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2010: Year of scams!

New Delhi 2010 emerged as the year of scams. Irregularities in the

conduct of the Commonwealth Games, the 2G spectrum allocationscam and the Niira Radia tapes hogged the media limelight.

On the positive side, leaders of the P5 countries - US, UK, France,China and Russia - visited India, all during the year signalling theemergence of India as an influential global power.

Following is the diary of events during the year.

Jan 6: New Delhi: High-profile Samajwadi Party spokespersonAmar Singh resigns as its General Secretary and other postsfollowing deepening differences with party chief Mulayam Singh

Yadav, saying his priority now was his health, wife and children.

Jan 7: Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren, heading a

JMM-BJP coalition government, wins a trust motion in theassembly by 19 votes.

Jan 9: Mumbai: Following his mentor Amar Singh, Bollywood actorSanjay Dutt tonight resigned as the General Secretarty ofSamajwadi Party claiming he was hurt by the treatment meted out

to his "elder brother" by certain leaders of the party.

Jan 12: New Delhi: In a landmark verdict against the SupremeCourt, the Delhi High Court holds that the office of the Chief Justiceof India comes within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI)law, saying judicial independence is not a judge's privilege but aresponsibility cast upon him.

Jan 16: New Delhi: National Security Adviser M K

Narayanan has been appointed Governor of West Bengal andformer Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will head the Raj Bhawanin Punjab as the President has cleared a list of five new Governorsin various states.

Jan 17: Kolkata: Marxist patriarch and former West

Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, dies in a hospital after


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battling in hospital.

Jan 21: New Delhi: High profile former Foreign SecretaryShivshankar Menon is named as the new National Security Adviser

(NSA) to succeed M K Narayanan.

Jan 27: New Delhi: Samajwadi Party appoints Mohan Singh as itsGeneral Secretary and Spokesman in place of Amar Singh and helost no time in demanding the resignation of the dissenting leaderfrom Rajya Sabha on moral grounds.

Jan 29: Bhanu (Panchkula): Armed with INSAS rifles, 209 womenpersonnel join the ranks of the ITBP to guard the Sino-Indianfrontier, which Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram termed as"one of the most difficult and challenging borders".

Feb 8: Chandigarh: Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, convicted inthe Ruchika molestation case, is attacked when a student of theprestigious NID posing as a journalist and said to have apyschological disorder stabbed him thrice in the face with a pocket

knife outside a local court.

Feb 9: New Delhi: Facing intense opposition from within andoutside, government refuses to give a go-ahead to commercialcultivation of Bt Brinjal, a genetically-modified version of thevegetable that is said to be more resistant to pests.

Feb 11: New Delhi: In a significant gesture, the government says itis ready to "welcome" Kashmiris who had gone to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) if they were ready to return after giving upmilitancy.

Feb 13: Pune: Terror strikes Pune as a powerful bomb ripped aparta popular bakery near a Jewish prayer house, killing nine people,including five women and a foreigner, and injuring 45 in the first

major attack since 26/11 carnage.

Feb 16: New Delhi: Government extends by one year the visa forcontroversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin who has alsomoved for permanent residency in India.

Feb 23: New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee lives upto

popular expectations by not raising fares and freight rates in her


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Budget and marginally reduced the tariff for transportation offoodgrains, fertiliser and kerosene to fight price rise.

Feb 26: New Delhi: The Union Budget proposes major personal

income tax sops but effected a two per cent hike in excise duty

across the board while slapping levies on petrol and diesel,partially rolling back stimulus measures in the face of economicrevival.

Mar 3: New Delhi: Australia acknowledges that some of the attackson Indians were racists in nature, causing considerable damage toits reputation among Indian people and says its premier criminalresearch agency has been roped in to study the issue and suggest

remedial measures.

Mar 5: New Delhi: Stringent MCOCA is invoked against a self-styledGodman, recently caught here on charges of running a multi-croresex racket, with police claiming he was "eyeing big donations"from foreign agencies, including Christian missionaries.

Mar 13: New Delhi: India rejects Pakistan's charge of involvementin Lahore blasts and said such "unfounded" allegations puts a"strain" on bilateral relationship and it has no interest indestabilising that country.

Mar 16: New Delhi: The huge garland that Mayawati wore at a public

rally causes disruption of the Lok Sabha even as the estimatedvalue of the currency notes in it ranges from Rs 21 lakhs to Rs 15crore and an IT probe into its source is on.

Mar 18: New Delhi: Three months after he took over reigns of theparty, BJP President Nitin Gadkari brings in a mix of youth,experience and women in his team of office bearers inductingheavyweights like Vasundhara Raje and Ravishankar Prasad andhardliners like Varun Gandhi and Vinay Katiyar.

Mar 21: Bhubaneshwar: India becomes the first country to have a'manoeuvrable' supersonic cruise missile when it successfully test-fires the vertical-launch version of 290-km range BrahMos from awarship in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast.

Mar 23: New Delhi: In an observation that will cheer votaries of pre-marital sex and live-in-partners, the Supreme Court opines that a


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man and woman living together without marriage cannot beconstrued as an offence.

Mar 28: Balasore (Orissa): India successfully test-fires its nuclear-

capable, 700-km range ballistic missile Agni-I from Wheeler Island

off the Orissa coast, a day after launching two other short-rangemissiles.

Mar 31: New Delhi: Gen V K Singh, the seniormost infantry officer,is handed over charge of the Indian Army, the world's secondlargest, by outgoing chief Gen Deepak Kapoor.

Apr 1: New Delhi: The historic Right to Education comes into forceproviding free and compulsory schooling to children in the 6-14year age bracket with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking thestates to join in this national effort with full resolve anddetermination.

Apr 3: New Delhi: The biggest Census exercise ever to beattempted in human history to cover India's 1.2 billion population

begins with President Pratibha Patil being the first to beenumerated in the decennial exercise.

Apr 4: New Delhi: India virtually rules out handing over AjmalKasab, the lone terrorist caught during the 26/11 strikes, or hisassociate Fahim Ansari to Pakistan as it emphasises that "justice"

was taking its course in this country in the Mumbai attacks case.

Apr 5: New Delhi:Apr 11: New Delhi: Scientists from across Indiaannounce the first-ever detail mapping of mycobacteriumtuberculosis (MTB), the bug responsible for spread of the diseasethat kills 1.7 million people every year globally.

Apr 12: New Delhi: The Prime Minister reconstitutes the NationalIntegration Council (NIC) bringing in new faces including Union

Ministers A K Antony, Mamata Banerjee, Veerappa Moily and Kapil

Sibal.

Apr 15: Sriharikota: India's Rs 330 crore mission to flight test thefirst indigenous cryogenic engine fails after the rocket powered byit crashed into the sea five minutes after a perfect lift-off in asetback to its space programme.


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Apr 19: New Delhi:The Supreme Court upholds the life sentencegiven to Manu Sharma, son of senior Congress leader VenodSharma, for killing model Jessica Lall 11 years ago, saying his guilthas been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Apr 20: Shillong: Mukul Sangma is sworn in as Meghalaya ChiefMinister in the fourth change of guard in two years after a revolt byruling Congress MLAs forced his predecessor D D Lapang out ofthe top post.

Apr 23: Bangalore: The maiden test flight of the most advanced ofthe nine 'Tejas' aircraft is successfully carried out, bringing theindigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme "very close" to

the Initial Operations Clearance.

May 5: New Delhi: In a blow to investigating agencies, the SupremeCourt declares as "illegal" compulsory use of narco-analysis,brain-mapping and polygraph tests on suspects.

May 6: Mumbai: Pakistani gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab is sentenced

to death by a special court for the Mumbai terror attacks, threedays after he was pronounced guilty of mass murder and wagingwar against the Indian state.

May 8: New Delhi/Ranchi: The BJP will head a new coalitiongovernment in Jharkand with ruling alliance partners JMM and

AJSU announcing their support ending the crisis but questionsremained over rotating chief ministership.

May 10: New Delhi: The Supreme Court allows Obulapuram MiningCompany (OMC), belonging to the Reddy brothers, to resumemining in the undisputed region in the Anantapur district of AndhraPradesh.

May 11: New Delhi: The Supreme Court upholds the constitutional

validity of reservation for backward classes in rural and urbal local

bodies, including posts of chairpersons, and rejected the plea thatthe creamy layer should be excluded.

