19 October 2011

• 5th IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) Summit : at Pretoria, South Africa
• Dr. Manmohan Singh : Indian PM
• Dilma Rousseff : Brazil President
• Jacob Zuma : South African President
• 2nd Tashwane Declaration signed by three countries for publicly supporting each other for permanent seats in UN Security Council (1st in 2007 summit)
• Ingo Karsten : Consul-General of Germany
• offered help to Kerala to set up offshore wind farms
• M Subashini : Consul-General of India
• HK Patil : Chairman of National Federation of Urban Cooperative Bank & Credit Societies
• Best Cooperative Banker of the Year 2011 : by Banking Frontiers, Mumbai
• conferred to M Mehboob, President of Keral State Cooperative Bank
• Shyam Srinivasan : MD & CEO of Federal Bank
• Opens 66 branches inside & outside Kerala on mark of 66th Founder's Day
• BPCL(Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd)-Kochi Refinery to expand it capacity to 15.5million metric tons per annum
• estimated project cost Rs.12500Cr
• to be completed by 2015-16
• on commissioning it is expected to be India's largest public sector refinery
• Benjamin Netanyahu : Israel PM
• George Papandreou : Greece PM
• Vineet Nayar : Vice-Chairman & CEO of HCL Technologies
• HCL Q1 revenue crosses $1b, 50% rise
• Shiv Nadar : Founder & Chairman
• Centre to offload 5% equity in blue chip ONGC to meet annual disinvestment target of Rs.40000Cr
• Essar Energy entered into long term pact with Bihar State Electricity Board in supplying 300MW power from the group's upcoming 1200MW Tori-I plant in Jharkhand
• Securities Appellate Tribunal(SAT) upholds SEBI's order that Sahara Group have to refund money raised through Operationally Fully Convertible Debentures(OFCDs) to investors within 6 months
• Rupee drops 35 paise
• IndusInd Bank Q2 net Rs.193Cr
• ABLF Woman of Power Award : by ABLF(Asian Business Leadership Forum)
• conferred to Hind Bahwan, Chair of CyberTek and Director of Suhail Bahwan Group
• Buddh International Circuit, Noida, UP : owned by Jaypee Sports International
• India's 1st Formula One event Airtel Indian Grand Prix starts on 30 October 2011
• 5.14km track
• Manoj Gaur : Chairman & CEO of Jaypee Group
• Supreme Court sent notice to UP Govt seeking explanation of tax exemption to company organising the F1 at Noida
• Ramesh Sharma : CEO & MD of Petronet LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) Ltd
• Q2 net up 99%
• China's economic growth slows to 9.1% in Q3
• Farm sector growth to touch 3.5% in 11th five year plan : Planning Commission of India
• FDI rise 51% in September
• More than 2 lakh savings bank accounts opened in Thiruvananthapuram for crediting wages of workers under MGNREGS(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme)