Record Of the Year: “Rehab”, Amy Winehouse
Album Of the Year: “River: The Joni Letters”, Herbie Hancock
Song Of the Year: ”Rehab”, Amy Winehouse
Best New Artist: Amy Winehouse
Best Hard Rock Performance: “The Pretender”, Foo Fighters
Best Metal Performance: “Final Six”, Slayer
Best Rock Song: “Radio Nowhere”, Bruce Springsteen
Best Alternative Music Album: “Icky Thump”, The White Stripes
1. Warren Buffet (USA) – $62 billion
2. Carlos Slim Helu (Mexico) – $60 billion
3. Bill Gates (USA) – $58 billion
4. L N Mittal (India) – $45 billion
5. Mukesh Ambani (India) – $43 billion
6. Anil Ambani (India) – $42 billion
7. Ingvar Kamprad (Sweden) – $31 billion
8. K P Singh (India) – $30 billion
9. Oleg Deripaska (Russia) – $28 billion
10. Karl Deripaska (Russia) – $27 billion
What is Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)?
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) is a scheme of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. It is a credit linked, Central Sector Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme which was approved in August 2008.The two erstwhile schemes of the ministry Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) and Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP) were merged to launch this scheme which continued till March 31, 2008
What is Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Yojana (PMAGY)?
There are about 44,000 villages in which the population of Scheduled castes is above 50 per cent. A new scheme called Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Yojana (PMAGY) has been launched in July 2009 on a pilot basis, for the integrated development of 1000 such villages. An allocation of Rs. 100 crore for this scheme was proposed by Prime Minister. Each village would be able to avail gap funding of Rs. 10 lakh over and above the allocations under Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation Scheme
What are Vyomnauts?
India’s First space mission is scheduled for 2015. In this mission three-person vehicle will initially carry two astronauts into 275-kilometre low-Earth orbit.
The ISRO is in process of choosing four astronauts from a pool of 200 fighter pilots. the media has coined a new term for Indian astronauts – Vyomnauts.
Vyoma is space. The correct sanskrit term is Vyomagami yet
First Infosys prize:
Infosys prize has been instituted by Infosys to reward and recognise outstanding inventions or discovery or a cumulative body of work done in India in five major disciplines: engineering and computer science, life sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Recently these awards were distributed.
US Postal Service stamp on Mother Teresa:
Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa & legendary Hollywood actress Katharine Hepburn has been chosen by US Postal Service for 2010 stamp programme.
The stamp will go on sale on August 26, 2010, the birth day of Mother. She was an honorary US Citizen. The stamp features a portrait ofMother Teresa, painted by award-winning artist Thomas Blackshear II.
First Yuva Train:
Howrah Railway Station. 2249/2250 Howrah-New Delhi ‘Yuva’ Express (weekly) has been launched. This is the first yuva Train of the country.
What are Yuva trains?
Yuva Trains were announced in the Railway Budget 2009-10 by the Railway Minister and they are targeted mainly for the unemployed youths of the country. The objective is to ensure that the youth and low income groups can travel at low rates between major cities.
Heads of Various World organizations–Latest who’s who–Quiz
Here is an update of the heads of Various World organizations.
Secretary General, UN—Ban ki moon
Director General,WHO—Margarret Chan
Head, UNICEF—-Ann Veneman
Head, FAO—Jacqueous Diouff
Head,IAEA—Mohammed El Baradei
President, World Bank–Robert Zoellik
Managing Director, IMF–Dominique Strauss Kahn
Secretary General, NATO–Jaap De Hoop Scheffer
Secretary General,ASEAN–Surin Pitsuwan
Secretary General ,OPEC–Abdellah Salim El Badri
Chairman,SAARC—–Mahindra Rajapakse
Secretary General ,Commonwealth–Kamlesh Sharma
With a sale of 107 million newspapers daily, India is the biggest newspaper market in the world. Together with China and Japan, it accounts for over 60 per cent of the global newspaper sales.
Government of India has introduced for the first time ‘visa on arrival’ scheme for tourists from five countries—Singapore, Finland, New Zealand, Luxembourg and Japan.
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