19/02/2008

• Punjab worst in child sex ratio: UNPF in the age group of 0-6 years.


• Equal Opportunities Commission - Chairperson N R M Menon .


• Export Promotion Council for EOUs and SEZ (EPCES).Special Economic Zones have generated employment for 1.46 lakh people in two years, while exports have doubled during the first nine months of this fiscal to touch 10 billion dollars (Rs 40,000 crore).

• Currently 42 SEZs are operational in the country, while 197 zones have been notified and 138 have got in-principle approval.

• EPCES Director-General Lalit Singhal

• Sebi chief - C B Bhave

• Roger Federer has won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award for a fourth straight time while Justine Henin has won the women's award for the first time.

• Lewis Hamilton for the World Breakthrough of the Year award and British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe for the World Comeback of the Year award.

• fifth National Winter Games - Gulmarg

• 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada

• Amy Winehouse - five of 50th Grammy Awards.

• MESSENGER probe - Mercury

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  India's Tiger populations dwindles by half, only 1,411 left

• Akshaya Patra Foundation, serving noon meals - The ISKON supported Foundation

• UN to celebrate 2009 as International Year of Astronomy

• India's first ankle replacement surgery performed