May 12: Ghaziabad: Surinder Koli, a convict in the sensationalNithari killings case, was sentenced to death by a special CBI courthere for raping and murdering seven-year-old girl Arti.


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May 15: Jaipur: Former Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawatdies of cardiac arrest, two days after he was admitted to a hospitalhere complaining of uneasiness and breathing problems.

May 21: Siliguri (WB): Top Gorkha leader Madan Tamang, who

recently fell out with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) over theissue of Gorkhaland, is stabbed to death by unidentified menduring clashes by rival Gorkha groups in the hill town of Darjeeling.

May 22: Mangalore: A Boeing 737 plane of Air India's low budgetcarrier overshoots the airport runway here and burst into flameskilling 158 persons but eight others survived.

May 26: Chandigarh: Disgraced ex-Haryana DGP SPS Rathore isjailed after he was arrested for the first time shortly after a sessionscourt enhanced his prison term to 18 months for molestingteenager Ruchika Girhotra--who later committed suicide--20 yearsback.

May 30: Ranchi: Three-time Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren

resigns after failing to get the support of Congress and its allyJVM(P) ahead of trust vote in the assembly that may pave the wayfor a spell of President's rule in the state.

Jun 3: New Delhi: India unveils its first indigenous vaccine againstthe dreaded swine flu which claims over 18,000 lives globally and

more than 1,000 in the country.

Jun 4: New Delhi: Indian Mujahideen, whose hand is suspected inover 10 serial blasts in Delhi and other parts of the country thatclaimed nearly 500 lives, is declared as a terrorist outfit.

Jun 6: New Delhi: The controversy over Spanish writer JavierMoro's book 'The Red Saree', a fictionalised account of the life ofSonia Gandhi, gets murkier with the author threatening to sue her

counsel Abhishek Singhvi, who in turn terms Moro's charges as

comic if not tragic.

Jun 7: Bhopal: Nearly 26 years after the world's worst industrialdisaster left more than 15,000 dead in the Bhopal gas tragedy,former Union Carbide India Chairman Keshub Mahindra and sixothers are convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment in a

judgement that came under attack from civil rights activists andparties.


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Jun 16: Lucknow: Nearly six months after his expulsion fromSamajwadi Party, Amar Singh announces launch of Akhil BharityaLok Manch with himself as President and actress-politician JayaPrada his deputy.

Jun 21: New Delhi: A Rs 1,500 crore package for enhancingcompensation for the kin of those who died and those debilitated inthe Bhopal gas disaster is finalised by a Group of Ministers (GoM).

Jun 22: New Delhi/Mumbai: Auto and taxi fares go up by 35 per centin Delhi following increase in CNG prices while a similar hike is inthe offing in Mumbai after 80,000 drivers in the commercial capitalstop plying their vehicles demanding revision in rates.

Jun 25: New Delhi: Petrol and diesel will cost up to Rs 3.73 per litremore, households will have to pay an additional Rs 35 per cylinderand poor man's cooking medium kerosene will be dearer by Rs 3 alitre, the government said here.

Jul 3: New Delhi: Delhi gets a swanky new world-class Rs 9,000

crore airport that will integrate domestic and internationaloperations and is expected to handle 34 million passengersannually.

Jul 12: Sriharikota: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)successfully places into orbit remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B

and four other satellites after a perfect lift off from the spaceporthere.

Jul 14: New Delhi: Spurred by an increase in oil prices, the overallinflation continues its double-digit run for the fourth straight monthin a row at 10.55 per cent in June, mounting pressure on RBI toraise key interest rates in its July policy review.

Jul 19: Sainthia (WB): A high speed Sealdah-bound express train

tears into the rear another train killing 63 people and injuring 92

others at Sainithia station of Birbhum district.

New Delhi: In a setback to senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar,the Delhi High Court refuses to quash various charges includingthat of murder against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, saying thedelay in prosecution has apparently benefited him.


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Jul 23: Ahmedabad: The CBI files chargesheet against GujaratMinister of State for Home Amit Shah, a close aide of NarendraModi, and 14 others in connection with the fake encounter ofSohrabbuddin Sheikh and the "brutual killing" of his wife, Kausarbi.

