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INDIAWINSBORDER-GAVASKAR

MS Dhoni was all smiles at second press conference as his team won the border-gavaskar

trophy against austrailia after beating them 2-0 in the series.

GOLDSGALORE

Sharath kamal and Subhajit Saha won the doubles gold in table tennis for India.india also

bagged golds in boxing with Suranjoy,Manoj and Samota winning their final bouts.

AIYARGIVENFELLOWSHIP

Mani Shankar aiyar, congressman, was awarded the honorary fellowship of the Cambridge

trinity hall.

MANBOOKERGOESTO

Howard Jacobsons novel The Finkler Question trumped the bookies favorites to win the

Man Booker Prize 2010. His other novels include Kalooki Nights and Whos Sorry

Now?.

BHARATRATNAFORMSSWAMINATHAN

Kerala recommended eminent agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan for the bharat ratna next

year.

OCTOBERTHE 15TH, 2010 [International White Cane Day :O]

CWG ENDS

CWG ended with great pomp and show. India bagged the second position in the medals tally.

Saina Nehwal snatched a three game victory over the Malaysian player to push India to

second place,one medal ahead of England. India had 101 medlas including 38 golds. The

country had finished fourth in 2002 and 2006. Austrailia was far ahead with a total of 177

medals and 74 golds.

LALITMODICHARGED

Central crime branch registered a case against former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit

Modi and others on charges of criminal conspiracy and theft.

RBIDIVESTSSTAKE

The reserve bank of India divested its stake in National Bank of Agriculture and Rural

Development (NABARAD).with this the RBIs stake has come down to one percent. And the

central government owns 99% this move is in line with the Narasimham Committee II report

on banking reforms


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NADALOUT

Tennis world number one Rafael Nadal was dumped out of Shanghai Masters in third round

by austrailian third seed Jurgen Melzer. It was the ninth defeat of the season for the Spaniard

who had previously won the Japan open.Andy Murray qualified for the seasons final event.

ANANDDRAWS

Chess world champion Vishwanathan Anand missed out on his chances and had to settle for a

draw with Alexei Shirov of Spain in the Fourth round of bilbao final masters chess

tournament.

HOCKEY

Austrailia continued its domination in hockey by defeating India in the CWG finals. This was

their fourth medal in a row.New Zealand defeated England to win the bronze.

OCTOBERTHE 16TH, 2010

MANMOHANAND MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA MEET

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa discussed the

issue of rehabilitation of Tamils in Sri Lanka and other bilateral issues. Mr. Rajapaksa

detailed the steps being taken for rehabilitation, India wanted Sri Lanka to act decisively on

arriving at a political settlement to bridge the ethnic divide.

COMMONWEALTHGAMESPROBE

The Centre appointed a high-level committee headed by the former Comptroller and Auditor-

General, V.K. Shungloo, to look into all aspects of organising and conducting the

Commonwealth Games,

YUDHYONOTOBERDAYCHIEFGUEST

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will be the chief guest at next year's

Republic Day parade in Delhi, official sources said .Both countries will seek to build on the

joint declaration on a new strategic partnership signed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

and Mr. Yudhoyono during his previous visit here in 2005. The two sides will also attempt to

expand economic relations bilaterally and under the aegis of the Association of South East

Nations (ASEAN) of which Indonesia is a founder-member.

DONTASKDONTTELL

The Obama administration has said it would appeal a decision by federal judge in California

that struck down the infamous don't ask, don't tell law, banning gays from serving in the

military if they revealed their sexual orientation. Under the law the military cannot, however,

ask its recruits about their sexual orientation.

BERLUSCONIFACESTAXEVASIONINQUIRY


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Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

for tax evasion linked to his Mediaset media empire,

INFLATIONINCHESUP

Overall inflation inched up a tad to 8.62 per cent in September from 8.51 per cent in Augustowing to higher prices of essentials, especially vegetables and milk. [Inflation is essentially

that economic phenomenon wherein there is too much money, but scarcity of goods, resulting

in an increase of the prices of goods]

MURRAYINSEMIFINALS

Tennis British World No. 4 Andy Murray hammered 12th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-2

on Friday to reach the semifinals of the Shanghai Masters.

ANANDDRAWS..AGAIN.

World champion Viswanathan Anand split the point with leader Vladimir Kramnik of Russia

to remain second after the end of the fifth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Final Masters

chess tournament


BANGALORE BLASTSPROBE

The Rajasthan police and Karnataka anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on Friday arrested two alleged

LeT members from Kasargod (Kerala) and Ajmer for their role in the 2008 blasts inBangalore in which one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured.The suspects

were identified as Umar Farooq and Ibrahim Moulvi.

HIGHCOURTCRACKSWHIPONCAR IMPORTS

In a landmark order that would prevent illegal imports of all-terrain vehicles, MUVs and

superbikes into India, the Bombay high court has said that "if the importer is a person who

has lived abroad continuously for two years, then he or she must necessarily be the owner of

the vehicle".

