Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding has been awarded to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She has been chosen for her “enormous efforts for sustainable and equitable development.”
58th National Film Awards
Best Feature Film:
Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam). Directed by Salim Ahamed.
Indira Gandhi Award for the Best Debut Film of a Director:
Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi), Directed by Rajesh Pinjani.
Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment:
Dabangg (Hindi). Directed by Abhinav Singh Kashyap.
India successfully conducted the ballistic flight test of indigenously developed Astra, Beyond-Visual-Range Air-to-Air Missile, from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur.
Sushma and Vikas Kaushik from Haryana became the world’s youngest couple, and India’s first, to climb Mount Everest.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built India’s fastest supercomputer with a peak performance of 220 teraflops (220 trillion floating-point operations per second). The supercomputer named “SAGA-220” (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops) is for use by space scientists for solving complex aerospace problems.
India launched its advanced GSAT-8 satellite on board Arianespace rocket from Kourou in French Guiana.
The Raghav Bahl promoted Network18 group through the 50:50 Viacom-IBN18 joint venture company, Viacom18 announced that it is getting into film production and distribution.
Vivek Lall joins Reliance Industries Ltd's (RIL) home land security and aerospace venture.
McCann Erickson won the advertising business for all General Motors brands in India. This is the first time that General Motors India has moved all its brands-Beat, Cruz, Optra, Spark and Captiva-to a single agency.
The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons targeted Reliance Industries for the fall in production at KG-D6 gas fields by not allowing the Mukesh Ambani-firm to recoup all the investment it has made.
Nivea cream turns 100 this year. In 1911, Oscar Troplowitz, head of pharmaceutical firm Beiersdorf, pioneered the use of the oil-in-water emulsifier "Eucerit" that was an instant hit because it did not go rancid. He then added extract of orange, bergamot, lavender , rose, lilac and a touch of lily and christened his new invention "Nivea" , a name taken from the Latin word "niveus" , meaning snowwhite .
Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju and Sudhakar Pasupunuri are the founders of redbus.in
Dabur has roped in Zlata Creative Design, a brand consultancy from Australia.
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