. He is the half-brother of ex-President Maumoon Gayoom.
• Oxford dictionary announced the word ‘Selfie’ as the 2013 word of the year. Selfie is defined as a photograph that one has taken of oneself by smartphones or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.
• The United Nations has announced January 22 as the date of international conference (Geneva-2) to resolve the Syrian crisis.
• Prime Minister of Thailand Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra declared emergency in Bangkok after anti-government protests hit in the road.
• Lt. Gen. Raheel Sharif has been appointed as the new Chief of Pakistan Army.
• Napali Congress has emerged winner in Nepal’s constituent assembly polls.
• Ms. Mary Barra has been appointed as the first woman head of the General Motors which is the biggest card-makers of US.
• Pope Francis has been named the Person of the Year 2013 by prestigious Time Magazine for changing the perception of the Catholic Church within just 9-months in office.
• Uruguay became the first nation in the world to legalize marijuana; its sale and production.
• The 9th World Trade Organization Ministerial Meeting began in Bali, Indonesia.
• Xavier Bettel has been sworn in as the first openly gay-Prime Minister of Luxemburg.
• As per the report revealed by the global transaction services organization SWIFT, China’s yuan became the second most-used currency in trade finance after the dollar.

Sports Updates

• Gaganjeet Bhullar became the first Indian to win Indonesian Open Golf tile.
• India won 12 Gold medals on the opening day of second South Asian Junior Athletics Championship 2013 in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
• Novak Djovic of Serbia won the ATP World Tour title 2013.
• 14-year old Prithvi Shaw has created history with a World Record score of 546 off just 330 balls in the first round of Harris Shield elite division match.
• Mary Ann Gomes won the International Woman Grandmaster Open chess tournament 2013 in Chennai.
• India won the Test Series by 2-0 against West Indies. Rohit Sharma got his first ‘Player of the Series’. 
• Sachin Tendulkar bids farewell to the cricket world at the end of the final and 200th Test Match played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai against West Indies.
• Radek Stepanek won Davis Cup for Czech Republic after defeating Dusan Lajovic of Serbia.
• Lionel Messi received the 3rd Golden Shoe Award as the top league scorer in Europe for his 46 goals in the season of 2012-13.
• Virat Kohli equals fastest 5000-run record by West Indies’s Vivian Rechards in the first ODI against West Indies.
• Indian won the bid to host the FIFA under-17 World Cup in 2017.
• Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the ICC’s People Choice Award for 2013. He is the second Indian to win such award after Sachin Tendulkar.
• Hong Kong and Netherlands qualified for World T20.

Prize and Award Winners

• Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and eminent scientist Prof. C.N.R. Rao have been chosen for Bharat Ratna. Tendulkar has become the first sportsperson and the youngest recipient of the award.
• Malala Yousafzai has been awarded 2013 United Nations Human Rights award.
• British PM David Cameron has been presented with The Sikh Award 2013 citation for his services to Sikh community. He is the 1st serving UK Prime Minister to visit the Golden Temple.
• Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel has been honoured with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2013.
• East Timor’s first feature film, ‘Beatriz’s War’ won the Golden Peacock award for the 2013 best film in the 44th International Film Festival of India.
• US whistle-blower, Edward Snowden has been awarded with Guardian’s Person of the Year for 2013.

Science and Technology

• A study conducted by World Wide Web Foundation that India is the 56th position in internet freedom.
• US space agency, NASA, launched its unmanned mission named as Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) to study the Red Planet’s atmosphere for clues as to why Earth’s neighbor lost its warmth and water over time.
• A computer in Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, has been declared as the 44th fastest machine in the world. It is capable of 719 trillion calculations per second.
• Researchers have identified the coldest place on Earth which is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures in several hallows can dip below minus 133.6 degree Fehrenheit on a clear winter night.
• China has launched its first moon rover mission, Jade Rabbit, which is the 3rd in the world after those of USA and the former Soviet Union.

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Most Important Current Affairs of October 2013

National News

• The Supreme Court of India has appointed a panel headed by Justice Mukul Mudgal to probe IPL fixing.
• The Union Cabinet has cleared the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) Bill.
• Mangalayaan, India’s first Mars Orbiter Mission had been successfully launched from Satish Dhawan Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
• Bharti Enterprises and US retail giant Wal-Mart have announced to terminate their joint venture, ending a six-year old relationship.
• A committee, headed by Mukul Mudgal, has proposed a Bill to replace The Cinematograph Act, 1952 in its report submitted to the Information & Broadcast Ministry.
• Cyclone Phailin with a speed of 200 km/h hits coasts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
• Arunendra Kumar has been appointed as the new Chairman of Railway Board of India.
• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) put allegation against Aditya Birla and former secretary P.C. Parekh.
• India has refused to sign the first ever global resolution led by the UN against child-marriage.
• World Bank cut the growth estimate of India from 6.1 percent to 4.7 percent.
• Indian Coast Guard has detained an armed foreign vessel named MV Seaman Guard Ohio Ship at Tuticorin Port, Tamil Nadu.
• The Indo-Russian joint military exercise named ‘INDRA 2013’ has been organized to improve capabilities for carrying out anti-terrorist activities in Thar Desert of Rajasthan.
• The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has started the biggest gold-digging exercise under the fort of Raja Rao Ram Baksh Singh in the village Daundiya Kheda in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh. It is predicted that around 1000 tonnes of gold are to be lying under the fort.
• The Finance Ministry has announced to infuse Rs. 14000 crores capital in various banks within this fiscal.
• First Indonesian bank branch in India, Bank International Indonesia (BII) was opened in Mumbai.
• Lok Sabha Secretary-General S. Bal Sekhar and RJD’s Lalu Prasad Yadav have been disqualified from the Lok Sabha for nearly 11 years.
• Prime Ministerter Dr. Manmohan Singh visited to China. On his visit, Dr. Singh and China Prime Minister Li Keqiang signed a Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA).
• Noted playback singer Manna Dey has passed away in a Bengaluru hospital at the age of 94.
• India has resumed military aid to Nepal after nine years of suspension.
• Air Marshal Arup Raha has been sworn as the New Chief of Indian Air Force (IAF). He will take over from present Chief N.K. Brown on 31st December, 2013.
• Vice-President of India Hamid Ansari has launched Indian Chamber of Commerce (INCHAM) in Peru on his visit to this country.
• According Geneva-based World Economic Forum, the rank of India is 101 out of 136 nations on a global gender gap index.
• The Indian Air Force has received its fourth Boeing C-17 Globemaster III from the USA.
• World Bank has approved aid of 250 million dollar to Uttarakhand.
• Report revealed by National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), Patna became the city with highest unemployment rate among men (11.3%) and women (18.2%) in the year 2009-10.
• Reserve Bank of India has lowered GDP rate from 5.7 percent to 4.8 percent for the current fiscal.
• SENSEX has reached to its all time high of 21294 points due to aggressive buying by the foreign institutional investors with access to low-cost funds in the USA.
• The Supreme Court has issued a direction to the Centre and the States to set up a Civil Services Board (CSB) that will regulate the postings and other related matters of IAS, IPS officers.
• According to World Billionaire Census 2013, world’s 6th largest numbers of billionaires are in India.
• 19th Kolkata International Film Festival has begun on 10th November, 2013.
• According to Union Ministry for Rural Development, Kerala’s Kannur became the first zero-landless district in India.

