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2011 Oscar Award:-

1. Best Picture: - ‘The King’s Speech’

2. Best Actor: - Colin Firth, for his role in ‘The King’s Speech’

3. Best Actress: - Natalie Portman for her role in ‘Black Swan’.

4. Best Director: - Tom Hooper for his direction in ‘The King’s Speech’.

2011 Grammy Award: -

1. Album of the year : - The Suburbs, Arcade Fire.

2. Song of the Year: - ‘Need You Now’ , Lady Antebellum , Recovery, Eminem.

3. Female Pop Vocal Performance: - Lady Gaga, ‘Bad Romance’, The Fame Monster.

57^th National Film Awards: -

1. Best Picture: - ‘Kutty Srank’ (Malayalam)

2. Best Actor: - Amitabh Bachchan, for his role in ‘Paa’

3. Best Actress: - Ananya Chatterjee for her role in ‘Abohoman’ a Bengali film.

4. Best Director: - Rituparno Ghosh for ‘Abohoman’

5. Best Feature Film on National Integration: - Delhi-6.

6. Best Film of Social issues : - Well Done Abba .

56^th Film Fare Award: -

1. Best Film – Dabang.

2. Best Director : - Karan Johar ( My Name is Khan)

3. Best Actor in a Leading Role: - Shahrukh Khan (My Name is Khan).

4. Best Actress in a leading Role: - Kajol (My Name is Khan.

68th Golden Globe Awards:-

1. Best Picture, Drama: - The Social Network.

2. Best Actor: - Colin Firth, The King's Speech.

3. Best Actress : - Natalie Portman, Black Swan.

4. Best Director : - David Fincher , The Social Network.

Dada Sahib Phalke Award for 2009- Noted producer D. Ramanaidu was conferred the Award.

Dada Sahib Phalke Award for 2010 - Director, K. Balachander was conferred the award.

Solution HAS sample paper -2

1. The main aim of community development programme is All round upliftment of the rural people.
2. Rain water helps to increase in soil the content of nitrogen.
3. The princely state of Shimla Hill state signed the Stand Still Agreement with British Govt. in 1947 – Bilaspur
4. Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh is the largest producer of fish.
5. V.D. Savarkar set up “Abhinav Bharat”.
6. Cheif Justice of India acts as President of India when the offices of president as well as Vice president fall vacant.
7. The upper limit for the total number of minsters in the union council of
Ministers is 15 percent of the total strength of Lok Sabha.
8. In the Individual satyagraha Vinoba Bhave was chosen as the first satyagrahi whereas J.L.Nehru was the second satyagrahi.
9. According to latest census poupulation of Himachal is around 70 lakh.
10. Jwalaji shrine is located in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh.
11. Primary sector is contributing lowest to the National Income but employ largest number of labour in the country.
12. Shigri glacier is located in Lahaul& Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.
13. 18th amendment of 1966 led to the reorganization of Punjab leading to the for mation of Haryana and creation of UT of Chandigarh.
14. The most important competitor to the Indian jute industry is Bangladesh.
15. Norman Myers had coined the term hotspots in respect of biodiversity.
16. Excessive release of the pollutant carbon monoxide ( CO) into the air may produce a condition in which oxygen supply in the human body decreases. This is because the inhaled CO has much higher affinity for hemoglobin as compared to oxygen.
17. Land covered with fresh snow reflects back more sunlight as compared to field covered with paddy, sand desert & Prairie land.
18. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles produce water as a “exhausting”product.
19. Nitrosomonas bacterial strain , developed from natural isolates by genetic manipulations, can be used for treating oil spills.
20. Bluetooth device, Cordless phone, Microwave oven & Wi-Fi device all can operate between 2.4 and 2.5 GHz range of radio frequency band.

Imeportant heads -1

1. National Human Right Commission is an autonomous statutory body established on October 13, 1993. Present Chairman of commission is Justice K.G. Balkrishnan.

2. Chairman of National Commission for Minorities – Mr. Wajahat Habibulah.

3. Chairman of National Commission for Schedule Caste – Sh. P.L.Punia.

4. Chairman of National Commission for Schedule Tribe - Mr. Rameshwar Oroan, a former Union Minister of State for Tribal Affair. Commission for Schedule Tribe was constituted in March, 2004 as per Art 338 of the constitution.

5. Chairman National Commission for Backward Classes- Justice M.N.Rao.

6. Chairman National Commission for women - Yasmeen Abrar.

7. Chief Vigilance Commission was set up by Govt. of india in Feb. 1964 on the recommendation of the commiittee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by K.Sanathan. N.S. Rau was first chief vigilance commissioner of india. Presently post is lying vacant after the removal of Mr. P.J.Thomas as C.V.C. of india.

8. Chief Information Commissioner – Mr. Satyanand Mishra.

9. Census Commissioner and Registrar General of India – Mr. C. Chandramouli.

10. Chairman, 13^th Finance Commission – Mr. Vijay Kelkar.

11. Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission- Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

12. Chairman Atomic Energy Commission – Sh. Srikumar Banerjee.

13. Chairman Indian Space Research Organisation – K. Radhakrishnan

14. Chief Election Commissioner – S.Y. Qurashi.

15. Secretary General , Lok Sabha – T.K. Viswanathan.

16. Chairman Sangeet Natak Academy – Leela Samson.

17. Chairman SEBI- U. K. Sinha

18. President FICCI-Harish C. Mariawala.

19. Chairman telecom regulatory authority of india- J.S. Sharma.

20. Director CBI- A. P. Singh.