December 2013 News Roundup: Sports, Awards and Obituaries

December 2013
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'News Week' an US Current affair magazine for 80 year had stopped its printing to focus on its website has now decided to pri nt
back its books.
1.
Isaish Berlin wrote the book "Four Essays on Liberty" 2.
Mumbai University launched a book titled 'Nirbhaya: Ek Atmachintan' to mark a year since brutal gang rape of a Delhi paramedi c
student.
3.
4.Olympic medal-winning boxer M C Koms autobiography, titled Unbreakable was unveiled by the Bollywood megastar Amitabh
Bachchan on 9 December 2013
Vasudeo S Gaitonde artists untitled work stole the show it gets sold Rs 23.7 core during the celebrated London based actionee r
Christie's debute in India.
5.
Wings of Fire, Target 3 billion, Ignited Minds were written by APJ Abdul Kalam. 6.
My Country My life is an autobiographical book by L.K.Advani. 7.
Cyrus Mistry author of the book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer. This book has been short listed for the prestigious DSC literature
award.
8.
The Good Lord Bird has won the 2013 US National Book Award in fiction. 1.
Books and Authors
Sunday, July 20, 2014 12:02 AM
Karan Thakur is the faster bowler of Railway got all 10 wickets against Baroda in C K Naidu Trophy. He is the 3rd Indian to get
10 wickets. The first person was Pregmanshu Chaterjee and Anil kumble in 1999 against pakistan.
1.
4th Kabaddi world cup tournament was held at Bathinda Punjab. 2.
Indian Badminton star P V Sindhu(Pusarla Venkata Sindhu) who hails from Hyderabad won Macau Open Grand Prix Gold. She
also became the India's first women single medalist at the world championship with back to back win against fancied Chinese
rivals.
3.
Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won the Indonesia open golf tournament on 1st Dec 2013. 4.
Pravin Tambe (42 years old) was picked for debut in the Ranaji Trophy for Mumbai to play against Jharkhand. 5.
Dhoni struck a 25 crore bat deal with the 'Spartan Sports' and 'Amity University' and also he promote bates name '7 by MSD'. 6.
10th Edition of Men's junior Hockey world cup was held at Dhayanchand National Stadium , New Delhi. Germany won this after
defeating France. India was in 10th position.
7.
South African team was wearing pink color dress during ODI match against India, they wore pink color for to raise awareness
against breast cancer.
8.
Under 17-Fifa World cup for 2017 will be held first time ever on Indian soil. The under -17 FIFA world cup happens every two
years , UAE hosted for this year 2013 and Chile will host for next year 2015.
9.
Star India entity will be title sponsor of the Indian Cricket Team with effect from 1st Jan 2014. It replaced Sahara. 10.
Former Pakistan Captain Waqar Younis and ex-Australia wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist will be inducted into the ICC's Hall of
Fame.
11.
Sports and Games
Fame.
Women's Kabaddi world cup 2013 was held at Jalandhar Punjab, India won this cup by defeating New Zealand. 12.
Winners of Airtel Delhi half marathon was Atsudu Tsegay of Ethopia(Mens Title) and Florence Kiplagat of Kenya(Womens Title). 13.
India defeated Pakistan in the Fourth world cup Kabaddi played at Guru Nanak stadium Ludhinana. India retained its title for
fourth consecutive term.
14.
Vladmir Kramnik of Russia defeated Vishwanath Anand In London Chess classic quarter finals. 15.
Shane Shillingford was suspended by ICC for illegal bowling action. 16.
Zaheer Khan got 300 wickets in test cricket he is the 4th Indian bowler to take 300 wickets in test cricket. Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble
and Harbhanjan have already achieved this.
17.
World Kabaddi cup finals played at the Guru Nanak Dev stadium in Ludhiana Punjab and India Defeated Pakistan by 48-39 ratio
on 17th December 2013.
18.
The official match ball of FIFA World Cup 2014 is Brazuca. 19.
Kerala has emerged as champion in 29th National Athletic Championship held in Bangalore. 20.
India to host Under 17 world cup in 2017. UAE hosted for this year and in 2015 Chile will host. 21.
Chitra won the IBSF(International Billiards and Snooker Federation) World snooker championship which was held at Latvia. The
next edition of IBSF World snooker championship will be held at Bangalore in November 2014.
21.
India won Kabaddi world cup 2013 3rd time in a row by defeating New Zealand . 22.
Bangalore golfer Anirban Lahiri became the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world. 23.
Deepika Kumari creates national record in women 50m archery. 24.
Sindu and Srikanth won single titles in National Badminton Championship. Srikant won the mens single crown and sindhu won
womens single crown.
25.
World and European champion SPAIN top the final FIFA world rankings of the year for the sixth time in a row. 26.
Teen sensation Mahesh Mangaonkar became the first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open, in the Slovakian capital
of Bratislava.
27.
Australia have the Ashes for the first time in seven years after sealing a deserved 150-run win in Perth to take an impregnable
3-0 lead in the five-match series
28.
29.Andy Murray, the first British tennis player to win the Wimbledon in 77 years, was crowned the 'BBC Sports Personality of the
Year'.
30.The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended West Indies offspinner Shane Shillingford from bowling in international
matches because of illegal action.
BJP leader Vasundhara Raje was on 13 December 2013 sworn in as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan for the second time 31.
Junior Hockey World Cup: Germany beat France, register record sixth world title. 32.
Under 19 world cup will be played at seven venues in UAE. 33.
34.At the 57th National Shooting Championship being held at Tughlakabad on 14 December 2013, Malaika Goel of Punjab and
Prakash Nanjappa of Karnataka won Gold in their respective categories.
35.India clinched the women's Kabaddi World Cup championship for the third time in a row, defeating debutant New
Zealand49-21 in the summit clash played at Guru Gobind Singh sports complex in Jalandhar on Thursday.
36.Kabbadi World Cup: Indian Kabaddi teams both in Men and Women sections have stormed into the final of 4th World Cup
Kabaddi Tournament at Bhatinda last night. Now in the final in the Men Section, Indian team will clash with Pakistan while Women
team will face New Zealand.
team will face New Zealand.
Kabaddi men: India won defeating Pakistan. Kabaddi Women: India defeated New Zealand.
James Gallaugher An Australian schoolboy has got his name written in record books after running 200m in 21.73secs - a record
for his age group - it was also about 0.08sec quicker than what Usain Bolt ran as a 14-year old.
37.
The 2014 World Cup champions will receive $35 million in prize money, world footballs governing body FIFA announced inSalvador on Thursday. 38.
39.The Supreme Court on Thursday blamed the administrators for the poor state of the national game, hockey, in the country.
40.Germany won Sixth Junior World Cup Hockey Tournament on 15th Dec 2013.
41.Atsedu Tsegay (Ethiopia) won the Men's Delhi Half Marathon (21.097) KM by creating new race record by clocking 59 minutes
10 seconds.
42.Mahesh Mangaonkar is the Indian Squash Player has won the IMET Open 2013 in the Slovakian capital Bratislava on 16th Dec
2013.
43.India country won the boy's and girl's team titel in the Asia-Pacific junior golf championship at the Royal Calcutta Gold Club.
44.Ravichandra Ashwin will be awarded with Polly Umigar Award for being India's best international cricketer of 2012 -13.
45.Chitra Magimairaj is a snooker player.
Wimbledon champion Andy Murray of Great Britain has been voted the BBCs 60th Sports Personality of the Year, winning the
accolade after becoming the first British man to lift the trophy at the All England Club in 77 years.
46.
47.Germany has won Junior Mens Hockey World Cup to their record sixth world title, beating unheralded France 5-2 in the final
match at Major Dhyan Chand stadium.
48. With reference to Indian sports, Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range is located in New Delhi.
49.Indias Ganganjeet Bhullar and Anirban Lahiri are associated with Golf game.
Serena Williams has been named as WTA Player of the Year 2013? 50.
51. Hall of Fame Vern Mikkelsen, who passed away recently, was a famous player of Basket Ball
The first non-Indian and second non-citizen to conferred with Bharat Ratna was Nelson Mandela in 1990. He was the first black
president and was also conferred with Nobel prize jointly with FW de Klerk in 1993. Nelson Mandela was died on 5th December
2013 and his village where last riots done was Qunu.
1.
Sunil Chhetri is named as 2013 AIFF player of the year on 20 Dec 2013(All India Football Federation) & Oinam Bembem Devi won
2013 AIFF's women player of the year. Sunil chettri is the India's highest ever goal scorer in International Football with 43 goals.
2.
The 78th Senior National Badminton Championship which was concluded at Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi. Women's Title
was won by P V Sindhu and Men's Title was won by Kidambi Srinkanth.
3.
India has won 7 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals and also team title in the category of 2013 Commonwealth Wrestling
championship in Johannesburg.
4.
5.Emerging Cricketer of the year award trophy goes to Cheteshwar Pujara at ICC annual awards in Dubai. He is the second batsman to
score fastest 1000
Irfan Khan won the best actor award for the film Lunch Box at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). 6.
Itihas Ratna award was won by Eminent historian Bipan Chandra on 17th December 2013 by Asiatic Society Bihar. 7.
India's first world cup winning captain Kapil Dev will be conferred with the Col.CK Nayudu Life Time achievement award for th e
year 2013.
8.
National Energy Conservation Award for the year 2012-13 conferred to The Ariyalur Plant of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd in Tamil
Nadu.
9.
Jaswinder Bamrah An Indian Origin doctor gets Britain Excellence award. 10.
Indian-American Mathematician & Author Manil Suri won this years 'Bad Sex in fiction' award by Britain's Literary Review
magazine award he got this award for his book 'The City of Devi' which was his 3rd novel. His other novels are 'The Death of
Vishnu' and 'The age of Siva' . He was shortlisted for Man Booker prize in 2001 and also shortlisted for Pen/Faulkner award. He
won Barnes & Nobel Discover prize in 2002.
11.
ONGC's 'Vasudeva' won 'SCOPE' Leadership Excellence award. Sudhir Vasudeva won the best leader in PSU. And A.k. Purwaha go
the same award in Miniratna PSE catergory.
12.
RIGA (Rajiv Gandhi International Airport) operated by GMR Hyderabad International Airport got 'Sword of Honor' safety
management award.
13.
Vijayan Pillai Karshakasree Award 2014 as best farmer in the state. 14.
ICC cricketer of the year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) - Michael Clarke (Australia).
ICC Test Cricketer of the year - Michael Clarke
ICC Women's Cricketer of the year- Suzie Bates(New Zealand)
ICC ODI cricketer of the year: Kumar Sangakara
ICC associate and the affiliate cricketer of the year - Kevin O'Brien (Ireland).
ICC Twenty20 international performer of the year- Umar Gul
ICC T20 women cricketer of the year - Sarah Taylor (England)
ICC Sprit of Cricket award- Mahela Jayawardna.
ICC umpire of the year(Winning David Shepherd Trophy)- Richard Kettleborough.
LG People's choice award: M S Dhoni
Special Cricket Awards 15.
Indian Football team captain Sunil Chhetri won AIFF player of the year and Oinam Bembem Devi was 2013 Women player of the
year.
16.
Awards and Honors
17 IRCON International Limited on 20 December 2013 has been awarded the prestigious India Pride Awards for Excellence in Cent ral
PSUs in India Image Enhancement.
18For Sahitya Academy Award this year person chosen are Javed Akthar (for LAVA, his 55 Urdu Poems), Mirdula Garg and Bengali
Poet Subodh Sarkar has been selected.
19.Wipro has received the 2013 ESCAP-Sasakawa Award for Disability-Inclusive Business in Asia and the Pacific, in the category
Disability-Inclusive Multinational Enterprise.
India and the UAE are set to sign an agreement for promotion and protection of bilateral investments. 20.
