JANUARY

Jan. 1: The Union Government s Direct Benefits Transfer scheme is launched in 20 d

istricts in six States across the nation.
Jan. 2: The Supreme Court upholds the appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as Gujar
at Lokayukta.
The first of the five newly-announced fast-track courts to try cases related to
sexual offence against women is inaugurated in New Delhi by the CJI Altamas Kabi
r.
A 16-year-old girl is gangraped in Rayagada, Odisha.
Jan. 3: The Delhi police file chargesheet against five persons arrested in the D
ecember 16, 2012 gangrape case before a duty magistrate in Saket district courts
in New Delhi.
Complex issues cannot be settled by faith, emotion and fear but by structured deb
ate, analysis and enlightenment, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inaugu
ration of the 100{+t}{+h}annual session of the Indian Science Congress in Kolkat
a.
Jan. 6: Assam gains an entry in the India Book of Records for holding the larges
t ensemble of 14,833 drummers playing khol in unison in Titabor, Jorhat district
.
Jan. 7: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha withdraws support to the Bharatiya Janata Par
ty-led Arjun Munda Government.
Jan. 8: Pakistani troops ambush and kill two soldiers of 13 Rajaputana Rifles La
nce Naik Sudhakar Singh and Lance Naik Hemraj (one of them beheaded), after cros
sing the LoC in Krishna Gati sector of Poonch.
Arjun Munda resigns as Jharkhand Chief Minister.
Jan. 10: The Calcutta High Court in an interim order grants custody of the Bhatt
acharya children to their mother Sagarika Chakraborty.
Jan. 12: Follow in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda, says the West Bengal Gove
rnor M.K. Narayanan, inaugurating the World Youth Festival to mark the Swamiji s 1
50{+t}{+h}birth anniversary in Kolkata.
Jan. 13: The 100-year-old Pamban rail bridge, India s first cantilever bridge acro
ss the Palk Strait in Rameswaram Island, Tamil Nadu suffers damage as a Karwar-b
ound barge rams it.
Jan. 15: Visa-on-arrival for Pakistani seniors put on hold following Prime Minis
ter s warning that, business as usual, not possible with Pakistan.
The Rayagada gangrape victim who attempted self-immolation (on January 7) dies a
t a corporate hospital in Visakhapatnam.
Jan. 18: The Supreme Court directs the Centre to set up a Special Court to try I
talian marines Massimilano Latore and Salvatore Gironi involved in the shooting
of two fishermen off the Kerala waters on February 15, 2012.
Jan. 19: Rahul Gandhi is appointed Congress Vice-President at the Chintan Shivir
in Jaipur.

Jan. 21: The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh merges his Jankran
ti Party (Rashtrawadi) with the BJP.
Prema Jayakumar, daughter of an autorickshaw driver in Malad, Mumbai tops the na
tionwide CA exam. Her brother Dhanraj too clears the exam.
Jan. 22: A Special CBI court jails for 10 years former Haryana Chief Minister Om
Prakash Chautala for illegal selection of over 3,000 junior basic trained prima
ry school teachers during 1999-2000.
Jan. 23: The Justice Verma Committee rules against recommending the death penalt
y even in the rarest of rare cases, and also does not favour lowering the age of
a juvenile from 18 to 16.
Shiv Sena elects Uddhav Thackeray as party president at the National Executive I
n Mumbai.
Jan. 24: The Madras High Court upholds the shifting of the Legislative Assemblycum-Secretariat complex back from the Omandurar Government Estate to Fort St. Ge
orge. Work begins to convert building into hospital.
Jan. 25: Noted physicist Yash Pal, space scientist Roddam Narasimha, sculptor Ra
ghunath Mohapatra and painter Syed Haider Raza chosen for Padma Vibhushan.
Actor Sharmila Tagore, cricketer Rahul Dravid, boxing champion Mary Kom, film-st
ar Rajesh Khanna, comedian Jaspal Bhatti (both posthumously); noted scientist Sh
ivathanu Pillai and V.K. Saraswat, industrialists R. Thayagarajan and Adi Godrej
prominent among 24 Padma Bhushan awardees.
Film director Ramesh Sippy, eminent entrepreneur Rajshree Pathy, actor Sridevi,
fashion designer Ritu Kumar, scholar Noboru Karashima, Urdu poets Nida Fazli and
Salik Lakhnawi (the latter posthumously) actor Nana Patekar prominent among 80
Padma Shri awardees.
Author Jeet Thayil is presented the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 fo
r his debut novel Narcopolis at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Jan. 26: The Nation celebrates the 64{+t}{+h}Republic Day with a charming displa
y of military prowess and cultural diversity.
Jan. 28: The sixth accused in the New Delhi gangrape and murder case is declared
a minor by the Juvenile Justice Board.
Jan. 29: Over 1,009 children set a world record by assembling dressed up like Ma
hatma Gandhi on the Marina, Chennai.
Jan. 31: President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates The Hindu Centre for Politics an
d Public Policy, a new think-tank from Kasturi & Sons Ltd. at a function in Rash
trapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
The Supreme Court sets aside a January 2005 Kerala High Court judgment acquittin
g all 35 persons except the prime accused S.S. Dharmarajan in the 1996 Suryanell
i sex scandal case.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: The Union Cabinet gives nod for an ordinance aimed at making changes in
sections of the IPC dealing with crimes against women.
The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi presents the Best Performing Gram Panchayat Awa

rd to Karma Lepcha of Hee-Gyathang, Sikkim, during the eighth MGNREGA Diwas Samm
elan in New Delhi.
Feb. 2: A special fast track court in New Delhi frames charges against five accu
sed in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case.
The Karnataka government appoints G. Bhavani Singh as the Special Public Prosecu
tor in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayala
lithaa.
Feb. 4: Solictor-General of India Rohinton Nariman resigns.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa hands over a cheque for Rs. 10 lakh t
o Prema Jayakumar of Mumbai who scored the first rank in the CA examination.
Feb. 6: Land acquisition for the Posco project in Odisha is halted following sti
ff opposition from the locals.
Feb. 7: The Supreme Court directs Karnataka to release forthwith 2.44 tmcft of w
ater to Tamil Nadu to save standing crops on one lakh acres in the Cauvery delta
region.
Feb. 8: The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts four bills, including the Special Police
Youth Brigade Bill.
Feb. 9: The December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case convict Mohammed Afzal Guru
is hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex in New Delhi.
Feb. 10: Thirtysix Kumbh pilgrims are killed and 39 injured in a stampede at the
Allahabad railway station after a foot bridge collapses due to heavy rush of pe
ople.
Feb. 11: New stock exchange MCX-SX starts trading shares.
Feb. 12: The Defence Ministry orders a CBI probe into allegations of bribery in
the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP helicopter deal inked in February 2010 with Italian def
ence firm Finmeccanica.
Vinodhini, a victim of acid attack in Karaikal on November 14, 2012 dies at a pr
ivate hospital in Chennai.
Feb. 13: Mohan Parasaran is appointed Solicitor General.
Feb. 14: A record 91.5 per cent polling is registered in the Tripura Assembly el
ection.
Feb. 17: Journalist-author Jerry Pinto is presented The Hindu Literary Prize 201
3 for his novel Em and the Big Hoom , at a function in Chennai.
Feb. 18: The President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Pea
ce, Disarmament and Development for 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self-Employed Wo
men s Association at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Feb. 19: The Centre notifies the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribu
nal given in February 2007, in the Gazette.
Feb. 20: The mowing down of a trade unionist in Ambala, Haryana and attack on th
ose who turned up for work at Noida mar the first day of the two-day all-India g
eneral strike called by 11 central trade unions.

The National Greeen Tribunal, Southern Bench gives its nod for the setting up of
a multi-superspeciality hospital in Omandurar Government Estate, Chennai.
Feb. 21: Sixteen persons are killed and over 117 injured as two powerful blasts
rip through crowded areas at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad.
Sensex plunges by over 317 points, its biggest single-day fall since May 2012, t
o close at 19325.36.
Feb. 23: More than 83 per cent voting registered in Nagaland Assembly polls.
Over 85 per cent polling recorded in Meghalaya.
Feb. 24: Vidya (21), dies of injuries she suffered in an acid attack on Jan. 30,
at the Government Kilpauk Hospital, Chennai.
Feb. 25: The PSLV C20 puts the 400-Kg India-French satellite SARAL and six other
s into their precise orbits after its successful launch from the Sriharikota spa
ceport.
Feb. 26: The Railway Budget for 2013-14 presented in the Lok Sabha by a Congress
Minister after 17 years, spares passengers, but hikes freight rates by 5.8 per
cent based on fuel price.
Rajya Sabha approves the amended Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Prevent
ion, Protection and Redressal Bill. Nod for President s rule in Jharkhand.
Sensex tanks 316.55 points to close at 19015.14 wiping out Rs. 1 lakh crore in i
nvestor wealth.
Feb. 27: The Government forms a 30-member JPC to probe the chopper deal.
At least 20 persons are killed and six others injured in a major fire at a marke
t place on Surya Sen Street close to the Sealdah railway station in Kolkata.
Feb. 28: The Union Budget 2013-14 is presented in the Lok Sabha. Women s bank to b
e set up with Rs. 1,000-crore capital. Nirbhaya Fund of Rs. 1,000-crore for women s
safety.
The Left Front wins a fifth straight victory in Tripura with a two-thirds majori
ty. The Naga People s Front sweeps back to power in Nagaland for the third consecu
tive time with an absolute majority. The Congress retains Meghalaya.
MARCH
March 3: Land acquisition for the Posco project resumes.
A Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-Ul-Haque is shot dead during a mob attack
in the Hathgawan area of Pratapgarh district in U.P.
March 4: Uttar Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh al
ias Raja Bhaiya resigns after being named an accused in the killing of DSP Zia-u
l-Haque.
March 6: The seventh Left Front Government headed by Manik Sarkar (who takes oat
h as Chief Minister for the fourth consecutive term) assumes office in Tripura.
March 8: The Delhi gangrape victim is posthumously honoured with the Rani Lakshm
ibai Award, at a function in New Delhi.

Bittihotra Mohanty, son of former Odisha DGP B.B. Mohanty missing since his rele
ase on parole on November 20, 2006 while serving a seven-year term for raping a
German National in Alwar, Rajasthan is arrested by the Kerala Police in Kannur.
March 9: The Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association presents a memento named P
onniyin Selvi to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for her efforts in g
etting the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal notified in the Central gazette,
at a function in Thanjavur.
March 11: Ram Singh, the main accused in the December 16, 2012 Vasant Vihar gang
rape is found hanging in his cell inside Tihar jail.
March 13: The CBI books the former Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi along with 12 ot
hers for alleged cheating, criminal conspiracy in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP chopp
er deal.
March 16: The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates the 125{+t}{+h}anniversary
celebrations of Malayala Manorama in Kottayam, Kerala and releases a commemorati
ve stamp.
March 18: Paan Singh Tomar bags the best feature film award at the 60th National
Film Awards function in New Delhi. The Hindi film Vicky Donor and Malayalam fil
m Ustad Hotel share the award for the best popular film providing wholesome enter
tainment . Irrfan Khan ( Paan Singh Tomar ) and Vikram Gokhale ( Anumati ) share t
he best actor award. Usha Jadhav ( Anumati ) bags the best actress award.
March 19: The DMK decides to quit both the Union Government and the Congress-led
UPA.
The Lok Sabha passes the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, to provide for mor
e stringent punishment for crimes against women.
March 20: All five DMK Ministers in the UPA government submit resignation letter
s to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
March 21: The Supreme Court confirms the death sentence for Yakub Abdul Razak Me
mon, the main accused in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that killed 257
people. Five-year jail term for actor Sanjay Dutt. Death sentence for 10 commut
ed to lifer.
The Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Paneerselvam presents a revenue-surplus budge
t in the State Assembly. Social sector allocated Rs. 43,450-crore.
March 22: Italian marines Massimilano Latore and Salvatore Girone land in Delhi.
March 26: AirAsia s proposal gets the government s nod.
March 27: The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts a resolution, which among other things,
seeks a referendum on creation of Eelam.
Puthiya Kovilakathu Sree Manavedan Raja (100), the Zamorin of Calicut passes awa
y at a hospital in Kozhikode.
March 30: Sterlite Industries Ltd. s copper smelter plant is ordered closed by the
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, following reports of a gas leak on March 23
.
The family members of those killed in the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament
take back gallantry medals they had returned on December 13, 2006.

APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court in a landmark verdict rejects Swiss firm Novartis plea
for a patent for modification of Glivec that fights a form of chronic blood can
cer. Green signal for cheaper generic drugs.
April 2: A new Gujarat Lokayukta Aayog Bill, 2013 is passed in the State Assembl
y.
The Supreme Court directs Sterlite Copper Smelter plant to pay Rs.100 crore as c
ompensation for land and water pollution. The order will not come in the way of
TNPCB closure directive.
April 3 : A court holds Maharashtra State Transport bus driver Santosh Mane who
killed nine persons and injured 37 after hijacking a bus on January 25, 2012, gu
ilty of murder.
April 4: At least 74 people are killed and 61 injured after a seven-storey build
ing at Lucky Compound, Shilpata collapses in Thane, in the neighbourhood of Mumb
ai.
The Tamil Nadu Government posts Shiv Das Meena, an IAS officer as Administrator
of the 84-year-old Annamalai University.
April 5: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan
and Padmashri awards at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
April 6: Lt. Commander Abhilash Tomy becomes the only one in the world to offici
ally do solo circumnavigation and solo non-stop circumnavigation.
April 8: A sessions court in Pune hands down death sentence to Santosh Mane.
April 10: A sessions court in New Delhi rejects CBI s clean chit to Congress leade
r Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and orders a fresh probe.
Benod Behari Choudhury (102), the last of the revolutionaries who took part in t
he 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid dies at a Kolkata hospital after a multi-organ f
ailure.
April 12 : The Supreme Court rejects the mercy petition of Khalistani terrorist
and death-row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast ca
se.
April 15 : A Pune trial court holds Mirza Himayat Baig guilty of planning and ex
ecuting the February 13, 2010 German Bakery blasts.
The Tamil Nadu Government introduces a Bill in the Assembly to repeal the Annama
lai University Act of 1929 and replace it with a fresh legislation. Registrar R.
Meenakshisundaram demits office.
April 17 : Telugu writer Ravuri Bharadwaja is selected for the Jnanpith Award fo
r 2012.
Relatives rescue a five-year-old girl raped and brutalised from the ground floor
flat of an apartment in Gandhi Nagar, East Delhi. She had gone missing two days
earlier.
April 18: Mirza Himayat Baig is sentenced to death for murder and criminal consp
iracy by a Pune sessions court.

The Madras High Court orders the sale of MT Pratibha Cauvery which ran aground i
n Chennai due to Cyclone Nilam on October 31, 2012, through the court.
April 19: B. Sivanthi Adityan (76), owner of Dina Thanthi and well-known sports
administrator, dies in Chennai after a prolonged illness.
April 20: Manoj Sah, accused of raping the five-year-old is arrested at Chiknout
a, in Bihar s Muzaffarpur.
April 22: Pradeep Kumar, the second accused in the Delhi child rape case is arre
sted in Barahiya village at Lakhisarai district, Bihar.
April 23: Sudipta Sen, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Kolkata-based Saradha g
roup is held in the tourist resort of Sonmarg in Kashmir.
April 24 : West Bengal government decides to set up a Rs.500-crore
help out depositors hit by the chit fund scam.

relief fund

to

Feroz Khan accused of raping a four-year-old girl in Ghansur town in Seoni, Madh
ya Pradesh on April 17 is arrested in Bhagalpur, Bihar.
April 27: Major Anup Joseph Manjali is awarded Kirti Chakra by the President Pra
nab Mukherjee. Twelve defence personnel given Shaurya Chakra for acts of bravery
. Ten officers are awarded Param Vishist Seva Medal.
April 28: Sailendra Nath Roy, a home guard and Guinness World Record holder, die
s of heart attack while trying to cross the Teesta river suspended from a 600-fe
et zip cable by a tuft of his hair at a height of 70 feet near the Coronation Br
idge near Siliguri, West Bengal.
April 29: The four-year-old rape victim from Madhya Pradesh dies of cardiac arre
st at a Nagpur hospital.
April 30: A sessions court in Delhi acquits senior congress leader Sajjan Kumar
of all charges in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Five others are convicted.
Lok Sabha approves passage of the Finance Bill 2013-14, the railway budget and t
he Appropriation bills, without discussion.
MAY
May 1: The Supreme Court upholds the government s proposal to allow FDI in multi-b
rand retail trade.
May 2: Punjab Government declares Sarabhjit Singh a

National Martyr.

