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53. India ranked 143rd in Global Peace Index out of 162 countries. Note: Iceland tops the list as the world's most peaceful place and Syria is the most violent place in the world. 54. India’s first One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) named Gauravi launched in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. 55. Militants captured Iraq's largest oil refinery Baiji refinery. The Baiji refinery is located in Salaheddin province, north of Baghdad in Iraq. 56. Britain's premium luxury goods brand East India Company has issued an exclusive legal tender gold coin worth 12,000 pound sterling in honour of Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. 57. Lithuania to become 19th country to adopt Euro as currency from 1 January 2015. It will become the 19th member of the euro zone out of 28 countries in the European Union, and the last of the Baltic states to join. Note: Estonia was the first Baltic state to become a member of the eurozone in 2011, followed by Latvia on 1 January 2014.
Lithuania Capital: Vilnius, President: Dalia Grybauskaitė, Prime Minister: Algirdas Butkevičius 58. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly joined the Supreme Court-appointed Mudgal committee, which is probing the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal, as an expert on cricketing affairs. 59. Telangana came into existence as the 29th state of India and TRS supremeo K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) was sworn in as its first Chief Minister. ESL Narasimhan was sworn in as the first Governor of Telangana. 60. Madhya Pradesh government has appointed actor Madhuri Dixit as the brand ambassador for its Mamta Abhiyaan (maternal and child health) campaign. 61. India became the second largest exporter of textiles in the world. This was revealed by the recent data released by UN Comtrade in Global Textiles as well as Apparel Exports. 62. Sachin Tendulkar to be goodwill ambassador for national games. The 35 National Games to be held in seven cities in the State early next year will have cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar as its goodwill ambassador. New Appointment in India New governors appointed 1. Kalyan Singh – new Governor of Rajasthan 2. Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala - new Governor of Karnataka 3. Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao - new Governor of Maharashtra 4. Mridula Sinha - new Governor of Goa 5. Ram Naik: new Governor of Uttar Pradesh. He replaces B.L. Joshi 6. Balramji Dass Tandon: new Governor of Chhattisgarh. 7. Keshari Nath Tripathi: new Governor of West Bengal. 8. Om Prakash Kohli: new Governor of Gujarat. 9. Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya: new Governor of Nagaland. 10. Kaptan Singh Solanki: new Governor Haryana. He replaces Jagannath Pahadia 1. T M Bhasin: New Chairman of Indian Banks Association. He replaces KR Kamath. 2. K V Thomas: new Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee. 3. Ravi Shastri appointed as the Director of Indian Cricket Team 4. Rajni Razdan takes over as new UPSC chief. She replaced Prof. D P Agrawal 5. Adille Sumariwala Chef-de-Mission for Asian Games 6. K.V. Chowdary appointed as new Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). He succeed R K Tewari 7. S. S. Mundra: New RBI deputy Governor. He replaces KC Chakrabarty 8. Arvind Gupta appointed Deputy National Security Advisor 9. Aditya Vardhan Agarwal, new Vice-President of Indian Chamber of Commerce
10. Lt Gen Philip Campose takes over as Army Vice Chief 11. Justice Dr. Chellur sworn in as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court 12. Former India cricket captain Kapil Dev will head the Arjuna Awards selection committee for choosing this year's outstanding sportspersons of the country 13. Former Hockey Captain Ajitpal Singh to head Dronacharya Award Selection Committee 14. Ravi Shankar joined infrastructure finance company IDFC as the head of Bharat Banking. Note: IDFC, which recently bagged a commercial banking licence, plans to start bank operations by October next year. 15. Sania Mirza: Brand Ambassador of Telangana 16. IFS officer Sanjeev Kumar Singla appointed as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Note: Prime Minister has 2 private secretaries one should be from IAS and one from IFS. 17. Shankar Aggarwal: new Urban Development Secretary 18. Y Sudharshan Rao appointed as Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) 19. Satish Upadhyay : takes charge as Delhi BJP chief 20. Shaktikanta Das: appointed as New Revenue Secretary. He replace Rajiv Takru. 21. Rajeev Topno: appointed as Private Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 22. Vishal Sikka: appointed New CEO of Infosys. 23. B Ashok: appointed New IOC Chairman. He replaces R S Butola. 24. A.K. Dubey: appointed as Chairman of Coal India Limited 25. Sirikonda Madhusudhana : First speaker of Telangana Legislative Assembly. 26. S L Bhojegowda: elected Vice-Chairman of Bar Council of India. 27. Narendra Damodardass Modi sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of the country. The list of Cabinet Ministers includes: 28. Rajnath Singh: Home Minster 29. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs & Overseas Indian Affairs 30. Arun Jaitley: Finance Corporate Affairs & Defence 31. M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation & Parliamentary Affairs 32. Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping + Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and Sanitation Note: Nitin Jairam Gadkari given additional charge of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and Sanitation as Gopinath Munde died in Road accident. 33. D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railways 34. Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 35. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs 36. Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 37. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 38. Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development 39. Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers 40. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology & Law and Justice 41. Ashok Gajapathi Raju: Civil Aviation 42. Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 43. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries 44. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines & Steel Labour and Employment 45. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs 46. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture 47. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment 48. Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development 49. Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare 50. Sumitra Mahajan: new Lok Sabha Speaker 51. Chandrababu Naidu sworn-in as First Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. 52. K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) was sworn in as its first Chief Minister of Telangana 53. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been appointed on the Board of Governors of Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB). 54. Mallikarjun Kharge elected leader of Congress in Lok Sabha. 55. Nripendra Mishra appointed Principal Secretary to PM 56. Mukul Rohatgi appointed 14th New Attorney-General of India. He replace G.E. Vahanvati 57. Ajit Kumar Doval appointed as new National Security Advisor 58. Rajiv Mathur takes over as New CIC (Chief Information Commissioner). He succeeds Sushma Singh, 59. Anandiben Patel: new CM of Gujarat 60. Naveen Patnaik sworn in as Odisha chief minister 61. Pawan Chamling sworn as Sikkim CM for record 5th time 62. Jitan Ram Manjhi: new Bihar CM 63. T R Zeliang appointed new CM of Nagaland. He succeed Neiphiu Rio 64. Nabam Tuki sworn-in as CM of Arunachal Pradesh for second term. 65. R.M.Lodha: New Chief Justice of India. He is the 41st Chief Justice of India. He succeeds Justice P. Sathasivam. 66. Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag: appointed new Army Chief. He succeed Gen Bikram Singh New Appointment in World 1. Haider al-Abadi : New Iraqi Prime Minister 2. Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha elected new PM of Thailand 3. Joko Widodo: new Indonesia President 4. (CAG) Comptroller & Auditor General of India, Shashi Kant Sharma took charge as member of UN Board Of Auditors 5. Emma Watson, the British Actress appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women. 6. Michelle Howard became the first female four-star admiral in US Navy. She is the first women admiral in 236 year old history of US Navy. 7. Jean-Claude Juncker: named as next European Commission president 8. Chung Hung Won retained as Prime Minister of South Korea. 9. Mustafa Kamal: appointed New President of International Cricket Council (ICC). Note: Mustafa Kamal has become the first from Bangladesh to be president of International Cricket Council (ICC). 10. N Srinivasan: appointed first chairman of International Cricket Council (ICC). 11. Juan Manuel Santos re-elected Colombia president. 12. Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kahamba Kutesa elected President for the 69th Session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). He replaced John William Ashe. Note: United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) comprises 193 member nations. 13. Reuven Ruby Rivlin elected as 10th president of Israel. He succeed Shimon Peres. 