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Banking Terms

solaisblog — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:07:23 +0000

What is Open Market operations(OMO)?
The buying and selling of government securities in the open market in order to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system by RBI. Open market operations are the principal tools of monetary policy.

What is Micro Credit?
It is a term used to extend small loan…s to very poor people for self-employment projects that generate income, allowing them to care for themselves and their families.

What is Liquidity Adjustment Facility(LAF)?
A tool used in monetary policy that allows banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. This arrangement allows banks to respond to liquidity pressures and is used by governments to assure basic stability in the financial markets.

What is RTGS System?
The acronym ‘RTGS’ stands for Real Time Gross Settlement. RTGS system is a funds transfer mechanism where transfer of money takes place from one bank to another on a ‘real time’ and on ‘gross’ basis. This is the fastest possible money transfer system through the banking channel. Settlement in ‘real time’ means payment transaction is not subjected to any waiting period. The transactions are settled as soon as they are processed. ‘Gross settlement’ means the transaction is settled on one to one basis without bunching with any other transaction.

What is Bancassurance?
It is the term used to describe the partnership or relationship between a bank and an insurance company whereby the insurance company uses the bank sales channel in order to sell insurance products.

What is Wholesale Price Index(WPI)?
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is the index used to measure the changes in the average price level of goods traded in wholesale market. A total of 676 commodity prices make up the index. It is available on a weekly basis. It is generally taken as an indicator of the inflation rate in the Indian economy. The Indian Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was first published in 1902, and was used by policy makers until it was replaced by the Producer Price Index (PPI) in 1978. Base year changed to 2004-05 from 1993-04.

What is Consumer price Index(CPI)?
It is a measure estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households.

What is Venture Capital?
Venture capital is money provided by an outside investor to finance a new, growing, or troubled business. The venture capitalist provides the funding knowing that there’s a significant risk associated with the company’s future profits and cash flow. Capital is invested in exchange for an equity stake in the business rather than given as a loan, and the investor hopes the investment will yield a better-than-average return.

What is a Treasury Bills?
Treasury Bills (T-Bills) are short term, Rupee denominated obligations issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on behalf of the Government of India. They are thus useful in managing short-term liquidity. At present, the Government of India issues three types of treasury bills through auctions, namely, 91-day, 182-day and 364-day. There are no treasury bills issued by State Governments.

What is Banking Ombudsmen Scheme?
The Banking Ombudsman Scheme enables an expeditious and inexpensive forum to bank customers for resolution of complaints relating to certain services rendered by banks.
The Banking Ombudsman is a senior official appointed by the Reserve Bank of India to redress customer complaints against deficiency in certain banking services.
The Banking Ombudsman Scheme was first introduced in India in 1995, and was revised in 2002. The current scheme became operative from the 1 January 2006, and replaced and superseded the banking Ombudsman Scheme 2002.

What is Subsidy?
A subsidy is a form of financial assistance paid to a business or economic sector. Most subsidies are made by the government to producers or distributors in an industry to prevent the decline of that industry or an increase in the prices of its products or to encourage it to hire more labor.

What is a Debenture? How many types of debentures are there? What are they?
A debenture is basically an unsecured loan to a corporation. A type of debt instrument that is not secured by physical asset. Debentures are backed only by the general creditworthiness and reputation of the issuer.
i)Convertible Debentures: Any type of debenture that can be converted into some other security or it can be converted into stock..
ii)Non-Convertibility Debentures(NCB): Non Convertible Debentures are those that cannot be converted into equity shares of the issuing company, as opposed to Convertible debentures. Non-convertible debentures normally earn a higher interest rate than convertible debentures do.

What is a hedge fund?

‘Hedge’ means to reduce financial risk.
A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors and requires a very large initial minimum investment. It is important to note that hedging is actually the practice of attempting to reduce risk, but the goal of most hedge funds is to maximize return on investment.

What is FCCB?
A Foreign Currency Convertible Bond (FCCB) is a type of convertible bond issued in a currency different than the issuer’s domestic currency. In other words, the money being raised by the issuing company is in the form of a foreign currency. A company may issue an FCCB if it intends to make a large investment in a country using that foreign currency.

What is Capital Account Convertibility(CAC)?
It is the freedom to convert local financial assets into foreign financial assets and vice versa at market determined rates of exchange. This means that capital account convertibility allows anyone to freely move from local currency into foreign currency and back.
The Reserve Bank of India has appointed a committee to set out the framework for fuller Capital Account Convertibility.
Capital account convertibility is considered to be one of the major features of a developed economy. It helps attract foreign investment. capital account convertibility makes it easier for domestic companies to tap foreign markets.

What is Current Account Convertibility?
It defines at one can import and export goods or receive or make payments for services rendered. However, investments and borrowings are restricted.

What is Arbitrage?
The opportunity to buy an asset at a low price then immediately selling it on a different market for a higher price.

