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Miss Queen of India 2011
The Miss Queen of India 2011 will be held at 6.30 pm tomorrow. The venue will be the Golden Palms Resorts, Bangalore .The main sponsors of this event is Manappuram group of companies who are doing business across twenty states in India. There will be total of sixteen participants from four zones across India. The finalists from south zone are Nikitha Narayan, Aishwarya Muralidharan, Divya.M.S and Denzilina Brown. Among them Aishwarya Muralidharan is the only one from Kerala. The finalists from north zone are Rupa Khurana, Aakrithi Goyal, Romika Bhatt and Mahima Bhakshi. The finalists from east zone are Sneha Chattopadhyay, Saba Khan, Ranjana Mishra and Sriya and Smitha Chootray. The finalists from west zone are Bhawna Ahuja, Pooja Bhamrah, Surabhi rao and Abhiruchi Sharma. The grooming sessions was done at Ramada Resorts Cochin. There will be four sequences for this event. Apart from the main title there will be ten titles which are Miss Beautiful Eyes, Miss Beautiful Face, Miss Beautiful Smile, Miss Beautiful Hair, Miss Photogenic, Miss Beautiful Skin, Miss Congeniality, Miss Talented, Miss Cat Walk, and Miss Perfect 10. The judges for this event are Miss World Runner up Ms Parvathy Oomanakuttan, IPL Cochin team co-owner Vivek Venugopal, Actress Simer Mottiani, Fashion Designer Sajimon Parayil, Vijaya Babu and Ms Thoshma Biju.
Latest Updates: Pooja Bhamrah from Mumbai is been selected as the Miss Queen of India 2011. She will also get a cash price of Rs 1,00000 . Keralas Aishwarya Muralidharan is been selected as the first runner up and will price money of Rs 50,000. Saba Khan from Jemshedpur got the second runner up and get a cash price of Rs 35,000.
Ther awards for other titles are:
Miss Beautiful Eyes : Nikitha Narayan from Bangalore
Miss Beautiful Face : Aakrithi Goyal from Delhi
Miss Beautiful Smile :Aishwarya Muralidharan from Kerala
Miss Beautiful Hair : Abhiruchi Sharma from Mumbai
Miss Photogenic : Sriya and Smitha Chootray from Kolkatta
Miss Talented : Aishwarya Muralidharan from Kerala
Miss Cat Walk : Denzilina Brown form Bangalore
Miss Perfect 10 :Surabhi rao from Mumbai
Kochi Ipl Team will change its Name and Logo
After the strong protests from the fans through social media, kochi ipl team is finally changing its name ‘Indi Commandos Kerala’ and its logo as said by Mr Vivek Venugopal the co-owner and only Keralite in the kochi ipl team franchise. The new name will be selected from online voting from the fans .The 24 hour voting will start at 10 am today . The name will be consisting of two parts, the first part consisting of two options ‘Kerala’ or ‘Kochi’ and the second part consists of five options which are ‘Commandos’ or ‘Tuskers’ or ‘Tigers’ or ‘Heroes’ or ‘United’ or ‘Titans’.The combinations will be like ‘Kerala Commandos’ or Kochi Commandos’ or ‘Kerala Tuskers’ or ‘Kochi Tuskers’ or ‘Kerala Tigers’ or ‘Kochi Tigers’ or ‘Kerala Heroes’ or ‘Kochi Heoroes’ or ‘Kerala United’ or ‘Kochi United’ or ‘Kerala Titans’ or ‘Kochi Titans’.The options which will get most number of votes will be selected as the name. The online voting will be on the teams official site www.kochiteam.com. As said by Mr Vivek Venugopal the logo be decided according to the name.
Kerala Legislative Assembly Election Date 2011 Announced
Kerala Assembly Elections 2011 Dates Announced
Election Commission today announced the Election date 2011 for 5 states including Kerala and Bengal Legislative Assembly. In Kerala the Election will be in single phase. But in Bengal, its in six phases. The Kerala election will be on April 13 and the results will be announce on May 13. The Election dates of West Bengal are April 18, 23, 27, May 1, 7 and 10. The election date of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will be on April 13. The election dates of Assam will be in 2 phases and they are April and 11. The results will be announced on May 13 for all these states.
The term of Legislative Assembly of Kerala will be expires on 23-05-2011. The total number of Assembly Constituencies of Kerala are 140, out of them 14 seats are reserved for SC and 2 seats are reserved for ST. The Electoral rolls of all the existing Assembly Constituencies of Kerala are revised and as per the final rolls, the number of electors are 2,29,40,408.
This is the 1st time that NRI Voters have been enabled to be enrolled as voters and would be able to vote in person.
As per the press note of the Election Commission of India, the schedule for holding General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala are,
Issue of Notification – 19.03.2011 (Saturday)
Last date of making nominations – 26.03.2011 (Saturday)
Scrutiny of Nominations – 28.03.2011 (Monday)
Last date for withdrawal of candidature – 30.03.2011 (Wednesday)
Date of Poll – 13.04.2011 (Wednesday)
Counting of Votes – 13.05.2011 (Friday)
Date before which Election process shall be completed – 18.05.2011 (Wednesday)
India Union BUDGET 2011-2012 Highlights
Pranab Mukarjee
- Direct subsidies will be provided for below poverty line customers in vegetable oil and kerosine.
- Income tax level to be increased from Rs 1,60,000 to Rs 1,80,000.
- It is increased to 5 lakhs for senior citizen aged above 80 .
- Overall economic growth is expected to be about 8.6%.
- Pranab says inflation is a major issue.
- Agriculture sector improved which has a growth of 5.4 %.
- Industrial growth is expected to be 8.1% and service is 9.3%.
- India has overcome economic deformation.
- Pranab says drift between whole sale and retail rates is unacceptable.
- Food inflation is reduced to 9.3%.
- Pranab to introduce Public Debt Management Bill in 2011
- Indian to increase direct overseas investment.
- Government to provide Rs 4,75,000 cores loans for farmers.
- Special revenue subsidy to be provided for kerosine and fertilizers.
- NABARD will get 10,000 cores for providing loans in short term credits.
- Government to increase infrastructure fund by 23%.
- Rs 100 cr for micro financial companies.
- Government will start food security scheme this year. Rs 1,60,887 cr will be provided for this scheme.
- 500 cr to be provided for women development.
- 500 cr will be provide for banks which gives loans for small scale industries.
- 300 cr allocated for increasing milk production.
- Government will start 15 mega food parks.
- The salary of ‘anganwady’ officers will be increased to 3000 per month.
- 8,000 cr special package for Kashmir.
- 1.6 lakhs cr for social welfare projects.
- Rs 300 cr for oil palm sector.
- The limit for House loan is increased from 20 lakhs to 25 lakhs.
- Kerala state get Rs 50 cr for Aligarh Muslim University and Rs 100 cr for Veterinary University.
Prime Minister’s visit to kerala
- Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the largest single operator container terminal in the country the Vallarpadam Container terminal. It was Manmohan Singh himself who had laid the foundation stone in 2005. The new port will be privately operated by the Dubai port world. It is the first port the country to operate in a SEZ.
VallarPadam terminal will make Kochi a key place in the shipping world and it will reduce India’s dependency on foreign ports, over forty to forty five percentage of India’s containerized cargo is trans-shipped through Singapore, Dubai or Colombo.
The Dubai Port World is granted a 38-year contract for the management and exclusive operation. The port costs more than 3,000 corers and is expected to bring this money back through Shipping. The terminal is able to handle large container vessels and can
handle 1m twenty-feet containers a year.
Vallarpadam will be completed in 3 phases. 1: 600m quay and a water-depth greater than 15 m(this phase is complete). 2:Capacity will be increased to 1.5 million Twenty Feet Equivalent Units. Once fully operational the capacity will increase to 5.5 million.
Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the port in February 10. After that he will will go to Trivandrum on a special flight. At4 pm he
willat the Gov. woman’s college. Next he will go and inaugurate the Kerala Vikasana Congress organized by KPCC.
His schedule for 12th of February is like this.
10.00 am: 70th anniversary of Kerala sahithya academy
10.45 am: Visiting Brahmos
11.25: Inaugurating the new terminal of Trivandrum air port.
12.10: Return to Delhi
Padma Awards for Malayalees
Padma Vibhushan
Indias highest civilian awards, Padma Awards, are given in three categories, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
Padma Vibhushan: exceptional and distinguished service
Padma Bhushan : distinguished service of high order
Padma Shri : distinguished service in any field.
It has been a proud day for malayalees as a large no of us got padma awards. The datails are given below
ONV Kurup(Prof.Dr.Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup): Padma vibhushan for literature
The Malayalam poet and lyricist, who had received the Jnanpith Award in 2007 and Padma Shri in 1988 is receiving the Padma Vibhushan this year.
His major works include Daahikkunna Paanapaathram (1956), Mayilpeeli (1964), Agnishalabhangal (1971), Aksharam (1974), Karutha Pakshiyude Paattu (1977), Uppu (1980), Thonnyaaksharangal (1989), Bhoomikk Oru Charama Geetham (1984) and Ujjayini (1994).
kris Gopalakrishnan: Padma bhushan for industry, President and CEO of Infosys Technologies. One of its founders.
Madavoor Vasu Devam Nair(Katahkali artist): Padma bhushan for art
Veteran Kathakali artiste and one of the last practitioners south Kerala-style Kapplingadu school of the classical dance-drama. He is a disciple of Chenganoor Raman Pillai.
T J George:Padma bhushan for journalism
Founder editor of Asiaweek Magazine and editorial advisor of The New Indian Express. TJS George has been conferred with awards such as the Basheer Puraskaram Award, Rajyotsava Award, Mohammad Koya Journalism Award and the Patrika Academy Award.
Late Raghavan Tirumulpadu:Padma bhushan for medicine
Ayurvedic scholar and physician .Born on 20 May 1920 and died on November 21, 2010 at the age of 90.
Shaji N Karun: Padmashree for art
His first film Piravi (1988) won the Caméra d’Or – Mention d’honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He is best known films are Piravi (1989), Vanaprastham (1999) and Kutty Srank (2010).
Jayaram: Padmashree for art
Indian film actor who mainly acts in Malayalam and Tamil films.
Peruvanam Kuttan marar: Padmashree for art
He leads several popular traditional orchestra performances. He was awarded Kerala Sahitya Academy Fellowship in 2010.
Kalamandalam Kshemavathi: Padmashree for art
Her late husband Pavithran is a well-known film director. She is a leading dancer in India.
Usha Uthupu: Padmashree for art
A well know singer from kerala who has sung in many indian and foreign languages.
G sankar: Padmashree for architecture
He is an architect hailing from kerala. Founder of the Habitat technology group.
Dr.Jose Chako Periyapuram: Padmashree for medicine
Cardiac Surgeon working at Mar Augustine Memorial Lisie Hospital. He is the Chairman of the charitable trust “Heart Care Foundation” that assists poor heart patients.
Dr.Marthanda pilla: Padmashree for medicine
Dr.Azad Moopen:Padmashree for medicine
Indian physician and a developer of healthcare facilities in Dubai.
How to apply shares in Kannur International Airport?
Final day to apply – 31st January
Minimum shares to apply – 2001
Price of one share – Rs: 100
The initial application should be written in a white paper. No other special applications forms are there. The applicant should buy a minimum of 2001 shares of face value of Rs: 100. An individual or an institution can apply.
Need to give only 25% of the share value with the application. This amount can be taken as a Demand Draft (DD) in the name of Kannur International Airport Ltd. which can be change at Thiruvananthapuram. This DD should be submit with the application. Pan number should be must with the application. A photocopy of the pan card is also needed with the application. If some one don’t have the Pan number, they should fill the form 60 and submit which will be available from the banks. The remaining 75% amount should be paid at the time of shares will be allotted.
The address to which the application with DD should be send to : Kannur International Airport Ltd., Parvathy, TC 36/1, NH bypass, Chaaka, Thiruvananthapuram – 695054.
The application can be send to Kannur office also. Address – Kannur International Airport Ltd., Kinfra Office building, Opposite to Old Bus stand, Temple road, Matannur, Kannur, 670702
For the NRI’s, they should provide the DD from their account itself with the application. There is no special consideration for any category or no high level is decided for the shares.
For doubts and clarifications, email to managingdirector@kannurairport.in. Phone : 0471-2508668,69(Thivandrum), 0490-2474464
