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Subbarao will now be directly in-charge of the Monetary Policy Department. The Department was under Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn, who had retired. Besides the Monetary Policy Department, the Governor will oversee functioning of the Department of Economic and Policy Research, the Department of Statistics and Information Management. The other portfolios under Dr. Gokarn have been distributed among deputy governo rs K. C. Chakrabarty, Anand Sinha and H. R. Khan. Dr. Chakrabarty will now look after the DICGC, the Rajbhasha Department and the Right to Information Division, Dr. Sinha the Department of Communication and Risk Monitoring Department, and Dr . Khan the Financial Markets Department. Meanwhile, the RBI has promoted Deepali Pant Joshi as Executive Director. She will look after the Customer Service Department and the Rural Planning and C redit Department. She will also be the Alternate Appellate Authority under the Right to Informatio n Act The former secretary of the Department of Ocean Development, A.E. Muthunayagam, will receive the prestigious Aryabhatta award, instituted by the Astronautical Society of India (ASI), for 2010 and V.K. Sarasw at, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, will receive the award for 2011. They have been selected for their achievements in rocketry. The ASI awards for rocket and related technologies will go to G. Satheesh Reddy, associate director of the Research Centre, Imarat, Hyderabad, for 2010 and P. Kunhikrishnan of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Ce ntre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Thiruvananthapuram, for 2011. Relaxing the debt allocation norms for foreign institutional investors (FII), th e Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), on Monday, allowed those overseas entities having acquired debt investment limit s in the past one year to re-invest up to half of their maximum debt security holdings during 2013. Syed Asif Ibrahim Took Over as the Director of Intelligence Bureau on 1 January 2013 succeeding Nehchal Sandhu. Alok Joshi, the Haryana cadre IPS officer on the other hand took over the office of RAW as the director on 31 December 2012 S. Ramakrishnan is the new Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. He repl aced P S Veeraraghavan and carries four decades of experience in Rocketry. National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers in its meet with the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh decided to roll-out, the Direct Cash Benefits from 1 January 2013 in 43 identified districts of the c ountry. The decision was taken to ensure that the benefits could be transferred electronically into the bank accounts of the individuals, w ithout making delays and diversions of any type. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay asked the union g overnment of India to strengthen the legal administration against sexual crimes, primarily rapes. Urjit Patel was appointed as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India on 3 Jan 2013.

He would succeed Subir Gokarn whose term ended on 31 Dec 2012. CJI Altamas Kabir inaugurated the first fast-track court in Saket Court Complex, Delhi on 2 January 2013 for dealing with the crime against females. Ireland s prestigious Tipperary International Peace Prize for 2012 was awarded on 3 January 2013 to Malala Yousafzai the teenage schoolgirl from Pakistan, who was shot by Taliban s Gunman in October 2012. Padma Bhushan & padma shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan, the Violin maestro died on 3 Jan uary 2012 at the age of 82. The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on 3 January 2013 was awarded with the Low est Accident Rate Award for 2012. The awards were presented by the Association of State Road Transport Undertaking s (ASRTU) and were received by Rajeev Verma, Chairperson cum Managing Director of DTC Union Government on 2 January 2013 constituted the 14th Finance Commission under former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Yaga Venugopal Reddy. The commission under YV Reddy is going to primarily review finances of the gover nments keeping in mind the fiscal consolidation road map that was laid out by his predecessor Vijay Kelkar, the head of 13th finance Comm ission. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on 31 December 2012 approved a Johnson & J ohnson tuberculosis drug that is counted to be first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades: sirturo LT GOVERNOR DELHI: TEJENDRA KHANNA, 70 ASSEMBLY SEATS, 7 LOK SABHA, 11 DISTRICTS , two new districts, Shahdara and Southeast, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Indian Tennis player Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands on 5 January 2013 lifted the WTA Brisbane International trophy with a win against Kveta Peschke and Anna-Len a up governor Banwari Lal Joshi, 80 lok sabha, 34 rajya sabha, 403 states. Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan on 4th January 2013 re-nominated by US Presi dent Barack Obama as Federal Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit. The first successful and healthy intestinal transplant surgery in India was give n to a software engineer on 24 November 2012 at Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde kerala governor Hansraj Bharadwaj virbhadra singh himachal CM The Union government in month of January 2013 decided to divest 10 percent stake in Oil India in the second fortnight of January and follow this up by disposing of 9.5 percent holding in NTPC in February 2013 Andy murray: brisbane international tenis title

