Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com you’re A to Z competitive Exam Guide Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam 1 Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com People in news New Director of CBI - Ranjit Sinha US Professor of the year 2012 - Autar Kaw Miss International 2012 - Ikumi Yoshimatsu Forbe's Richest Indian - Mukesh Ambani Member of Order of Australia - Sachin Tendulkar New Director general of the BBC - Tony Hall New coach for Indian Basket Ball Team - Scott Fleming First female African Union chief - Nkosazana Dlamini-Zum Brazil's Supreme Court's first non-White President - Joaquim Barbosa New Chairperson of the Election Commission of The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) - Anil Dev Singh Terrorist of 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks who hanged on 21 November 2012 – Ajmal Kasab New Managing Director and Chief Executive of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) - Ashishkumar Chauhan Political cartoonist arrested by police - Aseem Trivedi Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of World Bank - Kaushik Basu UN Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS - Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Chairman of the Board of Directors of PTI - R Lakshmipathy New Secretary General of Rajya Sabha - Shumsher K Sheriff New Indian Ambassador to Israel - Jaideep Sarkar India’s high commissioner to Canada - Nirmal Verma Miss India Fiji 2012 - Sheryl Kumar New chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) - Shailesh Gupta New Chief Justice of Singapore - Sundaresh Menon America’s first ever Hindu to be elected to the House of Representatives - Tulsi Gabbard New National Icons for Election Commission - Saina Nehwal and Mary Kom CMD of Coal India Limted- Mr S. Narsing Rao. www.Gr8AmbitionZ.comLike our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Gr8AmbitionZ for daily updates Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam 2 Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com Uzbekistan President-Islam Karimov Romania President who gave Resign-Train Basescu Fiji President-Ratu Epeli Nailatikau Afghan Defence Minister Who Resign-Abdul Rahim Wardak US Defence Secretary-Leon Panetta China Finance Minister -Liu Weimin President of Tajikistan-Emomali Rahmon South Korea Prez: Lee Myung Bak President of Pakistan- Asif Ali Zardari Bhutanese PM- Jigme Y Thinley Syria President-Bashra-al-Assad U.S Defence Secretary -Leon Pnetta Prime Minister of Singapore- Mr. Lee Hsien Loong Forbes Richest American – Bill Gates Mauritius Prime Minister -Navinchandra Ramgoolam New Chief Justice of India – Altamas Kabir South Africa President-Jacob Zuma Indian Author in the Man Booker Prize Race – Jeet Thayil APPOINTMENTS National : Secretary in National Commission for Women - Ajit Saran New Indian envoy to Israel – Jaideep Sarkar New Indian envoy to Canada – Nirmal Kumar Verma New MSME secretary - Vivek Rae New chairman of ICC Cricket Committee - Anil Kumble Junior pistol chief coach - Jaspal Rana India’s ambassador to Brazil - Ashok Kumar New Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau – Rajiv Mehta New FMC (Forward Markets Commission) Chairman – Ramesh Abhishek New Director on the Central Board of Directors of the RBI - Y C Deveshwar New President of Indian Newspaper Society – Tilak Kumar New Secretary Gen. of Rajya Sabha – Shumsher K Sheriff www.Gr8AmbitionZ.comLike our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Gr8AmbitionZ for daily updates Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam 3 Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com New Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulation – Shailesh Gupta New President of Indian Boxing Federation – Abhishek Matoria New Economic affairs secretary-Arvind Mayaram New Chief Economic Advisor-Raghuram Rajan New Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL)Chairperson - Shyamala Gopinath Re-appoint Deputy Governer of RBI: K C Chakrabarty New President of India- Pranab Mukherjee Re-elected Vice President-Hamid Ansari(loss-Jashwant Sing) New CBDT Chairperson- Poonam Kishore Saxena New Union Railway Minister- Pawan Kumar Bansal New Aviation Secretary-K N Srivastava New Union Aviation Minister- Ajit Singh New Election Commissioner-S. Nasim Ahmad Zaidi New Chief Election Commissioner-V.S. Sampath New secretary to the Prez of India-Omita Paul Head of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Committee - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore New CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce- S.L. Bansal New Executive Director of PNB-S. R Bansal New CEO of Prasar Bharti – Jawhar Sircar LIC new Chairman-D.K Mehrotra New Navy chief-D.K.Joshi New CMD of Union Bank - D. Sarkar New CMD of Syndicate Bank- M.G. Sanghvi New CMD of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank- Nagendra Murthy (Pri-Mr K.T Jagannathan) New Chairman of Indian Medical Association - Dr. Narendra