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International Current Affairs [April 2010]

Belgium became the Europe s first country to ban burqa.? Pakistan s National assembly passed a bill that takes away the President s power to dissolve parliament, dismiss a? ?

elected government and appoint the three services Chiefs. Pakistan s parliament passes 18th amendment which wa?later signed by Presient cutting President s powers.?

USA and Russia signed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty(START) that allowed a maximum of 1550 deployedoverheads, about 30% lower than a limit set in 2002. The treaty was signed in the Progue Castle.

Emergency was imposed in Thailand. Nuclear Security Summit held at Washington.It was a 47 nation summit wherein P.M. announced setting up of a glob

nuclear energy centre for conducting research & development of design systems that are secure, proliferationresistant & sustainable.

PM visit USA & Brazil, a two nation tour. He attended Nuclear Security Summit in USA & India- Brazil-S.Africa(IBSA)and Brazil-Russia-India-China(BRIC) summit in Brasilia (Brazil).

16th SAARC Summit held in Bhutan in 28-29 April. The summit was held in Bhutan for the first time. It is the silverjubilee summit as SAARC has completed 25 years. The summit central theme was Climate Change . The summit? ? recommended to declare 2010-2020 as the Decade of Intra-regional Connectivity in SAARC . The 17th SAARC? ? summit will be held in Maldives in 2011.

International Current Affairs [March 2010]

China will launch in 2011 unmammed space mode Tiangong I for its future space laboratory.? ?

US internet giant Google close its business in China. India s largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel buy Zain s Africa operations for an enterprise value of $ 10.7? ?

billion (Rs 49000 crore). Currently Bharti s non-India operations include Sri Lanka & Bangladesh.? Russia abolished two of its eleven time Zones.

National Current Affairs [April 2010]

Naxals killed about 75 CRPF personal at Chintalnar-Tarmetla village in Dantewada distt ,Chhattisgarh. Governmentappoint E.N. Rammohan, to probe the incident.

Uninque Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) now known as Aadhaar. It s Chairman is Nandan Nilekani. It will? assign 16 digit identification number to all residents in India.

NTRO- National Technical Research Organisation. The organization came to limelight after allegation of phone

tapping of politicians. Indian navy commissioned India s first indigenously built stealth warship INS Shivalik . The other stealth warship to? ? ?

be built are named as INS Sahyadri and INS Satpura .? ? ? Right To Education Act is notified and will become a legally enforceable from 1 April 2010. Key features of RTE Act

are : All children in 6-14 age group must get free and compulsory eduction; No child shall be held back,expelled orrequired to pass a board examination till Class VIII; There must be 25 % reservation for poor children even in privateminority schools; There must be one teacher for every 30 students; A child rights commission will look into violationsof the RTE law.

Govt start Census 2011. It is the 15th Census. It is in two phase. The first phase is called House listing & Housing? Census and the second phase is called decadal headcount which will be held in Feb 2011. The Registrar General ofIndia is C Chandramouli.

National Current Affairs [March 2010]

Govt launched National Mission for Empowerment of Women aimed at inter-sectoral convergence of all pro- womenprogrammes.

Constitution 108th Amendment Bill 2008 commonly known as women s reservation bill was passed by Rajya Sabha?by 186 in favour 1 against 39 abstained (Current strength of Rajya Sabha is 233). The bill seeks to reserve a third ofthe seats on the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for 15 years on a rotational basis. It was first introduced in 1996.Sharad Joshi, an independent MP is the only MP which cast vote against the bill. In the present Lok Sabha, there are59 women MPs out of 543 MPs. Total MLAs in 29 state assemblies in India are 4093.

Yamunanagar (Haryana) and Vishakhapatnam (AP) are choosen for a pilot project on saving household energy byreplacing incandescent lamps with CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lamps).

Earth Hour 2010 has been celebrated on 27 March organized by World Wide Fund for Nature, India. Delhi, Mumbaiand Bengaluru are official Earth Hour Cities among 15 Indian cities.


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Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia visit India in March 2010. Supreme Court allowed religion based 4 % reservations in Govt jobs & educational institutes in Andhra Pradesh. It

extended the benefit to 14 OBC in muslims in the state. The matter is further referred to Constitutional bench ofSupreme Court.

Bold Kurushetra a joint armour exercise between India and Singapore was held at Jhansi(UP).? ? Prohibition of unfair practices in technical, medical educational institutions & universities Bill is passed by Govt. It

provided for 3 year imprisonment and a fine of upto Rs 50 lakh for higher education providers guilty of misleadingstudents.

Govt approved Foreign Educational Institution (Regulation of Entry & Operation) Bill 2010. It provides foreignuniversities to set up campuses in India.

Govt amends Anti Hijacking Act 1982. It now provides for death sentence to the hijackers. Govt starts the scheme for creation of the National Population Register (NPR) of Indian residents. The project will

cover an estimated 1.2 billion people and total cost of the project will be Rs. 3539.24 crore. India became 1st country in the world to have a manoeuvrable supersonic cruise missile, when it successfully test? ?

fired 290 km range Brahmos missile. Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu visit India in March 2010.

Sports [ june 2010 ]

FIFA World Cup 2010kicks off in South Africa on June 10th 2010

Sports [ may 2010 ]

World champion Viswanathan Anand retained his crown winning the World Chess Championship title againstVeselin Topalovof Russia

Mr.Rajiv Bakshi to be Vice President - Marketing Asia-Pacific, forDiscovery Networks

Sports Current Affairs [April 2010]

IPL3 season won by Chennai Super Kings defeating Mumbai Indians. Youth Olympics Games 2010 to be held in Singapore in Aug 2010. World Youth Championship was held at Baku, Azerbaijan. Lawn tennis legend Martina Navratilova diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Jumbo chosen as 2011 World Cricket Cup Mascot.? ? World Kabbadi Cup 2010- India defeated Pakistan to won World Cup Kabbadi 2010 held at Ludhiana. Pankaj Advani won the Asian Billiards Championship defeating Singapore s Peter Gilchrist for the consecutive third?

time. Badminton Asia Championship, Delhi :

o Men s singles Lin Dan defeated Wang Zhenguing? ?o Women s singles-Li Xiurei defeated Liu Xin.?

Sports Current Affairs [March 2010]

Tamil Nadu defeated West Bengal to won Vijay Harare Cricket Trophy. Australia won World Hockey Cup 2010 defeating Germany. India ranked at 8th place. India won six gold medal in the Commonwealth Boxing Championship held at Delhi. Two new IPL teams, Kochi was auctioned for Rs 1533 crore and Pune was auctioned for Rs 1702 crore. Kochi was

auctioned to Rendezvous Adventure Sports Ltd. Pune was auctioned to Sahara Adventure Sports Ltd.

People [ june 2010 ]

Vijay Malya wins Rajya Sabha polls from Karnataka


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Paswan,Pratap Rudy have won Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar

People [ may 2010 ]

Jennifer Lopez named style icon of the decade

S.K.Natraj will be the Mayor and N. Dayanand as Deputy of Bengaluru starting April 2010

Atul Khare, former Indian Foreign Service Officer, as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations

Biswadip Mitra takes charge as ISA Chairman for 2010-1

Bharti Retailhas appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officerwho will lead operations starting Ju2010 for Easyday and Easyday market stores across India

Former Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat suffering from lung infection, died of cardiac arrest

Ratan Tata honoured with the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding leadership, vision anprofessional excellence

Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessarhas been elected the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Rajiv Dube, President of Tata Motors passenger car business unit quits as Girish Wagh(man behind the Nano) andMr.S.Krishnan, Senior Vice-President(Commercial) to share responsibilities

Dr.Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading becomes the first human to be infected with acomputer virus.

Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, India at Firstsource Solutions

Bill Gates to adopt Gularia village in Khagaria from the state of Bihar

David Cameron has been elected as British Prime Minster

Bharti Airtelappoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services(India and South Asia)

Abhay Singavi has been appointed as CEO ofNarayana Hrudayalaya

Persons in News [April 2010]

Shashi Tharoor(born 9 March 1956) is a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram

constituency in Kerala. A prolific author, columnist, journalist and human rights advocate, he has previously served athe United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and the Indian Minister ofState for External Affairs.

Lalit Modi (born 29 November, 1963 Delhi, India) is an Indian cricket administrator and businessman. He is bestknown for his stint as the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and the Chairman of theChampions League from 2008 to 2010. He is also the Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) since 2005 and Vice President of the Punjab Cricket Association.

