21 March 2012

• GL Peiris : Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister
• Called his Indian counterpart SM Krishna for India to support Sri Lanka in a UN Human Rights Council resolution against Sri Lanka
• SH Kapadia : Chief Justice
• Salman Khurshid : Union Law Minister
• SP Muraleedharan : Adventure swimmer of Kerala  successfully swam across Palk Strait in 14 hours
• Kerala High Court ordered the arrest of MV Prabhu Daya, Singapore-flagged vessel suspected to be involved in a mid-sea collision with a fishing trawler off coast Kerala killing 5 fishermen
• Switzerland to phase out nuclear power by 2034
• Mukul Roy : Sworn in as Union Railway Minister
• Dinesh Trivedi : Sacked Railway Minister
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Sharad Pawar : Union Agriculture Minister
• Pawan Kumar Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs Minister
• Vijay Mallya owned Kingfisher Airlines to suspend international operations
• EK Bharat Bhushan : Chief of Directorate-General of Civil Aviation
• Naveen Patnaik : Odisha CM
• Goolam Essaji Vahanvati : Attorney General
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
• Tunisia's Independence Day : March 20
• Hu Jintao : Chinese President
• Ashok Kantha : High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka
• Carlos Ghosn : CEO of Nissan Motor Co
• Christine Lagarde : MD of IMF
• Anand Sharma : Minister of Commerce, Industry & Textiles
• Chanda Kochhar : MD & CEO of ICICI Bank Ltd
• State Bank of India (SBI) Shareholders approve Rs.7,900 crore capital infusion by the Government
• SBI would allot 3.60 crore shares at an issue price of Rs.2,191.69 per share
• Sajan Pillai : CEO of UST Global, California based IT solutions provider
• UST Global acquired Andare, mobile CRM applications developing company
• Jaipal Reddy : Union Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister
• Petroleum & Natural Resources Secretaries of India-Pakistan to hold talks on petroproducts trade
• Likely to hold talks on Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project
• Sunil Verma : Leading Squash Coach; Passed Away
• Was in Jindal Squash Academy (Maharashtra)
• Lalit Modi : Former IPL Commissioner has been declared bankrupt in a London court over unpaid bills of 65,000 Pounds to Page Group, a private equity firm
• Lionel Messi : World's highest paid footballer Euro 33m a year
• Second highest David Beckham with Euro 31.5m per year
• Third is Cristiano Ronaldo with Euro 29.2m a year
• Panna Tiger Reserve : Madhya Pradesh
• Sariska Tiger Reserve : Rajasthan