09/02/2010

09/02/2010 : Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) Secured Communication Network is all set to take off as part of preparations for the Commonwealth Games. The same technology was used in Melbourne for the Games in 2006 and in Beijing Olympics last year.


09/02/2010 : Right to Information (RTI) ACT - 2005

09/02/2010 : Khilanmarg, Gulmarg , J&K - Snow avalanche

09/02/2010 : Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych narrowly beat Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the presidential election run-off

09/02/2010 : Endeavour - US Space shuttle , Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

09/02/2010 : Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia

09/02/2010 : Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan

09/02/2010 : Dharasana Satyagrah: Dharasana Satyagraha was a protest against the British salt tax in colonial India in May, 1930. Following the conclusion of the Salt March to Dandi, Mahatma Gandhi chose a non-violent raid of the Dharasana Salt Works in Gujarat as the next protest against the rule of the British Raj.

09/02/2010 : Iran became an Islamic Republic in 1979. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for second term as President. Controversial.

09/02/2010 : Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy



09/02/2010 : A Bill to give legal cover for construction, operation and maintenance of the metro rail system in the National Capital Region (NCR) and other metro cities was passed by the Lok Sabha today (06.08.2009). The Metro Railways (Amendment) Bill 2009, which was introduced by Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy, was necessary as currently there were no statutory provisions to provide legal backing to the development, construction, operation and maintenance of metro rail system outside Delhi. It will enable Delhi Metro to enter Noida and pave way for its expansion to other parts of NCR. Therefore, it has become necessary to make suitable amendments in the Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act 1978 and the Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act 2002 so as to make the provisions of both these Acts applicable to the metro railways in the NCR, metropolitan cities and other areas for development, construction, operation and maintenance of metro railways.



These bills are not being made applicable to metro operations in Kolkata as it was being regulated through the Calcutta Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Temporary Provisions Act 1985. Kolkata was the first city in India to begin metro rail service.

09/02/2010 : The Japanese city of Hiroshima marked the 64th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack. The atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, at the orders of President Harry S. Truman of the United States of America.

09/02/2010 : Sanskrit poet Satya Vrat Shastri was conferred the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2006 for his contributions to literature and enrichment of the language. The Award was presented to him by his disciple and Princess of Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on 19th August 2009.



Shastri has to his credit three Mahakavyas of about a thousands stanzas each, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavya and one Patrakavya.



The Award carries a citation and a prize money of Rs seven lakh.



Shastri became the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception in 1965.



The 42nd Jnanpith Award (2006) was jointly won by Staya Vrat Shastri and the noted Konkani writer Rajendra Kelekar. Incidentally, Kelekar is also the first writer to get an Jnanpith Award in his language.

09/02/2010 : Jalayagnam - a large scale program to construct more than 70 pending irrigation projects in the state of Andhra to improve irrigation facilities to the farmers, and an increase in the minimum support price for rice.

09/02/2010 : Arogya Shree - a health insurance scheme for rural masses where the Andhra government pays the entire price of any surgery and does not require people to pay any premium.

09/02/2010 : Pavala Vaddi - a program that provides loans to people of Andhra at 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural woman, and several others programmes were started by dead CM YSR for the welfare of masses.

09/02/2010 : Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of the pro-democratic movement National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar. She is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

09/02/2010 : Venezuelan beauty Stefania Fernandez has been crowned as Miss Universe 2009. She bagged the coveted title in a pageant held in the Caribbean country of Bahamas.