Name the Icelandic glacier from under which a volcano spewed a cloud of ash that disrupted international airline schedules?

Ram Jethmalani is a well-known face in the legal community in India. He has appeared in many high-profile cases, taking up such unpopular cases such as the defence of the killers of prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 as well as the defence of market scamsters Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh, besides a host of gangsters and smugglers.

Kiranmoy Nanda, West Bengal's fisheries minister and veteran Samajwadi Party leader, was named national general secretary to replace Amar Singh, who resigned from all party posts. In a letter to Nanda, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav hoped his appointment would strengthen the party at the national level.

A two-day joint exercise, Sagar Kavach focused on synergy in operations, both at sea and on land, to test the efficiency and validation of standard operating procedures. The first such exercise was conducted jointly by the Coast Guard, the navy, and other agencies in October 2009 in the Arabian Sea.

K Radhakrishnan took over as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation on October 31, 2009, succeeding G Madhavan Nair. He has earlier served as director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.

Various bilateral issues, including insurgents belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) and other groups, are believed to have come up for discussion between Tariq A Karim and home minister P Chidambaram.

Ash clouds drifted from a spewing volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, which is one of the smaller glaciers in Iceland. The cloud cover led to all flights to, from and over Europe being grounded, leaving many passengers stranded where they were for almost five days. Those who couldn't wait had to undertake long road trips, such as the Barcelona football team, which travelled all the way from Spain to Milan in Italy for a Champions League semifinal clash with Inter Milan.

Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev was president of Kyrgyzstan since 2005, but his hold on power became uncertain in the wake of riots on April 7, 2010. Large-scale opposition protests led to the takeover of government offices.

James Logan Jones, Jr, is the current United States national security adviser and a retired Marine Corps four-star general. Menon's meeting with Jones to discuss the next steps to improve bilateral ties came a day after prime minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of Headley with president Barack Obama.

The secret service commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency and part of the intelligence machinery. The change was made because extremists are using social networking websites to communicate and officers need to be able to monitor these discussions.

In a rare weekend telephone conference, ministers from the 16 countries that share the single European currency backed a plan for Athens in which Greece would receive €30 billion in the first year from all euro zone countries in bilateral loans coordinated by the European Commission and paid via the European Central Bank.