Persons in News [March 2010]

Rajan Bharti Mittal appointed President FICCI. Major Dimple Singla became first women army officer in the country who has been sentenced to imprisonment for

corruption. Bhubneshwar Kalita has been choosen as the Chef de Mission of the Indian contingent at Commonwealth Games

2010. Cricketer Kapil Dev has been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. Former Supreme Court judge P V Reddy appointed as Chairman, Law Commission of India. Lt Gen V K Singh appointed as new Army Chief. Sonia Gandhi appointed head of National Advisory Council. NAC advice the govt on policy matters, monitor flagship

programmes and prepare the ground for other pro-poor legislatures. Lyricist Javed Akhtar, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Dr Ram Dayal Munda, Dr Balchandra Mungekar and Kannada Actress B

Jayashree are among other persons nominated to Rajya Sabha. Austrian base jumper Felix Baumgartnar will became the first person to leaps from the edge of space at a height of 3

km above earth s surface. He become the first man to break the speed of sound hitting a top speed of about? 11000km/hr. He will jump on 11 April 2010.


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Katie Spotz became the youngest person to complete a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepal Ex Prime Minister died. He was 5th time Nepal PM.

Economics & Commerce [April 2010]

India became the 7th largest shareholder in World Bank. India s voting rights has gone up to 2.91 %. The USA has? highest voting rights of 15.85 % followed by Japan with 6.84 % and Germany with 4 %.

Govt proposed that concept of GGDP Green Gross Domestic Product to be introduced in the country by 2015. In? 2012 India will host the Rio+20 conference on biological diversity.

Government approved disinvestment of 20% of share in SAIL in this financial year. India s total external debt as on December 2009 is 251 billion.? India s Gems & Jewellery export grow by 16% to $28.41 billion in 2009-2010.? RBI announced the credit policy. The CRR has been raised from 5.75 % to 6 %. The Repo rate has been raised from

5 % to 5.25 %. The reverse repo rate has been raised from 3.5 % to 3.75 %.

Awards [ june 2010 ]

ITC's Y.C.Deveshwarhas been presented Global Leadership award by U.S.-India Business Councilfor his effortstowards empowering India's rural agricultural community and conserving the environment

Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) bags Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2010 for implementing

ethanol blended diesel in over 1000 buses

Mr.M.R.Bhat General Manager ofCorporation Bankhas been awarded Dun and Bardstreet's CTO(Chief Technology Officer)

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Awards Current Affairs 2010 [April 2010]

19Th Bihari Puraskar 2009 has been awarded to Hemant Shesh for his collection of poetry Jagah Jaisi Jagah .? ? 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best first Book was awarded to Glenda Guest for the novel Siddon Rock? ?

Rana Dasgupta won Commonwealth Writers Prize for best Book 2010 for book Solo .? ? Carl Zeiss wildlife conservation award was won by Joydip Kundu. Amitav Ghosh won the Dan David Prize alongwith Margaret Atwood for Rendition of the 2oth century .? ?

Awards Current Affairs 2010 [March 2010]

Oscar Awards 2010o Best Director- Kathryn Bigelow for The Heart Locker. She became first women to win the Oscar for best

director.o Best Film- The Heart Locker.o Best Actor- Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart.o Best Actress- Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side.o Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds.?o Best Supporting Actress Mo Nique for Precious.? ?o Best foreign language film- The Secret in their Eyes, from Argentina.

Amitabh Bachchhan honoured with lifetime achievement award at 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Surjit Pater has been awarded with 19th Saraswati Samman 2009 for Lafzan Di Dargah .? ? Moortidevi Award was given to the Law Minister M Veerappa Moily for his work Shri Ramayan Mahanveshanam. Vyas Samman 2009 was awarded to Amar Kant for his work Inhin Hathiyaron Se .? ?

Misc Issues [April 2010]

Decision Points memoir of former US President George W Bush.? ? A variety of mango has been named after Sachin Tendulkar. Scientist create element 117 from calcium & Berkelium.


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International congress of Mathematicians will be hosted by India for the first time in August 2010 at Hyderabad. Thecongress has been held once every four years since 1897except the breaks during two world wars.

Government will opened four new campuses for the IIMC(Indian Institute of Mass Communication) at Nagpur, KochiJammu and Aizawl.

Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Derjeeling become first zoo in the country to install infrared night visioncameras in the enclosures housing endangered snow leopard.

Hindutva, Sex & Adventure written by Mark Tully.? ? Gorumara National Park, Jalpaigudi has been declared the best among the 235 national parks & sanctuaries in the

country by the MOEF. Gandhi-Naked Ambition written by Jad Adams.? ?

India ranks 5th in the World s cybercrime ranking for 2009 after US, China, Brazil & Germany.? India lauched GSLV from Sriharikota on 15 April 2010. However the launch was failed in the third stage. The launch

was important as GSLV-D3 was the third developmental mission of India s GSLV during which ISRO s indigenously? ?developed cryogenic upper stage (CUS) was to be flight tested. This is the 6th flight of GSLV, but the first one to testIndian made cryogenic upper stage. GSLV-D3 was to launch the GSAT-4 satellite into an elliptical GeosynchronousTransfer Orbit. The total flight of the vehicle was planned to be 1022 seconds.

India likely to complete building its first strategic crude oil storage by Oct 2011. India is building underground storageat Visakhapatnam in AP and Padur in Karnataka to store about 5.33 million tones of crude oil which is enough to menation s oil requirement for 13-14 days. India will join nations like the US, Japan & China that have strategic reserve?

Misc Issues [March 2010]

Brahan Natyanjali 2010 festival was organized to celebrate 1000 years of Tanjavur temple in Tamil Nadu which wasbuilt by Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola in 1010 AD.

192 year old Presidency College of Kolkatta (India s oldest college) converted into Presidency University. It became?18th state university in West Bengal.

Railways started Maharajas Express from Kolkatta to Delhi. It is a tourist train having stoppage at Gaya, Varanasi,? ? Bandhavgarh, Gwalior, Khajuraho and Agra.

The book Way to go written by Upamanyu Chatterjee.? ? The book Wide Angle written by cricketer Anil Kumble.? ? The book El Sari Rojo written by Javier Moro, is on the life of Sonia Gandhi.? ? World TB Day celebrated on 24 March. Constitution 112th Amendment Bill 2009 seeks to amend following clauses of Article 243T of the Constitution that

provides for reservation of seats for SC & ST and also for women in Urban Local bodies : a) In clause (2) for the worone third , the word one half shall be substituted, b) In clause (3) the word one third , the word one half shall be? ? ? ? ? ? ?

substituted.

Persons in News [2010]

Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra was sworn in as Judge of Supreme Court of India. She became the 4th women judge tobe elevated to the Supreme Court of India.

Justice S H Kapadia will be next Chief Justice of India. Mukul Sangma shown in as Meghalaya Chief Minister. Poland s President Lech Kaczynski died in a air crash at Moscow.? Juan Antonia Samaranch, Former President of International Olympic Committee (IOC) died.

Business [june 2010 ]

Facebookto open first centre in Hyderabad

FatPipe Networks withdraws IPO after less response

DQ Entertainment, an animation and gaming content company has entered into broadcasting agreement with Sun TNetwork Ltd. for the provision of animation content

Saibaba Telefilms, Mumbai based television production company to enter Southern region via a music reality showSangeetha Mahayudhdham to be telecasted on Sun TV

Reliance Industries acquires ISP Infotel for Rs.4,800crore

Bharti Airtelcompletes $10.7 billion Zain Africa deal

IDBIopened its first overseas branch in Dubai, at the Dubai International Finance Centre


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Karnataka to create Land Bank in all districts to facilitate investors to allocate land

Apple iAdset to compete with Google in ad market

Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India(ISE)has selected TCS to install and manage its integrated trading, clearinand surveillance platform

Indian Depository Receipts(IDR) of UK based bank Standard Charteredlists in BSE and NSE

Business[ may 2010 ]

approves Nokia mobile money transfer in India

Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch Nifty futures from July 19th 2010

Punjab National Bank ties up with Oriental Insurance Company Limitedto offer a floater Health Insurance Policy

Carrefourto setup its wholesale cash-and-carry business in India

FlyDubaito launch India operations

World's first gold-dispensing ATM, now at Dubai's Emirates Palace

Shriram Transportto enter into construction equipment finance

Innovation [ june 2010 ]

Equifone Solutions offering Bluetooth services on buses in Mumbai, now all set to offerWi-Fi Connectivity in daysto come

Applications submitted to various departments ofRBIcould be now tracked on Application Tracking System(ATS)online

Intelintroduces convertible(180 degree rotatable screen) Classmate PC

Kerala State Electricity Boardis set to launch a free and open source accounting software, Structured and Real-timAccounting System(SARAS) designed and developed by the employees of the board

