Current affairs 1. The tallest communication tower named skruty is situated?

Tokyo (Japan)

2. Who is the new leader of North Korea who has been recently elected? Kim Jong Un 3. Indian American person who had been elected as governor for Louisiana in stat es of U.K.? Bobby Jindal 4. Which is the World s first Hydrogen based three wheeler vehicles? High Alpha 6. Fortune magazine s annual ranking for 100 best companies to work for 2012, comp any stood first? Google 7. Which country has got the deal of 126 fighters to India recently? French 8. In American International affairs website which state of Indian borders wrong ly mapped? Jammu Kashmir 9. On which issue India & USA signed recently? Labour & employment 10. How many agreements India had signed with Trinidad & Tobago? 5 11. The birthday of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam was declared as? National Mathematics Day 12. Which ministry had been given to Mr. Ajit singh by the U P A government? Civ il Aviation minister 13. Who is the 19th Director General of Indian coast guard? M.P.Muralidharan 14. Who had launched the Internet Prahari Project worth of 299 crore recently? P .Chidambaram 15. Panch Parmeshwar scheme was launched by which state government? Madhya Prade sh 16. The bullet train between which two states was announced in railway budget 20 12? Ahmedabad-Mumbai 17. Which is the first state to issue e-stamp papers in all denominations in Ind ia? Delhi 18. Who had given the 2011 FIFA Best player award on 9th Jan 2012? Lionel Messi 19. Who is the person who had conferred the Ashoka Chakra on 63rd Republic Day b y the president Pratibha Patil? Lt.Navdeep Singh 20. To which award the Indian American scientist Venkataram Ramakrishna has been selected by the Britain? Knight hood 21. Who is the Bollywood actor who had received a Green globe award from Arnold Schwarzenegger recently? Abishek Bachan 22. Who is the first Indian woman to have received an International Grand Master tittle in the game of chess championship to get gold medal? Koneru Humpy 23. Who has been selected for player of the year award given by all India footbal l association? Sunil chhetri

24. In which country the women s team chess championship tournament held? Turkey 25. Name the bank which has been opened by SBI, which is exclusively for women c ustomers? Vasundhara Jubilee Senoritia 26. Which powered ATM s are going to be installed in the rural areas by the govern ment? Solar power 27. The RBI had made an announcement to bring Rs 5 coin was devoted to which per son recently? Bhagat Singh 28. What is name of home cleaning robot within the vacuum cleaner segment? Niche 29. Name the book which was released by the vice president of India Mr.Hamid Ans ari in New Delhi recently? Sufism & Indian Mysticism 30. How many new trains had been introduced by the railway minister in Railway b udget 2012-13? 75 31. Who had been the Player of the Tournament in the Asia Cup 2012 held at Dhaka r ecently? Shakib Ali Hasan 32. What is the name of the submarine which had been taken as lease from Russia recently? INS Chakra 33. Which type of Aspirin was invented by the scientist to fight against Cancer? Gas-filled 34. Who is the new M.D for Hyundai Motors India, who was appointed recently? Bo Shin Seo 35. Who is the New President of Germany, who has been elected recently? Joachim Gauck 36. Who is the Turkish Ambassador who visited Hyderabad recently? Dr.Burak Aklap ar 37. Didi: A Political biography of Mamata Benerjee Monobina Gupta

38. Aung San Suu Kyi who recently won in Myanmar parliament elections, belongs t o which political party? Nation League for Democracy (NLD) 39. Which two countries signed an agreement on Contract Workers? India & UAE 40. Which countries had signed six agreements in diverse areas recently includin g oil& gas? India & Qatar 41. In which country the Industrial Canton Fair is going to be held? China

42. Where the largest Tulip garden is situated in Asia? Srinagar 43. Who had won the 11th Asian Billiards championship held in Goa recently? Pank aj Advani 44. Who is the new special Ambassador to Sudan and South Sudan? Amarendra Khatua

45. Who is the new king of Malaysia elected recently? Sultan Abdul Halim 46. Who had been appointed as UNHCR special Ambassador recently? Angelina Jolie 47. What is the name of the TAPI gas pipeline project (TGPP) which originates fr om the Turkmenistan reaches to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan? Peace pipelin e 48. Whose death anniversary is observed as the Anti-Terrorism Day? Rajiv Gandhi 49. Here was the NATO summit 2012 held for Three days recently? Chicago 50. Who had been awarded Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award? Miss Vinya Mishra & Su shma Seth 51. Who is the person from India got the prestigious International Jurists award ? Mulayam Singh Yadav 52. Who has been conferred ecently? Ratan Tata The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun title r

53. Who has been awarded the first Tagore Award for cultural harmony? Pandit Rav i Shankar 54. Who has been appointed as the German ambassador to India recently? Michael s teiner 55. Who selected as a member of Board Federation Against drugs from India? Kiran Bedi 56. Where the world s largest temple is going to be built by Mahavir Mandir trust? Bihar 57. At which place the il Awan ka Cinema film festival is going to be organized? Karg princess tower located at? Dubai

