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As you know Current affairs ( corporate, business, persons, events, sports and honours)
is an integral section of exams like SNAP, IIFT,IRMA ( Socio economic GK with current affairs),
NMAT, GBO ( Sri Ram college of Commerce), MAT, ATMA etc. This compendium will help you to
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Business
SEBI allows trading through wireless technology including mobile phone and laptops
Franchise India to tie up with banks(SBI,HDFC,Punjab Naiotnal Bank, ICICI Bank and HDFC) for small ticket loan
Small ticket loans: To help provide easy finance to investors keen on setting-up small businesses
Honour
Coins of denominations Rs.100 and Rs.5 has been released to mark the birth centenary of Mother Teresa
Indrani Medhi, a Bangalore-based Microsoft researcher has developed graphics and multimedia-based user interfaces
for computers to make them more accessible to people who cannot read or write via, which the 32 year old joins TR35
list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review's 2010
Law
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues major tech companies including Google Inc and Apple Inc at US District Court in
Seattle
Member Elect
Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Ben J Verwaayen CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Zhu Min Special Adviser, IMF and a
former Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China has been elected to World Economic Forum Foundation Board
People
Madhusudan Kela to be Chief Investment Strategist from Septemeber 21st 2010 at Reliance Capital
Herbert Sutcliffe an England batting great has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
7 year old maths prodigy Oscar Selby, who became the youngest Briton to gain the top grade in GCSE maths, now
advises the Government of Britian
Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as Microsoft's new India Development Center MD
Indian origin actress Archie Panjabi, has bagged the best supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Good
Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards 2010
Sports
Commonwealth Games(October 3rd to 14th 2010) theme song 'Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto' has been unvieled by Oscar-
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Technology
Nokia launches two handsets C1 and C2, its frst dual-sim phones priced at Rs.1,999
'Priority Inbox', new Gmail feature to sort incoming mails into three sections, important and unread,starred and
everything else
wards
Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete has been crowned Miss Universe 2010
Kaavya Jayram a 12-year old becomes youngest person to present a paper on her results in the area of integer
partitioning at the International Congress of Women Mathematicians
Nila Seafoods of Tuticorin becomes the first Indian manufacturer-exporter to be awarded the MPEDA quality logo
MPEDA - Marine Products Export Development Authority
Business
6yr old girl is China's youngest shareholder as Wu Qinyi inherites 62,500 shares from her father whose estimate os 1.05
million yuan (over $154,411)
Rcom partners with Nokia to launch 'Ovi Life Tools', the new service to help farmers with queries on crop price,
fertiliser use, weather condition, soil health and right sowing season as the domian experts will provide the answer
Events
Organised by CII, 4th edition of the 'HR Summit' is to be held at the Residency, Coimbatore zone. Theme for which is
'Harnessing Human Capital through sustainable Innovative Strategies'
Discovery
Astronomers have discovered what is to be claimed as Vast solar system of 7 planets, orbiting a sun-like star, 127 light
years away from Earth
People
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Science
Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs
Sports
Russian tennis star Sharapova has been named world's highest paid athlete
Technology
Google to allow phone calls from Gmail, free for US and Canadian phones and nominal charge of 2 cents per minute to
countries including Britain, France, Germany, China and Japan
Business
'FinePix', world's first 3D camera and printing service (could be printed on special 3D paper and ready to stick in family
album) has been launched by Fujifilm
United Stock Exchange to launch currency futures operations in all four currency pairs - dollar-rupee, euro-rupee,
yen-rupee and pound-rupee on 31st August 2010
Siemens has bagged a 10-million euro order from Steel Authority of India(SAIL) to supply an RH vacuum degassing
plant to the Rourkela Steel plant
Ybrant Digital(end-to-end provider of digital marketing solutions) acquires a U.S based subsidiary Lycos(search based
internet properties)
Coca Cola enters dairy business, launches 'Mazza Milky Delite' a blend of mangoes and milk priced at Rs.15
Entertainment
Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Jasraj have teamed up for the first time to record a song("Om namoh sukhadayni") for a
Marathi movie, 'Aai Tujha Ashirward'
People
Debarpita Banerjee has been appointed as the Vice President-Marketing, India by FOX International Channel
Woman wrestler Pooja Dhanda becomes the first Indian medalist(Silver) at the Youth Olympic Games
Record
About 250 fashion models took part in world's longest catwalk of 1,609-metre at the Copenhangen fashion week in
Denmark
Whirlpool India to make world's largest Pookalam or floral carpet at Lulu Convention Centre on August 17th 2010 along
with under priviledged children to attempt an entry into 'Limca Book of Records'
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Science
China establishes observation station named 'Snow Dragon' on ice area in North pole
Sports
Brazil beat China 3-0 at the FIVB World Grand Prix women's volleyball tournament
Technology
TVS Gold Bharat Keyboard, with the new Indian Rupee symbol on it has been launched by TVS Electronics and
becomes the first and only Indian company to incorporate the very symbol
Lava B5 is the first mobile hanset which has a dedicted key to type the new Indian currency symbol and has been
launched by Lava International
'Mahashramm', a labour management system launched by Maharashtra Government to bring labour(Public and Private)
under the banking arena
People
Mr.Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf of Indo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce
Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as the National Ambassador of UNICEF and would support in promoting child
rights
Tejaswini Sawant becomes first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at World Championships
Business
Tata Docomo launches pay per site data plan at Rs.10 per siteand Rs.25 per month
Wipro Infotech launches FluidState Data Centre targetting small, medium and enterprise businesses
Heading towards Silver jubilee of the Elite School of Optometry(ESO), Sankara Nethralaya has launched a distance
mode course for opticians
Discovery/Innovation
V-invertor, a matchbox-sized device that can power homes during power cuts has been invented by Mr.Subrata Datta,
an employee at the R&D center of CMC Ltd.
Amnajot Singh and Sahil Wadhwa students of Ryan International School in Delhi have created history by discovering
the main belt asteroid named 2010 PO24 participating in the "All-India Asteroid Search Campaign"
Science
Iran's first atomic power plant gets ready for activation outside the port city of Bushehr
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Sports
A split innings 12-a-side one-day cricket format to be trailled in Australia's National one-day cup
Technology
SHQ3000 SHQ4000 are the two new range of waterproof and sweat proof sports headphones priced at 1,999 and
2,499 have been launched by Philips
Record
Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, a Canadian yoga teacher at the age of 28 have claimed to have completed 32-hour yoga
marathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montreal
People
Sharath Kamal became 1st Indian to breach the top-50 of the World ranking to be placed at 45th, after winning US
Open and Egypt Open Table Tennis Tournament
Vidya Stokes has been elected Hockey India President defeating former national captian Pargat Singh
Mr.Charles Hunting has been appointed as CEO of Genpact Ltd. for Asia operations
AK Mattoo has been named the treasurer of the Common Wealth Games organising committee
Dhiman Mukherji has been appointed as Director Advertising Sales and Sunny Saurabh as Head Advertising Soutions by
Professional networking website LinkedIn
Business
Nokia adpots 5 villages(Pure Rajaram, Pure Tilak Ram, Bhalbhara Khera, Baletha and Poore Chamaar) in the Raebareli
area of Uttar Pradesh to distribute free mobile handsets and to give Rs.200 worth pre-paid top-up every month. Nokia
has partnered with Idea Cellular and Datamation Foundation, an NGO for implemention
'Mineral Water on Your Tap', an advanced technology water treatment plant working based on reverse osmosis(PO)
has been launched in Kerala by Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd., internationally acclaimed water technology
solution provider of Chennai
Cisco has been ranked number 1 vendor in the Wireless LAN equipment market in revenues for the year 2009
Education
Narayana Murthy and Mrs.Murthy inagurates PageTurners, an exclusive Penguin bookstore in Bangalore
Science
Technology
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(WIP: An instrument with QWERTY keyboard, modem, browser and 3.5inch colour touch-screen, priced at Rs.3,300)
Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has launched 'PC2Mobile Scan', mobile virus-scan which could support 581 models of
mobile phones and priced at Rs.2,000 per year
An e-reader named Wink, a product of EC media would be available with a 6-inch screen for Rs.8,000
Bharti Airtel and 15 other global telecom companies together launched a 10,000km submarine cable system to connect
east Africa with the rest of the world
Mobile phone now can be used as credit card, global credit card giant Visa has collaborated with Turkey's Akbank to
bring out the technology called 'payWave', developed by DeviceFidelity.
