Events in April 2003
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Apr. 2
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Evidence of witnesses residing in foreign countries can be recorded by trial courts through video conferencing, rules the Supreme Court. |
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The Hizbul-Mujahideen Chief Ghulam Hassan Khan dies in a shootout with police in Nowgam. |
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Apr. 6
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The Union Rural Development Minister, Shanta Kumar quits Cabinet. |
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Apr. 11
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Senior Congress leader and nine time MP, V. C. Shukla joins the Nationalist Congress Party. |
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Apr. 14
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136 cases filed against Mulayam Singh Yadav |
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Truckers launch a nationwide strike to protest against VAT. |
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Apr. 15
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The Government takes Air India, Indian Airlines off disinvestment list. |
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Apr. 17
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The country's first confirmed SARS case is reported from Goa, with a marine engineer testing positive for the disease. |
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Asgar Ali, an ISI operative and a prime suspect in the Haren Pandya murder case is nabbed in a raid near Medchal, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. |
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Apr. 18
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The Prime Minister, A. B. Vajpayee extends `hand of friendship' to Pakistan, saying the gun is no solution to problems, at a rally in Srinagar. |
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`Shivalik', the first indigenously built stealth frigate, is launched in Mumbai. |
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Apr. 21
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The U.S. Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill announces his resignation. |
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Apr. 23
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The Union Cabinet decides to restrict size of both Union and State Council of Ministers; to delete provision in Tenth Schedule of the statute to curb `bulk defections'. |
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The 10-day-old nationwide truckers strike is called off. |
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Parliament approves the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2003 providing for stiff punishment for disrespect to the national flag and symbols. |
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Apr. 24
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The Delhi High Court awards compensation of about Rs. 18 crores to the families of the 59 dead and 103 injured in the Uphaar cinema fire on June 13, 1997 in New Delhi. |
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Apr. 26
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Three militants of a suicide squad die in a gunbattle after an attempt to blow up the Srinagar AIR station by detonating a car bomb. |
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Apr. 29
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Anand Mahindra takes over as CII President. |
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