Snap and Iift 2010 Current Affairs Compendium

Dinesh Miglani ( LL.B., LL.M., M.B.A.)

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Dear Friends,

As you know Current affairs ( corporate, business, persons, events, sports and honours)

is an integral section of exams like SNAP, IIFT,IRMA ( Socio economic GK with current affairs),

NMAT, GBO ( Sri Ram college of Commerce), MAT, ATMA etc. This compendium will help you to

crack the general awareness section of these exams.

Few tips to crack GK:

- Read this compendium as many times as possible

- Read one monthly magazine i.e. Competition Success, Competition Master, Partiyogita

Darpan , News & Events etc. from January to till date

- Read the General Knowledge Book of any of Publication either Arihant, Upkar etc (

smallest one costing 20 to 25 Rs only) for static GK because experience states that every

important point regarding history, general science is available in these books.

- Read Special issue of Indian Economy of Pratiyogita Darpan or Chronicle etc.

You are requested to forward this compendium to your friends who are preparing for these

exams. Yours kind suggestions are most welcome for further improvement.

Wish you all the best for the upcoming exams.

Dinesh Miglani

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Although due care is taken to make this collection, no responsibility is taken for any of the mistakes in the content. No legal action can lie in any of the courts on the mistakes.






Business Indian economy grows by 8.8% in April-June SEBI allows trading through wireless technology including mobile phone and laptops RBI to examine S&P 500 and Dow trading on NSE Franchise India to tie up with banks(SBI,HDFC,Punjab Naiotnal Bank, ICICI Bank and HDFC) for small ticket loan Small ticket loans: To help provide easy finance to investors keen on setting-up small businesses Google acquires social games website SocialDeck RIL notifies 4th gas strike in D3 block of KG Basin RCom sets up 3G innovation lab in Mumbai Ericsson India acquires stakes in Novatium Solutions Suzuki launches 125cc motorcycle-SlingShot-priced at around Rs.47,000 Honour Coins of denominations Rs.100 and Rs.5 has been released to mark the birth centenary of Mother Teresa Indrani Medhi, a Bangalore-based Microsoft researcher has developed graphics and multimedia-based user interfaces for computers to make them more accessible to people who cannot read or write via, which the 32 year old joins TR35 list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review's 2010 Law Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues major tech companies including Google Inc and Apple Inc at US District Court in Seattle Member Elect Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Ben J Verwaayen CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Zhu Min Special Adviser, IMF and a former Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China has been elected to World Economic Forum Foundation Board People Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, his 150th birthday on September 15 Madhusudan Kela to be Chief Investment Strategist from Septemeber 21st 2010 at Reliance Capital Herbert Sutcliffe an England batting great has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame 7 year old maths prodigy Oscar Selby, who became the youngest Briton to gain the top grade in GCSE maths, now advises the Government of Britian Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as Microsoft's new India Development Center MD Indian origin actress Archie Panjabi, has bagged the best supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Good Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards 2010 S.Malathi has been appointed as Tamil Nadu's Chief Secretary Film producer and distributor S.Pavami dead Sports Commonwealth Games(October 3rd to 14th 2010) theme song 'Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto' has been unvieled by Oscar-






winning composer A.R.Rahman Technology Nokia launches two handsets C1 and C2, its frst dual-sim phones priced at Rs.1,999 Lephone offers triple SIM mobile at Rs.4,900 Samsung Guru dual SIM mobiles launched in India Diamond could replace silicon in computers Wynncom introduces Hindi QWERTY keypad phone Y-45 Google launches site for real-time search 'Priority Inbox', new Gmail feature to sort incoming mails into three sections, important and unread,starred and everything else Transcend launches 4GB aXeRam DDR3-2400

wards Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete has been crowned Miss Universe 2010 Kaavya Jayram a 12-year old becomes youngest person to present a paper on her results in the area of integer partitioning at the International Congress of Women Mathematicians Nila Seafoods of Tuticorin becomes the first Indian manufacturer-exporter to be awarded the MPEDA quality logo MPEDA - Marine Products Export Development Authority Business 6yr old girl is China's youngest shareholder as Wu Qinyi inherites 62,500 shares from her father whose estimate os 1.05 million yuan (over $154,411) Intel to buy McAfee at $7.7 billion Google acquires search engine like.com Rcom partners with Nokia to launch 'Ovi Life Tools', the new service to help farmers with queries on crop price, fertiliser use, weather condition, soil health and right sowing season as the domian experts will provide the answer Nokia Siemens to deploy 3G network for Tata Teleservices Events Organised by CII, 4th edition of the 'HR Summit' is to be held at the Residency, Coimbatore zone. Theme for which is 'Harnessing Human Capital through sustainable Innovative Strategies' Discovery Astronomers have discovered what is to be claimed as Vast solar system of 7 planets, orbiting a sun-like star, 127 light years away from Earth People Arjun Atwal becomes first Indian-born player to win USPGA Tour Mother Teresa's birth centenary celebrations begins in Kolkata






Mr.Sanjay Jain has been appointed as CEO of Tulip Telecom Ltd. Science Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs Sports Russian tennis star Sharapova has been named world's highest paid athlete Technology Google to allow phone calls from Gmail, free for US and Canadian phones and nominal charge of 2 cents per minute to countries including Britain, France, Germany, China and Japan

Business 'FinePix', world's first 3D camera and printing service (could be printed on special 3D paper and ready to stick in family album) has been launched by Fujifilm United Stock Exchange to launch currency futures operations in all four currency pairs - dollar-rupee, euro-rupee, yen-rupee and pound-rupee on 31st August 2010 Siemens has bagged a 10-million euro order from Steel Authority of India(SAIL) to supply an RH vacuum degassing plant to the Rourkela Steel plant Facebook acquires Chai Labs for about $10 million Ybrant Digital(end-to-end provider of digital marketing solutions) acquires a U.S based subsidiary Lycos(search based internet properties) China tops Japan as 2nd biggest economy in Q2 Coca Cola enters dairy business, launches 'Mazza Milky Delite' a blend of mangoes and milk priced at Rs.15 Entertainment Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Jasraj have teamed up for the first time to record a song("Om namoh sukhadayni") for a Marathi movie, 'Aai Tujha Ashirward' People Mr.N.Rangachary has been appointed as Chairman of Central Depository Services Ltd. Debarpita Banerjee has been appointed as the Vice President-Marketing, India by FOX International Channel Woman wrestler Pooja Dhanda becomes the first Indian medalist(Silver) at the Youth Olympic Games Record About 250 fashion models took part in world's longest catwalk of 1,609-metre at the Copenhangen fashion week in Denmark Whirlpool India to make world's largest Pookalam or floral carpet at Lulu Convention Centre on August 17th 2010 along with under priviledged children to attempt an entry into 'Limca Book of Records'






Science China establishes observation station named 'Snow Dragon' on ice area in North pole Sports AR Rahman launches Commonwealth Games(CWG) 2010 theme song Andy Murray beats Roger Federer to win Rogers Cup Brazil beat China 3-0 at the FIVB World Grand Prix women's volleyball tournament Bangalore to host ICC awards ceremony on October 6th 2010 Technology TVS Gold Bharat Keyboard, with the new Indian Rupee symbol on it has been launched by TVS Electronics and becomes the first and only Indian company to incorporate the very symbol Lava B5 is the first mobile hanset which has a dedicted key to type the new Indian currency symbol and has been launched by Lava International Tata Teleservices launches call and tweet service (Dail 50007 and send a voice tweet at a cost of 80 paise per tweet) 'Mahashramm', a labour management system launched by Maharashtra Government to bring labour(Public and Private) under the banking arena Asus launches NX90 notebook in Indian market

People Mr.Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf of Indo-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 shooter to win a gold medal at World Championships Business 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 Nethralaya has launched a distance mode course for opticians Discovery/Innovation V-invertor, a matchbox-sized device that can power homes during power cuts has been invented by Mr.Subrata Datta, an employee 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 the main belt asteroid named 2010 PO24 participating in the "All-India Asteroid Search Campaign" Science Iran's first atomic power plant gets ready for activation outside the port city of Bushehr






Sports A split innings 12-a-side one-day cricket format to be trailled in Australia's National one-day cup Technology Dell's Android based tablet launched on AT&T carrier SHQ3000 SHQ4000 are the two new range of waterproof and sweat proof sports headphones priced at 1,999 and 2,499 have been launched by Philips

Record Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, a Canadian yoga teacher at the age of 28 have claimed to have completed 32-hour yoga marathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montreal People Sharath Kamal became 1st Indian to breach the top-50 of the World ranking to be placed at 45th, after winning US Open and Egypt Open Table Tennis Tournament Vidya Stokes has been elected Hockey India President defeating former national captian Pargat Singh Mr.Charles Hunting has been appointed as CEO of Genpact 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 by Professional networking website LinkedIn Business Nokia adpots 5 villages(Pure Rajaram, Pure Tilak Ram, Bhalbhara Khera, Baletha and Poore Chamaar) in the Raebareli area of Uttar Pradesh to distribute free mobile handsets and to give Rs.200 worth pre-paid top-up every month. Nokia has partnered 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) has been launched in Kerala by Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd., internationally acclaimed water technology solution provider of Chennai Mahindra and Mahindra to enter into motor-cycle business by year end(2010) Cisco has been ranked number 1 vendor in 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 Education Narayana Murthy and Mrs.Murthy inagurates PageTurners, an exclusive Penguin bookstore in Bangalore Science 'Solar tsunami' may hit Earth anytime, Scientists Technology Aircel launches 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 Excise has launched its website, cexmangalore.gov.in Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has launched 'PC2Mobile Scan', mobile virus-scan which could support 581 models of mobile 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 of EC media would be available with a 6-inch screen for Rs.8,000 Bharti Airtel and 15 other global telecom companies together launched a 10,000km submarine cable system to connect east Africa 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 bring out the technology called 'payWave', developed by DeviceFidelity. (payWave: Technology to be used to store bank information in memory cards placed in mobile phone)

ward Sastra University of Thanjavur has bagged the 1st prize or the 'Degree C Award' of Rs.1 lakh at the TechTop-2010 competition held at Thiruvananthapuram Technopark People The Central Provincial Council in Kandy, Colombo has decided to name the 2010 World Cup venue as the Muttaih Muralitharan 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. Sandeep Bakshi, 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 currently a Design Engineer with Saint-Gobain Glass India has received the first 'Pemanda Monappa Scholarship' award to pursue an 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 of 99 and 226 days. The only New Zealander to be capped in both Rugby and Cricket 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 of 1,400 youths under the age of 25 from 147 countries gather for the 2 week long World Youth Congress at Istanbul to discuss how youths can be most effective in addressing the problems facing the world and to develop sustainable youth strategies Coimbatore Tidel Park a 56-acre SEZ(Special Economic Zone) campus housing 3 IT companies - Wipro, TCS and HCL developed jointly by the Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation, Electronics Corporation of India, Software Technology Parks 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 move be held in Ahemadabad(August 20-22) and Surat(August 27-29) Innovation Stephane Rousson designs World's 1st (pedal-boat) Scubster submarine, unveiled in France Lost and Found Natt, a vessel beleived to be have sunk in World War II has been found and recovered by Myanmar divers in the western Rakhine 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 with its original face without damage from a depth of 4.5meters in a stream in Buthidaung) Science China successfully launched a 5th orbiter into space as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and global positioning network 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 for 6 and 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 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 of the 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 and 37 sec G.K.Rathinavel clinches bronze(Shot put and Discus) in the 24th Sri Lanka Masters Athletics Annual Open Championship 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 Busan, South Korea Webber of Red Bull wins at action-packed Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix Technology India's 7th fastest supercomputer at a computation(HPC) cluster 1.5 Tera Byte memory and 30TB storage space cluster capacity 'Annapurna' was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc) in Chennai Panasonic launches world's first 3-D camcorder American Museum of Natural History in New York launches mobile navigation app to provide visitors with a new-generation museum 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

People Sharad Pawar becomes 2nd Indian and 7th International Cricket Council President 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 of SpiceJet Airways Business M&M to setup aircraft financing arm in Australia Everonn Education to venture into K-12(Kindergarten to 12th Standard) schools through its wholly owned subsidiary Everonn School Ltd.(ESL) Harley-Davidson opens first showroom in India - Hyderabad and 4 more to be added by the end of the year including Chandigarh,New Delhi,Mumbai and Bangalore 480-year old British Hardware store which survived two world wars, two depressions and three recessions is finally closing down, becomes the latest victim of the global recession 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 less possibility of the cheques being dishonoured Law Apex Court, Two-wheeler manufacturers to sell their vehicles bundled with a helmet Sports Federer out of Wimbledon 2010 after defeat to Berdych Nadal wins the Wimbledon 2010 men's Single title Serena Williams wins the Wimbledon 2010 woman's single title Cara Black and Leander Paes wins the Wimbledon 2010 mixed doubles title Technology Seagate introduces world's first 3TB external desktop drive

Innovation Bangalore-based firm, Hidden Reflex launches first Indian web browser 'Epic' based on the Mozilla platform 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 Auguast 2010 People IIT post-graduate D.Udaya Kumar's design for Rupee with Devanagari 'Ra' and Roman Capital 'R' without stem has been chosen as Indian rupee symbol R.M.Malla has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of IDBI Bank for a period of 3 years Mr.Sunil Rekhi has been appointed as Deputy Chief Financial Officer by Car-maker Nissan India Mr.Suresh Kandukuri has been appointed as the Sales Director of Cyberstar Infocom whose business is to distribute IT products 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 for Mphasis, an Information Technology and BPO Company Mr.Chandra Bhushan Paliwal takes over as the Chief Vigilance Officer of SAIL 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 operations by Facebook to mark the launch of its India operations at Hyderabad Business Mercedes Launches Super sports car SLS AMG in India Science ISRO launches PSLV-C15 with 5 satellites and remote sensing Cartosat-2B and Studsat built by engineering students of Andra Pradesh and Karnataka Sports Spain beat Holland 1-0 to win maiden FIFA World Cup India beat Belgium 3-2 in the second hockey Test in Antwerp Technology Google to launch 'Google Me' a Facebook competitor 160GB PS3 and PSP to be launched in October

People P.T.Usha(to head panel for Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards) has been named chairperson of the selection committee for 2010's National Sports award Hockey icon Ashok Kumar to head the panel to pick the Dronacharya Awards Samta Kumari, a 28 year old of Uttar pradesh becomes 5th woman train engine driver in India Rudi Koertzen (108 Tests, 209 ODI's and 14 T20I's) to officiate in final Test match where Pakistan take on Australia in






the MCC 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 for Hockey India President post Event/Business Airbus has selected India's private aerospace engineering firm Quest as its preferred supplier of aircrafts parts 2nd Edition Hyderabad Auto show, four-day event to be held from July 22nd to July 25th 2010 got underway at the Hyderabad International Convention centre(HICC) Sports India thrashes France 6-0 in the second hockey Test and 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 after Sachin Tendulkar to 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 Nick lee a 15-year-old created an iPhone application which connects to the Internet for free but the very app is no longer available or suspended. Microsoft to launch its own hands-free Kinect console in November, to be priced at $150 Facebook account, limits to 5000 pals Second Six Core i7-970 processor priced at $885 which uses 32 nanometer manufacturing process to run at 3.2Ghz comprising 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

People Mumbaikar Akanksha 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 Tata International Mr.Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as an Advisor to Jaguar Land Rover






Business Central Bank of India has launched online remittance facility, CentFast2India, for remitting funds online from USA to India UIDAI has selected Accenture, Mahindra Satyam-Morpho and L1 Identity Solutions to implement the core biometric identification system in for the 'Aadhaar' programme Science India successfully tests ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Orissa at Chandipur on sea shore of Balasore Award HDFC Bank has won the Celent Model Bank 2010 award for its loan origination system for which the bank uses Nucleus Software's FinnOne product Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to be awarded Lokmanya Tilak award for her contribution to the progress of people and the country India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has been selected from the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award which will be given 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 Small Enterprises(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 gold Award 2010, to be given away on September 17th at the PATA Travel Mart in Macau 2010 PATA Awards: Attracted 200 entries from 80 organistations and individuals worldwide Sports Suresh Raina becomes 12th Indian to get Test hundred on debut Sri Lanka-India Micromax Cup 2010, 2nd Test ends in a draw

People Mumbaikar Akanksha 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 Tata International Mr.Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as an Advisor to Jaguar Land Rover Business Central Bank of India has launched online remittance facility, CentFast2India, for remitting funds online from USA to India UIDAI has selected Accenture, Mahindra Satyam-Morpho and L1 Identity Solutions to implement the core biometric identification system in for the 'Aadhaar' programme Science India successfully tests ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Orissa at Chandipur on sea shore of






Balasore Award HDFC Bank has won the Celent Model Bank 2010 award for its loan origination system for which the bank uses Nucleus Software's FinnOne product Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to be awarded Lokmanya Tilak award for her contribution to the progress of people and the country India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has been selected from the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award which will be given 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 Small Enterprises(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 gold Award 2010, to be given away on September 17th at the PATA Travel Mart in Macau 2010 PATA Awards: Attracted 200 entries from 80 organistations and individuals worldwide Sports Suresh Raina becomes 12th Indian to get Test hundred on debut Sri Lanka-India Micromax Cup 2010, 2nd Test ends in a draw

