13 October 2011

• The Jammu and Kashmir Interlocutors : submitted their report on 12 Oct 2011 to P.Chidambaram, Union Minister of Home Affairs
• Headed by Dileep Padgaonkar
• Includes Radha Kumar, MM Ansari
• Troung Tan Sang : Vietnamese President, visited India
• First visit by the Vietnamese President outside the ASEAN region
• Signed 6 new agreements
• Signed Oil pact for exploration in South China Sea
• Bilateral by 2015 raised to $7b from $2.7b
• Yulia Tymoshenko : Ex-PM of Ukraine
• Sentenced for 7 year imprisonment for abuse of power when signing a 10-year gas supply and transit agreements with Russia in 2009
• Viktor Yanukovych : Ukrainian President
• Megavirus Chilensis : World's largest virus found off the coast of Chile, 6.5 times bigger than the Mimivirus, the previous largest
• PSLV (C-18) puts 4 satellites in the orbit : 19th successful mission of PSLV
• Megha-Tropiques : Indo-French satellite to study weather & climate in tropical regions.
• SRMSat : Satellite developed by students of SRM University
• Jugnu : Satellite developed by students of IIT Kanpur
• VesselSat : Satellite of Luxembourg
• PS Veeraraghavan : Director of VSSC
• Infosys : Second largest IT services exporter of India
• SD Shibulal : CEO & MD of Infosys
• Infosys posts 10% rise in profit, benefits from rupee depreciation
• India's Industrial growth slows down to 4.1%
• First half exports up 52% at $160b, Imports by 32.4% to $233.5b
• Rahul Khullar : Commerce Secretary of India