17th November 2012

Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.He passed away at his home "Matushree " in Mumbai.

Born: January 23, 1926 (age 86), Pune Spouse: Mina Thackeray Parents: Prabodhankar Thackeray Party: Shiv Sena Children: Uddhav Thackeray

Courtesy :  Wikipedia 

Liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Harvinder were killed in a shootout in the former’s farmhouse in south Delhi on Saturday.

Courtesy : The Hindu 

Current Affairs of October

• Delhi and Mumbai have been included in United Nations 95 prosperous cities list. In which Mumbai is 52^nd and Delhi is 58^th. Also Hyderabad has been termed as the pharmaceutical Capital of India. Vienna capital of Austria is on top whereas New York is 2^nd and Toronto is 3^rd with London on 4^th and Stockholm at 5^th place.

• Hillary Mantel got her 2^nd Man Booker Prize for her book “Bring up the bodies.” In year 2009, she got one for her book “Wolf Hall”. Her First novel in 1979 was “A place of greater safety.”

• Monisha Calteborn was chosen as the Principle of the team Sauber (Swiss Formula One team) in Formula 1.

• Anil Kumble was appointed as the new Chief of ICC Cricket Committee over the West Indian Captain Clive Llyod who was taking care of the post earlier.

• Hugo Shavez becomes the president of Venezuela for 3^rd consecutive time. Henrique Caprails was in his opposition.

• Former chairman of SBI, O P Bhatt was appointed as Non-executive Director for standard chartered.

• West Indies won T20 championship 2012 by 36 runs defeating Sri Lanka. It took place in Sri Lanka.

• Yash Chopra  ages 80 years passed away on 21^st December 2012. He was suffering from dengue. His first film was “Dhool ke Phool” and last is “Jab tak hai jaan”.

• US Elections

1. Barak Obama (Democratic Party)  and Mitt Romney (Republican Party) were standing for the post of President.
2. For Vice-President post Joe Biden (From Obama’s side) and Paul Reyan (from Romney’s side)
3. Barak Obama won the elections and is elected second time for the same post on 7th Nov.

• Mukesh Ambani became the richest man in India for the 5th consecutive time in Forbes List.

• Comedy King "Jaspal Bhatti" died on 25th October 2012 in a car accident.

• Bhahma Chellaney author of “Water: Asia’s new battleground” was chosen was Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his work.

• Pankaj Advani defeated Englands Mike Russel and won World Billiards Championship for 7th time.

• India Defeated Pakistan by 18 runs and won ACC Asia cup Tournament 2012 in women’s cricket.

• Bharti Airtel became world’s 4th largest telecom Company.

• Saina Nehwal defeated Julean Shank from Germany and won the Denmark Open Series.

• Sachin Tendulkar was honoured with “Order of Australia” award.

•  Rupesh Shah from India won the Billiards Trophy after defeating Matthew Bolten of Australia.

• Saina Got defeated in French Open by Ki Minatsu (Japan)

•  50 years completed of Indo- Chinese War (1962).

• Gango Upadhayay died who received Sahitya Academy Award for “Seyi Samay”.

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Noble Prize

Physics : Surgay  Horoshay from France and David Wineland from America (In Quantum Physics )

Chemistry : Robert Hefcoviz and Bryan Cobilca from  America

Medicine: John B Gurdon and Shiyna Yamanaka

Literature : Mo Van from China

Economics : Lloyad Shefley & Rolvin Roth from America

Peace: European Union