March 16,2010

1.BJP Team.
President - Nitin Gadkari
Vice President - Hema Malini
Secretary - Smriti Irani
Secretary - Varun Gandhi
National Executive - Kiron Kher
Spokesperson - Tarun Vijay
General Secretary - Vasundhara Raje

2.Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister for Environment and Forests and Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) participated in the International Conference on Environment Audit-Concerns About Water Pollution organised at New Delhi on March 16, 2010.

3.Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault Nissan addressed a press conference at Chennai on March 16.

4.The Finance Minister exuded confidence that economy will soon return to 9-10% growth rate.

5.Arcelor-Mittal would commence construction of a $130 million steel plant in Iran in collaboration with Dayen, a Turkish firm during the second quarter of 2010.

6.Religare Enterprises will set up its asset management, sales and distribution business in Japan and has hired a team from KBC Financial Products for the same.

7.Share of nuclear energy in Power Generation (%)
FRANCE - 76
GERMANY - 28.3
JAPAN - 24.9
USA - 19.7
RUSSIA - 16.9
CHINA - 2.2
(mainland)
INDIA - 2.0

The share of nuclear power in India's energy basket is just 2.0%, the lowest amongst the major world economies. From 4,340 mw now, India's nuclear power generation capacity is set to expand to 7,280 mw by March 2012 according to DAE.

8.Two rebels of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) were gunned down by security forces in Majuli village of Darrang district of Assam on March 16.