CURRENT AFFAIRS OCTOBER 2005
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1) Asia's most powerful bizmen: Tata
Group Chairman Ratan Tata, Infosys Technologies CEO Nandan Nilekani, Wipro
Chairman Azim Premji and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani are the
four Indians in Asia's 25 most powerful business leaders list by the Fortune
magazine.Ratan Tata is ranked 12th most powerful Asian business
leader, just ahead of Nandan Nilekani, who has been ranked 13th.
Mukesh Ambani has been ranked 17th on the list by the magazine, followed by
Azim Premji at 19th |
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2) The Australian duo of Barry J
Marshall and J Robin Warren were Monday awarded the Nobel Prize for
Medicine.The prize was given for their research on bacteria in gastritis
and ulcer disease |
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3)ICC PLAYER AWARD:
England's Andrew Flintoff and South African Jacques Kallis have tied for the
International Cricket Council (ICC) player of the year award. Kallis was also
named ICC Test player of the year, while Flintoff was runner-up in the
one-day category. England batsman Kevin Pietersen won the one-day and
emerging player of the year awards at the ceremony in Sydney. English success
continued when Flintoff picked up the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award on behalf
of the England team. |
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4) three-day Conference of Director Generals of Police and
Inspector Generals of Police CONDUCTED AT Delhi in October. |
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5)Nobel Economics:
Robert J. Aumann of Israel Thomas
C. Schelling of USA |
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6)Nobel Peace: IAEA and it s
Chairman- Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei of Egypt is the
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an
intergovernmental organization within the United Nations system. He was
appointed to the office effective 1 December 1997, and reappointed to a
second term in September 2001. |
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7)Vikram Seth
author of Two Leaves faciliatated. |
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8)
The Transparency International's
Corruption Perception Index for 2004 had placed India 90th among 146
countries. India scored 2.9 in 2005 on a 10 to 0 scale of the index
indicating the cleanest score and 0 the most corrupt. Among India's
neighbouring countries, Berlin-based TI placed China and Sri Lanka at 78th
position ranking it least corrupt than India with a score of 3.2 while
Afghanistan and Nepal have been jointly placed at 117th with a score of 2.5,
Pakistan 144th with a score of 2.1 and Myanmar 155th (1.8). Iceland is the
least corrupt country with a score of 9.7 while Bangladesh and Chad have
jointly been described as the most corrupt nations in the world ranking 158th
(1.7). The United Kingdom has been placed 11th jointly with Netherland (8.6)
while United States has been placed at 17th with a score of 7.6 in the index.
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9)
Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Ghulam
Nabi Lone was killed in a fidayeen (suicide) attack at his Tulsibagh area
residence in Srinagar |
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10) Maharashtra is still a leader in terms of attracting
foreign direct investment.With FDI inflows at $13.5 billion, it surpasses
even the combined investment in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. |
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11) Malappuram, India's
1st e-literate district through 500 akshya which are computer labs |
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12) N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman
and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd, has resigned from the
chairmanship of the Bangalore International Airport Limited following a
remark made by former prime minister H D Deve Gowda |
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13) Dr Thakur V Hariprasad of the
Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for the Mentally Handicapped in
Hyderabad will be conferred the title of 'Ambassador' of Oxford University.
Honour of Residency |
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14)Public Private Partnership Committee
set up with Secy Economic Affairs as Chairman and 4 other official as
members. |
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15)
The 90th meeting of The Railway Board Rajbhasha
Implementation Committee chaired by Shri J.P.Batra, Chairman, Railways Board
was held at Delhi on Thursday last to review the efforts being made by the
Ministry of Railways for the promotion of Hindi language |
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16)
Olympic silver medallist shooter
Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore joined the Sahara India Commercial
Corporation Limited as Senior Vice President (Honorary |
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17)
The Reserve Bank of India in its
mid-term review of the Monetary & Credit Policy for the year 2005-06 on
Tuesday kept the bank rate unchanged at 6 per cent.However, as expected, in
view of the current macroeconomic and over all monetary conditions, the
reverse repo rate has been increased by 25 basis points with effect from
October 26, 2005 to 5.25 per cent from the current level of 5 per cent. The
cash reserve ratio (CRR) kept unchanged at 5 per cent. Accordingly, the fixed
repo rate under Liquidity Adjustment Facility would be 6.25 per cent with
effect from October 26, 2005 |
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18)
Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi lawyer
who was defending an associate of Saddam Hussein has been found dead after
being abducted in Baghdad |
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19)
The Vice President of India, Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was today honoured
with an honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine by the Yerewan State Medical University at Yerevan, the capital of
Armenia |
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20)
Tata Consultancy Services, India's
largest IT company, has bagged a 12-year order from Pearl Insurance for £486
million ($847 million).With this, TCS will move into the British life
insurance and pensions industry after entering into exclusive discussions
with Pearl Group Limited |
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21)
John Banville of Ireland was named
the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker
Prize for Fiction with The Sea, published by Picador. Second attempt won- First in 1989 for The Evidence but
not got. |
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22)
Americans Roy J Glauber and John L Hall as well as German Theodor W Haensch
won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the field of
optics, |
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23)
Leading NRI physician Ajit Lalvani has won the Scientific Prize of the
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease for his research
into the functioning of vaccines against the ailment-WHO Award. |
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24)
Six Indian companies figure in the BusinessWeek list of Asia's 50 best
firms. These are ONGC, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries, Tata Motors, Larsen
& Toubro and Infosys Technologies
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25)
125 YEARS OF DISCOVERY OF MALARIA PARASITE-on 6th November, 1880, Charles
Alphonse Laveran discovered the Malaria causing parasite |
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26)
The first BIMSTEC Energy
Ministers’ Conference is held in New Delhi |
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27)In pursuance of Section 12 of the Right to Information
Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), the Central Government has constituted the Central Information Commission consisting
of the following :- Shri Wajahat
Habibullah Chief Information
Commissioner Shri A.N. Tiwari Shri O.P. Kejariwal Shri M.M. Ansari Smt. Padma Balasubramanian - Information Commissioner |
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28)
Daniel Craig, a 37-year-old blond-haired, blue-eyed Englishman
was unveiled Friday as the new James Bond, ending months of mystery over who
would play the role of the British playboy spy 007. |
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29)
the Union Cabinet had approved the raising of the sectoral cap for FDI in Telecom Sector from 49 per cent to 74
per cent |
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30)
France's Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H Grubbs and Richard R Schrock
have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry.The trio won the award for their development of the metathesis
method in organic synthesis. |
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31)
British playwright Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the
banal dubbed an adjective that bears his name, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature . His works include The Room, The Birthday
Party and The Dumb Waiter and his breakthrough work, The
Caretaker |
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32)
The International Congress of Indian Christians Inc (ICICI) 2005 peace award
was presented to CMJayalalithaa for
her "dynamic leadership" in implementing progressive and humanitarian initiatives for the
under-privileged |
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33)
India and France on Thursday signed a Rs 15,400 crore ($3.5 billion) deal to
manufacture six advanced stealth characteristic Scorpene submarines in Mumbai's Mazagoan Docks. |
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34)
India has the fourth happiest
population in the world, even ahead of Britain and Canada, a survey indicated
on Wednesday.The survey, carried out across 30 nations, found that only those
living in Australia, the United States and Egypt are more upbeat.The most
miserable population was the Hungarians |
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35)Winner
of Kabir Purakar: Md. Aynal Hoque
of Bilasipara town of Dhubri district of Assam and Grade-III on Shri K.
Rajarathnam Issac of Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh. |
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36)
36th Chief Justice of India- Y.K.
Sabarwal |
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37)
The second national conference of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) will be held in Hyderabad next year |
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38)
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI AWARD 2004TO C.P. SRIVATSAVA who was earlier PA
of Sastri |
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39)Most polluted cities-Raipur,Jharia
Jullandar.Delhi-16 kolkata-21 Mumbai 39 Chennai the Best and last
polluted-52 |
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40)
Dubai-based Keralite Non-Resident Indian businessman, Aniyan Kutty, will set up an international bank with headquarters
