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NEW APPOINMENT IN INDIA
1. New President of India- Pranab Mukherjee
2. Re-elected Vice President-Hamid Ansari
3. 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 Ravi
14. 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 (reelect)
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 Chandrasekaran
51. 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 Ramotar
14. 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 Algeria
9. 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 Kothari for his
book Mein Hi Radha, Mein Hi Krishna
8. Bihari Puraskar (2011) - Rajasthani poet Dr Arjundeo
Charan for 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. Rahman
11. 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 Rate 9% b. CRR 4.75% c. SLR 23%
d. Repo 8% e. Reverse Repo 7% f. MSF 9%

2. 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17)
Theme Faster, 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% GDP Growth.
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 3,90,000-5,00,000 crore
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 Bank has set up its first
Indian branch in Chennai.
9. Cheque and Draft is valid for 3 month from 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 Nation Total 193 (Last South Sudan)
WTO Total 156 (Last - Russia)
World bank and IMF Total 188 (Last South
Sudan)
European Union Total 27 (Next member will be
Croatia in July 2013)
2. 38
th
G 8 Meeting 2012 - David camp, USA (Last
meeting 2011 Deauville, France)
3. 7th G 20 Meeting 2012 Los Cabos, Mexico
4. 20
th
ASEAN 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(30
th
summer 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- Netherlands bt Argentina
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 Roberta
Vinci(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's
singles
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 Single
Venue: Jakarta; Winner-Saina Nehwal
Runner :Li Xuerui(China)

IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER
Indian boxer Mary Kom to 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',
Mangalam village became the first village in India where
all households were provided banking facilities, it is
situated in Pondicherry
M S Dhoni becomes brand ambassador of cricket in
Nepal
Himangini Singh crowned Miss Asia Pacific World
E-stamping to be launched in Delhi 28 June of all
denominations.
Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station is in Rajasthan.
Google Buying Meebo To Help Social Networking Push
Aung San Suu Kyi Accepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 years
late
Indias First River-lake link project launched In
Bundelkhand
Kofi Annan resign 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 MCX Stock Exchange
(MCXSX) to operate as a full-fledged stock exchange
11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2013 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 Bank approved an 1100 crore rupees loan for
Himachal Pradesh to 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 Johannesburg from 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-Zuma became the
first woman head of African Union (A.U.) Commission.
World Bank Sanstions loan for Rural Livelihoods Project
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. DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
5. TIEA Tax Information exchange Agreement
6. EFSF European Financial Stability Facility
7. NPS New Pension Scheme
8. MMRCA Medium 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. NDMA National Disaster Management Authority
14. BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
15. BASIC Brazil, South Africa, India and China
16. PPP Public Private Partnership & Purchasing Power
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17. MTCR Missile Technology Control Regim

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18. NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group
19. IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
20. CEPA Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
21. CECA - Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
22. FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion board
23. PSLV Polar Satellite Launch vehicle
24. ICBM Inter-continental Ballistic missile
25. CCEA Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
26. IDF Infrastructure Debt Fund
27. CRIS Comparative Rating Index for Sovereign
28. GRAIL Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
29. NCHER National Commission for Higher Education and
Research
30. NCHRH - National Commission for Human Resources for
Health
31. FII Foreign Institutional Investor
32. DII Domestic Institutional Investor
33. GST Goods and Services Tax
34. DTC Direct Tax Code
35. MPLADS MP Local Area Development Scheme
36. FCNRA Foreign Currency Non Resident account
37. MFI - Micro Finance Institutions
38. MFDC Micro Finance Development Council
39. TRAI - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
40. CIC - Central Information Commission
41. BCCI - Board of Control for Cricket in India
42. SAARC - South-Asian Association for Regional Co-
operation
43. ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nation
44. TAPI - Turkmenistan-Aghanistan-Pakistan-India
45. NLD National League for Democracy
46. MSF Marginal 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