21.Metro Cash & Carry India has bagged the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Award for Food Safety 2013.
22 Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, 68, won the Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 for his role in creating India's
third-largest software exporter and also for the impressive scale of his philanthropy.
23.Directorate General of Foreign Trades e-BRC project has won the 2013 eASIA Award under Trade Facilitation category.
24.East Timor film Beatrizs War bagged Golden Peacock award for Best Film at the 44th International Film Festival of India at Panaji, Goa
GG2(Grarvi Gujurat 2) Hammer Award 25.
Lord Swaraj Paul has been awarded International Indian of Decade Award. 26.
Gagnjeet Bhullar a golfer has recently become the first Indian to win the Indonesia Open? 27.
28. Indias raising shuttler PV Sindhu clinched the womens singles title at the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold tournament. Sindhu beat
world no.30 Li Michelle of Canada 21-15, 21-12.
Jaswinder S bamrah the Indian Origin who received Asian Lite Professional Excellence Award in UK 1.
Japanese Emperor Akihito along with his wife Empress Michko arrived in New Delhi, It is a first ever visit of Japanese Emperor to
India.
1.
Abhay Kumar came to limelight for composing first ever anthem for SAARC(South Asian Association for Regional Corporation). He
was the first secretary (Press information and culture) at the Indian Embassy at Nepal.
2.
Sushma Singh the next chief information commissioner (CIC) of India . She will be the 2nd women to become CIC after Deepak
Sandhu.
3.
Merrill Newman the 85 year old US Veteran of the Korean war was released by North Korea after weeks of detentions. 4.
D.Shivakumar is the chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India. 5.
DP Buch is the new Lokayukta of Gujarat. 6.
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Sumit bose is the new finance secretary of India. 7.
Pope Francis is the person of the year 2013 by Time Magazine. 8.
Marry Barra is the new CEO of General Motors. 9.
Abdul Kadar Mollah is the Islamist leader and convicted war criminal who was executed by Bangladesh . 10.
Tassaduq Hussain Jillani is the new chief justice of Pakistan. 11.
Devyani Khobragade was arrested for Fraud case in US visa stuff, She was freed later and is currently employed as the Deputy 12.
Devyani Khobragade was arrested for Fraud case in US visa stuff, She was freed later and is currently employed as the Deputy
Consul General for Political ,Economics and Women's Affair at Consulate general of Indian New York. Now she was shifted to the
mission India's permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
12.
Krish Iyer is the president of the Walmart India. 13.
Sandeep Acharya the Indian idol season 2 winner died of jaundice. 14.
Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma who passed away he belongs to royal family of kerala named Travancore Royal Family. 15.
Mitchell Bachelet won the Chile's presidential elections in South American Andean Country. 16.
Harshkumar bhanwala is the new chairman of NABARD(National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development). 17.
Abdul Basit is the new high commissioner to the India. 18.
Will Pike the person who was paralysed in the Mumbai Terror attack won his claim against Tata Group. 19.
A Musical Album to give a tribute to girl child was released by Vice president ansari. The lyrics of this album titled 'Braveheart'
were written by Union Minister Salman Khurshid.
20.
Dharmesh Sangwan former rowing start of India who was an Asian Games silver medalist and Asian Champion gold winner was
killed in attack on United Nations compound in South Sudan on 19th December 2013.
21.
Pran chopra the Veteran Journalist passed away on 22nd December 2013. He was associated with many newspaper such as 'The
Hindu' , 'The Tribune' . He also brought his own magazine 'The Citizen' and 'Weekend Review'. He was also the former editor of
'The Statesman' newspaper.
22.
Vaccine for fighting Chicken pox was developed by Renowned Japanese biologist and scientist Dr.Michiaki Takahashi was died
recently.
23.
Verappa Moily has given the additional charge of Environment and Forests Ministry after exit of Jayanthi Natrajan. Moildy was
earlier the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry and also General Secretary of All India Congress Committee(AICC)
24.
The new chairman and Managing director (CMD) of Union bank was Arun Tiwari. 25.
Bimal Gurung is the new chief executive of Gorkhaland Territorial Adminsitration 26.
Farooq Sheikh was passed away on 28th December 2013 due to hear attack. His last film was 'Club 60'. He started his film carrier
in 1973 with the film called "Garm Hava'.
27.
Jacques Kallis scored century in his farewell test match against India and totally he has played 166 test matches. 28.
The new Chief of NSG is JN Chaudhary before him Arvind Ranjan was the chief. 29.
Nelson Mandela was also known as 'Madiba in South Afrtica'. 30.
31.The Supreme Court of India has favoured punishment of life imprisonment to people indulging in production and marketing of -
adulterated milk
adulterated milk
Miss Venezuela Alyz Henrich has crowned the pageant of Miss Earth 2013 at the Versailles Palace, Philippines. 32.
Ranjan Mathai the former secretary of India took over as India's high commissioner to UK. 33.
34.The US has called on China to release the jailed Nobel Peace prize winner five years after he was first detained - Liu Xiaobo
Mr. Vinod Kumar Duggal is the new Governor of Manipur. 35.
Agnela Morkel is sworn in as the Chancellor of Germany for 3rd time. 36.
Ahmet Uzumcu has been reappointed as the Director General of Organization for the prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW). 37.
Edward Snowden is the Guardian's person of the year 38.
Arvind Kejirwal is the New CM of Delhi on 28th December 2013. He is the second chief minister with IIT background and the
first was GOA CM Manohar Parrikar.
39.
Tylor Armstrong 9 year old US boy climbed South America's tallest mountain Aconcagua peak in Argentina. Last year he climbed
Mount Kilimanjaro- Africa's highest peak. The youngest person to conquer before him was Mathew Moniz of US.
40.
Shashi Tharoor has been chosen as the 'Person of the Year' by animal right campaigner PETA(People for Ethical Treatment of
Animal) for initiating steps for animal protection
41.
Senior IAS officer Ashok Lavasa was today appointed as Civil Aviation Secretary. 42.
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) head is P.H.Parekh. 43.
44.The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has appointed M. K. Goel as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Power
Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC).
45.Eminent historian Bipan Chandra was awarded Itihas Ratna from Asiatic Society Bihar. The award was given to Bipan Chandra
on his 86th birthday.
46.A statue of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, has been unveiled in the capital, Pretoria,
47.CVR Rajendran was on 13 December 2013 appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Andhra Bank.
48.Ethiopian runner Atsedu Tsegay on 15 December 2013 won the Men's Delhi Half Marathon (21.097 km) by creating a new race
record.
The Centre has appointed Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(Nabard).
49.
UNAIDS has urged Indian Government to repeal Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises gay sex. 50.
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has been named the 'most powerful celebrity of 2013' by Forbes India for the second time in a
row.
51.
52.Former world heavyweight champion and convicted rapist Mike Tyson has been banned from entering Britain and forced to
cancel appearances to promote his new autobiography, his publishers said on Tuesday. Name of the Book Undisputed Truth.
Ali Osman Taha, the Vice President of Sudan resigned to pave way for the new Government. 53.
54.Former India captain Kapil Dev on Saturday inaugurated a new nine-hole golf course in Pune at the Blue Ridge township in Hinjewadi.
55.The nation is paying homage to Dr. B R Ambedkar on his 58th Mahaparinirvan Diwas today.
56.President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday released a postal stamp and First Day cover on INS Vikramaditya, the aircraft carrier that was commissioned in the Navy
last month.
57.Luxembourg swore in Xavier Bettel as its first openly gay prime minister on Wsednesday, paving the way for the introduction of social reforms such as same-sex
marriage.
58.Brazuka, the official 2014 FIFA World Cup match ball was unveiled on 3 December 2013 by manufacturers Adidas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
58.Brazuka, the official 2014 FIFA World Cup match ball was unveiled on 3 December 2013 by manufacturers Adidas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
59.M.V. Tanksale, former Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India, has taken over as Chief Executive of the Indian Banks Association.
60.J S Saharia, a 1978 batch IAS officer, took over as the new Chief Secretary of Maharashtra on Saturday.
Harsh Kumar Bhanwala was appointed as the Chairman of the National bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD)
for a period of five years by the Union Government of India.
61.
Bea Rose Santiago(From Philippines) won the Miss International beauty pageant. 62.
'Tapir' a new species of a large browsing mammal, similar to shape to a pig with a short prehensile snout is identified in Amazon . 63.
Arvind Ranjan appointed as the full chief of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). 64.
Deepika Kumar won her sixth consecutive title at the 34th National Archery Championships at JRD tata stadium of PSPB,
Jamshedpur.
65.
Rosamma Punnoose the first person to be sworn in as legislator (Kerala's first legislator). 66.
Arup Raha is the new IAF Chief succeeding incumbent Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne. 67.
Michel Schumacher Formula one driver has been suffering from brain hemorrhage in ski accident in the French Alps last week.
He has won 7 times Formula one.
68.
G Nammalvar the famous Indian Organic farming scientist passed away. 69.
Devagi Prafulla Chandra who was passed away recently was an well know agriculturist and technologist. He was popularly
known as "Krishi Rushi".
70.
71. S P Roy Burman, who passed away recently, was a well known Industrialist
72.Nigerian Agriculture Minister Akihwumi Adesina has been named Forbes African of the Year of his reforms to the countrys
farming sector
73.Waheeda Rehman will be conferred with the Centenary Award for India Film Personality of the Year?
74.Justice A P Shah is the new Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India?
75.
Rafael Nadel: Spanish professional tennis player Rafael Nadal has earned the nickname King of Clay
Indias First Rubber plant was inaugurated at Panipat , Haryana. The name of the rubber is e-SRB(Styerie butadiene rubber). 1.
Cyclone madi hit the some parts of TN, AP and Puducherry on 7th and 8th December. 2.
3. Soweto (FNB-Open Foot-ball stadium) is the place where a memorial service was there for Nelson Mandela.
4.Uruguay will be the first country in the world to have national market for legal marijuana.
India's First heritage transport Museum was opened at Taoru, Gurgaon (Haryana). 5.
Suvarna Vidhan Soudha is new Legislature building is situated in Belgaum. 6.
South India's first high altitude cricket stadium was inaugurated on 17th December 2013 located at Krishnagiri in waynad
district of Kerala. India's first high altitude ground is at Dharmasala Stadium in HP and next is Krishnaigiri in waynad .
7.
World's first successful artificial heart transplant was done in France Country. 8.
Sri City of Andhra Pradesh where Pepsi Co will invest 1200 crore to build new green field beverage manufacturing unit. 9.
Tamil Nadu launched a scheme to provide free of cost CFL(Compact Fluorescent Lamp) to slum dwellers of the state. 10.
Meribal is the place where Seven time formula one champion Michel Schumacher met with skiing accident and fell into coma. 11.
According to information released by the Cricket Australia a world record crowd of 90831 attended day one of the Ashes test
between Australia and England. First record was b/w the Australia and West Indies match played in 1961 this happened at
MCG(Melbourne Cricket Club).
12.
BJP won state assembly elections on 8th Dec 2013 in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. 13.
The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) was established in 1997 with headquarters in Beijing China. 14.
15.Scientists in the first week of December 2013 in their report claimed that the super volcano lying beneath - Yellowstone
National Park in US
WISH(World Innovation Summit for Health) 2013 began in Doha, Qatar on 11december 2013. 16.
Bangalore International Airport will be renamed as Kempe gowda , who founded Bangalore in 16th Century. 13.
Kuwait will host second edition of Syria Donor's conference in captial Kuwait city and it will be chaired by UN secretary
general Ban Ki Moon.
14.
Hornbill Festival held every in Nagaland in the first week of December at Kisama Village on the outskirts of Kohima, Nagaland.
Hornbill is the name of the bird.
15.
Vodafone launches unique program called "Safe Drive Campaign' . 16.
86th Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan an annual convection of Bengali literary Personalities of India in Allahabad. 17.
