The Hindu Diary of Events 2015-16

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016
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NATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: The Modi government sets
up NITI Aayog (National Institution
for Transforming India) in place of
the Planning Commission.
The Karnataka High Court sets up
a Special Bench under Justice C.R.
Kumaraswamy to hear appeals filed
by AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case.
The Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah confers the Sangita Kalanidhi
award on musician T.V. Gopalakrishnan at the Sadas at The Music
Academy in Chennai.
Jan. 3: The title Natya Kala
Acharya is conferred on Bharatanatyam artist Leela Samson at the Music Academys dance festival in
Chennai.
Jan. 4: The Indian Science Congress makes history with a symposium on Ancient Sciences through
Sanskrit.
Jan. 5: Columbia University Professor Arvind Panagariya is appointed NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman.
Jan. 6: Sensex plummets by 855
points in its worst crash in five-anda-half years and closes at 26987.46.
Jan. 8: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan flees home town following furore over his book Mathorubhagan .
Jan. 9: Jammu and Kashmir
comes under Governors rule.
Vistara, the new airline of Tata
SIA Airlines, begins commercial operations in New Delhi.
Jan. 10: Sindhushree Khullar is
appointed CEO of NITI Aayog.
Jan. 13: Tamil writer Perumal
Murugan gives up writing and withdraws all his books.
Jan. 15: Leela Samson quits as
CBFC chairperson.
Hari Shankar Brahma takes over
as the 19th CEC at Nirvachan Sadan,
New Delhi.
Jan. 17: Ashok Srinivasan is presented The Hindu Prize 2014 at the
Lit for Life 2015 for his debut collection of 13 short stories , Book of Common Signs , in Chennai.
Jan. 19: Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani is appointed CBFC chairperson.
Jan. 21: Sensex sets a life-time
high of 28958 points and NSE Nifty
records a historic 8741 points.
Jan. 22: The Supreme Court in a
benchmark verdict says BCCI officials cannot have commercial interests in the IPL. Gurunath
Meiyappan and Raj Kundra found
guilty of betting. Three-member
2015
panel headed by former CJI R. M.
Lodha to decide penalty.
Indian-American author Jhumpa
Lahiri wins the $ 50,000 DSC prize
for Literature for her book, The
Lowland .
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launches the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (save daughters, educate daughters) scheme in Panipat, Haryana.
Sukanya
Samrudhi
account
scheme unveiled.
Sensex closes at a record high of
29006.02
Jan. 24: Poet Arundhati Subramanian wins the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for
Poetry for her work When God is a
Traveller at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival.
Jan. 25: A declaration of friendship, a renewed 10-year defence
partnership and the nuclear breakthrough mark the second summit
between Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and the U.S. President Barack
Obama in New Delhi.
BJP patriarch L. K. Advani, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, nuclear scientist M. R.
Srinivasan and actors Amitabh
Bachchan and Dilip Kumar prominent among the nine Padma Vibhushan awardees.
Former CEC N. Gopalaswami,
constitutional expert Subhash C.
Kashyap, Carnatic vocalist Sudha
Raghunathan, Microsoft founder
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates
and Fields Medal winner Manjul
Bhargava among 20 Padma Bhushan
awardees.
Violinist Kanyakumari Avasarala,
filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, industrialist T. V. Mohandas Pai, actor
Kota Srinivasa Rao, badminton player P. V. Sindhu, Syedna Mohammad
Burhanuddin and Pran Kumar Sinha
(both posthumous) among 75 Padma
Shree recipients.
Jan. 26: The U.S. President Barack Obama announces $4 billion in
bank loans, $ 2 billion for green ener-
Dr. Arvind Panagariya.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi presenting to the U.S. President

Barack Obama a reproduction of a telegram sent by USA to the
Indian Constituent Assembly in 1946, in New Delhi.
gy projects and $1 billion from the
Exim Bank of the U.S. at the IndiaUS Business Summit in New Delhi.
Military might showcased in the
66 th Republic Day parade. In a first,
all-woman contingents of the three
Services take part.
Jan. 29: S. Jaishankar takes
charge as Foreign Secretary.
Sensex gains 122.59 points to a
new closing peak of 29681.77, after
reaching a lifetime high of 29740.63.
Jan. 30: Former Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan
quits the Congress.
In its largest-ever disinvestment,
the Centre raises Rs. 22,557.63 crore
from the sale of its 10 per cent shareholding in Coal India Ltd.
Jan. 31: The former Union Minister Matang Singh is arrested in Kolkata by the CBI in the multi-crore
rupee Saradha chit fund scam.
date will be held as null and void if he

fails to disclose full details of his
criminal antecedents at the time of
nomination, rules the Supreme
Court.
Feb. 6: The Delhi High Court enhances to 30 years the life term
awarded to Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav for the February
2002 killing of Nitish Katara.
Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade known for works like Kosal
(Cocoon) and Hindu is selected for
the Jnanpith award for 2014.
Feb. 7: Delhi registers a record
67.08 percent turnout in the Assembly polls.
Feb. 9: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan
Ram Manjhi is expelled from the Janata Dal (United).
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar

is conferred Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Jaipur International
Film Festival.
Malini Parthasarathy takes charge
as the first woman Editor of The
Hindu .
Feb. 4: Union Home Secretary
Anil Goswami is sacked for allegedly
trying to stall the arrest of former
Minister Matang Singh. L.C. Goyal
appointed in his place.
Feb. 5: L.C. Goyal takes charge as
Union Home Secretary.
The election of a returned candi-
CPI leader Govind Pansare.

Feb. 10: The Aam Aadmi Party
sweeps to power with 67 seats in the
70-member Delhi Assembly.
Facebook launches Internet.org
in India at a function in Mumbai.
ICICI Bank launches the first digital bank in the country, Pockets, on
a mobile phone in Mumbai.
Feb. 13: Srirangam witnesses
over 80 per cent turnout in bypolls.
Sensex gains 289.83 points to reclaim 29000-mark on stellar SBI
earnings.
Feb. 14: Arvind Kejriwal takes
oath as Delhis eighth Chief Minister, at the Ramlila Maidan in New
Delhi.
Feb. 16: The AIADMK candidate
S. Valarmathi scores a massive victory in the Srirangam Assembly bypolls bagging 1,51,561 votes.
The Trinamool Congress wins a
thumping victory in the Lok Sabha
and Assembly byelections in West
Bengal. Bags Bongaon LS seat by a
record margin of 2.11 lakh votes.
India and Sri Lanka sign a Civil
Nuclear Cooperation pact after talks
between Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and President Maithripala Sirisena, in New Delhi.
Feb. 19: A six-member relay
team, including Manav Mehta, a
class 9 student, sets a new open-sea
swim world record by swimming
from Goa to Mumbai in 156 hours.
Feb. 20: Veteran CPI leader Govind Pansare dies of gunshot wounds
sustained in an attack in Kolhapur
on Feb. 16. at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai.
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram
Manjhi resigns.
Feb. 22: Senior JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar Chief
Minister in Patna.
Feb. 23: Yaduveer Gopal Urs is
formally adopted as heir to the Wadiyar dynasty at a ceremony in Amba
Vilas Palace, Mysuru and given the
name Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar.
Feb. 24: R.K. Pachouri, Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, resigns.
The Union Cabinet gives nod for
setting up the New Development
Bank and the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement.
Feb. 25: The 2015-16 Railway
budget (Plan outlay Rs.1,00,000
crore) leaves passenger fares untouched. Freight rates hiked.
Feb. 28: Union Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley allocates Rs. 70,000
crore for public spending on infrastructure to spur growth in the economy, presenting the Union Budget
2015-16. Announces Atal Innovation
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Mission and the Atal Pension Yojana. Nirbhaya Fund gets Rs. 1,000
crore.
MARCH
March 1: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed takes oath as the 12th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
heading a PDP-BJP coalition Ministry.
March 2: The Nasdaq Composite
Index surges above 5,000 for the first
time in 15 years, since the massive
dotcom crash of 2000.
Maharashtra Animal Preservation
(Amendment) Bill 1995, banning
cow slaughter gets Presidential nod.
March 3: Three senior brokerage
officials are arrested by the Mumbai
police in connection with the
Rs.4,600-crore National Spot Exchange Scam.
March 4: BSE Sensex crosses historic 30000 mark and the NSE Nifty
touches the 9100 milestone in early
trade.
The Lok Sabha clears the longpending Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill.
March 5: The Maharashtra government officially scraps the five per
cent reservation for Muslims in educational institutions, despite a Bombay High Court ruling in its favour.
The Delhi High Court upholds the
January 2013 conviction of the former Haryana Chief Minister Om
Prakash Chautala, his son and 53
others in the junior teachers recruitment scam that took place in 2000.
The Centre bans telecast on Internet a documentary Indias
Daughter by British director Leslee
Udwin on the Dec.16, 2012, Delhi
gangrape that was aired on the BBCs
Channel 4 earlier in the day.
March 7: Senior separatist leader
Masarat Alam, one among the main
organisers of the pro-Azadi protests
in the Valley in 2010, is freed from
prison by the J& K police.
March 10: The Land Acquisition
(Amendment) Bill is approved in the
Lok Sabha.
March 12: Rajya Sabha passes the
Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill,
2015.
March 13: The Kerala Assembly
witnesses unprecedented violence
as the Opposition LDF tries to prevent the Finance Minister K.M. Mani who faces bribery charges in the
bar licence row from presenting the
budget.
Suzette Jordan who was allegedly
raped in a moving car on Park Street
in Kolkata in February 2012 dies in
the city after a brief illness.
March 14: The LDF-sponsored
dawn-to-dusk Kerala-wide hartal in

protest against the alleged assault on
its MLAs inside the Assembly hits
life.
March 17: The Supreme Court
sets aside the quota for Jats.
The Undisclosed Income and Assets
(Imposition of Tax) Bill.
March 20: At least 38 passengers, of the Dehradun-Varanasi Janata Express are killed and nearly
150 injured after four coaches derail
near the Bachrawan station in Rae
Bareli district, U.P.
March 21: A Delhi court acquits
all 16 accused in the May 22, 1987
Hashimpura massacre at Meerut
that left 42 dead, for lack of evidence.
Rajendra Singh dubbed the Waterman of India, instrumental in reviving numerous water bodies in
Rajasthan is chosen for the Stockholm Water Prize.
March 23: Veteran actor-producer Shashi Kapoor is chosen for
the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for
2014.
March 24: The Supreme Court
strikes down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act terming it
unconstitutional.
Director Chaitanya Tamhanes
quadrilingual film Court emerges as
the best feature film and Kangana
Ranaut is adjudged best actress for
her role in Vijay Bahls Queen at the
62 nd National Film Awards in New
Delhi. Kannada actor Vijay bags the
best actor award for role in Nanu
Avanalla Avalu .
March 25: Shailesh Yadav, son of
Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav and an accused in the
Vyapam scam is found dead at his
fathers residence in Lucknow.
March 26: The Madras High
Court Bench in Madurai restrains
the Centre from permitting start of
work at the proposed INO project in
Pottipuram, Theni district.
March 27:
President Pranab
Mukherjee confers Bharat Ratna on
former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Jnanpith awardee Bhalchandra

Nemade.
Rescue work on at the mishap site at Bachrawan, in UttarPradesh.

Vajpayee at the latters residence in
New Delhi.
March 28: The AAP removes
founder-members Yogendra Yadav
and Prashant Bhushan from its national executive.
ISROs PSLV C-27 successfully
launches Indian Regional Navigation Satellite I-System (IRNSS) 1-D
into the intended orbit.
The NDA government announces
the removal of Dr. Aziz Qureshi as
Mizoram Governor.
March 30: Freedom fighter and
founder of Banaras Hindu University Madan Mohan Malviya is posthumously conferred the Bharat
Ratna at a function in New Delhi.
March 31: The Gujarat Assembly
passes the landmark Gujarat Control
of Terrorism and Organised Crime
Bill 2015.
A Division Bench of the Kerala
High Court upholds the UDF governments liquor policy that permitted bars to function only in hotels of
five star and above categories.
The Karnataka Assembly adopts
the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education (Karnataka
Amendment) Bill 2015 and the Kannada Language Learning Bill 2015.
APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court stays

summons issued by a Special Court
against the former Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and five others in
the coal scam case.
The Andhra Pradesh government
decides to name the new capital Amaravati.
April 3: President Pranab Mukherjee signs the new Land Acquisition Ordinance.
April 7: Twenty woodcutters
from Tamil Nadu found felling red
sanders are killed by police in an
alleged encounter in the Seshachalam forest in Andhra Pradesh.
the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill.
April 8: Prime Minister Narendra

Modi launches the Pradhan Mantri
Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Ltd. (MUDRA) Yojana, in New Delhi. MUDRA Bank
launched.
April 9: A special Court in Hyderabad sentences to seven years RI
the former Chairman of Satyam
Computers Services Ltd., B. Ramalinga Raju and nine others in a
Rs.7,000-crore corporate fraud case.
The Union Home Ministry suspends the registration of Greenpeace India under the Foreign
Contribution Regulation Act for six
months and freezes its seven accounts, prohibiting donations from
abroad.
April 13: The Union government
notifies the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)
law and brings to an end the decades-old collegium system of appointing judges.
April 17: Hurriyat leader Masarat
Alam is arrested on charges of organising a pro-freedom rally and raising a Pakistani flag in Srinagar.
April 19: Rajya Sabha member
Sitaram Yechury is elected the fifth
general secretary of the CPI(M) at
the 21st Party Congress in
Visakhapatnam.
Nasim Zaidi takes over as the 20 th
CEC in New Delhi.
April 20: The AAP expels rebel
leaders Yogendra Yadav, Prashant
Bhushan, Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha
from the party.
April 22: Gajendra Singh, a farmer from Dausa district, Rajasthan
commits suicide at a political rally
organised by the AAP against the
Centres land ordinance at Jantar
Mantar in New Delhi.
April 24: The Rajya Sabha passes,
for the first time in 45 years, a private members bill protecting and
providing rights for transgenders.
April 25: At least 51 persons are
killed across Bihar, U.P. and West
Bengal after tremors from the quake
2015
in Nepal trigger house collapses.

