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CURRENT AFFAIRS(JANUARY) India and the Netherlands signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in field of Sports on 30 January 2014 India

becomes the third largest crude oil importer in the World Six Public Sector Units (PSUs) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the Worlds largest 4000 MW ultra solar power project Government of India and the government of Fiji signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) on 30 January 2014 India's first monorail to roll out in Mumbai on Feb 1 Pamban Railway Bridge, First cantilever bridge of India, completed its 100 years Worlds first 3D-printer Objet500 Connex3 was launched on 28 January 2014 National Waqf Development Corporation Limited (NAWADCO) inaugurated by Prime Minister of India on 29 January 2014 India ranked lowest in International Intellectual Property Index Uttar Pradesh government launched Samajwadi Pension Yojana on 28 January 2014 India Post announced to install 3000 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) &1.35 lakh micro-ATMs by September 2015 Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the Multi Sectoral Nutrition Programme (MSNP) India ranked 155th in global Environment Performance list India and Japan signed the Memorandum for strengthening cooperation in tourism The Election Commission of India celebrated the 4th National Voters Day across the country on 25 January 2014 Union Government launched the National Waterway-four (NW-4) project in Tamil Nadu National Urban Health Mission was launched by the Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on 20 January 2014 The third Lusofonia Games started in Goa on 18 January 2014 66th Army Day was observed across India on 15 January Malaysian Government announced to introduce high-tech ID cards for foreign workers India and Canada signed a Letter of Intent for co-operation in Iron and Steel Sector The 151st Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was celebrated Worldwide Delhi Became First state to withdraw Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI) in Multibrand Retail Nirbheek, India's first gun for women, launched Gorakhpur railway station of Uttar Pradesh has entered into the Limca Book of Records as worlds longest platform Biz Stone, Co- Founder of Twitter unveiled a new mobile service called Jelly ASSOCHAM organized Seventh Global Insurance Summit at Hyderabad on 8 January 2014 PSPB Women and Men won title 75th Senior National Table Tennis Championship Third phase of the North Eastern Community Resource Management Project launched at Imphal in Manipur India launched the third phase of housing project in Sri Lanka Chhattisgarh government launched a toll free helpline number 1100 to curb corruption on 7 January 2014

Government launched the nations first comprehensive adolescent health programme named Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram. Saturns rings likely formed about 4.4 billion years old The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) selected the Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL) as legal entity identifier PARAM Yuva-II Indias supercomputer rated 1st in India and 44th in the world among the most power efficient computer India and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to protect interests of Indian domestic sector workers in the Saudi Arabia. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the Minimum Support Price [MSP] of Jute for 2014-15 Government issued food safety guidelines for Integrated Child Development Services scheme Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs [CCEA] approved a proposal for setting CCTVs and GPS devices on public transport vehicles in 32 cities for women safety Chinas 1st aircraft carrier Liaoning successfully completes Sea trials 8TH Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Latvia became the 18th country to enter eurozone.

PERSONALITIES(JANUARY) Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Vijay Bahuguna resigned Anand Kumar, a Mathematician and Founder of Super30 was conferred with Ramanujan Mathematics Award Ajoy Misra appointed as the CEO and Managing Director of Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL) on 29 January 2014 Raymond Weil, the pioneer of Swiss watch dies at 87 Ukraines Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on 28 January 2014 The Cuban revolutionary, Ulises Estrada and associate of Che Guevara died at the age of 79 years Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter dies at 94 Queen Latifah won the 2014 Matrix Award H C Meena appointed as the Secretary Security Professor Rakesh Khurana has been appointed as the Dean of Havard College Kailash Meghwal elected as the Speaker of Rajasthan Assembly Dr. Tej Vir Singh from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh won the UNWTO Ulysses Prize Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi was honoured with Amadelkufa in South Africa on 26 January 2014 Abhijeet Gupta won his second Parsvanth International Grandmasters chess tournament Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra community died Hery Rajaonarimampianina declared as the new President of Madagascar Tamil Nadu Governor, Rosaiah Inaugurated 15th Express Technology Sabha Former 5000 meters world record-holder and politician Christopher Chataway died Abhishikta S Shetty of Karnataka won the 11th Edition of the Miss South India 2014 pageant Title Sheikh Hasina sworn-in as Bangladesh Prime Minister

