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87,765 crore to boost rural Court quashes the death sentence NATIONAL development. awarded to Mirza Himayat Baig, the Former CJI H.L. Dattu takes over lone convict in the February 13, JANUARY as the National Human Rights 2010, blast at the German Bakery Commission chairperson. restaurant in Pune’s Koregaon Park Jan. 1: rolls out odd-even MARCH that killed 17 and injured 58. Life car scheme. sentence for possession of Jan. 2: Six defence personnel are March 1: Martin Prakkatt’s explosives confirmed. killed and 18 injured after a group of Charlie bags eight awards at the March 19: A Delhi court grants terrorists storms the Pathankot Air Kerala Film Awards. Dulqer bail to S.A.R. Geelani, former Delhi Force base in Punjab. Four Salmaan wins Best Actor honours University lecturer arrested on terrorists killed after 16-hour fire for Charlie and Parvathy Best sedition charges. fight. Female Actor (Charlie and Ennu March 22: Violent protests rock Jan. 3: National Security Guard Ninte Moideen ). the University of Hyderabad officer Lt. Col. Niranjan Kumar dies March 6: The Justice Vishnu campus at Gachibowli as Professor and five others are injured while Sahai Commission absolves the SP P. Appa Rao assumes duty as Vice- trying to defuse an explosive Government in U.P. of direct Chancellor. attached to a terrorist’s body. responsibility for the 2013 March 27: President’s rule is Jan. 7: Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffarnagar riots that left 60 imposed in Uttarakhand a day Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Air crew in New Delhi getting ready for the “world’s longest” dead and 60,000 homeless. before the confidence vote. Sayeed (79) passes away in New all-women non-stop flight to San Francisco. Air India operates “world’s March 28: The Telecom Delhi of multiple organ failure. longest” all-women non-stop flight Commission gives nod for ‘112’ to be Jan. 11: The Supreme Court recipients. person is killed in police firing after from New Delhi to San Francisco single number for all emergencies. stays a notification issued by the Jan. 30: Chief a stir demanding quota for Jats covering around 14,500 km in close March 29: The Uttarakhand Centre allowing jallikattu. Minister, Jayalalithaa inaugurates turns violent in Haryana. to 17 hours. High Court orders floor test and Jan. 14: The Supreme Court ‘Greater Corporation’ President’s rule lifted and Malayalam actor Kalabhavan allows nine disqualified MLAs to backs the odd-even car formula in comprising 42 additional local dissident Congress leader Kalikho Mani dies at a hospital in Kochi. vote separately. Delhi. bodies in Kancheepuram and Pul is sworn in March 7: Harsha Chawda-Shah, The Haryana Assembly passes the Jan. 16: Prime Minister districts. Chief Minister. India’s first test tube baby gives Haryana Backward Classes unveils the “Start- FEBRUARY Feb. 20: Four more persons are birth to a son at the Jaslok Hospital (Reservation in Services and up India, Stand-up India” action killed in police firing as stir by Jats in Mumbai. Admission in Educational plan in New Delhi. Feb. 2: The Supreme Court in Haryana intensifies. March 8: Union Finance Institutions) Bill, 2016. Easterine Kire, poet, novelist and refers eight curative petitions The 14th Tamil Nadu Assembly Minister announces Pakistan’s five member Joint children’s writer from Nagaland is against Section 377 of IPC, passes bills amending Municipal the withdrawal of the budget Investigation Team visits the presented The Hindu Prize, 2015, criminalising consensual sexual acts and Panchayat laws to raise the proposal on taxing EPF. Pathankot airbase. for her novel When The River among LGBT adults in private, to a quota for women from 33 to 50 per March 9: The Lok Sabha passes March 30: A Division Bench of Sleeps at the Lit for Life festival in five-judge Constitution Bench. cent in local bodies. The Enemy Property (Amendment the High Court in Nainital stays the Chennai. Feb. 3: Nine soldiers of the 19 Feb. 22: Three persons are killed and Validation) Bill, 2016 amending floor test in Uttarakhand Assembly. Jan. 17: Rohith Vemula (26), a Madras Regiment, four from Tamil in police firing in Sonipat district in the Enemy Property Act, 1968. The Bihar Assembly unanimously research scholar of the University of Nadu, are buried alive under snow Haryana, taking the toll to 16 as Jats March 10: The Rajya Sabha passes the new Bihar Excise Hyderabad, commits suicide on the after their camp, at a height of continue stir. passes a landmark Real Estate Bill. (Amendment) Bill, 2016 banning campus. 19,600 feet in the northern parts of Feb. 25: The Railway Budget The ISRO successfully puts into sale and consumption of country- Jan. 20: The ISRO launches Siachen glacier, is hit by an leaves passenger fares untouched. orbit India’s sixth dedicated made liquor across the State. IRNSS-1E, the fifth of the seven- avalanche. Offers bouquet of services like navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1F March 31: Twentysix persons satellite Indian Regional Navigation Feb. 8: Lashkar operative David cuisine of choice and optional from the Space are killed and 88 injured as two Satellite Sysem into space from Coleman Headley names Jamaat- insurance at the time of booking, to Centre, Sriharikota. sections of the under-construction Sriharikota, . ud-Dawa chief and 26/11 woo travellers. March 11: Kakrapar nuclear 2.2 km-long Vivekananda Flyover Jan. 25: India and France sign 14 mastermind Hafiz Saeed as the head Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt plant in is shut down collapses in a congested market area pacts, including an MoU for of the Lashkar-e-Taiba during his leaves Yerwada prison in Pune eight indefinitely following a rupture in in Burrabazar, north Kolkata. purchase of Rafale fighter jets. deposition before a special court in months before completing a five- the coolant system of one of the APRIL Danseuse Yamini Mumbai, via videoconferencing year sentence for his role in the reactors. Krishnamurthy, Dr. V. Shanta, from the U.S. 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. The Supreme Court commutes to April 4 : The Centre orders the former J&K Governor , Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Feb. 27: The West Bengal life the death penalty of three formation of a special agency to Sri Sri Shankar and Dhirubhai Koppad is found alive under 35 feet Assembly passes Dunlop India convicts in the February 2, 2000 probe Indians who figure in the Ambani (posthumous) prominent of snow in the Siachen glacier. Limited (Acquisition and Transfer Dharmapuri bus burning case in ‘Panama Papers.’ among awardees. Feb. 11: Lance Naik of Undertaking) Bill, 2016. which three TNAU students were West Bengal records 81 per cent Actor , Hanamanthappa Koppad dies at the Hasnain Warekar kills 14 killed. voter turnout and Assam 78 per cent sportspersons Saina Nehwal Research and Referral Hospital, members of his family after a The Lok Sabha clears the Aadhaar in the first phase of Assembly polls. (badminton), Sania Mirza (tennis), New Delhi. ‘daavat’ at his house in (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Peoples Democratic Party leader Robert Blackwill of the U.S. (Public Feb. 12: A Delhi court remands Kasarvadavali in Thane and hangs other Subsidies, Benefits and Mehbooba Mufti is sworn in Jammu Affairs) Jha and Indu University himself. Services) Bill, 2016 as a money bill. and Kashmir’s first woman Chief Jain among 10 Students Union president Kanhaiya Feb. 28: Prime Minister March 14: The Punjab Assembly Minister. awardees. Kumar to three days police custody Narendra Modi gives nod for the passes The Punjab Sutlej Yamuna April 5 : Gatimaan Express, the , Priyanka Chopra, S.S. after charging him with sedition. setting up of the Bank Board Bureau Link Canal (Rehabilitation and fastest train in the country, is Rajamouli, , Dr. Feb. 15: K. Prithika Yashini is all with former CAG Vinod Rai as its Re-vesting of Proprietary Rights) launched at a function in New Delhi. Mylswamy Annadurai, Piyush set to take over as the nation’s first first chairman. Bill, 2016, to denotify land acquired Prime Minister Narendra Modi Pandey, Dilip Sanghvi, Dr. transgender sub-inspector of police Feb. 29: Finance Minister Arun to build the SYL canal in Punjab. unveils the ‘Stand-up India’ scheme Chandrasekar S. Thoguluva, Ujjwal following receipt of the Jaitley dedicates Union Budget to March 16: Parliament passes the at a function in Noida. Nikam, (posthumous) appointment order. farmers, the poor and vulnerable Aadhaar Bill, 2016. April 6 : A special POTA court in prominent among 83 Feb. 19: Army called in as one sections of society. Allocates Rs. March 17: The Bombay High Mumbai awards lifer to three of the THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 3

10 convicted in the triple blasts of Development Minister Venkaiah country, the Juvenile Justice Board 2002-2003. Naidu flags off the trial run of the rules that a minor accused of killing April 8: The Shani Shingnapur country’s first driverless metro train a business consultant in New Delhi temple in Maharashtra lifts the 400- at Mukundpur in New Delhi. on April 4 while driving a Mercedes year-old ban on the entry of women May 18: The Apple CEO Tim car will be tried as an adult. into the sanctum sanctorum . Cook announces a $1 billion June 6: Congress leader V. April 10 : Over 109 persons are investment in taxi hailing company, Narayanasamy is sworn in killed and 1,090 injured after a Didi Chuxing in Mumbai. Puducherry Chief Minister. fireworks show held despite a ban at May 19: The AIADMK emerges June 7: The Supreme Court the Puttingal Devi Temple at victorious in Tamil Nadu polls reserves verdict in the Paravur in Kerala’s Kollam district breaking a pattern that held since disproportionate assets case goes awry. 1989. involving Tamil Nadu Chief April 11: Eightyfive per cent The Trinamool Congress Minister Jayalalithaa on the 20th turnout in the second and final phase trounces the Left Front in West day of the day-to-day arguments. of Assam Assembly polls. Bengal to retain power. June 8: P. Rama Mohana Rao is April 12: The Haryana The Congress is routed in Kerala appointed Tamil Nadu Chief Government decides to rename by the LDF and the BJP bags Assam. Secretary. Gurgaon as Gurugram and its In Puducherry, the Congress-DMK June 10:The CBI arrests neighbouring district Mewat as Nuh. Investigators taking a look at the debris of a collapsed building alliance wins. Virendra Tawde, prime suspect in April 15: The odd-even vehicle after a fireworks display went awry at a temple festival in Paravur May 23: Jayalalithaa is sworn in the August 20, 2013 killing of scheme is back in Delhi. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, in April 17: The Patidar in Kollam district, Kerala. May 24: Sarabananda Sonowal is Navi Mumbai. community’s stir seeking quota and Constellation) after the launch of actor is awarded the sworn in Assam’s first BJP Chief June 12: Jaipur’s Aman Bansal release of Hardik Patel in Gujarat the seventh and final satellite of the 47th Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Minister. tops the JEE (Advanced) for 2016. again turns violent. Indian Regional Navigation Satellite May 5: Eighty five per cent May 25: Pinarayi Vijayan takes June 15: The NDA government Nearly 80 per cent voting in Phase System, the IRNSS 1G from polling is registered in the last phase oath as Kerala Chief Minister at a approves the country’s first II of West Bengal Assembly polls. Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. of West Bengal elections. function at the Central Stadium in National Civil Aviation Policy for April 19: The Centre rejects the April 29: The Gujarat The Lok Sabha approves the Thiruvananthapuram. increasing air connectivity. Tamil Nadu Government’s proposal government announces a 10 per cent Finance Bill 2016. Sensex gains 575.70 points to June 17: Eleven persons are to free seven life-term convicts in quota for the economically May 6: Nepal cancels President’s reach 25,881.17, the highest close sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. backward in the general category. visit and recalls its Ambassador to since December 3, 2015. the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre April 20: The Navy grants A Chennai sessions court acquits India. May 26: The Punjab and case in Gujarat by a special SIT trial permanent commission to seven Kanchi Acharya Jayendra May 9: Over 37,000 files Haryana High Court stays the Court in . Twelve women officers and formalises plans Saraswathi and eight others in the pertaining to India among 2.6 reservation for Jats and five other persons get seven year jail term and to grant it in eight branches from September 20, 2002 auditor terabyte of Panama Papers data communities provided by the one receives a 10-year term. All the 2017. Radhakrishnan assault case. released by the International Haryana government. sentences to run concurrently. Shaktiman, the police horse which April 30: The Supreme Court Consortium of Investigative The Supreme Court allows Italian June 18: Avani Chaturvedi, lost a leg after an attack by BJP MLA says no to diesel-run cabs in the Journalists. marine Salvatore Girone to go Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh Ganesh Joshi on March 14 during a National Capital Region. May 10: Floor test held in home. become Air Force’s first women protest march near the Uttarakhand The fifth phase of the West Bengal Uttarakhand Assembly. May 27: TMC supremo Mamata fighter pilots after receiving “wings Assembly, dies. Assembly polls witnesses nearly 80 Tina Dabi of New Delhi tops the Banerjee is sworn in for a second and brevets” at a graduation parade April 21: Violence mars polling in per cent turnout. UPSC exam in her first attempt. term as West Bengal Chief Minister. at the Air Force Academy in Phase III of West Bengal Assembly MAY Railway officer Athar Amir Ul Shafi May 28: The Election Dundigal, Hyderabad. elections which sees a 79.2 per cent Khan from Jammu and Kashmir Commission scraps elections in June 20: The Modi government turnout. May 1: Prime Minister Narendra gets the second rank. Aravakurichi and Thanjavur in announces “radical liberalisation” The Uttarakhand High Court Modi launches the Pradhan Mantri May 11: .The Supreme Court Tamil Nadu. of the FDI regime and allows 100 quashes the Centre’s order imposing Ujjwala Yojana, which aims at approves the vote of confidence won May 29: The Centre decides to per cent foreign holdings in defence, President’s rule in the State and providing five crore LPG by Harish Rawat in the Uttarakhand cancel all tenders for defence civil aviation and pharmaceutical orders floor test on April 29. connections to women in BPL Assembly. Centre revokes equipment won by Italy’s sectors. Environmentalist R.K. Pachauri households over the next three President’s rule. Finmeccanica. June 22: The ISRO’s PSLV C-34 accused of sexual harassment steps financial years at a cost of Rs.8,000 The Navy’s Sea Harrier jump jets Kiran Bedi is sworn in rocket launches 20 satellites down as a member of the TERI crore, in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh. bid adieu after being in service for Puducherry Lt. Governor. weighing 1,288 kg in total at one go governing council. The Real Estate (Regulation and 33 years. May 31: At least 19 persons, from the Satish Dhawan Space April 22: The Supreme Court Development) Act, 2016 comes into May 13: The Supreme Court including two Army officers are Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra restores President’s rule in force in Tamil Nadu. upholds law criminalising killed in a massive fire at the Army’s Pradesh. Uttarakhand till April 27. May 2: Industrialist Vijay Mallya defamation. Central Ammunition Depot in June 24: S. Swathi, a software April 25: Over 78 per cent of the resigns from Rajya Sabha. The National Investigation Pulgaon town of Maharashtra’s engineer with Infosys is hacked to electorate votes in the fourth phase Three persons are held for the Agency drops all charges against Wardha district. death by a youth while waiting for a of the West Bengal Assembly polls. Uttarakhand forest fires. Fires Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and five Admiral Sunil Lanba assumes train at the