What is Capitalism?

Capitalism as an economy is based on a democratic political ideology and produces a free market economy, where businesses are privately owned and operated for profit; in capitalism, all of the capital investments and decisions about production, distribution, and the prices of goods, services, and labor, are determined in the free market and affected by the forces of supply and demand.

What is Socialism?
Socialism as an economy is based on a collectivist type of political ideology and involves the running of businesses to benefit the common good of a vast majority of people rather than of a small upper class segment of society.

What is Bank rate
Bank Rate is the rate at which central bank of the country (in India it is RBI) allows finance to commercial banks.
Bank Rate is a tool, which central bank uses for short-term purposes. Any upward revision in Bank Rate by central bank is an indication that banks should also increase deposit rates as well as Prime Lending Rate.
This any revision in the Bank rate indicates could mean more or less interest on your deposits and also an increase or decrease in your EMI.
Current Rate :- 6%

What is CRR
The Reserve Bank of India(Amendment) Bill, 2006 has been enacted and has come into force with its gazette notification.
Consequent upon amendment to sub-Section 42(1), the Reserve Bank, having regard to the needs of securing the monetary stability in the country, can prescribe Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) for scheduled banks without any floor rate or ceiling rate.
[Before the enactment of this amendment, in terms of Section 42(1) of the RBI Act, the Reserve Bank could prescribe CRR for scheduled banks between 3 per cent and 20 per cent of total of their demand and time liabilities].

RBI uses CRR either to drain excess liquidity or to release funds needed for the economy from time to time.
Increase in CRR means that banks have less funds available and money is sucked out of circulation. Thus we can say that this serves duel purposes i.e. it not only ensures that a portion of bank deposits is totally risk-free, but also enables RBI to control liquidity in the system, and thereby, inflation by tying the hands of the banks in lending money.
Current Rate :- 6%

What is SLR
Every bank is required to maintain at the close of business every day, a minimum proportion of their Net Demand and Time Liabilities as liquid assets in the form of cash, gold and un-encumbered approved securities.
The ratio of liquid assets to demand and time liabilities is known as Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR).
Current Rate :- 24%

Reverse Repo rate
Reverse Repo rate is the rate at which banks park their short-term excess liquidity with the RBI. The RBI uses this tool when it feels there is too much money floating in the banking system. An increase in the reverse repo rate means that the RBI will borrow money from the banks at a higher rate of interest. As a result, banks would prefer to keep their money with the RBI.
Current Rate :-7.50 %

Repo (Repurchase) rate
Repo (Repurchase) rate is the rate at which the RBI lends shot-term money to the banks. When the repo rate increases borrowing from RBI becomes more expensive. Therefore, we can say that in case, RBI wants to make it more expensive for the banks to borrow money, it increases the repo rate; similarly, if it wants to make it cheaper for banks to borrow money, it reduces the repo rate.
Current Rate :- 8.50%

ICC Cricket World CUP 2011 Schedule

solaisblog — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:48:32 +0000

After 14 Years, Cricket World Cup is finally returned to Asia (India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh). Last time World Cup was hosted in Asia in 1996 and Sri Lanka emerge winners of the ICC Wills World Cup. Unfortunately, this time Pakistan will not host any games of 2011 world cup because of security concern.

ICC has tried their best to shorten the 2011 world cup as compared to 2007 world cup. So there will be 49 number of games will be played in 2011 as compared to 51 in 2007. Also the length of the tournament will be shorten by a week. Out of forty nine games, India will host 29 matches, Sri Lanka will host 12 matches and 8 games will be hosted by Bangladesh.

India will host one quarter final in Ahmedabad, one semi final in Mohali and Final of World Cup 2011 in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. While Sri Lanka will host the 2^nd quarterfinal and 1^st semi final in R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo and Bangladesh will host 1^st and 3^rd quarterfinal in Mirpur, Dhaka.

Fourteen teams will participate in 2011 World Cup with 14 teams divided into two groups each containing seven teams. Group A contains Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Canada while Group B includes India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland and Netherlands.

The tournament will start with the game between India and Bangladesh on February 19^th at Mirpur, Dhaka and tournament will ends with the Final on April 2 in renovated Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. There will be total 13 venues will be used for the tournament.

First quarter final will be played on March 23^rd in Mirpur, while second quarter final will be played on March 24^th in Ahmedabad. Third quarterfinal will be played in Mirpur on 25^th March and fourth quarterfinal will be hosted by Sri Lanka in Colombo on March 26^th 2011. First semi final will be played on 29^th March in Colombo and second semi final will be played on March 30^th in Mohali.

Groups for the 2011 World Cup

Group A – Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Canada.

Group B – India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands.

Previous ICC World Cup Winners

1975 – West Indies
1979 – West Indies
1983 – India
1987 – Australia
1992 – Pakistan
1996 – Sri Lanka
1999 – Australia
2003 – Australia
2007 – Australia

World Cup 2011 Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Timing	Teams	Venue	Results
Sat Feb 19 (D/N) 14:00 PM	1st match Group B – India v Bangladesh	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	India Won by 87 Runs
Sun Feb 20 09:30 AM	2^nd match Group A- Kenya v New Zealand	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	New Zealand Won by 10 Wickets
Sun Feb 20 (D/N) 14:30 PM	3^rd match Group A- Sri Lanka v Canada	Hambantota International Cricket Stadium	Sri Lanka Won by 210 Runs
Mon Feb 21 (D/N) 14:30 PM	4th match Group A – Australia v Zimbabwe	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	Australia Won by 91 Runs
Tue Feb 22 (D/N) 14:30 PM	5th match Group B- England v Netherlands	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	England Won by 6 Wickets
Wed Feb 23 (D/N) 14:30 PM	6th match Group A – Kenya v Pakistan	Hambantota International Cricket Stadium	Pakistan Won by 205 Runs
Thu Feb 24 (D/N) 14:30 PM	7th match Group B- South Africa v West Indies	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	South Africa Won by 7 Wickets
Fri Feb 25 09:30 AM	9th match Group A- Australia v New Zealand	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	Australia Won by 7 Wickets
Fri Feb 25 (D/N) 14:00 PM	8th match Group B- Bangladesh v Ireland	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Bangladesh Won by 27 Runs
Sat Feb 26 (D/N) 14:30 PM	10th match Group A- Pakistan v Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Pakistan Won by 11 Runs
Sun Feb 27 (D/N) 14:30PM	11th match Group B – India v England	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Match Tied
Mon Feb 28 09:30 AM	12th match Group A- Canada v Zimbabwe	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	Zimbabwe Won by 175 Runs
Mon Feb 28 (D/N) 14:30 PM	13th match Group B- Netherlands v West Indies	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	West Indies Won by 215 Runs
Tue Mar 1 (D/N) 14:30 PM	14th match Group A- Kenya v Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Sri Lanka Won by 9 Wickets
Wed Mar 2 (D/N) 14:30 PM	15th match Group B – England v Ireland	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Ireland Won by 3 Wickets
Thu Mar 3 09:30 AM	16th match Group B- Netherlands v South Africa	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh	South Africa Won by 231 Runs
Thu Mar 3 (D/N) 14:30 PM	17th match Group A- Canada v Pakistan	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Pakistan Won by 46 Runs
Fri Mar 4 09:30 AM	18th match Group A – New Zealand v Zimbabwe	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	New Zealand Won by 10 Wickets
Fri Mar 4 (D/N) 14:00 PM	19th match Group B- Bangladesh v West Indies	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	West Indies Won by 9 Wickets
Sat Mar 5 (D/N) 14:30 PM	20th match Group A – Australia v Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Match Drawn
Sun Mar 6 09:30 AM	21st match Group B- England v South Africa	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	England Won by 6 Runs
Sun Mar 6 (D/N) 14:30 PM	22nd match Group B – India v Ireland	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	India Won by 5 Wickets
Mon Mar 7 (D/N) 14:30 PM	23rd match Group A- Canada v Kenya	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	Canada Won by 5 Wickets
Tue Mar 8 (D/N) 14:30 PM	24th match Group A- New Zealand v Pakistan	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	New Zealand Won by 110 Runs
Wed Mar 9 (D/N) 14:30 PM	25th match Group B- India v Netherlands	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	India Won by 5 Wickets
Thu Mar 10 (D/N) 14:30 PM	26th match Group A – Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	Sri Lanka Won by 139 Runs
Fri Mar 11 09:30 AM	27th match Group B- Ireland v West Indies	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh	West Indies Won by 44 Runs
Fri Mar 11 (D/N) 14:00 PM	28th match Group B – Bangladesh v England	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	Bangladesh Won by 2 Wickets
Sat Mar 12 (D/N) 14:30 PM	29th match Group B- India v South Africa	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	South Africa Won by 3 Wickets
Sun Mar 13 09:30 AM	30th match Group A – Canada v New Zealand	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	New Zealand Won by 97 Runs
Sun Mar 13 (D/N) 14:30 PM	31st match Group A- Australia v Kenya	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Australia Won by 60 Runs
Mon Mar 14 09:00 AM	32nd match Group B- Bangladesh v Netherlands	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	Bangladesh Won by 6 Wickets
Mon Mar 14 (D/N) 14:30 PM	33rd match Group A- Pakistan v Zimbabwe	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	Pakistan Won by 7 Wickets
Tue Mar 15 (D/N) 14:30 PM	34th match Group B- Ireland v South Africa	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	South Africa Won by 131 runs
Wed Mar 16 (D/N) 14:30 PM	35th match Group A – Australia v Canada	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Australia Won by 7 Wickets
Thu Mar 17 (D/N) 14:30 PM	36th match Group B – England v West Indies	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	England Won by 18 Runs
Fri Mar 18 09:30 AM	37th match Group B – Ireland v Netherlands	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Ireland Won by 6 Wickets
Fri Mar 18 (D/N) 14:30 PM	38th match Group A- New Zealand v Sri Lanka	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Sri Lanka Won by 112 Runs
Sat Mar 19 09:00 AM	39th match Group B- Bangladesh v South Africa	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	South Africa Won by 206 Runs
Sat Mar 19 (D/N) 14:30 PM	40th match Group A- Australia v Pakistan	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Pakistan Won by 4 Wickets
Sun Mar 20 09:30 AM	41st match Group A- Kenya v Zimbabwe	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Zimbabwe Won by 161 Runs
Sun Mar 20 (D/N) 14:30 PM	42nd match Group B – India v West Indies	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai	India Won by 80 Runs
Wed Mar 23 (D/N) 14:00 PM	1^st Quarter Final – Pakistan v West Indies	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Pakistan Won by 10 Wickets
Thu Mar 24 (D/N) 14:30 PM	2^nd Quarter Final – India v Australia	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	India Won by 5 Wickets
Fri Mar 25 (D/N) 14:00 PM	3^rd Quarter Final – New Zealand v South Africa	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	New Zealand Won by 49 Runs
Sat Mar 26 (D/N) 14:30 PM	4^th Quarter Final – Sri Lanka v England	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Sri Lanka Won by 10 Wickets
Tue Mar 29 (D/N) 14:30 PM	1st Semi Final – New Zealand v Sri Lanka	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Sri Lanka Won by 5 Wickets
Wed Mar 30 (D/N) 14:30 PM	2nd Semi Final – India v Pakistan	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh	India Won by 29 Runs
*Sat Apr 2 (D/N)* *14:30 PM*	Final – India v Sri Lanka	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	India won

