Date : : 30th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Haryana govt announces Rs 1 crore award for Gagan Narang on winning Olympic bronze medal.
( 2 ) As many as 80,000 cyber crime related complaints have been registered with police in Kerala in the last one year, of which 50,000 relate to harassment of women through new hi-tech devices, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said .
( 3 ) Hockey India enters into broadcast deal with ESPN-STAR.
( 4 ) The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed the penalty on Shree Cement of Rs 397 crore.
( 5 ) Foreign investors have poured a little over Rs 8,400 crore into the Indian equity market this month so far sidelining concerns over weak monsoon, slowing economic growth and a high interest rate regime.
( 6 ) Petronet plans power foray with Rs 3500cr plant in JV with Kerala govt.
( 7 ) China’s Ye Shiwen, 16, sets new world record of 4:28.43 as she wins 400m individual medley in London Olympics.
( 8 ) Sun Yang becomes first male Chinese swimmer to win an Olympic gold in 400m freestyle.
( 9 ) Lewis Hamilton won Hungarian GP.
( 10 ) Microsoft introduces mice, keyboards for Windows 8 Software.
( 11 ) Power failure in North India: States' indiscipline led to grid collapse, indicates initial probe.

Date : : 29th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) 2.5 lakh panchayats to get broadband connectivity by November 2013.
( 2 ) Satyamev Jayate ends with aplomb.
( 3 ) China's Yi Siling won the 1st gold in London Olympics in women's 10m air rifle competition.
( 4 ) Undisclosed income of Indians totalling Rs 565 crore has been detected in France, according to Income Tax authorities, indicating that the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement is showing results.
( 5 ) Market capitalisation (M-Cap) of top 7 companies dip by Rs 31,792 crore; SBI biggest loser.
( 6 ) The government's decision to cap prices of patented drugs may hit the multinational pharma companies like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck hard.
( 7 ) Premium for group health cover may rise by 50%, 4 insurance PSUs had net loss of 1.5k cores.
( 8 ) PM announces Rs 300cr relief for Assam riots victims.

Date : : 27th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Private sector lender HDFC Bank today surpassed SBI as the country's most valued bank with a total market valuation of about 1,37,500 crore.
( 2 ) Arvind Mayaram is the new economic affairs secretary.
( 3 ) Facebook posts loss of $157 million in first earnings after IPO.
( 4 ) Google unveils 100 times faster broadband Internet service Fiber.
( 5 ) Indian IT firms supported 2.8 lakh jobs in US: Nirupama Rao
( 6 ) ICICI Bank Q1 netprofit up by 36.3% at Rs 1,820 crore, in the fiscal first quarter ended 30 June 2012.
( 7 ) Marans got 550cr bribe in Aircel-Maxis deal: CBI.
( 8 ) $1.25bn mop-up by SBI may open doors for other banks.
( 9 ) RIL, BP reduce investment in MA oilfield to $1.9 billion.

Date : : 26th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Amitabh Bachchan carries Olympic torch in London.

( 2 ) K.N. Srivastava to be new Civil Aviation Secretary will replace the present Civil Aviation Secretary, S.N.A. Zaidi.

( 3 ) Convert all cars to gas in a year,HC orders Gujarat govt.

( 4 ) Delhi HC bars Kalmadi from Olympic Opening.

( 5 ) Assam riots most affected areas are Kokrajhar, Chirang & Dhubri districts.
( 6 ) Jeet Thayil in race for Man Booker prize for his book "Narcopolis". Kulandei Francis won Magsaysay award for taking initiatives in Tamil Nadu empowered thousands of rural women to form micro enterprises, along with other activists from Taiwan, Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
( 7 ) Electronics industry projected to cross Rs 10,000 crore during this year.
( 8 ) Reliance ADAG to get back Rs 1,200 crore of bank guarantee deposited by it to build a SEZ in NOIDA stuck with Uttar Pradesh government.
( 9 ) Big technology firms including Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon have joined to create a new lobby group aimed at promoting "an open, innovative and free Internet."
( 10 ) New tax on wind turbines by local panchayats may make wind power costlier by Rs 8-10 lakh per MW in Tirunelveli-Kanyakumari belt of wind mills in Tamil Nadu.
( 11 ) Centre asks SC to allow use of toxic endosulfan.
( 12 ) Omita Paul, new secteraty to the Prez of India.
( 13 ) 8 FDIs from singapore under I-T lens, each inflows more than $100m.

