16 June 2011

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