Pandyan Grama Bank (PGB) invites applications for recruitment 2010 of Officers and Clerk cum Cashier. There are total 248 vacancies. Candidates applying for the following positions should have all the basic qualification as mentioned in the main advertisement.
The examination will be held this year as per the syllabus given in the notification issued by the Pandyan Grama Bank. The selection procedure will be go through by written test followed by interview. The following are the information to see whether you are eligible or not. To get the complete detail about the vacancies / jobs go the mainadvertisement of the Pandyan Grama Bank Recruitment 2010.
Detail about Pandyan Grama Bank Recruitment 2010 :
1. Officer Scale – I (84 Posts)
2. Officer Scale – II (24 Posts)
3. Officer Scale – III (2 Posts)
4. Clerk cum Cashier (office Assistant) (138 Posts)
Notification will be uploaded on the official website of the bank on 29th Dec 2010.
Pandyan Grama Bank Recruitment 2010-2011 Notification will be available at the following link of its official website : Click Here
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RUHS Notification for RCA-PMDC 2010
Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) has announce notification for Rajasthan Centralized Admissions to Paramedical Diploma Courses (RCA-PMDC 2010).
Students can apply online from the RUHS website from 3rd October, 2010. Candidates can apply online till 14th October, 2010 and last date for receipt of completed application is 16th October, 2010.
Candidates should write the full address with city & pin code for communication to them. Applicants can print duplicate copy of filled application form by using their control ID, name and date of birth.
Application forms with all documents and DD of Rs. 500 can be sent by speed post/registered post. Applications can be submitted by hand at RUHS during office hours.
Students can apply online from the RUHS website from 3rd October, 2010. Candidates can apply online till 14th October, 2010 and last date for receipt of completed application is 16th October, 2010.
Candidates should write the full address with city & pin code for communication to them. Applicants can print duplicate copy of filled application form by using their control ID, name and date of birth.
Application forms with all documents and DD of Rs. 500 can be sent by speed post/registered post. Applications can be submitted by hand at RUHS during office hours.
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In view of cancellations after the last phase of admissions, another round of web based counseling will be conducted from 21-09-2010 to 25-09-2010 to fill up the cancelled vacancies.
Exercising options:
· Candidates who satisfied with the previous allotment should not exercise options again.
· You can also give options for those colleges even if the vacancies are not available as vacancies may arise due to sliding, cancellations and conversions.
· Candidates whose certificates are already verified and returned back can collect fresh scratch card at the respective helpline centers between 21-09-2010 and 22-09-2010
· Candidates can Exercise their options afresh from 22-09-2010 to 25-09-2010
Certificate verification:
The candidates whose certificates were not verified in earlier phase of web based counseling can attend any one of the Help Line Centers on 21-09-2010 as shown in table.
Details of new colleges and vacancies will be placed in the website
http://edcet.apsche.ac.in on 21-09-2010.
Note: Options exercised by the candidates, during earlier phase of web based counseling will not be considered for seat allotment; hence, the candidates should exercise options afresh.
For other details like certificates to produced, fee to be paid, list of Help Line Centers etc., refer earlier notification published in all news papers dated: 28-07-2010 and also available in website http://edcet.apsche.ac.in.
Note: The candidate who got allotment in the final phase will lose earlier allotment and all the candidates are advised to check the final allotment on 27-09-2010. No cancellations are permitted after this phase.
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Exercising options:
· Candidates who satisfied with the previous allotment should not exercise options again.
· You can also give options for those colleges even if the vacancies are not available as vacancies may arise due to sliding, cancellations and conversions.
· Candidates whose certificates are already verified and returned back can collect fresh scratch card at the respective helpline centers between 21-09-2010 and 22-09-2010
· Candidates can Exercise their options afresh from 22-09-2010 to 25-09-2010
Certificate verification:
The candidates whose certificates were not verified in earlier phase of web based counseling can attend any one of the Help Line Centers on 21-09-2010 as shown in table.
Details of new colleges and vacancies will be placed in the website
http://edcet.apsche.ac.in on 21-09-2010.
Note: Options exercised by the candidates, during earlier phase of web based counseling will not be considered for seat allotment; hence, the candidates should exercise options afresh.
For other details like certificates to produced, fee to be paid, list of Help Line Centers etc., refer earlier notification published in all news papers dated: 28-07-2010 and also available in website http://edcet.apsche.ac.in.
Note: The candidate who got allotment in the final phase will lose earlier allotment and all the candidates are advised to check the final allotment on 27-09-2010. No cancellations are permitted after this phase.
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HNB Garhwal University National seminar on Science and Technology Applications in Tourism Sector
National Conference On Science and Technology Applications in Tourism Sector focusing on Uttarakhand Opportunities (Sept. 2728, 2010) Organised by Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal246174
Uttarakhand In Scientific/Technical Collaboration with Uttarakhand Science Education and Research Centre (USERC) Deptt. of Science and Technology Govt. of Uttarakhand Dehradun
Venue: Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun
National seminar on Science and Technology Applications in Tourism Sector focusing on Uttarakhand Opportunities September 27-28, 2010
Seminar Organizer
Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS) HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal- 246174 Uttarakhand Telefax No. 91-01370-267100 (O) weblink: www.cmths-hnbgu.org
Introduction
Adapting to a rapidly changing tourism world is a challenge for everyone, but particularly for the people living in the Himalayan region where the changes and challenges are so intense and rapid that traditional adaptation mechanism is losing their efficacy. Himalayan resources of Uttarakhand provide bountiful opportunities for large swathe of tourists where the effects are multiplied on account of the involvement of various stakeholders.
It is expected that in the coming years tourism industry is going to experience plenty of changes with incredible pros and inevitable cons. Most tourist generating regions in Uttarakhand are experiencing mismanagement like situation. Huge investment in the infrastructure development, exceeding carrying capacity, climate change, population pressure, mushrooming growth of camping sites, hotel enterprises and accommodation units have put a lot of burden on the very sustainability of any region. Keeping in view the various probable consequences into consideration, the systematic application of science and technology has become significantly more relevant for the tourism industry to let it grow exponentially.
Objective
Tourism industry is growing in many mountain regions and has become an important developmental issue. Although tourism may be attractive as a means of economic development, its various impact on fragile ecosystem and human ecology are a matter of serious concern. In retrospect, this seminar will provide a forum for knowledge institutions, scientific bodies, researchers, students, policy makers, NGOs, scientist, and other stakeholders working in the field of tourism and allied disciplines, hospitality and related areas with the scientific and technological aptitude in order to synchronize the balance and share new ideas, achievements and experiences. The recommendations of the seminar will go a long way in acquainting the participants with latest trends and developments in the field of tourism and hospitality.
Themes: Special focus areas
This science and technology seminar aimed specifically in relevance to present tourism and hospitality scenario will focus on the latest research trends, design methods and construction practices in the field tourism. Primary focus is laid on tapping opportunities in Uttarakhand State’s tourism industry through scientific and technological advance and inputs. The seminar will cover the following themes:
1. Scientific study and technological assessment of potential tourism products
2. Trends in science-oriented and technologically-led hospitality world and facility planning
3. Technological information and knowledge sharing systems and tools for community-oriented natural resource management
5. Utility of advancement in scientific and technological inputs for food and beverage industry
6. Use and relevance of scientific and technological tools for sustainable tourism and hospitality industry
7. Application-oriented scientific and technical case studies from different tourism stakeholders and bodies
8. Application and utility of generating scientific information for housekeeping and front-office department.
9. Utility of scientific and technical deliverables for safety and security concern of hotel industry
10. Scientific orientation of Yog, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Panchakarma and Alternative Therapy
Participants
Academicians, knowledge institutions, research scholars, scientists, policy-makers, private players from tourism and hospitality industry, NGOs, environmentalists, ecologists, R & D personnels, geologists, hoteliers, students of tourism, environmental science, botany, forestry are invited to participate in the seminar.
Call for papers
Original unpublished papers on any of the aforesaid themes are invited. Extended abstract (500-1000 words) of the papers can be sent through email / by post to the seminar convener. Informations and guidelines for preparing full length paper are available on the website of the institute www.cmths-hnbgu.org. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the books.
Important dates
Last date for submission of abstracts: 5th September, 2010
Intimation of Acceptance of abstracts: 10 September, 2010
Last date of submission of full papers along with registration fee: 105 September, 2010
Registration Fee
Participants from Academic Institutes/Research Bodies: Rs. 500/-
Participants from Industry: Rs. 1000/-
Participants from government organization/scientific bodies: Rs. 700/-
Accommodation
Accommodation and travelling expenditure shall be borne by the participants/sponsoring agency. Limited accommodation can be arranged at Dehradun on request, on first come first serve basis.
Exhibition
NGOs professionals, professionals from travel tourism industry, hotel properties, research organizations, suppliers of travel materials are invited to display their products and profiles during the seminar
Prof. S.C. Bagri
(Seminar Convenor)
Dean School of Management
and Director
Centre for Mountain Tourism
and Hospitality Studies
(CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal University (A
Central University)
Srinagar Garhwal (Uttarakhand)
Email. prof.bagri@gmail.com
Phone: 01370-267100
Fax: 01370- 267100
Mobile: 09412079836
(Co-Convenor)
Tour & Training
Organizer
Centre for Mountain
Tourism and
Hospitality Studies
(CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal
University
Mob no.
09412079253
Mahar (Organizing
Secretary)
Lecturer- CMTHS, HNB
Garhwal University (A
Central University)
Srinagar Garhwal
(Uttarakhand)
Email.
sanjay.mahar80@gma
il.com
Mobile: 09411359525
Prof. S.C. Bagri- Seminar Director and Convener
Dean – School of Management
Director-CMTHS
Patrons
Prof. S.K. Singh
Vice-Chancellor
HNB Garhwal University
Technical Advisory Committee
Dr. S.K. Gupta, Associate Professor, CMTHS
Co-convener- Seminar
Dr. R.K. Dhodi- Assistant Professor, CMTHS
Co-convener- Seminar
Mr. Sarvesh Uniyal- Tour and Training Organizer, CMTHS
Co-convener- Seminar
Organising Committee
Mr. Sanjay Singh Mahar- Organizing Secretary
Mrs. Rashmi Dhodi- Assistant Professor, CMTHS
Support Team
Mr. Avinash Chamoli (Lecturer-CMTHS)- Member
Mr. Yashpal Negi (Lecturer-CMTHS)- Member
Mr. Pushkar Negi (Lecturer- CMTHS)- Member
Mr. Satish Gusain- Member
Mr. Subodh Hatwal- Member
Mr. Srinivas Ghildiyal- Member
Mr. Suresh Babu A.- Member
Mr. Bhupendra Nayal- Member
Mr. Vijay P. Bhatt- Member
Mr. Anil Kohli- Member
About HNB Garhwal University (A Central University)
HNB Garhwal University is set up in the interiors of Garhwal Himalaya rather than in a large city, as it is the case with most of the Universities. The University is nestled in the lap of Himalayan ranges in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. It has a rare distinction of taking birth through a powerful popular movement during early seventies in lastcentury. Late Shri Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna played a vital role in its formation. This University was established in 1973, aims at imparting value-based education and developing scientific temper for the overall development of the region for the economic, social, educational, cultural and spiritual development of people. The University offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in humanities, commerce, basic science and assuring opportunities for the self employment for aspiring students. The University has started several independent professional/job oriented degree, diploma and certificate courses concomitant with graduation courses. In the last 31 years since its inception the University has evolved new dimensions of interface with the people of Garhwal and economic, social and cultural upliftment of the region. Srinagar town, the centre of HNB Garhwal University is situated on the left bank of river Alaknanda at an altitude of 579 m. It is also an important transit point on the yatra route for Badrinath, Kedarnath, Hemkund Sahib, Valley of Flowers, Auli and Khirsu hill station. The town is synonymous with key educational centres like NIT, Govt. medical college, Polytechnic apart from the centre of excellence, Garhwal University. Srinagar town is situated 105 km away from Rishikesh, 135km from Haridwar, 150 km from Dehradun and 300 kms from New Delhi.
Nearby excursions in the vicinity of the town are Dhari Devi, Devalgarh and Pauri town.
About CMTHS
Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS), a premier institute, is one of the oldest institutions offering various tourism and hospitality courses since 1976 in India.
Address for Correspondence
Prof. S.C. Bagri
Convenor- Seminar
Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar Garhwal
246174
Email. prof.bagri@gmail.com
bagri_sc@rediffmail.com
Phone: 01370-267100
Fax: 01370- 267100
Mobile: 09412079836
For more details about seminar 2010, please visit the
Institute website: www.cmths-hnbgu.org
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
National Conference On Science and Technology Applications in Tourism Sector focusing on Uttarakhand opportunities (Sept. 27-28, 2010) Name…………………………………………. Affiliation…………………………………….. Address……………………………………….. Phone…………………………………………. Email………………………………………….. Name of the accompanying person(s): ……………………………………………….. Please indicate:
1. I intend to participate in the conference
2. I wish to present a paper entitled …………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………..
Whether accommodation is required: Yes/ No Details of Remittance: Draft No …………… Date…….. …… ……… of Rs. ______________ is enclosed.
HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal246174
Uttarakhand In Scientific/Technical Collaboration with Uttarakhand Science Education and Research Centre (USERC) Deptt. of Science and Technology Govt. of Uttarakhand Dehradun
Venue: Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun
National seminar on Science and Technology Applications in Tourism Sector focusing on Uttarakhand Opportunities September 27-28, 2010
Seminar Organizer
Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS) HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar Garhwal- 246174 Uttarakhand Telefax No. 91-01370-267100 (O) weblink: www.cmths-hnbgu.org
Introduction
Adapting to a rapidly changing tourism world is a challenge for everyone, but particularly for the people living in the Himalayan region where the changes and challenges are so intense and rapid that traditional adaptation mechanism is losing their efficacy. Himalayan resources of Uttarakhand provide bountiful opportunities for large swathe of tourists where the effects are multiplied on account of the involvement of various stakeholders.
It is expected that in the coming years tourism industry is going to experience plenty of changes with incredible pros and inevitable cons. Most tourist generating regions in Uttarakhand are experiencing mismanagement like situation. Huge investment in the infrastructure development, exceeding carrying capacity, climate change, population pressure, mushrooming growth of camping sites, hotel enterprises and accommodation units have put a lot of burden on the very sustainability of any region. Keeping in view the various probable consequences into consideration, the systematic application of science and technology has become significantly more relevant for the tourism industry to let it grow exponentially.
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The urgent need for taking tourism to a higher trajectory in Uttarakhand, annual growth rate can be met only with scientific application and technological advancement. These applications must aim at efficient use of tourism resource and conservation of soil, water, ecology on a sustainable basis, and in a holistic framework. Such a holistic framework must incorporate the use of scientific and technological methods, so as to give a strong base for tourism industry. Therefore, it is very important to make a good use of science and technology by the different array of stakeholders in the filed of tourism and hospitality management. Wider expansion to this result-oriented concept can be provided by the knowledge institutions, scientific bodies, researchers, students, private practitioners, policy-makers, scientists and NGOs etc.Objective
Tourism industry is growing in many mountain regions and has become an important developmental issue. Although tourism may be attractive as a means of economic development, its various impact on fragile ecosystem and human ecology are a matter of serious concern. In retrospect, this seminar will provide a forum for knowledge institutions, scientific bodies, researchers, students, policy makers, NGOs, scientist, and other stakeholders working in the field of tourism and allied disciplines, hospitality and related areas with the scientific and technological aptitude in order to synchronize the balance and share new ideas, achievements and experiences. The recommendations of the seminar will go a long way in acquainting the participants with latest trends and developments in the field of tourism and hospitality.
Themes: Special focus areas
This science and technology seminar aimed specifically in relevance to present tourism and hospitality scenario will focus on the latest research trends, design methods and construction practices in the field tourism. Primary focus is laid on tapping opportunities in Uttarakhand State’s tourism industry through scientific and technological advance and inputs. The seminar will cover the following themes:
1. Scientific study and technological assessment of potential tourism products
2. Trends in science-oriented and technologically-led hospitality world and facility planning
3. Technological information and knowledge sharing systems and tools for community-oriented natural resource management
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4. Tourism Improvement Techniques like Alternate Energy Generation and Conservation, Waste Management Plans5. Utility of advancement in scientific and technological inputs for food and beverage industry
6. Use and relevance of scientific and technological tools for sustainable tourism and hospitality industry
7. Application-oriented scientific and technical case studies from different tourism stakeholders and bodies
8. Application and utility of generating scientific information for housekeeping and front-office department.
9. Utility of scientific and technical deliverables for safety and security concern of hotel industry
10. Scientific orientation of Yog, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Panchakarma and Alternative Therapy
Participants
Academicians, knowledge institutions, research scholars, scientists, policy-makers, private players from tourism and hospitality industry, NGOs, environmentalists, ecologists, R & D personnels, geologists, hoteliers, students of tourism, environmental science, botany, forestry are invited to participate in the seminar.
Call for papers
Original unpublished papers on any of the aforesaid themes are invited. Extended abstract (500-1000 words) of the papers can be sent through email / by post to the seminar convener. Informations and guidelines for preparing full length paper are available on the website of the institute www.cmths-hnbgu.org. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the books.
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Abstract should not exceed two single-spaced pages and should be in Times New Roman 12pt. The abstract should include the title and 5 key words indicating the content areas immediately following the title. The abstract should provide the reviewer with information on the research, the methods; key (expected) findings and implications. The authors’ names, affiliation and e-mail address of corresponding author should be on a separate additional page.Important dates
Last date for submission of abstracts: 5th September, 2010
Intimation of Acceptance of abstracts: 10 September, 2010
Last date of submission of full papers along with registration fee: 105 September, 2010
Registration Fee
Participants from Academic Institutes/Research Bodies: Rs. 500/-
Participants from Industry: Rs. 1000/-
Participants from government organization/scientific bodies: Rs. 700/-
Accommodation
Accommodation and travelling expenditure shall be borne by the participants/sponsoring agency. Limited accommodation can be arranged at Dehradun on request, on first come first serve basis.
Exhibition
NGOs professionals, professionals from travel tourism industry, hotel properties, research organizations, suppliers of travel materials are invited to display their products and profiles during the seminar
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Interested organizations may contactProf. S.C. Bagri
(Seminar Convenor)
Dean School of Management
and Director
Centre for Mountain Tourism
and Hospitality Studies
(CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal University (A
Central University)
Srinagar Garhwal (Uttarakhand)
Email. prof.bagri@gmail.com
Phone: 01370-267100
Fax: 01370- 267100
Mobile: 09412079836
w a y 2 f r e s h e r s . c o m
Shri Sarvesh Uniyal(Co-Convenor)
Tour & Training
Organizer
Centre for Mountain
Tourism and
Hospitality Studies
(CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal
University
Mob no.
09412079253
w a y 2 f r e s h e r s . c o m
Mr. Sanjay SinghMahar (Organizing
Secretary)
Lecturer- CMTHS, HNB
Garhwal University (A
Central University)
Srinagar Garhwal
(Uttarakhand)
Email.
sanjay.mahar80@gma
il.com
Mobile: 09411359525
Prof. S.C. Bagri- Seminar Director and Convener
Dean – School of Management
Director-CMTHS
Patrons
Prof. S.K. Singh
Vice-Chancellor
HNB Garhwal University
Technical Advisory Committee
Dr. S.K. Gupta, Associate Professor, CMTHS
Co-convener- Seminar
Dr. R.K. Dhodi- Assistant Professor, CMTHS
Co-convener- Seminar
Mr. Sarvesh Uniyal- Tour and Training Organizer, CMTHS
Co-convener- Seminar
Organising Committee
Mr. Sanjay Singh Mahar- Organizing Secretary
Mrs. Rashmi Dhodi- Assistant Professor, CMTHS
Support Team
Mr. Avinash Chamoli (Lecturer-CMTHS)- Member
Mr. Yashpal Negi (Lecturer-CMTHS)- Member
Mr. Pushkar Negi (Lecturer- CMTHS)- Member
Mr. Satish Gusain- Member
Mr. Subodh Hatwal- Member
Mr. Srinivas Ghildiyal- Member
Mr. Suresh Babu A.- Member
Mr. Bhupendra Nayal- Member
Mr. Vijay P. Bhatt- Member
Mr. Anil Kohli- Member
About HNB Garhwal University (A Central University)
HNB Garhwal University is set up in the interiors of Garhwal Himalaya rather than in a large city, as it is the case with most of the Universities. The University is nestled in the lap of Himalayan ranges in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. It has a rare distinction of taking birth through a powerful popular movement during early seventies in lastcentury. Late Shri Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna played a vital role in its formation. This University was established in 1973, aims at imparting value-based education and developing scientific temper for the overall development of the region for the economic, social, educational, cultural and spiritual development of people. The University offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in humanities, commerce, basic science and assuring opportunities for the self employment for aspiring students. The University has started several independent professional/job oriented degree, diploma and certificate courses concomitant with graduation courses. In the last 31 years since its inception the University has evolved new dimensions of interface with the people of Garhwal and economic, social and cultural upliftment of the region. Srinagar town, the centre of HNB Garhwal University is situated on the left bank of river Alaknanda at an altitude of 579 m. It is also an important transit point on the yatra route for Badrinath, Kedarnath, Hemkund Sahib, Valley of Flowers, Auli and Khirsu hill station. The town is synonymous with key educational centres like NIT, Govt. medical college, Polytechnic apart from the centre of excellence, Garhwal University. Srinagar town is situated 105 km away from Rishikesh, 135km from Haridwar, 150 km from Dehradun and 300 kms from New Delhi.
Nearby excursions in the vicinity of the town are Dhari Devi, Devalgarh and Pauri town.
About CMTHS
Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS), a premier institute, is one of the oldest institutions offering various tourism and hospitality courses since 1976 in India.
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In order to foster creative thinking, develop skills & personality, as well as instill a desire for life long learning among students, CMTHS is willing to disseminate quality education to the budding tourism and hospitality professionals with a formidable combination of theoretical and practical exposure. The students are said to be the proud products of any institutions which provides value-based education to them. In true sense CMTHS has diversified and has carved a more meaningful niche for itself in such a highly-volatile competitive world. Although a large number of students passed out every year in pursuit of a career in varied fields but shortage is generally felt in finding suitable hands by the v companies because of the dearth of the requisite qualities which must possessed by students.Address for Correspondence
Prof. S.C. Bagri
Convenor- Seminar
Centre for Mountain Tourism and Hospitality Studies (CMTHS)
HNB Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar Garhwal
246174
Email. prof.bagri@gmail.com
bagri_sc@rediffmail.com
Phone: 01370-267100
Fax: 01370- 267100
Mobile: 09412079836
For more details about seminar 2010, please visit the
Institute website: www.cmths-hnbgu.org
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
National Conference On Science and Technology Applications in Tourism Sector focusing on Uttarakhand opportunities (Sept. 27-28, 2010) Name…………………………………………. Affiliation…………………………………….. Address……………………………………….. Phone…………………………………………. Email………………………………………….. Name of the accompanying person(s): ……………………………………………….. Please indicate:
1. I intend to participate in the conference
2. I wish to present a paper entitled …………………………………………………………. ………………………………………………………..
Whether accommodation is required: Yes/ No Details of Remittance: Draft No …………… Date…….. …… ……… of Rs. ______________ is enclosed.
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WEB COUNSELING PROCEDURE
I PREAMBLE
The A.P. State Council of Higher Education is conducting admission of Candidates into MBA & MCA Courses who passed Degree or its Equivalent and qualified in ICET (Common Entrance Examination).
II RATIONALE FOR WEB COUNSELING
The process of inviting the qualified candidates of ICET and allotting a seat as per their option is known as Counseling. Till last year candidate used to attend in any one of the 8 Counseling Centres for securing a seat in MBA & MCA courses. In this process candidates have to travel all the way to report at any one of the counseling centres more than once and it is also a time consuming process.
III WHAT IS WEB COUNSELING
For the Convenience of the Candidates from the academic year 2009-10, Government has decided to adopt a total web based counseling procedure where a candidate can exercise options i.e. candidate can select a college and course which he/she intends to study, through internet centre or internet facility available at his/her residence and where access to such facility is not available, from any one of the help line centers established by Govt in the districts. Such help line centers will be availble in each district.