International News

• President of Maldives Mohamed Waheed Hassan has withdrawn nomination from the 2013 presidential election.
• Two Russian cosmonauts took the Olympic Torch for a historic spacewalk showcasing the Russia’s hosting of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014.
• US President Barack Obama has nominated Ms. Janet Yellen as the chairperson of the powerful US central bank. She became the first woman chairperson of the Federal Reserve.
• Switzerland has signed the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative in tax matters with 58 countries including India.
• The Parliament of Greenland votes in favour of removing a 25-year-old ban on uranium mining.
• The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of Indian-origin Ms. Nisha Desai Biswal as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, became the first Asian to hold such position.
• Israel has allowed 899 Indian Jews to immigrate. All are the members of the Bnei Menahse tribe.
• Report revealed by Britain national daily Guardian that USA has spied on 35 world leaders.
• Data released by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that the developed countries have committed to cut greenhouse gas emission by three percent from 2011-2020.
• Dubai Airport, the world’s largest airport, has been opened for the passengers.
• According to Forbes magazine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ranked number one as world’s most powerful leader followed by US President Barack Obama.
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel ranks number one position in the world’s most powerful women ranking by Forbes followed by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi took the 3rd position.
• Turkey has opened the world’s first underwater rail link between Asia and Europe.
• Pakistan’s Taliban chief Hakimullah has been killed in an American drone strike.
• Japan and Russia have held their first joint Defence and Foreign Ministers’ meeting.
• The strongest typhoon in 2013, Haiyan hits Philippines.
• Imomali Rakhmon has been re-elected as the President of Tajikistan.
• Volcano Mount Sinabung has erupted in Karo district of Indonesia.

Sports Updates

• Virat Kohli of India has scored the fastest century ever by an Indian in just 52 balls in an ODI match against Australia.
• Manavjit Singh Sadhu of India won Gold in the Open Grand Prix in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• Colombia has qualified for Football World Cup 2014 after 12 years by defeating Chile.
• Indian shooters won seven medals including Silver by GS Sharan in Asian Shotgun Championship.
• Dipika Pillikal won the Macau Squash Open by beating former World No. 1 Rachael Gringham.
• Indian has made history in the World Boxing Championship 2013. Five boxers of India have reached to the quarterfinals for the first time.
• Sachin Tendulkar has scored match-winning 79 runs in his last innings for Mumbai in Ranji Trophy.
• World Cup Gold Medalist Sanjeev Rajput won the Gold in men’s 50-metre free rifle prone event in the Asian air gun shooting championship 2013 in Tehran, Iran.
• Rohit Sharma of India hits a record 16 sixes which is the most ever in an ODI innings, in the final match against Australia.
• The International Hockey Federation (IHF) has announced that India will host men’s 2018 World Cup, World League Final (men) in 2015 and 2017, and the Men’s Junior World Cup 2016.
• Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Championship 2013.
• Indian women’s hockey team won Silver medal in 3rd Asian Championship trophy 2013.
• Mohammad Siddikur of Bangladesh won the 50th edition of Hero Open Golf Tournament 2013 held in New Delhi.

Prize and Award Winners

• Pakistan’s teenage activist Malala Yousafzai has been awarded European Union’s prestigious Sakharov Human Rights Prize.
• New Zealand author Ms. Eleanor Catton won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for her novel ‘The Luminaries’.
• Father of Green Revolution in India, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan has been honoured with the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.
• Sristhi Rana of India won the Miss Asia-Pacific World 2013 crown in Seoul, South Korea.
• Ms. Maria Gabriela Isler of Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
• Anjali Gopalan has been conferred with the highest civilian honour of France, ‘the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’ for her work on transgender and HIV-positive patients.

Nobel Prize 2013 Winners:

• Peace - Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
• Literature – Alice Munro
• Physics – Peter Higgs and Francois for Gold Particle or Higg-Boson.
• Chemistry – Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for their work ‘to carry out computerized chemical experiments in real time’
• Economics – Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter for their work on building the knowledge of how the prices of an asset (stock or bond) move.

Science and Technology

• Astronomers have found the Earth’s twin named Keplar 78b which is 700 light years away.
• Scientists of USA have developed a new four-legged robot named WildCat that gallops at 25 kmph on flat ground and will aid military and rescue operations.
• US scientists developed a new smart phone application named SpyMeSat which provides notifications when spy satellites and unclassified imaging satellites zoom above the user’s head.
• Volkswagen HL1 hybrid car, the world’s first one-litre vehicle debuts in Beijing, China.
• Scientists have discovered the most distant galaxy ever named z8-GND-5296 which was created within 7-million years of Big Bang.

