57th Filmfare Award Winners 2012

Catagory	Person
Best Costumes	Niharika Khan,The Dirty Picture
Best Sound Design	Nakul Kamte, Don-2
Best Production/Art Direction	Shashank Tere, Delhi Belly
Best Editing	Huzefa Lokhandwala, Delhi Belly
Best Cinematography	Carlos Catalon, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Action	Action Concepts, Don-2
Best Background Score	Ranjit Barot, Shaitan
Best SFX	Red Chillied VFX, RA.One
Best Choreographer	Bosco-Caesar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Debutant Female	Parineeti Chopra, Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl
Best Debutant Male	Vidyut Jamwal, Force
Best Debutant Director	Abhinay Deo, Delhi Belly
RD BURMAN award for Upcoming talent in field of music	Krsna, Tanu Weds Manu
Playback Singer Female	Rekha Bharadwaj and Usha Uthup, Darling (7 Khoon Maaf)
Playback Singer Male	Mohit Chauhan, Jo Bhi Mein Kehna Chahoon-Rockstar
Best Lyrics	Irshad Kamil-Nadaan Parindey, Rockstar
Best Music	A R Rahman, Rockstar
Idea Sony Scene Of the year	The Dirty Picture
Life-Time Achievement Award	Aruna Irani
Best Actor In a Supporting role(Female)	Rani Mukerji, No one killed Jessica
Best Actor In a Supporting role(Male)	Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Story	Sanjay Chouhan, I am Kalam
Best Screenplay	Akshat Verma, Delhi Belly
Best Dialogue	Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Critics’ Award for Best Film	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Critics’ Award for Best Actress	Priyanka Chopra, 7 Khoon Maaf
Critics’ Award for Best Actor	Ranbir Kapoor, Rockstar
Special Jury Certificate for Outstanding Talent	Partho Gupte, Stanley Ka Dabba
Best Director	Zoya Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Film	Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Actor (Female)	Vidya Balan

Khel Ratna Awards 2011

Dear visitors. This time I am presenting you the list of the winners of Khel Ratna Awards - 2011. Stay in touch for our next presentation.

Award Name	Field
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratn Awards 2011	.
Shri Gagan Narang	Shooting
Arjun Awards 2011	.
Shri Rahul Banerjee	Archery
Ms. Preeja Sreedharan	Athletics
Shri Vikas Gowda	Athletics
Ms. Jwala Gutta	Badminton
Shri M. Suranjoy Singh	Boxing
Shri Zaheer Khan	Cricket
Shri sunil Chhetri	Football
Ms. Tejeswini Bai V.	Kabaddi (Women)
Shri Rakesh Kumar	Kabaddi (Men)
Shri Ashish Kumar	Gymnastics
Shri Rajpal Singh	Hockey (Men)
Ms. Tejeswini Ravindra Sawant	Shooting
Shri Veerdhawal Vikram Khade	Swimming
Shri Somdev Kishore Devvarman	Tennis
Shri Sanjay Kumar	Volleyball
Shri Ravinder Singh	Wrestling
Naib Subedar Katulu Ravikumar	Weightlifting
Ms. Prasantha Karamakar	Swimming Paralympics
Dronacharaya Awards 2011	.
Shri Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao	Boxing
Shri Devender Kumar Rathore	Gymnastics
Shri Ramphal	Wrestling
Dr. Kuntal Roy	Athletics(Life time achievment)
Shri Rajinder Singh	Hockey(Life time achievment)
Dhyan Chand Award 2011	.
Shri Shabbir Ali	Football
Shri Sushil Kohli	Swimming
Shri Rajkumar	Wrestling

List of Shaurya Chakra Awardees -2011

Hi Friends.This time I am presenting to you the list of Shaurya Chakra Awardees -2011. I hope you may like it.

