05 January 2012

• India chalk out a Rs.450 Cr plan to develop a pan-India secure network & network based services such as e-mail & Internet telephony exclusively for Govt use
• "Mun Nira Karshakar" : A book for frontline farmers released by The Centre for Research & Development (CRD)
• Got assistance from NABARD's (National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development) Farmers' Technology Fund
• NR Das : Chief of CISF (Central Industrial Security Force)
• Babu Singh Kushwaha : Former Family Welfare Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Sacked by CBI for irregularities in implementation of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds
• Satyananda Mishra : Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)
• Cabinet Committee on Security clears a Euro 950m (Rs.6600 Cr) deal to equip French Mirage ground attack aircrafts with 500 air-to-air missiles that would be procured from a western consortium
• Indian Govt last year had struck Euro 1.47b deal with French firms Dassault Aviation & Thales to upgrade its 51 Mirage 2000 aircraft
• Mitt Romney : Won IOWA Caucus by a shear margin of 8 votes
• The IOWA Caucus is the event that kick-starts the presidential election by finding out which one of the Republican candidates will face-off against the Democrats in the Presidential elections
• Asif Ali Zardari : President of Pakistan
• Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani : Army Chief of Pakistan
• Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha : ISI Chief
• Husain Haqqani : Former Pakistan envoy to US
• Pakistani Judicial Commission investigating Memogate Scandal sent them notices to respond on the issue at the next hearing
• "No floating interest rates on small savings schemes" : Finance Ministry
• Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) cleared Rs.352.50 Cr investment for producing oil from B-173A marginal field off the Mumbai coast
• Sudhir Vasudeva : Chairman & MD of ONGC
• Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) announced an uniform framework for reporting Asset Liability Management (ALM) activities adopted by insurance companies
• FOMC : Federal Open Market Committee
• SEP : Summary of Economic Projections
• Bernd Bohr : Chairman of Bosch, Automotive components manufacturer
• Plans Rs.2200 Cr investment in India in next two years
• Union Cabinet approved the proposal to make hallmarking of gold mandatory
• K Mathur : Union Secretary for MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises)
• Sought higher outlay for the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Programme  in XII Plan
• Vijay Kumar Malhotra : Acting President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• IOA reconstituted its Ethics & Arbitration Commissions
• Six arrested in connection with hoisting of a Pakistani flag in premises of a Tahsildar's office in Sindagi taluk of Bijapur district in Karnataka