List of Manmohan Singh’s ‘reshuffled’ council of ministers

solaisblog — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:13:44 +0000

New Delhi: Following is the list of new ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Council of Ministers:

CABINET MINISTERS :

V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj

Beni Prasad Verma : Steel
Dinesh Trivedi : Railways
Jairam Ramesh : Rural Development

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) :

Srikant Jena : Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Jayanthi Natarajan : Environment and Forests
Paban Singh Ghatowar : Development of North Eastern Region
Gurudas Kamat : Drinking Water and Sanitation

MINISTERS OF STATE :

Sudip Bandopadhyaya : Health and Family Welfare Charan Das Mahant : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Jitendra Singh : Home Affairs
Milind Deora : Communications and Information Technology
Rajiv Shukla : Parliamentary Affairs

Vilasrao Deshmukh : Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
M Veerappa Moily : Corporate Affairs
Anand Sharma : Commerce and Industry; and additional charge of Textiles
P K Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources
Salman Khursheed : Law and Justice and additional charge of Minority Affairs

MINISTERS OF STATE :

E Ahamed : External Affairs and Human Resource Development
V Narayanasamy : Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Minister�s Office
Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs
Mukul Roy : Shipping
Ashwani Kumar : Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

The Prime Minister fowarded the resignation letters of the following Ministers in the Union Council of Ministers:
Dayanidhi Maran
Murli Deora
B K Handique
Dr M S Gill
Kanti Lal Bhuria
A Sai Prathap
Arun S Yadav.

List of Padma Awardees 2011

solaisblog — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:09:32 +0000

The President of India has approved the conferment of Padma Awards-2011. This year the President has approved 128 awards including one duo case (counted as one) and 12 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. These comprise 13 Padma Vibhushan, 31 Padma Bhushan and 84 Padma Shri Awards. There are 31 ladies among the awardees.

Padma Vibhushan

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Dr. (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan	Art – Art Administration and Promotion.	Delhi
2.	Mrs. Homai Vyarawalla	Art – Photography	Gujarat
3.	Shri A Nageshwara Rao	Art- Cinema	Andhra Pradesh
4.	Shri Parasaran Kesava Iyengar	Public Affairs	Delhi
5.	Dr. Akhlaq-ur-Rehman Kidwai	Public Affairs	Delhi
6.	Shri Vijay Kelkar	Public Affairs	Delhi
7.	Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia	Public Affairs	Delhi
8	Shri Palle Rama Rao	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
9.	Shri Azim Premji	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
10.	Shri Brajesh Mishra	Civil Services	Madhya Pradesh
11.	Prof. (Dr.) Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup	Literature and Education	Kerala
12.	Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra	Literature and Education	Orissa
13.	Late Shri L. C. Jain	Public Affairs	Delhi *