Saini New IBA Chairman-K R Kamath New director of IBPS- Anup Sankar Bhattacharya New Coach of Indian Hockey Team-Jack Nobbs New President of FICCI- R.V. Kanoria New President of International Chamber of Commerce India New Country Director of World Bank for India – Onno Ruhl Harsh Pati Singhania New CMD of GIC – A.K.Roy New CMD of OICL-Dr. A.K. Saxena www.Gr8AmbitionZ.comLike our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Gr8AmbitionZ for daily updates Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam 4 Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com New Director-General of Indian Coast Guard- M.P. Muralidharan New Chief Justice of India-Altamas Kabir US Ambassador to India - Nancy J Powell New Ambassador to Cambodia – Dinesh K. Patnaik New CM of Karnataka -Jagadish Shettar (Previous : Sadananda Gowda) New Chief Minister of U.P.- Akhilesh Yadav New Chief Minister of Punjab – Prakash Singh Badal New Chief Minister of Goa- Manohar Parikar New Chief Minister of Uttrakhand- Vijay Bahuguna New Chief Minister of Manipur- Okram Ibobi Singh Governor of Andhra Pradesh - E S L Narasimhan (reelect) Governor of Maharashtra - K. Sankaranarayanan (reelect) Governor of Rajasthan-Margaret Alva New Supreme Court Judge- F. M. Ibrahim Kalifulla Next Army chief of India-Lt. General Bikram Singh. New Communication Advisor to the Prime Minister - Pankaj Pachauri President of ASSOCHAM- Mr Rajkumar Dhoot Reelected NASSCOM President-Som Mittal Chairman of NASSCOM-N Chandrasekaran Indian High commissioner to U.K. – Jaimini Bhagwati TRAI Chairman-Rahul Khullar New Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha-PJ Kurien New CII President-Adi Godrej New President of Hockey India- Mariamma Koshy World Bank Chief Economist-Kaushik Basu International : New President of Somalia - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud New President of Unisted States – Barrak Obama (2nd Time) New Secretary General of SAARC-Ahmed Saleem New ISI Director general-Zaheer-ul-Islam New President of Russia- Vladimir Putin (3rd Time) New PM of Greece - Antonis Samaras New PM of Pak- Raja Pervez Ashraf. Prez of the European Council - Herman Van Rompuy (reelected) New PM of Syria- Wael al-Halki(Replace: Riyad Hijab) www.Gr8AmbitionZ.comLike our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Gr8AmbitionZ for daily updates Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam 5 Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com New PM of France-Jean Marc Ayrault New IFC Head – (Indian International Finance Corp.) – Jim Yong Cai New PM of Egypt- Hisham Kandil UN-Arab League envoy for Syria-Lakhdar Brahimi New President of Egypt/ Misra- Mohamed Morsi (Freedam & Jasits Party) bt Ahmad Sarif New President of Serbia- Tomislav Nikolic New President of Maldives - Mohamed Waheed New Pakistan High Commissioner to India - Salman Bashir New CEO of Deutsche Bank-Ravneet Gill New CEO of ICC-David Richardson(Pri-Haroom Largat)(SA) New President of ICC-Alan Issac(N.Z.)(Pr-S.Powar) New Italian Finance Minister-M-Vittorio Grilli New World Bank Chief Economist-Kaushik Basu New President of Yemen-A.Mansour Hadi Nepal’s Army Chief- Gaurav Shumsher Rana New president of World Bank - Jim Yong Kim (Koreanborn) New President of Germany - Joachim Gauck ICC President-Allan Isaac(NZ)(Privious-Sharad Pawar) New UN mediator in Syria-Lakhdar Brahimi President of Nicaragua - Daniel Ortega (re-elected) President of Guyana - Donald Ramotar New Mauritius President-Rajkeshwur Purryag (Anerood Jugnauth) New President of Mexico-Enrique Pena Nieto (from Dec- 12, Current:Philip Cardelon) New Paragawe President-Fedrico Franco(VP)(Privious who have given resign-Fernando Armindo(given Resign) New President of Malawi - Joyce Banda New President of Libya: Mohammed Magarief www.Gr8AmbitionZ.comLike our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Gr8AmbitionZ for daily updates Quick Reference Guide for IBPS Clerks Online Exam 6 Powered by www.Gr8AmbitionZ.com HEADS OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS Comptroller and Auditor General of India - Shri. Vinod Rai Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India - Shri. Pradeepkumar Chief Election Commissioner Of India - Shri V.S. Sampath Chief Justice of India - Shri. Althamas Kabir Army Chief - General Bikram Singh Naval Admiral - Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi Air Chief Marshal - Norman Anil Kumar Browne Boarder Security Force - Director General - U K Bansal Central Bureau of Investigation - Ranjit Sinha Securities and Exchange Board Of India - U K Sinha Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority - J Harinarayan Telcom Regulatory Authority Of India – Rahul Khullar NATIONAL FILM AWARDS Best Feature Film: - 'Devur' (Marathi) & 'Byari' (Kannada) Best Director:- Gurvinder Singh, 'Anhe Ghorey Da Daan' Best Actor: - Girish Kulkarni, 'Deool' Best Actress:- Vidya Balan, 'The Dirty Picture' Best Children's Film: - 'Chillar Party' InternatIonal FIlm awards OSCAR Best Film: The Artist