April 26: A massive fire at Delhi’s partially damage the 113-year-old others in the September 29, 2008 charge as the 23rd Chief of the Railway Station in Chennai. National Museum of Natural Kalka-Shimla Mountain Railway in Malegaon blasts. Charges against 10 Naval Staff. June 25: Eight CRPF personnel History destroys an entire collection Himachal Pradesh. others, including the key accused Lt. JUNE are killed and 21 injured after an of invaluable flora and fauna. May 3: Bollywood actor Amitabh Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit under attack by militants on the Srinagar- April 27:The Supreme Court Bachchan receives the Best Actor MCOCA goes. June 2: At least 24 persons, Jammu highway in the Pampore extends its stay on the quashing of honour for his role of a May 16: Voters cast ballots in including an SP are killed and 40 area. the Central rule in Uttarakhand. hypochondriac father in Piku, at the Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, injured in clashes during an eviction June 27: India joins the 34- April 28: Prime Minister 63rd National Film Awards (73.76 per cent turnout) Kerala (74 drive in Jawahar Bagh in Mathura, member Missile Technology Narendra Modi names India’s own ceremony in New Delhi. Kangana per cent) and the Union Territory of Uttar Pradesh. Control Regime at a ceremony in navigational system NAVIC Ranaut gets Best Actress award for Puducherry (84.11 per cent). June 4: Invoking the new South Block, New Delhi. (Navigation with Indian Tanu Weds Manu Returns . Veteran May 17: Union Urban juvenile law for the first time in the Mysuru’s young ‘king’ Yaduveer 4 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017

Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar Aug. 3: The Rajya Sabha passes Former Rajya Sabha MP. V.P. Singh marries Trishika Kumari of after a nearly seven-hour debate the Badnore becomes Punjab Governor. Rajasthan’s Dungarpur royal family Constitution Amendment Bill Banwarilal Purohit, a former MP at a glittering ceremony at the Amba paving the way for the Goods & from Nagpur is to be Assam Vilas Palace. Services Tax, by a two-thirds Governor. June 29: The National majority with all parties barring the Aug. 18: The Hindu Playwright Investigation Agency arrests five AIADMK which staged a walkout, Award 2016 is presented to Thomas men and detains six others in voting in support. Manuel for his play Hamlet and Hyderabad after busting an IS Aug. 4: The Delhi High Court Angad, during the launch of the 12th Module. holds that the Lt. Governor is the edition of The Hindu Theatre fest, June 30: Gays, lesbians and “administrative head” of the capital in Chennai. bisexual persons not third gender, and it “continues to be a Union Machhli, the world’s oldest rules the Supreme Court. Territory”. tigress in the wild, dies at the JULY Aug. 5: At least 13 persons are Ranthambhore National Park in killed and over 20 injured after Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur July 1: Swathi’s suspected killer three suspected Bodo militants district. Ramkumar is arrested by police in Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Bangladesh attack Balajan Tiniali market in The Centre announces a ‘special Meenakshipuram, Tirunelveli, Railway Minister Md Mujibul Haque, Tripura Governor Assam’s Kokrajhar district. assistance’ of Rs. 1,976.5 crore for Tamil Nadu. Aug. 7: Vijay Rupani in sworn in residual Andhra Pradesh. Light Combat Aircraft ‘Tejas’, and Chief Minister Manik Sarkar flaging off the as the 16th Chief Minister of Aug. 20:Maharashtra drafts its designed and built in India joins the Agartala-New Delhi express train, in Agartala, Tripura. Gujarat at a function at the Mahama own internal security act — IAF squadron Flying Daggers at a Rajkhowa’s order to advance the from the housing society. Mandir in Gandhinagar. Maharashtra Protection of Internal ceremony in Bengaluru. Assembly session from January 14, July 26: The Lok Sabha passes The Kerala Congress (M) ends its Security Act, the first State to do so. July 5: Prakash Javadekar is 2016 to December 16, 2015. The the Child Labour (Prohibition and 35-year-old relationship with the Aug. 21: Actor is elevated to Cabinet rank and given BJP-propped Kalikho Pul Amendment) Bill, 2016 that allow UDF. chosen for Chevalier Award by the HRD portfolio. Smriti Irani shifted Government shown the door. kids under 14 to work in family Aug. 8: All 443 members present French Government. to Textiles Ministry and Venkaiah takes charge as Chief enterprises. in the Lok Sabha barring the Aug. 22: Tamil writer Perumal Naidu gets I&B in a major reshuffle Minister. July 27: The foundation stone AIADMK, vote in favour of the Murugan is back in the literary of the Union Cabinet. July 15: Dattatrey Phuge, Pune’s for the Kalam memorial is laid at his Constitution 122 nd Amendment circuit with the launch of his The Union Cabinet approves a ‘Golden Man’, who hogged the burial site in Pei Karumbu near Bill, 2014, paving the way for the collection of poems at Teen Murti change in the names of the Madras, limelight in 2013 after donning the Rameswaram in Ramanathapuram. Goods and Services Tax. Library in New Delhi. Bombay and Calcutta High Courts. 3.5 kg shirt made of 22 carat gold, is The Lok Sabha passes the Benami The Mental Health Care Bill, 2013 The Bar Council of India July 6: Andhra Pradesh Chief bludgeoned to death in Pimpri- Transactions (Prohibition) which seeks to decriminalise suicide withdraws suspension of 126 Tamil Minister Chandrababu Naidu Chinchwad township. Amendment Bill, 2015. is passed by the Rajya Sabha. Nadu lawyers who had launched a inaugurates the Pattiseema project July 16: The Congress pulls off a Bezwada Wilson, campaigner Aug. 9: A sum of Rs. 5.78 crore is stir against amendments to the linking the and Godavari success in Arunachal Pradesh by against manual scavenging and looted by thieves who break open Advocates Act. rivers completed in 320 days. naming a new leader . Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna are the roof of a parcel van attached to Aug. 24: India begins probe into July 7: The Maharashtra The Mehbooba Mufti government named for the Ramon Magsaysay the Salem-Chennai Express that the leak of more than 22,000 pages government orders a probe into in Jammu and Kashmir stops cable Award 2016. carried 226 wooden boxes of soiled of secret data detailing capabilities Islamic preacher and televangelist TV services and seizes newspapers. July 29: The Army takes but usable currency totalling Rs. of the Navy’s soon-to-be inducted Zakir Naik’s speeches that were July 17: Pema Khandu takes possession of Adarsh Society 325 crore. Scorpene submarines designed by reported to have inspired some of oath as Arunachal Pradesh Chief building in Colaba, Mumbai. Manipur’s ‘Iron Lady’ Irom French shipbuilder DCNS. the Dhaka attackers. Minister. July 31: Three persons are Sharmila ends her 16-year-fast The Union Cabinet clears the July 8: The Supreme Court ends July 18: Former cricketer Navjot arrested by the U.P. police in the seeking repeal of the AFPSA, in Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 immunity enjoyed by armed forces Singh Sidhu quits as Rajya Sabha gangrape of a mother-daughter duo Imphal. banning commercial surrogacy in in disturbed areas. MP. by dacoits in Bulandshahr on the Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief India. Only childless, straight Hizbul Mujahideen commander July 19: The Lok Sabha passes intervening night of July 29-30. Minister Kalikho Pul allegedly Indian married couples are eligible. Burhan Wani is shot dead in a bills awarding statutory status to Tripura Sundari Express linking commits suicide in Itanagar. Aug. 26: Women can enter the gunfight in Kokernag in Anantnag the NEET from the next academic Agartala and Delhi is flagged off by Aug. 10: Prime Minister sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali district, Jammu & Kashmir. session. States’ quotas to stay. the Union Railway Minister Suresh Narendra Modi, Russian President Dargah in south central Mumbai, The Gujarat High Court grants July 20: Gujarat witnesses Prabhu in Agartala. Foundation Vladimir Putin and Tamil Nadu says the Bombay High Court in a bail to Patel quota stir leader Hardik violent protests and sporadic stone laid for the India-Bangladesh Chief Minister Jayalalithaa dedicate landmark verdict. Patel in two sedition cases. clashes following a bandh called by BG link between Agartala and to the nation the first unit of the Aug. 29: Curfew is lifted in July 9: Eleven persons are killed Dalit groups. Akhaura. Kudankulam Nuclear Power Kashmir after 51 days. and 120, including 96 security The Supreme Court refuses to AUGUST Corporation through India and Myanmar sign MoUs to personnel injured following violent stay the disqualification of nine videoconferencing. build 69 bridges and to upgrade the protests across the Kashmir valley rebel Congress MLAs in Aug. 1: The AIADMK expels Aug. 11: Maharashtra’s ‘doctor Kalewa-Yagyi road section, after over the killing of Burhan Wani. Uttarakhand. Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa. death’ Santosh Pol admits to killing talks between Prime Minister July 10: The second reactor of July 21: Prime Minister The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes six persons, the first murder dating Narendra Modi and President U Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi a resolution urging the Centre to back to 2003, after arrest in Htin Kyaw in New Delhi. in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly rename as High Mumbai. The West Bengal Assembly passes attains criticality. inaugurate the - Court of Tamil Nadu. Aug. 12: The Assam Assembly a resolution changing the name of July 11: Four Dalits are stripped Integrated Checkpost in Kolkata. The Bihar Assembly passes the passes the Constitution the State to Bengal in English and and publicly flogged for skinning a July 22: An IAF aircraft en route amended Excise and Prohibition Amendment Bill on GST, becoming Bangla in Bengali. dead cow in Mota Samadhiyala, a to Port Blair from Chennai with 29 Bill 2016. the first State to ratify the The Monorail project is back after village near Una town of Gir persons on board goes missing over Aug. 2: The Maharashtra Control legislation. the Tamil Nadu government unveils Somnath district, Gujarat by a cow the Bay of Bengal soon after takeoff of Organised Crime Act Court Aug. 16: Bihar Assembly ratifies two planned corridors. vigilante group. from the airbase. sentences 26/11 handler Zabiuddin the GST Bill in a special one-day Aug. 31: The Supreme Court July 13: A Constitution Bench of The Supreme Court asks Centre Ansari alias Abu Jundal and six session. quashes the CIP(M)-led West the Supreme Court quashes to secure the Adarsh apartments others to life term in the 2006 Aug. 17: Najma Heptullah is Bengal government’s acquisition in Arunachal Pradesh Governor J.P. built at Colaba in South Mumbai Aurangabad arms haul case. appointed Manipur Governor. 2006 of 997 acres of farm land for THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 5

