24.02.2008

• Indian Air Force today inducted the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) Hawk 132 in Bidar.
  British Aerospace Systems (BAe) built Hawk
  Air Chief Fali H Major.
  Ulysses- 1. 1990
  2. transmit useful data on solar winds.
  3. joint European-NASA project
  Philippines – landslide and rain.
  · Brazil and Argentina agreed to develop a nuclear reactor jointly.
  · 7th Session of the South Africa-India Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) in Cape Town,
  · credit-linked capital subsidy scheme (CLCSS) for micro and small enterprises (MSE), for a period of five years that will enable them to avail subsidy of up to Rs 15 lakh on loan of Rs one crore. started by the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises in the Tenth Five Year Plan. The scheme was modified and the ceiling of loan was raised from Rs 40 lakh to Rs one crore in September 2005.
  · Under SLR provisions, banks have to park 25 percent of their deposits in government bonds.
  · Boeing, world's largest maker of commercial jetliners
  
  · North beat West to retain Duleep Trophy; pocket Rs 30 lakh
  · Noted space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman Prof U R Rao has been elected as Fellow of the prestigious World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).
  · Solicitor-General G.E. Vahanvati
  · HDFC Bank to buy CBoP (Centurian Bank of Punjab)
  · amendment made in 1986, there are a total of 25 Supreme Court judges.
  · 2010 Youth Olympiad
  o Singapore is set to host this first ever Olympiad

world current affairs 2008

• Hundreds Die in Tribal Violence in Kenya
• President of Georgia - Mikhail Saakashvili
• Serbian President - Boris Tadic
• Kosovo Declares Independence

2007 Disasters

PLACE- REASON

Indonesia - plane crash

Florida - tornado

Sumatra, Indonesia - earthquake

Yogyakarta, Indonesia - plane crash

• Ulyanovskaya, Russia- methane explosion
  
• Honiara, Solomon Islands - earthquake





• Doula, Cameroon - plane crash


• Greensburg, Kansas - tornado
• Novokuznetsk, Russia - methane explosion
• Chittagong, Bangladesh and Beijing, China - rain
• Karachi, Pakistan - storm
• West Bengal, India- rain
• Niigata, Japan - earthquake
• Sao Paulo, Brazil - aeroplane skids
• Minneapolis, Minn- bridge collapse
• Benaleka, Congo- train derailed
• North Korea- rain
• Hunan province, China- bridge collapse
• coast of central Peru - earthquake
• Greece- fire
• Sumatra, Indonesia- earthquake
• Phuket, Bangkok ,Thailand - aeroplane skids





• Sudan - flood



• southern Colombia- landslide
• southern Calif- wildfire
• Carribean- Tropical Storm Noel
• Mexico - floods
• southern Russia- storm
• Bangladesh - Cyclone Sidr
• Donetsk, Ukraine- mining explosion
• Antarctica- ship sink
• western Turkey - plane crash
• Omaha, Nebraska- gun fire





• South Korea - oil spill