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.

J.K. ROWLING wins Danish award.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. She is the first recipient of the award, that was handed over at Odense - the home town of Anderson.

Coal India's intial public offer (IPO) which opened recently for public subscription is expected to fetch over Rs.15,000 crore, making it by far the largest public offer ever made in India.


Our right to know includes the right to know what we eat. At a time when the European Union and countries such as Australia, Japan, and China have mandatory labelling requirements of GM foods, which require food processors, retailers and sometimes producers to display whether their products contain genetically engineered material, it is strange that India has not enforced a strict labelling regime. This despite the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issuing rules in 2006 to include compulsory GM labelling in the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules of 1995. Since we live in a transgenic age.

RUSTOM 1

RUSTOM - 1 = a medium-altitude and long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), developed by the Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) was successfully test flown.

Mumbai gets world's largest diamond bourse - that will become a hub of banking, freight forwarding, consolidation and insurance. The Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB). the world's largest was inaugrated here at Mumbai .

WORLD FOOD DAY -Oct -16, to raise awareness about the major food problem and also to motivate people to stand together and fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

Technology

FACEBOOK - the popular and larger community and communication network service is head quartered at Palo Alto, California.BLACK BERRY- Is a wireless e-mail or mobile e-mail & smart phone developed
and designed by RIM (Research in Motion), a Canadian based company in 1996.

WORLD'S BIGGEST................

Turanor - a giant catamaran launched by the Swiss company PlanetSolar, is to circumnavigate the globes simply by harnessing the power of the sun. The 50,000 km journey, expected to take over 160 days, is intended to prove the under-exploited potential of solar energy.

Cluster Bomb Treaty: A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on August 1st, requiring signatories to stop the use , production and transfer of the deadly weapons. The Convention on Clusater Munitions entered into force six months after more than 30 countries ratified the 2008 treaty signed by 107 nations. China, Russia, the United States and Israel are among those that have rejected the deal, which obliges those that have ratified to destroy stockpiles.

In a major step for environment protection, the Rajasthan government has announced a complete ban on the use of plastic carry-bags all over the State from August-1. A notification declared the entire State a "plastic carry-bag-free-zone".