Events in November 2005
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Nov. 1
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Justice Y. K. Sabharwal is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
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Nov. 2
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Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is sworn the 10th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. People’s Democratic Party leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig becomes Deputy Chief Minister. |
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Six persons killed in a car bomb blast on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway. |
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Nov. 3
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The Union Cabinet gives its nod for setting up a special purpose vehicle to be known as India Infrastructure Finance Company to fund mega projects. Green signal for National Investment Fund. |
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Nov. 4
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The CBSE directs affiliated schools to provide free education to all students who are “single child” in their family. |
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The former Delhi Chief Minister, Madan Lal Khurana, retired from active politics. |
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Mahatma Gandhi’s response to fighting terrorism not soft, says the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Amartya Sen, presenting the 2005 Jamnalal Bajaj Awards to P. Gopinathan Nair, Rajendra Singh, Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai and Daisaku Ikeda of Japan. |
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Nov. 5
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The Union Minister of State for Water Resources, Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav, quits Cabinet as a fallout of the issuance of a non-bailable arrest warrant against him. |
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Nov. 6
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The Centre appoints former diplomat Virendra Dayal as “special envoy” to liaise with the U.N. on the Volcker report references. |
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Nov. 7
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Natwar Singh is retieved of the External Affairs Ministery portfolio; to remain Minister without portfolio. The former Chief Justice of India, R. S. Pathak, is to probe into the allegations in the Volcker report. |
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India and Pakistan open the first post of the LoC Chaka Da Bagh for Quake relief in Kashmir, marking a new chapter in bilateral ties. |
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The Andhra Pradesh High Court quashes the ordinance providing 5 percent quota for Muslims in education and public employment and holds it unconstitutional. |
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COPE India 05, the 13-day Indo-U.S. joint air exercises, gets underway in Kalaikunda in West Bengal. |
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The Centre notifies increased foreign direct investment ceiling of 74 per cent in the telecom sector. |
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The sensex touches a three-week high of 8206-83 after foreign institutional investors turn bullish. |
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The Czech Republic President, Vaclav Klaus, arrives in New Delhi on a week-long official visit; holds talks with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
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Dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar who struck terror in the Chambal ravines for nearly three decades in gunned down by the Uttar Pradesh Police in a dense forest in Etawah district. |
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Nov. 8
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In a breakthrough in the Delhi blasts, Ghulam Mohammad Mohiuddin an alleged Hizb operative is held in Banihal, Jammu and Kashmir by the 12 Rashtriya Rifles troops personnel. |
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Nov. 9
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The former President, Kocheril Raman Narayanan (85), dies at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi after a brief illness. The nation’s tenth President he held office for five years from July 25, 1997. |
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The Indian and Pakistani authorities open the second point along the Line of Control at Aman Setu for exchange of relief material. |
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India lays down a roadmap for financial sector reforms after talks between the Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram and the U.S. Treasury Secretary, John Snow, in New Delhi. A Cooperation Framework Agreement is signed. |
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The Government allows 49 per cent foreign direct investment in asset reconstruction companies, in contribution of banking sector reforms. |
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The Vishwa Bharati University confers Deshikottama award on Czech Republic President, Vaclar Klaus. |
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Nov. 10
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The Union Cabinet approves appointment of the R. S. Pathak probe panel. |
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The Supreme Court quashes the U.P. Government order withdrawing POTA charges against Food and Civil Supplies Minister, Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya. He resigns; case shifted to Madhya Pradesh. |
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The Union Communications and Information Technology Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, launches the national portal of India — India.gov.in |
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Tariq Ahmed Dar, an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, is arrested in Jammu and Kashmir for his hand in the October 29 Delhi blasts. |
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Nov. 11
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The Sensex zooms 162 points to end at a month’s high of 8471.04. |
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Underworld don Abu Salem one of the Prime accused in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts and his companion Monica Bedi are extradited and brought home by the CBI after a three-year legal battle with Portugal. |
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The Supreme Court accepts appeal challenging the Kerala High Court’s acquittal of the accused in the 1996 Suryanelli sex scandal case involving the rape of a minor girl by several during 40 days. |
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Nov. 12
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Justice Ajit Prakash Shah is sworn in the 22nd Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. |
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India and Pakistan open the third point on the LoC for quake relief. |
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Nov. 13
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Naxalites storm a jail in Bihar’s Jehanabad district and free 341 of their cadre, among them Ajay Kanu State Committee leader. Twenty Ranvir Sena men are kidnapped. |
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The third phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly passes off peacefully with 47 per cent tornout. |
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Nov. 14
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The 14th International Children’s Film Festival gets off to a colourful start in Hyderabad. |
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The fourth relief centre along the LoC is opened at Tatapani. This is the first time in 58 years that a link on this side has been set up with southern PoK. |
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Nov. 15
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Senior People’s Democratic Party leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Minister, Ghulam Hassan Mir, escapes bid on life after a grenade attack on a meeting in Tangmarg near Srinagar. |
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A 25 hour gunbattle with militants at Lal Chowk in Srinagar ends. |
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The SEBI announces the creation of a separate windown in both the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchane for executing huge block deals. |
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Nov. 16
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Four persons are killed and 45 injured in a car bomb blast in Srinagar. |
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The fifth and last relief point along the LoC is opened at Hajipeer (PoK) and Silikot (Uri). |
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Nov. 17
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“We have a collective stake in ensuring peace and security in the SAARC region,” says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh inaugurating the first SAARC Business Leaders’ Conclave, in New Delhi. |
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Julakanti Srinivas Reddy alias Moddu Sreenu, the Prime accused in the murder of Telugu Desam MLA, Paritala Ravi, is arrested in the Hyderabad city after evading police dragnet for 10 months. |
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The Indo-U.S. joint naval exercise ends in Kalaikunda, West Bangal. |
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Nov. 18
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The Prime Minister shifts Jaipal Reddy to the Urban Development Ministry and Priyaranjan Dasmunsi gets Information and Broadcasting. |
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Nov. 19
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Fortyeight per cent polling in recorded in the final phase ofBihar Assembly elections. |
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The President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, presents the 2004 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development to Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in New Delhi.The Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai, is chosen for the 2005 prize. |
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India and Pakistan open the first of five points along the LoC at Teetwal. |
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Nov. 21
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India and China can improve performance by using the other’s progress as benchmarks for what they should do better, says Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew delivering the 37th Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi. |
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Nov. 22
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The Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar wins a resounding victory in the Bihar Assembly pools bringing the 15-year rule of the Rashtriya Janata Dal to an end. |
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The Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane wins the Malvan-Kankavali Assembly by elections by a massive margin of 63,372 votes. The Congress candidate Priya Dutt wins the North-West Mumbai Lok Sabha seat by 1.72 lakh votes. |
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The LDF candidate Pannian Ravindran wins the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha bypolls by 14,200 votes. |
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A Special Court for CBI cases clears the former Union Minster Capt Satish Sharma from role in petrol pumps scan. |
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Heavy rain lashes the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Thousands of hectares of transplanted paddy is submerged in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur district. |
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Nov. 23
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India and Indonesia agree to establish a “strategic partnership”. The combined voice of the two nations can make a difference in international affairs, says a joint declaration by President Susilo BambangYudhoyono and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. |
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Nov. 24
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The opposition forces adjurnment of both Houses of Parliament over the Volcker Committed Report. |
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The JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar is sworn in Bihar Chief Minister. |
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Rail and road traffic to Tiruchi and Madras is cut off following heavy rain. The National Highway 45 linking Chennai to the south is breached. All rivers in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur in spate. Cuddalore bears the trunt. |
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The 36th International Film Festival of India opens in the Goa capital Pajaji, with the screening of the Brazilian film “olka”. |
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The Geological Survey of India announces the discovery of “the world’s oldest fossil of a rodent” in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan. The find was the result of a three-month exploration early this year. |
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India sighs MoU with Turkey for oil exploration. |
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Nov. 25
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At least 145 persons are killed — 80 in Thanjavur district and 65 in Ramanathapuram district — after two buses are washed away in floods. Coleroon river in spate following a sudden surge in flow, imprecedented upsurge in the past 50 years. |
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Nov. 26
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The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur resigns and Shivraj Singh Chauhan is chosen to succeed him. |
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Industrialist Vijaypat Singhania breaks the Swedish aviator Per Lindstrand’s 17-year-old world, altitude record in hot air ballooning after liftoff from the Mumbai racecourse. |
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The Sensex breaches the 8,900 mark on continuous investments by FIIs and mutual funds. |
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Nov. 27
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Raj Thackeray quits as Shiv Sena leader and also as president of the Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the party’s student wing. |
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The key to sustaining higher gross domestic product growth is higher FDI and larger investment in infrastructure, says the Finance Minister P. Chidambaram while inaugurating the 21st India Economic Summit in New Delhi. |
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Ganapat Singh Singhvi is sworn in Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. |
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Nov. 28
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The opposition-sponsored adjournament motion on the changes in the Volcker Report is defeated in the Lok Sabha after a eight hour debate. |
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The Rajya Sabha passes the Disaster Management Bill. |
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The Sensex crosses the 9000-mark for the first time on the back of fresh infloors from FIIs — Japan’s Nikkei share average tops 14,900 for the first time since December 13, 2000. |
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Nov. 29
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The Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, is elected the Board of Control for Cricket in India president in Mumbai. |
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Shivraj Singh Chauhan in sworn in Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister. |
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The nation’s infrastructure has reached a “take-off” point, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, at the concluding session of the India Economic Summit in New Delhi. |
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The Supreme Court declines to review ruling scrapping State quotas and reservation in miniority, unaided professional colleges and dismisses Tamil Nadu Government petition. |
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Nov. 30
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The BJP suspends its general secretary Uma Bharti from primary membership for defying the party stand on Madhya Pradesh leadership issue. |
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“Rivers are a shared heritage of the country. They should be the strings that unite us, not strings that divide”, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, inaugurating the 13th Irrigation Minister’s meet in New Delhi. |
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Justice N. Dhinakar of Madras High Court is appointed Jharkhand Chief Justice. |
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The Howrah railway station in Kolkata completes 100 years. |
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