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore in the first week of Janua ry 2013 informed about its decision to come up with world s largest solar telescope in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas meet kicked off in Kerala Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer, winner for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in "Beginners"; Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer, winner for Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in "The Help"; Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep, winner for Performance by an Actress in a Le ading Role for her role in "The Iron Lady"; Oscar-winning actor Jean Dujardin, winner for Performance by an Actor in a Leadi ng Role for his role in "The Artist", pose backstage Hillary mantel bring up the bodies 2012 booker prize. 2009 wolf hall julian barnes : the sense of an ending 2011 howard jacobson: the finkler question 2010 Union Government of India on 7 January 2012 appointed Justice D.K. Jain as Chair man of the 20th Law Commission of India. Lionel Messi, the Argentine footballer won FIFA Ballond Or Award on 7 January 2013 as a reward to his 91-goal in a year for Barcelona and Argentina, in the year 2012. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on 7 January 2013 announced withdrawal of suppo rt from the existing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) led coalition Government in Jhar khand. xCM Arjun Munda The Chief Minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda on 7 January 2013 laid the foundation stone of the state-of-the-art National Data Centre of Unique Identification Authority of Indi a (UIDAI) at Maneshar, Gurgaon in Haryana. India on 9 January 2013 successfully test-fired a highly manoeuvrable version of the 290-km range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from a naval warship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal. The Ministry of External Affairs on 8 January 2013 decided and consequently advi sed all Passport Issuing Authorities to accept Aadhaar letter as Proof of Address and Photo identity in conjunction with any other prescribed doc uments for proof of address/identity for the purpose of passport application. Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on 9 January 2013 announced that the rail fa res would be hiked for all passengers from 21 January 2013 including the AC-1 and AC-2 tier passengers, who were affected in early 2012. Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi on 8 January 2013 inaugurated the bienn ial(held every second year) Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors meet by throwing open a mega trade exhibition that has over one thousand firms from as m any as 16 countries displaying their products. The Rating Agency Fitch released its latest outlook on India s Sovereign Rating on 8 January 2013 and maintained the negative status for India. The negative rating came out of the concerns over the inflammatory pressures, sl ow economic growth and uncertain fiscal outlook.

Moody s and Standard and Poor are the other two agencies along with Fitch that has rated India into its negative category of the sovereign rating outlook. The Union Government on 10 January 2013 approved 10 per cent stake sale in Engin eers India Ltd (EIL), which is supposed to bring back a sum of around 800 crore Rupees to the government. At present 80.40 Percent of Stake in EIL is held by the Government. Earlier in 2010 Government divested 10 per cent stake through an FPO in EIL, a leader in engineering consultancy. Air Marshal Kulwant Singh Gill on 8 January 2013 took over the charge of Nationa l Defence Academy, Khadakwasla as its new Commandant. Kulwant Singh replaced outgoing Lt. Gen Ashok Singh to take over this post. Allahabad bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chamber of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME) in Kolkata on 4 January 2013. The MoU was signed to support the priority sector lending. Brij Bihari Lal Butail was unanimously elected as the new speaker of Himachal Pr adesh Legislative Assembly on 9 January 2013 Rajiv Takru , the Senior IAS officer on 9 January 2013 promoted and appointed as Secretary of Financial Services in the Finance Ministry. The job of Rajiv Takru is that of looking after the functioning of banks, insura nce companies and other financial institutions. was earlier CEO of Prasar Bharti and had worked in the Information and Broadcast ing Ministry. Rajiv Takru is going to succeed Dinesh Kumar Mittal, who retires on 31 January 2013. the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Si ngh had approved the appointment of Ravi Mathur as Secretary in the Department of Disinvestment under the Finance Ministry. Ravi Mathur, is a 1979-batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre and is currently Add itional Secretary in Ministry of Labour and Employment. The state of Arunachal Pradesh on 9 January 2013 entered into an agreement with signing of MoU with National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), permitting it to work as a Central Record Keeping Agency (CRA) for adoption of the National Pension System (NPS). National Pension Scheme NPS is an initiative of the Union Government of India an d Arunachal Pradesh is the 26th State to adopt it. NPS is a system wherein eligible Government subscribers contribute a fixed porti on of their salaries and an equivalent contribution is made by the respective State Governments every month. These amounts are transfer red to empanelled Pension Fund Managers (PFMs) for subsequent contribution in instruments such as Government securities, corporate and equitie s. Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on 10 January 2013 set up a Special Bench o f Justices of A.K. Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Misra to hear cases of crime against women. The Election Commission of India on 11 January 2012 announced the dates for elec tions and by-elections in the Legislative Assemblies of 10 states. The elections/by-elections would be held in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Punjab. The states of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland would go for the regular polls for 60 members in each state. The by-polls in Tripura are scheduled for 14 February 2013 and for Meghalaya and Nagaland the decided date of 23 February 2013 and the results would be announced on 28 February 2013

