Events in May 2005
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May.1
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The former Kerala Chief Minister, K. Karunakaran, forms a new party National Congress (Indira) at Thrissur. K. Muraleedharan is elected president. |
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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s Bhopal conclave adopts the model “Nikhanama” (marriage contract) laying down the rights of the wife. |
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May. 2
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The Lok Sabha passes the Finance Bill, the highlights being exemption for savings account from cash withdrawal tax and raise in IT ceiling for women, senior citizens. |
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‘No prima facie case’ for proceeding under POTA against Tamil National Movement leader P. Nedumaran holds, the review panel. |
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K. Karunakaran confirms resignation from the Rajya Sabha. |
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Atiqullah Shah (43), nephew of the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed dies after being shot at by militants a day earlier in Bijbehara. |
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The French Government confers the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres on Carnatic musician, Balamuralikrishna. |
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May. 3
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India receives $465 million aid tranche from the World Bank for tsunami relief in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. |
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May. 5
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV C-6 is launched from the spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh and it injects two satellites, CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT into their orbits. |
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The Kerala Congress (Jacob) quits the United Democratic Front. |
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The Madras High Court quashes detention of 11 persons including Raghu, Sundaresa Iyer and Appu under the Goondas Act in connection with the Sankararaman murder on September 3, 2004. |
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May. 6
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The CAG report criticises the NDA regime’s decisions on sale of Centaur Hotels, diversion of funds for the “India Shining” campaign. |
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The INS Himgiri, the second Indian-built multirole warship, is decommissioned at a ceremony on board the naval base in Mumbai. |
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The Cabinet Committee on Security clears arms supply to Nepal. |
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May. 7
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Sweden’s Nobel Foundation hands over two replicas of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel medallion stolen from the Visva Bharati University on March 25, 2004 at a function in Santiniketan. |
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May. 10
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The Lok Sabha passes the Special Economic Zone legislation by voice vote. |
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The Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Bill, 2005 is introduced in Lok Sabha. |
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May. 11
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The Lok Sabha passes the Right to Information Bill. |
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The Union S & T Ministry unveils a new model of Reva electric car, ‘Reva-NXG’ at the National Technology Day celebrations, in New Delhi. |
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The Finance Ministry launches e-payment of excise duty and service tax by corporates and the retail trade. |
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A devastating car bomb kills one and injures 45 in Srinagar. |
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May. 12
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Two women are killed and 60 persons, including 25 kids are injured in a grenade blast outside the Tyndale Biscoe And Mallinson School in Srinagar. |
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The CBI chargesheets Abdul Kareem Telgi and 15 others for their role in the fake stamp paper racket in Karnataka. |
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Parliamentary nod for Information Bill as Rajya Sabha approves it. |
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May. 13
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The Phukan Commission report on defence deals following the Tehelka expose in March 2001 is rejected by the Government. |
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Parliament gives its nod for the WMD Bill. |
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May. 14
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The 1982 New Delhi Asiad Mascot ‘Appu’ the elephant dies at the Guruvayur Devaswom’s elephant yard at Punnathurkotta. |
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May. 15
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Air India resumes flight to Toronto, Canada from New Delhi after eight years, with stopovers in Amritsar and Birmingham. |
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May. 16
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Election Commissioner, B. B. Tandon, takes charge as the 14th Chief Election Commissioner succeeding T. S. Krishnamurthy. Navin B. Chawla takes over as Election Commissioner. |
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coaljunction.com, an e-commerce forum for coal is launched in Kolkata. |
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The ruling AIADMK wins the Gummidipoondi and Kancheepuram by elections. |
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May. 17
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Bharat Nirman, a Rs. 1,74,000 crore rural development package is cleared at a meet in New Delhi. |
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May. 18
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The ITC Chairman, Y. C. Deveshwar, takes over as the Confederation of Indian Industry president and R. Seshasayee is the new vice-president. |
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May. 19
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The Orissa High Court sets aside the death penalty for Rabindra Pal Singh alias Dara Singh for the January 22, 1999 killing of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons Philip and Timothy in Keonjhar district. Eleven others are acquitted. |
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The Centre clears the Rs. 2,427.40-crore Sethusamudram Ship Channel project across the Palk Straits off the Tamil Nadu coast. |
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May. 20
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New Delhi’s ties with Tel Aviv will not affect the “very close and very strong” India-Palestine relationship, says the visiting president of Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas in the capital. |
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India approves the corporatisation of the Bombay Stock Exchange. |
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May. 21
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The secretary-general of Union Steel Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Jan Shakti Party, Nagamani, quits triggering a crisis. |
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May. 22
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Blasts rock two cinema halls in New Delhi leaving one dead and at least 60 wounded. |
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May. 23
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The President, A.P.J. Kalam signs a Proclamation to dissolve the Bihar Assembly. |
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May. 24
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The Lok Jan Shakti Party chief, Ram Vilas Paswan, expels Nagamani and six others. |
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May. 25
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The National Democratic Front of Bodoland, signs a ceasefire agreement with the Centre and the Assam Government. |
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The Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and veteran actor, Sunil Dutt (75), dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his home at Bandra, Mumbai. |
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The former U.S. President and U.N. Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, Bill Clinton, arrives in New Delhi. |
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Maruti Udyog Limited, launches premium compact car ‘Swift’ in New Delhi. |
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Swami Gahananandaji is elected Ramakrishna Math president. |
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A 19-year-old woman of Nagaon district in Assam is allegedly raped by her father-in-law and the local Jamaat orders her husband to divorce her. |
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May. 26
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The Government allows sale of 10 per cent share holding in Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited. |
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May. 27
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The former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, visits tsunami-hit Nagapattinam and conveys world’s solidarity. |
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The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Arun Prakash, launches the nation’s third stealth frigate, INS Sahyadri at the Mazagon Docks, Mumbai. |
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May. 28
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Sonia Gandhi is re-elected Congress president in New Delhi. |
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Free power to farmers an obstacle to making the nation self-reliant, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, dedicating to the country the 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri power project in Himachal Pradesh. |
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The second phase of Gulmarg Gondola, the highest in the world, is inaugurated by the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. |
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May. 30
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The only volcano in India on the Barren Island in the Andamans starts emitting smoke. |
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May. 31
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The Delhi High Court quashes all charges against the Hinduja brothers in the Rs. 64-crore Bofors payoffs case, and the erstwhile Swedish company, A. B. Bofors. |
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INS Kadamba, the futuristic Naval base on the western seaboard in Karwar is commissioned by the Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee. |
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INS Mumbai sets sail from Karwar (Karnataka) on a month-long voyage to take part in celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar fought on October 21, 1805. |
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