The chief of the Indian Navy visited Sri Lanka on a six-day official tour during which he met president Mahinda Rajapakse and other top political leaders and military officials. Name him.

Sergei Kiriyenko is the head of Rosatom, the state nuclear energy corporation of Russia. The floating plant, called the Academician Lomonosov, will have the capacity to produce 80 megawatts of electricity. Six potential sites for such plants have been chosen in northern Russia.

Olli Heinonen, 63, is head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards department, which has the task of ensuring that countries’ nuclear programmes are not being diverted for military use. An IAEA spokesperson confirmed that Heinonen had informed the director general of his intention to resign at the end of August for personal reasons.

Admiral Nirmal Verma, accompanied by wife Madurika Verma and a delegation, visited Sri Lanka at the invitation of the government of Sri Lanka and the commander of the Sri Lankan Navy, Vice-Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, on June, 27. This was the first visit to Sri Lanka by an Indian Navy chief in six years. Admiral Arun Prakash had visited Sri Lanka in September 2004.

General Petraeus, 57, was nominated to be the new US and NATO commander in Afghanistan. The senate voted 99-0 in favour of Petraeus, a day after his confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee. As the US central command chief, Petraeus was already overseeing operations in Afghanistan.

The Uttar Pradesh cabinet at a meeting chaired by chief minister Mayawati decided to restore district status to Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar on July 1. The district has been carved out of Sultanpur and includes Amethi constituency.

According to global consulting major Mercer's latest cost of living index, Angola's capital has become the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, beating even traditional leaders like Moscow and Tokyo. The study says that with companies looking at cost-effective expansion, tier-2 cities are fast becoming the most expensive in the world.

The Bangalore-based Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF)'s Bell-412 chopper full-mission simulator was certified to Level D, the highest qualification for flight simulators, by both DGCA and EASA. The first training programme HATSOFF is offering is for operators of the Bell-412 helicopter. Additional cockpits for the Indian Army and Indian Air Force variants of the HAL-built Dhruv, the civil variant of the Dhruv, and the Eurocopter Dauphin would be added to the HATSOFF training centre over the next year.

James Jones, the current US national security adviser, will meet his Indian counterpart, Shivshankar Menon, in the second week of July to chalk out the agenda for president Obama's visit. Obama has said he is "very much" looking forward to his visit.

In a letter to party president Sharad Pawar, Mahajan has recommended the NCP’s merger with the Congress. The two-page letter questioned the relevance of the NCP in continuing as a separate identity when its principal issue of the foreign origin of Congress president Sonia Gandhi had become redundant.

Mallipudi Pallam Raju Mangapati is the current Union minister of state for defence. He was in Bangalore to review the tactical communication system (TCS) test-bed, which is a crucial programme for the Indian Army. He also visited the Central Research Laboratory and reviewed the Akash missile system, which is being integrated at Bharat Electronics Limited.