1. Prologue
2. [PIN] Indian Politics, Constitutional, Statutory, Bureaucrats
   1. National commissions
   2. Committees Commissions Task forces
3. Defense
4. International Relations (IR)
   1. [IR] Summits/Treaties 2013
   2. [IR-PIN] Prez/PM of Foreign countries
   3. [IR-PIN] Diaspora/ Indians awarded abroad
5. Economy: Regulators/Top Bodies
   1. [News] Economy related
   2. [News] Infra related
   3. Schemes
   4. [News]Polity
6. Civilian Awards/Achievements
   1. [Awards] Nobel 2013
   2. [Awards] Public service/media/Courage
   3. [Awards] Movies/Beauty
   4. [Awards] Academic/Arts
7. Books in News
   1. [Books] Non-Booker Awards
   2. [Books] List of Books and Authors
8. Sports
   1. Football
   2. Cricket
   3. Hockey
   4. Tennis 2013
   5. Badminton
   6. Olympics
   7. Sport Mascots
9. Places in News
10. Dead
11. Stamps in News
12. Space/Sci-Tech related

Prologue

• The present article is Persons in News PIN 2013. Dealing from Jan2013 upto 13^th Oct2013. Mainly keeping IBPS PO/MT/Clerk, UPSC’s CAPF-CDS-IFOS and other upcoming State PCS, PSU, SSC exams in mind.
• For optimum results: copy paste this data in MS word (or separate excel spreadsheets or onenote), then keep updating these tables from magazines and newspapers until you get selected in your dream job. Otherwise ‘firefighting” style of preparation e.g. once IBPS is over I’ll not prepare current affairs until I get some interview call letter/ some other exam notification=#epicfail.
• If there are any additions, corrections, do post them in comments.
• By the way RAS Prelim exam halltickets have been uploaded click me (Sarkari servers always slow so try during non-office hours.)

[PIN] Indian Politics, Constitutional, Statutory, Bureaucrats

PM	Ofcourse everyone knows: Mohan. But in Jun 2013, He took oath as Rajya Sabha MP from Assam (five times in a row).
CJI	P.Sathashivam replaced Altamas Kabir.
CAG	Shashikant Sharma replaced Vinod Rai. And Vinod Rai became UN Audit panel Chief.
CEC	V. S. Sampath replaced SY Qureshi
CVC	Pradeep Kumar
CIC	Deepak Sandhu. First lady CIC, replaced Satyanand Mishra.She served in Indian information services.
UPSC	Chairman DP Aggarwal. Been on this post since 2008. Hope he retires soon.Ex.CBI director AP Singh became new member.
Attorney General	Goolam Vahanvati
Solicitor General	Mohan ParasaranResigned: Rohinton Nariman, for difference with law minister. Law Minister Ashwini Kumar also resigned for vetting a CBI report on its coal block investigations thus cycle of Karma is complete.
Derek O’Brian	1st Anglo Indian MP (Rajya Sabha) to vote in Presidential Elections (of Pranab).Note that Anglo-Indian “nominated” MPs cannot vote in Presidential elections. But Derek is not “nominated” he is elected from West Bengal as Rajya Sabha MP.The two nominated Anglo Indian MPs in 15th LS areDr. Charles Dias (Kerala) and Mrs.Ingrid Mcleod (Chhattisgarh).
Advisor to President	T.K. vishwanathan. Lok sabha secretary, recently retired . Now became advisor to the president of india on constitutional matters. This is the newly created post.Selection by collegium of speaker,leader of house and leader of opposition.
Delhi LT.Governor	Najib Jung replaced Tejinder Khanna.
Gujarat lokayukta	Justice R.A Mehta .Refused to accept the job.
CM Tripura	Manik Sarkar
CM Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio
NDDB	Amrita Patel, National dairy Development board. Been in news for she wants to resign.

National commissions

Human rights	Justice KG Balkrishnan
Women	Mamta Sharma
Minorities	Wajahat Habibullah the former CIC
SC	P.L. Punia
ST	Rameshwar Uraon,
OBC	Justice Vangala Eswariah replaced Justice M.N.Rao
Children	Kushal Singh

Service Chiefs

Navy	Admiral Devendra Joshi replaced Nirmal Verma
Airforce	Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne replaced Pradeep Vasant Naik
Army	Gen. Bikram Singh. He replaced VK Singh, who remains in news for controversy related to Destabilizing JK government

Security/Space/Strategic related

ISRO	K. Radhakrishnan
Atomic Energy commission	Ratan Kumar Sinha
CRPF	DG Dilip Trivedi First woman special DG in CRPF=Aruna Bahuguna
BSF	Subhash Joshi
CBI	Ranjit Sinha
IB	S.A. Ibrahim. (First Muslim chief of IB)- Important for ACIO interview.
NIA	Sharad kumar
RAW	Founder:B.Raman,Dead.Current chief: Alok Joshi.
DRDO	New Chief Avinash Chander
National Disaster Response Force	Krishna Chaudhari
Senior security advisor in home ministry	Vijaykumar.For anti-Naxal operations.

Secretary

Foreign Affairs	Sujatha Singh (IFS). She is the third woman foreign Secretary of India.
Home	Anil Goswami
Defense	R.K.Mathur.
Finance	Rajiv Takru

Diplomatic

High Commissioner to Pakistan	TCA Raghavan.
India’s permanent representative to UN	Asoke Kumar Mukerji. He replaced Hardeep Singh.
To USA	S. Jaishankar
To China	Ashok K Kantha

Education/Arts related

UGC	Ved Prakash replaced Yogendra yadav, who was removed for his joining AAP.
News Broadcasting standards authority	Justice RV Ravindran
Lalit Kala Academy	Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Sangeet Natak Academy	Leela Samson. Was in controversy after she said 90 per cent of Censor board members are “uneducated” and an “embarrassment”.
IGNOU Vice Chancellor	M.Aslam

Committees Commissions Task forces

7th Pay Commission	To revise salary of 80 lakh workers and pensioners. Its recommendations will be effective from January 2016.6th PC was formed in 2006.
Adi Godrej	Corporate governance
Arvind Mayaram	FDI relaxation to Define FDI and FII
Bimal Jalan	To scrutinize application for New Bank Licenses
BK Chaturvedi	Revamping power sector Restructuring of centrally sponsored schemes
Chindu	GoM for CBI autonomy
Cyrus Mistry, Anil Ambani	Advisory group for electricity sector. For power ministry
Dr. Saroj	Illegal sand mining by MoEF
JS Mathur	To review the rate revisions of newspaper advertisements. By Ministry of information and broadcasting
Justice Bilal Nazaki	Functioning of Haj Committee
Justice BN SriKrisha	Telengana Financial sector legislative reform commission: to get the need of unifying SEBI, IRDA, PPFRDA and FMC into a single regulator
Justice DK Jain	20th Law commission of India
Justice JS Verma	Delhi Gangrape.Dead. was a part of the nine-judge bench in 1994 which gave the landmark verdict in the S R Bommai case relating to proclamation of President’s Rule under Article 356 of the Constitution in Karnataka. Presidential rule can be invoked only after parliament approval.Chief Justice of India,he was also a former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission. and the 1st Chairperson of News Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Justice Mukul Mudgal	IPL Spot fixing. Formed by SC Walmart Lobbying, by Corporate Min.
Justice RC Gandhi	By JK government for Kishtwar Communal riots
Justice Santosh Hegde	Judicial Commission on Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)  by SC
Justice Usha Mehra	For probing lapses in Delhi Gangrape.
K Ratnaprabha	Indecent Representation of Women in Media
K. Vijay Raghavan	Evaluation of Research And Rankings of higher edu. Institutes
KK Vohra	By RBI for loan products
MBN Rao	For setting up All-women’s bank
Mudgal	For reviewing Cinematograph Act 1952. By Ministry of information and broadcasting
Nachiketi Mor	RBI Committee for FINANCIAL INCLUSION (financial services to small business)
Parthasarathi Shome	Tax administration reform commission.
Raghuram Panel	To determine a new index of backwardness to see which states need special assistance. Most Developed: GOA,KERALALeast developed: ODHISSA,BIHAR.
Rangarajan	Gas princing, LNG imports Sugar pricing
Ranjit Roychaudhari	Clinical trials, drug bans.
Sam Pitroda	For restructuring Prasar Bharti. By Ministry of information and broadcasting
Sanjay Dhande	For National Testing Agency (NTA) by HRD
SK Roongta	By planning commission. For reforms in Central PSUs
Srikant Malte	Dhule Riots in Maharashtra
Vijay Kelkar	Fiscal consolidation Energy security. By Natural Gas ministry
Virginius Xaxa	He is NAC member Earlier Sacchar Committee was made for muslims, same way this Xaxa Committee is for tribals.
Yashwant Sinha	Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance-Report on Guidelines of new banking licenses
YV Reddy	14th Finance commission. Under Art280. He was ex-gov. of RBI