May 3: Pakistani terror convict Sanaullah Haq is critically injured in an attack

by an Indian jailmate at Kot Bhalwal Central Jail in Jammu, four days after com
pletion of 14 years of imprisonment.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes a resolution demanding that the Union Government
take steps to take back control of Katchatheevu, a small island ceded to Sri Lanka
in 1974.
Bollywood legend Pran is honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award by President
Pranab Mukherjee. Trophies given to the winners of 60th National Film Awards. Bi
opic Paan Singh Tomar wins best picture award.
Haritha V. Kumar tops the rank list of the 2012 UPSC exams, in the process becom

ing the first Keralite in more than 20 years to achieve this distinction.
Sarabhjit Singh is cremated with full honours in Bhikiwind village in Punjab s Tar
n Taran district.
May 5: China ends three-week stand-off and pulls out troops from Daulat Beg Oldi
sector in Ladakh.
Seventy per cent turnout in Karnataka Assembly polls.
May 6: The Supreme Court clears the decks for the commissioning of the Kudankula
m Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.
May 8 : Karnataka votes the BJP out of power. Gives the Congress an unambiguous
mandate to rule.
May 9: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq (64) dies of multiple organ failure at a
hospital ,in Chandigarh.
May 10: Union information and Technology Minister Manish Tewari presents the Dad
asaheb Phalke award to veteran actor Pran (93) at the latter s residence in Bandra
.
May 11: Manjima Chatterjee wins The Hindu Metroplus Playwright Award 2013 for he
r The Mountain of Bones .
May 16: The Delhi Police Special Cell smashes a spot-fixing racket in the ongoin
g IPL matches with the arrest of Indian pacer Sreesanth and two of his teammates
from Rajasthan Royals Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in Mumbai.
Actor Sanjay Dutt surrenders in the special TADA court in Mumbai.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly gives its nod for the Annamalai University Bill, 2013 pa
ving the way for government control.
May 17: The Patna High Court acquits former Lok Sabha MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pap
pu Yadav and two others in the June 14, 1998 killing of CPI (M) MLA Ajit Sarkar.
May 18: Anshu Jamshenpa of Arunachal Pradesh, who holds the record of being the
only mother in the world to have scaled the Mount Everest twice in 10 days scale
s the peak again for the third time.
Siddaramaiah is sworn in Karnataka Chief Minister.
Sri Narayana Yatheendra Mahadesikan, (87), 45{+t}{+h}Azhagiyasingar of Ahobila M
utt passes away in Tiruchi.
May 20: India and China sign eight agreements, including one to increase the fre
quency of exchange of hydrological data.
May 21: Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma is appointed as the 12{+t}{+h}Compt
roller and Auditor General.
Arunima Sinha, a former national volleyball player, becomes the first woman ampu
tee to scale Mount Everest.
May 22: The Centre notifies Cauvery Water (Implementation of the Order of 2007)
Scheme, 2013. Formation of supervisory committee too notified.
May 23: Sri Ranganatha Yatheendra Mahadesikan formally takes charge as the 46{+t

}{+h}Azhagiyasingar of Ahobila Mutt in Srirangam.

The Union Cabinet decides to grant

classical

language status for Malayalam.

May 24: Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of BCCI president N. Srinivasan is arrest

ed on charges of betting, conspiracy and cheating by the Mumbai Crime Branch.
May 25: Mahendra Karma who founded Salwa Judum for combating Maoists and state C
ongress president Nandkumar Patel are among 27 persons killed in an ambush on a
motorcade by naxalites at Darbha, Chhattisgarh. Senior leader V.C. Shukla is ser
iously injured.
The former Editor-in-chief of The Hindu N. Ram and veteran author-journalist act
ivist Kuldip Nayar are honoured with the Red Ink Lifetime Achievement Awards for
2013 for a career dedicated to good journalism by the Press Club of Mumbai.
May 29: In a major twist to the Suryanelli rape case, the lone convict S.S. Dhar
marajan denies knowing Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien in an affidavit f
iled in the District and Sessions Court, Thodupuzha, Kerala.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Assam for th
e fifth consecutive term.
May 31: The National Green Tribunal allows Sterlite Industries Ltd. to begin ope
ration of its copper smelter plant in Tamil Nadu s Tuticorin district.
JUNE
June 1: N.R. Narayana Murthy is reappointed Infosys Chairman two years after his
retirement. Son Rohan Murthy appointed his executive assistant .
June 4: The Union Cabinet approves a non-binding conciliation process with the B
ritish telecom giant Vodafone in the $2-billion (Rs. 11,200 crore) tax dispute c
ase.
June 11: Senior Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla (84) dies of injuries he sus
tained in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, at Medanta in Gurgaon.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court approves the merger of Satyam Computers with Tech
Mahindra.
June 13: Two out of three segments of Mumbai s 17-km Eastern Freeway, comprising t
he nation s second longest road and the first-ever urban tunnel are inaugurated by
the Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
June 16: The Janata Dal (United) severs its alliance with the BJP. The JD(U) nat
ional president Sharad Yadav resigns as NDA convener.
Heavy rains lash Mumbai and trigger landslips in Uttarakhand. Thousands of Char
Dham pilgrims stranded on Gangotri and Yamunotri routes.
June 17: More than 30 persons are killed and 57,000 pilgrims left stranded in Ru
draprayag, Chamoli and Uttarkasi as unprecedented rains wreak havoc in Uttarakha
nd. Dehradun records 340 mm rainfall. Mandakini river floods Rudraprayag. NH-107
is washed away.
Oscar Fernandes becomes Road & Highways Minister; Sis Ram Ola gets Labour and Em
ployment; Mallikarjuna Kharge shifted from Labour to Railway and Girija Vyas is
allocated Housing in the Union Cabinet reshuffle.