Padma Bhushan

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Shri Satyadev Dubey	Art - Theatre	Maharashtra
2.	Shri Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi alias Khayyam	Art – Cinema - Music	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Shashi Kapoor	Art – Cinema	Maharashtra
4.	Shri Krishen Khanna	Art – Painting	Haryana
5.	Shri Madavur VasudevanNair	Art – Dance - Kathakali	Kerala
6.	Ms. Waheeda Rehman	Art – Cinema	Maharashtra
7.	Shri Rudrapatna Krishna Shastry Srikantan	Art – Music-Vocal	Karnataka
8.	Ms. Arpita Singh	Art – Painting	Delhi
9.	Dr. Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam	Art – Playback Singing, Music Direction & acting	Tamil Nadu
10.	Shri C.V. Chandrasekhar	Art – Classical Dance-Bharatanatyam	Tamil Nadu
11.	Shri Dwijen Mukherjee	Art	West Bengal
12.	Smt. Rajashree Birla	Social work	Maharashtra
13.	Mrs. Shobhana Ranade	Social work	Maharashtra
14.	Dr. Suryanarayanan Ramachandran	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
15.	Shri S.(Kris) Gopalakrishnan	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
16.	Shri Yogesh Chander Deveshwar	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
17.	Ms. Chanda Kochhar	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
18.	Dr. K. Anji Reddy	Trade and Industry- Pharmacy	Andhra Pradesh
19.	Shri Analjit Singh	Trade and Industry	Delhi
20.	Shri Rajendra Singh Pawar	Trade and Industry	Haryana
21.	Dr. Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy	Trade and Industry	Andhra Pradesh
22.	Shri Ajai Chowdhary	Trade and Industry	Delhi
23.	Shri Surendra Singh	Civil Services	Delhi
24.	Shri M. N .Buch	Civil Services	Madhya Pradesh
25.	Shri Shyam Saran	Civil Services	Delhi
26.	Shri Thayil Jacob Sony George	Literature and Education	Karnataka
27.	Dr. Ramdas Madhava Pai	Literature and Education	Karnataka
28.	Shri Sankha Ghosh	Literature and Education	West Bengal
29.	Late Shri K. RaghavanThirumulpad	Medicine - Ayurveda.	Kerala*
30.	Late Dr. Keki Byramjee Grant	Medicine – Cardiology	Maharashtra *
31.	Late Shri Dashrath Patel	Art	Gujarat *

