Thursday, January 20, 2011

* United Nations biodiversity meeting which has agreed a 10-year plan aimed at preserving nature held in?
Nagoya,Japan.
* Who becomes the most hated French president in more than 50 years according to a recent French poll?
Nicolas Sarkozy.
* Upper House of Indian Parliament is : Rajya Sabha (2)2014 FIFA and 2016 Olympics Games will be held in BRAZIL.(3)Karamveer Purskar : Anthony Gonsalves
* Roger Federer won the Qatar Open by defeating holder Nikolay Davydenko.(2)U.P has topped the list of States with the maximum number of ragging cases
* For first time in nearly 20 years a commercial airliner from a European Country has flown into Iraqi capital Baghdad. Which is that country?
France
* Who are joint winners of 25th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration Award? A R Rahman & Ramkrishna Mission Ashram at Narainpur in Chhattisgarh
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula De Silva has been selected for Indra Gandhi Prize for peace, disarmament & Development 2010.
* (1)IRIGC --Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission (2) INCAA --Indian Network of Climate Change Assessment (3)WGC --World Gold Council
* Germany's Sebastian Vettel, 23 year old(Red Bull driver) became the youngest world champion of Formula One with his victory in Abu Dhabi Grand Pix
* The International Cricket Council appointed Sachin Tendulkar as official event ambassador for 2011 Cricket World Cup
*.Archaeologists announce the discovery of the world's oldest known winery , believed to be over 6,000 years old, in a cave in Armenia
* Indian Pharmacological Society's 43rd annual conference held at National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in Hyderabad.
* India's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) successfully test fired R-73 missile at INS Hansa naval air base in Goa.
* World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick signed a $220-million agreement with Bihar govt for the Kosi Recovery Project(areas affected by 2008 floods)
* Indian-American Namrata "Nikki" Randhawa Haley sworn in as the first woman and non-white Governor of South Carolina.
* Javed Akthar: Nominated for Rajya Sabha (2)Spain won the Davis cup (3)India signed a nuclear deal with China in Trinidad(4)10 dec:Human rights day
* (1)Shunglu Committee : Committee formed to look into Commonwealth Games projects corruption (2)ULIP : Unit Linked Insurance Plan.
* Satyanand Mishra appointed as Chief Information Commissioner to succeed AN Tiwari (2) UK Sinha will replace CB Bhave as Chairman of SEBI .
* Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab , is assassinated.
* Kerala artist enters Guinness for dance marathon:
Eminent Mohinyattam exponent Kalamandalam Hemalatha has entered the Guinness Book of World Record for the' longest dance marathon.'
* Jorge Rafael Videla, a former President of Argentina, is sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of crimes against humanity.
* Former President of Venezuela Carlos Andres Perez dies in Miami at the age of 88.
* The National Food For Work scheme is now submerged with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
* BOOK : CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF: Nelson Mandela.
* Lanka,Indiaworking closely to enhance naval cooperation
*Shunglu Committee : Committee formed to look into Commonwealth Games projects corruption
*NFS : National Financial Switch
*France will host G-8 Summit in 2011
*Deep joshi had recieved the Raman Megasasay award from Phillippines
* ICC Test rankings: Sangakkara replaces Tendulkar at number one.
*3 judges who has pronounced judgment in Ayodhya Dispute between Hindus and Muslims?Justice S U Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice D V Sharma.