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Current Affairs Part 1 SHUNMUGAM IAS STUDY CIRCLE H.O: Coimbatore -99941 46662 B.O: Tirunelveli - 95972 11166, Tirupur -99944 27714 SHUNMUGAM IAS STUDY CIRCLE Coimbatore, Tirupur & Tirunelveli 99941 46662 99944 27714 95972 11166 on 7th November 2012. Last Eight months Cur rent affairs 2012 -13 for IBPS S pec ialist Officer’s and SBI PO Exam Current Affairs Study Material for Month of China’s Communist Party selects new leadership China elects the new President as Xi Jinping and August 2012 Prime Minister as Li Keqiang on 14 November September 2012 2012. October 2012 U.N. approves Palestinian ‘observer state’ bid November 2012 The United Nations General Assembly on 30 December 2012 November 2012 endorsed an upgraded U.N. January 2013 status for the Palestinian Authority, despite intense opposition from the United States and Febraury 2013 Israel.The vote was 138 delegates in favor of the March 2013 measure including India, nine against including Content: America, Brazil and Canada and 41 abstentions including Britain. 1. International Mahama Re-elected as Ghana’s President : 2. India and World On 10 December Ghana’s incumbent President 3. National John Dramani Mahama of the ruling National 4. States Democratic Congress (NDC) 5. Conferences has won the country’s 6. Awards and Honours presidential election. 7. Sports News Mahama took 50.70 percent 8. Economy of the total valid votes cast, 9. Science & Technology while his closest challenger, 10. Persons in news Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- 11. Places In News Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) obtained 47.74 percent.With his re-election, 12. Abbreviations Mahama becomes the fourthpresident to be 13. Books in news elected under the Forth Republic.He had served 14. Committees as Ghana’s vice president since 2009. 1. International Events Shinzo Abe Elected As Japan’s New PM : The former Prime Minister and the Leader of LDP UN General Assembly elected five new non- Shinzo Abe elected as a Prime Minister with a permanent members to the Security Council. clear victory over the Prime Minister and leader The New Members are South Korea, of the Democratic Party of Japan(DPJ) Luxembourg, Argentina, Australia and Rwanda. Yoshihiko Noda in the Parliamentary Elections 28. on 26 December Barack Obama re-elected as President of US 2012.The lawmakers Barack Obama re- in Japan voted in elected as President of favour of Abe by US with a clear victory 328 votes. Opponent over Republican Banri Kaieda, the challenger Mitt Romney newly chosen leader of DPJ received merely 57 votes. 1 SHUNMUGAM IAS STUDY CIRCLE H.O: Coimbatore -99941 46662 B.O: Tirunelveli - 95972 11166, Tirupur -99944 27714 SHUNMUGAM IAS STUDY CIRCLE H.O: Coimbatore -99941 46662 B.O: Tirunelveli - 95972 11166, Tirupur -99944 27714 Jacob Zuma re-elected as South Africa’s 140 Nations Agreed On Global Mercury Limits President : South Africa’s ruling African On 19 January , More than 140 nations have National Congress on 18 December 2012 re- agreed on the first legally binding treaty to curb elected President Jacob Zuma as the party mercury pollution.Delegates at UN discussed in chief with a thumping majority. Mr.Zuma Geneva approved measures to control the use of received the support of over 75 per cent of the the highly toxic metal, which is widely used in total voting delegates at the ANC National chemical production and small-scale mining, in Conference held in Bloemfontein. Juma was order to limit mercury emissions.The Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to governments agreed to ban the production, 2005. export and import of a range of products containing mercury by 2020.The treaty has Park elected South Korean President : Park Guen-hye, the daughter of former military been discussed for four years, but it is only dictator Park Chung-hee, beat her opponent now that the negotiators agreed over the final version of the document. The treaty, on 19 December 2012 in known as the Minamata Convention on the South Korean Mercury, provides controls and reductions across presidential elections. Park a range of products and processes where is the country’s first woman mercury is used, released and emitted. President. She is the former head of the ruling Milos Zeman Elected as Czech Republic new Conservative Saenuri Party, had secured the President : On 25 January A leftist candidate necessary votes and defeatedMoon Jae-in, of Milos Zeman won the Czech Republic’s first the Democratic United Party. presidential election decided by direct vote.Milos Zeman, a Morsi signed on Egypt’s New Constitution : former prime minister On 25 December Egyptian President and head of the Mohamed Morsi signed into law a new Islamist-drafted constitution. He signed a Citizens’ Rights Party, declaration enforcing the charter late after won with 54.8% of the official announcement of the result of a the vote.He defeated Karel Schwarzenberg, referendum approving the basic law. Two- an aristocratic foreign minister with the TOP09 thirds of the members of the 