Padma Shri

Sl No.	Name	Discipline	State/ Domicile
1.	Ms. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry	Art – Theatre	Chandigarh
2.	Shri Makar DhwajaDarogha	Art- Chhau Dance	Jharkhand
3.	Shri Shaji Neelakantan Karun	Art – Film Direction	Kerala
4.	Shri Girish Kasaravalli	Art – Film making	Karnataka
5.	Ms. Tabassum Hashmi Khan alias Tabu	Art – Cinema	Maharashtra
6.	Shri Jivya Soma Mase	Art - Warli Painting	Maharashtra
7.	Guru (Ms.) M.K. Saroja	Art – Dance- Bharatnatyam	Tamil Nadu
8.	Shri Jayaram Subramaniam	Art – Cinema	Tamil Nadu
9.	Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty	Art – Music-Indian Classical Vocal	West Bengal
10.	Smt. Mahasundari Devi	Art - Mithilia/ MadhubaniPainting.	Bihar
11.	Shri Gajam Govardhana	Art – Handloom Weaving	Andhra Pradesh
12.	Ms. Sunayana Hazarilal	Art – Dance - Kathak	Maharashtra
13.	Shri S.R. Janakiraman	Art - Carnatic Vocal Music	Tamil Nadu
14.	Shri Peruvanam KuttanMarar	Art - Chenda Melam- Drum concert	Kerala
15.	Smt. Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran	Art – Dance - Mohiniattam	Kerala
16.	Shri Dadi DorabPudumjee	Art – Puppetry	Delhi
17.	Shri Khangembam Mangi Singh	Art – Traditional Music of Manipur (Pena)	Manipur
18.	Shri Prahlad Singh Tipaniya	Art – Folk Music	Madhya Pradesh
19.	Smt. Usha Uthup	Art – Music.	West Bengal
20.	Smt. Kajol	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
21.	Shri Irfan Khan	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
22.	Shri Mamraj Agrawal	Social work	West Bengal
23.	Shri Jockin Arputham	Social work	Maharashtra
24.	Ms. Nomita Chandy	Social work	Karnataka
25.	Ms. Sheela Patel	Social work	Maharashtra
26.	Ms. Anita Reddy	Social work	Karnataka
27.	Shri KanubhaiHasmukhbhai Tailor	Social work	Gujarat
28.	Shri Anant Darshan Shankar	Public Affairs	Karnataka
29.	Prof. M. Annamalai	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
30.	Dr. Mahesh Haribhai Mehta	Science and Engineering – Agricultural Science	Gujarat
31.	Shri Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
32.	Dr. (Mrs.) Suman Sahai	Science and Engineering	Delhi
33.	Prof.(Dr.) E.A. Siddiq	Science and Engineering – Agricultural Science	Andhra Pradesh
34.	Shri Gopalan Nair Shankar	Science and Engineering – Architecture	Kerala
35.	Shri Mecca RafeequeAhmed	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
36.	Shri KailasamRaghavendra Rao	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
37.	Shri Narayan Singh Bhati	Civil Services	Andhra Pradesh
38.	Shri P K Sen	Civil Services	Bihar
39.	Ms. Shital Mahajan	Sports – Adventure Sports- Para Jumping	Maharashtra
40.	Ms. Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi	Sports – Weightlifting	Manipur
41.	Shri Sushil Kumar	Sports – Wrestling	Delhi
42.	Shri VangipurapuVenkata Sai Laxman	Sports – Cricket	Andhra Pradesh
43.	Shri Gagan Narang	Sports – Shooting	Andhra Pradesh
44.	Smt. Krishna Poonia	Sports – Discus Throw	Rajasthan
45.	Shri Harbhajan Singh	Sports – Mountaineering	Punjab
46.	Dr. Pukhraj Bafna	Medicine - Padeatrics	Chhattisgarh
47.	Prof. Mansoor Hasan	Medicine- Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
48.	Dr. Shyama Prasad Mandal	Medicine - Orthopaedic	Delhi
49.	Prof. (Dr.) Sivapatham Vittal	Medicine – Endocrinology	Tamil Nadu
50.	Prof. (Dr.) Madanur Ahmed Ali	Medicine – Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
51.	Dr. Indira Hinduja	Medicine – Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	Maharashtra
52.	Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram	Medicine – Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.	Kerala
53.	Prof. (Dr.) A. Marthanda Pillai	Medicine – Neurosurgery	Kerala
54.	Shri Mahim Bora	Literature and Education	Assam
55.	Prof. (Dr.) Pullella Srirama Chandrudu	Literature and Education- Sanskrit	Andhra Pradesh
56.	Dr. Pravin Darji	Literature and Education	Gujarat
57.	Dr. Chandra Prakash Deval	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
58.	Shri Balraj Komal	Literature and Education	Delhi
59.	Mrs. Rajni Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi
60.	Dr. Devanooru Mahadeva	Literature and Education	Karnataka
61.	Shri Barun Mazumder	Literature and Education	West Bengal
62.	Dr. Avvai Natarajan	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
63.	Shri BhalchandraNemade	Literature and Education	Himachal Pradesh
64.	Prof. Riyaz Punjabi	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
65.	Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
66.	Ms. Buangi Sailo	Literature and Education	Mizoram
67.	Prof. Devi Dutt Sharma	Literature and Education	Uttarakhand
68.	Shri Nilamber Dev Sharma	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
69.	Ms. Urvashi Butalia #	Literature and Education	Delhi
69.	Ms. Ritu Menon #	Literature and Education	Delhi
70.	Prof. Krishna Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi
71.	Shri Deviprasad Dwivedi	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
72.	Ms. Mamang Dai	Literature and Education	Arunachal Pradesh
73.	Dr. Om Prakash Agrawal	Others – Heritage Conservation	Uttar Pradesh
74.	Prof. Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar	Others – Archeology	Maharashtra
75.	Ms. Shanti Teresa Lakra	Others-Nursing	Andaman & Nicobar
76.	Smt. Gulshan Nanda	Others – Handicrafts promotion	Delhi
77.	Dr. Azad Moopen	Social work	UAE *
78.	Prof. Upendra Baxi	Public Affairs -Legal Affairs	United Kingdom *
79.	Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik	Science and Engineering	USA *
80.	Dr. Subra Suresh	Science and Engineering	USA *
81.	Prof. Karl Harrington Potter	Literature and Education	USA *
82.	Prof. Martha Chen	Social work	USA *
83.	Shri Satpal Khattar	Trade and Industry	Singapore *
84.	Shri Granville Austin	Literature and Education	USA *

Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous.

Gold Medals won by India in Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010

solaisblog — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:02:48 +0000

1. Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang – Shooting Pairs, 10m Air Rifle (Men)