Innovation may 2010[

Country's first 3-MW solar photo volatic plant opens at Kolar in Bangarpet taluk, Karnataka

Prithvi-II successfully test-fired offOrissa coast

Cow dung to be used as a source of energy to power on computers by HP for Data centers

Income Tax returns processing unit named, Centralised Processing Centre (CPC to process electronic tax returnsof the entire country) to start functioning in Bangalore

Technology [ june 2010 ]

C2C Managementservices launches online video resume service

Nokia introduces push-mail service in S40 series phone priced at around Rs.2,700

Apple unveils iPhone 4 at the Apple World wide Developers Conference in San Francisco

Direct to Home(DTH) operator Dish TV to launch Conditional Access Module(CAM) which will allow itssubscribers to switch over to a new operator using the same set-top box

Samsungadds Facebook and Google Maps to its HDTV-based Samsung Apps Library

Record - Guinness Book [ june 2010 ]

Cactus plant(Cereus peruvianus), grown near SDM College of Dental Sciences near Sattur,Dharwad,Indiaenters Guinness Book of world Records as the tallest Plant measuring a height of78.8 feet

Technology [ may 2010 ]

Nokia launches 3G slider phones, Nokia 6700 and Nokia 7230 in India

Microsoftlaunches Office 2010
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Sonyintroduces Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX with 30MB per second write speed

Rajasthan launches e-Speech Application(data migration,text-to-speech conversion in local languages and voicemessage transmission) to the under-privileged using mobile phones

IBMlaunches Aquasar, liquid cooled supercomputer

HP to replace glass displays with plastic

Dell'sStreak a tablet computer, to be introduced in Britain

Reliance launches India's first Mobile Jockey Portal

Google to introduce software for TV

AMD launches Phenom II X6 processor

Nokia unveils N8, its flagship smartphone

BenQ introduces world's slimmest LED monitors(BenQ V2220, V2420 and V920) spanning HD to full HD, 18.5" to24"

Compellentto launch 2.5inch hard drives with capacity of900GB at 10,000rpm and 300GB at 15,000rpm

ViewSoniclaunches 27inch HD monitor

Microsoft and Nokia tie up to launch Communicator

HPlaunches OfficeJet4500 All-in-One in India

Acquisitions [ june 2010 ]

Orchid Pharma acquires US company Karalex

Cafe Coffee Day has acquired a Czeh Republic-based cafe Emporio for Rs.15crore

Acquisitions [ may 2010 ]

Mahindra and Mahindra acquires electric car makerREVA

McAfee to acquire Trust Digital

HPacquires Palm for $1.2 Billion

Mattelto ink $20 million deal with Wipro

State Bank of India to tie up with Elavon and Visa for merchant acquiring business(facilitation of payment through

debit or credit card at retail outlets) Ramco Systems ties-up with Tradeline L.L.C

Reliance BIG Entertainmenthas acquired a controlling stake in Los Angeles-based IM Global

Bharti Airtelinks deal with Novatium to provide Unique Active desktop powered by Airtel Net PC Plus

Science [ may 2010 ]

World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improvehealthcare

Plastic lens to replacelaser eye surgery ONGC Mittal Energyhas found hydrocarbons in Nigerian deepwater block

Pune-based Serum Institute of India has developed H1N1 vaccine - a harmless nasal spray which could be used people aged above 3 except pregnant women

International Current Affairs 2010

G-15 summit was held at Tehran on 16-17 May.
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Bangladesh handed over Ranjan Daimary of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland to India. The group wasresponsible for serial bombing in Assam in 2008.

National League for Democracy (NLD) party of Myannmars democracy leader Aung San Sui Kyi was abolished aftedeadline to re-register as a political party was over.

EU-IMF provide a $ 1 trillion rescue package to the Greece to resolve its debt crises. Pakistan successfully test fired two short range ballistic missiles, Shaheen I( range 650 Km) and Ghazani (range 290

Km) capable of carrying nuclear war heads and striking Indian cities.

National Current Affairs 2010

Naxalites killed 47 people in a landmine blast between Dantewada and Sukma in Chattisgarh. Test fire of nuclear capable Agni-II missile was successfully carried out from Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa o

17th May. Agni II has a range of 2000Km. It is 20m long two stage solid propelled ballistic missile. It was developed bAdvanced System Laboratories alongwith DRDO & Bharat Dynamics Ltd.

Supreme Court in a recent judgement upheld a rule that allows the adjustment of reserved category candidateSC/ST/OBC against their quota seats even if they manage to qualify an examination for govt services on merit.

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is the monitoring authority for the Right to Education Awhich became effective from April 1, 2010.

Sports Current Affairs 2010

England won 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Cricket tournament defeating Australia. The tournament was held at SouthAfrica. Kevin Pieterson of England has been declared as Player of the Tournament.

Australia won 2010 Womens World Twenty20 Cricket tournament defeating New Zealand. India and South Korea were declared joint winner of 2010 Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Cup, after suspension of the

final match due to heavy rains.Indias Sardar Singh has been declared as Best Player of the Tournament. Australia

won the Bronze medal. The tournament was held at Ipoh (Malaysia). India had won the tournament earlier in 1985,1991, 1995 & 2009.

China won Thomas Cup ( Mens Badminton) defeating Indonesia. In the World Youth Boxing Championship, held at Baku, Azerbaijan, India won 1 Gold & 1 Silver. Gold medal was wo

by Vikas Krishan and Silver medal was won by Shiva Thapa. India won bronze medal in the 2nd Asian Paragliding Championship held at Nishiewa, Japan. World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand retained his title after defeating Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the Worl

Chess Championship 2010.

Awards Current Affairs 2010

Vandana Shiva has been awarded Sydney Peace Prize 2010 for her work in the field of social justice.

Persons in News 2010

Gita Gopinath an Indian origin associate professor at Harvard Univ has been appointed a full professor, the first Indiawoman in the Institutions history to ge given this appointment.

Former Vice President of India, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat died. Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA 2010. She became the first ever muslim American Miss USA. She is of Lebanes

muslim descent.
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Singer Christina Aguilera was named Ambassador against hunger by the United Nations World Food Programme. Rushanara Ali became first person of Bangladesh origin to be elected to the British Parliament. David Cameron elected Prime Minister of Britain. Nick Clegg became the Dy Prime Minister. Britain gets first coalitio

govt since World War-II. It is between Conservative and Liberal Democrats. Justice S H Kapadia sworn as new Chief Justice of India. Hari S Bhartia elected as President of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for 2010-11. Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail unassisted around the world in a yatch.

FEB-10AWARDS

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, 2009Entrepreneur of the year: Anand G. Mahindra, Vice Chairman and MD of Mahindra Group.Lifetime Achievement award: N. Vaghul, Ex-Chairman of ICICI Bank Ltd.Entrepreneur of the year (Start-up): Amit Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director of A2Z Maintenance Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.Entrepreneur of the year (Business transformation): Dr Vikram Akula, Chairperson & founder SKSMicrofinance Ltd.Entrepreneur of the year (Manager): O.P. Bhatt, Chairman, State Bank of India.Entrepreneur of the year (Manufacturing): Harsh C. Mariwala, Chairman and Managing Director, MaricoLtd.Entrepreneur of the year (Healthcare and Life Sciences): Pankaj R. Patal, Chairman and ManagingDirector, Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd.

Entrepreneur of the year (Services): Shashi Kiran Shetty, Chairman and Managing Director, AllcargoGlobal Logistics Ltd.

Sasawaka Prize of UNEP, 2010

A portable light that can be recharged by pedalling for 20 minutes and was developed for use in areas notwired for electricity, has won a Canadian of Indian origin, Sameer Hajee, the prestigious Sasakawa Prize othe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The device has been developed by Nuru Design (Nuru means light in Swahili). A pilot project is already inplace in Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. The device, called the Nuru light, is essentially a lighting system thatcan be recharged by a pedal generatorthe Nuru POWERCycle.

Nuru Lights objective is to replace the use of expensive, polluting, unhealthy, and dangerous kerosene as

source of lighting for the two billion people without access to electricity. Of those, nearly 580 million are inIndia.

Sangeet Natak Akademi AwardsPunjab has for the first time bagged the highest number of awards in the performing arts category for 200since the inception of the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1952.The winners of the coveted honour include Ustad Lachhman Singh Seen (classical music tabla), UstadVilayat Khan, Goslan Khanna (ragi/dhadi) and Neeta Mahindra (theatre). Besides Kamal Arora (theatremake-up) from Chandigarh is another recipient.

The award carries a citation, a shawl, a memento and a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000.

Grammy Awards, 2010Life Time award: Michael Jackson, posthumously.Album of the Year: Taylor Swift, Fearless.Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:Jai Ho, written by Gulzar, A. R.Rahman and Tanvi Shah, from Slumdog Millionaire.Record of the Year: Use Somebody, Kings of Leon.New Artist: Zac Brown Band.Song of the Year: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), written by Thaddis Harrell, Beyonc Knowles, TeriusNash and Christopher Stewart (Beyonc).Female Pop Vocal Performance: Halo, Beyonc.Male Pop Vocal Performance: Make it mine, Jason Mraz.Pop Performance, Duo Or Group: I Gotta Feeling, the Black Eyed Peas.Pop Collaboration: Lucky, Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat.


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Pop Instrumental Performance: Throw Down Your Heart, Bla Fleck.Pop Instrumental Album: Potato Hole, Booker T. Jones.Pop Vocal Album: The E.N.D., the Black Eyed Peas.Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Working on a Dream, Bruce Springsteen.Hard Rock Performance: War Machine, AC/DC.Metal Performance: Dissident Aggressor, Judas Priest.Rock Song:Use Somebody, written by Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill and NathanFollowill.Rock Album: 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day.Alternative Music Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix.

Female R&B Vocal Performance: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Beyonc.Male R&B Vocal Performance: Pretty Wings, Maxwell.Female Country Vocal Performance: White Horse, Taylor Swift.Male Country Vocal Performance: Sweet Thing, Keith Urban.Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Up.

CYBER SPACEGoogle plunges into social networking with Buzz

On February 9, 2010, Google introduced a new service called Google Buzz, a way for users of its Gmailservice to share updates, photos and videos. Buzzis Googles boldest attempt to build a social network thacan compete with Facebookand Twitter. The service is built into Gmail. And Buzzcomes with a built-incircle of friends, a group that is automatically selected by Google based on the people that a user

communicates with most frequently in Gmail and on Googles chat service.

Like other social services, Buzzallows users to post status updates that include text; photos from serviceslike Googles Picasa and Yahoo!s Flicker; videos from YouTube; and messages from Twitter. Analysts saymany of its features mimic those ofFacebook.

Google executives say that Buzzwould help tackle the problem of information overload, as Google wouldapply its algorithms to help people find the information most relevant to them.

EDUCATION

SEBI takes investor education to schoolsClass 8 and 9 students at 26 schools all over the country are taking lessons in investor education thesedays, courtesy the capital market regulator SEBI. The optional three-month course teaches these students

the importance of money, how to manage it and concepts of budgeting and saving.

The initiative follows the Securities and Exchange Board of Indias (SEBI) decision to facilitate financialliteracy to children before they complete their secondary education. The regulator feels catching themyoung is the only way of increasing the number of households investing in the equity market. The number paltry, even after decades of a free capital market. Consumer Pyramid, a survey of 120,000 householdsdone by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), showed only 6.5 per cent of Indian householdsinvest in shares and only 1.12 per cent of the total savings flow into listed shares and mutual funds.

SEBI is implementing the financial literacy programme through the National Institute of Securities Markets(NISM), set up by the regulator to improve the quality of the market through educational initiatives. A piloproject, called the School Financial Literacy Programme, is being supervised by the National ProgressiveSchools Conference. Of the 26 schools, 13 are from north India, 11 from the south and two from the east.

N-ENERGY

Indias 18th nuclear plant

Indias 18th nuclear power plant at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan (RAPS-5) began production on February 6,2010. The plant has been set-up by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. The indigenously built 220 MWunit uses fuel imported from Russia which has been acquired after India got waiver from Nuclear SuppliersGroup guidelines in September 2008. The operationalisation of RAPS-5 has increased the capacity ofRawatbhata plant to 96 MW. The project, set-up in September 2002, took six years to complete. It hadremained idle for some months because of lack of fuel.

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RESEARCHPath-breaking energy source unveiled

Indian American Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former NASA scientist, K.R. Sridhar, has unveiled his"Bloom Box," which can generate energy by combining air and a range of fuels without going through thedirty process of combustionall in its owner's back yard. He describes it as "the plug-and-play future ofelectricity."

The Bloom Energy Server, a patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, provides a cleaner and morereliable alternative to both todays electric grid as well as traditional renewable energy sources. Sridhar saeach Bloom Box can power up to six homes in India.

Bloom's fuel cell works in this way: Oxygen is pumped in on one side and natural gas on the other. The twcombine inside the cell to create a chemical reaction that produces electricity, without any combustion orpower lines. A Bloom Energy Server consists of thousands of Bloom's fuel cellsflat, solid ceramic squaresmade from a common sand-like powder. Each server provides 100 kilowatts of power in roughly the areaof a parking space. Unlike traditional renewable energy technologies, like solar and wind, which areintermittent, Blooms technology can provide renewable power 24/7.

Worlds most precise clockScientists claim to have created the world's most precise clock based on the oscillation of a trappedaluminium-27 atom. According to the New Scientist, the new record-holder for the most precise timekeepebuilt at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado, USA, could tick off the 13.7-billion

year age of universe to within 4 seconds. The optical clock monitors the oscillation of a trapped atom ofaluminium-27 and is more than twice as precise as the earlier version, reported in 2008.

MISCELANEOUSPanel to study merits of another time zone for India

India may be looking at another time zone in the near future, a move that could fulfill a long-standingdemand. A committee, chaired by the director-general of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), is trying toexamine the implications of another time zone in India.

The committee will report on the energy savings that would result because of a number of interventions, owhich another time zone for the country is a possibility.

While another time zone is desirable, a lot of problems can crop up that have to be carefully examined. Th

magnitude of the task of setting up another time zone is enormous.

A separate time zone for the north-eastern and eastern parts has been a longstanding demand. The east-west spread of India extends for about 28 longitudinal degrees, accounting for about 2 hours as a result ofwhich the sun rises two hours earlier in the eastern part of the country.

MPs can now wear tricolour to Lok Sabha

On February 18, 2010, Lok Sabha decided to allow Members of Parliament to wear the Tricolour to theHouse. Amending the long-standing rules of procedure of the Lower House that prohibited the membersfrom wearing badges of any kind to the House, the Rules Committee of the Lok Sabha made a vitalexception to the norm to honour the National Flag.

The altered rule number 349 reads, MPs shall not wear any badges to the Lok Sabha, except in the form othe Tricolour as a lapel pin. The change comes courtesy Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal,

JAN-10AWARDS

Jeevan Raksha Padaks, 2010

Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak: Braveheart Rukhsana Kauser and Delhis Narender Kaushik(posthumously) have been selected for Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak for their conspicuous courage insaving life under circumstances of very great danger to the life of the rescuer.

Rukhsana, 22, had killed a top Pakistani militant and injured another at Kalsian village in Rajouri district onthe night of September 27 2009.


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Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak: The winners include Syed Areef Sujauddin from Andhra Pradesh, UmmanAntony from Kerala, Rajan Kamble from Maharashtra (all posthumously), besides Karanbir Singh Kang fromMaharashtra and Prachi Santosh Sen from Madhya Pradesh.

Kang, who lost his wife and two children in the 26\11 Mumbai attacks, had rescued many from Taj hotel anever dithered from doing his duty.

Jeevan Raksha Padak series of awards are meant for meritorious act of humane nature in saving the life ofperson in three categories: Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak, Uttam Jeevan Raksha PAdak and Jeevan

Raksha Padak.

Golden Globe Awards, 2010Best Director: James Cameron forAvatarBest Motion Picture (Drama):AvatarBest Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy): The Hangover

Best Actor (Motion Picture Drama): Jeff Bridges for Crazy HeartBest Actor (Motion Picture Musical or Comedy): Robert Downey Jr. for Sherlock HolmesBest Actress (Motion Picture Drama): Sandra Bullock for The Blind SideBest Actress (Motion Picture Musical or Comedy): Meryl Streep forJulie & JuliaBest Supporting Actor (Motion Picture): Christoph Waltz for Inglourious BasterdsBest Supporting Actress (Motion Picture): Monique for Precious.

Best Screenplay: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner for Up In The AirBest Original Score: Michael Giacchino for UpBest Original Song:The Weary Kind from Crazy HeartBest Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band - Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte) froGermanyBest Animated Film: Up

Dada Saheb Phalke Award, 2008

V.K. Murthy, the ace cinematographer of Guru Dutts films who is best known for his camera work inChaudvin ka Chandand Pakeezah, has been honoured with the award. He is the first cinematographer toget the award.

