Current Affairs of January 2012

The film, directed by Zoya Akhtar, which has bagged the Best Film award at the 57th Filmfare Awards function on 29 Jan 2012 Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara India's per capita income as per the latest quick estimates released by the Central Statistical Organisation is Rs. 53,331/The Serbian tennis player who has won the Australian Open Men's title defeating Rafael Nadal in the longest Australian Open Finals lasting 5 hours 53 minutes Novak Djokovic The rank of India in 2012 Environmental Performance Index released by Yale University of Davos 125 The European country which has approved a ban on face-covering clothing, such as a burqa, a niqab etc. The Netherlands The state which has added nine new districts on 01 Jan 2012 thus increasing the total number of districts from 18 to 27 Chhattisgarh The Indian tennis player who has become the first Indian to win a career Grand Slam by winning the Australian Open men's doubles title with Czech player Radek Stepanek in January 2012 (a career Grand Slam means winning all the four major tournaments during a career) Leander Paes The best marching contingent among the three services at the Republic Day parade 2012 Indian Air Force The best marching contingent among para-military forces and other auxillary marching contingents at the Republic Day parade 2012 Border Security Force The Belarusian player who has won the Australian Open Women's title defeating Russia's Maria Sharapova in the final Victoria Azarenka The billiards player who has retained the National Billiards Championship crown at the 79th Senior National Billiards and Snooker Championship being held at Pune Pankaj Advani The Army officer who has been awarded Ashoka Chakra on 26 Jan 2012 Lt. Navdeep Singh The IAF Officer who for the first time in Indian history has led the IAF contingent at the Republic Day parade on 26 Jan 2012 Flt. Lt. Sneha Shekhawat The Chief Guest at the 63rd Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, Mrs Yingluck Shinawatra is the Prime Minister of

Thailand The badminton player who has won the women's title at the 76th Senior National Badminton Championship held in Bangalore from 17 to 25 Jan 2012 defeating Neha Pandit in the finals P.V. Sindhu The badminton player who has won the men's title at the 76th Senior National Badminton Championship in Bangalore defeating Sai Praneeth in the finals Saurabh Verma The name of the train which has been chosen as the theme of the Railway Tableau at the Republic Day parade 2012, for being the first train to achieve distinction of entering its 100th year on Indian Railways broad gauge network. Punjab Mail The joint winners of National Communal Harmony Award 2011 in the individual category Shri Khamliana (Mizoram) and Shri Md. Abdul Bari (Odisha) Mana airport which has been renamed as Swami Vivekananda Airport is located in Raipur, Chhattisgarh The golfer who has won the All India Amateur golf title defeating Gagan Verma at the final in Chandigarh on 23 Jan 2012 Angad Cheema The team which has retained the Ranji Trophy after winning it for the first time in 2011. (The team defeated Tamilnadu on the basis of first innings lead.) Rajasthan The 7th State Level Philatelic exhibition of Delhi Circle being held from 22 Jan to 24 Jan 2012 at Delhi is named Dharohar-2012 The Sri Lankan author who has been awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 for his book Chinaman Shehan Karunatilaka The village in Assam which has become first village in the country to have full insurance coverage Rangati Misamara The venue of India International Coffee Festival 2012 being held from January 18 New Delhi The new Swedish coach appointed to train Indian tennis players, particularly juniors and sub-juniors Henrik Ekersund China's first supercomputer built with "domestically-produced" microprocessors and capable of performing around onethousand-trillion calculations per second which became officially operational in January 2012 is named Sunway Bluelight The theme of 5th World Future Energy Summit being held in Abu Dhabi Sustainable Energy for All The venue of the 5th World Future Energy Summit which began on 16 Jan 2012, India being represented by Union Minister for Renewable energy resources, Dr. Farooq Abdullah

