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1. Croatia becomes 28th EU (European Union) member state 2. Tajikistan has become 159th member of the World Trade Organisation 3. ONGC to look after six monuments : The Tourism Ministry has roped in ONGC to maintain cleanliness and hygiene at six tourist destinations across the country, as part of its Clean India campaign. ONGC will adopt six monuments 1. Taj Mahal at Agra, 2. Ellora Caves and 3. Elephanta Caves in Maharashtra, 4. Red Fort in Delhi, 5. Golkonda Fort in Hyderabad 6. Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu. 4. Up to 5 per cent of world GDP lost due to malnutrition: UNFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Up to five percent of global economic output may be lost due to malnutrition. 5. "IRNSS-1A, India's first ever dedicated navigation satellite launched blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. 6. India to be world's most populous country by 2028: UN 7. Nicobar Islands declared world biosphere reserve. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared and designated the Nicobar Islands in India as a world biosphere reserve under its Man and the Biosphere Programme. CURRENT AFFAIRS : 9th July 2013. 1. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has issued a notice to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) over the reported uploading of objectionable video clips of couples recorded inside metro trains to pornographic websites. 2. Glowing tributes were paid to veteran Kashmiri writer and historian Professor Manzoor Fazli who passed away at Bandipore in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. 3. The President Pranab Mukherjee today visited the holy shrine of Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti at Ajmer. He offered a Chadar and flowers at the shrine and prayed for peace and harmony and elimination of terrorism. 4. Bhopal police arrested former Madhya Pradesh finance minister Raghav ji in sodomy case. 5. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 July 2013 announced the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal as his new Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). 6. State Bank of India, in month of July 2013 partnered with a non-banking finance company, UAE Exchange and Financial Services, to launch a card which will enable the holder to receive the remittance directly on the card. The card is named State Bank Xpress Money Card and can be loaded with up to 50000 Rupees. 7. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 July 2013 announced the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal as his new Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).

8. India and Iraq on 8 July 2013 signed a pact to enhance co-operation in energy security, bilateral trade & commerce, infrastructure and others. The agreement was signed between the Union Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily and his counterpart from Iraq, Abdul Karim Luaibi. 9. As per the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) survey released on 7 July 2013, approximately 40 percent of the Global population or 2.7 billion people are online in 2013. 10. JMM Legislative Party Leader Hemant Soren stakes claim to form new government in Jharkhand. 11. The Union Government in July 2013 hiked the import duty on sugar to 15 per cent from the present 10 per cent to restrain cheaper inflow of the sweetener into the country. The hike in import duty is meant to stabilise sugar prices which in turn help the millers to make cane payments, which at present is estimated at 9000 crore Rupees. 12. Lt. General A.K. Singh has assumedthe charge as 11th Lt. Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court Mr. Justice Arun Mishra administered the oath of office and oath of secrecy to Lt. Governor in a function held at Raj Nivas, Port Blair yesterday. 13. Lajja Goswami won the silver medal for india in womens 50-metre Rifle 3 Position event at the International Shooting Sport Federation being held at Granada, Spain. 14. Indian women weightlifters bag the team title in Asian Junior Championships in Kyrgyzstan. 15. Australian Michael Nobbs has been unceremoniously sacked as Indian hockey team's chief coach due to non-performance, thus becoming the fourth foreign coach to be shown the door before completion of the full tenure. 16. Sensex gains 115 points, to close at 19,439; Rupee recovers 47 paise, at 60.14 against the dollar. 17. As per the survey conducted by Assocham in July 2013 the proposed investments by domestic and foreign entrepreneurs declined by 75 per cent in FY 2012-1

Q1. Which country has become the winner of FIFA Confederations cup 2013? Ans. Brazil Q2. In which year National Youth Awards were instituted? Ans. 1985 Q3. Recently, a team of scientist have created worlds first high-definition 3D model of a complete human brain. What is the name of this human brain? Ans. Big Brain Q4. Recently, which country news to allow doctors to use a controversial IVF technique that would lead to creation of babies with three parents? Ans. Britain Q5. Which is the Indias first dedicated Navigation satellite launched recently? Ans. IRNSS-1A

Q6. Cystitis is the infection of which organ? Ans. Urinary Bladder Q7. Which IT firm has won a Rs 400-crore technology outsourcing contract from the public sector lender Corporation Bank? Ans. Hewlett-Packard Q8. The Omkareshwar project constructed across River Narmada is in which state? Ans. Madhya Pradesh Q9. Who has been appointed as Director General of the Corps of Army Air Defence? Ans. Vijay Kumar Saxena Q10. Recently, which state has been declared as first Smoke Free state in the country? Ans. Himachal Pradesh Q11. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) was established in_____? Ans. 1949 Q12. Who has been elected as president of Asian Athletic Associations? Ans. Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad Q13. Recently, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially named the fourth and fifth moonsof Pluto as___? Ans. Kerberos and Styx Q14. What is the present ranking of India in the recently released Global Innovation Index-2013? Ans. 66 Q15. Who has been designated as Indias next Foreign Secretary? Ans. Sujatha Singh Q16. Recently, Union cabinet accepted the recommendations of ministerial group on a collegium system to appoint the agencys director. The proposed collegium system to appoint the CBI director will comprises of ? Ans. Prime Minister, opposition leader of Loka sabha and Chief Justice of India Q17. Which organization publishes the World Investment Report annually? Ans. UNCTAD Q18. Annashree Yojana is a flagship programme of which state? Ans. Delhi Q19. Who has been conferred with Dubai Governments Emirates Woman Award for Business Excellence? Ans. Vandana Gandhi Q20. Which country became first country in Asia to order Chemical Castration of Child Rapist? Ans. South Korea

 The Venezuelan President who died due to cancer on 5 March 2013 at Caracas -> Hugo Chavez The Person who conferred with the Liberation War Honour Award by the President of Bangladesh Zillur Rahman -> Pranab Mukherjee The Person who was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya for the second term by taking oath as 26th CM of the state -> Mukul Manda Sangma The Political leader of Naga Peoples Front (NPF) was sworn in as Chief Minister of Nagaland for the third straight term on 5 March 2013 -> Neiphiu Rio The chairman of local organising committee of the 2015 World Cup who died at the age of 68 -> James Strong

CURRENT AFFAIRS - 07.07.2013 <<< ************************************** 1. Serial blasts rock Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya; terror attack, Centre says. Nine serial explosions rocked the Mahabodhi Temple complex in Bodh Gaya on Sunday morning, leaving at least five people injured. 2. ISRO gears up for ambitious Mars mission. The satellite, which would be launched on board Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL), will carry compact science experiments, totalling a mass of 15 kg, according to ISRO officials. There will be five instruments to study Martian surface, atmosphere and mineralogy. 3. At least two people were killed and 182 injured when an Asiana Airlines plane with three Indians among 307 on board hit the runway, smashed into pieces and engulfed by flames while landing at San Francisco airport. 4. Ranbir, Vidya bag best actor awards at IIFA. Vidya Balan took home the Best Actress award at IIFA 2013 for her portrayal of a pregnant woman in search of her husband in Kahaani while Ranbir Kapoor was named Best Actor for Barfi! in Macau on Saturday. 5. Sebastian Vettel wins the German Grand Prix for the first time. hree-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel surged ahead in his Red Bull at the start of the German Grand Prix on Sunday and held off a strong challenge from the two Lotus cars to win his first race on home soil. 6. Israel passes military draft Bill. Israels Cabinet has approved a plan that would gradually end a contentious system that has granted automatic draft exemptions to Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students. 7. Indian women clinch 4x400m relay gold at Asian Athletics C'ship. India clinched a gold medal in women's 400m relay in a sensational race to finish sixth overall as the curtains were drawn on the 20th Asian Athletics Championships with China confirming their supreme status in the continent on Sunday. 8. Only 11 States have conveyed approval for FDI in multi-brand retail, which means a significant part of the country is out of bounds for global companies keen on a pan-India footprint. 9. Vedanta sells stake in Canadas Hudbay Minerals for $152 million. danta had acquired about 14.5

million shares or 9.5% stake in Hudbay Minerals, through a privately-held Netherlands-based subsidiary Lakomasko BV for an undisclosed sum. 10. India puts its first GPS satellite in orbit. The Indian space agency Saturday evening successfully put its first navigation satellite - the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System-1A (IRNSS-1A) - in the geosynchronous orbit at 27 degrees to the equator.

Famous Books and Authors Ramayana - Valmiki Mahabharatha - Vedavyasa Bhagavath Geetha - Vedavyasa Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippatu Thunjathu Ezhuthachan Krishnagatha Cherussery Uthararamacharitham Bhavabhoothi Harshacharitha Banabhatta Neethisathakam Bharthruhari Meghdoot Kalidasa Swapnavasavadatta - Bhasan Kumarasambhava Kalidasa Abhijanana Sakundalam Kalidasa Malavikagnimithra Kalidasa Panchathantra Vishnu Sharma Ramacharithamans Tulasidas Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore Anandamath Bankim Chandra chatterji The Story of My experiments with truth Mahatma Gandhi The discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru Durgesha Nandini - Bankim Chandra chatterji Godaan Munshi Premchand Coolie Mulk Raj Anand Odyssey Homer Lliad Homer Das Capital Karl Marx Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels Crime and punishment Dostoevsky War and Peace Tolstoy >> Organizations and their Headquarters <<< *********************************** 1. UNO - New York 2. UNICEF - New York 3. UNESCO - Paris 4. UNIDO - Vienna 5. WHO - Geneva 6. UNFPA - New York 7. ILO - Geneva

8. IMF - Washington DC 9. WTO - Geneva 10. International Court Of Justice - The Hague 11. International Atomic Energy Agency - Vienna 12. World Bank - Washington D.C. 13. International Committee of the Red Cross - Geneva 14. International Maritime Organisation - London 15. Universal Postal Union - Berne 16. Food and Agricultural Organisation - Rome 17. World Meteorological Organisation - Geneva 18. SAARC - Kathmandu 19. Amnesty International - London 20. Transparency International - Berlin 21. World Intellectual Property Organization - Geneva 22. International Renewable Energy Agency - Abu Dhabi (UAE) 23. Commonwealth of Nations - London.

Fathers Of Different Fields ...................................... 1. Father of Astronomy: Copernicus 2. Economics: Adam Smith 3. Biology:Aristotle 4. Chemistry:Antoine Lavoisier 5. Geometry:Euclid 6. History:Herodotus 7. Genetics:G.J. Mendel 8. Botany:Theophrastus 9. Classical mechanics:IsaacNewton 10. Computer:Charles Babbage 11. Comedy:Aristophanes 12. English poetry:GeoffreyChaucer 13. Homeopathy:Heinemann 14. Indian Green Revolution:M.S.Swaminathan 15. India's Communication Revolution:Sam Pitroda 16. Medicine:Hippocrates 17. Modern physics:GalileoGalilei 18. Nuclear physics:Ernest Rutherford 19. Nuclear science: Marie Curie , Pierre Curie 20. Pentium Chip:Vinod Dham 21. Periodic table:Dmitri Mendeleev 22. Political science:NiccolMachiavelli 23. Quantum mechanics:Max Planck 24. Relativity:Albert Einstein 25. Robotics:Al-Jazari 26. Thermodynamics:Sadi Carnot 27. Zoology:Aristotle

Chief Ministers of Indian States <<< ******************************* 1) Andhra Pradesh - Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy 2) Arunachal Pradesh - Nabam Tuki 3) Assam - Shri Tarun Gogoi 4) Bihar Shri - Nitish Kumar 5) Chhattisgarh - Dr. Raman Singh 6) Goa - Shri Manohar Parrikar 7) Gujarat - Shri Narendra Modi Haryana - Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda 9) Himachal Pradesh - Virbhadra Singh 10) Jammu and Kashmir - Omar Abdullah 11) Jharkhand - President's rule 12) Karnataka - Shri K. Siddaramaiah 13) Kerala - Shri Oommen Chandy 14) Madhya Pradesh - Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan 15) Maharashtra - Shri Prithviraj Chavan 16) Manipur - Shri Okram Ibobi Singh 17) Meghalaya - Mukul Sangma 18) Mizoram - Pu Lalthanhawla 19) Nagaland - Shri Neiphiu Rio 20) New Delhi - Smt Sheila Dikshit 21) Orissa - Sh. Naveen Patnaik 22) Puducherry - Shri N. Rangasamy 23) Punjab - Shri Parkash Singh Badal 24) Rajasthan - Shri Ashok Gehlot 25) Sikkim - Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling 26) Tamil Nadu - Sushree J. Jayalalithaa 27) Tripura - Shri Manik Sarkar 28) Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav 29) Uttarakhand - Vijay Bahuguna 30) West Bengal - Km. Mamata Banerjee NEWLY ELECTED PRIME MINISTERS * Australia - Kevin Rudd * China - Li Keqiang *Italy - Enrico Letta *Rassia - Dimitri Medvadev * Qatar - Sheikh Abdullah *Egypt - Hamid Kandil * pakistan - Navas Sharif * Japan - Shinzo Abe

