Oscar

The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best Flim of 2017, 
 was held on March 4, 2018 at the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as Kodak Theatre) in Los Angeles, California, USA. The length of the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre is 152.4 metres (500 feet). A total of 3,072 Oscars have been awarded
from the inception of the award through the 90th. Oscar Winners 2018 Oscar Winners 2018
          Now for some more interesting details on the Academy Awards:
 Eligibility: If a film is to be considered for an Oscar nomination, it must meet certain
criteria namely: The film must be 40 minutes long. It must be 35mm or 70mm film. According to Academy rules, the film must be screened for paid admission in Los Angeles for at least seven days.
The Academy Awards – the Oscars – are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry. The Oscars are given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide 22 April 2018 entertainment awards ceremony. The Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater and the Grammy Awards for music are modeled after the Academy Awards.
           Earlier, winners were announced to media three months before the actual
ceremony. Later in 1930, the names of the winners were given to newspapers for publication at 11:00 pm on the night of the awards. This method was used until the time when the Los Angeles Times published the list of winners before the ceremony began; as a result, the Academy has, since 1941, uses a sealed envelope containing the names of the winners.
          Traditionally, the previous year’s winner for Best Actor and Best supporting
Actor present the awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively. The same way, the previous year’s winner for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress present the awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.
Oscar statuette The design of the Oscar statuette represents. a knight standing ona
 reel of film and holding a sword. It was designed by art director Cedric Gibbons of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The Oscar statuettes are made by RS Owens & Company, the Chicago-based awards manufacturer retained by the Academy since 1982. Academy Award winners who made India proud : Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award in1983 for designing the costumes for the film Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough.
Satyajit Ray became the first Indian to receive an Honorary Academy Award
 in 1992.
Gulzar became the first Indian lyricist to
receive an Academy Award for penning Jai Ho.
A.R.Rahman became the first Indian to win two Academy Award in 2009

The First Indian sound Flim

Alam Ara was the first Indian talkie – that is, the first Indian sound film. Until the release of Alam Ara, only silent movies
were being released in India. Alam Ara was released in 1931. Alam Ara means ‘World’s best jewel’. The film was directed by Ardeshir Irani.         
    The film was advertised with a tag line
All living!Breathing!100% talking!” Alam Ara was a period Fantasy The aging king of
Kamarpur had two queens and the rivalry
between the two queens as to whose son would inherit the throne was the bone of contention. The film also depicted a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl. It was based on a Parsi play written by Joseph David.
        The film had music by F.M. Mistri and B. Erani. All the Songs in the flim were hit
the most prominent of them being “De de khuda ke naam per”, sung by actor Wazir Khan. He played the role of a fakir in the flim.
 (actors had to be singers too in those days).
       Best studios were not available during those days. Also, there were no noise proof
studios. So the shooting of the film was carried out during nights when calmness prevailed. Songs were not pre-recorded. While the actors-cum-singers sang, harmonium and tabla were played at a hidden place nearby. Since Alam Ara was the first Indian sound film, the film makers had an added responsibility – they needed actors who knew the language! The film was released at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai. People thronged to view the movie. Police aid had to be summoned to control the crowds!
     The film was ‘full-house’ for eight
consecutive weeks upon its release! Unfortunately there is not even a single copy of the film today…

