Important Summits
1. 20th ASEAN Summit - Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
2. 4th BRICS summit - New Delhi
3. 10th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change - New Delhi
4. Arab summit 2012 - Baghdad (Iraq)
5. Nuclear security summit 2012 – Seoul (South Korea)
6. 12th Annual summit of European Union and India - New Delhi
7. G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting - Mexico City
8. Friends of Syria Meeting – Istanbul (Turkey)
9. 5th Ministerial level India-UK Economic Financial Dialogue – New Delhi
10. United Nation Conference on Sustainable Development 2012 – Rio de janeiro (Brazil)
11. 17th National youth Festival – Mangalore (Karnataka)
12. World Economic Forum – Davos (Switzerland)
13. World Polio Summit 2012 - New Delhi
Important Operation and committee
1. India and USA navy exercise – Malabar 2012
2. The IAF's Eastern Air Command commenced Exercise codenamed “Pralay”
3. Rangrajan committee – Sugar industry
4. Kakodkar committee - railway safety
5. Sam pitroda committee - railways
6. Shyamala Gopinath committee – Financial frauds
7. M.V. Nair committee – Priority lending sector
8. Shivraj patil committee – Productivity in Agriculture sector
9. B.K. chaturvedi committee – Power sector reform
Important Obituaries
1. NKP Salve - Union Minister and Ex-BCCI President
2. Homai vyarawala – First Indian photographer
3. Kim Jong-il – North Korean leader
4. P K iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist
5. Indira Goswami - Assamese novelist
6. Runako Morton - West Indies batsman
7. MOH Farooq - Governor of Kerala
8. Dev Anand – actor
9. S. Bangarappa – ex-chief minister of Karnataka
10. Vaclav Havel – Ex-President of czech republic
11. Sailen Manna - Football captain
12. Joy Mukhurji - Actor
