ICC Team Rankings

Test Rankings (As on 07 April 2012)

1. England
2. South Africa
3. India
4. Australia
5. Pakistan
6. Sri Lanka
7. West Indies
8. New Zealand
9. Bangladesh

Zimbabwe is currently unranked as it has played insufficient matches.

One-Day International Rankings (As on 26 March 2012)

1. Australia
2. South Africa
3. India
4. England
5. Sri Lanka
6. Pakistan
7. New Zealand
8. West Indies
9. Bangladesh
10. Zimbabwe
11. Ireland
12. Netherlands
13. Kenya

Twenty20 International Rankings (As on 31 March 2012)

1. England
2. South Africa
3. Sri Lanka
4. New Zealand
5. Pakistan
6. Australia
7. India
8. Ireland
9. West Indies
10. Afghanistan
11. Netherlands
12. Zimbabwe
13. Scotland
14. Canada
15. Kenya

06 April 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Indian Army Chief
• Ram Baran Yadav : Nepal President
• Baburam Bhattarai : Nepal PM
• Gen Chhatraman Singh Gurung : Nepal Army Chief
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• Vladimir Putin : Russia PM
• Dmitry Medvedev : Russia President
• Lee Hsien Loong : Singapore PM
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
• Hina Rabbani Khar : Pakistan Foreign Minister
• Naveen Patnaik : Odisha CM
• Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• West Bengal to replace Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, founders of Marxism & Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, with historical background of Latin America, Nelson Mandela & Chinese Revolution in their Higher Secondary syllabus
• Malabar : 10-days long Annual Naval Exercise between India & US
• 12th edition of Malabar to be held in Bay of Bengal
• Tougher UK Student Visa rules come into force
• Students from outside European Union will be required to have a firm job offer of minimum 20,000 Euro a year from a government approved employer if they wish to stay in Britain after completing their studies
• Currently students can stay up to two years after finishing their studies
• Kapil Sibal : Union Human Resource Development Minister
• Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) & All-India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) to be merged into a common test from 2013
• Markandey Katju : Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Shah Rukh Khan : Bollywood Actor to be Brand Ambassador of West Bengal
• Embraer : Brazilian aerospace conglomerate
• Maiden flight of second fully modified Embraer Aircraft for India-developed Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) System took place at Sao Jose dos Campos facility, Sao Paulo in Brazil
• Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), Bangalore, that comes under Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) is executing the system with other DRDO labs as partners
• S Christopher : Director of CABS & Programme Director of AEW&C System
• VK Saraswat : Adviser to Defence Minister & Director-General of DRDO
• Dr Alexander Kumar : British-Indian Doctor to walk across Antarctica carrying the Tricolour
• Will be first foreign national of Indian-origin to do it
• Expedition is scheduled for 2014
• Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
• Alain Juppe : French Foreign Minister
• Thein Sein : Myanmar President
• Aung San Suu Kyi : Leader of Opposition of Myanmar & leader of National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar
• Hillary Rodham Clinton : US Secretary of State
• US hails leadership of Thein Sein for the recent reforms
• US to open an office of US Agency for International Development in Myanmar
• US also preparing to send an Ambassador to Myanmar
• "Project Glass" : a pair of augmented reality glasses of Google that provides users real-time information right in front of their eyes
• Google X : a secret Google research lab working on future technologies
• British Broadcaster Sky News, in which News Corps Rupert Murdoch owns 39% stake, admits that it illegally hacked emails of two persons for stories
• Yutyrannus huali : New Tyrannosaurus species unearthed in North-eastern China that is believed to be lived 60 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex)
• The fossil record had fluffy & feathery remains making it the largest feathered dinosaur ever found
• Its name is a blend of Latin & Mandarin, which translates to "beautiful feathered tyrant"
• Square Kilometre Array (SKA) : a huge $2.5bn radio telescope which will be 50 times more sensitive & 10,000 times faster than any other telescope on the globe
• Australia & South Africa are competing to host the World's biggest radio telescope
• Construction is to be started in 2016 and to go fully operational by 2024
• Kuwait-Iraq flights to resume after more than 20 years
• Iraq has approved a request from Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to operate services to Baghdad & Najaf, Iraq
• Nouri al-Maliki : Iraq PM
• French Nuclear Reactor in Penly on the English Channel near port of Dieppe shut down automatically after small fires at the installation that firefighters quickly extinguished
• Electricite de France (EDF) : operator of the power plant
• France generates 75% of its electricity from Nuclear power making it World's Most Nuclear-Dependent Country
• Lalit Kumar Jain : President of Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI)
• Bachraj Bamalwa : Chairman of All-India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (AIGJTF)
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Anand Sharma : Union Commerce & Industry Minister
• Ajit Singh : Union Civil Aviation Minister
• National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) added a record capacity of 2,820MW in 2011-12 taking its total capacity to 37,000MW
• Achieved 9,610MW capacity in 11th Five-Year Plan against its plan target of 9,220MW
• Toy Manufacturer Funskool (India) crossed Rs.100cr turnover mark for financial year 2011-12
• Beni Prasad Verma : Union Steel Minister
• Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) paid interim dividend of Rs.495.36crore, at 12% of paid-up equity capital, to Government of India for the year 2011-12
• Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh : elected President of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)
• Raj Singh : elected Secretary-General of WFI
• 19th Federation Cup Carrom Championship
• Men's : K Srinivas (Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, PSPB) bt Yogesh Pardeshi (current World Champion)
• Women's : M Parimala Devi (PSPB) bt I Ilavazhaki (current World Champion)
• Jairam Ramesh : Union Rural Development Minister
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
• Bharatiya Janata Party controlled Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation slaps Rs.16-lakh tax bill on Sabarmati Ashram
• Ajit Jadhav : Manager of Sabarmati Harijan Ashram Trust
• Narendra Modi : Gujarat CM
• Kamala Beniwal : Gujarat Governor

05 April 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Indian Army
• AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
• Shashi Kant Sharma : Defence Secretary
• Supreme Court raps former Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh for giving 20 acres to film producer Subash Ghai in 2004 for his film institute
• Islamic seminary Darul Ulum Deoband issued a fatwa against beauty parlours saying that the profession is against Shariat
• INS Chakra : Nuclear powered attack submarine of Akula II class inducted into Indian Navy
• It was Russia's K-152 Nerpa of Soviet Charlie class commissioned in 2009 by Russian Navy
• It was leased to India in 2011 for 10 years at an estimated cost of $670m
• It was commissioned on 4 April 2012 as INS Chakra II at Vishakapatnam
• India enters into an elite group of six nations operating nuclear submarines : US, Russia, China, France, UK & India
• To be Commanded by Captain P Ashokan who got over 25 years experience in handling submarines
• Admiral Nirmal Verma : Chief of Indian Navy
• MM Pallam Raju : Minister of State for Defence
• VK Saraswat : Adviser to Defence Ministry
• Penkunju : Programme aired by Akashavani's Ananthapuri FM has entered final round of competition at the 12th Iran International Radio Festival
• Biju Mathew : Writer & Director of the Penkunju & Programme Executive at Ananthapuri FM
• Manik Sarkar : Tripura CM
• Salim Gangadharan : Appointed Regional Director of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Kerala & Lakshadweep
• David Cameron : British PM
• George Osborne : Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) alleged in Supreme Court that P Chidambaram as Finance Minister had equal role in fixing 2G spectrum license prices along with the then Telecom Minister A Raja
• Vayalar Ravi : Union Overseas Indian Affairs Minister
• Saqr Ghobash : Labour Minister of UAE (United Arab Emirates)
• India-UAE sign new protocol mandating informed approval by worker, employer & Indian authority of the full terms of work for work contract in UAE
• To streamline the employment process of Indian workers through an electronic contract registration & validation system to ensure welfare of workers and to control exploitation of Indian workers by recruiting agencies
• Excavaons at Moghalmari in West Bengal reveals Buddhist presence in India dating back to 6th century AD
• Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh was invited for oil exploration in two blocks in South China Sea by Vietnam earlier
• ONGC Videsh facing threat from China claiming that the area belongs to them & if they go for exploration they will be facing political & economic risks
• Hafiz Mohammad Saeed : Chief of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah & Founder Chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba for whose head US has announced a reward of $10m
• Benjamin Netanyahu : Israel PM
• Salam Fayyad : Palestine PM
• Mahmoud Abbas : Palestine President
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan : Turkey PM
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei : Supreme Leader of Iran
• Hillary Clinton : US Secretary of State
• Nicolas Sarkozy : French President
• Sudan & South Sudan agree on a ceasefire to secure their borders & oil rich areas during their talks in the Ethiopian Capital of Addis Ababa
• Sir James Munby : Chairman of the Law Commission for England & Wales
• UK Law Commission to scrap a large chunk of legislation in their Statute relating to construction & maintenance of railways across India
• Statute Law (Repeals) Bill to be introduced in UK Parliament this summer
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• He directed the apex Insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) to address the suicidal competition between insurance companies through undercutting policy premiums
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
• RS Gujral : Finance Secretary
• Tata Power through it subsidiary Khopoli Investments enters in a 50:50 venture with Exxaro Resources Ltd of South Africa to launch a new energy company Cennergi Pty Ltd in South Africa
• Hiroshi Nakagawa : MD of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (TKM), joint-venture of Toyota & Kirloskar Group
• TKM began exporting its Etios cars manufactured at Bangalore plant to South Africa
• Kalanithi Maran : Chairman of SpiceJet Airlines picks up 5% more stake in no-frills airline
• "R Venkataraman - A Centenary Tribute" & "Reflections of a Statesman - Selected Post - Presidential Speeches of R Venkataraman" : Two books released on birth centenary of former President R Venkataraman
• Meira Kumar : Lok Sabha Speaker
• Karan Singh : Rajya Sabha Ethics Committee Chairman
• Rajendra K Pachauri : Director-General of The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI, formerly Tata Energy Research Institute)
• Karan Singh : President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
• India joins as the 11th member of the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) that was launched by National Regulatory Commission (NRC) of US & French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, ASN)
• MDEP pools the resources & knowledge of national regulatory authorities in reviewing nuclear reactor designs that are proposed & under construction
• India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) was admitted as first new member of MDEP
• Dr SS Bajaj : Chairman of AERB
• Other MDEP members include Canada, China, Finland, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, South Africa, US & UK
• Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) provides technical support to MDEP
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) participates in many of the MDEP activities
• Andre-Claude Lacoste : MDEP Policy Group Chair & Chairman of ASN
• Parkash Singh Badal : Punjab CM
• KV Thomas : Union Food Minister

