CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 2010

March 2010

APPOINTED; ELECTED Etc.

Sonia Gandhi: UPA chairperson and Congress President, she has been appointed as the head of National Advisory Council (NAC), four years after quitting the post over an office-of-profit controversy. She will hold the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister.
S. Ramadorai: He has been appointed as the Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

Vladmir Putin: Prime Minister of Russia.
Stephen Smith: Foreign Minister of Australia.
General Mohammad Abdul Mubeen: Army chief of Bangladesh.
Nelson Jobin: Defence Minister of Brazil.

DIED

Girija Prasad Koirala: Five-time Prime Minister of Nepal and architect of the landmark peace deal with the Maoists that ended a decade-long insurgency in Nepal.
G.P. Birla: Noted industrialist and second most eldest member of the Birla clan. He was 86.

MILESTONES

Capt Tejdeep Singh Rattan: A 31-year-old Dentist, he has become the first Sikh in over 25 years to be allowed to complete US Army officer basic training without giving up his turban or shaving his full beard.

EVENTS

MARCH
7—Explosions rock Iraq as the country votes to elect a new government, leading to 36 people getting killed.
29—Two female suicide bombers blow themselves up on two packed metro trains, near iconic Gorky Park in Moscow, killing more than 40 people.