31 October 2011

• TM Jacob : Kerala Minister for Food & Civil Supplies; Passed Away
• Siddharth Varadarajan : The Hindu Editor
• Leon Panetta : US Defence Secretary
• David H Petraeus : Director of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
• Markandey Katju : Press Council Chairman
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference : @ Durban, Nov 28-Dec 9
• Kyoto Protocol : favours legally binding agreements, which call for mandatory emission cuts by rich countries & voluntary cuts by developing countries
• BASIC : Brazil, South Africa, India and China
• Al-Shabaab : rebel group in Mogadishu, Capital of Somalia
• Bashar al-Assad : President of Syria
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei : Iranian Supreme Leader
• describes exit of US forces from Iraq as "Golden" Victory
• Duvvuri Subbarao : RBI Governor
• ATP Austrian Open : @ Vienna
• Singles : Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) bt Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina)
• 1st French-man to win Austrian Open
• Doubles : Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (US) bt Max Mirnyi/Daniel Nestor  (Belarus/Canada)
• WTA Championships : @ Istanbul
• Singles : Petra Kvitova (Czech) bt Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
• Doubles : Liezel Huber/Lisa Raymond (US) bt Kveta Peschke/Katarina Srebotnik (Czech/Slovenia)
• ATP St. Petersburg Open : @ St. Petersburg
• Singles : Marin Cilic (Croatia) bt Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia)
• Doubles : Colin Fleming/Ross Hutchins (Great Britain) bt Mikhail Elgin/Alexander Kudryavtsev (Russia)
• 2011 Formula1 Airtel Indian Grand Prix : @ Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, UP
• Sebastian Vettel of Germany, Team Red Bull won the event
• Jenson Button of Britain, Team McLaren finished second
• Fernando Alonso of Spain, Team Ferrari finished third
• Indian GP is Vettel's 11th title this season, need 2 more titles to equal record of Michael Schumacher (Germany, Team Mercedes) of 13 wins in a season
• River to River Florence Indian Film Festival 2011 : in Florence, Italy
• Bengali film 'Chaplin' directed by Anindo Banerjee selected as inaugural film
• Kamalesh Sharma : reappointed as Secretary-General of Commonwealth
• Jean-Claude Trichet : President of The European Central Bank
• Uday Kotak : MD of Kotak Mahindra Bank
• Kotak Mahindra Bank hikes savings rate to 5.50%
• The proposed Chennai-Ernakulam High Speed Rail Corridor to be extended to Thiruvananthapuram
• Ajay Maken : Union Sports Minister
• Inaugurated work on Rs.5Cr synthetic track at PT Usha School of Athletics