The European country which ordered shutdown of its seven (total
seventeen) oldest nuclear power plants pending safety review after nuclear
accidents in the Japan
is
|
Germany
|
The first country to have fired first foreign shots in Libya
after UN mandated No Fly Zone is
|
France
|
The major party of Ireland
which has to face crushing defeat in recent elections for the manner in which
it handled the economic crisis is
|
Fianna Fail
|
The country in which the Human Rights Protection Party led by
incumbent PM Tuilaepa Aiona Sailele Malielegaoi won the recent elections is
|
Samoa
|
New Foreign Minister of Japan after the resignation of Seiji Maehara
amidst political donations scandals is
|
Takeaki Matsumoto
|
Country which has recently introduced Yoga for the 1st time
for physical fitness for its army personnel is
|
USA
|
Western nation whose Public Relations firms were criticized for
advising some of controversial regimes (including Libya’s Gaddafi) following
unrest in countries of North African nations
|
UK
|
The director of London School of Economics who resigned after
allegations of liasioning with Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi
|
Howard Davies
|
Popular name of Secret Intelligence Service of UK (currently in news
in context of Libyan crisis) is
|
MI6
|
The Acting President of Tunisia who called for elections on July 24th
2011 to rewrite constitution is
|
Fouad Mebazza
|
Gulf country conducted a successful test of its first domestically
developed radar-evading aircraft
|
Iran
|
The first major world leader to visit Egypt after the ouster of its
President, Hosni Mubarak
|
D Cameroon, PM, UK
|
The new name given by Obama Administration to the war in Iraq to reflect the reduced role to be played
by US troops in securing the country (now only 50,000 US troops in Iraq)
is
|
Operation New Dawn
|
In early March, there have been protests in Sarajevo after arrest of former Bosnian
General following international warrants by
|
Serbia
|
China has made a substantial increase of 13% in
its military budget, now it stands at
|
$92 billion
|
The countries to which natural gas supplies were suspended after an
explosion in Arab Gas Pipeline in Egypt’s
North Sinai region are
|
Israel and Jordan
|
The name of diplomatic effort consisting of four entities – US, UN, EU
and Russia
established in 2002 to mediate the peace process in the Israel-Palestinian
conflict
|
Middle East (Madrid) Quartet
|
India-EU summit was held in December 2010 in
|
Brussels (Belgium)
|
The 10th RIC (Russia,
India and China)
meeting was held I n November, 2010 in
|
Wuhan
(China)
|
BRIC may soon become BRICS, the country which is likely to be extended
a formal invitation during the scheduled meeting in April-May 2010 in China
is
|
South Africa
|
Two day meeting of BCIM (Bangladesh,
China, India and Myanmar) was held in January 2011
in
|
Kunming, China
|
In the largest $24 billion nuclear agreement, six European Pressurized
Reactors (EPRs) each of 1650 MW, will be set up by French firm Areva in
|
Jaitapur (Maharashtra)
|
As per UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) ‘Global
Investment Trends Monitor report’, FDI attracted by developing and emerging
nations as %age of total global during 2010 is
|
$1,122 billion
|
Country to cede 1000 sq km of land to China to settle a 130 year old
territorial dispute is
|
Tajikistan
|
The country with which India
signed Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CEPA) to give more
market access to on reciprocal basis is
|
Japan
|
NATO is US led security umbrella organization, mainly of Western
nations. Its 2010 summit was held in Lisbon (Portugal)
in November 2010. The number of member nations in NATO is
|
28
|
A new cabinet of Egypt
is sworn by Chairman of Supreme Council of Armed Forces
|
Hussain Tantawi
|
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is regional organization of
six nations – Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. India, Iran,
Mongolia and Pakistan
have been given the status of observers. Its meeting was held in November
2010 in
|
Dushanbe (Tajikistan)
|
Secretary-General of Interpol who was re-elected to the post for a 3rd
five-year term is
|
Ronald Noble
|
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation is the 21 member forum to discuss
economic issues. Its meeting was held on November 14, 2010 in
|
Yokohama (Japan)
|
India concluded its first-ever Tax Information
Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with
|
Bermuda
|
An Intergovernmental regional organization, Economic Cooperation
Organization was set up by Iran,
Pakistan and Turkey
in 1985. In 1992, 7 nations including Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
joined it. Its 11th summit was held in December 2010 in
|
Istanbul (Turkey)
|
The world’s biggest ever nuclear submarine (launched by Britain)
which can fire guided missiles to pulverize target more than 1600 km away. It
does not need refueling, can circumnavigate globe without any need of
surfacing and able to make oxygen and fresh water from sea water. Its name is
|
HMS Ambush
|
G20 comprises of 19 member countries and EU. EU is represented by two
governing bodies – European Council and European Commission. It was for the
first time that G20 meeting was hosted by a non-G8 nation, (2010 G20 meeting
to discuss post crisis world) was held
in November 2010 in
|
Seoul
(South Korea)
|
The person of Indian-origin and also Deputy Speaker of Britain’s
House of Lords who resigned from his position after his four month suspension
from House over parliamentary expenses claim is
|
Lord Swaraj Paul
|
The former top aide to Saddam Hussein who has been sentenced to death
by an Iraqi court for crimes against members of rival Shia political parties
is
|
Tariq Aziz
|
The G20 for the year 2011 summit will be held in
|
Cannes, France
|
The G20 for the year 2012 will be held in
|
Mexico
|
A ten member regional association consisting of Brunei, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam is
|
Association of
South East Asian Nations
|
The year in which US opened diplomatic relations with People’s
Republic of China
is
|
1979
|
President of Italy
who is currently facing corruption charges is
|
Silvio Berlusconi
|
The group which accounts for 90% of world’s GNP and two third of
world’s population is
|
G20
|
A rare original King James Bible has been found in a church in
|
Wiltshare (UK)
|
President of Ivory Coast
(capital Abdijan) who recently nationalized its biggest Coffee and Cocoa industries is
|
Laurent Gobago
|
Eight national group consisting of USA,
UK, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Canada
and Russia
is
|
G8
|
The current head of Middle East (or Madrid) Quartet’s who is also (ex-British
PM), is
|
Tony Blair
|
Stealth fighters can’t be detected by radars. Nighthawks were the
world’s first stealth fighters by USA and F-22 Raptor is the
successor of Nighthawk. China
also developed this technology and its inaugural flight took place in
January, 2011. The name of stealth fighter developed by China is
|
Chengdu J-20
|
China allegedly developed stealth technology by
applying reverse engineering from a F-117 Nighthawk which was shot down
during Serbian war in
|
1999
|
G7 originally consisting of Canada,
France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, UK and USA was set up in the year
|
1976
|
Recently India
signed Preliminary Design Contract with Russia to jointly develop Fifth
Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) which is
|
Sukhoi T 50
|
Pablo Picasso’s the most expensive painting ever sold which has recently gone for public exhibition at
Tate Gallery in London
is
|
Nude, Green Leaves
and Bust
|
New PM elected by Parliament of Nepal, thus ending seven months of
political deadlock, is
|
Jhala Nath Khanal
|
In a significant development, Prime Minister who has been named as
President of Myanmar following the 2010 general elections is
|
Thein Sein
|
The youngest son of Kim Jong II, who will succeed his father as the
next leader of North Korea
is
|
Kim Yong – Un
|
In an apparent case of cyber war, a mysterious worm targeted Iran’s
nuclear programme and destroyed up to a fifth of centrifuges at the country’s
nuclear facility in Natanz. Its name is
|
Stuxnet
|
In Operation “Dawn of Gulf of Aden”, South Korean Navy rescued the
crew of hijacked chemical carrier (ship) killing eight Somali pirates. The
name of ship is
|
Samho Jewelry
|
European Capital of Culture (ECC) is a city designated by EU for a
period of one calendar year during which it organizes a series of cultural
events. Athens (Greece) as First ECC (1985).