National Film Awards, 56th

Best Film: Antaheen (Bengali)Best Direction: Bala for Naan Kadavul (Tamil)Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!Best Childrens Film: Gubbachigalu (Kannada)Best Film on Family Welfare: Little Zizou (English, Gujarati)Best Actor: Upendra Limaye forJogwa (Marathi)Best Actress: Priyanka Chopra for Fashion (Hindi)Best Supporting Actor: Arjun Rampal for Rock On!! (Hindi)Best Supporting Actress: Kangana Ranaut for Fashion (Hindi)Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director: A Wednesday (Hindi)Nargis Dutt Award (for Best Feature Film on National Integration): Aai Kot Nai (Assamese)Best Child Artist: Shams PatelBest Cinematography: Avik Mukhopadhyay forAntaheen (Bengali)Best Screenplay: Sachin Kundalkar for Gandha (Marathi)Best Art Direction: Gautam Sen for FiraaqBest Make-up Artist: V. Moorthy for Naan Kadauul(Tamil)Best Costume Design: Neeta Lulla forJodhaa AkbarBest Music Direction: Ajay Atul forJogwa (Marathi)Best Lyrics:Antaheen (Bengali)Best Male Playback Singer: Hariharan forJogwa (Marathi)Best Female Playback Singer: Shreya Ghoshal forAntaheen (Bengali)Best Choreography: Chinni Prakash and Rekha Prakash forJodha AkbarBest Audiography: Pramod J. Thomas for Gandha (Marathi)Best Editing: A. Sreekar Prasad for Firaaq (Hindi)Best Special Effects: Govardhan (Tata Elxsi) Mumbai Meri Jaan (Hindi)


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Special Jury Award/Special Mention (Feature Film): Bioscope

Republic Day Awards, 2010Padma Vibhushan: Nobel laureate of Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Apollo Hospitals chiefPratap Reddy, former RBI Governor Y.V. Reddy, Zohra Segal, Ebrahim Alkazi and noted Mridangam Carnatartist Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman.

Padma Bhushan: Music maestro A.R. Rahman, Music maestro Illaiyaraaja, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan acontroversial Indian origin businessman Sant Singh Chatwal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs cardiacsurgeon R.M. Panda, eminent neurosurgeon Satya Paul Agarwal, prominent industrialist from Punjab S.P.

Oswal, Manvinder Singh Banga, eminent journalist Fareed Zakaria and real estate czar K.P. Singh wereamong the 43 winners.

Padma Shri: Cricketer Virendra Sehwag, hockey player Ignace Tirkey, Formula One driver NarainKartikeyan, badminton star Saina Nehwal, boxer Vijender Singh, Sachin Tendulkar's 'guru' RamakantAchrekar, Yesteryear Bollywood diva Rekha, Oscar winner sound recordist Resul Pokutty and actor Saif AliKhan were among 83 winners.

Bravery Awards, 2010Kirti Chakra: Rukhsana Kausar and her brother Aijaz Ahmad have been awarded the second highestgallantry award in peacetime, for their act of bravery in killing a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander in theiMorha Kalsi village in Jammu and Kashmir in 2009.

Tagore Literature Award, 2009

Noted Kashmiri poet Naseem Shafai has been conferred the prestigious Tagore Literature Award by theSahitya Akademi for her outstanding contribution in Kashmiri literature, especially poetry.

The award has been instituted by the Akademi at the initiation of the Korean government and the Embassyof Korea in Delhi.

Nasem was selected for this honour for her poetic collection, Na Thsay Na Aks (Neither shadow norreflection). She has become the first women poet from Kashmir to be honoured by the Akademi. This wasthe second collection of Naseems poetry after Derche Machrith (open windows) in 1999.

CYBER SPACE

Gmail adopts new protocol to encrypt dataGoogle has introduced a mandatory secure encryption for all users of its free email service Gmail, which wmake it more difficult for hackers to break into the email accounts.

Gmail will now be accessible through what is known as the hypertext transfer protocol secure or HTTPS oninternet, instead of the HTTP protocol which it was using earlier.

Under the new protocol, email data travelling between a users browser and Google computer server will bencrypted, making it tougher for the hackers sitting on unprotected Wi-Fi to break into the users accounts

For users, the new encryption would result in higher level of security, similar to an online bankingtransaction. Hackers would also find it more challenging to steal credit card and bank statements stored byGmail users in their mailboxes.

Thousands of users in the government departments and corporate sector across the world use Gmail fortransferring official emails or storing bank confidential information. With this enable-ment, loss of suchinformation or hacking of Orkut or Gmail accounts is likely to become less frequent. Many government ofIndia documents also get exchanged through Gmail. The ministry of external affairs has, however, banneduse of such private email providers for official use.

DEFENCE

India planning to buy C-17 Globemaster-III strategic aircraft from USAIndia is set to buy 10 C-17 Globemaster-III giant strategic aircraft, each of which comes for about $220million. The four-engine C-17 is capable of carrying payload of up to 78 tonnes, transport tanks and air-dromore than 100 combat-ready paratroopers directly into a battle-zone.


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It can cover 2,400 nautical miles at a stretch and with mid-air refuelling it can go even longer distances.The plane has the capability to take off and land on 3,000 feet or less runway, as also on a semi-preparedrunway.

EXPEDITIONS

Climate expedition to AntarcticaOn January 11, 2010, an Indian team set sail on the first Southern Ocean expedition after the Copenhagenmeet the fourth to be taken up by the National Centre for Antarctic & Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa to study, among other things, climate change and its impact on life.

It will also be the first time Indian scientists will be crossing the 55 degrees South latitude to go almost upto the polar region on an Indian vessel.

Sagar Nidhi, the only Indian vessel that can cut through ice, left Goa with 25 scientists for Mauritius andhead farther southwards on a voyage that will last till April 2010.

The scientists will take up about 20 studies in the ocean between 35 and 66 degrees South latitudes.Prominent among them would be paleo-climatic studies that involve collecting samples from the ocean bedat a depth of up to six kilometres.

Changes in sediment formation, water mass and other parameters would be compared with previous data

ascertain the impact of climate change.

PERSONS

Basu, Jyoti

The CPM patriarch and former Chief Minister of West Bengal, he died on January 17, 2010 at the age of 95The colossus of Indian politics left behind a void that will be hard to fill, not only in the Left but alsonational politics.

He was born on July 8, 1914 in Kolkata. In 1935 he graduated from the Presidency College of Kolkata withhonours in English. Then he went to London to study law and it was here that he was influenced byCommunism. In 1940 he joined the then undivided Communist Party of India.

He was one of the founder-members of CPM in 1964. In 1977 he became the Chief Minister of West Benga

and continued to hold the office for 23 straight years, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister inIndia. He quit as Chief Minister in November 2000. His major achievements as Chief Minister of West Bengwere rural land reforms and entrenching of the Panchayati Raj institutions.Jyoti Basu played a major role in formation of coalition governments at the Centre in 1989, 1996, 1997 an2004. In 1996, he narrowly missed out on becoming Prime Minister of India after his partys veto.

Murthy, V.K.

V. K. Murthy is the first cinematographer, and second Kannadiga after Kannada movie icon Dr Raj Kumar, get the Dada Saheb Phalke award for his contribution to the film industry. He is known for his work in mosGuru Dutt films like Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam, Kaagaz Ke Phooland Pyaasa.

Besides Guru Dutt, Murthy also worked with Pramod Chakravarthy (Naya Zamana, Jugnu), Kamal Amrohi(Pakeezah) and Shyam Benegal (Bharat Ke Khoj, a television series).

He also shot Indias first cinema-scope movies, Kagaz ke Phooland is also one of the pioneers of colourcinematography.

Singh, Gen Vijay Kumar

He has been appointed as the chief of Indian Army. He was born on May 10, 1951, in Bapada village ofHaryana. His grandfatherMukh Ramwas also a soldier, who rose to the rank of Risaldar Major. His fathJagat Singh also joined the Army and retired as a Colonel.

Gen V.K. Singh, an infantry man, was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment in 1970. During his longcareer he has participated in the 1971 operations against Pakistan and the IPKF operations in Sri Lanka in1988. His last posting before taking over as army chief was as the Eastern Army Commander, Kolkata. Prio


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to that, he commanded vital Ambala-based 2 Strike Corps of the Army.

He is also an honours graduate of the US Army Infantry School, Georgia. He studied at the Defence ServicStaff College, the Army War College and the US Army War College, Carlisle.

PLACES

BengaluruThe Electronic Warfare India Conference (EWIC) was held in Bengaluru. This was the first internationalconference on electronic warfare to take place in India.

Burj KhalifaOn January 4, 2010, blazing fireworks and dazzling lights marked the opening of the world's tallest tower,Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai. The $1.5 billion, 818 metres (2,684 feet) high structure is anunprecedented engineering marvel.

