07 January 2012

• MM Pareed Pillay : Kerala Lokayukta
• G Sasidharan : Kerala Upa-Lokayukta
• Ramaswamy R Iyer : Architect of India's first National Water Policy
• "Mullaperiyar is not an inter-State river"
• B Chakravarty : GM of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)
• K Subramaniam : Chairman & MD of Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL)
• NCDEX : National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd
• Amendments in Consumer Protection Act & Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Act
• "Hallmarking for Gold Mandatory"
• SK Singh Award : D Bala Venkatesh Varma, Joint Secretary in Ministry of External Affairs
• For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen India's position in the global nuclear order
• The award for excellence in Indian Foreign Service is named after former Foreign Secretary & Governor, Shailendra Kumar Singh
• Shanti Bhushan : The Department of Stamps & Registration in Uttar Pradesh fined him to over Rs.27 lakh for outstanding sum in property deal
• 12 Diamond traders released after being detained fro 2years on charges of smuggling, from a detention centre in Shenzhen, China
• Gujarat High Court hands over the Ishrat Jahan fake-encounter case to CBI
• Rajiv Ranjan Verma IPS : Head of the High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) that was investigating the case
• Inspector-General, VV Laxminarayan : Head of the 10-member CBI team
• Vice Adm MP Muralidharan : New Director-General of Indian Coast Guard
• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Army Staff
• Shinzo Nakanishi : MD of Maruti Suzuki
• Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) : subsidiary of ONGC
• Highest buyer of Iranian crude
• Has not cut purchases despite US sanctions against Tehran
• Sudhir Vasudeva : Chairman of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
• Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) Executives fineda total of Rs.70 lakh for insider trading by SEBI (Securities & Exchange Board of India)
• Manoj Gaur : Executive Chairman of JAL
• Indian Foreign Exchange (FOREX) slips below $300b mark
• US Jobless rate drops to 8.5%
• Centre will soon notify the 100% FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in Single-Brand Retail cleared by the Union Cabinet on 24 Nov 2011
• B Raj Kumar : Appointed new Executive Director of Indian Bank
• Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) inks pact with Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) to extend assistance to micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs) to the IOB customers
• M Narendra : Chairman & MD of IOB
• S Muhnot : Chairman & MD of SIDBI
• Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) to commission its first unit of 250MW lignite-powered CFBC (circulating fluidised bed combustion) boiler at Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) complex in Tamil Nadu
• Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) : Party of Opposition in Nepal
• Ask Baburam Bhattarai, PM of Nepal, to step down
• Ilker Basbug : Former Army Chief of Turkey
• Detained for allegations on setting up & leading a terrorist group and of attempting to overthrow the government
• Xinhua : Official News Agency of China
• Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari & PM Yousuf Raza Gilani decided to hold elections in mid-February
• Caretaker Government to be in place
• PM to propose 3 names to Leader of Opposition for the post of Caretaker PM
• All-India CK Nayudu (U-22) Cricket Title : Punjab won the title beating Delhi
• Marcos Roberto Silveria Reis : Brazilian Former International Footballer (Goalkeeper)
• Announces his retirement after 20 years spent
• Ram Sevak Sharma : Director General of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India)
• For the first time in India, Ratu block of Ranchi district in Jharkhand implemented cash payments for MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) workers through Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) of UID
• Mohamed Nasheed : President of Maldives