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62nd Filmfare Awards 2017

Best Film - Dangal Best Actor(Male) - Aamir Khan - Dangal Best Actor (Female) - Alia Bhatt - Udta Punjab Best Director - Nitesh Tiwari - Dangal Best Playback (Male) - Arijit Singh – Ae dil hai mushkil(Ae Dil Hai Mushkil) Best Playback (Female) - Neha Bhasin – Jag ghoomeya(Sultan) Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female) - Shabana Azmi - Neerja Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male) - Rishi Kapoor - Kapoor & Sons Best Debut Director - Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari - Nil Battey Sannata Best Debut (Male) - Diljit Dosanjh - Udta Punjab Best Debut (Female) - Ritika Singh - Saala Khadoos Lifetime Achieve

64th National Film Awards for 2016

Best Feature Film Kasaav(Marathi) Indira Gandhi award for best Debut Film of a Director Alifa (Bengali) Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment Sathamanam Bhavathi (Telugu) Nargis Dutt Award for best Feature Film on National Integration Dikchow Banat Palaax (Assamese) Best Film On Social Issues Pink (Hindi) Best film on Environment Conservation/Preservation - Loktak Lairembee(Manipuri) Best Children’s Film - Dhanak (Hindi) Best Direction - Ventilator (Marathi) by Rajesh Mapuskar Best Actor - Akshay Kumar for Rustom (Hind

Wimbledon Tennis Winners 2017

Wimbledon Women SingleThe 23-year-old Spain's Garbine Muguruza won her first Wimbledon title with a straight-set win over five-time champion Venus Williams. It is 14th seed Muguruza's second Grand Slam title after her French Open triumph over Serena Williams in 2016. Wimbledon Men SingleRoger Federer won a record eighth Wimbledon title and became the tournament’s oldest champion with a straight-sets victory over injury-hit Marin Cilic who dramatically broke down in tears midway through the final. Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Britain's Jamie Murray and Switzerland's Martina Hingis beat Britain's He

French Open Tennis 2017 Winners

Mens Single: Rafael Nadal of Spain defeats Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in straight sets to win French Open Mens Single title. Title victory is Nadal’s 10th in Paris, breaking his own record. Womens Single: Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia defeats Simona Halep of Romania to win French Open Womens Single title. At 20, she is the youngest woman to win here since Iva Majoli of Croatia in 1997, the first Latvian to win a grand slam singles title. Mens Doubles: Michael Venus of New Zealand and Ryan Harrison of the United States have won the men’s doubles final at the French Open. The duo beat Donald You

Swachh Survekshan 2017 Rankings

Swachh Survekshan-2017 commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development during January – February, 2017 aimed at capturing the improvement in sanitation scenario, primarily based on making cities and towns Open Defecation Free and improvement in processing of municipal solid waste. Accordingly, it is outcome oriented. Criteria and weightages for different components of sanitation related aspects used for the Survey are: Solid Waste Management including Door-to-Door collection, Processing and Disposal, ODF status etc: 45% of total 2,000 marks i.e 900 marksCitizen feedback : 30% i.e 600 of tot

ESPN Cricinfo Awards 2016

The ESPN Cricinfo Awards for the performances of 2016 in the cricket world were announced on February 24, 2017 in numerous categories. The ESPN Cricinfo awards are given for the best batting and bowling performance across the international formats of the game. The award jury for this year ESPN Cricinfo award included great cricketers like Ian Chappell, Maheala Jayawardene, Courtney Walsh, Mark Butcher, Ramiz Raja and ESPN Cricinfo’s senior writers and editors. ESPN Cricinfo Awards-2016 : Major Winners Best Test Batting Award - Ben Stokes (England) Best Test Bowling Award - Stuart Broad (Engla

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2015

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Fellowships and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2015 at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 4, 2016. The Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) are recognized as the most coveted national honours bestowed on performing artists as well as teachers and scholars in the field of performing arts. The General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi elected one (1) eminent personality

India Post Payments Bank

The Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 1st June 2016 has given its approval for setting up the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) as a Public Limited Company under the Department of Posts, with 100% Government of India (GOI) equity. The total expenditure involved in this project is Rs 800 Crore. All citizens, especially 40% of the country's population that is outside the ambit of formal banking in the country will benefit from this project. The project will be rolled out in the entire country in a phased manner. The IPPB will obtain banking licence from R

Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana

The Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India has launched a new programme known as "Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana" (SGSY) by restructuring the existing schemes namely : Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM)Development of Women & Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA)Supply of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans (SITRA)Ganga Kalyan Yojana (GKY)Million Wells Scheme (MWS)The Scheme The SGSY Scheme is operative from 1st April 1999 in rural areas of the country. SGSY is holistic Scheme covering all aspects of self-employment su

National Agriculture Market (NAM)

National Agriculture Market (NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. The NAM Portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals & prices, buy & sell trade offers, provision to respond to trade offers, among other services. While material flow (agriculture produce) continue to happen through mandis, an online market reduces transaction costs and information asymmetry. Agriculture marketing is administered by

Career Opportunities in Fashion Designing

Fashion design is a dynamic and creative field that offers innovative career openings for those with a passion for style, creativity, and invention. This composition will explore the colorful job prospects in the fashion design assiduity, the original hires one can anticipate, and punctuate some o →

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Foundation Date: December 8, 1991 Headquarters: The Republic of Belarus Executive Secretaries: Sergei Lebedev Member Countries: 12 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was established on December 8, 1991, and the leaders of the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine signed an a →

What is Bitcoin?

In 2009, an unknown programmer by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto put forward a whitepaper that proposed a creation of new form of digital currency - cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency functions the same way as regular currencies do in that its used as a means of exchange, unit of account and a store of va →

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)

Headquarter: New Delhi Function and Objective of the Organization: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)has been established under Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 which consolidates various acts & orders that have hitherto handled food-related issues in various Ministries →