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Most Important Current Affairs of September 2013

National News

• Data released that India’s Trade Deficit decreased to 10 billion dollar in August 2013.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited USA. During his visit, India and US has sealed their first commercial nuclear power pact.
• The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2013 has been passed by the Parliament.
• Reports revealed that the industrial production of India has been increased of 2.6 percent in July, 2013.
• The Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Agni-V has been successfully test-fired from Wheeler Island, Odisha.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the Repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.50 percent.
• India will build a 4000 MW solar project which is the world’s largest in Rajasthan.
• The Supreme Court said that Andhar card is voluntary but not mandatory.
• RBI has instructed all the banks and merchant establishments to stop offering zero percent interest EMI schemes for the purchase of consumer goods.
• The Union Government has announced the constitution of Seventh (7th) Pay Commission.
• The Supreme Court gave voters the right to negative voting and instructed the Election Commission to provide ‘None of the Above’ button in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
• 68th Sessions of United Nations General Assembly was held in New Delhi.
• RBI has released that current account deficit (CAD) of India has been increased to 4.9 percent from 4 percent for the first quarter of 2013-14.
• Iran has rejected the plea of India for full rupee payment for oil import.
• Congress MP Rashid Masood has been given a four-year jail term by a Delhi Court in a corruption case. He became the first lawmaker to lose his seat after the Supreme Court judgment of removing immunity for convicted MPs and MLAs.
• Union Cabinet has cleared Telangana by giving approval to divide Andhra Pradesh. Telangana will cover 10 of 23 districts of undivided Andhra Pradesh.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has cleared the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA).
• Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has reported that malnutrition is rampant in Gujarat. Around 6.13 lakh children in 14 districts including Ahmedabad have been malnourished.
• Prithvi-II, the nuclear weapons-capable surface-to-surface missile has been successfully test-fired from Chandipur, Odisha.
• RBI has announced a 0.50 percentage point rate cut in its Marginal Standing Facility (MSF).
• Ms. Arundhati Bhattacharya has been appointed as the first woman chairperson of the Satte Bank of India (SBI).
• 12-year old Rohan Kokane of Belgaum, Karnataka has entered the 2014 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for being the lowest limbo skater.
• Justice Vangala Eswaraiah, the former acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court, has become the new Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes by succeeding Justice M.N. Rao.

International News

• Tony Abbott has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Australia.
• Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has stepped down after completing full 5-year term.
• Australian pilot Ryan Campbell at the age of 19, has become the youngest person to fly a single-engine aircraft solo around the globe.
• Mamnoon Hussain has been sworn in as the 12th President of Pakistan.
• Russia has announced their decision to sell Iran an improved version of the S-300 air defence missile and to build a second nuclear reactor at Bushehr.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed that one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted that results in a loss of 750 billion dollar a year.
• Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has announced that his country will never develop nuclear weapons.
• Angela Merkel has been re-elected as Chancellor of Germany for the third term. She belongs to Christian Democratic Union Party (CDUP).
• Islamist terrorists captured a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya and killed a large number of people.
• The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) got a massive victory in Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council election.
• Bangladesh began importing electricity from India on an experimental basis of 50 MW.
• China has launched its first Free Trade Zone in its financial capital Shanghai.
• The report of the new ’State of Food Security in the World 2013 ’ has been revealed by UN food agencies that around 842 million people suffer from chronic hunger during 2011-13.
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has strongly opposed the military intervention in Syria and has welcomed the Russia’s proposal for putting the chemical arsenals under international control.

Sports Updates

• German racer Sebastian Vettel has won the Korean Grand Prix Formula One championship 2013.
• Japan’s capital Tokyo has been chosen to host the 2020 Olympic Games for the second time.
• Thomas Bach of Germany has been elected as the 9th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by replacing Jacques Rogge.
• Afghanistan won the SAFF Football Championship 2013 by defeating India in the final.
• Tamil Nadu won the all-India Coromandel King Moin-ud-Dowla Gold Cup cricket tournament in 2013.
• Mohammedan Sporting club won the Durand Cup football championship 2013.
• Indian archer Deepika Kumari won a Silver medal at the Archery World Cup 2013 in Paris, France.
• Grappler Sandeep Tulsi Yadav has created history by winning India’s first-ever medal in the Greco-Roman category of the senior World Wrestling Championship 2013 in Budapest, Hungary. He won a Bronze medal in 66 kg event.
• Afghanistan has qualified for their maiden ICC Cricket World Cup.
• Mumbai Indians won the Champion League T20 tournament 2013 by defeating Rajasthan Royals in the final.
• Novak Djokovic won the China Open tennis championship 2013 title.

Prize and Award Winners

• Ms. Malal Yousafzai has been conferred the Anna Politkovskaya Award.
• Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace Disarmament and Development for 2012. She is Afrika’s first female President.
• Ms. Megan Young of Philippines has been crowned Miss World 2013.
• Bollywood Actor Aamir Khan has been chosen for a prestigious US Award by the America Abroad Media (AAM) for his TV show Satyamev Jayate.
• Malala Yousufzai and social justice activist Harry Belafonte were named as joint recipients of Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013.

Science and Technology

• Scientists of Illinois Institute of Technology, USA have developed a new software which enables touchscreen smartphone to identify its owner simply by the unique way he/she taps and swipes on the device.
• Scientists of Australia have developed the world’s first attention-powered car.
• Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA have announced that they have developed a robot named ‘M-Block’ which can assemble together to form arbitrary shapes. 

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Most Important Current Events of August 2013

National News

• Raghuram G. Rajan has been appointed as the new Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) succeeding Dr. D. Subbarao. Mr. Rajan was formerly the Chief Economic Advisor of Indian Finance Ministry.
• The Rajya Sabha has rectified the Companies Bill, 2012 which was passed by the Lok Sabha few months ago.
• Report published that the NET Direct Tax collections went up by 10.37 percent during the April-July period of the current fiscal year (2013-14).
• Communal violence took place in Kishtwar region of Jammu & Kashmir.
• The Lok Sabha passed the Food Security Bill. Under this program, 67 percent population of India will get subsidised food grains every month.  After a week, the Rajya Sabha has also passed the Bill by voice vote.
• Prime Minister Monmahan Singh and PM of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay made talks in New Delhi. India announced a financial package worth Rs. 5000 crore for Bhutan.
• The largest blast furnace of India, Durga became operational at its Rourkela Steel Plant, Odisha.
• India’s first indigenous, INS Vikrant floats out at Coachin Shipyard.
• Indian submarine, INS Sindhurakshak rocked by serial explosions and sinked at the Naval dockyard. INS Sindhurakshak was one of the India’s 10 Russian Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines.
• Deepak Sandhu became the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of India.
• RBI gave clearance Kerala Government to launch a financial institution following the principles of Islamic finance. Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation will float the Cheraman Financial Services Limited (CFSL) to function as a non-banking finance company.
• India and Iraq signed four important MoUs in New Delhi including crucial agreement in the field of energy and water resources. These MoUs have been signed in the Presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Iran’s PM Nouri al-Maliki.
• Co-founder and master mind of banned Indian Mujahidden (IM) has been arrested from India-Nepal border.
• Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettle Bill has been passed by the Lok Sabha.
• India’s first full-fledged military communications satellite, GSAT-7 has been launched from the Kourou spaceport of French Guiana, South America.
• According to latest report, India’s external debt has touched 390 billion dollar at the end of March 2013.
• The Union Government has referred an Amendment Bill on the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
• India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth has been slipped further to 4.4 percent in the first quarter (April-June) of 2013-14.

