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JANUARY

Jan. 1: India terminates the Rs.3,700 crore VVIP chopper deal withItalian firm AgustaWestland Inter-national Limited for ‘breach of pre-contract integrity pact.’

The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill,2013 gets presidential nod.

The Sangita Kalanidhi title is con-ferred on vocalist Sudha Ragunathanby the Andhra Pradesh GovernorE.S.L. Narasimhan at the ‘sadas’ of The Music Academy, in Chennai.

Jan. 2: The Maharashtra Cabinetaccepts the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry Report. Action Taken Re-port lets off six indicted politicians.

India signs a labour cooperationagreement with Saudi Arabia, inNew Delhi.

Jan. 3: Normal life across 13 dis-tricts of Andhra Pradesh hit follow-ing a bandh against proposedbifurcation of the state.

Jan. 4: Nineteen workers arekilled and 16 injured following thecollapse of an under-constructionfive storeyed building in Canacona,75 km from the Goa capital Panaji.

The Geosynchronous SatelliteLaunch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) poweredby an indigenous cryogenic engineputs the 1,982 kg GSAT-14 commu-nication satellite into a perfect orbitafter liftoff from Sriharikota.

Jan. 6: The former SupremeCourt judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly,accused by a law intern of sexualharassment, resigns as chairpersonof West Bengal Human RightsCommission.

The Supreme Court quashes Ta-mil Nadu government’s February 2009 order appointing an ExecutiveOfficer to manage the affairs andproperties of the Chidambaram Nat-arajar temple.

Telugu actor V. Uday Kiran com-mits suicide at his flat in Srinagar

Colony at Punjagutta, Hyderabad.The Mumbai police chargesheet

National Spot Exchange Ltd. CEOAnjani Sinha and four others in theRs. 5,600 crore NSEL payment scam.Jan. 9: Mahatma Gandhi’s grand-daughter Ela Gandhi, Australiansenator of Indian origin Lisa MariaSingh and the Ramakrishna Missionamong the 13 recipients of the 12thPravasi Bharatiya Samman Awardpresented by the President PranabMukherjee in New Delhi.

The former Karnataka Chief Min-ister B.S. Yeddyurappa formally re-joins the BJP.

Jan. 10: The Union EnvironmentMinistry gives nod for Posco’s eightmillion tonnes per annum steelplant in Odisha.

Former Deputy Consul GeneralDevyani Khobragade reaches New Delhi after the U.S. gives her fulldiplomatic immunity.

Jan. 12: Imbibe values advocatedby Swami Vivekananda, says PrimeMinister 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 TheHindu Prize for the Best Fiction2013 for his second novel, Vanity Bagh, a dark comic tale, at the vale-dictory session of The Hindu Lit forLife, in Chennai.

Jan. 16: India and South Koreasign Agreement on the Protection of Classified Military Information andeight other pacts after talks betweenPrime Minister Manmohan Singhand South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in New Delhi.

Jan. 17: Sunanda Pushkar, thewife of Union Minister of State forHuman Resource DevelopmentShashi Tharoor is found dead at theLeela Palace Hotel in New Delhi’sdiplomatic enclave.

Jan. 18: Eighteen persons die and45 suffer injuries in a stampede out-side Saifee Manzil, the house of Da-woodi Bohra spiritual leader SyednaMohammed Burhanuddin in upscale Walkeshwar area in South Mumbai.

Mumbai-based author-journalistCyrus Mistry wins the DSC prize forSouth Asian literature for 2014 forhis book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer .

Jan. 20: Delhi Chief Minister Ar-

vind Kejriwal defies prohibitory or-der to launch an unprecedentedprotest outside Parliament House,demanding executive control of theDelhi police.

Jan. 21: The Supreme Court com-mutes the death sentence of 15 per-sons, including four associates of forest brigand Veerappan.

Jan. 24: The former Union Min-ister, M.K. Alagiri is suspended fromthe DMK and relieved of his posts.

Namma Wi-Fi, free wireless In-ternet connectivity via Wi-Fi hot-spots is launched in five locations inBangalore.

Jan. 25: Yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengarand the former chief of the CSIR R.A.Mashelkar are awarded the Padma Vibhushan.

Classical singer Parveen Sultana,Justice Dalveer Bhandari, authorRuskin Bond, former CJI J.S. Verma(posthumously), Tamil actor KamalHassan, lyricist Vairamuthu, ghatamartist T.H. Vinayakram, novelist An-ita Desai, former CAG V.N.Kaul,sportspersons Leander Paes, PullelaGopichand prominent among 25Padma Bhushan awardees.

Cine stars Paresh Rawal and VidyaBalan, sand artist Sudarshan Pat-naik, TAFE chairperson Mallika Sri-nivasan, cricketer Yuvaraj Singh,cinematographer Santosh Sivan andwheelchair tennis pioneer H.Boni-face Prabhu among those honouredwith Padma Shri.

The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism is selected for theNational Communal Harmony Award 2013.

Jan. 26: The 65th Republic Day parade showcases the military might. A highlight being the display of the nation’s first indigenously developed Light Combct Aircraft, Te-

jas.Jan. 27: Sensex tumbles by 426.11

points to close at 20707.45.Jan. 28: Former President A.P.J.

Abdul Kalam inaugurates the cen-tenary celebrations of the Pambanrailway bridge, India’s first cantilev-er bridge, connecting the pilgrim is-land of Rameswaram with themainland.

Jan. 30: The Supreme Courtclears the decks for the prosecutionof Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jaya-lalithaa for non-filing of IT returnsduring 1991-92 and 1992-93.

Nido Tania, son of Nido Pavitra,

Congress MLA from Arunachal Pra-desh, dies at the AIIMS of injuries hesustained in an attack by a group of men at a South Delhi market a day earlier.

Jan. 31: The Supreme Court staysthe execution of Devender Pal SinghBhullar sentenced to death for abomb attack on the former IndianYouth Congress president Manin-derjeet Singh Bitta in 1993.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna resigns.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 1: Union Water ResourcesMinister Harish Rawat is sworn in asthe eighth Chief Minister of Uttarak-hand at the Raj Bhavan in Dehradun.

Feb. 3: One should not succumbto “unscientific prejudices againstBt. Crops’’, says the Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, inaugurating the101st session of the Indian ScienceCongress in Jammu.

The Delhi Cabinet clears the ‘Del-hi Lokpal Bill, 2014’.

Feb. 4: Renowned scientist R. Rao and cricketer Sachin Tenkar are conferred the Bharat Rat the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Feb. 5: The CBI charges foIB Special Director Rajendra Kuand three serving officers withmurder of college girl Ishrat JRaza on June 15, 2004, on anmedabad street.

Feb. 6: The Union Cabinet nod for Vodafone’s proposal to

out minority shareholders in itdian arm for Rs. 10,141 crore.Feb. 7: The Union Cabinet c

Andhra Pradesh Reorganisationfor the creation of Telangana.

Feb. 10: The role of GuruMeiyappan in the IPL bettingspot fixing muddle is proven, the three-member panel appoiby the Supreme Court.

ATMs across the nation run dover eight lakh bank staff begin two-day strike.

Feb. 11: The Congress expeof its Lok Sabha MPs from themandhra region who had giventice for a no-confidence moagainst the government.

Feb. 12: Railway Minister Mkarjun Kharge announces the laof 17 new premium trains, nameHind in the interim Railway Bufor 2014-15.

Feb. 13: The expelled ConMP from Vijayawada, L. Rajagsprays from a can of chemical iLok Sabha to protest against thbling of the Andhra Pradesh Reonisation Bill, 2013. Three MPs sfrom inhalation of fumes and ruto hospital.

Feb. 14: Delhi Chief Ministe vind Kejriwal resigns after hisernment fails to introduce the DJan Lokpal Bill in the Assembly

Feb. 17: Union Finance MinP. Chidambaram allocates Rs. 1crore non-lapsable funds toNirbhaya fund; Rs. 1,000 crore tNational Skills Development Twhile presenting the interim bu

2014-15. In principle nod forrank, one pension for armed for

President’s rule is imposed inhi and the Assembly kept underpended animation.

The Goa police charge the foTehelka magazine editor-in-Tarun Tejpal with rape.

Guwahati teenager Afreed Islclass X student, launches Revo Bhis prototype of a computer sythat uses a microchip insteadhard disk that also doubles as a age unit.

Feb. 18: The 15th Lok Sabhases the A.P. Reorganisation Bill

Jan. 19: Lalita Babar com-pletes a hat-trick of titles atthe Mumbai Marathon. Sets anew course record among In-dian women athletes by clock-ing 2:50:31.

President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Bharat Ratna tocricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and Prof. C. N. Ramachandra

Rao (left) at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

Youth enjoying free wireless Internet connectivity servicesnear the metro station on M.G.

Road, in Bangalore.

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Seven A.P. Ministers quit State-Cabinet. Union Minister D. Puran-deswari resigns her Cabinet post andparty membership.

The Supreme Court commutesthe death sentences of three convictsin the Rajiv Gandhi assassinationcase to life terms.

Feb. 19: N. Kiran Kumar Reddy resigns as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and quits the Congress andAssembly membership.

The Tamil Nadu government de-cides to free all the seven accused inthe Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

Feb. 20: The Rajya Sabha givesnod for the Bill for creating Telanga-na amid bedlam.

Odia gets classical language status.Former DMDK leader Panruti S.

Ramachandran joins the AIADMK.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

announces special category Statestatus for the Seemandhra region.Six-point package for residuary And-hra Pradesh, including taxincentives.

Feb. 21: The country has the ca-pacity to rise above partisan politicsto enact crucial laws in the nationalinterest, says the Prime MinisterManmohan Singh on the last day of the 15th Lok Sabha.

The Rajya Sabha passes the Whis-tleblowers’ Protection Bill.

Feb. 24: The Lalu Prasad-led RJDsplits after six of its 22 MLAs an-nounce move to join the ruling JD(U) in Bihar.

Mehair, a non-scheduled air ser-vices provider launches a uniqueseaplane service, the first of its kindin mainland India, linking Mumbai’sJuhu airport with tourist destina-tions of the State.

Feb. 25: Nine of the 13 ‘rebel’MLAs who broke away from the

Rashtriya Janata Dal ‘return’ to theparty fold.

India and Saudi Arabia sign abreakthrough MoU on defencecooperation.

Feb. 26: Navy Chief Admiral D.K.Joshi resigns hours after a fire onboard submarine INS Sindhuratnaoff Mumbai leaves two officers deadand seven others injured.

Feb. 27: The Supreme Court saystill March 6 the release of four con-victs — Nalini, Robert Payas, Jaya-chandran and Ravichandran — in theRajiv Gandhi assassination case.