Nicknames of Famous People... 1. Bapu...................MahatmaGandhi 2. Man of Peace...........Lal BahadurShastri 3. Punjab Kesari..........Lala Lajpat Rai 4. Iron Man of India......Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 5. Gurudev................RabindranathTagore 6. Chacha.................Jawaharlal Nehru 7. Magician of Hockey.....Dhyanchand 8. Quaid-i-Azam...........Md. Ali Jinnah 9. Sher-e-Kashmir.........Sheikh Abdullah 10. Lokmanya..............Bal Gangadhar Tilak 11. Desh Ratna............Dr. RajendraPrasad 12. Netaji................Subhash Chandra Bose 13. Sparrow...............Major General Rajinder Singh 14. Sahid-e-Azam..........Bhagat Singh 15. Nightingale of India..SarojiniNaidu 16. Udanpari..............P.T. Usha 17. Tota-e-Hind...........Amir Khushro 18. Napoleon of India.....Samudra Gupta 19. Bangabandhu...........Sheikh Mujibut Rahman 20. Deshbandhu............Chitta Ranjan Das 21. Deenbandhu............C.F. Andrews 22. Shakespeare of India..MahakaviKalidas 23. Machiavelli of India..Chanakya 24. Loknayak..............JayaprakashNarayan 25. Jana Nayak............Karpuri Thakur Important Officials of Government of India <<< *************************************** 1 National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon 2 Cabinet Secretary of India Ajit Seth 3 Secretary-Gener al of the Lok Sabha T. K. Viswanathan 4 Attorney General of India Goolam Essaji Vahanvati 5 Comptroller and Auditor General of India Shashikant Sharma 6 Solicitor General of India Mohan Parasaran 7 Principal Scientific Adviser R.Chidambaram 8 CBDT Chairman Sudha Sharma 9 Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Asoke Kumar Mukherji 10 Commonwealth Secretary-Gener al Kamalesh Sharma 11 Chairman, Railway Board Vinay Mittal

One of the famous Indian Sportsperson released his/her autobiography 'Playing to Win' in November 2012. Name the sports-person correctly (A) Saina Nehwal

COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS IIFA AWARDS 2013 <<< ******************************************** Best Film : Barfi! Best Actor : Ranbir Kapoor for Barfi! Best Female Actor : Vidya Balan for Kahaani Best Director : Anurag Basu for Barfi! Best Story : Tani and Anurag Basu for Barfi! Best Actor in a supporting role (Male) : Annu Kapoor for Vicky Donor Best Actor in a supporting role (Female) : Anushka Sharma for Jab Tak Hai Jaan Best Debut (Female) : Yami Gautam for Vicky Donor Best Debut (Male) : Ayushmaan Khurana for Vicky Donor Best Actor in a Comic Role : Abhishek Bachchan for Bol Bachchan Best Actor in a Negative Role : Rishi Kapoor from Agneepath Best Debut Director : Gauri Shinde for English Vinglish Best Music Director : Pritam for Barfi! Best Lyrics : Amitabh Bhattacharya for Mujhme kahin from Agneepath Best Singer Male : Sonu Nigam for Agneepath Best Singer Female : Shreya Ghoshal for Chikni chameli from Agneepath Best Sound Design : Shajith Koyeri for Barfi! Best Background Score : Pritam for Barfi!

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