Current Affairs October 2011

International Current Affairs October 2011

International News

Unemployement rates down in U.S

• New employees added by the U.S were less than what was expected but the latest data on job employement showed that unemployement rates in the U.S went down which gave U.S President Barack Obama a new boost to fight against un-employement. In Octobar itself payrolls for non-farm organisations were up by 8000, making a jump on the payrolls amount in September.Analysts have said that though the employement rate will evolve rapidly, but the pace at which the growth will depend is still slow to keep pace with the country’s population.

Libyan dictator Gaddafi captured and killed

• Libyan rebels captured toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his home town Sirte after taking control over his home town and consequently killed him in bid to take revenge for all the haunting massacre he performed. Though the initial reports claimed that Col Gaddafi was wounded when he was caught but later reports confirmed that he was killed by bullet shots forged into his head. A video showed that Gaddafi before being killed was severely wounded, beaten and mocked by the rebels and that after he died his body was taken on for display to the nearby locals. Even his son Mo’tassim were killed in crossfire when he was trying to escape and that the bodies of both Col Gaddafi and Mo’tassim were buried on an unknown desert location in order to prevent their graves from converting into a shrine by any remaining follower of the dictator. After the news of Gaddafi’s assassination broke out wild celebrations were performed in the city that is being secured by the NTC forces.

Industrial growth improving

• The industrial production of India expanded but less than what was expected in the August month giving more evidences of Asia’s third largest economy’s industrial development slowdown.Industry expert say that the reason for slowdown is the soaring interest rates and high inflation ratio in the country.The growth lagged by 4.1 percent as compare to the growth in the August month but there was only slight improvement in the growth that was calculated in the month of July.

Delivery of arms to Taiwan by U.S moving at snail’s pace

• Reports say that the transfer of U.S arms to Taiwan is moving at a very slow pace in contrary to what was expected. The chief for the U.S –China ties that slowdown is affecting several major weapons system transfer.The 2011 annual report showed that only 4 out of 60 Hawk helicopters for e.g. were placed in mid October even though the U.S administration informed the makers of the planned sale meant for Taiwan.The lag between the transfer of important and sophisticated weapons to Taiwan may lead to rise of question about the lack of urgency either on the U.S side or Taiwan’s side or for both.

Punjab militancy being revived by ISI

• As suggested by the U.S reports , the Inter- Services Intelligence of Pakistan is continuing its activities to create instability in India. ISI is a spy agency which has close links with the Islamic terrorist organisation, is now focusing on Khalistani extremist groups to train them and to send them to create terrorism in the Punjab province. In the month of October the terrorist group Lashkar- e – Taiba which is being backed by the ISI agency joined hands with the Khalistani extremist groups Babbar Khalsa to make terror strikes in the Indian state Punjab and in its capital city New Delhi. Their previous attempt of attack was foiled by the security personnel when they caught a huge cache of explosive from a car in Ambala city.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke up in a news conference

• Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai spoke during a news conference in Kabul about the so called reality check imposed on him as said by U.S secretary of state Hillary Clinton during her visit to Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that as said he will be cooperating with neighbouring country Pakistan on both the topics related to war and economic development. He further said that he considers its neighbouring country Pakistan as his twin brother and that he will be by Pakistan’s side whenever the former needs any sort of assistance.

7.2 Richter scale earthquake hits Turkey

• An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit Turkey killing a number of people on 23 October. As per the reports approximately 93 people died in the Van province and around 45 died in the Erics district. As the rescue operation is going on it is said that the death toll will rise a more bodies will be evacuated from the debris. The earthquake depth was 20 kilometres with its epicentre 16 kilometre away from the Van city’s north east region. Not only this after the massive earthquake the eastern part of Turkey was struck by a series of powerful jolts with their centre in the north of Van that made things more worse than ever. After 7.2 , the Turkish region experienced two more jolts measured 6 and 5.6 on the Richter scale. Scientists say that turkey is prone to earthquakes as it lies in the major geological fault lines.

Vietnam and Indian signed a total of 6 agreements

• Vietnam and India have signed a total of six agreements that included joint oil exploration in South China Sea. The agreement was signed during the Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang’s visit to India. The agreement included the following things: Friendship pact Oil exploration in South China Sea The Extradition Treaty between the two countries Cooperation in sports and tourism Not only this both the countries also signed a Security Dialogue between their home ministries. And both the countries have decided to increase their trade target by 8 million dollars by the year 2015. The present trade target is around 2.8 million U.S dollars. And both the countries discussed the situation regarding the Oil exploration on the South China Sea.

National

Doordarshan senior correspondent honoured

• Emani Krishna Rao, Doordarshan Kendra Hyderabad Senior news correspondent honoured by the coveted “Japan prize 2011” at the Tokyo city . The senior news correspondent Mr Rao won the prize in the proposal category and for the entry regarding the right to education and environment protection. Further he won 3000$ as a citation amount and an offer to make a programme on the theme proposed by Mr. Rao. This is the 6th major international ward for Mr. Krishna Rao, who had earlier won prestigious awards like DD national awards four times.

