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The coming year will be called 'Twenty- Eleven' (instead of Two Thousand and Eleven) according to the Global Language Monitor
Oil companies have increased the petrol prices by Rs 2.96 per litre. The new prices will take effect from Tuesday midnight

National Film Awards 2010. National Film Awards 2010 Winners List or 57th National Film Awards winner for the year 2009 for each category has been announced today on September 15, 2010.On this 57th National Film Awards 2010 Winners List Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan bagged another award.Mr Bachchan also completed his hat-trick of the national film awards as Best Actor for ‘Paa’ , Best Actress Ananya Chaterjee for ‘Aabo Hawa’ , ’3 Idiots’ bags awards for Best Popular Film/ Best Director/ Best Producer, Farooq Sheikh gets Best Supporting Actor for ‘Lahore’ and Arundhati Nag wins Best Supporting Actress for ‘Paa’. Best Actor award: Amitabh Bachchan adjudged as Best Actor for ‘Paa’ Best Actress award: went in favour of Ananya Chatterjee for her role in Abohomaan. Best Camerawork:: Anjali Shukla. Best Sound Engineer: Oscar winner Resul Pookutty Best Supporting Role (Male): Farooq Sheikh for the film Lahore Best Supporting Role (Female): Arundhati Naag for the film Paa Best Playback Singer (Male): Rupam Islam Best Playback Singer (Female): Niranjana Sarkar (Housefull) Best Music: Dev D Best Lyrics: Swananad Kirkirey for the film 3 Idiots Best Music Director: Amit Trivedi for the film Dev D Best Child Film: Ottani Pati and Kesu Best Child actor: Jiva and Anba Karasu Best Music Score: Illyaraza for Pazhassi Raja Best Choreography: K Shivashankar for film Magadhira

First Indian Women in Various Fields: Field Name Year (Muslim) Ruler of India Razia Sultana (1236-1240) Advocate Cornelia Sorabji (1894) Ambassador Vijayalakshmi Pandit (U.S.S.R., 1947-1949) At Antarctica Meher Moos (1976) Central Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (Health) --- Chief Justice (High Court) Leila Seth (Himachal Pradesh) 1991 Chief Minister Sucheta Kriplani(Uttar Pradesh) (1963-1967) Foreign Minister Lakshmi N. Menon (1957-1966) Secretary General of Rajya Sabha V.S.Rama Devi (1993) Governor Sarojini Naidu (Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967) IAS Officer Anna Rajam George (1950) Woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi (1974) Jet Commander Saudamini Deshmukh ---- Jnanpith Award Winner Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti (1976) Judge of Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi (1989) Minister of State Vijayalakshmi Pandit (Uttar Pradesh) 1937 Missionary Sanghamitra, daughter of King Ashoka (Sri Lanka, 3rd C.BC) Pilot (Commercial) Prem Mathur, (Deccan Airways) 1951 Pilot (Indian Airlines) Durga Banerjee (1966-1988) President of Indian National Congress Annie Besant (1917) President of UN General Assembly Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1966-1977, 1980-1984) Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Amrita Pritam, Sunehre (1956) climb Mount Everest Bachendri Pal (1984) Perform a solo Flight Harita Kaur Deol (1944) Swim across English Channel Arati Saha (1959) Swim across the Strait of Gibraltar [First woman in the world and enter in guiness book of records for the same. ] Arti Pradhan 29th August, 1988 Win an Asian Gold Kamaljit Sandhu (1970) Go in Space Dr. Kalpana Chawla (November 1997)

Chief Ministers of karnataka

1 Kysamballi Chengalraya Reddy 25 Oct1947-30 Mar1952 2 Kengal Hanumanthaiah 30 Mar1952 -19 Aug1956 3 Kadidal Manjappa 19 Aug 1956 -31 Oct1956 4 S. Nijalingappa 1 Nov 1956 -16 May 1958 5 B.D. Jatti 16 May 1958 -9 Mar1962 6 S.R. Kanthi 14 Mar1962 -20 June1962 6.S. Nijalingappa 21 June1962-29 May 1968 7 Veerendra Patil 29 May 1968-18 Mar1971 *President's rule19 Mar1971-20 Mar1972 8 Devaraj Urs 20 Mar1972 -31 Dec1977 *President's rule31 Dec1977 -28 Feb1978 D. Devaraj Urs 28 Feb1978-7 Jan1980 9 R. Gundu Rao 12 Jan1980-6 Jan1983 10 Ramakrishna Hegde10 Jan1983- 29 Dec 1984 Ramakrishna Hegde 8 Mar1985 -13 Feb1986 Ramakrishna Hegde 16 Feb1986 -10 Aug 1988 11 S. R. Bommai 13 Aug1988 -21 Apr1989 *President's rule 21 Apr1989 -30 Nov1989 Veerendra Patil 30 Nov1989 -10 Oct1990 12 S.Bangarappa 17 Oct1990 -19 Nov1992 13 M. Veerappa Moily 19 Nov1992 -11 Dec1994 14 H.D. Deve Gowda 11 Dec 1994 -31 May 1996 15 J. H. Patel 31 May 1996 -7 Oct 1999 16 S. M. Krishna 11 Oct 19
New Delhi: India unveiled a Rs 1,500 tablet PC designed specifically 4 students. It would be made available 2 students in 2011.
QUIT INDIA: 9th August 1942 at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Mumbai. >Yusuf Meheraly suggested'Quit India' slogan then it was selected by Gandhi
KaS: United Progressive Alliance 2004 National Front-1989 National Democratic Alliance- 1999 United Front- 1996 - K,taka sex ratio 965
* Jupiter has rings just like Saturn. * Saturn is 75000 miles wide. * It takes Saturn exactly 29.46 years to travel once around the Sun.
Suresh Raina hits INDIA'S First Century in icc twenty20 cricket:101 in 60 balls. He was 3rd person in d World Twenty20 cricket
=>A prisoner's Scrap Book is written by L.K. Advani =>Vitamin K helps in the blood clotting =>Total memory loss is expressed by Amnesia
>1956-The polio vaccine dvlopd by Jonas Salk is made available to d public. >The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to World War II
.*The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa-Asia *The Yellow Sea is in northern part of the East China Sea. 402 usrs
OperationVijay 1961 D Indian operation 2 capture of Goa, Daman-Diu & Anjidiv Islands 1999-D Indan operation 2push back infiltrators in d Kargil War
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in the country, established on 2 July 1862. {JOIN freegksms to 9219592195}
D Gangotri glacier is d origin of d Bhagirathi River. D glacier is 30 kms long & btwn 2 to 4 kms wide.It is located in d Uttarkashi Dist,Uttarakhand
INS Talwar (F40) is the lead ship of d Talwar class frigates of d Indian Navy. It was built in Russia, & commissioned into the Indian Navy in 2003,
1607 -Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. @sms ON freegksms To 9870807070
The Kandariya Mahadeva temple (KHAJURAHO) is the largest of the Western group of temples and was built by Vidyadhara of Chandelas in 1050 AD
The Buckingham Canal is a 420 km long fresh water navigation canal, running parallel to d Coromandel Coast of South Inda (vijayawada Villupuram)
Narora is located on d banks of river Ganges, in UP. A nuclear power plant operates on natural uranium as fuel& heavy water as d moderator

Today is Earth Day.

