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Published: January 8, 2014 00:00 IST | Updated: January 8, 2014 02:09 IST
DIARY OF EVENTS NATIONAL JANUARY TO DEC. 21 (FULL)
JANUARY
Jan. 1: The Union Governments Direct Benefits Transfer scheme is launched in 20 districts in six States across the
nation.
Jan. 2: The Supreme Court upholds the appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as Gujarat Lokayukta.
The first of the five newly-announced fast-track courts to try cases related to sexual offence against women is
inaugurated in New Delhi by the CJI Altamas Kabir.
A 16-year-old girl is gangraped in Rayagada, Odisha.
Jan. 3: The Delhi police file chargesheet against five persons arrested in the December 16, 2012 gangrape case before a
duty magistrate in Saket district courts in New Delhi.
Complex issues cannot be settled by faith, emotion and fear but by structured debate, analysis and enlightenment,
says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the 100{+t}{+h}annual session of the Indian Science
Congress in Kolkata.
Jan. 6: Assam gains an entry in the India Book of Records for holding the largest ensemble of 14,833 drummers
playing khol in unison in Titabor, Jorhat district.
Jan. 7: The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha withdraws support to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Arjun Munda Government.
Jan. 8: Pakistani troops ambush and kill two soldiers of 13 Rajaputana Rifles Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh and Lance
Naik Hemraj (one of them beheaded), after crossing the LoC in Krishna Gati sector of Poonch.
Arjun Munda resigns as Jharkhand Chief Minister.
Jan. 10: The Calcutta High Court in an interim order grants custody of the Bhattacharya children to their mother
Sagarika Chakraborty.
Jan. 12: Follow in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda, says the West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan, inaugurating
Prema Jayakumar
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the World Youth Festival to mark the Swamijis 150{+t}{+h}birth anniversary in Kolkata.
Jan. 13: The 100-year-old Pamban rail bridge, Indias first cantilever bridge across the Palk Strait in Rameswaram
Island, Tamil Nadu suffers damage as a Karwar-bound barge rams it.
Jan. 15: Visa-on-arrival for Pakistani seniors put on hold following Prime Ministers warning that, business as usual,
not possible with Pakistan.
The Rayagada gangrape victim who attempted self-immolation (on January 7) dies at a corporate hospital in
Visakhapatnam.
Jan. 18: The Supreme Court directs the Centre to set up a Special Court to try Italian marines Massimilano Latore and
Salvatore Gironi involved in the shooting of two fishermen off the Kerala waters on February 15, 2012.
Jan. 19: Rahul Gandhi is appointed Congress Vice-President at the Chintan Shivir in Jaipur.
Jan. 21: The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh merges his Jankranti Party (Rashtrawadi) with the
BJP.
Prema Jayakumar, daughter of an autorickshaw driver in Malad, Mumbai tops the nationwide CA exam. Her brother
Dhanraj too clears the exam.
Jan. 22: A Special CBI court jails for 10 years former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala for illegal
selection of over 3,000 junior basic trained primary school teachers during 1999-2000.
Jan. 23: The Justice Verma Committee rules against recommending the death penalty even in the rarest of rare cases,
and also does not favour lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16.
Shiv Sena elects Uddhav Thackeray as party president at the National Executive In Mumbai.
Jan. 24: The Madras High Court upholds the shifting of the Legislative Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex back from
the Omandurar Government Estate to Fort St. George. Work begins to convert building into hospital.
Jan. 25: Noted physicist Yash Pal, space scientist Roddam Narasimha, sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and painter
Syed Haider Raza chosen for Padma Vibhushan.
Actor Sharmila Tagore, cricketer Rahul Dravid, boxing champion Mary Kom, film-star Rajesh Khanna, comedian
Jaspal Bhatti (both posthumously); noted scientist Shivathanu Pillai and V.K. Saraswat, industrialists R. Thayagarajan
and Adi Godrej prominent among 24 Padma Bhushan awardees.
Film director Ramesh Sippy, eminent entrepreneur Rajshree Pathy, actor Sridevi, fashion designer Ritu Kumar, scholar
Noboru Karashima, Urdu poets Nida Fazli and Salik Lakhnawi (the latter posthumously) actor Nana Patekar
prominent among 80 Padma Shri awardees.
Author Jeet Thayil is presented the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 for his debut novel Narcopolis at the
Jaipur Literature Festival.
Jan. 26: The Nation celebrates the 64{+t}{+h}Republic Day with a charming display of military prowess and cultural
diversity.
Jan. 28: The sixth accused in the New Delhi gangrape and murder case is declared a minor by the Juvenile Justice
Board.
Jan. 29: Over 1,009 children set a world record by assembling dressed up like Mahatma Gandhi on the Marina,
Chennai.
Jan. 31: President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, a new think-tank
from Kasturi & Sons Ltd. at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
The Supreme Court sets aside a January 2005 Kerala High Court judgment acquitting all 35 persons except the prime
accused S.S. Dharmarajan in the 1996 Suryanelli sex scandal case.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: The Union Cabinet gives nod for an ordinance aimed at making changes in sections of the IPC dealing with
crimes against women.
The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi presents the Best Performing Gram Panchayat Award to Karma Lepcha of
Hee-Gyathang, Sikkim, during the eighth MGNREGA Diwas Sammelan in New Delhi.
Feb. 2: A special fast track court in New Delhi frames charges against five accused in the December 16, 2012 Delhi
gangrape case.
The Karnataka government appoints G. Bhavani Singh as the Special Public Prosecutor in the disproportionate assets
case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
Feb. 4: Solictor-General of India Rohinton Nariman resigns.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa hands over a cheque for Rs. 10 lakh to Prema Jayakumar of Mumbai who
scored the first rank in the CA examination.
