09 March 2012

• Jonas Gahr Store : Foreign Minister of Norway
• Department of Telecommunications (DoT) cleared an ambitious plan to distribute 50-lakh tablet PCs to school & college students in next financial year (2012-13)
• Yusuf Raza Gilani : PM of Pakistan
• Pakistan Supreme Court asked him to write to Swiss Authorities to reopen Money laundering cases against Pak President Asif Ali Zardari
• Nargis Sethi : Defence & Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan
• Bashar Al Assad : Syrian President
• Valerie Amos : UN Chief on Humanitarian Affairs
• Martin E Dempsey : US Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Leon Panetta : US Defence Secreatry
• Mahinda Rajapaksa : Sri Lankan President
• Tim Cook : CEO of Apple Inc.
• China voiced strong objections against India's move to ban cotton export
• China had become the largest importer of cotton from India
• Ramesh Kymal : CMD of Gamesa Wind Turbines Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gamesa group of Spain
• Jacques Rogge : President of International Olympic Committee (IOC)
• VK Malhotra : Acting President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
• IOC emphasised its stand on Dow Chemical's sponsorship of Olympic Games
• IOC wrote to Union Sports Ministry that Dow did not have stake in Union Carbide until 16 years after Bhopal Tragedy
• Ajay Maken : Union Sports Minister
• Rahul Bhatnagar : Union Sports Ministry Joint Secretary
• Mario Balotelli : Italian footballer fined one week wages by Manchester City Manager Roberto Mancini, after he was pictured outside a strip club two days before a league game
• 12 Athletes move into IAAF Hall of Fame
• Lamine Diack : President of IAAF Hall of Fame
• Eligibility conditions for Hall of Fame
• Must have been retired for at least 10years
• Have won two or more Olympic or World Titles
• Set at least one World Record
• Next 12 Athletes for the Hall of Fame will be announced in the coming years
• Current 12 Hall of Famers :
• Jesse Owens (US)
• Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia)
• Paavo Nurmi (Finland)
• Carl Lewis (US)
• Emil Zatopek (Czech)
• Al Oerter (US)
• Adhemar da Silva (Brazil)
• Ed Moses (US)
• Fanny Blankers-Koen (Netherlands)
• Betty Cuthbert (Australia)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US)
• Wang Junxia (China)
• Gustavo Kuerten : Brazilian three-time Grand Slam Champion and former World No.1 has been elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame