(Current Affairs) Person in News | February: 2012

Person in News

Appointed

  • Siddharth Varadarajan
  • Ratnakar Baral
  • Pankaj Pachauri
  • Rita Menon
  • Mahesh Rangarajan
  • Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan
  • Lt-General Sanjeev Chachra
  • Prof. Parvin Sinclair

Death

  • Raj Kanwar
  • Nikhat Kazmi
  • M O H Farook
  • C. Jagannatha Rao
  • A K Damodaran
  • Sukumar Azhikode
  • Homai Vyarawala
  • Salma Mumtaz
  • Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves
  • Mohd Akram

Accused/Resigned/ Controversy

  • Santosh Hegde
  • Harish Khare
  • Ilker Basbug

Honour

  • Ricky Ponting
  • Sheela Gowda
  • Laura Dekker
  • Hema Malini

Committee/Commission/Conference

  • Review Committee on the Delhi School Education Act and Rules 1973
  • World Future Energy Summit held in Abu Dhabi
  • GOPIO annual conference in Jaipur
  • 15th World Sanskrit Conference
  • First international grains conference

Books

  • When Loss is Gain
  • Dream to Destiny

Various

  • Kamla Persad Bissessar visited India
  • Resident Identity Cards at Porthrapur Village
  • India Sixth most Innovative Country in GE's Second Annual Global Innovation Barometer
  • 5th Century A.D. Shiva Temple discovered
  • UN Resource Centre for the North-East was set up at Guwahati
  • Protests in Guatemala
  • India cautioned its Businessmen in dealing with Traders in Yiwu