Events in October 2005
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Oct. 2
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Great interaction with world can enhance a nation’s self-reliance, says the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, after releasing commemorative coins to mark the 75th anniversary of the Dandi March, in New Delhi. |
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Oct. 3
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At least 16 persons are killed and 60 injured as the Bundelkhand Express overshoots the track and smashes into a signal cabin at Datia station near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. |
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Twenty minorities organisations in Assam float a political party, United Democratic Front. |
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The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, launches the Virtual University Programme linking Madras, Mumbai and Calcutta varsities. |
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Oct. 4
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The Allahabad High Court quashes law that gives the Aligarh Muslim University its minority status. |
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P. Gopinathan Nair, Rajendra Singh and Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai are chosen for the 2005 Jamnalal Bajaj Awards. Dr. Dasaiku Ikeda gets the international award for promoting Gandhian Values outside India. |
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The Sensex breaches the 8800 mark spurred by robust economic fundamentals. |
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Oct. 5
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The Tamil Nadu Government launches a social security scheme for farmers. |
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, inaugurates a five-year National Programme for Computerisation of Judiciary. |
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Oct. 6
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The former Union Minister and BJP MP, Ravi Shankar Prasad, is shot at and injured at an election meeting at Nokha in Bihar’s Rohtas district. |
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No document on Netaji Subash Chandra Bose is available at the State archives in Russia, says the Justice Manoj Mukherjee Commission at its last hearing in Kolkata. |
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India signs a deal with France to build six Scorpene submarines in New Delhi. |
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh moots a “Police Mission” to give the force a new outlook at the DGPs meet in New Delhi. |
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The Union Cabinet gives its nod for the creation of the Parambhik Shiksha Kosh with funds from the education cess. |
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Oct. 7
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The Supreme Court declares Bihar Assembly dissolution unconstitutional. Gives nod for fresh polls. |
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The Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister, Mukul Sangma quits the Congress-led Government. |
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Oct. 8
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At least 1,300 persons are killed in Jammu and Kashmir in an earthquake. Uri town adjoining PoK capital Muzaffarabad is flattened. Border districts of Kupwara, Baramulla and Poonch bear the brunt. Three hundred people are killed in Tanghdar. The Union Cabinet announces a Rs. 100-crore relief package. |
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Oct. 10
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The former Lok Sabha Speaker P. A. Sangma, quits Lok Sabha protesting against police action in Meghalaya. |
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Oct. 12
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The Right to Information Act comes into force. |
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Oct. 13
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A woman suicide bomber blows herself up near a place of worship at Awantipura, in the first such incident in Jammu and Kashmir.Seven persons are killed as communal violence rocks Mau town in Uttar Pradesh |
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Oct. 14
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The Sensex crashes by a whopping 175 points. |
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The Chennai Corporation Deputy Mayor ‘Karate’ R. Thiagarajan is expelled from the AIADMK. |
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Oct. 15
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India accepts Pakistan request to fly in the no-fly zone along the Line of Control. |
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The Gujarat BJP scores a stunning victory in the Ahmedabad civic polls. |
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Oct. 16
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Indian and Russian defence forces hold their first-ever joint airborne military exercise codenamed “Indra” in Rajasthan. |
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Oct. 17
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Thirtythree Karbis are hacked to death in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. |
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The Bombay High Court sets aside sale of textile mill land by the National Textile Corporation in Mumbai. |
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Verghese Kurien is re-elected the Chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation for three more years. The NDDB chief has been holding the post since 1973. |
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Oct. 18
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Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Education, Ghulam Nabi Lone, is shot dead by a militant at the high-security Tulsi Bagh area in Srinagar. CPI(M) leader, Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami escapes bid on life. |
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The President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, appoints Justice Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, as the 36th Chief Justice of India. |
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The Supreme Court admits plea against the Delhi High Court verdict quashing charges against the three Hinduja brothers in the Rs. 64 crore Bofors payoff case. |
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An estimated 1.23 crore voters cast ballots in the first phase of Bihar Assembly polls. |
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The Union Communication and IT Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, announces plan to computerise all the 26,000 departmental post offices and unveils a newlook post box at the closing ceremony of the 150th Year of the Posal Department in New Delhi. |