Awards ITC's Y.C.Deveshwar has been presented Global Leadership award by U.S.-India Business Council for his efforts towards 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 of Corporation Bank has been awarded Dun and Bardstreet's CTO(Chief Technology Officer) Award 2009 Acquisitions Cafe Coffee Day has acquired a Czeh Republic-based cafe Emporio for Rs.15crore Business Tata Motors inaugurated the world's cheapest car the Nano's manufacturing facility at Sanand, Gujarat Entertainment Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years People Mr.Soiles Bhattacharya Director(Finance), will take charge as the Interim Chairman of SAIL as Mr.S.K.Roongta completed his term on May 31st 2010 Mr. Michael Perschke to head India operations for Audi from July 1st 2010, replaces Mr.Benoit Tiers Mr.Hiroshi Takashina has been appointed as Managing Director for Nikon India, takes over from Mr.Hidehiko Tanaka






Innovation Equifone Solutions offering Bluetooth services on buses in Mumbai, now all set to offer Wi-Fi Connectivity in days to come Applications submitted to various departments of RBI could be now tracked on Application Tracking System(ATS), online Intel introduces convertible(180 degree rotatable screen) Classmate PC Kerala State Electricity Board is set to launch a free and open source accounting software, Structured and Real-time Accounting System(SARAS) designed and developed by the employees of the board

Acquisitions Orchid Pharma acquires US company Karalex Business Reliance Industries acquires ISP Infotel for Rs.4,800crore Bharti Airtel completes $10.7 billion Zain Africa deal IDBI opened its first overseas branch in Dubai, at the Dubai International Finance Centre Karnataka to create Land Bank in all districts to facilitate investors to allocate land Apple iAd set to compete with Google in ad market Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India(ISE) has selected TCS to install and manage its integrated trading, clearing and surveillance platform Indian Depository Receipts(IDR) of UK based bank Standard Chartered lists in BSE and NSE Sports FIFA World Cup 2010 kicks off in South Africa on June 10th 2010 Technology 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 its subscribers to switch over to a new operator using the same set-top box Samsung adds Facebook and Google Maps to its HDTV-based Samsung Apps Library Record - Guinness Book Cactus plant(Cereus peruvianus), grown near SDM College of Dental Sciences near Sattur,Dharwad,India enters Guinness Book of world Records as the tallest Plant measuring a height of 78.8 feet

Business Facebook to 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 TV Network Ltd. for the provision of animation content






Saibaba Telefilms, Mumbai based television production company to enter Southern region via a music reality show Sangeetha Mahayudhdham to be telecasted on Sun TV Innovation Country's first 3-MW solar photo volatic plant opens at Kolar in Bangarpet taluk, Karnataka Prithvi-II successfully test-fired off Orissa coast People Vijay Malya wins Rajya Sabha polls from Karnataka Paswan,Pratap Rudy have won Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar Technology C2C Management services launches online video resume service Nokia introduces push-mail service in S40 series phone priced at around Rs.2,700

People Sachin Tendulkar to become Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain Australia gets Julia Gillard as first female Prime Minister Former union minister Digvijay Singh dies in London Business Rupee all set to join elite currency club HDFC Mutual Fund launches Gold Exchange Traded Fund MCX gets unconditional approval from Forward Market Commission regulator to launch an IPO Discovery Austrian archaeologists discover 3500 year old city Hyksos in the Nile delta region Record World's largest gold coin sold for $4.02 million Sports Saina Nehwal beat Taiwan's Tzu Ying Tai to win the Singapore Super Series Title and moves upto World No.3 Longest match record smashed at Wimbledon 2010: Nicolas Mahut and John Isner 59-59 at 5th set yet unfinished, play was suspended as they ran out of daylight. John Isner won the match at 70-68 on the following day. India wins Asia Cup 2010 Technology






SleepServer, a software developed by Indian American scientists to save energy in Computers at work place Samsung's Galaxy Beam to be World's first Android projector phone India's first 'unpaid' mobile service under the brand name T24 is launched by Future Group, service provider being Tata Teleservices Ltd. Toshiba launches first dual touch screen notebook, Libertto W100

Bob Diamond : Barclays :: Kenneth Lewis : Bank of America Norbert Reithofer : BMW :: Stephen A. Schwarzman : Blackstone Group W. James McNerney, Jr : Boeing :: Willie Was : British Airways Sunil Bharti Mittal : Bharti Telecom :: F. Duane Ackerman : Bellsouth John A. Allison IV : BB&T :: Tod Nielsen : Borland John Chidsey : Burger King :: Brad Anderson : Best Buy DMX : Bloodline Records :: Rupert Murdoch : British Sky Broadcasting Warren Edward Buffett : Berkshire Hathway :: Hans-Paul Burkner : Boston Consulting Group

People Resul Pookutty becomes member of the Academy of Motion Pictures P.Obul Reddy, founder and former Managing Director of Nippo Batteries company and Founder and Chairman of Panasonic Carbon India and Panasonic Home appliances India passes away Business Vijaya Bank launches online trading services HM-Mitsubishi launches its dealership in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and National Capital Regaion(NCR) IndusInd bank to provide finance facilities to Tata Motors dealers Innovation First electric locomotive with head-on-generation, manufactured by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works launched for Indian Railways Punjab National Bank opens its first bio-metric ATM at Thrikkakara in Ernakulam (Bio-metric ATM: Recognises fingerprints of the card holder and eliminating the need of entering PIN number. Denominations of Rs.50, Rs.100, Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 could be withdrawn from the same) Sports Saina Nehwal clinches Indonesian Open Title, third in a row Technology Samsung Xcover E2370 with a battery backup of 67days






Transcend to introduce 64GB class 10 SDXC(Secure Digital Extended Capacity) memory card in India, to be priced at Rs.15,000

People 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 2010-11 Technology 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" to 24" Science World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improve healthcare Acquisitions HP acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion Mattel to ink $20 million deal with Wipro Business RBI approves Nokia mobile money transfer in India

People Bharti Airtel appoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services(India and South Asia) Abhay Singavi has been appointed as CEO of Narayana Hrudayalaya Mr.Rajiv Bakshi to be Vice President - Marketing Asia-Pacific, for Discovery Networks Technology Compellent to launch 2.5inch hard drives with capacity of 900GB at 10,000rpm and 300GB at 15,000rpm ViewSonic launches 27inch HD monitor Microsoft and Nokia tie up to launch Communicator HP launches OfficeJet4500 All-in-One in India Aquisitions






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 Entertainment has acquired a controlling stake in Los Angeles-based IM Global Bharti Airtel inks deal with Novatium to provide Unique Active desktop powered by Airtel Net PC Plus

Business Carrefour to setup its wholesale cash-and-carry business in India FlyDubai to launch India operations People Bill Gates to adopt Gularia village in Khagaria from the state of Bihar David Cameron has been elected as British Prime Minster Technology Nokia launches 3G slider phones, Nokia 6700 and Nokia 7230 in India Microsoft launches Office 2010 Sony introduces 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 voice message transmission) to the under-privileged using mobile phones IBM launches Aquasar, liquid cooled supercomputer HP to replace glass displays with plastic Sports World champion Viswanathan Anand retained his crown winning the World Chess Championship title against Veselin Topalov of Russia

Business World's first gold-dispensing ATM, now at Dubai's Emirates Palace Shriram Transport to enter into construction equipment finance People Bharti Retail has appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officer who will lead operations starting July 2010 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 and professional excellence






Science Plastic lens to replace laser eye surgery ONGC Mittal Energy has found hydrocarbons in Nigerian deepwater block Pune-based Serum Institute of India has developed H1N1 vaccine - a harmless nasal spray which could be used by people aged above 3 except pregnant women

People Somdev Devvarman becomes first Indian in 13years to qualify for the men's singles event of French Open 2010 Indian born Scot John Shepjerd-Barron ATM's inventor is dead US Intel chief Dennis Blair quits Business Hindujas to buy European Private bank KBL epb for 1.35bn euros(Approx. Rs.8,770crore) BSNL selects (4 firms) Teracom,Take Solutions,Adishwar India and Ampoules to roll out WiMax based broadband service as a franchisee Syndicate bank to issue e-stamps in collabration with Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.(A central agency appointed by the Government of India, for the e-stamp project) Abbott to buy Piramal's drug business for $3.72 billion Sports Mark Webber wins Monaco Grand Prix Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer to win the Madrid title England wins first-ever world title - World Twenty20 Cup India, South Korea declared joint winners in Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament as the match was called off due to rain

People Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessar has 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) and Mr.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 a computer virus. Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, India at Firstsource Solutions Acquisitions Mahindra and Mahindra acquires electric car maker REVA McAfee to acquire Trust Digital Business Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch Nifty futures from July 19th 2010






Punjab National Bank ties up with Oriental Insurance Company Limited to offer a floater Health Insurance Policy Innovation 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 returns of the entire country) to start functioning in Bangalore Technology Dell's Streak a tablet computer, to be introduced in Britain

People 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 2010-11 Technology 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" to 24" Science World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improve healthcare Acquisitions HP acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion Mattel to ink $20 million deal with Wipro Business RBI approves Nokia mobile money transfer in India

UB Group becomes world's 2nd largest spirits maker Micheal Susan Dell Foundation in association with Dr.Reddy's foundation to organise 3 months free training program Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book Ajay Banga has been appointed as CEO for MasterCard, to take charger from July 1st 2010






Microsoft launches mobile handset Kin, specifically for users who actively access social networking sites 71yr old woman is heading through southern route via Nepal to show the world that age is no bar to conquer the world's largest peak Mt.Everest One school, 39 different languages The countdown begins for the launch of GSDLV-D3 Twitter introduces paid advertising

'Khao Lite Jiyo Lite' - the ad line of Nature Fresh edible oil is a product of which company? Cargill Food 'Ideas for Life' is ad line of which electronic gaint? Panasonic 'We deliver Mumbai' is the ad line of which newspaper daily? Midday The Mittal Group of Industries merged with which major business entity and gave the tag line 'Transforming Tomorrow'? Arcelor Which companies ad line was 'Geography is History'? Iridium 'Lets Reach for the Sun' is the ad line of which company/group of companies? Aditya Birla Group 'Your Style. Your Store.' is the base line of which company? Lifestyle International 'Life is One incredible Journey' is the baseline of which magazine? Outlook Traveller 'It's time to move on' is the tagline of which company? Aircel The ad line 'Life's A Journey' is associated with which company? Samsonite

World's top 10 Billionaires

Rank Name Country Net worth 1. Carlos Slim Helu and family Mexico $53.5 Billion 2. Bill Gates USA $53 Billion 3. Warren Buffet USA $47 Billion 4. Mukesh Ambani India $29 Billion 5. Lakshmi Mittal India $28.7 Billion 6. Lawrence Ellison USA $28 Billion 7. Bernard Arnault France $27.5 Billion






8. Eike Batista Brazil $27 Billion 9. Amancio Ortega Spain $25 Billion 10. Karl Albrecht Germany $23.5 Billion

People 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 2010-11 Technology 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" to 24" Science World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improve healthcare Acquisitions HP acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion Mattel to ink $20 million deal with Wipro Business RBI approves Nokia mobile money transfer in India People Bharti Airtel appoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services(India and South Asia) Abhay Singavi has been appointed as CEO of Narayana Hrudayalaya Mr.Rajiv Bakshi to be Vice President - Marketing Asia-Pacific, for Discovery Networks Technology Compellent to launch 2.5inch hard drives with capacity of 900GB at 10,000rpm and 300GB at 15,000rpm ViewSonic launches 27inch HD monitor Microsoft and Nokia tie up to launch Communicator HP launches OfficeJet4500 All-in-One in India Acquisitions 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 Entertainment has acquired a controlling stake in Los Angeles-based IM Global Bharti Airtel inks deal with Novatium to provide Unique Active desktop powered by Airtel Net PC Plus Business Carrefour to setup its wholesale cash-and-carry business in India FlyDubai to launch India operations People Bill Gates to adopt Gularia village in Khagaria from the state of Bihar David Cameron has been elected as British Prime Minster Technology Nokia launches 3G slider phones, Nokia 6700 and Nokia 7230 in India Microsoft launches Office 2010 Sony introduces 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 voice message transmission) to the under-privileged using mobile phones IBM launches Aquasar, liquid cooled supercomputer HP to replace glass displays with plastic Sports World champion Viswanathan Anand retained his crown winning the World Chess Championship title against Veselin Topalov of Russia Business World's first gold-dispensing ATM, now at Dubai's Emirates Palace Shriram Transport to enter into construction equipment finance People Bharti Retail has appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officer who will lead operations starting July 2010 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 and professional excellence Science Plastic lens to replace laser eye surgery ONGC Mittal Energy has found hydrocarbons in Nigerian deepwater block Pune-based Serum Institute of India has developed H1N1 vaccine - a harmless nasal spray which could be used by people aged above 3 except pregnant women






People Somdev Devvarman becomes first Indian in 13years to qualify for the men's singles event of French Open 2010 Indian born Scot John Shepjerd-Barron ATM's inventor is dead US Intel chief Dennis Blair quits Business Hindujas to buy European Private bank KBL epb for 1.35bn euros(Approx. Rs.8,770crore) BSNL selects (4 firms) Teracom,Take Solutions,Adishwar India and Ampoules to roll out WiMax based broadband service as a franchisee Syndicate bank to issue e-stamps in collaboration with Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.(A central agency appointed by the Government of India, for the e-stamp project) Abbott to buy Piramal's drug business for $3.72 billion Sports Mark Webber wins Monaco Grand Prix Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer to win the Madrid title England wins first-ever world title - World Twenty20 Cup India, South Korea declared joint winners in Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament as the match was called off due to rain People Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessar has 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) and Mr.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 a computer virus. Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, India at Firstsource Solutions Acquisitions Mahindra and Mahindra acquires electric car maker REVA McAfee to acquire Trust Digital Business Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch Nifty futures from July 19th 2010 Punjab National Bank ties up with Oriental Insurance Company Limited to offer a floater Health Insurance Policy Innovation 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 returns of the entire country) to start functioning in Bangalore Technology

Dell's Streak a tablet computer, to be introduced in Britain






Nokia to acquire mobile browser Novarra

Sri Lanka to host 11th International Indian Film Academy awards and Twenty20 match between Bollywood stars and Asian cricketers during 3day event. IIFA Award function to be held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium between June 2nd and 4th 2010 E-knowledge network gets Govt. approval AT&T acquired 8.07% stake in Tech Mahindra Two new IPL teams announced for next season. Sahara won the Pune team for Rs.1702 crore Rendezvous Sports won the Kochi team for Rs.1533 crore Schneider Electric takes over Zicom Reliance Communication has 100mn subscribes TCS wins Malaysia Airlines contract Apple COO gets 22$ million reward Google sure to shut China search engine US to roll out major broadband policy Patni to launch business center in Mexico Facebook is hiring in India to expand operations Manmohan Singh to be presented Appeal of Conscience Foundation 2010 World Statesman Award in September in New York China wants high-speed rail link to India Invitational World Archery: Indian's grab 2 gold Audi RS 5 launched in Geneva. Google opens online store for business applications Indian investors allowed to access to USA's capital market Survey: Internet access is a 'fundamental right' Hero Honda to set up second plant in Rajasthan Sony launches Internet enabled LCD TVs, introduced 3D TV in India priced between Rs.45,900 and Rs.3.50lakh S Ramadorai is set to become non-executive Chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange Sachin named most influential Indian Sportsperson Kapil Dev inducted into ICC Hall of Fame Microsoft to launch social networking mobile phone in U.S Path2usa acquires lawbench.com and trackitt.com Chandrayaan-I finds ice near moon's north pole






Nokia unveils C5 smart phone ANZ - Australia and New Zealand Bank gets nod to open branches in India Olive Telecom launches dual powered handset works both on Lithium Ion and replaceable AAA battery Muralitharan to retire from Test cricket and quit from all forms of game after 2011 World Cup Women's commission to launch SMS system to book eve teasers Brij Mohan Bansal to take over as IndianOil Chairman First International tourism police station opened in Kerala 3 Idiots wins BEST FILM at Filmfare Awards 2010 Mysore unit of ISKCON to celebrate 524th birth anniversary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu on Sunday Vw Polo launched at Rs.4.34lakh Chevrolet Cruze automatic launched Sachin scores maiden 200 in One Day International Cricket Murali Vijay and Abhimanyu Mithun debuts for India in One Day International cricket Rajeev Maheshwari appointed as Wall Street Finance CEO BSNL to launch money transfers on Mobile M.F. Hussain gets Qatar nationality Ernst and Young selected as consultant for UIDAI RBI fines Bank of Rajasthan for violation of directions with regard to acquisition of immovable properties and deletion of records in bank's IT systems Air India to get first Boeing 787 in April 2011

