January
1. Louis Braille Day 5th January
2. World Laughter Day 10th January
3. National Youth Day
( Birthday of Swami Vivekananda) 12th January
4. Army Day 15th January
5. International Customs and Excise Day 25th January
6. Tourism Day ( India) 25th January
7. Republic Day (India) 26th January
8. Martyrs’s Day 30th January
9. Leprosy Prevention Day 30th January
10. Sarvodaya Day 30th January
February
Central Excise Tax Day 24th February
National Science Day 28th February
March
1. National Safety Day 4th March
2. International Woman’s Day 8th march
3. World Consumer Day 15th March
4. Ordnance Manufacturing Day 18th March
5. World Forestry Day 21st March
6. World TB (Tuberculosis) Day 24th March
7. World theatre Day 27th March
April
1. National Maritime Day 5th April
2. World Health Day 7th April
3. Ambedkar’s Birth Anniversary 14th April
4. World Hemophilia Day 17th April
5. World Heritage Day 18th April
6. Indian Civil Service Day 21st April
7. Earth Day 22nd April
8.World Books and Copyright Day 23rd April
9. Panchayat Divas 24th April
May
1. International Labour Day 1st May
2. World Press Freedom Day 3rd May
3. World Red Cross Day 8th May
4. World Laughter Day 7th May
5. World Thalassamia Day 8th May
6. International Thylesemia Day 8th May
7. National Technological Day 11th May
8. International Nurses Day 12th May
9. World Telecommunication Day 17th May
10. Anti-Terrorism Day 21st May
11. World Biodiversity 23rd May
12. World Anti-Tobacco (and No-smoking ) 31st May
June
1. World Environment Day 5th June
2. International Olympic Association
Establishment Day 6th June
3. World Refugee Day 20th June
4. World Diabetes Day 27th June
July
1. Doctor’s Day
( Birthday of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy ) 1st July
2. State Bank of India Foundation Day 1st July
3. World Population Day 11th July
4. Kargil Memorial Day 26th July
August
1. World Breast Feeding Day 1st August
2. World Peace Day, Hiroshima Day 6th August
3. Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day 9th August
4. World Youth Day 12th August
5. Independence Day (India) 15th August
6. National Sports Day
(Birth Day Of Dhyanchand) 29th August
September
1. Teacher’s Day
(Birth Day of S.Radhakrishnan 5th September
2. World Literacy Day 8th September
3. World Fraternity and Apology Day 14th September
4. Hindi Divas ( Day) 14th September
5. Engineer’s Day 15th September
6. World Ozone Day 16th September
7. World Tourism Day 27th September
October
1. International Oldmen’s Day 1st October
2. Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Day
(International Non- violence Day) 2nd October
3. Birth day of Lal Bahadur Sastri 2nd October
4. Indian Air Force Day 8th October
5. World Post Day 9th October
6. Birthday of Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan 11th October
7. UN International Day
for Natural Disaster Reduction 13th October
8. World Food Day 16th October
9. United Nation (UN) Day 24th October
November
1. World Service Day 9th November
2. Children’s Day
(Birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru) 14th November
3. World Students Day 17th November
4. National Journalism Day 17th November
5. World Adult Day 18th November
6. World Citizen Day 19th November
7. Universal Children’s Day 20th November
8. World Television Day 21th November
9. World Environment Protection Day 26th November
10. National Law Day 26th November
December
1. Words AIDS Day 1st December
2. International Day for Abolition of Slavery 2nd December
3. World Disabled Day 3rd December
4. Navy Day 4th December
5. International Volunteers Day 5th December
6. International Civil Aviation Day 7th December
7. Armed Forces Flag Day 7th December
8. Girl Child Day (Balika Divas) (India) 9th December
9. International Human Rights Day 10th December
10. World Children’s Fund Day 11th December
11. World Asthma Day 11th December
12. National Energy Conservation Day 14th December
13. Liberation Day Of Goa 19th December
14. Kisan Divas (Birthday Charan Singh) 23 rd December
United Nations years
2006 International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2008
International Year of the Potato; and
International Year of Planet Earth; and
International Year of Sanitation; and
International Year of Languages
2009
International Year of Human Rights Learning - from 10 December 2008 (Human Rights Day) to 10 December 2009
International Year of Reconciliation; and
International Year of Natural Fibres; and
International Year of Astronomy
2010
International Year of Biodiversity; and
International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding - from 12 August 2010 (International Youth Day) to 11 August 2011
2011 International Year of Forests; and
International Year of Chemistry; and
International Year for People of African Descent 2012 International Year of Cooperatives
Sangeet Natak Akademi currently confers classical status on eight Indian dance styles (see table below), while the Encyclopædia Britannica mentions six recognized schools and other sources state there are eight dance forms.