In a first-of-its-kind in the coun-

try, an electric passenger bus, withzero emission level, is inauguratedby the Karnataka Transport Minis-ter R.Ramalinga Reddy in Bangalore.

Union Finance Minister P.Chi-dambaram inaugurates the coun-try’s first post office savings bank ATM at the Head Post Office inThyagaraya Nagar in Chennai.

Feb. 28: Sahara India chief Sub-rata Roy is arrested by the Uttar Pra-desh 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 giveshis assent to the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Bill. Approves centralrule in the State.

March 2: The Union Cabinetclears reservation for Jats in ninenorthern states under OBC. Givesspecial category status for five yearsto successor state of AndhraPradesh.

March 3: The Defence Ministry puts on hold all deals with Rolls-Royce the British engine maker. CBIprobe ordered into allegations of kickbacks.

March 5: The Election Commis-sion announces a nine-phase pollschedule from April 7 to May 12 forthe 16th Lok Sabha and the Assembly in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha andSikkim.

President Pranab Mukherjee ap-points former Delhi Chief MinisterSheila Dikshit as Kerala Governor.

The Supreme Court upholds theconviction of Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal in the 1997 Uphaar cinematragedy that claimed the lives of 59people.

March 10: Expelled SamajwadiParty leaders Amar Singh and JayaPrada join the Rashtriya Lok Dal inNew Delhi.

March 11: Famous poets Javed Akhtar (Urdu), Subodh Sarkar (Ben-gali) and Ambika Dutt (Rajasthani)

prominent among 18 presented withthe Sahitya Akademi awards at theannual Festival of Letters in New Delhi.

March 13: The Delhi High Courtupholds the death sentence of all thefour convicts in the December 16,2012 gangrape case.

March 14: The Cuttack sessionsCourt sentences to 11 years MittuPatnaik, the main accused in the Au-gust 25, 2008 Kandhamal nun gan-grape case.

Seven persons are killed and fiveothers injured after a dilapidatedseven-storey building collapses on

an adjacent slum settlement in theMumbai suburb of Vakela.

March 15: The Supreme Courtstays the execution of two persons —Mukesh and Pawan — in the Delhigangrape case till March 31.

March 16: The 17th Gollapudi Sri-nivas national award for the best de-but film is bagged by Gyan Correa forhis Gujarati film The Good Road .

March 21: A Mumbai sessionsCourt awards lifer to four convictsfor the July 31, 2013 gangrape of atelephone operator on the ShaktiMills compound.

March 24: Sensex surges by 300points to close at a record high of 22055.48 amidst renewed buying in-terest from FIIs.

Bank of India launches IMT (In-stant Money Transfer) which allowscardless cash withdrawal at its IMT-enabled ATMs.

March 25: The DMK expels M.K. Alagiri, its south zone organisationalsecretary and former Union Minis-ter for his anti-party activities.

The Indian Ordnance Factory launches a light-weight revolver,

“Nirbheek,” designed especially forwomen.

March 27: The World Health Or-ganisation officially declares India‘polio-free.’

March 28: Five IAF personnelare killed after a C-130J Super Her-cules military transport aircraftcrashes in Karauli, near Gwalior af-ter taking off from Agra.

The Supreme Court upholds law fixing the age of a juvenile at 18.

March 29: The BJP expels seniorleader Jaswant Singh from the party for six years.

March 31: The Supreme Court

commutes the death sentenceawarded to Devendra Pal SinghBhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blastto lifer.

APRIL

April 1: The Supreme Court de-clines to review its February 18 rul-ing in the Rajiv Gandhi assassinationcase, commuting the death sentenceof Murugan, Santhan and Perariv-alan to lifer.

Meghalaya gets connected to theIndian Railway network.

April 2: The Delhi High Courtupholds the conviction of U.P. poli-tician D.P. Yadav’s son Vikas Yadav,his nephew Vishal Yadav and theiremployee and co-accused Sukhdev in the 2002 Nitish Katara murdercase.

April 4: A Mumbai sessions courtawards death penalty to three repeatoffenders who gangraped a photo- journalist on the Shakti Mills com-pound in 2013.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehi-cle puts into orbit the country’s sec-ond navigation satellite, the 1,432 kg

Indian Regional Navigation SatSystem (IRNSS-1B) after liftoff Sriharikota.

A Division Bench of the KHigh Court confirms lifer awardDharmarajan, prime accused in18-year-old Suryanelli rape case

April 7: High turnout marksing in the six parliamentary conuencies of the North-East.

Arunachal Pradesh capital Igar is put on the country’s rai

map with the first passenger arriving at Naharlagun. April 9: The Supreme Cour

fuses to stay the Centre’s nottion to include Jats on the OBackward Classes list.

Mars Orbiter sails past 34-ckm to the Red Planet.

Moderate to heavy polling icorded in the second phase covesix Lok Sabha seats in Megha Arunachal Pradesh, NagalandManipur and in 49 constituencithe 60-member Arunachal Pra Assembly.

April 10: The third phase of ing in 91 Lok Sabha constituenspread over 14 States and Unionritories passes off peacefully.

April 11: President Pranab Mherjee presents the Sangeet N Akademi Fellowships and SanNatak Akademi awards for 2013function at Rashtrapati BhNew Delhi.

April 12: Lyricist filmmakerzar is chosen for the 45th Dada SPhalke award.

The fourth phase of Lok Spolls records impressive turnwith East Tripura registeringper cent.

April 15:The Supreme Courognises transgender communitthird gender along with malefemale.

April 16: Bilingual movie ShTheseus wins the best featureaward at the 61st National Awards 2013. The Nargis Dutt afor best feature film on nationa

tegration is bagged by Tamil mThalaimuraigal . Thanga Meengadjudged the best Tamil film. Mbai-based filmmaker Batul Mhtiar’s Kaphal-Wild Berries bagNational Award for Best ChildFilm.

April 17: Heavy voter turmarks the fifth phase of Lok Spolls, covering 121 constituespread across 12 states.

A special CBI court convictformer AIADMK Minister andting DMK Rajya Sabha MP, T.M vaganapathy in the cremation scam.

Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and lyricist Gulzar.

The BMTC's electric bus in Bangalore.

Rishang Keishing (94), India’soldest parliamentarian retiresafter seven decades inpolitics.


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Vice-Admiral R.K.Dhowan is ap-pointed as the Navy Chief supersed-ing Vice-Admiral Shekhar Sinha.

April 18: The DMK MP T.M. Sel-vaganapathy quits Rajya Sabha.

April 22: A Division Bench of theAndhra Pradesh High Court acquitsall the accused in the August 6, 1991massacre of eight Dalits at Tsundurvillage in Guntur district.

April 24: Record voter turnout insixth phase of Lok Sabha elections

involving 117 constituencies. Seven-tythree per cent polling in Tamil Na-du. Five Jharkhand Armed Policepersonnel and three polling staff arekilled in a blast in Dumka.

April 25: Constitution Bench tohear plea for release by seven con-victs in the Rajiv Gandhi assassina-tion case. Supreme Court extendsstay on Tamil Nadu Government’sorder freeing them.

April 26: The Supreme Courtrules that Muslim women are entit-led to maintenance even afterdivorce.

The President Pranab Mukherjeepresents the Padma awards at afunction in Rashtrapati Bhavan,New Delhi.

The CJI Justice P. Sathasivamdemits office.

April 27: Justice Rajendra MalLodha is sworn in as the 41st Chief Justice of India by the PresidentPranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.

April 28: The Supreme Courtstays the death sentence of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Mohd. Asif in the2000 Red Fort attack case.

April 30: High turnout marks theseventh phase of Lok Sabha polls.

MAY

May 1: Parchuri Swathi, a TCSemployee in Bangalore is killed and14 others injured after two blastsrock the Bangalore-Guwahati Ex-press as it pulls into the ChennaiCentral railway station.

May 2: The Army is called out andan indefinite curfew imposed in theBodoland Territorial Area districtsof Kokrajhar and Baska in Assamafter militants kill 32 persons inthree incidents in the past two days.

May 3: The President PranabMukherjee presents the Dada SahebPhalke award to lyricist Gulzar at the61st National Film Awards at Vigyan

Bhavan, New Delhi. Amar Chitra Katha launches A CK

Comics, its official digital store appfor across platforms giving users ac-cess to over 300 of its titles.

May 4: At least 21 persons arekilled and more than 145 injured af-ter four coaches of the Diva-Saw-antadi Road passenger train derailoutside a tunnel near Nidi village inMaharashtra’s Raigad district.

May 5: The Supreme Court refus-

es to stay the March 1 notification tobifurcate Andhra Pradesh into Te-langana and Seemandhra.

May 6: The RBI grants permis-sion to minors above 10 to open andoperate savings bank accountsindependently.

The Supreme Court upholds quo-ta for weaker sections in all schools.RTE Act provisions not applicable tominority institutions.

Imposition of mother tongue asmedium of instruction in primary classes unconstitutional, holds theSupreme Court.

Anshuman Acharya, Banglore-based writer and theatre artiste isthe winner of The Hindu-MetroplusPlaywright Award 2014 for his entry In The Name of the Bully .

May 7: The Supreme Court de-clares unconstitutional a law passedby Kerala in 2006 to prevent TamilNadu from raising the water level inthe Mullaperiyar dam from 136 feetto 142 feet.

The Supreme Court bans ‘jallik-kattu’ and bullock cart racing in Ta-mil Nadu.

Uttarakhand registers 62.75 percent turnout in the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha polls. High turnout inHimachal Pradesh.

May 9: The Supreme Court or-ders a CBI probe into the Saradhachit fund scam involving overRs.10,000 crore.

May 12: Fifty-six per cent pollingis recorded in Varanasi in the ninthand final phase of the general elec-tion. High turnout marred by vio-

lence in West Bengal.May 16: Narendra Modi wins an

unprecedented victory for the BJPdealing a crushing blow to the Con-gress in the 16th general election. Heregisters mammoth victories in Va-dodara and Varanasi.

The AIADMK notches up an im-pressive victory in Tamil Nadu bag-ging 37 Lok Sabha seats of the 39 itcontested. The DMK draws a blank.

The TDP bags over 106 of the 175 Assembly constituencies in See-mandhra region. In Telangana, theTelangana Rashtra Samithi wins 11of the 17 Lok Sabha seats and bags 63

seats in the 119-member Assembly.May 17: Bihar Chief Minister Nit-

ish Kumar resigns owning respon-sibility for the Janata Dal (United’s)poor performance.

The Prime Minister ManmohanSingh submits resignation letter toPresident Pranab Mukherjee.

May 18: Congress leader NabamTuki is sworn in Arunachal PradeshChief Minister for the second con-secutive term.

May 20: Jitan Ram Manjhi issworn in Bihar Chief Minister.

May 21: Naveen Patnaik is swornin Odisha Chief Minister for thefourth time in a row.

Narendra Modi demits office asGujarat Chief Minister after being atthe helm for 12 years.

May 22: Anandiben Patel issworn in as the 15th Chief Minister of Gujarat at a grand event in the cap-ital Gandhinagar.

May 23: T. R. Zeliang of the Naga

People’s front is appointed as thenew Chief Minister of Nagaland.

May 25: Malavath Poorna (13) of Nizamabad district, Andhra Pra-desh, becomes the youngest girl toconquer Mt. Everest.

Hindustan Motors stops produc-tion of the iconic Ambassador car.

May 26: Narendra DamodardasModi is sworn in as the 15 th PrimeMinister. Fortyfour members of hisCabinet take oath. SAARC leaders,including, Pakistan Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif attend function.

Murder charges are filed againstall the 17 accused in the May 2011killing of auxiliary nurse BhanwariDevi in Rajasthan.

At least 30 persons are killed and100 injured after the Gorakhdam Ex-press from New Delhi rams a sta-tionary goods train at Chureb, 45 kmfrom Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

May 31: The Narendra Modi gov-ernment announces “abolition’’ of

all the nine Groups of Ministers and21 Empowered Group of Ministersset up by the UPA government.

Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba is ap-pointed Vice-Chief of Naval Staff in amajor shake-up of the top brass.

JUNE

June 1: India’s 29th state of Te-langana is born.

June 2: K. Chandrasekhar Rao issworn in Telangana’s first Chief Minister. Mahmood Ali and T. Ra- jaiah chosen Deputy Chief Ministers.

The Supreme Court stays the exe-

cution of the death sentence okub Abdul Razak Me“mastermind’’ of the 1993 Muserial blasts that claimed 200 liv

June 3: The Union Rural Dopment Minister Gopinath Mdies in a road accident in New D

June 5: Nearly 10 months INS Sindhurakshak sank inMumbai harbour, it has salvaged.

June 6: BJP’s veteran MP S

tra Mahajan is elected Lok SSpeaker.Sensex vaults by 377 poin

close at a historic high of 2539points.

June 7: The Kudankulam Nar Power Plant’s first unit attainmaximum capacity of 1,000 Mw

June 8: N. Chandrababu Ntakes oath as the first Chief Minof Andhra Pradesh at an ground opposite Acharya NagarUniversity campus near Vijayaw

Twentyfive engineering studfrom Hyderabad are washed awthe Beas river following watelease from the Larji hydroelepower project near Mandi, HimPradesh.

June 9: Seventeen Uttarakpolicemen, convicted for the abtion and murder of MBA gradRanbir Singh on July 3, 2009sentenced to life by a specialcourt in New Delhi

June 10: Sirikonda Madhusuna Chary of the TRS is unanimoelected the first Speaker of thelangana Assembly.

June 11: The Mars Orbiter sion is put on precise path afteISRO ground controllers correcspacecraft’s trajectory.

The Tamil Nadu Chief MinJayalalithaa launches sale of ‘ASalt’ at the Secretariat in Chenn

June 12: Vishal Sikka, is naInfosys CEO for a five-year termR. Narayanamurthy annouretirement.

June 13: The Maharashtra L

lature passes Bill banning dbars.

June 17: Uttar Pradesh GoveB.L. Joshi resigns.

June 18: The Union Cabinet nod for setting up a supervisoryel to monitor the safety of the Mperiyar dam.

Chhattisgarh Governor SheDutt resigns.

June 20: Noted Hindi poetdarnath Singh is chosen forJnanpith award for 2013.

Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, seTDP leader is elected first Speakthe Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

Narendra Modi signs the register after taking oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

Divyanshu Ganatra becomesthe only visually challengedIndian para-glider to haveflown solo after undertakingthe flight at Kamshet, nearPune.

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June 25: Four passengers arekilled and many injured as 12 coach-es of the Delhi-Dibrugarh RajdhaniExpress derail close to Golden Ganjrailway station near Chapra in Bihar.

Nagaland Governor Ashwani Ku-mar resigns.

June 26: The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa launches 10Amma Pharmacy outlets across theState.

June 27: At least 19 persons are

charred to death and 18 suffer burnsin a massive explosion in a GAIL-operated gas pipeline passingthrough Nagaram village in East Go-davari district, Andhra Pradesh.

June 30: The West Bengal Gov-ernor M.K. Narayanan resigns.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Ve-hicle C-23 successfully puts five for-eign satellites into a 660-km sunsynchronous orbit following a per-fect liftoff from the spaceport inSriharikota.

JULY

July 1: The Supreme Court grantsbail to former Tehelka editor TarunTejpal.

The Madras High Court sets asidea January 5, 1994 circular exemptinguse of Tamil in lower courts.

Shah Rukh Khan is conferred withthe ‘Knight of the Legion of Honour’,the top French civilian award at afunction in Mumbai.

State Bank of India launches sixdigital branches (sbiINTOUCH)across the country.

July 2: Sensex gains 324.86points to close at 25841.21.

July 3: The Tamil Nadu govern-ment appoints retired Madras HighCourt judge R. Reghupathy as the

one-man commission to probe theMoulivakkam building collapse.

July 4: Goa Governor Bharat VirWanchoo resigns.

July 5: The 46 nurses freed by Iraqi militants arrive in Kochi to anemotional reunion.

July 6: Gujarat Governor KamlaBeniwal is transferred to Mizoram.Vakkom Purushothaman, Governorof Mizoram is appointed as NagalandGovernor. Rajasthan Governor Mar-garet Alva to hold additional chargeas Gujarat Governor.

July 7: Sensex surpasses the26000 mark for the first time ever

and closes at 26100.08.Margaret Alva is sworn in Gujarat

Governor. To hold charge of Goa too.July 8: The first Railway Budget

by the Narendra Modi governmentfocusses on a massive facelift of thesector. FDI to finance the Rs. 9 lakhcrore plans. Mumbai gets 864 new local trains. Bullet train in Mumbai- Ahmedabad sector to be introduced.

Sensex plunges by 517.97 pointsand closes at 25582.11. Rail stocks

crash.July 9: Amit Shah is named thenext BJP president.

July 10: Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley unveils a pragmaticprogramme of economic reformsand gives relief to taxpayers in hismaiden Union Budget. FDI cap inthe Defence and Insurance sectorshiked to 49 per cent.

Indian Navy gets Kolkata its firstdomestically built guided missiledestroyer.

July 11: Lok Sabha passes The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation(Amendment) Bill that paves theway for the shifting of seven mandalsfrom Telangana to Andhra Pradeshfor the Polavaram Project.

Puducherry Lt. Governor Viren-dra Kataria is sacked.

The Haryana Assembly passesThe Haryana Sikh Gurdwaras (Man-agement) Bill 2014.

Vaikkom Purushothaman resignsas Mizoram Governor.

July 12: Bandh against passage of Bill on the Polavaram Project thatseeks to transfer 205 villages in thesubmergence zone hits life inTelangana.

A major fire breaks out at the SBIbuilding on Rajaji Salai in Chennai.

INS Kamorta, first Indian warshipbuilt in the country with almost 90per cent indigenous content, ishanded over to the Navy at a c eremo-ny in Kolkata.

July 14: The Lok Sabha passesthe Telecom Regulatory Authority (Amendment) Bill.

The Supreme Court stays the exe-cution of the two remaining con-demned — Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur in the December 16,2012 gangrape case.

Ram Naik is appointed U.P. Gov-ernor and Om Prakash Kohli GujaratGovernor. Balramji Dass Tandon isnamed Chhattisgarh Governor.Keshari Nath Tripathi to take over as West Bengal Governor and Padma-nabha Acharya is named NagalandGovernor.

Parliament passes the Bill on Po-lavaram Project.

July 15: The SEBI bars erstwhile

Satyam Computers Chairman B. Ra-malinga Raju and its former top offi-cials from accessing the securitiesmarket for 14 years. Asked to dis-gorge the wrongful gain.

Rajya Sabha passes the TRAI Bill.Environmentalist, social activist

and Chipko movement founderChandi Prasad Bhatt is presentedthe Gandhi Peace Prize 2013 by Pres-ident Pranab Mukherjee at a func-tion in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

July 16: Om Prakash Kohli issworn in Gujarat Governor.

July 17: After 37 years, all the 13shutters of surplus weirs are loweredin the Periyar dam to raise the stor-age level from 136 feet to 142 feet.

July 18: Sabyasachi Panda, Od-isha’s most wanted Maoist leaderand main accused in the 2008 mur-der of VHP leader Laxmananand Sa-raswati is held in Berhampur town inGanjam district.

July 20: The Music Academy chooses eminent vocalist T.V.Gopa-lakrishnan for the Sangita Kalanidhititle and Bharatanatyam exponentLeela Samson for the Natya Kala Acharya Award.

July 24: Fourteen schoolchil-dren are killed after the Nanded-Se-cunderabad passenger train rams aprivate school bus at an unmannedrailway level crossing at Masaipet inMedak district, Telangana.

July 25: The Supreme Court setsup a Special Court to try the coalscam cases.

Senior BJP leader Balramji DassTandon sworn in ChhattisgarhGovernor.

July 26: Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi launches an online plat-form mygov.nic.in to engage citizensin the task of “good governance.”

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul issworn in as the Chief Justice of theMadras High Court.

July 30: At last 153 persons arecrushed to death and 160 otherstrapped under debris following alandslide triggered by the relentlessrain in the remote tribal village of Malin in Pune’s Ambegaon taluka.

The Gujarat High Court grantsbail to former Minister MayabenKodnani and suspends her sentencein the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacrecase.

The Principal District and Ses-sions Court, Thanjavur sentences tolifer the founder of the Sri KrishnaSchool in Kumbakonam for the July 16, 2004 fire that left 94 studentsdead.

The Supreme Court stays furtherproceedings pending in the AndhraPradesh High Court in the August 6,1991 Tsundur massacre case.

July 31: Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag

takes over as the Chief of the AStaff from Gen. Bikram Singh.

Former Gujarat Minister aben Kodnani is freed on bail.

S.Kunju Mohammed, an accin the February 14, 1998 Coimbaserial blasts case and abscondinmore than 16 years, is nabbed bCB-CID police at PanangangaraMalappuram, Kerala.

