I.

Anti-rape ordinance promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on 3 rd Feb 2013

Death penalty if injured victim left in permanent vegetative state. Death of victim to automatically put accused to trial and death penalty in rarest of rare cases, like Delhi Rape incident. Rape replaced with sexual assault in law books with wider definition. Victim of acid-attack, who causes death of perpetrator in self-defense, to get immunity. Guilty of acid-attack to pay to women Rs. 10 lakh compensation.

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Lowering age to 16 from 18; Making marital rape criminal offence.

II.

Veteran congress leader P. Shanmugham (86 years) dies on 2nd Feb 2013

Former Puducherry CM; Residence at Nedunkadu PD says Nedunkadu, whereas google doesnt show

any place as Nedunkadu, but Nedungadu (former Nedoungadou).

III.

Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman steps down on 4th Feb 2013

5th law officer to step down in UPA-II Predecessor Gopal Subramanium had stepped down in 2011, to protest against govt.s decision to bypass him in matter r/t 2G spectrum scam in SC Apart from these two (abovementioned) additional solicitors general; Parag Tripathi, Vivek Tankha and Biswajit Bhattacharya had bid adieu to the govt.

IV.

Natwar Gandhi, Indian American Money Manager resigned as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Washington DC on 1 st Feb 2013

Had received 3rd 5 year term;

V.

First time in 500 years, ailing Pope retires on 28th Feb 2013 (declared on 11 th Feb 2013)
i. ii.

Pope Benedict XVI German born ; 85 years

VI. VII.

Afzal guru hanged on 9 th February 2013 (at Tihar Jail). Parliament passes sexual harassment approved by Rajya Sabha on 26 th Feb 2013 bill;

Women at workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Bill)

VIII.Frances
i. ii. iii. iv.

President Franco Hollande came to India on 14th Feb 2013; defense deals, including a railway project inked 126 Rafale aircraft Short range surface to air missile Jaitapur nuclear project Bangalore Metro Phase I

IX.

X.

Meteor hits Russia town; 750 injured above Chelyabinsk region over Ural mountains approx. 10 tons Renowned social worker Ela Bhatt awarded with 2011 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and development award on 18 th Feb 2013.

Is founder of more than 1 million Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA)

XI.

C-154, an interceptor boat commissioned in Mumbai on 22nd Feb 2013

New Generation Arsenon Surface Drive (ASD) XII. The OSA AK-M surface to air missile launched in iron fist 2013 at Pokhran on 22/2/2013 XIII. Oscars held on 24th Feb 2013

Best movie Argo Best director Ang Lee for Life of Pi (4 oscars-most) Best actor (Record 3rd time) Daniel day Lewis for role in Lincoln Best actress Jennifer Lawrence[2nd youngest winner in category] for role in Silver Linings Playbook

XIV. Ernst & Young 2012 awards

Entrepreneur of the year in category of Business Transformation-Ratan Tata(Tata Group) Lifetime achievement award-Adi Godrej Godrej group Dr.Cyrus S. Poonawalla Entrepreneur of the year in category of Sciences & healthcare- Serum Institute of India Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty Hrudayalaya Entrepreneur of the year in category of Services Dhiraj C. Rajaram Mu Business solutions-

XV.

101st Indian space mission takes off on 26th Feb 2013 from Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)

PSLV- C20 rocket with Indo-French satellite SARAL. Besides SARAL micro-satellite; UniBRITE & BRITE (Austria), AAUSAT3 (Denmark), STRaND (UK) NEOSSat and mini-satellite (SAPPHIRE) {Canada} were launched. Korea conducts nuclear test on 12 th Feb

XVI. North XVII.

2013. At Punggye-ri nuclear test site. Australia wins ICC Womens world cup tournament 17th Feb 2013 Defeated West Indies Final held in Mumbai; Brabourne stadium Clinched title 6th time

XVIII.

Vishwanathan Anand wins Grenke Chess Classic Trophy 17th Feb 2013 Defeated Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany

XIX. Padma

awards 2013Sri devi, Sharmila Tagore, Rahul Dravid receive Padma Awards

Sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and researcher Yash Pal received Padma Vibhushan Saraswat, Tagore, film producer D Ramanaidu and Dravid were presented the third highest Padma Bhushan, while Sridevi got Padma Shri from the President at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan's Darbar Hall. The ten recipients of Padma Bhushan included Hemendra Singh Panwar, Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, Kanak Yatindra Rele, Prof Ashoke Sen, Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ramamurthy Thyagarajan. Theatre personality B Jayashree, boxer Ngangom Dingko Singh of Indian Navy, photographer Pablo Bartholomew and Subedar Major Bajrang Lal Takhar also received Padma Shri. S Lakshminarayana 'Bapu', Vandana Luthra, S K M Maeilanandhan, Kailash Chandra Meher, Neelima Chandrashekhar Mishra, P Madhavan Nair, Sankar Kumar Pal, Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, Rajshree Pathy, Deepak Bhaskar Phatak, Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju, C Venkata S Ram, R Nageshwar Rao, Surender Sharma, Jaymala Jayram Shiledar, Rama Kant Shukla, Ajay Kumar Sood, Pt Suresh Talwalkar, Rajendar Kumar Tiku and Akhtarul Wasey also received Padma Shri. The 42 people honoured with Padma Shri included Avnita Abbi, Sudarshan Kumar Aggarwal, Mohammad Sharfe Alam, Gajam Anjaiah, Rajendra Achyut Badwe, Memendra Prasad Barooah, G C D Bharti, Ravindra Singh Bisht, Avinash Chander, Taraprasad Das, Trichur Viswanathan Devarajan, Sanjay Govind Dhande, Saroj Chooramani Gopal, Noboru Karashima from Japan, Ram Krishan (posthumous), Salik Lakhnawi (posthumous) and Manju Bharat Ram (posthumous).