IV STAGES OF WEB COUNSELING
1. Issue of Notification: The A.P. State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) issues a notification, in prominent news papers indicating the date wise ranks of the candidates who have to attend for Registration, Verification of Certificates and Schedule for Exercising options and APSCHE will also notify the list of Help-line Centres. Candidates who fail to report for registration and Certificates verification will not be considered for allotment of seats in any of the colleges.
2. Certificate Verification: Candidates should produce the following certificates
a) Hall ticket
b) Rank
c) SSC/ Inter / Degree or Equivalent marks memo
d) Study/Bonafide Certificate from IX to Degree
e) Caste Certificate of SC/ST/BC/Minorities (if applicable)
f) Income Certificate issued by MRO issued after 01.01.2010should also be submitted (in case the candidate desires to claim fee exemption).
g) PH/NCC/CAP/Sports and Games Certificates (if applicable)
h) Transfer Certificate.
Candidates will be issued a receipt of Certificates at Help-line Centres after Verification.
3. Exercising Options: After Certificate Verification in Help-line Centres, a Blank Option Form (speciman), List of colleges with the courses offered by them and course codes will be given to all the Candidates. Based on the Course Codes and college Codes, Candidates may list out college in order of preference, the courses which they intend to give options for. For the reference of the candidates , the last rank up to which candidates were admitted in different colleges /courses in the previous academic year would be made availble to candidates on the web site. The candidate should first prepare a priority number with a list of courses in the blank option form before he/she attempts to enter the options on the web. Candidates can exercise any number of options. After the finalising the options, he is advised to take print out of the final option form for his/her record. Help-Line Centres shall demonstrate the detailed procedure of Exercising Options immediately after the certificate verification.
4. Modification of Options and Freezing: Candidate can change his/her options any number of times during the allotted time. After allotted time for option entry, If the Candidate is not satisfied with the Options exercised, he/she can modify the options on the dates notified by the authority and this is final opportunity for exercising options.
5. Final Allotments of Seats: Based on the options excercised, seat allotment will be made as per merit rank and category (SC/ST/BC/PH/NCC/CAP/Sports and games quota etc ) of the candidate. The final Allotments will be placed on the Web on the scheduled date announced before hand and the Candidates will have to down load the allotment order from the web site.
6. Payment of Fees & and Reporting at College: Candidates, with downloaded allotment order, have to remit the fee in one of the designated banks and obtain a receipt. After that candidate with allotment order and Fee receipts have to report at the respective colleges where the Seat is allotted on or before the dates specified in the allotment order. If Candidate fails to report for admission at the allotted college by the dates stipulated, the allotment stands cancelled and candidate will have no claim for further allotment of seats.
Click Here To SCHEDULE FOR DECENTRALISED CERTIFICATE VERIFICATION FOR ICET-2010 CANDIDATES (Reporting Time: 9.00 A.M. Every Day)
I PREAMBLE
The A.P. State Council of Higher Education is conducting admission of Candidates into MBA & MCA Courses who passed Degree or its Equivalent and qualified in ICET (Common Entrance Examination).
II RATIONALE FOR WEB COUNSELING
The process of inviting the qualified candidates of ICET and allotting a seat as per their option is known as Counseling. Till last year candidate used to attend in any one of the 8 Counseling Centres for securing a seat in MBA & MCA courses. In this process candidates have to travel all the way to report at any one of the counseling centres more than once and it is also a time consuming process.
III WHAT IS WEB COUNSELING
For the Convenience of the Candidates from the academic year 2009-10, Government has decided to adopt a total web based counseling procedure where a candidate can exercise options i.e. candidate can select a college and course which he/she intends to study, through internet centre or internet facility available at his/her residence and where access to such facility is not available, from any one of the help line centers established by Govt in the districts. Such help line centers will be availble in each district.
IV STAGES OF WEB COUNSELING
1. Issue of Notification: The A.P. State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) issues a notification, in prominent news papers indicating the date wise ranks of the candidates who have to attend for Registration, Verification of Certificates and Schedule for Exercising options and APSCHE will also notify the list of Help-line Centres. Candidates who fail to report for registration and Certificates verification will not be considered for allotment of seats in any of the colleges.
2. Certificate Verification: Candidates should produce the following certificates
a) Hall ticket
b) Rank
c) SSC/ Inter / Degree or Equivalent marks memo
d) Study/Bonafide Certificate from IX to Degree
e) Caste Certificate of SC/ST/BC/Minorities (if applicable)
f) Income Certificate issued by MRO issued after 01.01.2010should also be submitted (in case the candidate desires to claim fee exemption).
g) PH/NCC/CAP/Sports and Games Certificates (if applicable)
h) Transfer Certificate.
Candidates will be issued a receipt of Certificates at Help-line Centres after Verification.
3. Exercising Options: After Certificate Verification in Help-line Centres, a Blank Option Form (speciman), List of colleges with the courses offered by them and course codes will be given to all the Candidates. Based on the Course Codes and college Codes, Candidates may list out college in order of preference, the courses which they intend to give options for. For the reference of the candidates , the last rank up to which candidates were admitted in different colleges /courses in the previous academic year would be made availble to candidates on the web site. The candidate should first prepare a priority number with a list of courses in the blank option form before he/she attempts to enter the options on the web. Candidates can exercise any number of options. After the finalising the options, he is advised to take print out of the final option form for his/her record. Help-Line Centres shall demonstrate the detailed procedure of Exercising Options immediately after the certificate verification.
4. Modification of Options and Freezing: Candidate can change his/her options any number of times during the allotted time. After allotted time for option entry, If the Candidate is not satisfied with the Options exercised, he/she can modify the options on the dates notified by the authority and this is final opportunity for exercising options.
5. Final Allotments of Seats: Based on the options excercised, seat allotment will be made as per merit rank and category (SC/ST/BC/PH/NCC/CAP/Sports and games quota etc ) of the candidate. The final Allotments will be placed on the Web on the scheduled date announced before hand and the Candidates will have to down load the allotment order from the web site.
6. Payment of Fees & and Reporting at College: Candidates, with downloaded allotment order, have to remit the fee in one of the designated banks and obtain a receipt. After that candidate with allotment order and Fee receipts have to report at the respective colleges where the Seat is allotted on or before the dates specified in the allotment order. If Candidate fails to report for admission at the allotted college by the dates stipulated, the allotment stands cancelled and candidate will have no claim for further allotment of seats.
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Bank Of India Probationary Officers (PO) Selection Procedure
Bank Of India PO Recruitment STRUCTURE OF WRITTEN TEST and INTERVIEW :
The written test will consist of an Objective and descriptive test.
Written Test – Objective & Descriptive
i) Objective Tests – Medium of Examination : English OR Hindi
Note: Candidates have to secure minimum qualifying marks in each of the objective test i.e. 40% for General Category (35% in case of SC/ST/OBC/PWD) and 50% average marks in all the objective tests taken together for General Category (45% in case of SC/ST/OBC/PWD). The Bank reserves the right to vary above said cut-off. In Objective Test there will be Negative Marks for wrong answers @ 0.25 for each wrong answer.
ii) Descriptive Test – Medium of Examination : English OR Hindi
Note : The minimum qualifying marks in the descriptive test shall be 50% (45% for
SC/ST/OBC / PWD candidates) and the Marks so obtained shall be added to the marks obtained in the Objective Test, for preparing merit list. The descriptive papers of only those candidates who qualify in all the objective tests and also rank sufficiently high in the merit list will be assessed.
Interview Marks : Maximum marks for interview will be 100. Minimum qualifying marks in
interview are 50% for General Category and 45% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD category.
Selection Procedure :
Depending on the number of vacancies, only those candidates who have secured the minimum qualifying marks stipulated for Written Tests (Objective plus Descriptive) and rank sufficiently high in the order of merit shall be called for a Personal interview in the ratio of 1:3. – Mere pass in the Written Tests shall not vest any right in a candidate for being called for Personal Interview.
Merit list of the candidates based on the marks obtained by them in Written Test [i.e. 300 Marks (Objective Test) + 100 Marks (Descriptive Test)] and Personal Interview of 100 Marks will be prepared in descending order on the basis of the aggregate marks obtained, under the respective SC / ST / OBC / GEN Category. The final selection will be made on the basis of this merit list.
Note: In case of similar marks to two or more candidates the merit order of such group of candidates will be as per their aggregate written test marks and further as per their date of birth (i.e. more senior in age will be placed first before less senior in age)
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The written test will consist of an Objective and descriptive test.
Written Test – Objective & Descriptive
i) Objective Tests – Medium of Examination : English OR Hindi
Note: Candidates have to secure minimum qualifying marks in each of the objective test i.e. 40% for General Category (35% in case of SC/ST/OBC/PWD) and 50% average marks in all the objective tests taken together for General Category (45% in case of SC/ST/OBC/PWD). The Bank reserves the right to vary above said cut-off. In Objective Test there will be Negative Marks for wrong answers @ 0.25 for each wrong answer.
ii) Descriptive Test – Medium of Examination : English OR Hindi
| Test Contents Duration | Marks | |
|---|---|---|
| Higher order cognitive abilities to assess knowledge on current developments and communication skills | Composite 60 minutes (i.e. 1 hour) | 5 compulsory questions with internal options for 100 marks |
Note : The minimum qualifying marks in the descriptive test shall be 50% (45% for
SC/ST/OBC / PWD candidates) and the Marks so obtained shall be added to the marks obtained in the Objective Test, for preparing merit list. The descriptive papers of only those candidates who qualify in all the objective tests and also rank sufficiently high in the merit list will be assessed.
Interview Marks : Maximum marks for interview will be 100. Minimum qualifying marks in
interview are 50% for General Category and 45% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD category.
Selection Procedure :
Depending on the number of vacancies, only those candidates who have secured the minimum qualifying marks stipulated for Written Tests (Objective plus Descriptive) and rank sufficiently high in the order of merit shall be called for a Personal interview in the ratio of 1:3. – Mere pass in the Written Tests shall not vest any right in a candidate for being called for Personal Interview.
Merit list of the candidates based on the marks obtained by them in Written Test [i.e. 300 Marks (Objective Test) + 100 Marks (Descriptive Test)] and Personal Interview of 100 Marks will be prepared in descending order on the basis of the aggregate marks obtained, under the respective SC / ST / OBC / GEN Category. The final selection will be made on the basis of this merit list.
Note: In case of similar marks to two or more candidates the merit order of such group of candidates will be as per their aggregate written test marks and further as per their date of birth (i.e. more senior in age will be placed first before less senior in age)
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Anna University Tirunelveli Affliated Colleges B.E/B.Tech Examination June / July 2010 Results
Anna University Tirunelveli Affliated Colleges B.E/B.Tech Examination June / July 2010 Results
Anna University Tirunelveli published Affliated Colleges B.E/B.Tech Examination June / July 2010 Results
Affiliated Colleges B.E/B.Tech (Regulation 2007 and 2008) June/July 2010 Examination Result
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About University
Anna University of Technology Tirunelveli was established on 1 February 2007 as a result of quadrafurcation of Anna University into four universities, namely, Anna University Chennai, Anna University of Technology Trichy, and Anna University of Technology Coimbatore and Anna University of Technology Thirunelveli. The Anna University of Technology Tirunelveli is bestowed with powers to grant affiliations to colleges and universities conducting graduate and post graduate courses related to engineering, technology and management.
Courses offered
* Bachelor of Engineering [Part time]
* Master of Engineering [Full time & Part time]
* Master of Technology – Computer Science(5 year Integrated programme – Full time)
* Master of Technology – Software Engineering (5 year Integrated programme – Full time)
* Master of Technology – Information Technology (5 year Integrated programme – Full time)
* Master of Business Administration (Technology Management)
Anna University Tirunelveli published Affliated Colleges B.E/B.Tech Examination June / July 2010 Results
Affiliated Colleges B.E/B.Tech (Regulation 2007 and 2008) June/July 2010 Examination Result
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About University
Anna University of Technology Tirunelveli was established on 1 February 2007 as a result of quadrafurcation of Anna University into four universities, namely, Anna University Chennai, Anna University of Technology Trichy, and Anna University of Technology Coimbatore and Anna University of Technology Thirunelveli. The Anna University of Technology Tirunelveli is bestowed with powers to grant affiliations to colleges and universities conducting graduate and post graduate courses related to engineering, technology and management.
Courses offered
* Bachelor of Engineering [Part time]
* Master of Engineering [Full time & Part time]
* Master of Technology – Computer Science(5 year Integrated programme – Full time)
* Master of Technology – Software Engineering (5 year Integrated programme – Full time)
* Master of Technology – Information Technology (5 year Integrated programme – Full time)
* Master of Business Administration (Technology Management)
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Recruitment Selection Scheme 2010 | DMRC Recruitment Selection Procedure 2010
Selection process: For the post of Sr.System Analyst (post code-01), the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Bee-Two category.
For the post of Station Controller/Train Operator (post code-02) and Customer Relations Assistant (post code-03), the selection methodology will comprise four-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Psycho Test & Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Aye-one category.
For the post of Jr.Engineers (Electrical / Electronics/Mechanical/Civil), (post codes 04,05,06&07) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Aye-one category not below Aye-three.
For the post of Fire Inspector, (post code-08) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Aye-One category & specified physical requirements.
For the post of Office Assistant (post codes 09) & Store Assistant (post code-11) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers) & Personal Interview/skill test followed by Medical Examination in Cee-One category.
For the post of Maintainer, (post codes 10) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (one paper), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Bee-One category.
Medical Examination: Expenses for the first time medical examination of the candidate will be borne by DMRC. However, in case a candidate seeks extension for joining, then the second time medical examination expenditure for the joining will be borne by the candidate himself/herself.
In case of PH candidates, for post code-11 only, we intend to call candidates in the range of 6 to 8 times the number of vacancies for Interview, after screening of their applications based on final marks obtained in the qualifying 3 years degree course examination. The list of candidates short listed (PH) for Interview will be displayed on DMRC’s website www.delhimetrorail.com , as well as separate call letters will also be issued to them, calling for Interview.
The selection process would judge different facets of knowledge, skills, comprehension, aptitude and physical fitness. Candidates will have to pass through each stage successfully (including Medical examination), before being adjudged as suitable for selection. Candidates, who fail in the prescribed medical test, will not be given any alternative employment and decision of the Corporation is final on this issue. Dates of written examination, Result of written examination and recruitment related all information shall be available only on Web site: http://www.delhimetrorail.com and candidates should remain in constant touch with it.
Written Test: For post codes 01, 02, 03,04,05,06,07,08,09 & 11, the written test will consist of two papers (Paper-I and Paper-II, to be held on the same day in the same centre). Paper-I will consist of multiple-choice objective type questions, with provision of negative marking for wrong answers, on General Awareness, English, Logical Ability, Quantitative Aptitude and/or knowledge of the discipline/trade. The Paper-I shall be of 1.5 hours duration.
Paper-II will consist of subjective type questions on Paragraph Writing, Comprehension, Essay and questions on Science & Technology matter, in English Medium to judge the candidate’s comprehension skills & test of English language. The Paper-II shall be of 1.5 hours duration.
Candidates who qualify in Paper-I and rank high on the merit list within the zone of consideration, as decided by the DMRC, will only be evaluated for Paper-II. Successful candidates based on the Written Test (Both Paper-I & Paper-II put together) shall be called for Psycho Test/Personal Interview/Skill Test, at Delhi.
For post code 10, the written test will consist of multiple-choice objective type questions only, on General Awareness, Reasoning, Numerical Ability, English Language and specific ITI trade/discipline of 1.5 hours duration with provision of negative marking for wrong answers.
The candidates (for all category of posts) to be called for Psycho Test/Personal interview and Medical examination at Delhi shall be paid to & fro sleeper class Railway fare for journey by the shortest route between Railway Station nearest to hometown & Delhi. No reimbursement shall be made to the candidates appearing for the written examination.
Character & Antecedents: The success in the examination does not confer any right to appointment unless the corporation is satisfied after such an inquiry, as may be considered necessary, that the candidate having regard to his/her character and antecedents is suitable in all respects for appointment to the service.
Surety Bond: The candidates selected for posts of Sr.System Analyst, Station Controller/Train Operator, Jr.Engineers (Electrical/Electonics/Mechanical/Civil) & Fire Inspector will have to execute a surety bond of Rs. 75,000/- & Cost of training (apprx.Rs.22,000/-) to serve the corporation for a minimum period of three years and also a three months prior notice, will be required before seeking resignation from the corporation.
The candidates selected for posts of Customer Relation Assistant, Office Assistants, Maintainers & Store Assistants will have to execute a surety bond of Rs. 75,000/- & Cost of training (apprx.Rs.15,000/-) to serve the corporation for a minimum period of three years and also a three months prior notice, will be required before seeking resignation from the corporation.
Training & Probation: The selected candidates on appointment will be on Probation for a period of two years (including period of training), where they will undergo intensive training for prescribed duration. The Corporation has the right to enhance or reduce the training period at its discretion for any or all the trainees. During the probation period, the candidates shall be required to pass various examinations. The service of the candidate during probation period can be terminated by the corporation if the performance of candidate is found to be unsatisfactory, in accordance with the terms & conditions of offer of appointment.
Pay & Emoluments: The pay & emoluments for direct recruits shall be as per pay scales under the IDA (Industrial DA) as applicable from time to time and other benefits which include Perks, HRA, Medical benefit, EPF, Gratuity, and Insurance etc. as per extant rules of the Corporation.
Concessions & Relaxations:
Upper age relaxation by 5 years for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC candidates (of Central List) (Formats are available on DMRC’s website), for reserved posts.
Upper age relaxations by 5 years for candidates belonging to Jammu & Kashmir who had ordinarily been domiciled in that state between 01.01.1980 and 31.12.1989.
Upper age relaxation by 10 years for Physically Challenged Unreserved candidates, 15 years for physically challenged SC/ST candidates and 13 years for Physically Challenged OBC candidates (of central list) for post code-11 only.
Upper age for Ex-servicemen will be length of service + 3 years, subject to a maximum age of 40 years. The Ex-servicemen are those who are covered in the definition, as per extant rules of Ministry of Defence/Govt of India.
Existing DMRC employees who have completed at least 3 years continuous service in DMRC as on 1.7.2010, will be given age relaxation to the extent of 3 years as on the date of reckoning of age limit for i.e. 1.7.2010.
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For the post of Station Controller/Train Operator (post code-02) and Customer Relations Assistant (post code-03), the selection methodology will comprise four-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Psycho Test & Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Aye-one category.
For the post of Jr.Engineers (Electrical / Electronics/Mechanical/Civil), (post codes 04,05,06&07) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Aye-one category not below Aye-three.
For the post of Fire Inspector, (post code-08) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Aye-One category & specified physical requirements.
For the post of Office Assistant (post codes 09) & Store Assistant (post code-11) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (two papers) & Personal Interview/skill test followed by Medical Examination in Cee-One category.
For the post of Maintainer, (post codes 10) the selection methodology will comprise three-stage process – Written Test (one paper), Personal Interview followed by Medical examination in Bee-One category.
Medical Examination: Expenses for the first time medical examination of the candidate will be borne by DMRC. However, in case a candidate seeks extension for joining, then the second time medical examination expenditure for the joining will be borne by the candidate himself/herself.
In case of PH candidates, for post code-11 only, we intend to call candidates in the range of 6 to 8 times the number of vacancies for Interview, after screening of their applications based on final marks obtained in the qualifying 3 years degree course examination. The list of candidates short listed (PH) for Interview will be displayed on DMRC’s website www.delhimetrorail.com , as well as separate call letters will also be issued to them, calling for Interview.
The selection process would judge different facets of knowledge, skills, comprehension, aptitude and physical fitness. Candidates will have to pass through each stage successfully (including Medical examination), before being adjudged as suitable for selection. Candidates, who fail in the prescribed medical test, will not be given any alternative employment and decision of the Corporation is final on this issue. Dates of written examination, Result of written examination and recruitment related all information shall be available only on Web site: http://www.delhimetrorail.com and candidates should remain in constant touch with it.
Written Test: For post codes 01, 02, 03,04,05,06,07,08,09 & 11, the written test will consist of two papers (Paper-I and Paper-II, to be held on the same day in the same centre). Paper-I will consist of multiple-choice objective type questions, with provision of negative marking for wrong answers, on General Awareness, English, Logical Ability, Quantitative Aptitude and/or knowledge of the discipline/trade. The Paper-I shall be of 1.5 hours duration.
Paper-II will consist of subjective type questions on Paragraph Writing, Comprehension, Essay and questions on Science & Technology matter, in English Medium to judge the candidate’s comprehension skills & test of English language. The Paper-II shall be of 1.5 hours duration.
Candidates who qualify in Paper-I and rank high on the merit list within the zone of consideration, as decided by the DMRC, will only be evaluated for Paper-II. Successful candidates based on the Written Test (Both Paper-I & Paper-II put together) shall be called for Psycho Test/Personal Interview/Skill Test, at Delhi.
For post code 10, the written test will consist of multiple-choice objective type questions only, on General Awareness, Reasoning, Numerical Ability, English Language and specific ITI trade/discipline of 1.5 hours duration with provision of negative marking for wrong answers.
The candidates (for all category of posts) to be called for Psycho Test/Personal interview and Medical examination at Delhi shall be paid to & fro sleeper class Railway fare for journey by the shortest route between Railway Station nearest to hometown & Delhi. No reimbursement shall be made to the candidates appearing for the written examination.
Character & Antecedents: The success in the examination does not confer any right to appointment unless the corporation is satisfied after such an inquiry, as may be considered necessary, that the candidate having regard to his/her character and antecedents is suitable in all respects for appointment to the service.
Surety Bond: The candidates selected for posts of Sr.System Analyst, Station Controller/Train Operator, Jr.Engineers (Electrical/Electonics/Mechanical/Civil) & Fire Inspector will have to execute a surety bond of Rs. 75,000/- & Cost of training (apprx.Rs.22,000/-) to serve the corporation for a minimum period of three years and also a three months prior notice, will be required before seeking resignation from the corporation.
The candidates selected for posts of Customer Relation Assistant, Office Assistants, Maintainers & Store Assistants will have to execute a surety bond of Rs. 75,000/- & Cost of training (apprx.Rs.15,000/-) to serve the corporation for a minimum period of three years and also a three months prior notice, will be required before seeking resignation from the corporation.
Training & Probation: The selected candidates on appointment will be on Probation for a period of two years (including period of training), where they will undergo intensive training for prescribed duration. The Corporation has the right to enhance or reduce the training period at its discretion for any or all the trainees. During the probation period, the candidates shall be required to pass various examinations. The service of the candidate during probation period can be terminated by the corporation if the performance of candidate is found to be unsatisfactory, in accordance with the terms & conditions of offer of appointment.
Pay & Emoluments: The pay & emoluments for direct recruits shall be as per pay scales under the IDA (Industrial DA) as applicable from time to time and other benefits which include Perks, HRA, Medical benefit, EPF, Gratuity, and Insurance etc. as per extant rules of the Corporation.
Concessions & Relaxations:
Upper age relaxation by 5 years for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC candidates (of Central List) (Formats are available on DMRC’s website), for reserved posts.
Upper age relaxations by 5 years for candidates belonging to Jammu & Kashmir who had ordinarily been domiciled in that state between 01.01.1980 and 31.12.1989.
Upper age relaxation by 10 years for Physically Challenged Unreserved candidates, 15 years for physically challenged SC/ST candidates and 13 years for Physically Challenged OBC candidates (of central list) for post code-11 only.
Upper age for Ex-servicemen will be length of service + 3 years, subject to a maximum age of 40 years. The Ex-servicemen are those who are covered in the definition, as per extant rules of Ministry of Defence/Govt of India.
Existing DMRC employees who have completed at least 3 years continuous service in DMRC as on 1.7.2010, will be given age relaxation to the extent of 3 years as on the date of reckoning of age limit for i.e. 1.7.2010.
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EAMCET 2010 Counseling Instructions For Admission into Engineering and Pharmacy | EAMCET 2010 Counseling Guidance
EAMCET – 2010 FOR ADMISSION INTO ENGINEERING & PHARMACY COURSES
Every Candidate attending for Certificate Verification at Help-line Centre is requested to follow the stages as indicated below:
STAGE-1: Candidate Registration for Certificate Verification:
• Wait for the announcement from authorities of Help Line Centres for Registration.
• After announcement, hand over the rank card to officer at entrance.
• Wait for your turn in the registration hall.
• When your rank is called pay registration-cum-counselling fee and obtain receipt.
