18 August 2012 Current Affairs
V.V.S.Laxman Announced Retirement from International Cricket
Vangipurapu
Venkata Sai Laxman, one of the finest batsman in contemporary cricket,
is contemplating retirement from International cricket on 18 August,
2012. He played 134 tests, amazing 8781 runs at an coverage of 45.97
and hitting 17 hundreds. He played 86 ODIs for an aggregate of 2338
runs at an average of 30.76.
International Temple Summit 2012
The
International temple summit (ITS) 2012, a global convention of temple
trusts and holy shrines, will be held in GOA. The met willfocus on key
topics such as security, financial management, infrastructural
enhancement, etc. The CFOs and Chief functioniers of all major temple
trusts from India, Nepal and other International temples are expected to
attend the meet.The CEOs and chief functionaries of all major temple trusts from India,
Nepal and other international temples are expected to attend the meet.
Miss World 2012 is Wenxia Xu
China’s
Wenxia Xu won the gown of Miss World 2012. She became the World’s most
beautiful Woman. Wales Sophie Moulds was first runner up and the
second runner up position to Jessica Kahawaty of Australia. Indian
Vanya Mistra is on the 7th position by winning two awards in
miss world competition. The Multimedia award and social networking skin
and beauty award goes to Indian beauty. The 62nd
edition of theMiss World pageant was held on August 18, 2012 in
Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium, ordos city, inner Mongolia in china.
National Sports awards to Olympic Medalists
London
Olympic medalists, shooter Vijay Kumar and Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt have
been the country’s highest sporting honour “Rajiv Gandhi Kel Ratna”.
Yuvraj and other Olympic medalists totally 25 sports persons gave the
Arjun Award at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 29, 2012.
