The Hindu-dairy Events of 2013 (1)

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EVENTS INTERNATIONAL JAN. TODEC. 20 - 2013.

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(L-R): Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis stands with Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence, Best

Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway and Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz duringthe 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California.

Oscar Pistorius

JANUARY


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Jan. 1: Sixty persons are crushed to death in a stampede outside a stadium in Ivory Coasts maincity of Abidjan after a New Years Eve fireworks display.

The U.S. Senate approves last minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff.

Jan. 2: U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of2012, fiscal cliff bill.

Jan. 3: Mullah Nazir, a senior Taliban leader is killed in a U.S. drone attack near Wana,the main town of South Naziristan, Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl shot by a Taliban gunman for advocating girlseducation is selected for Irelands Tippe rary International Peace Prize for 2012.

Amerish B. Ami Bera, an Indian -American and Tulsi Gabbard, the first ever Hinduelected to the U.S. House of Representatives create history as they are sworn in as members

of the 113{+t}{+h}Congress.

Jan. 6: Madanjeet Singh (88), former Indian diplomat, founder of South Asia Foundationand a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 2000, dies in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in France,following a stroke.

Jan. 7: The U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Charles Chuck Hagel as Defenc eSecretary and John Brennan to head the CIA.

Jan. 10: More than 100 persons are killed in a series of blasts in Quetta, Pakistan.

Jan. 11: The Sri Lankan Parliament impeaches Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.

Malian authorities declare emergency throughout the country. Fresh troops deployed andhelicopter gunships attack rebel-held Konna.

Aaron Swartz (26), Internet activist and computer prodigy who helped create an earlyversion of the Web feed system Rich Site Summary is found dead at his apartment in theNew York City borough of Brooklyn.

Jan. 13: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismisses Chief Justice ShiraniBandaranayake.

The Egyptian Court of Cassation orders the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarakaccepting his right to appeal against life sentence.

Jan. 15: Sri Lankas former Attorney -General Mohan Peiris is appointed the Chief Justicefollowing Parliament nod.

Eighty people are killed as twin blasts rock the Aleppo University, Syria.


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Jan. 17: Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Coleman Headley is jailed for 14 years followed by three years of supervised release by a U.S. District Court inChicago for providing material support to Laskhar-e-Taiba.

Jan. 19: Eleven militants and a few hostages are killed as Algerian Special Forces storm a

natural gas facility near the Libyan border ending a four-day standoff.

Jan. 20: U.S. President Barack Obama takes the official oath for his second term at theWhite House. Vice-President Joe Bidden is sworn in for a second term by Supreme CourtJustice Sonia Sotomayor.

Jan. 21: Political absolutism must not thwart change and renewal, says Barack Obamaafter being sworn in publicly as the 44{+t}{+h}U.S. President in Washington.

The Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal pronounces its historic first verdict awarding deathsentence to a former Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Jan. 23: Yair Lapids centrist Yash Atid Party secures 19 seats in the Israeli polls in itsmaiden outing.

Jan. 24: Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley is sentenced to 35 years in jailfollowed by five years of supervised release by a U.S. Court for masterminding the 2008Mumbai terror attacks.

Jan. 25: Eleven persons are killed, eight in Suez, in deadly clashes between the police andprotestors opposed to President Mohamed Morsy.

Jan. 26: An Egyptian court sentences to death 21 persons on charges related to theFebruary 1, 2012 football violence in Port Said that left 74 dead. The verdict triggers anattempted jailbreak and a riot that leaves 28 dead.

Former left- leaning Prime Minister Milos Zeman wins the Czech Republics first directlyelected presidential vote.

Jan. 27: At least 245 people are killed and at least 200 injured as a fire sweeps through acrowded nightclub in Santa Maria, southern Brazil.

French and Malian troops regain control of the fabled Saharan trading town of Timbuktu

after a three-week military campaign.

Jan. 28: Violence continues in Egypt for the fifth day and toll touches 50. Oppositioncoalition rejects President Morsys call for dialogue.

India and Bangladesh sign two landmark pacts to extradite criminals and liberalise the visaregime, in Dhaka.


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Jan. 29: John Kerrys nomination as U.S. Secretary of State is confirmed by the Senate.

Israel boycotts the U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva becoming the firstcountry to do so.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 1: U.S. President Barack Obama honours NRI scientist Rangaswamy Srinivasan withthe 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation for his groundbreaking work withlaser, at the White House in Washington.

Feb. 5: Senior Jamaat-e- Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah nicknamed butcher ofMirpur is sentenced to lifer for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war by a warcrimes tribunal in Bangladesh. Violence during nation-wide strike enforced by the Jamaat.

Feb. 7: Syrian President Bashar al- Asads forces continue the offensive on rebel belts,

leaving 64 people dead.

Feb. 8: A major snow-storm hits the north-eastern U.S. Schools ordered closed in Boston.Over 900 flights cancelled.

Feb. 9: A blizzard dumps up to 40 inches of snow with hurricane-force winds across a nine-state region in the north-eastern U.S. leaving about 600,000 without power and disruptingthousands of flights.

Feb. 10: Zhuang Zedong (72), one of Chinas most -famed table tennis champions, whoplayed a key role in the Ping Pong diplomacy that paved the way for normalising ties with

the U.S., dies in Beijing.

Frances Communist Party drops the hammer and sickle symbo l replacing it with a five-pointed star representing the European Left.

Feb. 11: Pop Benedict XVII announces at a historic speech at the Vatican, that he hasdecided to resign, the first Pope to do so in 600 years.

Giuseppe Orsi, the head of Italian Defence Firm Finmeccanica is held in Milan in relationto a probe into international corruption.

Feb. 13: American Airlines and U.S. Airways agree to merge in a $11 billion deal that willcreate the worlds biggest airline.

Feb. 14: Israel admits that it had jailed in 2010 Prisoner X, an Australian National andMossad agent Ben Zygier, for leaking work-related details, who later committed suicide ina maximum security cell.


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South African Olympian Blade Runner Oscar Pistorious, is charged with shooting deadhis girl friend Reeva Steenkamp at his house in Pretoria.

Nepals major parties agree to form an election government led by the Chief Justice KhilRaj Regmi to be known as an election council to hold new Constituent Assembly

elections.

Feb. 15: Ahmed Rajib Haidar, blogger and key participant of the massive Shahbaghmovement in Bangladesh launched on February 5, seeking death for war criminals is shotdead near his house in Dhaka.

Feb. 16: At least 100 people are killed, 180 others injured in a massive blast near a schooltargeting the Hazara Shia community of Quetta, Pakistan.

Feb. 17: Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer bags the Golden Bear for his dramatic filmChilds Pose as the 63{+r}{+d}Berlin International Film Festival wraps up. Nazif Mujic

bags the Silver Bear Best Actor Prize ( An Episode in the L if e of an I ron Picker ). ChilesPaulina Garcia is adjudged Best Actress for Gloria .

Feb. 18: Britains Channel 4 TV releases photographs of slain LTTE leader Prabakaransson Balachandran Prabakaran before and after his execution as part of a forthcomingfeature documentary No War Zone The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka.

Feb. 19: Saudi Arabias King Abdullah swears in the countrys first women members ofthe Shura Council, an appointed body that advises on new laws.

Feb. 21: At least 90 people are killed and more than 250 wounded after a powerful car

bomb explosion near the ruling Baath Party headquarters in the Syrian capital Damascus.

Feb. 24: Fauja Singh (101), the worlds oldest marathoner, calls it a day after taking part ina 10-km race held as part of the annual Hong Kong Marathon.

Italians begin voting in a watershed parliamentary election spread over two days.

Ben Afflecks Argo picks up the Best Picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards inHollywo od. Britains Daniel Day -Lewis bags the Best Actor Award ( Lincoln ). JenniferLawrence gets Best Actress title for role in Sil ver L in in gs Playbook .

Cuban President Raul Castro is elected to a second and final five-year-term by the NationalAssembly. Miguel Diaz-Canel named first Vice-President.

Feb. 25: Park Geun hye is sworn in as South Koreas first woman President.

Feb. 26: Italian polls usher in impasse and provides shock debut for Democratic Partyleader Pier Luigi Bersani who manages a razor-thin victory in the Lower House ofParliament.


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Feb. 27: Pope Benedict XVI addresses a massive crowd at his final general audience in St.Peters Square, Vatican City.

MARCH

March 2 : The U.S. President Barack Obama signs an order to begin a huge $85 billionprogramme of government cuts.

March 3 : At least 48 persons are killed and many injured in two blasts targeting the Shia-dominated Abbas Town area of Karachi, Pakistan.

The Opposition Jamaat-e-Islami and the BNP launch a three-day national strike to protestagainst the now 27-day-old unprecedented Shahbag upsurge by those demanding death forthe war criminals of 1971.

March 4 : Polling begins in Kenyan presidential election.