AYODHYA-STAGESETFORACT 2 INSC

Efforts to get an out of court settlement of the Ayodhya dispute took a severe knock on

Saturday with the Nirmohi Akhara, a key party in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title

suit, announcing it would challenge the Allahabad High Court's verdict in the Supreme Court.

Akhara chief Mahant Bhaskar Das' change of heart came around the same time that the All

India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) decided to appeal against the ruling to divide

the disputed site into three parts -- between the Akhara, Ram Lalla and the Sunni Waqf board.

INDIA RUSSIATOBEGINJOINTCOMBAT

Crack infantry troops from India and Russia kicked off their joint `Indra' counter-terrorism

exercise on Saturday, which will involve combat drills in a semi-urban and mountainousenvironment.


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MUMBAIGETSWORLDSLARGESTDIAMONDBOURSE

The worlds largest diamond bourse the Bharat Diamond Bourse was inaugurated by union

minister for commerce and industry Anand Sharma.


KARNATAKA..HIGHCOURTBENCHSPLIT. GOESTOTHETHIRDJUDGE.

The uncertainity over the fate of 11 disqualified members of Karnataka legislative assembly

continued when a two judge bench of the high court was split on the matter. The case is

slated to come up before a third judge on November 2

MOSTWANTEDSEPARATISTHELD

The J & K police achieved a major success by arresting massarat alam bhat the most wanted

separatist in Kashmir.

AMENDMENTTOCHILDLABOURACT

In a major step toward meeting the guidelines set by ILO,the union government proposes to

amend the child labour (prohibition and regulation) act 1986,and introduce changes in the

national policy in child labour 1987 by nringing all children below 18 years of age under the

purview of the act.

SPECIESFACINGMASSEXTINCTION:U.N

193 members of the united nations convention on biological diversity met in central city of

Nagoya ,japan to work out strategies to head off a manmade mass extinction.the convention

held that immediate action was necessary to stop the rapid loss of animal and plant species in

the habitat they live.executive secretary of the CBD is ahmed djoghlaf.jim leape chief of

world wide fund for nature (wwf) was also present.

NEXT CHINESEPRESIDENT

Vice president Xi Jinping [Zee Kingpin :P] was appointed the vice chairman of the countriys

central military commission which is seen as a move of confirmation that he is on track to

succeed Hu Jintao [Who Jintao? :D] in 2012 when his term expires.

Neutrino project approved at bodi west hills in theni

An India based neutrino observatory will be set up in theni district of tamil nadu .subatomic

particles will be studied at the observatory

ENVIROPANELSPLITONPOSCO

A 3:1 split opinion came out of the environment panel on whether to scrap all environment

and forest clearances given to the Korean giant poscos fiftyonethousand crore integrated

steel project in Orissa.


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FOODWASTAGE

Supreme court hauled up the central government and asked for an assaurance saying that

there would be no further wastage of food grains and there would be proper distribution to

targeted beneficiaries

PROPERTYAFUNDAMENTALRIGHT?

The supreme court dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to make right to property a

fundamental right under the constitution.the 44th amendment to constitution had deleted this

right from article 19(1) (f) of the constitution.


NATIONALGREENTRIBUNALOPENED

India launched the national green tribunal becoming the third nation to have a special court

for environmental issues.former judge of the supreme court lokeshwar singh will be its chair

person.this tribunal will have four regional benches.

INDIANINOBAMAADMINISTRATION

Subra suresh ,school of dean of engineering, MIT , and an alumni of IIT madras has been

confirmed directorate of national science foundation under the obama administration.

JKROWLINGWINS DANISHAWARD.

Harry potter author j k rowling won the hans chirstian Anderson literature prize she is the

first reciepient of the award.

OCTOBERTHE 21ST, 2010

ENEMYPROPERTYBILL

Union cabinet approved the controversial version of the enemy property bill to replace the

ordinance that lapsed on September 6th.this bill will be introduced in the winter session of the

parliament.

BIHARGOESTOPOLLS

First phase of the bihar assembly polls .one crore voters in the region.

PAKISTANSEXPREZDIES

Farooq ahmed khan leghari pakistans eighth president died in Rawalpindi. He was 70.he was

president from 1993 to 1997.

SEEDSBILLGETSCABINETNOD


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Union cabinet approved the amendments to the seeds bill 2004. This amendment seeks to

regulate the quality of seeds and planting material, to curb sale of spurious and poor quality

seeds and to increase private participation in seed productionand distribution and liberalise

import of seeds and planting materials.

DHEERAJHINDUJATOHEADASHOKLEYLAND

Dheeraj g hinduja has become the chairman of ashok Leyland.he takes over from r j shahney

who was the chairman since 1977.

NIMHANS TOBEDECLAREDINSTITUTEOFNATIONALIMPORTANCE.

The union cabinet approved the proposal to declare National

Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, as an institute of

national importance.

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