November 2011

APPOINTED-

Mariano Rajoy: He has been elected as the Prime Minister of Spain. He inherits a stagnant economy with a 23 per cent unemployment rate and borrowing costs back to levels Spain was paying before it joined the euro.
Mario Monti: He has been appointed as the Prime Minister of Italy.
Lucas Papademos: He has been appointed as the Prime Minister of Greece.
Nabam Tuki: He has been elected as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

RESIGNED

Silvio Berlusconi: Prime Minister of Italy.

DIED

Bhupen Hazarika: Noted singer, songwriter, composer and film maker from Assam. He was 85. He was not just a singer but a social reformer who brought the north-east closer to rest of India. A Dada Saheb Phalke award winner, his music echoed beyond borders.
Indira Goswami: Celebrated poet and writer from Assam. She had been conferred with Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards. She also became India’s first Principal Prince Claus Laureate in 2008. Among her popular publications are: “The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tusker”, “Pages Stained with Blood”, and “The Man from Chinnamasta”. In “The Blue Naked Braja”, she gave her own experiences as a widow, as well as that of Radhaswamis of Vrindavan.
Sultan Khan: Noted sarangi maestro. He was 75.
Peter Roebuck: Noted 55-year-old British cricket writer. He was 55.
Hargobind Khorana: Pioneering Indian-American biochemist who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for medicine. He was 89.
Joe Frazier: Former world heavyweight champion. He was 67.

EVENTS

November
1—Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and pace bowler Mohammad Asif become the first cricketers ever to be convicted for fixing a part of a match. A 12-member jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court finds them guilty of conspiracy to cheat and conspiring to accept corrupt payments during a Pakistan-England Test match at Lord’s in 2010.
2—A landmark deal, signed between Nepal’s political parties to integrate about one-third of the 19,000 former Maoist guerrillas into the national army, sets the stage for reinvigorating the stalled peace process and formation of a national unity government after years of wrangling.
21—The Uttar Pradesh Assembly votes to re-organise the State into four parts—Purvanchal, Bundlekhand, Awadh Pradesh and Paschim Pradesh.
26—NATO  raid on two border posts of Pakistan, on Pak-Afghan border, kills 28 Pakistani soldiers.

MILESTONES

Rana Kapoor: Founder, managing director and chief executive of Yes Bank, he has been chosen as the Banker of the Year 2010-12 by Business Standard newspaper.
Ivian Sarcos: Miss Venezuela, she has been crowned Mis World 2011.
Niranjan V.: A Rhodes scholar and alumnus of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, he has topped in Oxford University’s postgraduate programme, dubbed as one of the most “demanding programmes in the world”.