Cities designated as ECC’s for 2011 are Turku
and Tallinn
which are in
|
Finland and Estonia
|
The name of islands which is a disputed territory between North Korea and South Korea, is
|
Yeonpyeong
|
Name of Joint Naval exercises of India
and Russia
which are being conducted since 2003, is
|
INDRA
|
The Islands which are bone of contention between Russia and Japan is
|
Kuril
|
Group of more than 750 small islands predominantly coral reef
structures in South China sea which are bone of contention between Vietnam, Philippines,
China, Malaysia and Brunei
|
Spratly Islands
|
Year 2011 has been officially designated by the UN as the
International Year of
|
Chemistry
|
An UN organization which has dropped references to J&K and
Arunachal Pradesh as ‘independent entities’ in its 2010 report also initiated
a review of system for designating countries/territories is
|
Food and
Agricultural Organization
|
Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by US Govt. with
three goals – providing technical assistance, helping outside people to
understand US culture and helping US citizens understand cultures of other
nations. Its founder Director who died recently is
|
Sargent Shriver
|
Orinoco Belt in a South American country consists of 297 billion barrel
oil reserves, one of the largest in the world and claims to overtake Saudi Arabia
as world leader in proven oil reserves is
|
Venezuela
|
Ex-chairman of Federal Reserve who was the brain behind legislation
relating to proprietary trading and branded hedge funds and who resigned as
the head of US President’s advisory panel – Economic Recovery Advisory Board
is
|
Paul Volcker
|
India and UK formed a task force relating
to
|
Corporate
Governance
|
An environmental documentary about the effects of shale gas extraction,
which was nominated for a “best documentary” Oscar. Its name is
|
Gasland
|
Following merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, critics apprehend
greater media consolidation in US, thus hurting consumers. The size of deal
is
|
$28 billion
|
Year 2011 has also been officially designated as International Year of
|
Forests
|
International organization which criticized British government for
spending nearly £1 billion on 30 Watchkeeper WK450 unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) which Israel’s
military allegedly “field-tested on Palestinians” during the Gaza War is
|
Amnesty
International
|
The first ever Russian President to pay a visit to West Bank in Palestine is
|
Dmitry Medvedev
|
African nation whose Parliament approved a new constitution to abolish
direct President elections is
|
Angola
|
The name of former Swiss banker who passed on files detailing tax
evasion attempts by hundreds of politicians, celebrities and business leaders
to Wikileaks is
|
Julius Baer
|
The autonomous region of Somalia that says that it is
‘breaking away’ from the federation until a legitimate government is put in
place
|
Puntland
|
Latin American country against whom many travel and other restrictions
were eased by US is
|
Cuba
|
The country which is laying undersea optical cable of 1,500 kms length
to Cuba
so as to provide it high speed internet connectivity is
|
Venezuela
|
The country has the highest wind power capacity after adding 16 GW in
2010, bringing its total to 41.8 GW, pushing US to the 2nd place
(with 40.2 GW with installed capacity) is
|
China
|
The leader of Israeli Labour Party is Ehud Barak and four other Labour
Party MPs announced their resignation from party and announced the formation
of a new ‘centrist Zionist and democratic’ faction called
|
Independence
|
The former President of Haiti who was arrested amidst corruption and
theft charges
|
Jean-Claude
Duvalier
|
President of Armenia
has accused Turkey
of ‘destroying’ a bid to normalize relations between two countries, which are
currently locked in a dispute over mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman
Turks during
|
World War I
|
Country which sought an arrest warrant against Israeli Opposition
leader, Tzipi Livni (of Kadima Party) for war crimes committed when she was
Foreign Minister during 2008-09 Gaza War is
|
South Africa
|
While Rotterdam (Netherlands) enjoyed the status of being the
busiest container airport in Europe, the world’s busiest container port in
2010 after replacing Singapore
port is
|
Port of Shanghai
|
As Arctic ice is melting, Russia,
Norway, Canada, Denmark
and USA
are laying claims over maritime borders. Their main motive is to exploit its
mineral wealth of Arctic. As per UN
Convention on Law of Sea (UNCLOS), the limit up to which a coastal nation can
claim exclusive economic rights to natural resources or beneath the sea floor
is
|
200 Nautical miles
(370 km)
|
Foued Mebazaa, speaker of parliament, took over as interim President
(after its President fled the country after riots) and called for the
formation of National Unity Government under PM Mohammed Ghannouchi. The
country is
|
Tunisia
|
The most industrialized Asian country where PM has effected cabinet
reshuffle with motive of fiscal consolidation and trade liberalization is
|
Japan
|
Eurozone has 17members as on January 17, 2011. The country to join
Eurozone in 2011 is
|
Estonia
|
Executive Director of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is
|
Antony Lake
|
Country known as Sick Man of Europe, active supporter of Iran’s
Nuclear Programme and candidate for inclusion into European Union is
|
Turkey
|
The oil rich country in Africa where
large scale riots took place in 2010 and elections are scheduled to be held
on April 9th 2011 is
|
Nigeria
|
Member of Democratic Party and 3rd woman in Arizona’s history to be elected to serve in the US
Congress, who was shot at among 12 people in Tucson
in Arizona, USA
|
Gabrielle Giffords
|
India signed the Nuclear Liability Treaty under
the aegis of IAEA. The number of countries which have signed the treaty so
far is
|
14
|
Ex-Brazilian President who was selected for the prestigious Indira
Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2010 that is
|
Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva
|
One of the world’s most volatile and dangerous volcanoes started
erupting on November 23, 2010 is
|
Mt. Merapi (Indonesia)
|
Under the 1994 Bogor (Indonesia) Goals, year 2010 was
the deadline for APEC’s industrialized nations to issue a report on their
progress in liberalizing trade and facilitating investment. But during its
annual session in November 2010, it accepted its failure to achieve the
objectives. The session was held in
|
Yokohama, Japan
|
India ranked 119th among 169 countries
in the latest edition of the Human Development Index (HDI). UN agency which
annually releases HDI is
|
UNDP
|
South Asian Nation which has been chosen to head IAEA, despite its
refusal to accept NPT and its dubious record in supplying nuclear parts and
technology to Iran and North Korea
is
|
Pakistan
|
The top country in contributing to space debris is
|
China
|
During Indo-Pak water talks although many pending issues were resolved
but differences persisted over the construction of
|
Baglihar dam
|
South East Asian nation with which India recently signed a Social
Security Agreement to enhance the movement of professions between the two
nations and strengthen bilateral trade and investment is
|
South Korea
|
CEO and Managing Director of BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint
venture is
|
Sivathanu Pillai
|
As per UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the country
which has been replaced as the second most desired place of FDIs is
|
USA
|
The Asian country with which EU agreed to sign a Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) is
|
South Korea
|
The number of nuclear reactors in India operating under
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards are
|
7
|
Country with which India
signed a major pact to expand exchanges in education sector is
|
Australia
|
China is building a new airport near Mount Everest, which has been named as
|
Peace Airport
|
The ousted PM of Thailand
who took up the Montenegrin citizenship is
|
Thaksin Shinawatra
|
The first country to sign a civil nuclear accord with India
was
|
France
|
The region in Sudan
which is a hotbed of revolutionary activities and fighting among warlords
|
Darfur
|
With expected trade of $12 billion, the India’s
largest trading partner in Africa is
|
Nigeria
|
Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which have been recognized by Russia
basically belong to
|
Georgia
|
The name of US
space shuttle was launched from NASA’s Kennedy
Space Center,
Cape Canaveral (Florida)
for a 13-day trip to the International Space Station is
|
Endeavour
|
International Space Station (ISS) remains in the earth’s atmosphere at
an average height of
|
300-350 km
|
India’s rank in World Uranium Production as per
the latest data of World Nuclear Association is
|
13th
|
India, Brazil
and Russia
have found place in the Top 10 ranks of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
for the first time. Presently, the number of members in IMF is
|
187
|
According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI),
the largest buyer country of warplanes (out of the total 995 warplanes sold)
during 2005-09 is
|
India
|
Country hosting of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games is
|
Brazil
|
International Energy Agency reported that global oil demand is
expected to reach 87.3 million barrels per day by 2011. China and India alone are expected to
consume almost a third of world’s energy by
|
2030
|
The country producing 90% of opium in the world is
|
Afghanistan
|
The memoir of former US President George W Bush, highlight the major
decisions Bush made in his personal life as well as during his presidency
|
Decision Points
|
In a significant gesture, US has allowed a waiver on restrictions on
export of C-130 cargo aircraft to
|
China
|
Offshore Southeast Asia Exhibition (OSEA 2010) was held during first
week of December, 2010 as a platform to explore oil and gas business avenues,
expand market share and penetrate emerging markets. It was held in
|
Singapore
|
The Phase I of the new port was constructed by Chinese Company, at a
cost of $360 million in a South Asian Country. It is
|
Hambantota, Sri Lanka
|
The country with which Russia
has recently ended a 40 year dispute over their maritime borders in Arctic
region and signed a treaty that will allow it to explore new oil and gas in
the area is
|
Norway
|
Founded in 1985, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(SAARC) includes Bhutan, Bangladesh, India,
the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The 16th SAARC summit was held in Thimphu
in April 2010. The 17th summit will be held in November 2011 in
|
Male (Maldives)
|
National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship is a political
pressure group in Thailand.
The popular name for the group is
|
Red Shirts
|
According to “Doing Business Report” by UN, the best country in the
world to do business with is
|
World Bank
|
Indian Business conglomerate to give a whopping $50 million to Harvard
Business School the largest gift received by it from an international donor
in its 102-year old history) is
|
Tata Group
|
The only European country to have a female President and PM is
|
Finland
(in 2003)
|
The country which sells oil to Bangladesh at a subsidized price
and also employs over 2 million of its people is
|
Saudi Arabia
|
The country which successfully launched Plano Real in 1994 to contain
inflation was
|
Brazil
|
The country where four New York Times journalists were captured and
released later
|
Tunisia
|
The country with which USA
announced its largest ever arms deal worth $60-70 billion to sell aircraft,
helicopters and other weapons is
|
Saudi Arabia
|
According to US Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), the largest
circulated newspaper in US is
|
The Wall Street
Journal
|
The US
state to approve $6 billion Blythe solar power project (the world’s largest
solar plant that would save one million tons of carbon dioxide annually) is
|
California
|
The central American country that is looking to spark India’s interest
in a joint venture in carbon-neutral agriculture as well as adaptation of its
technology from India aerospace industry
|
Costa Rica
|
India along with Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, has signed the gas sales
purchase agreement (GSPA) for trans-national pipeline project, will transport
gas from Turkmenistan
to all these countries. International organization which is likely to fund
project, fully or partially, is
|
Asian Development
Bank
|
According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global food
prices rose to their highest level in two years due to a sharp rise in wheat
prices. FAO is headquartered in
|
Rome
|
As per the latest World Economic Outlook Database, European country
having the highest GDP is
|
Germany
|
The African country with which India signed an MoU to conduct a
feasibility study for setting up a urea plant with an annual capacity of at
least one million tonnes is
|
Ghana
|
The right to develop huge Trebs and Titov deposits in oil-rich
Timan-Pechora province in Russia
has been won by Bashneft oil company in December, 2010. Russian subsidiary of
ONGC which applied for participation in the bidding process was
|
Nord Imperial
|
Latin American country to have signed 18 agreements with China
covering infrastructure, energy and railway projects is
|
Argentina
|
The country with which Russia
has signed an agreement to jointly develop a five million tonnes capacity LNG
plant in city Vladivostok
is
|
Thailand
|
African country conducted nation’s first democratic election since
independence in 1958
|
Guinea
|
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced a three-year
partnership with an auto company through which the company will become a
global partner with a major presence at all ICC events. The auto company in
question is
|
Hero Honda
|
The Indian-origin man was given the Order of the Baobab in Silver, one
of South Africa’s
highest honours
|
Imtiaz Sooliman
|
India’s biggest trade partner in EU is
|
Germany
|
According to a recent report, both India
and China
buy their maximum defence equipments from
|
Russia
|
The Chairman of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE), which is the world’s largest regional security club is
|
Kazakhstan
|
USA and China lead the list of Top 10
countries with the highest military expenditure. The country stands at number
three spot is
|
France
|
A mechanism developed for energy efficiency by India which is to cover production units
accounting for more than 50% of the fossil fuel consumption in India
and help reduce CO2 emissions by 25 million tonnes per annum by 2014-15 is
|
Perform, Achieve
and Trade (PAT)
|
USA is the biggest arms supplier in the world,
accounting for nearly 30 percent of weapons exports. It has entered into
agreement to supply weapons worth $60 billion to
|
Saudi Arabia
|
According to UNIDO’s ‘Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2010’, India’s
rank in the world’s top ten countries in industrial production is
|
Ninth
|
Aditya Birla Group announced the acquisition of Compass BPO which
belongs to
|
United Kingdom
|
The two countries in Latin America, which does not enjoy common border
with Brazil
are
|
Chile, Ecuador
|
Public Sector oil exploration company which has emerged as the world’s
top oil and gas exploration and production company, overtaking China National
Offshore Oil Corporation
|
ONGC
|
President of Iraq
which formally asked the PM Nouri al-Maliki, to form a new government thus
ending the eight nations of deadlock that plunged the country into
uncertainty. President of Iraq
is
|
Jalal Talabani
|
India is currently the world’s fifth largest
importer of oil and likely to become the 3rd largest one after USA and China by 2025 (or even earlier).
According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, India’s primary energy
consumption in 2009 was 469 million tonnes of oil equivalent that is
|
4.2% of global
consumption
|
Yamal-Nenets, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world’s
natural gas production is located in
|
Russia (North West Siberia)
|
The country which hosted a four day summit of the global wildlife
experts and politicians from 13 countries to discuss plan to revive the
world’s tiger population
|
Russia
|
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was the Chief Guest on the Republic Day of
January 26, 2011. He is the President of
|
Indonesia
|
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is headquartered in
|
Montreal, Canada
|
The country which declared end of 6 year conflict with Houthi fighters
in the country’s north is
|
Yemen
|
Indian-American chosen by World Economic Forum for its 2010 class of
Young Global Leaders is
|
Sanjay Gupta
|
The largest export market for Australia is
|
China
|
The island country which is the only country in the world to be a
simultaneously member of African Union, Francophonie, Organization of the
Islamic Conference, Arab League and Indian Ocean Commission is
|
Comoros
|
The EU was established in 1957 with
headquarters at
|
Brussels, Belgium
|
The three largest creditors to US Government are China (mainland), Japan
and UK
with respective debts of (in billions $)
|
906.8; 877.4; and
477.6
|
Goodluck Jonathan is the President of
|
Nigeria
|
Nestor Kirchner was elected as the first Secretary General of South
American Nations (UNASUR). He was the former President of
|
Argentina
|
French-American mathematician, who explored a new class of
mathematical shapes known as ‘fractals’ and died recently is
|
Benoit Mandelbrot
|
Iran and Pakistan have signed the natural
gas pipeline deal. The project was first conceptualized and proposed by
|
Rajiv Gandhi
|
The Asia’s largest residential
university is
|
BHU, Allahabad
|
As per commitment on nuclear deal with US, India signed the “Convention of
Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage” at IAEA Headquarters in
|
Vienna
|
The African country whose President Bingu Wa Mutharika on a state
visit to India was
conferred an honorary degree by Delhi
University for his
stupendous works in the African Union
is
|
Malawi
|
The four countries which doled out higher food subsidies in 2008 that
what they had committed (as per WTO subsidy norms) and which was protested by
USA and India are
|
Costa Rica, Poland, Israel and Norway
|
The total number of Landlocked developing countries in the world is
|
33
|
The Indian business leader who has been included in a 19 member group
of notables that will assist the UK government in preparing
business strategies and highlight priorities for the British economy
|
Ratan Tata
|
The person who is known as George Washington of South
America is
|
Simon Bolivar
|
The annual bilateral ‘SIMBEX’ exercise is conducted between the navies
of India
and
|
Singapore
|
Jose Ramos Horta, the Nobel Prize winner was the President of
|
East
Timor
|
African country where Mango Cooperative Program is being implemented
in collaboration with UN Development Programme is
|
Mali
|
International Centre for Agriculture in Dry Areas (ICARDA) was visited
by our President during her visit to Gulf countries in 2010. It is located in
|
Aleppo city (Syria)
|
