November 2nd

· Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)

· Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)

· Role of Private sector in Health Care

· Chittisinghpura massacre

· The Manual Scavengers and Dry Latrine Construction (Prohibition) Act, 1993.

· Dual prices of Diesel:

o Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology- Rai Bareli

· Aadhar- Government of India project.

o FOSS - Free and Open Source Software

o Middleware

o UIDAI

o Virtual Device Managers

o Akshaya project; IT@Schools; Keltron.

o Larger implications for a ‘knowledge society.'

o Delhi Science Forum

· The Centre for Airborne Systems, Defence Avionics Research Establishment, Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Electronics Application Laboratory and Electronics and Radar Development Establishment- developing AWACS- Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control System

o Used for air defence, surveillance and network-centric operations.

o Military aerostats needed. Two Aerostats will be made.

· National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research

o ‘Maitri,' the Indian station on the Antarctica

· Attappady Hill

· The community policing scheme @ Kerala

o K.T. Thomas Commission-2007

o International Association of Chiefs of Police

· The Think Tank Initiative (TTI)

· The Kuril archipelago: Russia and Japan: Japanese media said Tokyo may recall its ambassador from Moscow.

· Sixth China’s census: Migrants Focused, Implications on China’s economy and Demography.

· CEPA: Japan and its implications

· Brazil's tech-savvy census:

o UNFPA

o IBGE

o For the first time, income, race, religion, languages, environmental surroundings and time taken to get to work will be recorded.

· The giant South Pars gas field: IRAN; Persian Gulf.

o Hinduja and OVL Consortium.

o Liquefied Natural Gas for export

· Akpo oilfield in Angola: OVL’s since 2003

o OVL eyeing Exxon Mobil's stake

o African nation's state-owned firm Sonangol

· Insider Trading