Sunday, 26 June 2011

26 June 2011

26 June 2011, Sunday

  • :The Memory of Love" : written by Aminatta Forna
    • Commonwealth Prize for 'Best Book'
    • Sort-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize
    • Selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times
  • GK Vasan : Union Minister for Shipping
  • SB Agnihotri : Directorate-General of Shipping
    • A notification allowing armed security on board Indian merchant vessels will be issued soon
  • International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking : June 26
  • D Subbarao : Governor of RBI
  • UK Sinha : Chairman of SEBI
  • R Gopalan : Secretary of Economic Affairs
  • Tom Donilon : US National Security Adviser
  • Gems & Jewellery exports up by 33.5% at $3.7bn in May this year as demand increased from markets like UAE & US
  • Rajiv Jain : Chairman of Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council(GJEPC)
  • Harish Manwani : new COO of Unilever, currently he is also President for Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe
  • Power utility company CESC ended 2010-11 with 12.7% increase in its net profit touching Rs.488cr
  • Hisashi Owada : President of International Court of Justice
  • Rauff Hakeem : SriLankan Minister of Justice
  • 50th annual session of the Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation(AALCO) : against the back drop of increasing incidents of piracy in the region
    • SriLankan President will inaugurate the 50th session
    • SriLankan Minister of Justice will chair the conference
  • The Indian Farmer's Movement(Infam) condemned the decision of SBT not to consider the land cultivating rubber as agricultural land - This is a violation of the excemption given to agricultural land from the SARFESI Act 2002
  • Saurav Kumar Chaliha : Eminent Assamese short story writer & Sahitya Academy Winner (in 1974 - Golam), Passed Away

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