28 June 2011

28 June 2011, Tuesday

• RR Patil : Maharashtra Home Minister announced a reward of Rs.10lakh for Mumbai Police for making breakthrough in J Dey's murder case
• Ranjan Mathai : Indian Ambassador to France appointed new Foreign Secretary of India, replacing Nirupama Roy
• N Murali : MD of Kasturi & Sons Ltd, re-elected as President of Music Academy, Chennai
• Kulsoom Abdullah : Atlanta-based weightlifter

US Olympic Committee debarred her from joining national competitions in Ohio and Iowa because of her hijab

• China launch Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train : a 39 month long $33bn 1318km project to be opened to public as part of 90th anniversary of Communist Party of China
• Maruti Suzuki Estilo posted a 25.4% growth last fiscal year and is set to touch 2-lakh sales mark in domestic market
• "Foreign investors other than foreign institutional investors(FII) can invest up to $10bn in domestic mutual funds" : Central Government of India
• CK Birla Group exit McNally Bharat Engineering Company(MBEC)
• Department of Policy & Promotion(DIPP) to come out with a body like Employees Provident Fund Organisation(EFPO) for manging retirement funds and insurance in SMEs
• "India-New Zealand FTA likely by 2012"
• Harsh V Lodha : Chairman of Birla Corporation Ltd(BCL)

BCL to increase its cement production capacity to 9.3mn tonnes

• BC Tripathi : CMD of GAIL

"GAIL should be out of subsidy sharing mechanism as unlike oil & gas producer"

• New Zealand will offer sports scholarships to talented young Indians
• Nandan Nilekani (Chairman of UIDAI) and his wife Rohini Nilekani have donated Rs.50cr to the Indian Institute of Human Settlements(IIHS)
• Kashmir Premier League(KPL) : Cricket tournament by Indian Army, inaugurated by Omar Abdullah, CM of J&K