BCCI CRICKET AWARDS 2010-11

Sachin Tendulkar India's Cricketer of the Year Salim Durani Lifetime Achievement Award Manish Pandey Highest run scorer in Ranji Trophy Abhimanyu Mithun Highest Wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy M D Thirushkamini Best Woman Cricketer K Hariharan Best Umpire Maharashtra Best Overall Performance
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FRENCH OPEN 2011 RESULTS

Men's Singles Women's Singles Men's Doubles Women's Doubles Mixed Doubles

Rafal Nadal Li Na Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor Andrea Hlavakova and Lucie Hradecka Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky

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OSCARS 2011 AWARDS WINNERS

Best Picture "The King's Speech," Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers Achievement in directing "The King's Speech," Tom Hooper Actor in a Leading Role Colin Firth in "The King's Speech" Actor in a Supporting Role Christian Bale in "The Fighter" Actress in a Leading Role Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" Actress in a Supporting Role Melissa Leo in "The Fighter" Animated Feature Film "How to Train Your Dragon" Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois "The Illusionist" Sylvain Chomet "Toy Story 3" Lee Unkrich

Achievement in Art Direction "Alice in Wonderland" Achievement in Cinematography "Inception," Wally Pfister Costume Design "Alice in Wonderland," Colleen Atwood Documentary (Feature) "Inside Job," Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs Documentary (Short Subject) "Strangers No More" Film Editing "The Social Network" Foreign Language Film "In a Better World," Denmark Makeup "The Wolfman," Rick Baker and Dave Elsey Music (Original Score) "The Social Network," Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Music (Original Song) "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3," Music and Lyric by Randy Newman Short Film (Animated) "The Lost Thing," Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann Short Film (Live Action) "God of Love," Luke Matheny Sound Editing "Inception," Richard King Sound Mixing "Inception," Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick Visual Effects "Inception," Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb Writing (Adapted Screenplay) "The Social Network," Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin Writing (Original Screenplay) "The King's Speech," Screenplay by David Seidler

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GRAMMY AWARDS 2011 WINNERS

Album of the year Arcade Fire, The Suburbs Record of the year Lady Antebellum, Need You Now Song of the year Need You Now (Lady Antebellum, performers) Best new artist Esperanza Spalding Best female pop vocal performance Lady Gaga, Bad Romance Best male pop vocal performance Bruno Mars, Just the Way You Are Best pop vocal album Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster Best traditional pop vocal album Michael Buble, Crazy Love Best electronic/dance album La Roux, La Roux

Best solo rock vocal performance Paul McCartney, Helter Skelter Best hard rock performance Them Crooked Vultures, New Fang Best metal performance Iron Maiden, El Dorado Best rock song Angry World (Neil Young) Best rock album Muse, The Resistance Best alternative music album The Black Keys, Brothers Best female R&B vocal performance Fantasia, Bittersweet Best male R&B vocal performance Usher, There Goes My Baby Best urban/alternative performance Cee Lo Green, F*** You Best R&B song Shine (John Legend and the Roots) Best contemporary R&B album Usher, Raymond v Raymond Best rap solo performance Eminem, Not Afraid Best rap song Empire State of Mind (JayZ and Alicia Keys, performers) Best rap album Eminem, Recovery Best female country vocal performance Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me Best male country vocal performance Keith Urban, Til Summer Comes Around Best country song Need You Now (Lady Antebellum, performers) Best country album Lady Antebellum, Need You Now Best contemporary jazz album The Stanley Clarke Band, The Stanley Clarke Band Best Americana album Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone Best contemporary blues album Buddy Guy, Living Proof Best contemporary folk album Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise Best classical album: Verdi: Requiem (Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Barbara Frittoli & Mario Zeffiri; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus)

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CRICKET TOP NEWS

India won their second Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the finals in 2011 Mumbai . Under the captainship of M.S.Dhoni. Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (19051911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (19121936) Cricket test match: Against England at Lord's, June 25, 1932 First One day Cricket captain: S.Venkataraghavan First Test Cricket captain: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England First Indian to score an ODI century was Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup First Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, February 24, 2010 Cricketer to score a century: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds Cricketer to score a double century: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56 Cricketer to score a triple century: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004. ODI cricket hat-trick: Chetan Sharma in Reliance World Cup against New Zealand in 1987. Test cricket hat-trick: Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001

Cricket World Cup championship win: At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, England beating West Indies. Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket: Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat) Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI cricket: Sachin Tendulkar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat) Cricket Twenty20 world cup winner: India in 2007. Cricketer to score 99 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble First batsman to score a double century in a one day International : Sachin Tendulkar First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket : Sachin Tendulkar First woman to score a double hundred in test cricket : Mithali Raj [214* against Newzealand at Wellington 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat) First time six SIXES in an over of a T-20 match were scoured by an Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh against England
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IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER

Mr. V. K. Singh- INA CHIEF ANIL KUMBLE- Elected as President of KSCA(Karnataka State Cricket Association) Nallari Kiran Kr Reddy- 16th CM of Andhra Pradesh Nandan Nilekani- UIDAI Chief High power committee to review Antrix Devas Deal. The two-man committee comprising planning commission member and former cabinet secretary , B. K. Chaturvedi and space commission member Prof. Roddam Narasimha- will review the technical, commercial procedural and financial aspects of agreement between Antrix( the commercial arm of ISRO) and Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. India and Japan signed a free trade deal- to boost bilateral trade which currently amounts to $10.36billion per annum.[CEPA- Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement] Anand Sharma Union Commerce and Industry Minister[recently signed CECA(Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement) with his Malaysian counterpart Mustapa Mohamed in Kuala Lumpur] Malaysias sovereign wealth fund Khazana UK energy giant BP(British Petroleum) and Reliance sign $9 billion(Rs. 32000 Cr) deal to explore Oil, Gas S-Devas Band High Value and scarce radio waves. CCS- Cabinet Committee on Security

Year 2010 declared as safest for Global Commercial Aviation by IATA(International Air Transport Association) Recently ADB(Asian Development Bank) agreed to provide an aid of $7.4 billion to India for developing its infrastructure from a three year period from 2011-2013. New PM of Jordan Marouf Bakhit Donald Tusk PM of Poland Approval of Parliament is required to withdraw money from consolidated fund of India. Largest resource of natural Gas: Russia New finance secretary of India: Sushma Nath For examination of FSB(Food Security Bill) C. Rangarajan Committee TIEA- Tax Information Exchange Agreement[India signed first TIEA with Bermuda] 30 member JPC to probe 2G Scam(20 from Lok Sabha, 10 from Rajya Sabha) In an attempt to deal with black money in elections, the maximum poll expenditure for parliamentary constituencies has been increased to Rs. 40lakh and Rs. 16lakh for assembly constituencies. Expenditure limit varies according to the size of the states. Director General of WTO: Pascal Lamy President of European Council: Herman Van Rompuy President of European Commission: Jose Manuel Barroso What is GFAJ-1: A bacteria First Indian woman to win Miss Earth contest: Nicole Faria Countries in European Union: 27 SAICM: Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management Moortidevi Award: 22nd Moortidevi Award for the year 2008 goes toPaschimi Bhotik
Sanskriti Ka Utthan Aur Patan written by Dr. Raghuvansh and 23rd Moortidevi Award for the year 2009 goes toAkkitham Achyuthan Nambbodiri's Selected Poems written by Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Nambbodiri.

Volta river project: Ghana Asian Financial Crisis started in 1997 from Thailand Chief of Staff by Barack Obama: William Daley CEO of Prasar Bharti: Rajiv Takru New vice chief of IAF: N. A. K. Browne
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