30 June 2011, Thursday
- "Water for Tamil Nadu and security for Kerala" : motto of Kerala State in the Mullaperiyar issue
- Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan : Foreign Minister of UAE
The proposed UAE consulate in Kerala will trigger more investments from West Asia and will be a big relief to half-a-million Malayali workers (55% of NRIs) in UAE
- Life Beam : A Israeli start-up who developed the "Physiological Sensor", a miniature device for the Israel Defence Force(IDF) to monitor physiological parameters (breathing & heart rate, blood pressure) of soldiers
- Prithviraj Chavan : CM of Maharashtra, State cuts VAT on diesel & kerosene by 2%
- India wants to join export control regimes : the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Australia Group & the Wassenaar Group
US, Russia and France backed India's membership UK recently announced its support to India's membership
- Harish Khare : media adviser to PM of India
Burglars stole his mobile phone and car
- Sanket Akerkar : MD, Microsoft India
- The Sri Lankan Central Bank Monetary Board to include Chinese Renminbi (people's currency, primary unit of Yuan) in the designated list of currencies for international transactions through banks of Sri Lanka
Other currencies in the list include Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Danish kroner, Euro, Hong Kong dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand dollar, Norwegian kroner, British pound sterling, Singapore dollar, Swedish kroner, Swiss franc and US dollar
- BK Goenka : Chairman of Welspun Group
- VS Bapna : Executive Director & Chief Executive of Welspun Maxsteel (WMSL)
To invest Rs.5300cr towards rising its DRI(direct reduced iron) capacity & form a 330MW captive power plant
- KV Ravindra : Founder of Celon Labs
Crossed Rs.100cr mark in turnover - To set up a Rs.120cr world class manufacturing facility at the Genome Valley, Hyderabad
- Beltron Telecom, promoted by Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd signed an MoU defining & detailing the business Letter of Intent(LoI) with Bilcare Technologies on creating next-generation anti-counterfeiting, security & brand protection solutions
- Samsung Engineering bagged $229mn order to build a High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant from OPaL(ONGC Petro Additions Ltd), a subsidiary of ONGC. The 3.4lakh tonne plant will be built in the SEZ in Dahej, Gujarat
- ITC Infotech partnered with Solteq Oyj of Finland
- Michael Nobbs : newly appointed coach of Indian Hockey team
- VVS Laxman : Indian cricketer passed 800 test runs at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, West Indies
Only Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid & Sunil Gavaskar have scored more than 800 test runs for India
- Amartya Sen : Nobel Laureate Economist of India, will be Adviser to Presidency Mentor Group
A 10 member group chaired by Sugata Bose(grand-nephew of Subhash Chandra Bose) set up by government of West Bengal to help Presidency University regain Its excellence
- Srikumar Banerjee : Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission(AEC), "Fukushima-like disaster cannot happen in India"
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd(NPCIL) has set up 4 committees, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board(AERB) & Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC) have set up 1 committee each to analyse safety of different standards
29 June 2011, Wednesday
- AS Suresh Babu : new MD & CEO of Vizhinjam International Sea Port Ltd
- National Institute of Securities Markets(NISM) : a public trust established by SEBI
Has initiated a scheme for educating prospective investors providing a proper vision on the finance market, to caution people against market dupers
- Digambar Kamat : CM of Goa
- Jairam Ramesh : Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests
Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary , Goa to be declared as tiger reserve
- Cheraman Juma Masjid : 1400-year old mosque in Kodungallur to be restored to its original form
- Beerwah : A town in Budgam district of J&K
Omar Abdullah, CM of J&K, refused to give district status to the town
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India
- National Development Council(NDC) : India's highest policy making body
- Yasuteru Yamada : a retired nuclear plant engineer of Japan
"Recruit elders to tame the crippled reactors of Japan"
- India-New Zealand signed protocols in film production, higher education and research to strengthen people to people interaction
- Christine Lagarde (French Finance Minister) : New as well as 1st Woman MD of IMF
- CIAL to open duty-free gold retail outlets at arrival & departure halls of its international terminal to expand the business of airport retailing
- MV Tanksale : new CMD of Central Bank of India
Former Executive Director of Punjab National Bank
- N Chandrasekharan : MD & CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
- New Zealand to transfer its state-of-art technology and make investments in India's Agro-Food Processing Industry
- Power Finance Corporation(PFC) to raise Rs.5000cr through tax-free bonds
- NTPC commissions 660MW supercritical unit at Sipat, Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh
- Axis Bank has launched e-Wallet card
- US Supreme Court upheld a decision of Federal Appeals Court that had exempted Indian & Mongolian missions from paying property taxes of nearly $50mn in New York
- Alexander Poteyev : a colonel in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service(SVR) was sentenced to 25-year prison for inflicting significant damage to Russian security
- Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka honours Pandit Amaradeva at India House, Colombo
28 June 2011, Tuesday
- RR Patil : Maharashtra Home Minister announced a reward of Rs.10lakh for Mumbai Police for making breakthrough in J Dey's murder case
- Ranjan Mathai : Indian Ambassador to France appointed new Foreign Secretary of India, replacing Nirupama Roy
- N Murali : MD of Kasturi & Sons Ltd, re-elected as President of Music Academy, Chennai
- Kulsoom Abdullah : Atlanta-based weightlifter
US Olympic Committee debarred her from joining national competitions in Ohio and Iowa because of her hijab
- China launch Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train : a 39 month long $33bn 1318km project to be opened to public as part of 90th anniversary of Communist Party of China
- Maruti Suzuki Estilo posted a 25.4% growth last fiscal year and is set to touch 2-lakh sales mark in domestic market
- "Foreign investors other than foreign institutional investors(FII) can invest up to $10bn in domestic mutual funds" : Central Government of India
- CK Birla Group exit McNally Bharat Engineering Company(MBEC)
- Department of Policy & Promotion(DIPP) to come out with a body like Employees Provident Fund Organisation(EFPO) for manging retirement funds and insurance in SMEs
- "India-New Zealand FTA likely by 2012"
- Harsh V Lodha : Chairman of Birla Corporation Ltd(BCL)
BCL to increase its cement production capacity to 9.3mn tonnes
- BC Tripathi : CMD of GAIL
"GAIL should be out of subsidy sharing mechanism as unlike oil & gas producer"
- New Zealand will offer sports scholarships to talented young Indians