Verdasco beats Roddick in San Jose Open Final Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in Maharashtra Tom and Jerry turns 70 this year India beat South Africa to remain Number 1 Test Team UST, Virgin Racing partner for 2010 Formula 1 season Ashok Leyland inaugurates Viralimalai facility Jaya Bachan to receive 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in London Dr.Ralph Speth has been appointed as CEO of Jaguar Land Rover Vinod Aggarwal to take role of CEO of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles starting July 1st 2010 Arun Birla to be Executive Vice-President of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles and President Eicher Truck and Buses starting April 1st 2010 Carl-Peter Forster, the former Europe head of Foster's has been appointed as the CEO of Tata Motors






Afghanistan and Ireland make to World Twenty20 through WCT20 Qualifier 2010 Nandan Nilekani has been honoured with Citizen Extraordinaire Award 2010 Boeing to bid for $31 billion Indian orders in 10 years Single Point US-based mobile/SMS advertising company acquires M2 Junction by enabling themselves to enter into Indian market Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) launches Wealth Plus - a unit linked insurance plan India-Pak talks in New Delhi on Feb 25: Pakistan PMO Andrew Flintoff to open cricket academy in Dubai Cricket to become an Olympics Sport, including cricket, sport climbing and powerboating are to bid for the 2020 Olympics Motorola to split into two by next year Iranian Government bans Gmail Champions League T20 to move out of India ONGC bags $19bn oil deal in Venezuela Nokia Siemens wins $700 m deal from Bharti Airtel Fortis Health to set up 2 hospitals in north India FIIs pull out over Rs 10,000 crore in 2010 so far. You Tube adds 'Safety Mode' to screen objectionable content State Bank of Indore to be merged with State Bank of India by March Former Managing Director of Ogilvy and Mather S.R.Mani Ayer,"the most outstanding individual in the Ogilvy Network", is no more. 337 year-old book (published in 1673) India and Persia by the British Cartographer John Ogilvie to be reprinted by the authorities of the Asiatic Society in Kolkata Manufactured by Philips, world's smallest ECG machine to be launched in Goa at an International Echocardiography fourday-conference starting Feb 11th 2010 Tata's Nano, the world's cheapest 4-wheeler was conferred the Autocar 'Car of the Year' award at Autocar Awards 2010, instituted by Blooberg UTV Kuldip Singh named new CMD of MTNL Hyundai unveils i10 Electric Airtel announces acquisition of Warid Telecom for $300 million Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh inaugurates 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas UK to include Facebook, Twitter in school curriculum under English Studies:Digital Communication Infosys net falls by 4.9% in 3rd quarter Eric Simmons appointed India's bowling consultant






14 year old girl of Indian origin, Uma Jha has been crowned Australia's brainieststudent. She would participate at the International Brain Bee Challenge to be held in August at California A.R.Rahman bagged 2 trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards for his music in 'Slumdog Millionaire' Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray to win the 16th Grand Slam of his career Leander Paes and Cara Black won their 2nd Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the Australian Open Serena beats Henin to win Australian Open Mumbai to stage 2011 one-day Cricket World Cup final, Mohali a semi-final and Ahmedabad a quarter-final India: 3G auction process begins, 3 top bidders to get spectrum in17 circles Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick named English cricketer's player of the year by his fellow professionals Tata Sumo Grande MKII on road test Repo and reverse repo rates left unchanged before Budget 2010 RBI hikes CRR by 75BPS to 5.75% before Budget 2010 Vijender Singh gets silver at the 2 day Champion of Champions invitational boxing Tournament in Guangzhou, China for 75kg Category Olympian Dinesh Kumar too won a silver medal for 81kg category Inox acquires 43.28% in Fame India for Rs.66 crore Google to launch, a software to translate as one speaks on phone Overtaking Spain, India reaches No.9 spot in the world of Science and Technology Father of echo cardiography Navin-Nanda HP Mini-210 netbook launched at a price of Rs.16,000 Intel launches its 2010 Intel Core vPro processors for Business PCs Epson launches its Mini Photo Printer - Epson PictureMate PM310 with 7 inch display Sony Ericsson launches Aspen business mobile phone with is bundled with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system Microsoft launches Arc keyboard Acer - Stronger than expected sales of its Google Android phone named Liquid, have led to the shortages of device Rio Tito the world's 3rd largest mining named Ian Bauert as managing director for its China office Mitsubishi Electric to buy stake in unprofitable consumer electronics maker Pioneer to gain access to that firm's car navigation technology Corporation Bank to launch multi-utility cards which can be used as a debit, credit and pre-paid card Indo-Pak pair, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi win 1st ATP title India successfully test fires Agni-III missile Michael Jackson's 12 feet statue at the 9th International Granites and Stone Fair being held in the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre UFO Moviez(digital satellite cinema network) to bring DLF IPL 2010 matches live in theatres including tier II and III cities Pakistan lost to India 5-1 helps India to reach final of the hockey event in the 11th South Asian Games at Moulana Bhashani Stadium






Supreme Court grants bail to PWC auditor in Satyam case Sania Mirza and Poojashree Venkatesha managed straight-set wins playing against Singapore thus, India beat Singapore 3-0 in Fed Cup ISRO Chairman K.Radhakrishnan: NASA and European Space Agency(ESA) wants to be part of Chandrayaan-II - the next Indian mission to moon, by sending their instruments From August to till 31 october

Award

Sastra University of Thanjavur has bagged the 1st prize or the 'Degree C Award' of Rs.1 lakh at the TechTop-2010

competition held at Thiruvananthapuram Technopark

People

The Central Provincial Council in Kandy, Colombo has decided to name the 2010 World Cup venue as the Muttaih

Muralitharan 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. Sandeep

Bakshi, 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

currently a Design Engineer with Saint-Gobain Glass India has received the first 'Pemanda Monappa

Scholarship' award to pursue an 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 of 99 and 226

days. The only New Zealander to be capped in both Rugby and Cricket

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 of 1,400 youths under the age of 25 from 147 countries gather for the 2 week long World Youth Congress at

Istanbul to discuss how youths can be most effective in addressing the problems facing the world and to develop

sustainable youth strategies

Coimbatore Tidel Park a 56-acre SEZ(Special Economic Zone) campus housing 3 IT companies - Wipro, TCS and HCL

developed jointly by the Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation, Electronics Corporation of India, Software

Technology Parks 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 move be held in Ahemadabad(August 20-22) and Surat(August 27-29)

Innovation

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

Lost and Found

Natt, a vessel beleived to be have sunk in World War II has been found and recovered by Myanmar divers in the western

Rakhine 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

with its original face without damage from a depth of 4.5meters in a stream in Buthidaung)

Science

China successfully launched a 5th orbiter into space as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and global positioning

network

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

for 6 and 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

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

of the 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

and 37 sec

G.K.Rathinavel clinches bronze(Shot put and Discus) in the 24th Sri Lanka Masters Athletics Annual Open

Championship 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

Busan, South Korea

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

Technology






India's 7th fastest supercomputer at a computation(HPC) cluster 1.5 Tera Byte memory and 30TB storage space cluster

capacity 'Annapurna' was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc) in Chennai

Panasonic launches world's first 3-D camcorder

American Museum of Natural History in New York launches mobile navigation app to provide visitors with a new-

generation museum 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

ecord

Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, a Canadian yoga teacher at the age of 28 have claimed to have completed 32-hour yoga

marathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montreal

People

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

and Egypt Open Table Tennis Tournament

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

Mr.Charles Hunting has been appointed as CEO of Genpact 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 Saurabhas Head Advertising Soutions

by Professional networking website LinkedIn

Business

Nokia adpots 5 villages(Pure Rajaram, Pure Tilak Ram, Bhalbhara Khera, Baletha and Poore Chamaar) in the Raebareli

area of Uttar Pradesh to distribute free mobile handsetsand to give Rs.200 worth pre-paid top-up every month. Nokia

has partnered 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) has been launched in Kerala by Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd., internationally acclaimed water

technology solution provider of Chennai

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

Cisco has been ranked number 1 vendor in 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

Education

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






Science

'Solar tsunami' may hit Earth anytime, Scientists

Technology

Aircel launches 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 Excise has launched its website,cexmangalore.gov.in

Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has launched 'PC2Mobile Scan', mobile virus-scan which could support 581 models of

mobile 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 of EC media would be available with a 6-inch screen for Rs.8,000

Bharti Airtel and 15 other global telecom companies together launched a 10,000km submarine cable system to

connect east Africa 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

bring out the technology called 'payWave', developed by DeviceFidelity.

