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Saturday 31 December 2011

Indian Current Affairs -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.

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