• Collect the Registration-Cum-Verification form from computer operator at Registration counter.
• Enter details i.e. hall ticket number, rank etc. in the Register and append your signature.
• Your registration is completed. Go back and wait in the registration hall for announcement.
• After announcement by the officer at Registration counter, report at Verification counter for certificate verification.
STAGE-2: Verification of Certificates:
• Verify the details printed on Registration-Cum-Verification form for name, local area, sex, category, date of birth etc. for correctness.
• If there is any mistake, report to verification officer for correction.
• If you belong to SC/ST/BC Category, report to Caste Verification officer and submit the original Caste Certificate for verification and clearance. After Caste verification report to one of the Certificate verification officers to get other certificates like Rank Card, Hall ticket, Marks memo, Study certificate, income certificate etc. for verification.
• If you belong to OC Category, directly report to Certificate verification officer.
• The Officers will verify all the original certificates given by you.
• A print out of Receipts of certificates will be given to you and if you find any discrepancy report to the Chief Verification Officer for correction. Append your signature after verifying the data (You are responsible for the Correctness of data. No request for alteration of data will be entertained in future).
• Proceed to the Briefing Hall to take instructions on exercising options.
STAGE-3: Instructions on Exercising Options:
• Go through the Information Booklet to know about the Colleges, Courses offered their course, and other details. This helps you to Prepare List of Options in the order of Preference.
• Exercising options means you have to select Colleges and courses you wish to join and arrange them in the order of priority.
• The Officer in Briefing Hall will explain the procedure of exercising options and filling of Manual option form.
STAGE-4: Preparatory work to be made by you at home for exercising options:
• Consult your parents/friends on the selection of courses and Colleges you wish to join.
• Take the manual option form and write option number, College code and course code you wish to join. For example, if you wish to join in JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad under option number, you will write 1, under College code write JNTH, under course Write CSE. If you wish to join in Mechanical Engineering Branch as your second option, write 2 under option number, HYD under district code and JNTH under College code and write MEC under course code i.e. if the vacancy is not available in CSE Branch, MEC will be considered for allotment of seats. In the similar fashion, write down any number of options, as per your choice.
STAGE-5: Procedure to be followed for exercising options on Internet:
• You can exercise the options from home or from any internet café or from any Help Line Center with the help of filled manual option form already available with you.
• Once your list in the manual option form is ready, handed over to the operator to fill the option entry form on the computer screen (or) enter options yourself. Do not forget to take the filled in manual option form to the internet centre as this is essential for entering the options on a computer. With the help of filled in Manual Option form enter the option numbers directly in the input boxes seen on the screen.
• Save the option numbers entered on the screen periodically and inform the computer operator also about this in case operator is entering the options.
Steps to be followed for entering the option on screen:
• You must have already completed certificate verification.
• Please enter URL or Website address: http://apeamcet.nic.in or as indicated in the notification.
• The home page contains the information regarding Web Counselling, “Candidates Registration” for web counselling and “Candidates Login” for exercising options.
• Before selecting the “Candidates Login” for exercising the options, you have to complete the ‘Candidate Registration’.
• Through “Candidates Registration” process, generate the password required for exercising options.
• Click on ‘Candidate Registration’ and enter the following details.
Registration No.
EAMCET H.T. No.
Rank
Date of Birth
and click on “Generate Pass word”.
• In the “Enter Pass word” box enter the ‘password’ (having a minimum of 6 characters length with at least one Numeral) and re-enter the same at “Re-enter password” box. Click on “Save” to save the password and click on “Log Out” to complete the registration and return to home page. Exercising Options:
• “Candidate Login” is provided for exercising the options.
• Enter the details “Registration No., Hall Ticket No., Pass Word And Date of Birth” and click on “Sign In”.
• Read the instructions carefully. Read the Declaration and click on Check Box to confirm the same and then click on “Option Entry Form” or “Help Screen”. Click on “Help Screen” will display the screen providing explanation about different Menu items.
• Read the explanation about various menu items, and then click the button “Click here to Enter Options”, it displays the screen with various districts along with check boxes the same will also be displayed if you click on “Option Entry form” in the last screen:
• Click on ‘Display Option Entry form’ displays the screen for exercising the options.
• In the Screen, the codes of the colleges and courses offered will appear and enter your option numbers in the Input box.
• You are advised not to start entering options directly on the web without preparatory work at home, as you may commit mistakes. Registration No. EAMCET H.T. No. Rank Date of Birth
• While filling the option form ‘Click on Save Options’ at regular intervals. After completion of Option entry Click on “Logout”, it displays an alert message with three buttons “Save and Logout”, “Confirm Logout” and ‘Cancel Logout’.
• Click on ‘Cancel Logout’ retains the Options Entry Form. Click on “Save & Logout” button will save the options exercised up to that point of time and display the details of the options exercised. Click on “Confirm Logout” button will directly display the details of the options exercised.
• After verification of the options exercised by him, for modifying the options, the candidate has to click on Login for Option Entry.
• You are informed that, you can add, modify or delete the options any number of times within in stipulated time. The options recorded in the server on the last day will be frozen. If you wish change the frozen options once again approach any one of help line centres on any one of the dates mentioned to modify your frozen options by paying the prescribed fee. This is the final opportunity and after this no further change can be done. The Options recorded in the server on the last day will be taken for allotment of seats. You can take a printout of the options exercised.
STAGE-6: Final Allotment of Seats
• The allotments will be processed on the date mentioned in the notification based on merit and category and will be placed in the web. You have to down-load the allotment order. This is final allotment and request for change will not be entertained.
STAGE-7: Payment of Fees
• Download the Challan form for payment of fee or collect it from helpline centre. With downloaded allotment order you have to remit the fees in one of the branches of Andhra Bank or Indian Bank in the State and obtain a receipt.
STAGE-8: Reporting at College:
• With downloaded allotment order fee receipt etc., you have to report at the respective Colleges in which seat is allotted within the dates mentioned by the authorities. If you fail to report on or before the date stipulated by the authority the allotment made in favour of you will be treated as cancelled and you will have no claim further on the allotment
Every Candidate attending for Certificate Verification at Help-line Centre is requested to follow the stages as indicated below:
STAGE-1: Candidate Registration for Certificate Verification:
• Wait for the announcement from authorities of Help Line Centres for Registration.
• After announcement, hand over the rank card to officer at entrance.
• Wait for your turn in the registration hall.
• When your rank is called pay registration-cum-counselling fee and obtain receipt.
• Collect the Registration-Cum-Verification form from computer operator at Registration counter.
• Enter details i.e. hall ticket number, rank etc. in the Register and append your signature.
• Your registration is completed. Go back and wait in the registration hall for announcement.
• After announcement by the officer at Registration counter, report at Verification counter for certificate verification.
STAGE-2: Verification of Certificates:
• Verify the details printed on Registration-Cum-Verification form for name, local area, sex, category, date of birth etc. for correctness.
• If there is any mistake, report to verification officer for correction.
• If you belong to SC/ST/BC Category, report to Caste Verification officer and submit the original Caste Certificate for verification and clearance. After Caste verification report to one of the Certificate verification officers to get other certificates like Rank Card, Hall ticket, Marks memo, Study certificate, income certificate etc. for verification.
• If you belong to OC Category, directly report to Certificate verification officer.
• The Officers will verify all the original certificates given by you.
• A print out of Receipts of certificates will be given to you and if you find any discrepancy report to the Chief Verification Officer for correction. Append your signature after verifying the data (You are responsible for the Correctness of data. No request for alteration of data will be entertained in future).
• Proceed to the Briefing Hall to take instructions on exercising options.
STAGE-3: Instructions on Exercising Options:
• Go through the Information Booklet to know about the Colleges, Courses offered their course, and other details. This helps you to Prepare List of Options in the order of Preference.
• Exercising options means you have to select Colleges and courses you wish to join and arrange them in the order of priority.
• The Officer in Briefing Hall will explain the procedure of exercising options and filling of Manual option form.
STAGE-4: Preparatory work to be made by you at home for exercising options:
• Consult your parents/friends on the selection of courses and Colleges you wish to join.
• Take the manual option form and write option number, College code and course code you wish to join. For example, if you wish to join in JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad under option number, you will write 1, under College code write JNTH, under course Write CSE. If you wish to join in Mechanical Engineering Branch as your second option, write 2 under option number, HYD under district code and JNTH under College code and write MEC under course code i.e. if the vacancy is not available in CSE Branch, MEC will be considered for allotment of seats. In the similar fashion, write down any number of options, as per your choice.
STAGE-5: Procedure to be followed for exercising options on Internet:
• You can exercise the options from home or from any internet café or from any Help Line Center with the help of filled manual option form already available with you.
• Once your list in the manual option form is ready, handed over to the operator to fill the option entry form on the computer screen (or) enter options yourself. Do not forget to take the filled in manual option form to the internet centre as this is essential for entering the options on a computer. With the help of filled in Manual Option form enter the option numbers directly in the input boxes seen on the screen.
• Save the option numbers entered on the screen periodically and inform the computer operator also about this in case operator is entering the options.
Steps to be followed for entering the option on screen:
• You must have already completed certificate verification.
• Please enter URL or Website address: http://apeamcet.nic.in or as indicated in the notification.
• The home page contains the information regarding Web Counselling, “Candidates Registration” for web counselling and “Candidates Login” for exercising options.
• Before selecting the “Candidates Login” for exercising the options, you have to complete the ‘Candidate Registration’.
• Through “Candidates Registration” process, generate the password required for exercising options.
• Click on ‘Candidate Registration’ and enter the following details.
Registration No.
EAMCET H.T. No.
Rank
Date of Birth
and click on “Generate Pass word”.
• In the “Enter Pass word” box enter the ‘password’ (having a minimum of 6 characters length with at least one Numeral) and re-enter the same at “Re-enter password” box. Click on “Save” to save the password and click on “Log Out” to complete the registration and return to home page. Exercising Options:
• “Candidate Login” is provided for exercising the options.
• Enter the details “Registration No., Hall Ticket No., Pass Word And Date of Birth” and click on “Sign In”.
• Read the instructions carefully. Read the Declaration and click on Check Box to confirm the same and then click on “Option Entry Form” or “Help Screen”. Click on “Help Screen” will display the screen providing explanation about different Menu items.
• Read the explanation about various menu items, and then click the button “Click here to Enter Options”, it displays the screen with various districts along with check boxes the same will also be displayed if you click on “Option Entry form” in the last screen:
• Click on ‘Display Option Entry form’ displays the screen for exercising the options.
• In the Screen, the codes of the colleges and courses offered will appear and enter your option numbers in the Input box.
• You are advised not to start entering options directly on the web without preparatory work at home, as you may commit mistakes. Registration No. EAMCET H.T. No. Rank Date of Birth
• While filling the option form ‘Click on Save Options’ at regular intervals. After completion of Option entry Click on “Logout”, it displays an alert message with three buttons “Save and Logout”, “Confirm Logout” and ‘Cancel Logout’.
• Click on ‘Cancel Logout’ retains the Options Entry Form. Click on “Save & Logout” button will save the options exercised up to that point of time and display the details of the options exercised. Click on “Confirm Logout” button will directly display the details of the options exercised.
• After verification of the options exercised by him, for modifying the options, the candidate has to click on Login for Option Entry.
• You are informed that, you can add, modify or delete the options any number of times within in stipulated time. The options recorded in the server on the last day will be frozen. If you wish change the frozen options once again approach any one of help line centres on any one of the dates mentioned to modify your frozen options by paying the prescribed fee. This is the final opportunity and after this no further change can be done. The Options recorded in the server on the last day will be taken for allotment of seats. You can take a printout of the options exercised.
STAGE-6: Final Allotment of Seats
• The allotments will be processed on the date mentioned in the notification based on merit and category and will be placed in the web. You have to down-load the allotment order. This is final allotment and request for change will not be entertained.
STAGE-7: Payment of Fees
• Download the Challan form for payment of fee or collect it from helpline centre. With downloaded allotment order you have to remit the fees in one of the branches of Andhra Bank or Indian Bank in the State and obtain a receipt.
STAGE-8: Reporting at College:
• With downloaded allotment order fee receipt etc., you have to report at the respective Colleges in which seat is allotted within the dates mentioned by the authorities. If you fail to report on or before the date stipulated by the authority the allotment made in favour of you will be treated as cancelled and you will have no claim further on the allotment
CEEP 2010 Counselling 2nd Phase Notification | CEEP 2010 Polytechnic wise Vacancy Position | www.apceep.nic.in
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Qualified Candidates of CEEP-2010 are informed to exercise their options on 26.07.2010 & 27.07.2010 up to 6:00 PM for the leftover seats now available and consequential vacancies that may arise in process of allotment i.e., Candidates can exercise options in favour of all Polytechnics assuming that vacancies are available. Candidates who have already joined, secured a seat earlier but not joined, and candidates not exercised their options earlier can exercise their options from any Help Line Centre/Internet café. Candidates who have not attended for Certificate Verification earlier can get their Certificates verified from any Help Line Centre on the above dates and exercise their options. Candidates who have joined and satisfied with their previous allotment need not exercise option once again. Allotments will be placed on the website on 28.07.2010. For vacancies and other details please visit: http://apceep.nic.in
For Polytechnic wise Vacancy Position
Click Here To CEEP 2010 Online Counselling
Qualified Candidates of CEEP-2010 are informed to exercise their options on 26.07.2010 & 27.07.2010 up to 6:00 PM for the leftover seats now available and consequential vacancies that may arise in process of allotment i.e., Candidates can exercise options in favour of all Polytechnics assuming that vacancies are available. Candidates who have already joined, secured a seat earlier but not joined, and candidates not exercised their options earlier can exercise their options from any Help Line Centre/Internet café. Candidates who have not attended for Certificate Verification earlier can get their Certificates verified from any Help Line Centre on the above dates and exercise their options. Candidates who have joined and satisfied with their previous allotment need not exercise option once again. Allotments will be placed on the website on 28.07.2010. For vacancies and other details please visit: http://apceep.nic.in
For Polytechnic wise Vacancy Position
Click Here To CEEP 2010 Online Counselling
International Current Affairs Month Wise | International Current Affairs From 2009 to 2010
April 2009 International Affairs
· The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2009 of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) ranks India as the fourth leading producer of automobiles, petroleum products, textiles, electrical machinery and apparatus, basic metals, chemicals and chemical products, leather products coke and nuclear fuel after China, USA and Italy.
· On April 2, 2009, leaders of the Group of 20 countries met in London and agreed to a $1.1 trillion (Rs 55 lakh crore) deal to combat the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
· North Korea announced that it had successfully conducted it’s second nuclear test, defying international warnings.
· Nejib Tun Razak sworn in as Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister in the constitutional monarch’s palace in Kuala Lumpur.
· A 6.3-magnitude earthquake striked Italy – its worst in three decades, killing 289 and leaving some 30,000 homeless.
· Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened a nuclear fuel plant in Isfahan province and announced the testing of two high capacity centrifuges.
· Russia cancelled 1999 decree that imposed a regime of “anti-terror operation” in Chechnya and formally declared it a zone of peace. It has recalled the tight security regime that has been in force in the region for the past decade.
· France has announced to train a 500-strong Somali battalion to help support the country’s fledging security forces against Islamist militants and pirate gangs.
· South Africa’s long dominant African National Congress has won overwhelmingly in parliamentary elections. Jacob Zuma was re elected as the president.
June-2009 International Affairs
* American House passed climate bill : Climate bill was formulated under American Clean Energy and Security act. According to this bill, green house gases emission should be reduced by 17% in 2020 and by 83% in 2050 when compared to 2005.
*The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) met at Yekaterinburg
SCO is an intergovernmental and inter-state grouping to enhance regional cooperation in a multiple area, where Pakistan holds an Observer status on SCO along with India, Iran, and Mongolia, while China, Russia, Kazakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are full members of the organization.
* BRIC Nations met in Russia.
* European people’s parliament won EU parliament elections.
*WHO declares swine flu as pandemic.
* Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad won in Iran elections.
July-2009 International Affairs
*Susilo Bambang was re elected as Indonesian President.
*Yukayi Amano from Japan was elected as the Director General of IAEA.
* US President Barack Obama said he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are countering “a sense of drift” in relations between their nations with preliminary agreement to reduce the world’s two largest nuclear stockpiles to as few as 1,500 warheads each.
August-2009 International Affairs
* Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) has made Rs.4125crores deal with Spielberg’s Dreamworks Studios to produce 5-6 movies per year.
* Typhoon Morakot has hit Taiwan. The government has claimed at least 500 people dead and a loss of 3 billion dollars.
* China Becomes India’s Largest Trade Partner
China has emerged as India’s largest trading partner, replacing US in 2008-09. Bilateral trade engagement between India and China stood at Rs 1,63,202 crore (nearly $36 billion) in April to February 2008-09, an increase of nearly 7% over Rs 1,52,713 crore in the year ago period. In the same period, bilateral trade between India and the US dipped 7.5% and stood at Rs 1,55,353 crore (approximately $34 billion).
* Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice and only third female member in the top U.S. court’s 220-year history.
September 2009 International Affairs
* The World report on road traffic injury prevention is the major report being jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. According to the most dangerous place in the world to travel on roads is in the impoverished East African state of Eritrea and the safest road conditions were found in Marshall Islands.
* The opposition Democratic Party won election defeating Liberal Democratic Party which ruled Japan for 54 years. Yukio Hatoyama will be chosen as the Prime Minister.
* Fiji has been suspended from the Commonwealth after it failed to respond to a demand to begin restoring democracy to the island nation.
* The Group of 20 countries met for two days to focus on the worldwide financial crisis, and plot how to avoid a repeat in the future.
* Irina Bokova, ex foreign minister of Bulgaria was elected as the chief of UNESCO. She is the 1st woman chief of UNESCO.
* According to “Global Times”, among the 60 most influential persons on China, Tagore is in the 11th place and Nehru is in the 19th place.
* Yukiyo Hatoyama, the leader of Democratic party of Japan sworn as the Prime Ministe
October 2009 International Affairs
* Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was re elected as the President of Tunisia consecutively for the fifth time. He has secured 89% votes.
* The 15th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits were held on 23-25 October 2009 in Cha-am Hua Hin, Thailand. Cha-am Hua Hin declaration on strengthening cooperation on education to achieve an ASEAN caring and sharing community was released. 7th India – ASEAN meeting too was held. The next summit will be held at New Delhi.
* Senior Environment Officials of SAARC met in New Delhi. The meeting has decided to start 50 environment centers in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan to study Climate Change.
* International Diabetes Federation (IDF) World 20th Diabetic Congress was held at Montreal, Canada. It warned India that 9% of the population would suffer with diabetes by 2033. Currently India is in the first place with 50.8 million diabetic patients followed by China. It also said that 258 million people (7% of the population) in the world are diabetic patients.
* World Health Summit took place in Berlin from October 14th to 18th. Modern diseases like asthma and obesity were concentrated. 700 members from 60 countries participated in this summit.
* Iran’s Nuclear Talks with USA, UK, China, Russia, France and IAEA was held in Vienna.
* Maldives Cabinet held the world’s first underwater meeting to highlight the danger posed to low-lying nations by global warming.
* Bosnia, Lebanon, Gabon, Brazil and Nigeria will join UN Security Council from January 2010 for a period of 2 years.
* The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that 105 million more people are suffering from hunger as a result of the current economic crisis. Ensuring food security in a time of crisis is the theme of this year’s World Food Day, marked on October 16th. Among them 642 million people are from Asia Pacific region and 265 million from Sub Sahara region.
*Angela Merkel was re-elected as the Chancellor of Germany. She forms the government with her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and Social Union and Free Democratic Party.
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Iran test fired Shaheb-3 and Sajjal missiles with a range of 1300 to 2000km. They can carry payload of 100kgs.
* The 10-member countries and observers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, met in Beijing. They pledged to work together on combating terror and improving financial co-operation among Asian nations to combat the financial crisis.
* Greek socialists achieved resounding win in elections. George Papandreou-led Pasok swept elections with 43% of vote after five years of New Democracy government.
* UNDP has announced Human Development Index (HDI) rankings for the year 2009. Norway (.971) stood first followed by Australia and Iceland. India (.612) dropped to 134th rank from 128th (2008). USA was ranked 13th (12th in 2008) and China 92nd (99th in 2008).
November 2009 International Affairs
* Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) appealed for a day-long worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger. According to FAO statistics, 1.02 billion people live in chronic hunger. The FAO has also launched an online anti-hunger petition on www.1billionhungry.org Hunger Summit will be held at Rome, Italy from 16th to 18th November, 2009.
* The National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) unveiled China’s fastest supercomputer. The supercomputer named Tianhe, meaning Milky Way, will do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) at peak speed.
* China offered billions of dollars of concessional loans to Africa and pledged to contribute significantly to the continent’s skilled human resources base.
* A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers was held in Scotland. They failed to reach an agreement on funding climate change.
* The U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has launched a campaign in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to mobilise people around the world to take part in a drive to stop the pandemic of violence suffered by women.
* 55th Golf World Cup was won by Italy in Shen Jen, China.
* Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) took place at Port of Spain. The Commonwealth Climate change Declaration has been agreed by the 53 Heads of Commonwealth countries.
* China has announced that it would cut carbon intensity to 40-45 per cent of 2005 levels by 2020.
U.S. proposed 17 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020.
* International Conference of Jurists 2009 on International Terrorism started in New Delhi. It was organized by International Council of Jurists, All India Bar Association, All India Senior Advocates Association and Indian Council of Jurists.
* Unfriend was declared as word of the year 2009 by New Oxford American Dictionary. It is defined as to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site.
* India was ranked 84 with score of 3.4 out of 180 countries, by Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2009. New Zealand, Denmark and Singapore were ranked top 3 in low levels of corruption.
* APEC 2009 summit was held in Singapore. Global financial crisis, free trade etc were discussed at the summit.
* Iceland has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009. India has been ranked 114th out of 134 countries measured.
December 2009 International Affairs
* Nepal’s Ministerial meeting was held at Kaala Pathar near Everest Himalayas. PM Madhav Kumar and his 23 ministers participated in the meeting. This meeting was held to convey the affects of Himalayas’ melting to their country to the world countries.
* Hyderabad has hosted 62nd World Association of Newspapers (WAN IFRA 2009). The 63rd meeting will be held at Beirut, Lebanon.
* USA and BRIC countries signed an agreement in Copenhagen on carbon reduction. According to this agreement, rise in temperatures should be restricted to 2 degree centigrade, immediate release of 30 billion dollar for environment help to poor countries. This would be raised to 100 billion dollar by 2020. And carbon dioxide emissions will be monitored.
* Iran successfully test-fired an improved version of its Sejil 2 medium-range missile with a range of 2000km.
* Bolivian President Evo Morales called on world leaders to hold temperature increases over the next century to just 1°C. Mr. Morales also demanded rich countries pay climate change reparations and proposed an international climate court of justice to prosecute countries for climate “crimes”.
* Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati are among the four Indians named in the Financial Times list of ‘50 People Who Shaped the Decade’. NRI billionaire Lakshmi Mittal and India-born Pepsico Chief Indra Nooyi are the other two Indians in the league of 50, which among others also features Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and US President Barack Obama.
* Hotels.com global poll of 10,000 travellers found that the Eiffel Tower is the World’s Favourite Landmark. St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Rome and India’s Taj Mahal, came second and third place respectively. Three American icons – the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty – made up the remainder of the top six spots.
* China carried out Death Sentence of a Britain Citizen, Akmal. He would be the first citizen of a European country to be put to death in China in 50 years.
January 2010 International Affairs
* The Chinese government’s official growth figures released shows 8.7 growth in 2009. China is now on course to overtake Japan as the world’s second largest economy, while Japan’s official GDP figures are yet to be released.
* India is ranked 123rd in the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) in pollution control and natural resources management. Iceland was ranked 1st in EPI.
* Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa defeated the opposition consensus candidate and former Army Chief, retired General Sarath Fonseka in the presidential election. This is the second term for the Srilankan president Rajapaksa.
* The world’s largest aluminium producer, UC Rusal became the first Russian firm to list in Hongkong and Paris stock exchanges.
* The International Monetary Fund projected the India’s economic growth rate to be 7.7 percent for 2010.
* The group of four major emerging economics Brasil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) expressed their intention to communicate information on their voluntary mitigation actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This decision was taken at the second ministerial level meeting of the BASIC group of countries in New Delhi.
