Quick Current Affairs 1

Quick Current Affairs 1
Ashok 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 of European Footballer of the Year.

Anil Ambani has been voted as the happiest and healthiest person in Business

Lord Swaraj Paul has been appointed as the deputy Speaker of House of Lords

Abhisit Vejjajaiva has been elected the prime Minister of Thailand. He belongs to Opposition Democratic party. NCP’s Jayant patil is new home minister of Maharastra.

1st December was celebrated as world AIDS Day.

10th December was celebrated as Human Rights day.

R. Sridharan has taken over as MD & Group Executve of SBI from Dec5,2008

Ashok Gehlot is the new chief Minister of Rajasthan.

Chanda Kochar has been appointed new MD and CEO of ICICI Bank

Historian Romila Thapar has been Chosen for 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the study of Humanity.

Benazir Bhuttto was awarded UN Human Rights Award 2008.

HDFC Bank has been given the Nasscom-CNBC TV-18 IT User Award 2008.

IBM India has won the Employer of the Year Award for empowering persons with disability.

Sachin got 16th ranking in ICC rankings.

Repo Rate has been cut from 7.5 % to 6.5 % and Reverse Repo Rate from 6 % to 5 % in December 2008.

Seventh Film Festival was hosted by Mumbai.

Jhulan Goswami has topped the list of ICC’s One Day Ranking of Women.

According to CII , India’s Biotechnology Sector Expected to become a $5 billion by 2010.

TCS ( Tata Consultancy Services ) has won the 2008 Technology Innovation award. LN Mittal has been elected as New Chairman of Wporld Steel Association.

Vasant Mehta has been appointed as the new chief of Gems & Jewelry Export Promotion Council.

Universal Arogya Medical Scheme has been started by the Government for BPL families.


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4 Comments

  1. Anonymous

    June 18, 2009 at 12:25 am

    you're giving reviewed points/clarifications section separately. Thanks a lot. But how can we see the older posts clarifications?

  2. Admin

    June 18, 2009 at 12:53 am

    You hardly need to bother. This is because either I change the question or change the answer. Clarifications / errors usually come out in 3-4 days and after that the quiz becomes "refined" automatically :)

  3. anant

    January 13, 2012 at 3:24 am

    sir please update awards environment and few other section which i guess is much important for civil services preliminaries and we are running out of time
    thanking you

  4. durkaganesh

    January 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    Yingluck Shinawatra is the current prime minister of thailand. Abhisit vejjajiva is the previous prime minister.

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