Defense

The core compilation article is here:

https://mrunal.org/2013/03/defense-current-affairs-compilation-2012-13-missiles-joint-exercises-operations-organizations.html

Most of the missiles, fighter jets etc remain one and same. Here are some new developments

303 Black Panthers	first fighter squadron for navy with MiG29
Aadesh	Fast petrol Indian vessel for indian coast Guard.
Abhilash tommy	Navy officer first indian to circum navigate the globe in 150 days.
C-154	New interceptor boat for Coast guard. For Maharashtra coast.
Cheetal Helicopter	light utility, multi-role helicopter is a variant of the Cheetah helicopter being manufactured by HAL, which is already operational in the high altitude regions.
Coast guard	C402: Interceptor boat for coastguard.H191: air cushion vehicle. For helping small boats in distress at sea
Daulat Beg oldi / Raki Nala	in Ladakh. Chinese troops made intrusions here in Apr’13.
Dornier 228	Maritime Surveillance aircraft. Indian donated them to Seychelles.
DRDO	New Chief Avinash Chander
Ekuverin2012	Joint army exercise: India and Maldives @Belgaum
GSAT7	For Navy, by ISROSent to space via Ariane 5 rocket, from French Guiana (S.America)
Haft-4	Nuke capable Paki Missile. 900km range
INS Sindhurakshak	Submarine. Sunk because of accident.
INS Trikhand	By Russia. Stealth frigate for Indian navy
INS Vikramaditya	Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov carrier.Likely to join by 2013 end.
INS Vikrant	1961: we bought first aircraft carrier INS vikrant1997: it was decommissionedAug’13: New INS Vikrant launched. India’s first Indigenous aircraft carrier. Will join active navy duty from 2018
Iron Fist 2013	Exercise in Pokharan by Indian Airforce.
Izumo	Japan’s biggest ever naval warship since WW2.
Jamaran-2	Iran’s destroyer ship with guided missile. Deployed in Caspian sea.
July 26	Kargil Victory day
K15	Submarine launched missile. Range 1500km
Machhalipattnam, Andhra	DRDO setting up new missile testing range here.
MIRV	Multiple independently targetable vehicles by DRDO.
NCTC	Will function under IB.
Nirbhay	Surface to Surface subsonic cruise missile
Nirbhay	DRDO’s long range sub sonic missile. 1000km range.
Nomadic Elephant	Joint training exercise between Indian and Mongolian army
Norway	Becomes the first NATO country to make military service compulsory for both men and women
Operation three star	Codename for Afzal guru’s hanging.
OSA AK-M	Surface to air missile for Indian airforce.
PAC-3	Japan’s Anti-Missile Air Defense Units Deployed After North-Korea warned South-Koreans for a War in April-2013.
Prithvi II	Nuke capable, Surface to SurfaceRange 350kmsBy DRDO under Integrated guided missile Development program
Qaher F313	Iran’s indigenous stealth fighter jet
Raj-rathan	Inshore petrol vessel for coast guard.
Rudra helicopter	First Indigenous Attack heli. With missiles. They’re weaponized version of Dhruva helicopter by HAL Bangalore.
S-3002	Russia will sell these anti-aircraft missiles to Iran
Unha-3	N.Korea, Long range rocket with 3000km range.

International Relations (IR)

CDS and CAPF examiners are fond of setting MCQs on International current affairs.

[IR] Summits/Treaties 2013/Controversies

Arctic council	India gets observer status
ASEAN human rights declaration	In Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2012
ASEAN summit	2012: 21st ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh Combodia with theme:“ASEAN: One Community, One Destiny” 2012: ASEAN – India Commemorative Summit 2012. To mark the 20th year anniversary of the ASEAN – India dialogue. Theme: ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace, Progress and Shared Prosperity. 2013: 22nd ASEAN summit in Brunei, theme: Our People, Our Future Together.
BASIC ministerial meeting on climate change	Chennai
BRICS 2013	At Durban, S.Africa (5th Summit)Theme: BRICS and Africa: Partnership for development, Integration and industralizationeThekwini DeclarationDiscussed to create an infrastructure focused “development bank”
Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)	Conference of Parties (COP)11th Summit in Hyderabad (2012)12th Summit in PyeongChang, S.Korea (theme = Biodiversity forSustainable Development)
Falkland islands	Voted for British rule
First Arctic Summit	Oslo, Norway
G20 summit	2013: St.Petersburg, Russia2013: Finance ministers meeting held in Moscow, Russia2012: Los Cabos.
G8	Lough Erne, N.Ireland. Theme: tax evasion and transparency
Global Arms trade treaty of UN	India abstained from voting.
High seas conference	Paris
IBSA resolution for women empowerment	India signed this.
Indian chapter of World Economic Forum sumit	Will be held in Kochi, Kerala.
Indian ocean rim	USA became dialouge partner.
Indian ocean rim	First economic and business conference held in Mauritius
IPCC	Its fifth assessment report will come in 2014.
Mekong-Ganga Summit	Delhi, Dec12
Minamata Mercury treaty	In Minamata city of Japan, to sign the world’s first legally binding treaty on mercury pollution under United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
National conference on E-governance	Jaipur
NATO	General Joeseph Dunford (USA)Afghani forces tookover the security ops from NATO in June 2013.
Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2013	Kochi, Kerala
Silk road festival	Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Surajkund International Crafts Mela 2013	Organized by Haryana government in Surajkund, Faridabad district. This year focus was Karnataka state.
Tokyo Summit’12	In Tokyo for rebuilding of Afghanistan.
UN resolution on Death Penalty ban	India voted against
UN Resolution on Syria	2012: new sanctions against President Bashar Al Assad’s regime= India voted favour of this. 2013: for rapid progress on a political transition in Syria= India abstained from voting.
UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka	Condemning Sri Lanka for violation against Tamil minorities. India voted against Sri Lanka.
WCIT-2012	World Conference on International telecommunication @Dubai
WHO SEARO	International conference for traditional medicine in south-east Asia was held in Delhi. Led to Delhi declaration.

Visits to India

1. US Vice Prez Biden
2. French President Hollande
3. UK PM David Cameroon
4. Egyptian President Morsi
5. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
6. Liberian President Ellen Johnson
7. Afghani President Hamid Karzai

Visits from India

1. Pranab to Mauritius
2. Mohan to Japan, Thailand, Germany
3. Mohan to 68th Session of UN general assembly + Met Paki PM Sharif in Sep’13.
4. AK Antony to Singapore, China

[IR-PIN] Prez/PM of Foreign countries

Some carried forward from 2012’s news items:

African national congress	President Jacob Zuma
African Union	Nkosazana Zuma, first woman
Asian forum of parliamentarians	Rajyasabha Dy.Chairman PJ Kurien became its President
Australia	PM Tony Abbott (liberal) defeated Kelvin Rudd (Labour)
Bangladesh	President Abdul Hamid.PM Sheikh Hasina (Awami League party)Speaker: Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury. First lady speaker in Bangladesh
Bhutan	King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck: was chief guest at 26th Jan parade in 2013. PM Tshering Tobgay Elections in Jul’13. India had provided EVM. India stopped kerosense and LPG subsidy=bitterness Bhutan has became first country of the world to ban pesticides and herbicide sale to become a 100% organic food growing country . Currency swap agreement with India.
Boby Ghosh	New editor of TIME international.
Brazil	Dilma Rousseff
Central African Republic	President Michel Djotodia belonging to Seleka rebels.
China	Prez Xi Jinping replaced Hu JintaoPremeir Li Kequiang replaced Wen Jiabao. Li also got Pakistan’s highest civilian award “Nishan-e-Pakistan”.
Congo	Made peace agreement with M23 rebels.
Cuba	Prez Raul Castro Replaced Fidel Castro
Czech Republic	PM Milos Zeman. Capital Prague
Ecuador	President Rafel Correa. Capital Quito
Egypt	Adil Mansour interim prez after army threw out Mohd.MorsiMohd. El Baradei became VPPM: Hazem Al BeblawiTamarod campaign:Anti-Morsey campaign, massive street demonstration.
EU	Herman Van Rompuy
Fiji	President Ratu Epeli NailatikauNew Constitution
France	President Francois Hollander replaced Sarkozy
Germany	Chancellor Angela Markel won again.
IOC, International olymic Committee	Thomas Batch (Germany) repalced Jacques Rogge.
Iran	President Hassan Rouhani. He replaced Ahmadinejad.Iran’s supreme leader: Ayatollah Khamenei.
Israel	Prez. Simon Peres PM. Benjamin Netanyahu Their parliament is called Knesset. Stephen Hawkings boycotted academic conference in Israel to protest for Palestine.
Italy	President Giorgio NapolitanoEnrica Lexie: name of the ship from which two Italian marines killed Indian fishermen.
Japan	PM Shinzo Abe. DyPM Taro Aso. Their parliament is called Diet Japan has shut down all her nuke powerplant in Sep’13, because of the Fukushima disaster.
Jordan	King Abdulla II setup parliament for his country.
Kenya	Prez Uhuru Kenyatta
Liberia	President Ellen Johnson, had came to India
Malaysia	PM Najib Razak
Maldives	President Nasheed N Waheed replaced Nasheed after coup
Mali	Ibrahim Keita new President.Problem: Tuareg rebels.
Mexico	Enrique Nieto
Myanmar	President Thein Sein Government Signed peace treaty with Wa rebels Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (National league for democracy) Ceasefire with Kanchi rebels
N.Korea	Kim Jong-Un
Nepal	Khil Raj Regmi
Pakistan	Prez Mamnoon Hussain replaced Zardari.PM: Nawaz Sharif (PML-N) party replaced Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Fair trial bill 2012 in Pakistan. It allows intelligence agency to collect electronic data of citizens. Mohhammed sarwar: Pakistani- Britain’s first muslim lawmaker. Served 3 terms as MP of Glasgow. Now Punjab province (Pakistan)Governor.
Palestine	Pres. Mahmud AbbasPM Salam Fayyad resigned.Became Observer state in UN
Paraguay	President Horacio Cartes.Country admitted back in UNASUR
Pope	Bennedict XVI, German, Resigned.New Pope: Francis I, (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) first South American pope. He is from Argentina
Ramsar Convention	Christopher Briggs became the new Secretary-General
S.Korea	President Park Geun-Hye replaced Lee myung Bak. First Lady prez.
Scotland	Will hold referendum in 2014 to decide whether Scotland should get independence from rest of United Kingdom.
Srilanka	Mahinda Rajpakshe. He threw out CJI Shiran Bandaranyake. Gen.Sarath Fonseca was Ex-Was jailed after power struggle with President.
Syria	Prez Bashar Al AsadPM Wael Nader al-Halqi
Thailand	Yingluck Shinawatra, first lady PM
Tunisia	PM Hamadi Jebali resigned after protests. Capital Tunis
UK	PM David Cameron (Conservative)DyPM Nick Clegg (liberal democrats)Ex-PM Margaret Thatcher,Dead.Conservative Party. Known as Iron Lady.
UN	Secretary General Ban ki Moon. President for 68th session: John Ashe of Antigua. Head of UN Women: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka From south Africa.
Venezuela	Prez Nicolas Maduro after Huge Chavez died.
Zimbabwe	President Robert Mugabe won again. New Constitution approved. Now President can be elected for two 5-year terms only.

USA Related

Edward Snowden: Exposed NSA’s project PRISM. Given temporary asylum in Russia. For more on PRISM project, click me

Private Bradley Manning: American Soldier, leaked confidential cables to wikileaks. Jailed. Later went through sex-change. New name is Chelsea Manning.

• President Obama (Democratic party). Defeated Mitt Romney (Republican) Term ends in 2017.
• VP Joe Biden
• Secretary of state:John Kerry, replaced Hilary Clinton.
• FBI: James Comey.
• CIA: John Brennan
• NSA: Susan Rice
• Federal reserves: Janet Yallen will replace Ben S Bernanke
• FDA: Gave permission to anti-HIV drug TRUVADA.
• US Envoy to UN: Samantha Power

[IR-PIN] Diaspora/ Indians awarded abroad

Ami Bera	California, House of representative.
Amol Rajan	Editor of The Independent, in Britain
Anil Ananthaswami	UK, won Physics journalism prize.
Autar Kaw	US professor of the year. Teaches Mechanical engg.
Bobby Jindal	Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party
CNR Rao	Got Chinese award for international cooperation in Science.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	Educationist, Literary critic. Won Kyoto Prize – Japanese equivalent of Nobel.
Halimah Yacob	First woman speaker of Singapore.
Jawaharlal Darda	Indian Freedom fighter from Maharashtra. Britain’s house of commons gave him lifetime achievement award.
Kamla Harris	First Indian American to become attorney general in USA.
Kamla Persad Bissessar	PM of Trinidad and Tobago. Chief Guest of PBD-2012.
Kiran Mazmudar Shaw	Founder of Biocon. She is selected as trustee in United States Pharmacopeia convention.
Krishna Arora	Won Order of Australia medal for her community service
Lisa Sthalekar	Australian woman cricketer, retired.
Natwar Gandhi	CFO of Washington DC. Resigned.
Nikki Haley	Governor of South Carolina state in US(republican party)
Nisha Desai Biswal	US Asst.Sec. South and Central Asia
Patricia Maria Rozario	UK Musician. Won PBD 2013.
Perilla Bhandari Swatz	Only Indian woman captian in US Marines. Cease from Sikkim.
Rajkeswur Purryag	President of Mauritius. Chief guest of Pravasi bharatiya divas-2013
Rangaswami Srinivasan	Cofounder of LASIK Eye surgery. Given national medal for tech and innovation in USA.
Rasu Ramachandran	Won award in Singapore for Development of Libraries.
Sangeet Chowfla	New President of GMAC- this non profit body conducts GMAT exam.
Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora	First Sikh to be elected in Punjab provincial assembly of Pakistan
Savita Halappanavar	Dentist, Died in Ireland during pregnancy. After her death, Ireland made law to permit woman have abortion in case of life danger/abnormality.
Shanti Gandhi	Great grandson of Gandhi.Won Kansas state assembly election.
Sri Srinivas	Judge of US court of appeals in DC circuit.
Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan	New CEO of Anglogold-Ashanti ltd – one of the largest producers of Gold.
Sunetra Gupta	Indian born scientist now joined prestigious royal society of London.
Sunil R Kulkarni	State judge in N. California
Sundar Pichai	Head of Google’s Android business. From IIT-K
Sunil Kulkarni	First Indian judge in N.Carolina
Tulsi Gabbard	1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their Lok Sabha). Elected from Hawai State.Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita, Served in US army, was deployed in Iraq.
Vandana Gandhi	UAE’s business excellance award for her nursery education chain Orchard nursery.
Vince Girdhari chhabaria	Appointed judge in California.
Venkatesh Mannar	Scientists got highest civilian award in Canada. His work in Micronutrient deficiency.
Vijay Singh	Indian-American professor.Won top US environment award.