President of India Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated Andaman and Nicobar Tribal Research and Training Institute [ANTRI] at Port Blair on 12 January 2014 P.K.Goyal, Director of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Won Best CFO Award on 12 January 2014 Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon dOr award for 2013 Social activist IIa Pathak passes away at the age of 80 Veteran Telugu actress Anjali Devi Passes away at the age of 86 Israels Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died at 85 Kumari Selja Confers Dr. Ambedkar National Merit Awards Uninor appointed Morten Sorby as new CEO Former Mumbai Ranji Trophy cricketer Vishwanath Ramachandra Bondre died at 77 Munish Sharda appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Future Generali India Life Insurance Singer Phil Everly passed away at age of 74 R. Chandrashekhar appointed President of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Portugals Former Football player Eusebio da Silva Ferreira died at age of 71 Justice A K Ganguly has resigned as the Chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) Telugu film actor Uday Kiran died Aditya Joshi became the first India to be world no.1 junior shuttler Indias Former shooting coach Tibor Gonczol died Manmohan Singh launched total E-literacy project in Kerala Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded the Order of Prince Henry King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck will visit India from 6-10 January 2014 B. G. Srinivas and U.B. Pravin Rao appointed Infosys presidents Pradhyuman Singh was appointed as the pro-tem speaker of the 14th Rajasthan Assembly Shri S.K. Sharma was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) Mammen Mathew, the Chief Editor of Malayala Manorma has been chosen for prestigious journalism Lokmanya Tilak National Award General Bikram Singh took Charge as Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Ronaldinho got South American footballer of the year award Us author Danielle Steel awarded Frances highest honour, the Legion of Honor Ashraf Jehan, first female judge in Paks National Sharia Court 'Prizzi's Honor' actor Joseph Ruskin dies at 89 Corey Anderson scored the fastest-ever ODI century in Cricket History Former West Bengal minister and veteran CPI-M leader Sailen Sarkar died at 73 Kathy Cross of New Zealand became the first woman in ICC umpires panel MS Dhoni becomes 4th fastest batsmen to reach 8,000 ODI runs International Cricket Council (ICC) approved the introduction of International Womens Championship on 29 January 2014 India won gold in men's Basketball at Lusofonia Games Saina Nehwal won the Syed Modi International India Grand Prix title 2014 Australia won five matches ODI series against England by 4-1 India Women Cricket team won the three ODl series against Sri Lanka by 3-0

Stanislas Wawrinka won the Australian Open mens singles title on 26 January 2014 Vijay Zol selected captain of India to lead U-19 Cricket World Cup South Africas Louis Oosthuizen retained the Volvo Golf Champions title Nikhat Zareen won gold medal at the third Nations Cup International Boxing Tournament ONGC Men & Chhattisgarh Women won 28th Federation Cup National Basketball Championship India won the Under-19 Asia Cricket Cup Serena Williams won the Brisbane International Title 2014 ASTROMONY(JANUARY)

Prithvi II, the Nuclear capable Surface-to-Surface missile, successfully test-fired ISRO successfully launched its heavy-duty rocket GSLV-D5 carrying communication satellite GSAT-14 BOOKS AND AUTHORS.(JANUARY)

Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari released a book entitled Sangharsh ke safar ka nayak Mulayam written by Omveer Tomar AWARDS.(JANUARY) 59th Idea Film fare Awards2013: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag grabbed seven Black Lady awards MARCH SPORTS(MARCH)

Virat Kohli reclaims top spot in ODI batting rankings Australia replaced India at second position in ICC Test Team rankings 64th National Basketball Championship concluded South Africa won ICC under 19 World Cup 2014 Roger Federer won the Dubai tennis Championships for the sixth time. AWARDS(MARCH)

12 Years A Slave won the best picture award in the 86th Annual Academy Oscar Awards 2014. PERSONALITIES

Michelle Bachelet was sworn-in as the President of Chile for Second time Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB) appointed Former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna as its Chairman Joe McGinniss, author of Fatal Vision dies at age 71 Pooja Ghatkar won Gold medal at Asian Air Gun Championship Vice President of Afghanistan Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim dies at 56 Kush Sharma, an Indian-American student won the National Spelling Bee Sheila Dikshit sworn-in as Kerala Governor

Heena Sidhu and Chain Singh won Gold Medal at 7th Asian Air Gun Championship Indian writer Pankaj Mishra won Windham Campbell Literature Prize on 9 March 2014 Indian-American scientist Anil Jain Created the first 3D model of a human fingerprint called Phantom Tom Albanese appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vedanta Resources Veteran Actress, Sheila MacRae dies at 92 William Clay Ford the grandson of automotive pioneer Henry Ford dies at 88 World's first 3D fingerprint Created by Indian-American scientist Sumith Nakandala appointed as first Secretary General of BIMSTEC Sheila Dikshit appointed as the new Governor of Kerala Bill Gates is the Worlds top richest Billionaire according to annual list of Forbes Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Apple Inc Peter Oppenheimer announced his retirement SpiceJet appointed R.Neelakantan as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on 4 March 2014 Arvind Bhat won the German Open Grand Prix title Veteran journalist T. V. Venkitachalam passes away at the age of 85 South Africa captain Graeme Smith announces retirement Chandi Prasad Bhatt won the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 Former Union Minister Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi passes away at the age of 85. BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Vice President of india released book entitled Akbar The Aesthete

