Microsoft has launched its Kin phone, which is pitched as a device designed specifically "for people who are actively navigating their social lives." Kin was code-named "Pink" Its pitted as "The Social Media Sociologist". The phone is also the first to access Microsoft's Zune music service.
Institute of Management, NirmaUniversity, Ahmadabad
ITM - Navi Mumbai
ICAI - Bangalore
IIT - Guwahati
SCMHRD - Pune
Let’s Toss
1- My name is derived from a Hindi word of ‘Tiger’. I am fearless and represent a modern India. Who am I?
2- A popular store known as T.J, where you can find products like footwear, shirts, trousers, kurtas, baking cakes, cookies, biscuits, breads, weaving rugs and paper bags among many other things. These products are made by whom?
3- This English word is adopted from the combination of 2 Greek words which means “managing a house”?
4- What do you mean by Agflation, a term coined by Merrill Lynch?
5- What does “Crown Jewel Defense” mean in merger/takeover business?
6- Why all perfume counters are kept at door corner in departmental store? (Hint: - It’s an age old practice).
7- In 1955, first Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha members made an unusual request to increase their pay by Re.1 though pay revision had happened in 1954. Why this request was made?
8- A Cartoon of Tata Lakme by Bal Thackeray with a headline “To Counter The Stink”.
Stump Vision
1- Identify the logo.
2- Whose launch campaign was this? ”On its opening night it put Colonial legislation, Indian pessimism and the Hand-held Punkah out of business”?
3- Identify this initiative.
4- Identify this probable Republican candidate.
5- Identify him.
6- A Hong Kong Head-quartered company Growth-Link overseas has announced it would invest Rs. 300 crore to build a manufacturing facility for whom at Cheyyar SEZ, in Tamilnadu?
7- He was an unsuccessful tea-merchant what he contributed to world of sport?
8- What was first achieved by D. S. Prabhudas & Company now in a JV with Merrill Lynch in Indian business history in 1956?
Tata World
1- Identify this.
2- Who is this gentleman?
3- It was established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. Its establishment was the result of the decision of the Trustees of the SDTT to accept Dr. Clifford Manshardt’s vision of a post-graduate school of social work of national stature. In 1944, it was renamed which is its today’s name.
4- Who is the second Indian after former PM Indira Gandhi to receive United Nations Population Award in 1992?
2- MoMa (The Museum of modern art) – Neena Gupta – Underwriters Lab Inc.
3- Get Friday Manttra – Feroze Gandhi – Kishore Kumar Song
4- Superbrands – Amitabh Bacchan – World Travel & Tourism Council – Coconut tree
Slog Overs
1- Its golden jubilee was on 3rd October 2007. Created against Radio Ceylon in 1957.
2- The acronym was first used by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2001.
3- Graduated in Physics from Loyola College, Madras and B.E. (Mech) from the University of Madras. He joined the Tata Steel Technical Institute, Jamshedpur from where he graduated in 1946. He then went to USA on a government scholarship to earn his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University. He got Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1963.
4- It was initially commissioned by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust on 28 February 1941 as a center with enduring value and a mission for concern for the Indian people. In 1957 the Ministry of Health took over it. The transfer of the administrative control of it to the Department of Atomic Energy in 1962 was the next major milestone.
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Q.1.Lets begin with something familiar,if you get one of these it will get you 'make famous'.Identify this award
Q.2.The four together created an iconic company in the US.
Q.3.This is a sketch of a school called Moses Brown School,this school was the first to install a product/technology in 1964,well a recent event showed why in India we should have more of this product/technology in India
Q.4.This man could scale 'hotness'.Identify him and the scale he invented.
Q.5.This is the first laboratory of a company.Identify
Q.6.What could be possible common in the above twp pics?Man on the left started a 'university', the pic on the left is a CSR initiative.
Emami has signed Virender Sehwag, Amit Mishra and Dinesh Karthik as brand ambassadors to promote its Zandu Balm brand. The company has inked a two-year contract with the trio to endorse Zandu Balm.
The mascot for Cricket World Cup 2011 is an elephant which is still to be named; the world cup will be hosted jointly by India, Srilanka and Bangladesh.
Elephant is becoming the mascot for a sporting event in India after 28 years and earlier which was chosen as the mascot for 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, named as “Appu” and commonly known among the public as Asiad appu.
Miami-based Motion Pixel Corporation (MPC) and India-based Cornerstone Entertainment have finalised the signing of Yuvraj Singh to star in an animated film Captain India.
The story will show Singh growing up in Mumbai and encountering a magical cricket stick that he realises has special powers and uses it to help fight crime and become a star player of the country to help India win the cricket world cup.
About Motion Pixel Corporation (MPC)
Motion Pixel Corporation is a Miami based Animation Company which focuses on production of animation movies for Bollywood. The company has already completed work on animation blockbuster EKEH v2.0 with Pritish Nandy Communications and is releasing a soccer animation film for the world Cup entitled KICK.
About Cornerstone
Established in early 2008, Cornerstone is an end-to-end sports and entertainment marketing and management solutions company. CSE are proud to exclusively represent an array of talent across several sports and entertainment mediums.
IPL has decided to enter a long-term partnership with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to conduct the carbon audit in India which will ensure that the IPL 4 can be made climate-neutral. It is the first of its kind in South Asia, and puts IPL in the league of events such as the Olympics. The carbon footprint analysis, which is being undertaken by a firm called no2co2.
The IPL may have the largest carbon footprint among the subcontinent’s major sporting events.
A carbon footprint is the total set of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions caused by an organisation, event or product.
IPL 3 comprises eight teams playing 60 matches across 12 venues nationwide. An average contingent for an outstation match consists approximately of 70 persons, and a good number are offered plush five-star rooms. With its many matches - at different venues with substantial electricity requirements — entailing the movement of hundreds of players, support staff, broadcast crew and fans across the country, the sheer logistical requirement of IPL is staggering.
Coca-Cola has tied up with C2W Digital, the digital agency of contests2win.com. The 'Coke Dare Series' has been launched and features two advergames, made for the fans of the Delhi Daredevils.The series is based on the IPL tournament where players can step into the shoes of the Delhi Daredevils and play matches. The game is being positioned as a complete package from the toss to batting and bowling.
The twist in this game is a ‘Dare’ that the bowler / batsman can throw at the opposition, winning which will ensure the game will be won by the team / player at that moment itself.
The second game, Runathon, emulates a game that involves challenging friends to beat the score. The player has to keep the cricket ball up in the air for as long as possible while collecting runs which appear on the screen.
The games are hosted on www.delhidaredevils.com/cokedaredevils and can be played without registering also.
When the England football team heads to the airport to begin training for the World Cup, they will be driven in cars supplied by Fiat, dressed in suits supplied by Marks and Spencer, hop onto a Virgin Atlantic aircraft, wearing Nivea hair gel, and now tucking into food supplied by Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco who became the official supplier to the England team.
Tesco has been named the official World Cup supermarket of the England football team, becoming the only supermarket able to display the Football Association’s official England crest.
Tesco will be going up against Asda, which will be selling official Fifa merchandise through a deal signed by its parent company Wal-Mart.
Trivia:-
FIFA has six “partners”, which give four-year commitments, and are associated with all FIFA events; Adidas, Coca-Cola, Emirates, Hyundai, Sony and Visa. Below that, FIFA signs up further sponsors for the event, currently seven and including Budweiser, Continental, McDonald’s and the first ever Chinese firm to get involved, Yingli Solar, a solar energy firm.
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