Manpreet Kaur(women) of all india police Won Maiden National Title in National W eightlifting Championship 2013 and menz Himanshu Kumar Chang. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee on 11 January 2013 released a Commemora tive Postage Stamp on Silk Letter Movement at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The data released from the Reserve Bank of India on 9 January 2013 reported that the Private Corporate Sector of India registered a net profit of 91800 crore rupees in the first half of 2012-13 (April to September), which is 4 .3 percent higher than the one reported in the first half of the 2011-2012. The report states that with a net profit margin of 17 percent, the performance o f the Information Technology (IT) sector was better, when compared with the manufacturing and non-IT service sectors. The Union Cabinet on10 January 2013 approved a proposal of infusing 12517 crores rupees in public sector banks so that bank could enhance the lending activity and meet the capital adequacy norms. The government is supposed to Provide capital funds to PSBs during the year 2012-13 to the tune of 12517 crore to maintain their Tier-l CRAR (capital to risk-weighte d assets ratio) at comfortable level. The capital investment will ensure fulfillment to the regulatory norms on capita l adequacy and will cater to the credit needs of productive sectors of the econo my as well as to withstand the impact of stress in the economy. It will support national and international banking operations of PSBs and will b oost the confidence of investors and market sentiments. The infusion of. 12517 crore rupees in the equity capital of PSBs would enable t hem to expand their credit growth. This additional availability of credit will cater to the credit needs of our eco nomy and will also benefit employment oriented sectors, especially agriculture, micro and small enterprises, export, entrepreneurs etc. in promotion of their economic activities which would, in turn, contribute substantially to the growth of the economy. The Government of India on 11 January 2013 approved 14 FDI proposals which is sa id to be about 1311 crore rupees including that of Hindustan Port Ltd. The approval of proposals was based on the recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in its meeting held on 21 December 2012. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board, headed by Economic Affairs Secretary Arv ind Mayaram, The President of India Pranab Mukherjee in second week of January gave his assen t to the Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill, the Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws (Amendment) Bill , 2012 and Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2012 to make it a law of the land. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, on 13 January 2013 kicked out the first woman chief justice of the country, Shirani Bandarnayake after endorsing her impeachment by the Parliament that caught her guilty on the corrup tion charges. It is worth noticing that Bandarnayake was fired despite widespread protests by the lawyers as well as others. Health Ministers of BRICS decided to set up Technical Working Group (TWG). The g roup will exchange information regarding the prevailing systems and institutional mechanisms through meetings. List of Golden Globe Awards 2013 Winners: Best Motion Picture-Drama: Argo

Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy: Les Miserables Best performance by an actor in a motion picture Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln ) Best performance by an actress in a motion picture Drama: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) Best performance by an actor in a motion picture- Musical or Comedy: Hugh Jackman (Les Misrables) Best performance by an actress in a motion picture- Musical or Comedy: Jennifer L awrence (Silver Linings Playbook) Best Director: Ben Affleck (Argo) Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway Justice JS Verma Panel Report Submitted to the Government: Recommendations on th e Sexual Crimes Asoke Kumar Mukerji was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations on 13 February 2013. Mukerji replaced Hardeep Singh Puri who retired in February 2013 after the tenur e of two years. Serena Williams became the new World number one women s tennis player. Mohan Parasaran, the Additional Solicitor General was on 13 February 2013 appoin ted as the Solicitor General of India after senior advocate Rohinton Nariman resigned from his designation. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee appointed Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty as t he chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi on 12 February 2013. MCX-SX, the third bourse on the equities and equity derivatives trading block de buted on 11 February 2013. It is the third national stock exchange of India after Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. M CX-SX started its trading in shared of 1116 listed companies against 1665 companies in National Stock Exchange and 5191 companies in Bombay S tock Exchange.

