16 July 2011

16 July 2011, Saturday

• PV John : "most professionally qualified individual" in Limca Book of World Records

Holds 7 professional degrees - FCA, FCS, ICWA, LLB, MBA, MCA & PhD in Commerce

• Vilasrao Deshmukh : elected President of Mumbai Cricket Association
• Guruvayur Devaswom deposits 57kg gold in SBI
• KS Chandrasekar : "Asia's Best Professor in Marketing", by CMO Asia of Singapore
• Rani Rashmoni : Patrol vessel launched by Hindustan Shipyard Limited(HSL) for Indian Coast Guard
• MM Pallamraju : Union Minister of State for Defence
• Rear Admiral KC Sekhar : CMD of HSL
• INS Sharabh : Indian Navy's oldest commissioned ship, commissioned in 1976 at Gdynia, Poland

Decommissioned after 35 years of service at Naval Jetty, Port Blair

• JV Ramudu : appointed by Gujarat High Court as Chairman of 3-member Special Investigation Team(SIT) on Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case

JV Ramudu will succeed Satyapal Singh

• BN Srikrishna Panel : Telangana
• PSLV-C17 put 1310kg GSAT-12 in orbit on 15 July. PSLV's lifted off from Sriharikota, took its 18th successful flight in a row
• K Radhakrishnan : ISRO Chairman
• S Ramakrishnan : LPSC Director
• PS Veeraraghavan : Director, VSSC Thiruvananthapuram
• P Kunhikrishnan : Mission Director
• TK Anuradha : GSAT-12 Project Director
• TK Alex : Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore
• Rebekah Brooks : Quits as Chief Executive of News International after hacking row
• Was Editor of the defunct News of the World(NoW)
• Central Government shortlisted 17 banks for offloading 5% stake in BHEL through follow-on public offer(FPO) which will fetch over Rs.4700cr
• Suzlon Energy bags Rs.650cr order from Orient Green Power Company to supply turbines
•  RP Singh : Secretary of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion(DIPP)

To incentivise SME sector to encourage foreign venture capital

• GMR Energy(Singapore) Pte Ltd raised about $820mn for its $1bn power project in Jurong Island in Singapore : Largest investment in Singapore by an Indian company
• YES Bank receives two awards with its partner Cordys at The Banker Technology Awards
• Commercial Banking Project of the Year Award
• Innovation in Cash and Treasury Technology Award
• Randhir Singh : re-elected as Secretary-General of Olympic Council of Asia(OCA) at General Assembly meeting held in Tokyo

His 6th consecutive term

He is member of International Olympic Committee(IOC) and Secretary-General of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)

• Middle Asia Basketball Tournament : India bt Sri Lanka

15 July 2011

15 July 2011, Friday

• Pradeep Kumar : former Defence Secretary of India, sworn as new Central Vigilance Commissioner replacing PJ Thomas
• Peter Thomson : Fijian Ambassador to UN elected President of International Seabed Authority (ISA)
• Gopal Subramaniam : resigned as Solicitor-General of India

current Chairman of Bar Council of India

• Goolam Essaji Vahanvati : Attorney General of India - first Muslim to hold the post

Chief Legal Advisor to Indian Government

• Hamid Ansari : Vice-President of India
• Indo-Russian relations scaled new heights as "Privileged Strategic Partnership" : Dmitry Medvedev, Russian President
• N Chandrasekaran : CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services(TCS)

TCS reported 27% growth in net profit in first quarter of 2011-12 at Rs.2415cr

• Inflation rises to 9.44 in June
• Bharti, Vodafone & Idea to share 3G networks
• 7th International Special Economic Zones(SEZs) Convention : 27 July 2011, Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi

14 July 2011

14 July 2011, Thursday

• Zaveri Bazaar, Kabutarkhana, Opera House : Mumbai, Bomb blasts went off
• Sheila Dikshit : Delhi CM will be presented first Mercy Ravi Award instituted by Mercy Ravi Foundation for "exemplary contribution to public life by a woman"
• Jairam Ramesh : Union Minister for Rural Development

To draft one integrated national Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill

• Talmiz Ahmad : Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

First Indian diplomat to be conferred King Abdulaziz Medal of First Class for his contribution towards elevating Indo-Saudi ties

• Islamabad offered olive branches Balochistan to address some of the alienation felt across Balochistan
• Bundesnachrichtendienst(BND) : Germany's foreign intelligence agency

