Monday 23 May 2011

Corporate World: Business current affairs

Current Affairs on Corporate World: Read Business Current Affairs of Year 2011. This Article Contains Major Business Deals and other Major Corporate News from all over the world

Corporate World: Business current affairs
India is flourishing with trade and business agreements with various countries, which are helping it, grow everyday. The corporate news and business current affairs are all the top stories of the day. Some of them are listed below:

• The Coimbatore state is not happy with the New Railway budgets. The commuters said there is nothing new about the new express train between Coimbatore and Tuticorin.Paodanur will continue beg the boarding point of kerala and Bangalore.
• Abdul Rehman Al-Rabiah, Chairman of Saudi Arabia, opened new options for business deals and agreements with India stating that both the countries have not used their mutual strength which would bring prosperity to both.
• Fortis health global healthcare has stated that it will increase its Australia based dental corporation holdings from 33% to 58.6%
• An exhibition will be held in Mumbai from March 2 onwards, exhibiting the water industry and taking on subjects like water pollution, drinking water, management techniques and so on.
• Business talks between India and Uruguay. India has extended a hand towards business agreements with Uruguay especially in fields of textile, information technology and automobile.
• Mr. Satish Babu, the president of Inapp, Has been appointed the new director of International Centre of free and open source software (ICFOSS).
• Indian Railway announced that it spends 42% of its income in wages. Railway in 2009-2010 has spent 42 paisa of every rupee they had earned on staff wages and allowances.
• A new wind power project of 5.25MW has been commenced in Madhya Pradesh, by Nakoda Limited, the polyester filament yarn company.
• On 28 February 2011, Pranab Mukherjee will deliver the longest budget speech.
• Domestic air fares might shoot to 14%, domestic hotel tariffs might shoot to 6% and even car rentals might increase.
• According to official figures India is the second largest source for international students in New Zealand after China
• An American Employee of Infosys has filed a complaint against Infosys for visa and tax fraud.
• India is still lagging behind in the performance of textile industry. Its global contribution is of 4.3 % while China’s is 28.3%
• India is working on accomplishing the goal of giving payments to Iran for its oil products and imported oil.
• The west Asia and North Africa countries was the biggest potential gem and jewelry exports from India, but the tension between Libya and middle east might hamper the growing business agreements between the two.

The corporate news, business agreements between the countries and current business affairs is important to study the economy of one’s country and analyze the market.

Sunday 22 May 2011

Sports affairs: 2010 and sports personalities

Since ages physical activity is considered good for human health and is a source of building personality. Today, it also depicts National pride and prestige. Government, both national and international supports the promotion of sports and has put forward various programmes which promote this field and also coaching centre and expose the players to competition. Here are some of the sports related achievements and failures in current affairs of 2010, the sport personalities in picture and more.

Sports Current Affair 2010:

  • Cricket: Rumors had it that cricket had been removed from the 2014 Asian Games because Olympic Committee had decided to keep maximum of 35 games in the event. However these rumors were false as OCA recently confirmed that cricket and Karate are two confirmed sports in the non Olympic events.
  • Racing: The recent popular sport personality Fernando Alonso of Ferrari because of his recent achievements was expected to be the possible winner of the Abu Dhabi Grand pix but to the surprise of many the title slipped from his hand to that of Vettel, considered being the youngest Formula 1 Champion in history of F1 racing. He is just 23 years old.
  • Football: Chelsea again lost against Birmingham city. This is the third defeat out of the four matches Chelsea played, losing quite a number of fans. This win by Manchester United helped the team rank up in the English Premier League. Great achievement.
  • Tennis: The two outstanding sport personalities Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer continue holding their position in ATF rankings as number one and number two, while Kim Clijtsers has fallen to the number three position in WTA rankings followed by Serena Williams.
  • Badminton: The great super sports personality Saina Nehwal wins the open series of Hong Kong. her record is far above any other female player
  • Cricket: the favorite of all and the much devoted sports personality Sachin Tendulkar Scored 50 centuries in second innings of first test match against South Africa. He scored in 196 balls, an awesome score of 12 fours and 1 six. Since the team had lost in the first innings, this was a great victory.
  • Football: The two outstanding sport personalities Rafael Nadal and Roger Fedrer continue to hold their rankings as number one and number two in ATP, on the other hand Kim clijsters fell to the third position in WTA rankings followed by Serena Williams.

Above are given some of the current sports affairs of 2010 with the achievements and losses of some great sport personalities.

Current Corporate affairs in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh

There a lot of news happening around us, especially in the corporate sector. One of the fastest growing economies is of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, who have worked hard to achieve the state they are in at present. There is a lot happening in these states, current affairs of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

Corporate news in Bihar:

  • The per capita income of Bihar has shown remarkable growth in the recent years.
  • After arresting 4 people, the police claimed to have arrested this inter state gang who were involved in duping a group of job aspirants in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Haryana.
  • Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, urged the railway minister, Mamta Banerjee to complete various railway projects that are left incomplete and also speed up the process of running the new trains on the tracks, as promised. Also, to complete the work of the Duranto Express, this is to run between Patna and Delhi.
  • The Chief Electoral Officer, Sudhir Mishra with his team toured to West Bengal and asked district authorities and police officials to hurry the action against the general and political clashes. The Election Commission is not happy with their approach of not executing illegal arms, non-bailable warrants and liquor.
  • Dusadh community, the only caste of Mahadalits who had been provided proper redressal to their grievances have their chance now, as the Bihar chief minister Nitish Mishra has decided to provide lands for building houses to them.

