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Awards

ITC's Y.C.Deveshwar has been presented Global Leadership award by U.S.-India Business Council for his
efforts towards empowering India's rural agricultural community and conserving the environment

Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) bags Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2010
for implementing ethanol blended diesel in over 1000 buses

Mr.M.R.Bhat General Manager of Corporation Bank has been awarded Dun and Bardstreet's CTO(Chief
Technology Officer) Award 2009

Acquisitions

Cafe Coffee Day has acquired a Czeh Republic-based cafe Emporio for Rs.15crore

Business

Tata Motors inaugurated the world's cheapest car the Nano's manufacturing facility at Sanand, Gujarat

Entertainment

Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20
years

People

Mr.Soiles Bhattacharya Director(Finance), will take charge as the Interim Chairman of SAIL as
Mr.S.K.Roongta completed his term on May 31st 2010

Mr. Michael Perschke to head India operations for Audi from July 1st 2010, replaces Mr.Benoit Tiers

Mr.Hiroshi Takashina has been appointed as Managing Director for Nikon India, takes over from
Mr.Hidehiko Tanaka

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Innovation

Equifone Solutions offering Bluetooth services on buses in Mumbai, now all set to offer Wi-Fi
Connectivity in days to come

Applications submitted to various departments of RBI could be now tracked on Application Tracking
System(ATS), online

Intel introduces convertible(180 degree rotatable screen) Classmate PC

Kerala State Electricity Board is set to launch a free and open source accounting software, Structured
and Real-time Accounting System(SARAS) designed and developed by the employees of the board

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Acquisitions

Orchid Pharma acquires US company Karalex

Business

Reliance Industries acquires ISP Infotel for Rs.4,800crore

Bharti Airtel completes $10.7 billion Zain Africa deal

IDBI opened its first overseas branch in Dubai, at the Dubai International Finance Centre

Karnataka to create Land Bank in all districts to facilitate investors to allocate land

Apple iAd set to compete with Google in ad market

Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India(ISE) has selected TCS to install and manage its integrated
trading, clearing and surveillance platform

Indian Depository Receipts(IDR) of UK based bank Standard Chartered lists in BSE and NSE

Sports

FIFA World Cup 2010 kicks off in South Africa on June 10th 2010

Technology

Apple unveils iPhone 4 at the Apple World wide Developers Conference in San Francisco

Direct to Home(DTH) operator Dish TV to launch Conditional Access Module(CAM) which will allow its
subscribers to switch over to a new operator using the same set-top box

Samsung adds Facebook and Google Maps to its HDTV-based Samsung Apps Library

Record - Guinness Book

Cactus plant(Cereus peruvianus), grown near SDM College of Dental Sciences near Sattur,Dharwad,India
enters Guinness Book of world Records as the tallest Plant measuring a height of 78.8 feet

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Business

Facebook to open first centre in Hyderabad

FatPipe Networks withdraws IPO after less response

DQ Entertainment, an animation and gaming content company has entered into broadcasting
agreement with Sun TV Network Ltd. for the provision of animation content

Saibaba Telefilms, Mumbai based television production company to enter Southern region via a music
reality show Sangeetha Mahayudhdham to be telecasted on Sun TV

Innovation

Country's first 3-MW solar photo volatic plant opens at Kolar in Bangarpet taluk, Karnataka

Prithvi-II successfully test-fired off Orissa coast

People

Vijay Malya wins Rajya Sabha polls from Karnataka

Paswan,Pratap Rudy have won Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar

Technology

C2C Management services launches online video resume service

Nokia introduces push-mail service in S40 series phone priced at around Rs.2,700

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People

Sachin Tendulkar to become Indian Air Force's honorary rank of Group Captain

Australia gets Julia Gillard as first female Prime Minister

Former union minister Digvijay Singh dies in London

Business

Rupee all set to join elite currency club

HDFC Mutual Fund launches Gold Exchange Traded Fund

MCX gets unconditional approval from Forward Market Commission regulator to launch an IPO

Discovery

Austrian archaeologists discover 3500 year old city Hyksos in the Nile delta region

Record

World's largest gold coin sold for $4.02 million

Sports

Saina Nehwal beat Taiwan's Tzu Ying Tai to win the Singapore Super Series Title and moves upto World
No.3

Longest match record smashed at Wimbledon 2010:


Nicolas Mahut and John Isner 59-59 at 5th set yet unfinished, play was suspended as they ran out of
daylight. John Isner won the match at 70-68 on the following day.

India wins Asia Cup 2010

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Technology

SleepServer, a software developed by Indian American scientists to save energy in Computers at work
place

Samsung's Galaxy Beam to be World's first Android projector phone

India's first 'unpaid' mobile service under the brand name T24 is launched by Future Group, service
provider being Tata Teleservices Ltd.

Toshiba launches first dual touch screen notebook, Libertto W100

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People

Resul Pookutty becomes member of the Academy of Motion Pictures

P.Obul Reddy, founder and former Managing Director of Nippo Batteries company and Founder and
Chairman of Panasonic Carbon India and Panasonic Home appliances India passes away

Business

Vijaya Bank launches online trading services

HM-Mitsubishi launches its dealership in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and National Capital Regaion(NCR)

IndusInd bank to provide finance facilities to Tata Motors dealers

Innovation

First electric locomotive with head-on-generation, manufactured by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works


launched for Indian Railways

Punjab National Bank opens its first bio-metric ATM at Thrikkakara in Ernakulam

(Bio-metric ATM: Recognises fingerprints of the card holder and eliminating the need of entering PIN
number. Denominations of Rs.50, Rs.100, Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 could be withdrawn from the same)

Sports

Saina Nehwal clinches Indonesian Open Title, third in a row

Technology

Samsung Xcover E2370 with a battery backup of 67days

Transcend to introduce 64GB class 10 SDXC(Secure Digital Extended Capacity) memory card in India, to
be priced at Rs.15,000

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