Diary of Event 2012

EVENTS 2012 NATIONAL JANUARY TO DECEMBER JANUARY Jan.
. 2: Eleven school children and their van driver are killed after the vehicle collides with a truck in dense fog on the SahaShahabad road near Ambala in Haryana. Jan. 3: Explore and rejuvenate traditional systems of knowledge, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurating the 99th annual session of the Indian Science Congress in Bhubaneswar. Bharatanatyam exponent Padma Subrahmanyam is presented the first Natya Kala Acharya Award at the inauguration of the 6th Dance Festival of the Music Academy, Chennai. Jan. 4: Bishna Ram Bishnoi, one of the prime accused in the nurse Bhanwari Devi rape and murder case is held by the Pune police near Lonavala. Jan. 6: The Supreme Court directs Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar to face trial in the case of murder of their daughter Aarushi on May 16, 2008, at Noida. Senior Indian diplomat D. Bala Venkatesh Verma is given the first S.K.Singh award at a function in New Delhi. Jan. 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces right of franchise to NRIs at the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas inaugural in Jaipur. New pension and life insurance fund for overseas Indians. Jan. 9: President Pratibha Patil presents the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman to the Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and 14 others at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas valedictory. Six researchers from five science streams are honoured with the Infosys Prize-2011 at a function in Bangalore.
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Jan. 10: The Centre notifies 100 per cent foreign direct investment in single brand retail. Jan. 16: A major fire breaks out in Khalsa Mahal, part of the Chepauk Palace in Chennai, destroying the offices of the Directorates of Social Welfare and Industries and Commerce and leaving a fire officer dead.
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Bhupen Hazarika, Mario de Miranda (both posthumously), T. V. Rajeswar prominent among five Padma Vibhushan awardees. Hindi actors Dharmendra, Shabana Azmi, painter Jatin Das and Carnatic musicians T. V. Gopalakrishnan and M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Mira Nair, N. Vittal and Ronen Sen prominent among 27 awarded Padma Bhushan. Padma Shri awarded to 77 persons. Jan. 26: Dazzling display of cultural heritage marks the 63rd Republic Day celebrations. For the first time, the IAF contingent is led by a woman flight Lt. Sneha Shekhawhat. The Ashok Chakra is awarded posthumously to Lt. Navdeep Singh
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Norway agrees to hand over Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) taken under protective care by Child Welfare Services in 2011 to uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya who is to be their primary caregiver till the kids turn 18.
Jan. 25: Eight persons are killed and more than 30 persons injured in a freak mishap as Santosh Mane, a bus driver, goes on the rampage in Pune.
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Jan. 24: The five-day Jaipur Literature Festival ends without Salman Rushdies video conference following protest.
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Jan. 23: Sunil Verma, a key-accused in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam in Uttar Pradesh, is found dead at his residence in Lucknow.
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Jan. 20: Vodafone wins Rs. 11,000-crore tax case in Supreme Court.
for his supreme sacrifice in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2011. Kerala Governor and former Chief Minister of Pondicherry M.O.H. Farook (74) dies at a hospital in Chennai. Jan. 28: An estimated 82 per cent of the electorate cast votes in Manipur Assembly elections marred by militant violence that claims five lives in Chandel district. Jan. 30: Andhra Pradesh Home Secretary B. P. Acharya is arrested by the CBI in Hyderabad for his role in irregularities in allotment of plots for villas in the project of Dubai-based real estate developer Emaar.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gives nod for setting up a National Council for Senior Citizens. Feb. 2: The Supreme Court says sale of 2G spectrum by the UPA government is illegal and cancels all 122 telecom licences allotted on or after January 10, 2008 to 11 companies. Spectrum to be resold by auction.
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Feb. 1: The Supreme Court declares unconstitutional Section 27(3) of the Arms Act which provides for mandatory death penalty to an accused.
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Jan. 31: The Supreme Court dismisses plea for a further probe into the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
A Rs.1,000-crore housing project for the Thane Cyclone-hit districts such as Cuddalore and Villupuram highlight of the Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiahs address to the Assembly.
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Punjab and Uttarakhand record a turnout of over 77 and 70 per cent in Assembly elections.
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Feb. 3: Veteran environmental filmmaker Mike Pandey is honoured with the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2012. The Centre notifies proposal to set up a National CounterTerrorism Centre. Feb. 4: The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes bill seeking establishment of the Tamil Nadu National Law School in Srirangam. A massive farm package for Thane-hit farmers of Cuddalore and Villupuram is unveiled.
Sixtytwo per cent turnout in phase I of U.P. Assembly polls.
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Feb. 9: A student stabs to death R. Uma Maheswari (39), a teacher in a classroom at the St. Marys Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School on Armenian Street, Chennai. Kartam Surya, face of the Salwa Judum, is killed in an ambush in Chhattisgarhs Sukma district. Feb. 10: The Bombay High Court confirms the death sentence of three Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives Ashrat Shafiq Ansari, Mohammad Hanif Abdul Rahim Sayyed and his wife Fahmida
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The Gujarat High Court pulls up the Narendra Modi government for inaction and negligence during the 2002 post-Godhra riots. SIT frees Modi of all charges in the 2002 pogrom against Muslims.
The Karnataka Advocate-General B. V. Acharya resigns post, but to continue as Special Public Prosecutor in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
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Feb. 8: The beleaguered Karnataka Ministers, Laxman Savadi, J. Krishna Palemar and C. C. Patil, voluntarily resign.
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Feb. 7: Three Karnataka Ministers are caught watching pornography on mobile phone in the Assembly.
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Sayyed accused of the twin blasts in Mumbai on August 25, 2003. Feb. 11: Fiftynine per cent of the voters cast ballots in phase II of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Feb. 13: Tal Yehoshua Koren, Israeli diplomat is seriously injured after a magnetic explosive device fixed to her car by a motorcyclist goes off near the 7, Race Course Road residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. Feb. 14: Karnatakas Minister for Higher Education Dr. V. S. Acharya (71) dies following an acute myocardial infarction in Bangalore. Twentytwo writers and poets are honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2011 at the Festival of Letters in New Delhi. Feb. 15: The third phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls registers 57.25 per cent voting. Two fishermen are killed in firing by Italian naval personnel stationed on an oil tankerEnrica Lexie in the contiguous sea zone off Ambalapuzha in Kerala. Feb. 16: The Supreme Court stays Abu Salems trial in two cases.
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The fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls records 57.20 per cent turnout. Feb. 23 : Fiftynine per cent polling in phase V of U.P. Assembly elections.
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Feb. 19: Kerala police arrest two Italian marines suspected to have fired shots killing two fishermen.
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Feb. 25: At least 174 shops are gutted after a portion of Bangalores iconic Russell Market in Shivaji Nagar is ravaged in a major fire. Feb. 26: A massive forest fire (that raged for four days) wreaks havoc at Nagarahole National Park in Karnataka.
March 3 : Eastern Army Commander Lieutenant General Bikram Singh is named the next Chief of the Army Staff. The CBI arrests the former Uttar Pradesh Family Welfare Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha in the National Rural Health Mission Scam.
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The last phase of Assembly polls in U.P. registers 59.16 per cent voting. Eightytwo per cent voting in Goa Assembly polls. March 5: A freelance journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi is arrested for attack on Israeli diplomat, at Lodhi Road in South Delhi.
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March 2: The Supreme Court appoints Justice H.S. Bedi as Chairman of the Monitoring Authority to probe all cases of fake encounter deaths in Gujarat from 2003 to 2006.
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Ballots cast in sixth phase of U.P. Assembly polls.
Feb. 28: Mixed response to nationwide one-day general strike against the Centres neo-liberal economic and anti-labour policies.
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Sensex tumbles by 477.82 points recording its biggest fall in five months.
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Feb. 27: The Supreme Court directs the Centre to set up a special committee forthwith for interlinking of rivers.
March 6: Samajwadi Party sweeps Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. The Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine retains power in Punjab. In Goa, the BJP ousts the Congress from power. The Congress forges ahead in Uttarakhand and secures absolute majority in Manipur by bagging 42 seats in the 60-member House. March 7: The Byari debut feature film Byari shares the Best Film Award with Marathi film Deool at the 59th National Film Awards. Vidya Balan bags Best Actress Award for the biopic The Dirty Picture . Tamil Film Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai gets best popular film award.
March 13: Vijay Bahuguna of the Congress is sworn in as Uttarakhand Chief Minister at a simple ceremony in Dehra Dun. March 14: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi hikes passenger fares for the first time in eight years, while presenting the Railway Budget for 2012-13, with an outlay of Rs. 60,100 crore, the highest ever. Parkash Singh Badal is sworn in Punjab Chief Minister for a record fifth time. Sukhbir Singh is sworn in Deputy Chief Minister. Okram Ibobi Singh is sworn in Manipur Chief Minister for the third consecutive term. March 15: Akhilesh Yadav is sworn in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.
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March 12: The President Pratibha Patil announces a proposal to set up a separate Department of Disability Affairs during her address to the joint session of Parliament.
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March 9: Manohar Parrikar is sworn in Goa Chief Minister at a public ceremony in Camapal, Goa.
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A Pakistani judicial commission arrives in Mumbai to record the statements of four witnesses in the November 26, 2008 terror attacks in the city. March 16: The Finance Minister announces token relief to taxpayers presenting the Union Budget for 2012-13 in Parliament. Across the - board hike in excise duty and service tax. March 19: The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa gives nod for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.
March 21: The AIADMK pulls off an emphatic win in Sankarankoil Assembly byelection. The congress is routed in all seven Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh.
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Nod for Mahindra Satyam merger with Tech Mahindra. March 22: Railway Minister Mukul Roy rolls back the fare hike, except for high-end class. Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Rajiv Shukla, Mukul Roy, BSP chief Mayawati and BJP leader Arun Jaitley are elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha.
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Goa Tourism Minister and BJP leader Matanhy Saldanha (64), dies of cardiac arrest in Panaji.
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A Pune Court awards death sentence to two for the November 1, 2007 rape and murder of a BPO employee Jyotikumari Choudhary.
Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy takes over as Railway Minister.
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March 20: Work resumes at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site for the first time in nearly five-and-a-half months.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh forwards Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedis resignation to President Pratibha Patil.
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March 23: The Union Cabinet gives nod for credit guarantee fund to give a push to housing for low-income groups. Nod for Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010 giving women share in husbands property after divorce. March 25: Maoists free Italian tourist Claudio Colangelo after holding him hostage for 11 days. Chief of the Army Chief General V.K. Singh alleges during an exclusive interview toThe Hindu that he was offered a Rs 14crore bribe by an equipment lobbyist for purchasing substandard trucks.
K.N. Ramajeyam, younger brother of K.N. Nehru, former Tamil Nadu Transport Minister is murdered after being abducted from Thillai Nagar in Tiruchi.
March 30: Punjab Minister Bibi Jagir Kaur gets five-year prison term for forcibly causing her daughters miscarriage almost 12 years ago; resigns from the Cabinet. March 31: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy takes over as the CPI General Secretary from Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan who was at the helm for 16 years, at the partys 21st Congress in Patna.
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The Lok Sabha passes Accountability Bill, 2010.
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March 29: The fourth summit of BRICS in New Delhi begins process to set up a bank and inks two pacts to ease trade among each other.
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March 28: The Union government stays the execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana in connection with the killing of the former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh on August 31, 1995.
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March 26: Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O.Pannerselvam presents a growth-oriented budget.
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A school principal Rupam Pathak is convicted in the murder of BJP MLA Raj Kishore Kesari on January 4, 2011 in Bihars Purnea district. APRIL April 2: The Securities and Exchange Board of India allows listing of stock exchanges. April 4: President Pratibha Patil presents the Padma awards at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. April 8: Terror a major issue by which Indian people will judge progress in ties, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during talks with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, in New Delhi.
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Battered Baby Neha Afreen dies at the Vani Vilas Hospital, Bangalore after a cardiac arrest. Pakistani microbiologist Mohammad Khalil Chisti is freed on bail from Rajasthans Ajmer Central jail. April 12: The Supreme Court upholds the constitutional validity of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
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April 11: Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Chairman, N.P. Singh resigns on health grounds after holding the post for about 16 years.
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April 10: SIT finds no proof against Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, says Ahmedabad court. Closure report filed in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case.
The Supreme Court grants bail to Pakistani microbiologist Mohammad Khalil Chisti serving lifer in the Ajmer jail in a murder case.
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April 9: Prakash Karat is re-elected CPI(M) general secretary at the 20th party Congress in Kozhikode.
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Italian court operator Bosusco Paolo is freed by naxalites after being held captive for 29 days, in Kandhamal district, Odisha. April 13: India decides in principle to allow FDI from Pakistan. Both nations also agree to allow opening of bank branches. Ambikesh Mahapatra, a professor of Kolkatas Jadavpur University is arrested for allegedly circulating defamatory emails directed at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The two Bhattacharya children land in Delhi after being kept in foster care for almost a year by authorities in Norway. April 26: Odisha MLA Jhina Hikaka, kidnapped by Maoists more than a month ago is freed on the outskirts of Balipeta village in Koraput district. Indias first indigenously built all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite, RISAT-1 is injected into orbit by the PSLV C-19 after lift-off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. April 27: The former BJP president Bangaru Laxman is convicted of taking bribe to facilitate government contracts.
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April 24: The Rajya Sabha passes the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2010 that widens the net for disabled children.
April 21: Cadres of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) kidnap Alex Paul Menon, Collector of Sukma district, Chhattisgarh after killing two personal security guards.
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April 19: Nuclear-capable Agni-V is successfully test launched from a rail mobile launcher from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast propelling India into elite ICBM club.
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April 14: India and Pakistan agree on a roadmap for allowing trade through the land route Attari-Wagah. To give fillip to trade through new Integrated Checkpost.
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The grand old lady of Indian theatre Zohra Segal turns 100. April 28: Former SPG Chief B.V. Wanchoo is appointed Goa Governor and former Madhya Pradesh Minister, Aziz Qureshi, Governor of Uttarakhand, Margaret Alva is shifted to Rajasthan.
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A CBI court in Ranchi convicts 69 persons and acquits 16 in the multi-crore fodder scam, at the end of a 16-year-long trial. May 4: A Special Fast Track Court in Anand, Gujarat awards lifer to nine persons in the 2002 Ode riots case. Thirtyone are freed. Sensex tanks 320 points to close at 16831.08.
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The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is conferred on veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee by the Vice-President Hamid Ansari at the 59th National Film Awards 2012 in New Delhi. Marathi film Deool and Byari share the best feature film award. Vidya Balan bags Best Actress award for her role in The Dirty Picture . Girish Kulkarni bags Best Actor Award (Deool ).
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May 3: Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon is freed by Maoists in the Bastar forests ending a 12-day hostage crisis.
May 2: The Supreme Court allows the Italian ship Enrica Lexie to leave India setting aside the Kerala High Courts order.
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Bangaru Laxman quits the BJPs national executive.
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April 30: Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj is sent to jail after rejection of her bail plea.
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Bangaru Laxman is sentenced to four years RI on corruption charges by a Special CBI Court in New Delhi.
Tamil writer Ashokamitran is chosen for the 6th NTR National Literary Award. AIIMS graduate Shena Aggarwal tops the Civil Services Examination 2011. Rukmani Riar, a postgraduate from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences secures the second rank.
May 9: Parliament passes the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2012 with passage of the measure in the Lok Sabha. May 10: The Supreme Court allows Pakistani microbiologist Mohammad Khalil Chishti jailed in Ajmer for the past 20 years in a murder case to visit his country. May 11: Furore in Parliament over derogatory 1949 cartoon on Ambedkar. Government bans the caricature contained in an NCERT book for 11th standard. May 13: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of Parliament. President Pratibha Patil releases a book.
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May 8: West Bengal confers the first Bishesh Rabindra Puraskar on Rabindra Sangeet exponent Dwijen Mukhopadhyay to mark the conclusion of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of the Nobel laureate.
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The Supreme Court suspends the life sentence of CPI (Maoist) activist Narayan Sanyal and grants him bail.
May 7: Lok Sabha passes the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2012.
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May 5: Italian ship Enrica Lexie detained off Kochi since February 15 following the killing of two fishermen is allowed to sail out of Indian waters.
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A Bill to repeal the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council Act, 2010 is introduced in the Rajya Sabha.
May 15: The former Telecom Minister A. Raja is granted bail by a special CBI court in New Delhi after spending nearly 15 months in the Tihar Central Jail. May 16: Sensex tumbles by 298.6 points to close at 16030.09 triggered by the eurozone crisis. May 20: S. P. Mahantesh, Deputy Director of Cooperative Audit and whistleblower on irregular land allotments in Karnataka dies of injuries he suffered after a murderous attack in Bangalore five days ago.
May 23: The rupee touches an all-time low of 50.22 against the dollar. Sensex closes below the 16000-mark.
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May 27: The CBI arrests YSR Congress president and Kadapa MP Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy in a disproportionate assets case. May 28: The Andhra Pradesh High Court quashes the Centres 4.5 per cent quota for Minorities carved out of the 27 percent reservation for the OBCs.
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The Mamata Banerjee government announces scrapping of the Special Economic Zones.
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The Lok Sabha passes the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011. Parliament nod for The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012, that entitles artistes to life-long royalty.
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May 22: Twentyfive persons are killed as the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express rams a stationary goods train near the Penukonda station in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh.
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Eminent actor Suchitra Sen is honoured with West Bengals highest award Banga Bibhusan.
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May 29: A special court in Mumbai grants bail to seven accused in the Adarsh Housing Society case as the CBI fails to file chargesheet. Gulf, EU residents are allowed to invest in stock markets. Qualified Foreign Investors to bring up to $1 billion in debt market.
General Bikram Singh assumes office as the Chief of the Army Staff in New Delhi.
June 4: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar is sworn is as Rajya Sabha member. June 5: Vice-Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi is named the next Chief of the Naval Staff. June 6: Election Commissioner Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath is appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner. Planet Venus transits the Sun, the last such celestial event of this century. Sensex gains 433.66 points to close at 16454.30. June 8: The trial in the Aarushi murder case begins at a Ghaziabad court.
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June 2: Massimilliano Lattore and Salvatore Girone, the two Italian marines arrested for the killing of two Kerala fishermen are freed on bail after spending 105 days in custody.
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June 1: Brahmeshwar Singh alias Mukhiyaji, chief of the Ranvir Sena is shot dead at Katira Mohalla, 71 km from Patna, in the Bhojpur district headquarters town of Ara.
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May 31: The Union Cabinet gives nod for the National Telecom Policy 2012. Number portability allowed.
June 11: V.S. Sampath assumes office as the Chief Election Commissioner. June 13: Five persons, including the owner of Sri Padmapriya Kalyana Mahal in Srirangam, Tiruchi are convicted for the death of 64 persons on January 23, 2004 during a fire mishap at the hall. June 14: Pascal Mazurier, a French diplomat, is held by the Bangalore police on charges of raping his three-and-a-halfyear-old daughter. June 15: The Congress suffers a setback as it loses 18 seats in the byelections to the Assemblies in 10 States and the Nellore Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh. In Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK wins the Pudukottai Assembly seat.
June 21: Five persons are killed in a towering inferno that engulfs Mantralaya, the Maharashtra Secretariat. Many offices, including that of the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister are gutted.
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June 22: The Calcutta High Court strikes down the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, terming it unconstitutional and void. June 25: A fire destroys the 200-year-old shrine of Dastageer Sahib at Khanyar in Srinagar. The relics of the 11th century preacher Ghausul-Azam are safe.
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Mahi (4) dies of asphyxia after falling into a 70-foot borewell at Kasan village in Gurgaon.
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Conjoined twins Stuti and Aradhana are separated after a 12hour complex surgery at the Missionary Hospital in Padhar of Betul district, Madhya Pradesh.
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June 20: The former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma quits the NCP and to contest presidential polls with NDA support.
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Suspected Lakshar-e-Toiba terrorist Abu Jindal alias Sayyed Zabiuddin Ansari who played a key role in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks is held by the New Delhi Police after being deported by Saudi Arabia. A trial court in Shimla frames graft charges against the Union Minister for Small, Micro and Medium Industries Virbhadra Singh. June 26: Pranab Mukherjee steps down as the Union Finance Minister. Prime Minister Manmohan singh takes over the portfolio.
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July 3: The Union Cabinet clears Rs.25-crore plan to airlift 350 tonnes of toxic waste from Bhopal. July 4: The CBI files chargesheets against the former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and 12 others in the Adarsh Housing Society case. July 5: Aradhana who was separated from her conjoined sister Stuti dies after twice suffering cardiac arrest in Betul, M.P.
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July 1: Floods, landslips leave 77 dead in Assam.
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June 29: Leela Samson is back as director of the Kalakshetra Foundation. She had quit the post on April 12 amid pressure from a section of the board.
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June 28: Surjeet Singh (69) is freed after spending three decades in Pakistani prisons on spying charges and crosses the zero line at the Wagah-Attari joint check-post along the border in Amritsar.
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Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigns.
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Altogether 538 animals, including 13 rhinos are killed as floods wreak havoc on the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. July 6: The Supreme Court quashes FIR against former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in disproportionate assets case.
July 8 : Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda hands over resignation to BJP president Nitin Gadkari. July 9: The Bombay High Court acquits five accused and upholds life term for four in the 2002 Best Bakery case.
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July 13: The most wanted idol and antique items smuggler Subhash Chandra Kapur arrested last October in Germany is brought to Chennai. July 18: Rajesh Khanna (70), Hindi cinemas first real superstar dies in Mumbai, following prolonged illness. A general manager is killed and 100 managers injured in unprecedented violence at Maruti Suzukis Manesar plant in Haryana over the suspension of a lineman. July 20: Assam police arrest Gaurab Jyoti Neog, a journalist with New Live TV Channel for allegedly instigating the molestation of a girl.
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July 12: Jagadish Shettar is sworn in as Karnataka Chief Minister. K.S. Eshwarappa and R. Ashok become Deputy Chief Ministers.
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A girl is molested outside a pub in full public view in Guwahati, Assam by a group of persons.
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President Pratibha Patil is enrolled biometrically in the National Population Register at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
July 21: Maruti Suzuki India Limited declares an indefinite lockout at its Manesar plant. About 36,000 flee homes in Assams Kokrajhar district following Bodo-Muslim clashes that leave 12 dead. July 22: Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is declared elected President. He defeats the former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma by 3,97,776 value votes.
July 29: Seventyfour per cent polling in the first-ever elections to the Gorkha Territorial Administration Sabha in West Bengal.
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The Northern Grid crashes in one of the worst outages in more than a decade plunging eight States into darkness. July 31: In the second massive breakdown, 21 States plunge into darkness as three grids collapse. P.Chidambaram is back as Finance Minister. Sushil Kumar Shinde becomes Home Minister and Veerappa Moily given additional charge of Power.
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July 30: A fire aboard the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express in Nellore leaves 32 dead.
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July 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits flood-hit Assam and announces Rs.300 crore in Central aid.
July 25: Pranab Mukherjee is sworn in President in the Central Hall of Parliament.
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July 24: Army is called out in Assam as violence escalates in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dubri districts. Rail link snapped and 1.7 lakh people move to relief camps.
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Amarjyoti Kalita, the key accused in the Guwahati molestation case is arrested in Varanasi.
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July 23: Shoot-at-sight orders in Kokrajhar district, following unabated violence. Toll touches 20.
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The Madras High Court stays Leela Samsons reappointment as Director of Kalakshetra Foundation. AUGUST Aug. 1: Four low-intensity blasts rock the busy Junglee Maharaj Road in Pune. The Supreme Court acquits three persons, including Sanjeev Nanda in the January 10, 1999 BMW hit-and-run case in which six persons died. Aug. 4: The newly-elected members of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration Sabha are sworn in at a function in Darjeeling.
Aug. 6: Fiza Anuradha Bali, estranged second wife of the former Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Chander Mohan, is found dead in her house in Mohali town of Punjabs Ajitgarh district. Anna Hazare disbands Team Anna. Aug. 7: Hamid Ansari is re-elected Vice-President, thus becoming the second person to get a second consecutive term after S. Radhakrishnan. India becomes first destination in Asia to receive the state-ofthe-art Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 International after it touches down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi to a water cannon salute.
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Aug. 5: Haryana Minister of State for Home and Youth Affairs Gopal Goyal Kanda resigns following the registration of a case in connection with the suicide in New Delhi of Geetika Sharma, a former staff of an airline owned by him.
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The former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel and former Union Minister Kashiram Rana quit the BJP.
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Aug. 11: Hamid Ansari is sworn in as Vice-President for a second term. Two persons are killed and more than 50 injured as a protest against Assam riots turns violent in Azad Maidan, Mumbai. Amar Jawan memorial desecrated.
Aug. 19: The 20th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is conferred on D.R. Mehta, founder and chief patron of the Bhagwan Mahavir Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur.
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Aug. 24: The Supreme Court extends stay of verdict in the Singur land case providing respite to the West Bengal government. Aug. 29: The Supreme Court confirms death sentence awarded to Ajmal Kasab, the prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
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Aug. 21: Maruti Suzuki resumes production at its Manesar plant in Gurgaon.
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Aug. 17: The CAG report tabled in Parliament points finger at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for discrepancies that led to loss of Rs. 1.86-lakh crore in coal blocks allocation during 2004-09.
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Aug. 15: Lack of political consensus to blame for slow economic growth, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi on the 66th Independence Day.
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B. V. Acharya, Special Public Prosecutor in the disproportionate assets against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, quits post.
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Aug. 14: The Union Minister for Science and Technology and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh (67) dies at a Chennai hospital.
Mayaben Kodnani, former Minister in the Narendra Modi Cabinet and former Bajrang Dal convener Babu Bajrangi among 31 persons convicted by a special court in Ahmedabad in the February 28, 2002 Naroda-Patiya massacre case in which 97 Muslims were killed. Aug. 30: Nine IAF personnel are killed as two helicopters collide in mid-air in Gujarats Saurashtra region. Aug. 31: The Supreme Court directs Sahara group to refund Rs. 24,400 crore collected from 2.21 crore depositors. All convicts in the Naroda-Patiya riots case, including BJP MLA Mayaben Kodnani are sentenced to lifer by a special court in Ahmedabad.
Sept. 3: The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2010 and two other Bills passed without debate in the Lok Sabha. Bill to eliminate manual scavenging introduced. Normal functioning of Parliament hit for the ninth day.
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Sept. 9: A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasts off from Sriharikota and places in orbit two foreign satellites on ISROs 100th mission.
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Sept. 14: The Centre allows 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, 100 per cent in single brand retail and 49 per cent in civil aviation. Sensex gains 443.11 points to close at 18464.27, the highest close since July 2011.
The U.S. Consulate in Chennai is attacked during a protest against American filmInnocence of Muslims . Sept. 15: Pratish Datta, a visually challenged student is awarded the Professor Jagadish Chandra Bose Memorial Gold Medal for the best academic performance at the 58th convocation of IIT Kharagpur. Sept. 17: The Supreme Court grants bail to Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case. Sept. 18: The Trinamool Congress withdraws support to the UPA government. Copies of The Hindu dated January 21, 1966 found in a diplomatic bag which went down with an Air India aircraft 46 years ago in the French Alps are put on display at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi.
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Sept. 19: The Cauvery River Authority fails to resolve the issue of sharing of the waters. Tamil Nadu to approach Supreme Court. Sept. 20: The UPA Government notifies the guidelines for FDI in retail, civil aviation and broadcasting unfazed by the Opposition sponsored bandh. A.S. Panneerselvan, Executive Director of Panos South Asia, takes over as The Hindusthird Readers Editor.
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The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy is launched on the occasion of the 134th anniversary of the founding of the daily. Sept. 21: G. Kasturi (87), the former Editor of The Hindu , dies at his home in Chennai. Trinamool Congress Ministers quit the Union Cabinet. Sept. 22 : Rain wreaks havoc in Assam leaving thousands marooned in Tinsukia district. Floodwaters submerge 35 per cent area of the Kaziranga National Park. Six Ministers of the Congress in the West Bengal government resign their posts.
Nupur Talwar is freed on bail from the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad. Sept. 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for 2011 to 11 young scientists in New Delhi. CSIR announces research fellowships for scientists aged above 70. Sept. 28: Sharad Pawar asks Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to accept Ajit Pawars resignation. All other NCP Ministers asked to resume duty. The Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia retires.
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Sept. 29: Justice Altamas Kabir is sworn in the 39th Chief Justice of India by the President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi. The Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker D. Jayakumar resigns post. Sept. 30: K. Vijay Kumar retires as CRPF DirectorGeneral.
Sensex breaches the 19000 mark and closes at 19058.15. Oct. 5: The Supreme Court stays all mining operations in Goa. Oct. 6: The Cauvery Basin districts and Bangalore observe a shutdown in protest against the release of Cauvery waters to Tamil Nadu. Oct. 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rules out a stay or review of the decision of the Cauvery River Authority to release water to Tamil Nadu. Columnist and one-time playback singer Varsha Bhosle, daughter of legendary singer Asha Bhosle is found dead at her Peddar Road residence in Mumbai.
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A gender-sensitive Parliament can more insightfully address social problems faced by women, says President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurating the seventh meeting of Women Speakers of Parliament, in New Delhi.
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Oct. 10: P. Dhanapal is unanimously elected Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly, the first Dalit to hold the office since 1955. Oct. 11: Suvarna Soudha, the second Secretariat building in Karnataka, is inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee in Belgaum. Oct. 13: President Pranab Mukherjees son Abhijit Mukherjee scrapes through in Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency. In Tehri, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuganas son Saket Bahuguna loses to the BJPs Maharani Mala Rajlaxmi Shah. The Rajasthan government appoints The Hindus senior journalist Sunny Sebastian as the Vice-Chancellor of the newly created Harideo Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication. Oct. 16: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledges $50 million for biodiversity conservation for what he called the Hyderabad Pledgeaddressing the 11th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Karnataka High Court grants bail to French diplomat Pascal Mazurier arrested for sexually abusing his daughter.
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Oct. 20: Kingfisher Airlines licence is suspended. The Union government launches an Aadhaar- enabled service delivery system at Dudu town near Jaipur in Rajasthan. Bali Bai of Kurawad village in Udaipur district gets the 21st crore Aadhaar card.
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Oct. 23: Sunil Gangopadhyay (78), Sahitya Akademi president dies at his South Kolkata residence following heart attack. Oct. 25: Actor Waheeda Rahman is conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the closing function of the 14th Mumbai Film Festival. Miss Lovely bags the best film award.
Oct. 26: S.M. Krishna resigns as External Affairs Minister. India, Spain ink pact in defence cooperation after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and King of Spain Juan Carlos I. Oct. 28: Salman Khurshid is named External Affairs Minister. Pawan Kumar Bansal becomes the first Congress Railway Minister in 17 years. S.Jaipal Reddy is moved from Petroleum and Natural Gas to S&T.
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Oct. 31: Cyclone Nilam spares Chennai city, but makes landfall near Mamallapuram. Earlier , gusty winds drag a cargo ship MT Prathiba Cauvery and it runs aground off Elliots Beach, Besant Nagar.
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Union Cabinet nod to give ex-servicemen status for retired paramilitary personnel. Nov. 2: Senior TDP leader and former Union Minister, Yerran Naidu (55), dies after his car collides with a lorry at Ranasthalam in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. Cameroon is admitted as the 20th member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation and the U.S. becomes a dialogue partner at the ministerial meeting of the grouping in Gurgaon.
Nov. 8: The Andhra Pradesh High Court sets aside the BCCIs lifetime ban on former Indian cricket captain Azharuddin for match-fixing. Three Dalit colonies near Naikkankottai in Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu are attacked by a rampaging mob of caste Hindus. Cyrus P. Mistry is appointed Chairman of Tata Power. Nov. 9: The Supreme Court stays proceedings on all petitions in the 2G spectrum allocation scam pending before the Delhi High Court.
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Nov. 7: Veteran (CPIM) leader Samar Mukherjee turns 100.
Nov. 6: India and Canada finalise mechanism on shipping Canadian uranium to New Delhi after Manmohan Singh Stephen Harper talks. Social security agreement signed.
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Nov. 11: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen withdraws both from the UPA coalition at the Centre and the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh. Nov. 14: Friendship should be based on people, not governments, says the Myanmar opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi after delivering the Nehru Memorial Lecture on the 123rd birth anniversary of Jawarharlal Nehru, in New Delhi. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, comes into force.
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Nov. 19: Shaheen Dhada and Renu Srinivasan of Palghar in Mumbais Thane district are held briefly by police the former for her post on Facebook questioning the bandh following Bal Thackerays death and the latter for liking it. Nov. 21: Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks is hanged in Punes Yerwada jail. Nov. 22: The Trinamool Congresss attempt to bring a noconfidence motion against the UPA government in Lok Sabha fails.
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Nov. 18: Bal Thackeray cremated with full state honours at Mumbais Shivaji Park. The city observes a shutdown. A hospital in Thane ransacked following an FB post questioning the bandh.
Business tycoon Gurdeep Singh aka Ponty Chadha and his younger brother are killed in a fierce exchange of fire at a farmhouse in Chattarpur area in South Delhi following a property dispute.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former President of Brazil is presented the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, 2010 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Borlaug Award 2012 goes to K.V. Prabhu and Ashok Singh, scientists at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute.
Nov. 29: Talks between Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in Bangalore to break the deadlock on the Cauvery water dispute fails. Nov. 30: Inder Kumar Gujral (92), former Prime Minister (April 21, 1997 March 19, 1998) dies at a Gurgaon hospital of multiple organ failure. Union Cabinet declares seven-day state mourning The former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yeddyurappa quits the BJP and resigns as MLA. Formally joins Karnataka Janata Paksha. The President Pranab Mukherjee comes down heavily on the growing trend of disruption of proceedings of Parliament and State Assemblies during his speech at the diamond jubilee
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Nov. 27: Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business editor Samir Ahluwalia are arrested in New Delhi.
Nov. 25: The BJP suspends Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani.
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celebrations of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in Chennai. DECEMBER Dec. 1: Chief Justice of Nepal Khil Raj Regmi and Justice V.R.Sirpurkar, Chairman of the Competition Appellate Tribunal are among the winners of the International Jurists Awards and National Law Day Awards. Dec. 2: Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Sub-Plan Planning, Allocation and Utilisation of Financial Resources Bill, 2012 making it the first state in the country to have such legislation . Dec. 5: The UPA manages to defeat the Opposition motion on FDI in retail in the Lok Sabha after the BSP and the SP members stage a walkout. Dec. 6: Karnataka orders release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Dec. 7: The UPA government wins the vote on the policy on FDI in multibrand retail in Rajya Sabha with the SP staging a walkout and the BSP voting against the motion. A Kamrup court sentences to two years RI the 11 convicted in G.S.Road molestation case in which a gang misbehaved with a girl in the Assam capital Guwahati. Ajit Pawar is sworn in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister .
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Dec. 9: The Karnataka government stops Cauvery water release and files a petition before the Cauvery River Authority. Dec. 12: The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the epoch-making art festival, opens at Fort Kochi.
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Microbiologist Mohammed Khaleel Chisti, involved in a 1992 case of murder in Ajmer, is freed by the Supreme Court and allowed to go back to Pakistan. Dec. 13: Bill for providing the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes with quota in promotion in government jobs tabled in the Rajya Sabha. The Union Cabinet nod for a watered down version of proposal creating a new Cabinet Committee in Investment. Nod for amendments to the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill.
Dec. 16: A 23-year-old girl battles for life at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi after being gang-raped in a moving bus and thrown out along with her male friend on National Highway-8.
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Dec. 17: Rajya Sabha passes by a huge majority the 117th Constitutional Amendment Bill providing for quota in government job promotions for SC /ST employees. A staggering 70 per cent polling is recorded in phase II of Gujarat Assembly elections. Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business editor Samir Ahluwalia are granted bail by a sessions court in New Delhi.
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Dec. 15: My eyes now set on reforms in GAAR, IT and pharma sectors, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 85th annual general meeting of the FCCI in New Delhi. Naina Lal Kidwai takes over as the first woman president.
Amar Chitra Katha launches a graphic novel M.S.Subbulakshmi at the Narada Gana Sabha in Chennai.
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Six trainer aircraft and a helicopter used by the Chief Minister are gutted in a major fire in a hangar at the Begumpet airport in Hyderabad. Dec. 18: The Lok sabha passes the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2011. Cyrus P. Mistry is formally appointed Tata Sons Chariman. Dec. 20: Narendra Modi sweeps back to power in Gujarat for the third time in a row.
Dec. 21: The Raman Singh government enacts the Chhattisgarh Food Security Act, 2012. Flight Cadet R.K. Herojit Singh from Manipur paralysed below the waist following a mishap is cleared for commissioning into the IAF. Music director Ilayaraja among 36 chosen for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2012. Dec. 22: Students lay siege to Rastrapati Bhavan in New Delhi braving police action seeking justice for rape victims.
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India, ASEAN finalise the FTA in services and investments at the plenary session of India-ASEAN commemorative summit in New Delhi.
Booker-nominated Jeet Thayil and Bengali novelist Subrata Mukhopadhyaya among 24 selected for the 2012 Sahitya Akademi Awards.
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Seven persons are killed in an explosion at a firecrackers unit at Parakallur village in Mecheri, Salem.
Dec. 28: Ratan Naval Tata steps down as Tata Group Chairman.
Manohar Singh one of the accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts is held in Madhya Pradesh. Dec. 30: The U.P. girl is cremated at the Dwarka crematorium in New Delhi. Dec. 31: Cyrus P. Mistry takes over as Tata Group Chairman.
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Jan. 15: Homai Vyarawalla (98), photojournalist, in Vadodara, Gujarat.
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Jan. 10: Gevork Vartanyan (87), Soviet spy, in a Moscow hospital. Jan. 18: K.V. Balasubramanian (78), former Chief Advertisement Manager of Kasturi & Sons Ltd., in Chennai. Jan. 24 : Sukumar Azhikode (86), Malayalam writer, at a private hospital in Thrissur, Kerala of cancer.
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Johan Frederik Staal (82), renowned Indologist, at his home near Chiangmai in Thailand.
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March 1: Andrew Breitbart (43), American Rights online warrior, in Los Angeles. March 7: Bombay Ravi (86), Hindi and Malayalam music composer, in Mumbai. March 9: Joy Mukherjee (73), Bollywood veteran actor in a Mumbai hospital after a prolonged illness.
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Feb. 13: Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (76) (Shahryar), Urdu poet and Jnanpith Awardee in Aligarh.
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April 23: Appachan (88), renowned Malayalam movie director and producer, at a hospital in Kochi.
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June 5: Ray Douglas Bradbury (91), a giant of science fiction writing, in Los Angeles. June 13: Mehdi Hassan (84), known as the Ghazal King, of multiple organ failure at the Aga Khan hospital in Karachi. June 21: Abid Hussain (85), Indias former Ambassador to the U.S. in London of a massive heart attack. Radha Vinod Raju (62), founding Director-General of the NIA, in Kochi of leukaemia. Sunil Janah (94), ace photographer known for his searing coverage of the 1943 Bengal Famine, at his home in Berkeley, California.
July 12: Dara Singh (83), wrestler-hero, at his Mumbai residence.
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July 23: Lakshmi Sahgal (97), INA veteran, at a Kanpur hospital. Sally Ride(61), U.S. physicist and first American woman to enter into low earth orbit in 1983, at La Jolla, California, of pancreatic cancer. July 29: Vempati Chinna Satyam (82), kuchipudi exponent at his residence in Chennai.
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June 29: Joan Dunlop (78), champion of womens rights, of breast cancer at her home in Connecticut.
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Sept. 1: Hal David (91),Raindrops lyricist, of complications from a stroke, in Los Angeles.
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Aug. 28 : K. Pankajakshan (84), veteran Leftist leader and former general secretary of the RSP, in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Sept. 21: Konda Laxman (97), noted freedom fighter and Telangana protagonist of cardiac arrest at his residence in Hyderabad. Sept. 24: Thilakan (77), veteran Malayalam actor,at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram after battling multiple organ failure.
Oct. 15: Cambodias Prince Norodom Sihanouk (89), of heart failure in Beijing. Oct. 21: Yash Chopra (80), Hindi film director, at Lilavati hospital in Mumbai.
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Oct. 1: Eric J. Hobsbawm (95), British Marxist historian, at the Royal Free Hospital, in London.
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Nov. 17 : Tulsi Govinda Baruah (87), the Chairman of The Assam Tribune Group of Newspapers at his residence in Rajgarh. Nov. 22: Govinda Pillai (86), Leftist intellectual, at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
Dave Warren Brubeck (91), U.S. jazz legend, of heart failure in Hartford, Connecticut. Dec. 7: Sister Mary Theodre (86), founder of MITHRA, in Chennai. Dec. 9: Patrick Moore (89), British astronomer who helped map the moon and presenter of the BBC programme, The Sky At Night, at his home in Selsey, West Sussex. Norman Joseph Woodland (91), co-inventor of the barcode, in Edgewater, New Jersey. Dec. 10: Iajuddin Ahmed (81), former Bangladesh President in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Dec. 11: B.B.Nimbalkar (93), former Ranji cricketer at his residence in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. Dec. 20 : Leslie Claudius (85), Indias triple Olympic gold medallist and one of the legends of hockey, in Kolkata after prolonged illness.
A magnitude 7 earthquake rocks Japan. Jan. 2: Kiaran Stapleton (20) is charged with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Manchester. Jan. 8: The African National Congress celebrates centenary in a $12.3-million commemoration in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Tata Technologies unveils the prototype of $20,000 eMO electric car at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. Jan. 12 : Scientists report the discovery of two more circumbinary planets Kepler 34 b, Kepler 35 b. Jan. 13: Former Myanmar Premier Khin Nyunt and former student activist Min Ko Naing among 650 political prisoners freed by the government.
Jan. 19: The American photographic film pioneer, Eastman Kodak Co, which invented the hand-held camera files for bankruptcy. Megaupload.com, one of the worlds most popular file-sharing sites, is shut down following a federal indictment in Virginia.
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Jan. 15: George Clooney bags the Best Actor Award for his role in The Descendants and Meryl Streep the Best Actress Award for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady at the 69th Golden Globe Awards at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
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Jan. 20: U.S. Congressional leaders put on hold anti-online piracy legislation following a wave of protests led by Google and Wikipedia. Jan. 21: Nearly 178 people are killed in coordinated bomb and gun attacks by Islamist radical group Boko Haram in the Nigerian city of Kano. Egypts Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood win two-thirds of seats in Parliament in historic polls held in three stages beginning November 2011.
U.S. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich who led a group of American Marines involved in the killing of 24 Iraqi residents in Haditha town on November 19, 2005 gets away with a lighter sentence. . Jan. 29: Civil rights drama The Help wins three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild awards. Jean Dujardin bags Best Male Actor award for role in The Artist . Viola Davis gets Best Female Actor award for The Help . Lifetime Achievement Award for Mary Tyler Moore. FEBRUARY Feb. 1: A seven-member U.K. Supreme Court bench takes up for hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanges plea against a High Court ruling that he can be extradited to Sweden.
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Wesley Brown (104), the oldest sitting federal judge in the U.S, dies at an assisted living center in Kansas.
Jan. 23: Islamist MPs take centre stage as Egypts Parliament meets for the first time since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
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Feb. 6: At least 44 persons are killed as a 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of central Philippines. Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 60th anniversary of her ascension to the British throne. Feb. 7: Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed resigns in the face of a revolt by the police forces. Hands over power to VicePresident Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik. Feb. 8: At least 62 persons are killed by Syrian security forces in Homs city. Feb. 10: At least 25 persons are killed and 175 injured as two huge car bombings rock Aleppo, Syria.
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At least 200 people are killed as Syrian forces unleash a barrage of mortars on the city of Homs.
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Feb. 2: The U.S. indicts Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, for enabling tax fraud by American taxpayers.
Jeffrey Zaslow (53) best-selling author and former columnist for The Wall Street Journal is killed after losing control of his car in Michigan. Sudan and South Sudan sign a treaty of non-aggression on their disputed border in Addis Abbas.
Turkmenistan votes in presidential polls. Greek lawmakers approve harsh new austerity measures even as riots in cities result in injuries to 170 people. Six Cabinet members quit in protest. Feb. 13: Jordan-born radical preacher Abu Qatada once dubbed Europes Osama bin Laden is freed by a London court after spending six-and-a-half years in jail. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and seven others are honoured with the 2011 National Medal of Arts and Humanities by the U.S. President Barack Obama at a White House function.
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The image of Nelson Mandela to appear on South Africas new currency notes to mark the 22nd anniversary of the antiapartheid icons release from prison, says President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria.
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French film-maker Michel Hazanaviciuss black-and-white silent movie The Artist wins all the top prizes at the 65th British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Meryl Streep picks up the Leading Actress award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady .
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Feb. 12: British soul diva Adele makes a clean sweep at the Grammys winning six awards. Foo Fighters take five Grammys, including best rock song.
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Feb. 11: American R&B singer Whitney Houston (48) is found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California.
Feb. 15: Iran unveils its first domestically produced, 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor. At least 355 inmates are killed in a fire at a prison in Comayagua, Honduras. Maldivian President Waheed Hassan Manik names Mohamed Waheeduddin Vice-President. Feb. 16: Anthony Shahid (43), two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist (2004, 2010) and T he New York Times correspondent, known for his clear-eyed coverage of the Arab Spring, dies in eastern Syria. Feb. 17: German President Christian Wulff resigns in a scandal over favours he received before becoming head of state. Italian Directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani receive the Golden Bear award for their documentary Caesar Must Die ( Cesare de morire ) at the Berlin film festival. Hungarian film Just the Wind bags the Silver Bear. Mikkel Boe Folsgaard bags Best Actor Silver Bear ( Royal Affair ). Rachel Mwanza gets Best Actress award ( War Witch ). Former Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the lone U.S. Marine convicted in the 2005 killings of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha is discharged from service.
Feb. 19: Marie Colvin of The Sunday Times , a veteran war reporter and a French photographer Remi Ochlik are killed as their house in Baba Amr, a suburb of Homs in Syria comes under bombardment. Feb. 21 : Eurozone finance ministry seal a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout package for Greece after 13 hours of talks in Brussels.
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Feb. 18: Somalias diaspora leaders sign a deal under the U.N. auspices in the northern town of Garowe.
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Feb. 22: The Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns. At least nine protesters are shot dead in violent protests across Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Koran at Bagram airbase. Researchers have found a flaw in experiment setup that led to the claim that neutrinos travelled 60 nano seconds faster-thanlight.
Nepals Chandra Bahadur Dangi (72), who is just 21.5 inches (54.6 cm) is declared the worlds shortest living man at a ceremony in Kathmandu. Syrians cast votes in referendum on a new Constitution. Feb. 29: James Murdoch quits as executive chairman of News International over allegations that he tried to cover up the phone hacking scandal at the defunct News of The World.
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Asghar Farhadis domestic drama A Separation becomes the first Iranian film to win an Oscar. Pakistan documentary maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoys film on acid victims Saving Face bags for the nation its maiden Oscar.
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Martin Scorseses Paris Adventure Hugo wins five Oscars, all in technical categories.
Feb. 26: The Artist wins five Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Dean Dujardin, the first Frenchman to win an Oscar), becoming the first silent film to win Hollywoods highest honours since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago.Meryl Streep bags Best Actress Award ( The Iron Lady ) Christopher Plummer (82), becomes the oldest winner bagging award for Best Supporting Actor (Beginners ).
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MARCH March 2: Iranians cast ballots in parliamentary polls. At least 38 persons are killed and Marysville town in Kentucky is wiped off as tornadoes rip through central U.S. Oil Major BP agrees to pay $7.8 billion in a deal with the claimants affected by the spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. March 4: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wins Russias presidential election. At least 150 people are killed and around 1,500 injured in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville. March 7: Norwegian prosecutors indict Anders Behring Breivik on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people on July 22, 2011 in a bomb and shooting rampage. March 9: Kiribati Cabinet gives nod for a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fijis main island Viti Levu to move the populace fearing climate change may wipe off the entire Pacific archipelago. Greece persuades majority of private creditors to sign up to the biggest national debt writedown in history. Israeli air strike kills the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees sparking a sharp cross-border exchange. March 11: Sixteen Afghans, including nine children are killed by a rogue American solider Staff Sergeant Robert Bales who walks off his base and opens fire on houses in two villages of Panjwayi district, Kandahar. The toll in the Israel- Palestine skirmish reaches 18 as Tel Aviv carries out four strikes.
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March 13: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announces that it is to cease publication of its print edition for the first time in more than 200 years. March 15: Bo Xilai, a politburo member is removed by Chinas leaders following a political scandal.
Mohamed Merah, a French al-Qaeda gunman, the main suspect in the killing of seven persons, dies at the end of a 32hour siege in Toulouse. March 23: Joachim Gauck, a former East German civil rights activist is sworn in the 11th President of Germany in the Bundestag, the lower House of Parliament. March 25: Hong Kong appoints as its Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, a businessman with close ties to China. Macky Sall wins Senegals presidential polls. March 26: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announces that oil deposits have been discovered in the countrys Turkana region.
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Soliders oust Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure and impose nationwide curfew.
March 22: India votes for a U.S-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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March 20: Hungarian mathematician Endre Szemeredi is chosen for the 2012 Abel Prize for his contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.
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March 19: A motorcycle borne gunman kills a rabbi, his two sons and another child in front of a Jewish School in the French city of Toulouse.
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March 16: Sachin Tendulkar cracks his hundredth international hundred during the Asia Cup clash in Mirpur, Bangladesh.
Titanic Director James Cameron returns to surface after a solo 11 km submarine dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific in his specially designed submersible the Deepsea Challenger. March 27: The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accepts the U.N.- Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annans six-point peace plan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledges $1 million towards the IAEAs Nuclear Security Fund for 2012-2013 in a statement to the plenary of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul.
April 3: A KoreanAmerican One Goh guns down seven persons at Oikos University in Oakland, California. James Murdoch quits as chairman of British satellite broadcaster BskyB. April 4: KuwaitIraq flights to resume after 20 years.
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April 5: Buford, Wyoming, billed as the smallest town in America is sold at an auction for $ 900,000 to a Vietnamese national. April 6: Malawis President Bingu wa Mutharika (78) dies of a heart attack. April 7: More than 100 people are killed in Syria crackdown on protestors.
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April 1: Myanmar votes in historic by-elections for 45 parliamentary seats.
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March 30: Leonid Shebarshin (77) former Soviet spy master is found dead at his flat in Moscow.
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Fang Lizhi (76), prominent Chinese dissident dies in exile in the U.S. April 8: MS Balmoral, called the Titanic Memorial Cruise, sails from Southampton Port to mark the centenary of the sinking of the White Star liner (on April 15, 1912)
April 21: Charles Colson (80), a Watergate scandal conspirator dies of complications from a brain haemorrhage at a hospital in Virginia.
April 23: The Norwegian District Court in Stavanger announces verdict to hand over the Bhattacharya children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya to their uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya. April 26: Pakistan Supreme Court sentences Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to imprisonment till the rising of a seven-judge Bench for contempt of court. MAY
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April 20: At least 127 people are killed after a Pakistan jet crashes while trying to land at Rawalpindi.
April 16: The World Bank chooses Koreanborn American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president.
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April 15: Titanic Memorial Cruise MS Balmoral passengers reenact the moments before the sinking of the ship in the North Atlantic.
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April 11: Massive earthquakes strike the north Indian Ocean off Indonesia and trigger a tsunami watch. Tremors felt in many states of India.
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April 10: China Communist Party suspends Politburo member Bo Xilai in the aftermath of a political scandal.
May 2: A U.K. Court orders extradition of Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, an alleged associate of Dawood Ibrahim, for his role in two cases of terror attacks in Gujarat in 1993. The Nepal Cabinet resigns in a bid to pave the way for the formation of a national consensus government.
Greek voters cast ballots in parliamentary polls. May 7: Vladimir Putin is sworn in Russian President for a third term in a glittering Kremlin ceremony overshadowed by protests against his return.
President Pratibha Patil goes to Pietermaritzburg taking the same train as Mahatma Gandhi did on June 7, 1893.
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May 10: Fiftyfive persons are killed and over 370 wounded after two suicide car bombs rip through the Syrian capital Damascus. Algerians cast ballots in parliamentary polls. May 12: The U.N. adopts norms against land grabbing. May 13: Key Afghan peace negotiator Arsalan Rahmani Daulat is shot dead in Kabul.
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May 8: Russian Parliament confirms Dmitry Medvedevs appointment as Prime Minister.
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Syrians cast ballots in the first multiparty Parliament polls.
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May 6: Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande wins French presidential runoff edging out incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Japans last operating nuclear power reactor at the Hokkaido electric power station shuts down.
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May 4: Massive defeat for Tories and Liberal Democrats in local polls in Britain.
May 14: Thirteen Indians, including child actor Taruni Sachdev are killed in Nepal air crash. The Dalai Lama is awarded the $1.1 million Templeton Prize at a ceremony at St. Pauls Cathedral, London. May 15: Francois Hollande is officially inaugurated as the seventh President of Frances Fifth Republic. Jean Marc Ayrault named Premier.
May 19 : Visually-challenged Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng leaves for U.S. after seeking asylum in the American Mission following escape from house arrest a month ago.
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Facebooks billionaire co-founder Mark Zuckerberg marries long time friend Priscilla Chan at his home in Palo Alto, California. May 20: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, dies at his home in Tripoli of cancer.
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Tamae Watanabe (73) of Japan scales Mount Everest in the process smashing her own record by repeating her 2002 feat.
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May 17: The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic is halted.
A new Haitian government under Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is inaugurated.
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The Cannes Film Festival kicks off with quirky U.S. comedy Moonrise Kingdom .
May 16: The former Bosnian-Serb army commander Ratko Mladic indicted for war crimes goes on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague.
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Greece abandons a nine-day hunt for a government and calls a new election.
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A strong earthquake rocks northern Italy damaging historic buildings. May 21: The former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka, is released from jail following a presidential pardon. He cannot vote or contest election for the next seven years.
Prototype aircraft Solar Impulse takes to the skies on its first intercontinental flight, travelling from Switzerland to Morocco. May 25: California-based SpaceX becomes the first commercial outfit to dock its own cargo capsule at the ISS. More than 108 people, including 49 children are killed in Houla, Syria by heavily armed gunmen. May 27: Nepals Constituent Assembly is dissolved and fresh polls slated for November 22. May 28: India and Myanmar sign an MoU to operationalise a $500 million line of credit announced during President Thein Seins visit to New Delhi in October 2011.
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Indian Americans sweep the National Geographic Bee, with Rahul Nagvekar from Texas bagging the first position.
May 24: Nepal Supreme Court stays government proposal to amend interim constitution and extend the Constituent Assemblys term.
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India signs Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline pact in Avaza,Turkmenistan.