* China and Japan have been added to the 39 non-traditional export markets identified by the Union Government as part of series of new incentives to encourage Indian exporters to explore non – traditional business avenues.
* Billionaire Sebastian Pinera was elected Chile’s president with the victory over ex-president Eduardo Frei.
* India is the 88th best place to live, according to the 2010 quality of Life Index published by travel magazine International living.
* A 7.0 magnitude powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly over one lakh people.
* China, the world’s largest producer of gold is set to overtake India as the metal’s biggest consumer for the first time in history. China’s consumption of gold is estimated as 450 tonnes in 2009 where as India’s consumption forecast is 380 tonnes.
February 2010 International Affairs
* China has denied claims by Google, the internet Giant, that it had faced cyber attacks targeting the E – mail accounts of several Chinese human right activists. American investigators have reportedly traced the attacks to two Chinese universities.
* Pakistan joined 52 other Asian States to endorse India’s candidature for non – permanent membership of the UN Security Council. Out of 128 votes needed to get the seat, India already has 122.
* Japan and Australia pledged to help countries with atomic energy programmes to stay clear of the nuclear-weapons path in the realm of “3S”. The “3S” relate to nuclear non-prolife ration-related safeguards, safety and security.
* A diplomatic battle between Britain and Argentina is underway over oil exploration around the Falklands as a rig hired by British companies is to begin drilling off the coast of the remote archipelago. Geologists think the territory, over which the two countries fought a war in 1982, could hold up to 60bn barrels of oil.
* Octogenarian Tinoo was set free by the Myanmar’s military rulers and will lead the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) as long as Nobel peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest.
* The European Union member states have decided to temporarily withdraw preferential tariff benefits known as GSP+ granted to Sri Lanka from August on the ground that they are “significant shortcomings” in the implementation of three U.N. human rights conventions.
* The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad, Hyderabad was declared the World’s Best Airport under the 5 to 15 million passengers category by Airports Council International (ACI). This is the first time that an Indian airport will be featured among the top airports of the world.
* International Conference on Biodiversity in relation to food and human security was held in Chennai.
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while declaring the country to be a ‘nuclear state’ said, Iran had produced a first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium for its nuclear programme and was capable of enriching it to 80 percent.
* Ukraine’s Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych narrowly beat Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the presidential election.
* The Secretary – General of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Anders Fogh Rasmussen Said that, NATO’s troubles in Afghanistan showed it were vital to boost ties with nations like China, India and Pakistan and transform the alliance into a global security hub.
* An Australian mining firm Resource House has signed a record $60 – billion deal to supply 30 million tonnes of coal every year to China Power International Development (CPI) for the next 20 Years. The deal is the biggest – ever export contract in Australia’s history with the energy – hungry china.
* The last Bo speaking person on earth, an 85-year old Andamanese woman named Bo Sr, was dead. The Bo are believed to have existed for 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures.
* A landmark deal between Northern Ireland’s two major political parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein, removed the last hurdle to granting full autonomy to the province envisaged in the 1998 Good Friday agreement that brought decades of sectarian violence to an end. The deal paves the way for transferring policing and justice powers from the central government in London to the provincial administration in Belfast.
March 2010 International Affairs
* China stood first in implementing death sentence in the world, according to the report given by Amnesty International.
* Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak announced plans for a “New Economic Model (NEM),” raising prospects of a fair deal for all racial groups.
* During a session at the Arab League summit in Libya, the Arab leaders called for a review of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to create a definitive plan for eliminating nuclear weapons development. These countries view Israel and Iran’s nuclear programmes with alarm, and have repeatedly called for an agreement to ban nuclear weapons from the region.
* The Former interim Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiyah formation has secured the maximum number of seats in Iraq’s March 7th parliamentary elections, narrowly edging out the State of Law grouping led by incumbent Premier Nouri al-Maliki.Out of the 325 seats, National Iraqi List (“Iraqiyah”) of Mr. Allawi secured 91. Mr. Maliki’s State of Law grouping got 89.
* India joined the world to celebrate Earth Hour, from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m. on 27th march 2010 organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The event is the largest global campaign on climate change with over one billion people around the globe joined the campaign, involving more than 6,000 cities and towns, to turn off lights in show of support for action on climate change.
* The Agriculture Ministers of the BRIC nations — Brazil, Russia, India and China have adopted a Moscow Declaration where they identified four areas for quadripartite cooperation
1. To set up a common database of production and consumption of farm products in their respective countries to facilitate comprehensive analysis of food security and coordinate formation of national grain reserves.
2. The four countries to jointly draw up a BRIC food security strategy for vulnerable sections of the population and share experience in providing food for the poor.
3. To mitigate the impact of climate change on food security and adapt farming to the changing climate.
4. To promote cooperation and exchanges in farm technology and innovation.
* The United States and Russia have concluded a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) which include reduction by about one third the nuclear weapons that the two countries would deploy and a significant reductions in missiles and launchers and putting in place a strong and effective verification regime.
April 2010 International Affairs
* The World Expo 2010 was held in Shangai in China. 189 countries have attended the event. The Chinese government has spent an estimated $ 45 billion on the Expo, upgrading Shanghai’s infrastructure in a bid to make the city a “world financial capital” by 2020.
* The 16th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation decided to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group on Climate Change to develop a clear policy direction and guidance for regional cooperation as envisaged in the SAARC Plan of Action on Climate Change. The member-states also resolved to commission a study, for presentation to the 17th summit, on ‘Climate Risks in the Region: ways to comprehensively address the related social, economic and environmental challenges’. It was also decided to plant one crore trees over the next five years to build a “green and happy South Asia.”
* On the sidelines of the SAARC summit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani, agreed to the resumption of high-level dialogue, which has been disrupted since the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008.
* The 16th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) started in Thimpu, Bhutan. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa,current head of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, took the chair. Other leaders of the grouping Manmohan Singh of India,Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Lyonchhen Jigmi Thinley of Bhutan, Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, Madhav Kumar Nepal of Nepal, and Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan attended the summit. For the first time, Bhutan is hosting the summit.
* Chamal Rajapaksa, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was unanimously elected Speaker of the newly elected Sri Lankan Parliament on its opening day.
* Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law a landmark constitutional amendment bill that will divest him of his sweeping powers.
* Addressing representatives of over 60 countries and several international organisations, at the start of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament in Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the suspension of the United States from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and proposed a five-point plan to democratise the global security architecture.
* Russia has launched the construction of the $12-billion Nord Stream pipeline to Europe that would carry up to 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year from Siberian gas fields 900 km over land and 1,200 km under the Baltic Sea from Vyborg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany.
* Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unveiled the first model of “third generation” centrifuges that Tehran claims are six times more efficient than the previous variants. Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony in Tehran marking the fourth “national nuclear festival” that 60,000 new generation centrifuges would be installed at the Natanz enrichment plant.
* In the parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa-led ruling alliance won in 120 constituencies of the 180 seats declared in the 225-member House. The main Opposition grouping, led by the United National Party (UNP), bagged only 47 seats.
* The Pakistan National Assembly passed the 18th Amendment Bill that seeks to bring back the 1973 Constitution. The Bill , which proposes 102 amendments to the Constitution , was passed by a two-thirds majority after the House rejected the amendments moved by some members on the abolition of the concurrent list, renaming the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and removal of the provision for intra-party elections.
* Presidents Barack Obama of the United States and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia signed a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which will reduce their nuclear weapons stockpiles by a third.
* Anti-government protests broke out in Kyrgyzstan and its President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has reportedly left the country and Prime Minister Usenov resigned, clearing the way for the Opposition to form its own government. A “Cabinet of people’s trust” has been headed by Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva.
* Aid agencies are warning of an impending food emergency in South Sudan. According to them, Akobo, in the eastern region of Jonglei, is now the“hungriest place on earth.”
* A volcano erupted under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, 120 km east of Reykjavik in Iceland shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.
* A 7.1-magnitude quake struck a remote border area in north-west Qinghai province in western China leaving at least 400 dead and more than 10,000 injured. The epicentre of the quake was in Yushu county, in a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture which borders Sichuan.
* China is building a new airport near Mount Everest, to be called ‘Peace Airport’ in Xigaze prefecture in Tibet.
* The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) was held in Washington in which 37 of the participating 47 countries are represented at the level of President or Prime Minister. The agenda of the summit was how to physically secure sensitive nuclear materials around the world so that terrorists don’t get hold of them. The next Nuclear Security Summit will be held in South Korea in 2012.
* The President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and a high-level delegation were killed when the president’s Tu-154 passenger jet carrying 97 people crashed as it was approaching a Russian airport in the city of Smolensk.
* Sudan geared up for its first multi-party elections in 24 years, with a 16-million-strong electorate eligible to vote for President, MPs and local representatives.
May 2010 International Affairs
* According to Google’s web traffic data, Facebook.com is most visited website with monthly visits by 540 million people, or slightly more than 35 per cent of the Internet population.
* Nepal political parties UCPN-Maoist, the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML agreed to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by one year as part of a crucial deal under which Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal agreed to step down.
* In the midst of heightened tensions, North Korea announced the unilateral scrapping of its pact with South Korea on the prevention of naval clashes between them.
* The annual ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was held in Paris with Economy and Trade Ministers from 40 countries, representing 80 per cent of the world economy attended. India, Russia, Brazil ,China, Indonesia and South Africa have been invited to participate as observers.
* Citing lack of evidence, the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the Lahore High Court’s decision to release Jama’at-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest.
* The world’s most expensive postage stamp “Treskilling Yellow” printed in Sweden in 1857, was sold at auction in Geneva to an international consortium.
* The National Commission co-chaired by Bob Graham and William Reilly was established to investigate the oil spill from British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20 and has since been spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico seriously endangering its marine life and the coastlands of Louisiana.
* The French Cabinet approved a draft law to ban the Muslim full-face veil from public spaces.
* A deal was reached to swap a major part of Iran’s low enriched uranium stocks on Turkish soil for an equivalent amount of uranium enriched to 19.75 percent among Iran, Turkey and Brazil.
* Iran has freed Clotilde Reiss, French lecturer charged with spying following last June’s presidential elections.
* The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned that efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour have slowed down and called for a “re-energised” global campaign to end the practice. In its global report on child labour, the ILO said the global number of child labourers had declined from 222 million to 215 million, or 3 per cent, over the period 2004 to 2008, representing a “slowing down of the global pace of reduction.”
* The Conservative leader David Cameron took over as Prime Minister and his Liberal Democrat counterpart Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister in the Britain’s first post-war coalition government.
* The second Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) in which 32 nations attended was held in Abu Dhabi.
* The short film ‘Last of the Tattooed Head Hunters’, on one of North East’s fiercest fighters, Konyak Nagas, directed by Vikeyeno Zao, will be screened at the annual Cannes Film Festival beginning May 12.
* Pakistan said it had successfully tested two surface-to-surface missiles Ghaznavi and Shaheen capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads.
* Britain’s most closely-contested election resulted in a hung Parliament and the defeat for the ruling Labour Party after 13 years in power. The conservative party ended up with 306 seats, 20 short of an outright majority .The Labour party got 258 seats and the Liberal Democrats got 57 seats.
* The four-week nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference was held at the United Nations in New York.
* Sri Lankan President government has decided to pardon journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who is out on bail after being convicted in August last year under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The pardon coincided with the World Press Freedom Day.
* Iran and Syria have mooted the formation of a regional economic bloc with Turkey and Iraq as their key partners. The two sides felt the move would yield economic benefits and impart political stability and security to the region.
June 2010 International Affairs
* Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned. The resignation was part of an agreement among the three major political parties,the opposition UCPN (Maoist) and the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML).
* Taiwan and China signed a historic trade pact “The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)”, hailed by both sides as a milestone and the culmination of a Beijing-friendly policy introduced by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou after assuming power in 2008.
* Kyrgyzstan voted for a national referendum on a new Constitution. If approved, the Constitution would transform Kyrgyzstan from a presidential to a parliamentary republic, with main powers shifted from a nationally elected President to a Prime Minister chosen by Parliament. This would make Kyrgyzstan the first parliamentary democracy in former Soviet Central Asia.
* The two-day G-20 summit or the meeting of the heads of the world’s major industrialised powers was held in Toronto, Canada.
* India has joined the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project, the next generation astronomical observatory that will be located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
* Guinea, the West African country is holding in its first free election since independence in 1958.
* Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia’s first woman Prime Minister after Kevin Rudd was toppled as the leader of the ruling Labour party.
* A 500-kg bronze sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg city.
* According to the findings of the United States Geological Survey, Afghanistan has nearly one trillion dollars in mineral deposits and could become one of the richest in the world.
* Iran and Pakistan finalise gas pipeline project without India to supply 21 million cubic metres of natural gas daily from 2014 to Pakistan.
* The Bangladesh government shut down Bengali daily Amar Desh, citing that it has no authorised publisher. Mahmudur Rahman, owner and acting-editor of the anti-government daily, was arrested on a cheating charge.
July 2010 International Affairs
* The United States Senate passed a historic Wall Street reform bill on financial reforms that will bring greater economic security to families and businesses across the country.
* Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage.
* The U.N. rejected to reopen the probe into the assassination of the former Premier, Benazir Bhutto by a U.N.-appointed three-member headed by Chile’s former U.N. ambassador Heraldo Munoz, as Pakistan had raised objections to the report.
* According to the report by the ‘Janasankhya Sthirta Kosh’ under the Union ministry of health and family welfare, while India’s population grew by 1.4% over the last five years, China saw only a 0.6% population growth for the corresponding period. India’s total population in 2009 was 119.8 crore, China’s 134.5 crore and Pakistan’s 18 crore. While India’s population will increase to 161.38 crore by 2050, that of China will only reach 141.7 crore.
* The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP support reveals that there are more ‘MPI poor’ people in eight Indian states (421 million in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) than in the 26 poorest African countries combined (410 million).
* The Chinese government signed a $525-million deal to help Pakistan build two highways namely, 165-km-long highway between Jaglot and Skardu, and a 135-km highway between Thakot and Sazin in the disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) region of Gilgit-Baltistan.
* The International Monetary Fund has raised its world economic growth forecast from 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent.
* Ms. Rosa Otunbayeva (59), the first woman President in Central Asia was sworn in Kyrgyzstan.
* Bronislaw Komorowski of Civic Platform party won the Poland’s presidential elections.
* During the sidelines of a summit of the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) in Astana, Kazakhstan, the three countries Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus signed a declaration to launch a customs union as a first step towards forming a broader EU-type economic alliance of former Soviet states.
· The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2009 of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) ranks India as the fourth leading producer of automobiles, petroleum products, textiles, electrical machinery and apparatus, basic metals, chemicals and chemical products, leather products coke and nuclear fuel after China, USA and Italy.
· On April 2, 2009, leaders of the Group of 20 countries met in London and agreed to a $1.1 trillion (Rs 55 lakh crore) deal to combat the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
· North Korea announced that it had successfully conducted it’s second nuclear test, defying international warnings.
· Nejib Tun Razak sworn in as Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister in the constitutional monarch’s palace in Kuala Lumpur.
· A 6.3-magnitude earthquake striked Italy – its worst in three decades, killing 289 and leaving some 30,000 homeless.
· Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened a nuclear fuel plant in Isfahan province and announced the testing of two high capacity centrifuges.
· Russia cancelled 1999 decree that imposed a regime of “anti-terror operation” in Chechnya and formally declared it a zone of peace. It has recalled the tight security regime that has been in force in the region for the past decade.
· France has announced to train a 500-strong Somali battalion to help support the country’s fledging security forces against Islamist militants and pirate gangs.
· South Africa’s long dominant African National Congress has won overwhelmingly in parliamentary elections. Jacob Zuma was re elected as the president.
June-2009 International Affairs
* American House passed climate bill : Climate bill was formulated under American Clean Energy and Security act. According to this bill, green house gases emission should be reduced by 17% in 2020 and by 83% in 2050 when compared to 2005.
*The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) met at Yekaterinburg
SCO is an intergovernmental and inter-state grouping to enhance regional cooperation in a multiple area, where Pakistan holds an Observer status on SCO along with India, Iran, and Mongolia, while China, Russia, Kazakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are full members of the organization.
* BRIC Nations met in Russia.
* European people’s parliament won EU parliament elections.
*WHO declares swine flu as pandemic.
* Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad won in Iran elections.
July-2009 International Affairs
*Susilo Bambang was re elected as Indonesian President.
*Yukayi Amano from Japan was elected as the Director General of IAEA.
* US President Barack Obama said he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are countering “a sense of drift” in relations between their nations with preliminary agreement to reduce the world’s two largest nuclear stockpiles to as few as 1,500 warheads each.
August-2009 International Affairs
* Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) has made Rs.4125crores deal with Spielberg’s Dreamworks Studios to produce 5-6 movies per year.
* Typhoon Morakot has hit Taiwan. The government has claimed at least 500 people dead and a loss of 3 billion dollars.
* China Becomes India’s Largest Trade Partner
China has emerged as India’s largest trading partner, replacing US in 2008-09. Bilateral trade engagement between India and China stood at Rs 1,63,202 crore (nearly $36 billion) in April to February 2008-09, an increase of nearly 7% over Rs 1,52,713 crore in the year ago period. In the same period, bilateral trade between India and the US dipped 7.5% and stood at Rs 1,55,353 crore (approximately $34 billion).
* Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice and only third female member in the top U.S. court’s 220-year history.
September 2009 International Affairs
* The World report on road traffic injury prevention is the major report being jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. According to the most dangerous place in the world to travel on roads is in the impoverished East African state of Eritrea and the safest road conditions were found in Marshall Islands.
* The opposition Democratic Party won election defeating Liberal Democratic Party which ruled Japan for 54 years. Yukio Hatoyama will be chosen as the Prime Minister.
* Fiji has been suspended from the Commonwealth after it failed to respond to a demand to begin restoring democracy to the island nation.
* The Group of 20 countries met for two days to focus on the worldwide financial crisis, and plot how to avoid a repeat in the future.
* Irina Bokova, ex foreign minister of Bulgaria was elected as the chief of UNESCO. She is the 1st woman chief of UNESCO.
* According to “Global Times”, among the 60 most influential persons on China, Tagore is in the 11th place and Nehru is in the 19th place.
* Yukiyo Hatoyama, the leader of Democratic party of Japan sworn as the Prime Ministe
October 2009 International Affairs
* Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was re elected as the President of Tunisia consecutively for the fifth time. He has secured 89% votes.
* The 15th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits were held on 23-25 October 2009 in Cha-am Hua Hin, Thailand. Cha-am Hua Hin declaration on strengthening cooperation on education to achieve an ASEAN caring and sharing community was released. 7th India – ASEAN meeting too was held. The next summit will be held at New Delhi.
* Senior Environment Officials of SAARC met in New Delhi. The meeting has decided to start 50 environment centers in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan to study Climate Change.
* International Diabetes Federation (IDF) World 20th Diabetic Congress was held at Montreal, Canada. It warned India that 9% of the population would suffer with diabetes by 2033. Currently India is in the first place with 50.8 million diabetic patients followed by China. It also said that 258 million people (7% of the population) in the world are diabetic patients.
* World Health Summit took place in Berlin from October 14th to 18th. Modern diseases like asthma and obesity were concentrated. 700 members from 60 countries participated in this summit.
* Iran’s Nuclear Talks with USA, UK, China, Russia, France and IAEA was held in Vienna.
* Maldives Cabinet held the world’s first underwater meeting to highlight the danger posed to low-lying nations by global warming.
* Bosnia, Lebanon, Gabon, Brazil and Nigeria will join UN Security Council from January 2010 for a period of 2 years.
* The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that 105 million more people are suffering from hunger as a result of the current economic crisis. Ensuring food security in a time of crisis is the theme of this year’s World Food Day, marked on October 16th. Among them 642 million people are from Asia Pacific region and 265 million from Sub Sahara region.
*Angela Merkel was re-elected as the Chancellor of Germany. She forms the government with her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and Social Union and Free Democratic Party.
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Iran test fired Shaheb-3 and Sajjal missiles with a range of 1300 to 2000km. They can carry payload of 100kgs.
* The 10-member countries and observers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, met in Beijing. They pledged to work together on combating terror and improving financial co-operation among Asian nations to combat the financial crisis.
* Greek socialists achieved resounding win in elections. George Papandreou-led Pasok swept elections with 43% of vote after five years of New Democracy government.
* UNDP has announced Human Development Index (HDI) rankings for the year 2009. Norway (.971) stood first followed by Australia and Iceland. India (.612) dropped to 134th rank from 128th (2008). USA was ranked 13th (12th in 2008) and China 92nd (99th in 2008).
November 2009 International Affairs
* Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) appealed for a day-long worldwide hunger strike against chronic hunger. According to FAO statistics, 1.02 billion people live in chronic hunger. The FAO has also launched an online anti-hunger petition on www.1billionhungry.org Hunger Summit will be held at Rome, Italy from 16th to 18th November, 2009.
* The National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) unveiled China’s fastest supercomputer. The supercomputer named Tianhe, meaning Milky Way, will do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop) at peak speed.
* China offered billions of dollars of concessional loans to Africa and pledged to contribute significantly to the continent’s skilled human resources base.
* A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers was held in Scotland. They failed to reach an agreement on funding climate change.
* The U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has launched a campaign in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to mobilise people around the world to take part in a drive to stop the pandemic of violence suffered by women.
* 55th Golf World Cup was won by Italy in Shen Jen, China.
* Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) took place at Port of Spain. The Commonwealth Climate change Declaration has been agreed by the 53 Heads of Commonwealth countries.
* China has announced that it would cut carbon intensity to 40-45 per cent of 2005 levels by 2020.
U.S. proposed 17 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020.
* International Conference of Jurists 2009 on International Terrorism started in New Delhi. It was organized by International Council of Jurists, All India Bar Association, All India Senior Advocates Association and Indian Council of Jurists.
* Unfriend was declared as word of the year 2009 by New Oxford American Dictionary. It is defined as to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site.
* India was ranked 84 with score of 3.4 out of 180 countries, by Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2009. New Zealand, Denmark and Singapore were ranked top 3 in low levels of corruption.
* APEC 2009 summit was held in Singapore. Global financial crisis, free trade etc were discussed at the summit.
* Iceland has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009. India has been ranked 114th out of 134 countries measured.
December 2009 International Affairs
* Nepal’s Ministerial meeting was held at Kaala Pathar near Everest Himalayas. PM Madhav Kumar and his 23 ministers participated in the meeting. This meeting was held to convey the affects of Himalayas’ melting to their country to the world countries.
* Hyderabad has hosted 62nd World Association of Newspapers (WAN IFRA 2009). The 63rd meeting will be held at Beirut, Lebanon.
* USA and BRIC countries signed an agreement in Copenhagen on carbon reduction. According to this agreement, rise in temperatures should be restricted to 2 degree centigrade, immediate release of 30 billion dollar for environment help to poor countries. This would be raised to 100 billion dollar by 2020. And carbon dioxide emissions will be monitored.
* Iran successfully test-fired an improved version of its Sejil 2 medium-range missile with a range of 2000km.
* Bolivian President Evo Morales called on world leaders to hold temperature increases over the next century to just 1°C. Mr. Morales also demanded rich countries pay climate change reparations and proposed an international climate court of justice to prosecute countries for climate “crimes”.
* Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati are among the four Indians named in the Financial Times list of ‘50 People Who Shaped the Decade’. NRI billionaire Lakshmi Mittal and India-born Pepsico Chief Indra Nooyi are the other two Indians in the league of 50, which among others also features Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and US President Barack Obama.
* Hotels.com global poll of 10,000 travellers found that the Eiffel Tower is the World’s Favourite Landmark. St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Rome and India’s Taj Mahal, came second and third place respectively. Three American icons – the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty – made up the remainder of the top six spots.
* China carried out Death Sentence of a Britain Citizen, Akmal. He would be the first citizen of a European country to be put to death in China in 50 years.
January 2010 International Affairs
* The Chinese government’s official growth figures released shows 8.7 growth in 2009. China is now on course to overtake Japan as the world’s second largest economy, while Japan’s official GDP figures are yet to be released.
* India is ranked 123rd in the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) in pollution control and natural resources management. Iceland was ranked 1st in EPI.
* Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa defeated the opposition consensus candidate and former Army Chief, retired General Sarath Fonseka in the presidential election. This is the second term for the Srilankan president Rajapaksa.