AUGUST

Aug. 6: Kamala Beniwal imoved as Mizoram Governor.Lok Sabha passes The Secur

Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2014 aat tackling the ‘ponzi’ menace.

Aug. 7: The Supreme Courstrains the Haryana Sikh GurdManagement Committee froming control of 51 of the 52 gurdwin the State.

The Bombay High Court stayprosecution of Congress leaderok Chavan in the Adarsh housinciety scam case.

Aug. 8: A Delhi Court conSher Singh Rana for the murdPhoolan Devi, Samajwadi Partyand ex-dacoit on July 21, 200New Delhi. Eleven others acqui

Aug. 11: Tata-SIA Airlines Led announces the brand name new airline will be ‘Vistara’ or ‘lless’ in Sanskrit with auberginegold its colours.

Aug. 12: The Tamil Nadu Einto Public Places (Removal ofstrictions on Dress) Act, 20adopted by the Assembly.

Aug. 13: The Lok Sabha pthe National Judicial AppointmCommission Bill, 2014. Collesystem scrapped.

The Women’s Reservationlapses due to lack of consensus.

AIADMK’s Thambidurai is eed Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.

Aug. 14: Rajya Sabha gives nthe NJAC Bill.

Major Mukund Varadarajaposthumously awarded Ashok Cra, the nation’s highest peace

gallantry award. He died fighmilitants in Shopian, South Kasin April.

The Supreme Court suspend August 11 Bombay High Court orestricting the height of humanamids formed for the ‘dahi hsport. Kids above 12 can take pa

Lok Sabha passes the Appren(Amendment) Bill.

A New Delhi trial Court awlifer to Sher Singh Rana in the Plan Devi murder case.

Aug. 15: Prime Minister Nadra Modi announces the settinof a new institution to replace

Family members and relatives of nurses evacuated from Iraqwelcoming them at the Kochi International Airport, at

Nedumbassery.

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

June 28: At least 61 personsare killed after the collapse of a under construction multi-storey building in Moulivak-kam near Porur, Chennai fol-lowing heavy showers.


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Planning Commission and calls up-on global investors to make in Indiain his address to the nation on the68th Independence Day in New Delhi.

Aug. 16: Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi commissions the largest-ever indigenous worship INS Kolka-ta into the Navy in Mumbai.

Aug. 2 1: The Kerala governmentdecides to shut down 730 bars below the five star category.

Human rights activist Irom Shar-mila released two days earlier after14 years of imprisonment is rearrest-ed by Manipur Police.

Aug. 24: Maharashtra GovernorK. Sankaranarayanan quits after be-ing shifted to Mizoram abruptly.

Aug. 25: The Supreme Court de-clares all 218 coal block allocationsmade from 1993 to 2011 illegal andarbitrary.

Aug. 26: Kalyan Singh, VajubhaiRudabhai Vala, Ch. Vidyasagar Raoand Mridula Sinha are appointedGovernors of Rajasthan, Karnataka,Maharashtra and Goa respectively.

Aug. 27: Chargesheeted personsshould not be made Ministers, saysthe Supreme Court in a ruling thatseeks to decriminalise politics.

Aug. 28: The Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi opens a record 1.5 crorebank accounts across the nation tomark the launch of the PradhanMantri Jan Dhan Yojana.

Vinod Kumar Duggal resigns asManipur Governor.

Aug. 30: BJP leader Ch. Vidyasa-gar Rao is sworn in as MaharashtraGovernor.

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 agreementin New Delhi.

The former CJI P. Sathasivam issworn in the 23rd Governor of Kerala.

An Armed Forces Tribunal Benchquashes the courtmartial of Lt. Gen.P.K. Rath, former 33 Corps Com-mander, in the 2008 Sukna landscam.

Sept. 6: The toll in the JammuKashmir rains touches 160. Over

2,600 villages affected in the worstfloods in six decades.

The fifth unit at Rawatbhatta of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Stationrecords a continuous run of 765 daysat its full capacity of 220 MWe.

Sept. 7: The J & K floods a “na-tional-level disaster”, says the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi after an ae-rial survey. An additional allocationof Rs. 1,000 crore announced besidesthe Rs. 1,100 crore made available to

the State Government.Sept. 8: Naval Commandos join inthe J & K rescue efforts, even as thetoll in the worst floods in 109 yearstouches 200.

The Supreme Court stays the exe-cution of Surinder Kohli for killingchildren at his employer’s house inNithari Village in Noida in 2006.

Sept. 9: The Bombay High Courtupholds the death sentence awardedto Santosh Mane, a former StateTransport driver who went on a ram-page after hijacking an empty bus inPune on January 25, 2012 leavingnine dead and 36 injured.

Sept. 10: Arun Selvarajan, a SriLankan national is arrested by theNational Investigation Agency inChennai in an espionage case regis-tered in 2013.

Sept. 11: The Supreme Courtstops the Kerala government fromimplementing its new liquor policy.

Sept. 12: The Jammu and Kash-mir government announces an aidpackage of Rs. 200 crore for theflood-hit.

Maharashtra, Haryana Assembly polls to be held on October 15.

The Delhi High Court sets asidethe July 13 order of the poll panelagainst former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in an ex-penses case during the 2009 As-sembly election.

Sept. 13: Average turnout in by-elections to three Lok Sabha seatsand 33 Assembly segments acrossnine States.

Sept. 16: The BJP suffers a set-

back in by-polls. Loses 13 of the 33seats it held in U.P., Gujarat andRajasthan.

Sept. 17: India and China sign twoagreements and an MoU as Presi-dent Xi Jinping begins his three-day visit.

Rajasthan becomes the first Stateto ratify the National Judicial Ap-pointments Commission Bill, 2014.

Goa is formally made the perma-nent venue for the IFFI.

The BJP’s national executivemember Lalitha Kumaramangalamis appointed National Commissionfor Women chairperson.

Sept. 18: India and China sign 13agreements in New Delhi. ChinesePresident Xi Jinping announces anew route through Nathula Pass inSikkim for pilgrims to Kailash-Man-sarovar in the Tibetan AutonomousRegion.

Sensex soars 481 points to close at27112.21, its best daily gain sinceMay 12, fuelled by foreign funds.

The Tamil Nadu Government is-sues an order bringing all schoolswithin the purview of the Tamil Na-du Tamil Learning Act, 2006.

Sept. 19: Thirteen persons areconvicted by a district court for thegangrape of a woman on January 20,2014 at the behest of a “kangaroocourt” at Labhpur in West Bengal’sBirbhum district.

Sept. 23: The toll in flash floods in Assam and the Garo hills districts inMeghalaya goes up to 46.

A youth is mauled to death by awhite tiger in Delhi’s National Zo-ological Park after he jumps into itsenclosure.

Sept. 24: ISRO’s Mars OrbiterMangalyaan enters the Red Planet’sorbit. Beams back 10 pictures of thesurface which show some craters.

The Supreme Court cancels all butfour of the 218 coal block allocationsdeclared arbitrary and illegal by it.

The Union Cabinet decides towithdraw the Higher Education andResearch Bill, 2011.

Sept. 25: “FDI should be under-stood as First Develop India” alongwith Foreign Direct Investment,says the Prime Minister NarendraModi launching the “Make In India”campaign at a high-profile event inNew Delhi.

In Maharashtra, the BJP pulls outof its 25-year-old alliance with theShiv Sena. The NCP ends its 15-year

partnership with the Congress.The Supreme Court declares as

unconstitutional the National TaxTribunal Act as it took away the pow-ers of the High Courts.

Sept. 26: The Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithiviraj Chavan resigns,a day after the NCP withdraws sup-port to the government.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jaya-lalithaa announces the launch of Amma Cement.

Sept. 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Min-ister Jayalalithaa is jailed for fouryears and fined Rs.100 crore by aSpecial Court in Bangalore after be-ing found guilty in the Rs.66.65-crore disproportionate assets case.Loses post and stands disqualified asMLA. Co-accused Sasikala, Sudhak-aran, Elavarasi too get four-yearterms.

Justice R.M. Lodha retires as theCJI.

Sept. 28: Justice HandyalaLakshminarayanaswamy Dattu issworn in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India, in New Delhi.

Sept. 29: O.Panneerselvamsworn in Tamil Nadu Chief Min A new Council of Miniinducted.

Sept. 30: Thirteen personkilled and 47 injured followincollision between the Krishakpress and the Lucknow-Baraunpress at the Nandnagar raicrossing in Gorakhpur, Uttar desh.

OCTOBER

Oct. 1: Malayalam poet and sactivist Sugathakumari is chosethe Mathrubhumi Literary Afor 2014.

Oct. 2: The Prime Ministerrendra Modi launches the SwBharat Mission in New Delhi.

Oct. 7: The Karnataka High Crefuses to release on bail AIADMK general secretary Jalithaa and rejects her plea to susthe four-year prison term in theproportionate assets case.

Oct. 9: The AIADMK generaretary Jayalalithaa moves thepreme Court challenging Karnataka High Court order ring her bail.

Oct. 10: The Bombay High Crules in favour of Vodafone in th3,200-crore transfer pricing caslating to undervaluation of scapital issued by the firm tMauritius parent.

Oct. 12: Cyclone Hudhud caextensive devastation as it mlandfall at Visakhapatnam. Six kin Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

Oct. 14: Prime Minister NareModi announces a Rs. 1,000-cinterim relief for all areas affect Andhra Pradesh after an aerial vey of the devastation.

Oct. 15: Haryana records its est ever turnout of 73 per ce Assembly polls marred by violMaharashtra registers 63.4 per voting.

Oct. 16: The Prime Ministerrendra Modi launches five sche

including Shram Suvidha portathe Universal Account Numbeall PF contributors, in New Delh

ISRO launches the 1,425 kg InRegional Navigation Satellite tem IRNSS-1C.

Oct. 17: The Supreme Courtpends the four-year jail sentenformer Tamil Nadu Chief MinJayalalithaa and grants her bailother three accused too get bail

India’s first indigenously desiand developed long-range subcruise missile, Nirbhay is succesly flight-tested in Balasore, Odis

The Centre gives nod for Kar

School children celebrating the success of the Mars mission bycreating a replica of the planet using sweets in Ahmedabad.

Nirbhay missile being flight tested from the Integrated Test

Range (ITR), Balasore, Odisha.

Aug. 22: The Hindu launches‘Friends of Chennai’ an onlineplatform (www.friendsof-chennai.com) as a gift to Ma-dras that is now Chennai onher 375th birthday.


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ka’s proposal to rename 12 cities andtowns, including Bangalore.

Oct. 19: The BJP bags 122 of 288seats, in Maharashtra Assembly polls. In Haryana, the BJP gets aclear majority with 47 seats in the90-member House.