International News

• Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been elected as the new President of Mali.
• Navi Pillai, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that a decisive turn is being taken toward authoritarianism by Sri Lanka after the war against LTTE.
• Robert Mugabe has been sworn as the President of Zimbabwe.
• US President Barack Obama cancelled a talk about summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Russia decided to grant asylum to Edward Snowden.
• Ex-Prime Minister of Bhutan, Jigmi Thinley resigned from the Parliament. He is the first person in Bhutan to quit the legislative body.
• Michel Djotodia has been elected as the President of Central African Republic.
• Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
• Bradley Manning, the former  US soldier and whistleblower has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for providing secret files to WikiLeaks.
• President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hold talks in Islamabad covering the matters of Afghan peace process, bilateral relations and regional situations.
• The 22-nations from Arab League opposed the proposed Western military attack against Syria.
• Scientist of an international team discovered a massive canyon which is about 750-km long and 800-metre deep  hidden under Greenland’s ice sheets.
• Paragua has rejoined to South American regional group. The country lost its membership temporarily after it impeached its President.
• Microsoft bought the Finnish mobile maker Nokia at a price tag of 7.17 billion dollar.
• The G-20 summit 2013 held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• The BRICS group has made a progress towards the creation of a 100 billion dollar Currency Reserve Fund (CRF). The members of BRICS group are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
• Diana Nyad of USA became the first person to swim across Florida Straits from Cuba without any shark cage or flippers.

Sports Updates

• Hyderabad Hotshots won the first Indian Badminton League (IBL) 2013 beating Awadhe Warriors in the final.
• PV Sindhu has created history by becoming the first Indian woman singles player to win a medal at the World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou, China.
• Rimil Buriuly, Deepika Kumari and Laishram Bombayla Devi won the Gold medal at the World Cup Archery 2013.
• Briton Mo Farah won the Gold in the men’s 10000m at the IAAF World Championship 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
• Ratchanok Intamon and Lin Dan are the women’s singles and men’s singles titles winners of World Badminton Championship respectively.
• Team Red Bull racer Sebastian Vettel won the Bengian Grand Prix Formula One championship 2013.
• England clinched the Ashes trophy 2013 beating Australia by a 3-0 margin.
• South Korea beat India 4-3 in the final of the Asia Cup hockey championship 2013 in Ipoh, Malaysia.
• Mary Ann Gomes of WB won the National women’s premier chess title 2013 at Kolkata.
• Missy Franklin of USA became the first woman to win six Gold medals in a single World Championship at the 15th FINA World Swimming Championship 2013 in Bercelona.

Prize & Award Winners

• Ace shooter Ranjan Sodhi has been conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2013.
• Classical music maestro Abdul Rashid Khan and famous painter Anjali Ela Menon have been honoured with the Delhi Government’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2013.
• Famous litterateur Haraprasad Das has been conferred the Moortidevi Award 2012 for Vamsha.
• Famous environmentalist and mountaineer Harshwanti Bisht has been chosen for the prestigious Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal 2013.
• Pakistan teen activist Malala Yousafzai has been awarded with International Children’s Peace Prize, a top Dutch children’s honour for her activism regarding girl’s education.

Science & Technology

• Dutch scientists claimed that they ha built the world’s smallest autopilot for tiny unmanned aircraft.
• Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new super-heavy element whose atomic number is 115.
• A team of South Korean scientists developed a hi-tech ‘electrified’ road that can recharge moving electric vehicles while driving over it.

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Most Important Current Events of July 2013

National News

• India’s Telegram service has stopped its working bringing the curtain down on its glorious 163-year old history.
• Legendary Bollywood actor Pran passed away in Mumbai at the age of 93. He was a Dada Saheb Pjalke Award and Padma Bhushan recipient.
• Reserve Bank of India has banned banks from doing any proprietary trading in the currency futures and exchange-traded currency options market.
• Pakistani army personnel have crossed the Indo-Pakistan border in Kashmir and killed five Indian jawans on 6th August. 
• Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s first unit has attained critically in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
• According to National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), the poverty level across India has been decreased by 15 percent.
• 23 schoolchildren were died in Chapra, Bihar after eating poisonous food served under mid-day meal scheme of Central Government.
• World’s largest steelmaker Arcelor-Mittal scrapped its steel plant of about 12-billion dollar in Odisha over inordinate delay.
• Mr. Hemant Soren of JMM has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand after winning the trust vote in Jharkhand Assembly.
• Us Vice-president Joe Biden visited to India and held talks with Prime Minister Monmahan Singh. USA has expressed its willingness to partner India in shale gas technology and joint Indo-US military exercise.
• The Central Textiles Ministry has announced that the Government will soon launch a modified Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS).
• INSAT-3D, the metrological satellite of India, has been launched abroad a European rocket from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana.
• India has offered a 100 million dollar credit line to Vietnam for purchasing military equipment.
• UPA Coordination Committee has agreed to the division of the Andhra Pradesh state. New state Telangana will be the India’s 29th state in about 4-5 months. The capital of both states will be Hyderabad for a period of 10 years.
• Global biotechnology company Life Technologies has launched India’s first private DNA forensic laboratory in Gurgaon, Haryana.
• The Union Cabinet has approved the draft amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act. This amendment will nullify an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) which sought to bring 6 national political parties under the act.
• The Central Government has rejected the demand of complete autonomy by CBI in the Supreme Court.
• Arundhati Bhattacharya has been appointed as the Managing Director of the State of Bank of India (SBI).
• The Chief Economic Advisor of India, Raghuram Rajan has been appointed as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He succeeded Dr. D. Subbarao.
• An IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh Durga Shakti Nagpal has been suspended after overseeing drive against illegal sand mining in Gautam Budh, UP.

International News

• Hassan Rouhani has been elected as the new President of Iran succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
• India, Sri Lanka and Maldives have signed the Pacific Ocean Security Pact in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• Mlambo Ngcuka became the first woman chief of UN Women.
• The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won the election to the General Assembly of Bhutan. Tshering Tobgay of PDP was sworn as the new Prime Minister of Bhutan.
• The parliament of Ireland approved a groundbreaking law that allows abortion in limited cases.
• The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has secured the hefty majority in the country’s Upper House.
• The secretary-general of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami was awarded the death penalty for doing crimes against humanity committed during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.
• The opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner of Russia, Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of theft and embezzlement. But he has been released from custody surprisingly a day after.
•  Indian-born businessman Mamnoon Hussain has been elected as the 12th President of Pakistan.
• Russia has granted asylum to US NSA employee Edward Snowden.
• Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang visited US for talks on boosting trade between these two countries. He became the 2nd Vietnamese President invited to White House since the normalization ties.
• Founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has launched his WikiLeaks Party to contest in the upcoming Australian elections. He has been now holed up in the Ecuador’s embassy in London.
• The ruling party of Cambodia’s President Hun Sen claimed the victory in the country’s general election.
• North Korea and South Korea marked the 60th anniversary of 1950-53 Korean War.
• Italian Supreme Court awarded a 4-year prison sentence to ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of fraud and tax evasion.
• ‘The Washington Post’, the newspaper has been acquired by Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. The newspaper exposed earlier the infamous Watergate Scandal.
• Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe has been re-elected as the President. His party ZANU (PF) won the major seats in general election.

Sports Updates

• Left-arm spinner of Team India, Ravindra Jadeja became the first Indian bowler to top the bowlers’ chart in the latest ICC One Day International Player Rankings.
• Team India won the Tri-nation ODI Series in Post of Spain, West Indies defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
• Women weightlifters of India have won the Asian junior championship team title 2013 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
• Indian clinched the under-19 International ODI series in Darwin.
• India’s Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the 19th Commonwealth chess championship 2013.
• France won the under-20 FIFA World Cup football title 2013. It was their maiden title.
• Sayantan Das of West Bengal and Ivana Furtado won the boy’s and girl’s National junior chess championship 2013 respectively.
• Team Mercedes racer Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix Formula One championship 2013 title.
• Chris Froome of British became the winner in the 100th Tour de France 2013 championship.
• Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt clinched Gold in 100m at the London Diamond League athletics meet 2013.
• No. 1 snooker player of India, Aditya Mehta won the World Games title 2013 at Cali, Colombia.
• India won the Youth Chess Olympiad 2013 at Chongqing, Chinabeating Iran in the final round.
• India won the five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe by 5-0. Amit Mishra of India has been named for the Man of the Series.
• Indian Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi clinched the Politiken Cup chess tournament 2013 title.
• India won Bronze at the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup 2013 in Monchengladbach, Germany.

Prize & Award Winners

• Western classical music conductor, Zubin Mehta has been chosen for the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony.
• Shalini Singh, Deputy Editor of ‘TheHindu’ has been awarded the prestigious Prem Bhatia Award for Political Reporting 2013. Jaideep Hardikar of ‘The Telegraph’ bagged the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in environmental reporting.
• Razia Sultan, a 15-year old girl from Meerut, UP has been conferred the first United Nations Malala Award 2013 for spreading education among the child labourers.
• The founder Chairman of Delhi Metro, E. Sreedharan has been honoured with the Lokmanya Tilak Award.
• Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has been chosen for the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award in 2013.
• The first and only female provincial governor of Afghanistan, Habiba Sarabi became the winner of prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2013

News on Science & Technology

• Kirobo, a talking humanoid robot has been launched abroad a rocket to the International Space Station.
• Scientists of Germany have developed a pen which will give a signal to the writer while wrong spelling.
• A team of British scientists developed the world’s first intelligent knife named ‘iKnief’ which can detect cancer in less than three seconds.

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National News

• Defence Minister A.K. Antony visited China in June. India and China decided to initiate trust-building such as expanding direct contact between the two militaries.
• Mr. L.K. Advani of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) announced his resignation from all party posts.
• According to the United Nations, Kerala is the only state in India which remains in the very high human development index (HDI) with respect to education, health and incomes.
• The rank of India is at 141 in 2013 Global Page Index (GPI) out of 162 countries.
• India’s first technical university for women has been inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
• The wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation fell down to 4.7 percent in May 2013.
• The Union Cabinet has cleared the mental Health Care Bill, 2013.
• Cloudbursts broke over the Kedar Dome, the mountain north-west of Kedarnath Temple, Uttarakhand.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a financial assistance of Rs. 1000 crore from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to Uttarakhand for disaster.
• According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Kerala is on top in crime rate followed by Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
• Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge has been elevated as Railway Miniter.
• Janata Dal United (JDU) broke their 17 year-old alliance with BJP in Bihar.
• According to Swiss National Bank’s report, India has slipped to the 70th position in terms of money lying in Swiss Banks.
• Six hill forts of Rajasthan – Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbhalgarh Fort, Gagaron Fort, Chittorgarh Fort, Amer Fort and Ranthambhore Fort were included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List in the 37th Meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh lays the foundation stone of the 850 MW Ratle Power project on the river Chenab in Kashmir.
• The foreign direct investment (FDI) into India has been declined by 29 percent.
• The current account deficit (CAD) of India fell to 3.6 percent of GDP in the quarter January-March, 2013.
• P Sathasivam has been named the next Chief Justice of India succeeding Justice Altamas Kabir.
• The Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia Najeeb Jung has been appointed as the new Lieutenant-Government of Delhi. K.K. Paul and A.K. Singh have been appointed as the Governors of Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Island respectively.
• Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh has inaugurated the 17.7 km-long Banihal-Qazigund section of the ambitious mountain railway. Dr. Singh flagged off the first train which will run across the 11.2 km tunnel, the longest in the country.
• India has placed successfully the IRNSS-1 A, country’s first dedicated navigation satellite in orbit with the help of PSLV-C22 rocket.
• Union Cabinet approved a proposal for an ordinance on the National Food Security Bill.
• Bodh Gaya temple faced the serial blasts. Two were injured.
• The rupee falls to a historic low of 61.21 against the dollar.
• Hon’ble President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the National Food Security Ordinance.

