20 June 2011

20 June 2011, Monday

• Aung San Suu Kyi : Myanmar's Democrat Celebrated her 66th birthday in freedom after 22 years of house arrest
• India-Pakistan to review nuclear-related confidence-building measures
• Mahakavi P. Memorial Award (instituted by P. Smaraka Trust in 1997) : Prof. Azhikode, Trust Chairman

- Ettumanur Somadasan's poetry "Jala Samadhi"

- Iyyankode Sreedharan's biography of Mahakavi P. titled "Swapnadanam" received a special award

• Special Investment Regions(SIR) to catalyse industrial growth & lure potential investors to the State of Kerala
• "Food Prices Will Soar By As Much As 30% Over The Next 10 Years" : prediction by the UN and Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development(OECD)
• Ministry of coal deallocated 3 coal blocks allocated to NTPC Ltd and 1 each to Damodar Valley Corporation & The Jharkhand State Electricity Board
• Jhalanath Khanal : PM of Nepal
• Raul Castro : President of Cuba
• Hugo Chavez : President of Venezula
• 11th United India Insurance-RSC all-India Junior ranking badminton tournament : held at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Kochi

U-17 Boys' : Arun George(Ker) bt Dani Harsheal(Mah)

U-19 Boys' : Pratul Joshi(MP) bt NVS Vijetha(AP)

U-17 & U-18 Girls' : PV Sindhu(AP)

• Australian pacer Brett Lee opened a music studio for slum children in Mumbai
• National Hockey Championship : Haryana bt Karnataka
• Eastbourne International Title : Andreas Seppi(Italy) bt Janko Tipsarevic(Serbia) to clinch his career 1st ATP title