Events in May 2006
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May. 1
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The body of slain Hyderabad engineer Kasula Suryanarayana is brought home. His wife Manjula attempts suicide. |
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The IAF bids adieu to MIG-25s the Russian-built spy plane inducted in 1981. |
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Violence rocks Vadodara in Gujx arat following the demolition of a dargah by the civic staff and four persons are killed. |
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The Supreme Court stays trial in the Sankararaman murder case. |
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May. 2
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Rafi Vora is burnt alive in his car by a mob in Vadodara. |
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Child prodigy Budhia Singh a four-and-a-half year old enters the Limca Book of Records by running 65 km from Puri Jagannath Temple to Bhubaneswar in 7.02 hours. |
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May. 3
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The BJP general secretary, Pramod Mahajan, dies in the P. D. Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai after a 12-day battle for survival after being shot by his younger brother Pravin. |
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Around 74 per cent polling is recorded in the third and final phase of Kerala Assembly election. |
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May. 6
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The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, wins the Budhni byelection by a margin of 36,525 votes. |
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Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, a Hizbul Mujahideen explosives expert and mastermind of most car bomb attacks in J and K since 2004 is killed in an encounter in Nooripora area. |
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May. 8
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The Supreme Court declines the Narmada Bachao Andolan’s plea to stop work on raising the Sardar Sarovar dam height. |
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Sixtyfive per cent of voters cast votes in Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. |
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May. 10
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The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal drops its “tentative” order on experts panel. |
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The Sensex touches an all-time closing high of 12612.38 points. |
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May. 11
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The DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance wins a comfortable majority in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. In Pondicherry the DPA led by the Congress emerges victorious. |
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The Congress party emerges as the single largest party in Assam polls. |
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The Left Front sweeps to power for a record seventh successive time with more than a two-thirds majority in the 14th West Bengal Assembly polls. |
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In Kerala, the LDF wins an impressive two-thirds majority. |
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The Congress President, Sonia Gandhi wins the Rae Bareli by-election by a margin of 4 lakh votes. |
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The Union Government notifies the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2006. |
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May. 13
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The DMK Government headed by M. Karunanidhi is sworn in by the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala. |
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L.K. Tripathy is appointed Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu and D. Mukherjee to be the new DGP. |
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May. 14
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Tarun Gogoi is sworn in for a second term as Assam Chief Minister. |
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Medicos launch an indefinite hunger strike at the AIIMS, New Delhi, protesting against the Centre’s move to raise quota in higher education. |
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May. 16
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The anti-reservation stir hits work in State-run hospitals in many States. |
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The Lok Sabha passes the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill, 2006, which seeks to address the office-of-profit controversy. |
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May. 17
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The Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, releases the first ever Joint War Doctrine at the united commanders’ meet in New Delhi. |
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May. 18
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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is sworn in Chief Minister of West Bengal’s seventh consecutive Left Front Government, in Kolkata. |
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V.S. Achuthanandan is sworn in Kerala Chief Minister heading a 19-member Cabinet. |
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N. Rangasamy assumes office as Pondicherry Chief Minister for a second successive term. |
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Sensex sheds 826.38 points, the highest ever fall in the history of Indian stock markets. |
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May. 19
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The Tarun Gogoi-led Congress-Bodoland People’s Progressive Front (Hagrama) coalition Ministry is sworn in in Assam. |
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R. Avudaiappan and V.P. Duraisamy are declared elected Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly. |
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May. 20
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The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister, P.T.R. Palanivel Rajan, dies following a massive heart attack in Dindigul. |
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May. 22
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Sensex falls by 1111.70 points, the sharpest-ever slump in prices on a single day. |
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May. 23
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The UPA and the Left parties announce 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions from June 2007. |
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May. 25
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D. Mukherjee assumes office as Tamil Nadu DGP. |
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Jaiprakash Jaiswal, a scrap dealer of Kolkata wins Rs. 17.29 crore, the highest-ever lottery prize money in the country. |
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May. 26
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The Union Cabinet okays proposal to rename Pondicherry as Puducherry. |
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May. 30
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The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, returns the Office of Profit Bill for reconsideration. |
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May. 31
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Resident doctors of the AIIMS, New Delhi, call off their 19-day-old strike against the reservation policy. |
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The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes a Bill granting 69 per cent reservation for backward classes in all private educational institutions. |
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