The Daily GK: 04 April 2012

United India Insurance Company Ltd : Crossed 8,000 crore premium income
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed : Chief of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) & Chief of charity organisation Jama'at-ud-Da'wah that is considered to be cover organisation for LeT

US declares $10m reward for giving information leading to arrest of the Lashkar Chief

To visit India, first by a Pakistan President since 1972 visit of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Rahman Malik : Pakistan's Interior Minister
Thein Sein : Myanmar President
Aung San Suu Kyi : Leader of National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar that won 40 of 45 seats in by-elections recently; She also won a seat to Parliament
MT Enrica Lexie : Italian-flagged vessel that was detained off Kerala following killing of two fishermen by two Italian marines on board
Manjula Chellur : Kerala Chief Justice
Gordon Charles Pereira : Captain of Singapore-flagged vessel MV Prabhu Daya which was suspected to be involved in a mid-sea collision with fishing boat off Kerala killing 5 fishermen
Vayojana Suraksha : scheme of Kerala State Police to protect senior citizens
Pallekelle : Sri Lankan town where a monitoring station to detect nuclear explosions is being built by Vienna-based Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) Organisation

CTBT bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes
CTBT was signed by UN Security Council in 1996 but has not entered into force as it expects ratifications by several signatories
CTBT have 182 signatories out of which 157 ratifiers
Eight ratifications of US, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Israel & North Korea will enable CTBT to enter into force

Gen VK Singh : Chief of Indian Army
Lt Gen Bikram Singh : Indian Army Chief Designate
AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
India released $20m of $100m Standby Credit Facility to Maldives & $50m treasury bond owed to State Bank of India by the Maldivian Government also has been rolled over for another year
Mohammad Nasheed : Former President of Maldives of Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)
Tuareg : Rebel people of Mali
Bamako : Capital of Mali
James Murdoch : Quits as Chairman of British Satellite Broadcaster BSkyB (Sky TV)
Yousuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
Kofi Annan : UN & Arab League Special Envoy to Syria
Nasser al-Kidwa : Deputy of Kofi Annan
Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President

Susan Rice : US Permanent Representative to UN
Bashar Jaafari : Syrian Ambassador to UN
Jakob Kellenberger : President of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), based in Geneva, Switzerland
Yves Daccord : Director-General of ICRC
SM Krishna : Union External Affairs Minister
Shah Rukh Khan : Bollywood Actor to deliver lecture at prestigious Yale University as its Chubb Fellow

The Chubb Fellowship is among Yale's highest honours which in the past has been bestowed to heads of states & Nobel Prize winners

D Subbarao : Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
Rajkumar Dhoot : President of ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India)
IT workers of Tata Sons in US proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Indian corporate giant over unpaid wages
Shriprakash Jaiswal : Union Coal Minister
Presidential directive to the state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) to immediately sign Fuel supply Agreements (FSA) with power producers
Mallika Srinivasan : Chairperson & CEO of Tractors & Farm Equipment Ltd (TAFE), world's third largest tractor maker

TAFE, the flagship company of the Amalgamations Group, has embarked on a Rs.100cr expansion project at its Madurai plant

Homegrown mobile company Micromax entered tablet PC market with its FunBook tablet, positioned as an edutainment device aiming younger generation
Micromax had tied up with leading education & entertainment content providers such as Pearson, Everonn & Vriti (educational), Bigflix, Indiagames & Zenga (entertainment)

Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd (CEIL), wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn India Ltd (CIL)

CEIL discovered oil in Nagayalanka SE-1 well in onshore block of Krishna-Godavari Basin

Kapil Sibal : Union Human Resource Development Minister
Pratibha Patil : Indian President, who is Chancellor of all Central Universities

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