Violent attack on lawyer Prashant bhushan

• Senior lawyer and prominent team member of Anna Hazare was attacked and beaten up by three youths. He was attacked while he was working in his Supreme Court chamber. After the attack he said that the attack on him was carried out by right wing outfit of Sri Ram Sene. Following the attacks the police nabbed one of the attackers. As said by the reports three youths stormed into his chambers and one of them identified as Inder Verma attacked him. After hearing the screams the attackers were overpowered by other lawyers and other in the room. Upon questioning it was found that attacks on him were made following his recent comments on Kashmir. Verma was arrested by the police and the other two accused Vishnu Gupta and Tejender Pal are absconding. A visibly shaken bhushan said that the attackers were from the right wing outfit led by Sri Ram Sene. And that he has loged a complaint against him and the attackers.

A new doomsday on the calendar

• Another radio preacher has predicted that the world’s doomsday is on May 21. And then he said that he stands by his earlier prediction that the Judgement day is on Oct 21. Initially he predicted that there will be hourly earthquakes and that the God’s judgement on the month of May will continue by torments for those who will survive the God’s wrath. He used codes extract from the Holy book Bible and set the world’s end day. When nothing happened on May 21 the preacher on his blog said that on May 21 , instead of ending the earth , god just shook us with fear that more dangerous is about to come. And that god will no longer continue to save souls on earth.

Malayalam Novelist George Varghese Kakkanadan passed away in Kollam

• Famous Malayalam novelist George Varghese Kakkanadan passed away in Kollam. He was one the pioneers of modern Malayalam literature who breathed his last on 19 October. He wrote a number of famous short stories and modernised the Malayalam novel. He was born on April 23, 1935 at Thiruvalla and started his career as a school teacher and later resigned to join the Indian Railways. Kakkanadan was rebel, whose rebellious personality reflected in most of his works. Every part of his writing depicted his rebellious nature against the social codes etc.

Sports Current Affairs 2011

India won the series against rival team England by 5-0

India won the 5 day test series against England by 5-0 in the final match that the team played in Kolkata. Indian team stopped the English team at only 176 runs in the final match and themselves scored a challenging 271 in 37 overs at the Eden Gardens stadium. Indian team member Ravindra Jadeja scored a whooping score of 4-33 and off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin scored 3-28. Following the match Ravindra Jadeja was declared Man of the Match, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni was awarded with Man of the Series title. So far the Indian team has won the 5-0 series only three times in which two series were won against Englan(2008-09) and New Zealand(2010-11).

Olympic gold medallist won a Silver in ongoing 4th Asian Airgun Shooting Championship

Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra won a silver in the air rifle shooting championship at the 4th Asian Airgun championship that was held in Kuwait. Bindra scored 594 in qualification round and then 103.6 in the final countdown. The Gold medal went to his Chinese counterpart who scored 2.6 more points in qualification round. During the Beijing Olympics Bindra defeated Zhu Onian and grabbed the Gold medal to become the first Indian shooter to won a gold medal in the Olympics. Similarly Satyendra Singh won the bronze by scoring 593 in the qualification round and 103.7 in the finals. Another Indian shooter Gagan narang who won Commonwealth games gold medal secured 7th position by scoring 694.5.

CWG gold medallist Krishna Poonia gets another gold medal at the Halloween Throws Meet

CWG gold medallist Krishna Poonia gets another gold medal at the Halloween Throws Meet Poonia had also made a place for herself at the incoming 2012 games by scoring the B qualification standard of 59.50m after her another win at the Fling Throw Meet in Portland. She had been rigorously training at the Throws Centre at Concordia University such that she crossed the phenomenal mark of 62m in her final attempt. Though, her last throw was below the best mark (63.97m) that she scored in April 2010 at Chula Vista but she performing at best consistent pace.

Boxing champion MC Mary Kom won gold medal at the 12th Senior women’s boxing championship

Five time world champion MC Mary Kom won another gold mdeal at the 12th senior women’s boxing championship. She defeated Pinki Jangra in the 51kg category in the summit clash on the final day, in Bhopal. In the feather weight division , bronze medallist Pwilao Baumatary of Assam settled for a silver after she lost to Mandakini Chann of AIP. In the light weight category Neetu Chahal of Haryana won the gold coin after defeating Preeti Beniwal of the IABF team. Neetu won by 12-5 and similary Kavita Goyat of Delhi defended her gold medal in the middle weight category.

Former Commonwealth games secretary general Kamlesh Sharma re- appointed

Former CWG secretary general Kamlesh Sharma was again re appointed for the same post on 30th oct. The leaders of CWG agreed to appoint Kamlesh at the 21st Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting(CHOGM) that was held in perth, Australia. Sharma earliar served as an Indian Diplomat and now after his re appointment he will serve a four year term that is going to begin in April 2012. Kamlesh sharma’s background He was first selected as the secretary general for the commonwealth games during the 54 nation summit that was held in Kampala. And he took the seat from Sir Don McKinnon of new Zealand on 1st april 2008.

Corporate Lobbyist Nira Radia announces exit from Communication business

Lobbyist and provider of public relation services Nira Radia announced her exit from the communication business. For her exit she gave personal and family priorities as supreme reasons. She had been in news recently for the 2G controversy when tapes of conversation leaked and were being circulated in the media. The controversy related to the 2G spectrum engulfed many government officials for undercharging telephone companies for allocating frequency licences.