(Misc - GK) Persons in News (2012-13), Sports, Books, Awards For SSC-CGL, Sbi-Po, Upsc-Csat

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[Misc.GK] Persons in News (2012-13), Sports, Books, Awards for SSCCGL, SBI-PO, UPSC-CSAT
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Introduction Drawing the line International (Political) International (Non political) Indian in India (Non political) Indian Diaspora abroad Sports Tennis Sports Mascots Books/Literature Nobel-2012 Nobel winners associated with India Astro Beauty Clichd
Introduction
The previous list of [PIN] Persons in News (2011-12) was given in separate article, click me (some names will overlap here). Now this new article, is for [PIN] 2012-13, mainly keeping the upcoming SBI-PO, SSC-CGL exams in mind. It contains list of PIN + Sports + Books + awards. This list is not exhaustive. This is just minimum essential system requirement, otherwise Government gave more than 6 dozen Padma Shris in 2012, but time is not a luxury we cannot afford right now. This is list is subject to revision (based on your additions via comments.)
Drawing the line

As the exam date comes near, people start making more and more ambitious plans (like Ill finish all Pratiyogita Darpan issues of last 2 years. Ill cover all The Hindu newspapers of last 12 months from its website and so on). But, Ambitious studyplans =often unrealistic studyplans= #EPICFAIL. So, when it comes to Persons in News (PIN), Sports, Books and Misc.GK , youve to draw a line somewhere otherwise book market is flooded with current affairs material worth 10000 pages (and more will come, as the March-April floods approach.). But beyond a point it starts giving diminishing rate of return. The core areas for GK/GS for the upcoming exams are following:
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1. UPSC NCERT+NIOS+Laxmi+YearbookCurrent Affairs (Polity, Economics, CSAT Enb, Sci-Tech.) 2. SSCStatic+Science+Crap (already explained in separate article. Click me) CGL 3. SBI PO Economics (Current + theory) + International Affairs + Marketing + Computer. (elaborate plan coming soon).
International Leaders
Country
Bhutan
Name
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Info
King of Bhutan. Chief guest for 26th Jan. 2013.
First woman President of Brazil. She replaced Brazil Dilma Rousseff Lula Desilva. (Lula got Indira Gandhi peace prize.) Replaced Hu Jintao, China. He is expected to China Xi Jingping become President, in March 2013. China Li Kequiang New PM of China. Replaced Wen Jiabao. China Bo Xilai corrupt leader in Chinese politbureu. Expelled Cuba Raul Castro President of Cuba. Replaced Fidel Castro Egypt Mohd. Morsy President of Egypt. Herman Van Eu PM of Belgium. President of European Council Rompuy Francois President of France. He defeated Sarkozi. France Hollande Belongs to Socialist party PM Greece. Name is important only because Greece Atonis Samras Greece=#EPICFAIL economy. Aytollah Iran Supreme leader of Iran Khamenei Iran Ahmedijad President of Iran. President Shimon Peres. Israel Their parliament =Knesset. PM Benjamin Netanyahu. PM japan. Defeated Yoshiko Noda. Their Japan Shinzo Abe parliament =Diet. President of Liberia, got Indira Gandhi peace Liberia Ellen Sirleaf price. (2012) Nasheed N Maldives -Coup after coup, Nasheed was replaced by Waheed Waheed
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Mali-coup Mauritius Mexico Myanmar Myanmar N.Korea Pak Germany Palestine S.Korea Srilanka Srilanka Syria Syria Thailand Uk Uk Usa Usa Ven
Diarra N Traore After coup, Diarra was replaced by Traore President of Mauratius. He was chief guest Rajkeshwur @Pravasi bharatiya Divas 2013. Click me for Purryag more details Enrique Nieto Mexico new President Thein Sein Myanmar president Nobel peace 91. Opposition leader in Myanmar. Aung San Suu Party National league for democracy. Visited Ki India in Nov 12 North Korea President. After his father King Kim Jong-Un Jong-il Died Raja Parvez PM of Pakistan, SC ordered his arrested. Angela Markel German Chancellor Mohd.Abbas President of Palestine Authority first female President of S.Korea. She replaced Park Geun-hye Lee Myung-bak Gen.Sarath Ex-General of Sri Lankan army. Was jailed after Fonseca power struggle with President. Mahinda Sri lankan President. He threw out CJI Shiran Rajpakshe Bandaranyake. Wael Halqi PM of Syria. Bashar Al President of Syria Assad First female PM of Thailand. She was chief guest Yingluck Shinawatra of 26th Jan parade in 2012. PM of UK. (Conservative party) He replaced David Cameron Gordon Brown. Nick Clegg Deputy PM of UK. (liberal democrats) Obama won second time Presidential election. His VP (Democrat) candidate was Joe Biden. Mitt Romney Contested against Obama. His VP candidate was (Republican) Paul Ryan. President Venezuela. Right now getting treatment Hugo Chavez for cancer in Cuba.
International Org (non political)

name Ban-Ki-Moon Jim Yong Kim Justice Dalveer Bhandari Christine Lagarde Pascal Lamy Jacques Rogge Org UN General Secretary World Bank Indian. became Judge of International court of Justice. Chief of IMF Chief of WTO President IOC, olympic Committee. first Indian to become chairman of World Assco. Of Nuke
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SK Jain Nkosazana Zuma
operators. Head of African Union (AU): First woman
Indian in India (Non political)

