Current Affairs

JANUARY 2009

1. 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
4. Who became the country’s youngest international referee, after passing the world body FIBA’s exam ?
Zanim Mohammed Hashim from Thalassery, Kerala
5. The first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music Score ?
A.R.Rahman for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman’s song ‘Jai Ho,’ penned by lyricist Gulzar, was nominated for Best Original Music Score.
6. Which Malayalam Writer won the “Odakkuzhal Award ” ?
K.G.Sankara Pillai
7. Who became the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in one-day internationals ?
Ajantha Mendis , completed his 50-wicket haul in his 19th one-day international. He surpassed the record of India’s Ajit Agarkar who took 23 matches to reach the milestone.
8. Who has been appointed as the General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget in the upcoming administration of U.S.President Barack Obama?


Preeta Bansal, Leading Indian-American lawyer
9. Name the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8, which is world’s fastest cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster than the U.S.A’s subsonic Harpoon cruise missile?
Brahmos, The acronym ‘BrahMos’ is perceived as the confluence of the two nations represented by two great rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.
10. Who is the Man of the Series in the recently held Zimbabwe –Bangladesh One Day Series held in Bangladesh?
Shakib Al Hasan
11. The first Bangladesh player to top one of the International Cricket Council’s player rankings?
Shakib Al Hasan He tops the ICC ODI Rankings for all-rounders
12. Jharkhand Chief Minister who resigned from his post following his defeat in the Tamar assembly by-poll?
Shibu Soren
13. Music Sensation A.R.Rahman won how many Oscar nominations for the film “Slumdog Millionaire” ?
Three nominations (Music, Songs (Jai Ho, O Saya))
14. Indian sound engineer from Mumbai, born in Kerala, nominated for the Oscars for Best sound mixing in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?


Rasool Pookutty
15. Which film won most number of Oscar Nominations in 2008?
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with 13 Oscar nominations.
16. Name the founder and Chairman of Satyam Computers until January 7, 2009 when he resigned from the Satyam board after admitting to corporate fraud of 7000 crore rupees ?


Ramalinga Raju
17. The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor Sr., who was sentenced to 97 years in prison for charges including torture and conspiracy, according to a federal court in Florida. ?
Charles McArthur Emmanuel
He also known as Charles “Chuckie” Taylor Jr.
18. Who is BBC African Footballer of the Year 2008


Egyptian footballer Mohamed Aboutrika
19. The new model car launched by Fiat India Automobiles Ltd in India during fist quarter of 2009.

Fiat Linea
20. Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab?
Sukhbir Singh Badal
21. The 50th anniversary of the Triumph of a country’s Revolution is observed on this year January? Which revolution?
Cuban Revolution
22. The Three Indian cricketing legends, who figured among the 55 former players named in the ICC`s inaugural Hall of Fame list as part of its centenary celebrations ?
Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Bishan Singh Bedi
23. The Chief Financial Officer of Satyam Computers, who was remanded to judicial custody charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery of accounts?
Srinivas Vadlamani
24. Who is the new President of Ghana?
John Atta Mills
25. Name of the Bacteria developed by Australian Scientists to prevent Dengue Fever by infecting the dengue mosquito with that bacterium which halves its lifespan?
Wolbachia bacterium
26. Who became the youngest chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?
Omar Abdulla
27. Who is the deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir?
Tara Chand
28. Which team won the Ranji Trophy for the season 2008-2009?
Mumbai, they beat Utharpradesh to clinch the title.
29. Who is the fifth New Zealand Cricket player to score a century in his debut?
Martin Guptill, he scored 122 runs (not out) against West Indies in his debut match
30. Prem Nazir Award is won by?
Malayalam Actor, Jayaram
31. The fourth Thikkurissi Foundation Award is won by?
Malayalam Actor, Balachandra Menon
32. Dadasaheb Phalke award winner and noted film-maker who died recently at a hospital in Kolkata after a prolonged illness?
Tapan Sinha
33. The Australian Cricketer who retired recently from international cricket?
Mathew Hayden
34. Which player’s performance is counted as the best ever Test Innings of 2008 selected by Cricinfo?
Virender Sehwag, his double century against Sri Lanka
Best Bowling performance : Dale Steyn against Australia in Melbourne , he took 5 wicket s for 67 runs.
35. The first player in the history of cricket to score 10,000 runs and 250wickets in both tests and One Day internationals?
Jacques Kallis

