20 October 2011

• Ashfaq Parvez Kayani : Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan
• Mohandas College of Engineering & Technology : 5th Most Promising Engineering Colleges in India
• a survey conducted by Engineering Success Review (ESR) & Global Human Resources Development Centre (GHRDC)
• K Satchidanandan : Malayalam Poet
• was shortlisted for Literature Nobel 2011
• Sathyan Award : instituted by Kerala Cultural Forum
• conferred to Jayaram and Kavya Madhavan
• Jalanidhi Project : World Bank funded Water Supply & Sanitation project covering 200 panchayats of Kerala
• estimated project cost Rs.1022Cr
• PT Gopalakurup : Chairman of MILMA
• Aman Sethi : Chattisgarh Correspondent of THE HINDU
• conferred International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Award, for best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues
• Sharad Pawar : Union Agriculture Minister
• PK Basu : Agriculture Secretary
• Labourers turning to MGNREGS affects farm sector. Mechanisation to be done in farm sector in the 12th Five-Year Plan
• George Varghese Kakkanadan : Malayalam writer; Passed Away
• MV Desh Rakshak : oil vessel of India
• Pirates tried to attack it at The Gulf of Aden, but Indian Navy successfully prevented the pirates and captured arms
• INS Sukanya : the navy ship that came for the rescue
• J Jayalalithaa : Tamil Nadu CM
• Supreme Court directed Jayalalithaa to appear before a Special Trial Court in Bangalore in "disproportionate assets case"
• Julian Barnes : British Novelist
• Won Man Booker Prize for Fiction
• Novel : "The Sense Of An Ending"
• He was shortlisted 3 times in the past
• "Arthur And George" in 2005
• "England, England" in 1998
• "Flaubert's Parrot" in 1984
• Syntagma Square : a place in Athens, Capital of Greece
• Protest against austerity measures put forward by Greece PM taking place
• George Papandreou : PM of Greece
• "Nao" : a humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics of France
• Its main purpose is for teching Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) students
• Bruno Maisonnier : CEO of Aldebaran Robotics
• Goldman Sachs : registered a loss of $428 in Q3
• IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) Summit
• Countries agreed to call a Trilateral meeting of trade ministers in New Delhi in next March
• Anand Sharma : Indian Union Minister for Commerce & Industry will host the meeting
• $25b trilateral trade target by 2015
• already close to $20b : crossed target for 2012 3 years earlier than decided
• India-South Africa inks long-term contracts for purchase of raw materials & commodities
• 5% Govt Stake of SAIL to be offloaded; to fetch over Rs.2000Cr
• BSF duty chopper crashed in Kolad Forest of Khakra Village
• HDFC Q2 net up 31% at Rs.1199Cr
• National Housing Bank asked housing finance companies not to levy penalty on pre-closure of loans
• India among fastest growing textile market for US
• 1 The Netherlands
• 2 Brazil
• 3 India
• 4 Taiwan
• Miles D White : Chairman & CEO of Abbott Laboratories
• Rupee rebounds up 14paise; Exchange rate 49.15/16
• Allahabad Bank ties up with American Express Banking Corporation to offer credit card to its customers
• Sarvjit Singh : New CEO of Bharti Group
• TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) bags 5 year long deal from Commercial Bank of Quatar worth $10mn
• Miloslav Stasek : Czech Ambassador to India