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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016
THE HINDU
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar
is conferred Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Jaipur International
Film Festival.
Malini Parthasarathy takes charge
as the first woman Editor of The
Hindu.
Feb. 4: Union Home Secretary
Anil Goswami is sacked for allegedly
trying to stall the arrest of former
Minister Matang Singh. L.C. Goyal
appointed in his place.
Feb. 5: L.C. Goyal takes charge as
Union Home Secretary.
The election of a returned candi- CPI leader Govind Pansare.
Mission and the Atal Pension Yojana. Nirbhaya Fund gets Rs. 1,000
crore.
MARCH
March 1: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed takes oath as the 12th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
heading a PDP-BJP coalition Ministry.
March 2: The Nasdaq Composite
Index surges above 5,000 for the first
time in 15 years, since the massive
dotcom crash of 2000.
Maharashtra Animal Preservation
(Amendment) Bill 1995, banning
cow slaughter gets Presidential nod.
March 3: Three senior brokerage
officials are arrested by the Mumbai
police in connection with the
Rs.4,600-crore National Spot Exchange Scam.
March 4: BSE Sensex crosses historic 30000 mark and the NSE Nifty
touches the 9100 milestone in early
trade.
The Lok Sabha clears the longpending Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill.
March 5: The Maharashtra government officially scraps the five per
cent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions, despite a Bombay High Court ruling in its favour.
The Delhi High Court upholds the
January 2013 conviction of the former Haryana Chief Minister Om
Prakash Chautala, his son and 53
others in the junior teachers recruitment scam that took place in 2000.
The Centre bans telecast on Internet a documentary Indias
Daughter by British director Leslee
Udwin on the Dec.16, 2012, Delhi
gangrape that was aired on the BBCs
Channel 4 earlier in the day.
March 7: Senior separatist leader
Masarat Alam, one among the main
organisers of the pro-Azadi protests
in the Valley in 2010, is freed from
prison by the J& K police.
March 10: The Land Acquisition
(Amendment) Bill is approved in the
Lok Sabha.
March 12: Rajya Sabha passes the
Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill,
2015.
March 13: The Kerala Assembly
witnesses unprecedented violence
as the Opposition LDF tries to prevent the Finance Minister K.M. Mani who faces bribery charges in the
bar licence row from presenting the
budget.
Suzette Jordan who was allegedly
raped in a moving car on Park Street
in Kolkata in February 2012 dies in
Jnanpith awardee Bhalchandra
the city after a brief illness.
March 14: The LDF-sponsored Nemade.
APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court stays
summons issued by a Special Court
against the former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and five others in
the coal scam case.
The Andhra Pradesh government
decides to name the new capital Amaravati.
April 3: President Pranab Mukherjee signs the new Land Acquisition Ordinance.
April 7: Twenty woodcutters
from Tamil Nadu found felling red
sanders are killed by police in an
alleged encounter in the Seshachalam forest in Andhra Pradesh.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for
the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill.
MAY
May 3: President Pranab Mukherjee presents to Kangana Ranaut
the 62nd National Film Award for
Best Actress for her role in Queen
and award for best feature film to
debut director Chaitanya Tamhane.
May 6: A Mumbai sessions court
holds Bollywood actor Salman Khan
guilty of homicide in the September
28, 2002 hit-and-run case and sentences him to 5-years RI.
The Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill for introduction of Goods
and Services Tax sails through the
Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha unanimously
passes the Constitution (119th)
Amendment Bill to enable the ratification of the Land Boundary
Agreement with Bangladesh hanging
fire since 1974.
Sensex tanks 723 points to close at
26717.37 on huge selloff by FIIs.
May 7: The Juvenile Justice
(Care and Protection of Children)
Bill that provides for trying juveniles
aged between 16 and 18 years for
heinous crimes under laws for adults
is passed by the Lok Sabha.
Parliament unanimously ap-
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decides to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against verdict acquitting Jayalalithaa and three others in
the disproportionate assets case.
The trial run of the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala bus service begins in
Kolkata.
June 2: The Hindu Business Line
launches www.bloncampus.com or
BLOC, a first of its kind website tailored for B-Schoolers and B-School
aspirants.
