Events in April 2008
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Apr. 1
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is extended to all the 604 districts of the country. |
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Apr. 2
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The Election Commission announces a three-phase poll to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly to be held on May 10, 16 and 22. |
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India and Myanmar sign an agreement on developing an alternative access route to the Northeast. |
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Apr. 3
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Prakash Karat is re-elected CPI(M) general secretary for a second term on the final day of the 19th party Congress in Coimbatore. |
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The Hizbul-Mujahideen’s top surviving ideologue Abdul Khaliq Dar is arrested from a hideout in the north Kashmir town of Handwara. |
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Protests by Kannadiga groups against the Tamil Nadu government’s decision on the Hogenakkal drinking project spreads and TNSETC buses are attacked. |
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Apr. 4
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Film actors observe fast and lawyers stay off courts in Tamil Nadu in support of the Hogenakkal project. |
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The former Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana is back in the BJP. |
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Apr. 6
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The former CEC M.S. Gill (Youth Affairs and Sports) Jyotiraditya Scindia (IT and Communications) are among seven new persons inducted into the Union Cabinet following a reshuffle. |
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Culling operations begin in West Bengal’s Nadia district where 400 poultry birds have died of avian flu in the past few days. |
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Apr. 8
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India more than doubles credit assistance to Africa at the opening of the India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi. Duty-free tariff preference scheme for exports from 50 least developed countries. |
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The India-Africa Foreign Ministers’ meeting adopts texts of Delhi Declaration and Africa-India Framework for Cooperation. |
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Apr. 10
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The Supreme Court upholds law enacted by the Centre in 2006 providing a 27 per cent quota for OBCs in higher educational institutions. Creamy layer to be excluded. |
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Apr. 11
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Inflation reaches a 40-month high of 7.41 per cent. |
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Apr. 13
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Biranchi Das, the former coach of child marathoner Budhia Singh is shot dead in Bhubaneswar. |
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Apr. 14
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“Maitree Express” is flagged off from the Kolkata station on its inaugural journey to Dhaka. The train services have been resumed after 43 years. |
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Apr. 16
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At least 44 persons, including 41 school children are killed after a bus falls into the Narmada dam canal at Bodeli town in Gujarat’s Vadodara district. |
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The Tirunelveli District Principal Sessions Court finds two persons guilty of murdering former Union Law Minister Aladi Aruna on December 31, 2004. S.A. Raja, Chairman of the Raja’s Group of Companies is acquitted. |
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Apr. 22
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“Tata Steel can show the way forward in deploying corporate power in public interest,” says the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the steel major’s centenary celebrations. |
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Apr. 23
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Four children die after being administered measles vaccine in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district. |
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Apr. 24
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The Centre recalls the measles vaccine and orders probe into the deaths. Tamil Nadu suspends administration of the vaccine. |
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The Union Cabinet gives nod for construction of airports, airstrips and helipads for private use. |
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Apr. 25
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces a Rs. 1,600-crore economic package for refugees in Jammu and Kashmir. |
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The nation’s longest cantilever bridge over the Chenab which links Rajouri and Poonch districts with the rest of the country is inaugurated. |
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Apr. 28
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The PSLV-C9 puts 10 satellites in orbit in a precisely timed sequence after lift-off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Eight of them are foreign nano satellites. |
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Apr. 29
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Parliament gives nod for extension of President’s rule in Karnataka for six months beyond May 20. |
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Apr. 30
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The Lok Sabha Privileges Committee draws up a code of conduct for MPs. |
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Vice-Admiral Raman Prem Suthan takes over as Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff. |
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