CLATGYAN’S WEEKLY GK COMPENDIUM

APRIL THE 2ND, 2011 TO APRIL THE 8TH, 2011

 Joseph Lelyveld is the Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote the book “Mahatma Gandhi and
his struggle with India”, he is in controversy because his book apparently hints at Gandhi
being a bisexual.

 At the Wankhede Stadium in Bombay, the Indian cricket team made history by beating
Sri Lanka in the International Cricket Council World Cup, and hence becoming the world
champions. India had won the cup once earlier, 28 years back, when Kapil Dev was the
team’s captain.

 Nursultan Nazarbayev is the President of Kazakhastan, an autocrat who has been ruling
the country since 1991 is all set to retain power after sham elections were held in the
country

 Yusuf Pathan and Munaf Patel, who were members of the cricket team that won the world
cup will be awarded with the Eklavya Puraskar by the Gujarat Government. Both the
players are natives of the state. Suresh Raina and Piyush Chawla will be given the
Manyavar Kanshiram International (really?!) Sports Award instituted by the Uttar
Pradesh government.

 Head of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology is T. Subbirami Reddy. The
committee will start looking at what India should do to ensure the safety of its nuclear
plants

 Ratan Tata and Nira Radia have been summoned by the Public Accounts Committee
which is headed Murli Manohar Joshi of the communal Bharatiya Janata Party.

 I. K. Jadeja, ex-urban development minister and State vice-president of the communal

BJP was questioned by the Special Investigation Team appointed by the SC to look into
the Gujarat Riots (Chairman – R. K. Raghavan)
 The Fukushima prefecture was severely affected by the March 11, 2011, Japan
earthquake and tsunami. Many structures sustained damage, including reactors at the
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma.

 IVORY COAST: Basically, there were elections. The incumbent was a certain Laurent
Gbagbo he lost the elections to Alassane Outtara. Gbagbo refused to give up his place,
Outtara started ruling from a Hotel where he was surrounded by troops loyal to his
opponent, finally, a civil war-like situation was around, the African Union sent its troops,
so did France. Gbagbo was arrested, and Ouattara was recognized internationally as the
President of the country.

 The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the IAEA on Sunday announced the
death of two workers at the site of the quake-and-tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi atomic
energy plant.

 Over a score people were killed and several injured in two blasts at the Sakhi Sarwar
Darbar in Dera Ghazi Khan in southern Punjab on Sunday evening, during the course of
the three-day Urs at the Sufi shrine.

 Garnering impressive support from the public, veteran anti-corruption crusader Anna
Hazare embarked on a fast-unto-death at Jantar Mantar here on Tuesday, demanding
passing of the Jan Lokpal Bill drafted through a civil society initiative.

 Karnataka Lokayukta: Santhosh Hegde.

 In a major about-face, the Obama administration will try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and
four other alleged 9/11 plotters in a military tribunal at Guantanamo rather than a civilian
court

 Compulsory Reading:
http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/07/stories/2011040756190900.htm

 Gopal Dass, who spent 27 years in a Pakistani jail after having been convicted of the
charge of spying, returned home. Mr. Dass, 52, was set free from the Lahore Central Jail
after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari remitted his sentence on humanitarian grounds
following an appeal by the Indian Supreme Court. He crossed over to the Indian side of
the border at Attari.
 India took another step towards quality parity with international standards in the realm of
non-clinical chemicals manufacturing when it joined the system for the Mutual
Acceptance of Data (MAD) in the Assessment of Chemicals, a multilateral agreement
supported by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) -
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría

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