June 18: The toll in the flood fury in the north, especially in Uttarakhand and
Himachal Pradesh goes up to 130. Over 70,000 pilgrims are stranded and 21 bridge
s have collapsed in Uttarakhand. The temple town of Kedarnath is wiped out in fl
ash floods.
June 19: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wins the trust vote in the State Asse
mbly.
June 20: Sixteen badly blocked roads across Uttarakhand are declared open. Over
33,192 pilgrims rescued. Army flies 50 sorties.
June 21: Hyderabad s Pallerla Sai Sandeep Reddy tops IIT JEE (Advanced). He had al
so been the topper in the engineering stream of EAMCET in Andhra Pradesh.
June 22: Helicopters fly 150 sorties as rescue efforts gain steam in Uttarakhand
and 82,000 evacuated till date. At least 22,000 stranded in Rudraprayag, Chamol
i and Uttarkashi districts. Toll touches 680.
June 25: An IAF helicopter crashes while on a rescue mission to Kedarnath in Gau
rikund area killing all 20 persons, including the crew on board.
June 26: Over 3,600 people are rescued from Harsil, Gaurikund and Badrinath brin
ging the total number to 1,03,000.
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi launch the
Rs. 1,672-crore Banihal-Qazigund rail link to connect Jammu with Kashmir and th
e rest of the nation. The 11.215-km Pir Panjal tunnel is also inaugurated.
June 27: Four AIADMK candidates and one each from the CPI and the DMK are electe
d to the Raj Sabha from Tamil Nadu.
The ailing Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited is closed.
June 29: Justice P. Sathasivam becomes the first Judge from Tamil Nadu to be app
ointed the CJI.
June 30: Anil Goswami takes charge as the Union Home Secretary.
JULY
July 1: India s first dedicated navigation satellite, the 1,425-Kg IRNSS-1A is suc
cessfully put into orbit after launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sri
harikota.
Jamia Millia University Vice-Chancellor Najeeb Jung is appointed Lt. Governor of
Delhi and K.K. Paul is named Meghalaya Governor.
July 2: Sujatha Singh is named Foreign Secretary.
July 3: The Madras High Court restrains NLC labour unions from going on strike o
ver the divestment issue. Unions launch indefinite strike.
July 4: The Odisha government completes land acquisition for the proposed Posco
Steel Plant.
Dalit Youth Elavarasan whose marriage to a Vanniyar girl Divya led to caste tens
ion in Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu last year is found dead near a railway track behin
d the Dharmapuri Government Arts College.
July 7: The Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is

rocked by a series of bomb blasts.

July 8: Twelve persons are buried alive and one dies of injuries after City Ligh
t, Secunderabad s noted Irani hotel collapses.
July 10: The Supreme Court rules that chargesheeted MPs, MLAs, and MLCs will be
disqualified on date of criminal conviction.
July 11: The AERB gives its nod for controlled fission at the first unit of the
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for revocation of President s rule in Jharkhand.
July 12: Veteran Bollywood actor and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee Pran Kishan Sikan
d (93), dies at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai.
July 13: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MLA Hemant Soren is sworn in as Jharkhand s ninth
Chief Minister in Ranchi.
The reactor at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project attains criticality.
July 14: India bids adieu to the 163-year-old Telegram Service.
July 15: Decks cleared for Tamil Nadu Government to acquire five per cent NLC st
ake sale for Rs.500 crore. Employees call off strike.
July 16: The Supreme Court allows dance bars in Maharashtra, shut down seven yea
rs ago to reopen.
The former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala among 55 convicted in the
1999 teachers recruitment scam by a special CBI court in New Delhi.
July 17: The world s largest steel maker Arcelor Mittal scraps its $12-billion ste
el plant in Odisha.
July 18: The Supreme Court declares the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test u
nconstitutional.
The CJI Altamas Kabir retires.
July 19: Justice P. Sathasivam is sworn in as the 40{+t}{+h}CJI at a ceremony at
the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
July 23: Vidya Subramaniam, Associate Editor of The Hindu wins the Ramnath Goenk
a Excellence in Journalism Award for the Best Commentary and Interpretative Writ
ing for 2010.
July 24: Meena Devi, Principal of the Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School in Biha
r where 23 kids died after having mid-day meal is arrested.
July 25: A Delhi Court convicts suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ah
med in the 2008 Batla House encounter case of murdering inspector Mohan Chand Sh
arma.
July 26: Celebrated biologist Obaid Siddiqi (81), a scientist nonpareil dies of
brain injuries sustained in an accident two days ago while taking a stroll near
his residence in Vidyaranyapura in Bangalore.
July 30: The UPA Coordination Committee agrees to the division of Andhra Pradesh
.

Suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed convicted in the Batla House
encounter is sentenced to lifer.
July 31: An indefinite curfew is clamped in Diphu, headquarters town of Karbi An
glong Hill district in Central Assam following widespread violence triggered by
the announcement on Telangana.
AUGUST
Aug. 1: The Assam Government requests Army to be on standby as violence spreads
to more areas in Karbi Anglong district.
Shujata Singh takes over as Foreign Secretary.
A probe is ordered following a major crisis after the National Spot Exchange Ltd
. suspends most trades on its platform.
Aug. 2: Seven Congress MPs, including six from the Lok Sabha and one from the Ra
jya Sabha resign in protest against the division of Andhra Pradesh.
Aug. 4: The U.P. government serves chargesheet on IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpa
l (suspended on July 27 for ordering the demolition of the wall of an under-cons
truction mosque at Kadalpur village).
Aug. 5: The National Green Tribunal orders a nationwide stay on sand mining on r
iver beds without Environment Ministry clearance.
The number of MPs from the Seemandhra region who have quit membership from both
Houses protesting the creation of Telangana goes up to 17.
Aug. 6: Five Indian soldiers are killed in an ambush by Pakistani army commandos
on the Line of Control in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Govind Rajan is appointed as the RBI Governor fo
r three years.
Sensex plunges by 449.22 points to close at 18733.04. Rupee touches its record l
ow of 61.80 a dollar.
Aug. 7: The historical bill to replace the National Food Security Bill Ordinance
, 2013 is introduced in the Lok Sabha.
Justice R.A. Mehta decides not to accept the post of Gujarat Lok Ayukta despite
having won a pitched legal battle.
Aug. 8: The National Green Tribunal permits Sterlite Industries to operate its c
opper smelting plant at Tuticorin.
Aug. 10: The compact pressurised water reactor on board India s nuclear-powered su
bmarine, Arihant, achieves criticality capping 25 years of indigenous efforts.
YSR Congress President and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy resigns from the Lok
Sabha. His mother Y.S. Vijaya resigns as Pulivendula MLA.
Aug. 11: Subramanian Swamy merges the Janata Party with the BJP.
Aug. 12: INS Vikrant, India s first indigenous aircraft carrier is launched at Coc
hin Shipyard Limited.