The Czech Senate votes to impeach outgoing eurosceptic President Vaclav Klaus fortreason.

March 6 : Venezuelas charismatic President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias (58) dies at ahospital in Caracas after a two-year battle with cancer ending 14 years of tumultuous rule.Seven days mourning announced.

March 8 : North Korea severs hotline with South Korea installed in 1971, after fresh U.N.sanctions and threatens to abrogate peace pacts.

Venezuela gives a lavish farewell to Hugo Chavez. To be embalmed for eternity. NicolasMaduro sworn in acting President.

March 9 : Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Ke nyas first Prime Minister and President JomoKenyatta is announced winner of the presidential polls.

March 10 : Chinas new leadership unveils the most significant government restructuringplan in more than a decade.

Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected Myanmar opposition leader at the first National League forDemocracy party conference in Yangon.

March 11 : Italy refuses to return two of its marines being tried in India for killing twofishermen off the Kerala coast.

March 13 : Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76) of Argentina is elected the 266{+t}{+h}Pope of theRoman Catholic Church. He is to be known as Pope Francis I. He is the first Jesuit tobecome Pope.


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March 14 : Xi Jinping is formally appointed Chinese President during the fourth plenarymeeting of the National Peoples Congress in Beijing.

Nepals Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi is sworn in interim Prime Minister.

Ieng Sary (87) who co- founded Cambodias brutal Khmer Rouge movement and on trialfor the deaths of 1.7 million people passes away.

March 15 : Li Keqiang is appointed Chinese Premier, bringing to an end the decade-longterm of Wen Jiabao.

Israels Prime Minister signs a last minute deal to form a government that reflects acentrist power shift.

March 16 : History is made in Pakistan with its Lower House the National Assembly and Pakistan Peoples Party -led coalition government both completing a full five-year term

a first in the 66 years of the nations existence.

March 19 : People should let tender ness open up a horizon of hope, says Pope Francis Iduring his installation mass at the Vatican.

Malala Yousafzai begins schooling at the Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham,England after an extensive surgery following a bid on her by the Taliban in Pakistan lastOctober.

U.R. Rao, who led Indias space programme between 1984 and 1994 becomes the firstIndian to be inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame, Washington.

March 20 : The U.S. military and the Afghan government reach a deal on a gradual pulloutof American Special Forces from Wardak province.

Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman (84) dies in a Singapore hospital.

Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne is chosen for the 2013 Abel Prize for his seminalcontributions to algebraic geometry.

India along with 25 other nations votes in favour of the U.S.-sponsored resolution on theSri Lankan issue at the UNHRC in Geneva.

. March 23 : Controversial Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky is found dead at his home inSurrey, near London.

March 24 : Central African Republic President Francois Bozize flees the capital Banguiseized by the rebel alliance Seleka.


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The former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf arrives in Karachi after four years ofself-imposed exile in Dubai and London.

March 25 : Cyprus clinches a last-ditch euro 10 billion deal and will wind down state-owned Popular Bank of Cyprus also known as Laiki.

March 26 : Syrian rebels take the nations seat for the first time at an Arab League summitin Qatar.

March 27 : The fifth BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa decides to set up aninfrastructure-oriented development bank and to create a $100 billion fund to guardagainst currency fluctuation. Virtual secretariat planned.

North Korea severs its military hotline with South Korea.

March 29 : Italian centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani announces his failure to form a

government.

Sixteen of the worlds biggest banks win a major victory after a judge in Manhattandismisses federal anti-trust claims in London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor) suits.

Mar ch 30 : Kenyas Supreme Court upholds the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the nextPresident.

APRIL

April 1: Privately- owned daily newspapers hit Myanmars streets for the first time in

decades.

A Maldivian court suspends the trial of former President Mohamed Nasheed.

April 2 : The U.N. makes history with the General Assembly passing an unprecedentedarms trade treaty to better regulate the international trade in weapons.

April 3 : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (85), the Booker Prize and Oscar-winning novelist andscreen writer dies in New York.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak dissolves Parliament.

April 8 : Margaret Thatcher (87), Britains first woman Prime Minister who led theConservative Party for more than a decade, dies following a stroke at Ritz Hotel inLondon.

April 9 : Five Indian soldiers are killed and four injured in an ambush of their U.N.peacekeeping mission while escorting a 32-member convoy near the settlement ofGumuruk in Jonglei State in South Sudan. Seven civilians too killed.


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Uhuru Kenyatta is sworn in Kenyas fourth President at the national football stadium.William Ruto takes oath as Vice-President.

April 11 : Foreign Minsters of the G8 countries adopt a historic accord on sexual offencesin conflict zones at a meeting in London.

April 12: Bitcoin, the Internet era currency crashes.

April 13: All 108 passengers and crew survive after a new Lion Air jet crashes into sea andsnaps into two while trying to land on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

April 14: Hugo Chavezs hand -pi cked successor, Nicolas Maduro wins Venezuelaspresidential election by a stunningly narrow margin.

April 15: At least three persons, including a child are killed and more than 200 injured ascoordinated twin blasts target the finishing line of the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon, a 116-

year-old event, on Boylston Street near Copley Square.

April 16: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocks Iran. At least 35 persons are killed and 150injured in Pakistan, specifically Balochistan, which bears the brunt.

April 17: Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang achieves breakthrough in solving thelongstanding problem of twin prime conjecture.

April 19: Tamerlan Tsarnaev of Chechnya one of two suspects in the Boston Marathonbombing is killed in a gun fight with the police in Cambridge. His injured younger brotherDzhokhar Tsarnaev is found hiding in a Watertown home.

Nicolas Maduro is sworn in Venezuela President.

April 20: At least with 192 people are killed and 11,300 injured as a powerful earthquakehits Bosheng Township in Yaan City in south west Chinas Sichuan province.

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is sworn in for a second successive term.

Former Pakistan military dictator Pervez Musharraf is placed under house arrest.

April 22 : The Serbian Government approves a landmark pact to normalise ties with

breakaway Kosovo.

April 23 : Bhutan voters cast ballots to choose members of the Upper House NationalCouncil.

April 24: At least 1,100 persons are killed and 800 injured in Savar, on the outskirts ofDhaka, Bangladesh after Rana Plaza an eight-storied building housing readymade garmentfactories and shops collapses.


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April 25: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is arrested in the 2007 BenazirBhutto assassination case.

April 26: Indian death-row prisoner Sarabjit Singh sustains serious head injuries andbecomes comatose after being attacked by inmates in Lahores Kot Lakhpat Jail.

Serbian lawmakers support agreement normalising ties with Kosovo.

April 28: A coalition cabinet takes oath in Italy. Enrico Letta is sworn in Prime Minister.

April 30: Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury becomes the first woman Speaker of BangladeshParliament.

The Netherlands Willam Alexander (46) is sworn in as Europes youngest monarch at theRoyal Palace in Amsterdam, following the abdication of his mother Queen Beatrix.

MAY

May 2 : Sarabjit Singh dies of injuries sustained in an attack at the Kot Lakhpat Jail inLahore. Judicial probe ordered.

May 5: Malaysias ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coal ition retains its 56-yearhold on power.

May 6: Najib Razak is sworn in Malaysias Prime Minister for a second term at theNational Palace in Kuala Lumpur.

May 8: The three kidnapped women in Cleveland, Ohio Amanda Berry (27), Gina DeJesus (23) and Michelle Knight (32) are reunited with their families after they escapetheir captor after over a decade of imprisonment.

May 11: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs Pakistan Mulsim League Nawaz (PML-N) establishes an unassailable lead in general elections.

May 12: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield records the first video from space on boardthe International Space Station.

May 18: The French President Francois Hollande signs the Marriage For All bill allowing

same-sex marriage and adoption of children by homosexual couples.

Raha Moharrak (25), a native of Jeddah becomes the first woman from Saudi Arabia toclimb Mt. Everest.

May 19: Samina Baig becomes the first Pakistani woman to scale Mt. Everest.


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Adventurer Raha Moharrak becomes the first Saudi woman and youngest Arab to conquerMt. Everest.

May 20: A wave of attacks leaves at least 79 people dead and 150 injured in Shia and Sunniareas of Iraq.

At least 24 persons, including nine children are left dead after a tornado with winds at over320 km/hr., rips through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Two elementaryschools Briarwood and Plaza Towers worst hit.

May 22: American writer Lydia Davis, wins the 60,000 Man Booker International Prize.

A British soldier Lee Rigby is beheaded by two men of African descent in Woolwich,London.

Indian-American Sathwik Karnik wins the National Geographic Bee.

May 24: Ecuadors hugely popular leftist President Rafael Correa takes office for a thirdterm.

The European Union lifts arms embargo against Syrian rebels.

May 25: Thousands of people take part in the One Run to finish the Boston Marathonmany started a month ago but forced to abandon after bombs exploded near the finish line.