04 April 2012

• United India Insurance Company Ltd : Crossed 8,000 crore premium income
• Hafiz Muhammad Saeed : Chief of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) & Chief of charity organisation Jama'at-ud-Da'wah that is considered to be cover organisation for LeT
• US declares $10m reward for giving information leading to arrest of the Lashkar Chief
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• SM Krishna : Union External Affairs Minister
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• To visit India, first by a Pakistan President since 1972 visit of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Rahman Malik : Pakistan's Interior Minister
• Thein Sein : Myanmar President
• Aung San Suu Kyi : Leader of National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar that won 40 of 45 seats in by-elections recently; She also won a seat to Parliament
• MT Enrica Lexie : Italian-flagged vessel that was detained off Kerala following killing of two fishermen by two Italian marines on board
• Manjula Chellur : Kerala Chief Justice
• Gordon Charles Pereira : Captain of Singapore-flagged vessel MV Prabhu Daya which was suspected to be involved in a mid-sea collision with fishing boat off Kerala killing 5 fishermen
• Vayojana Suraksha : scheme of Kerala State Police to protect senior citizens
• Pallekelle : Sri Lankan town where a monitoring station to detect nuclear explosions is being built by Vienna-based Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Organisation
• CTBT bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes
• CTBT was signed by UN Security Council in 1996 but has not entered into force as it expects ratifications by several signatories
• CTBT have 182 signatories out of which 157 ratifiers
• Eight ratifications of US, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Israel & North Korea will enable CTBT to enter into force
• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Indian Army
• Lt Gen Bikram Singh : Indian Army Chief Designate
• AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
• India released $20m of $100m Standby Credit Facility to Maldives & $50m treasury bond owed to State Bank of India by the Maldivian Government also has been rolled over for another year
• Mohammad Nasheed : Former President of Maldives of Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)
• Tuareg : Rebel people of Mali
• Bamako : Capital of Mali
• James Murdoch : Quits as Chairman of British Satellite Broadcaster BSkyB (Sky TV)
• Yousuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
• Kofi Annan : UN & Arab League Special Envoy to Syria
• Nasser al-Kidwa : Deputy of Kofi Annan
• Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
• Syria agrees to pull out its forces fighting armed rebels by April 10
• Susan Rice : US Permanent Representative to UN
• Bashar Jaafari : Syrian Ambassador to UN
• Jakob Kellenberger : President of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), based in Geneva, Switzerland
• Yves Daccord : Director-General of ICRC
• SM Krishna : Union External Affairs Minister
• Shah Rukh Khan : Bollywood Actor to deliver lecture at prestigious Yale University as its Chubb Fellow
• The Chubb Fellowship is among Yale's highest honours which in the past has been bestowed to heads of states & Nobel Prize winners
• D Subbarao : Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Rajkumar Dhoot : President of ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India)
• IT workers of Tata Sons in US proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Indian corporate giant over unpaid wages
• Shriprakash Jaiswal : Union Coal Minister
• Presidential directive to the state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) to immediately sign Fuel supply Agreements (FSA) with power producers
• Mallika Srinivasan : Chairperson & CEO of Tractors & Farm Equipment Ltd (TAFE), world's third largest tractor maker
• TAFE, the flagship company of the Amalgamations Group, has embarked on a Rs.100cr expansion project at its Madurai plant
• Deepak Mehrotra : CEO of Micromax Informatics
• Rahul Sharma : Co-Founder of Micromax Informatics
• Homegrown mobile company Micromax entered tablet PC market with its FunBook tablet, positioned as an edutainment device aiming younger generation
• Micromax had tied up with leading education & entertainment content providers such as Pearson, Everonn & Vriti (educational), Bigflix, Indiagames & Zenga (entertainment)
• Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd (CEIL), wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn India Ltd (CIL)
• CEIL discovered oil in Nagayalanka SE-1 well in onshore block of Krishna-Godavari Basin
• GK Vasan : Union Minister of Shipping
• Pensacola International Wheelchair Tennis Championship : @ Pensacola, Florida
• Marcus Johannson (Sweden) bt Boniface Prabhu (Ind)
• Kapil Sibal : Union Human Resource Development Minister
• Pratibha Patil : Indian President, who is Chancellor of all Central Universities

WTA Ranking

WTA (Women's Tennis Association) World Rankings Top 10 
(As on 2 April 2012)

• Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
• Maria Sharapova (Russia)
• Petra Kvitova (Czezh)
• Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland)
• Samantha Stosur (Australia)
• Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)
• Marion Bartoli (France)
• Li Na (China)
• Vera Zvonareva (Russia)
• Serena Williams (USA)