in Bahrain. |
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41)
Army today launched large-scale rescue operations, OPERATION ‘IMDAD’ in aid of the earthquake affected in J&K. |
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42)
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved the establishment
of an Early Warning System for mitigation of Oceanogenic Disasters like
Tsunami and ‘Storm Surges’ in the Indian Ocean at an estimated cost of Rs.125
crore. CCEA also gave its approval for setting up an Early Warning Centre at Hyderabad |
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43)
The Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping (CUNPK) is hosting the 11th Annual Conference of International
Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) at New Delhi |
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44)
INS Satavahana, the submarine
training school of Indian Navy undertook basic submarine training for
officers of the South African Navy (SAN) on the Type-209 submarine |
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45)
SAIL PAYS HIGHEST EVER DIVIDEND OF RS.1170 CRORE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA |
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46)
World Habitat Day wias celebrated on October 3, 2005. The theme of this year’s
celebrations is Millennium Development Goals and the City |
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47. Constitutional Referendum in Iraq Nationwide,
78 per cent voted ‘yes’ and 21 per cent ‘no’. |
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48. Red Fort Attack Case Delhi Court on Oct. 31 convicted
Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Mohammad Arif,
a Pakistani, and six others. |
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49. India Signs with African Union |
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India and the 53-nation African Union on Oct. 27 signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for launching the Pan-African Network
Project. It willl digitially
inter-connect all the 53 African countries. |
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50. Red Fort Attack Case A Delhi Court on Oct. 31 convicted
Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Mohammad Arif, a Pakistani, and six others. |
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51. SC
Ruling on Cow Slaughter A seven-Judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on
Oct. 26 upheld at Gujarat legislation banning the slaughter of bulls and
bullocks (cow and its progeny). |
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52. India-Mauritius Sign CECPA Framework India and Mauritius signed to framework a Comprehensive
Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA). |
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53. Joint Military Exercise The defence forces of India and Russia held their
first-ever joint airborne military exercise in Bikaner on Oct. 16. |
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54. Prarambhik Shiksha KoshThe Union
Cabinet on Oct. 6 approved the creation of the Prarambhik Shiksha Kosh (PSK)
with the money collected from the education cess since the last fiscal. |
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55. Mukherjee Commission Report The Mukherjee Commission probing the alleged disappearance
of Subhas LChandra Bose on Oct. 6 failed to find any document in the state
archives in Russia pertaining to claims that he had stayed in the Soviet
Union after 1945. |
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56.Jharkhand
Signs MoU with Shanghai |
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57. E-Procurement System in Delhi |
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58. Illiteracy Rates in States Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are in close contest to be the most
illiterate State of the Country.
Together the two States account for 61 (40 per cent) of the 150 low
literacy districts in the country. UP
with 31 districts and Bihar with 30 districts top the chart. The rest of the low literacy districts are
spread over Jharkhand (13), Rajasthan (11), Orissa (10), Madhya Pradesh (9),
Andhra Pradesh and J&K (8 each), Arunachal Pradesh (7), Chhattisgarh,
Karnataka and West Bengal (4 each), Assam and Meghalaya (3 each), Gujarat and
Nagaland (2 each), and Punjab (1). |
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59. Hurricane Slams into Mexico Hurricane Wilma slammed into the island of Cozumel on Oct.
21 starting a long, grinding march across Mexico’s resort-studded coastline. |
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60. New Polish President Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski of the socially conservative
Law and Justice Party came from behind to win Poland’s presidential election. |
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61.G-20
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting The Seventh Meeting of the G-20 Finance Ministers and
Central Bank Governors was held in Zianghe (LChina) on Oct. 16. |
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62. USA
Becomes top tourist market for India Tourist arrivals during 2004 have shown that USA has become
the largest tourist market for India surpassing the UK, which was the leader
so far 1. USA 520531 2. UK 499997 3. Canada
134902 4. France 133445 |
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63. Two companies have joined hands for gas
distribution project GAIL and
IOC |
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64. Recently, BSNL has signed an agreement
with Sri Lanka |
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65. Which has won the Green Governance Award
for 2005 Tata
Chemicals |
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66. Lotte, the well-known confectionery company
is based South Korea. |
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67. In Oct. 2005, the Union Cabinet has
approved the merger of IOC with IBP. |
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68. CII Energy Excellence Award has been
awarded to Vizag Steel Plant |
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69. Amrita Pritam
who died recently was a famous Punjabi
writer. |
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70. The 2005 Jmnalal Bajaj International Award
has been awarded to Daisaku
Ikeda. |
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71.India is the new
chief of the Commonwealth House Panel |
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72. Indira Gandhi Award for National
Integration (2004) to Eminent Bengali writer Mahashweta Devi ;on Oct. 31 for her
commitment to social and economic uplift and sensitizing the society towards
communal harmony and national integration. |
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73. Franchise Award (2005) to T.K.