Blueprints of new headquarters for Germany's Intelligence service in Berlin stolen

• NIIT Technologies ties up with Morris Communications of US
• Fujitsu ties up with Siemens Enterprise Communications India to provide a one-stop shop of IT & communication services
• Motherson Sumi Systems jointly with Samvardhana Motherson Finance to acquire 80% shares of Peguform Group of Germany from Cross Industries who will hold remaining 20%
• HDFC Bank launched India's first Ultra-Premium Credit Card : INFINIA
• ElectraCard Services set up an electronic internet payment gateway  for Union Bank of India : electraECOMM
• IDBI Bank revised term deposit rates by 25-50 basis points by July 14
• Indian Bank raised Benchmark Prime Lending Rate(BPLR) by 25 basis points to 14.50% and Base Rate to 10.25% from July 13
• Reliance Media Works partners Digital Domain Productions of Los Angeles to create visual effects studios in Mumbai and London
• Danfoss Industries Pvt Ltd : leader in mechanical & electronic components & solutions
• Noel Ryan : appointed as new president of Danfoss India

13 July 2011

13 July 2011, Wednesday

• Gurudas Kamat : Congress MP resigned as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation after the Union Cabinet Reshuffle
• KV Salahuddin : Chairman of Kerala Public Service Commission(KPSC)

KPSC to introduce one time online registration for job applicants

• INS Koswari : 9th indigenously built FAC commissioned at Eastern Naval Base
• Ban on non-iodised salt unconstitutional : Supreme Court

Supreme Court directed Union Govt to review its ban on non-iodised salt on the basis of its Compulsory Universal Salt Iodisation Programme within 6 months

• V Kishore Chandra Deo : Newly appointed Union Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj Minister of India - Returning to Union Council of Ministers after 31 years
• Arabinda Rajkhowa : Chairman of United Liberation Front of Asom(ULFA)
• Kris Gopalakrishnan : CEO & MD of Infosys
• D Shibulal : COO & Director of Infosys

Infosys to recruit 45000 people this fiscal

• Vedanta Resources of London, owned by Anil Agarwal, acquires 10% stake in Cairn India, a subsidiary of Cairn Energy of UK - 191.92mn equity stakes at a rate of Rs.355 a share totalling $1.5bn
• Countries in BRICS agreed to stand together against any moves by developed nations to tighten Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) rules that could threaten access to affordable drugs in developing countries
• Rita Menon : Textiles Secretary

Garments exports target fixed at $14bn for the 2011-12 fiscal

• IBM bags 1 year contract from Bharti Airtel to provide IT solutions to its employees across 16 African countries
• Indian Bank signed agreement with SBI Mutual Funds to sell SBI Mutual Fund products in branches of Indian Bank
• Joy Alukkas, jewellery retailer : Conferred "Superbrand" status in UAE

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08 July 2011

08 July 2011, Friday

• Dayanidhi Maran : resigned as Union Textile Minister
• Indian Government amended a law to replace the word 'workmen' by 'workers' in it.

The Inter-State Migrant Workmen(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act 1979 will be known as The Inter-State Migrant Workers(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act 1979

• 2011 Kesavadev Award : Novelist C Radhakrishnan for literature and Colorado-based writer on diabetes David Mendosa for health and education
• Akitaka Saiki : Japan's Ambassador to India

Two warships of Japan Maritime Self Defence Force(JMSDF), JDS Samidare and JDS Umigiri berthed at Kochion way to anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden

• VS Mathew : First Indian to reach semifinals of World Canoeing and Kayaking Championship (1987) - Killed in an accident
• Yoweri Museveni : President of Uganda

Uganda has helped Sudan, Rwanda and Congo bring their governments to power in the last two decades

• Department of Telecommunications(DoT) told the JPC that a loss of Rs.43,523cr was incurred during the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance(NDA) government due to migration package offered to cellular operators in 1999
• Dipu Moni : Foreign Minister of Bangladesh

Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna visited Dhaka

Agreements to be signed on Sharing waters of rivers Teesta and Feni, Transit, Import of power from India, Joint-venture in power generation, Cooperation in security, education, culture and trade liberalisation

• C Chandramouli : Registrar-General of India and Census Commissioner

"Impressive drop in maternal, infant mortality rates" : latest statistics of Sample Registration System(SRS)

