Janurary 2011 to august business gk

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BUSINESS GK

� Which Music-director received the World Economic Forum Crystal Award? A.R.Rahman

� Which directorate has been adjudged the best contingent at the Republic Day camp as Prime

Minister Manmohan Singh presented the trophy to Cadet Saddam Hussain of Doda on the

behalf of the contingent?............Jammu and Kashmir National Cadet Crops(NCC)

� Where is SAIL planning to set up a 3-million tonne per annum (MPTA) plant with an

investment of up to Rs.15,000 crore?.........Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia

� Which company has bagged an order worth about $1.28 billion for 1,000 megawatts of wind

power projects with Caparo Energy India?..........Suzlon

� Which Indo-American became Senior Advisor to Ohio Governor John Kasich?.........Jai

Chabria

� On whose name did Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated a

3.55km four-lane road?..........Sachin Tendulkar

� Who has been appointed as the Economic Affairs Secretary in the Finance

Ministry?.....R.Gopalan, 1976 batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre

� Motorola launches dual-SIM Android phone for Rs.31,999

� Nokia launches X2-01 targeting youngsters at affordable price

� LG launches glasses-free 3D display for mobiles

� Akai Trio, first triple GSM SIM handset priced at Rs.3,295 has been launched in India

� Priced at Rs.8,499, Huawei launches Ideos U8150 smartphone in India

� World's highest restaurant situated 442 metres on the 122nd floor of world's tallest building

Burj Khalifa opens in Dubai

� India has launched year-long activities and programmes for its 'Year of India in Canada' to

showcase the country's rich art and culture

� 'Clocking-on machines', a Mobile app has been developed to track misuse of company cars

� Apple iPad to be launched officially on January 28th 2011 in India

� Motorola's Android smartphone XT800 Glam supporting dual-SIM(GSM+CDMA) has been

launched in India

� Which Indian- American has been presented with the 'Excellence in Global Friendship

Award', in recognition of his outstanding contribution in promoting Indian culture in the US

and strengthening India-US relationship?..........Ashok Mago

� Which company did VMware acquire to enhance the next generation of IT era of cloud

computing?.........NeoAccel

� Which subsidiary of HCL Infosystems is to be sold to internet service provider Tikona Digital

Networks?...........HCL Infinet





� Which technology product has Mediaone Global Entertainment and Avon Global Solutions

have planned to invest at about Rs.110 crore?...........'SecureDuct' which would help in

reducing the cost of acquiring a film print and also curb piracy

� Who will take over from Eric Schmidt as Google CEO on April 4th 2011?........Co-founder,

'Larry Page'

� Who has been appointed as Managing Director and co-chairman for India's operations by

Accenture?...........Avinash Vashistha

� Who has been appointed as CEO of Wipro for its global IT business?.........T.K.Kurien

� Who has been promoted as executive vice-chairman(starting April 1st 2011) of Commercial

vehical maker Ashok Leyland?.............R.Seshasayee

� Which insurance company is to provide Rs.600 crore terror and weather insurance cover for

the Cricket World Cup to international sports broadcaster ESPN?.............General Insurance

Corporation of India (GIC Re)

� What is the name of a free Web development tool that allows to create, customize and

publish websites to the Internet launched by Microsoft?..............WebMatrix

� What version of Mozilla Firefox is to arrive while Internet Explorer 9 is scheduled to launch

later January 2011?.............Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 9

� Which company launched Opera Mini enabled handsets in India?........Sharp Corporation

� Which company did Facebook tie-up to introduce low-tech mobile site?...........Snaptu

� What is the new feature launched by IMImobile on its Ring Tone(RBT) platform?..........Make

My Tunes

� Make My Tunes: The service enable users to listen to a full sing and choose any part of the

song as their RBT

� ICT policy 2011 to give importance to tier II and III cities of Karnataka

� Coal India to start operation of a underground mine having reserve of 20 million tonnes at

Muraidih near Dhanbad in Jharkand which is likely to begin production within 3 years

� Dell launches Latitude 2120 netbook at CES in Las Vegas, priced at $474

� Fujitsu showcased world's first glasses free 3D desktop computer

� Configuration: 23 inch FullHD monitor is powered by Intel's Sandy Bridge processor(i7-

2630QM), Intel motherboard, 2TB HDD and 4GB DDR3 RAM, Gigabit ethernet, USB 3.0 and

3D Blu-ray support with a Blu-ray drive

� European Union to launch 'Blue Card' on the pattern of American's Green Card to allow

professionals from one country to another within the EU

� What new feature has Tata DOCOMO rolled out?.........T24 mobile services

� Which company has signed a MoU with Indian School of Business to set up retail

academy?.........Coca-Cola

� Which telecom major has launched ad campaign on mobile number

portability?..............Vodafone





� Which automobile industry posted its highest ever annual sales in India in the year 2010,

during which it sold 5819 vehicles?.............Mercedes Benz

� Which Indian carrier bought 180 A320s Airbus for $16.4Billion?.............Indigo

� On what occasion did Hexaware announced 1:1 bonus share issue and 50% special interim

dividend………On celebrating its 20th anniversary

� When and where India's largest Coir Expo would be held?..........4th to 7th February 2011 in

Alappuzha, Kerala

� Who joined Google India as Vice President Sales and Operations?.............Rajan Anandan,

ex-microsoft MD

� Who has been appointed as Country Executive for Singapore at Royal Bank of

Scotland?..........Madan Menon

� At what speed the Solar car designed by Australian students of the University of New South

Wales runs?.......88 kmph

� Who won FIFA's (Ballon d'Or) world player award?............Lionel Messi

� Which Middle East country has launched single e-ID(electronic identity) card that could be

used for Government services?.........Baharain

� Which feature of Nokia service goes desi to offer tailor-made mobile applications through its

Ovi Music, free of cost?.................Nokia Ovi Music

� Indian Railways sign MoU with Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited for setting up modern rail axle

manufacturing factory at the New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal

� Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company launches unit linked

child protection plan, "Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Future

Smart Plan"

� Tax Benefit: Under Section 80C and Section 10(10D), respectively of the IT Act, 1961

� Share ratio: Canara Bank(holding 51%), Oriental Bank of Commerce (23%) and HSBC

Insurance - APAC holds 26%

� Dell to launch printers priced between Rs.6,500 and Rs.30,000 and 16 cities to have service

centres across India

� MindHelix Technologies, a Kochi-based firm has launched India's first multi-platform auto

fare that calculates the distance travelled using GPS called as the "Tuk Tuk" meter

