Sanu On Sunday, October 17, 2010

APRIL CIVIL AFFAIRS

International Current Affairs

· Belgium became the Europe’s first country to ban burqa.

· Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT / NNPT) was held at UN head quarters in New York

· Pakistan’s National assembly passed a bill that takes away the President’s power to dissolve parliament, dismiss a elected government and appoint the three services Chiefs. Pakistan’s parliament passes 18th amendment which was later signed by Presient cutting President’s powers.

· USA and Russia signed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that allowed a maximum of 1550 deployed overheads, about 30% lower than a limit set in 2002. The treaty was signed in the Progue Castle.

· Emergency was imposed in Thailand.

· 16th SAARC Summit held in Thimphu, Bhutan in 28-29 April.

The summit was held in Bhutan for the first time. It is the silver jubilee summit as SAARC has completed 25 years. The summit central theme was ‘Climate Change’. The summit recommended to declare 2010-2020 as the “Decade of Intra-regional Connectivity in SAARC”. The 17th SAARC summit will be held in Maldives in 2011. One crore trees will be planted in the member countries

· Nuclear Security Summit held at Washington.

The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit was held in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13. The Summit focused on how to better safeguard weapons-grade plutonium and uranium to prevent nuclear terrorism. President Ahmadinejad of Iran mentioned it as “shame to whole humans

· BRIC and ISBA

PM visits USA & Brazil for a two nation tour. He attended Nuclear Security Summit in USA & India- Brazil-S.Africa(IBSA) and Brazil-Russia -India-China(BRIC) summit in Brasilia (Brazil). In BRIC conference, BRIC countries supported for the permenant membership of India and Brazil Iin security council of In . BRIC countries holds 20% of the total economy in the world .]

· 600 dead due to an earthquake in Beijing, China

National Current Affairs

  • Naxals killed about 75 CRPF personal at Chintalnar-Tarmetla village in Dantewada distt ,Chhattisgarh. Government appoint E.N. Rammohan, to probe the incident.
  • Uninque Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) now known as Aadhaar. It’s Chairman is Nandan Nilekani. It will assign 16 digit identification number to all residents in India.
  • NTRO- National Technical Research Organisation. The organization came to limelight after allegation of phone tapping of politicians.
  • Operation Green Hunt – Operation against Maoists
  • Indian navy commissioned India’s first indigenously built stealth warship ‘ INS Shivalik’. The other stealth warship to be built are named as ‘INS Sahyadri’ and INS Satpura’.
  • Right To Education Act is notified and will become a legally enforceable from 1 April 2010. Key features of RTE Act are : All children in 6-14 age group must get free and compulsory eduction; No child shall be held back,expelled or required to pass a board examination till Class VIII; There must be 25 % reservation for poor children even in private & minority schools; There must be one teacher for every 30 students; A child rights commission will look into violations of the RTE law.
  • Govt start Census 2011. It is the 15th Census. It is in two phase. The first phase is called –House listing & Housing Census and the second phase is called decadal headcount which will be held in Feb 2011. The Registrar General of India is C Chandramouli.

Sports Current Affairs

  • IPL3 season won by Chennai Super Kings defeating Mumbai Indians.
  • World Youth Championship was held at Baku, Azerbaijan.
  • Lawn tennis legend Martina Navratilova diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
  • ‘Jumbo’ chosen as 2011 World Cricket Cup Mascot.
  • World Kabbadi Cup 2010- India defeated Pakistan to won World Cup Kabbadi 2010 held at Ludhiana.
  • Pankaj Advani won the Asian Billiards Championship defeating Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist for the consecutive third time.
  • Badminton Asia Championship, Delhi :
    • Men’s singles – Lin Dan defeated Wang Zhenguing
    • Women’s singles-Li Xiurei defeated Liu Xin.

MIAMI OPEN 2010

Men Singles

Andy Roddick (USA)

Thomas Berdych (CZE)

Women Singles

Kim Clijsters (BEL)

Venus Williams

Men Doubles

Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) /

Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) /

Leander Paes (IND)

Max Mirnyi (BLR)

Women Doubles

Gisela Dulko (ARG) /

Nadia Petrova (RUS) /

Flavia Pennetta (ITA)

Samantha Stosur (AUS

Economics & Commerce

  • India became the 7th largest shareholder in World Bank. India’s voting rights has gone up to 2.91 %. The USA has highest voting rights of 15.85 % followed by Japan with 6.84 % and Germany with 4 %.
  • Govt proposed that concept of GGDP – Green Gross Domestic Product to be introduced in the country by 2015. In 2012 India will host the Rio+20 conference on biological diversity.
  • Government approved disinvestment of 20% of share in SAIL in this financial year.
  • India’s total external debt as on December 2009 is 251 billion.
  • India’s Gems & Jewellery export grow by 16% to $28.41 billion in 2009- 10
  • SBI opened wind mills [Green Banking Project- first bank to initiate this ]
    • Maharadhtra – 9 Watts
    • Tamil Nadu – 4.5 watts
    • Gujarath – 1.5 watts
  • RBI announced the credit policy. The CRR has been raised from 5.75 % to 6 %. The Repo rate has been raised from 5 % to 5.25 %. The reverse repo rate has been raised from 3.5 % to 3.75 %.
  • Dhanalakshmi bank in agreement with UTI Mutual funds.
  • Microsoft – Infosysis agreement
    • Microsofts’ all IT services will be look after by Infosys for the ext 3 years in 104 countries.

Awards Current Affairs 2010

  • 19th Bihari Puraskar 2009 has been awarded to Hemant Shesh for his collection of poetry ‘Jagah Jaisi Jagah’.
  • Carl Zeiss wildlife conservation award was won by Joydip Kundu.
  • 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best first Book was awarded to Glenda Guest for the novel ‘Siddon Rock’. Rana Dasgupta won Commonwealth Writers Prize for best Book 2010 for book ‘Solo’.
  • Amitav Ghosh won the Dan David Prize along with Margaret Atwood for ‘Rendition of the 2oth century’.

Misc Issues

  • ‘Decision Points’ memoiries of former US President George W Bush.
  • A variety of mango has been named after Sachin Tendulkar.
  • Scientist create element 117 from calcium & Berkelium.
  • International congress of Mathematicians will be hosted by India for the first time in August 2010 at Hyderabad. The congress has been held once every four years since 1897except the breaks during two world wars.
  • Government will opened four new campuses for the IIMC (Indian Institute of Mass Communication) at Nagpur, Kochi, Jammu and Aizawl.
  • Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Derjeeling become first zoo in the country to install infrared night vision cameras in the enclosures housing endangered snow leopard.
  • ‘Hindutva, Sex & Adventure’ written by Mark Tully.
  • Gorumara National Park, Jalpaigudi has been declared the best among the 235 national parks & sanctuaries in the country by the MOEF.
  • ‘Gandhi-Naked Ambition’ written by Jad Adams.
  • India ranks 5th in the World’s cybercrime ranking for 2009 after US, China, Brazil & Germany.
  • India lauched GSLV from Sriharikota on 15 April 2010. However the launch was failed in the third stage. The launch was important as GSLV-D3 was the third developmental mission of India’s GSLV during which ISRO’s indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage (CUS) was to be flight tested. This is the 6th flight of GSLV, but the first one to test Indian made cryogenic upper stage. GSLV-D3 was to launch the GSAT-4 satellite into an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The total flight of the vehicle was planned to be 1022 seconds.
  • India likely to complete building its first strategic crude oil storage by Oct 2011. India is building underground storage at Visakhapatnam in AP and Padur in Karnataka to store about 5.33 million tones of crude oil which is enough to meet nation’s oil requirement for 13-14 days. India will join nations like the US, Japan & China that have strategic reserves.

· Indian Maritime University decided to start campus @ Kochi

· Meenvallam Project @ Palakkad

  • Ramanathapuram Roopatha formed – Mythran is Mar Poll Alapatt
  • Kavu Protection Project- Kerala (First in India)

Persons in News [2010]

  • Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra was sworn in as Judge of Supreme Court of India. She became the 4th women judge to be elevated to the Supreme Court of India.
  • Justice S H Kapadia will be next Chief Justice of India.
  • Mukul Sangma shown in as Meghalaya Chief Minister.
  • Juan Antonia Samaranch, Former President of International Olympic Committee (IOC) died.
  • Abdul rahman - Kochi Smart City CEO
  • Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski died in a air crash at Moscow.
  • Meera Shankar – US Ambassador
  • Chirayu Ameen – New IPL chairman (Baroda Cricket Counciil chairman)
  • Shashi Tharoor lost his minster post by involving in the IPL team making
  • Lalit Modi - the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and the Chairman of the Champions League from 2008 to 2010. He is also the Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) since 2005 and Vice President of the Punjab Cricket Association.
  • Gnl Vijay Kumar Singh – Army chief
  • T M Baasin – Indian Bank Chairman
  • M K Kamalam - Balan’ Actress
  • Jaya Ratne – Srilankan PM
  • C P Sudhakara Prasad- Kerala Advocate General
  • Varkala Radhakrishnan passed away (83).- was speaker of Kerala.
  • Prabha Rao- Rajasthan Governor passed away.

April 5 – International day of mines awareness

April 5 – National Maritime day

April 7 – World heath day

April 12 – National Theatre day

April 17 – World Haemophilia day

April 18 – World Heritage day

April 22 – Earth day

April 23 – World book and copyright day

April 23 – World intellectual property day

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