Tata Motors’ Nano car plant in decides to suspend talks on the security guard is arrested by Goa Singur. Permanent Indus Commission until police in Bengaluru for the murder Delhi records 63.5 mm rainfall, "terror comes to an end". of perfumer Monika Ghurde. with 53 mm of rain in a span of just The PSLV launches eight Oct. 10: All the portfolios of two hours, throwing normal life out satellites, including weather Tamil Nadu Chief Minister of gear. satellite SCATSAT-1, two satellites Jayalalithaa (in hospital since SEPTEMBER PRATHAM and PISAT from Indian September 22) are reallocated to academic institutions from the Finance Minister O. Sept. 1: The Tamil Nadu Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Panneerselvam. Government earmarks Rs.1.442.71 Sriharikota in AP and places them Oct. 14: The BJP joins the Pema crore to give a fillip to public in two different orbits. Khandu government in Arunachal healthcare schemes. Maternity Sept. 27: India decides to Pradesh. leave for government staff raised to boycott the 19th SAARC summit in Oct. 15: India and Russia sign 16 nine months. November in Islamabad. deals, including one on the Rs. Sept. 2: The one-day nationwide A car set on fire near the Nayandahalli Flyover on Mysore Road Sept. 28: The Supreme Court 39,000 crore S-400 missile systems industrial strike leads to a total during the disturbances on account of the Cauvery row in allows Italian marine Massimiliano to boost air defence after the shutdown in Kerala and Tripura. Latorre to stay on in Italy till a final summit between Prime Minister Elicits a mixed response in other Bengaluru. decision is taken by the Narendra Modi and President parts of the country. especially Bengaluru and Mysuru Minister Pema Khandu join the International Tribunal for the Law Vladimir Putin in Benaulim, Goa. Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao, shut down in response to the State- People’s Party of Arunachal, a part of the Sea on India’s jurisdiction to Oct. 16: The 8th BRICS summit Governor of Maharashtra, assumes wide bandh against the Supreme of the North East Democratic try him and his compatriot in Benaulim, Goa ends with the office as acting Governor of Tamil Court’s order on Cauvery water Alliance, a BJP-led front. Salvatore Girone for the murder of adoption of the Goa Declaration Nadu. release. The dawn-to-dusk State-wide two Kerala fishermen in 2012. which pledges opposition to The National Green Tribunal Sept. 12: Large-scale violence bandh seeking Tamil Nadu’s rightful Sept. 29: The Indian Army terrorism. gives green signal to the Vizhinjam and arson in Bengaluru and parts of share of Cauvery water passes off carries out surgical strikes targeting “The time for condemning the seaport. Karnataka following the Supreme peacefully. eight terrorist "launchpads’’ along state-sponsored terrorism is long Sept. 3: IndiaPost releases a Court’s refusal to freeze its order on The Delhi High Court holds that the LoC in Pakistan-occupied gone. It is time to stand up and act, commemorative postage stamp to Cauvery water release. One killed photocopying of course packs Kashmir and inflicts significant and act decisively,” says Prime celebrate the canonisation of and four injured in police firing. prepared by Delhi University does casualties. Minister Narendra Modi at the first Mother Teresa, at a ceremony in Vehicles bearing TN registration not amount to copyright violation. Sept. 30: The Supreme Court BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach meeting Mumbai. numbers targeted. Sept. 17: India’s latest guided orders former RJD MP Mohd. in Mobor, Goa. Sept. 6: The Karnataka Arunachal Pradesh Governor, J.P. missile destroyer ‘Mormugao’ is Shahabuddin to be sent back to Oct. 17: At least 25 persons are government decides to release Rajkhowa is dismissed by President launched at the Mazagaon Docks in prison, 20 days after he was released killed and 120 injured after a major 15,000 cusecs of Cauvery water a . Mumbai. on bail. fire at the 1,000-bed SUM Hospital day to Tamil Nadu for 10 days as per The Union Cabinet gives nod for Sept. 18: Nineteen soldiers are The High Court sets aside in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. the Supreme Court directive, issued the setting up of the Goods & killed in a pre-dawn attack by four the amended Bihar Prohibition and Thousands are arrested in Tamil a day earlier even as protests rage. Services Tax Council and its terrorists on an Army Excise Bill, 2016. Nadu while taking part in a 48-hour Inter-state bus services suspended. Secretariat. administrative unit near its brigade OCTOBER rail roko agitation called by farmers The RBI Governor Urjit Patel Sept. 13: Seven prominent headquarters in Baramulla district’s and several Opposition parties assumes office. women artistes — vocalists Girija Uri sector in Jammu and Kashmir. Oct. 1: The Government receives urging setting up of the Cauvery Sept. 7: Karnataka begins Devi, , Aruna P. Ramkumar, the lone suspect in bids worth more than Rs. 53,000 Management Board. Cauvery water release to Tamil Sairam and Vishaka Hari; dancers the Swathi murder case commits crore on the first day of the biggest Oct. 18: Rights activist Irom Nadu. Protests and road blocks hit and suicide inside the Central ever auction of the country’s Sharmila launches a new political transport in Mandya district. Vyjayantimala Bali; and Prison in Chennai. telecom spectrum (2,300 MHz party named Peoples Resurgence The CBI files the first chargesheet exponent — are Sept. 20: The Supreme Court worth Rs. 5.6 lakh crore). and Justice Alliance. accusing Virendra Tawade, a presented with the Dr. M.S. directs Karnataka to release 6000 Oct. 2: Nitish Kumar Oct. 19: The Rajasthan High member of the Hindu Janjagruti Subbulakshmi Centenary Awards at cusecs of Cauvery water per day to Government notifies the new Bihar Court orders dissolution of the Samiti of murdering rationalist a function in Mumbai. Tamil Nadu up to September 27. Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 at State OBC Commission. Narendra Dabholkar in Pune on Sept. 14: West Bengal Chief Sept. 21: The Union Cabinet a special Cabinet meeting. Oct. 20: Former Uttar Pradesh August 20, 2013. Minister, Mamata Banerjee hands decides to do away with the 92- Oct. 3: Karnataka starts release Congress president Rita Bahuguna The Centre announces a special over land documents to 9,117 Singur year-old practice of a separate of 6,800 cusecs of Cauvery water for Joshi joins the BJP. package for Andhra Pradesh valid farmers and compensation cheques Railway Budget and to merge it with Tamil Nadu following a unaminous The West Bengal Chief Minister for five years (2015-20) to 806 ryots. The day to be the General Budget. resolution in both the Houses. Mamata Banerjee presides over Fresh violence leaves 60 injured celebrated as Singur Dibas. The Rail’s second The Supreme Court confirms the resumption of farming on the during four massive rallies in Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns from line from Little Mount to Chennai jail term of 25 years without erstwhile Tata Motors site in Singur Kashmir. Life remains hit for the the BJP. airport is inaugurated by Tamil remission to Vikas Yadav for the after a decade. Over 103 acres of 61st day. Anil Ambani-led Reliance Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa. 2002 murder of Nitish Katara, an arable land handed over to 298 Sept. 8: The Delhi High Court Communications signs pact to Sept. 23: India signs €7.87 MBA graduate. farmers. sets aside the AAP government’s merge wireless business with Aircel billion deal with France for the Oct. 4: The Supreme Court puts Oct. 21: The BSF kills seven order appointing 21 MLAs as Ltd., marking the largest-ever purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets, in on hold order to set up the Cauvery Pakistan Rangers personnel in Parliamentary Secretaries since it consolidation in the telecom sector. New Delhi. Management Board. Gives nod for Hiranagar, Jammu after a sniper lacked the LG’s nod. Sept. 15: The Supreme Court Two beach shack workers accused appointing a “technical team”. attack leaves a jawan injured. The GSLV-F05 places in orbit the exonerates Govindachamy of in the rape and murder of British Oct. 6: Renowned perfume The Rajasthan government INSAT-3DR, an advanced weather murder charge in the rape and teenager Scarlet Keeling on specialist Monika Ghurde is found promulgates an ordinance for satellite after lift-off from killing of Soumya near Shoranur in February 18, 2008 at the Anjuna dead at her home in Salgonda in setting up a new OBC Commission. Sriharikota. Kerala on February 1, 2011, but beach in north Goa are acquitted by north Goa. Oct. 22: Two Jaish-e- President Pranab Mukherjee upholds life sentence. the Goa Children’s Court. Oct. 7: The Supreme Court stays Muhammad militants and a gives assent to the Constitution Sep. 16: Congress receives a jolt Sept. 25: Curfew is lifted from all order staying the Pakistani spy are arrested in two Amendment Bill on GST. as 43 of the 44 Congress MLAs in parts of Kashmir after 79 days. State’s prohibition law. separate operations in Jammu and Sept. 9: Most parts of Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, including Chief Sept. 26: The Union government Oct. 9: Rajkumar Singh, a former Kashmir. 6 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017

Oct. 23: INS Viraat, the world’s stations in Kanpur Dehat district, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. oldest aircraft carrier is accorded a Uttar Pradesh. Dec. 9: Former Chief of the IAF grand send-off at Ernakulam Wharf Renowned playback singer S. P. Air Chief Marshal (Retd.) S.P. Tyagi in Kochi. Balasubrahmanyam is conferred the is arrested by the CBI in New Delhi Gurgaon city is officially renamed Centenary Award for Indian Film in the AgustaWestland VVIP Gurugram. Personality of the Year 2016 at the chopper deal. Oct. 24: The Tata Sons board 47th International Film Festival of The Delhi High Court restores for sacks Cyrus Ministry as Chairman. India inaugural in Panaji, Goa. trial whether photocopying study to be interim chairman. Nov. 21: India becomes an material for course packs is a Twentyfour members of the CPI associate member of the Geneva- violation of copyright. (Maoist) are killed in the Bejjangi based European Organisation for Dec. 12: Cyclone Vardah makes forest area near Panusput village in Nuclear Research (CERN) following landfall in Chennai with wind Odisha’s Malkangiri district in a The demonetised high value the signing of an agreement in speeds touching 110 kmph to 120 joint operation by AP and Odisha currency notes. Mumbai. kmph leaving behind a trail of