India January 2010

India January 2010

 

·         The Indian MS Swaminathan who was awarded “honoris causa” by the University of Talca, in Chile.

·         Tata Nano car has selected as the Car of the Year at ICICI Bank-CNBC-TV18 Overdrive Awards 2010.

·         Saina Nehwal has been awarded “IBN Indian of the Year Award” in New Delhi recently.

·         The Delhi High Court of India will uphold its bench order that includes the office of the Chief Justice of India within the scope of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and requires judges to declare their assets.

·         Scientists of India country are developing an electronic device (e-dog) that will sniff out explosives like RDX which remain undetected by existing security equipments.

·         Vidya Stokes is the new president of Hockey India.

·         India country will overtake Japan as the world’s third largest economy by purchasing power Parity (PPP) by 2012 according to a report by global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).

·         India country has the largest number of illiterate adults in the world according to the Education for All-Global Monitoring Report by UNESCO.

·         Lt-General Vijay Kumar Singh was named as the next Indian Army chief and will take over his new post after incumbent Gen Deepak Kapoor retires on March 31.2010.

·         Gujarat High Court of India recently has ruled that Hindi is not our National Language.

·         Sharad Chandra Sinha has been appointed as the second chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), succeeding RV Raju who retired in Janurary, 2010.

·         Vikram Srivastava is the new Director General of the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force), world’s largest para military force.

·         The new party Jan Kranti Party formed by the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh on his birthday (05-01-2010).

·         Subhash Chandra Bose Indian Freedom fighter’s Rs 1 lakh promissory note unearthed by an octogenarian (a person whose age is in the eighties) residing in Madhya Pradesh’s Bina town in Sagar district.

·         A.K. Mattoo has resigned as president of Hockey India due to the allegations made against him during the recent hockey crisis.

·         Kumar Sangakkara won the man of the series award in the Tri nation Tournament (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

·         Binoy Job has been appointed as “Director-Media to the Prime Minister of India” recently.

·         R. L. Bhatia is the new Director General of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).