MISC

                                             

                               CURRENT AFFAIRS      

           

1. Name of the largest blast furnace of India which was operational by SAIL on 10 August 2013 - Durga

2. Female tennis player to win The Rogers Cup 2013 and capture her 54th WTA singles title - Serena Williams

3. Name the captain of the 18-member hockey squad of India in the Asia Cup hockey tournament 2013 - Sardar Singh

4. Name of the host country of 7th Asian Junior Wushu Championships - Philippines

5. Name the fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats recently unearthed in China - Rugosodon eurasiaticus

6. Place at which The Travel & Tourism Fair(TTF) 2013, the biggest travel trade show of India started - Ahmadabad, Gujarat

7. India’s under-23 cricket team won the Asian Cricket Council Emerging Teams Cup in Singapore on 25 August 2013, after defeating - Pakistan

8. Indian tennis player who lifted the women’s doubles trophy at the WTA New Haven Open along with her partner Jie Zheng of China - Sania Mirza

9. Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013 awarded to - Vinod Prakash Sharma

10. Nelson Mandela on 27 August 2013 was honoured with the first Lifetime Campaigner for Peace and Freedom of - the Mahathir award for Global Peace

11. Prem Bhatia Award for Best Political Reporting of the Year (2013) was won by - Shalini Singh, Deputy Editor of The Hindu.

12. The person to be recommended as next ONGC chief by the Public Enterprises Selection Board - Dinesh K Sarraf

13. The Joint Air force exercise to be held by China and Pakistan - Shaheen-2

14. The 21st round of Boundary talks between Bhutan and China held in the city - Thimphu

15. 5th India-China Strategic Dialogue held in the City - New Delhi

16. The person to be sworn in as the new President of Iran - Hassan Rouhani.

                    LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS

01. Man Booker Prize 2013 : Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries)
02. Man Booker International Prize : Lydia Davis
03. Asia Pacific International Award : Dr. Mujeeb Athar
04. Cecil B Demile Award : Woody Allen
05. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 : Malala Yousafzai
06. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace : Nelson Mandela
07. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 : Edward Snowden
08. Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival : Sacro GRA (Italy)
09. Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision Festival : Baraksat (Lebanese                                                                                                                               Documentary)
10. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Kevin Barry
11. INDEX Design Award : Kavitha Shukla
12. ISRO Young Scientist Award : Jenita Mary
13. Knighthood, which is the highest honour of Britain : Anish Kapoor (sculptor).
15. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran : Hariharan
16. 'Legend of Planet' award : Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder)
17. Library of Congress Gershwin Award : Carole King (first woman)
18. National Literacy Award : Chattisgarh
19. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward : Abdul Kalam
20. NTR National Literary Award : Manoj Das
21. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 : Shashi Tharoor
22. Presidential medal of freedom : Dr. Sally Ride
23. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 : Adam Johnson (“The Orphan Master’s son”)
24. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna : Ranjan Sodhi
25. Saraswati Samman (2013) : Sugathakumari
26. Skoch Group Award : Jharkhand
27. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony : Zubin Mehta
28. Tagore Peace Prize : Shihab Ghanem (first Arab)
29. The Simón Bolívar National Award of Journalism 2013 : Hugo Chavez
                                                                                     (late Venezuelan President )
30. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award : V. Ramanathan
31. UEFA Best Player in Europe Award : Franck Ribéry
32. UN’s Public Service Award : Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)
33. Unique Female Leader Award : Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)
34. United Nation's Public Service Award : Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala).
35. US "woman of courage" award : Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)
36. Whitley award (Green Oscar) : Dr. Aparajita Datta
37. Women’s Prize for Fiction : AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven)
38. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest :Raghav Joneja

                                          Recent Appointments

1. Abdulla Yameen appointed as the new President of Maldives.
2. Imomali Rakhmon Reelected as the President of Tajikistan
3. Syed Jalil Abbas Jilani appointed New Pakistan's envoy to USA.

4. Syed Ibne Abbas: New Pakistani envoy to India.
5. Ms Tehmina Janjua: Pakistan's permanent representative (PR) for the 
                                     United Nations in New York.
6. Nawaz Sharif: New Pm of Pakistan
7. Mamnoon Hussain - 12th President of Pakistan
8. Miss World 2013: Megan Young from Philippines
9. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita: New Mali President
10. Mulatu Teshome: New president of Ethiopia
11. Hun Sen: New Cambodian Prime Minister
12. Tony Abbott :New PM of Australia. He succeeded Kevin Rudd
13. Nouri Abusahmain: Preseident of Libya
14. Ali Zeidan: Libya PM (Prime Minister)
15. Wael Nader Al-Halqi: Prime Minister of Syria.
16. C.V. Wigneswaran - Northern Province CM of Sri Lanka.
17. Satya Nadella (India-born) – New Microsoft CEO
18. Roberto Azevedo - Head of W.T.O.
19. New King of Belgium: Prince Philippe

                                                     FOREIGN ORIGIN WORDS 

• Pariah - Social Outcast
• A-bete-noire - Most Hated Person
• Faux Pas - Social Blunder
• Gaffe - Abnormal Behavior
• Savoie-faire - Extreme Caution in social behavior 
• Haute Couture - High Fashion
• Chutzpah - Audacity 
• Pret a Porte - Ready made Garments
• Fiduciary - Something related to finance
• Prima Facie - At first View
• Sine Die - Without setting a fixed Day
• Bona fide - In Good Faith
• Dejure - As Per Law
• Pro Rata - In proportion to
• Vice-Versa - The other way round
• Ab initio - From the very Beginning 
• Alibi - Elsewhere
• Mallafide - Bad Intention
• Tabula Rasa - Clean Slate
• Carte Blanche - Complete Discretion 
• Raison D'etre - Reason for existence
• Ex Gratia - Payment made out of Generosity 
• Prejure - To lie on Oath
• Quid Pro Quo - Something in return
• Vis-a-Vis - Across
• Fait accompli - Accomplished Fact
• Tour-de-force - Master Piece 
• De Facto - Actual 
• Ad Valorem - According to value
• Ad Interim - In the mean time
• Lex Fori - Law of Court
• Status Quo - The state in which things are
• Volte face - to face about
• Modus Operandi - Way of doing something
• Force Majeure - Superior Power
• Mutatis Mutandis - With necessary changes
• Pro Bono Publico - For Public Good
• Tete-a-Tete - A Private Conversation
• Coup d'etat - An Abrupt Change of Govt. by force
• Ipso Facto - By the fact