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Current Affairs : January 20, 2012
Jaipur Literature Festival, begins Fifth Jaipur Literature Festival begins in Jaipur on 19th January. About 250 writers from India and abroadparticipating in the 5-day long Jaipur Literature Festival. In a session on ‘Truth of Poetry and Truth of Politics’, Union ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs : January 18, 2012
Gujarat High Court upholds the appointment of Lokayukta The High Court of Gujarat, Ahmedabad dismisses the plea of the Gujarat Government and upholds the appointment of state Lokayukt by the Governor. Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal appointed Justice Mehta as the ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Current Affairs : January 16, 2012
Pakistan’s Parliament passes a pro-democracy Resolution The Parliament of Pakistan has passed a pro-democracy resolution which gives a moral booster for the beleaguered government that is haunted by the graft issues and the so called memogate controversy. The resolution, introduced ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Current Affairs: January 15, 2012
137 foundation day of Indian Metrological Department observed In the year 1875, the Government of India established the India Meteorological Department, bringing all meteorological work in the country under a central authority. Mr. H. F. Blanford was appointed Meteorological Reporter ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
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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
Meghalaya govt orders probe ‘blue’ water
The Meghalaya Government ordered a magisterial inquiry into the recent unusual phenomenon of water in River Lukha turning blue and death of thousands of fishes. The Lukha river originates from the Nongkhlieh Elaka and flows along the Narpuh reserve forest ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Tamil nadu : ‘Dam 999’Banned
DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M.Karunanidhi demanded ban on the release of the controversial movie “Dam 999”. It was accompanied by the protests against the movie in the state and later Tamil Nadu Government banned the controversial ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
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
Madhya Pradesh: CBI Bhopal targets Facebook to take help from netizens
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has joined social networking site Facebook, popularly known as FB to get help from netizens in cracking cases. CBI’s Bhopal unit became the first unit to go online on Facebook. The agency has plans ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Kerala: Study on Kudumbashree released
Titled “Engendering Power Spaces for Deepening Democracy: Study of Kudumbashree in three Panchayats in Kerala”, the study on Kudumbashree, the model poverty alleviation programme of Kerala, conducted by the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The study was conducted ..