Oscar Awards 2012: Complete List of Oscars Winners

It was another huge year for movies, and Hollywood’s finest were on hand to honor the best of the best Feb. 26 during the 84th Annual Academy Awards! Check out the Following list of early winners in leading categories for the 84th annual Academy Awards-
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson, “Hugo”
Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schavo, “Hugo”
Best Costume Design: Mark Bridges, “The Artist”
Best Makeup: Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland, “The Iron Lady”
Best Foreign Language Film: “A Separation”
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, “The Help”
Best Editing: Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
Best Sound Editing: Phillip Stockton and Eugene Gearty, “Hugo”
Best Sound Mixing: Tom Fleischman and John Midgley, “Hugo”
Best Documentary: “Undefeated”
Best Animated Feature: “Rango”
Best Visual Effects: “Hugo”

6th National Grassroots innovations Awards-2012

President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil 9 March gave away the 6th National Grassroots innovations awards to rural people for their creative and intelligent inventions and solutions for Agriculture and farming activities. The President also inaugurated a week long Innovations Exhibition at the Rashtrapati Bhavan premises which would be open to the public till the 15th March.
The exhibits on display at the President’s Estate includes, mechanised improvised solutions that conserve energy and lessen manual labour, high yielding plant varieties, herbal medications and helping aids in farming and animal husbandry activities. Speaking exclusively to All India Radio, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said, the rural folk are abundant in ideas and creativity.
Now the big challenge is to take these innovations & multiply them on a large scale. These are lot of interesting ideas, such traditional innovative made locally is being developed but challenge is how to use them on large scale.

Books and Authors February-2012

Books and Authors February-2012

Books	Authors
Bekir Paror Jui (Fire on the banks of river beki)	Hemen Das
Moda Goa: History & style	Wendell Rodricks
Bajanaama, A study of Early Indian Recording	A.N. Sharma
Write of Passage	R. Siva Kumar
Nirbasan	Taslima Nasreen
Lava	Javed Akhtar
Cooking with Poo	Saiyuud Diwong
Guerrillero del tiempo (Time Guerilla)	Fide Castro
Glimpses of Indian Women Hockey	K. Arumugam
The Taxonomy of office chairs	Jonathan Olivares
The Sins of the Father	Jeffery Archer
Intimacies	Kunal Basu

List of Test cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar

No.	Score	Against	Inn.	Test	Venue	H/A	Date	Result
1	119*	England	2	2	Old Trafford, Manchester	Away	14 August 1990	Draw[6]
2	148*	Australia	1	3	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	6 January 1992	Draw[7]
3	114	Australia	1	5	WACA Ground, Perth	Away	3 February 1992	Lost[8]
4	111	South Africa	1	2	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	Away	28 November 1992	Draw[9]
5	165	England	1	2	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Home	12 February 1993	Won[10]
6	104*	Sri Lanka	2	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	Away	31 July 1993	Won[11]
7	142	Sri Lanka	1	1	K. D. Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow	Home	19 January 1994	Won[12]
8	179	West Indies	1	2	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	Home	2 December 1994	Draw[13]
9	122	England	2	1	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Away	8 June 1996	Lost[14]
10	177	England	1	3	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	Away	5 July 1996	Draw[15]
11	169♠	South Africa	1	2	Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town	Away	4 January 1997	Lost[16]
12	143♠	Sri Lanka	1	1	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	Away	3 August 1997	Draw[17]
13	139♠	Sri Lanka	1	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (2), Colombo	Away	11 August 1997	Draw[18]
14	148♠	Sri Lanka	1	3	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Home	4 December 1997	Draw[19]
15	155*	Australia	2	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (2), Chennai	Home	9 March 1998	Won[20]
16	177	Australia	1	3	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Home	26 March 1998	Lost[21]
17	113	New Zealand	2	2	Basin Reserve, Wellington	Away	29 December 1998	Lost[22]
18	136	Pakistan	2	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (3), Chennai	Home	31 January 1999	Lost[23]
19	124*	Sri Lanka	2	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (3), Colombo	Away	28 February 1999	Draw[24]
20	126*♠	New Zealand	2	1	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	Home	13 October 1999	Draw[25]
21	217♠	New Zealand	1	3	Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad	Home	30 October 1999	Draw[26]
22	116♠	Australia	1	2	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	Away	28 December 1999	Lost[27]
23	122	Zimbabwe	1	1	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi	Home	21 November 2000	Won[28]
24	201*	Zimbabwe	1	2	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground (2), Nagpur	Home	26 November 2000	Draw[29]
25	126	Australia	1	3	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (4), Chennai	Home	20 March 2001	Won[30]
26	155	South Africa	1	1	Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein	Away	3 November 2001	Lost[31]
27	103	England	1	2	Sardar Patel Stadium (2), Motera, Ahmedabad	Home	13 December 2001	Draw[32]
28	176	Zimbabwe	1	1	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground (3), Nagpur	Home	24 February 2002	Won[33]
29	117	West Indies	1	2	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain	Away	20 April 2002	Won[34]
30	193	England	1	3	Headingley, Leeds	Away	23 August 2002	Won[35]
31	176	West Indies	2	3	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Home	3 November 2002	Draw[36]
32	241*	Australia	1	4	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	4 January 2004	Draw[37]
33	194*	Pakistan	1	1	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan	Away	29 March 2004	Won[38]
34	248*	Bangladesh	1	1	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	Away	12 December 2004	Won[39]
35	109	Sri Lanka	1	2	Feroz Shah Kotla (2), New Delhi	Home	22 December 2005	Won[40]
36	101	Bangladesh	1	1	Bir Shrestha Shahid Ruhul Amin Stadium, Chittagong	Away	19 May 2007	Draw[41]
37	122*	Bangladesh	1	2	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Away	26 May 2007	Won[42]
38	154*	Australia	1	2	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	Away	4 January 2008	Lost[43]
39	153	Australia	1	4	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	Away	25 January 2008	Draw[44]
40	109	Australia	1	4	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur	Home	6 November 2008	Won[45]
41	103*	England	2	1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (5), Chennai	Home	15 December 2008	Won[46]
42	160	New Zealand	1	1	Seddon Park, Hamilton	Away	20 March 2009	Won[47]
43	100*	Sri Lanka	2	1	Sardar Patel Stadium (3), Motera, Ahmedabad	Home	20 November 2009	Draw[48]
44	105*	Bangladesh	1	1	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	Away	18 January 2010	Won[49]
45	143	Bangladesh	1	2	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium (2), Mirpur	Away	25 January 2010	Won[50]
46	100	South Africa	2	1	Cricket Association Stadium (2), Nagpur	Home	9 February 2010	Lost[51]
47	106	South Africa	1	2	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Home	15 February 2010	Won[52]
48	203	Sri Lanka	1	2	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (4), Colombo	Away	28 July 2010	Draw[53]
49	214	Australia	1	2	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (2), Bangalore	Home	11 October 2010	Won[54]
50	111*	South Africa	2	1	SuperSport Park, Centurion	Away	19 December 2010	Lost[55]
51	146	South Africa	1	3	Newlands Cricket Ground (2), Cape Town	Away	4 January 2011	Draw[56]

Key

• * denotes that he remained not out.
• ♠ denotes that he was the captain of the Indian team in that match.
• Test denotes the number of the Test match played in that series.
• Inn. denotes the number of the Indian innings in the Test match.
• H/A denotes whether the venue was in home (India) or away.
• Lost denotes that the match was lost by India.
• Won denotes that the match was won by India.
• Draw denotes that the match was drawn.