Economy: Regulators/Top Bodies

IMF	Christine Lagarde
World Bank	Jim Yong Kim. (For whom UPSC admitted setting Wrong MCQ)
WTO	Roberto Azevedo (Brazil) replaced Pascal Lamy.
ADB	Takehiko Nakao, Japan
RBI	Raghuram Rajan replaced D.Subbarao as 23rd Governor of RBI Studied @IIT Delhi, IIM-A Was youngest ever chief economist @IMF Served as chief economic advisor to Finance minister Book: Fault Lines: How hidden fractures still threaten the world economy.
SEBI	UK Sinha replaced C. B. Bhave
CCI	Ashok Chawla
NABARD	Snehlata Shrivastava
IRDA	TS Vijayan replaced J Hari Narayan
PFRDA	Yogesh Agarwal
Forward Market commission	Ramesh Abhishek
GST Panel	Abdul Rahim Rather replaced Sushil Modi.
ICAI (Chartered accountants)	Subordinate dh Kumar Agrawal

Banks/Public-NBFC/PSUs

only covering those who were in news for 2013. Otherwise it’ll be a mile long list.

Allahabad Bank	Subhalakshmi PAnse
Axis Bank	Shikha Sharma
Bank of America- India head	Kaku Nakhate
Bank of India	VR Iyer
Bank of India	Vijayalakshmi Iyer
Canara Bank	RK Dubey
Central Bank	Rajeev Rishi
HDFC	Renu KArnad
HSBC India	NAina Lal Kidwai
ICICI	Too cliched. Chanda Kochher
IDBI	CMD MS Raghvan
IDFC	Rajiv Lall
IFCI	CEO and MD Santosh B Nayar
JP Morgan India	Kalpana Morparia
Royal Bank of Scotland-Indian operatis	Meera Sanyal
SBI	Arundhati Bhattacharya replaced Pratip Chaudhari and became 1st woman to head SBI
State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur	B.Sriram
United Bank of India	Chairman and MD Archana Bhargava
UTI asset  Management	Leo Puri

Companies, Associations

Only covering those who were in news for 2013. Otherwise it’ll be a mile long list.

Air Asia	Joint venture of Tata Sons Malaysian LCC and Telestra.CEO: Mittu ChandaliyaChairman: SK Ramadoli
ASSOCHAM	Rana Kapoor of Yes Bank became the new President
BALCO, under Vedanta	Ramesh Nair
BBC	Tony Hall
Berlshire Hathaway	Warren Buffett
Bharat Forge	Baba Kalyani
Bharat Petroleum	S.Varadarajan
BSE	Ashish Kumar Chauhan
CII	S.Gopalkrishnan.Co-founder of Infosys.
Dr.Reddy’s	GV Prasad
Editors Guild	N.Ravi of the Hindu.
General Electronics India	Banmali Agrawala
Hindustan uniliver	Sanjiv Mehta
IMF executive director from India	Rakesh Mohan
Infosys	Narayan Murthy returns as Executive chairman of the board, and KV Kamath (former-ICICI) steps down.
International chamber of commerce	Sunil Bharti became Vice President
International coffee council	Javed Akhtar new chairman.
LIC	SK Roy replaced DK Malhotra
Maruti Suzuki India	Kenichi Ayikawa
NALCO	CMD Anshuman Das
NASSCOM	Krishnakumar Natarajan of Mindtree
Nestle India	Etienne Benet
Procter & Gamble	AG Lafley
Ranbaxy Laboratories	Malvinder Singh. Keeps getting notices/penalties in USA
TVS Automobiles	Sanjay Nigam
Twitter	Jack Dorsey is chairman, Evan Williams is founder. Planning for $1 billion IPO

[News] Economy related

For White label ATM, NSEL crisis etc read the articles in this google folder:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0DPgaYAtDgmQUNCLXgtYzR6VUU/edit?usp=sharing

Here are some more news: I’m not going into details but you should prepare for MCQs/ interviews:

1. Global competitiveness  Index 2013, by World Economic Forum: Switzerland on 1^st, India on 60^th rank
2. Only public sector companies will be allowed to explore shale gas
3. GAAR Rules will implemented from 1^st Apr 2016
4. Non-Agri trade cannot be done on Saturdays: notifies FMC
5. Company Bill passed in parliament
6. NABARD act amended to increase cap to 20k crore.
7. Custom duty on gold, silver, platinum hiked
8. Our Forex reserves slips down below $280 billion.
9. RBI’s Q1 review
10. RBI: Unique Customer Identification Code (UCIC). For strengthening Know Your Customer (KYC)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CFT).
11. RBI’s KK Vohra panel for loan products
12. RBI’s CDS norms for corporate bonds
13. SEBI: Gold ETF permission
14. RBI penalized 6 banks for flouting KYC norms after sting operation from Cobrapost.
15. RBI and gold import curbs
16. National Housing bank to get $ 100 million loan from World Bank
17. Green Banking: attempts to reduce paper wastage/Carbon footprints in banking. Example using net banking instead of cheque-book
18. Rupee downfall. Import duty on gold
19. Foreign investment limit in government securities (G-sec) : $ 5 billion
20. Chindu’s 10 points action plan to strengthen economy.
21. 5 PSUs come up with 4000MW solar projects
22. Committee: Parthasarathi Shome commission for Tax administration reform.
23. Sovereign Wealth funds
24. Disinvestment cleared for STC and ITDC
25. Banking licenses. Winners to be announced by 2014.
26. Cement cos get fined for cartelization
27. Civil Aviation regulation authority
28. Mittal exits Odisha steel project.
29. FDI norms relaxed in Aug
30. Urea investment policy
31. Money laundering bill
32. Tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with Liechtenstein.
33. Human development report 2013
34. EU imposed anti-dumping duty on Indian steel
35. Russia became the 156th member of WTO
36. Maharatna status for BHEL and GAIL
37. RRB act Amendment bill.
38. Inflation indexed bonds
39. Universal commodity exchange
40. MCX-SX: third online shock exchange after BSE and NSE.
41. SEZ norms liberalized.
42. EPFO to give 8.5% interest
43. Saxo Bank Denmark, entered India.
44. Sugar price decontrol after Rangarajan Panel.
45. SARADHA groups scam, West Bengal.
46. Debt Waiver scheme: launched in 2008. CAG report talks about scam in this.
47. Forward market commission’s Administrative control:
    1. Before: Department of consumer affairs under Agro min
    2. Now: under Chindu (Finance ministry)
    3. FMC statutory body. This move done because of NSEL scam
    4. RBI asks Banks to end Zero interest EMF(Equated Monthly interest ) Scheme
    5. SBI to expand CASH DEPOSIT MACHINES(CDM) to tap portion of currency within people
    6. SEBI debarred DSQ software from entering capital market for 7 years
    7. SEBI merges FIIs and QFIs into new FPIs category
    8. INDIA BANK launches Combo loan(Home, Vehicle & Consumer Durables loan @ 10.2%)

[News] Infrastructure related

Transport/Communication

1. Double decker trains between Chennai to Bangalore.
2. Mumbai’s eastern Free way
3. Benihal Qazigunz rail link
4. World’s highest railbridge @River Chinab- will connect Baramulla & Srinagar to Jammu.
5. Andaman Grand Trunk Road: SC Banned Tourists to protect jarva tribe
6. Ghat ki guni Tunnel-Links jaipur with agra via NH-11
7. Kishan Ganga Hydro Project, Gurez valley North Kashmir. Court of Arbitration permitted India to go ahead under Indus-Water Treaty 1960
8. Biotoilets in all trains by 2019
9. Metro rail= Already in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Banglore. New plans for Lucknow (2014), Raipur, Cochi, Hyd, Mumbai.
10. Pir Panjal tunnel: connect Jammu’s Banihal with Kashmir’s Kazigund. (railways). This will be Asia’s 2nd longest railway tunnel.
11. Jawahar Tunnel or Banihal Tunnel: connecting between Banihal and Qazigund on NH 1A (Highway).
12. SMS based railway ticket booking: 139 or 5676714
13. DIESEL LOCOMOTOIVE engines roll out India’s most powerful engine -5500 CC(WGD5 prototype)
14. Cabinet gave approval to setup ports @Sagar, WB. And @Andhra
15. Gobalpur port, Odisha: new all-weather port.
16. Telegram service permanently stopped. 1850: first telegram was between Kolkata and Diamond Harbour
17. Mukesh will use Anil’s optical fiber network to laydown 1.2 lakh km national fiber network for his Reliance Jio Infocomm. This will help in 4G broadband.
18. National internet registry for managing IP addresses.
19. SISTEMA SHYAM TELESERVICES(MTS BRAND) become the 1st company to get Unified License from Gov.

