Current Affairs 2008

A hygrometer is an instrument used to measure the humidity or amount of water vapor in the air.

P. Chidambaram served as the Union Finance Minister of India during the UPA government in 2008.

Kandhamal district in Odisha gained national attention in 2008 due to widespread communal or sectarian violence targeting the Christian community.

The 2008 Summer Paralympics were held in Beijing, China, following the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, and to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry.

Ram Vilas Paswan held the portfolio of Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Minister of Steel in the UPA government in 2008.

India signed a landmark civil nuclear cooperation agreement with France on September 30, 2008, following the waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

The Rest of India team won the 2008 Irani Trophy by defeating the Ranji Trophy champions, Delhi.

In August 2008, Russia engaged in a brief military conflict with Georgia over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP).

Dr. Manmohan Singh and Asif Ali Zardari met in New York in September 2008 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. This was a significant diplomatic meeting during that period.

The 2010 Commonwealth Games were hosted by India in its capital city, Delhi. It was the first time the event was held in India.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, became the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in 2008 after the abolition of the monarchy.

Dilip Vengsarkar served as the Chairman of the BCCI selection committee and stepped down from the role in 2008. The other listed players were not the outgoing selectors at that specific time.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008. Martti Ahtisaari won the Peace Prize, and Martin Chalfie won the Chemistry Prize.

The Marriott Hotel bombing in Pakistan occurred in Islamabad on September 20, 2008. It was a major terrorist attack in the capital city.

Martti Ahtisaari, the former President of Finland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work as a mediator in international conflicts.

Reliance Big Entertainment, led by Anil Ambani, entered into a joint venture with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG in 2008 to produce films.

Taare Zameen Par was India's official submission for the 2009 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category, though it did not receive a nomination. The question is asking which movie was selected for competing (submitted), not which won. Bhootnath and Om Shanti Om were not submitted.

Pankaj Advani won the World Billiards Championship in 2008, achieving a grand double by winning both the time and points formats.

The Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) is a premier research organization under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), located in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Mamata Banerjee served as the Minister of Railways in the UPA-II government starting in 2009. Given the context of the other questions (2008-2009), this is the correct historical appointment.

Singur is a town in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, famously known for the protests against the Tata Nano car factory project.