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1. Current Rate a. CRR 4.5% b.SLR 23% c. Repo 8% d. MSF 9% d. Bank Rate 9% e. Reverse Repo 7% 2. 12th Five Year Plan (201217) Theme Faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth 9 - 9.5% GDP growth 4% agriculture growth Literacy rate 100% Extra Power generation capacity 76000 MW 5. Govt. of India Approved FDI in Insurance and Pension Sector as 49%. 6. ICICI Bank to extend its net banking services through social media platform Face book 15. India on signed an agreement with Belgium for the modernization of the Indian Railways. 17. India signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Monaco in August 2012. 18. Odisha became the First Indian state to commence epayment facility for government employees. 21. SAIL will sponsor all medal winners of the London Olympics for the next Olympics to be held in 2016 at Rio De Janeiro (Brazil). 22. Apple has won USD 1 billion in a massive victory over South Korean giant Samsung in a patent case. 23. World Bank Sanctions loan for Rural Livelihoods Project in Bihar
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5. 8 Indian Company in Fortune Global 500 Company. IOC on 83rd place.132 company of USA is in this list 17. 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. 18. South Africas Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma became the first woman head of African Union (A.U.) Commission. 19. State Bird of Delhi-Sparrow
20. States which ban Gutka-MP, Kerela, Maharashtra, Bihar Rajsthan,Gujrat 21. Russia and India will conduct sixth joint INDRA-2012 antiterrorism military exercises in the Siberian republic of Buryatia. The last INDRA was held in India in October 2010. 23. Abhijeet Gupta has won the Sixth Kavala International Chess Tournament in Greece. 24. Sunita Williams became the second woman in history to take command of ISS 26. IRCTC introduced Interbank Mobile Payment System 27. Indian Rank in Global Competitiveness Index-59th 28. Bank of India Open in 1st Branch in South Africa 30. SBI, Bank of India & PNB will open their Branch in Pakistan 31. RBI punished two foreign banks for Money Laundering HSBC & Chartered Accountant Banks 32. India won the Nehru Cup Football Cup 2012 Tournament by defeating Cameroon 33. India will not provide more than 3 months mobile connection to the foreign tourists. 36. Winner Asian Chess Championship 2012 Parivarjan Negi 37. World Trade Award 2012 will be held in Gurgaon (India) 38. LIC completed 56 year of its glorious and purposeful existence on 1st Sept. 2012 42. London became no.1 Fashion City of the world (earlier it was Paris) 44. ISRO launches its 100th space program named PSLV 21 form Sri Harikota (Andhra Pradesh) 55. 2012 London Paralympics Games conclude in London 56. Indias Virender Singh wins a bronze at the World DeaF Championship at Sofia in Bulgaria 57. US Ambassador and 3 diplomats killed in Benghazi rocket attack (US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Evans) 60. India, Myanmar & Thailand decided to implement Trilateral Connectivity Project by 2016 61. Smiling Armadillo to be the official Mascot of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil 62. UP Government launched the Samajwadi Swasthya Seva in the state
63. Bhakti Kulkarni becomes Goas first woman Grandmaster 64. Japan unveils plan to phase out nuclear power by 2030 65. 58th Commonwealth Parliamentarian conference concluded in Colombo (The next conference will be held in South Africa 2013) 66. Haryana Govt. decides to implement e-pension scheme system 67. Pakistan test fired cruise missile Babur with a range of 700km 69. India offered Telecom Support to Turkmenistan 70. HDFC Bank announced to launch of Credit Card for Teachers 71. Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar grabbed third Asian tour title 72. India test fired its nuclear capable strategic missile AGNI IV (range 4000 km) from a test range of Odisha Coast 73. Mynamars Suu Kyi gets Congress highest honour 74. Chandrika Tarafdar becomes the first Indian to win a medal in Youth World Weightlifting Championship in Slovakia 76. China test New generation inter-continental ballistic missile Dongfeng 41 Range- 14,000 km 78. Ranbir Kapoor & Priyanka Chopra starrer Hindi film Barfi has been nominated for Oscar for next year film 79. UNAIDS (United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) appointed Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as International Goodwill Ambassador 81. GDP Growth Rate Reduced 1. 12th Five Year Plan reduce growth rate 9 - 8.2% 2. Standard & Poor reduce growth rate of India for 2012-13 - 6.5 5.5% 3. Fitch reduce Growth rate of India for 2012-13 (6.5 6%) 4. IMF fix Growth rate of India for 2012 6.1% & 2013 6.5% 5. ADB reduce growth rate of India 6.5 6.1% 82. FDI Limits List of Limits in Various Sectors Defense 26% Pension 26% Insurance 26% Print Media 26% Civil Aviation 49% Public Sec. Banks 49% Private Sec. Banks 74%
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15. United Nation conference on Sustanable Devlopment- Rio de Janeiro 16. World Economic Forum Davos (Switzerland) 17. World Polio Summit 2012 New Delhi 18. FM Trilateral Talks(China& India & Russia)-Moscow 19. 11th Energy Efficiency Summit organized by (CII Confederation of Indian Industries) Hyderabad
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3. Miss World 2012-Wen xia YU(China) 4. Miss Asia Paisific-Himangini Sing 5. Brand Ambassador of BMWSachin Tendulkar 6. Egtek Egale Award(Best Award of Mexico):-R.K.Pachauri 7. RGN Sadbhavana Award-D.R. Mehta 8. Seoul Peace Award-Bank Ki Moon 9. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardVijay Kumar and Yogeshwar DutT 10. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2011 - Soumitra Chatterjee(Bengali actor)
SPORTS London Olympics 2012(30th 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 Mens Hockey- Germany beat Netherlands In Mens Basketball, US beat Spain to win gold Andy Murray(Eng) defeated Roger Federer (Switzerland) to clinch tennis mens singles gold Mascots for London Olympics were Wenlock and Mandeville. Wenlock was mascot for Olympics and Mandeville was mascot for Paralympics. Next: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016 52nd National Open Athletics Championships 2012: Venue - Chennai Winner - Railways Runner up Services U-19 World Cup 2012 Venue-Australia Winner-India ;Runner-Australia Man of The Match-Unmukt Chand(Indian Captain) Azlan Shah cup Venue: Malaysia Winner-NZ; Runner-Argentina; 3rd Place-India Thailand Open Grand Prix Single Venue-Bangkok; Winner-Saina Nehwal Runner-Ratchanok Inathon(thiland) Indonesia Open Single Venue: Jakarta; Winner-Saina Nehwal Runner :Li Xuerui(China) Euro Cup-2012 Venue- Poland And Ukrain; Winner-Spain; RunnerItaly Cincinnati Masters Men Single: Roger Federer bt Novak Djokovic Women Single: Li Na bt Angelique Kerber (Germany) US Open 2012 Men Single: Andy Murray(Britain) bt Novak Djokovic(Serbia) Women Single-Serena Williams bt Victoria Azarenka
Women Double: Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy) 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 2012 Men Singles - Roger Federer bt Andy Murray Women Singles - Serena Williams bt Agnieszka Radwanska Men Doubles - Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen bt Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau Women Doubles - Serena Williams and Venus Williams bt Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka INDIA MEDEL IN LONDON OLOMPIC 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 Mixed Doubles Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond bt Leander PaesElena Vesnina
BOOKS AND WRITERS 1. Those were the Day and thenThe Life & Times of Lal Krishna Advani-Mira Govind Advani 2. Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam 3. Diamond Dust & Other StoriesAnita Desai 4. My Unforgettable MemoriesMamata Banerjee 5. Mind Positive-Life PositiveS.Joginder Singh