Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace to Ela Bhatt

Know More About Ela Bhatt




Renowned social activist Ela Bhatt was selected for the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2011. She was awarded for her lifetime achievements in empowering women through grassroots entrepreneurship.
Bhatt, basically a labour lawyer, who is the founder of an NGO, Self-Employed Women's Association(SEWA), was selected for the award constituted by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. Bhatt founded the SEWA in 1972. Bhatt, founder of the SEWA Cooperative Bank, the first women's bank in India, is also one of the dozen global leaders who constitute 'The Elders', set up at the initiative of Nelson Mandela in 2007 to promote human rights and peace.

The jury consists of international memebrs headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Announcing the award, Trust Secretary Suman Dubey said Bhatt's life is a lesson in dedication and commitment, in caring for the under-privileged and weak, in devoting oneself to the welfare of others, in living by principles and making a difference to the lives of millions.
Bhatt has been selected for the award for her "lifetime achievements in comprehensively empowering women in India and elsewhere through grassroots entrepreneurship, access to shelter, healthcare, micro-finance, micro-insurance, skills, legal services, collective bargaining power and many other means, and thereby promoting equitable development and peace, following Gandhian path of self reliance and non-violence", he said.

Intel Unveiled Solar Powered Processor!

Know more about Intel

Intel unveiled Claremont, an experimental processor chip which can be operated from a tiny solar cell.  The new processor allow transistors to operate a super low voltages, which increases efficiency dramatically.

This has 5 times the efficiency of current chips and can be operated from a solar cell the size of a postage stamp. Intel CEO Justin Ratner also unveiled the new Hybrid Memory Cube, which has 7 times the efficiency of DDR3 memory, with astonishing data transfer rates.

Mario Monti, New Italian PM

Know more

Noted economist Mario Monti is the new Prime Minister of Italy. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi submitted his resignation amid widespread celebration on the streets of Rome.
Monti, a former European Union commissioner, is to form a new technocratic government that will try to navigate Italy out of the debt crisis. Italy is the world's eighth-largest economy, but now in crisis.

Baby girl born to Bachchan Family

Baby girl born to Actor Abhishek Bachchan and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan! The delivery took place on the morning of 16th November 2011, at the Seven Hills Hospital in Marol, Mumbai. A proud grandfather, Amitabh tweeted  "T 561 - I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl !!"
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai had married on April 20, 2007 at 'Prateeksha', the Bachchan residence in Juhu, Mumbai.

Petra Kvitova, WTA player of the year 2011

Know More about Kvitova




Czech Republic tennis star Petra Kvitova is theWTA player of the year 2011.
The 21-year-old - also voted Most Improved Player - won six titles in all including Wimbledon, her first Grand Slam crown. She also won end of season WTA championships and led her country to the Fed Cup trophy. She actually rose from the 34th rank to second behind Caroline Wozniacki.

Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu won Newcomer Of The Year after a breakthrough season that saw her reach two finals - both on clay at Marbella and Budapest - and rise from 214 in the world to 38, eventually finishing it at 40th.




This Year's Awards 
Player Of The Year: Petra Kvitova (CZE)
Doubles Team Of The Year: Kveta Peschke (CZE)/Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)
Comeback Player Of The Year: Sabine Lisicki (GER)
Most Improved Player Of The Year: Petra Kvitova (CZE)
Newcomer Of The Year: Irina-Camelia Begu (ROM)

Usain Bolt, the Athlete of the Year

Know more about Bolt





The Jamaican star sprinter Usain Bolt was presented the Athlete of the Year Award. This is for the third time that Bolt received this award. Sally Pearson of Australia, the world 100m hurdles champion, won the women's award. Both athletes got checks for $100,000!