Download the App for FREE: tuktuk.mindhelix.com

� Which bank has been presented with Skoch Financial Inclusion Award 2011 for "SHG

Initiatives - Urban Financial Inclusion"? Indian Bank

� In which Social Networking site did Goldman, Digital Sky Technologies invest USD 500

million?.......Facebook

� How many more banks has RBI allowed to import gold and silver?............7 (State Bank of

Mysore, Karur Vysya Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, South Indian Bank, State Bank of Bikaner

and Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad and State Bank of Travancore)





� What system did BSE launch recently? ……………Index-based circuit breaker system

� Which Public sector bank is planning to setup 600 financial inclusion centres, 300 by March-

end 2011 and another 300 by March-end 2012?............SBI

� Where the world's first Art Exchange was launched to offer opportunity for individuals and

institutions to buy and sell shares of famous artworks? …………….In Paris, A&F Markets

� At which class has Utkarsh Tripathi, student of the Brij Bihari Sahai (BBS) Inter College in

Allahabad is Jagriti newspaper turns editor, reporter and publisher?...........Class 8

� Who has been appointed as CIO of Allianz Investment Management?..............Nikhil

Srinivasan

� What has been setup in Haryana in the memory of astronaut Kalpana Chawla in her home

town Karnal?.........Medical College

� Who has been appointed as part-time Chairman and Managing Director of HMT Machine

Tools Ltd.?.........G.K.Pillai

� Where a 4-day World Sanskrit Book Fair(sanskritbookfair.org) has been organised from

January 7th 2011?.............National College Basavanagudi, Bangalore, India

� Which 5-day event was inaugurated by Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and held at the SRM

University in Kattankulathur near Chennai?.............98th Indian Science Congress (ISC)

� What has been commissioned to the country by Prime Minister, Dr.Manmohan Singh at

Tarapur, around 100km north of Mumbai?............2nd Power Reactor Reprocessing Plant

� Who won the 5-match series 3-1, to retain Ashes?..............England

� Who retired from all form of cricket including IPL, becomes Sports administrator of Karnataka

State Cricket Association and an entrepreneur to launch sports edu outfit Tenvic?...........Anil

Kumble

� Which England all-rounder retired from Test cricket in 2011?............Paul Collingwood

� Which company sponsored Formula 1 rider Narain Karthikeyan on his re-

entry?..............Tata's Hispania Racing Team

� What are the unique features of Intel's 2nd generation intel core processors?

………………Built-in visual capabilities to deliver superior audio-visual experience, faster

downloading ability and improved battery life

� What is the USB version of Transcend's JetFlash 700?...........USB 3.0

� Curb on foreign tourists visiting North-East scrapped.

� India joined the UN Security council as non-permanent member.

� ADAG firm bought 26% stake in ICEX.

� India extended ban on milk products from China for a year.

� Gujjars signed pact with Rajasthan government.

� UGC cleared ban on animal dissections.

� India Lanka sign MOU to start ferry service.





� PM Manmohan Singh announced merging of OCI, PIO cards.

� India clinched T-20 against S. Africa in Durban.

� 1st edition of S. Asian winter games began in Dehradun.

� Govt. agreed to re-examine its decision to close 44 deemed to-be blacklisted units.

� IndiGo signed $15.6bn aircraft deal to buy 180 Airbus A320s.

� Gujarat signed Mous worth One Lakh Crore for shipping industry.

� Over 55 reported killed in Sabrimala tragedy in Idukki.

� Rajasthan clinched maiden Ranji Trophy.

� Golfer Gaqanjeet Bhullar became the first Indian to win on the Challenge Tour.

� RBI tightened provisioning norms for non-banking financial companies.

� Major fire In Navi Mumbai IOC depot destroyed 50,000 litres of lubricant oil.

� PM Manmohan Singh reshuffled his cabinet. Nationwide mobile number portability launched.

� Naval warship INS Deepak Joined Navy’s western fleet.

� Criminal suit lodged against Karnataka’s CM B. S. Yeddyurappa.

� Music icon Pandit Bhimsen Joshi passed away.

� India Indonesia signed pacts worth $15 lbn.

� Maruti Suzuki launches SX4's diesel variant, VDI and ZDI version

� Luxury car maker Rolls Royce to launch its first electric car at the Geneva Motor Show on

March 1st 2011

� Reliance Communications becomes first private 3G provider in Kashmir

� Tata Industries to invest Rs.100 crore in integrated learning soultions(Tata Interactive

Services), named CLASSEDGE, for Indian school education sector

� Mukesh Ambani, chairman of RIL joins Intel Capital's investment programme

� TCS has been appointed as the official technology partner to pro-cycling team 'Team Garmin-

Cervelo' for the racing season 2011

� India's forex reserves 4th largest in world, it touches $297.3 billion in December

� Togetherville, a Facebook-like social networking site about 6 to 10 years old developed by

Indian-origin entrepreneur Mandeep Singh Dhillon has been acquired by Walt Disney

� Google to launch as unlimited subscription service for movies in the UK via, YouTube

� Tally Solutions has unveiled upgraded version of Tally ERP9 series 'A' Release 3.0.

� Tally ERP9 series 'A' Release 3.0: Designed for flawless business execution which has new

features and enhanced functionalities, including the incorporation of the new Rupee symbol





� Telecom provider Bharti Airtel along with 16 other global telcos has launched the Europe India

Gateway (EIG) cable system that will enhance diversity and capacity between Europe and

India

� EIG: With USD 700 million and a capacity of 3.84 terabits per second 15,000km cable has

been laid

� Texas Instruments announces the launch of a Analog System Lab Starter Kit. The lab course

to provide students an exposure to analog and mixed-signal processing

� Abu Dhabi University to provide all course materials and topic updates on BlackBerry

smartphones

� Composer and Singer Shankar Mahadevan launches online music academy for the Indian

Americans

� Michael Benz has been appointed as Head Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, a subsidiary of

Bank of America

� iPad 2, to be thinner than iPad 1 with front-facing camera and Facetime video chat support to

be launched in March 2011

� Nokia launches Ovi Store with RComm in India

� Kochi-based mobile products development company Dexetra launched what it claims to be the

world's first life database application named, 'Friday'

� SAP unveils Business Objects 4.0 of United Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise

Information Management (EIM) Solutions, a portfolio which makes the real-time enterprise a

reality

� U K Sinha takes over as Sebi chairman on feb 18 2011 replacing C B Bhave

� Sunil Kakar has been appointed as CFO for Infrastructure finance firm IDFC

� Joseph Ho has been appointed as MD and Head of Exchange Traded Funds

� Vasant Krishnan has been appointed as CFO of Mahindra Satyam

� Computer education firm Aptech and IT firm Microsoft to launch embedded courses and

certification to its students

� First ever 3-day(18th to 20th February 2011) Film Festival kicks-off at Andaman and Nicobar

Island

� Dhobi Ghat to be commercially released in Germany

� Anand Mahindra-led Mahindra Satyam is looking to re-list on the NYSE in 2011-12

� Hinduja Gobal Solutions to set up 2 centres - 1 each in China and Latin America in next

fiscal(FY 12)

� Facebook Inc, now in Hong Kong

� Aircel to launch 3G services in all 13 telecom cirlces as Cricket World Cup kicks of on 19th

February 2011





� Networking and Storage solutions provider Buffalo opens its first retail shop, Brand Store in

India

� HAL hints at possible IPO plans

� Vodafone to stream cricket World Cup matches via ESPN Mobile TV

� SBI to launch Rs.2000 crore retail bond issue on Feb 21 2011

� Intel tests 'Sandy Bridge' for laptops

� Lost your TV remote, now a Samsung app on your Galaxy phone or Tab

� Oracle to offer File Management Package for Cloud

� Opera to roll out iPad browser

� Microsoft sends first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to original

equipment manufacturers. Consumers would be updated later part of February

� Bangalore base Myriad, a mobile technology company, announced new software Alien Dalvik

that will allow Android Application to run on other phones

� NVIDIA announces 1st quad-core mobile processor, (Kal-El) Tegra 3

� Sony to launch 9.4 inch tablet named S1, to run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb

� Now, Robot chefs at the Wishdoing restaurant on Shanghai's Nanjing road which could cook

delicious Chinese cuisine within 3 minutes

� Marvell launches 'Mobile MIMO', the Avastar 88W8797, an 802.11n 2*2 dual-band WiFi

system on Chip (SoC)

� MIMO: Multiple Inputs Multiple Output

� Now a website to act as answer engine, trueknowledge.com

� Ozonetel Systems has launched free 'Voice Buzz' application on Facebook through which

users can update their Facebook status in their own voice from their landline or mobile number

� India's Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) has decided to ban 2 controversial drugs —

Gatifloxacine and Tegaserod — because of their side-effects.

� Gatifloxacine is used as an antibiotic and its side effect is it shoot up and also dip blood sugar

levels.

� Tegaserod is used in India for irritable bowel syndrome and chronic constipation and its side

effect is showed a 10-fold increased risk of heart attacks and stroke.

� Who flew F-16 at Aero India show 2011 held at Bangalore?........Shahid Kapoor

� Which India-born Canadian filmmaker is all set to direct Hollywood legend Al Pacino in

''Masterpiece'', a biopic on French artist Henri Matisse?........Deepa Mehta

� In whose 2nd album 'Paisa Paisa', has 14-year-old Patiala girl featured as Bollywood-fame

violinist?........Surindra Singh

� Which singer is all set to perform at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival?........Beyonce Knowles





� At what price tag did painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud is

being sold at auction?.......£23m ($37m) - three times the pre-sale estimate

� What is the name of the album released by Lady Gaga on 11th Feb 2011?.......Born This Way

� Who has been named as the best CFO in the financial sector for 2010 by

ICAI?.........V.S.Rangan

� Which prize did Karnataka win at National Level for its tableau featuring Bidari Carvings, an

intrinsic art of engraving pictures on metals at the 62nd Republic Day Parade at New

Delhi?..........2nd prize

� Which Kochi-based company signed a deal with Los Angeles Potmax LLC to facilitate joint

production and marketing activities?...........Vines Visual and Media Pvt. Ltd.

� Which electronic major is to open product support centre at the KINFRA Hi-Tech Park at

Kalamassery in Kochi, Kerala?............BEL - Bharat Electronics Limited

� Which firm has Nestle acquired through its subsidiary Nestle Health Science?............CM&D

Pharma

� Which bank has decided to open subsidiary for financial services, to enter into investment

banking, wealth and asset management?..........IOB - Indian Overseas BanK

� Who has been appointed as acting Chairman of ONGC and S.V.Narasimhan as interim head

of IOC?...........A.K.Hazarika

� Who has been elected as Prime Minister of Nepal?...........Jhalanath Khanal

� Who has been appointed 8th chairman of SEBI?.........U.K.Sinha

� After whose name is Pune cricket stadium named?...........Subrata Roy Sahara

� Ericsson launches mobile money services to offer mobile financial services

� Facebook and Twitter to be used to make people aware of the importance of Census 2011

� 'The Daily', a newspaper for iPad launched

� Olive Telecom to launch India's first HSPA (High Speed Packet Access and technically 4G)

phone powered by Android OS

� Hearsay, San Francisco based company announces a cloud-hosted social media management

application called 'Hearsay Social' to monitor company's presence on social networking sites

like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

� Reliance Communication launches 'job search on voice' service that would enable its

customers to connect to the recruiters directly on phone line at a subscription of Rs.30 per

month. To avail the service dail 58010

� Monisha Kaltenborn becomes the 1st female CEO of a Formula One Team Sauber Motorsport

� German driver Adrian Sutil to continue with Force India Team for 2011 season

� Pakistan won the ODI series against New Zealand, 3-2

� Australia won the ODI series against England, 6-1

� Singapore's Olam to acquire Britannia Food





� ADB to provide $7.4billion to develop India's infrastructure

� HCL has bagged Rs.250 crore order from BSNL

� IBM to offer $1000 stock to Indian staff

� Maruti launches luxury model 'Kizashi'

� Bangalore Water Supply and Sewage Board has bagged the 2nd prize for 'best practices-

initiatives under urban sector', has been recognized for computerization of its billing process

� Global food price hit record high, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index

rose for 7th month in a row to reach 231

� Cyclone Yasi hampers flood hit Aussie relief

� New York City Council bans smoking in parks, beaches, Times Square

� Winter storm cripples 2/3rd of US

� Obama announces clean energy plan for buildings in Pennsylvania

� US, Russia launch nuclear arms reduction pact

� John F.Kennedy Centre to hold mega festival "Maximum India", showcasing Indian arts and

culture in all its wonderful diversity from March 1st to March 20th 2011

� Jhalanath Khanai: He has been elected as the Prime Minister of Nepal.

