CURRENT AFFAIRS JUNE 2012 SET 1

APPOINTMENTS:

1. New Director of IBPS(Institute of Banking Personnel Selection) -- Anup Sankar

2. New Egypt’S President -- Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi won the historic post-Mubarak  presidential polls in Egypt, beating former Prime Minister Ahmed .

3. New Prime Minister of Pakistan -- Raja Parvez Ashraf.

4. New Prime Minister of Greece -- Antonis Samaras, a 61-year-old U.S.-educated economist, became the fourth prime minister in eight months.

5.New Chairman of IBA(Indian Banking Association):Alok Misra.

6. New Chief Election Commissioner of India -- V.S. Smapath.A 1973-batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre,Sampath is a native of Vellore,Tamil Nadu.

7. Syrian president--Bashar AL Assad appointed new PM-Riad Farid Hijab.

8. Devendra Kumar joshi-- New Indian Navy Chief.

9. New CMD/Chairman of BEML(Bharat Earth Movers Limited)--P.Dwarkanath.

10.New Prime Minister Of Italy-- Mario Monti.

OBITUARIES:

1. Ghazal King- MAHENDI HASAN died.

2. Dolly Byramji--Indian Swimmer died.

3. Renowned anthropologist and social scientist B.K. Roy Burman, 90, passed away.

4. Radha Vinod Raju --Founder of National Investigation Agency(NIA) died.

5. Hind novelist--Arun Prakash Passed away.

SPORTS:

1.  World Chess Championship---Moscow, Russia---Vishwanathan Anand(India) won.

2.  Snigdha Nandipati --won spelling bee competition--National Harbor --- in Maryland(USA).

3.  French Open 2012 in Paris Winners---

      a) Male---Rafael Nadal (Spain),

      b) Female----Maria Sharapova(Russia),      

      c)Mixed Doubles---Sania Mirza & Mahesh Bhupati.

4. New Zealand defeated Argentina to lift the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup for the first time in its 21 years of competition. held in Malaysia.India won bronze medal.

5.  ICC chosed--Lasith Malinga of Srilanka-Official event ambassador-for the ICC WCT20.

6. Saina Nehwal-won THAILAND OPEN and INDONESIAN OPEN

7. Goalkeeper-Bharat Chetri-to lead the Indian Hockey team-in the LONDON OLYMPICS.

8. Who won the Catalunya MotoGP 2012 -- Jorge Lorenzo

9. Sudarshan Patnaik--Sand Artist-Odisha--won-Copenhegan sand art championship 2012.

10. Wisden India-honoured-Sachin Tendulkar.

11.European Grand Prix held in VALENCIA: Ferrari's Formuls 1 Driver Fernando Alonso  won a thrilling European Grand Prix.

12. Asian beach games-2012--Indian womens kabaddi team won gold, defeated Thailand held at haiyang, CHINA.

13. Indian American girl who won the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee crown--Snigdha Nandipati.

14.PGA Tour Title---Tiger Woods.

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