Grammy awards 2011 winners

Album of the year – Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

Record of the year – Lady Antebellum, Need You Now

Song of the year – Need You Now (Lady Antebellum, performers)

Best new artist – Esperanza Spalding

Best female pop vocal performance – Lady Gaga, Bad Romance

Best male pop vocal performance – Bruno Mars, Just the Way You Are

Best pop vocal album – Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster

Best traditional pop vocal album – Michael Buble, Crazy Love

Best electronic/dance album – La Roux, La Roux

Best solo rock vocal performance – Paul McCartney, Helter Skelter

Best hard rock performance – Them Crooked Vultures, New Fang

Best metal performance – Iron Maiden, El Dorado

Best rock song – Angry World (Neil Young)

Best rock album – Muse, The Resistance

Best alternative music album – The Black Keys, Brothers

Best female R&B vocal performance – Fantasia, Bittersweet

Best male R&B vocal performance – Usher, There Goes My Baby

Best urban/alternative performance – Cee Lo Green, F*** You

Best R&B song – Shine (John Legend and the Roots)

Best contemporary R&B album – Usher, Raymond v Raymond

Best rap solo performance – Eminem, Not Afraid

Best rap song – Empire State of Mind (Jay–Z and Alicia Keys, performers)

Best rap album– Eminem, Recovery

Best female country vocal performance – Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me

Best male country vocal performance – Keith Urban, Til Summer Comes Around

Best country song – Need You Now (Lady Antebellum, performers)

Best country album– Lady Antebellum, Need You Now

Best contemporary jazz album – The Stanley Clarke Band, The Stanley Clarke Band

Best Americana album – Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone

Best contemporary blues album – Buddy Guy, Living Proof

Best contemporary folk album – Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

Best classical album: Verdi: Requiem (Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Barbara Frittoli & Mario Zeffiri; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Chorus)

Oscars 2011 awards winners

Best Picture
"The King's Speech," Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

Achievement in directing
"The King's Speech," Tom Hooper

Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"

Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale in "The Fighter"

Actress in a Leading Role
Natalie Portman in "Black Swan"

Actress in a Supporting Role
Melissa Leo in "The Fighter"

Animated Feature Film
"How to Train Your Dragon" Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
"The Illusionist" Sylvain Chomet
"Toy Story 3" Lee Unkrich

Achievement in Art Direction
"Alice in Wonderland"

Achievement in Cinematography
"Inception," Wally Pfister

Costume Design
"Alice in Wonderland," Colleen Atwood

Documentary (Feature)
"Inside Job," Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Documentary (Short Subject)
"Strangers No More"

Film Editing
"The Social Network"

Foreign Language Film
"In a Better World," Denmark

Makeup
"The Wolfman," Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)
"The Social Network," Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song)
"We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3," Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Short Film (Animated)
"The Lost Thing," Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

Short Film (Live Action)
"God of Love," Luke Matheny

Sound Editing
"Inception," Richard King

Sound Mixing
"Inception," Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick

Visual Effects
"Inception," Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Social Network," Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The King's Speech," Screenplay by David Seidler

58th National Awards

Best Feature Film: Adaminte Makan Abu
Best Actor: Danush for Aadukalam (Tamil) and Salim Kumar for Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
Best Actress: Mitalee Jagpat Varadkar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi) and Saranya Ponvannan for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)

French Open 2011 Results

Men's Singles	Rafal Nadal
Women's Singles	Li Na
Men's Doubles	Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor
Women's Doubles	Andrea Hlavakova and Lucie Hradecka
Mixed Doubles	Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky

BCCI Cricket Awards 2010-11

Sachin Tendulkar	India's Cricketer of the Year
Salim Durani	Lifetime Achievement Award
Manish Pandey	Highest run scorer in Ranji Trophy
Abhimanyu Mithun	Highest Wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy
M D Thirushkamini	Best Woman Cricketer
K Hariharan	Best Umpire
Maharashtra	Best Overall Performance

IIFA(International Indian Film Academy) Awards 2011

Best Film	Dabangg
Best Performance Leading Role(Male)	Shahrukh Khan-My Name is Khan
Best Performance Leading Role(Female)	Anushka Sharma-Band Baaja Baaraat
Best Direction	Karan Johar-My Name is Khan
Best Performance Comic Role	Rithesh Deshmukh
Best Performance Negative Role	Sonu Sood
Best Performance Supporting Role(Male)	Arjun Rampal -Rajneeti
Best Performance Supporting Role(Female)	Prachi Desai-Once upon a time in Mumbai
Debut of the Year(Male)	Ranveer Singh
Debut of the Year(Female)	Sonakshi Sinha
Best Story	Shivani Bhatia-My Name is Khan
Best Lyrics	Niranjan Iyengar-Sajda and Noor-e-Khuda-My name is Khan
Playback Singer(Male)	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan -Tere Mast Mast Do Nain
Playback Singer(Female)	Mamta Sharma-Munni Badnaam hui
Music Direction	Sajid Wajid,Lalit Pandit
Cinematographer	Sudeep Chaterjee-Gujaarish
Editing	Namrata Rao-Band Baaja Baaraat
Art Director	Sabu Cyril-Robot
Choreography	Farah Khan-Dabangg
Action	S.Vijayan-Dabangg
Sound Recording	Pritam Das-Love,Sex Aur Dhoka
Song Recording	Vijay Dayal-Ainvayi Ainvayi
Sound Re-Recording	Leslie Fernandes-Dabangg
Special Effects	Indian Artists-Robot
Background Score	Shankar,Ehsaan,Loy-My name is Khan
Costume Designing	Niharika Khan-Band Baaja Baaraat
Make-up	Banu(for Rajnikanth)-Robot

Wimbledon Open 2011 Results

Men's SinglesNOVAK DJOKOVICWomen's SinglesPETRA KVITOVAMen's DoubleBOB BRYAN AND MIKE BRYANWomen's DoubleKVETA PESCHKE AND KATRINA SREBOTNIKMixed DoublesJURGEN MELZER AND IVETA BENESOVA

Cricket top news

India won their second Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the finals in 2011 Mumbai . Under the captainship of M.S.Dhoni.

Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936)

Cricket test match: Against England at Lord's, June 25, 1932

First One day Cricket captain: S.Venkataraghavan

First Test Cricket captain: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England

First Indian to score an ODI century was Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup

First Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, February 24, 2010

Cricketer to score a century: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds

Cricketer to score a double century: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56

Cricketer to score a triple century: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.

ODI cricket hat-trick: Chetan Sharma in Reliance World Cup against New Zealand in 1987.

Test cricket hat-trick: Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001

Cricket World Cup championship win: At the 1983 Cricket World Cup, England beating West Indies.

Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket: Sunil Gavaskar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)

Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI cricket: Sachin Tendulkar (he was first in the world to achieve this feat)

Cricket Twenty20 world cup winner: India in 2007.

Cricketer to score 99 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar

First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble

First batsman to score a double century in a one day International : Sachin Tendulkar

First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket : Sachin Tendulkar

First woman to score a double hundred in test cricket : Mithali Raj [214* against Newzealand at Wellington 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat)

First time six SIXES in an over of a T-20 match were scoured by an Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh against England

List of Padma Awards - 2011

Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

This year President has approved 128 awards, including one duo case (‘#’counted as one) and 12 in the category of (*)Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous. These comprise 13 Padma Vibhushan, 31 Padma Bhushan and 84 Padma Shri Awards. There are 31 ladies among the awardees.

List of Padma Vibhusan awardees:

Sl.No.	Nameg	Discipline	State / Domicile
1.	Dr. (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan	Art - Art Administration and Promotion.	Delhi
2.	Mrs. Homai Vyarawalla	Art - Photography	Gujarat
3.	Shri A Nageshwara Rao	Art- Cinema	Andhra Pradesh
4.	Shri Parasaran Kesava Iyengar	Public Affairs	Delhi
5.	Dr. Akhlaq-ur-Rehman Kidwai	Public Affairs	Delhi
6.	Shri Vijay Kelkar	Public Affairs	Delhi
7.	Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia	Public Affairs	Delhi
8.	Shri Palle Rama Rao	Science and Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
9.	Shri Azim Premji	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
10.	Shri Brajesh Mishra	Civil Services	Madhya Pradesh
11.	Prof. (Dr.) Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup	Literature and Education	Kerala
12.	Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra	Literature and Education	Orissa
13.	Late Shri L. C. Jain	Public Affairs	Delhi *

List of Padma Bhusan awardees:

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State / Domicile
1.	Shri Satyadev Dubey	Art - Theatre	Maharashtra
2.	Shri Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi alias Khayyam	Art - Cinema - Music	Maharashtra
3.	Shri Shashi Kapoor	Art - Cinema	Maharashtra
4.	Shri Krishen Khanna	Art - Painting	Haryana
5.	Shri Madavur Vasudevan Nair	Art - Dance - Kathakali	Kerala
6.	Ms. Waheeda Rehman	Art - Cinema	Maharashtra
7.	Shri Rudrapatna Krishna Shastry Srikantan	Art - Music-Vocal	Karnataka
8.	Ms. Arpita Singh	Art - Painting	Delhi
9.	Dr. Sripathi Panditharadhyula Balasubrahmanyam	Art - Playback Singing, Music Direction & acting	Tamil Nadu
10.	Shri C.V. Chandrasekhar	Art - Classical Dance-Bharatanatyam	Tamil Nadu
11.	Shri Dwijen Mukherjee	Art	West Bengal
12.	Smt. Rajashree Birla	Social work	Maharashtra
13.	Mrs. Shobhana Ranade	Social work	Maharashtra
14.	Dr. Suryanarayanan Ramachandran	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
15.	Shri S.(Kris) Gopalakrishnan	Trade and Industry	Karnataka
16.	Shri Yogesh Chander Deveshwar	Trade and Industry	West Bengal
17.	Ms. Chanda Kochhar	Trade and Industry	Maharashtra
18.	Dr. K. Anji Reddy	Trade and Industry- Pharmacy	Andhra Pradesh
19.	Shri Analjit Singh	Trade and Industry	Delhi
20.	Shri Rajendra Singh Pawar	Trade and Industry	Haryana
21.	Dr. Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy	Trade and Industry	Andhra Pradesh
22.	Shri Ajai Chowdhary	Trade and Industry	Delhi
23.	Shri Surendra Singh	Civil Services	Delhi
24.	Shri M. N .Buch	Civil Services	Madhya Pradesh
25.	Shri Shyam Saran	Civil Services	Delhi
26.	Shri Thayil Jacob Sony George	Literature and Education	Karnataka
27.	Dr. Ramdas Madhava Pai	Literature and Education	Karnataka
28.	Shri Sankha Ghosh	Literature and Education	West Bengal
29.	Late Shri K. Raghavan Thirumulpad	Medicine - Ayurveda.	Kerala*
30.	Late Dr. Keki Byramjee Grant	Medicine - Cardiology	Maharashtra *
31.	Late Shri Dashrath Patel	Art	Gujarat *

List of Padma Shri awardees:

Sl.No.	Name	Discipline	State / Domicile
1.	Ms. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry	Art - Theatre	Chandigarh
2.	Shri Makar Dhwaja Darogha	Art- Chhau Dance	Jharkhand
3.	Shri Shaji Neelakantan Karun	Art - Film Direction	Kerala
4.	Shri Girish Kasaravalli	Art - Film making	Karnataka
5.	Ms. Tabassum Hashmi Khan alias Tabu	Art - Cinema	Maharashtra
6.	Shri Jivya Soma Mase	Art - Warli Painting	Maharashtra
7.	Guru (Ms.) M.K. Saroja	Art - Dance- Bharatnatyam	Tamil Nadu
8.	Shri Jayaram Subramaniam	Art - Cinema	Tamil Nadu
9.	Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty	Art - Music-Indian Classical Vocal	West Bengal
10.	Smt. Mahasundari Devi	Art - Mithilia/ Madhubani Painting.	Bihar
11.	Shri Gajam Govardhana	Art - Handloom Weaving	Andhra Pradesh
12.	Ms. Sunayana Hazarilal	Art - Dance - Kathak	Maharashtra
13.	Shri S.R. Janakiraman	Art - Carnatic Vocal Music	Tamil Nadu
14.	Shri Peruvanam Kuttan Marar	Art - Chenda Melam- Drum concert	Kerala
15.	Smt. Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Pavithran	Art - Dance - Mohiniattam	Kerala
16.	Shri Dadi Dorab Pudumjee	Art - Puppetry	Delhi
17.	Shri Khangembam Mangi Singh	Art - Traditional Music of Manipur (Pena)	Manipur
18.	Shri Prahlad Singh Tipaniya	Art - Folk Music	Madhya Pradesh
19.	Smt. Usha Uthup	Art - Music.	West Bengal
20.	Smt. Kajol	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
21.	Shri Irfan Khan	Art- Cinema	Maharashtra
22.	Shri Mamraj Agrawal	Social work	West Bengal
23.	Shri Jockin Arputham	Social work	Maharashtra
24.	Ms. Nomita Chandy	Social work	Karnataka
25.	Ms. Sheela Patel	Social work	Maharashtra
26.	Ms. Anita Reddy	Social work	Karnataka
27.	Shri Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor	Social work	Gujarat
28.	Shri Anant Darshan Shankar	Public Affairs	Karnataka
29.	Prof. M. Annamalai	Science and Engineering	Karnataka
30.	Dr. Mahesh Haribhai Mehta	Science and Engineering - Agricultural Science	Gujarat
31.	Shri Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran	Science and Engineering	Tamil Nadu
32.	Dr. (Mrs.) Suman Sahai	Science and Engineering	Delhi
33.	Prof.(Dr.) E.A. Siddiq	Science and Engineering - Agricultural Science	Andhra Pradesh
34.	Shri Gopalan Nair Shankar	Science and Engineering - Architecture	Kerala
35.	Shri Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
36.	Shri Kailasam Raghavendra Rao	Trade and Industry	Tamil Nadu
37.	Shri Narayan Singh Bhati	Civil Services	Andhra Pradesh
38.	Shri P K Sen	Civil Services	Bihar
39.	Ms. Shital Mahajan	Sports - Adventure Sports- Para Jumping	Maharashtra
40.	Ms. Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi	Sports - Weightlifting	Manipur
41.	Shri Sushil Kumar	Sports - Wrestling	Delhi
42.	Shri Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman	Sports - Cricket	Andhra Pradesh
43.	Shri Gagan Narang	Sports - Shooting	Andhra Pradesh
44.	Smt. Krishna Poonia	Sports - Discus Throw	Rajasthan
45.	Shri Harbhajan Singh	Sports - Mountaineering	Punjab
46.	Dr. Pukhraj Bafna	Medicine - Padeatrics	Chhattisgarh
47.	Prof. Mansoor Hasan	Medicine- Cardiology	Uttar Pradesh
48.	Dr. Shyama Prasad Mandal	Medicine - Orthopaedic	Delhi
49.	Prof. (Dr.) Sivapatham Vittal	Medicine - Endocrinology	Tamil Nadu
50.	Prof. (Dr.) Madanur Ahmed Ali	Medicine - Gastroenterology	Tamil Nadu
51.	Dr. Indira Hinduja	Medicine - Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	Maharashtra
52.	Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram	Medicine - Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.	Kerala
53.	Prof. (Dr.) A. Marthanda Pillai	Medicine - Neurosurgery	Kerala
54.	Shri Mahim Bora	Literature and Education	Assam
55.	Prof. (Dr.) Pullella Srirama Chandrudu	Literature and Education- Sanskrit	Andhra Pradesh
56.	Dr. Pravin Darji	Literature and Education	Gujarat
57.	Dr. Chandra Prakash Deval	Literature and Education	Rajasthan
58.	Shri Balraj Komal	Literature and Education	Delhi
59.	Mrs. Rajni Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi
60.	Dr. Devanooru Mahadeva	Literature and Education	Karnataka
61.	Shri Barun Mazumder	Literature and Education	West Bengal
62.	Dr. Avvai Natarajan	Literature and Education	Tamil Nadu
63.	Shri Bhalchandra Nemade	Literature and Education	Himachal Pradesh
64.	Prof. Riyaz Punjabi	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
65.	Prof. Koneru Ramakrishna Rao	Literature and Education	Andhra Pradesh
66.	Ms. Buangi Sailo	Literature and Education	Mizoram
67.	Prof. Devi Dutt Sharma	Literature and Education	Uttarakhand
68.	Shri Nilamber Dev Sharma	Literature and Education	Jammu and Kashmir
69.	Ms. Urvashi Butalia #	Literature and Education	Delhi
70.	Ms. Ritu Menon #	Literature and Education	Delhi
71.	Prof. Krishna Kumar	Literature and Education	Delhi
72.	Shri Deviprasad Dwivedi	Literature and Education	Uttar Pradesh
73.	Ms. Mamang Dai	Literature and Education	Arunachal Pradesh
74.	Dr. Om Prakash Agrawal	Others - Heritage Conservation	Uttar Pradesh
75.	Prof. Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar	Others - Archeology	Maharashtra
76.	Ms. Shanti Teresa Lakra	Others-Nursing	Andaman & Nicobar
77.	Smt. Gulshan Nanda	Others - Handicrafts promotion	Delhi
78.	Dr. Azad Moopen	Social work	UAE *
79.	Prof. Upendra Baxi	Public Affairs -Legal Affairs	United Kingdom *
80.	Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik	Science and Engineering	USA *
81.	Dr. Subra Suresh	Science and Engineering	USA *
82.	Prof. Karl Harrington Potter	Literature and Education	USA *
83.	Prof. Martha Chen	Social work	USA *
84.	Shri Satpal Khattar	Trade and Industry	Singapore *
85.	Shri Granville Austin	Literature and Education	USA *