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Current Affairs : January 17, 2012
India China Agree on a Joint Working mechanism for Border Issue India and China have agreed to establish a working mechanism on consultation and coordination on border issues. The agreement in this effect has been signed at the end of ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Current Affairs: January 7, 2012
10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas begins in Jaipur Trinidad and Tobago support India’s UNSC ambitions Government to lower the lower age bar from the central pension scheme Sukhram surrenders to a local Court Kerala CM interacts with Tamil Nadu journalists 100 ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs: January 3, 2012
99th Indian Science Congress Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubneshwar is hosting the 99th Indian Science Congress. Inauguration by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India on January 3, 2012. A total of 15,000 delegates including 20 Nobel Prize winner scientists ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Current Affairs: January 2, 2012
Government to allow QFIs to invest in India The Government has started the New Year with an important policy change by deciding to allow the Qualified Foreign Investors to invest in Indian equity markets. The Qualified Foreign Investor is an ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Seventeenth SAARC Summit & Addu Declaration
Recently, the Seventeenth SAARC Summit was concluded in Maldives with the release of the Addu Declaration. Here is a brief discussion: What is SAARC? South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was founded in December 1985 by Ziaur Rahman and ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Category: Summits and Conferences
Pakistan: Pak wins UNSC Non-permanent seat
129 out of 193 votes in the UN General Assembly, exactly the two-third majority required to win the seat and India voted in favour of Pakistan. Thus, this would be the seventh time Pakistan would serve on the Security Council, ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Tunisia: Constituent Assembly election, 2011
On 23 October 2011, an election to the Constituent Assembly was held in Tunisia. The elections have been tagged as Tunisia’s first truly free elections, the culmination of a popular uprising that set off similar rebellions across the Middle East. ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
ONGC gets 25% in Kazakh Oil Field
India’s Flagship explorer ONGC’s overseas investment arm, ONGC Videsh,has sealed the deal to take a 25% stake in Kazakhstan’s Satpayev acreage in the Caspian Sea, marking India’s first firm foothold in the hydrocarbons-rich Central Asia. OVL’s agreement with the Kazakh ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
India-Sri Lanka: India Inks MOU to restore Shiva Temple in Sri Lanka
India inked a MoU with the Board of Trustees of Thiruketheeswaram Temple Restoration Society, for restoration of the ancient Temple of Thiruketheeswaram in Mannar, Sri Lanka dedicated to Lord Shiva. The refurbishment of the holy place is representative of India’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
China-Afghanistan Relations
The Afghanistan government of Hamid Karzai and China established a formal diplomatic relationship in late 2001 shortly after the collapse of the Taliban regime. Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited China for the first time in 2002. He later made some ..