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