Date : : 25th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Pranab Mukherjee sworn-in as 13th President.
( 2 ) 50 million subscribers of the retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) can obtain e-passbook along with details of their updated accounts online from today.
( 3 ) Government approved 14 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Proposals worth Rs 1584.11 crore
( 4 ) Telenor to cut 2,000 jobs in India as part of cost-cutting drive.
( 5 ) According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 1 crore people in Karnataka use tobacco.
( 6 ) Antony to head panel of Reliance Industries Ltd ( RIL ) gas.
( 7 ) SC bans tourism in core of tiger forests.
( 8 ) Assam riots toll rises to 32 as 70K flee homes, mostly belongs to Bodos & Muslims.
( 9 ) Wipro buys Yardley's EU biz, also plans tn buy another heritage brand in UK 'Woods of Windsor'.
( 10 ) Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma was signed as the Brand Ambassador of Unicharm’s Sofy Japanese FMCG Firm.

Date : : 24th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) US presidential award for three Indian American scientists Sridevi Vedula Sarma from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University and Pawan Sinha and Parag A Pathak both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
( 2 ) Sri Lanka beat India by 9 wickets in 2nd ODI.
( 3 ) Indians own more than a hundred of 900 apartments in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.
( 4 ) Wipro gives 8% salary increase to offshore employees and 3% to onsite employees.
( 5 ) UP government to spend Rs 1,570 crore on roads.
( 6 ) Supreme Court allowed Tamil Nadu to carry out Small Maintenance Works on the Mullaperiyar Dam which is constructed on the Periyar River in Kerala.
( 7 ) Wipro Q1 net profit up 18.37% at Rs 1,580 crore, for the first quarter ended June 30, 2012.
( 8 ) Moody's cuts Germany outlook from stable to negative. 
( 9 ) NASA succesfully tests hypersonic inflatable heat shield to demonstrate how a space capsule can slowdown and protect itself while entering Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
( 10 ) MoD clears 12k crore to acquire 56 planes for IAF.
( 11 ) Top Chinese offshore oil producer CNOOC to buy Canada's NEXEN for about $15bn.

Date : : 23rd July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Ernie Els of South Africa won the British Open Golf Championship 2012.
( 2 ) Petrol price to increase by 70 paisa per litre from tonight.
( 3 ) Suprem Court reduces discretionary quota for Haj pilgrims to 440 from 2500.
( 4 ) Wimbledon champion Roger Federer stayed top of the men’s tennis rankings.
( 5 ) Bradley Wiggins of Britain wins Tour de France (Bicycle race) in Paris.
( 6 ) According to funds tracking company EPFR Global foreign investors pulled out over USD 120 million from equity funds focused on Indian market during the third week of July.
( 7 ) FMCG major Hindustan Unilever on Monday said its net profit surged over two-fold to Rs 1,331.19 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, due to an exceptional income of Rs 607 crore from sale of properties.
( 8 ) Facebook spent $960,000 on lobbying activities in April-June .
( 9 ) UP govt changes the names of eight districts in Uttar Pradesh. Prabudhnagar renamed Shamli; Bheemnagar renamed Bahjoi; Panchsheel Nagar renamed Hapur; Jyotiba Phule Nagar renamed Amroha. Mahamayanagar renamed Hathras; Kanshiram Nagar renamed Kasganj; Ramabai Nagar renamed Kanpur Dehat,: Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharajnagar renamed Gauriganj
( 10 ) Engineering & construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Monday reported 15.7 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 863.65 crore for the quarter ended 30 June 2012.
( 11 ) Idea Cellular Q1 net profit up by 32% ended 30 June 2012.
( 12 ) Colgate Palmolive Q1 net profit up by 17% ended 30 June 2012.
( 13 ) JSPL (Jindal Steel Power Limited) is likely to acquire Canadian coal firm CIC Energy for about $115 million.

Date : : 22nd July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Pranab Mukherjee wins Presidential elections,will take oath as President of India on July 25 at 11:30 am
( 2 ) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Kumar Gehlot has decided to provide interest-free loans of up to Rs.1 lakh to some 26 million farmers, with money drawn from cooperative societies.
( 3 ) Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso’s won the German Grand Prix at Hockenheimring circuit on Sunday. It is Alonso’s third win of the season after his triumph in the Malaysian GP and European GP.
( 4 ) Enabling students to follow one syllabus across the state, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday said 535 engineering colleges would be affiliated with the Anna University.
( 5 ) In India ,Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and In Singapore, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) will share a list of suspected tax evaders and cases related to black money next week as part of bilateral financial enforcement cooperation between the two countries.
( 6 ) After the suspension of VRS Natarajan, BEML's senior-most Director P Dwarkanath has been recommended for appointment as its chairman and managing director.
( 7 ) Foreign Investors have poured in over USD 1.67 billion this month in the stock market, taking their total investments so far this year to more than USD 10 billion.
( 8 ) The gross domestic product (GDP) base year to be revised to 2011-12 from 2004-05 chief statistician TCA Anant said.
( 9 ) Hiring activities in the country are likely to slow down from September onwards unless efforts are made on the policy front to tackle economic sluggishness, according to leading job portal Monster.com.
( 10 ) Facebook customer satisfaction according to The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) "E-Business Report" in collaboration with research firm Foresee has plunged 7.6 per cent to 61 points on a 100-point scale.
( 11 ) Media baron Rupert Murdoch has resigned from the directorships controlling his News Corporation's UK titles and those in India, US and Australia, fuelling speculation that he may be preparing to sell his newspaper group here.
( 12 ) Heaviest rain in 6 decades kills 10 in Beijing

Date : : 21th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Guor Marial Runner without country to compete at Olympics basically he is from South Sudan which gained independence last year after breaking away from Sudan. It doesn’t yet have a recognised Olympic body.
( 2 ) INS Sahyadri, the stealth frigate built by Mazagon Dock will be commissioned by Antony today.
( 3 ) EC rejects Mulayam's vote in prez poll, says secrecy of Ballot violated.
( 4 ) Haryana bans chewable tobacco products.
( 5 ) No I-T returns if you earn Rs 5L or less.
( 6 ) Google has acquired Sparrow, a provider of email management software for Apple's platforms.
( 7 ) Facebook acquires Acrylic the creator of mobile gadget applications for newsfeeds and digital wallets.
( 8 ) RBI seeks personal gurantee from promoters for debt recast loans.
( 9 ) Maruti Suzuki India Ltd has announced an indefinite lockout at their plant at Manesar, Haryana, after a general manager was killed and several others were injured in a violent confrontation between workers and management on 19 july 2012.
( 10 ) Nasdaq OMX group will provide funds to the tune of USD 62 million to compensate clients who were disadvantaged by technical problems that arose during the Facebook IPO on 18 may 2012.
( 11 ) Mahindra and Mahindra would roll out its first tractor from its Andhra Pradesh plant in the next couple of months, state's Industries Minister J Geeta Reddy said today.

