Mukesh tops Forbes list of India's richest

New Delhi: RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped Forbes magazine's list of the 100 richest Indians for the third year in-a-row, pipping billionaires like LN Mittal and Azim Premji with a net worth of USD 27 billion.
As per the Forbes research study, the combined net worth of India's 100 richest people rose to USD 300 billion this year from USD 276 billion last year, driven by the country's booming economy and a rally in the stock market.

हास्य कलाकार महमूद

हिंदी फिल्मों में महमूद ने हास्य कलाकार के तौर पर उस दौर में जगह बनाई थी जब हास्य को प्रमुखता नहीं दी जाती थी. कामेडी की नयी परिभाषा गढ़ कर हास्य को फिल्म के अहम तत्व के तौर पर स्थापित करने वाले महमूद के आगे नायक भी आगे बेअसर प्रतीत होते थे.
एक अभिनेता का पुत्र होने के बावजूद महमूद के लिए फिल्मी सफर आसान नहीं रहा. पैर जमाने के लिए छोटे मोटे काम, छोटी छोटी भूमिकाएं करने के बाद अंतत: महमूद को फिल्म ‘परवरिश’ से पहचान मिली. इसके पहले उन्होंने ‘दो बीघा जमीन, प्यासा, जागृति, सीआईडी’ जैसी फिल्मों में छोटी भूमिकाएं की.
‘परवरिश’ में उन्होंने उस समय के प्रमुख सितारे राजकपूर के भाई की भूमिका की थी. इस फिल्म ने उनकी हास्य प्रतिभा को उभारा और हिंदी फिल्मों को ऐसा कलाकार मिल गया जिससे बाद में नायक भी ‘खौफ’ खाने लगे. महमूद की लोकप्रियता का यह आलम था कि उनके चरित्र को ध्यान में रखकर कहानी लिखी जाती थी और वह चरित्र फिल्मों का अभिन्न हिस्सा होता था.
महमूद के हास्य में स्वाभाविकता थी जिसके समय और पैनेपन को देखकर दर्शक रोमांचित हो जाते थे. एक समय उनका नायकों से ज्यादा रसूख था.
दर्शकों की नब्ज पर पकड़ रखने वाले महमूद ने एक से बढ़कर एक कामेडी फिल्में दीं. किशोर कुमार और सुनील दत्त के साथ ‘पड़ोसन’ हो या शोभा खोटे के साथ ससुराल, जिद्दी या लव इन टोक्यो हो, महमूद दर्शकों को हंसाते रहे.

PM, Sonia launch 'Aadhaar', hands over Ist UID numbers

The government on Wednesday finally kicked-off one of the most ambitious projects in the country, to provide unique identity number to each of its one billion-plus citizens, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi handing over the first set of such identity cards to some villagers in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra.

‘Peepli Live’ makes it to the Oscars!

Mumbai: Well, Aamir Khan has done it again. ‘Peepli Live’ has been selected as India’s official entry at the 83rd Academy Awards to be held in US next year in 2011. Speaking to a news daily Supran Sen, secretary general of the Film Federation of India said, “Peepli Live has been selected as India`s official entry for the Oscars out of 27 films.”  The film produced and promoted by Aamir Khan has gone on to become India’s calling card from world’s most prestigious film awards – the Oscars! Peepli Live has been short listed in the Best Foreign Film category. Holding the megaphone for the first time, the director of ‘Peepli Live’ Anusha Rizvi is no less than a revelation for the evolving Indian cinema. The movie is satirical take on farmer suicides in India and how media and politicians tackle the issue.

पद्म विभूषण पुरस्कार 2010

राष्ट्रपति प्रतिभा पाटिल ने आज यहां एक समारोह में प्रसिद्ध मृदंगम वादक उमयलपुरम के. शिवरामन, आरबीआई के पूर्व गवर्नर वाय.वी. रेड्डी और अदाकारा जोहरा सहगल को पद्म विभूषण से सम्मानित किया.
राष्ट्रपति भवन में एक शानदान समारोह में प्रवासी होटलियर संत सिंह चटवाल, संगीतकार इलैयाराजा और जानेमाने उद्योगपति विंदी बांगा को पद्म भूषण पुरस्कारों से नवाजा गया.

Women take majority in Swiss cabinet

Zurich: Switzerland's parliament gave women a majority in the federal cabinet for the first time on Wednesday, less than 40 years after Swiss women gained the right to vote. Parliament chose 50-year-old consumer advocate and Social Democrat Simonetta Sommaruga for one of two vacant seats on the Federal Council, which is made up of representatives of the biggest parties in Switzerland's consensus-based government. Sommaruga becomes the fourth female member of the seven-strong cabinet. Swiss women gained the federal right to vote only in 1971, long after many other democracies. They now also hold the largely ceremonial presidency, which rotates between cabinet members, and the positions of speakers of both houses of parliament.

India doing well in reducing maternal mortality: UNICEF

New Delhi: The UNICEF on Monday lauded India's effort in reducing maternal deaths. "India ranks 25th among the countries in terms of percentage decline in maternal mortality rates, reducing it by 59 percent since 1990. There is no dispute that India has done well in reducing maternal mortality," Unicef Chief of Communication in India Angela Walker told  IANS. The "Trends in Maternal Mortality" report released by the WHO, Unicef, UNFPA and the World Bank Sep 15 says India recorded the world's highest number of maternal deaths in 2008 at 63,000, more than countries like Nigeria, Congo, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.

Asia richer, but still leads world in poverty

New York: Asia has slashed the number of people living in extreme poverty but is still struggling to meet ambitious development goals set at the United Nations, a UN report said on Tuesday. "One of the region's greatest MDG successes has been a reduction in the number of people living on less than USD 1.25 a day from 1.5 billion to 947 million between 1990 and 2005," the UN report on Asia's progress in the Millennium Development Goals said. "However, the region remains home to two-thirds of the world's poor and hungry, with one in six malnourished, and it has been slow to reduce child mortality and to improve maternal health." The report was issued at a summit at UN headquarters in New York held five years before the MDG deadline of 2015.

3 Top USA athletes Not Coming for CWG, India

New Delhi:  The news just keeps getting worse for the organisers of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. A day after a foot over-bridge at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium collapsed and Commonwealth Games Federation Chief Executive Mike Hooper termed the Games Village as "filthy and uninhabitable," three top British athletes have decided to pull out of the event. One of them, Phillips Idowu, has given security fears as the reason for his decision. Idowu is the world triple jump champion and the also the defending Commonwealth Games champion in the same event. Idowu also posted on his twitter account by writing 'Sorry people, but I have children to think about. My safety is more important to them than a medal.' Besides Idowu, the other two athletes to pull out are Christine Ohuruogu and Lisa Dobriskey.

India third most powerful nation: US report

Washington:  The new global power lineup in the US for 2010 compiling the world's most powerful countries/regions recognised India as the third most powerful country behind the US and China, and predicted that its clout as well as that of China and Brazil would further rise by 2025. "Global Governance 2025" - follow-on to the NIC's 2008 report - was jointly issued by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) of the powerful Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the European Union's Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). In 2010, the US tops the list of powerful countries/regions, accounting for nearly 22 per cent of the global power.

World

International Current Affairs 2010

• France Government Ban BURKA at Govt places. 
• *In survey of FORBES Magazine, India & China tie for top place *3rd-Hong Kong & Taiwan
  *5th-Koria
• Julia Gillard become Australia’s first women Prime Minister replacing Kevin Rudd following a sudden revolt against him.
• No more time for sorrow’ written by Robert Beeman. The author predict that terrorist will set off an atom bomb in the USA by 2013.
• Tuvalu become 187th member of IMF (International Monetary Fund). The island is located in the Pacific Ocean.
• Kyrgyzstan voted for a new constitution in a referendum. It is Central Asia’s first parliament democracy.
• G-20 summit held at Toronto, Canada.