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The Sensex goes into a tailspin following heavy selloff by hedge funds triggered by a sharp fall in rupee value against the U.S. dollar. |
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Oct. 19
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Telephone calls are made to Pakistan occupied Kashmir for the first time in 15 years. The gesture is to help people on either side of the LoC to know the situation in the quake hit areas. |
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The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, launches the Rs. 1,925 crore Urban Development Project III, in Chennai to be implemented in five years. |
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The Supreme Court admits the CBI plea challenging the Orissa High Court order modifying the death sentence for Dara Singh in the Graham Staines murder into life term. Also admits Dara’s plea against his conviction. |
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The Sensex slips below 8000 battered by hedge funds. |
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Oct. 20
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The Union Cabinet clears the decks for raising foreign direct investment in the telecom sector from 49 to 74 per cent. |
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Third Eye: Fourth Asian Film Festival begins in Mumbai. |
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Oct. 21
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The Telangana Rashtra Samiti splits with its president and Union Labour Minister, K. Chandrasekhara Rao and rebel MLA S. Santosh Reddy expelling each other. |
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The President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, presents the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2004 to Malayalam director Adoor Gopalakrishnan at the 52nd National Film Awards function in New Delhi. Shyam Benegal bags the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, The Forgotten Hero. |
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Anil K. Agarwal and Venugopal Nandlal Dhoot are elected the president and Sr. Vice-President of Assocham, in New Delhi. |
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Oct. 24
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For the first time in 44 years Mettur reservoir receives more than 2 lakh cusecs. Heavy rain leaves the Cauvery in spate. |
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The ‘Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement’ between India and Mauritius a bold step forward, says the visiting Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam. |
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A Delhi Court convicts seven persons in the December 22, 2000 attack on the Red Fort in which three Army personnel were killed. |
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The Sensex plunges by a steep 148 points on heavy bouts of profit selling by operators. |
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Oct. 25
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Several parts of the island town of Srirangam in Tiruchi district are marooned following heavy flow in the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers reviving memories of the 1977 deluge. Residents are ordered to evacuate. |
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Oct. 26
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The Supreme Court orders the shifting of the Sankararaman murder case against the Kanchi Sankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswathi to Pondicherry. |
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Fortysix per cent polling is recorded in the Bihar Assembly second phase election. |
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The President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, swears in Wajahat Habibullah as the Central Chief Information Commissioner. |
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Oct. 27
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Torrential rain disrupts life in Chennai and 42 cm is received in a 40-hour period. |
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Oct. 28
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The Paul Volcker panel probing the U.N. oil-for-food programme in Iraq names 129 Indian firms as “beneficiaries” in oil deals, that helped funnel illicit profits to Saddam Hussein. It names the Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and the Congress party in the annexure as being non-contractual beneficiaries. |
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A cyclonic storm batters large areas in south coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema. |
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Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile service provider picks up 10 per cent stake in Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited in an all-cash deal worth Rs. 6,700 crores. |
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A U.N. estimate puts the toll in the October 8 earthquake at 54,000. |
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Oct. 29
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At least 60 persons are killed as serial blasts rock two market places and a bus in New Delhi. |
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Over 102 persons are killed after many bogies of the Repalle-Secunderabad Delta Fast Passenger are washed away in a flash flood at Valigonda in Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh. |
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Senior BJP leaders float Poorvanchal Kranti Party a non-political outfit, in New Delhi. |
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Oct. 30
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Islami Inqualabi Muhaz, an outfit linked to the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba claims responsibility for the New Delhi serial blasts. |
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Oct. 31
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A Delhi Court gives death sentence to Pakistani Mohammed Arif alias Asfaq for the December 22, 2000 Red Fort attack. His wife gets seven-year RI and a father-son duo gets lifer. |
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Mahasweta Devi eminent author and social activist is presented with the 20th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration, in New Delhi. |
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Vice-Admiral Venkat Bharathan assumes charge as the vice-chief of Naval Staff. |
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The Sensex rallies back ending a month-long bear phase during which it had lost 949 points. |
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The Madras High Court clears the sale of assets of the Standard Motors Limited which was wound up in October 1996 for Rs. 154.10 crores. |
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R. C. Lahoti lays down office as the Chief Justice of Inida. |
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