270-seat council party, who garnered 45.2%.Zeman replaces were elected earlier this year in a vote in Vaclav Klaus, who must step down after serving which only 12 per cent of registered voters the maximum of two terms. participated. The remaining 90 were appointed by Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president. INDIA & WORLD Pakistan Recognised the Republic of Kosovo : EC signs MoU with South Korean counterpart : On 26 December Pakistan Government officially The Election Commission of India on 01 August recognised Kosovo as an independent state, 2012 signed an MoU with its South Korean almost five years after it declared counterpart to help each other in strengthening independence from Serbia the electoral processes and political on 17 February 2008. culture. The Memorandum of Understanding Pakistan is the 98th country was signed by Chief Election among the 193 U.N- Commissioner of India V S Sampath on behalf member states to recognise of the poll panel and by Justice Nung Hwan Kim Kosovo .Kosovo is a small of the Republic of Korea at a brief ceremony. This south east European state lies between is the 13th MoU signed by ECI with other Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. countries and international election panels. 2 SHUNMUGAM IAS STUDY CIRCLE H.O: Coimbatore -99941 46662 B.O: Tirunelveli - 95972 11166, Tirupur -99944 27714 SHUNMUGAM IAS STUDY CIRCLE H.O: Coimbatore -99941 46662 B.O: Tirunelveli - 95972 11166, Tirupur -99944 27714 India, Monaco ink tax information exchange Sonia is Sixth in Forbes list of 100 most agreement :Tata Communications’ payment powerful Women : The Forbes magazine solutions providing arm has bagged an on 22nd August 2012 ranked united progressive exclusive order to install and manage nearly Alliance(UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi the 14,000 ATMs for all public sector banks in sixth most powerful woman in the world in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West the list of 100women.Germany Chancellor Bengal,Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Angela Merkel got the first place. United Islands by 2013—14.”Government of India and States Secretary Hillary Clinton got the second Government of Principality of place and Michelle Obama got the 7th Place. Monaco have signed Tax i nformation Ranking by World Bank : As per the World Exchange Agreement (TIEA) on 02.August Bank Report, India has been ranked at 132 2012″. amongst the sample 183 India, Iran & Afghanistan to expand Countries.Recognising the need for Reforming trade,transit through Chabahar port : India, Iran the Regulatory Environment for doing and Afghanistan have moved one step closer to business in India, a Committee under the expand their trade and economic ties. At a Chairmanship of Shri. M.Damodaran has been trilateral meeting in Teheran, they agreed to constituted on 23 August 2012 by this work for expanding trade, investment and ministry to extensively examine different transit cooperation through Chabahar port in areas of root functioning such as financial Iran. A joint working group consisting ofthe reforms, governance reforms, liberalized representatives of the three countries will policy framework,process reforms etc, and to meet within the next three months in suggest a roadmap for improving business Chabahar to expedite the process. climate in India India to help Sri Lanka set up SEZs :India India, China to resume joint military exercises will help Sri Lanka establish a special India and China announced on 04th September economic zone to manufacture auto 2012 they would resume joint military components in Trincomaee, commerce minister exercises after a four-year gap, a move Anand Sharma said in colombo on 03 August designed to build trust in the often prickly 2012. The SEZ would promote exports to relationship between the world’s two most the production chains in India. populous nations. Indian Scientist , Amitabh Ghosh in NASA Five Indian firms in Forbes list of world’s most team helped choose Curiosity’s landing site : innovative companies : Five Indian companies An Indian scientist, including Larsen & Toubro, Hindustan Amitabh Ghosh part of the Unilever and Infosys are ranked on Forbes NASA team which had magazine’s list of “The World’s Most identified the landing site of Innovative Companies” topped by four US the ‘Curiosity’ rover on companies.Larsen & Toubro got the ninth Mars on 6August 2012 described the Spot as rank,Hindustan Unilever got the 12th rank, “very exciting and holding “great promise”. Infosys got 19th rank,Tata Consultancy Services got 29th rank and Sun India Ranked Second in Search Queries for Pharmaceutical Industries got 38th rank.Four Education on Google :Indian Ranked second US companies- Cloud computing king in education queries on Google.After the US, Salesforce.com, drug major Alexion Indian people from IIT Delhi and IIM Pharmaceuticals, internet retail giant Ahmadabad were the most searched in their Amazon.com and open source software leader respective categories.
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