The Manmohan Singh government introduces the Right to Information (Amendment Bil
l), 2013 in the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 13: The Rajya Saha passes the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment)
Bill, 2012.
Aug. 14: The Navy s kilo-class submarine INS Sindhurakshak sinks after twin explos
ions at the Mumbai naval dockyard, a day earlier. Eighteen sailors are killed.
The Supreme Court confirms the death penalty to Khalistani terrorist Devender Pa
l Singh Bhullar.
Aug. 16: Sensex plunges 769.41 points
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Abdul Karim Tunda, the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba ideologue is formally arrested on

the Indo-Nepal border.
Aug. 17: Sheikh Jalal-ud-din, eminent cardiologist from Kashmir, dies at the AII
MS of injuries he sustained in a July 18 militant attack near his residence at N
amblabal in Pampore, near Srinagar.
Aug. 19: Twentyeight persons, including 14 women are crushed to death by the Pat
na-bound superfast Rajyarani Express at Dhamara Ghat station in Bihar s Khagaria d
istrict.
Aug. 20: Maharashtra s most vocal rationalist Narendra Dabholkar is shot dead near
Pune s Shanivar Peth area.
The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi launches the national food security scheme at a
function in New Delhi. Haryana and Uttarakhand included in rollout.
Aug. 22: A 22-year-old photo-journalist is gangraped on the Shakti Mills Compoun
d at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai while on an assignment.
Aug. 23: One person is killed and 39 others injured when a major blast leads to
the collapse of an under construction cooling tower at HPCL s Visakh Refinery in V
isakhapatnam.
Aug. 26: The Lok Sabha passes the National Food Security Bill, 2013 after a sixhour long debate.
Karnataka government removes G. Bhavani Singh as Special Public Prosecutor in th
e Rs. 66.65-crore disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa and others.
Aug. 27: The rupee slumps to 66.24/25 a dollar triggering a collapse in stock ma
rkets. Sensex loses 590.05 points to close at 17968.08.
Aug. 29: Yasin Bhatkal, a key plotter in several blasts and co-founder of the ba
nned Indian Mujahideen and his close associate Asadullah Akhtar are arrested fro
m the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar s Raxaul town.
The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill is passed by the Lok
Sabha.
Aug. 31: Juvenile gets three years jail term in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gang
rape case.
SEPTEMBER

Sept. 2: The Rajya Sabha approves by voice vote the National Food Security Bill.
Sept. 4: Raghuram Rajan takes over as the 23{+r}{+d}RBI Governor. Duvvuri Subba
Rao demits office.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitat
ion and Resettlement Bill, 2013, is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authorit
y Bill, 2011.
Sept. 5: The amended version of the Land Acquisition Bill is cleared by Parliame
nt.
The Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (120{+t}{+h}Amendment) Bill, 2013 to cre
ate a Judicial Appointments Committee.
Deepak Sandhu becomes the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the nati
on.
Sept. 6: The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihoo
d and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012.
The Lok Sabha passes The Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation)
Bill, 2013 dealing with those in lawful custody but not convicted. The RS had g
iven its nod on August 27.
The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2013 is presented to western music direct
or Zubin Mehta by the President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.
Sept. 7: At least nine persons, including a photojournalist are killed and 34 in
jured after a fresh bout of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, t
riggered by an incident on August 27 in which two boys were killed in Kawal Vill
age by a mob.
Sept. 8: The U.P. government issues shoot-at-sight orders even as fresh violence
erupts in far-flung pockets of Muzzaffarnagar taking the toll to 21.
Sept. 12: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
Disarmament and Development for 2012 to his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Sept. 13: A fast track court in New Delhi awards death penalty to the four convi
cts in the December 16 gang rape and murder case.
The BCCI slaps life ban on pacer S. Sreesanth and Mumbai left-arm spinner Ankeet
Chavan for spot-fixing in the IPL.
Sept. 19: A special CBI Court in New Delhi convicts Congress Rajya Sabha M.P. Ra
sheed Masood under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Sept. 22: The suspended U.P. IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal is reinstated.
Sept. 24: The Union Cabinet negating a Supreme Court ruling, clears an ordinance
that will protect convicted MPs and MLAs from immediate disqualification.
Sept. 25: Annamalai University administrator Shiv Das Meena assumes charge as Vi
ce-Chancellor.

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Sept. 27: The Supreme Court holds that a voter can exercise the option of negati
ve voting and reject candidates as unworthy of being elected.
Fiftyfour persons are killed and 32 injured after a 33-year-old four-storey buil
ding at Dockyard Road in south Mumbai collapses.
Sept. 30: A special CBI Court in Ranchi pronounces all 45 accused, including RJD
leader and MP Lalu Prasad and former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra guil
ty in the Chaibasa treasury case of the Rs. 950-crore fodder scam.
The Supreme Court quashes the Karnataka Government order removing G. Bhavani Sin
gh as Special Public Prosecutor.
OCTOBER
Oct. 1: The Gujarat Assembly passes for the second time the Gujarat Lokayukta Aa
yog Bill, 2013.
Congress MP and former Union Minister Rasheed Masood is sentenced to four years
in jail by a special CBI court in New Delhi in a corruption case.
Oct. 2: The Union Cabinet withdraws the ordinance on convicted lawmakers as well
as the Bill that sought to amend the Representation of the People Act on which
it was based.
Oct. 3: The Union Cabinet gives approval to a Home Ministry proposal to divide A
ndhra Pradesh and create Telangana State. Four Union Ministers quit.
The former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav gets five years RI, stands dis
qualified from Parliament and is banned from polls for 11 years.
Oct. 4: All 13 districts in the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions observe t
otal shutdown on the first day of a 48-hour bandh.
India launches JENVAC its first indigenous vaccine to protect children from Japa
nese encephalitis.
Oct. 5: After nearly three months, pilgrimage to Kedarnath and Badrinath temples
resumes.
Oct. 7: Over 50 lakh consumers in the five districts of Visakhapatnam, Vizianaga
ram, Srikakulam, East and West Godavari go without power following strike by ove
r 8,000 electricity staff.
Arundhati Bhattacharya takes over as the SBI Chairperson, thus becoming the firs
t woman to be appointed to the top job.
Oct. 8: The Supreme Court commutes to lifer the death sentence awarded to the fo
rmer Delhi Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma for murdering and burning the bod
y of his wife Naina Sahni on July 2, 1995.
Oct. 9: The Patna High Court acquits all 26 accused in the December 1, 1997 case
of Laxmanpur Bathe massacre in Arwal district of Bihar in which 58 Dalits were
killed.
The Tolkappiyar Award for lifetime achievement in classical Tamil is awarded to

