Google's Parent company, Alphabet Inc overtakes Apple antworld’s most valuable company
Google parent company, Alphabet Inc has overtaken Apple as the most valuable company in the world. For the first time, Alphabet Inc has disclosed the profitability of Google's search engine and its other online services, and details of amount it is spending on ambitious technology projects such as self-driving cars and loon project.
Facts and figures
Alphabet Inc has made a profit of USD 4.9 billion in the fourth quarter and was valued at 548 billion dollars thus stealing the crown from Silicon Valley rival Apple Inc. which was valued 534 billion dollars.
Google Unit which is the core businesses of Alphabet Inc is the largest contributor in the total revenue as Google reported revenues worth 74.5 billion dollars in 2015 and had made a profit of 23.4 billion dollars.
Internet and related businesses such as search, ads, maps, YouTube and Android as well as hardware products such as its low-cost Chromebook laptops come under the Google Unit of Alphabet Inc.
Gmail service has crossed one billion monthly active users last quarter, joining the rank of Search, Android, Maps, Chrome, YouTube and Google Play
‘Titli’ awarded by French Syndicate of
Cinema Critics
Indian filmmaker Kanu Behl directorial “Titli” has bagged theBest First Foreign Film Award conferred by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 2016 (FSCC). This is the first time an Indian film has won this award.
Titli stars Shashank Arora and Shivani Raghuvanshi, Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial and Lalit Behl in the lead roles. It has been co-produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films and Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt Ltd.
It is a tale of a dysfunctional family and a young boy's struggle to escape his oppressive family. It had won many awards at various international film festivals at places like Bordeaux (France), Hawaii (US), New York (US), Turkey and Spain.
Toyota Remains World's Top-Selling Carmaker with
10.5M Vehicles Sold In 2015
Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota Motor Corp. has topped the global auto industry, with 10.5 million sales in 2015, beating Volkswagen and General Motors. With this it kept the title of world's biggest automaker for the fourth straight year.
German automaker Volkswagen which has dented it's image by a pollution-cheating scandal, has ranked second in global vehicle sales list by selling 9.93 million vehicles worldwide, while Detroit-based General Motors (GM) ranks third in the list by selling 9.8 million vehicles worldwide.
It should be noted that in 2008, Toyota broked the General Motors (GM) 7 decades of long reign as the world’s top automaker but in 2011 it lost it's top position due to devastating earthquake-tsunami disaster that disrupted it production facility but it restored itself and in 2012 it once again overtook GM and since then it has remained on top position.
Toyota Motor Corporation
Major General Jai Shanker Menon appointed as UNDOF Head
Major General Jai Shanker Menon from India has been appointed as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He will succeed Lt Gen Purna Chandra Thapa of Nepal, who will complete his assignment on February 7, 2016. Maj Gen Menon brings with him extensive command experience and knowledge of peacekeeping affairs at the national and international levels.
Major General Jai Shanker Menon
Prior to this appointment, Maj. Gen. Menon was Additional Director General Equipment Management in the Indian Army. From 2012 to 2013, he was General Officer, Commanding an Infantry
Wildlife filmmaker Naresh Bedi awarded V Shantaram
Life Time Acheivement Award at MIFF
Noted wildlife filmmaker Naresh Bedi has been honoured with the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award at 14th edition of 2016 Mumbai International Festival (MIFF), Mumbai.
Bedi has been hoonoured with the award in recognization of his outstanding contribution to wildlife filmmaking and is known for filming several rare wildlife moments. His film‘Cherub of the Mist’ about the life of two red pandas was the opening film of the festival.
Novak Djokovic wins 2016 Australian Open Men’s
Singles Title
World No.1, tennis player Novak Djokovic from Serbia has won 2016 Australian Open Title in the men’s singles category by defeating Andy Murray of Britain in the final match played at Melbourne, Australia in 7 straight sets by a score of 6-1, 7-5, 7-6. It should be noted that with this vic
Australia honours 3 PIOs with it's highest civilian award
Three persons of Indian-origin (PIO) have been honoured with Medal of the Order of Australia, 2016 which is Australia’s highest civilian honour. They have been honoured for their contribution in the fields of physics, engineering and medicine. The award was annonuced on the eve of Australia Day which is celebrated on 26th January.
The awardees are
Chennupati Jagadish: An eminent professor at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra
Jay Chandra: An eye doctor in New South Wales
Sajeev Koshy: A dentist in Melbourne
tory, Djokovic has equalled Roy Emerson’s record of six Australian Open Singles titles.
Djokovic has earlier won this title in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015. It was his overall 11th grand slam title with which he equalled the the overall records of tennis legends like Rod Laver (Australia) and Bjorn Borg (Sweden). This was overall fifth loss in Australian Open finals for Andy Murray in which he had been defeated four times by Novak Djokovic.
Veteran broadcaster Terry Wogan dies of cancer
Veteran BBC broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan passed away in London after long battle with cancer. He was 77. Wogan was a leading media personality in the UK on both radio and television for several decades and was often referred to as a"national treasure". He was granted a British knighthood in 2005
Heena Sidhu wins Olympic quota
Ace Indian shooter, Heena Sidhu secured an Olympic quota for the country after she won gold medal in women's 10-m air pistol on day one of competition at the Asia Olympic Qualifiers held at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi.
Heena shot 199.4 in the eight-women finals and thus defeated Chinese Taipei's Tien Chia Chen (198.1) and Gim Yun Mi (177.9) of Korea. This was India's ninth quota from shooting for the upcoming Olympic Games
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