- Nandan Nilekani (Chairman of UIDAI) and his wife Rohini Nilekani have donated Rs.50cr to the Indian Institute of Human Settlements(IIHS)
- Kashmir Premier League(KPL) : Cricket tournament by Indian Army, inaugurated by Omar Abdullah, CM of J&K
12th International Indian Film Academy Awards, Toronto, Canada
- Best Actor : Shah Rukh Khan for "My Name is Khan"
- Best Actress : Anushka Sharma for "Band Baja Baraat"
- Best Director : Karan Johar for "My Name is Khan"
- Best Film : Dabangg
- Best Female Debutant : Sonakshi Sinha for "Dabangg"
- Best Negative Role : Sonu Sood for "Dabangg"
- Best Music Direction : Sajid-Wajid & Lalit Pandit for "Dabangg"
- Best Screenplay : Abhinav Kashyap & Dilip Shukla for "Dabangg"
- Best Playback Male Singer : Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for "Tere mast mast do nain - Dabangg"
- Best Playback Female Singer : Mamta Sharma for "Munni badnam hui - Dabangg"
- Lifetime Achievement : Asha Bhosle
- Best Story : Shivani Makhija for "My Name is Khan"
- Best Dialogue : Vishal Bhardwaj for "Ishqiya"
- Best Lyrics : Niranjan Iyengar for "My Name is Khan"
- Outstanding Achievement : Sharmila Tagore
27 June 2011, Monday
- "Average election spending by MLAs Rs.9 lakh" : review by Election Watch Kerala
- Essam Sharaf : PM of Egypt
- European Union scheme to introduce adaptive small-scale farming systems in South Asian Nations
- Bangladesh, India, Nepal : around 1000 farmers in Nepal to be benefited
- John Key : PM of New Zealand
- E Ahamed : Minister of State for External Affairs
- Integrated Action Plan(IAP) : for 60 tribal & backward districts spread across 9 states, mostly affected by naxal violence
- Fatality figures shows 28% chance of survival of wounded soldiers in 2010
- Wen Jiabao : PM of China
- visited Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
- Britain & China to sign business deals worth billions of pounds
- Liu Xiaoming : China's Ambassador to UK
- Jose Graziano da Silva, Brazil : newly elected Director-General of UN Food & Agriculture Organisation(FAO)
- replaced Jacques Diouf of Senegal, who has completed 18 years tenure
- Hu Jia : Chinese Activist freed after serving three and a half years in jail for subversion charges
- Mikhail Prokhorov : Russia's 3rd richest man (by Forbes Magazine), elected leader of Just Cause Party
- first time that a 10-year-pact between the then President Vladimir Putin & Russian oligarchs has been breached
- earned his wealth as co-owner of Norilsk Nickel Plant, world's largest platinum producer and he sold his stake 2 years ago and now heads Onexim group
- Lulz Security : has claimed responsibility for hacking the websites of CIA, US Senate, Sony and so on
- Sebastian Vettel : won European GP, held at Valencia, Spain
- 6th win in 8 races this season
- his 16 career triumph put him level with British great Stirling Moss in all-time winners' list
- Rafael Nadal debunks views of ex-tennis greats John McEnroe & Jimmy Connors that tennis would be better with more aggression between players
- "I think it is better these days. I think it is good to show an example for the kids. If they see us fight each other every week, they will probably be the same in future. In my opinion, that is not a good way for the world to work. Tennis is just a game. I think it is good to make an example for the kids", the Daily Express quoted current World No.1 saying
- Speed FMSI South India Rally : won by Amittrajit Ghosh & co-driver Ashwin Naik of Team MRF
- Gurmeet Singh : qualified for 2012 London Olympics in 20km race walking competition after finishing 6th in 18th Dublin International GP, Ireland
- Asian Junior Squash Championship :
- Girls U-19 : Anaka Alankamony bt Tsz Wing Tong (Hong Kong)
- Boys U-19 : Danish Atlas Khan bt Ramit Tandon
- Centre proposes to recognize publishing as a small-scale industry or a priority sector
- Daniel Craig (latest James Bond) weds Rachel Weisz
26 June 2011, Sunday
- :The Memory of Love" : written by Aminatta Forna
- Commonwealth Prize for 'Best Book'
- Sort-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize
- Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times
- GK Vasan : Union Minister for Shipping
- SB Agnihotri : Directorate-General of Shipping
- A notification allowing armed security on board Indian merchant vessels will be issued soon
- International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking : June 26
- D Subbarao : Governor of RBI
- UK Sinha : Chairman of SEBI
- R Gopalan : Secretary of Economic Affairs
- Tom Donilon : US National Security Adviser
- Gems & Jewellery exports up by 33.5% at $3.7bn in May this year as demand increased from markets like UAE & US
- Rajiv Jain : Chairman of Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council(GJEPC)
- Harish Manwani : new COO of Unilever, currently he is also President for Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe
- Power utility company CESC ended 2010-11 with 12.7% increase in its net profit touching Rs.488cr
- Hisashi Owada : President of International Court of Justice
- Rauff Hakeem : SriLankan Minister of Justice
- 50th annual session of the Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation(AALCO) : against the back drop of increasing incidents of piracy in the region
- SriLankan President will inaugurate the 50th session
- SriLankan Minister of Justice will chair the conference
- The Indian Farmer's Movement(Infam) condemned the decision of SBT not to consider the land cultivating rubber as agricultural land - This is a violation of the excemption given to agricultural land from the SARFESI Act 2002
- Saurav Kumar Chaliha : Eminent Assamese short story writer & Sahitya Academy Winner (in 1974 - Golam), Passed Away
25 June 2011, Monday
- Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG) 2011 plenary meeting : at Noordwijk, Netherlands
- The group banned Enrichment & Reprocessing Equipment & Technology(ENR) sales to countries that have not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT)
- Banned include : India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea
- Hardeep Singh Puri : Indian Ambassador to Iran
- India called for full implementation of UNSC resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran withour harming its legitimate economic activities
- Ansar Burney : Pakistan Human Rights Activist who arranged the $2.1mn ransom to free sailors of MVSuez which was captured by Somalian pirates
- Ratheesh C Nair : Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation and Director of the ?Russian Cultural Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
- Received the Consular Medal instituted by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Alexander Kadakin : Ambassador of Russian Federation to India
- Railways asked Kerala state to bear 50% project cost of 117km Sabari rail project linking Sabarimala to country's rail network
- The Union Ministry of Commerce notified the 25acres of land identified to set up Cyberpark, Kozhikode, as IT/ITES Special Economic Zone(SEZ)
- Admiral Nirmal Verma : Chief of Naval Staff
- Pauline Nyiramasuhuko Former Rwandan Minister for Women's Empowerment
- UN court for Rwanda sentenced her for a life time prison for the genocide, extermination and rape in Rwanda's Southern Butare region in 1994
- About 8lakh people were killed in over 100 days, essentially minority Tutsis.
- Her son Arsene Shalom Ntahobali was also sentenced to life
- Yukia Amano : Director-General of IAEA
- Kris Gopalakrishnan : CEO of Infosys
- 'Infrastructure Debt Funds' to raise long-term funds for infrastructure projects : Announce by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
- IDFs could be set up both as companies and as trusts
- A trust based IDF(Mutual Fund) would be regulated by SEBI
- IDF set up as company(NBFC) would be regulated by RBI
- International credit rating agency DBRS has changed the trend on India's long term foreign & local currency debt ratings to stable from negative
- Fiscal & monetary policy response to global credit crisis helped restore the economy to a path of higher growth
- Government debt came down from 81.9% of GDP in 2005-06 to 66.5% in 2010-11
- Anand Sharma : Commerce & Industry Minister of India
- "India and Singapore amended their Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement(DTAA) to enable more effective mutual exchange of banking & tax related information"
- Prakash Chandra, Chairman of CBDT
- Karen Anne Tan Ping Ming, High Commissioner of Singapore to India
- Multinational Perdaman Industries filed a lawsuit against Lanco Infratech seeking a compensation of Australian $3.5bn for not complying with the coal supply pact
- Perdaman had entered into 25-year coal pact with Griffin Coal, which was acquired by Lanco for A$730mn
- B Lakshminarayana : GM of Corporation Bank
- Corporation Bank signed MoU with Tata Motors for financing commercial vehicles on an all-India basis
- Future Generali India Insurance Company registered 58% growth in gross written premium of Rs.661cr against Rs.418cr in 2009-10
- No of policies sold during the year was 6.82lakhs, an 23% increase
- Indian Volley League : at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium
- Chennai Spikers bt Hyderabad Charges
- Hilal Turkey : General Secretary of J&K Chambers of Cross-LoC Trade
- Trade across the Line of Control(LoC) would resume next week
- Lok Sabha TV : the public broadcaster funded from Lok Sabha budget is the only channel permitted to set up cameras in Lok Sabha House
- On ceratin occassions news channels carry long live feed from LSTV for which the public broadcaster has been charging Rs.1lakh for each feed
- But the private channels are refusing to pay, saying the feed should be provided free in national interest
- The spat is now considered by Speaker Meira Kumar and the 15 MPs who constitute LSTV's Advisory Council
- The serial sites of Western Ghats will be inscribed in World Heritage List next year
- Endosulfan listed under annexe III to the Rotterdam Convention meeting in Geneva
24 June 2011, Friday
- Indra : an air traffic control technology developed by Spanish IT & Defence Systems Company, to be installed in Thiruvananthapuram Air Traffic Control as part of Airports Authority of India's(AAI) ongoing project to upgrade air traffic management systems
- Oommen Chandy : CM of Kerala & Chairman of Cochin International Airport Ltd(CIAL)
The board of directors of CIAL declared 15% dividend to its shareholders for the year 2010-11
- RS Gavai : Governor of Kerala
Reinstated PP Mohammed as Registrar of the University of Calicut, rejecting the charges levelled against him by the Syndicate
- "Iridium & Ruthenium Isotopes With Gold In Ornaments Is Highly Carcinogenic" : A Division Bench of AK Basheer & PQ Barkathil, Kerala High Court
- Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(PoK) : Capital - Muzaffarabad
- "National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms" : programme launched by Union Cabinet of India for disposal of pending cases in three years, from the current average of 15years and establishment of an All India Judicial Service - to spend Rs.5510cr in the next 5years for the mission
- Dr. YS Sachan : Deputy Chief Medical Officer(Family Welfare)
Found dead in the Lucknow district jail, he was prime accused in April2,2011 murder case of CMO(Family Welfare) BP Singh
JP Srivastava (Jailor ), Sunil Kumar Singh(Deputy Jailor), Ram Dubey(Head Warden), Anil Kumar Tripathi & Ram Narain Tiwari(Wardens) were suspended
- Wasee Ahmed : Captain of MVSuez which was held captive by Somali pirates
- Finmeccanica, an Italian conglomerate, hopes Italy could sell military & other equipment to India through the government instead of through the current commercial engagement
Paolo Girasole : Country Head of Finmeccanica in India
- INS Venduruthy, home to HQ of Southern Naval Command : celebrated its 68th anniversary of commissioning
- US President Barack Obama declared withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan
- World Food Prize(WFP) instituted in 1987 by WFP Foundation that includes Prof MS Swaminathan(Winner of 1st WFP) :
- John Agyekum Kufuor(former President of Ghana)
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva(former President of Brazil)
for creating & implementing government policies to alleviate hunger & poverty in their countries - the two leaders were selected by Nobel Prize Winner & Green Revolution Champion Norman Borlaug
- Ai Weiwei : Chinese artist released after 2months detention after his company was accused of tax evasion in designing Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympics stadium
- Birla Surya part of Yash Birla Group : announced that it would invest $1.2bn in next 5years to build country first largest integrated facility for fabrication of multi-crystalline silicon wafers and processing of solar photovoltaic cells
Mohan Datari : CEO of Birla Surya
Birla Surya signed contracts with leading technology suppliers such as Roth&Rau of Germany, GT Solar of US, Herbert Arnold GmbH&Co
- "Assessees having annual income upto Rs.5lakh through salary and bank interest will not be required to file income-tax returns for 2011-12" : Central Government of India
- SEBI asked the two Sahara group entities to return money along with 15% interest collected from millions of investors through Optionally Fully Convertible Debentures(OFCD) citing violation of regulatory norms
- Food Inflation at 9.13% in June
- Som Mittal : President of National Association of Software & Services Companies(NASSCOM)
- Nandan Nilekani : Chairman of Unique Identity & Development Authority of India(UIDAI)
- Rajendra S Pawar : Chairman & Co-founder of NIIT
- Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana(RSBY) : approved by Union Cabinet of India envisages smart card-based cashless health insurance cover of upto Rs.30000 annually to BPL workers in any empanelled hospital in the country - The Cabinet already approved extension of the scheme to 55 lakh beedi workers by 2013-14
- Mallikarjun Kharge : Labour & Employment Minister of India
23 June 2011, Thursday
- Nirupama Rao : next Indian Ambassador to US, replacing Meera Shankar
- "Department of Atomic Energy(DAE) signed MoU with Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation, Russia : for co-operation in Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership(GCNEP) being set up by DAE in Haryana"
- Srikumar Banerjee (Secretary DAE & Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission)
- SV Kirienko (Director General of Rosatom)
- World's Most Powerful Supercomputer : Japanese supercomputer 'K' built by Fujitsu at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan : capable of making 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second
'K' pushed back 'Tianhe-1A' at National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin, China to second place
- GETIT Infoservices targets 75% growth in TamilNadu by 2012
- Global Telecoms Business Innovation Summit 2011, held at London
- Global Telecoms Business Award : Orascom Telecom Bangladesh(Banglalink), 2nd largest mobile operator in Bangladesh, bagged the award for its Banglalink Mobile Wallet Service
- Leading International Business School INSEAD honoured Sunil Bharti Mittal (Founder, Chairman & Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises) with its Business Leader for the World Award
- Dipak C Jain : Dean of INSEAD
- Ryan Cleary : A British teenager arrested under Computer Misuse Act & Fraud Act suspected to be behind a hackers' group LulzSecurity(LulzSec)
- SriLanka invited Russia & China to part in new development projects as it seeks to transform itself into an economic powerhouse over next decade
22 June 2011, Wednesday
- 14 member task force to review defence preparedness : headed by Naresh Chandra, starting at July 14 & have a period of 6 months
- Senior J&K BJP leader Jitendra Singh has been denied US Visa : second BJP leader after Narendra Modi to be denied
- Malabar Gold entered into agreement with global branding agency Brand Union for global branding
- MP Ahamed : Chairman, Malabar Group
- Hermann Behrens : Middle East CEO, Brand Union
- Orissa Suspends POSCO Land Acquisition Indefinitely
- N Ram : Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu
- Shekhar Gupta : Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express
- Arnab Goswami : Vice-President & Editor-in-Chief of Times Now
- Rahul Joshi : Executive Editor of The Economic Times
- Aditya Sinha : Editor of DNA
- Girish Kuber : Editor of Loksatta
- Nikhil Wagle : Editor of IBN Lokmat
- Raju Khandekar : Editor of Star Majha
- Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali : Former President of Tunisia
along with his wife Leila Trabelsi, sentenced to 35 years in prison and fine of $66mn
- MK Narayanan : Governor of West Bengal
Notification to Force Singur Land Bill Into Law
- Raj Kumar Singh : likely to be Union Home Secretary as GK Pillai is going to retire
- U Tin Aung Myint Oo : Vice-President of Myanmar
- Wunna Maung L'win : Foreign Minister of Myanmar
Myanmar gave firm assurance to India that its territory would not be used for ant-India activities
India agreed to grant $10mn for procurement of agricultural tools and 100 computers to Central Land Records of Myanmar
- Sangeeta Sharma : Former Secretary of Medical Council of India
Resigned alleging harsh treatments by Board of Governors (Chaired by KK Talwar)
- Pratip Chaudhuri : Chairman of SBI
Growth rate to be 16-19% from expected 19-22%
- Arup Roy Choudhary : CMD of NTPC, India's largest power company
- Sriprakash Jaiswal : Coal Minister of India
- C Balakrishnan : Coal Secretary of India
- Delhi Cargo Service Centre(DCSC) : a joint-venture of 74:26 between CSC & Delhi International Airport
German major Siemens bagged Rs.167cr order to provide material handling solutions
NIIT Technologies : as IT partner
R Panicker : CEO of CSC Group
Tilakaraj Seth : Vice-President & Head of Mobility Solutions, Siemens
- "Insurance Companies That Have Completed 10 Years of Operations And Have Strong Financials Will Be Allowed to Access The Capital Market" : IRDA
- FDI into country declined by 9% in the Jan-April 2011 from 2010's $7.14bn to $6.51bn
2009-10 : $25.83bn ; 2010-11 : $19.42bn
- "Worldwide enterprise software revenue to reach $288bn by 2012" : report by Gartner, IT Research & Advisory
- "Worldwide semiconductor revenue to be $315bn in 2011, at 5.1% rise from $299bn of 2010" : report by Gartner
- 3 non-official part-time directors on ONGC Board
- Usha Throat, Former Deputy Governor of RBI
- Deepak Nayyar, Former VC of Delhi University
- Arun Ramanathan, Former Finance Secretary
- Lanco Infratech bagged an engineering, procurement and construction(EPC) project values $81.3mn order from Iraq to set up a power plant
- Sergei Ivanov : Deputy PM of Russia
Russian designers , of Girdropress, of Kudankulam Nuclear Reactors killed in an aircrash in Petrozavodsk that killed 44 people
Gen Sergei Ryzhov (CEO & Designer), Gennady Banyuk (Deputy CEO & Chief Designer), Nikolai Trunov (Chief Designer)
- Suresh D Tendulkar : Former Chairman of PM's Economic Advisory Council, Passed Away
- "July 15 to be observed as Plastic & Re-constructive Surgery Day" : Association of Plastic Surgeons of India
Dr. S Rajasabapathy : Association President
Atul Kumar Shah : Association Secretary
Ghulam Nabi Azad : Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare
"Association asked each of its 1300 members to perform at least one free surgery to poor patients on the day"
21 June 2011, Tuesday
- The Union Power Ministry sanctioned Rs.29cr for implementation of supervisory control and Data Acquisition(SCADA) system for power distribution network in Thiruvananthapuram
Rs.369cr for Kochi & Kozhikode under Restructured Accelerated Power Development & Reform Programme(R-APDRP)
Rs.135cr under Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana(RGGVY) for total electrification in 7 northern districts, besides giving free electricity connections to over 56000 BPL families
- Shyamala Gopinath : Retired as Deputy Governor of RBI
- American banking major Citigroup reported a 78% jump in its profit after tax at Rs.1859cr in 2010-11 from its Indian operations
- Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd(STFC) to enter debt market with a public issue of secured Non-Convertible Debentures(NCD) of face value Rs.1000 each
- 111th US Open Golf : Clinched by Rory Mcllroy (Ireland) - Youngest US Open winner since Bobby Jones in 1923
- Mauritius Open Badminton Championship : Chetan Anand(Ind) bt Chiang Jiann(Malaysia)
- WinWinD Power Energy (P) Ltd of Finland signed MoU with Suryachakra Green Power (P) Ltd of Hyderabad, India : to develop 250MW wind park in Dharapuram near Coimbatore - Project estimated at $350mn
- Sandeep Das : newly appointed MD of Standard Chartered Private Bank(HQ-Singapore), India
20 June 2011, Monday
- Aung San Suu Kyi : Myanmar's Democrat Celebrated her 66th birthday in freedom after 22 years of house arrest
- India-Pakistan to review nuclear-related confidence-building measures
- Mahakavi P. Memorial Award (instituted by P. Smaraka Trust in 1997) : Prof. Azhikode, Trust Chairman
- Ettumanur Somadasan's poetry "Jala Samadhi"
- Iyyankode Sreedharan's biography of Mahakavi P. titled "Swapnadanam" received a special award
- Special Investment Regions(SIR) to catalyse industrial growth & lure potential investors to the State of Kerala
- "Food Prices Will Soar By As Much As 30% Over The Next 10 Years" : prediction by the UN and Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development(OECD)
- Ministry of coal deallocated 3 coal blocks allocated to NTPC Ltd and 1 each to Damodar Valley Corporation & The Jharkhand State Electricity Board
- Jhalanath Khanal : PM of Nepal
- Raul Castro : President of Cuba
- Hugo Chavez : President of Venezula
- 11th United India Insurance-RSC all-India Junior ranking badminton tournament : held at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Kochi
U-17 Boys' : Arun George(Ker) bt Dani Harsheal(Mah)
U-19 Boys' : Pratul Joshi(MP) bt NVS Vijetha(AP)
U-17 & U-18 Girls' : PV Sindhu(AP)
- Australian pacer Brett Lee opened a music studio for slum children in Mumbai
- National Hockey Championship : Haryana bt Karnataka
- Eastbourne International Title : Andreas Seppi(Italy) bt Janko Tipsarevic(Serbia) to clinch his career 1st ATP title
19 June 2011, Sunday
- KA Saju (MD) & C Rajic (Director) of Apple-A-Day Properties Ltd : accused of cheating
- Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation(KSIDC) identified 9 centres for distribution of CNG along the pipeline being planned between Kochi-Coimbatore-Bangalore
- Pilatus Aircraft (Switzerland) to sign its biggest deal in history with IAF to supply 75 of its successful PC-7 trainers for 850mn francs($1bn)
- "The Indian Biotech & Life Sciences Industry Recorded The Fastest Pace of Growth in the Last 5 Years, To Reach $4bn Revenue in 2010-11" : report by 9th Annual Bio-Spectrum, Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises(ABLE) Survey
- RK Bansal : Executive Director & CFO of IDBI - "IDBI hiked interest rates for selected category of educational loans along with retail term deposit rates by upto 50 basis points"
