Hamid Ansari Sworn as 14th Vice President for 2nd term-"11/08/2012"

11 August 2012 Current Affairs

Hamid Ansari Sworn as 14th Vice President for 2nd term
Hamid Ansari took oath as the 14th vice president of India for second term. This ceremony was held at Rastrapati bhawan  in New Delhi on 11 August 2012. Ansari was administered the oath of office by president Pranab Mukherjee at a function attended by P.M Man Mohan. congress chief Sonia and all other leaders and Party members. UPA candidate Ansari had defeated National democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee Jaswant Singh by a margin of 252 votes in the vice President election held on 7 Aug 2012  to secure another term in office. His first term from 2007-12.

The UPA and its supporters the SP, BSP and the RJD had decided to support Ansari along with the CPI (M), CPI and the Forward Bloc.

Five years ago, it was the CPI (M) which had suggested his name for the post of Vice-President. He was then the Chairman of the National Commission of Minorities.

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Pak Prez Formed a Panel to Talk with Pak Hindus

Pakistan President Asif Ali zardari has set up a three member committee of Parliamentarians to meet and reassure Hindus in sindh of their security after their families decided to flee their homes. Zardari has taken serious notes of reports of the “Sense of Insecurity” among hindus families in sindh and directed authorities to address their unfair treatment and report to him. This panel consists of senator Hari Ram, National Assembly member Lal Chand and Federal Minister Moula Bakhsh Chandio.

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Chief Economic Advisor of India

Rashuram G. Rajan, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief economist who is currently employed as professor at Chicago University, is set to take over as India’s new chief economic advisor. The 49-year-old economist had achieved fame for his perception warming on the global financial crisis of 2008. Rajan will replace Kaushik Basu, whose term ended on July 31.
Global ratings agencies Fitch and Standard and Poor's have said India risks losing its investment grade sovereign rating if it does not tackle wide fiscal and current account deficits.
Rajan is the author of two books, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists and Fault Lines, which won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award in 2010.

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Gujarati Literature Suresh Dalal Died  

Suresh dalal, the doyer of contemporary Gujarati literature and essayist died after a brief illmess at a mumbai hospital on 10 Aug 2012. He was 79. Suresh Parsho Hmadas Dalal had won sahitya Akademy Award for his work akahnd Zaar vage in2005. he served as vice chancellor of the Ms University of Baroda in late 1990s. He edited around 25 books mainly collections of essays and poetry.

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Zakaria suspended by CNN/TIME Magazine

Indo – American Journalist and author Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by his employers and Time Magazine because he copied some Portions of an article he wrote on ” Gun Control for Time”, from the New Yorker Magazine. he suspended for one month.

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Iran Struck  by Severe Earth Quake

Iran severely effected by two earth quakes. The magnitude of the first earth quake is 6.4 which struck of 60km north east of the city of Tabriz at a depth of 9.9km(6.2 miles), and Second quake measuring 6.3 struck 49km (30 miles),north east of Tabriz for 11 minutes. 250 people has been killed and about 1,800 are injured. 110 villages were damaged due to the earth quake. so many are left with home less.

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Yogeshwar Dutt Won Bronze for India

The wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, who won a bronze medal for his success starved the country of suffering a badly swollen eye. The 29-year-old defeated North Korea’s Ri Jong – Myong to give India’s Fifth medal. 10 million rupees awarded to Yoigeshwar Dutt by chief Minister of Haryana Bhupinder singh Hooda.

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Government Detected Rs.49.325 crore Black Money in India-"10/08/2012"

10 August 2012 Current Affairs

Government Detected Rs.49.325 crore Black Money in  India
Government said that Rs.49.325 crore has been detected in the country in the last three years while tax evasion of Rs.600 crore found on input from abroad under multi-prolonged efforts to heck black money menance. this information has been contained in a 13 page fact-sheet released by the Finance Ministry.The fact-sheet say the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) has detected undisclosed income of over Rs.32,000 crore besides seizing assets valued at over Rs 2,600 crores. 17,325 crore income detected in survey. Government also disclosed that under Double Avoidance agreement(DTAA), investigation of information  from German and France has led to detection of tax evasion of Rs.600 crore and realization of Rs.200 crore in taxes.

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Decathlon Gold for Ashton Eaton

Decathlon is the toughest event in the Olympics. which consists of 10 events as one event.On 10 Aug America based Ashton Eaton who who is an Olympic Gold winner of Decathlon of total of 8,869 points made at London. Previously he made a World Record by acquiring 9,026 points at U.S. Olympic trials.

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Rudisha Made World Record in 800m Race

Kenya based David Rudisha clocked the first world record in track and field events in London. He is the rigning world champion, won in 1:40.91, by bettering his own record of 1:41.01, which set in Rieti, Itlay in August 2010.

David Rudisha's 800m world record was the stand-out performance of the London 2012 Olympics

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Yodisha Won Women’s Wrestling Title

Japan’s saori Yodish won a third Olympic 55 kg women’s free style Wrestling title on 9 August 2012.

She comes from a family of masons in Odisha's Dhenkanal district but she was attracted towards wrestling.
"Since my childhood I have always seen my father working with bricks and cement at construction sites. When my father saw me wrestling with girls of my age, he encouraged me," 24-year-old Rambha Sahu said.
Rambha's interest in the sport took wings when a selection team was impressed with her physique and talent, and admitted her in the SAI hostel in 2003. She was provided scholarship of Rs500 per month and school uniform. "My coach (Bhatt) taught me wrestling skills till he was transferred to another place. And then I was trained by national coach Sib Charan Bose till he retired in 2007.

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Women’s Soccer Won By America

The U. S Women’s Football team won its third straight Olympic medal on 9 August 2012 by beating Japan .The midfielder Carli Lloyd, who made critical  2 goals to  America’s  victory.

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Student Prafull Sharma Discovers SOHO

A Delhi boy has discovered a new comet using data from NASA and European Space Agency;s Space Craft-based observatory SOHO that studies the sun. Prafull sharma, is a XII class student of Ahlcon public school, the new comet SOHO-2333 is a fragment believed to have separated from a relatively larger comet Machholz when it last came close to the sun in 2007. sharma, who has been associated with Delhi-based NGO science. Popularization Association of Communicators and educators(SPACE), is a part of  world wide team of comet hunters. Who scour through images of the sun transmitted back to earth by Solar and Heliosphere Observatory(SOHO).

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