Others

Misc Issues

• India and France held a joint air combat exercise in France called ‘Garuda IV’.
• Cyclone Phet hit Gujarat coast .
• Indigenous developed vaccine ‘Vaxiflu-S’ against swine flu (H1N1) is launched.
• Mars-500 : An experiment to study the effect of long isolation to better understand how a real space crew should cope with stress and fatigue. The experiment is conducted by Russia, China and The European Space Agency at Moscow. A total of 520 days are required to travelled to and back form Mars planet.
• Capital Gate Tower in Abu Dhabi has been certified at world’s furthest leaning manmade tower. The tower leans at 18 degrees, over four times angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• World Blood Donor Day- 14 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Celebrating your gift of blood’.
• World Environment Day – 5 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Biodiversity : Connecting with Nature’.
• Statistics Day- 29 June. Celebrated in honour of Prof P C Mahalanobis.
• Govt made it mandatory for companies listed on the stock exchange to raise public shareholding to 25 %.
• Craig Venter created first living cell created synthetically by human being.
• Bharti Airtel acquire Kuwait based Zain Telecom’s African business for $ 10.7 billion or Rs. 48,150 crore. Bharti now become 5th largest telecom company in the world.
• Broadband users in India as on March 2010 was 8.75 million.
• Forbes list 1011 billionaires in the world. It included 14 women, 7 of whom are from China.
• India has 1.27 lakh millionaires in 2009, a rise of 50.9 %. HNWI (high net worth individual) are defined as those having investible assets of $ 1 million or more. Hongkong topped the global growth in HNWI followed by India.
• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development is being set up in New Delhi.

Persons

Persons in News 2010

• Former CJI K G Balakrishnan is appointed as Chairman of National Human Rights Commission.
• O P Bhatt has been elected as Chairman , Indian Banker’s Association for the year 2010-11.
• Tenzin Norzon, a resident of Varanasi crowned as Miss Tibet 2010.
• J G Farrell won the Lost Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘Troubles’.
• Sachin Tendulkar conferred with Indian Air Force’s honorary rank of Group Captain. Till now 21 persons have been granted honorary ranks by the IAF. The first person was Raja of Jawhar- Raja Yaswant Rao in 1994. Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred with this honour.
• Sharad Pawar will be 7th President of ICC. He become 2nd Indian after Jagmohan Dalmia to occupy the position. He succeeded David Morgan.
• Wrestler and 1970’s Asian Games Gold medalist, Chandagi Ram Kaliram died.

Sports

Sports Current Affairs 2010

• May Com Wins Gold Medal in World Boxing Championship
• India's Boxer Sushil Kumar wins Gold at the World wrestling Championships.
• India and South Korea are combined winner AjlanShah Hockey Cup 2010
• Nadal became 1st man since 1969 to win French Open, Wimbledon & US Open in same year. At just  24, Nadal becomes third youngest to win all Grand Slams 
• Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal defeated Robin Soderling. He is the second person after Bjorn Borg to win 5th French Open titles.
• Women’s singles- Francesca Schiavone (Italy) defeated Samantha Stosur (Australia). She became first Italian women to won the French open.
• Men’s Doubles- Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Lukas Dlouhy & Leander Paes.
• Women’s Doubles- Serena Williams & Venus Williams defeated Kveta Peschke & Katarina Srebotnik.
• Mixed Doubles – Katarina Srebotnik & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Yavoslava Shvedova & Julian Knowle.
• Saina Nehwal defeated Choo Wong Mew to win women’s single title in Yonex-Sunrise Indian Open badminton championship. In the Men’s singles Yunus Alamsyah won the title.
• Saina Nehwal defeated Japan’s Sayaka Sato to win women’s singles title in Indonesian Open Super Series 2010.
• Indian Ronjan Sodhi won the double trap gold medal at ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy.
• India defeated Sri Lanka to won Asia Cup(Cricket) 2010. India won the title after 15 years i.e. it won the cup in 1995.
• Saina Nehwal won the Women’s singles title in Singapore Super Series badminton championship 2010 defeating China’s Tzu Ying Tai. It was her 2nd consecutive title.
• 3000th ODI( One day international) cricket match was played between England & Australia.=

