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BiZ HiSToRy

1. Paper money was first introduced in India in the late 18th Century. Among the early issuers, “this bank”(1773-75) was a state sponsored institution set up in participation with local expertise. Its notes enjoyed government patronage

---General Bank of Bengal and Bahar

2. Establishment of this business begins in year 1696, with the first register office in England , which was “Hand in Hand Society”. In India first of its kind was started in Bengal Presidency in year 1818. Which modern day famous business are we talking about?

Life Insurance

3. Founded in Exchange Alley about 1680, it was a suspect house in the Popish scare and several of its patrons were implicated in the assassination plot again William III in 1696. From 1762 until 1773, it became a club for London's leading stock-jobbers and served as the city's first stock exchange.

--Jonathan's Coffee House

In The News

1. On Dec 1 , Indian Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil released a 42 minute film named 'Saavdhan' -a film on AIDS awareness- which has been produced by UNAIDS in association with whom ?

-- BSF

2. Which media house has launched 'Aaja Nachle - Madhuri Makeover contest’? Three winners of the contest which is open for only female viewers, will be given a makeover by Manish Malhotra and Subbu, the designer-stylist team of Madhuri Dixit in the film Aaja Nachle.

-- CNN-IBN and IBN 7 in association with Buzz18.com

3. While India is slogging out against Pakistan in a cricket Test match in Kolkata, another face-off is tipped to be developing here between two bankers with origins in the two countries -- that for the position of CEO at worlds largest bank Citigroup. Name the two contenders for this job?

-- Vikram S Pandit, currently Citigroup's investment banking head and a former Morgan Stanley investment banker, and Shaukat Aziz, formerly the bank's global private banking business head and most recently the prime minister of Pakistan

पिच्क्दोम

1. Identify the advertiser

Goodyear

2. Identify the duo

Hugh and Christie Hefner

3 Identify this desi band

Indian Ocean band