Jan. 2: U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012”, fiscal cliff bill.
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl shot by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls’ education is selected for Ireland’s Tipperary International Peace Prize for 2012.
Amerish B. ‘Ami’ Bera, an Indian-American and Tulsi Gabbard, the first ever Hindu elected to the U.S. House of Representatives create history as they are sworn in as members of the 113{+t}{+h}Congress.
Jan. 11: The Sri Lankan Parliament impeaches Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.
Jan. 13: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismisses Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.
Jan. 15: Sri Lanka’s former Attorney-General Mohan Peiris is appointed the Chief Justice following Parliament nod
Jan. 21: Political “absolutism” must not thwart change and renewal, says Barack Obama after being sworn in publicly as the 44{+t}{+h}U.S. President in Washington.
Jan. 24: Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley is sentenced to 35 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release by a U.S. Court for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
India and Bangladesh sign two landmark pacts to extradite criminals and liberalise the visa regime, in Dhaka.
Israel boycotts the U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva becoming the first country to do so.
Feb. 1: U.S. President Barack Obama honours NRI scientist Rangaswamy Srinivasan with the 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation for his groundbreaking work with laser, at the White House in Washington.
Feb. 11: Pop Benedict XVII announces at a historic speech at the Vatican, that he has decided to resign, the first Pope to do so in 600 years.
Feb. 13: American Airlines and U.S. Airways agree to merge in a $11 billion deal that will create the world’s biggest airline.
Feb. 17: Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer bags the Golden Bear for his dramatic film Child’s Pose as the 63{+r}{+d}Berlin International Film Festival wraps up. Nazif Mujic bags the Silver Bear Best Actor Prize ( An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker ). Chile’s Paulina Garcia is adjudged Best Actress for Gloria .
Ben Affleck’s Argo picks up the Best Picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Britain’s Daniel Day-Lewis bags the Best Actor Award ( Lincoln ). Jennifer Lawrence gets Best Actress title for role in Silver Linings Playbook .
Feb. 25: Park Geun hye is sworn in as South Korea’s first woman President.
March 6 : Venezuela’s charismatic President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias (58) dies at a hospital in Caracas after a two-year battle with cancer ending 14 years of tumultuous rule. Seven days mourning announced.
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected Myanmar opposition leader at the first National League for Democracy party conference in Yangon.
March 13 : Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76) of Argentina is elected the 266{+t}{+h}Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He is to be known as Pope Francis I. He is the first Jesuit to become Pope.
March 14 : Xi Jinping is formally appointed Chinese President during the fourth plenary meeting of the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
Nepal’s Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi is sworn in interim Prime Minister.
March 15 : Li Keqiang is appointed Chinese Premier, bringing to an end the decade-long term of Wen Jiabao.
U.R. Rao, who led India’s space programme between 1984 and 1994 becomes the first Indian to be inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame, Washington.
Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne is chosen for the 2013 Abel Prize for his seminal contributions to algebraic geometry.
India along with 25 other nations votes in favour of the U.S.-sponsored resolution on the Sri Lankan issue at the UNHRC in Geneva.
March 27 : The fifth BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa decides to set up an infrastructure-oriented development bank and to create a $100 billion fund to guard against currency fluctuation. Virtual secretariat planned.
North Korea severs its military hotline with South Korea.
April 2 : The U.N. makes history with the General Assembly passing an unprecedented arms trade treaty to better regulate the international trade in weapons.
April 12: Bitcoin, the Internet – era currency crashes.
April 17: Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang achieves breakthrough in solving the longstanding problem of twin prime conjecture.
Nicolas Maduro is sworn in Venezuela President.
April 22 : The Serbian Government approves a landmark pact to normalise ties with breakaway Kosovo.
April 25: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is arrested in the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
May 2 : Sarabjit Singh dies of injuries sustained in an attack at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. Judicial probe ordered.
May 6: Najib Razak is sworn in Malaysia’s Prime Minister for a second term at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur.
May 12: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield records the first video from space on board the International Space Station.