Date : : 20th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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( 1 ) Govt announces 27% quota to OBC in allotment of petrol pumps.
( 2 ) Country's second-largest car-maker Hyundai Motor India's Marketing and Sales Director Arvind Saxena is understood to have resigned from the company. may join Volkswagen.
( 3 ) Reliance Industries Q1 profit down by 21%, company holds cash pile of Rs 70,732 crore.
( 4 ) Google, in collaboration with NIIT, has introduced a training initiative for young professionals in India, to be called Google Web Academy.
( 5 ) Injury forces Spain's flag-bearer Nadal out of London Olympics.
( 6 ) United States faces worst drought in 25yrs, food prices to soar.
( 7 ) Govt looks to mobilize Rs 10K cr, cabinet clears 11% stake sale in SAIL, VSNL Surplus Land demerger.
( 8 ) India has set aside Rs 30,000 crore worth of incentives and subsidies to firms who will be interested in setting up electronic manufacturing units in the country.
( 9 ) United States House votes to cut $650 million in aid to
Pakistan .
( 10 ) Vodafone on Friday reported 7.7 % decline in revenues at 10.7 billion pound (Rs. 92,755 crore) for the quarter ended 30 June 2012.

Date : : 19th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :

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19th July 2012 Important News of the Day : :
( 1 ) Tendulkar in Parliamentary panel on IT and Rekha in panel on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.
( 2 ) US builds drone that can stay in sky for 48 hrs.
( 3 ) Derek O'Brien Trinamool MPs and has been elected to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal becomes first Anglo-Indian to vote in Prez poll.
( 4 ) Planning Commission today approved annual Plan outlay of Rs 57,800 crore for Uttar Pradesh for the fiscal 2012-13, Rs 800 crore more than sought by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
( 5 ) More than 94% of employees in India do not report income from other sources. This causes a loss of approximately Rs 660 crore to to government every year as a report by TaxSpanner Report
( 6 ) Indians are largest permanent migrants to Australia comprising over 15 per cent of the intake under the country's migration programme this year.
( 7 ) Exoplanet smaller than Earth discovered by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope called UCF-1.01, is located a mere 33 light-years away.
( 8 ) Honda recalls 321,453 CRVs, Acuras for faulty door locks.
( 9 ) NIIT Technologies today said its net profit jumped 39.7 per cent to Rs 57.5 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2012 because of strong growth in business.
( 10 ) 4.1-magnitude earthquake rocks Srinagar at 1:10 pm
( 11 ) EGoM may back Trai’s base price, To Finalize Spectrum Norms On Fri, May Stick With 18K Cr Reserve Price.

Date : : 18th July 2012 Important News of the Day ::

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( 1 ) Superstar Rajesh Khanna passes away.
( 2 ) Bihar over all growth rate is 16.71% :: Modi
( 3 ) Arun Mishra set to be new DGCA chief.
( 4 ) Internet company Yahoo! reported a decline of 4.2 % in net income at USD 228.4 million for the April-June period this year.
( 5 ) Retail inflation declined marginally to 10.02 per cent in June, the rate of price rise based on Consumer Price Index (CPI).
According to the Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR), 45 % of businesses in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) plan to increase investment in research and development over the next year, compared to just 18 % in the G7.
( 6 ) Vietnam gas hunt offer to India may rile China.
( 7 ) Russian Dy PM Dmitry Rogozin meets Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, raises concern over Sistema's investments in telecom.
( 8 ) M&M pips Tata Motors to 3rd slot, Once 2nd Largest Passenger Vehicle Maker, Tata Co Is Now Ranked 4th.
( 9 ) Reebok India booked for Fema violation, Co Imported Goods, Flouted Commitment For Exports Worth 8K Cr In 10 Yrs.
( 10 ) Stephen R Covey, author of the bestselling motivational book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” died.
( 11 ) TFP- Trade Finance Programme.
( 12 ) ADB approved the inclusion of Renminbi (the current currency used in the People's Republic of China, whose basic unit is Yuan) and Indian rupee in the TFP.