International News

• Mr. Hassan Rouhani became the new President of Iran.
• Massive protests have been broke out in Brazil of thousands of people frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security.
• The former CIA technical assistant Edward Snowden leaked that National Security Agency of America collects phone records and emails of people from different country including India using the PRISM technology.
• NATO handed over the responsibility for providing security cover to Afghanistan’s military officially. USA-led NATO will pull out all forces by the end of 2014.
• Mohammed Morsy, the first democratically elected President of Egypt, was deposed by the Egyptian military. The top judge of the constitutional court, Mr. Adly Mansour was sworn as the interim leader.
• Indian origin Mr. Srikant Srinivasan has been sworn as a judge in the US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit. He became first India-American judge in the second most powerful court of USA.
• The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani stepped down in favour of his son Sheikh Tamim for the first time in Arab history.
• Kevin Rudd became the new Prime Minister of Australia succeeding Ms. Julia Gillard.
• British-made light weight electric powered car, Lola B1269/EZ has crossed the world land speed record of 328.6 km/h for battery-run cars.
• Croatia has become the 28th member of the European Union (EU).

Sports Updates

• Sebastian Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix title 2013.
• India won the 2013 Champions Trophy beating hosts England in the final by 5 runs. Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan was named the Man of the Tournament.
• India won the title of 17th Bridge Federation of Asia and Middle East (BFAME) Championship 2013 at Ahmedabad.
• Punjab clinched the National Junior Men’s Hockey Championship 2013.
• Justine Rose won the US Open Golf Tournament 2013. He became the first Englishman to win this title.
• Spain won the European under-21 football championship title 2013 beating Italy in the final.
• Boris Gelfand of Israel won the Tal Memorial chess tournament 2013 in Moscow, Russia.
• Indian Shooter Priyanshu Pandey won the double trap Gold at the 5th International Junior Shotgun Cup 2013.
• India won Silver medal at the Asian weightlifting championship 2013.
• Parimarjan Negi of India won the D.C. International chess tournament 2013.
• Hosts Brazil won the 2013 Confederation Cup Football Championship beating Spain in the final.

Wimbledon Tournament 2013 Winners:

• Men’s Singles- Andy Murray of England
• Women’s Singles- Marion Bartoli of France
• Men’s Doubles- Mike and Bob Bryan of USA
• Women’s Doubles- Peng Shuai of China and Suwei Hsieh of Taiwan
• Mixed Doubles- Kristina Mladenovic of France and Daniel Nestor of Canada

Prize and Award Winners

• Indian journalist Vikash Jha has been presented with the 17th Indu Sharma Katha Samman 2011 for his novel MaCluskieganj.
• Indian-born sculptor Anish Kapoor has been conferred Knighthood in London.
• Ms. Vandana Gandhi, founder & CEO of British Orchard Nursery has received the Dubai Government’s coveted Emirates Woman Award for business excellence. British Orchard Nursery is the only ISO-certified nursery chain of West Asia.

14th IIFA Awards Winners:

The 14th IIFA Award Awards ceremony was held in Macau, China. The winners are-

• Best Film- Barfi
• Best Actor- Ranbir Kapoor for Barfi
• Best Actress- Vidya Balan for Kahaani
• Best Director- Anurag Basu for Barfi
• Best Supporting Actor- Anu Kapoor for Vicky Donor
• Best Supporting Actress- Anuskha Sharma for Jab Tak Hai Jaan
• Best Actor in a comic role- Abhishek Bachchan for Bol Bachchan
• Best Actor in a negative role- Rishi Kapoor for Agneepath
• IIFA Forever Award- Late Yash Chopra

Science and Technology

• The ‘Madeleine’ camera which was unveiled on 30th June, 2013, is able to capture smell.
• China’s defence scientists claimed that they have built the world’s fastest supercomputer named Tianhe-2.
• BBC News has reported that scientists have developed the world’s first high-resolution 3D digital model of the human brain named ‘BigBrain’.
• Researchers of Netherland Eindhoven University of Technology unveiled the world’s first solar-powered car ‘Stella’.
• A 15-year-old schoolgirl from Canada named Ann Makosinki invented a flashlight which can produce light just by using the warmth of the user’s hands.

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Most Important Current Events of May 2013

National News

• Central Government has launched a placement-oriented skill development scheme, named ‘Roshni’. This scheme will target 50000 rural youth in the country’s 24 most Naxalism-affected districts.
• In Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Congress won with 121 seats out of 224 seats.
• Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visited India. India and China signed MoUs covering such area as pharmaceutical, buffalo meat and fisheries.
• Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal and Union Surface Transport Minister C.P. Joshi got additional charge of LAW and Railway portfolio respectively after resigning of Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal.
• K. Siddaramaih has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka by the Governor H.R. Bhardwaj.
• India got the observer status in the Arctic Council along with that of five other countries – China, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
• The Ventral Government revised the guidelines of Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) and made it mandatory to have a toilet for all houses constructed under this scheme. Only 21 percent IAY houses have toilets.
• The Union Cabinet gave approval for increasing the creamy layer income criterion from Rs. 4.5 lakh to Rs. 6 lakh per annum for OBC.
• Ms. Arunima Sinha has become India’s first amputee to conquer Mount Everest on a prosthetic leg.
• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh lays the foundation stone of the Indian National Defence University which is the country’s first defence university in Gurgaon, Haryana.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal for the implementation of the National AIDS Contro Support Project (NACSP) at a cost of Rs. 2550 crore.
• Shashi Kant Sharma has been appointed as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
• Maoist attacked on the Congress workers and leaders in the hilly areas of Darbha while returning from Sukma near Raipur in Chhattisgarh.
• Reserve Bank of India ruled out a ban on sale of gold coins by banks.
• India and Thailand signed a long awaited extradition treaty.
• A delegation from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has visited India.
• India’s GDP growth fell to 4.8 percent in the fourth quarter of the 2012-13 financial year.
• Jagmohan Dalmia has been made in-charge of the Board’s working group for looking into day-today affairs after the IPL-6 spot-fixing controversy.
• India and Australia agreed to hold a joint naval exercise in 2015 to raise their defence cooperation to a higher level.
• The Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security held in New Delhi to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC).
• Lt. General (Retd.) Mr. Nirbhay Sharma has been appointed as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
• Dr. Avinash Chander has been appointed as the Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister and Director General of DRDO.
• Premlata Agarwal became the first Indian woman to scale the top peaks of the seven continents which are popularly known as ‘Seven Summits’.
• West Bengal Forest Department has announced that there are 103 tigers at the Sundarban Tiger Reserve.
• Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) appointed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the chairman of the National Election Campaign Committee.

