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Winners of 59th Idea Filmfare Awards 2013

January 29, 2014
Screenshot_1The grand Annual 59th Idea Filmfare Awards event was organized in Mumbai. The following are the winners under various categories:
POPULAR AWARDS:
  • Best Film: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
  • Best Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
  • Best Actor (Male): Farhan Akhtar (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
  • Best Actor (Female): Deepika Padukone – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
  • Best Supporting Actor (Female): Supriya Pathak Kapur (Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Male): Nawazuddin Siddiqui (The Lunchbox)
  • Best Music – Mithhoon, Ankit Tiwari, Jeet Ganguly (Aashiqui 2)
  • Best Playback Singer (Male) – Arjit Singh – “Tum hi ho” – (Aashiqui 2)
  • Best Playback Singer (Female) – Monali Thakur – “Sawaar Loon”(Lootera)
  • Best Lyrics – Prasoon Joshi – “Zinda” (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
  • Best Debut (Male) – Dhanush (Raanjhanaa)
  • Best Debut (Female) – Vaani Kapoor (Shuddh Desi Romance)
  • Best Debut Director – Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox)
  • Best Screenplay: Chetan Bhagat, Abhishe Kapoor, Supratik Sen and Pubali Chaudhari (Kai Po Che)
  • Best Story: Subhash Kapoor (Jolly LLB)
  • Best Dialogue: Subhash Kapoor (Jolly LLB)
  • RD Burman Award For Upcoming Talent In Music: Sidharth Mahadevan
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Tanuja
  • Sony Trendsetter of The Year: Chennai Express
CRITICS AWARDS:
  • Best Actor (Male): Rajkumar Rao (Shahid)
  • Best Actor (Female): Shilpa Shukla (BA Pass)
  • Best Movie (Best Director): The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra)
TECHNICAL AWARDS:
  • Best Action: Thomas Struthers and Guru Bachchan (D Day)
  • Best Cinematography: Kamaljit Negi (Madras Cafe)
  • Best Editing: Aarif Sheikh (D-Day)
  • Best Production Design: Acropolis Design (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
  • Best Sound Design: Bishwadeep Chatterjee and Nohar Rajan Samal (Madras Café)
  • Best Costume Design: Dolly Ahluwalia (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)
  • Best Choreography: Samir and Arsh Tanna – Lahu muh lag gaya (Goliyon Ki Raasleel Ram-leela)
  • Best Background Score: Hitesh Sonik (Kai Po Che!)
  • Best Special Effects: Tata Elxis (Dhoom 3)
  • Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s sports biopic ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ won six awards including best film, best director and best actor for Farhan Akhtar.

India Post to install 3000 ATMs,1.35 lakh mirco-ATMs by Sept 15, 2014

January 29, 2014
In a bid to start a commercial banking, India Post has drawn a plan to install approx 3,000 ATMs and 1.35 lakh micro-ATMs at the post offices across the country for savings account holders by September 2015. On this plan, India Post worked with software giant Infosys.
  • Via interoperability, India Post will join the National Financial Switch, which will benefit India Post account holders to transact at the banks’ ATMs and vice versa.
  • The micro ATMs will be handheld devices to be operated at the post office level while the ATM will be similar to the one operated by any commercial bank.
  • The ATMs can be used only by 26 crore savings account-holders who save with the postal department. Though, its rough idea that within six months of the launch, India Post  will get the interoperability permission from the Reserve Bank of India(RBI).
  • The postal department has 1.55 lakh post offices and more than 90 % are in villages, offers the savings account to people across the country and pays an interest of 4 % per annum for such deposits. The account offers cheque facility at present.
  • Postal savings are worth around Rs 6.05 trillion, which is half the savings in the largest lender SBI and more than double that of the largest private sector lender ICICI Bank. 

About India Post
Screenshot_2Founded: April 1, 1774
Headquarters:           New Delhi, Delhi.
Director General: Smt. Padmini Gopinath
The Department of Posts comes under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Highest  post office in the world:  Hikkim, Himachal Pradesh(4,700 m).
Primary Function: To collect, process, transmit and deliver the mails.
Offers Money Remittance Services: Money Order, Electronic Money Order, Instant Money Order, etc.
Offers Premium Products: Speed Post, Business Post, Greeting Post, etc.
Offers Financial services: National Savings Certificates, the Public Provident Fund, savings-bank accounts, monthly-income plans, senior-citizens’ savings plans, time-deposit accounts, etc.

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