October 2011

02 October 2011

• Bharat Chetri : Indian Hockey Team Captain
• DLF Masters Golf : Won by Himmat Singh Rai

03 October 2011

• Pulok Chatterji : New Principal Secretary to PM
• Shanti Tigga : First woman Army Jawan of India
• Bundestag : Name of German Parliament
• Rajan Mathews : Director-General of Cellular Operators Association of India
• Rajasthan Govt launched Free medicine scheme
• K Chandrasekhar Rao : Leader of Telangana Rashtra Samiti

04 October 2011

• Sudhir Vasudeva : Chairman & MD of ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation)
• Nobel Prize for Medicine : Bruce Beutler (US), Jules Hoffmann (France), Ralph Steinman (Canada - Passed Away)

05 October 2011

• India to train Afghan forces
• Both countries agreed on a first ever Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA)
• Indian Council of Cultural Relations sign MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Swiss Lausanne University to establish Tagore chair to teach Hindi
• Global credit rating agency Moody's downgrade State Bank of India from C- to D+
• Nobel Prize for Physics : Saul Perlmutter (US), Brian Schmidt (Australia), Adam G Riess (US)
• PSLV C-18 to put 4 satellites in earth's orbit
• Megha Tropiques (France)
• SRMSat (Sri Ramaswamy Memorial Satellite - by students of SRM University)
• Jugnu (IIT Kanpur)
• VesselSat (LuxSpace, Luxembourg)

07 October 2011

• Steve Jobs : CEO of Apple Inc. PASSED AWAY
• Larry Page : CEO of Google Inc.
• Akash : Cheapest tablet PC launched by Govt of India
• Nobel Prize for Literature : Tomas Transtromer (Sweden)
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry : Dan Shechtman (Israel)
• ESL Narasimhan : Governor of Andhra Pradesh
• Pratapsingh Rane : Goa Speaker
• Multiple Entry Visa for businessmen between India-Pakistan

08 October 2011

• Nobel Prize for Peace : Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberian President), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) Tawakel Karman (Yemen)
• National School of Drama loses deemed university status
• Nalanda Varsity : Bihar

09 October 2011

• Karan Rastogi : Indian Tennis Player
• 55% of GDP is from Service Sector
• Vijay Pai Khot : new Chairman of Public Accounts Committee, which is investigating mining scam in Goa
• Replaced Manohar Parrikar

10 October 2011

• Mumbai Indians won Champions League Twenty20 beating Royal Challengers Bangalore
• Youngest double world Formula1 champion : Sebastian Vettel (Germany) (Red Bull Racing Team)
• Japanese GrandPrix F1 : Jenson Button (UK) (McLaren-Mercedes)
• Digambar Kamat : Chief Minister of Goa

11 October 2011

• Nobel Prize for Economics : Thomas J Sargent (US), Christopher A Sims (US)
• Jagjit Singh : Ghazal Singer, PASSED AWAY
• Maxis Telecom Company : Malaysia
• Draft National Telecom Policy 2011 plans to bring 500 MHz spectrum by 2020
• Telecom may be given infrastructure status
• SC Khanna : Secretary-General of AUSPI (Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India)

12 October 2011

• JS Shinde : President of All India Organisation of Chemists & Druggists (AIOCD)
• Suresh Gupta : Secretary-General of AIOCD
• S Hajara : Chairman & MD of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)
• FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in single brand retail to be raised
• Now its 51%
• India-ADB (Asian Development Bank) celebrates 25 years of partnership
• Abdullah Gul : President of Republic of Turkey
• Shivshankar Menon : National Security Adviser (NSA) of India
• Oct 16 : World Food Day
• Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi : Chief Election Commissioner of India

13 October 2011

• Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck : King of Bhutan
• To marry Jetsun Prema
• Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning & Mitigation System (IOTWS) tested
• Magnus Carlsen : Chess Player of Norway
• Rekha Gupta : Deputy CAG (Comptroller & Auditor General)
• ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) inked pact with PetroVietnam (Vietnam Oil & Gas Group) for exploration in South China Sea
• Truong Tan Sang : President of Vietnam
• Yulia Tymoshenko : Former PM of Ukraine
• Sentenced to 7 year prison for abuse of office

14 October 2011

• Indian Govt announced Rs.1700 Cr bonanza for exporters
• The Literature Prize : The rival prize against Booker Prize

15 October 2011

• Sushil Kumar Shinde : Union Minister for Power
• Dennis Ritchie : US computer scientist; Founder of C Programming Language; PASSED AWAY
• US based International Paper (IP) buys Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills (APPM)
• John Faraci : Chairman & CEO of IP
• RBI raised limit for retaining foreign currency abroad from $500 to $3000 per transactions through Online Payment Gateway Service Providers (OPGSPs)
• KYC : Know Your Customer
• Liam Fox : Quits as British Defence Secretary
• Philip Hammond : New British Defence Secretary

