Important for News for Competitve Exams

• Youssef Ziedan has won the second International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPDAF) for his novel "Beelzebub"
• Bijoy Thangaraj, a software engineer, won the award for US State Department's global online video contest
• Women's World Cup Cricket: India lose New Zealand by five wickets in a Super Six Stage Match
• ICICI Prudential AMC has won "Morning Star" award for the best debt fund

Today Important news for competitive exams

• Alok Sinha, an IAS officer, was appointed Joint Secretary in the Civil Aviation Ministry
• G V M Sharma has been conferred with the AP Scientist Award 2009 for his contribution in the field of Chemical Sciences
• Women's World Cup Cricket: India beats Srilanka by 35 runs
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the G-20 Summit in London on April 2, 2009
• Srilanka has appointed new skipper Kumar Sangakkara for the World Twenty20 tournament in England
• Hungarian Scriptwriter and film director Peter Bacso has died
• Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal have placed 7th and 8th top billionaires in the world on Forbes list

Today news

• World Bank bans Satyam for 8 years
• India reclaims No. 2 spot with series win
• J&K poll final phase today
• A.P. Speaker defends verdict