2008-2010 Current Affairs & General Knowledge

Parvathy Omanakuttan was the first runner-up at the 2008 Miss World pageant.

It has been developed using biodegradable wood panels made from waste products in the lumber and pulp industry.

Researchers at Macquarie University in Australia reported the development of the world's first diamond laser in 2008.

He won this award for Danny Boyle's movie 'Slumdog Millionare' which tells the heart warming story of an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who goes on to win a staggering Rs. 20 million ($420,000) on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? game show.

Abhisit Vejjajiva served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011.

The Greater Mekong subregion is often cited for its high biodiversity and status as a scientifically underexplored area.

John Ray was a pioneering English naturalist who made significant contributions to the classification of plants, including the distinction between monocots and dicots.

They originally started as company newsletters and gradually turned into publications of political news.

Jeev Milkha Singh won the Singapore Open in 2008.

Ksenia Sukhinova, who won Miss World 2008, is from Russia.

Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the development of the first practical radio telegraph system.

It was built by Thomas Edison.

Both Shabnam Hashmi and Dr. Inderjit Kaur were recipients of the Minorities Rights Award 2008.

The Kishore Chandra Deo Committee was the parliamentary committee tasked with investigating the 2008 cash-for-votes scandal.

Both Shri Lal Joshi and Shri Iqbal Ahmed were recipients of the Shilp Guru Award.

Dr. Yoganand Shastri served as the Speaker of the Delhi Legislative Assembly starting in 2009.

Kazakhstan was ranked first in the Education For All Development Index in the 2009 Global Monitoring Report.

Oprah Winfrey was named PETA's Person of the Year in 2008.

David Welch was the first US Assistant Secretary of State to resign during the transition to the Obama administration.

Charter 08 is a manifesto signed by Chinese intellectuals and activists calling for democratic reforms and human rights in China.

President Obama signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center shortly after taking office.

Chanda Kochhar succeeded K.V. Kamath as the CEO and Managing Director of ICICI Bank in 2009. The other individuals listed were not his immediate successors in that role.

Mark Felt was the FBI Associate Director who served as the secret informant known as Deep Throat during the Watergate scandal. His identity remained hidden for decades until he revealed it in 2005.

Emirates operated the inaugural flight from Dubai to San Francisco in 2008, which was marketed as the world's first cross-polar green flight. This initiative was part of their environmental program to reduce carbon emissions.