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Awards

Award Name Recipient

24th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration Balraj Puri

Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development- 2009 Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development- 2010 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Sydney Peace Prize Vandana Shiva
Anuvrat Ahimsa International Peace Award S. N. Subba Rao
18th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavana Award Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
INFOSYS PRIZE Scientific Research which Impacts the
country
The 2010 Raman Magsaysay Awards
• For Mobilizing the Global Community against the Perils of Tadatoshi Akiba (Japan)
Nuclear Proliferation
• For Creating Hope for Communities and Their Dying River Huo Daishan (China)
• For Crafting New paths toward quality basic education for the Christopher Bernido and Ma. Victoria
poor Carpio Bernido ( Philippines)
• For Addressing disability as a community concern and a A.H.M. Noman Khan (Bangladesh)
development
• For Harmonizing economic growth and environmental Pan Yue and Fu Qiping (China)
protection challenge
Rabindranath Tagore Award -2010 Irom Sharmila
Nobel Prizes -2010
• Medicine Robert Edwards
• Literature Mario Vargas Llosa
• Peace Liu Xiabo
• Physics Konstantin Novoselov and Andrei
Geim
• Chemistry Akira Suzuki, Ei-ichi Negishi and
Richard F. Heck
• Economics Christopher Pissarides, Peter Diamond
and Dale Martensen
57th National Film Awards
 • Best Actor Amitabh Bachchan (Paa)
• Best Actress Ananya Chatterji (Abohoman)
• Best Feature Film Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
• Best Director Rituparno Gosh (Abohoman)
• Best Supporting Actor Farooque Sheikh (Lahore)
• Best Supporting Actress Arundhati Naag (Paa)
Phalke Ratna Award Dev Anand
Dada Saheb Phalke Award -2009 D. Ramanaidu
Miss Universe -2010 Jimena Navarrete (Mexico)
Miss World -2010 Alexandria Mills (USA)
Saraswati Samman 2009 Surjit Patar (For his poetry collection
“Lafzan Di Dargah”)
Jnanpith Award 2007 ONV Kurup (Malayalam)
Jnanpith Award 2008 Akhlaq Shaharyar Khan (Urdu)
2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Howard Jacobson
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award -2010 Saina Nehwal
Next Step Foundation Award -2010 Veerappa Moily
World Statesman Award-2010 Dr. Manmohan Singh

Books and Authors

Book Author

In Defence of Globalization Jagdish Bhagwati

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics Joe Biden
My Other Two Daughters Surjeet Singh Barnala
From My Jail Taslima Nasreen
It Happened in India Kishore Biyani
Science sustainability and Indian National Resurgence Murli Manohar Joshi
I Witness : Partial Observations Kapil Sibal
My Life Fidel Castro
The Elephant, The Tiger and The Cellphone Shashi Tharoor
The Tales of Beedle the Bard J. K. Rowling
The Three Mistakes of My Life Chetan Bhagat
Wedding Album Girish Karnad
A better India, A better World N R Narayana Murthy
My Album Praveen Mahajan
The Two Lolitas Michael Maar
The Score of My life Zubin Mehta
The Immortals Amit Choudhary
The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh
Musharraf : The Years in Power Murtaza Razvi
India : From Midnight to Millennium and Beyond Shashi Tharoor
Jinnah : India, Partition, Independence Jaswant Singh
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown
Yours Sincerely Natwar Singh
The Rediscovery of India Meghnad Desai
Invisible Paul Austre
Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography Fali s. Nariman
Keeping the Faith : Memoirs of a Parliamentarian Somnath Chatterji
The Mosque of Africa V S Naipaul
A Journey : An Autobiography Tony Blair
Law of Attraction Michael J. Losier
Trust Me Peter Leonard
2 States : The Story of My Marriage Chetan Bhagat
The Grand Design Stephen Hawking and Leonard
Mlodinow
Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa
The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa
The Green House Mario Vargas Llosa
Harmony Prince Charles
The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson
Who’s Sorry Now? Howard Jacobson
Lafzan Di Dargah Surjit Patar
Ghame-Hayat Ne Mara Rajee Seth
Shikara Surya Chandrashekhar Kambar
Inhin Hathiyoron Se Amar Kant
The Idea of Justice Amartya Sen
 Sports

Commonwealth Games -2010

• It was XIX CWGs
• Host City – New Delhi, India
• Mascot – Shera
• Alicia Coutts (Australia) and Gagan Narang (India) were “Queen and King” of the Games respectively
• Most Successful Commonwealth Games Association (CGA) in New Delhi – Australia
• Number of countries which participated in CWG-2010 – 71
• Number of sports organized in CWG-2010 - 17
• Number and Name of Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA ) or countries that won their First
CWG Gold Medals – 4 ( St. Vincent and the Grenadines , Botswana, Samoa and Cayman Islands)
• Sport that was included for the first time in this CWGs – Tennis
• Top three countries at CWGs -2010 in their respective order – Australia ( 74 Gold), India ( 38 Gold) ,
England (37 Gold)
• The player who won the last (38th) Gold medal for India that took it to the 2nd position in the medal
tally ahead of England – Saina Nehwal ( Badminton)
• First Asian Country to host any CWGs – Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur ) in 1998
• City to host next (XX) CWGs in 2014 – Glasgow (Scotland)
• Motto of the XIX CWG-2010 - Come out and play
• Original name of CWG - British Empire Games
• Anthem of CWG 2010 - Jeeyo, Utho, Bado ,Jeeto

Asian Games 2010 (XVI Asiad)

• Host City – Guangzhou (Haixinsha Islands), China

• Motto of 2010 Asian Games - Thrilling Games, Harmonious Asia
• Rank of India in Medal Table in Asian Games 2010 – 6th
• Theme Song – Chongfeng (Reunion)
• Number of Participating Nations – 45
• Number of total Sports -42
• Mascot – Le Yangyang
• Top three countries in their respective order – China (199 Gold), South Korea (76 Gold) , Japan (48
Gold)
 • Countries that won their first ever Asian Gold Medal – Bangladesh and Macao of China
• City to host 17th Asian Games – Incheon ( South Korea)
ü Winner of Singapore Open Title, Indonesian Open Title and Indian Open Grand Prix – Saina Nehwal
ü Country to Soccer World Cup for 2014, 2018 and 2022 respectively - Brazil, Russia and Qatar
ü Champion and runner-up of the Soccer World Cup-2010 – Spain and Netherlands respectively
ü Winner of Italian Grand Prix, Singapore Grand Prix and Korean Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

Wimbledon Tennis Championship -2010

Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Thomas Berdych (Czech Rep)

Women’s Singles Serena Williams (USA) Vera Zvonareva (Russia)
Men’s Doubles Jurgen Melzer (Austria) and Phillip Petzschner Robert Lindstedt (Sweden) and Horia Tecau
(Germany) (Romania)
Women’s Doubles Vania King (USA) and Yarolova Shvadova Elena Vesnina( Russia) and Vera Zvonareva
(Kazakhstan) (Russia)
Mixed Doubles Leander Paes (India) and Cara Black Wesley Moodie (South Africa) and Lisa
(Zimbabwe) Raymond ( USA)

US Open Tennis Championship -2010

Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Women’s Singles Kim Clijsters (Belgium) Vera Zvonareva (Russia)
Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (USA) Rohan Bopanna (India ) and Aisamul Haq
Qureshi (Pakistan)
Women’s Doubles Vania King (USA) and Yarolova Shvadova Liezel Huber (USA) and Nadia Petrova
(Kazakhstan) (Russia)
Mixed Doubles Liezel Huber (USA) and Bob Bryan (USA) Kveta Peschke (Czech Rep.) and Aisamul
Haq Qureshi (Pakistan)

ü New elected President of Hockey India– Vidya Stokes

ü 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games were organized in – Singapore
ü Asian World Champion in Boxing (2010 - held in Bridgetown, Barbados) – Mary Kom (India)
ü Wrestling Champion of the World (2010, held in Moscow, Russia) –Sushil Kumar (India)
ü BCCI new President-Elect – N. Srinivas
Economy
ü Second largest economy in the world in terms of GDP(PPP) –China
ü Income Tax Day – July 24
ü According to Asian Development Bank Report on Urbanization, India’s urbanization ranking in Asia–
34th
ü A new Index called Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is proposed to be included - Human
Development Report
ü Among various projections, forecasts for Highest GDP growth for India for 2010 is projected by – IMF
(9.7%)
ü Ranking of India, Pakistan and China in Global Hunger Index – 67th, 52nd and 9th respectively
ü Black Revolution refers to – Self dependence in petroleum and crude oil by the India
ü Call of “Evergreen Revolution” is given by – M.S. Swaminathan
ü Project “Sankalp” is associated with – elimination of “HIV/AIDS”
ü Committee which recommended religion and caste as new BPL criteria – N.C. Saxena Committee
ü First Gold refinery was established at – Shirpur (Maharashtra )
ü HDI Rank of India in Human Development Report 2010 – 119th
ü Concept of Zero based budgeting was given by – Peter A. Payer
ü Kandla Export Processing Zone (EPZ) is – Asia’s First EPZ
ü Asia’s First Stock Exchange – Bombay Stock Exchange (1875)
ü Reliance Power’s Sasan Ultra Mega Power Plant is located in – Madhya Pradesh
ü 16th SAARC summit was held at – Thimpu, Bhutan
ü Rural marketing network “e-Chaupal” was started by – ITC
ü World Population Day – 11th July ( last child of mob of 5 billion population was born on July 11, 1987,
in Yugoslavia)
ü Indian Population Density (Census 2001) -324 persons per square km
ü Literacy rate in India – 64.84 % (Male -75.26 %, Female- 53.67%)
ü 11th EU-India Summit held at - Brussels
ü The First ranked country in Global Gender Gap-2010 - Iceland
ü India’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap-2010 – 112th
ü Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is renamed as – Aadhaar
ü First Registrar for UIDAI – State Bank of India (SBI)
ü According to 13th Finance Commission , percentage of divisible pool that may be transferred as
grants to local bodies – up to 2.5 %
ü Second Green Revolution strategy for taking agriculture to a higher trajectory of 4 percent annual
growth is adopted in – 11th Five Year Plan
ü Theme of 20th Human Development report released by UNDP on November 04, 2010 – The Real
Wealth of Nations : Pathways to Human Development
ü Country with First and Last rankings in HDI Report -2010 – Norway and Zimbabwe respectively
ü 20th Public Sector Enterprise to join the club of Navratna status – Oil India Ltd(OIL)
ü The key rate which has not been modified for approximately last 6 year – Bank rate (6.0% w.e.f.
April 30,2003)
ü Country (Central Bank of country) holding largest amount of gold in the world – United States
ü India’s rank in gold holding in the world – 10th
ü The 4th commodity exchange of the country – Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX)
ü India –ASEAN Free Trade Agreement becomes operative w.e.f. – January 01, 2010
ü Phase VII of National Highway Development Project is for – Construction of Ring Roads, Flyovers and
Bypasses on selected stretches
ü Multidimensional project to infuse a new life into the some of the neglected sectors of water
transport – Sagar Mala
ü 3G Spectrum Allocation by Government of India takes/took place on – September 01,2010

