31 August 2011
- Suresh K Goel : Director-General of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR)
- Nepal Constituent Assembly term extended to November 30
- 7.7% GDP growth in Q1
- Govt to sell 5% stake in ONGC. It will reduce govt stake to 69.14%
- Capacity of Mangalore Refinery to be expanded to 15m tonnes
- Centre to sell 5% stake in BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd)
- Rajyasabha passed SBI bill 2011 : SBI's control shifted from RBI to Central Govt
30 August 2011
- Gagan Narang : Indian shooter, conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
- India-South Africa bilateral to touch $15b before 2014
- NOHC : Non Operative Holding Companies
- Indian Economic Service celebrated Golden Jubilee
- A knowledge based portal modelled after Wikipedia : Arthapedia
- for understanding Indian Economy & its governance
- Usha Thorat : Director of Centre for Advanced Financial Research & Learning (CAFRAL)
- RBI prescription for starting new banks
- 500Cr minimum capital
- only 49% foreign investment in 1st 5 years
- only groups owned by Indians are eligible
- RBI panel suggested 12% Tier-I Capital Adequacy & Minimum Asset of 50Cr to register a NBFC (Non Banking Financial Corporation)
- Fereydoun Abbasi Davani : Chief Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI)
- Ajay Maken : Sports & Youth Minister
- Shivshankar Menon : National Security Adviser
- New Zealand Press Association ends service
29 August 2011
- Yoshihiko Noda : New Japanese PM; 6th in last 5 years
- Baburam Bhattarai : New Nepal PM; Unified Communist Party of Nepal
- Tony Tan : New Singapore President
- Belgian GP : Won by Sebastian Vettel (Red Bulls) (Germany)
- RIL (Reliance Industries Ltd) overtook ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation) & CIL (Coal India Ltd) to become top valued company in India
28 August 2011
- Agni-2 : Intermediate range Ballistic missile of India of 2500km range to be tested from Wheeler Island, Orissa
- 2400Cr disbursed under Indira Awas Yojana in Orissa
- UEFA Super Cup : Won by Barcelona
- TATA starts hockey academy at Bhubaneswar
- Irene : hurricane that hit US
27 August 2011
- Kamala Beniwal : Governor of Gujarat
- RA Mehta : New Lokayukta of Gujarat
- Hamza : River found 13100ft beneath Amazon of length about 6000km
- Naoto Kan : Resigned PM of Japan
- New Governors
- MOH Farook : Kerala
- Konijeti Rosaiah : Tamil Nadu
- Ram Naresh Yadav : Madhya Pradesh
- Vakkom Purushothaman : Mizoram
- Rolf Dieter Heuer : Director General of CERN, European Organisation for Nuclear Research
26 August 2011
- 13th World Athletics meet at Daegu, South Korea
- Oscar Pistorius : 1st double amputee runner to compete in the event
- Best Risk Master Award : Indian Bank won
- TM Bhasin : CMD of Indian Bank
- "Friends of Libya" Meet : held at Paris, ultimately to establish a democratic, inclusive, legitimate govt in Libya
25 August 2011
- Forbes Top Women's List
- 1 Angela Merkel
- 2 Hillary Clinton
- 3 Dilma Rousseff
- 4 Indra Nooyi (Ind)
- 7 Sonia Gandhi (Ind)
- 43 Chanda Kochar (Ind)
- MP Veerendrakumar : elected Chairman of Press Trust of India
- Lamine Diack of Senegal : President of International Association of Athletics Federations
- Western & Southern Open Tennis Championship, Cincinnati
- Men's Singles : Andy Murray (Great Britain) won as Novak Djokovik (Serbia) quit final
- Men's Doubles : Leander Paes/Mahesh Bhupathi (India) bt Michael Llodra (France)/Nenad Zimonjic (Serbia)
- Women's Singles : Maria Sharapova (Russia) bt Jelena Jankovic (Serbia)
- Moody's downgrades Japan from AA3 to AA2
- India signed new DTAA with Georgia
24 August 2011
- Bab al-Azizia : Admin Centre of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
- Deven Sharma : Resigned Chief of S&P rating agency
- Douglas Peterson : New President pf S&P
