Revision of persons in news current affairs 2012 - 2013 part 3 - sschub upsc ibps

For UPSC, SSC and IBPS, this is the third and last article for Persons in News (PIN) 2012-2013. This series is the minimum weapons for Exam war. If you have already read out these, then take fast look as revision of important facts, winners and persons.

Sport Leaders

Sport	name	why in news
Athletics	Fauja Singh	world’s oldest marathon runner.
Athletics	Usain Bolt	IAAF award. Got 3 gold in London Olympic
Athletics	Allyson Felix	IAAF award. Got 3 gold in London Olympic
Badminton	PV Sindhu	Asia under 19
Billiards	Pankaj Advani	won the world cup
Chess World Cup	V.Anand	defeated Boris Gelfand
Cricket	Cpt. Unmukt chand	India cricket under 19 cpt, won world cup. defeated Aussies.
Cycling	Lance armstrong	Cyclist, banned for drugs.
Football	Lionel Messei	most goals in a calendar year. got Golden boot.
Football	Sunil Chhetri	AIFF player of the year.
Hockey	Leslie Claudius	India’s triple olympic gold medalist. Hockey. Dead.
London Olympic	Sushil	Silver Wrestle 66kg. He was flag-bearer. He got bronze in 2008 Beijing.
London Olympic	Vijay Kumar	Silver. 25 rapid fire pistol. Rajiv G.Khel ratna
London Olympic	Mary Kom	Bronze. Women flywt. Boxing
London Olympic	Gagan Narang	Bronze. 10 air-rifle
London Olympic	Yogeshwar dutt	Bronze. 60kg wrestle. Rajiv G.Khel ratna.
London Olympic	Saina Nehwal	Bronze. Single badminton
London Olympic	Krishna Poonia	discus throw. Did not win
Shooting	Ronjan Sodhi	ISSF shooting world cup: .(silver, double trap).
Squash	Dipika Pillia	did not win but only Indian woman to enter semifinals
London Olympic	Michael Phelps	Swimming. four golds and two silver medals

Tennis PIN

	Male	Female
Aus.Open	Djkovik, Serbia	Azarenka, Belarus
French Open	Nadal, Spain	Sharapova, Rus
US Open	Ande Murray, UK	Serena Williams, US
Wimbledon	Federer,Swiz	Serena Williams,US

• Bhupathi Sania won French open doubles.
• Andy Roddick, Tennis retired.

Sports PIN

Beijing Olympics 2008	Fuwa (good-luck dolls)
Cricket World Cup 2011	Stumpy, the elephant.
CWG, 2011	Shera, the tiger.
Kabbadi world cup 2012, India	JAANBAZ, the eagel.
London Olympics 2012	Wenlock + Mandeville. They symbolize Britain’s industrial revolution.
FIFA 2014	Armadillo.

Books/Literature list

author	book/info
Hilary Mantel	Won two man booker prizes. This time for book “Bring up the bodies”.
Shashi tharoor	Pax indica. It details India’s international relations.
Jeet Thayil	Narcopolis.  Tale of mumbai’s opimioum addiction. Booker price shortlisted but did not win. Another book is “These errors are correct”
Ruskin Bond	Maharani
JK Rowling	The Casual Vacancy  (Harry Potter author)
N.Vittal	Ending corruption: how to clean up Iondia
Kushwant Singh.	Free thinker’s prayer book
Amitav Ghosh	River of smoke
Sudheendra Kulkarni	Music of spinning wheel
Salman Rushdie	Joseph Anton.
APJ Kalam	Turning Points
Aravind Adiga	Last man in tower
Tarun Tejpal	The Valley of Masks
Taslima Nasreen	Nirbasan
Kuldeep Nayar	Beyond the lines
Kushwant singh	Turbaned Tornado: The Oldest Marathon Runner Fauja Singh
Verghese Kurien	An Unfinished Dream
Verghese Kurien	The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance
Hamid Ansari	Muslim in Indian cities
I K GUJRAL	Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography
Pt. ravi shankar	Living to Tell It All
Vikram Chandra	Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Syed Mustafa Siraj	Aleek Manush – 1994

