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Weekly Current Affairs update, for the Week October 21 to 27, 2012
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(for All Competition Exams)
List of Contents
- Section A : INDIA
- Section B : WORLD
- Section C : AWARDS
- Section D : ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- Section E : SPORTS
Major news of the week
Section A: INDIA
- Spanish delegation led by Juan Carlos I visits India
- NZ Minister of Conservation & Food Safety visits India
- German House for Research and Innovation launched
- India improves position on global gender gap index
- India 14th in the English Proficiency Index
- IISc is only Indian entity on Global Employability List
- CVC to head global taskforce on anti-corruption
- The Indo-US submarine exercise ‘INDIAEX-2012’ held
- MoD asks Italy for response on Augusta Westland deal
- Queensland lifts ban on uranium mining
- ‘Super 30’ ties up with University of Tokyo
- Guidelines to end discrimination faced by RTE students
- NHRC committee to frame guidelines for drug trials
- Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) at 44 during 2011
- ‘Yatra’ against manual scavenging to be launched
- Commonwealth Public Administration Conference
- New warnings to be put up on tobacco products
- Constitution doesn’t permit ‘Father of the Nation’ title–
- Jindal alleges Zee demanded Rs. 100 crore
- Haryana gives clean chit to Robert Vadra over land deals
- Chinnaswamy Stadium blast accused Fasih nabbed
- Krishna resigns as foreign minister
- Mamata’s ‘Flower Power’ painting auctioned for $3,000
- Sahitya Akademi President S. Gangopadhyay departs
- Yash Chopra passes away
- Jaspal Bhatti passes away
- Journalist Raj Narain Mishra passes away
Section B: WORLD - United Nations Day observed
- World Space Week celebrated
- African Union readmits Mali
- PCB to buy bullet-proof buses for cricketers
- China names new Chief of Army Staff
- EU, U.S. warn against political vacuum in Lebanon
- Mayas disown doomsday myth
- Pakistanis break human flag record
- Sainthood for first American Indian
- Rajat Gupta gets 2 yrs jail term for insider trading
- 4-year jail for Italy’s ex-PM Berlusconi for tax evasion
- Bo Xilai expelled from National People’s Congress
- Obama wins in 3rd Presidential debate
- Oldest known survivor of the Nazi camps passes away
- Father of bone marrow transplant dies
Section C: AWARDS - Lifetime honour for Waheeda Rehman at Mumbai Fest
- Slain IPS officer conferred Singham Bravery Award
- BCCI to confer Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime on Gavaskar
- Narayana Murthy receives 2012 Hoover Medal
- ICRISAT scientist bags global award
- Brahma Chellaney wins Asia Society Book Award
- Sharmila Tagore honoured by Edinburgh University
Section D: ECONOMY & CORPORATE - National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers set up
- National Policy on Electronics 2012 approved
- Govt, states sign MoU for broadband linking of villages
- Commerce Min seeks to revive investor interest in SEZs
- Domestic cos can pay for services by SEZ units in forex
- RBI simplifies procedure for STPI exports
- End-to-end computerization of TDPS
- Ministry of Mines unveils draft on profit sharing formula
- FM for better penetration of non-life insurance sector
- India is 132nd in ‘Doing Business 2013’
- Govt to disinvest 10% equity in NMDC
- BPL card holders to get subsidised pulses through PDS
- Package for backward regions in 4 states approved
- Government allows multiple LPG connections
- Kingfisher asked to consult stakeholders for revival plan
- Govt. approves formation of aircraft acquisition panel
- Govt deadline for submission in XBRL format extended
- Industries can start technical institutes of their own
- RIL will have to place CAG report in Parliament
- Gujarat No. 1 state in private investment list – Assocham
- Deep Joshi is new IRMA Chairman
- BSE, NSE among top 10 exchanges in Asia-Pacific region
Section D: SPORTS - Sun TV bags IPL’s Hyderabad team
- Harbhajan, Ishant lose BCCI Grade-A contracts
- East Zone keeps Duleep Trophy
- Angelo Mathews is Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 captain
- Saina Nehwal wins Denmark Super Series
- Wiratchant wins Hero Indian Open golf
- Railways retains senior women’s hockey title
- Delhi to host February 2013 Davis Cup tie
- Cycling Union scraps 1999-2005 Tour de France records
- Tennis legend DuPont passes away
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