05 June 2011

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