24 June 2011

24 June 2011, Friday

• Indra : an air traffic control technology developed by Spanish IT & Defence Systems Company, to be installed in Thiruvananthapuram Air Traffic Control as part of Airports Authority of India's(AAI) ongoing project to upgrade air traffic management systems
• Oommen Chandy : CM of Kerala & Chairman of Cochin International Airport Ltd(CIAL)

The board of directors of CIAL declared 15% dividend to its shareholders for the year 2010-11

• RS Gavai : Governor of Kerala 

Reinstated PP Mohammed as Registrar of the University of Calicut, rejecting the charges levelled against him by the Syndicate

• "Iridium & Ruthenium Isotopes With Gold In Ornaments Is Highly Carcinogenic" : A Division Bench of AK Basheer & PQ Barkathil, Kerala High Court
• Pakistan Occupied Kashmir(PoK) : Capital - Muzaffarabad
• "National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms" : programme launched by Union Cabinet of India for disposal of pending cases in three years, from the current average of 15years and establishment of an All India Judicial Service - to spend Rs.5510cr in the next 5years for the mission
• Dr. YS Sachan : Deputy Chief Medical Officer(Family Welfare)

Found dead in the Lucknow district jail, he was prime accused in April2,2011 murder case of CMO(Family Welfare) BP Singh

JP Srivastava (Jailor ), Sunil Kumar Singh(Deputy Jailor), Ram Dubey(Head Warden), Anil Kumar Tripathi & Ram Narain Tiwari(Wardens) were suspended

• Wasee Ahmed : Captain of MVSuez which was held captive by Somali pirates
• Finmeccanica, an Italian conglomerate, hopes Italy could sell military & other equipment to India through the government instead of through the current commercial engagement

Paolo Girasole : Country Head of Finmeccanica in India

• INS Venduruthy, home to HQ of Southern Naval Command : celebrated its 68th anniversary of commissioning
• US President Barack Obama declared withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan
• World Food Prize(WFP) instituted in 1987 by WFP Foundation that includes Prof MS Swaminathan(Winner of 1st WFP) : 

- John Agyekum Kufuor(former President of Ghana)

- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva(former President of Brazil)

for creating & implementing government policies to alleviate hunger & poverty in their countries - the two leaders were selected by Nobel Prize Winner & Green Revolution Champion Norman Borlaug

• Ai Weiwei : Chinese artist released after 2months detention after his company was accused of tax evasion in designing Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympics stadium
• Birla Surya part of Yash Birla Group : announced that it would invest $1.2bn in next 5years to build country first largest integrated facility for fabrication of multi-crystalline silicon wafers and processing of solar photovoltaic cells

Mohan Datari : CEO of Birla Surya

Birla Surya signed contracts with leading technology suppliers such as Roth&Rau of Germany, GT Solar of US, Herbert Arnold GmbH&Co

• "Assessees having annual income upto Rs.5lakh through salary and bank interest will not be required to file income-tax returns for 2011-12" : Central Government of India
• SEBI asked the two Sahara group entities to return money along with 15% interest collected from millions of investors through Optionally Fully Convertible Debentures(OFCD) citing violation of regulatory norms
• Food Inflation at 9.13% in June
• Som Mittal : President of National Association of Software & Services Companies(NASSCOM)
• Nandan Nilekani : Chairman of Unique Identity & Development Authority of India(UIDAI)
• Rajendra S Pawar : Chairman & Co-founder of NIIT
• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana(RSBY) : approved by Union Cabinet of India envisages smart card-based cashless health insurance cover of upto Rs.30000 annually to BPL workers in any empanelled hospital in the country - The Cabinet already approved extension of the scheme to 55 lakh beedi workers by 2013-14

• Mallikarjun Kharge : Labour & Employment Minister of India