Only the exam oriented important events are covered and those who had made big news.
Jan. 1: The Union Government’s Direct Benefits Transfer scheme is launched in 20 districts in six States across the nation.
“Complex issues cannot be settled by faith, emotion and fear but by structured debate, analysis and enlightenment,” says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the 100{+t}{+h}annual session of the Indian Science Congress in Kolkata.
Jan. 12: Follow in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda, says the West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan, inaugurating the World Youth Festival to mark the Swamiji’s 150{+t}{+h}birth anniversary in Kolkata.
Jan. 18: The Supreme Court directs the Centre to set up a Special Court to try Italian marines Massimilano Latore and Salvatore Gironi involved in the shooting of two fishermen off the Kerala waters on February 15, 2012.
Jan. 21: Prema Jayakumar, daughter of an autorickshaw driver in Malad, Mumbai tops the nationwide CA exam. Her brother Dhanraj too clears the exam.
Jan. 23: The Justice Verma Committee rules against recommending the death penalty even in the rarest of rare cases, and also does not favour lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16.
Jan. 25: Noted physicist Yash Pal, space scientist Roddam Narasimha, sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and painter Syed Haider Raza chosen for Padma Vibhushan.
Author Jeet Thayil is presented the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 for his debut novel Narcopolis at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Feb. 7: The Supreme Court directs Karnataka to release forthwith 2.44 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu to save standing crops on one lakh acres in the Cauvery delta region.
Feb. 9: The December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case convict Mohammed Afzal Guru is hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex in New Delhi.
Feb. 10: Thirtysix Kumbh pilgrims are killed and 39 injured in a stampede at the Allahabad railway station after a foot bridge collapses due to heavy rush of people.
Feb. 11: New stock exchange MCX-SX starts trading shares.
Feb. 12: The Defence Ministry orders a CBI probe into allegations of bribery in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP helicopter deal inked in February 2010 with Italian defence firm Finmeccanica.
Feb. 13: Mohan Parasaran is appointed Solicitor General.
Feb. 18: The President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self-Employed Women’s Association at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Feb. 25: The PSLV C20 puts the 400-Kg India-French satellite SARAL and six others into their precise orbits after its successful launch from the Sriharikota spaceport.
Rajya Sabha approves the amended Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Prevention, Protection and Redressal Bill. Nod for President’s rule in Jharkhand.
Feb. 28: The Union Budget 2013-14 is presented in the Lok Sabha. Women’s bank to be set up with Rs. 1,000-crore capital. ‘Nirbhaya’ Fund of Rs. 1,000-crore for women’s safety.
March 8: The Delhi gangrape victim is posthumously honoured with the Rani Lakshmibai Award, at a function in New Delhi.
March 16: The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates the 125{+t}{+h}anniversary celebrations of Malayala Manorama in Kottayam, Kerala and releases a commemorative stamp.
March 18: Paan Singh Tomar bags the best feature film award at the 60th National Film Awards function in New Delhi. The Hindi film Vicky Donor and Malayalam film Ustad Hotel share the award for the best “popular film providing wholesome entertainment”. Irrfan Khan ( Paan Singh Tomar ) and Vikram Gokhale ( Anumati ) share the best actor award. Usha Jadhav ( Anumati ) bags the best actress award.
The Lok Sabha passes the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, to provide for more stringent punishment for crimes against women.
April 1: The Supreme Court in a landmark verdict rejects Swiss firm Novartis’ plea for a patent for modification of Glivec that fights a form of chronic blood cancer. Green signal for cheaper generic drugs.
April 5: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padmashri awards at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
April 12 : The Supreme Court rejects the mercy petition of Khalistani terrorist and death-row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case.
The Madras High Court orders the sale of MT Pratibha Cauvery which ran aground in Chennai due to Cyclone Nilam on October 31, 2012, through the court.
May 1: The Supreme Court upholds the government’s proposal to allow FDI in multi-brand retail trade.
May 2: Punjab Government declares Sarabhjit Singh a “National Martyr.”
Bollywood legend Pran is honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award by President Pranab Mukherjee. Trophies given to the winners of 60th National Film Awards. Biopic Paan Singh Tomar wins best picture award.
Haritha V. Kumar tops the rank list of the 2012 UPSC exams, in the process becoming the first Keralite in more than 20 years to achieve this distinction.
May 5: China ends three-week stand-off and pulls out troops from Daulat Beg Oldi sector in Ladakh.