Dr. Iravatham Mahadevan and Prof. Tamizhannal Periyakaruppan for 2009-10 and 201
0-11 respectively.
Bharati Enterprises and U.S. retail giant Walmart announce termination of their
joint venture, ending a six-year relationship.
Oct. 11: The Indian Coast Guard detains Seaman Guard Ohio, a Sierra Leone-flagge
d vessel with 25 armed guards on board in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.
Oct. 12: The cyclonic storm Phailin crosses the Odisha coast near Gopalpur 20 km
from Berhampur in Ganjam district. Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh bears
the brunt and seawater enters many villages.
Oct. 13: As many as 115 people are killed as a result of a stampede that breaks
out on a bridge near the Ratangarh Mata temple in Madhya Pradesh s Datia district.
Oct. 18: The Tamil Nadu Q Branch police arrest 33 men, including the crew of U.S
.-based ship Seaman Guard Ohio.
Oct. 20: Congress member of the Rajya Sabha Rashid Masood becomes the first MP t
o lose his seat after the Supreme Court struck down a provision in the electoral
law that protected a convicted lawmaker from disqualification.
RJD s Lalu Prasad Yadav and JD (U) s Jagdish Sharma are disqualified from the Lok Sa
bha following their conviction in a fodder scam case.
Oct. 24: Manna Dey (94) legendary playback singer dies at a hospital in Bangalor
e after prolonged illness.
The FIPB gives nod to Tata-Singapore Airlines proposal to set up a full service
airline in India.
Oct. 26: Andhra Pradesh reels under floods caused by rain for the past five days
and the toll touches 39. Crops on 6.78 lakh hectares damaged.
Oct. 27: Five persons are killed and 83 injured in serial blasts that rock Patna s
Gandhi maidan, the venue of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi s Hunkar rally.
Ashwath Narayanan, wins The Hindu

Saregama M. S. Subbulakshmi Award 2013.

Oct. 28: The Supreme Court directs the Sahara Group to deposit in three weeks th
e original title deeds of properties with Rs. 20,000 crore to the SEBI.
Oct. 30: Fortyfive persons, including an infant are killed as the bus in which t
hey were travelling goes up in flames on Hyderabad-Bangalore highway.
Oct. 31: Eminent agriculture scientist M. S. Swaminathan is honoured with the In
dira Gandhi National Integration Award, at a function in New Delhi.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Sensex falls back to 21196.81 after scaling a lifetime high of 21293.88
on the last day of the Hindu Samvat year 2069.
Kannur in Kerala is declared the first zero-landless district in the country.
Nov. 2: Eight persons are run over by a passenger train near Gotlam station in A
ndhra Pradesh s Vizianagaram district, after a rumour of fire on their train made
them jump on to the adjacent track.

Nov. 3: Sensex ends day at 21,239.36 its second consecutive record high, in a sp
ecial session of Muhurat trading.
Nov. 5: The ISRO s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C-25) in its silver jubile
e mission puts the 1,350 kg Mars Orbiter precisely on to its earth-orbit 44 minu
tes after blasting off from Sriharikota.
A CBI special court in Thiruvananthapuram clears the State CPI(M) secretary Pina
rayi Vijayan of all charges in the SNC-Lavalin case.
Nov. 6: The Gauhati High Court quashes the Union Home Ministry resolution of 196
3 on the basis of which the CBI was constituted.
Nov. 9: The Supreme Court stays the Gauhati High Court verdict on CBI formation.
Nov. 11: Sixtyseven per cent voting is registered in the first phase of Chhattis
garh Assembly polls.
Nov. 16: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and top scientist C.N.R. Rao are named fo
r Bharat Ratna, India s highest civilian award.
Nov.19: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Bharatiya Mahila Bank, the fir
st all women commercial bank in Mumbai.
The Supreme Court gives a big relief to political parties allowing jailed person
s to contest polls.
High turnout in phase II of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Pe
ace, Disarmament and Development for 2013.
Nov. 20: The first Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality is presented to a
ctress Waheeda Rahman and Lifetime achievement Award to Czech film-maker Jiri Me
nzel at the inauguration of the 44{+t}{+h}International Film Festival of India i
n Panaji, Goa.
Nov. 21: The Goa police launch criminal probe into charges against Tarun Tejpal,
founder and editor-in-chief of Tehelka sexually assaulting a woman staff of the
weekly magazine at a hotel during the Think Fest.
Nov. 22: Cyclone Helen leaves four persons dead and destroys paddy on one lakh acr
es while crossing the coast close to south of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Nov. 25: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad holds dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh
Talwar guilty of the murder on May 16, 2008 of their daughter Aarushi Talwar and
domestic worker, Hemraj at their home in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
A record 70.82 per cent voting is recorded in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.
Mizoram registers 81 per cent balloting.
Nov. 26: A CBI special court in Ghaziabad awards lifer to Nupur and Rajesh Talwa
r.
Nov. 27: The Kanchi Sankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswati and the junior Acharya
Sri Vijayendra Saraswati are acquitted by a Sessions Court in Puducherry in the
September 3, 2004 murder of A. Sankararaman, manager of the Sri Varadarajaperuma
l Temple, bringing an eight-year trial to a close.