� U.K. Sinha: He has taken over as the chief of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

� Hamid Karzai: President of Afghanistan visited INDIA

� Anant Pai: Creator of Amar Chitra Katha comics in India. ( died)

� Satinder Singh Noor, Dr: Internationally acclaimed multi-lingual scholar and eminent Punjabi

litterateur. He was 70. (died)

� India, ASEAN set $70 bn trade target.

� Banking Laws Amendment Bill got cabinet nod.

� Lanco acquired Aussie coal mines, Griffin, for $760 million.

� India agreed to finance Ethiopian sugar sector revamp.

� Interceptor missile test fired successfully. – Monaco became the first public sector firm to

Introduce ESOPs.

� SC approved single MBBS entrance test across nation.

� India, Brazil inked air services agreement.

� Star Indian Post office announced launch of online portal ‘a-post office’.

� Essar, Inked $750m agreement to revive Zimbabwe Iran & Steel C0.

� N-capable missiles Dhanush and Prithvi-II successfully tested.

� India, Bangladesh decided to hold Wagah-style retreat at border.





� Foundation for Judicial Academy laid in Jodhpur.

� Prez Patiy cancelled appointment of PJ Thomas as CVC.

� Union cabinet approved GST Bill.

� India’s tallest (80 feet) statue of Lo rd Buddha unveiled in Sarnath.

� Government approved 9.5% interest on PF deposits.

� India abstained from UNSC vote on Libya no fly zone.

� Bollywood actor Navin Nischol passed away.

� Security forces seized armed from Maoist hide out in Midnapur.

� Saina Nehwal won Swiss Open Single’s final tennis trophy.

� Delhi Anti-sealing Bill passed In Rajya Sabha.

� SBI announced new code of conduct. – Shimla declared environmentally sustainable city.

� Orissa (the alteration of named Bill and Constitution (113th) Amendment Bill passed in Rajya

Martha.

� Lok Sabha passed the Coinage Amendments Bill.

� Cash-strapped Air India got a breather.

� Navy nabbed 16 pirates off Lakshadweep.

� India invited to make huge investments in Africa.

� India breaks into the top 10 nations in Scientific Research Output.

� Gujarat banned the sale distribution and reprinting of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his

struggle with India.

� Results of Census 2011 released: Puts India’s population at 1.21 billion.

� Noted Hindi writer Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari has been chosen for the prestigious Vyas

Samman for his collection of poems ‘Phir Bhi Kuch Rah Jayega’. The Award is instituted by K.

K. Birla Foundation.

� The Government of India has proposed to nominate the name of Assam’s river island Majuli for

inclusion in the cultural landscape category of the United Nations Educational Scientific and

Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage list.

� A Tamil Brahmi script on a pot rim reading ‘a mana’ meaning a Jaina has been found at

Pattanam in Earnakulam district Kerala establishing that Jainism was prevalent on the West

Coast at least from second century CE (Common Era).

� Kiradech Aphibarnrat pipped Mohammad Siddikur Rahman to bag SAIL open title on March

25, 2011 in New Delhi.

� S. Suresh Krishna of Andhra Pradesh defeated Ashutosh Singh of Delhi to take the title in

National Jute Board-National grass-court Tennis tournament on March 5, 2011 in Kolkata while

in women’s section Kyra Shroff beat Aishwazya Agrawal to take the crown.





� India on March 6, 2011 fired an interceptor missile which intercepted an incoming enemy

ballistic missile at an attitude of 16 km and pulverized it in a direct kill. While the hostile missile

was launched at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa, the Interceptor blasted off

from Wheeler Island off the Orissa Coast.

� North Zone beat West Zone to clinch Deodhar Trophy of Cricket on March 9, 2011 in Jaipur by

five wickets.

� Shahina K. K. the Thiruvananthapuram correspondent of Open magazine has been chosen for

the Chameli Devi Jain Award 2010 for being outstanding woman media person.

� India will test-fire the submarine launched version of of BrahMos Underwater test-firing the

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile by year end as on March 12, 2011. Underwater weapon-

delivery countries defence strength.

� The Human Resource Development Ministry has appointed Mahashweta Devi as National

Research Professor for a second term of five years from February 2011. She has been

appointed to this post in recognition of her contribution as a writer and a social activist.

� V. Kalidas-The Hindu’s consultant has been honoured with the Hall of Fame Award for 2011

for his contribution to the media industry. He was honoured by Punjab Education Minister

Sewa Singh Sekhwan in Chandigarh on March 17, 2011.

� India’s exports breached the $ 200 billion mark in the first 11 months of the 2010-11. Exports

jumped by 49.8% year-on-year during February to $ 23.6 billion taking the April-January 2010-

11 figure to $ 208.2 billion-an increase of 31.4% over the year-ago period and past the yearly

target of $ 200 billion.

� Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was honoured with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce

and lndusirys’ top honour. The Decade of Global Achievement Honour for her

accomplishments in Hindi cinema on March 25, 2011 in Mumbai.

� According to the 2010 tiger census whose results were declared on March 28, 2011 there are

approximately 1,706 of the big cats in the country which includes about 70 in the marches of

the Sundarbans.

� The Central Government on March 24, 2011 constituted the Financial Sector Legislative

Reforms Commission (FSLRC) under the chairmanship of former justice B. N. Krishna to

rewrite and harmonize financial sector legislations, rules and regulations so that the

requirements of the country’s fast growing financial sector may be fulfilled.

� The Government recently in March 2011 approved 14 proposals of Foreign Direct Investment

(FDI) including that of Mauritius based Ghir Investments totalling Rs. 1,289.85 crone.

� Thein Sein: He has been appointed as the President of Myanmar.

� Yousaf Raza Gilani: Prime Minister of Pakistan.

� Arjun Singh: Veteran Congress leader, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, former

governor of Punjab and former Union Minister. He was died at 81.

� Bob Christo: Hindi film actor known for his roles as a villain. He was died at 72.

� Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood actress who won the Oscar thrice. She was died at 74.

� Vedanta to acquire Cairn





� Mobile number portability introduced

� Provident fund companies can invest 15% of their corpus in shares

� Carl Peter Foster quits as Tata Motors CEO

� Natco and Strides Arcolab are permitted to manufacture generic version of Tamiflu

� Roche holds patent on Tamiflu

� G-20 accounts for 90% of global output

� NCDEX largest agricultural commodity exchange by volume

� International Finance Reporting Standards to be implemented by companies by April 2011

� Successful IPO of SKS microfinance

� Discussion paper on new banks by RBI

� New BPL norms of Tendulkar Commission

� Allocation of scarce spectrum 2G, 3G.

