Events in September 2003
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Sep. 1
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Coins in denomination of Rs. 100 and Rs. 2 launched to commemorate 150 years of Railways. |
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SC clears decks for construction of ongoing Tehri hydel dam project in Uttaranchal. |
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Sep. 2
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Justice Liberhan Commission issues non-bailable warrant (NBW) against former UP CM, Kalyan Singh. |
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MiG-21 crash (Srinagar) probe details made public by IAF for the first time. |
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Sep. 3
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Govt. approves purchase of Hawks (advanced jet trainers) from Britain. |
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FDI to be allowed in pension sector. |
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Sep.10
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India, Israel call for establishment of "just and durable peace" in West Asia at the conclusion of visit by Israeli PM, Ariel Sharon. (pix.) |
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Centre bans chicory in instant coffee. |
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SC expresses concern over increasing number of cases of custodial violence, torture and lock-up deaths. |
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Sep.11
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J&K Agriculture Minister, Abdul Aziz Zargar resigns following accusations of his links with militants who conspired to attack Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. |
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Privatisation of Delhi, Mumbai airports cleared. |
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Taj Heritage Corridor scam: SC grants a week's time to CBI to probe assets of four persons. |
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Haj subsidy for IT assessees to go. |
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Cabinet approves to send unmanned mission to moon & to launch new type of remote sensing satellite. |
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Sep.12
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SC flays Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat for filing an "eye-wash" of an appeal in High Court in `Best Bakery case' and said: "Quit if you cannot prosecute guilty". |
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Indian, American commandos start joint military exercises in Ladakh. (pix.) |
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Delhi tops metros in crime; national crime rate dips. |
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Sep.13
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PM Vajpayee delivers his inaugural address at The Hindu's 125th Anniversary Celebrations in Chennai on Saturday. (pix.) |
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Militants gun down Kuka Parrey, pioneer of counter-insurgency movement in Kashmir and chairman of Jammu Kashmir Awami League. (pix.) |
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Sep.15
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Dara Singh, 12 others convicted for their involvement in killing of Australian missionary, Graham Stuart Staines, and his two minor sons in January 1999 in a tribal village in Orissa. (pix.) |
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Sep.16
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SC halts privatisation of HPCL, BPCL holding that it could not be done without prior parliament approval. |
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Sep.17
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Khurshid Parrey, son of assassinated counter-terrorist militia leader, Mohammad Yusuf Parrey, takes charge of his father's political organisation, the Awami League. (pix.) |
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Appan Menon Memorial Award for 2003 awarded to Shankarshan Thakur, Political Editor, Third Eye Television. |
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Sep.19
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Special court discharges Advani; Joshi, others to face charges in Babri Masjid case. |
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Human Resource Development Minister, Murli Manohar Joshi resigns, no need says party. |
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J&K grants 33 p.c. quota for women in panchayats |
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Sep.21
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Madhavan Nair is ISRO chief. (pix.) |
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Former UP Minister, Amarmani Tripathi arrested here today by CBI in connection with poetess Madhumita Shukla murder case. |
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India's first DNA vaccine set to begin animal trials shortly; novel anti-diarrhoeal vaccine in early stages of human trials. |
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Sep.22
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Designated CBI court awards death penalty to Dara Singh and life imprisonment to 12 others for involvement in killing of Australian missionary, Graham Stuart Staines, and his two minor sons in Orissa's Keonjhar district on January 22, 1999. |
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Sep.25
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Pak. using terrorism as 'a tool of blackmail': PM at UN Genreal Assembly. |
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Sep.28
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INSAT- 3E, communication satellite of ISRO launched successfully from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana. (pix.) |
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Sep.29
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Congress loses by-elections to two Lok Sabha constituencies of Ernakulam in Kerala and Solapur in Maharashtra, its candidate wins in Hungund Assembly bypoll in Karnataka. (pix.) |
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Gandhian Ravindranath Upadhyay, times of need, named for this year's Jamnalal Bajaj award for constructive work. (pix.) |
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Sep.30
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PM returns resignation letter to Murli Manohar Joshi, asks him to resume work. (pix.) |
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Film financier and diamond king, Bharat Shah, found guilty of having facilitated crime of targeting film personalities for extortion by underworld, his co-accused, film producer Nasim Rizvi, latter's assistant, Abdul Rahim Allahbaksh Khan, convicted of having conspired to commit the crime. (pix.) |
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