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May 23: Egyptians begin casting ballots in the first free presidential polls since the 1952 revolution that ended the monarchy.
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May 22: U.S. company SpaceX becomes the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft towards the ISS.
May 30: A U.N.-backed war crimes court in Leidschendam near The Hague sentences former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in jail for arming rebels in Sierra Leone in return for blood diamonds. Britains Supreme Court dismisses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanges appeal against extradition to Sweden.
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Violence in Syria leaves 89 dead, including 57 soldiers. June 3: Over 153 people are killed after a plane crashes into a residential building in the Nigerian capital Lagos and catches fire. Queens Thames pageant in London wows a million-strong crowd.
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June 2: The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to lifer for his complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising in 2011, following a 10- month trial. Sons Alaa and Gamal acquitted of corruption charges.
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Briton Kiaran Stapleton admits to killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve, at the Manchester Crown Court.
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SpaceX Dragon capsule, the worlds first commercial space cargo carrier returns to Earth ending the voyage to ISS with a splashdown in the Pacific 800 km off Mexicos Baja California.
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Snigdha Nandipati, an Indian-American, and eighth grade student from San Diego, California is declared the Scripps National Spelling Bee national champion for 2012.
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May 31: Egypts decades-old state of emergency ends.
June 5: The Queens diamond jubilee fete ends with a ceremonial royal carriage procession through central London. Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard completes the worlds first inter continental flight in Solar Impulse, a giant solar-powered plane and lands in Rabat, Morocco after a 19-hour voyage.
June 12: Elinor Ostrom (78), the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics dies of cancer at the Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital.
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Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel is selected for the 2012 World Food Prize. June 14: Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court dissolves the Lower House of Parliament. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces steps in to fill the breach. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses legal battle against extradition to Sweden after the British Supreme Court dismisses appeal to reopen the case.
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Avtar Singh, an ex-Indian Army officer wanted in the March 1996 death of human rights lawyer Jalil Andrabi in Srinagar, shoots his wife and two children to death in their California home before committing suicide.
June 9: The Eurozone extends a $ 125-billion bailout package for Spain.
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June 8: Scores of people are feared killed in riots against Muslim Rohingyas and Rakhine Buddhists in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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June 6: Riad Hijab is named Syrian Prime Minister. Damascus allows relief to enter four cities hard hit in the anti-regime uprising.
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At least 78 people are killed in the village of al-Qubeir near the embattled city of Hama.
June 15: The former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is found guilty of insider trading by a Manhattan court after a high-profile trial that began on May 21. Tightrope walker Nik Wallanda completes the first walk across the Niagara Falls in more than a century, from a height of 196 feet over the Horseshoe Falls, between the U.S. and Canada.
June 18: Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz is named the new Crown Prince. The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) splits and breakaway faction forms Nepal Communist Party (Maoist). Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras launches coalition talks after his New Democratic Party emerges top in general polls. June 19: Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies Yusuf Raza Gilani as Prime Minister in the wake of his conviction for contempt in April. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seeks political asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
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Frances Socialists win control of Parliament in a runoff vote.
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June 17: Egyptians cast ballots in presidential runoff.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991 while under house arrest, in Oslo.
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China sends its first woman Liu Yang into space aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in north-western Gansu province.
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June 16: Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (79), a half-brother of King Abdullah dies in Geneva.
June 20: The G-20 Declaration at Los Carlos, Mexico emphasises the need for growth, because, by itself austerity will not solve the debt problem of the Eurozone. Antonis Samaras is sworn in Greek Prime Minister at the helm of a three-party coalition. June 22: Raja Parvez Ashraf is elected Pakistan Prime Minister. Paraguays Senate removes President Fernando Lugo after impeachment. Vice-President Federico Franco is sworn in as President. June 24: Mohamed Morsy is declared winner of the Egyptian presidential polls.
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June 27: An end-of-history moment is witnessed by people of Belfast, North Ireland as Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. At last 149 people are killed in one of the bloodiest days in the 15-month revolt in Syria.
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A U.S. Federal Court declares that the U.S.-based Union Carbide Corporation and Warren Anderson are not liable for damage caused by the toxic wastes dumped in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
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June 26: Pakistan orders release of Surjeet Singh arrested near the India-Pakistan border in 1981 and languishing in jail even after the end of his jail term in 2004.
June 25: Bangladesh decides to confer the Friends of Bangladesh Award on retired Indian Army officer Colonel Ashok Tara for his role during the 1971 war.
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Lonesome George, the centenarian giant tortoise is found dead at the Galapagos National Park off Ecuadors coast.
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Barclays Bank is fined $ 453 million for alleged financial market manipulation. June 28: The U. S. Supreme Court upholds a core provision of President Obamas Affordable Healthcare Act. UNESCOs World Heritage Committee votes to include the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on its list of World Heritage in Danger.
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July 1: Mexicans cast votes in presidential polls. Leung Chun-ying is sworn in as Hong Kongs third Chief Executive. The Western Ghats is included in the World Heritage List at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in St. Petersburg, Russia. July 2: Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius resigns over LIBOR row.
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Hardliner Islamists occupying northern Mali go on the rampage in Timbuktu destroying ancient tombs of Muslim saints.
Mohamed Morsy is sworn in as Egypts first elected President.
June 30: Yitzhak Shamir (96), the former Israeli Prime Minister, dies at a nursing home in Herzliya, Jerusalem after a long illness.
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Chinese woman astronaut Liu Yang and two other crew members return to earth after a 13-day mission to an orbiting module.
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June 29: Eurozone seals a dramatic deal to allow emergency measures to aid crisis-hit Italy and Spain.
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July 4: Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, Geneva, announce the discovery of a new subatomic particle consistent with the long sought Higgs boson. July 5: The U.K. bans Indian Mujahideen following a unanimous vote in the House of Commons.
July 6: Romanian President Traian Basescu is suspended by Parliament.
The U.S. imposes additional sanctions on Iran. July 15: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, along with two colleagues, takes off for a second space odyssey on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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South Africas Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is elected the first woman head of the African Union in Addis Ababa. July 17: Britain admits at the London High Court that its colonial forces in Kenya tortured Mau Mau rebels in the 1950s and 1960s.
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July 12: Syrian government troops massacre more than 150 people in Treimsa village.
July 9: Aung San Suu Kyi attends Parliament as a lawmaker for the first time. She took oath in May.
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The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011 a manmade disaster, says a parliamentary probe.
July 20: James Eagan Holmes, a masked gunman kills 12 persons at a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises at a mall in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado. Euro nations seal a $ 122 billion bail-out deal for Spanish banks.
July 26: Kiaran Stapleton is convicted of killing Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford, Manchester on December 26, 2011. Gu Kailai, wife of purged Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai is charged with the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. July 27: Kiaran Stapleton gets jail for lifer for the killing of Anuj Bidve. July 28: Queen Elizabeth II declares open the 30th Olympic Games in London. At least 168 people are killed in clashes across Syria. July 30: Romanian President Traian Basescu escapes impeachment after referendum fails to muster enough support.
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July 25: Kulandei Francis of Tamil Nadu known for pioneering community initiatives is among this years six winners of Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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July 24: The Ghana President John Evans Fifii Atta Mills (68) dies in a hospital in the capital Accra.
July 22: Using cells from rat hearts and a seer polymer film, scientists create an artificial jellyfish.
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At least 37 persons are killed and more than 50,000 displaced after the heaviest rain in 61 years pummels the Chinese capital Beijing.
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July 21: Rajkeshwur Purryag takes oath as the fifth President of Mauritius.
July 31: Venezuela becomes member of South Americas biggest trade bloc Mercosur. AUGUST Aug. 1: Somalias Constituent Assembly endorses draft statute. Aug. 2: The United Nations-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan announces resignation.
South Sudan and Sudan hammer out a deal over oil. Aug. 5: Six persons are shot dead by Wade Michel Page, a U.S. Army veteran at a Gurdwara in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The killer dies of a self-inflicted gunshot. Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab joins the anti-regime revolt and reaches Jordan. Aug. 6: Curiosity, the NASAs $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot lands on Mars and beams first image. Aug. 9: Wael al-Halqi is appointed Syrian Prime Minister.
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Aug. 4: The Afghan Parliament votes to dismiss Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi charged with inept handling of cross-border shelling by Pakistan.
Over 138 skydivers form a massive snowflake formation over Ottawa, Illinois, setting a world record in vertical skydiving.
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Former Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase is jailed for corruption.
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The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning Syrian violence.
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Aug. 11: At least 306 people are killed and 2,500 injured after two earthquakes rock north-western Iran. Aug. 12: The Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy orders the retirement of Defence Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and Army Chief of Staff Sami Anan.
Aug. 18: Chinas Wen Xia Yu (23), is crowned Miss World 2012 at a glittering ceremony in the Chinese city of Ordos. Aug. 19: Prominent Hollywood film director Tony Scott (68), whose signature works included Top Gun jumps to his death from a bridge in San Pedro, California.
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The United Nations winds up mission in Syria. Aug. 20: Gu Kailai, wife of the purged former politburo member, Bo Xilai is awarded a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Meles Zenawi (57), Ethiopias Prime Minister since 1995 dies after a protracted battle in a hospital in Brussels.
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Rimsha Masih (11) a Downs Syndrome afflicted Pakistani Christian girl is arrested on charges of blasphemy.
Aug. 17: Quadruple amputee Philippe Croizon swims between islands in the icy Bering Strait to cross from America to Asia.
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The OIC summit in Dubai suspends Syria from the 57-nation grouping.
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Aug. 16: Ecuador grants political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Aug. 13: Australias Lower House clears bill to allow the transfer of boat people seeking asylum to Pacific states.
Aug. 21: Romanias Constitutional Court puts President Traian Basescu back in office after declaring a referendum to impeach him invalid. Aug. 24: Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for use of banned substances. A Norwegian court deems Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind the July 22, 2011 massacre of 77 people, sane and hands down maximum jail term. Aug. 25: Neil Alden Armstrong (82), first man on the moon, (July 20, 1969) dies of complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
Aug. 31: Kulandei Francis of India and five others receive the Ramon Magsaysay awards from the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at a function in Manila.
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Aug. 30: The Syrian crisis should be resolved through an inclusive political process led by Damascus, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurating the XIV Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran.
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Aug. 27: The first recorded human voice that travelled from Earth to Mars and then back to Earth is released at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Sept. 7: Sixtyfour persons are killed and more than 700 injured in an earthquake in south-western Chinas Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Pakistan Christian girl Rimsha Masih is granted bail 22 days after being held allegedly for burning pages of the Koran.
Sept. 13: Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is presented the Liberty Medal for his long-time role as a heavyweight for civil rights at a function in Philadelphia. Sept. 19: Space shuttle Endeavour leaves its Florida home port heading to the California Science Centre in Los Angeles to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is presented with the Congressional Gold Medal at a function at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Sept. 20: A speech jammer created by two Japanese researchers wins the 2012 Ig Noble Acoustics Prize.
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Sept. 12: Dutch voters overwhelmingly vote to power the ruling Liberals in parliamentary polls, the fifth in just over a decade.
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Sept. 11: The U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy staff are killed in an armed mob attack in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.
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Sept. 8: Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is presented the French Legion of Honour by the President Francois Hollande.
Sept. 25: China unveils its first aircraft carrier, the 300 metrelong Liaoning in the port city of Dalian. Sept. 27: The Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan sign pacts to implement a demilitarised zone after a five-day summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
Shadman Chowk in Lahore is renamed Bhagat Singh Chowk. Sept. 30: Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led the Operation Blue Star in 1984 is stabbed near a hotel in Central London. OCTOBER
Oct. 1: The Opposition Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili wins 70 per cent votes in Parliamentary polls. Oct. 5: Australia unveils the Colossal SKA Pathfinder radio telescope at the remote Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the western Australian desert. Oct. 7: Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah issues a decree dissolving the 2009 Parliament, just over three months since its reinstatement by the constitutional court. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins yet another reelection, the third in nearly 14 years in office.
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Sept. 29: GSAT-10, Indias 3.4-tonne spacecraft is launched from the Kourou launch pad in French Guiana in South America.
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Afghan human rights activist and former Minister Sima Samar wins the Swedish Right Livelihood Award.
Oct. 8: Briton John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryonic stem cells. Former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed is arrested and taken to Male. Oct. 9: Malala Yousafzai, the 14- year-old peace activist who became the Voice of girls in Swat, Pakistan, is shot at and seriously injured by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan while returning from school in Mingora.
Oct. 11: The U.N.s first International Day of the Girl Child is observed worldwide.
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Oct. 12: The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering peace in the continent after World War II. Oct. 13: The 77,000 kg space shuttle Endeavour begins final mission to the California Science Center to be the central piece of a new exhibit.
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Mo Yan becomes the first writer in China to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having mapped how a family of receptors called G-protein-coupled receptors work.
Oct. 10: Russia, Iraq resume military-technical cooperation.
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Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland are awarded the 2012 Physics Nobel Prize for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world.
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Former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed is freed after being produced at a criminal court in Male.
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Oct. 14: Austrian Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier and achieves the fastest free fall speed, falling at 1,137 kmph from an altitude of 128,097 feet after liftoff from Roswell, New Mexico. Oct. 15: American scholars Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd Shapley are awarded the Nobel Economics prize for their match-making theory. The British and Scottish governments sign a historic deal that will allow Scotland to hold an independence referendum.
Oct. 20: Palestinians in the West Bank cast ballots in local elections for their first vote since 2006.
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Meher Din (90), popularly known as Uncle Pakistan for his regular presence at the flag-lowering ceremony at Wagah border dies. Oct. 22: Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the International Cycling Union for leading a massive doping programme on his teams.
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Oct. 21: Kateri Tekakwitha, known as Lily of Mohawks becomes the first American Indian to be conferred sainthood.
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Oct. 18: Newsweek announces decision to end an 80 -year run as a print magazine at the year-end and go all-digital.
Hilary Mantel wins this years 50,000 Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Bring Up The Bodies , thus becoming the first-ever woman and the first living British novelist to win the award twice.
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Oct. 16: Vikram Pandit, Indian-American head of Citigroup steps down as CEO.
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma takes office as the first woman chief of the African Union in Addis Ababa.
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Oct. 24: Mali is readmitted into the African Union after a meeting of the A.U. Peace and Security Council. Rajat Gupta, former Goldman Sachs Director and Mckinsey and Company Managing Partner, convicted of passing on confidential information to jailed hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam receives a two- year jail term and a fine of $5 million. Oct. 25: WikiLeaks begins releasing classified files detailing policies for dealing with detenus in U.S. military prisons.
Oct. 30: New York takes most of the pounding as Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc on the U.S. east coast. Oct. 31: Decision to rename Lahores Shadman Chowk after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh put on hold. NOVEMBER
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Oct. 29: Seventeen persons are killed as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey . Emergencies declared in six states.
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Oct. 28: Savita Halappanavar, a young dentist of Indian origin dies from septicaemia after doctors at University Hospital Galway in Dublin, Ireland refuse to perform an abortion, citing the countrys strict anti-abortion law.
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Oct. 26: China expels disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai from the National Peoples Congress or Parliament.
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Nov. 7: Barack Obama wins a second term as U.S. President. Republicans succeed in holding its grip on the House of Representatives. Democrats retain majority in the Senate. Dr.Ami Bera becomes only the third Indian-American ever to be elected to the House of Representatives after winning in California.
Nov. 9: David Petraeus, quits as the CIA Director over an extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. Nov. 10: World observes Global Action Day for Malala Yousafzai. Pakistan government launches a programme to educate three million children, especially girls. Nov. 11: BBC director-general George Entwistle is forced to resign over his handling of a report falsely implicating a former advisor to the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a child abuse scandal.
The Communist Party of China selects a new Central Committee, marking the end of Hu Jintaos 10-year term as General Secretary. Nov. 15: Xi Jinping is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of China at a meeting of the 18th Central Committee. Li Keqiang is set to take over as Premier at the March Parliament session. British Petroleum agrees to pay between three and five billion U.S. dollars, thought to be the largest in U.S. history over criminal charges related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Nov. 14: An Israeli airstrike on a moving car in Gaza leaves Hamas commander Ahmed al-Jaabri dead.
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Shanthi Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi is elected to the Kansas House of Representatives.
Nov. 16: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolves the Lower House of Parliament and elections are set for December 16. The Lahore High Court bans authorities from going ahead with renaming Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh.
