10 January 2012

• Markandey Katju : Chairman of Press Council of India
• States where polls are to be conducted : Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur & Goa
• Shivshankar Menon : National Security Adviser of India
• Zhang Yan : Chinese Ambassador to India
• Hu Jintao : Chinese President
• Najib Razak : PM of Malaysia
• Anwar Ibrahim : Leader of Opposition in Malaysia
• Kuala Lumpur High Court acquitted him in Sodomy trial
• Vineet Nayyar : Chairman of Mahindra Satyam
• Files a lawsuit against former board of directors and auditors seeking damages after the company was hit by fraud
• B Ramalinga Raju : Former Chairman of Mahindra Satyam who was accused of the fraud
• Michael Dell : Founder & Chairman of Dell Inc
• Lalit Gupta : MD & CEO of Essar Oil
• Successfully commissioned Amine Regeneration Unit (ARU) in Phase I expansion of Vadinar Refinery, Gujarat
• Pawan Goenka : President of Mahindra & Mahindra (Automotive & Farm Equipment Service)
• HyAlfa : World's First Hydrogen Powered Zero-emission Three Wheeler
• Developed under the project 'DelHy 3W' of UN Industrial Development Organisation's International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (UNIDO-ICHET) in association with Mahindra & Mahindra and IIT-Delhi
• Project took 3 years & over $1m
• BD Park : Appointed MD of Samsung India
• Also President & CEO of South West Asia Operations of Samsung
• Sushil Kumar : Chairman of Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers of States
• Demanded to remove the Rs.2500 cap on Professional Tax
• Farooq Abdullah : Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy
• Anand Mahindra : Vice-Chairman & MD of Mahindra & Mahindra
• Mahindra Solar One, solar power developer, commissioned its first 5MW solar power plant in Jodhpur, Rajasthan
• Mahindra Solar One is a joint-venture of Kiran Energy & Mahindra
• Michael Nobbs : Chief Coach of Indian Hockey Team
• Vijay Kumar Malhotra : President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• Randhir Singh : Secretary-General of IOA
• IOA Retains 2 panels
• Olympic Games Monitoring Committee headed by VK Malhotra
• 4-member Marketing Committee (Sponsorship & TV Rights) for the Olympics headed by Anil Khanna, Secretary-General of IATA (All India Tennis Association)
• Infosys Science Foundation Prize-2011 : Conferred to 6 scientists from 5 science streams by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
• Kalyanmoy Deb : Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur (Engineering & Computer Science)
• Imran Siddiqi : Scientist, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (Life Sciences)
• Kannan Soundararajan : Director, Mathematics Research Centre, Stanford University, US (Mathematical Sciences)
• Sriram Ramaswamy : Professor, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, IIS-Bangalore (Physical Sciences)
• Raghuram G Rajan : Charles M Harper Faculty Fellow at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business (Social Sciences-Economics)
• Pratap Bhanu Mehta : President & Chief Executive of Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi(Social Sciences-Political Sciences-International Relations)
• TV Mohandas Pai : President of Board of Trustees of Infosys Science Foundation
• NR Narayana Murthy : Chairman Emeritus of Infosys
• Nandan Nilekani : Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
• "Pharaoh and the King" : Book written in Telugu by Viswanath Venkat Dasari, an 18 year-old visually-challenged boy on Indian-Egyptian Mythology
• 2nd year student of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies
• Inspired by JK Rowling's Harry Potter series
• Took 7 years to complete
• Published by Author House Publications, US