Feb. 6: Land acquisition for the Posco project in Odisha is halted following stiff opposition from the locals.
Feb. 7: The Supreme Court directs Karnataka to release forthwith 2.44 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu to save standing
crops on one lakh acres in the Cauvery delta region.
Feb. 8: The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts four bills, including the Special Police Youth Brigade Bill.
Feb. 9: The December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case convict Mohammed Afzal Guru is hanged and buried inside the
Tihar jail complex in New Delhi.
Feb. 10: Thirtysix Kumbh pilgrims are killed and 39 injured in a stampede at the Allahabad railway
station after a foot bridge collapses due to heavy rush of people.
Feb. 11: New stock exchange MCX-SX starts trading shares.
Feb. 12: The Defence Ministry orders a CBI probe into allegations of bribery in the Rs. 3,600-crore
VVIP helicopter deal inked in February 2010 with Italian defence firm Finmeccanica.
Vinodhini, a victim of acid attack in Karaikal on November 14, 2012 dies at a private hospital in
Chennai.
Feb. 13: Mohan Parasaran is appointed Solicitor General.
Feb. 14: A record 91.5 per cent polling is registered in the Tripura Assembly election.
Feb. 17: Journalist-author Jerry Pinto is presented The Hindu Literary Prize 2013 for his novel Em
and the Big Hoom , at a function in Chennai.
Feb. 18: The President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament
and Development for 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self-Employed Womens Association at Rashtrapati
Bhavan.
Feb. 19: The Centre notifies the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal given in February
2007, in the Gazette.
Feb. 20: The mowing down of a trade unionist in Ambala, Haryana and attack on those who turned up
for work at Noida mar the first day of the two-day all-India general strike called by 11 central trade
unions.
The National Greeen Tribunal, Southern Bench gives its nod for the setting up of a multi-
superspeciality hospital in Omandurar Government Estate, Chennai.
Feb. 21: Sixteen persons are killed and over 117 injured as two powerful blasts rip through crowded
areas at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad.
Sensex plunges by over 317 points, its biggest single-day fall since May 2012, to close at 19325.36.
Feb. 23: More than 83 per cent voting registered in Nagaland Assembly polls.
Over 85 per cent polling recorded in Meghalaya.
Feb. 24: Vidya (21), dies of injuries she suffered in an acid attack on Jan. 30, at the Government
Kilpauk Hospital, Chennai.
Feb. 25: The PSLV C20 puts the 400-Kg India-French satellite SARAL and six others into their precise
orbits after its successful launch from the Sriharikota spaceport.
Feb. 26: The Railway Budget for 2013-14 presented in the Lok Sabha by a Congress Minister after 17
years, spares passengers, but hikes freight rates by 5.8 per cent based on fuel price.
Rajya Sabha approves the amended Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Prevention,
Protection and Redressal Bill. Nod for Presidents rule in Jharkhand.
Sensex tanks 316.55 points to close at 19015.14 wiping out Rs. 1 lakh crore in investor wealth.
Feb. 27: The Government forms a 30-member JPC to probe the chopper deal.
At least 20 persons are killed and six others injured in a major fire at a market place on Surya Sen
Street close to the Sealdah railway station in Kolkata.
Feb. 28: The Union Budget 2013-14 is presented in the Lok Sabha. Womens bank to be set up with Rs.
1,000-crore capital. Nirbhaya Fund of Rs. 1,000-crore for womens safety.
The Left Front wins a fifth straight victory in Tripura with a two-thirds majority. The Naga Peoples
Front sweeps back to power in Nagaland for the third consecutive time with an absolute majority. The
Congress retains Meghalaya.
MARCH
March 3: Land acquisition for the Posco project resumes.
A Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-Ul-Haque is shot dead during a mob attack in the Hathgawan
area of Pratapgarh district in U.P.
March 4: Uttar Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya
resigns after being named an accused in the killing of DSP Zia-ul-Haque.
March 6: The seventh Left Front Government headed by Manik Sarkar (who takes oath as Chief
Minister for the fourth consecutive term) assumes office in Tripura.
March 8: The Delhi gangrape victim is posthumously honoured with the Rani Lakshmibai Award, at a
function in New Delhi.
Bittihotra Mohanty, son of former Odisha DGP B.B. Mohanty missing since his release on parole on
November 20, 2006 while serving a seven-year term for raping a German National in Alwar, Rajasthan
is arrested by the Kerala Police in Kannur.
March 9: The Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association presents a memento named Ponniyin Selvi
to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for her efforts in getting the final award of the Cauvery
Tribunal notified in the Central gazette, at a function in Thanjavur.
March 11: Ram Singh, the main accused in the December 16, 2012 Vasant Vihar gangrape is found
hanging in his cell inside Tihar jail.
March 13: The CBI books the former Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi along with 12 others for alleged
cheating, criminal conspiracy in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP chopper deal.
March 16: The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates the 125{+t}{+h}anniversary celebrations of
Malayala Manorama in Kottayam, Kerala and releases a commemorative stamp.
March 18: Paan Singh Tomar bags the best feature film award at the 60th National Film Awards
function in New Delhi. The Hindi film Vicky Donor and Malayalam film Ustad Hotel share the award
for the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment. Irrfan Khan ( Paan Singh Tomar )
and Vikram Gokhale ( Anumati ) share the best actor award. Usha Jadhav ( Anumati ) bags the best
actress award.
March 19: The DMK decides to quit both the Union Government and the Congress-led UPA.
The Lok Sabha passes the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, to provide for more stringent
punishment for crimes against women.
March 20: All five DMK Ministers in the UPA government submit resignation letters to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh.
March 21: The Supreme Court confirms the death sentence for Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the main
accused in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that killed 257 people. Five-year jail term for actor
Sanjay Dutt. Death sentence for 10 commuted to lifer.
The Tamil Nadu Finance Minister O. Paneerselvam presents a revenue-surplus budget in the State
Assembly. Social sector allocated Rs. 43,450-crore.
March 22: Italian marines Massimilano Latore and Salvatore Girone land in Delhi.
March 26: AirAsias proposal gets the governments nod.
March 27: The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts a resolution, which among other things, seeks a
referendum on creation of Eelam.
Puthiya Kovilakathu Sree Manavedan Raja (100), the Zamorin of Calicut passes away at a hospital in
Kozhikode.
March 30: Sterlite Industries Ltd.s copper smelter plant is ordered closed by the Tamil Nadu
Pollution Control Board, following reports of a gas leak on March 23.
The family members of those killed in the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament take back gallantry
medals they had returned on December 13, 2006.
APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court in a landmark verdict rejects Swiss firm Novartis plea for a patent for
modification of Glivec that fights a form of chronic blood cancer. Green signal for cheaper generic
drugs.
April 2: A new Gujarat Lokayukta Aayog Bill, 2013 is passed in the State Assembly.
The Supreme Court directs Sterlite Copper Smelter plant to pay Rs.100 crore as compensation for land
and water pollution. The order will not come in the way of TNPCB closure directive.
April 3 : A court holds Maharashtra State Transport bus driver Santosh Mane who killed nine persons
and injured 37 after hijacking a bus on January 25, 2012, guilty of murder.
April 4: At least 74 people are killed and 61 injured after a seven-storey building at Lucky Compound,
Shilpata collapses in Thane, in the neighbourhood of Mumbai.
The Tamil Nadu Government posts Shiv Das Meena, an IAS officer as Administrator of the 84-year-old
Annamalai University.
April 5: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padmashri
awards at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
April 6: Lt. Commander Abhilash Tomy becomes the only one in the world to officially do solo
circumnavigation and solo non-stop circumnavigation.
April 8: A sessions court in Pune hands down death sentence to Santosh Mane.
April 10: A sessions court in New Delhi rejects CBIs clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the
1984 anti-Sikh riots case and orders a fresh probe.
Benod Behari Choudhury (102), the last of the revolutionaries who took part in the 1930 Chittagong
Armoury Raid dies at a Kolkata hospital after a multi-organ failure.
April 12 : The Supreme Court rejects the mercy petition of Khalistani terrorist and death-row convict
Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case.
April 15 : A Pune trial court holds Mirza Himayat Baig guilty of planning and executing the February
13, 2010 German Bakery blasts.
The Tamil Nadu Government introduces a Bill in the Assembly to repeal the Annamalai University Act
of 1929 and replace it with a fresh legislation. Registrar R.Meenakshisundaram demits office.
April 17 : Telugu writer Ravuri Bharadwaja is selected for the Jnanpith Award for 2012.
Relatives rescue a five-year-old girl raped and brutalised from the ground floor flat of an apartment in
Gandhi Nagar, East Delhi. She had gone missing two days earlier.
April 18: Mirza Himayat Baig is sentenced to death for murder and criminal conspiracy by a Pune
sessions court.
The Madras High Court orders the sale of MT Pratibha Cauvery which ran aground in Chennai due to
Cyclone Nilam on October 31, 2012, through the court.
April 19: B. Sivanthi Adityan (76), owner of Dina Thanthi and well-known sports administrator, dies
in Chennai after a prolonged illness.
April 20: Manoj Sah, accused of raping the five-year-old is arrested at Chiknouta, in Bihars
Muzaffarpur.
April 22: Pradeep Kumar, the second accused in the Delhi child rape case is arrested in Barahiya
village at Lakhisarai district, Bihar.
April 23: Sudipta Sen, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Kolkata-based Saradha group is held in
the tourist resort of Sonmarg in Kashmir.
April 24 : West Bengal government decides to set up a Rs.500-crore relief fund to help out
depositors hit by the chit fund scam.
Feroz Khan accused of raping a four-year-old girl in Ghansur town in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh on April
17 is arrested in Bhagalpur, Bihar.
April 27: Major Anup Joseph Manjali is awarded Kirti Chakra by the President Pranab Mukherjee.
Twelve defence personnel given Shaurya Chakra for acts of bravery. Ten officers are awarded Param
Vishist Seva Medal.
April 28: Sailendra Nath Roy, a home guard and Guinness World Record holder, dies of heart attack
while trying to cross the Teesta river suspended from a 600-feet zip cable by a tuft of his hair at a
height of 70 feet near the Coronation Bridge near Siliguri, West Bengal.
April 29: The four-year-old rape victim from Madhya Pradesh dies of cardiac arrest at a Nagpur
hospital.
April 30: A sessions court in Delhi acquits senior congress leader Sajjan Kumar of all charges in a 1984
anti-Sikh riots case. Five others are convicted.
Lok Sabha approves passage of the Finance Bill 2013-14, the railway budget and the Appropriation
bills, without discussion.
MAY
May 1: The Supreme Court upholds the governments proposal to allow FDI in multi-brand retail
trade.
May 2: Punjab Government declares Sarabhjit Singh a National Martyr.
May 3: Pakistani terror convict Sanaullah Haq is critically injured in an attack by an Indian jailmate at
Kot Bhalwal Central Jail in Jammu, four days after completion of 14 years of imprisonment.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes a resolution demanding that the Union Government take steps to
take back control of Katchatheevu, a small island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974.
Bollywood legend Pran is honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award by President Pranab
Mukherjee. Trophies given to the winners of 60th National Film Awards. Biopic Paan Singh Tomar
wins best picture award.
Haritha V. Kumar tops the rank list of the 2012 UPSC exams, in the process becoming the first Keralite
in more than 20 years to achieve this distinction.
