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NEW APPOINMENT IN INDIA

1. New President of India-Pranab Mukherjee

2. Re-elected Vice President-Hamid Ansari3. New Union Railway Minister- Mukul Roy

4. New Finance Minister- P Chidambaram

5. New Home Minister-Sushil Kumar Shinde

6. New Power Minister- Veerappa Moily

7. New Aviation Secretary-K N Srivastava

8. New secretary to the Prez of India-Omita Paul

9. New Election Commissioner-S. Nasim Ahmad Zaidi

10.New Chief Election Commissioner-V.S. Sampath

11.New Chief Economic Advisor-Raghuram Rajan

12.New Economic affairs secretary-Arvind Mayaram

13.Science and Technology Minister-Vayalar Ravi14.New Union Aviation Minister-Ajit Singh

15.New CEO of Prasar Bharti Jawhar Sircar

16.LIC new Chairman-D.K Mehrotra

17.New Navy chief-D.K.Joshi

18.New CMD of OICL-Dr. A.K. Saxena

19.New CMD of Union Bank - D. Sarkar

20.New CMD of Syndicate Bank- M.G. Sanghvi

21.New CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce- S.L. Bansal

22.New Executive Director of PNB-S. R Bansal

23.New IBA Chairman-Alok Misra

24.Re-elected Nasscom President: Som Mittal

25.New director of IBPS-Anup Sankar Bhattacharya

26.New Coach of Indian Hockey Team-Jack Nobbs

27.New President of FICCI- R.V. Kanoria

28.New President of International Chamber of Commerce

India- Harsh Pati Singhania

29.New CMD of GIC A.K.Roy

30.New Director (Works)of Delhi Metro - Jitendar Tyagi

31.New Director-General of Indian Coast Guard- M.P.

Muralidharan

32.US Ambassador to India- Nancy J Powell

33.New CM of Karnataka -Jagadish Shettar

(Previous:Sadananda Gowda)

34.New Chief Minister of U.P.-Akhilesh Yadav

35.New Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal

36.New Chief Minister of Goa- Manohar Parikar

37.New Chief Minister of Uttrakhand- Vijay Bahuguna

38.New Chief Minister of Manipur- Okram Ibobi Singh

39.New CMD of Coal India Limited (CIL) - S Narsing Rao

40.Governor of Andhra Pradesh - E S L Narasimhan(reele

41.Governor of Maharashtra - K. Sankaranarayanan(reelect)

42.Governor of Rajasthan-Margaret Alva

43.New Supreme Court Judge-F. M. Ibrahim Kalifulla

44.Next Army chief of India-Lt. General Bikram Singh.

45.New Ambassador to Cambodia Dinesh K. Patnaik

46.New Communication Advisor to the Prime Minister-

Pankaj Pachauri

47.CMD of Coal India Limited S Narsing Rao

48.President of ASSOCHAM- Mr Rajkumar Dhoot

49.Reelected NASSCOM President-Som Mittal

50.Chairman of NASSCOM-N Chandrasekaran51.Indian High commissioner to U.K. Jaimini Bhagwati

52.TRAI Chairman-Rahul Khullar

53. New Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha-PJ Kurien

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NEW APPOINTMENT IN WORLD

1. New PM of Greece -Antonis Samaras

2. New PM of Pak- Raja Pervez Ashraf.3. New PM of Syria-Wael al-Halki(Replace: Riyad Hijab)

4. New PM of France-Jean Marc Ayrault

5. New PM of Egypt-Hisham Kandil

6. New President of Egypt- Mohamed Morsi

7. New President of Russia-Vladimir Putin

8. New President of Yemen-A.Mansour Hadi

9. New President of Germany - Joachim Gauck

10.New President of Maldives - Mohamed Waheed

11.New President of Malawi - Joyce Banda

12.President of Nicaragua - Daniel Ortega(re-elected)

