The Daily GK: 26 March 2012

He was offered a bribe of Rs.14 crore for clearance of purchase of 600 sub-standard vehicles of a particular make

AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
Maruti Suzuki increased prices of its cars by up to Rs.17,000 following increase in excise duty proposed in Union Budget
MV Nair : Head of expert committee on Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Inventory
The British Council & UK Government have launched 60 UK scholarships for Indian students with one month internship as a part of Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee celebrations
KO Ratnakaran : Principal of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Chettachal, Thiruvananthapuram

Selected for National Award for Teachers instituted by Union Human Resource Development Ministry

Emirates SkyCargo, freighter division of Emirates, to promote e-freight to do cargo processes electronically and eliminate costs of paper printing & processing
AK Tareen : South Australian Government's Senior Trade Commissioner in India

Jairam Ramesh : Union Minister for Rural Development
Indian President Pratibha Patil's foreign trips cost nation a record Rs.205 crore

Air India incurred over Rs.169 crore on use of chartered aircraft and External Affairs Ministry incurred nearly Rs.36 crore on accommodation, local travel, daily allowance & miscellaneous expenditures
In her 5-year tenure with four months remaining she had 12 trips covering 22 countries across 4 continents and a South Africa trip is on the anvil

Polls will be held for the remaining 2 seats in Jharkhand & 1 seat in Uttarakhand

Nuclear Security Summit 2012 : @ Seoul, Capital of South Korea
Lee Myung-Bak : South Korean President
Blue House : Official residence of South Korean President
Jim Yong Kim : South Korean health expert nominated for World Bank President post by US President Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton : US Secretary of State
Yusuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
Hina Rabbani Khar : Pakistan Foreign Minister
Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
Bimal Gurung : President of Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM)

Areas of Terai & Dooars to be included within the jurisdiction of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)

Naveen Patnaik : Odisha CM
Parkash Singh Badal : Punjab CM
AB Bardhan : Stepped down as General-Secretary of Communist Party of India after 16 years

Hu Jintao : Chinese President
Wen Jiabao : Chinese PM
Wishtel : Mumbai based company launched android tablet PCs, Ira & Ira Thing, that support 23 Indian languages

Mike Mullen : US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
Aung San Suu Kyi : Myanmar Leader of Opposition & General Secretary of National League for Democracy
Kofi Annan : UN Special Envoy to Syria
Dmitry Medvedev : Russian President
Sergei Lavrov : Russian Foreign Minister
Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
David Cameron : British PM
UK Conservative Party : Britain's ruling party
Labour Party : Britain's party of opposition
Leung Chun-ying : Newly elected Chief Executive of Hong Kong, one of the two Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of People's Republic of China (PRC) & the other being Macau
India is world's largest importer of gold importing gold of $33.8bn in 2010-11

India's gold import bill could touch $100bn by 2015-16 says World Gold Council (WGC)

World Boxing Council Light Welter-Weight Title : Danny Garcia (US) bt Erik Morales (Mexico)
43rd Boxing Grand Prix : @ Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic

World Twenty20 Qualifying Tournament : Ireland bt Afghanistan
Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix : Gagan Narang won silver medal in Men's 50m Rifle
Italian Championship 125GP : @ Mugello Circuit, Italy

Real Madrid Foundation of Spanish Football Club Real Madrid to open football school in Kochi
Indian Discuss Thrower Seema Antil (Haryana) books Olympic Quota in University of California (Irvine) Spring Break Meet at Irvine, US

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