Dear Friends, As You Know Current Affairs ( Corporate, Business

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

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

Disclaimer:

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.

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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- For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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 For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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'

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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 For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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) For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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(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 For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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

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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 For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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 For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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 J uly 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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 2 nd 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

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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

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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 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

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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 11 th South Asian Games at Moulana Bhashani Stadium For any type of guidance for CAT , SNAP , IRMA& XAT , and for more GK supplements ( month wise) feel free to send mail at [email protected] , [email protected]

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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

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

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

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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)