58. Tallest residential building

59. World s richest lady according to business review weekly? Gina Rinehart 60. Who is the present president of Myanmar? Theinsein 61. Who is the new President of Egypt? Mohammed Morsey 62. Who is newly appointed Saudi Arabian Prince? Prince salmon Bin Abdul Aziz 63. Who is the new Prime Minster of Greece? Antoni Samaras 64. Which Agency given the list of failed state Index? Foreign policy agency 65. Who is elected as the president of Egypt? Islamic Mohamed Mursi 66. Who is composed the official song for London 2012 Olympics? Muse 67. Richest sports person in India according to Force s list of World s 100 richest sports person? M.S.Dhoni 68. Who is the president of NASSCOM? Som Mittal 69. India s first River-lake link project launched in? Bundelkhand (M.P)

70. Which state Government announced a un-employment scheme? Rajasthan 71. Indian science congress held at? Kolkata 72. What is the name of the alternative International AIDS conference held by In dia? Dubar Mahila Samanway samiti (DMSS) 73. Who inaugurated the 28th Annual conference of chief commissioners and Direct ors General of Income Tax in the capital? Pranab Mukharjee 74. Who is the first Indian to receive Wisden India outstanding achievement awar d? Sachin Tendulkar 75. Which organization awarded as G20 challenge award for Medicare? Apollo 76. Who won the 800m race in Diamond league meet with a time of one minute 41.74 seconds? Rudisha 77. What is the technology that is currently being used in India to detect cyclo nes and Tsunamis, implemented by NIO & ISRO? Aerial Microwave Radar Gauge 78. Who is the union minister for micro, small and medium enterprises resigned r ecently on fraud corruption charges Virbadra Singh 79. Who is the first woman to win Nobel Prize in Economics? Elinor Ostrom 80. Which place visited by Prime Minster Manmohan after 2 summits? Pretoria 81. Who is the US Defence secretary visited India recently? Leon Panetta 82. Who won Indian Spell Bee by spelling word Belligerent dia? Samvida Venkatesh 83. The world s environment day is celebrated on 5th June 84. Refugee Day is observed on? 21st June 85. Abdul kalam Turning points is a sequel of? Wings of fire conducted by Times of In

86. What is the book released about L.K.Advani? Those were the day and then -The Life & times of L.K.Advani 87. Who is the Liberia s president sentenced to jail for 50 years for his war crim es? Charles Taylor 88. The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESACAP) is asso ciated with which organization? UNO 89. Where the world s largest temple is going to be built by Mahavir Mandir trust? Bihar 90. Who is the deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India whose term was extended recently? Dr. K.C. Chakrobarty 91. Tallest residential building Princess Tower located at? Dubai

92. Which Public Sector bank of India opened 171 ultra-small branches in a singl

e day recently? Vijaya Bank 93. Where the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled recently? South Africa 94. Which country will host 4th edition of Champions League T20? South Africa 95. What is the position of India in cybercrime according to report given by SDA ? 5th place 96. What is name of the newfound moon of the ex-planet Pluto? P5 97. Which country will host the 4th Champions League Twenty20 Cricket Tournament ? South Africa 98. Osmania University Ranked 6th in the top 121 Universities in the country acc ording to Nielsen survey which place the World Wildlife Fund summit is going to be held? Brazil 99. Which state govt's has issued Samajik Mukti ised sector? West Bengal smart cards for workers in unorgan

100. Rahul Battachary who is an Indian won British friction prize on? Literature 101. Who had won the National Junior Boxing championship for 2012 Manjeet Singh 102. Jet airways tied up with which bank recently to launch credit cards? HDFC B ank 103. Grand master Anand belongs to which state in India? Chennai 104. Which country had discovered petroleum recently? Bangladesh 105. Sahara signed an agreement to build and develop a new city in which country ? Bangladesh 106. India made dozen agreements with which country recently? Myanmar 107. Who selected as a member of Borad Federation Against drugs from India? Kira n Bedi 108. Which country has launched TMA-04M rocket recently? Russia 109. Who is Snooker champion announced his retirement recently? Stephen Hendry 110. Which country had stated to expand the members in UN Security Council recen tly? India 111. Where the oldest and largest bank of South Korea was had set its branch rec ently in India? Chennai 112. Where was the foundation stone for country s first financial city laid up in? Bangalore 113. Which award has been presented to Lt.Gen.Bikram Singh? Gallantry Award 114. Who is the first woman wrestler to be qualified for the Olympics after winn ing gold in Astana recently? Geeta Kumari

115. Who is the Tennis player captured her 40th career title in WTA tournament? Serena Williams 116. Who had won the 11th Asian Billiards championship held in Goa recently? Pan kaj Advani 117. Where was the Archery World Cup Stage-I games held recently? Shanghai 118. Who had won the Men s Single Asian Badminton Championship recently? Chen Jin 119. Where the new ISRO spy satellite centre was launched recently? Sriharikota 120. In which place India has successfully carried out the AWACS test flight rec ently? Brazil 121. From which place the Agni-v long range ballistic missile was test fired rec ently? Odisha 122. What is the name of all weather radar imaging satellite launched recently b y India? RISAT-I 123. Who is the new special Ambassador to Sudan and South Sudan? Amarendra Khatu a 124. Who is the new king of Malaysia elected recently? Sultan Abdul Halim 125. Who had been appointed as the President of World Heart Federation? Dr.Srina th Reddy 126. Which organisation has become the heritage of the sank Titanic ship 100 yea rs ago? UNESCO 127. What is the name of the world s highest tunnel bridge located in China? Aizha i 128. Who is the New Railway minister for UPA Government? CP Joshi 129. Who is the Egypt Ambassador, who visited India for the golden jubilee celeb ration of (AARDO)? Mr.Ahmed Abulkheir 130. Who is the Turkish Ambassador who visited Hyderabad recently? Dr.Burak Akla par 131. Who is the managing director of IMF, who visited India recently? Christine Lagarde 132. Who is the Prime minister of Canada who had visited Thailand recently? Stap hen Harper 133. Who is the US Secretary of commerce who visited India for bilateral trade m eeting? John Bryson 134. Name the project which had been sanctioned 423crore rupees loan assistance in Gujarat from NABARD Narmada link project 135. Which state recorded the highest voting percentage in the history of electi on, which was held in the month of Feb in five states recently? Goa 136. Who is the first independent woman loco driver in SCR? S. Satyavathi

