Friday, November 19, 2010

Current Affairs 1



1.    Verdasco beats Roddick in San Jose Open Final

2.    Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in Maharashtra

3.    Tom and Jerry turns 70 this year

4.    India beat South Africa to remain Number 1 Test Team

5.    UST, Virgin Racing partner for 2010 Formula 1 season

6.    Ashok Leyland inaugurates Viralimalai facility

7.    Jaya Bachan to receive 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in London

8.    Dr.Ralph Speth has been appointed as CEO of Jaguar Land Rover

9.    Vinod Aggarwal to take role of CEO of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles starting July 1st 2010

10. Arun Birla to be Executive Vice-President of Volvo-Eicher Commercial Vehicles and President Eicher Truck and Buses starting April 1st 2010

11. Carl-Peter Forster, the former Europe head of Foster's has been appointed as the CEO of Tata Motors

12. Afghanistan and Ireland make to World Twenty20 through WCT20 Qualifier 2010

13. Nandan Nilekani has been honoured with Citizen Extraordinaire Award 2010

14. Boeing to bid for $31 billion Indian orders in 10 years

15. Single Point US-based mobile/SMS advertising company acquires M2 Junction by enabling themselves to enter into Indian market

16. Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) launches Wealth Plus - a unit linked insurance plan

17. India-Pak talks in New Delhi on Feb 25: Pakistan PMO

18. Andrew Flintoff to open cricket academy in Dubai

19. Cricket to become an Olympics Sport, including cricket, sport climbing and power boating are to bid for the 2020 Olympics

20. Motorola to split into two by next year

21. Iranian Government bans Gmail

22. Champions League T20 to move out of India

23. ONGC bags $19bn oil deal in Venezuela

24. Nokia Siemens wins $700 m deal from Bharti Airtel

25. Fortis Health to set up 2 hospitals in north India

26. FIIs pull out over Rs 10,000 crore in 2010 so far.

27. You Tube adds 'Safety Mode' to screen objectionable content

28. State Bank of Indore to be merged with State Bank of India by March

29. Former Managing Director of Ogilvy and Mather S.R.Mani Ayer,"the most

30. outstanding individual in the Ogilvy Network", is no more.

31. 337 year-old book (published in 1673) India and Persia by the British Cartographer

32. John Ogilvie to be reprinted by the authorities of the Asiatic Society in Kolkata

33. Manufactured by Philips, world's smallest ECG machine to be launched in Goa at an

34. International Echocardiography fourday-conference starting Feb 11th 2010

35. Tata's Nano, the world's cheapest 4-wheeler was conferred the Autocar 'Car of the Year'

36. award at Autocar Awards 2010, instituted by Blooberg UTV

37. Kuldip Singh named new CMD of MTNL

38. Hyundai unveils i10 Electric

39. Airtel announces acquisition of Warid Telecom for $300 million

40. Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh inaugurates 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

41. UK to include Facebook, Twitter in school curriculum under English Studies:Digital Communication

42. Infosys net falls by 4.9% in 3rd quarter

43. Eric Simmons appointed India's bowling consultant

44. 14 year old girl of Indian origin, Uma Jha has been crowned Australia's brainiest

45. student. She would participate at the International Brain Bee Challenge to be held in August at California

46. A.R.Rahman bagged 2 trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards for his music in

'Slumdog Millionaire'

47. Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray to win the 16th Grand Slam of his career

48. Leander Paes and Cara Black won their 2nd Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the Australian Open

49. Serena beats Henin to win Australian Open

50. Mumbai to stage 2011 one-day Cricket World Cup final, Mohali a semi-final and Ahmedabad a quarter-final

51. India: 3G auction process begins, 3 top bidders to get spectrum in 17 circles

52. Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick named English cricketer's player of the year by his fellow professionals

53. Tata Sumo Grande MKII on road test

54. Repo and reverse repo rates left unchanged before Budget 2010

55. RBI hikes CRR by 75BPS to 5.75% before Budget 2010

56. Vijender Singh gets silver at the 2 day Champion of Champions invitational boxing Tournament in Guangzhou, China for 75kg Category

57. Olympian Dinesh Kumar too won a silver medal for 81kg category

58. Inox acquires 43.28% in Fame India for Rs.66 crore

59. Google to launch, a software to translate as one speaks on phone

60. Overtaking Spain, India reaches No.9 spot in the world of Science and Technology

61. Father of echo cardiography Navin-Nanda

62. HP Mini-210 netbook launched at a price of Rs.16,000

63. Intel launches its 2010 Intel Core vPro processors for Business PCs

64. Epson launches its Mini Photo Printer - Epson PictureMate PM310 with 7 inch

display

65. Sony Ericsson launches Aspen business mobile phone with is bundled with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system

66. Microsoft launches Arc keyboard

67. Acer - Stronger than expected sales of its Google Android phone named Liquid, have led to the shortages of device

68. Rio Tito the world's 3rd largest mining named Ian Bauert as managing director for its China office

69. Mitsubishi Electric to buy stake in unprofitable consumer electronics maker Pioneer to gain access to that firm's car navigation technology

70. Corporation Bank to launch multi-utility cards which can be used as a debit, credit and pre-paid card

71. Indo-Pak pair, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi win 1st ATP title

72. India successfully test fires Agni-III missile

73. Michael Jackson's 12 feet statue at the 9th International Granites and Stone Fair being

74. held in the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre

75. UFO Moviez(digital satellite cinema network) to bring DLF IPL 2010 matches live in theatres including tier II and III cities

76. Pakistan lost to India 5-1 helps India to reach final of the hockey event in the 11th

77. South Asian Games at Moulana Bhashani Stadium

78. Supreme Court grants bail to PWC auditor in Satyam case

79. Sania Mirza and Poojashree Venkatesha managed straight-set wins playing against

80. Singapore thus, India beat Singapore 3-0 in Fed Cup

81. 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

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