Current Affairs: 19 June, 2013

• Tianhe-2: World’s fastest Supercomputer developed by China

• S. Ramadorai is the Chairman of AirAsia India

• Kanji Ram – First Hindu member in Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly in 16 years

• Knighthood to Indian-origin sculptor Anish Kapoor

• e-RTI facility extended to President Secretariat, MEA

• India to get a loan of 255 million USD for National AIDS Control Project-IV

• RBI leaves key policy rate unchanged

• John W. Ashe elected as the President of UNGA for its 68th session

• PM Manmohan Singh takes oath as Rajya Sabha member for fifth consecutive term

• Government aims to achieve 80% Literacy Rate by 2017

• Fitch upgrades India’s sovereign outlook to ‘stable’

Current Affairs: 18 June, 2013

• Fact Box: “Hindu rate of growth”

• Lawsuit filed against the copyright of ‘Happy birthday to you’

• By 2028, India to become most populous nation: UN report

• Malnourishment in India higher than in sub-Saharan Africa

• Nicaragua plans to build a parallel Panama Canal

• British government warns airlines not to fly Snowden to the U.K.

• U.S. Supreme Court forbids human genes from being patented

Current Affairs: 16 June, 2013

• Fact Box: H.265 / High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard

• Fitch revises outlook of 10 banks and FIs to ‘Stable’

• The US Congress was well informed on PRISM: Obama administration

• MHA to rope in Ex-Brigadiers to help fight Naxals

• ISRO to launch INSAT-3D launch on July 26, 2013

• Rupee depreciation to make durables, cars costly

• Norway to become first European nation to extend conscription to women

• Prism scandal: India among top 5 most monitored nations

• U.S. to supply arms to Syria rebels

• RTI Act allows public access to Government employee’s service book: CIC

Current Affairs: 15 June, 2013

• Problems with TAM ratings system resurface as Sony uncertain to renew its subscription

• Government raises foreign investment limit in G-secs by $5 billion

• Facebook unveils first data centre outside U.S. in Sweden

• Qatar possess highest density of millionaires

• Dubai launches World’s tallest Twisted Tower named “Cayan Tower”

• Google acquires Waze Mapping Service for $1.03 billion

• Renewable energy transmission corridors to be set up in Tamil Nadu

• Karnataka HC upholds withdrawing of tax exemptions for SEZs

• Students going abroad worry as Rupee falls

• Global Peace Index 2013: India ranks 141 of 162 countries

• American author Lydia Davis wins Man Booker International Prize 2013

• Global population to touch 8.1 billion in 2025: UN report

• DMRC to build monorail in Kozhikode and Thiruananthapuram

• Project Monitoring Group to be set up to expedite infra projects

• Panel recommends new law for regulation and promotion of rental housing

• Telegram service by BSNL to end from July 15, 2013

• Boeing C-17 Globemaster III added into IAF

• “INDRA 2013″ : Indo-Russian joint military exercise to be conducted in October 2013

• HRD to set up National Testing Agency (NTA)

Current Affairs: 13 June, 2013

• Fact Box: National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC)

• Number of Royal Bengal Tiger in Sudarbans exceeds 2011 census estimates

• Fact Box: What is Citrus greening?

• Fact Box: Who was William Lambton?

• India-US collaborate on Space Solar Power Initiative

• Railways to launch Mobile Payment Ticketing Facility

• Rangachang gets Early Tsunami Warning System to alert in three minutes

• SEBI talks tough on non-compliance of minimum public shareholding

• Haryana notifies new Communication Infra policy

Current Affairs: 12 June, 2013

• Rafael Nadal wins French Open 2013

Current Affairs: 11 June, 2013

• French Open 2013: Serena Williams won the women’s title

• Railways to introduce SMS-based OPCRS service for cleanliness related complaints

• More accurate test for early detection of Down’s syndrome developed

• Rs 7,600 cr FII outflows form Indian debt market in a week

• Banks to audit documents of credits of Rs 5 Crore and above periodically: RBI

• 200 Indians victim of cheating stranded in Saudi Arabia

• Rs 10 crore transferred through DBT of LPG

• BJP appoints Narendra Modi as Chairman of its Campaign Committee for 2014 polls

• Indian firm proposes to set up power plants to Pakistan

• RBI will intervene in forex market to prevent instability

• Vesnina, Makarova clinch French Open women’s doubles title 2013

Current Affairs: 10 June, 2013

• Government to start National Higher Education Campaign (Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan)

• HC directs ESPN to provide add free live signal of ICC Champions Trophy to DD

• RBI imposes restrictions on gold loans by Co-op banks

• Government sets up SCE to evaluate international competitiveness of Indian financial sector

• Bio-food gaining attraction at weddings, luncheons

• Bryan brothers clinch French Open men’s doubles 2013

Current Affairs: 08 June, 2013

• Fact Box: Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG)

• 10.2 % rise in Cost Inflation Index (CII) for 2013-14

• Dhoni stands at 16th spot on Forbes list of highest-paid athletes

• DIPP clarifies: MBRT doesn’t allow trading through franchise route

• National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) established by Government

• Fact Box: “ROSHNI” – A new programme launched by Rural Development Ministry in 24 naxal affected districts

• World Oceans Day observed on June 8, 2013

• Fact Box: e-BRC (Bank Realization Certificate)

• Finance Ministry asks IBA to set up independent body to oversee CDR mechanism

Current Affairs: 07 June, 2013

• 45% of deaths of under-five children caused by malnutrition: Report

• Centre returns West Bengal ponzi Bill for rectification

• NAC re-constituted, tribal expert Virginius Xaxa replaces Aruna Roy

• Obesity and poor nutrition costs world economy $1.4 trillion: FAO

• UK’s Northern Ireland gears up for G-8 summit

• Fact Box: Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)

• Susan Rice will be US National Security Adviser

• Amazon.in launched in India

• World Environment Day Observed globally with the theme: “Think. Eat. Save- Reduce Your Foodprint”

• Tomas Brunegard is new WAN-IFRA president

• ONGC adopts six monuments under Campaign Clean India

• Uttarakhand CM opposes declaring Gomukh-Gangotri as eco-sensitive zone

• Japan conducts successful test of new Maglev Bullet Train

Current Affairs: 06 June, 2013

• First All-Women Police Station starts functioning in Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh)

• Duty hiked on the import of Gold and Platinum

• Nawaz Sharif takes oath to the PM office of Pakistan

• India, 8 other nations exempted from sanctions for Iranian oil import

Current Affairs: 05 June, 2013

• Cairn India seeks RoFR through New Shale Gas Policy

• Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP): UGC forms advisory committee on DU’s new format

