General Knowledge for Preparing Various Exams in India Chapter 6

76. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa informed that the World Championship for 2013 would be held in Anand’s hometown Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu between November 6 and 26.

77. Krishnakumar Natarajan took over as Nasscom Chairman for the year 2013-14. Mr. Natarajan succeeds N Chandrasekaran.

78. Five soldiers of the Indian Army were killed and four injured in an ambush morning of their United Nations peacekeeping mission by unidentified assailants in Jonglei, South Sudan.

79. In all 682 persons, including 2008 Mumbai terror attack case convict Ajmal Kasab, were executed worldwide in 2012, which is two more than such executions carried out in 2011. Amnesty International said in its Global annual report on death penalty-2012.

80. Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in Kenya’s fourth President.

81. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) maintained that the Indian economy could grow at an improved rate of 6 per cent during the current fiscal in its report ‘Asian Development Outlook 2013’.

82. In a reprieve to 480 Pakistani Hindus, the Home Ministry has extended visas for a month, before the government takes a decision on their demand for political asylum in India.

83. British scientist Robert Edwards, 87, who won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in vitro fertilisation, leading to the birth of the first test- tube baby, died.

84. India and Russia have crossed the first milestone towards the development of the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), completing the preliminary design. Four T-50 aircraft, the Russian prototype of the fifth generation fighter, have already performed more than 200 test flights since January 2010.

85. Rajeev Shahare appointed as new High Commissioner of Maldives.

86. The World Trade Organization (WTO) cut its forecast for global trade growth in 2013 to 3.3 per

cent from 4.5 per cent and said trade grew only 2 per cent in 2012.

87. India and Bangladesh may soon collaborate to jointly produce a ‘mega-film’ to commemorate the 1971 war of liberation.

88. Foreign Ministers of G8 adopted historic declaration committing the international community to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones. The agreement, reached on the sidelines of discussions on North Korea and Syria ahead of the summit of G8 leaders in June in United Kingdom.

89. State Bank of India hit the international bond market to raise about $1 billion (Rs.5,430 crore) in a five-year dollar-bond sale programme.

90. World Bank plans to identify seven low-income States in India as part of the multilateral lending agency’s new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for India (2013-17). World Bank proposes a lending programme of $3 billion-5 billion every year over the next four years to bring down poverty 5.5 per cent in 2030 from 29.8 per cent in 2010. The States identified for the focused support are Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.