Sensex plummets 660.61 points to
close at 27188.38
June 3: The Centre lodges a complaint against Nestle Maggi noodles
with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
June 4: Tamil Nadu bans the
manufacture, stocking and sale of
Maggi and three other noodle brands
for three months.
June 5: Nestle withdraws Maggi
and the Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India orders recall of all
nine varieties of the noodles from
the market.
June 7: Manabi Bandyopadhyay
becomes the nations first openly
transgender college principal as she
takes charge at Krishnagar Womens
College in Kolkata.
June 10: The Madras High Court
dismisses petitions by Sun TV and
Kal Comm Pvt. Ltd. against attachJUNE
ment of assets by the ED in the AirJune 1: The Karnataka Cabinet cel-Maxis case.
K.V. Chowdhary takes oath as
CVC and Vijai Sharma is sworn in as
Chief Information Commissioner, in
New Delhi.
Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Carnatic vocal), Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani vocal), Ronu
Majumdar (flute) among 36 artists
chosen for the Sangeet Natak
Awards for 2014.
June 12: Telangana announces
its maiden industrial policy with a
unique feature to cut delays Right
to Clearance, on the lines of RTI, in
Hyderabad.
Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor.
N.L. Beno Zephine, a Chennai res-
ident becomes the first visually challenged to be selected for the IFS.
June 13: The Union Government
launches an Insurance pool of Rs.
1,500 crore mandatory under the
Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
Act.
June 15: The Supreme Court cancels the All India Pre Medical and
Pre Dental Entrance Test held on
May 3, 2015 due to exam fraud.
Ex-servicemen launch an indefinite fast across the country seeking
implementation of the One Rank
One Pension scheme.
June 18: At least 102 people are
killed after consuming illicit liquor
at Malvani in Malad, Mumbai.
June 19: Mumbai comes to a
standstill following heavy torrential
rain measuring close to 300 mm over
24 hours.
June 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads 35,985 people in
breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people
doing Yoga at Rajpath, New Delhi on
the occasion of the first International Day of Yoga.
June 22: Thirtyseven persons
travel by the first commercial bus
service (Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala)
which took off from Karunamayee
Stand in Salt Lake.
June 23: The Karnataka government files an SLP in the Supreme
Court against the acquittal of Tamil
JULY
July 1: Dignity of a woman is
part of her non-perishable and immortal self, holds the Supreme
Court ruling out room for compromise in rape cases.
The Black Money (Undisclosed
Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act comes into force.
July 2: Maharashtra decides to
label students of madrasas or vedic
schools uneducated.
The External Affairs Ministry reinstates IFS officer Devyani Khobragade and posts her to the newly
created States division.
July 4: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa takes oath as an
MLA at the Secretariat.
The mystery surrounding the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh turns
murkier after Akshay Singh, a TV
journalist dies at Meghnagar area
near Jhabua town soon after interviewing the parents of an accused
who herself was found dead in 2012.
Ira Singhal from Delhi, becomes
the first physically challenged woman to top the Civil Services exam.
July 5: The Vyapam scamclaims
another victim, with Arun Sharma,
Dean of the Jabalpur-based Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College, being found dead in a Delhi
hotel.
July 6: The Chennai Corporation
announces a major decision, permitting residents to build houses on
land of any size in the city.
The DMK challenges in the Su-
AUGUST
Aug. 1: At least 14,854 people join
India after shedding a stateless existence for years in 51 Bangladesh
enclaves.
Aug. 3: The government signs a
peace deal with the NSCN (IM) in
New Delhi.
The flood toll in West Bengal goes
up to 69 and 2.1 lakh people sheltered in over 1,500 relief camps.
The Supreme Court dismisses the
appeals of the former Haryana Chief
Minister O.P Chautala, his son Ajay
Chautala and three others against
their conviction on January 16, 2013
SEPTEMBER
Sept.1: Three persons are killed
in police firing on a mob in Manipurs Churachandpur district as the
protests against the passage of bills
escalate.
Nine persons are sentenced to life
by a Special Court in Thiruvananthapuram for the August 21, 2009
murder of businessman Paul Muthoot George near Nedumudy in Keralas Alappuzha district.
