Important General Awareness IV

• The highest body which approves Five Year plan in country is Parliament
• A device used for converting a.c. into d.c. is called Rectifier
• Which cricket has written the book "Straight from the Heart" Kapil Dev
• President International cricket council Sharad pawar
• President International Olympic committee ; Jaques Rouge
• Air Chief Marshal " Norman Anil Kumar Browne takes over as the 23rd Chief of Air Staff
• President of Austria " Heinz Fischer
• Capital of Ireland : Dublin
• Chairman NASSCOM " Mr. Rajendra Pawar
• Chief Election Commissioner : Mr. S Y Quraishi
• Leader of Oppstion (Lok Sabha ) : Mrs Sushma Sawaraj
• Highest  run getter in Test Cricket : Sachin Tendulkar
• Eight Indian Companies maket it to the Forbes list of World's 500 largest companies IOC (98), RIL ( 134), BPCL (271), SBI (291), HPCL (365), Tata Motors(358) ONGC ( 360), Tata Steel ( 369)
• Mr D V Sadananda Gowda sowrn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka (26th Chief minister) on August 4, 2011.
• Pakistan External Affair Minister Mrs Hina Rabbani visited India in July 2011