Monday, January 12, 2015

THE HINDU

NATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: India terminates the Rs.
3,700 crore VVIP chopper deal with
Italian rm AgustaWestland International Limited for breach of precontract integrity pact.
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill,
2013 gets presidential nod.
The Sangita Kalanidhi title is conferred on vocalist Sudha Ragunathan
by the Andhra Pradesh Governor
E.S.L. Narasimhan at the sadas of
The Music Academy, in Chennai.
Jan. 2: The Maharashtra Cabinet
accepts the Adarsh Commission of
Inquiry Report. Action Taken Report lets off six indicted politicians.
India signs a labour cooperation
agreement with Saudi Arabia, in
New Delhi.
Jan. 3: Normal life across 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh hit following a bandh against proposed
bifurcation of the state.
Jan. 4: Nineteen workers are
killed and 16 injured following the
collapse of an under-construction
ve storeyed building in Canacona,
75 km from the Goa capital Panaji.
The Geosynchronous Satellite
Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) powered
by an indigenous cryogenic engine
puts the 1,982 kg GSAT-14 communication satellite into a perfect orbit
after liftoff from Sriharikota.
Jan. 6: The former Supreme
Court judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly,
accused by a law intern of sexual
harassment, resigns as chairperson
of West Bengal Human Rights
Commission.
The Supreme Court quashes Tamil Nadu governments February
2009 order appointing an Executive
Officer to manage the affairs and
properties of the Chidambaram Natarajar temple.
Telugu actor V. Uday Kiran commits suicide at his at in Srinagar
Colony at Punjagutta, Hyderabad.
The Mumbai police chargesheet
National Spot Exchange Ltd. CEO
Anjani Sinha and four others in the
Rs. 5,600 crore NSEL payment scam.
Jan. 9: Mahatma Gandhis granddaughter Ela Gandhi, Australian
senator of Indian origin Lisa Maria
Singh and the Ramakrishna Mission
among the 13 recipients of the 12th
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award
presented by the President Pranab
Mukherjee in New Delhi.
The former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa formally rejoins the BJP.

Jan. 10: The Union Environment

Ministry gives nod for Poscos eight
million tonnes per annum steel
plant in Odisha.
Former Deputy Consul General
Devyani Khobragade reaches New
Delhi after the U.S. gives her full
diplomatic immunity.
Jan. 12: Imbibe values advocated
by Swami Vivekananda, says Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh at the
valedictory of the 150 birthday fete
of the Swamiji, in New Delhi.
Jan. 13: Kerala-based writer
Anees Salim is named winner of The
Hindu Prize for the Best Fiction
2013 for his second novel, Vanity
Bagh, a dark comic tale, at the valedictory session of The Hindu Lit for
Life, in Chennai.
Jan. 16: India and South Korea
sign Agreement on the Protection of
Classied Military Information and
eight other pacts after talks between
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
and South Korean President Park
Geun-hye, in New Delhi.
Jan. 17: Sunanda Pushkar, the
wife of Union Minister of State for
Human Resource Development
Shashi Tharoor is found dead at the
Leela Palace Hotel in New Delhis
diplomatic enclave.
Jan. 18: Eighteen persons die and
45 suffer injuries in a stampede outside Saifee Manzil, the house of Dawoodi Bohra spiritual leader Syedna
Mohammed Burhanuddin in upscale
Walkeshwar area in South Mumbai.
Mumbai-based author-journalist
Cyrus Mistry wins the DSC prize for
South Asian literature for 2014 for
his book Chronicle of a Corpse
Bearer.
Jan. 19: Lalita Babar completes a hat-trick of titles at
the Mumbai Marathon. Sets a
new course record among Indian women athletes by clocking 2:50:31.
Jan. 20: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal dees prohibitory order to launch an unprecedented
protest outside Parliament House,
demanding executive control of the
Delhi police.
Jan. 21: The Supreme Court commutes the death sentence of 15 persons, including four associates of
forest brigand Veerappan.
Jan. 24: The former Union Minister, M.K. Alagiri is suspended from
the DMK and relieved of his posts.
Namma Wi-Fi, free wireless Internet connectivity via Wi-Fi hotspots is launched in ve locations in
Bangalore.

President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Bharat Ratna to

cricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Prof. C. N. Ramachandra
Rao (left) at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Jan. 25: Yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar
and the former chief of the CSIR R.A.
Mashelkar are awarded the Padma
Vibhushan.
Classical singer Parveen Sultana,
Justice Dalveer Bhandari, author
Ruskin Bond, former CJI J.S. Verma
(posthumously), Tamil actor Kamal
Hassan, lyricist Vairamuthu, ghatam
artist T.H. Vinayakram, novelist Anita Desai, former CAG V.N.Kaul,
sportspersons Leander Paes, Pullela
Gopichand prominent among 25
Padma Bhushan awardees.
Cine stars Paresh Rawal and Vidya
Balan, sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik, TAFE chairperson Mallika Srinivasan, cricketer Yuvaraj Singh,
cinematographer Santosh Sivan and
wheelchair tennis pioneer H.Boniface Prabhu among those honoured
with Padma Shri.
The Centre for Study of Society
and Secularism is selected for the
National Communal Harmony
Award 2013.
Jan. 26: The 65th Republic Day
parade showcases the military
might. A highlight being the display
of the nations rst indigenously developed Light Combct Aircraft, Tejas.
Jan. 27: Sensex tumbles by 426.11
points to close at 20707.45.
Jan. 28: Former President A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam inaugurates the centenary celebrations of the Pamban
railway bridge, Indias rst cantilever bridge, connecting the pilgrim island of Rameswaram with the
mainland.
Jan. 30: The Supreme Court
clears the decks for the prosecution
of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for non-ling of IT returns
during 1991-92 and 1992-93.
Nido Tania, son of Nido Pavitra,

Congress MLA from Arunachal Pradesh, dies at the AIIMS of injuries he

sustained in an attack by a group of
men at a South Delhi market a day
earlier.
Jan. 31: The Supreme Court stays
the execution of Devender Pal Singh
Bhullar sentenced to death for a
bomb attack on the former Indian
Youth Congress president Maninderjeet Singh Bitta in 1993.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay
Bahuguna resigns.

FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Union Water Resources
Minister Harish Rawat is sworn in as
the eighth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand at the Raj Bhavan in Dehradun.
Feb. 3: One should not succumb
to unscientic prejudices against
Bt. Crops, says the Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, inaugurating the
101st session of the Indian Science
Congress in Jammu.
The Delhi Cabinet clears the Delhi Lokpal Bill, 2014.

Youth enjoying free wireless

Internet connectivity services
near the metro station on M.G.
Road, in Bangalore.

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

Feb. 4: Renowned scientist C. N.

R. Rao and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar are conferred the Bharat Ratna
at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Feb. 5: The CBI charges former
IB Special Director Rajendra Kumar
and three serving officers with the
murder of college girl Ishrat Jahan
Raza on June 15, 2004, on an Ahmedabad street.
Feb. 6: The Union Cabinet gives
nod for Vodafones proposal to buy
out minority shareholders in its Indian arm for Rs. 10,141 crore.
Feb. 7: The Union Cabinet clears
Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill
for the creation of Telangana.
Feb. 10: The role of Gurunath
Meiyappan in the IPL betting and
spot xing muddle is proven, says
the three-member panel appointed
by the Supreme Court.
ATMs across the nation run dry as
over eight lakh bank staff begin their
two-day strike.
Feb. 11: The Congress expels six
of its Lok Sabha MPs from the Seemandhra region who had given notice for a no-condence motion
against the government.
Feb. 12: Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge announces the launch
of 17 new premium trains, named Jai
Hind in the interim Railway Budget
for 2014-15.
Feb. 13: The expelled Congress
MP from Vijayawada, L. Rajagopal
sprays from a can of chemical in the
Lok Sabha to protest against the tabling of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013. Three MPs suffer
from inhalation of fumes and rushed
to hospital.
Feb. 14: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resigns after his government fails to introduce the Delhi
Jan Lokpal Bill in the Assembly.
Feb. 17: Union Finance Minister
P. Chidambaram allocates Rs. 1,000
crore non-lapsable funds to the
Nirbhaya fund; Rs. 1,000 crore to the
National Skills Development Trust
while presenting the interim budget
2014-15. In principle nod for one
rank, one pension for armed forces.
Presidents rule is imposed in Delhi and the Assembly kept under suspended animation.
The Goa police charge the former
Tehelka magazine editor-in-chief
Tarun Tejpal with rape.
Guwahati teenager Afreed Islam, a
class X student, launches Revo Book,
his prototype of a computer system
that uses a microchip instead of a
hard disk that also doubles as a storage unit.
Feb. 18: The 15th Lok Sabha passes the A.P. Reorganisation Bill.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

Seven A.P. Ministers quit StateCabinet. Union Minister D. Purandeswari resigns her Cabinet post and
party membership.
The Supreme Court commutes
the death sentences of three convicts
in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination
case to life terms.
Feb. 19: N. Kiran Kumar Reddy
resigns as Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister and quits the Congress and
Assembly membership.
The Tamil Nadu government decides to free all the seven accused in
the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
Rishang Keishing (94), Indias
oldest parliamentarian retires
after seven decades in
politics.
Feb. 20: The Rajya Sabha gives
nod for the Bill for creating Telangana amid bedlam.
Odia gets classical language status.
Former DMDK leader Panruti S.
Ramachandran joins the AIADMK.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
announces special category State
status for the Seemandhra region.
Six-point package for residuary Andhra
Pradesh,
including
tax
incentives.
Feb. 21: The country has the capacity to rise above partisan politics
to enact crucial laws in the national
interest, says the Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh on the last day of
the 15th Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha passes the Whistleblowers Protection Bill.
Feb. 24: The Lalu Prasad-led RJD
splits after six of its 22 MLAs announce move to join the ruling JD
(U) in Bihar.
Mehair, a non-scheduled air services provider launches a unique
seaplane service, the rst of its kind
in mainland India, linking Mumbais
Juhu airport with tourist destinations of the State.
Feb. 25: Nine of the 13 rebel
MLAs who broke away from the
Rashtriya Janata Dal return to the
party fold.
India and Saudi Arabia sign a
breakthrough MoU on defence
cooperation.
Feb. 26: Navy Chief Admiral D.K.
Joshi resigns hours after a re on
board submarine INS Sindhuratna
off Mumbai leaves two officers dead
and seven others injured.
Feb. 27: The Supreme Court says
till March 6 the release of four convicts Nalini, Robert Payas, Jayachandran and Ravichandran in the
Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
In a rst-of-its-kind in the coun-

try, an electric passenger bus, with

zero emission level, is inaugurated
by the Karnataka Transport Minister R.Ramalinga Reddy in Bangalore.
Union Finance Minister P.Chidambaram inaugurates the countrys rst post office savings bank
ATM at the Head Post Office in
Thyagaraya Nagar in Chennai.
Feb. 28: Sahara India chief Subrata Roy is arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police for failing to refund
Rs.19,000 crore to investors.

MARCH
March 1: The former Army Chief
V.K.Singh joins the BJP .
President Pranab Mukherjee gives
his assent to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill. Approves central
rule in the State.
March 2: The Union Cabinet
clears reservation for Jats in nine
northern states under OBC. Gives
special category status for ve years
to successor state of Andhra
Pradesh.
March 3: The Defence Ministry
puts on hold all deals with RollsRoyce the British engine maker. CBI
probe ordered into allegations of
kickbacks.
March 5: The Election Commission announces a nine-phase poll
schedule from April 7 to May 12 for
the 16th Lok Sabha and the Assembly
in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and
Sikkim.
President Pranab Mukherjee appoints former Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit as Kerala Governor.
The Supreme Court upholds the
conviction of Sushil Ansal and Gopal
Ansal in the 1997 Uphaar cinema
tragedy that claimed the lives of 59
people.
March 10: Expelled Samajwadi
Party leaders Amar Singh and Jaya
Prada join the Rashtriya Lok Dal in
New Delhi.
March 11: Famous poets Javed
Akhtar (Urdu), Subodh Sarkar (Bengali) and Ambika Dutt (Rajasthani)
prominent among 18 presented with
the Sahitya Akademi awards at the
annual Festival of Letters in New
Delhi.
March 13: The Delhi High Court
upholds the death sentence of all the
four convicts in the December 16,
2012 gangrape case.
March 14: The Cuttack sessions
Court sentences to 11 years Mittu
Patnaik, the main accused in the August 25, 2008 Kandhamal nun gangrape case.
Seven persons are killed and ve
others injured after a dilapidated
seven-storey building collapses on

The BMTC's electric bus in Bangalore.

an adjacent slum settlement in the
Mumbai suburb of Vakela.
March 15: The Supreme Court
stays the execution of two persons
Mukesh and Pawan in the Delhi
gangrape case till March 31.
March 16: The 17th Gollapudi Srinivas national award for the best debut lm is bagged by Gyan Correa for
his Gujarati lm The Good Road.
March 21: A Mumbai sessions
Court awards lifer to four convicts
for the July 31, 2013 gangrape of a
telephone operator on the Shakti
Mills compound.
March 24: Sensex surges by 300
points to close at a record high of
22055.48 amidst renewed buying interest from FIIs.
Bank of India launches IMT (Instant Money Transfer) which allows
cardless cash withdrawal at its IMTenabled ATMs.
March 25: The DMK expels M.K.
Alagiri, its south zone organisational
secretary and former Union Minister for his anti-party activities.
The Indian Ordnance Factory
launches a light-weight revolver,
Nirbheek, designed especially for
women.
March 27: The World Health Organisation officially declares India
polio-free.
March 28: Five IAF personnel
are killed after a C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft
crashes in Karauli, near Gwalior after taking off from Agra.
The Supreme Court upholds law
xing the age of a juvenile at 18.
March 29: The BJP expels senior
leader Jaswant Singh from the party
for six years.
March 31: The Supreme Court

commutes the death sentence

awarded to Devendra Pal Singh
Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast
to lifer.

APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court declines to review its February 18 ruling in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination
case, commuting the death sentence
of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan to lifer.
Meghalaya gets connected to the
Indian Railway network.
April 2: The Delhi High Court
upholds the conviction of U.P. politician D.P. Yadavs son Vikas Yadav,
his nephew Vishal Yadav and their
employee and co-accused Sukhdev
in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder
case.
April 4: A Mumbai sessions court
awards death penalty to three repeat
offenders who gangraped a photojournalist on the Shakti Mills compound in 2013.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle puts into orbit the countrys second navigation satellite, the 1,432 kg

Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and

lyricist Gulzar.

