| GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: Current Affairs 2012 August Sep 24th 2012, 14:22 | GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012 | | The most comprehensive career education and test preparation forums in india. | | | Current Affairs 2012 August Sep 24th 2012, 13:31 These are Some of the Most important Events that took place in August this year. However this is not an exhaustive list. Remember, Questions for GK can never be certain. Students can look for other links and places for more trivia. They are also advised to go through an English Daily (The Hindu or the Times of India) and make notes of important Facts and happenings month-wise. All the Best! • Union government notified a law permitting investments by Pakistan citizens and companies in India in sectors/activities other than defence , space and atomic energy. • Somalia’s Constituent Assembly endorsed a draft constitution billed as a key step to ending decades of civil war. • At least 45 people were killed in a suicide bombing in south Yemen. • Seven persons including the attacker killed and twenty injured in a shoot out at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin in the United States. • Haryana Minister of State for Home Gopal Kanda resigns after being booked for abetment to suicide. • Raghuram Rajan, former chief economist of International Monetary Fund (IMF) was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet cleared the appointment of Rajan as the new CEA on 10 August 2012. • Hamid Ansari sworn in as the Vice President of India. • Mumbai situation returns to normal after yesterday's violence in a protest rally against Assam violence; 20 people taken into custody; crime branch starts probe to ascertain any conspiracy angle. • 30th Olympic Games conclude in London; India finishes with a record haul of six medals. • Abu Jundal, Key Handler of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack makes confessional statement before a magistrate. • Government bans bulk SMS and MMS for 15 days throughout the country to check spread of rumours; Six arrested in Karnataka for sending threatening text messages to people from the North-East. • Supreme Court of India upheld the death sentence of Ajmal Kasab. • Apple won Patent Infringement Case against Samsung. • PM Nair appointed as the Director General of National Disaster Force & Civil Defence. • Vetran Actor AK Hangal passes away. • Us Astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong passes away. • India defeats Australia to win the Under 19 World Cup. | | | |  | |
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