CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 2013

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Appointments: (source: www.bankcracker.com)

1) New Solicitor General of India : Mohan Parasaran. 2) New President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) : Subodh Kumar Agrawal. 3) Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) : P.R. Vasudeva Rao. 4) New U.S. Interior Secretary : Sally Jewell 5) Next Permanent Representative of India to the UN : Asoke Kumar Mukerji. 6) Ecuador's President : Rafael Correa. 7) New President of Cyprus : Nicos Anastasiades. 8) Chairman of IRDA (Insurance Regulatory Authority of India) : T. S. Vijayan. 9) New President of South Korea : Park Geun-Hye, the First Woman President of South Korea.

Awards: (source: www.bankcracker.com)

1) Allan Border Medal 2013: Michael Clarke, Australian Cricket Team Captain. 2) Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award : Pandit Ravi Shankar. 3) Life Time Achievement Award 2012 by Ernst & Young : Ratan Tata. 4) City Proclamation Award : Anupam Kher, Bollywood actor was awarded with the City Proclamation Award.

5) Oscar Awards 2013:The Oscars 2013 ceremony was held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. a) Best Picture: Argo b) Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis. c) Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence. d) Best Director : Ang Lee for Life of Pi. 6) Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development Award 2011 : Ela Ramesh Bhatt.

Important Days in February: (source: www.bankcracker.com)

February 02 : World Wetlands Day February 24 : Central Excise Day. February 28 : National Science Day.

Sports: (source: www.bankcracker.com)

1) Brazil Open 2013 : Rafael Nadal wins Brazil open defeated David Nalbandian. 2) Inaugural Hockey India League : Ranchi Rhinos Beat Delhi Waveriders to Win first Hockey India League. 3) Women's European golf Tour : Lydia Ko. 4) ICC Womens World Cup Trophy : Australia won the ICC Womens World Cup Trophy after defeating West-Indies. The final was held at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. 5) Grenke Chess Classic trophy 2013 : Viswanathan Anand, from India won the after defeating Arkadij Naiditsch from Germany. 6) Dubai Tennis Championship : Sania Mirza and Bethanie-Mattek Sands won after defeating Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik,

Miscellaneous: (source: www.bankcracker.com)

1) Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme launched by Finance Minister P.Chidambaram in Mumbai. 2) The India-U.S.Joint Working Group Meeting 2013: India-U.S.Joint Working Group Meeting on UN Peacekeeping held its 10th meeting in Washington in February 2013. 3) World Press Freedom Index 2013: India dropped to 140th rank from 131st rank in the list of 179 countries. 4) India and Austria inked a social security pact at Vienna. Indian Overseas Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Austrian Minister for Labour and Social Security, Rudoulf Hundstorfer signed the pact. 5) ICICI Bank, launched their mobile banking service called Mobile Money. 6) Worlds First bionic man called Rex was unveiled at London's Science Museum. 7) Worlds Largest Prime Number Discovered which contains 17 Million Digits. The previous largest prime nu mber contains about 13 million digits. 8) The first India-Japan Maritime Affairs Dialogue was held in New Delhi. 10) India and Bangladesh second Joint Consultative Commission meeting held in Dhaka in February 2013.

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