tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64166404641535912752024-03-14T13:54:18.359+05:30G.K InformationIn this blog I am trying to help students and compititors of various exams. They will get various informations regarding general knowledge. For english, please visit <a href="http://way2eng.blogspot.com">way2eng.blogspot.com</a>. For books information, please visit <a href="http://booksauthors.blogspot.com">booksauthors.blogspot.com</a>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-43170839419536952702012-05-31T15:36:00.000+05:302012-05-31T15:36:07.022+05:30World Current Affairs, March 2012(Part-2)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of March 2012. I hope viewers may like it and express their feelings.
This is the second set of World Current Affairs, March 2012.
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<li>At least ten people, including a woman and two children, are killed after a Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul.(16th March)</li>
<li>Belgium holds a day of national mourning in memory of the victims of the Sierre bus collision in Switzerland earlier this week.(16th March)</li>
<li>David Petraeus, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is honored with the Grand Cross with swords in the Order of Orange-Nassau in The Hague for his service as a four-star general in Iraq and Afghanistan.(16th March)</li>
<li>Nicolae Timofti becomes the fourth President of Moldova, after nearly 3 years without an elected head of state and political stalemate in the country.(16th March) </li>
<li>North Korea announces plans to launch a new satellite in honour of regime founder Kim Il-Sung's birthday in April.(16th March)</li>
<li>A Tibetan monk sets himself on fire in southwest China, in the latest in a series of similar incidents where nearly 30 monks have now self-immolated.(17th March)</li>
<li>Pope Benedict XVI launches an internal investigation into leaks of confidential documents alleging corruption, financial mismanagement and power struggles among senior church officials.(17th March)</li>
<li>Burma signs an agreement with the International Labour Organization to end forced labour by 2015.(17th March)</li>
<li>China expresses concern at North Korea's intention to launch a satellite next month to mark the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung's birth.(17th March)</li>
<li>Julian Assange announces plans to run for the Senate of Australia despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom.(17th March)</li>
<li>Personal documents released from the papers of Margaret Thatcher show the former British Prime Minister held a private meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his purchase of Times Newspapers in 1981.(17th March)</li>
<li>Pakistani villagers find 13 bodies with bullet wounds in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas near Afghanistan as security forces step up an offensive.(18th March)</li>
<li>A Superleague Greece match between Athens football clubs Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to parts of the Athens Olympic Stadium.(18th March)</li>
<li>Joachim Gauck is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly.(18th March)</li>
<li>Dinesh Trivedi resigns as India's Minister for Railways following a negative response to fare increases.(18th March)</li>
<li>Ali Daei, Iran's football legend and the world's all-time leading goalscorer, is rushed to hospital following a serious car accident.(18th March)</li>
<li>In motor sports, British driver Jenson Button of McLaren wins the 2012 Australian Grand Prix, the first race of the 2012 Formula One season.(18th March)</li>
<li>The Somali National Theatre reopens in Mogadishu more than two decades after it was closed amid civil war.(19th March)</li>
<li>The International Atomic Energy Agency receives an invitation from North Korea to visit.(19th March)</li>
<li>The European Union threatens trade sanctions against Iceland and the Faroe Isles over a disagreement about fishing rights.(19th March)</li>
<li>Fans and police clash and damage the Olympic Stadium in Athens two hours ahead of a match between Panathenians and Piraeus.(19th March)</li>
<li>Human Rights Watch raises claims of serious human rights abuses in a clash between Myanmar Armed Forces and the Kachin Independence Army in a dispute in Kachin State that has displaced approximately 75,000 people.(20th March)</li>
<li>John Carter records one of the biggest losses in cinema history, forcing Disney to take a $200 million writedown.(20th March)</li>
<li>India's official poverty rate falls to an all-time record low of 29.8% for the 2009-2010 survey.(20th March)</li>
<li>A Pakistani parliamentary committee calls for an end to NATO drone strikes and an apology for an air strike in November 2011 that killed 24 Pakistani Army soldiers.(20th March)</li>
<li>United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad to follow the United Nations peace plan "or face increasing pressure and isolation".(21st March)</li>
<li>Burma invites observers from ASEAN, the European Union and the United States to monitor next week's series of by-elections.(21st March)</li>
<li>Syrian armed forces continue to shell the city of Hama and at least 59 civilians are reported killed across Syria, in Idlib, Homs, Hama, Daraa, Lattakia, Aleppo and Damascus.(22nd March)</li>
<li>The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office says that Whitney Houston's official cause of death was drowning as a result of cocaine use.(22nd March)</li>
<li>Ireland officially falls back into recession.(22nd March)</li>
<li>In the United States, about 350,000 people filed for unemployment benefits, hitting a four-year low, according to the United States Labor Department.(22nd March)</li>
<li>A large fire sweeps through Hatibagan market, one of the oldest in the Indian city of Calcutta, destroying most of the buildings.(22nd March)</li>
<li>In a statement by Pope Benedict XVI he says that Communism does not work for Cuba and that he is ready to help the island find new ways to move forward in a peaceful manner.(23rd March)</li>
<li>A small piece of Kosmos 2251 satellite debris from the 2009 satellite collision safely passes by the International Space Station, allowing the six Expedition 30 crew members onboard the orbiting complex to exit their Soyuz spacecraft and resume normal activities.(24th March)</li>
<li>China announces phase-out practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners.(24th March)</li>
<li>The Sunday Times releases a video showing British Conservative Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas allegedly offering undercover reporters access to UK Prime Minister David Cameron for £250,000.(24th March)</li>
<li>A roadside bomb in southern Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, detonates on a joint Afghan-NATO convoy killing six Afghan police, one U.S. soldier, and one translator.(25th March)</li>
<li>Kofi Annan and a special UN peace envoy meet with President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to discuss adopting a harder stance on Syria and Bashar al-Assad.(25th March)</li>
<li>New Zealand changes two road rules regarding priority at intersections, including reversing the drive-on-the-left nation's unique rule that gave right-turning traffic priority over left-turning traffic.(25th March)</li>
<li>In golf, Tiger Woods wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational tournament in Orlando, his first US PGA Tour victory since 2009.(25th March)</li>
<li>A Tibetan protester self-immolates during a protest in the Indian capital New Delhi, ahead of a visit by the Chinese president Hu Jintao.(26th March)</li>
<li>Somali pirates hijack an Iranian-owned cargo ship with 23 crew in waters off the Maldives - the first hijacking in such territory.(26th March)</li>
<li>Oil is discovered in Kenya by London based Tullow Oil.(26th March)</li>
<li>Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, is placed under formal investigation in France over alleged involvement in a prostitution ring.(26th March)</li>
<li>Canadian filmmaker and adventurer James Cameron becomes the first person in fifty years to visit the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth in the Mariana Trench of the Pacific Ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger.(26th March)</li>
<li>Six South African rugby players from the Motherwell Rugby Club are feared dead after being swept out to sea from Port Elizabeth.(26th March)</li>
<li>A landmine explosion in Maharashtra, India, allegedly by Maoist insurgents, kills 15 policemen and injures 13 others.(27th March)</li>
<li>Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook arrives in China for talks with government officials to clear up problems in the firm's biggest growth market, including the contested iPad trademark and treatment of local labor.(27th March)</li>
<li>World leaders meet at a summit in Seoul, South Korea, to discuss nuclear security.(27th March)</li>
<li>Syrian forces attack the central town of Qalaat al-Madiq as Arab League ministers meet in Baghdad.(28th March)</li>
<li>Pope Benedict XVI calls for greater openess in Cuba during a speech in Revolution Square, Havana.(28th March)</li>
<li>The Government of Fiji seizes a controlling interest in subsidiary Air Pacific from the Australian airline Qantas. Qantas remains in control of its equity in the airline.(28th March)</li>
<li>The United States suspends planned food aid to North Korea, after the latter plans to launch a rocket next month.(28th March)</li>
<li>Detained Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is allowed a visit from family, for the first time in two years.(28th March)</li>
<li>Along with posting a net loss, smart phone pioneer Research in Motion announces major shake-ups in executive ranks and a strategic review, which does not rule out a sale of the company, known for its BlackBerry.(29th March)</li>
<li>Hana Shalabi, the Palestinian woman imprisoned without charge by Israel, ends her 43-day hunger strike and is exiled to the Gaza Strip.(29th March)</li>
<li>News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch says he will "hit back hard" after the BBC's Panorama alleged one of News Corp's subsidiary companies encouraged viewers to access pay-TV rival ITV Digital content for free.(29th March)</li>
<li>The UK government says that viaspan, a solution used to preserve some donor organs, could be contaminated with bacteria after routine tests detected Bacillus cereus in the solution used to test the sterility of viaspan.(29th March)</li>
<li>A United States drone attack kills two alleged militants in the Pakistani town of Miran Shah in North Waziristan.(30th March)</li>
<li>Australian artist Tim Storrier wins the 2012 Archibald Prize for a self-portait The "historic wayfarer" (after Bosch).(30th March)</li>
<li>VISA and MasterCard warn banks across the United States about a "massive" breach of security with more than ten million credit card numbers potentially compromised.(30th March)</li>
<li>Huanglongbing or citrus greening, a disease which has killed millions of citrus trees in Brazil and Florida, is discovered in a residential section of Los Angeles County, California, in the United States.(30th March)</li>
<li>Malaysia expels 173 Indonesian workers for various legal violations.(30th March)</li>
<li>Naoki Tanaka, Japan's Minister of Defense, issues orders to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it falls towards Japanese territory.(30th March)</li>
<li>The United States' two acting unions, the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, agree to merge forming the SAG-AFTRA.(31st March)</li>
<li>Turkey reduces its purchases of Iranian oil by 20%.(31st March)</li>
<li>Chinese police arrest six people and shut down 16 websites for allegedly spreading rumours that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing.(31st March)</li>
<li>The Indonesian People's Representative Council vetoes plans to increase the price of fuel by thirty per cent this weekend.(31st March)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-21874319330800772012-05-31T15:34:00.000+05:302012-05-31T15:34:25.217+05:30World Current Affairs, March 2012 (Part-1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of March 2012. I hope viewers may like it and express their feelings.
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, March 2012.
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<li>A bomb explodes on a Turkish police bus in Istanbul injuring three people.(1st March)</li>
<li>Two members of the NATO International Security Assistance Force are killed in southern Afghanistan, one of whom is believed to be a member of the Afghan Army.(1st March)</li>
<li>Brazil announces the continuation of a "currency war" with the European Union and the United States with the extension of a financial transaction tax on foreign borrowings.(1st March)</li>
<li>Vietnam claims that the People's Republic of China has assaulted Vietnamese fishermen in disputed waters in the South China Sea.(1st March)</li>
<li>Americans working for non-government organisations who had been facing trial in Egypt are allowed to leave.(1st March)</li>
<li>The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for the Sudanese defence minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein.(1st March)</li>
<li>New research concludes that the Earth's oceans may be growing more acidic at a faster rate than any time in the past 300 million years.(1st March)</li>
<li>At least 33 people die in a clash between the Pakistan Army and militants in Tirah Valley in the Bara area of Khyber.(2nd March)</li>
<li>The US space agency NASA claims that it was hacked 13 times last year compromising security.(2nd March)</li>
<li>25 of the 27 members of the European Union sign a new "fiscal compact", the exceptions being the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.(2nd March)</li>
<li>Anglican Church officials in Christchurch, New Zealand, announce that the 131-year-old landmark ChristChurch Cathedral will need to be demolished, having suffered severe damage from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks.(2nd March)</li>
<li>Tornados hit the midwestern and southern United States two days after the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak.(2nd March)</li>
<li>Libyans protest outside a courthouse building in Benghazi calling for it to reopen rather than be used as a militia headquarters.(2nd March)</li>
<li>Meta-analysis of 42 previous studies concludes chocolate may be good for the heart.(2nd March)</li>
<li>Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 13 people killed and up to 50 people injured.(3rd March)</li>
<li>Early returns in the Iranian legislative election show the conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doing well.(3rd March)</li>
<li>Authorities in Tajikistan close access to Facebook and sites with material critical of President Emomali Rakhmon.(3rd March)</li>
<li>The People's Republic of China announces plans to increase defence spending by 11.2 per cent in 2012.(4th March)</li>
<li>A report finds that 160 children from the Chinese town of Dongtang in Guangdong Province's Renhua County are suffering from lead poisoning.(4th March)</li>
<li>A hunt is underway for a thief who stole the heart of Saint Laurence O'Toole at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.(4th March)</li>
<li>Paul McBride QC, Scotland's most senior lawyer, is found dead in a hotel room while on a visit to Pakistan.(4th March)</li>
<li>Gunmen disguised as police kill 27 members of Iraq's security forces in the town of Haditha.(5th March)</li>
<li>"The Lorax" brings in US$70.7M during its opening weekend, the highest opener of 2012, and fifth highest total for an animated film ever.(5th March)</li>
<li>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama meet at the White House.(5th March)</li>
<li>The Sea Shepherd anti-whaling organisation claims to have closed down Japan's main whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru, deep inside the Southern Ocean off the Antarctic coast.(5th March)</li>
<li>The United States files an application in New Zealand to extradite Kim Dotcom and three of his associates in MegaUpload to face charges of breaching copyright.(5th March)</li>
<li>A study finds a correlation between snoring as a toddler and behavior problems later in childhood.(5th March)</li>
<li>The Apple App Store passes 25 billion downloads.(5th March)</li>
<li>Turkish Airlines begins a service to Somalia, the first regular service to the capital Mogadishu except regional East African flights to operate in twenty years.(6th March)</li>
<li>A 5.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Philippines near Masbate City on the island of Masbate causing some injuries.(6th March)</li>
<li>Human Rights Watch claims that the Government of Japan has been too slow in providing health care to survivors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.(6th March)</li>
<li>A Saudi Arabian diplomat is killed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.(6th March)</li>
<li>The European Commission is involved in controversy over a video promoting EU enlargement that is perceived as racist.(6th March)</li>
<li>Chris Cairns, former New Zealand cricket team captain, begins a UK High Court action for libel damages over an accusation on Twitter that he was involved in match-fixing.(6th March)</li>
<li>Swedish media report that the country has been helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of a weapons factory.(7th March)</li>
<li>China describes Tibetan monks that have self-immolated as "criminals" and accuses the Dalai Lama of supporting the acts.(7th March)</li>
<li>The biggest solar flare in five years that occurred on March 6 nears Earth with the capacity to disrupt power grids, GPS systems and airline flights.(7th March)</li>
<li>Physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report data suggesting the elusive hypothesized Higgs boson ("God particle") may have been detected.(7th March)</li>
<li>Greece secures a debt-restructuring deal with private lenders.(8th March)</li>
<li>Spanx inventor Sara Blakely becomes the youngest self-made female billionaire on Forbes' list.(8th March)</li>
<li>The first full map of the debris field of the remains of the RMS Titanic is announced.(8th March)</li>
<li>A study suggests that donor stem cells may prevent organ rejection in imperfectly matched transplant cases.(8th March)</li>
<li>One person is killed and 20 injured in a hotel fire in Bangkok, Thailand.(9th March)</li>
<li>China returns 31 North Korean refugees to North Korea, according to activists.(9th March)</li>
<li>Air raids in Bayda kill 10 Al-Qaeda militants.(10th March)</li>
<li>A fire in Peru destroys half a million textbooks and other education materials.(10th March)</li>
<li>Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions.(10th March)</li>
<li>Frank Sherwood Rowland, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for warning about the depletion of the ozone layer, dies in the US state of California.(10th March)</li>
<li>A US soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.(11th March)</li>
<li>The Government of Pakistan bans the Islamist group Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat.(11th March)</li>
<li>Around 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan.(12th March)</li>
<li>The People's Republic of China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade, indicating a slowing economy.(12th March)</li>
<li>United States Census Bureau - World Population Clock: "7 Billion" people in the World already.(12th March)</li>
<li>Sri Lanka orders media outlets to get prior approval before sending mobile phone alerts about the military or police.(12th March)</li>
<li>Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government step down and hold elections.(12th March)</li>
<li>Encyclopaedia Britannica, the oldest encyclopedia still in print in the English language, announces that it will no longer be producing printed versions but continuing online editions.(13th March)</li>
<li>The United States, Japan, and the European Union file a case against China at the WTO regarding export restrictions on rare earth metals.(13th March)</li>
<li>At least 30 people are dead and dozens missing after the MV Shariatpur 1 ferry carrying 200 people collides with an oil tanker. It capsizes on the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Munshiganj District near the capital Dhaka.(13th March)</li>
<li>Argentina's Supreme Court rules that abortions following rape are not punishable.(13th March)</li>
<li>British police arrest six people on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice in relation to phone hacking in the media including Rebekah Brooks, a former top executive of News International.(13th March)</li>
<li>A research study conducted by Harvard Medical School shows that red meat increases the risk of death and has other negative health implications.(13th March)</li>
<li>More than 10,000 Peruvian illegal gold miners clash with police in an attempt to gain control over the regional capital Puerto Maldonado.(14th March)</li>
<li>The United Kingdom towns of Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph are awarded city status to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.(14th March)</li>
<li>A magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs off the coast of Japan causing a small tsunami that hits the coast of Aomori prefecture on the island of Hokkaido.(14th March)</li>
<li>Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly starts questioning the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his handling of the economy.(14th March)</li>
<li>Turkish intelligence reports claim that approximately 20,000 Syrian soldiers have deserted from the government forces in less than a month.(15th March)</li>
<li>A free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea comes into effect.(15th March)</li>
<li>The Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key announces a cut of 2000 positions in the public service.(15th March)</li>
<li>Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says the Dalai Lama is responsible for ongoing self-immolations by Tibetan monks.(15th March)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-79822636347565108522012-03-30T16:44:00.000+05:302012-03-30T16:44:16.605+05:30Indian Current Affairs, February 2012Hello viewers. This time I bring the current affairs of the last month that is February 2012 which is totally India related. I hope visitors may like it. This is the set of Indian Current Affairs, February 2012.<br />
