25 March 2012

• Pulok Chatterji : Principal Secretary to PM
• Jose Prakash : Veteran Malayalam Actor; Passed Away
• He was awarded JC Daniel award very recently
• Mahinda Rajapaksa : Sri Lankan President
• P Nandakumaran : MD of State Bank of Travancore (SBT)
• India-Brazil Education Agreement on the anvil
• Agreement to facilitate Kerala BEd graduates to teach English & Math in Brazil using ICT (Information & Communication Technology) tools
• Dilma Rousseff : Brazilian President
• Commander Dilip Donde : Indian Navy Personnel
• First Indian & 175th person to circumnavigate the globe solo on a sail boat
• He completed the 276-day voyage as part of Navy's 'Sagar Parikrama' Project
• INSV Mhadei : Indian Navy Sailing Vessel built by Ratnakar Dandekar of Aquarius Fiberglass Pvt Ltd, Dewar, Goa in which the feat was achieved
• Nuclear Security Summit 2012 : @ Seoul, South Korea
• Mario Monti : Italian PM
• Jens Stoltenberg : Norwegian PM
• International Court of Justice (ICJ) : Principal judicial organ of UN
• Jst Dalveer Bhandari on race for six-year term judge post in ICJ
• Election to be held in New York under Article 8 of ICJ statute "the General Assembly & the Security Council shall proceed independently of one another to elect a judge of the ICJ"
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Gohar Ijaz : Chairman of All Pakistan Textiles Mills Association (APTMA)
• APTMA called India for removal of non-tariff barriers to ensure free trade of cotton & textile products
• Jst Markandey Katju : Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI)
• PK Roy : Former Chairman of Press Trust of India & Former President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS); Passed Away
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
• Royal Diamond 7 : Marshall Island-flagged Korean Chemical Tanker
• Explosion on board the chemical tanker off-coast Mumbai killed one and 6 injured
• Satish Agnihotri : Director General of Shipping
• Amr Moussa : First independent presidential election candidate of Egypt to submit required number of recommendations to election authorities
• Presidential Elections Law says an independent candidate should gather notarised signatures from 30,000 citizens from 15 provinces or get support of 30 MPs to be able to run
• Amr Moussa presented the High Elections Council with 50,000 signature that will make him first independent candidate to run
• Mahinda Rajapaksa : Sri Lankan President
• GL Peiris : Sri Lankan Foreign Minister
• Kofi Annan : UN Special Envoy to Syria
• Joachim Gauck : New President of Germany
• RC Bhargava : Chairman Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL)
• Shinzo Nakanishi : MD & CEO of MSIL
• MSIL to infuse Rs.1,700 crore to set up new diesel engine plant at its Gurgaon complex
• Also to invest Rs.900 crore in its upcoming R&D (research & development) centre at Rohtak in Haryana
• Sigve Brekke : MD of Uninor, a joint venture between Unitech & Telenor
• Telenor the Norwegian group holds 74% in Uninor
• Arvind Uppal : CMD of Whirlpool India
• Whirlpool to invest Rs.100 crore in R&D
• Haroon Lorgat : CEO of ICC (International Cricket Council)
• National Inter-State Tennis Championship : Tamil Nadu bt Maharashtra
• Sriram Balaji (TN) bt Akash Wagh (Mah)
• Vijay Sundar Prashanth (TN) bt Nitten Kirrtane (Mah)
• Uttar Pradesh finished third
• $25,000 QNet ITF Open Women's Tennis Championship
• Donna Vekic (Croatia) bt Andrea Koch-Benvenuto (Chile)
• South Asian Weightlifting Championship : @ Nepalgunj, Nepal
• Indian lifters bagged 10 medals including 8 golds
• Men
• Gold : D Senthamizh Selvan (62kg), S Sathish Kumar (77kg), Jasvant Singh (85kg), VA Christopher (105kg), Himanshu Kumar (Above 105kg)
• Bronze : Ajaydeep Sarang (77kg)
• Women
• Gold : Tikina Gopal (53kg), Minati Sethi (58kg), Seeta Jena (63kg)
• Silver : Rajwant Kaur (63kg)
• K Sankarnarayanan : Governor of Maharashtra
• Jst CS Dharmadhikari : Chairman of Gandhi Research Foundation
• Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain : Founder of Gandhi Research Foundation
• Gandhi Teerth : @ Jain Hills, Jalgaon, Maharashtra