Page-21 of Current Affairs - July, 2012

New Free Drug Policy by Govt

July 9, 2012

What is New Free Drug Policy launched by Govt of India? Objective: To provide medical benefits to country’s 121 Crore population, the Govt of India has launched Free Drug policy. Under this policy every citizen of the country will be ..

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Anup Sankar Bhattacharya is the new Director of IBPS

July 9, 2012

Anup Sankar Bhattacharya has been appointed as the Director of the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS). He took the place of M Balachandran.  Mr.Bhattacharya was the part of Advisory Board of Central Vigilance Commission. He was overseeing security issues ..

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Eminent Assamese Poet Hiren Bhattacharyya passes away

July 9, 2012

The most celebrated Assamese Poet Hiren Bhattacharyya, who was famous as Hiru-da, passed away.  Hiren Bhattacharya was also called as Prem aru Rodalir Kobi (Poet of Love and Sunshine) in the Assamese literature. He was born in Jorhat district in ..

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Project Seabird Phase IIA: Rs 10,000 crore for expansion of Karwar base

July 9, 2012

The Navy has plans for expansion of its strategic Karwar naval base in Karnataka under the Project Seabird Phase IIA which involves construction of a wide range of new facilities and augmentation of certain existing facilities. The expansion project will ..

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Jagadish Shettar to be the new Karnataka CM

July 9, 2012

The continuous pressure from former Karnataka chief minister (CM) B S Yeddyurappa has resulted into the resignation of present chief minister Sadananda Gowda. Mr Gowda handed over his resignation to BJP president NitinGadkari.  BJP announced that Sadananda Gowda will be ..

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Roger Federer clinches Wimbledon Open Title 2012

July 9, 2012

Swiss Tennis star Roger Federer defeated British player Andy Murray to win the Wimbledon Open Championship 2012 in London on. With this win Federer reclaimed the world No. 1 rank breaking Pete Sampras’ record of 286 weeks at the pinnacle ..

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Europe’s most recent spacecraft to track weather in orbit

July 8, 2012

The most recent spacecraft in Europe’s long-running Meteosat series has moved into orbit on an Ariane rocket. The spacecraft being guided into a position about 36,000 kms above the Earth from where it can keep an unceasing eye on developing ..

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Pulinaharani Village in Assam: 2nd in India to have full life insurance coverage

July 8, 2012

Place in NEWS: Pulinaharani Village Pulinaharani under Narayanpur Revenue Circle in Lakhimpur district, Assam became the 2nd village in India to have full life insurance coverage. The village achieved this accomplishment under the Ministry of Finance’s Financial Inclusion plan which ..

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