Current Affairs 2011

NATIONAL United Liberation Front of Asom Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa freed on bail from Guwahati Central Jail. 98th Indian Science Congress is held at SRM University, Kattankulathur near Chennai. Gangula Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddelacheruvu Suri, accused in the murder of TDP MLA Paritala Ravi is shot dead. Raj Kishore Kesari, BJP MLA from Purnia in Bihar is stabbed to death in Purnia. Manmohan Singh announces the merger of Overseas Citizen of India and the People of Indian Origin Cards at Ninth Pravasi Bhatiya Diwas in New Delhi. Pravasi Bhartiya Samman award 2011 is conferred on 14 persons, including New Zealand Governer-General Anand Satyanand and SriLankan Industrialist Mano Selvanathan. Light Combat Aircraft Tejas gets operational clearance 27 years after being conceived. 106 Sabarimala pilgrims died at Periyar Tiger Reserve Keralas Idduki district. Minister of Environment and forests Jairam Ramesh orders demolition of the 31-storey Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society building in Block 6, Backbay Reclamation Area in Colaba, Mumbai.
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Surinder Jakhar, Chairman of IFFCO, and son of Congress leader Balram Jakhar dies of bullet injuries after his pistol accidently goes off at his familys farmhouse in Punjabs Ferozpur.

Dr. Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission is awarded the Indian Nuclear Societys Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award 2009.

Former Pondicherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy quits the Congress party. Karnataka Governor H.R.Bharadwaj Accords sanction to prosecute Chief Minister B.S.Yedyurappa over allegations of denotification of land acquired by the government.

Supreme court upholds life term for Dara Singh for burning Australian Missionary Graham Staines to death. Lt. Gen. P.K.Rath held guilty in Sukhna land scam case. Commonwealth Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and his close aide Lalit Bhanot are sacked for trying to hamper investigations by the CBI into the multi-crore CWG scam.

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia , Wipro chief Azim Premji, Telugu Actor A.Nageshwar Rao, Indias first woman news photographer Homai Vyarawalla, Kapila Vatsyayan among the 2011s 13 Padma Vibhushan winners. Conferred posthumously on Gandhian L.C. Jain.

Yashwant Sonawane, Additional Collector of Nashik district is burnt alive in Nahik. Army doctor Major Laishram Jyotin Singh killed in Kabul in 2010 is conferred Ashok Chakra posthumously.

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Tuticorin Port Trust is renamed V.O.Chidambaram Pillai Port Trust. Supreme Court says death sentence of three persons in the Dharampuri bus burning case. Cinstitutional nod for Poscos $12 billion steel mill- cum- captive port project in Orissa. Wajahat Habibullah announced to be the next chairperson of the National Commission of Minorities. CBI arrests former Telecommunications Minister A.Raja, the former DOT secretary Siddarth Behura and R.K.Chandolia in the 2G spectrum issue. Praja Rajyam Party led by actor Chiranjeevi merges with the Congress. Shahid Balwa, promoter of Swan Telecom, is arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case. The Supreme Court sentences to one year RI former Kerala minster R. Balakrishna Pillai and two others in the Idamalayar Hydrogen Power project case.

Manmohan Singh inaugurates the nations first International container transhipment terminal on Vallarpadam island close to the Kochi port. Manmohan Singh presents 43rd Jnanpith Award to poet O.N.V Kurup in Thiruvananthpuram. Web-based Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System is launched in New Delhi. Supreme Court upholds the death sentence to Surinder Koli. Bombay High Court upholds the death sentence awarded to Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, confirms acquittal of co-accused Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed.

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Premanand, the self-styled Godman serving a double imprisonment dies in a private hospital in Chennai. Thirty one persons are convicted and sixty three acquitted in the Godhra train burning case by a special fast track court appointed by the Gujarat High Court.

National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions grants minority institution status to Jamil Milia Islamia University. The railway budget for 2011-2012 proposes the highest ever plan outlay of 57630 crore. Railways allows for the first time to issue tax-free bonds to the tune of Rs. 10000 crore in the next financial year.

Major Mitali Madhumita becomes the first Indian woman officer to get a gallantry award in the army. CBI arrests the NALCO chairman and managing director A.K. Srivastava in one of the biggest bribery cases in recent times. Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur, prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, is formally arrested by the Madhya Pradesh for the murder of RSS activist.

Credit Flow for farmers raised to Rs. 375000 crore to Rs. 475000 crore in the 2011-2012 Union Budget. Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala announced. Eleven persons are sentenced to death and 20 given life term in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. Supreme Court reserves verdict on a plea for mercy killing of a comatose nurse Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug in a Mumbai hospital. KEM hospital says it will take care of the patient till the natural end.

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Supreme Court quashes the appointment of P.J.Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commission and the CVC steps down. Union Cabinet gives nod for the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011. Tis Hazari court in New Delhi discharges Italian businessman Ottavio Quatrocchi from the Bofors Payoffs case. Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and former Union HRD minister Arun Singh dies at AIIMS New Delhi. Chairman of Chennai based Cancer Institute Dr. V. Shantha is conferred the Dr. Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award 2010. Supreme court directs the centre to hold a common entrance test for MBBS and Post-Graduate Medical courses. Pune-based stud-farm owner Hassan Ali Khan under the scanner for the alleged money-laundering id taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate.

Supreme Court disallows friends plea for mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug. Gives nod for passive Euthanasia, lays down guidelines. UN Women announces a new scheme for widows in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka to mark the 100th anniversary of International Womens Day. Kapil Sabil announces e-post office, the e-commerce portal of India Post. Million March to Hyderabad called by pro-Telangana groups turns violent and seven statues of eminent Telugu personalities erected on the Tank Band vandalized.

Dalai Lama announces the decision to step down as political head of the so-called Tibetan government-in-exile.

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Supreme Court upholds the abolition of Common Entrance Test for admission to professional courses in Tamil Nadu. The Hindu begins serialized publication India Cables, 5100 of them comprising six million words accessed through an arrangement with Wikileaks.

Sadiq Batcha , aide of former Union Telecom Minister A. Raja, commits suicide. Supreme Court stays Special Court order granting bail to Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan. Convicted paedophiles Duncan Grant and Allan Waters of Britain are arrested by the Mumbai police. Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill Service Tax on health care goes. Orissa to be renamed Odisha and Oriya to be renamed Odia as Parliament passes the Orissa (the Alteration of Name) Bill. President Pratibha Patil presents Padma Awards for the year 2011 awarded to 61 recipients. Indias population jumps to 1.21 billion as per provisional data of census 2011. President Pratibha Patil presents second list of of Padma Awards for 2011 to 64 persons. Sivapatham Vittal, known as the Father of Endocrine Surgery receives the Padma Shri.