presents the Jnanpith Award for
2014 to Marathi writer Bhalchandra
Nemade, New Delhi.
April 27: The apex court declares
bad in law the appointment of Bhavani Singh as SPP by the Tamil Nadu
government in the disproportionate
assets case.
April 28: The Karnataka government appoints former AG B.V.
Acharya as Special Public Prosecutor in the disproportionate assets
case.
April 29: The Union Cabinet
launches the Smart Cities Mission
and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
which replaces the JNNRUM with a
total outlay of nearly Rs. 1,00,000
crore.
MAY
May 3: President Pranab Mukherjee presents to Kangana Ranaut

the 62nd National Film Award for
Best Actress for her role in Queen
and award for best feature film to
debut director Chaitanya Tamhane.
May 6: A Mumbai sessions court
holds Bollywood actor Salman Khan
guilty of homicide in the September
28, 2002 hit-and-run case and sentences him to 5-years RI.
The Constitution (122 nd Amendment) Bill for introduction of Goods
and Services Tax sails through the
Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha unanimously
passes the Constitution (119 th)
Amendment Bill to enable the ratification of the Land Boundary
Agreement with Bangladesh hanging
fire since 1974.
Sensex tanks 723 points to close at
26717.37 on huge selloff by FIIs.
May 7: The Juvenile Justice
(Care and Protection of Children)
Bill that provides for trying juveniles
aged between 16 and 18 years for
heinous crimes under laws for adults
is passed by the Lok Sabha.
Parliament unanimously ap-
The new CPI(M) general

secretary, Sitaram Yechury.
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proves The Constitution (119 th
Amendment) Bill, operationalising
the Land Boundary Agreement with
Bangladesh.
Achal Kumar Jyoti, a former Chief
Secretary of Gujarat is appointed
Election Commissioner.
The RJD expels five-time MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav from
the party for six years.
May 8: The Bombay High Court
suspends the five-year jail term
awarded to actor Salman Khan and
grants him bail.
May 9: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launches two insurance
schemes, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan
Jyoti Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri
Suraksha Bima Yojana and the Atal
Bima Yojana, at a function in
Kolkata.
Veteran journalist Vinod Mehta is
posthumously honoured with the
G.K. Reddy Memorial National
Award at a function in New Delhi.
May 10: Bollywood veteran
Shashi Kapoor is presented with the
Dadasaheb Phalke award by the
Union I & B Minister Arun Jaitley in
Mumbai.
May 11: The Karnataka High
Court acquits former Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and
three others in the disproportionate
assets case. Her disqualification under the RPA stands negated.
The Lok Sabha passes the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets
(Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015.
A metropolitan sessions court in
Hyderabad grants bail to former Satyam Computers Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju and nine others.
India names private banker K.V.
Kamath as the first president of the
$100-billion BRICS bank named
New Development Bank.
May 12: Seventeen persons are
killed across east and north India in
tremors triggered by fresh aftershocks of the quake in Nepal.
Sensex tumbles by 629.82 points
to close at 26877.48.
May 13: In a landmark judgment,
the Supreme Court restrains the
government from publishing the
photographs of political leaders,
ministers or prominent persons in
government advertisements.
The Rajya Sabha approves The
Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign
Income and Assets) and Imposition
of Tax Bill, 2015.
May 14: SBI launches SBIinTouch, its contactless debit and
credit card using latest near field
technology.
May 17: Mr. N. Ram, Chairman,
Kasturi and Sons Ltd., presents the
2015
first Rangaswami Parthasarathy Memorial Award to veteran journalist
Shekhar Gupta at a function in
Chennai.
The Supreme Court upholds the
constitutional validity of the National Company Law Tribunal and its
appellate forum under the Companies Act of 2013.
May 18: Aruna Shanbaug, former
nurse at Mumbais King Edward Memorial Hospital dies of pneumonia
after being in a coma since November 27, 1973 following a sexual assault by a ward boy.
May 21: The AIADMK Legislature Party elects Jayalalithaa leader.
O. Panneerselvam resigns as Chief
Minister.
May 23: Jayalalithaa takes oath
as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for the
fifth time at a function in Chennai. A
new Cabinet takes office.
May 24: The heat wave toll in A.P.
and Telangana touches 470.
May 25: The Delhi High Court
rules that the Delhi governments
ACB has jurisdiction to arrest police
personnel.
May 27: The Tripura government
revokes the Armed Forces (Special
Powers) Act, in force since February
1997.
May 28: Yaduveer Krishnadatta
Chamaraja Wadiyar is crowned the
new Maharaja at the Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru.
May 29: Pradeep Kumar Sinha is
appointed Cabinet Secretary.
The TDP goes national at the Mahanadu in Hyderabad.
May 30: The U.P. government
files a case against Nestle India after
excess lead is detected in Maggi
noodles.
Chennai Metro gets the final approval for starting operations.
May 31: President Pranab Mukherjee repromulgates the Land Ordinance for the third time.
JUNE
June 1: The Karnataka Cabinet
Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor.
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Passengers waiting to board the inaugural run of the Metro train

in Chennai.
decides to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against verdict acquitting Jayalalithaa and three others in
the disproportionate assets case.
The trial run of the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala bus service begins in
Kolkata.
June 2: The Hindu Business Line
launches www.bloncampus.com or
BLOC, a first of its kind website tailored for B-Schoolers and B-School
aspirants.
Sensex plummets 660.61 points to
close at 27188.38
June 3: The Centre lodges a complaint against Nestle Maggi noodles
with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
June 4: Tamil Nadu bans the
manufacture, stocking and sale of
Maggi and three other noodle brands
for three months.
June 5: Nestle withdraws Maggi
and the Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India orders recall of all
nine varieties of the noodles from
the market.
June 7: Manabi Bandyopadhyay
becomes the nations first openly
transgender college principal as she
takes charge at Krishnagar Womens
College in Kolkata.
June 10: The Madras High Court
dismisses petitions by Sun TV and
Kal Comm Pvt. Ltd. against attachment of assets by the ED in the Aircel-Maxis case.
K.V. Chowdhary takes oath as
CVC and Vijai Sharma is sworn in as
Chief Information Commissioner, in
New Delhi.
Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Carnatic vocal), Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani vocal), Ronu
Majumdar (flute) among 36 artists
chosen for the Sangeet Natak
Awards for 2014.
June 12: Telangana announces
its maiden industrial policy with a
unique feature to cut delays Right
to Clearance, on the lines of RTI, in
Hyderabad.
N.L. Beno Zephine, a Chennai res-
ident becomes the first visually challenged to be selected for the IFS.
June 13: The Union Government
launches an Insurance pool of Rs.
1,500 crore mandatory under the
Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage
Act.
June 15: The Supreme Court cancels the All India Pre Medical and
Pre Dental Entrance Test held on
May 3, 2015 due to exam fraud.
Ex-servicemen launch an indefinite fast across the country seeking
implementation of the One Rank
One Pension scheme.
June 18: At least 102 people are
killed after consuming illicit liquor
at Malvani in Malad, Mumbai.
June 19: Mumbai comes to a
standstill following heavy torrential
rain measuring close to 300 mm over
24 hours.
June 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads 35,985 people in
breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest number of people
doing Yoga at Rajpath, New Delhi on
the occasion of the first International Day of Yoga.
June 22: Thirtyseven persons
travel by the first commercial bus
service (Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala)
which took off from Karunamayee
Stand in Salt Lake.
June 23: The Karnataka government files an SLP in the Supreme
Court against the acquittal of Tamil
Relatives mourning a hooch

victim at a cemetery at Malad,
Mumbai.

Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in
June 24: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches Housing for
All, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation
and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Smart Cities schemes, in
New Delhi.
Gokulraj, a Dalit youth is found
murdered with head severed on a
railway track near Pallipalayam, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu.
June 29: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa inaugurates the
Metro Rail network in Chennai, currently being operated from Koyambedu to Alandur, through video
conferencing from the Secretariat.
The Hindu art work on special cover.
June 30: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa wins the Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly by-poll
with a record margin of over 1.50
lakh votes.
Telangana TDP MLA A. Revnath
Reddy arrested in a cash-for-vote
case is granted conditional bail by
the Hyderabad High Court.
JULY
July 1: Dignity of a woman is

part of her non-perishable and immortal self, holds the Supreme
Court ruling out room for compromise in rape cases.
The Black Money (Undisclosed
Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act comes into force.
July 2: Maharashtra decides to
label students of madrasas or vedic
schools uneducated.
The External Affairs Ministry reinstates IFS officer Devyani Khobragade and posts her to the newly
created States division.
July 4: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa takes oath as an
MLA at the Secretariat.
The mystery surrounding the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh turns
murkier after Akshay Singh, a TV
journalist dies at Meghnagar area
near Jhabua town soon after interviewing the parents of an accused
who herself was found dead in 2012.
Ira Singhal from Delhi, becomes
the first physically challenged woman to top the Civil Services exam.
July 5: The Vyapam scamclaims
another victim, with Arun Sharma,
Dean of the Jabalpur-based Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College, being found dead in a Delhi
hotel.
July 6: The Chennai Corporation
announces a major decision, permitting residents to build houses on
land of any size in the city.
The DMK challenges in the Su-
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preme Court the acquittal of Tamil

Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in
The Supreme Court rules unwed
mother can be the sole guardian of a
minor child.
July 8: Sensex slumps by 483.97
points to close at 27687.72 fuelled by
the Chinese equity turmoil.
July 10: The ISROs PSLV C-28
launches five satellites weighing
1,440 kg for a U.K.-based company
from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
July 11: The Madras High Court
recalls order suggesting mediation
between a rape survivor and the
convict.
July 13: The CBI begins probe
into the Vyapam scam (fraud in the
pre-medical tests held from
2006-2013).
July 14: The R. M. Lodha panel on
the IPL betting scandal suspends
CSK and RR for two years. Gurunath
Meiyappan and Raj Kundra slapped
with life ban.
At least 27 persons are killed and
36 injured in a stampede at the Godavari Maha Pushkaram in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.
July 15: The Manipur Regulation
of Visitors, Tenants and Migrant
Workers Bill 2015 passed on March
16 is withdrawn at a special Assembly session, following protests during
which a student died in police firing
(on July 8).
July 17: The All India Railway
Helpline number 1512, for victims of
crimes on railway property is unveiled at a function in New Delhi.
July 21: The Supreme Court lifts
its year-long embargo on State governments from freeing life convicts.
Rajiv killers cannot be freed.
July 23: Nobel laureate and climate scientist R.K. Pachauri is removed as Director General of TERI.
July 25: A sessions court in New
Delhi discharges 36 accused, including cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ajit
Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the
IPL spot fixing case of 2013.
The Prime Minister Narendra
Modi presents The Hindu s senior
journalist Gargi Parsai with the
ICAR award for Excellence in Journalism in Agricultural Research and
Development, 2014, at a function in
Patna.
July 27: Seven persons, including
an SP Baljit Singh are killed in an
attack on a police station in Dinanagar in Punjabs Gurdaspur district.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (83), former
President who played a key role in
Indias nuclear tests dies after collapsing on stage during a lecture at
the IIM in Shillong, Meghalaya.

The Supreme Court refuses to stay
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaas acquittal in the disproportionate assets case.
July 28: Mumbais iconic dabbawallas go online with the launch of
www.dabbewale.com
July 29: The Supreme Court dismisses the review petition filed by
the then UPA government challenging the commutation of death penalty to life term of three convicts in the
Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
July 30: The 1993 Mumbai blasts
convict Yakub Memon is hanged at
the Nagpur central prison hardly
two hours after Supreme Court rejects his petition.
The former President A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam is laid to rest with full state
honours in Pei Karumbu village in
Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu.
July 31: Gandhian and anti-liquor crusader Sasi Perumal dies during a protest atop a mobile phone
tower near Marthandam in Tamil
Nadus Kanyakumari district.
The former President A.P.J. Abdul
Kalams birthday, October 15, to be
observed as Youth Awakening Day
every year in Tamil Nadu.
AUGUST
Aug. 1: At least 14,854 people join

India after shedding a stateless existence for years in 51 Bangladesh
enclaves.
Aug. 3: The government signs a
peace deal with the NSCN (IM) in
New Delhi.
The flood toll in West Bengal goes
up to 69 and 2.1 lakh people sheltered in over 1,500 relief camps.
The Supreme Court dismisses the
appeals of the former Haryana Chief
Minister O.P Chautala, his son Ajay
Chautala and three others against
their conviction on January 16, 2013
Former President, Dr. A.P.J.

Abdul Kalam.
Raju Burman, a resident of Poatarkuti, Bangladesh, celebrating

the newfound citizenship of India.
in the teachers recruitment scam
case of 2000.
Amalendu Krishna of the TIFR,
Mumbai, wins the Ramanujan Prize
for 2015.
Aug. 4: At least 25 persons are
killed after several coaches of the
Kamayani Express and the Janata
Express derail and plunge into the
Machak river while crossing flooded
tracks near Harda in Madhya Pradesh.
Aug. 5: Two BSF jawans Rocky
and Suvendu Singh are killed and
eight injured in an attack on a convoy near Udhampur, J&K. A Pakistani militant is shot dead and another
captured.
A Mumbai special court issues an
NBW against former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in London since
2010.
Aug. 7: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi inaugurates the first National
Handloom Day in Chennai and
launches the Indian Handloom
Mark.
The Tripura Assembly passes a
resolution against death penalty.
Aug. 10: Nivin Pauly ( Bangalore
Days and 1983) shares the Best Actor
Award with Sudev Nair ( My Life
Partner ) at the Kerala State Film
awards for 2014. Nazriya Nazim bags
Best Actress Award for Om Shanthi
Oshana and Bangalore Days .
Aug. 11: Aadhaar not mandatory,
says the Supreme Court.
The Prem Bhatia Memorial Award
for 2015 is awarded to Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic and Strategic Affairs
Editor with The Hindu.
The government sues Nestle,
manufacturer of Magi Noodles for
Rs. 639 crore.
Aug. 12: The Lok Sabha debates
the Lalit Modi saga on the penultimate day of the monsoon session.
The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order cancelling the
anticipatory bail of former Union
Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran
in the illegal phone exchange case.

Aug. 13: The Bombay High Court
revokes the nationwide ban on Maggi Noodles, but orders fresh tests on
all variants of the product.
Aug. 14: Delhi police try to evict
ex-servicemen on a relay hunger
strike for 61 days at Jantar Mantar
seeking implementation of OROP.
Aug. 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the Start-up
India Stand Up India scheme , in his
address during the 69 th Independence Day celebration in New Delhi.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa presents the first A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award to ISRO scientist
N. Valarmathi.
Aug. 17: The Supreme Court upholds the conviction of Vikas Yadav,
Vishal Yadav and Sukhdev Yadav in
the 2002 murder of Nitish Katara, an
MBA graduate.
Vipul Garg (17) from Haryanas
Jind district tops the All India PreMedical Test entrance exam 2015.
Aug. 19: India Post, Reliance Industries Ltd. among 11 entities
granted in principle nod by the RBI
for setting up payment banks.
The Supreme Court allows the real estate magnates Gopal and Sushil
Ansal to walk free in the 1997 Uphaar
Cinema fire case.
Aug. 21: The Gujarat High Court
stays the government notification
making voting compulsory in the
civic bodies and panchayat polls.
Aug. 24: Sensex tumbles by
1624.51 points to close at 25741.56.
Aug. 25: Police crackdown after a
mammoth rally of Patels in Ahmedabad, Gujarat seeking quota in jobs
triggers violence. Hardik Patel,
spearhead briefly detained.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announces a comprehensive
AMMA Master Health-Check-up
plan in the Assembly.
Indrani Mukherjea, former CEO
of INX Media Limited is held by the
Mumbai police for the murder of her
2015
daughter Sheena Bora in Raigad district on April 24, 2012.

