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Today Rajya Sabha passed Women’s Reservation Bill by an overwhelming majority to reserve one-third of seats in Lok Sabha and Assemblies for women. The Bill seeks to reserve for women 181 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha and 1,370 out of a total of 4,109 seats in the 28 State Assemblies. This reservation shall apply in case of seats reserved for scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) as well. The implementatation of this bill will increase the participation of women in politics and society and ultimately create equal opportunities for men and women. It will also give importance to the status of women in Indian society.
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of year 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California beginning at 5:30 p.m. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show. Martin hosted for the third time, after previously presiding over the 73rd and 75th ceremonies, while Baldwin hosted the show for the first time. Top nominated films were Avatar and The Hurt Locker, with 9 nominations each. The Hurt Locker was given the award of Best Picture and its director Kathryn Bigelow got best director award.
Social Media bug has taken the Wall Street as its next target as the Largest Social Network on Internet, Facebook plans an IPO in near future. Over the past 6 years, Facebook has grown from a small website to a large social network which connects more than 450 million users all over the world on a single platform. Over the last one year its user base has increased more than 3 fold. With that kind of growth, Facebook is now challenging Google in many fronts. Google and Facebook are the number 1 and number 2 in most visited websites on the Web (Source: Alexa). Google is not able to attract the traffic on Social Media front.
Finally Prometric has released CAT Score Computation Methodology for first ever computer based CAT conducted during 28′th nov-7′th dec 2009. It is now available on official CAT website (catiim.in). There were 3 section in CAT 2009 : (1) Verbal Ability, (2) Quantitative Ability, and (3) Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. All the sections were equally important. Scoring was done in three steps. Prometric mentions that the scores reported are the scaled scores arrived at by establishing psychometric equivalences to adjust for any variation in difficulty levels across the tests like that of GRE, but it lacks any information as in how it is done actually.
CNN has published a list of 25 greatest Asian film actors of all time. The list has actors from India, China, Japan, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Korea. There are five Indian actors in this list. Guru Dutt, Nargis, Meena Kumari, Amitabh Bachchan and Pran have been named in the list of CNN’s top 25 Asian actors of all time. India has highest number of actors in the list. CNN compared Guru Dutt to famous Hollywood director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) and praised him for movies like Pyasa and Kagaz ke phool. Amitabh was picked for his role in zanjeer movie which established him as ‘angry young man’ of Indian cinema. See the complete list of 25 actors.
So one more sting operation and this time target is Swami Nithyananda. He is a spiritual leader and runs the Nithyananda Mission which is part of a world-wide movement for meditation and peace. The aim of his mission is to spread the message of peace. The TV channel has exposed his romp with a Tamil actress. The swami who has big following was caught in a compromising position with the actress in Tamil Nadu. Moreover, the forest department has raided his ashram and seized sandalwood stocked in a hideout.
Today the whole world is celebrating Holi, the festival of colors. This festival is mainly celebrated in India, Nepal, Srilanka, and countries with large Indian populations, such as Suriname, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad, UK, USA, Mauritius, and Fiji. There is a very old story behind the celebration of this festival. It is story of Holika and Prahlad. Holika was the sister of demon-king Hiranyakashipu. Prahlad was an ardent devotee of Vishnu. The King punished his son, Prahlad in a variety of ways to denounce Lord Narayana. He failed in all his attempts. Finally, he asked his sister Holika to take Prahlad in her lap and enter a blazing fire. Holika had a boon to remain unburned even inside fire.
In a flying start to its Hero Honda FIH Hockey World Cup campaign, India completely outlined, once very powerful, Pakistan by four goals to one. This start has given immense confidence to the Indian Hockey team, so they can march towards the coming with their head high. The Opening match for India was very critical looking into the incidences taken place over the last 3 months where Indian Hockey players had to fight for their existence. They were denied good compensation and even their salary was withheld for sometime. In a country where Hockey is a National Sport, no company is ready to sponsor the Indian Hockey team.
As the CAT results are out, I think it is the best time to discuss about the new IIMs of India. Last year on August 27, the Union Cabinet approved 7 new IIMs to become operational in two phases. The Indian states where Government of India is opening new IIMs are Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand. The new IIMs will become operational in two phases. In phase I, four IIMs are likely to commence operations 2010-11 and the initial intake will be around 140-200. These four IIMs are Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Rohtak (Haryana) and Ranchi (Jharkhand). Rest of the three IIMs will be set up during 2010-2011 in the phase II and the intake will be around 560 per year.
Finally after long wait Cat 2010 results has been declared on official CAT website 
