05 April 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Chief of Indian Army
• AK Antony : Union Defence Minister
• Shashi Kant Sharma : Defence Secretary
• Supreme Court raps former Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh for giving 20 acres to film producer Subash Ghai in 2004 for his film institute
• Islamic seminary Darul Ulum Deoband issued a fatwa against beauty parlours saying that the profession is against Shariat
• INS Chakra : Nuclear powered attack submarine of Akula II class inducted into Indian Navy
• It was Russia's K-152 Nerpa of Soviet Charlie class commissioned in 2009 by Russian Navy
• It was leased to India in 2011 for 10 years at an estimated cost of $670m
• It was commissioned on 4 April 2012 as INS Chakra II at Vishakapatnam
• India enters into an elite group of six nations operating nuclear submarines : US, Russia, China, France, UK & India
• To be Commanded by Captain P Ashokan who got over 25 years experience in handling submarines
• Admiral Nirmal Verma : Chief of Indian Navy
• MM Pallam Raju : Minister of State for Defence
• VK Saraswat : Adviser to Defence Ministry
• Penkunju : Programme aired by Akashavani's Ananthapuri FM has entered final round of competition at the 12th Iran International Radio Festival
• Biju Mathew : Writer & Director of the Penkunju & Programme Executive at Ananthapuri FM
• Manik Sarkar : Tripura CM
• Salim Gangadharan : Appointed Regional Director of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Kerala & Lakshadweep
• David Cameron : British PM
• George Osborne : Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) alleged in Supreme Court that P Chidambaram as Finance Minister had equal role in fixing 2G spectrum license prices along with the then Telecom Minister A Raja
• Vayalar Ravi : Union Overseas Indian Affairs Minister
• Saqr Ghobash : Labour Minister of UAE (United Arab Emirates)
• India-UAE sign new protocol mandating informed approval by worker, employer & Indian authority of the full terms of work for work contract in UAE
• To streamline the employment process of Indian workers through an electronic contract registration & validation system to ensure welfare of workers and to control exploitation of Indian workers by recruiting agencies
• Excavaons at Moghalmari in West Bengal reveals Buddhist presence in India dating back to 6th century AD
• Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh was invited for oil exploration in two blocks in South China Sea by Vietnam earlier
• ONGC Videsh facing threat from China claiming that the area belongs to them & if they go for exploration they will be facing political & economic risks
• Hafiz Mohammad Saeed : Chief of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah & Founder Chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba for whose head US has announced a reward of $10m
• Benjamin Netanyahu : Israel PM
• Salam Fayyad : Palestine PM
• Mahmoud Abbas : Palestine President
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan : Turkey PM
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei : Supreme Leader of Iran
• Hillary Clinton : US Secretary of State
• Nicolas Sarkozy : French President
• Sudan & South Sudan agree on a ceasefire to secure their borders & oil rich areas during their talks in the Ethiopian Capital of Addis Ababa
• Sir James Munby : Chairman of the Law Commission for England & Wales
• UK Law Commission to scrap a large chunk of legislation in their Statute relating to construction & maintenance of railways across India
• Statute Law (Repeals) Bill to be introduced in UK Parliament this summer
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• He directed the apex Insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) to address the suicidal competition between insurance companies through undercutting policy premiums
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
• RS Gujral : Finance Secretary
• Tata Power through it subsidiary Khopoli Investments enters in a 50:50 venture with Exxaro Resources Ltd of South Africa to launch a new energy company Cennergi Pty Ltd in South Africa
• Hiroshi Nakagawa : MD of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (TKM), joint-venture of Toyota & Kirloskar Group
• TKM began exporting its Etios cars manufactured at Bangalore plant to South Africa
• Kalanithi Maran : Chairman of SpiceJet Airlines picks up 5% more stake in no-frills airline
• "R Venkataraman - A Centenary Tribute" & "Reflections of a Statesman - Selected Post - Presidential Speeches of R Venkataraman" : Two books released on birth centenary of former President R Venkataraman
• Meira Kumar : Lok Sabha Speaker
• Karan Singh : Rajya Sabha Ethics Committee Chairman
• Rajendra K Pachauri : Director-General of The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI, formerly Tata Energy Research Institute)
• Karan Singh : President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
• India joins as the 11th member of the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) that was launched by National Regulatory Commission (NRC) of US & French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, ASN)
• MDEP pools the resources & knowledge of national regulatory authorities in reviewing nuclear reactor designs that are proposed & under construction
• India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) was admitted as first new member of MDEP
• Dr SS Bajaj : Chairman of AERB
• Other MDEP members include Canada, China, Finland, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, South Africa, US & UK
• Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) provides technical support to MDEP
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) participates in many of the MDEP activities
• Andre-Claude Lacoste : MDEP Policy Group Chair & Chairman of ASN
• Parkash Singh Badal : Punjab CM
• KV Thomas : Union Food Minister