National Events in 2009

National Events in January 2009 Jan. 1	Five persons are killed and 62 injured as serial blasts rock three localities in Assam capital Guwahati.
	Separate pay panel for armed forces personnel to be set up.
	Sensex begins 2009 on a promising note recovering 256 points closing at 9903.46
	Lieutenant-General Noble Thamburaj assumes charge as Vice-Chief of the Army Staff.
Jan. 2	The Government announces the second fiscal stimulus package.
	*The Centre gives nod for a Rs. 908.28 crore desalination plant for Chennai.
Jan. 3	Need for a new generation of role models and teachers says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 96th Indian Science Congress inaugural in Shillong, Meghalaya.
	The Hindu Media Research Centre, MSSRF is awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Prize for 2008.
Jan. 4	The People's Democratic Party pulls out of the United Progressive Alliance.
Jan. 5	National Conference President Omar Abdullah is sworn in the 11th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir heading a coalition government. Nine Ministers assume office.
	The All-India Motor Transport Congress launches a nationwide strike.
	Sensex closes above the 10000 mark buoyed up by the stimulus package.
	India gives a 69-page evidentiary dossier to Pakistan on the Mumbai terror attacks, identifying for the first time the names of six "Pakistan-based handlers"
Jan. 6	Pakistan "utilised terrorism as an instrument of State policy," says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing a conference of Chief Ministers on internal security.
	Sensex closes at 10335.93 maintaining an uninterrupted rally.
Jan. 7	Byrraju Ramalinga Raju quits as Satyam Computers chairman after admitting that accounts were fudged to the tune of Rs. 7,106 crore over "several years". The firm's stock nosedives on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Sensex loses 749 points.
	The Oil Sector Officers Association goes on an indefinite strike. The truckers continue strike for the third day.
	The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha resumes its non-cooperation movement" with the West Bengal government.
Jan. 8	The Securities and Exchange Board of India begins probe into Satyam Computers imbroglio.
	The Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren loses the Tamar Assembly byelection by a margin of 9,000 votes.
	"We will work to ensure that there are no safe havens for terrorists," says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inaugural of the seventh edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Chennai.
	Overseas Indian Citizenship card-holders can practise their professions in India, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after launching a global Indian knowledge network at the Pravasi Bhratiya Divas inaugural.
Jan. 9	The Oil Sector Officers Association calls off strike.
	The former chairman of Satyam Computers B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother and former MD, B. Rama Raju surrender to Hyderabad police.
	The Centre disbands board of Satyam Computer Services.
	Angidi Veeriah Chettiar and Ramdien Sardjoe Vice-Presidents of Mauritius and Surriname are among 13 presented Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards by the President Pratibha Patil at the conclave's valedictory in Chennai.
	Trinamool Congress candidate Feroza Bibi wins the Nandigram Assembly seat, the byelection for which was held on January 5.
	The truckers' strike enters the fifth day even as the government arrests the All India Motor Transport Congress top leadership.
Jan. 10	Former chairman of Satyam Computer Services B. Ramalinga Raju and his brother Rama Raju are remanded to judicial custody. Srinivas Vadlamani who quits as chief financial officer is arrested. Probe to cover eight other family firms.
	Champai Soren is elected the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief.
Jan. 11	The Centre forms a three-member board comprising HDFC chairman, Deepak Parekh, the former Nasscom president, Kiran Karnik and the ex-SEBI member, C. Achutan to take charge of Satyam Computer Services.
Jan. 12	Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren resigns.
	Truckers call off their eight-day-old strike.
	The government-appointed directors take charge of Satyam Computer Services.
	The World Bank bans software vendors Wipro Technologies and Megasoft Consultants from doing business with it for four years under its corporate procurement programme.
	India wins a major arbitration case in the High Court of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur in the $ 55 million dispute between ONGC and Cairn Energy Pte Ltd.
Jan. 13	The CID of Andhra Pradesh police searches the office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, whose Indian arm Price Waterhouse is Satyam Computer Services auditor, at Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad, and seizes documents and CDs.
	The former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah takes over as National Conference president.
	Sensex closes at 9071.36 having shed nearly 1,050 points in the last two trading sessions after the Satyam fraud came to light.
Jan. 14	Mohammad Ahsan Dar, the co-founder of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (originally Ansar-ul-Islam in 1986) is arrested from a safe house in Sumbal, Jammu and Kashmir.
Jan. 15	Radha Vinod Raju is appointed the first Director-General of the National Investigation Agency.
	Sixtytwo persons are awarded rigorous life imprisonment for the killing of eight fishermen at the coastal village of Marad in Kozhikode on May 2, 2003.
	CII Chief Mentor Tarun Das, chartered accountant J.N. Manoharan and Suryakant Balakrishna Mainak of the LIC are appointed directors of the Satyam Computer Sevices board.
	Sensex loses 324 points and closes at 9046.74.
Jan. 16	The Supreme Court grants bail to Kolkata industrialists Ashok Kumar Todi and Pradeep Kumar Todi in the Rizwanur Rehman suicide case.
	Sensex recovers 277 points and Reliance counters led by Reliance major gainers.
Jan. 17	Laskhar-e-Taiba offers to the jihad.
Jan. 19	Jharkhand is placed under President's rule and the Assembly kept under suspended animation.
	The Serious Fraud Investigation Office is directed to probe into the affairs of Satyam group entities Maytas Properties and Maytas Infrastructure.
	Presidential assent for Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill.
Jan. 20	The former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh quits BJP and as Bulandshar MP. Returns the Lok Sabha seat from Etah.
	The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad files chargesheet in the Malegaon blast of September 29, 2008.
	Sensex nosedives by nearly 230 points amid a sharp fall in Asian stocks, ending the day at 9100.55.
	The shares of IT firm Educomp Solutions plunge amid reports of "irregularities".
	The government launches 'Project Snow Leopard' to safeguard the nation's high altitude wildlife populations.
Jan. 21	Sukhbir Singh Badal is sworn in Punjab Deputy Chief Minister.
	Rajvir Singh, son of the former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh joins the Samajwadi Party.
	The Tamil Nadu government decides to launch the Chief Minister's Insurance Scheme for Life Saving Treatments which will benefit one crore families.
	Sensex loses 320 points and closes at 8779.17, its lowest level since December 5, 2008.
Jan 23	The Delhi High Court quashes the Centre's notification banning smoking scenes in films.
Jan. 24	The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh undergoes a repeat coronary artery bypass graft to remove blocks at the AIIMS, New Delhi. The surgery lasts 11 hours.
	India and Kazakhstan sign a major agreement for supply of uranium and a comprehensive cooperation in civil nuclear energy programme. An extradition treaty and a protocol on the accession of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Ogranisation are also inked.
	The Leader of the Opposition in Orissa J.B. Patnaik and State party president Jayadev Jena quit posts.
Jan. 25	The Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar, the ISRO chief Madhavan Nair, Sister Nirmala and Sunderlal Bahuguna among 10 chosen for the Padma Vibhushan. Shekhar Gupta, C.K. Prahlad, D. Jayakanthan, Isher Judge Ahluwalia among 30 selected for Padma Bhushan. Padma Shri awards for 90, prominent among them being Abhinav Bindra, Aishwarya Rai, M.S. Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Aruna Sairam.
	K.C. Verma named the new Research and Analysis Wing Chief.
	Maharashtra police officials Hemant Karkare, Ashok Marutrao Kamte, Vijay Salaskar, NSG Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan are among 11 persons selected for the Ashok Chakra awards. Thirteen personnel, six of them posthumously, are chosen for Kirti Chakra.
Jan. 26	India celebrates its 60th Republic Day, honouring the martyrs and putting up an impressive show of its military might.
	Dominic Emmanuel, who has been working on inter-religious dialogue and Anjuman Sair-e-Gul Faroshan, known for its annual "Phool Walon ki Sair" are selected for the National Communal Harmony Award for 2008.
Jan. 27	The former President R. Venkataraman (98) who presided over the era of coalition politics at the Centre in the late 1980s dies at the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi following multiple organ failure.
Jan. 28	The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approves the Rs.14,600-crore Chennai Metro Rail Project at its meeting in New Delhi.
	Sensex closes at 9257.47 gaining 250 points on brisk buying in blue chip stocks.
Jan. 29	Muthukumar (26), a native of Kolluvainallur in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district immolates himself at Shastri Bhavan in Chennai in protest against the killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Jan. 30	The Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami 'recommends' removal of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla on the alleged ground of 'partisanship'.
Jan. 31	Five infants die after a makeshift phototherapy apparatus catches fire at the government-run Rajendra Hospital at Patiala, Punjab.
	S.S.N. Moorthy takes over as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes in New Delhi.
	The Ambikatanayadatta National Award is conferred on Sunil Gangopadhyaya, president of the Sahitya Akademi and Bengali writer.

 

 

 

