Saturday, 21 January 2012

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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