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50th Grammy Awards Winners

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:47:44 +0000

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

The World’s Richest Top Tens

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:45:56 +0000

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

The PMEGP and PMAGY Schemes

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:35:01 +0000

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

Oscar Awards Winners 2010, Academy Awards winners 2010

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:32:48 +0000

Here is the list of Oscar Awards Winners for 2010:-

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR:
Winner: The Hurt Locker (2008) – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING:
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Winner: Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side (2009)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Winner: Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR:
Winner: El secreto de sus ojos (2009)(Argentina)
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING:
Winner: The Hurt Locker (2008) – Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
BEST DOCUMENTARY, FEATURES:
Winner: The Cove (2009) – Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS:
Winner: Avatar (2009) – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andy Jones
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES, ORIGINAL SCORE:
Winner: Up (2009) – Michael Giacchino
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Winner: Avatar (2009) – Mauro Fiore
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING:
Winner: The Hurt Locker (2008) – Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING:
Winner: The Hurt Locker (2008) – Paul N.J. Ottosson
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN:
Winner: The Young Victoria (2009) – Sandy Powell
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION:
Winner: Avatar (2009) – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Winner: Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED:
Winner: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) – Geoffrey Fletcher
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP:
Winner: Star Trek (2009) – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
BEST SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION:
Winner: The New Tenants (2009) – Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson
BEST DOCUMENTARY, SHORT SUBJECTS:
Winner: Music by Prudence (2010) – Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett
BEST SHORT FILM, ANIMATED:
Winner: Logorama (2009) – Nicolas Schmerkin
BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN:
Winner: The Hurt Locker (2008) – Mark Boal
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES, ORIGINAL SONG:
Winner: Crazy Heart (2009) – T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham(”The Weary Kind”)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR:
Winner: Up (2009) – Pete Docter
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Winner: Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Vyomnauts and ISRO

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:43:01 +0000

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 Pravasi Film Festival Awards

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:39:57 +0000

Awards:
First Pravasi Film Festival Awards:
Sharmila Tagore-Soha Ali Khan starrer ‘Life Goes On’ has bagged the Best Feature Film Award at the first Pravasi Film Festival in New Delhi.
D K Krishna and Raj Nidimoru’s ‘Shor’, a short fiction film, received the Best Short Fiction award.
Navdeep Kandola’s ‘Flying Sikh’, a history of Sikh fighter pilots in the first and the second World Wars, won the Best Short Non-Fiction Award. The festival also honoured veteran actor Saeed Jaffry with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Thyroid-one of largest endocrine gland in the body

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:38:12 +0000

What is Thyroid?
Its one of largest endocrine gland in the body , located below thyroid carliage or Adam’s apple. The primary function of the thyroid is production of the hormones thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and calcitonin. Thyroid disease is a medical condition impairing the function of the thyroid.

First Infosys Prize

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:35:31 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:33:50 +0000

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.

World’s Fastest Train is in China

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:30:35 +0000

World’s Fastest Train is in China:
China Railway High-Speed (CRH) is World’s fastest train which runs at an average speed train of 350 km per hour. The super-high-speed train connects the cities of Guangzhou, which is a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong, and Wuhan (a metropolis in central China). It is a distance of 1,069 km that takes only three hours to complete in the new high-speed train.