Current Affairs

Colored Currents 2009

1] Whom did Rahul Gandhi refer to as "Sher-e-Punjab" and the "the pride of India" recently?
2] Who is the richest candidate to file his nomination papers in the Lok sabha elections so far?
3] How much did the Obamas pay in federal income tax for the year 2008?
4] After P. Chidambaram and Naveen Jindal, it was the turn of a which top BJP leader to face a 'flying footwear'?
5] What is the name of Hollywood actor Mel Gibsons' wife of 28 years who has recently filed for divorce?
6] Who is the present army chief of Bangladesh?
7] Who is RJD president Lalu Prasads' main rival in the Saran constituency in Bihar?
8] What is the name of the new lawyer appointed by special court to defend Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Qasab?
9] What is the name of new election commissioner who has succeeded N. Gopalaswami?

Keys:
i) Manmohan Singh; ii) Deepak Bhardwaj; iii) 4.2 crore; iv) L.K.Advani;
v) Robyn Denise Moore; vi) Gen. Moeen Ahmed; vii) Rajiv Pratap Rudy;
viii) Abbas Kazmi ix) Navin Chawla


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The Thrift Brigade

From raw material to salaries, from advertising to fuel burn, a clutch of disparate companies is cutting costs to stay competitive and weather the slowdown.

These Ten Companies were among the standouts in cost control.

How...??

$ Pantaloon Retail - will save Rs 125 Cr by creating One Back-End Entity for Marketing, Hr, and IT.

$ By re-negotiating a 20-4-% cut in rentals at 50 outlets, Vishal Retail has cut its rental bills from Rs 8.5 Cr to Rs 6.5 Cr.

$ Tata Chemicals is Reviewing Every Item of costs across geographies, manufacturing, supply chains and overheads.

$ ICICI Bank cut its marketing spend from Rs 416 Cr to Rs 103 Cr by Reducing Reliance On DSAS and cutting back on promotion.

$ Its leadership established, Dish TV slashed its Above-The-Line spending by 30% and upped Below-The-Line promotion.

$ The Ashok Leyland top management has taken a voluntary salary cut, lowering wages by 20%.

$ Jet Airways plans to phase out its pool of 250 odd expat pilots, who charge 30-40% more, from its base of 1,350 pilots

$ By buying coal in the spot market, Tata Steel managed savings of $16.4 million.

$ Spice Jet pays oil companies and airport operators on-time to get discounts in return.

$ The offline-online ad mix of INFO EDGE has changed from 93:7 in 2003-04 to 29:71 in 2008-09.

General Knowledge

Some Facts & Figures of Lok Sabha Elections 2009

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Number of Phases: 5

Total polling centres: 8,28,824

Total Number of voters: 71.1 crores

Total Polling Officials: 40,00,000

Details of 5 Phases:

1st Phase on April 16th in 124 constituencies

2nd Phase on April 23rd in 141 constituencies

3rd Phase on April 30th in 107 constituencies

4th Phase on May 7th in 85 constituencies

5th Phase on May 13th in 86 constituencies

Counting of the votes will be on May 16th


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General Knowledge

Did You Know...

- The first person to win two Nobel Prizes was Madame Marie Curie - in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).

- Meteorologists estimate that lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on Earth.

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Knowledge Test - General Knowledge

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?

9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?

17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?



HERE ARE THE ANSWERS

1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .

2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Satellite Television Asian Region

5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

11. South Korea .

12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

13.. Geoffrey Boycott

14. John Traicos

15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .

17. Polo.