Sarabhjit Singh is cremated with full honours in Bhikiwind village in Punjabs Tarn Taran district.
May 5: China ends three-week stand-off and pulls out troops from Daulat Beg Oldi sector in Ladakh.
Seventy per cent turnout in Karnataka Assembly polls.
May 6: The Supreme Court clears the decks for the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power
Plant in Tamil Nadu.
May 8 : Karnataka votes the BJP out of power. Gives the Congress an unambiguous mandate to rule.
May 9: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq (64) dies of multiple organ failure at a hospital ,in
Chandigarh.
May 10: Union information and Technology Minister Manish Tewari presents the Dadasaheb Phalke
award to veteran actor Pran (93) at the latters residence in Bandra.
May 11: Manjima Chatterjee wins The Hindu Metroplus Playwright Award 2013 for her The Mountain
of Bones .
May 16: The Delhi Police Special Cell smashes a spot-fixing racket in the ongoing IPL matches with the
arrest of Indian pacer Sreesanth and two of his teammates from Rajasthan Royals Ajit Chandila and
Ankeet Chavan in Mumbai.
Actor Sanjay Dutt surrenders in the special TADA court in Mumbai.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly gives its nod for the Annamalai University Bill, 2013 paving the way for
government control.
May 17: The Patna High Court acquits former Lok Sabha MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav and two
others in the June 14, 1998 killing of CPI (M) MLA Ajit Sarkar.
May 18: Anshu Jamshenpa of Arunachal Pradesh, who holds the record of being the only mother in the
world to have scaled the Mount Everest twice in 10 days scales the peak again for the third time.
Siddaramaiah is sworn in Karnataka Chief Minister.
Sri Narayana Yatheendra Mahadesikan, (87), 45{+t}{+h}Azhagiyasingar of Ahobila Mutt passes away
in Tiruchi.
May 20: India and China sign eight agreements, including one to increase the frequency of exchange of
hydrological data.
May 21: Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma is appointed as the 12{+t}{+h}Comptroller and
AuditorGeneral.
Arunima Sinha, a former national volleyball player, becomes the first woman amputee to scale Mount
Everest.
May 22: The Centre notifies Cauvery Water (Implementation of the Order of 2007) Scheme, 2013.
Formation of supervisory committee too notified.
May 23: Sri Ranganatha Yatheendra Mahadesikan formally takes charge as the 46{+t}
{+h}Azhagiyasingar of Ahobila Mutt in Srirangam.
The Union Cabinet decides to grant classical language status for Malayalam.
May 24: Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of BCCI president N. Srinivasan is arrested on charges of
betting, conspiracy and cheating by the Mumbai Crime Branch.
May 25: Mahendra Karma who founded Salwa Judum for combating Maoists and state Congress
president Nandkumar Patel are among 27 persons killed in an ambush on a motorcade by naxalites at
Darbha, Chhattisgarh. Senior leader V.C. Shukla is seriously injured.
The former Editor-in-chief of The Hindu N. Ram and veteran author-journalist activist Kuldip Nayar
are honoured with the Red Ink Lifetime Achievement Awards for 2013 for a career dedicated to good
journalism by the Press Club of Mumbai.
May 29: In a major twist to the Suryanelli rape case, the lone convict S.S. Dharmarajan denies
knowing Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien in an affidavit filed in the District and Sessions
Court, Thodupuzha, Kerala.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Assam for the fifth consecutive
term.
May 31: The National Green Tribunal allows Sterlite Industries Ltd. to begin operation of its copper
smelter plant in Tamil Nadus Tuticorin district.
JUNE
June 1: N.R. Narayana Murthy is reappointed Infosys Chairman two years after his retirement. Son
Rohan Murthy appointed his executive assistant.
June 4: The Union Cabinet approves a non-binding conciliation process with the British telecom giant
Vodafone in the $2-billion (Rs. 11,200 crore) tax dispute case.
June 11: Senior Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla (84) dies of injuries he sustained in a Maoist
attack in Chhattisgarh, at Medanta in Gurgaon.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court approves the merger of Satyam Computers with Tech Mahindra.
June 13: Two out of three segments of Mumbais 17-km Eastern Freeway, comprising the nations
second longest road and the first-ever urban tunnel are inaugurated by the Maharashtra Chief
Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
June 16: The Janata Dal (United) severs its alliance with the BJP. The JD(U) national president Sharad
Yadav resigns as NDA convener.
Heavy rains lash Mumbai and trigger landslips in Uttarakhand. Thousands of Char Dham pilgrims
stranded on Gangotri and Yamunotri routes.
June 17: More than 30 persons are killed and 57,000 pilgrims left stranded in Rudraprayag, Chamoli
and Uttarkasi as unprecedented rains wreak havoc in Uttarakhand. Dehradun records 340 mm
rainfall. Mandakini river floods Rudraprayag. NH-107 is washed away.
Oscar Fernandes becomes Road & Highways Minister; Sis Ram Ola gets Labour and Employment;
Mallikarjuna Kharge shifted from Labour to Railway and Girija Vyas is allocated Housing in the Union
Cabinet reshuffle.
June 18: The toll in the flood fury in the north, especially in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh goes
up to 130. Over 70,000 pilgrims are stranded and 21 bridges have collapsed in Uttarakhand. The
temple town of Kedarnath is wiped out in flash floods.
June 19: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wins the trust vote in the State Assembly.
June 20: Sixteen badly blocked roads across Uttarakhand are declared open. Over 33,192 pilgrims
rescued. Army flies 50 sorties.
June 21: Hyderabads Pallerla Sai Sandeep Reddy tops IIT JEE (Advanced). He had also been the
topper in the engineering stream of EAMCET in Andhra Pradesh.
June 22: Helicopters fly 150 sorties as rescue efforts gain steam in Uttarakhand and 82,000 evacuated
till date. At least 22,000 stranded in Rudraprayag, Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts. Toll touches 680.
June 25: An IAF helicopter crashes while on a rescue mission to Kedarnath in Gaurikund area killing
all 20 persons, including the crew on board.
June 26: Over 3,600 people are rescued from Harsil, Gaurikund and Badrinath bringing the total
number to 1,03,000.
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi launch the Rs.
1,672-crore Banihal-Qazigund rail link to connect Jammu with Kashmir and the rest of the nation. The
11.215-km Pir Panjal tunnel is also inaugurated.
June 27: Four AIADMK candidates and one each from the CPI and the DMK are elected to the Raj
Sabha from Tamil Nadu.
The ailing Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited is closed.
June 29: Justice P. Sathasivam becomes the first Judge from Tamil Nadu to be appointed the CJI.
June 30: Anil Goswami takes charge as the Union Home Secretary.
JULY
July 1: Indias first dedicated navigation satellite, the 1,425-Kg IRNSS-1A is successfully put into orbit
after launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Jamia Millia University Vice-Chancellor Najeeb Jung is appointed Lt. Governor of Delhi and K.K. Paul
is named Meghalaya Governor.
July 2: Sujatha Singh is named Foreign Secretary.
July 3: The Madras High Court restrains NLC labour unions from going on strike over the divestment
issue. Unions launch indefinite strike.
July 4: The Odisha government completes land acquisition for the proposed Posco Steel Plant.
Dalit Youth Elavarasan whose marriage to a Vanniyar girl Divya led to caste tension in Dharmapuri,
Tamil Nadu last year is found dead near a railway track behind the Dharmapuri Government Arts
College.
July 7: The Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is rocked by a series
of bomb blasts.
July 8: Twelve persons are buried alive and one dies of injuries after City Light, Secunderabads noted
Irani hotel collapses.
July 10: The Supreme Court rules that chargesheeted MPs, MLAs, and MLCs will be disqualified on
date of criminal conviction.
July 11: The AERB gives its nod for controlled fission at the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear
Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for revocation of Presidents rule in Jharkhand.
July 12: Veteran Bollywood actor and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee Pran Kishan Sikand (93), dies at the
Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai.
July 13: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MLA Hemant Soren is sworn in as Jharkhands ninth Chief Minister
in Ranchi.
The reactor at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project attains criticality.
July 14: India bids adieu to the 163-year-old Telegram Service.
July 15: Decks cleared for Tamil Nadu Government to acquire five per cent NLC stake sale for Rs.500
crore. Employees call off strike.
July 16: The Supreme Court allows dance bars in Maharashtra, shut down seven years ago to reopen.
The former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala among 55 convicted in the 1999 teachers
recruitment scam by a special CBI court in New Delhi.
July 17: The worlds largest steel maker Arcelor Mittal scraps its $12-billion steel plant in Odisha.
July 18: The Supreme Court declares the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test unconstitutional.
The CJI Altamas Kabir retires.
July 19: Justice P. Sathasivam is sworn in as the 40{+t}{+h}CJI at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati
Bhavan.
July 23: Vidya Subramaniam, Associate Editor of The Hindu wins the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in
Journalism Award for the Best Commentary and Interpretative Writing for 2010.
July 24: Meena Devi, Principal of the Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School in Bihar where 23 kids
died after having mid-day meal is arrested.
July 25: A Delhi Court convicts suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ahmed in the 2008
Batla House encounter case of murdering inspector Mohan Chand Sharma.
July 26: Celebrated biologist Obaid Siddiqi (81), a scientist nonpareil dies of brain injuries sustained
in an accident two days ago while taking a stroll near his residence in Vidyaranyapura in Bangalore.
July 30: The UPA Coordination Committee agrees to the division of Andhra Pradesh.
Suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed convicted in the Batla House encounter is
sentenced to lifer.
July 31: An indefinite curfew is clamped in Diphu, headquarters town of Karbi Anglong Hill district in
Central Assam following widespread violence triggered by the announcement on Telangana.
AUGUST
Aug. 1: The Assam Government requests Army to be on standby as violence spreads to more areas in
Karbi Anglong district.
Shujata Singh takes over as Foreign Secretary.
A probe is ordered following a major crisis after the National Spot Exchange Ltd. suspends most
trades on its platform.
Aug. 2: Seven Congress MPs, including six from the Lok Sabha and one from the Rajya Sabha resign in
protest against the division of Andhra Pradesh.
Aug. 4: The U.P. government serves chargesheet on IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal (suspended on
July 27 for ordering the demolition of the wall of an under-construction mosque at Kadalpur village).
Aug. 5: The National Green Tribunal orders a nationwide stay on sand mining on river beds without
Environment Ministry clearance.
The number of MPs from the Seemandhra region who have quit membership from both Houses
protesting the creation of Telangana goes up to 17.
Aug. 6: Five Indian soldiers are killed in an ambush by Pakistani army commandos on the Line of
Control in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Govind Rajan is appointed as the RBI Governor for three years.
Sensex plunges by 449.22 points to close at 18733.04. Rupee touches its record low of 61.80 a dollar.
Aug. 7: The historical bill to replace the National Food Security Bill Ordinance, 2013 is introduced in
the Lok Sabha.
Justice R.A. Mehta decides not to accept the post of Gujarat Lok Ayukta despite having won a pitched
legal battle.
Aug. 8: The National Green Tribunal permits Sterlite Industries to operate its copper smelting plant at
Tuticorin.
Aug. 10: The compact pressurised water reactor on board Indias nuclear-powered submarine,
Arihant, achieves criticality capping 25 years of indigenous efforts.
YSR Congress President and Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy resigns from the Lok Sabha. His
mother Y.S. Vijaya resigns as Pulivendula MLA.