• Major Ravindra Kumar Gurang, Regiment Of Artillery Regiment.
• Major Shalender, 4^th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces).
• Subedar Manjeet Singh, 4^th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces).
• Naib Subedar Mengare Shankar Ganpati, 15th Battalion The Maratha Light Infantry.
• Naib Subedar Lal Singh Khichi, Sena Medal, Raj Putana Rifles/57^th Battalion The Rashtriy A Rifles (Posthumous).
• Naik Sumer Singh, Regiment Of Artillery/18th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous).
• Naik sankar Tarafdar, Regiment Of Artillery/ 33^rd Field Regiment.
• Lance Naik Brij Kishore Dhami, 19th Battalion The Kumaon Regiment.
• 5048550P Rifleman Tej Bahadur Gurung, 1st Gorkha Rifles/ 15^th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles.
• Lieuten Commander Rohith Mohandas Nambiar (0562-A).
• Wing Commander Felix Pinto (23569), Flying Pilot.
• Oem Samsher Singh, Border Roads Organisation (Posthumous –Brdb).
• GS-166845n Oem -2 Kanhaya Prasad, Border Roads Organisation (Posthumous).
• Shri ravindra Kumar Singh, Assistant Commandant, Central Reserve Police Force.
• Captain Shakul Tyagi, Pawan Hans Helicopter Limited.
• Shri barket Ali, Spo, Village- Gouri Binloa, Tehsil- Thathri, District – Doa, Jammu And Kashmir (Posthumous).

World Current Affairs, January 2012(Part - 2)

This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of January 2012. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings. This is the second set of World Current Affairs, January 2012.

• The King Center publishes online 200,000 personal papers belonging to Martin Luther King, Jr. to mark his birthday.(16th January)
• The online shoe retailer Zappos reports that up to 24 million customer accounts may have been accessed by hackers, and has warned its customers to change their passwords.(16th January)
• Syria rejects calls for Arab troops to intervene in the country's conflict.(17th January)
• Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer.(17th January)
• Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, predicts the regime will fall if reforms are not made soon.(17th January)
• Abdollah Jassbi resigns as President of Islamic Azad University after near thirty years in position.(17th January)
• Federal prosecutors in the United States charge seven people with insider trading in shares of computer firm Dell Inc., alleging that the ring made a criminal profit of nearly $62 million.(18th January)
• The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, appears before Pakistan's Supreme Court, facing contempt proceedings that could see him barred from holding public office if found guilty.(18th January)
• A new Neptune-sized exoplanet is discovered by an amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England.(18th January)
• Kodak files for bankruptcy protection.(19th January)
• Five people are killed and thousands of others are affected following the first tropical storm to hit Mozambique since 1984.(19th January)
• News International pays out compensation to 37 people, including the actor Jude Law and politician John Prescott. over phone hacking by the News of the World.(19th January)
• The army of Bangladesh says it has foiled a military coup.(19th January)
• A decision by the International Telecommunication Union on whether to abolish the leap second is postponed until 2015 pending the results of further studies.(19th January)
• Several people are killed in a series of bomb explosions in the city of Kano, Nigeria.(20th January)
• The United Nations says 120,000 people in South Sudan required aid amid tribal fighting.(20th January)
• An Indonesian man is charged with blasphemy after saying that God does not exist on his Facebook page.(20th January)
• China warns Iran against developing nuclear weapons.(20th January)
• Around 2,000 women in Malawi stage a protest against attacks on women wearing trousers, who were stripped in the streets by unemployed youths and street vendors.(20th January)
• Leading international virologists agree to temporarily halt work on a more virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, due to fears that an airborne strain of the lethal virus could be used by bioterrorists.(21st January)
• Egyptian police shoot two African migrants dead as they attempt to cross the border into Israel.(22nd January)
• Sri Lanka orders 161 foreign clerics from the Tablighi Jamaat movement to leave the country for breaking the terms of their tourist visas.(22nd January)
• At least 16 people drown after a passenger boat sinks off Iran's southern coast.(22nd January)
• Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announces that he is to leave for treatment in the United States.(22nd January)
• End and Closing ceremony of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, showing Germany receiving the most medals at the Medal table, followed by China and Austria.(22nd January)
• A group of Gaddafi loyalists take control of part of the town of Bani Walid and fly the green flag after a battle with NTC forces left 5 dead and 20 injured.(23rd January)
• The European Union imposes more sanctions on Iran's banking and oil industries in response to Iran's nuclear program.(23rd January)
• The French Senate passes a bill that makes it illegal for citizens to deny the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.(23rd January)
• Andrew Miller's novel Pure wins the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award.(24th January)
• Apple Inc. announces that the technology generated over $127 billion in revenue during 2011. Apple sold over 37 million iPhones and over 15 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2011.(24th January)
• United States President Barack Obama presents his 2012 State of the Union Address to the United States Congress.(24th January)
• A Tibetan monk is shot dead in Sichuan, China, in the second violent clash this week as unrest spreads.(25th January)
• A United States rescue operation in Somalia frees two foreign hostages and kills nine pirates.(25th January)
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran is willing to talk about Iran's nuclear program with other leaders.(25th January)
• Illumina a U.S. based gene sequencing company, adopts a poison pill strategy to defend its independence against a hostile bid by Roche Holding.(26th January)
• Three people are killed and 16 missing after three office buildings collapse in Cinelândia square in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(26th January)
• Chinese security forces shoot dead a young Tibetan man in Sichuan province, at least the third such killing this week.(27th January)
• 13 people are killed in three separate clashes between the Russian forces and Islamist militants in the Russian republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkariya.(27th January)
• The Economic Commission for Africa says Africa's economy faces "serious" threats because of the Eurozone crisis and the Arab Spring.(27th January)
• Two sacks of cocaine are accidentally delivered to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.(27th January)
• Russia's Central Election Commission refuses to register opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko party, citing invalid signatures.(27th January)
• A media advisor to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard resigns after leaked information that led to a confrontation between Australian Aborigines and Gillard yesterday.(27th January)
• Twitter alters technology to enable country-specific censorship of messages.(27th January)
• Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu calls on the Church of England not to permit same-sex marriage.(28th January)
• The African Union opens its new headquarters in Addis Ababa.(28th January)
• Eight sea lions are found shot dead in the U.S. state of Washington.(28th January)
• Israeli police enter the Red Cross compound and arrest two more Palestinian MPs associated with Hamas.(28th January)
• A poll finds most voters in Ireland want to see any new European Treaty put to a referendum, though the government remains undecided.(28th January)
• Approximately 300 people are arrested in the US city of Oakland, California during Occupy Oakland protests.(28th January)
• The 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards is held in the US city of Los Angeles with Jean Dujardin winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Artist.(29th January)
• Cyclone Iggy kills 14 people and injures 60 over a four day period in Indonesia.(29th January)
• Greece rejects outright German proposals for direct European Union control of the country's financial affairs, expressing opposition to further outside interference.(29th January)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors begin a three-day visit to Iran.(29th January)
• At least three people are killed and 100 injured in clashes between Bangladeshi police and members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party protesting against the government.(29th January)
• The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy outlines an economic reform package increasing taxes and proposing a new tax on financial transactions.(29th January)
• Tibetan advocacy groups claim that as many as seven ethnic Tibetans have been killed and 60 wounded in the past week in protests in China's Sichuan province bordering Tibet.(30th January)
• Sudanese officials claim that the army has freed 14 of 29 Chinese workers held by rebels in the South Kordofan region since last Saturday.(30th Janauary)
• A US drone airstrike kills 15 members of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in the Yemeni town of Lawdar in the Abyan Governorate.(30th Janauary)
• The death toll from a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, reaches 112.(30th Janauary)
• The People's Republic of China claims that 29 Chinese citizens abducted while working on a construction project in the Sudan are still missing.(31st January)
• An Afghan woman was killed by her husband and mother-in-law 3 months after giving birth to her third daughter after not producing a son.(31st January)
• Former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II as a result of the near collapse of the bank in 2008.(31st January)
• A search continues off Turkey's Black Sea coast for eight missing crew members of the Cambodia-flagged freighter the Vera.(31st January)
• The International Atomic Energy Agency gives its approval to nuclear reactor safety checks made by Japan.(31st January)
• China tightens control of monasteries and on main roads in Tibet following deadly protests in the region.(31st January)
• The Cabinet of Japan approves a bill to put a 40-year cap on the life of nuclear reactors following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.(31st January)
• In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Men's Singles championship of the 2012 Australian Open defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 5–7, 6–4, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5.
• In the Netherlands, the Council of Ministers vote in favor of a ban on the Burqa, an outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions.

World Current Affairs, January 2012(Part - 1)

This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of January 2012. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings. This is the first set of World Current Affairs, January 2012.

• Syrian opposition groups say that over 5,800 people were killed in violence in 2011.(1st January)
• Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in parts of the country hit by violence by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.(1st January)
• Queen Elizabeth II appoints former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and British painter David Hockney to the Order of Merit.(1st January)
• Rio Tinto Alcan locks out hundreds of workers from a smelter in the Canadian town of Alma, Quebec.(1st January)
• The Iranian Navy test-fires a surface-to-air missile.(1st January)
• The second of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft is in orbit around the moon.(1st January)
• In football, the Swaziland national football team withdraws from the qualifying rounds of the Africa Cup of Nations due to financial constraints.(1st January)
• Hundreds of Muslim villagers clash with riot police in the Ningxia region of China after a mosque is demolished by local authorities.(2nd January)
• Iran states that it has successfully test-fired two long-range missiles, a Qader and a Noor, during military exercises in the Persian Gulf.(2nd January)
• Iranian news agencies report that the country has produced its first nuclear fuel rod.(2nd January)
• The military government of Fiji announces that it is to lift martial law and other emergency regulations.(2nd January)
• President of China Hu Jintao warns of attempts to "westernise" the country by "hostile powers".(2nd January)
• Germany's unemployment rate reportedly reaches its lowest level since 1991.(3rd January)
• Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian Authority meet in the Jordanian capital, Amman, for the first time in 16 months.(3rd January)
• Iran warns the United States not to send any more aircraft carriers into the Persian Gulf.(3rd January)
• South Korea lifts a temporary ban that it placed on travel to North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-Il.(3rd January)
• Libya appoints Yousef al-Manqoush as the new head of its armed forces.(3rd January)
• Two bombs explode in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri with the Boko Haram movement believed to be responsible.(4th January)
• The China Air Transport Association advises that Chinese airlines will not pay the carbon costs under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme.(4th January)
• The military-backed civilian government of Burma (Myanmar) marks the anniversary of the country's independence by commuting prison sentences and releasing more than thirty prisoners.(4th January)
• The President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner temporarily hands over power to her Vice-President Amado Boudou ahead of surgery for thyroid cancer.(4th January)
• Former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou announces that he will resign as head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.(4th January)
• Armed commandos will be ordered to protect endangered tigers in India's Bandipur and Nagarhole national parks.(4th January)
• Qatar's prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani says the Arab League monitors have made "mistakes" in Syria.(5th January)
• A series of explosions occur in mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhoods of Baghdad and in the city of Nasiriyah, with at least 73 killed and 149 wounded.(5th January)
• The Pakistan Taliban claims to have killed 15 security force members it kidnapped last month.(5th January)
• An alleged North Korean spy is indicted in South Korea.(5th January)
• The President of the United States Barack Obama announces a new defense strategy, cutting spending dramatically.(5th January)
• Portia Simpson Miller is sworn in for the second time as the Prime Minister of Jamaica.(5th January)
• The Ramnit worm steals more than 45000 Facebook logins and passwords.(6th January)
• A Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Sichuan, China.(6th January)
• The Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announces that the country is to become a republic, with plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and the Jamaican monarchy in general.(6th January)
• Peter MacKay, Canadian Minister of Defence. marries Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian former beauty queen, in a private ceremony in Mexico.(6th January)
• Iran praises the United States Navy after American sailors rescued Iranian fishermen from armed pirates in the Arabian Sea.(7th January)
• Several of Bosnia's leading cultural institutions are due to close following funding disputes. The affected institutions include the National Library, the National Museum, the Historical Museum and the National Gallery.(7th January)
• Piracy in Somalia: Georgia announces 15 Georgian sailors held hostage by pirates for over a year are released through the government's efforts.(8th January)
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour.(9th January)
• A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 29 people and leaves over 50 others injured.(10th January)
• The Scottish Government announces that it plans to hold the referendum on Scottish independence in the autumn of 2014, but Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore tells the House of Commons that the power to hold a referendum is "reserved" to Westminster.(10th January)
• The United States denies any involvement in a bomb blast that killed an Iranian scientist.(11th January)
• The Burmese government signs a ceasefire with Karen rebels.(12th January)
• The Supreme Court of Israel upholds a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship.(12th January)
• The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each.(13th January)
• Lions Gate Entertainment, the largest independent studio in the United States, purchases Summit Entertainment for US$412.5 million.(13th January)
• Reforms in Burma: Burma announces a mass pardon for political prisoners, including student leader Min Ko Naing.(13th January)
• The cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at the Isola del Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea with 11 deaths and 14 other casualties confirmed.(13th January)
• A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in the Iraqi city of Basra.(14th January)
• A bomb detonates near a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani town of Khanpur, killing at least 18 people and wounding 30.(15th January)
• The Russian tanker Renda, accompanied by the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy, prepares to deliver fuel to Nome, Alaska. A fall storm had blocked an earlier fuel delivery, leaving the city facing fuel shortages.(15th January)
• Russia's unmanned Fobos-Grunt space probe re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after a failed mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The 13-ton spacecraft disintegrates over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 16:45 UTC. China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, which was launched together with Fobos-Grunt, is also destroyed.(15th January)