Abu Dhabi The year 2012 has been declared by the Health Ministry of Government of India as the year of Intensification of Routine Immunisation The Russian space craft which failed on its mission to Phobos, (a moon of Mars) and crashed into the Pacific Ocean two months after its launch in November 2011 Phobos Grunt The Italian cruise ship that ran aground off the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea on January 14 killing at least 5 people Costa Concordia The playback singer and classical vocalist who has been chosen for the first Harivarasanam award of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), the statutory body that manages major temples in south Kerala, including the famed Sabarimala hill temple KJ Yesudas Homai Vyarawala who passed away on 15 Jan 2011 was a well known Photographer The Indian shooter who has won a gold medal in the Mens 10 -metre Air Rifle event at the 12th Asian Shooting Championships in Doha Abhinav Bindra The venue of 17th National Youth Festival - 2012, a festival organised to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda since 1995 Mangalore The music director who has composed the signature tune of the Indian Customs Department, launched on the occasion of golden jubilee of Indian Customs Act, 1962. The tune is named Pragati ki Dhadkan. Aadesh Srivastava The theme of India Post Calendar 2012 is India's Sculptural Heritage The sector in which the Government has notified 100 percent FDI Single Brand Retail The Argentinean footballer who has been awarded the Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year Lionel Messi The Indian Nobel laureate on whose works Raja Ram Mohan Roy Foundation has compiled a web-bibliography, which was launched by Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in Jan 2012 Rabindranath Tagore Pixel, a new model of car has been unveiled at the 11th Auto Expo in New Delhi by Tata Motors The Serbian player with whom Leander Paes partnered to win the Chennai Open Tennis Doubles title Janko Tipsarevic

The Canadian player who has won the Chennai Open Tennis Tournament Milos Raonic The venue of 11th Auto Expo being held from 05 Jan to 11 Jan 2012 Pragati Maidan, New Delhi The place in Gujarat where new National Law University was inaugurated by Vice-President Hamid Ansari Gandhinagar The Chess player from Andhra Pradesh who has become the 26th Indian chess player to become a Grandmaster M. Lalith Babu The scientist from Vietnam who was awarded the Kalinga Chair Award at the 99th Indian Science Congress Trinh Xuan Thuan The venue of 99th Indian Science Congress held from 02 Jan to 07 Jan 2012 KIIT University, Bhubaneswar Ms. Kamla Prasad Bissesar, the chief guest at the 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas being held in Jaipur with the theme Global Indian-Inclusive Growth is the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago The place at which a nearly 400-year-old temple, which was standing tilted for more than 100 years after it was damaged in an earthquake, was rebuilt by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Kangra, Himachal Pradesh The Tibetan leader who has been presented with Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation by the Gandhi Development Trust Dalai Lama The University in Uttar Pradesh which has been recognised as University with Potential for Excellence Banaras Hindu University KJ Sarasa, the first woman nattuvanar, the guru of Ms Jayalalitha, who died on 02 Jan 2012 was associated with Bharat Natyam The first Indo-Italian co-production film based on a short story by well-known writer Mahasweta Devi which has bagged the NETPAC Jury award at the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2011 at Mumbai.(the film is directed by Italo Spinelli) Gangor The tribal efforts to conserve biodiversity and develop climate resilient farm practices of this place in Odisha have been recognised by UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) Koraput The category of foreign investors who have been allowed to invest directly in India Equity market by government Qualified Foreign Investor The Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation fondly known as Metroman who relinquished office on 31 Dec 2011 E. Sreedharan

The first car of Bajaj Auto, India's leading two-wheeler manufacturer is named RE 60

February 2012
The joint exercise conducted by the Armies of India and Indonesia at the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS), Vairengte in Mizoram was named Exercise Garuda Shakti The pilot project launched by the Union Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region to promote adventure activities is named Youth to the Edge The state which has been awarded the National Tourism Best State Award for developing tourism related infrastructure Madhya Pradesh The film which has been awarded 5 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Score, and Best Costume Design The Artist Sailen Manna, who passed away on 27 Feb 2012, was a former Football player The country with a per capita GDP of 88,000 dollars, which has been ranked the world's richest country by Forbes magazine Qatar With the removal of India from the WHO list of polio-endemic countries, the number of countries in the list has been reduced to Three (Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan) The joint military exercise of Indian and US armies scheduled in the first week of March 2011 in Mahajan field firing ranges in Rajasthan is code-named Yudh Abhyas RBI has decided to issue new Rs. 5 coins top commemorate freedom fighter and martyr Bhagat Singh Bhavnath Temple at which a stampede killed several people on Shivratri day is located in Junagadh, Gujarat The renowned photographer who was awarded Padma Shri this year has subsequently been awarded Padma Bhushan (as the same Padma Award cannot be awarded twice to the same person) Sunil Janah The Indian cricketer who has been awarded the fifth ESPNcricinfo best batting performance award in Tests Sachin Tendulkar The public sector insurance company which is celebrating its platinum jubilee year of its formation in 2012 United India Insurance The city which is the least expensive in the world to live in, according to Worldwide Cost of Living Survey carried out by Economic Intelligence Unit of the Economist Karachi

