Western Ghats makes it to World Heritage
List.
The Western Ghats has made it to the coveted list
of World Heritage Sites.it is one of the eight hottest hotspots of biological diversity in
the world.
Rio de Janeiro and Bethlehem church awarded UNESCO World Heritage status.
UNESCO declares Rio de Janeiro(Brazil) and Bethlehem
church (Palastine) as World Heritage Site.
Entrique Pena Nieto elected the New President of Mexico.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) leader Enrique Pena
Nieto was elected the new President of Mexico.He beat leftist candidate Manual López Obrador of the Party of the Democratic
Revolution (PRD).
Jagadish Shettar sworn in as Karnataka
chief minister
Jagadish Shettar took oath as the 27th chief
minister of Karnataka by replacing Sadananda Gowda.
PRANAB KUMAR MUKHERJEE IS 13TH PRESIDENT OF INDIA
He defeated the former Lok Sabha
Speaker, P.A. Sangma.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma first female chairperson of African Union Commission(AUC)
Ms Dlamini-Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon . She got 37 votes at the
54-member body
Seventh G20 summit took place in Mexican City
Los Cabos
The seventh G20 summit took place on 18 and19 June
2012 in the Mexican City Los Cabos.India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh attended
the summit.
Second space mission for Sunita Williams.
Sunita Williams, the
Indian-American astronaut, set off for her second spacemission on 15 July 2012 on
a Russian Soyuz rocket from
Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Williams along with engineers --Japan's
Akihiko Hoshide and Yury Malenchenko of Russia
‘Windows 8’ will launch on October
Microsoft's new operating system, Windows
8, will launch on October
Spain won Euro 2012.
Spain
defended their title with a 4–0 win over Italy. Spain became the first team to
win two consecutive European Championships. Andres Iniesta selected as best
player and Golden boot for Fernando Torres.
Federer Wins Seventh Wimbledon title
Federer defeats Andy Murray to win his 7th career Wimbledon title.
Serena Williams won fifth Wimbledon women's singles title
She beat Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.
Serena and Venus Williams won Wimbledon doubles championship
They beat Czech duo Andrea Hlavackova andLucie Hradecka 7-5, 6-4 in the doubles final.
This is their fifth dobles title.
Wimbledon 2012: Briton Jonathan Marray wins men's doubles
Marray and his Danish partner Freddie Nielsen won the men's doubles by defeating Robert Lindstedt(sweden)
and Horia Tecau(Romania).
Paes-Vesnina end
runners-up at Wimbledon mixed dobles
2012
American pair Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond beat Indo-Russian pair Leander Paes
and Elena Vesnina .
Mark Webber Snatches British
Grand Prix victory
Red Bull's Mark Webber wins the British
Grand Prix after a dramatic late pass on Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
Oscar Pistorius became the first amputee to compete in Olympic track
He participated the men's 400 metres race and was part of South Africa's 4 × 400 metres
relay team.
Maziah Mahusin
Maziah
Mahusin is the first Bruneian Muslim woman to ever represent her country in the
Olympics – she did run the 400 meter hurdles.
Sunil Chhetri joins Sporting Lisbon
He is the first indian
playing in portugees club
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
Veteran environmental philosopher
and activist Vandana Shiva has been selected by the Fukuoko city
government in Japan for prestigious award “Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize”. Ms.
Shiva is the seventh Indian to receive the award.
Magsayasy award 2012
India's Kulandei Francis is one
of the six winners of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. Other winners of
this year's award are Chen Shu-Chu from Taiwan, Romulo Davide from the
Philippines, Syeda Rizwana Hasan from Bangladesh, Yang Saing Koma from Cambodia
and Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto from Indonesia.
WTO Admits Russia as 156th Member
Hisham Qandil is the new Egyptian Prime Minister
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