13. President of Guyana - Donald Ramotar14.New Secretary General of SAARC-Ahmed Saleem

15.New Pakistan High Commissioner to India - Salman

Bashir

16.New president of World Bank - Jim Yong Kim(Korean-

born)

17.New CEO of Deutsche Bank-Ravneet Gill

18.New Italian FM-Vittorio Grilli

19.New UN Arab League Envoy for Syria-Lakhdar rahimi

20.President of the European Council - Herman Van

Rompuy(re-elected)

21.ICC President-Allan Isaac(NZ)(Privious-Sharad Pawar)22.New UN mediator in Syria-Lakhdar Brahimi

PERSON IN NEWS

1. President of Pakistan-Asif Ali Zardari

2. Bhutanese PM- Jigme Y Thinley

3. Syria President-Bashra-al-Assad

4. U.S Defence Secretary -Leon Pnetta

5. Prime Minister of Singapore-Mr. Lee Hsien Loong

6. Mauritius Prime Minister-Navinchandra Ramgoolam

7. Singapore PM-Lee Hsien Loong

8. Brazil President-Dilma Rousseff

9. South Africa President-Jacob Zuma

OBITUARY

1. Vilas Rao Deshmukh-Union Science and Technology

Minister

2. Mehdi hassan-Ghazal legend

3. Dara Singh-Film Actor

4. Rajesh Khanna- Film Actor

5. Ravi Shankar- Music Composer

6. Joy Mukherjee- Film Actor

7. Bingu wa Mutharika-Malawis President

8. Ahmed Ben Bella-first President of Algeria9. R.H. Patil- First MG of NSE

AWARD

1. Miss World 2012-Wen xia YU(China)

2. Brand Ambassador of BMW-Sachin Tendulkar

3. RGN Sadbhavana Award-D.R. Mehta

4. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award- Vijay Kumar and

Yogeshwar Dutt

5. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2011 - Soumitra Chatterjee

(Bengali actor)

6. Saraswati Samman (2011) - Dr AA Manavalan(Tamil)for his work 'Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalum'

(Ramakatha and Ramayanas).

7. Moorti Devi Award (2011) - Dr Gulab Kotharifor his

book Mein Hi Radha, Mein Hi Krishna

8. Bihari Puraskar (2011) - Rajasthani poet Dr Arjundeo

Charanfor his work Ghar To Ek Naam Hai Bharose

Ro

9. Vyas Samman (2011) - Hindi writer Ramdarash mishra

for his work aam ke patte

10.Life time achievement award at 8th Dubai International

film festival A.R. Rahman11.International Gandhi Award-Dr. Caire Veult& Dr. J.D.

Samant

12.World Food Prize- Dr. Daniel Hillel(Israeli Scientist)

13.Chameli Devi Jain Award- Tushita Mittal

IMPORTANT ECONOMIC NEWS

1. Current Rate

a. Bank Rate9% b. CRR 4.75% c. SLR23%

d. Repo 8% e. Reverse Repo7% f. MSF9%

2. 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17)

ThemeFaster, sustainable and more inclusive

growth

9 - 9.5%GDP growth

4%agriculture growth

Literacy rate 100%

Extra Power generation capacity 76000 MW

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3. 11th Five year plan recorded 8.2% GDPGrowth.

Agriculture growth 3.3%

4. Basel norms will be implemented in India from 1

January 2013 to 2018 (in world 2013 to 2019)5. Indian banks would need Rs 3,90,000-5,00,000crore

capital over the next six years in the wake of Basel III

capital regulations announced by the Reserve Bank of

India (RBI).

6. Largest home loan provider - State Bank of India(one

lakh crore Rs. to 20 lakh families)

7. Top three according to per capita income: - Goa, Delhi,

Haryana.8. Seoul-headquartered Woori Bankhas set up its first

Indian branch in Chennai.