Burj Khalifa has been designed to be the centrepiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that willinclude 30,000 homes, nine hotels, 7.4 acres of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, anthe 30-acre man-made Burj Khalifa Lake.

With more than 160 stories, Burj Khalifa holds the following records: Tallest building in the world Tallest free-standing structure in the world

Highest number of stories in the world Highest occupied floor in the world Highest outdoor observation deck in the world Elevator with the longest travel distance in the world Tallest service elevator in the world

Not only is Burj Khalifa the worlds tallest building, it has also broken two other impressive records: talleststructure, previously held by the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota, and tallest free-standingstructure, previously held by Torontos CN Tower. The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and UrbanHabitat (CTBUH) has established three criteria to determine what makes a tall building tall. Burj Khalifa wiby far in all three categories.

The building has returned the location of Earth's tallest free-standing structure to the Middle East where

the Great Pyramid of Giza claimed this achievement for almost four millennia before being surpassed in1311 by Lincoln Cathedral in England.

DavosOver 2500 global leaders in business and politics gathered in Davos, Switzeraland, for the World EconomicForum. Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula RangeAt 1,560 meters, it is the highest city in Europe.

Haiti

The capital of this tiny island nation, Port-au-Prince, was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richtescale on January 13, 2010. More than three lakh people perished in the tragedy.

The earthquake caused major damage to Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and other settlements in the region. Manynotable landmark buildings were significantly damaged or destroyed, including the Presidential Palace, theNational Assembly building, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, and the main jail. Among those killed wereArchbishop of Port-au-Prince Joseph Serge Miot, and opposition leader Micha Gaillard. The headquarters ofthe United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), located in the capital, collapsed, killing manyincluding the Missions Chief, Hdi Annabi.

JaipurWhos who of the literature world descended on Jaipur in January 2010 to attend the Jaipur Literaturefestival.

RESEARCHSuper lozenge as cure for cold to H1N1


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In a breakthrough, Australian scientists have developed a drug that prepares the immune system toeffectively fight all cold and flu infections, including swine flu virus. The Veldona lozenge, which tastes like sweet and dissolves in the mouth, prepares the immune system to attack every cold and flu virus.

The drug, that could be taken once a day before breakfast, would prevent everyday sniffles in otherwisehealthy people and life-threatening infections in the elderly.

The lozenge contains tiny amounts of interferon alphaa protective protein that the body naturally makeswhen attacked by a virus. When the lozenge dissolves in the mouth, the protein is released, tricking theimmune system into thinking there is a virus in the body and gets ready for a fight.

Once the trial results are positive, the drug can be made available over-the-counter in the next two years. would cost just around Rs 9 a pill.

SPACE RESEARCHNASAs WISE probe

Nasa has published the first images from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, which has beenscanning the skies since January 2010.

The images include a comet, a "star factory" 20,000 light years away in our Milky Way galaxy and ournearest large neighbour, the Andromeda spiral galaxy.Wise will search on until October when its supplies of frozen coolant for chilling instruments will run out.

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise) had blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base inDecember 2009. The probe is expected to uncover objects that have never seen before, including some ofthe coolest stars and the most luminous galaxies.

The $320m mission will do this by scanning the entire sky in infrared light with sensitivity hundreds of timegreater than ever before.

Indian scientists discover a large cave on the MoonHuman habitation or a permanent base on the Moon could soon be a reality. After the discovery of water,scientists analysing the data ofChandrayaan-Ihave now found a large cave on the lunar surface, whichcould possibly act as a natural shelter for humans.

This is an empty volcanic tube, measuring about two kilometre in length and 360 meters in width. Suchwide tunnels could sustain underground lunar outposts, while the ceilings could help protect astronauts frospace radiation, meteoroid impacts and wild temperature fluctuations (up 300 degree centigrade) that iscommonplace on the lunar surface.

There are similar lava tubes on Earth. They are formed when molten rock, flowing from a volcanic eruptioncools and hardens on top while the lava underneath continues to flow. If the lava drains completely, acavern is left. Scientists had long suspected that such rock formations existed on the moon, but lackedevidence until now.

The findings happened while the data from the TMC (Terrain Mapping Camera) was being analysed. TheTMC was one of the five Indian payload that was on-board Chandrayaan-I.

MISCELLANEOUSAlgorithm trading

The rising number of brokerages with algorithm, or computer programme-driven trading, may turn out tobe a second turning point in Indian markets after the introduction of electronic trading a decade-and-a-halago, which closed about 20 stock exchanges and many local brokerages, but expanded the tradingcommunity and volumes by leaps and bounds.

The National Stock Exchange, which controls more than three-fourths of the trading volumes, has approveapplications of 200 of its members, roughly a fourth, to trade using algorithms.

Algorithmic trading refers to automated trades executed through software programs which do not requirehumans to place orders. There could be thousands of programs written to buy or sell a security, currency o


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commodity at a particular level when one or more factors emerge. Those programs are so fast that peoplewho look at various developments and decide trade would be left way behind because a machine has donein milliseconds.

For example, a program could be to sell the stock futures of a particular company and buy the stock if thefutures price is x% higher than the stock price. Also, it could be to compare a set of variablesif rupee ismore than 45 to the dollar, and crude oil is less than $60 per barrelthen the software would sell Infosysfutures and buy HPCL shares.

Other than investors who buy for a long term and traders who buy and sell on a daily basis to profit from

minor movements, theres a section, called arbitrageurs, which looks to benefit from distortions in pricesdespite public information.

Profits from arbitrage have slumped in the past decade as investors across the country have access to samstock prices unlike in the past where various cities had different prices at a given time for the same share.Also, the common trading cycles between the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchangeshrank arbitrage.

Now, with software programs taking over trading, it may well just disappear.

While trading volumes could surge as fat-cat brokerages hire maths wizards from the best of institutions, icould lead to severe disturbances in the market as was the case during the credit crisis. Some experts hav

said the credit crisis was accentuated by algorithmic trading which triggered millions of trades due to fast-evolving developments. However, some like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, with superior programs, havereportedly benefited through trading even during the crisis.

Algorithmic trading can create a class conflict too between haves and have-nots of technology. There couldbe charges of discrimination if two members of the same exchange are not on an equal footing. Even someUS legislators are planning to restrict high-speed trading.

In India it may not immediately lead to a surge in volumes since Indian markets still dont have the depth the western markets and related markets, such as commodities and currency are controlled.

Indian invention Infibeam Pi to give competition to Amazons Kindle

On January 28, 2010, Vishal Mehta announced the Infibeam Pi, an e-book reader that looks like the Amazo

Kindle, has the same e-Ink screen that the Kindle sports, and has a rights architecture that is more openthan the Kindle. The Infibeam Pi, which can be ordered online and is priced at Rs 10,000. The AmazonKindle, when shipped to India, costs about Rs 18,000. The Pi reader has no wireless connectivity, however

The Pi supports 13 Indian languages and has a micro USB port to connect to a PC. Users will need to creatan account with Infibeam.com, register the device and then download the ebooks. The ebooks can be readon the PC as well as on the Pi.

The Pi can also be used to read any document (word or pdf, for instance). It can store about 600 ebooks inits internal memory. It also has space for a 4GB cardthat means about 3,000 ebooks can be carriedaround.

Pi can play music as well.

Copenhagen Wheel

Reinventing the wheel was not exactly what Myshkin Ingawale had in mind when he set out from NIT-Bhopal towards MIT-Massachusetts, with a stop-over at IIM Calcutta. The 27-year-olds Copenhagen Wheenamed after the Danish capital after it was unveiled during the climate summit in December 2008, could babout to do just that.

A smart disc that can be retrofitted on any bicycle, the device can boost the cycles power and can also keetrack of friends, fitness, smog and traffic. And if someone tries to steal the bike while its owner happens tobe away, the device will send out an alert via a text message.

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neutral capital city by 2025.

Ingawale began working on the device in 2003, when he started fitting bicycles with electric motors. Anearly version of the device was made during his time at the National Institute of Technology campus inBhopal, where he studied for a B.Tech in electrical engineering.

The big leap for the device and Ingawale came about when he got in touch with a team from the prestigiouMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, which was working on ways to make bikes efficientand green.

From the days of the horse-drawn carriage, all we have done is replaced the horse with a beast of adifferent kind. Can we be creative, can we make something that radically improves things for the better?This was the motivation and thought process of the team, he says.

Tricolour to tower over nationNaveen Jindal, MP from Kurukshetra who fought a long legal battle to ensure that individuals can hoist thenational flag too, will put up monumental flag poles with flags about 3,500 square feet in size and hoistedon 206-feet-high steel polesall across the country.