Nov. 22: The Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy arms himself with sweeping powers through a constitutional decree.
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Nov. 23: Ernest Bai Koroma is sworn in Sierra Leone President after his convincing reelection victory. Nov. 25: China successfully conducts landing exercises on its first aircraft carrier the Liaoning. Nov. 26 : Eurozone Finance Ministers and the IMF clinch an agreement to reduce Greeces debts after 12 hours of talks in Brussels.
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Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House is appointed the BBCs Director-General.
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Nov. 21: Israel and Hamas agree on a truce ending a week of violence in and around Gaza Strip that killed 150 people.
Nov. 20: The Genral Synod of the Church Of England rejects by a narrow vote a proposal to appoint women bishops.
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Nov. 19: Ready to expand FTA with ASEAN, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 10th ASEAN-India summit at Peace Place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Nov. 17: At least 47 nursery school children are killed after a train smashes into their bus at a railway crossing in Manfalut near Assuit in Egypt.
Catalonias fight for statehood and a historic divorce from Spain flounders. Nov. 27: Iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafats remains are exhumed in Ramallah eight years after his death at a French military hospital to determine whether he was poisoned.
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Typhoon Bopha leaves over 600 dead in the Philippines. Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. board member Rajat Gupta can remain free on bail while he appeals his insider-trading conviction, rules an appeals court in New York. Dec. 6: Maldives can take back Ibrahim Nasir International Airport from GMR, says the Singapore Court of Appeal. Dec. 7: Jacintha Saldanha, an Indian-origin nurse of King Edward VII hospital in London is found dead in her British home two days after a prank call by two Australian DJs led to revelation of medical details of Duchess of Cambridge Kate William.
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Dec. 4: Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni, an Indian software professional and his wife Anupama are jailed for 18 months and 15 months by the Oslo District Court for serious child abuse.
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Dec. 3: The High Court of Singapore stays the termination order served by the Maldives Government on GMR Male International Airport Ltd. to exit from the airport project.
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Dec. 2: Kuwait elects new parliament under the new one-vote system, the voting for which was held a day earlier.
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Nov. 29: The U.N. General Assembly resoundingly votes making Palestine a non-member observer state - on same day as partition of Holy Land in 1947.
Dec. 8: The U.N. meet on climate change in Doha passes a package of pacts to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admits to relapse of cancer and designates Vice-President Nicolas Maduro as his heir apparent.
Dec. 11: Stephen Hawking wins a $3 million Special Fundamental Physics Prize for a lifetime of achievements, the most lucrative science prize ever established.
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Pandit Ravi Shankar (92), renowned sitar maestro, dies in a hospital in San Diego, the U.S. Dec. 12: North Korea launches a three-stage weather forecast rocket from its Sohae Space Centre.
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Soldiers arrest Malis Prime Minister Chiekh Modibo Diarra and force him to resign.
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Victoria Ponta is reappointed Romanias Prime Minister after the leftists Social Liberation Union wins up to 60 per cent of votes in parliamentary polls held a day earlier.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee honours the European Union with Peace Prize for 2012. Chinese novelist Mo Yan is presented the Nobel Literature Prize.
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Dec. 10: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announces the Malala Fund for Girls Right to Education, a $10- million donation for a global war chest.
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Dec. 9: Incumbent President John Dramani Mahama is declared the winner of Ghanas presidential polls.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy annuls his November 22 decree.
Dec. 13: CIA tortured and sodomised terror suspect Khaled elMasri, a German of Lebanese origin, rules the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Dec. 14: Twentysix persons, including 20 children are killed as Adam Lanza goes on a shooting spree at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before turning the gun on himself. Envoys from 89 nations sign the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty, since the Internet age, in Dubai. Fiftyfive do not sign, including the U.S. led bloc of more than 20 nations. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns, a day after an indictment for breach of trust is filed against him.
Japans Opposition Liberal Democratic Party led by Shinzo Abe sweeps to victory in the National polls.
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Dec. 17: The Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition New Komeito secure two-third majority in the Japanese Lower House. Dec. 18: Queen Elizabeth II scripts history by attending a Cabinet meeting at 10, Downing Street, becoming the first British monarch since 1781 to do so. Part of Antarctica to be named Queen Elizabeth land.
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Dec. 16: Security forces five terrorists, part of a team involved in the Peshawar Airport attack after a fierce gun battle. Five others had died in the initial attack.
Dec. 15: Egyptians cast votes in phase I of the constitutional referendum.
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NASAs Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ends mission with a well orchestrated crash on Moon.
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The Irish government announces it will bring in law to allow for abortion in cases where the mothers life is found to be at risk. Dec. 19: Park Geun-hye is elected South Koreas first woman President. Swiss bank UBS admits to fraud and accepts a $1.5 billion fine for role in manipulating global benchmark interest rates. Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island is crowned Miss Universe 2012 at a function in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dec. 22: Egyptians cast votes in the second phase on the referendum on a constitutional draft. Vice-President Mahmoud Mekki resigns.
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Dec. 24: The U.N. General Assembly votes to restart debate on a global arms treaty. The final Newsweek magazine hits the newsstands with an iconic hashtag as a symbol of its Twitter-era transition to an alldigital format. Dec. 26: The Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy signs new constitution into law.
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Italys President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves Parliament a day after Prime Minister Mario Montis resignation.
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The Philippines President Benigno Aquino III signs into law contraception bill.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
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Dec. 21: Four persons are killed and many police officers injured in a shooting spree in Frankstown Township, Pennsylvania. Gunman among dead.
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The U.S. President Barack Obama is named Time Person of The Year.
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Shinzo Abe is sworn in Japanese Prime Minister. China launches services on the worlds longest high-speed rail route. Dec. 28: The U.S. Congress nod for bill extending surveillance law ambit.
Dec. 30: The Israeli Justice Ministry files indictment of former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
Jan. 11: Kerala and Railway win the mens and womens titles in the National volleyball championships in Raipur . Jan. 20: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board clinches the mens and womens titles in the Inter-State badminton championships in Bangalore .
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Jan. 22: Host India defeat South Afria 3-1 in the five-match hockey Series. Jan. 23: Rajasthan wins the Ranji Trophy defeating Tamil Nadu in the final in Chennai. Jan. 25: Maharashtras Arantxa Sanchis wins the Senior National womens billiards title in Pune.
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The pair of Leander Paes ( India ) and Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia wins the doubles title of the Chennai Open ATP championship.
Jan. 8: Milos Raonic of Canada wins the singles title of the Chennai Open ATP tennis championship.
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The French constitutional court rejects President Hollandes 75 per cent IT for high earners as unfair.
Sourabh Verma and P.V. Sindhu win the men's and women's titles in the Senior National badminton championship in Bangalore . Jan. 26: Maharashtra A and PSPB win the mens and womens titles in the Senior National table tennis championship in Lucknow .
Jan. 28: Chitra Magimairaj wins the womens title of the Senior National snooker championship in Pune.
Amalraj wins the mens singles title at the National table tennis championship in Lucknow .
Feb. 3: The English FA axes John Terry as England s captain after he had allegedly racially abused QPR defender Anton Ferdinand in an English Premier League match. Feb. 4: PSPBs Aditya Mehta retains his National snooker title in Pune. Feb. 5: Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh is diagnosed with cancer.
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Jan. 29: Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the singles title of the Australian Open in Melbourne .
Victoria Azarenka wins the womens singles title of the Australian Open in Melbourne .
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The duo of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek clinch the doubles title of the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne .
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Host Australia drubs India 4-0 in the four-match Test Series.
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Jan. 27: Pankaj Advani wins the mens title of the Senior National billiards championship in Pune.
Egypt defeats India 2-1 in the final of the SDAT-WSF U-21 World Cup squash in Chennai. Feb. 6: Pakistan clean sweeps England 3-0 in the bilateral test series in Dubai . Argentina retains the womens FIH Champions Trophy in Rosario , Argentina . Feb. 9: Italian Fabio Capello resigns as England s manager in the aftermath of John Terrys sacking as the teams captain. Feb. 11: Saketh Myneni and Rushmi Chakravarthi win the National championship in mens and womens tennis, respectively.
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March 4: Indian womens team wins the first Kabaddi world cup title, defeating Iran in the final. PSPB and Airports Authority of India (AAI) win the mens and womens titles at the National Chess Championships in Goa. March 9: Rahul Dravid announces his retirement from international cricket. March 11: Chinas Lin Dan wins his fifth All England Open badminton championship. Li Xuerui wins the womens title in Birmingham.
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Feb. 28: The Indian hockey team qualifies for the London Olympics after defeating France 8-1 at New Delhi .
Feb. 24: Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva betters her own world record by scaling the height of 5.01 metres in Stockholm .
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Feb. 14: East Zone wins its maiden Duleep Trophy title by beating Central Zone in the final at Indore .
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March 16: Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first cricketer to score 100 international centuries after his ton against Bangladesh in Dhaka. March 18: Saina Nehwal wins the Swiss Open, defeating Chinas Wang Shixian in the final.
March 19: West Zone defeats North Zone to lift the Deodhar trophy in Dharamsala. March 20: Lionel Messi becomes Barcelonas all-time top scorer with 224 goals after scoring a hat-trick against Granada.
April 2: Sher-E-Punjab wins the inaugural World Series Hockey tournament, beating Pune Strykers in the final held in Mumbai. April 5: K. Srinivas and M. Parimala win the mens and womens titles at the Federation Cup Carrom championship in Faridabad.
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April 7: India lose to host Uzbekistan in the Asia Oceania Group I Davis Cup group I second round tie in Namangan. April 8: Pankaj Advani wins the ONGC Asian Billiards Championship in Panaji. April 9: American Bubba Watson wins the Augusta Masters in Augusta.
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March 27: Baroda defeats Punjab in the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament in Mumbai.
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Punjab Police wins the mens title at the Federation Cup basketball tournament in Kochi. Southern Railway bags the womens title.
April 15: Australian swimmer and four-time Olympic gold medallist Murray Rose dies aged 73. April 21: Delhi beat Tamil Nadu in the final of the Inter-state womens tennis championship in New Delhi. April 24: R. Umadevi claims her maiden world ladies billiards & snooker Association title in England. Soniya Chanu wins a bronze in the womens 48 kg event at the Asian weightlifting championships in Yangon. April 26: Sachin Tendulkar nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
May 8: Ronnie OSullivan wins his fourth world snooker title at Sheffield .
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May 20: Chelsea wins its first UEFA Champions League title in Munich . May 27: Kolkata Knight Riders wins the Indian Premier League T20 tournament in Chennai. China wins the Thomas Cup after defeating South Korea in the final at Wuhan , China .
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May 13: Manchester City wins the English Premier League title.
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May 6: Indian womens squash team creates history by winning its maiden Asian title in Kuwait .
May 3: Real Madrid wins its first La Liga title in four years.
May 2: Seven-time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry announces his retirement.
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May 28: Services defeats Tamil Nadu in the Santosh Trophy final at Cuttack . May 30: Chess legend Viswanathan Anand defeats Israel s Boris Gelfand in Moscow to retain his world title. Switzerlands Roger Federer wins his 234th Grand Slam match to break Jimmy Connors long-standing record. JUNE
June 7: Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi win the mixed doubles French Open crown.
Webb Simpson of the United States wins US Open golf. June 22: Indian women win the Kabaddi gold medal at the Asian Beach Games, at Haiyang , China .
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July 1: Spain defeats Italy 4-0 in the Euro 2012 final in Kiev to retain its title. July 7: Serena Williams overcomes Agnieszka Radwanska to lift the womens singles title at Wimbledon.
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June 17: Saina Nehwal wins her third Indonesia Open title.
Boxing legend Teofilo Stevenson dies aged 60.
June 11: Rafael Nadal wins the French Open mens title defeating Novak Djokovic in the final.
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June 10: Saina Nehwal triumphs at the Thailand Open.
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June 9: Maria Sharapova wins the French Open womens singles title.
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July 8: Roger Federer beats Andy Murray to win the mens singles trophy at Wimbledon. July 10: South African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher announces his retirement after a suffering a serious eye injury. July 13: Australian paceman Brett retirement from international cricket. Lee announces his
July 27: The 2012 Olympic Games in London begins.
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Aug. 3: Vijay Kumar wins silver in the 25m rapid fire pistol event at the London Olympics. Aug. 4: Saina Nehwal wins the Badminton singles bronze medal at the London Olympics after China s Wang Xin retires with an injury.
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Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce defends her Olympic 100m title. Serena Williams becomes only the second woman to complete a career golden slam after beating Maria Sharapova to win the Olympic tennis singles gold. India clinches the one-day series against Sri Lanka 4-1 at Pallekele.
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July 31: Michael Phelps beats Larisa Latyninas record of 18 Olympic medals with a gold in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay.
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July 30: Indian shooter Gagan Narang wins the bronze medal in Mens 10m air rifle shooting at the London Olympics.
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South Africas Ernie Els wins The British Open golf championship.
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July 22: Cyclist Bradley Wiggins becomes the first Briton to win the Tour de France.
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Aug. 5: Usain Bolt wins the Olympic mens 100 metres title. Andy Murray wins the mens singles gold at Olympics after defeating Roger Federer. Aug. 8: M.C. Mary Kom wins bronze in the 51kg flyweight category at the London Olympics.
Aug. 18: V.V.S. Laxman retires from international cricket. Aug. 20: South Africa becomes the top ranked test team after beating England in the third test at Lords and winning the series 2-0.
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Aug. 24: PSPB wins both the mens and womens titles at the inter-institutional table tennis championship at Kolkata. Aug. 26: India clinches its third u-19 cricket world cup after defeating Australia in the final at Townsville , Australia . Aug. 29: Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.
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Aug. 12: Sushil Kumar wins silver in the 66 kg freestyle wrestling to become the first Indian to win back-to-back Olympic medals at the London Olympics.
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India finishes bottom in the mens hockey competition at the Olympics.
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Aug. 11: Yogeshwar Dutt clinches India s fifth medal with a bronze in mens 60 kg freestyle wrestling at the London Olympics.
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Aug. 10: Usain Bolt wins the Olympic mens 200 metres title.
Kim Clijsters retires from Tennis after being defeated by Laura Robson in the second round of US Open. Aug. 30: Andres Iniesta wins the UEFA Best Player in Europe award. SEPTEMBER
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Sept. 16: India sweeps New Zealand 5-0 in the Davis Cup AsiaOceania group I relegation play-off in Chandigarh . Sept. 21: New Zealand s Brendon McCullum sets the record for the highest individual score in T20 international matches against Bangladesh at the World T20 in Pallekele. Sept. 24: Rest of India defeats Rajasthan by an innings and 79 runs to lift the Irani Trophy in Bengaluru.
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Sept. 11: New Zealand defeats India by one run in Chennai to win the T20 series 1-0.
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Sept. 10: Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic in the US Open mens singles final to become the first British male player to win a slam in 76 years.
Sept. 9: Serena Williams defeats Belarus Viktoria Azarenka in the final to lift the US Open womens title.
Sept. 7: Bob and Mike Bryan win a record-equalling 12th grand slam title in mens doubles at the US Open.
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India defeats New Zealand at Bangalore to clinch the twomatch home test series 2-0.
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Sept. 3: Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda wins Indias only medal at the Paralympic Games by bagging the silver in mens high jump F42 in London .
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Sept. 2: India defeats Cameroon on penalties to retain the Nehru Cup title in New Delhi .
Sept. 30: East Bengal wins Federation Cup football tournament by beating Dempo SC 3-2 in the final at Siliguri. Europe retains golfs Ryder Cup. OCTOBER Oct. 1: N. Ramachandran re-elected World Squash Federation president.
Oct. 7: West Indies wins the ICC World T20 beating Sri Lanka in the final at Colombo .
Oct. 11: Balu Alaganan, former Tamil Nadu cricketer and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association president, passes away in Chennai aged 87. Oct. 13: Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Prerna Bhambri crowned National mens and womens tennis champions in New Delhi . Shamim Khan wins the BILT Open golf championship in New Delhi .
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Oct. 10: Former Zimbabwe all-rounder Kevin Curran passes away aged 53.
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Oct. 5: Karnataka wins the overall title at the Senior National Aquatics in Pune.
Oct. 4: Michael Schumacher announces his decision to retire at the end of the 2012 season.
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Oct. 3: P. Kashyap and Sayali Gokhale crowned the National mens and womens Badminton champions respectively in Srinagar .
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Oct. 14: Gaganjeet Bhullar wins Macau Open golf tournament. Oct. 16: Sachin Tendulkar conferred with membership of the Order of Australia, it was announced. Oct. 21: Thailand s Thaworn Wiratchant wins Hero Indian Open golf tournament in Bangalore .
Serena Williams wins her third WTA Championships title after her victory over Maria Sharapova in the final at Istanbul .
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Oct. 29: Barcelona s Lionel Messi awarded the European Golden Boot award. Oct. 31: Indian women cricket team wins the inaugural Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament in Guangzhou , China . NOVEMBER Nov. 4: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna win the Paris Masters.
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Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel wins the Indian Grand Prix.
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Pankaj Advani triumphed in the time format after defeating Mike Russell.
Oct. 28: Rupesh Shah wins the world billiards title (point frame) beating Australia s Matthew Bolton in the final at Leeds.
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The BCCI confers the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunil Gavaskar.
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Oct. 25: East Zone retains Duleep Trophy after defeating Central Zone in the final at Chennai.
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Oct. 22: Lance Armstrong stripped of his seven Tour de France by the International Cycling Union (UCI).
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Saina Nehwal wins the Denmark Super Series title.
The Czech Republic retains Fed Cup. Nov. 6: Roger Federer beats Janko Tipsarevic in London to achieve a record 40 match wins in the ATP tour finals. Nov. 11: Elina Svitolina wins the Royal Indian Open tennis title in Pune.
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Dec. 3: South Africa retains the number one ranking in tests after defeating Australia 1-0 in a three-match series. Ricky Ponting retires from international cricket. Dec.5: The International Olympic Committee suspends the Indian Olympic Association. Chelsea becomes the first defending champion to exit the UEFA Champions League in the group stage. Dec. 17: England beats India 2-1 in a four-match Test series.
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Nov. 29: Former Australian cricket captain and legendary batsman Ricky Ponting announces his retirement from International cricket.
Faf du Plessis unbeaten hundred on debut helps South Africa secure a thrilling draw against Australia in the second Test at Adelaide .
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Nov. 26: England beats India by ten wickets in the second Test at Mumbai.
