Current Affairs 2014 at a glance :
❖ Latvia adopted the Euro currency on January1, 2014 and became the 18th member of the
Eurozone.
❖ Corey Anderson of New Zealand scored thefastest century in One Day International cricket history on January 1, 2014. He scored a hundredin just 36 deliveries against the West Indies. Hebeat the previous record of 100 off 37 balls setby Shahid Afridi of Pakistan in 1996.
❖ Sheikh Hasina was sworn in on January 12,2014 for the third time as Bangladesh's PrimeMinister. Her party is Awami League.
❖ India's first monorail service was started inMumbai on February 2, 2014.
❖ Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and eminentscientist CNR Rao were conferred the Bharatn Ratna, the highest civilian award of India onFebruary 4, 2014. The award was announced onNovember 16, 2013.
❖ Harish Rawat was sworn in as the ChiefMinister of Uttarakhand on February 1, 2014.
❖ 'Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer' is a bookwritten by Cyrus Mistry, which won the DSCPrize for
South Asian Literature at the Jaipur LiteraryFestival 2014. This award in 2013 was won byJeet Thayil for his novel 'Narcopolis'.
❖ Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland beatSpain's Rafael Nadal to win the 2014 AustralianOpen men's singles tennis title. Li Na of Chinawon the women's singles title by defeatingDominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.
❖ The prestigious Padma Awards for 2014 wereannounced which includes Padma Vibhushan for
two individuals, Padma Bhushan for 24 andPadma Shri for 101 people. Out of 127 awardees27 are women. Padma Vibhushan awardees areRaghunath Mashelkar (Science & Engineering)
and yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar.
❖ Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese PrimeMinister to be the chief guest at India's 65thRepublic Day celebrations on January 26, 2014.
❖ Janet Yellen is the first woman ever to headthe United States central bank Federal Reserve.
❖ Sub-Inspector K. Prasad Babu was conferredthe Ashok Chakra posthumously on the 65th Republic Day by the President Pranab Mukherjee.K. Prasad Babu was from Andhra Pradesh. Hewas given this award for an anti-Maoist operation near Andhra Pradesh- Chhattisgarh border. Ashok Chakra is India's highestpeacetime gallantry award.
❖ Matteo Renzi became the youngest ItalianPrime Minister in February 2014. He is 39 yearsold.
❖ Sushil Koirala assumed office as the Prime Minister of Nepal on February 11, 2014. He isalso the President of the Nepali Congress Party.
❖ N.Ramachandran was elected the new President of the Indian Olympic Association(IOA) in February 2014. He is also the World
Squash Federation President.
❖ Satya Nadella, an Indian American, wasappointed the Chief Executive Officer ofMicrosoftonFebruary 4, 2014. He succeeded Steve Ballmer.
❖ Former Supreme Court judge Ashok Kumar Mathur has been appointed the Chairman of the
7th Pay Commission.
❖ Eminent Gandhian and environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt was selected for the 2013 Gandhi Peace Prize. He is one of the pioneers ofthe Chipko movement. He was awarded the Ramon
Magsaysay Award in 1982.
❖ Famous Hindi writer Vishwanath Tripathi hasbeen selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2013 for his memoir 'Vyomkesh Darvesh'. Vyas Samman is a literary award given
by the K.K. Birla Foundation.
❖ Odia became the sixth language to getclassical language status after Sanskrit, Tamil,Telugu,Kannada and Malayalam.
❖ The Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework,headed by RBI Deputy Governor Urjit Patel suggested the central bank to adopt the newconsumer price index for anchoring the monetary policy.
❖ Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp Inc. for $19 billion. WhatsApp was
founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and John Koum.It is an instant messaging app for smartphones.
❖ The Winter Olympics were held in Sochi,Russia in February 2014. Russia topped themedals table with13 gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze.It won a total of 33 medals. India did not winany medal. Next Winter Olympics will be held inPyeongchang in South Korea in 2018.
