National Games And Sports Of Some Countries

this 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.

Country	Sport
United States Of America	Baseball
Spain	Bull-Fighting
Canada	Ice Hockey
India	Hockey
Russia	Chess
Scotland	Rugby, Football
England	Cricket
Japan	Ju-Jitsu
Australia	Cricket
Pakistan	Hockey
China	Table Tennis

World 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.
This is the second set of World Current Affairs, November 2011.

• Suspected US drone missiles kill 13 militants in a compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan province.(16th November)
• Eighteen children and two adults die after an overloaded school bus collides with a coal truck in northwest China's Gansu province.(16th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Swedish divers find the wreckage of the warship Svärdet, sunk in 1676 during the Battle of Öland.(17th November)
• 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)
• Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, is declared the winner of the recent Presidential election, but opponents protest the results.(17th November)
• 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)
• Former President of the Phillipines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested over charges of electoral fraud.(18th November)
• A verdict is due in the trial of former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Sarath Fonseka, on charges of "spreading disaffection".(18th November)
• 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)
• Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is captured in Libya.(19th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• Two rocket-propelled grenades hit the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party in Damascus.(20th November)
• The President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, commences a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom.(20th November)
• Syrian soldiers attack buses carrying Turkish citizens returning through Syria from a hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, injuring two.(21st November)
• The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada impose further sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.(21st November)
• Scientists discover Bulbophyllum nocturnum, the first orchid known to flower at night, in New Britain off the coast of Papua New Guinea.(22nd November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• India's government decides to relax rules concerning the operation of foreign-owned retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco within India.(24th November)
• The Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Harry Jenkins resigns to be replaced by Opposition MP Peter Slipper.(24th November)
• 26 Pakistani soldiers are killed after a NATO helicopter opens fire on a Pakistani checkpoint, sparking outrage from the Pakistani government.(26th October)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Gary Speed, the manager of the Welsh national football team, is found dead at his home in Cheshire, England.(27th November)
• Saboteurs attack Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, destroying a section of the pipeline west of al-Arish in Sinai.(28th November)
• At least 25 people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups in Yemen.(28th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa.(28th November)
• The Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and his cabinet resign after protesters storm the national Parliament.(28th November)
• Ante Markovic, the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, dies in the Croatian capital Zagreb.(28th November)
• American Airlines, the world's fourth-largest airline, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.(29th November)
• Six staff members at the British embassy in Tehran are taken hostage by a group of Iranian students.(29th November)
• A new Russian anti-missile early warning facility equipped with Voronezh-DM radar opens in Kaliningrad Oblast.(29th November)
• 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)
• Anders Behring Breivik is declared to have been criminally insane when he committed the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people.(29th November)
• The Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, is hospitalised in Bangkok with suspected food poisoning.(29th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Myanmar to urge reforms.(30th November)

World 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.
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, November 2011.

• The President of the United States, Barack Obama, makes Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, a National Monument.(1st November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• French author Alexis Jenni wins France's literary Prix Goncourt for his novel L'Art français de la guerre.(2nd November)
• 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)
• Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is convicted in New York City for conspiracy to smuggle weapons to the Colombian terrorist group FARC.(2nd November)
• American actress Lindsay Lohan is sentenced to 30 days in a Los Angeles jail for breaching the terms of her parole.(2nd November)
• Russia and Georgia strike a deal that will allow Russia to enter the World Trade Organization.(2nd November)
• 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)
• China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module, marking China's first orbital docking.(2nd November)
• 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)
• Advanced Micro Devices announces that it will be cutting 1,400 jobs or 12 per cent of its work force.(3rd November)
• An Egyptian ferry carrying 1200 people catches fire in the Red Sea between the Jordanian port of Aqaba and Nuweiba.(3rd November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Toyota extends production cuts in Japan and Thailand due to parts shortages caused by the 2011 Thailand floods.(4th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• Residents of El Hierro in Spain's Canary Islands are evacuated following continuing volcanic activity.(5th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• A landslide kills 18 and injures dozens in Colombia.(6th November)
• Eleven Hungarian tourists die after a bus overturns in Egypt.(6th November)
• 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)
• The Swedish Enforcement Administration (Kronofogden) announces the public auction of seven paintings originally believed to be painted by German leader Adolf Hitler.(7th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Former world champion boxer Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer.(7th November)
• 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)
• The United Nations reports that the death toll of the eight-month-old Syrian uprising has reached 3,500.(8th November)
• Russia starts commercial natural gas deliveries to Central Europe via the Nord Stream, the world's longest submerged pipeline.(8th November)
• A record number of Americans — 49.1 million — are living below the poverty line, based on a new census measure.(8th November)
• 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)
• At least 16 people are killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand.(8th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Australian Senate votes to introduce a carbon tax, a form of carbon pricing.(8th November)
• 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)
• Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first player in history to score 15,000 Test runs.(8th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Israel's Supreme Court upholds a seven-year rape sentence against former President Moshe Katsav.(10th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• The President of Nauru, Marcus Stephen, resigns amid allegations of corruption, and is replaced by Freddie Pitcher.(10th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as the ninth President of Ireland.(11th November)
• Lucas Papademos is sworn as the Prime Minister of Greece.(11th November)
• 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)
• London in the United Kingdom wins the rights to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships ahead of Doha, Qatar.(11th November)
• 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)
• Nine civilians are killed by a bomb explosion on a bus in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan in a suspected Taliban attack.(12th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Yemeni Army and tribal fighters kill nine suspected Al Qaeda militants in fighting in the town of Zinjibar.(13th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• The President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the new Prime Minister.(13th November)
• 200,000 people protest in Bogotá, Colombia, against government cuts in public education.(14th November)
• A suspected drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan province kills six militants.(15th November)
• 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)
• 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)
• The first Gas Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum opens in Doha.(15th November)

Indian 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.
This is the second set of Indian Current Affairs, November 2011.

