14 January 2012

• Yousuf Raza Gilani : PM of Pakistan
• K Meera : Head of the advocate commission to inspect Vilappilsala plant, appointed by Kerala High Court
• Kerala sign Memorandum of Understanding and lease agreement with Union Territory of Lakshadweep for leasing water and land area at Beypore port
• Hardeep Singh Puri : India's Permanent Representative to UN
• Shahid Malik : Pakistan High Commissioner in India
• Vinod Rai : Comptroller & Auditor-General (C&AG)
• "Dam 999" : Film directed by Sohan Roy
• Thein Sein : President of Myanmar
• Myanmar released political prisoners
• Chinese companies rethinks investments in Pakistan fearing political instability and security
• Jst SB Sinha : Chairman of Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT)
• "Private, Foreign Banks can't pay excessive salary to its CEOs & staffs"; RBI
• The remunerations should seek prior approval from RBI
• "Qualified Foreign Investors (QFIs) not allowed to issue offshore derivatives instruments/ participatory notes (PNs)"; Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
• "Total shareholding of a QFI in Indian equities should not exceed 5% of the paid-up capital of the company at any point of time"
• e-biz : a Government-to-Business (G2B) portal to be launched by Andhra Pradesh Government
• RBI notified 100% FDI in single brand retail
• Kamla Persad Bissessar : PM of Trinidad & Tobago
• On India visit
• Signed 5 co-operation pacts in different sectors
• ILFTA : Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement; FTA between India-Sri Lanka signed earlier
• India-Sri Lanka bilateral trade touched $4b in 2011
• Rishad Bathiudeen : Sri Lankan Minister of Industry & Commerce
• Sri Lanka wants India to rectify trade imbalance
• Sri Lanka's import-export ratio is 8 : 1; means when Sri Lanka exports 1 item to India, its importing 8 items from India
• GAIL India to expand its pipeline network across the country during 2012-13 to reach out to the industrial & fertilizer unit customers
• APIA Sydney International Tennis : Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) bt Li Na (China)
• 12th Asian Shooting Championship : held @ Doha, Qatar
• Air Rifle
• Men : Abhinav Bindra (Ind) clinched Gold
• Team : Silver for India
• 50m Free Pistol
• Team : India finished 7th
• Narayan Chandra Jena : District Collector of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
• He was crowned as King for a day by the villagers according to their age-old tradition
• KV Thomas : Union Mister of States for Food & Consumer Affairs
• Digitisation of ration cards helped to find out 2.96 crore bogus ration cards
• INS Aridaman : Arihant-class nuclear submarine under construction at Ship Building Centre, Visakhapatnam
• Likely to be finished by end of 2012
• Range of 750km