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite

System (IRNSS-1B) after liftoff from
Sriharikota.
A Division Bench of the Kerala
High Court conrms lifer awarded to
Dharmarajan, prime accused in the
18-year-old Suryanelli rape case. .
April 7: High turnout marks polling in the six parliamentary constituencies of the North-East.
Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar is put on the countrys railway
map with the rst passenger train
arriving at Naharlagun.
April 9: The Supreme Court refuses to stay the Centres notication to include Jats on the Other
Backward Classes list.
Mars Orbiter sails past 34-crore
km to the Red Planet.
Moderate to heavy polling is recorded in the second phase covering
six Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya,
Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and
Manipur and in 49 constituencies of
the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh
Assembly.
April 10: The third phase of polling in 91 Lok Sabha constituencies
spread over 14 States and Union Territories passes off peacefully.
April 11: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Sangeet Natak
Akademi Fellowships and Sangeet
Natak Akademi awards for 2013 at a
function at Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi.
April 12: Lyricist lmmaker Gulzar is chosen for the 45th Dada Saheb
Phalke award.
The fourth phase of Lok Sabha
polls records impressive turnout,
with East Tripura registering 81.8
per cent.
April 15: The Supreme Court recognises transgender community as a
third gender along with male and
female.
April 16: Bilingual movie Ship of
Theseus wins the best feature lm
award at the 61st National Film
Awards 2013. The Nargis Dutt award
for best feature lm on national integration is bagged by Tamil movie
Thalaimuraigal. Thanga Meengal is
adjudged the best Tamil lm. Mumbai-based lmmaker Batul Mukhtiars Kaphal-Wild Berries bags the
National Award for Best Childrens
Film.
April 17: Heavy voter turnout
marks the fth phase of Lok Sabha
polls, covering 121 constituencies
spread across 12 states.
A special CBI court convicts the
former AIADMK Minister and sitting DMK Rajya Sabha MP, T.M. Selvaganapathy in the cremation shed
scam.

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Vice-Admiral R.K.Dhowan is appointed as the Navy Chief superseding Vice-Admiral Shekhar Sinha.
April 18: The DMK MP T.M. Selvaganapathy quits Rajya Sabha.
April 22: A Division Bench of the
Andhra Pradesh High Court acquits
all the accused in the August 6, 1991
massacre of eight Dalits at Tsundur
village in Guntur district.
April 24: Record voter turnout in
sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections
involving 117 constituencies. Seventythree per cent polling in Tamil Nadu. Five Jharkhand Armed Police
personnel and three polling staff are
killed in a blast in Dumka.
April 25: Constitution Bench to
hear plea for release by seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Supreme Court extends
stay on Tamil Nadu Governments
order freeing them.
April 26: The Supreme Court
rules that Muslim women are entitled to maintenance even after
divorce.
The President Pranab Mukherjee
presents the Padma awards at a
function in Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi.
The CJI Justice P. Sathasivam
demits office.
April 27: Justice Rajendra Mal
Lodha is sworn in as the 41st Chief
Justice of India by the President
Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.
April 28: The Supreme Court
stays the death sentence of Lashkare-Taiba terrorist Mohd. Asif in the
2000 Red Fort attack case.
April 30: High turnout marks the
seventh phase of Lok Sabha polls.
Divyanshu Ganatra becomes
the only visually challenged
Indian para-glider to have
own solo after undertaking
the ight at Kamshet, near
Pune.

MAY
May 1: Parchuri Swathi, a TCS
employee in Bangalore is killed and
14 others injured after two blasts
rock the Bangalore-Guwahati Express as it pulls into the Chennai
Central railway station.
May 2: The Army is called out and
an indenite curfew imposed in the
Bodoland Territorial Area districts
of Kokrajhar and Baska in Assam
after militants kill 32 persons in
three incidents in the past two days.
May 3: The President Pranab
Mukherjee presents the Dada Saheb
Phalke award to lyricist Gulzar at the
61st National Film Awards at Vigyan

Bhavan, New Delhi.

Amar Chitra Katha launches ACK
Comics, its official digital store app
for across platforms giving users access to over 300 of its titles.
May 4: At least 21 persons are
killed and more than 145 injured after four coaches of the Diva-Sawantadi Road passenger train derail
outside a tunnel near Nidi village in
Maharashtras Raigad district.
May 5: The Supreme Court refuses to stay the March 1 notication to
bifurcate Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and Seemandhra.
May 6: The RBI grants permission to minors above 10 to open and
operate savings bank accounts
independently.
The Supreme Court upholds quota for weaker sections in all schools.
RTE Act provisions not applicable to
minority institutions.
Imposition of mother tongue as
medium of instruction in primary
classes unconstitutional, holds the
Supreme Court.
Anshuman Acharya, Banglorebased writer and theatre artiste is
the winner of The Hindu-Metroplus
Playwright Award 2014 for his entry
In The Name of the Bully.
May 7: The Supreme Court declares unconstitutional a law passed
by Kerala in 2006 to prevent Tamil
Nadu from raising the water level in
the Mullaperiyar dam from 136 feet
to 142 feet.
The Supreme Court bans jallikkattu and bullock cart racing in Tamil Nadu.
Uttarakhand registers 62.75 per
cent turnout in the seventh phase of
the Lok Sabha polls. High turnout in
Himachal Pradesh.
May 9: The Supreme Court orders a CBI probe into the Saradha
chit fund scam involving over
Rs.10,000 crore.
May 12: Fifty-six per cent polling
is recorded in Varanasi in the ninth
and nal phase of the general election. High turnout marred by violence in West Bengal.
May 16: Narendra Modi wins an
unprecedented victory for the BJP
dealing a crushing blow to the Congress in the 16th general election. He
registers mammoth victories in Vadodara and Varanasi.
The AIADMK notches up an impressive victory in Tamil Nadu bagging 37 Lok Sabha seats of the 39 it
contested. The DMK draws a blank.
The TDP bags over 106 of the 175
Assembly constituencies in Seemandhra region. In Telangana, the
Telangana Rashtra Samithi wins 11
of the 17 Lok Sabha seats and bags 63

Narendra Modi signs the register after taking oath as the 15th
Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in
New Delhi.
seats in the 119-member Assembly.
May 17: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigns owning responsibility for the Janata Dal (Uniteds)
poor performance.
The Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh submits resignation letter to
President Pranab Mukherjee.
May 18: Congress leader Nabam
Tuki is sworn in Arunachal Pradesh
Chief Minister for the second consecutive term.
May 20: Jitan Ram Manjhi is
sworn in Bihar Chief Minister.
May 21: Naveen Patnaik is sworn
in Odisha Chief Minister for the
fourth time in a row.
Narendra Modi demits office as
Gujarat Chief Minister after being at
the helm for 12 years.
May 22: Anandiben Patel is
sworn in as the 15th Chief Minister of
Gujarat at a grand event in the capital Gandhinagar.
May 23: T. R. Zeliang of the Naga

Peoples front is appointed as the

new Chief Minister of Nagaland.
May 25: Malavath Poorna (13) of
Nizamabad district, Andhra Pradesh, becomes the youngest girl to
conquer Mt. Everest.
Hindustan Motors stops production of the iconic Ambassador car.
May 26: Narendra Damodardas
Modi is sworn in as the 15th Prime
Minister. Fortyfour members of his
Cabinet take oath. SAARC leaders,
including, Pakistan Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif attend function.
Murder charges are led against
all the 17 accused in the May 2011
killing of auxiliary nurse Bhanwari
Devi in Rajasthan.
At least 30 persons are killed and
100 injured after the Gorakhdam Express from New Delhi rams a stationary goods train at Chureb, 45 km
from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
May 31: The Narendra Modi government announces abolition of
all the nine Groups of Ministers and
21 Empowered Group of Ministers
set up by the UPA government.
Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba is appointed Vice-Chief of Naval Staff in a
major shake-up of the top brass.

JUNE

Gopinath Munde

June 1: Indias 29th state of Telangana is born.

June 2: K. Chandrasekhar Rao is
sworn in Telanganas rst Chief
Minister. Mahmood Ali and T. Rajaiah
chosen
Deputy
Chief
Ministers.
The Supreme Court stays the exe-

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

cution of the death sentence of Yakub

Abdul
Razak
Memon,
mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai
serial blasts that claimed 200 lives.
June 3: The Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde
dies in a road accident in New Delhi.
June 5: Nearly 10 months after
INS Sindhurakshak sank in the
Mumbai harbour, it has been
salvaged.
June 6: BJPs veteran MP Sumitra Mahajan is elected Lok Sabha
Speaker.
Sensex vaults by 377 points to
close at a historic high of 25396.46
points.
June 7: The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plants rst unit attains its
maximum capacity of 1,000 Mwe.
June 8: N. Chandrababu Naidu
takes oath as the rst Chief Minister
of Andhra Pradesh at an open
ground opposite Acharya Nagarjuna
University campus near Vijayawada.
Twentyve engineering students
from Hyderabad are washed away in
the Beas river following water release from the Larji hydroelectric
power project near Mandi, Himachal
Pradesh.
June 9: Seventeen Uttarakhand
policemen, convicted for the abduction and murder of MBA graduate
Ranbir Singh on July 3, 2009, are
sentenced to life by a special CBI
court in New Delhi
June 10: Sirikonda Madhusudhana Chary of the TRS is unanimously
elected the rst Speaker of the Telangana Assembly.
June 11: The Mars Orbiter Mission is put on precise path after the
ISRO ground controllers correct the
spacecrafts trajectory.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa launches sale of Amma
Salt at the Secretariat in Chennai.
June 12: Vishal Sikka, is named
Infosys CEO for a ve-year term. N.
R. Narayanamurthy announces
retirement.
June 13: The Maharashtra Legislature passes Bill banning dance
bars.
June 17: Uttar Pradesh Governor
B.L. Joshi resigns.
June 18: The Union Cabinet gives
nod for setting up a supervisory panel to monitor the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam.
Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar
Dutt resigns.
June 20: Noted Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh is chosen for the
Jnanpith award for 2013.
Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, senior
TDP leader is elected rst Speaker of
the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

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June 25: Four passengers are

killed and many injured as 12 coaches of the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani
Express derail close to Golden Ganj
railway station near Chapra in Bihar.
Nagaland Governor Ashwani Kumar resigns.
June 26: The Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister Jayalalithaa launches 10
Amma Pharmacy outlets across the
State.
June 27: At least 19 persons are
charred to death and 18 suffer burns
in a massive explosion in a GAILoperated gas pipeline passing
through Nagaram village in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh.
June 28: At least 61 persons
are killed after the collapse of
a under construction multistorey building in Moulivakkam near Porur, Chennai following heavy showers.
June 30: The West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan resigns.
Indias Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-23 successfully puts ve foreign satellites into a 660-km sun
synchronous orbit following a perfect liftoff from the spaceport in
Sriharikota.

JULY
July 1: The Supreme Court grants
bail to former Tehelka editor Tarun
Tejpal.
The Madras High Court sets aside
a January 5, 1994 circular exempting
use of Tamil in lower courts.
Shah Rukh Khan is conferred with
the Knight of the Legion of Honour,
the top French civilian award at a
function in Mumbai.
State Bank of India launches six
digital branches (sbiINTOUCH)
across the country.
July 2: Sensex gains 324.86
points to close at 25841.21.
July 3: The Tamil Nadu government appoints retired Madras High
Court judge R. Reghupathy as the
one-man commission to probe the
Moulivakkam building collapse.
July 4: Goa Governor Bharat Vir
Wanchoo resigns.
July 5: The 46 nurses freed by
Iraqi militants arrive in Kochi to an
emotional reunion.
July 6: Gujarat Governor Kamla
Beniwal is transferred to Mizoram.
Vakkom Purushothaman, Governor
of Mizoram is appointed as Nagaland
Governor. Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva to hold additional charge
as Gujarat Governor.
July 7: Sensex surpasses the
26000 mark for the rst time ever

and closes at 26100.08.

Margaret Alva is sworn in Gujarat
Governor. To hold charge of Goa too.
July 8: The rst Railway Budget
by the Narendra Modi government
focusses on a massive facelift of the
sector. FDI to nance the Rs. 9 lakh
crore plans. Mumbai gets 864 new
local trains. Bullet train in MumbaiAhmedabad sector to be introduced.
Sensex plunges by 517.97 points
and closes at 25582.11. Rail stocks
crash.
July 9: Amit Shah is named the
next BJP president.
July 10: Union Finance minister
Arun Jaitley unveils a pragmatic
programme of economic reforms
and gives relief to taxpayers in his
maiden Union Budget. FDI cap in
the Defence and Insurance sectors
hiked to 49 per cent.
Indian Navy gets Kolkata its rst
domestically built guided missile
destroyer.
July 11: Lok Sabha passes The
Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation
(Amendment) Bill that paves the
way for the shifting of seven mandals
from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh
for the Polavaram Project.
Puducherry Lt. Governor Virendra Kataria is sacked.
The Haryana Assembly passes
The Haryana Sikh Gurdwaras (Management) Bill 2014.
Vaikkom Purushothaman resigns
as Mizoram Governor.
July 12: Bandh against passage of
Bill on the Polavaram Project that
seeks to transfer 205 villages in the
submergence zone hits life in
Telangana.
A major re breaks out at the SBI
building on Rajaji Salai in Chennai.
INS Kamorta, rst Indian warship
built in the country with almost 90
per cent indigenous content, is
handed over to the Navy at a ceremony in Kolkata.
July 14: The Lok Sabha passes
the Telecom Regulatory Authority
(Amendment) Bill.
The Supreme Court stays the execution of the two remaining condemned Vinay Sharma and
Akshay Thakur in the December 16,
2012 gangrape case.
Ram Naik is appointed U.P. Governor and Om Prakash Kohli Gujarat
Governor. Balramji Dass Tandon is
named Chhattisgarh Governor.
Keshari Nath Tripathi to take over as
West Bengal Governor and Padmanabha Acharya is named Nagaland
Governor.
Parliament passes the Bill on Polavaram Project.
July 15: The SEBI bars erstwhile

takes over as the Chief of the Army

Staff from Gen. Bikram Singh.
Former Gujarat Minister Mayaben Kodnani is freed on bail.
S.Kunju Mohammed, an accused
in the February 14, 1998 Coimbatore
serial blasts case and absconding for
more than 16 years, is nabbed by the
CB-CID police at Panangangara near
Malappuram, Kerala.

AUGUST

Family members and relatives of nurses evacuated from Iraq

welcoming them at the Kochi International Airport, at
Nedumbassery.
Satyam Computers Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju and its former top officials from accessing the securities
market for 14 years. Asked to disgorge the wrongful gain.
Rajya Sabha passes the TRAI Bill.
Environmentalist, social activist
and Chipko movement founder
Chandi Prasad Bhatt is presented
the Gandhi Peace Prize 2013 by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
July 16: Om Prakash Kohli is
sworn in Gujarat Governor.
July 17: After 37 years, all the 13
shutters of surplus weirs are lowered
in the Periyar dam to raise the storage level from 136 feet to 142 feet.
July 18: Sabyasachi Panda, Odishas most wanted Maoist leader
and main accused in the 2008 murder of VHP leader Laxmananand Saraswati is held in Berhampur town in
Ganjam district.
July 20: The Music Academy
chooses eminent vocalist T.V.Gopalakrishnan for the Sangita Kalanidhi
title and Bharatanatyam exponent
Leela Samson for the Natya Kala
Acharya Award.
July 24: Fourteen schoolchildren are killed after the Nanded-Secunderabad passenger train rams a
private school bus at an unmanned
railway level crossing at Masaipet in
Medak district, Telangana.
July 25: The Supreme Court sets
up a Special Court to try the coal
scam cases.
Senior BJP leader Balramji Dass
Tandon sworn in Chhattisgarh
Governor.
July 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches an online platform mygov.nic.in to engage citizens
in the task of good governance.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul is

sworn in as the Chief Justice of the
Madras High Court.
July 30: At last 153 persons are
crushed to death and 160 others
trapped under debris following a
landslide triggered by the relentless
rain in the remote tribal village of
Malin in Punes Ambegaon taluka.
The Gujarat High Court grants
bail to former Minister Mayaben
Kodnani and suspends her sentence
in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre
case.
The Principal District and Sessions Court, Thanjavur sentences to
lifer the founder of the Sri Krishna
School in Kumbakonam for the July
16, 2004 re that left 94 students
dead.
The Supreme Court stays further
proceedings pending in the Andhra
Pradesh High Court in the August 6,
1991 Tsundur massacre case.
July 31: Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag

President Pranab Mukherjee

presenting the Gandhi Peace
Prize 2013 to Chipko founder
Chandi Prasad Bhatt.

