India will host the 46th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank in New Delhi in 2013.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was the Chief Guest at the 2012 Republic Day parade.

The 99th Indian Science Congress was held in Bhubaneshwar.

Jerry Yang, Yahoo Inc’s co-founder, has resigned following opposition from the shareholders. He had co-founded the company in 1995. Yahoo Inc. has named Scott Thompson, president of eBay Inc.’s PayPal division, as its new CEO.

IIIT, Hyderabad has used Sanskrit grammer to create computer software for inter-language translation scientists and scholars, to tap the tech potential of the language.

Journalism

PUBLIC SERVICE – Los Angeles Times

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING – No Award

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING – Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune

EXPLANATORY REPORTING – Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

LOCAL REPORTING – Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times

NATIONAL REPORTING – Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING – Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times

FEATURE WRITING – Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.

COMMENTARY – David Leonhardt of The New York Times

CRITICISM – Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe

EDITORIAL WRITING – Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal

EDITORIAL CARTOONING – Mike Keefe of The Denver Post

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY – Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY – Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times

Letters, Drama and Music

FICTION – “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)

DRAMA – “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris

HISTORY – “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)

BIOGRAPHY – “Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)

POETRY – “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems” by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)

GENERAL NONFICTION – “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)

MUSIC – “Madame White Snake’” by Zhou Long, premiered on February 26, 2010 by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

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Mitali Madhusmita’s Sena Medal, the first to be awarded for gallantry to a woman Army officer, in the history of Indian military.

Sachin Tendulkar’s genius made way for another evening of celebrations as the cricketing fraternity got together to honour him with the Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year award.

Lifetime Award for Jimmy

Former India all-rounder and man-of-the-match in the 1983 World Cup semifinal and final, Mohinder Amarnath, was felicitated with the Castrol Lifetime Achievement award.

Note: Event held in Mumbai on Jan 29,2011

IndiaPay is India’s first indigenous payment gateway and is scheduled to be launched in mid-2011. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is the owner of IndiaPay and will make its first move by cutting charges levied to merchant establishments by half, compared with what MasterCard and Visa charge. IndiaPay’s shareholders consist of 10 banks, six of which are PSU banks, and is promoted by the Reserve Bank of India.

Now Keep Your Number, Change Your Telecom Service Provider

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today flagged off nation-wide Mobile Number Portability, a service that allows subscribers to change service provider while retaining the number.

This would benefit over 700 million subscribers, both in GSM and CDMA categories in the country.

The new policy would force the operators to shift focus from acquiring new subscribers to retaining the existing ones.

All that a customer needs to do for changing his telecom operator is pay a maximum of Rs 19. He/she will get a new service provider within seven working days as per the guidelines of regulator TRAI.

“Till now, operators were competing to acquire new subscribers. But launch of MNP will force them to offer innovative and quality services to retain their subscribers,” Singh said .

The Prime Minister marked the launch of the service by making a call to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal who was seated next to him.

MNP services were first launched in Haryana in November last year and according to industry estimates, less than one per cent subscribers opted for changing their operators.

The book “The End of Empires-African,Americans and India’ is written by

Gerald Horne

Which website recently showed classified documents on the Afghan War?

Wikileaks

After 2009,wich country banned smoking in all indoor public places?

Greece

Which country uses drone air craft to monitor its poppy crops?

China

Russia began construction of new space centre at ?

Vostochny

Which country passed a law prohibiting the wearing of burqa in public ?

France

UK Army set to axe which regiment?

Gurkha

The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities was released world wide recently .In the annual ranking which university retained its crown?

Harvard

Jimena Navarrete becomes Miss Universe 2010.Which country she belongs to ?

Mexico

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Latest Sport Records

This week sees the closing stages of the final tennis Grand Slam of the year, the US Open, with Roger Federer (Switzerland) looking for his fifth title which would leave him two more titles behind Bill Tilden, Richard Sears and William Larned (all USA) who have the most US Open Singles tennis titles won by a man.

In Rugby Union the final fixture of the 2008 Tri-Nations is on Saturday with New Zealand hoping to win their ninth title the most rugby union Tri-Nations titles. Last Saturday saw South African left-winger Jongi Nokwe set the new record for most tries in a rugby union Tri-Nations match by an individual when he ran in four against rivals Australia.

The Paralympics are about to kick off in Beijing, China  and you will be able to keep up to date with all the records as they get broken.

Other sports records approved by Guinness World Records this week:

Youngest player to score 1,000 runs in one day international cricket (female)
The youngest player to score 1,000 runs in women’s one day international cricket is Sarah Taylor (United Kingdom) (b. 20 May 1989) who scored her 1,000th run aged 19 years 104 days, for England against India, at the County Ground, Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom on 1 September 2008.

Most wins of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The record for the most Beach Soccer World Cup wins is 3 and was achieved by Brazil in Marseille, France on 27 July 2008.

Most goals scored in a FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup career by an individual
The most goals scored by an individual player in Beach Soccer World Cups is 54 by Madjer (Portugal) from 2005 – 2008.

source : http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2008/09/080905.aspx

1.Who is the chief secretary of kerala ?
K.J .Mathew

2. Who is the Miss Universe 2008 ?
Sania Sukinova of Russia

3. Who become the first Runner Up in recently held Miss Universe 2008 contest ?
Parvathy Omanakuttan

4.Director of India’a Federal Intelligence Agency ?

Radha Vinod Raju

5.Top News Feed in the Year 2008 ?
Barrak Obama’s Victory in the US Presidential election