Identify The Person ?

Shashi Kant Sharma

• Shashi Kant Sharma is the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

• He succeeded Vinod Rai as the supreme auditor of the Constitutional body on 22 May 2013.

• He is also elected in the UN Board of auditor for 6 years term, starting from 1 July 2014

Agastya is one of the projects that has won the Google impact challenge award of US $ 500,000. What is it about ?

Mobile science laboratory which will be taken from school to school in motor cycles to show science experiments

Identify the Person & book for which he got this prize ?

Eleanor Catton

• Winner of 2013 Man Booker prize for english fiction novel “THE LUMINARIES”.

• The youngest winner in the award’s history of 45 years.

• She is 28 year old New Zealand novelist.

Which is the programme Google and Kitkat collaborated to create ?

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A programme to launch the latest version of Android i.e Android Kitkat in India Nestle has offer on Kit Kat chocolates to give away 1000 Nexus 1000 tablets free

In 2009, one American airline brand got mauled on social media, for breaking guitars. It became a Harvard case study. Name the airline. ?

United Airlines

• "United Breaks Guitars" is a protest song by Canadian musician Dave Carroll and his band, Sons of Maxwell. It chronicles a real-life experience of how his guitar was broken during a trip on United Airlines in 2008, and the subsequent reaction from the airline. The song became an immediate YouTube and iTunes hit upon its release in July 2009 and a public relations embarrassment for the airline.

In Economics, what is ‘The Hotel California Effect’ ? What is the source of this phrase ?

• The hotel California effect is low entry barrier and high exit barrier. It comes from the line, you can enter any time but you can never leave. This is practised by social networking sites to lock in their users. It can be used by countries in their FDI policies too.

• Which group has launched a English General Entertainment Channel titled ‘Romedy Now’ ?

Times Television Network

• ROMEDY NOW is a premium English Entertainment Channel ushering ‘Love & Laughter’ together for the first time on television. It is the exclusive destination for urban women & men offering distinctive international content. It brings to life many stories; of one moment made perfect, a love made special, and smiles made possible.

Indian subsidiary of which global car co will roll out its 5 millionth car today from its Chennai factory ?

Hyundai

• The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automaker headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

• Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea• Founder: Chung Ju-yung• Founded: December 29, 1967• CEO: Chung Mong-koo, Kim Chung Ho, Yoon Gap

Han

• Identify the airline and say why the airline is in the news.

US Airways, it is merging with American Airline

• A federal bankruptcy judge has cleared the way for American Airlines and US Airways to complete their merger and create the world's largest airline.

“The Everything store” by Brad Stone is a book about which company ?

Amazon• Amazon.com started off delivering books through

the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.