Jul 30: London/New Delhi: A major scam hit the CommonwealthGames with allegations being made that a substantial sum ofmoney was transferred to a little known UK company from theGames Organising Committee (OC) about which the BritishGovernment has raised questions.

Jul 31: Hyderabad: It was a landslide victory for the TelanganaRashtra Samiti candidates in 11 out of 12 Assembly constituencies

that went for by-polls in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradeshon July 27.

Aug 6: Leh: At least 103 people are killed and another 370 injuredwhen flash floods triggered by torrential rains struck thisHimalayan town in Ladakh region, northeast of Jammu andKashmir, leaving a trail of death and destruction.

New Delhi: In a major setback to Posco's steel plant project inOrissa, the Environment Ministry asks the state government to stopall work related to it, including land acquisition, as it violated forestrights law.

Aug 11: New Delhi: The proceedings for withdrawal of prosecutionagainst Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in Bofors pay offcase will be expedited as the Supreme Court allowed CBI's plea for

sending records of the case to the trial court where proceedingswere halted for want of case records.

Aug 12: Lucknow: Cocking a snook at critics of Chief MinisterMayawati, Uttar Pradesh government will spend Rs 490 crore morefor setting up parks and memorials for Dalit icons, vnearly 10 percent of the supplementary budget passed by thestate assembly

amid uproarious scenes.

Aug 16: New Delhi: After Korean steel giant Posco, Vedantagroup's bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri hills in Orissa faces anuncertain future with a government panel opposing the venture,saying it violates various laws

including those relating to rights of tribal communities.


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Aug 17: Leh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces a Rs 125crore relief package for the victims of the flash floods here after thedevastating cloudburst and says the focus will be to build housesbefore the onset of harsh winter.

Aug 18: Hyderabad: Satyam Computer's tainted founder BRamalinga Raju secures bail from the Andhra Pradesh High Court,over 17 months after his arrest on charges of allegedly fudging theIT company's accounts.

Aug 25: New Delhi: Warning that there has been no let up inattempts to radicalise the youth, Home Minister P Chidambaramsays a new phenomenon of "saffron terrorism" involved in many

bomb blasts has been uncovered.

Aug 30: New Delhi: The government introduces Direct Taxes Code(DTC), offering much lower benefits than in the original proposal,that seeks to increase tax exemption on income from Rs 1.6 lakh toRs 2 lakh and fix the corporate tax at a flat 30 per cent.

Sept 2: New Delhi: Acting on the directive of the Supreme Court,government decides to release an extra 2.5 million tonnes offoodgrains to states for distribution among the poor but it will notnot be free.

Sept 3: New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi becomes the Congress President

for the record fourth consecutive term with a message to partycolleagues that they should not forget the "big responsibility" ofworking for all sections of society irrespective of whether the party

is in power or not.

Sept 7: New Delhi: P J Thomas is sworn-in as the new CentralVigilance Commissioner amid BJP's boycott and complaint toPresident Pratibha Patil over the manner in which the appointmentof the officer with a "blemished record" was made to theConstitutional post.

Sept 10: New Delhi: Alarm bells rang in Delhi as Yamuna rose ametre over the danger mark with a looming threat of flooding low-lying areas, prompting the city government to go on an overdrive toevacuate people to safer places.

Sept 11: Ranchi: Arjun Munda is sworn in as Jharkhand ChiefMinister heading a BJP-JMM coalition at a ceremony skipped by


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top BJP leaders, including L K Advani, amidst reports ofdifferences within the party over forming a government again withits erstwhile partner.

Sept 18: New Delhi: In incidents apparently intended to cause terror

ahead of Commonwealth Games, two unidentified motorcycle-borne attackers shot and injured two Taiwanese nationals outsidethe Jama Masjid here which was followed by a crude pressurecooker bomb blast in a car in the same area.

Sept 25: New Delhi: Under a major 8-point initiative to address theunrest in the Kashmir valley, a group of interlocutors is beingappointed to hold a "sustained dialogue" with various shades of

opinion, about 200 youth detained for stone-pelting are beingreleased and the presence of security personnel is being de-scaled.

