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 Ways and Means Advances (WMA), WMA is a facility with RBI under which governments (central and state) borrow from the central bank to meet revenue mismatches. Unlike the government’s market borrowing, which is long-term in nature, borrowings under WMA are akin to overnight borrowings by banks.
 Spain's master coach Jose Brasa has been appointed as the new chief coach of the Indian men's hockey team.
 Serious Fraud Investigation Office(sfio)
 German engineering major Siemens and public sector power equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) plan to form a joint
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 Venture for manufacturing super critical and ultra-super critical steam turbine in the country. The two companies, which already have a technology transfer agreement for manufacturing turbines, have initiated talks to float a special purpose vehicle (SPV).
 Wolfram Alpha is the next generation web search engine.
 Madhav Kumar Nepal prime minster of Nepal (Ma-Ku-Ne) CPN (UML) , Ram Baran Yadav] is the current President of Nepal. He was elected in July 2008 and is the country's first President Nepali Congress party.
 Mr. Vinod Rai took over as the Comptroller & Auditor General of India
 Economist Montek Singh Ahluwalia reappointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. Three other members were also inducted into the Planning Commission. They are Saumitra Chaudhuri (former member of the PM's Economic Panel), Narendra Jadhav (Vice-Chancellor of Pune University) and Mihir Shah, Secretary of Samaj Pragati Sahayog.
 Sardar sarovar project Gujarat
 What is MTHL? Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, that seeks to connect Mumbai with Navi Mumbai. It is a Rs. 7,600 crsore, 22 km long eight lane bridge across the Arabian sea.
 Bharti Airtel, India’s
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 Largest mobile operator, on Friday signed a five-year, multi-million-dollar content partnership deal with Manchester united, the world’s second-richest football club after Real Madrid. The partnership with The Red Devils — nickname of the football club — will give Ariel’s 94-million customers across India, Sri Lanka and Seychelles exclusive access to United’s football content over mobile.
 he department of telecom (DoT) has issued a notification in this regard saying, “mobile number portability (MNP) is to be implemented in Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra and Gujarat service areas of Zone 1 and Kolkata, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Andhra and Karnataka of Zone 2 within six months of award of license by September 20, 2009, and in the rest of the country by March 20, 2010.”
 foreign currency convertible bond (FCCB)
 Case filed by Satyam shareholders in National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission. The Commission refused to entertain the petition citing lack of infrastructure to handle such cases. It further noted that the CBI and the CLB (Company Law Board) are already seized of the matter.
 Tata Housing, a subsidiary of Tata Sons, has announced a project near Mumbai that would build homes costing Rs 3.9 lakh and Rs 6.7 lakh
 Central Board of Direct Taxes, CBDT.
 IIP (Index of Industrial Production)
 Ralakung and Phema .These are two polling stations in the Zanskar sub-division in J&K. The former had 23 voters and the latter 14 voters. altitude of 13,700 ft.
 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
 India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable 'Agni-II' missile
 21st may anti terrorist day
 The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which promises 100 days of work to every rural household with an adult volunteer
 multi-agency centre (MAC) is operating 24x7 to collate terror-related information.
 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at Yekaterinburg in Russia. The focus at the SCO meeting, where India will participate as an observer along with Pakistan.
 BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) grouping at same place in Russia
 Complete list of the Union Council of Ministers and their portfolios:
 MANMOHAN SINGH: Prime Minister,general administration, personnel, atomic energy
 CABINET MINISTERS
 Pranab Mukherjee: Finance
 AK Antony: Defence
 P Chidambaram: Home
 SM Krishna: External affairs
 Kapil Sibal: HRD
 Anand Sharma: Commerce & industry
 Mamata Banerjee: Railways
 Kamal Nath: Roads
 GK Vasan: Shipping
 Sushilkumar Shinde: Power
 Murli Deora: Petroleum
 A Raja: Telecom, IT
 Vilasrao Deskmukh: Heavy industries
 Virbhadra Singh: Steel
 Dayanadhi Maran: Textiles
 M Veerappa Moily: Law
 Ambika Soni: I&B
 Sharad Pawar: Agriculture, consumer affairs, food & PDS
 Kumari Selja: Tourism, housing
 Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary affairs
 Ghulam Nabi Azad: Health
 S Jaipal Reddy: Urban development
 Vayalar Ravi: NRI affairs
 Meira Kumar: Water resources
 BK Handique: Mines, northeast development
 CP Joshi: Rural development, panchayati raj
 Farooq Abdullah: New/renewable energy
 Mallikarjun Kharge: Labour
 MS Gill: Sports, Youth affairs
 Subodh Kant Sahay: Food processing industries
 Mukul Wasnik: Social justice
 Kantilal Bhuria: Tribal affairs
 MK Azhagiri: Chemicals & fertilisers
 Youngest minister in the Council of Ministers: Ms. Agatha Sangma (28), MoS for Rural development Oldest minister: SM Krishna (77), Cabinet Minister for External Affairs
 Democratic congressman Timothy J Roemer as the new US ambassador to India.
 National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)
 Alice Munro Acclaimed Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has bagged this year's Man Booker International Prize Her first collection of stories, 'Dance of the Happy Shades' , Lives of Girls and Women' (1971) ,
 Kenya prez - Mwai KIBAKI (PARTY OF NATIONAL UNITY (PNU))
 PM - Raila Amolo ODINGA(Orange Democratic Movement (ODM))