(payWave: Technology to be used to store bank information in memory cards placed in mobile phone)
ward
Sastra University of Thanjavur has bagged the 1st prize or the 'Degree C Award' of Rs.1 lakh at the TechTop-2010
competition held at Thiruvananthapuram Technopark
People
The Central Provincial Council in Kandy, Colombo has decided to name the 2010 World Cup venue as the Muttaih
Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium
Bharti Infratel, a unit of Bharti Aritel has appointed Devender Singh Rawat as its Cheif Executive Officer
V.Vaidyanathan quits as MD and CEO of ICICI Prudetial Life Insurance, to join Kishore Biyani's Future Group. Sandeep
Bakshi, the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank is likely to head ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
K.M.Mathew, Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama daily, passed away at his residence in Kottayam
Prashanth Venkataraman (a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering), is
currently a Design Engineer with Saint-Gobain Glass India has received the first 'Pemanda Monappa Scholarship' award
to pursue an M.Phil course at the University of Cambridge in Britain
Somdev Devvarman becomes 2nd Indian after Leander paes to break into the top-100 of ATP rankings, reaching a
career-high 96th with total points of 540 as on 2nd August 2010
Eric Tindill was the oldest surviving New Zealand International Rugby and Test cricketer died at the age of 99 and 226
days. The only New Zealander to be capped in both Rugby and Cricket
Business
Maruti to launch CNG cars. Factory-fitted option would be made available with models of Alto, Estilo, WagonR, Eeco
and SX4 models
SEBI allows currency options on US dollars pairing with rupee, trading options will be from 9am to 5pmIST
A total of 1,400 youths under the age of 25 from 147 countries gather for the 2 week long World Youth Congress at
Istanbul to discuss how youths can be most effective in addressing the problems facing the world and to develop
sustainable youth strategies
Coimbatore Tidel Park a 56-acre SEZ(Special Economic Zone) campus housing 3 IT companies - Wipro, TCS and HCL
developed jointly by the Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation, Electronics Corporation of India, Software
Technology Parks of India and Tidel Park, Chennai has been inaugurated
Fairfest Media Ltd. along with West Bengal Tourism Department completes a 3-day Travel and Tourism Fair(TTF). TTF
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Innovation
Stephane Rousson designs World's 1st (pedal-boat) Scubster submarine, unveiled in France
Natt, a vessel beleived to be have sunk in World War II has been found and recovered by Myanmar divers in the western
Rakhine state of the country
(Note on Natt: 28.5 meter-long iron vessel,abandoned by the British forces when retreating to India has been
recovered with its original face without damage from a depth of 4.5meters in a stream in Buthidaung)
Science
China successfully launched a 5th orbiter into space as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and global
positioning network
1 billion tonnes of coal has been found in Cahora Bassa district of the northwestern province of Tete in Mozambique
Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko, 2 Russian astronauts have successfully completed a space walk that lasted
for 6 and half hours and returned to the International Space Station
Indian Immunoligacals Ltd. has launched Folyson, a hormone to increase the reproduction rates in dairy cattle
Sports
Singapore Youth Olympic Games to he held between 14th to 26th August 2010
3rd Edition of the Chennai Marathon, organised in the aid of Givelife charity to be held on 29th August 2010. The
theme of the very event to be 'My city, My pride'
Viktor Rothlin has won men's marathon for Switzerland's first gold at the European Championships
50 year old Merlene Ottey becomes the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships
Yohann Diniz of France won the men's European Champions 50-kilometre walk crown to finish in 3 hours, 40 mins
and 37 sec
G.K.Rathinavel clinches bronze(Shot put and Discus) in the 24th Sri Lanka Masters Athletics Annual Open
Championship held at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo
India finishes 2-1 to clinch the bronze medal in the inaugural Asian Women Champions Trophy hockey tournament at
Busan, South Korea
Webber of Red Bull wins at action-packed Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix
Technology
India's 7th fastest supercomputer at a computation(HPC) cluster 1.5 Tera Byte memory and 30TB storage space cluster
capacity 'Annapurna' was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc) in Chennai
American Museum of Natural History in New York launches mobile navigation app to provide visitors with a new-
generation museum experience
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Urogulf Direct Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd. a Kochi-based firm has launched information service called 'Mooble' that could
act as a search engine in mobile phones to access information through SMS
People
Sharad Pawar becomes 2nd Indian and 7th International Cricket Council President to succeed David Morgan
Muralitharan to retire from Test Cricket (after Galle Test against India)
Mr.Neil Mills will be the new Chief Executive Officer of SpiceJet Airways
Business
Everonn Education to venture into K-12(Kindergarten to 12th Standard) schools through its wholly owned subsidiary
Everonn School Ltd.(ESL)
Harley-Davidson opens first showroom in India - Hyderabad and 4 more to be added by the end of the year including
Chandigarh,New Delhi,Mumbai and Bangalore
480-year old British Hardware store which survived two world wars, two depressions and three recessions is finally
closing down, becomes the latest victim of the global recession
Innovation
An ATM to dispense pasteurised milk packets and curd by inserting a smart card in Kochi, Kerala
Solar-powered plane completes its first 24-hour test run(flying on solar power during nighttime)
Coral Softwares Ltd. has developed ACE Software to facilitate writing of cheque which could reduce errors resulting in
less possibility of the cheques being dishonoured
Law
Apex Court, Two-wheeler manufacturers to sell their vehicles bundled with a helmet
Sports
Cara Black and Leander Paes wins the Wimbledon 2010 mixed doubles title
Technology
Innovation
Bangalore-based firm, Hidden Reflex launches first Indian web browser 'Epic' based on the Mozilla platform
Award
Radha Charan Gupta to be awarded Kenneth O.May Prize for his work on the History and development of
(trignometry)Mathematics in India at International Congress Mathematicians meet to be held in Hyderabad from 19th to
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People
IIT post-graduate D.Udaya Kumar's design for Rupee with Devanagari 'Ra' and Roman Capital 'R' without stem has
been chosen as Indian rupee symbol
R.M.Malla has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of IDBI Bank for a period of 3 years
Mr.Sunil Rekhi has been appointed as Deputy Chief Financial Officer by Car-maker Nissan India
Mr.Suresh Kandukuri has been appointed as the Sales Director of Cyberstar Infocom whose business is to distribute IT
products
Imran Khan becomes fourth Pakistani to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
Friedrich Froeschl to replace Andy Mattes as Chairman for Mphasis, an Information Technology and BPO Company
Mr.Chandra Bhushan Paliwal takes over as the Chief Vigilance Officer of SAIL
Mr.Shalabh Jain has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Business unit by Firstsource Solutions
Ms.Krithiga Reddy has been appointed as Director of online Operations and Mr.Manoj Varghese Director of user
operations by Facebook to mark the launch of its India operations at Hyderabad
Business
Science
ISRO launches PSLV-C15 with 5 satellites and remote sensing Cartosat-2B and Studsat built by engineering students of
Andra Pradesh and Karnataka
Sports
Technology
People
P.T.Usha(to head panel for Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards) has been named chairperson of the selection committee for
2010's National Sports award
Hockey icon Ashok Kumar to head the panel to pick the Dronacharya Awards
Samta Kumari, a 28 year old of Uttar pradesh becomes 5th woman train engine driver in India
Rudi Koertzen (108 Tests, 209 ODI's and 14 T20I's) to officiate in final Test match where Pakistan take on Australia in
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Apoorva singh has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Global Head - Infrastructure Management Services for
Patni Computer Systems
Former captain Pragat Singh of Indian hockey team files nomination for Hockey India President post
Event/Business
Airbus has selected India's private aerospace engineering firm Quest as its preferred supplier of aircrafts parts
2nd Edition Hyderabad Auto show, four-day event to be held from July 22nd to July 25th 2010 got underway at the
Hyderabad International Convention centre(HICC)
Sports
India thrashes France 6-0 in the second hockey Test and takes a lead of 2-0 in the three-match series in Paris
Mir Ranjan Negi former goal keeping coach of India's Women's Hocket team to Coach Indian Women Hockey Team
Ponting becomes 2nd batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to score 12,000 Test runs against Pakistan
Hashim Amla named Test Cricketer and South African Cricketer of the year
Technology
Nick lee a 15-year-old created an iPhone application which connects to the Internet for free but the very app is no
longer available or suspended.
Microsoft to launch its own hands-free Kinect console in November, to be priced at $150
Second Six Core i7-970 processor priced at $885 which uses 32 nanometer manufacturing process to run at 3.2Ghz
comprising of 12MB of L3 cache has been launched by Intel
Zen mobiles brings Z82, India's first QWERTY handset with Analog TV and Dual sim(GSM+GSM) priced at Rs.4,799
People
Mumbaikar Akanksha Sarda becomes first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad
Mano Menezes succeeds Carlos Dunga as Brazil coach and the offer has been accepted by Brazil football federation
Mr.Noel Tata to succeed Mr.Ratan Tata as chairman of the Tata Group to take over as Managing Director of Tata
International
Mr.Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as an Advisor to Jaguar Land Rover
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Business
Central Bank of India has launched online remittance facility, CentFast2India, for remitting funds online from USA to
India
UIDAI has selected Accenture, Mahindra Satyam-Morpho and L1 Identity Solutions to implement the core biometric
identification system in for the 'Aadhaar' programme
Science
India successfully tests ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Orissa at Chandipur on sea shore of
Balasore
Award
HDFC Bank has won the Celent Model Bank 2010 award for its loan origination system for which the bank uses Nucleus
Software's FinnOne product
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to be awarded Lokmanya Tilak award for her contribution to the progress of people
and the country
India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has been selected from the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award which will be
given on August 29th 2010 by the President Pratibha Patil
Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank(KVGB) has been awarded by the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small
Enterprises(CGTMSE) for highest coverage with respect to loans granted to micro,small and medium enterprises
Kerala Tourism's global consumer travel site, www.keralatourism.org has been awarded the prestigious PATA gold
Award 2010, to be given away on September 17th at the PATA Travel Mart in Macau
2010 PATA Awards: Attracted 200 entries from 80 organistations and individuals worldwide
Sports
People
Mumbaikar Akanksha Sarda becomes first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad
Mano Menezes succeeds Carlos Dunga as Brazil coach and the offer has been accepted by Brazil football federation
Mr.Noel Tata to succeed Mr.Ratan Tata as chairman of the Tata Group to take over as Managing Director of Tata
International
Mr.Ravi Kant, Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors has been appointed as an Advisor to Jaguar Land Rover
Business
Central Bank of India has launched online remittance facility, CentFast2India, for remitting funds online from USA to
India
UIDAI has selected Accenture, Mahindra Satyam-Morpho and L1 Identity Solutions to implement the core biometric
identification system in for the 'Aadhaar' programme
Science
India successfully tests ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Orissa at Chandipur on sea shore of
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Balasore
Award
HDFC Bank has won the Celent Model Bank 2010 award for its loan origination system for which the bank uses Nucleus
Software's FinnOne product
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit to be awarded Lokmanya Tilak award for her contribution to the progress of people
and the country
India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal has been selected from the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award which will be
given on August 29th 2010 by the President Pratibha Patil
Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank(KVGB) has been awarded by the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small
Enterprises(CGTMSE) for highest coverage with respect to loans granted to micro,small and medium enterprises
Kerala Tourism's global consumer travel site, www.keralatourism.org has been awarded the prestigious PATA gold
Award 2010, to be given away on September 17th at the PATA Travel Mart in Macau
2010 PATA Awards: Attracted 200 entries from 80 organistations and individuals worldwide
Sports
Awards
ITC's Y.C.Deveshwar has been presented Global Leadership award by U.S.-India Business Council for his efforts
towards empowering India's rural agricultural community and conserving the environment
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) bags Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2010 for
implementing ethanol blended diesel in over 1000 buses
Mr.M.R.Bhat General Manager of Corporation Bank has been awarded Dun and Bardstreet's CTO(Chief Technology
Officer) Award 2009
Acquisitions
Cafe Coffee Day has acquired a Czeh Republic-based cafe Emporio for Rs.15crore
Business
Tata Motors inaugurated the world's cheapest car the Nano's manufacturing facility at Sanand, Gujarat
Entertainment
Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years
People
Mr.Soiles Bhattacharya Director(Finance), will take charge as the Interim Chairman of SAIL as Mr.S.K.Roongta
completed his term on May 31st 2010
Mr. Michael Perschke to head India operations for Audi from July 1st 2010, replaces Mr.Benoit Tiers
Mr.Hiroshi Takashina has been appointed as Managing Director for Nikon India, takes over from Mr.Hidehiko Tanaka
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Innovation
Equifone Solutions offering Bluetooth services on buses in Mumbai, now all set to offer Wi-Fi Connectivity in days to
come
Applications submitted to various departments of RBI could be now tracked on Application Tracking System(ATS),
online
Kerala State Electricity Board is set to launch a free and open source accounting software, Structured and Real-time
Accounting System(SARAS) designed and developed by the employees of the board
Acquisitions
Business
IDBI opened its first overseas branch in Dubai, at the Dubai International Finance Centre
Karnataka to create Land Bank in all districts to facilitate investors to allocate land
Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India(ISE) has selected TCS to install and manage its integrated trading, clearing
and surveillance platform
Indian Depository Receipts(IDR) of UK based bank Standard Chartered lists in BSE and NSE
Sports
FIFA World Cup 2010 kicks off in South Africa on June 10th 2010
Technology
Apple unveils iPhone 4 at the Apple World wide Developers Conference in San Francisco
Direct to Home(DTH) operator Dish TV to launch Conditional Access Module(CAM) which will allow its subscribers to
switch over to a new operator using the same set-top box
Samsung adds Facebook and Google Maps to its HDTV-based Samsung Apps Library
Cactus plant(Cereus peruvianus), grown near SDM College of Dental Sciences near Sattur,Dharwad,India enters Guinness
Book of world Records as the tallest Plant measuring a height of 78.8 feet
Business
DQ Entertainment, an animation and gaming content company has entered into broadcasting agreement with Sun TV
Network Ltd. for the provision of animation content
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Saibaba Telefilms, Mumbai based television production company to enter Southern region via a music reality show
Sangeetha Mahayudhdham to be telecasted on Sun TV
Innovation
Country's first 3-MW solar photo volatic plant opens at Kolar in Bangarpet taluk, Karnataka
People
Technology
Nokia introduces push-mail service in S40 series phone priced at around Rs.2,700
People
Sachin Tendulkar to become Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain
Business
MCX gets unconditional approval from Forward Market Commission regulator to launch an IPO
Discovery
Austrian archaeologists discover 3500 year old city Hyksos in the Nile delta region
Record
Sports
Saina Nehwal beat Taiwan's Tzu Ying Tai to win the Singapore Super Series Title and moves upto World No.3
Technology
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SleepServer, a software developed by Indian American scientists to save energy in Computers at work place
India's first 'unpaid' mobile service under the brand name T24 is launched by Future Group, service provider being Tata
Teleservices Ltd.
Warren Edward Buffett : Berkshire Hathway :: Hans-Paul Burkner : Boston Consulting Group
People
P.Obul Reddy, founder and former Managing Director of Nippo Batteries company and Founder and Chairman of
Panasonic Carbon India and Panasonic Home appliances India passes away
Business
HM-Mitsubishi launches its dealership in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and National Capital Regaion(NCR)
Innovation
First electric locomotive with head-on-generation, manufactured by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works launched for
Indian Railways
Punjab National Bank opens its first bio-metric ATM at Thrikkakara in Ernakulam
(Bio-metric ATM: Recognises fingerprints of the card holder and eliminating the need of entering PIN number.
Denominations of Rs.50, Rs.100, Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 could be withdrawn from the same)
Sports
Technology
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Transcend to introduce 64GB class 10 SDXC(Secure Digital Extended Capacity) memory card in India, to be priced at
Rs.15,000
People
S.K.Natraj will be the Mayor and N. Dayanand as Deputy of Bengaluru starting April 2010
Atul Khare, former Indian Foreign Service Officer, as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
Technology
BenQ introduces world's slimmest LED monitors(BenQ V2220, V2420 and V920) spanning HD to full HD, 18.5" to 24"
Science
World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improve
healthcare
Acquisitions
Business
People
Bharti Airtel appoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services(India and South Asia)
Technology
Compellent to launch 2.5inch hard drives with capacity of 900GB at 10,000rpm and 300GB at 15,000rpm
Aquisitions
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State Bank of India to tie up with Elavon and Visa for merchant acquiring business(facilitation of payment through
debit or credit card at retail outlets)
Reliance BIG Entertainment has acquired a controlling stake in Los Angeles-based IM Global
Bharti Airtel inks deal with Novatium to provide Unique Active desktop powered by Airtel Net PC Plus
Business
People
Bill Gates to adopt Gularia village in Khagaria from the state of Bihar
Technology
Nokia launches 3G slider phones, Nokia 6700 and Nokia 7230 in India
Sony introduces Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX with 30MB per second write speed
Rajasthan launches e-Speech Application(data migration,text-to-speech conversion in local languages and voice
message transmission) to the under-privileged using mobile phones
Sports
World champion Viswanathan Anand retained his crown winning the World Chess Championship title against Veselin
Topalov of Russia
Business
People
Bharti Retail has appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officer who will lead operations starting July
2010 for Easyday and Easyday market stores across India
Former Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat suffering from lung infection, died of cardiac arrest
Ratan Tata honoured with the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding leadership, vision and
professional excellence
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Science
Pune-based Serum Institute of India has developed H1N1 vaccine - a harmless nasal spray which could be used by
people aged above 3 except pregnant women
People
Somdev Devvarman becomes first Indian in 13years to qualify for the men's singles event of French Open 2010
Business
Hindujas to buy European Private bank KBL epb for 1.35bn euros(Approx. Rs.8,770crore)
BSNL selects (4 firms) Teracom,Take Solutions,Adishwar India and Ampoules to roll out WiMax based broadband
service as a franchisee
Syndicate bank to issue e-stamps in collabration with Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.(A central agency
appointed by the Government of India, for the e-stamp project)
Sports
India, South Korea declared joint winners in Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament as the match was called off due to rain
People
Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been elected the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Rajiv Dube, President of Tata Motors passenger car business unit quits as Girish Wagh(man behind the Nano) and
Mr.S.Krishnan, Senior Vice-President(Commercial) to share responsibilities
Dr.Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading becomes the first human to be infected with a
computer virus.
Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, India at Firstsource Solutions
Acquisitions
Business
Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch Nifty futures from July 19th 2010
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Punjab National Bank ties up with Oriental Insurance Company Limited to offer a floater Health Insurance Policy
Innovation
Cow dung to be used as a source of energy to power on computers by HP for Data centers
Income Tax returns processing unit named, Centralised Processing Centre (CPC to process electronic tax returns of
the entire country) to start functioning in Bangalore
Technology
People
S.K.Natraj will be the Mayor and N. Dayanand as Deputy of Bengaluru starting April 2010
Atul Khare, former Indian Foreign Service Officer, as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
Technology
BenQ introduces world's slimmest LED monitors(BenQ V2220, V2420 and V920) spanning HD to full HD, 18.5" to 24"
Science
World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improve
healthcare
Acquisitions
Business
Micheal Susan Dell Foundation in association with Dr.Reddy's foundation to organise 3 months free training program
Ajay Banga has been appointed as CEO for MasterCard, to take charger from July 1st 2010
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Microsoft launches mobile handset Kin, specifically for users who actively access social networking sites
71yr old woman is heading through southern route via Nepal to show the world that age is no bar to conquer the
world's largest peak Mt.Everest
'Khao Lite Jiyo Lite' - the ad line of Nature Fresh edible oil is a product of which company?
Cargill Food
The Mittal Group of Industries merged with which major business entity and gave the tag line
'Transforming Tomorrow'?
Arcelor
'Lets Reach for the Sun' is the ad line of which company/group of companies?
Aditya Birla Group
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Jennifer Lopez named style icon of the decade
S.K.Natraj will be the Mayor and N. Dayanand as Deputy of Bengaluru starting April 2010
Atul Khare, former Indian Foreign Service Officer, as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
Technology
BenQ introduces world's slimmest LED monitors(BenQ V2220, V2420 and V920) spanning HD to full HD, 18.5" to 24"
Science
World's smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg has been developed to improve
healthcare
Acquisitions
Business
People
Bharti Airtel appoints Drew Kelton as President - Enterprise Services(India and South Asia)
Technology
Compellent to launch 2.5inch hard drives with capacity of 900GB at 10,000rpm and 300GB at 15,000rpm
Acquisitions
State Bank of India to tie up with Elavon and Visa for merchant acquiring business(facilitation of payment through
debit or credit card at retail outlets)
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Bharti Airtel inks deal with Novatium to provide Unique Active desktop powered by Airtel Net PC Plus
Business
People
Bill Gates to adopt Gularia village in Khagaria from the state of Bihar
Technology
Nokia launches 3G slider phones, Nokia 6700 and Nokia 7230 in India
Sony introduces Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX with 30MB per second write speed
Rajasthan launches e-Speech Application(data migration, text-to-speech conversion in local languages and voice
message transmission) to the under-privileged using mobile phones
Sports
World champion Viswanathan Anand retained his crown winning the World Chess Championship title against Veselin
Topalov of Russia
Business
People
Bharti Retail has appointed Mr.Andrew Levermore as Chief Operating Officer who will lead operations starting July
2010 for Easyday and Easyday market stores across India
Former Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat suffering from lung infection, died of cardiac arrest
Ratan Tata honoured with the 2010 CIF Chanchlani Global Indian Award for his outstanding leadership, vision and
professional excellence
Science
Pune-based Serum Institute of India has developed H1N1 vaccine - a harmless nasal spray which could be used by
people aged above 3 except pregnant women
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Somdev Devvarman becomes first Indian in 13years to qualify for the men's singles event of French Open 2010
Business
Hindujas to buy European Private bank KBL epb for 1.35bn euros(Approx. Rs.8,770crore)
BSNL selects (4 firms) Teracom,Take Solutions,Adishwar India and Ampoules to roll out WiMax based broadband
service as a franchisee
Syndicate bank to issue e-stamps in collaboration with Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd.(A central agency
appointed by the Government of India, for the e-stamp project)
Sports
India, South Korea declared joint winners in Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament as the match was called off due to rain
People
Indian-origin Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been elected the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Rajiv Dube, President of Tata Motors passenger car business unit quits as Girish
Wagh(man behind the Nano) and Mr.S.Krishnan, Senior Vice-President(Commercial) to share responsibilities
Dr.Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading becomes the first human to be infected with a
computer virus.
Aashu Calapa would continue via new role as President HR and Country Manager, India at Firstsource Solutions
Acquisitions
Business
Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch Nifty futures from July 19th 2010
Punjab National Bank ties up with Oriental Insurance Company Limited to offer a floater Health Insurance Policy
Innovation
Cow dung to be used as a source of energy to power on computers by HP for Data centers
Income Tax returns processing unit named, Centralised Processing Centre (CPC to process electronic tax returns of
the entire country) to start functioning in Bangalore
Technology
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Sri Lanka to host 11th International Indian Film Academy awards and Twenty20 match between Bollywood stars and
Asian cricketers during 3day event.
IIFA Award function to be held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium between June 2nd and 4th 2010
Sony launches Internet enabled LCD TVs, introduced 3D TV in India priced between
Rs.45,900 and Rs.3.50lakh
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ANZ - Australia and New Zealand Bank gets nod to open branches in India
Olive Telecom launches dual powered handset works both on Lithium Ion and replaceable AAA battery
Muralitharan to retire from Test cricket and quit from all forms of game after 2011
World Cup
Mahaprabhu on Sunday
Murali Vijay and Abhimanyu Mithun debuts for India in One Day International cricket
RBI fines Bank of Rajasthan for violation of directions with regard to acquisition of immovable properties and deletion
of records in bank's IT systems
Vinod Aggarwal to take role of CEO of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles starting July 1st 2010
Arun Birla to be Executive Vice-President of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles and President Eicher Truck and Buses
starting April 1st 2010
Carl-Peter Forster, the former Europe head of Foster's has been appointed as the CEO of Tata Motors
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Afghanistan and Ireland make to World Twenty20 through WCT20 Qualifier 2010
Nandan Nilekani has been honoured with Citizen Extraordinaire Award 2010
Single Point US-based mobile/SMS advertising company acquires M2 Junction by enabling themselves to enter into
Indian market
Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) launches Wealth Plus - a unit linked insurance plan
Cricket to become an Olympics Sport, including cricket, sport climbing and powerboating are to bid for the 2020
Olympics
Former Managing Director of Ogilvy and Mather S.R.Mani Ayer,"the most outstanding individual in the Ogilvy
Network", is no more.
337 year-old book (published in 1673) India and Persia by the British Cartographer
Manufactured by Philips, world's smallest ECG machine to be launched in Goa at an International Echocardiography
fourday-conference starting Feb 11th 2010
Tata's Nano, the world's cheapest 4-wheeler was conferred the Autocar 'Car of the Year' award at Autocar Awards
2010, instituted by Blooberg UTV
Communication
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14 year old girl of Indian origin, Uma Jha has been crowned Australia's brainieststudent. She would participate at
the International Brain Bee Challenge to be held in August at California
A.R.Rahman bagged 2 trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards for his music in 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray to win the 16th Grand Slam of his career
Leander Paes and Cara Black won their 2nd Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the Australian Open
Mumbai to stage 2011 one-day Cricket World Cup final, Mohali a semi-final and Ahmedabad a quarter-final
India: 3G auction process begins, 3 top bidders to get spectrum in17 circles
Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick named English cricketer's player of the year by his fellow professionals
Repo and reverse repo rates left unchanged before Budget 2010
Vijender Singh gets silver at the 2 day Champion of Champions invitational boxing Tournament in Guangzhou, China
for 75kg Category Olympian Dinesh Kumar too won a silver medal for 81kg category
Overtaking Spain, India reaches No.9 spot in the world of Science and Technology
Intel launches its 2010 Intel Core vPro processors for Business PCs
Epson launches its Mini Photo Printer - Epson PictureMate PM310 with 7 inch display
Sony Ericsson launches Aspen business mobile phone with is bundled with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system
Acer - Stronger than expected sales of its Google Android phone named Liquid, have led to the shortages of device
Rio Tito the world's 3rd largest mining named Ian Bauert as managing director for its China office
Mitsubishi Electric to buy stake in unprofitable consumer electronics maker Pioneer to gain access to that firm's car
navigation technology
Corporation Bank to launch multi-utility cards which can be used as a debit, credit and pre-paid card
Indo-Pak pair, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi win 1st ATP title
Michael Jackson's 12 feet statue at the 9th International Granites and Stone Fair being held in the Bangalore
International Exhibition Centre
UFO Moviez(digital satellite cinema network) to bring DLF IPL 2010 matches live in theatres including tier II and III
cities
Pakistan lost to India 5-1 helps India to reach final of the hockey event in the 11th South Asian Games at Moulana
Bhashani Stadium
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Sania Mirza and Poojashree Venkatesha managed straight-set wins playing against Singapore thus, India beat
Singapore 3-0 in Fed Cup
ISRO Chairman K.Radhakrishnan: NASA and European Space Agency(ESA) wants to be part of Chandrayaan-II - the
next Indian mission to moon, by sending their instruments
Award
Sastra University of Thanjavur has bagged the 1st prize or the 'Degree C Award' of Rs.1 lakh at the TechTop-2010
competition held at Thiruvananthapuram Technopark
People
The Central Provincial Council in Kandy, Colombo has decided to name the 2010 World Cup venue as the Muttaih
Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium
Bharti Infratel, a unit of Bharti Aritel has appointed Devender Singh Rawat as its Cheif Executive Officer
V.Vaidyanathan quits as MD and CEO of ICICI Prudetial Life Insurance, to join Kishore Biyani's Future Group. Sandeep
Bakshi, the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank is likely to head ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
K.M.Mathew, Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama daily, passed away at his residence in Kottayam
Prashanth Venkataraman (a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering), is
currently a Design Engineer with Saint-Gobain Glass India has received the first 'Pemanda Monappa
Scholarship' award to pursue an M.Phil course at the University of Cambridge in Britain
Somdev Devvarman becomes 2nd Indian after Leander paes to break into the top-100 of ATP rankings, reaching a
career-high 96th with total points of 540 as on 2nd August 2010
Eric Tindill was the oldest surviving New Zealand International Rugby and Test cricketer died at the age of 99 and 226
days. The only New Zealander to be capped in both Rugby and Cricket
Business
Maruti to launch CNG cars. Factory-fitted option would be made available with models of Alto, Estilo, WagonR, Eeco
and SX4 models
SEBI allows currency options on US dollars pairing with rupee, trading options will be from 9am to 5pmIST
A total of 1,400 youths under the age of 25 from 147 countries gather for the 2 week long World Youth Congress at
Istanbul to discuss how youths can be most effective in addressing the problems facing the world and to develop
sustainable youth strategies
Coimbatore Tidel Park a 56-acre SEZ(Special Economic Zone) campus housing 3 IT companies - Wipro, TCS and HCL
developed jointly by the Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation, Electronics Corporation of India, Software
Technology Parks of India and Tidel Park, Chennai has been inaugurated
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Fairfest Media Ltd. along with West Bengal Tourism Department completes a 3-day Travel and Tourism Fair(TTF). TTF
to move be held in Ahemadabad(August 20-22) and Surat(August 27-29)
Innovation
Stephane Rousson designs World's 1st (pedal-boat) Scubster submarine, unveiled in France
Natt, a vessel beleived to be have sunk in World War II has been found and recovered by Myanmar divers in the western
Rakhine state of the country
(Note on Natt: 28.5 meter-long iron vessel,abandoned by the British forces when retreating to India has been recovered
with its original face without damage from a depth of 4.5meters in a stream in Buthidaung)
Science
China successfully launched a 5th orbiter into space as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and global positioning
network
1 billion tonnes of coal has been found in Cahora Bassa district of the northwestern province of Tete in Mozambique
Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko, 2 Russian astronauts have successfully completed a space walk that lasted
for 6 and half hours and returned to the International Space Station
Indian Immunoligacals Ltd. has launched Folyson, a hormone to increase the reproduction rates in dairy cattle
Sports
Singapore Youth Olympic Games to he held between 14th to 26th August 2010
3rd Edition of the Chennai Marathon, organised in the aid of Givelife charity to be held on 29th August 2010. The theme
of the very event to be 'My city, My pride'
Viktor Rothlin has won men's marathon for Switzerland's first gold at the European Championships
50 year old Merlene Ottey becomes the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships
Yohann Diniz of France won the men's European Champions 50-kilometre walk crown to finish in 3 hours, 40 mins
and 37 sec
G.K.Rathinavel clinches bronze(Shot put and Discus) in the 24th Sri Lanka Masters Athletics Annual Open
Championship held at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo
India finishes 2-1 to clinch the bronze medal in the inaugural Asian Women Champions Trophy hockey tournament at
Busan, South Korea
Webber of Red Bull wins at action-packed Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix
Technology
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India's 7th fastest supercomputer at a computation(HPC) cluster 1.5 Tera Byte memory and 30TB storage space cluster
capacity 'Annapurna' was unveiled at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences(IMSc) in Chennai
American Museum of Natural History in New York launches mobile navigation app to provide visitors with a new-
generation museum experience
Urogulf Direct Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd. a Kochi-based firm has launched information service called 'Mooble' that could act
as a search engine in mobile phones to access information through SMS
ecord
Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, a Canadian yoga teacher at the age of 28 have claimed to have completed 32-hour yoga
marathon at her Om West yoga studio in Pointe Claire Village on the Island of Montreal
People
Sharath Kamal became 1st Indian to breach the top-50 of the World ranking to be placed at 45th, after winning US Open
and Egypt Open Table Tennis Tournament
Vidya Stokes has been elected Hockey India President defeating former national captian Pargat Singh
Mr.Charles Hunting has been appointed as CEO of Genpact Ltd. for Asia operations
AK Mattoo has been named the treasurer of the Common Wealth Games organising committee
Dhiman Mukherji has been appointed as Director Advertising Sales and Sunny Saurabhas Head Advertising Soutions
by Professional networking website LinkedIn
Business
Nokia adpots 5 villages(Pure Rajaram, Pure Tilak Ram, Bhalbhara Khera, Baletha and Poore Chamaar) in the Raebareli
area of Uttar Pradesh to distribute free mobile handsetsand to give Rs.200 worth pre-paid top-up every month. Nokia
has partnered with Idea Cellular and Datamation Foundation, an NGO for implemention
'Mineral Water on Your Tap', an advanced technology water treatment plant working based on reverse
osmosis(PO) has been launched in Kerala by Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd., internationally acclaimed water
technology solution provider of Chennai
Cisco has been ranked number 1 vendor in the Wireless LAN equipment market in revenues for the year 2009
Education
Narayana Murthy and Mrs.Murthy inagurates PageTurners, an exclusive Penguin bookstore in Bangalore
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Technology
Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has launched 'PC2Mobile Scan', mobile virus-scan which could support 581 models of
mobile phones and priced at Rs.2,000 per year
An e-reader named Wink, a product of EC media would be available with a 6-inch screen for Rs.8,000
Bharti Airtel and 15 other global telecom companies together launched a 10,000km submarine cable system to
connect east Africa with the rest of the world
Mobile phone now can be used as credit card, global credit card giant Visa has collaborated with Turkey's Akbank to
bring out the technology called 'payWave', developed by DeviceFidelity.
(payWave: Technology to be used to store bank information in memory cards placed in mobile phone)
People
Mr.Ratan Tata conferred as 'Businessman of the Decade Award' on behalf of Indo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce
Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as the National Ambassador of UNICEF and would support in promoting child
rights
Tejaswini Sawant becomes first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at World Championships
Business
Tata Docomo launches pay per site data plan at Rs.10 per siteand Rs.25 per month
Wipro Infotech launches FluidState Data Centre targetting small, medium and enterprise businesses
Heading towards Silver jubilee of the Elite School of Optometry(ESO), Sankara Nethralayahas launched a distance
mode course for opticians
Discovery/Innovation
V-invertor, a matchbox-sized device that can power homes during power cuts has been invented by Mr.Subrata Datta,
an employee at the R&D center of CMC Ltd.
Amnajot Singh and Sahil Wadhwa students of Ryan International School in Delhi have created history by discovering
the main belt asteroid named 2010 PO24 participating in the "All-India Asteroid Search Campaign"
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Science
Iran's first atomic power plant gets ready for activation outside the port city of Bushehr
Sports
A split innings 12-a-side one-day cricket format to be trailled in Australia's National one-day cup
Technology
SHQ3000 SHQ4000 are the two new range of waterproof and sweat proof sports headphones priced at 1,999 and
2,499 have been launched by Philips
Business
'FinePix', world's first 3D camera and printing service (could be printed on special 3D paper and ready to stick in family
album) has been launched by Fujifilm
United Stock Exchange to launch currency futures operations in all four currency pairs - dollar-rupee, euro-rupee, yen-
rupee and pound-rupee on 31st August 2010
Siemens has bagged a 10-million euro order from Steel Authority of India(SAIL) to supply an RH vacuum degassing
plant to the Rourkela Steel plant
Ybrant Digital(end-to-end provider of digital marketing solutions) acquires a U.S based subsidiary Lycos(search based
internet properties)
Coca Cola enters dairy business, launches 'Mazza Milky Delite' a blend of mangoes and milk priced at Rs.15
Entertainment
Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Jasraj have teamed up for the first time to record a song("Om namoh sukhadayni") for a
Marathi movie, 'Aai Tujha Ashirward'
People
Debarpita Banerjee has been appointed as the Vice President-Marketing, India by FOX International Channel
Woman wrestler Pooja Dhanda becomes the first Indian medalist(Silver) at the Youth Olympic Games
Record
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About 250 fashion models took part in world's longest catwalk of 1,609-metre at the Copenhangen fashion week in
Denmark
Whirlpool India to make world's largest Pookalam or floral carpet at Lulu Convention Centre on August 17th 2010 along
with under priviledged children to attempt an entry into 'Limca Book of Records'
Science
China establishes observation station named 'Snow Dragon' on ice area in North pole
Sports
Brazil beat China 3-0 at the FIVB World Grand Prix women's volleyball tournament
Technology
TVS Gold Bharat Keyboard, with the new Indian Rupee symbol on it has been launched by TVS Electronics and
becomes the first and only Indian company to incorporate the very symbol
Lava B5 is the first mobile hanset which has a dedicted key to type the new Indian currency symbol and has been
launched by Lava International
'Mahashramm', a labour management system launched by Maharashtra Government to bring labour(Public and Private)
under the banking arena
Awards
Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete has been crowned Miss Universe 2010
Kaavya Jayram a 12-year old becomes youngest person to present a paper on her results in the area of integer
partitioning at the International Congress of Women Mathematicians
Nila Seafoods of Tuticorin becomes the first Indian manufacturer-exporter to be awarded the MPEDA quality logo
MPEDA - Marine Products Export Development Authority
Business
6yr old girl is China's youngest shareholder as Wu Qinyi inherites 62,500 shares from her father whose estimate os 1.05
million yuan (over $154,411)
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Rcom partners with Nokia to launch 'Ovi Life Tools', the new service to help farmers with queries on crop price, fertiliser
use, weather condition, soil health and right sowing season as the domian experts will provide the answer
Events
Organised by CII, 4th edition of the 'HR Summit' is to be held at the Residency, Coimbatore zone. Theme for which is
'Harnessing Human Capital through sustainable Innovative Strategies'
Discovery
Astronomers have discovered what is to be claimed as Vast solar system of 7 planets, orbiting a sun-like star, 127 light
years away from Earth
People
Science
Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs
Sports
Russian tennis star Sharapova has been named world's highest paid athlete
Technology
Google to allow phone calls from Gmail, free for US and Canadian phones and nominal charge of 2 cents per minute
to countries including Britain, France, Germany, China and Japan
Business
SEBI allows trading through wireless technology including mobile phone and laptops
Franchise India to tie up with banks(SBI,HDFC,Punjab Naiotnal Bank, ICICI Bank and HDFC) for small ticket loan
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Small ticket loans: To help provide easy finance to investors keen on setting-up small businesses
Honour
Coins of denominations Rs.100 and Rs.5 has been released to mark the birth centenary ofMother Teresa
Indrani Medhi, a Bangalore-based Microsoft researcher has developed graphics and multimedia-based user interfaces
for computers to make them more accessible to people who cannot read or write via, which the 32 year old joins TR35 list
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review's 2010
Law
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues major tech companies including Google Inc and Apple Inc at US District Court in
Seattle
Member Elect
Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Ben J Verwaayen CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Zhu Min Special Adviser, IMF and a
former Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China has been elected to World Economic Forum Foundation Board
People
Madhusudan Kela to be Chief Investment Strategist from Septemeber 21st 2010 at Reliance Capital
Herbert Sutcliffe an England batting great has been inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
7 year old maths prodigy Oscar Selby, who became the youngest Briton to gain the top grade in GCSE maths, now
advises the Government of Britian
Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as Microsoft's new India Development Center MD
Indian origin actress Archie Panjabi, has bagged the best supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Good
Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards 2010
Sports
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Commonwealth Games(October 3rd to 14th 2010) theme song 'Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto' has been unvieled by Oscar-
winning composer A.R.Rahman
Technology
Nokia launches two handsets C1 and C2, its frst dual-sim phones priced at Rs.1,999
'Priority Inbox', new Gmail feature to sort incoming mails into three sections, important and unread,starred and
everything else
Business
SBI's Branch at Kohinoor Banjara Premium banking Centre takes Rs.1 crore to open an account and that too on an
invitation only.
Videocon Telecommunications offers a low tariff for international prepaid calls for countries including America at 1 paisa
per second, Singapore and Malaysia at Rs.1.69 per minute
Air India to operate daily Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flights from November 1st 2010
Entertainment
2011 edition of the International Indian Film Academy Awards(IIFA) would be held in the North American city of Toronto
People
Former Argentina footballer Francisco Varallo, last surviving player from the 1st football World Cup dies at 100
M.S.Swaminathan, one fo the pioneers of the Green Revolution in India, will receive an honorary doctorate from
Canadian's University of Alberta for his contribution to food security in the world
Indian Broadcasting Foundation, the apex of television channels has appointed Star India CEO Uday Shankar as
President
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Technology
Symbian 3 run Nokia N8 with 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with scratch resistant Gorilla glass to reach India
by mid-September
Business
Skill development firm TalentSprint and financial software testing company Thinksoft Global, tie up to launch professional
programs in structured testing of financial software
People
Science
India test fired BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast
Sourabh Siyal and Tushar Agarwal, students of Chirst College have designed a washing machine with junk
material which includes discarded plastic bottle, runs without power
Sports
Japanese rider Shpya Tomizawa dies at the San Marino Grand Prix (Moto2 race) which was held in Italy
India will see its inaugural Formula One Grand Prix on October 30th 2011
24-hour helpline website launched for tourists ahead of Common Wealth Games 2010
Tax
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Technology
Google to play live interpreter(conversations between 2 people who do not speak the same language) using
smartphones
Award
Telugu film maker, D.Ramanaidu has been honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke award
Eco-friendly Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bags 'Earth Care Award for Excellence 2010 in Climate
Change Mitigation and Adaptation'
Mani Ratnam was awarded 'Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Fimlmaker Award' at the 67th Venice Film Festival
Business
Employee's Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) interest rate has been increased to 9.5 percent
RBI hikes repo rate and reverse repo rate by 25 bps from 5.75% to 6.0% and 50 bps from 4.5% to 5.0% respectively
Ipomo Communications has launched 'mobile learning' campus called Interactive Platform On Mobile Campus(IPOMO
CAMPUS) in Karnataka
Celebration
Entertainment
Hollywood studio Warner Bros picks up distribution right of animated feature film'Ramayana - The Epic', slated for a
Dasara release in 3 languages(Hindi, Tamil and Telugu) simultaneously across India
Honour
Chennai-girl Divya Ajith becomes first woman to raise 'Sword of Honour' winning the Best All-Round Cadet award,
beats 244 fellow gentlemen and women cadets.
People
South Indian playback singer and National award winner Swarnalatha is dead, following lung infection
Internet inventor Breners-Lee has urged that everyone across the world should haveaccess to the web for free
Sunil Sanghai has been appointed as Managing Director and Head of Global Banking in India by HSBC
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Science
Sports
England's Andrew Flintoff retires from international cricket (all forms of the game)
England and Wales Cricket Board has handed a 2-week ban, to all-rounder Dmitri Mascarenhas for his Twitter outburst
against national selector Geoff Miller
Technology
Gramateller, a low-cost ATM priced at Rs.1,75,000 which consumes less than 100 watts of power, functions during
power cuts with a back-up power supply and has the option of running on solar power has been launched by Vortex
Engineering
Vortex Engineering: L.Kannan a mechanical engineer from IIT Madras. The founder, started the company in the year
2001 to develop innovative technologies to transform rural India
Business
Bharti enters mobile phone business, as group firm beetle launches 8 triple SIM phonespriced between Rs.1,750 to
Rs.7,000
Nokia Siemens, Ericsson and Huawei has been awarded the contracts of 3G network infrastructure by Bharti Airtel
Sensex ends above 20,000 points, the last before today was on January 15th 2008
India's first Super Hercules plane C-130J, considered to be world's most advanced transport aircraft is being prepared
for its maiden flight early October 2010
MTS partners with Reebok, to offer a pair of sports shoes on purchase of its data card
Education
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Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) to provide a certificate program English course through Nokia phone's
Ovi Life Tools
People
M.C.Mary Kom claims a historic 5th successive World Championship title, beating Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6
Anysha Panesar, a 16-year-old Indian-origin teenager has been crowned USA's Perfect Teen
Nilsson has been appointed as Executive Director, International Operations by Ashok Leyland
Actor Manoj Kumar to get lifetime achievement honour at the Mumbai Academy of Moving IMage(MAMI), to be held
between 21st to 28th of October 2010
Sports
Indian teams, including Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, P.Harikrishna and Surya Shekar Ganguly secure 3rd
round victory of the 29th Chess Olympiad held at Khanty Mansiysk in Russia
Awards
Scientists of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology(IICT) have received awards from the Organisation of Pharmaceutical
Producers of India(OPPI).
Dr.G.V.M.Sharma has been awarded OPPI Scientist of the Year award - 2010
Dr.K.Suresh Babu and Dr.N.Shankariah has been awarded the Young Scientist Award 2010
Business
Netbiscuits to offer its customers with apps made for Samsung's OS-Bada
Honda Siel Cars India launched 'Variant' priced at Rs.9.53lakh and Rs.10.25lakh
TalentSprint and Maveric Systems have jointly launched an advanced learning centre to impart training in non-
functional testing space
Singapore Mercantile Exchange(SMX) to launch world's first international black pepper futures contract
Gammon India opens training centre at Kuppedada village of Srirangapatna Taluk, in Mysore
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Event
2-day realty expo to be organised at Udupi on October 9th and 10th 2010 which is expected to include
promoters,builders,commercial banks and housing finance, solar product and cement companies
People
Rohit Kapoor(EXL President and CEO) would hold additional role of Executive Chairman of Board
A.R.Rahman to receive Indira Gandhi award for National Integration for the year 2009
Business
Singh brothers to purchase 5 units of Hong Kong-listed Quality Healthcare Asia(QHA) for HK$1,541 million (approx.
Rs.882 crore)
Alcatel-Lucent opens regional delivery center(RDC) in Bangalore to manage, operate and maintain multi-vendor fixed
and mobile telecommunications networks based in India or anywhere around the world
India's (EXIM)Export-Import Bank has secured a $150 million International loan to help expand Indian exports to Africa
Tata-DoCoMo to launch 3G services in November acorss 9 cities - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab,
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh(West), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh
People
Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman of Shell Companies in India to receive the Asian Business Leader Award(leadership and
contribution of business in Asia) in London
Other recipients of the awards are Stephen Green, Britian's trade minister and ex-chairman of HSBC and Jack Ma,
Chairman and CEO of Alibaba group
Vijay Mallya has been awarded the International Business Leader of the Year by the GG2 Leadership and Diversity
Awards
London-based hotelier and Philanthropist Joginder Sanger has been given Incredible India Travel Personality of the Year
award
Technology
McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management(EMM) 9.0 platform to provide mobility solution, package to include .NET and
SQL Express
Western Union, has tied-up with State Bank of India to enable international direct cash-to-account transfer(SBI
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account holders will be able to route overseas money transfers directly in their bank accounts using mobile phones)
National Instrument has launched the LabVIEW 2010, the latest version of graphical programming environment for
design, test, measurement and control applications
Award/Prize
Indian Women journalists (Rumni Ghosh with Best Reporting in Hindi award,Preethi Nagaraj with Best Reporting in
English award and Bornali Boruah for Best Reporting in Other regional Languages,Assamese) to receive the 10th annual
Sarojini Naidu Prize for Best Reporting on women and Panchayat Raj in an event held by The Hunger Project, a
New-York based nonprofit organisation
Hari Prasad Vemuru, a jailed Indian e-voting researcher wins 2010 Pioneer Awards of Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) at San Francisco. Vemuru has been released on bail after being imprisoned for his security work in India, is a
researcher who recently revealed security flaws in India's paperless electronic voting machines
Business
Insurance products could now be distributed with IRDA at post offices across India
Dheeraj Hinduja(3rd generation Hinduja) replaces RJ Shahaney at Ashok Leyland as $25 billion Hinduja group is to
take over the expansion of the commercial vehicle business in a joint venture with Nissan
3 policies on Information and Communication Technology, Hardware and Animation for Karnataka state to be released at
the 13th Edition of India's most premier ICT event, IT.Biz. Event to be held between 28th and 30th of October 2010
ICICI Bank has launched I-Express, an instant cross-border money transfer option for non-resident Indians(NRIs) in Gulf
countries
Eurocopter launches a wholly-owned subsidiary in India to start operations and to capture half of the country's growing
civilian helicopter market by 2015. It is also scheduled to setupan engineering centre in Bangalore to support its global
design and development activities
IBM has bagged 5-year contract from wind turbines major Suzlon to provide business consulting services to manage
its application development and maintenance requirements
LIC Pension Fund has approached interim regulator Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)
seeking permission to invest in IPOs which would help it to take part in the Government's divestment programme
Indian innerwear company, Maxwell Industries announced the launch of its latest offering "Eminence" in Bangalore.
Maxwell is the maker of 'VIP' range of mens innerwear and vests
Eli Lilly and Co. has launched 'Efficient', its cardiovascular product used to prevent blood clots
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Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has selected 49 volunteers to function as 'Business Correspondents' in villages in
Cuddalore, Villupuram and Tiruvannamalai districts of Tamilnadu to impart training to operate smart cards
Entertainment
India gets 5 nominations, including 3 for Marathi cinema, in 4th Asia Pacific Screen Awards to be held in Australia on
December 2nd 2010
People
Oana Lungescu has been hired for top press job(as spokeswoman) for the first time in NATO's 61-year history
Sumant Pal has been appointed as Head of Global Services for India by EMC
Priya Ranjan is set to join Axa group's headquarters in France to head global force of over 1 lakh people
Ravi Uppal has been appointed by Larsen and Tourbo as whole-time director for a period of 5 years
P.V.K.Mohan has been appointed as Senior Fund Manager at Principal Mutual Fund
Sudhir Vasudeva has been selected by the Public Enterprise Selection Board(PSEB) to succeed RS Sharma as the
chairman of ONGC
Pierre Nanterme named CEO of Accenture with effect from 1st January 2011, replaces William D Green
Sports
Delhi's Ashok Kumar wins 2nd successive PGTI title, bagging the Global Green Bangalore Open
Technology
Adobe Systems launches Adobe Acrobat X software family comprising of Acrobat X, Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and
new document exchange services at Acrobat website
Microsoft to launch beta version of Wikibhasha, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia
Sony Ericssion has launched a bluetooth touch display named Live View which allows to control mobile phone while it is
pocket
Microsoft has launched Office 365, the online version office suite. Office suite to include Web-based versions of Microsoft
Office, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and Exchange Online
Infosys Technologies Ltd. has announced the launch of Finacle mobile banking 2.0 to facilitate retail and corporate
consumers to access banking services through mobile SMS, GPRS, 3G and USSD-enabled handsets
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Apple unveiled a series of new products at its 'Back to Mac' event, including MAC OS X Lion, MacBook Air and iLife 11
application suite
Micromax to launch moduT, a 3.5G touch phone with 2.2inch screen and expandable memory up to 32GB priced at
Rs.12,500
Award
India-based documentary directed by Kim Longinotto's 'Pink Saris' wins at Abu Dhabi Film Festival, the director says the
prize money will be used to help the girls who featured in the film
Ratan Tata conferred the prestigious 'Legend in Leadership Award' at the 64th Yale CEO Leadership Summit by Yale
University President Richard C Levin
Tendulkar has been honoured 'Lebara People's Choice' award by Ratheesan Yoganathan, CEO Lebara at the inaugural
Asian Awards in UK
Books
Manju Kapur's 'The Immigrant', Neel Mukherjee's 'A Life Apart' and Amit Chaudhuri's 'The Immortals' have
been shortlisted for $50,000 literary prize
Business
B.M.Munjal family, owners of the Indian promoters stake in Hore Honda, will be officially known as the Hero Group with a
division of $4.2 billion
ICICI Bank and American Express launch prepaid travel card, a smart alternative to cash while travelling
Bharti Airtel plans call center jobs in Africa, hires IBM and Tech Mahindra and Spanco to render services
160by2.com tie up with AhaApps.com to launch iPhone application enabling free SMS from all iPhones
India's Exports jump 23% or $18 billion in September at its fastest pace in 2 years
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Warren E. Buffett hires manager for portfolio management for Berkshire Hathaway
DGCX,Indian Rupee futures contract traded a record 6,043 contracts worth $270.61 million as on October 19th 2010
Cable and Wireless Worldwide announces 2nd Network Operating Centre in India
Education
Volkswagen India signs a MoU with a Punjab-based education group Rayat Bahra to impart technical training to
engineering students
People
Indian archery coach Cherukuri Lenin has been killed and 2 Delhi Commonwealth Games silver medalists, Ritul
Chatterjee and Chittibomma Jignesh were injured in a road accident near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh
Ted Turner, the chairman of United Nation's Foundation and the founder of Cable New Network(CNN) has donated $1
billion towards the eradication of polio in Nigeria
Chaitanya Kamat has been appointed as Oracle Financial Service Software (OFSS) Managing Director and CEO
Baldev Raj has been elected president of the International Institute of Welding(IIW). Baldev becomes the 1st Indian and
2nd Asian to be elected to Head IIW. Welding societies from 55 countries are its members. Baldev to hold office for 3
years from 2011-2014
2 Engineering students, Vaibhav Tidke a final year student of Master's in Chemical Technology at the Institute of
Chemical Technology from Mumbai and Chandrashekaran a student of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu
have been selected for prestigious Bayer Young Environmentalist Envoy (BYEE) honour who will also attend an
international conference in Germany in November
Vinod J Nathan has been appointed as National Sales Head for Kannada channel Suvarna TV
Science
Moon's surface contains a rich mix of elements including silver and carbon dioxidealong with water
Russia marks 50th anniversary of worst space accident, in which 126 designers and servicemen were killed during a
launch pad accident but families and the public was kept in dark till the Soviet collapse in 1991
Scientist have discovered a huge alien planet in a system with 2 suns, orbits the primary star identified as HR
7162 which is a part of a binary star system 49 light-years away in the constellation Lyra
United States has approved world's biggest solar energy project in the world, 4 plants at the cost on 1 billion
dollars each. To be built in Mojave desert Southern California, the project is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs
Sports
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Emirates to offer packages for the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011. The tournament is scheduled to take place in Doha
from January 7-29, 2011, 16 of Asia's top national teams to compete for the AFC Asian Cup 2011
Former Indian seamer Venkatesh Prasad has emerged as a candidate to replace Troy Cooley as Australia's pace
bolwing coach after the 2011 World Cup
India bags 2 golds, 1 silver medal at the 15th International Astronomy Olympiad held in Ukraine
Garcia,31,lost consciousness and collapsed on field at the 60th minute of the second division match in the El Helmantico
Stadium in Salamanca
Swiss master Roger Federer beat Germany's Florian Mayer 6-4 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open to equal Pete Sampras's
haul of 64 ATP titles
India moves up to 2nd place in ICC's Championship table after 1-0 win over Australia
Technology
View D, Handset maker Spice has launched the country's first 3D display mobile phone priced at Rs.4,299
China's iPad users get 24-hour free TV broadcast from state-owned television network China Xinhua News Network
Corporation(CNC)
Wi-Fi Direct, a technology to allow the use of WiFi device to device communication without any Wi-Fi network or access
point
(Similar to bluetooth with a distance of 200 yards at speed of upto 250 megabyte)
Reliance launches SMS based mobile conferencing service, as an extension of its Group Talk facility
Shanghai-Hangzhou rail link covers the 200-km distance in only 45 minutes, reducing the travelling time from 78
minutes
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