A Tribute to Stephen Hawking

World famous physicist Stephen Hawking passed away on
March 14, 2018, leaving behind a rich legacy.
      Hawking had a rare early-onset slowprogressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually paralyzed him over the decades. But he was fiercely independent and unwilling to accept help or make concessions for his disabilities. He preferred to be regarded as “a scientist, a popular science writer and above all a normal human being with desires, drives, dreams and ambitions like others”.
  Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, which happened to be the 300th death anniversary of Galileo. In his long career in physics, Hawking received an incredibly impressive array of awards and distinctions. In 2009, Hawking was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian honor of the United States of America. Stephen Hawking was best known for his work on black holes, the dense structures in the universe that remain one of the puzzling subject in Cosmology
     The most surprising facet of Stephen
Hawking was that of being the author of a children’s book. In 2007, Hawking and his daughter Lucy collaborated to write the book ‘George’s Secret Key to the Universe’.        The story is about a young boy, George, who is highly tech-savvy. He befriends neighbors, one of whom is a physicist with a computer that turns out to be most powerful computer in the world! It offers portals to see and enter into outer space! The book was the first of its series and the second one was released in 2009 titled ‘George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt’.
      Known for his wit and humour,
Hawking has also appeared in various TV shows and talk shows such as ‘Good Morning Britain, Late Night with Conan, Larry King Live’ etc…
       The Theory of Everything’ (released
in 2014) – an Oscar nominated biopic on Hawking portrays his life and relationships before, during and after his diagnosis of the rare disease at the age of 21. The movie had won Academy Awards and
Golden Globe Awards. Hawking provided his own voice for the movie.
        Stephen Hawking was the best and
possibly the most admired, scientist in the world. It was not without reason that he was compared to Albert Einstein!

Nobel Prize

List of Nobel Laureates by Country
The Nobel Prize was established as per the wish of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel in 1895. Since 1901 the Nobel Prize is prized in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine and economics (1968).Medals made before 1980 were struck in 23 carat gold, and later made from 18 carat green gold plated with a 24 carat gold coating.

The prize distribution ceremony takes place annually in Stockholm, Sweden. Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money (from 2012, each prize was worth US$1.2 million, €0.93million, or £0.6 million). The prize is not prized posthumously; however, if a person is prized a prize and dies before receiving it, the prize may still be presented. Since 1901 to 2016, 885 Laureates* and 26 organizations have been prized the Nobel Prize.
     In this article we included only those countries which have won at least 5 prizes. Here is the list of all recipients’ countries and their number of prizes:
1. United States 363

2. United Kingdom 124
3. Germany 106
4. France 68
5. Sweden 31
6. Russia 27
7. Switzerland  26
8. Japan 25
9. Canada 25
10. Austria 21
11. Italy 20
12. Netherlands 20
13. Norway 13
14. Denmark 14
15. Australia 12
16. IsraeI 12

17. Poland 12
18. China 12
19. Ireland 10
20. South Africa 10
21. Belgium 10
22. Hungary 9
23. India 8
24. Spain 8
25. Israel 6
26. Belgium 6
27. Finland 5
28. Argentina 5

29. Czech Republic 5
30. Pakistan 2
   
     There are 885 Nobel prizes distributed in the World till date.

Indian Citizens Who Won the Nobel Prize
 1. Rabindranath Tagore – The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
2. CV Raman – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
3. Mother Teresa – The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
 4. Amartya Sen – The Nobel Prize in Economics 1998
5. Kailash Satyarthi – The Nobel Peace Prize 2014

India-born Nobel Laureates are:
1. Har Gobind Khorana – The
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968
2. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
3. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Nobel Prize is considered the most prestigious prize in the field of academics. Till the date India managed to win just 8 prizes. On the other hand USA is the leader which got 363 prizes and there are so many other small countries in the Europe which have won more medals than India. This must be the matter of concern for Indian government along with all the citizens that why our country is lagging behind this area.

ISO

List of certificate issued by ISO
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, Non-Governmental organization with a membership of 162 national standards bodies. ISO’s headquarter is located in Geneva,
Switzerland. ISO
officially began operations on 23 February 1947.
ISO gives world-class
specifications for products, services and systems, to ensure quality, safety and efficiency. Till date ISO has published 22041 International Standards covering almost every industry, from agriculture, technology, to food safety and healthcare. If a product has ISO mark on it then itbecomes easy for the company to sell that product in the market.
List of important certificates issued by the ISO in various fields
S.N. Certificate Name
1. ISO 9001 Field Quality Management
2. ISO 14001 Environmental Management
3. ISO 22000
Food Safety Management
4. ISO 13485 Medical Devices
5. ISO 20121