<ul type="disc"><li>Reserve Bank of India has said that all private sector banks will now be considered eligible to handle any Central or State Government business at par with public sector banks. Till now, only three private banks, namely ICICI Bank Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd and Axis Bank Ltd were appointed by RBI as its agents to carry out limited general banking business. In a notification issued from Mumbai yesterday, RBI said that this move would improve customer convenience by increasing the number of customer service outlets.(February 1)</li>
<li>India and Sri Lanka held the first defence dialogue that focused on regional security situation and maritime security in the Indian Ocean region. The inaugural defence dialogue, to be an annual feature, was led by the Defence Secretaries of both the countries in New Delhi.(February 2)</li>
<li>The Enforcement Directorate, ED has filed a charge sheet against the sacked Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Commission or OC, Suresh Kalmadi alongwith five of his colleagues for alleged financial irregularities in the Queens Baton Relay event held in 2009 in London. Our correspondent reports that the chargesheet was filed in New Delhi under the Foreign Exchange Management Act for violating Reserve bank of India Guidelines while making payments in the conduct of the Queens Baton Relay.(February 3)</li>
<li>The economic growth is likely to fall to a three-year low of 6.9 per cent in 2011-12, mainly due to sharp slowdown in manufacturing, agriculture and mining sectors, against 8.4 per cent expansion in the last fiscal.(February 5)</li>
<li>S&P cautioned India that its sovereign credit rating could tilt slightly towards ‘negative’ if effective action was not taken to counter “the balance of risk factors” emanating from economic uncertainties at home and abroad.(February 6)</li>
<li>Facebook India today filed its compliance report before the Delhi court, which had ordered it along with 21 other websites, to remove objectionable content from their websites. Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which objections were raised by the petitioners.(February 7)</li>
<li>The Union Railway minister Mr. Dinesh Trivedy will hold discussion with the Chhattisgarh government today in Raipur regarding the extension of railway services in the state. The Railway Minister will take stock of several projects which include setting up of a railway freight corridor in this mineral-rich state.(February 8)</li>
<li>The Madhya Pradesh government has transferred eight IAS officers including three district collectors in the state.(February 9)</li>
<li>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directs Central Ministries to give top priority to the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project; PMO to directly monitor progress of the project.(February 10)</li>
<li>Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily has said that the National Competition Policy would be in place by next month-end. Speaking at ‘India Corporate and Investor Meet’, organised by his Ministry and CII in Bangalore yesterday, Mr. Moily said, he would soon move the Cabinet and will have the National Competition Policy by March 31. Mr. Moily said, he expects this policy to trigger the second generation of reforms after 1991.(February 11)</li>
<li>Election Commission seeks President’s intervention in alleged defiance of its orders by Law Minister Salman Khurshid over sub-quota for minorities.(February 12)</li>
<li>Campaigning for the third phase of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh ends this evening; Polling on Wednesday.(February 13)</li>
<li>Law Minister Salman Khurshid has written a letter to the Election Commission of India saying that the controversy created by his remarks on Minority subquota was unintentional.(February 14)</li>
<li>India has got support of China, Brazil and South Africa, together called Basic, to counter European Union’s carbon tax on airlines flying into Europe.(February 15)</li>
<li>Third phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls in 56 constituencies begins amidst tight security.(February 16)</li>
<li>BJP-Shiv Sena alliance set to retain its hold over Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.(February 17)</li>
<li>West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee stayed away from the inauguration programme of the NSG hub in Kolkata by P Chidambaram today, reemphasizing her protest against the proposed NCTC that she argued, violates the spirit of federalism.(February 18)</li>
<li>A nationwide immunization campaign for Polio is on today; More than 17 crore children being administered polio drops.(February 19)</li>
<li>The Delhi Police have prepared a list of more than two dozen markets, which deal in the sale of magnet, to trace the bomber who had placed the ‘sticky bomb’ on the Innova car of an Israeli embassy diplomat last Monday.(February 20)</li>
<li>On Tuesday, Meira Kumar will become the first Lok Sabha speaker to visit Pakistan in an official delegation. She told Saubhadra Chatterji how this parliamentary diplomacy will strengthen Indo-Pak people-to-people ties.(February 21)</li>
<li>The bridge over river Yamuna near Kalpi town is considered the gateway to Bundelkhand. Rajesh Kumar Singh reports.(February 22)</li>
<li>Sensex swings between green and red in afternoon trade; Rupee appreciates 9 paise to 49.21 rupees against dollar.(February 23)</li>
<li>Coming down heavily on the Centre and Delhi Police, the SC on Thursday ordered the prosecution of police personnel involved in the crackdown on Ramdev and his supporters at Ramlila Maidan on June 5 last year.(February 24)</li>
<li>Home Minister writes to ten Chief Ministers on National Counter Terrorism Centre issue; says countering terrorism is a shared responsibility.(February 25)</li>
<li>India to take on Australia in the tri-series one day international cricket match at Sydney today.(February 26)</li>
<li>Indian men’s Hockey Team qualifies for Olympics after eight years defeating France 8-1 in the qualifying final.(February 27)</li>
<li>Supreme Court directs the Centre to implement the interlinking of rivers project in a time-bound manner.(February 28)</li>
<li>In a major operation, Delhi Police has arrested two suspected LeT terrorists who were allegedly planning to carry out terror strikes in the capital targeting vital installations and VVIPs.(February 29)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-23274595469414960282012-03-28T13:32:00.000+05:302012-03-28T13:32:15.989+05:30BAFTA Awards 2012The BAFTAs are Britain’s top movie honours and the most prestigious industry awards outside of the United States. Following is a list of winners of the main awards in 2012.<br />
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<table align="center" width="350" height="45" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Catagory</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Winner</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Best Film</td> <td align="center">The Artist</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Outstanding British Film: </td> <td align="center">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Director</td> <td align="center">Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist"</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Leading Actor</td> <td align="center">Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Leading Actress</td> <td align="center">Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Supporting Actor</td> <td align="center">Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Supporting Actress</td> <td align="center">Octavia Spencer in “The Help”</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Outstanding British Debut</td> <td align="center">“Tyrannosaur”</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Film Not In The English Language</td> <td align="center">The Skin I Live In</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Original Screenplay</td> <td align="center">Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist"</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Adapted Screenplay</td> <td align="center">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Documentary</td> <td align="center">Senna</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Animated Film</td> <td align="center">Rango</td> </tr>
</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-7727610066919081332012-03-23T13:47:00.001+05:302012-03-23T14:01:50.462+05:3054th Annual GRAMMY Awards 2012Hello visitors. This time I am giving you the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards 2012. I hope you may like it.<br />
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<p><strong>54th Grammy Awards Winners List</strong>:</p><p><strong>Record of the year: </strong>“Rolling in the Deep,” Adele</p><p><strong>Album of the year:</strong> “21,” Adele</p><p><strong>Song of the year:</strong> “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)</p><p><strong>Best new artist:</strong> Bon Iver</p><p><strong>Pop vocal album:</strong>“21,” Adele</p><p><strong>Pop solo performance:</strong>“Someone Like You,” Adele</p><p><strong>Pop duo/group performance:</strong>“Body and Soul,” Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse</p><p><strong>Pop instrumental album:</strong>“The Road From Memphis,” Booker T. Jones</p><p><strong>Traditional pop vocal album:</strong>“Duets II,” Tony Bennett and various artists</p><p><strong>Electronica/dance album:</strong>“Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites,” Skrillex</p><p><strong>Dance recording:</strong>“Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites,” Skrillex</p><p><strong>Rock album:</strong>“Wasting Light,” Foo Fighters</p><p><strong>Rock performance:</strong>“Walk,” Foo Fighters</p><p><strong>Hard rock/metal performance:</strong>“White Limo,” Foo Fighters</p><p><strong>Rock song:</strong>“Walk,” Foo Fighters</p><p><strong>Rap album:</strong>“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Kanye West</p><p><strong>Rap performance:</strong>“Otis,” Jay-Z and Kanye West</p><p><strong>Rap/sung collaboration:</strong>“All Of The Lights,” Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie</p><p><strong>Rap song:</strong>“All Of The Lights,” Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West, songwriters (Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie)</p><p><strong>Alternative music album:</strong>“Bon Iver,” Bon Iver</p><p><strong>R&B album:</strong>Chris Brown, “F.A.M.E.”</p><p><strong>R&B performance:</strong>“Is This Love,” Corinne Bailey Rae</p><p><strong>Traditional R&B performance:</strong>“Fool For You,” Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona</p><p><strong>R&B song:</strong>“Fool For You,” Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona</p><p><strong>Country album:</strong>“Own the Night,” Lady Antebellum</p><p><strong>Country solo performance:</strong>“Mean,” Taylor Swift</p><p><strong>Country duo/group performance:</strong>“Barton Hollow,” The Civil Wars</p><p><strong>Country song:</strong>“Mean,” Taylor Swift</p><p><strong>New age album:</strong>“What’s It All About,” Pat Metheny</p><p><strong>Jazz vocal album:</strong>“The Mosaic Project,” Terri Lyne Carrington and various artists</p><p><strong>Improvised jazz solo:</strong>“500 Miles High,” Chick Corea, soloist</p><p><strong>Jazz instrumental album:</strong>“Forever,” Corea, Clarke and White</p><p><strong>Large jazz ensemble album:</strong>“The Good Feeling,” Christian McBride Big Band</p><p><strong>Gospel/Contemporary Christian music performance:</strong>“Jesus,” Le’Andria Johnson</p><p><strong>Gospel song:</strong>“Hello Fear,” Kirk Franklin</p><p><strong>Contemporary Christian music song:</strong>“Blessings,” Laura Story</p><p><strong>Gospel album:</strong>“Hello Fear,” Kirk Franklin</p><p><strong>Contemporary Christian music album:</strong>“And If Our God Is For Us…,” Chris Tomlin</p><p><strong>Latin pop, rock or urban album:</strong>“Drama Y Luz,” Mana</p><p><strong>Regional Mexican or Tejano album:”</strong>Bicentenario,” Pepe Aguilar</p><p><strong>Banda or Norteño album:</strong>“Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends,” Los Tigres Del Norte</p><p><strong>Tropical Latin album:</strong>“The Last Mambo,” Cachao</p><p><strong>Americana album:</strong>“Ramble at the Ryman,” Levon Helm</p><p><strong>Bluegrass album:</strong>“Paper Airplane,” Alison Krauss and Union Station</p><p><strong>Blues album:</strong>“Revelator,” Tedeschi Trucks Band</p><p><strong>Folk album:</strong>“Barton Hollow,” The Civil Wars</p><p><strong>Regional roots album:</strong>“Rebirth of New Orleans,” Rebirth Brass Band</p><p><strong>Reggae album:</strong>“Revelation Pt. 1: The Root of Life,” Stephen Marley</p><p><strong>World music album:</strong>“Tassili,” Tinariwen</p><p><strong>Children’s album:</strong>“All About Bullies…Big and Small,” Various artists</p><p><strong>Spoken word album:</strong>“If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t),” Betty White</p><p><strong>Comedy album:</strong>“Hilarious,” Louis C.K.</p><p><strong>Musical theater album:</strong>“The Book of Mormon,” Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells, artists; Anne Garefino, Robert Lopez, Stephen Oremus, Trey Parker, Scott Rudin & Matt Stone, producers; Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)</p><p><strong>Compilation soundtrack for visual media:</strong>“Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1,” Various artists, Stewart Lerman, Randall Poster & Kevin Weaver, producers</p><p><strong>Score soundtrack for visual media:</strong>“The King’s Speech,” Alexandre Desplat, composer</p><p><strong>Song written for visual media:</strong>“I See The Light,” Alan Menken & Glenn Slater, songwriters (Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi) (From “Tangled”)</p><p><strong>Instrumental composition:</strong>“Life In Eleven,” Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers (Béla Fleck & The Flecktones)</p><p><strong>Instrumental arrangement:</strong>“Rhapsody In Blue,” Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band)</p><p><strong>Instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist(s):</strong>“Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me),” Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah)</p><p><strong>Recording package:</strong>“Scenes From The Suburbs,” Caroline Robert, art director (Arcade Fire)</p><p><strong>Boxed or special limited edition package:</strong>“The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story,” Dave Bett & Michelle Holme, art directors (Bruce Springsteen)</p><p><strong>Album notes:</strong>“Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond As Recorded By The San Francisco Bay By Chris Strachwitz In The 1960s,” Adam Machado, album notes writer (Various Artists)</p><p><strong>Historical album:</strong>“Band On The Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition),” Paul McCartney, compilation producer; Sam Okell & Steve Rooke, mastering engineers (Paul McCartney & Wings)</p><p><strong>Producer of the year, non-classical:</strong>Paul Epworth</p><p><strong>Engineered album, non-classical:</strong>“Paper Airplane,” Neal Cappellino & Mike Shipley, engineers; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer (Alison Krauss & Union Station)</p><p><strong>Remixed recording, non-classical:</strong>“Cinema (Skrillex Remix),” Sonny Moore, remixer (Benny Benassi)</p><p><strong>Surround sound album:</strong>“Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition),” Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Bill Levenson & Elliot Scheiner, surround producers (Derek & The Dominos)</p><p><strong>Engineered album, classical:</strong>“Aldridge: Elmer Gantry,” Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)</p><p><strong>Producer of the year, classical:</strong>Judith Sherman</p><p><strong>Orchestral performance:</strong>“Brahms: Symphony No. 4,” Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)</p><p><strong>Opera recording:</strong>“Adams: Doctor Atomic,” Alan Gilbert, conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul Fink, Gerald Finley, Thomas Glenn & Eric Owens; Jay David Saks, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)</p><p><strong>Choral performance:</strong>“Light & Gold,” Eric Whitacre, conductor</p><p><strong>Small ensemble performance:</strong>“Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music From Slide,” Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird</p><p><strong>Classical instrumental solo:</strong>“Schwantner: Concerto For Percussion & Orchestra,” Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Christopher Lamb (Nashville Symphony)</p><p><strong>Classical vocal solo:</strong>“Diva Divo,” Joyce DiDonato</p><p><strong>Contemporary classical composition:</strong>“Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry,” Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein</p><p><strong>Short form music video:</strong>“Rolling in the Deep,” Adele</p><p><strong>Long form music video:</strong>“Foo Fighters: Back And Forth,” Foo Fighters</p>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-72145705773460707332012-03-23T13:45:00.001+05:302012-05-31T15:24:39.138+05:30Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2011Sahitya Akademi announced its first annual Yuva Puraskar in 16 languages February13,2012 ; the rest of the languages will be declared at a later date except Dogri and Sindhi. Six books of poetry,one of novel, five of short stories, one of biography, one of essay and two of plays have won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva uraskar. <br />
<table align="center" width="450" height="45" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Language </i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Title and Genre</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Author</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Assamese</td> <td align="center">ANUSILON (ESSAYS)</td> <td align="center">ARINDAM BORKATAKI</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Bengali</td> <td align="center">DANAOWLA MANUS (SHORT STORIES)</td> <td align="center">BINOD GHOSHAL</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">English</td> <td align="center">MY NAME IS GAUHAR JAAN! - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MUSICIAN (BIOGRAPHY)</td> <td align="center">VIKRAM SAMPATH</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Gujarati</td> <td align="center">ANTIM YUDDHA (PLAY)</td> <td align="center">DHWANIL PAREKH</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Hindi</td> <td align="center">KAHTE HAIN TAB SHANSHAAH SO RAHE THE (POETRY)</td> <td align="center">UMA SHANKAR CHOUDHARY</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Kannada</td> <td align="center">NELADA KARUNEYA DANI (POETRY)</td> <td align="center">VEERANNA MADIWALARA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Kashmiri</td> <td align="center">PATTE LEJI ZOON DARAS(POETRY)</td> <td align="center">NISAR AZAM</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Konkani</td> <td align="center">NIRNAY (SHORT STORIES)</td> <td align="center"> JOFA GONSALVES</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Maithili</td> <td align="center">HATHAT PARIVARTAN (PLAY)</td> <td align="center">ANAND KUMAR JHA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Malayalam</td> <td align="center">MARANA VIDYALAYAM (SHORT STORIES)</td> <td align="center">SUSMESH CHANDROTH</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Marathi</td> <td align="center">BHUISHASTRA (POETRY)</td> <td align="center">AISHWARYA PATEKAR</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Odia</td> <td align="center">GAAN (POETRY)</td> <td align="center"> GAYATRIBALA PANDA</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Punjabi</td> <td align="center">AMRIT VELA (POETRY)</td> <td align="center">PARAMVEER SINGH</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Rajasthani</td> <td align="center">PEER (SHORT STORIES)</td> <td align="center">DULA RAM SAHARAN</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Tamil</td> <td align="center"> SEVALKATTU (NOVEL)</td> <td align="center"> M. THAVASI</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Telugu</td> <td align="center">MOLOKALAPUNNAMI (SHORT STORIES)</td> <td align="center">VEMPALLI GANGADHAR</td> </tr>
</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-80004365136598505322012-03-14T14:22:00.000+05:302012-03-14T14:22:43.298+05:30World Current Affairs, February 2012 (Part - 2)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of February 2012. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings. This is the second set of World Current Affairs, february 2012.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, a painting by Francis Bacon, sells at Christie's for £21.3 million, the second most valuable work of post-war contemporary art sold at the London auction house.(15th february)</li>
<li>Sony admits it increased the price of two Whitney Houston albums hours after she was found in the bathtub of her hotel room last Saturday. Fans react with outrage.(15th february)</li>
<li>358 people perish in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua. Many others are injured.(15th february)</li>
<li>A United States drone attack kills five militants in the Pakistani town of Spalga in north Waziristan.(16th February)</li>
<li>Two time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid dies suddenly at age 43 of an acute asthma attack.(16th February)</li>
<li>Four World Trade Center's construction crane snaps while lifting a steel.(16th February)</li>
<li>South Korean silicon chip maker Hynix Semiconductor claims that a US court has rejected an antitrust claim against it by Rambus Inc.(16th February)</li>
<li>Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called "underwear bomber", is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to detonate a bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in the US city of Detroit, Michigan.(16th February)</li>
<li>Libya celebrates the first anniversary of the start of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.(17yh february)</li>