(payWave: Technology to be used to store bank information in memory cards placed in mobile phone)

People

Mr.Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf of Indo-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 shooter to win a gold medal at World Championships

Business

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

mode course for opticians

Discovery/Innovation

V-invertor, a matchbox-sized device that can power homes during power cuts has been invented by Mr.Subrata Datta,

an employee 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

the main belt asteroid named 2010 PO24 participating in the "All-India Asteroid Search Campaign"






Science

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

Sports

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

Technology

Dell's Android based tablet launched on AT&T carrier

SHQ3000 SHQ4000 are the two new range of waterproof and sweat proof sports headphones priced at 1,999 and

2,499 have been launched by Philips

Business

'FinePix', world's first 3D camera and printing service (could be printed on special 3D paper and ready to stick in family

album) has been launched by Fujifilm

United Stock Exchange to launch currency futures operations in all four currency pairs - dollar-rupee, euro-rupee, yen-

rupee and pound-rupee on 31st August 2010

Siemens has bagged a 10-million euro order from Steel Authority of India(SAIL) to supply an RH vacuum degassing

plant to the Rourkela Steel plant

Facebook acquires Chai Labs for about $10 million

Ybrant Digital(end-to-end provider of digital marketing solutions) acquires a U.S based subsidiary Lycos(search based

internet properties)

China tops Japan as 2nd biggest economy in Q2

Coca Cola enters dairy business, launches 'Mazza Milky Delite' a blend of mangoes and milk priced at Rs.15

Entertainment

Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Jasraj have teamed up for the first time to record a song("Om namoh sukhadayni") for a

Marathi movie, 'Aai Tujha Ashirward'

People

Mr.N.Rangachary has been appointed as Chairman of Central Depository Services Ltd.

Debarpita Banerjee has been appointed as the Vice President-Marketing, India by FOX International Channel

Woman wrestler Pooja Dhanda becomes the first Indian medalist(Silver) at the Youth Olympic Games

Record






About 250 fashion models took part in world's longest catwalk of 1,609-metre at the Copenhangen fashion week in

Denmark

Whirlpool India to make world's largest Pookalam or floral carpet at Lulu Convention Centre on August 17th 2010 along

with under priviledged children to attempt an entry into 'Limca Book of Records'

Science

China establishes observation station named 'Snow Dragon' on ice area in North pole

Sports

AR Rahman launches Commonwealth Games(CWG) 2010 theme song

Andy Murray beats Roger Federer to win Rogers Cup

Brazil beat China 3-0 at the FIVB World Grand Prix women's volleyball tournament

Bangalore to host ICC awards ceremony on October 6th 2010

Technology

TVS Gold Bharat Keyboard, with the new Indian Rupee symbol on it has been launched by TVS Electronics and

becomes the first and only Indian company to incorporate the very symbol

Lava B5 is the first mobile hanset which has a dedicted key to type the new Indian currency symbol and has been

launched by Lava International

Tata Teleservices launches call and tweet service

(Dail 50007 and send a voice tweet at a cost of 80 paise per tweet)

'Mahashramm', a labour management system launched by Maharashtra Government to bring labour(Public and Private)

under the banking arena

Asus launches NX90 notebook in Indian market

Awards

Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete has been crowned Miss Universe 2010

Kaavya Jayram a 12-year old becomes youngest person to present a paper on her results in the area of integer

partitioning at the International Congress of Women Mathematicians

Nila Seafoods of Tuticorin becomes the first Indian manufacturer-exporter to be awarded the MPEDA quality logo

MPEDA - Marine Products Export Development Authority

Business

6yr old girl is China's youngest shareholder as Wu Qinyi inherites 62,500 shares from her father whose estimate os 1.05

million yuan (over $154,411)






Intel to buy McAfee at $7.7 billion

Google acquires search engine like.com

Rcom partners with Nokia to launch 'Ovi Life Tools', the new service to help farmers with queries on crop price, fertiliser

use, weather condition, soil health and right sowing season as the domian experts will provide the answer

Nokia Siemens to deploy 3G network for Tata Teleservices

Events

Organised by CII, 4th edition of the 'HR Summit' is to be held at the Residency, Coimbatore zone. Theme for which is

'Harnessing Human Capital through sustainable Innovative Strategies'

Discovery

Astronomers have discovered what is to be claimed as Vast solar system of 7 planets, orbiting a sun-like star, 127 light

years away from Earth

People

Arjun Atwal becomes first Indian-born player to win USPGA Tour

Mother Teresa's birth centenary celebrations begins in Kolkata

Mr.Sanjay Jain has been appointed as CEO of Tulip Telecom Ltd.

Science

Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs

Sports

Russian tennis star Sharapova has been named world's highest paid athlete

Technology

Google to allow phone calls from Gmail, free for US and Canadian phones and nominal charge of 2 cents per minute

to countries including Britain, France, Germany, China and Japan

Business

Indian economy grows by 8.8% in April-June

SEBI allows trading through wireless technology including mobile phone and laptops

RBI to examine S&P 500 and Dow trading on NSE

Franchise India to tie up with banks(SBI,HDFC,Punjab Naiotnal Bank, ICICI Bank and HDFC) for small ticket loan






Small ticket loans: To help provide easy finance to investors keen on setting-up small businesses

Google acquires social games website SocialDeck

RIL notifies 4th gas strike in D3 block of KG Basin

RCom sets up 3G innovation lab in Mumbai

Ericsson India acquires stakes in Novatium Solutions

Suzuki launches 125cc motorcycle-SlingShot-priced at around Rs.47,000

Honour

Coins of denominations Rs.100 and Rs.5 has been released to mark the birth centenary ofMother Teresa

Indrani Medhi, a Bangalore-based Microsoft researcher has developed graphics and multimedia-based user interfaces

for computers to make them more accessible to people who cannot read or write via, which the 32 year old joins TR35 list

of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review's 2010

Law

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues major tech companies including Google Inc and Apple Inc at US District Court in

Seattle

Member Elect

Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Ben J Verwaayen CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Zhu Min Special Adviser, IMF and a

former Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China has been elected to World Economic Forum Foundation Board

People

Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, his 150th birthday on September 15

Madhusudan Kela to be Chief Investment Strategist from Septemeber 21st 2010 at Reliance Capital

Herbert Sutcliffe an England batting great has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

7 year old maths prodigy Oscar Selby, who became the youngest Briton to gain the top grade in GCSE maths, now

advises the Government of Britian

Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as Microsoft's new India Development Center MD

Indian origin actress Archie Panjabi, has bagged the best supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Good

Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards 2010

S.Malathi has been appointed as Tamil Nadu's Chief Secretary

Film producer and distributor S.Pavami dead

Sports






Commonwealth Games(October 3rd to 14th 2010) theme song 'Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto' has been unvieled by Oscar-

winning composer A.R.Rahman

Technology

Nokia launches two handsets C1 and C2, its frst dual-sim phones priced at Rs.1,999

Lephone offers triple SIM mobile at Rs.4,900

Samsung Guru dual SIM mobiles launched in India

Diamond could replace silicon in computers

Wynncom introduces Hindi QWERTY keypad phone Y-45

Google launches site for real-time search

'Priority Inbox', new Gmail feature to sort incoming mails into three sections, important and unread,starred and

everything else

Transcend launches 4GB aXeRam DDR3-2400

Business

SBI's Branch at Kohinoor Banjara Premium banking Centre takes Rs.1 crore to open an account and that too on an

invitation only.

Videocon Telecommunications offers a low tariff for international prepaid calls for countries including America at 1 paisa

per second, Singapore and Malaysia at Rs.1.69 per minute

Air India to operate daily Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flights from November 1st 2010

Entertainment

2011 edition of the International Indian Film Academy Awards(IIFA) would be held in the North American city of Toronto

People

Former Argentina footballer Francisco Varallo, last surviving player from the 1st football World Cup dies at 100

Rishad, Premji's son is Wipro's Chief Strategy Officer of its IT business

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal slips to No.3 in world ranking

M.S.Swaminathan, one fo the pioneers of the Green Revolution in India, will receive an honorary doctorate from

Canadian's University of Alberta for his contribution to food security in the world

Indian Broadcasting Foundation, the apex of television channels has appointed Star India CEO Uday Shankar as

President






Technology

Samsung unveils Galaxy to challenge Apple's iPad

Symbian 3 run Nokia N8 with 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with scratch resistant Gorilla glass to reach India

by mid-September

Business

Akai enters Indian mobile market with 10 mobile phone models

China-based ZTE bags $64 million WiMax deal from BSNL

Skill development firm TalentSprint and financial software testing company Thinksoft Global, tie up to launch professional

programs in structured testing of financial software

SpiceJet to begin international operations from October 9th 2010

People

Bob Diamond to head Barclays, as its next chief executive

Legendar Singer, Asha Bhosle turns 77

Tamil actor murali dies of heart attack

Vettori named New Zealand player of the year

Microsoft's Stephen Elop is Nokia's new CEO

Science

India test fired BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast

Sourabh Siyal and Tushar Agarwal, students of Chirst College have designed a washing machine with junk

material which includes discarded plastic bottle, runs without power

Sports

India wins gold in Archery World cup

Japanese rider Shpya Tomizawa dies at the San Marino Grand Prix (Moto2 race) which was held in Italy

