[PIN-November-2014] Part-2/2: Books, Authors, Sports & Business GK for Non-UPSC exams

• Autobiography: Playing it my way[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• Boria Majumdar is the co-authored (Noted sports journalist and Sports historian)
• Publisher Hodder & Stoughton(Hachette India in India)
• Sachin’s autobiography has broken the record set by Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson.

• Latest novel Half Girlfriend[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• In controversy for alleged poor portrayal of Dumraon’s royal family.
• Dumraon state was founded by a branch of Parmar rulers of Jagdishpur (Bhojpur).

• Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature.
• The Jnanpith award was setup by philanthropist couple Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and Late Rama Jain, commemorates Indian authors for their contribution to Indian literature.

• Owner of feminist press Kali for Women.
• She wrote biography of Nayantara Sahgal, niece to India’s first Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru, and cousin to Indira Gandhi.

• First novel: The Radiance of Ashes[icon type=”shopping-cart”].
• New short story-collection: Passion Flower[icon type=”shopping-cart”]

• Travelogue: An Area of Darkness[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• Portrayed India in negative light, hence banned for last 50 years, since 1964. (Hindu says its banned, flipkart is still selling it!?)

Similar books by Naipaul

• India: A Wounded Civilization
• India: A Million Mutinies

• He wrote biography- 41 : A portrait of my father[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• His father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President.
• Junior Bush was 43rd President.

• Book: The Lost Gospel
• They cited an ancient Syrian manuscript to claim that Jesus was married to Mary the Magdalene and that they had children together.

• Song of the Shirt[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• Book on plight of Bangladeshi textile workers.

• She was a British detective novel writer
• Famous character Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard.

• “Redeployment”: Stories about Iraq war
• won US National Book Award for fiction

• First book: Mahabharata secret
• New historical fiction book: The Mahabharata Quest[icon type=”shopping-cart”]

• Pakistani author
• First novel: The Scatter Here is Too Great[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• Won Shakti Bhatt first book prize.

• crowd-sourced animation movie in Sanskrit
• Based on a Kannada folk song about man-animal conflict

• Marathi play “Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy”  (This is Nathuram Godse Speaking)
• Written by Pradeep Dalvi, portraying Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse in a soft light.
• Maharashtra and Kerala governments have banned it for many years.

• Declared Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year.
• Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Minister of State, Information and Broadcasting announced this award.
• Award was given during IFFI film festival in Goa in November 2014.

• 45th International film Festival of India .
• Russian film “Leviathan” by Andrey Zvyagintsev won the best film award = Golden Peacock + Rs.40 lakhs
• Director Wong Kar-Wai given lifetime achievement award. His latest movie: The Grandmaster.

• Hindi movie based on renowned painter Raja Ravi Varma’s life.
• His granddaughter complained that film marker has wrongly showed the painter in a “playboy” image.
• Director Ketan Mehta.

• Science-adventure fiction novels By Suzanne Collons.
• Latest Hollywood movie: Hunger games: Mockingjay Part1[icon type=”shopping-cart”]
• In hunger games, rebels use 3-finger salute.
• Thai-protestors using the same to protest against coup. Hence Military junta has outlawed 3 finger salute.

• ICC Cricketer of the Year
• ICC Test cricketer of the Year.

• CEO David Richardson Tied up with Australian and Newzeland law enforcement agencies, to prevent match fixing in World cup 2015.
• Luxury watch brand Hublot designated as “official timekeeper” for World cup 2015.

• former Captain of Hockey team. New Bollywood movie planned on his life.

• He was the flag-bearer at 17th Asian games held at Incheon(South Korea)

• National hockey federation will be launching ‘Hockey India Annual Awards’
• Top male and female players will get Rs.25 lakhs each.

• Male team coach Terry Walsh left.
• Women’s team coach Neil Hawgood decided not to renew contract for next year with SAI.

• Hosted in France.
• Roger Federer defeats Richard Gasquet

• Vijay Amritraj promoted Champions Tennis League (CTL).
• First season held from Nov. 17th to Nov. 26th 2014
• Pune Marathas defeated Delhi Dreams.
• David Ferrer did not come citing health problem.

• Saina Nehwal won.
• Saina was also a bronze medallist at London Olympics 2012.
• K.Srikanth won man’s gold
• Price: 7 lakh $, held at Fuzhou

• International Boxing Association
• Banned Sarita Devi for a year (in Dec. 2014). Refer to old PIN series for reason.

• Earlier Kapil Dev selection Committee had nominated boxed Jai Bhagwan’s name, but then Manoj went to court.
• Finally Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal gave Arjun Award to Boxer Manoj Kumar
• He has won gold at CWG 2010 and Bronze in Asian boxing championship 2013.

• AIBA Technical Rules require women boxers to submit “non-pregnancy” declaration.
• Controversy because a doctor claimed SAI performing pregnancy tests even on unmarried and underage Indian boxer girls.

• 8th World Women’s Boxing Championships held at Jeju, South Korea
• Silver won by Indian pugilists S Sarjubala (48kg) and Saweety (81kg)

• Added ebola donation button
• Added “say thanks” video feature for users.

• Its founder Mr.Jack Ma will finance startup companies in India.
• Alibaba e-commerce site sold $2 billion worth of goods within first hour of its annual online shopping festival.

• Earlier had 5 year contract with Google, to keep it as default search engine in firefox’s browser
• But now contract made with Yahoo- to make it Firefox’s default search engine.

• New Antivirus has “safe banking” feature.
• Although I wonder how is that a news? Kaspersky Internet Security etc. already got this since ages.

But Hindu reported it. and whatever comes in Hindu is “automatically” important for exam hahaha.

• Google’s android one phone:contract with three companies-Micromax, Karbonn & Spice.
• Priced at ~6000.
• Until now, sold through e-commerce sites like flipkart only.
• But now google wants physical retailers to sell them as well. but Retailers unhappy and unwilling to put it on display, due Google’s first preference to online shopping sites.

• Google Nexus 6 smartphone launched (6″ display)
• Contains Lollipop android update
• Turbo-charger: only in 15 minutes.

• launched a new internet services, ‘One Touch Internet’, to allow first-time users to discover the power of Internet on phone.

• Until now, TRAI had fixed “interconnect charge” at 20 paise per minute for all local and national long-distance.
• Means a telecom company has to pay 20 paise per minute to other company on whose network call has been made.
• TRAI now reviewing this charge.

• Bought Pizza corner.
• By 2015, they’ll have 90 stores in India

• Jignesh Sha=>FTIL=>NSEL.
• This FTIL had designed a trading software ODIN.
• FTIL aiming to shift ODIN to another company to prevent any legal repercussion from NSEL scam.

• Global NCAP- car safety-crash tests.
• Maruti Suzuki’s Swift and Nissan’s Datsun Go failed this test.

• Will acquire ORSL brand from Jagdale Industries, Bangalore.
• ORSL is a fruit-based electrolyte drink for mild dehydration and general disability