The city which is the most expensive in the world to live in, according to Worldwide Cost of Living Survey carried out by Economic Intelligence Unit of the Economist Zurich, Switzerland The university which has been awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy for best performance in sports for the year 2010-11, by the Government of India's Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Punjabi University The place in Kerala where setting up of Rail Coach Manufacturing unit has been approved by Union cabinet Palakkad On Feb 15, guards from merchant vessel Enrica Lexie shot and killed Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast. The ship Enrica Lexie belongs to Italy The noted Indian economist who has been presented the National Medals of Arts and Humanities award by the US President Barack Obama Amartya Sen The former Australian first-class pacer who has been appointed the Indian cricket team's bowling coach after Eric Simons' tenure comes to an end John Dawes The winner of 44 Jnanpith Award, who died on 13 February 2012 Dr. Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' Ustad Shamim Ahmed Khan who died on 14 February 2012 was an exponent of Sitar The state Assembly which has been selected for the national award for e-governance instituted by the Union Government's Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances for 2011-12 in recognition of its unique online answering information system Rajasthan Assembly The sub-glacial lake in Antarctica reaching whose surface has been confirmed by Russian scientists recently Lake Vostok The veteran music director who has been bestowed the Lata Mangeshkar Award by the Madhya Pradesh government Rajesh Roshan The Bio-chemist who has been awarded the G.D. Birla Award for scientific research for 2011 by the KK Birla foundation Prof Tapas Kumar Kundu The state which has recorded the highest decline in the forest cover in two years as per the latest India State of Forest 2011 released by the Forest Survey of India Andhra Pradesh The Maldivian President who announced his resignation following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge Mohamed Nasheed

The state which has become the first in the country to issue e-stamp papers of all denominations by bringing non-judicial stamp papers of Rs 500 and below under the ambit of e-stamp process in February 2012 New Delhi The 50-kilogram micro satellite launched by Iran in February 2012 to collect data useful for weather forecasting and natural disaster management is named Navid The biennial congregation of naval forces of 13 countries in Indian Ocean near Andaman and Nicobar islands which began on 01 Feb is named Milan The Bollywood actor who has been chosen to receive Green Globe award for outstanding efforts in fighting climate changes by a celebrity Abhishek Bachchan

Current Affairs of March 2012

The country which has severed all ties with the United Nations Human Rights Council, following its decision to launch a factfinding mission into the countrys settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem Israel The Chandigarh girl who has been crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2012 Vanya Mishra The NASA spacecraft to Mercury which has discovered ice inside the shadowed craters of Mercury Messenger The country which has won the Asia Cup Cricket trophy by defeating Bangladesh in the finals in Bangladesh Pakistan Open Government Platform, a software platform to provide enhanced public access to government data and documents, launched by Shri Kapil Sibal on 30 Mar 2012 has been jointly developed by India and United States According to a report by Knight Frank & Citi Private Bank., the year by which India will become the world's largest economy 2050 The Tibetan leader who has been chosen for the 2012 Templeton Prize by the US-based Templeton Foundation Dalai Lama (original name Tenzin Gyatso) The venue of Fourth BRICS Summit held on 29 March 2012 New Delhi The venue of 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, India being represented by Dr. Manmohan Singh Seoul, S. Korea