Corporate news in Madhya Pradesh:

  • The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan has requested the Prime Minster to permit the allotment of forest land to private companies. In Madhya Pradesh, due to extreme cold and frost, the pulses, fruits and vegetables have been destroyed. This has led to suicide of 7 farmers, worrying the Government. Extreme cold has led to hampering the growth of chana and wheat in Madhya Pradesh.
  • By Surprising everyone, the Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan went on fasting, stating that he is facing discrimination by the UPA-led central government. He mentioned that the central government was not taking any action against the legitimate rights of Madhya Pradesh, by not providing compensation to the farmers.
  • Madhya Pradesh tops the list of wickedness and cruelty inflicted on the Schedule Tribes. Jamshedpur, national commission for Schedule Tribe will take steps to reduce such atrocities inflicted upon them.

This article includes corporate current news in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar and the way solutions are provided to the on going problems.

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Current Affairs 2010: Useful for Exam Preparation

There has been much technological advancement in the educational field in the recent times. The students have deviated from the rote learning they were subjected to earlier. One has to be aware in every field not just confine to textbooks. The most important thing is having awareness about the current affairs. Any interview or question paper consists of questions relating to current affairs. One has to make sure having general knowledge should be a major portion of exam preparation.

In order to get into any field or choose any career option, apart from educational qualification they check your awareness level. Almost all the question papers for MBA, Defense exams, UPSC exams, and other many important and reputed professions expect the candidate to be updated with the current affairs. Current affairs are the life line of civil services exams as one entire portion of the exam consists of general knowledge. Most importantly in the corporate world, if one has to strike a business deal, knowledge of the countries economic fluctuations is very important , also the relationship of our country with the neighboring countries. During exam preparation one should make sure that his area of specialization should also include the current affairs. Often, in question papers students are asked their views on certain ongoing politics; one has to be prepared for such questions which can not be possible without knowing about them.

Here are some current affairs of 2010:

  • Increasing terrorism led to the US commission making a list of terrorist from AL-Qaeda group, listing some of they are dead. It’s re-checking the number of terrorist who are actually dead.
  • China was surveyed having the slowest rate of economic growth in the year 2010. Its industrial growth has also stagnated due to inflation for almost two years which has made people think that India is going to be the next superpower economically considering the marvelous growth in economic sector in the pas two years.
  • Leslie Nielson, famous actor of the naked gun series of movies died due to pneumonia.
  • After facing many years of military rule, democratic polls were held in Mynamar which turned out to be a charade. Parties accused each other of fake votes.
  • President Barack Obama has stated as giving full support to help Pakistan in stopping terrorist activities. As Pakistan has been the victim of many international attacks in recent years.


Above is some current affairs in 2010. The youth needs to be aware and be updated with the happenings around, this would help them in exam preparation of various exams as the question papers usually focus on general knowledge apart from academic questions.

Sports Affairs and Sports personalities 2010

Since ages physical activity is considered good for human health and is a source of building personality. Today, it also depicts National pride and prestige. Government, both national and international supports the promotion of sports and has put forward various programmes which promote this field and also coaching centre and expose the players to competition. Here are some of the sports related achievements and failures in current affairs of 2010, the sport personalities in picture and more.

Sports Current Affair 2010:
  • Cricket : Rumors had it that cricket had been removed from the 2014 Asian Games because Olympic Committee had decided to keep maximum of 35 games in the event. However these rumors were false as OCA recently confirmed that cricket and Karate are two confirmed sports in the non Olympic events.
  • Racing: The recent popular sport personality Fernando Alonso of Ferrari because of his recent achievements was expected to be the possible winner of the Abu Dhabi Grand pix but to the surprise of many the title slipped from his hand to that of Vettel, considered being the youngest Formula 1 Champion in history of F1 racing. He is just 23 years old.
  • Football: Chelsea again lost against Birmingham city. This is the third defeat out of the four matches Chelsea played, losing quite a number of fans. This win by Manchester United helped the team rank up in the English Premier League. Great achievement.
  • Tennis: The two outstanding sport personalities Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer continue holding their position in ATF rankings as number one and number two, while Kim Clijtsers has fallen to the number three position in WTA rankings followed by Serena Williams.
  • Tennis: The great super sports personality Saina Nehwal wins the open series of Hong Kong. her record is far above any other female player
  • Cricket: the favorite of all and the much devoted sports personality Sachin Tendulkar Scored 50 centuries in second innings of first test match against South Africa. He scored in 196 balls, an awesome score of 12 fours and 1 six. Since the team had lost in the first innings, this was a great victory.
  • Football: The two outstanding sport personalities Rafael Nadal and Roger Fedrer continue to hold their rankings as number one and number two in ATP, on the other hand Kim clijsters fell to the third position in WTA rankings followed by Serena Williams.


