11 June 2011

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