Saturday, 3 November 2012

“Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters” French honor to Aishwarya Rai


the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans  l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres). The coveted honor was given in recognition of her invaluable contribution to the world of cinema and the development of Indo-French cooperation in cinema, art, and culture.

Earlier Indian recipients include Shahrukh Khan, Raghu Rai, Nandita Das, late Habib Tanvir, and Upamanyu Chatterjee.

Gulzar honored with Indira Gandhi National Integration award


Famous lyricist, poet and film director, Gulzar has been conferred with the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award. The award was given to mark the 28th death anniversary of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Apex court asks CMC to address issues raised by TN and Karnataka


The Supreme Court asked the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC)to examine all the issues b/w Tamil Nadu and Karnataka regardingCauvery water sharing dispute b/w the two states. Karnataka has assured that it will comply with the CMC’s recommendations.

Indian Women Cricket Team lifts ACC T20 Asia Cup 2012


The Indian women’s cricket team is the winner of first Asian Cricket Council’s (ACC) Twenty20 Asia Cup 2012.
§  They beat Pakistan in the final match held in Guangzhou city of People’s Republic of China.
§  Harmanpreet Kaur played the role of skipper in the absence of Mithali Raj. 

 

“European Golden Boot” to Lionel Messi


Star footballer of Barcelona, Lionel Messi, bagged  European Golden Boot Award. The award has been given to him in recognition to his record 50 goals scored in the Europe’s domestic football league.
§  It is the second Golden Boot award for Messi.

“Ocean-grabbing” a danger to world’s fisheries: UN


As per a UN expert on right to food, ‘Ocean-grabbing’ is as serious a threat as ‘land-grabbing’. 

What is “Ocean-grabbing”?

§  An aggressive industrial fishing by foreign fleets.

How and to whom is it threatening?

§  Ocean grabbing is mainly concerned with the interest of smaller fishermen, local communities and sustainable fishing.

§  It is a threat to food security in developing nations

§  Excessive and aggressive fishing threatens the fish ecosystem and makes this practice unsustainable.

§  It depletes the fishing zones at a faster rate.

Sistema issue: India hopes agreeable solution


In reply to Russia’s comment to take the cancellation of 2G license of Sistema for international arbitration if it is not resolved in Indian courts, India has said that the matter is commercial and all parties are free to take legal recourse that they deem appropriate to meet their commercial goal.

Australian schools to teach Hindi


Announcing that Asia’s rise is“unstoppable”, Australia brought out a challenging plan aimed at fortifying its links with India and other booming economies of the Asian region. The Australian plan includes teaching languages like Hindi and Mandarin in its schools. All Australian schools will engage with at least one school in Asia to support the teaching of a priority Asian language — Mandarin, Hindi, Indonesian or Japanese. Australia also released ‘Asian Century White Paper’ with an aim to extend and strengthen it links with Asia.

    For know more about ‘Asian Century White Paper’  click here

Superstorm Sandy

Superstorm Sandy batters New Jersey coast of US
§  Hurricane Sandy (also referred to as Superstorm Sandy) a tropical cyclone that severely affected portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012.

Japan honors DMRC with 2012 JICA President Award


Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)  President Award for 2012  was given to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for the outstanding role it played in the development of human resources, society and economy of India and also for encouraging mutual understanding b/w India and Japan.

Persons in News:Joshna Chinappa


Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa won the IJM Land Penang Open title 2012 after vanquishing top most squash player Siti Munirah Jusoh of Malaysia. In 2003, Joshna became the first Indian girl to win British Squash Championship title in the under 19 category.

Persons in News: Silvio Berlusconi


Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to 4 years in jail and suspended him from public service for 3 years for tax fraud.

What are the charges against Berlusconi?

Berlusconi and other people involved in the case were accused of buying US film rights at inflated prices via two offshore companies under his control. As per the prosecutors, that part of the money declared for the purchase of film rights was skimmed off to make illegal slush funds, cutting down tax liabilities for Berlusconi’s  Mediaset  group. Now all the convicts in the case must deposit into a fund as appeals which could take many years in proceedings.

 

Rail Radar


Railways launched online application provides exact geographical location of trains.

Railways launched online application Rail Radar, which can provide exact geographical location of about 9,700 trains on a Google map on real time basis.

§  There is a colour code method which highlights a train in Blue if it is running on time and Red if it running late or behind schedule.

§  The map shows the exact route of a train including all the stoppages and the current location of the train on the real time basis.

Rail Radar is developed by the collaborative efforts of Indian Railways Centre for Railways Information System (CRIS) and RailYatri.in.

 

Planning Commission's Environmental Performance Index released


Planning Commission's Environmental Performance Index (EPI) has placed the Uttarakhand as a best-performing States and Union territory in terms of environmental well-being.

Uttarakhand is followed by Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Sikkim, and Andhra Pradesh. Environmental well-being is one of the considerations for devolution of funds to the States under the Gadgil formula.


Tuesday, 30 October 2012

[MyThought] Growth vs Growth


Before going to our main topic lets us look what growth means to us. The definition of growth is vary from person to person , situation to situation , nation to nation .what is growth for India may not be growth for USA. Thus, we find that growth is a dynamic phenomenon that is changing it looks according to its environmental factors. In simple term growth defined as to make our environment a better place to live. Well it is a too simple way to express growth but in reality defining growth is far more complicate phenomenon. There are many indicators for growth because growth can’t be sustained on single factor. Some of these indicators are likes – Education, Sex ratio, Poverty etc.