Events in February 2009 Feb. 1	Tikshan Sood, the Punjab Medical Education and Research Minister quits owning moral responsibility for the deaths of five infants in an incubator fire.
Feb. 2	The decks are cleared for government management and administration of the Lord Nataraja temple in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. Madras High Court upholds appointment of an Executive Officer.
	The ISRO Chairman, G. Madhavan Nair and Team Chandrayaan are declared the CNN-IBN Indian of the year 2008. Actor Dilip Kumar is presented the Lifetime Achievement Award.
	Sensex tumbles 357 points and closes at 9066.70.
Feb. 3	The Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar, ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, social activist Aruna Roy among seven persons to be presented with the Bharat Asmita National Awards at a function in New Delhi.
	India and the U.S. sign an MoU for cooperation in production and marketing of biofuels.
	A commemorative postage stamp is released in New Delhi to mark 50 years of SAIL.
Feb. 4	India signs its first commercial nuclear pact with the French nuclear Areva for reactors, fuel supply in New Delhi.
	The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh owns moral responsibility for the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992.
	The Union Minister for Textiles Shankersinh Waghela releases the Handloom Atlas of India, in Chennai.
Feb. 5	The Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K. Rosaiah presents a Rs. 1.05 lakh crore budget for 2009-10.
	The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Koon is presented the Sustainable Development Leadership Award 2009 at the Ninth Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi. There are no "bailouts" for a climate crisis, says the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurating the summit.
	A.S. Murty is appointed Chief Executive Officer of Satyam Computer Services.
	Cabinet nod for national policy on safety at workplace.
Feb. 6	Mumbai terror "a crime against humanity," says the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in an interview to The Hindu.
	Kiran Karnik, the former president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies, chairman of Satyam Computer Services.
Feb. 7	Nine persons belonging to a radical group in Kerala are arrested for their role in the July 25, 2008 serial bomb blasts in Bangalore.
	A new political outfit Manidhaneya Makkal Katchi is launched at a function in Chennai.
Feb. 8	The Bulsar DSP, Kirisitsinh Erda, is arrested in connection with the Gulberg Society massacre during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat.
	The first model e-court in the country is launched by the Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad.
Feb. 9	Sensex touches a one-month high at 9583.89 following a sharp rally in index heavyweights.
Feb. 10	Pandit Bhimshen Joshi, noted Hindustani classical vocalist is presented with Bharat Ratna at his residence in Pune.
Feb. 11	Put down ragging with an iron hand, the Supreme Court tells educational institutions and suggests suspension/expulsion of students indulging in such activity.
	The Union Cabinet gives nod for changes to the foreign direct investment policy and excludes indirect investment through domestic firms from the overall sectoral ceilings.
	Scientists of the Karnal based National Dairy Research Institute announce cloning of the world's first buffalo.
	John Chambers, Chairman of CEO, Cisco Systems is presented the Global CEO of the year 2008 award at the inaugural of the Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2009 in Mumbai.
	Suman Sharma becomes the world's first woman to fly the mighty Russian MiG-35 fighter jet at the Aero India International Air Show in Yelahanka, Bangalore.
Feb. 12	Businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surinder Kohli, both accused in the Nithari serial killings are held guilty by a Ghaziabad court of murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl.
	A Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court upholds the recommendations of the Central POTA Review Committee to drop POTA charges against the accused in the Godhra train carnage.
Feb. 13	The Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav presents a cash surplus interim Railway Budget. Agartala connected by railway line. First train service in Kashmir between Anantnag and Rajwansher started.
	At least 9 persons are killed and 150 injured as 14 bogies of the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express derail near Jajpur-Keonjhar Road Station in Orissa.
	A special court in Ghaziabad awards death sentence to businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Kohli for the rape and murder of a girl, one of the 19 victims in the Nithari serial killings.
	The SEBI relaxes takeover norms for companies whose boards have been suspended.
Feb. 14	The United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurates the Srinagar International Airport and the Baramulla-Srinagar train service.
Feb. 16	The External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, who holds charge of Finance presents the interim budget for 2009-10 for a vote-on-account. A massive allocation of Rs. 1,31,317 crore is made for flagship programmes. Defence gets Rs. 1,41,703 crore and Rs. 65,300 crore debt waiver and relief given to 3.6 crore farmers. A sum of Rs. 100 crore earmarked for Unique Identification Project.
	The Congress revokes the suspension of former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane.
	The sensex loses 329.29 points and closes at 9305.46.
	The Government hands over the Satyam case to the CBI.
Feb. 17	The Government moves the Company Law Board to supersede the boards of Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties both promoted by the family of Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of Satyam Computer Services.
	The Mumbai Crime Branch files chargesheet against 21 members of the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen who engineered blasts across the country since 2005.
	Farmers who repay loans taken from cooperative banks exempt from interest, announces Tamil Nadu Finance Minister K. Anbazhagan presenting the 2009-10 State budget. Land tax rationalised.
	Prominent Hindi novelist Govind Mishra among 23 persons presented the Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2008 in New Delhi.
	Sensex falls below the 9000-mark pulled down by sustained selling.
	Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy is assaulted on the Madras High Court premises by a group of advocates.
Feb. 18	The DMK withdraws its appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the acquittal of AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in the 'Pleasant Stay Hotel' corruption case by the Madras High Court.
	A special court acquits Farooq Mapkar, a riot victim of the Mumbai 1992-93 carnage of all charges filed against him by the police.
Feb. 19	The Madras High Court premises witnesses unprecedented violence as lawyers and police personnel fight pitched battles.
	The former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin joins the Congress party.
	Satyam Computer Services gets Company Law Board nod to induct strategic investor.
	The Centre launches Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme and Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension scheme.
	Rajya Sabha passes the Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill, 2008.
	The former Revenue Minister Narayan Rane is re-inducted into the Maharashtra Cabinet.
	Sensex closes at 8843.21 points, the lowest level since January 23.
Feb. 20	The former Union Communications Minister Sukh Ram is convicted by a Delhi court of amassing Rs. 4.35 crore in disproportionate asset.
	Lawyers across Tamil Nadu stage protests condemning "police excesses" during the clash on the High Court premises.
Feb. 21	Satyam Computer Services sacks Price Waterhouse as the company's statutory auditors.
	All the 103 accused in the 1990 Colonelganj communal riots that claimed 135 lives are acquitted by a U.P. court after 14 eyewitnesses turn hostile.
Feb. 22	Hemant Laxman Gokhale is named the new Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
	Tirupur becomes the 32nd district of Tamil Nadu.
	The toll in the Hepatitis-B epidemic in Modasa town in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district reaches 37.
Feb. 24	Actors Saroja Devi, Meera Jasmine, Nayanthara, Asin, drummer Sivamani, director Cheran, music director Harris Jayaraj among 70 persons chosen for Kalaimamani awards by the Tamil Nadu government.
	Lok Sabha passes the Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill, 2009.
Feb. 25	Thirtyfive Pakistani nationals from the terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba are listed as wanted accused in the 11,280 page chargesheet filed by the Mumbai police in the November 26, 2008 attacks case.
	The former Union Communications Minister Sukh Ram is sentenced to a three-year jail term by a Delhi court in a 13-year-old disproportionate assets case.
	The Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh quits Cabinet.
Feb. 26	A three-judge Supreme Court Bench orders a probe by B. N. Srikrishna, a retired judge of the apex court into the violent incidents on the Madras High Court premises on February 19.
	The curtains come down on the 14th Lok Sabha with the session being adjourned sine die by the Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. He dissociates himself from politics.
	Tata Motors to launch 'Nano', touted as the world's cheapest family car, on March 23, in Mumbai.
	The government unveils a Rs. 325-crore special package for leather and textile sectors.
Feb. 27	Poogothai Aladi Aruna is sworn in Tamil Nadu Information and Technology Minister at a function at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai.
Feb. 28	Srikrishna Committee begins probe into the February 19 incidents on the Madras High Court premises.
	The Gujarat government decides to declare 228 persons missing in the 2002 post-Godhra riots dead. This will take the toll in the carnage to 1,180 from 952.
	The Navy is tasked with overall maritime security encompassing coastal and offshore security of the nation. National Command Control, communications and intelligence network planned.
	The keel of the first indigenous aircraft carrier is laid by the Defence Minister A. K. Antony at a function in Kochi.

 

Events in March 2009 Mar. 1	The President Pratibha Patil rejects the Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalswami's recommendation that Navin Chawla be removed as Election Commissioner.
Mar. 2	The Election Commission announces that elections to the 15th Lok Sabha will be held in five phases, on April 16, 23 and 30 and May 7 and 13. The Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Sikkim will be held simultaneously.
	The Boards of Directors of Reliance Industries Limited and its refinery subsidiary Reliance Petroleum Limited approve the merger of the firms, the nation's largest-ever corporate merger.
	Sensex, plunges by 285 points and closes of 8607.08 points due to weak global cues.
Mar. 3	The Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express the Country's first superfast passenger train completes 40 years of service.
	Sensex loses 179.79 points to close at a three-year low of 8427.29 on heavy selling by funds following deepening global financial crisis.
Mar. 4	The President Pratibha Patil approves the appointment of Navin Chawla as the Chief Election Commissioner with effect from April 20.
	India's light combat aircraft Tejas is bang on target in the first test sortie in the second phase of weapon testing under way at an Air Force base in the north-Western sector.
	A new version BrahMos supersonic cruise missile meant to attack a particular target and out of a cluster on land is successfully tested at Pokhran, Rajasthan.
Mar. 6	Justice Srikrishna submits to Supreme Court his interim report on the clashes on February 19 on the Madras High Court premises. Blames lawyers for starting violence and police for exceeding limits.
	The DRDO successfully launches an interceptor missile from the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast and it destroys a Dhanush missile at an altitude of 80 km over Bay of Bengal.
	The former Prime Minister V.P. Singh's Jan Morcha merges with Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Jan Shakti Party.
	The SEBI gives nod for Satyam Computer Services for choosing a strategic investor to acquire 51 per cent stake in the company.
Mar. 7	The Biju Janata Dal and the BJP part ways after failure of seat-sharing talks. The BJP withdraws support to the Orissa government
	Manipur Human rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila on a continuous fast for the past nine years demanding complete withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 is freed from judicial custody, in Imphal.
Mar. 8	Aman Satya Kachru (19), a first year student of the Rajendra Prasad Medical Centre in Tanda, Himachal Pradesh dies of injuries he suffered after being beaten up during ragging two days earlier.
Mar. 9	Hemant Laxman Gokhale is sworn in the 43rd Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
	Sensex drops by 165.42 points and registers its 40-month closing low of 8160.40 on all-around selling by foreign funds and operators.
	Two Independent MLAs withdraw support to the Meghalaya government reducing the strength of the ruling Meghalaya Progressive Alliance to 31, only one more than the majority mark.
Mar. 10	Ramesh C. Deka takes over as the new Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
	The political crisis in Meghalaya deepens following the resignation of the Urban Affairs Minister Paul Lyngdoh from the Cabinet. He also quits the ruling Meghalaya Progressive Alliance.
Mar. 11	Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wins the trust vote in the Assembly.
Mar. 12	The Third Front, a grand alliance of political parties, is launched at a mammoth rally in Dobbespet, near Tumkur in Karnataka.
	Air Marshal D.C. Kumaria takes charge as the first-ever Director General Operations at Air Headquarters in New Delhi.
Mar. 13	India hands over its 500-page response to Pakitan's questionnaire in connection with November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
	Sensex records highest gain of 413 points in the current calendar year and closes at 8756.61 on the back of all-round buying triggered by stronger global cues.
Mar. 14	The former Karnataka Chief Minister Bangarappa formally rejoins the Congress three years after he left the party.
Mar. 17	The Donkupar Roy-led Meghalaya Progressive Alliance government survives a crucial trust vote, scraping through with a casting vote by Speaker B.M. Lanong.
	L. Ganesan and Gingee N. Ramachandran, erstwhile leaders of the MDMK join the DMK.
	India and Chile decide to explore the possibility of a free trade pact after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Michele Bachelet.
Mar. 18	The Madras High Court orders suspension of two senior police officers in connection with the incidents on the court premises on February 19.
Mar. 19	Meghalaya is put under President's rule and the Assembly is kept under suspended animation.
	Lawyers decide to temporarily suspend the nearly month long court boycott and resume work from March 23.
	A businessman is arrested in Thane, Maharashtra for allegedly raping his daughter, now 21, over nine years.
	For the first time in 30 years, inflation plummets to its lowest level at 0.44 per cent for the week ended March 7.
	Sensex closes at 9001.75 points on firm European opening.
Mar. 20	Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik is named the next Chief of the Air Staff.
Mar. 21	Mohanrao Bhagwat takes over as the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh chief from K.S. Sudarshan Sarsangchalak for the last nine years, at the organisation's conclave in Nagpur.
Mar. 23	Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata launches commercially Nano, the people's car at a function in Mumbai.
	Advocates resume work in the Madras High Court ending their more than a month boycott.
	Former MDMK leader M. Kanappan rejoins the DMK.
	Sensex closes at a five-week high of 9424.02 points, registering the biggest single day gain of 457.34 since December 10, 2008.
Mar. 24	Sixteen militants are killed and eight defence personnel lay down their lives in a gunbattle raging for the past five days in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
	Sister Mary Prema is elected the new Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in place of the ailing Sister Nirmala.
Mar. 26	Sensex closes above the 10000-mark a level last seen on January 5.
Mar. 27	Gujarat Minister of State for Women's Welfare Mayaben Kotnani resigns from the Narendra Modi Cabinet and surrenders before the Special Investigation Team in Gandhinagar. She is an accused in the Naroda Patiya carnage case during the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots.
	Venu Srinivasan, Managing Director, Sundaram-Clayton takes over as the Confederation of Indian Industry president for 2009-10, at the CII annual convention in New Delhi.
	The Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson for 2008 is conferred on Nirupama Subramanian, Islamabad Correspondent of the The Hindu and Vinita Deshmukh, Editor of Intelligent Pune in New Delhi.
	Republican Party of India leader Ramdas Athawale joins Congress.
	The PMK pulls out of the UPA in Tamil Nadu and joins the AIADMK led front.
Mar. 28	The BJP's Pilibhit Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi is remanded to judicial custody after his surrender in connection with cases related to his alleged hate speeches at election rallies in the district on March 7 and 9 and lodged in the Pilibhit district jail.
	The Pattali Makkal Katchi clinches seat-sharing agreement with the AIADMK for the Lok Sabha polls.
	Union Health Minister R. Anbumani and Minister of State for Railways R. Velu quit the Manmohan Singh Cabinet.
Mar. 29	The U.P government invokes NSA against Varun Gandhi.
	Punjab's Cooperation Minister and senior Akali Dal leader Kanwaljit Singh is killed in a road accident in Mohali district.
Mar. 30	Sensex plummets by 480.35 points to close at 9568.14.
Mar. 31	The Supreme Court refuses to suspend actor San jay Dutt's conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts to enable him to contest the Lok Sabha polls.
	At least 20 persons are killed as a tornado hits Rajkanika block in Orissa's Kendrapora district.
	The Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar, actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Akshay Kumar, noted Tamil writer D. Jayakanthan among 62 persons presented with the Padma awards.

 

Events in April 2009 Apr. 2	The CBI gives a clean chit to the former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
	Reliance Industries Ltd. begins gas production in Krishna-Godavari basin located off the coast in the Bay of Bengal.
	Sensex zooms by 447 points to register its nearly five-month closing high of 10348.83 on all-round buying.
	Pramod Bhasin, President and CEO of Genpact, takes over the new Chairman of the National Association of Software and Service Companies.
Apr. 3	Former Union Minister George Fernandes is expelled from the Janata Dal (United).
Apr. 6	Eight persons are killed and 62 injured as terrorists launch a series of three blasts and mount a grenade attack in Assam.
	Sensex gains another 186.04 points to close at nearly a five-month high of 10534.87
Apr. 7	The CBI files a 65,000 page charge sheet against nine accused in the Satyam Computer scam.
Apr. 8	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko warns of a bloodbath in Tamil Nadu even if the slightest harm befell the LTTE leader V. Prabakaran at a meeting in Chennai.
Apr. 9	The Congress decides to drop Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as its candidates for the Lok Sabha polls after the two "offer to withdraw."
	The Chennai city police file a sedition case against MDMK General Secretary Vaiko for a speech inciting violence.
	India launches its biggest-ever auction of oil and gas blocks.
Apr. 11	P.S. Akhil Dev, a first year BBM student of PSG Arts and Science College in Combatore suffers severe eye injuries and is left with impaired hearing following ragging by five seniors at his private hostel room on March 7.
	A Marine Engineer G. Bhargava plunges to death while attempting reverse bungee jumping near Bannerghatha, Bangalore.
Apr. 13	Tech Mahindra acquires Satyam Computer Services outbidding L&T.
	Sensex breaches the 11000-level for the first time in six months.
Apr. 14	ISRO Chairman Madhavan Nair, environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, Olympic gold medal winner Abhinav Bhindra among 63 personalities presented with the Padma awards 2009 by the President Pratibha Patil.
Apr. 15	The special court at Arthur Road Jail, Mumbai, revokes the appointment of Anjali Waghmare, defence lawyer for Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab the lone gunman captured alive after 26/11 attacks in Mumbai.
	Fiftyeight to sixtytwo per cent voting is recorded in phase I of the Lok Sabha polls. Nineteen persons are killed in naxal attacks in Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
	The Supreme Court directs release of BJP candidate Varun Gandhi on parole.
Apr. 17	Abbas Kazmi appointed the new lawyer for Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab.
Apr. 18	Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab retracts his confessional statement in court.
	Shanno, a Class II student of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi-run Primary School in New Delhi dies two days after allegedly being subjected to corporal punishment. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights orders probe.
Apr. 20	The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C-12) puts in Orbit Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-2) a surveillance satellite procured from Israel and Anusat built by Anna University, Chennai after lift-off from Sriharikota.
	The Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami retires after holding office for 34 months.
Apr. 21	Senior Election Commissioner Navin B. Chawla takes over as the 16th Chief Election Commissioner. Union Power Secretary V.S. Sampath assumes office as the new Election Commissioner.
Apr. 22	Maoists hijack a passenger train in Jharkhand's Latehar district and release it after nearly four hours. A Block Development Officer's office in Bihar's Aurangabad district is bombed.
Apr. 23	Fifty-five per cent voting is recorded in phase II of the general elections covering 140 Lok Sabha constituencies in 12 States.
	Normal life is hit in Tamil Nadu following a general strike called by the DMK to protest the killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Apr. 24	The Supreme Court allows the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw the 'London Hotel Case' against the former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for paucity of evidence.
	Sensex closes at a six-month high of 11329.05 in continued volatility on strong cues in European markets.
Apr. 27	The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi goes on an indefinite fast but ends it six-and-a-half hours after being informed of Sri Lanka's decision to halt combat operations with heavy weapons.
	The former Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Bank M. Gopalakrishnan is jailed for 14 years in a case of conspiracy and cheating resulting in a loss of Rs. 8.67 crore to the bank, and ordered to pay a fine of Rs. 70 lakh.
	The Supreme Court asks the Special Investigation Team to probe a complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that he orchestrated the post-Godhra communal riots in 2002.
	India announces Rs. 100 crore grant for providing relief to civilians being evacuated from the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka.
Apr. 28	The name of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi the only surviving accused in the Bofors payoffs case is dropped from the Red Corner Notice of the Interpol at the request of the CBI. The notice was revoked on November 25, 2008.
	Sensex tumbles by a steep 370.10 points or 3.25 per cent.
Apr. 29	Four passengers are killed and 11 others injured after an un identified person hijacks a suburban train from near the Central Railway Station, Chennai and drives it at high speed resulting in a head-on collision with a goods train at Vysarpadi Jiva railway station.
	Sensex rebounds 401.50 points to close at a six-and-a-half month high of 11403.25. It had closed at 11483.40 on October 14, 2008.
	A blistering heat wave pounds north India. Delhi records the highest-ever temperature of 43.5 degrees in half a century in April.
Apr. 30	Fifty per cent of 14.40 crore voters cast ballots in 107 constituencies in nine States and two Union Territories in the third phase of the general elections.

 

Events in May 2009 May 1	The Supreme Court orders the setting up of six fast track courts to try the 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra riot cases in Gujarat and vacates its 2003 order staying the trial.
May 2	A military convoy is attacked near the Neelambur bypass road in Coimbatore by Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam activists who claimed that the vehicles were transporting arms for the Sri Lankan Army.
	The Supreme Court appointed SIT files charge sheets against Gujarat Minister Maya Kodnani VHP leader Jaideep Patil and others in the cases of Naroda massacre during the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
May 4	Sensex surges by a whopping 731.50 points, the biggest single day gain in 2009 to close the day at 12,134.75 as bulls go on a rampage amid a host of favourable developments. Nifty zooms 180.05 points to close at 3654.
May 6	The Special Sessions Court frames charges against the three main accused in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
	Sensex sheds 178 points to close the day at 11952.75.
May 7	Fiftyseven per cent polling in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections covering 85 seats in seven States and the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
	Sensex recovers 164 points to close at 12116.94. Besides the FMCG segment, all other sectoral indices close in the green.
May 8	The State Advisory Board of the Allahabad High Court recommends the revocation of the NSA slapped on the BJP's Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi.
	The Supreme Court issues guidelines to check ragging in educational institutions. Moots panel of mental health specialists to examine impact of ragging. Nod for proposal by the HRD Ministry to set up a hotline for the victims.
	The Gujarat High Court sets up nine special fast track courts for the trial of nine cases of communal riots of 2002.
	The Supreme Court bans mining in Aravalli hills.
May 11	Sensex tumbles by 193.44 points to close at 11682.99.
May 12	Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla is appointed Finance Secretary.
	H.S. Brahma assumes office as Power Secretary.
	Sensex gains 475 points to close at 12158.03, the year's second biggest rally aided by a rebound in key blue chip counters.
May 13	Sixtytwo per cent polling is recorded in the last phase of the Lok Sabha election. Tamil Nadu registers 72 per cent polling with Karur recording the highest 80.95 per cent.
	A seven-member Congress and United Democratic Party coalition ministry headed by D.D. Lapang is sworn in in Meghalaya. Dr. Mukul Sangma is the new Deputy Chief Minister.
	Sensex sheds 138.38 points to close at 12019.65 as metal, IT and FMCG counters bear the brunt of selling.
May 14	The Uttar Pradesh government revokes the National Security Act slapped against the BJP's Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi following a Supreme Court directive.
	The Supreme Court orders the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad to pay Rs.1 crore to Prashanth S. Dhanaka, a computer engineer for medical negligence which left him a paraplegic.
May 15	The former Deputy Director-General of the Telecom Department, Runu Ghosh, is sentenced to a three-year jail term for amassing assets disproportionate to her known source of income.
May 16	The Indian National Congress and its allies storm back to power in the Lok Sabha. In Tamil Nadu the DMK-Congress combine wins 28 seats, the Congress wins all seven Delhi seats, bags nine out of 10 seats in Haryana and grabs 19 out of 25 in Rajasthan.
	The Sikkim Democratic Front led by Pawan Kumar Chamling wins all 32 Assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat.
	In Andhra Pradesh, the UPA wins 33 out of 42 Lok Sabha seats and 155 out of the 294 Assembly seats.
	In Orissa, the Biju Janata Dal wins a landslide in the Assembly polls bagging 103 of the 147 seats and also sweeps the Lok Sabha polls.
	In Kerala, the Congress secures 16 out of 20 seats.
	The country's first case of influenza A (H1N1) flu virus is confirmed when a 23-year-old male who came to Hyderabad from New York tests positive.
May 18	Sensex gains 2110.79 points and closes at 14284.21. For the first time in the history of the stock market, the markets remain closed for two hours.
	The 14th Lok Sabha is dissolved by the President Pratibha Patil.
May 19	The former Gujarat Minister of State for Women's Welfare, Mayaben Kodnani is granted conditional bail by the Ahmedabad sessions court.
	Sensex gains marginally to close at 14302.03.
May 20	Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy is sworn in Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister for a second consecutive term at a function in Hyderabad.
	The G.T. Nanavati and Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission probing the Godhra train carnage and the post-Godhra communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 resumes hearing.
	Pawan Kumar Chamling is sworn in Sikkim Chief Minister for a fourth successive term, in Gangtok.
	Sensex drops by 240 points to 14060.66 snapping a three-day winning streak.
May 21	Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik is sworn in Orissa Chief Minister for the third consecutive term. The BJD had bagged 103 seats in the 147-member Assembly and 14 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats.
	Sensex declines by over 320 points and falls below the 14000 mark to close at 13736.54.
	Sixteen policemen are killed in naxalite attack at Tawitolal in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district.
May 22	Manmohan Singh is sworn in Prime Minister for a second successive term along with 19 Cabinet colleagues.
May 23	Pranab Mukherjee is allotted Finance Ministry; Sharad Pawar gets Agriculture, Food & Civil Supplies; A.K. Antony is Defence Minister; P. Chidambaram is given the Home portfolio; External Affairs goes to S.M. Krishna and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is given the Railways Ministry.
May 24	Malvinder Mohan Singh quits as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited.
	The Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav expels Mohammad Azam Khan one of the founder-members from the party for six years.
May 25	The Army is called out in Jalandhar to assist the administration in checking rioting sparked by a group clash in a Gurdwara in the Austrain capital Vienna that led to the death of a Dera Sach Khand preacher's deputy Sant Ramanand. Three coaches of the Kanyakumari-Jammu Tawi Express are burnt.
	The DMK announces decision to joint the Union Cabinet.
	Pranab Mukherjee, A.K. Antony and Sharad Pawar assume office as Union Finance, Defence and Agriculture Ministers.
	The Supreme Court grants bail to Binayak Sen, vice-president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, who had been under detention since May 2007 in Chhattisgarh for alleged links with Maoists.
	Cyclone 'Aila' pounds West Bengal leaving 23 dead and affecting 1.1 lakh people. The Sunderbans region is badly hit.
	The D.D. Lapang-led Meghalaya United Alliance wins trust vote in Assembly. Charles Pyngrope elected Speaker unopposed. Sanbor Shullai becomes Deputy Speaker.
May 26	The toll in Cyclone Aila in West Bengal goes up to 78. Heavy and incessant rain in Darjeeling triggers landslips.
	Mamata Banerjee takes charge of the Railway Ministry in Kolkata. Announces Rs.20-a-month railway pass for poor for travel on specified routes.
	Patlolla Sabitha Indra Reddy becomes the first woman Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Five other women given key portfolios.
May 27	The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces the names of 59 persons recommended for inclusion in the Union Council of Ministers.
	Sensex surges by 525 points to close at 14,109.64.
	The Union HRD Ministry and the UGC give nod for the setting up of a national toll-free anti-ragging helpline to be operational by June 15.
May 28	Fiftynine new Union Ministers take oath. Kapil Sibal gets HRD portfolio; Veerappa Moily is allocated Law and Ambika Soni becomes I & B Minister. Murli Deora, A. Raja and Sushil Kumar Shinde retain Petroleum, Information Technology and Power. Six Ministers of State from West Bengal take oath.
	Eight Ministers from Tamil Nadu take oath. The DMK's M.K. Azhagiri gets Chemicals and Fertilizers; Dayanidhi Maran gets Textiles and Congress's G.K. Vasan becomes Shipping Minister.
	Rani Abbakka, the Coast Guard's first inshore patrol vessel is launched at a function in Visakhapatnam.
	The A (H1N1) virus makes its entry into Tamil Nadu with a mother-son duo testing positive and are quarantined at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.
	Sensex gains 180 points to close at 14296.01.
May 29	The Tamil Nadu Local Administration Minister, M.K. Stalin, is elevated as Deputy Chief Minister.
	Sensex gains 329 points to move to a nearly nine-month high of 14625.25 as bulls tighten their grip on the market following hints at oil price deregulation.
	A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court restrains the U.P. government from proceeding with the mammoth eight-lane 104 km long Ganga Expressway project.
May 31	Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik takes charge as the 19th Chief of the Indian Air Force, in New Delhi.
	Union Water Resources Minister Meira Kumar resigns from the Council of Ministers and is set to become Lok Sabha Speaker.
	The BJP's parliamentary wing elects L.K. Advani as its leader in the Lok Sabha.
	The rule that packaging of tobacco products must carry pictorial warnings comes into effect.