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Nov. 25: Sebastian Vettel becomes Formula Ones youngest triple world champion.
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Nov. 19: India defeats England by nine wickets in the first Test at Ahmedabad.
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Nov. 18: Czech Republic wins the final of the Davis Cup 3-2.
Dec. 23: Sachin Tendulkar announces his retirement from ODI cricket. P. Kashyap wins the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold badminton championship in Lucknow . Dec 28: India beats Pakistan in the second T20 international at Ahmedabad, to square the series 1-1.
A magnitude 7 earthquake rocks Japan.
Jan. 9: Indian-American Bobby Jindal begins second term as Louisiana Governor after winning a landslide victory in the open primary held on January 7.
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Jan. 10: Daniel Ortega begins his third term as Nicaragua President. Jan. 11: Mostafa Ahmade Roshan Behdast (32), an Iranian nuclear scientist at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility is killed in a bomb attack in Tehran. Tata Technologies unveils the prototype of $20,000 eMO electric car at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show.
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Jan. 12 : Scientists report the discovery of two more circumbinary planets Kepler 34 b, Kepler 35 b. Jan. 13: Former Myanmar Premier Khin Nyunt and former student activist Min Ko Naing among 650 political prisoners freed by the government.
Jan. 14: Taiwans President Ma Ying-jeou is re-elected for a second term. Jan. 15: George Clooney bags the Best Actor Award for his role in The Descendants and Meryl Streep the Best Actress Award for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady at the 69th Golden Globe Awards at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Jan. 16: Pakistan Supreme Court issues a contempt notice to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for failure to implement order on money laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. Jan. 17: Mukkaram Khan Atif, a journalist working for the Voice of America is shot dead at a mosque near his home at Shabqadar town, 35 km from Peshawar.
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Jan. 21: Nearly 178 people are killed in coordinated bomb and gun attacks by Islamist radical group Boko Haram in the Nigerian city of Kano. Egypts Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood win two-thirds of seats in Parliament in historic polls held in three stages beginning November 2011.
Jan. 22: Croatia votes to join the European Union in a referendum. Jan. 23: Islamist MPs take centre stage as Egypts Parliament meets for the first time since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
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Feb. 1: A seven-member U.K. Supreme Court bench takes up for hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanges plea against a High Court ruling that he can be extradited to Sweden. At least 74 people are killed and hundreds wounded in a bloodbath at a football stadium in the Egyptian city of Port Said.
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Social networking giant Facebook files an initial public offering which could raise as much as $10 billion. Feb. 2: The U.S. indicts Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, for enabling tax fraud by American taxpayers. Feb. 3: Kuwaits Islamist-led opposition wins a landslide victory in the countrys snap polls. Feb. 4: Russia and China veto an Arab League-backed resolution at the U.N. Security Council calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. India along with the U.S. and 12 others back move. At least 200 people are killed as Syrian forces unleash a barrage of mortars on the city of Homs.
Feb. 7: Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed resigns in the face of a revolt by the police forces. Hands over power to VicePresident Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik. Feb. 8: At least 62 persons are killed by Syrian security forces in Homs city. Feb. 10: At least 25 persons are killed and 175 injured as two huge car bombings rock Aleppo, Syria. Jeffrey Zaslow (53) best-selling author and former columnist for The Wall Street Journal is killed after losing control of his car in Michigan.
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Feb. 6: At least 44 persons are killed as a 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of central Philippines.
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Sudan and South Sudan sign a treaty of non-aggression on their disputed border in Addis Abbas. Feb. 11: American R&B singer Whitney Houston (48) is found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California. Feb. 12: British soul diva Adele makes a clean sweep at the Grammys winning six awards. Foo Fighters take five Grammys, including best rock song. French film-maker Michel Hazanaviciuss black-and-white silent movie The Artist wins all the top prizes at the 65th British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Meryl Streep picks up the Leading Actress award for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady . New Maldivian Cabinets sworn in.
Greek lawmakers approve harsh new austerity measures even as riots in cities result in injuries to 170 people. Six Cabinet members quit in protest. Feb. 13: Jordan-born radical preacher Abu Qatada once dubbed Europes Osama bin Laden is freed by a London court after spending six-and-a-half years in jail. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and seven others are honoured with the 2011 National Medal of Arts and Humanities by the U.S. President Barack Obama at a White House function. Feb. 15: Iran unveils its first domestically produced, 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor.
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At least 355 inmates are killed in a fire at a prison in Comayagua, Honduras. Maldivian President Waheed Hassan Manik names Mohamed Waheeduddin Vice-President. Feb. 16: Anthony Shahid (43), two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist (2004, 2010) and T he New York Times correspondent, known for his clear-eyed coverage of the Arab Spring, dies in eastern Syria. Feb. 17: German President Christian Wulff resigns in a scandal over favours he received before becoming head of state. Italian Directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani receive the Golden Bear award for their documentary Caesar Must Die ( Cesare de morire ) at the Berlin film festival. Hungarian film Just the Wind bags the Silver Bear. Mikkel Boe Folsgaard bags Best Actor Silver Bear ( Royal Affair ). Rachel Mwanza gets Best Actress award ( War Witch ). Former Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the lone U.S. Marine convicted in the 2005 killings of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha is discharged from service. Feb. 18: Somalias diaspora leaders sign a deal under the U.N. auspices in the northern town of Garowe. Feb. 19: Marie Colvin of The Sunday Times , a veteran war reporter and a French photographer Remi Ochlik are killed as their house in Baba Amr, a suburb of Homs in Syria comes under bombardment. Feb. 21 : Eurozone finance ministry seal a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout package for Greece after 13 hours of talks in Brussels. Feb. 22: The Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns.
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At least nine protesters are shot dead in violent protests across Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Koran at Bagram airbase. Researchers have found a flaw in experiment setup that led to the claim that neutrinos travelled 60 nano seconds faster-thanlight.
At least 98 people are killed in widespread unrest in Syria. Feb. 26: The Artist wins five Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Dean Dujardin, the first Frenchman to win an Oscar), becoming the first silent film to win Hollywoods highest honours since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago.Meryl Streep bags Best Actress Award ( The Iron Lady ) Christopher Plummer (82), becomes the oldest winner bagging award for Best Supporting Actor (Beginners ).
Asghar Farhadis domestic drama A Separation becomes the first Iranian film to win an Oscar. Pakistan documentary maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoys film on acid victims Saving Face bags for the nation its maiden Oscar. Nepals Chandra Bahadur Dangi (72), who is just 21.5 inches (54.6 cm) is declared the worlds shortest living man at a ceremony in Kathmandu. Syrians cast votes in referendum on a new Constitution. Feb. 29: James Murdoch quits as executive chairman of News International over allegations that he tried to cover up the phone hacking scandal at the defunct News of The World. MARCH
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Martin Scorseses Paris Adventure Hugo wins five Oscars, all in technical categories.
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Feb. 25: Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi takes oath as Yemens new President.
March 2: Iranians cast ballots in parliamentary polls. At least 38 persons are killed and Marysville town in Kentucky is wiped off as tornadoes rip through central U.S. Oil Major BP agrees to pay $7.8 billion in a deal with the claimants affected by the spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. March 4: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wins Russias presidential election. At least 150 people are killed and around 1,500 injured in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville.
Greece persuades majority of private creditors to sign up to the biggest national debt writedown in history.
March 11: Sixteen Afghans, including nine children are killed by a rogue American solider Staff Sergeant Robert Bales who walks off his base and opens fire on houses in two villages of Panjwayi district, Kandahar. The toll in the Israel- Palestine skirmish reaches 18 as Tel Aviv carries out four strikes.
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March 9: Kiribati Cabinet gives nod for a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fijis main island Viti Levu to move the populace fearing climate change may wipe off the entire Pacific archipelago.
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March 7: Norwegian prosecutors indict Anders Behring Breivik on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people on July 22, 2011 in a bomb and shooting rampage.
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March 13: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announces that it is to cease publication of its print edition for the first time in more than 200 years. March 15: Bo Xilai, a politburo member is removed by Chinas leaders following a political scandal.
Mohamed Merah, a French al-Qaeda gunman, the main suspect in the killing of seven persons, dies at the end of a 32hour siege in Toulouse. March 23: Joachim Gauck, a former East German civil rights activist is sworn in the 11th President of Germany in the Bundestag, the lower House of Parliament. March 25: Hong Kong appoints as its Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, a businessman with close ties to China. Macky Sall wins Senegals presidential polls. March 26: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announces that oil deposits have been discovered in the countrys Turkana region.
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Soliders oust Mali President Amadou Toumani Toure and impose nationwide curfew.
March 22: India votes for a U.S-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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March 20: Hungarian mathematician Endre Szemeredi is chosen for the 2012 Abel Prize for his contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.
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March 16: Sachin Tendulkar cracks his hundredth international hundred during the Asia Cup clash in Mirpur, Bangladesh.
Titanic Director James Cameron returns to surface after a solo 11 km submarine dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific in his specially designed submersible the Deepsea Challenger. March 27: The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accepts the U.N.- Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annans six-point peace plan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledges $1 million towards the IAEAs Nuclear Security Fund for 2012-2013 in a statement to the plenary of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul.
April 3: A KoreanAmerican One Goh guns down seven persons at Oikos University in Oakland, California. James Murdoch quits as chairman of British satellite broadcaster BskyB. April 4: KuwaitIraq flights to resume after 20 years.
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April 5: Buford, Wyoming, billed as the smallest town in America is sold at an auction for $ 900,000 to a Vietnamese national. April 6: Malawis President Bingu wa Mutharika (78) dies of a heart attack. April 7: More than 100 people are killed in Syria crackdown on protestors.
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April 21: Charles Colson (80), a Watergate scandal conspirator dies of complications from a brain haemorrhage at a hospital in Virginia.
April 23: The Norwegian District Court in Stavanger announces verdict to hand over the Bhattacharya children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya to their uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya. April 26: Pakistan Supreme Court sentences Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to imprisonment till the rising of a seven-judge Bench for contempt of court. MAY
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April 16: The World Bank chooses Koreanborn American health expert Jim Yong Kim as its new president.
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April 10: China Communist Party suspends Politburo member Bo Xilai in the aftermath of a political scandal.
May 2: A U.K. Court orders extradition of Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, an alleged associate of Dawood Ibrahim, for his role in two cases of terror attacks in Gujarat in 1993. The Nepal Cabinet resigns in a bid to pave the way for the formation of a national consensus government.
Greek voters cast ballots in parliamentary polls. May 7: Vladimir Putin is sworn in Russian President for a third term in a glittering Kremlin ceremony overshadowed by protests against his return.
President Pratibha Patil goes to Pietermaritzburg taking the same train as Mahatma Gandhi did on June 7, 1893.
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May 14: Thirteen Indians, including child actor Taruni Sachdev are killed in Nepal air crash. The Dalai Lama is awarded the $1.1 million Templeton Prize at a ceremony at St. Pauls Cathedral, London. May 15: Francois Hollande is officially inaugurated as the seventh President of Frances Fifth Republic. Jean Marc Ayrault named Premier.
May 19 : Visually-challenged Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng leaves for U.S. after seeking asylum in the American Mission following escape from house arrest a month ago.
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Facebooks billionaire co-founder Mark Zuckerberg marries long time friend Priscilla Chan at his home in Palo Alto, California. May 20: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, dies at his home in Tripoli of cancer.
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May 17: The war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic is halted.
A new Haitian government under Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is inaugurated.
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The Cannes Film Festival kicks off with quirky U.S. comedy Moonrise Kingdom .
May 16: The former Bosnian-Serb army commander Ratko Mladic indicted for war crimes goes on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague.
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A strong earthquake rocks northern Italy damaging historic buildings. May 21: The former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka, is released from jail following a presidential pardon. He cannot vote or contest election for the next seven years.
Prototype aircraft Solar Impulse takes to the skies on its first intercontinental flight, travelling from Switzerland to Morocco. May 25: California-based SpaceX becomes the first commercial outfit to dock its own cargo capsule at the ISS. More than 108 people, including 49 children are killed in Houla, Syria by heavily armed gunmen. May 27: Nepals Constituent Assembly is dissolved and fresh polls slated for November 22. May 28: India and Myanmar sign an MoU to operationalise a $500 million line of credit announced during President Thein Seins visit to New Delhi in October 2011.
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Indian Americans sweep the National Geographic Bee, with Rahul Nagvekar from Texas bagging the first position.
May 24: Nepal Supreme Court stays government proposal to amend interim constitution and extend the Constituent Assemblys term.
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India signs Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline pact in Avaza,Turkmenistan.
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May 30: A U.N.-backed war crimes court in Leidschendam near The Hague sentences former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in jail for arming rebels in Sierra Leone in return for blood diamonds. Britains Supreme Court dismisses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanges appeal against extradition to Sweden.
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June 2: The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to lifer for his complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising in 2011, following a 10- month trial. Sons Alaa and Gamal acquitted of corruption charges.
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Briton Kiaran Stapleton admits to killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve, at the Manchester Crown Court.
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SpaceX Dragon capsule, the worlds first commercial space cargo carrier returns to Earth ending the voyage to ISS with a splashdown in the Pacific 800 km off Mexicos Baja California.
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May 31: Egypts decades-old state of emergency ends.
June 5: The Queens diamond jubilee fete ends with a ceremonial royal carriage procession through central London. Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard completes the worlds first inter continental flight in Solar Impulse, a giant solar-powered plane and lands in Rabat, Morocco after a 19-hour voyage.
June 12: Elinor Ostrom (78), the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics dies of cancer at the Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital.
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Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel is selected for the 2012 World Food Prize. June 14: Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court dissolves the Lower House of Parliament. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces steps in to fill the breach. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses legal battle against extradition to Sweden after the British Supreme Court dismisses appeal to reopen the case.
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Avtar Singh, an ex-Indian Army officer wanted in the March 1996 death of human rights lawyer Jalil Andrabi in Srinagar, shoots his wife and two children to death in their California home before committing suicide.
June 9: The Eurozone extends a $ 125-billion bailout package for Spain.
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June 15: The former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta is found guilty of insider trading by a Manhattan court after a high-profile trial that began on May 21. Tightrope walker Nik Wallanda completes the first walk across the Niagara Falls in more than a century, from a height of 196 feet over the Horseshoe Falls, between the U.S. and Canada.
June 18: Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz is named the new Crown Prince. The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) splits and breakaway faction forms Nepal Communist Party (Maoist). Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras launches coalition talks after his New Democratic Party emerges top in general polls. June 19: Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies Yusuf Raza Gilani as Prime Minister in the wake of his conviction for contempt in April. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seeks political asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
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Frances Socialists win control of Parliament in a runoff vote.
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June 17: Egyptians cast ballots in presidential runoff.
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991 while under house arrest, in Oslo.
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June 16: Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (79), a half-brother of King Abdullah dies in Geneva.
June 20: The G-20 Declaration at Los Carlos, Mexico emphasises the need for growth, because, by itself austerity will not solve the debt problem of the Eurozone. Antonis Samaras is sworn in Greek Prime Minister at the helm of a three-party coalition. June 22: Raja Parvez Ashraf is elected Pakistan Prime Minister. Paraguays Senate removes President Fernando Lugo after impeachment. Vice-President Federico Franco is sworn in as President. June 24: Mohamed Morsy is declared winner of the Egyptian presidential polls.
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A U.S. Federal Court declares that the U.S.-based Union Carbide Corporation and Warren Anderson are not liable for damage caused by the toxic wastes dumped in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
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June 26: Pakistan orders release of Surjeet Singh arrested near the India-Pakistan border in 1981 and languishing in jail even after the end of his jail term in 2004.
June 25: Bangladesh decides to confer the Friends of Bangladesh Award on retired Indian Army officer Colonel Ashok Tara for his role during the 1971 war.
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Lonesome George, the centenarian giant tortoise is found dead at the Galapagos National Park off Ecuadors coast.
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Barclays Bank is fined $ 453 million for alleged financial market manipulation. June 28: The U. S. Supreme Court upholds a core provision of President Obamas Affordable Healthcare Act. UNESCOs World Heritage Committee votes to include the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on its list of World Heritage in Danger.
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July 1: Mexicans cast votes in presidential polls. Leung Chun-ying is sworn in as Hong Kongs third Chief Executive. The Western Ghats is included in the World Heritage List at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in St. Petersburg, Russia. July 2: Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius resigns over LIBOR row.
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Hardliner Islamists occupying northern Mali go on the rampage in Timbuktu destroying ancient tombs of Muslim saints.
Mohamed Morsy is sworn in as Egypts first elected President.
June 30: Yitzhak Shamir (96), the former Israeli Prime Minister, dies at a nursing home in Herzliya, Jerusalem after a long illness.
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Chinese woman astronaut Liu Yang and two other crew members return to earth after a 13-day mission to an orbiting module.
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June 29: Eurozone seals a dramatic deal to allow emergency measures to aid crisis-hit Italy and Spain.
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July 4: Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, Geneva, announce the discovery of a new subatomic particle consistent with the long sought Higgs boson. July 5: The U.K. bans Indian Mujahideen following a unanimous vote in the House of Commons.
July 6: Romanian President Traian Basescu is suspended by Parliament.
The U.S. imposes additional sanctions on Iran. July 15: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, along with two colleagues, takes off for a second space odyssey on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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South Africas Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is elected the first woman head of the African Union in Addis Ababa. July 17: Britain admits at the London High Court that its colonial forces in Kenya tortured Mau Mau rebels in the 1950s and 1960s.
