General Awareness April 2011

• Ivory coast rocked by fierce fighting
• Flghting flared. In Libya as flared, In Libya as
• Mexico created history with first bio-fuel Fight -Adel Safar named as Syria PM
• Burnese military chief Gen. Than Shwe retired
• Bangladesh’s Mohammad Yunus lost the final legal battle to remain as Grameen Bank Chief.
• British astrophysicist Martin Rees won the Templeton Prize.
• 7.4 magnitude quake rattled Japan again.
• Yemen Prez Saleh rejected deal to step down- Russia began refuelling Iran N-plant.
• Film director Sidney Lumet died.
• Sebastien Vettel won the Malaysian Grand Prix F-1 racing.
• Ivory Coast’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo captured from bunker.
• Japan raised N-threat to Chernobyl level – Russia celebrated 50 years of conquest of Space.
• Former Egyqt Prez Mubarak and his sops detained for probe.
• Syria Prez Assad formed new Cabinet- World’s oldest man Walter Bruening died.
• US Prez Obama began his 2012 fundraising campaign.
• An Egypt court ordered the dissolving of Mubarak’s party.
• Israel became CERN group member.
• Goodluck Jonathan won Nigeria’s presidential elections.
• Pak tested short-range ‘ .Hatf-9 N-missile.
• Rivals rejected Nigeria vote results.
• Prez. Assad ended state of emergency in Syria.
• CERN atom smasher set new record for beam intensity.
• Yemen Prez Saleh reportedly agreed to Gulf nation’s exit plan.
• Former Sony chief Norio Ohga died- Rafael Nadal won Barcelona Open tennis title.
• China swept all 5 gold medals in Asian Badminton Championships.
• Italy, France called for changes to Schengen treaty.
• Lobsang Sangay elected PM of Tibetan governmnt-in-exile.
• Thailand, Cambodia armies agreed Fateh and Hamas reached agreement on reconciliation.
• The winner of Chinese Grand Prix is – Lewis Hamilton
• The Australian who recently smashed a record of 15 sixes in Aussie’s in against Bangladesh is a – Shane Watson
• Britain’s Newspaper of the year Award has been conferred on -The Guardian.
• The winner of Malaysian Grand Prix is – Sebastian Vettel
• The winner of Asian Biliards – Alok Kumar
• The winner of Global Diversity Award for Sport 2010 is – Kapil Dev
• The number one pair in ATP Tennis Doubles ranking is – Paes and Bhupathi.
• The winner of US Masters (Golf) is – Charl Schwartzel.