Events in July 2003
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Jul. 11
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Economy is expected to grow at 6.5 per cent in the fiscal 2003-04, the Centre For Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said. |
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Jul. 12
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The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference headed by Omar Abdullah formally severs its five-year-old relationship with National Democratic Alliance at the Centre. (pix.) |
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Minister of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Ananth Kumar resigns. |
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The All-Party Hurriyat Conference appoints Shia leader, Moulvi Abbas Ansari, as its new chairman for two years. (pix.) |
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Environmmental scientist Madhav Gadgil & founder of Grameen Bank, Mohammed Yunus of Bangladesh share Volvo Environment Prize 2003. |
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Jul. 13
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Twenty-five persons killed and 20 injured as a passenger bus collides with a van and falls into the Chenab river near Premnagar in Jammu and Kashmir. (pix.) |
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Railways announces voluntary retirement scheme for safety-related frontline staff such as train drivers, gangmen and pointsmen above 50 years of age. |
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Jul. 14
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India decides not to send its troops to Iraq under the American and British command. (pix.) |
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PM rejects Railway Minister Nitish Kumar's resignation. |
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Government amends old-age pension scheme, to permit premature withdrawal of amount after 15 years. |
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Jul. 15
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MiG-21 trainer aircraft crashes last night in Budgam district of Kashmir, killing the pilot and co-pilot. |
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Ban on smoking to stay: SC |
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Jul. 16
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40 persons killed in flash floods caused by a cloudburst at Shilagarh in Himachal Pradesh. |
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Rs. 2,500-crore sop for farmers announced, interest rates on crop loans of up to Rs. 50,000 drastically reduced. |
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Supreme Court orders an inquiry by CBI into Taj Heritage Corridor Project near Taj Mahal in Agra. |
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Gurcharan Singh Tohra will be the new president of SGPC. |
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Jul. 17
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Y. Venugopal Reddy to be next Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. |
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13 more statues to be installed in Parliament House Complex. |
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Bharatiya Jnanpith Award for 2001 to be conferred on the Gujarati poet, Rajendra Keshavlal Shah. (pix.) |
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Jul. 18
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Portugese court rejects India's plea to extradite Monica Bedi, companion of Abu Salem, key accused in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. (pix.) |
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A Delhi court grants bail to Yasin Malik, chief of JKLF, in a 10-year-old TADA case. |
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Jul. 20
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Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the Jamait Ulema-e-Islam in Pakistan, calls on Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee reinforcing the "peace initiative" process. |
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For the first time in recorded history, Mars will come closer to the Earth on August 28. |
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Jul. 21
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Seven devotees killed and 38 injured, in two powerful explosions set off by militants at Banganga near Katra on way to Vaishno Devi shrine. |
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Supreme Court comes down heavily on Tamil Nadu Government employees for resorting to a strike but suggested to the State Government to take back the 1.7 lakh sacked employees on their tendering an unconditional apology. |
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Jul. 22
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Brigadier killed, 4 officers injured in `fidayeen' (suicide squad) attack on Army camp at Tanda, north of Jammu. |
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Jul. 24
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Supreme Court persuades Tamil Nadu Govt. to take back sacked employees. |
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Two years after the Agra summit, India and Pakistan renew contact, the new Pakistani High Commissioner, Aziz Ahmed Khan, calls on the External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha. (pix.) |
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India to fund treatment of 20 Pak. children. |
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Supreme Court stays a law enacted by the Maharashtra Government withdrawing State's share of seats from the all-India quota and thus, permitted completion of admission to seats for MBBS and BDS courses in all Government colleges for the current academic year in various States. |
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New norms for packaged water notified. |
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The exact digital facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible available on the Internet. (pix.) |
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Jul. 25
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Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Reporting and Analysis awarded to Praveen Swami of the Frontline magazine. |
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Jul. 26
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Budhadeb Dasgupta's Mondo Meyer Upakhyan wins the best film award in the feature film segment, Ajay Devgan wins his second Rajat Kamal for best actor for his performance in The Legend of Bhagat Singh. Bengali actress Konkana Sen wins her first National Film Award for her portrayal in the film Mr. and Mrs Iyer. Devdas, bags five awards. Shweta Prasad & Keerthana to share the best child artiste award. Singers Udit Narayan & Shreya Ghoshal win honours, AR Rahman bags the best music director award. |
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Jul. 30
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China "illegally claims" 90,000 square kilometres of Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh, continues to occupy 38,000 sq. km. in J & K: Minister of State for External Affairs, Digvijay Singh informs LS. |
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Supreme Court upholds a Haryana Government law prohibiting a person from contesting or holding the post of `sarpanch' or `panch' in the panchayat institutions if he/she had more than two children. |
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