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Global News HeadlinesVladimir Putin becomes President of RussiaPutin won the Presidential elections on 4th March 2012.

Webcams were used in majority of polling stations to ensure transparency.

'Toulouse shootings' in FranceIn March 2012, there were a series of shootings targeting Jewish civilians and French army personnel in the cities of Toulouse and Montauban.

The perpetrator was identified and shot dead after a 30 hour siege.

India launches Agni V missileOn 23rd April 2012, the Agni V missile was successfully test fired by India's DRDO.

India joins the Intercontinental Ballistic missile (ICBM) club, as the Agni covers over 5000 km range and can hit targets deep inside China and whole of Pak, south Asia, Europe and parts of Africa.

2012 US Republican Party Primaries The US Republican Party Presidential primaries are the selection processes for nominating a candidate to run

for the 2012 Presidential elections. Currently, Mitt Romney, is the likely candidate having won the majority votes.

France votes for new President Francois Hollande is elected the new President of France. He defeated the incumbent President, Nicolas Sarkozy.

'Make Kony Famous' hits social mediaKony 2012 was a short film released on 5th March 2012 about the Ugandan war lord, Joseph Kony. The film spread virally through the social media channels like Youtube, Vimeo.

Burmese leader Aung San Sui Kyi elected to parliamentAung San Sui Kyi, the pro-democracy leader in Myanmar (Burma) was elected to the lower house of

Parliament on 1st April 2012. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

Multiple attacks by insurgets in AfghanistanOn 15th April 2012, heavily armed Taliban insurgents and suicide

bombers launched attacks on government buildings, military bases and embassies in four provinces, including the capital, Kabul. A total of over 40 were killed and the attack on Kabul lasted almost 18 hours.

2012 Assembly Elections in IndiaLegislative Assembly elections were held in five Indian states:

• Goa - BJP wins• Manipur - Congress wins• Punjab - won by BJP and SAD Party• Uttarakhand - Congress wins• Uttar Pradesh - Samajwadi Party won

Avalanche buries over 100 Pakistani soldiers in Siachen glacierAn avalanche hit a Pakistani military base near the Siachen Glacier on 7th April 2012. Over 135 soldiers were trapped under the deep snow.

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March and April 2012

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Stops print edition after 244 years.

Sports, Showbiz

India’s Rahul Dravid retired from cricket on 9th March 2012.

Saina Nehwal won the 2012 Swiss Open Badminton tournament

Leander Paes wins 50th doubles title with the Miami Masters title.

He became only the 24th player in the ATP World Tour history to win 50 doubles title.

Tiger Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational Golf tournament.

This is the seventh time he has won here.

Euro 2012 Football Finals – The Euro 2012 is scheduled from 8 June to 1 July. It will be co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland.

UEFA Champions Trophy Chelsea and Bayern Munich will play the finals.

World Series Hockey started on 29th February 2012 with eight teams in India. Sher-e-Punjab won the series defeating the Pune Strykers.

100-hundreds

Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international hundred on 16 March 2012, against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup.

He became the first cricketer to achieve this feat

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March and April 2012

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Five time world champion MC Mary Kom and Sarita Devi clinched gold medals in the 6th Asian Boxing Championships in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

• India finished second in the overall standings.

Formula One 2012• Jenson Button wins Australian• Fernando Alonso wins

Malaysian GP• Nico Rosberg wins China GP• Sebastian Vettel wins

Bahrain GP

Its 100 years since the Titanic disaster

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March and April 2012

Commonwealth Bank Tri-nation Cricket ODI Series 2011-12

• Australia, Sri Lanka and India participated• Australia won the series 2-1 defeating

Sri Lanka in the finals

Roger Federer won the ATP Indian Wells Masters Tennis Championship.

Veteran actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, received the 2012 Dadasaheb Phalke award.

59th National Film awards of India

• Best actor, Girish Kulkarni• Best actress - Vidya Balan• Best feature film - Byari and Deool

Asia Cup Cricket 2012

Pakistan won the cup defeating Bangladesh in the final Five time world champion.

