Date: 28th Feb 2012

Important News of the Day

1. Wiki: Stratfor was Dow’s Bhopal spy.

2. Centre blinks, puts NCTC on hold.

3. "The Artist" leads Oscars with Five awards.

4. List of 84th Oscar winners: 

• Best picture - The Artist
• Best actress in a leading role- Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
• Best actor in a leading role - Jean Dujardin, The Artist
• Best director- Michel Hazavanicius, The Artist
• Best cinematography- Robert Richardson, Hugo
• Best art direction- Hugo
• Best costume design- The Artist
• Best make up- The Iron Lady
• Best foreign language film- A Separation
• Best actress in a supporting role- Octavia Spencer, The Help
• Best film editing- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Best sound editing- Hugo
• Best sound mixing- Hugo
• Best documentary feature- Undefeated
• Best animated film- Rango
• Best visual effects- Hugo
• Best actor in a supporting role- Christopher Plummer, Beginners
• Best original score- Ludovic Bource, The Artist
• Best song- Man or Muppet, The Muppets
• Best adapted screenplay- Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash, The Descendants
• Best original screenplay- Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
• Best live action short- The Shore
• Best documentary short- Saving Face
• 24) Best animated short- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmor.

5. OVL, GAIL eye Cove Energy of UK with $2 billion offer.

6. CLB- Company Law Board.

7. SBI cuts education loan rate to 13.25.

8. Reform or face crisis, World Bank to China.

9. BP wants KG gas price to rise 3 times.

10. Anirban Lahiri wins 'SAIL-SBI Open 2012 Golf Trophy'.