National Events in October 1998
1st Oct
Forty persons drown as a boat capsizes in the Hargauli river in Bihar's West Champaran district.
Kuki and Paite tribals of Manipur sign a peace deal to end their nine-month-long armed conflicts.
2nd Oct
The HUDCO sanctions Rs. 100 crores in aid for rehabilitation of the flood affected in West Bengal.
Ms. Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura is chosen for this year's Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the State in 1997.
6th Oct
Serial killers, Kummari Gundla Gopal, 38, and his brother, Subrahmanyam (33), responsible for 40 murders in the Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border districts, are killed when they try to escape from police custody.
Eleven persons, including three women and four children of a family, are killed in a bomb blast in a south Kashmir village.
7th Oct
An IAF pilot is killed as his MiG 21 crashes near the tourist resort of Sonamarg, 80 km from Srinagar.
8th Oct
Sixteen policemen are killed when their vehicle is blown up by PWG naxalites on the Basaguda-Jagargunda road in Madhya Pradesh's Bastar division.
Eleven persons are killed and 23 injured when nine coaches of the Hyderabad-Narsapur Express derail between Sattenpalli and Guntur.
The Centre bans export of onion and decides to import 13,000 tonnes to check the rising price.
Bodo Liberation Tiger Force militants kill 13 persons in three different incidents in Assam's Darrang district.
10th Oct
Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand is sworn in Chief Justice of India.
11th Oct
Twelve persons are killed in a blast in the Bharanipuram area in Vijayawada. The dead include six children and three women.
12th Oct
Mrs. Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma.
Seven Pakistan soldiers are killed in fighting in the Siachen glacier.
13th Oct
Filmstar Salman Khan, arrested on charges of killing protected wild animals near Jodhpur, is remanded to the custody of the Forest department.
India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of the two Prime Ministers.
14th Oct
Five PWG naxalites are killed in an encounter with the police in a forest near Sangojipet village in Andhra Pradesh's Nizamabad district.
The founder-chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, Dr. Verghese Kurien, resigns after 33 years of yeoman service.
NSCN militants kill six persons, including five policemen, and take away Rs. 10 lakhs from them in Meghalaya's East Gharo Hills district.
16th Oct
Kuki militants ambush two buses and kill nine Naga tribals, one non-tribal Manipuri and one Kom tribal in Manipur's Tamenglong district.
17th Oct
About 28 lakh eggs, meant for distribution under the noon meal scheme in Tamil Nadu, are destroyed by being dumped in a large pit in Salem. The eggs were stored in a private cold storage facility near Salem and were suspected to have been responsible for food poisoning caused in the past three months.
Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
20th Oct
Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.
26th Oct
The Army repulses a fresh Pakistan bid to capture a military post in the Siachen glacier. Five Pakistani soldiers were killed.
28th Oct
The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award is presented to 18 medical experts.
The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
39 Pakistanis are picked up by the Indian Coast Guard off the Jhakhau Port in Gujarat's Kutch district.