22 January 2012

• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• Handed over resident ID cards to villagers of Prothrapur in Andaman & Nicobar Islands to boost maritime security
• IIT Roorkee : Oldest Autonomous Engineering School of Asia
• Submits its analysis on Mullaperiyar Dam; Reveals a gloomy result
• Kerala Legal Services Authority (KELSA) preparing Malayalam translations of Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act
• N Murali : Director of The Hindu
• President of The Music Academy, Chennai
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Government to open marketing outlets for Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
• Indian Naval Academy : @ Ezhimala, Kochi
• Simulator-based training introduced for cadets for training them in Bridgemanship (Art of handling warship at sea) & Navigation skills
• Academy likely to get a gunner simulator
• Hari Kunzru, Ruchir Joshi, Amitava Kumar, Jeet Thayil : Writers who read from Salman Rushdie's banned book The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literature Festival
• They left Jaipur to avoid an arrest for reading from the banned book
• William Dalrymple : Co-Director of Jaipur Literature Festival
• Petroleum & Natural Gas Ministry proposed an additional excise duty of Rs.80000 on diesel driven cars in the coming budget
• Shehan Karunatilaka : Singapore-based Sri Lankan writer
• His novel "Chinaman" won him 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature carrying $50000 at the Jaipur Literature Festival
• The book refers to Pradeep Sivanathan Mathew, a former cricketer (left-arm unorthodox spinner) of Sri Lanka, who was often described as Chinaman
• Mahinda Rajapaksa : Sri Lankan President
• Sri Lanka launched a Tri-lingual Initiative in the presence of APJ Abdul Kalam, former Indian President
• Aimed at ensuring that all Sri Lankans learn Sinhalese, Tamil & English
• 2012 declared year of Tri-lingual Sri Lanka
• Julia Gillard : Australia PM
• Labor Party : Minority Ruling party of Gillard
• A key independent MP withdrew his support to the govt after PM broke an agreement on gambling reforms
• Yemen's Parliament granted immunity from prosecution for the outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh
• Muslim Brotherhood : One of the World's Largest Islamic Movements
• Egypt's Islamists led by Muslim Brotherhood clinched majority two-third seats in the Parliamentary Elections
• The first polls after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, Former President of Egypt
• International scientists agree to a two-month halt to controversial research on a bird flu virus that may be easily passed among humans & could cost millions of lives
• Nirmal Chandra Jha : Chairman of Coal India Ltd (CIL)
• Godrej Consumers Products Ltd (GCPL) to acquire 60% stake in Cosmetica Nacional (Chile)
• GCPL will allot 16.7m shares to Baytree Investments (Mauritius)
• Adi Godrej : Chairman of GCPL
• Anand Sharma : Union Minister of Industry & Commerce
• Rajiv Kumar : Director General of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)
• India Show : to be held @ Lahore for improving economic & commercial relations between India & Pakistan
• Jointly promoted by FICCI, Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Trade Development Authority of Paksitan (TDAP)
• Diptayan Ghosh : won his maiden International Master norm in Parsvnath International Chess Championship @ New Delhi
• 12th Asian Shooting Championship : @ Doha, Qatar
• Manavjit Singh Sandhu : Won gold in Trap event
• Won an Olympic quota
• Imran Hasan Khan : Won Olympic quota in 50m Rifle 3-Position event
• Sanjeev Rajput : Won gold in 50m Rifle 3-Position event
• Gagan Narang : Won bronze in 50m Rifle 3-Position event
• VK Malhotra : Acting President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• To continue IOA President
• Suresh Kalmadi : IOA President out on bail on Commonwealth Games corruption case expressed his inability to focus on the job
• FGS Luebeck : a German warship of European Naval Force (Eu Navfor)
• Rescues an Indian dhow & its 15-member crew captured by Somali pirates
• "In a marriage between a tribal woman and a forward caste man the offspring will get tribal status if the child is brought up in the mother's environment" : Supreme Court
• A bench of Justices Aftab Alam & Ranjana Desai
• Vikram Dutta : Indian-US Entrepreneur sentenced to 20 years in prison by Manhattan Federal Court, New York for money laundering
• For using his perfume distribution business to launder millions of dollars for Mexican drug dealers
• Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL)
• 1 dead & 5 injured in a blast inside the refinery
• 5th incident at MRPL since 2009
• Lekshmi Kumaran : Deputy GM (Corporate Communications) MRPL
• MRPL was awarded "Unnatha Suraksha Puraskar" in 2009 & 2010 by Karnataka Chapter of the National Safety Council of India