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Current Affairs November 2010

Award

Instituted by Malaysia Futuregov Asia Pacific, an independent trade journal. Karnataka

Government has bagged the "Best Practices in Public Sector Future e-Gov", an award eventheld at Malasiya

Classical flute exponent Hariprasad Chaurasia will be conferred the Chevailer dans l'Ordredes Arts et des Lattres, the highest civilian award in France, by the French government for hiscontribution to music on November 9th 2010 at the French Embassy in New Delhi by Frenchambassador Jerme K.Bonnafont

Rao S.Anumolu, President and CEO of ASR International Corporation has been felicitated onwinning 2010's prestigious Ellis Island Medal of honour, the highest civilian award in the USAfor the immigrants

Indian American researcherAmit Goyal has been named the '2010 Innovator of the Year'.Goyal will receive the award at the 48th Annual R&D Awards on November 11th 2010 inFlorida

Mallika Dutt, President and CEO of Breakthrough: Bring Human Rights Home, will receive theCaring for Children Award by the Coalition for Asian American Children andFamilies(CACF) at the 2010 Caring for Children Awards Benefit Reception at The PrinceGeorge Ballroom, New York

Book

Raghuram G Rajan, an Indian-origin Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago haswon the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2010 forhis book, 'Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy '. The prizemoney being 30,000 pounds

Business

UAE airline to launch all-economy class air craft

Oracle to acquire Art Technology in $1 billion deal

Tata DoCoMo launches 3G services in 9 circles across India

Field Fresh Foods Pvt. Ltd. a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Del Monte PacificLimited (DMPL), opens its production and R&D centre at Hosur in Tamil Nadu


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2nd busiest airport in Asia and 4th busiest in the world, Haneda Airport in Tokyo has adoptedKerala-based IBS Software's cargo management solution to meet its business and customsoperations. IBS's iCargo is the winner of the IT Systems Provider of the Year at Air CargoIndia 2010

Salesforce.com acquires India-U.S based web conferencing company Dimdim

Videocon group enters into joint venture with Liberty Mutual Group, Liberty to hold 26percent and Videocon 74 percent stake. The venture to focus on insurance for householdsinculding cars, homes, health and personal accident

Microsoft's Ballmer sells 12% stake in company

NTPC to build 4,000mw thermal plant in Karnataka

BSNL launches Pyari Jodi(close pair) plan, combining landline and mobile services where

customers can take free SIM card and make unlimited free local calls to his/herlandline/WLL number

Budget airliner IndiGo is all set to launch non-stop flight services between Chennai andAhmedabad, Jaipur and Kolkata

Cable and Wireless Worldwide opens Chennai centre, to serve as the 2nd network operatingcentre (NOC) after Bangalore

Ingersoll Rand to setup a greenfield manufacturing facility in South India

Education

IIM debuts overseas. IIMBangalore to launch long-duration executive education programme inMuscat (Oman)

PEarson Test of English(PTE) English test enters Indian market, joins IELTS and TOEFL

People

Viktor Chernomyrdin, who served as Russia's Prime Minsiter during 1990s is dead

Clijisters in 3rd place in WTA rankings

Sergio Batisa to continue to lead as Argentina's national team coach

Indian-American Nikki Haley of Republican party scripts history in US politics by winning thegovernorship of South Carolina, becoming 2nd person of Indian-origin to be a Governor of an


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American state

Endorsed by US President Barack Obama, Indian-American Kamala Harris wins the electionfor Attorney General of California

Science

Indian defence scientists develop an integrated life support system (ILSS) for fighter aircraftpilots, to enable them to venture to the limits of the aircraft capability in terms of flight altitudesand G-forces

India's indigenous aircraft engine, Kaveri has been successfully flight testes at Gromov FlightResearch Institute in Moscow

Beetroot juice helps prevent dementia

Sports

India ranked World No.11 after the women's team finished 9th in the recent hockey World Cupat Rosario. India's total points stands at 1305.

Saina Nehwal has been nominated for the prestigious Commonwealth Sports Awards in theOutstanding Female category

Sri Lanka achieves 1st series victory in Australia

Technology

China builds world's fastest supercomputer named Tianhe-1A which amounts to 1.4 times thehorsepower of the current top computer

Intel, Samsung and Toshiba teams up to develop 10 nm(nanometers) chip by 2016

Logitech introduces solar-powered keyboard, K750 that allows users to enjoy computing forlonger durations whenever there is sun light, even indoors

Motorola launches Andriod handset Flipout at Rs.15,990

HP launches 'Instant - On Enterprise' in India

Facebook unveils 'social commerce' strategy

Hopcoms launches weighing machines with online service for about 100 outlets


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Automobile

Nissan launches its 1st gasoline-electric(hybrid) with Fuga/Infiniti M in Japan, predictedmileage at 19kms/ltr

Award

Manu Joesph has bagged 'The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010' for his debut novel Serious

men

Ashok Vyas, Indian American Journalist and program director with ITV has been honoured withthe community award for his long community services and cultural and religious guidance.Vyas was honourned during the 20th Conference and 11th Annual meeting of National Indo-American Association for Senior Citizens at the Indian American Kerala Center in Newyork

Business

Tata unveils first Sirkosky-92 helicopter cabin manufactured at its facility at the aerospace andprecision engineering Special Economic Zone(SEZ) at Hyderabad

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has been ranked the world's top oil and gas exploration

and production(E&P) firm by global energy research agency Platts

Yahoo has partnered with Samsung for Internet connected TVs

Audi's sales vault 208 percent in October

India signs $10billion worth deals with U.S

Hinduja Group flagship firm Ashok Leyland ties up with Himachal Gramin Bankto provide itscustomers with finance options to buy commercial vehicles

Nikon India has setup its first call centre in India at Gurgaon

Michigan Law School and Jindal Global Law School(JGLS) have come together to develop

collaborations in faculty and student exchange programs

Tata's 3G calls at 0.66 paise per second

NSE starts mobile trading, to provide facility free of cost via the software 'NOW'

Air India starts operating flights from Terminal-3 from November 3rd 2010

GE to invest $2billion in China, to create over 1000 jobs


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Chevron to buy Atlas Energy for $4.3billion

ICICI bank raises $1billion from overseas bonds

Boeing to begin deliveries of787s to Air India starting 2011

Ruias-owned Essar Africa Holdings has acquired 60% equity interest of the government ofZimbabwe in the struggling Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company(Zisco)

Thermax acquires European boiler maker for euro 29.5million

Bharti may list tower subsidiary Bharti Infratel

Dell enters India smartphone market, launches two 3G handsets

Power Grid Corp to diversify in telecommunication field

Mahindra Satyam has bagged a contract from insurance sector regulator, IRDA forimplementing SAP ERP package

Global Internet search giant Google plans to hire 300 people to double its engineeringheadcount in India and strengthen Hyderabad as its largest cloud computing research anddevelopment centre in the world

Celebration

Watch and jewellery makerTitan has decided to gold plate 1 Nano, the wonder car from Tata,as a part of its campaign to celebrate 5,000 years of Indian jewellery

Event

Organised by Siliconindia, Software Testing Conference (SofTec 2010) a leading event for theSoftware Test and QA Community to be held on November 13th, 2010 (Saturday) in New Delhi

16th Asian games kicks-off with unique opening ceremony in China

People

Kamal Hassan turns 56

Karnataka beauty Subha has been crowned Miss South India(gold plated crown and a cashprize of Rs.1lakh). Geethu Christy and Nikitha Narayanan from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh


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respectively were first and second runner up

Hired by British Prime Minister David Cameron, young Indian-origin internet wizard RishiSaha to head the new media section of 10, Downing Street on a salary of 50,000 pounds

RBI Deputy GovernorUsha Thorat retires, after nearly 38 years of service. An executivedirector of RBI, Anand Sinha to replace

Prithviraj Chavan becomes Chief Minister of Maharashtra

Sports

World record holderHaile Gebrselassie(37-year-old Ethiopian) announced his retirement, todrop out of the New York City Marathon

Harbhajan Singh scores maiden test century in India vs New Zealand Test, match ends in adraw

Chirag United wins Durand Cup

Vettel wins Brazilian Grand Prix

Sania-Hsieh end runners-up in ITF tournament at Taipei

Kenyan David Rudisha and American sprint starTyson Gay are in a 5-man shortlist for the

World Athlete of the Year award

Technology

Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Netscape and Owner of Andreeseen Horowitz, the venture

capital firm to unveil RockMelt browser

Toshibha launches 'tough laptop', the satellite L630

Samsung unveils first 70 Inch HD TV

Yahoo launches mobile friendly mail, messenger

Reliance Broadcast Network's Big Digital launches talkinternet radio, names it Big Net Radio


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which will air only talk shows. It is designed to appeal to audiences who seekquick and brief

entertainment updates

Awards

Paradip Port Trust Chairman Biplav Kumar received the trophy, as the Trust has been adjudged'Major Port of the Year' for 2009-10 at the Annual Indian Maritime Gateway Awards 2010

Ela Bhatt has been honoured with Global Fairness Initiative Award for helping over a millionwomen in India gain access to opportunities for themselves and their families via., Self-Employed Women's Association

M.G.Venkatesh Mannar, who fabricated the idea to fortify salt with iron, won a $50,000 cashprize at the 10th annual Tech Awards in California

Oberoi Group chairman P.R.S.Oberoi has been awarded the '2010 Corporate Hotelier of the

World' award by HOTELS magazine in New York

Asia Society New York has presented its Global Vision Award to Mukesh Ambani at an eventhonouring global leaders who help promote understanding between Asians and Americans

Business

SBI to acquire the 2nd Indonesian Bank

Deloitte to invest $100 million in Indian market

Jindal Power likely to launch Rs.7,000 crore IPO in 6 months

TCS plans to recruit 50,000 employees in 2011

L&T led consortium bags $764 million order to develop Oman airport

USD 41 million worth Facebook, surpasses eBay

Dabur acquires Namaste Group for $100 million

Skoda launches SUV Yeti

EMC acquires Indian founded Isilon Systems, a storage solution provider for $2.25 billion

Brila Sun Life Mutual Fund launches 'Mobile Investment Manager' in association withMCHEK India Payment Systems(mChek) which enables existing investors of BSLMF tomanage their investments through mobile


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DHL Global Forwarding to set up facilities in 5 free trade warehousing zones(FTWZ) in Indiaby 2013

Honda to invest Rs.1,000 crore for new facility, likely to be in Andra Pradesh

NEC to launch 3G Femtocell solution in India

Kharif output rise 10% to 114 million tonne in the 2010 Kharif season

Gujarat Times, a New-York based weekly newspaper joined the Indian Languages NewspaperAssociation(ILNA), to promote journalism in regional languages

3rd Prosche Center in India, opens at Hyderabad

Event

Coimbatore to host 2-day International textile fair on December 4th and 5th 2010

People

K.G.Subramanian has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Nexus Venture Partners

Kalanithi Maran takes over as Spicejet chief

Fillon reappointed as Prime Minister in France cabinet reshuffle

P.Rameshan, from IIM Kozhikode took over as director of the newly established IIM-Rohtak inHaryana

1998 French Open champ Carlos Moya retires from tennis

Science

Astronomers have identified a young black hole formed from an exploding star witnessed in1979 (30 years ago)

Sports

Kumar Sarna, an Indian origin batsman representing Wonga Park in Australia sets a new recordof scoring the highest ever score in Twenty20 cricket. Kumar scored 228 runs(not out) off 65balls with 22 sixes and 17 fours in a district level match in Melbourne


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Technology

'anti-Iphone', a mobile phone thatjust makes calls and does nothing else has been developed by

Dutch advertising agency John Doe. Costing about 59 to 67 pounds(approx.4,300 to 4,500INR)No MP3, no apps and not even texts can be operated on it

Tata Communications has launched its next generation Ethernet networkin 24 locationsaround the world by moving towards PBB(Packet Burst Broadband)

Google unveils Hotpot, a recommendation engine for Google Maps on Android

Buffalo, a storage solutions provider, has launched the MediaStation 6x Portable Blu-RayWriter priced at Rs.18,000 and comes with a warranty of 2 years

Samsung India has launched the world's smallest laser printer, the SCX 3201. With a warrantyof 1-year, it is priced at Rs.8,999

Asus EeePad to be launched as the ASUS Eee Note or Digital Note at the Consumer ElectronicsShow (CES) in early 2011

Optinno Mobitech, a Pune-based company has launched an application 'smsBlocker' to blockspam SMSes

Amazon.com sets up next-generation movie studio

Google launches online boutique, boutiques.com

Sony launches world's first tilting tv

Business

Post Zain's acquisition, Bharti launches brand 'airtel' across Africa in 16 countries

GM India to invest USD 30 million in 2 years

Taj Gateway rated best 5 star hotel in Kerala

Financial Stability Development Council(FSDC) to be setup to sort out inter-regulatory issues

Apalya has tied up with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific (DNAP) to broadcast the bouquet of Discovery

channels on Apalaya's mobile TV platform


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Canadian telecom giant Bell Canada, a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises(BCE) to outsource voice-

based projects for its internet, Solo Mobility, Bell Mobility and satellite TV divisions to India

BMW to increase investment in India to $1.8 billion($4 million) by the end of 2012 and to start rolling

out the X1-model from its plant in Chennai

India signs $416 million deal for railway track in Sri Lanka

Entertainment

Video game legend Mario turns 25

People

Raghavan Thirumulpad, eminent Ayurvedic and Naturopathy exponent aged 90 dies in Kerala

Rank/Records

Wipro tops Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) list. CDLI has been introduced in India for the

first time (2010) by the Carbon Disclosure Project

Ashrita Furman, an American holds the world record for setting the maximum number of 122 Guinness

world records

Science

Nuclear-capable Agni I missile test-fired

Radiation form Wi-Fi networks may be killing off magnificent tress, says a Dutch study

Technology

Google has launched an online interactive book on the eve of 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's

proposal for the World Wide Web


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Motorola to make Indian maps available for free, for Android-powered handset

iBall, a company known for its computer peripherals has now launched 7 new models of

cellphone(Shaan, Waterproof, Sleec, Flip, Posh, Touch and Senior)

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