 

Events in June 2009 Jun. 1	The 15th Lok Sabha gets off to a smooth start and close to 330 members take oath. Manikkrao Gavit of the Congress is sworn in pro-tem Speaker.
	Sensex surges to nearly a nine-month high of 14840.63, netting a rise of 215.38 points.
Jun. 3	Meira Kumar is unanimously elected the first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
	The BJP declares Arun Jaitley Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Sushma Swaraj its deputy leader in the Lok Sabha.
	Sensex breaches the 15000-level for the first time since the Lehman Brothers collapse in September last, but closes at 14870.90 after banking and IT stocks pull down the market.
	A 20-year-old Hyderabad medico tests positive for influenza A (H1N1) flu virus following release of test results. He returned from the U.S. on May 27 and got admitted to hospital on June 1.
Jun. 4	The President's Joint address to both Houses of Parliament delineates 10 broad areas of priority for the government, including the proposal to enact a National Food Security Act under which below the poverty line families are entitled to 25 kg of rice or wheat a month at Rs. 3 a kg. An Equal Opportunity Commission on the anvil. Reforms on priority list.
	A sum of Rs. 7,587 crore is allocated for the irrigation sector in the Maharashtra budget for 2009-10 with an outlay of Rs. 37,915 crore.
	N. Kiran Kumar Reddy is elected the 17th Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
	Sensex ends above 15000 for the first time since September 2008 with the Centre's reforms agenda unveiled in the President's address lifting investor sentiment.
	The number of persons who have tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) flu virus goes up to three in Hyderabad and five across the nation.
	A suspected key Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Bihar-born Nepali national Mohammad Omar Madani is held in Delhi.
Jun. 5	Commerce Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai is named Union Home Secretary.
	Disinvestment Secretary Rahul Khullar is appointed Commerce Secretary.
	Montek Singh Ahluwalia is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for a second term.
	Jewel Garlossa, the 'Commander-in-Chief' of the militant group Dima Halam Daogah and his two accomplices are held in Bangalore.
	Sensex closes at nearly a ten-month high of 15103.55, as the IT, capital goods and the auto sector keeps up the growth tempo. National Stock Exchange index Nifty closes at 4586.90.
	The Supreme Court declines to stay the land acquisition proceedings in respect of the Mumbai SEZ promoted by Mukesh Ambani.
Jun. 6	Thirty persons are injured in clashes in the Kashmir Valley even as protests continued for the sixth day running against the rape and death of two women Nilofar Ahanger and her sister-in-Law Asiya Jan at Shopian on May 29 night.
	Andhra Pradesh is put on health alert after the first case of human-to-human transmission of A (H1N1) flu virus is reported in Hyderabad.
	Vice-Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma is named the nation's Chief of Naval Staff.
	Indian scientists announce the birth of the world's second cloned buffalo named Garima at the National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal, Haryana. The first cloned buffalo was born on February 6.
	The Nationalist Congress Party MP Padamsinh Patil is arrested by the CBI for his alleged involvement in the murder of his cousin and Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar.
Jun. 7	The Kerala Governor R.S. Gavai gives permission to the CBI to prosecute the CPI(M) State Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC-Lavalin case involving charges of corruption. Rejects the State's Cabinet clear advice to the contrary.
Jun. 8	Seven-time member of Parliament Karia Munda is unanimously elected Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.
	Senior advocate Goolam E. Vahanvati is appointed Attorney-General.
	Sensex drops by 437.63 points, the third biggest fall of the year, to close at 14665.92, following a dramatic sell-off by foreign funds. Nifty tumbles by 157 points to 4429.90.
	Twenty four persons are injured following protests over the Shopian incident, even as life remained hit in the Kashmir valley for the eighth consecutive day.
Jun. 9	The Hurriyat Conference ends strike and life returns to normality in the Kashmir Valley.
	Sensex posts 460-point gain to close at 15127. The realty, metal and IT indices do well.
Jun. 10	The Nationalist Congress Party suspends its Osmanabad MP Padamsinh Patil from the party following his arrest by the CBI in a double murder case.
	Sensex surges by 340 points and closes at 15466.81, after reaching a nearly one-year high of 15580.81 earlier in the day. Nifty touches one-year high of 4655.25.
Jun. 11	The CBI files chargesheets against nine accused, including the former Kerala Power Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC-Lavalin case before a CBI special court in Kochi.
	Sensex loses 55.34 points to close at 15411.47 as the market remains volatile on alternate bouts of buying and selling.
Jun. 12	Sensex loses 174 points in volatile trading to close at 1523.74, after oscillating between 15600.30, a fresh one-year intra-trade high and 15174.28.
	The BJP MP and former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha resigns from all party positions.
Jun. 15	Gopal Subramaniam is appointed Solicitor-General.
	Sensex tumbles by 362 points to close at 14875.52, the fifth biggest single-day fall of the year, triggered by the Bombay High Court ruling on RIL's gas sales to Reliance Natural Resources.
	The Registrar of Companies gives nod for registration of the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
	Global Wind Day is celebrated for the first time in the country at the Marina beach in Chennai.
Jun. 16	The Maharashtra government rejects the indictment of the then Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor by the Ram Pradhan Committee which probed the 26/11 attacks in its action taken report tabled in the Assembly.
	Violence continues in Lalgarh in West Bengal's West Medinipur district following the turf war between the People's Committee against Police Atrocities and the CPI(M).
	Sensex regains 82 points to close at 14957.91 as the market snaps its three-day falling streak.
Jun. 17	A local leader and two CPI(M) activists are gunned down by suspected Maoists in the Jhargram area of West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district even as Lalgarh is rocked by a fresh wave of violence.
Jun. 18	Central paramilitary forces and the State Armed Police launch an offensive against Maoists and supporters of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities in West Bengal's Lalgarh area.
	For the first time in over 30 years, the year-on-year inflation strays into negative territory at minus 1.61 per cent for the week ended June 6.
	Dacoit Naan alias Ghanshyam Kewat is shot dead after a 50-hour encounter involving 400 policemen at Jamanli Village in Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh.
	The total number of persons testing positive for A (H1 N1) virus across the nation touches 44.
	Sensex surrenders 275.31 points to close at 14265.53 due to persistent selling by investors.
	The Securities and Exchange Board of India gives nod for the "anchor investor concept".
Jun. 19	The Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhara Rao resigns.
	Sensex rebounds by 256.36 points to close at 14521.89 on positive global cues.
Jun. 20	The Centre launches a round-the-clock anti-ragging helpline that can be accessed at 1800-180-5522.
	Violence continues as the security forces move into Lalgarh.
Jun. 21	Satyam Computer Services unveils its new brand identity 'Mahindra Satyam'.
	The Justice Muzaffar Jan Commission probing the rape-murder of two women in Shopian submits interim report.
Jun. 22	The Centre bans the Communist Part of India (Maoist) for the second time since 2004 and declares it a terrorist organisation.
	The two-day bandh called by the Maoists in Orissa, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh hits life.
	Sensex falls by 196 points to end at 14326.22 on week European cues.
	The total number of confirmed swine flu cases goes up to 63.
Jun. 23	Maoists ambush police party and the free Misir Besra, a top-ranking leader in Bihar's Lakhisarai district.
	C.P. Gurnani is new chief executive officer of Mahindra Satyam.
Jun. 24	Uttarakhand Health Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal is to be new Chief Minister replacing B.C. Khanduri.
	The Tamil Nadu government announces the creation of separate Unitary University comprising four constituent colleges of Anna University to be functional from the current academic year.
	Hans Raj Bhardwaj is appointed Karnataka Governor. Rameshwar Thakur to be Madhya Pradesh Governor and Devanand Konwar is named Governor of Bihar.
	N.K. Gopal, a CPI(ML) activist who has been evading the police dragnet for 22 years is held in New Delhi by a Tamil Nadu special police team.
Jun. 25	The Union Home Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announces the government's agenda for the education sector. Proposal to make Class X examination optional. All-India school board planned.
	Nandan M. Nilekani is to be chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority.
	The Assam Governor and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Sharan Mathur (83) passes away at a Delhi hospital.
Jun. 26	Sensex gains 419 points to end at 14764.64 on the back of firm global cues.
Jun. 27	Amid heavy gun battle security forces take control of Maoist-dominated Ramgarh, 7 km from Lalgarh.
Jun. 28	Tata Motors launches products from the Jaguar and Land Rover stable in India.
Jun. 30	The Justice Liberhan Commission which probed the events that led to the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992 submits its report to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after 16 years that saw 399 sittings and 48 extensions. It was set up on December 16, 1992.
	The UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi declares open the Bandra-Worli sea link, a state-of-the-art cable-stayed bridge in Bandra, Mumbai.
	The government names Nirupama Rao, currently Ambassador to China, as its next Foreign Secretary.
	The former Commerce Secretary, Gopal Krishna Pillai, takes over as the new Home Secretary.
	The President, Pratibha Patil, inaugurates the IOC golden jubilee fete in New Delhi.
	Sensex loses 292 points and closes at 14493.84 on across-the-board selling.

 

