24 March 2012

• World Tuberculosis Day : March 24
• GC Chaturvedi : Petroleum Secretary
• Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhry : Pakistan Petroleum & Natural Gas Secretary
• India agreed for an immediate supply of petrol to Pakistan through land route as per Pakistan's request
• 7th Asia Gas Partnership Summit : @ New Delhi organised by GAIL (India) Ltd & Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)
• Jaipal Reddy : Union Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister
• Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) : programme of Department of Science &Technology to be hosted by University of Kerala
• University of Kerala : Celebrated Platinum Jubilee
• Jose Prakash : Awarded JC Daniel Award
• Nanavati Commission : 2002 Communal Riots of Gujarat
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Vinod Rai : Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG)
• CAG Coal audit report detailing Rs.10.67 lakh crore loss by direct allocations of coal blocks to commercial entities without auction
• CAG report on 2G Spectrum detailed Rs.1.76 lakh crore loss due to failure to auction 2G spectrum
• Akhilesh Yadav : Uttar Pradesh CM
• Ajit Singh : Union Civil Aviation Minister
• Union Cabinet green nod for Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill 2010
• Give a woman a share in her husband's property after divorce
• Also aims at giving rights to adopted child on a par with biological off-springs in case parents go for a divorce
• Union Cabinet green nod for setting up of credit risk guarantee fund trust to give loans to low-income groups in the country
• Will be set up under Indian Trust Act with an initial corpus of Rs.1,200 crore
• Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation will be settler of the trust
• It would be serviced by National Housing Bank
• Dmitry Medvedev : Russian President
• Roche : World's biggest maker of cancer drugs
• To sell cheaper locally branded versions of its two cancer drugs Herceptin & MabThera under an alliance with India's Emcure Pharmaceuticals
• Uninor : Unitech holds 33% stake and remaining 67% stake held by Norwegian telecom firm Telenor
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs : Approved awarding of 16 exploration blocks and rejected bids for 10 blocks under the 9th Round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP IX)
• Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) which was formed by restructuring Unit Trust of India (UTI)
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to wind up SUUTI and create a National Asset Management Company (NAMC)
• SUUTI holds 23.6% in Axis Bank, 11.54% in ITC, 8.3% in L&T valuing at a total of Rs.32,000 crore
• Government to shift these shares to NAMC
• Jim Yong Kim : Korean public health specialist & President of Dartmouth College
• Nominated as next President of the World Bank by US President Barack Obama
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala : Nigerian Finance Minister; Also racing for the World Bank President position
• Cardamom exports touched an all-time high of 3,900 tonnes at Rs.308.32 crore during April-January this fiscal
• 4.36 lakh tonnes of spices at Rs.7,849.47 crore were exported in the period
• Suzuki Motorcycle to set up its second two-wheeler manufacturing unit at IMT-Rohtak, Haryana
• Bhupinder Singh Hooda : Haryana CM
• S Nakanishi : MD of Maruti Suzuki
• CESC, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group power company, to sign pact with US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) to fund a feasibility study for a pilot project implementing smart-grid technologies across the CESC electricity distribution network
• US grant of $618,860
• Adam Gilchrist : Skipper of IPL team Kings XI Punjab given additional responsibility of coaching the team in IPL V
• Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) provides treatment to patients on alternate days instead of a daily treatment
• Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) model implemented by RNTCP