30 June 2011

30 June 2011, Thursday

• "Water for Tamil Nadu and security for Kerala" : motto of Kerala State in the Mullaperiyar issue
• Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan : Foreign Minister of UAE

The proposed UAE consulate in Kerala will trigger more investments from West Asia and will be a big relief to half-a-million Malayali workers (55% of NRIs) in UAE

• Life Beam : A Israeli start-up who developed the "Physiological Sensor", a miniature device for the Israel Defence Force(IDF) to monitor physiological parameters (breathing & heart rate, blood pressure) of soldiers
• Prithviraj Chavan : CM of Maharashtra, State cuts VAT on diesel & kerosene by 2%
• India wants to join export control regimes :  the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Australia Group & the Wassenaar Group

US, Russia and France backed India's membership UK recently announced its support to India's membership

• Harish Khare : media adviser to PM of India

Burglars stole his mobile phone and car

• Sanket Akerkar : MD, Microsoft India
• The Sri Lankan Central Bank Monetary Board to include Chinese Renminbi (people's currency, primary unit of Yuan) in the designated list of currencies for international transactions through banks of Sri Lanka

Other currencies in the list include Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Danish kroner, Euro, Hong Kong dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand dollar, Norwegian kroner, British pound sterling, Singapore dollar, Swedish kroner, Swiss franc and US dollar

• BK Goenka : Chairman of Welspun Group
• VS Bapna : Executive Director & Chief Executive of Welspun Maxsteel (WMSL)

To invest Rs.5300cr towards rising its DRI(direct reduced iron) capacity & form a 330MW captive power plant

• KV Ravindra : Founder of Celon Labs

Crossed Rs.100cr mark in turnover - To set up a Rs.120cr world class manufacturing facility at the Genome Valley, Hyderabad

• Beltron Telecom, promoted by Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd signed an MoU defining & detailing the business Letter of Intent(LoI) with Bilcare Technologies on creating next-generation anti-counterfeiting, security & brand protection solutions
• Samsung Engineering bagged $229mn order to build a High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Plant from OPaL(ONGC Petro Additions Ltd), a subsidiary of ONGC. The 3.4lakh tonne plant will be built in the SEZ in Dahej, Gujarat
• ITC Infotech partnered with Solteq Oyj of Finland
• Michael Nobbs : newly appointed coach of Indian Hockey team
• VVS Laxman : Indian cricketer passed 800 test runs at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, West Indies

Only Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid & Sunil Gavaskar have scored more than 800 test runs for India

• Amartya Sen : Nobel Laureate Economist of India, will be Adviser to Presidency Mentor Group

A 10 member group chaired by Sugata Bose(grand-nephew of Subhash Chandra Bose) set up by government of West Bengal to help Presidency University regain Its excellence

• Srikumar Banerjee : Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission(AEC), "Fukushima-like disaster cannot happen in India"

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd(NPCIL) has set up 4 committees, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board(AERB) & Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC) have set up 1 committee each to analyse safety of different standards