01 January 2012

• South Indian Bank hike NRE Term Deposit rate from 9.25% to 9.5%
• Central Govt allot entire 12.5acres of Indu Mills to Maharashtra State Govt for construction of an International Memorial for Dr. Babasahed Ambedkar
• Jst SH Kapadia : Chief Justice of India
• Supreme Court cleared over 79,000 cases in 2011
• Thane : Cyclone that hit Southern parts of Andhra Pradesh & Northern parts of Tamil Nadu
• Dibyasingha Deb : Gajapati King of Puri
• Non-Hindus can enter Lord Jagannath temples across the globe except the 12th century shrine at Puri
• Sri Lanka scraps Visa-on-Arrival
• Kim Jong-un : new Military Commander of North Korea
• Son of Kim Jong-il
• Nouri al-Maliki : PM of Iraq
• PM marked 31 Dec as "Iraq Day" to mark end of a pact allowing US forces to stay in the country
• US in efforts to build up missile defences among Gulf allies to counter Iran
• US inked $30b arms deal with Saudi Arabia
• US announced $3.48b arms deal with UAE
• UAE is the first to purchase advanced anti-missile network known as Thaad (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence System)
• Prof Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Venky) : renowned Indian-American scientist whose path-breaking work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Conferred Knighthood by UK
• Along with Andre Geim & Konstantin Novoselov of Russia - winners of 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
• NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) clears proposals for two mega projects worth Rs.18,346.59 Cr
• Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project : Karnataka (3x800MW)
• NTPC to invest Rs.15,166.19 Cr
• Stage-V of Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Project : Madhya Pradesh (500MW)
• NTPC to invest Rs.3,180.40 Cr
• Stage-I (6x210MW), Stage-II (2x500MW), Stage-III (2x500MW) are under commercial operation
• Stage-IV (2x500MW) is under construction
• RS Butola : Chairman of IOC (Indian Oil Corporation)
• IOC plans to establish a nation-wide LPG pipeline grid to reduce the supply chain cost of transporting LPG
• IOC joined hands with NPCIL(Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd) to make a entry into Nuclear power - 1000MW nuclear power project in Rajasthan
• Asian U-14 Junior Tennis Tournament : India bt Hong Kong
• Garvit Batra (Ind) bt Jacki Tang (HK)
• BR Nikshep (Ind) bt Jack Wang (HK)
• 38th Junior National Kabaddi Chamiponship
• Boys : Uttar Pradesh def Tamil Nadu
• Girls : Delhi def Punjab
• Andy Murray : World No.4 Tennis Player appoints Czech legend Ivan Lendl as his full-time coach
• Mickey Arthur : Coach of Australian Cricket Team
• Gundia Hydro Electric Power Project (200MW) : Karnataka
• by Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL)
• Madhav Gadgil : head of Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)
• "Gundia power project will result in bio-diversity loss" : The panel submitted its report to Union Ministry of Environment & Forests