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Jan. 1
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The Gujarat Assembly holds special session heralding beginning of Swarnim Gujarat celebrations. |
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Three Pakistani terrorists, arrested in October 2000 for triggering blasts near the Red Fort, awaiting deportation on completion of jail term escape from custody at Kotwali, New Delhi. |
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Jan. 2
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Ten persons are killed and over 40 injured in three train accidents in Uttar Pradesh triggered by dense fog conditions. |
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Grid failure plunges northern States into darkness. |
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Jan. 3
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C.R. Rao, statistician gets the Indian Science Award declared in connection with the 97th Indian Science Congress being held in Thiruvananthapuram. |
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents the Panampilly Prathibha Puraskaram to the former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair. |
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Eighteen persons are feared killed in a boat capsize in Rupnarayan river in Kolaghat in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district. |
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Jan. 4
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A bandh for the continuance of a united Andhra Pradesh hits life in 13 coastal and Rayalaseema districts. |
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Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurates Twizy Z.E. Concept, a new electric car from Renault. |
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The Lokmanya Tilak national journalism award is conferred on the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu N. Ram in Pune. |
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Sensex ends day at a 20-month high of 17558.73, gaining 94 points. |
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Jan. 5
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The all-party meet on the Telangana issue in New Delhi ends without arriving at a consensus. |
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The former BJP leader Kalyan Singh floats a new political outfit, Jan. Kranti Party to be headed by his son Rajveer Singh, in Lucknow. |
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, calls for eliminating extremist ideologies without undermining the democratic foundations, at the inaugural of the 20th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Commonwealth Countries in New Delhi. |
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Sensex gains 128 points to close at a 23-month high of 17686.24. Nifty reaches 5277.90. |
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Jan. 6
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At least 600 people are evacuated after militants strike at Lal Chowk in Srinagar leaving a policeman dead and nine others injured. |
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Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh quits all party posts. |
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Twentyone lakh hut-dwellers to get permanent houses under the Kalaignar Housing Scheme’ in Tamil Nadu. |
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Ashok Leyland unveils ‘Hybus’ the nation’s first plug-in CNG hybrid bus at the 10th Auto Expo in New Delhi. |
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Jan. 7
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The 22-hour gunbattle in Lal Chowk, Srinagar ends with the security personnel killing two militants holed up in a hotel. |
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Reliance group installations come under attack in Andhra Pradesh following the airing of a Russian website report alleging a plot behind Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s death in a copter crash. |
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The Supreme Court stays the death sentence awarded to Surinder Koli, key accused in the Nithari serial killings. |
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Diaspora raises issue of complexities in property deals on day one of the eighth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi. |
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A New portal for online registration of technical institutions is launched in New Delhi. |
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Jan. 8
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls upon Non-Resident Indians return home to join politics and public life inaugurating the eighth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi. |
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President Pratibha Patil approves Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak for Rukshana Kosser who killed a terrorist in a Jammu village on September 27, 2009. |
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BJP’s Gopinath Munde is appointed Chairman, Public Accounts Committee. |
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Chandigarh Court rejects former Haryana DGP Shambu Pratap Singh Rathore’s bail plea in connection with two FIRs registered against him in the case of molestation of Ruchika Girhotra (14), a budding tennis player on August 12, 1990, who committed suicide three years later. |
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Letika Saran is Tamil Nadu’s new DGP. |
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Jan. 9
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Time for diaspora to become input in “India’s march to becoming a developed country”, says the President Pratibha Patil in her valedictory address at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. |
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt quits as Samajwadi Party general secretary. |
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Jan. 11
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India and Bangladesh sign five pacts to add thrust to ties following talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina Wajed in New Delhi. |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls for the creation of “solar valleys” in India launching the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission or ‘Solar India’, at the Solar Energy conclave 2010 in New Delhi. |
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A special court files chargesheet against the 62 accused in connection with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008 in which 57 people were killed. |
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The Tamil Nadu Government enacts a law to bring in a uniform system of school education on the last day of the last Assembly session to be held in Fort. St. George. |
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Jan. 12
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The Delhi High Court holds that the office of the Chief Justice of India is a “public authority” that comes within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. |
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President Pratibha Patil presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2009 to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi. |
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India announces a $ one billion credit line to build rail tracks in Bangladesh. |
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Sensex loses 104.20 points and closes at 17422.51. |
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The CBI files chargesheets against 31 advocates, 10 police personnel in connection with the violence on the Madras High Court premises on February 19, 2009. |
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National database of academic qualifications to be maintained in an electronic format by a registered depository planned. |
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Jan. 13
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Prominent Right to Information activist Satish Shetty dies in an attack in Talegaon, near Pune. He had exposed land mafia in the region. |
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Letika Saran takes charge as Tamil Nadu’s first woman Director-General of Police. |
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The CBI charge sheets former Congress MP SajJan. Kumar in two cases in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi. |
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Jan. 15
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The millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse covers a swathe of 1,000 km and the 11-minute spectacle enthrals millions. In Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram, it began at 11-14 a.m. and ended a little after 3 p.m. |
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The Car of the Year award for Tata Nano is presented to Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata in Mumbai. |
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Jan. 16
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National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan is appointed West Bengal Governor; Shivraj Patil is named Punjab Governor. M.O.H. Farook to be Jharkhand Governor. Urmila Patel gets Himachal Pradesh and Shekhar Dutta Chattisgarh. |