137. Who is the world s tallest man, finally stopped growing after treated? Sultan Kosen 138. Who is the Hungarian Mathematician who has been awarded with Abel Prize for the year 2012? Endre Szemere de 139. What is the name of the new card product which was launched by ICICI bank f or the super-rich recently? Sapphiro 140. Name the new equality saving scheme announced in the budget 2012-13 recentl y? The Rajiv Gandhi Equality saving scheme 141. Where was the Indo-Israel free trade agreement meeting was held recently? H yderabad 142. Who is Asia s richest woman with a net worth of $ 12billion in our country? S avitri Jindal 143. Foreign minister of Italy who has been camping in India relating with two I talian Marines recently? Staffan De Misture 144. Former Navy Chief Nirmal Verma appointed as Indian Ambassador to Canada 145. Justice took the oath as Supreme Court judge on 4 June 2012 Madan Bhimarao Lokur 146. Legendary Indian cricketer sworn in as the member of the Rajya Sabha, the u pper house of the Parliament on 4 June 2012. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar 147. Government of India on 5 June 2012 nominated Vice Admiral as the new Navy c hief. Devender Kumar Joshi 148. The Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award for completing a century of 100 international hundreds, in Dubai on 11 June 2012 Sachin Tendulkar 149. The US super computer, was crowned the fastest computer in the world on 17 June 2012 Sequoia 150. U.S. Defence Secretary visited India. His visit to New Delhi would focus on building a strong security relationship with India. Leon Panetta 151. Samsung Electronics on 7 June 2012 named their new chief executive officer Kwon Oh-hyun 152. Who became the first cyclist of Britain, to win the coveted Tour de France Cycling race on 22 July 2012 Bradley Wiggins 153. Greentech Foundation awarded Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on 24 J uly 2012 Gold Trophy in Safety Management Award 2012 154. GAIL gas India Ltd and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) signed Agreem ent on 26 July 2012. Swap Agreement and Gas Co-operation Agreement 155. The Ministry of Women and Child Development on 26 July 2012 drafted NATIONA L POLICY FOR CHILDREN 2012. 156. The World Bank approved an 1100 crore rupees loan for Himachal Pradesh to p romote. The loan agreement was signed between the World Bank and the state gover

nment in New Delhi on 28 July 2012 Green initiatives and sustainable development in the state 157. The Government of India launched an anti-ragging website. The Union Human R esource Minister inaugurated the Anti- Ragging Web Portal on 26 July 2012. Kapil S ibal 158. India and Indonesia signed an agreement to avoid double taxation and preven t fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income on 27 July 2012. Double Taxatio n Avoidance Agreement 159. Coast Guard Station Karaikal was commissioned by Vice Admiral, Director Gen eral Indian Coast Guard at Karaikal on 25 July 2012. MP Muralidharan 160. Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) appointed the Secretary of the P resident on 24 July 2012.Omita Paul 161. The Ministry of Home Affairs on 27 August 2012 appointed P M Nair as the Di rector General of- National Disaster Response Force & Civil Defence (NDRF & CD) 162. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) held the 11th Energy Efficient S ummit in HICC, Novatel Hyderabad. The summit was held between 22 August 2012 and 25 August 2012. 163. Senkaku Islands Became The Bone Of Contention Between China and japan 164. Indian-American entrepreneur Karl Mehta was selected among the 18 PRESIDENT IAL INNOVATION FELLOWS who would work on five HIGH-IMPACT projects in the US cap ital Washington DC 165. Sonia Gandhi ranked number six in the Forbes magazine s list of the world s 100 most powerful women. 166. Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi was appointed the new UN-Arab League Amba ssador for Syria on 17 August 2012 167. Rogelio Sierra Diaz, vice foreign minister of Cuba visited India on 7 Augus t 2012 to participate in the First India-CELAC foreign ministers Troika meeting in New Delhi 168. The Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs Didier Reynders visited India from 1-5 August and 8-1 2 August 2012. During his visit, he discussed bilateral, regional and internatio nal issues of mutual interest 169. Raghuram Rajan, former chief economist of International Monetary Fund (IMF) was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry. 170. The first meeting of the India-CELAC (The Community of Latin American and C aribbean States) Troika foreign ministers was held in New Delhi on 7 August 2012 171. Naresh Chandra Committee, a 14-member task force on national security, subm itted its report to the government on 8 August 2012 172. Former Chief Minister of Gujarat, Keshubhai Patel launched Gujarat Parivart an (GPP) Party on 6 August 2012 173. Prime Minister of Fiji, Laisenia Qarase was punished for One year Prison on 3 August 2012 by the Supreme Court of Fiji. He found guilty on corruption charg es

