29 June 2011

29 June 2011, Wednesday

• AS Suresh Babu : new MD & CEO of Vizhinjam International Sea Port Ltd
• National Institute of Securities Markets(NISM) : a public trust established by SEBI

Has initiated a scheme for educating prospective investors providing a proper vision on the finance market, to caution people against market dupers

• Digambar Kamat : CM of Goa
• Jairam Ramesh : Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests

Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary , Goa to be declared as tiger reserve

• Cheraman Juma Masjid : 1400-year old mosque in Kodungallur to be restored to its original form
• Beerwah : A town in Budgam district of J&K

Omar Abdullah, CM of J&K, refused to give district status to the town

• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India
• National Development Council(NDC) : India's highest policy making body
• Yasuteru Yamada : a retired nuclear plant engineer of Japan

"Recruit elders to tame the crippled reactors of Japan"

• India-New Zealand signed protocols in film production, higher education and research to strengthen people to people interaction
• Christine Lagarde (French Finance Minister) : New as well as 1st Woman MD of IMF
• CIAL to open duty-free gold retail outlets at arrival & departure halls of its international terminal to expand the business of airport retailing
• MV Tanksale : new CMD of Central Bank of India

Former Executive Director of Punjab National Bank

• N Chandrasekharan : MD & CEO of Tata Consultancy Services
• New Zealand to transfer its state-of-art technology and make investments in India's Agro-Food Processing Industry
• Power Finance Corporation(PFC) to raise Rs.5000cr through tax-free bonds
• NTPC commissions 660MW supercritical unit at Sipat, Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh
• Axis Bank has launched e-Wallet card
• US Supreme Court upheld a decision of Federal Appeals Court that had exempted Indian & Mongolian missions from paying property taxes of nearly $50mn in New York
• Alexander Poteyev : a colonel in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service(SVR) was sentenced to 25-year prison for inflicting significant damage to Russian security
• Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka honours Pandit Amaradeva at India House, Colombo