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Current Affairs October 2010
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Awards
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
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
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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
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Business
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, Britain'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
Western Union, has tied-up with State Bank of India to enable international direct cash-
to-account transfer(SBI account holders will be able to route overseas money transfers
directly in their bank accounts using mobile phones)
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National Instrument has launched the LabVIEW 2010, the latest version of graphical
programming environment for design, test, measurement and control applications
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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
ICICI Bank has launched I-Express, an instant cross-border money transfer option for
non-resident Indians(NRIs) in Gulf countries
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
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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
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
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Sports
Delhi's Ashok Kumar wins 2nd successive PGTI title, bagging the Global Green
Bangalore Open
Technology
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
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
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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
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 Hero 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
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India's Exports jump 23% or $18 billion in September at its fastest pace in 2 years
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
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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 dioxide
along 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
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 bowling 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
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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)
Shanghai-Hangzhou rail link covers the 200-km distance in only 45 minutes, reducing
the travelling time from 78 minutes
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