May 26: An audacious lesbian love story, Bl ue is the Warmest Colour by French-Tunisiandirector Abdellatif Kechiche wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Grand

Prix goes to Joel and Ethan Coens I nside Llewyn D avis .

May 27: Gunmen kill Yara Abbas, a prominent woman war reporter for Al-Ikhbariyah TVnear the Dabaa military airbase in the Syrian province of Homs.

May 28: The Birtish Government gives nod for the extradition of Ravi Shankaran, one ofthe prime accused in the 2006 naval war-room leak scandal.

May 29: India and Japan sign a joint statement on speeding up talks on civil nuclear dealafter summit-level talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Shinzo Abe, inTokyo.

Harrison Odjegba Okene, a Nigerian cook is rescued after spending three days at thebottom of the Atlantic Ocean in Jascon, an upended tugboat at a depth of 100 feet. Elevenother seamen aboard are dead.

May 30: India and Thailand sign an Extradition Treaty, after talks between PrimeMinisters Manmohan Singh and Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok.


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Indian-American Arvind Mahankali wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest atNational Harbor in Maryland.

JUNE

June 1: The newly- elected members of Pakistans National Assembly are sworn in.

June 2 : Egypts highest court declares legislatur e illegal. Shura Council to maintainpowers.

June 3: More than 60 countries sign the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations.

June 5: Nawaz Sharif is sworn in Pakistan Prime Minister by the President Asif AliZardari in Islamabad.

U.S. Sergeant Robert Bales who massacred 16 Afghan villagers in March 2012 escapes the

death penalty after a Washington court rules that he will face a maximum of life behindbars.

A leak to The Guardian of a top secret court order compelling telecoms provider Verizon toturn over the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers brings to light PRISM, aprogramme that gives the government direct access to servers of IT firms.

June 7: The Washi ngton Post breaks the story on the mega-scale snooping by the U.S. of theservers of major Internet companies drip-fed to it by Edward Snowden a former CIAtechnical assistant and currently with the National Security Agency in Hawaii on behalf ofa private contractor.

June 11: China launches its fifth manned space mission with three astronauts, includingWang Yaping the second woman astronaut on board Shenzhou-10 spacecraft from theJiuquan Satellite Centre in northwest Gansu province.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is elected leader of All Russia Peoples Front, a non -party movement, at its founding congress in Moscow.

June 12: Jiroemon Kimura (116) of Japan the worlds oldest person dies in his hometownof Kyotango, western Japan.

June 14: High turnout marks Iranian presidential polls.

June 15: Hassan Rouhani wins Iranian presidential polls.

Turkish police evict protesters from Gezi Park who had launched the stir with a peacefulsit-in to save 600 trees from being razed, prompting a brutal response on May 31.


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June 17: Indian- American legal luminary Srikanth Sri Srinivasan in sworn in as a judgein the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Kolkata born journalist Amol Rajan becomes the U.Ks first non -white to be appointededitor of a British national newspaper, The I ndependent.

June 19: The high profile trial in the AgustaWestland chopper deal opens in a MilanCourt. India admitted as a civil party.

The World Food Prize 2013 is awarded to three GMO scientists, including Monsantoschief technology officer Robert T. Fraley.

June 20: Global stock markets take a hit following the U.S. Fed hinting at plan to slow itsunprecedented stimulus to the American economy.

June 21: The U.S. Justice Department makes public a complaint (filed on June 14) against

the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden charging him with espionage and theft ofgovernment property.

June 23: Hong Kong allows American whistleblower Edward Snowden to leave, rejectingU.S. request for extradition and he reaches Moscow.

U.S. daredevil Nik Wallanda becomes the first man to cross a Grand Canyon area gorge ona tightrope about 457 m above the Little Colarado River in eastern Arizona.

June 24: For the first time in 42 years, a war crimes tribunal indicts two former Jamaat-e-Islami leaders for killing Banglade shs top intellectuals during the 1971 liberation war.

June 25: Qatars Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al -Thani abdicates in favour of his sonSheikh Tamim bin Hamad-al-Thani after 18 years on the throne.

The former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is chargesheeted in the plot toassassinate former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

June 27: Kevin Rudd is sworn in Australian Prime Minister.

June 30: Eight persons are killed and 731 injured across Egypt. At least 200,000 peopleconverge on Tahrir Square, Cairo demanding the resignation of Islamist President

Mohamed Morsy. Ruling Muslim Brotherhood headquarters ransacked. Eight killed in theensuing fighting.

JULY

July 1: Croatia becomes the 28{+t}{+h}member of the European Union.


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July 22: At least 89 persons are killed and more than 500 injured after a 6.6-magnitudeearthquake strikes Chinas north -western Gansu province. Over 1,200 homes reduced torubble.

Britains Prince Williams wife Kate gives birth to a baby boy at the St. Marys Hospital in

London. He has been given the title of Prince of Cambridge.

July 23: Habiba Sarobi, Governor of Bamyan, Afghanistan and Lahpai Seng Raw, founderof Myanmars largest civil society group are among the winners of this years RamonMagsaysay awards.

Royal baby is named George Alexander Louis and will be known as His Royal HighnessPrince George of Cambridge.

July 24: At least 79 persons are killed and 95 injured after a massive train derailment nearthe major Spanish pilgrimage centre of Santiago de Compostela.

July 25: The former Communist Party of China Politburo member Bo Xilai is formallycharged with bribery and abuse of power.

July 26: Egypts interim government formally levels criminal charges against deposedPresident Mohamed Morsy for plotting a violent jailbreak in 2011. At least 72 persons arekilled and 239 injured in clashes in Cairo.

An Ariane5 rocket lifts off at the French and European spaceport Guyana Space Centre ,near Kourou in French Guiana carrying two satellites: Alphasat and I nsat 3D, Indiasadvanced weather satellite.

July 27: Kuwaitis vote for the sixth time in seven years in an election for their 50-memberParliament.

July 28: Malians cast ballots in presidential polls.

Kuwaits Shia minority loses more than half of their s eats and liberals make slight gains inthe Gulf states second polls in eight months.

The ruling party of Cambodian Premier Hun Sen claims victory in the days elections.

July 30: Mamnoon Hussain is elected Pakistans 12{+t}{+h}President.

Irish President Michael D. Higgins gives his assent to the Protection of Life DuringPregnancy Bill passed by Parliament recently.

Bradley Manning, the U.S. whistleblower behind WikiLeaks publication of confidentialcables, is convicted on charges relating to espionage and treason, but the military court inFort Meade holds him not guilty of aiding the enemy.


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July 31: Zimbabweans cast ballots in presidential polls.

Uruguays Parliament gives nod for an unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuanamarket.

AUGUST

Aug. 1: U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted Russian asylum after spending 40days in limbo in the transit zone of a Moscow airport.

Bangladesh High Court declares illegal Jamaat-e- Islamis registration as a political party,thus barring it from taking part in any national election.

The U.S. Senate confirms human rights activist Samantha Power as ambassador to theU.N.

Aug. 3: Robert Gabriel Mugabe is re-elected President of Zimbabwe extending a 33-yearreign at the helm of the nation.

Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani takes office as Iran President.

The New York Times Company sells 141-year-old newspaper The Boston Gl obe for $70million cash to the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

Aug. 4: Japan launches Kirobo, a small humanoid communication robot aboard a cargo-carrying rocket loaded with supplies for the ISS crew.

Hassan Rouhani is sworn in Irans President at a function in Tehran amid a galaxy ofworld leaders.

Aug. 5: The Washi ngton Post is sold for $250 million to Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P.Bezos.

Aug. 6: Japan unveils Izumo, its biggest warship since World War II.

Aug. 11: Malians cast ballots in a presidential runoff.

Aug. 14: At least 683 people are killed in a brutal crackdown on two major encampments

of mostly Muslim Brotherhood activists in Cairo. A month-long state of emergencydeclared. Vice-President Mohammed ElBaradei resigns.

Iqbal Mirchi (63), close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and an accused in the1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, dies of heart attack in London.

Aug. 15: Mali announces Ibrahim Boubacar Keita as its new President after confirmingthat he had won a landslide victory in a runoff.


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Aug. 16: Ninetyfive persons are killed in Cairo and 78 others across Egypt as the militarycrackdown on pro-Morsy protesters continues.

Aug. 17: Egyptian police clears Islamist protesters from a Cairo mosque after a standoff, asthe toll from four days of violence crosses 750.

Aug. 18: Michel Djotodia, head of the Seleka rebel coalition is sworn in Central AfricanRepublic President.

Aug. 20: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is charged with murder andcriminal conspiracy in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case by a court in Rawalpindi.

Aug. 21: A military court sentences Bradley Manning to a 35-year prison term after beingconvicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the U.S. history.

An Egyptian court orders the release of ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak pending a probe

into a graft case.

At least 1,400 people, including 400 children are believed killed on the outskirts ofDamascus following chemical weapons attack by the Syrian army.