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July 12: Syrian government troops massacre more than 150 people in Treimsa village.
July 9: Aung San Suu Kyi attends Parliament as a lawmaker for the first time. She took oath in May.
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The Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011 a manmade disaster, says a parliamentary probe.
July 20: James Eagan Holmes, a masked gunman kills 12 persons at a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises at a mall in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado. Euro nations seal a $ 122 billion bail-out deal for Spanish banks.
July 26: Kiaran Stapleton is convicted of killing Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford, Manchester on December 26, 2011. Gu Kailai, wife of purged Chinese Politburo member Bo Xilai is charged with the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. July 27: Kiaran Stapleton gets jail for lifer for the killing of Anuj Bidve. July 28: Queen Elizabeth II declares open the 30th Olympic Games in London. At least 168 people are killed in clashes across Syria. July 30: Romanian President Traian Basescu escapes impeachment after referendum fails to muster enough support.
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July 25: Kulandei Francis of Tamil Nadu known for pioneering community initiatives is among this years six winners of Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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July 24: The Ghana President John Evans Fifii Atta Mills (68) dies in a hospital in the capital Accra.
July 22: Using cells from rat hearts and a seer polymer film, scientists create an artificial jellyfish.
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At least 37 persons are killed and more than 50,000 displaced after the heaviest rain in 61 years pummels the Chinese capital Beijing.
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July 21: Rajkeshwur Purryag takes oath as the fifth President of Mauritius.
July 31: Venezuela becomes member of South Americas biggest trade bloc Mercosur. AUGUST Aug. 1: Somalias Constituent Assembly endorses draft statute. Aug. 2: The United Nations-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan announces resignation.
South Sudan and Sudan hammer out a deal over oil. Aug. 5: Six persons are shot dead by Wade Michel Page, a U.S. Army veteran at a Gurdwara in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The killer dies of a self-inflicted gunshot. Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab joins the anti-regime revolt and reaches Jordan. Aug. 6: Curiosity, the NASAs $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot lands on Mars and beams first image. Aug. 9: Wael al-Halqi is appointed Syrian Prime Minister.
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Aug. 4: The Afghan Parliament votes to dismiss Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi charged with inept handling of cross-border shelling by Pakistan.
Over 138 skydivers form a massive snowflake formation over Ottawa, Illinois, setting a world record in vertical skydiving.
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Former Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase is jailed for corruption.
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Aug. 11: At least 306 people are killed and 2,500 injured after two earthquakes rock north-western Iran. Aug. 12: The Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy orders the retirement of Defence Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and Army Chief of Staff Sami Anan.
Aug. 18: Chinas Wen Xia Yu (23), is crowned Miss World 2012 at a glittering ceremony in the Chinese city of Ordos. Aug. 19: Prominent Hollywood film director Tony Scott (68), whose signature works included Top Gun jumps to his death from a bridge in San Pedro, California.
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The United Nations winds up mission in Syria. Aug. 20: Gu Kailai, wife of the purged former politburo member, Bo Xilai is awarded a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Meles Zenawi (57), Ethiopias Prime Minister since 1995 dies after a protracted battle in a hospital in Brussels.
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Rimsha Masih (11) a Downs Syndrome afflicted Pakistani Christian girl is arrested on charges of blasphemy.
Aug. 17: Quadruple amputee Philippe Croizon swims between islands in the icy Bering Strait to cross from America to Asia.
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The OIC summit in Dubai suspends Syria from the 57-nation grouping.
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Aug. 13: Australias Lower House clears bill to allow the transfer of boat people seeking asylum to Pacific states.
Aug. 21: Romanias Constitutional Court puts President Traian Basescu back in office after declaring a referendum to impeach him invalid. Aug. 24: Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for use of banned substances. A Norwegian court deems Anders Behring Breivik, the man behind the July 22, 2011 massacre of 77 people, sane and hands down maximum jail term. Aug. 25: Neil Alden Armstrong (82), first man on the moon, (July 20, 1969) dies of complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
Aug. 31: Kulandei Francis of India and five others receive the Ramon Magsaysay awards from the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at a function in Manila.
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Aug. 30: The Syrian crisis should be resolved through an inclusive political process led by Damascus, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurating the XIV Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran.
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Aug. 27: The first recorded human voice that travelled from Earth to Mars and then back to Earth is released at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Sept. 7: Sixtyfour persons are killed and more than 700 injured in an earthquake in south-western Chinas Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Pakistan Christian girl Rimsha Masih is granted bail 22 days after being held allegedly for burning pages of the Koran.
Sept. 13: Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is presented the Liberty Medal for his long-time role as a heavyweight for civil rights at a function in Philadelphia. Sept. 19: Space shuttle Endeavour leaves its Florida home port heading to the California Science Centre in Los Angeles to begin a new mission as a museum exhibit. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is presented with the Congressional Gold Medal at a function at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Sept. 20: A speech jammer created by two Japanese researchers wins the 2012 Ig Noble Acoustics Prize.
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Sept. 12: Dutch voters overwhelmingly vote to power the ruling Liberals in parliamentary polls, the fifth in just over a decade.
At least 290 people are killed in a fire at a garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Sept. 11: The U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy staff are killed in an armed mob attack in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of 9/11.
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South Korean director Kim Ki-duks drama Pieta wins the Golden Lion for best film at the 69th Venice Film Festival. The Silver Lion for best director is bagged by Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master .
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Sept. 8: Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is presented the French Legion of Honour by the President Francois Hollande.
Sept. 25: China unveils its first aircraft carrier, the 300 metrelong Liaoning in the port city of Dalian. Sept. 27: The Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan sign pacts to implement a demilitarised zone after a five-day summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
Shadman Chowk in Lahore is renamed Bhagat Singh Chowk. Sept. 30: Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led the Operation Blue Star in 1984 is stabbed near a hotel in Central London. OCTOBER
Oct. 1: The Opposition Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili wins 70 per cent votes in Parliamentary polls. Oct. 5: Australia unveils the Colossal SKA Pathfinder radio telescope at the remote Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the western Australian desert. Oct. 7: Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah issues a decree dissolving the 2009 Parliament, just over three months since its reinstatement by the constitutional court. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins yet another reelection, the third in nearly 14 years in office.
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Sept. 29: GSAT-10, Indias 3.4-tonne spacecraft is launched from the Kourou launch pad in French Guiana in South America.
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Sept. 28: Suspended Politburo member Bo Xilai is expelled from the Communist Party of China for having seriously violated party disciplines.
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Afghan human rights activist and former Minister Sima Samar wins the Swedish Right Livelihood Award.
Oct. 8: Briton John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryonic stem cells. Former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed is arrested and taken to Male. Oct. 9: Malala Yousafzai, the 14- year-old peace activist who became the Voice of girls in Swat, Pakistan, is shot at and seriously injured by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan while returning from school in Mingora.
Oct. 11: The U.N.s first International Day of the Girl Child is observed worldwide.
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Oct. 12: The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering peace in the continent after World War II. Oct. 13: The 77,000 kg space shuttle Endeavour begins final mission to the California Science Center to be the central piece of a new exhibit.
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Mo Yan becomes the first writer in China to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for having mapped how a family of receptors called G-protein-coupled receptors work.
Oct. 10: Russia, Iraq resume military-technical cooperation.
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Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland are awarded the 2012 Physics Nobel Prize for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world.
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Former Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed is freed after being produced at a criminal court in Male.
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Oct. 14: Austrian Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier and achieves the fastest free fall speed, falling at 1,137 kmph from an altitude of 128,097 feet after liftoff from Roswell, New Mexico. Oct. 15: American scholars Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd Shapley are awarded the Nobel Economics prize for their match-making theory. The British and Scottish governments sign a historic deal that will allow Scotland to hold an independence referendum.
Oct. 20: Palestinians in the West Bank cast ballots in local elections for their first vote since 2006.
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Meher Din (90), popularly known as Uncle Pakistan for his regular presence at the flag-lowering ceremony at Wagah border dies. Oct. 22: Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the International Cycling Union for leading a massive doping programme on his teams.
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Oct. 21: Kateri Tekakwitha, known as Lily of Mohawks becomes the first American Indian to be conferred sainthood.
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Oct. 18: Newsweek announces decision to end an 80 -year run as a print magazine at the year-end and go all-digital.
Hilary Mantel wins this years 50,000 Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Bring Up The Bodies , thus becoming the first-ever woman and the first living British novelist to win the award twice.
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Oct. 16: Vikram Pandit, Indian-American head of Citigroup steps down as CEO.
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma takes office as the first woman chief of the African Union in Addis Ababa.
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Oct. 24: Mali is readmitted into the African Union after a meeting of the A.U. Peace and Security Council. Rajat Gupta, former Goldman Sachs Director and Mckinsey and Company Managing Partner, convicted of passing on confidential information to jailed hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam receives a two- year jail term and a fine of $5 million. Oct. 25: WikiLeaks begins releasing classified files detailing policies for dealing with detenus in U.S. military prisons.
Oct. 30: New York takes most of the pounding as Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc on the U.S. east coast. Oct. 31: Decision to rename Lahores Shadman Chowk after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh put on hold. NOVEMBER
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Nov. 5: Hearing in the March 11 massacre in Afghanistan involving U.S. soldier staff sergeant Robert Bales that left 16 dead begins at Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord in Washington. Nov. 6: An impeachment motion is lodged in Parliament against the Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.
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Oct. 29: Seventeen persons are killed as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey . Emergencies declared in six states.
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Oct. 28: Savita Halappanavar, a young dentist of Indian origin dies from septicaemia after doctors at University Hospital Galway in Dublin, Ireland refuse to perform an abortion, citing the countrys strict anti-abortion law.
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Oct. 26: China expels disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai from the National Peoples Congress or Parliament.
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Nov. 7: Barack Obama wins a second term as U.S. President. Republicans succeed in holding its grip on the House of Representatives. Democrats retain majority in the Senate. Dr.Ami Bera becomes only the third Indian-American ever to be elected to the House of Representatives after winning in California.
Nov. 9: David Petraeus, quits as the CIA Director over an extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. Nov. 10: World observes Global Action Day for Malala Yousafzai. Pakistan government launches a programme to educate three million children, especially girls. Nov. 11: BBC director-general George Entwistle is forced to resign over his handling of a report falsely implicating a former advisor to the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in a child abuse scandal.
The Communist Party of China selects a new Central Committee, marking the end of Hu Jintaos 10-year term as General Secretary. Nov. 15: Xi Jinping is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of China at a meeting of the 18th Central Committee. Li Keqiang is set to take over as Premier at the March Parliament session. British Petroleum agrees to pay between three and five billion U.S. dollars, thought to be the largest in U.S. history over criminal charges related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Nov. 14: An Israeli airstrike on a moving car in Gaza leaves Hamas commander Ahmed al-Jaabri dead.
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Shanthi Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi is elected to the Kansas House of Representatives.
Nov. 16: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolves the Lower House of Parliament and elections are set for December 16. The Lahore High Court bans authorities from going ahead with renaming Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh.
Nov. 22: The Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy arms himself with sweeping powers through a constitutional decree.
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Nov. 23: Ernest Bai Koroma is sworn in Sierra Leone President after his convincing reelection victory. Nov. 25: China successfully conducts landing exercises on its first aircraft carrier the Liaoning. Nov. 26 : Eurozone Finance Ministers and the IMF clinch an agreement to reduce Greeces debts after 12 hours of talks in Brussels.
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Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House is appointed the BBCs Director-General.
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Nov. 21: Israel and Hamas agree on a truce ending a week of violence in and around Gaza Strip that killed 150 people.
Nov. 20: The Genral Synod of the Church Of England rejects by a narrow vote a proposal to appoint women bishops.
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Nov. 19: Ready to expand FTA with ASEAN, says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 10th ASEAN-India summit at Peace Place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Protesters take out a Never Again march in the Irish capital Dublin and hold a candlelight vigil outside the Parliament in memory of Savita Halappanavar.
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Nov. 17: At least 47 nursery school children are killed after a train smashes into their bus at a railway crossing in Manfalut near Assuit in Egypt.
Catalonias fight for statehood and a historic divorce from Spain flounders. Nov. 27: Iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafats remains are exhumed in Ramallah eight years after his death at a French military hospital to determine whether he was poisoned.
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Typhoon Bopha leaves over 600 dead in the Philippines. Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. board member Rajat Gupta can remain free on bail while he appeals his insider-trading conviction, rules an appeals court in New York. Dec. 6: Maldives can take back Ibrahim Nasir International Airport from GMR, says the Singapore Court of Appeal. Dec. 7: Jacintha Saldanha, an Indian-origin nurse of King Edward VII hospital in London is found dead in her British home two days after a prank call by two Australian DJs led to revelation of medical details of Duchess of Cambridge Kate William.
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Dec. 4: Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni, an Indian software professional and his wife Anupama are jailed for 18 months and 15 months by the Oslo District Court for serious child abuse.
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Dec. 3: The High Court of Singapore stays the termination order served by the Maldives Government on GMR Male International Airport Ltd. to exit from the airport project.
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Dec. 2: Kuwait elects new parliament under the new one-vote system, the voting for which was held a day earlier.
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Nov. 29: The U.N. General Assembly resoundingly votes making Palestine a non-member observer state - on same day as partition of Holy Land in 1947.
Dec. 8: The U.N. meet on climate change in Doha passes a package of pacts to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admits to relapse of cancer and designates Vice-President Nicolas Maduro as his heir apparent.
Dec. 11: Stephen Hawking wins a $3 million Special Fundamental Physics Prize for a lifetime of achievements, the most lucrative science prize ever established.
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Pandit Ravi Shankar (92), renowned sitar maestro, dies in a hospital in San Diego, the U.S. Dec. 12: North Korea launches a three-stage weather forecast rocket from its Sohae Space Centre.
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Soldiers arrest Malis Prime Minister Chiekh Modibo Diarra and force him to resign.
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Victoria Ponta is reappointed Romanias Prime Minister after the leftists Social Liberation Union wins up to 60 per cent of votes in parliamentary polls held a day earlier.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee honours the European Union with Peace Prize for 2012. Chinese novelist Mo Yan is presented the Nobel Literature Prize.
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Dec. 10: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announces the Malala Fund for Girls Right to Education, a $10- million donation for a global war chest.
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Dec. 9: Incumbent President John Dramani Mahama is declared the winner of Ghanas presidential polls.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy annuls his November 22 decree.
Dec. 13: CIA tortured and sodomised terror suspect Khaled elMasri, a German of Lebanese origin, rules the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Dec. 14: Twentysix persons, including 20 children are killed as Adam Lanza goes on a shooting spree at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before turning the gun on himself. Envoys from 89 nations sign the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty, since the Internet age, in Dubai. Fiftyfive do not sign, including the U.S. led bloc of more than 20 nations. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns, a day after an indictment for breach of trust is filed against him.
Japans Opposition Liberal Democratic Party led by Shinzo Abe sweeps to victory in the National polls.
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Dec. 17: The Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition New Komeito secure two-third majority in the Japanese Lower House. Dec. 18: Queen Elizabeth II scripts history by attending a Cabinet meeting at 10, Downing Street, becoming the first British monarch since 1781 to do so. Part of Antarctica to be named Queen Elizabeth land.
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Dec. 16: Security forces five terrorists, part of a team involved in the Peshawar Airport attack after a fierce gun battle. Five others had died in the initial attack.
Dec. 15: Egyptians cast votes in phase I of the constitutional referendum.
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NASAs Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ends mission with a well orchestrated crash on Moon.
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The Irish government announces it will bring in law to allow for abortion in cases where the mothers life is found to be at risk. Dec. 19: Park Geun-hye is elected South Koreas first woman President. Swiss bank UBS admits to fraud and accepts a $1.5 billion fine for role in manipulating global benchmark interest rates. Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island is crowned Miss Universe 2012 at a function in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dec. 22: Egyptians cast votes in the second phase on the referendum on a constitutional draft. Vice-President Mahmoud Mekki resigns.
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Dec. 24: The U.N. General Assembly votes to restart debate on a global arms treaty. The final Newsweek magazine hits the newsstands with an iconic hashtag as a symbol of its Twitter-era transition to an alldigital format. Dec. 26: The Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy signs new constitution into law.
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Italys President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves Parliament a day after Prime Minister Mario Montis resignation.
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The Philippines President Benigno Aquino III signs into law contraception bill.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Senator John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
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Dec. 21: Four persons are killed and many police officers injured in a shooting spree in Frankstown Township, Pennsylvania. Gunman among dead.
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The U.S. President Barack Obama is named Time Person of The Year.
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Shinzo Abe is sworn in Japanese Prime Minister. China launches services on the worlds longest high-speed rail route. Dec. 28: The U.S. Congress nod for bill extending surveillance law ambit.
Dec. 30: The Israeli Justice Ministry files indictment of former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
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The French constitutional court rejects President Hollandes 75 per cent IT for high earners as unfair.

