Current Affairs 5 - 2009

1. IT giant Infosys Opens 2nd Global Education Centre(GEC) in Mysore inaugarated by Sonia Gandhi,also it is the largest corporate education centre in the world.
2. Doordarshan celebrates 50 years in Public Broadcasting.
3. The government issued bonds worth over Rs 10,000 crore to three oil marketing PSUs to compensate them for the losses incurred on account of selling petroleum products below market price.While bonds worth Rs 6,207.06 were issued to Indian Oil Corporation, Rs 2,033.99 crore worth bonds were given to Hindustan Petroleum Corp and Rs 2,065.28 crore bonds were given to Bharat Petroleum Corp.
   
4. Mundir Sherazi won the sub-junior boys billiards title at the ongoing National Billiards and Snooker Championships.
5. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would launch Oceansat-2 satellite, which would help identify potential fishing zones and in coastal zone studies, on September 23.
6. Kerala Government launched "Email to All Employees" project,where all kerala government employees will get e-mail IDs.
7. Hughes Communications, a provider of broadband satellite and managed network services, received a five-year contract worth Rs.22.5 crore from the State Bank of India (SBI) for deploying satellite broadband network to connect its off-site ATMs across the country.
8. Wipro has won a three year outsourcing contract from All Nippon Airways (ANA), the first airline in the world to procure the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
9. HCL Security, a subsidiary of HCL Infosystems has announced the appointment of Rothin Bhattacharyya as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
10. Vijay Keshav Gokhale named as the next High Commissioner to Malaysia by succeeding Ashok Kantha.
11. All-India Gurmit Memorial hockey tournament will be held at Chandigarh.
12. Rajasthan Government banned foreign tours by ministers and officers to cut the expenditure.
13. 40,000 sq km area are under Naxals in different states where govt. has no control on it,says Parliamentary panel.
14. An agreement betweenNational Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and Germany's Development Bank KfW,India will recieve Rs 130 crore as aid from Germany.
15. According to UN World Food Program(WFP),one billion people will go hungry this year for the first time.
16. The first phase of Solar Photovoltaic manufacturing facility of Solar Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.inaugurated by Farooq abdulla in Hyderabad.
17. State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and software solutions provider HCL Infosystems signed an agreement to work together on the National Broadband Penetration Programme (NBPP).
18. Reliance will be the first telecom operator to launch the mobile numbers starting with '8' in delhi.
19. Venezuela signed a $20 billion and $16 billion investment deal with Russia and China (respectively) for oil exploration in the Orinoco river.
20. Goldman Sachs has estimated that India will require $1.7 trillion in financing its infrastructure needs over the next decade.The Indian government's projection for the 11th Five-Year Plan for 2007-2012 envisages $500 billion in infrastructure spending.