M. M. Kalburgi.
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Fiftythree per cent voting is registered in the third phase of Bihar Assembly polls.
Oct. 29: The Delhi Declaration
2015, unveiled at the conclusion of
the India-Africa Forum Summit
calls for a global plan to combat
cross-border terrorism and faster
reform of the UNSC.
Oct. 30: Chandrabhan Sanap,
convicted of raping and murdering
techie Esther Anuhya is sentenced to
death by a special womens court in
Mumbai.
Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah
presents The Hindu Saregama M.S.
Subbulakshmi Award 2015 to S.
Adithyanarayanan, a mathematics
student, in Chennai.
Oct. 31: Indias tallest person and
Asias second tallest, Kolipaka Gattaiah, dies of heart attack while being
treated at a hospital in Hyderabad.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Bihar registers 57.59 per
cent turnout in phase IV of Assembly
polls.
Nov. 3: A Fast Track court in New
Delhi sentences to lifer Uber cab
driver Shiv Kumar Yadav for raping a
woman executive on Dec. 5, 2014.
Haryana
drops
chargesheet
against senior IAS officer Ashok
Khemka.
Nov. 4: The collegium system is
back and the CJI H. L. Dattu suggests
the name of Justice Tirath Singh
Thakur to be his successor.
A special court in Mumbai frames
charges against Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal in the November 26, 2008 serial terror strikes in
Mumbai.
The Registrar of Societies in Tamil
Nadu cancels the registration of
Greenpeace India as a society.
Nov. 5: The Supreme Court
throws open the collegium system to
public scrutiny.
A 19-year-old is raped in a moving
bus in Bengaluru.
Geeta.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1: Chennai registers a record
29.4 cm rain and Tambaram 49 cm.
Dec. 2: The seven life-term convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case merit no hope of freedom,
holds the Supreme Court.
Dec. 3: Prime Minister, Narendra
Modi undertakes an aerial survey of
the rain-hit areas of Chennai and
announces an additional Rs. 1,000crore package.
Dec. 4: Eighteen patients are
killed between Dec. 2 and 3 at the
MIOT International in Manapakkam, Chennai following power failure after the hospital is flooded
owing to the Adyar river breaching
its banks.
Dec. 15: A CBI raid on the secretariat of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal triggers a political storm.
Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi Award is conferred on Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan
at the Music Academy in Chennai.
Dec. 16: Appointment of priests
in Tamil Nadu temples as per Agamas not a violation of the right to
equality, rules the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court bans registration of luxury diesel vehicles in the
National Capital Region of Delhi up
to March 31, 2016.
The ISRO launches six Singapore
satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra
Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet decides to appoint a judicial commission to probe call money sex racket.
Dec. 17: Tamil writer A. Madhavan is chosen for the 2015 Sahitya
Akademi award for his collected
prose writings Ilakkiya Chuvadukal.
BJP and rebel Congress MPs vote
out Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and elect Kalikho
Pul. The Guwahati High Court stays
all decisions.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for
Rs. 40,000-crore defence deal.
Dec. 18: Mumbais Marine Drive,
completes 100 years.
Former Defence Secretary R.K.
Mathur is named new Chief Information Commissioner.
Dec. 19: A Delhi court grants conditional bail to Congress president
Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald
case.
Dec. 20: The youngest convict in
the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape is released and moved to the
care and protection of an NGO.
Dec. 21: A court in Rohtak sen- Tamil writer A. Madhavan.
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FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Egypt deports Al-Jazeera
English reporter Peter Greste to
Australia after holding him for more
than 400 days on charges of backing
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Feb. 2: Moscow, Beijing back Indias entry into APEC. New Delhi
endorses the launch of the Free
Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, at the
RIC trilateral in Beijing.
Feb. 3: British Parliament votes
to allow the creation of babies with
DNA from three people.
Feb. 4: Jordan executes Sajida alRishawi, a woman would-be suicide
bomber and Al-Qaeda member Ziad
al-Karboli in response to the burning alive of fighter pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh by IS militants on Jan. 3.
Feb. 6: Houthi rebels take over
Yemen and dissolve Parliament.
Kayla-Jean Mueller, an American
aid worker held hostage by the IS is
killed in an airstrike in Syria.
An Indian, Sureshbhai Patel, is left
partially paralysed following police
action in the suburb of Huntsville, in
Madison, Alabama, the U.S.
Feb. 8: Coming-of-age drama
Boyhood bags the best film, best director for Richard Linklater and best
supporting actress for Patricia Arquette at the BAFTA 2015. The
Grand Budapest Hotel takes home
five trophies.
Musician Ricky Kej and activist
Neela Vaswani win honours for their
work in album Winds of Samsara and
the documentary on Malala Yousafzai at the 57th Annual Grammy
Awards in Los Angeles. The Stay
With Me fame singer Sam Smith
scoops four Grammy Awards.
Feb. 9: Nobel Laureate Amartya
Sen is chosen for the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes
Prize.
Feb. 10: Three Muslim students
from one family are shot dead by
Craig Stephen Hicks, a self-described atheist in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
Feb. 11: More than 300 migrants
are feared drowned in the Mediterranean after their overcrowded
dinghies sink.
Feb. 12: Ukraine and pro-Moscow rebels announce ceasefire after
a summit in the Belarussian capital
Minsk.
Danish photographer Mads Nissens picture of a gay couple Jon and
Alex wins the World Press Photo
award.
Two Al-Jazeera journalists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed
are freed from an Egyptian jail after
more than 400 days.
Feb. 14: A documentary filmmaker Finn Norgaard is killed after a
gunman fires on a caf in the Danish
capital Copenhagen as it hosted a
free speech event organised by
Swedish artist Lars Vilks who drew
cartoons caricaturing Prophet Mohamed.
Iranian dissident director Jafar
Panahis Taxi bags the Golden Bear
at the 65th Berlinale International
Film Festival. Best acting honours
goes to Charlotte Rampling and Tom
Courtenay for Andrew Haighs 45
Years. The Grand Jury Silver Bear is
bagged by Pablo Larrains The Club.
Feb. 22: Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritus dark comedy
Birdman bags Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay at the 87th Academy
Awards in Hollywood, California.
Eddie Redmayne gets Best Actor
award (The Theory of Everything).
Julianne Moore bags Best Actress
honours for role in Still Alice. Wes
Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel wins four awards on its nine nominations.
Former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed is arrested in Male
under anti-terrorism laws for allegedly ordering the arrest of a senior
judge in 2012 that triggered violence.
Feb. 23: Eurozone approves
Greek reforms plan.
MARCH
March 4: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
goes on trial in the April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing case.
March 5: NASA scientists unveil
evidence of the existence of a massive ancient ocean that covered
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MAY
May 3: Jailed Syrian journalist
and rights activist Mazen Darwish is
presented with UNESCOs Annual
Press Freedom prize in Latvia.
May 5: The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is presented
with the Freedom of Expression
Award from the PEN American Center, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
May 6: Four Afghan men are sentenced to death and eight persons to
16 years in prison by the Kabul primary court for the March 19 killing
of a woman Farkhunda on the banks
of the Kabul river.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu forms a government just
an hour before a legal deadline.
May 7: Britons cast ballots in one
of the most closely-contested general elections in the nation.
May 8: The Conservative Party
led by British Prime Minister, David
Cameron scores a resounding victory in polls. The Labour Party suffers
a devastating rout.
Scottish National Party wins 56 of
the 59 Scottish parliamentary seats.
May 9: The WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free.
May 11: Swedens Supreme Court
rejects an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to revoke a detention order over allegations of
sexual assault.
May 12: A 7.3 magnitude temblor
rocks parts of Nepal leaving 76 dead
and nearly 2,400 injured.
Bangladesh
blogger-activist
Ananta Bijoy Das is murdered in
Northeastern Sylhet by unknown
assailants.
May 13: At least 43 persons are
killed after pistol-wielding gunmen
storm a bus carrying Shia Ismailis in
Karachis eastern Malir district.
The Vatican officially recognises
the state of Palestine.
The U.S. House of Representatives
passes the USA Freedom Act.
May 15: India and China sign 24
agreements. India-China Forum of
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dential run-off.
May 25: Bangladesh Cabinet ratifies the protocol on the Land
Boundary Agreement with India.
