SOUTH ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE.

Writer and academic Amit Chaudhuri's novel The Immortals is among the six books shortlisted for a new major $50,000 literary prize - the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Other authors and their books that shortlisted are:Pakistani novelists Musharraf Ali Farooqui - The Story of a Widow; H.M. Naqvi - Home Boy; Manju Kapur - The immigrant; Neel Mukherjee - A Life Apart and U.S based Tania James - Atlas of Unknowns.China unveils world's fastest train. Fastest bullet train - the Home built CRH380, with an average speed of 350km per hour, linking between Shanghai and Hangzhou has been launched by China Government.

UID numbers soon for schoolchildren. Human Resource Development Ministry and UIDAI sign MoU. All school children will soon have unique identification numbers (UID), which will help in tracking their movement in educational institutions and academic records. The Minister for Human resources Development is Mr.Kapil Sibal and Chairman of Unique identification Authority of India is Mr. Nandan Nilekani.

Think Tank Initiative - is an ambitious SouthAsia-wide effort to increase policy development capacity in the subcontinent. It was launched in NewDelhi . With the belief in the concept of " Outstanding research can shape better policy" - the donors for this project, contributing a total pool of $110 million globally, include the Hewlett and Gates Foundations and the British and Dutch governments. In India, TTI support has been extended to: the Centre for study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore; the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), Delhi: the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Delhi; the Centre for the study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi; the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS), Delhi; the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi; the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand; the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Delhi; and the Public Affairs Centre (PAC), Bangalore.

INDIA - MALAYSIA sign six pacts.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Malaysian counterpart, Md. Najib have agedd on behalf oof their nations to liberalise their investment regimes. And also they have signed MoU on cooperation in traditional system of medicine.They have decided to implement the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) from July 1,2011. Earlier Indian-Asean Trade in Goods (TiG) agreement was implemented from january 1,2010.

October -20 is the WORLD Statistics Day.

Former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of IRAQ, and the close aide of Former Iraqi President Mr.Saddam Hussein, MrTariq Aziz is sentenced to death by the Iraqi high tribunal.

Little India comes into being in Malaysia.

Nearly every country has a Chinatown that accommodates the traditions and cultures of the Chinese who migrated several centuries ago. As in the same lines the Malaysian government has decided to dedicate the are of Brickfields, one of the oldest Indian settlements in the country, as 'Little India', where the Indians lives and ambitions are showcased.
Indians dominate "Little India", but the two major communities - the Malays and the Chinese - also share space with them. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared open this "Little India" at Malaysia.

World Day against Death Penalty.

October-10 = World day against the Death penalty.Britain is working towards a global moratorium on execution by 2015. As for India, a declaration of a moratorium would be a realistic next step after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in 1980 that a death sentence can be given only if the alternative of a life sentence is unquestionably foreclosed. Vigorous steps need to be taken to lay out a global consensus on the elimination of the death penalty from the statute books of nations.

MICROSOFT SETS LIMCA RECORD

First ever dominoes display of its kind in India - i.e the falling chips makes a dazzling display of the logo of Windows 7 - the operating system. The Microsoft Dominoes effect required 7,000 wooden dominoes, each weighing 12gm and placed barely 0.2 inches lengthwise to create the logo. This aspect has placed Microsoft in the Limca book of records. DOMINOES = a situation or an event causing a cascading effect or one falling after another.APA SHERPA - holds the record of summitting Mount Everest 20 times. Another Nepalese mountainer Chhewang Nima Sherpa (43), who has climbed Mount Everest 19 times is missing and feared dead in the Himalayas.

INDIAN RAILWAYS & CWG-2010

Indian Railways hit the jackpot at C' Wealth Games.
The 'lead partner' of the Games clinched 25 of the 101 medals that was bagged by the country(INDIA). This figure exceeds the medals won by all the Armed forces put together.


SUBRA SURESH - America based Indian Scientist is the present Director of America's NSF - National Science Foundation.


CWG -2O1O inaugration ceremony was performed and executed under the creative head of Mr. Bharat Bala, who hails from T.N.

தமிழகத்தில் புதியதாக உருவாக இருக்கும் சட்ட மேலவையில் மொத்த உறுப்பினர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 78. உள்ளாட்சிப் பிரதிநிதிகளுக்கு 26, சட்டப்பேரவை உறுப்பினர்களுக்கு 26, ஆசிரியர்களுக்கு 7, பட்டதாரிகளுக்கு 7, இது தவிர 12 உறுப்பினர்களை மாநில ஆளுநர் நேரடியாக நியமனம் செய்வார்.

TNEB - will cease to exist from November-1, 2010.
The 53-year old TNEB will formally cease to exist from November-1, 2010. Thereafter Tamilnadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANSCO) & Tamilnadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) will come into effect.

HMS- ASTUTE = The British Royal Navy is the first of a new class of Nuclear-Powered Submarine. This was in news recently because it agrounded.

Cabinet nod for new ENEMY PROPERTY BILL.

The Union cabinet approved another version of the controversial Enemy property Bill to replace the ordinance that lapsed recently. The Enemy property (Amendment and Validation) Second Bill, 2010, will have the contents or provisions that bars Indian legal heirs from inheriting the properties of relatives who migrated to Pakistan after Partition. The Custodian of Enemy Property for India., a government department, is empowered to appropriate the property.

TNPSC -நோபல் விஞ்ஞானியின் 100 வது பிறந்த நாள்.
தமிழகத்தை சேர்ந்த சுப்ரமணியன் சந்திரசேகரின் 100 வது பிறந்த நாள் அக்டோபர் 19 அன்று கொண்டாடப்பட்டது. 1910 இல் லாஹூரில் அக்டோபர் மாதம் 10 ஆம் தேதி அன்று இந்த விஞ்ஞானி பிறந்தார்.