- "Kerala Chamber of Commerce & Industry(KCCI) signed a MoU with Indian Chamber of Commerce" : Deepak Aswani (Chairman, KCCI) , Bruce Corrie (Director, Indian Chamber)
- Michael Carter : Australian Trade Commissioner - "Australia offers investment opportunities in various areas"
- Eastbourne Grass Court Title : Marion Bartoli(France) bt Petra Kvitova(Czech) - Her 1st grass court title
- Abhinav Bindra qualifies for London Olympics
18 June 2011, Saturday
- Ban Ki-moon : re-elected as UN Secretary General for another 5 year term
- Union Government of India sanctioned an additional Rs.10.45cr for improving water supply in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNURM)
- 4th Annual Rubber Conference, Haikou City, Hainan, China : organised by Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries(ANRPC)
- Kamarul Baharain Bin Basir : new Secretary General ANRPC
- Abdul Karim Telgi : sentenced to 10years rigorous imprisonment for counterfeiting and fined Rs.9lakh for fake stamp-paper scam
- Julian Assange : Founder of Wikileaks
- China, Russia extend support to SriLanka to defeat the forces of destabilization working outside the nation
- India-Russia express intent for formalizing a Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement(CECA) : to expand trade & investment
- TK Lahiri : CMD Bharat Coking Coal Ltd(BCCL)
- SIDBI entered into a loan agreement of Japanese Yen 30bn with Japan International Co-operation Agency(JICA) for financing MSMEs
- Pakistan Cricket Board fined runaway wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider and put him on a 1year's probation for abandoning the team
17 June 2011, Friday
- "Kanakakunnu Palace to have tallest flag-pole in the country of more than 65m" : KV Singh, Spokesman of Indian Flag Foundation - "The flag will be 72ft long & 48ft wide and weighs 27kg. The government has given special permission to allow the flag to remain hoisted round the clock"
- "The Brazilian Government signed a partnership agreement with IBM to digitalise information on Amazon bio-diversity" : Project 'Wikiflora'
- Ali Bagheri : Deputy Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council
- Shivshankar Menon : National Security Advisor of India
- Latha Reddy : Deputy National Security Adviser of India
Iran hopes India will revive Iran-Pakistan-India(IPI) pipeline project.
- TAPI : Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline
- Purushottam Khedekhar, whose book "Shivrayanchi Badnamichi Kendre" was charged of inciting communal harmony through the book, surrendered in court and was granted bail on a surety of Rs.15000
- "Russia & China to boost bi-lateral trade to $100bn by 2015 & $200bn by 2020" : 10th anniversary of a friendship treaty
- China is Russia's biggest trading partner with last year's trade of 50%, $59bn
- India's trade with Russia stood at $8.5bn in 2010 and is projected to $20bn by 2015
- High Commission of India in partnership with SriLankan Institute of Architects(SLTA) announced a national design competition for a cultural centre in Jaffna
- Reserve Bank hikes the short-term indicative policy rate(repo rate) by 25 basis points, from 7.25% to 7.5%, to rein in inflation
- Tata Steel to exit Riversdale Mining : Tata Steel going to sell 26.27% stake to RioTinto for $1.06bn
- Jeh Wadia : MD, GoAir
- Giorgio De Roni : CEO, GoAir
GoAir announced an additional order of 72 aircraft worth Rs.32000cr ($7.2bn) from Airbus, taking its total order to 92 aircraft worth Rs.43200cr ($9.6bn)
16 June 2011, Thursday
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) opened its doors for India's membership at its 10th summit
- Sukumari Pillai (Primary Teacher, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom) : Won National Award For Teachers 2010, by Department of School Education & Literacy under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development
- VACB to seek Govt. sanction to prosecute 10 senior Corporation officials, including former Mayor J Chandra, on charge of bending rules
- J Dash : Director of National Sample Survey Office(NSSO)
68th Socio-Economic Sample Survey in Kerala, by NSSO
- Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani : Pakistan's Army Chief
- Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha : Pakistan's Intelligence Chief
- Century's Longest & Darkest Lunar Eclipse : lasted for 100mins
- Leaders & Participants of 10th SCO Summit at Astana
Roza Otunbayeva - President of Kyrgyzstan
Emomali Rakhmon - President of Tajikistan
Dmitry Medvedev - President of Russia
Nursultan Nazarbayev - President of Kazakhstan
Hu Jintao - President of China
Islam Karimov - President of Uzbekistan
Asif Ali Zardari - President of Pakistan
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of Iran
Hamid Karzai - President of Afghanistan
SM Krishna - Indian External Affairs Minister
Muratbek Imanaliev - SCO Secretary General
Nikolay Bordyuzha - Secretary General of Collective Security Treaty Organization
Yury Fedotov - Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs & Crime
Dashjamts Battulga - Head of Mongolian Presidential Office
Dzhumisbek Dzhumanlbekov - Director of SCO Regional Anti-terrorist Structure
Sergei Lebedev - Chairman of Commonwealth of Independent States Executive Committee
Tair Mansurov - Secretary General of Eurasian Economic Community
- "Lawyers Can Practice In All Courts" : Section30 of Advocates Act 1961 came into force
- Gamesa Wind Turbines(Spain) signed an agreement with Pawan Danavi Pvt. Ltd. (SriLanka) to supply 12 wind turbines
- India & OECD agree to promote better tax compliance
- L Madhusudhan Rao : Executive Chairman, Lanco Infratech
- G Bhaskara Rao : Executive Vice-Chairman, Lanco Infratech
Lanco Infratech to invest Rs.35000cr for setting up thermal power plants to peak 15000MV capacity by 2015
- Ben Bernanke : Chairman of US Federal Reserve
- The Union Home Ministry gave approval for the $7.2bn buyout of 30% stake of RIL by Britain-BP
- George Papandreou : PM of Greece
Clashes in Greece over austerity laws for the debt-choked euro zone state Athens
- Alistair Burt : British Foreign Office Minister
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero : PM of Spain
- St Petesburg International Economic Forum : SriLanka has been invited as an observer
- Sergei Lavrov : Foreign Minister of Russia
- Indian Cricket Skipper MS Dhoni adopted a tiger named 'Agasthya' at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens(Mysore Zoo) for 1year - gave Rs.1lakh
15 June 2011, Wednesday
- Alok Raj : IG(operations) Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF)
CRPF's hub CoBRA(Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) planned
- Technopark to sign MoU with Hamariyah Free Zone Authority(HFZA), Sharjah
- Rashid Al Leem : Director of HFZA
- West Bengal Assembly passed Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill 2011
- Ajit Gulabchand : CMD Hindustan Construction Company(HCC), which owns Lavasa Corporation Ltd.(LCL) - Lavasa's Hill Project, Pune
- A long dormant volcano, The Dubbi Volcano, in Eritrea (Capital : Asmara) erupted
- Swami Nigamanand : fasted for 114 days to stop illegal mining along the river Ganga, Died in hospital in DehraDun
- India signed a deal for $1bn loan from the World Bank to clean up the Ganga
- "Passenger Ferry Service Between SriLanka and India Resumed After Nearly 30 Years"
'Scotia Prince' ship on lease promoted by Flemingo Duty Free Shops , Ashok K Kantha(Indian High Commissioner) & Rohitha Abegunawardena(SriLankan Deputy Minister for Ports & Highways) inaugurated the new passenger terminal
- Inflation breaches 9% in May
- Angel Gurria : Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development(OECD) - OECD sees double digit growth potential in Indian Economy
- "Non-Banking Finance Companies(NBFC) can't open subsidiaries or enter into joint-venture abroad without permission" : RBI
- Aditya Ghosh : President of IndiGo Airlines
- Sanjay Kumar : CCO of IndiGo
IndiGo to launch international operations from September
- John Gerspach : Chief Financial Officer, Citigroup
- Pramit Jhaveri : CEO, Citigroup India
Citigroup sells stake in Housing Development Finance Corporation(HDFC), resulting in 11.4% to 9.9% and a pre-tax profit of about $160mn
- Chevrolet bags 3 JD Awards : Spark(most dependable compact car & best compact car in initial quality), Aveo U-VA(most dependable car in premium compact car segment)
- Deepak Khosla : Appointed as new Global Head of Sales&Marketing, NIIT Technologies
- For the 1st time, The House of Lords could have an Indian Speaker : Meghnad Desai
- Air India Express(AIE) plans to operate flights to capitals of SAARC countries & to new destinations in Gulf
- South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation(SAARC) : India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, SriLanka
14 June 2011, Tuesday
- Vellayani Lake Conservation Society : Shashi Tharoor - Chairman
- Anil Mahabole : ACP(Mum) transferred to local arms control room as his name was figured in 2007 Anti-Corruption Bureau(ACB) report
- C&AG has charged Petroleum & Natural Gas Ministry for showing undue favour to Cairn India Ltd.(CIL)
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan : elected as PM of Turkey after the 'Justice Development Party', led by him, won the parliamentary election
- Duty Entitlement Pass Book(DEPB) scheme extended till September
- DK Mittal : Secretary, Department of Corporate Affairs
- Ashok Barat : President, Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- "Cut Import Duties on Automobile Components" : Ratan Tata
- "VF Corporation acquires The Timberland Company in $2bn deal" : Eric Wiseman - Chaiman & CEO of VFC
- HR Khanna Memorial all-India Chess Tournament for lawyers held at Regional Sports Centre, Kochi : Winner, John S Ralph(Ernakulam)
- Canadian GP, held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal : Jenson Button(British-McLaren) overtook RedBull's F1 champion Sebastian Vettel(German) to claim title
- Queen's Trophy Tennis, London : Andy Murray(Scotland) clinched his 2nd Queens trophy beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga(France)
13 June 2011, Monday
- KC Chandrasekharan Nair : Chief Finance Officer of Technopark
- Aladiyan Manickam : Indian Ambassador to Finland
- 4th Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship : by Finland Govt. & InfoDev(managed by World Bank) at Helsinki, Finland
- Coins of denominations less than 25paise will cease to have value for monetary transactions from July 1
- International Air Transport Association(IATA) : has slashed its forecast for 2011 to $4bn, a 78% drop from $18bn recorded in 2010
- Sheryl Sandberg : COO of Facebook
- 2011 Red List of Birds : by, International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN)
Critically Endangered - Great Indian Bustard(estimated to be just 250), Nilgiri Pippit, 4 Vulture species(White-rumped, Slender-billed, Indian, Red-headed)
- "Child Labour Generates Rs.1.2lakh cr Black Money a Year" : report by Bachpan Bachao Andolan(BBA) titled 'Capital Corruption : Child Labour in India'
- KK Katyal : President of South Asia Media Commission India(SAMCI)
- "India Will Have Energy Shortage of 10.3% and Peak Demand Shortage of 12.9% This Year" : report by Central Electricity Authority(CEA)
- Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) will be eligible for funds from SIDBI under a programme launched by SIDBI and Technology, Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council(TIFAC)
- Esmond Kentish : West Indies' oldest living cricketer Passed Away
- Asian Junior Wrestling Championships, Jakarta : India bagged 3golds, 2silver, 2bronze and crowned champions for the first time
Gold - Amit Kumar, Arun Kumar, Sumit Sehrawat
Silver - Deepak, Krishan
Bronze - Pawan Kumar, Hitender
- Indian Government to set up 5 PIO(Person of India Origin) universities in different cities to deepen its connectivity with the Diaspora
- 12 Indian-Candians honoured with Indo-Canada Chamber's Annual Awards for 2011 in recognition of their contributions to Canadian economy
12 June 2011, Sunday
- Villagers of Dhinkia gram panchayat of Jagatsinghpur, Orissa resist land acquisition of South Korea's steel company POSCO
- Jyotendra Dey(J Dey) : Editor, Special Investigations, MiD Day was shot dead by unidentified persons at Hiranandani Gardens, Mumbai
- B Vivekanandan : 1st Indian to be bestowed with Honorary Degree of Doctor of Social Sciences by the University of Helsinki, Finland - a "Hat of Wisdom", a "Sword of Truth" & a "Diploma" were presented
- Tarja Halolen : President of Finland
- World Day Against Child Labour : June 12 - "Over 20cr children are still child labourers"
- Robert Blake : Assistant Secretary, State for Central & South Asian Affairs
- Naoto Kan : PM of Japan
- Leon Panetta : Director of CIA, US
- Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah : Interior Minister of Somalia, Killed in a suicide bomb attack by his own niece
- Joke van Peteghem : Head of Mission of Medecins sans Frontiers(MSF) in Kenya
Dadaab - a sprawling desert city in Kenya - population expected to reach 450000 by end of this year - had run out of space - known as World's Largest Refugee Camp
- Infosys gets 4 new directors
- Karunuday Singh : won his maiden singles title in ITF Men's Future's Tennis Tournament at DLTA Complex, New Delhi - beat Vijayant Malik to win $1300 & 18 ATP Points
- PV Sindhu : won her maiden International title at Maldives Badminton Challenge defeating PC Thulasi
- Mayookha Johny : beat Anju George's 4 year old record of 6.53m in long jump by a jump of 6.63m
- Junrey Balawing of Philippines : "Shortest Living Man" in Guinness Book of World Records - 22in(55cm) at his 18th birthday
11 June 2011, Saturday
- Desmond Netto : Director, Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau(VACB)
Ordered operation named "Snake's Eye" to raid 5 corporation offices in Kerala state & was carried out by Shankar Reddy, ADGP
- "Proportion of Differently Abled People Rising And Now Standing at 1bn or 15% of Global Population" : First official global report on disability, by WHO
- UK Bansal : Secretary(Internal Security), Ministry of Home Affairs
- Etisalat DB promoters Shahid Usman Balwa & Vinod Goenka : were fined Rs.15000 each by special court hearing 2G-spectrum allocation case
- Neel Kantha Uprety : Chief Election Commissioner of Nepal
Signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with Indian counter part for mutual co-operation of election management in Kathmandu
- "Pakistan Increased Nuclear Weapons Stockpile From 70-90 to 90-110 Warheads in Last Year" : recent reports from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Robert Gates : US Defence Secretary
- Shangri-La Conference : Held at Brussels, Singapore
- Zhang Boting : Deputy Secretary General, Chinese Society of Hydropower Engineers
China to push for new dams across Brahmaputra(Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet) - First Hydropower Project in Tibet over Yarlung Tsangpo(2010-14)
- Rahul Khullar : Commerce Secretary of India
Exports record an 56.9% growth in May & a 54.1% growth in Imports
- Bharti sells its entire 74% stake in general & life insurance with AXA, a French firm, to Ambani led RIL
- BC Khatua : Chairman of Forward Markets Commission(FMC)
- Tata Motors received its largest ever order of medium & heavy commercial vehicles (M&HCV) from Siddhivinayak Logistics(SVL) to supply 111 M&HCV trucks : Tata has 70% share in M&HCV trucks market
- Glodyne Technoserve : announced acquisition of Comat Technologies, leading providers of e-Governance in India
- Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India(CREDAI)
- CJ George : MD Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services
Last year's revenue down by 8%
- Zayed R Alzayani : Chairman of Bahrain International Circuit(BIC)
- Bernie Ecclestone : Chief of Formula-1
Bahrain GP not to be conducted this season.