Aug. 11: Subramanian Swamy merges the Janata Party with the BJP.
Aug. 12: INS Vikrant, Indias first indigenous aircraft carrier is launched at Cochin Shipyard Limited.
The Manmohan Singh government introduces the Right to Information (Amendment Bill), 2013 in the
Lok Sabha.
Aug. 13: The Rajya Saha passes the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012.
Aug. 14: The Navys kilo-class submarine INS Sindhurakshak sinks after twin explosions at the
Mumbai naval dockyard, a day earlier. Eighteen sailors are killed.
The Supreme Court confirms the death penalty to Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar.
Aug. 16: Sensex plunges 769.41 points its lowest point in four years to leave investors poorer by
Rs. 2 lakh crore.
Abdul Karim Tunda, the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba ideologue is formally arrested on the Indo-Nepal
border.
Aug. 17: Sheikh Jalal-ud-din, eminent cardiologist from Kashmir, dies at the AIIMS of injuries he
sustained in a July 18 militant attack near his residence at Namblabal in Pampore, near Srinagar.
Aug. 19: Twentyeight persons, including 14 women are crushed to death by the Patna-bound superfast
Rajyarani Express at Dhamara Ghat station in Bihars Khagaria district.
Aug. 20: Maharashtras most vocal rationalist Narendra Dabholkar is shot dead near Punes Shanivar
Peth area.
The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi launches the national food security scheme at a function in New
Delhi. Haryana and Uttarakhand included in rollout.
Aug. 22: A 22-year-old photo-journalist is gangraped on the Shakti Mills Compound at Mahalaxmi,
Mumbai while on an assignment.
Aug. 23: One person is killed and 39 others injured when a major blast leads to the collapse of an
under construction cooling tower at HPCLs Visakh Refinery in Visakhapatnam.
Aug. 26: The Lok Sabha passes the National Food Security Bill, 2013 after a six-hour long debate.
Karnataka government removes G. Bhavani Singh as Special Public Prosecutor in the Rs. 66.65-crore
disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and others.
Aug. 27: The rupee slumps to 66.24/25 a dollar triggering a collapse in stock markets. Sensex loses
590.05 points to close at 17968.08.
Aug. 29: Yasin Bhatkal, a key plotter in several blasts and co-founder of the banned Indian
Mujahideen and his close associate Asadullah Akhtar are arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in
Bihars Raxaul town.
The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill is passed by the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 31: Juvenile gets three years jail term in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2: The Rajya Sabha approves by voice vote the National Food Security Bill.
Sept. 4: Raghuram Rajan takes over as the 23{+r}{+d}RBI Governor. Duvvuri Subba Rao demits
office.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and
Resettlement Bill, 2013, is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2011.
Sept. 5: The amended version of the Land Acquisition Bill is cleared by Parliament.
The Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (120{+t}{+h}Amendment) Bill, 2013 to create a Judicial
Appointments Committee.
Deepak Sandhu becomes the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the nation.
Sept. 6: The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of
Street Vending) Bill, 2012.
The Lok Sabha passes The Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013
dealing with those in lawful custody but not convicted. The RS had given its nod on August 27.
The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2013 is presented to western music director Zubin Mehta by
the President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.
Sept. 7: At least nine persons, including a photojournalist are killed and 34 injured after a fresh bout
of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, triggered by an incident on August 27 in
which two boys were killed in Kawal Village by a mob.
Sept. 8: The U.P. government issues shoot-at-sight orders even as fresh violence erupts in far-flung
pockets of Muzzaffarnagar taking the toll to 21.
Sept. 12: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development for 2012 to his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New
Delhi.
Sept. 13: A fast track court in New Delhi awards death penalty to the four convicts in the December 16
gang rape and murder case.
The BCCI slaps life ban on pacer S. Sreesanth and Mumbai left-arm spinner Ankeet Chavan for
spot-fixing in the IPL.
Sept. 19: A special CBI Court in New Delhi convicts Congress Rajya Sabha M.P. Rasheed Masood under
the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Sept. 22: The suspended U.P. IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal is reinstated.
Sept. 24: The Union Cabinet negating a Supreme Court ruling, clears an ordinance that will protect
convicted MPs and MLAs from immediate disqualification.
Sept. 25: Annamalai University administrator Shiv Das Meena assumes charge as Vice-Chancellor.
Sept. 26: The Department of Posts launches a separate PIN Code 110201 for the Supreme Court of
India.
Sept. 27: The Supreme Court holds that a voter can exercise the option of negative voting and reject
candidates as unworthy of being elected.
Fiftyfour persons are killed and 32 injured after a 33-year-old four-storey building at Dockyard Road
in south Mumbai collapses.
Sept. 30: A special CBI Court in Ranchi pronounces all 45 accused, including RJD leader and MP Lalu
Prasad and former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra guilty in the Chaibasa treasury case of the
Rs. 950-crore fodder scam.
The Supreme Court quashes the Karnataka Government order removing G. Bhavani Singh as Special
Public Prosecutor.
OCTOBER
Oct. 1: The Gujarat Assembly passes for the second time the Gujarat Lokayukta Aayog Bill, 2013.
Congress MP and former Union Minister Rasheed Masood is sentenced to four years in jail by a special
CBI court in New Delhi in a corruption case.
Oct. 2: The Union Cabinet withdraws the ordinance on convicted lawmakers as well as the Bill that
sought to amend the Representation of the People Act on which it was based.
Oct. 3: The Union Cabinet gives approval to a Home Ministry proposal to divide Andhra Pradesh and
create Telangana State. Four Union Ministers quit.
The former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav gets five years RI, stands disqualified from
Parliament and is banned from polls for 11 years.
Oct. 4: All 13 districts in the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions observe total shutdown on the
first day of a 48-hour bandh.