Date : : 17th July 2012 Important News of the Day ::

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( 1 ) Marissa Mayer is the New CEO Of Yahoo.
( 2 ) India finalised 81 Athletes Contingent to send in London Olympics 2012.
( 3 ) United State is close to develop hypersonic bombers able to reach any target on the globe in under an hour by travel at Mach 20 (roughly 20,900 kilometers per hour) and the project is being carried out by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
( 4 ) ROGER FEDERER set the World Record for Being World No. 1 for 287 weeks, which began yesterday, surpassing Pete Samprass who occupied No. 1 spot for 286 weeks.
( 5 ) International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered India's growth forecast by 0.7 % to 6.1 % for year 2012.
( 6 ) Punjab raises Dearness Allowance by 12% for state government employees and pensioners with effect from January 1, 2012.
( 7 ) Coin vending machines (CVMs) to be installed at railway stations the first choice could be given to the State Bank of India.
( 8 ) India's proposed National Food Security Bill (providing legal entitlement over subsidised foodgrains to the poor )has the potential to become a benchmark for the rest of the world to follow, the NGO Oxfam India and UK-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has said.
( 9 ) Incidents of Child Marriages fell significantly in India in a report by Annual Health Survey
( 10 ) ITC, Hungama Digital Media & Shankar Mahadevan launched Digital Talent Hunt MOBisur
( 11 ) Karnataka seeks over Rs 2,000 crore interim relief from Centre to deal with poor monsoon : Press Trust of India( PTI )
( 12 ) Axis Bank net profit up by 22% at Rs 1153 crore
(13 ) Inflation declines to 7.25% in June.
( 14 ) GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK ) clinches deal to buy US-based biotech co Human Genome for $3 billion.

Date : : 13th July 2012 Important News of the Day ::

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( 1 ) Agni-I successfully test-fired from the Wheeler Island, off Odisha and the missile travelled its full range of 700 km.
( 2 ) Irfan Pathan replaces Vinay Kumar for Sri Lanka tour.
( 3 ) Imports decline in June by 13.46 per cent to $35.37 billion: Directorate General of Foreign Trade.
( 4 ) SBI Q1 NPAs to surge over Rs 4500 crore.
( 5 ) 12 Indian outsouring companies including Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro among top global 100 according to the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
( 6 ) Vittorio Colao-led Vodafone to buy Telstra's struggling New Zealand unit for $670m.
( 7 ) Tadashi Ishii-led Japanese Ad gaint Dentsu to buy UK-based marketing group Aegis for $5bn.
( 8 ) Manisha Girotra will be the CEO of global independent bank Moelis & co.

Date : : 12th July 2012 Important News of the Day ::

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( 1 ) Jagadish Shettar sworn is as Karnataka CM.

( 2 ) Saudi Arabia is all set to send two female athletes to the Olympics for the first time, Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani will compete in judo’s +78kg category and Sarah Attar run the 800 metres.

( 3 ) Industrial production up by 2.4% in May.

( 4 ) The total premium of life insurers dropped by 3 % to Rs 2,83,315 crore for 2011-12 as compared to previous year.

( 5 ) India-based computer technology company Simmtronics has launched the XPad tablet series in Dubai priced at Dh299.

( 6 ) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today reported a 37.39 % jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 3,317.68 crore for the first quarter of this financial year.

( 7 ) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) lowered the growth forecast for India to 6.5 % for the current fiscal,from the earlier 7% .

( 8 ) Sri Lanka wins 1st Test series since 2009 by beating Pakistan.

( 9 ) Vittorio Grilli takes over as Italian FM after PM steps down from the post.

( 10 ) Carlyle buys 10% stake in Infotech.

( 11 ) Nasir Ali is Air India joint MD.

( 12 ) Micromax unveils Superfone A80 Infinity at Rs 8,490.

Date : : 11th July 2012 Important News of the Day ::

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( 1 ) Delhi is India's most competitive city, Mumbai next according to Competitiveness Report — 2012, compiled by the Institute for Competitiveness (IFC).
( 2 ) Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's join the Facebook page through e-paper name 'billion beats' ( www.facebook.com/kalambillionbeats ).
( 3 ) Manipal University won the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award 2012.
( 4 ) The Bihar government has asked the public sector banks to distribute Rs. 25,400 crores as loan to the farmers in fiscal year 2012-13.
( 5 ) International Donors Conference held in Tokyo.
( 6 ) SEBI permitted MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) to operate as a Full-fledged Stock Exchange.
( 7 ) Ramachal Rajbhar is the new UP chief of BSP, replaces Swami Prasad Maurya.
( 8 ) SC signals rethink on auction route for all natural resources, but No Relook At 2G Licence Cancellation.
( 9 ) China pips Japan to No. 2 slot in Fortune 500.
( 10 ) PC likely to return as FM by August.

