28 March 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Indian Army
• AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
• Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• Hina Rabbani Khar : Pakistan Foreign Minister
• Ranjan Mathai : Foreign Secretary
• Shivshankar Menon : National Security Adviser
• Vijay Kumar : Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
• State Bank of Travancore (SBT) hikes interest rate for its SBT FlexiMax Term Deposit for single deposits of Rs.15 lakh and above to180 days from 9% to 9.95%
• KS Radhakrishnan : Chairman of Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC)
• 4th BRICS Summit : @ New Delhi
• India is currently Chairing BRICS
• Dilma Rousseff : Brazilian President
• Dmitry Medvedev : Russian President
• Hu Jintao : Chinese President
• Jacob Zuma : South African President
• Google & Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory gets their $1.25m project to digitally preserve records of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's life online
• Indian PM Manmohan Singh pledges $1m towards International Atomic Energy Agency's Nuclear Security Fund for 2012-13
• Sriprakash Jaiswal : Union Coal Minister
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Likely to reconsider tax proposals on unbranded jewellery and to introduce special package for silk weavers
• SH Kapadia : Chief Justice of India
• Goolam Essaji Vahanvati : Attorney General of India
• Kofi Annan : UN Special Envoy to Syria
• Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
• David Cameron : British PM
• India will not reduce Iranian oil imports to get exempted from US sanctions
• "Death Sentences & Execution 2011" : Report by Amnesty International
• With more than thousand executions China tops the list
• At least 20 countries have carried out executions
• Even newest nation, South Sudan is on the list at 12th
• 2nd - Iran
• 3rd - Saudi Arabia
• 4th - Iraq
• 5th - US
• 6th - Yemen
• 7th - North Korea
• 8th - Somalia
• 9th - Sudan
• 10th - Bangladesh
• Though, India imposed 110 death sentences in 2011 no executions were carried out
• R Gopalan : Economic Affairs Secretary
• Centre to borrow Rs.3.79 lakh crore in first half of next fiscal which is over 65% of total planned borrowings next fiscal
• YM Deosthalee : CMD of L&T Finance Holdings
• N Sivaraman : President & Whole-time Director of L&T Finance Holdings
• L&T Finance to acquire mutual fund business of Fidelity AMC (Asset Management Company) in India
• M Veerappa Moily : Union Minister of Corporate Affairs
• Telenor, Norwegian firm holding 67% in Indian joint-venture Uninor, with Unitech
• Partha Chatterjee : appointed Chairman of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL)
• Purnendu Chatterjee : Chairman of The Chatterjee Group (TCG) appointed Deputy-Chairman of HPL
• Vijay Mallya owned cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines suspend operations to several major cities
• Asks 40-50% of about 6,000 staff to stay at home but they would remain on company rolls
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty20 : Baroda beat Punjab to clinch the title
• Surya Prasad Sharma : Indian swimmer banned for 2-year for flunking a dope test
• Sanjay Jagdale : Secretary of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
• N Srinivasan : BCCI President
• Markandey Katju : Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman
• National Press Day : 16 November
• Margaret Hodge : Chairperson of Commons Public Accounts Committee
• Air India to directly import Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) to curb escalating cost
• Muhammad Khurshid Khan : Pakistan Deputy Attorney General