� Direct Taxcode

� Sovereign debt default in Europe-PIGS.

� Base rate mechanism for banks to replace primary lending rate concept

� Financial inclusion and financial literacy

� HIGHMARK – credit bureau for MFI’s

� Concern over safety of nuclear power plants – Fukushima plant in Japan

� Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission launched

� Nobel Peace Prize 2011 awarded to three women activists – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah

Gbowee, Tawakul Karman. The first two are from Liberia

� Nobel Prize literature 2011 Tomas Transtromer [Sweden]

� Harish Hande and Neelima Misra – Magsaysay Award, 2011

� 2011 Man Booker International Prize – Philip Roth

� Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona – Indira Gandhi

� 2011 Templeton Prize Martin Rees

� 2016 Olympics - Rio De Janiero

� 2014 FIFA World Cup - Brazil

� 2012 Olympics - London

� 2011 World Cup Cricket - India / Sri Lanka / Bangladesh

� Arjun Atwal – Golf - Prestigious Golf Trophy





� Vishwanathan Anand – World Chess Championship – Sophia 2010

� Dhyan Chand for lifetime Achievement 2011 – Shabbir Ali

� Navin Nischol: Veteran Hindi film actor who starred in films like “Victoria No. 203”, “Dhund” and

“Budha Mil Gaya”. He was died at65.

� Tata Consultancy services launched cloud computing solution called "Ion" for small and

medium scale businesses

� Mahindra Satyam gets a multi-million dollar contract from Aspire Zone,Qatar

� Berkshire Hathaway is looking to buy Speciality Chemicals company "Lubrizol Corp." for $9

Billion

� TCS bagged multi-milliom IT Infrastrusture contract from Dutch company Royal Haskoning

� Mukesh Ambani has joined as Director in Bank of America Board

� HTC has launched the smartphone Desire in India today. The smartphone costs Rs. 25590

� Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be endorsing Emami's product Zandu

Pancharistha

� Somdev Devvarman beats Marcos Baghdatis in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in

Indian Wells,USA

� Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick advances to the 3rd round of the BNP

Paribas Open

� Martin Stamper wins gold at the German Open Taekwondo championship

� Micheal Bradley wins the Puerto Rico Open Golf Championship for the second time in his

career

� Nick Watney wins the WGC-Cadillac Golf Championship

� Vishwanathan Anand defeated Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the Amber Blindfold Rapid

Chess tournament in Monaco

� Tanishq to be merged with Titan Industries

� Carmker GM India to launch 14 variants of 6 new models in the country in next 2 years

� Tata Communications becomes first Indian Telco to launch cloud computing solutions globally

� McDonald India ties up with HCL Infosystems to give kids (a chance to win) HCL ME Kids

Educational Laptops with a purchase of Happy Meal

� BCCI invites bid for IPL mobile, radio and Internet rights

� Sonata Software launches car rental management service MiEdge

� 'Bing deals', a feature for desktop and mobile allowing consumers to find best deals locally has

been launched by Microsoft

� India and Brazil signed a bilateral air services agreement (ASA), intended to increase air-

connectivity between 2 countries





� Lovable Lingerie IPO subscribed 4% on Day 1 (8/3/2011)

� Mahindra Group inks deal with global networking company Cisco to provide a host of services

including cloud computing, entertainment, smart cities, virtual dealerships and sports

� Jubliant Life Sciences (JLS) to set up a manufacturing plant to produce Symet, a key

ingredient for making insecticide 'Chloryrifos', at Bharuch in Gujarat

� HCL and BPO training institute Orion Edutech jointly launches a diploma course to train the

youth for entry in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry

� Global IT and BPO service provider HTC Global Services to recruit 3,000 people by next fiscal

� Kochi to get country's first health mall. 10-storied mall to have doctors, hospitals, ayurveda

centres, pharmacies and insurance referral units

� Canaan Partners appoints Rahul Khanna as Managing Director of Cannan India

� Harish C.Mariwala takes over as Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

(FICCI) President

� Diwakar Gupta has been appointed as Managing Director of State Bank of India

� Kapil Dev has been appointed as brand ambassador of UEI GLobal and has launched 'Kapil

Dev Scholarship Program' of Rs.40 crores

� 'Dream girl', Hema Malini took oath in Rajya Sabha as a BJP member from Karnataka

� Mumbai Indians signs up Hero Honda as sponsor

� Government exempts custom duty for cricket World Cup

� Gambhir named Kolkata Knight Rider captain

� Yuvraj named Pune Warriors captain

� ICC approves Morgan replacement for injured Pietersen

� Usain Bolt to run 100 metres at the Herculis Diamond League in Monaco

� Wimbeldon finals to be filmed in 3D

� Indian squash player Dipika Pallikal participating in the WSF-World Cup reached career high of

23 in WISPA ranking

� Nokia to launch E7 smartphone in India, to be priced at Rs. 35000

� Google Launches Chrome Beta 10. It brings synchronization improvements as well as speed

advancements. Chrome 10.0.648.82 is created for Linux, Windows as well as Mac OS X

� 36 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube every minute, the video-sharing website owned

by global search giant Google

� Adi Godrej: Godrej group chief, he has been appointed as the head of the executive board of

Indian School of Business (ISB), following the resignation of Rajat Gupta who is embroiled in

an insider trading case in USA. ISB was founded by Gupta.

� Brig Gen Ravinder Singh: He is the first Sikh in more than 30 years to be appointed as the

army chief of Singapore,





� Chhavi Rajawat: She is India’s youngest and only MBA to be village sarpanch. She is

sarpanch of Soda village, 60 km from Jaipur, Rajasthan.

� Gen. V.K. Singh: Chief of Indian army, he is the first Indian army officer to be inducted into the

‘Hall of Fame’ of the US Army War College at Carlisle.

� Mukesh Ambani: Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd, he has been appointed as the first non-

US director of Bank of America.

� P.M. Murthy: CEO of Asian Paints, he has been selected as the Business Standard CEO of

the Year.

� Harvard is world’s top university

� Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the US, has been ranked as the

world's top varsity. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology made it to number two, with the

University of California Berkeley coming in at number four in the list of top 10 most highly

regarded universities in the world.