Aug. 26: Six persons are killed as
the Gujarat bandh turns violent. Army called in.
The Supreme Court suspends all
proceedings against the two Italian
marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in
2012.
The Centre unveils a list of 98
smart cities, with Uttar Pradesh and
Tamil Nadu taking the largest share
of developing 13 cities and 12
respectively.
The ISRO launches communication satellite GSAT-6, with an indigenous cryogenic stage aboard a
GSLV D-6 rocket from Sriharikota,
Andhra Pradesh.
Aug. 28: The NDA government
allows the land acquisition ordinance to lapse.
Aug. 30: Veteran Kannada writer
M.M. Kalburgi (77) known for his
stand against superstition, is shot
dead at his home at Kalyan Nagar in
Dharwad, Karnataka.
Aug. 31: The Supreme Court restores the Jain religious practice of a
ritualistic fast unto death staying the
August 10 order of a Division Bench
of the Rajasthan High Court.
Rajiv Mehrishi replaces L.C. Goyal
as Union Home Secretary.
Five persons are killed during a
general strike in Manipur to protest
the passage of Protection of Manipur
Peoples Bill, 2015 and two amendment bills in the Assembly.
SEPTEMBER
Sept.1: Three persons are killed

in police firing on a mob in Manipurs Churachandpur district as the
protests against the passage of bills
escalate.
Nine persons are sentenced to life
by a Special Court in Thiruvananthapuram for the August 21, 2009
murder of businessman Paul Muthoot George near Nedumudy in Keralas Alappuzha district.
M. M. Kalburgi.
6 DIARY OF EVENTS
Sept. 2: The Union Cabinet gives
nod for a new policy for the auction
of 69 small and marginal oil fields to
private and foreign firms.
The nationwide strike by workers
seeking hike in minimum wages, hits
banking and transport services.
The Government cancels the Registration of Greenpeace India.
Sept. 4: The Delhi High Court
allows women to be granted permanent commission in the Navy.
Sensex plummets by 563 points to
end at 25201.90 following heavy selling in global stocks.
Sept. 5: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar announces the implementation of the one rank, one
pension (OROP) scheme for
ex-servicemen.
Sept. 6: Veterans call off stir after
Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarifies that all service personnel who
had taken premature retirement are
also entitled to OROP.
Sept. 7: An Army Court martial
awards lifer to six of its personnel for
the killing of three youth on April 29,
2010 in the Machil Sector of Kupwara district in J&K in a fake
encounter.
Sept. 9: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa inaugurates projects
worth Rs.2,568 crore at the opening
of the first Global Investors Meet
2015, in Chennai.
The Gandhi Peace Prize is bestowed on the ISRO and accepted by
its Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar from
President Pranab Mukherjee, at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Sept. 12: At least 89 people are
killed and over 100 injured after an
explosion in Petlawad town of Jhabua district, Madhya Pradesh.
Sept. 16: Majed Hassan Ashoor,
the Saudi Arabian diplomat accused
of sexual assault on two Nepali
maids leaves India.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister
Chandrababu Naidu completes the
rivers Godavari-Krishna link as part
of the Pattiseema project in West
Godavari district.
The RBI grants in principle approval for 10 firms to set up small
finance banks.
Sept. 17: The Supreme Court
stays the operation of a new panchayat law in Haryana laying down
minimum educational qualifications
to contest local bodies polls.
Sept. 18: The West Bengal Government declassifies 64 files relating
to Subhas Chandra Bose.
Sept. 19: The detention of Hardik
Patel, leader of the Patidar Andolan
Samithi by the Surat police triggers
violence. Gujarat government sus-
2015
pends Internet services on mobile
across the state.
Sept. 21: The Hindu makes public
online destruction of documents regarding a military intelligence unit
set up during Gen. V.K. Singhs tenure. An army general court martial
had on May 9, 2015 sentenced havildar Sham Das D. to 10 years RI for
leaking them.
The Rajasthan Assembly decides
to increase quota limit to 68 per cent.
Two bills to ensure 5 per cent reservation for Gujjars and 14 per cent to
Economically Backward Classes
passed.
Sept 24: The Centre clears the
Gujarat Control of Terrorism and
Organised Crime Bill 2015 and sends
it to the President for assent.
Sept. 26: The CBI registers a case
against Himachal Pradesh Chief
Minister Virbhadra Singh, his wife
and associates in a disproportionate
assets case after raids at 13 places.
Sept. 28: The ISRO launches Astrosat, its first dedicated multiwavelength space observatory into
space, besides six satellites for Canada, Indonesia and the U.S.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa launches Amma mobile
phones, a scheme under which
women SHG trainers are to be provided cellphones.
Sept. 29: The government flags
off its Green Highways (Plantation,
Transplantation and Maintenance)
Policy 2015 at a function in New
Delhi.
Sept. 30: A special court in Mumbai awards death sentence to five and
lifer to seven persons for the July 11,
2006 serial train blasts.
For the first time in the history of
Indian judiciary, the Madras High
Court allows live telecast of contempt proceedings against two Madurai advocates for their activities
against the compulsory helmet rule.
Astrosat all set for launch in

Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
THE HINDU
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiling the plaque to lay the

foundation stone of Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh.
OCTOBER
Oct. 3: Vishal, the son of a local
BJP leader accused of inciting a mob
to lynch Mohammed Akhlaque over
rumours of cow slaughter in Bishara
village in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh on
September 28 is arrested.
Oct. 5: India and Germany agree
to form the Climate and Renewable
Energy Alliance.
Oct. 6: Maharashtra Cabinet decides to revive Ratnagiri Gas and
Power Private Limited the erstwhile Dabhol Power Project.
Eminent litterateur Nayantara
Sahgal returns her Sahitya Akademi
award in protest against the killing
of writer M.M. Kalburgi and rationalist Govind Pansare.
Oct. 8: The Bombay High Court
sets aside a tax demand of Rs. 3,700
crore imposed on Vodafone India by
the IT authorities.
Oct. 9: Noted writer Shashi Deshpande quits the Sahitya Akademi
Council.
Oct. 10: Poet K. Satchidanandan
and feminist writer Sara Joseph,
both from Kerala quit Sahitya Akademi and return awards.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet decides to rename Rajahmundry as
Rajamahendravaram.
Oct. 12: Fiftyseven per cent voting is recorded in phase I of Bihar
Assembly polls.
Oct. 14: The government to begin
declassification of Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose files from January 23,
2016.
Kerala plantation labour call off
stir.
Oct. 15: The Supreme Court stays
ban on the operation of dance bars in
Mumbai.
The Government cannot insist on
production of Aadhar card, rules the
Supreme Court.
Oct. 16: The Supreme Court rejects the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and
the 99 th Constitutional Amendment.

Collegium system is operative again.
Over 55 per cent voting recorded
in the second phase of Bihar Assembly polls.
Oct. 17: National Blood Policy
modified. Blood banks can borrow
from one another in case of shortage.
Oct. 19: The Gujarat police arrests Hardik Patel on sedition charges in Rajkot.
Oct. 22: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation for
Amaravati, the Peoples Capital of
Andhra Pradesh at Uddandrayunipalem on the banks of the Krishna
between Vijayawada and Guntur.
Oct. 23: The Sahitya Akademi ,
passes resolution condemning the
killing of Kannada writer M. M. Kalburgi, at an emergency meeting in
New Delhi.
Oct. 25: The Hindu group launches the Sportstar digital edition in
Chennai.
Oct. 26: Geeta, a differently abled
woman who had wandered across
the India-Pakistan border in 2002
and looked after by the Edhi Foundation in Karachi arrives in New
Delhi.
A massive earthquake rocks north
India. Jammu and Kashmir badly
hit.
Navy opens its doors to women
pilots, who for the time being will be
shore-based.
The Maharashtra Government
withdraws circular on sedition.
Oct. 27: The Gujarat High Court
upholds sedition charge against Patel agitation leader Hardik Patel.
Oct. 28: Documentary film-maker Anand Patwardhan returns his
national award along with nine others in solidarity with the FTTI students who end their 139-day strike.
Facebooks Free Basics and Zero
Rating did not violate Net neutrality,
says CEO Mark Zuckerburg in a
town hall-style event on the IIT, Delhi campus.

Fiftythree per cent voting is registered in the third phase of Bihar Assembly polls.
Oct. 29: The Delhi Declaration
2015, unveiled at the conclusion of
the India-Africa Forum Summit
calls for a global plan to combat
cross-border terrorism and faster
reform of the UNSC.
Oct. 30: Chandrabhan Sanap,
convicted of raping and murdering
techie Esther Anuhya is sentenced to
death by a special womens court in
Mumbai.
Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah
presents The Hindu Saregama M.S.
Subbulakshmi Award 2015 to S.
Adithyanarayanan, a mathematics
student, in Chennai.
Oct. 31: Indias tallest person and
Asias second tallest, Kolipaka Gattaiah, dies of heart attack while being
treated at a hospital in Hyderabad.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Bihar registers 57.59 per

cent turnout in phase IV of Assembly
polls.
Nov. 3: A Fast Track court in New
Delhi sentences to lifer Uber cab
driver Shiv Kumar Yadav for raping a
woman executive on Dec. 5, 2014.
Haryana
drops
chargesheet
against senior IAS officer Ashok
Khemka.
Nov. 4: The collegium system is
back and the CJI H. L. Dattu suggests
the name of Justice Tirath Singh
Thakur to be his successor.
A special court in Mumbai frames
charges against Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal in the November 26, 2008 serial terror strikes in
Mumbai.
The Registrar of Societies in Tamil
Nadu cancels the registration of
Greenpeace India as a society.
Nov. 5: The Supreme Court
throws open the collegium system to
public scrutiny.
A 19-year-old is raped in a moving
bus in Bengaluru.
Geeta.
THE HINDU
DIARY OF EVENTS

unveils the Gold Monetisation
Scheme, Sovereign Gold Bond
Scheme and Gold Coin and Bullion
Scheme, at a function in New Delhi.
Nov. 6: Underworld don Chhota
Rajan is arrested after being brought
to New Delhi from Indonesia.
Nov. 7: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announces an economic package of Rs. 80,000 crore for J&K at a
function in Srinagar.
The Union Government notifies
the one rank one pension scheme,
but ex-servicemen reject it.
Nov. 8: The Nitish Kumar-Lalu
Prasad duo leads the Grand Alliance
to a historic, two-thirds majority in
the Bihar Assembly polls.
Nov. 9: Heavy rain lashes the
coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, with
Neyveli receiving 45 cm within a few
hours. Parts of Puducherry, Chennai
too hit. Cuddalore gets 266 mm in
two days.
Nestle India resumes sale of Maggi noodles.
Nov. 10: Kerala Finance Minister, K.M. Mani resigns over the bar
bribery allegations.
The Centre announces Big Bang
FDI reforms, easing norms across 15
sectors, including defence, banking.
Nov. 16: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa announces Rs. 500
crore for relief and rehabilitation in
the wake of the rain havoc in the
State. People in many marooned localities in Chennai are airlifted and
ferried by boats.
The CISF takes over security in
Madras High Court.
Nov. 17: Chittoor Mayor Katari
Anuradha and her husband Katari
Mohan both belonging to the TDP
are killed in an attack at the
chamber.
Nov. 18: President Pranab Mukherjee appoints Supreme Court
Judge Justice C.P. Thakur as the
43rd CJI with effect from Dec. 3.
A Mumbai special court allows
plea to make Pakistan-born American terror operative David Coleman
Headley, an accused in the November 26, 2008 attacks.
Nov. 19: The CBI arrests former
TV network owner Peter Mukherjea
in the Sheena Bora murder case.
The first batch of 62 persons residing in Bangladesh enclaves arrives in
West Bengals Cooch Behar district.
Nov. 20: Nitish Kumar is sworn
in Bihar Chief Minister for the fifth
time.
The Madras High Court stays for
four weeks the Tamil Nadu Governments order cancelling the registration of Greenpeace India.
The Supreme Court opens the

door for Navy woman officers released from service after September
26, 2008 to return to the force.
Music maestro Ilayaraja is conferred with the Centenary Award at the
46th IFFI inaugural in Panaji, Goa.
Nov. 21: The Wednesday Child
from Hungary and Ella from Colombia are given the best film and
director awards at the 21st Kolkata
International Film Festival.
Nov. 23: The Centre sanctions
Rs. 939.63 crore as immediate flood
relief to Tamil Nadu.
Nov. 26: Parliament holds a discussion to commemorate the Constitution and its framer Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar.
Nov. 27: The Hindu launches its
Mumbai Edition.
Nov. 29: Two espionage rackets
with links to Pakistans ISI are busted in Jammu and Kolkata, and five
persons are held.
Nov. 30: Chennai records 1049.3
mm rainfall, missing the 1088.4 mm
registered in November 1918.
Adventure drama Embrace of the
Serpent bags the Golden Peacock for
Best film at the IFFI 2015 in Goa.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1: Chennai registers a record

29.4 cm rain and Tambaram 49 cm.
Dec. 2: The seven life-term convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case merit no hope of freedom,
holds the Supreme Court.
Dec. 3: Prime Minister, Narendra
Modi undertakes an aerial survey of
the rain-hit areas of Chennai and
announces an additional Rs. 1,000crore package.
Dec. 4: Eighteen patients are
killed between Dec. 2 and 3 at the
MIOT International in Manapakkam, Chennai following power failure after the hospital is flooded
owing to the Adyar river breaching
its banks.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish

Kumar.
Chennai residents carrying children as they wade through

floodwaters.
Dec. 9: The Hindu launches India
for Chennai (# India for Chennai), a
national editorial campaign to collect funds to help the rain-hit.
Dec. 10: The Bombay High Court
acquits actor Salman Khan of all
charges in the September 28, 2002
hit-and-run and drunk-and-drive
case in which one person died outside the American Express Bakery in
Bandra.
The Supreme Court upholds the
Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015 which mandated
that only those having minimum
educational qualifications were eligible to contest panchayat polls.
A special court in Mumbai grants
pardon to LeT operative David Coleman Headley and accepts his proposal to turn approver in the
November 26, 2008 terror attacks.
The Centre announces the Tamil
Nadu floods to be a Calamity of Severe Nature. Toll put at 347.
Dec. 11: Malayalam film Ottal
(The Trap) wins four top awards at
the IFFK.
Three persons are sentenced to 10
years RI in the February 5, 2012 Park
Street gangrape case in Kolkata.
Dec. 12: India and Japan announce a series of military and strategic agreements.
The bodies of noted artist Hema
Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish
Bhambhani are found in a sewage
drain in Kandivali, Mumbai.
Dec. 13: Actor Dileep Kumar is
presented the Padma Vibhushan
award by Home Minister, Rajnath
Singh at his home in Bandra,
Mumbai.
Dec. 14: Justice L. Narasimha
Reddy is appointed the one-man judicial commission to look into OROP
implementation.
2015
tences to death seven accused in the

gangrape-cum-murder of a Nepali
woman in February 2015.
Dec. 22: The Rajya Sabha clears
the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill.
Artist Chintan Upadyay is arrested for the murder of his wife Hema
and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani.
Dec. 23: The BJP suspends Darbhanga MP Kirti Azad for levelling
corruption charges in DDCA affairs.
The UP police file chargesheet
against 15 in the Dadri lynching case.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay
High Court cancels the bail of DU
professor G.N. Saibaba held in May
for alleged Maoist links.
Dec. 24: The Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal unveils the blueprint for the odd-even car rollout
from January 1.
The ULFA general secretary Anup
Chetia is freed from the Guwahati
Central Jail following grant of bail.
Dec. 26: In the first verdict in the
M.P. Vyapam scam cases, two persons are awarded three years RI by a
court in Indore.
Dec. 28: Meat recovered from
Dadri lynching victim Mohammad
Akhlaqs house mutton not beef, says
probe report.
Amitabh Kant is NITI Aayog CEO.
An IAF man is dismissed after being held on espionage charge by the
Delhi Crime Branch Police.
Dec. 29: The Supreme Court upholds the liquor policy in Kerala.
Eminent Gujarati writer Raghuveer Chaudhary is chosen for the
Jnanpith Award for 2015.
Dec. 30: India successfully testfires Barak NG, a surface-to-air missile system from INS Kolkata on the
western seaboard.
Dec. 31: Over 200 Delhi officials
go on leave opposing the suspension
a day earlier of two colleagues held
void by the Centre.
Music maestro Ilayaraja is chosen
for Kerala Tourisms Nishagandhi
Puraskaram 2016.
Dec. 15: A CBI raid on the secretariat of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal triggers a political storm.
Sangita Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi Award is conferred on Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan
at the Music Academy in Chennai.
Dec. 16: Appointment of priests
in Tamil Nadu temples as per Agamas not a violation of the right to
equality, rules the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court bans registration of luxury diesel vehicles in the
National Capital Region of Delhi up
to March 31, 2016.
The ISRO launches six Singapore
satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra
Pradesh.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet decides to appoint a judicial commission to probe call money sex racket.
Dec. 17: Tamil writer A. Madhavan is chosen for the 2015 Sahitya
Akademi award for his collected
prose writings Ilakkiya Chuvadukal .
BJP and rebel Congress MPs vote
out Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and elect Kalikho
Pul. The Guwahati High Court stays
all decisions.
Rs. 40,000-crore defence deal.
Dec. 18: Mumbais Marine Drive,
completes 100 years.
Former Defence Secretary R.K.
Mathur is named new Chief Information Commissioner.
Dec. 19: A Delhi court grants conditional bail to Congress president
Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald
case.
Dec. 20: The youngest convict in
the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape is released and moved to the
care and protection of an NGO.
Dec. 21: A court in Rohtak sen- Tamil writer A. Madhavan.
8 DIARY OF EVENTS
2015
coffins of slain police personnel

Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet
and Clarissa Jean-Philippe, at the
Paris police headquarters.
JANUARY
Jan. 14: Charlie Hebdo makes a
Jan. 3: IS militants burn alive
defiant return with the survivors
Jordanian pilot Maaz-al-Kassasbeh
issue with the print order going up
captured on December 24, 2014 after to 5 million.
his F-16 set crashed while on a misPope Francis canonises 17 th century priest Joseph Vaz Sri Lankas
sion over northern Syria.
Jan. 5: The euro sinks to a nine- first Saint at a ceremony near Colyear low.
ombos seafront.
Jan. 7: Two masked Islamist gunJan. 15: Switzerland uncouples
men attack the headquarters of the the Swiss franc from the euro.
Jan. 20: Shia militia fighters
satirical French weekly magazine
Charlie Hebdo in Paris over its lam- seize the presidential palace in the
pooning of Prophet Mohamed leav- Yemeni capital Sana'a.
Jan. 21: Sri Lanka exonerates foring 12 persons, including Stephane
mer army Chief Sarath Fonseka of all
Charbonnier, Editor-in-Chief and
charges, and restores his rank and
staff cartoonists dead.
Jan. 8: Presidential polls largely medals.
Jan. 22: Yemen President Abed
peaceful in Sri Lanka with an 81.52
Rabbo Mansour Hadi resigns.
per cent turnout.
Jan. 9: Elite French police storm
Jan. 23: Saudi Arabias King Aba printing firm in Paris and kill Chedullah (90), dies in Riyadh. His halfrif and Said Kouachi, the two brothbrother Salman succeeds to the
ers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo throne.
attack. An accomplice, Amedy CouliThailands Parliament votes to
baly who had held people hostage at impeach the former Prime Minister
a Jewish grocery shop too killed Yingluck Shinawatra.
Jan. 24: Haruna Yukawa, one of
along with four civilians.
two Japanese being held hostage by
Maithripala Sirisena is sworn in
the IS is beheaded.
Sri Lankas sixth executive President
Jan. 25: Greeks cast ballots in
at the Independence Square in Colparliamentary polls.
ombo. UNP leader Ranil WickramasColombias Paulina Vega is
inghe is sworn in as Prime Minister.
Charlie Hebdo staff start work on crowned Miss Universe 2014 in
a new issue in premises loaned by Florida.
Jan. 26: Greet left-wing leader
the newspaper Liberation .
Jan. 10: More than 200,000 peoAlexis Tsipras is sworn in Prime
ple pour onto the streets across Minister heading a coalition governFrance in silent marches, paying
ment, after anti-austerity Syriza partribute to the 17 victims of the three- ty storms to victory in snap polls.
Jan. 27: Greece names radical
day Islamist killing spree.
The mangled tail of an AirAsia left-wing economist Yanis Varoufaplane that crashed on December 28, kis Finance Minister.
Jan. 28: Sri Lankas former Chief
2014 with 162 on board is lifted out
Justice Shirani Bandaranayake imof the Java Sea.
Jan. 11: Hundreds of thousands peached in 2013 is reinstated.
Jan. 29: Malaysia formally deof people and over 40 world leaders
march through Paris in a show of
solidarity after terrorist attacks.
Nearly four million take out a march
across the country.
The editorial office of Hamburger
Morgenpost German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from Charlie Hebdo is firebombed.
Boyhood filmed over 12 years bags
top honours at the 72 nd Golden Globe
Awards. Michael Keaton ( Birdman )
gets Best Actor award and Amy
Adams ( Big Eyes ) Best Actress
award. The Grand Budapest Hotel
bags Best film (musical or comedy).
Jan. 13: France will never break,
will never yield, never bend, says
Sri Lanka's newly-elected
President Francois Hollande as he
lays the Legion dhonneur on the President Maithripala Sirisena.
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INTERNATIONAL
Firefighters carry an injured person on a stretcher in front of the

offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
clares the 239 passengers and crew
of missing flight MH370 presumed
dead.
Bangladeshs Parliament passes a
historic proposal to recognise rape
victims of the 1971 Liberation War as
freedom fighters.
Jan. 30: K. Sripavan, a Tamil
Judge is appointed Sri Lanka Chief
Justice.
Jan. 31: Sergio Mattarella, a Sicilian Judge is elected Italys new
President.
The IS releases video depicting
the beheading of Japanese journalist
Kenji Goto.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Egypt deports Al-Jazeera

English reporter Peter Greste to
Australia after holding him for more
than 400 days on charges of backing
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Feb. 2: Moscow, Beijing back Indias entry into APEC. New Delhi
endorses the launch of the Free
Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, at the
RIC trilateral in Beijing.
Feb. 3: British Parliament votes
to allow the creation of babies with
DNA from three people.
Feb. 4: Jordan executes Sajida alRishawi, a woman would-be suicide
bomber and Al-Qaeda member Ziad
al-Karboli in response to the burning alive of fighter pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh by IS militants on Jan. 3.
Feb. 6: Houthi rebels take over
Yemen and dissolve Parliament.
Kayla-Jean Mueller, an American
aid worker held hostage by the IS is
killed in an airstrike in Syria.
An Indian, Sureshbhai Patel, is left
partially paralysed following police
action in the suburb of Huntsville, in
Madison, Alabama, the U.S.
Feb. 8: Coming-of-age drama
Boyhood bags the best film, best director for Richard Linklater and best
supporting actress for Patricia Arquette at the BAFTA 2015. The
Grand Budapest Hotel takes home
five trophies.
Musician Ricky Kej and activist
Neela Vaswani win honours for their
work in album Winds of Samsara and
the documentary on Malala Yousafzai at the 57 th Annual Grammy
Awards in Los Angeles. The Stay
With Me fame singer Sam Smith
scoops four Grammy Awards.
Feb. 9: Nobel Laureate Amartya
Sen is chosen for the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes
Prize.
Feb. 10: Three Muslim students
from one family are shot dead by
Craig Stephen Hicks, a self-described atheist in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina.
Feb. 11: More than 300 migrants
are feared drowned in the Mediterranean after their overcrowded
dinghies sink.
Feb. 12: Ukraine and pro-Moscow rebels announce ceasefire after
a summit in the Belarussian capital
Minsk.
Danish photographer Mads Nissens picture of a gay couple Jon and
Alex wins the World Press Photo
award.
Two Al-Jazeera journalists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed
are freed from an Egyptian jail after
more than 400 days.
Feb. 14: A documentary filmmaker Finn Norgaard is killed after a
gunman fires on a caf in the Danish
capital Copenhagen as it hosted a
free speech event organised by
Swedish artist Lars Vilks who drew
cartoons caricaturing Prophet Mohamed.
Iranian dissident director Jafar
Panahis Taxi bags the Golden Bear
at the 65 th Berlinale International
Film Festival. Best acting honours
goes to Charlotte Rampling and Tom
Courtenay for Andrew Haighs 45
Years . The Grand Jury Silver Bear is
bagged by Pablo Larrains The Club .
Feb. 22: Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritus dark comedy
Birdman bags Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay at the 87th Academy
Awards in Hollywood, California.
Eddie Redmayne gets Best Actor
award ( The Theory of Everything ).
Julianne Moore bags Best Actress
honours for role in Still Alice . Wes
Andersons The Grand Budapest Hotel wins four awards on its nine nominations.
Former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed is arrested in Male
under anti-terrorism laws for allegedly ordering the arrest of a senior
judge in 2012 that triggered violence.
Feb. 23: Eurozone approves
Greek reforms plan.
"Birdman" Director Alejandro

Inarritu poses with the Oscars
for Best Director, Best Original
Screenplay and Best Picture at
the 87th Academy Awards.
Feb. 25: French magazine Charlie Hebdo returns to the news stand.
Feb. 26: Jihadi John, the
masked IS militant responsible for
the beheading of Western hostages is
identified as Kuwait-born London
computer programmer Mohammed
Emwazi.
Suspected radical Islamists hack
to death popular Bangladesh writer
and novelist Avijit Roy and seriously
injure his wife Rafida Ahmed Banna
in Dhaka.
Feb. 27: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemstov is gunned down
near the Kremlin in a drive-by
killing.
MARCH
March 4: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

goes on trial in the April 15, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing case.
March 5: NASA scientists unveil
evidence of the existence of a massive ancient ocean that covered
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nearly half the northern hemisphere

of Mars.
The Islamic State destroys the an
cient Assyrian archaeological site of
Nimrud, Iraq.
March 9: The Islamabad High
Court upholds the death sentence
for Mumtaz Qadri, a former police
bodyguard who shot dead Punjab
Governor Salman Taseer in 2011.
Solar Impulse, worlds first solar
aircraft takes off on its global journey from Abu Dhabi.
Frances champion sailor Florence Arthaud, Olympic gold medallist swimmer Camille Muffat and
Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine among
10 persons killed when two copters
filming the survival series Dropped smash into each other in the
rugged mountains of La Rioja province, Argentina.
March 11: India and Mauritius
announce a new security cooperation pact.
March 13: Former Maldives
President Mohamed Nasheed is sentenced to 13 years in jail after being
convicted under the Anti-Terrorism
Act.
March 18: Twentyone persons,
including 17 foreign tourists and a
Tunisian are killed in an attack by
two gunmen on the Bardo National
Museum adjoining Parliament in the
Tunisia capital Tunis.
Benjamin Netanyahu sweeps to
victory in Israeli polls, securing a
third straight term as Prime
Minister.
March 19: Farkhunda, an Afghan
woman is lynched to death and burnt
by a mob in Kabul for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran.
March 20: At least 142 people are
killed and 351 wounded in suicide
bombings at two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and another
mosque in Saada.
March 22: Former Sri Lankan
military chief Sarath Fonseka is conferred the Field Marshal title by the
President Maithripala Sirisena.
March 23: Lee Kuan Yew (91),
the founding father and first Prime
Minister of Singapore dies at the Singapore General Hospital.
March 24: All 150 people on
board a Germanwings Airbus A320
of Lufthansa en route to Dusseldorf
from Barcelona are killed after it is
crashed into a remote area of the
French Alps by its co-pilot Andreas
Lubitz.
March 25: The Pentagon charges
Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl freed
after being in Taliban captivity for
five years with desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy after
he abandoned his post in Afghanistan in June 2009.

March 26: Fourteen civilians are
killed after Saudi war planes bomb
Shia Huthi rebels in Yemen. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadileaves by boat and reaches Riyadh.
March 27: Anna Cross, a British
reservist who contracted Ebola
while working as a nurse in Sierra
Leone recovers fully after receiving
an experimental new treatment.
A U.S. Federal grand jury indicts
former Alabama police officer Eric
Sloan Parker for using excessive
force against an elderly Indian Sureshbhai Patel in a February 6 incident
in Madison.
March 30: Washiqur Rahman
Babu, a young Bangladeshi blogger is
hacked to death in Dhakas Tejgaon
industrial area.
March 31: Muhammadu Buhari
wins Nigerian presidential polls.
APRIL
April 1: Palestine formally joins

the International Criminal Court at
a ceremony at the ICC headquarters
in The Hague.
April 2: The U.S., Iran and five
other world powers reach nuclear
accord after more than a decade of
negotiations
in
Lausanne,
Switzerland.
At least 148 students are killed after four gunmen of Somalias Shebab
Islamic group attack the Garissa
University College in Kenya.
April 3: Malli Mastan Babu, ace
Indian mountaineer is found dead in
the Andes mountain ranges in Chile,
South America.
April 5: CERN scientists restart
the Large Hadron Collider after a
two-year shutdown for a major refit.
April 9: The Lahore High Court
sets free Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi,
A survivor of an attack by
Islamist gunmen on a university
campus in Garissa, northern
Kenya is being comforted by a
colleague.
2015
MAY
A scene of devastation in a village after an earthquake in Nepal.

the November 2008 Mumbai attacks
mastermind and LeT operations
commander, suspending the Punjab
governments detention order.
April 10: India will buy 36 Rafale
fighter jets in flyaway condition, says
Prime Minister Narendra Modi after
talks with French President Francois Hollande in Paris. Agreement
on proceeding forward on the stalled
nuclear project in Jaitapur in Maharashtra among 17 pacts signed.
April 11: The US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro address a landmark
Summit of Americas ahead of historic one-to-one talks in Panama City.
Bangladesh war crimes convict
and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is hanged
at the Dhaka Central Jail on charges
of genocide and rape.
April 14: Sierra Leones 1.8 million children return to school more
than eight months after classes were
shut to halt the spread of Ebola virus.
The U.S. President Barack Obama
notifies Congress of his intent to
rescind Cubas inclusion on the
blacklist.
April 15: India signs a $350-million nuclear agreement with the Saskatoon, Canada-based Cameco
Corporation after talks between
Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and
Stephen Harper in Toronto.
April 18: Bolywood Superstar
Shah Rukh Khan is awarded Outstanding Contribution to Cinema
award at the fifth annual Asian
Awards in London.
April 19: Up to 800 people are
feared drowned after an overcrowded boat smuggling them to Europe
capsizes off Libya in the Mediterranean, after colliding with a Portuguese container ship answering its
distress call.
A black youth, Freddie Gray, dies
in police custody in Baltimore, the
U.S. after suffering a fatal spine injury while being taken in a police
vehicle on April 12.