Dance form State(s) of origin
Bharatanatyam Tamil Nadu
Gaudiya Nritya West Bengal
Kathak Uttar Pradesh
Kathakali Kerala
Kuchipudi Andhra Pradesh
Manipuri Manipur
Mohiniyattam Kerala
Odissi Orissa
Sattriya Assam
Here is my attempt to summarize all the awards won by various people in the past 1 year :
( Order in the date of receiving /award cermony .. so 1st one is latest and so on ,,,)
1) Jnapith Award - Literature - Chandrashekar Kambar ( TOI awards it )
2) Nobel Prize 2012
a) Economics - Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley of U.S. for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”.
b) Peace Prize - European Union
c) Literature - Mo Yan of China
2011, the prize was given to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.
d) Physics - Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of America together won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum particles without disturbing them.
e) Chemistry - US scientists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry for studies of an important family of protein receptors, called G-protein-coupled receptors.
f) Medicine - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent".
6) Gruber Cosmology Award- ( Physics) - Charles L Bennet
7) Pakistan Govt conferred its highest civilian honor Nisan-i-Imtiaz on famous Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto., Sitara-i-Imtiaz on Gopi Chand Narang
8)D R Mehta who is known for popularising Jaipur Foot will be awarded 20th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
9) Mr. Kulandai Francis has been awarded with Ramon Magsaysay award for his endeavors to alleviate more than one lakh rural women out of poverty and empowering for 35 years.
10) Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel bagged World Food Prize 2012.
11) Cannes : Best Film Love
12)* Soumitra Chatterjee , veteran actor of Bengali cinema honoured with the esteemed Dadasaheb Phalke Award by Vice-President Hamid Ansari at the 59th National Awards for 2011
13) Manu Raju an Indian-American journalist was among the journalists, who have won the White House Correspondents Journalism award for 2012.
14) Pulitizer Prize : For Journalism ... read here ..http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2012
15) The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama awarded the 2012 Templeton Prize, a $1.7 million award that is often described as the most prestigious award in religion.
16) The AAI (Airports Authority of India) won the Jane’s Award for 2012, an international award in the 'Best Operational Efficiency’ category
17) 59th National Awards :
Best Feature Film : Deool & Byaari
Best Actor : Girish Kulkarni ( Deool)
Best Actress : Vidya Balan ( The Dirty Picture)
Read more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_National_Film_Awards
18) Kalidas Samman for 2009-10 to be conferred on Celebrated violinist Dr. N. Rajam and distinguished Bharat Natayam danseuse Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan
19) Laureus Sports Awards 2012
The winners:
· Sportsman of the Year: Novak Djokovic
· Sportswoman of the Year: Vivian Cheruiyot
· Team of the Year: FC Barcelona
· Disability Award: Oscar Pistorius
. Lifetime Achievement Award: Bobby Charlton
20) Lieutenant Navdeep Singh A young army commando who died battling terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir Posthumously conferred Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry medal, by President Pratibha Patil at the Republic Day celebrations.
21) Padma Vibhushan
Shri K G Subramanyan - Art-Painting & Sculpture - West Bengal
Late Shri Mario De Miranda - Art-Cartoonist - Goa
Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika - Art- Vocal Music - Assam
Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti - Medicine - Orthopedics - Maharashtra
Shri T V Rajeswar - Civil Service - Delhi
Full List of 109 Padma Awards - http://india.gov.in/republicday/pdf/padma-rd12.pdf
22) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Ms Kamla Prasad Bissessar, the chief guest of this year's Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, also received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman for public service.
