Current Affairs 2010-11

1.      Who has been elected as the President of Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2010-11?

a)K.N Tilak Ram     b)Rakesh Sharma     c)Kundan R.Vyas     d)V.Shankaran      e)none

2.      Recently who among the following conferred with ‘Taj Enlighten Tareef Award’?

a)Leela Naidu     b)Shabana Azmi      c)Javed Akthar    d)Both a& b    e)none

3.      Base Rate of banks is fixed by ______?

a)RBI     b)Finance Minister     c)Both a & b     d)Banks    e)none

4.      India is the ___ Largest Producer of Vehicles in the World?

a)third       b)fifth     c)seventh     d)second     e)none of these

5.      ______ is a Insurance Regulator in India?

a) TRAI    b)SEBI     c)BSE      d)RBI     e)IRDA

6.      Micro Credit in India comes under ________?

a)Private Banking      b)NBFC    c)Rural Banking     d)Cooperative Banking    e)none

7.      What is the present limit for money transfer in RTGS?

a)`1,00,000     b)`1,50,000      c)`2,00,000    d)`2,50,000    e)`5,00,000

8.      Which is the only Asian country represented in the G-8 group?

a)India      b)South Korea     c)China    d)Japan   e)none

9.      Bad Loans can be described as NPA (Non Performing Assets) in banking terminology?

10. A/c to the recent report of ADB, what is India’s urbanization rank in Asia(% of population living in urban areas)? 34th.

Current Affairs Updates - 2010

57th National Film Awards 2010:

The 57^th National film awards were announced on 16-09-2010.

Amitabh Bachchan bags his third National Award for his performance in “Paa”, previously he got for the films ‘Agneepath’(1991) and ‘Black’(2001).

List of 2010 Winners:

·        Best Actor – Amitabh Bachchan for ‘Paa’.

·        Best Actress –  Ananya Chatterjee for Abohoman (Bengali).

·        Best Director - Rituparno Ghosh for Abohoman.

·        Best Film - 'Kutty Shrank'(Malayalam).

·        Best Popular Film – ‘3 Idiots’.

·        Best Film on Social Issues - Shyam Benegal's 'Well Done Abba'.

·        Best Film on National Integration - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's 'Dilli-6'.

·        Best Music Director - Amit Trivedi for Dev D.

·        Best lyrics - Swananad Kirkirey for 3 Idiots.

·        Best Playback Singer (Male) - Rupam Islam.

·        Best Playback Singer (Female) - Niranjana Sarkar (Housefull).

·        Best Sound Engineer - Rasool Pookutty.

·        Best Supporting Actor - Farooq Sheikh for 'Lahore'.

·        Best Supporting Actress - Arundhati Nag for ‘Paa’.

·        Best Choreography - K Shivashankar for film Magadheera.

·        Best Special Effects - Kamalakannan for film Magadheera.

US OPEN 2010:      

The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships is one of the four grand slam tennis tournament held every year.

List of 2010 winners:

S.no		Winners	Runners
1.	Men’s Single	Rafael Nadal(ESP)	Novak Djokovic(SRB)
2.	Women’s Single	Kim Clijsters(BEL)	Vera Zvonareva(RUS)
3.	Mixed Doubles	Liezel Huber, Bob Bryan(US)	Kveta Peschke(CZE), Aisam-Ul-Haq Quereshi(PAK)
4.	Men’s Doubles	Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan(US)	Bopanna(IND), Qureshi(PAK)
5.	Women’s Doubles	N. Petrova(RUS), L Huber(US)	Yung-Jan Chan(TPE), Jie Zheng(CHN)

IIFA Awards and French Open 2010

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards are presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy. These awards are awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements for Bollywood. These awards honour films from the previous calendar year.  The 2010 IIFA awards held in Colombo, Srilanka.

The awards began in 2000 and the first ceremony was held in London. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony was announced to be held in Toronto, Canada in 2011.

Amitabh Bachchan has been the Brand Ambassador of the IIFA until 2010 where he resigned the post due to protests by a Tamil Organisation "Naam Tamilar.

List of winners of 2010 IIFA awards:

·        Best Film - Vidhu Vinod Chopra - 3 Idiots.

·        Best Direction - Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots.

·        Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) - Amitabh Bachchan – Paa.

·        Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) - Kareena Kapoor - 3 Idiots & Vidya Balan – Paa.

·        Best Performance in Supporting Role (Male) - Sharman Joshi - 3 Idiots.

·        Best Performance in Supporting Role (Female) - Divya Dutta - Delhi 6.

·        Best Performance in a Negative Role - Boman Irani - 3 Idiots.

·        Best Performance in a Comic Role : Sanjay Dutt For All The Best.

·        Best Story - Abhijat Joshi, Raj Kumar Hirani, Vidu Vinod Chopra - 3 Idiots.

·        Best Lyrics - Swanand Kirkire - 3 Idiots.

·        Best Music Direction - Pritam - Love Aaj Kal.

·        Best Playback Singer (Female) - Kavita Seth - Ek Tara (Wake Up Sid).

·        Best Playback Singer (Male) - Shaan - Behti Hawa Sa Tha Who (3 Idiots).

·        Outstanding Achievement by an Indian Internationally - Anil Kapoor.

·        IIFA Green Global Award - Vivek Oberoi.

·        Best Screenplay - Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra (3 Idiots).

·        Best Cinematography - C.K. Muraleedharan (3 Idiots).

·        Best Dialogue - Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (3 Idiots).

·        Best Editing - Rajkumar Hirani (3 Idiots).

·        Debut of the year (Male) - Omi Vaidya - Jackie Bhagnani.

·        Debut of the year (Female) - Jacqueline Fernandez - Mahie Gill.

·        Best Background Score - Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga, Shantanu Moitra (3 Idiots).

·        Best Sound Recording - Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Nihal Ranjan Samel (3 Idiots).

·        Best Song Recording - Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Sachi K Sanghvi (3 Idiots).

·        Best Sound Re-recording - Anup Dev (3 Idiots).

·        Best Choreography - Bosco Martis, Caesar Gonsalves (Love Aaj Kal).

·        Best Costume Designing - Anahita Shroff Adajania, Dolly Ahluwalia (Love Aaj Kal).

·        Best Art Direction - Sabu Cyril (Aladin).

·        Best Special Effects (Visual) - Charles Darby - Eyecube Labs (Aladin).

·        Best Action - Shyam Kaushal (Kaminey).

·        Best Make up Artist - Christien Tinsley, Domini Till (Paa).

2010 French Open

French Open 2010 was the 109th edition and the second Grand Slam event of the year, will be held in Paris, France every year.

List of 2010 French Open Winners:

·        Men’s Single - Rafael Nadal(Spain) def.  Robin Söderling(Sweden).

·        Women’s Single - Francesca Schiavone(Italy) def.  Samantha Stosur(Aust).

·        Men's doubles - Daniel Nestor/ Nenad Zimonjić def.  Lukáš Dlouhý / Leander Paes.

·        Women's doubles - Serena Williams / Venus Williams def.  Květa Peschke / Katarina Srebotnik.

·        Mixed doubles - Katarina Srebotnik / Nenad Zimonjić def.  Yaroslava Shvedova / Julian Knowle.

Quiz On General Awareness 2010 - 59

1.      As per the 13^th Finance commission report, the share of states in net proceeds of sharable central taxes has been increased to ______ from the level of 30.5%?

a)34%     b)31.5%    c)32%    d)35%   e)none

2.      Who among the following is the India’s most trusted person, published by Reader’s Digest?

a)Ratan Tata    b)Narayana Murthy    c)Abdul Kalam   d)Rahul Gandhi   e)none

3.      Which of the following state is the most polluted state in India, a/c to the latest report by Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB)?

a)Maharashtra     b)Tamilnadu     c)Andhra Pradesh    d)Gujarat   e)Karnataka

4.      Who has been honored as the Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema, at the London Film Festival?

a)Amitabh Bachchan     b)Monika Mohta    c)Kishwar Desai    d)Jaya Bachchan   e)none

5.      Who has been awarded the Rani Lakshmi Bai Award for the year 2009?

a)Sunita Devi    b)Maha Jabeen    c)sugatha Kumari    d)Ved Kumari Ghai   e)M Vijaya

6.      Recently G P Birla has passed away he was a famous __________?

a)Economist     b)Actor    c)Politician   d)Industrialist    e)none

7.      SEBI has directed stock exchanges to provide details related to shares allotted to institutional investors through QIP. what is the full form of QIP?

