- Omana Mathew : First Pediatrician in Kerala, PASSED AWAY
- PL Punia : Chairman of the National Scheduled Caste Commission
- Rameshwar Oraon : Chairman of the National Scheduled Tribe Commission
- Abhishek Manu Singhvi : Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law & Justice
- Article 105 (3) : empowers both Houses to deal with the conduct and expressions of outsiders who, for good reasons, are found to have violated the privileges and immunities of the House - this exercise is based on the principles of the British House of Commons
- Namo Narain Meena : Minister of State for Finance
- Rajya Sabha passes bill to transfer powers to Central Government from RBI with regard to SBI subsidiary, State Bank of Hyderabad
- GDP growth slips to 7.7% in first quarter
- Government to sell 5% stakes in ONGC through Follow-on Public Offer(FPO) to raise Rs.12,000cr
- AK Hazarika : Chairman of ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation)
- UN Bose : Director of ONGC
- Government to disinvest 5% stakes in BHEL to raise Rs.4,320cr
- Rajeev Gopalakrishnan : new MD of Bata India, taking over Marcelo Villagran (w.e.f Oct 1 2011)
- The Cotton Advisory Board estimates cotton production in 2011-12 to be 355 lakh bales
- DK Nair : Secretary General of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry
- Yoshihiko Noda : new Japan PM
- Nepal's legislature-Parliament extended the term of Constituent Assembly by 3 more months
- Xu Lin : Director of the Monetary & Financial Department of the National Development & Reform Commission(NDRC), top economic planning agency of China
- European Hockey Championship
- Men's : Germany bt Netherlands
- Women's : Netherlands bt Germany
- Dennis Meredith : former hockey player, umpire, administrator, former Director of competitions in the FIH - Appointed Technical Director for the World Series of Hockey(WSH)
- Edinburgh University signed MoU with Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) to strengthen excellent relationship with India
- Sir Timothy O'Shea : Principal of Edinburgh University
- Suresh K Goel : Director-General of Indian Council for Cultural Relations(ICCR)
- William S Pinckney : MD & CEO of Amway India
- New Zealand Press Association(NZPA) going to transmit its last story on August 31, marking an end to its 132 year news service
- Khaled El Bakly : Egyptian Ambassador to India
- Retd. Justice RA Mehta : Gujarat Lokayukta appointed by Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal
- Modi Government filed petition against the appointment including name of Governor
- Gujarat High Court directed State Government to remove name of the Governor from the list of respondents in the petition
- Sanjay Chandra : MD of Unitech Wireless
- Rani Avantika Bai : freedom fighter of Ramgarh of Madhya Pradesh
- Life of Avantika Bai to be included in school curriculum
- Ajay Maken : Sports & Youth Minister
- Ram Baran Yadav : President of Nepal
- Jayant Prasad : Indian Ambassador to Nepal
- Fereydoum Abbasi Davani : Chief of Iran Atomic Energy Organisation
- RBI comes up with new norms for registering private banks
- Minimum capital requirement will be Rs.500cr
- Aggregate foreign shareholding shall not exceed 49% for the first 5 years
- Entities/Groups owned and controlled by resident Indians will be eligible
- Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Economic Service(IES) marked
- Rail travel, capitation fee/donations in educational institutions may come under Goods and Services Tax(GST)
- A RBI Panel suggested a minimum asset of more than Rs.50cr for registering any new NBFC
- Panel headed by Usha Thorat, Director, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL)
- India-South Africa bilateral to touch $15bn before 2014
- Kapil Sibal : Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology
- Sachin Pilot : Union Minister of State of Communications & Information Technology
- Crisil Research launches Crisil Gold Index to track performance of Gold in domestic market
- Gagan Narang conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
- KK Talwar : Chairman of New Board of Governors for Medical Council of India(MCI)
- Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah offers amnesty to 1,200 youths who were convicted of violence last year
- Baburam Bhattarai : newly elected Nepal PM, Vice-chairman of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
- Pakistan to confer MFN(Most Favoured Nation) status to India this year
- Tony Tan : newly elected President of Singapore, he is of the ruling People's Action Party
- Evo Morales : President of Bolivia
- Hugo Chavez : President of Venezuela
- Zulfiqar Mirza : a Minister in Pakistan and senior Pakistan People's Party leader, Resigned from all his powers in the cabinet
- Shivshankar Menon : National Security Adviser of India
- Sheikh Hasina : Bangladesh Premier
- Irene : Hurricane that hit US
- IBMC group (an international financial services conglomerate) signs MoU with Stamford Raffles College, Singapore to offer international MBA in UAE, India, Singapore & Oman
- Sajith Kumar : Director & CEO IBMC
- Colin Pereira : Chairman of Stamford Raffles College
- Belgian Grand Prix : World Champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bulls won
- President's Cup International Volley Tournament, @ Almaty, Kazhakstan
- Yohan Blake of Jamaica won 100m Gold in the World Championships after Usain Bolt was disqualified
