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Monday, 20 May 2013

Current affairs April 2013

Chris Gayle
  • Chris Gayle hit the fastest ever century in the history of cricket by reaching 100 in merely 30 balls during RCB vs. Pune Warriors match on 23 April 2013.


  • The largest biogas plant of the world was inaugurated on 12 March 2013 in Finland


  • Prayag Chauhan Won Gold Medal at ASBC Asian Confederation Junior Boxing Championships 2013


  • Takehiko Nakao elected as the President Asian Development Bank Board 

  • Jai Chandiram, the former Deputy Director-General of Doordarshan and renowned media person on 26 April 2013 was awarded with the lifetime achievement award by the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT).

  • Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce


  • Giorgio Napolitano Re-elected as the President of Italy to serve a Second Term.




Margaret Thatcher
  • Margaret Thatcher Former British Prime Minister and Iron Lady of Britain Died




  • Belgian Mathematician Pieree Deligne won the Abel Prize 2013


  • Ravuri Bharadwaja, 86, the Telgu writer on 17 April 2013 was selected for the prestigious Jnanpith Award 2012


  • India’s only Women Chief Election Commissioner Ramadevi Died at 79.She also was the governor of Karnataka & HP.


  • Adam Johnson’s novel The Orphan Master’s son won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013.


  • Krishna Kumar Natrajan appointed as the New Chief of NASSCOM.


  • Serena Williams Won the Family Circle Cup 2013; Defeated Jelena Jankovic

  • Rahi Sarnobat Clinched Gold at ISSF World Cup in 25-M Pistol Event.


  • S Gopalakrishnan elected as new President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) 
 
Abhilash Tomy
 
  • Lt Cdr Abhilash Tomy became the first Indian to Circumnavigate Globe Solo and Non-Stop on a sail boat. On return he was welcomed by the President of India.

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Current affairs March 2013

  • Bhabha Atomic Research Center Developing Largest Magnet of the World(weight would be 50000 tons)
   
  • Mukesh Ambani has won the "Entrepreneur of the Decade" award conferred by All India Management Association in New Delhi
Irrfan Khan


  • Irrfan Khan has won the National Film Award as best actor
 
  • Paan Singh Tomar film has bagged the National Film Award for best feature film?


  • WB Government to Start Monthly Stipend for Old Writers and Litterateurs Published on: 24-MAR-2013


  • India and World Observed Earth Hour on 23 March 2013


  • Number of High Courts in India has gone up to 24 from 21 after opening up of the High Courts in Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur.


  • Arunachal Pradesh in the month of March 2013 became the first state to introduce e-GPF or electronic GPF.


  • United Nations announced 20 March as International Happiness Day


  • Baba Kalyani, the Chairman and MD of Bharat Forge Limited was nominated as the Chairman of India-Japan Business Leader’s Forum (IJBLF)


  • World Water Day is celebrated across the world on 22 March every year. This day was first celebrated in 1993

  • London Based Indian Origin Writer, Anil Ananthaswamy Won Inaugural Physics Journalism Prize


  • India on 20 March 2013 successfully test fired its submarine-launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile of the over 290 km-range in the Bay of Bengal


Bhaichung Bhutia
  • Bhaichung Bhutia Appointed as the Chairman of the AIFF’s Technical Committee


  • The President of Egypt Dr. Mohamed Morsy visited India from 18 March 2013 to 20 March 2013.


  • Australia Won Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2013 for the Seventh Time


  • Formula One Team Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen Won the Australian Grand Prix 2013


  • UAE Inaugurated World’s Largest Solar Power Plant named "Shams 1"


  • Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi was sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal on 14 March 2013


  • Japan Became First Country in the World to Extract Natural Gas from Methane Hydrate


  • The Parliamentary Award Committee selected Arun Jaitley, Karan Singh and Sharad Yadav for Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for 2010, 2011 and 2012 resp