Aug. 6: Kamala Beniwal is removed as Mizoram Governor.

Lok Sabha passes The Securities
Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2014 aimed
at tackling the ponzi menace.
Aug. 7: The Supreme Court restrains the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara
Management Committee from taking control of 51 of the 52 gurdwaras
in the State.
The Bombay High Court stays the
prosecution of Congress leader Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam case.
Aug. 8: A Delhi Court convicts
Sher Singh Rana for the murder of
Phoolan Devi, Samajwadi Party MP
and ex-dacoit on July 21, 2001 in
New Delhi. Eleven others acquitted.
Aug. 11: Tata-SIA Airlines Limited announces the brand name of its
new airline will be Vistara or limitless in Sanskrit with aubergine and
gold its colours.
Aug. 12: The Tamil Nadu Entry
into Public Places (Removal of Restrictions on Dress) Act, 2014 is
adopted by the Assembly.
Aug. 13: The Lok Sabha passes
the National Judicial Appointments
Commission Bill, 2014. Collegium
system scrapped.
The Womens Reservation Bill
lapses due to lack of consensus.
AIADMKs Thambidurai is elected Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.
Aug. 14: Rajya Sabha gives nod to
the NJAC Bill.
Major Mukund Varadarajan is
posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra, the nations highest peace time
gallantry award. He died ghting
militants in Shopian, South Kashmir
in April.
The Supreme Court suspends the
August 11 Bombay High Court order
restricting the height of human pyramids formed for the dahi handi
sport. Kids above 12 can take part.
Lok Sabha passes the Apprentices
(Amendment) Bill.
A New Delhi trial Court awards
lifer to Sher Singh Rana in the Phoolan Devi murder case.
Aug. 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the setting up
of a new institution to replace the

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Planning Commission and calls upon global investors to make in India

in his address to the nation on the
68th Independence Day in New
Delhi.
Aug. 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissions the largestever indigenous worship INS Kolkata into the Navy in Mumbai.
Aug. 21: The Kerala government
decides to shut down 730 bars below
the ve star category.
Aug. 22: The Hindu launches
Friends of Chennai an online
platform
(www.friendsofchennai.com) as a gift to Madras that is now Chennai on
her 375th birthday.
Human rights activist Irom Sharmila released two days earlier after
14 years of imprisonment is rearrested by Manipur Police.
Aug. 24: Maharashtra Governor
K. Sankaranarayanan quits after being shifted to Mizoram abruptly.
Aug. 25: The Supreme Court declares all 218 coal block allocations
made from 1993 to 2011 illegal and
arbitrary.
Aug. 26: Kalyan Singh, Vajubhai
Rudabhai Vala, Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
and Mridula Sinha are appointed
Governors of Rajasthan, Karnataka,
Maharashtra and Goa respectively.
Aug. 27: Chargesheeted persons
should not be made Ministers, says
the Supreme Court in a ruling that
seeks to decriminalise politics.
Aug. 28: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi opens a record 1.5 crore
bank accounts across the nation to
mark the launch of the Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana.
Vinod Kumar Duggal resigns as
Manipur Governor.
Aug. 30: BJP leader Ch. Vidyasagar Rao is sworn in as Maharashtra
Governor.

SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1: Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala is
sworn in Karnataka Governor.
Sept. 3: Sensex closes at an all
time high of 27139.94.
Sept. 5: India and Australia sign a
civil nuclear cooperation agreement
in New Delhi.
The former CJI P. Sathasivam is
sworn in the 23rd Governor of
Kerala.
An Armed Forces Tribunal Bench
quashes the courtmartial of Lt. Gen.
P.K. Rath, former 33 Corps Commander, in the 2008 Sukna land
scam.
Sept. 6: The toll in the Jammu
Kashmir rains touches 160. Over

2,600 villages affected in the worst

oods in six decades.
The fth unit at Rawatbhatta of
the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station
records a continuous run of 765 days
at its full capacity of 220 MWe.
Sept. 7: The J & K oods a national-level disaster, says the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi after an aerial survey. An additional allocation
of Rs. 1,000 crore announced besides
the Rs. 1,100 crore made available to
the State Government.
Sept. 8: Naval Commandos join in
the J & K rescue efforts, even as the
toll in the worst oods in 109 years
touches 200.
The Supreme Court stays the execution of Surinder Kohli for killing
children at his employers house in
Nithari Village in Noida in 2006.
Sept. 9: The Bombay High Court
upholds the death sentence awarded
to Santosh Mane, a former State
Transport driver who went on a rampage after hijacking an empty bus in
Pune on January 25, 2012 leaving
nine dead and 36 injured.
Sept. 10: Arun Selvarajan, a Sri
Lankan national is arrested by the
National Investigation Agency in
Chennai in an espionage case registered in 2013.
Sept. 11: The Supreme Court
stops the Kerala government from
implementing its new liquor policy.
Sept. 12: The Jammu and Kashmir government announces an aid
package of Rs. 200 crore for the
ood-hit.
Maharashtra, Haryana Assembly
polls to be held on October 15.
The Delhi High Court sets aside
the July 13 order of the poll panel
against former Maharashtra Chief
Minister Ashok Chavan in an expenses case during the 2009 Assembly election.
Sept. 13: Average turnout in byelections to three Lok Sabha seats
and 33 Assembly segments across
nine States.
Sept. 16: The BJP suffers a setback in by-polls. Loses 13 of the 33
seats it held in U.P., Gujarat and
Rajasthan.
Sept. 17: India and China sign two
agreements and an MoU as President Xi Jinping begins his three-day
visit.
Rajasthan becomes the rst State
to ratify the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014.
Goa is formally made the permanent venue for the IFFI.
The BJPs national executive
member Lalitha Kumaramangalam
is appointed National Commission
for Women chairperson.

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

Sept. 29: O.Panneerselvam is

sworn in Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.
A new Council of Ministers
inducted.
Sept. 30: Thirteen persons are
killed and 47 injured following the
collision between the Krishak Express and the Lucknow-Barauni Express at the Nandnagar railway
crossing in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

OCTOBER

School children celebrating the success of the Mars mission by

creating a replica of the planet using sweets in Ahmedabad.
Sept. 18: India and China sign 13
agreements in New Delhi. Chinese
President Xi Jinping announces a
new route through Nathula Pass in
Sikkim for pilgrims to Kailash-Mansarovar in the Tibetan Autonomous
Region.
Sensex soars 481 points to close at
27112.21, its best daily gain since
May 12, fuelled by foreign funds.
The Tamil Nadu Government issues an order bringing all schools
within the purview of the Tamil Nadu Tamil Learning Act, 2006.
Sept. 19: Thirteen persons are
convicted by a district court for the
gangrape of a woman on January 20,
2014 at the behest of a kangaroo
court at Labhpur in West Bengals
Birbhum district.
Sept. 23: The toll in ash oods in
Assam and the Garo hills districts in
Meghalaya goes up to 46.
A youth is mauled to death by a
white tiger in Delhis National Zoological Park after he jumps into its
enclosure.
Sept. 24: ISROs Mars Orbiter
Mangalyaan enters the Red Planets
orbit. Beams back 10 pictures of the
surface which show some craters.
The Supreme Court cancels all but
four of the 218 coal block allocations
declared arbitrary and illegal by it.
The Union Cabinet decides to
withdraw the Higher Education and
Research Bill, 2011.
Sept. 25: FDI should be understood as First Develop India along
with Foreign Direct Investment,
says the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launching the Make In India
campaign at a high-prole event in
New Delhi.
In Maharashtra, the BJP pulls out
of its 25-year-old alliance with the
Shiv Sena. The NCP ends its 15-year

partnership with the Congress.

The Supreme Court declares as
unconstitutional the National Tax
Tribunal Act as it took away the powers of the High Courts.
Sept. 26: The Maharashtra Chief
Minister Prithiviraj Chavan resigns,
a day after the NCP withdraws support to the government.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announces the launch of
Amma Cement.
Sept. 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is jailed for four
years and ned Rs.100 crore by a
Special Court in Bangalore after being found guilty in the Rs.66.65crore disproportionate assets case.
Loses post and stands disqualied as
MLA. Co-accused Sasikala, Sudhakaran, Elavarasi too get four-year
terms.
Justice R.M. Lodha retires as the
CJI.
Sept. 28: Justice Handyala
Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu is
sworn in as the 42nd Chief Justice of
India, in New Delhi.

Nirbhay missile being flight

tested from the Integrated Test
Range (ITR), Balasore, Odisha.

Oct. 1: Malayalam poet and social

activist Sugathakumari is chosen for
the Mathrubhumi Literary Award
for 2014.
Oct. 2: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the Swachh
Bharat Mission in New Delhi.
Oct. 7: The Karnataka High Court
refuses to release on bail the
AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa and rejects her plea to suspend
the four-year prison term in the disproportionate assets case.
Oct. 9: The AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa moves the Supreme Court challenging the
Karnataka High Court order refusing her bail.
Oct. 10: The Bombay High Court
rules in favour of Vodafone in the Rs.
3,200-crore transfer pricing case relating to undervaluation of share
capital issued by the rm to its
Mauritius parent.
Oct. 12: Cyclone Hudhud causes
extensive devastation as it makes
landfall at Visakhapatnam. Six killed
in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
Oct. 14: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announces a Rs. 1,000-crore
interim relief for all areas affected in
Andhra Pradesh after an aerial survey of the devastation.
Oct. 15: Haryana records its highest ever turnout of 73 per cent in
Assembly polls marred by violence.
Maharashtra registers 63.4 per cent
voting.
Oct. 16: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches ve schemes,
including Shram Suvidha portal and
the Universal Account Number for
all PF contributors, in New Delhi.
ISRO launches the 1,425 kg Indian
Regional Navigation Satellite System IRNSS-1C.
Oct. 17: The Supreme Court suspends the four-year jail sentence of
former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa and grants her bail. The
other three accused too get bail.
Indias rst indigenously designed
and developed long-range subsonic
cruise missile, Nirbhay is successfully ight-tested in Balasore, Odisha.
The Centre gives nod for Karnata-

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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

kas proposal to rename 12 cities and

towns, including Bangalore.
Oct. 19: The BJP bags 122 of 288
seats, in Maharashtra Assembly
polls. In Haryana, the BJP gets a
clear majority with 47 seats in the
90-member House.
BJPs Pritam Munde creates a
record by winning the Beed
Lok Sabha bypoll by 6,92,245
votes.
Oct. 20: Government to e-auction
coal mines.
Oct. 25: The EC announces vephase polls in J & K and Jharkhand.
Oct. 26: Manohar Lal Khattar is
sworn in Haryanas 10th Chief Minister heading the rst-ever BJP government in the state.
Oct. 28: The Supreme Court dismisses Nithari serial killer Surinder
Kohlis plea for review of death sentence.
Oct. 30: Violence in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu following news of
the Colombo High Court verdict
sentencing to death ve shermen.
The Kerala High Court upholds
the governments liquor policy , but
allows bars in four-star and heritage
hotels.
The new capital of Andhra Pradesh to come up in Guntur district.
Oct. 31: Devendra Fadnavis, is
sworn in Maharashtra Chief Minister, heading the rst BJP government, in Mumbai.

NOVEMBER

Macchil area of Kupwara district.

Nov. 14: The Bombay High Court
puts on hold the 16 per cent quota for
Marathas in government jobs and
education.
Nov. 17: Former BCCI president
N. Srinivasan not guilty of matchxing or scuttling probe, says the
Justice Mukul Mudgal panel. Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra are
found guilty.
Nov. 18: The Nanavati Commission of Enquiry probing the 2002
post-Godhra riots submits nal report to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
Nov. 19: The fugitive godman
Rampal is arrested from his Satlok
ashram in Barwala, Hisar in Haryana
after a violent standoff which leaves
six dead.
ISRO is chosen for the Indira
Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014.
Nov. 20: The Centenary Award
for Indian Film Personality of the
Year is conferred on actor Rajinikanth at the inaugural of the 45th
IFFI in Goa capital Panaji.
Centre gives in-principle nod
for the Chennai Monorail Project
Phase-1.
The level in the Mullaperiyar dam
touches 142 feet after three-and-ahalf decades.
In an all stock amalgamation, ING
Vysya Bank decides to merge with
Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Nov.21: The dismantling of the
16,000-tonne ship, INS Vikrant, the
countrys rst aircraft carrier begins
at a ship breaking yard in South
Mumbai.
Nov.25: Jammu & Kashmir records 71.28 per cent polling in the
rst phase of the Assembly election
and Jharkhand 61.92 per cent in 13
assembly seats.
The Rajya Sabha passes labour reforms Bill by voice vote.
Seven naval officers are found

Nov. 3: The former Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan quits the
Congress and oats new party.
Nov. 4: The President Pranab
Mukherjee dissolves the Delhi Assembly, in suspended animation
since mid-February.
Nov. 5: Sensex crosses the historical 28000-mark for the rst time.
Nov. 8: Three-time BJP MLA
Laxmikant Parsekar is sworn in as
the 11th Chief Minister of Goa.
Nov. 9: Manohar Parrikar is
sworn in Defence Minister and Suresh Prabhu gets Railway portfolio in
the Union Cabinet expansion.
Nov. 10: President Pranab Mukherjee confers the 49th Jnanpith
award upon Hindi poet Kedarnath
Singh, in New Delhi.
Nov. 11: Eleven women die after
undergoing faulty sterilisation
surgeries at a family planning camp
in Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh.
Nov. 13: The Army sentences ve
of its personnel to lifer for the staged
encounter killing of three Kashimiri Maharashtra Chief Minister
civilians on April 30, 2010 in the Devendra Fadnavis.

Adivasis moving to a safe place after the killings, in Tenganala

village in Sonitpur district of Assam.
guilty in the case of a re on board
submarine INS Sindhuratna in
February.
The former CJI M.N.Venkatachaliah presents the rst N.Ramachandran Foundation Award to Kasturi &
Sons Ltd. Chairman N. Ram in
Thiruvananthapuram.
Nov.26: Massive culling operation in Keralas Kottayam, Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta districts
to check spread of bird u.
The Rajya Sabha passes The Apprentices (Amendment) Bill .
Nov. 28: The former Union Minister G.K. Vasan relaunches the Tamil Maanila Congress in Tiruchi.
Parliament clears bill to amend labour laws after LS nod for the draft
legislation.
Nov. 29: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi ags off the rst passenger train from Meghalaya to
Guwahati, Assam at a function at the
Railway Stadium, Maligaon.
Nov. 30: The Russian lm Leviathan by Andrey Zvyagintsev bags the
Golden Peacock for the best lm at
the 45th IFFI closing ceremony in
Panaji, Goa.

DECEMBER
Dec. 1: Fourteen CRPF personnel
are killed by Maoists after an ambush near Kasalpara village in
Chhattisgarhs Sukma district.
Dec. 2: Seventyone per cent polling in Phase II of Assembly polls in J
& K. It is 65 per cent in Jharkhand.
The Supreme Court sets up a Social Justice Bench to monitor social
issues.
Dec. 4: The SP, JD (U), RJD, Janata Dal (Secular), INLD and Samajwadi Janata Party agree in principle
to merge.
Sixty people lose their eyesight after botched cataract surgeries at a
camp at Ghuman village in Punjabs
Gurdaspur district between Oct. 31

and November 4.
Dec. 5: Twentyone persons are
killed in four separate militant attacks in the Kashmir valley.
The Shiv Sena joins the Devendra
Fadnavis Cabinet in Maharashtra.
A 27-year-old woman MNC executive is raped by a cab driver in New
Delhis Inderlok area.
Dec. 7: Over 30,000 people come
together in Chennai to create the
worlds largest human formation of a
national ag, a Guinness World
Record.
Dec. 8: Andhra Pradesh and Singapore sign MoU to build capital
city.
The MDMK quits the NDA.
An economic offences court in
Hyderabad sentences to six month
jail term B. Ramalinga Raju and
three others in the rst ruling in the
Rs. 14,000-crore Satyam Computer
accounting scandal.
Dec. 9: Jharkhand records 61 per
cent voting and J & K 59 per cent in
third phase of Assembly polls.
Dec. 10: The Union Cabinet gives
nod for raising from 26 per cent to 49
per cent the FDI cap in the insurance
sector.
The Government announces decision to decriminalise attempt to
suicide.
Dec. 11: Russia accepts Indias offer to make light-utility helicopters
jointly. Seven pacts signed after Modi-Putin talks in New Delhi.
Dec. 12: The Lok Sabha passes
The Coal Mines (Special Provisions)
Bill, 2014.
Dec. 13: Bangalore City Police arrest Mehdi Masroor Biswas, for waging war against friendly state.
Dec. 14: J&K records 49 per cent
voting and Jharkhand 61.65 per cent
in phase IV of Assembly polls.
Dec. 15: T.V. Gopalakrishnan is
presented the Sangita Kalanidhi
M.S. Subbulakshmi Award by the IS-

RO chairman K. Radhakrishnan in
Chennai.
Dec. 16: India bans the IS terror
group.
Sensex plummets by 538.12 points
to close at 26,781.44.
Dec. 18: The Supreme Court extends till April 18, 2015 the bail for
former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa.
The GSLV Mark III rocket is
launched from Sriharikota.
Lifer for four Anand Margis in the
L.N. Mishra murder case.
Dec. 19: The Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley introduces The
Constitution (122nd Amendment)
Bill in the Lok Sabha.
Tamil writer Poomani is chosen
for the Sahitya Akademi award for
2014 for his novel Angnaadi.
Dec. 20: The External Affairs
Ministry relieves diplomat Devyani
Khobragade of her post for failing to
inform authorities about her childrens U.S. passports.
J&K registers 65 per cent turnout
in the fth phase of Assembly polls.
Jharkhand records 66 per cent.
Dec. 21: The SASTRA-Ramanujam Award 2014 is conferred on Professor James Maynard of Oxford
University, in Kumbakonam.
Dec. 23: At least 75 persons are
killed by militants in Assams Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts.
The BJP gets absolute majority in
Jharkhand. Hung Assembly in J&K.
Dec. 24: The Centre confers Bharat Ratna on Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and Madanmohan Malaviya.
Ordinance route for coal blocks
e-auction and FDI cap hike in insurance sector.
Dec. 26: Union Cabinet nod for
Neutrino observatory in Theni, Tamil Nadu.
Dec. 28: Raghuvar Das is sworn in
Jharkhand Chief Minister.
A Chennai woman is killed and
three injured in a blast in Bengaluru.
Dec. 29: Union Cabinet nod for
ordinance to amend Land Act.
Dec. 30: A special CBI court discharges BJP president Amit Shah
from the November 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The A.P. Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 comes into
force.
Dec. 31: Presidential nod for setting up NJAC.
The ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan retires.
A Pakistani shing boat is set
ablaze by its crew after being intercepted by the Coast Guard off Porbandar, Gujarat.

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INTERNATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian Ambassador in Czech Republic is killed in an explosion at his
home in Prague.
Latvia joins the Eurozone.
The Affordable Care Act, the U.S.
President Barack Obamas landmark
healthcare reform policy takes
effect.
Jan. 2: All 52 passengers of a
Russian ship MV Akademik
Shokalskiy are rescued by a
Chinese icebreaker Xue Long
after remaining trapped in the
ice off Antarctica for over a
week.
Jan. 6: Aitizaz Hussain, a teenager who tried to stop a suicide bomber
from entering his school in Pakistans Hangu district is killed after the
attacker blows himself up.
The Awami League led by Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina wins an absolute majority in parliamentary
polls.
Janet Yellen is conrmed as the
chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Reserve by the Senate.
Jan. 7: Temperature dips well below zero in Chicago as dangerously
cold polar air snaps decades-old records as it spreads from the Midwest
to Southern and Eastern parts of the
U.S.
Jan. 10: Aitizaz Hussain, the
young braveheart from Hangu,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in
Pakistan is conferred the civilian
honour Sitara-e-Shujaat.
Jan. 12: A 49-member Cabinet
led by Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina is sworn in in Dhaka.
American Hustle, the stylish
crime caper bags best musical/comedy lm and two acting awards at the
71st annual Golden Globes in Los Angeles. Historical drama lm 12 years
a Slave bags the coveted best drama
prize. Woody Allen receives the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime
achievement at the Globes.
Jan. 13: Thai opposition protesters seeking resignation of Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra occupy major streets in Bankgkok .
Jan. 15: Egyptians cast ballots
wrapping up a two-day key referendum on a new Constitution as a precursor to presidential polls.
Jan. 16: China detains Ilham
Tohti, a prominent Uighur economist and scholar.

Jan. 18: The Hindu In School epaper version is launched at The

Hindu India Education Fair, Dubai.
Jan. 19: Twenty security personnel are killed and 30 others injured
in a bomb attack on a convoy in Bannu Cantonment in Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Jan. 20: Thirteen persons including eight security forces personnel are killed and 29 injured in a
suicide bombing near the General
Headquarters of the Pakistan military in Rawalpindi.
The comet-chasing probe Rosetta
is operational after a 31-month hibernation, says the European Space
Agency.
Iran halts production of 20 per
cent enriched uranium at Natanz
and Fordo sites marking the entry
into force of an interim deal on its
nuclear programme.
Jan. 23: South Sudans government and rebels sign a ceasere
agreement at the Ethiopian capital
Addis Ababa.
Jan. 26: . Karl Slym, the managing director of Tata Motors dies in
Bangkok after falling from a high
oor of a hotel.
Daft Punk, a French duo who have
become elder statesmen of electronic dance music wins four prizes, including album of the year for
Random Access Memories during
the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Jan. 28: Ukraines Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigns.
Egypts deposed President Mohamed Morsy stands trial inside the
police academy in Cairo.
Jan. 29: Tunisias new technocratic government headed by Prime
Minister Mehdi Jomaa is sworn in
after a marathon overnight parliamentary session.
Jan. 30: A Special court in Chit-

Civilians walking towards a

meeting point to be evacuated
from a besieged area of Homs,
Syria.

(L-R): Best actor Matthew McConaughey, best actress Cate

Blanchett, best supporting actress Lupita Nyong'o, and best
supporting actor Jared Leto posing with their Oscar Awards.
tagong, Bangladesh, hands the death
penalty to the ULFA (Independent)
chief Paresh Barua and 13 others for
smuggling 10 truck loads of arms into the nation in 2004.
Amanda Knox, an American student is awarded 28 years and her
boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito 25 years
by a court of appeal in Florence after
reconvicting them for the November
1, 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher
in Perugia.
Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a castaway who spent 13 months adrift in
the Pacic lands at an atoll in the
Marshall Islands.
Jan. 31: Ukraines President Viktor Yanukovych signs into law repeal
of anti-protest legislation and an
amnesty bill.

FEBRUARY
Feb.1 : Fourteen persons, including four schoolchildren are killed after being engulfed in scorching ash
clouds spat by Indonesias Mount Sinabung at Sigarang-Garang in Karo
district, North Sumatra province.
Feb. 2: Academy-winning actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman (46) is
found dead of an apparent heroin
over-dose in his apartment in New
York City.
Opposition protesters prevent
voting at thousands of polling stations in Thailand during the general
elections.
Feb. 3: Janet Yellen is sworn in
the rst woman president of the U.S.
Federal Reserve in Washington.
Microsoft appoints Hyderabad
native Satya Nadella as its new CEO.
Feb. 7: Eightythree children,
women and elderly people who sur-

vived more than 600 days of army

siege are evacuated from Homs, Syria, in a U.N.-supervised operation.
Feb. 10: Sushil Koirala, president
of the Nepali Congress assumes ofce as Nepal Prime Minister.
Feb. 11: Officials from China and
Taiwan hold their rst official-level
talks since the end of the Chinese
Civil War in 1949, in Nanjing.
Feb. 12: A snowmageddon kills
12 persons in the U.S. and knocks out
power supply to 800,000 homes and
businesses, mainly in Georgia and
North and South Carolina.
Feb. 13: Belgiums Parliament legalises euthanasia for children.
Feb. 14: Italian Prime Minister
Enrico Letta resigns after just 10
months, heading a fragile coalition.
Feb. 15: Lebanon announces the
formation of a 24-member Government under Prime Minister Tammam Salam after a 10-month
political vacuum.
Syria peace talks in Geneva break
off with no progress made.
The Chinese lm Bai Ri Yan Huo
(Black Coal, Thin Ice) bags the Golden Bear for best picture at the 64th
Berlin International Film Festival.
Wes Andersons Grand Budapest
Hotel takes home the Silver Bear
grand jury prize.
Feb. 16: All 18 passengers on
board a Nepal Airlines ight are
killed after a crash shortly after takeoff from the tourist town of Pokhara.
Feb. 19: Twentysix persons are
killed and 750 injured in two days of
violence in the Ukrainian capital
Kiev.
French industrialist and Senator
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for alleged vote buying which inuenced the outcome of three mayoral
polls in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Feb. 20: Ukraine violence toll up
to 94 and injured number 900 as
bloody clashes erupt again in Kiev.
Feb. 21: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition reach deal. Legislators vote to revert to
the 2004 Constitution.
Feb. 22: Ukraines Parliament
votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from power. Former
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is
freed from prison.
Matteo Renzi is sworn in Italys
Prime Minister heading the youngest government in the nations
history.
Feb. 24: Ugandan President Yoweri Musaveni signs into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals
jailed for life.
The Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi submits resignation
to interim President Adly Mansour.
Feb. 25: Outgoing Housing Minister Ibrahim Mahlab is appointed
Egyptian Prime Minister.
Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the
worlds biggest bitcoin exchange
goes offline.
Feb. 26: Michael Adebolajo gets a
life term and Michael Adebowle is
sentenced to 45 years in jail for the
May 2013 killing of British soldier
Lee Rigby on a London street.
More than 170 Islamist rebel
ghters are killed in a Syrian army
ambush near Damascus.
Feb. 27: Ukraines ousted President Victor Yanukovych ees nation
and seeks refuge in Russia amid a
growing revolt in Crimea. Parliament votes in a new government.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk is appointed
Prime Minister.
Feb. 28: Thierry Atangana, a
Frenhman kept in solitary connement in Cameroon for 17 years following
a
controversial
embezzlement conviction arrives in
Paris after a presidential pardon on
February 18.

MARCH
March 1: Thirtynine persons are
killed and 109 injured in knife attacks at Kunming railway station, in
Chinas south-western Yunnan
province. Four attackers shot dead
by police.
March 2: Harrowing historical
drama, directed by a black lm-maker Briton Steve Mcqueen 12 Years a
Slave wins the best picture Oscar at
the 86th Academy Awards ceremony
in California. Matthew McConaughey wins the best actor for role in

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

true-life AIDS activist-drama Dallas

Buyers Club. Australias Cate Blanchett bags best actress award for
Woody Allens Blue Jasmine. 3D
space thriller Gravity becomes the
top winner with seven Oscars.
A septuagenarian who was tted
with the French bio-medical rm
Carmats rst articial heart on December 18, 2013 dies at a hospital in
Paris.
March 3: Ten persons, including
three lawyers are killed in a suicide
attack and ring in the district and
sessions court complex in Pakistans
capital Islamabad. Additional sessions judge Rafakat Awan is accidentally shot dead by his security guard.
March 8: A Beijing-bound
Malaysian Airlines ight with
239 people, including ve Indians on board disappears
over the South China Sea off
the coast of Vietnam.
March 9: Japanese rm Mt. Gox,
once the worlds largest bitcoin exchange, les for U.S. bankruptcy in
Dallas.
March 11: The Parliament in proRussian Crimea declares independence from Ukraine.
China allows, for rst time, the
setting up of ve private banks on a
trial basis.
Crimean Peninsula proclaims independence from Ukraine.
E-fan, the worlds rst electric
aircraft developed by Airbus takes
off from an airport near Bordeaux in
France.
March 12: A U.S. judge throws
out the visa fraud case against Indian
diplomat Devyani Khobragade ruling that she had full diplomatic immunity.
March 13: Czech priest and intellectual Tomas Halik wins the
pound 1.1 million 2014 Templeton
prize.
March 14: U.S. Federal prosecutors re-indict Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade on visa fraud
charges, after a grand jury returns a
true bill on the two-count criminal
indictment.
In a landmark ruling, a French
court sentences Pascal Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan captain to 25
years in jail over the 1994 genocide.
March 16: The people of Crimea
give a resounding yes to splitting
from Ukraine and rejoining Russia
in a referendum.
March 17: Crimeas parliament
adopts
a
declaration
of
independence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin

signs a decree formally recognising

Crimea as an independent state in
the Kremlin.
March 18: Italys Supreme Court
upholds a two-year ban from public
office against the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as part of a tax
fraud conviction.
March 20: Russias Parliament
overwhelmingly raties the treaty
on reunication of Crimea.
March 21: Thailands Constitutional Court declares invalid general
elections held in February.
Russias President Vladimir Putin
signs into law Crimeas absorption
into the nation, shortly after Parliaments upper house raties accession treaty.
The EU welcomes Ukraine into
the Western fold, signing the political provisions of a landmark accord
in Brussels.
Parliamentary polls open in the
Maldives.
March 23: Adolfo Suarez (81),
Spains rst Prime Minister after the
death of General Francisco Franco
in 1975 dies at a Madrid Hospital.
Maldives President Abdulla Yameens Progressive Party of Maldives attains majority with the help
of its coalition partners.
March 24: The missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, Boeing
777 aircraft has gone down in the
remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean killing all on board, says
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib
Razak.
The U.S. and its allies suspend
Russia from the Group of Eight on
the sidelines of a nuclear security
summit at The Hague.
Shigeru Ban, Japanese architect
known for his creative and inexpensive designs for disaster relief shelters wins the 2014 Pritzker
Architecture Prize.
March 25: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upholds
the 2012 guilty verdict against Rajat
Gupta, former Goldman Sachs Director and McKinsey Managing
Partner on insider trading charges.
March 26: Russian mathematician Yakov Grigorevich Sinai is chosen fro the 2014 Abel Prize.
March 27: The U.N. Human
Rights Council launches a probe into
alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. India abstains from voting on a resolution against the island nation.
March 28: Former Norwegian
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is
named
the
next
NATO
Secretary-General.
March 29: The historic law on
same-sex marriage passed by the

Relatives of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol weep as

they await news on the rescue operation, at a port in South Korea.
British Parliament in 2013 takes effect in England and Wales.
March 31: Former Pakistan President Gen. (Retd) Pervez Musharraf
is indicted for high treason by a special court for imposing emergency
on November 3, 2007 at Rawalpindi
as Chief of the Army Staff.

APRIL
April 1: Manuel Valls takes over
as Frances Prime Minister.
April 2: NATO suspends bilateral
cooperation with Russia.
Australias High Court in a landmark ruling recognises the existence
of a third non-specic gender that
is neither male nor female.
Eighteen countries ratify a landmark treaty at the U.N. regulating
the multibillion dollar global arms
trade.
April 4: Anja Niedringhaus (48), a
German photographer working for
Associated Press is shot dead and
Kathy Gannon, a Canadian colleague
wounded in an attack in the Tanai
district of Khost province in
Afghanistan.
April 5: Afghans cast ballots to
choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the countrys rst
democratic transfer of power.
April 7: Peaches Geldof (25),
daughter of Band Aid founder and
musician Bob Geldof and a media
and fashion personality is found
dead at her home in Kent, southern
England.
Hungarys Prime Minister Viktor
Orban wins parliamentary polls.
April 12: At least 13 persons are
killed and more than 10,000 evacuated after a huge re rips through
Chiles historic port city of Valparaiso, ravaging 2,000 acres.
April 13: The Hunger Games:

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteika wins a fourth term.

April 21: Win Tin (84), one of the
founders of Myanmars pro-democracy opposition and the nations
longest-serving political prisoner,
dies at a hospital in Yangon.
April 23: The PLO and the Gaza
Strips Islamist Hamas rulers sign a
reconciliation agreement.
April 24: Israel halts peace talks
with the Palestinians.
BJP leader Narendra Modi, AAP
leader Arvind Kejriwal and author
Arundhati Roy, NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden, education activist
Malala Yousafzai are among Worlds
100 most inuential people listed in
TIME magazines 11th annual
collection.
April 25: Finnish telecom major
Nokia completes the $ 7.8 billion
deal to sell its mobile handset business to Microsoft.
April 26: Farhan Akhtar starrer
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag bags ve major
honours, including best actor, best
director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
and best picture at the IIFA Awards,
in Tampa, Florida. Deepa Padukone
gets best female actor award for
Chennai Express.
April 27: Pope Francis proclaims
his predecessors John XXIII and
John Paul II saints in front of half a
million pilgrims in the Vatican.
April 28: An Egyptian court sentences to death 683 backers of the
Muslim Brotherhood, including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie.
April 29: At least 60 persons are
killed in violence in Syrias Damascus and Homs.
April 30: Iraqis cast ballots in the
rst general election since U.S.
troops withdrew.

Catching Fire bags the prize for best

lm at the 22nd Annual MTV Movie
Awards.
April 14: Indian-born poet Vijay
Seshadri wins the 2014 Pulitzer
Prize for poetry for his collection of
poems 3 Sections.
Nigerian extremist outt Boko
Haram abducts 276 teenage girls
from a government school in Chibok
town in the remote northeast of the
country.
April 15: Ukraine launches offensive to crush anti-government protests.
April 16: At least 300 people are
drowned after the 6,825-tonne ferry,
Sewol capsizes, with 475 on board,
mostly high school students bound
for Jindo a holiday island in South
Korea.
April 17: Russia, the U.S., the E.U.
and Ukraine agree on a plan to resolve the Kiev crisis after eight-hour
talks in Geneva.
MAY
Algerians cast ballots in presidenMay 2: At least 500 people are
tial polls.
April 18: At least 13 Sherpas and buried alive following landslips in
mountaineering persons are killed Aab Bareek village in Afghanistans
after an avalanche sweeps down a Badakshan province.
May 4: Libyas Parliament swears
climbing route on Mount Everest.
in Ahmed Matiq Prime Minister despite a disputed vote.
May 5: Nigerias Boko Haram
massacres 375 people in Gamburo
town, close to the border with
Cameroon.
May 7: Thailands Constitutional
Court dismisses caretaker Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and
nine Ministers for abuse of power.
South Africans cast ballots in landmark general election.
The evacuation of rebel-held parts
of Syrias Homs begins after an unprecedented
deal
with
the
Vijay Seshadri
government.

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The Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba les initial public offering in the U.S.
Pakistan human rights activist
and lawyer Rashid Rehman is shot
dead in his office in Multan.
May 12: Ukraines Russianspeaking eastern regions declare independence from Kiev following an
overwhelming vote for sovereignty
in a referendum.
Major General Kristin Lund is
named the rst-ever woman to serve
as the head of a U.N. Peacekeeping
Operation by the Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon.
May 13: At least 300 persons are
killed in an explosion triggered by an
electrical fault at a coal mine in Soma
town in Turkeys Manisa province.
May 14: The New York Times
res its erstwhile Executive Editor
Jill Abramson.
May 15: The U.S. President Barack Obama inaugurates a haunting
Ground Zero museum dedicated to
the Al-Qaeda attacks which killed
nearly 3000 people.
May 20: Japanese scientists unveil a pint-sized roller-skating robot
EMIEW2 with a sense of humour.
At least 130 persons are killed in
twin car bombings at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of
Jos.
May 21: China and Russia sign a
landmark gas deal ending more than
decade-long negotiations.
Akhil Rekulapelli, an IndianAmerican student wins the National
Geographic Bee Championship in

THE HINDU

the nal round held in Washington.

May 22: The Thailand Army chief
General Prayut Chan-O-Cha seizes
power in a military coup.
At least 39 persons are killed and
close to 100 injured in the biggest
ever terror attack on Chinese soil as
explosives-laden vehicles plough
through a market in Xinjiang capital
Urumqi.
Britain casts votes for European
Parliament.
May 23: The Indian consulate in
Herat, Afghanistan comes under attack
by
Pakistan-based
Lashkar-e-Taiba.
May 24: . Thailands military junta disbands Senate. Conrms detention of former Premier Yingluck
Shinawatra.
Turkeys Nuri Bilge Ceylan wins
the Palme dOr at the 67th Cannes
Film Festival for his Winter Sleep, a
slow-burn domestic drama.
Two rebel Ukrainian regions
Donetsk and Luhansk announce
formation of Novorossiya or New
Russia, a new independent state.
May 25: Ukrainians cast ballots
in snap presidential polls.
May 26: Eurosceptic parties
make it big in the European Parliament polls.
Chocolate king Petro Poroshenko
wins Ukrainian presidential polls.
Egyptians begin casting ballots in
three-day presidential polls.
May 29: The Presidents of Russia,
Belarus and Kazakhstan sign the
Eurasian Economic Integration
agreement in the Kazakh capital
Astana.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypts former Army chief coasts to a landslide
victory after low voter turnout.
Space X unveils Dragon V2, a
sleek, white gum-drop shaped capsule that aims to carry up to seven
astronauts to the ISS and return to
land anywhere on Earth.
Two Indian-Americans Sriram
J. Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe script
history by becoming co-champions
of the Scripps Spelling Bee.
May 31: A U.S. soldier Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment is released
by Taliban after ve years in captivity in exchange for ve Guantanamo
detainees.

JUNE

Hitachi's humanoid robot

EMIEW2 .

June 2: A historic Palestinian

unity government comprising a 17member Cabinet headed by Prime
Minister Rami Hamdallah is sworn
in in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Spanish King Juan Carlos (76) announces his abdication in favour of

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

News of the World editor is found

guilty.
Japanese scientists unveil Kodomoroid, the worlds rst news reading android.
June 27: Ukraine signs landmark
deal with the European Union in
Brussels. Georgia and Moldova too
seal partnership pacts.
June 29: The Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria announces the setting
up of a Caliphate.
June 30: The bodies of three
Jewish seminary students kidnapped on June 12 are found in the
occupied West Bank.

JULY
Major General Kristin Lund of Norway with the United Nations
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
his son Prince Felipe, ending a 39year reign.
Scientists announce the discovery of Kepler-10C, a Godzilla among planets that is 17
times the size of earth, at the
meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston.
June 5: Japanese mobile company Softbank launches Pepper, a robot that can read emotions
June 7: Two days of ghting in
northern Iraq between security
forces and militants leaves 59 persons killed. In Ramadi, gunmen inltrate Anbar University.
Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as
Ukraines
fth
post-Soviet
President.
June 8: Former army chief Abdel
Fatah al-Sisi is sworn in Egypt
President.
June 9: Thirtyseven persons are
killed as Pakistan military ghts an
all-night battle with Taliban gunmen
who besieged Karachi airport.
A Russian court jails two women
for life for the October 7, 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna
Politkovskaya.
Syrias President Bashar al-Assad
announces an unprecedented prisoner amnesty.
June 10: Jihadists seize Iraqs
second city of Mosul after launching
an all-out assault on the security
forces a day earlier.
Reuven Rivlin, a former Speaker
of Israeli Parliament is elected
President.
June 11: Militants belonging to
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seize the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
June 14: Afghans cast votes in
presidential run-off marred by vio-

lence that leaves 50 dead.

June 15: Frozen underworld is
discovered in Greenland and images
published in the journal Nature
Geoscience.
Colombian centre-right president
Juan Manuel Santos wins a second
term.
June 16: A strong and prosperous
India will be benecial for the countries of the region, especially SAARC
members, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a joint session of the Bhutan Parliament.
The U.N. General Assembly approves the nomination of Jordans
Prince Zeid al-Hussein as the next
human rights chief.
Iraqi insurgents abduct 40 Indian
nationals and hold them captive at a
cotton factory near Mosul.
June 18: Former Norwegian Premier Gro Harlem Brundtland is
named the rst recipient of the Tang
Prize, touted as Asias version of the
Nobels.
King Juan Carlos of Spain signs
the Act of Parliament ending his four
decade reign.
June 20: Indian-born Booker
Prize winning author Salman Rushdie is named the winner of Pen Pinter prize for 2014.
June 21: Albie Sachs, the South
African judge who rose to fame for
his role in the anti-apartheid struggle, is awarded the Tanga Prize for
his contribution to human rights and
justice.
An Egyptian court conrms death
sentences for more than 180 Islamists, including Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie.
June 24: Rebekkah Brooks, a former condante of Rupert Murdoch
is cleared of all charges over phonehacking. Andy Coulson, former

July 1: Google announces plan to

shut down Orkut, the original social
network on September 30. It was set
up in 2004.
Japans Cabinet gives nod for collective self-defence in a highly controversial shift in the nations
pacist stance.
July 2: The abduction and killing
of a Palestinian youth in east Jerusalem sparks clashes.
The former French President Nikolas Sarkozy is charged with corruption-related offences.
July 4: Fortysix Indian nurses
who had been under captivity are
freed by the Iraqi militants at Dubok,
north of Mosul.
Andy Coulson, the former editor
of Rupert Murdochs News of the
World is jailed for 18 months for his
role in the phone-hacking scandal
that led to the closure of the tabloid
in July 2011.
July 5: An Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader
Mohamed Badie and 36 other Islamists to lifer.
July 7: The U.N. Permanent
Court of Arbitration awards Dhaka
19,467 sq.km. of 25,602 sq.km. sea
area of the Bay of Bengal bringing to
an end the maritime dispute with
India.
July 10: Over a million public
sector workers strike work in the
U.K. against pay caps and job cuts.
July 14: The Church of England
General Synod in York votes in favour of allowing female bishops for
the rst time in its nearly 500-year
history.
July 15: The Fortaleza declaration adopted at the sixth BRICS
Summit in Brazil announces formation of the BRICS Bank of Shanghai
to be named New Development Bank
and a contingency reserve fund.
July 16: Syrias President Bashar
al-Assad is sworn in for a new sevenyear term, in Damascus, following

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victory in the June 3 polls.

Archie, the famous freckle-faced
comic book icon who rst appeared
in 1941 dies while intervening in a
bid on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics
rst openly gay character.
July 17: All 298 people on board
an MH17 Malaysian jet are killed after Ukrainian militants bring it
down using a Soviet-era missile, in
Grabovo in Donetsk region. U.S.,
E.U. slap fresh sanctions on Moscow.
Australia abolishes a divisive carbon tax after years of vexed political
debate.
Bolivias Vice-President signs into
law a bill that legalises child labour
from age 10.
July 21: Seven Israeli soldiers are
killed taking the Israeli toll to 27.
Israeli planes strike homes across
Gaza and the toll goes up to 550,
besides 3,350 wounded.
July 22: Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo nicknamed Jokowi is declared the winner of Indonesias
presidential election.
Somali lawmaker and prominent
singer-songwriter Saado Ali Warsame is shot dead in the capital
Mogadishu.

July 29: Prosecutors shelve proceedings against Finmeccanica, the

parent company of AugustaWestland for alleged kickbacks in the Rs.
3,600-crore VVIP chopper deal.
July 30: Seventeen persons are
killed and 200 wounded in Israeli air
strike on a market in Shejaiya in Gaza City. At least 16 persons are killed
as tank shells slam into a U.N. school
in the Jebaliya refugee camp.
Chinese journalist Hu Shuli and
environmental lawyer Wanga Canfa
also from China among six winners
of the Ramon Magsaysay Award,
2014.
A New York court rules in favour
of the Union Carbide Corporation in
a case brought by the victims of the
December 3, 1984 Bhopal gas
disaster.
July 31: Sierra Leone, Guinea and
Liberia agree to launch a $100 million response plan to tackle the
worlds worst ever outbreak of the
ebola virus .
LUnita, the left-wing daily founded by Italian Marxist theoretician
Antonio
Gramsci
suspends
publication.

July 23: Indias rst multisensor moored observatory

IndARC is deployed in
Kongsfjorden Fjord of the
Arctic roughly half way between North Pole and South
Pole.