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International News

• Mr. Nawaz Sharif took the oath of the office of Prime Minister by the President Asif Ali Zardari.
• Roberto Azevedo has been named to take the helm of the World Trade Organizer (WTO).
• USA granted conditional authorization to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries including India that don’t have a free trade agreement (FTA) with it.
• The President of Myanmar Mr. Thein Sein became the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century.
• Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura became the world’s oldest person to climb Mount Everest at the age of 80.
• Cannes International Film Festival celebrated 100 years of Indian cinema with the screening of the movie ‘Bombay Talkies’.
• China has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pakistan on a transport corridor expected to pass through Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) despite of India’s concern.
• Mr. Srikant Crinivasan has been nominated by US President Mr. Barack Obama to the Federal appeals Court DC Circuit. He became the first-ever South Asian-American to serve as a circuit court judge in the US history.
• The African Union (AU) summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• The highest court of Egypt ruled that the country’s Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected.
• North Korea and South Korea held their first official talks for more than two years.
• The 1^st phase of Sri Lanka’s northern railway project which is funded by a line of credit facilitated by India has been commissioned.

Sports Updates

• Mumbai Indian has won the IPL-6 crown by beating Chennai Super Kings in the final.
• Rafael Nadal of Spain won the Madrid Masters title 2013.
• Tiger Woods won the US PGA Tour Players Championship 2013 title.
• Indian swimmer Sandeep Sejwal has clinched two Gold medals in the 56th Malaysia Open Swimming Championship 2013.
• Delhi Police Special Cell smashed a spot-fixing racket in the ongoing IPL-6 tournament and arrested Indian pacer S. Sreesanth and two of his teammates from Rajasthan Royals.
• Suresh Raina became the first Indian batsman to score 4000 runs in T20 cricket.
• Deepika Kumari won two Silver medals at the World Cup Stage I Archery Champioship in Shanghai, China.
• India won the Asian team snooker championship title 2013.

French Open Tournament 2013 winners :

• Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal of Spain
• Women’s single – Serena Williams of USA
• Men’s doubles – Bob and Mike Bryan of USA
• Women’s doubles – Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia
• Mixed doubles – Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermark of Czech Republic

Prize and Award Winners

• Hon’ble President Pranab Kukherjee presented the 47th Jnanpith Award for the year 2011 to Dr. Pratibha Ray for her outstanding contributions to Indian literature.
• Sharmila Tagore has been honoured with the Srimanta Shankardev Award for the 2008 at a ceremony in Guwahati, Assam.
• Late Indira Goswami has been posthumously honoured with the Assam Ratna Award.
• Team India Captain M.S. Dhoni has been presented with the ICC ODI Shield by former ICC President David Morgan in London.
• Tripurai Sharma has been conferred the Sangeet Natak Academy.
• Lydia Davis won the Man Booker International Prize 2013.
• Hindi writers Ramdarash Mishra and Narendra Kohli won the prestigious Vyas Samman for 2011 and 2012 respectively.

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National News

• The 46th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian development Bank (ADB) was held in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
• Krishnakumar Natarajan took over as the Nasscom Chairmen for the year 2013-2014.
• The Supreme Court orders Gujarat government for the reintroduction of the Asiatic lions from Gir forests, Gujarat to Kuno sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh in order to save it from extinction due to catastrophes.
• Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and visiting India’s Vice-Prsident Hamid Ansari agree to elevate their strategic partnership to a new level.
• The United Nation’s Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) projects recovery of sorts in India’s growth to 6.4% in 2013-2014.
• Shakuntala Devi, who solved complex mathematical equations mentally and defeated computers, has been died after a heart attack in Bengaluru.
• Mr. Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India has been passed away in New Delhi.
• Indian carrier Jet Airways agreed to sell a 24 percent stake to Etihad Airways of UAE at a cost of $379 million (Rs. 2058 crore).
• An India-Saudi Arabia joint working group has been formed to help minimize the fall out of the Kingdom’s Nitaqat policy on Indian. This policy reserves a certain percentage of total workforce in commercial establishments for Saudi nationals.
• Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner in Pakistan, died after being attacked by fellow inmates.
• The Reserve Bank of India cut the repo rate by 25 basis points from 7.50 percent to 7.25 percent.

International News

• Margaret Thacher, the first woman Prime Minister of Britain, has been passed away in London.
• National energy officials in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries met in Saudi Arabia to discuss the risk of radiation spreading over the Gulf.
• Two powerful explosions took place in Boston Marathon, USA.
• Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has been re-elected as the President of nation by creating history as he is only one President who has been elected for the two successive terms.
• Nicolas Maduro has been sworn in as the new President of Venezuela by succeeding Hugo Chavez.
• Enrico Letta has been appointed as the Prime Minister-designate of Italy.
• The Irish Cabinet has reached an agreement on a controversial bill on abortion for the first time after Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died in 2012 following a miscarriage.
• Internet search giant Google placed the name ‘Palestine’ on the search engine instead of ‘Palestine Territories’.
• Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, retained his power.

Sports Updates

• Ratchanok Intanon and Lee Chong Wei won the women’s and men’s single titles respectively in India open super series badminton championship 2013.
• Serena Williams of USA won the WTA Family Circle Cup 2013.
• National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) gave clean chit to Olympic medalist Vijendra Singh.
• Amit Kumar of India won the 55kg freestyle Gold medal in the Asian wrestling championship 2013 in New Delhi.
• Amit Dhankhar of India clinched the Gold medal in 66kg freestyle at the Asian wrestling championship 2013.
• Novak Djokovic won the Monte Carlo Masters tennis tournament 2013 by beating Rafael Nadal.
• West Indies batsman Chris Gayle of Royal Challengers Bangalore creates a history by hitting a fastest century in 30 balls.
• Haryana won the National women’s hockey championship 2013 in Lucknow.