• cientists discovered two sunken islands in the Indian Ocean, which once formed part of the last link between India and Australia.
• SAIL & Posco signed MoU to develop a feasibility study to establish a joint venture company.
• India won the three-match series with 2-0 lead ahead of the final Test match against West Indies in Mumbai.
• Two inscriptions- Tamil & Kannada belonging to the reign of the Rashtrakuta King, Krishna III, were found at Vallimalai village.
• 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.
• Richa Mishra became the first woman to clock the best Indian time in 800m freestyle. on 17 November 2011.
• Standard & Poor's attributed slow infrastricture development in India to lack of reforms & limited long-term funding options.
• Finance Ministry increased investment limit for FII in government securities (G-secs)& corporate bonds by $5 billion each.
• Fujitsu announced that it would expand its footprint in India by opening a new delivery centre in Bangalore.
• The modified Tatkal scheme for booking of train tickets came into effect from 21 November 2011.
• 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.
• Sushil Ghaley won gold in the 50m rifle prone event at the 55th National Shooting Championship in Pune.
• Karnataka emerged the overall champion of 65th National aquatics meet which concluded on 20 November 2011 in Ranchi.
• India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru joined the elite club of Singapore on 20 November 2011.
• The Supreme Court of India ruled that a Hindu Woman cannot be evicted from the matrimonial home after divorce.
• CPI for food, beverages and tobacco went up by 1.06% to 114.4 points in October from 113.2 points in September 2011.
• 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.
• Former telecom minister Sukh Ram sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his alleged involvement in telecom scam.
• 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.
• 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.
• Former India captain Ajit Wadekar to be honoured with the Col C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement trophy on 10 December 2011.
• India was elected to the United Nations' Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and returned to this oversight body after a gap of 35 years.
• 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.
• The 12th meeting of the Home Secretaries between India and Bangladesh was concluded on 21 November 2011 in New Delhi.
• Gartner predicted mobile device sales in India to reach 231 million units in 2012, against 213 million units in 2011.
• Gagan Narang won 50m Rifle 3 Position men's event at the 55th National Shooting Championships on 22 November 2011.
• DGH announced the Indian government’s decision to launch its maiden bid round for shale gas exploration during the XII Plan.
• UNAIDS HIV AIDS report 2011 revealed 56% fall in the number of new HIV infections in India between 1996 & 2010.
• Rupee depreciation & slide in sensex led to a 23% fall in the value of investments of FIIs.
• Indian Olympic Association (IOA) decided to set up an 11-member Athletes Commission to give more representation to sports persons in its board.
• 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.
• Veteran batsman Rahul Dravid was selected for the Polly Umrigar Award for India's best cricketer of 2010-11 season.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Cyrus P. Mistry was on 23 November 2011 chosen to succeed Tata group chairman Ratan Tata as the group’s new chairman in 2012.
• Union cabinet approved 51% FDI in multi-brand retail & also decided to raise the cap on foreign investment in single-brand retailing to 100%.
• Actor Aamir khan to be appointed the national ambassador of UNICEF on 30 November 2011.
• RBI cleared Air India’s loan restructuring proposal thereby extending AI’s loan tenures from 10 to 15 years.
• 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.
• Food inflation dropped to a four-month low of 9% for the week ended 12 November 2011.
• Under the SC directive, a team of the Survey of India on 25 November started checking the foundations of the Taj Mahal.
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared 18 FDI proposals enabling a forex inflow of about Rs.2126.20 crore.
• ONGC won their maiden Nehru Cup title by defeating Punjab National Bank 1-0 at the Dhyanchand Stadium.
• Indian government inked tripartite peace agreement with Assam's insurgent group, United People’s Democratic Solidarity on 25 November 2011.
• The movie Dam 999 directed by Sohan Roy believed to be based on disputed Mullaperiyar Dam between Tamilnadu & Kerala faced ban.
• On 27th November, Brazilian Filmmaker & Journalist, Oscar Maron Filho died in Goa while addressing IFFI Forum.
• Indian e-commerce Market Estimated to Grow to $24 billion by 2015 from the Current $6.3 billion.
• Renowned sarangi maestro and singer Ustad Sultan Khan of the Indore Gharana died on 27 November 2011.
• Leading research firm, CMIE scaled down India’s GDP forecast to 7.8% for 2011-12 from the earlier forecast of 7.9%.
• GVK Biosciences entered into an alliance with the Moulder Centre for Drug Discovery Research at Temple University.
• 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.
• Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) launched operations on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) platform on 28 November 2011.
• Public debt management report released by the Finance Ministry revealed rise in government's internal debt rose in July-September 2011-12.
• Afghanistan awarded mining rights for three Hajigak blocks lto an Indian consortium led by state-run SAIL.
• Union government asserted that 30% sourcing under FDI in multi-brand retail made mandatory from Indian MSEs only.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Justice M. Karpaga Vinayagam was reappointed chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, Petroleum and Natural Gas.
• Eminent Assamese litterateur, Jnanpith award winner & India's first Principal Prince Claus Laureate Indira Goswami died on 29 November 2011.
• Delhi state government on 28 November 2011 launched a Kishori Scheme under which sanitary napkins would be distributed to adolescent girls.
• Indian refiners processed 2.8 percent less oil in October 2011 from a year ago, the first decline since November 2010.
• 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.
• 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).

Indian Current Affairs, November 2011(Part - 1)

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.
This is the first set of Indian Current Affairs, November 2011.

• Nabam Tuki was sworn in as the seventh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh on 1 November 2011.
• 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.
• Andhra Pradesh Government on 1 November 2011 launched one rupee a kilo rice scheme in the state.
• 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.
• Bengali film Chaplin was selected as the inaugural film at the 11 th edition of River to River Florence Indian Film Festival.
• Rahul Bhattacharya bagged Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011 for his "The Sly Company of People Who Care".
• Indian scientists succeeded in decoding the genome of the arhar dal, which is also known as pigeon pea.
• M. Ravindran took over as Indraprastha Gas Limited 's (IGL) new Managing Director.
• UN study ranked India at 134 out of 187 countries in terms of Human Development Index.
• 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.
• Finance Ministry gave its nod to mining company Coal India for acquiring stake in overseas unlisted firms.
• Delhi Statistical Handbook-2011 reported that Delhi's per capita income at current prices was Rs 116886 during 2009-10.
• Playback singer Asha Bhosle entered the Guinness World Records for most number of single studio recordings.
• Anirban Lahiri became the first Indian golfer to shoot a spectacular round of 12-under 60 on home soil.
• State-owned oil companies on 3 November 2011 raised petrol prices by Rs 1.80 per litre.
• 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.
• Legendary singer-composer and Padma Bhushan awardee Bhupen Hazarika died in Mumbai on 5 November 2011.
• 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.
• Tribal Affairs Ministry launched a scheme, Adivasi Shiksha Rinn Yojana (ASRY) on 2 November 2011 to offer subsidised education loans to Scheduled Tribe students.
• India-Japan Defence Ministers’ Meeting was held in Tokyo on 2 November 2011.
• Ramesh Bhaiya & Vimla Bahan, Anupam Mishra, Shobhana Ranade and Agus Indra Udayana were presented 2011 Jamnalal Bajaj Awards.
• Uttar Pradesh government on 8 November 2011 announced the 20 percent MSP (Minimum Support Price) hike for sugarcane for the current season.
• One in every five Indian adults living in urban cities suffers not only from hypertension but also diabetes.
• Second annual Pushkar international balloon festival was held from 7 to 9 November 2011 in Pushkar near Ajmer, Rajasthan.
• India won 2 awards- Best Destination & Best Marketing Campaign at the World Travel Awards 2011.
• Global ratings firm Moody's downgraded the entire Indian banking system's rating outlook from stable to negative.
• Kerala topped the national child rights index released by HAQ-Centre for Child Rights. Karnataka stood second while Maharashtra was third.
• The Delhi Cabinet on 8 November 2011 decided to waive VAT on fertilsers to provide relief to the farmers.
• Indian Army received the second regiment of indigenously produced Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles on 9 november 2011.
• Finance Ministry decided to bring 23 more departments and ministries for grants under its monthly monitor.
• Union Ministry of Environment and forests on 10 November 2011 approved the first stage of Lavasa township project in Pune.
• Defence Minister A K Antony laid the foundation stone of the ambitious Rishikesh-Karnprayag railway line at Gauchar in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.
• 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.
• Wheat crops in India is facing threat from a virulent strain of stem rust called UG99.
• According to the data released by TRAI, 500 million Indians do not yet own a personal mobile device.
• Outlook India's Editor-in-Chief and renowned journalist, Vinod Mehta's autobiography Lucknow Boy launched in New Delhi on 9 November 2011.
• TRAI mandated 65% reservation for local mobile equipment makers.
• 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.
• Indian Oil won the 116th All India Beighton Cup with a 2-0 win over ONGC on 11 November 2011.
• American Express launched its leadership academy in India as part of its corporate social responsibility.
• Bopanna and Qureshi won their first ever ATP Masters tournament in the final of Paris Masterson 13 November 2011.
• Two-day long Kite festival was organised by the Delhi Tourism to educate masses about the history of flying kite.
• India has the highest number of flu-related pneumonia deaths among children with more than 370000 children dying due to pneumonia.
• Pioneering Indian American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine, died on 9 November 2011.
• The Rajasthan government implemented the Public Service Guarantee Act in the state on 14 November 2011.
• India and Pakistan held two-day trade talks in New Delhi on 14 and 15 November 2011.
• 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.
• Ministry of Environment and Forests granted clearance to Jindal Power for its 2400 MW power project at Tamnar.
• Petrol price was slashed by Rs. 2.22 on 15 November 2011, for the first time in almost three years.
• General Motors announced on 15 November 2011 the appointment of Lowell Paddock as president & MD of India operations.
• A team of six scientists at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) developed a new technology to convert plastic into petroleum products.
• 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).
• The Assam government launched a pilot project to vaccinate girls against human papiloma virus(HPV) causing cervical cancer.
• Titan Industries to acquire Swiss watch brand Favre Leuba for up to 2 million Euro.
• Karnataka’s Saurabh Sangvekar created a national record by swimming in the 800m freestyle in a time of 8:12.57 seconds.
• Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved 15 projects for highway construction of about 1814 kilometres.
• Survey of eight sectors conducted by the labour ministry revealed that employment in eight sectors grew 2.15% during April-June 2011.
• RBI decided to buy government bonds worth 10,000 crore from investors for the first time in the 2011-12 fiscal.
• Market capitalization of 24 listed PSU banks,which control 73% of bank deposits currently below that of 15 private banks.
• Dracula Therapy is the latest technique in medical science, being used to fight ageing with your own blood.
• 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.
• Union Cabinet agreed to partially allow foreign direct investment (FDI) to enter the pension sector to the extent of 26 per cent.
• Eminent Kannada author S. L. Bhyrappa was honoured with 20th Saraswati Samman in literature for 2010 for his epic novel Mandra.

Member Countries In G - 20 Group

Many 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.

Country Name	Country Name
Arabia	Argentina
Brazil	Australia
China	Canada
France	European Union
Italy	India
Indonesia	Germany
Korea	Japan
Russia	Mexico
Turkey	South Africa
United States of America	United Kingdom

World 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.
This is the second set of World Current Affairs, October 2011.

• 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)
• Queen Elizabeth II commences her 16th visit to Australia in the capital Canberra.(19th October)
• 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)
• 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)
• NATO commander James G. Stavridis announces that NATO plans to conclude its Libyan military intervention, Operation Unified Protector, on October 31.(21th October)
• 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)
• The President of Cameroon Paul Biya is declared the winner of the Cameroonian presidential election held on October 6.(21th October)
• A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocks the city of Van in eastern Turkey, killing at least 100 people.(23rd October)
• Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, won re-election on 22 October 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.(23rd October)
• 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)
• A bomb hidden in a fuel truck kills at least 5 people and injures 45 in Afghanistan's Parwan province.(26th October)
• The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong.(26th October)
• Brazilian Sports Minister Orlando Silva resigns following corruption allegations, but insists he is innocent.(26th October)
• 18 people are killed and at least 36 wounded by twin bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.(27th October)
• Twelve thousand people are evacuated from the German city of Halle, following the discovery of an unexploded World War 2-era bomb.(27th October)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The United States commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.(28th October)
• South Korea manufacturer Samsung supersedes Apple to become the largest maker of smartphones in the world.(28th October)
• 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)
• The trial of former Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader, which was due to begin in Zagreb, is postponed on health grounds.(28th October)
• Michael D. Higgins wins the Irish presidential election.(28th October)
• NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions.(28th October)
• Syrian security forces attack the city of Homs with fighter jets and tanks, killing at least 3.(29th October)
• 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)
• A United States drone attack kills six militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.(30th October)
• 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)
• The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth.(30th October)
• 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)
• UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member with the United States withdrawing funding in protest.(31st October)
• Abdurrahim El-Keib is named as the new interim Prime Minister of Libya by the country's National Transitional Council.(31st October)
• The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population has reached seven billion people.(31st October)

Indian Current Affairs, October 2011 (Part - 2)

Hello viewers. This time I bring the current affairs of the last month that is October 2011 which is totally India related. I hope visitors may like it.
This is the second set of Indian Current Affairs, October 2011.

