Sports
1) Who won the
1st gold medal at the London Olympic’s 2012 event--China’s Zhang Cuiping
2) Who won ICC U-19
cricket worldcup 2012—India(defeated Australia)
3)Which country
won the maximum no. of medals in London Olympics 2012—USA
4)How many medals
India won in London Olympics 2012—6(2 silvers and 4 bronze).
5) Who became the
1st tennis players to win 4 Olympic gold medals--Venus Williams and Serena
Williams
6) Who became the
Fastest Player to reach Landmark 3000 One-Day International Runs-- Hashim Amla(South
Africa).
7)England Test
Cricket Team captain Andrew Strauss retired .
8)Indian Test
Cricket Team Senior player VVS Laxman announced his retirement.
9)The following
is the list of India's medal winners at the 2012 London Olympics:
Medal Name Sport
Silver Vijay Kumar Shooting Men's 25m rapid
fire pistol
Silver Sushil Kumar Wrestling Men's 66kg
freestyle
Bronze Gagan Narang Shooting Men's
10m air rifle
Bronze Saina Nehwal Badminton Women's
singles
Bronze Mary
Kom Boxing Women's 51kg
Bronze Yogeshwar
Dutt Wrestling Men's 60kg freestyle
Miscellaneous
1)Microsoft’s
Hotmail no longer ‘hottest’ email service in the town, Microsoft has launched
Outlook.com, a new web mail service, to take on Google’s extremely popular
Gmail.
2)India to help
Sri Lanka set up SEZs
3)Where the
eleventh Energy Efficient Summit was conducted--Hyderabad
4)Which 3
countries which will hold NAM summit in Tehran—India,Iran and Afghanistan
5)Which 3 Indian
banks allowed to operate in Pakistan—PNB,Bank of India and State Bank of India.
6)IDBI has
recently launched floating rate deposit scheme.
7)Miss World
2012—Yu Wenxia belongs to China.
8)Which bird has
been declared as state bird by the Delhi Government--House Sparrow.
9)Manmohan Singh
set record by becoming India’s 3rd Prime Minister to hoist National flag at Red
Fort for the 9th time?
10)SEBI recently allowed
which instrument as valid address proof investors--Aadhaar card
11)The Central
Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has now tied up with WWF India (WI) and
TRAFFIC India (TI) to create awareness about wildlife among students.
12)The Government
approved a Complete Ban on Employment of Children(up 14 years of age).
13)Union Finance
Ministry approved 49 Percent FDI in Insurance and Pension Sector
14)India
successfully test-fired Medium Range Ballistic Missile Agni – II
