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• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) established in 1942, is an autonomous body and India’s largest Research and Development (R&D) organization.

• International Youth Day – August 12.

• National Youth Day is celebrated in India on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.

• Football: India beat Cameroon (5-4) to win 3rd successive Nehru Cup title.

• The 2012 Nehru Cup was the 15th edition (founded in 1982).

• ICTC – Integrated Counseling and Testing Centre.

• RTGS – Real Time Gross Settlement.

• NEFT – National Electronic Funds Transfer.

• The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN wasestablished on 29 September 1954. Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.

• Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta was the first IIM to be set up, on November 13, 1961.

• Indian Institute of Management Kashipur (Uttarakhand), the thirteenth and youngest IIM, started operation in July 2011.

• Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

• India’s 1st television news reader – Pratima Puri.

• Alam Ara (released on 14-03-1931) directed by Ardeshir Irani – the first Indian movie with dialogues.

• ‘Operation flood’ a program started by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970 made India the largest producer of the milk in the world. This program with its whopping success was called as ‘The White Revolution’. The main architect of this successful project was Dr. Verghese Kurien, also called the father of White Revolution.

• Andy Murray (Britain) wins first Grand Slam with US Open title 2012.

• The Irani Cup (also called Irani Trophy) is associated with Cricket.

• The NASDAQ is an American stock exchange. “NASDAQ” originally stood for “National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations”.

• Entomology – Scientific study of insects.

• Myrmecology – Scientific study of ants.

• Paleontology – Study of prehistoric life.

• 12th five Year Plan (2012-17) targets an 8.2% growth in the economy.

• September 15 – Engineer’s day in India.

• In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly voted to designate September 16 as “World Ozone Day”, to commemorate the signing of the Montreal Protocol on that date in 1987.

• Vitamin D is produced in the skin by ultraviolet light.

• Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a serious form of pneumonia. It is caused by a virus called SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that was first identified in 2003.

• Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) is known for its wide sandy beach which is the world’s longest natural sandy sea beach.

• The Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) was launched as an integrated programme for self-employment of the rural poor on April 1, 1999.

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