Home, Information and Protocol Officer of the National Institute of Fashion
Te chnology on Oct. 28 for excellence in teamwork. |
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74. Miss Earth (2005): Alexandra Braun Waldeck from Venezuela was crowned the Miss
Earth. |
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75. B.M. Birla Science Prize to Ajay
Kumar Parida. |
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76. Jamnalal Bajaj LAwards (2005): International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside
India : Dr. Daisaku Ikeda (Japan) Outstanding Constructive Work: P. Gopinathan Nair
Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development: Rajendra Singh Uploft and Welfare of Women and Children: Arunaben
Shankarprasad Desai. |
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77. Knight of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier
de la Legion d’Honneur) President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Dhruv
Sawhney. |
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78. Best
Orange Prize to eminent British writer Andrea Levy’s bestselling novel
Small Island. |
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79. Aditya
Award to noted poet Surender Dubey |
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80. Foreign Exchange Reserves: $143
billion |
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81. Paris, the capital of France,
hosted the General Conference of the UNESCO in Oct. 2005. |
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82. Nagpur Airport Renamed: Nagpur jAirport was renamed Dr. Ambedkar International
Airport |
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83. Lt. Gen. Anup LSingh Jamwal, is the
new Adjutant General. |
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84. Lakshmi Mittal, a noted
NRI steel tycoon, has been honoured with the 2005 Asian Achievers Award in
Oct. 2005. |
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Aligarh
Muslim University not a minority institution: SC |
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Bihar
Assembly dissolution held unconstitutional |
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Life term
is for life: Supreme Court : A division bench of Supreme Court,
relying upon the earlier constitutional Bench decision has reiterated on 17th
September 2005 that lifeImprisonment
is not equivalent to imprisonment for 14 or 20 years. The
Bench held that unless the punishment was commuted or remitted under The law, a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment was
bound by the law To serve the entire life term in prison. |
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Joint Task
Forces to Curb Naxalism
On 19th September 2005, administrative heads and senior
officials of 12 States includilng Chief Ministers, Home Secretaries and
Director Generals Decided to set up an inter-state Joint Task Forces to
facilitate coordination In
anti-naxalite operations. |
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India-US
engage in submarine warfare exercise: Three phases of India-US
naval exercise, Malabar 05, involving aircraft Carriers and submarines ended
successfully. On 4th
October 2005, theExercises were held in the Arabian Sea off Goa Coast. |
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India to build six French
submarines |
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Stealth
Technology: It is a
technology that enables the submarines/fighter aircrafts to avoid Being detected by the radar system of the
enemy countries. |
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Sakhalin-I: An
example of Indo-Russia energy cooperation Sakhalin I: This project includes the Chayvo, odoptu and
Arkectun- Dagi fields. Period
of 40 years 2.3 billion barrels of Oil and17 trillion cubic feets of has is
to be produced. Total investment for the full development of the
fields has been estimated at more
than $12 billion. OVL: An overseas arm of Oil and
Natural Gas Corporation has Purchased 20% stake
in Sakhalin-I project for $1.7 billion
In 2001. |
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IAEA Vote It
was sponsored by the European Union troika consisting of Britain, Germany and France supported by the US. The vote was meant to Refer the question
of Iran to the Unilted Nations Security Council for appropriate sanctions against Iran for non-compliance with non- proliferation Treaty Obligations. |
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Germany will have a
coalition government.Angela Market is the Chancellor and has become the first
woman Chancellor of Germany. |
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German
electionsThe lower house ‘Budestang’ has a total of 656 seats whose
members are elected through direct
election for a term of 4 years. It
follows “two ballot
system”. Under thils system every
voter has 2 votes of which the first ballot is cast in candidates favour and
the second in Party’s favour. Seats
are allotted to the parties on the basis of their share in the votes polled.
Angela Merkel is the Chancellor and she has become the first woman
Chancellor of Germany. |
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IRA: It is an
army of the Catholic Christians of the Northern Ireland who have been
discriminated against and feel being treated as the second-class citizens in
Ireland. Its political wing is called
Sinn Fien. |
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Japan
privatises postal services |
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Hurricane
Rita hits the American Coast Hurricane Rita first hit Cuba on
September 20 and then roared into the oil rich Gulf of Mexico on September
21. On September 23, Rita slammed
into Texas and Louisiana. |
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The MSP for wheat
has been fixed at Rs650, whereas that for barley has been fixed at
Rs550. The MSP for both gram and
masur (lentil) has been fixed at Rs1,435 and Rs1, 535 respectively. |
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Name of the book that has created much controversy about
the influence of CIA and KGB in India during seventies Mitrokhin files. |
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Recently, the government has decided to set up a gas plant at Ratnagiri. |
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The government has recently decided to include disease
under immunization scheme Hepatitis B |
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The name of the Chinese second manned spaceship is Shenzhou VI. |
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Railways defeated Rest of India in Irani cup. |
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RAYMOND
LAFITTE. The World Bank
appointed Swiss neutral expert isadjudicating on differences between India
and Pakistan over the design of the Baglihar dam. |
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VIKAS SINGH was
appointed as Additional Solicitor-General of India in the Supreme Court on
September 19, 2005. |
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Junichiro
Koizumi: Reelected as the P.M. of Japan |