10 June 2011

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.