Current Affairs of January 2012

The film, directed by Zoya Akhtar, which has bagged the Best Film award at the 57th Filmfare Awards function on 29 Jan 2012	Zindagi Na Milegi Dubara
India's per capita income as per the latest quick estimates released by the Central Statistical Organisation is	Rs. 53,331/-
The Serbian tennis player who has won the Australian Open Men's title defeating Rafael Nadal in the longest Australian Open Finals lasting 5 hours 53 minutes	Novak Djokovic
The rank of India in 2012 Environmental Performance Index released by Yale University of Davos	125
The European country which has approved a ban on face-covering clothing, such as a burqa, a niqab etc.	The Netherlands
The state which has added nine new districts on 01 Jan 2012 thus increasing the total number of districts from 18 to 27	Chhattisgarh
The Indian tennis player who has become the first Indian to win a career Grand Slam by winning the Australian Open men's doubles title with Czech player Radek Stepanek in January 2012 (a career Grand Slam means winning all the four major tournaments during a career)	Leander Paes
The best marching contingent among the three services at the Republic Day parade 2012	Indian Air Force
The best marching contingent among para-military forces and other auxillary marching contingents at the Republic Day parade 2012	Border Security Force
The Belarusian player who has won the Australian Open Women's title defeating Russia's Maria Sharapova in the final	Victoria Azarenka
The billiards player who has retained the National Billiards Championship crown at the 79th Senior National Billiards and Snooker Championship being held at Pune	Pankaj Advani
The Army officer who has been awarded Ashoka Chakra on 26 Jan 2012	Lt. Navdeep Singh
The IAF Officer who for the first time in Indian history has led the IAF contingent at the Republic Day parade on 26 Jan 2012	Flt. Lt. Sneha Shekhawat
The Chief Guest at the 63rd Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, Mrs Yingluck Shinawatra is the Prime Minister of	Thailand
The badminton player who has won the women's title at the 76th Senior National Badminton Championship held in Bangalore from 17 to 25 Jan 2012 defeating Neha Pandit in the finals	P.V. Sindhu
The badminton player who has won the men's title at the 76th Senior National Badminton Championship in Bangalore defeating Sai Praneeth in the finals	Saurabh Verma
The name of the train which has been chosen as the theme of the Railway Tableau at the Republic Day parade 2012, for being the first train to achieve distinction of entering its 100th year on Indian Railways broad gauge network.	Punjab Mail
The joint winners of National Communal Harmony Award 2011 in the individual category	Shri Khamliana (Mizoram) and Shri Md. Abdul Bari (Odisha)
Mana airport which has been renamed as Swami Vivekananda Airport is located in	Raipur, Chhattisgarh
The golfer who has won the All India Amateur golf title defeating Gagan Verma at the final in Chandigarh on 23 Jan 2012	Angad Cheema
The team which has retained the Ranji Trophy after winning it for the first time in 2011. (The team defeated Tamilnadu on the basis of first innings lead.)	Rajasthan
The 7th State Level Philatelic exhibition of Delhi Circle being held from 22 Jan to 24 Jan 2012 at Delhi is named	Dharohar-2012
The Sri Lankan author who has been awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 for his book Chinaman	Shehan Karunatilaka
The village in Assam which has become first village in the country to have full insurance coverage	Rangati Misamara
The venue of India International Coffee Festival 2012 being held from January 18	New Delhi
The new Swedish coach appointed to train Indian tennis players, particularly juniors and sub-juniors	Henrik Ekersund
China's first supercomputer built with "domestically-produced" microprocessors and capable of performing around one-thousand-trillion calculations per second which became officially operational in January 2012 is named	Sunway Bluelight
The theme of 5th World Future Energy Summit being held in Abu Dhabi	Sustainable Energy for All
The venue of the 5th World Future Energy Summit which began on 16 Jan 2012, India being represented by Union Minister for Renewable energy resources, Dr. Farooq Abdullah	Abu Dhabi
The year 2012 has been declared by the Health Ministry of Government of India as the year of	Intensification of Routine Immunisation
The Russian space craft which failed on its mission to Phobos, (a moon of Mars) and crashed into the Pacific Ocean two months after its launch in November 2011	Phobos Grunt
The Italian cruise ship that ran aground off the island of Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea on January 14 killing at least 5 people	Costa Concordia
The playback singer and classical vocalist who has been chosen for the first Harivarasanam award of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), the statutory body that manages major temples in south Kerala, including the famed Sabarimala hill temple	KJ Yesudas
Homai Vyarawala who passed away on 15 Jan 2011 was a well known	Photographer
The Indian shooter who has won a gold medal in the Men’s 10-metre Air Rifle event at the 12th Asian Shooting Championships in Doha	Abhinav Bindra
The venue of 17th National Youth Festival - 2012, a festival organised to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda since 1995	Mangalore
The music director who has composed the signature tune of the Indian Customs Department, launched on the occasion of golden jubilee of Indian Customs Act, 1962. The tune is named Pragati ki Dhadkan.	Aadesh Srivastava
The theme of India Post Calendar 2012 is	India's Sculptural Heritage
The sector in which the Government has notified 100 percent FDI	Single Brand Retail
The Argentinean footballer who has been awarded the Ballon d'Or for the third consecutive year	Lionel Messi
The Indian Nobel laureate on whose works Raja Ram Mohan Roy Foundation has compiled a web-bibliography, which was launched by Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee in Jan 2012	Rabindranath Tagore
Pixel, a new model of car has been unveiled at the 11th Auto Expo in New Delhi by	Tata Motors
The Serbian player with whom Leander Paes partnered to win the Chennai Open Tennis Doubles title	Janko Tipsarevic
The Canadian player who has won the Chennai Open Tennis Tournament	Milos Raonic
The venue of 11th Auto Expo being held from 05 Jan to 11 Jan 2012	Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
The place in Gujarat where new National Law University was inaugurated by Vice-President Hamid Ansari	Gandhinagar
The Chess player from Andhra Pradesh who has become the 26th Indian chess player to become a Grandmaster	M. Lalith Babu
The scientist from Vietnam who was awarded the Kalinga Chair Award at the 99th Indian Science Congress	Trinh Xuan Thuan
The venue of 99th Indian Science Congress held from 02 Jan to 07 Jan 2012	KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
Ms. Kamla Prasad Bissesar, the chief guest at the 10th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas being held in Jaipur with the theme Global Indian-Inclusive Growth is the Prime Minister of	Trinidad and Tobago
The place at which a nearly 400-year-old temple, which was standing tilted for more than 100 years after it was damaged in an earthquake, was rebuilt by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)	Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
The Tibetan leader who has been presented with Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation by the Gandhi Development Trust	Dalai Lama
The University in Uttar Pradesh which has been recognised as University with Potential for Excellence	Banaras Hindu University
KJ Sarasa, the first woman nattuvanar, the guru of Ms Jayalalitha, who died on 02 Jan 2012 was associated with	Bharat Natyam
The first Indo-Italian co-production film based on a short story by well-known writer Mahasweta Devi which has bagged the NETPAC Jury award at the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2011 at Mumbai.(the film is directed by Italo Spinelli)	Gangor
The tribal efforts to conserve biodiversity and develop climate resilient farm practices of this place in Odisha have been recognised by UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS)	Koraput
The category of foreign investors who have been allowed to invest directly in India Equity market by government	Qualified Foreign Investor
The Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation fondly known as Metroman who relinquished office on 31 Dec 2011	E. Sreedharan
The first car of Bajaj Auto, India's leading two-wheeler manufacturer is named	RE 60