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