World record holder from Ethiopia who recently announced
his retirement, to drop out of the New York City Marathon, is
|
Haile Gebrselassie
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In January 2011, the country ready to buy 4 to 5 billion euros (around
$6.6 billion) of Portuguese sovereign debt to help the country ward off
pressure in debt markets, is
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China
|
UN General Assembly adopted a resolution appealing nations to impose a
moratorium on the use of death penalty, 3rd such step by world
body against capital punishment since 2007. The number of countries which
have abolished the death penalty in law or practice are
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136 (out of 192 UN
members)
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The name of Turkish humanitarian aid ship that was the scene of
bloodshed during an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May, 2010
and welcomed by thousands of pro-Palestinian activists when it sailed into Istanbul’s Sarayburnu port after repairs at a port on Turkey’s
Mediterranean coast is
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Mavi Marmara
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The promoter of Red Cross in 1864 was
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Jean Henri Durant
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The Organization that considered that right activist Binayak Sen is
the prisoner of conscience and the life sentence handed down to him violates
international standards of fair trail and has warned that it is likely to
‘inflame’ tension in the conflict-affected area, is
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Amnesty
International
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The oil tycoon and once richest person of Russia who is serving a
eight year prison term and now found guilty of stealing oil from his own
company in second trail, is
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Khodorkovsky
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The first western country to declare caste discrimination unlawful by
organization it as a form of racial prejudice (subject to acceptance of study
commissioned to help it take a decision)
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Britain
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The WTO which replaced the earlier GATT, was set up in the year
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1995
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The country whose satellite namely X-Sat is to be placed into orbit by
Indian Space Research Organization through Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV-C16), is
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Singapore
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Temasek is the investment arm of
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Singapore
|
The Britain
longest MP of Indian origin is
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Keith Vaz
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The world’s 3rd largest transmission utility, has decided to
diversify in telecommunication is
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Power Grid
Corporation
|
The country gave Myanmar’s
pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi honorary citizenship in 2007, not its
PM invited her to visit the country and personally accept the honorary
citizenship is
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Canada
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The Indian who has been elected to Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), which controls the purse
strings of UN and has an annual budget of $22 billion is
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Namgya Khampa
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New UN agency to promote equality for women and India has also been elected as
its member is
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UN Women
|
The former President of Argentina, who served as president from 2003
to 2007 and was being tipped to stand for election again in 2011 has died
recently is
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Nestor Kirchner
|
The chairman of UN’s Foundation and the founder of Cable News Network
(CNN) who has donated $1 billion towards the eradication of polio in Nigeria
is
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Ted Turner
|
While the common name of People’s Republic of China is China, the Republic of China is
known as
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Taiwan
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
INFOLINES – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS
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