India wins the ICC Cricket World Cup defeating Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Veteran social activist Anna Hazare begins a fast-unto-death at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

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Gopal Dass who spent 27 years in a Pakistan convicted of the charge of spying returns home. Prominent religious leader Moulvi Shoukat Ahmed Shah, chief of the Jamat-e-Ahlihadith is killed in a bomb blast near a mosque in Srinagar. The Hindu Saregama M.S.Subbulakshmi Award is presented to the carnatic vocalist Nisha P. Rajagopal in Chennai. Supreme Court grants bail to human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen. PSLV-C16 puts three satellites- Resourcesat-2, Youthsat, Xsat into orbit after successful launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota.

Supreme Court restores life-term for John David for the gruesome murder of Navarasu in the Annamalai University Hostel in 1996. Iconic spiritual leader Sri Satya Sai Baba (85) passes away at Puttaparthi in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh due to cardio-respiratory failure. Satya Sai Baba is interred with state honours at Prasanthi Nilayam in Puttaparthi.

CBI arrests Suresh Kalmadi for conspiracy in awarding a contract to a Swiss firm at inflated cost of Rs 141 crore. Congress suspends the Pune MP.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and four others are chargesheeted by the CBI in the 2G spectrum allocation case. The Centre clears the desk for setting-up two 1650 MWe reactors at Jaitpur in Maharashtra. Padmanabh Singh is crowned Maharaja at the City Palace in Jaipur. The US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer resigns.

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Direstor K. Balachander is chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2010. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorgee Khandu is killed as the helicopter carrying him crashes at the Lughthang village while on its way to Itanagar from Tawang.

Murli Manohar Joshi is reappointed Chairman, Public Accounts Committee. Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2011 comes into effect. Poscos Rs. 54000 crore integrated steel plant project in Orissa gets final forest clearance. Arunachal Pradesh Power Minister Jarbon Gamlin is sworn Chief Minister. The CBI begins probe into the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. Government announces that it would institute a Rs 1 crore award in the name of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on the poets 150th birth anniversary.

Aashaa Jee, a Kashmiri Pandit woman is elected sarpanch in a Muslim dominated village in North Kashmir. India ratifies the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The AIADMK storms back to power in Tamil Nadu. Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance sweeps the West Bengal polls with more than two-thirds majority. Ruling congress scores a hat-trick in Assam and registers a landslide victory. Congress led UDF scrapes through in Kerala.

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All India NR Congress led by N.Rangaswamy sweeps the Puducherry Assembly Polls. Supreme Court sets aside Karnataka speakers order disqualifying 11 BJP members in October 2010. AIADMK General Secretary Jayalalitha is sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. N.Rangaswamy is sworn in as the Chief Minister of Puducherry. Oommen Chandy is sworn in as Keralas 21st Chief Minister .Tarun Gogoi sworn in as Assam Chief Minister for his third consecutive term. Mamata Banerjee sworn in as West Bengal Chief Minister.

India decides to prospect for oil, gas and after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Islam Karimov in New Delhi. Malayalam film Adaminte Ma kan Abu bags four award and Tamil films corner 12 awards at the 58th National Film Awards 2010. Tamil Nadu Environment Minister Mariyam Pichal killed in an accident. D. Jayakumar is elected speaker and P. Dhanpal Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Biman Bandopadhyay elected West Bengal assembly speaker.

German Chancellor Angels Merkel is presented the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding 2009 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Centre launches Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakramam to provide free services to pregnant women for deliveries, at Mewat district in Haryana. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha launches the free rice scheme (20 kg a month to eligible card holders) in Chennai. B.S. Yedyurappa Government in Karnataka wins fourth trust vote.

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AIADMK scraps the Kalaignar Housing Scheme and Kalaignar Insurance Scheme. And orders probe into alleged irregularities in the construction of the new Secretariat-Assembly Complex. Cable TV to be nationalized.

Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal dies in Hisar following a massive heart attack. Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts a resolution against attempts to revive the Legislative Council abolished in 1986. Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti joins BJP again after 6 years. Tamil Nadu Assembly passes a special resolution seeking economic sanctions on Sri Lanka. Jyotirmoy Dey, Editor Special Investigations, MiD Day is shot dead by a gang in Powal, Mumbai. Swami Nigamanand, founder member of the Mantri Sadan on an indefinite fast since February 19, 2011 seeking a ban on quarrying in and around the Ganga in the Kumbh area dies at a hospital in Dehradun district.

Supreme Court asks Tamil Nadu government to continue Samacheer Kalvi Thittam for classes I and VI for2011-12. West Bengal Assembly passes by voice vote the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill 2011. The Orissa Government surrenders land acquisition for the proposed steel plant of Posco in Jagatsinghpur indefinitely. Four Maoists are sentenced to death by a Jharkhand Court for the 2007 Chilakari Massacare, including former Chief Minister Babulal Marandis son Arun.

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India and New Zealand sign protocols in film production. Supreme Court stays return of land to farmers in Singur, West Bengal. The 25 paisa coin goes out of circulation. Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar is chosen Central Vigilance Commissioner. The Supreme Court sets up a Special Investigation Team on black money with former SC judge B.P.Jeevan Reddy as Chairman. Salwa Judum is illegal, says SC, Chhattisgarh directed to disarm youth deployed as Special Police officers. The Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran quits the Union Cabinet following charges of wrong-doing in telecom sector. At least 38 people are killed and 33 others injured after the MathuraChappra rams a snag-hit bus at an unmanned level crossing near Adhupura village in Kanshi Ram Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh.

At least 35 persons are killed and over 200 injured as the Howrah- Kalka Mail derails at Malwan station in Fatehpur district. Jairam Ramesh is made Rural Development Minister. Jayanthi Natarajan is Minister of State for Environment and forests, Veerappa Moily shifted to Corporate Affairs and Salman Khursheed gets Law in Union reshuffle. Dinesh Trivedi is new Railways Minister. V. Kishore Chandra Deo is back in ministry after 31 years.

17 persons are killed and 141 injured after three blasts rock crowded areas of Mumbai. The bombs go off within 11 minutes at Zaveri Bazaar, kabutarkhana and Opera House.

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The PSLV-C17 lifts off from Sriharikota and places in orbit the 1410 kg GSAT-12 communication satellite aided by an ISRO-built computer Vikram.

