17 March 2012

• Shyam Srinivasan : MD & CEO of Federal Bank
• Adds 100 more branches to its network
• Plans to make total branches in the country to 1000 by June
• Bharosa Gold Loan : New gold loan scheme launched by HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation) Bank aiming rural customers
• Sunil Mitra : Union Finance Secretary
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• SH Kapadia : Chief Justice
• SK Thadou : Chairman of United Tribal Liberation Army (UTLA), Manipur
• Manipur facing an indefinite blockade by them along its only lifelines, NH 39 & 53
• Harin Raval : Additional Solicitor General
• People's Majlis : Maldivian Parliament
• Mohamed Nasheed : Former Maldivian President
• Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) : Party of Nasheed
• Waheed Hassan Manik : New President of Maldives
• MPs of MDP, the single largest party in Majlis, didn't allow the speaker and new President to enter the parliament in its last session
• Kim Il-sung : First & only President of North Korea; After his death he was declared Eternal President
• North Korea to launch rocket-mounted satellite to mark his birth centenary
• US warns North Korea that it would be direct violation of international obligations, especially UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 & 1874
• Lloyd Blankfein : Chairman & CEO of Goldman Sachs'
• Gary Cohn : President of Goldman Sachs'
• Hamid Karzai : Afghanistan President
• Hillary Clinton : US Secretary of State
• Sergei Lavrov : Russian Foreign Minister
• Omar al-Bashir : President of North Sudan
• 116th IFA Shield Football Tournament : Final @ Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata
• East Bengal bt Prayag United to lift the title for the 28th time
• IFA : Indian Football Association
• Charlie Whiting : Race Director of FIA (Federation Internationale de l' Automobile), International regulator of Formula-1 races
• N Srinivasan : President of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India)
• Haroon Lorgat : CEO of ICC (International Cricket Council)
• Okram Ibobi Singh : CM of Manipur
• No Deputy CM for Manipur, aspirants made Cabinet Ministers
• Roshan Giri : General-Secretary of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• MK Narayanan : Governor of West Bengal