Aug. 22: Robert Mugabe is sworn in Zimbabwes President for another five -year term, inHarare.

The trial of former Politburo me mber Bo Xilai for bribery and abuse of power opens atthe Jinan Intermediate Peoples Court, China.

Aug. 23: A U.S. military jury sentences to life Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for the March 11,2012 killing of 16 Afghan civilians at their homes in two villages in Kandahar.

A military jury convicts U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan of all 13 charges ofpremeditated murder and all 32 charges of attempted premeditated murder for theNovember 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces retirement, after 13 years at the helm.

Aug. 27: The trial of former Pakistan President General (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf in theBenazir Bhutto assassination case begins at the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi.

Aug. 28: A military jury sentences to death U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan for killing 13persons and wounding 31 others in a November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood,Texas.

Aug. 30: The 2,650 kg GSAT- 7, Indias first full -fledged military communications satellite,is launched from the Kourou spaceport of French Guiana in South America.


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SEPTEMBER

Sept. 1: The Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of Japans stricken Fukushimanuclear plant announces leakage of highly radioactive water from a pipe connecting twocoolant tanks.

Sept. 2: American long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad (64) becomes the first person toswim from Cuba to Florida without the help of a shark cage.

Sept. 4: Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose book Kabuli walar Bangali Bou (AKabuliwala's Bengali Wife) about her escape from the Taliban in 1995 was made intoBollywood film Escape f rom Taliban , is shot dead by militants at her home in Paktikaprovince in Afghanistan.

Sept. 5: The BRICS group moves towards creating a $100-billion Currency Reserve Fundby announcing individual contribution, on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in St.

Petersburg.

Sept. 7: Tony Abbotts Liberal/National coalition heads for a landslide victory inAustralian general elections.

Mohamed Nasheed leads in Maldives presidential polls. Runoff scheduled for September28.

Australian pilot Ryan Campbell (19) becomes the youngest person to fly a single-engineaircraft solo around the globe and lands in Wollongong, in southern New South Walesfrom where he began his journey on June 30.

Sept. 8: Asif Ali Zardari steps down as Pakistan President after completing his five-yearterm.

The ruling Cambodian Peoples Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen is declared winner of theJuly polls by the election committee.

Sept. 9: Mamnoon Hussain is sworn in as Pak istans 12{+t}{+h}President by Chief JusticeIftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at a ceremony in Islamabad.

Sept. 10: Erna Solberg leads her Conservative Party to victory in Norways parliamentary

polls.

Sept. 15: Miss New York Nina Davuluri is crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, NewJersey in the process becoming the first winner of Indian descent.

Sept. 16: Twelve persons, including one of Indian origin are killed as a gunman AaronAlexis opens fire at the U.S. Navy Yard on the Anacostia river in Washington.


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Sept. 18: By a 9-1 majority, the U.S. Federal Reserve chooses to continue with its $85billion a month monetary stimulus policy of quantitative easing.

Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola of Nigeria wins the Miss Muslimah World contest held in theIndonesian capital Jakarta.

Sept. 19: Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe orders Tokyo Electric Power Co. to scrap allthe six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

A U.S. federal court imposes $200,000 fine on Halliburton Co. which pleads guilty tocharges of its destroying evidence in the BP oil disaster.

Sept. 21: More than 60 per cent polling is registered in Sri Lankas Northern Province.

Seventyseven people, including 10 of Indian origin are killed and 175 injured following anattack by militants on a mall in Kenya.

Sept. 22: Angela Merkel on track for a third term as German Chancellor as poll resultsshow the conservative bloc to be in a strong position.

Former politburo member Bo Xilai is sentenced to life by a provincial court in Jinan,China after finding him guilty of all charges.

The Tamil National Alliance resoundingly wins (by securing 80 per cent of the total votes)the Northern Provincial polls in Sri Lanka.

Seventyeight people are killed and 100 injured as two suicide bombers blow themselves up

at the All Saints Church in Kohati Gate, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Sept. 23: An Egyptian Court bans Muslim Brotherhood and orders its assets beconfiscated.

The Maldivian Supreme Court orders postponement of the second round of presidentialpolls slated for September 28.

Sept. 24: More than 350 people are killed and 765 injured after an earthquake of 7.7magnitude hits south-western Pakistan.

Kenyan security forces defeat militants ending a four-day siege in the upscale Westgateshopping complex in the capital Nairobi.

Cambodias Parliament approves a new five -year term for Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Sept. 27: Indian American Sri Srinivasan is sworn in judge of the U.S. Courts of Appeal forthe District of Columbia Circuit.


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India and the U.S. have resolved to cut through American laws that have been inhibiting afull-fledged defence partnership, says a joint declaration issued after the Obama-Manmohan Singh meeting in Washington.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a landmark resolution ordering the

destruction of Syrias chemical weapons and condemns the poison gas attack in theDamascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21.

Sept. 28: The Philippines Megan Young is cr owned Miss World 2013 at the63{+r}{+d}Miss World pageant in Bali, Indonesia.

Sept. 30: The U.S. Federal Government shutdown of all non-essential services begins.

OCTOBER

Oct. 1: A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal awards death penalty to Salauddin Quader

Chowdhary, a top BNP leader and MP, for murder and genocide during the 1971Liberation War.

Oct. 2: Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta wins confidence vote. Oct. 3: At least 300people are killed after a ship carrying African migrants to Europe catches fire and capsizesoff the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Oct. 4: Vo Nguyen Giap (102), the legendary Vietnamese general who masterminded thedefeat of the French military at Dien Bien Phu and led North Vietnams forces against theU.S., dies at a military hospital in Hanoi.

Oct. 5: The U.S. Armys Delta Force captures a top Al -Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libyindicted in the 1998 bombings of the U.S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania from the streetsof the Libyan capital Tripoli.

Oct. 6: International inspectors begin destruction of Syrias stockpile of chemical weapons.

Oct. 7: The 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to three scientists James E.Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof for their discoveries of machineryregulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.

Former Supreme Court Judge C.V. Wigneswaran is sworn in the first Chief Minister of Sri

Lankas Northern Province.

The Maldives Supreme Court annuls the results of the first round of presidential polls heldon Sept. 7.

Oct. 8: Britains Peter Higgs and Belgiums Francois Englert are awarded the Nobel Prizefor Physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle.


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Oct. 9: Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel are awarded the 2013Chemistry Nobel Prize.

Azerbaijanis cast ballots in presidential polls.

Oct. 10: Alice Munro, acclaimed for her finely tuned storytelling wins the 2013 Nobel Prizein Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to win the prize.

Pakistans Malala Yousafzai, is awarded the European Unions Sakharov human rightsprize.

The European Parliament passes a historic resolution recognising caste-baseddiscrimination as a violation of human rights.

Scott Malcolm Carpenter (88) legendary U.S. astronaut who in 1962 became the fourthAmerican in space and second to orbit the Earth passes away following a stroke in a

hospice in Denver, Colorado.

Oct. 11: The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons isawarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013.

Oct. 14: The 2013 Economics Nobel Prize is awarded to three Americans Eugene Fama,Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller, for their empirical analysis of asset prices.

Prime Minister Erna Solbergs conservatives and the r ight-wing Progress Party take officein Norway.

Oct. 15: At least 185 persons are killed after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Philippines.Cebu and Bohol are the worst hit.

New Zealands Eleanor Catton wins the Man Booker prize 2013 for her 852 -page novel,The Lumin aries .

Oct. 16: The U.S. Senate announces a proposal extending government financing untilJanuary 15.

Oct. 17: The Congress reopens the U.S government and signs off on more borrowing soAmerica could pay its bills.

Oct. 22: Nobel Peace laureat e Aung San Suu Kyi receives the European Unions SakharovHuman Rights Prize for 1990 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Oct. 23: India and China sign nine pacts, including the Border Defence CooperationAgreement after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Li Keqiang inBeijing.


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India-Bangladesh Extradition Treaty comes into effect.

Oct. 25: Sri Lankas Northern Provincial Council holds its historic first ever session atKaithady near Jaffna.

The Shandong High Court upholds the life sentence awarded to the former Politburomember Bo Xilai by the Jinan Intermediate Peoples Court.

Oct. 27: Argentines cast ballots in nationwide congressional polls.

Oct. 29: Turkey opens Marmaray, the worlds first underwater rail link between Asia andEurope.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 1: Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is believed killed in a

U.S. done strike in Dande Darpa Khel area in north Waziristan.

Nov. 4: The trial of the former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy begins in Cairo.Adjourned to January 8.

Nov. 5: A special court in Dhaka awards death sentence to 152 persons and lifer to 161others for their involvement in the February 26, 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny that left 74dead.

Nov. 6: Tajikistans President Imomali Rakhmon wins re -election by a landslide, extendinghis 20-year long rule by another seven years.