Oscars ( 84th Academy Awards):
Best Animated Short: "The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore"
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Best Picture: "The Artist"
Best Foreign Language Film: "A Separation"
5 awards: The Artist and Hugo
2 awards: The Iron Lady
Filmfare Awards : ( 57th )
Best Film: 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'
Best Director: Zoya Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'
Best Actor (Male): Ranbir Kapoor, 'Rockstar'
Best Actor (Female): Vidya Balan, 'The Dirty Picture'
54th Annual Grammy Awards :
Record of the year: “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele
Album of the year: “21,” Adele
Song of the year: “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)
Miss World Pageant 2012 Chinese Wan Xia Yu
ICC Cricket Awards:
Cricketer of year , Test Crickter - Sangakkara
ODI Cricketer - Virat Kholi
Women's ODI - Stafanie Talyor
CNN IBN Indian of the year :
Politics : Mamata Banerjee
Sports : Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Buisness : Dilip Shanghvi
Entertainment : Amitabh Bachchan and team KBC
Public Service : Anna Hazare and team
ET Awards 2011
Business Leader of the year: Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank
Entrepreneur of the year: Rahul Bhatia, Indigo Airlines
Global Indian of the year: Vikram Pandit, Citi Bank
Policy Change Agent of the year: Nandan Nilekani
Company of the year: Bajaj Auto
Emerging Company of the year: Shree Renuka Sugars
Lifetime Achievement Award: Yaga Venugopal Reddy, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
World CEO’s
1 John H Hammergren McKesson
2 David M Cote Honeywell
3 James Dimon JPMorgan Chase & Co
4 Howard D Schultz Starbucks
5 David M Zaslav Discovery Communications
6 Robert A Iger Walt Disney
7 Paul E Jacobs Qualcomm
8 Louis C Camilleri Philip Morris International
9 Joseph M Tucci EMC
10 Philippe P Dauman Viacom
11 Randall L Stephenson AT&T
12 Irene B Rosenfeld Kraft Foods
13 William P Sullivan Agilent Technologies
14 K Rupert Murdoch News Corp
15 Michael T Duke Wal-Mart Stores
16 Lloyd C Blankfein Goldman Sachs Group
17 John F Brock Coca-Cola Enterprises
Well India has a vast history of battles ....
So here's listing a jist of Battles fought over the ages and the treaties associated with it :( List of all battles link given below)
Battle of Hydaspes 326 B.C.—Alexander the Great, defeated Porus, the Paurava king. Impressed by the valour of Porus, ultimately Alexander returned his kingdom to him.
Battle of Kalinga 261 B.C.—Ashoka defeated the king of Kalinga. Ashoka embraced Buddhism and preached it during the rest of his life after this war.
454 AD The first Huna invasion
495 AD The second Huna invasion
711-712 AD The Arab invasion of Sind under Mohammed-bin-Qasim
1000-27 AD Mahmud Ghazni invades India 17 times
First Battle of Tarain or Thaneswar A.D. 1191 Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeated Mohammed Ghori.
Second Battle of Tarain A.D. 1192—Mohammed Ghori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan. Ghori’s victory paved the way for the establishment of Muslim rule in India.
1194 AD - Muhammad Ghori defeats Jayachandra Gahadvala of Kanauj.
1294 Alauddin Khilji invades the Yadava kingdom of Devagiri. The first Turkish invasion of the Deccan.
1398 Timur invades India. Defeats the Tughlaq Sultan Mahmud Shah; the Sack of Delhi
First Battle of Panipat 1526—Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodhi. This laid the foundation of the Mughal rule in India.
Battle of Khanwah 1527— Babar defeated Rana Sanga of Mewar. This battle resulted in the defeat of the powerful Rajput confederacy.
1539-40 Battles of Chusa or Ghaghra (1539) and Kanauj or Ganges (1540) in which Sher Shah defeats Humayun.
1545 Battle (siege) of kalinjar and death of Sher Shah Suri.
Second Battle of Panipat 1556—Bairam Khan (Akbar’s General) defeated Hemu (the Hindu General and right-hand man of Mohd. Adil Shah). It also ended the Afghan Rule and Mughal Rule began instead.
Battle of Talikota 1564- 65—United alliance between Bijapur, Bidar, Ahmednagar and Golkonda under Hussain Nizam Shah defeated Ram Raja of Vijayanagar. It destroyed the Hindu Kingdom of Vijayanagar.
Battle of Haldighati 1576—Akbar’s forces headed by Raja Man Singh defeated Rana Pratap, the brave Rajput king. Though defeated, Rana Pratap refused to accept Mughal authority and carried on warfare till his death.
1658 Battles of Dharmat (April-May 1658) and Samugarh (June 8, 1658). Dara Shikoh, elest son of Shah Jahan, defeated by Aurangzeb.
1739 Invasion of India by Nadir Shah.
1746 First Carnatic War.
1748-54 Second Carnatic War.
