31 August 2011

• 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)