IMF forecasted Indian Economic Growth Rate to be 5.9 percent in 2013 & 6.4 for 2 014. the global economic growth rate would be 3.5 percent, little higher than the 3.2 percent estimated earlier. UR Ananthamurthy, the Kannada author was shortlisted among other ten authors for prestigious International Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013 It is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any na tionality for a body of work published in English or available in english translation rather than for single work. 2011 Ismail kadare (albanian) won this. Major Abup J Manjali Selected For Second- Highest Peacetime Gallantry Award Kirt i Chakra President of India approved the conferment of 108 Padma Awards. 4-padma vibhuish an, 24 padma bushan and 80 padma sree. Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu Art Kerala Sreeramamurthy Janaki rejects padma bushan award.

Securities and Exchange Board of India revised the Mechanism of Offer for Sale Novak Djokovic won Australian Open 2013, defeated Andy Murray in Final n Victori a Azarenka of Belarus won women's single. Tiger Woods won his 75th PGA Tour Title in the Farmers Insurance Open Mumbai won its 40th Ranji Trophy after defeating Saurashtra in Final The Reserve Bank of India on 29 January 2013 slashed its key interest rates by 0 .25 per cent and released 18000 crore rupees additional liquidity into the system to perk up growth through reduced cost of borrowing. R BI in its third quarter monetary policy review surprised the market by cutting short-term lending rate called repo, by 0.25 per cent to 7 .75 per cent and Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by similar margin to 4 per cent. Union Ministry for Commerce launched eBiz Portal to Provide one Stop Shop for al l Investment Expert committee under Sam Pitroda Constituted to review Working of Prasar Bhart i Advisor to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure, Sam Pitroda The committee will have Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar as its convener BHEL and GAIL Granted Maharatna Status by the Union Government of India. deally any Maharatna firm has a capacity to take investment decision of around 5000 crore Rupees without taking assistance from the government. On the other ha nd, forms with Navratna status have the capability of 1000 crore Rupees. Eligibility of a company to get a Maharatna status For any company to qualify for Maharatna status, the annual turnover should be ov er 25000 crore Rupees in past three years, as per the guidelines issued by Department of Public Enterprises. Eligibility of a company to get a Maharatna status For any company to qualify for Maharatna status, the annual turnover should be ov er 25000 crore Rupees in past three years, as per the guidelines issued by Department of Public Enterprises. The net worth of the PSU should be more than 15000 crore Rupees in past three yea rs. The net profit should be over 5000 crore Rupees during past three years. The net worth of the PSU should be more than 15000 crore Rupees in past three yea rs. The net profit should be over 5000 crore Rupees during past three years. The result of first direct Presidential elections held in Czech Republic was dec lared on 25 January 2013. Milos Zeman emerged as winner. The Union Government of India on 31 January 2013 signed an agreement with the As ian Development Bank (ADB) for 100 million US dollar loan as second tranche of urban sector development investment programme of Uttarakhand. The loan will provide support in terms of rehabilitation as well as expansion of the basic urban infrastructure in five main urban towns of Uttarakhand. The loan will also guarantee sustainable municipal service delivery. Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda on 1 February 2013 launched the Direct Benefits Transfer scheme in Sonepat and Ambala districts. The DBT scheme allows transferring the cash subsidies to beneficiary accounts for seven Central scheme s. Hooda launched this scheme by sending the e-mail to Deputy Commissioners

of Sonepat and Ambala districts, which was followed by disbursing the cash subsi dies to bank accounts of Aadhar-based 3338 beneficiaries. With the launch of Direct Benefits Transfer scheme, Haryana became one of the leading states whi ch account for maximum of 25 per cent out of the total beneficiaries of India to whom cash subsidies were transferred directly in bank accounts. India dropped nine places to 140th rank in the list of 179 countries in the late st World Press Freedom Index 2013, which is the lowest since 2002. P.R. Vasudeva Rao Appointed As the Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atom ic Research