Events in April 2006
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Apr. 1
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Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madya Pradesh and Rajasthan adopt the VAT regime. |
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Apr. 3
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Sixty eight per cent polling is recorded in the first phase of the Assembly elections in Assam. |
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Apr. 4
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The Government signs two agreements to set up joint venture firms for handing over the Delhi and Mumbai airports for modernisation, in New Delhi. |
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Apr. 10
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Seventy per cent polling in the second and final phase of Assam Assembly elections. |
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Apr. 12
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The doyen of Kannada cinema Rajkumar dies in a hospital in Bangalore following cardiac arrest. |
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The Bombay High Court quashes the Maharashtra law banning dance bars in Mumbai. |
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Apr. 14
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Fourteen persons are injured in two blasts inside the Jama Masjid in New Delhi. |
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Apr. 16
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The Jammu and Kashmir police kill the Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Aftab Ansari in south Kashmir. |
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Apr. 17
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The Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar ends her 21-day fast at the Jantar Mantar dharna site in New Delhi. |
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Eighty one per cent polling is recorded in the first phase of West Bengal Assembly elections. |
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Verghese Kurien is appointed Chancellor of the University of Allahabad. |
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Apr. 19
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The Madras High Court confirms the life sentence awarded to 17 persons involved in the killings at Melavalavu, Tamil Nadu, in 1997. |
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R. Seshasayee, Ashok Leyland MD takes over as the CII president. |
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Apr. 20
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The former Delhi Chief Minister, Madan Lal Khurana, resigns from the BJP. |
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Sensex crosses the 12,000-mark for the first time. |
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Letika Saran takes over as the Chennai Police Commissioner, thus becoming the first woman to do so. |
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Apr. 21
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The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directs the Centre to appoint an experts panel to go into the water needs of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Pondicherry. |
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Apr. 22
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Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary, Pramod Mahajan (56), is shot at by his younger brother Pravin at his house in Worli, Mumbai. |
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Sixtyeight per cent voting is registered in six southern districts of Kerala in the first round of Assembly polls. |
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Seventyfour per cent voters cast ballots in the second phase of West Bengal Assembly elections. |
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Apr. 23
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Education is the “best contraceptive” for population stabilisation, says the Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, inaugurating the 22nd Asian Parliamentarians’ Meet on Population and Development in New Delhi. |
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Apr. 24
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The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, sets up a three-member panel under the former CAG, V.K. Shunglu, to study relief to Narmada oustees. |
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The Supreme Court orders ‘status quo’ on the minority status of the Aligarh Muslim University. |
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Apr. 25
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Sher Singh Rana, the prime accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case who escaped from the Tihar jail in 2004, is arrested in Dharamtalla in Kolkata. |
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Apr. 26
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Parthi Bhatol is elected the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Chairman. |
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Apr. 27
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The Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad wins the Bhaderwah byelection by a margin of 58,015 votes, a record in the history of the State’s Assembly polls. |
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Seventy per cent voting is recorded in the third phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls. |
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Apr. 29
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Seventy per cent polling is recorded in the second phase of Kerala Assembly elections. |
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