April 20: The New York Times
wins three Pulitzer prizes, including
one for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak. The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina wins the
award for public service journalism.
April 21: Japans state-of-the art
maglev train clocks a new world
speed record in a test run near
Mount Fuji breaking the 600-kmph
mark.
April 25: At least 10,000 people
are killed and 17,000 injured as a
massive earthquake rocks Nepal,
with the epicentre being Barpak in
Lamjung district.
April 26: Sangeeta Bhatia, an Indian-origin scientist at the MIT who
has developed artificial human microlivers for drug testing named the
2015 Heinz Award Winner.
An earthquake measuring 6.7 on
the Richter scale rattles Nepal.
April 27: Raja Rajeswari, the first
Indian-born woman to be appointed
a judge in New York city is sworn in
by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
April 28: Sri Lankan Parliament
adopts the 19th Constitutional
Amendment which restores the twoterm limit for President. Terms of
President and Parliament to be five
years.
April 29: Pune-based ornithologist Pramod Patil is conferred with
the Whitley Fund for Nature Award,
for his work on the conservation of
the Great Indian Bustard, at a ceremony in London.
April 30: A court in Pakistan sentences 10 persons to lifer for bid to
kill Malala Yousafzai in October
2012.
NASAs Messenger spacecraft
crashes into the surface of Mercury
ending its historic 11-year mission.
North Korean Defence Minister
Hyon Yong-Chol is shot dead using
anti-aircraft gun for insubordination and dozing off during a formal
military rally.
May 3: Jailed Syrian journalist

and rights activist Mazen Darwish is
presented with UNESCOs Annual
Press Freedom prize in Latvia.
May 5: The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is presented
with the Freedom of Expression
Award from the PEN American Center, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
May 6: Four Afghan men are sentenced to death and eight persons to
16 years in prison by the Kabul primary court for the March 19 killing
of a woman Farkhunda on the banks
of the Kabul river.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu forms a government just
an hour before a legal deadline.
May 7: Britons cast ballots in one
of the most closely-contested general elections in the nation.
May 8: The Conservative Party
led by British Prime Minister, David
Cameron scores a resounding victory in polls. The Labour Party suffers
a devastating rout.
Scottish National Party wins 56 of
the 59 Scottish parliamentary seats.
May 9: The WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free.
May 11: Swedens Supreme Court
rejects an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to revoke a detention order over allegations of
sexual assault.
May 12: A 7.3 magnitude temblor
rocks parts of Nepal leaving 76 dead
and nearly 2,400 injured.
Bangladesh
blogger-activist
Ananta Bijoy Das is murdered in
Northeastern Sylhet by unknown
assailants.
May 13: At least 43 persons are
killed after pistol-wielding gunmen
storm a bus carrying Shia Ismailis in
Karachis eastern Malir district.
The Vatican officially recognises
the state of Palestine.
The U.S. House of Representatives
passes the USA Freedom Act.
May 15: India and China sign 24
agreements. India-China Forum of
Central Japan Railway's sevencar maglev train.
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State Provincial Leaders launched.
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel marries his gay partner
Gauthier Destenay, a Belgian architect, becoming the first EU leader to
enter into a same-sex union.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is sentenced to death
by a U.S. jury for the April 15, 2013
attack.
May 16: India and China sign 21
agreements or MoUs estimated at a
total of $22 billion, in Shanghai.
An Egyptian court sentences deposed Islamist President Mohamed
Morsy and 100 others to death for
their role in a mass jailbreak during
the 2011 uprising.
May 18: India and South Korea
sign seven agreements. Agree to upgrade their bilateral relationship to a
Special Strategic Partnership.
May 20: Hungarian writer Laszlo
Krasznahorkai is presented the Man
Booker International Prize for 2015
at a ceremony at the Victoria and
Albert Museum in London.
The Islamic State seizes the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and resorts to massacre of a rebellious
tribe.
Indian-American genius Tanishq
Abraham (11) graduates with three
associate degrees from American
River College in Sacramento,
California.
May 22: A skull and scalp transplant is done on James Boysen, a
software engineer during a 15-hour
surgery at the Houston Methodist
Hospital.
May 23: The Republic of Ireland
becomes the first country to legalise
same-sex marriage through vote.
The U.S. Senate rejects legislation
aimed at reforming NSA intelligence
gathering.
U.S. mathematician John F. Nash
Jr. (86) known for his theory of noncooperative games and his wife Alicia Nash are killed in a car crash in
New Jersey.
May 24: Iraqi forces recapture
territory near Ramadi. Is fighters
slaughter 400 people since the capture of the Syrian city of Palmyra
four days earlier.
Jacques Audiards immigrant drama Dheepan wins the Palme dOr at
the Cannes Film Festival. Son of Saul
a grim Hungarian holocaust drama
by Laszlo Nemes bags the Grand
Prix. French actor Vincent Lindon
bags the best actor award for role in
The Measure of a Man . Best actress
award is shared by Rooney Mara
( Carol ) and Emmanuelle Bercot
( Mon Roi ).
Andrzej Duda wins Polish presi-
2015
dential run-off.
May 25: Bangladesh Cabinet ratifies the protocol on the Land
Boundary Agreement with India.
May 27: At least 80 people are
killed in Saudi-led air strikes near
Yemens border with Saudi Arabia
and in the capital Sanaa.
May 28: Indian-Americans Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam are declared co-champions
of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling
Bee in National Harbor, Maryland.
May 29: The U.S. removes Cuba
from its blacklist as a state sponsor
of terrorism.
May 31: Solar Impulse 2 aircraft
piloted by Andre Borschberg leaves
Nanjing in China heading for Hawaii
on its 8,500 km flight.
Key provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act lapses without renewal by
Congress. NSA loses authority to
conduct bulk telephone data collection.
JUNE
June 1: Over 442 people are killed

after Eastern Star, a Chinese cruise
ship sinks in the Yangtze river in
Hubei provinces Jianli county, after
being caught in a storm.
Mauritius designates Ameenah
Gurib-Fakim as President, making
her the first woman to hold the
position.
Solar Impulse 2 is forced to land in
Nagoya, Japan.
June 2: Omar Hassan al-Bashir
begins new term as Sudan President.
The U.S. Senate passes and President Barack Obama signs into law
the NSA surveillance reform.
June 3: The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for
Nuclear Research, Geneva restarts
with nearly doubled energy levels in
a key breakthrough.
June 5: Eight of the 10 men reportedly convicted and jailed for at-
Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul

Venkatachalam, hold aloft the
trophy after winning the 2015
Scripps National Spelling Bee in
National Harbor, Maryland.
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Rescuers paying a silent tribute to victims of the Chinese cruise

ship mishap in Jianli, Hubei province.
tempting to murder Pakistani
schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai
are acquitted by court. Two get lifer.
June 6: India and Bangladesh exchange the instruments of ratification of the Land Boundary
Agreement in Dhaka.
Prime Ministers Narenda Modi,
Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
flag off the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala
and the Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati
bus services.
Richard Matt and David Sweat,
both convicted killers escape from
the maximum security Clinton Correctional facility in Dannemora
town in New York near the Canadian
border.
June 7: Saudi Arabias Supreme
Court upholds a sentence of 10 years
in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger Raif Badawi on charges of insulting Islam.
American rower Sonya Baumstein
from Orlando, Florida sets out on a
6,000-mile journey from Choshi,
Tokyo to sail solo across the Pacific
to reach San Francisco.
receives the Bangaladesh Liberation
War Award on behalf of former
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee in
Dhaka.
June 8: Vikas Bahls drama
Queen and Vishal Bhardwajs Haider
bag major trophies at the 16th IIFA
awards in Kuala Lumpur. Rajkumar
Hirani gets the best director award
for PK . Deepika Padukone honoured
with the woman of the year award.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogans Justice and Development
Party loses absolute majority in Parliament for the first time in 13 years.
Pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic
Party in Parliament for first time.
June 10: African leaders sign the

Tripartite Free Trade Area, a 26-nation free trade pact at a summit at
the Red Sea resort town of Sharm
el-Sheikh, Egypt.
June 13: China launches a freight
train service between its northeastern city of Harbin and Europe.
Europes tiny robot lab Philae hurtling through space on the back of a
comet wakes up after nearly seven
months and sends home first
message.
June 14: Talks between Greece
and EU-IMF creditors collapse after
both sides fail to agree on reforms .
June 16: An Egyptian court upholds death sentence against ousted
Islamist President Mohamed Morsy
for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on
police during the 2011 uprising.
June 17: The Palestinian Unity
government resigns.
Nine African-Americans, including pastor and State Senator Clementa Pinckney and six women are
killed by a gunman Dylann Roof at
the Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Charleston,
South Carolina.
Scientists announce the discovery
of COSMOS Redshift 7, the brightest
galaxy in the early universe and nickname it CR7 after Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
June 20: Jihadists blow up mausoleums of two revered Islamic figures in Palmyra.
June 22: Nine persons, including
a suicide bomber and five gunmen
are killed and 31 injured after security forces foil an attempt by Taliban
Militants to storm the Afghan
Parliament.
James Horner (61), music composer for hit movies like Titanic and
Avatar dies in a plane crash in Santa

Barbara, California.
June 25: The U.S. Supreme Court
upholds the Affordable Care Act
(Obamacare law) passed in 2010 preserving health insurance for millions
of Americans.
At least 206 civilians are killed as
the IS rampages through the Kurdish town of Kobane, Syria.
June 26: At least 38 persons,
most of them British, are killed and
36 others wounded after a gunman
launches an assault on a hotel in the
Tunisian resort town of Sousse.
The seventh Parliament of Sri
Lanka is dissolved.
The Vatican signs a treaty with
Palestine granting it recognition.
June 27: The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a referendum
on austerity demands from foreign
creditors.
New York Police kill Richard
Matt, one of the two convicts on the
run since June 6.
The IS Jihadists destroy the famous limestone statue of the Lion of
al-Lat kept outside the museum in
Palmyra, Syria.
June 28: Second New York prison escapee David Sweat is shot at
and captured in the town of Constable near the Canadian border.
June 29: India and 49 other
founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank sign
articles that determine each countrys share and lenders initial capital
at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the
People, Beijing.
Greece shuts down banks plunging the country into a deep crisis.
June 30: Greece defaults on a 1.5
billion euro ($1.7 billion) IMF loan,
the first by an advanced economy,
even as the current European bailout expires.
At least 142 people are feared
killed as an Indonesian air force
transport plane crashes in a residential area of Medan on the island of
Sumatra shortly after takeoff and
explodes.
A prayer service, in memory of

the church shooting victims, in
Charleston, South Carolina.
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JULY
July 1: At least 70 persons are
killed in a wave of attacks by the IS
jihadists in Egypts Sinai peninsula.
Police kill senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Nasser al-Houfi and
eight others during a raid on an
apartment in Cairo.
The U.S. and Cuba agree on a historic deal to re-establish full diplomatic ties.
Bangladeshs Sir Fazle Hasan Abid
is named winner of the World Food
Prize at a ceremony in Washington.
July 2: British Petroleum reaches
a $18.7 billion settlement with the
U.S. for the damage due to the April
10, 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill following the explosion of the rig Deepwater Horizon.
July 3: India abstains from a vote
against Israel at the UN Human
Rights Council in Geneva.
July 5: Greeks vote overwhelmingly No in a historic bailout
referendum.
July 6: Greeces outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
resigns.
China nominates former Finance
Minister Jin Liqun to head the $100billion Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
July 8: An Iraqi court sentences
to death 24 persons over the killing
of over 1,700 soldiers captured by IS
militants in 2014.
Russia vetoes a draft UN resolution recognising the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.
July 9: The BRICS Summit in
Ufa, Russia disapproves of a selective
approach to terrorism.
July 10: India and Pakistan are
included in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation during the groupings summit in Ufa, Russia.
July 13: Greece reaches a threeyear bailout deal with the Eurozone
after 17 hours of overnight talks in
Brussels.
July 14: Six major global powers
reach a historic nuclear deal with
Iran on day 18 of marathon talks in
Vienna. Sanctions to be lifted. U.N.
arms embargo to stay for five years.
The New Horizons spacecraft
whizzes past Pluto in the climax of a
decade-long journey to explore it.
U.S. author Harper Lees second
novel Go Set A Watchman , an instant hit among readers.
July 16: The Greek Parliament
gives nod for a tough bailout programme. Eurozone okays 7 billion
bridge loan.
Japans lower house of Parliament
passes controversial security bills
that will enable troops fighting

abroad for the first time since WW
II.
July 17: At least 115 people are
killed and 170 injured in an attack by
the Islamic State on a crowded market in Khan Beni Saad town in Iraqs
Diyala Province.
July 18: The world celebrates
Nelson Mandela International Day,
the former South African Presidents
birth anniversary.
July 20: The U.S. and Cuba resume diplomatic ties after 54 years,
at a historic ceremony in
Washington.
The U.N. Security Council endorses the historic Iran nuclear deal.
Greece begins payment to ECB
and banks reopen after a three-week
shutdown.
British cosmologist Stephen
Hawking launches the 10-year $ 100million Breakthrough Listen project, the biggest-ever search for intelligent life in the universe.
Nigel Richards, a New Zealander
wins the Francophone Scrabble
World Championships in Belgium,
though he cannot speak any French.
July 21: The BRICS grouping formally opens the New Development
Bank in Shanghai, China.
July 22: Dylan Roof, lone suspect
in the church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina is indicted by a
grand jury on hate crime charges.
July 27: Talks between Greece
and creditors on a third bailout begin
in Athens.
July 29: Indias Sanjeev Chaturvedi and Anshu Gupta among five
chosen for Ramon Magsaysay award
for 2015.
Afghan intelligence claims that
Taliban chief Mullah Amar died in
2013 in a Karachi hospital under
mysterious circumstances.
The Bangladesh Supreme Court
upholds death penalty for senior
Francophone Scrabble World

Championships winner Nigel
Richards.
Rubble at the location of the Baal Shamin temple in Palymra,

Syria.
capital Baghdads Sadr City.
Up to 150 people drown in a river
or are shot dead fleeing Boko Haram
gunmen who raided a remote village
in Nigerias North Eastern Yobe
state.
Aug. 14: The U.S. Marines raise
the American Flag at the embassy in
AUGUST
Cuba for the first time in 54 years
Aug. 1: Over 37,000 people of 111
Greek Parliament approves a new
former Indian enclaves measuring
bailout programme.
Aug. 15: .Japanese Emperor Aki7,110 acres become Bangladeshi citihito expresses rare deep remorse
zens after 68 years of statelessness.
Aug. 5: Over 200 people are over his countrys wartime actions in
feared drowned after an overcrowd- an address in Tokyo marking 70 th
ed fishing boat carrying 600 mi- anniversary of World War II surrender on Aug. 15, 1945.
grants capsizes off Libya.
Aug. 16: Over 100 people are
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib
Razak confirms that plane debris killed and at least 200 injured in a
string of 10 strikes by the Syrian refound in Reunion Island is from
MH370 that crashed 17 months ago. gime on the rebel-held town of
Aug. 7: Bangladeshi secular blog- Douma.
Aug. 17: India and the UAE eleger Niloy Chatterjee Neel is hacked
vate their ties to a comprehensive
to death at his home in Dhaka.
strategic partnership.
At least 27 recruits are killed after
Seventy per cent votes polled in
a suicide bomber strikes outside the
gates of a police academy in Kabul. Sri Lankas eighth parliamentary
Fifteen others die and 240 wounded elections.
Aug. 18: The United National
in a massive truck bomb attack near
Party emerges as the single largest
a government complex.
Colorado theatre shooter James party in Sri Lankas parliamentary
Holmes is sentenced to lifer for the polls.
Khaled al-Asaad (82), a retired
2012 assault that left 12 dead and 70
chief archaeologist of Palmyra is beinjured.
Aug. 10: Chennai-born Sundar headed by the IS militants in the
Pichai is named chief executive officentral Homs province.
Aug. 19: Germanys Parliament
cer of Google.
Aug. 11: Greece and its interna- approves a third bailout for Greece.
Aug. 20: Greek Prime Minister,
tional lenders reach a multi-billion
Alexis Tsipras resigns and calls for
euro bailout agreement in Athens.
China devalues the yuan, also snap polls, after his leftist Syriza parknown as renminbi, by 1.9 per cent, ty members break ranks over the
the largest such move in two bailout. Huge debt paid to the ECB.
Aug. 21: United National Party
decades.
Aug. 12: At least 121 persons are leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is
killed and 720 injured in massive
sworn in Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
explosions at a warehouse in Binhai for the fourth time, in Colombo.
Aug. 22: Italys coast guard resNew Area in the Chinese Port city of
cue a record 4,400 migrants off LiTianjin.
Aug. 13: At least 76 people are bya coast. Over 2,000 migrants brave
killed and 212 wounded in a truck baton-wielding officers to reach
bombing at a market in the Iraqi Macedonia.
BNP leader Salauddin Quader
Chowdhary for crimes during the
1971 liberation war.
July 30: Afghan Taliban pulls off
peace talks with the Government.
Mullah Akhtar Mansoor chosen new
leader to succeed Mullah Omar.
2015
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Zaina Erhaim, a Syria-based journalist is named the recipient of the