a)Quality Investment Partner

b)Qualified Institutional Placements

c)Quality Improvement Programme

d) Quality Intellectual Property

e)none of these

8.      What is the current Repo rate?

a)4.75%    b)3.5%    c)5.0%    d)6%   e)none

9.      Recently RBI has inaugurated its sub-office in which of the following states?

a)Sikkim    b)Meghalaya    c)Assam   d)Maharashtra    e)Andhra Pradesh

10. A/c to a report released by WTO, the World Trade fell by ____ percent in 2009 due to Global Economic crisis?

a)8%     b)10%     c)12%    d)15%    e)none of these

11. India’s biggest commodity exchange MCX emerged as the ____ largest commodity exchange in the world in terms of contracts in 2009?

a)fourth     b)second     c)third    d)sixth    e)none

12. To which of the following centre has approved the proposal for release of equity infusion of Rs. 800 crore, which is facing severe financial losses?

a)Bsnl     b)Air India    c)SAIL     d)HAL   e)none of these

13. Recently Google has shut down its operations in which of the following country due to set of cyber attacks?

a)Iran     b)North Korea     c)Turkey    c)Indonesia    e)China

14. Which state bagged the National award for the best tourism infrastructure for the year 2008-09?

a)Andhra Pradesh    b)Goa    c)Kerala   d)Sikkim   e)Rajasthan

15. On which day World Water day is observed?

a)April 22^nd    b)Sep 23^rd    c)May 22^nd    d)March 22^nd    e)none

16. Which is the First State in India to Release Action Plan to Combat Climate Change?

a)Gujarat    b)Delhi   c)Karnataka     d)Meghalaya    e)none

17. Which state introduced the project ‘e-Shishu’, which maintain database of all children between newborn and 14 years of age?

a)Orissa     b)Madhya Pradesh   c)Assam     d)Jammu & Kashmir   e)none

18. According to the Corporate Gender Gap report brought out by the World Economic Forum, India has the lowest percentage of women employees of ___ percent?

a)33%     b)39%    c)26%   d)23%   e)none

19. Mukhesh Ambani has placed at ____ place in the richest person in the world, a/c to the latest report released by Forbes?

a)second     b)third    c)fourth     d)fifth    e)none

20. Which is the first country in the world to have specialized Environment Courts?

a)China    b)UK     c)US   d)Japan    e)India

55th Film fare Awards 2009

The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were first introduced in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards. The Filmfare Awards have been often referred to as Hindi film industry's equivalent of the Oscar.

The 55th Filmfare awards 2009 function was held on Saturday night 27th Feb 2010 at Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai.

List of the Filmfare Awards 2009 winners:

·        Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male): Amitabh Bachchan – Paa

·        Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female): Vidya Balan – Paa

·        Best Film: 3 Idiots

·        Best Director: Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots

·        Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male): Boman Irani – 3 Idiots

·        Best Music: A R Rahman – Delhi-6

·        Best Playback Singer (Male): Mohit Chauhan – Masakalli – Delhi-6

·        Best Playback Singer (Female): Rekha Bharadwaj – Genda Phool – Delhi-6 & Kavita Seth – Iktara – Wake Up Sid

·        Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) : Kalki Koechlin – Dev D

·        Best Debut Director (Male): Ayan Mukherjee – Wake Up Sid

·        Best Debut Director (Female): Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance

·        Best Actor (Male) Critics: Ranbir Kapoor

·        Best Actor (Female) Critics: Mahie Gill – Dev D

·        Best Film (Critics): Firaaq

·        Best Lyrics: Irshad Kamil – Aaj Din Chadiya – Love Aaj Kal

·        Best Story: Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots

·        Best Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi – 3 Idiots

·        Best Dialogue: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra – 3 idiots

·        Best Editing: Sreekar Prasad – Firaaq

·        Best Choreography: Bosco – Caesar – Chor Bazaari – Love Aaj Kal

·        Best Visual Effect Award: Kaminey

·        Best Sound Design: Manas Chaudhury – Firaaq

·        Best Production Design: Helen & Sukant – Dev D

·        Best Cinematography: Rajeev Rai – Dev D

·        Best Action: Vijayan Master – Wanted

·        Best Costume: Vaishali Menon – Firaaq

·        Best Background Score: Amit Trivedi – Dev D

·        Special Award: Nandita Das – Firaaq

·        Lifetime Achievement Award: Shashi Kapoor – Khayyam

·        R D Burman Music Award: Amit Tivedi