Oct. 20: Government to e-auctioncoal mines.

Oct. 25: The EC announces five-phase polls in J & K and Jharkhand.

Oct. 26: Manohar Lal Khattar issworn in Haryana’s 10th Chief Minis-ter heading the first-ever BJP gov-ernment in the state.

Oct. 28: The Supreme Court dis-misses Nithari serial killer SurinderKohli’s plea for review of death sen-tence.

Oct. 30: Violence in Rameswa-ram, Tamil Nadu following news of the Colombo High Court verdictsentencing to death five fishermen.

The Kerala High Court upholdsthe government’s liquor policy , butallows bars in four-star and heritagehotels.

The new capital of Andhra Pra-desh to come up in Guntur district.

Oct. 31: Devendra Fadnavis, issworn in Maharashtra Chief Minis-ter, heading the first BJP govern-ment, in Mumbai.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 3: The former Union Ship-ping Minister G.K. Vasan quits theCongress and floats new party.

Nov. 4: The President PranabMukherjee dissolves the Delhi As-sembly, in suspended animationsince mid-February.

Nov. 5: Sensex crosses the histor-ical 28000-mark for the first time.

Nov. 8: Three-time BJP MLA Laxmikant Parsekar is sworn in asthe 11th Chief Minister of Goa.

Nov. 9: Manohar Parrikar issworn in Defence Minister and Sure-sh Prabhu gets Railway portfolio inthe Union Cabinet expansion.

Nov. 10: President Pranab Muk-herjee confers the 49th Jnanpithaward upon Hindi poet KedarnathSingh, in New Delhi.

Nov. 11: Eleven women die afterundergoing “faulty” sterilisationsurgeries at a family planning campin Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh.

Nov. 13: The Army sentences fiveof its personnel to lifer for the stagedencounter killing of three Kashimiricivilians on April 30, 2010 in the

Macchil area of Kupwara district.Nov. 14: The Bombay High Court

puts on hold the 16 per cent quota forMarathas in government jobs andeducation.

Nov. 17: Former BCCI presidentN. Srinivasan not guilty of match-fixing or scuttling probe, says theJustice Mukul Mudgal panel. Guru-nath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra arefound guilty.

Nov. 18: The Nanavati Commis-

sion of Enquiry probing the 2002post-Godhra riots submits final re-port to Gujarat Chief Minister Anan-diben Patel.

Nov. 19: The fugitive godmanRampal is arrested from his Satlok ashram in Barwala, Hisar in Haryanaafter a violent standoff which leavessix dead.

ISRO is chosen for the IndiraGandhi Prize for Peace, Disarma-ment and Development for 2014.

Nov. 20: The Centenary Awardfor Indian Film Personality of theYear is conferred on actor Rajini-kanth at the inaugural of the 45th

IFFI in Goa capital Panaji.Centre gives “in-principle” nod

for the Chennai Monorail ProjectPhase-1.

The level in the Mullaperiyar damtouches 142 feet after three-and-a-half decades.

In an all stock amalgamation, ING Vysya Bank decides to merge withKotak Mahindra Bank.

Nov.21: The dismantling of the16,000-tonne ship, INS Vikrant, thecountry’s first aircraft carrier beginsat a ship breaking yard in SouthMumbai.

Nov.25: Jammu & Kashmir re-cords 71.28 per cent polling in thefirst phase of the Assembly electionand Jharkhand 61.92 per cent in 13assembly seats.

The Rajya Sabha passes labour re-forms Bill by voice vote.

Seven naval officers are found

guilty in the case of a fire on boardsubmarine INS Sindhuratna inFebruary.

The former CJI M.N.Venkatacha-liah presents the first N.Ramachan-dran Foundation Award to Kasturi &Sons Ltd. Chairman N. Ram inThiruvananthapuram.

Nov.26: Massive culling oper-ation in Kerala’s Kottayam, Alap-puzha and Pathanamthitta districtsto check spread of bird flu.

The Rajya Sabha passes The Ap-prentices (Amendment) Bill .

Nov. 28: The former Union Min-ister G.K. Vasan relaunches the Ta-mil Maanila Congress in Tiruchi.

Parliament clears bill to amend la-bour laws after LS nod for the draftlegislation.

Nov. 29: The Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi flags off the first pas-senger train from Meghalaya toGuwahati, Assam at a function at theRailway Stadium, Maligaon.

Nov. 30: The Russian film Levia-than by Andrey Zvyagintsev bags theGolden Peacock for the best film atthe 45th IFFI closing ceremony inPanaji, Goa.

DECEMBER

Dec. 1: Fourteen CRPF personnelare killed by Maoists after an am-

bush near Kasalpara village inChhattisgarh’s Sukma district.

Dec. 2: Seventyone per cent poll-ing in Phase II of Assembly polls in J& K. It is 65 per cent in Jharkhand.

The Supreme Court sets up a So-cial Justice Bench to monitor socialissues.

Dec. 4: The SP, JD (U), RJD, Ja-nata Dal (Secular), INLD and Samaj-wadi Janata Party agree in principleto merge.

Sixty people lose their eyesight af-ter botched cataract surgeries at acamp at Ghuman village in Punjab’sGurdaspur district between Oct. 31

and November 4.Dec. 5: Twentyone persons are

killed in four separate militant at-tacks in the Kashmir valley.

The Shiv Sena joins the DevendraFadnavis Cabinet in Maharashtra.

A 27-year-old woman MNC exec-utive is raped by a cab driver in New Delhi’s Inderlok area.

Dec. 7: Over 30,000 people cometogether in Chennai to create theworld’s largest human formation of anational flag, a Guinness WorldRecord.

Dec. 8: Andhra Pradesh and Sin-gapore sign MoU to build capitalcity.

The MDMK quits the NDA. An economic offences court in

Hyderabad sentences to six month jail term B. Ramalinga Raju andthree others in the first ruling in theRs. 14,000-crore Satyam Computeraccounting scandal.

Dec. 9: Jharkhand records 61 percent voting and J & K 59 per cent inthird phase of Assembly polls.

Dec. 10: The Union Cabinet givesnod for raising from 26 per cent to 49per cent the FDI cap in the insurancesector.

The Government announces deci-sion to decriminalise ‘attempt tosuicide’.

Dec. 11: Russia accepts India’s of-fer to make light-utility helicopters jointly. Seven pacts signed after Mo-di-Putin talks in New Delhi.

Dec. 12: The Lok Sabha passesThe Coal Mines (Special Provisions)Bill, 2014.

Dec. 13: Bangalore City Police ar-rest Mehdi Masroor Biswas, for wag-ing war against friendly state.

Dec. 14: J&K records 49 per cent voting and Jharkhand 61.65 per centin phase IV of Assembly polls.

Dec. 15: T.V. Gopalakrishnan ispresented the Sangita KalanidhiM.S. Subbulakshmi Award by the IS-

RO chairman K. RadhakrishnaChennai.

Dec. 16: India bans the IS tegroup.

Sensex plummets by 538.12 pto close at 26,781.44.

Dec. 18: The Supreme Courtends till April 18, 2015 the baformer Tamil Nadu Chief MinJayalalithaa.

The GSLV Mark III rocklaunched from Sriharikota.

Lifer for four Anand Margis iL.N. Mishra murder case.Dec. 19: The Union Finance

ister, Arun Jaitley introducesConstitution (122nd AmendmBill in the Lok Sabha.

Tamil writer Poomani is chfor the Sahitya Akademi awar2014 for his novel Angnaadi .

Dec. 20: The External AfMinistry relieves diplomat DevKhobragade of her post for failiinform authorities about her dren’s U.S. passports.

J&K registers 65 per cent turin the fifth phase of Assembly pJharkhand records 66 per cent.

Dec. 21: The SASTRA-Ram jam Award 2014 is conferred onfessor James Maynard of Ox

University, in Kumbakonam.Dec. 23: At least 75 person

killed by militants in Assam’s rajhar and Sonitpur districts.

The BJP gets absolute majorJharkhand. Hung Assembly in J

Dec. 24: The Centre confers rat Ratna on Atal Bihari Vajpand Madanmohan Malaviya.

Ordinance route for coal be-auction and FDI cap hike in inance sector.

Dec. 26: Union Cabinet noNeutrino observatory in Thenimil Nadu.

Dec. 28: Raghuvar Das is swoJharkhand Chief Minister.

A Chennai woman is killedthree injured in a blast in Benga

Dec. 29: Union Cabinet no

ordinance to amend Land Act.Dec. 30: A special CBI court

charges BJP president Amit from the November 2005 Sohradin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The A.P. Capital Region Devment Authority Act, 2014 comesforce.

Dec. 31: Presidential nod foting up NJAC.

The ISRO chairman K. Radrishnan retires.

A Pakistani fishing boat isablaze by its crew after being icepted by the Coast Guard off bandar, Gujarat.

Adivasis moving to a safe place after the killings, in Tenganalavillage in Sonitpur district of Assam.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

BJP’s Pritam Munde creates arecord by winning the BeedLok Sabha bypoll by 6,92,245

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JANUARY

Jan. 1: Jamal al-Jamal, the Pal-estinian Ambassador in Czech Re-public is killed in an explosion at hishome in Prague.

Latvia joins the Eurozone.The Affordable Care Act, the U.S.

President Barack Obama’s landmark

healthcare reform policy takeseffect.

Jan. 6: Aitizaz Hussain, a teenag-er who tried to stop a suicide bomberfrom entering his school in Pakis-tan’s Hangu district is killed after theattacker blows himself up.

The Awami League led by PrimeMinister Sheikh Hasina wins an ab-solute majority in parliamentary polls.

Janet Yellen is confirmed as thechairwoman of the U.S. Federal Re-serve by the Senate.

Jan. 7: Temperature dips well be-low zero in Chicago as dangerously cold polar air snaps decades-old re-cords as it spreads from the Midwestto Southern and Eastern parts of theU.S.

Jan. 10: Aitizaz Hussain, theyoung braveheart from Hangu,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province inPakistan is conferred the civilianhonour Sitara-e-Shujaat.

Jan. 12: A 49-member Cabinetled by Bangladesh Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina is sworn in in Dhaka.

American Hustle , the stylishcrime caper bags best musical/com-edy film and two acting awards at the71st annual Golden Globes in Los An-

geles. Historical drama film 12 years a Slave bags the coveted best dramaprize. Woody Allen receives the Ce-cil B. DeMille award for lifetimeachievement at the Globes.

Jan. 13: Thai opposition protes-ters seeking resignation of PrimeMinister Yingluck Shinawatra occu-py major streets in Bankgkok .

