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Petra Kvitova wins the ATP-WTA Madrid Masters by defeating Victoria Azarenka
Mary Kom wins her first gold medal in the Asian Cup Women's Boxing Tournament in Haikou,China
Saina Nehwal loses to World number 3 Xin Wang in the Final of Malaysian Open Grandprix Gold Badminton tournament
Shane Warne will retire from Indian Premier League as a player after the IPL 2011 Season
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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
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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
California-based NComputing hires former Citrix VP, Raj Dhingra as its CEO
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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
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
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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
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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 cloud-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
FedEx acquires Boeing 777F aircraft to provide better international connectivity to Indian cargo business
BSE signed an MoU with Osaka Securities Exchange to develop opportunities including cross-licencing of indices
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Education
Symbiosis International University plans to start a school of liberal arts at its model colony campus from June 2011
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
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
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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.
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