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Page 1: Current affairs 2010 january february

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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 July1st 2010

Arun Birla to be Executive Vice-President of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles andPresident Eicher Truck and Buses starting April 1st 2010

Carl-Peter Forster, the former Europe head of Foster's has been appointed as the CEOof Tata Motors

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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 byenabling 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

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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 mostoutstanding individual in the Ogilvy Network", is no more.

337 year-old book (published in 1673) India and Persia by the British CartographerJohn 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 anInternational 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

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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:DigitalCommunication

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 inAugust 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 theAustralian Open

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Serena beats Henin to win Australian Open

Mumbai to stage 2011 one-day Cricket World Cup final, Mohali a semi-final andAhmedabad 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 byhis 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 boxingTournament 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

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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 inchdisplay

Sony Ericsson launches Aspen business mobile phone with is bundled with WindowsMobile 6.5.3 operating system

Microsoft launches Arc keyboard

Acer - Stronger than expected sales of its Google Android phone named Liquid, haveled to the shortages of device

Rio Tito the world's 3rd largest mining named Ian Bauert as managing director for itsChina office

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Mitsubishi Electric to buy stake in unprofitable consumer electronics maker Pioneer togain access to that firm's car navigation technology

Corporation Bank to launch multi-utility cards which can be used as a debit, creditand 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 beingheld in the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre

UFO Moviez(digital satellite cinema network) to bring DLF IPL 2010 matches live intheatres including tier II and III cities

Pakistan lost to India 5-1 helps India to reach final of the hockey event in the 11thSouth 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 againstSingapore thus, India beat Singapore 3-0 in Fed Cup

ISRO Chairman K.Radhakrishnan: NASA and European Space Agency(ESA) wants tobe part of Chandrayaan-II - the next Indian mission to moon, by sending theirinstruments