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1. Fernando Alonso won the Italian Grand Prix, at Monza, today, winning the home race for the Ferrari team by 2.9 seconds over Jenson Button in his McLaren-Mercedes and 4.2 seconds over his Ferrari team mate Felipe Massa in third place.
2. The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a computer program created by Microsoft running under either a Microsoft Windows client or a new cross platform web client based on Silverlight which allows its users to view outer space.
3. Pascal Lamy is the fifth Director-General of the WTO. His appointment took effect on 1 September 2005 for a four-year term.
4. The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states (one of whose membership is currently suspended) . Presently, of the states that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, three are in Europe, twelve in North America, one in South America, nineteen in Africa, eight in Asia, and eleven in Oceania (including one suspended member, Fiji). There are six former members, four of which no longer exist as independent entities (but form part of current member states). The members have a combined population of 2.1 billion people, almost a third of the world population, of which 1.17 billion live in India and 94% live in Asia and Africa combined.^[7]Currently sixteen of the member states are Commonwealth realms with the Head of the Commonwealth also as their head of state, five others are monarchies with their own separate monarchs (Brunei, Lesotho, Malaysia, Swaziland, Tonga) and the rest are republics.
5. Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh launched the Green Action for National Dandi Heritage Initiative project in the historic coastal village in south Gujarat on Wednesday. It was at Dandi that Mahatma Gandhi launched his salt Satyagraha 80 years ago. Named consciously to ensure that the acronym forms GANDHI, the Rs. 25-crore project is intended to design a plan for integrated development and heritage conservation, embodying the Gandhian values of village development and environmental conservation, of Dandi and surrounding villages.The GANDHI project, to be completed in two years, would be jointly implemented by the Society of Integrated Coastal Management (SICOM), working under the Union Environment and Forest Ministry, the state-owned Gujarat Ecology Commission, and the Ahmedabad-based Gandhian institution, Gujarat Vidyapeeth.
6. the Department of Posts released a R.S. 5 stamp to commemorate the memory of the late Chief MinisterY S Rajasekhara Reddy on his first death anniversary .
7. Bengali film ‘Aarohan' (ascension) will be screened during the 34th Montreal World Film Festival, being held from August 26 to September 6. The film, starring actor Soumitra Chatterjee, Sandhya Ray and Rituparna Sengupta, has been slotted in the ‘Focus on World Cinema' section, ‘Aarohan' director Pinaki Choudhury
8. After natural gas and petrol, government is planning to decontrol sugar prices.
9. The headmaster Anwar Hossain, of a Orgram Chatuspalli High Madarasa in West Bengal's Bardhaman district that has distinguished itself as a secular institution, where Hindu students outnumber Muslim pupils, will receive the National award for teachers to be given by President Pratibha Patil on Teachers' Day.
10. Raghuram Rajan, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, was on 3rd November 2008 named honorary economic advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Rajan, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will hold the rank of secretary, Government of India.
11. Namita Devidayal’s second novel, “Aftertaste”, the deliciously wicked saga of a Baniya family, is very different from her much-acclaimed debut novel “The Music Room”, set in the stately world of Hindustani classical music.
12. Recenlty, we read in the newspapers that investment firm 3G Capital is going to buy the Number 2 US Food Chain.-Burger King
13. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is the birth name of which of the following great personality? Mother Teresa
14. Polavaram Indira Sagar Project which is making news now a days , is located in Andhra pradesh states
15. Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated film. It is the third and currently final film in the Toy Story series. The film was produced by Disney-Pixar's .

16. "Your Place In The Sky" is the slogan of which of the following Airline company? AIR INDIA