Economy related IR

1. Gwadar Port: Pakistan handed over to china
2. Colombo port Project: China developing this.
3. Chabahar port, Iran: India helping to develop this.
4. Sri Lanka’s Northern Railway project: Indian railministry’s IRCON financed this.
5. India’s Currency swap agreements with Japan and Bhutan.
6. Social security agreement with Portugal, Austria.
7. Tax information exchange agreement with Gibraltar.
8. Teesta water treaty with Bangladesh
9. Double taxation avoidance treaty/convention/treaty (DTAC) with Latvia, Albania, Sweden, South Korea, UK
10. Indo-Japan pact on rare earths.

Power/Energy/Environment/Science

1. India’s first Geo-thermal power Plant: at Tatapani, Balrampur, Chattisgarh by NTPC.
2. Okhla Compost Plant, Delhi: India’s first plant to receive carbon credit under UNFCC.
3. Rashtriya Adarsha Vidhyalaya by Union government + Indian corporates via PPP
4. Kundankulam Nucl plant, TN, by NPCIL. SC gave it permission
5. Asia’s largest solar project @Jodhpur Rajasthan by Welspun energy.
6. Tawang Hydel project: Tawang chu river in Arunanchal.
7. 4000MW Ultra Mega green solar power project @Sambhar lake, Rajasthan
8. Barmer, Rajasthan: Cairn India found oil in Rageshwari Block.
9. Bureau of water use efficiency=>National watermission=>National action plan on climate change.
10. National plan for aquatic ecosystems by merging Lake conversation and Wetland conservation programs.
11. GM trials for castor oil, maize and wheat cleared by MoEF’s GEAC.
12. Karnataka watershed project gets $60 million loan from world bank
13. E-business portal, designed by Infosys for Commerce Ministry to promote government to business connectivity.
14. Coal gate, missing files.
15. RTS,S Vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline for Malaria trial successful
16. JENVAC- India’s Indigenous Vaccine to prevent Japanese Encephalitis(Mosquito born)-Produced by PPP mode (Bharat Biotech & Indian council of Medical Research)

Schemes

1. Education schemes: Click ME
2. SC/ST/OBC/PH related: Click ME
3. Women related: Click ME
4. Public Health/ maternity / childcare: Click ME
5. E-Governance related: Click ME

Some new Schemes/initiatives:

1. Zero Landless project: started in Kerala
2. Teleradiology service: started in Guwahati by Health ministry. It’ll help sending x-ray / CT scans from regional hospitals to speciality hospitals across India.
3. All women University @Rae Bareli in UP
4. Urban Health mission 2013
5. National skill development agency, autonomous body.
6. Roshni skill development project for Naxal hit areas
7. First public health university in India: at Bhuveneshwar Orissa.via PPP.
8. Rashtriya Bal Swastha Karyakram launched from Thane.
9. MyIndia Initiative- Digital Volunteer Programme. By Ministry of Info and Broadcasting, to talk about Government schemes and programmes on different social media platforms
10. Adhar/UIDAI unnecessary for government scheme benefits- Government tells SC

[News]Polity

list definitely not exhaustive.

Bills/ Acts

1. India became the first country in South Asia to ban cosmetic product testing on animals. Guilty will be punished under drugs and cosmetics act
2. Himachal Pradesh becomes the first smoke-free state in the country under the cigarettes and other tobacco products at 2003
3. Kerala: Liquor purchase age is increased from 18 to 21
4. Tamil Nadu’s new litigation policy
5. National water framework bill
6. Sexual harassment bill
7. Land acquisition bill
8. Electronic delivery of services bill
9. Ordinance/bill to protect convicted MPs.
10. Manual scavenging bill
11. Judicial appointment bill
12. Pension bill
13. SEBI amendment bill
14. Banking Amendment
15. Criminal law (Amendment) bill 2013 against rape, Anti-Rape ordinance
16. Juvenile Justice Act & Delhi rape case.
17. Citizen’s charter bill
18. Food security bill/ordinance
19. Real Estate regulation bill
20. Telengana the 29th State
21. CIC’s order on Political parties coming Right to information act vs Government trying to amend RTI act to counter it.
22. National Integration council meet in New Delhi.

SC Decisions

1. Disqualifying Convicted legislators (vs Governments ordinance/bill to counter it)
2. Voters get NOTA (none of the above) choice. Allied topic: VVAP: Voter verified paper audit trail
3. Andaman Grand Trunk Road: SC Banned Tourists to protect jarva tribe
4. CBI autonomy
5. Cauvery Water dispute tribunal
6. Passport doesn’t prove Indian citizenship

Civilian Awards/Achievements

[Awards] Nobel 2013

category	who	why?
Chemistry	Martin Karplus Michael Levitt Arieh Warshel	Developing computer models that can predict chemical reactions for use in creating new drugs and other tasks.
Economics	Eugene F. Fama Robert J. Shiller Lars Peter Hansen	Research on how the market prices of assets/stocks move.
Literature	Alice Munro (Canada)	Master of the contemporary short story. often called “Canada’s Chekhov” Notable books: “The Moons of Jupiter,” ”The Progress of Love” and “Runaway.” 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work
Medicine	James E. Rothman Randy W. Schekman Thomas C. Sudhof	in understanding how key substances move within a cell. They developed better understanding of vesicles, tiny bubbles that deliver their cargo within a cell to the right place at the right time. Disturbances in that delivery system can lead to neurological diseases, diabetes or immunological disorders.
Peace	Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. (OPCW)	190 nations signed its treaty. deploys teams worldwide to find chemical weapons and their manufacturing sites. Currently planning the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles and facilities in Syria. HQ: Hague, Netherlands Chief: Ahmet Uzumcu
Physics	Peter Higgs Francois Englert	Theory about how subatomic particles get their mass. Their theory made headlines last year when the CERN laboratory in Geneva confirmed it by discovering the so-called Higgs particle.

Nobel 2012

Category	Who?	Why?
Chemistry	Lefkowitz, Kobilka	Protein receptors that let body cell respond to signals.
Economics	Roth, Shapley.	Stable allocation + market design.
Litt.	Mo Yan	First Chinese writer to get this award.
Medicine	Gurdon, Yamanaka	Regenerative medicine. Cure disease by growing tissues in lab.
Peace	EU	Lolz
Physics	Haroche, Wineland	Measure quantum particles, without destroying them.

Nobel: Indian

Venkatarama Ramakrishnan	Chemistry
Amartya Sen	Economics
Tagore	Litt.
Rudyard Kipling	Litt.
VS Naipaul	Litt.
Dr. Hargobind Khorana	Medicine
Mother Teresa	Peace
S. Chandrasekhar	Physics

Nobel Facts

1. Nobel prize recipients are called laureates. started in 1901
2. The award consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash prize (8-million Swedish kroner (SEK) – almost $1.2 million U.S. dollars as of September 2013). Money comes from fund created by Swedish inventor of Dynamite Alfred Nobel.
3. The Economics medal has no inscription.
4. Nobel prizes are announced in advance but awarded on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
5. The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
6. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded at its own ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Periodically, no prize has been awarded. This happened most recently in 1972.
7. The number of winners is limited to three per category.
8. A person must be alive to be nominated. If they die during the consideration period, their name will be removed. Only if a person is announced as a winner and dies prior to the ceremony, will a posthumous award be given.

