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IAS Prelims 2012 Checklist

All The best for Civil Services Prelims guys. Here's my current affairs checklist

  • Tipaimukh project
  • GRSE naval units & Coast-guard vessels
  • Constitution Articles - Preamble, 13, 17, 21A, 24, 45, 50, 51, 51A, 72, 105, 122, 139, 148-151, 155, 161, 212, 249, 253, 263, 267, 312, 315, 323A, 338, 338A, 343, 344, 350A, 350B, 356, 358, 360, 368, 370
  • People in News - Anita Rana, K G Balakrishnan, Kripashankar Singh, Soumitra Sen, Anders Behring Breivik, Baburam Bhattarai, Ronjan Sodhi, N. Valarmathi, Sudhir Vasudeva, Roddam Narasimha, Kamlesh Sharma, Dr. Arjun Majumdar, Har Gobind Khorana, Bhupen Hazarika, Whitney Houston, A K Damodaran, Indira Goswami, Naota Kan, Ivian Sarcos, Assad al-Assawi, Joe Frazier, Dennis Ritchie, Yingluck Shinawatra, Jose Graziano da Silva, Zahir-ul-Islam, Julia Barnes, Mohan Dharia, Adele, Kashinath Singh, Ramdarash Mishra, Mike Pandey, K Balachander, Tawakkul Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Den Shechtam, S L Bhyrappa, Shehan Karunatilaka, Jean Dujardin, Meryl Streep, Michael Hazanauicius, Girish Kulkarni, Vidya Balan, Thiagarajan Kumararaja, Usain Bolt, Sally Pearson, Gagan Narang, Nileema Mishra, Harish Hande, Li Na, Bikram Singh, Nirmal Verma, Lee Chong Wei, Chun Chun, Alberto Contador, Homai Vyarawala, Martin Scorsese, Harish Khare, Sebastian Vettel, Ustad Sultan Khan, Sarath Kumar, Alice Powell, Sushil Kumar (Millionaire), Ajay Banga, Jim Yong Kim, Dmitry Medvedev, Sheela Gowda, Kamla Prasad Bissessar, Aamir Khan, Cyrus Mistry, Leila Lopez, Rahul Khullar, Vinya Mishra, Ashokamitran, Vikram Singh (USA), Goolam E. Vahanvati, Nityanand Mohapatra, F M Ibrahim Kalifulla, A A Manavalan, Saint Gadge Baba, D M Dharmadhikari, MOH Farook, D Bala Venkatesh Verma, P K Iyengar, Vinod Rai, Sumant Mishra, Tessy Thomas, T K Anuradha, Parimarjana Negi, 
  • Places in News - Oimyakon (Russia), Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary, Ahmedabad, Axla Desert Geopark, Manwal, Manas National Park, Banswara, Tumalapalli, Rooppur (Bangladesh), Nagoya, Trichy, Wheeler Island, Attari
  • Events - Vivek Express, NRLM, Shiksha ka Haq, Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, "My Stamp", 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas, NCTC, India's Child Rights Index, India-Sri Lanka Knowledge Initiative, 17th SAARC Summit, Nagoya Protocol, Red Ribbon Express, 150th Birth Anniversary of Ravindranath Tagore
  • Defence, Science & Technology - Graphene 'Big Mac), M chilensis, Soyuz TMA 22, Agni-IV, Babur/Hatf 7, INS Kadmatt, Curiosity, Kepler 22b, GRAIL, ROV Daksh, National Large Solar Telescope, HTR7, ABCC9, GSAT-12, PSLV-C16, Oncotype DX Test, Prithvi-II, Dhanush, e-migrate, GAGAN, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, NLC, White Label ATM, Antrix-Devas Scam, LCA-NP1

BEST OF LUCK..

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