1756-63 Third Carnatic War.
Battle of Plassey 1757— The English under Lord Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah.It brought Muslim Rule in Bengal to an end and laid foundations of the British Rule in India.
Battle of Wandiwash 1760—The English defeated the French. The battle sealed the fate of the French in India and paved the way for English rule in India.
Third Battle of Panipat 1761—Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated Marathas. It gave a terrible blow to the Maratha power. It made the field clear for the English.
Battle of Buxar 1764— Fought in 1764 between the forces of the English and the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daulah (Nawab of Oudh) and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam. The English victory at Buxar finally riveted the shackles of the Company’s rule upon Bengal.
First Mysore War (1767- 68)—In 1768, Haider Ali was defeated by the English relinquishing all his rights over Mysore in favour of the English.
Second Mysore War 1780— A grand alliance between Haider Ali, the Nizam and the Marathas was formed and Haider Ali. He defeated the English and took possession of Arcot and became the undisputed master of the Carnatic.
Third Mysore War 1790- 92—Fought between the English and Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan had to submit and was compelled to sign the Treaty of Seringapattam stripped him of half his territory.
Fourth Mysore War 1799— The British forces under Arthur Wellesley defeated Tipu Sultan, which brought the end of the Tipu Sultan.
Maratha War 1803-05—It weakened the Maratha power. The English annexed Tanjore, Surat and Carnatic.
Fourth Maratha War 1817- 18—The British forces defeated Marathas and this campaign finally extinguished the Maratha Empire.
1846 Battle of Aliwal between the English and the Sikhs. The Sikhs were defeated.
1848-49 Second Sikh war and annexation of the Punjab to British India. Battle of Cheelianwala 1849—Forces of the East India Company under Lord Hugh Gough defeated the Sikhs under Sher Singh.
Burmese War 1885—As a result of this War, the whole of Burma was occupied by the English and made a part of India.
Afghan War III 1919—As a result of this War, Treaty of Rawalpindi was signed by which Afghanistan was recognised as an independent State.
Sino-Indian War1962
lndo-Pak War 1965—This was Pakistan’s second attack on India. While India had the upper hand, the fighting was brought to a stop by a call for ceasefire issued by the Security Council. Later on, Tashkent accord was signed between the two nations.
lndo-Pak War Dec 1971— Pakistan started the war attacking India on Dec 3. India defeated Pakistan on all fronts. Pakistani occupation forces, numbering about one lakh, in East Bengal (Bangladesh) surrendered. Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation.
Added ... Later
War Year Indian Army Commander
First Kashmir War 1947 Fld.M. K. M. Cariappa
Sino-Indian War 1962 Brij Mohan Kaul
Indo Pakistan War 1965 Gen J.N Chaudhuri
Indo-Pakistani War 1971 Gen Sam Manekshaw
Kargil War 1999 Ved Prakash Malik
Sources : Various Different Sites ...
Further a detailed WIki Table :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_battles
Suggested Pagalguy Threads for further GK prep :
Daily GK Doze for IIFT & XAT ....
Some stuff that will help you prepare for GK for IIFT & XAT ...
1st Nov to 24th Nov...
22 Sets ..... taken from various sources ...
various topics ...
1) History - Battles In India
2) Famous Musical Instruments & their artists ....
3) Geography ( Rivers of India)
4) Human Body -all sorts of facts in a Jist
5) CEO's , CMD( the cream le de creame of ) various Companies
6) HQ's of various Government & Non government Organizations & their chairpersons ...
7) Awards & Prizes 2011-12 ( some old ones too)
8) Days & Important Dates
9) States & UT ( all info in a jist)
10) Books & Authors
11) Indian books & Authors
12) Sports - Cuurent trophies & winners
13) Brands, Tagline & Brand Ambassdors
14) India Space Mission through the ages
15) Personalities
16) Folk Dances of India
17) City,Capital, Language , Currencies & Parliament of various countries
18) Abbreviations ( goverment orgs in focus)
19) Diseases
20) Slogans ( independence related )
21) Movies ->>> Directors >>> Academy Awards
22) Heads ( Presidents /PM's ) of various countries
P.S: This is my prep please don't consider it as an exhaustive resource for GK prep.....
This is a long post ... Two weeks of news ... covering mostly india centric news ....
