27 March 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Army Staff
• AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
• Charu Khandal : Young animator who won national award for special effects in Ra.One film
• She got into an accident and now is battling for life
• Jens Stoltenberg : Norwegian PM
• GK Vasan : Union Minister of Shipping
• Narendra Modi : Gujarat CM
• 3rd Gujarati to make it to the cover of Time Magazine after Mahatma Gandhi & Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Vijay Bahuguna : Uttarakhand CM
• Sriprakash Jaiswal : Union Coal Minister
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) Summit : @ New Delhi to discuss on
• BRICS Exchange Alliance in which major stock exchanges of BRICS countries will offers investors to trade in domestic currency
• BRICS Bank or South-South Bank to serve development needs & aspirations of emerging & developing world
• Mwai Kibaki : President of Kenya
• Oil deposits discovered in Kenya's Turkana region by Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil
• Ashfaq Parvez Kayani : Pakistan Army Chief
• Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Parkash Singh Badal : Punjab CM
• Mario Monti : Italian PM
• Chashma Nuclear Power Plant : in Pakistan constructed with China's assistance
• India joins a select band of nations in producing UNS NO8800 U tubes for nuclear plants
• It was successfully manufactured at Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), Hyderabad making it the fourth entity in the world to manufacture the tubes
• The first consignment was handed over to Larsen & Toubro (L&T)
• SK Jain : CMD of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL)
• Macky Sall : Newly elected President of Senegal
• To take over Abdoulaye Wade
• Wen Jiabao : Chinese Premier (PM)
• Hu Jintao : Chinese President
• Baburam Bhattarai : Nepal PM
• Political party : Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
• BMW : German luxury car maker recalls 1.3 million cars worldwide due to battery problems
• Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Ltd (SPMCIL) : New Delhi
• Miniratna company wholly-owned by Government of India has become debt-free repaying the entire amount of loan to Central Government
• Govt of India issued interest free working capital loan of Rs.700 crore to SPMCIL in 2007-08
• SPMCIL repaid the loan as four equal installments of Rs.175 crore from 2008-09 and completed repaying recently
• MS Rana : CMD of SPMCIL
• Lee Myung-Bak : South Korean President
• India-South Korea bilateral trade stood at $20.6bn in 2011
• To push bilateral to $40bn by 2015
• Anand Sharma : Union Minister of Commerce, Industry & Textiles
• John Bryson : US Secretary of Commerce
• Julia Gillard : Australian PM
• Australia blocked Chinese telecom giant Huawei from tendering for its nation-wide $38bn broadband contract due to rising cyber attacks in China
• Interest Rates for Small Saving Schemes increased
• 1yr Time Deposit : increased from 7.7% to 8.2%
• 2yr Time Deposit : increased from 7.8% to 8.3%
• 3yr Time Deposit : increased from 8.0% to 8.4%
• 5yr Time Deposit : increased from 8.3% to 8.5%
• 5yr Recurring Deposit : increased from 8.0% to 8.4%
• 5yr Senior Citizens Savings Scheme : increased from 9.0% to 9.3%
• Reduction in age slab for senior citizen from 65 to 60yrs
• 5yr Monthly Income Scheme : increased from 8.2% to 8.5%
• 5yr National Savings Certificate : increased from 8.4% to 8.6%
• 10yr National Savings Certificate : increased from 8.7% to 8.9%
• Public Provident Fund : increased from 8.6% to 8.8%
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tightens Fair Practices Code (FPC) to be adopted by Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) while doing lending business
• R Sridhar : New MD & CEO of Shriram Capital Ltd
• Centre to infuse Rs.810 crore in IDBI Bank
• Claus Heckerott : New MD of German sportswear maker Adidas Group India
• Sameer Kaul : Appointed head of Citi India's private banking business
• Rolta India to raise $135m through External Commercial Borrowings (ECB)
• Warburg Pincus, global equity firm, exits Kotak Mahindra Bank by selling its 3.6% stake in the bank for Rs.1,400 crore
• Arnold Palmer Invitational Golf : @ Bay Hill Golf Course, Orlando, Florida
• Tiger Woods clinched the title
• International Shooting Championship : Dortmund, Germany
• Abhinav Bindra won Silver
• Are Hansen (Norway) clinched the Gold
• Chris Cairns : Former New Zealand all-round Cricketer was awarded $142,000 after winning a libel action against former Indian Premier League (IPL) Chairman Lalit Modi at London High Court
• Ralph Gonsalves : PM of St. Vincent, a Caribbean Island
• Manik Godghate : Marathi poet & author popularly known as 'Grace' Passed Away fighting cancer
• He was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his prose  "Varyane halte raan"
• Angry farmers' protests marks 10th Anniversary of introduction of genetically modified (GM) Bt Cotton in India
• James Cameron : Director of Titanic
• Took a 11km deep solo dive in the Challenger Deep Valley of the World's deepest point Mariana Trench of the Pacific Ocean
• He is the first person to make a solo dive to the Mariana Trench
• Last dive here was made by a two-men team back in 1960
• Roerich Memorial Museum : in memory of painter & thinker Nicholas Roerich in Naggar Valley of Himachal Pradesh
• Alexander Kadakin : Russian Ambassador to India
• Prem Kumar Dhumal : Himachal Pradesh CM