Bolt was previously honored in 2008 and 2009 by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the governing body of athletics. He was under the clutches of an injury in 2010 but returned to form in 2011 and defended his 200m world championship. He also anchored the  Jamaican relay team to win the 4x100m relay in a world record time of 37.04 seconds.Bolt was disqualified for a false start in the 100m final won by his compatriot Yohan Blake, but managed to win his other five 100m races. He also scored the best time of 9.76 seconds. The 25-year-old Pearson won gold in South Korea and set a timing of 12.28 seconds, the fastest for 19 years. This is also the fourth best time in history.
Other award winners included Blake for best male performance of the year with his 19.26 seconds run in the 200m at the Diamond League final in Brussels. Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya won the women's prize for her 5,000/10,000m double gold haul in Daegu.

Nobel Laureate Har Gobind Khorana passed away

Know More




Nobel prize-winning Indian-born biochemist Har Gobind Khorana has passed away on November 9, 2011, in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 89. Khorana was born in 1922 in Raipur village of Punjab.
A Panjab University alumnus, Khorana shared the Nobel prize in medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
Khorana did his BSc from Punjab University, in 1943, and MSc from the same university in 1945.  He was awarded the Government of India Fellowship that enabled him to go to England where he studied for his PhD at the University of Liverpool.

!968 Nobel Laureates in Medicine

Khorana spent eight years in Vancouver, Canada, carrying out work on proteins and nucleic acids before moving in 1960 to the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the US, where he became co-director of the Institute for Enzyme Research. The work he and his colleagues did at the institute on the RNA codes for the synthesis of proteins led to the Nobel prize in 1968.
Khorana became a naturalised citizen of the US in 1966, and subsequently received the National Medal of Science. In 1970, he became the Alfred Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked until his retirement in 2007.

Two New Elements to the Periodic Table!

Know more about Periodic Table



An international team of scientists has agreed to add two new elements to the periodic table, element 114 and element 116. These new elements are the heaviest elements yet to appear on the periodic table, with atomic masses of 289 and 292 atomic mass units, respectively.

The existence of these elements has been suspected for quite some time, but required rigorous verification. In 1999, a single atom of element 114 was produced by bombarding plutonium-244 with calcium-48. Element 116 decays into 114, which undergoes alpha decay to become copernicium.

As is traditional, the discoverers of the elements will get the honor of proposing their names. The Dubna team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia has proposed "flerovium" for 114, after Georgy Flyorov, a Soviet scientist who discovered elements. The proposed name for element 116 is "moscovium", after the Russian Moscow region.

Lucas Papademos the new Greek Prime Minister

Know more








Lucas Papademos was designated as Prime Minister of Greece on 11 November 2011 to head an interim coalition government. He was Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002 and Vice President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010. He was also a visiting professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Lucas Papademos, aged 64, has been named as the replacement for outgoing Prime Minister George Papendreou.
Papademos was instrumental in Greece’s transition to the Euro. Greece is now under a major political crisis caused by the country's debt crisis. Being a famous economist, all believe that Papademos can save the country from the crisis.

Kavery Kalanithi, the highest paid Indian woman!!!

Kavri, Vinitha & Kochar

Who is the highest paid Indian woman? The first name in your mind may be ICICI Bank chief executive Chanda Kochhar and the like. But she is no where near some other ‘real earning ladies’. Sun TV Network’s joint MD Kavery Kalanithi, the wife Kalanidhi Maran, is the highest earner with an annual salary of $13.09 million. This is equivalent to 64.4 crores! That means a monthly salary of 5. 37 crores!!!

Urvi & Preetha

Can you imagine such a  salary?! Kochhar does not find a place among the ten highest paid women executives in the country. Strange, isn’t it?
Chairperson of the real estate company, Peninsula Land,  Urvi A Piramal is at the second place with $ 1.74 million pay (about 8.7 crores). At third place there is  Preetha Reddy, hte MD of Appolo Hospitals, with $ 1.11 million (about 5.5 crores) and at fourth there is Vinita Bali, the managing director of Britania Industries with $ 1.03 million (about 5.1 crores).
What about these figures? Try today itself. You may one day get such salary! Just imagin if you get those awesome salaries, what would you do? The rest is upto you guys...