Goa celebrated 52nd Anniversary of liberation from Portuguese yoke on 19th Dec 2013. 18.
19.India won the boys and girls' team titles in the Asia-Pacific junior golf championship at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC). It
was Indias first ever victory in the Asia Pacific Junior Golf Championship.
20.The Union Ministry of Power has selected the Poovar Island Resort for the National Energy Conservation Award 2013.
21.Brahmaputra Cruises by Assam Bengal Navigation Company has been recognised by CNN International as one of the top 10 Most Adventurous Cruises in the
World for 2013.
22.29th Junior National Athletics Championships will kick off in Bangalore today.
Winter Solstice is usually occurring on Dec 21st and 22nd depending upon the position of earth, the longest night and the 23.
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Winter Solstice is usually occurring on Dec 21st and 22nd depending upon the position of earth, the longest night and the
shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
23.
Himachal Pradesh banned the junk food items in plastic packing and directed to implement ban in the state from 26 January
2014.
24.
HCL announced it will set up 100 acre IT city in Lucknow, A move that will help create job opportunities for about 25000
people in UP.
25.
Sandur in Karnataka is known for deposit of Manganese and Iron. 26.
The "Lomonosov Ridge" is an unusual underwater ridge of continental crust in the Arctic ocean. It spans 1800KM from New
Siberian.
27.
28.Archaeologists in Nepal have discovered traces of a wooden structure dating from the sixth
century BC that they believe in the worlds oldest Buddhist shrine. The structure was unearthed inside the sacred Maya devi
Temple in Lumbini.
29.The Nile ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea. It is the longest river in the world.
India's first museum for custom and central exercise has been opened in GOA State. 30.
31.Wipro has won the ESCAP Sasakawa Award for Disability Inclusive Business in Asia and Pacific. Wipro achieved this award in
the category disability inclusive multinational enterprise. This award was established by ESCAP in cooperation with Asia Paci fic
Development Centre on Disability (APCD).
32.Delhi tourism received the prestigious, Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, India announced by World Travel & Tourism
Council India Initiative (WTTCII) for best destination leadership award 2013.
33. The Pulichintala project, the terminal reservoir on River Krishna that was conceived in 1911 by British engineer Col.Elli s has
been inaugurated exactly after 102 years. Named after eminent engineer and former Union Minister, Late K L Rao, the Pulichint ala
dam built across the Krishna River between areas in Nalgonda on one side and Guntur on the other side, is the third major
irrigation project, after Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar.
Maldives has been awarded the title of Worlds Leading Island Destination at the 2013 World Travel Awards in Qatar? 34.
35.The Arakan Mountain is the extension of Himalaya mountain range located in Mayanmar.
Punjab University , Chandigarh ranked the highest ranked educational Institute of India in ranking of Universities in
BRIC and Times higher Education magazine.
1.
India ranked 97th out of 117 countries Global Corruption Perception index 2013. The New zeland and Denmark are the
least corrupt countries in that list. Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world.
2.
Jordan is the new non-permanent to the UN Security council in the secret elections held. It replaced Saudi Arabia who
rejected it as UN council failed to stop wars in Syria
3.
Forbes 500 list top 10 companies are from Energy Sector. Indian Oil Corporation is the biggest and second comes
Reliance.
5.
IOB(Indian Overseas Bank) will be the first only public sector bank to have branch in Bangkok (Thailand). 6.
7.Doha Bank which is Qatar based private commercial bank has got license to open banks in India, its first bank will in
Mumbai.
BCIM( Bangaldesh, China, India and Myanmar )- The first official meeting was happened at Chinese city of Kunming-The
provisional Capital of Yunnan. The corridor will run from Kunming to Kolkata, linking Mandalay in Myanmar as well as
Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh. BCIM is a project related to the development of border regions.
8.
Sri Lanka's board of Investment announced plan to start 8 export processing and industrial zones across the country. 9.
10.The first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) of Spacecraft of India's maiden interplanetary mission to Mars was
carried out successfully on 10 December 2013 and the TCM was fired by - 22 Newton Thrusters
The European union has granted GSP plus status to Pakistan. 11.
Europe launched 'Gaia Satellite' one of the most ambitious space mission in the history. The main aim of this satellite is to
construct the 3d image of all the stars.
12.
Xavier Bettel is the new president of Luxembourg. 13.
Thailand's PM Yingluck Shinawatra Dissolves Parliament. 14.
Michelle Bachlete is the new chilean president 15.
Saudi Arabia passed anti-terror law. 16.
China banned Battleship 4 game 17.
China expected to overtake US in 2028 to become the world's largest economy while India is predicted to overtake Japan
for the third place.
18.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Pakistan's richest Parlimentarian. 19.
President Barak Obama has named two Indian-Americans among 102 scientists as the receiptant of presidential award
they are Karunesh Ganguly and Hardeep Singh.
20.
Kuwait will host the Second edition of the Syria Donors conference in the capital Kuwait city next month, Ban Ki Moon
will chair the event.
21.
Iran planning technical talks related to Nuclear Program with the experts from six world powers US, UK, France, Russia,
China and Germany in next two days.
22.
23.Kolkata was ranked top in public transport among Indian cities, according to a study of the International Association of
Public Transport (UTIP) released on 16 December 2013.
International
Public Transport (UTIP) released on 16 December 2013.
24.Left-wing candidate Michelle Bachelet has been elected Chilean President for a 2nd time
25 The World Innovation Summit for Health, WISH-2013 began in Qatarcapital Doha today with a call for practical,
innovative and sustainable health solutions.
A remote region in East Antarctica has set a new record for the coldest place on Earth, with temperatures dipping to a
bone-chilling minus 93.2 degrees Celsius, NASA scientists say.
26.
27.India on Monday handed over Rs 374.68 million to Nepal to build embankments on three border rivers to control floods
affecting both neighbours.
28. UN General Assembly elected Jordan to the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member on 6 December 2013 to replace Saudi Arabia.
The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference was concluded on 6 December 2013 at Bali, Indonesia. 29.
30.Indians seeking British visa will have to pay the visa fees online through debit or credit cards or via e -wallet.
31.Manama Dialogue, the leading regional and global security summit, gets underway in the Bahrain capital Manama today.
32.India is working to set up an energy efficient power transmission line (HVDC) with Nepal and Bhutan as part of its energy security plans, External Affairs
Minister Salman Khurshid said.
33.India has decided to give $1 million to the trust of Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague.
Google has recently opened first ever data in Asia to boost its growth further in the region of Taiwan and Singapore. 34.
Saudi Arabia is launching a national research project to study the genetic basis of the disease in its population. 35.
36.159 countries will be participating at the WTO Ministerial meeting in Bali.
There are 15 Indian Bird Species that are critically endangered species list created by International union for
Conservation of nature which include Indian Vulture, Siberian cranes (All these critically endangered Category).
37.
MiG-21 founders are from Russia there name is Artem Mikoyan and Mikhali Gurevich. 38.
Israel has signed agreement with the Palestinians and Jordan to build a pipeline channeling water from Red Sea to Dead
Sea.
39.
The 'Beneguela' current is the ocean current passes along the Southeast cost of Africa. 40.
Russians Central Bank has adopted an official symbol for the national currency, the ruble, which 41.
has been approved in a public vote. The Cyrillic P with a horizontal stroke has won 61 percent of vote. The letter is
pronounced as R.
42.The EU (European Union) imposed a ban on all airlines from Nepal from flying into the 28-nations bloc under the
latest changes to a list of unsafe carriers.
43 The 22nd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which concluded in Sri Lanka recently, has
adopted following three independent declerations: They are : Youth, International Trade and Inclusive Development.
Kazakhstan is initiating a new international project called Eurasia Project. The project looks 44.
to develop innovative technologies for drilling ultra-deep wells with depths of 14 to 15 kilometer's.
45. The Luzon Strait is the strait between Taiwan and Luzon islands of the Philippines. The strait connects the Philippine Se a
to the South China Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.
46.The European Parliament has granted GSP Plus status to Pakistan. The status has been granted till 2017. The status will
46.The European Parliament has granted GSP Plus status to Pakistan. The status has been granted till 2017. The status will
prove to be of great benefit to Pakistans textile manufacturers and exporters who will now have access to 27 European
countries without having to pay duties.
47. The Operation IceBridge is a NASA mission that aims to monitor changes in polar ice on Earth.
48.Japans parliament has adopted a law on protecting state secrets despite a public outcry, with strong opposition from the
media and academics who fear it will infringe on the right to information and free expression.
49.Ireland formally left its three-year bailout programme, becoming the first nation to do so. Ireland is now returning
unaided to the international lending markets while eurozone strugglers Greece, Portugal and Cyprus remain locked into the
bailout process.
50.The Hezbollah is an Islamic militant group and political party based in Lebanon which is a Terrorist group.
51. According to the recent global survey of leading consultancy firm Ernst and Young (EY), India has emerged as the most
attractive investment destination of the world recently
52.Mauritius has agreed to include a limitation of benefits (LOB) clause in its revised tax treaty with India. The move aims
to strengthen its jurisdiction from any attempts of round tripping and money laundering activities.
53. Japan and South Korea countries have defied Chinas recently created No Air Space Zone.
54.Washoku, which is being considered for designation as part of the worlds priceless cultural heritage by the United
Nations, is the traditional cuisine JAPAN.
55.MERCUSOR is an economic and political agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. The
territories of Mercosur consist of the combined territories of five of the twelve countries of South America and their
population.
56.The Battle of Aleppo is an ongoing military confrontation related to Syria country.
57.The James Bond Island or Khao Phing Kan is a pair of islands on the west coast of Thailand.
China has recently announced it was setting up an air defence identification zone over East China Sea? 58.
59.China has recently tested its first stealth drone, joining the elite group of
four nations in the world to develop the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle. China become the fourth power in the world, after
the US, the EU and the UK, capable of putting a stealth drone into the sky.
60.The Mount Etna, Mount Sinabung and
Mount Merapi are the active volcanoes located in Italy , Indonesia and Indonesia.
61.The Amazon rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin
of South America. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is
contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rain forest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10% and
with minor amounts in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
62. The ISON which is in news nowadays is a comet.
The Tuareg separatist group is a rebellion group active in Mali Country. 63.
64.The Peace Clause which is in news recently, is an Agreement on Agriculture related to WTO.
65.
Ottawa treaty aims at eliminating the anti-personnel landmines around the
world
For sale of Acid the supreme court had directed rules and regulations but it was followed only by Punjab, J&K and Puducherry . 1.
The two new parcel services inaugurated by Department of Posts on 2nd December was Express parcel and Business parcel. 2.
KPIT a Pune based company launched On-Bus Intelligent Transport System 3.
Article 371- D proposed for the creating India's 29th State Telangana on 5th Dec 2013. It has got 10 districts under it and rest of AP
has got 13 districts and Hyderabad will capital for both states for 10 years.
4.
The United Forum of Bank Unions(UFBU) has kept demand of ' Working for 5 days a week' in front of Finance Minister. 5.
The Dabhol(Maharashtra) -Bangaluru Gas Pipeline of GAIL is the first one to connect Southern India to the National Grid. Its of 1000
km
6.
INS Konkan minesweeper ship of Indian Navy caught fire at Naval Dockyard in Vishakhapatnam. 7.
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP to an emphatic win in Assembly Elections it was his 3rd consecutive term as CM of
MP.
8.
Section IPC 377(Indian Penal Code) held homosexuality or Unnatural sex between two adults or gays as offence. 9.
NSE(National Stock Exchange) Completed 20 years 10.
The first Lokpal bill was passed by a house of Indian Parliament in 1969. 11.
The Supreme Court announced that Centers approval was not required to investigate the officer of Joint Secretary level. 12.