2. Rahi Sarnobat , Anisa Sayyed – Shooting Pairs, 25m Pistol (Women)

3. Anil Kumar – Wrestling, 96 kg (Men)

4. Sanjay Kumar – Wrestling, 74 kg (Men)

5. Ravinder Singh – Wrestling, 60 kg (Men)

6. Gagan Narang – Shooting, 10m Air Rifle (Men)

7. Anisa Sayyid – Shooting, 25m Pistol (Women)

8. Omkar Singh – Shooting, 50m Pistol (Men)

9. Renu Bala Chanu – Weightlifting, 58 kg (Women)

10. Rajendra Kumar – Wrestling, 55 kg (Women)

11. Ravi Kumar – Wrestling, 69 kg (Men)

12. Vijay Kumar – Gurpreet Singh, Pairs 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Shooting

13. Geeta Devi – Wrestling, 55 kg Free Style (Women)

14. Omkar Singh, Gurpreet Singh – 10m Air Pistol Pairs (Men)

15. Dola Banerjee, Dipika Kumri, Bombayala Devi – Archery, Team Recurve (Women)

16. Gagan Narang, Imran Hassan – 50m Rifle 3 Positions, Pairs (Men)

17. Vijay Kumar – 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Men)

18. Alka Tomar – Freestyle Wrestling, 59 Kg (Women)

19. Anitha – Freestyle Wrestling, 67 Kg (Women)

20. Omkar Singh – Shooting Single (Men)

21. Harpreet Singh, Vijay Kumar – 25m Centre fire Pistol (Pairs) (Men)

22. Gagan Narang – 50m men’s rifle 3 (individual)

23. Yogeshwar Dutt – Freestyle wrestling, 60kg (Men)

24. Narsingh Pancham Yadav – Freestyle wrestling, 74 kg (Men)

25. Deepika Kumari – Archery, Indivdual Recurve (women)

26. Harpreet Singh – Shooting, 25m Centrefire Pistol (men)

27. Rahul Banerjee – Archery Recurve Individual (men)

28. Sushil Kumar – Freestyle wrestling, 66kg (Men)

29. Somdev Burman – Mens Tennis Singles

30. Krishna Punia – Discus Throw (Women)

31. Annu Raj Singh, Heena Sidhu – Women Pairs, 10m Air Pistol

32. A.C. Ashwini, Manjeet Kaur, Mandeep Kaur, Sini Jose – 4 X 400 Women Relay

33. Manoj Kumar – Boxing, Light Welter Weight, 64kg (Men)

34. Sharath Kamal, Subhajit Saha – Table Tennis, Doubles (Men)

35. Paramjeet Samota – Boxing, Super Heavyweight

36. Suranjoy Mayengbam Singh – Boxing, Flyweight (52 kg)

37. Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa – Badminton, women’s doubles

38. Saina Nehwal – Badminton, Womens Singles

Asian Games 2010 Medal Tally

solaisblog — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:16:42 +0000

Latest Medal Tally List

#No.	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	197	117	98	412
2	South Korea	75	63	91	229
3	Japan	47	73	94	214
4	Iran	20	13	25	58
5	Kazakhstan	18	23	37	78
6	India	14	16	33	63
7	Chinese Taipei	13	16	38	67
8	Uzbekistan	11	22	23	56
9	Thailand	11	9	32	52
10	Malaysia	9	18	14	41
11	Hong Kong	8	15	17	40
12	DPR Korea	6	10	19	35
13	Saudi Arabia	5	3	5	13
14	Bahrain	5	0	4	9
15	Indonesia	4	9	13	26
16	Singapore	4	7	6	17
17	Athelets from Kuwait	4	6	1	11
18	Qatar	4	5	6	15
19	Philippines	3	4	9	16
20	Pakistan	3	2	3	8
21	Mongolia	2	5	9	16
22	Jordan	2	2	2	6
23	Vietnam	1	17	15	33
24	Kyrgyzstan	1	2	2	5
25	Macau	1	1	4	6
26	Bangladesh	1	1	1	3
27	Tajikistan	1	0	3	4
28	Syria	1	0	1	1
29	Myanmar	0	5	3	8
30	United Arab Emirates	0	4	1	5
31	Afghanistan	0	2	1	3
32	Iraq	0	1	2	3
33	Lebanon	0	1	2	3
34	Laos	0	0	2	2
35	Nepal	0	0	1	1
36	Oman	0	0	1	1
37	Syria	0	0	1	1
38	Bhutan	0	0	0	0
39	Brunei	0	0	0	0
40	Cambodia	0	0	0	0
41	Maldives	0	0	0	0
42	Palestine	0	0	0	0
43	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0
44	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0
45	Turkmenistan	0	0	0	0
46	Yemen	0	0	0	0

Asian Games Medals Won By India

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
14	17	33	64

Gold Medals Won By India
No.	Date	Athlete Name	Event
1	26-11-2010	Vijender Singh	Men’s Boxing 75 Kg
2	26-11-2010	India	Women’s 400m
3	26-11-2010	India	Kabadi Women’s Team
4	26-11-2010	India	Kabadi Men’s Team
5	25-11-2010	Vikas Krishnan	Boxing 60 Kg (Men’s)
6	25-11-2010	Joseph Abraham	Men’s 400m Hurdles
7	25-11-2010	Aswini Akkunji	Women’s 400m Hurdles
8	23-11-2010	Somdev varman	Tennis Men’s Singles
9	22-11-2010	Somdev/Sanam Singh	Tennis Men’s Doubles
10	21-11-2010	Sudha Singh	Women’s 3000 m steeplechase
11	21-11-2010	Preeja Sreedharan	Women’s 10000 m
12	21-11-2010	Sodhi Ronjan	Men’s Double Trap
13	19-11-2010	TAKHAR Bajrang Lal	Men’s Single Sculls
14	14-11-2010	ADVANI Pankaj	Men’s English Billiards Singles