Environment Affairs

ü First major effort of global community towards Environment protection – UN Conference on Human
Environment at Stockholm in June, 1972.
ü United Nations Environment Programme was created by UN General Assembly in – 1972
ü UNFCCC stands for – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
ü Conference of Parties -1 (UNFCCC: CoP-1 ) was held in 1995 at – Bonn, Germany
ü UNFCCC: CoP-16 was recently held at – Cancun , Mexico
ü UNFCCC: CoP-17 is scheduled to be held at – Durban, South Africa
ü UN Conference on Environment and Development held in June 1992 is popularly known as - Earth
Summit
ü Conference of Properties-10 Convention on Biological diversity ( 10th CoP to CBD) was held at –
Nagoya, Japan
ü Namaskar is a magazine on Biological Diversity published by – Air India
ü Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created by two UN bodies. These are –
United Nations Environment Programme and World Meteorological Organization
ü India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was announced on June 30, 2008
ü Total number of National Missions under NAPCC – Eight
ü The Kyoto Protocol is slated to end in – 2012 ( Kyoto Protocol Time Period is 2008 -2012)
ü Some major Green House Gases (GHGs) are – Carbon-di- Oxide (CO2), Methane, Nitrous Oxide,
Hydroflourocarbons, Water Vapours etc.
 Business News

ü Managing Director and CEO of the Federal Bank - Shyam Srinivasan

ü Economic Times Corporate Excellency Awards 2010 for “Company of the Year” Award recipient - L&T
ü Chairman and Managing Director of National Housing Bank – R V Verma
ü IRDA stands for – Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
ü “World Investment Report” is annually prepared by – UNCTAD
ü The biggest employer in India among all private companies – TCS
ü Indian Company that bagged the top position among Indian Companies included in Forbes -500 list
for the year 2010 - Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
ü Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award -2010 of Indian Chamber of Commerce - R. P. Goenka
ü First Food testing Laboratory of National Meat and Poultry Processing Board was inaugurated by –
Subodh kant Sahai
ü Company which bagged Rs 1,449 crore order for a Chhattisgarh Power plant – L & T
ü Bank which launches Mobile Banking Service in Madhya Pradesh in collaboration with City based
organization AISECT – State Bank of India (SBI)
ü Asia’s Number 1 oil Company – ONGC
ü The second largest car manufacturer and largest passenger car exporter of the Country – Hyundai
Motor India Ltd.
ü Organization which bagged CII-Thompson Reuters Innovation Award 2010 – BHEL
ü US- based personal care firm Namaste Group is acquired by – FMCG major Dabur India
ü Canada based start up CongoVision is acquired by – Intel Corporation
ü Name the Indian Company which has been selected for as one of the six 2010 Investing in People
Awards by Workforce One Investment Board of Southwest Ohio – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Miscellaneous

ü Name given to the Joint Military Exercise between India and Singapore – Bold Kurukshetra
ü Youngest person to cross the Atlantic Alone (Solo) – Katie Spotz
ü SIMBEX-10 is a joint naval exercise between– India and Singapore
ü The youngest in the world to scale the Everest, highest peak of the world – 13 year old American boy
Jordon Romero
ü The Planning commission constituted panel on Low-Carbon Economy is headed by – Kirit Parikh
ü National Innovation Council to be set up will be headed by – Sam Pitroda
ü Committee too formulate Job Plans in Jammu and Kashmir is headed by – Dr. C. Rangarajan
ü “ Decade of Innovation” in India – 2010-2020
ü High level panel on Global sustainability , set up by UN secretary –General Ban Ki Moon, is headed by
– the Presidents of South Africa and Finland
ü Committee which suggested Many changes in Merger and Acquisition Rules of the Enterprises –
Takeover Regulatory Advisory Committee (TRAC)
ü Takeover Regulatory Advisory Committee (TRAC) is better known as – Achuthan Committee( Chaired
by C. Achuthan)
ü Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has signed a MoU with – Mongolia
ü State that announced “Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana” – Haryana
ü Anil Ambani’s Rosa Thermal Power Project that started production recently is situated at –
Shahjahanpur , Uttar Pradesh
ü In order to Conserve the mount Kailash, a trans-boundary project has been jointly launched by –
India , China and Nepal
ü Desh Nayak title to S.C. Bose was given by – Rabindranath Tagore
ü World’s Fastest Train – China, Between Shanghai & Hangzhou – 350 km/hr
ü India – Russia Joint Military Exercise (To Combat Terrorism) – ‘INDIRA’ conducted in Kumaon Hill