9. Cheque and Draft is valid for 3 monthfrom 1 April 2012.

10. After SBI and NABARD ownership of National Housing

Bank (Now RBI hold 100% share) will be transferred

from RBI to Government

Important Organization and Summit

1. New Member

United NationTotal193 (LastSouth Sudan)

WTO Total156 (Last - Russia)

World bankand IMFTotal188 (Last South

Sudan)

European UnionTotal27 (Next member will be

Croatia in July 2013)

2. 38thG 8 Meeting 2012- David camp, USA(Last

meeting 2011 Deauville, France)

3. 7th G 20 Meeting 2012 Los Cabos, Mexico

4. 20thASEAN Meeting 2012 Phnom penh, Cambodia

5. Earth Summit : -Rio de Janeiro

6. 12th SCO Summit 2012-Beijing (Next in 2013-

Kyrgyzstan)7. Arab summit 2012 - Baghdad (Iraq)

8. Nuclear security summit 2012 Seoul (South Korea)

9. 4th BRICS summit - New Delhi

10.10th BASIC Summit - New Delhi

11.17th National youth Festival Mangalore (Karnataka)

12.World Economic Forum Davos(Switzerland)

13.World Polio Summit 2012 - New Delhi

14.Nato Summit-Chikago

15.FM Trilateral Talks(China& India&Russia)-Moscow

SPORTS London Olympics 2012(30thsummer Olympics)

Highest Medal: 1. US:104 M(46 G+29 S+ 29 B),

2 China:88 M(38 G+27 S+ 23 B)

55. India: 6 M(2 S +4 B)

Womens Hockey-NetherlandsbtArgentina

Next: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016

Indias Medal in London Olympics

Euro Cup-2012

Venue- Spain; Winner-Spain; Runner-Italy

Azlan Shah cup

Venue: Malaysia

Winner-NZ; Runner-Argentina; 3rd Place-India

French Open

Men Single: Rafael Nadal(Spain) bt Novak

Djokovic(Serbia)

Men Double-Max Mirnyi(Belarus) and Danial

Nestor(Canada)bt Bob and Mike Bryan(USA)

Women Double: Sara Errani and RobertaVinci(Italy) bt Maria Kirileko and Nadia

Petrova(Russia)

Wimbledon mixed doubles

Winner-Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond

Runner-Leander Paes-Elena Vesnina

Thailand Open Grand Prix Single

Name Medel Sport Event

Gagan Narang Bronze Shooting

Men's 10m Air

Rifle

Vijay Kumar Silver Shooting

Men's 25 Rapid

Fire Pistol

Saina Nehwal Bronze Badminton Women'ssingles

Mary Kom Bronze Boxing

Women's

flyweight

Yogeshwar

Dutt Bronze Wrestling

Men's 60 kg

Freestyle

Sushil Kumar Silver Wrestling

Men's 66 kg

Freestyle

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Venue-Bangkok; Winner-Saina Nehwal

Runner-Ratchanok Inathon(thiland)

Indonesia Open SingleVenue: Jakarta; Winner-Saina Nehwal

Runner:Li Xuerui(China)

IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER

Indian boxer Mary Komto be conferred Lt Colonel rank.

Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (health

insurance scheme) was launched in Maharashtra

Reserve Bank has launched a website explaining ways to

detect counterfeit notes. With a tagline 'Pehchano Paise

Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai',

Mangalamvillage became the first village in India whereall households were provided banking facilities, it is

situated in Pondicherry

M S Dhonibecomes brand ambassador of cricket in

Nepal

Himangini Singhcrowned Miss Asia Pacific World

E-stampingto be launched in Delhi28 June of all

denominations.

Rawatbhata Atomic Power Stationis in Rajasthan.

GoogleBuying MeeboTo Help Social Networking Push

Aung San Suu KyiAccepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 years

late

Indias First River-lake link project launched In

Bundelkhand

Kofi Annanresign as the UN special Envoy to Syria

National Housing Bank(NHB) and three others have

joined hands to form the country's first mortgage

guarantee firm which has an initial paid up capital of Rs

120 crore. The other members of the joint venture

campan are Genworth, Asian Development Bank and

International Finance Corporation

India has allowed foreign direct investment(FDI) from

Pakistan.

