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