ment for 2009 to Bangladesh PrimeMinister Sheikh Hasina in NewDelhi.

Jan. 13: Prominent Right to In-formation activist Satish Shetty diesin an attack in Talegaon, near Pune.

Letika Saran takes charge as TamilNadu’s first woman DGP.

Jan. 15: The millennium’s long-est annular solar eclipse covers aswathe of 1,000 km and the 11-min-ute spectacle enthrals millions.

The Car of the Year award for TataNano is presented to Tata GroupChairman Ratan Tata in Mumbai.

Jan. 16: National Security Advi-sor M.K. Narayanan is appointedWest Bengal Governor; Shivraj Patilis named Punjab Governor. M.O.H.Farook to be Jharkhand Governor.Urmila Patel gets Himachal Pradeshand Shekhar Dutta Chhattisgarh.

E.S.L. Narasimhan is shifted to theAndhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan, PrabhaRau is to be Rajasthan Governor andK. Sankaranarayanan is made Mah-arashtra Governor.

Jan. 17: Jyoti Basu (95), veteranMarxist leader and Chief Minister ofWest Bengal for 23 years (June 1977– November 2000) dies of septicae-mia due to pneumonia resulting inmulti-organ failure at a private hos-pital in Kolkata after battling for lifeover the last 17 days.

Samajwadi Party leader MulayamSingh Yadav accepts Amar Singh’sresignation.

Jan. 19: CPI(M) patriarch JyotiBasu is given a state funeral withmilitary honours in Kolkata.

Cinematographer V.K. Murthy ischosen for the 2008 Dada SahebPhalke Lifetime AchievementAward.

Jan. 20: The Osmania Universitycampus in Hyderabad witnesses see-saw battles even as all the 10 districts

in the Telangana region observe abandh against the delay in bifurcat-ing the State.

India and Malaysia sign an extra-dition treaty, an MoU on higher edu-cation after talks between PrimeMinisters Manmohan Singh andMohammad Najib Tun Abdul Razak,in New Delhi.

Pilot error led to the crash of thethen Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterY.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s helicopteron September 2, 2009, says the R.K.Tyagi probe panel report.

Jan. 21: Former Foreign Secre-tary Shiv Shankar Menon is appoint-ed National Security Adviser.

Jan. 22: Lieutenant General V.K.Singh is named the next Chief ofArmy Chief.

Sensex loses 353 points to end be-low the 17000-mark at 16859.68.

Jan. 23: Mrinal Pande, veteranjournalist and writer is appointedPrasar Bharati chairperson.

Bengali film Antaheen is chosenbest feature film at the 56th NationalFilm Awards for 2008 in New Delhi.

The former Foreign SecretaryShiv Shankar Menon takes over asthe National Security Adviser atSouth Block in New Delhi.

Jan. 24: The former National Se-curity Adviser M.K. Narayanan issworn in West Bengal Governor.

Jan. 25: Padma Vibhushan forformer RBI Governor, Y.V. Reddy,Prathap C. Reddy, Nobel laureateVenkataraman Ramakrishnan,Umayalpuram Sivaraman, EbrahimAlkazi and Zohra Segal. PadmaBhushan for Ilaiyaraja, A.R. Rah-man, Aamir Khan, Bipan Chandraand 39 others. Resul Pookutty, Vi-render Sehwag, Venu Srinivasan,Saina Nehwal among 81 Padma Shriawardees.

JANUARYJan. 1: The Gujarat Assembly

holds special session heralding be-ginning of Swarnim Gujaratcelebrations.

Jan 3: C.R. Rao, statistician getsthe Indian Science Award declaredin connection with the 97th IndianScience Congress being held inThiruvananthapuram.

Jan 4: A bandh for the contin-uance of a united Andhra Pradeshhits life in 13 coastal and Rayalasee-ma districts.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Diksh-it inaugurates Twizy Z.E. Concept, anew electric car from Renault.

The Lokmanya Tilak nationaljournalism award is conferred on theEditor-in-Chief of The Hindu N.Ram in Pune.

Sensex ends day at a 20-monthhigh of 17558.73, gaining 94 points.

Jan 5: Sensex gains 128 points toclose at a 23-month high of 17686.24.

Jan 6: At least 600 people areevacuated after militants strike atLal Chowk in Srinagar leaving a po-liceman dead and nine othersinjured.

Samajwadi Party leader AmarSingh quits all party posts.

Ashok Leyland unveils ‘Hybus’ thenation’s first plug-in CNG hybrid busat the 10th Auto Expo in New Delhi.

Jan 7: The 22-hour gunbattle inLal Chowk, Srinagar ends with thesecurity personnel killing two mil-itants holed up in a hotel.

The Supreme Court stays thedeath sentence awarded to SurinderKoli, key accused in the Nithari seri-al killings.

Jan 8: The Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh calls upon Non-Resi-dent Indians to return home to joinpolitics and public life inauguratingthe eighth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas inNew Delhi.

BJP’s Gopinath Munde is appoint-ed Chairman, Public AccountsCommittee.

Letika Saran is Tamil Nadu’s newDGP.

Jan 9: Bollywood actor SanjayDutt quits as Samajwadi Party gen-eral secretary.

Jan. 11: India and Bangladeshsign five pacts to add thrust to tiesfollowing talks between Prime Min-isters Manmohan Singh and SheikhHasina Wajed in New Delhi.

Jan 12: President Pratibha Patilpresents the Indira Gandhi Prize forPeace, Disarmament and Develop-

Eight litterateurs are presentedthe first Tagore Literature Awards2009 instituted by Sahitya Akademiand Samsung Electronics, in NewDelhi.

Fight Lacunae in electoral processto make democracy stronger, saysthe President Pratibha Patil inaugu-rating the diamond jubilee fete of theElection Commission of India.

The Supreme Court orders statusquo on deemed universities.

India, South Korea sign four pacts,including one on peaceful uses ofouter space after talks betweenPrime Minister Manmohan Singhand President Lee Myung-bak, inNew Delhi.

Jan. 26: The trial run of the firstMonorail in Mumbai is carried out.

Jan. 27: Sensex crashes by 491points to end day at 16289.82. Niftycloses at 4853.10.

Jan. 29: Court martial proceed-ings are ordered against MilitarySecretary Lieutenant General Ava-desh Prakash for his alleged role in a

land scam in Darjeeling, West Ben-gal.