The Lokpal bill was passed on 18th December 2013 it was supported by both BJP and Congress but it was opposed by Samajwadi
party and Shiv Sena.
13.
NIMSME(National Institute for Micro, Small, Medium enterprise ) is converted into National SME(Small Medium Enterprise) and this
NIMSME is situated at Hyderabad.
14.
Mobile seva was lunched by DeitY(Department of Electronic and Information Technology), It helps the citizen to directly interact with
government departments through SMS. It has configured with State Data Centers(SDC's) , State Wide Area Networks(SWAN's) , State
and National Service Delivery Gateway(SSDGs/NSDG).
15.
Punjab is the most cancer prone place in the country so hospital is going to be initiated by BARC will be located in Mullanpur Town. 16.
Judicial Appointment Commission (JAC) for transfer and appointment to the higher judiciary will come under article 124a and its
functions will come under article 124b
17.
Arivnd Kejirwal became the youngest CM of New Delhi on 28th December 2013. He is the 7th CM of Delhi. He took oath at Ramleela
Maidan & was administered by Delhi's lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung. They came to power by the support of congress of 8 MLA's.
18.
The union cabinet approved proposal of setting National Cancer Institute (NCI) at in Haryana. Cost of the project is Rs.2035 crore.
This institute will be set up in Badhsa Village in Jhajjar District in the campus of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New
Delhi at Haryana.
19.
The Government of India modified the FDI policy allowing unlisted company to directly list on Stock Exchange Abroad. 20.
LIC has decided to stop selling of 34 policies. 21.
PM Manmohan Singh Sanctioned the 7346 crore rupee for the relief of flood hit Uttarakhand by Cabinet Committee. 21.
Supreme court ordered that red beacons will be provided on the vehicle of high dignitaries and people who hold constitutional posts. 22.
23 Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of State for Environment & Forests inaugurated a workshop to discuss the Role of Bamboo and Rattan in
Pro-Poor Green Development - Asia Regional Workshop on Bamboo and Rattan at New Delhi
Tech Mahindra launched its Global Center of Excellence (CoE) with HP in Bangalore. 24.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority had notified Nagzira as the fifth tiger reserve in the state of Maharashtra. 25.
Supreme court provided verdict on Homosexuality as an illegal offence and it come under section 377. 26.
National
Supreme court provided verdict on Homosexuality as an illegal offence and it come under section 377. 26.
Prime minister released the Postage stamp on Former Punjab CM Beant Singh. Who was killed by suspected Khalistani separatists in a
car bombing.
27.
It will be having an anti-corruption watch dog that will have its purview even the PMO(Prime Minister Office).
It consist of chairperson and maximum of eight members out of which 50% shall be judicial members.
The Lokpal chairperson should not be connected to any political party and one member will be an eminent jurist nominated by
president.
It clear time lines for Preliminary enquire and investigation and trial towards the end.
The bills provide for setting up of special core.
The Lok Sabha passed the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill. The Lokpal bill consist of following things: 28.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved proposal of Axis bank for increase in foreign investment from 49
percent to 62 percent.
29.
The central Government has appointed Arun Tiwari as chairman and Managing director of Union Bank of India. 30.
National Development Day was celebrated on the 89th birthday of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 31.
S Jayashankar is the new Ambassador to the US after the case of Devyani Khobragade. 32.
The Election Commission of India recognized Aam Admi Party as a state party and reserved symbol of Broom in Delhi on 19
December 2013.
33.
Macau 'most searched travel destination' by Google India users in 2013. 34.
The Rann Utsav the cultural festival of Gujrat state was inaugurated by Gujrat Tourism minister Saurabh patel at Kutch Gujrat. 35.
36.Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today released a postage stamp of former Chief Minister of Punjab ,Sardar Beant Singh. After
releasing the stamp in New Delhi
2200 J& K students are trained under 'Project Udaan'. 37.
38.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved implementation of various schemes related to agricul ture,
including continuation of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), in the 12th Plan with a combined outlay of over Rs 80,000 crore.
French auto firm Renault SA signed a deal to joint venture plant costing 7.76 billion produce cars in the central Chinese province of
Hubei.
39.
CCI(Competition Commission of India) on Monday approved Walmart's proposal to acquire Bharati Group nearly 50 percent stake in
their Indian wholesale stores joint venture.
40.
41.The country's fair trade regulator has imposed a penalty of Rs 1,773 crore on Coal India for abusing its dominant position.
42.Insurance giant Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has decided to stop selling as many as 34 policies, including Jeevan Anand, Jeevan
Madhur and Jeevan Saral, to comply with new regulatory guidelines.
43.Indian Bank and Apollo Hospitals have launched a health card that will enable select customers of the bank get a discount on the
hospitals services and products.
44.The Supreme Court has favoured punishment of life imprisonment to people indulging in production and marketing of adulterated
milk and has asked the state governments to make amendment in laws.
45.India will open their Men's Hero Hockey Junior World Cup 2013 campaign against Netherlands starting in New Delhi today.
46.The Department of Posts has launched Express Parcel and Business Parcel Service in 20 cities at a function in New Delhi on Monday.
47.Huffington Post World publication report on 2nd Dec 2013 calming that Sonia Gandhi is richer than Virtains Queen Elizabet h and
Syria President Bashar al-Asad in the 12th richest political leader in the world.
Article 370 was all about to give special status to J & K. 48.
Prithvi-II missile a surface to surface missile a strike range of 350KM from a test range at Chandipur Odisha. 49.
Prithvi-II missile a surface to surface missile a strike range of 350KM from a test range at Chandipur Odisha. 49.
50.The Supreme Court on set a deadline of 31st march 2014 for all states and union Territories to frame rules to regulate sal e of acid and
notify them accordingly.
Snehalata Shrivastava the Additional Secretary Finance inaugurated in the SBI GPO premises. BMB first branch in MP inaugurated in
Indore.
51.
National Green Tribunal banned dumping of debris including construction material into Yamuna. 52.
Appolo Tyres launched its Premium European brand Vredestein to cater to high-end cars and SUV's in India. 53.
Infosys announce the launch of Trade Edge an insight driven platform which would provide visibility to global brand across the
demand chain from distributors to consumer.
54.
Criteria for a political party to recognize as 'State Party' to automatically become national party should be 4. 55.
'Netra' the defence ministry internet spy launched by Government of India which is capable of detecting words like 'attack' , 'bomb'
'blast' or kill in a matter of seconds from reams of tweets, status update, emails, internet calls etc.
56.
Aligarh Muslim University inaugurate 37th Indian Social Science Congress 2013 at UP. 57.
"e-inclusion" the project initiated by The Union Government to make people e-literate. 58.
P Pradeep Kumar is the Managing Director of SBI. The biggest lender in the country. 59.
UP is the biggest exporter of the Buffalo meat from the country. 60.
"Tusukheniye","BISHU" "Moatsu" & "Tuluni" are important festivals celebrated by Nagaland. 61.
Encephalitis has claimed many lives in UP. Encephalitis is an acute Inflammation of the BRAIN. 62.
India is preparing for the maiden test firing of its submarine launch of longest range and nuclear capable ballistic missile code named
K-4 from an underwater platform off Vizag coast. The missile files in hypersonic speed and is the world's best weapon in class. K-4
has an effective range of 3500km.
63.
64.Reliance Power has started pre-commissioning activities for its Concentrated Solar Power
project in Rajasthan, Jaisamler district. project is the worlds largest CSP project based on CLFR technology. The 100 MW CSP plant is
being built at a cost of Rs 2,100 crores.
'Operation Olive' by coast guards is conducted as An annual mission to ensure safety of breeding Olive Ridley sea turtles. 65.
66.To reduce energy consumption in industries. The Perform Achieve Trade (PAT)is a trading scheme aimed to
reduce energy consumption in industries across India using market oriented mechanisms. The scheme is being designed and
implemented by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), under the ministry of power,
67.The Sagar Power Plant is the 2000 MW at Bengals Nayachar Island on the Hoogly River. The Sagar Super Thermal Project, estimated
to be worth Rs 8,600 crore, is struck because of the ministry of environment has not given its clearance.
68.According to existing law, five communities Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians are notified as minority
communities but not Jainism.
69.Rajasthan has the highest proportion of homeless and had the least success in reducing the proportion of homeless persons along
70.There are three objectives of NREGA(National Rural Employment Guarantee Act -2005) . First to provide wage employment, second is
to create durable community assets and third to empower grama panchayats.
71.Tat Group is generally known as Salt-to-Conglomerate.
The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) of India was set up on the basis of the recommendation made by Naresh Chandra
Committee
72.
73.The Sankirtana a famous tradition of ritual singing, drumming and dancing which is set to be declared intangible cultural heritage
of humanity is practiced mainly in Manipur state.
74.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal to undertake scientific deep in the Koyna intra-plate seismic zone,
in Maharashtra. The total cost of the project is around Rs.470 crore for five years. The proposed investigation in Koyna regi on will
in Maharashtra. The total cost of the project is around Rs.470 crore for five years. The proposed investigation in Koyna regi on will
provide a unique opportunity to better understand the mechanism of reservoir-triggered earthquakes, developing a forecast model and
assessing earthquake hazard in a stable continental region.
75.The controversial 300-MW Lakhwar hydroelectric power project is related to Uttarakhand.
76.The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India contains the provisions regarding: Union, State and Concurrent Lists
Melghat and Tadoba-Andhari Tiger reserves are located in Maharashtra. 77.
78.The Rural Ministry has launched a Kaam Mango Abhiyan which seeks to increase awareness around the entitlements of MGNREGA
(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act)
Vijay Kelkar Committed has been constituted to prepare a roadmap for enhancing domestic production of oil and gas so as to reduce
the nations import dependency by 2030?
79.
With reference to Operation Blue Virus is An undercover investigation by Cobrapost 1.
The bill which was passed to create Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh was 'The Andra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill,2013' 1.
Darmar Murguesan was the Chief Justice of Delhi High court will be the next chairman of the Karnataka State Human Right
Commission (KSHRC).
2.
Bihar Government announced new surrender and rehabilitation policy for Maoists. 3.
Sugarcane Control board was set up by Maharashtra. 4.
ESMA(Essential Service Maintenance ) Bill was passed by Karnataka. 5.
ffAmbassador Ahmet Uzumcu on 4 December 2013 was re-appointed as the OPCW Director General at the 18th Session of the Conference of State Parties. 6.
7.The Karnataka state assembly passed the Karnataka Essential Services Maintenance (ESMA) Bill 2013
Maharaja Commission was organised to resolve border dispute between the Karnataka and Maharashtra. 8.
9.Jallikattu is a bull taming sport played in Tamil Nadu as a part of Pongal celebrations on Mattu Pongal day.
10.Yashsvini is a health insurance scheme for the members of the cooperative bodies in Karnataka.
11.. The Aranumala International Airport is an airport project planned to be built in Kerala State.
12.The Tirumayam Fort popular for its architectural beauty of rock-cut temples is located in Tamil Nadu.
Karnataka At present, has largest number products protected by the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. 13.
14.
The Panch Prayag the five sacred river confluence is in the state of Uttarakhand. The five
prayags are Vishnu Prayag, Nand Prayag, Karn Prayag, Rudra Prayag and Dev Prayag.
15.
The Sonepur Cattle Fair Asias largest cattle fair has been kicked
off, recently in Bihar.
State
Trans-Mars-Injection is the maneuver used in the Mars orbiter mission 'Mangalayaan'. It moved to out of Earths Sphere on
1st December 2013 for its 300 days journey to the red planet covering distance of 680 million kilometer.
1.
China's lunar mission launched was 'Change e-3. It was the first attempt by china for Soft landing, It carried the unmanned
remotely piloted spacecraft . The lunar rover that landed on moon was named as Jade Rabbit(called Yutu in Chinese).
2.