Name
Admiral Devendra Joshi Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne Ashok Chawla Brajesh Mishra Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir Duvvuri Subbarao Urjit Patel Ela Ramesh Bhatt Gadgil Gen. Bikram Singh Gopi Chand Narang Gulzar JS Verma Justice DK Jain Kaushik Basu KC Chakrabary Major Abup J. Manjali Mrinal Gore Naina Kidwai Parthsarthi Shome Raghuram Rajan
Org
replaced Admiral Nirmal Verma
He replaced Pradeep Vasant Naik CCI. Competition Commission of India Indias first National Security Advisor. During Vajpayee Government. Dead replaced SH Kapadia. RBI Governor. recently appointed deputy RBI Governor. Founder of SEWA. Got Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace. (actually won in 2011, but was awarded that prize in 2013). Committee on Western Ghat ecology. he replaced Gen.VK Singh associated with Urdu litt. Got Pakistani award Sitara-i-Imtiaz. The highest civilian award in Pakistan is Nishan-i-Imtiaz, earlier Morariji Desai and Dilip Kumar got it Indira gandhi award for national integration. Committee on women safety after Delhi gangrape 20th law commission World bank Chief economist Committee : financial inclusion. Deputy Governor RBI , Kirti Chakra. Noted socialist. Dead. chief of HSBC India. Became first woman President of FICCI. Committee GAAR . General anti avoidance rules. Previously with IMF. Now Chief Economic Advisor to Finance ministry
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Rahul Khullar TRAI Rangachari Committee Taxation in IT sector Domestic gas price. Rangarajan is also the Chairman of Prime Rangarajan Ministers Economic Advisory Council. Ranjit Sinha CBI Sam Pitroda National Knowledge Commission. Satyanand CIC. He replaced Wajahat Habibullah. Mishra Shivshankar National Security Advisor (current). He replaced MK Narayan. First Menon NSA was Brajesh Mishra who recently died. Defense scientist, making India self reliant in missile tech. Won Lal Tessy Thomas Bahdur Shashtri national award. UK Singha SEBI Vergheze Amul. NDDB. Father of white revolution. Norman Barlung was kurien father of green revolution. Vijay Kelkar Committee on Fiscal deficit. Ex-Chairman of Finance Commission CAG. Also Enemy #1 of Kapil Sibbal, Manish Tewari, A.Raja and Vinod Rai countless others in UPA. hahaha. VS Sampath Chief election Commissioner (CEC). He replaced SY Quraishi. He is chairman of 14th Finance Commission. (period: 2015-2020) YV Reddy And Chairman of 13th Finance Commission was Vijay Kelkar.
Indian Diaspora abroad

