Events in October 2010
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Oct. 1
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Aruna Roy, political and social activist, is presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academic and Management by the President Pratibha Patil, in New Delhi. |
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The Supreme Court stays a Madras High Court judgment ordering the closure of the copper plant of Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. At Tuticorin. |
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Sensex rallies by 376 points to each 20445.04, its best level in 32 months. |
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Oct. 3
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The Commonwealth Games gets off to a colourful at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium start in New Delhi. Keshav, little tabla maestro enthrals condense at “Rhythms of India”. |
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Oct. 5
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The Union Cabinet approves the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill. |
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Oct. 6
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The Supreme Court commutes to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded Santosh Kumar Singh for the January 23, 1996 rate and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo in New Delhi. |
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K. Vijay Kumar assumes office of the new CRPF Director-General in New Delhi. |
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Music director A.R. Rahman and the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Chhattisgarh are jointly chosen for the 25th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2009. |
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The B.S. Yeddyurappa Government in Karnataka in crises as 18 MLAs withdraw support. |
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Oct. 7
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A newly developed town near Kolkata is named Jyoti Basu Nagar after veteran Communist leader Jyoti Basu. |
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Sensex losses 228 points to end day of 20315.32. |
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Oct. 8
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A fast track court in Bangalore hands down lifer to Shiva Kumar, a car driver, for the rape and murder of a BPO staff on December 13, 2005. |
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The Madras High Court sets aside a January 8, 2010 order appointing Letika Saran as Tamil Nadu DGP. |
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Oct. 9
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan commissions the Coast Guard ship ‘Samudra Prahari’, “a state-of-the-art” Pollution Control Vessel, in Mumbai. |
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Oct. 10
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Leh enters the Guinness Book of World Records after 50,300 saplings are planted in less than an hour in change village. |
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The BJP sweeps the local body spells in Gujarat. E-voting introduced for the first time in the nation. |
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Oct. 11
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The BJP government in Karnataka wins trust vote amid only scenes in the Assembly Governor recommends President’s rule. Speaker disqualifies 11 BJP MLAs and five independents. |
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Oct. 12
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The Karnataka government to seek trust vote again. |
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The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure gives nod for the proposal to build a Mega Container Terminal at the Chennai Port. |
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Western Railway’s first women driver Priti Kumari takes charge. |
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court commutes to lifer till death the death sentence of Jagtar Singh Hanxra, prime convict in the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. |
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Oct. 13
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The Centre names Dilip Padgaonkar, M. M. Ansari and Delhi Policy Group trustee Radha Kumar Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors. Task forces on Jammu, Ladakh set up. |
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Sensex surges by 484.54 points to close at 20687.88, another 33-month high since January 2008. |
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Oct. 14
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The BJP government in Karnataka wins trust vote again. |
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The biggest ever Commonwealth Games end on a dazzling note. India bags 101 medals. |
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Sensex sheds 190 points and ends day at 20497.64. |
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Oct. 15
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The Centre appoints a high-level committee under the former CAG, V.K. Shangbo, to probe into Commonwealth Games issues. |
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Sensex turns over 370 points on panic selling to close at 20125.05. |
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Oct. 17
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The Bharat Diamond Course, the world’s largest is inaugurated by the Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma. |
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Oct. 18
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A two member Bench of the Karnataka High Court delivers a split verdict on the disqualification of 11 BJP MLAs. A third judge to hear case. |
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Massarat Alam Bhat, most wanted separatist leader in Kashmir is arrested in Jelbal area on the outskirts of Srinagar. |
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Nod for Neutrino Observatory project in the Bodi West Hills in Theni district in Tamil Nadu. |
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Coal India’s initial public offer opens for public subscription. |
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Oct. 19
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India launches the National Green Tribunal to be headed by former Supreme Court Judge Lokeshwar Singh Panta. |
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Oct. 20
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The Union Cabinet gives nod for The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Second Bill, 2010. |
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Oct. 21
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Peaceful polling in the first phase of Bihar Assembly, election. |
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Nod for Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana, a monetary scheme for pregnant women and lactating mothers. |
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Oct. 22
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President Pratibha Patil presents the Dada Saheb Phalke Award to D. Ramanaidu at the 57th National Films Award 2009 function in New Delhi. Pasanga bags the Rajat Kama for the best Tamil film. |
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Oct. 23
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The National Advisory Council reaches consensus on a universal food security system with legal guarantees. |
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The BJP sweeps the local self-government polls in Gujarat (held on October 21) routing the Congress. |
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India and Bangaladesh sign a $ 1 billion Line of Credit agreement in New Delhi. |
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Oct. 24
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Despite Naxal threat, 52.5 per cent polling is recorded in phase II of the Bihar Assembly elections. |
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Narmada Bachao Andolan completes 25 years. |
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Oct. 26
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The Supreme Court cancels the bail granted to B. Ramalinga Raju and five others, accused in the Rs. 14,000/- crore Satyam fraud case. |
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The Supreme Court lifts the stay on pronouncement on verdicts in eight of the nine Godhra and post Godhra riots cases of 2002. |
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Oct. 28
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Income Tax officials launch nationwide raids on Commonwealth Games contractors. |
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Fifty four percent voting in third phase of Bihar Assembly polls. |
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Nonagenarians among four presented with the Jamnalal Bajaj award for 2010 in Mumbai. |
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The former IGP of Kerala, K. Lakshmana, is sentenced to life for “the brutal killing” of A. Varghese, a Naxalite leader in the Thirunelli forest in Wayanad 40 years ago. |
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Sensex slips below 20000 and ends day at 19941.04. |
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Oct. 29
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The Gujarat High Court grants conditional bail to the former Minister of State for Home Amit Shah. |
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Lt. Col. Satyendra Verma, captain of the Army Adventure Skydiving team, carries out the country’s first Building, Antenna, Span or Earth Cliff (BASE D jump from the Pitampura television tower in West Delhi. |
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Seventy six people are killed as a trawler capsizes in the Muriganga, in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. |
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Two school students are kidnapped and murdered in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. |
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Oct. 30
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The occupation certificate to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Colaba, Mumbai is revoked. |
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