Sept 28: New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games OrganisingCommittee officials express satisfaction that athletes and delegatesfrom 46 participating nations, who have already entered the GamesVillage, are pretty happy with the arrangements and facilities.

Ghaziabad: A special CBI court sentences to death Surinder Koli--servant of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher-- for rape andmurder of a nine-year -old girl in the sensational Nithari killings in2006, saying he deserves a more severe punishment for his crimes.

Sept 29: Tembhli (Mah): The world's first ID project where biometricdata is used to provide unique identification numbers for India'sbillion-plus citizens rolls out with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi handing over the first set of 12-digitnumbers to 10 tribals.

Sept 30: Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court rules by a majorityverdict that the disputed land in Ayodhya be divided equally intothree parts among Hindus and Muslims and that the place wherethe makeshift temple of Lord Ram exists belongs to Hindus.

Oct 1: New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil and Prince Charles would jointly declare the Commonwealth Games open, say Britishdiplomatic sources playing down reports of any row over the issue.

Oct 3: New Delhi: A plethora of musical instruments enthrals acapacity crowd at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium during the opening


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ceremony of the 19th Commonwealth Games, showcasing the richcultural heritage of India.

Oct 11: Bangalore: Amid scenes of pandemonium, Karnataka Chief

Minister B S Yeddyurappa "won" a vote of confidence in the

Assembly under a cloud after the Speaker disqualified 16 MLAs,including 11 of BJP, hours before the trial of strength.

Oct 13: New Delhi: Government names three interlocutors,including eminent journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, to hold talks with allshades of opinion including the separatists in Jammu and Kashmiras part of efforts to bring peace in the state.

Nov 22: New Delhi: The UPA government faces furtherembarassment when the Supreme Court raises questions about thecontroversial appointment of P J Thomas as Central VigilanceCommissioner(CVC) who is an accused in a criminal case.

New Delhi: After a year-long tussle between Civil Aviation andEnvironment Ministries, the Navi Mumbai airport finally gets the

green signal but with riders about resettlement of displaced peopleand development of mangroves around the site.

Nov 23: Patna: Riding a massive wave on the theme ofdevelopment, Nitish Kumar leads the JD(U)-BJP alliance to alandslide four-fifth majority in the Assembly elections routing Lalu

Prasad's RJD-LJP combine and a weak Congress to return topower for a second consecutive term.

Nov 24: Hyderabad: Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, a YSR loyalist, issworn-in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, capping hecticpolitical developments that saw the exit of K Rosaiah from the postas Congress prepared to face challenging times ahead in the state.

Nov 30: Hyderabad/New Delhi: After months of defiance, rebel

Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy resigns from the party and

quit his Lok Sabha seat from Andhra Pradesh, accusing party chiefSonia Gandhi of backing 'forces' against him and who are trying toerase the YSR legacy.

Nov 30: New Delhi: In a fresh embarrassment to the government,the Supreme Court questions Chief Vigilance Commissioner P JThomas's moral right to supervise CBI's probe into the 2G


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spectrum scam as he himself was telecom secretary at the relevantpoint of time.

Dec 1: New Delhi: Writer Arundhati Roy, Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali

Shah Geelani and others are booked on charges of sedition by

Delhi Police for their "anti-India" speech at a seminar here lastmonth.

Dec 2: Hyderabad/New Delhi: After months of defiance, rebelCongress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy resigns from the party andquit his Lok Sabha seat from Andhra Pradesh, accusing party chiefSonia Gandhi of backing 'forces' against him and who are trying toerase the YSR legacy.

Dec 4: New Delhi: Supreme Court directs that the original tapescontaining the conversation between corporate lobbyist Niira Radiaand others pertaining to the 2G spectrum allocation case behanded over to it in a sealed cover.

Dec 5: New Delhi: France becomes the first country to sign

agreements to set up nuclear reactors in India, two years after thecountry's nuclear isolation prompted by Pokhran tests in 1998ended.

Dec 5 New Delhi: Germany backs India's bid to gain membership ofthe Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG), applauding this country's

"excellent" non-proliferation track record.

Dec 6: Varanasi: Terror strikes Varanasi when a low-intensity blastripped through a crowded bathing ghat on the banks of the Gangesriver during evening prayers killing a child and injuring 37 people,including six foreigners.