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India

(SEBI) granted permission to MCXStock Exchange

(MCXSX) to operate as a full-fledged stock exchange

11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas2013 will be held in

Cochin(Kerala). Last meeting was held in Jaipur.

Asian Development Bank(ADB) announced to provide

$74.8 million loan to improve road connectivity in the

North East states.

World Bankapproved an 1100 crore rupees loan forHimachal Pradeshto promote green initiatives and

sustainable development.

Home Ministry declined permission to three Iranian

banks (Eghtesad-e-Novin, Parsian Bank and Bank

Kasargad) to open branches in India.

9th World Hindi Conference will be held in South African

city Johannesburgfrom 22 to 24 of September this year

The main theme of the conference is Bhasha Ki Asmita

Aur Hindi Ka Vaishvik Sandarbh.

South Africas Nkosazana Dlamini-Zumabecame the

first woman head of African Union (A.U.) Commission. World BankSanstions loan for Rural Livelihoods Projec

in Bihar

BOOKS AND WRITERS

1. Those were the Day and then-The Life & Times of Lal

Krishna Advani-Mira Govind Advani

2. Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam

3. Diamond Dust & Other Stories-Anita Desai

4. My Unforgettable Memories-Mamata Banerjee

ABBREVIATION IN NEWS

1. NCTC- National Counter-Terrorism Centre

2. GAAR- General anti avoidance rule

3. TCS -Tax Collection at Source

4. DTAADouble Taxation Avoidance Agreement

5. TIEATax Information exchange Agreement

6. EFSFEuropean Financial Stability Facility

7. NPSNew Pension Scheme

8. MMRCAMedium Multi Role Combat Aircraft

9. DRDO- Defence Research and Development Organisation

10. GSLV- Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle

11. ISRO- Indian Space Research Organisation

12. EEFC- Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency

13. NDMANational Disaster Management Authority

14. BRICSBrazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

15. BASICBrazil, South Africa, India and China

16. PPPPublic Private Partnership & Purchasing Power

parity

17. MTCRMissile Technology Control Regim

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18. NSGNuclear Suppliers Group

19. IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency

20. CEPAComprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement

21. CECA- Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement22. FIPBForeign Investment Promotion board

23. PSLVPolar Satellite Launch vehicle

24. ICBMInter-continental Ballistic missile

25. CCEACabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

26. IDFInfrastructure Debt Fund

27. CRISComparative Rating Index for Sovereign

28. GRAILGravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

29. NCHERNational Commission for Higher Education and

Research

30. NCHRH- National Commission for Human Resources for

Health31. FIIForeign Institutional Investor

32. DIIDomestic Institutional Investor

33. GSTGoods and Services Tax

34. DTCDirect Tax Code

35. MPLADSMP Local Area Development Scheme

36. FCNRAForeign Currency Non Resident account

37. MFI- Micro Finance Institutions

38. MFDCMicro Finance Development Council

39. TRAI- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

40. CIC- Central Information Commission

41. BCCI- Board of Control for Cricket in India42. SAARC- South-Asian Association for Regional Co-

operation

43.ASEANAssociation of South East Asian Nation

44. TAPI - Turkmenistan-Aghanistan-Pakistan-India

45. NLDNational League for Democracy

46. MSFMarginal Standing Facility

47. MIRV- Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry

Vehicle

48. ECBs- External Commercial Borrowings

49. NHRC- National Human Rights Commission

50. NEFT- National Electronic Funds Transfer

51. RTGS- Real Time Gross Settlement

52. NIA- National Investigation Agency

53. S&P- Standard and Poors

54. RGSSBY- Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima Yojana.

55.AMFI- Association of Mutual Fund in India.

56. SRO- Self Regulatory Organisation.

57. TDSAT- Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate

Tribunal.

58. BTIA-Broad-based Bilateral Trade and Investment

Agreement