Mig-21FL(Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21) the first supersonic aircraft of the IAF is decommissioned from the service on 11th
December 2013 at Air force station in Kalaikunda West Bengal.
3.
National Institute of Immunohematology(NIIH) and Indian Council for Medical Research(ICMR) has launched low cost Sickel
cell diagnostic kit.
4.
Saab, the Swedish manufacturer won a 4.5 billion dollar contract to supply 36 Gripen NG fighter jets to - Brazil by 2020 5.
Space X rockets Successfully launches its First Commercial Satellite. 6.
Greece test Russian made S-300 Missile system for First Time 7.
Iran sent second monkey in space for second time named 'Fargam'. The first rocket carrying a monkey named Pishgam in the
space was launched by Iran.
8.
First human artificial heart was implanted in Paris (France). It was designed by Carmat and developed by Dutch Based
European Aeronautics Defence and Space Company (EADS).
9.
Raman Singh the sworn in as Chhattisgarh CM for Third Consecutive Term. 10.
11. Harsh Bhanwal the new NABARD Chairman.
Arup Raha is the 24th IAF chief succeeding Air Chief marshal N.A.K. Browne. 12.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela Died. 13.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who served 27 years in prison for anti-apartheid activities and led his
continent into a new era, has died in Johannesburg on 5 December. He was 95 years old. He was also known as Madiba
in South Africa.He was the first black South African to hold the office of President from 1994 to 1999, and the first elected
in a fully representative multiracial election. He was born on 1918 in Eastern Cape. He joined the African National
Congress in 1943. In 1962, he was arrested and was convicted of incitement and leaving country without a passport. He
was sentenced to five years in prison. In 1964, he was charged with sabotage, sentenced to life. He was freed from the
prison in 1990 .In 1999, he stepped down as leader.Mandela has received more than two hundred and fifty awards over
four decades.He was the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.In 1990 he was conferred with the Bharat Ratna.He was
the recipient of Mahatma Gandhi peace award in 2001.
Agni III is a surface to surface missile which was successfully test fired by India. 13.
National E-governance award was won by Computer Society of India for implementing project called 'Lakshya' which
aimed at improving LPG Distribution.
14.
India is expected to become the third largest aviation market by in the world 2020 after US and China which was said by
Civil Aviation Secretary KN Shrivastava.
15.
Tejas India's Light Combat Aircraft(LAC) got initial Operational Clearance (IOC-II) by Defence minister A.K.Antony and it
was handed over to Indian Air Force chief NAK Browne.
16.
Alstom got the 125 million euro contract from BHEL for Neyveli New Thermal Power Project. 17.
Europe is about launch Gaia Satellite one of the most ambitious Space mission history. The aim of the mission is to study
our Milky way galaxy. The European Space Agency satellite is being sent up on Soyuz Rocket.
18.
Science and Technology
our Milky way galaxy. The European Space Agency satellite is being sent up on Soyuz Rocket.
19.Yahoo has acquired content delivery network provider Peer CDN in a bid to resolve its mail issues.
20.China's first lunar rover named Jade Rabbit landed on Moon.
21.India today successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile with a strike range of 350 km from a test range at Chandipur in
Odisha as part of a user trial by defence forces.
22.Social networking giant Facebook is in talks to acquire Bangalore-based product start-up Little Eye Labs.
Amazon chief showed the plan of deliver goods by the unmanned drone. The name given to it is Prime Air. 23.
Apple has acquired 'Topsy' social media search and analytics start-up in $200 million, a business that specialises in
analysing social media including Twitter to provide into sentiment on a variety of topics.
24.
Google acquires robot making company Boston dynamics which had previously been contracted by the U.S. military. 25.
'Pinaka' a MBRL (Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher) successfully test fired by India at Chandipur on sea of Balasor off the
Odisha Cost.
26.
'Bolivia' launched the country's first telecommunication satellite Tupak katari named on National hero who fought on 18th
Century.
27.
Guardian the new safely application that enables friends and family of Windows phone user to track them in real time in
Hyderabad .
28.
BeiDou is the navigation system developed by china, It's an navigation system as an alternative to the American Global
Positioning System(GPS) and Russian GLONASS.
29.
Oxford Scientists recently developed a noel New Malaria Vaccine which can protect against deadly mosquito borne disease. 30.
31.Yelloknife bay is located on Mars. NASA's Curiosity drilled out two rocks from the samples.
32.Ocean Acidification is the process of decrease in the pH of the Earths Oceans, caused by uptake of carbon dioxide from the
33.The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting from the icy surface of one of
Jupiters moon Europa. After this findings Europa would be the second moon in the solar system to have water vapour plumes.
Scientist has already determined that an ocean
34.Tejas is Indias first indigenously developed light combat aircraft. Recently it has achieved a milestone by launching an
infrared seeking air to air missile that hit the target in a direct hit with precision and destroyed the target.
The Swarm Mission, which aims to study the Earths magnetic field is proposed to be launched 35.
By European Space Agency.
36. The Dhanush missile is a naval variant of Indias indigenously developed prithvi missile.Dhanush is a variant of the
surface-to-surface Prithvi II missile, which has been developed for the Indian Navy. It is capable of carrying both conventional
as well as nuclear warheads with pay-load capacity of 500 kg and can strike targets in the range of 350 km.
37.What does T stands for in TAPI, the proposed natural gas pipeline being developed Asian Development Bank-
Ans:Turkmenistan
The TAPI or Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline is a proposed natural gas
pipeline being developed Asian Development Bank. Expected to be completed around 2017, the pipeline
will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to
India.
The United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) has recently issued a warning about the nitrous 38.
oxide, which is now biggest threat to the ozone layer. Agriculture e biggest human
oxide, which is now biggest threat to the ozone layer. Agriculture e biggest human
activity, that causes maximum nitrous oxide emission.
39.The worlds first green helicopter which is noiseless and emission-free has been successfully
tested in Germany. The two-seat prototype of the Volocopter, by the company e-volo, made its
maiden voyage on November 17 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Volocopter is an environmentally friendly
and emission-free private helicopter.
Tianhe-2 is the super computers has recently retained its place at the top of a list of the 40.
worlds most powerful systems.
India welcomed the inking of first disarmament treaty at the Biological Weapons convention in Geneva. 1.
Bramhmaputra Cruises among world top 10 Adventurous Cruises named by CNN International. 2.
10 Universities in Developing Nations top 100 list. 3.
India 2nd largest supplier of overseas students to Australia and China is 1st. 4.
Mauritius and India agree to limitation of benefits clause in Revised Tax Treaty. 5.
India and Nepal agreed to check illegal border trade. 6.
India signed Rs 4000 crore deal with US for procuring 6 more C-130 J Super Hercules special operation aircraft for the IAF. 7.
Election commission sign MOU with Yemen. 8.
India and Pakistan will sign a initial deal for import of electricity from India to Pakistan. 9.
10.India and Macedonia have signed a new double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) that provides for among other things
exchange of banking information for tax administration purposes.
India and Arab League inked an MoU to elevate the political, trade and cultural relations. 11.
Tiger Air (Singapore) airline and Spice jet partnered and entered into three year agreement. 12.
Indian scientists achieved the feet an insulin pill for diabetics. 13.
Odisha Government on 20 Dec 2013 was felicitated by United Nations agency for effectively handeling the Cyclone Phalin
in October 2013.
14.
The Sahara Q, The FMCG and retail business of the Sahara Group intends to set up 1900 shops in Tamil Nadu by 2016. The
name of the shop by Sahara Group is 'Q Shops'.
15.
AAI(Airport Authority of India) has received TRAINAR PLUS accreditation certificate and membership by the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The Head Quarter of UN is Montreal Canada.
16.
17.China is now the top country of last residence for immigration to the UK for the first time. India
moved down to second place .
18.. According to the International Labour Organisation, out of 131 countries Norway has highest work participation rates for
women. India has ranked 11th from the bottom in female labour force participation.
19.As per the study of Ipsos Economic Pulse of the world, India is the 7th economically confident country in the world. Ipsos is
the global research firm. India
20.Air Asia has given the name as the worlds leading low cost airline at the World Travel Awards 2013. In the travel industry
value of this award equal to Oscars.
21.India and Sri Lanka have agreed to slew of naval cooperation measures to target pirates and terrorist groups operating in the
Indian Ocean.
22.The Akhaura is the first multi-purpose integrated check post (ICP)along the India and Bangladesh.
23.The Government of India has planned to erect a security wall (similar to Berlin wall) along the borders of Pakistan Country.
24.India entered the golden jubilee of the launch of its first rocket from the coastal hamlet of
Thumba. The American-built rocket was fired on November 1, 1963. The launch site in due course came
to be known as Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launch Station and later became Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre, a major centre of ISRO named after pioneer of Indian space Vikram Sarabhai.25.
25.ArcelorMittal is the largest steel production company in the world. Worlds top four steel producing countries are China,
India & World
25.ArcelorMittal is the largest steel production company in the world. Worlds top four steel producing countries are China,
Japan, US and India.
26.India and Russia decided to hold their first-ever joint air combat exercise in the Peter the Great Bay-the largest gulf of the
Sea of Japan adjoining Russias cost next year.
46th is the Indias ranking at the first ever Environment and Gender Index (EGI) launched at a side 27.
event of the Conference of Parties (COP19), recently
28.
The CityNext an initiative to leverage technology for sustainable growth of cities in India is being
launched by Microsoft.
8th Asia Specific Gas partnership summit held in New Delhi. 1.
2.International Conference on the Great Lake Region is an intergovernmental organisation of African Countries in the African Great
Lakes .
3. In recent times, the Trade Facilitation Package (TFP) was making news with reference to WTO. The 159 members of the World
Trade Organization have recently struck a deal called Trade Facilitation Package that is expected to give the global economy a $1
trillion boost
Conference
CIBIL(Credit Information Bureau India Ltd) has announced plans to set up MFI (Micro Finance Institution) Credit Information
Bureau.
1.
G-33 is a group of developing countries that co-ordinate on trade and economic issues. Just name suggests G -33 but there
are 46 countries into it. Ministerial Conference of the WTO was held at Bali(Indonesia) , India on 4th Dec 2013.
2.
The Standing Committee of Finance headed by Yashawant Sinha gave suggestion to the Union Government and RBI that to
desist(Stop) from giving new bank license to Industrial Houses.
3.
HDFC bank joined hands with NPCIL(National Payments Corporation of India) to introduce eKYC(electronic Know Your
Customer).
4.
35.5% is the ratio of top 30 NPAs(Non-Performing Assets ) in respect of Public Sector Banks. 5.
Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Named Worlds Wealthiest Bachelor. 6.
Health Insurance Premium predicted that by 2016-17 premium to cross 32K crore. 7.
Indian Oil Corporation tops Fortune India 500 list 8.
India is termed as most optimistic about growth prospects. 9.
The Union cabinet approved a pension proposal of 43,000 MTNL employee who joined PSU from department of Telecom. 10.
Nepal and India agree to 1000 and 500 Indian note circulation among Nepal Territory. 11.
12.Reserve Bank of India extended the timeline for banks till March 31 next year to adopt the new messaging standards in Real-
time Gross Settlement, RTGS payment platform. A new RTGS system was put in place in October this year, requiring banks to
adopt ISO 20022 standard messaging formats.
RBI has tightned the norm for credit card holders and also given time of 90 days to pay the amount. 13.
UN lowered the Indian Economic Growth 4.8% in 2013, 5.3% in 2014 and 5.7 percent in 2015. 14.
15.The Reserve Bank of India will soon introduce cash-settled interest rate futures on 10-year government bonds and has also permitted exchanges to launch
these derivatives in other smaller tenure securities in the future.
16.India is the seventh most economically confident country in the world, says a study by global research firm Ipsos.
17.The Reserve Bank of India has granted a registration certificate to Cheraman Financial Services Ltd to carry out the business of a non-banking finance
company without accepting public deposits.
