Bollywood music director A.R. Rahman became the first Indian to win the Golden Globe Award, for best original musical score in Danny Boyle's movie 'Slumdog Millionaire'.

"Slumdog Millionaire" hit the jackpot at the Golden Globes , winning four of the coveted awards including best film drama to give it a leg up in Hollywood's race for Oscars.
"Slumdog," which tells of a young Indian man looking for love and competing for money on a television game show, also earned awards for director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and composer A.R. Rahman for best musical score.
Director Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was named best film musical or comedy.Kate Winslet grabbed two Golden Globes, one for best actress in a drama in her role as a frustrated housewife in "Revolutionary Road" and the second for best supporting actress playing a German woman with a hidden past in "The Reader."
Mickey Rourke was named best actor in a film drama with "The Wrestler" and Heath Ledger, who died of an accidental drug overdose last year, was named best supporting actor for playing the villain Joker in Batman movie "The Dark Knight."
Colin Farrell won best actor in a musical or comedy with his role as a hitman in "In Bruges," and Sally Hawkins was best actress in the same group for her work as an optimis.
"Wall-E," took home best animated film, and Israel's "Waltz with Bashir" was named best foreign language film.

Program that automatically submit your search request to several search engines simultaneously are called Metasearch Engine.

Kerala became the first Indian state to reserve a Government job for HIV+ candidates.

Indian Football team qualified for the 2011 AFC Asia Cup.

Sayeda Hamid, a Planning commisiion member and an expert on Islamic studies on August 12 2008 created history by becoming the first woman to act as 'qazi' and solemnise a 'nikah' ceremony in Lucknow, UP.

'From A to X' is a book written by John Berger.

The author of the book 'The clothes on their Backs' is Linda Grant.

A total of 13 overseas Indians were honoured with Pravasi Bharatiya Samman for their work towards the welfare of people of Indian origin. The awardees included President of Republic of Suriname Ramdien Sardjoe, Vice President of Mauritius Angidi Veeriah Chettiar and management guru Professor C K Prahalad. President pratibha Patil presented the awards in Chennai.

THE Supreme Court has said that the public servants can face prosecution without prior sanction of the appropriate authorities as all their acts in the purported discharge of the official duties cannot be brought under the protective umbrella of section 197 of the Criminal Procedure Code. On the other hand, there can be cases of misuse and abuse of power vested in a public servant which can never be a part of their official duties, said the apex court.

According to Forbes, Reliance Industries Mukesha Ambani has overtaken NRI steel tycon Lakshmi Mittal as the richest Indian in the world with a net worth of $20.8 billion. Lakshmi Mittal is on second with a net worth of $20.5 billion.

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Satish C Gupta has taken over as Chairman and Managing director Director of United Bank of India. Gupta was earler the executive Director of Bank of Baroda.

Food Corporation of India has named Deepak Kumar as its new Chairman.

Rajasthan has launched a digital literacy campaign for e learning in district and sub divisional headquarters.

LIC will launch it's Credit Card in association with Corporation Bank.

First women University will be set up in Riyad.

Bullion or metal bullion is defined as any precious metal, such as gold, silver, palladium, platinum etc which is in a state where its value is dependent on its metal content and not on its form (that is bars, coins etc).
The Government has raised the capital of Life Insurance Corporation LIC to Rs. 100 Crore and increased the FDI limit in the insurance sector to the 49%.
Miss Universe 2008 is Dayana Mendoza ( Venezuela)
Miss World 2008 is Ksenia Sukhinova (Russia)

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Hoshni Mubarak is the president of Egypt.
World Communication Day is on 17th May.
winner of Irani Trophy 2008 is Rest of India.
CEDAW stands for Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
The foreign tourist arrivals (FTA) to India up to the month of November 2008 increased by 8.0% over the arrivals for the same period in 2007. The cumulative arrival figures for the period January to November 2008 reached 4.84 million. During the period, world witnessed 2-3% increase in foreign tourist arrivals.The foreign exchange earnings (FEE) from the tourism sector were Rs.45647.00 crores during the period January-November 2008, an increase of 16.2% over the corresponding period in 2007. The important source countries were US, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Japan.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Mohammad Shah died this evening in Srinagar. He was 89. Son-in-law of late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Ghulam Shah was Chief Minister of the state from July 1984 to March 1986.

Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina Wajed was today sworn in as the new prime minister of Bangladesh, a week after her party led grand alliance swept the general elections winning three fourths of 300 parliamentary seats.

The fifth Tri Continental Film Festival 2009 on Human Rights will be held Mumbai from January 23 to 25. As many as 28 selected films from more than 20 countries will be screened during the festival at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA).

National Conference party chief Omar Abdullah will take oath as the next Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) would launch a weather satellite, the 'Mehga Tropiques' in coming times. The satellite has been developed by collaboration of Indian and French space agency CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales). It has been specially designed to analyze tropical study and causes of cyclones, monsoons, and other climate and weather related phenomenon.

ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair has been selected for 'Newsmaker of 2008' award by viewers of Manorama News.

India's fertiliser subsidy is likely to touch Rs 1,02,000 crore this fiscal. This is 14,000 Crore less than the revised estimates of the government.

States, including Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, have been complaining against the stamp duty exemption given to SEZs for more than a year now, have intensified their protest. State governments have questioned the Centre’s powers to exempt SEZs and units from paying stamp duty as they consider it a state subject. In a recent meeting of state finance officials, states reiterated that the exemption given by the Centre was leading to revenue loss for states and should be immediately withdrawn. States have alleged that while the Centre had the power of legislation, the power to fix rates lay with the states.
The SEZ Act was passed in Parliament in 2005 while the rules were notified in February 2006.