Lt. Gen. P.K.Rath is acquitted by an army court of the charge of intent to defraud in the Sukna land scam case. The Mahasamadhi of Sathya Sai Baba is unveiled at Prashanti Nilayam, Puttaparthi. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is appointed Indias next envoy to the U.S. The Madras High court strikes down an amendment to the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School education Act to defer the implementation of the samacheer system.

Air India bound to pay Rs. 75 lakh each to all the heirs of the May 22, 2010 Mangalore crash, says Kerela High Court. The Karnataka High Court upholds Lokayukta police inquiry against CM B.S.Yeddyurappa. The S.C refuses to stay Madras High Court ruling on uniform syllabus. The Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadenda Manohar rejects the resignation of 101 Telengana MLAs Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegdes final report on illegal mining submitted to the state government indicts B.S.Yeddyurappa. 43 years after the conception of the first draft, the Union cabinet gives nod to The Lokpal Bill. Chief justice of the Sikkim High Court P.D.Dinakaran resigns a day ahead of the removal proceedings under the Judges Inquiry Act.

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Chief Of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma takes over as the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee in New Delhi. Air chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne takes over as the 23rd Chief of Air Staff in New Delhi. Mamata Sharma takes over as National Commision for Women chairperson. D.V.Sadananda Gowda is sworn in as the 26th CM of Karnataka. Implement Samacheer Kalvi for classes 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 in 10 days, the Supreme Court directs Tamil Nadu government. The SC upholds the death sentence for the Red Fort attacker Pakistani national Mohd. Arif alias Ashfaq. Shela Masood, a woman RTI activist is shot dead outside her residence in Bhopal. Rajya Sabha begins its first-ever impeachment proceedings against Calcutta High Court judge Soumitra Sen for misappropriating money when he was a Receiver.

The Rajya Sabha approves the impeachment motion against Justice Soumitra Sen for corruption. The Tamil Nadu government decides to make the abandoned Assembly Secretariat Complex a multi-super speciality hospital for the poor. Mumbai Dabbaawallahs strike work for the first time in 120 years and take out rally in support of Anna Hazare Rajya Sabha passes the Juvenile Justice(Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2010. Actor-turned politician Chiranjeevi formally joins the Congress in New Delhi.

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Mumbaikars take out one lakh march from Bandra to Juhu in support of Anna Hazare. A bill to repeal the Tamil Nadu Tamil New Year(Declaration) Act, 2008 is passed by the State Assembly. The former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K, Rosaiah is appointed Tamil Nadu governor. The Madras HC stays the execution of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The Tamil Nadu assembly adopts resolution recommending commutation of death sentence.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha launches the biometric smart card scheme for disbursal of monthly pensions given under social security schemes.

The west Bengal assembly passes the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration Bill, 2011. The Union Cabinet gives nod for the National Land Acquisition and rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill. The former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is arrested and sent to the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam case. At least 13 persons are killed and more than 75 injured after a powerful blast rocks the Delhi HC complex. President Pratibha Patil presents the Dadasaheb Phalke Award to doyen of Tamil cinema K.Balachander at the 58th National Film Fare Awards function in New Delhi. Saranya Ponvannan and Marathi actor Mitali Jagtap Vardarkar share the Best Actress Award. Dhanush bags the Best Actor Award.

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6 persons are killd and 30 injured in police firing on a mob in Paramakudi near Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu. Anjali Gupta, a former flying officer and first woman to be courtmartialled by the IAF, commits suicide in Bhopal. The SC directs a trial court in Gujarat to hear charge against CM Narendra Modi in the Gulbarg Society carnage during the 2002 riots. The J&K Speaker admits a resolution seeking amnesty for Parliament attack case accused Afzal Guru. The Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalitha launches a host of schemes, including the free distribution of lptops to students at a function in Tiruvallur. An earthquake, with its epicentre in Sikkim, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rocks the northeast, leaving 60 persons dead and 100 injured. Kannada poet Chandrashekhar Kambar is chosen for the 2010 Jnanpith award. Karnataka Lokayukta Shivraj V. Patil quits in the wake of a media expose claiming irregularity in the allotment of housing society plots to him and his wife.

The Tamil Nadu Cabinet passes a resolution urging the Centre to halt work on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. Mahan Maharaj, a Buddhist monk among 11 scientists selected for the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize this year. The Calcutta HC upholds the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011. In all, 215 persons are sentenced to prison term for the atrocities committed at vachathi, a tribal hamlet in Pappireddipathi taluk,

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Dharmapuri district on June 20, 1992. Seventeen convicted on charges of rape and sent to jail. The Union Cabinet gives nod for the landmark Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Bill, 2011. Andhra Pradesh Minister for Infrastructure Komatireddy Venkat Reddy resigns and also quits to loin struggle for Telangana cause. A nationwide campaign in support of Manipur rights activist Irom Sharmila on a fast for the past 11 years seeking repeal of AFPSA is launched in New Delhi. PM Manmohan Singh and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai sign the first-ever Strategic Partnership agreement in New Delhi. The new draft National telecom Policy envisages a one nation, one license regime. The SC stays the death penalty awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. BJP leader L.K.Advani begins his 40 day nationwide Jan Chetna Yatra at Chapra, Bihar. The PSLV puts four satellites, including Megha Tropiques, in orbit after a majestic liftoff from Sriharikota launch facility. The Hindu Chhattisgarh correspondent Amen Sethi is presentd the International Committee of the Red Cross award for the best Indian print media article on humanitarian issues, in New Delhi. South Indias first metro rail service is flagged off on line 1 of Namma Metro between Mahatama Gandhi road and Byappanahalli in Bangalore. India, Nepal ink major pacts after talks between PM Manmohan Singh and Baburam Bhattarai in New Delhi.
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32 persons are injured and 116 injured following the collapse of a wooden foot-bridge in Bijanbari area of west Bengals Darjeeling district. Swami Bhaktipada (74), controversial former leader of the American Hare Krishna movement dies at a Thane hospital. Rahul Bhattacharyas debut novel The Sly Company of People who Care bags the Hindu literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011 at Chennai Lit for Life festival.

Mohan Dharia is presented the Indira Award for National Integration for 2010. Nabam Tuki is sworn is as the new CM of Arunachal Pradesh. The Union Cabinet gives nod for amendments to the Higher Educational Institutions Proposed Bills, 2011. Rs one crore fine proposed for charging capitation fee.

The cabinet gives nof for 26% FDI in pension sector. The Delhi HC grants bail to 6 accused in 2008 cash-for-votes case and agrees that it was a sting by BJP MPs The Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek express, Indias longest train service(4286 km) is inaugurated at a function in Guwahati. The U.P Vidhan sabha votesfor splitting the state into Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh Pradesh and Paschim Pradesh. A division bench of Gujarat HC accepts SIT report that the June 15, 2004 killing of college girl Ishrat Jahan and 3 others was stage managed. Cyrus P. Mistry is named as Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tatas successor on his retirement in December 2012. Appointed Deputy Chairman. The Union cabinet gives nod for 51% FDI in multi brand retail and 100% FDI in single Brand trading.

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Communist Party of India(Maoist) Polit Bureau member Mallojula Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji is killed in an encounter in West Bengals Paschim Medinipur district.

The CBI arrest the sacked Rajasthan Minister Mahipal Maderna in the nurse Bhanwari Devi bduction case. Dev Anand(88), Hindi cinemas legendary hero, dies after a cardiac arrest while on a holiday in London. An Army court of Inquiry orders dismissal of former Military Secretary Lt. Gen Avdesh Prakash from service after he was found guilty in the Sukna land scam case.

The Parliamentary Committee on Finance rejects the National Identification Authority of India Bill. At least 90 people are killed in a fire at AMRI hospital in Dhakuria, Kolkata. All seven directors arrested and hospital license cancelled. The Rashtriya Lok Dal led by Ajit Singh joins the UPA. More than 50 persons are killed and 70 fall ill after consuming Hooch in West Bengals South Parganas district. Jyoti Amge of Nagpur who is just 62.8 cm tall is confirmed the worlds smallest living woman by Guiness World Records. The RLD leader Ajit Singh is sworn in as Union Civil Aviation Minister. Parliament nod for The Cable Television Networks(Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2011. Citizens Charter Bill is tabled in Lok Sabha. President Pratibha Patil creates history by sailing a warship off the Mumbai coast.

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Tamil writer Su. Venkatesan gets the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Kaaval Kottam. Ramachandra Guha and Gopalkrishna Pai among other awardees.

The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 and the National Food Security Bill, 2011 are tabled in Lok Sabha. The Election Commision announces the Goa, Manipur, Punjab, U.P and Uttarkahnd Assembly poll schedules. Ramanujans birthday ( December 22) is declared National Mathematics Day and 2012 National Mathematics Year by PM Manmohan Singh at the inaugural of the year long fete of the wizards 125the birth anniversary in Chennai.

The Lok Sabha passes the Lokpal Bill, but Constitution Amendment Bill defeated. Nod for The Whistleblowers Protection Bill, National Anthem completes 100 years. Rajya Sabha adjourns without taking vote on Lokpal Bill. The first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier of the Navy is floated out at the Cochin Shipyard Limited. 33 people are killed as storm Thane batters Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

INTERNATIONAL Dilma Rousseff assumes office as Brazil President.

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India joins United Nations Security council as a non permanent member for 2 years. Arnold Schwarzenegger terminates his stint of more than eight years as California governor. Salman Taseer , Governor of Pakistans Punjab Province gunned down by a security guard at a parking lot for supporting death row designate Aasia Bibi charged with blasphemy.

La Nina triggered flood causes catastrophic damage in Queensland. India and Sri Lanka sign an MoU on passenger Transportation by sea facilitating resumption of ferry services between Tuticorin Colombo and Talaimannar and Rameswaram.

Inderjit Singh Reyat, convicted in the June 23, 1985 Air India flight bombing sentenced to to nine years in jailfor perjury. Sudanese cast ballots in a week long independence referendum to decide on the status of the southern regions. 70 people on board an Iranian passenger jet killed after a crash near the north western city of Urumiyeh. Russia and U.S. enact a nuclear cooperation pact in Moscow. More than 500 people killed in Brazil as mudslides and floods devastate. Lebanese Government led by Saad Hariri collapses following the resignation of 11 cabinet ministers belonging to Hezbollah. Indian American Nikki Hailey sworn as the first woman and non- white governor of South Carolina. Tunisian Government dissolved and Parliament dismissed. Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali exits to Saudi Arabia.

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The Social Network sweeps up 4 awards at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. British House of Lords holds a first ever night long session. Former Swiss private banker Rudolf elmer hands over data on offshore bank account holders to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. 56 persons killed in a suicide bomb attack in tikrit, Iraq Sea life aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany unveils an outsized memorial for Paul the octopus. 5 persons killed and 180 injured as a suicide bomber strikes at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow Sri Lankas Supreme Court upholds the disqualification from parliament of the former army commander A.R. Rehman honoured with Crystal award of the World Economic Forum at the annual meeting of world elites at Davos. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak designates Ahmed Shafik Prime Minister. Omer Suleiman made vice- president. South Sudan votes to split from the north in a referendum as per preliminary results. A two million strong rally in Cairos Tahrir square calls for an end to the Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt. Jordans king Abdullah II fires the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Samir Rifai. Marouf al-Bakhit is named Prime Minister designate. Cyclone Yasi batters Australias north eastern coast. Power blackouts darken 1,77,000 homes across the Queensland region. Thein Sein elected Myanmars first first president under its 2008 constitution.

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Jhalanath Khanal is sworn in Nepal Prime Minister. Sudan President Omar Al Bashir endorses independence referendum result. Juba to be new capital of Southern Sudan. Hosni Mubarak steps down as Egyptian Presidenr after being at the helm for 30 years. Kings Speech wins the Best fim award at BAFTA. Best actor colin firth, best actress Natalie portman. Clashes in Bahrain as protestors observe day of rage. Riots erupt in Libya sparked by the arrest of human rights activist Fethi Tarbel. The first cosmic census reveals the presence of at least 50 billion planets in the milky way. Ugandas long term president Yoweri Museveni wins new term. BP signs a mega deal with Reliance Industries limited to buy 30 percent stake in RIL oil, gas blocks for $7.2 million in London. 155 dead and 226 missing in the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex crime enquiry, rules a british judge. U.S. imposes unilateral sanctions on Libya. 83rd Academy Awards

o Best picture Kings Speech o Best actor Colin Firth o Best director Tom hooper o Best actress Natalie Portman

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Opposition announces formulation of the Libya National Transitional Council. The US Securities and Exchange Commission slaps insider trading charges on former McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta. Pakistan Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaaz Bhatti is gunned down near his residence. Order of St. Andrews Russias highest honour, is conferred on the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Nepal Prime Minister and founder of the Nepali Congress Krishna Prasad Bhattarai passes away in Ksthmandu. Jacques Chirac becomes the first French president to go on trial on criminal charges. A strong earthquake strikes off the coast of northeast Japan. Discovery space shuttle returns to earth after its final flight wrapping up its 27 year career. An 8.9 magnitude offshore earthquake unleashes a 23 feet tsunami in Japan leaving 8199 people dead and 12722 missing. Atomic power plant Fukushima No 1 is evacuated.

