CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 2013 Appointments: 1) New Solicitor General of India : Mohan Parasaran. 2) New President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) : Subodh Kumar Agrawal. 3) Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) : P.R. Vasudeva Rao. 4) New U.S. Interior Secretary : Sally Jewell 5) Next Permanent Representative of India to the UN : Asoke Kumar Mukerji. 6) Ecuadors President : Rafael Correa. 7) New President of Cyprus : Nicos Anastasiades. 8) Chairman of IRDA (Insurance Regulatory Authority of India) : T. S. Vijayan. 9) New President of South Korea : Park Geun-Hye, the First Woman President of South Korea. Awards: 1) Allan Border Medal 2013: Michael Clarke, Australian Cricket Team Captain. 2) Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award : Pandit Ravi Shankar. 3) Life Time Achievement Award 2012 by Ernst & Young : Ratan Tata. 4) City Proclamation Award : Anupam Kher, Bollywood actor was awarded with the City Proclamation Award. 5) Oscar Awards 2013:The Oscars 2013 ceremony was held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. a) Best Picture: Argo b) Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis. c) Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence. d) Best Director : Ang Lee for Life of Pi. 6) Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development Award 2011 : Ela Ramesh Bhatt. Important Days in February: (source: bankcracker) February 02 : World Wetlands Day February 24 : Central Excise Day. February 28 : National Science Day. Sports: 1) Brazil Open 2013 : Rafael Nadal wins Brazil open defeated David Nalbandian. 2) Inaugural Hockey India League : Ranchi Rhinos Beat Delhi Waveriders to Win first Hockey India League. 3) Womens European golf Tour : Lydia Ko. 4) ICC Women’s World Cup Trophy : Australia won the ICC Women’s World Cup Trophy after defeating West-Indies. The final was held at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. 5) Grenke Chess Classic trophy 2013 : Viswanathan Anand, from India won the after defeating Arkadij Naiditsch from Germany. 6) Dubai Tennis Championship : Sania Mirza and Bethanie-Mattek Sands won after defeating Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik, Miscellaneous: 1) Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme launched by Finance Minister P.Chidambaram in Mumbai. 2) The India-U.S.Joint Working Group Meeting 2013: India-U.S.Joint Working Group Meeting on UN Peacekeeping held its 10th meeting in Washington in February 2013. 3) World Press Freedom Index 2013: India dropped to 140th rank from 131st rank in the list of 179 countries. 4) India and Austria inked a social security pact at Vienna. Indian Overseas Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Austrian Minister for Labour and Social Security, Rudoulf Hundstorfer signed the pact. 5) ICICI Bank, launched their mobile banking service called Mobile Money. 6) World’s First bionic man called Rex was unveiled at Londons Science Museum. 7) World’s Largest Prime Number Discovered which contains 17 Million Digits. The previous largest prime nu mber contains about 13 million digits. 8) The first India-Japan Maritime Affairs Dialogue was held in New Delhi. 9) India and Bangladesh second Joint Consultative Commission meeting held in Dhaka in February 2013. CURRENT AFFAIRS MARCH 2013 APPOINTMENTS: 1) 68th Secretary of State of the United States : John Kerry. 2) New High Commissioner of India to Maldives : Rajeev Shahare. 3) New Chief Minister of Nagaland : Neiphiu Rio. 4) New Chief Minister of Meghalaya : Mukul Manda Sangma. 5) New Pope (head of the Roman Catholic Church) : Jorge Bergoglio. 6) Nagaland Governor : Former CBI Director Ashwani Kumar appointed Nagaland Governor. 7) Interim President of Venezuela : Nicolas Maduro sworn in as the Interim President of Venezuela. 8) New Prime Minister of Nepal : Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi. 9) New President of China : Xi Jinping. 10) New President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India : Rajan Bharti Mittal AWARDS: 1) Liberation War Honour Award : The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee was conferred with the Liberation War Honour Award by the President of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman. 2) Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 : Tan Twan Eng. 3) National Bioscience Award for 2012 : S. Venkata Mohan won the National Bioscience Award for 2012. 4) Pritzker Architecture Prize 2013 : Toyo Ito, the Japanese Architect. 5) Saraswati Samman 2012 : Sugathakumari, the Malayalam Poetess. 6) 60th National Film Awards: a) Best actor: Irrfan Khan for Paan Singh Tomar and Vikram Gokhale for Marathi film Anumati. b) Best film : Vicky Donor. c)Best actress: Usha Jadhav for Marathi film Dhaag. 7) Pond’s Femina Miss India 2013 : Navneet Kaur Dhillon Crowned Pond’s Femina Miss India 2013 OBITUARIES: 1) Hugo Chavez Died : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died at 58 due to Cancer. SPORTS: 1) ATP Mexican Open 2013 Tennis Tournament : Rafael Nadal Defeated David Ferrer to Win ATP Mexican Open 2013. 2) ATP Dubai Open Tennis title 2013 : World Number one Novak Djokovic defeated third seed Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych in the finals. 3) Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open 2013 (Men): Rafael Nadal of Spain won Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open after defeating Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in the final. 4) Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open 2013 (Women): Maria Sharapova won women’s final of the tournament by defeating Caroline Wozniacki. 5) Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament : Australia, the World Champions won the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament title for the seventh time. Australia defeated Malaysia in the final match in Malaysia. MISCELLANEOUS: 1) Bihari Puraskar for 2012 : Rajasthani author Hariram Meena for the for Hindi novel Dhooni Tape Teer. 2) Parliamentarian Award for 2010, 2011 and 2012 : The Parliamentary Award Committee selected BJP leader Arun Jaitley, Congress MP Karan Singh and MP Sharad Yadav for Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. 3) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.5 per cent from 7.75 percent. The reverse repo rate under the LAF stands adjusted to 6.5 per cent from the earlier 6.75 per cent and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate to 8.5 per cent with immediate effect. 4) The 5th BRICS Summit took place in Durban, South Africa from 25 March 2013 to 28 March 2013 5) Eighth India-Yemen Joint Committee Meeting Held in New Delhi. 6) The India-UK Summit talks took place on in New Delhi during the visit of British Prime Minister, David Cameron to India. 7) 12 March 2013, Mauritius celebrated its 45th Independence Day. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee was the chief guest. 8) New High Courts in India : Three High Courts opened in Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya. 9) Arunachal Pradesh became the First State to Introduce e-GPF system. 10) United Nations announced 20 March as International Happiness Day CURRENT AFFAIRS APRIL 2013 Appointments: 1) New President of Kenya : Uhuru Kenyatta Sworn-In as the President of Kenya. 2) New Secretary of Department of Telecom : M F Farooqui. 3) New President of Venezuela : Nicolas Maduro. 4) New President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : S Gopalakrishnan. 5) New Chief of NASSCOM : Krishna Kumar Natrajan appointed as the New Chief of NASSCOM. 6) New Chief Justice for High Court of Himachal Pradesh : Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar. 7) Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians : Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, PJ Kurien elected as the Chairman of the prestigious Asian Forum of Parliamentarians. 8) New Managing Director of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) : Sunil Kumar. 9) New Vice Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce : Sunil Bharti Mittal. 10) New President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) : Takehiko Nakao appointed as the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by the Board of Governors. He succeeded Haruhiko Kuroda. Awards: 1) Jnanpith Award 2012 : Ravuri Bharadwaja, the Telgu writer was selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award 2012. 2) FE India’s Best Bank Award 2012-13 : J&K Bank won FE India’s Best Bank Award 2012-13. 3) Dada Saheb Phalke Award : Legendary Actor Pran awarded Bollywood’s Highest Honour Dada Saheb Phalke Award. 4) Sher-i-Kashmir Award : Navjot Singh. 5) Abel prize 2013 : Belgian Mathematician Pierre Deligne won the Abel prize 2013. 6) Yash Chopra for his contributions to Film Industry will be awarded with the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award. Important Days: April 5 National Maritime Day. April 7 World Health Day. April 18 World Heritage Day. April 22 Earth Day. Sports: 1) ATP Miami Masters Final Result : Andy Murray on won the ATP Miami Masters by defeating David Ferrer in Miami, Florida. 2) 12th Asian Billiards championship : Rupesh Shah, the world champion won the 12th Asian Billiards championship after defeating Alok Kumar. 3) Adam Scott won the Augusta Masters Golf championship. He beat Angel Cabrera in the play-off for the title. 4) Sebastian Vettel won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2013. 5) Prayag Chauhan Won Gold Medal at ASBC Asian Confederation Junior Boxing Championships 2013. Obituaries: 1) V.S.Ramadevi India’s only Women Chief Election Commissioner Died. 2) Former Chief Justice of India, JS Verma Died. 3) Legendary singer Shamshad Begum died. Miscellaneous: 1) The fifth BRICS Summit was held at the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC), South Africa. The theme of the 5th BRICS Summit was: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialisation. The participant nations in the summit were Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. 2) The third SAARC Ministerial Level Meet on Poverty concluded in Nepal. 3) The Govt. cleared the proposal to increase Dearness Allowance (DA) for the Central government employees from 72 percent to 80 percent. 4) India and China held their first dialogue on Afghanistan in Beijing in a bid to evolve a joint strategy to deal with much feared possible return of Taliban and al- Qaeda. 5) The 20th Meeting of Eastern Zonal Council was held at Kolkata. 6) Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Russia launched the world’s only returnable satellite called Bion-M1.
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