Automobile
2011 Jaguar XJ has been named as the International Luxury Car of the Year
South Korean 2-wheeler manufacturer S and T Motors Corporation, in collaboration with Pune-based Garware Motors, launched its Hyosung brands of 650-700 cc superbikes in India priced between Rs.4,75,000 and Rs.5,69,000
Awards
Two Class 7 students from Tamil Nadu have jointly won the 2nd prize with a Romanian team in a competition conducted by NASA. M Srivatsan and Vasundhara Gautham of Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram are the only participants from Tamil Nadu to win the competition. Under 'Project IRIS' (International Research and Integration Station), they developed and designed an alternate habitat for human space settlement. The design won recognition for its detailed and in-depth representation of life and its necessities integrated in a space city.
Indian American doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee's book on cancer 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography on Cancer' bags 2011 Pulitzer Prize
Mangalore City Corporation has bagged the Green Leaf Award 2011 for its adopting best practices in managing sanitary landfills
People
Diwakar Gupta has been appointed as CFO of SBI
Board Director, Mohandas Pai and Co-founder K. Dinesh resigns from Infosys
New Jersey-based allergist and immunologist Dr.Sunita Kanumury has been elected President of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) for 2011-12
Indian coach, Beerbul Wadera to be appointed as (PTF) Pak Tennis Federation coach
Former Brazil Vice President Jose Alencar dies at 79
Pop star Michel Martelly declared Haiti president
Actress Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 120 days in jail
Spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba passes away
Sachin Tendulkar turns 38
Cipla's former Chief Executive Amar Lulla passes away
Andy Goss of head US operations of Jaguar Land Rover
California-based NComputing hires former Citrix VP, Raj Dhingra as its CEO
Business
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. to increase the output to 20 million tonnes, eyes production facilities at Kudremukh
'Illumine Play System', a play range has been launched by Arihant Industrial Corporation
Biocon to invest Rs.450 crore on insulin programmes
For the first time ever Apple suprpass Nokia as the world's largest phone vendor by revenue
Royal Emirates Group buys Spanish first division soccer club Getafe, renames 'Getafe Team Dubai'
Reliance Industries finds gas in first well it drilled on a deepsea block in Cauvery basin
Tata Steel to sell 51 percent stake in group company Tata Refractories to Nippon Steel's associate Krosaki Harima Corporation for Rs.576.3 crore
Event
First Bejing international film festival begins in China
Science
Brazil runs world's longest, 28-metre bus on biofuel
Technology
Mobile handset make, Intex Technologies has launched a dual SIM handset, designed for the visually impaired priced at Rs.2,600
Intel launches Intel Xeon processor E7 family
iPad 2 to be launched in India by end of April 2011
VMWare's mobile virtualization now on Android
Blackberry's Playbook hits US market
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