* The world’s largest aluminium producer, UC Rusal became the first Russian firm to list in Hongkong and Paris stock exchanges.
* The International Monetary Fund projected the India’s economic growth rate to be 7.7 percent for 2010.
* The group of four major emerging economics Brasil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) expressed their intention to communicate information on their voluntary mitigation actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This decision was taken at the second ministerial level meeting of the BASIC group of countries in New Delhi.
* China and Japan have been added to the 39 non-traditional export markets identified by the Union Government as part of series of new incentives to encourage Indian exporters to explore non – traditional business avenues.
* Billionaire Sebastian Pinera was elected Chile’s president with the victory over ex-president Eduardo Frei.
* India is the 88th best place to live, according to the 2010 quality of Life Index published by travel magazine International living.
* A 7.0 magnitude powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly over one lakh people.
* China, the world’s largest producer of gold is set to overtake India as the metal’s biggest consumer for the first time in history. China’s consumption of gold is estimated as 450 tonnes in 2009 where as India’s consumption forecast is 380 tonnes.
February 2010 International Affairs
* China has denied claims by Google, the internet Giant, that it had faced cyber attacks targeting the E – mail accounts of several Chinese human right activists. American investigators have reportedly traced the attacks to two Chinese universities.
* Pakistan joined 52 other Asian States to endorse India’s candidature for non – permanent membership of the UN Security Council. Out of 128 votes needed to get the seat, India already has 122.
* Japan and Australia pledged to help countries with atomic energy programmes to stay clear of the nuclear-weapons path in the realm of “3S”. The “3S” relate to nuclear non-prolife ration-related safeguards, safety and security.
* A diplomatic battle between Britain and Argentina is underway over oil exploration around the Falklands as a rig hired by British companies is to begin drilling off the coast of the remote archipelago. Geologists think the territory, over which the two countries fought a war in 1982, could hold up to 60bn barrels of oil.
* Octogenarian Tinoo was set free by the Myanmar’s military rulers and will lead the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) as long as Nobel peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest.
* The European Union member states have decided to temporarily withdraw preferential tariff benefits known as GSP+ granted to Sri Lanka from August on the ground that they are “significant shortcomings” in the implementation of three U.N. human rights conventions.
* The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad, Hyderabad was declared the World’s Best Airport under the 5 to 15 million passengers category by Airports Council International (ACI). This is the first time that an Indian airport will be featured among the top airports of the world.
* International Conference on Biodiversity in relation to food and human security was held in Chennai.
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while declaring the country to be a ‘nuclear state’ said, Iran had produced a first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium for its nuclear programme and was capable of enriching it to 80 percent.
* Ukraine’s Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych narrowly beat Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the presidential election.
* The Secretary – General of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Anders Fogh Rasmussen Said that, NATO’s troubles in Afghanistan showed it were vital to boost ties with nations like China, India and Pakistan and transform the alliance into a global security hub.
* An Australian mining firm Resource House has signed a record $60 – billion deal to supply 30 million tonnes of coal every year to China Power International Development (CPI) for the next 20 Years. The deal is the biggest – ever export contract in Australia’s history with the energy – hungry china.
* The last Bo speaking person on earth, an 85-year old Andamanese woman named Bo Sr, was dead. The Bo are believed to have existed for 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures.
* A landmark deal between Northern Ireland’s two major political parties, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein, removed the last hurdle to granting full autonomy to the province envisaged in the 1998 Good Friday agreement that brought decades of sectarian violence to an end. The deal paves the way for transferring policing and justice powers from the central government in London to the provincial administration in Belfast.
March 2010 International Affairs
* China stood first in implementing death sentence in the world, according to the report given by Amnesty International.
* Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak announced plans for a “New Economic Model (NEM),” raising prospects of a fair deal for all racial groups.
* During a session at the Arab League summit in Libya, the Arab leaders called for a review of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to create a definitive plan for eliminating nuclear weapons development. These countries view Israel and Iran’s nuclear programmes with alarm, and have repeatedly called for an agreement to ban nuclear weapons from the region.
* The Former interim Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiyah formation has secured the maximum number of seats in Iraq’s March 7th parliamentary elections, narrowly edging out the State of Law grouping led by incumbent Premier Nouri al-Maliki.Out of the 325 seats, National Iraqi List (“Iraqiyah”) of Mr. Allawi secured 91. Mr. Maliki’s State of Law grouping got 89.
* India joined the world to celebrate Earth Hour, from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m. on 27th march 2010 organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The event is the largest global campaign on climate change with over one billion people around the globe joined the campaign, involving more than 6,000 cities and towns, to turn off lights in show of support for action on climate change.
* The Agriculture Ministers of the BRIC nations — Brazil, Russia, India and China have adopted a Moscow Declaration where they identified four areas for quadripartite cooperation
1. To set up a common database of production and consumption of farm products in their respective countries to facilitate comprehensive analysis of food security and coordinate formation of national grain reserves.
2. The four countries to jointly draw up a BRIC food security strategy for vulnerable sections of the population and share experience in providing food for the poor.
3. To mitigate the impact of climate change on food security and adapt farming to the changing climate.
4. To promote cooperation and exchanges in farm technology and innovation.
* The United States and Russia have concluded a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) which include reduction by about one third the nuclear weapons that the two countries would deploy and a significant reductions in missiles and launchers and putting in place a strong and effective verification regime.
April 2010 International Affairs
* The World Expo 2010 was held in Shangai in China. 189 countries have attended the event. The Chinese government has spent an estimated $ 45 billion on the Expo, upgrading Shanghai’s infrastructure in a bid to make the city a “world financial capital” by 2020.
* The 16th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation decided to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group on Climate Change to develop a clear policy direction and guidance for regional cooperation as envisaged in the SAARC Plan of Action on Climate Change. The member-states also resolved to commission a study, for presentation to the 17th summit, on ‘Climate Risks in the Region: ways to comprehensively address the related social, economic and environmental challenges’. It was also decided to plant one crore trees over the next five years to build a “green and happy South Asia.”
* On the sidelines of the SAARC summit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani, agreed to the resumption of high-level dialogue, which has been disrupted since the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008.
* The 16th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) started in Thimpu, Bhutan. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa,current head of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, took the chair. Other leaders of the grouping Manmohan Singh of India,Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Lyonchhen Jigmi Thinley of Bhutan, Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, Madhav Kumar Nepal of Nepal, and Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan attended the summit. For the first time, Bhutan is hosting the summit.
* Chamal Rajapaksa, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was unanimously elected Speaker of the newly elected Sri Lankan Parliament on its opening day.
* Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law a landmark constitutional amendment bill that will divest him of his sweeping powers.
* Addressing representatives of over 60 countries and several international organisations, at the start of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament in Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the suspension of the United States from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and proposed a five-point plan to democratise the global security architecture.
* Russia has launched the construction of the $12-billion Nord Stream pipeline to Europe that would carry up to 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas a year from Siberian gas fields 900 km over land and 1,200 km under the Baltic Sea from Vyborg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany.
* Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unveiled the first model of “third generation” centrifuges that Tehran claims are six times more efficient than the previous variants. Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony in Tehran marking the fourth “national nuclear festival” that 60,000 new generation centrifuges would be installed at the Natanz enrichment plant.
* In the parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa-led ruling alliance won in 120 constituencies of the 180 seats declared in the 225-member House. The main Opposition grouping, led by the United National Party (UNP), bagged only 47 seats.
* The Pakistan National Assembly passed the 18th Amendment Bill that seeks to bring back the 1973 Constitution. The Bill , which proposes 102 amendments to the Constitution , was passed by a two-thirds majority after the House rejected the amendments moved by some members on the abolition of the concurrent list, renaming the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and removal of the provision for intra-party elections.
* Presidents Barack Obama of the United States and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia signed a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which will reduce their nuclear weapons stockpiles by a third.
* Anti-government protests broke out in Kyrgyzstan and its President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has reportedly left the country and Prime Minister Usenov resigned, clearing the way for the Opposition to form its own government. A “Cabinet of people’s trust” has been headed by Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva.
* Aid agencies are warning of an impending food emergency in South Sudan. According to them, Akobo, in the eastern region of Jonglei, is now the“hungriest place on earth.”
* A volcano erupted under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, 120 km east of Reykjavik in Iceland shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.
* A 7.1-magnitude quake struck a remote border area in north-west Qinghai province in western China leaving at least 400 dead and more than 10,000 injured. The epicentre of the quake was in Yushu county, in a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture which borders Sichuan.
* China is building a new airport near Mount Everest, to be called ‘Peace Airport’ in Xigaze prefecture in Tibet.
* The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) was held in Washington in which 37 of the participating 47 countries are represented at the level of President or Prime Minister. The agenda of the summit was how to physically secure sensitive nuclear materials around the world so that terrorists don’t get hold of them. The next Nuclear Security Summit will be held in South Korea in 2012.
* The President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and a high-level delegation were killed when the president’s Tu-154 passenger jet carrying 97 people crashed as it was approaching a Russian airport in the city of Smolensk.
* Sudan geared up for its first multi-party elections in 24 years, with a 16-million-strong electorate eligible to vote for President, MPs and local representatives.
May 2010 International Affairs
* According to Google’s web traffic data, Facebook.com is most visited website with monthly visits by 540 million people, or slightly more than 35 per cent of the Internet population.
* Nepal political parties UCPN-Maoist, the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML agreed to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by one year as part of a crucial deal under which Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal agreed to step down.
* In the midst of heightened tensions, North Korea announced the unilateral scrapping of its pact with South Korea on the prevention of naval clashes between them.
* The annual ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was held in Paris with Economy and Trade Ministers from 40 countries, representing 80 per cent of the world economy attended. India, Russia, Brazil ,China, Indonesia and South Africa have been invited to participate as observers.
* Citing lack of evidence, the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the Lahore High Court’s decision to release Jama’at-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest.
* The world’s most expensive postage stamp “Treskilling Yellow” printed in Sweden in 1857, was sold at auction in Geneva to an international consortium.
* The National Commission co-chaired by Bob Graham and William Reilly was established to investigate the oil spill from British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20 and has since been spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico seriously endangering its marine life and the coastlands of Louisiana.
* The French Cabinet approved a draft law to ban the Muslim full-face veil from public spaces.
* A deal was reached to swap a major part of Iran’s low enriched uranium stocks on Turkish soil for an equivalent amount of uranium enriched to 19.75 percent among Iran, Turkey and Brazil.
* Iran has freed Clotilde Reiss, French lecturer charged with spying following last June’s presidential elections.
* The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned that efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour have slowed down and called for a “re-energised” global campaign to end the practice. In its global report on child labour, the ILO said the global number of child labourers had declined from 222 million to 215 million, or 3 per cent, over the period 2004 to 2008, representing a “slowing down of the global pace of reduction.”
* The Conservative leader David Cameron took over as Prime Minister and his Liberal Democrat counterpart Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister in the Britain’s first post-war coalition government.
* The second Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) in which 32 nations attended was held in Abu Dhabi.
* The short film ‘Last of the Tattooed Head Hunters’, on one of North East’s fiercest fighters, Konyak Nagas, directed by Vikeyeno Zao, will be screened at the annual Cannes Film Festival beginning May 12.
* Pakistan said it had successfully tested two surface-to-surface missiles Ghaznavi and Shaheen capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads.
* Britain’s most closely-contested election resulted in a hung Parliament and the defeat for the ruling Labour Party after 13 years in power. The conservative party ended up with 306 seats, 20 short of an outright majority .The Labour party got 258 seats and the Liberal Democrats got 57 seats.
* The four-week nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference was held at the United Nations in New York.
* Sri Lankan President government has decided to pardon journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who is out on bail after being convicted in August last year under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The pardon coincided with the World Press Freedom Day.
* Iran and Syria have mooted the formation of a regional economic bloc with Turkey and Iraq as their key partners. The two sides felt the move would yield economic benefits and impart political stability and security to the region.
June 2010 International Affairs
* Nepal’s Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned. The resignation was part of an agreement among the three major political parties,the opposition UCPN (Maoist) and the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML).
* Taiwan and China signed a historic trade pact “The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)”, hailed by both sides as a milestone and the culmination of a Beijing-friendly policy introduced by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou after assuming power in 2008.
* Kyrgyzstan voted for a national referendum on a new Constitution. If approved, the Constitution would transform Kyrgyzstan from a presidential to a parliamentary republic, with main powers shifted from a nationally elected President to a Prime Minister chosen by Parliament. This would make Kyrgyzstan the first parliamentary democracy in former Soviet Central Asia.
* The two-day G-20 summit or the meeting of the heads of the world’s major industrialised powers was held in Toronto, Canada.
* India has joined the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project, the next generation astronomical observatory that will be located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
* Guinea, the West African country is holding in its first free election since independence in 1958.
* Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia’s first woman Prime Minister after Kevin Rudd was toppled as the leader of the ruling Labour party.
* A 500-kg bronze sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg city.
* According to the findings of the United States Geological Survey, Afghanistan has nearly one trillion dollars in mineral deposits and could become one of the richest in the world.
* Iran and Pakistan finalise gas pipeline project without India to supply 21 million cubic metres of natural gas daily from 2014 to Pakistan.
* The Bangladesh government shut down Bengali daily Amar Desh, citing that it has no authorised publisher. Mahmudur Rahman, owner and acting-editor of the anti-government daily, was arrested on a cheating charge.
July 2010 International Affairs
* The United States Senate passed a historic Wall Street reform bill on financial reforms that will bring greater economic security to families and businesses across the country.
* Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage.
* The U.N. rejected to reopen the probe into the assassination of the former Premier, Benazir Bhutto by a U.N.-appointed three-member headed by Chile’s former U.N. ambassador Heraldo Munoz, as Pakistan had raised objections to the report.
* According to the report by the ‘Janasankhya Sthirta Kosh’ under the Union ministry of health and family welfare, while India’s population grew by 1.4% over the last five years, China saw only a 0.6% population growth for the corresponding period. India’s total population in 2009 was 119.8 crore, China’s 134.5 crore and Pakistan’s 18 crore. While India’s population will increase to 161.38 crore by 2050, that of China will only reach 141.7 crore.
* The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP support reveals that there are more ‘MPI poor’ people in eight Indian states (421 million in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) than in the 26 poorest African countries combined (410 million).
* The Chinese government signed a $525-million deal to help Pakistan build two highways namely, 165-km-long highway between Jaglot and Skardu, and a 135-km highway between Thakot and Sazin in the disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) region of Gilgit-Baltistan.
* The International Monetary Fund has raised its world economic growth forecast from 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent.
* Ms. Rosa Otunbayeva (59), the first woman President in Central Asia was sworn in Kyrgyzstan.
* Bronislaw Komorowski of Civic Platform party won the Poland’s presidential elections.
* During the sidelines of a summit of the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) in Astana, Kazakhstan, the three countries Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus signed a declaration to launch a customs union as a first step towards forming a broader EU-type economic alliance of former Soviet states.
National Current Affairs From 2009 to 2010 | Current Affairs
April-2009 National Affairs
· The Union Cabinet imposed President’s Rule in Meghalaya.
· The facility to maintain and train pilots for the MiG 29 K frontline fighter aircraft was inaugurated at the INS Hansa naval base in Goa by Vice-Admiral J.J. Bedi, Commander-in-Chief, Western Naval command.
· The Energy and Resources Institute and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding to study, preserve and safeguard the Himalayan glaciers under the National Mission of Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system.
· The Government of India observed April 21 as Civil Service Day, presenting an occasion for civil servants to rededicate themselves to the cause of citizens and renew their commitment to public service and excellence.
May-2009 National Affairs
* UPA won the General Elections. It secured 263 seats out of 543. Congress secured 206 seats, Trinamool congress-19, DMK-18, NCP-9, National Conference -3, JMM-2 and AIMIM-1 among UPA.
* Naveen Patnaik sworn as the CM of Orissa for the 3rd time as Biju Janata Dal (BJD) secured a clear majority in the elections.
*The President of Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), Pawan Kumar Chamling sworn as the CM of Sikkim for the 4th time.
*Meghalaya chief minister DD Lapang heading the Congress-led coalition United Meghalaya Alliance won the trust vote.
* Cyclone Aila has hit West Bengal and Orissa which brought heavy rains and nearly 60 people were dead.
* Sabitha Indra Reddy sworn as India’s 1st woman Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh
June-2009 National Affairs
* Prof Yashpal and his committee members submitted final report to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). They have suggested the scrapping of all higher education regulatory/monitoring bodies and creation of a super regulator: a seven-member Commission for Higher Education and Research (CHER).
They also recommended that the deemed university status be abandoned and that all deserving deemed varsities be either converted full-fledged universities or scrapped and a GRE like test be evolved for university education.
* Ramesh Pokhariyal is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
*Centre bans CPI (Maoist) : The Centre banned the Communist Party of India (Maoist), terming it a terrorist organization. It invoked Section 41 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against the extremist outfit.
The CPI (Maoist) came into existence following the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), the People’s War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC).
* Liberhan Commission submitted report to the Prime Minister : The Justice Liberhan Commission, which probed the sequence of events that led to the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
* Inflation turns negative for first time since 1977-78 :
The annual rate of inflation (wholesale price index) turned negative and stood at -1.61 % for the week ended 6 June 2009.
*AP Govt. handed over Environment Protection Training & Research Institute (EPTRI) to the Centre.
* HRD Minister Kapil Sibal launched anti ragging helpline in New Delhi. The toll free number of this helpline is 1800-180-5522, and the e-mail is helpline@antiragging.net. The other toll-free number 155222 is under implementation.
*Sukhoi 30 inducted into Air Force at Tezpur :
Super fast Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft has been inducted in the Tezpur Air Force Station of Assam. Initially, four aircrafts were introduced in the Air Force Station at a simple function.
July-2009 National Affairs
*Actress Nandita Das has been appointed chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI).
* Nandan Nilakeni took over as the head of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI). Ramsevak Sarma took over as CEO of UIAI.
*The solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century. This will take place again in 2132.Totality lasted for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the Pacific ocean at 02:35:21 about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. In Gujarat, it lasted for 6 min and 30 seconds.
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Mohanlal, an actor was conferred the honorary title of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army (TA), a citizen’s force of the Indian army.
* The deepest sea port at Ganagvaram was opened which is 20meters deep 1km from the sea coast.
*Two NSG centers were started at Mumbai and Hyderabad.
August-2009 National Affairs
* The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has set to make the Class X board examination optional for students who will continue in the same school for the senior secondary level.
* Cabinet has approved 50% reservation for women in Panchayat Raj Institutions. The center shall amend Article 243(d) to implement the reservation.
* India’s largest ICT event e-India 2009 was held at Hyderabad International Convention Center.
* AP Assembly has adopted a resolution urging the center to give SC status to Dalit Christians.
* Oil production was started in Cairn India’s on-land Mangala oilfield, Barmer, Rajasthan. This is the country’s biggest oil find.
* Law Commissions chairperson Justice AR Lakshmanan submitted 234th report to law minister Veerappa Moily.
o The Law Commission has framed a set of drastic recommendations to deal with rash and negligent driving, including increasing punishment from two years in jail to 10 as well as making the offence non-bailable.
o The Commission has suggested to amend Section 304A of the Indian Penal Code.
o It recommended inserting a provision in the Motor Vehicles Act for confiscation of vehicles fitted with LPG cylinders meant for home kitchen and arrest and prosecution of owners/drivers of such vehicles.
* A special cell to deal with the issues of women married to non resident Indians (NRI) will be formally established on August 27. The Commission chairperson Girija Vyas told that the NRI cell will function under the National Commission for Women (NCW).
* The Center has banned the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC). A new council will be formed in place of DGHC.
* AP Govt. has extended the ban on Maoists for a year from August 17th, 2009 to August 16th, 2010.
* 227th Law Commission Report:
The Law Commission has recommended amendments to the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) and other personal laws to the effect that a person whose marriage is governed by such legislation cannot marry again even after changing religion unless the first marriage is dissolved or declared null and void. The Commission was headed by Justice A.R. Lakshmanan. It also suggested that amendments be made in the Criminal Procedure Code to make bigamy a cognizable offence.
* Parliament has cleared ‘The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009’ which envisages free and compulsory education to children in the 6-14 age group with the Lok Sabha approving it by voice vote.
* Thiruvavalluvar’s statue was unveiled in Bangalore by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi after a period of 18 years it was put on.
* President Pratibha Patil inaugurated Armed Forces Tribunal
An exclusive court for members of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Armed Forces Tribunal, was established by the President.
The keenly awaited AFT will provide a judicial forum for redressal of grievances among the 1.5 million military personnel and over 2 million ex-servicemen.
September 2009 National Affairs
* The Cabinet has decided to release an additional installment of DA to Central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners… representing an increase of 5 per cent over the existing rate of 22 per cent of the basic pay/pension to compensate for price rise.
On the International Literacy day (September 8th), the Prime Minister launched National Mission for Female Literacy (Sakshar Bharat Mission). The mission’s aim is to make 70 million people ( 60 million of them women ) functionally literate by 2012 and reduce the gender gap .The center and state governments will contribute in the ratio of 75:25 respectively for this programme.
* Venkateswara Ayurveda Nilayam Limited secured a patent for its anti-diabetic herbo mineral composition VK4 DIACON and the process of preparing it, for a period of 20 years with effect from December 12, 2005 in accordance with Patents Act, 1970. It’s chairman is D V Sriramamurthy.
* Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy died in a chopper accident on September 2nd and Rosaish sworn as the new Chief Minister.
* The Executive Board of UNESCO has approved India’s proposal to set up a Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development as UNESCO Category I Institute at Delhi. This would be the first Category-I Institute of Unesco to be established in the Asia Pacific region.
* The Tirupati Tirumala Devastanam’s Laddu got its Geographical Indication patent rights.
* Operation Green Hunt was started in South Bastar of Chhattisgarh from September 17th. State Police and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) participated in the operation.
October 2009 National Affairs
* According to Registrar General of India, Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) for the year 2008 was 53 per 1000 infants which were 57 per 1000 in 2006. The least IMR was in Kerala – 16 per 1000.
* The highest broad-gauge railway line from Anantnag to Kajigund in Kashmir was started by the Prime Minister. It was built on an altitude of 1772m.
* The Election Commission has recognised Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as a State party in Maharashtra and will allot a permanent election symbol of the party’s choice.
* India has declared itself free from the Avian Influenza (H5N1). The notification was issued to the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) on October 22. A country can declare itself free from birdflu, if there is no outbreak for three months. With the declaration, the country can hope to revive its poultry trade.
India notified the outbreak of Avian Influenza (H5N1) in Assam (18 epicentres), West Bengal (11) and Sikkim (1) between November 2008 and May 2009.
* Indian Pilgrims were advised not to visit Pakistan as the country is witnessing terror attacks regularly.
* Pranab Mukherjee started National Skill Development Corporation in New Delhi. It’s a public private partnership organization which aims to develop skills for 30% people by 2022.
* Congress and NCP alliance has won in the general assembly elections of Maharashtra. Asok Chavan was elected as the Chief Minister. Congress won 82 seats, NCP -62 and BJP and Sivasena – 90 out of 268 seats.
In Haryana, Congress won 40 seats, Indian National Lokda(INLD) – 31 and BJP – 4. Bhupinder Singh Hooda was re-elected as the CM.
In Arunachal Pradesh too Congress stood out as the single major party. Dorjee Khandu was re-elected as the CM.
* Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests (MoEF) would jointly initiate “National Institute for Research on Climate and Environment” in Bangalore. The institute would use space-based and ground-based observation systems to create an indigenous “nucleus” for research into all issues relating to climate, including the impact of climate change on aspects of the economy such as agriculture and water.
* Two satellites would be launched between 2010 and 2011 to measure and monitor greenhouse gases. While a micro-satellite would be launched in 2010 to study aerosols, another dedicated satellite in 2011 would monitor greenhouse gases such as methane and trace gases.
* Vice-President Mohammed Hamid Ansari released a book, ‘Unleashing India, Water: Elixir of Life’ authored by Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily, which makes a strong case for a changeover from the existing conventional method of flow or flood irrigation to total coverage under drip and sprinkler methods. Mr Moily dedicated the book to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy.
* 2010 was declared as the year of Tigers. ‘The Year of the Tiger’ will start on February 14th at Corbett National Park.
* The Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) has appointed Abdul Rahman as special Ambassador to Kashmir.
* On the eve of 50th anniversary of Panchayat Raj system, 2009-10 was declared as the year of “Gramasabha”. The NREG Act was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
* Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka were affected with severe floods.
* The Centre has declared dolphins a national aquatic animal in order to save the rare freshwater species from disappearing from the country’s aqua map.
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* The Union Public Service Commission has recommended to the government that a Civil Services Aptitude test replace the existing Civil Services (Preliminary) examination.
* Cyclone Phyan has hit Maharashtra and caused massive damage to the coastal districts.
* The Shipping Ministry has decided to set up a broad-based committee, comprising various agencies, for sharing information on traffic, port and issues related to ship and coastal security. The Committee will comprise the Ministry of Shipping, the Navy, Coast Guard, State police, Customs, members of State maritime boards and the maritime State concerned.
* The Union Cabinet has directed the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to make it mandatory for all oil marketing companies to sell petrol mixed with 5 per cent of ethanol.
* India announced that issuance of paper visas stapled to passports by the Embassy of China and its consulates in India would not be considered valid for travel out of the country.
* Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a report revealing that telephone users reached 50.93crore by the end of September 30th. Broadband users reached 7.7million, telephone users were 43.50% and Mobile phone users were 40.31%.
* Home Ministry banned the use of prepaid mobile connections in Jammu and Kashmir on security grounds.
* India has 25lakh cancer patients and one million new cases are diagnosed across the country every year. In Andhra Pradesh alone, nearly 3 lakh people suffer from the many forms of the disease. These figures were disclosed at a programme to mark National Cancer Awareness Day.
* The government will introduce Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b) pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccine in the routine immunisation programme from next year. It will replace the DPT and Hepatitis ‘B’ vaccines. The Hib vaccine will initially be introduced in 10 States that have an immunisation coverage of more than 80 per cent
* A special postage stamp in recognition of the contribution of Apollo Hospitals towards Indian healthcare was released by Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology A. Raja.
* Twenty-one judges of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, have declared their assets, giving details of movable and immovable property owned by them and their spouses in the Supreme Court website.
* Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been appointed first Goodwill Ambassador of the ‘Smile Train,’ an international charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need.
* 62nd World Newspaper Congress and other annual events of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) have started in Hyderabad. Apart from the Congress, the 16th World Editors’ Forum and Info Services Expo-2009 are being organised at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.
* Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference has been hosted in Chennai.
* The President, Pratibha Patil took off in Sukhoy-30 at an altitude of 8000m from Pune for half an hour.
* Unit 5 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project, a 220 MW pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR), started power generation at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. With this, number of reactors in India are 18. The total atomic power capacity has reached 4330MW.
* South Indian Telugu film Sankarabharanam and Malayalam film Bhoothakkannady were screened at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) that was started in Goa.
* Acting on the letter written by the Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court, the AP State government decided to suspend mining operations, including transportation of already mined material, in six iron ore mines in Anantapur district.
* According Liberhan Commission report, the demolition of the Babri Masjid was planned, systematic, and was the intended outcome of a climate of communal intolerance deliberately created by the Sangh Parivar and its sister affiliates, including the Bharatiya Janata Party. Report has indicted Advani, Joshi and Vajpayee.
* The Centre on Monday launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. It is one of the eight key missions of the National Action Plan on Climate Change and aimed at ensuring long-term energy security as well as ecological security.
* The mission recommends implementation in three stages leading up to an installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of the 13th Plan in 2022.
* 16th International Children’s Film Festival started at Hyderabad on November 14th. 70 movies from different countries were screened at the film festival.
December 2009 National Affairs
* A high-level task force for the information technology (IT) industry has recommended constitution of ‘National Electronic Mission’, a nodal agency for the electronics industry within the Department of Information Technology (DIT) with direct interface to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
* The report envisions a $140-billion electronics and $105-billion software and services industry by 2014. It is headed by Chairman and CEO of HCL infosystems.
* India has announced that it would reduce carbon emission intensity by 20-25% by 2020 on the 2005 levels through a number of policy measures that will include mandatory fuel efficiency standards for all vehicles by 2011, a model building code recommending to states and municipalities to shift to green buildings, amending the Energy Conservation Act to introduce the concept of an energy certificate for incentivizing energy efficiency in industry, regular reporting to Parliament on state of forests, and ensuring 50% of new thermal capacity are based on clean coal.
* Gujarat Government moved the controversial “The Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009″, the State Assembly which will make voting compulsory in all local body elections of the state. Women Reservation was also raised to 50% from 33%.
* Government said it will examine the report of Rangnath Mishra Commission that recommended 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities.
* The Rajya Sabha approved the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2009 which was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Bill repeals and replaces the Competition (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009. The Bill provides for transfer of anti-competition cases pending before the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) to an appellate tribunal. With this, the commission would cease to exist, two years ahead of its scheduled closure.
* The Rajya Sabha approved re-naming the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGREGA).
* Indian National Congress established in 28 December 1885 in The Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Mahavidyalays at Mumbai. Mr. VyomeshChandra Bannerji was 1st President of Indian national Congress and Mr. Allen Hume was the secretary. Now Indian Congress completed its 125 year of establishment.
* Shibu Soren will be sworn in as the CM of Jharkhand on December 30. Supporting Soren were 18 of his own party MLAs, 18 of BJP, two of JDU, five of AJSU and one of Jharkhand Janadhikar Manch (JMM).
* President Pratibha Patil sailed in INS Viraat in Mumbai for 3 hours.
* 92nd annual conference of the Indian Economic Association was held at Bhubaneswar.
January 2010 National Affairs
* There were atleast 199,132 farmer suicides between 1997-2008, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The share of the Big 5 states or ’suicide belt’ in 2008- Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh remained very high at 10,797 or 66.6 percent of the total farm suicides in the country. Maharashtra remains the worst state in the nation for farm suicides.
* The brightest and biggest full moon of 2010 will be seen on Saturday. It will be around 15 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than other full moons during the year.
* The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the National Tobacco Control Programme to facilitate the implementation of tobacco control laws and to bring about greater awareness of tobacco’s harmful effects. The programme will be implemented in the remaining years of XI plan in 42 districts of the 21 states within the National Rural Health Mission framework with financial outlay of Rs. 182 crore, from 2010 – 2011.
* The 16th Edition of the Partnership Summit 2010 was held in Chennai, organised by the confederation of Indian Industry.
* The Environment Ministers meeting of the BASIC Countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) was held in New Delhi.
* A currency issued by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Bank of Independence has been made public in Bhopal on the eve of his 103rd birth anniversary.
* The Andhra Pradesh government signed three agreements with the world bank to receive loan assistance of Rs 3, 720 crore to fund three projects taken up at a cost of Rs 5699 crore to develop roads, provide safe drinking water and improve infrastructure in urban areas. This is the largest loan amount availed of from the bank in recent times, as the bank’s share for the Rs. 4,444 – Crore Nagarjuna Sagar modernization project is only Rs. 2,500 crore.
* Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari Constituted a three – member committee headed by supreme court judge V.S. Sirpurkar, that will investigate the grounds for impeachment of karnataka chief – Justice P.D.Dinakaran whose removal from office has been sought jointly by 75 Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on corruption and land – grabbing charges. Justice A.R.Dave, cheif Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High court and eminent Jurist P.P.Rao are the other members of the panel.
* President Pratibha Patil released a commemorative postage stamp at a function to mark the platinum jubilee celebration of the Reserve Bank of India.
* The Andhra Pradesh Government unveiled a Rs. 10 crore plan to develop Kondaveedu fort as a major tourist destination in Guntur district.
* Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched ”Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) at the Solar Energy Conclave 2010, New Delhi.
The Key high lights of JNNSM:
To create an enabling policy frame work for the deployment of 20,000MW of Solar power by 2022.
To create favourable conditions for solar manufacturing capability for indigenous production and market leadership.
To promote programmes for off grid applications, reaching 1000 MW by 2017 and 2000 MW by 2022.
To achieve 15 million sq-meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20 million by 2022.
To deploy 20 million solar lighting systems for rural areas by 2022.
* A boatload of sky watchers set sail from Kochi for the Maldives on board the MV Aquamarine, the country’s first eclipse cruise, to chase the Ring of Fire or the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse.
* Union Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh announced a Rs. 200 crore grant for the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove biosphere as part of the World Bank’s Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project.
* The govt. announced that the state-run oil firms will start supplying Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel in 13 big cities from April 1st, 2010.
* A Bench of the Delhi High Court, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justices Vikramjit Sen and S.Muralidhar held that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) is a “public authority” and comes within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and it is bound to provide information about the declaration of asset details by Supreme Court judges.
* Kite fliers from across 34 countries are expected to participate during the International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad.
* President Pratibha Patil delivering the valedictory address at the Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas (Jan, 9) on the day Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in 1915, pointed out that: Overseas Indian’s estimated at over 250 lakhs had come to be recognised as the “Knowledge Diaspora”. India’s remittances from Overseas Indians estimated at over $ 50 billion last year are the highest in the world.Of these about $ 20 billion comes from Overseas Indian workers in the Gulf consisting of temporary contracted skilled and semi-skilled workers.
February 2010 National Affairs
* Women Entrepreneurs 2010, a platform to promote Indian heritage weavers and women entrepreneurs was held in Delhi.
* The Department of posts released a commemorative stamp in honour of P.C. Sorcar (Senior), the Man who “took the magic of India to the rest of the world.
* The Union Cabinet approved the Women’s Reservation Bill, 2008 that seeks to reserve 33 percent seats for women in Lok Sabha and State Assemblies.
The 108th Constitutional Amendment Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha in 2008 and was subsequently referred to the Parliamentary standing committee on Law, Justice and Personnel, which in its report submitted in December last year had recommended its early passage in the present form.
* Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram laid the foundation for the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari on the India-Pakistan Border, one of the 13 planned for eight states at a cost of Rs. 635 crore along various land routes to Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar.
* Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh presented a Rs. 1.13 lakh crore budget for 2010-11. This is the 16th budget presented by him and 1st one as a chief minister. The budget outlay is Rs. 8,516 crore higher than that of the current fiscal (Rs.1.05 lakh crore). The plan outlay is Rs. 40,313 crore and non plan outlay is Rs. 73,347 crore.
There was the revival of the Constituency Development Fund with allotment of Rs. one crore each to members of the Assembly and the Legislative Council.
* The Full Court, comprising 27 judges and headed by Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan rejected the Law Commission’s suggestion that the Supreme Court be split into Constitution Bench in Delhi and Cassation Benches in the four regions.
* Perambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala was declared the country’s 38th tiger reserve.
* Seethampeta, located in the north – western part of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh and home to the Konda Savaras has now become part of the Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). GIAHS has begun identifying and then documenting unique agricultural systems across the world to create ‘agricultural heritage’.
* The Cabinet Committee on security has approved the opening of an Officers Training Academy at Gaya in Bihar in addition to the one in Chennai.
* A five-judge constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that “The Supreme Court and the High Courts have the power to order a CBI probe without a state’s consent into a cognizable offence allegedly committed within the state’s territory”.
* Palakkad district in kerala is the first fully electrified district in the country.
* The Union Minister for Environment and Forests JaiRam Ramesh had allocated all Rs. 12 crore of his MPLADS share from 2004 on “Giripragathi”, a programme for sustainable development of tribals in remote /hilly areas in Andhra Pradesh.
Giripragathi covers eight mandals, three each in Adilabad and khammam and two in warangal districts. Its total allocation over six years is Rs. 88 Crore.
* The World Bank has agreed in principle to extend Rs.1, 000 crore assistance to self-help groups under the third phase of Poverty Alleviation Programme in Andhra Pradesh.
* Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal took the decision to notify the Right of children to free and compulsory education Act, 2009. The date for it is fixed for April 1, 2010. From that date children in the 6 -14 age group will finally get their right to education.
* The Union Government announced the seven – point terms of reference of the five – member B.N.Srikrishna committee on the telangana issue.
* The 58th meeting of the North Eastern Council (NEC) was held in Gauwhati.
* The two – member committee comprising former Director of Special Protection Group (SPG) M.R.Reddy and former Director General of Civil Aviation H.S.Khola Submitted a 110 – page report to the Government of Andhra Pradesh on the cause of the Bell helicopter crash that killed former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.
* For the first time, the Union Government has agreed to formulate a general amnesty plan for kashmiri youth undergoing training in terrorist camps in Pakistan – Occupied Kashmir (POK)
* The Indian Navy’s Multilateral Milan 2010 exercise was held in Port Blair.
* The conference of the Chief Ministers on internal Security was held in Delhi.
* The West Bengal government announced a 10 per cent quota in jobs for the weaker sections among Muslims under the OBC category.
* The Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the four per cent reservation provided by the State government to selected sections of Muslims in education and public employment.
* The Sustainable Development Summit, organised by the Energy and Research Institute was held in Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed
* All the judges of the Delhi High Court led by Chief Justice A.P. Shah made their assets and investments public by uploading the details on the court’s website.
* The Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Railways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for developing health care infrastructure along the railway network across the country.
* The Government of India constituted a five – member committee headed by the former Supreme Court Judge, Justice B.N. Sri Krishna to hold wide ranging consultations with all sections of the people and all political parties and groups in Andhra Pradesh. The other members of the committee are: Professor (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, Vice.Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi; Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Senior Research fellow, International Food Policy research institute, Delhi; Dr (Ms.) Ravinder kaur, Professor, Departmentof Humanities and social sciences. IIT Delhi; and Vinod K.Duggal, former home secretary.
* The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, MNREGS Sammelan 2010 was held in New Delhi.
* Defence Minister A.K.Antony announced that
1. The Indian Air Force has decided to procure 750 Akash missile systems from Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) at a cost of about Rs 4,000 crore.
2. The cabinet committee on security had cleared a proposal to sanction Rs. 8,000 crore for further development of the indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)
March 2010 National Affairs
* Census 2011, the 15th census since 1872, billed as the largest census ever attempted in the history of mankind, is set to take off on April 1st, 2010. It will also involve the task of preparing, for the first time, the National Population Register (NPR).
* The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) approved the establishment of National Knowledge Network (NKN), which seeks to inter-connect all knowledge institutions in the country through high speed data communication network, at an outlay of Rs 5,990 crore to be implemented by NIC over a period of 10 years.
* A three-judge bench of Chief Justice of Supreme Court K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices J.M. Panchal and B.S. Chauhan lifted the stay on the Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to provide four per cent reservation in jobs and education for backward members of the Muslim community. As many as 14 Muslim groups, identified as socially and educationally backward sections by the State Backward Commission, will now be eligible for the benefit. But the Supreme Court referred to a special bench the issue of its constitutional validity.
* The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Labour Ministry to amend the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948, to provide medical facilities to unorganised workers in ESIC hospitals and recognised private hospitals under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), a cashless health insurance scheme.
* Planning Commission in its mid-term review has reduced the power generation capacity addition target by over 20 percent to 62,374 mw for the 11th plan (2007-12) from the original 78,577 mw.
* The Union cabinet cleared the Prohibition of Unfair practices in technical, medical Educational Institutions and Universities Bill, 2010 that seeks to make capitation fee a cognizable offence. Two other Bills – The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutional Bill 2010, proposing to setup an independent regulatory body which will register, monitor and audit accreditation agencies and the Educational Tribunals Bill, 2010 providing an adjudicatory forum for speedy resolution of all issues that arise in the higher Education sector – were also cleared.
* The Union Government has officially confirmed its earlier decision to accord classical language status to Telugu. It has addressed a communication to the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) Mysore, and the University Grants Commission (UGC) to take steps immediately to give the status to Telugu. This decision was the outcome of efforts by the late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy culminating in the adoption of a unanimous resolution in the Assembly on February 22, 2006.
* A commemorative stamp on former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is being issued by the Postal Department on September 2 to coincide with his first death anniversary.
* The Supreme Court appointed Central Vigilance Committee (CVC), headed by Justice D.P. Wadhwa, while submitting its report to a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and K.S. Radha Krishnan slammed the Public Distribution System as one of the most corrupt sectors, saying the root cause of its failure in several states is political interference.
* As announced by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, A seven-member core committee of vice-chancellors has been set up to focus on central universities lagging behind in bench marks in academic and research performance.
* For the first time in 20 years, Jammu and Kashmir will have direct trunk dialing facility with Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK).
* Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the world’s first green legislature building, the Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly Secretariat Complex.
* The Union Cabinet cleared the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010, for introduction in parliament. The bill seeks to allow foreign education providers to set up campuses in the country and offer degrees.
* The government of Andhra Pradesh has decided to waive the loans taken by weavers’ societies in the state from cooperative banks of APCOB and commercial banks. This waiver which will place an additional burden of Rs. 312 crore on the ex chequer, will indirectly benefit a large number of individual weavers.
* Under the Indian Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme, 12 more Important Bird Areas (IBA) were identified in Kerala, which made it’s total gone up to 36. The Indian IBA programme is funded by the Royal Society for the protection of Birds.
* India’s first open jail for women was inaugurated at the Yerawada Central Prison in Pune by Maharashtra Home Minister R.R.Patil. The Open jail would be made to agricultural work on the 17 acres of land adjoining the prison. This would improve their physical and mental well being. They would also be eligible for remission in their punishment, for every one year served in the open jail, a year of their sentence would be reduced.
* The Government of Andhra Pradesh is set to bring Information Technology and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sectors under the Essential Services Maintenance Act. A bill to amend ESMA would be introduced in the Current Assembly session. The amendment, the Government felt necessary to spare the IT industry from disruption to their mission critical applications during agitations.
* The Union government has set up an independent eight – member expert committee under the chairmanship of Deepak Parekh to review the draft guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a housing scheme for slum dwellers and urban poor.
* The historic Women’s Reservation Bill, formally known as 108th constitutional amendment was passed in the Rajya Sabha with the House recorded its vote of 186 for and 1 against. Now the bill must be passed by the Lok Sabha and ratified by at least half the states for becoming effective.
* The Secretary – General of the Supreme Court has challenged the Delhi High Court Judgement that the office of the Chief Justice of India is a public authority that comes urthin the ambit of the Right to Information Act. This can termed as Supreme Court appealing to Supreme Court of its case.
* Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar inaugurated the Women’s Leadership Summit 2010 on Inclusive Growth and Empowering Women of Rural India in New Delhi.
* The Sam Pitroda led high – level committee formed to suggest the restructuring of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has submitted a report to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
* The first of the new generation Airbus A320 joined the Air India fleet. It has a host of latest facilities, including advanced weather Radar System, Enhanced Ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) and an LCD cockpit display system.
* National Socialist Council of Nagalim (ISak – Muivah) general Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Singalling the Seriousness of his organisation to final a solution to the six – decade old Nagaland issue.
April 2010 National Affairs
* The cut motions moved by the Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s economic policies especially price rise, were defeated.Cut motion moved by Sushma Swaraj defeated by- in favour 162 and against 246.The cut motion moved by Gurudas Gupta was defeated by- in favour201 and against 289.
* The former chief of the Border Security Force, E.N. Rammohan, submitted his report to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the April 6 massacre of 76 security personnel by Maoists in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
* The 16-digit unique identification number to be assigned to each individual by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will come under the new name ‘AADHAR’ or foundation.
* The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh K. Rosaiah launched the Rs. 600-crore Dr. YSR Protected Drinking Water Scheme in Rayadurg of Anantapur dist.
* The 98th executive committee meeting of the All-India Council of Mayors (AICM) was held in Hyderabad.
* The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a proposal to set up 1,000 additional model schools as a benchmark of excellence in educationally backward blocks (EBBs) through State governments. These schools will have norms and standards equivalent to or better than Kendriya Vidyalayas. The requirement for the 1,000 schools has been estimated at Rs. 3,304 crore, the Centre’s share being Rs. 2,478 crore.
* The Navy plans to carve out an air enclave on the campus of the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) for sheltering the Navy’s future air assets, especially the medium range maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
* The Commission on Centre-State relations headed by M. M. Punchhi, submitted its report to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.The panel was constituted by UPA-I in April 2007 to take a fresh look at the relative role and responsibilities of the various levels of government and Centre-State relations.
* The 59th year of birth of the Bhoodan Movement was celebrated at Bhoodan Pochampalli in Nalgonda district on 18th April. Acharya Vinoba Bhave had secured the first land donation on this day in 1951 at Pochampalli.
* The Andhra Pradesh government launched the Praja Patham, the month-long mass contact programme aimed at taking administration to the doorstep of people. K. Rosaiah started the programme at Katarivaripalem in Vetapalem mandal of Prakasam district. Praja Patham was a brainchild of the late YSR who wanted elected representatives to go to the people during the difficult summer months and redress their grievances pertaining to drinking water and Aarogyasri and other health related services.
* The draft Cinematograph Bill, 2010 could be introduced in the next session of Parliament in which the India’s film rating system is set for a revamp. The Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC), better known as the Censor Board, will now be asked to certify films under the U, 12+, 15+, A and S categories. Under the current Cinematograph Act, 1952, there are three categories — U, A and UA.
* The government of Andhra Pradesh acquired the “hazardous material” handling vehicle for the Disaster Response & Fire Service (DSFS) Department at a cost of Rs. 5 crore to tackle nuclear, biological, chemical accidents besides the usual fires.
* The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly passed the Inter-District Recruitment Bill which bans inter-district recruitment and provides a quota for Scheduled Castes in government jobs in all districts.
* The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) launched the test phase of Unique Identity Number (UID) project in Medak and Krishna districts of Andhra Pradesh.
* The Union government has decided to soon declare the world’s largest river island of Majuli an eco-sensitive zone.
* A new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Bill, likely to be introduced in the next session of Parliament, will bring the institution of CAG under the ambit of the Right to Information Act.
* Delhi Metro Rail Corporation started the country’s first Standard Gauge Railway line. This railway line width is 4ft 8inches.
* Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit dedicated a Rs.40 crore sub-station 66/11 kV ‘green’ grid sub-station constructed by the power distribution company, BYPL, in the record time of 13 months at the Commonwealth Games Village to provide uninterrupted power supply for the event.
* Addressing the nation to mark the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the States and Union Territories to work together as part of a common national Endeavour.
* The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 comes into effect from April 1st 2010, and will directly benefit close to one crore children who do not go to school. For the first time, education will become a constitutional right in India. According to this act private institutes should provide 25% reservation to economically backward students. Right to education was made fundamental right in 2002 by 86th amendment. The central and state governments should spend money in 55:45 ratio to implement this act.
* The plan outlay for Andhra Pradesh for 2010-2011 has been fixed at Rs.36, 800 crore, which is 9.86 per cent more than the outlay of Rs. 33,497 crore fixed for 2009-2010. The actual increase is Rs.3, 303 crore this year.
* The Union government has introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha, that provides for constitution of a National Council consisting of representatives from the Medical Council of India, the Dental Council, the Nursing Council etc., to determine the standards for the clinics, classify them, develop the minimum standards and their periodic review, compile, maintain and update a national register of clinical establishments.
* The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(TTD) of Andhra Pradesh has deposited 4,475 kg of gold received by way of offerings in its temple Hundi in various nationalized banks. TTD deposited 3,000 kg gold with SBI, 1,125 kg gold with Corporation Bank and the rest 650 kilograms with Indian Overseas Bank and will be earning an interest of over 1.6 and 1.5 per cent respectively over the gold deposits.
* The government of Andhra Pradesh launched the fifth phase of the government’s land distribution programme all over the State from 14th April, 2010 coinciding with the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.An extent of 1.06 lakh acres will be distributed to 69,506 beneficiaries.
* According to a report released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Gujarat has been declared as the top contributor to the total hazardous waste generation in the country. Gujarat generates almost 29 per cent of the 62 lakh metric tonnes of hazardous waste generated every year. It is followed by Maharashtra (25 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (9 per cent).
* The government of India has reconstituted the National Integration Council (NIC) which will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Set up in the early 60s by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the NIC held its first meeting in 1962. The council reviews matters relating to national integration and makes recommendations over such issues.
* According to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the first set of identity numbers will be issued in February 2011.
* During the sidelines of the 6th National Conference on Electoral Reforms organised by the National Election Watch in Bhopal, Chief Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla said that roughly 700 out of 1,000 registered political parties do not contest polls and the Election Commission has no power to de-register them.
* The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) completed five years on 12th April 2010.
May 2010 National Affairs
* The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court in its judgement upheld the intrinsic constitutional validity of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
* The United Progressive Alliance government decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GOM) on the issue of caste enumeration in Census 2011. The GOM would work out the modalities of doing a caste headcount along with Census 2011 while looking into the issue of the practicality of such census.
* The Central Board of Secondary Education launched worldwide, its self-designed international curriculum (CBSE-i) at Dubai’s Indian High School (IHS) that aims to compete with its western counterparts to produce the global citizen of tomorrow.
* World Telecom Development Conference was held in Hyderabad.
* The Chief Justice and all the other judges of Himachal High Court have declared their assets and properties.
* An Air India Express plane IX-812 from Dubai overshot the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport and plunged over a cliff into a wooded valley, killing 158 persons.
* Cyclonic storm Laila which brought heavy losses to farmers crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast near Bapatla in Prakasam district.
* Under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, the depiction of new and more stringent pictorial warnings on tobacco products has been deferred by six months to December 1 from the earlier scheduled date of June 1 by the government of India.
* President Pratibha Devisingh Patil signed an ordinance empowering the government to dissolve the Medical Council of India, a regulatory body responsible for maintaining standards of medical education. The government created a seven-member Board of Governors that took over the functioning of the 30-member executive council, the highest decision-making body of the MCI. The Board of Governors is chaired by Dr. S.K. Sarin, Department of Gastroenterology, and G.B. Pant Hospital.
* The Union Health Ministry is all set to bring in an ordinance to supercede the regulatory body and appoint in its place a Board of Governors. In place of the present MCI team, the government intends to appoint seven eminent medical practitioners and health experts to do the job that the MCI is performing at present. The government would have no role in the new set-up.
* The Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by the former CBI Director, R.K. Raghavan, which investigated Zakia Jaffry’s complaint that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others orchestrated the 2002 riots, submitted its report to the Supreme Court.
* The Union Cabinet accorded in-principle approval for the setting up of an autonomous defence university in Gurgaon district of Haryana at a cost of about Rs. 300 crore on a 200-acre campus that is expected to provide inputs to strategic policy making. It will be set up under an Act of Parliament.
* The Bihar government signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the objective of accelerating State-wide improvements in maternal, newborn and child health.
* A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Articles 243 D (6) and243 T (6), providing for reservation of seats in any panchayat or offices of Chairpersons in panchayats and municipalities in favour of backward classes.
* According to a decision taken by the Maharashtra government all students up to Class VIII would be given promotion to the next class even if they did not perform well in examinations.
* The Visva-Bharati University at santiniketan celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
* The Supreme Court in its judgement holding that gas is a national asset and the Centre’s pricing policy will prevail over any private agreement, has directed Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) of the Mukesh Ambani group to initiate renegotiations with Reliance Natural Resources Ltd. (RNRL) of the Anil Ambani group for fixing the price of gas to be supplied to RNRL.The bench thus rejected RNRL’s claim that it was entitled to get 28 mscmd of gas from the KG Basin at $2.34 mBtu in terms of a 2005 Memorandum of Understanding between Anil and Mukesh without any price approval by the government.
* A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that a Governor cannot be removed on the ground that he/she is out of sync with the policies and ideologies of the Union government or the party in power at the Centre. Nor can he/she be removed on the ground that the Union government has lost confidence in him/her. The bench gave this ruling in a petition filed by the former Member of Parliament, B.P. Singhal.
* The Lok Sabha Speaker made the following appointments for various parliamentary committees Murli Manohar Joshi as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee for 2010-11, Congress MP from Goa Francisco Sardinha as the chairman of the Committee on Estimates, V. Kishore Chandra S. Deo as the chairman of the Committee on Public Undertakings, Gobinda Chandra Naskar as the chairman of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
* The Supreme Court held that the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, under which every MP is allotted Rs. 2 crore a year for constituency development was nothing unconstitutional. It held that the scheme falls within the meaning of ‘public purpose’ aimed at fulfillment of the development and welfare of the State as reflected in the Directive Principles of State Policy.
* The Rajya Sabha passed a Bill proposing to create a 78-member Legislative Council for Tamil Nadu, 24 years after it was abolished.
* Parliament approved the increase in the gratuity limit for employees from Rs.3.5 lakh to Rs.10 lakh under the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2010.
* The Supreme Court held unconstitutional and violation of the ‘right to privacy’ the use of narco analysis, brain-mapping and polygraph tests on accused, suspects and witnesses without their consent.
* The tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi and Union Minister for Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal to prepare detailed project reports on linking of rivers that will benefit both the states.
* The Lok Sabha passed the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2010 which raises the ceiling of gratuity for employees in private sector to Rs.10 lakh from Rs.3.5 lakh. The Lok Sabha also passed the Employees’ State Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2009, to provide for medicare to workers in the unorganised sector, especially those below the poverty line (BPL).
* A special sessions court judge M.L. Tahaliyani pronounced Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks along with nine other terrorists and 20 co-conspirators in Pakistan, guilty of waging war against India.
* The two day National Consultation for Second Generation Reforms in Legal Education was held in Delhi.
June 2010 National Affairs
* UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation of the 8.8-km-long Rohtang tunnel at Dhundi near Manali(Himachal Pradesh).
* The first World Classical Tamil Conference was held in Coimbatore. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil presented the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award to Asko Parpola for his work on the Dravidian hypothesis in the interpretation of the Indus script.
* The Group of Ministers (GoM) submitted their report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the legal, medical, humanitarian, environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster. The GoM recommended Rs. 1,500-crore package for the victims.
* The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) endorsed the setting up of the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) as an apex body entrusted with framing policy, and to bring within its ambit, medical education and other disciplines of higher education and research.
* The 75th conference of presiding officers of legislatives bodies from different parts of the country was held in Srinagar (J&K).
* The Planning Commission estimated four percent growth in the agriculture sector during the XII Plan (2012-17).
* The Representation of the People’s (Amendment) Bill aimed at NRIs for voting rights in India was cleared by a GoM headed by Defence Minister A.K. Antony and is likely to be presented soon before the Cabinet.
* The government of India has declared the Indian Mujahideen (IM), suspected to be a shadow outfit of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist outfit.
* Jharkhand came under Central rule with President Pratibha Patil accepting a recommendation of the Union Cabinet after the Congress and the BJP gave up efforts to form an alternative government following the resignation of Chief Minister Shibu Soren.
July 2010 National Affairs
* The first commercial landing of the Airbus A380, the largest aircraft of the world, took place at the newly inaugurated Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
* As part of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore a book was published on the Nehru-Gandhi family’s connection with Santiniketan Titled “Three Chancellors” compiled by Nilanjan Bandopadhyay.
* During the meeting of the Chief Ministers of the Naxal-affected States in New Delhi, the Union government asked Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal, worst affected by Maoist violence, to set up a Unified Command headed by the four States’ Chief Secretaries.
* The prestigious Mahatama Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), a UNESCO institute, will be unveiled on the birth annniversary of Gandhiji on October 2 in New Delhi. It will be the maiden category I institute of UNESCO to be located in Asia. Out of 11 such institutes, nine are situated in the developed world and two is in Ethiopia and Venezuela.
* The Union government has set up an oversight committee chaired by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to coordinate and monitor the clean-up of the Bhopal gas leak disaster site.
* The Union Health Ministry approved the revised draft that proposes a National Committee for Accreditation and a National Medical Education and Training Board that will register and accredit medical colleges and prepare curricula for all streams of education in the health sector.
* The Union Cabinet cleared the Nalanda University Bill 2010, paving the way for the establishment of Nalanda University in Rajgir, Bihar near the original Nalanda University site at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,005 crore.
· The Union Cabinet imposed President’s Rule in Meghalaya.
· The facility to maintain and train pilots for the MiG 29 K frontline fighter aircraft was inaugurated at the INS Hansa naval base in Goa by Vice-Admiral J.J. Bedi, Commander-in-Chief, Western Naval command.
· The Energy and Resources Institute and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding to study, preserve and safeguard the Himalayan glaciers under the National Mission of Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system.
· The Government of India observed April 21 as Civil Service Day, presenting an occasion for civil servants to rededicate themselves to the cause of citizens and renew their commitment to public service and excellence.
May-2009 National Affairs
* UPA won the General Elections. It secured 263 seats out of 543. Congress secured 206 seats, Trinamool congress-19, DMK-18, NCP-9, National Conference -3, JMM-2 and AIMIM-1 among UPA.
* Naveen Patnaik sworn as the CM of Orissa for the 3rd time as Biju Janata Dal (BJD) secured a clear majority in the elections.
*The President of Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), Pawan Kumar Chamling sworn as the CM of Sikkim for the 4th time.
*Meghalaya chief minister DD Lapang heading the Congress-led coalition United Meghalaya Alliance won the trust vote.
* Cyclone Aila has hit West Bengal and Orissa which brought heavy rains and nearly 60 people were dead.
* Sabitha Indra Reddy sworn as India’s 1st woman Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh
June-2009 National Affairs
* Prof Yashpal and his committee members submitted final report to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). They have suggested the scrapping of all higher education regulatory/monitoring bodies and creation of a super regulator: a seven-member Commission for Higher Education and Research (CHER).
They also recommended that the deemed university status be abandoned and that all deserving deemed varsities be either converted full-fledged universities or scrapped and a GRE like test be evolved for university education.
* Ramesh Pokhariyal is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
*Centre bans CPI (Maoist) : The Centre banned the Communist Party of India (Maoist), terming it a terrorist organization. It invoked Section 41 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against the extremist outfit.
The CPI (Maoist) came into existence following the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), the People’s War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC).
* Liberhan Commission submitted report to the Prime Minister : The Justice Liberhan Commission, which probed the sequence of events that led to the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
* Inflation turns negative for first time since 1977-78 :
The annual rate of inflation (wholesale price index) turned negative and stood at -1.61 % for the week ended 6 June 2009.
*AP Govt. handed over Environment Protection Training & Research Institute (EPTRI) to the Centre.
* HRD Minister Kapil Sibal launched anti ragging helpline in New Delhi. The toll free number of this helpline is 1800-180-5522, and the e-mail is helpline@antiragging.net. The other toll-free number 155222 is under implementation.
*Sukhoi 30 inducted into Air Force at Tezpur :
Super fast Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft has been inducted in the Tezpur Air Force Station of Assam. Initially, four aircrafts were introduced in the Air Force Station at a simple function.
July-2009 National Affairs
*Actress Nandita Das has been appointed chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI).
* Nandan Nilakeni took over as the head of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI). Ramsevak Sarma took over as CEO of UIAI.
*The solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century. This will take place again in 2132.Totality lasted for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the Pacific ocean at 02:35:21 about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. In Gujarat, it lasted for 6 min and 30 seconds.
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Mohanlal, an actor was conferred the honorary title of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army (TA), a citizen’s force of the Indian army.
* The deepest sea port at Ganagvaram was opened which is 20meters deep 1km from the sea coast.
*Two NSG centers were started at Mumbai and Hyderabad.
August-2009 National Affairs
* The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has set to make the Class X board examination optional for students who will continue in the same school for the senior secondary level.
* Cabinet has approved 50% reservation for women in Panchayat Raj Institutions. The center shall amend Article 243(d) to implement the reservation.
* India’s largest ICT event e-India 2009 was held at Hyderabad International Convention Center.
* AP Assembly has adopted a resolution urging the center to give SC status to Dalit Christians.
* Oil production was started in Cairn India’s on-land Mangala oilfield, Barmer, Rajasthan. This is the country’s biggest oil find.
* Law Commissions chairperson Justice AR Lakshmanan submitted 234th report to law minister Veerappa Moily.
o The Law Commission has framed a set of drastic recommendations to deal with rash and negligent driving, including increasing punishment from two years in jail to 10 as well as making the offence non-bailable.
o The Commission has suggested to amend Section 304A of the Indian Penal Code.
o It recommended inserting a provision in the Motor Vehicles Act for confiscation of vehicles fitted with LPG cylinders meant for home kitchen and arrest and prosecution of owners/drivers of such vehicles.
* A special cell to deal with the issues of women married to non resident Indians (NRI) will be formally established on August 27. The Commission chairperson Girija Vyas told that the NRI cell will function under the National Commission for Women (NCW).
* The Center has banned the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC). A new council will be formed in place of DGHC.
* AP Govt. has extended the ban on Maoists for a year from August 17th, 2009 to August 16th, 2010.
* 227th Law Commission Report:
The Law Commission has recommended amendments to the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) and other personal laws to the effect that a person whose marriage is governed by such legislation cannot marry again even after changing religion unless the first marriage is dissolved or declared null and void. The Commission was headed by Justice A.R. Lakshmanan. It also suggested that amendments be made in the Criminal Procedure Code to make bigamy a cognizable offence.
* Parliament has cleared ‘The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009’ which envisages free and compulsory education to children in the 6-14 age group with the Lok Sabha approving it by voice vote.
* Thiruvavalluvar’s statue was unveiled in Bangalore by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi after a period of 18 years it was put on.
* President Pratibha Patil inaugurated Armed Forces Tribunal
An exclusive court for members of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Armed Forces Tribunal, was established by the President.
The keenly awaited AFT will provide a judicial forum for redressal of grievances among the 1.5 million military personnel and over 2 million ex-servicemen.
September 2009 National Affairs
* The Cabinet has decided to release an additional installment of DA to Central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners… representing an increase of 5 per cent over the existing rate of 22 per cent of the basic pay/pension to compensate for price rise.
On the International Literacy day (September 8th), the Prime Minister launched National Mission for Female Literacy (Sakshar Bharat Mission). The mission’s aim is to make 70 million people ( 60 million of them women ) functionally literate by 2012 and reduce the gender gap .The center and state governments will contribute in the ratio of 75:25 respectively for this programme.
* Venkateswara Ayurveda Nilayam Limited secured a patent for its anti-diabetic herbo mineral composition VK4 DIACON and the process of preparing it, for a period of 20 years with effect from December 12, 2005 in accordance with Patents Act, 1970. It’s chairman is D V Sriramamurthy.
* Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy died in a chopper accident on September 2nd and Rosaish sworn as the new Chief Minister.
* The Executive Board of UNESCO has approved India’s proposal to set up a Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development as UNESCO Category I Institute at Delhi. This would be the first Category-I Institute of Unesco to be established in the Asia Pacific region.
* The Tirupati Tirumala Devastanam’s Laddu got its Geographical Indication patent rights.
* Operation Green Hunt was started in South Bastar of Chhattisgarh from September 17th. State Police and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) participated in the operation.
October 2009 National Affairs
* According to Registrar General of India, Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) for the year 2008 was 53 per 1000 infants which were 57 per 1000 in 2006. The least IMR was in Kerala – 16 per 1000.
* The highest broad-gauge railway line from Anantnag to Kajigund in Kashmir was started by the Prime Minister. It was built on an altitude of 1772m.
* The Election Commission has recognised Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as a State party in Maharashtra and will allot a permanent election symbol of the party’s choice.
* India has declared itself free from the Avian Influenza (H5N1). The notification was issued to the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) on October 22. A country can declare itself free from birdflu, if there is no outbreak for three months. With the declaration, the country can hope to revive its poultry trade.
India notified the outbreak of Avian Influenza (H5N1) in Assam (18 epicentres), West Bengal (11) and Sikkim (1) between November 2008 and May 2009.
* Indian Pilgrims were advised not to visit Pakistan as the country is witnessing terror attacks regularly.
* Pranab Mukherjee started National Skill Development Corporation in New Delhi. It’s a public private partnership organization which aims to develop skills for 30% people by 2022.
* Congress and NCP alliance has won in the general assembly elections of Maharashtra. Asok Chavan was elected as the Chief Minister. Congress won 82 seats, NCP -62 and BJP and Sivasena – 90 out of 268 seats.
In Haryana, Congress won 40 seats, Indian National Lokda(INLD) – 31 and BJP – 4. Bhupinder Singh Hooda was re-elected as the CM.
In Arunachal Pradesh too Congress stood out as the single major party. Dorjee Khandu was re-elected as the CM.
* Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests (MoEF) would jointly initiate “National Institute for Research on Climate and Environment” in Bangalore. The institute would use space-based and ground-based observation systems to create an indigenous “nucleus” for research into all issues relating to climate, including the impact of climate change on aspects of the economy such as agriculture and water.
* Two satellites would be launched between 2010 and 2011 to measure and monitor greenhouse gases. While a micro-satellite would be launched in 2010 to study aerosols, another dedicated satellite in 2011 would monitor greenhouse gases such as methane and trace gases.
* Vice-President Mohammed Hamid Ansari released a book, ‘Unleashing India, Water: Elixir of Life’ authored by Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily, which makes a strong case for a changeover from the existing conventional method of flow or flood irrigation to total coverage under drip and sprinkler methods. Mr Moily dedicated the book to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy.
* 2010 was declared as the year of Tigers. ‘The Year of the Tiger’ will start on February 14th at Corbett National Park.
* The Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) has appointed Abdul Rahman as special Ambassador to Kashmir.
* On the eve of 50th anniversary of Panchayat Raj system, 2009-10 was declared as the year of “Gramasabha”. The NREG Act was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
* Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka were affected with severe floods.
* The Centre has declared dolphins a national aquatic animal in order to save the rare freshwater species from disappearing from the country’s aqua map.
.:: November 2009 National Affairs ::.
* The Union Public Service Commission has recommended to the government that a Civil Services Aptitude test replace the existing Civil Services (Preliminary) examination.
* Cyclone Phyan has hit Maharashtra and caused massive damage to the coastal districts.
* The Shipping Ministry has decided to set up a broad-based committee, comprising various agencies, for sharing information on traffic, port and issues related to ship and coastal security. The Committee will comprise the Ministry of Shipping, the Navy, Coast Guard, State police, Customs, members of State maritime boards and the maritime State concerned.
* The Union Cabinet has directed the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to make it mandatory for all oil marketing companies to sell petrol mixed with 5 per cent of ethanol.
* India announced that issuance of paper visas stapled to passports by the Embassy of China and its consulates in India would not be considered valid for travel out of the country.
* Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a report revealing that telephone users reached 50.93crore by the end of September 30th. Broadband users reached 7.7million, telephone users were 43.50% and Mobile phone users were 40.31%.
* Home Ministry banned the use of prepaid mobile connections in Jammu and Kashmir on security grounds.
* India has 25lakh cancer patients and one million new cases are diagnosed across the country every year. In Andhra Pradesh alone, nearly 3 lakh people suffer from the many forms of the disease. These figures were disclosed at a programme to mark National Cancer Awareness Day.
* The government will introduce Hib (Haemophilus influenza type b) pentavalent (five-in-one) vaccine in the routine immunisation programme from next year. It will replace the DPT and Hepatitis ‘B’ vaccines. The Hib vaccine will initially be introduced in 10 States that have an immunisation coverage of more than 80 per cent
* A special postage stamp in recognition of the contribution of Apollo Hospitals towards Indian healthcare was released by Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology A. Raja.
* Twenty-one judges of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, have declared their assets, giving details of movable and immovable property owned by them and their spouses in the Supreme Court website.
* Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been appointed first Goodwill Ambassador of the ‘Smile Train,’ an international charity that provides free cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need.
* 62nd World Newspaper Congress and other annual events of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) have started in Hyderabad. Apart from the Congress, the 16th World Editors’ Forum and Info Services Expo-2009 are being organised at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.
* Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference has been hosted in Chennai.
* The President, Pratibha Patil took off in Sukhoy-30 at an altitude of 8000m from Pune for half an hour.
* Unit 5 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project, a 220 MW pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR), started power generation at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. With this, number of reactors in India are 18. The total atomic power capacity has reached 4330MW.
* South Indian Telugu film Sankarabharanam and Malayalam film Bhoothakkannady were screened at International Film Festival of India (IFFI) that was started in Goa.
* Acting on the letter written by the Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court, the AP State government decided to suspend mining operations, including transportation of already mined material, in six iron ore mines in Anantapur district.
* According Liberhan Commission report, the demolition of the Babri Masjid was planned, systematic, and was the intended outcome of a climate of communal intolerance deliberately created by the Sangh Parivar and its sister affiliates, including the Bharatiya Janata Party. Report has indicted Advani, Joshi and Vajpayee.
* The Centre on Monday launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. It is one of the eight key missions of the National Action Plan on Climate Change and aimed at ensuring long-term energy security as well as ecological security.
* The mission recommends implementation in three stages leading up to an installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of the 13th Plan in 2022.
* 16th International Children’s Film Festival started at Hyderabad on November 14th. 70 movies from different countries were screened at the film festival.
December 2009 National Affairs
* A high-level task force for the information technology (IT) industry has recommended constitution of ‘National Electronic Mission’, a nodal agency for the electronics industry within the Department of Information Technology (DIT) with direct interface to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
* The report envisions a $140-billion electronics and $105-billion software and services industry by 2014. It is headed by Chairman and CEO of HCL infosystems.
* India has announced that it would reduce carbon emission intensity by 20-25% by 2020 on the 2005 levels through a number of policy measures that will include mandatory fuel efficiency standards for all vehicles by 2011, a model building code recommending to states and municipalities to shift to green buildings, amending the Energy Conservation Act to introduce the concept of an energy certificate for incentivizing energy efficiency in industry, regular reporting to Parliament on state of forests, and ensuring 50% of new thermal capacity are based on clean coal.
* Gujarat Government moved the controversial “The Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009″, the State Assembly which will make voting compulsory in all local body elections of the state. Women Reservation was also raised to 50% from 33%.
* Government said it will examine the report of Rangnath Mishra Commission that recommended 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities.
* The Rajya Sabha approved the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2009 which was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Bill repeals and replaces the Competition (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009. The Bill provides for transfer of anti-competition cases pending before the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) to an appellate tribunal. With this, the commission would cease to exist, two years ahead of its scheduled closure.
* The Rajya Sabha approved re-naming the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGREGA).
* Indian National Congress established in 28 December 1885 in The Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Mahavidyalays at Mumbai. Mr. VyomeshChandra Bannerji was 1st President of Indian national Congress and Mr. Allen Hume was the secretary. Now Indian Congress completed its 125 year of establishment.
* Shibu Soren will be sworn in as the CM of Jharkhand on December 30. Supporting Soren were 18 of his own party MLAs, 18 of BJP, two of JDU, five of AJSU and one of Jharkhand Janadhikar Manch (JMM).
* President Pratibha Patil sailed in INS Viraat in Mumbai for 3 hours.
* 92nd annual conference of the Indian Economic Association was held at Bhubaneswar.
January 2010 National Affairs
* There were atleast 199,132 farmer suicides between 1997-2008, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The share of the Big 5 states or ’suicide belt’ in 2008- Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh remained very high at 10,797 or 66.6 percent of the total farm suicides in the country. Maharashtra remains the worst state in the nation for farm suicides.
* The brightest and biggest full moon of 2010 will be seen on Saturday. It will be around 15 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than other full moons during the year.
* The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the National Tobacco Control Programme to facilitate the implementation of tobacco control laws and to bring about greater awareness of tobacco’s harmful effects. The programme will be implemented in the remaining years of XI plan in 42 districts of the 21 states within the National Rural Health Mission framework with financial outlay of Rs. 182 crore, from 2010 – 2011.
* The 16th Edition of the Partnership Summit 2010 was held in Chennai, organised by the confederation of Indian Industry.
* The Environment Ministers meeting of the BASIC Countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) was held in New Delhi.
* A currency issued by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Bank of Independence has been made public in Bhopal on the eve of his 103rd birth anniversary.
* The Andhra Pradesh government signed three agreements with the world bank to receive loan assistance of Rs 3, 720 crore to fund three projects taken up at a cost of Rs 5699 crore to develop roads, provide safe drinking water and improve infrastructure in urban areas. This is the largest loan amount availed of from the bank in recent times, as the bank’s share for the Rs. 4,444 – Crore Nagarjuna Sagar modernization project is only Rs. 2,500 crore.
* Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari Constituted a three – member committee headed by supreme court judge V.S. Sirpurkar, that will investigate the grounds for impeachment of karnataka chief – Justice P.D.Dinakaran whose removal from office has been sought jointly by 75 Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on corruption and land – grabbing charges. Justice A.R.Dave, cheif Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High court and eminent Jurist P.P.Rao are the other members of the panel.
* President Pratibha Patil released a commemorative postage stamp at a function to mark the platinum jubilee celebration of the Reserve Bank of India.
* The Andhra Pradesh Government unveiled a Rs. 10 crore plan to develop Kondaveedu fort as a major tourist destination in Guntur district.
* Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched ”Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) at the Solar Energy Conclave 2010, New Delhi.