Today 10th July 2012 Important news of the day : :

( 1 ) Govt signs $150m loan pact with Asian Development Bank ( ADB) for railway development.
( 2 ) Crimes involving kids go up from 0.8% to 11.8% in ten years according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Report 2012.
( 3 ) Indirect tax collections during the April-June period rose by 13.8 % to over Rs 1.07 lakh crore.
( 4 ) ICC sentenced Congolese Warlord Thomas Lubanga to 14-Year Imprisonment .
( 5 ) DGCA chief E K Bharat Bhushan was today stripped off as head of the aviation regulator with immediate effect.
( 6 ) Mark Boucher announces retirement after freak eye injury.
( 7 ) Ansari set to get second term as Vice-President, Ansari will be only the second person after Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India’s first Vice-President, to be elected to two consecutive terms in office.
( 8 ) New Tatkal rules from today: Sales started at 10am.
( 9 ) Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong Arrives in Delhi to push for bigger Indian role in Asean and to engage in education sector.
( 10 ) Bengal set for 2nd biggest Japanese FDI as SAIL, Kobe sign deal today.
( 11 ) 20-YEAR PACT: GAIL nears $12bn US gas deal.
( 12 ) Serena and Venus defeated Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic, won Wimbledon Ladies Doubles.
( 13 ) Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond beat Leander Paes-Elena Vesnina, won Wimbledon mixed doubles title.
( 14 ) ICAO- International Civil Aviation Organisation.

Today 9th July 2012 Important news of the day : :

( 1 ) Direct tax receipts up by 47% to Rs 84,273 crore first quarter of this fiscal year.
( 2 ) Federer`s win gives British charity Oxfam USD 155,000.
( 3 ) Roger Federer Defeats Andy Murray In Wimbledon Men's Singles, becomes world's no. 1.
( 4 ) 95% schools don't comply with RTE guidelines study by an NGO has found.
( 5 ) Bihar seeks 352% hike in 12th plan outlay.
( 6 ) Jonathan Marray became the first Briton to win a Wimbledon men's doubles title in 76 years. Marray and Dane Frederik Nielsen beat Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau.
( 7 ) Vladimir Klitschko retained his world heavyweight titles by beating challenger Tony Thompson.

Today 8th July 2012 Important news of the day : :

( 1 ) Mark Webber wins British Grand Prix.
( 2 ) RBI launches website to explain detection of fake currency.                           ( www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in )
( 3 ) Navy plans Rs 10,000 crore worth expansion of Karwar base.
( 4 ) Infosys’s Gopalakrishnan to head govt’s cloud computing panel.
( 5 ) Plan to hike Internet tariffs challenged by Internet Services Providers Association of India (ISPAI).
( 6 ) BJP names Jagadish Shettar new K'taka CM.
( 7 ) Torrential Rain sinks Russia, 103 dead.
( 8 ) Serena Williams wins fifth Wimbledon title. She beat Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.

Date: 7th July 2012 Important News of the Day ::

( 1 ) Anup Sankar Bhattacharya appointed as the Director of IBPS.
( 2 ) 6.5-7% economic growth possible' said Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
( 3 ) CNG price in Delhi &NCR hiked by Rs 2.90/kg.
( 4 ) P Chidambaram to head telecom spectrum EGoM.
( 5 ) IMF to cut global growth outlook, says Christine Lagarde.
( 6 ) Yahoo! India Signed Agreement with IIT-Madras to set R&D .
( 7 ) EIL signed Integrated Refinery Expansion Project of BPCL at Kochi.
( 8 ) Indo-Pak deal to stop border firing.
( 9 ) AMFI- Association of Mutual Fund in India.
( 10 ) SRO- Self Regulatory Organisation.
( 11 ) TDSAT- Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal.