22 June 2011

22 June 2011, Wednesday

• 14 member task force to review defence preparedness : headed by Naresh Chandra, starting at July 14 & have a period of 6 months
• Senior J&K BJP leader Jitendra Singh has been denied US Visa : second BJP leader after Narendra Modi to be denied
• Malabar Gold entered into agreement with global branding agency Brand Union for global branding

- MP Ahamed : Chairman, Malabar Group

- Hermann Behrens : Middle East CEO, Brand Union

• Orissa Suspends POSCO Land Acquisition Indefinitely
• N Ram : Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu
• Shekhar Gupta : Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express
• Arnab Goswami : Vice-President & Editor-in-Chief of Times Now
• Rahul Joshi : Executive Editor of The Economic Times
• Aditya Sinha : Editor of DNA
• Girish Kuber : Editor of Loksatta
• Nikhil Wagle : Editor of IBN Lokmat
• Raju Khandekar : Editor of Star Majha
• Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali : Former President of Tunisia

along with his wife Leila Trabelsi, sentenced to 35 years in prison and fine of $66mn

• MK Narayanan : Governor of West Bengal 

Notification to Force Singur Land Bill Into Law

• Raj Kumar Singh : likely to be Union Home Secretary as GK Pillai is going to retire
• U Tin Aung Myint Oo : Vice-President of Myanmar
• Wunna Maung L'win : Foreign Minister of Myanmar

Myanmar gave firm assurance to India that its territory would not be used for ant-India activities

India agreed to grant $10mn for procurement of agricultural tools and 100 computers to Central Land Records of Myanmar

• Sangeeta Sharma : Former Secretary of Medical Council of India

Resigned alleging harsh treatments by Board of Governors (Chaired by KK Talwar)

• Pratip Chaudhuri : Chairman of SBI

Growth rate to be 16-19% from expected 19-22%

• Arup Roy Choudhary : CMD of NTPC, India's largest power company
• Sriprakash Jaiswal : Coal Minister of India
• C Balakrishnan : Coal Secretary of India
• Delhi Cargo Service Centre(DCSC) : a joint-venture of 74:26 between CSC & Delhi International Airport

German major Siemens bagged Rs.167cr order to provide material handling solutions

NIIT Technologies : as IT partner

R Panicker : CEO of CSC Group

Tilakaraj Seth : Vice-President & Head of Mobility Solutions, Siemens

• "Insurance Companies That Have Completed 10 Years of Operations And Have Strong Financials Will Be Allowed to Access The Capital Market" : IRDA
• FDI into country declined by 9% in the Jan-April 2011 from 2010's $7.14bn to $6.51bn

2009-10 : $25.83bn  ;  2010-11 : $19.42bn

• "Worldwide enterprise software revenue to reach $288bn by 2012" : report by Gartner, IT Research & Advisory
• "Worldwide semiconductor revenue to be $315bn in 2011, at 5.1% rise from $299bn of 2010" : report by Gartner
• 3 non-official part-time directors on ONGC Board

- Usha Throat, Former Deputy Governor of RBI

- Deepak Nayyar, Former VC of Delhi University

- Arun Ramanathan, Former Finance Secretary

• Lanco Infratech bagged an engineering, procurement and construction(EPC) project values $81.3mn order from Iraq to set up a power plant
• Sergei Ivanov : Deputy PM of Russia

Russian designers , of Girdropress, of Kudankulam Nuclear Reactors killed in an aircrash in Petrozavodsk that killed 44 people

Gen Sergei Ryzhov (CEO & Designer), Gennady Banyuk (Deputy CEO & Chief Designer), Nikolai Trunov (Chief Designer)

• Suresh D Tendulkar : Former Chairman of PM's Economic Advisory Council, Passed Away
• "July 15 to be observed as Plastic & Re-constructive Surgery Day" : Association of Plastic Surgeons of India

Dr. S Rajasabapathy : Association President

Atul Kumar Shah : Association Secretary

Ghulam Nabi Azad : Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare

"Association asked each of its 1300 members to perform at least one free surgery to poor patients on the day"