❖ Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as thePresident of Chile on March 11, 2014. She already served as the President once from 2006to 2010.
❖ The third edition of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) was held in The Hague,Netherlands in March 2014. The NSS aims to prevent nuclear terrorism by reducing the amount of dangerousnuclear material in the world.
❖ Renowned Hindi author Govind Mishra was selected for the Saraswati Samman for the year
2013 for his book "Dhool Paudho Par". He is thesecond Hindi author to receive the honor afterthe late Harivansh Rai Bachchan in 1991.
❖ ESPN cricinfo presented the Cricketer of theGeneration award to Sachin Tendulkar.
❖ The International Women of Courage Award2014 was presented by the US first lady Michelle Obama to Laxmi, a Delhi acid attack survivor.
❖ Mortal remains of about 282 Indian soldiers of1857 mutiny were exhumed from a well at Ajnala in Amritsar district of Punjab in March 2014.
❖ The Reserve Bank of India had extended thedeadline for Indian banks to meet capital
requirements under the Basel III norms by a yearto March 31, 2019.
❖ Mizoram defeated Railways to win the 68thSantosh Trophy Football championship in Siliguriin
March 2014. It is the maiden Santosh Trophy title for Mizoram.
❖ Viswanathan Anand won the WorldCandidates chess tournament title at Khanty Mansisyk, Russia.
❖ Khushwant Singh, a renowned author, passed away on March 20, 2014. He authored books
such as 'Train to Pakistan', 'With Malice towards One and All', 'The Sunset Club', 'Truth,
Love and a Little Malice', etc.
❖ Eminent film lyricist Gulzar was chosen for thecoveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2013. This
award is the highest film award in India.
❖ The people of Crimea voted to become part ofRussia in a referendum in March 2014. Theleaders of Group of Eight (G8) countries suspended Russia from the group on the issue of annexation of Crimea by Russia. Crimea was separated from Ukraine.
❖ The third Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit was held in Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmar in March 2014. India, Bangladesh,Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand are the seven members of this group. SumithNakandala of Sri Lanka is the Secretary General.The Secretariat of BIMSTEC is established inDhaka, Bangladesh.
❖ Assam is the first State in India to observeChild Protection Day to secure the future ofchildren
on March 4, 2014.
❖ The armies of Nepal and India held a joint military exercise named Surya Kiran VI in Nepal.
❖ Admiral Robin K. Dhowan assumed office as the Chief of Naval Staff on April 17, 2014. He succeeded Admiral D.K. Joshi.
❖ R. Gandhi has been appointed as a DeputyGovernor of Reserve Bank of India. RBI has four
deputy governors.
❖ The 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize wasawarded to Ramesh Agrawal of Chhattisgarh.
❖ Koyal Rana won the Miss India 2014 crown.
❖ India - born poet Vijay Seshadri won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his
collection of poems "3 Sections".
❖ Ex-coal secretary P.C. Parakh released his book titled "Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate
and Other Truths".
❖ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombiannovelist, died on April 17, 2014. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His majorbooks include One Hundred Years of Solitude,Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a DeathForetold and Love in the Time of Cholera.
❖ Renowned cinematographer V.- K. Murthy passed away. He won the Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for the year 2008. He shot India's firstcinemascope movie 'Kagaz ke Phool'.
❖ RBI gave approvals to IDFC Ltd and BandhanFinancial Services Private Limited to start new banks. IDFC is an infrastructure finance companybased in Mumbai and Bandhan is a micro lender
based in Kolkata.
❖ Sun Pharmaceuticals will buy Ranbaxy Laboratories.
❖ Sri Lanka won the World Twenty 20 title for the first time defeating India by six wickets in
Mirpur, Bangladesh in April 2014.
❖ Australian women cricket team won the Women's World Twenty 20 Cup 2014 by
defeating England in the final in Mirpur,Bangladesh. This is the third successiveWomen's World Twenty20 title for Australia.
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