Events in July 2009 Jul. 1	The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announces the setting up of a National Council for Human Resources in Health to act as an over-arching regulatory body.
Jul. 2	In a landmark judgment, the Delhi High Court strikes down the provision of Section 377 of the IPC which criminalised consensual sexual acts of adults in private.
Jul. 3	Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee presents the first Railway Budget of the new UPA Government, the highlights being Izzat pass for unorganised sector, point-to-point Duronto (superfast) trains', low-cost air-conditioned 'Yuva' trains. Women's special EMUs proposed to be introduced in Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi during rush hour, and double decker air-conditioned coaches on inter-city trains.
	The S.C. Mohapatra Commission probing the violence in Orissa's Kadhamal district last year submits interim report.
	Sensex notches up 254.56 points to close at 14913.05 on partial recovery in global stocks.
Jul. 4	The Jammu and Kashmir High Court orders exhumation of the bodies of the two women murdered in Shopian for a fresh autopsy and collecting DNA samples.
	At least nine persons are killed after a bus crashes through the railings of the Bankim Setu flyover and falls 40 feet on the Howrah railway track.
Jul. 6	The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee provides Rs.71,000 crore outlay for the social sector and rural development presenting the UPA government's full budget for 2009-10.
	National Food Security Act to be brought in to ensure entitlement of 25 kg of rice or wheat per month at Rs.3 a kg to BPL families.
	Sensex plunges by 869 points to close at 14,043.40 surpassing the hefty fall of 749 points on January 7 this year on concerns over the high fiscal deficit of 6.8 per cent set by the Union Budget.
Jul. 7	Sixteen persons are killed in an explosion at a fireworks manufacturing unit at Vadakkampatti in Madurai district.
	Sensex gains 127.05 points and closes at 14170.45.
	Sixteen persons die after drinking spurious liquor in Majoor Gaam in Ahmedabad.
Jul. 8	The toll in the Gujarat hooch tragedy goes up to 43. Judicial Commission to probe incident.
	Sensex tumbles by 401.30 points to end the day at 13769.15 points in line with global weaknesses and heavy capital outlaws.
Jul. 9	The toll in the hooch tragedy in Ahmedabad's Rakhiyaal area goes up to 105. Harishankar Kahar, the main supplier of the killer brew is arrested.
Jul. 10	The hooch tragedy toll touches 112. Over 225 people in hospital.
	Sensex loses 253 points, recording its biggest weekly fall of the year and closes at 13504.22 on concerns over weak monsoon.
	An Army court martial in Patiala orders that Army Service Corps (ASC) officer Captain Poonam Kaur be sacked for falsely accusing her seniors of sexual harassment.
Jul. 12	The Central Committee of the CPI(M) decides to drop Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan from the Polit Bureau for violating the organisational principles and discipline.
	Six persons are killed and 15 injured after a Firder at an under construction Delhi Metro Rail Corporation bridge collapses at Jamrudpur on the elevated Central Secretariat – Badarpur line in South Delhi.
Jul. 13	Six persons are injured as a crane bringing down a collapsed girder topples at a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation construction site in Jamrudpur in South Delhi.
	All the six accused in the case of murder in August 2006 of Professor H.S. Sabharwal at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh are freed by a Nagpur court for lack of evidence.
	Sensex extending its losses to the fourth day in a row loses 104 points to close at 13400.32 points.
	The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha launches an indefinite bandh in West Bengal's Darjeeling hills in support of its demand for a separate Gorkhaland.
Jul. 14	Life in Mumbai city badly hit following heavy rains for the second day running and the Mithi river crosses the danger level.
	Sensex gains 453.38 points to close at 13853.70 after a four-day losing streak.
Jul. 15	Rain lashes Mumbai for the third consecutive day. In Gujarat's Junagadh district, Mongrol receives 500 mm rain.
	Sensex surges by 400 points to close at 14253.24.
	The indefinite bandh in Darjeeling hills enters third day.
	Uttar Pradesh Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi is arrested in Ghaziabad district while on her way to Delhi for making derogatory remarks on Chief Minister Mayawati. Her house in Lucknow is set afire by miscreants.
	The 47-day-old strike against the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian is called off on an appeal by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
	The U.P. Congress Committee president Rita Bahuguna Joshi is remanded to 14 days judicial custody and sent to jail.
	Sensex gains 239 points and closes at 14250.25.
Jul. 17	The 'star sensors' of India's first lunar satellite Chandrayaan, vital in determining the orientation fail and are set right by activating contingency "gyroscopes" on board. (The snag occurred on April 26 and was detected on May 16).
	Mumbaikar Ashok Raghunath Vichare becomes the first owner of the Tata Nano as the world's cheapest car hits the roads.
	Vinod Chauhan alias Dagri, key accused in the Gujarat hooch tragedy is arrested near Vadodara.
	Parliament approves the extension of President's rule in Jharkhand.
	Sensex jumps 494.67 points to a two-week high of 14744.92, pushed by the FII buying spree. This is the biggest single-day gain since May 27, 2009.
Jul. 18	Margaret Alva is appointed Uttarakhand Governor and Jagannath Pahadia to be Haryana Governor. Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibtey Razi is shifted to Assam. Iqbal Singh to be Puducherry Lt. Governor.
	Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Rita Bahuguna Joshi gets interim bail.
Jul. 20	Mohammad Ajmal Amir 'Kasab' the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 attacks confesses to his crime before the Special Sessions Court at the Arthur Road jail, Mumbai.
	India and the U.S. finalise three agreements — a military end user pact, the Technology Safeguards Agreement and the Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement — with the visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
	The Supreme Court declines to stay the Delhi High Court judgment declaring Section 377 of the IPC unconstitutional and decriminalising unnatural sex between consenting adults.
	Sensex gains 446 points to close above 15000 mark at 150191.
	Eight persons are killed and 40 suffer burns in an explosion at a private fireworks unit at Vadapatti near Sivakasi in Virudhunagar district.
	Rajya Sabha passes "The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2008.
Jul. 21	The Centre launches 'Customs Tariff Database Online' in New Delhi.
	Sensex loses 128.52 points to end the day at 15062.49.
Jul. 22	A longest total solar eclipse of the century lasting 6 minutes and 39 seconds sweeps across a narrow swathe of Asia. The dark shadow of the moon made its landfall in Gujarat before racing across the nation.
	A worker dies as a girder falls on him at the under-construction Ashok Park metro station in West Delhi.
	Sensex falls further by 219.37 points to close at 14786.58.
Jul. 23	The former CEO of Insofys Nandan Nilekani takes over as Chairman of the newly created Unique Identification Authority of India.
	The Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inaugurates the 'Kalaignar Insurance Scheme for Life saving Treatments for One Crore Poor Families' in Chennai.
	Sensex registers a rise of 387.92 points and regains the 15000 level to close at 15231.04.
Jul. 24	Sensex advances by 147.92 points to close at a nearly six-week high of 15378.86.
Jul. 25	The President Pratibha Patil presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2007 to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
	The BSF for the first time inducts 178 women recruits for guarding international borders at the Kharkhan camp, 150 km from Chandigarh.
	The Jan Morcha founded by the former Prime Minister V.P. Singh merges with the Congress.
Jul. 26	The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, launches the nation's first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant for sea trials at Visakhapatnam. The Advanced Technology Vessel project was cleared for implementation by Indira Gandhi in 1984.
Jul. 27	A special POTA court in Mumbai convicts a couple from Marol and a man from Juhu Galli of carrying out bomb blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on August 25, 2003 killing 52 persons and injuring 184.
Jul. 28	Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tenders "conditional" resignation stung by Opposition People's Democratic Party charge that he was involved in the 2006 Srinagar sex scam.
	The Gujarat Assembly adopts again the controversial Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill in its original from rejecting all three amendments recommended by the President Pratibha Patil.
	Two Indian NGOs, Ecosphere Spiti in Himachal Pradesh and Barefoot College in Rajasthan are chosen for the 2009 Green Energy and Green Livelihoods awards, instituted by Sierra Club, a U.S.-based environmental organisation.
Jul. 29	India will follow a policy of "trust and verify" on commitments by Pakistan, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Lok Sabha.
	India's first standard gauge Metro train goes on trial run on the Inderlok-Mundka corridor of the Delhi Metro.
	Sensex loses 158 points to close at 15173.46.
Jul. 30	The Rajasthan Governor Shailendra Kumar Singh approves the Bill which provides for five per cent reservation to Gujjars and three other communities, besides 14 per cent quota to the Economically Backward Classes.
	Sensex snaps three-day losing streak and gains 214.50 points to end the day at 15387.96.
Jul. 31	The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act court revokes the application of MCOCA in the Malegaon blast case of September 29, 2008.
	Actor Nandita Das is appointed chairperson of the Children's Films Society of India.
	The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal issues an arrest warrant against Warren Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide.
	Sensex surges by over 282 points to close at a 13-month high of 15670.31.

 

Events in August 2009 Aug. 1	Nirupama Rao takes over as Foreign Secretary.
	B.C. Tripathi takes over as the Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL (India).
	Raman Srivastava assumes office as BSF Director-General.
Aug. 3	Rida Shaikh (14) studying in Pune's St. Anne's School, becomes the first person to die of swine flu in India. She passes away at the Jehangir Hospital.
	The Rajya Sabha passes the Constitution (109th Amendment) Bill 2009 that seeks extension of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for another 10 years.
	The Supreme Court asks the Gujarat government to pay compensation to Rubabuddin Sheikh, brother of Sohrabuddin killed in a fake encounter on November 26, 2005 and the subsequent killing of his wife Kausar Bi.
	Sensex gains 254 points to close at 15924.23 aided by hectic buying in auto, realty and metal counters. The Nifty closes above the 4700-mark.
Aug. 4	Pune and Satara districts of Maharashtra notified affected areas under Epidemic Diseases Act. The government issues show cause notice to Jehangir Hospital, Pune and Ruby Hall Clinic.
	Parliament adopts The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009.
	Sensex touches an intra-day high of 16002.46 for the first time since June 2, 2008 before settling at 15830.98. Nifty drops by 30.90 points to close at 4680.50.
	A U.P. NGO Nirantar, which runs Khabar Lahariya, a fortnightly newspaper in Hindi bags the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2009.
Aug. 5	The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court reverses the acquittal in 2008 of educationist S.A. Raja of Tirunelveli for the murder of Aladi Aruna, former State Law Minister on December 31, 2004 and sentences him to undergo double life imprisonment.
	The Railways launches two ladies special EMUs — one between Delhi-Palwal (a district in Haryana) and another between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Panvel in Mumbai.
	The Manipur government orders a judicial probe into the killing of a former militant Chungkham Sanjit and a pregnant woman in police firing in Imphal on July 23.
Aug. 6	A special Prevention of Terrorism Act court in Mumbai sentences to death Haneef Sayyed, his wife Fahmeeda and Ashrat Ansari convicted in the bomb blasts case of 2003.
	Sensex loses 390 points, its greatest fall since July 8, to close at 15514.03. Nifty tumbles by 108.65 points to 4585.50.
Aug. 7	The government decentralises stockpiling of Tamiflu as 96 persons from across the country test positive for A (H1N1) influenza.
	Sensex falls by 353.79 points to close at 15160.24. The market loses 744 points in two days. Nifty drops by 104.10 points to 4481.40.
Aug. 8	Famida Panwala dies of swine flu at the Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai. Four critical cases are admitted to Pune's Sasoon General Hospital. A youth in a critical condition at the Hiranandani Hospital in Powai, Mumbai.
	S.A. Raja of Tirunelveli convicted in the Aladi Aruna murder case is stopped at the Tiruchi International Airport as he tries to fly out of the country.
	India and China decide to set up a hotline between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao as a confidence building measure at the 13th round of boundary talks in New Delhi.
	Forty three persons are feared dead in a landslip triggered by a cloudburst in Uttarakhand.
	The President, Pratibha Patil, inaugurates the Armed Forces Tribunal.
Aug. 9	Gujarat registers its first swine flu death after an NRI Pravin Patel (43) dies of the A (H1N1) virus at the government civil hospital in Ahmedabad. Sanjay Kokre (42), a teacher admitted to Pune's Sassoon Hospital dies taking the toll in Maharashtra to three. Twenty more test positive to the virus in Mumbai.
	The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, unveils a statue of poet Thiruvalluvar in Bangalore.
Aug. 10	Sanjay Balakrishnan (4) of Velachery, Chennai becomes the first to die of the A (H1N1) virus in Tamil Nadu. Sanjay Tilekar (35), a Pune-based chemist and Babasaheb Mane (32), an Ayurveda doctor die at the Sassoon hospital. Saaeda Daruwala, a resident of Thane too succumbs.
	The Centre decides to involve private hospitals in checking for the A (H1N1) flu that has claimed seven lives and affected 864 persons across the nation.
	Sensex drops by 150.47 points to end the day at 15009.77.
Aug. 11	Four more persons, one each in Pune, Vadodara, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram die of swine flu taking the toll to 11. The dead include two girls — Shruti Gawade (13) and Arya Borde (7).
	The Centre agrees to abolish the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council and work for a new set-up in the hill district.
	The Supreme Court grants Rs. 10 lakh as interim ex gratia to the family of Sohrabuddin Sheikh killed by the Gujarat police in a fake encounter in 2005.
	A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the region of Andaman Islands causes aftershocks in many cities in the southern and eastern parts of the country.
	Charges are framed against 62 persons accused of the February 28, 2002 massacre in Gulberg Society, Ahmedabad in which 38 persons, including the former Congress MP, Ehsan Jafri, were killed.
Aug. 12	Six more persons die of swine flu — one in Nasik and the rest in Pune — taking the toll to 13 in Maharashtra.
	Jammu and Kashmir Special Investigation Team bungles probe into the May 29 deaths of two women and the government decides to hand over case to the CBI.
	The Indian Space Research Organisation launches the beta version of 'Bhuvan', a new web-based 3D mapping tool at the National remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad. The geo portal can be accessed at http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
Aug. 13	The Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, B.S. Yeddyurappa and M. Karunanidhi renew call for strengthening the bonds between the people of the two states at a function to unveil the statue of Kannada poet Sarvajna in Chennai.
	Sensex gains 498.33 points to reach 15518.49. Nifty closes at 4605.
	Two more persons — one in Pune and another in Chhattisgarh — die of swine flu taking the nationwide toll to 24.
Aug. 14	Major Mohit Sharma from 1 Para (Special Forces) (posthumous) and Major D. Sreeram Kumar are honoured with Ashok Chakra, the country's highest peace time gallantry award.
	Sensex sheds 106.86 points to end the day at 15411.63.
	The IUML names Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal chief of the Kerala unit.
Aug. 15	The electorate had "favoured a politics that integrates our country and our society," says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi.
	One hundred and sixty five people test positive for swine flu, the highest on a single day. Two deaths are reported from Bangalore.
Aug. 16	A 'Heritage Train' with a 1947-made WP 7200 steam engine is flagged off from the Howrah Station, retracing the route the first train of the East India Railway took 155 years ago.
	Modia Mohammed Shoib Sheikh, a seven-month-old girl dies of swine flu at a private hospital in Byculla taking the toll in Mumbai to three and 19 in the State.
Aug. 17	Swine flu claims three more lives, two in Bangalore and one in Pune, taking to 28 the toll across the country.
	Sensex tumbles by 626.71 points to close at 14784.92 with the metals and mining stocks bearing the brunt.
Aug. 18	Students burn four AC coaches of the Shramjeevi Express at Bihta near Bihar capital Patna after clashing with security personnel who prevented them from forcibly occupying reserved seats.
	Sensex recovers 250 points and ends the day at 15035.26.
Aug. 19	The BJP expels its veteran leader and MP Jaswant Singh following the ferment created by his praise of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his book Jinnah: India, Partition Independence. The Gujarat Government bans the book.
	Three more die of swine flu taking the nationwide toll to 33. The Gujarat Government invokes the 102-year-old Epidemic Diseases Control Act, 1907.
	Eminent Sanskrit poet, author of The Ramayana: A Linguistic Study, Satya Vrat Shastri is presented the 42nd Jnanpith Award by the princess of Thailand, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at a function in New Delhi.
	Sensex loses 226 points to close at 14684.45.
Aug. 20	Delhi reports its first two deaths due to swine flu. Four more succumb in Bangalore take the toll to 11 in a week.
	Sensex gains 202.68 points and ends the day at 15012.32.
	The Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran launches new portals for the Central Cotton Industries Corporation of India and the Handicrafts and Handlooms Export Corporation of India to provide e-shopping facilities.
Aug. 21	The DMK and the Congress in Tamil Nadu bags all the five seats in the by elections held on August 18.
	Tamil Nadu records second A (H1N1) influenza death.
	The Union Cabinet gives nod for the setting up of the Indian Community Welfare Fund in 18 Indian missions to help overseas Indians in times of distress.
	Haryana Assembly dissolved by the Governor as recommended by the State Cabinet.
	Sensex adds 228.51 points to reach 15240.83 on brisk buying in realty, IT and auto counters.
Aug. 22	India and Nepal initial the revised Treaty of Trade and Agreement of Cooperation to Control Unauthorised Trade.
	The swine flu toll touches 54 and Tamil Nadu records its third death.
	Bhagwati Singh, the prime accused in the murder of national badminton champion Syed Modi on July 28, 1988 in Lucknow is sentenced to life imprisonment.
Aug. 24	Swine flu claims three more lives taking the nationwide toll to 72. Schools and colleges in Pune reopen after nearly two weeks.
	The first indigenously built T-90 S battle tank named Bheesma rolls out of the Avadi Heavy Vehicle Factory in Chennai.
	The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change gives "in principle" approval for the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency.
	The Republican Party of India (RPI-United) and the Left Democratic Front launch a new front called the Republican Left Democratic Front, in Mumbai.
	Sensex gains 387.92 points to end the day at 15628.75.
Aug. 26	Supreme Court judges agree to make their assets public.
	Sensex notches up 81.38 points to close at 15769. 85. In straight five days it has gained 880 points.
	The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act gets presidential assent.
Aug. 27	The UPA government raises reservation for women at all tiers of the panchayati raj system from 33 to at least 50 per cent. Nod to amend Article 243(D) of the Constitution.
	New Foreign Trade Policy seeks to give incentives, including extended tax holiday and duty refund to exporters.
Aug. 28	The National Stock Exchange index Nifty breaches the crucial 4700 level. Sensex gains 141.27 points to close at 15922.34. It has notched up 1112.70 points in a seven-day long winning streak.
	Swine flu toll reaches 93 nationwide with the death of four more persons, including a three-year-old child.
Aug. 29	The Indian Space Research Organisation loses radio contact with Chandrayaan-1 and the first moon mission ends in ten months instead of its slated life of two years.
	The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicates to the nation the Mangala oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, said to be the largest onshore discovery in the country over two decades.
Aug. 30	The Chandrayaan-1 mission is terminated.
	Two infants die of swine in Pune's Sassoon hospital taking the toll in the city to 29.
Aug. 31	Vice-Admiral Nirmal Kumar takes over as the new Chief of the Naval Staff. Chief of the Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor takes charge as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.
	Single phase Assembly polls in Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra on October 13.
	The nationwide swine flu toll goes up to 102 with four more persons succumbing to the disease.
	Sensex falls by 255.70 points to close at 15666.64 ending its seven-day winning streak.
	The National Stock Exchange launches Interest Rate Futures.