Name Why Ami Bera California, House of representative. Bobby Jinda Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party Fareed worked for CNN and TIME. Suspended for plagarism. Zakaria Halimah Singapores first woman speaker, of Indian origin. Yacob Jacintha she was a nurse in London, treating Kate William. She committed Saldana suicide after two Australian radio DJ mocked her. Kamla Persad PM of Trinidad and Tobago. Chief Guest of PBD-2012. Bissessar Nikky Haley S.Carolina Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party Patricia Maria UK Musician. Won PBD 2013. Rozario Jailed for insider trading in USA. Was associated with Goldman Rajat Gupta Sachs Rajkeswur President of Mauritius. Chief guest of PBD-2013 Purryag Rasik Joshi Sanskrit Litt. Mexico. Won PBD-2013 award 1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their Lok Sabha). Elected from Hawai State. Tulsi Gabbard
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Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita, Served in US army, was deployed in Iraq.
Tulsi Gabbard
Sports
Sport name why Athletics Fauja Singh worlds oldest marathon runner. Athletics Usain Bolt IAAF award. Got 3 gold in London Olympic Athletics Allyson Felix IAAF award. Got 3 gold in London Olympic Badminton PV Sindhu Asia under 19 Billiards Pankaj Advani won the world cup Chess World V.Anand defeated Boris Gelfand Cup Cpt. Unmukt India cricket under 19 cpt, won world cup. defeated Cricket chand Aussies. Lance Cycling Cyclist, banned for drugs. armstrong Lionel Football most goals in a calendar year. got Golden boot. Messei Football Sunil Chhetri AIFF player of the year. Leslie Hockey Indias triple olympic gold medalist. Hockey. Dead. Claudius London Silver Wrestle 66kg. He was flag-bearer. He got Sushil Olympic bronze in 2008 Beijing. London Olympic London Olympic Vijay Kumar Silver. 25 rapid fire pistol. Rajiv G.Khel ratna Mary Kom Bronze. Women flywt. Boxing
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London Olympic London Olympic London Olympic London Olympic Shooting Squash London Olympic
Gagan Narang Bronze. 10 air-rifle Yogeshwar dutt Bronze. 60kg wrestle. Rajiv G.Khel ratna.
Saina Nehwal Bronze. Single badminton Krishna Poonia Ronjan Sodhi Dipika Pillia Michael Phelps discus throw. Did not win ISSF shooting world cup: .(silver, double trap). did not win but only Indian woman to enter semifinals Swimming. four golds and two silver medals
Tennis
Male Female Aus.Open Djkovik, Serbia Azarenka, Belarus French OpenNadal, Spain Sharapova, Rus US Open Ande Murray, UK Serena Williams, US Wimbledon Federer,Swiz Serena Williams,US Bhupathi Sania won French open doubles. Andy Roddick, Tennis retired.
Sports Mascots
Beijing Olympics 2008 Fuwa (good-luck dolls) Cricket World Cup 2011 Stumpy, the elephant. CWG, 2011 Shera, the tiger. Kabbadi world cup 2012, JAANBAZ, the eagel. India Wenlock + Mandeville. They symbolize Britains London Olympics 2012 industrial revolution. FIFA 2014 Armadillo.
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London Olympic Mascots (click to enlarge)
Books/Literature
author Hilary Mantel Shashi tharoor Jeet Thayil book/info Won two man booker prizes. This time for book Bring up the bodies. Pax indica. It details Indias international relations. Narcopolis. Tale of mumbais opimioum addiction. Booker price shortlisted but did not win. Another book is These errors are correct
Ruskin Maharani Bond JK The Casual Vacancy (Harry Potter author) Rowling N.Vittal Ending corruption: how to clean up Iondia Kushwant Free thinkers prayer book Singh. Amitav River of smoke Ghosh Sudheendra Music of spinning wheel Kulkarni Salman Joseph Anton. Rushdie APJ Kalam Turning Points Aravind Last man in tower Adiga Tarun The Valley of Masks Tejpal Taslima Nirbasan Nasreen Kuldeep Beyond the lines Nayar Kushwant Turbaned Tornado: The Oldest Marathon Runner Fauja Singh singh Verghese An Unfinished Dream Kurien Verghese The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance Kurien Hamid Muslim in Indian cities Ansari IK Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography GUJRAL Pt. ravi Living to Tell It All shankar Vikram Red Earth and Pouring Rain Chandra
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Syed Mustafa Siraj
Aleek Manush 1994
Authors Dead
Sunil GangopadhyayaBengali writer. Sahitya Acadamy chief. Kamla Sadgopan Tamil novelist Eric Hobsbawm Noted Marxist Historian from UK
Nobel-2012
Category 1. Medicine 2. Physics 3. Chemistry 4. Litt. Who? Gurdon, Yamanaka Haroche, Wineland Lefkowitz, Kobilka Mo Yan Why? Regenerative medicine. Cure disease by growing tissues in lab. Measure quantum particles, without destroying them. Protein receptors that let body cell respond to signals. First Chinese writer to get this award.
5. Economics Roth, Shapley. Stable allocation + market design. 6. Peace EU Lolz
Nobel winners associated with India

1. Dr. Hargobind Khorana 2. S. Chandrasekhar Medicine Physics
3. Venkatarama RamakrishnanChemistry 4. Mother Teresa 5. Tagore 6. Amartya Sen Peace Litt. Economics
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7. Rudyard Kipling 8. VS Naipaul
Litt. Litt.
Astro
Name Cpt. Nivedita Bhasin Liu Yang Neil Armstrong Sally Ride Sunita Williams Why First Indian woman to command boeing 787 first Chinese woman astro. Apollo 11. 1969. First man to land on moon. Dead. First American woman astro. Dead. A Moon crate named after her. Take a command of international space station. second Indian woman, first kalpana chawala.
Beauty
1. Olivia Culpo Miss Universe, USA. 2. Tereza Fajksova 3. wen xia yu
Miss Earth 2012. from czech. Miss World 2012 (China). Last Indian to win was Priyanka Chopra.
Clichd
following names have become so clichd in current affairs related books, magazines and sites that they can be simply ignored for the exam: Homai Vyarawala Indias first woman photojournalist. Dead. Chanda Kochhar ICICI Malala Yousufzai Pakistani girl, shot by Talibans, survived. Indra Nooyi Pepsi Pandit Ravi Shankar Sitar Maestro. Will get Grammy award posthumously. ok so thats it for the moment, if you feel any important names/terms have been left out or if there is any correction in the tables, do post it in comments and Ill update the article accordingly.
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Drawing the line

International Org (non political)

SK Jain Nkosazana Zuma

operators. Head of African Union (AU): First woman

Indian in India (Non political)

Indian Diaspora abroad

Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita, Served in US army, was deployed in Iraq.

London Olympic Mascots (click to enlarge)

Syed Mustafa Siraj

Aleek Manush 1994

5. Economics Roth, Shapley. Stable allocation + market design. 6. Peace EU Lolz

Nobel winners associated with India

7. Rudyard Kipling 8. VS Naipaul

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