FEBRUARYFeb. 2: Samajwadi Party Rajya

Sabha MP Amar Singh and RampurMP Jayaprada are expelled from theparty.

.Feb. 3: The government consti-tutes a five-member committee un-der Justice Srikrishna on theTelangana issue.

P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor ofThe Hindu is given the Bharat Asmi-ta national award for using the massmedia for public awakening at afunction in Pune. He shares it withfilm and theatre director JabbarPatel.

Feb. 5: The Calcutta High Courtupholds death sentence for two per-sons for their role in the January 22,2002 attack on the American Center.Three get lifer and two freed.

Feb. 8: The Andhra Pradesh HighCourt strikes down quota for sec-tions of Muslims in education andpublic employment.

Feb. 9: Nitin Gadkari is electedBJP President for a three-year term.

Feb. 10: S. C. Sinha is appointedDirector-General of the National In-vestigation Agency.

Feb. 11: India signs a “declara-tion” on civilian nuclear cooperationwith the U.K. in New Delhi.

The defence lawyer of 26/11 ac-cused Fahim Ansari, Shahid Azmi isshot dead at his house in Taximan’sColony in Kurla, Mumbai.

Feb. 13: Nine persons, mostlyyouth, including four women arekilled and 40 injured in a bomb blastwhich ravages the famous GermanBakery on North Main Avenue inPune’s Koregaon Park near the OshoAshram.

Feb. 14: Fourteen MLAs from theTelangana region resign to protestagainst the terms of reference of theSrikrishna Committee.

Feb. 16: The toll in the Pune blastgoes up to 10 with the death of Abh-ishek Kumar of Lucknow.

India offers a $250-million line ofcredit to Nepal following talks be-tween Nepalese President, Ram Ba-ran Yadav and Prime Minister,Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

Feb. 17: The toll in the Pune blasttouches 11 with the death of AdityaMehta of New Delhi.

The Supreme Court sets up a five-member empowered committee togo into all issues concerning theMullaperiyar dam.

Feb.18: The Supreme Court ap-points the former Chief Justice ofIndia A.S. Anand as the Chairman of

NATIONAL

R. Seshasayee, MD, AshokLeyland at the launch of‘Hybus’ India’s first plug-inCNG hybrid bus.

Delhi Chief Minister, SheilaDikshit during the unveiling ofRenault Electric Car in NewDelhi.

Police and rescue workers inspecting the site of an explosion inGerman Bakery in Pune.

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the Empowered Committee on Mul-laperiyar issue.

Feb. 19: Shyam Saran, the SpecialEnvoy of the Prime Minister on Cli-mate Change quits.

Feb. 20: Students of OsmaniaUniveristy clash with police on thecampus.

Feb. 21: A body recovered fromthe Porur lake on February 13 is con-firmed by the Chennai Police to bethat of CPI(M) leader W.R.VaradaRajan.

BJP leader L.K.Advani is electedNDA working Chairman and SharadYadav the coalition’s convenor.

Siripuram Yadagiri who attempt-ed self-immolation in support of theTelangana issue dies.

Feb. 22: The former RajasthanChief Minister, Vasundhra Raje,steps down as the Leader of the Op-position in the Assembly.

The Armed Forces Tribunalquashes the Court of Enquiry pro-ceedings against Lt. General Ava-desh Prakash in the Sukna land scamand orders a de novo probe.

Lalmohan Tudu, a senior leader ofthe Police Santrash Birodhi Jana-sadharaner committee is killed infiring by security forces to foil anattack on the Katapahari camp nearLalgarh in West Bengal’s PaschimMedinipur district.

Feb. 23: Sushma Swaraj takesover as the Leader of the Oppositionin the Lok Sabha.

Feb. 24: A record plan outlay ofRs.41,426 crore is proposed for thecurrent year in the Railway Budget.

Feb. 25: The Union Cabinetclears the Women’s Reservation Billwhich had been hanging fire for closeto 14 years.

Feb. 26: A sum of Rs.66,100 croreis provided for rural developmentand allocation for defence goes up toRs.1,47,344 crore in the Union Bud-get for 2010-11.

The toll in the German Bakeryblast in Pune goes up to 17 with thedeath of Aditi Jindal from Ambala atthe Inlaks Budhrani Hospital.

Feb. 27: Fifty two persons ac-cused of being involved in the 2008riots in Orissa’s Kandhamal districtare freed.

Rajan Bharti Mittal takes over asthe FICCI president.

MARCHMarch 3: Pravin Mahajan (50)

convicted of the murder of his broth-er and BJP leader Pramod Mahajandies of brain haemorrhage at a hospi-tal in Thane.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi, launches the Kalaig-

nar Housing Scheme at a function inTiruchi.

March 4: Sixtythree people, in-cluding 37 children and 26 womenare killed and 74 injured during astampede at a religious gathering atan ashram at Mangarh in Uttar Pra-desh’s Pratapgarh district.

United Liberation Front of AsomVice-Chairman Pradip Gogoi is freedon bail from Guwahati Central Jailtemporarily ending his 12-yeardetention.

March 5: The Karnataka ChiefMinister B. S. Yeddyurappa presentsa Rs. 9,708.46 crore deficit budget forthe year 2010-11.

Kerala Finance Minister T. M.Isaac presents a “red and green bud-get” for 2010-11.

March 8: The 108th ConstitutionAmendment Bill (Women’s Reserva-tion Bill) is tabled in the Rajya Sabhaamid bedlam.

Air India creates history by hand-ing charge to an all-women crew onthe Mumbai-New York flight andcontrol of the cockpit of 22 domesticand international flights on Interna-tional Women’s Day.

March 9: The Rajya Sabha votes191-1 to amend the Constitution toreserve one-third of seats in Parlia-ment and the State Assemblies forwomen. The RJD withdraws supportto the government.

March 12: India and Russia signagreements in the defence and stra-tegic spheres, in the presence ofPrime Ministers Manmohan Singhand Vladimir Putin, in New Delhi.

March 13: The Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, inaugurates theTamil Nadu Legislative Assembly-Secretariat Complex on the Oman-durar Government Estate inChennai.

March 15: The Government de-cides against introducing in the LokSabha the Civil Liability for NuclearDamage Bill, 2010.