Nov. 8: Super typhoon Haiyan devastates Philippines leaving 10,000 dead and decimatingtowns, in the countrys worst recorded natural disaster.

Nov. 11: All 52 Ministers and state ministers quit the Bangladesh Cabinet to pave the wayfor the setting up of an all -party interim Cabinet to oversee next general elections.

Nov. 12: The commu nist Party of China gives decisive role to the market. Nod forblueprint for reforms.

Nov. 16: Abdulla Yaameen wins the Maldivian presidential run-off narrowly.

Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is inducted into the Indian Navy at the SevmashShipyard in Russia, bringing down the curtains on a 13-year saga of reconstruction.

Nov. 17: Dorris Lessing (94), the Nobel prize winning author of the Golden Notebook , diesat her London house.

Abdulla Yaameen is sworn in Maldivian President, in Male.


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Michelle Bachelet wins the first round of presidential election in Chile.

Nov. 18: A multi-party interim government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issworn in in Bangladesh.

Nov. 19: At least 23 persons including Irans cultural attach are killed and 146 inju red astwin blasts rock the Iranian embassy in Lebanon.

More than 70 per cent of Nepals 12 million voters cast ballots in elections to the countryssecond Constituent Assembly.

Frederick Sanger (95), the father of genomics and the only person to win t he ChemistryNobel twice (in 1958 and 1980) dies at the Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, easternEngland.

Scotland Yards human trafficking unit raids a house in Lambeth, south London and

arrests a man and a woman for practising slavery.

Nov. 20: Pa kistani teenager Mala Yousafzai is presented the EUs Sakharov human rightsrights prize at Strausborg on World Childrens Day.

Nov. 23: Negotiators seal a new climate deal at Warsaw involving a relatively weakmechanism for addressing Loss and Damage.

China announces setting up of an Air Defence Identification Zone over parts of thedisputed East China Sea.

Nov. 24: Iran strikes a historic nuclear pact with the U.S. and five other world powers atGeneva.

Nov. 27: Lt. General Raheel Sharif is appointed Pakistan Army Chief. Justice TassaduzJillani is named the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

German Chancellor Angela Merkels Christian and Social Democratic Union and theSocial Democratic Party sign a coalition agreement in Berlin.

A UN General Asse mbly Committee passes a landmark resolution on womens rightsdefenders.

Nov. 28: Thailands embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra survives a no -confidence vote in Parliament.

Nov. 29: Ukraine refuses to sign a landmark accord with the European Union at theEastern Partnership summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.


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General Ashfaque Parvez Kayani hands over charge to the new Pakistan Chief of ArmyStaff General Raheel Sharif in Rawalpindi.

Nov. 30: Paul Walker (40), Hollywood actor, best known as undercover agent BrianOConnor in the Fast and Furious action movies dies in a fiery car crash in California.

Prelude, a 1,601-foot floating liquefied natural gas platform is set in the water by SouthKorean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries.

DECEMBER

Dec. 1: China launches its first- ever moon rover mission with a Change -3 rocket blastingoff from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Jade Rabbit.

Dec. 5: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (95), anti-apartheid icon and former South AfricaPresident passes away at his Johannesburg home.

Dec. 7: The ninth WTO Ministerial meeting adopts the full Bali package that addresses theDoha Development Agenda.

Dec. 9: Thailand s Premier Yingluck Shinawatra dissolves Parliament and calls for snappolls.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is chosen The Guardians Person of Year 2013.

Dec. 10: Uruguays Senate passes a law allowing the citizens to grow, sell and smokemarijuana.

A British Court sentences three Sikh men and a woman convicted of carrying out an attackon Lt. Gen. (Retd.) K.S. Brar for his role as Commander of the 1984 Operation Blue Starin Punjab, to 10-14 years in prison.

Dec. 11: Time magazine names Pope Francis its 2013 Person of the Year.

Dec. 12: War crimes convict Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami is executed at the Dhaka Central Jail.

Jang Song-Thaek, uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and former Vice-Chairman

of the National Defence Commission is executed after a special military trial.

Indias Deputy Counsul -General in New York, Devyani Khobragade is arrested andhandcuffed after being charged with visa fraud. Released after executing a $250,000 bond.

Dec.14: Chinas lunar probe softlands the 140-kg Jade Rabbit or Yu Tu rover in the Bay ofRainbows or Sinus Iridum on the Moons surface.


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Dec.15: The former South African President Nelson Mandela is laid to rest at a family plotin his rural boyhood home of Qunu after a state funeral.

Michele Bachelet wins the Chilean presidential runoff against Evelyn Matthei with a hugemajority.

Dec.17: Angela Merkel begins her third term as the German Chancellor heading a GrandCoalition with the opposition SPD. For the first time a woman, Ursula von der Leyen isappointed Defence Minister.

Dec. 18: British criminal Ronnie Biggs (84), part of a gang that took part in the GreatTrain Robbery on August 8, 1963, dies in London.

The U.S. Federal Reserve announces the start of a tapering of its $ 85 billion monthly bond-buying programme.

A 75-year- old man is implanted with the worlds first artificial heart developed by Frenchbiomedical firm Carmat at the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris.

Dec. 19: Two British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale arefound guilty of murdering Drummer Lee Rigby, an Afghan War veteran on May 22 atWoolwich.

South Sudan loses control of Bor, the capital of its largest and most populous Jonglei state.Three Indian U.N. peacekeepers and 20 civilians are killed in an attack on a base in Akobotown.

Dec. 20: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Russian oil tycoon is freed after spending 10 years inprison on charges of fraud and tax evasion.

The Hague-based International Court of Arbitration allows India to go ahead withconstruction of the 330-MW Kishenganga hydro-electric project in North Kashmir,rejecting Pakistans objections.

Dec. 23: Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, members of the Russian punkband Pussy Riot jailed for performing a musical punk prayer at a church are freed.

Dec. 24: South Sudan retakes Bor, the state capital of Jonglei. The U.N. votes to augment

force.

Dec. 25: Egypt declares the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group.

Dec. 27: Five persons, including Mohammad Chatah, an anti-Syrian regime figure arekilled and more than 50 injured in a huge car bomb blast in the Lebanon capital Beirut.


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Dec. 28: China abolishes labour camps re -education system and loosens family planningrestrictions.

A student is killed and 60 arrested as Egyptian police enters the Al Azhar Universitycampus in Cairo after Islamist protesters torch a building.

Dec. 29: Seventeen persons are killed and 40 injured in a suicide bomb attack at a railwaystation in Volgograd, Russia.

Dec. 30: Fourteen persons are killed and 41 injured as a bomb tears through a trolleybus inVolgograd city, Russia.

Iran and six global powers begin expert-level talks.

Dec. 31: Maragarita Simonyan is appointed chief editor of Russia Today, the new statemedia behemoth.

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V. Dakshinamurthy


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Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar


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Farooq Sheikh


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JANUARY

Jan. 3 : M.S. Gopalakrishnan (82), legendary violinist , in Chennai after a brief illness.

Jan. 21 : M.S. Udhayamurthy (85), founder of Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam and author, of cardiacarrest at his residence in Akkarai near Injambakkam, Chennai.

Kamal Basu (94), veteran CPI (M) leader, at a private nursing home in Kolkata.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 2 : P. Shanmugam (86) former Chief Minister of Puducherry, at the Karaikal GovernmentHospital of injury after a fall at his residence.

Feb. 12 : Jagannathan (98), Sarvodaya leader, at Gandhigram in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu.

Feb. 22 : Hari Shankar Singhania (79), leading industrialist and president of JK Organisation, athis residence in New Delhi.

MARCH

March 5 : Rajasulochana (78), veteran actor at her residence in Madipakkam, Chennai.


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March 11 : Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair (88), Kathakali exponent, at his house in Njalamkurissi at Vellinezhi, near Palakkad.

Sripada Pinakapani (100), legendary Carnatic musician , at his residence in Kurnool, AndhraPradesh.

March 13 : Ganesh Pyne (76), eminent painter, at a Kolkata hospital .

March 26 : S. Sukumari (74), veteran South Indian actor at a private hospital in Chennai.

APRIL

April 10 : Robert G. Edwards (87), test tube baby pioneer at his home near Cambridge, England.

April 14 : Rama Prasad Goenka (83), chairman emeritus of RPG Enterprises in Kolkata.

Prathivathi Bayangaram Srinivos (82), veteran playback singer, in Chennai.

April 17: T. K. Ramamurthy (92), veteran music composer, in Chennai.

V. S. Ramadevi (79), former CEC, in Bangalore.

April 19: C. Kuppusamy (87), former DMK MP , in Chennai.

April 21: Shakuntala Devi (80), math whiz, at a Bangalore hospital.

April 22: Lalgudi G. Jayaraman (82), violin maestro, in Chennai.

The former CJI Jagdish Sharan Verma (80), at a hospital in Gurgaon.