Nov. 29: The law intern names West Bengal Human Rights Commission Chairman A. K.
Ganguly as the former Supreme Court judge against whom she has levelled sexual
harassment charges.
The final judgment given by the Brajesh Kumar tribunal on the Krishna Water disp
ute leaves Andhra Pradesh disappointed as it gives no relief on any of the 14 am
endments it sought on the December 2010 interim order.
Nov. 30: Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka is arrested after a Goa sessio
ns court rejects his anticipatory bail plea.
The Emperor of Japan, Akihito arrives in New Delhi on a six-day state visit.
East Timor s first feature film A Guerra da Beatriz (Beatriz s War) bags the Golden
Peacock award at the 44{+t}{+h}IIFA in Goa.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1: A record 72.49 per cent turnout is recorded in the Rajasthan Assembly el
ections.
Mars Orbiter begins its 300-day 680-million km voyage to the Red Planet after be
ing put into a sun-centric orbit.
Dec. 2: The ISRO s Mars Orbiter becomes the farthest object sent into space by Ind
ia.
Dec. 3: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates the 8{+t}{+h}Asia Gas Part
nership Summit in New Delhi during which he dedicates to the nation the GAIL Ind
ia Ltd. s 1,000 km-long Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline.
Dec. 4: Delhi registers more than 65 per cent voting in Assembly polls, with you
th turning up in large numbers.
Dec. 5: The Union Cabinet approves the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013
for the creation of a Telangana State with 10 districts, paving the way for the
bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announces an award of Rs. 2 lakh to Gunjan
Sharma who offered herself as hostage to a gunman who had abducted them in a sch
ool van in Simaluguri district a day earlier, to save 10 of her schoolmates.
Dec. 6: Large-scale protests mark the first day of a 48-hour bandh called by the
YSR Congress and the TDP in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema against the Union Ca
binet nod to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 8: The BJP scores a landslide victory in the Rajasthan Assembly polls baggi
ng 162 states in the 200-member House.
The BJP gets a two-thirds majority and performs a hat-trick in the Madhya Prades
h Assembly polls.
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP wins a third consecutive term.
The BJP emerges the single largest party, winning 31 seats in the Delhi Assembly
polls but falls short of majority. The Aam Aadmi Party steals the show on its d
ebut by bagging 28 seats. The Congress gets a drubbing.
The AIADMK s P. Saroja wins the Yercaud byelection by a record margin of 78,116 vo

tes.
Dec. 9: The Congress retains power in Mizoram.
The report of the 30-member JPC on 2G Spectrum allocation tabled in the Lok Sabh
a.
Dec. 10: The DMDK presidium chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the
Tamil Nadu Assembly, Panruti S. Ramachandran quits active politics and resigns a
s Alandur MLA.
Dec. 11: The Supreme Court sets aside the July 2, 2009 Delhi High Court verdict
decriminalising gay sex.
Retired Gujarat High Court judge D. P. Buch is sworn in as the Lokayukta, a post
that had remained vacant for a decade.
The IAF s workhorse, MiG-21 bows out, at a function in Kalaikunda air base, West B
engal.
Dec. 12: Raman Singh takes oath as Chhattisgarh Chief Minister for the third con
secutive term at a function in Raipur.
The West Bengal Assembly passes the West Bengal Protection of Interest of Deposi
tors Bill, 2013.
The Union Cabinet approves the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill.
Dec. 13: BJP leader Vasundhara Raje is sworn in as Rajasthan Chief Minister in J
aipur.
The Supreme Court grants bail to RJD president Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case
.
The Maharashtra Assembly passes the Anti-Superstition Bill.
Dec. 14: Shivraj Singh Chouhan is sworn in Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for a t
hird term.
Lal Thanhawla is sworn in Mizoram Chief Minister .
Dec. 15: DMK ends decade-old ties with the Congress.
Union Labour Minister Sis Ram Ola (86), dies at a Gurgaon hospital.
Dec. 16: The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 to bifurcate the State is
introduced in both Houses of the Legislature.
The Union Cabinet gives nod to the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill.
Dec. 17: The Rajya Sabha passes by voice vote the historic Lokpal Bill.
Dec. 18: The Lok Sabha passes the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2013.
Novelists Mridula Garg (Hindi) and R. N. Joe D
ong winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2013.

Cruz (Tamil), poet Javed Akhtar am

Dec. 19: Sushma Singh is sworn in Chief Information Commissioner by the Presiden
t Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Dec. 20: The report of the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry tabled in the State Asse
mbly indicts four former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra. Cabinet rejects report.
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court sets aside permission given to the
UB Holdings to sell 1.36-crore shares of United Spirits to British liquor major
Diageo Plc.
The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas gets initial clearance for joining IA
F, 30 years after the project was sanctioned.
Dec. 21: Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan resigns.
Dec. 25: The Army decides to courtmartial six military personnel for the murder
of three civilians in a fake encounter on April 30, 2010 at Machhil in Kashmir.
Dec. 27: The final Ecologically Sensitive Area notification on Western Ghats is
put on hold.
Dec. 28: Arvind Kejriwal is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister at the Ramlila Maidan
in New Delhi. Six Cabinet colleagues too assume office.
Twentysix persons are charred to death as an AC coach of the Bangalore City-Nand
ed Express catches fire near Kothacheruvu in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 29: The parents of the December 16, 2012 gangrape victim announce setting u
p of a trust in her name at a prayer meeting at their village in Ballia , Uttar
Pradesh.
Dec. 30: The U.K.-based Tesco Plc. first global retailer to get FIPB nod to ente
r domestic multi-brand retail sector.
The Army chief General Bikram Singh takes over as the Chairman of the Chiefs of
Staff Committee in New Delhi.
Dec. 31: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha takes over as the 24th Chief Of The Air Sta
ff from Air Chief Marshal N. A. K. Browne at Vayu Bhawan in New Delhi.