Important points to remember

·        Mr. V. K. Singh-  INA CHIEF

·        ANIL KUMBLE- Elected as President of KSCA(Karnataka State Cricket Association)

·        Nallari Kiran Kr Reddy- 16th CM of Andhra Pradesh

·        Nandan Nilekani- UIDAI Chief

·        High power committee to review Antrix Devas Deal. The two-man committee comprising planning commission member and former cabinet secretary , B. K. Chaturvedi and space commission member Prof. Roddam Narasimha- will review the technical, commercial procedural and financial aspects of agreement between Antrix( the commercial arm of ISRO) and Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd.

·        India and Japan signed a free trade deal- to boost bilateral trade which currently amounts to $10.36billion per annum.[CEPA- Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement]

·        Anand Sharma – Union Commerce and Industry Minister[recently signed CECA(Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement) with his Malaysian counterpart Mustapa Mohamed in Kuala Lumpur]

·        Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund – Khazana

·        UK energy giant BP(British Petroleum) and Reliance sign $9 billion(Rs. 32000 Cr) deal to explore Oil, Gas

·        S-Devas Band – High Value and scarce radio waves.

·        CCS- Cabinet Committee on Security

·        Year 2010 declared as safest for Global Commercial Aviation by IATA(International Air Transport Association)

·        Recently ADB(Asian Development Bank) agreed to provide an aid of $7.4 billion to India for developing its infrastructure from a three year period from 2011-2013.

·        New PM of Jordan – Marouf Bakhit

·        Donald Tusk – PM of Poland

·        Approval of Parliament is required to withdraw money from consolidated fund of India.

·        Largest resource of natural Gas: Russia

·        New finance secretary of India: Sushma Nath

·        For examination of FSB(Food Security Bill) – C. Rangarajan Committee

·        TIEA- Tax Information Exchange Agreement[India signed first TIEA with Bermuda]

·        30 member JPC to probe 2G Scam(20 from Lok Sabha, 10 from Rajya Sabha)

·        In an attempt to deal with black money in elections, the maximum poll expenditure for parliamentary constituencies has been increased to Rs. 40lakh and Rs. 16lakh for assembly constituencies. Expenditure limit varies according to the size of the states.

·        Director General of WTO: Pascal Lamy

·        President of European Council: Herman Van Rompuy

·        President of European Commission: Jose Manuel Barroso

·        What is GFAJ-1: A bacteria

·        First Indian woman to win Miss Earth contest: Nicole Faria

·        Countries in European Union: 27

·        SAICM: Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management

·       Moortidevi Award: 22nd Moortidevi Award for the year 2008 goes to“Paschimi Bhotik Sanskriti Ka Utthan Aur Patan” written by Dr. Raghuvansh and 23rd Moortidevi Award for the year 2009 goes to“Akkitham Achyuthan Nambbodiri's Selected Poems” written by Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Nambbodiri.

·       Volta river project: Ghana

·       Asian Financial Crisis started in 1997 from Thailand

·       Chief of Staff by Barack Obama: William Daley

·       CEO of Prasar Bharti: Rajiv Takru

·       New vice chief of IAF: N. A. K. Browne