<li>Dozens are killed and wounded as fighting intensifies between the Russian forces and the local Muslim insurgents in Chechnya and Dagestan.(17yh february)</li>
<li>Thieves break into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. stealing between 60 and 70 artifacts of the ancient Olympic Games.(17yh february)</li>
<li>The World Bank announces plans to select a new President to replace Robert Zoellick when his term expires in June.(17yh february)</li>
<li>The United Kingdom and France sign a deal to improve cooperation on nuclear energy.(17yh february)</li>
<li>Christian Wulff, the President of Germany, resigns over a corruption scandal.(17yh february)</li>
<li>Violence breaks out in Dakar, Senegal, during an anti-government protest.(18th february)</li>
<li>The Russian Army loses 17 soldiers while fighting in a day long battle with insurgents in the North Caucasus region.(18th february)</li>
<li>The funeral of American entertainer Whitney Houston is held at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey.(18th february)</li>
<li>The Italian film Caesar Must Die wins the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.(18th february)</li>
<li>Former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is summoned by French police to face questions about alleged involvement in a prostitution ring in the city of Lille.(18th february)</li>
<li>A suicide bomber kills at least 19 officers and cadets and injures 26 outside an Iraqi police academy in northeastern Baghdad.(19th february)</li>
<li>Australians commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin by Japan during World War II.(19th february)</li>
<li>A record 2.2 million people attend the Bola Preta street party during the Rio de Janeiro carnival.(19th february)</li>
<li>Iran ceases oil exports to France and the United Kingdom, in a retaliatory move against European Union sanctions.(19th february)</li>
<li>India's Kingfisher Airlines cancels 16 flights from Mumbai and stops operations in Kolkata over the next four days.(19th february)</li>
<li>President of France Nicolas Sarkozy has the first big rally of his re-election campaign in Marseille.(19th february)</li>
<li>Samsung Electronics announces plans to spin off its LCD business.(20th february)</li>
<li>The price of oil reaches an eight month high following Iran banning sales to Britain and France on Sunday.(20th february)</li>
<li>Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, orders an inquiry into the death of six people at a stampede at the Bhavnath Hindu temple in the Junagadh district over the weekend.(20th february)</li>
<li>International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear inspectors arrive in Tehran to hold discussions about Iran's nuclear program.(20th february)</li>
<li>Scientists report regenerating specimens of Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record for oldest plant sucessfully regenerated.(20th february)</li>
<li>Thailand sends an extradition request to Malaysia for one of the five Iranian nationals suspected of involvement in the bombings in Bangkok earlier this month.(21st february)</li>
<li>The 2012 BRIT Awards for British popular music are held in O2 Arena in London with Adele, One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay among the winners.(21st february)</li>
<li>Celebrations of Losar, the Tibetan Buddhist New Year, are cancelled in the People's Republic of China due to a wave of immolations.(21st february)</li>
<li>The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez confirms that doctors in Cuba have found a lesion and he will have to undergo an operation.(21st february)</li>
<li>Hundreds of Afghans hold violent protests against the alleged burning of Qurans at the Bagram Airbase north of Kabul.(22nd february)</li>
<li>The International Atomic Energy Agency states that Iran has denied inspectors access to the Parchin military site where it believes that suspicious nuclear activities may be taking place.(22nd february)</li>
<li>Kevin Rudd resigns as Foreign Minister of Australia after alleged "attacks on credibility" by supporters of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.(22nd february)</li>
<li>Wikileaks suspect United States Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged ahead of a court martial.(23rd february)</li>
<li>Tens of thousands rally at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium in support of the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's candidacy for President of Russia in the upcoming election on March 4th.(23rd february)</li>
<li>Representatives of more than seventy countries meet in Tunisia to discuss supporting the opposition in the Syrian uprising.(24th february)</li>
<li>The Taliban attacks a Pakistani police station in Peshawar killing four officers.(24th february)</li>
<li>Air Zimbabwe suspends all of its flights indefinitely.(24th february)</li>
<li>Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns after a power struggle within the government.(24th february)</li>
<li>Two U.S. officers are killed inside the Ministry of Interior in the Afghan capital Kabul.(25th february)</li>
<li>Treasure from the Spanish Navy frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes returns to Spain after being recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007.(25th february)</li>
<li>The Artist wins four awards including best film at the Independent Spirit Awards 2011 held in Santa Monica.(25th february)</li>
<li>A G-20 finance ministers meeting is held in Mexico City to discuss progress in the Eurozone bailout.(25th february)</li>
<li>A bribery case against former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is dismissed due to the statute of limitations having expired.(25th february)</li>
<li>The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining.(25th february)</li>
<li>France and Germany follow the United States and United Kingdom in withdrawing civilian staff from Afghan government facilities following the killing of two senior NATO officers.(26th february)</li>
<li>Chandra Bahadur Dangi is verified by Guinness World Records to be the world's shortest person ever, beating the record long held by Gul Mohammed.(26th february)</li>
<li>Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation launches the The Sun on Sunday to replace the News of the World, which closed due to a phone hacking controversy.(26th february)</li>
<li>Two members of the Italian Marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen will be prosecuted under Indian law. (26th february)</li>
<li>Jailed U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning, U.S. political scientist Gene Sharp and news network Al Jazeera are among those known to have been nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.(27th february)</li>
<li>Internet portal company Yahoo warns social network company Facebook that it believes Facebook has infringed on several Yahoo patents, between 10 and 20.(27th february)</li>
<li>WikiLeaks begins disclosing 5 million e-mails from the private intelligence company Stratfor.(27th february)</li>
<li>Singer Charlotte Church and her parents agree damages and costs of £600,000 (US$950,000) with Rupert Murdoch's News Group, publishers of the defunct News of the World.(27th february)</li>
<li>A United States Department of Defense report finds that the partial remains of the victims of the September 11 attacks ended up at a military landfill site.(28th february)</li>
<li>Millions of workers in India go on strike to demand improved rights and express anger at rising prices.(28th february)</li>
<li>European Union Foreign Ministers support Serbia's candidacy to join the European Union despite opposition from Romania.(28th february)</li>
<li>Two new species of prehistoric penguin are discovered - Kairuku grebneffi and Kairuku waitaki. Standing nearly 5ft tall, Kairuku grebneffi is the largest penguin ever discovered.(28th february)</li>
<li>IBM claims to be on the verge of creating the world's first quantum computer.(28th february)</li>
<li>James Murdoch resigns from News International to focus on running News Limited's television business with the News International phone hacking scandal as a factor in the decision.(29th february)</li>
<li>North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for food aid.(29th february)</li>
<li>The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is recovering from the removal of a tumour from his pelvis in a Cuban hospital.(29th february)</li>
<li>Egypt announces that a presidential election will held on May 23-24.(29th february)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-28059422323722304132012-03-14T14:19:00.000+05:302012-03-14T14:19:47.788+05:30World Current Affairs, February 2012 (Part - 1)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of February 2012. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings. This is the first set of World Current Affairs, february 2012.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>The London Times reports that a secret NATO report claims that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to regain control over Afghanistan after international forces withdraw from the country.(1st February)</li>
<li>Pakistan Air Force jets bomb militant positions in the Orakzai and Kurram Agency areas near the border with Afghanistan with claims that 31 alleged insurgents were killed.(1st February)</li>
<li>American television host and producer Don Cornelius, creator of Soul Train is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.(1st February)</li>
<li>The social network Facebook files for an initial public offering.(1st February)</li>
<li>At least 73 people are killed as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in the city of Port Said.(1st February)</li>
<li>The Zimbabwe Football Association suspends 80 players including members of the Zimbabwe national football team on suspicion of participation in match-fixing.(1st February)</li>
<li>The Mexican Army sends 4,000 soldiers to Michoacán state as a result of recent violence.(2nd February)</li>
<li>The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 350 people on board. Nearby commercial ships rescue 238 people from the sea.(2nd February)</li>
<li>More than 110 people are killed across Europe as a result of a recent cold snap.(2nd February)</li>
<li>The People's Republic of China asks for assistance from South Sudan to obtain the release of 29 Chinese workers held captive in Sudan for five days.(2nd February)</li>
<li>The Supreme Court of India cancels 122 telecom licences granted in the 2008 sale at the centre of a corruption scandal involving former minister A. Raja.(2nd February)</li>
<li>Egyptian comedian Adel Imam is sentenced to three months in prison for insulting Islam.(2nd February)</li>
<li>Prince William arrives in the Falkland Islands for a tour of duty as a Royal Air Force search and rescue pilot. His deployment comes at a time of high tension between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the sovereignty of the islands.(2nd February)</li>
<li>Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and three others wounded following a Taliban attack in the Kurram Agency.(3rd february)</li>
<li>Hungarian airline Malév ceases operation as its aircraft are grounded due to unpaid debts.(3rd february)</li>
<li>At least three people die and 50 are injured after a passenger train derails in the Kamrup district in India's Assam state.(3rd february)</li>
<li>Thousands of Australians are evacuated in northern New South Wales and Queensland due to rising floodwaters with parts of Queensland declared as a disaster area.(3rd february)</li>
<li>The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia increases the sentence of Kang Kek Iew, or Duch, to life for running the Tuol Sleng prison camp under the Khmer Rouge.(3rd february)</li>
<li>Major General Michael Linnington orders a court martial for US Private Bradley Manning responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks.(3rd february)</li>
<li>The Football Association removes John Terry as captain of the England national football team over allegations of racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand during a match.(3rd february)</li>
<li>The United Nations Security Council votes on an Arab League proposal to resolve problems in Syria with reports of hundreds of people dead in the past couple of days as a result of shelling in Homs - the People's Republic of China and Russia veto the resolution.(4th february)</li>
<li>The Arab Parliament calls for Arab countries to sever relations with Syria.(4th february)</li>
<li>Iran starts new military exercises as tensions rise over its nuclear program.(4th february)</li>
<li>Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies at the age of 110 in the United Kingdom.(4th february)</li>
<li>Over 100,000 people protest for and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow.(4th february)</li>
<li>An explosion hits the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the North Sinai Governorate west of Arish.(5th february)</li>
<li>More than 250 people have died of the cold weather in Europe, with Russia forced to reduce supplies of natural gas.(5th february)</li>
<li>A Libyan starts court proceedings against 41 people accused of helping Muammar Gaddafi to attempt to suppress the opposition in the Libyan civil war.(5th february)</li>
<li>Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah resigns as the Prime Minister of Kuwait following a strong performance by the Opposition in a recent parliamentary election.(5th february)</li>
<li>In darts, England win the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts defeating Australia 4-3 in the final.(5th february)</li>
<li>Hacker group Anonymous publishes hundreds of emails from President Bashar al-Assad's office.(6th february)</li>
<li>The United States closes its embassy in Damascus, while the United Kingdom recalls its ambassador.(6th february)</li>
<li>Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies, a pioneer of abstract art, dies in Barcelona at the age of 88.(6th february)</li>
<li>The government of Greece fails to reach agreement over the terms of a new bailout from the European Union, but retracts the deadline they had given themselves to do so, 30 minutes before the deadline would have passed.(6th february)</li>
<li>A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 13 deaths and 29 people missing with houses buried in a landslide in Guihulngan.(6th february)</li>
<li>Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her becoming the monarch of the United Kingdom and seven other sovereign states in the Commonwealth of Nations with events to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee set for later in the year.(6th february)</li>
<li>Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resign after major social and political unrest in the country.(6th february)</li>
<li>Maldives National Defence Force soldiers fire rubber bullets at police officers demonstrating in the capital Malé who are defying an order by President Mohamed Nasheed to crack down on protests.(7th february)</li>
<li>Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, states that Argentina will lodge a complaint with the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly about the alleged "militarisation" of the area around the Falkland Islands by the United Kingdom.(7th february)</li>
<li>An anti-gay bill is reintroduced in the Ugandan parliament after it was previously withdrawn.(7th february)</li>
<li>Pakistani officials claim that US drone missiles have killed ten people in Spalga village in North Waziristan.(8th february)</li>
<li>Air France cancels long-haul flights due to a strike by staff.(8th february)</li>
<li>Airbus announces that it will inspect the wings of all Airbus 380 aircraft for cracks.(8th february)</li>
<li>The New Zealand Royal Commission on the Pike River Mine disaster hears that a collapse in the coal extraction area was the most likely cause of the fatal blast in the mine on November 19, 2010 that claimed 29 lives.(8th february)</li>
<li>The death toll throughout Europe rises to over 400 with the Danube River freezing over for 170 km.(8th february)</li>
<li>Three Bharatiya Janata Party Ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka – Laxman Savadi, C C Patil and J. Krishna Palemar – are forced to resign after footage is shown of them watching a pornographic video in the Legislative Assembly.(8th february)</li>
<li>Fabio Capello resigns as the manager of England over continuing clashes with The Football Association (FA) following the sacking of John Terry as team captain, with Terry facing charges of racist abuse.(8th february)</li>
<li>The United States Department of Defense issues new guidelines removing restrictions on use of women in combat.(9th february)</li>
<li>Eastman Kodak Co. announces that it will no longer make digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in an effort to save money during bankruptcy.(9th february)</li>
<li>Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes on an official visit to China, meeting with President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and Vice-Premier Li Keqiang. The two countries sign trade deals worth over $3 billion.(9th february)</li>
<li>Analyst Roland S. Martin is suspended from CNN over numerous offensive comments he made about gay men on Twitter during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI.(9th february)</li>
<li>Egypt's military rulers warn of conspiracies that seek to topple the state and spread chaos one day before the one-year anniversary of the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.(10th february)</li>
<li>A new book of poetry by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins is negatively reviewed by leading critic Professor Kevin Kiely, who says the President "can be accused of crimes against literature".(10th february)</li>
<li>The Guard wins The Guardian's annual First Film award.(10th february)</li>
<li>The death toll of a boat sunk with more than 70 people from Samaná, Dominican Republic, trying to illegally enter Puerto Rico, reaches 47.(10th february)</li>
<li>A group of South Korean lawmakers make a rare visit to North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Region.(10th february)</li>
<li>Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledges greater freedoms in Tibet, hours after two protesters are killed demanding the end of Chinese rule in the region; seven officials are also sacked for "neglecting state duties".(10th february)</li>
<li>A Saudi blogger is detained by Malaysian police after fleeing Saudi Arabia for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.(10th february)</li>
<li>Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab says two Americans have been detained by Bahraini security forces and US Embassy is looking into the reports.(11th february)</li>
<li>Activists in Egypt mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 Egyptian revolution with a strike and a day of civil disobedience.(11th february)</li>
<li>American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the age of 48 at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.(11th february)</li>
<li>Thousands of people march in Japan against the resumption of nuclear reactors that were closed after the Fukushima disaster last year.(11th february)</li>
<li>The Arab League meets in Cairo to discuss sending a joint mission to Syria with the United Nations.(12th february)</li>
<li>The historic Attikon cinema in Athens is set on fire following demonstrations over the latest round of economic austerity measures proposed by the government.(12th february)</li>
<li>The 54th Grammy Awards for music are held at the Staples Center in the U.S. city of Los Angeles, with some of the show being re-worked to commemorate the late Whitney Houston.(12th february)</li>
<li>The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Awards is held in London with The Artist winning the Award for best film.(12th february)</li>
<li>A senior aide to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, is killed, and the Finance Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon is injured in a plane crash near the town of Bukavu.(12th february)</li>
<li>A teenage Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Choedon dies after setting herself on fire in protest against Chinese rule of Tibet in Sichuan province.(12th february)</li>
<li>In football, the final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations played at Libreville, Gabon, between Zambia and Ivory Coast, with Zambia winning 8-7 on penalties in a shock result.(12th february)</li>
<li>An explosion tears through an Israeli diplomat's car in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, India; one woman is injured.(13th february)</li>
<li>Explosives are found near the Israeli Embassy building in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi; the device is neutralized safely.(13th february)</li>
<li>Beverly Hills police confirm Whitney Houston was underwater and unconscious when found in a bath in her Los Angeles hotel room last Saturday.(13th february)</li>
<li>Barack Obama, the President of the United States, presents 16 people with the National Medal of Arts at the White House including actor Al Pacino, country music singer Mel Tillis and former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove.(13th february)</li>
<li>The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group announces plans to cut 1000 jobs in Australia.(13th february)</li>
<li>The European Union and United States approve Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola.(13th february)</li>
<li>The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani appears before the Supreme Court of Pakistan to face contempt of court charges.(13th february)</li>
<li>The president of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, wins a new five-year term with 97% of the vote, according to election officials.(13th february)</li>
<li>The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by the cruiser Cape St. George and the destroyer Sterett, sails through the Strait of Hormuz, close to the coast of Iran, for the second time in recent weeks.(14th february)</li>
<li>A new statue of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is unveiled in the capital Pyongyang.(14th february)</li>
<li>China issues new regulations on foreign television programmes being aired in the country - banning all imported programmes during prime time.(14th february)</li>
<li>The World Bank announces that its President, Robert Zoellick, is stepping down when his term ends in June.(14th february)</li>
<li>FIFA warns the Argentine Football Association (AFA) against renaming their top league after the ARA General Belgrano cruiser on which hundreds of people were killed after it was sunk by a British nuclear submarine in 1982. FIFA says such a move might breach rules on mixing politics with football.(14th february)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-42696252447501172012-02-28T15:54:00.001+05:302012-02-28T15:57:33.170+05:3057th Filmfare Award Winners 2012<table align="center" width="400" height="50" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr>
<td align="center"><b><i>Catagory</i></b></td>
<td align="center"><b><i>Person</i></b></td>
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<td>Best Costumes</td>
<td>Niharika Khan,The Dirty Picture</td>
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<td>Best Sound Design</td>
<td>Nakul Kamte, Don-2</td>
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<td>Best Production/Art Direction</td>
<td>Shashank Tere, Delhi Belly</td>
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<td>Best Editing</td>
<td>Huzefa Lokhandwala, Delhi Belly</td>
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<td>Best Cinematography</td>
<td>Carlos Catalon, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
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<td>Best Action</td>
<td>Action Concepts, Don-2</td>
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<td>Best Background Score</td>
<td>Ranjit Barot, Shaitan</td>
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<td>Best SFX</td>
<td>Red Chillied VFX, RA.One</td>
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<td>Best Choreographer</td>
<td>Bosco-Caesar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
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<td>Best Debutant Female</td>
<td>Parineeti Chopra, Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl</td>
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<td>Best Debutant Male</td>
<td>Vidyut Jamwal, Force</td>
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<td>Best Debutant Director</td>
<td>Abhinay Deo, Delhi Belly</td>
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<td>RD BURMAN award for Upcoming talent in field of music</td>
<td>Krsna, Tanu Weds Manu</td>
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<td>Playback Singer Female</td>
<td>Rekha Bharadwaj and Usha Uthup, Darling (7 Khoon Maaf)</td>
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<td>Playback Singer Male</td>
<td>Mohit Chauhan, Jo Bhi Mein Kehna Chahoon-Rockstar</td>
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<td>Best Lyrics</td>
<td>Irshad Kamil-Nadaan Parindey, Rockstar</td>
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<td>Best Music</td>
<td>A R Rahman, Rockstar</td>
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<td>Idea Sony Scene Of the year</td>
<td>The Dirty Picture</td>
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<td>Life-Time Achievement Award</td>
<td>Aruna Irani</td>
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<td>Best Actor In a Supporting role(Female)</td>
<td>Rani Mukerji, No one killed Jessica</td>
</tr>
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<td>Best Actor In a Supporting role(Male)</td>
<td>Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
</tr>
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<td>Best Story</td>
<td>Sanjay Chouhan, I am Kalam</td>
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<td>Best Screenplay</td>
<td>Akshat Verma, Delhi Belly</td>
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<td>Best Dialogue</td>
<td>Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
</tr>
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<td>Critics’ Award for Best Film</td>
<td>Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
</tr>
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<td>Critics’ Award for Best Actress</td>
<td>Priyanka Chopra, 7 Khoon Maaf</td>
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<td>Critics’ Award for Best Actor</td>
<td>Ranbir Kapoor, Rockstar</td>
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<td>Special Jury Certificate for Outstanding Talent</td>
<td>Partho Gupte, Stanley Ka Dabba</td>
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<td>Best Director</td>
<td>Zoya Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
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<td>Best Film</td>
<td>Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara</td>
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<td>Best Actor (Female)</td>
<td>Vidya Balan</td>
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</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-57976887885110375852012-02-28T15:53:00.000+05:302012-02-28T15:53:26.958+05:30Khel Ratna Awards 2011Dear visitors. This time I am presenting you the list of the winners of Khel Ratna Awards - 2011. Stay in touch for our next presentation.<br />
<table align="center" width="450" height="40" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr>
<td align="center"><h4>Award Name</h4></td>
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<td align="center"><b>Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratn Awards 2011</b></td>
<td>.</td>
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<td>Shri Gagan Narang</td>
<td>Shooting</td>
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<td align="center"><b>Arjun Awards 2011</b></td>
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<td>Shri Rahul Banerjee</td>
<td>Archery</td>
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<td>Ms. Preeja Sreedharan</td>
<td>Athletics</td>
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<td>Shri Vikas Gowda</td>
<td>Athletics</td>
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<td>Ms. Jwala Gutta</td>
<td>Badminton</td>
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<td>Shri M. Suranjoy Singh</td>
<td>Boxing</td>
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<td>Shri Zaheer Khan</td>
<td>Cricket</td>
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<td>Shri sunil Chhetri</td>
<td>Football</td>
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<td>Ms. Tejeswini Bai V.</td>
<td>Kabaddi (Women)</td>
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<td>Shri Rakesh Kumar</td>
<td>Kabaddi (Men)</td>
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<td>Shri Ashish Kumar</td>
<td>Gymnastics</td>
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<td>Shri Rajpal Singh</td>
<td>Hockey (Men)</td>
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<td>Ms. Tejeswini Ravindra Sawant</td>
<td>Shooting</td>
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<td>Shri Veerdhawal Vikram Khade</td>
<td>Swimming</td>
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<td>Shri Somdev Kishore Devvarman</td>
<td>Tennis</td>
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<td>Shri Sanjay Kumar</td>
<td>Volleyball</td>
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<td>Shri Ravinder Singh</td>
<td>Wrestling</td>
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<td>Naib Subedar Katulu Ravikumar</td>
<td>Weightlifting</td>
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<td>Ms. Prasantha Karamakar</td>
<td>Swimming Paralympics</td>
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<td align="center"><b>Dronacharaya Awards 2011</b></td>
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<td>Shri Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao</td>
<td>Boxing</td>
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<td>Shri Devender Kumar Rathore</td>
<td>Gymnastics</td>
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<td>Shri Ramphal</td>
<td>Wrestling</td>
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<td>Dr. Kuntal Roy</td>
<td>Athletics(Life time achievment)</td>
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<td>Shri Rajinder Singh</td>
<td>Hockey(Life time achievment)</td>
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<td align="center"><b>Dhyan Chand Award 2011</b></td>
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<td>Shri Shabbir Ali</td>
<td>Football</td>
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<td>Shri Sushil Kohli</td>
<td>Swimming</td>
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<td>Shri Rajkumar</td>
<td>Wrestling</td>
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</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-33934727728879469152012-02-28T15:39:00.001+05:302012-02-28T15:39:47.999+05:30List of Shaurya Chakra Awardees -2011Hi Friends.This time I am presenting to you the list of Shaurya Chakra Awardees -2011. I hope you may like it.<br />
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<ul type="disc"> <li>Major Ravindra Kumar Gurang, Regiment Of Artillery Regiment.</li>
<li>Major Shalender, 4<sup>th</sup> Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces).</li>
<li>Subedar Manjeet Singh, 4<sup>th</sup> Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces).</li>
<li>Naib Subedar Mengare Shankar Ganpati, 15th Battalion The Maratha Light Infantry.</li>
<li>Naib Subedar Lal Singh Khichi, Sena Medal, Raj Putana Rifles/57<sup>th</sup> Battalion The Rashtriy A Rifles (Posthumous).</li>
<li>Naik Sumer Singh, Regiment Of Artillery/18th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous).</li>
<li>Naik sankar Tarafdar, Regiment Of Artillery/ 33<sup>rd</sup> Field Regiment.</li>
<li>Lance Naik Brij Kishore Dhami, 19th Battalion The Kumaon Regiment.</li>
<li>5048550P Rifleman Tej Bahadur Gurung, 1st Gorkha Rifles/ 15<sup>th</sup> Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles.</li>
<li>Lieuten Commander Rohith Mohandas Nambiar (0562-A).</li>
<li>Wing Commander Felix Pinto (23569), Flying Pilot.</li>
<li>Oem Samsher Singh, Border Roads Organisation (Posthumous –Brdb).</li>
<li>GS-166845n Oem -2 Kanhaya Prasad, Border Roads Organisation (Posthumous).</li>
<li>Shri ravindra Kumar Singh, Assistant Commandant, Central Reserve Police Force.</li>
<li>Captain Shakul Tyagi, Pawan Hans Helicopter Limited.</li>
<li>Shri barket Ali, Spo, Village- Gouri Binloa, Tehsil- Thathri, District – Doa, Jammu And Kashmir (Posthumous).</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-33706760636323505052012-02-10T14:34:00.001+05:302012-02-10T14:38:36.278+05:30World 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.<br />
<ul type="disc"><li>The King Center publishes online 200,000 personal papers belonging to Martin Luther King, Jr. to mark his birthday.(16th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Syria rejects calls for Arab troops to intervene in the country's conflict.(17th January)</li>
<li>Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer.(17th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Abdollah Jassbi resigns as President of Islamic Azad University after near thirty years in position.(17th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>A new Neptune-sized exoplanet is discovered by an amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England.(18th January)</li>
<li>Kodak files for bankruptcy protection.(19th January)</li>
<li>Five people are killed and thousands of others are affected following the first tropical storm to hit Mozambique since 1984.(19th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The army of Bangladesh says it has foiled a military coup.(19th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Several people are killed in a series of bomb explosions in the city of Kano, Nigeria.(20th January)</li>
<li>The United Nations says 120,000 people in South Sudan required aid amid tribal fighting.(20th January)</li>
<li>An Indonesian man is charged with blasphemy after saying that God does not exist on his Facebook page.(20th January)</li>
<li>China warns Iran against developing nuclear weapons.(20th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Egyptian police shoot two African migrants dead as they attempt to cross the border into Israel.(22nd January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>At least 16 people drown after a passenger boat sinks off Iran's southern coast.(22nd January)</li>
<li>Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announces that he is to leave for treatment in the United States.(22nd January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The European Union imposes more sanctions on Iran's banking and oil industries in response to Iran's nuclear program.(23rd January)</li>
<li>The French Senate passes a bill that makes it illegal for citizens to deny the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.(23rd January)</li>
<li>Andrew Miller's novel Pure wins the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award.(24th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>United States President Barack Obama presents his 2012 State of the Union Address to the United States Congress.(24th January)</li>
<li>A Tibetan monk is shot dead in Sichuan, China, in the second violent clash this week as unrest spreads.(25th January)</li>
<li>A United States rescue operation in Somalia frees two foreign hostages and kills nine pirates.(25th January)</li>
<li>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran is willing to talk about Iran's nuclear program with other leaders.(25th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Three people are killed and 16 missing after three office buildings collapse in Cinelândia square in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(26th January)</li>
<li>Chinese security forces shoot dead a young Tibetan man in Sichuan province, at least the third such killing this week.(27th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The Economic Commission for Africa says Africa's economy faces "serious" threats because of the Eurozone crisis and the Arab Spring.(27th January)</li>
<li>Two sacks of cocaine are accidentally delivered to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.(27th January)</li>
<li>Russia's Central Election Commission refuses to register opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko party, citing invalid signatures.(27th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Twitter alters technology to enable country-specific censorship of messages.(27th January)</li>
<li>Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu calls on the Church of England not to permit same-sex marriage.(28th January)</li>
<li>The African Union opens its new headquarters in Addis Ababa.(28th January)</li>
<li>Eight sea lions are found shot dead in the U.S. state of Washington.(28th January)</li>
<li>Israeli police enter the Red Cross compound and arrest two more Palestinian MPs associated with Hamas.(28th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Approximately 300 people are arrested in the US city of Oakland, California during Occupy Oakland protests.(28th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Cyclone Iggy kills 14 people and injures 60 over a four day period in Indonesia.(29th January)</li>
<li>Greece rejects outright German proposals for direct European Union control of the country's financial affairs, expressing opposition to further outside interference.(29th January)</li>
<li>International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors begin a three-day visit to Iran.(29th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy outlines an economic reform package increasing taxes and proposing a new tax on financial transactions.(29th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The death toll from a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, reaches 112.(30th Janauary)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>A search continues off Turkey's Black Sea coast for eight missing crew members of the Cambodia-flagged freighter the Vera.(31st January)</li>
<li>The International Atomic Energy Agency gives its approval to nuclear reactor safety checks made by Japan.(31st January)</li>
<li>China tightens control of monasteries and on main roads in Tibet following deadly protests in the region.(31st January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-65180122105899941762012-02-10T14:32:00.001+05:302012-02-10T14:38:10.984+05:30World 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.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>Syrian opposition groups say that over 5,800 people were killed in violence in 2011.(1st January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Queen Elizabeth II appoints former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and British painter David Hockney to the Order of Merit.(1st January)</li>
<li>Rio Tinto Alcan locks out hundreds of workers from a smelter in the Canadian town of Alma, Quebec.(1st January)</li>
<li>The Iranian Navy test-fires a surface-to-air missile.(1st January)</li>
<li>The second of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft is in orbit around the moon.(1st January)</li>
<li>In football, the Swaziland national football team withdraws from the qualifying rounds of the Africa Cup of Nations due to financial constraints.(1st January)</li>
<li>Hundreds of Muslim villagers clash with riot police in the Ningxia region of China after a mosque is demolished by local authorities.(2nd January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Iranian news agencies report that the country has produced its first nuclear fuel rod.(2nd January)</li>
<li>The military government of Fiji announces that it is to lift martial law and other emergency regulations.(2nd January)</li>
<li>President of China Hu Jintao warns of attempts to "westernise" the country by "hostile powers".(2nd January)</li>
<li>Germany's unemployment rate reportedly reaches its lowest level since 1991.(3rd January)</li>
<li>Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian Authority meet in the Jordanian capital, Amman, for the first time in 16 months.(3rd January)</li>
<li>Iran warns the United States not to send any more aircraft carriers into the Persian Gulf.(3rd January)</li>
<li>South Korea lifts a temporary ban that it placed on travel to North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-Il.(3rd January)</li>
<li>Libya appoints Yousef al-Manqoush as the new head of its armed forces.(3rd January)</li>
<li>Two bombs explode in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri with the Boko Haram movement believed to be responsible.(4th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou announces that he will resign as head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.(4th January)</li>
<li>Armed commandos will be ordered to protect endangered tigers in India's Bandipur and Nagarhole national parks.(4th January)</li>
<li>Qatar's prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani says the Arab League monitors have made "mistakes" in Syria.(5th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The Pakistan Taliban claims to have killed 15 security force members it kidnapped last month.(5th January)</li>
<li>An alleged North Korean spy is indicted in South Korea.(5th January)</li>
<li>The President of the United States Barack Obama announces a new defense strategy, cutting spending dramatically.(5th January)</li>
<li>Portia Simpson Miller is sworn in for the second time as the Prime Minister of Jamaica.(5th January)</li>
<li>The Ramnit worm steals more than 45000 Facebook logins and passwords.(6th January)</li>
<li>A Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Sichuan, China.(6th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Peter MacKay, Canadian Minister of Defence. marries Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian former beauty queen, in a private ceremony in Mexico.(6th January)</li>
<li>Iran praises the United States Navy after American sailors rescued Iranian fishermen from armed pirates in the Arabian Sea.(7th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour.(9th January)</li>
<li>A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 29 people and leaves over 50 others injured.(10th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>The United States denies any involvement in a bomb blast that killed an Iranian scientist.(11th January)</li>
<li>The Burmese government signs a ceasefire with Karen rebels.(12th January)</li>
<li>The Supreme Court of Israel upholds a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship.(12th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Lions Gate Entertainment, the largest independent studio in the United States, purchases Summit Entertainment for US$412.5 million.(13th January)</li>
<li>Reforms in Burma: Burma announces a mass pardon for political prisoners, including student leader Min Ko Naing.(13th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in the Iraqi city of Basra.(14th January)</li>
<li>A bomb detonates near a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani town of Khanpur, killing at least 18 people and wounding 30.(15th January)</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>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)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-91716575510121071832012-01-28T16:51:00.001+05:302012-01-28T17:01:34.788+05:30Padma Vibhushan Awards 2012Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.<br />
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<table align="center" width="450" height="50" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Name</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Field</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri K G Subramanyan</td> <td>Painting & Sculpture</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Late Shri Mario De Miranda</td> <td>Cartoonist</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika</td> <td>Vocal Music</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti</td> <td>Orthopedics</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri T V Rajeswar</td> <td>Civil Service </td> </tr>
</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-56895140613384081922012-01-28T16:49:00.001+05:302012-01-28T17:00:13.968+05:30Padma Shri Awards 2012Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.<br />
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<table align="center" width="450" height="50" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Name</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Field</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Vanraj Bhatia</td> <td>Music</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Zia Fariduddin Dagar</td> <td>Music</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Nameirakpam Ibemni Devi</td> <td>Music</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Ramachandra Subraya Hegde Chittani</td> <td>Yakshagana dance drama</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Moti Lal Kemmu</td> <td>Playwright</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Shahid Parvez Khan</td> <td>Instrumental Music-Sitar</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Mohan Lal Kumhar</td> <td>Terracotta</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Sakar Khan Manganiar</td> <td>Rajasthani Folk Music</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Joy Michael</td> <td>Theatre</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Minati Mishra</td> <td>Indian Classical Dance-Odissi</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Natesan Muthuswamy</td> <td>Theatre</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. R. Nagarathnamma</td> <td>Theatre</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Kalamandalm Sivan Nambootiri</td> <td>Indian Classical Dance- Kutiyattam</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Yamunabai Waikar</td> <td>Indian Folk Music-Lavani</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Satish Alekar</td> <td>Playwright</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey</td> <td>Chhau dance and choreography</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Ramakant Gundecha</td> <td>Indian Classical Music- Vocal</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Umakant Gundecha</td> <td>Indian Classical Music- Vocal </td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Anup Jalota</td> <td>Indian Classical Music- Vocal</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Soman Nair Priyadarsan</td> <td>Cinema- Direction</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Sunil Janah</td> <td>Photography</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Ms. Laila Tyebji</td> <td>Handicrafts</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Vijay Sharma</td> <td>Painting</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Shamshad Begum</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Reeta Devi</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. P.K. Gopal</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Phoolbasan Bai Yadav</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. G. Muniratnam</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Uma Tuli</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Sat Paul Varma</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt.Binny Yanga</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Yezdi Hirji Malegam</td> <td>Public Affairs</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Pravin H. Parekh</td> <td>Pubic Affairs</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. V. Adimurthy</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Krishna Lal Chadha</td> <td>Science and Engineering – Agriculture</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Virander Singh Chauhan</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Vijaypal Singh</td> <td>Science and Engineering – Agricultural Research</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Lokesh Kumar Singhal</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Yagnaswami Sundara Rajan</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Jagadish Shukla</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Ms. Priya Paul</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Shoji Shiba</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Gopinath Pillai</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Arun Hastimal Firodia</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Swati A. Piramal</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Mahdi Hasan</td> <td>Medicine-Anatomy</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Viswanathan Mohan</td> <td>Medicine – Diabetology </td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. J. Hareendran Nair</td> <td>Medicine – Ayurveda</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan</td> <td>Medicine – Geriatrics</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Jitendra Kumar Singh</td> <td>Medicine – Oncology</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Shrinivas S. Vaishya</td> <td>Medicine-Healthcare</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Nitya Anand</td> <td>Medicine – Drugs Research</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Late Dr. Jugal Kishore</td> <td>Medicine – Homoeopathy</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Mukesh Batra</td> <td>Medicine-Homeopathy</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Eberhard Fischer</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Kedar Gurung</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Surjit Singh Patar</td> <td>Literature and Education – Poetry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Vijay Dutt Shridhar</td> <td>Literature and Education – Journalism</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Irwin Allan Sealy</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Ms. Geeta Dharmarajan</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Pepita Seth</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Ralte L. Thanmawia</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Ajeet Bajaj</td> <td>Sports – Skiing</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Jhulan Goswami</td> <td>Sports – Women’s Cricket</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Zafar Iqbal</td> <td>Sports-Hockey</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Devendra Jhajrija</td> <td>Sports – Athletics- Paralympics</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Limba Ram</td> <td>Sports – Archery</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Syed Mohammed Arif</td> <td>Sports – Badminton</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi</td> <td>Sports- Commentary</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Prabhakar Vaidya</td> <td>Sports-Physical Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri T. Venkatapathi Reddiar</td> <td>Others-Horticulture</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. K. (Kota) Ullas Karanth</td> <td>Others-Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri K Paddayya</td> <td>Others-Archaeology</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Swapan Guha</td> <td>Others-Ceramics</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai</td> <td>Others – Environmental Education</td> </tr>
</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-91309380624421615342012-01-28T16:48:00.002+05:302012-01-28T17:00:58.173+05:30Padma Bhushan Awards 2012Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.<br />
<table align="center" width="450" height="50" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Name</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Field</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Smt. Shabana Azmi</td> <td>Cinema</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Khaled Choudhury</td> <td>Theatre</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Jatin Das</td> <td>Painting</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta</td> <td>Instrumental Music – Sarod</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Dharmendra Singh Deol <br />
alias Dharmendra<br />
</td> <td>Cinema</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan</td> <td>Classical vocal and instrumental music</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Ms. Mira Nair</td> <td>Cinema</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan</td> <td>Instrumental Music-Violin</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Anish Kapoor</td> <td>Sculpture</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Satya Narayan Goenka</td> <td>Social Work</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao</td> <td>Public Affairs</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri George Yong-Boon Yeo</td> <td>Public Affairs</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof. Shashikumar Chitre</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr. M S Raghunathan</td> <td>Science and Engineering</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Balasubramanian Muthuraman</td> <td>Trade and Industry</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr.Suresh H. Advani</td> <td>Medicine – Oncology</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr.Noshir H Wadia</td> <td>Medicine-Neurology</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr.Devi Prasad Shetty</td> <td>Medicine-Cardiology</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof.(Dr.)Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof.Vidya Dehejia</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Prof.Arvind Panagariya</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr.Jose Pereira</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Dr.Homi K. Bhabha</td> <td>Literature and Education</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri N Vittal</td> <td>Civil Service</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Mata Prasad</td> <td>Civil Service</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Shri Ronen Sen</td> <td>Civil Service</td> </tr>
</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-16030003144072728262012-01-09T14:12:00.001+05:302012-01-09T14:19:21.046+05:30World Current Affairs, December 2011(Part-2)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of December 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.<br />
This is the second set of World Current Affairs, December 2011.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>Syrian troops reportedly open fire on anti-government protesters following Friday prayers.(16th December)</li>
<li>Human Rights Watch calls on Bahrain to release political prisoners from the 2011 Bahraini uprising.(16th December)</li>
<li>Russia joins the World Trade Organization.(16th December)</li>
<li>Moody's Investors Service downgrades Belgium's credit rating two notches to Aa3.(16th December)</li>
<li>Japan declares the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in cold shutdown.(16th December)</li>
<li>The death toll from an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam reaches 156 with 96,000 people having been sick with the disease as at the end of November 2011.(16th December)</li>
<li>The United States and North Korea are expected to hold diplomatic talks regarding North Korea's nuclear program. The talks are the first meeting after the six-party talks stalled in 2008.(16th December)</li>
<li>Russian customs seize radioactive material bound for Iran.(16th December)</li>
<li>Hollywood actor Christian Bale is prevented from visiting Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng by police.(16th December)</li>
<li>Thailand reissues a passport for Thaksin Shinawatra, saying he is no longer a "threat".(16th December)</li>
<li>Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi kill at least 400 people in the Philippines with hundreds more missing.(17th December)</li>
<li>A boat carrying 380 asylum seekers en route from Indonesia to Australia sinks off the coast of Java with hundreds of people missing.(17th December)</li>
<li>The Arab League threatens to take Syria to the United Nations within two weeks if the country does not accept its proposals to end the crackdown on the uprising. (Xinhua)Clashes continue in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a third day between the Egyptian Army and protesters.(18th December)</li>
<li>Nine people die following an explosion in a coal mine in Binzhou City in China's Hunan Province.(18th December)</li>
<li>The Philippines Red Cross estimates that the death toll from the floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi has risen to 521.(18th December)</li>
<li>Václav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia and President of the Czech Republic, dies.(18th December)</li>
<li>Spain's FC Barcelona win the final of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup, beating Brazil's Santos 4-0 in Yokohama, Japan. Barcelona win the Cup for the second time in three years.(18th December)</li>
<li>Syria agrees to an Arab League plan to allow monitors into the country amid the uprising.(19th December)</li>
<li>Samsung Electronics announces it has filed new claims of patent infringement against Apple in Germany, raising the stakes in an ongoing worldwide patent war.(19th December)</li>
<li>The death of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il on December 17 is announced by Korean Central Television.(19th December)</li>
<li>Kim Jong-un is proclaimed the expected successor to his father.(19th December)</li>
<li>Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returns to Pakistan after undergoing treatment in Dubai.(19th December)</li>
<li>Diplomats from the European Union, Non-aligned Movement and the Arab States Group on the UN Security Council criticise Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.(20th December)</li>
<li>Joseph Kabila is sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the presidency being contested by opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.(20th December)</li>
<li>Two Earth-sized planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20d, are found orbiting a star 950 light-years away from Earth.(20th December)</li>
<li>Health authorities in Hong Kong start slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu H5N1 is found at a poultry market.(21st December)</li>
<li>North Korea closes its border with China ahead of the funeral of former leader Kim Jong-il.(21st December)</li>
<li>Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay agree to close their ports to ships flying the flag of the Falkland Islands at a Mercosur meeting; Argentina and the United Kingdom both claim the islands.(21st December)</li>
<li>Soyuz TMA-03M, launched from Baikonur, carries a crew of three men to the International Space Station.(21st December)</li>
<li>At least 72 people are killed and 169 wounded in a series of 16 bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, shortly after the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. (22nd December)</li>
<li>The United States admits it was significantly responsible for an airstrike last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.(22nd December)</li>
<li>Human Rights Watch alleges that security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been responsible for the deaths of 24 people since the re-election of Joseph Kabila as President.(22nd December)</li>
<li>Egypt's military-appointed Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri calls for national dialogue after weeks of deadly protests against the military regime.(22nd December)</li>
<li>Police in Brazil seek to press charges for environmental crimes committed by the United States oil company Chevron and drilling firm Transocean in relation to last month's Campos Basin oil spill.(22nd December)</li>
<li>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposes political reforms at his final state-of-the-nation address.(22nd December)</li>
<li>The Large Hadron Collider makes its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009, the boson Chib 3P.(22nd December)</li>
<li>North Korea says it will accept all South Korean delegations wishing to pay respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il.(23rd December)</li>
<li>World leaders attend the funeral of former Czech President and dissident Václav Havel.(23rd December)</li>
<li>Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi registers her National League for Democracy party, and visits Burma's parliament for the first time.(23rd December)</li>
<li>Gun battles in Nigeria between government troops and Islamist Boko Haram militants kill 68 people.(24th December)</li>
<li>The Buddha Memorial Center of Fo Guang Shan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, housing a tooth relic of Gautama Buddha, is consecrated.(24th December)</li>
<li>Dutch actor and singer Johannes Heesters, the world's oldest performer, dies at the age of 108.(24th December)</li>
<li>A former official of the central bank of the People's Republic of China states that the People's Bank of China could lower the country's reserve requirements in 2012.(24th December)</li>
<li>Cuba announces that it will release 2,900 prisoners – including some political prisoners – in the next few days.(24th December)</li>
<li>Libya celebrates its independence for the first time in 42 years; independence celebrations were banned under the regime of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.(24th December) </li>
<li>At least 39 people are killed and many injured in a series of attacks against churches in Nigeria during Christmas prayers. The Islamic group Boko Haram claims responsibility.(25th December)</li>
<li>Pope Benedict XVI delivers the annual Christmas message at Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City.(25th December)</li>
<li>At least 38 migrants from Haiti are found dead after their boat sank off the east coast of Cuba.(25th December)</li>
<li>Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former President of Iran Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, stands trial on charges of making anti-regime propaganda.(25th December)</li>
<li>Brazil surpasses the United Kingdom to become the world's sixth-largest economy.(26th December)</li>
<li>The government of China sentences activist Chen Xi to ten years imprisonment for "inciting subversion".(26th December)</li>
<li>Helen Frankenthaler, who developed Color Field painting, dies at age 83.(27th December)</li>
<li>Over $30 billion was spent on holiday online shopping in the United States, a 15% increase from last year, according to comScore.(27th December)</li>
<li>The government of Argentina announces that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has cancer in her thyroid gland, and will have an operation on 4 January and step aside as president for 20 days until 24 January.(27th December)</li>
<li>The Washington-based organisation Human Rights Watch accuses Syria of hiding hundreds of political detainees during a visit by Arab League monitors.(28th December)</li>
<li>A Russian court rejects an attempt to ban Bhagavad Gita As It Is, a Russian translation of the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita.(28th December)</li>
<li>Stones reportedly fall from the Colisseum, one of Rome's most famous landmarks.(28th December)</li>
<li>The Silence of the Lambs, a 1991 thriller film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is to be preserved by the United States Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.(28th December)</li>
<li>31 people are injured following the crash-landing of a passenger jet at Osh Airport in southern Kyrgyzstan.(28th December)</li>
<li>Four people are killed and 1,000 others flee their homes amid lahars from the Mount Gamalama volcano in Indonesia.(28th December)</li>
<li>Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz if more sanctions are imposed on it by Western nations.(28th December)</li>
<li>In China, 54 government officials and the Ministry of Railways are punished over a fatal high-speed rail crash in July.(28th December)</li>
<li>An Egyptian court bans forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons.(28th December)</li>
<li>The corruption trial of the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, resumes in Cairo.(28th December)</li>
<li>North Korea begins two days of funeral services for former leader Kim Jong-Il, who died on December 17 of a heart attack, aged 69.(28th December)</li>
<li>China's Compass satellite navigation system, a rival to the American Global Positioning System (GPS), becomes operational, offering navigation services on the Chinese mainland. The system is expected to become available worldwide by 2020.(28th December)</li>
<li>Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes aimed at Kurdish militants, accidentally killing 35 smugglers that were suspected as guerillas.(29th December)</li>
<li>The United States sells 84 F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.(29th December)</li>
<li>Mount Cleveland, a volcano in the U.S. state of Alaska, erupts, causing an air traffic alert to be issued.(29th December)</li>
<li>A Russian nuclear submarine, the K-84 Ekaterinburg, is forced to partially submerge itself at a shipyard in Murmansk to douse a blaze on its hull. No radiation leaks are reported.(29th December)</li>
<li>The Pacific Island nations of Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line in order to align their time zone better with their main trading partners, meaning that they will not mark December 30 this year.(29th December)</li>
<li>Kim Jong-un is acknowledged as the Supreme Leader of North Korea at the conclusion of a state funeral for his father.(29th December)</li>
<li>Around 500 people protest in the Russian capital Moscow against the detention of opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov.(29th December)</li>
<li>Poland announces an amnesty for illegal immigrants from January 1, 2012.(29th December)</li>
<li>The stock for McDonald's rose 31 percent in 2011, the largest gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while Bank of America fell 59 percent, the largest loss in the Dow Jones.(30th December)</li>
<li>Cyclone Thane makes landfall near the southern Union Territory of Pondicherry on India's southern coast.(30th December)</li>
<li>North Korea says that "foolish politicians around the world" should not expect any change in the country's policies.(30th December)</li>
<li>Tens of thousands of Yemenis protest against an immunity deal for former President Ali Abdullah Saleh demanding he face trial for deaths in the 2011 Yemeni uprising.(30th December)</li>
<li>The party of Democratic Republic of the Congo politician Étienne Tshisekedi says he has been placed under house arrest in Kinshasa since he claimed to have won the presidential election earlier this year.(30th December)</li>
<li>Ethiopian forces capture the central Somali town of Beledweyne from al-Shabaab Islamist militants.(3st December)</li>
<li>The President of Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir urges members of the Darfur based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to seek peace following the recent death of rebel leader Ibrahim Khalil.(31st December)</li>
<li>The President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the states of Borno, Yobe, Niger and Plateau due to violence by the Islamist sect Boko Haram.(3st December)</li>
<li>More than 200 people are injured by illegally huge firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines.(31st December)</li>
<li>The President of the United States Barack Obama signs a law providing for new sanctions against Iran.(31st December)</li>
<li>United States President Barack Obama signs the National Defense Authorization Act into law allowing the indefinite imprisonment of any United States citizen under suspect of terrorism without need of trial.(31st December)</li>
<li>Kim Jong-un is named as the Supreme Commander of North Korea's armed forces following the death of his father Kim Jong-Il.(31st December)</li>
<li>NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.(31st December)</li>
<li>In motor sports, WilliamsF1 co-founder Patrick Head resigns as a director of the team after 34 years in Formula One.(31st December)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-78263016653713390752012-01-09T14:09:00.001+05:302012-01-09T14:19:02.410+05:30World Current Affairs, December 2011(Part-1)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of December 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.<br />
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, December 2011.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>One person dies and 16 others are injured in three separate chain-reaction crashes involving 176 cars in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.(1st December)</li>
<li>The 2010–2011 Belgian government formation draws to a close as six parties come to an agreement which will see PS leader Elio di Rupo become Prime Minister.(1st December)</li>
<li>Muslim rioters attack liquor stores and massage parlours in Zakho in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq after Friday prayers. The attacks later extended to include Christian owned shops and businesses in other cities including Dohuk and Simele.(2nd December)</li>
<li>United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pre-eminent pro-democracy activist, to promote democratic reforms.(2nd December)</li>
<li>The United Nations Human Rights Council denounces the crimes against humanity during the 2011 Syrian uprising which killed over 4,000 people since the uprising started in March.(2nd December)</li>
<li>Indian cinema actor, director and producer Dev Anand dies of a heart attack in London.(3rd December) </li>
<li>At least eight children have died in the past few weeks in Ecuador's Amazon basin after being bitten by rabid bats.(3rd December)</li>
<li>The governing Australian Labor Party changes its platform in support of gay marriage at its conference in Sydney, paving the way for legislation.(3rd December)</li>
<li>Herman Cain announces that he will suspend his campaign for Republican nomination in the United States presidential election following a series of sexual harassment and other misconduct allegations.(3rd December)</li>
<li>45,000 citizens of Koblenz, Germany, are allowed to return home after bomb squads defused World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for almost 65 years.(4th December)</li>
<li>Australia approves exports of uranium to India.(4th December)</li>
<li>Transparency International releases the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, declaring North Korea and Somalia the most corrupt nations in the world, and New Zealand the least corrupt.(4th December)</li>
<li>Independent exit polls suggest the governing United Russia party failed to get a majority in the Duma, amid accusations of massive voter harassment and DDoS attacks targeting blogs.(4th December)</li>
<li>The President of Peru Ollanta Humala declares a state of emergency in the Cajamarca region to stop anti-mining protests.(4th December)</li>
<li>Former Brazilian football captain Sócrates dies in hospital in Sao Paulo from complications of food poisoning.(4th December)</li>
<li>In lawn tennis, Spain wins the 2011 Davis Cup.(4th December)</li>
<li>Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, call for a new European Union Treaty to help prevent future Eurozone crises.(5th December)</li>
<li>There are widespread reports that credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will put 15 nations in the Eurozone under review for a possible downgrade, including France and Germany.(5th December)</li>
<li>Former Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.(5th December)</li>
<li>Julian Assange is allowed a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom against his extradition to Sweden to answer questions over sexual assault allegations.(5th December)</li>
<li>Preliminary results are released from the Russian legislative election showing the ruling United Russia winning 50 percent of the vote, well down on its 2008 vote.(5th December)</li>
<li>A suicide attack attacks a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul during the festival of Ashura, resulting in at least 50 people killed and hundreds injured. Hours later another attack takes place at Mazar-i-Sharif, killing at least 4.(6th December)</li>
<li>The Reserve Bank of Australia cuts interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent due to continuing global economic concern.(6th December)</li>
<li>Australia announces more sanctions against Iran amidst growing concerns about its nuclear and missile programs.(6th December)</li>
<li>A journalist, Luz Marina Paz, is killed in Honduras becoming the 17th journalist shot in the past two years.(6th December)</li>
<li>After 541 days of negotiations, the longest in history, the new federal government of Belgium is sworn in, with Elio di Rupo as Prime Minister, making him the first Walloon to reach this position in 38 years and the second openly gay head of government in the world.(6th December)</li>
<li>Thousands of people take to the streets of Moscow in protests against the conduct and outcome of the Russian legislative election with dozens of opposition supporters being arrested as the demonstrations turn violent.(6th December)</li>
<li>The Parliament of Greece approves an austerity budget.(6th December)</li>
<li>The United States commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i.(7th December)</li>
<li>The board of Japan's Olympus Corporation announces its plans to resign early next year due to its accounting scandal.(7th December)</li>
<li>The former President of Israel Moshe Katsav is due to arrive at a prison outside Tel Aviv to start a seven year term for rape.(7th December)</li>
<li>Former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev says that the Russian authorities must acknowledge the recent street protests, annul the results of Sunday’s parliamentary election and hold a new poll.(7th December)</li>
<li>The Russian Federal Space Agency officially gives up attempting to rescue Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1, and expects them to fall back to Earth in January 2012.(7th December)</li>
<li>An investigation by the Associated Press and German media uncovers a secret prison suspected of having been operated by the CIA in Bucharest, Romania.(8th December)</li>
<li>Hundreds of workers continue a strike in southern China for a fifth day amid a labour dispute.(8th December)</li>
<li>Former CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine, testified to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he doesn't know what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars of customers' money, supposedly in segregated accounts, that appears to be missing.(8th December)</li>
<li>A storm causes damage, flooding and power cuts across the north of the British Isles, particularly Scotland with winds up to 165 mph (264 km/h).(8th December)</li>
<li>Philippines officials claim that the People's Republic of China has executed a Filipino man for drug trafficking despite a plea for clemency from the President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III on humanitarian grounds.(8th December)</li>
<li>Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accuses the United States of sponsoring the opposition in the country, following protests over the outcome of the recent elections.(8th December)</li>
<li>Iranian state television shows footage of a United States Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drone that its forces claim to have shot down.(8th December)</li>
<li>The Government of Japan apologizes to Canada over the treatment of Canadian POWs during World War II.(8th December)</li>
<li>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls for elections in 2012 to replace the power-sharing government in place since 2008.(8th December)</li>
<li>Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades the ratings of France's three biggest banks, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Société Générale.(9th December)</li>
<li>Stock prices rise at stock exchanges around the world, and some analysts see this as a reaction to a fiscal agreement among the leaders of the eurozone.(9th December)</li>
<li>David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels.(9th December)</li>
<li>David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels.(9th December) </li>
<li>Incumbent President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila is declared the winner of the Congolese general election but lead opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi disputes the outcome.(9th December)</li>
<li>The Pakistani Taliban confirms that it is holding peace talks with the government.(10th December)</li>
<li>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim wins the game of the year at the Spike Video Game Awards.(10th December)</li>
<li>A light cargo plane crashes into an elementary school building in the Philippines city of Paranaque with 13 people dead.(10th December)</li>
<li>A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Mexican state of Guerrero. It causes three deaths and is felt across several central states.(10th December)</li>
<li>A day of protests begins in cities across Russia against alleged election fraud by Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party, with fifty thousand people marching in Moscow and 25 people arrested in Khabarovsk.(10th December)</li>
<li>Restrictions on Russian media covering the protests are lifted.(10th December)</li>
<li>At least six people are killed in clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the aftermath of disputed general elections in which Joseph Kabila was named President.(10th December)</li>
<li>Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sworn as President of Argentina in a second consecutive mandate.(10th December)</li>
<li>Oscar Valdés is named as the new Prime Minister of Peru, after Salomón Lerner Ghitis resigned.(10th December)</li>
<li>NASA clears SpaceX to launch Dragon COTS Demo Flight 2 toward the International Space Station in a window opening on February 7, 2012.(10th December)</li>
<li>Hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrate in Yemen calling for the trial of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.(11th December)</li>
<li>North Korea warns of "unexpected consequences" if South Korea lights a Christmas tree near their mutual border.(11th December)</li>
<li>The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference finishes in Durban in South Africa with an agreement to begin negotiations on a new treaty.(11th December)</li>
<li>Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega is extradited home from France and the United States where he has been serving jail sentences for the past 22 years to serve more time for his role in the murder of political opponents.(11th December)</li>
<li>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders an inquiry into the disputed results of the parliamentary elections.(11th December)</li>
<li>Around 1,000 people protest in Taipei, demanding that the government make a weekly day off a legal right for Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers.(11th December)</li>
<li>United States President Barack Obama has asked Iran for the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar on December 4.(12th December)</li>
<li>A Chinese fishing boat captain allegedly stabs a Republic of Korea Coast Guard officer, killing him, after his boat is stopped for illegally fishing in South Korean waters.(12th December)</li>
<li>Canada announces that it will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, because the country would face large penalties because of treaty violations.(12th December)</li>
<li>Pakistan police rescues 50 boys from a dungeon in Karachi, Pakistan. Police reports say that the dungeon was equipped with shackles and hooks.(13th December)</li>
<li>At least 5,000 people are now estimated to have been killed in Syria's uprising, amid continuing violence.(13th December)</li>
<li>Three Thai soldiers are killed by a land mine near the border with Cambodia.(13th December)</li>
<li>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 becomes the fastest selling entertainment product of all time passing $1bn in sales in 16 days.(13th December)</li>
<li>Iran has turned down the United States request to return a RQ-170 that was captured recently by Iranian forces after it crash landed in the country. Iranian officials report that they are extracting data from the aircraft. Iranian officials stated the drone was brought down by a cyber attack.(13th December)</li>
<li>According to researchers, in two separate experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, indications of the Higgs boson may have been detected.(13th December)</li>
<li>The governments of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands protest the start of Japan's whaling season off the coast of Antarctica.(14th December)</li>
<li>The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and ally of Vladimir Putin, Boris Gryzlov, resigns.(14th December)</li>
<li>The United States flag is lowered in Baghdad marking the end of U.S. military operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of the Iraq War.(15th December)</li>
<li>The United Nations calls for the protection of LGBT rights worldwide, in its first report on the issue.(15th December)</li>
<li>Former President of France Jacques Chirac is found guilty of embezzlement and violating trust due to his hiring members of his party to fill non-existent jobs while Mayor of Paris.(15th December)</li>
<li>The US National Institutes of Health places a temporary moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees in response to a report that claims nearly all medical research on the animals is scientifically unjustified.(15th December)</li>
</ul>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-2454923443426523152011-12-26T08:21:00.000+05:302011-12-26T08:21:47.951+05:30National Games And Sports Of Some Countriesthis time I bring the list of National Games and Sports of some countries. These are very few in numbers. If anyone knows more on this topic plese share with us through comment. Stay in touch for next post.<br />
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<table align="center" width="400" height="40" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="silver"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Country</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Sport</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">United States Of America</td> <td align="center">Baseball</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Spain</td> <td align="center">Bull-Fighting</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Canada</td> <td align="center">Ice Hockey</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">India</td> <td align="center">Hockey</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Russia</td> <td align="center">Chess</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Scotland</td> <td align="center">Rugby, Football</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">England</td> <td align="center">Cricket</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Japan</td> <td align="center">Ju-Jitsu</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Australia</td> <td align="center">Cricket</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">Pakistan</td> <td align="center">Hockey</td> </tr>
<tr> <td align="center">China</td> <td align="center">Table Tennis</td> </tr>
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</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-83488009278208443682011-12-06T14:13:00.001+05:302011-12-06T14:24:28.876+05:30World Current Affairs, November 2011 (Part - 2)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of November 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.<br />
This is the second set of World Current Affairs, November 2011.<br />
<ul type="disc"><li>Suspected US drone missiles kill 13 militants in a compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan province.(16th November)</li>
<li>Eighteen children and two adults die after an overloaded school bus collides with a coal truck in northwest China's Gansu province.(16th November)</li>
<li>Tibetans demonstrate near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India, following recent self-immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns protesting the Chinese government's repressive policies in Tibet.(16th November)</li>
<li>Two bullets are found to have been fired at the White House in Washington, DC., one into a window that was stopped by bullet-proof glass.(16th November)</li>
<li>Mario Monti is sworn in as Italian prime minister and temporary finance minister, with the task of implementing austerity measures to prevent the euro area's third-biggest economy from collapsing as a result of the debt crisis.(16th November)</li>
<li>The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, wins a vote of confidence in Parliament, opening the way for his government of national unity to take the steps to restore financial stability in Greece.(16th November)</li>
<li>The presidents of Kenya, Somalia and Uganda meet in Nairobi to discuss coordinated military operations against the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab.(17th November)</li>
<li>Swedish divers find the wreckage of the warship Svärdet, sunk in 1676 during the Battle of Öland.(17th November)</li>
<li>An Idaho man, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, is charged with the attempted assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama, after two bullets are found embedded in the exterior of the White House. The President and First Lady were not present at the time of the alleged attack.(17th November)</li>
<li>Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, is declared the winner of the recent Presidential election, but opponents protest the results.(17th November)</li>
<li>China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully returns to Earth, landing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after docking twice with the Tiangong-1 orbital laboratory module.(17th November)</li>
<li>Former President of the Phillipines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested over charges of electoral fraud.(18th November)</li>
<li>A verdict is due in the trial of former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Sarath Fonseka, on charges of "spreading disaffection".(18th November)</li>
<li>At least two people are killed and over 600 injured in violent clashes with police in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following mass protests against Egypt's post-revolutionary military leadership.(19th November)</li>
<li>Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is captured in Libya.(19th November)</li>
<li>The United States successfully tests a new hypersonic weapon system, capable of striking targets 3,700 kilometres (2,300 mi) away in under 30 minutes, as part of its Prompt Global Strike program.(19th November)</li>
<li>At least 13 people are killed and as many as 900 injured as violent protests continue in Cairo's Tahrir Square against Egypt's ruling military government. Security forces attempt to disperse the crowds with tear gas and baton charges.(20th November)</li>
<li>Two rocket-propelled grenades hit the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party in Damascus.(20th November)</li>
<li>The President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, commences a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom.(20th November)</li>
<li>Syrian soldiers attack buses carrying Turkish citizens returning through Syria from a hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, injuring two.(21st November)</li>
<li>The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada impose further sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.(21st November)</li>
<li>Scientists discover Bulbophyllum nocturnum, the first orchid known to flower at night, in New Britain off the coast of Papua New Guinea.(22nd November)</li>
<li>Violent anti-regime protests enter their fifth day in Cairo's Tahrir Square, with 35 people killed and over 3,200 injured to date in clashes between protesters and security forces.(23rd November)</li>
<li>The United States announces that it will stop observing the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. The decision comes four years after Russia withdrew compliance from the treaty.(23rd November)</li>
<li>In a warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls al-Assad's ongoing crackdown on protests cowardice, comparing al-Assad to past dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Muammar Gaddafi.(23rd November)</li>
<li>The European Space Agency claims to have made contact with Russia's stranded Fobos-Grunt probe, two days after the closure of the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars.(23rd November)</li>
<li>Uzbek midfielder Server Djeparov is named Asian Footballer of the Year for the second time, in a ceremony held at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters.(23rd November)</li>
<li>India's government decides to relax rules concerning the operation of foreign-owned retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco within India.(24th November)</li>
<li>The Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Harry Jenkins resigns to be replaced by Opposition MP Peter Slipper.(24th November)</li>
<li>26 Pakistani soldiers are killed after a NATO helicopter opens fire on a Pakistani checkpoint, sparking outrage from the Pakistani government.(26th October)</li>
<li>Colombian military forces raid a FARC rebel hideout in the province of Caquetá, freeing police sergeant Luis Alberto Erazu, who had been held hostage by FARC for 12 years. Four other hostages are killed by the rebels during the raid.(26th October)</li>
<li>NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with the aim of finding evidence for past or present life on Mars.(26th October)</li>
<li>NBA team owners and players reach an agreement to end the 149-day NBA lockout and to begin the current NBA season on Christmas Day.(26th October)</li>
<li>In Canada, Chinook windstorms tear through Alberta and Saskatchewan, producing a dust storm in downtown Calgary and causing millions of dollars in damage. The windstorms fuel a grass fire that grows to two kilometres wide near Lethbridge, Alberta, before being contained, and gusts reach a maximum speed of 149 km/h (93 mph).(27th November)</li>
<li>The Arab League approves sanctions against Syria amid the nation's ongoing violent uprising. The Syrian government calls the League's move "an unprecedented measure".(27th November)</li>
<li>Gary Speed, the manager of the Welsh national football team, is found dead at his home in Cheshire, England.(27th November)</li>
<li>Saboteurs attack Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, destroying a section of the pipeline west of al-Arish in Sinai.(28th November)</li>
<li>At least 25 people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups in Yemen.(28th November)</li>
<li>Fitch Ratings maintains the credit rating of the United States government at AAA, but downgrades its outlook on the government to negative. This follows rival ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in August.(28th November)</li>
<li>The government of Sudan expels Kenya's ambassador, following the Kenyan High Court's ruling that it will arrest Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, if he enters Kenya.(28th November)</li>
<li>The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa.(28th November)</li>
<li>The Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and his cabinet resign after protesters storm the national Parliament.(28th November)</li>
<li>Ante Markovic, the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, dies in the Croatian capital Zagreb.(28th November)</li>
<li>American Airlines, the world's fourth-largest airline, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.(29th November)</li>
<li>Six staff members at the British embassy in Tehran are taken hostage by a group of Iranian students.(29th November)</li>
<li>A new Russian anti-missile early warning facility equipped with Voronezh-DM radar opens in Kaliningrad Oblast.(29th November)</li>
<li>Dr. Conrad Murray is sentenced to four years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles in connection to the death of Michael Jackson in 2009.(29th November)</li>
<li>Anders Behring Breivik is declared to have been criminally insane when he committed the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people.(29th November)</li>
<li>The Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, is hospitalised in Bangkok with suspected food poisoning.(29th November)</li>
<li>Up to two million public sector workers in the United Kingdom commence a 24-hour strike over pension reforms affecting schools, hospitals, airports, ports and government offices.(30th November)</li>
<li>It is announced that former President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo has been transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.(30th November)</li>
<li>United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Myanmar to urge reforms.(30th November)</li>
</ul></body>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-57668830196909807862011-12-06T14:12:00.001+05:302011-12-06T14:24:23.571+05:30World Current Affairs, November 2011 (Part - 1)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of November 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.<br />
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, November 2011.<br />
<ul type="disc"><li>The President of the United States, Barack Obama, makes Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, a National Monument.(1st November)</li>
<li>The FBI and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launch an investigation into MF Global after $600 million of customers' money went missing.(1st November)</li>
<li>The Palestinian Authority is hit by hackers disrupting Palestinian internet and mobile phone services. A link has been suggested to Palestine's UNESCO bid.(1st November)</li>
<li>At least seven people are killed and 200 injured following an explosion caused by two trucks carrying explosives crashing in Fuquan City in China's Guizhou Province.(1st November)</li>
<li>Almazbek Atambayev, the newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan, states that a lease for a United States air base in Manas will not be renewed when it expires in 2014.(1st November)</li>
<li>China launches the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft, intending to robotically dock it with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module. If successful, the mission will mark China's first orbital docking, and will be a major milestone in its efforts to construct a full-scale space station.(1st November)</li>
<li>French author Alexis Jenni wins France's literary Prix Goncourt for his novel L'Art français de la guerre.(2nd November)</li>
<li>Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses his appeal in England's High Court against extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations.(2nd November)</li>
<li>Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is convicted in New York City for conspiracy to smuggle weapons to the Colombian terrorist group FARC.(2nd November)</li>
<li>American actress Lindsay Lohan is sentenced to 30 days in a Los Angeles jail for breaching the terms of her parole.(2nd November)</li>
<li>Russia and Georgia strike a deal that will allow Russia to enter the World Trade Organization.(2nd November)</li>
<li>The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel warn that a sixth tranche of financial aid will not be paid to Greece unless the referendum is successful.(2nd November)</li>
<li>China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module, marking China's first orbital docking.(2nd November)</li>
<li>President of Syria Bashar al-Assad agrees with the Arab League to end the crackdown on the uprising in Syria, releasing political prisoners and allowing international news agencies back into Syria.(3rd November)</li>
<li>Advanced Micro Devices announces that it will be cutting 1,400 jobs or 12 per cent of its work force.(3rd November)</li>
<li>An Egyptian ferry carrying 1200 people catches fire in the Red Sea between the Jordanian port of Aqaba and Nuweiba.(3rd November)</li>
<li>The 2011 G-20 summit gets underway in the French city of Cannes, with discussions expected to focus on the continuing Eurozone debt crisis.(3rd November)</li>
<li>The Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou holds an emergency Cabinet meeting, during which the cancellation of the Greek economy referendum is announced following negotiations with opposition lawmakers(3rd November)</li>
<li>Three members of the Pakistan national cricket team (Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir) together with agent Mazhar Majeed are given jail sentences for their roles in a spot-fixing scandal.(3rd November)</li>
<li>The U.S. Department of Energy publishes 2010 greenhouse gases levels, showing they are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by IPCC climate experts just four years ago.(3rd November)</li>
<li>U.S. General John R. Allen, the head of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, sacks Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller for making inappropriate comments about Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government.(4th November)</li>
<li>Toyota extends production cuts in Japan and Thailand due to parts shortages caused by the 2011 Thailand floods.(4th November)</li>
<li>The Hellenic Parliament rejects a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou following a failed attempt to hold a referendum on a Eurozone bailout.(4th November)</li>
<li>The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims responsibility for a series of bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damaturu that have killed at least 63 people.(5th November) </li>
<li>Residents of El Hierro in Spain's Canary Islands are evacuated following continuing volcanic activity.(5th November) </li>
<li>A Pakistan anti-terror court indicts two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban for the murder of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto.(5th November)</li>
<li>Al-Sadd wins the 2011 AFC Champions League beating Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 2-2 (4-2 in penalties) in the 2011 AFC Champions League Final.(5th November) </li>
<li>A landslide kills 18 and injures dozens in Colombia.(6th November)</li>
<li>Eleven Hungarian tourists die after a bus overturns in Egypt.(6th November)</li>
<li>The New York City Marathon begins with over 45,000 runners participating in the 26.2-mile run with Geoffrey Mutai and Firehiwot Dado winning the mens and womens races, respectively.(6th November)</li>
<li>The Swedish Enforcement Administration (Kronofogden) announces the public auction of seven paintings originally believed to be painted by German leader Adolf Hitler.(7th November)</li>
<li>Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, recuses himself from that agency's investigation into the bankruptcy of MF Global.(7th November)</li>
<li>Flooding continues in Italy with seven people having died in the past week and thousands of people ordered to evacuate in Turin as the Po River continues to rise.(7th November)</li>
<li>A 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes 47 miles SE of Faizabad, India, with tremors felt in Kashmir Valley, Northern Pakistan and in parts of North India.(7th November)</li>
<li>Former world champion boxer Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer.(7th November)</li>
<li>The Syrian government continues its crackdown on protesters and army defectors in the city of Homs, killing dozens of civilians in the process.(8th November)</li>
<li>The United Nations reports that the death toll of the eight-month-old Syrian uprising has reached 3,500.(8th November)</li>
<li>Russia starts commercial natural gas deliveries to Central Europe via the Nord Stream, the world's longest submerged pipeline.(8th November)</li>
<li>A record number of Americans — 49.1 million — are living below the poverty line, based on a new census measure.(8th November)</li>
<li>Flooding in Thailand reaches the residence of the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok, forcing her to withdraw from the Hawaii APEC summit to deal with the crisis.(8th November)</li>
<li>At least 16 people are killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand.(8th November)</li>
<li>The International Atomic Energy Agency releases a report that says that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device, and that the project may still be under way.(8th November)</li>
<li>Human rights groups send an open letter to the President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, pressing the Chinese government to address the underlying causes of protests that have led 11 Tibetans to set themselves on fire since March.(8th November)</li>
<li>Journalists report comments by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit in Cannes, in which Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar".(8th November)</li>
<li>The Australian Senate votes to introduce a carbon tax, a form of carbon pricing.(8th November)</li>
<li>NASA observes the asteroid YU55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU55 is approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976.(8th November)</li>
<li>Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first player in history to score 15,000 Test runs.(8th November)</li>
<li>Italy's cost of borrowing reaches a record high, with interest rates on 10-year loans rising to 7%, as fears grow of an escalating economic crisis.(9th November)</li>
<li>A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Van, Turkey, leading to the collapse of numerous buildings. The tremor comes in the wake of last month's destructive 7.1 magnitude earthquake.(9th November)</li>
<li>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the International Atomic Energy Agency report is based on "empty claims" and that Iran would not budge from its nuclear program despite allegations it may be trying to develop nuclear weapons; European countries and the US say they will consider fresh sanctions against Iran.(9th November)</li>
<li>Dutch scientists build a nanoscopic electric car made of a single complex molecule. Currently the world's smallest vehicle, the nanocar is capable of travelling small distances when an electric current is applied to it.(9th November)</li>
<li>Israel's Supreme Court upholds a seven-year rape sentence against former President Moshe Katsav.(10th November)</li>
<li>Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs of the United States Army is convicted of murder in relation to the 2010 Maywand District killings in Afghanistan.(10th November)</li>
<li>Lucas Papademos is appointed interim prime minister of Greece's new unity government, and pledges to implement a European bailout package to help resolve the Greek government debt crisis.(10th November)</li>
<li>The President of Nauru, Marcus Stephen, resigns amid allegations of corruption, and is replaced by Freddie Pitcher.(10th November)</li>
<li>A former Libyan envoy to the Arab League confirms that Musa al-Sadr, an Iranian-Lebanese scholar, was executed by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 1978.(10th November)</li>
<li>The incumbent President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is declared the winner of the Liberian presidential election, gaining 90% of the vote following a boycott by oppostion candidate Winston Tubman.(10th November)</li>
<li>2011 Syrian uprising: 250 Syrians, mostly civilians, have been killed so far this month, as the violence escalates in Syria's eight-month-old crackdown on pro-democracy protests and attacks on security forces increase.(11th November)</li>
<li>2011 Yemeni uprising: At least seven people die after forces loyal to the President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh shell the city of Taez. A further 32 were injured.(11th November)</li>
<li>The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea issues orders for the arrest of Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah and Attorney General Allan Marat over contempt of court charges.(11th November)</li>
<li>The former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, already serving a seven-year sentence for abuse of office, is charged with tax evasion, theft and concealing foreign currency revenues.(11th November)</li>
<li>Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as the ninth President of Ireland.(11th November)</li>
<li>Lucas Papademos is sworn as the Prime Minister of Greece.(11th November)</li>
<li>The Gold Coast in the Australian state of Queensland is chosen as the host city for the 2018 Commonwealth Games ahead of Hambantota in Sri Lanka.(11th November)</li>
<li>London in the United Kingdom wins the rights to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships ahead of Doha, Qatar.(11th November)</li>
<li>The Arab League votes to suspend Syria over its violent suppression of the Syrian uprising, pledging new sanctions and urging member states to withdraw ambassadors from Damascus.(12th November)</li>
<li>Nine civilians are killed by a bomb explosion on a bus in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan in a suspected Taliban attack.(12th November)</li>
<li>The Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa sign an accord to develop a mega-hydroelectric plant on the Congo river to address their nations' growing energy needs.(12th November)</li>
<li>German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticizes Russia and China's opposition to further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program following an International Atomic Energy Agency report that Iran had worked on an atomic weapon design.(12th November)</li>
<li>Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy to make way for an emergency government to address the country's economic crisis; thousands of Italians celebrate his departure in street demonstrations.(12th November)</li>
<li>In athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations names Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Sally Pearson of Australia as its World Athletes of the Year.(12th November)</li>
<li>The Yemeni Army and tribal fighters kill nine suspected Al Qaeda militants in fighting in the town of Zinjibar.(13th November)</li>
<li>Former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is frisked and has his clothes inspected for explosives by officials in New York, with the United States apologising for its breach of protocol.(13th November)</li>
<li>Law enforcement in Brazil occupy Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's biggest favela or slum, in a bid to clean the city ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.(13th November)</li>
<li>The President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the new Prime Minister.(13th November)</li>
<li>200,000 people protest in Bogotá, Colombia, against government cuts in public education.(14th November)</li>
<li>A suspected drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan province kills six militants.(15th November)</li>
<li>Pressure is applied to the Syrian government from many sides as Turkey threatens to cut electricity to its southern neighbor, while the European Union increases sanctions on the regime.(15th November)</li>
<li>Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will leave office "within 90 days" of an agreement regarding elections with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council.(15th November)</li>
<li>The first Gas Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum opens in Doha.(15th November)</li>
</ul><br />
</body>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-56272278293697526462011-12-06T14:10:00.001+05:302011-12-06T14:24:13.110+05:30Indian Current Affairs, November 2011(Part - 2)Hello viewers. This time I bring the current affairs of the last month that is November 2011 which is totally India related. I hope visitors may like it.<br />
This is the second set of Indian Current Affairs, November 2011.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>cientists discovered two sunken islands in the Indian Ocean, which once formed part of the last link between India and Australia.</li>
<li>SAIL & Posco signed MoU to develop a feasibility study to establish a joint venture company.</li>
<li>India won the three-match series with 2-0 lead ahead of the final Test match against West Indies in Mumbai.</li>
<li>Two inscriptions- Tamil & Kannada belonging to the reign of the Rashtrakuta King, Krishna III, were found at Vallimalai village.</li>
<li>The Planning Commission of India gave investment clearance for Anti Erosion measures to protect 2 villages, Moisa and Belguri from erosion of River Gangadhar, Assam, with an estimated cost of 14.97 Crore rupees.</li>
<li>Richa Mishra became the first woman to clock the best Indian time in 800m freestyle. on 17 November 2011.</li>
<li>Standard & Poor's attributed slow infrastricture development in India to lack of reforms & limited long-term funding options.</li>
<li>Finance Ministry increased investment limit for FII in government securities (G-secs)& corporate bonds by $5 billion each.</li>
<li>Fujitsu announced that it would expand its footprint in India by opening a new delivery centre in Bangalore.</li>
<li>The modified Tatkal scheme for booking of train tickets came into effect from 21 November 2011.</li>
<li>The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Indonesia and Singapore.The Prime Minister attended the 9th ASEAN-India and East Asia Summits at Bali in Indonesia.</li>
<li>Sushil Ghaley won gold in the 50m rifle prone event at the 55th National Shooting Championship in Pune.</li>
<li>Karnataka emerged the overall champion of 65th National aquatics meet which concluded on 20 November 2011 in Ranchi.</li>
<li>India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru joined the elite club of Singapore on 20 November 2011.</li>
<li>The Supreme Court of India ruled that a Hindu Woman cannot be evicted from the matrimonial home after divorce.</li>
<li>CPI for food, beverages and tobacco went up by 1.06% to 114.4 points in October from 113.2 points in September 2011.</li>
<li>Supreme Court of India ruled that serious offences like attempt to murder cannot be settled through compromise deals and the accused must suffer conviction and imprisonment.</li>
<li>Former telecom minister Sukh Ram sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his alleged involvement in telecom scam.</li>
<li>The Uttar Pradesh assembly on 21 November 2011passed a resolution seeking to divide the state into four parts namely; Purvanchal, Pashchim Pradesh, Avadh Pradesh, and Bundelkhand.</li>
<li>The US State Department removed the inaccurate maps of India and Pakistan from its website, which did not reflect the correct boundary and geographical locations.</li>
<li>Former India captain Ajit Wadekar to be honoured with the Col C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement trophy on 10 December 2011.</li>
<li>India was elected to the United Nations' Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and returned to this oversight body after a gap of 35 years.</li>
<li>The Delhi state government on 21 November 2011 decided to set up liquor shops at the lounge of IGI Airport terminal 3, Delhi to increase its revenue.</li>
<li>The 12th meeting of the Home Secretaries between India and Bangladesh was concluded on 21 November 2011 in New Delhi.</li>
<li>Gartner predicted mobile device sales in India to reach 231 million units in 2012, against 213 million units in 2011.</li>
<li>Gagan Narang won 50m Rifle 3 Position men's event at the 55th National Shooting Championships on 22 November 2011.</li>
<li>DGH announced the Indian government’s decision to launch its maiden bid round for shale gas exploration during the XII Plan.</li>
<li>UNAIDS HIV AIDS report 2011 revealed 56% fall in the number of new HIV infections in India between 1996 & 2010.</li>
<li>Rupee depreciation & slide in sensex led to a 23% fall in the value of investments of FIIs.</li>
<li>Indian Olympic Association (IOA) decided to set up an 11-member Athletes Commission to give more representation to sports persons in its board.</li>
<li>India and the United Arab Emirates on 23 November 2011 signed two key agreements. It is likely to benefit 1000 Indians imprisoned in different UAE jails for various crimes.</li>
<li>Veteran batsman Rahul Dravid was selected for the Polly Umrigar Award for India's best cricketer of 2010-11 season.</li>
<li>DJB, Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) and KG Renewables Ltd on 23 november 2011 signed a memorandum of understanding for setting up a pilot plant at the Keshopur STP to help run DTC buses on compressed biogas (CBG).</li>
<li>The Delhi Cabinet on 21 November 2011 approved conferring of lifetime achievement awards for 2011-12 on sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, renowned Hindustani vocalist Girija Devi and noted author Ruskin Bond.</li>
<li>Vikram Akula, founder and chairman of India’s largest and only listed microlender, SKS Microfinance, resigned from his posts in the company on 23 November 2011.</li>
<li>Cyrus P. Mistry was on 23 November 2011 chosen to succeed Tata group chairman Ratan Tata as the group’s new chairman in 2012.</li>
<li>Union cabinet approved 51% FDI in multi-brand retail & also decided to raise the cap on foreign investment in single-brand retailing to 100%.</li>
<li>Actor Aamir khan to be appointed the national ambassador of UNICEF on 30 November 2011.</li>
<li>RBI cleared Air India’s loan restructuring proposal thereby extending AI’s loan tenures from 10 to 15 years.</li>
<li>Tamilnadu government banned the screening of English film Dam 999 with immediate effect The movie is believed to be based on disputed Mullaperiyar Dam between Tamilnadu and Kerala.</li>
<li>Food inflation dropped to a four-month low of 9% for the week ended 12 November 2011.</li>
<li>Under the SC directive, a team of the Survey of India on 25 November started checking the foundations of the Taj Mahal.</li>
<li>Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared 18 FDI proposals enabling a forex inflow of about Rs.2126.20 crore.</li>
<li>ONGC won their maiden Nehru Cup title by defeating Punjab National Bank 1-0 at the Dhyanchand Stadium.</li>
<li>Indian government inked tripartite peace agreement with Assam's insurgent group, United People’s Democratic Solidarity on 25 November 2011.</li>
<li>The movie Dam 999 directed by Sohan Roy believed to be based on disputed Mullaperiyar Dam between Tamilnadu & Kerala faced ban.</li>
<li>On 27th November, Brazilian Filmmaker & Journalist, Oscar Maron Filho died in Goa while addressing IFFI Forum.</li>
<li>Indian e-commerce Market Estimated to Grow to $24 billion by 2015 from the Current $6.3 billion.</li>
<li>Renowned sarangi maestro and singer Ustad Sultan Khan of the Indore Gharana died on 27 November 2011.</li>
<li>Leading research firm, CMIE scaled down India’s GDP forecast to 7.8% for 2011-12 from the earlier forecast of 7.9%.</li>
<li>GVK Biosciences entered into an alliance with the Moulder Centre for Drug Discovery Research at Temple University.</li>
<li>The Rajasthan state cabinet on 28 November 2011 approved the decision to give khatedari rights to over 30000 farmers occupying the custodian land in Alwar, Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh and Bharatpur.</li>
<li>Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) launched operations on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) platform on 28 November 2011.</li>
<li>Public debt management report released by the Finance Ministry revealed rise in government's internal debt rose in July-September 2011-12.</li>
<li>Afghanistan awarded mining rights for three Hajigak blocks lto an Indian consortium led by state-run SAIL.</li>
<li>Union government asserted that 30% sourcing under FDI in multi-brand retail made mandatory from Indian MSEs only.</li>
<li>The UPA-II Government set up an expert group to suggest restructuring of power utilities of seven major States, including Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh with an objective to push through power reforms and unlock the power sector.</li>
<li>The Supreme Court ruled on 28 November 2011 that awards passed by the Lok Adalat either in criminal or civil matters are bound to be implemented through a court decree.</li>
<li>The Union government of India on 23 November 2011 approved the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill 2011, thus paved the way for dividing MCD into 3 corporations and to increase the reservation of seats for women to 50 percent from the current 33 percent.</li>
<li>Justice M. Karpaga Vinayagam was reappointed chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, Petroleum and Natural Gas.</li>
<li>Eminent Assamese litterateur, Jnanpith award winner & India's first Principal Prince Claus Laureate Indira Goswami died on 29 November 2011.</li>
<li>Delhi state government on 28 November 2011 launched a Kishori Scheme under which sanitary napkins would be distributed to adolescent girls.</li>
<li>Indian refiners processed 2.8 percent less oil in October 2011 from a year ago, the first decline since November 2010.</li>
<li>The United Naga Council (UNC) on 29 November 2011 decided to lift the economic blockade from Manipur following assurance from Union home affairs minister P Chidambaram.</li>
<li>Union Labour and Employment Minister Mallikarjun Kharge presented the Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar and National Safety awards for the performance year 2009 at a function in New Delhi. For the performance year 2009, the total number of National Safety Awards were 123.(72 winners and 51 runners-up).</li>
</ul></body>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-7735328184580580912011-12-06T14:07:00.001+05:302011-12-06T14:23:58.178+05:30Indian Current Affairs, November 2011(Part - 1)<body><br />
Hello viewers. This time I bring the current affairs of the last month that is November 2011 which is totally India related. I hope visitors may like it.<br />
This is the first set of Indian Current Affairs, November 2011.<br />
<br />
<ul type="disc"><li>Nabam Tuki was sworn in as the seventh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh on 1 November 2011.</li>
<li>The Union Cabinet of India approved the proposal of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for pursuing the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010.</li>
<li>Andhra Pradesh Government on 1 November 2011 launched one rupee a kilo rice scheme in the state.</li>
<li>TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) extended the 100 sms per day limit to 200 sms per day, per sim. Earlier, TRAI had restricted the number of commercial non-commercial sms that can be sent from a sim, to 100.</li>
<li>Bengali film Chaplin was selected as the inaugural film at the 11 th edition of River to River Florence Indian Film Festival.</li>
<li>Rahul Bhattacharya bagged Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011 for his "The Sly Company of People Who Care".</li>
<li>Indian scientists succeeded in decoding the genome of the arhar dal, which is also known as pigeon pea.</li>
<li>M. Ravindran took over as Indraprastha Gas Limited 's (IGL) new Managing Director.</li>
<li>UN study ranked India at 134 out of 187 countries in terms of Human Development Index.</li>
<li>Pakistan on 2 November 2011 decided to grant India most favoured nation trade status. The Pakistani cabinet voted unanimously to grant most-favored-nation status to India.</li>
<li>Finance Ministry gave its nod to mining company Coal India for acquiring stake in overseas unlisted firms.</li>
<li>Delhi Statistical Handbook-2011 reported that Delhi's per capita income at current prices was Rs 116886 during 2009-10.</li>
<li>Playback singer Asha Bhosle entered the Guinness World Records for most number of single studio recordings.</li>
<li>Anirban Lahiri became the first Indian golfer to shoot a spectacular round of 12-under 60 on home soil.</li>
<li>State-owned oil companies on 3 November 2011 raised petrol prices by Rs 1.80 per litre.</li>
<li>The 6th G20 (Major Economies) summit was held in Cannes, France on November 3 and 4 2011 to discuss key issues in the global economy.</li>
<li>Legendary singer-composer and Padma Bhushan awardee Bhupen Hazarika died in Mumbai on 5 November 2011.</li>
<li>The Calcutta High Court on 3 November 2011 granted continuation of the stay of the trial court order validating the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act.</li>
<li>Tribal Affairs Ministry launched a scheme, Adivasi Shiksha Rinn Yojana (ASRY) on 2 November 2011 to offer subsidised education loans to Scheduled Tribe students.</li>
<li>India-Japan Defence Ministers’ Meeting was held in Tokyo on 2 November 2011.</li>
<li>Ramesh Bhaiya & Vimla Bahan, Anupam Mishra, Shobhana Ranade and Agus Indra Udayana were presented 2011 Jamnalal Bajaj Awards.</li>
<li>Uttar Pradesh government on 8 November 2011 announced the 20 percent MSP (Minimum Support Price) hike for sugarcane for the current season.</li>
<li>One in every five Indian adults living in urban cities suffers not only from hypertension but also diabetes.</li>
<li>Second annual Pushkar international balloon festival was held from 7 to 9 November 2011 in Pushkar near Ajmer, Rajasthan.</li>
<li>India won 2 awards- Best Destination & Best Marketing Campaign at the World Travel Awards 2011.</li>
<li>Global ratings firm Moody's downgraded the entire Indian banking system's rating outlook from stable to negative.</li>
<li>Kerala topped the national child rights index released by HAQ-Centre for Child Rights. Karnataka stood second while Maharashtra was third.</li>
<li>The Delhi Cabinet on 8 November 2011 decided to waive VAT on fertilsers to provide relief to the farmers.</li>
<li>Indian Army received the second regiment of indigenously produced Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles on 9 november 2011.</li>
<li>Finance Ministry decided to bring 23 more departments and ministries for grants under its monthly monitor.</li>
<li>Union Ministry of Environment and forests on 10 November 2011 approved the first stage of Lavasa township project in Pune.</li>
<li>Defence Minister A K Antony laid the foundation stone of the ambitious Rishikesh-Karnprayag railway line at Gauchar in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.</li>
<li>In Gujarat, a special designated Mehsana court on 9 November 2011 awarded life imprisonment for all the 31 accused in the 2002 Sardarpura massacre case of post Godhara riots.</li>
<li>Wheat crops in India is facing threat from a virulent strain of stem rust called UG99.</li>
<li>According to the data released by TRAI, 500 million Indians do not yet own a personal mobile device.</li>
<li>Outlook India's Editor-in-Chief and renowned journalist, Vinod Mehta's autobiography Lucknow Boy launched in New Delhi on 9 November 2011.</li>
<li>TRAI mandated 65% reservation for local mobile equipment makers.</li>
<li>A session court stated that a woman who faced harassment and ill treatment from her stepmother and step-siblings is entitled to get protection under the Domestic Violence Act.</li>
<li>Indian Oil won the 116th All India Beighton Cup with a 2-0 win over ONGC on 11 November 2011.</li>
<li>American Express launched its leadership academy in India as part of its corporate social responsibility.</li>
<li>Bopanna and Qureshi won their first ever ATP Masters tournament in the final of Paris Masterson 13 November 2011.</li>
<li>Two-day long Kite festival was organised by the Delhi Tourism to educate masses about the history of flying kite.</li>
<li>India has the highest number of flu-related pneumonia deaths among children with more than 370000 children dying due to pneumonia.</li>
<li>Pioneering Indian American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, died on 9 November 2011.</li>
<li>The Rajasthan government implemented the Public Service Guarantee Act in the state on 14 November 2011.</li>
<li>India and Pakistan held two-day trade talks in New Delhi on 14 and 15 November 2011.</li>
<li>India's most advanced long-range missile, Agni-IV was test fired successfully on 15 November 2011 from a road-mobile launcher on Wheeler Island, off the coast of Orissa.</li>
<li>Ministry of Environment and Forests granted clearance to Jindal Power for its 2400 MW power project at Tamnar.</li>
<li>Petrol price was slashed by Rs. 2.22 on 15 November 2011, for the first time in almost three years.</li>
<li>General Motors announced on 15 November 2011 the appointment of Lowell Paddock as president & MD of India operations.</li>
<li>A team of six scientists at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) developed a new technology to convert plastic into petroleum products.</li>
<li>Chinese Ambassador to India, Zhang Yan on 17 November 2011 handed over the cheque of 1 million US dollars for construction of a library in Nalanda International University (NIU).</li>
<li>The Assam government launched a pilot project to vaccinate girls against human papiloma virus(HPV) causing cervical cancer.</li>
<li>Titan Industries to acquire Swiss watch brand Favre Leuba for up to 2 million Euro.</li>
<li>Karnataka’s Saurabh Sangvekar created a national record by swimming in the 800m freestyle in a time of 8:12.57 seconds.</li>
<li>Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved 15 projects for highway construction of about 1814 kilometres.</li>
<li>Survey of eight sectors conducted by the labour ministry revealed that employment in eight sectors grew 2.15% during April-June 2011.</li>
<li>RBI decided to buy government bonds worth 10,000 crore from investors for the first time in the 2011-12 fiscal.</li>
<li>Market capitalization of 24 listed PSU banks,which control 73% of bank deposits currently below that of 15 private banks.</li>
<li>Dracula Therapy is the latest technique in medical science, being used to fight ageing with your own blood.</li>
<li>Eleven cities in India are amongst the 100 fastest growing cities of the world. Ghaziabad is the second fastest growing city in the world after China’s Beihai.</li>
<li>Union Cabinet agreed to partially allow foreign direct investment (FDI) to enter the pension sector to the extent of 26 per cent.</li>
<li>Eminent Kannada author S. L. Bhyrappa was honoured with 20th Saraswati Samman in literature for 2010 for his epic novel Mandra.</li>
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</body>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-75001221336362157132011-11-24T15:23:00.000+05:302011-11-24T15:23:54.996+05:30Member Countries In G - 20 GroupMany times we have heared about G-20 group, but most of us do not know about the number of countries and the member country names. This post gives the list of member countries in G-20 group. <br />
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<table align="center" width="450" height="40" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1"><tr> <td align="center"><b><i>Country Name</i></b></td> <td align="center"><b><i>Country Name</i></b></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Arabia </td> <td>Argentina</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Brazil</td> <td>Australia</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>China</td> <td>Canada</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>France</td> <td>European Union</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Italy</td> <td>India</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Indonesia</td> <td>Germany</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Korea</td> <td>Japan</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Russia</td> <td>Mexico</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>Turkey</td> <td>South Africa</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>United States of America</td> <td>United Kingdom</td> </tr>
</table>Sudiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200055027489438842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6416640464153591275.post-74319631428627608852011-11-02T14:42:00.000+05:302011-11-02T14:42:35.386+05:30World Current Affairs, October 2011 (Part - 2)This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of October 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.<br />
This is the second set of World Current Affairs, October 2011.<br />
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<ul type="disc"><li>Google unveils the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, 4.0 (code named Ice Cream Sandwich), along with the Galaxy Nexus, its newest flagship smartphone.(19th October)</li>
<li>Queen Elizabeth II commences her 16th visit to Australia in the capital Canberra.(19th October)</li>
<li>Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril promising to release more details regarding Gaddafi's death later in the week.(20th October)</li>
<li>The leading commander of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Jabari, confirms in an interview with the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Hayat that the prisoners released in exchange for captured Israeli Gilad Shalit were collectively responsible for the deaths of 569 Israeli civilians.(20th October)</li>
<li>NATO commander James G. Stavridis announces that NATO plans to conclude its Libyan military intervention, Operation Unified Protector, on October 31.(21th October)</li>
<li>The President of the United States, Barack Obama, announces a plan to withdraw all of the remaining American military forces from Iraq by the the end of 2011.(21th October)</li>
<li>The President of Cameroon Paul Biya is declared the winner of the Cameroonian presidential election held on October 6.(21th October)</li>
<li>A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocks the city of Van in eastern Turkey, killing at least 100 people.(23rd October)</li>
<li>Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, won re-election on 22 October 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.(23rd October)</li>
<li>The last of the United States' nine-megaton B53 warheads, formerly the most powerful nuclear weapons in the country's nuclear arsenal, is disassembled near Amarillo, Texas, having been in service since 1962.(25th October)</li>
<li>A bomb hidden in a fuel truck kills at least 5 people and injures 45 in Afghanistan's Parwan province.(26th October)</li>
<li>The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong.(26th October)</li>
<li>Brazilian Sports Minister Orlando Silva resigns following corruption allegations, but insists he is innocent.(26th October)</li>
<li>18 people are killed and at least 36 wounded by twin bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.(27th October)</li>
<li>Twelve thousand people are evacuated from the German city of Halle, following the discovery of an unexploded World War 2-era bomb.(27th October)</li>
<li>Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Minister of the Interior, is named as the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia following the death of Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.(27th October)</li>
<li>A Wahhabi Islamist armed with hand grenades and an automatic weapon opens fire outside the United States embassy in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, resulting in two people being injured, including the gunman.(28th October)</li>
<li>Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr is released from jail after her sentence for acting in the banned film My Tehran for Sale is reduced.(28th October)</li>
<li>The United States commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.(28th October)</li>
<li>South Korea manufacturer Samsung supersedes Apple to become the largest maker of smartphones in the world.(28th October)</li>
<li>A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 51 kilometres south-west of the city of Ica in Peru at a depth of 35 km. No reports of casualities are issued.(28th October)</li>
<li>The trial of former Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader, which was due to begin in Zagreb, is postponed on health grounds.(28th October)</li>
<li>Michael D. Higgins wins the Irish presidential election.(28th October)</li>
<li>NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions.(28th October)</li>
<li>Syrian security forces attack the city of Homs with fighter jets and tanks, killing at least 3.(29th October)</li>
<li>A suicide bomber targets a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killing at least four Afghans, 13 American troops, and members of the International Security Assistance Force.(29th October)</li>
<li>A United States drone attack kills six militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.(30th October)</li>
<li>The interim Prime Minister of Libya Mahmoud Jibril confirms the presence of chemical weapons in Libya under the Gaddafi regime and announces that weapons inspectors would be visiting the country to help get rid of them.(30th October)</li>
<li>The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth.(30th October)</li>
<li>The Government of Japan intervenes to reduce the exchange rate of the Japanese yen with the United States dollar after the yen reached record highs.(31st October)</li>
<li>UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member with the United States withdrawing funding in protest.(31st October)</li>
<li>Abdurrahim El-Keib is named as the new interim Prime Minister of Libya by the country's National Transitional Council.(31st October)</li>
<li>The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population has reached seven billion people.(31st October)</li>
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