174. The person who is appointed as Union Finance Minister after a small cabinet reshuffle P Chidambram 175. US Swimmer who became the Most Successful Athlete in the Olympic History Mi chel Phelps. 176. Indian sports personality who bagged Silver in Olympics 25 Metre Rapid Fire Pistol Event Vijay Kumar. 177. Former UN secretary general quit as the UN special Ambassador to Syria Kofi Annan. 178. India signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with which Sovereign city state on 31 179. July 2012 in New Delhi that will allow the two countries to check tax evasi on Monaco. 180. The Indian Scientist who was honoured with Fundamental Physics Prize (FPP) 2012 Ashoke Sen 181. Jamaican Sprinter who won Gold in Men s 100 Meter Race and set Olympic Record Usain Bolt 182. The personality who sworn in as the Head of Gorkhaland Territorial Administ ration Bimal Gurung. 183. The Indian badminton player who clinched Bronze in Women s Singles Badminton Event at London Olympics 2012 Sania Nehwal 184. The world renowned sports personality won the US PGA Golf Championship Rory Mcllroy 185. The corporate personality who stepped down as the chairman of Mahindra & Ma hindra Keshub Mahindra 186. INDIA successfully test-fired medium range ballistic missile AGNI-II 187. THE BANK WITH WHICH JET AIRWAYS TIED UP AND LAUNCHED CREDIT CARDS HDFC Bank 188. The person who is appointed as the New Election commissioner Syed Nasim Ahm ed 189. Death of famous Indian cinematographer Ashok Mehta 190. The Indian- American journalist and author suspended by Time, CNN for plagi arism Fareed Zakaria 191. The bird which was declared as state bird of Delhi The house sparrow 192. 1975 Batch IRS Officer appointed as chairman of central board of direct tax es (CBDT) Poonam Kishore Saxena 193. The person appointed as the new Union Minister of Science and technology Va yalar Ravi 194. Two Indian sports personality chosen for Rajiv Gandhi khel ratna award Vija y Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt

195. The Person elected as Deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha PJ Kurien 196. Who was appointed as the as chief economist and Senior vice president of Wo rld bank Kaushik Basu 197. The Indian educated, who took over the position of Nepal s Army Chief Gaurav Shumsher Rana 198. The man responsible for bringing white revolution in India and founder of w orld s largest dairy company Amul who died on 9 September 2012 Verghese Kurien 199. The former chief justice of India who died on 13 September 2012 at the age of 86- Ranganath Misra 200. The Secretary-general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry who resigned on 18 September 2012 Rajiv Kumar 201. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister who resigned on 25 September 2012 aft er the alleged corruption charges on him in awarding irrigation projects when he was state's water resource minister Ajit Pawar 202. The Indian Union Minister of state for Telecommunication and Information Te chnology who was commissioned to be a Lieutenant in Territorial Army on 6 Septem ber 2012 Sachin Pilot 203. The first person from Indian-American origin to serve as a parliamentarian for Democratic National Convention on 6 September 2012 Smita Shah 204. The person who on 27 September 2012 was appointed as the new Indian Ambassa dor to Israel Jaideep Sarkar 205. The driver of McLaren's who became the winner of the Italian Grand Prix 201 2 on 9 September 2012 Lewis Hamilton 206. The cartoonist from Mumbai who was held for sedition Aseem Trivedi 207. The first British man to capture a Grand Slam single championship after 76 years Andy Murray 208. The software companies of India, which acquired Switzerland based global ma nagement consultancy firm Lodestone on 10 September 2012 Infosys 209. World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) 10 September 210. The united states ambassador to Libya, who was killed on 9 September 2012 i n Benghazi Attack Chris Stevens 211. The official mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil Smiling Armadillo 212. State-owned Bank which had opened its first branch in South Africa in a mov e to enhance the relationship between South Africa and India Bank of India 213. Information training company which partnered with Microsoft on 12 September 2012 for courses in Cloud computing NIIT 214. The girl of Indian Kazakh origin won the title of Miss Almaty 2012, on 14 S eptember 2012 Farida Malik 215. New Zealand pacer who announced his retirement from both international and

domestic cricket Daryl Tuffey 216. The President of Tajikistan who visited India from 1 to 4 September 2012 Em omali Rahmon 217. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India on 13 September 20 12 Justice Altamas Kabir 218. The Dutch National, appointed by World bank as the country director for Ind ia on 10 Sep. 2012 Onno Ruhl 219. Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on 18 Sep, 2012 Rajiv Me hta 220. The astronaut of Indian American origin who took over the command of Intern ational Space Station on 15 September 2012 Sunita Willimas 221. ODI CRICKETER OF THE YEAR at ICC Awards Function held at Colombo, Sri Lanka Virat Kohli 222. The famous Urdu poet who died on 19 September 2012 in Kairana in Shamli dis trict Muzzaffar Razmi 223. Jeet Thayil is shortlisted for 50,000 the Man Booker Prize for the year 201 2 on 11 Sep. 2012 Narcopolis 224. India successfully launched its Heaviest Satellite GSAT-10. 225. The APEC Russia 2012 Summit is the 24th annual gathering of APEC leaders of 21 countries. Leaders from the member economics are currently meeting on Russky Island, Russia from September 2-9 ,2012. 226. Delhi Transport Corporation green signalled Ladies conductors on 27 September 2012 Special Buses with women

227. The Government of India hiked the foreign investment cap for the broadcasti ng service providers to 74 percent. 228. The Union Cabinet 2012 cleared the proposal of foreign direct investment (F DI) for 51 percent in the multi-brand retail chains and 49 percent in Aviation p ower exchanges industry. 229. The President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon visited India from 1 to 4 Septe mber 2012.This was the fifth visit to India by President Emomali Rahmon. During this visit, India and Tajikistan signed six agreements in the field of sports, h ealth, culture, education, labour, textiles and energy. 230. Vice president of India Hamid Ansari released the book es . Muslim in Indian citi

231. The Bhilai Steel Plant won the Prime Minister s Trophy for the 10th Time. 232. Ranbir Kapoor starrer Barfi! nominated to the Oscars next year in the forei gn film category. 233. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan appointed as International Goodwill Ambassador. 269. The Actor and Satirist who died in a road accident on 25 October 2012 near Punjab's Nakodar town 40 km from Jalandhar- Jaspal Bhatti

270. Name the newly-appointed Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court, who took the oath of office in Chattisgarh on 22 October 2012- Justice Yatindra Sing h AWARDS 271."The Folded Earth" written by Anuradha Roy and "A Free Man" by Aman Sethi wo n the 11th Economist Crossword Book Award that was declared at Mumbai. 272. 69th Golden Globe awards been presented on 15 the Jan 2012? Los Angeles 273. Abel Prize Eedre Szemereredi(Hungry Mathematician) 274. BCCI s lifetime achievement award Gavaskar 275. Best TV host award Amitabh Bachhan 276. Bharat Jyoti Award The Director, Department of Animal Husbandry Dr. M.V.Red dy 277. Bihari Puraskar (2011) Rajasthani poet Dr Arjundeo Charan for m Hai Bharose Ro Ghar To Ek Naa

278. Bihari Puraskar (2011)Rajasthani poet Dr Arjundeo Charan for his work Ghar To Ek Naam Hai Bharose Ro 279. Booker Prize Hillary Mantel 280. Brand Ambassador of BMW Sachin Tendulkar 281. Brand Ambassador of BMW SachinTendulkar 282. Chameli Devi Jain Award Tushita Mittal 283. Chameli Devi Jain Award Tushita Mittal 284. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee (Bengali actor) 285. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee (Bengali actor) 286. Egtek Egale Award(Best Award of Mexico) R.K.Pachauri 287. Hoover Medal Narayan Murthi 288. ICC Cricketer of the year Kumar Sangakkara 289. ICC ODI Cricketer of the year Virat Kohli 290. IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES: Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley 291. India who won Magasaysay Award Kulandeai Francis 292. Indira Gandhi award for National Integration Guljar 293. Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2010 Lula Da Silva (she received this award recen tly)

294. Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2012 Ellen Johnson Serleaf 295. Indusharma Katha Samman Pradeep Saurabh(BookTeesri Tali )

296. International Gandhi Award Dr. Caire Veult & Dr. J.D. Samant 297. International Gandhi Award Dr. Caire Veult & Dr. J.D. Samant 298. JICA President Award Delhi Metro 299. Kulandei Francis, Indian Social Activist Won award Magsaysay Awards 2012 300. Life time achievement award at 8th Dubai International film festival A.R. R ahman 301. Life time achievement award at 8th Dubai International film festival A.R.Ra hman 302. Miss Asia Paisific Himangini Sing 303. Miss World 2012 Wen xia YU(China) 304. Miss World 2012 Wen xia YU(China) 305. Moorti Devi Award (2011) Dr Gulab Kothari for Mein Hi Radha, Mein Hi Krishna 306. Moorti Devi Award (2011) Dr Gulab Kothari for his book Krishna 307. National Book Award Katherin Boo 308. Nirmal Gram Puraskar 2012 from Andhra Pradesh from the President Pratibha P atil recently? Y.Chintamma 309. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: European Union (EU) 310. NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka 311. NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE :Mo Yan 312. NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2012: Serge Haroche and David J. Wine land 313. NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamana ka 314. NORMAN BORLAUG AWARD ADITI MUKHERJEE 315. Punjab Ratan Award Lord Indarjit Singh 316. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt 317. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt 318. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award D.R. Mehta 319. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award D.R.Mehta 320. RGN Sadbhavana Award D.R. Mehta Mein HiRadha, Mein Hi

321. Saraswati Samman (2011) Dr A. A Manavalan (Tamil) on 19 September 2012 322. Sastra Ramanujan Prize Zhiwei Yun 323. Seoul Peace Award Bank Ki Moon 324. The chief minister who had won the Award for great vaccine innovation? Niti sh Kumar 325. The Government of Japan on 23 July 2012 decided to honour Indian Environmen tal philosopher with Fukuoka Prize 2012. Vandana Shiva 326. The Guljarilal Nanda Bharat Sevak Samaj has been awarded by Kerala governmen t T.K.Nair 327. The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for peace & Reconciliation award Dal ai Lama 328. The prestigious International sports Association Fair play MS Dhoni

