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Saturday 31 December 2011

International Current Affairs-March,2010

  • Former Test captain and fast bowler Waqar Younis is appointed as the new coach of Pakistan Cricket team.
  • Ibon Gogeascoechea, A militant group fighting for an independent Basque homeland, Eta has been blamed for more than 820 deaths during its 41-year campaign in Spain.
  • Muhammad Dhahir Baluch was appointed to head Iran’s most prominent rebel Sunni movement, Jundullah, following capture of its former leader Abdolmalek Rigi by security forces.
  • Julianna Smoot is appointed as the new social secretary of U.S. President.
  • Eoin Morgan (England) won the Man of the series award in the3 match ODI cricket series between England and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh.
  • Manchester United Club retained the League Cup with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa at Wembley Stadium in London
  • Panchen Lama of the Lama who is selected by China as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top advisory body.
  • King Saud University of the University in Saudi Arabia which conferred an honorary doctorate on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who described it as an exceptional honour bestowed on him by one of the premier centres of learning in the Arab world.
  • 44th International Tourism Bourse – Berlin. ITB, one of the world’s largest travel trade shows, is held annually in Berlin, Germany.
  • United States of America Internet outranks print newspapers and radio in popularity as a source of news in USA. Sixty-one percent of Americans said they read news online, while 54 percent said they listen to news on the radio, 50 percent read a local newspaper and just 17 percent read a national newspaper
  • Venus Williams won the Billie Jean King Cup beating Kim Clijsters in the final played at Madison Square Garden.
  • Tamil Nadu state defeated Bengal by 29 runs to lift the Vijay Hazare Trophy for the fourth time
  • Justice K.T. Thomas is elected as representative of Kerala in the five member empowered panel instituted to study the disputes regarding the Mullaperiyar dam.
  • Witzerland, An embargo is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it.
  • “Al Islam”of the Malaysian magazine which apologized recently for upsetting Christians after it published an article researched by two Muslims who pretended to be Roman Catholics and took Communion in a church.
  • Richard Holbrooke- of US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan who regretted his reported remarks that Indians were not the real target of recent terrorist attack in Afghanistan capital Kabul that killed 16 persons, six of them being Indians.
  • Sandra Bullock actress won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress of 2009.
  • Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri- of the renowned Islamic scholar and founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran, issued a 600-page fatwah, in Islamabad, denouncing terrorism and describing suicide bombers as destined for hell.
  • The murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, Pravin Mahajan was sentenced to life imprisonment, died in a Thane hospital in Mumbai.
  • Thousands of villagers who came to a popular ashram in northern India for a free meal were caught in a stampede, which left more than 60 dead Kripalu Maharaja’s ashram, Uttar Pradesh of that Ashram.
  • Chris Gayle (West Indies) won the Player of the series award in the ODI cricket series between West Indies and Zimbabwe held in West Indies.
  • A strong earthquake of 5.9 magnitude hit the south eastern part of a Eurasian country on Monday, March 8, 2010 killed several people and injured many more. Turkey is that country.
  • Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people on 07-03-2010 as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in a country in West Africa. Nigeria is that country.
  • Marie Orler is appointed as United Nations Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which makes her the first woman to hold the top rank.
  • The corpse of the former Cyprus President has been recovered by police three months after it was mysteriously snatched from the grave in a crime that shocked residents of the Mediterranean island. Tassos Papadopoulos of that President
  • Japan country has recently confirmed the existence of a secret Cold War deal allowing the transit of nuclear-armed US vessels through its ports.
  • Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter has been named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the second year running.
  • India signed some major defence deals with a country on March 12, 2010 and as part of these defence and energy deals, that country will build 16 nuclear reactors in India. Russia is that country.
  • Australia. Australia beat Germany 2-1 in the final country won men’s World Cup hockey-2010.
  • Graeme Swann (England) won the Player of the series award in the two test cricket series between England and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh.
  • Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso’s first triumph since he won the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix for Renault.
  • Eminent Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was awarded South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Lifetime Achievement Award at SAARC Festival of Literature at New Delhi.
  • Mexico’s ‘King of Heroin’ Jose Antonio Medina is allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year has been arrested recently.
  • Jenson Button won an incident-packed Australian Grand Prix Formula 1 title after the leading Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel slid out of the race with brake failure.
  • Quebec province of the Canadian province which is the first in North America to ban the’ niqab ‘a top-to-toe dress worn by Muslim women.
  • With Bangladesh neighbor country, India has created a Joint River Commission.
  • India country has successfully flight tested a prototype of the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) on 29-03-2010.
  • From Russia country India is getting K 152 nerpa submarines.
  • Fashion TV- The central government made a ban on the repeated telecast of Fashion TV for showing topless women
  • Narendra Modi, Gujarat became the first Chief Minister of any state to be questioned in a criminal complaint of mass murder after he and his administration were accused of aiding and abetting riots in one area in Ahmedabad.
  • England-India Women ODI cricket series held in India won by India.
  • Zimbabwe won the man of the match award in the only 20-20 cricket match between West Indies and Zimbabwe on 28 February 2010 Played at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, West Indies
  • Kerala Minerals and Metals (KMML), Chavara (Kerala)- company won the Environment Protection Award instituted by the Tamil Nadu & Kerala Mines Safety Association.
