INDIA CURRENT AFFAIRS 2010 - I

India May 2010

 

·         Atul Khare of the veteran Indian diplomat who has been appointed Assistant Secretary-General for UN’s Peacekeeping Operations.

·         The Indian Company Videocon Industries Ltd. has been barred from doing any business with World Bank for violating “procurement guidelines”, for a period of three years, beginning January 11, 2010.

·         Suresh Raina is named as Captain of the Indian Cricket Team on the tour to Zimbabwe from May 28 for the tri series involving Sri Lanka.

·         Justice Dipak Misra is the new Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.

·         Gita Gopinath is the third woman ever and the first Indian after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to become a tenured professor at Harvard University’s high-brow economics department.

·         Veteran Indian film director Mani Ratnam is to be honored with the Jaeger-LeCoultre ‘Glory to the Filmmaker’ award at the 67th Venice International Film Festival to be held in September, 2010.

·         Top Indian American attorney Neal Katyal ascended to the post of acting solicitor general May 17, as Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan vacated the post.

·         India and South Korea countries were named joint champions of the 19th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup after the final was abandoned because of heavy rain in northern Malaysia.

·         Somdev Devvarman becomes the first male Indian Player in 13 years to qualify for the main draw at French Open Tennis-2010.

·         The leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group in Jerusalem, noted for serving as Minister for Jewish Affairs in Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian government Moshe Hirsch died on May 2, 2010, aged 86.

·         Dr Nitin Nohria Indian-born business administration scholar who is set to become the tenth Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS).

·         Inter Milan football club won the Champions League with a 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich in the final.