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Showing posts with label Current affairs updated. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Current affairs updated--December first week

Current affairs finds prominence in all competitive exams like Bank PO and PSC. Please update yourself with the latest current affairs.
International current affairs
1.Space shuttle endeavor comes back to earth.The shuttle was on a 16 day mission. The shuttle landed at california instead of Kennedy space centre,Florida due to bad weather.
2.Siege of Airport in Thailand comes to an end after the Thai Supreme court removes the Prime minister from his Office.
3.Hillary Clinton to be the New Secretary of State.
4.Stephen Harper is the new Prime minister of Canada.
5. Christiano Ronaldo is the European footballer of the year 2008.
6. cholera spreads across Zimbabwe ; hundreds dead.

Indian current affairs
1.Bird flu outbreak in Assam; Over 40,000 birds culled.
2.Home minister Shivraj Patil resigns;P chidambaram is the new Home minister.
3.Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilas Rao Desmukh and Deputy CM RR Patil resigns.Ashok Chawan and Chagan Bhujbal replaces them respectively.
4.Indian International Film Festival at Goa concludes TULPAN, a Kazakh film, won the Golden Peacock Award.
5.Pressure on Pakistan mounts as the attackers are traced back to Pakistan.Pakistan conducts raids in Lashkar camps in Punjab and PoK.
6.Shah Rukh Khan gets knighted by Malaysia
7.Crude prices comes below $40 a barrel. lowest price in 3 years

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Current affairs October first week

Another eventful week has gone and the update is here. Hope this will be useful for your Bank, PSC tests and Quiz competitions.


1.India signs nuclear deal with France

2.US Senate passes bailout package to rescue collapsing banks.

Key facts: With the credit crunch worsening, Bush administration had introduced a bailout package to buy subprime assets from banks. US house of representatives had rejecte d the package earlier leading to a fall in stock markets.

3. Europe also suffering worst economic crisis in decades.

Key facts: Banks bailed out in Europe

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4. Iceland become the first country to become totally bankrupt.

Key facts: With all major banks in the country going bankrupt. The country became virtually bankrupt.

5.Private news broadcasters’ association—News Broadcasters Association (NBA)—formally launched the News Broadcasting Standards (Disputes Redressal) Authority on Thursday- a self regulating body.

6.Tatas decide to pull out of Singur and finds a new location for making Nano car at Sanand at Gujarat.

7.Communal clashes between Bodos and Muslims claim at least 55 lives in Assam.

8. All global markets see their worst trading weeks in decades.

9. Nobel prize winners announced.