25 June 2011

25 June 2011, Monday

• Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG) 2011 plenary meeting : at Noordwijk, Netherlands
• The group banned Enrichment & Reprocessing Equipment & Technology(ENR) sales to countries that have not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT)
• Banned include : India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea
• Hardeep Singh Puri : Indian Ambassador to Iran
• India called for full implementation of UNSC resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran withour harming its legitimate economic activities
• Ansar Burney : Pakistan Human Rights Activist who arranged the $2.1mn ransom to free sailors of MVSuez which was captured by Somalian pirates
• Ratheesh C Nair : Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation and Director of the ?Russian Cultural Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
• Received the Consular Medal instituted by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Alexander Kadakin : Ambassador of Russian Federation to India
• Railways asked Kerala state to bear 50% project cost of 117km Sabari rail project linking Sabarimala to country's rail network
• The Union Ministry of Commerce notified the 25acres of land identified to set up Cyberpark, Kozhikode, as IT/ITES Special Economic Zone(SEZ)
• Admiral Nirmal Verma : Chief of Naval Staff
• Pauline Nyiramasuhuko Former Rwandan Minister for Women's Empowerment
• UN court for Rwanda sentenced her for a life time prison for the genocide, extermination and rape in Rwanda's Southern Butare region in 1994
• About 8lakh people were killed in over 100 days, essentially minority Tutsis.
• Her son Arsene Shalom Ntahobali was also sentenced to life
• Yukia Amano : Director-General of IAEA
• Kris Gopalakrishnan : CEO of Infosys
• 'Infrastructure Debt Funds' to raise long-term funds for infrastructure projects : Announce by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
• IDFs could be set up both as companies and as trusts
• A trust based IDF(Mutual Fund) would be regulated by SEBI
• IDF set up as company(NBFC) would be regulated by RBI
• International credit rating agency DBRS has changed the trend on India's long term foreign & local currency debt ratings to stable from negative
• Fiscal & monetary policy response to global credit crisis helped restore the economy to a path of higher growth
• Government debt came down from 81.9% of GDP in 2005-06 to 66.5% in 2010-11
• Anand Sharma : Commerce & Industry Minister of India
• "India and Singapore amended their Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement(DTAA) to enable more effective mutual exchange of banking & tax related information"
• Prakash Chandra, Chairman of CBDT
• Karen Anne Tan Ping Ming, High Commissioner of Singapore to India
• Multinational Perdaman Industries filed a lawsuit against Lanco Infratech seeking a compensation of Australian $3.5bn for not complying with the coal supply pact
• Perdaman had entered into 25-year coal pact with Griffin Coal, which was acquired by Lanco for A$730mn
• B Lakshminarayana : GM of Corporation Bank
• Corporation Bank signed MoU with Tata Motors for financing commercial vehicles on an all-India basis
• Future Generali India Insurance Company registered 58% growth in gross written premium of Rs.661cr against Rs.418cr in 2009-10
• No of policies sold during the year was 6.82lakhs, an 23% increase
• Indian Volley League : at Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Indoor Stadium
• Chennai Spikers bt Hyderabad Charges
• Hilal Turkey : General Secretary of J&K Chambers of Cross-LoC Trade
• Trade across the Line of Control(LoC) would resume next week
• Lok Sabha TV : the public broadcaster funded from Lok Sabha budget is the only channel permitted to set up cameras in Lok Sabha House
• On ceratin occassions news channels carry long live feed from LSTV for which the public broadcaster has been charging Rs.1lakh for each feed
• But the private channels are refusing to pay, saying the feed should be provided free in national interest
• The spat is now considered by Speaker Meira Kumar and the 15 MPs who constitute LSTV's Advisory Council
• The serial sites of Western Ghats will be inscribed in World Heritage List next year
• Endosulfan listed under annexe III to the Rotterdam Convention meeting in Geneva