No. of women dying due to maternal causes came down to 212(per 1lakh livebirths) in 2007-09 from 254 in 2004-06 - UN Millennium Development Goals(MDG) target is 109 by 2015

No. of infant deaths came down from 53 to 50(per 1000 livebirths) in 2008

• B Sudershan Reddy : retires as Supreme Court Judge
• The Union Cabinet approved to raise Member of Parliament  Local Area Development Scheme(MPLADS) annual funding from Rs.2cr to Rs.5cr per MP from current fiscal year
• Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to hold review meeting with chief executives of public sector banks(PSB) and financial institutions

To do annual review of PSBs' performance in different sectors including flow of agriculture credit, MSMEs credit, disbursement of housing loans and educational loans etc

• SBI hikes lending, deposit rates by 25 basis points : from 9.25% to 9.50%
• The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry refused work programme and budget of Cairn India of its Bhagyam oilfield in Rajasthan, likely to affect its crude oil production plans
• Group of Ministers(GoM) approves 26% profit-sharing mechanism for coal sector
• Sunil Mittal : CMD of Bharti Airtel
• Yahoo to provide content in Tamil
• IFC, a member of World Bank Group, to invest $2.7mn in Jain Irrigation Systems of India to set up Sustainable Agro-Commercial Finance Ltd, a NBFC that provide loans to small-scale farmers
• DCM Shriram Consolidated(DSCL) gets approval from Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for the Kaprion-Ki-Dhani lignite mining project in Nagaur, Rajasthan
• Maruti Suzuki India attained 1million production of its new generation K-series engines
• Lakshmi Vilas Bank(VLB) introduced 3 new services : Point of Sales(POS), Depository Participant(DP) Services and Application Supported by Blocked Amount(ASBA)
• Marg Ltd headquartered at Chennai listed among India's Top 500 Companies 2010 by Dun & Bradstreet, a leading provider of global business information, knowledge & insight
• "North Korea bribed Pakistani military more than $3mn to obtain access to sensitive nuclear technology in late 1990s; Jehangir Karamat, former Pakistani military chief named as the recipient of the $3mn" : Dr AQ Khan
• James Murdoch : Chairman of News International which publishes NoW

The 168-year-old newspaper News of the World(NoW) to close after hacking row

• Th Gagan Narang Sprts Foundation to organise Gun for Glory shooting championship with prizes of 35 lakh in Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune from August 3 to 9
• Mayookha Johny : Indian Athlete won Gold in Long Jump at Asian Athletics Championship
• Justice Mukul Mudgal : Former Chief Justice of Punjab-Haryana High Court

Union Sports Ministry appointed Justice Mudgal as a one-member committee to enquire into all aspects of issues relating to doping

• Oscar Pistorius : "Blade Runner" of South Africa's athlete with both legs amputated

Seeking qualification in World Athletics Championships with his artificial legs 'Cheetahs'

• Zinedine Zidane : new sporting director of Real Madrid football team
• Walt MacDonald : Executive Vice-President  & COO of Educational Testing Services(ETS)

TOEFL(Test of English as a Foreign Language)-2011 awards for 9 Indian students

• Dr K Srinath Reddy : Indian cardiologist conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Scotland's Aberdeen University

Currently President of Public Health Foundation of India, former head of Cardiology Department at All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, Dr. Reddy is regarded as a global leader in public health

Prof Cairns Smith : head of Aberdeen University's Public Health Department

• Jaya Noushad : this year's Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy Award for Best actress winner for the character 'Mara' in drama "Nellu"

07 July 2011

07 July 2011, Thursday

• Julian Clef : Royal Northern College of Music(RNCM) 2011 Gold Medal winner
• World Zoonoses Day : July 6
• Kerala State Government to reinstate IG Tomin J Thachankary who has been under suspension for over a year
• MILMA registers 20% growth in Malabar
• GT Nanavati-Akshay Mehta Judicial Enquiry Commission : Godhra communal riots
• Plan outlay for Tamil Nadu for 2011-12 fixed at Rs.23535cr - Rs.3467cr more than 2010-11
• Lafarge : French cement company allowed to mine limestone in the forests of East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, by Supreme Court of India
• Indian Supreme Court sent notice to Union Home Ministry on a Public Interest Litigation(PIL) petition  seeking direction to take decisions on pending mercy petitions
• 'Sangeetha Kalanidhi' MS Gopalakrishnan : Violinist conferred prestigious Nada Vidya Bharati title by the Music & Dance Academy
• Jeremy Browne : British Foreign Office Minister for South Asia

