07 June 2011

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