Events in October 2007
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Oct. 1
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The DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance members observe a day-long fast in Tamil Nadu pressing for speedy implementation of the Sethusamudram Project. |
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The Union Cabinet gives its nod for the creation of an autonomous Gorkha Hill Council under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution in Darjeeling district of West Bengal. |
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The Kerala Chief Minister, V. S. Achuthanandan and State CPI(M) Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan are back in the politbureau. |
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Oct. 2
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Seventeen BJP Ministers in the H. D. Kumaraswamy Cabinet in Karnataka quit in protest against the Janata Dal (S) failure to honour the power sharing pact. |
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The Gujarat Government launches a new all-tribal district named Tapi bifurcating Surat district with headquarters at Vyara. |
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Oct. 3
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The Patna District and Sessions Court awards death sentence to former MP and Janata Dal (United) leader Anand Mohan for the lynching of a magistrate on December 5, 1994 in Muzaffarpur district. His wife Lovely Anand gets a lifer. |
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Oct. 4
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The Karnataka Chief Minister, H. D. Kumaraswamy, decides to face a floor test to prove his majority in the Assembly. |
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Oct. 5
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Surface-to-surface missile Agni-1 is launched successfully from Outer Wheel island off the Orissa coast. |
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Oct. 6
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The BJP decides to withdraw support to the H. D. Kumaraswamy Government in Karnataka. |
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The Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, launches the National Investment Fund. |
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Oct. 7
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The BJP withdraws support to the Karnataka Government bringing to an end the 20-month coalition with the Janata Dal (Secular). |
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Oct. 8
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The Karnataka Chief Minister, H. D. Kumaraswamy, resigns. |
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Oct. 9
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Sensex Zooms past the 18000 mark with the largest single day gain of 788.85 points. |
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President’s rule is imposed in Karnataka and the Assembly is kept under “suspended animation”. |
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Oct. 10
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The Election Commission announces two phase polls in Gujarat (December 11 and 16) and Himachal Pradesh (November 14, December 19). |
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Oct. 11
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Two persons are killed and 17 injured after a bomb rips through the dargah of the Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisthi in Ajmer, Rajasthan. |
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The Union Cabinet approves a National Policy on Rehabilitation and Resettlement, 2007, providing for the allotment of land in return for land and amendments to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. |
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Sensex reaches 18814.07 points completing the last 1000 point journey in just two days. |
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Oct. 15
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Sensex crosses the 19000 mark led by metal stocks. |
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Oct. 16
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The Calcutta High Court orders a CBI probe into the death of Rizwanur Rahman, a computer graphics teacher whose body was found near a rail track near Kolkata on September 21. |
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Yashpal Mittal, Dr. Anand Karve, Ms. Ashoka Gupta and Prof. Michael Nagler are chosen to receive the Jamnalal Bajaj Awards for 2007. |
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Oct. 18
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The Stock markets witness the biggest single day fall as the Sensex loses 717.43 points. The National Stock Exchange’s 50-share Nifty sees 500-point swing. |
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Oct. 22
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Actor Sanjay Dutt is sent back to Yerawada Jail in Pune after being handed over the 4,340-page judgment copy. He has been sentenced to six years RI under the Arms Act. |
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The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes Bill providing for quota in employment and education to Backward Class Christians and Muslims. |
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Oct. 24
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A special court sentences the former Uttar Pradesh Minister, Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani to life imprisonment in the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla in Lucknow on May 9, 2003. |
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Al Umma founder S. A. Basha and general secretary Mohammed Ansari among 31 persons sentenced to lifer in the Coimbatore serial blasts on February 14, 1998. Basha’s son Siddiq Ali is awarded two life terms and 48 years RI. |
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Oct. 25
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The indigenous fly-by-wire Light Combat Aircraft test-fires for the first time a close combat missile after take off from INS Hansa, the naval air station in Vasco, Goa. |
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The Supreme Court orders compulsory registration of marriages of all religions across the country. |
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Oct. 26
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Sensex closes at a new peak of 19243.17 points after the SEBI allows more overseas investors to enter the bourses. |
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Oct. 27
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Naxalites gun down Anup Marandi, son of former Jharkhand Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi and 17 others at Chikhadia village of Giridih district. |
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The Janata Dal (Secular) offers unconditional support to the BJP in Government formation in Karnataka. |
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Oct. 29
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The Union Government announces the setting up of a National Land Reforms Council with Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh as its Chairman. |
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Sensex crosses the 20,000 mark and India becomes the 20th nation in the world whose stock market benchmark has touched the milestone. |
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Oct. 30
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel flag off “Science Express” to showcase scientific advances. |
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Sensex snaps its six-day winning streak and settles at 19783.51 after scaling a new peak of 20238 earlier in the day on alternate buying and selling across sectors. |
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Oct. 31
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Ram Puniyani and Juzar Salehbhai Bandukwalla are awarded the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for their work after the 1993 Mumbai riots and the Gujarat carnage of 2002. |
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