Wednesday, December 28, 2011

CURRENT AFFAIRS 2011 INDIA


India July, 2011

·         Delhi CM Sheila Dixit received the first Mercy Ravi Award for Woman of Substance from Defence Minister A.K. Antony.
·         Centre set 2012 deadline to seal Bangladesh border.
·         Pradeep Kumar elected as the new CVC.
·         TN chief minister reshuffled her cabinet.
·         RBI allowed fresh loans to finance FCCBs.
·         MPs and MLAs quit en masse in Andhra Pradesh.
·         25 more Telangana legislators resigned.
·         Noted filmmaker Mani Kaul passed away.
·         Mayookha Johny won 1st Gold for India at the Asian Athletics Championship.
·         Cho-Lhamu lake in Sikkim declared highest lake in the country.
·         VS Hegde appointed Antrix Corporation Chief.
·         More than 30 dead and more 240 hurt as Kalak Mail derailed.
·         Rs1543 crore deficit budget presented for Assam for 2011-12.
·         Bharti, IBM inked 10 year deal for Africa.
·         Serial blasts in Mumbai left 21 dead.
·         Pradeep Kumar sworn in new CVC.
·         PSLV-C17 put GSAT-12 inot orbit.
·         Government lifted wheat export ban.
·         Ambika Pande became the first Indian to win the Canadian U-18 ITF Jr world ranking championship.
·         Pacts singed for Gorkhaland Territorial Administration.
·         RS Gujral Appointed as the new finance secretary.
·         Himachal inked $95.16 mn loan agreement with ADB.
·         Prahaar missile flight-tested successfully.
·         Cabinet cleared $7.2 bn RIL-BP deal.
·         India, Bangladesh revived border ‘haat’.
·         President Patil began her two-nation tour to Korea and Mongolia.
·         SC approved national-level medical exam.
·         India inked tax treaty with Lithuania.
·         Neelima Mishra and Harish Hande won Ramon Megsaysay Award 2011.
·         Union Cabinet approved draft of Lokpal Bill.
·         Dinesh Trivedi and Salman Khursheed are the new Union Railway Minister and Law Minister respectively.
·         The insurgent organization which recently declared unilateral, indefinite ceasefire is ULFA.

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