16 October 2011

• World Food Prize 2011 : John Agyekum Kufuor (Former President of Ghana) & Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Former President of Brazil)
• WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom Award 2011 : Dawit Isaak, Swedish-Eritrean playwright, journalist and writer
• Kaushik Basu : Chief Economic Adviser to Govt of India
• Heads inter-ministerial group on inflation
• Durand Cup Football 2011 : Churchill Brothers won beating Prayag United at the Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi

17 October 2011

• Indian Open Golf : David Gleeson (Australia) clinched the title
• Korean GrandPrix : Sebastian Vettel (Germany; Red Bulls Racing) won
• Shanghai Masters Tennis : Andy Murray (Great Britain) bt David Ferrer (Spain)
• Union Govt made Research & Development mandatory for all profit-making Central Public Sector Enterprises
• Sujato Bhadra : Head of interlocutors appointed by Mamata Banerjee, CM of West Bengal, to broker peace between Maoists and the state govt
• IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) Summit : To be held @ Pretoria, South Africa
• Jacob Zuma : President of South Africa
• Dilemma Rousseff : President of Brazil

18 October 2011

• PK Pradhan : New Health & Family Welfare Secretary
• 100 Years of Civil Aviation in India Observed
• N Chandrasekaran : CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• India-Mercosur ink Preferential Trading Agreement (PTA)

19 October 2011

• IBSA Countries ink 2nd Tashwane Agreement to mutually support each other for membership in UN Security Council
• FSSAI : Food Safety & Standards Authority of India
• Centre to disinvest 5% stake from ONGC worth Rs.12000 Cr
• Stakes from PFC (Power Finance Corporation) sold for Rs.1144 Cr
• Benjamin Netanyahu : PM of Israel

20 October 2011

• Man Booker Prize 2011 : Julian Barnes (UK) for his book "The Sense of An Ending"
• Prize Money : 50000 Pound
• Mohammad Haleem Khan : Disinvestment Secretary
• IBSA countries trade target by 2015 : $25b
• Greece again moves for austerity measures to overcome European economic crisis
• European Court outlaws Embryonic Stem Cell Technique
• George Varghese Kakkanadan : Malayalam short story writer and novelist; PASSED AWAY

21 October 2011

• Abdelhakim Belhaj : Leader of Tripoli Military Council, rebel group of Libya
• ETF : Exchange Trade Fund
• Research In Motion (RIM) : Canadian Multinational Company that develops Blackberry services
• "Doing Business 2012 : Doing Business in a More Transparent World" : Report by the World Bank
• India rank 132 on Business Friendly Reforms
• Top position : Singapore
• David Petraeus : Chief of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Martin Dempsey : Chief of US Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Dr MK Mani, Chief Nephrologist, Apollo Hospital, Chennai : Awarded Dhanvantari Award for excellence in medical services
• Namma Metro : South India's 1st Metro Rail Service flagged off in Bangalore
• Japan helped in construction
• Alain Juppe : French Foreign Minister
• France to set up nuclear plants in western India

22 October 2011

• DAA (Disturbed Areas Act) to be lifted from some parts of Jammu & Kashmir
• Pakistan given non-permanent membership in UN Security Council for 2 years
• Harsh Mander : Chief of Working Group on Urban Poverty
• India-Nepal inked 7 point agreement
• India to help Nepal to make its own constitution
• BIPPA (Bilateral Investment Promotion & Protection Agreement)
• India extended a $250mn Line of Credit (LoC) to Nepal for infrastructure development at 1.75% interest
• DTAA (Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement) Failed
• Supreme Court directed the Jaypee group to deposit 25% of the ticket sales, of the Indian GP, in an no-lien account
• Galileo : Global Positioning System (GPS) of Europe
• State run banks to raise home loan tenors to 25-30 or till the borrower is 70 years old
• NELP : New Exploration License Policy
• Vijaylakshmi Emani : Indian-American activist
• Barack Obama, US President, honored her posthumously with US Presidential Citizen's Medal

23 October 2011

• Raju Ramachandran : Amicus Curiae of Zakia Jafri case, speaks against Gujarat CM Narendra Modi
• Appointment of TCA Anant as Chief Statistician of India set aside
• Kerala tops in literacy & health services : Human Development Index (HDI)
• HDI up 21%
• National Development Council project GDP for 12th Five Year Plan to 9%
• US Honors Indians
• National medal for Science : Srinivasa SR Varadhan
• National medal for Technology & Innovation : Rakesh Agrawal
• Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud : Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia; PASSED AWAY