May 20: India and China sign eight agreements, including one to increase the frequency of exchange of hydrological data.
May 21: Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma is appointed as the 12{+t}{+h}Comptroller and Auditor–General.
May 31: The National Green Tribunal allows Sterlite Industries Ltd. to begin operation of its copper smelter plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district.
June 1: N.R. Narayana Murthy is reappointed Infosys Chairman two years after his retirement. Son Rohan Murthy appointed his “executive assistant”.
June 18: The toll in the flood fury in the north, especially in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh goes up to 130. Over 70,000 pilgrims are stranded and 21 bridges have collapsed in Uttarakhand. The temple town of Kedarnath is wiped out in flash floods.
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi launch the Rs. 1,672-crore Banihal-Qazigund rail link to connect Jammu with Kashmir and the rest of the nation. The 11.215-km Pir Panjal tunnel is also inaugurated.
June 29: Justice P. Sathasivam becomes the first Judge from Tamil Nadu to be appointed the CJI.
July 1: India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the 1,425-Kg IRNSS-1A is successfully put into orbit after launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
July 4: The Odisha government completes land acquisition for the proposed Posco Steel Plant.
July 7: The Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is rocked by a series of bomb blasts.
July 10: The Supreme Court rules that chargesheeted MPs, MLAs, and MLCs will be disqualified on date of criminal conviction.
July 11: The AERB gives its nod for controlled fission at the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.
July 12: Veteran Bollywood actor and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee Pran Kishan Sikand (93), dies at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai.
July 14: India bids adieu to the 163-year-old Telegram Service.
The former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala among 55 convicted in the 1999 teachers’ recruitment scam by a special CBI court in New Delhi.
Suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed convicted in the Batla House encounter is sentenced to lifer.
A probe is ordered following a major crisis after the National Spot Exchange Ltd. suspends most trades on its platform.
Aug. 4: The U.P. government serves chargesheet on IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal (suspended on July 27 for ordering the demolition of the wall of an under-construction mosque at Kadalpur village).
Aug. 5: The National Green Tribunal orders a nationwide stay on sand mining on river beds without Environment Ministry clearance.
Aug. 7: The historical bill to replace the National Food Security Bill Ordinance, 2013 is introduced in the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 10: The compact pressurised water reactor on board India’s nuclear-powered submarine, Arihant, achieves criticality capping 25 years of indigenous efforts.
Aug. 12: INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier is launched at Cochin Shipyard Limited.
The Manmohan Singh government introduces the Right to Information (Amendment Bill), 2013 in the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 13: The Rajya Saha passes the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012.
Aug. 14: The Navy’s kilo-class submarine INS Sindhurakshak sinks after twin explosions at the Mumbai naval dockyard, a day earlier. Eighteen sailors are killed.
The Supreme Court confirms the death penalty to Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar.
Aug. 26: The Lok Sabha passes the National Food Security Bill, 2013 after a six-hour long debate.
Aug. 29: Yasin Bhatkal, a key plotter in several blasts and co-founder of the banned Indian Mujahideen and his close associate Asadullah Akhtar are arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar’s Raxaul town.
The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill is passed by the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 31: Juvenile gets three years jail term in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case.
Sept. 2: The Rajya Sabha approves by voice vote the National Food Security Bill.
Sept. 4: Raghuram Rajan takes over as the 23{+r}{+d}RBI Governor. Duvvuri Subba Rao demits office.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013, is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2011.
Sept. 5: The amended version of the Land Acquisition Bill is cleared by Parliament.
The Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (120{+t}{+h}Amendment) Bill, 2013 to create a Judicial Appointments Committee.
Deepak Sandhu becomes the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the nation.
Sept. 6: The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012.
The Lok Sabha passes The Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013 dealing with those in lawful custody but not convicted. The RS had given its nod on August 27.
The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2013 is presented to western music director Zubin Mehta by the President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.
Sept. 12: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2012 to his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Sept. 22: The suspended U.P. IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal is reinstated.
Sept. 26: The Department of Posts launches a separate PIN Code —110201— for the Supreme Court of India.
Sept. 27: The Supreme Court holds that a voter can exercise the option of negative voting and reject candidates as unworthy of being elected.
Oct. 1: The Gujarat Assembly passes for the second time the Gujarat Lokayukta Aayog Bill, 2013.
Oct. 2: The Union Cabinet withdraws the ordinance on convicted lawmakers as well as the Bill that sought to amend the Representation of the People Act on which it was based.
Oct. 3: The Union Cabinet gives approval to a Home Ministry proposal to divide Andhra Pradesh and create Telangana State. Four Union Ministers quit.
The former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav gets five years RI, stands disqualified from Parliament and is banned from polls for 11 years.
India launches JENVAC its first indigenous vaccine to protect children from Japanese encephalitis.
Arundhati Bhattacharya takes over as the SBI Chairperson, thus becoming the first woman to be appointed to the top job.
Oct. 12: The cyclonic storm Phailin crosses the Odisha coast near Gopalpur 20 km from Berhampur in Ganjam district. Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh bears the brunt and seawater enters many villages.
Oct. 31: Eminent agriculture scientist M. S. Swaminathan is honoured with the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award, at a function in New Delhi.
Kannur in Kerala is declared the first zero-landless district in the country.
Nov. 5: The ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C-25) in its silver jubilee mission puts the 1,350 kg Mars Orbiter precisely on to its earth-orbit 44 minutes after blasting off from Sriharikota.
Nov. 6: The Gauhati High Court quashes the Union Home Ministry resolution of 1963 on the basis of which the CBI was constituted.
Nov. 9: The Supreme Court stays the Gauhati High Court verdict on CBI formation.
Nov. 16: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and top scientist C.N.R. Rao are named for Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.
Nov.19: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Bharatiya Mahila Bank, the first all women commercial bank in Mumbai.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2013.
Nov. 22: Cyclone ‘Helen’ leaves four persons dead and destroys paddy on one lakh acres while crossing the coast close to south of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Nov. 25: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad holds dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar guilty of the murder on May 16, 2008 of their daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic worker, Hemraj at their home in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Nov. 26: A CBI special court in Ghaziabad awards lifer to Nupur and Rajesh Talwar.
Nov. 30: Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka is arrested after a Goa sessions court rejects his anticipatory bail plea.
The Emperor of Japan, Akihito arrives in New Delhi on a six-day state visit.
East Timor’s first feature film A Guerra da Beatriz (Beatriz’s War) bags the Golden Peacock award at the 44{+t}{+h}IIFA in Goa.
Mars Orbiter begins its 300-day 680-million km voyage to the Red Planet after being put into a sun-centric orbit.
Dec. 2: The ISRO’s Mars Orbiter becomes the farthest object sent into space by India.
Dec. 3: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates the 8{+t}{+h}Asia Gas Partnership Summit in New Delhi during which he dedicates to the nation the GAIL India Ltd.’s 1,000 km-long Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline.
Dec. 5: The Union Cabinet approves the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 for the creation of a Telangana State with 10 districts, paving the way for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 11: The Supreme Court sets aside the July 2, 2009 Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising gay sex.
he IAF’s workhorse, MiG-21 bows out, at a function in Kalaikunda air base, West Bengal.
The Union Cabinet approves the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill.
Dec. 16: The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 to bifurcate the State is introduced in both Houses of the Legislature.
The Union Cabinet gives nod to the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill.
Dec. 17: The Rajya Sabha passes by voice vote the historic Lokpal Bill.
Dec. 18: The Lok Sabha passes the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2013.
Novelists Mridula Garg (Hindi) and R. N. Joe D’ Cruz (Tamil), poet Javed Akhtar among winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2013.
Dec. 19: Sushma Singh is sworn in Chief Information Commissioner by the President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan
Dec. 20: The report of the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry tabled in the State Assembly indicts four former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra. Cabinet rejects report.
The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas gets initial clearance for joining IAF, 30 years after the project was sanctioned.
Dec. 27: The final Ecologically Sensitive Area notification on Western Ghats is put on hold.
Dec. 28: Arvind Kejriwal is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. Six Cabinet colleagues too assume office.
Dec. 30: The U.K.-based Tesco Plc. first global retailer to get FIPB nod to enter domestic multi-brand retail sector.
The Army chief General Bikram Singh takes over as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in New Delhi.
Dec. 31: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha takes over as the 24th Chief Of The Air Staff from Air Chief Marshal N. A. K. Browne at Vayu Bhawan in New Delhi.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/diary-of-events-national-january-to-dec-21-full/article5550500.ece
Jan. 1: The Union Government’s Direct Benefits Transfer scheme is launched in 20 districts in six States across the nation.
“Complex issues cannot be settled by faith, emotion and fear but by structured debate, analysis and enlightenment,” says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the 100{+t}{+h}annual session of the Indian Science Congress in Kolkata.
Jan. 12: Follow in the footsteps of Swami Vivekananda, says the West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan, inaugurating the World Youth Festival to mark the Swamiji’s 150{+t}{+h}birth anniversary in Kolkata.
Jan. 18: The Supreme Court directs the Centre to set up a Special Court to try Italian marines Massimilano Latore and Salvatore Gironi involved in the shooting of two fishermen off the Kerala waters on February 15, 2012.
Jan. 21: Prema Jayakumar, daughter of an autorickshaw driver in Malad, Mumbai tops the nationwide CA exam. Her brother Dhanraj too clears the exam.
Jan. 23: The Justice Verma Committee rules against recommending the death penalty even in the rarest of rare cases, and also does not favour lowering the age of a juvenile from 18 to 16.
Jan. 25: Noted physicist Yash Pal, space scientist Roddam Narasimha, sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra and painter Syed Haider Raza chosen for Padma Vibhushan.
Author Jeet Thayil is presented the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature-2013 for his debut novel Narcopolis at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Feb. 7: The Supreme Court directs Karnataka to release forthwith 2.44 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu to save standing crops on one lakh acres in the Cauvery delta region.
Feb. 9: The December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case convict Mohammed Afzal Guru is hanged and buried inside the Tihar jail complex in New Delhi.
Feb. 10: Thirtysix Kumbh pilgrims are killed and 39 injured in a stampede at the Allahabad railway station after a foot bridge collapses due to heavy rush of people.
Feb. 11: New stock exchange MCX-SX starts trading shares.
Feb. 12: The Defence Ministry orders a CBI probe into allegations of bribery in the Rs. 3,600-crore VVIP helicopter deal inked in February 2010 with Italian defence firm Finmeccanica.
Feb. 13: Mohan Parasaran is appointed Solicitor General.
Feb. 18: The President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2011 to Ela Ramesh Bhatt of Self-Employed Women’s Association at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Feb. 25: The PSLV C20 puts the 400-Kg India-French satellite SARAL and six others into their precise orbits after its successful launch from the Sriharikota spaceport.
Rajya Sabha approves the amended Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Prevention, Protection and Redressal Bill. Nod for President’s rule in Jharkhand.
Feb. 28: The Union Budget 2013-14 is presented in the Lok Sabha. Women’s bank to be set up with Rs. 1,000-crore capital. ‘Nirbhaya’ Fund of Rs. 1,000-crore for women’s safety.
March 8: The Delhi gangrape victim is posthumously honoured with the Rani Lakshmibai Award, at a function in New Delhi.
March 16: The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates the 125{+t}{+h}anniversary celebrations of Malayala Manorama in Kottayam, Kerala and releases a commemorative stamp.
March 18: Paan Singh Tomar bags the best feature film award at the 60th National Film Awards function in New Delhi. The Hindi film Vicky Donor and Malayalam film Ustad Hotel share the award for the best “popular film providing wholesome entertainment”. Irrfan Khan ( Paan Singh Tomar ) and Vikram Gokhale ( Anumati ) share the best actor award. Usha Jadhav ( Anumati ) bags the best actress award.
The Lok Sabha passes the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, to provide for more stringent punishment for crimes against women.
April 1: The Supreme Court in a landmark verdict rejects Swiss firm Novartis’ plea for a patent for modification of Glivec that fights a form of chronic blood cancer. Green signal for cheaper generic drugs.
April 5: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padmashri awards at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
April 12 : The Supreme Court rejects the mercy petition of Khalistani terrorist and death-row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case.
The Madras High Court orders the sale of MT Pratibha Cauvery which ran aground in Chennai due to Cyclone Nilam on October 31, 2012, through the court.
May 1: The Supreme Court upholds the government’s proposal to allow FDI in multi-brand retail trade.
May 2: Punjab Government declares Sarabhjit Singh a “National Martyr.”
Bollywood legend Pran is honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award by President Pranab Mukherjee. Trophies given to the winners of 60th National Film Awards. Biopic Paan Singh Tomar wins best picture award.
Haritha V. Kumar tops the rank list of the 2012 UPSC exams, in the process becoming the first Keralite in more than 20 years to achieve this distinction.
May 5: China ends three-week stand-off and pulls out troops from Daulat Beg Oldi sector in Ladakh.
May 20: India and China sign eight agreements, including one to increase the frequency of exchange of hydrological data.
May 21: Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma is appointed as the 12{+t}{+h}Comptroller and Auditor–General.
May 31: The National Green Tribunal allows Sterlite Industries Ltd. to begin operation of its copper smelter plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district.
June 1: N.R. Narayana Murthy is reappointed Infosys Chairman two years after his retirement. Son Rohan Murthy appointed his “executive assistant”.
June 18: The toll in the flood fury in the north, especially in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh goes up to 130. Over 70,000 pilgrims are stranded and 21 bridges have collapsed in Uttarakhand. The temple town of Kedarnath is wiped out in flash floods.
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi launch the Rs. 1,672-crore Banihal-Qazigund rail link to connect Jammu with Kashmir and the rest of the nation. The 11.215-km Pir Panjal tunnel is also inaugurated.
June 29: Justice P. Sathasivam becomes the first Judge from Tamil Nadu to be appointed the CJI.
July 1: India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the 1,425-Kg IRNSS-1A is successfully put into orbit after launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
July 4: The Odisha government completes land acquisition for the proposed Posco Steel Plant.
July 7: The Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is rocked by a series of bomb blasts.
July 10: The Supreme Court rules that chargesheeted MPs, MLAs, and MLCs will be disqualified on date of criminal conviction.
July 11: The AERB gives its nod for controlled fission at the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.
July 12: Veteran Bollywood actor and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee Pran Kishan Sikand (93), dies at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai.
July 14: India bids adieu to the 163-year-old Telegram Service.
The former Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala among 55 convicted in the 1999 teachers’ recruitment scam by a special CBI court in New Delhi.
Suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad Ahmed convicted in the Batla House encounter is sentenced to lifer.
A probe is ordered following a major crisis after the National Spot Exchange Ltd. suspends most trades on its platform.
Aug. 4: The U.P. government serves chargesheet on IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal (suspended on July 27 for ordering the demolition of the wall of an under-construction mosque at Kadalpur village).
Aug. 5: The National Green Tribunal orders a nationwide stay on sand mining on river beds without Environment Ministry clearance.
Aug. 7: The historical bill to replace the National Food Security Bill Ordinance, 2013 is introduced in the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 10: The compact pressurised water reactor on board India’s nuclear-powered submarine, Arihant, achieves criticality capping 25 years of indigenous efforts.
Aug. 12: INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier is launched at Cochin Shipyard Limited.
The Manmohan Singh government introduces the Right to Information (Amendment Bill), 2013 in the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 13: The Rajya Saha passes the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012.
Aug. 14: The Navy’s kilo-class submarine INS Sindhurakshak sinks after twin explosions at the Mumbai naval dockyard, a day earlier. Eighteen sailors are killed.
The Supreme Court confirms the death penalty to Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar.
Aug. 26: The Lok Sabha passes the National Food Security Bill, 2013 after a six-hour long debate.
Aug. 29: Yasin Bhatkal, a key plotter in several blasts and co-founder of the banned Indian Mujahideen and his close associate Asadullah Akhtar are arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar’s Raxaul town.
The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill is passed by the Lok Sabha.
Aug. 31: Juvenile gets three years jail term in the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case.
Sept. 2: The Rajya Sabha approves by voice vote the National Food Security Bill.
Sept. 4: Raghuram Rajan takes over as the 23{+r}{+d}RBI Governor. Duvvuri Subba Rao demits office.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013, is passed by the Rajya Sabha.
The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2011.
Sept. 5: The amended version of the Land Acquisition Bill is cleared by Parliament.
The Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution (120{+t}{+h}Amendment) Bill, 2013 to create a Judicial Appointments Committee.
Deepak Sandhu becomes the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the nation.
Sept. 6: The Lok Sabha gives nod for the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2012.
The Lok Sabha passes The Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013 dealing with those in lawful custody but not convicted. The RS had given its nod on August 27.
The Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, 2013 is presented to western music director Zubin Mehta by the President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.
Sept. 12: President Pranab Mukherjee presents the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2012 to his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Sept. 22: The suspended U.P. IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal is reinstated.
Sept. 26: The Department of Posts launches a separate PIN Code —110201— for the Supreme Court of India.
Sept. 27: The Supreme Court holds that a voter can exercise the option of negative voting and reject candidates as unworthy of being elected.
Oct. 1: The Gujarat Assembly passes for the second time the Gujarat Lokayukta Aayog Bill, 2013.
Oct. 2: The Union Cabinet withdraws the ordinance on convicted lawmakers as well as the Bill that sought to amend the Representation of the People Act on which it was based.
Oct. 3: The Union Cabinet gives approval to a Home Ministry proposal to divide Andhra Pradesh and create Telangana State. Four Union Ministers quit.
The former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav gets five years RI, stands disqualified from Parliament and is banned from polls for 11 years.
India launches JENVAC its first indigenous vaccine to protect children from Japanese encephalitis.
Arundhati Bhattacharya takes over as the SBI Chairperson, thus becoming the first woman to be appointed to the top job.
Oct. 12: The cyclonic storm Phailin crosses the Odisha coast near Gopalpur 20 km from Berhampur in Ganjam district. Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh bears the brunt and seawater enters many villages.
Oct. 31: Eminent agriculture scientist M. S. Swaminathan is honoured with the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award, at a function in New Delhi.
Kannur in Kerala is declared the first zero-landless district in the country.
Nov. 5: The ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C-25) in its silver jubilee mission puts the 1,350 kg Mars Orbiter precisely on to its earth-orbit 44 minutes after blasting off from Sriharikota.
Nov. 6: The Gauhati High Court quashes the Union Home Ministry resolution of 1963 on the basis of which the CBI was constituted.
Nov. 9: The Supreme Court stays the Gauhati High Court verdict on CBI formation.
Nov. 16: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and top scientist C.N.R. Rao are named for Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.
Nov.19: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates Bharatiya Mahila Bank, the first all women commercial bank in Mumbai.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2013.
Nov. 22: Cyclone ‘Helen’ leaves four persons dead and destroys paddy on one lakh acres while crossing the coast close to south of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Nov. 25: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad holds dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar guilty of the murder on May 16, 2008 of their daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic worker, Hemraj at their home in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Nov. 26: A CBI special court in Ghaziabad awards lifer to Nupur and Rajesh Talwar.
Nov. 30: Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of Tehelka is arrested after a Goa sessions court rejects his anticipatory bail plea.
The Emperor of Japan, Akihito arrives in New Delhi on a six-day state visit.
East Timor’s first feature film A Guerra da Beatriz (Beatriz’s War) bags the Golden Peacock award at the 44{+t}{+h}IIFA in Goa.
Mars Orbiter begins its 300-day 680-million km voyage to the Red Planet after being put into a sun-centric orbit.
Dec. 2: The ISRO’s Mars Orbiter becomes the farthest object sent into space by India.
Dec. 3: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates the 8{+t}{+h}Asia Gas Partnership Summit in New Delhi during which he dedicates to the nation the GAIL India Ltd.’s 1,000 km-long Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline.
Dec. 5: The Union Cabinet approves the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 for the creation of a Telangana State with 10 districts, paving the way for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Dec. 11: The Supreme Court sets aside the July 2, 2009 Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising gay sex.
he IAF’s workhorse, MiG-21 bows out, at a function in Kalaikunda air base, West Bengal.
The Union Cabinet approves the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill.
Dec. 16: The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2013 to bifurcate the State is introduced in both Houses of the Legislature.
The Union Cabinet gives nod to the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill.
Dec. 17: The Rajya Sabha passes by voice vote the historic Lokpal Bill.
Dec. 18: The Lok Sabha passes the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2013.
Novelists Mridula Garg (Hindi) and R. N. Joe D’ Cruz (Tamil), poet Javed Akhtar among winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2013.
Dec. 19: Sushma Singh is sworn in Chief Information Commissioner by the President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan
Dec. 20: The report of the Adarsh Commission of Inquiry tabled in the State Assembly indicts four former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra. Cabinet rejects report.
The indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas gets initial clearance for joining IAF, 30 years after the project was sanctioned.
Dec. 27: The final Ecologically Sensitive Area notification on Western Ghats is put on hold.
Dec. 28: Arvind Kejriwal is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. Six Cabinet colleagues too assume office.
Dec. 30: The U.K.-based Tesco Plc. first global retailer to get FIPB nod to enter domestic multi-brand retail sector.
The Army chief General Bikram Singh takes over as the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in New Delhi.
Dec. 31: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha takes over as the 24th Chief Of The Air Staff from Air Chief Marshal N. A. K. Browne at Vayu Bhawan in New Delhi.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-editorialfeatures/diary-of-events-national-january-to-dec-21-full/article5550500.ece
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