JANUARY 9, 2011 Current Affairs January 2011 Awards Which bank has been presented with Skoch Financial

Inclusion Award 2011 for "SHG Initiatives - Urban Financial Inclusion"? Indian Bank Business 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

People 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 Event 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) Science 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

Sports 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 Technology 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

JANUARY 17, 2011 Current Affairs January - 2 (for bank po exams, civil service exams) Business 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 Event When and where India's largest Coir Expo would be held? 4th to 7th February 2011 in Alappuzha, Kerala People

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 Record At what speed the Solar car designed by Australian students of the University of New South Wales runs? 88 kmph Sports Who won FIFA's (Ballon d'Or) world player award? Lionel Messi Technology 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

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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 Google has launched a global online science fair for students aged 13 to 18. Google is in search for the brightest young scientist from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects relevant to the world today. Last date for submission of project is: April 4th 2011 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

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Current Affairs January - 3 (for bank po exams, civil service exams) Award 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 Business 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 People 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 Sports 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) Technology 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 SNIPPETS 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

JANUARY 31, 2011 Current Affairs January - 4 (for bank po exams, civil service exams) Award 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) Business 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 People 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 Technology

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 SNIPPETS 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 dualSIM(GSM+CDMA) has been launched in India

FEBRUARY 7, 2011 Current Affairs February 2011 Award 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 Business 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 People 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 Technology 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 Sports 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

SNIPPETS 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 FEBRUARY 20, 2011 Current Affairs February 2011 - 2 People 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 Education Computer education firm Aptech and IT firm Microsoft to launch embedded courses and certification to its students Entertainment First ever 3-day(18th to 20th February 2011) Film Festival kicks-off at Andaman and Nicobar Islands Dhobi Ghat to be commercially released in Germany Business 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 Technology 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 SNIPPETS 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.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011 Current Affairs February 2011 - 3 Automobile 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 Business 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 Education 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 Music Composer and Singer Shankar Mahadevan launches online music academy for the Indian Americans People Michael Benz has been appointed as Head Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, a subsidiary of Bank of America Technology 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

MARCH 8, 2011 Current Affairs March 2011 Business 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 Education 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 Employment Global IT and BPO service provider HTC Global Services to recruit 3,000 people by next fiscal Medicine Kochi to get country's first health mall. 10-storied mall to have doctors, hospitals, ayurveda centres, pharmacies and insurance referral units People

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 Sports 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 Technology 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 videosharing website owned by global search giant Google