23 June 2011

23 June 2011,  Thursday

• Nirupama Rao : next Indian Ambassador to US, replacing Meera Shankar
• "Department of Atomic Energy(DAE) signed MoU with Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation, Russia : for co-operation in Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership(GCNEP) being set up by DAE in Haryana" 

- Srikumar Banerjee (Secretary DAE & Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission)

- SV Kirienko (Director General of Rosatom)

• World's Most Powerful Supercomputer : Japanese supercomputer 'K' built by Fujitsu at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan : capable of making 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second

'K' pushed back 'Tianhe-1A' at National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin, China to second place

• GETIT Infoservices targets 75% growth in TamilNadu by 2012
• Global Telecoms Business Innovation Summit 2011, held at London
• Global Telecoms Business Award : Orascom Telecom Bangladesh(Banglalink), 2nd largest mobile operator in Bangladesh, bagged the award for its Banglalink Mobile Wallet Service
• Leading International Business School INSEAD honoured Sunil Bharti Mittal (Founder, Chairman & Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises) with its Business Leader for the World Award
• Dipak C Jain : Dean of INSEAD
• Ryan Cleary : A British teenager arrested under Computer Misuse Act & Fraud Act suspected to be behind a hackers' group LulzSecurity(LulzSec)
• SriLanka invited Russia & China to part in new development projects as it seeks to transform itself into an economic powerhouse over next decade