Sunday, October 31, 2010

Firms in News

1. Siemens AG is a German engineering conglomerate that is the largest in Europe. The company has three main business sectors: Industry, Energy, and Healthcare.

2. The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation based in Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903.

1. Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited(TAFE) is an Indian manufacturer of tractors and other farm equipment with its corporate headquarters in Chennai. The company was established in 1960 and has a reported annual revenue of $ 1 billion and a sales volume of over 100,000 tractors annually. Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) is a member of the $1.6 billion Amalgamations Group.

Chairman - Ms. Mallika Srinivasan.

NEWS :Mallika Srinivasan will be the new Chairman of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) and TAFE Motors and Tractors Limited.

2. Zydus Cadila Healthcareis an Indian pharmaceutical company head quartered at Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. The company is the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in India. It is a significant manufacturer of generic drugs. Cadila Pharma have developed a drug named Roserin which has reduced the cost of curing TB by 33%.

Pankaj Patel - Chairman.

3. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticalsis a research-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany.

NEWS :Pharmaceutical firm Zydus Cadila on Friday said it would form a joint venture with Germany's Bayer Healthcare to sell drugs in India. The 50:50 joint venture — Bayer Zydus Pharma — will operate in key segments, including women's healthcare, metabolic disorders, diagnostic imaging, cardiovascular disease, anti-diabetic treatments and oncology, the company said in a statement.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Person in news

1. Néstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentina ex president died, was husband of present president President Cristina Fernande.

2. DESMOND TUTU

Dr. Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African activist and Christian cleric who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.

Archbishop Tutu has been active in the defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, poverty and racism. Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.




Geet Sethi

* Geet Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two world records, in English billiards. He, along with Prakash Padukone, have co-founded Olympic Gold Quest which is a Foundation for the Promotion of Sports in India.
* A major sporting hero in India, he is a recipient of India's highest sporting award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna for 1992–1993; both the Padma Shri and the Arjuna Award in 1986; and the K.K. Birla Award, 1993.

Pankaj Advani

* Pankaj Advani is a World Champion in snooker and billiards from India. After winning the IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005 at Qawra, Malta, when he defeated fellow countryman Devendra Joshi, he became only the second cueist after Malta's Paul Mifsud to have won both the billiards and snooker world titles. Advani, who is the only player to have achieved a "grand double" of winning both the points and timed formats at the IBSF World Billiards Championships 2005, has repeated the same feat at the 2008 Championships held in Bangalore as well.
* AWARDS
* Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, 2009
* Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, 2005-06
* Rajyotsava Award, Karnataka's highest civilian award, 2007.
* The Arjuna Award in 2004.

Alex Ferguson

* Sir Alexander "Alex" Ferguson, Knight Bachelor, is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United, where he has been in charge since 1986.
* Orders and special awards
* Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE): 1983
* Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE): 1995
* Knight Bachelor: 1999

Magnus Carlsen

* Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy currently ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list. He is only the second person to achieve a rating greater than 2825, exceeded only by Garry Kasparov.
* On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years 148 days, making him the third-youngest Grandmaster in history. On 1 January 2010 the new FIDE rating list was published, and at the age of 19 years 32 days he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world number one, breaking the record previously held by Vladimir Kramnik.

Koneru Humpy

* Humpy Koneru is a chess grandmaster from India. Her January 2010 FIDE Elo rating is 2614, placing her number two in the world for women (behind Judit Polgár). In 2007 she surpassed the rating of 2577 set by Susan Polgar to become the second-highest ranked female player in history. She became the second female player ever, after Judit Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo mark.
* From 2002 through 2008, Humpy held the record as the youngest woman ever to become a grandmaster (not merely a Woman Grandmaster), which she achieved at the age of 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgár's previous mark by three months; however, this has since been surpassed by Hou Yifan.

Awards

2003: Arjuna award

2007: Padma Shri award