21 October 2011

• VA Joseph : MD & CEO of South Indian Bank
• Q2 net profit Rs.94.95 Cr a 24% rise
• Mannarkkad Rural Service Cooperative Bank : Only service cooperative bank working 24x7 in the country, without any holidays & round the clock
• won Banking Frontier Award
• M Purushothaman : Secretary of the bank
• TR Sebastian : President
• Sham Lal Goyal : CMD of FACT (Fertilizers & Chemicals Travancore Ltd)
• seeks Rs.550Cr loan from Centre to tide over liquidity problem
• State Government to seek "World Heritage Status" for Delhi from UNESCO
• SM Krishna : Indian Foreign Affairs Minister
• Alain Juppe : French Foreign Affairs Minister
• visited India and had talks under military and civil nuclear deals
• France has been awarded a multi-billion contract for setting up nuclear plants in western India
• DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organisation) asked French manufacturing firm Snecma to co-develop Kaveri engine for its Light Combat Aircraft "Tejas"
• Discussed about joint development of Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile(SR-SAM)
• Move to modernise India's IAF Mirage 2000 fighters; Rs.11000Cr deal recently signed up with Dassault Aviation & Thales, French manufacturers
• Centre sets up 15 member experts group to allay fears on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
• South India's first metro rail service flagged off by Kamal Nath, Union Urban Development Minister
• The 42.3km Namma Metro's line1, stretch of 6.7km was opened
• connects MGRoad-Byappanahalli
• Sirte : Hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, Former Libyan Leader
• Gaddafi was killed by NTC (National Transitional Council) Fighters of Libya
• Vladimir Putin : PM of Russia
• Russia signed a free trade pact with 7 other ex-Soviet states at a summit of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), at St.Petersburg
• Victor Yanukovich : President of Ukraine
• "Doing Business 2012 : Doing Business in a More Transparent World" : list prepared by World Bank & IFC (international Finance Corporation)
• 1 - Singapore
• 2 - Hong Kong
• 3 - New Zealand
• 4 - US
• 5 - Denmark
• 8 - Korea (New entrant in top 10)
• 132 - India (climbed from 139 to 132)
• Apple i-Phone 4S to get directions from GLONASS, Russian GPS (Global Positioning System)
• IDBI Mutual Fund launches Gold ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) for its retail investors
• Amitabh Bachchan : conferred Honorary Doctorate from The Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Ashok Chawla : new Chairman of Competition Commission of India
• Uday Kumar : Secretary of Information & Broadcasting
• previously he was Secretary of MSMEs (Micro Small & Medium Enterprises)
• Raghu Menon : retired Secretary of Information & Broadcasting
• PK Mishra : Secretary of Steel
• Assigned additional charge of MSMEs
• Rana Kapoor : MD & CEO of YES Bank
• Q2 profit jumps 33%
• Diwakar Gupta : MD & CEO of State Bank of India (SBI)
• Kapil Sibal : Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology
• R Chandrasekhar : Secretary of Telecom & IT
• Virbhadra Singh : Union Minister of MSMEs
• China disinvests 3.1% of its holdings in US treasuries of $36.5b