- Vikas Gowda : Discuss Thrower, won his 6th title of the season in US at the OTC International Meet, Chula Vista, California, he threw a season best of 64.91m
- Asian Chess Championship : conducted n SriLanka
- IM Shyam Sundar (SRM College) retained Asian Junior Title
- Bhakthi Kulkarni (Goa) won Girls' section
- IM Srinath (Silver-Boys '), WFMs R Bharathi (Silver-Girls'), J Saranya (Bronze-Girls')
- 50% of the medals won by TamilNadu
10 June 2011, Friday
- Maqbool Fida Husain : India's foremost modern painter & Internationally recognized artist Passed Away
First Film : "Through The Eyes of A Painter" 1967 - Won Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival
- VK Mathews : Chairman of GTECH
- J Mahalekshmi Menon : Principal-Accountant General(A&E) of Kerala
- M Mehboob : newly elected President of Kerala State Co-operative Bank
- MK Abdul Majeed : former Deputy Director of VSSC, awarded Performance Excellence Award 2009 (award of Rs.5 lakh)
- Nuclear weapons capable surface-to-surface missile Prithvi-II tested successfully by Strategic Forces Command(SFC) from Chandipur, Orissa : VLN Rao - Programme Director
- Franco Frattini : Italian Foreign Minister
- M Narendra : CMD, Indian Overseas Bank(IOB)
- Nupur Mitra : Executive Director, IOB
- IOB to raise its profile in China, Singapore & Malaysia
- Chandar Raju, S Surabhi : Ernakulam District U-17 Chess Championship 2011 Winners
- Naresh Goyal : Chairman, Jet Airways
Re-elected to Board of Governors of International Air Transport Association(IATA) for 2011-13 at the 67th annual meeting held in Singapore
- OP Jain(Haryana Transport Minister) & Zile Ram(Chief Parliamentary Secretary) : Resigned from their positions, as their names were cropped up in the murder of a former village head in Karnal.
09 June 2011, Thursday
- Ravi Jha : new GM(Treasury) SBT
- BigBang 2011 Awards for ad-films
- Stark Communications, Agency of the Year; 7golds, 4silvers, 4bronzes
- Jaison Antony (Stark) Art Director of the Year
- Seetha Jayakumar (Stark) Copywriter of the Year
- Venkitesh Athreya : Advisor, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation(MSSRF)
- Kaval Kairali Award, by Kerala Police Association :
- Wilson Isaac's "Janadhipathyathile Police"
- K Sukumaran's "Madhyam Paridhividunna Keralam", Best Essay Award
- New Collectors for Kerala
- Thiruvananthapuram : PM Francis
- Kollam : Rathan U Khelkar
- Pathanamthitta : P Venugopal
- Alappuzha : Dinesh Arora
- Malappuram : MC Mohandas
- Idukki : E Devadasan
- Noel Thomas : CEO, NoRKA
- N Ram : Chief Editor, The Hindu
- Water-Jet Propelled Fast Attack Craft(FAC) INS Kabra : 8th in series of 10car Nicobar class FAC built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers(GRSE), Kolkata
- KC Sekhar : CMD, GRSE
- Vladimir Kashchenko : Director, Atomenergomesh(AEM) an affiliate of Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, Russia : to launch 2 joint-ventures in India before 2011 end.
- "Magnets Help Prevent Heart Attacks" : Ronglia Tao, Prof & Chair of Physics, Temple University
- "Frog Skin For Treating Cancer, Diabetes, Stroke" : group of scientists led by Prof. Chris Shaw, Queen's School of Pharmacy, Belfast (Skins of Wax Monkey Frog, Giant Firebellied Toad)
- Tata Motors & Japan based New Energy & Industrial Technology Development Organisation(NEDO) open a eco-friendly dual fuel-based power generation facility at Tata Motor's Pune Plant
- PM Telang : MD Tata Motors India Operations
- Sadao Wasaka : Executive Director, NEDO
- Ashok Mysore : Associate Vice-President, Infosys - "Infosys Technologies Acquired Gen-i, a Memeber of Telecom New Zealand Group"
- SEBI launched a centralised web-based complaints redress system : SCORES
- Pratip Chaudhuri : Chairman, SBI
- KC Chakrabarthy : Deputy Governor of RBI
- The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC)
- General Abdullah Al-Badri : Secretary-General, OPEC
- U-17 National Hockey Championships : Punjab beat Mumbai at MHA Mahindra Stadium, Mumbai.