Dec 6: Ghaziabad: Controversial former UP chief secretary Neera Yadav and Flex Industries owner Ashok Chaturvedi are convicted

and sentenced to a four-year jail term by a special CBI court here in

a land scam case when she was NOIDA's chief executive officer in1992-94.

Dec 7: New Delhi/Chennai: Turning the heat on former TelecomMinister A Raja in the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam, CBI carriesout searches at his residences in Delhi and Chennai besidescarrying out raids at the premises of four Telecom officials,including his personal secretary R K Chandolia.


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Dec 11: New Delhi: India lodges a strong protest with the US forsubjecting Ambassador Meera Shankar to 'pat-down' securitycheck at an American airport as Deputy Chief of US Embassy herewas summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs.

Dec 14: New Delhi/Chennai: In a crackdown here and in severalplaces in Tamil Nadu in connection with the 2G spectrum scam, theCBI searches the office and residential premises of corporatelobbyist Niira Radia, former TRAI Chairman Pradip Baijal and aChennai NGO with which DMK MP Kanimozhi is linked.

Dec 18: New Delhi: At a time when the nuclear deal was beingnegotiated, the US had tried to pressurise India over its ties with

Iran and even objected to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visitto Delhi, saying it would give "platform for an enemy of the US",

according to Wikileak documents.

Dec 19: New Delhi: India decides to send over 100 specially trainedcommandos to protect its mission in Yemen amid rising threatsfrom terror groups including banned al-Qaeda in that country.

Dec 20: New Delhi/Chennai: CBI sends notices to A Raja andcorporate lobbyist Niira Radia asking them to appear before theagency for questioning and grills former TRAI chief Pradip Baijal inconnection with the 2G spectrum scam.

Dec 20: New Delhi: Countering the Opposition clamour for JointParliamentary Committee probe into 2G scam, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh makes an unprecedented offer to appear before

the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) but BJP andLeft parties appear to be dismissive of it.

Dec 22: New Delhi: In a bid to cool the skyrocketing retail prices,government abolishes import duties on onion and bans its exportsfor an indefinite period even as wholesale prices started showingsigns of decline.

Dec 23: New Delhi: In a setback to veteran Congress leader N DTiwari in the three-year old paternity battle, the Delhi High Courtdirects him to undergo a DNA test on a suit filed by a young manclaiming to be his biological son.

Dec 24: New Delhi/Pune: The CBI raids Commonwealth GamesOrganising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi's homes and


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offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, two months after the sportingextravaganza ended amid allegations of financial wrongdoings inawarding of some contracts.

Dec 24: The CBI questions former Telecom Minister A Raja for over

eight hours on alleged irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation,over a year after the agency registered a case in this connection.

Dec 25: Sriharikota: In a jolt to India's space programme, thelaunch of a communication satellite aboard a homegrown vehiclefailed after the rocket exploded midair minutes after the lift-off fromthe spaceport here.

Dec 27: Jaipur: Gujjars, on a war path over the reservation issue,laid siege to more roads, highways and rail routes and enforcedshutdowns in some cities as the stand-off between the communityand the Rajasthan government persists for the 8th day.

Dec. 28: Hyderabad: Congress MPs from Telangana call off theirhunger strike as Andhra Pradesh government announced it would

withdraw all cases against pro-statehood students and otherprotesters in connection with the agitations for and againstbifurcation of the state.

Dec 29 : Ghaziabad(UP): The CBI files a closure report in theAarushi double murder case before a court on the grounds there

was no available evidence at the crime scene to pursue the probe,meeting a dead-end in the case that shook the country over twoyears back.


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The Union Cabinet approved a proposal to set up seven Indian Institutes of Management

in

Tamil Nadu,

Haryana,

Rajasthan,

Jammu and Kashmir,

Jharkhand,

Chhattisgarh and

Uttarakhand.

Four of the IIMs in Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Jharkhand, and Chhattisgarh would be set

up this year and become operational from the next academic year.

The others would be set up next year and become operational in 2011.

In Tamil Nadu, the IIM would come up in Tiruchi,

in Haryana at Rohtak,

in Jharkhand at Ranchi and

in Chhattisgarh at Raipur.

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