 

Events in September 2009 Sep. 1	Sensex declines by 115 points and closes at 15661.64 due to heavy selling in stocks from infrastructure-related sectors.
Sep. 2	The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (60) is killed after the helicopter in which he was travelling crashes into Pavurala Gutta, a steep hillock between Atmakur and Rollapenta villages in Kurnool district. He was on his way to Anuppalle village in Chittoor.
	Sensex loses 83 points to close at 15467.46 following weak global cues which triggered selling on the domestic stock markets.
Sep. 3	Finance Minister K. Rosaiah is sworn in interim Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Cabinet adopts resolution to name Kadapa district after YSR.
	The Centre declares state funeral for Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy whose body is recovered and brought to Hyderabad. The State Government declares seven-day mourning for the departed leader.
	Sensex dips by 69 points to end the day at 15398.33 following sustained off-loading by foreign institutional investors.
	An "informed meeting" of the WTO Trade Ministers in New Delhi aimed at fast-tracking the Doha Round opens.
Sep. 4	Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy laid to rest in his Idupalapaya Estate, in Kadapa district.
	The Gujarat High Court strikes down the State government ban on Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
	The WTO Ministerial Meeting in New Delhi announces resumption of the Doha Round of trade talks from September 14.
	Sensex gains 290 points and ends the day at 15689.12 arresting a four-day slide, in which it lost 524 points.
Sep. 6	All the 34 members of the Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Cabinet take oath as Ministers.
	Thirteen persons die of the A(H1N1) influenza, taking the nationwide toll to 131.
Sep. 7	The June 15, 2004 killing of Mumbai student Ishrat Jehan and three others near the Kotarpur waterworks on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city is also a case of fake encounter, says the Metropolitan magistrate S.P. Tamang in a 243-page report.
	Class X Board exams in CBSE schools stand cancelled beginning 2011. Status are to be maintained in Tamil Nadu.
	Kanchivaram wins the Best Feature Film award and Prakash Raj adjudged Best Actor as the 55th National Film Awards 2007 are announced in New Delhi. Inime Nangathan bags the Best Animated Film award. The Best Actress Award goes to Kannada actor Umashree for her role in Gulabi Talkies. Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Naalu Pennugal fetches him the Best Director Award.
	Sensex closes at more than 15-month high of 16016.32, a rise of 327.20 points. Nifty ends the day at 4782.90, its highest level since May 30, 2008.
Sep. 8	The Gujarat government questions probe report holding Ishrat Jehan's killing a "fake encounter".
	The National Mission for Female Literacy christened Saakshar Bharat Mission, is launched by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.
	Sensex closes higher at 16123.67 mirroring global market cues. Nifty ends above the 4800 level for the first time in 2009.
Sep. 9	The Gujarat High Court stays the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate S.P. Tamang's report declaring the killing of Ishrat Jehan and three others a 'fake' encounter.
Sep. 10	Five girls are killed and 35 students injured in a stampede at the Government Senior Secondary School at Khajuri Khas in New Delhi's trans-Yamuna area.
	A bilingual website on the A(H1N1) influenza www.swineflutninfo.in touted to be the first in the country is inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam.
Sep. 11	The Supreme Court orders the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh to stop forwith work on memorials.
	The Allahabad High Court acquits Moninder Singh Pandher at whose Noida house 19 persons were killed in 2006, in the Rimpa Halder murder case. Death confirmed for Surinder Koli.
	Sensex gains 47.44 points to close at 16264.30. In six straight trading days it has notched up 865.97 points.
Sep. 12	Twelve persons die of swine flu taking the nationwide toll to 167.
	The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Selja, unveils contours of Rajiv Awas Yojana aimed at making cities slum-free in the next five years.
Sep. 14	India and Hong Kong sign the Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement on criminal matters.
	India and Mongolia sign a civil nuclear agreement for uranium supply, besides pacts on peaceful uses of radioactive minerals, health, culture and statistics.
	Sensex loses 50.11 points and closes at 16214.19 snapping a six-day winning streak.
Sep. 15	Help make State autonomy a reality, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi tells Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at the Anna Birth Centenary Valedictory. A five-rupee coin issued in commemoration of Annadurai is released.
	Tirumala laddus granted Geographical Indication certification.
	Sensex rallies to a 15-month long high of the 16454 by gaining 240 points on hectic buying by funds.
Sep. 16	Sensex surges by 222 points and closes at 16677.04 after hectic buying in metal and auto stocks by overseas funds on firm global equity markets.
Sep. 17	The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange crosses the 5000-mark to touch a high of 5003.05, but finally closes at 4965.55 points.
Sep. 20	Top Maoist leader Kobad Gandhy is arrested from the Bhikaji Karma locality in New Delhi.
Sep. 22	Sensex gains 145.13 points to close at a fresh 16-month high of 16886.43. Nifty closes past the 5000-mark for the first time after May 22, 2008.
	The World Bank approves "Single Tranche loan" worth $4.3 billion for four specific projects in India aimed at strengthening select public sector banks.
Sep. 23	The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle puts in orbit India's 960-kg. Oceansat-2 and six foreign nano satellites after blasting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
	At least 20 persons are killed after a chimney at an under-construction power plant of the Bharat Aluminium Company Limited collapses in Koba, Chhattisgarh.
Sep. 24	The Chandrayaan-1 probe finds traces of water across the surface of large parts of moon.
Sep. 26	Chhatradhar Mahato, convener of the Maoist-backed Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee is arrested by police at Birkar village near Lalgarh in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district.
	Eleven persons, including four from the IISC, Bangalore are selected for the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research for 2009.
	The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi is presented the Anna award at the valedictory of the DMK founder's centenary celebration in Kancheepuram.
Sep. 28	The bodies of the two rape-murder victims in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir are exhumed.
	Rajinikant starrer Sivaji bags the Tamil Nadu Government's best film award for 2007 and fetches for him the best actor title. Jyothika gets the best actress award for her role in Mozhi.
Sep. 29	The Centre decides to withdraw the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi, an accused in the Rs. 64-crore Bofors payoffs case.
	"India's voice should continue to be heard as a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament" says the IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei at the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, in New Delhi.
Sep. 30	Veteran playback singer Manna Dey is selected for the 2007 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
	More than 32 persons on board a boat are killed after it capsizes in the Mullaiperiyar dam in Kerala's Idukki district.
	The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei is honoured with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace and Disarmament and Development 2008, in New Delhi.
	Sensex surges by over 270 points to close above the 17000-level for the first time in more than 16 months. Nifty rallies further by 77.10 points to 5083.95.

 