2015 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.
Aug. 23: Britain reopens Embassy in Iran capital Tehran four years
after it was closed following an attack by hardliners.
The IS militants blow up the 17 AD
Baal Shamin temple in Palmyra,
Syria.
The former Maldivian President,
Mohammed Nasheed who has been
handed down a 13-year prison term
for alleged terror links is re-arrested.
Aug. 24: ITLOS, the 21-member
U.N.-mandated court located in
Hamburg, Germany orders India
and Italy to maintain status quo in
the marines case.
An 8.5 per cent slump in Chinas
Shanghai Composite triggers crashes in equity and commodity markets
across Asia, Europe and the U.S.
Aug. 25: A Russian military court
sentences Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian
filmmaker to 20 years in a strictregime prison colony on terror
charges.
Aug. 26: Alison Parker, a TV reporter and cameraman Adam Ward
are shot dead in Virginia during a live
interview by a gunman who posts the
video on social media.
Aug. 27: Up to 71 migrants are
found dead in a truck found abandoned on a motorway near the Austria-Hungary border.
At least 105 people are killed after
a ship carrying migrants and refugees sinks off the coast of Libya. Over
200 people in two boats are feared
dead.
Aug. 29: An Egyptian court sentences three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison for
operating without a press license, in
a retrial.
Aug. 30: At least 11 persons are
killed and 219 injured in Saudi Arabia after a fire breaks out at a residential complex housing employees
of oil giant Aramco.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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The IS partially destroys the temple of Bel, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Palmyra.
For the first time, Saudi Arabia
allows women to register to stand in
local elections.
14 babies and children drown after

an overcrowded boat capsizes off a
Greek island.
Sept. 14 : Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is ousted in a snap
party vote by challenger Malcolm
Turnbull.
SEPTEMBER
Sri Lanka announces proposals
Sept. 2 : The EU refugee crisis
for a new Constitution and setting
deepens. Three members of a Syrian up a truth commission at the U.N.
family, including Alan Kurdi, his
Human Rights Council in Geneva.
brother Galib and mother Rehana
Nepals Constituent Assembly redrown after their boat sinks near Bojects calls to revert the Himalayan
drum, Turkey.
nation to a Hindu state during voting
Sept. 3 : Tamil National Alliance
on the new statute.
Sept. 15 : Hungary shuts down the
leader R. Sampanthan becomes the
first Tamil lawmaker to become the main land route for asylum-seekers
into the EU.
Leader of the Opposition in Sri LanMalcolm Turnbull is sworn in as
ka in 32 years.
Sept. 5 : Austria and Germany Australias 29th Prime Minister.
Sept. 16 : Nepals Parliament pasthrow open their borders to Syrian
ses a new national Constitution in a
refugees.
Sept. 6 : Austria plans to reimpose marathon vote after discussions for
border controls.
four days to create a federal state
The IMF MD Christine Lagarde
after violent protests that claimed
launches Womens 20 (W-20), the
40 lives.
grouping of women leaders from the
Coup in Burkina Faso, military
worlds 20 largest economies in An- dissolves government.
Sept. 17 : Refugees flood Croatia, a
kara, Turkey.
Sept. 7 : Germany pledges 6 bil- day after clashes with Hungarian
lion towards providing housing to riot police.
Sept. 19 : Japans Parliament pasasylum seekers. Receives 20,000 refugees over the weekend. A record ses security bills allowing troops to
fight abroad for the first time since
number of 7,000 Syrians reach
WW II.
Macedonia.
Sept. 8 : Pope Francis makes it
Sept. 20 : Nepal adopts its first
easier for Roman Catholics to secure
democratic Constitution. It creates
divorce.
seven states in a secular, federal
Sept. 9 : Russia begins taking part system.
in operations in support of Syria.
Former Greek Prime Minister
Sept. 10 : The U.S. Senate votes to Alexis Tsipras wins parliamentary
uphold the nuclear accord with Iran.
polls.
Venezuelan opposition leader LePope Francis, Latin Americas
opoldo Lopez is jailed for 14 years for first Pope meets Cuban revolutioninciting violence during protests in ary leader Fidel Castro at his home.
February 2014.
Viola Davis breaks the colour barSept. 11 : At least 115 people, in- rier to bag an Emmy ( How to Get
cluding 11 Indians are killed and 184 away with Murder ) and Jon Hamm
registers a win after eight years ( Mad
injured after a construction crane
crashes into the Grand Mosque in
Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Singapores ruling Peoples Action
Party wins a sweeping victory in
snap parliamentary polls.
Sept. 12 : Veteran socialist and
eight-time MP Jeremy Corbyn is
elected leader of Britains Labour
Party.
Desde Alla (From Afar), a debut
feature by Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas bags the Golden Lion for
best film at the Venice Film Festival.
The Silver Lion for best director goes
to Argentinas Pablo Trapero for The
Clan .
Security forces cordon off the
Sept. 13 : Germany reinstates borsite where pilgrims were
der controls to stem the current intrampled to death during the
flux of refugees.
Thirtyfour persons, among them Haj in Mina, Saudi Arabia.
A migrant woman cries as she is embraced by a relative upon

arrival on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos.
Men ) at the 67th Primetime Emmy
Awards ceremony at the Microsoft
Theater in Los Angeles. Fantasy drama Game of Thrones makes history
taking home 12 awards.
Sept. 21 : Alexis Tsipras is sworn
in Greek Prime Minister for a second
time.
Shobhana Bhartia, chairperson
and editorial director of HT Media
and Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO
of PepsiCo are presented the U.S.India Business Council Global Leadership Awards at a function in Washington which also witnesses the
launch of the first Indo-U.S. Strategic and Commercial Dialogue.
Sept. 23 : Egypt pardons two AlJazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baber Mohamed sentenced
to three years in jail.
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigns taking responsibility
for the rigging of U.S. emission tests
in the biggest scandal in the German
Carmakers 78-year history.
Sept. 24: At least 769 people, including 35 Indians are killed and 934
injured in a stampede during Haj at
Mina, near the holy city of Mecca in
Saudi Arabia.
Treat immigrants humanely, Pope
Francis tells U.S. in an address to the
U.S. Congress, the first by a Pope.
Sept. 25: The very goal of a sustainable future cannot be met without addressing the problem of
poverty, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a special summit of the
U.N. in New York.
Sept. 27: Technology giants announce strategic investments after
Prime Minister Narendra Modis
speech at the Digital India road
show in San Jose, California.
Sept. 28: The Taliban seizes Kunduz city in Afghanistan and frees
hundreds of prisoners.
Scientists find evidence of salt water in liquid form on Mars.
India and the U.S. ink a $ 3 billion
defence deal.
Cesare Tavella, an Italian aid
worker is shot dead in Bangladesh
capital Dhakas diplomatic quarter.
Sept. 30: Russia launches air
strikes in Syria after the Duma gives
nod for use of force abroad.
OCTOBER
Oct. 1: At least nine persons are

killed and 10 injured after a shooter
Chris Harper Mercer shot dead later,
after a gun battle with police, goes on
the rampage at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon,
the U.S.
Inuit and Arctic activist Sheila
Watt-Cloutier of Canada wins the
2015 Right Livelihood Award. She
shares the prize with Ugandan activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
and Italian doctor Gino Strada.
Oct. 3: At least 22 persons are
killed and 37 injured after an air
strike by the U.S. hits a hospital run
by Doctors Without Borders in the
Afghan city of Kunduz.
A Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio is
shot dead in Kaunia town in Bangladeshs Rangpur district.
Oct. 4: The IS blows up the iconic
Arch of Triumph situated at the entrance to Palmyras historic colonnaded street.
Oct. 5: Tu Youyou of China, Japans Satoshi Omura and Irish-born
William Campbell are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Oct. 6: Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo and Arthur B.
McDonald of Queen's University,
Canada are awarded the 2015 Nobel
Prize for Physics.

Hoesung Lee of South Korea is
elected as head of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change at
its 42 nd Session in Dubrovnik,
Croatia.
Oct. 7: Swedens Tomas Lindahl,
American Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar are awarded
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Oct. 8: Svetlana Alexivich, a Belarusian journalist and prose writer
wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Oct. 9: Tunisian coalition National Dialogue Quartet wins the 2015
Nobel Peace Prize .
Oct. 10: At least 128 people killed
and 186 wounded after two suicide
bombers strike at a rally of pro-Kurdish and labour activists outside the
railway station in Ankara, Turkey.
Oct. 12: K.P. Sharma Oli is sworn
in as Nepals 38 th Prime Minister, in
Kathmandu.
Professor Angus Deaton, a British
economist is awarded the Nobel
Prize in Economic Science.
Oct. 13: Iranian Parliament passes a bill supporting the nuclear deal
with world powers.
Jamaican writer Marlon James is
named winner of the Man Booker
Prize for 2015 for his novel A Brief
History of Seven Killings.
Oct. 19: Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau wins the Canadian parliamentary polls.
Oct. 24: The Maldives Vice-President Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor
is arrested on charge of high
treason.
Oct. 25: Argentina, Poland, Tanzania, Guatemala, Haiti and Ivory
Coast hold polls.
Fugitive don Rajendra Sadashiv
Nikalje alias Chhota Rajan, is arrested soon after his arrival at the Denpasar airport at Bali in Indonesia.
Oct. 26: A 7.5 magnitude quake
jolts Pakistan and Afghanistan leaving 390 people dead.
Comedian and political neophyte
Jimmy Morales is elected Guatemala President.
Nepalese people celebrating the

adoption of the Constitution.
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Polands eurosceptic Law and Justice Party crushes the pro-EU ruling
party.
Oct. 28: Nepals Parliament
elects communist lawmaker Bidhya
Bhandari as the countrys first woman President.
Oct. 29: China ends its one-child
policy.
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in
jail for insulting Islam, is awarded
the European Parliaments Sakharov
human rights prize.
Oct. 30: President Barack Obama
decides to send limited number of
troops to Syria.
Shaker Aamer, a high-profile detainee is freed from the Guantanamo
Bay after nearly 14 years.
Oct. 31: All 224 on board a Russian plane are killed after it breaks
up mid-air and crashes into a mountainous area of Egypts Sinai Peninsula, shortly after takeoff.
Faisal Arefin Dipan, a Bangladeshi
publisher is hacked to death in Dhaka.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Turkeys Justice and Development Party scores a stunning

electoral comeback regaining its
parliamentary majority.
Guenter Schabowski (86), the East
German who inadvertently announced the fall of the Berlin Wall
on November 9, 1989, dies in Berlin.
Nov. 4: Justin Trudeau takes oath
as Canadas 23 rd Prime Minister at a
grand public ceremony in Ottawa. .
Nov. 5: The Maldives Parliament
impeaches Vice-President Ahmed
Adeeb arrested in connection with a
blast aboard the presidential speedboat on Sept. 28.
Nov. 7: The Chinese and Taiwanese Presidents Xi Jingping and Ma
Ying-jeou hold historic talks after 66
years, in Singapore.
The WHO declares Sierra Leone
Ebola-free.
Nov. 8: Eighty per cent turnout as
millions cast ballots in Myanmars
historic general election.
Angad Paul, son of NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul and CEO of
Caparo group dies after falling from
his penthouse flat in central London.
Nov. 9: Myanmars ruling Union
Solidarity and Development Party
concedes defeat as Aung San Suu Kyis National League for Democracy is
on course for a landslide.
Nov.11: Bangladesh hands over
top ULFA leader Anup Chetia to India 18 years after his arrest in Dhaka.
The ISROs Communication
spacecraft GSAT-15 is put in space
from the French Guiana spaceport

in South America.
Nov.12: India and the U.K. announce an enhanced defence and
strategic partnership as well as a civil nuclear pact after Narendra ModiDavid Cameron meeting in London.
The IS lead executioner Mohammed Emwazi better known as
Jihadi John is killed in a U.S. air
strike near Raqqa, Syria.
Nov. 13: At least 130 people are
killed and 352 wounded as suspected
IS militants launch a coordinated assault on the French capital Paris.
The Bataclan Theatre bears the
brunt with 89 rock fans shot dead.
Eight attackers are killed, seven in
suicide bombings and one shot dead
by police.
Nov. 14: The IMF endorses the
Chinese Yuans inclusion in the Special Drawing Rights basket.
Nov. 15: Belgium issues an international arrest warrant for one of
three brothers linked to the attacks
in Paris. One dies in the concert hall
attack, while another detained along
with six others.
Nov. 16: The G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey decides to develop
measures for operational information and border management in the
war against terrorism.
Nov. 17: Moscow joins France in
bombing IS targets in Syria.
Nov. 18: Belgian national and Paris attacks mastermind Abdelamid
Abaaoud and two other terrorists are
killed during a pre-dawn raid by the
French Police in an apartment in the
Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
Nov. 19: India and China decide
to link Home Ministries.
Nov. 21: Two Bangladesh war
criminals,
Salahuddin
Quader
Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, are hanged at the
Dhaka Central Jail.
Nov. 22: The ASEAN is proclaimed a community through a declaration signed at its 27 th Summit in
Kuala Lumpur.
Mauricio Macri wins Argentinas
presidential runoff narrowly.
Aung San Suu Kyi.
Women comforting each other at the Monument a la Republique,

in the Place de la Republique in Paris, two days after attacks.
Tunisian quartet is presented the
Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
Dec. 12: The CoP21 agreement
paving the way to a low carbon pathway is adopted unanimously in
Paris.
Saudi women cast votes for the
first time in the municipal council
polls. Also for the first time, women
allowed to contest.
Dec. 13: The groundbreaking ceremony of the TAPI pipeline project
is held in Mary, Turkmenistan.
Dec. 14: Mumtaz Qadri, a former
police guard on death row for the
2011 killing of the then Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer in Islamabad
loses appeal in the Supreme Court.
DECEMBER
Samsung pays Apple more than $
Dec. 2: Pakistan hangs four men 548 million for infringing the patlinked to the Peshawar school mas- ents and designs of the iPhone.
Dec. 15: The IAEA closes the Iran
sacre on December 16, 2014.
Britain begins bombing Syria after nuclear probe.
Dec. 16: The U.S. Federal Reserve
getting Parliament nod.
At least 14 people are shot dead hikes interest rates for the first time
and 22 wounded in an attack on a in a decade.
Dec. 17: A collection of photoholiday party at a social services cengraphs known as the 'Caesar files'
tre in San Bernardino, California by
a Muslim couple. After a police man- documenting custodial deaths in Syria is released in Moscow.
hunt, the duo killed in a shootout.
Dec. 3: A South African appeals
Dec. 18: Path cleared for Mother
court convicts double amputee Teresa's elevation to sainthood.
Olympian Oscar Pistorius of murder
Enrique Marquez, a friend of Califor shooting girlfriend Reeva Steen- fornia shooter Syed Farook is arrestkamp to death in 2013.
ed for providing arms.
Dec. 6: Venezuelas ruling SocialThe U.N. Security Council adopts
ist Party is crushed in polls.
a resolution setting up a road map
Dec. 8: Taliban militants storm
for talks within 18 months in Syria.
the airport in Afghanistans KandaThe American victims of the Iran
har city, triggering pitched gun bat- hostage crisis (Feb. 11, 1979 to Jan.
tles that leave 50 dead and 35 20, 1981) to get compensation of $4.4
injured.
million each following the passage of
Dec. 9: India and Pakistan decide a budget bill by the U.S. Congress.
Dec. 19: The WTO summit in Naito resume talks seven years after the
robi skirts Doha Development Agen26/11 Mumbai attacks.
U.S. Magazine Time names Ger- da. Developing nations to be allowed
man Chancellor Angela Merkel as its
to use special safeguards to protect
Person of the Year 2015.
farmers against import surges.
Dec. 10: Mauricio Macri is sworn
Spains Mireia Lalagun Royo is
in Argentinas President.
crowned Miss World 2015 at the
Nov. 24: India and Singapore sign
a joint declaration envisaging a
Strategic Partnership.
Turkey shoots down a Russian
fighter plane near the Syrian border
for violating its airspace.
Nov. 27: Three persons are killed
and nine injured after a gunman
Robert Lewis Dear opens fire inside
a Planned Parenthood centre in Colorado Springs, New York.
Nov. 28: The Commonwealth nations sign a climate change agreement at the summit in Malta.
Nov. 30: India launches an International Solar Alliance at the U.N.
CoP21 meet in Paris.
2015
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grand final in Sanya, China.

