18 March 2012

• RS Gujral : Finance Secretary
• Mohammad Haleem Khan : Disinvestment Secretary
• M Balamuralikrishna : Carnatic Musician awarded Swathi Sangeetha Puraskaram
• Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Kerala grows 9.13%
• Tertiary Sector grow by 11.57%
• Secondary Sector by 6.12%
• Primary Sector by 0.64%
• Contribution of primary, secondary & tertiary sectors to GSDP was 11.06%, 20.13% & 68.80% respectively
• KM Mani : Finance Minister of Kerala
• S Sajeena : Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Malappuram
• Won an award from President Pratibha Patil for second-best poster in International Conference on Women in Agriculture in New Delhi
• State Bank of Travancore (SBT) registered 27.21% (Rs.3,146 crore) growth up to February this fiscal
• Of this Rs.442 crore (14%) from increase of interests rates for Non-Resident External (NRE) Term Deposits owing to Rupee depreciation
• 34% from increase in remittances
• Akhilesh Yadav : Uttar Pradesh CM
• Vilasrao Deshmukh : Union Science & Technology Minister
• Omar Abdullah : Jammu & Kashmir CM
• Dinesh Trivedi : Union Railway Minister
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Mukul Roy : Union Minister of State for Shipping
• Damascus : Capital of Syria
• Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
• Kofi Annan : UN Special Envoy to Syria
• Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) : State-run news agency of Syria
• Hamid Karzai : Afghanistan President
• Julia Gillard : Australian PM
• Dr Baburam Bhattarai : Nepal PM
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• First elected head to address a joint sitting of Pakistan's Parliament for the fifth consecutive time
• Ajai Kumar : CMD of Corporation Bank
• Rafeeque Ahmed : President of Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO)
• M Narendra : CMD of Indian Overseas Bank
• Shyam Srinivasan : MD & CEO of Federal Bank
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Proposed to set up a Rs.5,000 crore India Opportunities Venture Fund with SIDBI to enhance availability of equity to micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs)
• Disinvestment & Sale of spectrum expected to earn Rs.70,000 crore in 2012-13
• Chandrajit Banerjee : Director-General of Confederation of Indian Industries
• Roopam Sharma : CEO of Basketball Federation of India (BFI)
• Bhupinder Singh Hooda : Haryana CM
• David Cameron : British PM
• British Council announced 60 new Jubilee Scholarships for Indian students
• Harin Raval : Additional Solicitor General
• Centre informed Supreme Court that appropriate steps would soon be taken to amend Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act 1993, to eliminate manual scavenging
• BV Trivedi : Deputy Director of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D)
• 96.8% of arrested criminals are outside jails
• Only 3.2% of arrested criminals stay in prison
• Jairam Ramesh : Union Minister of rural Development
• Andrew Hamilton : Oxford University Vice-Chancellor