An explosion at the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Reactor in Japan triggered by the quake-tsunami destroys the building housing it. Emergency declared at Japans Onagawa nuclear power plant. The 1421 metre Shinmoedake volcano erupts. Hiromitsu Shinkawa is saved by the military after he remained clinging on to the roof of his house for two days.

Radiation spread strikes japan. A magnitude 6 earthquake rattles Tokyo.

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Chinese government suspends the approval of all new nuclear power plants. US embassy staffer Raymond Davis, arrested for shooting down two men on January 27 in Lahore, is freed after payment of blood money hours after being indicted for murder by a sessions court.

UN authorises the imposition of no-fly zone in Libya and use of air-power to prevent attacks on civilians by Col. Gadaffis forces. 46 persons are killed and hundreds injured in the crackdown on prodemocracy protest in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Yemens president Ali Abdullah Saleh fires his cabinet. Former Isreali president Moshe Katsev is sentenced to a seven year jail term for rape. Legendary Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor who enthralled audience in a career spanning 5 decades dies at a Los Angeles hospital. Abel Prize for the year to US Mathematician John Willard Milnor for his pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra. 74 people are killed and 111 injured after a powerful earthquake rocks north-west Myanmar. The Canadian government headed by Stephen Harper is ousted in a vote of no-confidence passed in the parliament. Parts of Japan especially the Miyagi prefecture are rattled by an offshore earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale. Syrian Cabinets resignation is accepted by the President Bashar-Al Assad after nearly two weeks of pro-democracy unrest. Heavy turnout marks Kazakhstans presidential polls.

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Internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is detained by authorities while boarding a flight to Hong-Kong. Wreckage of an Air-France jet which crashed off Brazil coast killing all 228 people aboard is found in the Atlantic Ocean. Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected Kazakhstans president. Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds a High Court order confirming Grameen Bank decision to remove Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director.

Guardians coverage of the Wikileaks publication wins Newspaper of the Year at the 2011 Press Awards given in London. Peruvians cast ballots in presidential polls. Ban on full-face veils comes into effect in France. Nuclear radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daichi plant is rated a major accident like the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster. The worlds five major emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) draw up action plan for better coordination on the world stage at the Summit in Sanya, China.

BRICS nations sign a pact to use their own currencies instead of the US dollar in credit or grants among each other. Nigerians cast ballots in presidential polls. Goodluck Jonathan wins Nigerian Presidential polls. Indian American Siddharth Mukherjees book on Cancer wims the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the General non-fiction category. Jennifer Egan wins the Pulitzer prize in the fiction category for her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad. Carol Fuzy, a photographer from the Washington Post becomes the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes.

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Syria lifts an emergency law that has been in force for 48 years following month-long protests in which at least 200 have died. President Raul Castro is named first-secretary of Cubas Communist Party. Governments from around the world pledge $785 million to seal the stricken nuclear reactor at Chernobyl within a 20000 tonne steel shield at a conference in the Ukranian capital Kiev.

Popular singer-turned-politician Michel Martelly is declared of Haitis presidential elections. Thousands of people join an energy shift parade in Tokyo, Japan to demand an end to nuclear power. Congolese childrens right activist Murhabazi Namegabe wins the $100,000 Worlds Childrens Prize for the rights of the child. Singapores elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew is returned to Parliament unopposed for the fifth successive term. The toll from severe storms that battered five Southern US States touches 193. Alabama worst hit with 128 deaths. Britains Prince Williams marries long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey, London. Saif-al-Arab Gadaffi, the youngest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, and three grandchildren are killed in a NATO air attack on a residential building in Tripoli.

Pope Benedict XVI beatifies the late Pope John II at St. Peters Basilica in Vatican. Al-Qaeda supremo Osama Bin Laden is killed in a US special forces operation in Abbottabad near the Pakistan capital Islamabad.

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Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper wins majority in Canadian Parliamentary polls. The Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian factions, sign the unity pact paving the way for the formation of National government. The Bangladesh Supreme Court dismisses Dr Muhammad Yunuss petition seeking reversal of a High Court ruling sacking him as the Grameen Bank MD.

Elections are held for the Scottish Parliament, the devolved assemblies in Northern Ireland and Wales. Britons overwhelmingly reject a proposal to abandon the first-past-thepost system in favour of Alternative Vote. Scottish National Party pulls off a dramatic victory. A joint celebration by India and Bangladesh of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore begins in Dhaka. Singapores long-governing People Actions Party wins absolute majority in parliamentary polls held a day earlier. Raj Rajaratnam, Galleon hedgefund founder, is found guilty of fraud and conspiracy by a federal jury in Manhattan. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is awarded the Sydney Peace Prizes Gold Medal. Singapores top leaders and former PrimeMinisters Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong announce their retirement from the Cabinet. The IMF President Dominique Strauss-Kahn is arrested in New York on attempted rape, assault charges. Philip Roth, one of Americas prolific novelists is named winner of the 60,000 pounds Man Booker International Prize.

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Arjun Vajpayee, a school boy from Noida, achieves a rare double, after being the youngest Indian to scale Mt. Everest, he scales Mt. Lhotse, the worlds fourth highest peak.

Indias GSAT-8 the largest and heaviest satellite built by the ISRO is launched from Kourou, French Guiana by Ariane-5 rocket. U.S director Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life wins top honours at the Cannes Film Festivals. Kirsten Dunst bags best actress for her role in Lars von Triers apocalyptic psychodrama Melancholia. Frances Jean Dujardin gets best actor for part in Michel Hazanaviciuss silent movie The Artist

At least 89 people are killed as a tornado rips through the city of Joplin in Missouri, U.S. Bosnian Serb Army Commander General Ratko Mladic, also known as the Butcher of Srebrenica, wanted for crimes during the 1991-95 Balkan wars is arrested in Lazarevo, Serbia after 16 years on the run.

George Atkinson (16) from Surbiton, a London suburb becomes the youngest person ever to climb the highest of all the seven continents after scaling Mt. Everest.