• Enforcement Directorate serves Rs.8,600-cr penalty notice on Emaar MGF

• Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill

• Rajasthan to get two new airports

• PSC seeks public views on Agriculture Biosecurity Bill, 2013

Current Affairs: 04 June, 2013

• Scripps National Spelling Bee contest: Indian-Americans dominate for 6th consecutive year

• ‘Project Ananta’: Planning Commission approves the project

• Egypt highest court declares Shura Council illegal

• Russia to supply sophisticated MiG fighter planes to Syria

• Defense Ministry promulgates new Defence Procurement Procedure

• Kerala launches Seaplane service

• Union Government approves National Oil Spill Contingency Plan

• Tension escalate b/w Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile water diversion

Current Affairs: 02 June, 2013

• IndusInd Bank ties up with American Express to launch credit card for affluent customers

• Fact Box: India Post 2012 Project

• TCS gets Rs 1,100-cr contract from India Post

• Madhya Pradesh govt to listen to oustees of the Omkareshwar dam project

• IFC provides $5 million funds to NSL Renewable Power

• One Stop Crisis Centre facility for women victims in Haryana

• Punjab government gives nod to online lottery system

Current Affairs: 01 June, 2013

• Archaeopteryx regains Bird status

• Fact Box: induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC)

• India, Thailand to make trilateral highway ready by 2016

• India, Thailand sign extradition treaty

• Noted filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh passes away

• Telecom Ministry clears project for setting up mobile towers in Naxal-affected States

• GoM approves Coal Regulatory Authority Bill

• India, Japan to expedite negotiation on civil nuclear pact

Current Affairs: 02 May, 2013

• IMF warns Asia of “Middle Income Trap” and asset bubble

• Bombay HC directs Maharashtra govt to release water into Jayakwadi dam

• Turkey chooses Asia, joins Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

• S. Korea rebuilds Namdaemun: National Treasure Number One

• Situation in Northern Mali still unstable

• EU to Restrict ‘Bee-Harming’ Pesticides

• Attempt to boost tourism with the development of Vizag-Bheemli beach corridor

• Direct cash through Aadhaar to save 0.5% of GDP for India: IMF

• MCX-SX to launch trading in F&O on SX40

Current Affairs: 30 April, 2013

• India expresses concerns to Saudi Arabia over ‘Nitaqat’

• NABARD opens first Farmers’ Club in Kargil

• Government sets up Inter-ministerial Committee to boost exports from MSMEs

• India’s over one-fourth land hit by desertification: Report

• Indian Guinness record holder Sailendra Nath Roy passed away

• Goa Govt launched ‘Krishi Card’ for farmers

Current Affairs: 29 April, 2013

• Turkey will no longer be indebter to IMF

• Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards 2013

• 2014 Thomas and Uber Cup Finals to be held in Delhi

• Takehiko Nakao the new president of ADB assumes office

• Delhi HC seeks Government’s response from Govt over use of social networking sites by children below 18

• India slashes oil import from Iran by over 26.5%

• New KALQ keyboard can perform better than QWERTY

• Anil Goswami is the new Home Secretary

• “Lucknow Zardozi” gets GI (Geographical Indication) registration

Current Affairs: 28 April, 2013

• Annual Supplement (2013-14) to the Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14: Govt declares SEZ reforms to arouse investors’ interest

• Etihad takes 24% stake in Jet Airways for USD 379 million

• Indian Railways reduce advance booking period to 60 days

Current Affairs: 27 April, 2013

• President gives away Padma awards

• CISPA bill on cyber security passed by the US House of representatives BUT will certainly be shelved by the Senate

• 5170 Bharat Nirman Rajeev Gandhi Seva Kendras become Operational in Rajasthan

• First cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ test: India achieves partial success as MTCR proves a key hurdle for India

• Ahmedabad becomes first city in South Asia to launch a heat wave preparation and warning system

Current Affairs: 26 April, 2013

• Fact Box: National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP)

• Narasimhan Ravi elected as new President of the ‘Editors Guild of India’

• Govt stressing on diversification of agriculture to include crops/varieties needing less water

• Expert committee: “exact co-relation between radiation of communication towers and health of wildlife is so far not established”

• Revised schemes of RAY, ISHUP (revamped as RRY) and AHP being figured out

• NULM Scheme to be launched in 12th Five Year Plan

• Ajay Devgn, Runa Laila SAARC ambassadors for HIV/AIDS

Current Affairs: 25 April, 2013

• FAA approves resumption of Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights

• Supreme Court cancels Karnataka’s all 49 mining leases

• Kepler-62e, 62f and 69c: Earth-like planets that could host life discovered by NASA

• Eminent Jurist Justice JS Verma passed away

Current Affairs: 24 April, 2013

• Chris Gayle scores fastest century in cricket history during IPL game

• Mahatma Gandhi among top three most admired leaders of the world: Survey

• Universal Commodity Exchange (UCX) – India’s 6th Commodity Exchange goes live

• “HFLS3″ – Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Universe

• Indian "Human Computer" Shakuntala Devi passes away

• Fact Box: The National Policy for Children, 2012

• India largest recipient of global remittances: World Bank

• Fact Box: IBIN – ‘India Backbone Implementation Network’ and India@75

• Renowned singer Shamshad Begum passed away

Current Affairs: 23 April, 2013

• GAIL to sell part of its 4.% stake in China Gas Holdings

Current Affairs: 21 April, 2013

• Russia launches ‘Noah’s Ark’ satellite for space biology research

• Cabinet approves 8% DA hike for Central Govt employees

• Government approves Rs 1,083 crore revival plan for HMT

Current Affairs: 20 April, 2013

• Aruna Bahuguna – First women special DG CRPF

• Coast Guard Ship C-402 commissioned at Naval Dockyard in Mumbai

• New hard plastic voter identity cards to be issued by EC

• 20th Meeting of Eastern Zonal Council held at Kolkata

• “Twitter #music” – a music app service launched by Twitter

• 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners

• RBI to start plastic money project on trial basis

• Sahara Q Shop enters Guinness World Records

• Sher-i-Kashmir Award: Navjot becomes youngest recipient athlete of Jammu and Kashmir to be conferred

• Nicolas Maduro declared president-elect Venezuela

Current Affairs: 19 April, 2013

• Indian economy likely to grow by 5.7% in 2013: IMF

Current Affairs: 18 April, 2013

• Fact Box: Google Glass

• India’s first and ONLY Women Chief Election Commissioner Ramadevi passed away

• World Heritage Day: April 18

• Fact Box: K. Kasturirangan High-Level Working Group

Current Affairs: 17 April, 2013

• ‘Baby Nobel’ or Won John Bates Clark Medal for Delhi-born US economist Raj Chetty

• Supreme Court orders transfer of some Asiatic Lions from Gujarat’s Gir to MP’s Kuno

• Sania joins as 4th Vice President of of ITPA

• Pioneering Polio Vaccine Developer Hilary Koprowski passes away

• Union Govt approves a project National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project

• IMFrecognizes Somalia’s new government after a 22-year break

• Fact Box: ‘Pig 26’

• Fact Box: “SNOW LION” Flag of Tibet

Current Affairs: 16 April, 2013

• A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits Iran, Nuclear reactor in Bushehr undamaged

• President appoints two new judges to Supreme Court

• IVF Pioneer Sir Robert Edwards passed away

• WTO Global Trade Growth Forecast for 2013 Lowered to 3.3%

• Prime Minister of India Visited Germany: Important Documents inked

• Andhra Pradesh: ‘Amma Hastham’ scheme for white cardholders

• India Bangladesh to collaborate on a film on 1971 Liberation War

• Manipur bags overall team Champion for 22nd time in North East Game 2013

• Multi-billion dollar World bank plan for poverty alleviation in 7 Indian states.