Jan. 15: Egyptians cast ballotswrapping up a two-day key referen-dum on a new Constitution as a pre-cursor to presidential polls.

Jan. 16: China detains IlhamTohti, a prominent Uighur econo-mist and scholar.

Jan. 18: The Hindu In School e-paper version is launched at TheHindu India Education Fair, Dubai.

Jan. 19: Twenty security person-nel are killed and 30 others injuredin a bomb attack on a convoy in Ban-nu Cantonment in Pakistan’s Khyb-er Pakhtunkhwa province.

Jan. 20: Thirteen persons in-cluding eight security forces person-nel are killed and 29 injured in asuicide bombing near the General

Headquarters of the Pakistan mil-itary in Rawalpindi.The comet-chasing probe Rosetta

is operational after a 31-month hi-bernation, says the European Space Agency.

Iran halts production of 20 percent enriched uranium at Natanzand Fordo sites marking the entry into force of an interim deal on itsnuclear programme.

Jan. 23: South Sudan’s govern-ment and rebels sign a ceasefireagreement at the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

Jan. 26: . Karl Slym, the manag-ing director of Tata Motors dies inBangkok after falling from a highfloor of a hotel.

Daft Punk, a French duo who havebecome elder statesmen of electron-ic dance music wins four prizes, in-cluding album of the year forRandom Access Memories duringthe 56th Grammy Awards at the Sta-ples Center in Los Angeles.

Jan. 28: Ukraine’s Prime Minis-ter Mykola Azarov resigns.

Egypt’s deposed President Mo-hamed Morsy stands trial inside thepolice academy in Cairo.

Jan. 29: Tunisia’s new techno-cratic government headed by PrimeMinister Mehdi Jomaa is sworn inafter a marathon overnight parlia-mentary session.

Jan. 30: A Special court in Chit-

tagong, Bangladesh, hands the deathpenalty to the ULFA (Independent)chief Paresh Barua and 13 others forsmuggling 10 truck loads of arms in-to the nation in 2004.

Amanda Knox, an American stu-dent is awarded 28 years and herboyfriend Raffaele Sollecito 25 yearsby a court of appeal in Florence afterreconvicting them for the November1, 2007 murder of Meredith Kercherin Perugia.

Jose Salvador Alvarenga, a casta-way who spent 13 months adrift inthe Pacific lands at an atoll in theMarshall Islands.

Jan. 31: Ukraine’s President Vik-tor Yanukovych signs into law repealof anti-protest legislation and anamnesty bill.

FEBRUARY

Feb.1 : Fourteen persons, includ-ing four schoolchildren are killed af-ter being engulfed in scorching ashclouds spat by Indonesia’s Mount Si-nabung at Sigarang-Garang in Karodistrict, North Sumatra province.

Feb. 2: Academy-winning actorPhilip Seymour Hoffman (46) isfound dead of an apparent heroinover-dose in his apartment in New York City.

Opposition protesters prevent voting at thousands of polling sta-tions in Thailand during the generalelections.

Feb. 3: Janet Yellen is sworn inthe first woman president of the U.S.Federal Reserve in Washington.

Microsoft appoints Hyderabadnative 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, Sy-ria, in a U.N.-supervised operation.

Feb. 10: Sushil Koirala, presidentof the Nepali Congress assumes of-fice as Nepal Prime Minister.

Feb. 11: Officials from China andTaiwan hold their first official-leveltalks since the end of the ChineseCivil War in 1949, in Nanjing.

Feb. 12: A ‘snowmageddon’ kills12 persons in the U.S. and knocks outpower supply to 800,000 homes andbusinesses, mainly in Georgia andNorth and South Carolina.

Feb. 13: Belgium’s Parliament le-galises euthanasia for children.

Feb. 14: Italian Prime MinisterEnrico Letta resigns after just 10months, heading a fragile coalition.

Feb. 15: Lebanon announces theformation of a 24-member Govern-ment under Prime Minister Tam-mam Salam after a 10-monthpolitical vacuum.

Syria peace talks in Geneva break off with no progress made.

The Chinese film Bai Ri Yan Huo

(Black Coal, Thin Ice) bags the Gold-en Bear for best picture at the 64th

Berlin International Film Festival. Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel takes home the Silver Beargrand jury prize.

Feb. 16: All 18 passengers onboard a Nepal Airlines flight arekilled after a crash shortly after t ake-off from the tourist town of Pokhara.

Feb. 19: Twentysix persons arekilled and 750 injured in two days of violence in the Ukrainian capitalKiev.

French industrialist and SenatorSerge Dassault is taken into custody

for alleged vote buying which ienced the outcome of three mapolls in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Feb. 20: Ukraine violence toto 94 and injured number 90bloody clashes erupt again in Ki

Feb. 21: Ukrainian Presidenttor Yanukovych and oppositioach deal. Legislators vote to revethe 2004 Constitution.

Feb. 22: Ukraine’s Parliam votes to remove President Vikto

nukovych from power. FoPrime Minister Yulia Tymoshenfreed from prison.

Matteo Renzi is sworn in ItPrime Minister heading the yoest government in the nathistory.

Feb. 24: Ugandan President Yeri Musaveni signs into law a con versial bill that will see homose jailed for life.

The Egyptian Prime Ministezem al-Beblawi submits resignto interim President Adly Mans

Feb. 25: Outgoing Housing ister Ibrahim Mahlab is appoiEgyptian Prime Minister.

Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, onceworld’s biggest bitcoin exchgoes offline.

Feb. 26: Michael Adebolajo glife term and Michael Adebowsentenced to 45 years in jail foMay 2013 killing of British soLee Rigby on a London street.

More than 170 Islamist fighters are killed in a Syrian aambush near Damascus.

Feb. 27: Ukraine’s ousted Pdent Victor Yanukovych flees nand seeks refuge in Russia amgrowing revolt in Crimea. Pament votes in a new governm Arseniy Yatsenyuk is appoPrime Minister.

Feb. 28: Thierry AtanganFrenhman kept in solitary conment in Cameroon for 17 yearlowing a controveembezzlement conviction arrivParis after a presidential pardo

February 18.

MARCH

March 1: Thirtynine personkilled and 109 injured in kniftacks at Kunming railway statioChina’s south-western Yuprovince. Four attackers shot by police.

March 2: Harrowing histodrama, directed by a black film-er Briton Steve Mcqueen 12 YeSlave wins the best picture Oscthe 86th Academy Awards ceremin California. Matthew McConaey wins the best actor for ro

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(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.

Civilians walking towards ameeting point to be evacuated

from a besieged area of Homs, Syria.

Jan. 2: All 52 passengers of aRussian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy are rescued by aChinese icebreaker Xue Longafter remaining trapped in theice off Antarctica for over aweek.


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true-life AIDS activist-drama Dallas Buyers Club . Australia’s Cate Blan-chett bags best actress award forWoody Allen’s Blue Jasmine . 3Dspace thriller Gravity becomes thetop winner with seven Oscars.

A septuagenarian who was fittedwith the French bio-medical firmCarmat’s first artificial heart on De-cember 18, 2013 dies at a hospital inParis.

March 3: Ten persons, including

three lawyers are killed in a suicideattack and firing in the district andsessions court complex in Pakistan’scapital Islamabad. Additional ses-sions judge Rafakat Awan is acciden-tally shot dead by his security guard.

March 9: Japanese firm Mt. Gox,once the world’s largest bitcoin ex-change, files for U.S. bankruptcy inDallas.

March 11: The Parliament in pro-Russian Crimea declares independ-ence from Ukraine.

China allows, for first time, thesetting up of five private banks on atrial basis.

Crimean Peninsula proclaims in-dependence from Ukraine.

“E-fan,” the world’s first electricaircraft developed by Airbus takesoff from an airport near Bordeaux inFrance.

March 12: A U.S. judge throwsout the visa fraud case against Indiandiplomat Devyani Khobragade rul-ing that she had full diplomatic im-munity.

March 13: Czech priest and in-tellectual Tomas Halik wins thepound 1.1 million 2014 Templetonprize.

March 14: U.S. Federal prosecu-tors re-indict Indian diplomat De-

vyani Khobragade on visa fraudcharges, after a grand jury returns atrue bill on the two-count criminalindictment.

In a landmark ruling, a Frenchcourt sentences Pascal Simbikang-wa, a former Rwandan captain to 25years in jail over the 1994 genocide.

March 16: The people of Crimeagive a resounding “yes’’ to splittingfrom Ukraine and rejoining Russiain a referendum.

March 17: Crimea’s parliamentadopts a declaration of independence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

signs a decree formally recognisingCrimea as an independent state inthe Kremlin.

March 18: Italy’s Supreme Courtupholds a two-year ban from publicoffice against the former Prime Min-ister Silvio Berlusconi as part of a taxfraud conviction.

March 20: Russia’s Parliamentoverwhelmingly ratifies the treaty on reunification of Crimea.

March 21: Thailand’s Constitu-

tional Court declares invalid generalelections held in February.Russia’s President Vladimir Putin

signs into law Crimea’s absorptioninto the nation, shortly after Parlia-ment’s upper house ratifies acces-sion treaty.

The EU welcomes Ukraine intothe Western fold, signing the politi-cal provisions of a landmark accordin Brussels.

Parliamentary polls open in theMaldives.

March 23: Adolfo Suarez (81),Spain’s first Prime Minister after thedeath of General Francisco Francoin 1975 dies at a Madrid Hospital.

Maldives President Abdulla Ya-meen’s Progressive Party of Mal-dives attains majority with the helpof its coalition partners.

March 24: The missing Malay-sian Airlines Flight MH370, Boeing777 aircraft has gone down in theremote waters of the southern Indi-an Ocean killing all on board, saysMalaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak.

The U.S. and its allies suspendRussia from the Group of Eight onthe sidelines of a nuclear security summit at The Hague.

Shigeru Ban, Japanese architectknown for his creative and inexpen-sive designs for disaster relief shel-ters wins the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

March 25: The U.S. Court of Ap-peals for the Second Circuit upholdsthe 2012 guilty verdict against RajatGupta, former Goldman Sachs Di-

rector and McKinsey ManagingPartner on insider trading charges.

March 26: Russian mathemati-cian Yakov Grigorevich Sinai is cho-sen fro the 2014 Abel Prize.

March 27: The U.N. HumanRights Council launches a probe intoalleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. In-dia abstains from voting on a resolu-tion against the island nation.

March 28: Former NorwegianPrime Minister Jens Stoltenberg isnamed the next NATOSecretary-General.

March 29: The historic law onsame-sex marriage passed by the

British Parliament in 2013 takes ef-fect in England and Wales.

