IBPS-2013 Aspirants > Current Gk ....>>single liner 32. Deepak Sandhu > first woman Chief Information Commissioner. 33. Diana Nyad >American long-distance swimmer > first person to cross Florida Straits without any shark cage. 34. Duty on import of gold and silver jewellery > raised to 15 % from 10 % 35. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ( Liberian President ) > got Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development -2012. 36. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (President of the Liberia) > visited India 37. Former Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai > appointed as Indias High Commissioner > United Kingdom. 38. Former South African President Nelson Mandela > got humanitarian achievement award 39. Freedom fighter > Ranjit Singh (Very near to Subhas Chandra Bose) > died 40. G-20 > held St. Peters burg in Russia. 41. GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rules )> w.e.f. April 1, 2016 42. German Thomas Bach > president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)>succeeded By Belgium’s Jacques Rogge . 43. Government departments > banned from holding meetings in 5-star hotels +officials barred from executive class air travel > due to cut non-plan expenditure by 10 % >Aiming to restrict the fiscal deficit to 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2013-14, + all ministries and departments not to buy new vehicles+ not to create new jobs + not to fill posts lying vacant for over one year. 44. Govt approved a second vehicle assembly building > Satish Dhawan Space Centre (Sriharikota ) 45. Govt appointed panel> head by M Damodaran > recommended legal, administrative and regulatory reforms > To make the country a better and easier place for doing business. 46. Govt. is consideration> to give UT status to Hyderabad (joint capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for 10 years) 47. Gyan Correa’s debut Gujarati movie The Good Road > nominated as India’s official entry to next year’s Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category. 48. Haraprasad Das > Moortidevi Award for 2012 for Vamsha. (nVamsa is a poetic recreation of the Mahabharata ) 49. Honest city of world > Mumbai- 2nd Finland capital Helsinki -1 Portugal’s Capital Lisbon - least honest. 50. Honorary Oscar Award >Angelina Jolie > for her humanitarian work > presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. 51. Hun Sen > sworn as Cambodian prime minister > another five-year term ( He has been in power for last 28 years ) 52. India and Japan > decided to increase bilateral currency swap > from USD 15 to USD 50 billion. 53. India and the USA > signed > the first commercial agreement > oncivilian nuclear power cooperation. 54. India environmentalist Bunker Roy + Pakistans Malala Yousafzai > got Clinton Global Citizens Awards - 2013. 55. India will build >first strategic oil storage >January > Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh + Mangalore and Padur in Karnataka > to store about 5.33 million tonnes of crude oil. 56. Indian Election Observers team >invited by Elections Commission of Maldives > for observing the presidential elections . 57. Indian freedom fighter Jawaharlal Darda > Lifetime Achievement Award (posthumously )> by UKs House of Commons. 58. Indian-origin American, Nina Davuluri > became the first Indian-origin > to win the Miss America 59. Indo-Japan Monorail and Light Rail Transit (LRT) seminar > New Delhi. 60. INS Vikramaditya( known as Gorshkov in Russian Navy) >Joined Indian Navy on November 15
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