After putting up five monumental flag poles in his own constituency, Jindal now has plans to set up manymore to create awareness and generate respect for the national flag in every Indian.

Jindal's Flag Foundation of India, set up after he won the legal battle in 2005 against the government diktathat only institutions can hoist the national flag, will work with local bodies to set up these poles. He haseven had the government amend the Flag Code to allow these massive flags to fly even at night, withproper illumination.

The first monumental flag pole outside Kurukshetra will come up in Angul, a tribal district in Orissa, followeby Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kanyakumari. Each project will cost Rs 40 lakh, with the pole, made of hightension steel, weighing 12.5 tonnes, and the flag, made of knitted polyester, weighing 28 kg and costing R60,000.

National Martyr RegisterSixty years after it became a Republic, India is about to share with its people the first authenticated list ofmartyrs, who helped it realise the dream of freedom. The list would, for the first time, cover the martyrs o

1857, recognised now as the watershed in the struggle for Indias Independence.

Also, the lists focus would be the nation to avoid accusations that the existing works on martyrs are heavitilted in favour of the North.

Till date the country had no National Register of Martyrs which could be taken as the basis of futurehistorical research on the subject. Names that do exist in scattered works, including Whos Who of IndianMartyrs published by the Education Ministry in 1969, are the ones that figured in the national movementsof the late 19th and 20th centuries.

However, the existing names of martyrs lacked historical referencing and could be dismissed as claimsunless proved otherwise by evidence in primary sources like judicial records and jail files.

But now, thanks to experts under the Indian Council of Historical Research which is in charge of the projecIndia will soon have its first historically-tested list of martyrs.

Indias first aero sports centre

Narnaul, a non-descript village located in the backwaters of Haryana has got Indias first aero sports centrewhich was inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, at the local airstrip on January 31, 2010The centre, named after the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has been set up by the Department of CivilAviation, Haryana, in collaboration with the Aero Club of India.who made a proposal to this effect to thecommittee.


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July-10

People

Sharad Pawarbecomes 2nd Indian and 7thInternational Cricket CouncilPresident to succeed David Morgan

Muralitharan to retire from Test Cricket (after Galle Test against India)

Mr.Neil Mills will be the new Chief Executive Officer ofSpiceJet Airways

IIT post-graduate D.Udaya Kumar's design for Rupee with Devanagari 'Ra' and Roman Capital 'R' without stem has beenchosen as Indian rupee symbol

R.M.Malla has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director ofIDBI Bankfor a period of 3 years

Mr.Sunil Rekhi has been appointed as Deputy Chief Financial Officer by Car-makerNissan India

Mr.Suresh Kandukuri has been appointed as the Sales Director ofCyberstar Infocom whose business is to distribute ITproducts

Noted Saxophonist Manohari Singh passes away at the age of 79

MS Dhoni signs Rs.200 crore deal with Rhiti Sports

Imran Khan becomes fourth Pakistani to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

Friedrich Froeschl to replace Andy Mattes as Chairman forMphasis, an Information Technology and BPO Company

Mr.Chandra Bhushan Paliwal takes over as the Chief Vigilance Officer ofSAIL

Mr.Shalabh Jain has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Business unit by Firstsource Solutions

Ms.Krithiga Reddy has been appointed as Director of online Operations and Mr.Manoj Varghese Director of user operationby Facebookto mark the launch of its India operations at Hyderabad

P.T.Usha(to head panel for Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards) has been named chairperson of the selection committee for2010's National Sports award

Hockey icon Ashok Kumarto head the panel to pick the Dronacharya Awards

Samta Kumari, a 28 year old of Uttar pradesh becomes 5th woman train engine driverin India

Rudi Koertzen (108 Tests, 209 ODI's and 14 T20I's) to officiate in final Test match where Pakistan take on Australia in theMCC Spirit of Cricket Test match at Headingley, Leeds

Apoorva singh has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Global Head - Infrastructure Management Services for

Patni Computer Systems

Former captain Pragat Singh of Indian hockey team files nomination forHockey India President post

MumbaikarAkanksha Sarda becomes first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad

Mano Menezes succeeds Carlos Dunga as Brazil coach and the offer has been accepted by Brazil football federation

Mr.Noel Tata to succeed Mr.Ratan Tata as chairman of the Tata Group to take over as Managing Director of TataInternational

Mr.Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as anAdvisor to Jaguar Land Rover


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Suresh Raina becomes 12th Indian to get Test hundred on debut

Sri Lanka-India Micromax Cup 2010, 2nd Testends in a draw

Business

M&Mto setup aircraft financing arm in Australia

Everonn Education to venture into K-12(Kindergarten to 12th Standard) schools through its wholly owned subsidiaryEveronn School Ltd.(ESL)

Harley-Davidson opens first showroom in India - Hyderabad and 4 more to be added by the end of the year includingChandigarh,New Delhi,Mumbai and Bangalore

480-year old British Hardware store which survived two world wars, two depressions and three recessions is finally closingdown, becomes the latest victim of the global recession

Mercedes Launches Super sports carSLS AMG in India

Airbus has selected India's private aerospace engineering firm Questas its preferred supplier ofaircrafts parts

2nd Edition Hyderabad Auto show, four-day event to be held from July 22nd to July 25th 2010 got underway at theHyderabad International Convention centre(HICC)

Central Bank of India has launched online remittance facility, CentFast2India, for remitting funds online from USA to India

UIDAI has selectedAccenture, Mahindra Satyam-Morpho and L1 Identity Solutionsto implement the core biometricidentification system in for the 'Aadhaar' programme

Innovation

An ATM to dispense pasteurised milk packets and curd by inserting a smart card in Kochi, Kerala

Solar-powered plane completes its first 24-hour test run(flying on solar power during nighttime)

Coral Softwares Ltd. has developed ACE Software to facilitate writing of cheque which could reduce errors resulting in lesspossibility of the cheques being dishonoured

Bangalore-based firm, Hidden Reflexlaunches first Indian web browser'Epic' based on the Mozilla platform

Law

Apex Court, Two-wheeler manufacturers to sell their vehicles bundled with a helmet

Sports

Federerout of Wimbledon 2010 after defeat to Berdych

Nadal wins the Wimbledon 2010 men's Single title
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Serena Williams wins the Wimbledon 2010 woman's single title

Cara Black and Leander Paes wins the Wimbledon 2010 mixed doubles title

Spain beat Holland 1-0 to win maiden FIFA World Cup

India beat Belgium 3-2 in the second hockey Test in Antwerp

India thrashes France 6-0 in the second hockey Testand takes a lead of 2-0 in the three-match series in Paris

Pune to host 2010 World Billiards Chamionship

Jason Gillespie to coach Kwekwe-based MidWest Rhinos in Zimbabwe

Mir Ranjan Negi former goal keeping coach of India's Women's Hocket team to Coach Indian Women Hockey Team

Ponting becomes 2nd batsman afterSachin Tendulkarto score 12,000 Test runs against Pakistan

South African Cricketer of the Year Award

Hashim Amla named Test Cricketer and South African Cricketer of the year

AB de Villiers was named 'ODI Cricketer of the Year'

Charl Langeveldt received 'International Pro20 Cricketer of the Year' award

Ryan McLaren received Newcomer of the Year Award

Technology

Seagate introduces world's first 3TB external desktop drive

Google to launch 'Google Me' a Facebook competitor

160GB PS3 and PSPto be launched in October

Nick lee a 15-year-old created an iPhone application which connects to the Internet for free but the very app is no longeravailable or suspended.