India's central bank surprised markets by leaving its key rending rate unchanged on Wednesday. The rate is 7.75%. 18.
Trade Edge which provide visibility to global brands across the demand chain from distributors to consumers and this
software was launched by Infosys.
19.
20.According to Annual list of Forbes 500 in India, IOC has emerged as biggest company in terms of Annual revenue followed
by Reliance.
21.As per the RBI guidelines Public Sector Banks has to give loans to women SHGs at the interest rate of 7 percent.
22. In Banking system, an account is designated as inoperative if it is not used for more than 2 years.
The Cephalic Index is the term used for Head. 23.
The Cephalic index or cranial index is the ratio of the maximum width of the head of an organism
multiplied by 100 divided by its maximum length. Today it is mainly widely used to describe individuals
appearances and for estimating the age of foetuses for legal and obstetrical reasons
Economy
appearances and for estimating the age of foetuses for legal and obstetrical reasons
ICC - International Cricket Council
DSIM - Department of Statistics and Information Management
EBT - Electronic Benefit Transfer
IIFCL - India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited
IPCC - Inter-Govermental Panel on Climate Change
NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India
SIDBI - Small Industries Development Bank of India
OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
DGMO: Director General Military Operations 1.
Abbrevation
Armed Forces Flag Day was observed on 7th Dec 2013. 1.
Human Rights Day was observed across the world on 10 December 2013 to bring to light the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights with a theme - 20 Years Working for Your Rights
1.
18th December 2013 is International Migrants day. 3.
International Anticorruption day on 9th December. 4.
International Civil Aviation day December 7. 5.
International Volunteer day December 5. Theme is Young.Global.Active. 6.
Worlds AIDS day was observed on 1st December. Theme name is Getting to zero. 7.
Kisan diwas was observed on 23rd December 2013 to celebrate birthday of Chaudari Charan Singh. 8.
International Migrants day was observed on 18th Dec 2013. 9.
UN Designates the 31st October as the World Cities Day. 10.
11 The International Day of Person with disabilities is marked on 3rd December and theme is Break Barriers, Open Doors: for an inclusive
society and development for all'.
International Day for abolition of slavery is being observed on 2nd December. 12.
National Consumer Right day observed on 24th Dec 2013. It was brought in the year 1986. 13.
Important Days
Books and Authors
1.Indian vice president Hameed ansari inagurated book 'Indian Nuclear Energy Progamme written by Prof
R.Rajaraman.
2. The Autobiography of the V.K.Singh was published the name of the book was 'Courage and Conviction'
3. Tinkle magzine completed the stable of Amar Chitra Katha(ACK) completed 33 years.
4.Unbreakable is the autobiography of Mary Kom.
Ruby Jubliee was released by Mallikarjun Kharge. 5.
Mohammed hammed ansari inaugurated the Fourth Biennial Conference of Asian Society of International Law. 6.
Birth of Cinema written by N.Gopal Krishna was released by T.Udayawarluon at ICFFI media centre. 7.
The Vice president of India released a book entitled Maimaar-E-Quan-Dr. A. R. Kidwai edited by Mufti Ataur
Rahman-Ansari.
8.
9. Momentous Time the book inaugurated by Vice President on 175 years of Times of India function in Delhi.
10. Francis Bacon's three paneled painting "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" became the most expensive work of
art ever sold at auction, it sold for 142.4 million at christie's.
11.James Mcbride wins US National Book Award 2013 the book name was "The Good Lord Bird"
Jumpha lahari wrote the book "The Lowland" 12.
13. The world's most expensive printed book the translational of Biblical psalms "The Bay Psalm Book" printed
by puritan Settlers in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
14. My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions' was released by APJ Abdul Kalam
SPORTS & GAMES
1. Hockey world cup 2014 men and women was played at the huges netherland.
2. Hockey world cup 2018 men will be played in India.
3. Hockey work cup 2018 women will be played in England.
4. Australia beat Netherland (6-1)in the men hockey world cup 2014 and vice versa in case of women hockey.
5. Novak Djokovic of Serbia won the Paris master Title against David Ferrer of spain.
6. Yuki Bhambriu won ATP mens single title of Taralgon even in Australia after defeating Bradely Klahn.
7. Heena Sindhu won the Pistol Gold in World cup shooting.
8. Anandan is world chess champion 5 times.
9.ATP World Tour Finals was won by Novak DjoKovic Of Serbia by defating Rafel Nadal of Spain.
10.16 th November 2013 is the last day of Sachins international cricket carrier. Indian defeated westindies by
126 runs and made series 2-0 at Mumbai.Sachin scored 74 runs in last innings and bowled just 2 overs. Last bowl
he deliverd to Shane Shillingford. Sachin played cricket for 24 years 1 day. He started his international Carrier
on 15th November 1989 in a Test match against Pakistan.
11. 200 Tests, 329 innings, 15,921 runs, 51 centuries, 68 fifties, Top Score 248 Not Out, Wickets Taken 46,
Batting Average 53.78, Bowling Average 54.00. His ODI record is as follows 463 ODIs, 18,426 Runs, 49
centuries, 96 fifties, Top Score 200 Not Out, Wickets Taken 154, Batting average 44.83, Bowling Average 44.48)
12. Sachin Tendulkar was ranked 18th in the ICC Player Rankings of Test batsman after he ended his record
breaking 200 test carrer was on 16 the November 2013. 1st. Abedevillers. Dale styen in bowling side.
13. Sebastian Vettle became the first driver in F1 history to win eight consecutive victories in a single season.
He is 4 time formula one world champion.
14. The Czech Republic won the Davis cup title.
15. Male Athletes of the year 2013 is Usian Bolt(Who won 100 meter race in World Atheltic Championship 2013)
and He equaled the world record of 8 goals at 2013 World Athletic Championship. and Female Athlete of the
year 2013 is Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
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year 2013 is Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
16. Youngest Chess world champion name Is Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union.
17. Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated world chess champion anand and became the second youngest world
chess champion at chennai.
18. Virat kholi equalled the record of the VV richardson of scoring 5000 runs in 114 innings.
19. Ramandeep Singh was the most expensive player of the Hockey India League.
20.Subroto Cup Football was won by manipur
21.Bayern Munich won UEFA Super cup 2013.
22.Andy Murry Wimbeldon Men single 2013. and Women single was won by Marion Bartoli
23. Aisa Cup Hockey 2013 was won by South Korea
24.Mumbai Indians won the Champion League t20,2013
25.Mohammaden Sporting club wins the Durand Cup 2013 after 73 years.
V.Bhaskaran is the coach of the Senior men hockey team. He was the gold medalist 26.
2016 Olympic will be may be played in 2016 in Brazil(Rio de Janerio). 27.
28.Ireland and Afghanistan qualified for ICC twenty20 world cup 2014.
29.British Paralympic Powerlifter Ali Jawad won gold at Asian Open Championship
Deepak Lathore won Gold and two silver medals in Boys 50kg category of CommonWealth Weight Lifting
Championship
30.
ICC T20 world cup 2014 will be held at Bangaldesh and NEPAL and UAE qualified for it 31.
Nigeria became the first african country to qualify for next year's world cup finals after 2-0 home win over
Ethopia in their playoff in Calabar on Satruday.
32.
As per the latest ICC ranking Virat Kholi has become the third indian batsman to hold number one batting
rank in ODI cricket after Sachya and Dhoni
33.
Indian Women hockey team bags silver in Asian Championship Trophy. And Indian men hockey team finished
at 3rd position Asian Championship trophy 2013 held at Japan.
34.
AIFF(All India Football Federation) General Secretary is Kushal Das. 35.
Harshwanti Bisht selected for sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy medal 2013 36.
Rafel Nadal won the Rogers cup 2013. 37.
Awards and Honors
1. Martha Dodray of bihar gets the UN award for polio work .
2. Rahul Jinda of indian origin won the presitigious US Award for Outstanding american by Choice.
3. RGIA(Rajiv Gandhi International Airport) in hyderabad won the Best Cargo airport award.
4. Rajesh s Gokhale won the Infosys prize 2013.
5.CNR Rao (Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao) and Sachin Tendular got the Bharata Ratna award.
6. CNR Rao got this award for his outstanding role in solid-state and structural chemsitry. He was third scientist
to get this award before him APJ Kalam and CV Raman had recived the award. CNR Rao is the 3rd kannadiga to
get the award before him Sir M vishweshwaray and Bhimsen joshi had recieved it. He also elected as honary
foreign member of Chinese Academy of Science.
7. Sachin Tendulakar is the youngest recipient of the Bharata Ratna Award and also the first person in sports to
get this award.
8. Angela Merkel of Europe won the Indira Gandhi prize for peace,Disarment and Development. She is the first
lady chacellor of Germanay.
9.Eleanor Catton wins manner book prize 2013 for The Luminaries. He belongs to NewZeland.
10.PV Sindhu won the bronze medal at world Badminton Championship 2013.
11. Nelson Mandola won the Mahathir Award for Global Peace in Aug 2013.
12. Malala Yousafzai won the European Union Sakhorva Humar Rights Prize in Sept 2014.
13.Rafel nadal won the US open Mens single final 2013.
14. First Yash chopra memorial award was won by Lata Mangeshwar.
14. First Yash chopra memorial award was won by Lata Mangeshwar.
15.Anjali Gopalan won the French Award Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in October.
16. Miss Asia Specific 2013 was won by Shruthi Rana of Hariyana
Lord Swaraj paul got International Indian of the Decade Award for his Achievements in the field of
industry,education and philanthropy.
17.
Inagural Centernay award was won by Waheeda Rehman. 18.
President Pranab Mukharjee gave Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Best University award to
Mangalore University.
19.
20.Kauwboy directed by Koole Boudewijin won the Golden Elephant award for best film in 'International Live
Action' category in International Children Film Festival.
Salman Rushdie, Mira Nair and Majula Bansal were honored by IAAC(Indo-American Arts Council) 21.
22.Malala Yousafzai ,Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan were choosen for GG2 Hammer Award for bravery and
Malala topped the list at GG2 Leadership Awards.
Priti Patel won the Asian Trade Editors award. 23.
India won silver medal at 3rd Women's Asia Championship Trophy . And hockey team finished at 5th place 24.
25.Mohammed Siddikaur of Bangladesh won 50th editor of Indian Open Golf Tournament
Jason Day, Australian Golfer won the Golf World Cup at Melbourne club Australia. 26.
Sebastian Vettel US grand Prix award for record 8th successive victory. 27.
Mushirul Hasan The voice chancellor of Jamia Millia conferred with Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship by
Jawaharlal memorial fund.
28.
GAIL (India) Limited Chairman and Managing Director, Shri B C Tripathi, has been conferred the prestigious
Best LNG Executive Global Award for 2013 at CWCs 14th World LNG Summit being held at Paris.
29.
30.Gurbax Singh Sandhu is the National Coach of men's Indian Boxing team till 2016 in Rio De Janerio.
Shiraz Naval Minwalla won New horizions in physics prize 2014 31.
SPMCIL (Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited) A PSU under Ministry of Finance
conferred with Engineering Excellence award 2013
32.
N.Sriram Balaji wins ITF Future Title over Korean Jung-Woong Na in Bhopal. 33.
GN Rao honored with Outstanding Humanitarian Service award, he had also got the award 'International
Prevention of Blindness Award".
34.
Kush kumar Indian squash player won gold in the Asian Youth games held in Nanjing,China 35.
Marion Bartoli from France who has won Wimbledon women's single title in 2013 has announced her
retirement.
36.
37.India has won 83 medals at the 2013 World police and fire games held at Belfast(Northern Island).
K P Thomas won Dronacharya award. 38.
Ronjon Sodhi won the Raji Gandhi Khel Ranta award for Hs Trap shooting skills 39.
