Events in May 2010
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May 1
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Gujarat celebrates golden jubilee of the Statehood. Chief Minister Narendra Modi administers “golden pledges’ to the youth. |
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May 2
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The BJP Karnataka Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister, H. Halappa resigns following a report in daily alleging sexual misconduct. |
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Bangladesh authorities hand over National Democratic Front of Boroland chairman Ranjan Daimary to the Assam police. |
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May 3
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After a 271-day trial in the 26/11 attacks case, a Mumbai sessions court pronounces Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab guilty of waging war against India. Two other accused Fahim Arshad Ansari and Sabahruddin Ahmed are acquitted of all charges. |
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Sensex tumbles 172 points to end day at 17386.08. |
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May 4
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Parliament passes the 2010-11 Union Budget. |
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The Union Cabinet gives and for Tamil Nadu Government’s proposal to recover the State Legislative Council. |
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Sensex loses 249 points to close at 17137.14 on dampened Asian and European sentiment. |
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The Naga Students Federation begin blockade of Manipur. |
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May 5
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The use of narco analysis, brain-mapping and polygraph tests on accused unconstitutional, rules the supreme court. |
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Rajya Sabha passes a Bill for setting up the 78-member Legislative Council in Tamil Nadu. Nod for National Green Tribunal Bill. Parliament nod for rise in gratuity limit. |
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May 6
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The Special Sessions Court in Mumbai sentences to death Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the November 26, 2008 terror attacks. Also awarded lifer on five counts. |
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Shah Faesal, a medical graduate from Kupwara becomes the first Kashmiri Muslim to top the Union Public Services Commission Examination this year. |
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The MPLAD Scheme is intra vires in the Constitution, rules the Supreme Court. |
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May 7
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Governors cannot be removed at the Centre’s whims and fancies, rules a Supreme Court Constitution Bench. |
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Supreme Court upholds Government ‘s right to fix gas price and asks the Ambani brothers to renegotiate gas supply deal. |
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Sensex plummets 218 points to close at 16769.11, a level last seen on March 2. |
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The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 is introduced in the Lok Sabha amid protests. |
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May 8
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BJP cobbles up alliance in Jharkhand for government formation. |
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Naxalites kill seven CRPF jawans after blowing up their vehicle in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. |
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May 9
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India begins year-long celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary with the inaugural of an exhibition of paintings by Gurudev. |
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The former Karnataka Minister Hartalu Halappa accused of sexual misconduct is arrested by the CID in Shimoga. |
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May 10
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The Supreme Court stays the execution of the death penalty awarded to Md. Jamiliuddin Nasir for the Janauary 22, 2002 terrorist attack on the American Center in Kolkata. |
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The Supreme Court permits mining in Obalapuram mines in the reserve forests bordering Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
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Sensex soars by 561.44 points to close at 17330.55 |
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May 11
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The Supreme upholds quota in local bodies. Articles 243 D (4) and 243 T (4) reserving chairpersons’ posts get nod. |
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Justice K. G. Balakrishnan retires as Chief Justice of India. |
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Sensex plunges 189.02 points to end day of 17141.53 |
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May 12
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Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia is sworn in the 38th Chief Justice of India. |
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May 13
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Ketan Desai resigns as Medical Council of India president. Nod for ordinance on MCI takeover. |
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The government decides to set up a Pharma-copoeia Commission for developing indigenous medicines. Nod for national defence university. |
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The Prototype Fast Breder Reactor under construe at Kalpakkam crosses milestone as the thermal baffle is placed inside main vessel. |
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Sensex soars 200 points to settle at 17265.87. |
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May 14
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A constable is killed as gunmen attack a police picket at the Khislawat Junction of Hyderabad’s Old City area. |
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Twentyeight persons are electrocuted after their bus touches a high voltage wire near Surajpur village in Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh. |
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The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts a bill to make Anna University, Chennai, a unitary type university again. |
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Sensex plunges 271 points to close at 16994.60. |
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May 15
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President signs ordinance empowering the government to dissolve the MCI. Seven-member Board of Governors formed. |
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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi launches the theme song for the World Classical Tamil Conference penned by him, in Chennai. |
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The former Vice-President and three time Chief Minister of Rajasthan Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (86), dies of heart attack in Jaipur. |
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The 70th session of the Indian History Congress begins on the Delhi University Campus. |
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May 16
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Six Villagers including a sarpanchs are killed by naxalites near Teregaon in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district. |
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Two persons are killed and eight injured in a stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station. |
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May 17
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At least 31 persons are killed and 27 injured after Maoists blow up a private bus at Chingavaram on the Dantewada-Sukhma road in Chhattisgarh. |
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Agni-II Surface-to-surface ballistic missile is successfully flight tested from the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast. |
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Sensex loses 159.04 points to end the day at 16835. |
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May 18
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President Pratibha Patil gives assent to the revival of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council. |
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May 19
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Four CRPF jawans and a deputy commandant are killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists near Shiyartore village near Lalgarh in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district. |
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The Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India gives nod for the collection of demographic and biometric attributes of all residents. |
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Ratan Kumar Sinha takes over as Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay. |
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Sensex plunges by 467.27 points on debt concerns in the Euro zone to end day at 16408.49, the lowest in three months. |
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May 20
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Maoists blow up a railway track in Bihar’s Motihari district derailing a goods train and torch a diesel tanker. |
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The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court frees BJP leaders L.K. Advani, M.M. Joshi and others of conspiracy charge in the Babri Masjid demolition case. |
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Cyclone ‘Laila’ hits Andhra Pradesh with Prakasam district bearing the brunt as Ongole town receives 320 mm of rain. Crops on over 19,000 acres damaged. |
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Sensex gains 111.19 points to close at 16519.68. |
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May 21
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Madan Tamang, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, is fatally stabbed in Darjeeling. |
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May 22
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One hundred and fifty eight persons are killed as an Air India Express plane from Dubai overshoots the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport splits, and plunges into a valley. Eight persons survive miraculously. |
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May 23
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The Ambani brothers – Mukhesh and Anil bury the hatchet. Mukesh-led Reliance Industries Limited not to enter the gas-based power generation business till March 2022. |
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The first indigenously built Light Combat Helicopter makes its inaugural flight in Bangalore. |
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ICICI Bank acquires Bank of Rajasthan through a no-cash merger deal valued at Rs. 3,000 crore. |
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Six persons, including self-styled Naval commander Barsa Lakshma involved in the April 6 Dantewada massacre are held by the Chhattisgarh police. |
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May 24
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The BJP withdraws support to the JMM-led government in Jharkhand. |
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Abdul Samad Siddi Bawa, the ‘prime suspect’ in the February 13 German Bakery blast in Pune is arrested by Maharashtra police at Mangalore’s Bajpe airport. |
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May 25
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The former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore is sent to jail after a sessions court in Chandigarh enhances sentence to 18 months RI in the case of molestation of a 14-year-old tennis player. |
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The Supreme Court stays the death sentence of Aftab Ahmed Ansari in the case of the January 22, 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata. |
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Sensex tumbles by 470.07 points to 16022.48 sparked by reports of Spain’s move to take over an ailing savings bank Cajasur. |
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Air India staff go on a flash strike affecting flight schedule. |
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May 26
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Seventeen Air India employees are sacked and 15 suspended and the strike called off. |
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The Centre reconstitutes the Group of Ministers on Bhopal. |
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The 500-year-old Rajagopuram of the Srikalahasteeswaraswamy temple in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh collapses. |
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May 27
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Air India dismisses 41 more staff and derecognises two major unions. |
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Sensex surges by 278 points to end day at 16666.40. |
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May 28
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One hundred and forty eight persons are killed and 180 injured as a goods train rams 13 derailed coaches of Howrah-Kurla Jnaneswari Express near Sardiha in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district. |
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Sensex gains 197 points to close t 16863.06, the best closing since May 18. |
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May 29
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Sardiha train accident toll up to 141. |
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The AIADMK expels former Ministers S.Muthuswamy and Karur M.Chainnasamy from primary membership. |
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Dr. Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission is presented Goa’s highest civilian award – Gomant Vibhushan Award. |
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May 30
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Three-time Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren resigns a day ahead of a trust note in the Assembly. |
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May 31
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ONGC and OIL free to price natural gas at market rates. |
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