Sebastian Vettel wins Indian Grand Prix again


For the second successive year, Sebastian Vettel  of Red Bull wowed the spectators at the Buddh International Circuit here on Sunday afternoon as he registered a stupendous victory in the Indian Grand Prix. He finished nearly 10 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso, who pushed his Ferrari past the line in 1:31:20.181s. Mark Webber, Vettel’s  teammate, came in third (1:31:23.961s).

India topples Thailand as world's largest rice exporter: USDA (US Department of Agriculture0


India has the emerged as the world's largest rice exporter in 2012 beating its Asian counterpart Thailand with shipment of 9.75 million tonnes, according to USDA's latest report.

Thailand was the top rice exporter with exports of 10.65 million tonnes in 2011. However, its volume slipped to 6.5 million tonnes in 2012.

NSE tops bourse CEO salary chart


Chiefs of leading stock exchange NSE and the top commodity bourse MCX have topped the executive salary charts of their businesses, getting hike of nearly 6 per cent in last fiscal.

Among the stock exchanges, the net pay package of National Stock Exchange (NSE) MD and CEO Ravi Narain rose to Rs 4.1 crore in 2011-12, from Rs 3.85 crore in the previous fiscal, as per the bourse’s latest annual report.

Pankaj Advani wins seventh billiards world title


Ace Indian cueist Pankaj  Advani proved his class once again as he notched up his seventh World Billiards Championship title after comprehensively beating defending champion and seasoned Englishman Mike Russell in the final here.

Monday, 29 October 2012

Person in News :Bo Xilai


Bo Xilai expelled from China’s Parliament, stripped of legal immunity
China expelled disgraced Communist Party leader Bo Xilai’s from country’s Parliament and also stripped him of legal immunity to start legal proceedings into offences alleged on him.

Govt. approves setting up of Aircraft Acquisition Committee

The government gave its nod for setting up a new committee which will consider, examine and make recommendations on allowing import or acquisition of aircraft for various purposes by airlines. After analyzing the proposals, the panel would make suggestions for operation of scheduled air transport services, regional scheduled air transport services and non-scheduled air transport services.

Mali readmitted into African Union


African Union (A.U.) readmitted Mali after a meeting of the A.U. Peace and Security Council [AUPSC].
Why Mali’s membership was annulled? 
 Mali’s membership was suspended by the African Union after a coup in the country in March 2012 when a military junta seized power even as two thirds of Mali slipped into the control of a coalition of armed groups and organized gangs.

Person in News : Dr. C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda


International Crop Science award to ICRISAT scientist Dr. C.L. Laxmipathi Gowda

Person in News : Brahma Chellaney


Bernard Schwartz award to Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney has been awarded with 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his book Water: Asia’s New Battleground.

Sunday, 28 October 2012

[My Thought] “ Good Fences make good neighbors”


“Good fences make good neighbors “ it is a proverb means that it is better for people to mind their own business and to respect privacy of others. This well known saying applicable to every field of our life whether it is our family or our office or our Nation .Interference with others matter always ushered to a conflict. Every one of us like our privacy and don’t want that anyone interference in our personal matter. Now coming to problems, why we need fences? Off-course that is a psychological question, but I are not interested in that. Since the dawn of human civilization , people felt fundamental need to divide the world into territorial areas. In last century, hundred thousands of people died in ethnically violent clashes due to Territorial dispute. A Territorial dispute is disagreement of possession or control of land between two or more states. There are many countries in world which are indulging in some kind of territorial disputes. this list of disputes is to large so we can’t explain each and everyone but let try to understand some majors disputes in briefly.

India has territorial disputes with Pakistan, China, and Bangladesh. India had fought many war with these country on the matters of territorial possession. Recent, Kargil war between India and Pakistan was a good example. The cause of war was infiltration of Pakistan soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions of Indian side of LOC, which served as de facto border between these two nation. Finally The Indian Army with the help of Indian Air force, recaptured the majority of Indian territory occupied by Pakistani militants. But in the whole process is there any gain for any country whether it is India or Pakistan but of course they looses live of many soldiers. They are fighting for Kargil sector, which is Iceland not suitable for habitation. There are many other cases also like Gaza strip dispute between Israeli and Palestinian , Arunachal Pradesh disagreements between India and China , territorial disputes in south china sea between China and Vietnam , etc.

This disagreement or disputes affect not only political, social and cultural conditions of these countries but also global economy. Recently, in news we heard about the dispute over East China Sea islands , called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, is such an emotionally charged issue in China that it has sparked widespread anti-Japanese riots across the country and a boycotting of Japanese products there. This will adversely affected some of companies like Toyota Motors whose sales depend on China to a considerable extent fall down gradually. Apart from these territorial disagreements also affect economic life of people of territory because extra cost burden of these conflict bear by people only. If government more indulge in these kind of conflicts it levy more tax to fulfill extra burden created due to these conflicts.

Now finally we conclude that wheather it is a individual life or a nation it is better to keep visible and acceptable fences between them because it not only make life peaceful but also help to grow economically, politically and socially.