March 31: Former Pakistan Pres-ident Gen. (Retd) Pervez Musharraf is indicted for high treason by a spe-cial court for imposing emergency on November 3, 2007 at Rawalpindias Chief of the Army Staff.

APRIL

April 1: Manuel Valls takes overas France’s Prime Minister.

April 2: NATO suspends bilateralcooperation with Russia.

Australia’s High Court in a land-mark ruling recognises the existenceof a third “non-specific” gender thatis neither male nor female.

Eighteen countries ratify a land-mark treaty at the U.N. regulatingthe multibillion dollar global armstrade.

April 4: Anja Niedringhaus (48), aGerman photographer working for Associated Press is shot dead andKathy Gannon, a Canadian colleaguewounded in an attack in the Tanaidistrict of Khost province in Afghanistan.

April 5: Afghans cast ballots tochoose a successor to President Ha-

mid Karzai in the country’s firstdemocratic transfer of power.

April 7: Peaches Geldof (25),daughter of Band Aid founder andmusician Bob Geldof and a mediaand fashion personality is founddead at her home in Kent, southernEngland.

Hungary’s Prime Minister ViktorOrban wins parliamentary polls.

April 12: At least 13 persons arekilled and more than 10,000 evac-uated after a huge fire rips throughChile’s historic port city of Valparai-so, ravaging 2,000 acres.

April 13: The Hunger Games:

Catching Fire bags the prize for bestfilm at the 22nd Annual MTV Movie Awards.

April 14: Indian-born poet Vijay Seshadri wins the 2014 PulitzerPrize for poetry for his collection of poems 3 Sections .

Nigerian extremist outfit BokoHaram abducts 276 teenage girlsfrom a government school in Chibok town in the remote northeast of thecountry.

April 15: Ukraine launches offen-sive to crush anti-government pro-tests.

April 16: At least 300 people aredrowned after the 6,825-tonne ferry,Sewol capsizes, with 475 on board,mostly high school students boundfor Jindo a holiday island in SouthKorea.

April 17:Russia, the U.S., the E.U.and Ukraine agree on a plan to re-solve the Kiev crisis after eight-hourtalks in Geneva.

Algerians cast ballots in presiden-tial polls.

April 18: At least 13 Sherpas andmountaineering persons are killedafter an avalanche sweeps down aclimbing route on Mount Everest.

Algerian President Abdelazizteflika wins a fourth term.

April 21: Win Tin (84), one ofounders of Myanmar’s pro-deracy opposition and the natlongest-serving political prisdies at a hospital in Yangon.

April 23: The PLO and the Strip’s Islamist Hamas rulers sreconciliation agreement.

April 24: Israel halts peace with the Palestinians.

BJP leader Narendra Modi, leader Arvind Kejriwal and au Arundhati Roy, NSA whistleblEdward Snowden, education acMalala Yousafzai are among Wo100 most influential people listTIME magazine’s 11th ancollection.

April 25: Finnish telecom mNokia completes the $ 7.8 bideal to sell its mobile handset ness to Microsoft.

April 26:Farhan Akhtar – stBhaag Milkha Bhaag bags five mhonours, including best actor,director Rakeysh Omprakash Mand best picture at the IIFA Awin Tampa, Florida. Deepa Padugets best female actor awardChennai Express .

April 27: Pope Francis proclhis predecessors John XXIIIJohn Paul II saints in front of hmillion pilgrims in the Vatican.

April 28: An Egyptian courttences to death 683 backers oMuslim Brotherhood, includinpreme Guide Mohamed Badie.

April 29: At least 60 personkilled in violence in Syria’s Dacus and Homs.

April 30:Iraqis cast ballots ifirst general election since troops withdrew.

MAY

May 2: At least 500 peoplburied alive following landslip Aab Bareek village in AfghanisBadakshan province.

May 4: Libya’s Parliament sw

in Ahmed Matiq Prime Ministespite a disputed vote.

May 5: Nigeria’s Boko Hmassacres 375 people in Gamtown, close to the border Cameroon.

May 7: Thailand’s ConstitutCourt dismisses caretaker PMinister Yingluck Shinawatranine Ministers for abuse of poSouth Africans cast ballots in lmark general election.

The evacuation of rebel-held of Syria’s Homs begins after anprecedented deal with government.

Relatives of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol weep asthey await news on the rescue operation, at a port in South Korea.

Vijay Seshadri

March 8: A Beijing-boundMalaysian Airlines flight with239 people, including five In-dians on board disappearsover the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam.


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The Chinese e-commerce jugger-naut Alibaba files initial public of-fering in the U.S.

Pakistan human rights activistand lawyer Rashid Rehman is shotdead in his office in Multan.

May 12: Ukraine’s Russian-speaking eastern regions declare in-dependence from Kiev following anoverwhelming vote for “sovereignty”in a referendum.

Major General Kristin Lund is

named the first-ever woman to serveas the head of a U.N. PeacekeepingOperation by the Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon.

May 13: At least 300 persons arekilled in an explosion triggered by anelectrical fault at a coal mine in Somatown in Turkey’s Manisa province.

May 14: The New York Times fires its erstwhile Executive EditorJill Abramson.

May 15: The U.S. President Ba-rack Obama inaugurates a hauntingGround Zero museum dedicated tothe Al-Qaeda attacks which killednearly 3000 people.

May 20: Japanese scientists un-veil a pint-sized roller-skating robotEMIEW2 with a sense of humour.

At least 130 persons are killed intwin car bombings at a crowded mar-ket in the central Nigerian city of Jos.

May 21: China and Russia sign alandmark gas deal ending more thandecade-long negotiations.

Akhil Rekulapelli, an Indian-American student wins the NationalGeographic Bee Championship in

the final round held in Washington.May 22: The Thailand Army chief

General Prayut Chan-O-Cha seizespower in a military coup.

At least 39 persons are killed andclose to 100 injured in the biggestever terror attack on Chinese soil asexplosives-laden vehicles ploughthrough a market in Xinjiang capitalUrumqi.

Britain casts votes for EuropeanParliament.

May 23: The Indian consulate inHerat, Afghanistan comes under at-tack by Pakistan-basedLashkar-e-Taiba.

May 24: . Thailand’s military jun-ta disbands Senate. Confirms deten-tion of former Premier Yingluck Shinawatra.

Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan winsthe Palme d’Or at the 67th CannesFilm Festival for his Winter Sleep, aslow-burn domestic drama.

Two rebel Ukrainian regions —Donetsk and Luhansk — announceformation of Novorossiya or New Russia, a new independent state.

May 25: Ukrainians cast ballotsin snap presidential polls.

May 26: Eurosceptic partiesmake it big in the European Parlia-ment polls.

Chocolate king Petro Poroshenkowins Ukrainian presidential polls.

Egyptians begin casting ballots inthree-day presidential polls.

May 29: The Presidents of Russia,Belarus and Kazakhstan sign theEurasian Economic Integrationagreement in the Kazakh capital Astana.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s for-mer Army chief coasts to a landslide victory after low voter turnout.

Space X unveils Dragon V2, asleek, white gum-drop shaped cap-sule that aims to carry up to sevenastronauts to the ISS and return toland anywhere on Earth.

Two Indian-Americans — SriramJ. Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe — scripthistory by becoming co-champions

of the Scripps Spelling Bee.May 31: A U.S. soldier Sgt. Bowe

Bergdahl of 1st Battalion, 501st Para-chute Infantry Regiment is releasedby Taliban after five years in captiv-ity in exchange for five Guantanamodetainees.

JUNE

June 2: A historic Palestinianunity government comprising a 17-member Cabinet headed by PrimeMinister Rami Hamdallah is swornin in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Spanish King Juan Carlos (76) an-nounces his abdication in favour of

his son Prince Felipe, ending a 39-year reign.

June 5: Japanese mobile compa-ny Softbank launches Pepper, a ro-bot that can read emotions

June 7: Two days of fighting innorthern Iraq between security forces and militants leaves 59 per-sons killed. In Ramadi, gunmen infil-trate Anbar University.

Petro Poroshenko is sworn in asUkraine’s fifth post-SovietPresident.

June 8: Former army chief AbdelFatah al-Sisi is sworn in EgyptPresident.

June 9: Thirtyseven persons arekilled as Pakistan military fights anall-night battle with Taliban gunmenwho besieged Karachi airport.

A Russian court jails two womenfor life for the October 7, 2006 mur-der of investigative journalist Anna

Politkovskaya.Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad

announces an unprecedented pris-oner amnesty.

June 10: Jihadists seize Iraq’ssecond city of Mosul after launchingan all-out assault on the security forces a day earlier.

Reuven Rivlin, a former Speakerof Israeli Parliament is electedPresident.

June 11: Militants belonging tothe Islamic State of Iraq and the Le- vant seize the Iraqi city of Tikrit.

June 14: Afghans cast votes inpresidential run-off marred by vio-

lence that leaves 50 dead.June 15: Frozen underworld is

discovered in Greenland and imagespublished in the journal Nature Geoscience .

Colombian centre-right presidentJuan Manuel Santos wins a secondterm.

June 16: A strong and prosperousIndia will be beneficial for the coun-tries of the region, especially SAARCmembers, says Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi addressing a joint ses-sion of the Bhutan Parliament.

The U.N. General Assembly ap-proves the nomination of Jordan’sPrince Zeid al-Hussein as the nexthuman rights chief.

Iraqi insurgents abduct 40 Indiannationals and hold them captive at acotton factory near Mosul.

June 18: Former Norwegian Pre-mier Gro Harlem Brundtland isnamed the first recipient of the TangPrize, touted as Asia’s version of theNobels.

King Juan Carlos of Spain signsthe Act of Parliament ending his fourdecade reign.

June 20: Indian-born BookerPrize winning author Salman Rush-

die is named the winner of Pen Pin-ter prize for 2014.

June 21: Albie Sachs, the South African judge who rose to fame forhis role in the anti-apartheid strug-gle, is awarded the Tanga Prize forhis contribution to human rights and justice.

An Egyptian court confirms deathsentences for more than 180 Isla-mists, including Muslim Brother-hood chief Mohamed Badie.

June 24: Rebekkah Brooks, a for-mer confidante of Rupert Murdochis cleared of all charges over phone-hacking. Andy Coulson, former

News of the World editor is fguilty.

Japanese scientists unveil Kmoroid, the world’s first news ring android.

June 27: Ukraine signs landdeal with the European UnioBrussels. Georgia and Moldovseal partnership pacts.

June 29: The Islamic StaIraq and Syria announces the seup of a “Caliphate”.

June 30: The bodies of tJewish seminary students napped on June 12 are found inoccupied West Bank.

JULY

July 1: Google announces plshut down Orkut, the original snetwork on September 30. It waup in 2004.

Japan’s Cabinet gives nod for lective self-defence” in a highlytroversial shift in the natpacifist stance.

July 2: The abduction and kiof a Palestinian youth in east Jerlem sparks clashes.

The former French Presidenkolas Sarkozy is charged withruption-related offences.

July 4: Fortysix Indian nuwho had been under captivityfreed by the Iraqi militants at Dunorth of Mosul.

Andy Coulson, the former eof Rupert Murdoch’s News oWorld is jailed for 18 months forole in the phone-hacking scathat led to the closure of the tabin July 2011.

July 5: An Egyptian court tences Muslim Brotherhood leMohamed Badie and 36 other mists to lifer.

July 7: The U.N. PermaCourt of Arbitration awards D19,467 sq.km. of 25,602 sq.kmarea of the Bay of Bengal bringian end the maritime dispute India.

July 10: Over a million p

sector workers strike work inU.K. against pay caps and job cu

July 14: The Church of EngGeneral Synod in York votes i vour of allowing female bishopthe first time in its nearly 500history.

July 15: The Fortaleza dection adopted at the sixth BRSummit in Brazil announces fotion of the BRICS Bank of Shanto be named New Development and a contingency reserve fund.

July 16: Syria’s President Baal-Assad is sworn in for a new seyear term, in Damascus, follo

Major General Kristin Lund of Norway with the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Hitachi's humanoid robot EMIEW2 .

Scientists announce the dis-covery of Kepler-10C, a God-zilla among planets that is 17times the size of earth, at themeeting of the American As-tronomical Society in Boston.


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victory in the June 3 polls. Archie, the famous freckle-faced

comic book icon who first appearedin 1941 dies while intervening in abid on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics’first openly gay character.

July 17: All 298 people on boardan MH17 Malaysian jet are killed af-ter Ukrainian militants bring itdown using a Soviet-era missile, inGrabovo in Donetsk region. U.S.,E.U. slap fresh sanctions on Moscow.

Australia abolishes a divisive car-bon tax after years of vexed politicaldebate.

Bolivia’s Vice-President signs intolaw a bill that legalises child labourfrom age 10.

July 21: Seven Israeli soldiers arekilled taking the Israeli toll to 27.Israeli planes strike homes acrossGaza and the toll goes up to 550,besides 3,350 wounded.

July 22: Governor of Jakarta, Jo-ko Widodo nicknamed Jokowi is de-clared the winner of Indonesia’spresidential election.

Somali lawmaker and prominentsinger-songwriter Saado Ali War-same is shot dead in the capitalMogadishu.

July 24: Kurdish politician FuadMasum becomes the new IraqiPresident.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigns after the collapseof his European Choice coalitiongovernment.

All 118 people on board an Air Al-gerie plane are killed after it crashesin Mali shortly after take-off fromOuagadougou in Burkina Faso.

India blocks the Trade Facilita-tion 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 fromthe Islamic State group in Raqaprovince.

The first Turkish high-speed trainconnecting Asia and Europe is inau-gurated by Prime Minister RecepTayyip Erdogan.

July 26: The India-Nepal JointCommission meets in Kathmanduafter 23 years.

The toll in Gaza clashes crosses1,000. Over 130 bodies are recoveredduring the 16-hour truce.

July 29: Prosecutors shelve pro-ceedings against Finmeccanica, theparent company of AugustaWes-tland for alleged kickbacks in the Rs.3,600-crore VVIP chopper deal.

July 30: Seventeen persons arekilled and 200 wounded in Israeli airstrike on a market in Shejaiya in Ga-za City. At least 16 persons are killedas tank shells slam into a U.N. schoolin the Jebaliya refugee camp.

Chinese journalist Hu Shuli and

environmental lawyer Wanga Canfaalso from China among six winnersof the Ramon Magsaysay Award,2014.

A New York court rules in favourof the Union Carbide Corporation ina case brought by the victims of theDecember 3, 1984 Bhopal gasdisaster.

July 31: Sierra Leone, Guinea andLiberia agree to launch a $100 mil-lion response plan to tackle theworld’s worst ever outbreak of theebola virus .

L’Unita , the left-wing daily found-ed by Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci suspendspublication.

AUGUST

Aug. 1: Gaza truce collapses inhours and dozens killed in Israelishelling.

Uganda’s constitutional courtoverturns a tough new anti-gay law.

Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberiarevive a disease-fighting tactic notused in nearly a century: the cordonsanitaire to confront the Ebolaoutbreak.

Aug.2: A massive landslide inSindhupalchowk district in Nepalwipes out an entire village andblocks the Sunkoshi river.

Aug. 3: Prime Minister NarendraModi announces a $ 1-billion line of credit for Nepal’s infrastructure development.

At least 589 people are killed and1,800 injured after a 6.5 magnitudeearthquake strikes southern China’s

Yunnan province.Jihadists storm Sinjar town in

Iraq sending tens of thousands of civilians fleeing to the mountains toits north.

Aug. 5: Yoshiki Sasai, the co-au-thor of a now discredited research onstem-cell treatment is found dead atthe Riken institute where he workedin Kobe, Japan.

A 72-hour truce takes hold in Gazaas Israel withdraws troops after amonth of fighting with Hamas.

Aug. 6: Samsung and Apple de-cide to end all patent litigation out-side the U.S.

Aug. 7: Khmer Rouge leaders Nu-on Chea (88) and Khieu Samphan(83) are jailed for life after beingfound guilty of crimes againsthumanity.

Aug. 8: The U.S. launches target-ed airstrikes in Iraq. Food and waterairdropped in the mountainous re-gion of Sinjar to help 40,000 strand-ed Yazidis.

Aug. 9: Michael Brown, an un-armed African-American teenager iskilled by a white police officer inFerguson, Missouri.

A ug. 10: Turkish Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdogan wins an out-right victory in the first round of

polls. Aug. 11: Robin Williams (63), A-

cademy Award winning king of com-edy dies at his California home and issuspected to have committed sui-cide.

Aug. 13: Canadian-AmericanManjul Bhargava among four win-ners of the Fields Medal announcedat the inaugural of the nine-day In-ternational Congress of Mathemat-icians in Seoul. Maryam Mirzakhanifirst woman winner of the covetedprize.

Aug. 14: Iraqi Prime Minister,Nouri al-Maliki resigns paving the

way for a unity government. Britaindecides to arm Kurds.

Aug. 17: Salman Rushdie is pre-sented the Hans Christian AndersenLiterature Award, Denmark’s mostimportant literature accolade, in thetown of Odense.

The toll in the Nepal floods trig-gered by torrential rain that causedmultiple landslides touches 97.

Aug. 19: Israel and Palestinianmilitants resume firing across theGaza border. The wife and infant sonof Hamas’ top military commanderMohammed Deif are killed in a mis-sile attack.

The Islamic State releases a videoshowing the beheading of James Fo-ley, a U.S. journalist in Syria who hasbeen missing since November 22,2012.

Aug. 21: Three senior Hamascommanders and four childrenamong 24 Palestinians killed in Ga-za.

Thailand’s Parliament choosescoup leader General Prayut Chan-O-Cha as Prime Minister.

Former Irish Prime Minister Al-bert Reynolds (81), a central figure inthe Northern Ireland peace processwho helped broker the 1994 IRA cea-sefire dies.

Aug. 22: Malaysia observes a day of mourning to sombrely welcomehome the first remains of its 43 citi-zens killed in the MH17 disaster onJuly 17.

Aug. 24: Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S. journalist missing since 2012 is re-leased by kidnappers in Syria.

Abraham Borbor, a Liberian doc-tor treated with experimental Amer-ican anti-Ebola serum ZMapp dies.

Pop diva Miley Cyrus wins videoof the year for Wrecking Ball at theMTV Video Music Awards.

Aug. 25: Modern Family wins arecord-tying fifth best comedy series

Emmy Award. Bryan Cranstohonoured as best actor in a dramBreaking Bad.

NASA probe New Horizons,ses Neptune’s orbit nearly 25 yafter Voyager 2 spacecraft’s firstflyby of the planet.

Aug. 26: A long term trucetween the Palestinians and Itakes effect ending 50 days oflence. Eight-year blockade of lifted.

Aug. 30: Varanasi and Kyotoa partner city affiliation agreemin the presence of Prime MiniNarendra Modi and Shinzo Abe

At least three persons are killpolice firing and more than 200testers injured in the VIP area oPakistan capital Islamabad as day standoff seeking Prime MinNawaz Sharif’s resignation t violent.

Abdul Alim, a prime war crconvict of Bangladesh serving adies of cancer at a Dhaka hospit

Aug 31: Iraqi forces bthrough to the jihadist-besiegedtown of Amerli where thoushave remained trapped for mthan two months.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 1: Prime Ministers Nadra Modi and Shinzo Abe annothe “Japan-India Investment motion Partnership” in Tokyo.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan and Pakistan AwTahreek leader Tahir-ul-Qadrbooked under the Anti-Terrorisfor bid to attack Parliament.

Sept. 2: The Islamic State po video showing the beheading ofreporter Steven Sotloff kidnapp2013 in Aleppo, Syria.

Sept. 5: Ukraine signs ceasagreement with rebels to end nfive months of fighting in thetion’s east, in the Belarussian caMinsk.

Sept. 6: Swedish Director, Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat o

Branch While Reflecting on Eence bags the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Joshua Opheimer’s The Look of Silence up the grand prix.

Sept. 8: Mathew Martoma, adian-origin portfolio manage jailed for 9 years by a federal couNew York for his role in an intrading scheme involving million.

Sept. 11: The U.S. Presidenrack Obama orders airstrikes inria against Islamic State.

“Blade Runner” Oscar Pistornot guilty of premeditated mu

Medical staff putting on protective gear before entering anisolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone.

Actor Robin Williams.

July 23: India’s first multi-

sensor moored observatory IndARC is deployed inKongsfjorden Fjord of the

Arctic roughly half way be-tween North Pole and SouthPole.


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says the High Court in Pretoria.Sept. 12: Paralympian Oscar Pis-

torius is found guilty of culpablehomicide for the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013.

Three men are handed downdeath sentence and a woman lifer forthe mass stabbing on March 1 at atrain station in Kunming, China thatkilled 39 persons.

Ian Paisley (88), former Northern

Ireland First Minister and Protes-tant leader dies in Belfast.Sept. 13: Southern Cross Auste-

reo, an Australian radio station atthe centre of a royal hoax call row donates Aus $500,000 to the family of Indian-born nurse in a Britishhospital Ja

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