Dec. 20: Spains ruling Popular
Party wins most seats in general
elections, but loses majority.
Dec. 21: Six NATO troops are
killed by a Taliban suicide bomber
outside Bagram air base in
Afghanistan.
Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo
Wurtzbach is crowned Miss Universe 2015 in Las Vegas, the U.S.
Dec. 24: India and Russia ink 16
pacts, including one on joint manufacture of military choppers and another on building atomic plants, in
Moscow.
Syria conveys readiness for peace
talks in Geneva.
Dec. 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a surprise stopover
in Lahore and meets with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
Indias role in Afghanistan is to
contribute and not to compete, says
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the Parliament built by
New Delhi after inaugurating it in
Kabul.
The China-backed AIIB is formally established in Beijing.
Dec. 27: China officially ends
one-child policy, after the National
Peoples Congress Standing Committee passes law.
Dec. 28: Iraqi forces free Ramadi
from the IS.
The evacuation of more than 450
fighters and civilians from three Syrian towns begins.
Japan and South Korea reach
agreement on dispute over wartime
sex slaves.
Dec. 29: A Taliban suicide bomber kills 26 persons in an attack on
an office in Mardan , Pakistan.
Dec. 30: U.S. veteran TV star, Bill
Cosby is charged with sexual assault
in a Pennsylvania court over a 2004
incident.
Dec. 31: A tribunal in Dhaka sentences to death two and one to lifer
for the February 15, 2013 killing of
blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.
A Saudi woman casting ballot.
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OBITUARY
JANUARY
Jan. 2: Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar (81), who played a key role in
Indias space programme, in Pune .
Jan. 4: Adusumilli Janardhana
Vara Prasad (57), Telugu actor, in
Hyderabad.
Jan. 7: B.S. Abdur Rahman (88),
educationist and founder of B.S. Abdur Rahman University, at Apollo
Hospitals in Chennai.
Jan. 11: Anita Ekberg (83), best
known for her performance in the
iconic 1960 movie La Dolce Vita in
Italy, in Rome.
Jan. 19: Rajni Kothari (86), eminent scholar and political scientist,
in New Delhi.
Anne Kirkbride (60), Coronation
Street star who played Deirdre Barlow, at a Manchester hospital.
Jan. 24: V.S. Raghavan (90), veteran Tamil film and theatre actor, in
Chennai .
Jan. 26: R.K. Laxman (93), legendary cartoonist of a cardiac arrest
at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital,
in Pune.
Jan. 27: Charles H. Townes (99),
legendary physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild is the laser, at
Oakland, California.
Jan. 29: Subhash Ghisingh (80),
Gorkhaland movement leader, at Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 4: Gaur Hari Singhania (80),

Chairman, JK Group, in Kanpur following a heart attack.
Feb. 7: Atmaram Bhende (91),
veteran Marathi theatre artist and
film actor, at the Ratna Memorial
Hospital, in Pune.
Feb. 16: R.R. Patil (57), former
Maharashtra Home Minister in Lilavati hospital, Mumbai.
Feb. 18: Daggubati Ramanaidu
(78), veteran film producer, in
Hyderabad.
Feb. 22: Bhadrashyam Kothari
(53), Chairman and Managing Director of Kothari Sugars and Chemicals
in Houston, the U.S. .
Feb. 26: Meera Kosambi (75),
M.S. Viswanathan
Jackie Collins
Rajni Kothari
V.S. Raghavan
noted sociologist in Pune .
MARCH
March 7: G. Karthikeyan (66),

Kerala Assembly Speaker, of multiorgan failure at a Bengaluru hospital.
March 8: Vinod Mehta (73),
founding editor of Outlook of multiple organ failure in New Delhi.
March 9: Deepak Khaitan (59),
industrialist in Kolkata, of cancer.
March 12: Terry Pratchett (66),
British author, in London after a
long battle with Alzheimers disease.
March 20: John Malcolm Fraser
(84), former Australian Prime Minister in Melbourne.
March 31: S.R. Patil (94), veteran
Congress leader and freedom fighter
in Bengaluru.
APRIL
April 8: Jayakanthan (81), firebrand Tamil writer, in Chennai .

Nagore E.M. Hanifa (97), noted
singer, in Chennai.
April 13: Gunter Grass (87), Germanys Nobel winning author, at a
hospital in Luebeck.
April 21: Janaki Ballav Patnaik
(83), former Chief Minister of Odisha, in Tirupati, in Andhra Pradesh.
April 29: Gopulu (91), noted cartoonist, in Chennai.
R. K. Laxman
Terry Pratchett
Chennai after a brief illness.

Govindrao Adik (76), former Maharashtra Minister, at a hospital in
Mumbai.
June 7: Christopher Lee (93),
British movie actor famous as Dracula at the Chelsea and Westminster
Hospital in London.
June 13: Shiela Kaul (100), former Union Minister in Ghaziabad,
U.P.
June 16: Charles Correa (84),
chief architect of Navi Mumbai, in
Mumbai.
June 17: Suleyman Demirel (90),
Turkeys former President and
Prime Minister, at the Guven Hospital in Ankara.
June 23: Sister Nirmala (81), who
succeeded Mother Teresa as the superior-general of the Missionaries of
Charity, in Kolkata.
JULY
June 5: Tareq Aziz (79), who

served as the voice of Saddam Husseins regime at a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq.
June 6: Sulochana Sampath (86),
senor AIADMK functionary, in
July 1: Nicholas Winton (106), a

Briton, who helped organise the
evacuation of 700 children in 1938,
in Slough, Berkeley.
July 3: Y.K. Sabharwal (73), former CJI, in New Delhi.
July 9: P.A. Seshan (102), former
Finance and Commercial Editor,
The Hindu , in Chennai.
July 10: Omar Sharif (83), the
Egyptian-born actor and Hollywoods favourite Sheikh, of heart attack in Cairo.
July 14: M.S. Viswanathan (87),
music director, in Chennai.
July 17: C.V. Narasimhan (90),
IPS topper in 1948, in Chennai.
July 25: R.S. Gavai (86), senior
RPI leader and former Governor of
Bihar and Kerala, at a private hospital in Nagpur.
July 28: Suniti Solomon (75),
who detected the first strains of HIV
in the country, in Chennai .
Jagmohan
Dalmiya
Manorama
MAY
May 2: Ruth Rendell (85), British

crime writer, at a London hospital
May 14: B.B. King (89), the great
U.S. bluesman, in Las Vegas.
JUNE
N. Ramani
M.A.M.
Ramaswamy
Jayakanthan
Gunter Grass
AUGUST
Aug. 9: Kayyara Kinhanna Rai
(100), Kannada poet and freedom
fighter, at his residence in Badiyaddka in Keralas Kasaragod district.
Aug. 22: Ieng Thirith (83), the
most powerful woman in the Khmer
Rouge, in Pailin, Cambodia.
Aug. 30: Wes Craven (76), who
directed the slasher classic A Nightmare on Elm Street , of brain cancer
at his home in Los Angeles.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 4: Wilfred de Souza (88),

former Goa Chief Minister, at the
Manipal Goa hospital.
Sept. 19: Jackie Collins (77), the
best selling British-born author, of
breast cancer in Los Angeles.
Sept. 20: Jagmohan Dalmiya
(75), BCCI President, in Kolkata.
Sept. 27: Syed Ahmed (70), Manipur Governor, at Mumbais Lilavati
Hospital.
Gopulu
Christopher Lee
(1982 to 2011), in Kolkata.

Nov. 9: Allen Toussaint (77), R&B
legend, in Madrid.
Nov. 14: Kamala Laxman (88), a
noted writer of childrens books and
wife of R. K. Laxman, in Pune.
Saeed Jaffrey (86), actor at a hospital in London.
Nov. 17: Ashok Singhal (89), VHP
leader in Gurgaon.
Pithukuli Murugadass (95), devotional and bhajan singer, in Chennai.
Nov. 24: A.S. Ponnammal (88),
seven-time MLA from Tamil Nadu,
at Government Rajaji Hospital,
Madurai.
Nov. 26: Noboru Karashima (82),
Japanese Tamil scholar and historian of South Asia, in Tokyo.
DECEMBER
Nov. 1: Brijmohan Lall Munjal

(92), Hero MotoCorp patriarch in a
hospital in South Delhi.
Nov. 2: Hashim Abdul Halim
(80), former West Bengal Speaker
Dec. 2: M.A.M. Ramaswamy (84),

veteran industrialist, at a Chennai
hospital.
Dec. 12: Sharad Joshi (81), Shetkari Sanghatana founder at his Pune
residence.
Dec. 13: Benedict Anderson (79),
a leading voice in South Asian studies in Malang, Indonesia.
Dec. 17: Noorul Huda (86), veteran CPI (M) leader , in Kolkata.
Dec. 22: V.S. Malimath (86), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Karnataka High Courts, at Manipal
Hospital in Bengaluru.
Dec. 23: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (85), a pioneering political scientist of modern India, at a hospice
in Oakland, California.
Dec. 25: Sadhana (74), Hindi actor, in Mumbai after a brief illness.
Dec. 27: Haskell Wexler (93), Oscar-winning U.S. cinematographer,
in Santa Monica, California.
Dec. 28: Ian Fraser Kilmister
(70), English heavy metal singer , in
Los Angeles.
Sharad Joshi
Sadhana
OCTOBER
Oct. 4: Edida Nageswara Rao (81),

producer of landmark movies like
Sankarabharanam, Sagara Sangamam in a hospital in Hyderabad
City.
Oct. 9: N. Ramani (82), flautist in
Chennai.
Ravindra Jain (71), veteran music
director-singer-lyricist at Lilavati
Hospital in Mumbai.
Oct. 10: Manorama (78), actorsinger, comedienne, in Chennai of
multiple organ failure.
NOVEMBER
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DIARY OF EVENTS
SPORT
JANUARY
Jan. 11: Stan Wawrinka wins Aircel Chennai Open.
Railways wins both the mens and
womens National volleyball titles in
Chennai.
Jan. 12: Cristiano Ronaldo wins
Ballon dOr.
Jan. 14: PSBB wins both mens
and womens team titles at table tennis Nationals in Puducherry.
Jan. 17: Soumyajit Ghosh and
Mouma Das win the mens and womens National table tennis singles titles respectively in Puducherry.
Pankaj Advani wins the mens National billiards championship in
Kolkata.
Jan. 22: Arantxa Sanchis wins the
womens National billiards title in
Kolkata.
Jan. 24: Pankaj Advani and Amee
Kanmani win the mens and womens
National snooker titles respectively
in Kolkata.
Jan. 25: P. Kashyap and Saina
Nehwal win the mens and womens
singles crowns respectively at the
Syed Modi India Masters badminton
tournament in Lucknow.
Jan. 31: Serena Williams wins the
Australian Open womens singles
title.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Novak Djokovic bags the

Australian Open mens singles
crown.
Feb. 5: B. Sai Praneeth and Ruthvika Shivani emerge the mens and
womens singles champions at the
National Badminton Championships
in Vijaywada.
Feb. 8: Anirban Lahiri wins Malaysian Open golf tournament.
Feb. 16: Yuvraj Singh picked up
by Delhi Daredevils for a record Rs.
16 crore fee at the IPL auction in
Bengaluru.
Feb. 19: Viswanathan Anand wins
Zurich Chess Classical title.
Anirban Lahiri wins Indian Open
golf tournament.
MARCH
Mar. 8: Saina Nehwal loses to

Carolina Marin in the singles final at
the All England badminton Championships in Birmingham.
Mar. 12: Karnataka retains Ranji
Trophy title after defeating Tamil
Nadu in the final in Mumbai.
Mar. 14:
Welshman Michael
White defeats Englands Ricky Walden to win the Indian Open snooker
championship in Mumbai.
Mar. 15 : Xu Xin of China and Feng
Tianwei of Singapore win the mens
and womens singles title at Asian
Cup table tennis tournament at
Jaipur.
Mar. 20: Karnataka defeats Rest
of India to retain the Irani Cup in
Bengaluru.
Mar. 26: Indias World Cup campaign ends, following a 95-run defeat
to Australia in the semifinals in
Sydney.
Mar. 29: Australia wins its fourth
World Cup crown after beating New
Zealand by seven wickets in the final
at Melbourne.
Michael Clarke retires from ODI
cricket.
Saina Nehwal wins the womens
singles title at the Indian Open badminton tournament in New Delhi
and climbs to the top of world rankings.
K. Srikanth bags the mens singles
crown.
APRIL
Apr. 10: Former Australia captain
Richie Benaud passes away in Sydney
aged 84.
Apr. 13: Sania Mirza climbs to the
top of the tennis doubles rankings.
Jordan Spieth wins Augusta Golf
Masters.
Apr 18: India beats Philippines
2-1 in Fed Cup in Hyderabad.
MAY
Tamim Iqbal scores Bangladesh's
best individual test score of 206 in
the second innings of the drawn first
test against Pakistan at Khulna.
THE AUSSIE SPIRIT: The