March 19: The creation of a de-partment for the differently abled,Anna University of Technology forMadurai and a medical college forTiruvannamalai highlights of the Ta-mil Nadu budget for 2010-11.

Veteran cinematographer V.K.Murthy is presented the Dada SahebPhalke Lifetime Achievement Awardat the 55th National Film Awards2008 in New Delhi.

March 23: A devastating fire rag-es through Stephen Court, a colonialbuilding in Kolkata’s Park Street,leaving 33 dead and 20 injured.

Kanu Sanyal (78), one of the archi-tects of the naxal movement is founddead at his residence in the Naxalba-ri area of West Bengal’s Darjeelingdistrict.

March 25: The Supreme Courtlifts stay on quota for Muslims inAndhra Pradesh.

March 27: Lifer for three formurdering National Highways Au-thority of India engineer SatyendraDubey.

March 28: Rukshana and herbrother Aijaz are awarded the Sarvo-tam Jeevan Raksha Padak and theUtam Jeevan Raksha Pathak for kill-ing a LeT Commander Abu Usma onSeptember 27, 2009 in Jammu .

March 29: Sensex surges to atwo-year high of 17711.35, the high-est closing level since February 29,2008.

March 31: President Pratibha Pa-til presents the Padma Awards to agalaxy of personalities.

General Vijay Kumar Singh takescharges as the Chief of the ArmyStaff at function in New Delhi.

The year long 26/11 trial con-cludes.

APRILApril 1: The Right of Children to

Free and Compulsory EducationAct, 2009 comes into effect.

India launches “Census 2011”, thebiggest-ever census attempted in thehistory of mankind. The first-everNational Population Register will al-so be prepared to create a biometricnational database.

April 5: Sensex gains 243.06points to end day at 17935.68, itshighest close since February 2008.

April 6: Maoists ambush and kill75 CRPF personnel in the Mukranaforest 3 km from Chintalnar villagein Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh.

Mammootty-starrer Pazhassi Ra-ja wins eight awards at the State filmawards for 2009.

April 7: The Centre halts the HPV(Human Papilloma Virus) vaccineprogramme meant to prevent cervi-cal cancer among women.

Sensex touches the 18000-level af-ter a gap of two years before closingat 17970.02.

April 8: The Union Cabinet givesnod for the big ticket disinvestment

in Steel Authority of India Ltd.April 11: Indian scientists an-

nounce the first-ever detailed map-ping of mycobacterium tuberculosis.

April 12: The Tamil Nadu As-sembly passes a resolution seekingto revive the Legislative Council.

April 15: The mission to put com-munication satellite GSAT-4 in orbitends in fiasco after India’s own cryo-genic engine in the GSLV-D3 fails toignite and the vehicle tumbles intothe sea.

April 18: Union Minister of Statefor External Affairs Shashi Tharoorunder a cloud for his alleged involve-ment in the Kochi IPL franchise bidquits.

April 19: The Supreme Court up-holds life term for Manu Sharma forthe murder of Jessica Lal on thenight of April 29-30, 1999 at a southDelhi restaurant.

D. D. Lapang resigns as MeghalayaChief Minister.

April 20: Mukul Sangma is swornin Meghalaya Chief Minister.

April 21: Self-styled godmanNithyananda ‘embroiled in a sexscandal’ and on the run since March3 is held from the house of a Delhi-based businessman at Mamlig vil-lage in Solan, Himachal Pradesh.

April 22: Madhuri Gupta, juniordiplomat in the Indian High Com-mission in Islamabad is picked up bythe Delhi police for ‘spying’

April 23: Opposition stalls busi-ness in both Houses of Parliamentdemanding a JPC probe into IPLirregularities.

April 26: The Unique Identifica-tion Authority of India unveils logo(AADHAR) and brand name for the16-digit unique identification num-ber in New Delhi.

April 27: The UPA governmentsurvives a trial of strength in the LokSabha as the cut motions moved bythe Opposition are defeated.

The 12-hour nationwide bandhcalled by 13 non-UPA, non-NDA par-ties against price rise hits life.

April 29: A Delhi-based journal-ist Nirupama Pathak is found deadunder mysterious circumstances ather parents’ house at Tilaya inJharkhand’s Koderma district.

April 30: Supreme Court JusticeSarosh Homi Kapadia is appointedthe 38th Chief Justice of India.

The Lok Sabha adopts the Nation-al Green Tribunal Bill, 2009.

MAYMay 1: Gujarat celebrates golden

jubilee of the Statehood. May 2: The Karnataka Food, Civil

Supplies and Consumer Affairs Min-

President Pratibha Patilpresenting the DadasahebPhalke Lifetime AchievementAward to V. K. Murthy.

Kanu Sanyal

President Pratibha Patil being enumerated for the Census 2011and National Population Register (NPR) by officials atRashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

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ister, H. Halappa resigns following areport in a daily alleging sexualmisconduct.

May 3: A Mumbai sessions courtpronounces Mohammad Ajmal AmirKasab guilty of waging war againstIndia. Two other accused Fahim Ar-shad Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmedare acquitted of all charges.

May 4: Parliament passes the2010-11 Union Budget.

The Union Cabinet gives nod forTamil Nadu Government’s proposalto revive the State LegislativeCouncil.

May 5: The use of narco analysis,brain-mapping and polygraph testson accused unconstitutional, rulesthe Supreme Court.

Rajya Sabha passes a Bill for set-ting up the 78-member LegislativeCouncil in Tamil Nadu.

Bangladesh authorities hand overNational Democratic Front of Boro-land chairman Ranjan Daimary tothe Assam police.

May 6: The Special SessionsCourt in Mumbai sentences to deathMohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, thelone surviving gunman of the No-vember 26, 2008 terror attacks. Alsoawarded lifer on five counts.

Shah Faesal, a medical graduatefrom Kupwara becomes the firstKashmiri Muslim to top the UPSCExamination this year.

May 7: Supreme Court upholdsGovernment’s right to fix gas priceand asks the Ambani brothers to re-negotiate gas supply deal.

The Civil Liability for NuclearDamage Bill, 2010 is introduced inthe Lok Sabha amid protests.

May 9: India begins year-long cel-ebrations of Rabindranath Tagore’s150th birth anniversary.

May 11: The Supreme upholdsquota in local bodies.

Justice K. G. Balakrishnan retires

as Chief Justice of India.May 12: Justice Sarosh Homi Ka-

padia is sworn in the 38th Chief Jus-tice of India.

May 13: Ketan Desai resigns asMedical Council of India president.

May 15: President signs ordi-nance empowering the governmentto dissolve the MCI.

The former Vice-President andthree time Chief Minister of Rajas-than Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (86),dies of heart attack in Jaipur.

May 18: President Pratibha Patilgives assent to the revival of the Ta-mil Nadu Legislative Council.

May 20: The Lucknow Bench ofthe Allahabad High Court frees BJPleaders L.K. Advani, M.M. Joshi andothers of conspiracy charge in theBabri Masjid demolition case.

May 21: Madan Tamang, presi-dent of the Akhil Bharatiya GorkhaLeague, is fatally stabbed inDarjeeling.

May 22: One hundred and fiftyeight persons are killed as an AirIndia Express plane from Dubaiovershoots the table-top runway atthe Mangalore airport splits, andplunges into a valley. Eight personssurvive miraculously.

May 23: The first indigenouslybuilt Light Combat Helicoptermakes its inaugural flight inBangalore.

May 24: The BJP withdraws sup-port to the JMM-led government inJharkhand.

Abdul Samad Siddi Bawa, the‘prime suspect’ in the February 13German Bakery blast in Pune is ar-rested by Maharashtra police atMangalore’s Bajpe airport.

May 25: The former HaryanaDGP S.P.S. Rathore is sent to jailafter a sessions court in Chandigarhenhances sentence to 18 months RIin the case of molestation of a 14-year-old tennis player.

The Supreme Court stays thedeath sentence of Aftab Ahmed An-

sari in the case of the January 22,2002 attack on the American Centerin Kolkata.

Air India staff go on a flash strikeaffecting flight schedule.

May 26: Seventeen Air India em-ployees are sacked and 15 suspendedand the strike called off.

The 500-year-old Rajagopuram ofthe Srikalahasteeswaraswamy tem-ple in Chittoor district, Andhra Pra-desh collapses.

May 27: Air India dismisses 41more staff and derecognises two ma-jor unions.

May 28: One hundred and for-tyeight persons are killed and 180injured as a goods train rams 13 de-railed coaches of Howrah-KurlaJnaneswari Express near Sardiha inWest Bengal’s West Midnaporedistrict.

May 29: Dr. Anil Kakodkar, for-mer Chairman of the Atomic EnergyCommission is presented Goa’shighest civilian award – GomantVibhushan Award.

May 30: Three-time JharkhandChief Minister Shibu Soren resigns aday ahead of a trust vote in theAssembly.

JUNEJune 1: Jharkhand is placed un-

der President’s rule and the Assemb-ly kept under suspended animation.

The Gujarat High Court confirmsthe death sentence for three personsin the September 24, 2002 terroristattack on the Akshardham temple.

June 3: India unveils indigenousA (H1N1) Vaccine – Vaxiflu – S, theegg-based inactivated vaccine.

The former CJI K.G. Balakrishnanis appointed National Human RightsCommission chairperson.

June 4: India, South Africa signthree pacts after a summit-levelmeeting between Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and President Ja-cob Zuma, in New Delhi.

June 7: The former Chairman ofUnion Carbide, Keshub Mahindraand six others are handed down twoyears RI for the December 2-3 Bho-pal gas tragedy that claimed 16,000lives. No mention of Warren Ander-son chairman of the U.S.-basedUnion Carbide group.

The former CJI K.G. Balakrishnantakes over as the NHRC chairperson.

Sensex tanks 337 points and endsday at 16781.07.

June 9: India and Sri Lanka signseven pacts. Joint Declaration is-sued after talks between Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh andPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa inNew Delhi.

June 10: The Union Cabinetclears amendments to Hindu Mar-riage Act and Special Marriage Act tomake divorce easier.

June 11: Mukesh Ambani-led RILacquires 95 per cent stake in InfotelBroadband for Rs. 4,800 crore.

June 12: Godman Nithyananda isfreed on bail by the Karnataka HighCourt and returns to his ashram inBidadi, near Bangalore.

June 13: A string of earthquakesjolts Andaman & Nicobar Islandsover a 12-hour period. A mild tremoris felt in many parts of Chennai city.

The German Bakery, Pune gets aRs. 14-lakh compensation from theMaharashtra Government.

June 15: The Naga Students Fed-eration temporarily suspends block-ade of National Highway 39, thelifeline of Manipur. All-Naga Stu-dents Association Manipur contin-ues blockade for the 65th day.

June 18: The All-Naga studentsAssociation Manipur suspendsblockade of National Highways 39and 53, the lifelines of Manipur.

June 20: Bapi Mahato, one of theprime accused in the Jnaneswari Ex-press derailment, is held at Jam-shedpur by the West Bengal police.

June 23:The first World ClassicalTamil Conference is inaugurated bythe President Pratibha Patil inCoimbatore. The Kalaignar M. Karu-nanidhi Classical Tamil Award ispresented to renowned IndologistAsko Parpola.

The Karnataka Lokayukta San-tosh Hegde quits.

June 24: Jaswant Singh rejoinsthe BJP ten months after his expul-sion from the party.

June 25: The Centre deregulatespetrol and goes in for partial dereg-ulation in the case of diesel.

June 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Min-ister M. Karunanidhi announces aroadmap for Tamil promotion as thecurtains come down on the firstWorld Classical Tamil Conference.

June 28: Two boys are killed infiring by CRPF personnel on peopleprotesting shootings by securityforces in Sopore. Thirteen hours ear-lier another youth too had died infiring.

June 29: Three youth are killedin police firing to break up a demon-stration in Anantnag, Jammu andKashmir against the death of fiveyouth in north Kashmir in the pastthree days.

JULYJuly 2: Cherukuri Rajkumar alias

Azad, a top naxalite, is killed in anexchange of fire with police in a hillyterrain near Sarkepally village inAdilabad district, Andhra Pradesh.

All convicts in the Bhopal gas trag-edy case are granted bail.

July 3: Former Goa TourismMinister Fransisco Pacheco wantedin connection with the May 30 deathof a friend Nadia Torrado surrendersbefore a local court in Margao.

Karnataka Lok Ayukta N. SantoshHegde takes back resignation.

July 5: The nationwide bandhcalled by the Opposition against thefuel price hike hits life in many partsof the country.

July 6: Four killed, 70 injured aspolice open fire in different parts ofSrinagar.

India’s first indigenous LightCombat Aircraft designed specifical-ly for the Navy, rolls out from theHindustan Aeronautics Limited inBangalore.

July 7: For the first time in 17years, the Army is ordered out toassist civilian authority in Srinagar

The CJI S. H. Kapadia

Former Vice-President BhaironSingh Shekhawat.

Civilians look on as firefighters and rescue personnel try to put outthe fire after an Air India plane crashes in Mangalore.

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after three weeks of urban violence.July 8: The former Goa Tourism

Minister Fransisco Mickky Pachecois arrested at the Hospicio Hospital,Margao.

July 9: ‘Soleckshaw’ (solar rick-shaw) solar-powered postal deliveryrickshaws launched in New Delhi.

July 12: ISRO’s Polar SatelliteLaunch Vehicle (PSLV-C 15) puts inorbit five satellites, including the ti-ny Studsat a pico satellite built byengineering college students of And-hra Pradesh and Karnataka, after asuccessful liftoff from Sriharikota.

Sensex touches 18000-mark forthe first time in three months beforeclosing at 17937.20.

July 14: The Nagpur bench of theBombay High Court commutes thedeath sentence of six accused in theSeptember 29, 2006 Khairlanji Dalitkillings to 25-year imprisonment.

July 15: Rupee joins an elite clubas the Union Cabinet gives nod forthe symbol with a blend of Devanagi-ri ‘Ra’ and Roman ‘R’ designed by aBombay IIT postgraduate D. UdayaKumar.

July 16: The Maharashtra policearrests a Telugu Desam Party dele-gation led by Chandrababu Naidu inNanded and foils its bid to visit thedisputed Babli project across the Go-davari.

July 19: At least 67 persons arekilled and 121 injured as the Sealdah-bound New Cooch Behar-SealdahUttarbanga Express rams the Bha-galpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express atSainthia station in West Bengal’sBirbhum district.

July 22: Sensex surges by 136points to close above the 18000 levelfor the first time in two-and-a halfyears.

Siddharth Varadarajan, the Delhibureau chief of The Hindu is award-

ed the Ramnath Goenka Journalistof the Year Award.

July 24: Gujarat Minister of Statefor Home, Amit Shah, resigns fromthe Narendra Modi Cabinet.

July 25: The former Gujarat Min-ister of State for Home, Amit Shah, isarrested in Ahmedabad and sent tojudicial custody.

July 27: Shahabuddin YaqoobQuraishi is appointed the next ChiefElection Commissioner.

July 28: A pact for the supply of57 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer air-craft to the IAF and the Navy issigned in the presence of BritishPrime Minister David Cameron atthe HAL centre in Bangalore.

July 29: Parliament passes reso-lution granting approval for imposi-tion of President’s rule inJharkhand.

Chief Election Commissioner Na-vin Chawla demits office.

India and the U.K. decide to giveimpetus to their security and tradeties after Manmohan Singh-DavidCameron talks in New Delhi.

The RJD is derecognised as na-tional party, the Trinamool Con-gress and six other parties loserecognition in some states.

July 30: The Supreme Court ac-quits educationist S.A. Raja cited asthe key accused and sentenced toundergo double life imprisonment inthe Aladi Aruna murder case.

S.Y. Quraishi assumes charge asthe 17th Chief Election Commis-sioner in New Delhi.

The Karnataka Chief Justice P.D.Dinakaran is transferred as ChiefJustice of the Sikkim High Court.

July 31: Konkani litterateur Ra-vindra Kelekar is presented the 42ndJnanpith Award for the year 2006 inthe Goa capital Panaji.

Two youth are killed and 40 in-

jured in police firing in Kashmir asprotesters defy curfew.

AUGUSTAug. 1: Eight persons, including a

woman are killed in two separateincidents in the Kashmir valley.

Aug. 2: Seven civilians are killedin continuing violence in the Kash-mir valley.

The CBI files a curative petition inthe Supreme Court in the ‘ Bhopalgas tragedy case’.

Parliament resumes business. LokSabha nod for the SBI (Amendment)Bill, 2010.

Aug. 4: A civilian is killed in firingby CRPF personnel on protestors atthe Bemina Cowk in Srinagar.

Aug. 5: The CommonwealthGames Organising Committee sus-pends three officials and the treasur-er resigns.

Aug. 6: At least 165 persons arekilled and over 500 injured as flashfloods triggered by torrential rainhits Leh in the Ladakh region ofJammu and Kashmir.

Amanjot Singh and Sahil Wadhwa,students of Ryan International inRohini, New Delhi discover the mainbelt asteroid named 2010 P024.

Aug. 7: Two merchant vessels,MSC Chitra (laden with 26,000tonnes of oil) and MV Khalijia IIIcollide in the Arabian Sea off theMumbai coast resulting in a massiveoil spill.

Aug. 9: A legislation to protectwhistle-blowers gets the Centre’snod.

Justice P.D. Dinakaran is sworn inSikkim Chief Justice.

Aug. 13: Four civilians are killedin firing by the police and the CRPFin Kashmir. The toll in clashes sinceJune 11 rises to 56.

The oil spill from MSC Chitra in-flicts massive damage on the 25 kmstretch of mangroves in and aroundMumbai.

Aug. 14: Major Lishram JyotinSingh who laid down his life in theFebruary 26 terror attack in Kabul isawarded the Ashok Chakra.

Aug. 15: Dialogue is the only op-tion, be it with Pakistan, Kashmiriseparatists or naxalites, says thePrime Minister Manmohan Singh inhis address to the nation on the 64thIndependence Day.

Aug. 16: The theme song for theCommonwealth Games is releasedin New Delhi.

Commander Dilip Dhonde ofMaharashtra is awarded ShauryaChakra for becoming the first Indianto undertake a solo circumnaviga-tion of the globe.

Aug. 18: B. Ramalinga Raju, mainaccused in the accounting fraud inthe erstwhile Satyam Computersgets conditional bail.

Aug. 19: Sensex gains nearly 200points to close at 18454.94, a 30-

month high, on strong global cues.Aug. 20: MPs stall Lok Sabha pro-

ceedings dissatisfied with the UnionCabinet clearing a 300 per cent hikein salary. Mock session held.

Aug. 21: Rajya Sabha passes theNalanda University Bill.

Aug. 24: The Union Governmentsays ‘no’ to Vedanta Alumina’s $1.7billion plan to mine bauxite in theNiyamgiri Hills of Orissa.

Former Arunachal Pradesh ChiefMinister Gegong Apang is arrestedin the Rs.1,000 crore PDS scam inthe State.

Aug. 25: The Lok Sabha passesthe Civil Liability for Nuclear Dam-age Bill, 2010.

Harishankar Brahma assumes of-fice as Election Commissioner.

Aug. 26: Mother Teresa’s birthcentenary celebrations begin inKolkata.

Aug. 27: Parliament nod for For-eign Contribution (Regulation) Bill,2010.

Aug. 28: Music composer A.R.Rahman unveils the theme song forthe Commonwealth Games at theKingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon.

Aug. 29: Seven police personnelare killed in an encounter with naxa-lites in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district.Four policemen are taken hostage.

Aug. 30: The Supreme Court con-firms death sentence for threeAIADMK men in the February 20,2000 Dharmapuri bus burning casein which three TNAU girl studentsdied.

Parliament adopts the Civil Lia-bility for Nuclear Damage Bill, withthe Rajya Sabha approving it.

Aug. 31: S. Malathi assumes officeas the 39th Chief Secretary of TamilNadu.

SEPTEMBERSept. 1: The Supreme Court sets

aside Allahabad High Court order-staying the carving out of a new dis-trict from Amethi named after Dalitleader Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj.

K.S. Sripathi is sworn in Tamil Na-du’s Chief InformationCommissioner.

Sept. 2: Havildar Lucas Tete, oneof the four taken hostage by naxa-lites in Bihar, is shot dead.

Sept. 3: The IAF awards the hon-orary rank of Group Captain to Sa-chin Tendulkar.

Sonia Gandhi is elected Congresspresident for the fourth consecutiveterm.

Sept. 5: Homi Nusserwanji Seth-na (86), the former Chairman of theAtomic Energy Commission, whoplayed a key role in the May 18, 1974

The rescue teams are trying tosave the people stuck incompartment no. 6 ofJnaneswari Express.

Cargo-boxes on board the MSC Chitra, fall from the deck into theArabian sea off the Mumbai coast, following a collision withanother vessel MV Khalijia III.

D. Udaya Kumar, displaying thenew symbol of Rupee, designedby him. CEC S.Y. Quraishi.

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Pokhran nuclear explosion dies athis home in Mumbai.

Sept. 6: Naxalites set free thethree policemen held hostage foreight days in Lakhisarai forests, atSimra Rai, near Patna.

The Supreme Court stays thedeath sentence awarded to two per-sons in the 2002 Akshardham tem-ple attack case.

Sept. 7: P.J. Thomas is sworn inthe 14th Central VigilanceCommissioner.

Mirza Himayat Baig, key accusedin the February 13 German Bakeryblast case, is held in Pune. Anotherarrested in Nashik.

Sept. 8: Sensex closes at 18666.71,its best close since January 18, 2008.

Sept. 9: The Union Cabinet givesnod for inclusion of caste in Census2011. Recommends the revocation ofPresident’s rule in Jharkhand.

Veteran filmmaker Daggubati Ra-manaidu is chosen for the Dadasa-heb Phalke Award 2009.

The Union Sports MinisterM.S.Gill, launches a song ‘Shera’ forthe Commonwealth Games, in NewDelhi.

Sept. 11: Violence erupts again inJammu and Kashmir.

Irom Sharmila on a fast-unto-death since November 4, 2000, de-manding the repeal of the ArmedForces (Special Powers) Act in Ma-nipur is presented the RabindranathTagore Award 2010.

Arjun Munda is sworn in Jhark-hand Chief Minister.

Sept. 12: Residents of low-lyingareas are evacuated as the Yamunariver crosses the danger mark in NewDelhi.

Sept. 14: Jharkhand Chief Minis-ter Arjun Munda wins trust vote inthe Assembly.

Sept. 15: Kutty Srank, a Malaya-lam drama bags the best feature filmaward at the National Film AwardsFestival for 2009 in New Delhi.Bol-lywood star Amitabh Bachchan gets

best Actor award for his role in Paa.An award in the name of the

‘queen of song’ The Hindu SaregamaM.S. Subbulakshmi Award’ is insti-tuted in Chennai.

Sept. 18: Divya Ajith Kumar ofChennai becomes the first woman inthe history of the Indian Army toreceive the “Sword of Honour’ forthe best cadet passing out of theOTA, St. Thomas Mount.

A woman is killed and eight in-jured as CRPF opens fire in Sopore,north Kashmir. The toll in clashessince June 11 up to 108.

Sept. 21: Sensex touches20001.55 for the first time in 32months.

Sept. 24: Malayalam litterateurO.N.V. Kurup and Urdu poet AklaqKhan Shahryar are chosen for theJnanpith Award for 2007 and 2008.

Sensex gains 184.17 points to closeat 200045.18 recording its highestlevel since January 2008.

Sept. 25: One thousand artistesperform Bharatanatyam as part ofthe Millennium Celebrations of theBig Temple, Thanjavur.

Sept. 26: The release of a specialpostal stamp and a five rupee coinmark the conclusion of the five-day-long celebration on the ThanjavurBig Temple Millennium.

Three women among nine scien-

tists chosen for the Shanti SwarupBhatnagar Prize 2010.

Sept. 27: Many schools in Jammuand Kashmir reopen after 100 days.

Sept. 28: Veteran actor ShreeramLogoo, danseuse Yamini Krishna-murti and musician Lalgudi G. Jaya-raman are among a host of artisteshonoured with the Sangeet NatakAkademi fellowships, awards for2009.

Sept. 29: Ranjana Sonawane ofTembhli village in Maharashtra’sNandurbar district becomes the firstIndian to get the Unique Identifica-tion card.

Wajahat Habibullah demits officeas Information Commissioner.

Sept. 30: A Special Full Bench ofthe High Court of Allahabad awardstwo-thirds of disputed Ayodhya siteto Hindu parties and one-third toSunni Waqf Board.

The Manipur Asembly SpeakerSapam Budhichandra passes away.