- Gujrant Singh (Capt. of Punjab) - Best Player of the Tournament
- Harmanpreet Singh (Goalkeeper of Punjab) - Best Player of the Final
- Harine Ravichandran : only Indian Student among 15 global finalists at Google Science Fair 2011
08 June 2011, Wednesday
- AP Singh : CBI Director
- Pradeep PS : British Council's International Climate Champion 2010
- "Kerala may soon reach 100% tele-density" : report by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ; Kerala has 85% tele-density (2.4cr mobile & 35lakh landline - 2.75 cr sumtotal) against national average of 56.83%
- Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India(ASSOCHAM)
- Group of Technology Companies(GTECH)
- AbuDhabi Sakthi Awards 2011
- P Govinda Pillai, contributions in literary, cultural & political spheres
-Neelamperoor Madhusoodanan Nair's "Kadaliloru Kadal Pole", Poetry
-R Unni's "Kottayam 17", Short Story
-John Fernandez's "Fernandezinte Naadakangal", Play
-Ramesan Blathoor's "Perum Aal", Novel
-VR Prabodhachandran's "Bhashaasaasthradrishtiyiloode" & AS Prasanth Krishnan's "Gothraperuma", Scholarly Literature
-MK Manoharan's "Mannumaanthiyanthram", Children's Literature
-NK Ravindran's "Pennezhuthunna Jeevitham", Thayath Award for Literary Criticism
- Nataraja Ramakrishna : Kuchipudi legend : Passed Away
- Nobuo Tanaka : Executive Director, International Energy Agency(IEA)
- Christine Lagarde : French Minister for Economy, Finance & Industry
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India
- Pranab Mukherjee : Governor, Mexican Central Bank
- Timothy J Roemer : US Ambassador to India
- Bashar al-Assad : President of Syria
- "Free & Compulsory Education To Be Extended Upto Class X" : Central Advisory Board of Education(CABE)
07 June 2011, Tuesday
- GK Pillai (Union Home Secretary), BK Gupta (Delhi Police Commissioner), PK Tripathi (Delhi Chief Secretary) : Three of them were asked to submit explanations on forcible evacuation of people from Ramlila grounds by Bench of Justices - BS Chauhan & Swatanter Kumar
- Kochi Metro Rail Project : high level conference held between Kerala CM Oommen Chandy and E. Sreedharan, Chairman of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) - More than 50% of project cost by Japan Overseas Development or as loan from Indian Financial Institutions.
- Harold Goodwin : Director, International Centre for Responsible Tourism(ICRT), a PG teaching & research centre at Leeds Metropolitan University
- Shen Yinyin : Chinese Foreign Ministry Offical, Deputy Director of the UN Affairs Division
- Ram Jethmalani : Kashmir Committee Chief - Demanded to review Armed Forces Special Powers Act & Public Safety Act
- Mahinda Rajapaksha : President of SriLanka
- Ban Ki-moon : UN Secretary General
- GL Peiris : Foreign Minister of SriLanka
- Ollanta Humala : won Peru Presidental Election defeatinf Keiko Fujimori
- K Venkataraman : new MD & CEO of Karur Vysa Bank, former MD & CEO of SBI Global Factors(Mumbai), succeeds PT Kuppuswamy
- Prabodh Saxena : Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs(DEA) of India
- Akitaka Saiki : Japanese Ambassador to India
Japan to provide Rs.8632cr Official Development Assistance(ODA) loans to India - India signed 7 agreements with Japan
- S Raman : CMD Canara Bank
- Amaru Chavez : Chief Technology Officer, Etisalat Group, UAE
- Nimmy A George (Ernakulam) : retained Kerala State Women's Chess Title
- India to buy 10 C-17 heavy lift Globemaster-III transport aircraft from USA for Indian Air Force(IAF) for approximately Rs.18000cr($4.1bn)
- UN Convention on Biological Diversity : to be held in October 2010 in Hyderabad International Convention Centre(HICC)
- V Bhujanga Rao - Chief Controller R&D(HR), Defence Research & Development Organisation(DRDO)
- AcYnut-4 : humanoid developed by students of BITSPilani University won Robocup Iran 2011 and Robogames 2011 : Team Leader - Akash Gupta
06 June 2011, Monday
- Indian National Confideration & Academy of Anthropologists(INCAA)
- Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa(COMESA)
- India-Africa Trade Ministers met in Addis Ababa, Capital of Ethopia : to take current bilateral trade of $46bn to $70bn by 2014
- Chicago Assyrian Dictionary : Ancient writings on stones & clay tablets from Iraq, Iran, Syria & Turkey. Took 90 years to complete the work.
- Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd.(HPL) : India's 2nd largest petrochemical company announces project worth Rs.4000cr
- E.coli virus : creates Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome(HUS)
- Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi : heading Yemen's Government in Saleh's absence.
- Cochin Port Trust(CPT) seeks Rs.400cr aid from centre for dredging
- French Open :
Men's Singles : Rafael Nadal (Spain) 10th Grand Slam and equalled BjornBorg's record of 6 French Open titles. He beat Roger Federer (Swiss)
Women's Singles: LiNa (China) First French Open to China as well as Asia. She beat Francesca Schiavone (Italy)
05 June 2011, Sunday
- "HIV infections rate fell by more than 50% in India, double the average decline in the world" : UNAIDS - Global decline by bearly 25%
- "Largest no of people with HIV in Asia & Africa are in India & South Africa respectively" : AIDS at 30 : Nations at the Cross-roads
- Ramu S Deora : President, Federation of Indian Export Organisations(FIEO)
- Ajay Sahai : Director General & CEO, FIEO
- A Velayan : President, Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection(ICNIRP)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer(IARC)
- M Kasinath Balaji : Site Director, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project(KKNPP)
- Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited(NPCIL)
- William Hague : British Foreign Secretary
- Binyamin Netanyahu : PM of Israel
- Ehud Barak : Defence Minister of Israel
- Yuval Diskin : Head of SinBet(Internal Security Agency)
- Gabi Ashkenazi : Head of army in Israel
- Fiat Carmaker obtained major shares of American Carmakers Chrysler, Ohio, after buying out the US Government's stakes
- Sunil Vasudeva : CMD ONGC
- SY Quraishi : Chief Election Commissioner
- Virgin Earth Golden Feather Environment Award 2011 : Winners - Team Solar, Mammootty, Kochi Mayor Chamminy, KK Krishnadas (CEO Vallarpadam Transhipment Terminal) : Award of Rs.25000
- Green Golden Feather Environment Puraskar 2011 : Winners - S Sitaraman(Secretary of Association of Environmental Protection), Johnson J Palakkapilli(Principal Sacred Heart College, Thevara), Georgekutty Karianappallil (CEO Lifeway Solar) : Award of Rs.15,000
- "I See The Promised Land" - Manu Chitrakar, Arthur Flowers, Guglielmo Rossi - Tara Books - has a special mention in the White Ravens Catalogue of Best International Books for Young People, 2011
- "The Masque of Africa" : written by VS Naipaul
04 June 2011, Saturday
- Ali Abdullah Saleh : Yemen's President - Opposition tribesmen slammed rockets on president's palace.
- Nooman Dweid : Governor of Sana'a(Capital of Yemen)
- Rashad al-Alimi : Security Adviser to President
- PA Mohammed Committee : Kerala Self-Financing MBBS/Engg. Seats Issue
- Vayomithram Project : Implemented in Kerala for providing medical services for elderly at doorsteps by Kerala Social Security Mission(KSSM) & National Rural Health Mission(NHRM)
- HR Srinivasa : Director, Karnataka State's Department of Mines
- DTAA(Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement)
- Liang Guanglie : National Defence Minister of China
- Murali Manohar Joshi : Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
- Bhajan Lal : Former 2 times CM of Haryana, Passed Away
- Jill Abramson : 1st Woman Executive Editor of NewYork Times, replaced Bill Keller
- Dean Baquet : Newly appointed Managing Editor of NewYork Times
- J. Harinarayanan : Chairman, Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority(IRDA)
- Sukanya Roy : Indian-origin bagged US Spelling Bee Championship in Maryland, US. 4th Indian origin student in a row to bag the title.