India will see its inaugural Formula One Grand Prix on October 30th 2011

Chennai Sports City of 1,500 acres to be established in the Kancheepuram district

24-hour helpline website launched for tourists ahead of Common Wealth Games 2010

Tax






Now, get SMS alerts on tax dues

Technology

Google to play live interpreter(conversations between 2 people who do not speak the same language) using

smartphones

SanDisk launches world's smallest stamp sized 64-bit solid-state drive

Award

Telugu film maker, D.Ramanaidu has been honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke award

Eco-friendly Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bags 'Earth Care Award for Excellence 2010 in Climate

Change Mitigation and Adaptation'

Mani Ratnam was awarded 'Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Fimlmaker Award' at the 67th Venice Film Festival

Business

Employee's Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) interest rate has been increased to 9.5 percent

RBI hikes repo rate and reverse repo rate by 25 bps from 5.75% to 6.0% and 50 bps from 4.5% to 5.0% respectively

Ipomo Communications has launched 'mobile learning' campus called Interactive Platform On Mobile Campus(IPOMO

CAMPUS) in Karnataka

Celebration

Bank of Maharashtra surpasses (Platinum) 75 years of Banking service

Entertainment

Hollywood studio Warner Bros picks up distribution right of animated feature film'Ramayana - The Epic', slated for a

Dasara release in 3 languages(Hindi, Tamil and Telugu) simultaneously across India

Honour

Chennai-girl Divya Ajith becomes first woman to raise 'Sword of Honour' winning the Best All-Round Cadet award,

beats 244 fellow gentlemen and women cadets.

People

South Indian playback singer and National award winner Swarnalatha is dead, following lung infection

Internet inventor Breners-Lee has urged that everyone across the world should haveaccess to the web for free

Sunil Sanghai has been appointed as Managing Director and Head of Global Banking in India by HSBC






Science

Scientists make artificial (eletronic) skin that can sense touch

Sports

Clijsters wins 3rd U.S Open title

Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins gold in World Wrestling Championship

Nadal wins U.S.Open, completes grand slam collection

England's Andrew Flintoff retires from international cricket (all forms of the game)

England and Wales Cricket Board has handed a 2-week ban, to all-rounder Dmitri Mascarenhas for his Twitter outburst

against national selector Geoff Miller

Technology

Samsung launches iPad named, Tab

Gramateller, a low-cost ATM priced at Rs.1,75,000 which consumes less than 100 watts of power, functions during

power cuts with a back-up power supply and has the option of running on solar power has been launched by Vortex

Engineering

Vortex Engineering: L.Kannan a mechanical engineer from IIT Madras. The founder, started the company in the year

2001 to develop innovative technologies to transform rural India

Termed to be the concept device, Nokia U has been revealed

Business

Bharti enters mobile phone business, as group firm beetle launches 8 triple SIM phonespriced between Rs.1,750 to

Rs.7,000

Nokia Siemens, Ericsson and Huawei has been awarded the contracts of 3G network infrastructure by Bharti Airtel

Sensex ends above 20,000 points, the last before today was on January 15th 2008

India's first Super Hercules plane C-130J, considered to be world's most advanced transport aircraft is being prepared

for its maiden flight early October 2010

STAR India PLUS has been launched on America's Verizon FiOS TV

Dell Streak, now made available on company's online store

MTS partners with Reebok, to offer a pair of sports shoes on purchase of its data card

Jet Airways to fly to Milan from December

Education






Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) to provide a certificate program English course through Nokia phone's

Ovi Life Tools

People

M.C.Mary Kom claims a historic 5th successive World Championship title, beating Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6

Anysha Panesar, a 16-year-old Indian-origin teenager has been crowned USA's Perfect Teen

Nilsson has been appointed as Executive Director, International Operations by Ashok Leyland

Actor Manoj Kumar to get lifetime achievement honour at the Mumbai Academy of Moving IMage(MAMI), to be held

between 21st to 28th of October 2010

Sports

Indian teams, including Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, P.Harikrishna and Surya Shekar Ganguly secure 3rd

round victory of the 29th Chess Olympiad held at Khanty Mansiysk in Russia

Awards

Scientists of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology(IICT) have received awards from the Organisation of Pharmaceutical

Producers of India(OPPI).

Dr.G.V.M.Sharma has been awarded OPPI Scientist of the Year award - 2010

Dr.K.Suresh Babu and Dr.N.Shankariah has been awarded the Young Scientist Award 2010

Business

Netbiscuits to offer its customers with apps made for Samsung's OS-Bada

Huawei to setup $500 Million unit near Chennai

Google acquires mobile typing startup BlindType

Honda Siel Cars India launched 'Variant' priced at Rs.9.53lakh and Rs.10.25lakh

TalentSprint and Maveric Systems have jointly launched an advanced learning centre to impart training in non-

functional testing space

NABARD has launched a SMS-based crop advisory and information service

(SMS Service:to farmers providing personalised and customised agricultural information covering crop advisory services,

market prices and weather forecast to maximise the productivity and income of farmers)

Singapore Mercantile Exchange(SMX) to launch world's first international black pepper futures contract

Unilog launches logistics services across Kerala

Gammon India opens training centre at Kuppedada village of Srirangapatna Taluk, in Mysore

ICICI Bank launches Hindi version of its website






Event

2-day realty expo to be organised at Udupi on October 9th and 10th 2010 which is expected to include

promoters,builders,commercial banks and housing finance, solar product and cement companies

People

Leo Apotheker replaces Mark Hurd as HP's CEO

Rohit Kapoor(EXL President and CEO) would hold additional role of Executive Chairman of Board

A.R.Rahman to receive Indira Gandhi award for National Integration for the year 2009

Business

Singh brothers to purchase 5 units of Hong Kong-listed Quality Healthcare Asia(QHA) for HK$1,541 million (approx.

Rs.882 crore)

Alcatel-Lucent opens regional delivery center(RDC) in Bangalore to manage, operate and maintain multi-vendor fixed

and mobile telecommunications networks based in India or anywhere around the world

India's (EXIM)Export-Import Bank has secured a $150 million International loan to help expand Indian exports to Africa

Tata-DoCoMo to launch 3G services in November acorss 9 cities - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab,

Haryana, Uttar Pradesh(West), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh

People

Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman of Shell Companies in India to receive the Asian Business Leader Award(leadership and

contribution of business in Asia) in London

Other recipients of the awards are Stephen Green, Britian's trade minister and ex-chairman of HSBC and Jack Ma,

Chairman and CEO of Alibaba group

Tamim Iqbal named Wisden Test Player of the year

Vijay Mallya has been awarded the International Business Leader of the Year by the GG2 Leadership and Diversity

Awards

London-based hotelier and Philanthropist Joginder Sanger has been given Incredible India Travel Personality of the Year

award

Ex-Patni VP Rajesh Padmanabhan, has been appointed as HR Head by Capgemini

Technology

Transcend launches 4GB DDR3 DRAM modules using high-density(2Gbit) DDR3chips

McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management(EMM) 9.0 platform to provide mobility solution, package to include .NET and

SQL Express

Western Union, has tied-up with State Bank of India to enable international direct cash-to-account transfer(SBI






account holders will be able to route overseas money transfers directly in their bank accounts using mobile phones)

Facebook, Bing teams up to give online search a social touch

Auto404, a new online complaint system to get rid of arrogant autowallas

National Instrument has launched the LabVIEW 2010, the latest version of graphical programming environment for

design, test, measurement and control applications

Microsoft unveils new phone with Windows OS

Award/Prize

Indian Women journalists (Rumni Ghosh with Best Reporting in Hindi award,Preethi Nagaraj with Best Reporting in

English award and Bornali Boruah for Best Reporting in Other regional Languages,Assamese) to receive the 10th annual

Sarojini Naidu Prize for Best Reporting on women and Panchayat Raj in an event held by The Hunger Project, a

New-York based nonprofit organisation

Hari Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher wins 2010 Pioneer Awards of Electronic Frontier Foundation

(EFF) at San Francisco. Vemuru has been released on bail after being imprisoned for his security work in India, is a

researcher who recently revealed security flaws in India's paperless electronic voting machines

Business

Indian jet deal to could create 27,000 jobs in US

Insurance products could now be distributed with IRDA at post offices across India

Intel invests $8 billion, to create jobs up to 8,000

Dheeraj Hinduja(3rd generation Hinduja) replaces RJ Shahaney at Ashok Leyland as $25 billion Hinduja group is to

take over the expansion of the commercial vehicle business in a joint venture with Nissan

3 policies on Information and Communication Technology, Hardware and Animation for Karnataka state to be released at

the 13th Edition of India's most premier ICT event, IT.Biz. Event to be held between 28th and 30th of October 2010

ICICI Bank has launched I-Express, an instant cross-border money transfer option for non-resident Indians(NRIs) in Gulf

countries

Eurocopter launches a wholly-owned subsidiary in India to start operations and to capture half of the country's growing

civilian helicopter market by 2015. It is also scheduled to setupan engineering centre in Bangalore to support its global

design and development activities

IBM has bagged 5-year contract from wind turbines major Suzlon to provide business consulting services to manage

its application development and maintenance requirements

LIC Pension Fund has approached interim regulator Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)

seeking permission to invest in IPOs which would help it to take part in the Government's divestment programme

Indian innerwear company, Maxwell Industries announced the launch of its latest offering "Eminence" in Bangalore.