Events in October 2009 Oct. 1	The toll in the Thekkady boat tragedy goes up to 41.
	Sixteen persons are shot dead over a land dispute at Amausi village in Bihar's Kagaria district.
Oct. 2	The Union Cabinet renames the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act after Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary.
	Heavy rains lash Karnataka and the pilgrim centre town of Mantralayam lies submerged. The Krishna and its tributaries in Andhra Pradesh reach levels not seen in 100 years and Kurnool lies under neck-deep water. One hundred villages in Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts inundated.
Oct. 3	The toll in the torrential rain in Karnataka goes up to 132. In Andhra Pradesh the level at the Srisailam reservoir touches an unprecedented 896 ft. against the full reservoir level of 885 ft. Gulbarga, Bellary, Bijapur and Belgaum in Karnataka and Kurnool, Mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh are the worst-hit.
	The CBI files an application in a New Delhi trial court seeking to withdraw prosecution against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors payoffs case.
Oct. 4	A 500 metre-long bridge across the Tungabhadra river near Gilkesugur village, 32 km from Raichur is washed away in flash floods in Karnataka. The massive flood in the Krishna wreaks havoc in Krishna, Guntur and Nalgonda districts of Andra Pradesh. The toll in the two States goes up to 205. The discharge from the Karnataka reservoir touches a historic high of 20 lakh cusecs.
Oct. 5	The toll in the rains in Karnataka goes up to 194 and it is 52 in Andhra Pradesh. Fresh flood threat to Krishna, Guntur districts as 10.5 lakh cusecs of water is being released from the Prakasam Barrage in Vijayawada after the Krishna river faces the heaviest flood in more than 106 years.
	Sensex sheds 268.14 points to end the day at 16866.41
	Dolphin is declared the national aquatic animal at the first meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority in New Delhi.
Oct. 6	Maoists behead Jharkhand police inspector Francis Induwar and his remains are found near Risha Ghati 12 km from Ranchi. He was kidnapped on September 30 from Hembrom Bazaar in Khunti district.
	The Karnataka flood toll touches 206. In Andhra Pradesh, the level in the Prakasam Barrage hovers well over the 10 lakh cusecs mark.
	Sensex gains 92.13 points to close at 16958.54 as funds start buying bluechip stocks.
Oct. 7	Sensex declines by 152 points and closes at 16806.66.
Oct. 8	Seventeen policemen are killed in an encounter with naxalites at the Laheri police outpost in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district bordering Chhattisgarh after an ambush on an elite police team.
	The Cabinet Committee on Security gives nod for a new plan to counter naxalites.
Oct. 10	The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces Rs.1000 crore as advance Central assistance to Karnataka.
	The Supreme Court collegium puts on hold the elevation of the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran as an apex court judge following an adverse report sent by the Tamil Nadu Government.
Oct. 12	Maoists unleash a wave of attacks in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal on the first day of a two-day shutdown called by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
	Two nuclear-capable, medium range Prithvi-II missiles are successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the Orissa coast.
	Sensex rises by over 380 points and regains the 17000-mark. Nifty ends the day past the 5000 mark.
	The Rajasthan High Court stays a new law providing for 19 per cent reservation for Gujjars and the newly-created economically backward class in the State.
Oct. 13	Over 65 percent polling is recorded in the Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh.
	Maoist menace continues for the second day as a railway office is torched in Bihar's Lakhisarai district and a school is blown up in Jharkhand.
Oct. 14	India and Argentina sign an Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Cristina Fernando de Kirchner, in New Delhi.
	The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee gives nod for commercial cultivation of genetically modified Bt brinjal.
	Sensex scales a fresh 17-month high and closes at 17231.11 points.
Oct. 15	Sensex declines by 36 points and closes at 17195.20.
Oct. 16	Thirty two persons, including 27 from Andhra Pradesh are killed in a fire accident at a wholesale firecracker shop-cum-godown at Pallipattu near Tiruttani in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district.
Oct. 17	Ashtosh Asthana, the main accused in the multi-crore PF scam in Uttar Pradesh dies at the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad.
Oct. 19	Kerala begins a survey in the Periyar Tiger Reserve for a dam it proposes to build across the Mullaperiyar river.
	Jaya Arunachalam, President, Working Women's Forum among four selected for the Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2009.
Oct. 20	Maoists kill two policemen and abduct the officer-in-charge of the Sankrail thana in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district.
	Sensex loses over 100 points to close at 17223.01 on profit-booking.
	Senior bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah resigns as the Chief Information Commissioner.
	The Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee launches the National Skill Development Corporation, a unique public-private partnership, in New Delhi.
Oct. 21	India and China sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to establish a partnership for strengthening dialogue and practical cooperation in the area of climate change, in New Delhi.
	The President Pratibha Patil presents the Dadhasaheb Phalke award to singer Manna Dey at the 55th National Film Awards 2007 ceremony in New Delhi.
	At least 22 persons are killed and 26 injured as the Goa Express rams the Udaipur-Nizamuddin Mewar Express at Banjana near Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.
	Sensex loses 213.84 points and closes at 17009.17 as weak global cues aggravates a dramatic selling across counters. In two days, markets lose over 300 points.
Oct. 22	The Congress sweeps the polls in Arunachal Pradesh bagging 42 of the 60 Assembly seats and retains power for a second consecutive term. The Congress-NCP combine retains power in Maharashtra. Hung Assembly in Haryana. The Congress the single largest party.
	The CBI raids the headquarters of the Department of Telecommunications in New Delhi to probe alleged irregularities in the award last year of telecom licences.
Oct. 23	The Centre gives nod to a proposal to enhance quota for women in urban local bodies from one-third to 50 per cent.
	Maoists free police officer Atindranath Dutta in the Domohini forest near Lalgarh in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district after holding him hostage for 50 hours.
	The Union Cabinet approves dissolution of Jharkhand Assembly. The state has been under President's rule for the last nine months.
	Nod for constitution of 19th Law Commission.
	India declares itself free from bird flu or the Avian Influenza (H5N1).
	The Election Commission announces five-phase polling for the Jharkhand Assembly from November 27 to December 18.
	The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi unveils the logo for the World Classical Tamil Conference to be held in Coimbatore next June.
	Two persons are killed and 11 injured when a gigantic water pipeline along the Khopri bridge crashes down on a Kalyan-bound local train between Thane and Mulund stations in Mumbai.
	The Securities and Exchange Board of India gives nod for extended working hours for stock exchanges (9 a.m. and 5 p.m.).
Oct. 24	Ashok Chavan and Bhupinder Singh Hooda to continue as Maharashtra and Haryana Chief Ministers.
	K. Radhakrishnan is appointed the ISRO Chairman.
	President Pratibha Patil approves the dissolution of the Jharkhand Assembly with effect from November 1.
Oct. 25	Nine persons who underwent surgery at a free eye check-up camp in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh lose their sight due to infection.
	Dorjee Khandu is sworn in Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister for a second consecutive term. He has scripted political history by getting elected unopposed from the Mukto constituency in Tawang district for the third time.
	Bhupinder Singh Hooda is sworn in Haryana Chief Minister for a second consecutive term.
Oct. 26	The nationwide swine flu toll touches 444.
	Sensex declines by 70 points and closes at 16740.50.
	The Nationalist Congress Party elects Chhagan Bhujbal as the leader of its legislature party, thus making him the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Oct. 27	The Foreign Ministers of Russia, India and China adopt common stand on climate change, North Korea and reforms of multinational financial institutions, after a meeting in Bangalore.
	The New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express from Bhubaneswar is detained for nearly five hours at the Banstala station near Jhargram town in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district by supporters of Maoists.
	Sensex loses 387.10 points and closes at 16353.40 on frenzied selling following the unveiling of RBI's credit policy. Nifty falls by 124.20 points to close at 4846.70.
Oct. 28	The Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda wins the vote of confidence on the floor of the House. Harmohinder Singh Chatha is elected Speaker.
	The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flags off the first train on the Anantnag-Qazigund section at Wanpoh in the Kashmir Valley.
	Sensex loses nearly 70 points and closes at 16283.49, its more than six-week low.
Oct. 29	At least four persons are killed and 150 injured in a massive fire at the Indian Oil Corporation's fuel depot in the Sitapura industrial area on the outskirts of the Rajasthan capital Jaipur.
	"I believe a new chapter is opening in the peace process and we are turning the corner", says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after his two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir.
	Sensex tumbles by over 230 points to close at 16052.72. It has lost 758.09 points in the past four days.
Oct. 30	Fire in five of the 13 oil tanks in the IOC depot continues to rage even as a five-member panel is set up to probe the mishap.
	Sensex loses 156.44 points to end the day at 15896.28. It has lost 914 points during week.
Oct. 31	K. Radhakrishnan takes over as ISRO Chairman from G. Madhavan Nair.
	P.S: Veeraraghavan takes over as Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

 

Events in November 2009 Nov. 2	The toll in the IOC depot fire goes up to 12. Panel begins probe, even as the fire rages in two tanks. So far, 1 crore litres of petroleum products have burnt out.
Nov. 3	Sensex plummets by 491.34 points to end the day at 15004.94 points. In six straight sessions, the index has crashed by 1405.87 points.
Nov. 4	Sensex notches up over 500 points, the biggest gain in more than five months, to end at 15912.13 on all-around buying support.
Nov. 5	Sensex gains 150 points and regains the 16000-level.
	Early warning system to guard against corporate frauds put in place by the Corporate Affairs Ministry.
Nov. 6	The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presses for a more open visa regime at the 10th India-EU summit in New Delhi. Pact on promoting joint research in nuclear fusion signed.
	Vikas Sinha, an aide to the former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda is arrested in the Rs. 2000-crore illegal assets case.
Nov. 7	Ashok Chavan is sworn in Maharashtra Chief Minister heading a 38-member Council of Ministers. Chhagan Bhujbal takes oath as Deputy Chief Minister.
	Sixty per cent polling is recorded in the byelections to one Lok Sabha and 31 Assembly seats in seven States.
	Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee sacks the chiefs of all the 20 Railway Recruitment Boards across the country.
	Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda completes cabinet formation; accommodates all the seven independent MLAs. Nov. 8 The fortnight-long political crisis in Karnataka blows over as the rival camps agree to bury the hatchet.
Nov. 8	Thirteen persons, including five of a family are killed as heavy rains lash Nilgiris district triggering massive landslips.
Nov. 9	Pandemonium in the Maharashtra Assembly as Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena members attack SP MLA Abu Azmi for taking oath in Hindi. Four MNS legislators suspended for four years.
	Judges are gheraoed and lawyers raise slogans against Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran.
	Shoba Karandlaje the lone woman Minister in the 33-member B.S. Yeddyurappa Cabinet in Karnataka resigns.
	Sensex gains 340 points to close at 16498.72. Bank stocks hog the limelight.
	Four Haryana Janhit Congress MLAs join the Congress.
Nov. 10	The BSP, Trinamool Congress and the Congress emerge major winners in the byelections.
	The rain toll in the Nilgiris district touches 43 and it is 72 overall in Tamil Nadu. In a massive landslip near Ketti a family of seven is washed away along with their house. The area receives 82 cm rain in 24 hours.
	A five-judge Supreme Court Constitution Bench to hear Mullaperiyar dam case.
	One more HJC MLA joins the Congress leaving chief Kuldeep Bishnoi lone party legislator.
Nov. 11	Cyclone Phyan kills four persons and causes massive damage to property in the coastal districts of Maharashtra.
	The nationwide swine flu toll touches 508.
	Sensex gains 409.04 points and closes at nearly three-week high of 16849.60.
	The National Investigation Agency registers a case against U.S. national David Coleman Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana for allegedly planning attacks in India.
Nov. 12	India and Australia decide to upgrade ties to the level of "strategic partnership." Canberra will bring to bear the full force of law to ensure Indian students' safety, says Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, at the Indian Council of World Affairs, in New Delhi. Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation adopted.
	The Union Cabinet gives nod for the policy guidelines for the Headend In The Sky a digital delivery platform to distribute multiple channels through satellite straight to cable operators.
	N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu is chosen for the 2009 K.R. Narayanan Award.
	Sensex loses 154 points and ends day at 16696.03.
	Tamil Nadu Government allots Rs. 100 crore for the welfare of the Sri Lankan refugees in the State.
Nov. 13	The Centre unveils a roadmap for the 'big bang' disinvestment programme in major Central public sector undertakings.
Nov. 14	Seven persons are killed and two dozen injured after the Jodhpur-Delhi Mandor Superfast Express derails near the Bansko Station in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Nov. 16	The nationwide swine flu toll goes up to 526.
	Sensex gains 184 points to end the day at 17032.51, a more than three-week high.
Nov. 17	India and Canada sign pacts on advancing bilateral trade and sourcing of raw materials to meet energy needs after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Stephen Harper, in New Delhi.
	The Andhra Pradesh government seeks CBI probe into charges of irregularities in iron ore mining in Anantapur district.
Nov. 19	Protest against the sugarcane Control (Amendment) Order 2009 ordinance that has changed the pricing policy fixing a uniform Fair and Remunerative Price stalls business in Parliament on the opening day of the winter session. Sugarcane farmers choke Delhi thoroughfares
	Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is chosen for the 2009 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for her outstanding contribution to promotion of democracy.
	Sensex loses 213.13 points to settle at 16785.65. Nifty tumbles below the 5000-level to close at 4989
	The Union Cabinet gives nod for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.
Nov. 20	Sub-Lieutenants Ambica Hooda and Seema Rani Sharma create history by becoming the first two women combatants of the Navy after being awarded the 'wings' at a passing-out parade in Kochi.
	Shiv Sainiks attack offices of IBN Lokmat and IBN7 news Channels in Mumbai and Pune for alleged misquoting of supremo Bal Thackeray's article on Sachin Tendulkar.
	Sensex gains 236.20 points to settle at 17021.85
Nov. 21	The former Orissa Chief Minister J.B. Patnaik and educationist D.Y. Patil of Maharashtra are appointed Governors of Assam and Tripura.
	V. S. Prabhakar Gupta, a key figure in the Satyam Computers fraud and currently the global head of the internal audit team of the company is arrested by the CBI in Hyderabad.
Nov. 22	Seven persons are killed and 55 injured in two bicycle-bomb blasts in Nalbari, headquarters town of lower Assam's Nalbari district.
Nov. 23	The leak of the Manmohan Singh Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition before its being tabled in Parliament rocks both the Houses.
	India test-fires its nuclear-capable Agni II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile at night for the first time from the Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast. However, the trial ends in failure.
	The 40th International Film Festival of India opens in the Goa capital Panaji with the screening of the Chinese period film Wheat.
	The Centre launches the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.
	Sensex gains 158.33 points to settle at 17180.18.
Nov. 24	The government tables the Action Taken Report along with the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition in Parliament. Enactment of a Communal Violence Bill to prevent and control riots and setting up of special courts to deal with them under consideration.
	The 1000-page Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992 indicts 68 persons, including BJP leaders L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Atal Behari Vajpayee. Says the act a planned and systematic one.
	B. Ramalinga Raju and other accused in the Rs. 11,875 crore Satyam computers fraud case created fake customers and generated invoices to inflate the revenues, CBI informs court.
	Mumbai gets its brand new anti-terror outfit, Force One, with the Passing Out Parade of the first batch of 216 commandos.
Nov. 25	President Pratibha Patil becomes the first woman head of State to fly aboard a SU-30 MKI fighter plane, after take off from the IAF's Lohegaon base in Pune.
	Fortyfive to fifty per cent polling is recorded in the first phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections.
Nov. 26	Both Houses of Parliament salutes the "indomitable" spirit of Mumbai. The nation remembers the terror strikes on the metropolis on November 26, 2008.
	Srikumar Banerjee, Director, BARC, is appointed Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission. He will also be Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.
	India and Finland sign three agreements to boost cooperation in science and technology at the India-Finland Technology Forum meeting in New Delhi. Joint Business Council on the anvil.
	Sensex tanks over 340 points to close below the 17000-level at 16854.93 on all round selling triggered by a meltdown in Chinese stocks. Nifty sheds 102.60 points and settles at 5005.55
Nov. 27	The Nagaland Assembly adopts a resolution recognising "the selfless sacrifices" of the undergrounds for the common cause of the Naga people.
	Sensex loses 222.92 points to close at 16632.01 following the shockwaves generated by Dubai's real estate imbroglio.
Nov. 28	Congress President Sonia Gandhi nominates Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah as the Congress Legislature Party leader.
	Fiftyfive workers of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in Uttara Kannada in Karnataka receive treatment after being exposed to excessive radiation dosage after drinking water mixed with tritium.
Nov. 29	The Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao is arrested on the outskirts of Karimnagar ahead of his proposed indefinite hunger strike in Siddipet demanding a separate Telangana State. Police and students fight pitched battles on the Osmania University campus.
Nov. 30	The Central Government's decision to send a team to West Bengal rocks both Houses of Parliament.
	The former Jharkhand Chief Minister, Madhu Koda is arrested in a disproportionate assets case by the police from his residence in Chaibasa in Ranchi.
	The Supreme Court stays till December 7 proceedings in the Gujarat High Court in the case of Ishrat Jahan killed in an alleged fake encounter on June 15, 2004.
	The Special sessions court conducting the 26/11 trial fires the advocate for Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, Abbas Kazmi.
	Srikumar Banerjee takes over as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.
	Sensex gains 294 points to drive past the 17000-mark after shrugging off the Dubai worries. Settles at 16926.22 later.