XX.

Augusta Westland[12 choppers] deal scam--

Ex air Chief S.P. Tyagi was allegedly bribed. Met Carlo the middleman, denies contact. Says deal s/d in 2010 and he quit in 2007. Fake engineering contracts routed through IDS Tunisia Money allegedly paid in cash to cousins of S.P. Tyagi- Juli, Docsa & Sandeep. Mauritius route to channel kickbacks Gautam Khaitan (Indian lawyer) name surfaced in investigation. Finmeccanica initially paid middleman to bribe Indian officials Finmeccanica transferred bribe money to 3 companies- IDS India, IDS Tunisia and chandigarh based Aeromatrix

XXI. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died on 3rd April 2013 in

New York city [USA] Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist; short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Won Booker in 1975 for her book Heat & dust. Only person to have won booker & academy award First novel- to whom she will (1955)

 Lived in India for 24 years from 1951 Was associated with Merchant Productions for 20 films. Ivory

BAFTA award for Heat & dust-Best adapted screenplay.

XXII.

First gold for India in International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Korea on 5 April 2013. Rahi Sarnobat is the first Indian to win Gold in World Cup in pistol-event. She joined the league of some of the eminent shooters such as Gagan Narang, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Anjali Bhagwat, Ronjan Singh Sodhi, Sanjeev Rajput and Rajyavardhan Singh-Rathore. Rahi Sarnobat was also the youngest Indian shooter at London-Olympics-2012. In 2011, she won a bronze after qualifying for the Olympics.

XXIII.

Agni-II strategic ballistic missile from a military base in Odisha

on 7th April 2013; from wheelers island (Bhadrak district) Odisha

XXIV.

Fifth office-bearer to quit in less than a year

Deepa Jain Singh, member secretary of the Centres HighLevel Committee on the Status of Women, resigned from her post.

The original 19-member committee which is less than a year old has already seen four resignations, including that of Chairperson Justice Ruma Pal. Three members of the committee had resigned almost immediately after their name were officially announced by the government.

XXV.

Dan David prize 2013 Awards for proven, distinct and exceptional excellence in humanities & science Leon Wieseltier- intellectual & literary editor of The New Republic Prof. Sir Geoffery LloydUniversity of Cambridge historian Preventive medicine specialistsProf. Cynthia Kenyon & Prof. Garya Ruvkum

XXVI. XXVII. Novartis loses patent battle for its

cancer drug named GLIVEC

XXVIII.

MARGARET 8/4/2013

Thatcher

dies

Full name- Margaret Hilda Roberts Pm 1979-1990 Leader of conservative party from

1975-1990 Nicknames: Iron Lady, Thatcher, the Milk Snatcher, Maggie, Attilla the Hen Awards- presidential medal of freedom Chemist before becoming barrister Cause of death- stroke

XXIX. Indian astronomer discovers blue

super-giant star

Located in the constellation Virgo, far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy. Ananda Hota from the University of Mumbai & Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in the Basic Sciences, India Dr. Youichi Ohyama from Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica or ASIAA, Taiwan

XXX.

Dada sahib Phalke award to Pran

XXXI. Aarushi Dhasmana Vs. Union

of India & Others Conjoint twins case Saba and Farah XXXII. China incursion: Both sides withdraw troops from Daulat Beg Oldi sector

XXXIII.

Two judges inducted in SC CJ of PJB & HRY HC- A.K. Sikri Chief justice of MP HC; before this of Bombay- S.A. Bobde was hearing Adarsh Society scam case. Total count 30 P.B. Srinivas passes away

XXXIV.

Veteran Tamil singer

XXXV. Telugu novelist Bharadwaja gets

Jnanpith

Paakudu Rallu (a graphic account of life behind the screens of film industry is considered his magnum opus); Jeevan Samaram is his popular work too. Died at age of 87 Lok Nayak Foundations Literary Award in 2009 Third Telugu writer to get this award, after Dr. Narayana Reddy and Vishwanatha Satyanarayana. [Human

XXXVI.

Shakuntala devi computer] dies 83 yrs old, died in Bangalore

XXXVII.

45th Azhagiyasingar of Ahobila Mutt passes away

Was the eighth swami in the hierarchy of Sri Ahobila Mutt to bear the asrama name Narayana. [19th May 2013]

XXXVIII. Mumbai-born

tycoon Vivek Ranadive buys NBA team Sacramento Kings [19th May 2013] XXXIX. Li Keqiang- Chinese PM visits India [19th May 2013]

XL. Arunima Sinha becomes first Indian

amputee to scale Mt Everest

Was a national level volleyball player, before she was thrown off a moving train, after she avoided a chain snatching bid.

XLI. Shashikant Sharma steps in as CAG after

Vinod Rai

1976 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre