Events in July 2010
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Jul. 2
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Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, a top naxalite, is killed in an exchange of fire with police in a hilly terrain near Sarkepally village in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. |
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All convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case are granted bail. |
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Jul. 3
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Former Goa Tourism Minister Fransisco Pacheco wanted in connection with the May 30 death of a friend Nadia Torrado surrenders before a local court in Margao. |
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Karnataka Lok Ayukta N.Santosh Hegde takes back resignation. |
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Jul. 5
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The nationwide bandh called by the Opposition against the fuel price hike hits life in many parts of the country. |
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Jul. 6
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Four killed, 70 injured as police open fire in different parts of Srinagar. |
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India’s first indigenous Light Combat Aircraft designed specifically for the Navy, rolls out from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Bangalore. |
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Sensex gains 173 points to close at 17614.48 |
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Jul. 7
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For the first time in 17 years, the Army is ordered out to assist civilian authority in Srinagar after three weeks of urban violence. |
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Chief of Staff of the Southern Naval Command Rear Admiral Satyendra Singh Jamuwal is killed in an accidental gunfire at the Navy’s missile and gunnery school INS Dronacharya near Kochi. |
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Life remains hit in the interior areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa as a two-day bandh called by nthe CPI (Maoist) begins. Rail services badly hit. |
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The Green Action for National Dandi Heritage Initiative project (GANDHI), a Rs.25 crore scheme is launched in Dandi, Gujarat. |
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Jul. 8
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The former Goa Tourism Minister Fransisco Mickky Pacheco is arrested at the Hospicio Hospital, Margao. |
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A boy is killed and 24 injured as a blast derails a train in lower Assam’s Kokrajhar district. |
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Sensex recovers 180.70 points to end day at 17651.73. |
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gives nod for the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke. |
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Jul. 9
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At least 176 kg of explosives is recovered from a Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit in Kishtwar district in the Jammu region. |
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‘Soleckshaw’ (solar rickshaw) solar-powered postal delivery rickshaws launched in New Delhi. |
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Sensex surges by 181.81 points to reach 17833.54. |
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Jul. 12
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Uttar Pradesh Institutional Finance Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi is critically injured in a bomb blast near his house in Allahabad. |
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ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C 15) puts in orbit five satellites, including the tiny Studsat a pico satellite built by engineering college students of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, after a successful liftoff from Sriharikota. |
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Sensex touches 18000-mark for the first time in three months before closing at 17937.20. |
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Jul. 13
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The Planning Commission gives nod for LPG subsidy to BPL families. |
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Jul. 14
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The Centre proposes Unified Command to fight Naxalites. |
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The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court commutes the death sentence of six accused in the September 29, 2006 Khairlanji Dalit killings to 25-year imprisonment. |
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Jul. 15
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Rupee joins an elite club as the Union Cabinet gives nod for the symbol with a blend of Devanagiri ‘Ra’ and Roman ‘R’ designed by a Bombay IIT postgraduate D. Udaya Kumar. |
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The first commercial landing of the Airbus A380 of the Emirates Airlines takes place at the Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport. |
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Jul. 16
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The Maharashtra police arrests a Telugu Desam Party delegation led by Chandrababu Naidu in Nanded and foils its bid to visit the disputed Babli project across the Godavari. |
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The SIT probing the June 16, 2004 killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others in ‘a fake encounter’ by the Gujarat police submits interim report. |
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A mob owing allegiance to the Sangh Parivar vandalises the office of the TV Today Network at Videocon Towers at Jhandewalan in New Delhi. |
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Jul. 20
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The TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and others are freed by the Maharashtra government and made to board a flight to Hyderabad from Aurangabad. |
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Bedlam in Bihar Assembly as legislators lock horns over “embezzlement” of Rs.11,412 crore meant for development schemes. |
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The SBI’s first ‘One Rupee Bank’ kiosk to serve the urban low income cluster is opened in Hyderabad. |
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Jul. 21
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Sixtyseven Opposition legislators in Bihar are suspended and marshalled out for disrupting Assembly proceedings and indulging in unparliamentary behaviour. |
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Jul. 22
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Sensex surges by 136 points to close above the 18000 level for the first time in two-and-a half years. |
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Rajesh Munda, the main accused in the March 24, 2007 murder of JMM MP Sunil Kumar Mahato is arrested in Salboni in West Bengal’s Paschina Medinipur district. |
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Women BSF constables for the first time take part in the ‘Beating Retreat Ceremony’ at the India-Pakistan Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar, Punjab. |
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Siddharth Varadarajan, the Delhi bureau chief of The Hindu is awarded the Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year Award. |
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Jul. 23
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A designated CBI court rejects the anticipatory bail plea of Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah chargesheeted in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. CBI teams on the lookout for him. |
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Jul. 24
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Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Amit Shah, resigns from the Narendra Modi Cabinet. |
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gives mandate to the Planning Commission for designing holistic development plan for Maoist-hit areas at the 55th meeting of the National Development Council in New Delhi. |
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Extradited underworld don Abu Salem, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai blast case is attacked by co-accused Mustafa Dossa in the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. |
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Jul. 25
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The former Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Amt Shah, is arrested in Ahmedabad and sent to judicial custody. |
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Rashtrapati Bhavan gets ISO Certificate for having emerged as the nation’s first urban habitat with excellent management systems. |
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Jul. 26
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A supersonic interceptor missile Advanced Air Defence successfully brings down an “enemy” ballistic missile at Wheeler Island in Orissa. |
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Narendra Amin, a suspended DGP offers to turn approver in Sohrabuddin Sheikh – Kausar Bi murder case. |
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Jul. 27
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Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is appointed the next Chief Election Commissioner. |
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Orissa begins the land acquisition process for the proposed Posco-India steel project in Jagatsinghpur district. |
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India and Myanmar sign five agreements in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Senior General Than Shwe in New Delhi. |
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Jul. 28
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A pact for the supply of 57 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer aircraft to the IAF and the Navy is signed in the presence of British Prime Minister David Cameron at the HAL centre in Bangalore. |
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Opposition stand on the price rise issue stalls Parliament business for the second day. |
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The Supreme Court reserves verdict in the February 2, 2000 Dharmapuri burning case in which three students of the TNAU, Coimbatore are killed. |
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Sensex sheds 120.24 points to close down at 17957.37. |
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Jul. 29
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Parliament passes resolution granting approval for imposition of President’s rule in Jharkhand. Proceedings hit for the third day. |
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Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla demits office. |
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India and the U.K. decide to give impetus to their security and trade ties after Manmohan Singh-David Cameron talks in New Delhi. Pact on cultural cooperation inked. |
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The RJD is derecognised as national party, the Trinamool Congress and six other parties lose recognition in some states. |
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Jul. 30
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Three persons are killed and over 100 injured in violence in many parts of the Kashmir valley. |
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The Supreme Court acquits educationist S.A. Raja cited as the key accused and sentenced to undergo double life imprisonment in the Aladi Aruna murder case. |
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The Telangana Rashtra Samiti makes a clean sweep in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly byelections. |
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S.Y. Quraishi assumes charge as the 17th Chief Election Commissioner in New Delhi. |
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The Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran is transferred as Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court. |
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Seven persons are chargesheeted in the December 28, 2006 fake encounter killing of Tulsi Prajapati, a close associate of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. |
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A major scam involving payment of £4.50 Lakh to a British firm by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee. |
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Jul. 31
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Konkani litterateur Ravindra Kelekar is presented the 42nd Jnanpith Award for the year 2006 in the Goa capital Panaji. |
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Two youth are killed and 40 injured in police firing in Kashmir as protesters defy curfew. |
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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi inaugurates South East Asia’s biggest desalination plant at Minjur in Tiruvallur district. |
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