Prize and Award Winners

• Bollywood legent Pran was honoured with the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award.
• Famous Telugu writer Dr. Ravuri Bharadwaja has been selected for the prestigious Jnanpith award for the year 2012.
• Major Anup Joseph Manjali has been honoured with the Kirti Chakra, the second highest peacetime gallantry award.
• Ms. Aparajita Dutta of India has been conferred the prestigious Whitley Award, which is known as the Green Oscar by the Royal Geographical Society, London.

Science and Technology

• Scientist at the Princeton University, USA unveiled a bionic ear which can hear radio frequencies beyond the range of normal human capacity.
• Russia has launched bio-satellite BION-M1 packed with an array of mice and other small creatures to study the effects of long flights on living organisms.

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Important Current Events of March 2013

National News

• The first women’s Government Medical College of Independent India at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat, Haryana inaugurated by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.
• Hon’ble President Pranab Mukherjee appointed former CBI Director Ashwani Kumar and senior Congress leader S.C. Jamir as Governors of Nagaland and Orisha respectively.
• Around 60 lakh pilgrims coverage at the Maha Kumbh Mela, Allahabad held every 12 years.
• Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano visited to India praised Indian civil nuclear program and tightening of laws to check nuclear proliferation.
• Supreme Court put ban on Italian Ambassador Daniele Mancini from leaving India for failing to honour his commitment to bring back the two accused Italian marines.
• Union Cabinet gave approval to a diluted version of Anti-rape Bill.
• The maiden flight of the submarine variant of the Indo-Russian Supersonic cruise missile, BraMos was successful from pontoon in the Bay of Bengal.
• Maulana Sayed Raabe Hasani Nadvi has been elected as the President of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) for the 5th consecutive term.
• The third Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette named INS Kiltan has been launched in Kolkata.
• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully conducted an ignition test of an indigenous cryogenic engine. The test boosted the prospect of success of the GSLV-D5 launch which will be carried out in July 2013.
• Hon’ble President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013.
• Karnataka-based Manipal University has entered into a first of its kind pact with Beijing Institute Of Technology, China.
• S. Gopalkrishnan, the co-founder and co-Chairman of Infosys, took over as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14 succeeded Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej.
• The Agni-II ballistic missile has been successfully test-fired from the Wheeler Island of the Orisha coast.
• Lt. Cdr. Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy became the first Indian to circumnavigate the globe non-assisted. He took 150 days of continuous sailing abroad INSV Mhadei to achieve the milestone.

International News

• According to China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC), India’s exports to China fell by 30 percent in February 2013.
• Uhuru Kenyatta became the Kenya’s President.
• The Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for 2013 put India’s HDI value for the last year at 0.554 and ranks at 136th place among 187 countries.
• Jorge Mario Bergogilo of Argentina has been elected as new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first from the Americas to become the Pope.
• Li Keqiang has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of China.
• China became the world’s 5th largest weapon exporter after the USA, Russia, Germany and France.
• A new constitution has been approved through a referendum in Zimbabwe by curbing the powers of the President.
• The fifth BRICS Summit was held in Durban, South Africa in 2013.
• Tammam Salam has been named as the Prime Minister of Lebanon.

Sports News

• Australia Hockey team won the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament 2013 held in Ipoh, Malaysia.
• Tine Baun of Denmark created history by becoming the oldest All-England Open Badminton singles winner.
• Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladeshi batsman to hit a double century at Galle, Sri Lanka.
• West Zone won the Deodhar Trophy 2013 for the 12th time.
• Rafael Nadal of Spain won the Indian Wells ATP Masters title 2013.
• Hosts India won the test series beating Australia by 4-0.
• Sebastian Vettel of Team Red Bull won the Malaysian Grand Prix Formula One title 2013.
• Murali Kumar of Indian Navy won the Mr. India overall title at the sixth National senior bodybuilding championship in Kochi.
• Serena Williams clinched the title of the WTA Miami Open Championship 2013. Andy Murray of Britain won the men’s title.
• Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the World Chess Candidate Tournament 2013 in London.
• Rahi Sarnobat became the first Indian pistol shooter to win a Gold in a World Cup.
• Naraynan Srinath of India won the Asian junior boy’s title 2013 in Sharjah, UAE.
• Wade Ormsby of Australia won the Panasonic India Open Golf tournament 2013 in New Delhi.
• Rupesh Shah clinched the title at the Asian billiards championship 2013 held in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

News on Prize and Award

• Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the World Sportsman of the Year Award for the 3rd time. 
• Malayalam poetess Sugathakumari has been chosen for the Saraswati Samman 2012 for her poetry collection ‘Manalezhuthu’.
• Navneet Kaur Dhillon has been crowned Miss India 2013.
• Belgian Mathematician Pierre Deligne has been chosen for the prestigious Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2013.
• Asha Bhosle was conferred the Pandit Hridaynath Lifetime Achievement Award for her great contribution in music.
• Dr. U.R. Rao has been inducted into the prestigious Satellite Hall of Fame, Washington by the Society of Satellite Professionals International. He became the first Indian to get such achievement. 

60th National Film Award:

• Best Film - Paan Sing Tomar
• Best Actor – Irfan Khan for ‘Paan Sing Tomar’ and Vikran Gokhle for ‘Anumati’
• Best Director – Tigmanshu Dhulia for ‘Paan Sing Tomar’.
• Best Actress – Usha Jadhav for Marathi movie ‘Dhag’
• Best Popular film – Vicky Donor (Hindi) and Ustad Hotel (Malayalam).

News on Science and Technology

• World’s most powerful telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) became operational in Chile. It has a vision 10 times sharper than that of the Hubble Space telescope.
• Indian-origin scientist Ram Ramamoorthy created a first-of-its-kind highly intelligent robot that can play rock-scissor-paper with human. It can respond to gestures and anticipate human actions with the help of Microsoft Kinect, a motion sensing device.

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