Visited West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and said that Britain is keen on helping West Bengal in education and healthcare sectors

• Handicraft exports rise 18% in first quarter of current financial year

Arvind Vadhera : Chairman of Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts

• Orient Green Power Company Ltd(OGPL) synchronised its 10MW bio-mass power plant near Pollachi, Tamil Nadu
• RBI limits investment of banks in subsidiaries & other companies engaged in non-financial business
• Arun Seth : new Chairman of India operations of Alcatel-Lucent
• Virtusa Corporation acquires ALaS Consulting LLC of US
• Capgemini acquires AIVE Group of Italy
• Virdhawal Khade & Sandeep Sejwal : Indian swimmers bagged 2golds-3bronze and 2 golds-1 silver respectively in Singapore Open Championships
• Laishram Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari & Chekrovolu Swuro : Indian Archers

Earned three Olympic quota in the World Archery Championship at Turin, Italy

G5 Leaders

Leaders of G5 Countries

• India
• President : Pratibha Patil
• PM : Manmohan Singh
• China
  • President : Hu Jintao
  • PM : Wen Jiabao
• Brazil
  • President : Dilma Rousseff
• South Africa
  • President : Jacob Zuma
• Mexico
  • President : Felipe Calderon

G8 Leaders

Leaders of G8 Countries

• US
• President : Barack Obama
• Canada
• PM : Stephen Harper
• Britain
• PM : David Cameron
• France
• President : Nicolas Sarkozy
• PM : Francois Fillon
• Germany
• President : Christian Wulff
• Chancellor : Angela Merkel
• Italy
• President : Giorgio Napolitano
• PM : Mario Monti
• Russia
• President : Dmitry Medvedev
• PM : Vladimir Putin
• Japan
• PM : Yoshihiko Noda

06 July 2011

06 July 2011, Wednesday

• VJ Kurian : MD of CIAL

Joy Alukkas bought a 6-seater Embraer Phenom-100 jet - First business jet in Kerala

• UIDAI suggested direct cash transfer of subsidies to targeted groups through banks and ATMs to avoid leakages in the implementation of these schemes
• Jerome Bonnafont : French Ambassador to India

France allays India's concerns over the ENR export ban of NSG

• Indian Central Government to stick to fiscal deficit target of 4.6% of GDP
• Anil Yendluri : CEO of Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd(KPCL)
• C Sasidhar : MD of KPCL
• Anil Kumar Gupta : MD of Container Corporation of India Ltd(CONCOR)

KPCL ties up with CONCOR to develop required rail infrastructure for container movement in container terminal at Krishnapatnam Port

• The Western Union Co (Colorado) to acquire Travelex Global Business Payments (London) for $973.8mn

Hikmet Ersek : CEO of Western Union

• Brotin Banerjee : MD & CEO of Tata Housing Development Company Ltd

Tata Housing enter into Rs.900cr joint venture in Maldives

• Dewan Housing Finance Corporation(DHFL) increased 25 basis points in retail prime lending rate
• Khalifa Al Sowaidi : MD of Qatar Fertiliser Company(QAFCO)
• Kapil Mehan : MD of Coromandel International

Coromandel signed pact fro urea import with Qatar Fertiliser Company(QAFCO)

• Tim Geithner : US Treasury Secretary

May quit after the debt ceiling issue is resolved

• 10 million drought hit Africa
• Oxfam launched 50mn pound appeal to help 3mn people
• Christian Aid has also launched an appeal
• British govt announced 38mn pound emergency food aid to Ethiopia
• Josette Sheeran : Executive Director of World Food Programme(WFP)
• Rupert Murdoch's media company News International in turmoil in hacking scandal of its newspaper News of the World(NoW)
• Bombay High Court issues notice against actor Amitabh Bachchan and Sony Entertainment for Kaun Banega Crorepati-4 promo maligning a slogan given by freedom fighter Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Yuriy Ogorodnik (Ukraine) : Indian athletics coach dismissed in doping scandal
• Ajay Maken : Union Sports Minister

