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[PIN] Persons in News 2012 for 2 Markers, GK and MCQ

This list is definitely not exhaustive, so If you’ve any important personalities innews. Please share them in comments below!

1. Indian: Diaspora Abroad

2. Indian Men

3. Indian Women

4. International: Head of State/Institutes etc

5. International : Other

6. Sportsmen

Indian: Diaspora Abroad

Kamla PrasadBissessar

Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago.

Hargobind KhoranaIndian-American biochemist who won the 1968 Nobel Prizefor medicine, dead

Ravinder Singhfirst Sikh in more than 30 years to be appointed as the armychief of Singapore

Prof.SachchidanandSahai

Noted writer from Combodia, won Pravasi Bhartiya Samman2012

Dr. Victor ShahedSmetacek

German scientist. Won same prize as above.

Sunita Williamssecond space journey to the International Space Station(ISS). She will stay at the ISS for four months.

Preet BhararaIndian American origin Attorny. made it to the cover pageof Time magazine for his anti-corruption crusade againstfinancial frauds in Wallstreet.

Bobby Jindal Governor of Louisiana State, US

Nikki Haley Governor of South Carolina State, US

Kal Penn

Kalpen Modi, Hollywood actor. Served in White HouseOffice of Public Engagement.He campaigns for Obama inPresidential elections 2012, among the Indian Americanvoters.

Indian Men

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Lt. Gen.BikramSingh

Chief of Indian Army.

NormanAnil KumarBrowne

Chief of Airforce.

D.K. Joshi Chief of the Indian Navy.

V.S.Sampath

Chief Election Commissioner of India.

AltamasKabir

CJI India, before him was Sarosh Homi Kapadia

SatyanandanMishra

CIC

MArkendeyaKatju

Chairman of Press Council of India

U.K. Sinha SEBI

AshokChawla

Competition Commission of India (CCI).

D. Subbarao RBI Governor

PrakashBaksh

NABARD

PradeepKumar

Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) of India.

JehangirSabavala

Painter, dead.

MarioMiranda

cartoonist from Goa, dead

JusticeDalveerBhandari

elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice, based inThe Hague, Netherlands.

Ajit PalSingh

He had led India to their only Hockey world cup triumph in 1975.has been selected as the chef-de-mission of the Indian contingentat the London Olympics.

Ashoka sen (string theory, fundamental physics prize, yuri milner)

BhupenHazarika

Singer from Assam, Dada Saheb Phalke award winner, dead

Sultan Khan sarangi maestro, dead

Vempatidied in 2012 was an Indian dancer and a guru of the Kuchipudi



ChinnaSatyam

dance form.

Indian Women

MajorMitaliMadhumita

First woman officer of Indian army to get decorated with a gallantrymedal for her bravery during the attack on guest house of Indianofficials in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Dr UmaRaju

second woman in the history of Indian Air Force to be promoted tothe rank of Air Vice Marshal.

JyotiAmge

world’s shortest living woman by the Guinness World Records.Nagpur

HomaiVyarawala

India’s first woman photo-journalist.

SnehaShekhawat

first woman pilot to lead the Indian Air Force contingent at theRepublic Day parade.

Capt.LakshmiSehgal

commanded the ‘Rani Jhansi Regiment’ of Netaji Subhash ChandraBose’s Indian National Army

Soumitrachatterji

(septuagenarian Bengali Actor; Dada sahab falke 2011)

Indiragoswami

(aka mamoni raisom goswami; assamese poet, writer; shahityaakadmi 1983; Jnanipith 2001; died 2011)

Bina Das(1932, attempted to assassinate the Bengal Governor StanleyJackson)

Ila mitra aka Rani Ma ; Tebhaga movement; died 2002

RajKumariGupta

crucial contribution to the Kakori dacoity. She supplied revolvers tothose involved in the Kakori operation, apparently hid the firearms inher undergarment and set out in khadi clothes to deliver them.

Tara RaniSrivastava

participated actively with her husband Phulendu Babu in the QuitIndia movement. She marched with the national flag straight towardsthe police station in Siwan, Bihar.

AbadiBanoBegam

freedom fighter from Lucknow, known by her honorific ‘Bi Amman’.She spoke in a public gathering, on behalf of her jailed son, she didso from behind her burqa in 1917. This was, perhaps, the first time aMuslim woman in purdah had addressed a political gathering.