April 23: Shamshad Begum (94), playback singer , at her residence , in Powai, Mumbai.

April 25: Ambica Banerjee (86), Trinamool Congress MP, at a hospital in Kolkata.

April 29: Vasudev Singh (81), veteran CPI(M) leader at AIIMS, Delhi.

MAY

May 8: Zia Fariduddin Dagar (80), Dhrupad maestro, in Mumbai.

May 14: Ashgar Ali Engineer (74) noted Islamic scholar , at his home in Santa Cruz, Mumbai,after a prolonged illness.

May 25: T. M. Soundararajan (91), Tamil playback singer, at his residence in Chennai.

May 30: Rituparno Ghosh (49), Bengali filmmaker at his residence, in Kolkata, of cardiac arrest.


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JUNE

June 6: Thomas Ridley Sharpe (85), English comic novelist at Llafranc, Spain.

June 15: Manivannan (58), Tamil actor and director of a heart attack at his residence in Chennai.

JULY

July 2: Douglas Carl Engelbart (88), the inventor of the computer mouse, at his home, inAtherton, California, due to kidney failure.

July 11: Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana (89), eminent Carnatic musician, in Hyderabad.

July 12: Amar Gopal Bose (83), Indian-American entrepreneur , in Wayland, Massachusetts.

July 13: Sharmila Rege (48), eminent sociologist and scholar , at Pune of colon cancer.

July 14: N. Rangabashyam (79), eminent gastroenterologist at his home in Chennai.

July 16: Ambal Ramamurti (87), freedom fighter and wife of late CPI(M) leader P. Ramamurtiin Chennai.

July 18: Vaali (82), Tamil lyricist and poet in Chennai after protracted illness.

Samar Mukherjee (100), veteran leader and oldest member of the CPI(M) at a hospital inKolkata.

C. Perumal (62), sitting MLA from Yercaud of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Salem.

July 20: Khurushid Alam Khan (95), former Minister and father of External Affairs MinisterSalman Khurshid, at a hospital in New Delhi.

July 23: Manjula (59), yesteryear Tamil actor, in Chennai following a brief illness.

July 25: Arun Nehru (69), former Union Minister of State for Internal Security and RajivGandhis cousin at a Gurgoan hospital after prolonged illness.

AUGUST

Aug. 2: V. Dakshinamurthy (92), patriarch of Malayalam film music, in Chennai.

Aug. 4: Jasjit Singh (79), ace pilot and strategic thinker, of pneumonia in New Delhi.

Aug. 11: Zafar Futehally (93), one of Indias best known naturalists and ornithologists, at hishome in Kihim, Maharashtra.


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Aug. 25: Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi (79), eminent Indian classical singer and music director ,at his residence in Bhubaneswar of heart attack.

Aug. 30: Seamus Heaney (74), Irish writer and poet at a Dublin hospital following brief illness.

Aug. 31: David Frost (74), veteran British journalist and broadcaster , aboard Queen Elizabethcruise ship.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 5: L. H. Hiranandani (96), Chairman of Hiranandani Group of Companies , at his residencein Mumbai.

Sept. 7: Romesh Bhandari (85), a former Foreign Secretary , in New Delhi.

Sept. 12: Vinod Raina, educationist , of cancer in New Delhi.

Ray Dolby (80), an inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, in SanFrancisco.

OCTOBER

Oct. 1: Tom Clancy (66), widely read military novelist of his time, in Baltimore.

Oct. 9: Srihari (49), well-known Telugu film actor, at a Private hospital in Mumbai.

Oct. 14: Mohan Dharia (88), former Union Commerce Minister, at a hospital in Pune.

Oct. 16: B. Ramachandra Adityan (79), Managing Editor of Maalai Murasu , a Tamil eveninger,at his residence in Adyar, Chennai due to prolonged illness.

Oct. 17: Sarojini Varadappan (92), veteran social activist , at a private hospital in Chennai after a brief illness.

Oct. 19: K. Raghavan (99), veteran Malayalam music director , in Thalaserry, Kerala.

Oct. 31: Radha Burnier (90), international president of the Theosophical Society, in Chennai.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 3: Reshma (66), legendary Pakistani folk singer of Lambi Judai fame, in Lahore of throatcancer.

D. Rajendra Babu (62), Kannada filmmaker, of a heart attack in Bangalore.

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Nov. 10: Pushpa Thangadurai (82), Tamil novelist, in Chennai.

Nov. 30: R. Raghuram (64), veteran choreographer, at his residence, in Chennai.

DECEMBER

Dec. 10: Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar (60), the scion of the Mysore royal family and aformer Lok Sabha MP, of cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Bangalore.

Dec. 14: Peter O Toole (81), The Lawrence of Arabia star at a London hospital.

Dec. 16: Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma (91), head of the erstwhile royal family ofTravancore, of cardiac arrest in Thiruvananthapuram.

Dec. 22: Pran Chopra (92), veteran journalist and former editor of The Statesman , in New Delhiafter a brief illness.

Dec. 23: G.S. Shivarudrappa (87), renowned Kannada poet and researcher at his residence inBanashankari, Bangalore.

Mikhail Kalashnikov (94), the designer of the fabled AK-47 automatic rifle in Russia.

Dec. 27: Farooq Sheikh (65), Bollywood actor, of a heart attack, in Dubai.

Dec. 28: Rosamma Punnose (101), veteran Communist leader in Oman.

Kali Ghosh (83), a senior CITU leader in Kolkata.

Dec. 30: G. Nammalvar (75), organic farming scientist and crusader at Pichinikadu village inTamil Nadus Thanjavur district.

Dec. 31: T.C. Narendran (69), renowned insect taxonomist, of a heart attack in Kozhikode.

Diary of events (Sports) for the year 2013

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JANUARY

Jan. 1: Cricket journalist and commentator Christopher Martin Jenkins passes away.

Cricketers Sanjay Bangar and Sairaj Bahutule retire from first-class cricket.

Jan. 4: Uttarakhand and Railways clinch the mens and womens national basketball titlesrespectively.

Jan. 6: Pakistan wins the three-match one-day series against India 2-1.

Janko Tipsarevic wins the singles title at ATP Chennai Open. Stanislas Wawrinka and BenoitPaire win the doubles title.

Michael Hussey retires from international cricket.

Jan. 7: Lionel Messi wins his fourth successive Ballon dOr.

Jan. 10: Delhi and Petroleu m win the womens and mens national table tennis team titles.

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Jan. 15: Kerala and Railways take the mens and womens national volleyball titles.

Jan. 18: American cyclist Lance Armstrong admits to doping.

Jan. 25: Cricketer Rahul Dravid awarded Padma Bhushan

Jan. 26: Victoria Azarenka wins the Australian Open womens singles title. Bob and MikeBryan win the mens doubles crown.

Jan. 27: Novak Djokovic wins his third consecutive Australian Open mens singles title.

India wins the one-day series against England 3-2.

Jan. 29: Mumbai wins its 40th Ranji Trophy title.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 3: ONGC and Tamil Nadu emerged the mens and womens champions at the Federa tionCup Basketball championship.

Korea defeats India 4-1 in the Davis Cup.

Feb. 10: Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy defeating Mumbai.

Ranchi Rhinos wins the inaugural Hockey India League.

Feb. 12: Wheelchair tennis legend Esther Vergeer retires.

Feb. 14: Blade Runner Oscar Pistorious charged with murder of his girlfriend.

Feb. 15: Pankaj Advani becomes the first ever Indian to reach the quarterfinals of a major-ranking pro snooker event.

Feb. 16: Ramkumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina win the mens and womens national grass -court tennis titles.

Feb. 26: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and Air India win the mens and womens nationalteam chess championships.

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March 3: Services defeats Kerala to retain Santosh Trophy.

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May 4: P. V. Sindhu wins Malaysian Grand Prix.

May 5: FIDE approves Chennai as venue for World chess championship.

May 8: Singapore men and women win team titles in Commonwealth table tennis

championships.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson announces retirement at end of season.

May 12: Barcelona clinches its 22nd La Liga football title.

Fernando Alonso wins the Spanish Grand Prix.

Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams win the Madrid Masters.

Tiger Woods wins the US PGA Tour Players Championship

Churchill Brothers win the I-league football tournament.

May 13: Paris Saint-Germain is crowned French football league champion.

Roberto Mancini sacked as Manchester City manager.

May 15: Footballer Rio Ferdinand calls time on his England career.

Chelsea wins the Europa League football tournament.

May 16: Footballer David Beckham announces retirement at end of season.

Karnataka wins the Rangaswamy Cup for the mens senior National hockey championship.

May 17: Athletico Madrid wins the Copa del Rey football tournament.

May 18: Adam Gilchrist brings the curtains down on his career, winning his last IPL match.

May 19: England beats New Zealand in the first Test at Lords.

Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams win Rome Masters.

May 20: China s Zhang Jike wins the mens singles title at the World table tennischampionship.

