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 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-cumSecretariat 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
novelNarcopolis 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 multisuperspeciality 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
namedPonniyin 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 deathrow 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 multibrand 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.
BiopicPaan 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
herThe 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 Patnabound 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 ViceChancellor.
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.