Silver Medals Won By India
No.	Date	Athlete Name	Event
1	26-11-2010	Manpreet Singh	Men’s Boxing 91 Kg
2	26-11-2010	Santhosh Kumar Viroth	Men’s Boxing 64 Kg
3	26-11-2010	Preeja Sreedharan	Women’s 5000m
4	25-11-2010	Dinesh Kumar	Men’s Boxing
5	24-11-2010	Tarundeep Rai	Men’s Archery Individual Match
6	22-11-2010	Sania/Vishnu	Tennis Mixed Doubles
7	20-11-2010	Kavita Rawat	Women’s 10000 m
8	20-11-2010	India	Open Match Racing
9	20-11-2010	India	Men’s Team
10	19-11-2010	India	Men’s Eight
11	18-11-2010	India	Lightweight Men’s Four
12	18-11-2010	India	Men’s Four
13	17-11-2010	Sandyarani Devi	Women’s Sanshou 60kg
14	15-11-2010	India	Men’s Snooker Team
15	14-11-2010	India	Women’s 10m Air Pistol Team
16	13-11-2010	Gagan NARANG	Men’s 10m Air Rifle
17	13-11-2010	Indian Team	Men’s 10m Air Rifle Team

Bronze Medals Won By India
No.	Date	Athlete Name	Event
1	26-11-2010	India	Chess men’s Team
2	26-11-2010	Kavita Rawat	Women’s 5000m
3	26-11-2010	Avani Bharath and Anoop Kumar	Pair Skating
4	26-11-2010	Anoop Kumar	Men’s Single Free Skating
5	25-11-2010	Tintu Lukka	Women’s 800m
6	25-11-2010	Mausam Khatri	Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 96 kg
7	25-11-2010	India	Men’s Hockey
8	25-11-2010	Mary Com	Boxing Women’s 48 – 51 kg
9	25-11-2010	Paramjeet Samota	Boxing Men’s 91 Kg
11	25-11-2010	India	Men’s Squash Team
11	24-11-2010	Suranjoy	Men’s Boxing 52Kg
12	24-11-2010	Kavita Goyat	Women’s Boxing
13	24-11-2010	India	Women;s squash team
14	23-11-2010	Pramila	Women’s Heptathlon
15	23-11-2010	Krishna Poonia	Women’s Discus Throw
16	22-11-2010	India	Men’s Archery Team
17	21-11-2010	Sunil Kumar Rana	Men’s Wrestling 60 Kg
18	21-11-2010	MIRZA Sania	Women’s Teniis SIngles
19	21-11-2010	SINGH Ravinder	Men’s Wrestling 60 Kg
20	21-11-2010	India	Womens’s Archery Team
21	21-11-2010	India	Men’s Double Trap Team
22	20-11-2010	GHOSAL Saurav	Men’s Individual
23	20-11-2010	MEHTA Aditya Snehal	Men’s Snooker Singles
24	19-11-2010	India	Men’s Trap Team
25	19-11-2010	Pratima/MINZ Parmila Parva	Women’s Pair
26	18-11-2010	KUMAR Vijay	Men’s 25m Center Fire Pistol
27	16-11-2010	M Bimolojith Sing	Men’s Sanshou 60kg
28	16-11-2010	KHADE Virdhawal Vkram	Men’s 50m Butterfly
29	16-11-2010	Harika Dronavalli	Women’s Individual
30	16-11-2010	KUMAR Ashish	Men’s Floor
31	15-11-2010	KUMAR Alok	Men’s 8-Ball Pool Singles
32	15-11-2010	India	Men’s Team
33	14-11-2010	KUMAR Vijay	Men’s 10m Air Pistol

22-year-old Mexican crowned Miss Universe

solaisblog — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:58:39 +0000

A 22-year-old Mexico woman has won the Miss Universe pageant after donning a flowing red gown and telling an audience that it’s important to teach kids family values. Jimena Navarrete

For that power

solaisblog — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:31:05 +0000

Yoga is the new mantra to remain fit. And for those who want to go beyond just yoga, power yoga is the new destination.

Human brain on a microchip nearly ready

solaisblog — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:38:37 +0000

The human brain on a microchip is almost ready! Turning into reality of science fiction films such as “The Terminator” – where machines and men meld into reality – Canadian

Sitting for hours invites cardiac disaster

solaisblog — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:35:56 +0000

Men who sit for 23 hours a week have a 64 percent greater chance of dying from cardiovascular disease than those who spend only 11 hours sitting.