May 21: Pune Warriors withdraws from the Indian Premier League.

May 22: Andy Murray pulls out of French Open.


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May 25: Bayern Munich clinches UEFA Champions League title.

May 26: Nico Rosberg wins Monaco Grand Prix.

China wins Sudirman Cup badminton tournament.

Mumbai Indians crowned IPL champion.

Sachin Tendulkar announces retirement from IPL.

Laura Massaro wins British Open squash tournament in the womens section.

Pakistan wins its two-match ODI series against Ireland 1-0.

May 27: England confirmed as host of 2019 cricket World Cup.

May 28: England beats New Zealand in the second Test at Leeds to win the two-match series 2-0.

May 29: Wisden Almanacks 150th anniversary is observed.

JUNE

June 1: Bayern Munich wins German Cup, completes historic treble after it had earlier won theUEFA Champions League and the Bundesliga.

June 2: New Zealand clinches ODI series against England after securing an unassailable 2-0

lead.

June 3: Jose Mourinho is appointed as Chelsea manager for his second stint at the club.

June 4: Bangladesh cricketer Mohammad Ashraful admits to spot-fixing in the BangladeshPremier League.

June 5: Tim May quits as chief of Federation of International Cricketers Associations.

June 8: Bob and Mike Bryan win the French Open mens doubles title. Its the duos 14th GrandSlam title, a record.

Serena Williams wins her second French Open title, beating M. Sharapova 6-4, 6-4 in the final.

June 9: Rafael Nadal wins his eighth French Open title.

Sebastian Vettel wins the Canadian Grand Prix.

K. Srikanth wins the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament.


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June 13: Usain Bolt wins the 200m competition in the Diamond League athletics meet in Oslo .

June 16: Justin Rose wins his first US Open golf tournament.

June 20: Miami Heat wins its second consecutive NBA title.

June 23: India wins the ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament.

June 24: Boris Gelfand wins Tal Memorial chess tournament.

Darren Lehmann replaces Mickey Arthur as Australia s coach.

June 30: Brazil wins third successive Confederations Cup football tournament.

Nico Rosberg wins the British Grand Prix.

JULY

July 6: Marion Bartoli wins the womens Wimbledon title.

The Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike, win the Wimbledon to become the first doubles team to holdall four Grand Slam titles in the Open era.

July 7: Andy Murray wins the Wimbledon, ends Britains 77 -year wait for a home- grown menssingles champion.

Su- Wei Hsieh and Peng Shuai clinch the Wimbledon womens doubles title.

Sebastian Vettel wins the German Grand Prix, his first victory at home.

July 11: India wins the tri-nation cricket tournament in West Indies .

July 14: England wins first Ashes Test in Nottingham .

July 15: Former Ireland cricket captain Trent Johnston announces retirement.

July 21: Phil Mickelson wins the British Open golf tournament.

Chris Froome bags the Tour de France cycling title.

July 28: Lewis Hamilton wins the Hungarian Grand Prix.

India takes an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe .

July 30: Aditya Mehta becomes the first Indian to win the quadrennial World Games snookergold medal after securing the title at Cali , Columbia .


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AUGUST

Aug. 5: England retains the Ashes after playing out a draw with Australia in the third Ashes Testat Manchester .

Aug. 10: Mo Farah wins mens 10,000m gold in the IAAF World Championships.

P. V. Sindhu loses in the womens semifinal of the World badminton championships. She,however, secures bronze to become the first Indian woman singles player to bag a medal in thetournament.

Aug. 11: Usain Bolt reclaims the mens 100m title in the IAAF World Championships.

Lin Dan and Ratchanok Intanon win the mens and womens singles titles respectively in theWorld badminton championships.

Jason Dufner wins the PGA Championship golf tournament.

Aug. 12: Shelly-Ann Fraser- Pryce wins the womens 100m event in the IAAF WorldChampionships.

England beats Australia in the fourth Ashes Test at Chester-le-Street .

Aug. 13: Yelena Isinbayeva wins her third World Championship title in the pole vault event.

Aug. 14: Marion Bartoli, the 28-year-old French tennis player, announces her retirement sixweeks after winning the Wimbledon .

Jehue Gordon wins mens 400m hurdles gold in the IAAF World Champi onships.

Aug. 16: Mo Farah wins 5000m gold to complete a World Championship double

Aug. 17: Usain Bolt wins the 200m gold in the IAAF World Championships.

Aug. 18: Rafael Nadal and Victoria Azarenka clinch the mens and womens Cincinnati Masterstennis titles.

Aug. 25: Sebastian Vettel wins the Belgian Grand Prix.

England and Australia draw the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 1: Korea wins the Asia Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh , defeating India in the final.

Sept. 5: Mary Ann Gomes wins the National womens chess championship in Kolkata.


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Oct. 19: Mohit Mayur and Prerna Bhambri win the mens and womens singles titles in the National tennis championship in New Delhi .

Oct. 27: Sachin Tendulkar plays his last Ranji Trophy match against Haryana at Lahli.

Oct. 27: Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One Indian Grand Prix in New Delhi .

NOVEMBER

Nov. 6: Rafael Nadal ensures world no 1 position after his victory over Wawrinka in the ATPWorld Tours event in London.

Nov. 10: World chess (Viswanathan Anand and Norway's Magnus Carlsen) begins in Chennai;Ist game drawn.

Nov. 15: Carlsen wins fifth game to take 3-2 lead.

Nov. 16: Sachin Tendulkar ends his career after the India-West Indies Second Test. India win totake the series 2-0.

Nov. 17: Czech republic wins Davis Cup beating Serbia 3-2 in Belgrade.

Nov. 21: Carlsen wins ninth game in World chess in Chennai, leads 6-3.

Nov. 22: Carlsen wins 10th game and take world champion title, beating Anand 6.5-3.5.

Nov. 24: Formula one champion Sebastian Vettel equals Michael Schumachers 2004 record of

13 wins in a season in Sao Paolo.

DECEMBER

Dec. 1: Rising Star P. V. Sindhu wins Macau Open badminton beating Canadas Michelle Li.

Dec. 5: India loses to South Africa in first ODI in Johannesburg.

Dec. 8: India lose second ODI to South Africa in Durban and series 0-2.

Dec. 10: Third India-South Africa ODI washed out in Centurion.

Dec. 15: Germany wins junior World Cup hockey (Roger Danet trophy) beating France 5-2 infinal in New Delhi.

Dec. 17: Australia regains Ashes, beating England in the Perth Test and taking 3-0 lead.

Dec. 22: India-South Africa Ist Test ends in exciting draw in Johannesburg.


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Dec. 25: South Africas star cricketer Jacques Kallis announces retirement from Test cricketafter India series.

Dec. 29: Kallis signs off in style, with a century (115).

Formula I legend Michael Schumacher suffers serious head injury in ski accident at Meribel inFrance.

Dec. 30: South Africa wins second Test in Durban, wins series.

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Artistes in traditional attire playing the khol at Titabor inJorhat district of Assam.

Mohammed Afzal Guru

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Jan. 1: The Union Governments Direct Benefits Transfer scheme is launched in 20 districts insix States across the nation.

Jan. 2: The Supreme Court upholds the appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as GujaratLokayukta.

The first of the five newly-announced fast-track courts to try cases related to sexual offenceagainst women is inaugurated in New Delhi by the CJI Altamas Kabir.

A 16-year-old girl is gangraped in Rayagada, Odisha.

Jan. 3: The Delhi police file chargesheet against five persons arrested in the December 16, 2012gangrape case before a duty magistrate in Saket district courts in New Delhi.

Complex issues cannot be settled by faith, emotion and fear but by structured debate, analysisand enlightenment, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the

100{+t}{+h}annual session of the Indian Science Congress in Kolkata.

Jan. 6: Assam gains an entry in the India Book of Records for holding the largest ensemble of14,833 drummers playing khol in unison in Titabor, Jorhat district.

Jan. 7: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha withdraws support to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led ArjunMunda Government.

Jan. 8: Pakistani troops ambush and kill two soldiers of 13 Rajaputana Rifles Lance NaikSudhakar Singh and Lance Naik Hemraj (one of them beheaded), after crossing the LoC inKrishna Gati sector of Poonch.

Arjun Munda resigns as Jharkhand Chief Minister.

Jan. 10: The Calcutta High Court in an interim order grants custody of the Bhattacharya childrento their mother Sagarika Chakraborty.

Jan. 12: Follow in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda, says the West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan, inaugurating the World Youth Festival to mark the Swamijis 150{+t}{+h}bi rthanniversary in Kolkata.

Jan. 13: The 100-year- old Pamban rail bridge, Indias first cantilever bridge across the Palk

Strait in Rameswaram Island, Tamil Nadu suffers damage as a Karwar-bound barge rams it.

Jan. 15: Visa-on- arrival for Pakistani seniors put on hold following Prime Ministers warningthat, business as usual, not possible with Pakistan.

