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Awards

Scientists of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology(IICT) has received awards from

the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India(OPPI).
Dr.G.V.M.Sharma has been awarded OPPI Scientist of the Year award - 2010
Dr.K.Suresh Babu and Dr.N.Shankariah has been awarded the Young Scientist Award
2010

Business

Netbiscuits to offer its customers with apps made for Samsung's OS-Bada

Huawei to setup $500 Million unit near Chennai

Google acquires mobile typing startup BlindType

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

NABARD has launched a SMS-based crop advisory and information service

(SMS Service: to farmers providing personalised and customised agricultural
information covering crop advisory services, market prices and weather forecast to
maximise the productivity and income of farmers)

Singapore Mercantile Exchange(SMX) to launch world's first international black

pepper futures contract

Unilog launches logistics services across Kerala

Gammon India opens training centre at Kuppedada village of Srirangapatna Taluk, in

Mysore

ICICI Bank launches Hindi version of its website

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

Leo Apotheker replaces Mark Hurd as HP's CEO

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

Singh brothers to purchase 5 units of Hong Kong-listed Quality Healthcare Asia(QHA)

for HK$1,541 million (approx. Rs.882 crore)

Alcatel-Lucent opens regional delivery center(RDC) in Bangalore to manage, operate

and maintain multi-vendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks based in India
or anywhere around the world

India's (EXIM)Export-Import Bank has secured a $150 million International loan to

help expand Indian exports to Africa

Tata-DoCoMo to launch 3G services in November across 9 cities - Maharashtra,

Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh(West), Rajasthan and
Madhya Pradesh

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

Tamim Iqbal named Wisden Test Player of the year

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

Ex-Patni VP Rajesh Padmanabhan, has been appointed as HR Head by Capgemini

Technology

Transcend launches 4GB DDR3 DRAM modules using high-density(2Gbit) DDR3chips

McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management(EMM) 9.0 platform to provide mobility

solution, package to include .NET and SQL Express

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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Facebook, Bing teams up to give online search a social touch

Auto404, a new online complaint system to get rid of arrogant autowallas

National Instrument has launched the LabVIEW 2010, the latest version of graphical
programming environment for design, test, measurement and control applications

Microsoft unveils new phone with Windows OS

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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

Indian jet deal to could create 27,000 jobs in US

Insurance products could now be distributed with IRDA at post offices across India

Intel invests $8 billion, to create jobs up to 8,000

Dheeraj Hinduja(3rd generation Hinduja) replaces RJ Shahaney at Ashok Leyland as

$25 billion Hinduja group is to take over the expansion of the commercial vehicle
business in a joint venture with Nissan

3 policies on Information and Communication Technology, Hardware and Animation for

Karnataka state to be released at the 13th Edition of India's most premier ICT event,
IT.Biz. Event to be held between 28th and 30th of October 2010

ICICI Bank has launched I-Express, an instant cross-border money transfer option for
non-resident Indians(NRIs) in Gulf countries

Eurocopter launches a wholly-owned subsidiary in India to start operations and to

capture half of the country's growing civilian helicopter market by 2015. It is also
scheduled to setup an engineering centre in Bangalore to support its global design and
development activities

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

Nokia to slash 1,800 jobs worldwide to streamline its smartphones business

Eli Lilly and Co. has launched 'Efficient', its cardiovascular product used to prevent
blood clots

Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has selected 49 volunteers to function as 'Business

Correspondents' in villages in Cuddalore, Villupuram and Tiruvannamalai districts of
Tamilnadu to impart training to operate smart cards

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

Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor turns 79

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

Breet Lee signs up with NZ T20 side

Technology

Adobe Systems launches Adobe Acrobat X software family comprising of Acrobat X,

Reader X, the Acrobat X Suite and new document exchange services at Acrobat website

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

HP introduces Palm Pre 2 with webOS2.0

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

PC Tools launches 5 new products to its existing suite for 2011

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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

Tendulkar has been honoured 'Lebara People's Choice' award by Ratheesan

Yoganathan, CEO Lebara at the inaugural Asian Awards in UK

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

GM India to come out with electric car next year

R-Power awards Rs.10,000 crore order to GE

Maruti plans to add 1,500 service outlets by 2015

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

China becomes Volvo's 3rd largest market

AIA raises $17.9 billion, becomes 3rd biggest IPO

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

SEBI doubles retail investor limit in IPO to Rs.2,00,000

160by2.com tie up with AhaApps.com to launch iPhone application enabling free SMS
from all iPhones

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Bharti Airtel to launch 3G by end of 2010

RBI insists 2nd password for online shopping

India's Exports jump 23% or $18 billion in September at its fastest pace in 2 years

Maruti Suzuki to manufacture its first fully 'Made in India' car

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

Intel's 1st Asia unit in China begins production

Advaith Hyundai has launched 'Free Care Care Clinic'

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

India's most loved cartoonist R.K.Laxman turns 86

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

2 Engineering students, Vaibhav Tidke a final year student of Master's in Chemical

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Technology at the Institute of Chemical Technology from Mumbai and

Chandrashekaran a student of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu have
been selected for prestigious Bayer Young Environmentalist Envoy (BYEE) honour who
will also attend an international conference in Germany in November

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

Tendulkar in ESPNcricinfo's all-time Test World XI

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India moves up to 2nd place in ICC's Championship table after 1-0 win over Australia

Somdev Devvarman achieves career high rank of 94 with 568 points

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)

E-mage, a new tool to secure personal information online

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)

Reliance launches SMS based mobile conferencing service, as an extension of its

Group Talk facility

Shanghai-Hangzhou rail link covers the 200-km distance in only 45 minutes, reducing
the travelling time from 78 minutes

Motorola launches Android based tablet at Rs.12,990

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