Which country was showcasing its talents thus?
This day last year: Q.342Sep 7, 2012
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In August of 2012, this country organised a "Medical Hub Expo", an event aimed at promoting its health-related businesses and medical tourism. During this event, a new record entered the Guinness Book of Records: one for the biggest mass massages. Six hundred and forty one people received massages from masseurs, beating an earlier record held by a team from Australia.
Sep 6, 2012
Q.707
The Delhi Government announced in August 2012 that the bird, whose scientific name is "Passer domesticus indicus", will be Delhi's State Bird. This is expected to provide a boost to efforts in conserving this bird whose population in Delhi has been coming down over the years.
What is the more common name of this bird?
This day last year: Q.341Sep 5, 2012
Q.706
These two former Soviet republics have been bitter enemies for much of the last hundred years. After leaving the USSR, their enmity has only deepened. This has affected their relations with other countries as well. An example is Hungary.
In 1994, during a NATO training course in Budapest, a soldier named Ramil Safarov from one of these two countries killed a soldier (Gurgen Margaryan) from the other country. He was sentenced by Hungary. However, in August 2012, he was extradited back to his home country after that country promised to continue his sentence, much to the protests of Margaryan's country. But, in a provocative gesture, Safarov was not only pardoned, but promoted and feted in his home nation.
The other country has now broken off all diplomatic relations with Hungary. Which are these two countries?
This day last year: Q.340Sep 4, 2012
Q.705
In late July 2012, Sushilkumar Shinde became India's latest Home Minister in a shuffle after Pranab Mukherjee moved upstairs to the Presidency. Earlier, Shinde had been Maharashtra's Chief Minister from January 2003 to October 2004.
Incidentally, Shinde was preceded and then succeeded as CM by the person. He too was in the news a couple of weeks later. Who?
This day last year: Q.339Sep 3, 2012
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There have been, till date, seventeen of them in all. Many of them have had tumultuous times in office. The latest is Raja Pervez Ashraf. Makhdoom Shahbuddin was to be the 17th, but a last-minute non-bailable warrant against him put Ashraf in the chair.
What post?
This day last year: Q.338Sep 2, 2012
Q.703
It doesn't take much to get the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu angry. This time, she went public with her displeasure at the Central Government overlooking some of her recommendations for the Padma awards in 2011.
This occured during a programme where a veteran Tamil music director duo were being felicitated. Jayalalitha mentioned how she had requested that their names be considered, but that had been ignored. Several of her movies had had music by the duo, arguably two of Kollywood's greatest music figures.
Which pair?
This day last year: Q.337Sep 1, 2012
Q.702
This is not only an observation tower, but also a work of sculptural art. Designed by the artist Anish Kapoor and the designer-architect Cecil Balmond, and located in the Olympic Park, London, the "Orbit" was shown to the world in May 2012, in time for the London Olympics. Apparently the biggest piece of public art in Britain, it was also considered as a possible destination for the Olympic flame.
Principally funded by Britain's richest person, the name prefixed to "Orbit" is one of his best known companies. What's the full name of this sculpture?
Image: you_only_live_twice/Wikimedia Commons
This day last year: Q.336
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