Current Affairs January 2011

1. Bharat Ratna Classical Singer who died recently at the age of 88 ? - Pandit Bhinsen Joshi 2. Italian Film director ,screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all’Italiana (Comedy Italian style) who died on November 29, 2010 at the age of 95, after comitting suicide by jumping from a window of the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was admitted a few days earlier for prostate cancer?- Mario Monicelli.3. who has been selected for the National Communal Harmony Award ?- Acharya Lokesh Muni4. The 26th...

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International Current Affairs 2011

Current Affairs [January 2011]Salman Taseer Killed in IslamabadPunjab Governor Salman Tasser was shot dead by one of his own body guards at the Khosar market in Islamabad. Taseer was a member of Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party(PPP) and was vocal on a various issues including Pakistans Blasphemy Law. The assassin was Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, a member of Punjab Elite Force who shot the Governor with his weapon and surrendered to the security forces moments after shooting the governor dead. Interior Minister Rehman Malik...

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Current affairs January 2010

Current affairs January 20101. Now which is the tallest Building in the world?Answer:- Burj tower (828 m) Dubai.Burj Khalifa formerly known as Burj Dubai is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. Total cost for the Burj Khalifa project was about US$1.5 billion.Height:Antenna or spire: 828m (2,717 ft).Floor Count: 160 habitable floors plus 46 maintenance levels in the spire and 2 parking levels in the basement.Floor...

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Current Affairs

June 2009226. Who has been appointed as the Chief of the Indian Air Force with effect from the afternoon of May 31, 2009?Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik227. Who is appointed as the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 2009?Meira Kumar228. Who was elected as BJP’s Parliamentary party leader after the recent elections in 2009?L K Advani229. Noted Malayalam writer and poetess, who earned fame for her works in English, passed away recently, leaving behind a rich treasure of poems and stories of love?Kamala Das (also known...

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Current Affairs

JANUARY 20091. The new federal agency approved by the Indian Government to combat terror in India which will be empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the state ? National Investigation Agency. 2. Who is appointed as Director General of the newly established National Investigation Agency (NIA).? Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir 3. “Man of the series” of recently held One Day series between Australia & South Africa? Albie Morkel...

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