India launches JENVAC its first indigenous vaccine to protect children from Japanese encephalitis.
Oct. 5: After nearly three months, pilgrimage to Kedarnath and Badrinath temples resumes.
Oct. 7: Over 50 lakh consumers in the five districts of Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, East
and West Godavari go without power following strike by over 8,000 electricity staff.
Arundhati Bhattacharya takes over as the SBI Chairperson, thus becoming the first woman to be
appointed to the top job.
Oct. 8: The Supreme Court commutes to lifer the death sentence awarded to the former Delhi Youth
Congress leader Sushil Sharma for murdering and burning the body of his wife Naina Sahni on July 2,
1995.
Oct. 9: The Patna High Court acquits all 26 accused in the December 1, 1997 case of Laxmanpur Bathe
massacre in Arwal district of Bihar in which 58 Dalits were killed.
The Tolkappiyar Award for lifetime achievement in classical Tamil is awarded to Dr. Iravatham
Mahadevan and Prof. Tamizhannal Periyakaruppan for 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively.
Bharati Enterprises and U.S. retail giant Walmart announce termination of their joint venture, ending
a six-year relationship.
Oct. 11: The Indian Coast Guard detains Seaman Guard Ohio, a Sierra Leone-flagged vessel with 25
armed guards on board in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.
Oct. 12: The cyclonic storm Phailin crosses the Odisha coast near Gopalpur 20 km from Berhampur in
Ganjam district. Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh bears the brunt and seawater enters many
villages.
Oct. 13: As many as 115 people are killed as a result of a stampede that breaks out on a bridge near the
Ratangarh Mata temple in Madhya Pradeshs Datia district.
Oct. 18: The Tamil Nadu Q Branch police arrest 33 men, including the crew of U.S.-based ship Seaman
Guard Ohio.
Oct. 20: Congress member of the Rajya Sabha Rashid Masood becomes the first MP to lose his seat
after the Supreme Court struck down a provision in the electoral law that protected a convicted
lawmaker from disqualification.
RJDs Lalu Prasad Yadav and JD (U)s Jagdish Sharma are disqualified from the Lok Sabha following
their conviction in a fodder scam case.
Oct. 24: Manna Dey (94) legendary playback singer dies at a hospital in Bangalore after prolonged
illness.
The FIPB gives nod to Tata-Singapore Airlines proposal to set up a full service airline in India.
Oct. 26: Andhra Pradesh reels under floods caused by rain for the past five days and the toll touches
39. Crops on 6.78 lakh hectares damaged.
Oct. 27: Five persons are killed and 83 injured in serial blasts that rock Patnas Gandhi maidan, the
venue of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modis Hunkar rally.
Ashwath Narayanan, wins The Hindu Saregama M. S. Subbulakshmi Award 2013.
Oct. 28: The Supreme Court directs the Sahara Group to deposit in three weeks the original title deeds
of properties with Rs. 20,000 crore to the SEBI.
Oct. 30: Fortyfive persons, including an infant are killed as the bus in which they were travelling goes
up in flames on Hyderabad-Bangalore highway.
Oct. 31: Eminent agriculture scientist M. S. Swaminathan is honoured with the Indira Gandhi National
Integration Award, at a function in New Delhi.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Sensex falls back to 21196.81 after scaling a lifetime high of 21293.88 on the last day of the
Hindu Samvat year 2069.
Kannur in Kerala is declared the first zero-landless district in the country.
Nov. 2: Eight persons are run over by a passenger train near Gotlam station in Andhra Pradeshs
Vizianagaram district, after a rumour of fire on their train made them jump on to the adjacent track.
Nov. 3: Sensex ends day at 21,239.36 its second consecutive record high, in a special session of
Muhurat trading.
Nov. 5: The ISROs Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C-25) in its silver jubilee mission puts the
1,350 kg Mars Orbiter precisely on to its earth-orbit 44 minutes after blasting off from Sriharikota.
A CBI special court in Thiruvananthapuram clears the State CPI(M) secretary Pinarayi Vijayan of all
charges in the SNC-Lavalin case.
Nov. 6: The Gauhati High Court quashes the Union Home Ministry resolution of 1963 on the basis of
which the CBI was constituted.
Nov. 9: The Supreme Court stays the Gauhati High Court verdict on CBI formation.
Nov. 11: Sixtyseven per cent voting is registered in the first phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls.
Nov. 16: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and top scientist C.N.R. Rao are named for Bharat Ratna,
Indias highest civilian award.
Nov.19: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Bharatiya Mahila Bank, the first all women
commercial bank in Mumbai.
The Supreme Court gives a big relief to political parties allowing jailed persons to contest polls.
High turnout in phase II of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament
and Development for 2013.
Nov. 20: The first Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality is presented to actress Waheeda
Rahman and Lifetime achievement Award to Czech film-maker Jiri Menzel at the inauguration of the
44{+t}{+h}International Film Festival of India in Panaji, Goa.
Nov. 21: The Goa police launch criminal probe into charges against Tarun Tejpal, founder and editor-
in-chief of Tehelka sexually assaulting a woman staff of the weekly magazine at a hotel during the
Think Fest.
Nov. 22: Cyclone Helen leaves four persons dead and destroys paddy on one lakh acres while crossing
the coast close to south of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Nov. 25: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad holds dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar guilty of the
murder on May 16, 2008 of their daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic worker, Hemraj at their
home in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
A record 70.82 per cent voting is recorded in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls. Mizoram registers
81 per cent balloting.
Nov. 26: A CBI special court in Ghaziabad awards lifer to Nupur and Rajesh Talwar.
Nov. 27: The Kanchi Sankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswati and the junior Acharya Sri Vijayendra
Saraswati are acquitted by a Sessions Court in Puducherry in the September 3, 2004 murder of A.