National

National Current Affairs 2010

• Total National highway in India is 205 with distance 67,000 km. NH1 is divided so NH7 is now Longest from Varanasi to Kanyakumari (2369 km) 
• NEWS: Washington, Sep 12- Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani will become the world's richest man in 2014
• SY KURAISHI is new Chief Election Commissioner of India
• India and Chaina tied in Forbes List of becoming ASIA Power
• At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Aditya 'Romeo' Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.
• From 2006-2009, Saudi Arabia ranked first in arms transfer agreements with USD 29.5 billion, India is second with USD 17.1 billion
• National Film Award: *Malyalam film Kutty Srank wins Best Feature Film *Best Hindi film: Paa *Best actress: Ananya Chatterjee in Abohoman
• Indira Nuyi , C.E.O. of the Cola company PEPSI Co top salary getter in india. She gets appr. 47 Crore rs. salary per
• Sep 13, 2010, On Monday:India has become the seventh largest vehicle producing nation in the world, six years ahead of target   
• In the Global Peace Index 2010, India ranked at 128.
• 2010 Failed State Index- Somalia top the list followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan & Chad. India is ranked at 87 place out of 177 countries. Norway in ranked at the bottom of the list.
• President Rule imposed in Jharkhand.
• Amar Singh launches a new party ‘Akhil Bhartiya Lok Manch’.
• South African president Jacob Zuma visited India.
• Turkmenistan President Gurbaguly Bardimuhamedov visited India.
• Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India. India signed 7 pacts with Sri Lanka. India will assist in building 50000 houses in the northen & eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
• Bangladesh Govt has requested to rename the train linking West Bengal to Tripura via Banglades as ‘ Sonar Tori’. Earlier the name of the train as envisaged in the Railway Budget 2010 is ‘Epar Bangla Opar Bangla’. Sonar Tori is a collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated in 2010.
• Maharastra will become first state in the country to have a real estate regulatory authority.
• BWA- Broadband Wireless Access. The BWA spectrum was auctioned by the Govt. BWA Spectrum is essential for rolling out WiMAX services enabling hand held devices and laptops to access Intranet. It will allow firms to offer high speed Net, Web telephony & TV Services. The govt fixed Rs.1750 crore as base rate for BWA license. The auction was held for 117 rounds and in 16 days. Rs.12848 crore was the pan India BWA license price which was won by Infotel Broadband services ( in all 22 circles). The Govt auctioned the BWA license for a total of Rs.38,543 crore. Mumbai had the highest bid of Rs.2293 crore followed by Delhi with Rs.2241 crore respectively.
• India signed Civil Nuclear agreement with Canada. The agreement was signed by Manmohan Singh and Canada’s PM Stephen Harper. Canada is the 8th nation to enter into such an agreement with India. Canada served nuclear ties with India in 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974. India’s nuclear power programme is based on the CANDU ( Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.
• India become a full fledged member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a 34 member inter governmental body that devises policies at both national & international levels to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. FATF membership will enable Indian authorities to access information on suspect accounts in nations such as Switzerland & UK. India become its 34th member.