G-8 leaders launch a partnership for North Africa and West Asia at the end of their own two day annual summit in Deanville, France. Nepals major parties amend interim constitution and extend the term of the Constituent Assembly by three months. Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad is found dead 48 hours after he went missing from the Red Zone of Islamabad. Jill Abramson is appointed first-ever woman Executive Editor of the New York Times.

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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan survives the no-trust vote in Parliament. Indian-American Sukanya Roy wins the crown at the spelling-bee championship in Maryland, US. Jack Kevorkian nicknamed Dr Death who said he helped some 130 people end their lives from 1990-1999 dies at William Beaumount Hospital in Michigan after a short illness.

Ollanta Humala secures a razor thin victory in Peruvian presidential polls. M.F. Hussain, Indias foremost modern painter and an internationally recognised artist dies at a London Hospital. The six-nation Shanghai Corporation Organisation opens its doors for Indias membership at its 10th anniversary summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. Ayman-al-Zawahari is chosen to succeed the slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon gets Security Council support for a second five-year term. Swiss Parliaments gives nod to amendments to tax treaties with nations making it easier to track black money. 44 persons, including designers of the nuclear reactors in Kudankulam Tamil Nadu,are killed in an air-crash in Northern Russia. The former presidents of Ghana and Brazil, John Agyekum and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are chosen for the World Food Prize 2011. Endosulfan is listed under the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade.

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Hindi films Dabangg and My Name Is Khan bag top honours at the 12th International Indian Film Academy Awards in Toronto, Canada. Jose Graziano da Silva of Brazil is elected Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization. Chinese activist Hu Jia is freed after being behind the bars for three and a half years on subversion charges. Chinese railways unveils test-run of CRH high-speed train linking Beijing and Shanghai. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is elected IMF Managing Director. The Danish High Court dismisses governments plea to extradite Kim Davey, an accused in the Purulia Arma drop case of 1995, to India. The Worlds longest sea bridge, spanning 36.48 km across the mouth of the Jiaozhou bay in Eastern Shandong Province, Chinapoens to traffic. Undersea tunnel running parallel to the bridge too ready High speed rail link between Shanghai and Beijing inaugurated.

Prince Albert II of Monaco and his South African bride, Princess Charlene , marry in a religious ceremony. Yingluck Shinawatras Pheu Thai Party secures majority in Thailands parliamentary polls Christine Lagarde takes office as IMG Managing Director in Washington. At least 95 people killed in four days non-stop sectarian violence in Karachi, Pakistan. Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on its last voyage since the launch of the program in 1981 from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Rebekah Brooks, Chief Executive of News International announces closure of the tabloid News of the World, following furore over its role in a phone hacking scandal.

South Sudan declares independence from Sudan to become the worlds 193rd Nation. President Salva Kiir offers peace to rebels. Australia unveils its most sweeping economic reforms in decades, with a plan to tax carbon emissions from the nations worst polluters. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Afghanistan President Hamid Karzais youngster half brother and head of Kandahars provincial council is assassinated by a security team member at his home in Karz Town.

British Prime Minister David Cameroon announces a judicial probe into the phone hacking scandal. Rebekah Brooks, the Chief Executive of the British Media Group News International resigns in the aftermath of the phone hacking scandal. The US recognizes the Libyan opposition, the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council. Rebekah Brooks, the former Chief Executive of the British Media Group News International, is arrested in the phone hacking scandal. NATO begins phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Paul Stephenson, the Scotland Yard Chief, resigns over links News International. General David Petraeus, the US Commander in Afghanistan steps down. Sean Haore, a former News of the World journalist, who was instrumental in revealing the illegal news gathering practices at the newspaper, is found dead at his house in Watford town in Hortfordshire, north-west of central London.

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Hina Rabbani Khar is sworn in Pakistans Foreign Minister, thus becoming the youngest and the first woman to occupy the post. The FBI arrests prominent Kasmir activist Ghulam Nabi Fai at his home in Fairfax, Virginia. The UN declares famine in parts of omalia, with up to 350,000 people hit in the most severe food crisis in Africa in two decades. Serbia arrests Goran Hadzic, the last remaining Yugoslav war crimes suspect sought by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Space Shuttle Atlantis returns from the ISS bringing an end to NASAs 30 year old journey with one last touchdown at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The EU summit in Brussels comes out with a second international bailout package for Greece. At least 40 persons killed and 190 injured as a bullet train rams another one while running on a bridge in Wenzhou in east Chinas Zhejiang province.

Amy Winehouse(27), Grammy award winning British soul singer is found dead at her flat in North London. India and the Republic of Korea ink a civil nuclear agreement after a meeting between Presidents Pratibha Patil and Lee Myung Bak in Seoul. Bangladesh Swadhinata Samanona (Bangladesh Freedom Honor) is conferred on Indira Gandhi at a function in the capital Dhaka. India, Iraq and Syria sign a $ 10 bn gas pipeline deal. Indians Harish Hande and Nileema Mishra among six award winners of 2011 Ramon Magsaysay awards announced in Manila.

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At least 163 killed on board a Carribean Airlines jet miraculously survive after the plane crashlands and splits in Guyanas Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

AUGUST The Former Eqyptian President Hosni Mubarak is charged with an array of crimes at an open trial court in a Cairo Court. Signs of water found on Mars, say Scientists. Standard & Poors for the first time removes the US Government from its list of risk-free borrowers. NASA launches the billion dollar unmanned solar powered Juno spacecraft on a five year journey to Jupiter. China puts into orbit Pakistans first communications satellite, PAKSAT1R from a launch centre in western Sichuan Province Nepal Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal resigns. Sukhoi fifth generation stealth fighter, T-50 being jointly developed by Russia and India makes public debut at a Moscow air show. IBM reveals brain chips called core A State Supreme Court in Manhattan dismisses the criminal charges against the former IMF MD Dominique Strauss Kahn. Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman to scale all the worlds 14 highest summits without oxygen. Hurricane Irene batters the North Carolina coast. The New York City Transit system begins a shutdown. Baburam Bhattarai is elected Nepal Prime Minister by the nations legislature-Parliament. Tony Tan is elected Singapore President after a dramatic recount.
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Yoshihiko Noda becomes Japans sixth Prime Minister in five years. Wikileaks publishes its full archives of 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables, without redactions. Iran connects its first nuclear plant at Bushehr to the countrys national electricity grid. 43 persons, including members of an ice-hockey team are killed after a Russian passenger jet crashes immediately after takeoff from an airport near the city of Yaroslavi.