� NPTEL Project: Now source your courses from Google and YouTube National Programme on

Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a venture of the IITs and Indian Institute of Science

(IISc), Bangalore, will shortly design study materials in science and humanities for engineering

institutes in the country. The same would be provided via Google and YouTube

� Tiger population in India increases by 295 India’s tiger population is up from the last tracked

figure of 1,411, when the last Census was conducted. The big cat count in the country is now

up to a soothing 1,706 with the addition of 70 tigers from the Sunderbans, where the counting

did not take place last time.

� Former Test captain and fast bowler Waqar Younis is appointed as the new coach of Pakistan

Cricket team.

� Ibon Gogeascoechea, A militant group fighting for an independent Basque homeland, Eta has

been blamed for more than 820 deaths during its 41-year campaign in Spain.

� Muhammad Dhahir Baluch was appointed to head Iran’s most prominent rebel Sunni

movement, Jundullah, following capture of its former leader Abdolmalek Rigi by security

forces.

� Julianna Smoot is appointed as the new social secretary of U.S. President.

� Eoin Morgan (England) won the Man of the series award in the3 match ODI cricket series

between England and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh.

� Manchester United Club retained the League Cup with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa at

Wembley Stadium in London

� Panchen Lama of the Lama who is selected by China as a member of the National Committee

of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country’s top advisory

body.

� King Saud University of the University in Saudi Arabia which conferred an honorary doctorate

on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who described it as an exceptional honour bestowed on

him by one of the premier centres of learning in the Arab world.

� 44th International Tourism Bourse – Berlin. ITB, one of the world’s largest travel trade shows,

is held annually in Berlin, Germany.

� United States of America Internet outranks print newspapers and radio in popularity as a

source of news in USA. Sixty-one percent of Americans said they read news online, while 54

percent said they listen to news on the radio, 50 percent read a local newspaper and just 17

percent read a national newspaper





� Venus Williams won the Billie Jean King Cup beating Kim Clijsters in the final played at

Madison Square Garden.

� Tamil Nadu state defeated Bengal by 29 runs to lift the Vijay Hazare Trophy for the fourth time

� Justice K.T. Thomas is elected as representative of Kerala in the five member empowered

panel instituted to study the disputes regarding the Mullaperiyar dam.

� Witzerland, An embargo is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a

particular country, in order to isolate it.

� “Al Islam”of the Malaysian magazine which apologized recently for upsetting Christians after it

published an article researched by two Muslims who pretended to be Roman Catholics and

took Communion in a church.

� Richard Holbrooke- of US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan who regretted his

reported remarks that Indians were not the real target of recent terrorist attack in Afghanistan

capital Kabul that killed 16 persons, six of them being Indians.

� Sandra Bullock actress won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress of 2009.

� Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri- of the renowned Islamic scholar and founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran,

issued a 600-page fatwah, in Islamabad, denouncing terrorism and describing suicide bombers

as destined for hell.

� The murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, Pravin Mahajan was

sentenced to life imprisonment, died in a Thane hospital in Mumbai.

� Thousands of villagers who came to a popular ashram in northern India for a free meal were

caught in a stampede, which left more than 60 dead Kripalu Maharaja’s ashram, Uttar Pradesh

of that Ashram.

� Chris Gayle (West Indies) won the Player of the series award in the ODI cricket series between

West Indies and Zimbabwe held in West Indies.

� A strong earthquake of 5.9 magnitude hit the south eastern part of a Eurasian country on

Monday, March 8, 2010 killed several people and injured many more. Turkey is that country.

� Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people on 07-03-2010 as religious

violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in a country in West Africa. Nigeria is

that country.

� Marie Orler is appointed as United Nations Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping

Operations, which makes her the first woman to hold the top rank.

� The corpse of the former Cyprus President has been recovered by police three months after it

was mysteriously snatched from the grave in a crime that shocked residents of the

Mediterranean island. Tassos Papadopoulos of that President

� Japan country has recently confirmed the existence of a secret Cold War deal allowing the

transit of nuclear-armed US vessels through its ports.

� Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter has been named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for the

second year running.

� India signed some major defence deals with a country on March 12, 2010 and as part of these

defence and energy deals, that country will build 16 nuclear reactors in India. Russia is that

country.

� Australia. Australia beat Germany 2-1 in the final country won men’s World Cup hockey-2010.

� Graeme Swann (England) won the Player of the series award in the two test cricket series

between England and Bangladesh held in Bangladesh.

� Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Spanish

driver Fernando Alonso’s first triumph since he won the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix for

Renault.

� Eminent Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was awarded South Asian Association for Regional

Cooperation (SAARC) Lifetime Achievement Award at SAARC Festival of Literature at New

Delhi.





� Mexico’s ‘King of Heroin’ Jose Antonio Medina is allegedly responsible for running thousands

of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year has been arrested recently.

� Jenson Button won an incident-packed Australian Grand Prix Formula 1 title after the leading

Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel slid out of the race with brake failure.

� Quebec province of the Canadian province which is the first in North America to ban the’ niqab

‘a top-to-toe dress worn by Muslim women.

� With Bangladesh neighbor country, India has created a Joint River Commission.

� India country has successfully flight tested a prototype of the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH)

on 29-03-2010.

� From Russia country India is getting K 152 nerpa submarines.

� Fashion TV- The central government made a ban on the repeated telecast of Fashion TV for

showing topless women

� Narendra Modi, Gujarat became the first Chief Minister of any state to be questioned in a

criminal complaint of mass murder after he and his administration were accused of aiding and

abetting riots in one area in Ahmedabad.

� England-India Women ODI cricket series held in India won by India.

� Zimbabwe won the man of the match award in the only 20-20 cricket match between West

Indies and Zimbabwe on 28 February 2010 Played at Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain, West

Indies

� Kerala Minerals and Metals (KMML), Chavara (Kerala)- company won the Environment

Protection Award instituted by the Tamil Nadu & Kerala Mines Safety Association.

� Rudiger Wolfrum of Germany- Tullio Treves of Italy and Ivan Anthony Shearer of Australia.

Wolfrum will preside over the tribuna.

� The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an independent judicial body set

up by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to adjudicate disputes

arising out of the interpretation and application of the conventin.

� Arun Singhania- He is the publisher of the Nepali daily Janakpur Today, published from

southern Nepal.

� Nissan Motor Co motor company has announced a recall of 540,000 vehicles across the world

to repair faulty brake pedals and fuel gauges.

� Sven-Goran Eriksson, Former England football manager was named as coach of the Ivory

Coast for the 2010 World Cup Football finals in South Africa.

� Justice Chelameswar Chief Justice of Kerala High Court.

� ‘The Double Falsehood’of the play by William Shakespeare, that has been for more than 280

years considered to be a hoax, is finally up to be included in a new series of the Bard’s work by

his publisher.

� China has recently restored email services and access to 32 blocked internet sites in one of its

province, eight months after ethnic clashes broke out in the northwestern province. Xinjiang of

that Province.

� U.S.A.country passed the most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades, rewriting the

rules governing medical industries and ensuring that tens of millions of uninsured citizens will

get medical coverage.

� Nigeria country temporarily recalled its ambassador to Libya, following comments credited to

Libyan President, Maummar Gaddafi which advised that Nigeria should be partitioned into two

nations along Christian and Muslim lines, to avert frequent sectarian violence.

� Cyclone Ului of the tropical cyclone which hit the northern coast of Australia on March 21, 2010

causing power outages and damaging homes.

� Shahid Afridi is appointed as Captain of Pakistan cricket team for Twenty20 World Cup in West

Indies.





� Walmart- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large,

discount department stores. It is the world’s largest public corporation by revenue, according to

the 2008 Fortune Global 50.

� A letter penned by dictator, wishing for a “truly cordial relationship” between Britain and

Germany, has fetched 8,000 pounds at an auction in London. Adolf Hitler of that dictator.

� Cipla's former Chief Executive Amar Lulla passes away

� Andy Goss of head US operations of Jaguar Land Rover

� California-based NComputing hires former Citrix VP, Raj Dhingra as its CEO

� Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. to increase the output to 20 million tonnes, eyes production

facilities at Kudremukh

� 'Illumine Play System', a play range has been launched by Arihant Industrial Corporation

� Biocon to invest Rs.450 crore on insulin programmes

� For the first time ever Apple suprpass Nokia as the world's largest phone vendor by revenue

� Royal Emirates Group buys Spanish first division soccer club Getafe, renames 'Getafe Team

Dubai'

� Reliance Industries finds gas in first well it drilled on a deepsea block in Cauvery basin

� Tata Steel to sell 51 percent stake in group company Tata Refractories to Nippon Steel's

associate Krosaki Harima Corporation for Rs.576.3 crore

� First Bejing international film festival begins in China

� Brazil runs world's longest, 28-metre bus on biofuel

� Mobile handset make, Intex Technologies has launched a dual SIM handset, designed for the

visually impaired priced at Rs.2,600

� Intel launches Intel Xeon processor E7 family

� iPad 2 to be launched in India by end of April 2011

� VMWare's mobile virtualization now on Android

� Blackberry's Playbook hits US market

� Ford Motor India launches cheaper sedan version, 'Fiesta Classic'

� Volskwagen to launch Jetta variant in India sometime in mid-2011

� VMware takes over Mozy which has been serving as the cloud-based storage and back up

service of EMC for the last 4 years

� MindTree co-founder Ashok Soota to set up a new business venture - Happiest Minds

Technologies Limited to provide IT services to global firms

� HCL bags broadband connectivity project for Indian Railways

� IBM to provide finance and administration shared services to PepsiCo India

� FedEx acquires Boeing 777F aircraft to provide better international connectivity to Indian cargo

business





� Canara Bank launches Debit Card-Platinum and Canara Campus Card

� BSE signed an MoU with Osaka Securities Exchange to develop opportunities including cross-

licencing of indices

� Symbiosis International University plans to start a school of liberal arts at its model colony

campus from June 2011

� 'Pengala', a learning software for students to create interactive multimedia courses

� Dr.Gangubai Hanagal Music Foundation and Hubli Art circle to jointly organize a 2-day Indian

classical music, dance and folk festival to mark 98th birth anniversary of Hindustani stalwart

Gangubai Hanagal

� 4-day Auto Expo 2011 to be held in Surat, Gujarat

� 2-day North Zone conference of International College of Surgeons to be held at KN Udupa

auditorium, Banaras Hindu University

� Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as Metro Express between Gandhinagar and

Ahmedabad (MEGA) chief

� Chris Capossela has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft

� Partip Chaudhuri has been appointed as SBI's chief

� Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo's highest ranking policewoman becomes country's President

� Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of

the IIT Kharagpur

� Scientists have created the world's 1st artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy

which could pave the way for a cheaper source of power in developing countries

� Mozilla releases Firefox 4 for Android

� Yahoo to launch new search engine in India by 2011 H2

� IT firm LinguaNext launched solutions Indify SAP and Indify Oracle to translate SAP ERP and

Oracle E-Business Suite into 22 official Indian languages.

� HTC launches demo of HTC Flyer tablet

� Lobsang Sangay: A research fellow at Harvard Law School, he has been elected as the Prime

Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile.

� Atifete Jahjaga: Kosovo’s highest ranking police-woman, she has been appointed as the

President of Kosovo.

� Ban Ki-moon: He has been re-elected as the UN Secretary-General for a second five-year

term.

� Christine Lagarde: She has been elected as thr Managing Director of International Monetary

Fund (IMF). Before taking over as IMF chief she was the Finance Minister of France.

� Ajit Kumar Seth: A 1974 batch IAS officer of UP cadre, he has been appointed as the Cabinet

Secretary of India.





� Ashok Chawla: He has been appointed as the Chairman of the anti-trust watchdog,

Competition Commission of India (CCI).

� Prakash Bakshi: He has been appointed as the new chairman of National Bank of Agriculture

and Rural Development (NABARD).

� Raj Kumar Singh: A 1975 batch Bihar cadre officer, he has been appointed as the Union Home

Secretary

� John Key: Prime Minister of New Zealand.

� Abdul Rahim Wardak: Defence Minister of Afghanistan.

� Bhajan Lal: Three-time Chief Minister of Haryana and a sitting Lok Sabha member from Hisar.

He was 81.

� Maqbool Fida Hussain: The renowned painter, who rose from a Bollywood billboard artist to

become India’s most celebrated painter worldwide. He was 96.

� ATM withdrawal norms in India from 1st July 2011

� 5 Free ATM transactions including Balance Enquiry, PIN Change etc.

