Events of AUGUST 2011

Events of AUGUST 2011

Question	Answer
1)The new Prime Minister of Nepal who took office on Aug 29	Baburam Bhattarai
2)The hurricane which lashed the east coast of the United States of America in Aug 2011 is named	Irene
3)Naoto Kan who became the fifth Prime Minister to step down in five years was the Prime Minister of	Japan
4)The river in South America under which an underground river about 6000 km long has been discovered. (The river has been named Hamza after a scientist of Indian origin Mr Valiya Mannathal Hamza)	Amazon
5)The Palpur-Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary which has been selected for re-introducing cheetahs under Project Cheetah is in	Madhya Pradesh
6)The para-military force which has been allowed to grant five percent reservation for women	Assam Rifles
7)The Indian actor who has been awarded the Best Actor International Award at the New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF) for his performance in the Hollywood film 'Desperate Endeavours'	Gulshan Grover
8)The country which lifted the state of emergency it had imposed 30 years ago	Sri Lanka
9)The Woman International Master (IM) who has been chosen for the Dilip Sardesai Award by the Goa government	Bhakti Kulkarni
10)The United States derivative contracts in which Indian investors will be able to trade at the National Stock Exchange from 29 Aug 2011	Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500
11)The indigenously built fast attack craft (FAC), which has been inducted into the Indian Navy as a part of strengthening the coastal surveillance. (The ship has been named after a historic island off Kerala’s Wayanad coast and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited of Kolkata)	INS Karuva
12)The co-founder and chairman of Apple Inc who announced his resignation in Aug 2011	Steve Jobs
13)The venue of TECHNOTEX 2011 , 1st International Exhibition & Conference on Technical Textile jointly being organized by Ministry of Textiles, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)	Mumbai
14)The department which has been awarded Today's Traveller Award for Best Customer Service Organisation for the year 2011. (Note: Today's Traveller is an Indian monthly travel magazine published by Gill India Communications Pvt Ltd)	Department of Posts
15)The country to which Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has supplied its indigenously manufactured helicopter Dhruv	Ecuador
16)As per data released by Ministry of Home Affairs (for 2010), the age group in which maximum percentage of people commit suicide is	15 - 29 years
17)Kerala Government has taken an initiative to set up shops to supply building materials to poor at affordable price. Such shops are known as	Kalavara shops
18)The country with which India has signed Double Tax Avoidance Agreement in Aug 2011.	Georgia
19)The training-cum-placement programme for unemployed youth of Jammu and Kashmir launched by Ministry of Rural Development under National Rural Livelihood Mission is named	Himayat
20)The state where the pollution control board has ordered closure of 22 coal mines	Jharkhand
21)The city in which a newly-laid Astro-turf hockey pitch, has been named after Indian hockey legend Dhyan Chand	Dhyan Chand
22)The disease affecting animals which has been declared to be globally eradicated	Rinderpest
23)The company which is being sued by thousands of South Koreans who claim it had invaded their privacy by storing a hidden log of their movements on their iPhones	Apple Inc.
24)Budh International Circuit, which will witness India's first F1 car race is located in	Greater Noida
25)The highly endangered cat species, Rusty Spotted Cat or Felis Rubiginosa, which is endemic to India and Sri Lanka was spotted at	Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve
26)The recipient of V.V.Giri Memorial Award 2010 recognition of his outstanding contributions towards the understanding of the emerging labour issues	Dr. Panchmal Dinanath Shenoy
27)The oil tanker which has been hijacked by Somali pirates with 21 Indian sailors aboard, off the coast of Oman	Fairchem Bogey
28)The biennial Asia-Pacific Golf Championships for the Nomura Cup, at which the Indian team a bronze medal were held in	Fiji
29)The second of Shivalik class stealth frigate manufactured by Mazagaon Docks inducted into the Indian Navy in Aug 2011	INS Satpura
30)The person who has been chosen to receive the International Award in Statistics, jointly instituted by Government of India and International Statistical Institute, Woorburg, The Netherlands	Prof. Victor Yohoi of Argentina
31)The smuggling of this wood which has increased substantially after reports of using Pterosibilin, its extract to make pills similar to Viagra	Red Sanders
32)As per a report by Global Financial Integrity, the total present value of India's illicit assets held abroad is	$462 billion
33)The Sukhoi fifth-generation stealth fighter, which is being jointly developed by Russia and India is named	T - 50
34)The first aircraft carrier of China is undergoing sea trials, the aircraft carrier, named Shi Lang, was acquired from Russia and formerly named	Varyag
35)The GoI scheme which envisages promotion of e-Governance with the objective to provide IT enabled services to farmers and also for computerization of various offices in the States in agriculture & allied sectors is known as	AGRISNET
36)The cargo vessel Nafis-I which was found to be carrying weapons and intercepted by the Indian Navy belongs to	Iran
37)The winner of men's singles title in the 2011 Rogers Cup held in Montreal, Canada.	Novak Djokovik
38)The Prime Minister of Nepal who assumed office in Feb 2011 only to resign in Aug 2011	Jhalanath Khanal
39)The Audio-Visual presentation of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ poem in full five stanzas by various artists unveiled in Aug 11 by Finance MInister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee is named	Jaya Hey
40)The person who has been awarded the Tenzing Norgay Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010	Late Col Balwant Singh Sandhu
41)The director of controversial Hindi film Aarakshan	Prakash Jha
42)The winner of National Snooker Championship held in Chennai	Aditya Mehta
43)The winner of National Billiards Championship held in Chennai	Pankaj Advani
44)The SAARC nation which has recently banned smoking in public places	Nepal
45)The world's largest floating library which has recently docked in at Visakhapatnam	MV Logos Hope
46)According to the World Investment Report 2011 released by UNCTAD in July 2011, India’s position among the top 20 FDI recipients is	14th (it was 8th in 2009.)
47)The number of unemployed persons in the country as the latest reports available for 2009-10 is	9.50 million
48)The joint operation launched by the security forces of Bihar, U.P. and Jharkhand to apprehend the maoists is named	Operation Vishwas
49)The spacecraft launched by NASA on a journey to Jupiter is named	Juno
50)The Committee on Customer Service in Banks, constituted by the RBI in 2010, which submitted its report in Aug 2011 was headed by	M. Damodaran
51)The theme of National Environment Awareness Compaign 2011-12 launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests.	Forests for Sustainable Livelihood
52)The cargo ship which started sinking off the coast of Mumbai and the crew of which were rescued by Indian Coast Guard	M.V. Rak Carrier
53)The animal which has been added by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to the list of animals that cannot be trained or used as a performing animal under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960.	Bull
54)M T Pavit, an oil tanker that drifted in from the Persian Gulf and lay stranded at Mumbai on 31 Jul 11 belongs to (the ship was set afloat on Aug 15 and set on sail to Dighi port)	Panama
55)The Indian shooter, who has secured number one rankng in the world in doubletrap shooting	Ronjan Sodhi
56)The variety of mango grown around foothills of Girnar mountains in Gujarat's Junagadh district, which has been granted the Geographical Indication (GI) tag.	Gir Kesar
57)The new Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes	Shri M. C. Joshi