329. The South Korean Movie which was awarded the Golden Lion Prize for best mov ie Pieta 330. Vyas Samman (2011) Hindi writer Ramdarash mishra for aam ke patte 331. Vyas Samman (2011) Hindi writer Ramdarash mishra for his work aam ke patte 332. Who has got Karen Harvey Prize 2012? Bengali scientist Dibyendu Nandi 333. World Food Prize Dr. Daniel Hillel(Israeli Scientist) 334. World Food Prize Dr. Daniel Hillel(Israeli Scientist) 335. Yuri Milner Award Ashok Sen Important Organizations and Summits 336. 16th NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) summit was held at Tehran 337. 10th BASIC Summit New Delhi 338. 12th polio summit 2012 which was held in New Delhi recently inaugurated by Manmohan Singh 339. 12th SCO Summit 2012 Beijing (Next in 2013- Kyrgyzstan) 340. 17th National youth Festival Mangalore (Karnataka) 341. 19th ASEAN summit was took place? Bali ( Indonesia) 342. 20th ASEAN Meeting 2012 Nom- penh, Cambodia 343. 2nd Nuclear security summit 2012 Seoul (South Korea) 344. 38th G 8 Meeting 2012 Camp David USA (Last meeting 2011 Deauville, France)

345. 3rd Nuclear Security Summit is going to be held next year? Netherland

346. 47th IAC committee meeting of NDA held? Khadakwasla 347. 4th BRICS summit New Delhi 348. 6th summit of the Americas held recently? Colombia 349. 7th G 20 Meeting 2012 Los Cabs, Mexico 350. 9th World Hindi Conference will be held in South African city Johannesburg from 22 to 24 of September this year. The main theme of the conference is Bhasha Ki Asmita Aur Hindi Ka Vaishvik Sandarbh . 351. Arab summit 2012 Baghdad (Iraq) 352. 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2013 will be held in Cochin (Kerala). Last mee ting was held in Jaipur. 353. Geospatial world forum 2012 conference was held recently? Hyderabad 354. Indian -Asian summit was held for two days in New Delhi recently? 12th Feb 355. NATO summit 2012 held for Three days recently? Chicago 356. Rio+20 earths Summit took place at? Rio de Janeiro 357. The RIC trilateral conference held recently? Moscow 358. Turkey s World Trade Bridge International Summit is going to be held? Istanbu l 359. United Nation Total 193 (Last Member Joined South Sudan)

360. Which place was the International Monitory Fund Summit was held recently? N ew Delhi 361. World Bank and IMF Total 188 (Last Member Joined South Sudan)

362. World Economic Forum Davos (Switzerland) 363. World Polio Summit 2012 New Delhi 364. WTO Total 156 (Last Member Joined - Russia)

365. National Conference on Governance meeting organised on Jan 29 2012? New Del hi 366. 10th Pravasi Bharathi Divas event inaugurated from Jan 7th to 9th 2012? Jai pur 367. European Union Total 27 (Next member will be Croatia in July 2013)

Appointments 368. Ambassador to Cambodia Dinesh K. Patnaik 369. Ambassador to Israel Jaideep Sarkar was appointed as the new Indian Ambassa dor to Israel.

370. Army chief of India Lt. General Bikram Singh. 371. Aviation Secretary K N Srivastava 372. CEO of Prasar Bharti Jawhar Sircar 373. CEO of Deutsche Bank Ravneet Gill 374. Chairman of LIC D.K Mehrotra 375. Chairman of PTI (Press Trust of India) R Lakshmipathy 376. Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan 377. Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath 378. Chief for BCCI Senior Selection Committee Sandeep Patil 379. Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir sworn-in as 39th Chief Justice of Indi a. 380. Chief Minister of Karnataka Jagadish Shettar (Previous:Sadananda Gowda) 381. Chief Minister of Goa Manohar Parikar 382. Chief Minister of Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh 383. Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal 384. Chief Minister of U.P Akhilesh Yadav 385. Chief Minister of Uttrakhand Vijay Bahuguna 386. CMD of Coal India Limited (CIL) S Narsing Rao 387. CMD of Coal India Limited S Narsing Rao 388. CMD of GIC A.K.Roy 389. CMD of OICL Dr. A.K. Saxena 390. CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce S.L. Bansal 391. CMD of Syndicate Bank M.G. Sanghvi 392. CMD of Union Bank D. Sarkar 393. Coach of Indian Hockey Team Jack Nobbs 394. Communication Advisor to the Prime Minister Pankaj Pachauri 395. Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha PJ Kurien 396. Director (Works)of Delhi Metro Jitendar Tyagi 397. Director of IBPS Anup Sankar Bhattacharya 398. Director-General of Indian Coast Guard M.P.Muralidharan