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E.S.L. Narasimhan is shifted to the Andhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan, Prabha Rau is to be Rajasthan Governor and K. Sankaranarayanan is made Maharashtra Governor. |
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Supreme Court judge V.S. Sirpurkar is to be head a three-member committee to probe grounds for impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice Paul Daniel Dinakaran Prem Kumar on land-grabbing and corruption charges. |
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Jan. 17
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Jyoti Basu (95), veteran Marxist leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 years (June 1977 – November 2000) dies of septicaemia due to pneumonia resulting in multi-organ failure at a private hospital in Kolkata after battling for life over the last 17 days. He was an MLA from 1946-2001. He pledges his body to the SSKM Hospital. |
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Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav accepts Amar Singh’s resignation. |
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Jan. 18
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The Hyderabad police arrest the Laskhar-e-Taiba’s south Indian chief, Mohammad Abdul Khwaja alias Amjad allegedly involved in the twin blasts in Hyderabad in 2007, at the Agzalgunj bus stop in the city. |
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Manipur’s Thoi Thoi Khumanthem (6) and Maibam Prity Devi (10) among 21 children chosen for the National Bravery Awards 2009. |
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Forty four institutions nationwide a bulk of which are in Tamil Nadu, to lose deemed university status, following the report of a task force. |
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Jan. 19
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CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu is given a state funeral with military honours in Kolkata. |
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Mysore-born legendary cinematographer V.K. Murthy is chosen for the 2008 Dada Saheb Phalke Award. He is best remembered for his lighting techniques in Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam. |
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Sensex loses 155 points to close at 17486.06. |
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Jan. 20
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The Osmania University campus in Hyderabad witnesses see-saw battles even as all the 10 districts in the Telangana region observe a bandh against the delay in bifurcating the State. |
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India and Malaysia sign an extradition treaty, an MoU, on higher education after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Mohammad Najib Tun Abdul Razak, in New Delhi. |
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Pilot error led to the crash of the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s helicopter on September 2, 2009, says the R.K. Tyagi probe panel report. |
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Jan. 21
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Former Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon is appointed National Security Adviser. |
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Sensex plummets 423 points to close at 17051.54. Nifty hits a low of 5094.15 after losing 127.55 points. |
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Jan. 22
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Lieutenant General V.K. Singh is named the next Chief of Army Chief. |
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Shivraj Patil, K. Sankaranarayanan, E.S.L. Narasimhan and M.O.H. Farook take oath as Governors of Punjab, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand. |
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Sensex loses 353 points to end below the 17000-mark at 16859.68. |
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Jan. 23
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India can fuel the next industrial revolution, says the Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed delivering the keynote address at the CII’s Partnership Summit 2010 in Chennai. |
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Mrinal Pande, veteran journalist and writer is appointed Prasar Bharati chairperson. |
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Bengali film Antaheen is chosen best feature film at the 56th National Film Awards for 2008 in New Delhi. Upendra Limaye gets the best male actor award for the Marathi film Jogva and Priyanka Chopra the best female actor award for Hindi film Fashion. Bala wins the award for best director for Tamil film Naan Kadavul. |
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The former Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon takes over as the National Security Adviser at South Block in New Delhi. |
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Jan. 24
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The former National Security Adviser Mayankote Kelath Narayanan is sworn in West Bengal Governor. |
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The ISRO successfully tests its biggest and most powerful rocket motor called S-200, powered by 200 tonnes of solid propellants at Sriharikota. |
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Jan. 25
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Padma Vibhushan for former RBI Governor, Y.V. Reddy, Prathap C. Reddy, Nobel laureate Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Ebrahim Alkazi and Zohra Segal. Padma Bhushan for Ilaiyaraja, A.R. Rahman, Aamir Khan, Bipan Chandra and 39 others. Resul Pookutty, Virender Sehwag, Venu Srinivasan, Saina Nehwal among 81 Padma Shri awardees. |
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Eight litterateurs are presented the first Tagore Literature Awards 2009 instituted by Sahitya Akademi and Samsung Electronics, in New Delhi. |
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Fight Lacunae in electoral process to make democracy stronger, says the President Pratibha Patil inaugurating the diamond jubilee fete of the Election Commission of India. |
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The Supreme Court orders status quo on deemed universities. |
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India, South Korea sign four pacts, including one on peaceful uses of outer space after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Lee Myung-bak, in New Delhi. |
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Jan. 26
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India showcases military might at the 61st Republic Day Parade on the Rajpath, New Delhi. Earlier, the President Pratibha Patil, presents the Ashok Chakra to Major Mohit Sharma (posthumous), havildar Rajesh Kumar (posthumous) and Major D. Sreeram Kumar of 39 Assam Rifles. |
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The trial run of the first Monorail in Mumbai is carried out. |
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A nine-year old Russian girl is allegedly sexually assaulted at the Arambal beach in north Goa. |
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Jan. 27
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Sensex crashes by 491 points to end day at 16289.82. Nifty closes at 4853.10. |
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Jan. 28
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State Special Zone Secuirty Force Bill, 2010 is tabled in the U.P. Assembly which proposes a special force to protect memorials, parks erected in honour of Dalit icons. |
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gives nod for National Tobacco Control Programme. |
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Jan. 29
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Court martial proceedings are ordered against Military Secretary Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash for his alleged role in a land scam in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Two other Lieutenants General and a Major General also indicted. |
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Aman Bharadwaj, the main accused in the rape of a Russian girl, is held in Chembur, Mumbai. His accomplice Anil Raghuvanshi is picked up from the Panaji bus stand. |
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Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, owner of Haldiram, the Kolkata-based snack food chain gets a lifer in connection with an attempt to murder case dating back to 2005. |
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Jan. 30
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Two persons, including a police sub-inspector are killed after their vehicles are hit by Nooriya Yousuf Haveliwala, a drinken woman driving a SUV in Mumbai. |
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Thirteen persons are jailed for five years in the cases of rioting in Orissa’s Kandhamal district in 2008. |
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At least 11 persons drown and 40 go misses after a boat overturns in the Godavari river in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. |
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India submits proposed emission intensity cut targets to the U.N. |
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