The veteran actor who has been selected for the J C Daniel Award, Kerala Government's highest film honour instituted in memory of the director of first Malayalam movie Vigathakumaran (the actor passed away on Mar 24, a day after the nomination) Jose Prakash The African nation which has witnessed a military coup overthrowing the government led by President Amadou Toumani Toure Mali The iconic Bengali actor who has been chosen for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee As per the Planning Commission, the percentage of population which was below poverty line in 2009-10 (The poor being defined as ones who spend less than Rs. 28 per day in urban area and less than Rs. 22.50 in rural areas) 29.8% The district in Bihar, which has surpassed the Chinese record of wet paddy production of 19 tonnes per hectare, by producing 22.4 tonnes of wet paddy per hectare The feat has been achieved at Darbespura panchayat in Katri Sarai block Nalanda The new Union Minister for Railways, who hitherto held the charge of Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy As per a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India has become the world's largest arms importer during the period 2007-11. India's share of total global arms sales is 10% The Indian badminton player who has won the Swiss Open Grand Prix Trophy for the second time in a row Saina Nehwal The venue of eighth National Film Festival being organised by Kerala State Chalchitra Academy from March 18 Ernakulam The venue of India Aviation-2012, the 3rd edition of the premier international exhibition and conference on civil aviation being held from 14 March 2012 Hyderabad The Tehelka mediaperson who has been chosen for Chameli Devi Jain Award 2012 Tushar Mittal The Carnatic musician who has been chosen for Kerala Government' Swathi Puraskaram for 2012 M. Balamuralikrishna The university whose scientists have successfully cloned world's first pashmina goat Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural & Technological Sciences The shawl unique to Gujarat, which has been granted the Geographical Indicator tag Kutchi Shawl Aahar, the high shelf life dal and roti pack to cater to the needs of the Aam Aadmi, during long journeys, nutritional feeding, catering programmes and other similar civilian applications has been developed by (the product was recently launched by Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy Chairperson, Planning Commission)

DRDO in collaboration with BASIX and FICCI The former Chairman of Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation, who has been chosen for this year's V Gangadharan Memorial Trust award Verghese Kurien With effect from 10 March 2012, the advance reservation period for booking railway tickets has been extended from 90 days to 120 days The sanctuary in Karnataka which has been notified as India's first vulture sanctuary Ramadevarabetta Vulture Sanctuary The Indian NGO which has been chosen for America's first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls, for training and organizing wastepickers and eliminating child labour from recycling Chintan (Founder Bharati Chaturvedi) The rank of India as per a report released by Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organisation, listing countries as per participation of women in politics 105th The team India defeated to win the women's World Cup Kabaddi Championship held at Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna from 01 04 Mar 2012 Iran The Indian pair which has won the ATP Dubai Open 2012 defeating Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the finals Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna The state which has become the ninth in the country to introduce e-stamping of paying non-judicial stamp duty to the government Uttarakhand

Current Affairs of April 2012

The full-scale naval base commissioned by the Indian Navy at Kavaratti in Lakshadweep on 30 Apr 2012 is named INS Dweeprakshak The new Governor of Goa B.V. Wanchoo The new governor of Uttarakhand Aziz Qureshi The place at which Guru Gobind Singh Refinery has been dedicated to the nation by the PM Dr. Manmohan Singh Bhatinda, Punjab The Radar Imaging Satellite - 1 (RISAT-1) was launched from Sriharikota on 26 April 2012 aboard PSLVC19 The Indian nominee who has been elected to the post of a judge in the International Court of Justice

