Current affairs briefing for 17th and 18th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

I couldn't post on our blogs yesterday because my Internet link was down.

Here go our links for today:

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/17062007.html

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/18062007.html


And I updated the quiz page:  http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

Briefing for 17th:

1.  When is Father's Day celebrated?

2.  What is a currency swap deal between countries?  How may countries is India having such a deal with?

3.  What is botnet?

4.  Who is the US sponsored candidate for the World Bank Chief's post?

5.  What is a commodity balance sheet?

6.  Let's take a look at the woman pilots of India.

7.  Ever heard of the Hutchison effect?  It is quite interesting.

8.  What is the biggest desert on earth?

9.  Knighthood for Salman Rushdie.

10.  A real challenge for all of you.  Can you answer the Open Space queries of Times of India?  If you are a regular reader of our blogs, you can surely answers these questions.  Take a look.

Briefing for 18th:

1.  The licence permit raj is slowly creeping back into India.

2.  Are MLAs and MPs public servants?  See what the Supreme Court ruled years ago.

3.  Ever heard of graphology?  Know that some of you are experts at it.

4.  Some recap of outbound FDI from India.

5.  Useful info about petro product imports and duties.

6.  Should inflation taming be on RBI's plate? 

7.  Something about dealing with strikes.  Look what the SC had to say in the matter.

8.  A rare achievement by Andy Roddick in winning the Queen's Trophy.

That's all for today folks.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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Current affairs briefing for 16th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

As my internet connection from home was down, I could not upload our quiz today in the morning.  Uploaded it just now.  Take a look at it here. http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

Here are our links for today:

http://discover-it.blogspot.com/2007/06/answers-to-some-shout-box-queries-3.html

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/16062007.html

In today's briefing:

1.  Looks like my busy schedule is keeping me away from the shout-box more often that what I would have preferred to.  So not to let you down, I have resorted to answering the queries -- sometimes in a more detailed way than is otherwise possible through shout-box -- in our Discover It blog.  In today's Discover It I have answered some more important questions.  Do take a look.

2.  Do you know the creator of the character Mowgli?  Don't ask me who is Mowgli; you won't know?  All of you are more TV age people than what I am.

3.  Sivaji cinema.  Parkalama?

4.  FII portfolio investments still in a quandary.

5.  Ever heard of 'category killer' in retail business?  I was surprised by the new terminology that is flooding us every other week.

6.  Something about the H1-B visa controversy.

7.  Some opinion on our current examination system.  In the light of remarks made by Prof. CNR Rao.

8.  Cadbury == our road side hotel?

9.  World's longest over land tunnel opened for traffic.

10.  New standard for kilogram measurement.

11.  RBI divests its stake in SBI.

12.  Where is the Tribal University coming up?

That's all for today.  Happy reading.

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Current affairs briefing for 15th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

Here go our links for today:

http://discover-it.blogspot.com/2007/06/about-iip.html

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/15062007.html

And here is our quiz page:  http://quizindia.blogspot.com/  (Just uploaded)

In today's briefing:

1.  One of you asked me to explain something about IIP.  I noted something in Discover It today.

2.  Pratibha Patil likely to be our next President.  And the FIRST WOMAN President at that.

3.  If you have been following my blogs, you should be able to tell me what is an LBO about?  What is it?

4.  Deepak Parekh committee goes full steam in its recommendations.  It wants more liberalized norms.

5.  Ever heard of the tissue culture in bananas?  How much do you know about it?

6.  Some power arguments on the quota issue.

7.  Not all business people are perhaps driven by profit motive.  There is something more than profit that they are looking for there.

8.  Ever heard of the Dutch disease?  What or whom does it afflict?

9.  Rothschild dead.  Rothschild who?  He is considered the father of French banking.

That's all for today folks.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna


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Current affairs briefing for 14th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

I am sorry for being very late today.  It's been a hectic, activity filled day for me officially.  Very tight.  Hence there is lot of delay in posting our notes and briefing.

Here go our links for today:

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/14062007.html

http://discover-it.blogspot.com/2007/06/answers-to-some-shout-box-queries.html

And I uploaded today's quiz right in the morning.  Take it at http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

In today's briefing:

1.  Why are races called Grand Prix?  Where exactly does this word come from?  What does it mean?

2.  What are the advantages of reverse mortgage?

The above two are the shout-box queries that I answered today in Discover It blog.  Take a look.

3.  Look at how Jayalalithaa is facing legal troubles.  Let us know some details.  A bit of history does always help.

4.  Can MPs become Chief Ministers?  Or is there any embargo?  Look at what the SC is saying on the issue.

5.  Is e-commerce really catching up in India?  If so, can you reel out some figures to buttress your argument?

6.  Export duty on iron ore to be shared with states.

7.  If you are lax with giving some information for statistics compilation, you are in for trouble.

8.  Is it possible to make money out of cattle dung?  India is rich in this.  Take a look at how CDM can show a source of income out of cattle dung.

9.  One more recap at hydel power potential in India.

10.  Did you hear anything about VHT treatment?  What is it used for?

11.  What do you know about currency trading system in India?

12.  What do you know about tackling benami transactions in India?

13.  A couple of other snippets.

That's all folks for today. 

Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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Current affairs briefing for 13th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

Here go our links for today:

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/13062007.html

I have uploaded the quiz page at http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

In today's briefing:

1.  India and UK reciprocate Medicine Degree recognition.

2.  April IIP zooms.  How can we say that the growth is investment led but not consumption led?

3.  Something about reverse auctions.  HLL has resorted to this to spend its ad budget.

4.  Corporate bond market.  A look at the figures.

5.  Ever heard of Tobin Tax?  What is it levied on?

6.  What is no-till farming about?  Why is it becoming popular all over the world?

7.  Rice based vaccine for cholera.

8.  State Prize conferred on Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  Can you spell him right?

That is all for today.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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Current affairs briefing for 12th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

Here go our links for today"

http://discover-it.blogspot.com/2007/06/strategic-petroleum-reserves.html

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/12062007.html

And I have uploaded the quiz page today before 10 AM:  http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

In today's briefing:

1.  What do you know about strategic petroleum reserves?  Take a look the piece I wrote today in Discover It.

2.  Potable alcohol decontrol.  Why is it being done?

3.  What do we know about Amul?  Take a look at some of the interesting facts that appeared in today's ET.

4.  Slums and slum dwellers should be rehabilitated; right?  Wrong says a well reasoned article that appeared in today's ET.  Take a look at its gist.

5.  What is the Hoda committee dealing with?

6.  Who won the Canadian Grand Prix?  What is the specialty?

7.  Some info about the CITES convention. 

That's it for today folks.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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Current affairs briefing for 11th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

Here are out links for today:

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/11062007.html

http://discover-it.blogspot.com/2007/06/climate-change-without-sacrificing.html

I have uploaded the quiz page today just now:  http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

In today's briefing:

1.  On climate change, US ambassador has written a good piece in today's ET.  I wrote a comment on that in our Discover It blog.  Do take a look at it.

2.  If you are asked to list out the problems being faced by airlines in India, what would you list out?

3.  How many civilian aircraft are operating in India at present for carrying passengers?

4.  RBI is coming out with a new CPI.  What are the reasons?

5.  Ever heard of consent orders in a prosecutor's office?  CCI is coming out with them

6.  What are expressways?

7.  A very good article by Kiran Karnik appeared in today's ET.  It is a must read.

8.  Ever heard of Douglas Tompkins?  What is he famous for?

9.  8th IIFA awards announced.

10.  Tennis at Roland Garros.  Nadal wins.

That's all for today folks.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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Current affairs briefing for 10th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

Here go our links for today:

http://indiancurrentaffairs.blogspot.com/2007/06/10062007.html

http://discover-it.blogspot.com/2007/06/curing-reservation-system.html

And here is our quiz link which updated today http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

In today's briefing:

1.  Coca-Cola and education?  Looks a funny combination?  Actually not that funny.  They are into retail.

2.  Today we have lot of stuff appearing in papers on the reservation issue.  Do take a look at the Discover It blog note on the subject also.

3.  What is breeding by design?  What does it do?

4.  What is the first smoke-free city of India?

5.  G8 summit came out with a declaration.  It is called Heiligendamm Process.  Take a look at the high sounding words.

6.  See how much content people like us are generating every year!!!

7.  What do you understand by leveraged trading?

8.  Some interesting snippets about Brent crude naming.

9.  An excellent definition of investment banking that I came across in today's TOI.

10.  Something about Wrestling and Tennis.

That's all for today folks.  A busy day personally.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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Agloco view bar is available for download

Hi friends,

Those of you that joined my Agloco network, please note that Agloco started allowing the download of their viewbar.  I have downloaded and it is working well.  So we get to earn something out of this.  I suggest that all of you download and install the viewbar.  It will enable us to earn a little extra for the kind of time we keep spending before the Internet everyday. 

Those of you that didn't, I welcome you again to join Agloco.  You can find a direct link to my Agloco network from our blogs.  Just for your ready reference, I am giving it again here:  http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBX5954

I suggest that all of you join my mGinger.com network also.  The link to it is available from our blogs.  Anyway for your ready reference it is here:  http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=32

I heard that one more Chennai based company is coming out with a product resembling mGinger.com.  As and when I get to know more about it, I will keep you all posted about it.

Though we should not be dreaming of making thousands of rupees from them, these are some simple and convenient ways of making honest money on the Internet and using mobiles.  We don't lose anything.  We don't need to buy anything.  We don't need to seriously request anybody for joining these networks.  People will always see the benefit in them and join anyway.

Have a nice day.

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Current affairs briefing for 9th June, 2007.

Hi friends,

Here go my links for today:

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I uploaded the quiz page today http://quizindia.blogspot.com/

In today's briefing:

1.  Bill Gates finally gets a Degree from Harvard.  Of course in honorary capacity.

2.  A potential paradigm shifter -- WiTricity.

3.  My take on the 7 wonders contest.

4.  What causes deja vu?  Certainly Beyonce for one :-D

5.  What's our subsidy bill for fertilizers going to be this year?

6.  Can you recall the MSP for wheat?

7.  The principle behind petro pricing.

8.  RBI weekly statistical supplement figures.  IMP.  Follow it at least once in a month.

9.  Ever heard of an NDF market?  What is it?

10.  Look at the IMA President's take on Medical tourism.

11.  Did the idea of institutional reorientation ever cross your mind.  See what has Sweden done in regard to addressing climate change.

12.  Tirumala accorded special status.  It is popularly called the 7 Hills; know?  Can you name all the seven hills there?

13.  You can't miss today's excellent critique of the Indo US nuclear deal in The Hindu.

14.  How did the G8 group come about?

15.  Watch French Open final today.  Women's final of course.  What is the record that is Henin Hardenne is very close to achieving?

That's all for today folks.  Happy reading.

Ramakrishna

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