International: Head of State/Institutes etc

Mostly for GK based MCQs. Some persons may be outdated.



Martin Shultz President of European Union.

SheikhHasina Wajed

Prime minister of Bangladesh.

YingluckShinawatra Prime Minister of Thailand.Chief guest in 26th Jan. parade 2012.

Lee MyungBak

Korean President, chief guest in 26th Jan 2010 parade.

SusiloBambangYudhoyono

Indonesian President, chief guest in 26th Jan 2011 parade.

Kamla PrasadBissessar

Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago.

MohamedNasheed

Maldives.

Hu Jintao China President

Wen Jiabao China Premier

U Thein Sain President of Myanmar.

LobsangSangay

Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile (which operatesfrom Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh).

Jigme KhesarMangyelWangchuck

King of Bhutan.

DilmaRouseff

Brazil President (first female)

DmitryMedvedev

Russia PM (earlier he was the President)

VladimirPutin

Russia President (earlier he was the PM)

Jacob Zuma South Africa President

Mitt Romney US Presidential candidate of Republican party.

Obama

44th President of US. Belongs to Democractic Party. His VP=Joe Biden.And Hillary Clinton is United States Secretary ofState.(Before her Condoleezza Rice)

NakosazanaDlaminiZuma

African Union Commission chairperson 2012; first woman tolead the organisation)

Jim YongWorld Bank President



Kong

ChristineLagarde

IMF President (earlier Dominique Strauss Kahn)

MohamedWaheed

Maldives (after Nasheed)

Bashar al-Assad

Syrian President

LakhdarBrahimi

Veteran Algerian diplomat; to replace Kofi Annan as theinternational mediator on Syria.

Omar AlBashir

North Sudan President, has ICC warrant against him.

Salva KiirMayardit

South Sudan President.

MohamedMorsy

first freely-elected Egypt. (after Hosni Mubarak was thrownout)

Raja ParvaizAshraf

Prime minister of Pakistan (after Gilani was thrown out)

HosniMubarak

Ex-Egypt, sentenced to life in prison.

Pranab 13th President India.

Enrique PeneNieto

President Mexico

Jean marcayrualt

France PM

FrançoisHollande

France President (after Nicolas Sarkozy).

Lee HseinLoong

Prime Minister of Singapore.

DavidCameroon

PM UK (Conservative Party). Before Cameroon>> GorgonBrown >>Tony Blair. And Margarate Thatcher was the first ladyPM of UK.

Nick Clegg Deputy PM Of UK.

AngelaMarkel

Chancellor Germany.

International : Other

Liu Yang China’s first woman astronaut



GinaRineheart

world’s richest woman in world. (ref link)

MarissaMayer

Yahoo CEO, got the job despite being pregnant. Earlier she wasserved as the first female engineer in Google company.

Sergei BrinGoogle Co-founder (other guy is Larry Page).He was in newsbecause of his conference on the Project Glass.

MarkZuckerberg

Facebook. Was in news because of the IPO.

Gore vidalAmerican writer. Dead. Famous for satirical novel myrabreckinridge.

NakosazanaDlaminiZuma

African Union Commission chairperson 2012, first woman tolead this organisation.

Sportsmen

Indian Winners in Olympic 2012

Name Event (Olympics 2012) medal

Gagan Narang Shooting (Air rifle) Bronze

Vijay Kumar Shooting (Pistol) Silver

Saina Nehwal Badminton Bronze

Mary Kom Boxing (flyweight) Bronze

Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling (60 kg freestyle) Bronze

Sushil Kumar Wrestling (66 kg freestye) Silver

Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda

Silver in the men’s high jump @ Paralympics 2012 (London). He’s the only Indianphysically challenged athlete who won medal in this event.

Oscar Pistorius (Bladerunner)

first amputee runner to compete at an Olympic Game 2012he’s from S.Africa.Events: 400m and 400 replay – did not win medals. (Olympic Game 2012)But he won gold medal in Paralympics 2012

Courtesy

competitionmaster.com + inputs from a regular reader “Dark Knight”. +WomenFreedom fight from Thehindu

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18187364



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