Sunday, April 11, 2010

Persons, places and Misc info

1. Deep Joshi:- Prominent Indian Social activist came into news recently as he has been selected for the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2009 for ‘development of rural communities.

2. Jharia: - The place in Jharkhand came into news recently as Government of India has cleared the one of the biggest rehabilitation plans in the world to relocate to safer areas those families whose houses face the threat of being sucked in by underground fires raging for the last 40 years or so.

3. Gangavaram port:- The port in Andhra Pradesh developed by the state government and D.V.S. Raju led consortium under the public private partnership mode is dedicated to the nation recently.

4. Unique identification authority: - It is an agency formed by the government of India to steer the ambitious scheme of creating a multipurpose unique identification database of all citizens in the country. Infosys co-founder Nadan Nilekani has been appointed as its chairman. Under this project a unique identification number will be assigned to each resident in the country that will be permanent. It is believed that terrorist who infiltrate into the country will find it impossible to acquire such cards. They can hence be easily identified. Each citizen will get a number which would entitle him to get his or her driving license, passport or PAN card. A citizen without the number would not be entitled for benefit from different government schemes.

5. Nalin Suri:- Secretary in Ministry of external affair came into news recently as He has been named as the next high commissioner to the UK.

6. Pullela Gopichand:- He is a former badminton star who has won the Arjun Award , the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and the Padma Shree. He become the most decorated Indian sportstar in terms of National awards as he has recently been given Dronacharya Award.

7. Nova- G: - It is the name of World’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer which can rearrange its internal circuitry to suit the task at hand recently became operational at the Florida University.

8. Ebrahim Alkazi: - Veteran theater director came into news recently as he has been felicitated with ‘Hindiratna Samman – 2009.

9. Mitchell Johnson:- He is a cricketer from Australia. He came into news recently as he has been awarded as the ICC cricketer of the year award .

10. Oceansat – 2: - It was recently launched successfully by PSLV –C14 from the Sriharikota spaceport. It is India’s 16th remote sensing satellite and is intended for identification of potential fishing zones, sea state forecasting, coastal zone studies and providing inputs for weather forecasting and climatic studies.

11. 50 years of Doordarshan: - Doordarshan has completed 50 years of its journey on September 15, 2009. Although it started its working with just one small transmitter, it is today the largest broadcast network in the world with 31 channels, 66 studio, 1,413 transmitters and access to 128 million household. Though Doordarshan has assets and resources that are unmatched, it has failed to produce good and contemporary content as well as being commercially viable. It stills continue to survive on government grants.

12. India relation with Bangladesh: - India has cordial relation with Bangladesh. Recently both the country has signed an agreement on combating international terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking. Bangladesh has agreed to provide access to the Ashuganj port to facilitate transportation of consignment for power in Tripura. India has agreed to Bangladesh to facilitate Nepal-Bangladesh and Bhutan Bangladesh connectivity.

13. Saakshar Bharat Mission:- The National Mission for Female Literacy, christened as Saakshar Bharat Mission was launched recently by PM on September 8, to mark International Literacy Day. The mission is a renewed effort to make 70million people – 60 million of them women – functionally literate by 2012 and plug the gender gap that has persisted despite the two decade old literacy drive in mission mode. The mission would fully involve the community in its implementation and utilize the potential of panchyati raj institutions and women’s self help groups.

14. Duranto Express: - It is the name of fastest train in the country recently started between Sealdah and Delhi.

15. Yukio Hatoyama: - He came into news recently as he has been elected as Japan’s PM following his party’s landslide victory in general elections.

16. Rajendra Shekhawat: - He is the son of President of India. He came into news recently as he has been elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Amravati constituency.

17. Ramesh Chandra Tripathi: - Wing commander came into news recently as he has made recently the highest parachute landing at the foot of Mt. Everest.

18. India Roads 2009- An international conference on road infrastructure named as India Road 2009: Better road better India – outlook, opportunity and way ahead’ was recently held in New Delhi.

19. Michael Jorden: - Considered as one of the greatest basketball player of all time came into news recently as he has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

20. Mao Xinyu:- He is the grandson of China’s legendary Mao Zedong. He came into news recently as he become the youngest Major General in the History of China’s People’s Liberation Army.

21. Harishchandrachi Factory: - It is the name of a Marathi Film, based on the making of the country’s first film. This film was chosen India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscar Awards.

22. Ehud Olmert: - He is former PM of Israel. He came into news recently as he became the first PM in the country’s history to face criminal charges.

23. Daman Weaver: - He is an 11 year old Florida based reporter. He became the youngest to interview US President Barack Obama.

24. Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence: The book has been authored by Sh. Jaswant Singh. This book has crated furor in BJP and results in the expulsion of Shri Jaswant Singh from the party.

25. Berlin: - German city came into news recently in connection with World Health Summit.

26. Alang: - It is a ship breaking yard off the Bhavnagar coast in Gujrat. It was in thick controversy recently over the move to allow an allegedly contaminated ship Platinum-II to berth there.

27. Banstala: - It is a railway station near Jhargram town in West Bengal. It came into news recently as supporters of Maoist backed PSBJC detained the New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express from Bhubneshwar for five hours.

28. Oasis of Sea:- It the name of world’s largest cruise liner that began its maiden voyage to Florida recently from a shipyard in Finland.

29. Bret Lee:- He came into news recently as he was named Man of the Series in the recently concluded Champions League Twenty-20 Cricket Championship.

30. Geeta Vardan:- She has recently become the first woman in the history of the ISRO to become the Director of a national centre ADRIN in Hydrabad .

31. Lee Myung bak : - He is president of the Republic of Korea. He came into news recently as he was the Chief Guest of the Republic Day.

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