Sankararaman, manager of the Sri Varadarajaperumal Temple, bringing an eight-year trial to a close.
Nov. 29: The law intern names West Bengal Human Rights Commission Chairman A. K. Ganguly as the
former Supreme Court judge against whom she has levelled sexual harassment charges.
The final judgment given by the Brajesh Kumar tribunal on the Krishna Water dispute leaves Andhra
Pradesh disappointed as it gives no relief on any of the 14 amendments it sought on the December
2010 interim order.
Nov. 30: Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka is arrested after a Goa sessions court rejects his
anticipatory bail plea.
The Emperor of Japan, Akihito arrives in New Delhi on a six-day state visit.
East Timors first feature film A Guerra da Beatriz (Beatrizs War) bags the Golden Peacock award at
the 44{+t}{+h}IIFA in Goa.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1: A record 72.49 per cent turnout is recorded in the Rajasthan Assembly elections.
Mars Orbiter begins its 300-day 680-million km voyage to the Red Planet after being put into a
sun-centric orbit.
Dec. 2: The ISROs Mars Orbiter becomes the farthest object sent into space by India.
Dec. 3: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates the 8{+t}{+h}Asia Gas Partnership Summit
in New Delhi during which he dedicates to the nation the GAIL India Ltd.s 1,000 km-long Dabhol-
Bangalore gas pipeline.
Dec. 4: Delhi registers more than 65 per cent voting in Assembly polls, with youth turning up in large
numbers.
Dec. 5: The Union Cabinet approves the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 for the creation of a
Telangana State with 10 districts, paving the way for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
The Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announces an award of Rs. 2 lakh to Gunjan Sharma who
offered herself as hostage to a gunman who had abducted them in a school van in Simaluguri district a
day earlier, to save 10 of her schoolmates.
Dec. 6: Large-scale protests mark the first day of a 48-hour bandh called by the YSR Congress and the
TDP in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema against the Union Cabinet nod to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 8: The BJP scores a landslide victory in the Rajasthan Assembly polls bagging 162 states in the
200-member House.
The BJP gets a two-thirds majority and performs a hat-trick in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP wins a third consecutive term.
The BJP emerges the single largest party, winning 31 seats in the Delhi Assembly polls but falls short
of majority. The Aam Aadmi Party steals the show on its debut by bagging 28 seats. The Congress gets
a drubbing.
The AIADMKs P. Saroja wins the Yercaud byelection by a record margin of 78,116 votes.
Dec. 9: The Congress retains power in Mizoram.
The report of the 30-member JPC on 2G Spectrum allocation tabled in the Lok Sabha.
Dec. 10: The DMDK presidium chairman and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu
Assembly, Panruti S. Ramachandran quits active politics and resigns as Alandur MLA.
Dec. 11: The Supreme Court sets aside the July 2, 2009 Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising gay
sex.
Retired Gujarat High Court judge D. P. Buch is sworn in as the Lokayukta, a post that had remained
vacant for a decade.
The IAFs workhorse, MiG-21 bows out, at a function in Kalaikunda air base, West Bengal.
Dec. 12: Raman Singh takes oath as Chhattisgarh Chief Minister for the third consecutive term at a
function in Raipur.
The West Bengal Assembly passes the West Bengal Protection of Interest of Depositors Bill, 2013.
The Union Cabinet approves the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill.
Dec. 13: BJP leader Vasundhara Raje is sworn in as Rajasthan Chief Minister in Jaipur.
The Supreme Court grants bail to RJD president Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case.
The Maharashtra Assembly passes the Anti-Superstition Bill.
Dec. 14: Shivraj Singh Chouhan is sworn in Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for a third term.
Lal Thanhawla is sworn in Mizoram Chief Minister .
Dec. 15: DMK ends decade-old ties with the Congress.
Union Labour Minister Sis Ram Ola (86), dies at a Gurgaon hospital.
Dec. 16: The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 to bifurcate the State is introduced in both
Houses of the Legislature.
The Union Cabinet gives nod to the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill.
Dec. 17: The Rajya Sabha passes by voice vote the historic Lokpal Bill.
Dec. 18: The Lok Sabha passes the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2013.
Novelists Mridula Garg (Hindi) and R. N. Joe D Cruz (Tamil), poet Javed Akhtar among winners of
Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2013.
Dec. 19: Sushma Singh is sworn in Chief Information Commissioner by the President Pranab
Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Dec. 20: The report of the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry tabled in the State Assembly indicts four
former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra. Cabinet rejects report.
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court sets aside permission given to the UB Holdings to sell
1.36-crore shares of United Spirits to British liquor major Diageo Plc.
The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas gets initial clearance for joining IAF, 30 years after the
project was sanctioned.
Dec. 21: Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan resigns.
Dec. 25: The Army decides to courtmartial six military personnel for the murder of three civilians in a
fake encounter on April 30, 2010 at Machhil in Kashmir.
Dec. 27: The final Ecologically Sensitive Area notification on Western Ghats is put on hold.
Dec. 28: Arvind Kejriwal is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. Six
Cabinet colleagues too assume office.
Twentysix persons are charred to death as an AC coach of the Bangalore City-Nanded Express catches
fire near Kothacheruvu in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 29: The parents of the December 16, 2012 gangrape victim announce setting up of a trust in her
name at a prayer meeting at their village in Ballia , Uttar Pradesh.
Dec. 30: The U.K.-based Tesco Plc. first global retailer to get FIPB nod to enter domestic multi-brand
retail sector.
The Army chief General Bikram Singh takes over as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in
New Delhi.
Dec. 31: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha takes over as the 24th Chief Of The Air Staff from Air Chief
Marshal N. A. K. Browne at Vayu Bhawan in New Delhi.
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