Famous Authors Dead

Sunil Gangopadhyaya	Bengali writer. Sahitya Acadamy chief.
Kamla Sadgopan	Tamil novelist
Eric Hobsbawm	Noted Marxist Historian from UK

Nobel prize - 2012

Category	Who?	Why?
Medicine	Gurdon, Yamanaka	Regenerative medicine. Cure disease by growing tissues in lab.
Physics	Haroche, Wineland	Measure quantum particles, without destroying them.
Chemistry	Lefkowitz, Kobilka	Protein receptors that let body cell respond to signals.
Litt.	Mo Yan	First Chinese writer to get this award.
Economics	Roth, Shapley.	Stable allocation + market design.
Peace	EU	Lolz

Nobel prize winners associated with India

Dr. Hargobind Khorana	Medicine
S. Chandrasekhar	Physics
Venkatarama Ramakrishnan	Chemistry
Mother Teresa	Peace
Tagore	Litt.
Amartya Sen	Economics
Rudyard Kipling	Litt.
VS Naipaul	Litt.

Astronomy

Name	Why in News
Cpt. Nivedita Bhasin	First Indian woman to command boeing 787
Liu Yang	first Chinese woman astro.
Neil Armstrong	Apollo 11. 1969. First man to land on moon. Dead.
Sally Ride	First American woman astro. Dead. A Moon crate named after her.
Sunita Williams	Take a command of international space station. second Indian woman, first kalpana chawala.

Beauty Winners

Olivia Culpo	Miss Universe, USA.
Tereza Fajksova	Miss Earth 2012. from czech.
wen xia yu	Miss World 2012 (China). Last Indian to win was Priyanka Chopra.

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International Persons in News

Country	People/Name	Why in News
Bhutan	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	King of Bhutan. Chief guest for 26th Jan. 2013.
Brazil	Dilma Rousseff	First woman President of Brazil. She replaced Lula Desilva. (Lula got Indira Gandhi peace prize.)
China	Xi Jingping	Replaced Hu Jintao, China. He is expected to become President, in March 2013.
China	Li Kequiang	New PM of China. Replaced Wen Jiabao.
China	Bo Xilai	corrupt leader in Chinese politbureu. Expelled
Cuba	Raul Castro	President of Cuba. Replaced Fidel Castro
Egypt	Mohd. Morsy	President of Egypt.
Eu	Herman Van Rompuy	PM of Belgium. President of European Council
France	Francois Hollande	President of France. He defeated Sarkozi. Belongs to Socialist party
Greece	Atonis Samras	PM Greece. Name is important only because Greece=#EPICFAIL economy.
Iran	Aytollah Khamenei	Supreme leader of Iran
Iran	Ahmedijad	President of Iran.
Israel	President Shimon Peres. PM Benjamin Netanyahu.	Their parliament =Knesset.
Japan	Shinzo Abe	PM japan. Defeated Yoshiko Noda. Their parliament =Diet.
Liberia	Ellen Sirleaf	President of Liberia, got Indira Gandhi peace price. (2012)
Maldives -Coup	Nasheed N Waheed	after coup, Nasheed was replaced by Waheed
Mali-coup	Diarra N Traore	After coup, Diarra was replaced by Traore
Mauritius	Rajkeshwur Purryag	President of Mauratius. He was chief guest @Pravasi bharatiya Divas 2013
Mexico	Enrique Nieto	Mexico new President
Myanmar	Thein Sein	Myanmar president
Myanmar	Aung San Suu Ki	Nobel peace 91. Opposition  leader in Myanmar. Party National league for democracy. Visited India in Nov 12
N.Korea	Kim Jong-Un	North Korea President. After his father King Jong-il Died
Pak	Raja Parvez	PM of Pakistan, SC ordered his arrested.
Germany	Angela Markel	German Chancellor
Palestine	Mohd.Abbas	President of Palestine Authority
S.Korea	Park Geun-hye	first female President of S.Korea. She replaced Lee Myung-bak
Srilanka	Gen.Sarath Fonseca	Ex-General of Sri Lankan army. Was jailed after power struggle with President.
Srilanka	Mahinda Rajpakshe	Sri lankan President. He threw out CJI  Shiran Bandaranyake.
Syria	Wael Halqi	PM of Syria.
Syria	Bashar Al Assad	President of Syria
Thailand	Yingluck Shinawatra	First female PM of Thailand. She was chief guest of 26thJan parade in 2012.
Uk	David Cameron	PM of UK. (Conservative party) He replaced Gordon Brown.
Uk	Nick Clegg	Deputy PM of UK. (liberal democrats)
Usa	Obama (Democrat)	won second time Presidential election. His VP candidate was Joe Biden.
Usa	Mitt Romney (Republican)	Contested against Obama. His VP candidate was   Paul Ryan.
Ven	Hugo Chavez	President Venezuela. Right now getting treatment for cancer in Cuba.

