Current Affairs - November, 2009

Current Affairs Awards October 25-31

November 29, 2009

October 25, 2009: CDAC-ACCS Foundation AwardsCDAC-ACCS Foundation Award were instituted by the Advance Computing and Communications Society. The 2009 winner of this award are Dr Raj Jain of Washington University and Dr Anurag Kumar of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore . The awards will be presented to them on December 14, 2009.Dr Jain bagged award ..

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Current Affairs Business & Economy : November 12-20 , 2009

November 27, 2009

November 12, 2009: Forbes Power listPrime Minister Manmohan Singh and only three Indian businessmen feature in Forbes magazine’s first-ever World’s Most Powerful People list. Read about this list here: November 13, 2009: 50 new public sector undertakings (PSUs) to be put on the capital marketsGovernment of India has identified 50 new public sector undertakings (PSUs) ..

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Current Affairs Business and Economy Current Affairs : November 7-12, 2009

November 26, 2009

November 9, 2009: Mittal, ONGC will wind up 4 year Joint VentureONGC and Mittal had in July 2005 joined hands to form two joint ventures. These JVs were ONGC Mittal Energy Ltd (OMEL) for exploration blocks and ONGC Mittal Energy Services Ltd (OMESL) for trading and shipping of hydrocarbons. The JOV has failed now. In ..

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Current Affairs Awards October 15-19 2009

November 26, 2009

October 15, 2009: MAKE awardAt the World Knowledge Forum 2009, in Seoul, Mind Tree Limited, a global IT Solutions company, was given the ‘Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award by Teleos, in association with ‘The KNOW Network. Update October 22, 2009:IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd has been recognized amongst the top 16 Asian companies ..

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Current Affairs : Assembly Elections 2009

November 25, 2009

Arunachal Pradesh:On October 13, 2009, Elections for 60 assembly seats of Arunachal Pradesh Lagislative Assembly were organised. The results were declared on October 22, 2009. The Congress won and Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu’s Indian National Congress party came back to power in the state with an increased majority, winning 42 seats in the 60 seat ..

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Current Affairs : November 3, 2009

November 9, 2009

Quick Points: Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited’s (ABCL) debut Marathi production “Vihir” (The Well) was screened at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival . The world premier of “Vihir” was held at the Pusan International Film Festival 2009. At present the three states top in terms of cashew production in the country are Maharashtra , Andhra Pradesh ..

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