#Sports - Will be covering Olympics in a special post once it ends
#India
In the worst ever power crisis, over half of the country's population in 21 states go without electricity for several hours today as three major transmission grids failed, bringing northern, eastern and north-eastern regions to a grinding halt.
Four coordinated low-intensity explosions strike the busy arterial J M road in the heart of Pune raising the spectre of terror.
With government refusing to blink, Team Anna decides to end its indefinite fast tomorrow and take a plunge into politics.
Ten people are killed and 38 others go missing as incessant rains battered Uttarakhand today triggering landslides, cloud bursts and flash floods which flattened homes and stranded hundreds of pilgrims with the Chardham Yatra coming to a grinding halt.
Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda resigns hours after he was booked for abetment to suicide by Delhi Police after a former woman employee of his now defunct airline MDLR allegedly took her life accusing him of harassing her.
Fresh violence between immigrant minorities and Bodos erupted after a 10-day lull in lower Assam's Chirang and Kokrajhar districts claiming five lives to push the death toll to 61 as indefinite curfew is reclapmed in Chirang.
Anuradha Bali alias Fiza, the estranged second wife of former Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Chandermohan, is found dead in her house in mysterious circumstances, with her body in a highly decomposed state.
In a decision that took his colleagues bysurprise, Anna Hazare disbands his team and appeared to be speaking in mixed tones on the political course taken by the anti-corruption movement.
Union Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was admitted to a private hospital here for a liver-related ailment, is in a critical condition and under observation, say hospital authorities.
UPA candidate Hamid Ansari is re-elected as the Vice President
Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi, who retired only aweek ago as Civil Aviation Secretary, is appointed as an Election Commissioner.
#International
On August 5 shooting incident at a gurudwara in Wisconsin in which six people were killed during Sunday morning prayers.
Abstaining along with 30 other countries in the voting on adoption of a Saudi-drafted resolution on Syria in the UN General Assembly, India says decision was taken after it felt that the issue was marked by "great polarization" at the global organisation.
A group of some 250 Pakistani Hindus are allowed to cross over to India for a pilgrimage after being detained at the Wagah land border crossing due to a controversy over reports that they planned to migrate to the neighbouring country.
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican Party candidate for the United States presidency, names Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate in the presidential election in November.
Flooding in the Philippines capital Manila forces at least 20,000 people to flee their homes
#Other
Manscheter United Football Club lists it IPO on NSE, New York as the club goes publice
American automaker General Motors strikes a $559 million marketing deal with English football club Manchester United.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lands safely on the surface of Mars.
P.S:
Due to some personal issue missed Newstracker last week..
At least 58 people are killed and 200,000 displaced in ethnic violence between Bodos and immigrant Muslims in Assam, India.
On the run for two weeks, Amarjyoti Kalita, who brazenly led a mob in molesting a young woman in Guwahati, was arrested in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh following a tip-off from Assam police.
The first woman to first captain of the women's wing of Azad Hind Fauj or Indian National Army, Captain Lakshmi Sehgal passes away at 97
Pranab Mukherjee is elected the 13th President of India.
#International
Ghanaian President John Atta Mills (pictured) dies at the age of 68 and is succeeded by Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
At least 116 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.
'Psycho' Stapleton, a Briton who shot Dead Indian student Anuj Bidve in an unprovoked attack last year is held guilty of murder after a trial in the Manchester Crown Court.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch's top executive Rebekah Brooks and Premier David Cameron's former aide Andy Coulson, were today charged along with six others for criminal conspiracy to hack into phones of individuals, including top celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
#Business
JP Morgan to pay $100 mn in credit card settlement
JSPL to acquire Canadian coal miner CIC Energy for $115 mn
#Sports
London Olympics : the 30th Olympics start on 27th
In golf, Ernie Els wins the Open Championship.
In cycling, Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France.
BCCI grants amnesty to Kapil Dev
South Africa butcher England in first test with Hashi Amla scoring a triple.
#Other
Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61
So here is the GKDOZE #1. Trying to give a concise and brief ( looks huge though believe me there is lots and lots more ... ) about the United Nations.
Important things to remember are :
Headquarters , Abbreviations , date of formation of UN & various agencies .
Till next week.
The United Nations
Origin: The United Nations Organization is an association of states which have pledged themselves to maintain international peace and security and cooperate in solving international political, economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems towards achieving this end.
The United Nations officially came into existence on Oct. 24,1945, with the deposit of the requisite number of ratifications of the Charter, the constituting instrument of the UN with the US Department.