14. Prince Zeid al Hussein (Jordan’s ambassador) nominated as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights 15. Bashar al-Assad: elected Syria President for third time 16. Dalia Grybauskaite: new President of Lithuania 17. Peter Mutharika is new Malawi president 18. Abdel Fattah Al Sissi – new President of Egypt 19. Jacob Zuma sworn in as South Africa's President for second term 20. Petro Poroshenko: New President of Ukraine 21. Hiroshi Naka appointed as Vice President and Auditor General of World Bank. 22. Kathleen Stephens Named Interim US Ambassador to India. 23. Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund appointed first woman to lead UN force. She replace Chinese Maj. Gen. Chao Liu. 24. Abdul Al -Thani : New PM of Libya 25. Juan Carlos: New President of Panama LEADER”S VISITED INIDIA 1. Chuck Hagel: US Defence Secretary visited India 2. Jim Yong Kim: World Bank President visited India. 3. Bill Clinton: Former US President visited in Lucknow 4. William Hague: UK Foreign Minister visited India 5. Laurent Fabius: French Foreign Minister to visited India. 6. G L Peiris: Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka visited India 7. Wang Yi: Chinese Foreign Minister visited India 8. Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah: Oman Foreign Minister visited India 9. King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa visited India on February . 10. German President Joachim Guack visited India OBITUARY 1. Richard Attenborough: Gandhi' filmmaker dies at 90 2. UR Anantha Murthy: Eminent Kannada writer passes away. Anantha Murthy, a writer and critic, was considered one of the pioneers of the Navya movement in Kannada literature. 3. BKS Iyengar: World-renowned yoga guru and founder of the Iyengar School of Yoga BKS Iyengar passed away 4. Robin Williams: Oscar Winning Actor died 5. Lauren Bacall: Hollywood icon dead at 89 6. Hashim Khan: Squash Legend of Pakistan died 7. Amitava Nandy: Veteran CPI-M leader died 8. Cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma, creator of iconic Chacha Chowdhury, dead
9. Robert Drew: Pioneer of Cinema documentarian dies at 90 10. Sundaram Sankaran: Veteran journalist died at 87 11. Sushilarani Patel, the renowned classical singer of India died 12. Madhukar Singh, an eminent Hindi litterateur died 13. J. Sasikumar: Malayalam filmmaker passes away. 14. Nadine Gordimer: South Africa’s Nobel-winning novelist dies 15. Zohra Sehgal: Veteran Bollywood actress Zohra Sehgal known for her jovial roles in films like Dil Se, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Veer- Zaara, Cheeni Kum and Saawariya passed away. She was 102. 16. Granville Austin, the eminent scholar of the Indian Constitution died in Washington DC. 17. Ramanarayanan, Tamil film director and producer, died at 65. Sports News 2014 Commonwealth Games: The 2014 Commonwealth Games (officially the XX Commonwealth Games) were held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 23 July to 3 August 2014. This is the 20th edition of the Commonwealth Games. Scotland has previously hosted the event twice, in 1970 and 1986, both in Edinburgh.
There are 71 participating nations at the 2014 Commonwealth Games with approximately 4,950 competing athletes, making it one of the largest Commonwealth Games staged to date.
mascot of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The mascot was designed by Beth Gilmour, who won a competition run by Glasgow 2014 for children to design the Mascot.
India who had finished second in the 2010 Commonwealth Games with an overall tally of 101 medals (38 gold, 27 silver & 36 bronze medals), managed only 64 medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – with the medals tally comprising 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze. India kept occupying fifth spot on the medals table. On closing ceremony, the Indian contingent’s flag bearer was Seema Punia, who won Silver in women's discus throw. While, the torch bearer in the opening ceremony was ace shooter Vijay Kumar, the 2012 London Olympics Silver medalist. Here is the list medal winners WEIGHTLIFTING Gold Medalist Winners - Weightlifting 1. K Sanjita Chanu: In Women’s weightlifting 48 kg category K Sanjita Chanu with a total lift of 173 kg won the prized gold medal.
Note: Sanjita Chanu wins India’s first Gold medal at 2014 Commonwealth Games. 2. Sukhen Dey: Sukhen Dey in Men’s weightlifting 56 kg category claimed gold medal by lifting a total of 248 kg. 3. Satish Sivalingam: 77 kg Satish Sivalingam created a games record with a total lift of 328 kg to claim gold medal while Ravi Katulu lifted total of 317 kg to win silver medal. Silver Medal Winners - Weightlifting 1. S Mirabai Chanu – won Silver medal in Women's weightlifting 48 kg category (Total lift - 170 kg, 75+95) 2. Santoshi Matsa - Women's 53 kg category in weightlifting 3. Ravi Katulu - Men's weightlifting, 77 kg 4. Vikas Thakur - Men's weightlifting, 85 kg 5. Rajinder Rahelu - Men's heavy powerlifting Bronze Medal Winner- Weightlifting 1. Ganesh Mali - Men's weightlifting 56 kg (Total lift 244 kg, 111+133)