The Rayagada gangrape victim who attempted self-immolation (on January 7) dies at a corporatehospital in Visakhapatnam.


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Jan. 18: The Supreme Court directs the Centre to set up a Special Court to try Italian marinesMassimilano Latore and Salvatore Gironi involved in the shooting of two fishermen off theKerala waters on February 15, 2012.

Jan. 19: Rahul Gandhi is appointed Congress Vice-President at the Chintan Shivir in Jaipur.

Jan. 21: The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh merges his Jankranti Party(Rashtrawadi) with the BJP.

Prema Jayakumar, daughter of an autorickshaw driver in Malad, Mumbai tops the nationwideCA exam. Her brother Dhanraj too clears the exam.

Jan. 22: A Special CBI court jails for 10 years former Haryana Chief Minister Om PrakashChautala for illegal selection of over 3,000 junior basic trained primary school teachers during1999-2000.

Jan. 23: The Justice Verma Committee rules against recommending the death penalty even inthe rarest of rare cases, and also does not favour lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16.

Shiv Sena elects Uddhav Thackeray as party president at the National Executive In Mumbai.

Jan. 24: The Madras High Court upholds the shifting of the Legislative Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex back from the Omandurar Government Estate to Fort St. George. Work

begins to convert building into hospital.

Jan. 25: Noted physicist Yash Pal, space scientist Roddam Narasimha, sculptor RaghunathMohapatra and painter Syed Haider Raza chosen for Padma Vibhushan.

Actor Sharmila Tagore, cricketer Rahul Dravid, boxing champion Mary Kom, film-star RajeshKhanna, comedian Jaspal Bhatti (both posthumously); noted scientist Shivathanu Pillai and V.K.Saraswat, industrialists R. Thayagarajan and Adi Godrej prominent among 24 Padma Bhushanawardees.

Film director Ramesh Sippy, eminent entrepreneur Rajshree Pathy, actor Sridevi, fashiondesigner Ritu Kumar, scholar Noboru Karashima, Urdu poets Nida Fazli and Salik Lakhnawi(the latter posthumously) actor Nana Patekar prominent among 80 Padma Shri awardees.

Author Jeet Thayil is presented the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 for his debut

novel Narcopolis at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Jan. 26: The Nation celebrates the 64{+t}{+h}Republic Day with a charming display of military prowess and cultural diversity.

Jan. 28: The sixth accused in the New Delhi gangrape and murder case is declared a minor bythe Juvenile Justice Board.


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Feb. 12: The Defence Ministry orders a CBI probe into allegations of bribery in the Rs.3,600-crore VVIP helicopter deal inked in February 2010 with Italian defence firmFinmeccanica.

Vinodhini, a victim of acid attack in Karaikal on November 14, 2012 dies at a private

hospital in Chennai.

Feb. 13: Mohan Parasaran is appointed Solicitor General.

Feb. 14: A record 91.5 per cent polling is registered in the Tripura Assembly election.

Feb. 17: Journalist-author Jerry Pinto is presented The H indu Literary Prize 2013 for hisnovel Em and the Big H oom , at a function in Chennai.

Feb. 18: The President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,Disarmament and Development for 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self- Employed Womens

Association at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Feb. 19: The Centre notifies the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal givenin February 2007, in the Gazette.

Feb. 20: The mowing down of a trade unionist in Ambala, Haryana and attack on thosewho turned up for work at Noida mar the first day of the two-day all-India general strikecalled by 11 central trade unions.

The National Greeen Tribunal, Southern Bench gives its nod for the setting up of a multi-superspeciality hospital in Omandurar Government Estate, Chennai.

Feb. 21: Sixteen persons are killed and over 117 injured as two powerful blasts rip throughcrowded areas at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad.

Sensex plunges by over 317 points, its biggest single-day fall since May 2012, to close at19325.36.

Feb. 23: More than 83 per cent voting registered in Nagaland Assembly polls.

Over 85 per cent polling recorded in Meghalaya.

Feb. 24: Vidya (21), dies of injuries she suffered in an acid attack on Jan. 30, at theGovernment Kilpauk Hospital, Chennai.

Feb. 25: The PSLV C20 puts the 400-Kg India-French satellite SARAL and six others intotheir precise orbits after its successful launch from the Sriharikota spaceport.


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Feb. 26: The Railway Budget for 2013-14 presented in the Lok Sabha by a CongressMinister after 17 years, spares passengers, but hikes freight rates by 5.8 per cent based onfuel price.

Rajya Sabha approves the amended Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace

Prevention, P rotection and Redressal Bill. Nod for Presidents rule in Jharkhand.

Sensex tanks 316.55 points to close at 19015.14 wiping out Rs. 1 lakh crore in investorwealth.

Feb. 27: The Government forms a 30-member JPC to probe the chopper deal.

At least 20 persons are killed and six others injured in a major fire at a market place onSurya Sen Street close to the Sealdah railway station in Kolkata.

Feb. 28: The Union Budget 2013- 14 is presented in the Lok Sabha. Womens bank to be set

up with Rs. 1,000- crore capital. Nirbhaya Fund of Rs. 1,000 -crore for womens safety.

The Left Front wins a fifth straight victory in Tripura with a two-thirds majority. TheNaga Peoples Front sweeps back to power in Nagaland for the third consecutive time withan absolute majority. The Congress retains Meghalaya.

MARCH

March 3: Land acquisition for the Posco project resumes.

A Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-Ul-Haque is shot dead during a mob attack in the

Hathgawan area of Pratapgarh district in U.P.

March 4: Uttar Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh aliasRaja Bhaiya resigns after being named an accused in the killing of DSP Zia-ul-Haque.

March 6: The seventh Left Front Government headed by Manik Sarkar (who takes oath asChief Minister for the fourth consecutive term) assumes office in Tripura.

March 8: The Delhi gangrape victim is posthumously honoured with the Rani LakshmibaiAward, at a function in New Delhi.

Bittihotra Mohanty, son of former Odisha DGP B.B. Mohanty missing since his release onparole on November 20, 2006 while serving a seven-year term for raping a GermanNational in Alwar, Rajasthan is arrested by the Kerala Police in Kannur.

March 9: The Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association presents a memento namedPonni yin Selvi to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for her efforts in getting thefinal award of the Cauvery Tribunal notified in the Central gazette, at a function inThanjavur.


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March 11: Ram Singh, the main accused in the December 16, 2012 Vasant Vihar gangrapeis found hanging in his cell inside Tihar jail.

March 13: The CBI books the former Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi along with 12 othersfor alleged cheating, criminal conspiracy in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP chopper deal.

March 16: The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates the 125{+t}{+h}anniversarycelebrations of M alayala M anorama in Kottayam, Kerala and releases a commemorativestamp.

March 18: Paan Sin gh Tomar bags the best feature film award at the 60th National FilmAwards function in New Delhi. The Hindi film Vicky Donor and Malayalam film UstadHotel share the award for the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment.Irrfan Khan ( Paan Singh Tomar ) and Vikram Gokhale ( Anumati ) share the best actoraward. Usha Jadhav ( Anumati ) bags the best actress award.

March 19: The DMK decides to quit both the Union Government and the Congress-ledUPA.

The Lok Sabha passes the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, to provide for morestringent punishment for crimes against women.

March 20: All five DMK Ministers in the UPA government submit resignation letters toPrime Minister Manmohan Singh.

March 21: The Supreme Court confirms the death sentence for Yakub Abdul RazakMemon, the main accused in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that killed 257

people. Five-year jail term for actor Sanjay Dutt. Death sentence for 10 commuted to lifer.

The Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Paneerselvam presents a revenue-surplus budget inthe State Assembly. Social sector allocated Rs. 43,450-crore.

March 22: Italian marines Massimilano Latore and Salvatore Girone land in Delhi.

March 26: AirAsias proposal gets the governments nod.

March 27: The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts a resolution, which among other things, seeksa referendum on creation of Eelam.

Puthiya Kovilakathu Sree Manavedan Raja (100), the Zamorin of Calicut passes away at ahospital in Kozhikode.

March 30: Sterlite Industries Ltd.s copper smelter plant is ordered closed by the TamilNadu Pollution Control Board, following reports of a gas leak on March 23.


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The family members of those killed in the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament takeback gallantry medals they had returned on December 13, 2006.

APRIL

April 1: The Supreme Court in a landmark verdict rejects Swiss firm Novart is plea for apatent for modification of Glivec that fights a form of chronic blood cancer. Green signalfor cheaper generic drugs.

April 2: A new Gujarat Lokayukta Aayog Bill, 2013 is passed in the State Assembly.

The Supreme Court directs Sterlite Copper Smelter plant to pay Rs.100 crore ascompensation for land and water pollution. The order will not come in the way of TNPCBclosure directive.

April 3 : A court holds Maharashtra State Transport bu

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