Australian cricket team with
the World Cup.
May 3: American boxer Floyd
Mayweather Jr. wins the richest bout
in boxing history defeating Filipino
Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight
unification championship clash held
at MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
Chelsea takes the English Premier
League title with 83 points from 35
games.
May 4: Abhinav Bindra wins the
air rifle gold in the International

shooting championship held at
Hannover.
West Indies wins the third and final test to level the series 1-1 against
England at Bridgetown.
May 5: Stuart Bingham wins his
maiden world title beating Shaun
Murphy in the final of the World
Championship snooker at Sheffield.
May 6: Chris Gayle scores his 14th
T20 ton, the fastest of IPL 2015,
against Kings XI Punjab that saw him
become the first overseas player to
get to 3000 runs in the league.
May 9: Pakistan wins the test series against Bangladesh 1-0 at Dhaka.
Ethiopian legend Haile Gebrselassie announces his retirement from
competitive running.
May 16: India wins the SAARC
Golf Championship.
May 17: China clinches its sixth
consecutive title in the Sudirman
Cup badminton defeating Japan in
the final.
May 22: International cricket returns to Pakistan after six years with
its T20 clash against Zimbabwe at
Lahore.
May 24: Mumbai Indians beats
Chennai Super Kings in the final to
emerge champion of IPL 2015.
May 29: Sepp Blatter wins a fifth
term as President of FIFA.
May 30: Alastair Cook becomes
England's all-time leading test runscorer during the second test against
New Zealand at Headingley.
JUNE
June 1: New Zealand cricket team
captain Brendon McCullum and
coach Mike Hesson are appointed
Officers of the New Zealand Order of
Merit (NZOM).
Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman
and Sourav Ganguly are drafted into
the the BCCI advisory committee.
June 2: Sepp Blatter resigns as
FIFA President.
June 4: Umpire S. Ravi is inducted into the ICC Elite panel of
umpires.
June 6: Serena Williams wins her
20th Grand slam and third French
open title defeating Lucie Safarova in
the final.
Rahul Dravid is appointed coach of
the India 'A' and u-19 teams.
Barcelona wins the UEFA Champions League beating Juventus in the
final at Berlin.
June 7: Stanisla Wawrinka wins
his second Grand slam and first
French open title defeating Novak
Djokovic in the final.
June 13: Tamim Iqbal becomes
Bangladesh's leading test run-scorer
during the one-off test against India

at Fatullah.
June 14: India draws the one-off
test against Bangladesh held at
Fatullah.
June 16: Golden State Warriors
captures its first NBA title beating
Cleveland Cavaliers at Cleveland.
June 18: Left-arm seamer Mustafizur Rahman takes a five-wicket haul
in his debut ODI as Bangladesh beats
India at Mirpur.
June 19: England wins the fifth
and final ODI against New Zealand at
Durham to clinch the five-match series 3-2.
June 21: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah
claims a career-best seven for 76 in
tests as Pakistan beats Sri Lanka at
Galle.
Mustafizur Rahman becomes the
second bowler after Vitori to record
five-for performances in the first two
ODIs as Bangladesh beats India at
Mirpur.
June 24: Bangladesh clinches the
three-match home ODI series
against India 2-1.
England wins the lone T20I
against New Zealand held at
Manchester.
June 26: Satnam Singh Bhamara
becomes the first Indian to be drafted
by an NBA team - Dallas Mavericks.
June 28: Indian shuttlers Jwala
Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa win the
Canada open women's doubles title
upstaging the Dutch pair of Eefie
Muskens and Selena piek at Calgary.
June 30: Abhijeet Gupta and Padmini Rout win the men's and women's titles in the Commonwealth
chess Championship held at New
Delhi.
JULY
Chile defeats Argentina in the final
to win Copa America after 99 years.
July 6: Carli Lloyd becomes the
first woman to score a hat-trick in a
world cup final inspiring the United
States to its third football World cup
title.
A PODIUM FINISH, FINALLY:The

Indian hockey team which won
a medal (bronze) after a 33-year
wait in a world-level event.
2015
15
Pakistan's off-spinning all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez undergoes

tests for his bowling action at the ICC
bio-mechanical centre in Chennai.
July 7: South Africa beats Bangladesh in the scond T20I at Dhaka to
clinch the series 2-0.
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka in the
third test at Pallekele to take the series 2-1.
July 8: India women's cricket
team beats New Zealand in the fifth
and last ODI at Bengaluru to clinch
the five-match
series 3-2.
July 11: Sophie Devine of New
Zealand strikes
the fastest fifty in
a Women's T20I
against
India
held
at
Bengaluru.
MAGICIAN OF
Serena
WilCUE SPORTS:
liams beats GarPankaj Advani, bine Muguruza to
win her sixth
who won the
Wimbledon and
IBSF World
21st Grand Slam
billiards,
title.
snooker and
Sania
Mirza
6-red snooker becomes the first
titles.
Indian woman to
win a Women's
doubles Grand Slam title after she
clinches the Wimbledon women's
doubles crown with partner Martina
Hingis.
July 12: Novak Djokovic beats
Roger Federer to win his third Wimbledon title.
India's Sumit Nagal becomes the
sixth Indian to win a Grand Slam
junior title after he clinches the
Wimbledon boys' doubles title with
partner Nam Hoang Ly.
Leander Paes wins his 16th Grand
Slam title as he clinches the Wimbledon mixed doubles crown partnering
Martina Hingis.
July 14: The Supreme Court appointed Lodha Committee suspends
India Cements Limited and Jaipur
IPL Cricket Pvt Ltd from IPL for two
years.
July 15: Bangladesh beats South
Africa in the third ODI at Chittagong
to take the three-match series 2-1.
July 17: ICC bans Pakistan allrounder Mohammad Hafeez from
bowling in International cricket for
12 months.
French Formula One driver Jules
Bianchi passes away after succumbing to the head injuries he suffered in
a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix.
July 19: India beats New Zealand
3-2 and advances to the world group
play-offs in the Davis cup.
ND-X
THE HINDU
16 DIARY OF EVENTS
July 20: BCCI drops Duleep trophy from the domestic calendar for
the 2015-16 season.
July 25: A sessions court in New
Delhi discharges 36 accused, including cricketers S. Sreesanth, Ajit
Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the
IPL spot-fixing case of 2013.
Hockey India names Roelant Olt-
INDIAS PRIDE: Saina Nehwal,

who won two international
titles, ended the year at No. 2 in
the World.
mans the new coach of the national
men's hockey team.
July 26: Chris Froome wins his
second Tour de France title.
July 28: Clive Rice, South Africa's
first cricket captain of the post-isolation era passes away.
2015
Tareq creates history by becoming
the youngest swimmer ever to compete at the world championships
when she took part in the 50m butterfly heats at the World Aquatics
Championships in Kazan.
Aug. 8: Australia's Emily Seebohm wins the women's 200m backstroke gold to complete a double
(100m and 200m) at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan; Katie Ledecky claims her fifth gold,
winning the women's 800m freestyle
to complete a sweep of freestyle
titles.
New Zealand beats Zimbabwe in
the one-off T20I at Harare; Creates
record for the highest team total in
T20s in Zimbabwe.
Aug. 10 : Hockey India's disciplinary committee hands a nine-month
suspension to Indian midfielder Gurbaj Singh.
Aug. 11: Pankaj Advani wins the
IBSF world 6-red snooker title in Karachi.
Aug. 15: Saina Nehwal becomes
the first Indian to reach the final of
THE MONARCH OF SPRINT:Usain

Bolt of Jamaica proved hes the
best winning the 100 & 200m
World Championship titles.
makes history by becoming the first
man to win the 200m individual medley for the fourth consecutive time
at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan; Katie Ledecky wins
her fourth gold, winning the women's 4x200m freestyle title.
Aug. 7: Bahrain schoolgirl Alzain
team skipper Kumar Sangakkara retires from International cricket.

Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce becomes the first woman to win three world 100m titles.
Aug. 27: Jamaica's Usain Bolt retains his men's 200m gold at the
World athletics championships in
Beijing.
Aug. 29: Tennis icon Sania Mirza
conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
American Ashton Eaton wins the
men's decathlon gold with a word
record at the World athletics championships in Beijing.
Usain Bolt completes a golden
sweep in men's sprint helping Jamaica win the men's 400m relay.
Aug. 30: Ethiopia's Mare Dibaba
and Almaz Ayana win the women's
marathon and 5000m gold medals
while Kathrina Molitor of Germany
wins gold in the women's javelin
throw at the World athletics championships in Beijing.
Derek Drouin of Canada clinches
the men's high jump gold as USA and
Jamaica win gold medals in the
men's and women's 1600m relay.
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
Aug. 3: Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom

wins the women's 100m butterfly
gold with a new world record timing;
Adam Peaty becomes the first Briton
to become world champion in 40
years
in
the
men's
100m
breaststroke.
Aug. 4: Katie Ledecky of the USA
wins the women's 1500m freestyle
gold with a new world record timing.
Aug. 6: Ryan Lochte of the USA
THE HINDU
ELOQUENT SOUTHPAW:Kumar
Sangakkara, who retired from
all forms of cricket.
the
World
Badminton
Championships.
Aug. 16: Australia's Jason Day
wins the U.S. PGA Golf Championship with a record 20-under par total.
Saina Nehwal wins World Badminton Championships silver after losing to Carolina Marina in the final at
Jakarta.
Aug. 19: Britain's Sebastian Coe
becomes the new President of the
International Association of Athletics Federations.
Aug. 23: Jamaican sprinter Usain
Bolt wins his third consecutive men's
100m gold at the World Athletics
Championships in Beijing.
Australia posts a consolatory win
against England in the fifth and final
Ashes test at The Oval as Aussie skipper Michael Clarke retires from International cricket; England takes
the series 3-2.
U Mumba beats Bengaluru Bulls at
Mumbai to claim the ProKabaddi
League title.
Aug. 24: Former Sri Lanka cricket
Sept. 1: India beats Sri Lanka by

117 runs in the third Test at Colombo
and wins the series 2-1; R. Ashwin
named Man of the Series.
Sept. 5: Apurvi Chandela wins silver in the 10m air rifle at the shooting
World Cup in Munich.
Sept. 12: Flavia Pennetta wins the
US Open womens singles beating
compatriot Roberta Vinci 7-6 (4),
6-2.
The pair of Leander Paes & Martina Hingis wins the US Open mixed
doubles title beating the pair of Sam
Querrey & Bethanie Mattek-Sands
6-4, 3-6, 10-7.
Narsingh Yadav wins the bronze
medal in the World wrestling championship at Las Vegas and secures his
berth for 2016 Olympics in Rio de
Janeiro.
Sept. 13: Novak Djokovic wins his
AT THE TOP: Sania Mirza and

Martina Hingis, who ended the
year as No. 1 in womens
doubles.
third grand slam in 2015 beating Roger Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to clinch
his second US Open title.
Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis
wins the US Open womens doubles
title beating Casey Dellacqua & Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3, 6-3.
Australia defeats England by eight
wickets in the fifth ODI match to win
the series 3-2 at Manchester.
Sept. 20: India loses to Czech Republic in the Davis Cup World Group
play off in New Delhi.
BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya passes away aged 75 in Kolkata.
Sept. 22: Former Indian footballer Prashanta Sinha. member of the
1962 Asian Games gold medal-winning squad passes away aged 77 in
Kolkata.
Sept. 27: Pankaj Advani wins the
IBSF World Billiards championship
in Adelaide, Australia.
Former England fast bowler Frank
Tyson passes away aged 85 in
Australia.
OCTOBER
Oct. 4: Shashank Manohar takes

over as the BCCI President for the
second time following the demise of
Jagmohan Dalmiya.
Oct. 8: India lose the T20 series to
South Africa 2-0 after the third
match is washed out in Kolkata.
Oct. 10: Poland defeats Sweden to
lift the Bermuda Bowl title in the
42nd World Bridge Championship
held in Chennai.
Oct. 18: Jayanta Talukdar and
Deepika Kumari
wins the mens
and womens recurve title respectively in the
national
archery
championships
in
Meerut.
Oct. 20: Virender Sehwag
ADMINISTRATOR announces his
NON-PAREIL:
retirement
from internaJagmohan
Dalmiya, former tional cricket.
Oct.
25:
BCCI President
South
Africa
who passed
beats India by
away in
214 runs in the
Kolkata.
fifth and final
ODI in Mumbai
to clinch the bilateral series 3-2.
Lewis Hamilton wins the US GP in
Texas and clinches his third title.
NOVEMBER
Nov. 1: Agnieszka Radwanska

beats Petra Kvitova to win the WTA
Finals title in Singapore.
The pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis wins the doubles titles in
Singapore beating Garbine Muguruza & Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3.
Nov. 6: R. Ashwin becomes the
fastest Indian to take 150 wickets in
his 29 th Test match on the second day
against South Africa in Mohali.
Nov. 11: Younis Khan retires from
ODIs.
Nov. 17: Mitchell Johnson retires
from international cricket at the end
of the second Test against New Zealand in Perth.
Nov. 20: England beats Pakistan
by 84 runs in the fourth ODI in Dubai
to clinch the series 3-1.
Nov. 21: Pankaj Advani wins the
IBSF world snooker title in Hurghada, Egypt.
Nov. 22: Novak Djokovic defeats
Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 to win the
ATP Tour Finals in London.
Nov. 29: Britain clinches the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years
beating Belgium 3-1 in Ghent.
Australia beats New Zealand by
three wickets to win the first daynight Test in Adelaide and win the
series 2-0.
Britain's Tyson Fury is crowned as
the new heavyweight champion beating Wladimir Klitschko in Berlin.
DECEMBER
Dec. 6: India settles for bronze

after beating Netherlands on penalties in the World Hockey League
tournament in Raipur.
Dec. 7: India defeats South Africa
by 337 runs in the fourth Test at
Delhi to clinch the series 3-0.
Dec. 8: Pune and Rajkot are two
new cities to replace Chennai and
Rajasthan in the IPL following Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals suspension from the league for
two years.
Dec. 17: Chelsea sacks manager
Jose Mourinho.
Dec. 20: Chennaiyin FC beats FC
Goa 3-2 to win the second edition of
the ISL.
Dec. 21: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter
and Michel Platini for eight years for
ethics violations.
ONE FOR THE CITY:Chennaiyin

FC, which won the second
edition of ISL, dedicated the
Trophy to the people of Chennai.

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Dr. Arvind Panagariya.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presenting to the U.S. President

date will be held as null and void if he

Feb. 1: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar

CPI leader Govind Pansare.

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dawn-to-dusk Kerala-wide hartal in

Jnanpith awardee Bhalchandra

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April 1: The Supreme Court stays

April 8: Prime Minister Narendra

in Nepal trigger house collapses.

May 3: President Pranab Mukherjee presents to Kangana Ranaut

The new CPI(M) general

June 1: The Karnataka Cabinet

Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor.

Passengers waiting to board the inaugural run of the Metro train

Relatives mourning a hooch

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preme Court the acquittal of Tamil

the IIM in Shillong, Meghalaya.

Aug. 1: At least 14,854 people join

Former President, Dr. A.P.J.

Raju Burman, a resident of Poatarkuti, Bangladesh, celebrating

in the illegal phone exchange case.

daughter Sheena Bora in Raigad district on April 24, 2012.

Sept.1: Three persons are killed

Astrosat all set for launch in

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiling the plaque to lay the

the 99 th Constitutional Amendment.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The Supreme Court opens the

Dec. 1: Chennai registers a record

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish

Chennai residents carrying children as they wade through

tences to death seven accused in the

coffins of slain police personnel

Firefighters carry an injured person on a stretcher in front of the

Feb. 1: Egypt deports Al-Jazeera

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"Birdman" Director Alejandro

March 4: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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nearly half the northern hemisphere

he abandoned his post in Afghanistan in June 2009.

April 1: Palestine formally joins

A scene of devastation in a village after an earthquake in Nepal.

vehicle on April 12.

May 3: Jailed Syrian journalist

Central Japan Railway's sevencar maglev train.

June 1: Over 442 people are killed

Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul

Rescuers paying a silent tribute to victims of the Chinese cruise

June 10: African leaders sign the

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A prayer service, in memory of

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