24 October 2011

• Quake in Van, Turkey
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan : PM of Turkey
• 63% people to be covered under Food Security Bill
• SAARC Countries Election Commissioners Meeting : Held @ Alappuzha
• Hamid Ali : Pakistan Chief Election Commissioner
• Ajay Maken : Union Sports Minister
• Siddhartha Behura : Former Telecom Secretary bagged in 2G Scam
• "Autumn Raga" : Book written by Jaskiran Chopra; Released by Ruskin Bond
• Marco Simoncelli : Italian Motorcycle Racer
• Crashed in Malayasian MotoGP in Sepang Circuit and was killed
• Rugby World Cup 2011 : New Zealand beat France
• Election Polls in Tunisia

25 October 2011

• Kerala-Orissa to jointly setup thermal power plant at Baitarani, West Orissa
• International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence : Tehelka & The Week
• Telecom Department & Defence Ministry to reserve a special bandwidth named "Defence Band" for Defence purposes
• Vinod Goenka : Director of Swan Telecom; Bagged on 2G Scam
• "Steve Jobs" : Biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson
• Bobby Jindal : Indian origin Governor of Louisiana
• BC Tripathi : Chairman & MD of GAIL (India) Ltd

26 October 2011

• RBI 2nd Quarter Review
• Repo rate : 8.5%
• Reverse Repo : 7.5%
• GDP Projection : 7.6%
• CRR : 6%
• Deregulated interest on SB account over 1lakh
• Subsidy for 15lakh worth home loan with 25lakh total cost
• Removed pre-payment penalty on home loans
• Yes Bank hiked SB interest by 200 basis points
• SHDDC (Sadar Hills District Demand Committee) & UNC (United Naga Council) made blockade in NH53 & NH39 in Manipur
• Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rabi crops hiked
• INS Kadmatt : 2nd in a series of four Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvettes of India
• Built by the Garden Reach Ship Builders Engineers Ltd, Kolkata
• Commonwealth : 54 member nations
• India in top 5 on Rotavirus Infections
• Jst GR Majithia : Chairman of Wage Board for journalists and other employees of newspapers and news agencies
• India to hike IMF Quota to make it eight largest shareholder in the multilateral lending agency

27 October 2011

• Virginia Rometi : First Lady CEO of IBM (International Business Machines)

28 October 2011

• Gen Vijay Kumar Singh : Indian Army Chief
• Vayalar Literary Award 2011 : Awarded to K. P. Ramanunni for his work "Jeevithathinte Pusthakam"
• Eurozone crisis relief measures undertaken
• 50% debt wiped off by banks
• Trillion Euro help
• Meeting held at Brussels, Belgium
• Forbes Top Rich Indians List
• 1 Mukesh Ambani
• 2 Lakshmi Mittal
• 3 Azim Premji
• "A Shot At History" : Autobiography of Indian Ace Shooter Abhinav Bindra
• Co-Author : Rohit Brijnath

29 October 2011

• World Stroke Day : Oct 29
• Royal daughters of UK to get equal rights to Royal Throne
• NCRB : National Crime Records Bureau
• Pakistan tested 700km range Hatf-7
• Kalamandalam to join hands with Czech Republic
• Nod for capacity doubling in Kochi Petronet LNG terminal
• Australia to host global piracy talks
• Maria Damanaki : European Union Fisheries Chief
• Jst KG Balakrishnan : Chief of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
• SK Jain : Chairman of NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd)
• Ennahda : Islamist party won election in Tunisia
• Rachid Ghannouchi : Leader of Ennahda
• Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud : New Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
• US launched NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Satellite to study weather
• Centre to infuse Rs.6600 Cr additional equity to Air India

30 October 2011

• Hardeep Puri : Permanent Representative of India to UN
• Sanjay Jagdale : Secretary of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India)
• Japan to support India in bullet rain, freight corridor, civil nuclear, maritime security matters
• Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held @ Perth, Australia
• Kamalesh Sharma : Secretary-General of Commonwealth of Nations
• Almazbek Atambayev : President of Kyrgyzstan
• Michael D Higgins : New President of Ireland
• He succeeds Mary McAleese
• Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma moved to elite group of BCCI

31 October 2011

• Indian GP : Won by Sebastian Vettel (Germany; Red Bulls Racing)
• Bernie Ecclestone : President & CEO of Formula1 Group
• Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) to be replaced by Gorkhaland & Adivasi Territorial Administration (GATA)
• The Hindu Literary Prize for best fiction 2011 : Rahul Bhattacharya's "The Sly Company Of People Who Care"
• Markandey Katju : Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI)
• SUNWAY Bluelight MPP : New Supercomputer unveiled by China
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei : Supreme leader of Iran