• Odisha Legislative Assembly adopted a Resolution for Special Category Status

Current Affairs: 15 April, 2013

• Vice President Releases Book ‘Religion, Law & Society-Across the Globe’

• Dadasaheb Phalke award for legendary actor Pran

• North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (Neepco) granted ‘Miniratna – Category I’ status

• Binod Bihari Chowdhury

• Industrialist RP Goenka Passed away

Current Affairs: 14 April, 2013

• India and Azerbaijan ink Treaty on Legal and Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters

• India and China discuss ways to counter terror in Afghanistan

• Fact Box: Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)

• Fact Box: VOR (VHF Omni Directional Range)

Current Affairs: 10 April, 2013

• Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in as Kenya’s new President

• Fact Box: National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly

• Direct Benefits Transfer subsidy scheme to extended to 78 more districts in July 2013

• Army plans to have old age homes for ex-servicemen

• Pervez Musharraf’s nomination papers for the General Elections rejected for second time

Current Affairs: 09 April, 2013

• Vodafone and China Mobile created a consortium to bid for mobile licences in Myanmar(Burma)

• Exhaled breath is as unique for an individual as fingerprints

• Fact Box: BRAIN initiative

Current Affairs: 08 April, 2013

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• Reliance Jio Infocomm and Reliance Communications ink a definitive agreement for Rs. 1,200 crore

• Scientists from Spain predict that the World’s population to stop growing in 2050

• Historian, epigraphy expert Prof Bratindra Nath Mukherjee passed away

Current Affairs: 07 April, 2013

• Survey of India files complaint Google’s Mapathon 2013

Current Affairs: 06 April, 2013

• Nokia, Samsung India’s most trusted brands – The Brand Trust Report, India Study – 2013 Prle

• Novartis loses patent case for its anti-cancer drug “Glivec” in India

• Fact Box: Caratometer ( Karatmeter )

• NMDC and IndusInd Bank enter 50-share benchmark index of NSE

Current Affairs: 05 April, 2013

• Fact box : International Investment Position (IIP)

• Historic Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) passed in UN

• India Ratings: ‘Over-leveraging’ is major concern for Indian firms

• IRDA passes credit rating norm for choosing foreign reinsurers

Current Affairs: 02 April, 2013

• Research anticipates Arctic to be 50% greener in coming decades

Current Affairs: 01 April, 2013

• Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was re-inducted into BJP’s Central Parliamentary board

• Gujarat bags PATWA Awards for “Best Destination for Cultural Festivals” and “Best Emerging Tourism Destination”

• “ILEAL INTERPOSITION” a potent weapon to fight type-2 diabetes in patients

• NTPC – “The Most Efficient Maharatna” in 2012

• Nokia slapped by IT dept with a Rs 2000 crore notice for alleged tax violation

• KYC norms for self-help groups relaxed : RBI

• Include Gojjri in Schedule VIII: Jammu & Kashmir

• Harmanpreet Kaur – New captain of Indian Women’s Cricket Team

• Malala Yousafzai inks 3 million US Dollar deal to publish her memoir

Current Affairs: 31 March, 2013

• TCS ranked No. 1 employer in Europe

• Biogas plant commissioned on the Kerala Government Secretariat campus

• Cairn-ONGC Joint Venture (JV) starts production from the Aishwariya field, Rajasthan

Current Affairs: 29 March, 2013

• South Australia rolls out 10 year strategy to increase trade with India

• Rs 1,500 crore proposal clearance for Pinaka rockets and indigenisation plans to avoid furture scams

• India, USA agree to cooperate on future missions to the Moon and Mars

• Great Indian one-horned Rhinoceros’ population rises in Kaziranga: Census

• India wins the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by a defeating Australia 4-0 in Test Series

• Arunachal Pradesh becomes the first state to introduce e-GPF facility

• 2013 designated as the UN International Year of Water Cooperation by UNGA

• Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani nominated as the Chairman of IJBLF

• Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis passes away

• Anil Ananthaswamy wins British Physics journalism prize

• Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso takes over as Pakistan’s 6th interim PM

• Tiger Woods Reclaims No. 1 Ranking with Win at 2013 Arnold Palmer Invitational

• Nikhil Kumar new Governor of Kerala

• Navneet Kaur Dhillon Crowned Miss India 2013

• Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe passed away

Current Affairs: 28 March, 2013

• India has no Open Sky Policy with ASEAN

• Take firm steps to recover loans of sick firms from affluent promoters: FM to Banks

• Fact box: Kishenganga Project

• Petroleum Ministry: ‘CAG has the right to undertake audit KG-D6’

• ISRO prepares palaeochannel map of River Saraswati

• Revised National Food Security Bill cleared by the Union Cabinet

• Google invites Narendra Modi to address Big Tent Activate Summit

• Damodaran committee report on business climate very soon

• Green Tribunal prohibits roads construction, cutting of trees in Aravallis

• Seven pacts signed b/w India and Egypt

• ISRO designing GISAT

• Cyprus to get 10 bn euro bailout

• UN celebrates first ‘International Day of Happiness’

• Govt clears 10.82% stake sale in SAIL

• India becomes first country to successfully test fire underwater supersonic cruise missile

Current Affairs: 26 March, 2013

• Morsy proposes ‘E-BRICS’

Current Affairs: 21 March, 2013

• U.K. company ‘Lagan Construction’ bags Maldives airport project

• Infosys to assist India Post to build Rural Systems Integration (RSI) program

• Italian envoy can’t claim immunity: CJI

• National Bioscience Award 2012

Current Affairs: 20 March, 2013

• Kelkar-chaired committee to suggest plans for enhancing domestic oil production

• National Tourism Award to Fatehpur Sikri monuments

• Saraswati Samman to poetess Sugathakumari

• H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2013 – Legislation introduced in US to prevent misuse of H1B and L-1 visa programme