OCTOBEROct. 1: Aruna Roy, political and

social activist, is presented the LalBahadur Shastri National Award forExcellence in Public Administration,Academia and Management by thePresident Pratibha Patil, in NewDelhi.

The Supreme Court stays a Ma-dras High Court judgment ordering

the closure of the copper plant ofSterlite Industries (India) Ltd. atTuticorin.

Oct. 3: The CommonwealthGames gets off to a colourful start atthe Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium inNew Delhi.

Oct. 5: The Union Cabinet ap-proves the Judicial Standards andAccountability Bill.

Oct. 6: The Supreme Court com-mutes to life imprisonment thedeath sentence awarded to SantoshKumar Singh for the January 23,1996 rape and murder of law studentPriyadarshini Mattoo in New Delhi.

K. Vijay Kumar assumes office asthe new CRPF Director-General inNew Delhi.

Music director A.R. Rahman andthe Ramakrishna Mission Ashram,Chhattisgarh are jointly chosen forthe 25th Indira Gandhi Award forNational Integration for the year2009.

The B.S. Yeddyurappa Govern-ment in Karnataka in crisis as 18MLAs withdraw support.

Oct. 8: The Madras High Courtsets aside a January 8, 2010 orderappointing Letika Saran as TamilNadu DGP.

Oct. 10: The BJP sweeps the localbody polls in Gujarat. E-voting in-troduced for the first time in thenation.

Oct. 11: The BJP government inKarnataka wins trust vote amid un-ruly scenes in the Assembly.

Oct. 12: The Karnataka govern-

ment to seek trust vote again.Oct. 13: The Centre names Dilip

Padgaonkar, M. M. Ansari and DelhiPolicy Group trustee Radha KumarJammu and Kashmir interlocutors.

Oct. 14: The BJP government inKarnataka wins trust vote again.

The biggest ever CommonwealthGames end on a dazzling note. Indiabags 101 medals.

Oct. 15: The Centre appoints ahigh-level committee under the for-mer CAG, V.K. Shungloo, to probeinto Commonwealth Games issues.

Oct. 19: India launches the Na-tional Green Tribunal.

Oct. 20: The Union Cabinet givesnod for The Enemy Property(Amendment and Validation) Sec-ond Bill, 2010.

Oct. 21: Peaceful polling in thefirst phase of Bihar Assemblyelection.

Oct. 22: President Pratibha Patilpresents the Dada Saheb PhalkeAward to D. Ramanaidu at the 57thNational Films Award 2009 functionin New Delhi. Pasanga bags the RajatKamal for the best Tamil film.

Oct. 23: The National AdvisoryCouncil reaches consensus on a uni-versal food security system with le-gal guarantees.

Oct. 24: Despite Naxal threat,52.5 per cent polling is recorded inphase II of the Bihar Assembly elec-tions.

Oct. 28: Fifty four per cent votingin third phase of Bihar Assemblypolls.

Dr. Homi Sethna

Union Sports Minister M.S. Gill with Shera, the mascot ofCommonwealth Games 2010, during the launch of ‘‘Shera’’ song inNew Delhi.

Padma Subramanyam and a group of Bharatanatyam dancersperforming as part of the Millennium celebrations of the BigTemple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.

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DIARY OF EVENTS 2010

Nonagenarians among four pre-sented with the Jamnalal Bajajaward for 2010 in Mumbai.

Oct. 29: The Gujarat High Courtgrants conditional bail to the formerMinister of State for Home AmitShah.

Two school students are kid-napped and murdered in Coimba-tore, Tamil Nadu.

.NOVEMBERNov. 1: Fiftyone per cent polling

is recorded in fourth phase of BiharAssembly elections.

Manu Joseph bags The HinduBest Fiction Award for his debutnovel Serious Men.

Nov. 4: The Union Cabinet givesnod for the Protection of Womenagainst sexual Harassment at Work-place Bill, 2010.

Nov. 6: Mumbai a symbol of in-credible energy and optimism thatdefines India, says the U.S. PresidentBarack Obama commemorating the26/11 terror attack at the Taj MahalPalace and Towers.

Nov. 8: I look forward to Indiabecoming a permanent member in areformed United Nations SecurityCouncil, says the U.S. President Ba-rack Obama addressing a joint ses-sion of Parliament.

Nov. 9: The Maharashtra ChiefMinister Ashok Chavan resigns own-ing responsibility for the AdarshCooperative Housing Society scam.

The Congress sacks Suresh Kal-madi as secretary of the CongressParliamentary Party.

Fifty per cent polling in Bihar As-sembly election fifth phase.

Mohan, the prime accused in theOctober 29 murder of siblings inCoimbatore, is killed in an encoun-ter on the Podanur–Vellore road.

Nov. 10: A parliamentary probepanel holds Justice Soumitra Sen ofthe Calcutta High Court guilty of‘misconduct’ tantamount to‘misbehaviour’.

B. Ramalinga Raju, prime accusedin the Satyam Computer fraud issent to jail after his surrender in acourt in Hyderabad.

Nov. 11: Prithviraj Chavan andAjit Pawar are sworn in MaharashtraChief Minister and Deputy ChiefMinister.

The Supreme Court grants bail tothe former Haryana DGP S.P.S.Rathore in a molestation case.

A fast track court in Dharmsala,Himachal Pradesh sentences to fouryears RI four senior medicos for theragging of Aman Kachroo, a juniorstudent leading to his death.

Nov. 12: The former HaryanaDGP, S.P.S. Rathore is freed from theBurail jail in Chandigarh.

Shyamoli Gupta is elected AIDWApresident.

Nov. 14: The Union Telecommu-nications Minister A. Raja resignsfrom Cabinet over the 2G spectrumallocation scam.

Nov. 15: The HRD Minister KapilSibal is given additional charge ofTelecommunications, IT Ministry.

Nov. 16: The CAG report on the2008 2G spectrum allocation indict-ing former Communications Minis-ter A. Raja is tabled in Parliament.

Nov. 19: The outgoing BrazilianPresident Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ischosen for the Indira Gandhi Prizefor Peace, Disarmament and Devel-opment for 2010.

‘Sabla’ or Rajiv Gandhi’s Schemefor Adolescent Girls’ is launched inNew Delhi.

Nov. 20: Fiftyone per cent of theelectorate cast ballots in the sixthand final phase of the Bihar Assemb-ly polls.

