09 November 2011

• Nov 9th : National Legal Services Day
• Switzerland started sharing banking & tax-related information with India
• Jst Markandey Katju : Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI)
• Mario Draghi : new President of European Central Bank (ECB)
• SM Krishna : Minister of External Affairs
• Shivshankar Menon : National Security Adviser
• Ranjan Mathai : Foreign Secretary
• SAFTA : South Asia Free Trade Agreement
• 17th SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Summit : @ Maldives
• Theme : "Building Bridges"
• T Subbarami : Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology
• Silvio Berlusconi : PM of Italy
• Lost absolute majority votes in Parliament, making his resignation imminent
• George Papandreou : PM of Greece
• Agreed to resign following country's financial crisis
• Robert O Blake : head of US delegation in Maldives as observers in 17th SAARC Summit
• China opens its Embassy in Male, capital of Maldives
• China holds observer status in SAARC
• Addu Atoll : place in Maldives; Country leaders arrived here for SAARC Summit
• J Hari Narayan : Chairman of IRDA (Insurance Regulatory Development Authority)
• C Rangarajan : Chairman of PMEAC (PM's Economic Advisory Council)
• Rahul Khullar : Commerce Secretary
• India's exports slips 10.8% at $19.9b in Oct
• Imports up 21.7% at $39.5b
• Trade deficit widens to $19.6b
• Ramu S Deora : President of FIEO (Federation of Indian Export Organisations)
• S Vijay Kumar : Mines Secretary
• Joe Frazier : Boxing icon; Passed Away
• Sachin Tendulkar : First player to reach 15000 test runs
• Conrad Murray : Physician of 'King of Pop Music' Michael Jackson
• Found guilty of involuntary manslaughter of Jackson
• Asimo : Honda's human-shaped robot with latest features
• Able to help out with clean-up operations at strucken Fukushima Nuclear plant
• Cambridge University to study Sanskrit manuscripts