Sunday, August 26, 2012

DAILY GK UPDATE: 26th AUGUST 2012


1.India Win Under-19 world Cup
India defeated defending champions Australia by six wickets to win their third Under-19 Cricket World Cup title.Indian Captain Unmukt Chand made an unbeaten Century in Final.Unmukt Chand won the Man-of-the-Match Award and Bosisto won the Man-of-the-Series Award

2.BCCI announces Rs. 20 lakh cash prize for U-19 squad
The BCCI on Sunday announced a cash prize of Rs. 20 lakh each for members of the Indian team, which lifted its third Under-19 World Cup title in Townsville after defeating defending champions Australia.

3.OBITUARY(Neil Armstrong)
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, has died at the age of 82.

4.OBITUARY(A K Hangal)
Bollywood’s distinguished character artist A.K. Hangal, who endeared himself to the audience by playing the role of the lovable old man in films like Sholay, Shaukeen and Namak Haram, died on sunday following a brief illness.

5. Sonia Gandhi Ranked 6th in the List of 6th Most Powerful Women
Fobes magzine's has ranked 6th in the List of 6th Most Powerful Women.there are 5 women in list of top 100women.the other four are Indira Nooyi (12th ),Padmashree Warrior (58th ),Chanda Kochar (59th ),Kiran Mazzomdar Shaw (80th ).German Chancellor Angella Markel is on 1st Rank.

6. XVI NAM Summit
XVI NAM Summit will be held at Tehran, Iran. Ahead of this summit Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will engage in talks with  Iran’s supreme leader Ayotollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In this meeting the Prime Minister will raise all issues for India-Iran bilateral relations and issues of interest and concern to us, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said. Ahead of the summit there will be India, Iran and Afghanistan will hold a strategic trilateral meet. In this trilateral meeting the major focus will be the utilization of Iranian port for trade with Afghanistan.

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