MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS AND FACTS IN NEWS 2012 - 02
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New High Courts will be opened in --- Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur
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Venue of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), COP-11 --- Hyderabad
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Vivek Express Trains introduced to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of --- Swami Vivekanand
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Winner of Lal Bahadur Shastri Award --- Ms. Tessy Thomas (ISRO's Missile Woman and Project Director of AGNI-IV)
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Charges against K G Balakrishnan, Chairman, NHRC --- Assets beyond known sources of income
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As per Census 2011, state with the lowest sex ratio --- Haryana (877/1000)
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Life Expectancy at birth in India as per Human Development Report 2011 --- 65.4 Years
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Typhoon which affected the Philippines, Taiwan and Southern China --- Megi
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For the London Olympics, the Olympic Flame was carried by --- Amitabh Bachhan
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New year festival of Andhra Pradesh --- Kharanama Ugadi, New year festival of Maharastra --- Gudi Padwa
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To compute the WPI, no. of items considered --- 676, For CPI, no. of items taken --- 580
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CWG 2014 will be held in --- Glasgow (Scotland)
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Winner of the Kyoto Prize --- Ms.Gayatri Spivak (Arts and Philosphy)
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TIME Person of the Year 2011 --- The Protester
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Winner of Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhawana Award 2012 --- D R Mehta (Founder, Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur)
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State largely affected by floods due to Brahamputra --- Assam
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Miss World 2012 --- Miss Wen Xia Yu (China), First runner up at Miss World 2012 --- Ms.Sophie Moulds of Wales
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CCE (Continuing, Comprehensive Evaluation) System started for classes I-VIII from --- 2012
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Venue of Miss World 2012 Contest --- Ordos (China)
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World record of Supersonic Skydive from 38.6 km above the Earth @ 690 mph set by --- Felix Baumgartner (Fearless Felix)
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