The Key high lights of JNNSM:
To create an enabling policy frame work for the deployment of 20,000MW of Solar power by 2022.
To create favourable conditions for solar manufacturing capability for indigenous production and market leadership.
To promote programmes for off grid applications, reaching 1000 MW by 2017 and 2000 MW by 2022.
To achieve 15 million sq-meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20 million by 2022.
To deploy 20 million solar lighting systems for rural areas by 2022.
* A boatload of sky watchers set sail from Kochi for the Maldives on board the MV Aquamarine, the country’s first eclipse cruise, to chase the Ring of Fire or the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse.
* Union Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh announced a Rs. 200 crore grant for the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove biosphere as part of the World Bank’s Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project.
* The govt. announced that the state-run oil firms will start supplying Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel in 13 big cities from April 1st, 2010.
* A Bench of the Delhi High Court, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justices Vikramjit Sen and S.Muralidhar held that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) is a “public authority” and comes within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and it is bound to provide information about the declaration of asset details by Supreme Court judges.
* Kite fliers from across 34 countries are expected to participate during the International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad.
* President Pratibha Patil delivering the valedictory address at the Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas (Jan, 9) on the day Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in 1915, pointed out that: Overseas Indian’s estimated at over 250 lakhs had come to be recognised as the “Knowledge Diaspora”. India’s remittances from Overseas Indians estimated at over $ 50 billion last year are the highest in the world.Of these about $ 20 billion comes from Overseas Indian workers in the Gulf consisting of temporary contracted skilled and semi-skilled workers.
February 2010 National Affairs
* Women Entrepreneurs 2010, a platform to promote Indian heritage weavers and women entrepreneurs was held in Delhi.
* The Department of posts released a commemorative stamp in honour of P.C. Sorcar (Senior), the Man who “took the magic of India to the rest of the world.
* The Union Cabinet approved the Women’s Reservation Bill, 2008 that seeks to reserve 33 percent seats for women in Lok Sabha and State Assemblies.
The 108th Constitutional Amendment Bill was tabled in the Rajya Sabha in 2008 and was subsequently referred to the Parliamentary standing committee on Law, Justice and Personnel, which in its report submitted in December last year had recommended its early passage in the present form.
* Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram laid the foundation for the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari on the India-Pakistan Border, one of the 13 planned for eight states at a cost of Rs. 635 crore along various land routes to Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar.
* Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh presented a Rs. 1.13 lakh crore budget for 2010-11. This is the 16th budget presented by him and 1st one as a chief minister. The budget outlay is Rs. 8,516 crore higher than that of the current fiscal (Rs.1.05 lakh crore). The plan outlay is Rs. 40,313 crore and non plan outlay is Rs. 73,347 crore.
There was the revival of the Constituency Development Fund with allotment of Rs. one crore each to members of the Assembly and the Legislative Council.
* The Full Court, comprising 27 judges and headed by Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan rejected the Law Commission’s suggestion that the Supreme Court be split into Constitution Bench in Delhi and Cassation Benches in the four regions.
* Perambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala was declared the country’s 38th tiger reserve.
* Seethampeta, located in the north – western part of Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh and home to the Konda Savaras has now become part of the Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). GIAHS has begun identifying and then documenting unique agricultural systems across the world to create ‘agricultural heritage’.
* The Cabinet Committee on security has approved the opening of an Officers Training Academy at Gaya in Bihar in addition to the one in Chennai.
* A five-judge constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that “The Supreme Court and the High Courts have the power to order a CBI probe without a state’s consent into a cognizable offence allegedly committed within the state’s territory”.
* Palakkad district in kerala is the first fully electrified district in the country.
* The Union Minister for Environment and Forests JaiRam Ramesh had allocated all Rs. 12 crore of his MPLADS share from 2004 on “Giripragathi”, a programme for sustainable development of tribals in remote /hilly areas in Andhra Pradesh.
Giripragathi covers eight mandals, three each in Adilabad and khammam and two in warangal districts. Its total allocation over six years is Rs. 88 Crore.
* The World Bank has agreed in principle to extend Rs.1, 000 crore assistance to self-help groups under the third phase of Poverty Alleviation Programme in Andhra Pradesh.
* Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal took the decision to notify the Right of children to free and compulsory education Act, 2009. The date for it is fixed for April 1, 2010. From that date children in the 6 -14 age group will finally get their right to education.
* The Union Government announced the seven – point terms of reference of the five – member B.N.Srikrishna committee on the telangana issue.
* The 58th meeting of the North Eastern Council (NEC) was held in Gauwhati.
* The two – member committee comprising former Director of Special Protection Group (SPG) M.R.Reddy and former Director General of Civil Aviation H.S.Khola Submitted a 110 – page report to the Government of Andhra Pradesh on the cause of the Bell helicopter crash that killed former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy and four others.
* For the first time, the Union Government has agreed to formulate a general amnesty plan for kashmiri youth undergoing training in terrorist camps in Pakistan – Occupied Kashmir (POK)
* The Indian Navy’s Multilateral Milan 2010 exercise was held in Port Blair.
* The conference of the Chief Ministers on internal Security was held in Delhi.
* The West Bengal government announced a 10 per cent quota in jobs for the weaker sections among Muslims under the OBC category.
* The Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the four per cent reservation provided by the State government to selected sections of Muslims in education and public employment.
* The Sustainable Development Summit, organised by the Energy and Research Institute was held in Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed
* All the judges of the Delhi High Court led by Chief Justice A.P. Shah made their assets and investments public by uploading the details on the court’s website.
* The Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Railways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for developing health care infrastructure along the railway network across the country.
* The Government of India constituted a five – member committee headed by the former Supreme Court Judge, Justice B.N. Sri Krishna to hold wide ranging consultations with all sections of the people and all political parties and groups in Andhra Pradesh. The other members of the committee are: Professor (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, Vice.Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi; Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Senior Research fellow, International Food Policy research institute, Delhi; Dr (Ms.) Ravinder kaur, Professor, Departmentof Humanities and social sciences. IIT Delhi; and Vinod K.Duggal, former home secretary.
* The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, MNREGS Sammelan 2010 was held in New Delhi.
* Defence Minister A.K.Antony announced that
1. The Indian Air Force has decided to procure 750 Akash missile systems from Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) at a cost of about Rs 4,000 crore.
2. The cabinet committee on security had cleared a proposal to sanction Rs. 8,000 crore for further development of the indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)
March 2010 National Affairs
* Census 2011, the 15th census since 1872, billed as the largest census ever attempted in the history of mankind, is set to take off on April 1st, 2010. It will also involve the task of preparing, for the first time, the National Population Register (NPR).
* The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) approved the establishment of National Knowledge Network (NKN), which seeks to inter-connect all knowledge institutions in the country through high speed data communication network, at an outlay of Rs 5,990 crore to be implemented by NIC over a period of 10 years.
* A three-judge bench of Chief Justice of Supreme Court K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices J.M. Panchal and B.S. Chauhan lifted the stay on the Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to provide four per cent reservation in jobs and education for backward members of the Muslim community. As many as 14 Muslim groups, identified as socially and educationally backward sections by the State Backward Commission, will now be eligible for the benefit. But the Supreme Court referred to a special bench the issue of its constitutional validity.
* The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Labour Ministry to amend the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948, to provide medical facilities to unorganised workers in ESIC hospitals and recognised private hospitals under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), a cashless health insurance scheme.
* Planning Commission in its mid-term review has reduced the power generation capacity addition target by over 20 percent to 62,374 mw for the 11th plan (2007-12) from the original 78,577 mw.
* The Union cabinet cleared the Prohibition of Unfair practices in technical, medical Educational Institutions and Universities Bill, 2010 that seeks to make capitation fee a cognizable offence. Two other Bills – The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutional Bill 2010, proposing to setup an independent regulatory body which will register, monitor and audit accreditation agencies and the Educational Tribunals Bill, 2010 providing an adjudicatory forum for speedy resolution of all issues that arise in the higher Education sector – were also cleared.
* The Union Government has officially confirmed its earlier decision to accord classical language status to Telugu. It has addressed a communication to the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) Mysore, and the University Grants Commission (UGC) to take steps immediately to give the status to Telugu. This decision was the outcome of efforts by the late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy culminating in the adoption of a unanimous resolution in the Assembly on February 22, 2006.
* A commemorative stamp on former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is being issued by the Postal Department on September 2 to coincide with his first death anniversary.
* The Supreme Court appointed Central Vigilance Committee (CVC), headed by Justice D.P. Wadhwa, while submitting its report to a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and K.S. Radha Krishnan slammed the Public Distribution System as one of the most corrupt sectors, saying the root cause of its failure in several states is political interference.
* As announced by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, A seven-member core committee of vice-chancellors has been set up to focus on central universities lagging behind in bench marks in academic and research performance.
* For the first time in 20 years, Jammu and Kashmir will have direct trunk dialing facility with Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK).
* Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the world’s first green legislature building, the Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly Secretariat Complex.
* The Union Cabinet cleared the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operation) Bill, 2010, for introduction in parliament. The bill seeks to allow foreign education providers to set up campuses in the country and offer degrees.
* The government of Andhra Pradesh has decided to waive the loans taken by weavers’ societies in the state from cooperative banks of APCOB and commercial banks. This waiver which will place an additional burden of Rs. 312 crore on the ex chequer, will indirectly benefit a large number of individual weavers.
* Under the Indian Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme, 12 more Important Bird Areas (IBA) were identified in Kerala, which made it’s total gone up to 36. The Indian IBA programme is funded by the Royal Society for the protection of Birds.
* India’s first open jail for women was inaugurated at the Yerawada Central Prison in Pune by Maharashtra Home Minister R.R.Patil. The Open jail would be made to agricultural work on the 17 acres of land adjoining the prison. This would improve their physical and mental well being. They would also be eligible for remission in their punishment, for every one year served in the open jail, a year of their sentence would be reduced.
* The Government of Andhra Pradesh is set to bring Information Technology and IT Enabled Services (ITES) sectors under the Essential Services Maintenance Act. A bill to amend ESMA would be introduced in the Current Assembly session. The amendment, the Government felt necessary to spare the IT industry from disruption to their mission critical applications during agitations.
* The Union government has set up an independent eight – member expert committee under the chairmanship of Deepak Parekh to review the draft guidelines of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a housing scheme for slum dwellers and urban poor.
* The historic Women’s Reservation Bill, formally known as 108th constitutional amendment was passed in the Rajya Sabha with the House recorded its vote of 186 for and 1 against. Now the bill must be passed by the Lok Sabha and ratified by at least half the states for becoming effective.
* The Secretary – General of the Supreme Court has challenged the Delhi High Court Judgement that the office of the Chief Justice of India is a public authority that comes urthin the ambit of the Right to Information Act. This can termed as Supreme Court appealing to Supreme Court of its case.
* Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar inaugurated the Women’s Leadership Summit 2010 on Inclusive Growth and Empowering Women of Rural India in New Delhi.
* The Sam Pitroda led high – level committee formed to suggest the restructuring of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has submitted a report to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
* The first of the new generation Airbus A320 joined the Air India fleet. It has a host of latest facilities, including advanced weather Radar System, Enhanced Ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) and an LCD cockpit display system.
* National Socialist Council of Nagalim (ISak – Muivah) general Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Singalling the Seriousness of his organisation to final a solution to the six – decade old Nagaland issue.
April 2010 National Affairs
* The cut motions moved by the Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s economic policies especially price rise, were defeated.Cut motion moved by Sushma Swaraj defeated by- in favour 162 and against 246.The cut motion moved by Gurudas Gupta was defeated by- in favour201 and against 289.
* The former chief of the Border Security Force, E.N. Rammohan, submitted his report to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the April 6 massacre of 76 security personnel by Maoists in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh.
* The 16-digit unique identification number to be assigned to each individual by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will come under the new name ‘AADHAR’ or foundation.
* The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh K. Rosaiah launched the Rs. 600-crore Dr. YSR Protected Drinking Water Scheme in Rayadurg of Anantapur dist.
* The 98th executive committee meeting of the All-India Council of Mayors (AICM) was held in Hyderabad.
* The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a proposal to set up 1,000 additional model schools as a benchmark of excellence in educationally backward blocks (EBBs) through State governments. These schools will have norms and standards equivalent to or better than Kendriya Vidyalayas. The requirement for the 1,000 schools has been estimated at Rs. 3,304 crore, the Centre’s share being Rs. 2,478 crore.
* The Navy plans to carve out an air enclave on the campus of the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) for sheltering the Navy’s future air assets, especially the medium range maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
* The Commission on Centre-State relations headed by M. M. Punchhi, submitted its report to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.The panel was constituted by UPA-I in April 2007 to take a fresh look at the relative role and responsibilities of the various levels of government and Centre-State relations.
* The 59th year of birth of the Bhoodan Movement was celebrated at Bhoodan Pochampalli in Nalgonda district on 18th April. Acharya Vinoba Bhave had secured the first land donation on this day in 1951 at Pochampalli.
* The Andhra Pradesh government launched the Praja Patham, the month-long mass contact programme aimed at taking administration to the doorstep of people. K. Rosaiah started the programme at Katarivaripalem in Vetapalem mandal of Prakasam district. Praja Patham was a brainchild of the late YSR who wanted elected representatives to go to the people during the difficult summer months and redress their grievances pertaining to drinking water and Aarogyasri and other health related services.
* The draft Cinematograph Bill, 2010 could be introduced in the next session of Parliament in which the India’s film rating system is set for a revamp. The Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC), better known as the Censor Board, will now be asked to certify films under the U, 12+, 15+, A and S categories. Under the current Cinematograph Act, 1952, there are three categories — U, A and UA.
* The government of Andhra Pradesh acquired the “hazardous material” handling vehicle for the Disaster Response & Fire Service (DSFS) Department at a cost of Rs. 5 crore to tackle nuclear, biological, chemical accidents besides the usual fires.
* The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly passed the Inter-District Recruitment Bill which bans inter-district recruitment and provides a quota for Scheduled Castes in government jobs in all districts.
* The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) launched the test phase of Unique Identity Number (UID) project in Medak and Krishna districts of Andhra Pradesh.
* The Union government has decided to soon declare the world’s largest river island of Majuli an eco-sensitive zone.
* A new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Bill, likely to be introduced in the next session of Parliament, will bring the institution of CAG under the ambit of the Right to Information Act.
* Delhi Metro Rail Corporation started the country’s first Standard Gauge Railway line. This railway line width is 4ft 8inches.
* Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit dedicated a Rs.40 crore sub-station 66/11 kV ‘green’ grid sub-station constructed by the power distribution company, BYPL, in the record time of 13 months at the Commonwealth Games Village to provide uninterrupted power supply for the event.
* Addressing the nation to mark the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the States and Union Territories to work together as part of a common national Endeavour.
* The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 comes into effect from April 1st 2010, and will directly benefit close to one crore children who do not go to school. For the first time, education will become a constitutional right in India. According to this act private institutes should provide 25% reservation to economically backward students. Right to education was made fundamental right in 2002 by 86th amendment. The central and state governments should spend money in 55:45 ratio to implement this act.
* The plan outlay for Andhra Pradesh for 2010-2011 has been fixed at Rs.36, 800 crore, which is 9.86 per cent more than the outlay of Rs. 33,497 crore fixed for 2009-2010. The actual increase is Rs.3, 303 crore this year.
* The Union government has introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha, that provides for constitution of a National Council consisting of representatives from the Medical Council of India, the Dental Council, the Nursing Council etc., to determine the standards for the clinics, classify them, develop the minimum standards and their periodic review, compile, maintain and update a national register of clinical establishments.
* The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(TTD) of Andhra Pradesh has deposited 4,475 kg of gold received by way of offerings in its temple Hundi in various nationalized banks. TTD deposited 3,000 kg gold with SBI, 1,125 kg gold with Corporation Bank and the rest 650 kilograms with Indian Overseas Bank and will be earning an interest of over 1.6 and 1.5 per cent respectively over the gold deposits.
* The government of Andhra Pradesh launched the fifth phase of the government’s land distribution programme all over the State from 14th April, 2010 coinciding with the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.An extent of 1.06 lakh acres will be distributed to 69,506 beneficiaries.
* According to a report released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Gujarat has been declared as the top contributor to the total hazardous waste generation in the country. Gujarat generates almost 29 per cent of the 62 lakh metric tonnes of hazardous waste generated every year. It is followed by Maharashtra (25 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (9 per cent).
* The government of India has reconstituted the National Integration Council (NIC) which will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Set up in the early 60s by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the NIC held its first meeting in 1962. The council reviews matters relating to national integration and makes recommendations over such issues.
* According to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the first set of identity numbers will be issued in February 2011.
* During the sidelines of the 6th National Conference on Electoral Reforms organised by the National Election Watch in Bhopal, Chief Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla said that roughly 700 out of 1,000 registered political parties do not contest polls and the Election Commission has no power to de-register them.
* The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) completed five years on 12th April 2010.
May 2010 National Affairs
* The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court in its judgement upheld the intrinsic constitutional validity of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).
* The United Progressive Alliance government decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GOM) on the issue of caste enumeration in Census 2011. The GOM would work out the modalities of doing a caste headcount along with Census 2011 while looking into the issue of the practicality of such census.
* The Central Board of Secondary Education launched worldwide, its self-designed international curriculum (CBSE-i) at Dubai’s Indian High School (IHS) that aims to compete with its western counterparts to produce the global citizen of tomorrow.
* World Telecom Development Conference was held in Hyderabad.
* The Chief Justice and all the other judges of Himachal High Court have declared their assets and properties.
* An Air India Express plane IX-812 from Dubai overshot the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport and plunged over a cliff into a wooded valley, killing 158 persons.
* Cyclonic storm Laila which brought heavy losses to farmers crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast near Bapatla in Prakasam district.
* Under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, the depiction of new and more stringent pictorial warnings on tobacco products has been deferred by six months to December 1 from the earlier scheduled date of June 1 by the government of India.
* President Pratibha Devisingh Patil signed an ordinance empowering the government to dissolve the Medical Council of India, a regulatory body responsible for maintaining standards of medical education. The government created a seven-member Board of Governors that took over the functioning of the 30-member executive council, the highest decision-making body of the MCI. The Board of Governors is chaired by Dr. S.K. Sarin, Department of Gastroenterology, and G.B. Pant Hospital.
* The Union Health Ministry is all set to bring in an ordinance to supercede the regulatory body and appoint in its place a Board of Governors. In place of the present MCI team, the government intends to appoint seven eminent medical practitioners and health experts to do the job that the MCI is performing at present. The government would have no role in the new set-up.
* The Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by the former CBI Director, R.K. Raghavan, which investigated Zakia Jaffry’s complaint that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others orchestrated the 2002 riots, submitted its report to the Supreme Court.
* The Union Cabinet accorded in-principle approval for the setting up of an autonomous defence university in Gurgaon district of Haryana at a cost of about Rs. 300 crore on a 200-acre campus that is expected to provide inputs to strategic policy making. It will be set up under an Act of Parliament.
* The Bihar government signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the objective of accelerating State-wide improvements in maternal, newborn and child health.
* A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Articles 243 D (6) and243 T (6), providing for reservation of seats in any panchayat or offices of Chairpersons in panchayats and municipalities in favour of backward classes.
* According to a decision taken by the Maharashtra government all students up to Class VIII would be given promotion to the next class even if they did not perform well in examinations.
* The Visva-Bharati University at santiniketan celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
* The Supreme Court in its judgement holding that gas is a national asset and the Centre’s pricing policy will prevail over any private agreement, has directed Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) of the Mukesh Ambani group to initiate renegotiations with Reliance Natural Resources Ltd. (RNRL) of the Anil Ambani group for fixing the price of gas to be supplied to RNRL.The bench thus rejected RNRL’s claim that it was entitled to get 28 mscmd of gas from the KG Basin at $2.34 mBtu in terms of a 2005 Memorandum of Understanding between Anil and Mukesh without any price approval by the government.
* A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that a Governor cannot be removed on the ground that he/she is out of sync with the policies and ideologies of the Union government or the party in power at the Centre. Nor can he/she be removed on the ground that the Union government has lost confidence in him/her. The bench gave this ruling in a petition filed by the former Member of Parliament, B.P. Singhal.
* The Lok Sabha Speaker made the following appointments for various parliamentary committees Murli Manohar Joshi as the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee for 2010-11, Congress MP from Goa Francisco Sardinha as the chairman of the Committee on Estimates, V. Kishore Chandra S. Deo as the chairman of the Committee on Public Undertakings, Gobinda Chandra Naskar as the chairman of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
* The Supreme Court held that the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, under which every MP is allotted Rs. 2 crore a year for constituency development was nothing unconstitutional. It held that the scheme falls within the meaning of ‘public purpose’ aimed at fulfillment of the development and welfare of the State as reflected in the Directive Principles of State Policy.
* The Rajya Sabha passed a Bill proposing to create a 78-member Legislative Council for Tamil Nadu, 24 years after it was abolished.
* Parliament approved the increase in the gratuity limit for employees from Rs.3.5 lakh to Rs.10 lakh under the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2010.
* The Supreme Court held unconstitutional and violation of the ‘right to privacy’ the use of narco analysis, brain-mapping and polygraph tests on accused, suspects and witnesses without their consent.
* The tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi and Union Minister for Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal to prepare detailed project reports on linking of rivers that will benefit both the states.
* The Lok Sabha passed the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2010 which raises the ceiling of gratuity for employees in private sector to Rs.10 lakh from Rs.3.5 lakh. The Lok Sabha also passed the Employees’ State Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2009, to provide for medicare to workers in the unorganised sector, especially those below the poverty line (BPL).
* A special sessions court judge M.L. Tahaliyani pronounced Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks along with nine other terrorists and 20 co-conspirators in Pakistan, guilty of waging war against India.
* The two day National Consultation for Second Generation Reforms in Legal Education was held in Delhi.
June 2010 National Affairs
* UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation of the 8.8-km-long Rohtang tunnel at Dhundi near Manali(Himachal Pradesh).
* The first World Classical Tamil Conference was held in Coimbatore. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil presented the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award to Asko Parpola for his work on the Dravidian hypothesis in the interpretation of the Indus script.
* The Group of Ministers (GoM) submitted their report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the legal, medical, humanitarian, environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster. The GoM recommended Rs. 1,500-crore package for the victims.
* The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) endorsed the setting up of the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) as an apex body entrusted with framing policy, and to bring within its ambit, medical education and other disciplines of higher education and research.
* The 75th conference of presiding officers of legislatives bodies from different parts of the country was held in Srinagar (J&K).
* The Planning Commission estimated four percent growth in the agriculture sector during the XII Plan (2012-17).
* The Representation of the People’s (Amendment) Bill aimed at NRIs for voting rights in India was cleared by a GoM headed by Defence Minister A.K. Antony and is likely to be presented soon before the Cabinet.
* The government of India has declared the Indian Mujahideen (IM), suspected to be a shadow outfit of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist outfit.
* Jharkhand came under Central rule with President Pratibha Patil accepting a recommendation of the Union Cabinet after the Congress and the BJP gave up efforts to form an alternative government following the resignation of Chief Minister Shibu Soren.
July 2010 National Affairs
* The first commercial landing of the Airbus A380, the largest aircraft of the world, took place at the newly inaugurated Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
* As part of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore a book was published on the Nehru-Gandhi family’s connection with Santiniketan Titled “Three Chancellors” compiled by Nilanjan Bandopadhyay.
* During the meeting of the Chief Ministers of the Naxal-affected States in New Delhi, the Union government asked Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal, worst affected by Maoist violence, to set up a Unified Command headed by the four States’ Chief Secretaries.
* The prestigious Mahatama Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), a UNESCO institute, will be unveiled on the birth annniversary of Gandhiji on October 2 in New Delhi. It will be the maiden category I institute of UNESCO to be located in Asia. Out of 11 such institutes, nine are situated in the developed world and two is in Ethiopia and Venezuela.
* The Union government has set up an oversight committee chaired by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to coordinate and monitor the clean-up of the Bhopal gas leak disaster site.
* The Union Health Ministry approved the revised draft that proposes a National Committee for Accreditation and a National Medical Education and Training Board that will register and accredit medical colleges and prepare curricula for all streams of education in the health sector.
* The Union Cabinet cleared the Nalanda University Bill 2010, paving the way for the establishment of Nalanda University in Rajgir, Bihar near the original Nalanda University site at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,005 crore.
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