2. Swati Singh - Women's 53 kg category in weightlifting 3. Omkar Otari - Men's 69 kg Weightlifting 4. Punam Yadav - Women's weightlifting, 63 kg 5. Chandrakant Mali - Men's weightlifting, 94 kg 6. Sakina Khatun - Women's lightweight power lifting WRESTLING Gold Medal winner Wrestling 1. Sushil Kumar: In Men’s wrestling, 75kg freestyle Sushil Kumar defeated Qamar Abbas of Pakistan what turned out to be a lopsided event. In just 107 minutes Sushil trounced his opponent to take home gold. 2. Yogeshwar Dutt: In Men’s wrestling, 65 kg freestyle Yogeshwar Dutt brought laurels to the country by clinching gold medal after defeating Canada’s Jevon Balfour in the final. 3. Amit Kumar: Nigerian Ebikweminomo Welson was Amit Kumar’s opponent in the final of Men’s wrestling, 57kg freestyle. Amit defeated Welson 3-1 to claim the gold medal. 4. Babita Kumari: In Women’s wrestling; 55 kg freestyle Babita Kumari completely dominated the proceedings over Canada’s Brittanee Laverdure and defeated her 9-2 in the finals for the coveted gold medal. 5. Vinesh Phogat: In Women’s wrestling, 48kg freestyle youngster Vinesh Phogat who is just 19 years old defeated Yana Rattigan of England by 11-8 to be part of the glorious 15. Silver Medal winner - Wrestling 1. Rajeev Tomar - Men's wrestling, 125 kg 2. Satyawart Kadian - Men's wrestling, 97 kg freestyle 3. Bajrang - Men's wrestling, 61 kg 4. Lalita Sehrawat - Women's wrestling, 53 kg 5. Sakshi Malik - Women's wrestling, 58 kg 6. Geetika Jhakar - Women's wrestling, 63 kg freestyle Bronze Medal winner - Wrestling 1. Navjot Kaur - Women's wrestling, 69 kg 2. Pawan Kumar - Men's wrestling, 86 kg freestyle SHOOTING Gold Medal Winner In Shooting 1. Abhinav Bindra: In Men’s 10m Air Rifleformer Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra claimed his first individual gold at the commonwealth Games when he finished witha final games record score of 205.3. 2. Jitu Rai: In Men’s shooting, 50 m Pistol Jitu Rai who set finals games record gathering a total of 194.1 points won gold for his country. Gurpal Singh with 187.2 points settled with silver in this category. 3. Rahi Sarnobat: It was an all-Indian affair in the final of Women’s shooting 25 m Pistol event as Rahi Sarnobat defeated Anisa Sayyed to clinch the gold medal. 4. Apurvi Chandela: In Women’s shooting, 10 m Air Rifle rising star Apurvi Chandela claimed her first international medal. Apurvi triumphed over her compatriot Ayonika Paul to win the gold medal. Silver Medal Winner In Shooting 1. Malaika Goel - Women's 10m Air Pistol shooting 2. Prakash Nanjappa - Men's shooting, 10m Air Pistol 3. Ayonika Paul - Women's shooting, 10m Air Rifle 4. Anisa Sayeed - Women's shooting, 25m Pistol 5. Shreyasi Singh - Women's shooting, double trap 6. Gurpal Singh - Men's shooting, 50m Pistol 7. Gagan Narang - Men's shooting, 50m Rifle Prone 8. Sanjeev Rajput - Men's shooting, 50m Rifle 3 Positions 9. Harpreet Singh - Men's shooting, 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Bronze Medal Winner In Shooting 1. Mohammed Asab - Men's shooting, double trap 2. Gagan Narang - Men's shooting, 50m Rifle 3 Positions 3. Manavjit Singh Sandhu - Men's shooting, Trap 4. Lajja Gauswami - Women's shooting, 50m Rifle 3 Positions Athletics Gold Medal Winner in Athletics 1. Vikas Gowda: After winning the gold medal In Men’s discus throw Vikas Gowda became the first Indian man to win a field event gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. Gowda threw the discus to 63.64m to clinch the gold medal Note: Vikas Gowda became the first Indian man to win a field event gold medal at the Commonwealth Games Silver Medal Winner in Athletics 1. Seema Punia - Women's discus throw Bronze Medal Winner in Athletics 2. Dipa Karmakar - Women's artistic gymnastics Squash 1. Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa: In Women’s doubles finals the pair of Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa defeated England’s Jenny Duncalf and Laura Massaro 11-6, 11-8 in straight sets. Note: The pair gave India their first squash medal in the Commonwealth Games. BADMINTON Gold Medal in Badminton 1. Parupalli Kashyap: On last day of the Commonwealth Games Parupalli Kashyap in Men’s Badminton final defeated Singapore’s Derek Wong 21-14, 11-21, 21-19 to clinch the gold. Note: Parupalli Kashyap became the first Indian man in 32 years to win badminton gold at the Games. Silver Medal in Badminton 1. Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa - Women's badminton doubles Bronze Medal in Badminton 1. PV Sindhu - Women's badminton 2. RMV Gurusaidutt - Men's badminton BOXING Silver Medal in Boxing 1. Laishram Sarita Devi - Women's boxing, 57-60 kg 3. Laishram Devendro Singh - Men's boxing, 46-49 kg 3. Vijender Singh - Men's boxing, 75 kg Download 0.5 Mb. Share with your friends:
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