29 March 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Indian Army
• AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
• Pallam Raju : Minister of State for Defence
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• Vayalar Ravi : Union Overseas Affairs Minister
• Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• Dmitry Medvedev : Russian President
• Hu Jintao : Chinese President
• GK Vasan : Union Shipping Minister
• Cancer killed 5,56,400 people across India in 2010
• 71% of this is of age group 30-69
• T Damodaran : Malayalam Script-writer; Passed Away
• Parkash Singh Badal : Punjab CM
• Kofi Annan : UN Special Envoy to Syria
• Sergei Lavrov : Russian Foreign Minister
• Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
• Nabil al-Arabi : Secretary General of 22 member Arab League
• Balwant Singh Rajoana : former Punjab police constable who was sentenced to death in 2010 for being a back-up bomber in the assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh
• He was to be hanged on March 30 2012
• Centre stayed the death sentence
• VRS Natarajan : CMD of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML)
• Harin Raval : Additional Solicitor General
• Meira Kumar : Lok Sabha Speaker
• Kariya Munda : Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker
• Anand Sharma : Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Textiles
• 4th BRICS Summit : @ New Delhi
• Theme : "BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Security and Prosperity"
• Upendra Chivukula : Indo-American Politician & Deputy Speaker of New Jersey State Assembly
• To run for US House of Representatives elections
• Ashfaq Parvez Kayani : Chief of Pakistan Army
• John Allen : Commander of International Security Alliance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
• Raul Castro : Cuba President
• Hugo Chavez : Venezuela President
• SM Krishna : Union Minister of External Affairs
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan : Turkey PM
• Leon Panetta : US Defence Secretary
• P5+1 Countries : US, Russia, France, Britain, China & Germany
• Mohammad Haleem Khan : Disinvestment Secretary
• S Jaipal Reddy : Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas
• Petroleum & Natural Gas Ministry signed Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for the newly awarded 16 oil & gas blocks under IX round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP)
• Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) emerged the biggest winner with six blocks allocated to it
• GC Chaturvedi : Petroleum Secretary
• Petroleum & Natural Gas Ministry seeks Finance Ministry to provide Rs.40,000 crore cash subsidy for current fiscal to compensate oil marketing companies for losses incurred due to subsidies
• A Sakthivel : Chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC)
• Apparel exports up by 19% in April-February this fiscal
• Canada based Research In Motion (RIM) announced steep cut in prices of its Blackberry smartphones
• Income Tax Department seize shares of Unitech Group through which the company held 32.75% stakes in mobile telecom venture Uninor
• Shares were owned by Unitech through their companies Acorus, Cestos & Simpson
• 67.25% stakes in Uninor is held by Norwegian firm Telenor
• NIIT Technologies has implemented an automated content management & delivery system at Singapore Parliament
• Suzlon enters into global strategic partnership agreement with CGN Wind Energy Co, wholly owned subsidiary of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, to develop 800MW of domestic & international projects over next three years
• Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2012 has raised a record Rs.16.07 crore for charity
• The money will benefit 197 NGOs compared to 131 of last year
• International Airline Emirates to sponsor Indian Premier League (IPL) team Deccan Chargers
• A Sivathanu Pillai : CEO & MD of BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd
• Supersonic Cruise Missile BrahMos successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa