Events in September 2006
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Sep. 1
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Vice-Admiral Sureesh Mehta is appointed the next Chief of Naval Staff. |
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Vice-Admiral Rustom Faramroze Contractor takes office as the new Director General of Coast Guard. |
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The Life Insurance Corporation of India completes 50 years. |
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Sep. 2
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The former Secretary (Personnel), Pratyush Sinha is named the new Chief Vigilance Commissioner. |
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The Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffer Hussain Beigh resigns. |
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Sep. 3
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Kerala’s Public Works Minister, P.J. Joseph, resigns following allegation that he misbehaved with a woman co-passenger while flying from Chennai to Kochi on August 3. |
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Sep. 4
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The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, presents the Tholkappiyar Award to Tamil Chief Minister, Karunanidhi at a function in Chennai. |
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The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, launches the year-long celebrations on the 150th Foundation Day of Madras University. |
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Sep. 5
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The Congress expels Jagat Singh from the party primary membership. |
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Gulbarga MP Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi is appointed the Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee to suggest a definition of ‘office of profit.’ |
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The Arjun Munda Government in Jharkhand is reduced to a minority after four Ministers quit Cabinet. |
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Actor Shabana Azmi is chosen for the Gandhi International Peace Prize 2006. |
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Sep. 7
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Pratyush Sinha assumes office as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner. |
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The Union Cabinet gives its nod for autonomy to JIPMER. |
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Sep. 8
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Thirtyone people are killed after two bomb blasts in Malegaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district. |
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In a major arms haul, the Andhra Pradesh police recover 42 rocket launchers, 1,000 empty rocket shells in Mahabubnagar and Prakasam districts. |
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Sep. 11
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The World Peace Gong is inaugurated at the Gandhi Smriti Centre in New Delhi to commemorate the centenary of Gandhiji’s first Satyagraha. |
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Sep. 12
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A special court holds four members of the Memon family, Yakub, Yusuf, Essa, all brothers of Tiger Memon and Rubeena sister-in-law, guilty in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The blasts on March 12, 1993 left 257 people dead and over 700 injured. |
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Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K. Chandrasekhar Rao resigns his Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat. |
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Yes Bank and Intel launch their wi-fi banking branch network, the first such in the world. |
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Sep. 14
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The 18-month-old Arjun Munda Government in Jharkhand falls. An Independent MLA Madhu Koda is selected CM-designate. |
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Sep. 15
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Seven persons are arrested in the Andhra Pradesh weapons seizure case. |
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Sep. 18
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Madhu Koda is sworn in Jharkhand Chief Minister. |
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Sep. 20
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The Madhu Koda Government in Jharkhand wins trust vote. |
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Four persons are killed in police firing in Seelampur as the Delhi traders’ bandh against the civic body’s drive to seal unauthorised shops turns violent. |
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Sep. 21
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Leelaben Patel (71), wife of the former Gujarat Chief Minister, Keshubhai Patel is found dead in a makeshift gym at their home in Gandhinagar. |
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The Union Cabinet gives its nod for a Rs. 5,742-crore massive e-governance scheme. |
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Sep. 22
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Kolkata city receives a record 218.4 mm rainfall. |
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Sep. 23
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The Telangana Rashtra Samithi withdraws support to the UPA Government. |
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Sep. 24
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The Centre calls off ceasefire with the ULFA. |
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Sep. 25
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India and Germany launch major S & T initiative. |
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Sep. 26
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, presents the CSIR’s Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes for 2006 to 13 scientists. CLRI gets CSIR Award for S & T Innovations for Rural Development. |
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Mohammad Afzal, the mastermind behind the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack is ordered to be executed on October 20. |
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Sep. 27
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, lays foundation stone for the Dedicated Freight Corridor (Eastern) Project, the largest single railway project since Independence, in Ludhiana. |
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Sep. 29
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The Union Cabinet approves a Rs. 16,978.69-crore package for farmers of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra. |
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Former actor Monica Bedi gets five year jail term in the fake passport case. |
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Four Dalits are killed by fellow villagers in Khairlanji in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district. |
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Sep. 30
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Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence behind the July 11 serial blasts on seven trains in Mumbai, say the police. Pressure cookers used as vehicle. |
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G.K. Pillai takes office as the Commerce Secretary. |
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The Centre sanctions the amalgamation of United Western Bank with the IDBI. |
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