INFOLINKS

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Important Current Affairs:This Week

1. Former Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of India, late Babu Jagjivan Ram has been awarded with the “Friends of Liberation War Honour” by the Government of Bangladesh for his contribution in the 1971 War.

2. Ms Manju Seth has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Madagascar. She is presently Consul General of India in Reunion Island, which is a French-administered territory in the Indian Ocean between Mauritius and Madagaskar.

3. Eminent litterateur and Sahitya Akademi President Sunil Gangopadhyay died at his South Kolkata residence on 23rd October 2012 following a massive heart attack.


4. The ‘Super 30’ programme for training students of the backward sections for the IIT-JEE tied up on 24th October 2012 with the University of Tokyo, which will sponsor study of its students in Japan.This agreement is a follow-up of the Japanese Government Program named Global 30, of engagement with Super 30 for increasing the flow of Indian Students to Japan.

5. Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian for the fifth year in a row with a net worth of $21 billion, according to the Forbes India rich list.

6. IT giant Infosys founder, N.R. Narayan Murthy honoured with Hoover Medal for promoting science at Global Humanitarian Technology Conference in Washington.

7. Prime Minister’s key advisor C Rangarajan 25th October 2012 lowered the growth projection for the current fiscal to 6 per cent from 6.7 per cent estimated earlier.

8. The Seventh South Asia Film Festival (SAFF)-2012 begins at Kala Academy at Panaji in Goa on 25th October 2012.Rajya Sabha MP Tariq Anwar inaugurated the three day event.

9. Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar will be conferred the Col C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award at the annual BCCI awards function on 25th October 2012.

10. Gen Fang Fenghui appointed as the Chief of the Headquarters of the General Staff of the 2.3 million strong People’s Liberation Army, (PLA).

11. The International Cycling Union agreed on 22nd October 2012 to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life, following a report from the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that accused him of leading a massive doping program on his teams.

12. Hyderabad has been named as one of the best cities in the world to visit in 2013 by travel guide book Lonely Planet published on 22nd October 2012.

13. India and Japan on 22nd October 2012 discussed ways to expand their security and defence cooperation at a meeting of their foreign and defence secretaries in Tokyo.
14. 
Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi on 22nd October 2012 released Ek Thhi Kusum, a short stories collection authored by former State Assembly Speaker Prakash Pant.

15. Andhra Pradesh Minister for Infrastructure Investments and Ports Ganta Srinivasa Rao inaugurated the Vizag Grand Masters Open Chess Championship at Port Indoor Stadium.

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