03 November 2011

• Pakistan Cabinet decided to grant MFN (Most Favoured Nation) status to India
• Julian Assange : WikiLeaks Chief & Founder
• London High Court gave its verdict to extradite him to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault
• Student representatives of Kerala State Child Welfare Council to lead on Children's Day rally on November 14
• Prime Minister : Gouri Krishna Das
• President : Nisi John
• Speaker : Ardhra AR
• Jst Manjula Chellur : to take charge as Kerala High Court Judge
• Was 1st judge of Karnataka High Court
• Will be senior most judge in Kerala High Court after taking charge
• Will replace Acting Chief Justice CN Ramachandran
• Michael D Higgins : Newly elected President of Ireland
• Tin Bigha Corridor : Corridor between India-Bangladesh
• Sheikh Hasina (PM of Bangladesh) declared the corridor formally open for 24 hours for unrestricted movement
• Aung San Suu Kyi : Economist, Politician, Opposition Leader of Myanmar
• Chief of National League for Democracy
• Thein Sein : President of Myanmar
• Isabella Thoburn College : 1st Christian Women's College of Asia
• Marked it Quasquicentennial Celebrations (125 years)
• Indian President Pratibha D Patel inaugurated the celebrations
• India welcomes 7-point accord of Nepal to take integration & rehabilitation of the Maoist combatants to form Nepal Army
• Nice Cote D'Azur International Airport : @ Cannes, France
• Indian PM Manmohan Singh landed there for the G20 Summit in Cannes
• Indian cabinet to introduce Citizens Right to Grievance Redress Bill to complement the Lokpal Bill
• It will address grievances related to public services
• will cover functioning of panchayats, government, police
• Uttarakhand government passed legislation for appointment of Lokayukta whose jurisdiction would cover the Chief Minister's, Minsters', MLAs, all bureaucracy, lower judiciary and Citizens' Charter for time-bound implementation of government services
• Abdullah Gul : President of Turkey
• Istanbul Conference : held @ Ciragan Palace, Istanbul with Presidents of Afghanistan & Turkey as well as Foreign Ministers from India, Pakistan & Iran
• 2011 Human Development Report : by United Nations Development Programme
• In Human Development
• India ranked 134 out of 187 countries 
• 1 Norway
• 2 Australia
• 3 The Netherlands
• 4 United States
• In gender inequality India ranked 129 out of 146 countries
• Rajan Anandan : MD & Vice-President of Google India
• Google launched an initiative to provide free websites to Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs) help them get online
• BC Tripathi : CMD of GAIL (India) Ltd
• Earmarked $400m for its new Singapore trading office to secure LNG & petrochemical product cargoes fro delivery to India in 2012
• Tandon Committee : 44 deemed universities facing de-recognition on the basis of the committee's report
• "The Sly Company of People Who Care" : book by Rahul Bhattacharya
• Winner of this year's The Hindu Literary Prize for best fiction
• "The Sense of An Ending" : by Julian Barnes
• Winner of Man Booker Prize 2011
• "Jamarach's Menagerie" : by Carol Birch
• Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2011
• "Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It" : by Howard Jacobson
• Winner of Man Booker Prize 2010
• "Steve Jobs : The Exclusive Biography" : by Walter Isaacson
• Biography of Steve Jobs
• "KR Narayanan : In The Name of The People" : by KR Narayanan, Amartya Sen
• International Trade Statistics 2011 : World Trade Organisation
• In Textile & Clothing
• 1 China
• 2 European Union
• 3 India
• 4 Turkey
• 5 Bangladesh
• Doxorubicin Hydrochloride injection : used in treatment of a wide range of cancers
• Onco Therapies Ltd, a subsidiary of Strides Arcolab Ltd, got nod from US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for selling the drug in US market
• Beni Prasad Verma : Minister for Steel
• PK Misra : Steel Secretary
• SAIL (Steel Authorities of India) & POSCO, of South Korea, may each take equal stake in their proposed joint-venture at Bokaro
• Nirmal Chandra Jha : Chairman of Coal India Ltd (CIL)
• K Venkataraman : MD & CEO of Karur Vysya Bank
• UNDP called for a currency transaction tax to help the world's poorest countries deal with the effects of climate changes
• Madhu Kannan : MD & Chief Executive of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange)
• BSE to launch Nasdaq ETF soon
• Vinay Kumar : MD of National Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories Ltd (NFCSF)
• Demanded Government to allow exports of 1million tonne sugar immediately
• Needed nod for export of 1m tonne a month till March 2012
• Number 1 History Award : @ Swiss Indoors ATP Tennis Tournament in Basel, Switzerland
• Switzerland's Roger Federer conferred the award
• Named the most successful tennis player in the history of the tournament
• SBI to open 100 overseas branches in 2 years