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10-Feb-14 Newly appointed Nepal's PM

22-Feb-14 newly appointed Italy PM
Italy President : Gioregio Napolitano
20-Feb-14 Lokpal search committee
selected by PM manmohan singh
Lok Sabha Speaker - Meira Kumar
Supreme Court Judge - H. L. Datta
Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha - Sushma Swaraj
Jurist - P. P. Rao
Nominee of Chief Justice of India - P. Sathasivam
9-Mar-11 criteria for special category state by National Development Council(NDC)
Given in Lok Sabha on March 9,2011

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Sushil Koirala
Matteo Renzi, youngest PM

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Headed by - K.T. Thomas, former supreme court judge, retired in 202

Fali S Nariman - Jurist & Senior advocate
S. Y. Qurasishi - Former Chief Election Commissioner
Meenakshi Gopinath - Principal of Lady Shri Ram College, delhi
Mrinal Miri - Educationalist
Kaki Madhava Rao - Former chief secretary of Andhra Pradesh
H. K. Dua - Senior journalist & Rajya Sabha Member

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Hilly and difficult terrain

Low population density and/or sizable share of tribal population
Strategic location along boarders with neighbouring contries
Economic & Infrastructural backwardness
non- viable nature of state finances

To select the names for various posts of Lokpal

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2-Feb-14 Karnataka becomes ranji Champion after 15 years
4-Feb-14 Sachine Tendulkar received Bharat Ratna
13-Feb-14 Deepika Kumari
Rahul Dravid
Yuvraj Singh
PV Sindhu
Rani Rampal
Devender Jhajharia

Sochi (Russia) 2014 Winter Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Mudgal Committees

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final : karnataka Vs Maharastra held at Hyderabad

first sportsman to receive the same; received Padam Vibhushan and Rajeev gandhi Khel ratan earli
Indian Sportsperson of the Year at the Indian Sports awards held by FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry)
Lifetime Achievement award
Most Inspiring Sportsperson of the Year.
The Breakthrough Sportsperson of the Year award
Comeback of the Year award
Para-sportsperson of the Year honours.
Nagano (Japan) in 1998, Salt Lake City (USA) in 2002, 25th in Torino (Italy) in 2006 and 29th in Vancouver (Canada) in 2010.

1 st Place : Russia with 11 golds

President Thomas Bach

For match fixing in IPL

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Bharat Ratna

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till 2011 conferred "for the highest degrees of national service. This service include

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theGovernment of Indiamodified the criteria to allow sportspersons to receive the award; since th

o receive the award; since then, the award may be conferred "for performance of highest order in any field of

st order in any field of human endeavour

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4-Feb-14 Satya Nadella - new CEO of Microsoft
4-Feb-14 Prof C.N.R. Rao received Bharat Ratna

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Hyderabad native; developed cloud computing and Bing search engine;joined microsoft in 1992

received Padam Vibhushan earlier ; 3rd scientist to receive the same; C. V. Raman and A. P. J. Abdul ka

re others.

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Bharat Ratan
Pope : Francis

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total 43 persons received it; started in 1954.
last : emeritus Benedicy XVI