399. Economic affairs secretary Arvind Mayaram 400. Election Commissioner S. Nasim Ahmad Zaidi 401. Executive Director of PNB S. R Bansal 402. Finance Minister P Chidambaram 403. Governor of Andhra Pradesh E S L Narasimhan (re-elect) 404. Governor of Maharashtra K. Sankaranarayanan (re-elect) 405. Governor of Rajasthan Margaret Alva 406. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde 407. IBA Chairman Alok Misra 408. ICC President Allan Isaac(NZ)(Privious-Sharad Pawar) 409. Italian FM Vittorio Grilli 410. New chief of ICC? Alan Isaac 411. New Navy chief? D.K.Joshi 412. Pakistan High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir 413. Power Minister Veerappa Moily 414. President of ASSOCHAM Mr Rajkumar Dhoot 415. President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff 416. President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi 417. President of FICCI R.V. Kanoria 418. President of Germany Joachim Gauck 419. President of Guyana Donald Ramotar 420. President of India Pranab Mukherjee 421. President of International Chamber of Commerce India Harsh Pati Singhania 422. President of Malawi Joyce Banda 423. President of Maldives Mohamed Waheed 424. President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega (re-elected) 425. President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari 426. President of Russia Vladimir Putin 427. President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud 428. President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy (re-elected)

429. president of World Bank Jim Yong Kim (Koreanborn) 430. President of Yemen A.Mansour Hadi 431. Prime Minister of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramgoolam 432. Prime Minster of Greece Antonis Samaras 433. Prime Minster of Bhutanese Jigme Y Thinley 434. 435. 436. 437. 438. 439. 440. 441. 442. 443. 444. 445. 446. 447. 448. 449. 450. 451. 452. 453. 454. 455. Prime Minster of Egypt Hisham Kandil Prime Minster of France Jean Marc Ayrault Prime Minster of Pak Raja Pervez Ashraf. Prime Minster of Syria Wael al-Halki(Replace: Riyad Hijab) Rajiv Mehta appointed as Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau Re-elected Nasscom President Som Mittal Re-elected Vice President Hamid Ansari Science and Technology Minister Vayalar Ravi Secretary General of SAARC Ahmed Saleem secretary to the Prime minister of India Omita Paul Singapore Prime Minster Lee Hsien Loong South Africa President Jacob Zuma Supreme Court Judge F. M. Ibrahim Kalifulla Syria President Bashra-al-Assad TRAI Chairman Rahul Khullar U.S Defence Secretary Leon Pnetta UN Arab League Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi Union Aviation Minister Ajit Singh US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell US ambassador to Myanmar? Derek Mitchell World Bank appointed Onno Ruhl as the country director for India World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu

OBITUARYs 456. The first US woman to travel into space died in La Jolla, California on 23 July 2012. Sally Ride 457. Ahmed Ben Bella First President of Algeria 458. Bingu wa Mutharika Malawi s President 459. Dara Singh Film Actor 460. Joy Mukherjee Film Actor 461. Mehdi Hassan Ghazal legend 462. Rajesh Khanna Film Actor 463. The Union minister of science and technology who passed away Vilas Rao Desh mukh 464. The US Astronaut passed away on 25 August 2012. He was 82. Neil Alden(arm) Armstrong, 465. Veteran Cinematographer Ashok Mehta passed away in Mumbai on 15 August 2012 . 466. President of Ghana, Passed away on 24 July 2012 John Atta Mills 467. India's first National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra died. 468. Dinesh Thakur, the veteran actor-director died.

IMPORTANT ECONOMIC NEWS 469. Bank Rate 9%, MSF 470. 12th Five Year Plan 471. growth 9 - 9.5% GDP 472. 11th Five year plan

9%,Repo 8%, Reverse Repo 7%, CRR (2012-17) Theme Faster, sustainable growth 4% agriculture growth Literacy recorded 8.2% GDP Growth. Agriculture

4.50%, SLR 23% and more inclusive rate 100% growth 3.3%

473. Basel norms will be implemented in India from 1 January 2013 to 2018 (in wo rld 2013 to 2019) 474. Largest home loan provider - State Bank of India (one lakh crore Rs. to 20 lakh families) 475. Top three according to per capita income: - Goa, Delhi, Haryana. 476. Seoul-headquartered Woori Bank has set up its first Indian branch in Chenna i. 477. Cheque and Draft is valid for 3 month from 1 April 2012. 478. After SBI and NABARD ownership of National Housing Bank (Now RBI hold 100% share) will be transferred from RBI to Government IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 479. Indian boxer Mary Kom to be conferred Lt Colonel Rank. 480. Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (health insurance scheme) was launch ed in Maharashtra 481. Reserve Bank has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit n otes. With a tagline 'Pehchano PaiseKi Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai', 482. Mangalam village became the first village in India where all households wer e provided banking facilities, it is situated in Pondicherry 483. M S Dhoni becomes brand ambassador of cricket in Nepal 484. Himangini Singh crowned Miss Asia Pacific World 485. E-stamping to be launched in Delhi 28 June of all denominations. 486. Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station is in Rajasthan. 487. Google Buying Meebo To Help Social Networking Push 488. Aung San Suu Kyi Accepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late 489. India s First River-lake link project launched In Bundelkhand 490. Kofi Annan resign as the UN special Envoy to Syria 491. India has allowed foreign direct investment (FDI) from Pakistan. 492. Asian DeveloPrime Minsterent Bank (ADB) announced to provide $74.8 million loan to improve road Connectivity in the North East states. 493. World Bank approved an 1100 crore rupees loan for Himachal Pradesh to promo te green initiatives and sustainable develoPrime Minsterent. 494. Home Ministry declined permission to three Iranian banks (Eghtesad-e-Novin, Parsian Bank and Bank Kasargad) to open branches in India. 495. South Africa s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma became the first woman head of African Union (A.U.) Commission. 496. World Bank Sanctions loan for Rural Livelihoods Project in Bihar BOOKS AND AUTHORS 497. 20 great personalities of India Gopalkrishna Gandhi 498. Which is the book written by MarkTuly recently? Non-stop India 499. The sense of an ending Julian Barnes 500. Those were the Day and then-The Life & Times of Lal Krishna Advani Mira Govin d Advani 501. Turning Points APJ Abdul Kalam 502. Diamond Dust & Other Stories Anita Desai 503. My Unforgettable Memories Mamata Banerjee 504. Reflections of a Statesman book was written on whose life history? R.Venkatar aman SPORTS 505. London Olympics 2012 (This is the 30th summer Olympics) 506. 1st. US : 104 Medals (46 G+29 S+ 29 B) 2nd China : 88 Medals (38 G+27 S+ 23 B) 507. India s Position 55th : 6 M(2 S +4 B) 508. Gagan Narang Bronze Shooting Men's 10m 509. Air Rifle Vijay Kumar Silver Shooting Men's 25 Rapid Fire Pistol