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EVENTS 2012 NATIONAL JANUARY TO DECEMBER JANUARY Jan.

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Sixtytwo per cent turnout in phase I of U.P. Assembly polls.

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Ballots cast in sixth phase of U.P. Assembly polls.

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The Lok Sabha passes Accountability Bill, 2010.

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Bangaru Laxman quits the BJPs national executive.

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July 1: Floods, landslips leave 77 dead in Assam.

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Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigns.

Votes are cast in presidential polls.

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Oct. 17: Pranay Sahay is appointed CRPF Director-General.

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Cable television goes digital in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. NOVEMBER

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Kingfisher Airlines lifts lockout.

Nov. 7: Veteran (CPIM) leader Samar Mukherjee turns 100.

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Nov. 25: The BJP suspends Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani.

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A record 68 per cent turnout is registered in phase I of Gujarat Assembly polls.

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Dec. 29: The gangrape victim dies at a hospital in Singapore.

Narendra Modi is sworn in Gujarat Chief Minister.

Dec. 26: The gangrape victim is flown to Singapore .

Jan. 15: Homai Vyarawalla (98), photojournalist, in Vadodara, Gujarat.

Feb. 19: S. N. Lakshmi (85), veteran actor of a heart attack in Chennai.

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May 10: Horst Faas (79), a giant photojournalism, in Munich, Germany.

April 10: N. Varadarajan (87), former CPI(M) State secretary, in Chennai.

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July 12: Dara Singh (83), wrestler-hero, at his Mumbai residence.

July 4: Hiren Bhattacharyya (80), Assamese poet in Guwahati.

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