[Awards] Public service/media/Courage

Indira Gandhi award for National integration	2012: Gulzar2013: Agro Scientist MS Swaminathan
Indira Gandhi peace prize	2011: Ela Ramesh Bhatt. SEWA founder. Actually won for in 2011, but was awarded that prize in 2013. SEWA= Self Employed Women’s Association 2012: Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf
Desmond TuTu	South African peace icon . Supporter of gay’s right.
G.D. Agarwal	Former professor of IIT. Fasting for to stop construction along ganga.
Lokmanya tilak award 2013	Metro man E. Shreedharan
Legend of the planet Award, France	Bindeshwar Pathak for his ecofriendly toilets “Sulabh Sauchalayas”.
Liberation of war honor	Given to Pranab. By Bangladeshis for his contribution in 1971
Magsaysay award 2013	2012: Kulandei Francis (India) for Microenterprises in TN. but for 2013 No Indian selected. Habiba Sarabi,Afghanistan’s first and only female governor. Ernesto Domingo, from the Philippines. Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission), Lahpai Seng Raw, from Myanmar, Shakti Samuha (“Power Group”), from Nepal
Mahatma Gandhi international award for peace reconciliation	Brigalia Bam for 2013. for her work in human rights
Malala Yousafzai	Youngest nominee for noble peace prize. Addressed UN assembly in Jul 13. UN declared 12 July as Malala Day.
Mountaineering	First Amputee to scale Everest: Arunima Sinha, UP. First Paki woman to scale Everest: Samina Baig. First Saudi woman to Everest: Raha Moharrak Youngest to climb Mt.Kilimanjaro in Africa: Aaryan Balaji.
National Communal harmony awards 2011-12	given in 2013 by President. Khamliana, Mizoram Mohd.Abdul Bari, Odisha Foundation for Amity and National solidarity, Delhi (org.)
National Florence Nightingale award	By Health ministry for Nursing professionals
National Youth Icons	Selected by election Commission of India, to attract young voters: Mary Kom, Saina, Dhoni and Kalam.
Nomura Award	Kiran Bedi for her public service.
Outstanding parliamentarian 2012	JDU MP Sharad Yadav. This selection by parliamentary award Committee.
Padma awards	Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra, Sculpture, Orissa S Haider Raza, Painter, Delhi Prof Yash Pal, Science and Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Prof Roddam Narasimha, Science and Engineering, Karnataka Padma Bhushan=24, Shri=80=list is not worth the ‘majoori’.
Prem Bhati awards for political reporting	Shalini Singh of The Hindu
Pritzker award	Richest award in Architecture.
Pulitzer prizes 2013	No award given in ‘fiction’ category, just like 2012. New York times won 4 awards
Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna award 2013	Sarod maestro ustad amjad ali khan. Given on august 20 on Rajiv’s Birthday.
Tagore Award 2013	Zubin Mehta for cultural harmony. Jury included prime minister. Zubin had done music concert in Sri Nagar. Organized by German Embassy.
TED Prize	For individual with great vision to change world. 2013’s award went to Prof. Sugata Mitra, an educationist.
UN Public service awards	Kerala’s mass contact program Swavalamban of Dhanbad district MP’s Graamin Haat.
UN Youth courage award	Razia Sultana, UP for helping child labourers.
Whitney awards	Considered green oscars. Indian wildlife biologist Aparajita Datta for protection of Hornbill in Arunanchal.

[Awards] Movies/Beauty

Beauty	Miss India 2013: Navneet Kaur Dhillon Miss America 2014: Nina Davuluri. Subjected to racist remarks on Twitter. Miss India Worldwide: Nehal Bhogaita, deaf and mute. Miss World 2013: Megan Young, Philippines. Venue: Bali, Indonesia Miss universe 2013: Yet to be decide because contest in Nov 2013. Venue: Moscow.
Dada Saheb Phalke award 2012	Pran.
Golden bear award	Given in Berlin film festival.
National film award 2012	Best film: Paan Singh Tomar
Oscar 2013	Argo: best film Life of pie: best visual effects, direction etc. Indian entry: Barfi by Anurag Basu (Hindi)
Oscar 2014	Indian entry : The Good Road, by Gyan Correa (Gujarati)
SAARC film festival	Held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Paan Singh Tomar won best film award.

[Awards] Academic/Arts

Abel Prize	Considered Noble for maths. Given to Belgaian Mathematician Pierre Deligne.
Chameli Devi Jain Purasarkar	For Outstanding Woman Mediaperson.Alka Dhupkar of IBN’s Marathi channel won it.
Dan David Prize	For one field each in three time dimensions: past, present and future. For science, arts and humanities.
Education Nobel Prize	Dr.Madhav Chawan. @Doha
Giving pledge	Started by Bill Gates + Warren Buffet. To encourage rich people to give part of their wealth for charity. Azim Premji first Indian to sign up.
Goldman prize	Considered oscars for environment movements / green nobel.
Highest IQ	Lauren Marbe, 16yo schoolgirl from UK. Has IQ Higher than Einstein.Neha Ramu: another UK girl of Indian origina has IQ 162.
Life Science breakthru prize	Started by Mark Zuckerberg (facebook) and Sergey Brin (google)
National bioscience award	Also called N-BIOS prize. Given to scientists below 45 age. Venkat Mohan got it.
Sand artists	Sudarshan Patnayak. Has won Russian award for sand art competition in Russia.
Sangeet Natak Academy awards	awards started in 2006 in memory of shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan.2013: more than 30 people given this award hence list is not worth the ‘majoori’.
Shaw prize	Given for astronomy, medicine and maths.
Yuri Milner award	Richest academic prize for medicine and biology: 3 million USD each.

[Books in News]

Man Booker Fiction 2012

• Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the bodies. She has won this prize twice.
• Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis-Tale of mumbai’s opimioum addiction. Booker price shortlisted but did not win.

Man Booker Fiction Shortlisted for 2013

We Need New Names	NoViolet Bulawayo
The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton
Harvest	Jim Crace
The Lowland	Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being	Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary	Colm Tóibín

Man Booker International 2013

• American writer Lydia Davis.
• Given every two year, to a living author.
• Work in English or translated in English.
• Indian author UR Ananthamurty was also nominated for his book novel “Samskara”

[Books] Non-Booker Awards

Asom Ratna	Indira Goswami, Literature.
Commonwealth book prize 2013	Death of Bees, Lisa O’Donnell Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka) Sterile Sky, E.E. Sule (Nigeria)
DSC Prize for South Asian literature	Jeet Thayil for his novel Narcopolis.
Hindu Literary prize	Jerry Pinto’s novel “Em and the Big hoom”.
Jnanpith 2012	Ravuri Bharadwaj, Telugu writer.
SAARC literature award	@Agra in 2013. Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K. won. His books; Seduction of Delhi, Enigmatic love etc.
Saraswati samman	Given by KK Birla foundationSugathakumari, Malyalam poetess for 2012
Surjit hans	Indian professor won award in london for translating Shakespeare’s work into Punjabi.
Walter Scott Prize	For historical fiction, UK

