Current Affairs Questions 2009

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1. The new federal agency approved by the Indian Government to combat terror in India which will be empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the state ?

National Investigation Agency.

2. Who is appointed as Director General of the newly established National Investigation Agency (NIA).?

Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir

3. “Man of the series” of recently held One Day series between Australia & South Africa?

Albie Morkel

4. Who became the country’s youngest international referee, after passing the world body FIBA’s exam ?

Zanim Mohammed Hashim from Thalassery, Kerala

5. The first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music Score ?

A.R.Rahman for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman’s song ‘Jai Ho,’ penned by lyricist Gulzar, was nominated for Best Original Music Score.

6. Which Malayalam Writer won the “Odakkuzhal Award ” ?

K.G.Sankara Pillai

7. Who became the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in one-day internationals ?

Ajantha Mendis , completed his 50-wicket haul in his 19th one-day international. He surpassed the record of India’s Ajit Agarkar who took 23 matches to reach the milestone.

8. Who has been appointed as the General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget in the upcoming administration of U.S.President Barack Obama?

Preeta Bansal, Leading Indian-American lawyer

9. Name the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8, which is world’s fastest cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster than the U.S.A’s subsonic Harpoon cruise missile?

Brahmos, The acronym ‘BrahMos’ is perceived as the confluence of the two nations represented by two great rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

10. Who is the Man of the Series in the recently held Zimbabwe –Bangladesh One Day Series held in Bangladesh?

Shakib Al Hasan

11. The first Bangladesh player to top one of the International Cricket Council’s player rankings?

Shakib Al Hasan He tops the ICC ODI Rankings for all-rounders

12. Jharkhand Chief Minister who resigned from his post following his defeat in the Tamar assembly by-poll?

Shibu Soren

13. Music Sensation A.R.Rahman won how many Oscar nominations for the film “Slumdog Millionaire” ?

Three nominations (Music, Songs (Jai Ho, O Saya))

14. Indian sound engineer from Mumbai, born in Kerala, nominated for the Oscars for Best sound mixing in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’?
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MJ’s kids in LA car accident

Michael Jackson’’s kids along with their grandmother and guardian, Katherine, have been involved in a car accident in Los Angeles.

The singer’s children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and seven-year-old Prince Michael II, and their granny were out for shopping when a group of snappers began tailing them.

According to TMZ.com, a photographer rammed into the back of their vehicle, reports Contactmusic.

The late star’s father Joe Jackson said no one was injured and that the family got back home safely.

Tom Cruise’’s rep slams ”homophobic bore” remarks

Tom Cruise’’s representative has hit back at claims made by a former castmate that the actor is a “homophobic bore”.

Actor Bronson Pinchot criticised his ‘Risky Business’ co-star in a recent interview, alleging Cruise passed a string of anti-gay remarks on the set of the 1983 film.

“He (Cruise) was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth,” Contactmusic quoted Pinchot as saying.

“He made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments… There was no basis for it. It was like, ”It’’s a nice day, I”m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange.

“If someone’’s 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion,” he added.

But a publicist for the Hollywood heartthrob rushed to his defence, insisting Pinchot fell short of understanding a joke.

Rep Cheryl Maisel told TV Guide magazine: “Obviously this is so far removed from who Tom Cruise is as a person, this must have been said in jest.”

Cruise, Holmes welcome Travolta back to public life following son’s death

American actor Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes have helped actor John Travolta come back to public life with a top secret Church of Scientology party in England at the weekend.

Travolta, 55, who had stayed away from the limelight after the death of his son in January this year, was made guest of honour along with his wife Kelly Preston at the 25th anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists bash, reports Contactmusic.

According to UsMagazine.com, Cruise, 47, was among those selected to speak at the event held at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinsted, West Sussex on October 16.

The party was a welcome break for the Travoltas, who have been embroiled in an extortion trial in the Bahamas against a paramedic and a former senator, who allegedly tried to bribe the Hollywood couple over documents the movie star signed immediately following a seizure, which claimed his teenage son’’s life.

Lauren Tewes

(Cynthia) Lauren Tewes (pronounced /ˈtwiːs/, born in Braddock, Pennsylvania on October 26, 1954), raised in Whittier, California is an American actress best known for playing Cruise Director Julie McCoy on the sitcom The Love Boat beating out over 100 other actresses for the role. Tewes was replaced on the series by Pat Klous in 1984 after a highly public battle with cocaine abuse, although she did reprise her role as a guest in a 1985 episode as well as in a 1997 episode of the sitcom Martin and a 1998 episode of the revival series Love Boat: The Next Wave.
Ms. Tewes attended Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California. She also studied at the University of California at Riverside, California where she won the 1st Annual Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in the Theatre. She made her stage debut in “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre in California. Other plays include “Born Yesterday” and “Crimes of the Heart” which were performed during the early 1980s.

In 2000-2001, she had a recurring role on The Fugitive as a police detective.

She currently lives in the Seattle area of Washington state, where she is still acting in regional theater and doing voice-over work. Recent roles include Mrs. Pearce in “My Fair Lady” at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle in 2003, and Karen Noone in Craig Lucas’s “Prayer for My Enemy” at the Intiman Theater in 2007. Tewes has also performed roles for Imagination Theater’s various radio dramas.

She has been married three times: first to John Wassel (20 November 1977 – 1981), second to jazz musician Paolo Noonis (1986 – ?), and third to actor Bob Nadir (1 May 1996 – 25 April 2002). Nadir died of Lou Gehrig’s disease after being ill for several years, and Tewes was his primary caregiver during his illness.

In June 1987 she gave birth prematurely to a daughter, who died a month later.

On September 13, 2009 Tewes hosted the “Seaquality” event for Garden State Equality aboard a cruise ship in support of LGBT Marriage Equality.
Source: wikipedia.org

Sabathia wins 18th, Yankees beat Mariners 10-1 (AP)

Good thing for the Yankees and CC Sabathia that the burly left-hander has the chest of an offensive lineman. The $161 million ace ignored a scary comebacker just below his neck and collarbone for his 18th victory, Mark Teixeira homered twice and drove in a season-high five runs and New York resumed their cruise to the AL East title with a 10-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.

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