CURRENT AFFAIRS(MARCH) Union Government announced to build 200 low cost airports

India emerged as the largest non oil trading partner for Dubai in 2013-14 World Longest aircraft Airlander unveiled in Britain Avaya appointed Priyadarshi Mohapatra as New Managing Director for India and SAARC Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports inaugurated National Cycling Academy in New Delhi Mumbai was the least expensive major city for expatriates -EIU Report China announced to extend the Qinghai-Tibet railway line to Xigaze Lok Sabha elections to be held from 7 April 2014 in 9-phases Third BIMSTEC Summit 2014 was held in Myanmar Rail link between Kilinochchi to Palai in North Sri Lanka was inaugurated World Dentist Day observed across the World on 6 March 2014 NDMC launched Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana Assam is the first state in India to celebrate Child Protection Day on 4 March 2014 Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme for the welfare of minorities launched on 4 March 2014 Union Ministry of Minority Affairs launched Nalanda Project for Minorities Higher Educational Institutions on 4 March 2014

National Food Security Act came into force in Madhya Pradesh Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry launched the DMIC at Lucknow.

CURRENT AFFAIRS(FEBRUARY) National Science Day was observed across India on 28 February 2014

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar The largest Solar Power Plant of India was launched at Bhagwanpur in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh on 26 February 2014 Ibrahim Mahlab was sworn in as new Prime Minister of Egypt Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways R. Ramalinga Reddy inaugurated electric passenger bus in Bangalore on 27 February 2014 Maritime Energy Heli Services Pvt Ltd (Mehair) and Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) launched a seaplane service on 24 February 2014 Union Government inaugurated the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) on 24 February 2014 NTPC signed MoU with BSPGCL and LBCPL to develop a 1320 MW Thermal Power Project in Bihar Indian Origin 12 year old boy Shubham Banerjee developed a low cost Braille Printer Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) launched E-Wallet Scheme to make payment process fast Social media giant Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars 18th Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania West Bengal government and United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) launched a campaign about safe drinking water and safe sanitation practices on 20 February 2014 Union Cabinet Approves Odia as Classical Language on 20 February 2014 Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a National Mission for Green India on 20 February 2014 Connaught Place (CP) in Delhi ranked as the worlds eighth most expensive office location Airtel first to cross the 200 million mobile-user mark in India China plans to build Worlds longest underwater tunnel India to host 2015 World Bridge Championship World Radio Day was celebrated across the globe on 13 February 2014 National Women's Day of India was observed on 13 February 2014 Bombay Stock Exchange launched an institutional trading platform [ITP] for small and medium enterprises [SME] on 12 February 2014. Assam became the first state to ban smokeless tobacco legally Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari launched the India-China Year of Friendly Exchanges on 11 February 2014 The South Central Railway (SCR) launched Hyderabad Live Train Enquiry System (HYLITES) on 10 February 2014

Sikkim became the first State in India to achieve 100 percent sanitation coverage President of Israel Shimon Peres set a new Guinness World Record with 6500student online civics class Worlds oldest tigress, Machli Found in the Ranthambhore National Park India and Germany sign two umbrella agreements for financial and technical cooperation Indias Visa-on-arrival facility extended for tourists of 180 Countries, except eight Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the implementation of the National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology Worlds First Paperless public Library of the BiblioTech was opened in the USA on 4 February 2014 First online Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas launched Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the National Cloud on 4 February 2014 Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein, President of Zanzibar, is on an official visit to India from 1 to 9 February 2014 Union Cabinet approved the second phase of Bangalore Metro Rail Project Worlds oldest flamingo died at Adelaide Zoo of Australia. PERSONALITIES.

Legendary Spanish Guitarist Paco de Lucia passed away at the age of 66 Harold Ramis, the American actor, Writer and Director of classic comedy films passed away at the age of 69 Dinesh Sarraf appointed next Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Eminent Telugu litterateur Hanumath Shastry, the passes away at the age of 90 Vice President Hamid Ansari released a commemorative postage stamp in the honour of Maulana Hasrat Mohani German Chancellor Angela Merkel awarded with Israeli Presidential Medal of Distinction Somdev Devvarman won his third ATP Challenge Tennis title Eminent painter Prokash Karmakar passed away at the age of 81 Prime Minister Inaugurated Indira Paryavaran Bhawan' Rishang Keishing Oldest M.P retires after serving seven decades Matteo Renzi was sworn-in as Prime Minister of Italy Cheteshwar Pujara appointed as the brand ambassador of the Gujarat State Election Commission Oleksandr Turchynov appointed as the interim President of Ukraine United Bank of India CMD Archana Bhargava resigns Hindi writer & Jnanpith Award winner Amar Kant passes away at 89 Minority Affairs minister K Rehman Khan inaugurated first Minority Cyber Village in Rajasthan on 19 February 2014 Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns as Andra Pradesh Chief Minister Kingfisher Airlines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sanjay Aggarwal resigned Abdul Basit appointed high commissioner of Pakistan to India Carnatic music Vocalist Rudra Krishna Srikantan passed away at 94 Edward Snowden was elected as the new Rector of the University of Glasgow Tom Finney, the former Preston and England footballer passes away at the age of 91

Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag were nominated for Cricketer of the Generation award. Justice Mukul Mudgal, former Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, was appointed as the chief of the Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC) Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigned Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre and Guocheng Zhang received International Gandhi Award for the year 2013 Foreign Minister of Kyrgyz Republic, Erlan Abdyldaev visited India South Africa launched a commemorative silver stamp of Nelson Mandela Balu Mahendra, the award winning film director and cinematographer passes away at 74 Hollywood child star Shirley Temple passed away at the age of 85 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest and the most generous donor of America in 2013 Indian-Origin Ashok Varadhan appointed as the co-head of securities division of Goldman Sachs' on 11 February 2014 R.K.Tiwari appointed new chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Jatinder Bir Singh was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) Vinod Sawhny appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Reliance Communications Sonia Gandhi named as Chairperson of Congress Campaign Committee Sushil Koirala veteran Nepali Congress (NC) leader elected as the next Prime Minister of Nepal Abhinav Bindra, become the 1st person to win third gold-medal in the Inter-Shoot Tri-series Shooting Yulia Lipnitskaya became the youngest Russian athlete to win gold medal in Winter Olympics N Ramachandran elected as new President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Olympian long distance runner Ranjit Bhatia passes away at 77 Legendary bhajan singer Juthika Roy died at the age of 93 Kumar Sangakkara, the became the second person in the history of Cricket to score a triple century and a century in the same test match Narayanswamy Srinivasan, the President of BCCI elected as the new Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) from July 2014 for a period of 2 years Arunima Sinha Honored with Amazing Indian Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai, John Wood and Indira Ranamagar nominated for the World Childrens Prize Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas confirmed the appointment of B.N.Talukdar as head of Director General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) John Thompson was appointed as the Chairman of Microsoft Marco Lambertini appointed as director-general (DG) of the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) International on 6 February 2014 Vishwanath Tripathi, the eminent Hindi writer selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman 2013 Indian-origin professor Sanjeev Kulkarni named dean of Princeton University school Satya Nadella appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of [CEO] of Microsoft Sachin Tendulkar and Prof CNR Rao conferred with Bharat Ratna UN appointed India based Vivek Lall as special advisor on cyber security

Former Supreme Court Justice, Ashok Kumar Mathur appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission Manoj Vaish took charge as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. Poonam Khetrapal Singh took charge as the Regional Director of SEARO on 1 February 2014 Harish Rawat was appointed as the 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Michael Rogers nominated as Director of the National Security Agency [NSA] Oscar-winning American actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman died at the age of 46 Silverine Swer, the First Padma Shri Awardee of Meghalaya passed away. SPORTS

Sourav Kothari won the National Billiard Championships title on 26 February 2014 Delhi Waveriders won the 2nd edition of Hockey India League cup 2014 Li Na of China ranked World Number 2 in Womens Tennis Association (WTA) singles ranking Peng Shuai of China ranked World Number 1 in Womens Tennis Association (WTA) Doubles ranking New Zealand won 2-cricket Test Series against India 1-0 Karnataka won Irani Trophy for the fifth time. Indian boxers Finished Fourth at the 58th Bocskai International Tournament Abhinav Bindra won second gold medal at the Inter Shoot Tri Series shooting at The Hague, Netherlands Joshna Chinappa won the Winnipeg Winter Club Open title Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win the Ranji Trophy 2014 Virat Kohli slips to fourth in ICC Twenty20 rankings. AWARDS

Madan Babu, Indian scientist won the Protein Societys Protein Science Young Investigator Award for 2014 Sikkim won the National Tourism Award 2012-13 Marathi film, Killa won the Crystal Bear award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Bangladeshs Kamar Ahmad Simons documentary Are You Listening won the Golden Conch Award of MIFF 2014. ASTRONOMY

India successfully test-fired Akash missile from ITR Complex in Chandipur Isros Mars Orbiter spacecraft Mangalyaan completed 100 days in space on 12 February 2014. Books and authors

Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari released a book Ambedkar Awakening Indias Social Conscience Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India released a Book entitled Public Issues Before Parliament

Arun Jaitley launched a book entitled ModiNomics in New Delhi

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