SUBJECT: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE NEPAL ARMY / INTERIM CONSTITUTION-2063 B.S. 1. Article 144 → Nepalese Army. 2. Article 145 → National Security Council (NSC) 3. National Security Council (NSC) mobilizes and recruits the Nepal Army. 4. Nepal Army started recruiting women from 2018 B.S. (began with women nurses) 5. The Army’s UN Peace Support Operations began in 1985 B.S. in the Middle East (UN Observer Group in Lebanon). 6. Nepal Army has been involved in 37 UN peacekeeping operations Missions so far. Last mission is United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) (2012) 7. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Nepal Army is Gen. Gaurav Shumsher Rana 8. Tenure of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) will be of 3 years or age limit is 61 years. 9. Spokesperson of Nepal Army is Suresh Sharma 10. President Ram Baran Yadav is the Supreme Commander in Chief of Nepal Army 11. Nepal Army has Six Divisions/ Divisional Headquarters: They are Far Western Division, Mid Western Division, Western Division, Mid Division, Valley Division and Eastern Division. 12. Defense Minister is Khil Raj Regmi 13. Defense Secretary is Atma Ram Pandey 14. Home Minister: Madhav Prasad Ghimire 15. Minister of Foreign Affair: Madhav Prasad Ghimire 16. Foreign Secretary: Durga Prasad Bhattarai INDIAN ARMY Indian Army Chief of the Army Staff : General Bikram Singh Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee: Shashindra Pal Tyagi NEPAL ARMY RANK 1. General 2. Lieutenant General 3. Major General 4. Brigadier General 5. Colonel 6. Lieutenant Colonel 7. Major 8. Captain 9. Lieutenant 10. Second Lieutenant 11. Subedar Major 12. Subedar 13. Jemdar 14. Sergeant 15. Corporal 16. Lance Corporal CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS 1. President: Dr. Ram Baran Yadav 2. Vice-President: Paramananda Jha 3. Prime Minister: Khil raj Regmi (appointed on Chaitra 1, 2069) 4. Home Minister: Madhav Prasad Ghimire 5. Acting Chief Justice: Damodar Prasad Sharma 6. Chair person, the Constituent Assembly – Subas Nembang (term is over) 7. Vice Chairperson, the Constituent Assembly – Purna Kumari Subeshi (Term is over) 8. Vice Chairperson of National Planning Commission: Rabindra Kumar Shakya 9. Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank: Yubaraj Khatiwada 10. Attorney General of Nepal: Drona Raj Regmi 11. Chief Secretary, Government of Nepal: Lilamani Paudel 13. Chairperson of the Constitutional Committee of Constituent Assembly – Nilambar Acharya (term is over) 14. Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations - Gyan Chandra Acharya 15. Coordinator of Nepal Tourism Year 2011 - Yogendra Shakya 16. President of FNCCI - Suraj Baidhya 17. President, Cricket Association of Nepal: Tanka Angbuhang 18. President : All Nepal Football Association (ANFA): Ganesh Thapa 19. Member-Secretary of National Sports Council (NSC): Yuwaraj Lama 20. Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission Nepal: Kedar Nath Upadhyaya • Nepalese Embassies abroad: 27 • Consulate General of Nepal: 3 (Lhasa, Kolkata and Hong Kong) • Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations and other International Organisations: 2 (Geneva and New York) FOREIGN AMBASSADORS TO NEPAL 1. Indian Ambassador : Jayanta Prasad (Newly appointed is Ranjit Rae ) 2. US Ambassador : Peter W. Bodde 3. British Ambassador : Dr. John Tucknott 4. Pakistani Ambassador : Arshed Saud Khosa 5. Bangladeshi Ambassador : Dr. Neem Chandra Bhowmik 6. Norwegian Ambassador : Alf Arne Ramslien 7. Russian Ambassador : Sergey Vasilievich Velichkin 8. Swiss Ambassador : Thomas Gass 9. Chinese Ambassador : Wu Chuntai 10. European Union Ambassador : Dr. Alexander Spachis 11. Sri Lankan Ambassador : W.M. Senevirathna 12. UN Resident and Humanitarian Co-coordinator in Nepal: Mr. Robert Piper o Till the date Nepal has established diplomatic relation with 138 Nations (countries) Last country is Papua New Guinea (April 12, 2013) SAARC & SAARC COUNTRIES South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) i. Estd. December 8, 1985 ii. Member Countries : 8 (Afghanistan is the youngest member) iii. First General Secretary : Abul Ahsan (Bangladesh) iv. First female General Secretary : Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed (Maldives) v. General Secretary Represented Nepal: Yadav Kanta Silwal (4th - Jan 1, 1994 to Dec 31, 1995) vi. Seventeenth SAARC Summit, Maldives, (10-11 November, 2011)(Last Summit) vii. The SAARC Secretariat and SAARC Tuberculosis Centre are located in Nepal. viii. Present General Secretary is Ahmed Saleem. Financial Distribution of SAARC India 30.32 % Pakistan 22.52 % Nepal 10.72 % Bangladesh 10.72 % Sri Lanka 10.72 % Bhutan 5.00 % Maldives 5.00 % Afghanistan 5.00 % BANGLADESH Capital Dhaka Head of state President () Head of government Prime minister (Sheikh Hasina Wazed) Currency Taka (TK) Language Bangla (official) Diplomatic Relation with Nepal Apr. 8, 1972 Membership of UNO Sept. 17, 1974 Independence day March 26 (1971 from Pakistan) PAKISTAN Capital Islamabad Head of state President (Asif Zardari) Head of government PM (Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani) Currency Pakistani rupee (pRe) Language Urdu Diplomatic Relation with Nepal March 20, 1960 Membership of UNO Oct. 30, 1947 Independence day August 14 (1947 from India) SRI LANKA Capital Colombo Head of state President (Mahinda Rajapaksa) Head of government Prime minister (D. M. Jayaratne) Currency Sri Lanka rupee (SLRe) Language Sinhala (official) Diplomatic Relation with Nepal July 1, 1957 Membership of UNO December 14, 1955 Independence Day February 4 (1968 from British Empire) BHUTAN Capital Thimpu Head of state Monarch (Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck) Head of government PM (Jigme Y. Thinley) Currency Ngultrum (Nu) Language Dzonkha (official), Nepali, Tibetan Diplomatic Relation with Nepal June 3, 1983 Membership of UNO September 21, 1971 INDIA Capital New Delhi Head of state President (Pranav Mukharjee) Head of government Prime minister (Manmohan Singh) Currency rupee Diplomatic Relation with Nepal July 1, 1957 Membership of UNO December 14, 1955 Independence day August 15 (1947 from British Empire) Defense Minister of India: A K Antony Minister of Home Affairs of India: P. Chitambaram Minister of External Affair (Foreign Minister): S.M Krishna NEPAL Capital Kathmandu Area 1,47,181 sq. km. Head of state President (Ram Baran Yadav) Head of government Prime minister (Khil raj Regmi) Central Bank Nepal Rashtra Bank Currency Nepali Rupee (NR) Language Nepali (official) National News Agency Rashtriya Samachar Samiti Radio Radio Nepal National Airlines Nepal Airlines Television Nepal Television Membership of UNO December 14, 1955 National day Loktantra Day Baishakh 11, Republic Day Jestha 15 MALDIVES Capital Male Head of state President (Mohamed Nasheed) Currency Rufiyaa (Rf) Language Divehi (official) Diplomatic Relation with Nepal August 1, 1980 Membership of UNO Sept. 1, 1965 Independence day 26 July (1965 from British Empire) AFGHANISTAN Capital Kabul Head of state President (Hamid Karzai) Head of government President (Hamid Karzai) Currency Afghani (AF) Language Pashto, Persian or Dari (official) Diplomatic Relation with Nepal July 1, 1961 Membership of UNO Nov. 19, 1946 Independence day 19 Aug (1919 from British Empire) UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATIONS a) Estd. on Oct 24, 1945 (during establishment 51 member countries) b) At present 192 member countries. Youngest member is Montenegro. c) UN General Secretary: Ban Ki Moon (South Korea, he is 8th ) d) Six Principal Organs of UN are: 1. The General Assembly: 2. The Security Council 3. Economic and Social Council 4. Trusteeship Council 5. International Court of Justice 6. The Secretariat: e) First UN General Secretary: Trygve Lie (Norway) f) Nepal’s Permanent Representative to UN is Gyan Chandra Acharya g) Official Languages of UN (6): (i) Arabic, (ii) Chinese, (iii) English, (iv) French, (v) Russian, and (vi) Spanish. In the Security Council, only English and French are used as working languages. h) Headquarters of UN are located in New York which officially opened on January 9, 1951. i) The United States (22%) is the largest contributor to UN budget. The other major contributors to the regular UN budget for 2013, 2014 & 2015 are Japan (10.833%) and Germany (7.141%). j) Contribution of SAARC countries of UN budget: India (0.666%), Pakistan (0.085), Sri Lanka (0.025%), Bangladesh (0.01%), Nepal (0.006%), Maldives (0.001%), Bhutan (0.001%), Afghanistan (0.005%). k) Nepal: UN Security Council Non-Permanent Member-1969-70, 1988-89 HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT/STATES 1. President of USA: Barack Obama 2. US Secretary of State: John Kerry 3. Prime Minister of Russia: Dmitry Medvedev 4. President of Russia: Vladimir Putin 5. President of China: Xi Jinping 6. Premier of China: Li Keqiang 7. Emperor of Japan: Akihito 8. Prime Minister of Japan: Shinzo Abe 9. Chancellor of Germany: Angela Merkel 10. Head of the State of UK: Elizabeth II 11. Prime Minister of UK: David Cameron 12. President of France: Francois Hollande 13. Prime Minister of France: Jean-Marc Ayrault 14. Prime Minister of Australia: Kevin Rudd 15. King of Norway: Harald V 16. Prime Minister of Norway: Jens Stoltenberg 17. President of Israel: Shimon Peres 18. Prime Minister of Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu 19. President of Argentina : Cristina Kirchner 20. Prime Minister of Malaysia: Najib Tun Razak 21. King of Malaysia: Abdul Halim 22. President of Iraq: Jalal Talabani 23. Prime Minister of Iraq: Nouri al-Maliki 24. President of Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 25. President of Brazil: Dilma Rousseff 26. President of Sudan: Omar al-Bashir 27. King of Netherlands: Willem Alexander 28. President of South Sudan: Salva Kir Mayardit 29. Prime Minister of South Korea: Jung Hong Young 30. Prime Minister of Thailand: Yingluck Shinawatra SOME APPOINTMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS President of World Bank Group: Jim Yong Kim (from July 1, 2012) President of Asian Development Bank: Takehiko Nakao FIFA President: Sepp Blatter President of International Olympic Committee (IOC): Jacques Rogge President of International Cricket Council (ICC): Alan Isaac (New Zealand) Miss Universe 2012 - Olivia Culpo, USA Miss World 2011 - Yu Wenxia, China. Miss Earth 2012 - Tereza Fajksová, Czech Republic Miss Nepal 2012 - Shristhi Shreshta • Apa Sherpa (May 11, 2011) and Phurba Tashi Sherpa (23 May 2013) both climbed Mt. Everest successfully for 21st time. Some Appointments 1. TU Vice Chancellor – Hira Maharjan 2. Chancellor of Nepal Fine Arts Academy- Kiran Manandhar 3. Chancellor of Nepal Music and Threatre Academy – Ambar Gurung 4. Vice Chancellor of Nepal Music and Threatre Academy – Prachanda Malla 5. Chancellor of Nepal Academy – Bairagi Kaila 6. Vice Chancellor of Nepal Academy – Ganga Prasad Upreti 7. Vice Chancellor of Nepal Sanskrit University – Shiva Hari Marahattha Security Agencies • Army Chief – Gen. Gaurav Shumsher Rana • IGP of Nepal Police – Kuber Rana • IGP of Armed Police – Kosh Raj Onta • Chief of National Investigation Department – Moti Gurung President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav conferred Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal with the highest award of Nepal – ‘Maha Ujjwal Rastradeep Award’ on Kartik 29, 2067. (November 15, 2010) Anuradha Koirala was awarded the CNN Hero of the Year 2010. Pushpa Basnet was awarded the CNN Hero of the Year 2012 38th Summit of G-8 was held in USA from May 18-19, 2012. Nepal Tourism Year 2011 was inaugurated on 26 February 2010 by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. SLC pass percentage-2069 (Regular): 47.16% 85th Academy Awards Winners (2013) Best Picture Argo Best Actor (in a Leading Role) Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln” Best Actress (in a Leading Role) Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Lining Playbook” Best Director Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” 2012 Nobel Prize Winners 1. Physics: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland 2. Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka 3. Physiology or Medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka 4. Literature: Mo Yan (China) 5. Peace Prize: European Union (EU) 6. Economic Sciences: Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley 19TH FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 AWARDS o Held in Johannesburg, South Africa o Winner: Spain o Runner-Up: Netherlands o Golden Boot: Thomas Müller (Germany) o Golden Ball: Diego Forlan (Uruguay) o Golden Glove: Iker Casillas (Spain) o Best Young Player: Thomas Müller (Germany) o FIFA Fair Play Trophy: Spain SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES 1. 29th Olympic Games-2008 - (Hosted by Beijing, China) Result: China (First), USA (Second), Russia (Third) 2. 30th Olympic Games -2012 - London, UK 3. 31st Olympic Games -2016 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES 1. 21st Winter Olympic Games (2014) - Sochi, Russia 2. 22nd Winter Olympic Games (2018) - Pyeongchang, South Korea ASIAN GAMES 1. 16th Asian Games 2010: Guangzhou, China 2. 17th Asian Games 2014: Incheon, South Korea 16TH ASIAD or ASIAN GAMES – 2010 Participating Nations: 45 Participating sports: 42 Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 China (CHN 199 119 98 416 2 South Korea (KOR) 76 65 91 232 3 Japan (JPN) 48 74 94 216 Note: Nepali Boxer Dipak Maharjan won bronze medal in 16th Asian Games which is the only medal in 16th Asiad. FIFA WORLD CUP FOOTBALL 1. 19th FIFA World Cup 2010 : (Host: South Africa) – First: Spain; Runner-up: Netherlands 2. 20th FIFA World Cup 2014 : (Host: Brazil) 3. 21st FIFA World Cup 2018 : (Host: Russia) 3. 22nd FIFA World Cup 2022: (Host: Qatar) EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 1. European Football Championship 2008 – Austria/Switzerland : Winner Spain 2. European Football Championship 2012 – Poland/ Ukraine ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 1. Cricket World Cup 2011 – India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka winner: India 2. Cricket World Cup 2015 - Australia/New Zealand 3. Cricket World Cup 2019 – England Cricket World Cup 2011 Winner: India (Won by Six wkts) Runner up: Sri Lanka Man of the Series: Yuwaraj Singh Most runs: Tilakratne Dilsan (500 runs) Most Wickets: Shahid Afridi and Zaheer Khan (21 wickets) GRAND SLAM TENNIS 1. Australian Open 2013 (Men’s Single): Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 2. Australian Open 2013 (Ladies’ Single): Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 1. French Open 2013 (Men’s Single): Rafael Nadal (Spain) 2. French Open 2013 (Ladies’ Single): Serena Williams (USA) 1. Wimbledon 2013 (Men’s Single): Andy Murray (UK) 2. Wimbledon 2013 (Ladies’ Single): Marion Bartoli (France) Indian Premium League (IPL) – 2013 winner: Mumbai Indians. Runner-up Chennai Super Kings National League Winner 2069: Three Star Club Sixth National Games: Kathmandu, from 14 to 21 Falgun, 2068 B.S. Tenjing-Hilary Everest Marathon 2013 winners: Ram Kumar Rajbhandari (Male) & Ang Dami Sherpa (Female) SOUTH ASIAN GAMES (SAG) 11th 2010 Dhaka, Bangladesh India (90) Paksita (19) Bangladesh (18) 12th 2013 New Delhi, India Note: Nepal has hosted first and 8th SAF Games. Nepal got 8 Golds, 9 silver and 19 bronze (36) in 10th SAG. Nepal got 5th position. Madan Puraskar 2068 – Amar Neupane: Seto Dharati Sajha Puraskar 2068 – Gaura Prasai for Mera Jeevan ka Panaharu Jagadambashree Puraskar 2068 – Samsodhan Mandal Chhinnalata Prize- 2067 B.S. Winners Chhinnalata Prize in Lyrics – Neer Shah Chhinnalata Prize in Music – Saching Singh Chhinnalata Prize in Vocala – Sukmit Gurung Chhinnalata Yuwa Pratibha Prize (Vocal) – Pramod Kharel and Sachin Rai Chhinnalata Special Prize – Udit Narayan Jha Gautam Buddha International Peace Prize 2011- Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba (Hirosima) & Mr. Tomihisa Taue (Nagasaki) International On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed in Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Osama Bin Laden: May 2, 2011 in Pakistan Operation’s name: Navy SEALs Operation New Al-Qaida Chief: Ayman al-Zawahiri Earthquake in Japan (magnitude 9.1): March 11, 2011 Baladhikrit: Nepal Bhusan Chanda (CGS) Lt. General Baladhaksha: Gaurav Shumsher Rana (COS) Lt. General BRICS Members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea 4th BRICS Summit was held in New Delhi India on March 29, 2012 Last member of BRICS is South Africa Non Aligned Movement (NAM) Estd: 1961 by Belgrade Conference Members: 120 Secretary General: Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Headquarters: New York First South Asian Army Sports Meet 2068 Falgun 26-Chaitra 1 Teams: Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Sports: 6 (football, volleyball, tae-kwando, badminton, boxing and athletics.) Players: 193 Winners: India: 9G - 5S - 3B Pakistan: 4G - 5S - 4B Nepal: 3G - 2S - 6B Nepal: Gold Medals 1. Devendra Singh Thakuri (Boxing) 2. Football 3. Dan Bahadur Airi (Taekwondo) Sixth National Games- 2068 From 2068 Falgun 14-21 31 sports & 9 teams First: Central Dev. Regional Team Second: Nepal Police Third: Armed Police Force Source: CADET CHOICE General Knowledge (based on New Syllabus of G.K.) The End
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