Jan 2013 : General Knowledge

• Union Tourism Minister  : Shri K Chiranjeevi
• Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences : Shri Jaipal Reddy
• Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) : S. Ramakrishnan.
• CyanoBacteria  : Blue Green Algae
• World's largest solar telescope : McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope : aperture size of 1.6 metres in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the US.
• Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, and nicknamed "Black Beauty(weighs 320gm) : Martian Meteorite.
• Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope : World's largest radio telescope(to be built)
• SCI Chairman and Director(Finance) and MD : B K Mandal 
• Mukesh Ambani : 18th world's richest ( Bloomberg Billionaires Index)
• Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim : World's Richest.
• NASA’s Cassini mission : On Saturn' moon Titan.
• Bonn Convention : also known as Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals.
• Union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation : Ajay Maken.
• Business 2012 : At a Glance .
• US Vice President : Joe Biden.
• Persons died in 2012 : At a Glance 
• Japan PM : Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh ah-bay).
• Railway Minister : Pawan Kumar Bansal.
• French President  : Francois Hollande.
• British Prime Minister: David Cameron.
• Paigam-e-Aman’ bus service between Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Jammu and Kashmir
• Maitree Express : India Bangladesh Train service.
• Xpress’ browser : Nokia fast loading browser.
• Kansai Nerolac (subsidiary of Kansai Paints Company, Japan): second largest paint manufacturer in India.
• R.K. Dubey: Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank
• Infosys CEO and Managing Director :  S. D. Shibulal
• Biritish telecom giant :  Vodafone
• Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister : Veerappa Moily
• State Bank Group chairman : Pratip Chaudhuri
• Working group constituted for studying gold and goal loans by Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs)  under the chairmanship of KUB Rao.
• Reserve Bank of India Governor: D. Subbarao 
• Chairman, SEBI : U. K. Sinha
• Mauritius President :Rajkeswur Purryag
• Union Minister of Steel : Shri Beni Prasad Verma
• The Government of India has so far declared five waterways as National Waterways. These are:- (i) Allahabad-Haldia stretch of the Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system (1620 km); (ii) Dhubri-Sadiya stretch of Brahmaputra River (891 km); (iii) Kottapuram-Kollam stretch of West Coast Canal along with Udyogmandal and Champakara Canals (205 km); (iv) Kakinada-Puducherry stretch of the canal along with designated stretches of Godavari and Krishna Rivers (1078 km); and (v) designated stretches of East Coast Canal, Brahmani River and Mahanadi Delta (588 km). The Lakhipur-Bhanga stretch of the Barak River would be the sixth National Waterway.
• Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles : Anand Sharma.
• NH-6 is a major link for Kolkata in West Bengal to Hazira Port in Gujarat.
• Kanha National Park is a national park and a Tiger Reserve in the Mandla and Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. 
• In 2006 Rajinder Sachar Committee placed the socio-economic and educational status of Muslims below that of the Scheduled Castes.
• Jharkhand Governor : Syed Ahmed
• Pakistani human and civil rights activist :  Ansar Burney(key role in negotiating with Somali pirates).
• Enrica Lexie is an Italian Aframax oil-tanker involved in the shooting of two fisherman at Indian coast on 15 Feb 2012.
• Environmental Performance Index at Yale University : 
• India (125)(36.23)
• China(116)(42.24)
• Switzerland(1) (76.69)
• Anant Gupta elevated as HCL Tech CEO.
• Kachin(Jingpo People) tribe : inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Burma's Kachin State and neighbouring areas of China and India
• Czech President : Milos Zeman
• Siju-Rewak Corridor, located in the Garo Hills of India : Major among 88 Elephant corridor(A wildlife corridor or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities (such as roads, development, or logging)).
• Jordanian prime minister  : Abdullah Ensou
• Bhutan King : King Jigme Khesar
• Megaupload founder : Kim Dotcom
• White phosphorus : an incendiary agent generally used in war to create smoke screens
• The 700-Mhz spectrum band ranges from 698 Mhz to 806 Mhz : 4G Spectrum.
• RBI has not ease its elevated interest rate, which is one of the highest in the world and the highest among BRIC countries, citing high inflation and the government’s inability to reign-in the fiscal deficit at the desired levels.
• CyberKnife technique have helped lung cancer patients.