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Indian Gold Medal Winners of Commonwealth Games, Delhi

Indian Gold Medal Winners of Commonwealth Delhi| Commonwealth games 2010 medal tally | Commonwealth Games 2010 Indian Medal Winners| Medals and Results | CWG Medal List | Indian Bronze Medal winners

Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi is the biggest sports event in Delhi, India has ever organized. India created a new record at the just concluded Commonwealth games 2010. India not only remained at the second position in the medals tally but also won its largest haul of medals in the Commonwealth games. India won total 38 Gold Medals in CWG 2010. Australia on No. 1 with 78 Gold Medals & England on 3rd position with 37 Gold Medals, 27 Silver Medal , 36 Bronze Medal.

Indian Gold Medal winners in CWG 2010

1. Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang – Men’s 10m Air Rifle (Pairs)Shooting |Date October 5

2. Anisa Sayyed and Rani Sarnobat - Women’s 25m Pistol (Pairs) Shooting |Date October 5

3. Ravinder Singh – Men’s 60kg – Repechage Wrestling-Greco-Roman |Date October 5

4. Anil Kumar Men’s 96kg – Repechage Wrestling-Greco-Roman |Date October 5

5. Sanjay Kumar Men’s 74kg – Repechage Wrestling-Greco-Roman |Date October 5

6. Renu Bala Chanu Yumnam – Women’s 58kg Category Weightlifting |Date October 6

7. Ravi Kumar Katulu- Men’s 69kg Category Weightlifting |Date October 6

8. Anisa Sayyed- Women’s 25m Pistol Shooting |Date October 6

9. Omkar Singh- Men’s 50m Pistol Shooting |Date October 6

10. Rajender Kumar – Men’s 55kg – Repechage Wrestling-Greco-Roman |Date October 6

11. Gagan Narang- Men’s 10m Air Rifle Shooting |Date October 6

12.Omkar Singh and Gurpreet Singh – Men’s 10m Air Pistol (Pairs) Shooting |Date October 7

13 Gurpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar- Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Pairs) Shooting |Date October 7

14. Geeta Rani – Women’s 55kg – Repechage Wrestling-Freestyle |Date October 7

15. Alka Tomar- Women’s 59kg – Repechage Wrestling-Freestyle |Date October 8

16. Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumar and Bombayala Laishram- Women’s Recurve – Team Archery |Date October 8

17. Gagan Narang and Imran Hassan Khan- Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) Shooting |Date October 8

18. Omkar Singh – Men’s 10m Air Pistol Shooting |Date October 8

19. Anita Kumari Women’s 67kg – Repechage Wrestling-Freestyle |Date October 8

20. Vijay Kumar – Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Shooting |Date October 9

21. Vijay Kumar and Harpreet Singh- Men’s 25m Centrefire Pistol (Pairs) Shooting |Date October 9

22. Gagan Narang- Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Shooting |Date October 9

23. Yogeshwar Dutt- Men’s 60kg – Repechage Wrestling-Freestyle |Date October 9

24. Narsingh Panch Yadav- Men’s 74kg – Repechage Wrestling-Freestyle |Date October 9

25. Deepika Kumari- Women’s Recurve – Individual Archery |Date October 10

26. Rahul Banerjee- Men’s Recurve – Individual Gold Medal Match Archery |Date 10October

27. Harpreet Singh- Men’s 25m Centrefire Pistol (Singles) Shooting |Date October 10

28. Somdev Devvarman- Men’s Singles – Gold Medal Match Tennis |Date October 10

29. Sushil Kunar- Men’s 66kg – Repechage Wrestling-Freestyle |Date October 10

30. Krishna Poonia – Discus throw (women) |Date October 11

31. Heena Sindhu and Anuraj Singh – Women’s pairs 10m air pistol event |Date October 12

32. Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur – Women’s 4 x 400m Relay |Date October 12

33. Suranjoy Mayengbam – Fly Weight 52kg Boxing event |Date October 13

34. Manoj Kumar – Light Welter Weight 64kg Boxing event |Date October 13

35. Paramjeet Samota – Super Heavy Weight +91kg Boxing event |Date October 13

36. Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha – Table Tennis men’s doubles final |Date October 13

37. Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta – Badminton doubles |Date October 14

38. Saina Nehwal – Badminton Singles |Date October 14

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*The split of total medals by day will be updated after all results for the day have been confirmed

Rank Country Total Medals by Day* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Australia 6 17 23 23 29 18 21 6 10 16 - 74 55 48 177 2 India 4 7 13 10 14 10 15 8 8 7 - 38 27 36 101 3 England 4 8 14 21 29 20 8 7 10 17 - 37 60 45 142 4 Canada 4 3 5 12 15 11 9 7 8 2 - 26 17 33 76 5 South Africa 2 3 4 7 2 9 4 1 1 0 - 12 11 10 33 6 Kenya 0 0 3 0 3 5 3 7 6 1 - 12 11 9 32 7 Malaysia 1 4 4 1 6 1 3 3 1 4 - 12 10 14 36 8 Singapore 0 2 2 4 3 3 2 0 3 7 - 11 11 9 31 9 Nigeria 1 2 2 6 5 3 5 0 7 0 - 11 8 14 33 10 Scotland 1 2 2 1 3 5 3 2 2 5 - 9 10 7 26 11 New Zealand 0 2 5 3 9 2 2 2 3 6 - 6 22 8 36 12 Cyprus 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 - 4 3 4 11 13 Northern Ireland 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 - 3 3 4 10 14 Samoa 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 - 3 0 1 4 15 Wales 1 1 0 5 2 0 3 3 1 2 - 2 7 10 19 16 Jamaica 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 - 2 4 1 7 17 Pakistan 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 - 2 1 2 5 18 Uganda 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 2 0 0 2 19 Bahamas 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 - 1 1 4 6 20 Sri Lanka 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 1 1 3 21 Nauru 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 1 1 0 2 22 Botswana 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 - 1 0 3 4 23 Cayman Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 1 0 0 1 23 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 0 0 1 25 Trinidad and Tobago 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 - 0 4 2 6 26 Cameroon 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 - 0 2 4 6 27 Ghana 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 - 0 1 3 4 28 Namibia 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 - 0 1 2 3 29 Guyana 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 0 1 29 Papua New Guinea 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 0 1 29 Seychelles 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 0 1 32 Isle of Man 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 2 2 32 Mauritius 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 0 0 2 2 32 Tonga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - 0 0 2 2 35 Bangladesh 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 1 1 35 Saint Lucia 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 0 0 1 1

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Source:- NDTV

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Medals won by India in Asian Games 2010

In 16th Asiad Games 2010 at Guangzhou , India earned 14 Gold medals , 17 Silver medals and 33 Bronze medals. India was in the Sixth place in the Asian games.
India lost many medals which they could have grabbed like in Tripple jump , Racing and Relay.
India’s performance in the Preliminary football matches in Asian Games were very disappointing. But , they managed to win a Bronze medal in the end in Football.

Medals won by India in Asian Games 2010

Gold Medals

1. Billiard Sports ADVANI Pankaj Men’s English Billiards Singles Gold medal
2. Rowing TAKHAR Bajrang Lal Men’s Single Sculls Gold medal
3. Athletics SINGH Sudha Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Gold medal
4. Athletics SREEDHARAN Preeja Women’s 10,000m Gold medal
5. Tennis Somdev Devvarman / SINGH Men’s Doubles Gold Medal
6. Shooting SODHI Ronjan Men’s Double Trap Gold medal
7. Somdev Devvarman won Gold medal in Tennis Men’s Singles for India
8. Ashwini Chidananda won Gold medal in women’s 400m hurdles event
9. Joseph Abraham won Gold medal in men’s 400m hurdles event
10. Krishan Vikas won Gold medal in Men’s 60kg Boxing
11. India Kabaddi India won the Men’s Gold medal
12. India Kabaddi India won the Women’s Gold medal
13. India Athletics India won the Women’s 4 x 400m Relay Gold medal
14. Vijender Singh Men’s 75kg Boxing Gold medal

Silver Medals

1. Billiard Sports India Men’s Snooker Team Silver medal
2. Shooting Shooting Gagan Narang Silver medal
3. Shooting Women’s 10m Air Pistol Team Silver medal
4. Shooting Men’s 10m Air Rifle Team Silver medal
5. India achieved Silver medal in the Rowing Men’s Four
6. India achieved Silver medal in the Rowing Lightweight Men’s Four
7. India Sandhyarani Wangkhem achieved Silver medal in the Wushu Women’s Sanshou 60kg
8. Golf – Men’s Team – Silver Medal
9. Indian Team won Silver medal in Rowing Men’s Eight
10. Sailing – Open Match Racing – Silver Medal
11. Kavita Raut – Athletics Women’s 10,000m – Silver Medal
12. Tennis Sania Mirza / VARDHAN Mixed Doubles Silver Medal
13. Tarundeep Rai won Silver medal in Archery Men’s Individual
14. Dinesh Kumar won Silver medal in Men’s 81kg Boxing
15. India Boxing VIROTHU Santhosh Kumar won the Men’s 64kg Silver medal
16. India Athletics SREEDHARAN Preeja won the Women’s 5000m Silver medal
17. India Boxing SINGH Manpreet won the Men’s 91kg Silver medal

Bronze Medals

1. Shooting KUMAR Vijay Men’s 10m Air Pistol Bronze medal
2. Billiard Sports KUMAR Alok Men’s 8-Ball Pool Singles Bronze medal
3. Artistic Gymnastics Ashish Kumar Men’s Floor event Bronze medal
4. Chess Dronavalli Harika Women’s Individual Bronze medal
5. Swimming Virdhawal Vikram Men’s 50m Butterfly event Bronze medal
6. Wushu Men’s Sanshou 60kg event Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam Bronze medal
7. India KUMAR Vijay achieved Bronze medal in the Shooting Men’s 25m Center Fire Pistol
8. India KHADE Virdhawal Vk achieved Bronze medal in the Swimming Men’s 50m Butterfly
9. India Bimoljit Singh Mayanglambam achieved Bronze medal in the Wushu Men’s Sanshou 60kg
10. Billiard Sports – Aditya Snehal Mehta – Men’s Snooker Singles – Bronze Medal
11. Rowing Women’s Pair - Pratima Puhana , Pramila Prava Minz won Bronze medal
12. Shooting Men’s Trap Team – Bronze medal
13. Shooting Men’s Double Trap Team – Bronze medal
14. Squash Saurav Ghosal – Men’s Individual
15. Sania Mirza won Bronze Medal in Tennis Women’s Singles
16. Ravinder Singh won Bronze Medal in Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 60 kg
17. Sunilkumar Rana won Bronze Medal in Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 66 kg
18. Krishna Poonia won Bronze in Athletics Women’s Discus Throw
19. Pramila Ganapathy Gudandda won Bronze in Athletics Women’s Heptathlon
20. In Boxing Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte Women’s 48-51kg won the Bronze medal
21. In Boxing Suranjoy Singh Mayengbam Men’s 52kg Bronze medal
22. In Boxing Kavita Goyat Women’s 69-75kg Bronze medal
23. In Boxing Paramjeet Samota Men’s +91kg Bronze medal
24. In Squash Men’s Team won Bronze medal
25. In Squash Women’s Team won Bronze medal
26. In Women’s 800m event of Track and Field Tintu Luka won Bronze medal
27. Mausam Khatri won Bronze medal in Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 96 kg
28. India won Bronze medal in Men’s Hockey match
29. India Roller Sports PANCHAL Avani Bhar.. won the Pairs Skating Bronze medal
30. India Athletics RAUT Kavita won the Women’s 5000m Bronze medal
31. India Boxing GOYAT Kavita won the Women’s 69-75kg Bronze medal
32. India Chess India won the Men’s Team Bronze medal
33. India Roller Sports YAMA Anup Kumar won the Men’s Single Free Skating Bronze medal

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