- Vice Admiral DK Joshi named the New Chief of the Indian Navy.
(Government of India on 5 June 2012 nominated Vice Admiral Devender Kumar Joshi as the new Navy chief. Joshi will assume the charge after Admiral Nirmal Verma retires on 31 August 2012. Joshi, 58 is currently the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, the Indian Navy's sword arm.)
- Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath appointed New Chief Election Commissioner of India.
(Election Commissioner is the head of the three-member election commission, which is a constitutional entity responsible for conducting free and fairs elections in the country. Article 324 of the Indian constitution provides for the institution of Election Commission of India. The commission was set up on 25 January 1950 with an aim to make electoral process in the world’s largest democracy more transparent and free from any external interference. Sukumar Sen was the first Election Commissioner of India.)
- Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won Mixed Doubles Title of the French Open.
- Samsung Electronics named Kwon Oh-hyun as its New Chief Executive Officer.
(BD Park is the CEO and MD of Samsung India.)
- Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit 2012 concluded in Beijing.
(The SCO, an intergovernmental mutual security organization, was founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001. The group has six full time members at present namely China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The Central Asian nation Kyrgyzstan will host the 2013 summit of SCO
Chinese President Hu Jintao offered a 10 billion U.S. dollars loan to the SCO which will be used be used to promote the development of SCO members)
- US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta visited India, vowed to strengthen Tie with India.
- US Drone Strike killed Al-Qaida's Second-in-Command Abu Yahya al-Libi
(A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan killed al-Qaida's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi on 5 June 2012. The killing of al-Libi is the most significant victory for the US forces since the death of Osama bin Laden.
The Libyan-born al-Libi was considered charismatic leader with religious credentials who was helping preside over the transformation of a secretive group based in Pakistan and Afghanistan into a global movement.He was a regular in Al Qaeda videos in which he talked about the lessons he learned while watching his captors, whom he described as cowardly, lost and alienated.
Al-Libi was promoted to al-Qaida's No. 2 spot after Ayman al-Zawahri replaced bin Laden as al-Qaida’s topmost leader. As al-Qaida's no. 2, he was responsible for running the group's day-to-day operations in Pakistan's tribal areas and managed outreach to al-Qaida's regional affiliates. )
- The Solar Transit of Venus presented a Spectacular Show in the Space.
(The Transit of Venus occurs when it comes between the sun and earth. Venus is significantly smaller in size than the sun and hence appears like a small dot on a big plate.)
- World IPv6 Launch Day organized by Internet Society.
(IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is a latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP) which will succeed IPv4, the communications protocol which is currently being used to direct almost all Internet traffic. IPv6 will allow the Internet to support many more devices by greatly increasing the number of possible addresses.)
- New Zealand beat Argentina to win Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament.
(Andy Hayward scored the only goal for New Zeland in the summit clash, which prevented Argentina, the 2008 winner, to reclaim the trophy.)
- A Boeing MD83 Aircraft crashed in Nigeria, killing all 153 People Aboard.
(President Goodluck Jonathan later declared three days of national mourning in Nigeria. The recent crash is the worst for Nigeria since September 1992, when a military transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lagos, killing nearly 163 army soldiers, relatives and crew members on board.)
- Sachin Tendulkar sworn in as the Member of Rajya Sabha.
(Sachin, 39, is the first active cricketer who has been nominated to Rajya Sabha for 6-year term. The President of India under article 80 of the Indian constitution nominates 12 members belonging from the various fields like art, literature, business, sports to the 250-member Rajya Sabha.)
- Egyptian Court served Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with Life Term.
(An Egyptian court awarded former President Hosni Mubarak with life imprisonment on 2 June 2012. The former autocrat was convicted given his involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising which dethroned him in 2011. Mubarak's former interior minister Habib al-Adly was also awarded with the life sentence.)
- Important Days
JANUARY
January 9 NRI Day
January 10 World Laughter Day
January 12 National Youth Day
January 15 Army Day
January 26 India's Republic Day, International Customs Day
January 30 Martyrs' Day; World Leprosy Eradication Day
FEBRUARY
February 24 Central Excise Day
February 28 National Science Day
MARCH
March 15 World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights Day
March 18 Ordnance Factories Day (India)
March 21 World Forestry Day; International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 22 World Day for Water
March 23 World Meteorological Day
APRIL
April 5 International Day for Mine Awareness; National Maritime Day
April 7 World Health Day
April 17 World Haemophilia Day
April 18 World Heritage Day
April 21 Secretaries' Day
April 22 Earth Day
April 23 World Book and Copyright Day
MAY
May 1 Workers' Day (International Labour Day)
May 3 Press Freedom Day; World Asthma Day
May(2nd sunday) Mother's Day
May 4 Coal Miners' Day
May 8 World Red Cross Day
May 9 World Thalassaemia Day
May 11 National Technology Day
May 12 World Hypertension Day; International Nurses Day
May 15 International Day of the Family
May 17 World Telecommunication Day
May 24 Commonwealth Day
May 31 Anti-tobacco Day
JUNE
June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 World Environment Day
June 3rd Sunday Father's Day
June 14 World Blood Donor Day
June 26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
JULY
July 1 Doctor's Day
July 6 World Zoonoses Day
July 11 World Population Day
AUGUST
August 3 Internatioal Friendship Day
August 6 Hiroshima Day
August 8 World Senior Citizen's Day
August 9 Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day
August 15 Indian Independence Day
August 18 IntI. Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
August 19 Photography Day
August 29 National Sports Day
SEPTEMBER
September 2 Coconut Day
September 5 Teachers' Day; Sanskrit Day
September 8 World Literacy Day (UNESCO)
September 15 Engineers' Day
September 16 World Ozone Day
September 21 Alzheimer's Day; Day for Peace & Non-violence (UN)
September 22 Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
September 26 Day of the Deaf
September 27 World Tourism Day
OCTOBER
October 1 International Day for the Elderly
October 2 Gandhi Jayanthi
October 3 World Habitat Day
October 4 World Animal Welfare Day
October 8 Indian Air Force Day
October 9 World Post Office Day
October 10National Post Day
October 2nd Thursday World Sight Day
October 13 UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
October 14 World Standards Day
October 15 World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)
October 16 World Food Day
October 24 UN Day; World Development Information Day
October 30 World Thrift Day
NOVEMBER
November 9 Legal Services Day
November 14 Children's Day; Diabetes Day
November 17 National Epilepsy Day
November 20 Africa Industrialisation Day
November 29 International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
DECEMBER
December 1 World AIDS Day
December 3 World Day of the Handicapped
December 4 Indian Navy Day
December 7 Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
December 10 Human Rights Day; IntI. Children's Day of Broadcasting
December 18 Minorities Rights Day (India)
December 23 Kisan Divas (Farmer's Day) (India)
December 25 Christmas day