06 April 2012

• Gen VK Singh : Indian Army Chief
• Ram Baran Yadav : Nepal President
• Baburam Bhattarai : Nepal PM
• Gen Chhatraman Singh Gurung : Nepal Army Chief
• P Chidambaram : Union Home Minister
• Vladimir Putin : Russia PM
• Dmitry Medvedev : Russia President
• Lee Hsien Loong : Singapore PM
• Asif Ali Zardari : Pakistan President
• Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani : Pakistan PM
• Hina Rabbani Khar : Pakistan Foreign Minister
• Naveen Patnaik : Odisha CM
• Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha
• West Bengal to replace Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, founders of Marxism & Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, with historical background of Latin America, Nelson Mandela & Chinese Revolution in their Higher Secondary syllabus
• Malabar : 10-days long Annual Naval Exercise between India & US
• 12th edition of Malabar to be held in Bay of Bengal
• Tougher UK Student Visa rules come into force
• Students from outside European Union will be required to have a firm job offer of minimum 20,000 Euro a year from a government approved employer if they wish to stay in Britain after completing their studies
• Currently students can stay up to two years after finishing their studies
• Kapil Sibal : Union Human Resource Development Minister
• Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) & All-India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) to be merged into a common test from 2013
• Markandey Katju : Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman
• Mamata Banerjee : West Bengal CM
• Shah Rukh Khan : Bollywood Actor to be Brand Ambassador of West Bengal
• Embraer : Brazilian aerospace conglomerate
• Maiden flight of second fully modified Embraer Aircraft for India-developed Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) System took place at Sao Jose dos Campos facility, Sao Paulo in Brazil
• Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS), Bangalore, that comes under Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) is executing the system with other DRDO labs as partners
• S Christopher : Director of CABS & Programme Director of AEW&C System
• VK Saraswat : Adviser to Defence Minister & Director-General of DRDO
• Dr Alexander Kumar : British-Indian Doctor to walk across Antarctica carrying the Tricolour
• Will be first foreign national of Indian-origin to do it
• Expedition is scheduled for 2014
• Bashar al-Assad : Syrian President
• Alain Juppe : French Foreign Minister
• Thein Sein : Myanmar President
• Aung San Suu Kyi : Leader of Opposition of Myanmar & leader of National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar
• Hillary Rodham Clinton : US Secretary of State
• US hails leadership of Thein Sein for the recent reforms
• US to open an office of US Agency for International Development in Myanmar
• US also preparing to send an Ambassador to Myanmar
• "Project Glass" : a pair of augmented reality glasses of Google that provides users real-time information right in front of their eyes
• Google X : a secret Google research lab working on future technologies
• British Broadcaster Sky News, in which News Corps Rupert Murdoch owns 39% stake, admits that it illegally hacked emails of two persons for stories
• Yutyrannus huali : New Tyrannosaurus species unearthed in North-eastern China that is believed to be lived 60 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex)
• The fossil record had fluffy & feathery remains making it the largest feathered dinosaur ever found
• Its name is a blend of Latin & Mandarin, which translates to "beautiful feathered tyrant"
• Square Kilometre Array (SKA) : a huge $2.5bn radio telescope which will be 50 times more sensitive & 10,000 times faster than any other telescope on the globe
• Australia & South Africa are competing to host the World's biggest radio telescope
• Construction is to be started in 2016 and to go fully operational by 2024
• Kuwait-Iraq flights to resume after more than 20 years
• Iraq has approved a request from Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to operate services to Baghdad & Najaf, Iraq
• Nouri al-Maliki : Iraq PM
• French Nuclear Reactor in Penly on the English Channel near port of Dieppe shut down automatically after small fires at the installation that firefighters quickly extinguished
• Electricite de France (EDF) : operator of the power plant
• France generates 75% of its electricity from Nuclear power making it World's Most Nuclear-Dependent Country
• Lalit Kumar Jain : President of Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI)
• Bachraj Bamalwa : Chairman of All-India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (AIGJTF)
• Pranab Mukherjee : Union Finance Minister
• Anand Sharma : Union Commerce & Industry Minister
• Ajit Singh : Union Civil Aviation Minister
• National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) added a record capacity of 2,820MW in 2011-12 taking its total capacity to 37,000MW
• Achieved 9,610MW capacity in 11th Five-Year Plan against its plan target of 9,220MW
• Toy Manufacturer Funskool (India) crossed Rs.100cr turnover mark for financial year 2011-12
• Beni Prasad Verma : Union Steel Minister
• Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) paid interim dividend of Rs.495.36crore, at 12% of paid-up equity capital, to Government of India for the year 2011-12
• Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh : elected President of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)
• Raj Singh : elected Secretary-General of WFI
• 19th Federation Cup Carrom Championship
• Men's : K Srinivas (Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, PSPB) bt Yogesh Pardeshi (current World Champion)
• Women's : M Parimala Devi (PSPB) bt I Ilavazhaki (current World Champion)
• Jairam Ramesh : Union Rural Development Minister
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia : Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
• Bharatiya Janata Party controlled Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation slaps Rs.16-lakh tax bill on Sabarmati Ashram
• Ajit Jadhav : Manager of Sabarmati Harijan Ashram Trust
• Narendra Modi : Gujarat CM
• Kamala Beniwal : Gujarat Governor