May 27: At least 80 people are
killed in Saudi-led air strikes near
Yemens border with Saudi Arabia
and in the capital Sanaa.
May 28: Indian-Americans Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam are declared co-champions
of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling
Bee in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 29: The U.S. removes Cuba
from its blacklist as a state sponsor
of terrorism.
May 31: Solar Impulse 2 aircraft
piloted by Andre Borschberg leaves
Nanjing in China heading for Hawaii
Rescuers paying a silent tribute to victims of the Chinese cruise
on its 8,500 km flight.
Key provisions of the U.S.A. Patri- ship mishap in Jianli, Hubei province.
ot Act lapses without renewal by
June 10: African leaders sign the
Congress. NSA loses authority to tempting to murder Pakistani
conduct bulk telephone data collec- schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai Tripartite Free Trade Area, a 26-naare acquitted by court. Two get lifer. tion free trade pact at a summit at
tion.
June 6: India and Bangladesh ex- the Red Sea resort town of Sharm
JUNE
change the instruments of ratifica- el-Sheikh, Egypt.
June 1: Over 442 people are killed tion of the Land Boundary
June 13: China launches a freight
after Eastern Star, a Chinese cruise Agreement in Dhaka.
train service between its northeastship sinks in the Yangtze river in
Prime Ministers Narenda Modi, ern city of Harbin and Europe.
Hubei provinces Jianli county, after Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal
Europes tiny robot lab Philae hurChief Minister Mamata Banerjee tling through space on the back of a
being caught in a storm.
Mauritius designates Ameenah flag off the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala comet wakes up after nearly seven
Gurib-Fakim as President, making and the Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati months and sends home first
her the first woman to hold the bus services.
message.
June 14: Talks between Greece
Richard Matt and David Sweat,
position.
Solar Impulse 2 is forced to land in both convicted killers escape from and EU-IMF creditors collapse after
Nagoya, Japan.
the maximum security Clinton Cor- both sides fail to agree on reforms .
June 2: Omar Hassan al-Bashir rectional facility in Dannemora
June 16: An Egyptian court upbegins new term as Sudan President. town in New York near the Canadian holds death sentence against ousted
The U.S. Senate passes and Presi- border.
Islamist President Mohamed Morsy
June 7: Saudi Arabias Supreme for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on
dent Barack Obama signs into law
Court upholds a sentence of 10 years police during the 2011 uprising.
the NSA surveillance reform.
June 3: The Large Hadron Collid- in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogJune 17: The Palestinian Unity
er at the European Organisation for ger Raif Badawi on charges of in- government resigns.
Nuclear Research, Geneva restarts sulting Islam.
Nine African-Americans, includwith nearly doubled energy levels in
American rower Sonya Baumstein ing pastor and State Senator Clema key breakthrough.
from Orlando, Florida sets out on a enta Pinckney and six women are
June 5: Eight of the 10 men re- 6,000-mile journey from Choshi, killed by a gunman Dylann Roof at
portedly convicted and jailed for at- Tokyo to sail solo across the Pacific the Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Charleston,
to reach San Francisco.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi South Carolina.
Scientists announce the discovery
receives the Bangaladesh Liberation
War Award on behalf of former of COSMOS Redshift 7, the brightest
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee in galaxy in the early universe and nickDhaka.
name it CR7 after Portuguese footJune 8: Vikas Bahls drama baller Cristiano Ronaldo.
Queen and Vishal Bhardwajs Haider
June 20: Jihadists blow up maubag major trophies at the 16th IIFA soleums of two revered Islamic figawards in Kuala Lumpur. Rajkumar ures in Palmyra.
June 22: Nine persons, including
Hirani gets the best director award
for PK. Deepika Padukone honoured a suicide bomber and five gunmen
with the woman of the year award.
are killed and 31 injured after securiTurkish President Recep Tayyip ty forces foil an attempt by Taliban
Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul
Erdogans Justice and Development Militants to storm the Afghan
Venkatachalam, hold aloft the
Party loses absolute majority in Par- Parliament.
trophy after winning the 2015
liament for the first time in 13 years.
James Horner (61), music comScripps National Spelling Bee in Pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic poser for hit movies like Titanic and
National Harbor, Maryland.
Avatar dies in a plane crash in Santa
Party in Parliament for first time.
Barbara, California.
June 25: The U.S. Supreme Court
upholds the Affordable Care Act
(Obamacare law) passed in 2010 preserving health insurance for millions
of Americans.
At least 206 civilians are killed as
the IS rampages through the Kurdish town of Kobane, Syria.
June 26: At least 38 persons,
most of them British, are killed and
36 others wounded after a gunman
launches an assault on a hotel in the
Tunisian resort town of Sousse.
The seventh Parliament of Sri
Lanka is dissolved.
The Vatican signs a treaty with
Palestine granting it recognition.
June 27: The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a referendum
on austerity demands from foreign
creditors.
New York Police kill Richard
Matt, one of the two convicts on the
run since June 6.
The IS Jihadists destroy the famous limestone statue of the Lion of
al-Lat kept outside the museum in
Palmyra, Syria.
June 28: Second New York prison escapee David Sweat is shot at
and captured in the town of Constable near the Canadian border.
June 29: India and 49 other
founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank sign
articles that determine each countrys share and lenders initial capital
at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the
People, Beijing.
Greece shuts down banks plunging the country into a deep crisis.
June 30: Greece defaults on a 1.5
billion euro ($1.7 billion) IMF loan,
the first by an advanced economy,
even as the current European bailout expires.
At least 142 people are feared
killed as an Indonesian air force
transport plane crashes in a residential area of Medan on the island of
Sumatra shortly after takeoff and
explodes.
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JULY
AUGUST
Aug. 1: Over 37,000 people of 111
former Indian enclaves measuring
7,110 acres become Bangladeshi citizens after 68 years of statelessness.
Aug. 5: Over 200 people are
feared drowned after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying 600 migrants capsizes off Libya.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib
Razak confirms that plane debris
found in Reunion Island is from
MH370 that crashed 17 months ago.
Aug. 7: Bangladeshi secular blogger Niloy Chatterjee Neel is hacked
to death at his home in Dhaka.
At least 27 recruits are killed after
a suicide bomber strikes outside the
gates of a police academy in Kabul.
Fifteen others die and 240 wounded
in a massive truck bomb attack near
a government complex.
Colorado theatre shooter James
Holmes is sentenced to lifer for the
2012 assault that left 12 dead and 70
injured.
Aug. 10: Chennai-born Sundar
Pichai is named chief executive officer of Google.
Aug. 11: Greece and its international lenders reach a multi-billion
euro bailout agreement in Athens.
China devalues the yuan, also
known as renminbi, by 1.9 per cent,
the largest such move in two
decades.
Aug. 12: At least 121 persons are
killed and 720 injured in massive
explosions at a warehouse in Binhai
New Area in the Chinese Port city of
Tianjin.
Aug. 13: At least 76 people are
killed and 212 wounded in a truck
bombing at a market in the Iraqi
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hundreds of prisoners.
Scientists find evidence of salt water in liquid form on Mars.
India and the U.S. ink a $ 3 billion
defence deal.
Cesare Tavella, an Italian aid
worker is shot dead in Bangladesh
capital Dhakas diplomatic quarter.
Sept. 30: Russia launches air
strikes in Syria after the Duma gives
nod for use of force abroad.
OCTOBER
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Polands eurosceptic Law and Justice Party crushes the pro-EU ruling
party.
Oct. 28: Nepals Parliament
elects communist lawmaker Bidhya
Bhandari as the countrys first woman President.
Oct. 29: China ends its one-child
policy.
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in
jail for insulting Islam, is awarded
the European Parliaments Sakharov
human rights prize.
Oct. 30: President Barack Obama
decides to send limited number of
troops to Syria.
Shaker Aamer, a high-profile detainee is freed from the Guantanamo
Bay after nearly 14 years.
Oct. 31: All 224 on board a Russian plane are killed after it breaks
up mid-air and crashes into a mountainous area of Egypts Sinai Peninsula, shortly after takeoff.
Faisal Arefin Dipan, a Bangladeshi
publisher is hacked to death in Dhaka.
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Dec. 2: Pakistan hangs four men
linked to the Peshawar school massacre on December 16, 2014.
Britain begins bombing Syria after
getting Parliament nod.
At least 14 people are shot dead
and 22 wounded in an attack on a
holiday party at a social services centre in San Bernardino, California by
a Muslim couple. After a police manhunt, the duo killed in a shootout.
Dec. 3: A South African appeals
court convicts double amputee
Olympian Oscar Pistorius of murder
for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013.
Dec. 6: Venezuelas ruling Socialist Party is crushed in polls.
Dec. 8: Taliban militants storm
the airport in Afghanistans Kandahar city, triggering pitched gun battles that leave 50 dead and 35
injured.
Dec. 9: India and Pakistan decide
to resume talks seven years after the
26/11 Mumbai attacks.
U.S. Magazine Time names German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its
Person of the Year 2015.
Dec. 10: Mauricio Macri is sworn
in Argentinas President.
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OBITUARY
JANUARY
Jan. 2: Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar (81), who played a key role in
Indias space programme, in Pune .
Jan. 4: Adusumilli Janardhana
Vara Prasad (57), Telugu actor, in
Hyderabad.
Jan. 7: B.S. Abdur Rahman (88),
educationist and founder of B.S. Abdur Rahman University, at Apollo
Hospitals in Chennai.
Jan. 11: Anita Ekberg (83), best
known for her performance in the
iconic 1960 movie La Dolce Vita in
Italy, in Rome.
Jan. 19: Rajni Kothari (86), eminent scholar and political scientist,
in New Delhi.
Anne Kirkbride (60), Coronation
Street star who played Deirdre Barlow, at a Manchester hospital.
Jan. 24: V.S. Raghavan (90), veteran Tamil film and theatre actor, in
Chennai .
Jan. 26: R.K. Laxman (93), legendary cartoonist of a cardiac arrest
at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital,
in Pune.
Jan. 27: Charles H. Townes (99),
legendary physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild is the laser, at
Oakland, California.
Jan. 29: Subhash Ghisingh (80),
Gorkhaland movement leader, at Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi.
Rajni Kothari
V.S. Raghavan
MARCH
March 7: G. Karthikeyan (66),
Kerala Assembly Speaker, of multiorgan failure at a Bengaluru hospital.
March 8: Vinod Mehta (73),
founding editor of Outlook of multiple organ failure in New Delhi.
March 9: Deepak Khaitan (59),
industrialist in Kolkata, of cancer.
March 12: Terry Pratchett (66),
British author, in London after a
long battle with Alzheimers disease.
March 20: John Malcolm Fraser
(84), former Australian Prime Minister in Melbourne.
March 31: S.R. Patil (94), veteran
Congress leader and freedom fighter
in Bengaluru.
APRIL
Jagmohan
Dalmiya
N. Ramani
R. K. Laxman
Gunter Grass
AUGUST
Aug. 9: Kayyara Kinhanna Rai
(100), Kannada poet and freedom
fighter, at his residence in Badiyaddka in Keralas Kasaragod district.
Aug. 22: Ieng Thirith (83), the
most powerful woman in the Khmer
Rouge, in Pailin, Cambodia.
Aug. 30: Wes Craven (76), who
directed the slasher classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, of brain cancer
at his home in Los Angeles.
SEPTEMBER
Gopulu
Christopher Lee
Manorama
M.A.M.
Ramaswamy
Sharad Joshi
V.S. Malimath
Sadhana
Haskell Wexler
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championship in Mumbai.
Mar. 15: Xu Xin of China and Feng
Tianwei of Singapore win the mens
and womens singles title at Asian
Cup table tennis tournament at
Jaipur.
Mar. 20: Karnataka defeats Rest
of India to retain the Irani Cup in
Bengaluru.
Mar. 26: Indias World Cup campaign ends, following a 95-run defeat
to Australia in the semifinals in
Sydney.
Mar. 29: Australia wins its fourth
World Cup crown after beating New
Zealand by seven wickets in the final
at Melbourne.
Michael Clarke retires from ODI
cricket.
Saina Nehwal wins the womens
singles title at the Indian Open badminton tournament in New Delhi
and climbs to the top of world rankings.
K. Srikanth bags the mens singles
crown.
JULY
Chile defeats Argentina in the final
to win Copa America after 99 years.
July 6: Carli Lloyd becomes the
first woman to score a hat-trick in a
world cup final inspiring the United
States to its third football World cup
title.
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AUGUST
Aug. 3: Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom
wins the women's 100m butterfly
gold with a new world record timing;
Adam Peaty becomes the first Briton
to become world champion in 40
years in the men's 100m
breaststroke.
Aug. 4: Katie Ledecky of the USA
wins the women's 1500m freestyle
gold with a new world record timing.
Aug. 6: Ryan Lochte of the USA
THE HINDU
third grand slam in 2015 beating Roger Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to clinch
his second US Open title.
Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis
wins the US Open womens doubles
title beating Casey Dellacqua & Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3, 6-3.
Australia defeats England by eight
wickets in the fifth ODI match to win
the series 3-2 at Manchester.
Sept. 20: India loses to Czech Republic in the Davis Cup World Group
play off in New Delhi.
BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya passes away aged 75 in Kolkata.
Sept. 22: Former Indian footballer Prashanta Sinha. member of the
1962 Asian Games gold medal-winning squad passes away aged 77 in
Kolkata.
Sept. 27: Pankaj Advani wins the
IBSF World Billiards championship
in Adelaide, Australia.
Former England fast bowler Frank
Tyson passes away aged 85 in
Australia.
OCTOBER
Oct. 4: Shashank Manohar takes
over as the BCCI President for the
second time following the demise of
Jagmohan Dalmiya.
Oct. 8: India lose the T20 series to
South Africa 2-0 after the third
match is washed out in Kolkata.
Oct. 10: Poland defeats Sweden to
lift the Bermuda Bowl title in the
42nd World Bridge Championship
held in Chennai.
Oct. 18: Jayanta Talukdar and
Deepika Kumari
wins the mens
and womens recurve title respectively in the
national
archery
championships
in
Meerut.
Oct. 20: Virender Sehwag
ADMINISTRATOR announces his
NON-PAREIL:
retirement
from internaJagmohan
Dalmiya, former tional cricket.
Oct.
25:
BCCI President
South
Africa
who passed
beats India by
away in
214 runs in the
Kolkata.
fifth and final
ODI in Mumbai
to clinch the bilateral series 3-2.
Lewis Hamilton wins the US GP in
Texas and clinches his third title.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Agnieszka Radwanska
beats Petra Kvitova to win the WTA
Finals title in Singapore.
The pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis wins the doubles titles in
Singapore beating Garbine Muguruza & Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3.
Nov. 6: R. Ashwin becomes the
fastest Indian to take 150 wickets in
his 29th Test match on the second day
against South Africa in Mohali.
Nov. 11: Younis Khan retires from
ODIs.
Nov. 17: Mitchell Johnson retires
from international cricket at the end
of the second Test against New Zealand in Perth.
Nov. 20: England beats Pakistan
by 84 runs in the fourth ODI in Dubai
to clinch the series 3-1.
Nov. 21: Pankaj Advani wins the
IBSF world snooker title in Hurghada, Egypt.
Nov. 22: Novak Djokovic defeats
Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 to win the
ATP Tour Finals in London.
Nov. 29: Britain clinches the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years
beating Belgium 3-1 in Ghent.
Australia beats New Zealand by
three wickets to win the first daynight Test in Adelaide and win the
series 2-0.
Britain's Tyson Fury is crowned as
the new heavyweight champion beating Wladimir Klitschko in Berlin.
DECEMBER
Dec. 6: India settles for bronze
after beating Netherlands on penalties in the World Hockey League
tournament in Raipur.
Dec. 7: India defeats South Africa
by 337 runs in the fourth Test at
Delhi to clinch the series 3-0.
Dec. 8: Pune and Rajkot are two
new cities to replace Chennai and
Rajasthan in the IPL following Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals suspension from the league for
two years.
Dec. 17: Chelsea sacks manager
Jose Mourinho.
Dec. 20: Chennaiyin FC beats FC
Goa 3-2 to win the second edition of
the ISL.
Dec. 21: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter
and Michel Platini for eight years for
ethics violations.
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