Above are given some of the current sports affairs of 2010 with the achievements and losses of some great sport personalities.

Current affairs: National and International

The current news on 2010 and the happenings of 2011.the final conclusion to the Arushi Murder mystery, high priced onion, and was rahat really the culprit? What is happening internationally, the international affairs, how red meat can cause u cancer, repercussions of global warming

Current affairs in 2010, with the ending of the year, many affairs found a closure, while some got new beginnings.

Arushi Talwar case finally concludes to closure
The much hyped Arushi Talwar case has sought closure. Due to lack of enough evidence, the case has to be closed. It had been in the top news for 2 years but there was no success in the proceedings and it finally closed.
But still, according to the reports Rajesh Talwar, the victim’s father is the prime suspect.

Onion goes rocket high
The prices of onion have reached the sky level. With the continuous increase in rates of almost everything around, the common public is grieved at the increase in rates of onions, which is the sole ingredient to survive in every household. The cost has risen up to 80 rs per kg. Making it difficult for most of the population to consume it

India and China: Joining hands for prosperity
India and China have signed an agreement to reach trade targets of $ 100 million by 2015, which is more than the target for 2010 which was $6 billion. There have been more agreements between India and china recently in steel, power, food and marine products, than between India and America.

With the beginning of the New Year, a lot has been happening around us. Nationally and Internationally.2011 has given us some new gossips to talk about and new affairs to look into.
  • One of the most recent news is that Rahat Fateh Ali khan – the Pakistan singer who has given numerous hits in boll wood, along with his manager Maroof has been fined 15 lakh rupees after the police recently recovered foreign currency which has been confiscated by the officials. They were boarding a flight to Dubai when they were detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
  • Cricket fans all over the country are celebrating the huge success of the Indian cricket team in the opening match of World cup 2011. India beat Bangladesh with 87 runs. Awesome boost – up of confidence for the Indian team to carry on in the upcoming series.
  • A special school is being set –up for eunuchs ,who like other people living in a democratic country, have the right to live and most importantly, the right to education. They would also be provided vocational training. President of All India Kinnar Association Sonia Haji said “that it was an important step towards uplift of eunuchs in the country”.
  • In the north eastern state of tripura. 4000 ducks and chickens have been killed in a farm run by the government because they were tested positive for bird flu.

Even with the happenings around us. It is important to know have awareness about the on goings internationally. Here is some of the top international news.
  •  The winter wheat crop has been badly damaged by a drought in north china. This has left the ground very dry making it difficult to be ploughed for spring. It is the worst drought in 60 years and has affected more than 6.4 million hectares of crop.
  • According to a recent study by government scientists it has been revealed that people consuming red meat are more prone to cancer.
  •  In another recent study scientist have said that global warming could lead to a major growth of algae and toxic bacteria in the world’s seas with an effect that could be felt in 10 years. It is said that the recent change in climates have made the seas more prone to such harmful bacteria according to researchers from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAAA).

With all the above current news of 2010 national and international and lots more to come one must be well informed and aware about the happenings around in order to keep in pace with the growing and busy world.

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Current Affairs Quizzes


Knowledge of current affairs is very important. One needs to be updated with the happenings around in order to excel in any field. For exams in any reputed field, there is separate section for current affairs. There are practice quizzes for current affairs preparation, available in internet, magazines etc. these quizzes cover various areas of life, current discoveries and happening in science, new achievement by sports personalities, current happenings in politics and much more. Science is a growing field and one has to be updated with its happenings.

Science Current affairs:
  • The devastating earthquake in Japan has affected the country in many ways. Its progress has almost stagnated. And the science section isn’t showing any progress either, with the apple inc. delaying its launch of ipad 2 tablet computer in Japan. The country is still recovering from the hell state it is in. the tsunami and earthquake in Japan have disrupted many global manufacturing chains and many science and technology companies are scrambling for supplies.
  • After the world wide popularity of the social networking job, the twitter co-founder Biz stone is joining AOL and its newest edition, Huffington post media group, as a strategic advisor for social impact.
  • Russian space officials hope to resolve a communications problem on a Soyuz TMA-21 rocket in time for it to carry a Russian-American crew to the International Space Station in early April.
  • It is estimated that Apple inc. has sold more than 1 million 2 tablet computers in its debut weekend, much more than the first ipad.
  • Facebook has hired a member form the Google inc. corporate development team to its fledging merger and acquisition efforts. the latest development in the rivalry between the two Internet powers is shown as Facebook steps up its acquisitions, has bought for engineering talent rather than actual products.

These are some of the Science current affairs which can come as questions in many science quizzes. One should be prepared and be polished with his or her knowledge regarding this section of current affairs, nationally or internationally.