 

Events in December 2009 Dec. 1	Najam Sethi, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Friday Times and Daily Times, Pakistan is presented the "2009 Golden Pen of Freedom", of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), during the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors' Forum inaugural in Hyderabad.
	The Rajya Sabha gives nod for the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Bill, 2009. The Legal Metrology Bill, 2008 is passed by voice vote.
	Sensex gains 272.05 points to close at 17198.27 driven by strong global cues that rode out of the Dubai storm.
	The Right to Information Act has given a new meaning to citizen engagement with governance, says the Vice-President Hamid Ansari delivering the inaugural address at the first "National RTI Awards - 2009" in New Delhi.
Dec. 2	Sensex hits a 45-day high of 17,329 but settles at 17169.91.
	The second phase of polling in 14 Assembly seats in Jharkhand registers a 54.3 percent turnout.
	Two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, believed to be involved in the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on December 28, 2005 are handed over to the BSF by the Bangladesh Rifles after being held on the Meghalaya border.
Dec. 3	India announces 20-25 per cent carbon emission intensity cuts on the 2005 levels by 2020The Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhara Rao whose indefinite fast seeking statehood for Telangana enters the fifth day is shifted to Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.
	The Cabinet clears the National Green Tribunal Bill.
	The Taiwanese film I Can't Live Without You (No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti) directed by Leon Dai bags the prestigious Golden Peacock at the 40th IFFI. French-South Korean filmmaker Ounie Lecombe's A Brand New Life (Yeo Haeng Ja) is awarded the Silver Peacock.
	Sensex touches a new six-week high of 17361.27 before ending the day marginally lower at 17185.68.
	Celebrated playback singer Lata Mangeshkar is presented France's highest civilian award Officer of the Legion of Honour, in Mumbai.
Dec. 4	Senior All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haq Qureshi, who forty five years ago helped lay the foundation of the Jihadist movement in Jammu and Kashmir, is critically injured in an assassination attempt in Srinagar.
	The Law Ministry refuses the Supreme Court's recommendation to elevate Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran as a judge of the apex court.
	The Supreme Court stays Madras High Court orders against four senior police officers holding them responsible for police excesses during a clash involving lawyers on the High Court premises on February 19.
	Sensex falls by 84.14 points to close at 17101.54.
Dec. 5	United Liberation Front of Asom chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and duputy commander-in-chief Raju Barua are produced in court in Guwahati, a day after their arrest on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.
	Violence in some parts of the Telangana region and in Hyderabad following reports on the health condition of the fasting TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao.
Dec. 7	The BJP comes under severe criticism for its role in the Babri Masjid demolition as the two-day debate on the Liberhan Commission report gets under way in the Lok Sabha.
	The Rajya Sabha passes the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2009 to bifurcate the Central University in Jammu and Kashmir.
	Fifty six newspapers in 45 countries through a common editorial call for united and decisive action to check irreparable damage that climate change will thrust on earth.
Dec. 8	The condition of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhara Rao whose fasting entered the 10th day worsens.
	Fifty five percent polling is recorded in the third phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections
	Snapping a two-day losing streak, Sensex surges by 244.54 points to end at 17227.68.
	Scientist Yash Pal and Project Director of Chandrayaan-1, M. Annadurai are chosen for the H.K. Firodia awards for 2009.
Dec. 9	The Centre announces the process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated and a resolution moved in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. The TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao calls off his 11-day hunger strike.
	The Madurai District and Sessions Court acquits all the 17 accused in the attack on the Dinakaran office on May 9, 2007.
Dec. 10	Hundred MLAs from the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, cutting across political lines, resign en masse, outraged by the Centre's decision on Telangana.
	The CBI files chargesheet against 13 persons for misleading the probe into the death of two women in Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir
	The Lok Sabha passes the Essential Commodities (Amendment and Validation) Bill 2009 (Sugarcane Pricing Bill).
Dec. 11	Thirty more MLAs quit deepening the political crisis in Andhra Pradesh even as the Prime Minister announces "nothing will be done in haste" to a group of MPs from the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. Bandh in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema total.
	The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha workers begin a fast unto death in Darjeeling seeking the carving out of Gorkhaland from West Bengal.
	The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court commutes the death sentence to life for Pawan Kumar alias Monu Mittal in the November 19, 2005 murder of IOC official Manjunath Shanmugham in Gola, Lakshimpur-Kheri district. Life term for five others.
	The 14th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala gets off to a colourful start in Thiruvananthapuram
Dec. 12	Violence rocks coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema regions. Bandh hits life in Vijayawada, Vizakhapatnam. Students of the Sri Krishnadevaraya University go on a rampage in Anantapur town. Twenty Ministers plan to quit.
	Jharkhand registers a 58 per cent turnout in the fourth phase of the Assembly polls.
	In the first recorded legal cadaveric transplant, an Iraqi national receives the liver of a brain-dead person in Chennai.
Dec. 13	The rift in the 34-member Andhra Pradesh Cabinet widens as Ministers from Andhra and Rayalaseema remain firm on quitting ministry. Stray violence in Anantapur on day three of the bandh.
	Dhanush, the ship-based anti-surface missile is successfully test-fired off the Orissa coast.
	The West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi completes tenure. Bihar Governor Devanand Konwar is given additional charge of the State.
	BSNL becomes the first company in the country to launch wireless broadband services.
Dec. 14	The Andhra Pradesh Assembly and Legislative Council are adjourned sine die nine days ahead of schedule. The Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal is arrested leading to protests in the non-Telangana regions. Ministers put resignation move on hold.
	The CBI rules out rape, murder of two women in Shopian on May 29 and says it is a case of drowning in Rambiara, Nallah near Zawoora Bridge.
	The restructuring of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board gets under way with the launch of the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (Tantransco)
	Seventy-six Rajya Sabha MPs petition the Chairman Hamid Ansari seeking the removal of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran on corruption charges.
	Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh resigns as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
Dec. 15	The CBI charges the founder of the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ramalinga Raju and nine others with creating fictitious customers to siphon off Rs. 430 crore.
	Violent protests against the CBI report on the Shopian incident during general strike across the Kashmir Valley. Shops gutted in Srinagar's Bohri Kadal area.
	Sensex loses 220 points to close at 16877.16. Banking, auto and realty counters are battered.
	Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises Sunil Mittal is conferred the 10th Lal Bahadur Shastri Award by the President Pratibha Patil, in New Delhi.
Dec. 16	The Rajya Sabha passes the Sugarcane Pricing Bill.
	Sensex snaps three-day losing streak and closes at 16912.77.
	Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug, in a vegetative state for the past 36 years in a Mumbai hospital after an assault, through a friend, moves the Supreme Court for mercy killing.
Dec. 17	The Praja Rajyam President K. Chiranjeevi resigns as MLA; reverses party stand on Telangana and announces support for a unified Andhra Pradesh. With this, the number of legislators who have quit moves up to 144.
	The Supreme Court collegium decides to drop move to elevate Karnataka Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran. Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari accepts motion against the CJ.
	Rajya Sabha nod for renaming the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Nod for Competition (Amendment) Bill 2009 and the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act will cease to exist, two years ahead of its scheduled closure.
	Soofiya, wife of the People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasir Maudhany is arrested by police in Kochi, in connection with a September 2005 bus burning case.
Dec. 18	L. K. Advani steps down as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and becomes Chairman of the BJP's Parliamentary Party. Sushma Swaraj takes his place. Arun Jaitley renominated Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
	The Ranganath Misra Commission recommends 10 per cent quota for Muslims in government jobs.
	The Madras High Court upholds the PDP leader Abdul Nasir Maudhany's acquittal in the February 14, 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts case.
	The Rajya Sabha post facto approves SBI-State Bank of Saurashtra merger.
	Sensex plunges by 174 points to close at 16719.83 and Nifty ends the day at 4987.70.
Dec. 19	Nitin Gadkari is appointed the BJP president. Rajnath Singh steps down after his three-year tenure.
	The Gujarat Assembly passes the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment), 2009 making voting compulsory in elections to all the local bodies in the State. Nod for Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Bill, 2009 providing for death penalty for the handlers of spurious liquor.
Dec. 21	The R.D. Pradhan Committee probing the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai indicts former Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor for his handling of the "war-like" assault.
	King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck arrives on his first state visit after his coronation last year, in New Delhi.
	A. R. Rahman is presented the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year award by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. Lifetime Achievement Award goes to sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Dec. 22	India and Bhutan sign four MoUs after a summit with the visiting monarch. New Delhi agrees to fund nearly a quarter of Thimphu's Tenth Plan outlay of Rs. 14, 800 crore.
	India to draw a road map for low- carbon growth.
Dec. 23	Need for wide-ranging consultations on Telangana, says Home Minister, P. Chidambaram. TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao quits as MP, calls for bandh.
	Fractured verdict throws up a hung Assembly in Jharkhand.
	Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards, with eight of their books chosen for honours in 24 categories of literature.
	Among them is Tamil Nadu's Puviarasu, for whom this is the second Akademi Award.
	Sensex surges by 539 points to close at a more than two-months high of 17231.11.
Dec. 24	Sixty MLAs from the Telangana resign against move to put statehood demand on hold. Parties form a Joint Action Committee. Bandh, widespread protests hit life in the region. TDP team attacked on Osmania University campus.
	Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 to be amended to be made more disabled-friendly.
	Sensex rallies by 130 points to close at a 19-month high of 17361. Nifty ends at 5178.40
Dec. 26	The Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D. Tiwari resigns in the wake of TV expose.
	The BJP strikes a deal with the JMM on government formation in Jharkhand.
Dec. 28	The Chhattisgarh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan takes charge of Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 29	India, Japan finalise plan to further security cooperation.
Dec. 30	Bandh total in Hyderabad and nine other Telangana districts.
	Shibu Soren sworn in Jharkhand Chief Minister.
	Lokmanya Tilak award for The Hindu Editor-in-Chief N. Ram.
Dec. 31	Twelve Telangana Ministers withdraw resignations.
	The CBI gets the Delhi Lt. Governor's nod to prosecute former MP Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
	Criminal Procedure Code amendments take effect.
	The toll in the bridge collapse (on Dec. 24.) in Rajasthan's Kota district goes up to 37.
	Sensex ends year at 17464.81 up 7817.50 points from the year ago level.