16 March 2012

• Finance Ministry give nod to Labour & Employment Ministry to fix rate of interest payable to Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) subscribers at 8.25% for 2011-12, instead of 9.5% paid in 2010-11
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Dinesh Trivedi : Union Railway Minister
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Prasobh Sugathan : Second Officer of MV Prabhu Daya, the vessel suspected to be involved in a mid-sea collision with fishing trawler off coast Kerala
• Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Dayanidhi Maran & Kalanidhi Maran under Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with Aircel-Maxis 2G deal
• Maanav Vikas Award : Instituted jointly by Planning Commission & UNDP (UN Development Programme) 
• Conferred to Kottayam district which stood first in Human Resource Development & second in review of gender issues
• Mini Antony : Kottayam District Collector
• Subrata Biswas : Principal Secretary, Planning, Govt of Kerala
• Jairam Ramesh : Union Minister for Rural Development gave the award
• 21st Aravindan Puraskaram : Awarded to Bengali film-maker Anumita Dasgupta for her film 'Jumeli'
• Petronet LNG : a joint venture of Govt of India in energy sector
• Proposes a power plant adjacent to LNG terminal which is under construction by the company in Puthuvype
• AK Balyan : MD & CEO of Petronet LNG
• Olympian PT Usha awarded Sthree Ratnam Excellence Award instituted by Social Welfare Department of Kerala
• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K) ties up with Leeds University Business School, UK
• Debashis Chatterjee : Director IIM-K
• Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• Pawan Kumar Bansal : Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
• Kapil Sibal : Union Communications & IT Minister
• Prasad Kariyawasam : Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India
• Akhliesh Yadav : Sworn in as CM of Uttar Pradesh
• BL Joshi : Uttar Pradesh Governor
• Kaushik Basu : Chief Economic Adviser
• "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields : War Crimes Unpunished" : Controversial documentary filmed by Channel 4 of Britain
• Callum McCrae : Producer & Director of the documentary
• Most controversial part of the film was brutal murder of LTTE Chief Prabhakaran's 12 year old unarmed son Balakandran
• Zhang Dejiang : Replace Bo Xilai as China's Chongqing Party Secretary in wake of a political scandal
• Joost van der Heijden : CEO of Airbus India
• India Aviation-2012 Show : @ Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad
• Tony Tyler : Director-General & CEO of International Air Transport Association (IATA)
• Sachin Pilot : Minister of State for Communications & IT
• Pakistan Judicial Commission on Mumbai 26/11 lands in Mumbai for preliminary investigations
• Ujjwal Nikam : Indian special public prosecutor in Mumbai 26/11 case
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• RK Singh : Home Secretary
• Noori : World's first cloned Pashmina goat
• Cloned by Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST), Shuhama, Jammu & Kashmir
• Dr Riaz Ahmad Shah : Project head at SKUAST