• Fauja Singh (100) recognised as the oldest person to complete full-distance marathon at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
• MC Mary Kom won gold in the 51kg category at 12th Senior Women's National Boxing Championships.
• The fith summit of IBSA (India Brazil South Africa) concluded on 18 October 2011 in Pretoria, South Africa.
• The Supreme Court of India on 17 October 2011 directed all states and union territories (UTs) to build toilets, particularly for girls, in all government schools.
• India signed a deal with a Sri Lankan firm worth over 300 crore rupees to procure 80 fast-interception craft (FIC). These FICs will equip Navy's Sagar Prahari Bal.
• The Union Government of India finalised a developmental action plan called Saranda Action plan for Naxal Affected districts in Naxal affected districts particularly in eastern India.
• Bharti Airtel launched special Formula One Race Pack for F1 fans in Bangalore.
• Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey to fast in protest against the Planning Commission’s definition of poverty and setting of BPL benchmark.
• UP Government raised the Age Limit from 35 to 40 years for Recruitment of Primary School Teachers.
• Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Krishna Poonia wongold at Halloween Throws Meet at Portland on 17 October 2011.
• 2011 Durand Cup, the 124th edition of the Durand Cup was won by the Churchill Brothers.
• The union government of India decided to ban the use of infertility drug Letrozole which is mainly recommended for treating Cancer patients.
• Veteran Congress leader and former Karnataka minister K H Ranganath died in Bangalore on 18 october 2011.
• The Rajasthan Government launched a web based Social Security Pension System at Jaipur.
• Indian Railways launched RTIS through which passengers can access the accurate train running information.
• Aman Sethi won International Committee of the Red Cross award for the best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues.
• Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra won the air rifle silver in the fourth Asian airgun shooting championship in Kuwait.
• Eminent Malayalam novelist George Varghese Kakkanadan breathed his last on 19 October 2011 in Kollam.
• RBI permitted Indians who have non-resident accounts in the country to hold them in any currency which is fully convertible.
• India and Vietnam signed six agreements on 12 October 2011during the visit of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to India.
• Dr M K Mani, pioneer of nephrology in India was on 20 October 2011 declared the winner of the 40th Dhanvantari Award.
• A pedestrian suspension bridge collapse in Bijanbari, near Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, kills at least 34 people and injures over 100.
• Union Ministry of Rural Development cleared the proposal to construct playground in villages under the 60 Integrated Action Plan districts.
• Agriculture Ministry of India proposed a hike of Rs 115 per quintal in MSP of wheat to Rs 1285 per quintal.
• Food inflation stood at 10.6% in the week ended 8 October 2011.
• President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, HEU Thein Sein visited India from 12 to 15 October 2011. During this visit, India and Myanmar agreed to step up cooperation in oil and natural gas.
• Jammu Kashmir topped the List in Utilizing the Fund for Minorities. It utilized over 60 percent of the total Funds till September 2011.
• Former Goldman Sachs and Procter and Gamble director Rajat Gupta pleads not guilty to the charge of leaking confidential information to convicted fraudster Raj Rajaratnam.
• Indian superhero film Ra.One, the most expensive Bollywood film to date, is released to coincide with the Hindu festival of Diwali.
• The Union government of India prepared a blueprint to provide jobs to three-lakh youths in 60 naxal affected districts in India.
• The Supreme Court of India ruled that the Centre has absolute powers to decide the terms and conditions for telecom operators as neither the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, TRAI, nor the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, TDSAT, can overrule it.
• India won 5 matches one-day series by 5-0 by defeating England. Ravindra Jadeja of team India was declared Man of the Match, while Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was awarded with Man of the Series.
• The Prime Minister of Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai visited India from 20 October 2011 to 23 October 2011. During the visit, India and Nepal signed 3 mou/agreement.
• Renowned litterateur Srilal Shukla died at a hospital in Lucknow on 28 October 2011 following prolonged illness.
• On 29th October, Uttarakhand state cabinet cleared Uttarakhand Lokayukta Bill, 2011 with the objective of curbing corruption in the state.
• Thirty people are feared dead after a footbridge in India's Arunachal Pradesh collapses into the Kameng River on 29th October.
• Niira Radia,Corporate lobbyist and provider of public relations services for the Tata group and Reliance Industries on 30 October 2011 announced her exit from the business of communication consultancy.
• Union Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Textiles sanctioned 21 new Textiles Parks under the Scheme for Integrated Textiles Parks with a project cost of 2100 crores rupees to be implemented over a period of 36 months.
• India beat England in Fifth and Final One-Day and Won the Series by 5-0.

World Current Affairs, October 2011 (Part - 1)

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.
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, October 2011.

• A mosque in the Israeli village of Tuba-Zangaria is torched. Unconfirmed suspicion is raised against Israeli Jews.(2nd October)
• American cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile phone.(3rd October)
• Eight people are injured following an explosion and fire at a factory in Surrey, United Kingdom.(3rd October)
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt presents her new coalition government, thereby becoming the 41st and the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. She takes over the office from Lars Løkke Rasmussen.(3rd October)
• US golfer Tiger Woods drops out of the top 50 in the world ranking for the first time in nearly 15 years, ending a streak of 778 consecutive weeks inside the top 50, dating to when Woods was No. 61 on October 13, 1996.(3rd October)
• Gunmen kill 12 Shiite Muslims near the Pakistani city of Quetta in an apparent sectarian killing.(4th October)
• At least 130 people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.(4th October)
• Technology company Apple Inc. announces its much-anticipated iPhone 4S at Apple's Cupertino campus.(4th October)
• The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 164.(4th October)
• Russia and the People's Republic of China veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for a crackdown on political protestors.(4th October)
• In eastern Saudi Arabia near the Persian Gulf, police open fire on protesters as public unrest intensifies.(5th October)
• Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., dies of pancreatic cancer.(5th October)
• In Thailand, more than 200 people are killed by floods during a severe monsoon season, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.(5th October)
• The Bank of England injects a further £75bn into the British economy through quantitative easing.(6th October)
• Indonesian police arrest four people in connection with the suicide bombing of a mosque in Cirebon, West Java.(8th October)
• At least 25 people are killed and many more injured after protesters and security forces clash in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, during a protest in response to an attack on a Coptic church.(9th October)
• Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year's jail in Tehran for appearing in the film My Tehran For Sale which criticises the Government of Iran's harsh policies on the arts.(10th October)
• An oil spill from the ship MV Rena off the coast of Tauranga in New Zealand becomes the country's worst environmental disaster.(11th October)
• The Cabinet of Israel approves a prisoner swap deal with Hamas for the release of the Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held in captivity for five years.(11th October)
• Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, is jailed for seven years for exceeding her powers by entering a gas deal with Russia.(11th October)
• President of the United States Barack Obama's "jobs bill" stalls in the Senate.(11th October)
• A US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region destroys a Haqqani network militant compound, with four people reported killed.(13th October)
• At least 16 people are killed by twin bomb blasts in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.(13th October)
• The King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, marries 21-year-old college student Jetsun Pema in Punakha.(13th October)
• Vietnam's Mekong River delta suffers its worst flooding in a decade, with 43 people killed and 70,000 homes destroyed.(13th October)
• At least 41 people die after a bus drives off a narrow mountain road in Nepal's Sindhuli District.(13th October)
• Sri Lankan-American Raj Rajaratnam, a former hedge fund tycoon, is sentenced to 11 years in jail for insider trading.(13th October)
• A United States drone attack kills a further four militants in Waziristan near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan; it is the third such attack in 48 hours.(14th October)
• Apple Inc. releases its latest smartphone model, the iPhone 4S.(14th October)
• Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's cuts Spain's credit rating to AA- with a negative outlook, as the European debt crisis deepens.(14th October)
• Google announces that it plans to shut down its Google Buzz social network.(14th October)
• The Netherlands becomes the first European country to win a professional world baseball championship since 1938.(15th October)
• Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013.(17th October)
• Motorola introduces the Droid RAZR, the world's thinnest smartphone.(18th October)

Indian Current Affairs, October 2011 (Part - 1)

Hello viewers. This time I bring the current affairs of the last month that is October 2011 which is totally India related. I hope visitors may like it.
This is the first set of Indian Current Affairs, October 2011.

• For the first time in India, the genome and coding parts of multi-utility neem plant, Azadirachta indica, was sequenced and analyzed.
• The Assam government launched the social auditing programme of Gram Panchayats at Aamlokhi Gram Panchay under Baajia Development Block in Nagaon district.
• The ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced the decision to set up the National Institute of Sports Science and Medicine (NISSM).
• On 4 October 2011 the credit rating of the State Bank of India was downgraded by the Global ratings firm Moody’s.
• On 4 October 2011 India signed three agreements with Afghanistan for both the countries' greater strategic partnership.
• India and Iran agreed to set up a mechanism for payment of crude oil and ensure bilateral trade.
• The Goa Legislative Assembly on 5 October 2011 unanimously passed Goa Lokayukta Bill 2011. The bill is a modified version of Goa Lakayukta Bill 2003.
• The Sports Authority of India and the All India Football Federation signed an agreement to develop the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as the football hub in India.
• The largest ever water supply scheme in Himachal Pradesh was inaugurated on 6 October 2011 in Kangehan area of Kangra district.
• Delhi state government on 8 October 2011 launched a micro-finance project for women. The project aims at providing financial support to over one-lakh vulnerable women in the capital.
• The world’s highest webcam was installed on Kala Patthar, a smaller mountain facing the Everest.
• Tata Motors announced the launch of luxurious Tata Manza sedan and the international Tata Prima range of premium commercial vehicles at the Johannesburg International Motor Show 2011.
• The tea production touched 85 million kg in August 2011, compared to 78.63 million kg in August 2010.
• The Election Commission of India raised the cap of minimum votes a political party must secure in election to get the status of a State party or maintain it further.
• Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on 10 October 2011 in Mumbai. He was awarded Padmabhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, in 2003.
• India took over as the Chairman of United Nations South Asian Regional Commission for tourism. This was announced at the ongoing United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference at Gyeongju in South Korea.
• India and South Africa signed a pact to facilitate exchange of Knowledge and experience in the field of election management and administration in New Delhi.
• Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju was appointed as the new chairman of media regulator Press Council of India on 5 October.
• Indian government in October 2011 decided not to discontinue circulation of higher denomination notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000.
• Environmentalist, lawyer & former Union Minister, Mohan Dharia was selected as the winner of the 26th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.
• All India Football Federation appointed Dutchman Robert Baan as the Technical Director for a period of two years.
• India and Japan on 10 October 2011 agreed to cooperate in the field of tourism and infrastructure. India and Japan also discussed opportunities for investment in tourism infrastructure in India.
• Sistema Shyam TeleServices on 12 October 2011 announced the launch of High Speed Data (HSD) connectivity.
• A 14-day long India-Bangladesh joint military exercise started on 9 October 2011 at Jalalabad Cantonment in Sylhet division, some 240 km northeast of capital Dhaka.
• The Union Cabinet of India on 13 October 2011 approved the introduction of the Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2011 in the winter session of Parliament.
• Noted economist Vishnudutt Nagar passed away on 10 October 2011.
• Indian swimmers won eight gold medals on 10 October 2011 at 7th Asian age group swimming championship.
• India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $1.23 billion to $311.48 billion, for the week ended 30 September 2011.
• Commerce and Industry Ministry announced a Rs. 900-crore package for exporters to support exporters against slowdown in the U.S. and Europe.
• Supreme Court directed the states and Union Territories (UTs) to appoint child welfare officers in every police station for monitoring and extending better treatment to juveniles by the police.
• India and United States agreed to explore new models for educational institutions to take knowledge partnership to a higher level.
• In Jammu and Kashmir, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna, jointly sponsored by the Centre and State governments was formally launched by State Health and Family Welfare Ministry in Srinagar.
• Kamal Nath Minister of Urban Development, Government of India and Gregory Clark, Minister of State for Decentralization and Cities agreed to work towards a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and UK at London.
• Vinod Kumar of RSPB (Railway Sports Promotion Board) on 14 October 2011 won the 55 kg freestyle gold medal in the 56th Senior National wrestling championships at Nandininagar, Uttar Pradesh.
• Rajasthan Water Resources Minister Mahipal Maderna was dropped from the Cabinet for his alleged involvement in Bhanwari Devi missing case.
• Union Agriculture Commissioner Gurbachan Singh was appointed Chairman of the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board for a seven-year term.
• Delhi state cabinet on 17 October 2011 hiked monthly pensions of senior citizens who are 70 years old and above.
• Bombay High Court upheld the death sentence awarded to four convicts for murdering 10 people in 2003 in Maharashtra.
• India's Suresh Rana won the extreme four wheeler categories in the 13th Raid de Himalaya motor rally.

Classical Dances Of India

Hello visitors. This time I'am presenting some Classical Dances Of India. I hope these may be useful to the visitors of the blog. If the informations are incomplete then please share with us through comment area.

Dance	State
Bharat Natyam	Tamil Nadu
Bihu	Assam
Bhangra	Punjab
Chhau	Bihar, Orissa, W. Bengal and Jharkhand
Garhwali	Uttaranchal
Garba	Gujarat
Hattari	Karnataka
Kathak	North India
Kathakali	Kerala
Kutchipudi	Andhra Pradesh
Khantumm	Mizoram
Karma	Madhya Pradesh
Laho	Meghalaya
Mohiniattam	Kerala
Mando	Goa
Manipuri	Manipur
Nati	Himachal Pradesh
Nat-Natin	Bihar
Odissi	Orissa
Rauf	Jammu & Kashmir
Yakshagan	Karnataka

Folk And Tribal Dances Of India

Hello visitors. This time I'am presenting some folk and tribal dances if India. I hope these may be useful to the visitors of the blog.

State	Dances
Andhra Pradesh	Ghanta Mardala, Veedhi Natakam, Burrakatha
Assam	Bihu, Khel Gopal, Rash Lila, Tabal Chongli, Canoe
Bihar	Jata Jatin, Jadur, Chhau, Kathaputli, Bakho, Jhijhiya, Samochakwa, Karma, Jatra, Natna
Gujarat	Garba, Dandiya Rass, Tippani, Gomph
Himachal Pradesh	Jhora, Jhali, Dangli, Mahasu, Jadda, Jhainta, Chharhi
Haryana	Jhumar, Ras Leela, Phag dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khoria, Gagor
J & K	Rauf, Hikat
Karnataka	Huttari, Suggi Kunitha, Yakashagana
Kerala	Kaikottikali, Kaliyattam, Tappatikkali
Maharashtra	Kathakeertan, Lezin, Dandaniya, Tamasha, Gafa, Dahikala, Lovani, Mauni, Dasavtar.
Orissa	Ghumara Sanchar, Chadya Dandanata, Chhau
Punjab	Giddha (women), Bhangra (men)
Rajasthan	Ginad, Chakri, Gangore, Terahtaal, Khayal, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini
Tamil Nadu	Kolattam, Pinnal Kolattam, Kummi, Kavadi, Karagam
Uttar Pradesh	Nautanki, Thora, Chappeli, Raslila, Kajri
West Bengal	Kathi, Chhau, Baul, Kirtan, Jatra, Lama

Nobel Prize Winners Of 2011

About Nobel Prize

Established by Alfred Nobel, Nobel prizes started in 1901 to encourage scientific experiments, promote emerging technologies, creative literature and world peace. They are given every year for worldwide achievements in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and for Peace. The Nobel prize is administered by Nobel Foundation, Sweden. In 1968, an additional prize for Economics was added in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Nobel Prize includes an award, Nobel diploma and a cash prize. The prize money is distributed from the interest generated from funds originally initiated by Alfred Nobel. For 2011, the names of the winners are given below along with the reason.

Name	Field	Reason
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess	Physics	"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
Dan Shechtman	Chemistry	"for the discovery of quasicrystals"
Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"
Ralph M. Steinman	Physiology or Medicine	"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"
Tomas Tranströmer	Literature	"because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman	Peace	"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work"
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims	Economic Sciences	"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"

Famous Paintings and Their Painters

This time I'am presenting names of some important paintings and their artists. Though these are very few in number but still they are most important in various compitative exams.

Painting	Artist
Mourning of Christ	Giotto (12667-1337, Italian)
The Arnolfini portrait	Jan van Eyck (13867-1440, Flemish)
Annunciation	Fra Angelico (1387-1455, Italian)
flouf of San Romano	Uccelio (1397-1475, ltalian)
Interior at Pet-worth	J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851, English)
Brighton Beach	John Constable (1776-1837, English)
La Musique aux Tuileries	Edouard Manet (1832-1883, French)
L'absinthe	Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French )
Madonna and Child	Masaccio (1401-1428, Italian)
Baptism	Piero della Francesca (14167-1492, Italian)
Madonna of the Meadow	Giovanni Bellini (1437-1516, Italian)
Primavera Hieronymus	Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510, Italian)
Portrait of a Man	Titian (1477-1576, Italian)
School of Athens	Raphael (1483-1520, Italian)
Ambassadors	Hans Holbein (1477-1543, German)
Origin of the Milky Way	Tintoretto (1518-1594, Italian)
Hunters in the Snow	Pieter Bruegel (1557-1569, Flemish)
Burial of Count Orgaz	El Greco (1547-1614, Spanish)
Chapeau de Paille	Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640, Flemish)
Laughing Cavalier	Frans Hals (1587-1666, Dutch)
Bacchanal	Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665, French)
Charles I of England	Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641, Flemish)
Surrender of Breda	Velasquez (1599-1660, Spanish)
Cephalus and Procris	Claude (1600-1682, French)
Night Watch	Rembrandt (1606-1669, Dutch)
Ship of Fools	Bosch (1457-1516, Flemish)
Mona Lisa	Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian)
Adoration of the Magi	Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, German)
The Reading Lesson	J. B. S. Chardin (1699-1779, French)
Blue Boy	Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788, English)
Parasol	Francisco Goya (1746-1828, Spanish)
God Creating Adam	William Blake (1757-1827, English)
Little White Girl	James A. M. Whistler (1834-1903, American)
Chapelet	Paul Cezanne (1839-1906, French)
Madame Gaudibert	Claude Monet (1840-1926, French)
Umbrellas	Pierre Renoir (1841-1919, French)
la Orana Maria	Paul Gauguin (1848-1903, French)
Sunflowers	Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch)
Baignade	Georges Seurat (1859-1891, French)
At the Moulin Rouge	Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, French)
Bright Picture 1913	Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944, Russian-born)
La Desserte	Henri Matisse (1869-1954, French)
The Three Judges	Georges Rouault (1871-1958, French)
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue	Piet Mondrian (1872-1944, Dutch)
Creation of Adam	Michelangelo (1475-1564, Italian)
Artist in his Studio	Jan Vermeer (1632-1675, Dutch
The Shrimp Girl	William Hogarth (1697-1764, English)
Girl's Adventure	Paul Klee (1879-1940, Swiss)
Guernica	Pablo Picasso (Spanish)
Guitare et Pichet	Georges Braque (1882-1963, French)
Polperro, Cornwall	Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian)
The Reclining Poet	Marc Chagall (Belarus)
American Gothic	Grant Wood (1892-1942, American)
Painting 1952	Jackson Pollock (1912-1956, American)

Current Affairs September, 2011

This time I'am presenting some current affairs of September, 2011. Though these are very few in number, still I hope viewers may like these. Please send us various informations on current affairs.

• 71st World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences held from September 3rd, 2011 in Hyderabad.
• Painter Jhangir Sabavala, passed away on Sep 2nd, 2011.
• Goa was the venue of first ever World Gaming Festival held from Sep 23, 2011.
• Typhoon Talas recently lashed Japanese island of Shikoku and Honshu.
• The rank of India is 56 in The Global Competitiveness Index rankings published by World Economic Forum recently.
• Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER) under DRDO has developed Lukoskin, a herbal product for Leucoderma.
• NASA on Sep 10, 2011 launched a pair of washing-machine-sized satellites on a mission to map the Moon's inner core for the first time. The spacecrafts are named GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B
• BC Khanduri is the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand replacing Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.
• The Australian tennis player Samantha Stosur has won the US Open 2011 Women's singles title.
• The Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic has won the US Open 2011 Men's singles title.
• According to America's Census Bureau's annual report for 2010 released recently the overall percentage of poverty in the USA is 15.1% or 46.2 million.
• 51st National Open Athletics Championship was held in Sep 2011, in the Kolkata venue.
• Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Shield for effective implementation of Official language Hindi.
• The first aircraft developed by Mahindra Aerospace (which made its maiden flight in Sep 11) in partnership with CSIR-Nal and GippsAero is named C-NM5.
• the renowned photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha who passed away on 13 Sep 2011.
• Scrub Typhus which has taken the lives of at least 12 people in Himachal Pradesh is caused by the bite of an infected mite.
• Assam has resorted to culling of birds to prevent spread of avian flu reported in some of its districts.
• The largest ever joint naval exercise between India and Sri Lanka being conducted off the coast of Trincomalee is code-named SLINEX II.
• Helle Thorning-Schimdt is the new and the first woman Prime Minister of Denmark
• Goa has become the first state in the country to have launched Swarnajayanti Aarogya Bima Yojana providing health insurance cover for the entire resident population of the state.
• Typhoon Roke struck Japan on 21 Sep 11, killing people and disrupting public transportation in northeastern Japan including the tsunami-crippled Fukushima .
• Shoaib Akhtar is the author of the controversial book "Controversially Yours"
• The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai of Kenya died on 25 Sep, 2011. She was the first African woman to receive Noble prize.
• Saudi Arabia has granted its women citizens the right to vote and contest in elections for the first time.
• Formalin (originally used to preserve dead bodies in mortuaries), has been found to be used to preserve fish during transportation by unscrupulous businessmen in Punjab.
• Typhoon Nesat lashed Luzon, the main island of Phillipines on Sep 28, 2011. The typhoon later moved on to China and Vietnam.
• The experimental module, the first of series in China's programme to finally launch a space station, launched by China from the Jiuquan launch centre on 29 Sep 2011 is named Tiangong - I.
• 4th SAARC Folklore and Heritage Festival was held from September 30, 2011 in Agra.
• 19 killed as small plane crashes in Nepal on September 25, 2011.
• 11 people were killed and at least 62 others injured in a powerful blast outside Delhi high court gate number 5 on 7th September, 2011. The bomb was kept in a briefcase.
• Indian public on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 shocked after hearing about the sad news of ex-cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin's son Ayazuddin's death. The 19-year-old, who was critically injured in a road accident five days ago, passed away earlier in the day.
• Formar Indian Cricketer Sir Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passes away on Thursday, September 22, 2011.
• A horrible earthquake took place on Sunday, 18th September, 2011 in India of 5.8 intensity. Mostly effected states are West Bengal and Assam. Next to them Nepal faces the most damages.

Current Affairs of August, 2011

This time I'am presenting some current affairs of August, 2011. Though these are very few in number, still I hope viewers may like these. Please send us various informations on current affairs.

• Champion double-trap shooter and Asian Games gold medalist Ronjan Sodhi, ranked No.1 in the world, as per the latest rankings released by the International Shooting Sport Federation on 1 August 2011.
• The Veteran fighter pilot Air Marshal Kishan Kumar Nohwar took over as the Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS).
• Union government accorded a two-year extension to Reserve Bank of India Governor D. Subbarao beyond his term ending September 2011.
• Shammi Kapoor, the veteran actor and leading star of Bollywood of the 1960s died on 14 August 2011.
• Chairman & MD of Mathrubhoomi group of newspapers, M.P. Veerendrakumar elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Press Trust of India (PTI).
• Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was appointed as the new Governor of Tamil Nadu on 26 August 2011.
• Ustad Azizuddin Khan, the exponent of Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana (school of music), passed away on 23 August 2011.
• Haryana Government declared the constitution of State Innovation Council headed by State Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati for promotion of innovations.
• Dadar & Nagar Haveli celebrated its 58th liberation day on 2 August 2011.
• Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) scaled down its projection for the growth rate of the economy in 2011-12 to this percent.- 8.2%
• Sexual-assault case against this former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed by Justice Michael J. Obus of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
• Lamine Diack from Senegal was reelected unopposed as president of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) on 24 August 2011.
• Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan announced his resignation after almost 15 months in office.
• Red Bull member Sebastian Vettel returned to the highest step of the podium for the first time in four races after he won the Belgian Grand Prix on 28 August 2011.
• Novak Djokovic defeated American Mardy Fish to win the Montreal Masters.
• The European country Spain won the tenth edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship title in Romania.
• U.N. declared three regions of Somalia to be famine hit.
• Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial was televised on 3 August 2011.
• Yashwant Sinha headed the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that presented its recommendations on the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) Bill, 2011.
• This former director general of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Ranjit Sinha was selected to head the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
• The first gold index in India with a base date of 2 January 2007 was launched on 29 August 2011 by CRISIL.
• The foreign minister of Libya, Abdel Aati Al Obeidi visited India on 22 July 2011 to brief about latest developments.
• India –Japan comprehensive economic partnership agreement entered into force on 1^st August, 2011.
• Hina Rabbani Khar, the first woman foreign minister of Pakistan to visit India from 26 to 28 July 2011.
• The food safety and standards Act of 2006 became effective from the date- 5 August 2011.
• The oldest known fossil of an African Ape discovered in the African country Uganda.
• The fossil of an African Ape was discovered in Uganda, which is considered to be 20 million years old.
• Foreign direct investment into India grew to the amount of 5.65 billion US dollarin June 2011.
• Lobsang Sangay took oath as the Kalon Tripa( Prime Minister) of Tibetans in exile.
• US credit rating downgraded to AA+ from AAA by a United States-based financial services company Standard and Poor’s (S&P).
• In Nepal, ban on smoking in public places comes into effect from the date 7^th August 2011.
• The Indian Government Set up NATGRID to Access all Intelligence Data. NATGRID stands for National Intelligence Grid.
• In Afghanistan, a probe was launched to determine the exact cause of the chopper crash by the security agency called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
• To cure influenza US scientists found an antibody called CH65.
• British scientists developed a new device called EndoBarrier to cure diabetes.
• The Indian state, Jharkhand launched Dal Bhat scheme on Independence day.
• Google to buy Motorola Cell unit for the amount 12.5 Billion Dollars.
• Fossils of largest cheetah was found in the country Georgia.
• The Ace Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia won the gold medal in the Annual Athletic Meet at Portland in USA.
• Scientists recently estimated that the age of the moon is 4.36 billion years.
• Scientists discovered a natural preservative called Basin.

Nick Names of Important Persons (World)

Hello visitors. This time I'm back with some nick names of some important persons of the world. These nick names are very famus as will as their real names. Stay in touch for the next post.

Nick Name	Real Name
Joe the Plumber	Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an American plumbing contractor
Genghis Khan	Temüjin
The General	Irish Criminal Martin Cahill
El Cauclillo	Francisco Franco
Maid of Orleans	Joan of Arc
Desert Fox	Erwin Rommel
The Godfather of Soul	James Brown
Man of Destiny	Napolean Bonaparte
The Elephant Man	Joseph Merrick
The Edge	David Howell Evans, guitarist in the rock band U2
The Duke	John Wayne
Dubya	George W. Bush
Man of Blood and Iron	Otto Von Bismark
The Cincinnatus of the Americans	George Washington
The Fab Four	The Beatles
Jesse "The Mind" Ventura	Jesse Ventura, Professional Wrestler and Former Governor of Minnesota
Jesse "The Body" Ventura	Jesse Ventura, Professional Wrestler and Former Governor of Minnesota
Father of his country	George Washington
Honest Abe	Abraham Lincoln
His Airness	Michael Jordan
The Hick from French Lick	Larry Bird
Hanoi Jane	Jane Fonda
The Glimmer Twins	Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones originals members, they co-write most of the hits
The Greatest	Muhammad Ali boxer[1]
The Great One	Wayne Gretzky, WHA/NHL hockey player
The Great Emancipator	Abraham Lincoln, The 16th President of the United States of America
The Great Communicator	Ronald Reagan, The 40th President of the United States of America
The Governator	Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California
King Maker	Earl of Warwick
The Golden Bear	Jack Nicklaus
The Great Commoner	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder") or William Jennings Bryan
Bonnie Prince Charlie	Charles Edward Stuart
Canuck	Canadian, from Johnny Canuck
Caligula	Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
The Bambino	George Herman Ruth, Jr., American baseball Player
Broadway Joe	Joe Namath, AFL/NFL American Football player
The Bard	William Shakespeare
Brangelina	Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Boom Boom Afridi	Shahid Afridi
Bono	Paul Hewson
The Young Pretender	Charles Edward Stuart
Body Beautiful Beale	Edith Bouvier Beale
Bloody Mary	Mary I of England
Birdman	Chris Andersen
Bird	Charlie Parker
The Boston Strangler	Albert DeSalvo
The Boss	Bruce Springsteen
The Bird	Mark Fidrych, Baseball pitcher
Biggie Smalls	Christopher Wallace, American Hip-Hop and rap singer
Bonzo	John Bonham
Dr. Death	Jack Kevorkian proponent of assisted suicide
Ike Dwight	David Eisenhower
Bard of Twickenham	Alexander Pope
Bard of Avon	William Shakespeare
Chemical Ali	Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister during the 2003 US invasion; also known as Baghdad Bob
Angel of Death	Josef Mengele
The Doctor	Valentino Rossi
Digger	Australian soldier
Diamond Dave	David Lee Roth, Singer
DeathStar	DeskStar, a model of disk drives by IBM which had a remarkably high failure rate
Wizard of the North	Walter Scott
Grand Old Man of Britain	Willian Ewart Glandstone
der Alte (the old man)	Konrad Adenauer
Qaid-e-Azam	Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Sandman	Howard Sims, dancer
Saint Jimmy	Billie Joe Armstrong
The Rock Chameleon	David Bowie
The Rock (person)	Dwayne Johnson
The Rat Pack	A group of American singers and entertainers from the late 1950s to the early 1970s
The Red Baron	Manfred von Richthofen, World War I, German flying ace
Old Rough and Ready	Zachary Taylor
Ike	Dwight David
Slash	Saul Hudson, guitarist
Joltin' Joe	Joe Dimaggio, Baseball player; former husband of Marilyn Monroe
Fuhrer	Adolf Hitler
Pearl of the Orient	Philippines
Pelé	Edson Arantes do Nascimento
The Paris of the South	São Paulo and Buenos Aires
The Rawalpindi Express	Shoaib Akhtar
The Teflon Don	mobster John Gotti
X-22	backgammon champion Paul Magriel
Turd Blossom	name given by George W. Bush to Karl Rove
Tricky Dick	Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
Trane	John Coltrane
Satchmo	Louis Armstrong
The Thin White Duke	David Bowie, Actor, Entertainer
The Say Hey Kid	Willie Mays, American, Major League baseball player and Hall of Famer
The Sultan of Swat	Babe Ruth, Major league Baseball player and Hall of Famer
Sting	Gordon Sumner, British rock musician
Soapy Sam	Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford
Slowhand	Eric Clapton
Slick Willy	U.S. President Bill Clinton
Prince of the Humanists	Desiderius Erasmus
Knick Killer	Reggie Miller
Larry Legend	Larry Bird
The Little Sparrow	Sezen Aksu
The King (of all Media)	Howard Stern
The Killer	Jerry Lee Lewis
The Old Pretender	James Francis Edward Stuart
Madiba	Nelson Mandela
Madge	Madonna
The King of Spin	Shane Warne
The King of Spain	Ashley Giles
The King of Pop	Michael Jackson
King James	LeBron James
The King (of golf)	Arnold Palmer
Old Kinderhook (OK)	Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States
Old Hickory	Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
Old Blue Eyes	Frank Sinatra, entertainer
Old St. Nick	Santa
Old Nick	Santa
The Man from Tennessee	Andrew Jackson
Mr. Hockey	Gordie Howe
Iron Duke	Duke of Wellington
The Mick	Mickey Mantle
The Myth	Bodybuilding great Sergio Oliva
The Material Girl	Madonna
Manitas de Plata	Flamenco guitarist Ricardo Baliardo

Nick name of Important Persons (India)

Hello visitors. This time I'm back with some nick names of some important persons of India. These nick names are very famus as will as their real names. Stay in touch for the next post on some important persons of the world and their nick names.

Nick Name	Real Name
Father of the Nation	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Bapu	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Chacha	Jawaharlal Nehru
Loknayak	Jayaprakash Narayan
Man of Peace	Lal Bahadur Shastri
Punjab Kesari	Lala Lajpat Rai
Guruji	M S Gohlwalkar
Haryana Hurricane	Kapil Dev
Panditji	Jawaharlal Nehru
Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama
Saint of the Gutters	mother Teresa
Kaviguru	Rabindranath Tagore
Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi	Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Adi Kavi	Valmeeki
Nightingale of India	Sarojini Naidu
Netaji	Subhash Chandra Bose
Gurudev	Rabindranath Tagore
Prince of Kolkata	Saurav Ganguly
Lokmanya	Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Deenabandhu	C F Andrews
Super Star	Tamil Actor(Indian) Rajinikanth
Grand Old Man of India	Dadabhai Naoroji
Anna	C N Annadurai
Rajaji	C Rajagopalachari
Mahatma Gandhi	Mohandas K. Gandhi
Deshbandhu	Chitta Ranjan Das
Iron Man	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Bengal Kesari	Ashutosh Mukherji
Bihar Kesri	Dr. Srikrishna Singh
Andhra Kesri	T.Prakasam
Sher-e-Kashmir	Sheikh Abdullah
Jana Nayak	Karpuri Thakur
Rajarshee	Purushottam Das tandon
Desh Ratna	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Ajatshatru	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Mahamana	Pt.Madan Mohan Malaviya
Sparrow	Major General Rajinder Singh
Young Turk	Chandra Sekhar
Tau	Chaudhury Devi Lal
Sahid-e-Azam	Bhagat Singh
Swar Kokila	Lata Mangeshkar
Udanpari	P.T.Usha
Biswa Kavi	Rabindranath Tagore
Tota-e-Hind	Amir Khushro
Lal, Bal, Pal	Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Ganghadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
Bihar Vibhuti	Dr. Anurag Narayan Singh
Babuji	Javjeevan Ram
Nepoleon of India	Samudra Gupta
Shakespeare of India	Mahakavi Kalidas
Machiavelli of India	Chanakya
Akbar of Kashmir	Jainul Abdin
Father of Gujrat	Ravi Sankar Maharaj
Grandfather of Indian Films	Dhundiraj Govind Fhalke
Morning Star of India Renaissance	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
King Maker of Indian History	Sayyed Bandhu
Little Master	Sunil Gavaskar
Magician of Hockey	Dhyanchand
Deshpriya	Yatindra Mohan Sengupta
Kuvempu	K.V.Puttappa