[Books] List of Books and Authors

A garland of memories	Ruskin Bond
Ambedkar’s World: The Making of Babasaheb and Dalit Movement	Eleanor Zelliot
An uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions	Jean dreze,Amrathya Sen
Ash in the Belly- India’s unfinished battle against Hunger	Harsh Mander
Bangladesh: The Prize of freedom	By noted photographer Rahu Rai
Breakout Nations: In pursuit of the next economic miracle	Ruchir Sharma. Won Tata lit. award for first book.
Calcutta: Two years in the city	Amit Chaudhuri
Cuckoo’s Calling	JK Rowling (Harry Potter fame) she wrote this novel with a pseudonym “Robert Galbraith”. Her previous novel Casual vacancy.
Dare to Do! For the new Generation	Former IPS Kiran Bedi
Daughter of Empire	Pamela Hicks
Dear Life	Alice Munro, Canada
Durbar	Tavleen Singh
Earth Songs	WB CM Mamata Benerjee
Economic Policies and India’s reform agenda	YV Reddy
Em and the Big hoom	Jerry Pinto’s novel. Won Hindu Literary prize.
FIFTH ESTATE	Biopic on JULIAN ASSANGE (Wikileaks founder)
Fractured Times: Culture and society in 20th Century	Eric Hobsbawn
Freethinker’s prayerbook	Khushwant Singh
Grammatica Grandonica	Sanskrit grammar book written by a Jesuit Missionary For.Hanxlenden. Restored after 300 years.
Hilary Mantel	Won two man booker prizes. This time for book “Bring up the bodies”.
How not to make money	Raj Kundra (Shilpa Shetty’s husband) and allegedly involved in IPL spot fixing 2013.
Impossible Indian: Gandhi and Temptation of violance	Faisal Devji
Indignez Vous	Book by Stephane Hessel. Had inspired Occupy wallstreet movement. Author is dead.
Inferno	Dan Brown (he wrote Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Lost Symbol)
Inside Out	Autobiography of Paki cricketer Mustaq Mohammad
Jesus of Nazaeth: the Infancy narratives	Pope Benedict XVI
Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife.	By Sushmita Bangerjee. It details her escape from Taliban ruled Afghanistan in 1995. She was recently murdered by Talibans.
Land of seven rivers	Sanjeev sanyal
Law’s Empire	Ronald Dworkin. Dead
Life of Pi	Yann Martel. Made into movie by Ang Lee. Suraj Sharma played hero.
My father, our fraternity	Sarod Maestro Amjal Ali Khan
My journey: transforming dreams into actions	APJ Kalam
My tryst with justice	Justice PN Bhagwati
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Germany	By his daughter Prof Ania Pfaff
New Market Tales	Jayant Kriplani
Pataudi-Nawab of Cricket	Suresh Menon
Patriots and Partition	Ramchandra Guha
Samudra Mantha: Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indo Pacific	C.Raja Mohan.
Sanjay story	Vinod Mehta
Sethji	Shobha De
Sounding Off	Resul Pookutty- he had won Oscar for soundtrack in Slumdog Millionaire
Sunshine Lence	Prasun Joshi, Noted lyricist.
The games Indians play why we are the way we are.	V Raghunathan.
The Great Gatsby	P.Scott Fitzerland
The Lowland	Jhumpa Lahiri. shortlisted for Booker 2013 for fiction.
The NaMo story	Kingshuk Nag
The Prabhakaran Saga	S Murari
The Race of my life-an autobiography	Milkha Singh
The Sea of innocence	Kishwar Desai. About rape of Scarlet Jones in Goa.
The test of my life: from cricket to cancer and back	Yuvaraj Singh
The Wildlings	Nilanjan Roy
Untold story of people of Azad Kashmir	Christopher Snedden
Walking the lions: Tales from a diplomatic past	Natwar Singh

Sports

Football

Australia	became a member of ASEAN’s football federation.
David Beckham	Retired. Played for Manchester united.
Durand Cup	India’s oldest football tournament. The prize money increased from 20 lakh to 50 lakh. Kolkata’s Mohammedan Sporting defeated defeated ONGC
FIFA 2014	will use Goal line technology to determine ball had passed through goal line or not.. Will be Hosted in Brazil. Mascot: Armadillo called “Fuleco”.Lydia Nsekera, Burundi, First women in FIFA executive committee
Golden Boot 2012	Lionel Messi.
Praful Patel	President of all India Football Federation.
SAFF	South Asian football championship. Afghanistan defeated India.
Santosh Trophy	Services won against Kerala.

Cricket

Ashes series 2013	England won Against Australia
ICC Champions Trophy 2013	India Won against England at Birmingham.
ICC Women’s World Cup	Australia defeated West Indies at Mumbai.
IPL-2013	Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai
Parvez Rasool Asgar	First person from J/K in Indian cricket team.
Ranji Trophy 2013	Mumbai defeated Suarashtra.
T-20 World Cup	England defeated New Zealand at Auckland.
Thirush Kamini	India’s woman opening batsman. First Indian player to hit century in women’s world cup 2012.
Vijay Hazare Trophy	Delhi Won.
World Cup 2015	Jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in February 2015. Two groups of Seven Teams Both India and Pakistan are in pool-B.

Hockey

Asia Cup Hokey	Held @Ipoh, Malayasia.South Korea defeated India.India’s VR Raghunath=Player of the tournament.
Hockey India League	Ranchi Rhinos won.
Indian Hockey Federation	President V.Dinesh Reddy
Leslic Claudius	Triple Olympic Gold Medalist from India.Dead.
New coach for India	Maharaj Kishan Kaushik
Sultan Azlan Shah	Australia defeated Malaysia

Tennis Tournaments 2013

Name	Won	Lost
Australia open	Man: Djokovic, Serbia 1st man to win this tournament three times in a row.	Man: Andy Murray, UK
	Woman: Vicoria Azarenka, Belarus.	Woman: Li Na
Brazil Open, Madrid Open, Italian Open	Nadal	Not important.
Dubai Open	Men’s Doubles BhupathiWomen’s Doubles Sania Mizra	Not important.
French Open	Nadal. Became first player to win eight singles at the same grand slam tournament.	David Ferrer.
	Serena Williams, US	Sharapova.
Wimbledon	Ande Murray. First Briton to win after 1936.	Djokovic
	Marion Bartoli. Her first grand slam single, French	Sabine Lisicki
US Open	Nadal, Spain	Djokovic, Serbia
	Serena Williams, US	Vicoria Azarenka, Belarus.
	Doubles: Leander Paes and Stepanek (Czech)Paes’ Grandslams: 8 doubles, 14 overall.	Some players from brazil and Australia
Cincinnati Masters	Nadal, Spain	Some unseeded player, hence name not important.
	Azarenka (Belarus)	Serena Williams (USA)

Davis Cup Commitment award: to Leander Paes and Jaidip Mukherji

Badminton

Indian Badminton League	Indian Badminton league: similar to IPL.Lee Chong Wei costliest player went to mumbaiSaina Nehwal’s “Hyderabad hotshots” won it.
Indian open	Ratchano, ThailandLee Chong in Men
Malaysian grand prix	PV Sindhu defeated Singapore’s Juan Gu
Thomas cup & Uber Cup	Will be hosted in India in 2014
World Badminton championship	in Guangzhou, ChinaGold: Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand) female. Lin Dan (China) Man.Silver: not important.Bronze: PV Sindhu (India)

Olympics

• IOC, International Olympic Committee: Thomas Batch (Germany) replaced Jacques Rogge.
• 2020 (Summer) Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Motto: Discover Tomorrow. and Wrestling is included.
• Special Olympics for disabled. India won 46 medals @Pyhongchang China.
• Olympics for Mentally disabled. Held in S.Korea

Indians @London Olympic 2012

Gagan Narang	Bronze. 10 air-rifle
Krishna Poonia	discus throw. Did not win
Mary Kom	Bronze. Women flywt. Boxing
Saina Nehwal	Bronze. Single badminton
Sushil Kumar	Silver Wrestle 66kg. He was flag-bearer. He got bronze in 2008 Beijing.
Vijay Kumar	Silver. 25 rapid fire pistol. Rajiv G.Khel ratna
Yogeshwar dutt	Bronze. 60kg wrestle. Rajiv G.Khel ratna.

Chess

• These Indians won some foreign tournaments: Parimarajan Negi, P.Harikrishna.
• Widith Gujrathi: 30th Grandmaster
• Abijit Gupta: Commonwealth Chess Championship
• K.Jennitha: World chess championship for disabled.
• Grenke Chess classic 2013: Anand won

Miscellaneous

• Rupesh Shah: Asian Billiards
• Ronnie O’Sullivan: World Snooker-Became champion for the fifth time
• PGA 2013 Tigerwoods.
• Australian Grand prix 2013: Kimmy Raikkonel.
• Malkhamb: Madhya Pradesh declared it as state’s sport
• Henry Rebello: athlete from India, participated in London Olympics’48. Dead.
• Anand Shetty (Flying Bunt): Sprinter. Dead
• World cup for shooting: Rahi Sarnobat -1st Indian woman to win gold in pistol shooting.
• Archery World cup @Shanghai: Bronze by Indian women’s team.
• National Archery Championship at Raipur Chhattisgarh. Assam won.
• Swarn Singh Virk: won gold in Asian Rowing championship, China.

Sport Mascots

Beijing Olympics 2008	Fuwa (good-luck dolls)
Cricket World Cup 2011	Stumpy, the elephant.
CWG, 2011	Shera, the tiger.
Kabbadi world cup 2012, India	JAANBAZ, the eagle.
London Olympics 2012	Wenlock + Mandeville. They symbolize Britain’s industrial revolution.
FIFA 2014	Armadillo named “Fuleco”

Sports Awards

RG Khel Ratna	Shooter Ronjan Sodhi. He had also won ISSF shooting world cup: (silver, double trap). Before him Khel Ratna was given to Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt.
Laureus Awards 2013	Usain Bolt (male) and Jessica Ennis (Female) for their Olympic 2013 records.