Nov. 22: Interbank Mobile Pay-ment Service, a first-of-its-kind ser-vice in the country is launched inMumbai.

Nov. 23: Huge oil spill as two car-go ships collide on the Hooghly riverat Nurpur in West Bengal’s South 24Parganas district.

Sensex collapses by 600 points –its steepest fall in 15 months, beforegaining 265 points to end at19691.84.

Nov. 24: The Janata Dal (United)– BJP alliance bulldozes to power inBihar winning 206 seats in the 243-member House.

Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterKonijeti Rosaiah resigns and the As-sembly Speaker Nallari Kiran Ku-mar Reddy to succeed him.

The CBI arrests eight bank andfinancial firm officials after unearth-ing a multi-crore housing financebribery racket.

Nov. 25: Nallari Kiran KumarReddy is sworn in Andhra PradeshChief Minister.

India launches the Mobile Num-ber Portability service, with UnionMinister Kapil Sibal making it avail-able from Rohtak, Haryana.

Nov. 26: Nitish Kumar is swornin Bihar Chief Minister for a secondconsecutive term. Sushil Kumar Mo-di is Deputy Chief Minister again.

Nehchal Sandhu is new Intelli-gence Bureau Chief.

Nov. 27: The Tamil Nadu Gov-ernment reappoints Latika Saran,DGP.

Nov. 28: The 9900 MWe JaitapurNuclear Power Project in Maharash-tra gets environmental clearance.

Rain wreaks havoc in Tiruvarur,Madurai and Thanjavur leaving pad-dy on thousands of hectares flooded.

Nov. 29: Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddyresigns the Kadapa Lok Sabha seatand also quits the Congress.

DECEMBERDec.1: The Union Cabinet gives

nod for India-Sri Lanka ferryservice.

The Judicial Standards and Ac-countability Bill is tabled in the LokSabha.

Dec. 2: Bengali filmmaker Gau-tam Ghose’s “Moner Manush” (TheQuest) bags the Golden PeacockAward for Best Film at the 41st IFFI2010, in Panaji, Goa.

Dec. 6: India, France sign sevenpacts, including five in the area ofnuclear energy, presided over byPrime Minister Manmohan Singhand President Nicolas Sarkozy inNew Delhi.

Actor Saroja Devi is selected forthe NTR National Award for 2009.Media baron Ch. Ramoji Rao gets theNagi Reddy and Chakrapani Nation-al Award.

Dec. 7: A child is killed and 21injured as a powerful blast rocks Va-ranasi’s Shiela Ghat during ‘Gangaaarti’.

The Protection of Women againstSexual Harassment at WorkplaceBill, 2010 is introduced in Lok Sabha.

The Madras High Court orderssuspension of Chairman of BarCouncil of Tamil Nadu and Pondi-cherry R.K. Chandramohan.

Dec. 8: The CBI conducts search-es at former Telecom Minister, A.Raja’s residences in Delhi andChennai.

Dec. 9: The Union Governmentforms a one-member committee toexamine spectrum allotment be-tween 2001 and 2009.

Dec. 13: Parliament sessionplagued by the 2G Spectrum logjamends.

Satyanand Mishra is chosen thenext Chief InformationCommissioner.

Dec. 15: India and China sign 50deals worth $16 billion in the pres-ence of the Chinese Premier WenJiabao in New Delhi. China-IndiaFriendship Award for nine persons.

The Supreme Court stays the sus-pension of R.K. Chandramohan asChairman of the Bar Council of Ta-mil Nadu and Pondicherry.

Dec. 16: The Supreme Courttakes charge of the 2G Spectrumprobe.

Dec. 17: Lifer for killers of mara-thoner Budhia Singh’s coach Biran-chi Das.

Dec. 19: Sachin Tendulkar cre-ates history by becoming the firstbatsman to score 50 Test centuriesduring his unbeaten knock at Centu-rion in South Africa.

Dec. 20: The former Union Min-ister M.P. Veerendra Kumar and Ta-mil writer Nanjil Nadan among this

year’s Sahitya Akademi winners.Amitabh Mattoo is named first

Vice-Chancellor of the Central Uni-versity in Jammu.

Mullaperiyar panel begins work.Dec. 21: India and Russia sign the

contract for the preliminary designof the Fifth Generation Fighter Air-craft after talks between Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh andPresident Dmitry Medvedev, in NewDelhi. Twentynine other pactsinked.

The Prasar Bharati CEO B.S. Lalliis suspended on charges of irregular-ities.

Dec. 22: The Rajasthan HighCourt suspends for a year legislationon quota for Gujjars, even as thecommunity continues for the thirdday siege of the Delhi-Mumbai railtrack in Bharatpur.

Dec. 23: The former Kerala ChiefMinister K. Karunakaran (93), pas-ses away at a hospital in Thiruvanan-thapuram.

Irengbam Hemochandra is elect-ed Manipur Assembly Speaker.

Dec. 24: The CBI questions theformer Communications Minister,A. Raja, for over eight hours.

A Chhattisgarh court hands downlifer for human rights activist Dr.Binayak Sen for plotting to commitsedition.

Sanjeev Tripathi is appointed asthe new chief of RAW.

Dec. 25: The launch of the GSLV-F06 from Sriharikota ends in afailure.

Gujjars step up stir demanding 5per cent quota in government em-ployment.

Dec. 26: A Kuchipudi dance per-formance by 2,800 dancers in Hyd-erabad enters the Guinness Book ofWorld Records.

Dec. 27: ‘Jal Hans,’ the nation’sfirst seaplane service is launched atthe Juhu aerodrome in Mumbai.

Dec. 29: The CBI files closure re-port in the Aarushi murder case.

Kolkata Metro gets railway zonestatus.

Shaukat Hussain Guru, a convictin the 2001 Parliament attack case, isfreed from the Tihar jail in NewDelhi.

Dec. 30: The Srikrishna Commit-tee on the Telangana issue submitsreport.

The Krishna Water Disputes Tri-bunal II grants highest share to And-hra Pradesh.

The ULFA chairman ArabindaRajkhowa is granted conditional bailby the designated TADA court inGuwahati.

Manu JosephNewly appointed AndhraPradesh Chief Minister,N. Kiran Kumar Reddy.

K. Karunakaran

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