� Financial Transaction or Withdrawal of money beyond 5 transactions customer to be charged

Rs.20 per transaction

� Non-Financial Transaction, a customer to be charged Rs.8.5 per transaction

� Wrongly debited amount to be credited to customer's account within 7 days failing which a

bank would have to pay Rs.100 per day, provided the complaint was logged within 30 days of

transactionWhich ID is now valid ID proof for LPG gas connection in India?..................Aadhaar

� Which grammy award nominee is all set to perform at IIFA?............Jermaine Jackson

� Who has been promoted as VP of Wipro?..............Rishad Premji

� Under which category India won gold at Cannes Lions?............Design category

� With which country India inked pact to boost apparel, textile industry?............Russia

� Which award did Sunil Mittal receive recently?...........INSEAD award

� Which is the latest launch from Research In Motion (RIM) in India?.............BlackBerry

Playbook

� Which software training major has decided to setup 100 One World centres in a year's

time?..............NIIT

� Who has been unanimously re-elected as UN chief?..............Ban Ki-moon

� Toyota is all set to launch its latest model in India. Which is it?..........Etios Liva

� Who has been elected as Captain of New Zealand Cricket for all 3 formats of

game?.............Ross Taylor

� Which airbus was grounded for clipping a wing at the Paris Air Show recently?..........A380

� Which actor of Jackass movie was killed in car accident in Pennsylvania?............Ryan Dunn





� Country's largest 2 wheeler maker Hero Honda's board have approved the changing of the

company name to?............Hero MotoCorp Ltd

� Which 2 dual sim models have Nokia unveiled in India recently?.............C2-00 dual sim

Internet and X1-01 dual sim

� When is the Champions League Twenty20 2011 scheduled?..............September 23rd to

October 9th 2011

� Which company has stuck a deal with British Library to digitise books?..........Google

� Which former Vice-Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited is all set to join Wipro

Board?.............Mahendra Kumar Sharma

� Which two stocks of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has BSE decided to take out of the elite

sensex index?............RCOM and R-Infra

� Which Amir Khan movie celebrated 10 years recently?............Lagaan

� When was World No Tobacco day observed?...........May 31st

� Who has been appointed as head of UN Change Management Team?............Atul Khare

� Which Under-19 cricketer drowned in Ganga recently?............Shamsher Singh Yadav

� How many satellites has India planned to launch in next 2 years?..........12

� What is the name of the insurance plan launched by LIC recently?.........Jeevan Arogya

� Who won the 5th ODI in India vs West Indies match played at Jamaica?...........West Indies

� Which Olympic boxer was shot dead in Pakistan recently?...........Abrar Hussain

� Which automobile major's 13 day long strike ended after the acceptance of Union registration

with management?............Maruti

� What is current Repo and Reverse Repo rate hiked by RBI?..........Repo - 7.5% and Reverse

Repo - 6.5%

� Which US technology major turned 100 years recently?...........IBM

� India is setting up a special facility known as Gamma Ray Telescope in Hanle (Leh) which will

help in unraveling the mysteries of normal and dark matter in the universe.

� India’s Chetan Anand defeated Chiang Jiann of Malaysia to clinch the Mauritius Open

Badminton Championship in Hyderabad recently.

� The provision of free and compulsory education will be extended upto class X. A proposal to

this effect was approved at a meeting of tile Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)

� The new ‘mother-child health care scheme launched on June 1, 2011 is a – The Janani Shishu

Suraksha Karyakram

� Indian American Sukanya Roy won the crown at the prestigious Spelling Bee Championship in

Maryland U.S. on June 2, 2011 for correctly spelling the tongue twister ‘Cymotrichous’

� Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra on June 1, 2011 took charge as the Finance Secretary in place

of Sushama Nath.b Mr. Sunil Mitra is a 1975 batch IAS officer (West Bengal Cadre).

� Lieutenant General H.L. Kakria in last week of May 2011 appointed took over as Director-

General of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

� Hyderabad has been chosen for hosting the prestigious 11th conference of the Parties to the

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in October 2012.





� The Committee on Comprehensive Review of National Small Savings Fund has suggested 4%

interest on -Post Office Savings Deposits

� The Central Government on June 7, 2011 approved 16 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

proposals worth Rs. 923’55 crore.

� Punjab defeated Mumbai in the final of Junior National Hockey Championship for undergo

� The winner of the inaugural edition of indian Volley League (Volleyball) is a- Chennai Spikers

� Water-jet-propelled Fast Attack Craft (FAC) INS Kabra-eight in a series of 10 Car Nicobar

Class FACS designed and built by the Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders and

engineers (GRSE) for the Navy, was commissioned at the naval base in Kochi.

� The Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by the PM Dr. Manmohan Singh cleared the

National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) that will facilitate robust information sharing among law

enforcement agencies to combat terror threats at home and abroad.

� An Iron Age megalithic burial site dotted with cairn-circles has been discovered near

Veeranam village at the foot of a chain of hills inTamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district.

� Gina Rineheart: An Australian businesswoman who inherited a debt-ridden mining company

from her father 20 years ago, has become the world’s richest person by overtaking Carlos

Slim, the Mexican magnate worth $73 billion.

� Mony Saiyed: An Indian-American, he has created the world’s largest Indian flag, weighing 250

kg, as a symbol of peace and harmony in India. The Tricolour stretches 153 by 102 feet and

has found mention in the Limca Book of Records. It took 15 days and seven Porbandar tailors

to sew this cotton flag.

� Sukanya Roy: Indian-origin student of USA, she has won the prestigious US Spelling Bee

championship.

� UNCLOS: UN Convention of the Law of the Sea.

� Ban Ki Moon (S. Korea’s foreign minister) succeeds Kofi Annan (Ghana) as new Secretary

General of the UN

� Margaret Chan (China) is new DG of WHO

� Salva Kiir new Pesident of South Sudan

� Hosni Mubarak steps down – Arab uprising

� Dominique Strauss Kahn resigns as Chief of IMF – Christine Lagard of France Takes over

� Dilma Rouseff new President of Brazil

� Rupert Murdoch empire under scrutiny for wire tapping

� Hina Rabbani Khar – new Foreign Minister of Pakistan

� IOC – India’s largest company by revenue

� Toyota – largest auto company

� Intel – largest chip-maker

� Diageo – largest spirits company (owns Smirnoff, JW)

� McDonald’s – largest fast food chain

� Vodafone – largest mobile company by revenue in world





� Bharti Airtel – crosses 11 crore subscribers in India

� Tata No.1 by market capitalisation in India

� Vedanta Resources in News

� Wal-Mart – largest retailer in world

� Nokia largest hand-set maker

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