February 14, 2010

1.Indian Mujahideen (IM) hand suspected in Pune blast according to Intelligence agencies.

2.Lineage of boy King Tutankhamun finally solved by Egyptian archaeologists, 30 centuries after the pharaoh was sealed in a gold coffin.Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities will reveal the results of DNA testings carried out over the past 18 months on the pharaoh's mummy.

3.A/H1N1/2009 novel influenza virus also called 'supervirus' will be deadlier warn biologists.

4.Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will replace Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).CAA will have vastly strengthened administrative and regulatory powers.

5.QUICK BIRD - an American satellite to check illegal mining in Aravali hills spread across 15 districts of Rajasthan.

6.The Chief Information Commissioner is Wajajat Habibullah.

7.Operation Moshtarak is an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force (is a NATO-led security and development mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement)pacification offensive in the area that is described as the "poppy-growing belt" of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. The combat operations started on February 13, 2010,and focuses on the Nad Ali District and Lashkar Gah district. It involves Afghan and troops of several ISAF-members in addition to the USMC and U.S. Army units.

The main target of the offensive was widely considered to be Marja (also Marjah or Marjeh), which had been controlled for years by Taliban militants as well as drug traffickers. Afghan troops were given a lead role in the ground forces, comprising about 60% of those troops. Around 8,000 ground forces and 7,000 support troops are involved when American, British, and other coalition troops are included.

As such, the offensive has been described as the largest since the fall of the Taliban, whose government was ousted from Kabul and Kandahar in October-December 2001, but proceeded to resist in the following years in an ongoing guerrilla war known as the Taliban insurgency. This became especially clear during the violent campaign in the midst of the Afghan presidential elections in 2009.

8.A life-size portrait of celebrated Indian-origin Nobel prize winning writer was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in the UK.

9.Mr.Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entreprenuer is planning to relaunch The East India Company, which once ruled India. He plans to start the company stores at Conduit Street of the main Regent Street in the heart of London.

10.According to PM's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman, Dr.C.Rangarajan, PMEAC is set to revise GDP outlook for the fiscal year 2010.

11.NMDC Ltd. is the largest iron ore producer in India.Rana Som is the CMD of NMDC.