Saturday, 31 March 2012

30 March 2012

  • 4th BRICS Summit : @ New Delhi
      • Dilma Rousseff : Brazilian President
      • Dmitry Medvedev : Russian President
      • Hu Jintao : Chinese President
      • Jacob Zuma : South African President
      • To sign two pacts for "BRICS Stock Index" & "BRICS Bank"
  • Enrica Lexie : Italian vessel detained off Kerala coast in wake of killing of two fishermen by marines on board
      • Kerala High Court allowed the vessel to sail out of Indian waters
  • Admiral (retd) Giampaolo Di Paola : Italian Defence Minister
  • MR Hariharan Nair Commission : Submitted its report on Pulmedu Tragedy that claimed lives of 102 Sabarimala pilgrims in January 2011
  • MV Prabhu Daya : Singapore-flagged ship suspected to be in collision with fishing trawler off coast Kerala killing five fishermen
  • Lt Commander Abhilash Tomy planning a solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe onboard Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Mhadei
  • Amadou Toumani Toure : Disputed President of Mali overthrown by Malian military officer Captain Amadou Sanogo, leader of National Committee for the Reinstatement of Democracy & the Restoration of the State (CNRDRE)
  • Robert Zoellick : President of World Bank
  • Aung San Suu Kyi : Leader of National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar
  • Shashi Kant Sharma : Defence Secretary
  • Tatra Sipox (UK) Ltd : Company whose Tatra off-road vehicles are extensively used by Indian Army & is under allegations of bribery
  • Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
  • Gen VK Singh : Indian Army Chief
  • AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
  • Lt Gen Bikram Singh : Indian Army Chief Designate
  • GK Pillai : Chief Adviser ot BRICS Trade & Economic Research Network (BRICS-TERN)
      • BRICS intra trade target $500bn by 2015
  • Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
  • Vijay Bahuguna : Uttarakhand CM
      • Won a trust vote
  • SH Kapadia : Chief Justice
  • Jeff Bezos : Founder CEO of Amazon.com
      • The billionaire comes up with a find of engine remains of 1969 Saturn V rocket that took the Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon for the first time
  • Hugo Chavez : Venezuela President
  • Mariano Rajoy : Spain PM
  • Baghdad Summit : Summit of 22 member Arab League in the Iraqi Capital address Syria crisis
      • Kofi Annan : UN Special Envoy to Syria
      • Ban Ki-moon : Secretary General of the United Nations (UN)
      • Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
  • Russia to provide help for Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project after the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) developed cold feet over assistance
  • Sushil Kumar Shinde : Union Power Minister
  • Pulok Chatterjee : Principal Secretary to PM
  • Core sector posts 6.8% growth in February; 4.4% growth in April-February 2012
      • Core Sector : Crude Oil, Petroleum Refinery Products, Natural Gas, Fertilizers, Coal, Electricity, Cement & Finished Steel
      • They account for 37.90% in Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
  • Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to auction dated securities of Union Government to raise Rs.18,000 crore
  • Hinduja Energy India Ltd in $12-14bn joint-venture with German energy major STEAG's subsidiary STEAG Energy Services (India) Pvt Ltd  for setting up 10,000MW power plants over next 8 years
      • Ashok Hinduja : Chairman of Hinduja National Power Corporation Ltd (HNPCL)
  • Titan Energy Systems tie up with Spain's Grupo Ortiz's subsidiary Ortiz Energia for setting up renewable energy projects across the country
      • Rao SYS Chodagam : MD of Titan Energy

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