Aug. 1: Gaza truce collapses in

hours and dozens killed in Israeli
shelling.
Ugandas constitutional court
overturns a tough new anti-gay law.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia
revive a disease-ghting tactic not
used in nearly a century: the cordon
sanitaire to confront the Ebola
outbreak.
Aug.2: A massive landslide in
Sindhupalchowk district in Nepal
wipes out an entire village and
blocks the Sunkoshi river.
Aug. 3: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announces a $ 1-billion line of
credit for Nepals infrastructure development.
At least 589 people are killed and
1,800 injured after a 6.5 magnitude
earthquake strikes southern Chinas

AUGUST

July 24: Kurdish politician Fuad

Masum becomes the new Iraqi
President.
Ukraines Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk resigns after the collapse
of his European Choice coalition
government.
All 118 people on board an Air Algerie plane are killed after it crashes
in Mali shortly after take-off from
Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
India blocks the Trade Facilitation Agreement at the WTO General
Council meeting in Geneva.
July 25: Fifty Syrian soldiers are
killed most of them being beheaded,
after an ambush by jihadists from
the Islamic State group in Raqa
province.
The rst Turkish high-speed train
connecting Asia and Europe is inaugurated by Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan.
July 26: The India-Nepal Joint
Commission meets in Kathmandu
after 23 years.
The toll in Gaza clashes crosses
1,000. Over 130 bodies are recovered
Actor Robin Williams.
during the 16-hour truce.

Medical staff putting on protective gear before entering an

isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.
Yunnan province.
Jihadists storm Sinjar town in
Iraq sending tens of thousands of
civilians eeing to the mountains to
its north.
Aug. 5: Yoshiki Sasai, the co-author of a now discredited research on
stem-cell treatment is found dead at
the Riken institute where he worked
in Kobe, Japan.
A 72-hour truce takes hold in Gaza
as Israel withdraws troops after a
month of ghting with Hamas.
Aug. 6: Samsung and Apple decide to end all patent litigation outside the U.S.
Aug. 7: Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea (88) and Khieu Samphan
(83) are jailed for life after being
found guilty of crimes against
humanity.
Aug. 8: The U.S. launches targeted airstrikes in Iraq. Food and water
airdropped in the mountainous region of Sinjar to help 40,000 stranded Yazidis.
Aug. 9: Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager is
killed by a white police officer in
Ferguson, Missouri.
Aug. 10: Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins an outright victory in the rst round of
polls.
Aug. 11: Robin Williams (63), Academy Award winning king of comedy dies at his California home and is
suspected to have committed suicide.
Aug. 13: Canadian-American
Manjul Bhargava among four winners of the Fields Medal announced
at the inaugural of the nine-day International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul. Maryam Mirzakhani
rst woman winner of the coveted
prize.
Aug. 14: Iraqi Prime Minister,
Nouri al-Maliki resigns paving the

way for a unity government. Britain

decides to arm Kurds.
Aug. 17: Salman Rushdie is presented the Hans Christian Andersen
Literature Award, Denmarks most
important literature accolade, in the
town of Odense.
The toll in the Nepal oods triggered by torrential rain that caused
multiple landslides touches 97.
Aug. 19: Israel and Palestinian
militants resume ring across the
Gaza border. The wife and infant son
of Hamas top military commander
Mohammed Deif are killed in a missile attack.
The Islamic State releases a video
showing the beheading of James Foley, a U.S. journalist in Syria who has
been missing since November 22,
2012.
Aug. 21: Three senior Hamas
commanders and four children
among 24 Palestinians killed in Gaza.
Thailands Parliament chooses
coup leader General Prayut Chan-OCha as Prime Minister.
Former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds (81), a central gure in
the Northern Ireland peace process
who helped broker the 1994 IRA ceasere dies.
Aug. 22: Malaysia observes a day
of mourning to sombrely welcome
home the rst remains of its 43 citizens killed in the MH17 disaster on
July 17.
Aug. 24: Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S.
journalist missing since 2012 is released by kidnappers in Syria.
Abraham Borbor, a Liberian doctor treated with experimental American anti-Ebola serum ZMapp dies.
Pop diva Miley Cyrus wins video
of the year for Wrecking Ball at the
MTV Video Music Awards.
Aug. 25: Modern Family wins a
record-tying fth best comedy series

Emmy Award. Bryan Cranston is

honoured as best actor in a drama for
Breaking Bad.
NASA probe New Horizons, passes Neptunes orbit nearly 25 years
after Voyager 2 spacecrafts rst ever
yby of the planet.
Aug. 26: A long term truce between the Palestinians and Israel
takes effect ending 50 days of violence. Eight-year blockade of Gaza
lifted.
Aug. 30: Varanasi and Kyoto sign
a partner city affiliation agreement
in the presence of Prime Ministers
Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe.
At least three persons are killed in
police ring and more than 200 protesters injured in the VIP area of the
Pakistan capital Islamabad as a 17day standoff seeking Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharifs resignation turns
violent.
Abdul Alim, a prime war crimes
convict of Bangladesh serving a lifer
dies of cancer at a Dhaka hospital.
Aug 31: Iraqi forces break
through to the jihadist-besieged Shia
town of Amerli where thousands
have remained trapped for more
than two months.

SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1: Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe announce
the Japan-India Investment Promotion Partnership in Tokyo.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief
Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami
Tahreek leader Tahir-ul-Qadri are
booked under the Anti-Terrorist Act
for bid to attack Parliament.
Sept. 2: The Islamic State posts a
video showing the beheading of U.S.
reporter Steven Sotloff kidnapped in
2013 in Aleppo, Syria.
Sept. 5: Ukraine signs ceasere
agreement with rebels to end nearly
ve months of ghting in the nations east, in the Belarussian capital
Minsk.
Sept. 6: Swedish Director, Roy
Anderssons A Pigeon Sat on a
Branch While Reecting on Existence bags the Golden Lion at the 71st
Venice Film Festival. Joshua Oppenheimers The Look of Silence picks
up the grand prix.
Sept. 8: Mathew Martoma, an Indian-origin portfolio manager is
jailed for 9 years by a federal court in
New York for his role in an insider
trading scheme involving $276
million.
Sept. 11: The U.S. President Barack Obama orders airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State.
Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius is
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says the High Court in Pretoria.
Sept. 12: Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of culpable
homicide for the death of his girl
friend Reeva Steenkamp in February
2013.
Three men are handed down
death sentence and a woman lifer for
the mass stabbing on March 1 at a
train station in Kunming, China that
killed 39 persons.
Ian Paisley (88), former Northern
Ireland First Minister and Protestant leader dies in Belfast.
Sept. 13: Southern Cross Austereo, an Australian radio station at
the centre of a royal hoax call row
donates Aus $500,000 to the family
of Indian-born nurse in a British
hospital Jacintha Saldhana since
dead.
Islamic State militants release a
video that purported to show the beheading of U.K. aid worker David
Haines who was kidnapped in March
2013 in Syria.
Sept. 14: Swedens Social Democrat-led bloc ousts the ruling centreright coalition led by Prime Minister
Fredrik Reinfeldt in parliamentary
polls.
Sept. 16: The Ukrainian and European Parliaments ratify a landmark pact. Kiev adopts a peace plan
that offers three years of limited selfrule to rebel-held regions.
Sept. 17: The Appellate Division
of the Bangladesh Supreme Court
commutes the death sentence of top
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment till
death
Sept. 18: Scots cast ballots in historic referendum.
Krittika Biswas, the daughter of an
Indian diplomat is awarded
$225,000 as compensation by New
York City for wrongful arrest and
jailing on February 8, 2011 on cyber
bullying charges.
Sept. 19 : Scotland votes decisively to reject the independence option in the landmark
referendum. Alex Salmond resigns as rst minister and as
the head of the Scottish National Party.

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New Zealand Prime Minister

John Key wins a third term.
Sept. 21: Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
is declared Afghanistans next President. He signs a power-sharing deal
with his rival Abdullah Abdullah in
Kabul.
Sept. 22 : Israeli troops kill two
Palestinians named as suspects in
the murder of three Jewish teenagers that triggered the 50-day, fullscale war in the West Bank city of
Hebron.
Sept. 23 : Ilham Tohti, a prominent academic from Chinas Uighur
minority is jailed for life for
separatism.
Philips, the Dutch conglomerate
decides to separate the lighting and
healthcare divisions.
Sept. 24 : The U.S. will work with
a broad coalition to dismantle the IS
network of death, says President Barack Obama in his address to the 69th
U.N. General Assembly session in
New York.
Jihadists linked to the IS behead
Herve Gourdel, a Frenchman abducted in Algeria on September 21.
U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and Alan Rushbridger, editor of
British newspaper, The Guardian
are among winners of the 2014 Right
Livelihood Award.
Sierra Leone orders quarantine
with immediate effect of one million people in three districts and 12
tribal chiefdoms to tackle Ebola
outbreak.
Sept. 25 : Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah reach an
agreement for the return of their
unity government in Gaza after two
days of talks in Cairo.
Sept. 26 : The British Parliament
votes to render military assistance in
the ght against the IS in Iraq.
Indonesian Parliament votes to
abolish the direct election of local
leaders.
Sept. 27 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls upon the U.N. to
speedily adopt a global convention

Alibaba, the Chinese online rm

promoted by Jack Ma, Internet entrepreneur makes its historic Wall
Street debut and completes its biggest ever IPO at $ 25 billion.
Sept. 20 : Fortysix Turks kidnapped from Mosul on June 11 are
freed by their IS captors. More than
60,000 Syrian Kurds ood Turkey
Richard Flanagan
eeing an onslaught by jihadists.

King Harald of Norway (L) congratulating the Nobel Peace

laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai.
on terror in his address to the General Assembly.
Hollywood actor George Clooney
weds Lebanese-British lawyer Amal
Alamuddin in Venice.
Sept. 28 : The Prime Minister
Narendra Modi announces that every person holding a PIO (person of
Indian origin) card will get a lifelong visa for India, addressing Indian diaspora at the Madison Square
Garden in New York.
Sept. 29 : Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
is inaugurated as Afghanistan
President.
Sept. 30 : Afghanistan and the
U.S. sign a security pact in Kabul to
allow American troops to remain
past the end of the year.

OCTOBER
Oct. 1: Former Norwegian Prime
Minister Jens Stoltenberg assumes
office
as
the
13th
NATO
Secretary-General.
Oct. 3: Protesters in Hong Kong
call off talks with government after
clashes with pro-Beijing crowds.
The ISLS announces the beheading of a fourth Western hostage,
British taxi driver-turned-aid worker Alan Henning.
Oct. 5: Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff wins rst round poll.
Oct. 6: Anglo-American John
OKeefe and Norwegian couple MayBritt and Edward Moser win the
2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine for
discovering the brains internal positioning system.
Oct. 7: Two Japanese scientists,
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano
and a Japanese-born American, Shuji Nakamura are awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for inventing blue
light-emitting diodes.
Ebola-hit Liberia suspends na-

tionwide Senate polls.

Oct. 8: Thomas Eric Duncan, a
Liberian becomes the rst Ebola patient to die in the U.S.
An African-American teenager is
shot dead by an off-duty police officer in St. Louis, Missouri.
Stefan W. Hell of Germany, Eric
Betzig and William E. Moerner, both
of the U.S. are awarded the Nobel
Chemistry Prize 2014 for taking optical microscopy into a new dimension using uorescent molecules.
Oct. 9: Frances Patrick Modiano
wins the Nobel Literature Prize.
An Italian court acquits former
Finmeccania CEO Giuseppe Orsi
and former AgustaWestland CEO
Bruno Spagnolini of corruption
charges in the Rs.3,700-crore VVIP
chopper deal with India.
Oct.10: Kailash Satyarthi, Indian
child rights activist and Malala Yousafzai Pakistans young crusader for
childrens education are jointly
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
China and Russia begin implementing their $ 400 billion mega gas
deal.
Oct. 13: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa ags off Yal Devi
Express, thus relaunching train services to Jaffna, nearly 25 years after
civil war destroyed the regions rail
network.
French economist Jean Triole
wins the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on how governments should regulate monopolies.
Oct. 14: The British House of
Commons votes overwhelmingly in
favour of recognising Palestine as a
state alongside Israel.
Australian writer Richard Flanagan bags the 2014 Man Booker Prize
for his novel, The Narrow Road to
the Deep North.

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Oct. 16: Sanjaya Rajaram, eminent Indian scientist is presented

the World Food Prize at the 2014
Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines,
U.S.
The European Court of Justice in
Luxembourg strikes down sanctions
against the LTTE.
The Lahore High Court upholds
the death sentence of a Christian
woman Asia Bibi convicted of blasphemy and on death row since November 2010.
Oct. 20: The former Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo known by his
nickname Jokowi is sworn in Indonesian President.
Oct. 21: Oscar Pistorius is jailed
for ve years for killing his girlfriend
Reeva Steenkamp.
Oct. 22: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a
lone gunman opens re inside the
Canadian Parliament before being
shot dead by the Sergeant-at-Arms
Kevin Vickers.
Oct.24: Google executive Alan
Eustace breaks the sound barrier
and sets several skydiving records,
hurtling towards earth at a velocity
of 1,322 kmph over the Southern
New Mexico desert after being carried to the stratosphere on a heliumlled balloon.
A team of doctors in Australia successfully perform the worlds rst
heart transplant using a dead
heart.
Oct.27: Dilma Rousseff wins Brazilian presidential polls by a narrow
margin.
Petro Poroshenko scores a big victory in Ukraines parliamentary
polls.
Oct.28: Secular Tunisian party
Nida Tounes wins in parliamentary
polls.
Zambias President Michael Sata
(77) dies while under treatment at a
private hospital in London.
Oct.29: Girls rights activist Malala Yousafzai is presented the
World Childrens Prize, 2014 at a
ceremony in Mariestad near
Stockholm.
A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal
hands down death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman
Nizami.
The U.S. Fed votes to end its bondbuying stimulus or Quantitative
Easing.
Oct.30: The Colombo High Court
awards death sentence to ve Tamil
Nadu shermen arrested by the Navy in November 2011 .
Sweden officially recognises the
state of Palestine.
Oct.31: Burkina Faso President
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violent uprising against his 27-year

rule.
Susan Xiao-Ping who ran the California-based Tri-Valley University is
handed down a 16-year jail term for
fraud, alien harbouring.

NOVEMBER
Nov. 2: Daredevil Nik Wallenda
performs back-to-back walks on a
tightrope between Chicago skyscrapers without a safety net or a
harness, one of them blindfolded.
Nov. 3: Thirteen years after the
September 11, 2001 attack, the one
World Trade Center, a 541 metrehigh skyscraper opens again.
Nov. 5: Republicans gain a stronger grip of the U.S. House of Representatives and win Senate majority.
Indian-Americans
Republican
Nikki Haley and Democrat Kamala
Harris re-elected South Carolina
Governor and California AttorneyGeneral. The rst Hindu American
in Congress Tulsi Gabbard wins
from Hawaii.
South Carolina elects Tim
Scott the rst African-American to the Senate since the
years following the Civil War.
Mia Love becomes the rst
black Republican woman
elected to the House of
Representatives.
Nov. 9: Berliners and tourists
from across the world begin celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall 25
years ago.
Russia signs mega gas deal with
China.
Nov. 10: Chinese President Xi
Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold icebreaking dialogue on the sidelines of the APEC
summit in Beijing.
Nov. 11: The APEC members give
in principle nod for the Free Trade
Area of the Asia-Pacic (FTAAP) in
the plenary of the summit in Beijing.
Capt. Lee Joon-seok, the skipper
of the Sewol ferry that sank on April
16 killing more than 300 people is
jailed for 36 years by the Gwanju
District Court in South Korea.
Nov. 12: China and the U.S. agree
on a timetable to limit greenhouse
gas emission after Obama-Xi Jinping
talks in Beijing ending a 20-year
discord.
The European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft puts the 100 kg Philae lander on a comet for the rst
time in history, after a decade-long
journey through space.
Nov. 14: Historical thriller The
Imitation Game and Oscar-winner

Ben Affleck-starrer Gone Girl bag

top honours at the Hollywood Film
Awards.
Nov. 16: The G20 summit in Brisbane endorses Indias stance on
tackling black money.
The IS releases a video showing
the beheading of a U.S. aid worker
Peter Kassig (26) kidnapped in October 2013 while travelling in Syria.
Nov. 17: China and Australia announce a free trade agreement after
Xi Jinping-Tony Abbott talks.
The Church of Englands General
Synod in London endorses move allowing women bishops.
The worlds rst zero-gravity 3D
printer is installed by the NASA on
the International Space Station.
Nov. 18: New Delhi and Canberra
ink ve pacts to enhance security,
trade ties after Narendra ModiTony Abbott talks.
The U.S. Senate votes down Keystone, NSA bills.
Neha Gupta, an Indian-American
from Philadelphia is presented the
International Childrens Peace Prize
at The Hague, Netherlands.
Nov. 19: Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa commutes the
death sentence of ve Indian shermen and frees them.
Nov. 20: Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa calls presidential polls seeking a third term.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses appeal against a Swedish
arrest warrant over alleged sex
crimes.
Nov. 21: The U.S. President Barack Obama announces immigration
reform.
Nov. 23: Tunisians cast ballots in
their rst presidential poll since the
2011 revolution that sparked the
Arab Spring.
Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Euphrasia Eluvathinkal, a priest and a
nun from Kerala among six canonised by Pope Francis in Vatican.
Nov. 24: Protests break out
across the U.S. after a 12-member
grand jury in St. Louis County returns a verdict not to indict white
police officer Darren Wilson.
The U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck
Hagel resigns.
Nov. 25: India and Nepal ink 10
pacts, including one for $ 1 billion aid
to Kathmandu after talks between
Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and
Sushil Koirala.
Nov. 26: Hong Kong police arrest
key protesters, including Joshua
Wong, head of the Scholarism group
in Mong Kok district.
Nov. 27: An energy cooperation
agreement is signed at the 18th

A plainclothes security officer escorts students rescued from a

nearby school during a Taliban attack in Peshawar, Pakistan.
SAARC Summit in Kathmandu.
The WTOs General Council
adopts a decision on public stockholding for food security purposes,
on
the
Trade
Facilitation
Agreement.
Nov. 28: At least 120 people are
killed and over 100 injured following
blasts at the Grand Mosque in Kano,
Nigeria.
Nov. 29: An Egyptian Court dismisses murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak in
connection with the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime.
Darren Wilson, the white police
officer who shot dead black teenager
Michael Brown resigns.

DECEMBER

hostage Pierre Korkie are killed,

during a bid by U.S. special forces to
free them from al-Qaeda militants in
Yemens Shabwa province.
Dec. 7: ISROs communication
satellite GSAT-16 is launched on
board an Arianespace rocket from
Kourou, French Guiana.
Dec. 8: A South African judge
clears British millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani of hiring hitmen
to murder his Swedish bride Anni on
their honeymoon in November 2010.
The U.S. and NATO end combat
command in Afghanistan more than
13 years after invading the country.
Eight persons are sentenced to
death for the April-May knife and
bomb attacks at a railway station and
a market in Xinjiang, China.
Dec. 9: The Senate Intelligence
Committee report indicts interrogating techniques of the CIA.
An oil tanker sinks after being hit
by another vessel leading to a massive oil spill in the Shela river in the
Sunderbans mangrove forest in
Bangladesh.

Dec. 2: Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed black man is shot dead by a

police officer in Phoenix, Arizona.
A Boeing aircraft completes the
worlds rst ight using green diesel, a sustainable biofuel made from
vegetable oils, waste cooking oil.
Dec. 3: Protests rock New York
City after a Grand Jury decides not
to indict a white police officer Daniel
Pantaleo for causing the death of Eric Garner, a black man with a chokehold in Staten Island on July 17.
Dec. 5: The International Criminal Court at The Hague drops case
against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta alleging crimes against humanity citing lack of evidence.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
named Asian of the Year by Singapore Press Holdings Limited, publisher of The Straits Times.
Dec. 6: American photojournalist Family members of passengers
Luke Somers and a South Korean on board the AirAsia flight .

Dec. 10: Indias Kailash Satyarthi

and Pakistans Malala Yousafzai are
jointly presented the Nobel Peace
Prize for 2014 at a function in Oslo.
Dec. 14: Shinzo Abe is re-elected
Japanese Prime Minister in a snap
poll.
Anerood Jugnauth is named
Mauritius Prime Minister.
The agreement at the climate
summit in Lima, Peru sets out guidelines for the submission of national
greenhouse-gas pledges in 2015.
South Africas Rolene Strauss is
crowned Miss World 2014 in
London.
Dec. 15: Australian police kill an
Iranian gunman and free many held
hostage at the Lindt Chocolat Caf in
Sydney after a 17-hour standoff.
Dec. 16: At least 149 people, including 132 schoolchildren are killed
and 250 injured after Taliban militants attack the Army Public School
in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Tashi Malik and Nungshi Malik
from Dehradun scale Mount Vinson,
Antarcticas highest mountain, becoming worlds rst twins to do so.
Dec. 17: The U.S. and Cuba agree
to revive diplomatic ties.
Reverend Libby Lane becomes the
U.K.s rst woman Bishop.
Dec. 19: Pakistan detains LeT
commander Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind behind
the 26/11 Mumbai attack for three
more months, a day after a Rawalpindi court granted him bail.
Dec. 20: Two police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu are shot
dead by a youth in Brooklyn, New
York who later commits suicide.
Dec. 22: Beji Said Essebsi wins
Tunisian presidency.
A court in Majorca, Spain, orders
Princess Cristina Federica, sister of
King Felipe VI to stand trial for tax
fraud.
Dec. 24: Two clerics among 59
indicted by a Pakistan court for the
November 4 killing of a couple.
Dec. 27: Over 1.6 lakh people
evacuated after worst oods in decades in Malaysia.
Dec. 28: An AirAsia plane from
Indonesia with 162 on board goes
missing en route to Singapore.
Dec. 29: Eleven persons are killed
and rescuers save 427 passengers
trapped on a burning Italian car ferry adrift in the Adriatic Sea off the
Greek island of Corfu.
Ukraines President signs a bill
dropping his nations non-aligned
status.
Dec. 30: Wreckage of AirAsia
plane surfaces in waters 16 km from
the ights last-known coordinates.

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Khushwant
Singh

R. Umanath

OBITUARY
JANUARY
Jan. 3: Phil Everly (74), pop icon
who inuenced The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, in the Californian City of Burbank.
Jan. 5: K.P. Udayabhanu (78) musician at his residence in
Thiruvananthapuram
Jan. 11: Ariel Sharon (85), former
Israeli Prime Minister, at a hospital
in Tel Aviv after being comatose for
eight years.
Jan. 13: Anjali Devi (86), veteran
actor, of cardiac arrest at a Chennai
hospital.
Jan. 17: Suchitra Sen (82) veteran
Bengali actor of a massive cardiac
arrest at a Kolkata hospital.
Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (102), the 52nd spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim
community, of a cardiac arrest at his
residence in Walkeshwar, Mumbai.
Jan. 22: Akkineni Nageswara Rao
(91), Telugu lm actor at a hospital in
Hyderabad of intestinal cancer.
Jan. 27: Pete Seeger (94), folk
singer at New YorkPresbyterian
Hospital.

Ariel Sharon

Anjali Devi

MARCH

March 1: Bangaru Laxman (74),

the rst Dalit to head the BJP, of a
heart attack in Hyderabad.
March 9: William Clay Ford Sr.
(88), former Ford Motor Co. Executive, at his home in the Detroit suburb Grosse Pointe Shores.
March 13: S. Mallikarjunaiah
(82), former Deputy Speaker of the
Lok Sabha, in Tumkur.
March 20: Khushwant Singh
(99), writer, historian and columnist
of cardiac arrest, at his residence in
New Delhi.
March 21: Sri Suyateendra Tirtha
(80), senior seer of the Sri Raghavendra Math in Mantralayam, Andhra Pradesh.
March 25: Nanda (75), Hindi actor, in Mumbai after a cardiac arrest.
T. G. Sivasankaran (89), Tamil
writer and literary critic, in
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Silverine Swer (103), Tirunelveli.
APRIL
Meghalayas oldest voter and rst
April 6: Mickey Rooney (93), U.S.
Padma Shri awardee from the State
child star and comic actor , in Los
at her residence in Shillong.
Feb. 10: Shirley Temple Black Angeles.
April 7: V. K. Murthy (91), doyen
(85), who rose to fame as a Hollywood child star, at her Spanish style of cinematography and Dada Saheb
Phalke awardee, in Bangalore.
villa in Woodside, California.
April 10: Sue Townsend (68),
Feb. 12: Isaac Sidney Caesar (91),
U.S. comedy pioneer, at his Beverly British comic author , after suffering
a stroke in Leicester, England.
Hills home after a short illness.
April 17: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Feb. 13: Balu Mahendra (75), Tamil lmmaker at a hospital in Chen- (87), Nobel-winning Colombian author, at his home in Mexico city.
nai following cardiac arrest.
April 30: Sri Kaliyan VanamamaFeb. 17: Rudrapatna Krishna Sastry Srikantan (94), vocalist, at Fortis lai Jeer (82), the 30th Jeer of Nanguneri Mutt, in Tirunelveli.
Hospital in Bangalore.
MAY
Feb. 20: Parvati Krishnan (94),
senior CPI leader and four-time MP
May 1: M. S. Pattabhiraman (90),
in Coimbatore.
former Vice-President of the Music
Feb. 23: G. Bhuvaragan (86), last Academy in Chennai.
surviving member of the Kamaraj
May 9: Nedurumalli Janardhana
Ministry in Tamil Nadu, in Chennai. Reddy (79), former Andhra Pradesh

Zohra Sehgal

Yoga guru
B.K.S. Iyengar

U. R.
Sir Richard
Ananthamurthy Attenborough

Nageswara
Rao

Shirley Temple
Black

Balu
Mahendra

Eduard
Shevardnadze

Aug. 5: Pran Kumar Sharma (75),

creator of Chacha Chaudhary, of colon cancer at a hospital in Gurgaon,
Haryana.
Aug. 20: B.K.S. Iyengar (95), yoga
exponent, at a hospital in Pune.

Aug. 22: U.R. Ananthamurthy theatre personality, in Puducherry.

(82), Kannada writer and Jnanpith
DECEMBER
awardee, at a hospital, in Bangalore.
Dec. 2: A.R. Antulay (85), former
Aug. 24: Richard Attenborough
(90), British actor and director of Maharashtra Chief Minister, in
Mumbai after prolonged illness.
Gandhi at a care home in London.
Deven Verma (77), actor and diSEPTEMBER
Sep. 2: G.E. Vahanvati (65), for- rector, at his home in Pune .
mer Attorney-General of India, in
Dec. 4: V.R. Krishna Iyer (99),
Mumbai, of a heart attack.
former Supreme Court judge, at a
A.P. Venkateswaran (85), former hospital in Kochi, Kerala.
Foreign Secretary, in Bangalore.
Dec. 8: Nedunuri Krishnamurthy
Sept. 12: Mahant Avaidyanath
(87), carnatic vocalist, at his Visak(95), former MP, in Gorakhpur, U P.
hapatnam residence.
Sept. 19: U. Shrinivas (45), manDec. 17: S. Narayanan (89), chairdolin maestro, in Chennai.
Sept. 29: Warren M. Anderson man of IMPAL, part of the TVS
(92), former CEO of Union Carbide group, in Chennai.
Corporation, in Vero Beach, Florida.
Dec. 19: S. Balasubramanian (78),
the chairman of the Vikatan group of
OCTOBER
Oct. 2: N. Mahalingam (91), publications, in Chennai.
Chairman of the Coimbatore-based
Dec. 20: D.V. Subba Rao (83), forSakthi Group of Companies, in mer chairman of BCI, in
Chennai.
Visakhapatnam.
Oct. 9: M.V. Kamath (93), veteran
Dec. 23: K. Balachander (84), Tajournalist, in Manipal, Karnataka.
mil lm director, of a massive heart
Oct. 21: Rajam Krishnan (90), Ta- attack at a hospital in Chennai.
mil writer, at the Sri Ramachandra
Koothapiran (83), veteran dramaUniversity Hospital, Porur near
tist of a heart attack, in Hyderabad.
Chennai.
Oct. 24: S.S. Rajendran (86), TaDec. 26: Leo Tindemans ((92),
mil actor, at a hospital in Chennai.
former Belgian Prime Minister at his
home in Edegem near Antwerp.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 3: Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Rajan Devadas (93), Indian-Amer(64), Bollywood actor, , in Mumbai.
ican photojournalist, of cardiac arNov. 10: M.S.S. Pandian (53), so- rest, at the Hebrew Home of Greater
cial scientist, in New Delhi.
Washington.
Nov. 13: Alexander Grothendieck
Dec. 29: Saiyid Hamid (94), edu(86), German-born French mathe- cationist and author, in New Delhi.
matician , in France.
Dec. 30: B.G. Verghese (88), vetNov. 24: Murli Deora (77), senior
Congress leader and former Union eran journalist, after prolonged illness in Gurgaon.
Minister, in Mumbai.
Nov. 27: P.D. James (94), British
Luise Rainer (104), the rst wincrime novelist, at her Oxford home. ner of two consecutive Oscars, at her
Nov. 30: Veenapani Chawla (67), London home.

Mandolin U.
Shrinivas

Nedunuri
Krishnamurthy S. Balasubramanian B.G. Verghese

Chief Minister, in Hyderabad after a

brief illness.
May 16: Russi Mody (96), former
Chairman of Tata Steel (then Tesco)
in Kolkata.
May 18: Gordon Willis (82), one
of Hollywoods most celebrated cinematographers, of cancer at his
home in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
May 21: R. Umanath (92), Communist leader , in Tiruchi.

JUNE
June 1: Dhondutai Kulkarni (86),
a noted singer , in Mumbai after a
brief illness.
June 2: D. Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy (90), Indian Cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church, in Rome.
June 22: Ramanarayanan, Tamil
lm director , at a Singapore hospital, of cardiac arrest.
June 24: Eli Herschel Wallach
(98), Hollywood actor in New York.

JULY
July 7: Eduard Shevardnadze
(86), the Soviet Unions last Foreign
Minister and later the President of
Georgia, in Tbilisi.
July 10: Zohra Sehgal (102), the
grand old lady of Bollywood in a New
Delhi hospital of a cardiac arrest.
July 13: Nadine Gordimer (90),
South African writer , in
Johannesburg.
July 28: Theodore Van Kirk (93),
the last surviving crewman of the
Enola Gay, the U.S. plane that dropped the rst atomic bomb on Hiroshima, in Georgia, the U.S.

AUGUST

Pollachi N.
Mahalingam

Director K.
Balachander

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SPORT
JANUARY

Feb.2: Karnataka defeats Maharashtra in the nal of the Ranji Trophy in Hyderabad.
Feb. 3: J. Prithiviraj named the
President of Federation of Motor
Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) in a
press conference in Chennai.
Feb.4: Legendary golfer Tiger
Woods plays a round at the Delhi
Golf Club.
Feb. 6: Mahindra launches its
Formula E car in New Delhi.
Feb. 7: Kumar Sangakkara becomes the second batsman in history
to score a triple century in the second Test against Bangladesh in
Chittagong.
Feb. 14: England football great
Tom Finney (91) passes away in
London.
Feb. 15: Australias Mitchell
Johnson claims his career best
match gures of 12 for 127 in the rst
Test against South Africa in Centurion.
Feb. 16: Renaud Lavillenie of
France breaks Sergei Bubkas 21year-old record in indoor pole vault
with a high of 6.16m in the world
meet at Donetsk.
Feb. 18: Host New Zealand wins
the Two-Test series against India
1-0.
Feb. 20: Sri Lanka seals the
three-Test series against host Bangladesh 2-0.
Feb. 22: Sri Lanka seals the OneDay series 3-0 against host Bangladesh.
Feb. 26: Sourav Kothari wins the
National billiards championship in
Lucknow.

Jan. 5: Portugals Eusebio, a football legend and a top-scorer of the

1966 World Cup, passes away in Lisbon.
Lleyton Hewitt of Australia wins
the Brisbane International tennis
tournament.
Host Australia routs England 5-0
in the Ashes series.
Stanislas Wawrinka wins the singles title in the Chennai Open ATP
tennis championship.
12. Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das
bag the mens and womens titles in
the Senior National table tennis
championships in Patna.
Jan. 18: The Netherlands wins
the Hockey World mens league title
in New Delhi.
Vishnu Vardhan and Natasha Palha clinch the mens and womens titles in the National grasscourt tennis
championship in Kolkata.
Jan. 23: Host India blank Sri
Lanka 3-0 in the ODI womens
series.
Churchill Brothers bag its maiden
Federation Cup football title in
Kochi.
Jan. 25: Li Nag bags the womens
title in the Australian Open tennis
championship in Melbourne.
Jan. 26: Stanislas Wawrinka wins
the mens singles title in the Australian Open tennis championship in
Melbourne.
Jan. 28: New Zealand wins the
ve-match ODI series 3-0 against
MARCH
host India.
Jan. 26: Saina Nehwal wins the
Mar. 26: Jude Felix is appointed
singles title in the $120,000 India coach of the Indian mens hockey
Grand Prix badminton tournament team.
in Lucknow.
Munich wins the Bundesliga title
triumph in
FEBRUARY
Mar. 27: West Zone lifts the DeFeb.1: Host India blanks Chinese odhar Trophy cricket tournament in
Taipei 3-0 in the Davis Cup Asia- Visakhapatnam.
Mar. 29: Heena Sidhu bags silver
Oceania Group I tie in Indore.
in the World Cup shooting championship in Fort Benning, US.
Viswanathan Anand wins the
World Candidates chess tournament
in Khanty Mansisyk, Russia.
Mar. 30: Lewis Hamilton wins
the Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang.

India defeats South Korea 3-1 in

the Davis Cup to reach the World
Group playoff.
Apr. 13: Bubba Watson wins his
second Aug.usta Masters title.
Apr. 14: Baroda wins the Syed
Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament with
its defeat of Uttar Pradesh in the
nal in Mumbai.
Apr. 16: IPL-7 begins in Abu
Dhabi.
Apr. 20: Stan Wawrinka wins
Monte Carlo Masters tennis defeating Roger Federer in the nal.
Lewis Hamilton wins Chinese
Grand Prix.
Apr. 21: Bengaluru FC wins the
I-league title in Margao.
Apr. 22: David Moyes sacked as
Manchester United manager.

MAY
May 5: Englands Mark Selby
wins his maiden World Snooker
Championship in Sheffield.
May 11: Manchester City
crowned Barclays Premier League
champions.
May 12: Manipur women win the
National womens football championship in Assam.
May 14: Sevilla defeats Benca to
win the Europa League.
May 17: Atletico Madrid crowned
Spanish La Liga champion in Camp
Nou.
May 19: Australian Formula One
great Sir Jack Brabham dies in Australia, aged 88.
May 23: Cricketer Madhav Mantri dies in Mumbai, aged 92.
India settles for Bronze in Badmintons Uber Cup.
May 24: China wins Uber Cup in
New Delhi.
May 25: Japan wins Badmintons
Thomas Cup in New Delhi.

Cricketer of the Year award.

Jun.7: Maria Sharapova wins
French Open title, beating Simona
Halep in the nal.
Jun.8: Rafael Nadal wins his
ninth French Open crown, defeating
Novak Djokovic in the nal.
Jun.9: Daniel Ricciardo wins
Canadian grand prix.
Jun.10: Australian swing bowling
all-rounder Gary Gilmour dies aged
62.
Jun.12: FIFA World Cup kicks off
in Brazil.
Jun.13: Saurav Kothari wins his
maiden Asian billiards title.
Jun.14: Netherlands wins womens hockey world cup following its
defeat of Australia in Argentina.
Jun.16: Michael Schumacher
comes out of coma, leaves hospital in
France.
Jun.18: Defending champion
Spain eliminated in the rst round of
JUNE
the FIFA World Cup.
Jun.1: Kolkata Knight Riders win
Jun.19: India defeats Bangladesh
IPL 7 after defeating Kings XI Pun- 2-0 in a bilateral away cricket series.
Jun.24: Italy crashes out of the
jab in the nal in Bangalore.
Jun.2: Virat Kohli wins the Ceat FIFA World Cup in the rst round.
Jun.29: Pankaj Advani wins the
IBSF World 6-Red snooker title to
become the rst player to win world
titles in the longer and shorter formats of billiards and snooker.
Saina Nehwal wins the Australian
Open super series badminton title.

APRIL

Pankaj Advani

PRECISION: Germany with the Football World Cup.

Apr.6: Sri Lanka beats India to

win the World T20 title
Malaysias Lee Chong Wei and
Chinas Li Xuerui win the mens and
womens titles at the India Open
badminton tournament in New
Sania Mirza
Delhi.

July 5: Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 to clinch her
second Wimbledon title.
July 6: Novak Djokovic defeats
Roger Federer 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4),
5-7, 6-4, to win his second Wimbledon title.
Lewis Hamilton wins the British
GP.
July 7: Former Real Madrid star
Alfredo Di Stefano dies.
July 8: Host Brazil bow out of the
FIFA World Cup losing 1-7 to
Germany.
Deep Sengupta wins the Commonwealth Chess championship in
Glasgow.
July 12: Netherlands beat Brazil
3-0 to nish third in the FIFA World
Cup.
July 13: Germany clinches FIFA
World Cup title beating Argentina
1-0.
First Test between India and England at Trent Bridge ends in draw.
July 18: Germanys world cup
winning captain Philipp Lahm announces retirement from international football.
July 20: Nico Rosberg wins the

JULY
July 1: Former New Zealand
cricketer Lou Vincent admits publicly to being involved in match xing.
Indias Jitu Rai was ranked number one in the mens air pistol list
released by International Shooting
Jitu Rai
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THE HINDU

Mary Kom
German GP.
Rory McIlroy wins British Open
golf tournament.
July 21: India beats England by
95 runs to win the second Test at
Lords.
July 23: Commonwealth Games
2014 begins at Glasgow.
July 25: Abhinav Bindra wins
gold in mens 10m air rie and sets
new CWG record with a score of
205.3 points.
July 26: Inaugural edition of ProKabaddi League starts in Mumbai.
July 27: Italian cyclist Vincenzo
Nibali wins the Tour de France.
Daniel Ricciardo wins the Hungarian GP.
July 28: South Africa beats Sri
Lanka 1-0 in the Test series.
July 31: India lose to England in
the third Test at Southampton.

AUGUST
Aug. 3: Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow ends. India nished fth in
the medals tally with 15 gold, 30 sil-

ver and 19 bronze medals.

Aug. 5: Spains Xavi Hernandez
announces his retirement from international football.
Aug. 9: England thrash India in
the fourth Test and take a 2-1 lead.
Aug. 10: Jo Wilfried Tsonga beats
Roger Federer to win the Rogers Cup
in Toronto.
Rory McIlroy wins his fourth major at PGA Championship in Valhalla.
Frances Samir Nasri announces
retirement from international
football.
Aug. 15: Yohann Dinniz of France
sets world record in the 50 km walk
at the European Athletic Championships with a time of 3:32:33.
Aug. 16: The 2014-15 season of
Barclays Premier League starts.
Aug. 17: England thrashes India
by an innings and 244 runs in the
fth Test at The Oval to clinch the
series 3-1.
Roger Federer wins the Cincinnati Masters beating Spains David
Ferrer.
Aug. 18: Host Sri Lanka beats Pakistan 2-0 in the Test series in Mahela Jayawardenes nal series.
Aug. 24: Daniel Ricciardo wins
the Belgian Grand Prix.
Aug. 25: U.S. Open begins in New
York.
Aug. 27: Spanish star Xabi Alonso
announces retirement from international football.
Aug. 31: Jaipur Pink Panthers
wins the inaugural edition of the
ProKabaddi League in Mumbai.
Chen Long and Carloina Marin
wins the mens and womens singles
title at the World Badminton Championships at Copenhagen.

RESOUNDING SUCCESS: Indian Super League Champions Atletico

de Kolkata.

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

womens categories of the China

Open respectively.
Oct. 12: Lewis Hamilton wins the
inaugural Russian Formula One
Grand Prix in Sochi; Mercedes takes
constructors title.
Oct. 17: The West Indies cricket
team pulls out midway into its tour
of India.
Oct. 26: Indias Anirban Lahiri
wins the Macau Open golf tournament; Roger Federer defeats David
Goffin in the nal of the Swiss Indoors tournament; Serena Williams
clinches the WTA Finals singles tiMagnus Carlsen
tle, while Sania Mirza and Cara Black
win the doubles event.
Oct. 29: Pankaj Advani clinches
SEPTEMBER
the World billiards championship
Sept. 2: Former South African (time format) in Leeds, England.
fast bowler Norman Gordon, the ol- Win comes days after winning the MS Dhoni
dest living Test cricketer dies at the points format title. Advani becomes
age of 103.
the rst cueist to achieve the double Macau Grand Prix badminton
championship.
Sept. 5: Sania Mirza with her three times in his career.
partner Bruno Spares wins the US
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Open mixed doubles title.
Host India beats England 3-1 to
Nov. 2: Novak Djokovic retains
Dec. 3: Australian cricketer Phil
clinch the ve-match ODI series.
the Paris Masters tennis title; Pakis- Hughes funeral service held in
Sept. 7: Lewis Hamilton wins the tan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq equalled Macksville.
Italian GP at Monza.
Viv Richardss record for the fastest
East Zone lifts Deodhar Trophy in
Serena Williams wins her sixth US Test century; he also broke the mark Mumbai.
Dec. 10: Jammu & Kashmir stuns
Open title beating Caroline Woz- for the fastest fty; Central Zone
multiple champion Mumbai in the
niacki 6-3, 6-3.
wins the Duleep Trophy.
Sept. 8: Marin Cilic wins his
Nov. 3: Lewis Hamilton wins the Ranji Trophy in Mumbai.
Dec. 11: Formula One driver Fermaiden grand slam beating Kei US Grand Prix.
Nov. 8: Harinderpal Sandhu and nando Alonso signs for McLaren for
Nishikori in the nals of the US
Joshna Chinappa win the mens and the 2015 season.
Open.
Sept. 9: ICC suspends Saeed Aj- womens titles in the senior National
Dec. 13: India loses the rst Test
mal from bowling for illegal bowling squash championships respectively to Australia in Adelaide.
action.
Micromax Indian Aces wins the
in Mumbai.
Sept. 15: Serbia beats India 3-2 in
Nov. 9: Nico Rosberg wins the International Premier Tennis league
the Davis Cup world group play off in Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo.
title in India.
Nov. 13: Rohit Sharma scores 264
Dec. 14: Germany wins the
Bangalore.
Sept. 19: 17th Asian Games at In- against Sri Lanka, becomes the rst Champions Trophy hockey tournacricketer to record two double-hun- ment in Bhubaneshwar.
cheon begins.
Sept. 21: Lewis Hamilton wins dreds in ODIs.
Viswanathan Anand wins the Lonthe Singapore GP.
Karnataka wins Subbaiah Pillai don Chess Classic.
Sept. 30: Discus-thrower Vikas Trophy in Hyderabad.
Dec. 16: Host Sri Lanka beats EnGowda bags silver at the Asian
Nov. 14: Mitchell Johnson named gland 5-2 in the 7-match ODI series.
Games in Incheon.
ICC cricketer of the year.
Dec. 17: Boxer Sarita Devi banned
Nov. 23: Magnus Carlsen retains by the International Boxing
OCTOBER
World chess championship title, de- Federation.
Oct. 1: Mary Kom becomes the feating Viswanathan Anand 6.5-4.5.
Dec. 18: S.P. Sethuraman wins
rst Indian woman to clinch a boxLewis Hamilton wins the season- National Premier chess title in
ing gold at the Asian Games, winning ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Kottayam.
Dec. 19: New Zealand beats Pain the yweight category; Tintu Luka clinches second World title.
Nov. 25: Phillip Hughes critical kistan 3-2 in the ODI series in Abu
wins silver in the 800m section while
Annu Rani becomes the rst Indian after being hit by a bouncer during a Dhabi.
Dec. 20: Atletico de Kolkata wins
woman to bag a javelin medal (silver) Sheffield Shield match in Sydney.
Nov. 27: Hughes succumbs to in- the Indian Super League football tiat the Games; Indias womens hocktle in Mumbai.
juries in a Sydney hospital.
ey team wins bronze.
Oct. 3: Indias mens team wins
Nov. 29: The rst Test between
India loses to Australia in the secseventh straight Kabaddi gold even Australia and India, due to begin in ond Test match in Brisbane.
Dec. 21: Arjun Atwal wins the Duas the womens team bags the top Brisbane on December 4, is postprize; Indias mens hockey team poned following Hughess death; bai Open golf championship.
Dec. 30: M.S. Dhoni announces
beats Pakistan in the nal to clinch Chinas Yan Bingtao becomes the
gold.
youngest ever IBSF World snooker retirement from Test cricket after
Oct. 5: Novak Djokovic and Maria champion.
India draws the third Test against
Sharapova win in the mens and
Nov. 30: P.V. Sindhu wins the Australia in Melbourne.

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