It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22,1970.
* The largest religious building in the World is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century. --
* The largest religious building in the World is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century. --
Battle of Haldighat: took place in 1574 A.D. btwn Akbar &RanaPratap Singh.The defeated of Rana in this war gave Supremacy ovr Rajasthan 2 Akbar.
Today is Ambedkar's Birthday: >He wrote The Buddha and His Dhamma >His msg-Educate!!!, Agitate!!", Organize!!! >BharatRatna given in 1990(posthumously)
Gunadhya's Brihatkatha During Satavahana period Gunadhya sat down to the story mammoth narrated by Kanabhuti, life listened to. He wrote seven lakh stories in his own blood in colloquial paisachi prakrit. The king is a lover of classical Sanskrit refused dedication. Gunadhya was desperated. He kindled fire and offered stories to the fire God. He, his disciples and all life animate and inanimate shed tears. By the time the King came to know this, six lakh stories were consumed by fire. The King ran up and saved one lakh stories. That is the story Brihatkatha left to us.
in 1789, the German chemist M. S. Klaproth discovered a new element in pitchblende ores which he named uranium in honor of the planet Uranus
Hydroponics: The technique of growing Plants & Agricultural crops without Soil.They are planted directly in water containing nutrients. -

Right to Education-RTE.

New Delhi: Sixty- three years after independence, India today enforced a historic Right to Education (RTE) act that promises freedom from illiteracy for this vast and diverse country. Following are the key points of the legislation that expects to empower the nation through education: Free and compulsory education to all children of India in the six to 14 age group; No child shall be held back, expelled, or required to pass a board examination until completion of elementary education (up to class eight); A child who completes elementary education (upto Class 8) shall be awarded a certificate Calls for a fixed student-teacher ratio; Will apply to all of India except Jammu and Kashmir; Provides for 25 percent reservation for economically disadvantaged communities in all private and minority schools. The reservation to start with Class One beginning 2011 Mandates improvement in quality of education; School teachers will need adequate professional degree within five years or else will lose
Battle of Gogra;1529) it was fought btwn Babur & Nasrat Shah of Bengal. It resulted in d elimination of Afghan threat to the Turkish power in India
OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries HQ-Vienna,Austria, Members-12, Estd-Sep1960, Sec Gen-Abdallah Salem el-Badri -- (Now 315 users)
UNO: Estd-Oct24,1945 HQ-NEWYORK India Joined aftr 6 days-Oct 30,1945 190)Switzrland- 10-9-02 191)Timor-27.9.02 192)Montenegro-28.6.06 192 membrs Sts
Brahmadeva (1060 1130) was an Indian mathematician. He wrote Karanaprakasa, It deals partly w/ trigonometry & its applications 2 astronomy.
DARGAH - AJMER SHARIEFis at Ajmer Significance : Tomb of Muin-ud-Din Chishti Dedicated to : Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, a venerated Sufi Saint
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Angkor Vat is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built 4 the king Suryavarman II in d early 12th century 1st Hindu, dedicated 2 d God Vishnu,
: *Central Mining Research Station is situated at? Dhanbad,Jharkhand. *Capital of Antigua and Barbuda? Saint John's. *Granite City? Aberdeen.
Ther r 30 caves in Ajanta. of 9,10,19,26 & 29 r chaitya-grihas & d rest r monasteries. These caves were dscoverd in AD 1819, & built up in 2nd century
PANINI is known 4 his Sanskrit grmmar, particulrly 4 his formulation of d 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in d grmmar known as Ashtadhyayi
The Buddhas of Bamyan(6th century) carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of centrl Afghanistan
>Dadasaheb Phalke: Father of Indan Cinema. >Duke of Wellington:Iron Duke. >Dwight David Eisenhower:lke >Ernest Rutherford: Father of Nuclear Physics.
1-The national flower of Italy is=Lily 2-The national flower of China is=Narcissus 3-The permanent secretariat of the SAARC is located at=Kathmandu
Hathigumpha inscription, frm Udayagiri, was wrtn by Kharavela, during d 2nd century BCE. It consists of 17 lines incised in deep cut Brahmi letters
A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, released in 1993 d book is one of d longest novels ever published in a single volume in d English Language
>National Atlas Organisation-Calcutta >Raman Research Institute B,lore >Survey of India Dehra Dun >Wadia Institute of Himalayan Zoology-Delhi >Zoological Survey of India-Calcutta
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The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film. It follows a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War
The Boston T Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in d British colony of Massachusetts, against d British Govt. On16Dec1773,