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Pepsi’s new Pepsi Refresh Project is willing to offer more than $20 million in grants this year to all who will registere their different projects on display at www.refresheverything.com. These projects mainly revolve round the communities and can be voted for the whole year. Pepsi Refresh Project was started on 13th January. Just within first 7 days of its commencement it has already received 1,000 submissinons. There is at least one person from every state of U. S. participating in the project.

Among the eleven pportunities to vote, on which grants will be recieved by the project, the first one is going to end on 28th February. So it is advisable to grab the opportunity quickly. This move of Pepsi is towards rewarding those who are concerned about helping and improving the social good not only in their community only but elsewhere too.

 Demi Moore organises campaigns for GEMS – Girls Educational & Mentoring Services. He expressed his views on this project. He said that Pepsi Refresh Project will eneable those people who have the passion to make a better world around them by availing them the financial resources. He looks at the project as an innovative and creative move of Pepsi. He also added that being a part of this project is a great pleasure for him.

According to Pepsi in the month of February about $1 million will be granted as rewards. It also announced that the online winner of every month will recieve grants of $5,000 to $250,000. It stated that anyone can submit the ideas on its website and at the same time can also vote for others’ ideas too.

Today when we are facing economic hardships, more and more companies should come forward to take such steps. In U. S. Pepsi Refresh Project is appreciated by the people nationwide and they are also feling very grateful to Pepsi for this move. The people of U. S. also desire that this project should go on throughout the year.

The list of winners of Grammy Awards 2010 included Pink Grammy performance, taylor swift album of the year & Lady Gaga and Elton John. In Los Angeles, at the 52nd Grammy Awards Beyonce Knowles was seen very surprised because Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, the two other competitors of her in the race of Grammy Awards 2010, last night got more awards than her.

But it did not mean that the three ladies had any sort of complications among them. They shared the podium with sons of late Michael Jackson, Prince and Paris Jackson. Michael Jackson was the king of pop. He died last year due to heart attack. Both of his sons were present at the Grammy Awards 2010 to receive a lifetime achievement award for their father MJ.

As the thanks giving speech, Prince thanked God and appreciated his family, his father too. He also thanked Michael’s die-hard fans and said that the award ceremony would have not been completed if he had not thanked them.

This year most of the nomination categories of Grammy have been dominated by these three women. They won 25 nominations among themselves. On the final day of Grammy Awards they bagged most of the awards in three categories.

The award ceremoney started with the performance of Lady Gaga. Beyonce bagged four statuettes at the award night. He won the awards for her spectacular song “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It). This song was acclaimed as the best song of the year. Swift won the awards of the best country vocal album and the best country song. The best dance album award went to Lady Gaga for “The Fame”. The award for best dancing was also bagged by Lady Gaga for her performance in Poker Face.

The former Chairman of India’s Oil and Natural Gas corporation, Subir Raha passed away today in New Delhi due to cancer. He has been looked as the most influential Chairman of ONGC.

According to his familly and friends, 62 years old Raha was diagonsed with lung cancer last year. He has been critically ill since about last week and was under treatment in a private hospital in New Delhi.

Raha died at 3.22 pm today. The whole credit of ONGC’s today’s position as the the largest oil and gas producer of India goes to Raha for his dedication and efforts he gave to ONGC.

By acquiring Mangalore Refinery (MRPL), he alone took the ONGC’s vertical integration to great heights. The overseas forays which had been aggressively pursued by Raha ceased to exist after his departure from ONGC.

Raha had been the Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC for a period from May 2001-2006. During these 5 years, ONGC evolved as the leader among all public and private sector companies in India in terms of networth through an increment in market capitalisation of ONGC which increased more than 10 times to Rs 200,000 crore during the same period.

In 2006, the government refuse to extend Raha’s tenure as the Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC. In the same year, coincidently, the company lost its prestigious position as the nation’s most valuable company.

For a very short period, Raha also linked with Hinduja Group. After that Raha estblished a India-based consulting firm, Team Raha Ideation which mainly focused on strategic advisory services.

Raha has been a part of boards of various companies. He has also been an independent director of GeoGlobal Resources. He also wrote for columns concerning energy issues.

During his tenure as the Chairman of ONGC, Raha also carried the responsibilty of the Chairman of wholly-owned subsidiary of ONGC, ONGC Videsh (OVL). During 2003-2004 Raha also brought a revolutionary change in the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL).

Before Raha, OVL had only one property in Vietnam. But after Raha joined it, OVL expanded to 24 properties (31 Blocks) in 14 countries. When Raha joined OVL, it possessed a minor

reserve base and zero production. But due to his efforts OVL became the second largest E&P company of India in terms of reserves and production, after parent ONGC.

He took ONGC to the position of an integrated energy major on global scale from a sectoral exploration and production company. As the Chairman of ONGC he introduced aggressive exploration, especially in deep waters off India which resulted in increased production from depleted fields.

Before joining ONGC, Raha also chaired the post of Director at the Indian Oil Corp (IOC). Raha started his career in 1970 as a Management Trainee in India Oil Corporation.

Miss Virginia, Caressa Cameron won the title of Miss America 2010 this year. Miss America is a 89 years old tradition of America. Caressa Cameron won this title defeating 53 other contestants.  22 years old Caressa Cameron is a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia. On Saturday, 30th January, Miss America 2010 has been organised at Hollywood Resort and Casino, Las Vegas and it went on for two hours.

Contestants of Miss America have to go through many rounds to win the title. These rounds are namely, talent round, evening gown round, interview round,swim suit round and many more. Contestants from 50 major states of America took part in it. Caressa won almost all the rounds of Miss America 2010 and became the Miss Ameica 2010. She also won the scholarship or price money of $ 50,000.

Miss California, Kristy Cavinder won the runner up crown of Miss America 2010 along with the scholarship or price money of $ 25, 000.

Miss America 2009, Katie Stam presented the crown to Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron. Caressa also received roses and price money of USD 50,000 from Katie Stam.

In a post-pageant conference Miss America 2010, Cameron said that she is very excited about joining the journey on which she will be spending the price money for charity. She also added that the Miss America organization perfectly suited ger.

Miss America 2010, Cameron is a 1st year journalism student of Virginia Commonwealth University. But after winning the title of Miss America, she is now planning to get away from second year as her desire is to join the journey for raising the scholarship money for charity.

Caressa Cameron desires to pursue for the degree in masters. She also dreams to become a news anchor. On Saturday, during the event of Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron, the winner of Miss America 2010 was seen in a skintight yellow gown.

In the onstage interview round of Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron has been asked to answer the question on child obesity. In reply of this question Cameron said that to overcome child obesity, parents should limit the telvision and video games. This reply of Caressa Cameron helped her a lot in achieving the title of Miss America 2010 by adding 30 percent to her final score.

Institute of Chartered Accountants is going to declare the CA or ICAI results today by 6 pm. The Integrated Professional Competence Examination/Accounting Technician Examination, Professional Education – II, Professional Competence Examination results will be declared today 1st Feb, 2010 by 6 pm.

The results will be published on CA official website. http://caresults.nic.in/.

For the first time students can also get their results posted in their email inbox also. For this students have to register their name and roll number at http://caresults.nic.in/camailreg_pce.htm

The IPCC result 2009, ICAI Results Nov 2009, CA Results Nov 2009 are yet to be announced. Once available, all the  information relating to the schedule will be posted on our website.

Our best wishes are with all the candidates who appeared for the CA exams.