Pankaj Advani won the Asian Billiards title.

World record price for painting Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ was sold for $119.9M at an auction.

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Weird newsMusically inclined elephant• An elephant, named Shanthi, in the National

Zoo, Washington DC, is learning to play the harmonica with her truck.

• Shanthi also likes to tap things, flap her ears against objects to make noise and rub her leg up and down shrubs to repeat noises

A soccer ball swept up by Japanese tsunami was found on the Alaskan shores. The ball is from the Osabe School in the Iwate Prefecture, an area that was hit by the devastating tidal wave unleashed March 11, 2011.

Referee gives out five red cards in dressing room• A referee sent off five players in the dressing

room after a post-match brawl.• This occurred at an English League Two

game between Bradford City and Crawley Town.

The town of Buford, Wyoming was sold for $900,000 at an online auction. This town, with a population of 1, was called “The USA’s smallest town” was purchased by an unidentified buyer from Vietnam.

A 45ft-long paper airplane was released into the sky over Arizona by helicopter. The model, which has a 24ft wingspan, could be the world's largest paper plane.

Ghost white baby born without any blood.• Olivia Norton, in England, was born

completely white because she had such a low count of hemoglobin.

• Emergency blood transfusions then transformed her into a glowing healthy pink colour.

March and April 2012

Science & Tech NewsNew iPad tablet launched• Four times faster than iPad 2

with the new quad-core A5x chip

• Retina display for sharper screens

• 5 MP camera• 4G network ready

Google Glasses launched• This prototype has all

the functionality of a smartphone and places it into a wearable device that resembles eyeglasses

• A concept video was released on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

“Google Play” launchedGoogle launched a new online store called Google Play. It offers customers a one stop marketplace for music, movies, applications and digital content

Microsoft will partner with Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader• Microsoft with Barnes & Noble aim to

compete with Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad

Runaway planets found• New research has indicated the existence

of runaway planets travelling at speeds up to 30 million MPH

• These planets are called Hypervelocity planets

One World Trade Center being built at the site of the fallen twin towers became the tallest tower in NY City

• One World Trade Center will stand at 1,776 feet to the tip of its antenna

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Yellowstone National Park• The Yellowstone

National Park in Wyoming, USA is the world’s oldest national park

• It was established in 1872

The Kalashnikov assault rifle is named after its inventor, Russian Mikhail Kalashnikov.

In Georgia, USA there is a law – “No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday”

The very first TV commercial was for Bulova watches in 1941, and it aired in the middle of a pro baseball game. The spot cost nine dollars.

In 1969, Czechoslovakia became the first country to make seat belts compulsory.

Do not turn upside down (Printed on the bottom of the box). Tesco’s Tiramisu Desert.

The shortest war in history: This was a 38 minute war between Great Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.

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Sobriquets for…Abdul Gaffar Khan

BBC

Alektorophobia

Frontier Gandhi

British Broadcasting Corporation

Fear of chickens

Florence Nightingale

GATT

Enochlophobia

William Shakespeare

ISBN

Pteromerhanophobia

The Bard of Avon

International Standard Book Number

Fear of flying

Joan of Arc

POTA

Scolionophobia

Maid of Orleans

Prevention of Terrorism Act

Fear of school

General Rommel

VAT

Xenophobia

Desert Fox

Value Added Tax

Fear of strangers

Some Abbreviations

A few phobias

Lady with the Lamp

General Agreement on Tariff and Trade

Fear of crowds

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Some Greek mythological figures

Athena

Hades

Zeus

Aphrodite

God of wisdom, warfare and reason.

King of the Gods and God of the sky, thunder, law and order.

Goddess of love and beauty.

Some types of Government

Theocracy

Government ruled by a religious authority.

Democracy

Government through elected representatives of the people as in India, USA.

Autocracy

Government by one person with absolute power; also called dictatorship.

Aristocracy

Rule by a small group of members of a privileged class.