Justice Dalvir Bhandari The Talwar-class stealth frigate which has been commissioned into the Indian Navy on 27 April 2012 INS Teg The place at which the Government has launched a National Crop Forecast Centre to prepare in-season forecasts for major crops such as rice, wheat, sugarcane and maize New Delhi To commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, a one-time honour called Tagore Samman has been instituted by Sangeet Natak Akademi The latest version of Agni missile which was launched from Wheeler Island on 19 Apr 2012 Agni V The strength of judges in the Supreme Court with swearing in of Justice Ranjan Gogoi on 22 April has gone up to 27 The venue of the 5th World IT Forum (WITFOR) being held from 17 Apr to 18 Apr 2012 New Delhi The new name of Hindi Star News channel is ABP News The two-day Coastal Security Exercise, conducted along the Lakshadweep coast from 17 April to 18 April by the Southern Naval Command along with Coastguard unit at Kavaratti is named Nepture-05 The noted author and journalist who has been awarded the prestigious International Indu Sharma Katha Samman-2012 for his novel Teesri Tali Pradeep Saurabh The Indian wrestler who has become the first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics Geeta Phogat The Sri Lanka cricketer who has been named Wisden Leading Cricketer of the Year 2011 Kumar Sangakkara The Committee constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for framing a National Corporate Governance Policy is headed by Shri Adi Godrej The bi-annual coastal security exercise conducted jointly by civil administration and armed forces to safeguard the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Island to be held from April 11 to Apr 13 is named Tat Suraksha The veteran actress who has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 12th Telecine Awards 2012 for her contribution to Indian cinema Mousumi Chatterjee

The Indian billiards player who has won the 11th ONGC Asian Billiards Championship title after defeating Thawat Sujaritthurakarn of Thailand in the final in Panaji, Goa Pankaj Advani The language of Meghalaya which has been withdrawn from UNESCO's Atlas of World's Languages in Danger after being considered safe Khasi The health magazine programme launched by the Union Health & Family Welfare Ministry, to be telecast/ broadcast through 30 regional kendras of Doordarshan and 29 stations of All India Radio covering 27 states is named Swasth Bharat The 10-day annual naval exercise Malabar 2012, scheduled to be held between 07 and 09 April 2012 in the Bay of Bengal is joint effort by the navies of India and United States The place in Rajasthan where a spice park has been inaugurated by Commerce and Industry Minister Shri Anand Sharma Rampura Bhatia The former Indian Hockey captain who has become the first sportsperson to be named India's Chef-de-Mission for the London Olympic Games Ajit Pal Singh The Myanmerese leader who has been chosen for the first International Bhagwan Mahavir World Peace award instituted by Pune based organisation, Sarhad Aung San Suu Kyi

Current Affairs of May 2012

The new Chief of Army Staff who succeeded General VK Singh on 31 May 2012 General Bikram Singh As the revised estimates released by Central Statistical Organisation the per capita national income of India at 2004-05 prices is Rs. 37,851/The frightening virus which has infected the PCs in Iran and other middle east countries (discovered by Kaspersky) is named Flame The Israeli chess player whom Viswanathan Anand defeated to win the FIDE World Chess Championship 2012 Boris Gelfand The team which has bagged the Santosh Trophy 2012, the final of which was held at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack Services The French film directed by Michael Haneke which has been awarded the Palme D'Or (Golden Palm) Award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012 Love (Amour) The former Indian defence minister who has been awarded the International Jurists Award 2012 alongwith Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry Mulayam Singh Yadav The winner of 2012 edition of Indian Premier League cricket championship Kolkata Knight Riders The aircraft which is being acquired by the Indian Air Force to replace its HPT-32 trainer aircraft PC-7 MkII from Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, Switzerland The Expert Technical Group set up by the Govt of India to revisit the Tendulkar methodology for estimation of the poverty and identification of the poor is headed by Dr. C. Rangarajan The place in Maharashtra at which High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory was inaugurated by the Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh on 24 May Mahabaleshwar The first rocket launched by a private company Space X carrying cargo capsule Dragon to the International Space Station is named Falcon 9 The place at which Pakistan is developing its 4th nuclear reactor Khushab The Hindi movie directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, which has figured in the TIME magazine's 10 greatest movies of the millenium

Devdas The venue of 38th G-8 summit held on 18-19 May 2012 Camp David, Maryland (USA) The 73-year old Japanese woman who has become the oldest woman in the world to conquer Mt. Everest on 19 May 12 Tamae Watanabe The year by which India is expected to achieve total sanitation coverage, as per the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of India 2017 The disease which has been declared by the Union Government to be a mandatorily notifiable disease in order to provide better diagnosis and treatment and reduce its transmission Tuberculosis The new Chairman of the Asian Development Bank Board of Governors elected at the 45th Annual meeting of the ADB at Manila Mr. Pranab Mukherjee The sitar maestro who has been nominated for the first Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, instituted by the government to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, for promoting values of universal brotherhood. Pt. Ravishankar The film actress who has been selected as the brand ambassador of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a programme of the rural development ministry to spread awareness about sanitation and cleanliness in the country Vidya Balan The new President of France who defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy Francois Hollande The new Chairman of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Personnel Public Grievances, Law and Justice Shantaram Naik. The noted Tamil writer who has been chosen for the 6th NTR National Literary Award by the NTR Vignan Trust Ashokamitran The new chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Ratan Kumar Sinha The joint exercise carried out by the Army and the Indian Air Force in the desert of Rajasthan is named Exercise Shoorveer The newsletter released by Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge on the occasion of May Day to provide extensive awareness regarding a number of good labour practices and initiatives taken by the Central as well as state governments to all concerned stakeholders on a regular basis is named Shram Sansar

Current Affairs of June 2012

Apna Khata, a land record computerisation project which was awarded the public choice award at the E-World Forum 2012 organised in New Delhi is a programme launched by Rajasthan The venue of the 2nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ICNP-2) to be held from 2-6 July, 2012. New Delhi The Indian industrialist who has been awarded lifetime achievement award for innovation in philanthropy by the New York based Rockefeller Foundation Ratan Tata The state which has topped the meet scores at the GREENKO 52nd National Inter-State Sr Athletics Championship-2012 Kerala The new President-elect of Egypt belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood organisation Mohammed Morsi Hare Krushna Behera who died in New Delhi on 24 Jun 2012 was an exponent of Odissi The venue of National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships-2012 being held from 23 Jun 2012 Hyderabad The new Prime Minister of Pakistan succeeding Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was disqualified by the Pakistan Supreme Court from holding office Raja Pervez Ashraf The Indian contestant who has won the Miss Asia Pacific title at the beauty pageant held at Busan, South Korea Himangini Singh Yadu The Indian archer who has been ranked as No. 1 in the world Deepika Kumari The Israeli scientist who has been awarded the World Food Prize (established in 1987 by Nobel Peace Prize winner and Green Revolution champion Norman Borlaug) for pioneering a radically innovative way of bringing water to crops in arid and dry-land regions. Daniel Hillel The line of tablet PCs launched by Microsoft to run Windows RT and Windows 8 operating system is named Surface The venue of 3rd Asian Beach Games being held from June 16 Haiyang, China The venue of G-20 Summit 2012, being held From Jun 18 to 19, India being represented by Dr. Manmohan Singh Los Cabos, Mexico

Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal who won the Indonesia Open 2012 (winning the title the third time) defeating Xuerui Li who belongs to China The rank of India in terms of funds belonging to overseas clients in Swiss banks as disclosed by Swiss National Bank (SNB), Switzerlands central bank 55th The Indian table-tennis player who has won the Under-21 men's final of Brazil Open TT tournament in Santos, becoming the first Indian to achieve such a feat Harmeet Desai The new Chief Election Commissioner of India who took charge on 11 June 2012, in the place of Mr. S.Y. Quraishi Mr. V.S. Sampath Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal who won the Thailand Open Grand Prix badminton gold title defeating Ratchanok Inthanon in the final of the event on 10.06.12. Ratchanok Inthanon belongs to Thailand The Spanish tennis player who has won the French Open Men's Singles title, thus winning a record seven French Open titles Rafael Nadal The Russian tennis player who has won the French Open Women's Singles title, thus becoming the 10th woman to win all four Grand Slam titles Maria Sharapova The tennis duo which has won the French Open Mixed Doubles title defeating Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Klaudia Jans-Ignacik of Poland in the final Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza The first ever bilateral maritime exercise between India and Japan beginning 09 Jun 2012 off Tokyo is named Jimex 12 The place at which the Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) in order to facilitate access to various technologies to the north eastern region Shillong, Meghalaya The Indian chess player who has won the Asian Junior Championship in Girls category Ivana Furtado The Indian chess player who has won the Asian Junior Championship held in Tashkent N. Srinath The environment-friendly vans launched by Mother Dairy on the ocassion of World Environment Day to sell milk in loose form are named Kamdhenu vans The theme for World Environment Day 2012 Green Economy: Does it include you?

The station at which the Science Express - Biodiversity Special (SEBS) flagged off on June 5 (World Environment Day) will culminate on 22 December Gandhinagar The team which has won the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament by defeating Argentina in the finals New Zealand The sand artist from Odisha, who has won the Copenhagen sand art Championship- 2012 Sudarshan Pattnaik

Current Affairs of July 2012

The Indian cricketer who has topped the list of the world's highest earning cricketers compiled by Forbes magazine (The list has six Indians in the top-10) MS Dhoni Indias southernmost naval air station which was formally opened by the Indian Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma at Campbell Bay in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is named INS Baaz The African country in which outbreak of the deadly viral disease Ebola has been confirmed Uganda The new operating system launched by Apple for its Mac range of personal computers, which is fully integrated into social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, is named X Mountain Lion The founder of Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) in Krishnagiri (Tamilnadu) who has been chosen for the 2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award Kulandei Francis The veteran environmental philosopher and activist who has been chosen for this year's Fukuoka Grand Prize by Fukuoka City Yokatopia Foundation Vandana Shiva The world's 9th largest economy whose President has signed the countrys accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after approval by its parliament earlier in July 2012 Russia Mukta Vidya Vani, a modern interactive, participatory and cost effective programme, on the World Wide Web, launched by the Union HRD Minister Shri Kapil Sibal is an initiative of the National Institute of Open Schooling Suresh Saraiya, who died on 19 July 2012 was a renowned Cricket commentator The city in Punjab where a metro project has been approved by the Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal in July 2012 Ludhiana The Indian sportsperson (a bronze medallist in wrestling at the Beijing Games) who has been chosen to be the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent at the upcoming London Olympics Sushil Kumar The airline company which has won the prestigious SKYTRAX World Airline Awards of best low-cost airline in India and Central Asia for the third time in a row Indigo The new Chief Minister of Karnataka who took over the office from Shri DV Sadananda Gowda Shri Jagadish Shettar

The city in which ISRO is hosting the event, the 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) with the theme 'Space - for the benefit of Mankind' (COSPAR 2012) a congregation of over 2500 scientists from 75 countries. Mysore The Australian city which has been selected to hold G-20 Summit in 2014 Brisbane The state which has banned production, sale, distribution and storage of gutka and paan masala in the state Maharashtra The place where India and UNESCO have agreed to establish the Mahatma Gandhi Institute Of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development Paris The place in Andhra Pradesh where India's first Mega Food Park was inaugurated by the Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Minister, Shri Sharad Pawar Chittoor The software developed by Navanath Saharia and Kishori Mohan Konwar for using the Assamese language in an Unicode compatible format is named Luitpad The venue of Summit on Family Planning hosted by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA on 11 July 2012 London The Asian country which has been designated by the United States as its major non-NATO ally Afghanistan The Tennis player from Switzerland who has won the Wimbledon Men's Singles title by defeating Andy Murray of U.K. (This is his 7th Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam title) Roger Federer The Indian badminton player who has become the first Indian to win the girls' singles title in the Asian Youth Under-19 Championships held at Gimcheon, Korea. P.V. Sindhu The Tennis player from United States who has won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title by defeating Agnieszka Radwaska of Poland. (This is her 5th Wimbledon title) Serena Williams The organisation which has been awarded the Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award for promoting environment conservation practices Airport Authority of India The Indian Chess player who has become the 28th Indian to attain the Grandmaster title M.R. Venkatesh Sahitya Akademi Award winning poet Hiren Bhattacharya who died on 04 Jul 2012 was poet of

Assamese language The city in Kerala which will be its first city to have a metro rail after the Cabinet cleared the project on 03 July Kochi The hill range in India which has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list for its exceptionally high level of biological diversity Western Ghats The team which has won the Euro Cup 2012 by defeating Italy in the finals at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine Spain The new President of World Bank who took over office from outgoing President Mr. Robert Zoellick of the US Jim Yong Kim