  • Rudiger Wolfrum of Germany- Tullio Treves of Italy and Ivan Anthony Shearer of Australia. Wolfrum will preside over the tribuna.
  • The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an independent judicial body set up by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the conventin.
  • Arun Singhania- He is the publisher of the Nepali daily Janakpur Today, published from southern Nepal.
  • Nissan Motor Co motor company has announced a recall of 540,000 vehicles across the world to repair faulty brake pedals and fuel gauges.
  • Sven-Goran Eriksson, Former England football manager was named as coach of the Ivory Coast for the 2010 World Cup Football finals in South Africa.
  • Justice Chelameswar Chief Justice of Kerala High Court.
  • ‘The Double Falsehood’of the play by William Shakespeare, that has been for more than 280 years considered to be a hoax, is finally up to be included in a new series of the Bard’s work by his publisher.
  • China has recently restored email services and access to 32 blocked internet sites in one of its province, eight months after ethnic clashes broke out in the northwestern province. Xinjiang of that Province.
  • U.S.A.country passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the rules governing medical industries and ensuring that tens of millions of uninsured citizens will get medical coverage.
  • Nigeria country temporarily recalled its ambassador to Libya, following comments credited to Libyan President, Maummar Gaddafi which advised that Nigeria should be partitioned into two nations along Christian and Muslim lines, to avert frequent sectarian violence.
  • Cyclone Ului of the tropical cyclone which hit the northern coast of Australia on March 21, 2010 causing power outages and damaging homes.
  • Shahid Afridi is appointed as Captain of Pakistan cricket team for Twenty20 World Cup in West Indies.
  • Walmart- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the world’s largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2008 Fortune Global 50.
  • A letter penned by dictator, wishing for a “truly cordial relationship” between Britain and Germany, has fetched 8,000 pounds at an auction in London. Adolf Hitler of that dictator.
  • Sunil Chetri- He became the first Indian and eighth Asian citizen to play in Major League Soccer. He will also be the first Asian to play for the Kansas City Wizards.
  • Lakshmi Mittal – is the richest Asian in Britain for the year 2010 with an estimated wealth of 17 billion pound according to the Asian Rich List 2010, brought out by Eastern Eye, a publication of the Asian Media & Marketing Group
  • Girija Prasad Koirala- He was Prime Minister of Nepal four times, serving from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and from 2006 to 2008.
  • Pune and Cochin- Sahara won the bid for Pune with a price of Rs 1,702 crore for 10 Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf- Shoaib Malik and Rana Navedul Hasan were also handed one-year bans by the PCB who acted on the advice of a report submitted by a six-member inquiry committee set up to investigate the reasons for Pakistan’s abject showing on their recent tour to Australia. Pak all rounder Shahid Afridi was fined and placed on probation for six months over the incident, while the Akmal brothers, Kamran Akmal and Umar Akmal, were fined at total of five million rupees (£40,000) on grounds of indiscipline.
  • Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi- Al Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational institutions across Egypt.
  • Colleen R. LaRose- LaRose is one of the first American females to be charged with a terrorism offense in the U.S.
  • Emergency has been declared recently in an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean after a massive cyclone” cyclone Tomas” forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Fiji is that nation.
  • Jelena Jankovic won her 12th career title with a 6-2 6-4 demolition of second seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark at the Indian Wells WTA tournament on March 21, 2010.
  • Ivan Ljubicic won his first Masters 1000 title by upsetting seventh-seeded American Andy Roddick 7-6 7-6 in the final of the Indian Wells ATP tournament on March 21, 2010.
  • Justice Jacob Benjamin Koshy will assume charge as chairman of the Appellate Tribunal for Forfeited Property (ATFP) on April 8,2010.
  • Manipur state won the national sub junior Wushu championship.
  • Pasquale Manfredi- He, adopted the nickname ‘Scarface’, is a suspected boss of the ferocious ‘Ndrangheta mafia organisation from the Calabria region in southern Italy. He logged on to the social networking site ”Facebook” so often detectives were able to trace his hideout using sophisticated electronic tracking equipment.
  • ‘Corot-9b’- The planet was detected by the CoRoT space telescope operated by the French space agency, CNES.
  • Basel, Switzerland- “BaselWorld” the World Watch and Jewellery Show, opened its doors from March 18 to 25, 2010.
  • Akhil Mathew – Akhil won the award for his math project on Deligne categories, a setting for studying a wide range of algebraic structures with ties to theoretical physics.
  • Erika DeBenedictis, 18, of Albuquerque, N.M., won the top award of $100,000 from the Intel Foundation for her project developing a software navigation system to help improve spacecraft travel through the solar system. Second prize went to David Liu, 18, of Saratoga, Calif., for his work to develop a system to recognize and understand digital images.
  • The world’s shortest man, Pingping was just 74.6cm (2ft 5in) tall, has died recently in Rome at the age of 21.
  • Hossein Marashi-Former Iranian vice president and prominent reform activist convicted of spreading propaganda against the ruling clerical establishment, sentenced to one year in prison.
  • Bangladesh has recently opened its 23rd Cultural Relations centre named “The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre” (IGCC) in which Country.
  • Didier Drogba was named Africa’s footballer of the year-2009.
  • Dulmatin- He was one of the masterminds behind the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia which killed 202 people, including seven U.S. and 88 Australian citizens
  • Kanu Sanyal- He was found hanging in his residence in his native village at Siliguri (North Bengal).He was one of the key leaders of the 1967 peasant uprising in Naxalbari village that gave birth to the Maoist movement in India.
  • Martin Scorsese- He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film “The Departed”.
  • Dr. James Thomas- He is the Vice Chancellor of Padamshree D. Y. Patil University, Navi Mumbai and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at D. Y. Patil Medical College.
  • Gyan Sudha Mishra first woman in 4 years to become judge of Supreme Court.

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