International Organizations

name	Org
Ban-Ki-Moon	UN General Secretary
Jim Yong Kim	World Bank
Justice Dalveer Bhandari	Indian. became Judge of International court of Justice.
Christine Lagarde	Chief of IMF
Pascal Lamy	Chief of WTO
Jacques Rogge	President IOC, olympic Committee.
SK Jain	first Indian to become chairman of World Assco. Of Nuke operators.
Nkosazana Zuma	Head of African Union (AU): First woman

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National Persons in News

People	Why In News
Admiral Devendra Joshi	replaced Admiral Nirmal Verma
Air Marshal N.A.K. Browne	He replaced Pradeep Vasant Naik
Ashok Chawla	CCI. Competition Commission of India
Brajesh Mishra	India’s first National Security Advisor. During Vajpayee Government. Dead
Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir	replaced SH Kapadia.
Duvvuri Subbarao	RBI Governor.
Urjit Patel	recently appointed deputy RBI Governor.
Ela Ramesh Bhatt	Founder of SEWA. Got Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace. (actually won in 2011, but was awarded that prize in 2013).
Gadgil	Committee on Western Ghat ecology.
Gen. Bikram Singh	he replaced Gen.VK Singh
Gopi Chand Narang	associated with Urdu litt. Got Pakistani award Sitara-i-Imtiaz. The highest civilian award in Pakistan is Nishan-i-Imtiaz, earlier Morariji Desai and Dilip Kumar got it
Gulzar	Indira gandhi award for national integration.
JS Verma	Committee on women safety after Delhi gangrape
Justice DK Jain	20th law commission
Kaushik Basu	World bank Chief economist
KC Chakrabary	Committee : financial inclusion. Deputy Governor RBI ,
Major Abup J. Manjali	Kirti Chakra.
Mrinal Gore	Noted socialist. Dead.

Indians in abroad

Name	Why In News
Ami Bera	California, House of representative.
Bobby Jinda	Louisiana Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party
Fareed Zakaria	worked for CNN and TIME. Suspended for plagarism.
Halimah Yacob	Singapore’s first woman speaker, of Indian origin.
Jacintha Saldana	she was a nurse in London, treating Kate William. She committed suicide after two Australian radio DJ mocked her.
Kamla Persad Bissessar	PM of Trinidad and Tobago. Chief Guest of PBD-2012.
Nikky Haley	S.Carolina Governer, USA, Indian origin, Republican party
Patricia Maria Rozario	UK Musician. Won PBD 2013.
Rajat Gupta	Jailed for insider trading in USA. Was associated with Goldman Sachs
Rajkeswur Purryag	President of Mauritius. Chief guest of PBD-2013
Rasik Joshi	Sanskrit Litt. Mexico. Won PBD-2013 award
Tulsi Gabbard	1st Hindu in US House of Representatives (their Lok Sabha). Elected from Hawai State. Party:Democrat.She took oath on Gita, Served in US army, was deployed in Iraq.

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