currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Award Bopanna-Qureshi, with their message 'Stop War Start Tennis'. fetches the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year award during the ATP World Tour Finals at London Lata Mangeshkar has been presented lifetime achievement award at the Global Indian Music Awards (GIMA) 2010 Kumar Raman from Syntel has won QAI's software testing award at the 10th Annual Software Testing Conference 2010 for his paper titled 'Healthcare Testing for the Compliance Era' Book At 96, Khushwant Singh pens a book 'The Sunset Club’, and has been released on November 30th 2010 by Gurcharan Kaur Business Motorola to split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions and businesses to focus on cellphones and Internet and other equipment’s Tata Motors has launched its mini-truck 'Ace Super City' in Thailand, to enter the Thai car market soon Qualcomm India to launch Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) services in 2nd half of 2011 currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com HCL signs a multi-year IT infrastructure management deal with Prudue Pharma Google to launch e-book store venture in Jan-Mar 2011 TCS opens BPO center in Philippines Lubrizol opens Applications and Business Center in Mumbai Mastek acquires assets of American firm SEG Software Hughes Communications India to provide broadband satellite and managed network services, has bagged two contracts from public sector banks worth about $12 million Event The Society of Indian American Engineers and Architects (SIAEA) held an annual gala at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The theme for 2010 was "Helping Rebuild America" keeping in the view the slowdown of the economy Indian Trade Fair was held in Poland on December 4th 2010 which focused on B2B meets and showcased a range of products 9th Agro Tech 2010 was held in Chandigarh, December 3rd to December 6th currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com People Jaigopal Tiwari aged 64, ex-IAF serviceman goes back to college to spread awareness of basic laws among poor people. Tiwari has enrolled at Deena Ram Public Law College, Robertsganj, in Sonbhadra district Kiran Kumar Reddy has been appointed as 16th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh LIC has appointed VK Sharma as the chief executive officer of LIC Housing Finance with effect from November 25 Vishal Bali appointed CEO of Fortis Global Healthcare Kamalkar Kaul has been appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for EMC's government business Sabrina Bachai aged 23 of Long Island has been crowned Mazza Miss India New York 2010 Jace Johnson, former Chief of staff of Sen. Orrin G.Hatch(R-Utah) has been appointed as the Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy with Adobe Systems Dr.Arogyaswami Paulraj, co-founder of Beceem Communications Inc. has been named the recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Rank Gulmarg rated Asia's 7th best ski resort currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Sports Peter Siddle becomes the 10th Australian and 38th player to get a hat-trick in test match cricket on 25th Nov 2010 Zaheer Khan ranked 3rd in the ICC Test Rankings ICC ODI league to commence after World Cup 2011 Russia and Qatar to host FIFA World Cup 2018 and 2022 respectively Technology Acer is set to launch 5, 7 and 10 inch tablets in April 2011 Google Earth has launched the newer version, 6 Hewlett-Packard unveils its latest range of large-format printers priced at Rs.5,50,000(T2300), Rs.6,50,000(T7100) and Rs.9,00,000(Z6200) currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Award Consultancy firm KPMG bags the financial advisor award from Asia Venture Capital Journal Krishna Poonia, India's first woman to win gold medal at Commonwealth Games was conferred the Dayawati Modi Stree Shakti Award Scientist Carusita Chakravarty was presented with the Stree Shakti Science Award Sudha Rani Pandey, the first woman vice-chancellor of the Uttarakhand Sanskrit University was honoured with the Vidushi Vidyottama Stree Shakti Samman Indian origin, Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez of Portland, Oregon have developed a computer algorithm that can detect a speaker's emotions better than current technology which has won them a $100,000 grand prize Business Sterlite Industries buys zinc mine in Namibia The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has signed as agreement with London School of Economics (LSE) to help policy makers conduct research in formulating strategies to ensure long-term sustainable growth Blackberry maker RIM is buying Sweden's The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) which specializes in developing software that lets smart phone users customize as per the need currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Honda to exit Hero Honda, to sell 26% stake Infosys to spend Rs.75 crore to setup base in Kolkata Toyota Etios launched at Rs.4.96 lakh SBI launches 3 new products Saral Life, Child ULIP - Smart Scholar and HNI (High Networth Individual) - Smart Elite Volvo, Swedish based bus maker has bagged its single largest order of 100 multiaxle buses from hubli-based VRL Logistics Google to acquire anti-piracy firm Widevine Wipro bags $50 million, 3-year order from Vodafone Essar Spice acquires Thailand's NewTel for $22 Million Walmart to set up its Information Systems Division in India Master Card Worldwide, a global payments company has developed a payment solution for 'Aadhaar' the Unique Identification Number World Bank chief to launch carbon market fund currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Shreyas inks pact with Tata Motors to acquire GPS trailers ZTE bags USD 85 million contract from Aircel to deploy 3G network Wipro to set up a 2nd campus in West Bengal at a cost of Rs.1000 crore, to provide 20,000 jobs Mercedes Benz to invest Rs.200 crore to set up paint shop TRAI releases "National Broadband Plan 2010" costing Rs.60,000 crore. 100% central public sector units - National Optical Fiber Agency (NOFA) will be setup which will hold 51% equity and remaining 49% will be held by the state government. Optical fiber agencies will also be set up in every state Micromax, a domestic mobile handset major, plans to set up a manufacturing unit in Hyderabad and also plans solar-cell manufacturing unit Future Group plans fruits, vegetables store 'farm fresh' Tata launches 7-seater Winger platinum Russia's largest steel maker NMDC plans to setup 5 million tonne steel plant in Karnataka, to invest Rs.25,000 crore currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Cartoon 'Black Ducks', by Bangalore-based artist Panduranga Rao was showcased at the 12th Porto International Cartoon Contest and World Festival held recently at Portugal Education IIM-Bangalore has been ranked 24th and IIM-Ahmedabad ranked 55th in a worldwide survey of 'Universal Business Schools with major international influence HP in partnership with International Institute of Informational Technology, Bangalore (IIT- B) has launched the HP Network University which would allow IT Professionals to advance their IT knowledge Event Mentor Graphics hosted 6th Annual User2User 2010 India conference in Bangalore on 10th December 2010 at Taj Vivanta, M.G.Road, Trinity Circle BICSI in association with Manufacturers Association of Information Technology hosted an International Technology Conference and Exhibition on 7th December 2010 in Bangalore People Hemant Contractor has been promoted as CFO of SBI, replaces SS Rajana who is set to retire in 2012 currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com 2 Indian Americans, Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, a Sanskrit chant vocalist and Vijay Iyer, jazz pianist-cum-composer have been nominated for awards at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, to be held in February in Los Angeles R.K.Singh has been appointed as BPCL chairman Soon H Kwon replaces Moon B Shin as MD of LG Electronics India Record "Birds of America", the world's most expensive illustrated book, has been sold for a record price of 7.3 million pounds ($11.5 million) at an auction in London Science Kundankulam N-reactor to be operational by early next year Indian American Nikku Madhusudhan have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere and core dominated by carbon, diamond-studded stars foreseen. The planet named WASP-12b, orbits a star about 1200 light-years from earth, and appears to have temperatures of nearly 2300 degree Celsius - hot enough to melt stainless steel currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Sports Serbia wins maiden Davis Cup title India wins the 5-match series, 5-0 against New Zealand Technology Google launches mapping tool to monitor climate Adobe's Flash player 10.2 beta promises HD video playback Huawei to plant cyber security evaluation centre in India Google unveils new smart phone Nexus S Airtel to launch IPTV in Bangalore Advanced Micro Devices has released 3 new processors in its Phenom II and Athlon II line- ups Google's Chrome OS to be free software currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com currentaffairsquiz.blogspot.com Award Lenin Raghuvanshi, an Indian human-rights activist to receive an award in the city of Weimar, Germany for aid to untouchables, prize money worth 2,500 euros ($3,300) was awarded on International Human Rights Day Rajveer Singh and Hukum Chand, two forest guards in Rathambore risked their own lives to save the life of their senior from a tiger an their brave act has made them award winners in the NDTV-Aircel's "Save our Tigers" Campaign Infosys has been recognised as a winner of the Global, Asian and Indian Most Admired