6.Sustainable Events
ISO 639 Language Codes
7. ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety
8. ISO 4217 Currency Codes
9. ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems
10. ISO/IEC 17025
11. ISO 26000
Testing and Calibration Laboratories
Social Responsibility
12. ISO 8601 Date and Time Format
13. ISO 31000 Risk Management
14. ISO 3166 Country Codes
15. ISO 50001
Energy Management
16. ISO/IEC 27001
Information Security
Management The certificates provided by the
ISO provide guidance and tools for organizations and companies which want to ensure that their products and services meet customer’s expectations with consistent improvement in the quality of the products and services.

Need Bank

Why do we need banks?
Who prints money in India? How the Reserve Bank of India prints and distribute  currency notes to several commercial banks. In this Issue, we take a closer look at what this Bank do with all the money


Every individual earns salary for the job he she does keeping aside what is needed to Spend  rest is deposited in an account in a bank.
The bank hold a Record of  how much money each person has stored with it these records are called bank accounts. Each bank account has a unique number at any given point of time, bank account holder may required only a transaction on the amount stored. when such a need  arises, the bank gives money either in cash (currency notes) or through an electronic transfer. But the amount needed must be within the stored with the bank.

वसंत ऋतू

ग्रिष्म ऋतू सरता, वसंत ऋतू ची चाहूल लागताच
तप्त उन्हात, गारवा दाटुन येई मनामनात
पक्षी सुध्दा लगबगीने घरटे बांधती
चाहूल लागताच वसंत ऋतू ची...

वसंताची आगमन होता, सुगंध दरवळे मातीतून..
प्रसन्न होऊन जाई वातावरण भूतलावरील
सगळीकडे होईल हिरवेगार गालिचे....
शहारून येई अंग, पावसाच्या पाण्याचा थेंबाने
निसर्गाच्या सौंदर्यात भर पडे इंद्रधनुष्याची
असा वसंत ऋतू मनी जागवी आनंद..

भ्रमणध्वनी ( मोबाईल)

मोबाईल (भ्रमणध्वनी) शाप की वरदान,
विचार करीता अंती, मिळे उत्तर...
कुंटूब रहाती एकत्र, तरी अंतर असी मनामनात..
नसे संवाद एकमेकांशी, बसून कोपऱ्यात संवाद साधे परक़्याशी,
लहान मुले बालपण विसरून गेले मोबाईल मध्ये,
नसे आजी आजोबां बरोबर गप्पा गोष्टी, नसे अंगाई
नसे खेळ खेळी मैदानी, मोबाईल वर खेळ खेळून माने धन्यता

तरूण मंडळी जीव धोक्यात घालून काडी सेल्फी,
मित्र मैत्रिणी कडून लाईक मिळतील यात माने धन्यता..
नसता उद्योग, जीवनात कही अर्थ नाही..
एक़्कल कोंडी राहून, जीवनात येई मनोविकार
आत्महत्तेस प्रवृत्त करीत, आजार..
आपणच  ठरवूया मोबाईलचा किती उपयोग करायचा  जीवनात...

व्यर्थ

का असे वाटते मज, जीवन हे व्यर्थ
काबाडकष्ट करून  न मिळे भाकर..
दिवस रात्र एक करुन राबतो काळया मातीत
तरी सतावतो प्रश्न, माझ्या लेकूराना मिळेल का भाकर?
कधी अवकाळी पाऊस, तर कधी शेती मालाला भाव न मीळे
कसे जगावे आयुष्य, सतावतो प्रश्न रात्रभर
जिवन चालले आहे, काळ्याभोर अंधारातून वाट काढत
कधी वाटते जीवन संपवून टाकावे एकदाचे,
मग विचार ऐई, कोण देईल माझ्या पाखरांना मायेची उब...