May 18: The French President Francois Hollande signs the Marriage For All bill allowing same-sex marriage and adoption of children by homosexual couples.
May 22: American writer Lydia Davis, wins the £ 60,000 Man Booker International Prize.
May 26: An audacious lesbian love story, Blue is the Warmest Colour by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix goes to Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis .
May 29: India and Japan sign a joint statement on speeding up talks on civil nuclear deal after summit-level talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Shinzo Abe, in Tokyo.
May 30: India and Thailand sign an Extradition Treaty, after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok.
June 3: More than 60 countries sign the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations.
June 11: China launches its fifth manned space mission with three astronauts, including Wang Yaping the second woman astronaut on board Shenzhou-10 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Centre in northwest Gansu province.
June 17: Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth “Sri” Srinivasan in sworn in as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
June 27: Kevin Rudd is sworn in Australian Prime Minister.
July 1: Croatia becomes the 28{+t}{+h}member of the European Union.
An Ariane5 rocket lifts off at the French and European spaceport Guyana Space Centre , near Kourou in French Guiana carrying two satellites: Alphasat and Insat 3D, India’s advanced weather satellite.
July 30: Mamnoon Hussain is elected Pakistan’s 12{+t}{+h}President.
Bradley Manning, the U.S. whistleblower behind WikiLeaks’ publication of confidential cables, is convicted on charges relating to espionage and treason, but the military court in Fort Meade holds him not guilty of aiding the enemy.
Aug. 1: U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted Russian asylum after spending 40 days in limbo in the transit zone of a Moscow airport.
Aug. 3: Robert Gabriel Mugabe is re-elected President of Zimbabwe extending a 33-year reign at the helm of the nation.
Aug. 4: Japan launches Kirobo, a small humanoid communication robot aboard a cargo-carrying rocket loaded with supplies for the ISS crew.
Hassan Rouhani is sworn in Iran’s President at a function in Tehran amid a galaxy of world leaders.
Aug. 5: The Washington Post is sold for $250 million to Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bezos.
Aug. 6: Japan unveils “Izumo”, its biggest warship since World War II.
Aug. 22: Robert Mugabe is sworn in Zimbabwe’s President for another five-year term, in Harare.
The trial of former Politburo member Bo Xilai for ‘bribery and abuse of power’ opens at the Jinan Intermediate People’s Court, China.
Aug. 30: The 2,650 kg GSAT-7, India’s first full-fledged military communications satellite, is launched from the Kourou spaceport of French Guiana in South America.
Sept. 4: Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose book Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife) about her escape from the Taliban in 1995 was made into Bollywood film Escape from Taliban , is shot dead by militants at her home in Paktika province in Afghanistan.
Sept. 5: The BRICS group moves towards creating a $100-billion Currency Reserve Fund by announcing individual contribution, on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg.
Sept. 15: Miss New York Nina Davuluri is crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the process becoming the first winner of Indian descent.
Former politburo member Bo Xilai is sentenced to life by a provincial court in Jinan, China after finding him guilty of all charges.
Sept. 27: Indian American Sri Srinivasan is sworn in judge of the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit.
India and the U.S. have resolved to cut through American laws that have been inhibiting a full-fledged defence partnership, says a joint declaration issued after the Obama-Manmohan Singh meeting in Washington.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a landmark resolution ordering the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons and condemns the poison gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21.
Sept. 28: The Philippines’ Megan Young is crowned Miss World 2013 at the 63{+r}{+d}Miss World pageant in Bali, Indonesia.
Oct. 7: The 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to three scientists James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic,” a major transport system in our cells.”
Oct. 10: Alice Munro, acclaimed for her finely tuned storytelling wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to win the prize.
Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, is awarded the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize.
Oct. 11: The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013.
Oct. 14: The 2013 Economics Nobel Prize is awarded to three Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller, for their “empirical analysis of asset prices.”
New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins the Man Booker prize 2013 for her 852-page novel, The Luminaries .
Oct. 23: India and China sign nine pacts, including the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Li Keqiang in Beijing.
India-Bangladesh Extradition Treaty comes into effect.
Nov. 8: Super typhoon Haiyan devastates Philippines leaving 10,000 dead and decimating towns, in the country’s worst recorded natural disaster.
Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is inducted into the Indian Navy at the Sevmash Shipyard in Russia, bringing down the curtains on a 13-year saga of reconstruction.
Frederick Sanger (95), the “father of genomics’’ and the only person to win the Chemistry Nobel twice (in 1958 and 1980) dies at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, eastern England.
China announces setting up of an Air Defence Identification Zone over parts of the disputed East China Sea.
Nov. 24: Iran strikes a historic nuclear pact with the U.S. and five other world powers at Geneva.
Dec. 1: China launches its first-ever moon rover mission with a Chang’e-3 rocket blasting off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Jade Rabbit.
Dec. 5: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (95), anti-apartheid icon and former South Africa President passes away at his Johannesburg home.
Dec. 7: The ninth WTO Ministerial meeting adopts the full Bali package that addresses the Doha Development Agenda.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is chosen The Guardian’s “Person of Year” 2013.
Dec. 10: Uruguay’s Senate passes a law allowing the citizens to grow, sell and smoke marijuana.
A British Court sentences three Sikh men and a woman convicted of carrying out an attack on Lt. Gen. (Retd.) K.S. Brar for his role as Commander of the 1984 Operation Blue Star in Punjab, to 10-14 years in prison.
Dec. 11: Time magazine names Pope Francis its 2013 Person of the Year.
India’s Deputy Counsul-General in New York, Devyani Khobragade is arrested and handcuffed after being charged with visa fraud. Released after executing a $250,000 bond.
The Hague-based International Court of Arbitration allows India to go ahead with construction of the 330-MW Kishenganga hydro-electric project in North Kashmir, rejecting Pakistan’s objections.
Dec. 29: Seventeen persons are killed and 40 injured in a suicide bomb attack at a railway station in Volgograd, Russia.
Dec. 31: Maragarita Simonyan is appointed chief editor of Russia Today, the new state media behemoth.
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl shot by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls’ education is selected for Ireland’s Tipperary International Peace Prize for 2012.
Amerish B. ‘Ami’ Bera, an Indian-American and Tulsi Gabbard, the first ever Hindu elected to the U.S. House of Representatives create history as they are sworn in as members of the 113{+t}{+h}Congress.
Jan. 11: The Sri Lankan Parliament impeaches Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.
Jan. 13: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismisses Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.
Jan. 15: Sri Lanka’s former Attorney-General Mohan Peiris is appointed the Chief Justice following Parliament nod
Jan. 21: Political “absolutism” must not thwart change and renewal, says Barack Obama after being sworn in publicly as the 44{+t}{+h}U.S. President in Washington.
Jan. 24: Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley is sentenced to 35 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release by a U.S. Court for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
India and Bangladesh sign two landmark pacts to extradite criminals and liberalise the visa regime, in Dhaka.
Israel boycotts the U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva becoming the first country to do so.
Feb. 1: U.S. President Barack Obama honours NRI scientist Rangaswamy Srinivasan with the 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation for his groundbreaking work with laser, at the White House in Washington.
Feb. 11: Pop Benedict XVII announces at a historic speech at the Vatican, that he has decided to resign, the first Pope to do so in 600 years.
Feb. 13: American Airlines and U.S. Airways agree to merge in a $11 billion deal that will create the world’s biggest airline.
Feb. 17: Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer bags the Golden Bear for his dramatic film Child’s Pose as the 63{+r}{+d}Berlin International Film Festival wraps up. Nazif Mujic bags the Silver Bear Best Actor Prize ( An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker ). Chile’s Paulina Garcia is adjudged Best Actress for Gloria .
Ben Affleck’s Argo picks up the Best Picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Britain’s Daniel Day-Lewis bags the Best Actor Award ( Lincoln ). Jennifer Lawrence gets Best Actress title for role in Silver Linings Playbook .
Feb. 25: Park Geun hye is sworn in as South Korea’s first woman President.
March 6 : Venezuela’s charismatic President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias (58) dies at a hospital in Caracas after a two-year battle with cancer ending 14 years of tumultuous rule. Seven days mourning announced.
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected Myanmar opposition leader at the first National League for Democracy party conference in Yangon.
March 13 : Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76) of Argentina is elected the 266{+t}{+h}Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He is to be known as Pope Francis I. He is the first Jesuit to become Pope.
March 14 : Xi Jinping is formally appointed Chinese President during the fourth plenary meeting of the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
Nepal’s Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi is sworn in interim Prime Minister.
March 15 : Li Keqiang is appointed Chinese Premier, bringing to an end the decade-long term of Wen Jiabao.
U.R. Rao, who led India’s space programme between 1984 and 1994 becomes the first Indian to be inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame, Washington.
Belgian mathematician Pierre Deligne is chosen for the 2013 Abel Prize for his seminal contributions to algebraic geometry.
India along with 25 other nations votes in favour of the U.S.-sponsored resolution on the Sri Lankan issue at the UNHRC in Geneva.
March 27 : The fifth BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa decides to set up an infrastructure-oriented development bank and to create a $100 billion fund to guard against currency fluctuation. Virtual secretariat planned.
North Korea severs its military hotline with South Korea.
April 2 : The U.N. makes history with the General Assembly passing an unprecedented arms trade treaty to better regulate the international trade in weapons.
April 12: Bitcoin, the Internet – era currency crashes.
April 17: Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang achieves breakthrough in solving the longstanding problem of twin prime conjecture.
Nicolas Maduro is sworn in Venezuela President.
April 22 : The Serbian Government approves a landmark pact to normalise ties with breakaway Kosovo.
April 25: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is arrested in the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
May 2 : Sarabjit Singh dies of injuries sustained in an attack at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. Judicial probe ordered.
May 6: Najib Razak is sworn in Malaysia’s Prime Minister for a second term at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur.
May 12: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield records the first video from space on board the International Space Station.
May 18: The French President Francois Hollande signs the Marriage For All bill allowing same-sex marriage and adoption of children by homosexual couples.
May 22: American writer Lydia Davis, wins the £ 60,000 Man Booker International Prize.
May 26: An audacious lesbian love story, Blue is the Warmest Colour by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix goes to Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis .
May 29: India and Japan sign a joint statement on speeding up talks on civil nuclear deal after summit-level talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Shinzo Abe, in Tokyo.
May 30: India and Thailand sign an Extradition Treaty, after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok.
June 3: More than 60 countries sign the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations.
June 11: China launches its fifth manned space mission with three astronauts, including Wang Yaping the second woman astronaut on board Shenzhou-10 spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Centre in northwest Gansu province.
June 17: Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth “Sri” Srinivasan in sworn in as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
June 27: Kevin Rudd is sworn in Australian Prime Minister.
July 1: Croatia becomes the 28{+t}{+h}member of the European Union.
An Ariane5 rocket lifts off at the French and European spaceport Guyana Space Centre , near Kourou in French Guiana carrying two satellites: Alphasat and Insat 3D, India’s advanced weather satellite.
July 30: Mamnoon Hussain is elected Pakistan’s 12{+t}{+h}President.
Bradley Manning, the U.S. whistleblower behind WikiLeaks’ publication of confidential cables, is convicted on charges relating to espionage and treason, but the military court in Fort Meade holds him not guilty of aiding the enemy.
Aug. 1: U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted Russian asylum after spending 40 days in limbo in the transit zone of a Moscow airport.
Aug. 3: Robert Gabriel Mugabe is re-elected President of Zimbabwe extending a 33-year reign at the helm of the nation.
Aug. 4: Japan launches Kirobo, a small humanoid communication robot aboard a cargo-carrying rocket loaded with supplies for the ISS crew.
Hassan Rouhani is sworn in Iran’s President at a function in Tehran amid a galaxy of world leaders.
Aug. 5: The Washington Post is sold for $250 million to Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bezos.
Aug. 6: Japan unveils “Izumo”, its biggest warship since World War II.