The US President Barack Obama unveils a $447 billion plan labelled the American Jobs Act before the Congress. Miss Angola Leila Lopes is crowned Miss Universe 2011 at a pageant in the Brazilian capital Sao Paulo. The Red Bloc led by Thorning-Schmidt wins Parliamentary polls in Denmark. Scientists announce the discovery of a new planet Kepler 16B that has two suns. Mad Men wins the best drama Emmy for the fourth year, Modern Family bags the best comedy gong. Kate Winslet gets Best Actress Emmy role for her role in period drama Mildred Pierce at the 63rd Annual prime time Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

Rupert Murdochs media group News International offers 3 million Pounds pay-off to the family of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl the hacking of whose phone led to the closure of the 168 year-old tabloid.

The US militarys dont ask, dont tell policy is repealed.

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R.E.M., the pioneering American alternative rock group, calls it a day after 21 years and 15 albums. European scientists report of tiny specks called neutrinos apparently travelling faster than light. The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas submits his historic request for Palestinian statehood during his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Saudi women gain the right to vote and run as candidates in the local elections to be held in 2015. Wangari Muta Mathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize dies of cancer. Barcelona bans bull-fighting on grounds of cruelty to animals. French socialist wrest control of the senate gaining 175 out of 348 seats in a historic win for the first time since the Fifth Republic was founded in 1958.

Saudi men cast votes in Municipal election, the last all-male poll in the Muslim Kingdom. China launches its first space laboratory module the 8.5 tonne Tiangong1 or Heavenly Palace from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi awards death sentence to Malik Mumtaz Husain Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. Denmark imposes a fat tax on foods such as butter and oil. Bruce A. Beutler of the US Jules Hoffman of Luxembourg and Ralph Steinman of Canada (who died of pancreatic cancer on September 30) are awarded the Medicine Nobel for discovering the accelerating expansion of universe.

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Steve Paul Jobs, the iconic co-founder of Apple, dies of pancreatic cancer in California. Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer wins the Literature Nobel Prize. Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman is awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering quasicrystals. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, compatriot and Peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner are awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

Two American economists Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims are awarded the Nobel Peace for their research on cause and effect in the Macroeconomy.

Dennis Ritchie, a computer czar who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix Oprerating system is found dead at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire hedge fund manager is handed a 11 year jail term by a Manhattan Court. Bhutans King Jigme Khesar Namgyel marries Jetsun Pema in the Palace of Great Happiness in Phunaka. Fauja Singh (100) becomes the oldest person to complete a full distance marathon after taking part in Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in Canada.

British novelist Julian Barnes is declared winner of this years Man Booker Prize for his novella The Sense of an Ending in London. The Palestinian Hamas frees Gilad Shalit abducted Israeli soldier in return for the release of 477 Palestinians as part of a prisoner swap deal.

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A European Court rules that procedures that use embryonic stem cells cannot be patented. The toppled Libyan strongman Muammer Gadaffi is killed by new regime forces while trying to flee his home town of Sirte. US President Barack Obama honours Indian-American activist Vijaya Emani posthumously with the Presidential Citizens Medal. Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz al Saud dies while undergoing treatment for an unspecified illness in New York. Lousianas Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal is re-elected for a second term. Over 500 people are feared killed as a powerful earthquake strikes Turkey. Tunisias moderate Islamist Enhada party win in the first elections held after the onset of the Arab Spring. South Arabian interior minister Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz al Saud is named Crown Prince and Vice Prime Minister Australia unveils a 1012 kg gold coin to mark Queen Elizabeth IIs visit The royal daughters of the UK will soon get regal right to rule after Britain and 15 Commonwealth nations agree to repeal male primogeniture laws on the sidelines of this CHOGM summit in Perth

The US Space Agency launches a first of its kind weather satellite, The $1.5 billion National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satelite System Preparatory Project, from Vandenberg Air Force base in California

Kamlesh Sharma is reappointed Commonwealth Secretary General at the CHOGM meeting in Perth

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Philippines becomes the first country to declare a seven billionth baby, a girl named Danica In a historic work at its headquarters in Paris UNESCO grants full membership to Palestine The High Court in London rejects Wikileaks founder Jullian Assanges plea against extradition to Sweden Pakistan cabinet decides to grant MFN status to India Six volunteers complete a 520 day Mars Mission at an isolation module in Moscow in a bid to simulate the effects of a return trip to the Red Planet

Political leaders in Greece clinch a historic deal to form a national unity government Venezuelas Ivan Sarcos is crowned Miss World 2011 at a pageant in London The Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi loses parliamentary majority Greek PM George Papandreou steps down India offers Pakistan a Preferential Trade Agreement, easy visa regime after talks between PMs Manmohan Singh and Yusuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the SAARC summit in Addu city, Maldives

Senior banker Lucas Papademos is named PM of the new Greek interim government Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is declared re-elected for a second term after winning a run-off held on November 8th. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigns. Myanmarese leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi accepts the 2002 UNESCOMadanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-violence.

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Chinas unnamed air-craft Shenzhou-8 lands at the Gobi desert after a month-long docking exercise. Mariano Rajoy leads his peoples party to victory in Spains General elections Newzealands Prime Minister John Key wins second term The Arab league gives nod for sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end its eight month crackdown on dissent which has left 3500 people dead.

Michael Jacksons physician Dr. Conrad Munray is sentenced to a four year jail term by a Los Angeles court Britain witnesses the biggest public sector strike in a generation Britain expels all Iranian diplomats and orders the closure of its embassy in London Russians launch nationwide protest against election fraud Yemens national unity government headed ny PM Md. Basindawa is sworn in at the Republican Palace in Sanaa After nearly 72 hiurs of continous wrangling 190 nations sign an agreement to work towards a future treaty on global climate at the UN talks over climate change at Durban. Kyoto protocol get extension till 2017

Canada pulls out the Kyoto protocol US formally ends militatary operations in Iraq which began in March 2003 at a simple ceremony in Baghdad A French court sentences the Venzuevelan militant Carlos the Jackal to life sentence for four deadly attacks in France in the 1980s

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More than 1000 people are killed in flashfloods triggered by tropical storm Washi in the Philippines Vaclav Havel the former Czech President and the hero of Velvet Revolution passes at his country home near Prague 57 people are killed as blasts rock Baghdad An Australian teenager gets a 13 year old jail term for the January 2010 killing of an Indian student Nitin Garg in Melbourne China launches its first test train that can travel at 500KMPH in Quindao, Shandong province Russians take out a massive rally seeking cancellation of parliamentary posts held earlier in December 2011. Indian- American nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is conferred knighthood by Britain.

OBITUARY Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Hindutani Classical Musician dies at 88 in Pune. K. Subramaniam strategic thinker dies in Delhi of cancer. Dr Benjamin Pulimood (75) pioneer in gastro-enterology dies in Vellore. Lieutenant Colonel Man Bahadur Rai, the oldest recipient of the Ashoka Chakra, dies in Assam at the age of 95. Anant Pai, the founder of Amar Chitra Katha, dies in Mumbai. Venkataraman Rajakrishanan, eminent astrophysicist, known for his work on pulsars and son of C.V. Raman dies at the age of 88. Alberto Leonardo, the famous companion of Che Guevara who during the latters journey through Latin America which was immortalised in the famous Motorcycle Diaries, dies in Cuba.
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Eminent horticulturist G. Pathusarathi passes away in Bangalore. Lucian Freud, Sigmond Freuds grandson and a realist painter, passes away in London. Nancy Wake, the famous spy codenamed The White Mouse, passes away in London. Shammi Kapoor, the Elvis Presley of India, passes away in Mumbai. Ram Sharan Sharma, the famous Marxist historian and Indologist, passes away in Patna. Mansoor Ali Khan the Tiger Pataudi, one of the greatest cricket captain of India, passes away in Delhi. Jagjit Singh, the famous Ghazal maestro, passes away in Mumbai of brain-haemorrhage. Bhupen Hazarika, legendary singer and composer from Assam, passes away in Mumbai. Ustad Sultan Khan, the Sarangi maestro and classical singer, passes away in Mumbai. Ken Russell, one of Britains most creative filmmakers, passes away in Britain. Mario De Miranda, the famous cartoonist, passes away in Loutolim, Goa. Rani Jethmalani, the social activist and Supreme Court lawyer, passes away in Mumbai.

SPORTS

England retains the Ashes by winning a series in Australia after 25 years. They won the series 3-1.

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Rajasthan wins the Ranji Trophy in Vadodara for the first time, beating Baroda in the final. Pakistani cricketers Mohammed Aamir, Mohammed Asif and Salman Butt receive bans from the ICC for their involvement in the Spot-fixing scandal. Butt for ten years, of which five were suspended, Asif for seven years, of which two were suspended, and Amir for five years.

Brazilian star Ronaldo announces his retirement from football in February 2011. The Indian cricket team led by MS Dhoni lifts the ICC Cricket World Cup after a gap of 28 years. Kapil Dev was the Indian captain when India won it last, which was in the year 1983.

The All India Football Federation drops charges of racism against Bob Houghton after he hands over his resignation as the Football coach of India.

Former Zimbabwean captain Duncan Fletcher takes over as the coach of the Indian cricket team. The post was left vacant after, Gary Kirsten, the coach who helped the Indian team win the World Cup quit.

Ace Indian boxer, MC Mary Kom(48 kg category) clinches the Gold Medal at the Asian Womens Boxing tournament held at Haikou, China. The Australian hockey team regains the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament. It was held at Ipoh, Malaysia. Saleem Durrani- Given BCCIs CK Nayudu Award for lifetime Achievemnt.(2011 Award winner) Chennai Super Kings defend their title by defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore in the finals.

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Barcelona wins their 4th Champions league title by beating Man U 3-1 in the finals held at the Wembley Stadium. Rafael Nadal clinches a record equalling 6th Roland Garros title by defeating Roger Federer in a 4 set final. Li Na becomes the first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam tournament when she defeated Italian Francesca Schiavone in the Roland Garros final.

Czech Petra Kvitova wins her first Grand Slam final by defeating Maria Sharapova in the Wimbledon final. Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon title by defeating the defending Champion Rafael Nadal. Darren Clarke from Northern Ireland, becomes at the age of 44 the oldest player to win the British Open golf tournament. Double World Record holder Gagan Narang is named for the 2010 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. Australian Cadel Evans earned himself a yellow jersey, by winning his first Tour De France title in the month of July 2011. Maria Sharapova named as the highest earning womens sportsperson with an earning of a whopping $25 Million. Zimababwe return to test cricket after a 6 year self-imposed exile in style. They defeat Bangladesh in their comeback game. Karnataka win the overall honours in the 38th National Aquatics Championship held at Bhopal. Baichung Bhutia, the star Indian footballer who played briefly for Bury FC in the Third Division English Championship, announces his retirement

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from international game. His farewell game was played against Bayern Munich in Ambedkar Stadium. Indian went on to lose this 4-0. Lionel Messi named the UEFA Best Player award, in its inaugural year, for his performance in the 2010-11 season. Lionel Messi visits Kolkata to play a friendly against Venezuela. Argentina won this 1-0. Ricky Ponting becomes the first cricketer ever to feature in 100 test victories. He achieved this feat after Australia defeat SL in Galle. The Jamaican 4X100 m relay team clinches the Gold medal at the World Championship held at Deagu, South Korea, by setting a world record of 37.04 seconds. India win the Asian Champions Trophy in Ordos, China, by defeating Pakistan in the finals. Rahul The Wall Dravid played his last ODI against England at Cardiff. He called it quits from the ODI format; however he continues to play in the longer format. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the former Indian captain dies at his home in Kenyas Patrick Macau creates a new world record of 2:03:59 en route to winning the gold in the Berlin Marathon. Mumbai Indians wins their first CLT20 title by defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore in the finals in the 3rd edition of the tournament. British Indycar driver Dan Wheldon dies in a freak car crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Indo-Pak pair of Bopanna and Qureshi win their first masters series title, by winning the Paris Masters.

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R Ashwin becomes the 3rd Indian to achieve the unique double of a 5fer and a 100 in the same match. The previous two to achieve this were Polly Umrigar and Vinoo Mankad.

Roger Federer defeats Jo Wilfred Tsonga in his 100th career finals to win the ATP World Tour Finals in London. Hossein Vafaei Ayouri becomes of Iran won the IBSF World snooker championships held at Bangalore Brazilian legend Socrates passes away in Sao Paulo. He was aged 67. Virender Sehwag scores a record breaking 219 in the 4th ODI against West Indies in Indore. Incidentally, the previous highest score of 200* by Sachin Tendulkar also came in the state of MP.

India defeats Afghanistan in Delhi and successfully defends their SAFF title.

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