Arjun Awards 2013

Mr. Abhijeet Gupta	Chess
Mr. Amit Kumar Saroha	Athletics (Para)
Mr. Dharmender Dalal	Wrestling
Mr. Gagan Jeet Bhullar	Golf
Mr. Ranjith Maheshwari	Athletics
Mr. Rupesh Shah	Billiards & Snooker
Mr. Virat Kohli	Cricket
Ms. Chekrovolu Swuro	Archery
Ms. Joshna Chinnappa	Squash
Ms. Kavita Chahal	Boxing
Ms. Mouma Das	Table Tennis
Ms. Neha Rathi	Wrestling
Ms. P.V. Sindhu	Badminton
Ms. Rajkumari Rathore	Shooting
Ms. Saba Anjum	Hockey

Dronacharya 2013 Award for Coaches

K.P. Thomas	Athletics
Mahavir Singh	Boxing
Narinder Singh Saini	Hockey
Poornima Mahato	Archery
Raj Singh	Wrestling

Places in News

Ahmedabad	First city in South Asia to have a comprehensive heat action plan
Arunanchal Pradesh	New wild banana species found-Musa Velutina
Bangalore International airport	renamed after Hiriya Kempegowda. He was a ruler under the Vijayanagar empire
Betul	In Gawilgarh hills, MP. ASI has found 12000 year old paintings from here.
Bushehr Province	Iran earthquake in april
Cyclone Phailin	Odisha and Andhra
Daocheng Yading	world’s highest civilian airport, China.
Hanumangarha	a major trade hub during Harappa period
Jaisalmer Fort	First inhabited world heritage monument under UNESCOOther five forts that got world heritage statute: Amber, Chittorgarh, Gangron, Kumbhalgarh.
Javadi Hills	Vellore district TN. Neolithic bedrocks found. They were used for sharpning axes and stone tools.
Kalimantan forest	In Borneo island, Indonesia. World’s largest project for REDD+
Kshripra river, Ujjain	Gold coins of vikram aditya found belonging to first century Bc.
Kutch	India’s first marine eco sensitive zone by MoEF
Maenam Wildlife Sanctury, Sikkim	First wild life sanctury to have a skywalk and 22km ropeway
Malayalam language	Union cabinet gives it classical status, along with Tamil, Kannada and Telugu.
Mauratia	Ancient Microcontinent. Its evidence found in W.Indian ocean.
Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur.	Got their own high courts.Total HC (before) =21. After =24.This was done via amending North Eastern areas reorganisation act 1971
Mount Fuji, Japan	World Heritage status under UNESCOIn Honhu Island
Mukundra Hills	Third Tiger reserve in Rajasthan. Other two are Sariska and Ranthambhore
Nyoma, Leh	Highest Krishi Vigyan kendra
Palacole, Andhra	Nepoleaon era french gold coins found
Popocatépetl volcano	Mexico
Praneshwara Temple, Shimoga district, Karnataka	Ancient copper plates from Kalachurya dynasty.
Samoa Airline	First airline to charge passengers based on their weight
Serbia	Agreed to cede some areas to its former province Kosovo.Under EU accord.Serbia-Capital BelgradeKosovo-Capital Pristina-Uses Euro as Currency.
Shanghai	Started visa-free transit scheme with Beijing.
Shenzhen Province	China Launched its first carbon trading scheme here
Sichuan Province	China earthquake of ritchers scale-7.
Typhoon Nari	Philippines, Oct2013
Typhoon Wipha	Japan, Oct2013
UK	Banned sale of non-native aquatic plants to prevent entry of invasive species.
Uttarakhand Disaster	Covered here: click me
Wayanand, Kerala	Pre historic rock art found in Edakkal caves in Ambukuthy hills.
Xisha	Disputed islands in South China sea. China is offering tourists rides while Vietnam opposes.

Dead

Only covering import ones, else this will be a mile long list.

Aaron swartz	Helped creating early version of RSS and Internet.
Afzal Guru	In Feb’13. Hanged for parliament attack on 13/12/2001.Operation three star=codename for his hanging.
Ahalyachari	Educationist. Associated with NCERT
Ajmal Kasab	Hanged for 26/11/2008 terrorist attack.
AK Narayan	Historian and archaeologist
Amar G. Bose	Founder of Bose corp- Radios, speakers and audio systems
Arun Dey	Historian, Kolkata
Asgar Ali Engineer	Islamic scholar. Dawoodi Bohra movement.
Batindra Nath Mukharji	Ancient Indian historian
Bruce Reynold	Carried the Great Train robbery in Britain.
Chinua Achebe	father of modern African Literature.
C.P. Srivastava	He was the  Secretary general of IMO (international maritime org). Elected for four consecutive terms. Longest serving secretary general of IMO. Ex IAS.
Doctor Hilary Koprowski	First successful oral vaccine for polio.
Douglas Engelbart	Father of Computer mouse.
Ganesh Pyne	Painter. W.Bengal.
H.A.B. Parpia	Food Scientist and former director of central food research institute. Hold post in FAO and UN.
Henry Rebello	athlete from India, participated in London Olympics’48. Dead.
Hiroshi Yamauchi	Creator of Mario and Donkey Kong games. Nintendo Company
HS Singhania	President of JK Singhania group.
Ieng Sary	Founder of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge movement.
Jia Dagar	Drupad Singer.
John E Karlin	Inventor of phone keypad.
Kallam Anji Reddy	Founder of Dr.Reddy’s lab.
KP Bhaskar	Indian classical dancer in Singapore.
Mahasundari Devi	Sujani craft, Mithila painting
MS GopalKrishnan.	Violin maestro
N.Seshagiri	Founder DG of NIC.
Ottavio Quattrocchi	Bofors scandal.
Narendra Dabholkar	Anti superstition activist. murdered for his campaigning. Recently Maharastra govt passed a anti superstition bill for that Dabolkar was campaigning for.
N. Rangbashyam	eminent surgeon. He started first M.Ch. degree course in India.
Obaid Siddiqui	biologist and professor @ national centre for biological science. He setup molecular biology unit in tata institute of fundamental research.
Pandit Ram Sneezehi Shukla	Freedom fighter. Gandhi’s follower.
PV Indresan	Educationist. Ex-Director of IIT Madras
Raghunath Panigrahi	Classical singer. Jaydev’s Git Govind.
Ramankutty Nair	Kathakali maestro. Autobiography “Thiranottam”
Ray Dolby	Dolby sound.
Rituparno Ghosh	Filmmaker. Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Last Lear etc.
Robert Edward	Father of IVF technology. Won noble for
Rochus Misch	Hitler’s bodyguard. Dead
Ronald Coase	Coase theorm. Noble prize for economics. Dead.
RP Goenka	CEAT, Saregama, Philips carbon black etc.
Sagar Singh	Part of Azad Hind Fauj during freedom struggle.
Sakar khan	Kamicha maestro of rajasthan.Belong to manganiyar folk musician community of rajasthan . Born in jaislmer. Padma shree, tulsi samman by Mp govt., Sangeet natak akadmi award. Died. Imp for RPSC pre
Sarabjit Singh	attacked in Lahor Jail in Pakistan, died.
Shakuntala Devi	Maths Genius, wrote many books on puzzles.
Shanu Lahiri	Painter from Bengal school
Sushmita Bangerjee	Bengali author. “Kabuliwala’s Bengali wife”. Killed by Talibans.
Vidarbha Mishra	Environment activist. Cleaning ganga through his Sankan Mochan foundation.
Vinod Raina	Educationist. Brain behind Right to education act.
VS Ramadevi	First woman Chief election Commissioner of India
Lt. Col Yograj puri	died- Founder of first sainik school
Zafar Futehally	Ornithologist

Stamps in News

Separate collection given on following page covers all postal stamps to be launched till December 2013:

https://mrunal.org/2013/05/stamps-biodiversity-painting-freedom-struggle-culture-religion-places-2012-2013.html

Space/Sci-Tech related

Hardly asked in IBPS/Banking exams, but if you’re in CAPF/CDS/IFoS/SSC/state PSC game then goto following page for the monthly and yearly compilations from The Hindu

https://mrunal.org/snt

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