Friday, 16 March 2012

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

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