Monarchy

Rule of a King or Queen.

King of the Underworld and God of the Dead.

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Our World

Slice of History

● Ayers Rock is also known as Uluru.

● It is located in central Australia and is sacred to the aborigines.

● The Uluru National Park is home to over 150 types of birds and 26 types of mammals.

● The rock is covered with caves and has grooves running along its sides.

● It appears to glow red at dawn and sunset.

● It appear to change colour at different times of the day and year.

Joan of Arc

● She was a peasant girl, born in 1412 in the eastern part of France.

● Believing that she was acting under divine guidance, she led the French armies to victories against the English forces in the Hundred Years’ war.

● She was captured by the English and their French collaborators.

● She was burnt at the stake as a heretic when she was 19 years old.

● She was canonized as a saint in 1920.

● She is nicknamed ‘The Maid of Orleans'.

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It is a large sandstoneformation and is a World Heritage site.

It is over 800m above sea level and has a circumference of about 9 km.

Ayers Rock

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Across03. Which country won the 2012 Asia Cup cricket tournament?04. Capital of the US State of Michigan is06. Winner of the 2012 Spanish Premier League Football season08. Unit of length to measure the depth ofwater09. National airline of Russia10. Who won the 2008 European Football Championship?

General Knowledge Crossword

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Aamir Khan George Clooney Priyanka Chopra Julia Roberts

Kajol ShahRukh Khan Jackie Chan Brad Pitt

Vidya Balan Will Smith Johnny Depp Katrina Kaif

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General Knowledge1. What is the capital of Somalia?(a) Baidoa (b) Burao (c) Mogadishu (d) Hargeisa

2. The largest inland sea is(a) Baltic Sea (b) Caspian Sea (c) South China Sea (d) Arabian Sea

3. Who was the first actress to appear on a postage stamp?(a) Marilyn Monroe (b) Katherine Hepburn (c) Audrey Hepburn (d) Grace Kelly

4. Name the world famous university on the banks of the river Isis(a) Oxford (b) Cambridge (c) Bath (d) Manchester

5. How many states of India shares its borders with Bhutan?(a) Two (b) Four (c) Three (d) Five

6. The 'Earth Hour' is organized by(a) UNESCO (b) World Bank (c) World Wildlife Fund (d) Earth Hour Foundation

7. The 'Fourth Estate' refers to the (a) The Press (b) The Police (c) The Judiciary (d) The military

8. The book 'Origin Of Species' was written by(a) William Shakespeare (b) Charles Darwin (c) Thomas Hardly (d) George Bernard Shaw

9. The Fire Temple is the place of worship of(a) Sikhs (b) Jains (c) Buddhists (d) Parsis

10. The Hundred Year War was fought between?(a) France and Germany (b) England and France (c) England and Germany (d) Germany and Austria

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HISTORY QUIZ

11. Who was the India's First Test Cricket Captain?(a) MAK Patandi (b) CK Nayadu (c) Lala Amarnath (d) Vijay Merchant

12. How is actor Rajiv Hariom Bhatia better known as? (a) Sanjeev Kumar (b) Akshay Kumar (c) Govinda (d) Dilip Kumar

13. KLM Airlines belongs to which country? (a) Germany (b) Spain (c) England (d) Netherlands

14. What is the capital of Uruguay?(a) Montevideo (b) Sao paolo (c) Salto (d) Rivera

15. Who wrote the book ' The Songs of India '? (a) Lata Mangeshkar (b) Asha Bhosle (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Shreya Ghosal

16. Leukemia is a disease of the (a) Heart (b) Blood (c) Teeth (d) Lungs

1. A famous Phoenician colony, founded around 750 BC was___________.

2. ___________ This 'Veda' was written during the Iron Age.

3. ___________ This ancient city was called 'Rome of The East'.

4. In 1815, Napolean's army was defeated in the Battle of ___________.

5. The language of learning in the Middle Ages was ___________.

6. ___________ This city was the summer capital of India during the British rule.

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