05 July 2011

05 July 2011, Tuesday

• 81 Telangana MLAs, a dozen MPs and 17 MLCs resigns
• Supreme Court form Special Investigation Team(SIT) to bring back unaccounted money : BP Jeevan Reddy(retired Supreme Court Judge) will Chair the team
• Brahmapuram Diesel Power Plant(BDPP) : KSEB put on hold the decision to partially shutdown the plant
• Prasad Rathna award : instituted by Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial Foundation
• Velayudhan Panikkassery, writer
• Attakkoya Pallikandi, leader of Indo-Arab Confederation Council
• Thaksin Shinawatra : brother of Thailand's new PM Yingluck Shinawatra, he is in exile in Dubai
• Dhanlaxmi Bank enters gold retailing
• Indian Bank revises interest rates on FCNR(B) & NRE deposits
• Citizens Development Business Finance(CBD) of SriLanka signed Polaris' Intellect Core Banking Solution
• Harun Rashid Khan : new Deputy Governor of RBI
• MTNL invited expression of interest(EoI) frpm banks for providing Rs.1500cr long-term loan
• Anders Fogh Rasmussen : Secretary-General of NATO
• Jacob Zuma : President of South Africa
• Russian President hosted a trilateral meeting with Mr. Rasmussen & Mr. Zuma in Black Sea resort in Sochi to push AU's Libya's peace plans
• Sania Mirza-Elena Vesnina : WTA World No. 2 in Women's Doubles

Wimbledon 2011

Wimbledon 2011

• Men's Singles : Novak Djokovic(Serbia) bt Rafael Nadal(Spain)

First Serbian to win Wimbledon Singles

• Women's Singles : Petra Kvitova(Czech) bt Maria Sharapova(Russia)

Her First Grand Slam Title

• Men's Doubles : Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (USA)

bt Robert Lindstedt(Sweden) & Horia Tecau(Romania)

• Women's Doubles : Kveta Peschke(Czech) & Katarina Srebotnik(Slovania)

bt Sabine Lisicki(Germany) & Samantha Stosur(Australia)

• Mixed Doubles : Jurgen Melzer(Austria) & Iveta Benesova(Czech)

bt Mahesh Bhupathi(India) & Elena Vesnina(Russia)

• Boys' Singles : Luke Saville(Australia) bt Liam Broady(UK)
• Girls' Singles : Ashleigh Barty(Australia) bt Irina Khromacheva(Russia)

04 July 2011

04 July 2011, Monday

• Ishita Roy : Director of The Kerala State IT Mission(KSITM)
• KSITM won two ComputerWorld Honours Programme Laureate Awards for projects in Economic Opportunity and Health categories
• Awards instituted by International Data Group(IDG), global technology media and research organisation, Boston, USA
• Operation "Black Hawk Down" : 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalian capital by US Troops
• Baphuon Temple : 11th century Angker temple in Siem Reap province, north-western Cambodia
• Restored and reopened
• Norodom Sihamoni : King of Cambodia
• Yingluck Shinawatra : emerged as Thailand's new as well as first woman PM
• Pheu Thai Party
• Abhisit Vejjajiva : outgoing PM of Democratic Party
• Salva Kiir Mayardit : First President of South Sudan(independent in 2011) Capital : Juba
• Vladimir Klitschko : Ukrainian boxer bt David Haye(UK) WBA Heavyweight Title
• Athletics Foundation of India(AFI)  announced 37-member team for 19th Asian Athletics Championship, in Kobe, Japan
• AIFF recommended national football coach Armando Colaco's name for Dronacharya Award
• 2011 International Junior Shotgun Cup shooting championship, Orimattila, Finland
• Kynan Chenai (Ind) bags Silver
• Sioravanti Giulio (Italy) bagged Gold

03 July 2011

03 July 2011, Sunday

• Pradeep Kumar : Retires as Defence Secretary of India by July 31

Appointed as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner(CVC) by high-power committee headed by PM Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram

• "Antharjanam : Memoirs of a Namboodiri Woman" : translated by Radhika P Menon & Indira Menon, published by Oxford University Press

Comprises translations of Malayalam books written by Devaki Nilayangode 'Nashtabodhangalillathe' (2003), 'Yaathra : Kaattilum, Naattilum' (2006) and her eight other autobiographical works

• Kerala State Government to get credit of Rs.1195cr from World Bank for Kerala Local Government and Services Delivery Project
• Shailesh Gandhi : Central Information Commissioner of India

Central Information Commission slams centre for excluding RBI from RTI Act

• Patent Information Centre-Kerala(PIC-K) : an initiative of Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment(KSCSTE) to promote IP(Intellectual Property) literacy in Kerala
• inter-State Parambikulam Aliyar Project(PAP) between Kerala & Tamil Nadu on Periyar, Chalakudipuzha & Bharathapuzha - Pact to be renewed soon
• Harsh Mariwala : President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry(FICCI)
• FMCG : Fast Moving Customer Goods
• Vinita Bali : MD & CEO of Britannia Industries

Britannia in process of reviewing product prices due to increasing input costs

• Harsh Mariwala : CMD of Marico : Marico to increase reach in Africa, Asia
• Virbhadra Singh : Union Minister for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises(MSMEs)

Assures support to Indian toy industry in view of dumping cheap Chinese products

• Coal India Ltd(CIL) to call for fresh bids for exploratory drilling at two coal blocks in Mozambique
• DHL invests 100mn euros with 3 Boeing freighters operated by Air Hong Kong, a JV of Cathay Pacific & DHL
• AGS Transact Technologies bags order from IOC to set up Automatic Tank Gauging System(ATG)
• M Narendra : CMD of Indian Overseas Bank

IOB ties up with Western Union Money Transfer Services through Weizmann Forex Ltd for receiving cross-border money transfers through web-based remittance

• J Balasubramanian : new part-time non-official Director(CA) of Dena Bank by Central Government
• Indians visiting Britain on tourist visas will be able to visit Ireland without a visa until 1 Oct 2012 in connection with 2012 London Olympics
• Airport Authority of India (AAI) International Grandmasters chess tournament : won by Fabiano Caruana(Italy) - $8000

Sasikaran(India) first runner up - $6000

• Prince Albert II of Monaco weds Charlene, an Olympic star of South Africa

Dada Saheb

Dada Saheb Phalke Academy Awards 2011

• Dada Saheb Phalke 2010 : K Balachander, for Outstanding contribution to growth of Indian cinema
• Legendary Icon Cine Artist : Asha Parekh
• Senior-most Cine Artist : Dara Singh
• Legendary Artist : Shatrughan Sinha
• Outstanding Performance in a Film : Rani Mukerji for "No One Killed Jessica"
• Memorable Performance in a Film : Priyanka Chopra for "7 Khoon Maaf"
• Excellent Performance in a Film : Anushka Sharma for "Band Baja Baraat"
• Best Debutant Actor : Ranveer Singh for "Band Baja Baraat"
• Best Debutant Actress : Sonakshi Sinha for "Dabangg"
• Best Debutant Producer : Arbaaz Khan for "Dabangg"
• Phalke Ratna Award : Dharmendra for his contribution to Hindi Film Industry

Cannes

64th Cannes Film Festival

• Palme d'Or (The Golden Palm - For Best Film) : "The Tree of Life" by Terrence Malick
• Grand Prix Award : 
• "The Kid With The Bike" by Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• "Once Upon A Time In Anatolia" by Nuri Bilge
• Best Director : Nicolas Winding Refn for "Drive"
• Best Actor : Jean Dujardin for "The Artist" by Michel Hazanavicius
• Best Actress : Kirsten Dunst for "Melancholia" by Lars Von Trier
• Best Screenplay : Joseph Cedar for "Footnote"
• Jury Prize : "Poliss" by Maiwenn

National Awards

58th National Film Awards

• Best Recordist : Debajit Changmai for "Ishqiya" (Hindi)
• Best Audiography (Location) : Khamood Karade for "Ishqiya" (Hindi)
• Best Production Design : Sabu Cyril for "Enthiran" (Tamil)
• Best Sound Designer : Vipin Vijay for "Chithrasoothram" (Malayalam)
• Best Music Director : 
• Vishal Bhardwaj for "Ishqiya" (Hindi) 
• Isaac Thomas Kottakapally for "Adaminte Makan Abu" (Malayalam)
• Best Cinematography : Madhu Ambat for "Adaminte Makan Abu" (Malayalam)
• Best Male Playback Singer : Suresh Wadkar for "Mee Sindhutai Sapkal"(Marathi)
• Best Female Playback Singer : Rekha Bhardwaj for "Ishqiya" (Hindi)
• Best Lyrics : 
• Thomas Kottakapally for "Adaminte Makan Abu" (Malayalam)
• Vairamuthu for "Enthiran" (Tamil)
• Best Debut Film : "Baboo Band Baaja" by Rajesh Pinjani (Marathi)
• Best Feature Film on National Integration : "Moner Manush" by Goutam Ghose (Bengali)
• Best Investigative Film : "A Pestering Journey" by KR Manoj (Malayalam, Punjabi, Hindi, English & Tulu)
• Best Film on Social Issues : "Champions" by Ramesh More (Marathi)
• Best Children's Film : "Hejjegalu" by PR Ramadas Naidu (Kannada)
• Best Art & Culture Film : "Leaving Home" by Jaideep Varma (English & Hindi)
• Best Hindi Feature Film : "Do Dooni Char" by Habib Faisal
• Best Feature Film : "Adaminte Makan Abu" by Salim Ahamed (Malayalam)
• Best Child Artist : 
• Harsh Mayar for "I am Kalam" (Hindi)
• Shanthanu Ranganekar & Machindra Gadkar for "Champions" (Marathi)
• Vivek Chabukswar for "Baboo Band Baaja" (Marathi)
• Best Wholesome Entertainer : "Dabangg" by Abhinav Singh Kashyap (Hindi)
• Best Supporting Actress : Sukumari for "Namma Gramam" (Tamil)
• Best Supporting Actor : Thambi Ramaiah for "Mynaa" (Tamil)
• Best Actress : 
• Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar for "Baboo Band Baaja" (Marathi)
• Saranya Ponvannan for "Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru" (Tamil)
• Best Actor : 
• Dhanush for "Aadukalam" (Tamil)
• Salim Kumar for "Adaminte Makan Abu" (Malayalam)
• Best Director : Vetrimaran for "Aadukalam" (Tamil)

01 July 2011

01 July 2011, Friday

• World Doctors Day : June 1
• Kim Davy : a Danish citizen & prime accused of Purulia arms drop case of 1995

Plea by CBI for the extradition of Kim Davy(Niels Holck) was denied by the High court of Denmark on the grounds of Indian jail conditions & human right issues

• Kerala State Government formed an 8-member committee headed by founder of National Transportation Planning & Research Centre(Natpac) NS Sreenivasan, to sort out issues during implementing City Road Improvement Project(CRIP) in Thiruvananthapuram
• 14 express trains to run faster by 15 to 75 minutes by July 1 as per new budget

Other highlights of Railway Budget are extension of Nagercoil-Thiruvananthapuram passenger to Kochuveli, Shoranur-Ernakulam Passenger and Mumbai CST-Mangalore Junction Express to run daily

• Sumit Mukerji : Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Air Command Retires
• PSLV-C17 to be launched on July 15 to inject GSAT-12 satellite into elliptical orbit : Both satellite and launch vehicle were built by ISRO
• Sergei Ivanov : Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
• Sergei Shoigu : Russian Minister of Emergency Situations(Emercom)

Home Minister of India visited Moscow at the invitation of Emercom Minister to study Russian experience in disaster management. Russia has called for stepping up the two nations' co-operation in high-tech areas such as civilian aircraft & submarines and is willing to share its experience in disaster management

• JK Rowling : author of Harry Potter series announced launch of a website "Pottermore.com" that will be the single source of e-books of Harry Potter series
• Anil Kakodkar : Chief of Department of Atomic Energy(DAE)
• Timothy Roemer : Outgoing US Ambassador to India
• International Cricket Council(ICC) banned countries from appointing politicians to national boards
• Constitutional amendments in Bangladesh

Independence war hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman acknowledged as Father of The Nation

• The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in eastern Shandong province of China : World's Longest Sea Bridge, 36.48km connecting Qingdao-Huangdao, $2.3bn

Hangzhou Bay Bridge in eastern Zhejiang province of China was the previous longest

• India-Malaysia FTA will come into effect from 1 July 2011

India-Malaysia bilateral trade reached $10bn in 2010-11, to boost to $15bn by 2015

• Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds(FCCB) : RBI extends time limit for buyback of FCCBs issued by companies by 9 months to March 31 2012 from June 30
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs(CCEA) clears Vedanta Resources' plea to acquire Indian assets of Britain's Cairn Energy, valued at $9.6bn
• The Yash Birla Group acquires51% stakes in Mansycom Consultants Pvt Ltd
• Alstom, in consortium with Hindustan Construction Company(HCC) gets Rs.1843cr order from Tehri Hydro Development Corporation(THDC) to install a 1000MW variable speed pumped storage hydro power plant on river Bhagirathi, Uttarakhand
• Ana Ivanovic : Serbian tennis player appoints Nigel Sears, father of Andy Murray's girlfriend, as her coach