- RuPay : Indian domestic card payment network being set up by National Payments Corporation of India(NPCI) to be launched on next February
- Sulaiman Jamal : MD of Bevel Gears India Pvt Ltd
- Joins the Board of Directors of American Gear Manufacturers Association
- Centre likely to allow 51% FDI in multibrand retail
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (Australia) : First Australian Woman to scale Mt.Everest without supplemental oxygen
- Steve Jobs : Resigned CEO of Apple Inc
- Timothy Cook : New CEO of Apple Inc
- India to reopen CEPA (Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) with South Korea
23 August 2011
- The Large Hadron Collider built by European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) : in Geneva, Switzerland
- Chinese Academy of Sciences mapped the rivers Brahmaputra, Indus, Salween & Irrawaddy
- Used LandSat of US & SPOT of France
- Angsi Glacier : Origin of the river Brahmaputra
- IBA : Indian Banks Association
- FICCI : Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
- IBA-FICCI annual conference held at Mumbai
- Theme : "Productivity of Excellence"
- Sunil Bharti Mittal : Chairman & CEO of Bharti Group
- Conferred Degree of Doctor of Science by IIT Kharagpur
- "His Majesty's Opponent" : book by Sugata Bose, grand nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
- Under-20 Football World Cup : Brazil bt Portugal to lift the title
- Sharad Pawar : Union Agriculture Minister
- RS Sharma : Marxist historian; Passed Away
- Manu Abhishek Singhvi : Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Lokpal Bill
- Jens Stoltenberg : PM of Norway
- Cabinet working of $90b Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC)
- Siddharth Varadarajan : new Editor of THE HINDU Daily
- Bashar al-Assad : President of Syria
- US asked him to quit
- NR Narayana Murthy : Chairman Emeritus of Infosys
- Subodh Kant Sahay : Union Minister of Tourism
- N Chandrasekaran : CEO & MD of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)
- launchced "iON", the first-of-its-kind fully integrated IT solution for Small and Medium Business (SMB)
- NMIZ : National Manufacturing & Investment Zone
- Rajasthan to get first NMIZ
- Thein Sein : President of Myanmar
- West Bengal may be renamed as "Paschimbanga"
- RK Singh : Home Secretary
- Rebels battle for the control of refinery in Zawiya, in Libya
- The Tomari Nuclear Plant : Hokkaido, Japan
- Japan restarted the plant
- China Merchant : Chinese firm bagged $500m deal from SriLanka to upgrade second terminal of Colombo Port
- India extends line of credit of $86.5m given to SriLanka
- Indo-Russian T50 Stealth Fighter makes its first international appearance in MAKS Airshow, Moscow
- Sivathanu Pillai : MD & CEO of Brahmos Aerospace Pvt Ltd
- Brahmos sign MOU with Moscow Aviation Institute to establish a centre of excellence for developing technology for high speed aircraft & missiles
- FMCG : Fastly Moving Consumer Good
- CIL (Coal India Ltd) overtook RIL (Reliance Industries Ltd) to become top valued company in India
- Jhalanath Khanal : Resigned PM of Nepal
- V Kishore Chandra Deo : Union Minister of Tribal Affairs
- Fujia Chemical Plant, Dalian, China : Manufacturer of Paraxylene
- Closed due to protest over concerns of potential toxic chemical leaks and health hazards
- Pratip Chaudhuri : Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI)
- FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) to be implemented in Service sector also
- A Sundaramoorthy : Director General (Acting) of The Geological Survey of India (GSI)
- GSI found Platinum Group of Elements in Baula-Nuasahi ultramafic complex, Orissa
- FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) donates $1m for Somalia relief
- Hamid Ansari : Vice-President of India & Chairman of Rajya Sabha
- Soumitra Sen : Judge of Calcutta High Court
- Jst Sudershan Reddy Committee recommend removal of Soumitra Sen
- Nar Bahadur Bhandari : Former Sikkim CM; Jailed for misappropriation on a drinking water project fund
- Jst Dinakaran : Sikkim High Court
- NPT (Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty) unsigned countries : India, Pakistan, Israel
- Prakash Jha : Director of film "Aarakshan"
- Vayalar Ravi : Union Civil Aviation Minister
- Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz : King of Saudi
- Shi Lang : China's 1st Aircraft Carrier Ship
- RBI suggest amendments to FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act)
- Jaipal Reddy : Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas
- D Subbarao : 22nd Governor of RBI (Reserve Bank of India)
- gets 2 year extension
- Foreign Investment on equity allowed in Mutual Funds
- Ceiling $3b : $10b + $3b under conditions
- ONGC Videsh Ltd qualified for Iraq's 12 exploration block bids
- "Students can verify evaluated papers of any exam" : Supreme Court
- Aditya Mehta : clinched National Snooker Championship
- NH39 blocked by SHDDC (The Sadar Hills District Demand Committee) in Manipur; They are fighting for Sadar Hills area in Senapati District into a full fledged district
- Abhijit Sen : Chair of BPL list advisory committee
- Goldman Sachs upgrades India's rating from 'under-weight' to 'market-weight'
- Record FDI inflow for India in June increased a massive 310% at $5.65b; highest monthly inflow in last 11 financial years
- Bill Gamel : Chairman of Cairn Energy
- Rs.21614Cr Central financial aid for West Bengal
- Operation Viswas : joint operation of security forces of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh & Jharkhand against Maoists in West Bengal
- BN Srikrishna Committee : inquiry on Mumbai riots of 1992-93
- Wen Jiabao : Chinese PM
- Ramu S Deora : President of FIEO (Federation of Indian Exports Organisations)
- Upendra Kamath : CMD of Vijaya Bank
- Goshi Hosono : Japanese Nuclear Crisis Minister
- S&P downgrades US credit from AAA to AA+
- UK Sinha : Chairman of SEBI (Securities & Exchanges Board of India)
- Rekha Gupta : Deputy CAG (Comptroller & Auditor General of India)
- NASA launched a Jupiter probe JUNO in Atlas-5
- NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) to psend Rs.1lakh Cr in next 10 years
- $1b help from world bank to clean Ganga
- IRDB Technology Excellence Award : South Indian Bank
- Rs.1200Cr Central aid for Air India
- MD Mallya : Chairman of Bank of Baroda
- new Chairman of Indian Banks Association
- Mogadishu : Capital of Somalia
- New Land Acquisition Bill will combine Land Acquisition Act 1894 and Rehabilitation & Resettlement Act
- ICICI Securities ties up with UK firm Colins Stewart
- RaK Carrier : Panama ship sank near Mumbai coast
- Carl Slim : MD of General Motors India
- India to take on Chair of 15-member UNSC for a month
- Pankaj Advani : clinched Hash 10 World SIM Billiards Champioship
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan : PM of Turkey
- Gen Kosaner : Dismissed Military Chief of Turkey, dismissed by PM
- Vineet Nayar : CEO & Vice-Chairman of HCL Technologies
- DTAA (Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement) signed by India-Switzerland
- India will participate in next Nuclear Security Summit @ South Korea in 2012
- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj : President of Mongolia
- P Chidambaram : Home Minister of India
- Shahara Khatoon : Home Minister of Bangladesh
- Raman Srivastava : Director General of Border Security Force (BSF)
- Maj Gen Anwar Hussain : Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)
- Co-ordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP) signed by India-Bangladesh
- Inked by Raman Srivastava & Anwar Hussain
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