General Knowledge

SECTION A
International Current Affairs 2010

• France Government Ban BURKA at Govt places. 
• *In survey of FORBES Magazine, India & China tie for top place *3rd-Hong Kong & Taiwan
  *5th-Koria
• Julia Gillard become Australia’s first women Prime Minister replacing Kevin Rudd following a sudden revolt against him.
• No more time for sorrow’ written by Robert Beeman. The author predict that terrorist will set off an atom bomb in the USA by 2013.
• Tuvalu become 187th member of IMF (International Monetary Fund). The island is located in the Pacific Ocean.
• Kyrgyzstan voted for a new constitution in a referendum. It is Central Asia’s first parliament democracy.
• G-20 summit held at Toronto, Canada.

National Current Affairs 2010

• Total National highway in India is 205 with distance 67,000 km. NH1 is divided so NH7 is now Longest from Varanasi to Kanyakumari (2369 km) 
• NEWS: Washington, Sep 12- Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani will become the world's richest man in 2014
• SY KURAISHI is new Chief Election Commissioner of India
• India and Chaina tied in Forbes List of becoming ASIA Power
• At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Aditya 'Romeo' Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.
• From 2006-2009, Saudi Arabia ranked first in arms transfer agreements with USD 29.5 billion, India is second with USD 17.1 billion
• National Film Award: *Malyalam film Kutty Srank wins Best Feature Film *Best Hindi film: Paa *Best actress: Ananya Chatterjee in Abohoman
• Indira Nuyi , C.E.O. of the Cola company PEPSI Co top salary getter in india. She gets appr. 47 Crore rs. salary per
• Sep 13, 2010, On Monday:India has become the seventh largest vehicle producing nation in the world, six years ahead of target   
• In the Global Peace Index 2010, India ranked at 128.
• 2010 Failed State Index- Somalia top the list followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan & Chad. India is ranked at 87 place out of 177 countries. Norway in ranked at the bottom of the list.
• President Rule imposed in Jharkhand.
• Amar Singh launches a new party ‘Akhil Bhartiya Lok Manch’.
• South African president Jacob Zuma visited India.
• Turkmenistan President Gurbaguly Bardimuhamedov visited India.
• Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India. India signed 7 pacts with Sri Lanka. India will assist in building 50000 houses in the northen & eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
• Bangladesh Govt has requested to rename the train linking West Bengal to Tripura via Banglades as ‘ Sonar Tori’. Earlier the name of the train as envisaged in the Railway Budget 2010 is ‘Epar Bangla Opar Bangla’. Sonar Tori is a collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated in 2010.
• Maharastra will become first state in the country to have a real estate regulatory authority.
• BWA- Broadband Wireless Access. The BWA spectrum was auctioned by the Govt. BWA Spectrum is essential for rolling out WiMAX services enabling hand held devices and laptops to access Intranet. It will allow firms to offer high speed Net, Web telephony & TV Services. The govt fixed Rs.1750 crore as base rate for BWA license. The auction was held for 117 rounds and in 16 days. Rs.12848 crore was the pan India BWA license price which was won by Infotel Broadband services ( in all 22 circles). The Govt auctioned the BWA license for a total of Rs.38,543 crore. Mumbai had the highest bid of Rs.2293 crore followed by Delhi with Rs.2241 crore respectively.
• India signed Civil Nuclear agreement with Canada. The agreement was signed by Manmohan Singh and Canada’s PM Stephen Harper. Canada is the 8th nation to enter into such an agreement with India. Canada served nuclear ties with India in 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974. India’s nuclear power programme is based on the CANDU ( Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.
• India become a full fledged member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a 34 member inter governmental body that devises policies at both national & international levels to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. FATF membership will enable Indian authorities to access information on suspect accounts in nations such as Switzerland & UK. India become its 34th member.

Sports Current Affairs 2010

• May Com Wins Gold Medal in World Boxing Championship
• India's Boxer Sushil Kumar wins Gold at the World wrestling Championships.
• India and South Korea are combined winner AjlanShah Hockey Cup 2010
• Nadal became 1st man since 1969 to win French Open, Wimbledon & US Open in same year. At just  24, Nadal becomes third youngest to win all Grand Slams 
• Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal defeated Robin Soderling. He is the second person after Bjorn Borg to win 5th French Open titles.
• Women’s singles- Francesca Schiavone (Italy) defeated Samantha Stosur (Australia). She became first Italian women to won the French open.
• Men’s Doubles- Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Lukas Dlouhy & Leander Paes.
• Women’s Doubles- Serena Williams & Venus Williams defeated Kveta Peschke & Katarina Srebotnik.
• Mixed Doubles – Katarina Srebotnik & Nenad Zimonjic defeated Yavoslava Shvedova & Julian Knowle.
• Saina Nehwal defeated Choo Wong Mew to win women’s single title in Yonex-Sunrise Indian Open badminton championship. In the Men’s singles Yunus Alamsyah won the title.
• Saina Nehwal defeated Japan’s Sayaka Sato to win women’s singles title in Indonesian Open Super Series 2010.
• Indian Ronjan Sodhi won the double trap gold medal at ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy.
• India defeated Sri Lanka to won Asia Cup(Cricket) 2010. India won the title after 15 years i.e. it won the cup in 1995.
• Saina Nehwal won the Women’s singles title in Singapore Super Series badminton championship 2010 defeating China’s Tzu Ying Tai. It was her 2nd consecutive title.
• 3000th ODI( One day international) cricket match was played between England & Australia.=

Persons in News 2010

• Former CJI K G Balakrishnan is appointed as Chairman of National Human Rights Commission.
• O P Bhatt has been elected as Chairman , Indian Banker’s Association for the year 2010-11.
• Tenzin Norzon, a resident of Varanasi crowned as Miss Tibet 2010.
• J G Farrell won the Lost Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘Troubles’.
• Sachin Tendulkar conferred with Indian Air Force’s honorary rank of Group Captain. Till now 21 persons have been granted honorary ranks by the IAF. The first person was Raja of Jawhar- Raja Yaswant Rao in 1994. Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred with this honour.
• Sharad Pawar will be 7th President of ICC. He become 2nd Indian after Jagmohan Dalmia to occupy the position. He succeeded David Morgan.
• Wrestler and 1970’s Asian Games Gold medalist, Chandagi Ram Kaliram died.

 Misc Issues

• India and France held a joint air combat exercise in France called ‘Garuda IV’.
• Cyclone Phet hit Gujarat coast .
• Indigenous developed vaccine ‘Vaxiflu-S’ against swine flu (H1N1) is launched.
• Mars-500 : An experiment to study the effect of long isolation to better understand how a real space crew should cope with stress and fatigue. The experiment is conducted by Russia, China and The European Space Agency at Moscow. A total of 520 days are required to travelled to and back form Mars planet.
• Capital Gate Tower in Abu Dhabi has been certified at world’s furthest leaning manmade tower. The tower leans at 18 degrees, over four times angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• World Blood Donor Day- 14 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Celebrating your gift of blood’.
• World Environment Day – 5 June. Theme of 2010 is ‘Biodiversity : Connecting with Nature’.
• Statistics Day- 29 June. Celebrated in honour of Prof P C Mahalanobis.
• Govt made it mandatory for companies listed on the stock exchange to raise public shareholding to 25 %.
• Craig Venter created first living cell created synthetically by human being.
• Bharti Airtel acquire Kuwait based Zain Telecom’s African business for $ 10.7 billion or Rs. 48,150 crore. Bharti now become 5th largest telecom company in the world.
• Broadband users in India as on March 2010 was 8.75 million.
• Forbes list 1011 billionaires in the world. It included 14 women, 7 of whom are from China.
• India has 1.27 lakh millionaires in 2009, a rise of 50.9 %. HNWI (high net worth individual) are defined as those having investible assets of $ 1 million or more. Hongkong topped the global growth in HNWI followed by India.
• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace & Sustainable Development is being set up in New Delhi.