International Current Affairs-January,2010

• Ricky Ponting has been declared as the worst-behaved player to play for the Australia in the last 20 years by The Sunday Telegraph.
• Isaac Schwartz, famous Russian personality who has expired at the age of 86 was associated with Music.
• Sweden country has resumed wolf hunting after a gap of 45 years.
• Mr.Sunando Dhar has been appointed as the new CEO of the I-League.
• Bhaichung Bhutia was named as the Player of the Decade by Goal.com?
• Russia won gold, USA won Silver and India got the Bronze medal country won the seventh World Team Chess Championship held at the Merinos Congress Centre in Bursa, Turkey from January 3rd till 14th, 2010.
• China country recently issued an orange alert for heavy fog and snowstorm.
• East Bengal team won their sixth Federation Cup title with a 3-0 triumph over Lajong via penalties in an evenly contested final.
• Naoto Kan. He is the deputy prime minister of Japan has been appointed as Finance Minister of Japan, replacing Hirohisa Fujii who will step down for health related reasons.
• China country has become the world’s third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures.
• B. Hridayakumari has been selected for this year’s Prof. S. Guptan Nair Puraskaram. an award which is instituted for exceptional teachers who make significant contributions to the cultural scene.
• China country has successfully intercepted a missile defense system, in a test of its advanced air defense capabilities.
• Ryan Harris (Australia) won the Man of the series award in the Commonwealth Bank ODI cricket series between Australia and Pakistan.
• Elena Dementieva won the Sydney Medibank International Tennis Women’s Title defeating Serena Williams 6-3, 6-2 in the final.
• Marcos Baghdatis won the Sydney Medibank International Tennis men’s Title defeating Richard Gasquet in the final.
• K. Sankaranarayanan is appointed as the Governor of Maharashtra.
• National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan has been appointed Governor of West Bengal.
• Sebastian Pinera was elected president of Chile, after a runoff election against former president Eduardo Frei.
• China country has overtaken U.S.A to become the biggest car market in the world as government policy initiatives spur demand.
• China country stopped Military Exchanges with U.S.A in response to Washington’s plan to sell a package of arms worth about 6.4 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan.
• Ben Bernanke is reelected for a second four- year term as head of the U.S. central bank” Federal Reserve”.
• Serena Williams and Venus Williams won the Australian Open women’s doubles Tennis title-2010 defeating Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-4, 6-3 in the final.
• China country will become the biggest economy by 2020 according to Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) Report.
• Avatar Hollywood film has been banned from cinema theaters in China to “protect” the country’s film industry.
• Russia and Spain countries demanded U.S. A to cross out Cuba from the list of terror sponsor countries.
• ES Lakshmi Narasimhan is appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
• The Former Chinese Supreme Court of Judge name is Huang Songyou
• Israel country has agreed to pay the United Nations around $10m in compensation for damage caused to UN buildings in Gaza during last year’s war.
• Nearly 300 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in three days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in a country in West Africa. Nigeria is that country.
• Darlene Etienne girl became the latest miracle story of the Haitian earthquake after she was pulled alive from rubble 15 days after the disaster.
• China country took over the mantle of the world’s top merchandise exporter from Germany in 2009, according to the latest figures, aided by a global economic crisis that has taken a greater toll on other trading powers.