510. Saina Nehwal Bronze Badminton Women's singles 511. Mary Kom Bronze Boxing, Women'sflyweight 512. Yogeshwar Dutt Bronze Wrestling Men's 60 kg Freestyle 513. Sushil Kumar Silver Wrestling Men's 66 kg Freestyle Next: Rio de Janeiro, B razil in 2016 514. Euro Cup-2012 Venue- Spain; Winner-Spain; Runner-Italy 515. Azlan Shah cup Venue: Malaysia Winner-NZ; Runner-Argentina; 3rd Place-India 516. French Open Men Single: Rafael Nadal(Spain) bt Novak Djokovic(Serbia) 517. Men Double-Max Mirnyi(Belarus) and Danial Nestor(Canada)bt Bob and Mike Bry an(USA) 518. Women Double: Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy) bt Maria Kirileko and Na dia Petrova(Russia) 519. Which team has won the Santosh Trophy in 2012? Services 520. Which team has won the IPL-5 ? Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) 521. Which player has been made only hattrick in IPL-5? Ajit Chandela of Rajasth an Royals 522. Who has won the orange cap in IPL-5? Crise Gayle (Royal Challengers Bangalo re) 523. Who has won the purple cap in IPL-5? Morny Morkel (Delhi Dare Devils) 524. Who has been selected as the Man of the Series in IPL-5? Sunil Narine (KKR) 525. Which club has won the English Premier League (EPL) in 2012? Manchester Cit y 526. Which team has won WEFA Champions League in 2012? Chelsea 527. By defeating whom Viswanathan anand has won the world chess championsh in 2 012? Boris Gelfand 528. Who has won the women s singles title at the Rome International Tennis Champi onship? Maria Sharapova 529. Who has won the men s singles title at the Rome International Tennis Champion ship? Rafael Nadal (Spain) 530. Which country has won the Asian junior championship in 2012? Malaysia 531. Which country has become the 209th member of FIFA recently? South Sudan 532. Who has been selected as the best football coach of India in 2012 by IFF? A rmendo Colaso 533. India s which team won 19 medals at the Asian Cadet Championship held at Kyrg yzstan? Wrestlers team 534. Who has won the silver medal in men s 25m rapid fire pistol in London Olympic s 2012? Vijay Kumar 535. Who won the bronze medal in badminton in London Olympi cs 2012? Saina Nehwal 536. Who won the bronze medal in 10m air rifle in London Olympics? Gagan Narang 537. Who won the Scottish Open golf tournament 2012? Jeev Milkha Singh 538. How many events were in London Olympics 2012? 302 539. How many athletes were in London Olympics 2012? 10500 540. How many countries participated in London Olympics 2012? 204 541. Who won the first gold medal in London Olympics 2012? Yi Siling (China) 542. The winners of Wimbledon men s doubles title 2012 are- Jonathan Marray and Fr ederik Nielson 543. Name the winners of Wimbledon women s doubles title 2012. Serena and Venus Wi lliams 544. Name the winners of Wimbledon mixed doubles title 2012. Mike Bryan and Lisa raymond 545. Caroline Wozniacki won the WTA Title at Korean Open 546. Matthew Hayden, the Australian Cricketer on 20 September 2012 announced his retirement from all formats of Cricket. 547. The Vice-Captain of Indian Cricket team, Virat Kohli was named as the ODI C ricketer of the year at ICC Awards Function held at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 Sep tember 2012 548. Andy Murray won the US Open Grand Slam Singles Championship by defeating No

vak Djokovic 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 on 11 September 2012. 549. Serena Williams of USA won her fourth Women's Singles US Open title in New York by beating the top seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. 550. India beat Cameroon to lift Nehru Cup for the third consecutive time 551. Italian Grand Prix 2012 on 9 September 2012 Lewis Hamilton 552. Denmark Open final 2012: Saina Nehwal beat German Juliane Schenk 21-17, 218. Her 3rd title in Europe after the Swiss Opens in 2011 & 2012 553. Shane Bond appointed as bowling coach of New Zealand cricket team on 18 Oct ober 2012. 554. What is the full form of TUFS? Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme 555. What is the name of Russia s upper house of Parliament? Duma 556. Who is the present Secretary General of NATO? Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen 557. Besides Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha who has been nominated as the member of Rajya Sabha? Anu Aga

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