Maxwell is the maker of 'VIP' range of mens innerwear and vests

Nokia to slash 1,800 jobs worldwide to streamline its smartphones business

Eli Lilly and Co. has launched 'Efficient', its cardiovascular product used to prevent blood clots






Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has selected 49 volunteers to function as 'Business Correspondents' in villages in

Cuddalore, Villupuram and Tiruvannamalai districts of Tamilnadu to impart training to operate smart cards

Entertainment

India gets 5 nominations, including 3 for Marathi cinema, in 4th Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be held in Australia on

December 2nd 2010

People

Oana Lungescu has been hired for top press job(as spokeswoman) for the first time in NATO's 61-year history

Sumant Pal has been appointed as Head of Global Services for India by EMC

Priya Ranjan is set to join Axa group's headquarters in France to head global force of over 1 lakh people

Ravi Uppal has been appointed by Larsen and Tourbo as whole-time director for a period of 5 years

P.V.K.Mohan has been appointed as Senior Fund Manager at Principal Mutual Fund

Sudhir Vasudeva has been selected by the Public Enterprise Selection Board(PSEB) to succeed RS Sharma as the

chairman of ONGC

Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor turns 79

Pierre Nanterme named CEO of Accenture with effect from 1st January 2011, replaces William D Green

Sports

Delhi's Ashok Kumar wins 2nd successive PGTI title, bagging the Global Green Bangalore Open

Breet Lee signs up with NZ T20 side

Technology

Adobe Systems launches Adobe Acrobat X software family comprising of Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and

new document exchange services at Acrobat website

Microsoft to launch beta version of Wikibhasha, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia

Sony Ericssion has launched a bluetooth touch display named Live View which allows to control mobile phone while it is

pocket

Microsoft has launched Office 365, the online version office suite. Office suite to include Web-based versions of Microsoft

Office, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and Exchange Online

HP introduces Palm Pre 2 with webOS2.0

Infosys Technologies Ltd. has announced the launch of Finacle mobile banking 2.0 to facilitate retail and corporate

consumers to access banking services through mobile SMS, GPRS, 3G and USSD-enabled handsets






Apple unveiled a series of new products at its 'Back to Mac' event, including MAC OS X Lion, MacBook Air and iLife 11

application suite

Micromax to launch moduT, a 3.5G touch phone with 2.2inch screen and expandable memory up to 32GB priced at

Rs.12,500

PC Tools launches 5 new products to its existing suite for 2011

Award

India-based documentary directed by Kim Longinotto's 'Pink Saris' wins at Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the director says the

prize money will be used to help the girls who featured in the film

Ratan Tata conferred the prestigious 'Legend in Leadership Award' at the 64th Yale CEO Leadership Summit by Yale

University President Richard C Levin

Tendulkar has been honoured 'Lebara People's Choice' award by Ratheesan Yoganathan, CEO Lebara at the inaugural

Asian Awards in UK

Books

Manju Kapur's 'The Immigrant', Neel Mukherjee's 'A Life Apart' and Amit Chaudhuri's 'The Immortals' have

been shortlisted for $50,000 literary prize

Business

GM India to come out with eletric car next year

R-Power awards Rs.10,000 crore order to GE

Maruti plans to add 1,500 service outlets by 2015

B.M.Munjal family, owners of the Indian promoters stake in Hore Honda, will be officially known as the Hero Group with a

division of $4.2 billion

China becomes Volvo's 3rd largest market

AIA raises $17.9 billion, becomes 3rd biggest IPO

ICICI Bank and American Express launch prepaid travel card, a smart alternative to cash while travelling

Bharti Airtel plans call center jobs in Africa, hires IBM and Tech Mahindra and Spanco to render services

SEBI doubles retail investor limit in IPO to Rs.2,00,000

160by2.com tie up with AhaApps.com to launch iPhone application enabling free SMS from all iPhones

Bharti Airtel to launch 3G by end of 2010

RBI insists 2nd password for online shopping

India's Exports jump 23% or $18 billion in September at its fastest pace in 2 years

Maruti Suzuki to manufacture its first fully 'Made in India' car






Warren E. Buffett hires manager for portfolio management for Berkshire Hathaway

DGCX,Indian Rupee futures contract traded a record 6,043 contracts worth $270.61 million as on October 19th 2010

Cable and Wireless Worldwide announces 2nd Network Operating Centre in India

Intel's 1st Asia unit in China begins production

Advaith Hyundai has launched 'Free Care Care Clinic'

Education

Volkswagen India signs a MoU with a Punjab-based education group Rayat Bahra to impart technical training to

engineering students

People

Indian archery coach Cherukuri Lenin has been killed and 2 Delhi Commonwealth Games silver medalists, Ritul

Chatterjee and Chittibomma Jignesh were injured in a road accident near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh

Ted Turner, the chairman of United Nation's Foundation and the founder of Cable New Network(CNN) has donated $1

billion towards the eradication of polio in Nigeria

Chaitanya Kamat has been appointed as Oracle Financial Service Software (OFSS) Managing Director and CEO

India's most loved cartoonist R.K.Laxman turns 86

Baldev Raj has been elected president of the International Institute of Welding(IIW). Baldev becomes the 1st Indian and

2nd Asian to be elected to Head IIW. Welding societies from 55 countries are its members. Baldev to hold office for 3

years from 2011-2014

2 Engineering students, Vaibhav Tidke a final year student of Master's in Chemical Technology at the Institute of

Chemical Technology from Mumbai and Chandrashekaran a student of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu

have been selected for prestigious Bayer Young Environmentalist Envoy (BYEE) honour who will also attend an

international conference in Germany in November

Vinod J Nathan has been appointed as National Sales Head for Kannada channel Suvarna TV

Science

Moon's surface contains a rich mix of elements including silver and carbon dioxidealong with water

Russia marks 50th anniversary of worst space accident, in which 126 designers and servicemen were killed during a

launch pad accident but families and the public was kept in dark till the Soviet collapse in 1991

Scientist have discovered a huge alien planet in a system with 2 suns, orbits the primary star identified as HR

7162 which is a part of a binary star system 49 light-years away in the constellation Lyra

United States has approved world's biggest solar energy project in the world, 4 plants at the cost on 1 billion

dollars each. To be built in Mojave desert Southern California, the project is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs

Sports






Emirates to offer packages for the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011. The tournament is scheduled to take place in Doha

from January 7-29, 2011, 16 of Asia's top national teams to compete for the AFC Asian Cup 2011

Former Indian seamer Venkatesh Prasad has emerged as a candidate to replace Troy Cooley as Australia's pace

bolwing coach after the 2011 World Cup

India bags 2 golds, 1 silver medal at the 15th International Astronomy Olympiad held in Ukraine

Garcia,31,lost consciousness and collapsed on field at the 60th minute of the second division match in the El Helmantico

Stadium in Salamanca

Swiss master Roger Federer beat Germany's Florian Mayer 6-4 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open to equal Pete Sampras's

haul of 64 ATP titles

Tendulkar in ESPNcricinfo's all-time Test World XI

India moves up to 2nd place in ICC's Championship table after 1-0 win over Australia

Somdev Devvarman achieves career high rank of 94 with 568 points

Technology

View D, Handset maker Spice has launched the country's first 3D display mobile phone priced at Rs.4,299

China's iPad users get 24-hour free TV broadcast from state-owned television network China Xinhua News Network

Corporation(CNC)

E-mage, a new tool to secure personal information online

Wi-Fi Direct, a technology to allow the use of WiFi device to device communication without any Wi-Fi network or access

point

(Similar to bluetooth with a distance of 200 yards at speed of upto 250 megabyte)

Reliance launches SMS based mobile conferencing service, as an extension of its Group Talk facility

Shanghai-Hangzhou rail link covers the 200-km distance in only 45 minutes, reducing the travelling time from 78

minutes

Motorola launches Android based tablet at Rs.12,990

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