United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 Oct. each year. The headquarters of the UNO is in New York.
Flag : White UN Emblem (two bent olive branches open at the top and in between them in world map) on a light blue background.
Official Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The United Nations has six principal organs according to the Charter which are indicated as below :
The General Assembly
It consists of all 193 member nations and functions as the main deliberative body. It meets once a year on the third Tuesday of the month of September and session lasts for two weeks.
At each session the Assembly elects a new President, 21 Vice-Presidents and Chairmen of the six main committees. For proper geographical representation, the Presidency of the Assembly rotates every year among the five geographical groups–Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, and Western Europe and other stares.
The Security Council
The UN Charter has entrusted the primary responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security. The Security Council is made up of 15 member states, consisting of 5 permanent members–China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States–and 10 non-permanent members, currently Azerbaijan, India, South Africa, Colombia, Morocco, Togo, Germany, Pakistan, Guatemala, and Portugal.
The Economic and Social Council (ECO-SOC)
The Trusteeship Council
The International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in The Hague, Netherlands, is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations.
The UN Secretariat
The United Nations Secretariat is headed by the Secretary-General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide. It provides studies, information, and facilities needed by United Nations bodies for their meetings. It also carries out tasks as directed by the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the UN Economic and Social Council, and other UN bodies. The current Secretary-General is Ban Ki-moon, who took over from Kofi Annan in 2007 and has been elected for a second term to conclude at the end of 2016.
Important Years Observed by UNO
2005 Year of Physics
2006 International Year of Desert and Desertification
2008 International Year of the Potato
2009 International Year of Reconciliation
2010 International Year of Biodiversity
2011 International Year of Forests
2012 International Year of Cooperatives
2013 International Year of Water Cooperation
2014 International Year of Family Farming
Organizations and specialized agencies of the United Nations
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization
Rome, Italy
1945
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
Vienna, Austria
1957
ICAO
International Civil Aviation Organization
Montreal, Canada
1947
IFAD
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome, Italy
1977
ILO
International Labour Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
1946 (1919)
IMO
International Maritime Organization
London, United Kingdom
1948
IMF
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C., USA
1945 (1944)
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
Geneva, Switzerland
1947 (1865)
UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Paris, France
1946
UNIDO
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
NewsTracker #5 : Guwahati Molestation : Shame on INDIA !!!!!
#India
Under fire from all quarters over the alleged stripping and molestation of a girl, the Assam government constitutes a one-member inquiry commission on the incident in the heart of the city on the night of July 9.
Govt approves disinvestment of 10.82% stake in SAIL
Bollywood actor and film producer Rajesh Khanna dies at the age of 69.
One person is killed and 40 injured in clashes at Maruti car plant in Manesar near Gurgaon,Harayana India, after workers attacked managers at the site
EGoM slashes Trai's base price for 2G spectrum reauction by 20%
India votes for the 19th President : Pranab Mukherjee headed for Landslide victory after support from TMC at last gasp
A U.S. Navy ship fired on a small boat in the Persian Gulf, killing at least one Indian crew member, in a reflection of rising tensions in the region Read more here
#International
Kim Jong-un is officially announced as the Supreme Leader of North Korea, a position that he occupied de facto since his father's death. He also gains the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.
A gunman opens fire at a movie premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, USA, killing at least 12 people and injuring 59 others.
Indonesia overtakes India, most bullish consumer as per Nielsen
#Business
Marissa Mayer, who was a top executive at Google for the past 13 years, is appointed Yahoo! Inc.'s CEO Read More here
Microsoft posts first quarterly loss since IPO
NBCUniversal buys full control of the US news website MSNBC.com and rebrands it as NBCNews.com
Visa, Mastercard pay $7.25 bn over in a dispute settlement
#Tech
Microsoft to release Windows 8 on October 26
#Sports
Rahul Sharma faces arrest after testing positive for drugs
India Pak cricket ties set to resume
One of the most fearsome pace bowlers in modern era who considers India his second home, Australia's Brett Lee announces retirement from international cricket ending an injury-ravaged career that lasted 13 years.
#Other
Sunita Williams blasts off for her 2nd space odyssey
Will update Newstracker from now onwards on Saturdays instead of Thursday.... I am not sure how many people are following the blog but as promised from next week ... frequent updates on blog
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#GYAN - some useless ( not related to CAT or nay other MBA exam ) in general ….. but really informative ……
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