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