Brigalia Bam won Mahatma Gandhi International award for peace and Reconciliation. 40.
INTERNATIONAL
1. Abdual Yameen is the 6th new president of the Maldieves
2.Boko Haram meaning Western Education is sacrilege. It is a terrorist groud trying to impose Islam on the
North nigeria. Americal official annonce it as terriorist group for UN bombing at Abuja. The meaning of Sacrilege
is Violation or Misuse of what is regarded as scared.
3.P5+1 nation (US,UK,France,Germanay,China and Russia) (code word: FUUCGR) has signed interim nuclear deal
with IRAN.
4.Taiwan and singapore signed free trade agreement on 7th November.
5. Bangaladesh gave the approval for commercial cultivation of the genetically modified(GM) BT Brinjal.
6. Zhi Xian party was the new party emerged in china
6. Zhi Xian party was the new party emerged in china
7.Singapore Airlines decided to end flight in the longest non stop flight connecting Singapore and New York.
8. American Airlines and US airways are merging to form worlds biggest airlines.
9. The new president of the World Anti-Doping Agency(WADA) was Craig Reedie of Britain.
10. Commonwealth Summit in 2015 will be host by Malta which a south European country.
11.Presidents Standards awarded to the two of the IAF's frontline Fighter squadron 220 and 32 in punjab. 220
squadron is situated at Halwara and 32 squadron at Adampur
12. State of emergency was imposed in Thailand for anti-government protest.
13. Singapore airlines will start an aviation venture with Tata sons.
Immomali Rakhmom is reelected as the President of Tajakistan. 14.
R bhanumati is the new chief justice of the Jharkhand. 15.
The chariman of National Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (NMCE) is Krishna mohan sahani. 16.
A book of Drug Standards was realsed by Ghulam nabi Azad on 7th Edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia. 17.
Commonwealth Business forum was inagurated by President of Srilanka Mahindra Rajapaksa. 18.
"selfie" named Oxford Dictionarys word of the year 2013. 20.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) lunched cyber defence exercise 'Cyber Coalition 2013'at Estonia. 21.
India might overcome US in usage of internet as the world's second largest online community after china.
IAMAI(Internet And Mobile Association of India)
22.
Ahamed Saleem is the current Secretary general of SAARC. 23.
According to World Prosperity Index 2013 Norway most prosperous country in the world. 24.
As per the Financial Secrecy Index Switzerland emerged as world's most secretive place on financial matters. 25.
Rabba Sign is the symbol of protest against military coup in Egypt. 26.
The "Wakhan Corridor" separates Pakistan and Tajikistan. 27.
The following only countries which have launched mission to mars they are India, Russia, China, US and
Japan.
28.
Viraat Ramayan Mandir the world's largest Hindu temple is to be built in Bihar Motihari district, about 120
km from the city of Patna.
29.
Fiji Islands are referred to as 'Crossroads of south Specific". 30.
Indonesia is not the member of OPEC(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ) 31.
32.Robert Mugbe The president of Zimbabwe.
A Street in Canada has been named after Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of Indias 67th Independence
Day.
33.
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
1. 'Hawk 132' manufactured by HAL is added to the account of Indian Navy on 6th November at the
Vishakpatanam Andrapradesh.
2. Worlds first Green helicopeter is tested in Germany. The name of the Helicopter is 'Volocopter'.
3. Indias MOM(Mars Orbitor Mission) launching Mangalyaan(Indias first inter-planetry flight). The camera used
was Mars Colour Camera. India is the first Asian Country and the fourth in the world to undertake this mission
in the hope of finding methane and minerals. The cost of the project was Rs.450 crore.
4. ISTRAC situated in Bangalore is the nerve who will take care of the Mangalyaan mission.
5. The first squardron for Advanced light weight helicopters for the Indian Navy was commision on 12th
November 2013 at Kochi(Kerala). The name of the Newly commissioned naval squardron is INAS322 (Indian
Naval Air Squadron 322) it is equipped with group of Dhruva Helicopters which was manfucatured by HAL.
6.Triumph the famous British motorcyle brand made entry into market with 10 models.
7. Agni V was tested by india 2nd time it is nuclear missile with 5500 km range.
7. Agni V was tested by india 2nd time it is nuclear missile with 5500 km range.
8. The Good Road was nominated for Oscar 2013
The 12th edition (2014) of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will be held in which of the following city?
A. Mumbai (Answer)
9. Nasa Launched MAVEN orbiter mission to Mars planet on 18th November 2013.
10. Bureau International des Expositions(BIE) voted in favor of Dubai to be host city for The World Trade Fair or
EXPO2020
11.PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ) C25 was the launch vehicle which was used in the mission to mars.
The "Dobson unit" is the most common unit for measuring Ozone concentration. 12.
13.Soyaben , Groundnut and Mustard top three largest produced oilseed in India.
Sasan ultra mega power project in MP is commissioned by Reliance Power. 14.
Biotic Index gives us idea about pollution of Water. 15.
Jupiter is the planet having highest escape velocity in solar system. 16.
India's first aerospace park ready for take-off in Hyderabad (Adhibatla) will take from RGIA airport. 17.
Cheapest lung cancer drug 'Mycidac-C' was launched by Cadila Pharmaceuticals. 18.
New Breast cancer drug-Biosimilar Trastuzumab (Brand name of CANMAB) was introduced in Indian market. 19.
'Find my Stuff' the new mobile app devised by German Scientist that helps locate lost item. 20.
US Developed Most precise clock in the world name is New Atomic Clock. 21.
Kepler telescope built by NASA has stopped its mission of searching for habitable planets after its pointing
system broke down.
22.
PERSON IN NEWS
1. Usha Sangwan First women director of LIC
2. Ushan Ananthsubramanian is the first CMD of Bharatiya Mahila Bank.
3.Doris Lessing the oldest receptient of Noble prize in Literature was died. Her best known books are The
Golden Notebook, Memories of Surviour and The Summer before the dark and she was only the 11th women to
win the award.
4. Miss Universe 2013 was won by Gabriela Isler of Venezuela held in Moscow russia. Till now she has won 7
such titles.
5. Rohit Sharma hit double centruy (209) vs Australia in Bangalore chinnaswami stadium. Sachya scored 209 vs
SA and Shewag scored 219 against WI and Rohit was the 14 the Indian batsman to score a century on Debut.
6.Rohit Sharma has established record of hitting most number of sixes (16) in an innings in ODI against
Austraila. HE broke record of Shane watson who had hit 15 sixes agains Bangaladesh
7.Ahan Modi became the youngest PAN card holder in the country.
8.Srilankan Gamani corea is related to Economics.
9. Jhon s Chen is the new CEO of Blackberry.
10.Tarla Dalal was the first chef of india and was associated with the Cookery.
11. Gurshanarn Kaur the wife of Manmohan singh was the person to get the security cover of the Women SPG
12. Narendra Hirwani was the first indian to get the highest wicket in his debut test for india. Second person Is
Mohammed Shami.
13. Peta was invented by Ingrid Newkirk. PETA(People for Ethical Treatment of Animals)
14. Sachin played totally 200 test and below him next player is Dravid 150.
14. Sachin played totally 200 test and below him next player is Dravid 150.
15. Shivanarian chandrapal became the first west indian cricketer to play 150 test for his team.
16. Prithvi Shaw smashed 546 runs which is third highest score in the world in any format of cricket.
17. Frederick Sanger passed away at the age of 95 was an Biochemist. He was the Double noble prize winner
that too both for chemistry only. Other three personalities to win 2 nobles are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and
John Bardeen.
18. Lionel Messi playes for Barcelona Spanish League Team. He was awarded third Golden Boot award.
19. Anjolie Ela Menon was presented with Dayawati Modi Award for Art and culture education.
20. John F kennedy was assassination of 35th US president was carried out at Dallas texas.
21. Rizwan Abbasi is the new lawyer of ongoing mumbai terror attack.
22. Narendra modi is the person of the year is the only indian among 42 global leaders.
23.Lieutenant General Raheel Sharif new chief of Pakistan Army. He is the 15 th chief of pakistan army.
24. Shikar Dhawan and Upal Taranga share the record of scoring first 5 ODI hundereds in least number of
innings.
25.Nishi Vasudeva become first women to head Navaratna PSU HPCL.
26.Manmohan sing 5th time elected as Rajya sabha member from Assam.
27. Golden Bat award was won by Shikar Dhawan in Championship trophy 2013. and Jadeja won golden ball
award in the same trophy.
28. Winner of Noble prize for Literature in 2013 Alice Munro belongs to canada.
29. Winner of Miss world 2013 Megan young belong to Philippine country.
30. Virat Kholi is the brand Ambasaddor of BSF.
31. Tonny Abbott the Present Primeminsiter of Austraila
32. Thomas Bach the President of International Olympic Committee.
33.Sushmita Banerjee was killed by Talilban in Afgan.
34. Raghuram Rajan is the 23rd Governor of RBI. Duvvaian Subbarao was Governor before him.
34. Aung Suu Kyi received the Sakhorva Prize for Freedom of thought 2013.
35. Arup Raha the new indian chief of Indian Airforce.
36. Justice Ajay Mainkrao 22nd chief justice of MP high court
Neeraj Sahai , Indian-American has appointed as the president Standard & Poors Rating Service. 37.
Sachin Tendulkar appointed as UNICEF's first brand ambassador for South Asia on 28th Nov 2013. 38.
39.Legendray pak singer reshma died in lahore
Paul Walker died in car accident in California US on 30th November 2013. 40.
Vijaydan Detha, famous writer of folk tales in Rajasthani 41.
Moe Set Wine is the first Miss Universe contestant to represent Myanmar in more than 50 years time of
history
42.
Two time Olympic gold medalist Donovan Bailey is the first ambassador of Airtel Delhi Half Marthon's. 43.
Tassaduq Hussain is the new chief justice of Pakistan. 44.
45.Radha Burnier passed away recently she belongs to Theosophical Society.
SN Goenka was passed away recently she was a pioneer in the field of Vipassan 46.
Imomali Rakhmon is the Tajikistans president winning fourth seven year term. 47.
Russian President Vladimir Putin most powerful person in the world: Forbes. 48.
Geethu Anna Jose Ace basketball player selected for Jimmy George Award. 49.
MS Dhoni and Virat Kholi nominated for ICC people choice award. 50.
Syed Ibne Abbas new pak envoy to India. 51.
Justice Ajaya Manikrao Khanwikar is the Chief Justice of MP High Court. 52.
Satyananda mishra appointed as new chairman of MCX(Multi Commodity Exchange). 53.
Satyananda mishra appointed as new chairman of MCX(Multi Commodity Exchange). 53.
Tassaduq Jillani New Chief Justice of Supreme court of Pakistan. 54.
PLACES IN NEWS
1. One world trade center of US is tallest building replacing chichagos Willis Tower.
2. Gujrat CM Narendra modi proposed to construct 182m height Sardar Vallabhai patel statue on the narmada
river near bharchu in Gujarat. This will be the tallest statue in the world. The name of the statue is 'Statue of
Unity'. The Run for Unity was organized by MODI to gather support for it.
3. Sikkim got the name best region to visit in 2014 in Lonely Planet's 'Best in Travel 2014'.
4. The Power cyclon of three decades hit philippines was Typhoon Haiyan
5. Chattisgarh was the first state in which there was a option for Voting as NOTA(None of The Above).
6.Karwar Karnataka was choosen as the base for stationing Indias second aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya
which will be commisioned into indian navy on 16th November at Russia. And Indias first aircraft carrier name
is INS Vikrant(It will be commissioned in 2017). Meaning of INS--> Indian Naval Services. In Russia INS
VIkramadiya was called as Baku.
