current affairs for 2012 january-march

1. New C.E.O. of IBM from 1st january 2012 is Virginia Ginni Rometty.

2. Neera Tanden is the chief operating officer of "Center for american Progress".

3. New president of Singapore is Tony Tan.

4. Rajeev gandhi international prize is give to Azim premji (Founder of Wipro).

5. Top 5 brands of 2011 are :

 (A.)  Coca Cola

 (B.)  IBM

 (C.)  Microsoft

 (D.)  Google

 (E.)  General electric

6. Queen Elizabeth has recently conferred knighthood on Salman Rushdie.

(Salman Rushdie is novelist and essayist and has won a man booker prize in 1981 for his novel "Midnight Children" and his novel "The Stanic Verses" was the centre of major controversy drawing protests from muslims in several countries)