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Business

SBI's Branch at Kohinoor Banjara Premium banking Centre takes Rs.1 crore to open
an account and that too on an invitation only.

Videocon Telecommunications offers a low tariff for international prepaid calls for
countries including America at 1 paisa per second, Singapore and Malaysia at Rs.1.69
per minute

Air India to operate daily Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flights from November 1st 2010

Entertainment

2011 edition of the International Indian Film Academy Awards(IIFA) would be held in
the North American city of Toronto

People

Former Argentina footballer Francisco Varallo, last surviving player from the 1st
football World Cup dies at 100

Rishad, Premji's son is Wipro's Chief Strategy Officer of its IT business

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal slips to No.3 in world ranking

M.S.Swaminathan, one of the pioneers of the Green Revolution in India, will receive an
honorary doctorate from Canadian's University of Alberta for his contribution to food
security in the world

Indian Broadcasting Foundation, the apex of television channels has appointed Star
India CEO Uday Shankar as President

Technology

Samsung unveils Galaxy to challenge Apple's iPad

Symbian 3 run Nokia N8 with 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen with scratch
resistant Gorilla glass to reach India by mid-September

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Business

Akai enters Indian mobile market with 10 mobile phone models

China-based ZTE bags $64 million WiMax deal from BSNL

Skill development firm TalentSprint and financial software testing company Thinksoft
Global, tie up to launch professional programs in structured testing of financial
software

SpiceJet to begin international operations from October 9th 2010

People

Bob Diamond to head Barclays, as its next chief executive

Legendary Singer, Asha Bhosle turns 77

Tamil actor Murali dies of heart attack

Vettori named New Zealand player of the year

Microsoft's Stephen Elop is Nokia's new CEO

Science

India test fired BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at
Chandipur off Orissa coast

Sourabh Siyal and Tushar Agarwal, students of Chirst College have designed a washing
machine with junk material which includes discarded plastic bottle, runs without power

Sports

India wins gold in Archery World cup

Japanese rider Shpya Tomizawa dies at the San Marino Grand Prix (Moto2 race) which
was held in Italy

India will see its inaugural Formula One Grand Prix on October 30th 2011

Chennai Sports City of 1,500 acres to be established in the Kancheepuram district

24-hour helpline website launched for tourists ahead of Common Wealth Games 2010

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Tax

Now, get SMS alerts on tax dues

Technology

Google to play live interpreter(conversations between 2 people who do not speak the
same language) using smartphones

SanDisk launches world's smallest stamp sized 64-bit solid-state drive

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Award

Telugu film maker, D.Ramanaidu has been honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke award

Eco-friendly Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bags 'Earth Care Award for
Excellence 2010 in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation'

Mani Ratnam was awarded 'Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Fimlmaker Award' at the
67th Venice Film Festival

Business

Employee's Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) interest rate has been increased to 9.5
percent

RBI hikes repo rate and reverse repo rate by 25 bps from 5.75% to 6.0% and 50 bps
from 4.5% to 5.0% respectively

Ipomo Communications has launched 'mobile learning' campus called Interactive

Platform On Mobile Campus(IPOMO CAMPUS) in Karnataka

Celebration

Bank of Maharashtra surpasses (Platinum) 75 years of Banking service

Entertainment

Hollywood studio Warner Bros picks up distribution right of animated feature film
'Ramayana - The Epic', slated for a Dasara release in 3 languages(Hindi, Tamil and
Telugu) simultaneously across India

Honour

Chennai-girl Divya Ajith becomes first woman to raise 'Sword of Honour' winning the
Best All-Round Cadet award, beats 244 fellow gentlemen and women cadets.

People

South Indian playback singer and National award winner Swarnalatha is dead, following
lung infection

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Internet inventor Breners-Lee has urged that everyone across the world should have
access to the web for free

Sunil Sanghai has been appointed as Managing Director and Head of Global Banking in
India by HSBC

Science

Scientists make artificial (electronic) skin that can sense touch

Sports

Clijsters wins 3rd U.S Open title

Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins gold in World Wrestling Championship

Nadal wins U.S.Open, completes grand slam collection

England's Andrew Flintoff retires from international cricket (all forms of the game)

England and Wales Cricket Board has handed a 2-week ban, to all-rounder Dmitri
Mascarenhas for his Twitter outburst against national selector Geoff Miller

Technology

Samsung launches iPad named, Tab

Gramateller, a low-cost ATM priced at Rs.1,75,000 which consumes less than 100
watts of power, functions during power cuts with a back-up power supply and has the
option of running on solar power has been launched by Vortex Engineering
Vortex Engineering: L.Kannan a mechanical engineer from IIT Madras. The founder,
started the company in the year 2001 to develop innovative technologies to transform
rural India

Termed to be the concept device, Nokia U has been revealed

Internet Explorer 9 Beta launched

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Business

Bharti enters mobile phone business, as group firm beetle launches 8 triple SIM phones
priced between Rs.1,750 to Rs.7,000

Nokia Siemens, Ericsson and Huawei has been awarded the contracts of 3G network
infrastructure by Bharti Airtel

Sensex ends above 20,000 points, the last before today(21st September 2010) was on
January 15th 2008

India's first Super Hercules plane C-130J, considered to be world's most advanced
transport aircraft is being prepared for its maiden flight early October 2010

STAR India PLUS has been launched on America's Verizon FiOS TV

Dell Streak, now made available on company's online store

MTS partners with Reebok, to offer a pair of sports shoes on purchase of its data card

Jet Airways to fly to Milan from December

Education

Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) to provide a certificate program

English course through Nokia phone's Ovi Life Tools

People

M.C.Mary Kom claims a historic 5th successive World Championship title, beating
Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6

Anysha Panesar, a 16-year-old Indian-origin teenager has been crowned USA's Perfect
Teen

Nilsson has been appointed as Executive Director, International Operations by Ashok

Leyland

Actor Manoj Kumar to get lifetime achievement honour at the Mumbai Academy of
Moving IMage(MAMI), to be held between 21st to 28th of October 2010

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Sports

Indian teams, including Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, P.Harikrishna and Surya

Shekar Ganguly secure 3rd round victory of the 29th Chess Olympiad held at Khanty
Mansiysk in Russia

Unique Identification(UID)

Ranjana Sonawne. 782474317884, with this number becomes the first Indian to get UID

Business

Telecom services provider Aircel has entered into a partnership with Apollo Hospitals to
provide interactive healthcare services on mobile phones

Association of Technical Markets Analysts(ATMA) formally launched operations in

India

General Motors India launches captive LNG facility at its Haloi factory

People

Legendary singer, Lata Mangeshkar turns 81

Mukesh Ambani tops India rich list for 3rd consecutive time

Symphony TV lifetime achievement award for Yesudas

Sanjay Aggarwal has been appointed as CEO of Kingfisher Airlines

Ranbir Singh Butola to head Indian Oil Corporation

Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries acquires controlling stake in Israeli

drug-maker Taro Pharmaceutical Industries

Record

CRH380A train sets new speed record of 416.6kms per hour(258.86 miles per hour) in
China

Technology

Research In Motion has unveiled Playbook, a tablet computer

Sharp enters into the e-reader market with Galapagos

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