7. The 18th International Childeren Film Festival of India(ICFFI) was held at Hyderabad.
8. The 44th International Film Festival of India(IFFI) was held at Goa. The first film to be screened was Don
Juans. The Golden peacock award was won by the film Beatriz's War by East Timor.
9. Ripon building of chennai completed 100 years of establishment, houses of muchipal corporation of India.
10. Nepal will be playing next year World T20 championship.
11.Thailand Donated 300kg gold Bodh gaya temple in bihar.
12.Chattisgarh is the place where first state election voting held.
13.Worlds Biggest Building 'New Centuary Golbal Center' was build in Chengdu of China.
World Heritage site list 2013 for this Hill forts rajastan was added to it.
14.Delhi was the first state to launch Food Security Scheme in India.
15. Tripura achieve top position in literacy chart in India.
16. Indias first air traffic controll was inaugatrated at mumbai
Joint Commission meeting b/w the Republic of Korea and india held at Delhi. 17.
DMRC and Embassy of Swedan jointly inaugurated 'Nobel Memorial Wall' at Rajiv Chowk metro station in
delhi.
18.
ITC Maurya declared as worlds first LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum rated
hotel by the US Green Building Council.
19.
ICANN-The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced the LONDON will become
one of the first cities in world to have its own web domain '.London' from summer 2014.
20.
21.Germany on Friday became the first European country to allow babies born with characteristics of both sexes
to be registered as neither male nor female, but advocates called for broader reforms.
The "Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary" in Assam is famous for One-Horn Rhinos. 22.
The Great Himalaya national park is one of the only two national parks in the world which are home to
Western Tragopan.
23.
Gulmarg the coldest place in J & K. 24.
Goas new Dabolim airport to be opened on Goa Liberation day. 25.
Russia launches rocket Soyuz-FG rocket carrying 2014 Olympic torch 26.
Punjab to host 4th World Cup Kabaddi. 27.
INDIA AND WORLD
1. India ranked 7th in Expat quality of life : Meaning of Expat (Swadesh movie kind). 1st position Thailand.
2. India and kuwait signed 5 agreements
3. India and US conducted Joint Military Exerciese named Malabar2013
3. India and US conducted Joint Military Exerciese named Malabar2013
4. Indian and China conducted Hand in Hand Joint military training exercise at china place Chengdu.
UNSECO suspended US and ISRAEL the voting right as they didnt pay the due to UN cultural Arm 5.
6. Russia successfully launched rocket Proton-M carrying defense satellite Raduga-1M from Kazakshtan.
7. Prasar Bharati and Radio-Television of Solvenia signed MOU to develop and strengthen the mutual friendly
relation in boradcasting.
8. International Trade Fair began at Prgathi maidan New Delhi.
9. India-Bangladesh first integrated check post names Agartala-Akhaura was inaugurated by Both India and
Bangladesh.
10. India signed 8 agreements with Vietnam in areas of Defence and security, oil exploration, civil aviation and
Scientific research.
11.Sacramento King the popular basketball team in US launched Hindi version website to reach out to people
who speak Hindi and in turn to popularize the game in the country.
The ancient Hindu Temple "Preah Vihera" is a source of dispute between Cambodia and Thailand. 12.
BIPA (Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement) treaty India has signed with Gulf Co-
operation Council Countries (GCC) they are Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
13.
South Korea is the largest buyer of Wheat from India. 14.
India signed a clean tech pact to produce etahnol with Finland. 15.
Saudi Arabia has emerged as worlds largest active Twitter user while India ranked 21st 16.
NATIONAL
1. Government released postage stamps on Sachin Tendulkar . He is the second person after Mother teresa to
have such stamps.
2.First Dual cab diesel Elctric freight locomotive to be bulit by Indian Railway is Vijay.
3.Information and Broadcasting Minister issued new award 'Centernary Award or Shatabdi Purskar for india
completing 100 years in indian cinema and new award will ge given to outstanding Indian film personality at the
International Film Festival of India(IFFI).
4.Times of India completed 175 years
5. Indias. First riot controld and public order management academy was inagurated at Meerut UP.
6. The first Regional Pravasi Bharatiya diwas was inagurated in Austraila.
7. From Gangotri(Uttarkhand) to Ganga sagar(West Bengal) the longest white water river drafting was
completed IAF Aqua squllers.
8.Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail(VVPAT) was first used in mizoram. It just help the user to see and track
wheteh he voted it or not.
9. Airforce station Ambala is the oldest airbase of IAF witnessing 75 year of its establishment in aug
2013,Platinum jubliee celerbration was held there at Ambala.
10. GSICC(Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee) was headed by Ranjana Prakash Desai
11.Indias first defence satellite launched on august 2013 GSAT-7.
'BCCI' launched Thank You sachin campaign on social networking site to honor sachin on retirement. 12.
Sukhoi-30 fighter jet has been selected by Indian Air Force as the platform to mount the Supersonic BrahMos
missiles.
13.
Jet Airways sold the 24 percent stake to the Etihad Airways of UAE. 14.
NALCO won the EEPC(Engineering Export Promotion Counsil) Easter region Gold Trophy for 2011-12. 15.
The International Heavy Minerals Conference (HMC) was held in Vishakapatnam 16.
"Synthetic Rubber plant" of the country at panipat Harayana was inagurated by Petroleum Minister
Veerappa Moily.
17.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority has approved fifth tiger reserve of Maharastra in Nagzira 18.
Tripura first time in country introduced PVC Electoral Photo Identity Card as mandated by Election
Commision of India.
19.
Govt allowed 5kg of Lpg cooking gas to sell at petrol bunk. 20.
Enforcement Directorate comes under Ministry of Finance. 21.
Enforcement Directorate comes under Ministry of Finance. 21.
BFSI(Banking and Financial Service Industry) - LIC has emerged as India's most attractive brand in BFSI
industry.
22.
BASIC country are developing country who committed to reduce greenhouse gas emission. BASIC Includes
following Countries Brazil, South Africa, India and China.
23.
Mithi Virdi nuclear plant is coming up in Gujarat Bhavangar district. 24.
'Nathu La' mountain passes, which connects India and China's Tibet Autonomous Region. 25.
The "Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme" is related to encourage the defaulters of service tax. 26.
As per the latest report by Central Statistics Office(CSO) West Bengal recorded highest sex ratio in 110 years. 27.
Shashtra seema bal establishes its own Dog Training center in Rajastan. 28.
Axis bank will become Foreign-owned lender. 29.
The new toll free number for Telecom complaints is '1037'. 30.
31. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana. The programme is aimed at providing electricity to all rural
households. The Government of India has recently decided to continue the programme.
The airstrip in Ladakh, reopened by the Indian Air Force is Daulat Beg Old. 32.
Virginius Xaxa the Chairman of the newly constituted committee by the Central Government, to assess the
status of Scheduled tribes
33.
STATE
1.Kannur district in kerala is named as Zero Landless district in the country.
2. Indias first rapid metro service is started its operation from Guragaon.
3. Article 371D is related to Telagana issue. Telangana new cm Chandrashekar rao its the 29th state of India. It
has got 10 districts under it and for 10 years Hyderbaad will be the captial of Telangana and Andhrapradesh.
4. TCS opened new plant in Gandhinagar Gujrat
5. Assams offical State anthem "O Mor Aponar Desh" (O my beloved land) was composed by Sahityarthi
Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
6. Helen Cyclonic storm hit coast of Andhra pradesh.
7. Coir board of India recently completed 60 years.
8. RBI opened 5000cr for MSME Sector.
9. GNLA(Garo National Liberation Army) is fighting for Sovereign Garoland in Meghalaya.
According to Survey on Higher Education Bangalore has highest number of colleges in the country. 10.
The Palamaner is a small town in chittoor district of AP is famous for Terracotta toys. 11.
Mustard is the cerel corp selected for 'Geographical Information System' to provide all information about
sowing and harvesting of the corps.
12.
74 Amendment deals with Strengthening of urban local bodies and 73 Amendment deals with empowering
panchayat raj institutions.
13.
Sevai Attam, Oyilaattam and Karagattam are traditional folk dance of Tamil Nadu. 14.
Punjab is the state which banned E-cigarettes in the country. 15.
Gorkhapur in UP is called as 'Chicago of the East' due to its gang wars. 16.
Royal Kathima Ceremony is related to Buddhism 17.
United Bank will open branches in all West Bengal Gram panchayats. 18.
Maharasthra enacted anti-superstition law. 19.
CONFERENCE
1.Delhi to host 12th edition Pravasi Bharatiya diwas in 2014.
2.CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) was held at Colombo Srilanka among 53 memeber it
happened after 24 years. Indian cananda and Mauritius bunked this meeting.
3.United Nation Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) was held at Warsaw, Poland. In that G77+China Group
walked out of Negotiations on 'Loss and Damage' .
4. Union Cabinet on 7th Nov 2013 approved the VISA waiver agreements with the Poland, Slovenia and
Lithuania.
7. The Gopal Krishna Committee findings are related to the reason in decrease in production of Natural Gas.
ECONOMY
1. India will be 3rd largest economy by 2030.
2. Indian Philanthropist list was topped by Azim premzi.
3. India's first Bharatiya Mahila Bank(BMB) was inagurated by the manmohan and sonia on Indira gandhi birth
anniversary on 19th November. The first BMB was inagurated at the Narmian point in mumbai. Usha
subramanian is the first Chief or head or top officer of that bank. BMB is the first bank started in Public Sector
space by an Act of Parliment.
4. Sabarro first ever branded Apple was launched by Mahindra Shublah.
ABBREVIATIONS
1. AAA-- Asian Atheltics Association
2.GFCI- Global Finance Centers Index
3.EVM- Electronic Voting Machine
4.CITU- Center of Indian Trade Unions
5. ERDA- Energy Research and Developmet Administration.
6.FEMA- Foreign Exchange Management Act.
IMPORTANT DAYS
1.National Education day is celebrated on 11 November. First celebrated at Gangtok,sikkim. It was in the name
of Maulana Abdula Kalam Azad the first education minister of india and also national portal is inaugurated on
his name. And also on 125th Birth Anniversary of him P chidambaran released Commemorative coin of Rs 20 a
circulation coin of Rs.5
2. National Press day was observed on 16th November.
3. 12 th july is celebrated as Malal Day by UN in 2013.
National Integration Day was observed on 19th Nov. 4.
5. National Mining Day was celebrated on 1st November.
6. World Science day for Peace and Development was observed on 10 November.
7. National Integration day was observed on 19th November (The Birth of Indira Gandhi)
8. World Toilet Day was observed on 19th November.
International day for elimination of violence against women is observed on 25th November. 9.
Constitution Day was observed on 26th November. 10.
World Photograph day was celebrated on August 19th. 11.
The First world cup cricket officially called as prudential cup and there 6 teams at that time was played in the year
1975, The match was between West Indies vs Australia, The West Indies won this match.
Firs ever world cup century was made by Dennis Ammis of England.
The First Test match was played in the year 1877, It was played between Australia and New Zealand .
Trimming is related to the Foot Ball
In kabaddi there will be 11 players
1st Asian game was held in India and it will be organized for every 4 years. Asian games were started in 1951
Length of Cricket Pitch 22 yards
The winter olympic game is played in 1924
First Olympic was held in Canada
Sania Mirza is brand ambassador of Telangana
Rajasthan is the first state to establish Panchayat Raj Institutions in India.
Lokayukta submits its report to the Speaker of the Legislative assembly.
Sarkaria commission was appointed to examine centre-state relations in India.
Thorium is the radioactive element has been to have in India.
Peanuts grows under the tree.
Trivandrum is the not free trade zone.
Euro is the currency of Spain
Azlan Shah cup is associated with the game of Hockey.
After long cold war Taiwan and China signed agreement to expand air links and accept main land investments.
India signed big defence deal of Rs.45000 crore in order to buy warships.
Chhattisgarh is among top five power selling states in India.
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