Current Affairs of August 2012

The state in which the Department of Posts has launched 'Night post office services' (NPOS) Jammu and Kashmir The Chairman of the Expert Committee on General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) which submitted its its draft report after analysis of the GAAR provisions and noting the concerns expressed by various shareholders on 30 Aug 2012. Mr. Parthasarathi Shome The new Chief of Naval Staff who took over the command of Indian Navy from Admiral Nirmal Verma Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi The former Indian cricket captain who has been conferred the Castrol Cricket Lifetime Achievement Award Ajit Wadekar The Hindi writer who has been chosen for the 2nd Sita Smriti Award for her book "Kitne Shahron Mein Kitni Baar" instituted in the memory of Late Dr. Sita Srivastava, a renowned educationist and scholar of Political Science Smt. Mamta Kalia The venue of Nehru Cup Football tournament being held from 22 Aug 2012 New Delhi The JNU Professor who has been awarded the V.V. Giri Memorial Award 2011, (instituted by the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute) in recognition of her outstanding contributions to labour studies Prof. Utsa Patnaik The place in Rajasthan where uranium deposits have been discovered by the Atomic Energy Commission Rohil, Sikar dist. The international footballer and a member of gold medal winning team at 2011 SAFF Games who has been awarded the Dilip Sardesai Sports Award 2011-12 by the Goa Government Sameer S Naik The South African cricketer who has become the fastest to complete 3000 runs in 57 one day internationals (surpassing Vivian Richards record of 69 matches) Hashim Amla The pollution control vessel of the Coast Guard which has been stationed permanently at Visakhapatnam is named Samudra Pehredar Amuay refinery, at which a blast resulted in ferocious killing several people on 25 Aug 2012 is located in Venezuela The venue of XVI Non Aligned Summit being held from 26 Aug 2012 Tehran, Iran The state which has been awarded as the 'Best State for Pilgrimage Tourism' by Safari India, a prestigious regional tourism magazine Odisha

Northern Railway's first AC Double Decker train which was flagged off on 24 August 2012 will run between Sarai Rohilla and Jaipur The company which has updated its logo for the first time in 25 years Microsoft The international cycling icon who has been stripped of seven Tour de France titles slapped with a lifetime ban from competition. Lance Armstrong Meles Zenawi, who died on 20 August 2012, after serving as the Prime Minister of his country fro 17 years was the Prime Minister of Ethiopia The new Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha elected unanimously by the members PJ Kurien The Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs who has taken over the new Minister for Science and Technology, previously held by Late Vilasrao Deshmukh Vayalar Ravi The Chinese contestant who has won the Miss World 2012 title at the Miss World pageant at Ordos, China Yu Wenxia The Indian contestant who won the "Beauty with a Purpose" title and the 1st ever "Multimedia Award" at the Miss World 2012 pageant at Ordos, China Vanya Mishra The Pakistan air base which has been attacked by militants raising concerns about safety of nuclear arsenal in the country PAF Minhas The bird which has been declared State Bird of Delhi by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as part of a new campaign to save the species House Sparrow The former World Boxing Association boxing champion (nicknamed Dynamite) who died of liver cancer in Aug 2012 Michael Dokes The Serbian tennis player who has won the Rogers Cup for the second time in a row Novak Djokovic The state which has become the first in the country to issue bio-metric identity cards to its fishermen Kerala The fourth Indo-Russia joint military exercise to be held from Aug 07 in Siberian republic of Buryatia is named Indra 2012 The eighth Indo-Mangolian joint military exercise being held in Belgaum district of Karnataka is named Nomadic Elephant 2012

The new web mail service launched by Microsoft providing virtually unlimited storage and integrating Skype is named Outlook The three-day operation launched by security forces against Maoist camps located on the Jharkhand-Chhatisgarh border is named Rainstorm The country with which India has signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement on 01 Aug 2012 Monaco The country whose citizen's or incorporated entities have been recently permitted to invest in India through Government route Pakistan