13 January 2012

• Kerala Govt appoints DMRC as project consultant of Kochi Metro Project
• E Sreedharan : Former MD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
• He will be Principal Adviser to the DMRC in Kochi Metro Project
• 50 lakh students across Madhya Pradesh participate in Surya Namaskar
• "No cases of wild polio being recorded in the past one year"
• WHO to remove India from its list of endemic nations
• Margaret Chan : Director General of World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Ghulam Nabi Azad : Union Health Minister
• Muthoot Precious Metal Corporation launched Chatrapati Shivaji gold coins of 2gm, 4gm and gm for sale
• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Army Staff
• Naeem Khalid Lodhi : Former Defence Secretary of Pakistan
• Dismissed by Pakistan PM Yusuf Raza Gilani
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• Ashfaq Parvez Kayani : Chief of Pakistan Army
• Ahmed Shuja Pasha : Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General
• Kim Il-Sung : founder of North Korea; Father of former leader Kim Jong-il
• Pyongyang : Capital of North Korea
• Sheikh Hasina : PM of Bangladesh
• Dipu Moni : Foreign Affairs Minister of Bangladesh
• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) : Health Insurance scheme of Indian Govt
• To extend its cover to more people
• Current beneficiaries :
• MGNREGS beneficiaries
• Street vendors
• Domestic workers
• Beedi workers
• Building & construction site workers
• This scheme has got wide appreciation from International Labour Organisation & the World Bank
• Beneficiaries get smart card-based cashless health insurance cover of Rs.30000 per family per annum
• Centre contributes 75% of annual premium (90% for northeast) and remaining by State Govt
• Beneficiary family only has to pay Rs.30 per annum for renewal
• Centre asked social-networking sites such as Google & Facebook to filter objectionable contents
• Petition filed under : Indian Penal Code (IPC)
• 292 (sale of obscene books)
• 293 (sale of obscene objects to young person)
• 120-B (criminal conspiracy)
• Joseph Stiglitz, US Economist & Nobel Laureate : "India leads the world in recognising the right to food"
• Leon Panetta : US Defence Secretary
• Karen National Union (KNU) : Ethnic rebel group of Myanmar
• Myanmar Govt & KNU sign a cease-fire after decades of fighting
• Naypyidaw : Capital of Myanmar
• Phobos-Grunt : Russia's doomed Mars probe likely to fall into the Indian Ocean
• Industrial output rebounds in Nov to 5.9% from -4.7 of Oct%
• 18th Partnership Summit : Organised by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) 
• Held @ Hyderabad
• Inaugurated by Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry and Textiles
• Mark Warner : Co-Chair of US Senate's India Caucus
• Asks US President Barack Obama to expedite signing of a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with India to protect investors from both countries
• eMO : $20,000 worth electric car prototype unveiled by Tata Technologies
• Warren Harris : President of Tata Technologies
• "Companies that choose to bring home jobs and invest in US will be rewarded" : Barack Obama, US President
• SD Shibulal : MD & CEO of Infosys
• Infosys Q3 net-up by 33% on the back of Rupee slide
• GK Vasan : Union Minister of Shipping
• K Mohandas : Shipping Secretary
• GJ Rao : Chairman of Paradip Port Trust