• Shanti Prayas-2: Joint military exercises of Nepal, US Army

• RBI slashes repo rate by 25 bps, no change in CRR

• Xi proposes 5-point formula to boost ties with India

• Research shows signs of swine flu virus resistant to Tamiflu

• Cigarette consumption in India increased in 2011-12

• SEBI issues framework for colour coding, product labelling for mutual funds

• 60th National Film Awards for 2012

• Kimi Raikkonen bags formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2013

• Australia win Azlan Shah hockey tournament for seventh time

• China replaces Britain to become world’s 5th largest arms exporters

Current Affairs: 19 March, 2013

• Fact box: IFRS

• 17 aspirants compete for every one engineering job – Survey

• World’s largest solar power plant unveiled in UAE

• Fish with high cesium level found near Fukushima plant

• Pakistan’s civilian govt completes 5-year term for the first time

• India vote against Sri Lanka on human rights issue; stresses on reconciliation at UNHRC

Current Affairs: 18 March, 2013

• Wealth Report 2013: India with 122 Billionaires ranked 5th

• India 132nd on the gender inequality index; India even behind Pakistan

Current Affairs: 17 March, 2013

• RBI to start fresh IESH

• Fact Box: CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)

• India, UK ink pact to encourage S&T research

• Fact Box: Fire Ice – (Methane hydrate / Methane clathrate)

• DRDO computers hacked – Chinese hackers suspected

• North Korea ends war armistice

• RBI to introduce Rs 10 plastic notes in 5 cities

Current Affairs: 16 March, 2013

• New editor of TIME International – Bobby Ghosh

• President of ADB Mr. Kuroda become Governor of Central Bank of Japan

• The founder-chairman of Dr Reddy’s Labs, Dr. Kallam Anji Reddy passed away

Current Affairs: 15 March, 2013

• World Consumer Rights Day observed on March 15

• Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi sworn in Nepal Prime Minister amid protest

• North Island of New Zealand hit by worst drought in 30 years

• Tan Twan Eng wins Asia’s top literary prize – The Man Asian Literary Prize

• Xi Jinping assumes President’s office in China

• Welspun Energy completes Asia’s largest solar project

• Central assistance of Rs. 41 Crore to protect Pashmina Goats

• Renowned painter Ganesh Pyne passed away

• SEBI Bill for appointing SAT head passed in Rajya Sabha

• Google to build personal hardware devises to replace passwords

• Curiosity finds key ingredients required to support life on mars

• Falkland islanders choose to stay with Britain

• Four regulators sign MoU to jointly supervise financial conglomerates

• Fact Box: Operation Lal Dora

• Princess Lilian of Sweden passes away

Current Affairs: 14 March, 2013

• New Pope: Jorge Mario Bergoglio takes “Francis” as name

• Fact Box: CTT (Commodity Transaction Tax)

• India, Bhutan sign currency swap agreement

• Finland inaugurates World’s largest biogas plant

• Cruise missile Nirbhay goes awry, terminated midway

• US warns Pak against constructing Iran-Pak gas pipeline

• SAARC Literature Awards

• Pakistan passes bill to set up counter-terrorism NACTA

• China plans crucial changes in ministries, market to have a major role

• Now get EPF account balance through SMS

Current Affairs: 12 March, 2013

• Fact Box: Prisoner X

• World banks estimates Indian economy to grow over 6% by 2013-14

• President appoints Ashwani Kumar and S.C. Jamir as new Governors of Nagaland and Odisha respectively

• India’s First All Women Post Office

Current Affairs: 11 March, 2013

• Fact Box: FUA (Flexible Use of Airspace)

• RBI chief rules out a revision in inflation goal

Current Affairs: 10 March, 2013

• Delhi court frames Irom Sharmila under attempt to suicide

• RBI relaxes norms for ECBs

• Union govt approves Export of Additional 5 Million Tonnes of Wheat

• Our closest neighboring galaxy is 163,000 light years away

• Outstanding parliamentarian award to Jaitley, Karan Singh, Sharad Yadav

Current Affairs: 08 March, 2013

• ‘Electronics Project Proposal System (e-PPS) launched by Ministry of Communication and IT

• Mukul Sangma once again becomes CM of Meghalaya

• Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu visits India

• SEBI to review insider trading norms through a committee

• Bangaladeh confers Liberation War Honour on Pranab Mukherjee

• Finance Ministry clears AirAsia-Tata proposal

• India, Portugal ink Social Security pact

• Mukesh Ambani titled India’s richest person for 6th year in a row

• Fact Box: Viability Gap Funding (VGF)

• Financial inclusion plan main criteria for getting new bank licences: RBI

Current Affairs: 06 March, 2013

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez passed away

• Airtel starts HD voice service in Africa

• Compost Plant in New Delhi is first composting plant in India to get carbon credits from UNFCCC

• India’s BARC developing world’s largest magnet

• New format of civil services exams declared

• `Office 365’ launched for businesses in India

• Rajasthani writer Hariram Meena chosen for Bihari Puraskar

• ‘International Women of Courage Award’ to Delhi victim

• SEBI enables two-way fungibility of IDRs

• Impose monetary limit for overseas use of cards: RBI

• Services defeat Kerala to win 67th Santosh Trophy

• Novak Djokovic clinches ATP Dubai Open 2013

• Neiphiu Rio: New CM o Nagaland CM

Current Affairs: 03 March, 2013

• Russia and US to sign agreement on defence co-operation

• Budget Box: Government to infuse Rs 14, 000 cr in PSU banks next fiscal

• Budget Box: Changed GAAR provisions to come into effect from April 2016

• Budget Box: Banks can sell insurance products of multiple insurance firms

• ‘Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past’ a book by Natwar Singh released by Vice President

• India, UK sign pact on boosting co-operation in Earth Sciences

• Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal to be new Director General of Indian Coast Guard

• Budget Box: Countrywide coverage of Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme – “Aapka Paisa, Aapke Haath”

Current Affairs: 02 March, 2013

• Budget Box: Fiscal deficit for 2012-13 contained at 5.2%

• Budget Box: ‘Nirbhaya Fund’ to be created for women safety & empowerment

Current Affairs: 01 March, 2013

• Budget Box: Proposal to introduce IIBs ‘Inflation-Indexed Bonds’ to encourage savings

• Budget Box: Super rich tax, other proposals to add Rs 18,000 cr to exchequer

• Budget Box: India to have first public sector Women’s Bank

• For the first time scientists measure the spin rate of Super-massive black hole

• Sugata Mitra wins TED Prize for Extraordinary Creativity

• Fact Box: Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

Current Affairs: 28 February, 2013

• Fact Box “Anubhuti” Railway Coaches

• Parliament passes Bill to prevent offences against women at workplace

• Fact Box: Rajat Gupta

• The Directorate-General of Hydrocarbons holds back approval for KG-D6 work programme

• India asks Sri Lanka to fix accountability for rights violation, torture of Tamils

• JPC to probe chopper deal

• Pope Benedict XVI will be known as ‘emeritus Pope’ – Vatican

• Park Geun-hye sworn in as South Korea’s first woman President

• Rajya Sabha approves President’s Rule in Jharkhand

• ISRO scientists successfully launch Indo-French satellite PSLV-SARAL

• India ‘economic linchpin’ in Afghanistan – Robert Blake

• Arun Tadanki Yahoo! India MD resigns

• “Mauritia” – An ancient micro-continent found under Indian Ocean

• Fact Box: February 28 – The National Science Day

• Rail Budget 2013: Highlights

Current Affairs: 26 February, 2013

• Keeping in mind 2014 Elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav presents a people friendly budget

• Assam becomes India’s first state to produce over 500 Million Kg Tea for consecutive 2 years

• “W49B”: The Youngest black hole in our galaxy discovered by the Scientists

• Democratic Republic of Congo: African leaders sign UN-backed peace accord

• ‘One Stop Crisis Centres’: Government announces crisis centre for women

• UK scientists discover deepest undersea vents

• New Life Sciences prize announced by World’s Technology tychoons

• Justice (Retd) Ms Usha Mehra Commission Submitted its Report

• AirAsia and Tata Group join hands for an economical airline

• Kerala raises age limit to buy liquor from 18 to 21

• Hari Shankar Singhania, leading industrialist, passes away

• TRAI releases pre-consultation paper for pan-India mobile number portability

• Fact Box: Kishenganga Hydro-electric project (KHEP)

Current Affairs: 24 February, 2013

• AirAsia seeks Indian govt’s nod to join hands with Tata Group to enter country’s aviation

• Tech tycoons institute Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences

• Kerala increases age limit to buy liquor from 18 to 21

• AmEx unveils ‘ezeClick’ service

• Black money could be more than 10% of GDP: Study

• Pre-consultation paper by TRAI for pan-India MNP

• Fact Box: TOD ( Transit-Oriented Development )

• E&Y lifetime award to Ratan Tata

• Union Cabinet approves merger of BHPVL with BHEL

• T.S. Vijayan is new IRDA chairman

Current Affairs: 22 February, 2013

• Goal-line technology to be adopted in 2014 FIFA World Cup

• Govt cancels Rs.12,000 cr bond auction to curb fiscal deficit

• Fact Box: ‘Gwadar Port’ and ‘Chabahar port’

• Fact Box: Mercury Treaty

• Severe extinction threat to various Indian reptiles

• India, Sri Lanka ink anti-terror, tax evasion agreements

• Fact Box “Europa”

• NTPL signs pact with banks for 1,000-MW project

• Viswanathan Anand wins Grenke Classic

Current Affairs: 21 February, 2013

• SEWA founder Ela Bhatt conferred with Indira Gandhi Peace Prize

• “Kai Po Che” premieres in Mumbai

• Nadal beats David Nalbandian to grab Brazil Open 2013

• Value of currency note has not increased with inflation: RBI

• EDMC clears proposal to develop Tele-Booking Services of the Auto-Rickshaws

• Severe extinction threat to various Indian reptiles

• NASA discovers ‘Youngest Black Hole’ in Milky Way:

• Fact Box: Dongria Kondh tribe

• SEBI allows Gold ETFs to invest in Gold Deposit Schemes

• Dishonoring of cheque given as security is not punishable: Supreme Court

Current Affairs: 20 February, 2013

• Fact Box: Saxo Bank

• Chandrasekhar Committee meets set pathway to unify foreign investments norms

• Fact Box: ‘Letter of Comfort’

• Meteor hits Earth outside Chelyabinsk city in Russia

• Bhaskar Rao appointed as Lokayukta of Karnataka

• First corporate sponsorship for Padma Shri Girisha Hosanagara

• Australia clinches women’s cricket World Cup

• India’s trade deficit surges to $20 billion

• India-Japan first Maritime Affairs dialogue at Delhi

• Asoke Kumar Mukerji – The next Permanent Representative of India to the UN

• Golden Bear to ‘Child’s Pose’: Berlinale

• American philosopher and law expert Ronald Dworkin passed away

Current Affairs: 19 February, 2013

• 50% increase in Bad loans of listed Banks

• SEBI freezes bank accounts of two Sahara group firms

• Italy arrests head of Italian company on charges of bribery in Defence deal

Current Affairs: 16 February, 2013

• Mohan Parasaran is new Solicitor General of India

• Fact Box: Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)

• Angelo Mathews appointed as captain of Sri Lankan cricket team

• Super volcano eruptions may eliminate life

• Fact Box: Antyodaya Anna Yojana

• Iran test fires cruise missile "Ghader"

• Fact Box: Priority sector lending (PSL)

• Fact Box: Asteroid 2012 DA14

• CBI takes off 2G prosecutor for leaking strategy

• Iran proposes termination of all nuke arms after North Korean test

• North Korea conducts third nuke test, defies UN

• MCX-SX starts trading

• Parle-G is now India’s first homegrown Rs 5K crore FMCG brand

• Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty appointed as new chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi

• ‘MyIndia Initiative-A Digital Volunteer Programme’ launched by Ministry of I & B

Current Affairs: 15 February, 2013

• ITPA to be set up to address players’ concerns

• Horacio Zeballos defeats Rafael Nadal to win VTR Open

• Equity investment limit for Insurance companies raised to 15 %

• RBI directs Co-op banks to not grant loans for gold purchase

• Banks to start loans recovery from Kingfisher

• Fact Box: ‘Operation Three Star’

• Pope Benedict XVI to renounce as the head of the Catholic Church

• MoEF sets up committee to study legal cover for elephant habitats

• Prime Minister of Bhutan visited India

• Twitter starts ‘pay by tweet’ service

Current Affairs: 14 February, 2013

• PMGSY upgraded to include left-out habitations

• Government considers enhancing NABARD capital base to Rs 20,000 crore

• Government lowers GDP growth estimate for 2012-13 to 5%

• MoEF clearance to 2,500 MW hydro projects

• Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty appointed as new chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi

• India and Japan to enhance cooperation in tourism sector

• Scottish government sketches ‘transition plan’ to independence

Current Affairs: 13 February, 2013

• ‘World Radio Day’ observed on February 13

• Fact Box: AWACS

• “Shubh Yatra” Magazine by Civil Aviation Ministry

• Fact Box: Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS)

• Fact Box: Special Olympics World Winter Games

Current Affairs: 12 February, 2013

• Fact Box: ‘Zhuang Zedong’ – The Architect of "Ping-Pong Diplomacy"

• Fact Box – "REX": World’s first complete bionic man

• India, Austria ink Social Security Agreement

• 9th Aero India show concludes

• Curiosity drills Mars surface for the first time

• SC orders Karnataka to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu

• Researchers discovered world’s largest prime number

• Lifetime Grammy Award to Ravi Shankar posthumously

• “Ranchi Rhinos” wins Hockey India League

• Tendulkar equals Gavaskar’s record of first class 100s

• Pakistan test fires Hatf-IX successfully

Current Affairs: 11 February, 2013

• “Wankel” engine gets CEMILAC nod to power UAVs

• U.S. govt. to slap fraud charges against S&P for ‘false’ mortgage ratings

• Financial Institutions Syndicated Deal of the Year 2012 award goes to YES Bank

• Corporation Bank offers new variants of savings bank accounts: “SB Super” and “SB Signature”

• Government nominates C R Naseer Ahmed on the Board of Directors of Syndicate Bank

• Dell ready to become private in $24 billion deal

• Britain confers new powers to regulators to break up banks

Current Affairs: 09 February, 2013

• Sharad Sharma becomes ED of Geojit BNP Paribas

• Google launches ‘Mapathon 2013’ competition to “map” India

• Kotak Mahindra Bank acquires Barclays India’s business loan portfolio

• India’s domestic savings declines to 30% this fiscal

• NTPC disinvestment raises Rs 11,000 crore

• L.N. Tallur wins Skoda Art Prize 2012

• Aircel offers ‘Mobile Money’

• Iranian President Ahmadinejad becomes first Iranian leader to visit Egypt since Islamic Revolution of 1979

• Book on Netaji presented to the President

• Environment Ministry exempts linear projects from taking clearance from Gram sabha

• Thirty Software companies detach from NASSCOM to form “iSpirt”

Current Affairs: 08 February, 2013

• Corporation Bank launches new variants of savings bank accounts

• PNB buys 30% stake in MetLife India

• Jackie Chan, Mo Yan selected as members of Chinese parliament

• Famous Bengali Painter Shanu Lahiri passed away

• Rohinton Nariman submits resignation from Solicitor General of India

• Naseer Ahmed is the new Director of Syndicate Bank

Current Affairs: 07 February, 2013

• South Africa tops ICC Rankings for Test Cricket

• McGrath and Turner enter Australian Cricket Hall of Fame

• Michael Clarke bags his 4th Allan Border Medal

• Thinning of Ozone has altered ocean circulation: Study

• Functioning of Prasar Bharati to be examined by study groups

• Indian Railways to host IHHA Conference

• Minimize number of free cheque books issued to individuals: RBI

• ICICI Bank ties with Aircel for Mobile Money

• Rare Whooper Swan spotted after 113 years in Himachal

• NASA launches TDRS satellite

• India, Gibraltar ink TIEA pact

• Nayudamma award to VC of BHU

• By 2024, India to become second largest coal consumer

Current Affairs: 06 February, 2013

• Union Cabinet approved amendments to Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011

• PMO forms executive panel on implementing the 8 missions of the NAPCC

• Scientists create first digital atlas of brain

• Nursery admissions not within purview of RTE Act: Tharoor

• Haryana launches DBT scheme

• China understates strategic importance of Gwadar

• India gives $2.5 mn humanitarian aid for displaced Syrian

• India hands over Dornier to Seychelles

• Union Cabinet gives nod to amendments to Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) Act, 1976

Current Affairs: 05 February, 2013

• National award to Vizag for NREGS implementation

• BHEL, GAIL become Maharatna

• Distance Education Council allows students to pursue two degrees

• Vasudeva Rao is new Director of IGCAR

• ‘Color-Coded Mutual Funds’: SEBI to introduce color-coded Mutual Fund products

• Obama honors Indian American Scientist

• India Cements appoints M S Dhoni as its Vice President

• First Triangular India-US-Africa Partnership at Hyderabad

• Pakistan gives Gwadar port to China for operations

• UK bans sale of five invasive non-native aquatic plants

• Microsoft takes Office to the cloud

Current Affairs: 04 February, 2013

• SEBI permits HSEL to exit

• RIM renamed as BlackBerry

• India falls nine places to 140th rank in World Press Freedom Index

• John Kerry new Secretary of State in Obama’s govt

• Scientists discover 10 million year old star still creating planets

• China approves construction of three new dams on Brahmaputra

• SBI slashes base rate to 9.7%

Current Affairs: 02 February, 2013

• Genome sequence of 90 chickpea genotypes complete

• Tea production breaches 1 bn kg-mark

• SpiceJet starts flights from Delhi to Guangzhou

• India successfully test fires K-5 ballistic missile from underwater

• Expert panel under chairmanship of Sam Pitroda constituted to review functioning of Prasar Bharti

• SEBI revises OFS mechanism

• Bharti Airtel appoints Manoj Kohli as it MD

• Taiwan business magnate Samuel Yin starts Asia’s Nobel-type prizes

• Zimbabwe is left with only $217 in the bank

• Czech elects Milos Zeman as its President

Current Affairs: 01 February, 2013

• Militants set afire Timbuktu manuscripts

• ‘Green Kumbh Mela’

Current Affairs: 31 January, 2013

• JJB rejects bone ossification test plea

• India’s first ‘ebiz’ government-to-business portal launched

• At 105, Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan is the oldest to get Padma Award

• Singer S. Janaki declines Padma Bhushan

• India, Bangladesh ink extradition and visa pacts

• Ranji Trophy: Mumbai claim their 40th title, defeat Saurashtra

• Iran claims to have sent monkey into space

• Rising CAD, a major concern: RBI

• RBI cuts repo rate and CRR, slashes growth forecast to 5.5%

Current Affairs: 30 January, 2013

• World’s oldest marathoner to retire

• Exide Industries to acquire ING stake in Indian life insurance joint venture

• Union Cabinet approves panel to investigate Wal-Mart’s lobbying activities

• Shiv Sena elects Uddhav Thackeray as its President

• Delhi eliminates Leprosy

• India to grow at 5.9% in 2013: IMF

• Panna Tiger Reserve of MP undergoes vulture population estimation

• Britain vulnerable to ‘triple-dip’ recession

• World economy to recover marginally in 2013: IMF

• RBI relaxes rules for FII in debt

Current Affairs: 29 January, 2013

• Pakistan holds “Saffron Bandit” combat exercise

• India, Rwanda ink MoU in Water Resources Development and Management

• Kirti Chakra to Army Major Abup J Manjali

• Boeing delivers first of C-17 to IAF

• Railways to take food complaints on real time

• “International Tea Producers’ Forum” (ITPF): Key tea producing countries form global forum

• RBI revises norms for bulk deposits

• Wild card entrants win Australian Open 2013 mixed doubles title

Current Affairs: 28 January, 2013

• Djokovic first ever to win 3 consecutive Australian Open men’s singles titles

• Bryan brothers clinch men’s doubles Australian Open 2013

• Victoria Azarenka lifts Australian Open 2013 women’s title

• World’s first cloned buffalo delivers a calf

• RBI asks banks to issue bonds to retail investors

• Canara Bank to launch e-Lounge services

• ‘SKEWPY’ can address unemployment problem in J&K

• SRK tops Forbes India Celebrity 100 chart

• India to test fire sub-sonic missile Nirbhay

• Ameet Shah appointed to US Dept committee on renewable energy

• DRDO begins AWACS programme

• US Senators introduce Malala Yousufzai Scholarship Act

Current Affairs: 27 January, 2013

• Tata Starbucks launch two outlets in Delhi

Current Affairs: 26 January, 2013

• ‘Vision Life Income’ launched by Birla Sun Life Insurance

• Govt to infuse Rs 681 crore in UCO Bank

• India committed to implementing TAPI Project by 2017

• US military to remove ban on women serving in combat

• SC prohibits tourists from entering Jarawa tribe habitat

• RBI panel suggests banks to encourage long-tenor FD schemes

• Cleaning drive of Railways target 100 main stations

• British PM pledges referendum on EU membership if re-elected

• Indian author U.R.Ananthamurthy in race for the International Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013

• India is part of World’s largest optical telescope project

Current Affairs: 24 January, 2013

• Bhutan king igme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to be Republic Day parade chief guest

• 12 LPG cylinders to BPL households in Delhi

• Intel to make an interface to help Stephen Hawkins communicate faster

• Virat Kohli becomes second fastest Indian to score 4000 runs in ODIs

• Reliance terminates lobbying activities in US

• Rajnath Singh takes charge as new BJP president

• Winners of 58th Idea Filmfare Awards

• French, Malian troops retake main towns

• 25 RRBs merged into 10

• MGNREGA post office accounts ready for cash transfers scheme

• Apex Court prohibits fresh shrines, statues on public roads

• TRAI plans common emergency response number for India

• PM inaugurates Ghat Ki Guni tunnel

• Russia starts its largest naval exercise in post-Soviet era

• GDP of China plunges to 3-year low of 7.6%

• January 24, 2013: India observes ”National Girl Child Day”

• Supreme Court: A non-member can also move Speaker for disqualification of defectors

• IOC asks Lance Armstrong to return bronze medal won at 2000 Sydney Olympics

• Central Government to infuse Rs 3,004 crore in SBI

• PNB to get Rs 1,248 cr from Central Govt

• S S Mundra appointed as the new CMD of BoB

• U.R. Rao to be inducted in Satellite Hall of Fame

Current Affairs: 23 January, 2013

• Rahul Gandhi – Vice President of Congress

• Mahakumbh captivates academics from Harvard

• Obama takes oath for another term as US president

Current Affairs: 22 January, 2013

• Mahindra ties with Snapdeal.com to sell 2-wheelers

• Scientists discover Billion Year Old River on Mars

• Partial de-notification of RIL SEZ approved by the Govt

• Hockey India appoints Roelant Oltmans as High Performance Director

• Indian researcher to receive Alzheimer’s drug discovery award

• CCEA nod to continuation of JNNURM to sanction new projects till March 31, 2014

• BRICS identify areas of tax policy and administration for mutual cooperation

• Cabinet approval to reduction of CDMA base price by half

• Iran allows IAEA only partial access to Parchin

• Jharkhand comes under President’s rule

Current Affairs: 21 January, 2013

• ISRO to launch SARAL on February 14, GSLV in April

Current Affairs: 20 January, 2013

• Special court to try Italian guards accused of killing Kerala fishermen

• 2,000 judges to be appointed for fast-track courts

• Wei Wei is new Chinese Ambassador to India

• SBI to set up ‘by-invitation-only’ branches to serve Super-rich and NRIs

• SEBI prohibits companies from trade in ESOS, ESPS shares

• National Green Tribunal orders halt to all constructions going in Noida and Greater Noida

• Air pollution in Beijing reaches to dangerous levels

• BRICS to setup TWG to bolster cooperation in fighting diseases

• Zhao Jiang is China’s first Tamil author

• Pakistan apex court orders arrest of PM

Current Affairs: 19 January, 2013

• Saina Nehwal becomes world No. 2

• Marathi writer Jyotsna Deodhar passed away

• Deccan Chronicle to be delisted from BSE-500

• China’s economy registers slowest growth in 13 years

• Proceeds of NIF allowed to be used to fund bank recapitalization: CCEA

• Axis Bank offers e-Gift Card service

• Black Holes are growing faster than previously believed

• Diktat by Khap Panchayats on dress code for women illicit: Supreme Court

• Facebook launches new “graph search” tool

• RBI’s multiple roles create conflict: IMF

• Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri – New face in Pakistan Politics

• Govt imposes 2.5% duty on import of crude edible oils

• Patiala House court unveils e-stamping

• World Bank cuts Global Growth estimates for 2013

• Air India halts operations of all its Dreamliners

• Battery safety concerns ground Boeing 787 and the issue with using “Lithium-ion Batteries”

Current Affairs: 18 January, 2013

• India among major victims of ‘Red October’

• RBI introduces Dollar- Rupee swap facility

• IRFC to issue Tax-free bonds

• Banks to ask RBI to permit interest on current accounts

• 67 % population entitled for food: Panel

• Mohan Peiris is the new Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

• Health Ministry raises eligible income limit for HMDG to 1 lakh

• Kamal Nath to lead Indian delegation in WEF meet

Current Affairs: 17 January, 2013

• India and Pakistan army hold flag meeting on LoC in Poonch

• MoU inked b/w India and Vietnam to bolster MSMEs

• Source of Iodine oxide gas responsible for destruction of ozone over oceans identified

• ‘Krishi Karman Award’ to states with record foodgrain production

Current Affairs: 16 January, 2013

• Indian-origin politician to be ‘First Woman Speaker of Singapore Parliament’

• Simon Taufel to be first umpire to deliver Cowdrey Lecture

• Microsoft to switch off Windows Messenger

• GAAR deferred for 2 years by April 2016

• Tamil Nadu best to implement NRHM

• India to suspend trade liberalization pact with Mauritius

• R. K. Dubey assumed charge as CMD of Canara Bank

• Deadline for Banks to comply with Basel-III relaxed, liquid asset definition made flexible

• Allahabad Bank signs MoU with CIMSME to shore up priority sector lending

• Raj Kumar Goyal is new ED of Central Bank of India

• Corporation Bank unveils RuPay Aadhar card

Current Affairs: 15 January, 2013

• Internet Activist Aaron Swarth died

• UN supports French military intervention in Mali

• Maha Kumbh begins in Prayag

• Largest cosmic structure in the universe discovered

• MoEF asks all states to declare eco sensitive zones around national parks, sanctuaries by Feb 15, 2013

• DRDO to complete technology demonstration of PGMs in a year

• The 19th Colors Screen Awards

• The 70th Golden Globe Awards

• No new Polio case in India for second consecutive year

• Chief Justice of Srilanka removed by President Rajapaksa

• Money laundering, banking bills turn into law with President assent

Current Affairs: 14 January, 2013

• Saudi women get 20% quota in all-male Shura Council

• Scientists engineered bacteria to produce fuel from sunlight

• Indira Awaas Yojana gets more fund

• Government clears 14 FDI proposals worth over Rs 1,300 cr

• Jayashri competes for Oscar

Current Affairs: 13 January, 2013

• Government approves Rs.12,517 cr capital infusion in PSBs

• Rajiv Takru appointed as Financial Services Secretary

• President confers Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on NRIs

• France honors Malala with Simone de Beauvoir Prize

• Rangarajan opines to increase taxes on “super-rich”

Current Affairs: 12 January, 2013

• Lionel Messi creates record by winning 4th FIFA Ballon d’Or

• Golden Cleats Awards to Bolt and Fraser-Pryce

• UIDAI to get new data centre in Gurgaon

• Scientists develop drug to help paralyzed walk again

• Nishant Rao is new India manager of LinkedIn

• Air Marshal Kulwant Singh Gill takes charge as new commandant of NDA

• Railways to hike fares from January 21

• Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda resigns

• India successfully test-fires BrahMos manoeuvrable version

• Aadhaar number will be an acceptable proof of Identity in passport making

• Justice D K Jain to head 20th Law Commission

• Turkey withdraws duty on Indian cotton yarn imports

• Curiosity discovers flower-like object

• Kohli wins ‘CEAT International cricketer of the year’

• India, Myanmar hold 18th National Level Meet

• RBI establishes Working Group to review Banking Ombudsman Scheme

• PM Manmohan Singh ranked 19th most followed leader on Twitter

Current Affairs: 10 January, 2013

• Sunmeet Kaur becomes first woman to win Rs 5 crore on KBC

• MP identifies 17 eco-sensitive zones around sanctuaries

• Pakistan beats India 2-1 to win the ODI Series

• Haradhan Bandopadhyay passes away

• NALCO inaugurates its first wind power project

• ICT industry produces 830 million tonnes of CO2

• Oil India, NTPC to be disinvested

Current Affairs: 09 January, 2013

• Ladakh to have World’s largest solar telescope

Current Affairs: 08 January, 2013

• Tulsi Gabbard: First Hindu American Congresswoman takes oath on Gita

• CCTNS Project launched on pilot basis

• McGrath inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

• MHA bans foreign tourists from working as journalists

• Easy available drugs may hinder the purpose of Castration

• Freedom fighter Pandit Ram Sanehi Shukla passed away

• Nestle wins trademark battle against Cadbury over KitKat design

• Indian origin scientist Venkatesh Mannar gets Canada’s highest civilian award

• South Korea becomes first Asian country to punish rapist with castration

• Haryana govt to implement new ‘Kanyadan’ scheme

• Women’s history pioneer Gerda Lerner died

• Mukesh Ambani ranked 18th richest person in the world

• Ireland honors Malala with Peace Prize

• AIFF bans Mohun Bagan from I-League

• Meteorite “Black beauty” throws light on Mars history

• Justice Amitava Roy is the new Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court

Current Affairs: 07 January, 2013

• Kingfisher Airlines grounded, loses flying permit

Current Affairs: 06 January, 2013

• Pakistan delays to grant India MFN status

• 5% increase in U.N. budget, India to pay more

• Swift trial should not be at the cost of fair trial: CJI

• What is Organic fertigation?

• Argentina asks UK to relinquish Falkland Islands, UK rebuffs

• Asif Ibrahim appointed as chief of Intelligence Bureau

• Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini “Lady of the Cells” passed away

• Govt mulls over making gold imports pricey to control CAD

• Y.V. Reddy to be the chairman of 14th Finance Commission

• By 2015, Internet mobile users expected to double to 165 million

• Urjit Patel is the new deputy governor of RBI

• SC upholds appointment of Gujarat Lokayukta

• Cyber attacks in India on the rise: Report

• Obama inks $633 billion defense bill

• Vanitha Narayanan becomes IBM India MD

• PM launches new science policy

Current Affairs: 03 January, 2013

• IIT-Bombay gears up to take up Aakash-3 as next project

• Uttarakhand enforces Gutka ban

• Internet completes 30 years of its evolution

• Sanjiv Bhatt honored with Mother Teresa Award

• Bhakti Sharma: World’s youngest to cross seven seas

• SBI unveils MobiCash Easy

• China unveils “Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)” in Asia-Pacific

• Government cuts down launch of cash transfer scheme

• Russia puts condition to supports Geneva plan

Current Affairs: 02 January, 2013

• India stiffens medical visa facility for Maldivians

• Pakistan recognizes Kosovo as an Independent State

Current Affairs: 01 January, 2013

• Kamal Nath appointed as new ex-officio chairman of Planning Commission

• Ramanujan’s mysterious deathbed Theory proven correct

• Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for the Year 2012

• Scientists Identify Cause of Widespread Eye Disease

• Turkey lifts veto against NATO’s non-military cooperation with Israel

• Germany is India’s top European trading partner

• Studying Bats to get clues to immunity, longevity in man

• West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming rapidly

• NASA to transform asteroid into space station

• Planning Commission cuts growth target to 8% in 12th Plan

• China stiffens censorship of Internet

• Bihar overtakes Gujarat as the fastest growing state in India

• U.S.General Norman Schwarzkopf who led Operation Desert Storm died

• EU encourages potato as a replacement of rice in Asia

• Astra’s third launch also successful one

• K-15 missile ready to be integrated with Arihant

• TTP offers ceasefire, asks Pakistani army to prepare for attacks on India

• Italy’s parliament dissolved

• John Kerry nominated as next secretary of state for USA

• ‘Mr. Cricket’ Mike Hussey to retire from Test cricket

• Tony Greig, former England cricket captain and commentator passed away

• Investment slumps in textiles; “R-TUFS” scheme to promote investments in sector

• Pratibha Ray to get 2011 Jnanpith Award

• Sistema continues ties with India by signing new deals

• “Gangnam Style” – Collins dictionary’s words of the year

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