Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Current Affairs April 2011
Automobile
Ford Motor India launches cheaper sedan version, 'Fiesta Classic'
Volskwagen to launch Jetta variant in India sometime in mid-2011
Business
VMware takes over Mozy which has been serving as the could-based storage and back up service of EMC for the last 4 years
MindTree co-founder Ashok Soota to set up a new business venture - Happiest Minds Technologies Limited to provide IT services to global firms
HCL bags broadband connectivity project for Indian Railways
IBM to provide finance and administration shared services to PepsiCo India
FedEx acquires Boeing 777F aircraft to provide better international connectivity to Indian cargo business
Canara Bank launches Debit Card-Platinum and Canara Campus Card
BSE signed an MoU with Osaka Securities Exchange to develop opportunities including cross-licencing of indices
Education
Symbiosis International University plans to start a school of liberal arts at its model colony campus from June 2011
'Pengala', a learning software for students to create interactive multimedia courses
Event
Dr.Gangubai Hanagal Music Foundation and Hubli Art circle to jointly organize a 2-day Indian classical music, dance and folk festival to mark 98th birth anniversary of Hindustani stalwart Gangubai Hanagal
4-day Auto Expo 2011 to be held in Surat, Gujarat
2-day North Zone conference of International College of Surgeons to be held at KN Udupa auditorium, Banaras Hindu University
People
Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as Metro Express between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) chief
Chris Capossela has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft
Partip Chaudhuri has been appointed as SBI's chief
Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo's highest ranking policewoman becomes country's President
Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of the IIT Kharagpur
Science
Scientists have created the world's 1st artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy which could pave the way for a cheaper source of power in developing countries
Technology
Mozilla releases Firefox 4 for Android
Yahoo to launch new search engine in India by 2011 H2
Dr.Abdul Kalam launches launches language translation software developed by 17 institutions including the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at the 20th International World Wide Web conference
IT firm LinguaNext launched solutions Indify SAP and Indify Oracle to translate SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite into 22 official Indian languages.
HTC launches demo of HTC Flyer tablet
Ford Motor India launches cheaper sedan version, 'Fiesta Classic'
Volskwagen to launch Jetta variant in India sometime in mid-2011
Business
VMware takes over Mozy which has been serving as the could-based storage and back up service of EMC for the last 4 years
MindTree co-founder Ashok Soota to set up a new business venture - Happiest Minds Technologies Limited to provide IT services to global firms
HCL bags broadband connectivity project for Indian Railways
IBM to provide finance and administration shared services to PepsiCo India
FedEx acquires Boeing 777F aircraft to provide better international connectivity to Indian cargo business
Canara Bank launches Debit Card-Platinum and Canara Campus Card
BSE signed an MoU with Osaka Securities Exchange to develop opportunities including cross-licencing of indices
Education
Symbiosis International University plans to start a school of liberal arts at its model colony campus from June 2011
'Pengala', a learning software for students to create interactive multimedia courses
Event
Dr.Gangubai Hanagal Music Foundation and Hubli Art circle to jointly organize a 2-day Indian classical music, dance and folk festival to mark 98th birth anniversary of Hindustani stalwart Gangubai Hanagal
4-day Auto Expo 2011 to be held in Surat, Gujarat
2-day North Zone conference of International College of Surgeons to be held at KN Udupa auditorium, Banaras Hindu University
People
Ex-IAS officer Sanjay Gupta has been appointed as Metro Express between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) chief
Chris Capossela has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft
Partip Chaudhuri has been appointed as SBI's chief
Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo's highest ranking policewoman becomes country's President
Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of the IIT Kharagpur
Science
Scientists have created the world's 1st artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy which could pave the way for a cheaper source of power in developing countries
Technology
Mozilla releases Firefox 4 for Android
Yahoo to launch new search engine in India by 2011 H2
Dr.Abdul Kalam launches launches language translation software developed by 17 institutions including the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at the 20th International World Wide Web conference
IT firm LinguaNext launched solutions Indify SAP and Indify Oracle to translate SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite into 22 official Indian languages.
HTC launches demo of HTC Flyer tablet
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