7 December 2012 Current Affairs

Ajit Pawar sworn-in as Maharashtra deputy CM, once again

Ajith Pawar had resigned  on 25 October 2012 after media reports alleged he had arbitrarily awarded irrigation contracts worth over Rs20,000 crore when he was state’s irrigation minister during 1999-2009.Ajith Pawar  sworn-in as Maharashtra deputy chief minister on 7 December 2012 after getting the “clean chit”  from the government  on corruption in irrigation projects.


TANA conference at Dallas

The 19th TANA Convention will be held at Dallas Convention Center from May 24th – 26th, 2013.This was unanimously decided by Telugu committee of Dallas and Board members of TANA.


Powerful earthquake in  Japan

The powerful earthquake had occurred in Japan on 7 December 2012.The magnitude of this earthquake was recorded as 7.3. This earthquake had occurred in 240 km beyond the Miyagi coast in the Pacific Oceanin a depth of 10m. But there were no deaths or serious damage.


Hot spots for world’s more powerful earthquakes revealed

The locations of where the world’s largest earthquakes are most likely to take place had pinpointed with greater accuracy than ever before, by researchers from the University of Sydney.The coasts of Southern Chile and Peru, Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, and several regions along the eastern Eurasian coastline, are some of the regions prone to great earthquakes.The 87 percent of the 15 largest (8.6 magnitude or higher) and half of the 50 largest (8.4 magnitude or higher) earthquakes of the past century are associated with areas of intersection between oceanic fracture zones and subduction zones.


Microsoft launches 14 innovation centres in India

 Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd had launched 14 Microsoft Innovation Centres (MICs) in India. It has signed agreements with leading academic institutions across four States.As part of the global programme, which currently has 75 MICs, Microsoft aims to launch a 100 such centres in India in the next two years. The first 14 innovation centres proposed to be set up are in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Khammam, Bapatla,Guntur and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Tiruchirappalli, Vellore, Coimbatore, Madurai and Salem in Tamil Nadu.


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