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Current Affairs : January 13-14, 2012
Government permits to prosecute 21 social networking sites The Government grants sanction to prosecute 21 social networking sites for allegedly promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration. Department of Information Technology, in its report, tells a Delhi ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Current Affairs : January 12, 2012
National Youth Day observed On 12 January, National Youth Day was observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda was born on 12 January 1863 and died on 4 July 1902. He was born Narendranath Dutta and ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs: January 11, 2012
EC asks Government to withhold 4.5% minorities sub quota The Election Commission asks the government to withhold the 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in the five poll bound states for now. The direction will remain in force till the ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Quick Current Affairs 1
Quick Current Affairs 1Ashok Chavan is the new Chief Minister of Maharastra. Najam Sethi has been awarded the 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom. He is editor-in-chief of Daily Times , Friday Times and Urdu Aajkal. Chritiano Ronaldo is the winner ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs: January 10, 2012
Government allows 100% FDI in single brand retail The Government allows 100% FDI in single brand retail with immediate effect. A notification in this regard has been issued by the Ministry of Commerce. The objective of this important move is ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Recipients of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman 2012
Pravasi Bhartiya Samman 2012 was conferred to 14 eminent personalities and Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce, for their excellent work in various fields overseas. Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Ms Kamla Prasad Bissessar, the chief guest of this year’s Pravasi ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Current Affairs: January 9, 2012
10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) Concludes Pravasi Bhartiya Samman 2012 20 Indians held hostages by Somali Pirates rescued by NATO EC reschedules the Poll Dates in Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh to launch Panch Parmeshwar scheme Iran producing Enriched Uranium at ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Hussein Tantawi: Head of Egypt’s military council
Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi is the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that has ruled Egypt since a popular uprising forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign on Feb. 11. On February 11, 2011 when President Hosni ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Latest global HIV/AIDS figures
Some important data from a report by the United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS). (Source: Reuters) An estimated 34 million people worldwide had the human immunodeficiency virus HIV.L that causes AIDS in 2010, according to the UNAIDS data, up 17 ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Russian radar to monitor missile launches across Europe, Atlantic
Russia’s radar station in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will monitor missile launches from the North Atlantic, as well as the future European missile defence system. Thus Russia will be able to control the entire European continent and the Atlantic, ..