Current Affairs June 2012

Deutsche Bank Chief Josef Ackermann has officially stepped down as the head of Germany’s biggest bank and succeeded by Swiss-born Ackermann and Indian born Anshu Jain.

Tata Group owned Jaguar brand has been named as the “Numero Uno” brand in the UK in terms of customer satisfaction by the ’2012 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study (VOSS).

Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra has been appointed as the Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in protest killings last year.

The Asian Hockey Federations council has confirmed Malaysia to host the 2013 Asia Cup hockey for the second consecutive time.

Indian men’s hockey team has defeated England to win bronze medal in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup today.

Bihar has become the fastest growing state for the second consecutive year with yearly growth rate at 13.1% in 2011-12. In terms of GDP growth.

 New Zealand defeated Argentina by 1-0 to win Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament.

Vice Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi has been chosen as the next Chief of the Indian Navy. He will succeed Admiral Nirmal Verma after his retirement on August 31.

Justice Madan Bhimarao Lokur took the oath as the new Supreme Court judge . Before that he served as the chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. With this the total number of the apex court judge will be 26.Election Commissioner V S Sampath has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner.

India has successfully test-fired its indigenously developed surface-to-air ‘Akash’ missile of Air Force version from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. It is having strike range of 25 km and it is capable of carrying warhead of 60 kg.

South Korean mobile phone maker and electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co has named Kwon Oh-hyun as its new Chief Executive Officer.

The Bank of England (BoE) has kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.5% and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE) programme.

Nasdaq OMX Group will offer funds of USD 40 million to compensate clients who suffered losses due to some technical problems during Facebook IPO launch day.

The government has reappointed K C Chakrabarty as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India for next three months.

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd announced its merger with Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd in order to prepare and meet the increasing demand for diesel vehicles.

Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal won her third Indonesia Open Super Series title after defeating China’s Xuerui.

China has pledged USD 43 billion to the IMF to boost its reserves which will be used to help debt ridden countries in euro zone and help them from fallout.

Global tech giant Microsoft has unveiled its first tablet named “Surface” which comes with a keyboard and other tablet features.

Indian Hockey Goalkeeper Adrin D’Souza has been suspended yesterday for 1 year for his anti- doping rule violation.

Greece’s New Democracy Party leader “Antonis Samara” sworn in as the Prime Minister of Greece

Shekhar Basu has been appointed as the new Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

India has been ranked the 5th most attractive destination for retail investment among 30 emerging markets.

Indian FMCG giant ITC has received the “2012 World Business and Development Award” at the ongoing Rio 20 United Nations Summit in Brazil.

 Porus Kaka has been appointed as the new President of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi has won the historic presidential polls in Egypt after securing 51.73% votes.

Raja Parvez Ashraf has been appointed as the 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan

Spanish formula one driver Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) won a European Grand Prix

Cyprus has become the fifth euro zone nation to ask a bailout from the European Union and IMF

New Zealand’s Alan Isaac has taken over as the 8th President of International Cricket Council (ICC) for next two year.

Global internet giant Google has unveiled a new version of Android operating system called “Jelly Bean”