Microsoftto launch its own hands-free Kinect console in November, to be priced at $150

Facebookaccount, limits to 5000 pals

Second Six Core i7-970 processorpriced at $885 which uses 32 nanometer manufacturing process to run at 3.2Ghzcomprising of 12MB of L3 cache has been launched by Intel

Zen mobiles brings Z82, India's first QWERTY handset with Analog TV and Dual sim(GSM+GSM) priced at Rs.4,799

Award

Radha Charan Gupta to be awarded Kenneth O.May Prize for his work on the History and development of(trignometry)Mathematics in India at International Congress Mathematicians meet to be held in Hyderabad from 19th to 27th
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HDFC Bank has won the Celent Model Bank 2010 award for its loan origination system for which the bank uses NucleusSoftware's FinnOne product

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to be awarded Lokmanya Tilak award for her contribution to the progress of people andthe country

India's ace shuttlerSaina Nehwal has been selected from the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award which will begiven on August 29th 2010 by the President Pratibha Patil

Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank(KVGB) has been awarded by the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and SmallEnterprises(CGTMSE) for highest coverage with respect to loans granted to micro,small and medium enterprises

Kerala Tourism's global consumer travel site, www.keralatourism.org has been awarded the prestigious PATA goldAward 2010, to be given away on September 17th at the PATA Travel Mart in Macau2010 PATA Awards: Attracted 200 entries from 80 organistations and individuals worldwide

Science

ISRO launches PSLV-C15 with 5 satellites and remote sensing Cartosat-2B and Studsat built by engineering students ofAndra Pradesh and Karnataka

India successfully tests ballistic missile interceptorfrom a defence base in Orissa at Chandipur on sea shore of Balasore

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Award

Sastra University of Thanjavurhas bagged the 1st prize or the 'Degree C Award' of Rs.1 lakh at the TechTop-2010competition held at Thiruvananthapuram Technopark

Business

Maruti to launch CNG cars. Factory-fitted option would be made available with models of Alto, Estilo, WagonR, Eeco and

SX4 models

SEBI allows currency options on US dollars pairing with rupee, trading options will be from 9am to 5pmIST

A total of1,400 youths under the age of 25 from 147 countries gather for the 2 week long World Youth Congress atIstanbul to discuss how youths can be most effective in addressing the problems facing the world and to develop sustainableyouth strategies

Coimbatore Tidel Park a 56-acre SEZ(Special Economic Zone) campus housing 3 IT companies - Wipro, TCS and HCLdeveloped jointly by the Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation, Electronics Corporation of India, Software TechnologParks of India and Tidel Park, Chennai has been inaugurated

Fairfest Media Ltd. along with West Bengal Tourism Department completes a 3-day Travel and Tourism Fair(TTF). TTF to

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Nokia adpots 5 villages(Pure Rajaram, Pure Tilak Ram, Bhalbhara Khera, Baletha and Poore Chamaar) in the Raebareli areof Uttar Pradesh to distribute free mobile handsets and to give Rs.200 worth pre-paid top-up every month. Nokia haspartnered with Idea Cellular and Datamation Foundation, an NGO for implemention

'Mineral Water on Your Tap', an advanced technology water treatment plant working based on reverse osmosis(PO) hasbeen launched in Kerala by Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd., internationally acclaimed water technology solutionprovider of Chennai

Mahindra and Mahindra to enter into motor-cycle business by year end(2010)

Cisco has been ranked number 1 vendorin the Wireless LAN equipment market in revenues for the year 2009

Aston Martin is set to enter India, price tag up to Rs.3 crore

Tata Docomo launches pay per site data plan at Rs.10 per siteand Rs.25 per month

Wipro Infotech launches FluidState Data Centre targetting small, medium and enterprise businesses

Heading towards Silver jubilee of the Elite School of Optometry(ESO), Sankara Nethralayahas launched a distance modecourse for opticians

Sharath Kamal became 1st Indian to breach the top-50 of the World ranking to be placed at 45th, after winning US Open anEgypt Open Table Tennis Tournament

Vidya Stokes has been elected Hockey India Presidentdefeating former national captian Pargat Singh

Mr.Charles Hunting has been appointed as CEO ofGenpact Ltd. for Asia operations

AK Mattoo has been named the treasurer of the Common Wealth Games organising committee

Dhiman Mukherji has been appointed as Director Advertising Sales and Sunny Saurabh as Head Advertising Soutions byProfessional networking website LinkedIn

The Central Provincial Council in Kandy, Colombo has decided to name the 2010 World Cup venue as the MuttaihMuralitharan International Cricket Stadium

Bharti Infratel, a unit of Bharti Aritel has appointed Devender Singh Rawat as its Cheif Executive Officer

Sanjay Dhawan has been appointed as CEO of Symphony Service Corporation

V.Vaidyanathan quits as MD and CEO of ICICI Prudetial Life Insurance, to join Kishore Biyani's Future Group. SandeepBakshi, the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank is likely to head ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

K.M.Mathew, Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama daily, passed away at his residence in Kottayam

Prashanth Venkataraman (a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering), is curren

a Design Engineer with Saint-Gobain Glass India has received the first 'Pemanda Monappa Scholarship' award to pursue M.Phil course at the University of Cambridge in Britain

Somdev Devvarman becomes 2nd Indian after Leander paes to break into the top-100 of ATP rankings, reaching a career-high 96th with total points of 540 as on 2nd August 2010

Eric Tindill was the oldest surviving New Zealand International Rugby and Test cricketer died at the age of99 and 226 daysThe only New Zealander to be capped in both Rugby and Cricket

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1 billion tonnes of coal has been found in Cahora Bassa district of the northwestern province of Tete in Mozambique

Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko, 2 Russian astronauts have successfully completed a space walk that lasted forand half hours and returned to the International Space Station

Indian Immunoligacals Ltd. has launched Folyson, a hormone to increase the reproduction rates in dairy cattle'Solar tsunami' may hit Earth anytime, Scientists

Iran's first atomic power plant gets ready for activation outside the port city of Bushehr

Sports

Singapore Youth Olympic Games to he held between 14th to 26th August 2010

3rd Edition of the Chennai Marathon, organised in the aid of Givelife charity to be held on 29th August 2010. The theme ofthe very event to be 'My city, My pride'

Viktor Rothlin has won men's marathon for Switzerland's first gold at the European Championships

50 year old Merlene Ottey becomes the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships

Yohann Diniz of France won the men's European Champions 50-kilometre walk crown to finish in 3 hours, 40 mins and37 sec

G.K.Rathinavel clinches bronze(Shot put and Discus) in the 24th Sri Lanka Masters Athletics Annual OpenChampionship held at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo

India finishes 2-1 to clinch the bronze medal in the inaugural Asian Women Champions Trophy hockey tournament at BusaSouth Korea

Webber of Red Bull wins at action-packed Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix

A split innings 12-a-side one-day cricket format to be trailled in Australia's National one-day cup

Technology

India's 7th fastest supercomputer at a computation(HPC) cluster 1.5 Tera Byte memory and 30TB storage space clustercapacity 'Annapurna' was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc) in Chennai

Panasoniclaunches world's first 3-D camcorder

American Museum of Natural Historyin New York launches mobile navigation app to provide visitors with a new-generationmuseum experience

Urogulf Direct Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd.a Kochi-based firm has launched information service called 'Mooble' that could act as a

search engine in mobile phones to access information through SMS

Aircellaunches Wireless Internet Phone(WIP)(WIP: An instrument with QWERTY keyboard, modem, browser and 3.5inch colour touch-screen, priced at Rs.3,300)

Mangalore Commissionerate of Central Excisehas launched its website, cexmangalore.gov.in

Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has launched 'PC2Mobile Scan', mobile virus-scan which could support 581 models ofmobile phones and priced at Rs.2,000 per year

Google to introduce multi-account(maximum of 3 accounts) sign-in in same browser session

An e-reader named Wink, a product ofEC media would be available with a 6-inch screen for Rs.8,000
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Bharti Airtel and 15 other global telecom companiestogether launched a 10,000km submarine cable system to connect eastAfrica with the rest of the world

Mobile phone now can be used as credit card, global credit card giant Visa has collaborated with Turkey's Akbank to bringout the technology called 'payWave', developed by DeviceFidelity.(payWave: Technology to be used to store bank information in memory cards placed in mobile phone)

Dell'sAndroid based tablet launched on AT&T carrier

SHQ3000 SHQ4000 are the two new range ofwaterproof and sweat proof sports headphones priced at 1,999 and 2,499have been launched by Philips

Record

Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, a Canadian yoga teacher at the age of 28 have claimed to have completed 32-hour yogamarathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montrea

Education

Narayana Murthy and Mrs.Murthy inagurates PageTurners, an exclusive Penguin bookstore in Bangal

People

Mr.Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf ofIndo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce

Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as the National Ambassador of UNICEF and would support in promoting child rights

Tejaswini Sawant becomes first Indian woman shooterto win a gold medal at World Championships

Discovery/Innovation

V-invertor, a matchbox-sized device that can power homes during power cuts has been invented by Mr.Subrata Datta, anemployee at the R&D center of CMC Ltd.

Amnajot Singh and Sahil Wadhwa students of Ryan International School in Delhi have created history by discovering themain belt asteroid named 2010 PO24 participating in the "All-India Asteroid Search Campaign"

Stephane Rousson designs World's 1st (pedal-boat) Scubster submarine, unveiled in France

Lost and FoundNatt, a vessel beleived to be have sunk in World War II has been found and recovered by Myanmar divers in the westernRakhine state of the country(Note on Natt: 28.5 meter-long iron vessel,abandoned by the British forces when retreating to India has been recovered withits original face without damage from a depth of 4.5meters in a stream in Buthidaung)


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