20 January 2012
- P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
- Nandan Nilekani : Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
- Sheikh Hasina : PM of Bangladesh
- Suresh Kalmadi : Former Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee
- Kerala nod for Rs.85 Cr Tourism Projects
- Harish Khare : Resigned as Media Adviser to PM
- Pankaj Pachauri : NDTV India Senior Editor & Anchor to take over as Communications Adviser to PM
- Pulok Chatterjee : Principal Secretary to PM
- Pradeep Maharathy : Odisha Agriculture Minister stepped down amid criticism in Pipili gang rape case
- Jayanthi Natarajan : Union Minister of State of Environment & Forests
- Exercise begins to map forest areas inviolate to miners
- IndOOS : Indian Ocean Observing System
- To collect data relating to climate, monsoon, cyclones & related phenomena
- Jointly established by many countries including India
- Planned to deploy 46 buoys called RAMA (Research Mooted Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis) for meteorological & oceanographic studies in Indian Ocean out of which 30 are deployed
- Pirates in western Indian Ocean especially in the Arabian Sea causing a blow to scientists that the buoys cant be deployed in the pirate infected areas
- Yousuf Raza Gilani : PM of Pakistan
- Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
- News International : Rupert Murdoch's British Media Group
- Paid millions of pounds in compensating victims of phone-hacking by the now defunct News of the World
- US Lawmakers change their stand on piracy bills SOPA & PIPA
- Nippon Life Insurance buys 26% in Reliance Capital Asset Management (RCAM), Idnia's second largest Asset Management Company (AMC)
- $290m deal signed by Anil Ambani (Chairman of Reliance Capital) & Yoshinobu Tsutsui (President of Nippon Life)
- Food Inflation remains in negative zone
- Centre ask Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), the oil regulator, to determine marketing margin charged by private & public sector gas marketing companies for natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) & coal bed methane (CBM) gas
- Antonio Perez : Chairman & Chief Executive of Eastman Kodak Co
- Kodak files for bankruptcy
- Company has not seen annual profit since 2007, liabilities exceeds assets
- Marcos Baghdatis : Cyprus Tennis Player
- In 2012 Australian Open he lost a match to
Stanislas Wawrinka (Swiss)
- During a break between sets he broke four of his
tennis rackets to vent frustration on losing a set
- He was fined $800 for the act
- Somdev Devvarman : Indian Tennis Player
- Will get $6000 per month for 24 months for hiring personal coach and other preparation related expenses for the London Olympics
- Sports Ministry so far sanctioned $318000 for 7 tennis players under Operation Excellence for London Olympics 2012 (OPEX 2012) scheme through National Sports Development Fund (NSDF)
- All players will get $6000 per month
- Devvarman is getting the lion's share
- Ajay Maken : Union Sports Minister
- Baramathi all-India T20 Cricket Tournament : held @ Pune
- Western Railway bt State Bank of Travancore (SBT)
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