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JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 1 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS CONTENTS:- JANUARY 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS – PART I # Topic Page No 01 Awards/Honours......................................................... 03 - 23 02 Committee/Panel/Commission……………………………. 24 - 32 03 Court Judgments……………………………………………… 33 - 43 04 Science & Technology………………………………………… 44 - 49 05 Tension in India – Pakistan relation……………………… 50 - 60 06 Economics/Business………………………………………… 61 - 73 murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 2 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS Padma Awards 2013 EC: National Awards Krishi Karman Awards PART (I) AWARDS / HONOURS murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 3 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS PADMA AWARDS 2013 Noted physicist Yash Pal and space scientist Roddam Narasimha were chosen for this year’s Padma Vibhushan while yesteryear film actors late Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Rahul Dravid were selected for Padma Bhushan. Renowned sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and painter S. Haider Raza were chosen for Padma Vibhushan as the government came out with a list of 108 Padma awardees that included actress Sridevi, actors Nana Patekar and Malayalam star Madhu of Chemmeen fame and Olympians Mary Kom, Yogeshwar Dutt and Vijay Kumar. In all four personalities were awarded Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 80 Padma Shri. Of the awardees 24 are women, 11 belong to the category of foreigners, NRI, PIOs and posthumous. Nobody was named for Bharat Ratna for this year too. The last awardee was late Bhimsen Joshi in 2008. Here is the complete list of the award winners:- PADMA VIBHUSHAN AWARDS 2013 S.NO NAME DISCIPLINE STATE/DOMICILE 1. Shri Raghunath Art Odisha Mohapatra 2. Shri S. Haider Art Delhi Raza 3. Prof.Yash Pal Science and Uttar Pradesh Engineering 4. Prof.Roddam Science and Karnataka Narasimha Engineering Note:* Indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous # indicates Duo Case. murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 4 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS PADMA BHUSHAN AWARDS 2013 S.NO NAME DISCIPLINE STATE/DOMICILE 1. Dr. Ramanaidu Art Andhra Pradesh Daggubati 2. Smt.Sreeramamurthy Art Tamil Nadu Janaki 3. Dr.(Smt.) Kanak Rele Art Maharashtra 4. Smt. Sharmila Art Delhi Tagore 5. Dr. (Smt.) Saroja Art Delhi Vaidyanathan 6. Shri Abdul Rashid Art West Bengal Khan 7. Late Rajesh Khanna Art Maharashtra # 8. Late Jaspal Singh Art Punjab # Bhatti 9. Shri Shivajirao Public Affairs Maharashtra Girdhar Patil 10. Dr. Apathukatha Science and Delhi Sivathanu Pillai Engineering 11. Dr.Vijay Kumar Science and Delhi Saraswat Engineering 12. Dr. Ashoke Sen Science and Uttar Pradesh Engineering 13. Dr. B.N. Suresh Science and Karnataka Engineering 14. Prof. Satya N. Atluri Science and USA* Engineering 15. Prof. Jogesh Chandra Science and USA * Pati Engineering murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 5 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS 16. Shri Ramamurthy Trade and Tamil Nadu Thyagarajan Industry 17. Shri Adi Godrej Trade and Maharashtra Industry 18. Dr. Nandkishore Medicine Maharashtra Shamrao Laud 19. Shri Mangesh Literature & Maharashtra Padgaonkar Education 20. Prof. Gayatri Literature & USA* Chakravorty Spivak Education 21. Shri Hemendra Singh Civil Service Madhya Pradesh Panwar 22. Dr. Maharaj Kishan Civil Service Delhi Bhan 23. Shri Rahul Dravid Sports Karnataka 24. Ms. Mary Kom Sports Manipur Note:* Indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous # indicates Duo Case. PADMA SHRI AWARDS 2013 S.NO NAME FIELD STATE/DOMICILE 1. Shri Gajam Anjaiah Art Andhra Pradesh 2. Swami G.C.D. Bharti Art Chhattisgarh alias Bharati Bandhu 3. Ms. B. Jayashree Art Karnataka 4. Smt. Sridevi Kapoor Art Maharashtra 5. Shri Kailash Chandra Art Orissa Meher 6. Shri Brahmdeo Ram Art Maharashtra Pandit 7. Shri Vishwanath Art Maharashtra Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar 8. Shri Rekandar Art Andhra Pradesh murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 6 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS Nageswara Rao 9. Shri Lakshmi Art Tamil Nadu Narayana Sathiraju 10. Smt. Jaymala Art Maharashtra Shiledar 11. Shri Suresh Art Maharashtra Dattatray Talwalkar 12. Shri P. Madhavan Art Kerala Nair alias Madhu 13. Shri Apurba Kishore Art Maharashtra Bir 14. Shri Ghanakanta Art Assam Bora Borbayan 15. Smt. Hilda Mit Art Sikkim Lepcha 16. Smt. Sudha Malhotra Art Maharashtra 17. Shri Ghulam Art Jammu and Kashmir Mohammad Saznawaz 18. Shri Ramesh Art Maharashtra Gopaldas Sippy 19. Ms. Mahrukh Art Maharashtra Tarapor 20. Shri Balwant Thakur Art Jammu & Kashmir 21. Shri Puran Das Baul Art West Bengal 22. Shri Rajendra Tikku Art Jammu & Kashmir 23. Shri Pablo Art Delhi Bartholomew 24. Shri S. Shakir Ali Art Rajasthan 25. Sh. S.K.M Social Work Tamil Nadu Maeilanandhan 26. Ms. Nileema Mishra Social Work Maharashtra 27. Ms. Reema Nanavati Social Work Gujarat 28. Ms. Jharna Dhara Social Work Bangladesh * Chowdhury 29. Late Dr. Ram Social Work Uttar Pradesh # Krishan murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 7 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS 30. Late Manju Bharat Social Work Delhi # 31. Prof. Mustansir Science and Maharashtra Barma Eng 32. Shri Avinash Science and Delhi Chander Eng 33. Prof. Sanjay Govind Science and Uttar Pradesh Dhande Eng 34. Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Science and West Bengal Kumar Pal Eng 35. Prof. Deepak B. Science and Maharashtra Phatak Eng 36. Dr. Mudundi Science and Andhra Pradesh Ramakrishna Raju Eng 37. Prof. Ajay K. Sood Science and Karnataka Eng 38. Prof. Krishnaswamy Science and Karnataka Vijayraghavan Eng 39. Dr. Manindra Science and Uttar Pradesh Agrawal Eng 40. Dr. Jayaraman Science and Andhra Pradesh Gowrishankar Eng 41. Prof. Sharad Science and Maharashtra Pandurang Kale Eng 42. Smt. Vandana Luthra Trade and Delhi Ind 43. Ms. Rajshree Pathy Trade and Tamil Nadu Ind 44. Shri Hemendra Trade and Assam Prasad Barooah Ind 45. Shri Milind Kamble Trade and Maharashtra Ind 46. Ms. Kalpana Saroj Trade and Maharashtra Ind 47. Dr. Sudarshan K. Medicine Delhi Aggarwal 48. Dr. C. Venkata S. Medicine Andhra Pradesh Ram alias Chitta Venkata Sundara murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 8 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS Ram 49. Dr. Rajendra Achyut Medicine Maharashtra Badwe 50. Dr. Taraprasad Das Medicine Orissa 51. Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Medicine Tamil Nadu Devarajan 52. Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Medicine Uttar Pradesh Chooramani Gopal 53. Dr. Pramod Kumar Medicine Delhi Julka 54. Dr. Gulshan Rai Medicine Delhi Khatri 55. Dr. Ganesh Kumar Medicine Delhi Mani 56. Dr. Amit Prabhakar Medicine Maharashtra Maydeo 57. Dr. Sundaram Medicine Maharashtra Natarajan 58. Prof. Krishna Medicine Uttar Pradesh Chandra Chunekar 59. Dr. Vishwa Kumar Medicine Delhi Gupta 60. Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Literature & Bihar Mohammad Sharaf-e- Education Alam 61. Dr. Radhika Literature & Andhra Pradesh Herzberger Education 62. Shri J. Malsawma Literature & Mizoram Education 63. Shri Devendra Patel Literature & Gujarat Education 64. Dr. Rama Kant Literature & Delhi Shukla Education 65. Prof. Akhtarul Wasey Literature & Delhi Education 66. Prof. Anvita Abbi Literature & Delhi Education 67. Shri Nida Fazli Literature & Madhya Pradesh murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 9 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS Education 68. Shri Surender Kumar Literature & Delhi Sharma Education 69. Dr. Jagdish Prasad Literature & Bihar Singh Education 70. Late Shaukat Riaz Literature & West Bengal # Kapoor Alias Salik Education Lakhnawi 71. Prof. Noboru Literature & Japan * Karashima Education 72. Shri Christopher Literature & UK * Pinney Education 73. Smt. Premlata Sports Jharkhand Agrawal 74. Shri Yogeshwar Dutt Sports Haryana 75. Shri Hosanagara Sports Karnataka Nagarajegowda Girisha 76. Subedar Major Vijay Sports Himachal Pradesh Kumar 77. Shri Ngangom Sports Maharashtra Dingko Singh 78. Naib Subedar Sports Rajasthan Bajrang Lal Takhar 79. Ms. Ritu Kumar Fashion Delhi Designing 80. Dr. Ravindra Singh Archaeology Uttar Pradesh Bisht Note:* Indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous # indicates Duo Case. murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 10 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS S. Janaki rejects the award:- Ms. Janaki, winner of four National Awards, stirred up a new controversy when she rejected the Padma Bhushan Award conferred on her describing it as “too late”. The singer said to mediapersons that, she deserved Bharat Ratna for having sung thousands of songs in various languages. She added that the government should show some more consideration to artists from south India in recognizing their talents and contributions. Long since these Padma awards have lost any merit. The practice of awarding posthumously had diluted its worth to zero. It is really surprising why Bharat Ratna was ever awarded posthumously, to Mahatma Gandhi or Netaji Bose or Sardar Patel or even Jhansi ki Rani! Because no longer they count for vote banks! We, as a country know how to spoil anything, instituted by us or borrowed from others! What Janaki said about the rejection of the award? http://murugesansenthil.blogspot.in/2013/01/i-deserve-much- more-s-janaki.html murugesansenthil.blogspot.com - 11 - JAN 2013 CURRENT AFFAIRS ARYABHATTA AWARD The former secretary of the Department of Ocean Development, A.E. Muthunayagam, will receive the prestigious Aryabhatta award, instituted by the Astronautical Society of India (ASI), for 2010 and V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, will receive the award for 2011. They have been selected for their achievements in rocketry. The ASI awards for rocket and related technologies will go to G. Satheesh Reddy, associate director of the Research Centre, Imarat, Hyderabad, for 2010 and P. Kunhikrishnan of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,