Events in August 2007
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Aug. 1
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Al-Umma founder S.A. Basha and 152 others are found guilty in the February 14, 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts case. Abdul Nasser Maudhany, founder of the Kerala-based People’s Democratic Party and seven others are acquitted. |
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Aug. 3
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India makes public the civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. |
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India launches first ever scientific expedition to the Arctic region. |
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Aug. 4
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The country’s first mobile court is inaugurated in Mewat district of Haryana by the Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan. |
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Aug. 7
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Kaalpurush bags the Best Feature Film Award at the National Film Awards for 2005. |
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Aug. 8
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Shyam Benegal film director is named recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2005. |
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Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Rangoolam, cricket legend Kapil Dev and actor Shilpa Shetty are among those selected for the 2007 Rajiv Gandhi awards. |
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Aug. 9
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The Madras High Court stays appeals by Novartis pending before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board. |
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Aug. 10
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Mohammad Hamid Ansari is elected the 13th Vice-President. |
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Militants kill 16 Hindi-speaking persons in Dolamara village of Central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. |
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Aug. 11
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Mohammad Hamid Ansari is sworn in Vice-President at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. |
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The Tamil Nadu Government decides to set up a separate agency to provide cable network service. |
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Aug. 12
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Four Hindi-speaking persons are among six killed in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district in the continuing spiral of violence. The toll in attacks since August 8 goes up to 28. |
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Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu is put on the Indian Railways’ broad gauge network. |
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Aug. 13
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The exercise of redrawing the boundaries of the Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu is completed. |
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The Vice-President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, takes charge as the Rajya Sabha Chairman. |
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Aug. 14
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Parliament adopts the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill 2007. |
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Aug. 15
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The nation celebrates its 60th Independence Day. |
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Aug. 16
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The weaponised version of HAL’s Advanced Light Helicopter project Dhruv makes its maiden flight in Bangalore. |
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Sensex loses 642.70 points, the biggest single day fall since May 18, 2006, following a global meltdown triggered by the U.S. sub-prime (home) mortgage market crunch. |
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Aug. 19
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The former Uttarakhand Chief Minister, N. D. Tiwari, is appointed Andhra Pradesh Governor in place of Rameshwar Thakur shifted to Karnataka. |
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IAF pilots Wing Commander Anil Kumar and Rahul Monga create a world record by flying a microlight aircraft around the world in 80 days. |
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Aug. 20
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Hem Dutta, social activist from Assam is honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award at a function in New Delhi. |
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The Supreme Court grants interim bail to actor Sanjay Dutt. |
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Aug. 21
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The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, launches the India-Japan Partnership forum floated by the FICCI in New Delhi. |
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Parliament proceedings are hit following an uproar over the remarks of India’s envoy to the U.S. Ronen Sen likening MPs to “headless chicken” in the context of the civilian nuclear deal. |
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Aug. 22
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The Delhi High Court acquits former Union Minister and JMM chief, Shibu Soren and four others in the 1994 Shashinath Jha murder case. |
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Aug. 23
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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt leaves Yerawada jail in Pune after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court. |
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Aug. 24
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The Corporate Affairs Ministry clears Air India-Indian merger. The new company National Aviation Company of India Limited becomes a legal entity. |
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Forty persons are killed as two blasts, one at an amusement park and another at an eatery rock Hyderabad. |
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Aug. 27
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Tata Steel turns 100. |
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Aug. 28
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The Government floats a tender Request for Proposals worth Rs. 42,000 crore for purchase of 126 fighter aircraft. |
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The Department of Posts launches a full-fledged domestic freighter service for the first time in the counrty, in Guwahati. |
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Aug. 30
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Milan Lalitkumar Naidu is named the new Vice-Chief of the Army Staff. |
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