Aug. 22: Robert Mugabe is sworn in Zimbabwe’s President for another five-year term, in Harare.
The trial of former Politburo member Bo Xilai for ‘bribery and abuse of power’ opens at the Jinan Intermediate People’s Court, China.
Aug. 30: The 2,650 kg GSAT-7, India’s first full-fledged military communications satellite, is launched from the Kourou spaceport of French Guiana in South America.
Sept. 4: Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, whose book Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife) about her escape from the Taliban in 1995 was made into Bollywood film Escape from Taliban , is shot dead by militants at her home in Paktika province in Afghanistan.
Sept. 5: The BRICS group moves towards creating a $100-billion Currency Reserve Fund by announcing individual contribution, on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg.
Sept. 15: Miss New York Nina Davuluri is crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the process becoming the first winner of Indian descent.
Former politburo member Bo Xilai is sentenced to life by a provincial court in Jinan, China after finding him guilty of all charges.
Sept. 27: Indian American Sri Srinivasan is sworn in judge of the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit.
India and the U.S. have resolved to cut through American laws that have been inhibiting a full-fledged defence partnership, says a joint declaration issued after the Obama-Manmohan Singh meeting in Washington.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a landmark resolution ordering the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons and condemns the poison gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21.
Sept. 28: The Philippines’ Megan Young is crowned Miss World 2013 at the 63{+r}{+d}Miss World pageant in Bali, Indonesia.
Oct. 7: The 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to three scientists James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic,” a major transport system in our cells.”
Oct. 10: Alice Munro, acclaimed for her finely tuned storytelling wins the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Canadian woman to win the prize.
Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, is awarded the European Union’s Sakharov human rights prize.
Oct. 11: The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013.
Oct. 14: The 2013 Economics Nobel Prize is awarded to three Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller, for their “empirical analysis of asset prices.”
New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton wins the Man Booker prize 2013 for her 852-page novel, The Luminaries .
Oct. 23: India and China sign nine pacts, including the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement after talks between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Li Keqiang in Beijing.
India-Bangladesh Extradition Treaty comes into effect.
Nov. 8: Super typhoon Haiyan devastates Philippines leaving 10,000 dead and decimating towns, in the country’s worst recorded natural disaster.
Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is inducted into the Indian Navy at the Sevmash Shipyard in Russia, bringing down the curtains on a 13-year saga of reconstruction.
Frederick Sanger (95), the “father of genomics’’ and the only person to win the Chemistry Nobel twice (in 1958 and 1980) dies at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, eastern England.
China announces setting up of an Air Defence Identification Zone over parts of the disputed East China Sea.
Nov. 24: Iran strikes a historic nuclear pact with the U.S. and five other world powers at Geneva.
Dec. 1: China launches its first-ever moon rover mission with a Chang’e-3 rocket blasting off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Jade Rabbit.
Dec. 5: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (95), anti-apartheid icon and former South Africa President passes away at his Johannesburg home.
Dec. 7: The ninth WTO Ministerial meeting adopts the full Bali package that addresses the Doha Development Agenda.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is chosen The Guardian’s “Person of Year” 2013.
Dec. 10: Uruguay’s Senate passes a law allowing the citizens to grow, sell and smoke marijuana.
A British Court sentences three Sikh men and a woman convicted of carrying out an attack on Lt. Gen. (Retd.) K.S. Brar for his role as Commander of the 1984 Operation Blue Star in Punjab, to 10-14 years in prison.
Dec. 11: Time magazine names Pope Francis its 2013 Person of the Year.
India’s Deputy Counsul-General in New York, Devyani Khobragade is arrested and handcuffed after being charged with visa fraud. Released after executing a $250,000 bond.
The Hague-based International Court of Arbitration allows India to go ahead with construction of the 330-MW Kishenganga hydro-electric project in North Kashmir, rejecting Pakistan’s objections.
Dec. 29: Seventeen persons are killed and 40 injured in a suicide bomb attack at a railway station in Volgograd, Russia.
Dec. 31: Maragarita Simonyan is appointed chief editor of Russia Today, the new state media behemoth.
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