special police forces. Nov. 22: Three soldiers of the destruction. Oct. 26: A special court for CBI Nov. 10: The Supreme Court Rashtriya Rifles unit of 53 Infantry Dec. 14: The Rajya Sabha passes cases in Bengaluru acquits holds Punjab Termination of Water Brigade are killed and one’s body the Rights of Persons with Karnataka BJP president and Agreements Act of 2004 mutilated by Pakistan Army in an Jayalalithaa Disabilities Bill, 2014 with more former Chief Minister B. S. “unconstitutional” and concludes ambush in the Machhil sector of benefits. Yeddyurappa in a graft case. that it was designed illegally to deny north Kashmir’s Kupwara. after three militants launch a Dec. 16: The Supreme Court The Madras High Court quashes water to Haryana and Rajasthan. The AIADMK bags all the three suicide attack on the White Knight orders the setting up of a five-judge the Tamil Nadu Establishment of Nov. 13:The government starts Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu with Corps of Northern Command’s constitution bench to test the Private Law Colleges (Prohibition) issuing new Rs.500 notes. comfortable margins. The Congress strategic 16 Corps, one of the biggest validity of a November 8 Act, 2014 that imposed a blanket ban Two young musicians, Dharini wins the Nellithope byelection. Army formations, located at demonetisation notification. on setting up private colleges in the Veeraraghavan from Mumbai and Nov. 24: The exchange of old Rs. Nagrota, around 20 km from The Lok Sabha passes the Rights State declaring it ultra vires the Tejas Mallela from Hyderabad, are 1000 and Rs. 500 notes at banks and Jammu city. of Persons With Disabilities Bill, Constitution. presented The Hindu Saregama post offices stopped. Lok Sabha passes The Taxation 2014. Oct. 27: Mehmood Akhtar, a M.S. Subbulakshmi Award, 2016 at Koppam Devarajan, CPI (Maoist) Laws (2nd Amendment) Bill 2016 The winter session of Parliament Pakistan High Commission staffer is the Music Academy in Chennai. central committee leader and a which seeks to tax money deposited ends without transacting crucial declared persona non grata a day Nov. 15: The Supreme Court woman naxal are killed in an in bank accounts post business. after being caught receiving defence- refuses to stay notification on encounter at Unakkappara near demonetisation. Dec. 19: An NIA special court in related information from two Indian demonetisation. Padukka in the Nilambur forests in Nov. 30: The Supreme Court Hyderabad awards death penalty for “spies” and asked to leave India. Nov. 16: The Supreme Court Kerala’s Malappuram district. orders all cinema halls to five IM operatives for the 2013 Oct. 31: Eight alleged members of dismisses Tamil Nadu's plea to Nov. 25: The Supreme Court mandatorily play the national Dilsukhnagar twin blasts. the SIMI and undertrial prisoners review its 2014 judgment banning orders a blanket ban on the sale of anthem before every screening and Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar is are shot dead by Madhya Pradesh jallikattu. fire crackers in Delhi and the NCR. all those present have to “stand up appointed the 44th CJI. police near Bhopal, hours after they Nov. 17: PAN card made Nov. 27: Harminder Singh to show respect”. Dec. 21: Income Tax raids are escaped from the city’s central jail mandatory for all new bank Mintoo, chief of the Khalistan DECEMBER held at the residential and office after killing a security guard. accounts, except those opened Liberation Front and five others are premises of the Tamil Nadu Chief NOVEMBER under the Jan Dhan Yojana. freed by at least five armed men Dec. 5: Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary, P. Rama Mohana Rao in Nov. 18: Another Time, the first after storming the high-security Minister Jayalalithaa (68), dies of Chennai. Nov. 1: Eight civilians are killed feature film by Iranian filmmaker Nabha Central Jail near Patiala in heart failure at the Apollo Hospital, The 2016 SASTRA-Ramanujan in firing and shelling by Pakistan Nahid Hassanzadeh wins the best Punjab. 74 days after being admitted there. award for mathematics is jointly Rangers along the International film award at the 22nd Kolkata Nov. 28: Harminder Singh Dec. 6: Former Tamil Nadu awarded to Maksym Radziwill of Border and the LoC in the Jammu International Film Festival. Mintoo is arrested by the Delhi Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa is McGill University, Canada and region. Nov. 19: The NIA launches a Police Special Cell near the Hazrat buried with full state honours on Kaisa Matomaki of University of Nov. 2: Ram Kishen Grewal, a probe into the activities of the Nizamuddin railway station in New the in Chennai. Turku, Finland. retired Army subedar commits Islamic Research Foundation and Delhi. Earlier, O. Panneerselvam is sworn Dec. 22: Girija Vaidyanathan is suicide over OROP plunging the searches office premises in Dongri, Opposition holds protests against in in her place. appointed Tamil Nadu Chief capital into chaos. Mumbai. demonetisation across the country. Dec. 7: .The ISRO launches Secretary. Nov. 6: An emergency meeting of Three Army jawans are killed and Nov. 29: Seven Army personnel, RESOURCESAT-2A, a 1,235 kg The Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb the Delhi Cabinet decides to shut four injured in an ambush by the including two officers are killed remote sensing satellite from Jung resigns. down schools for three days as air ULFA and the NSCN-K at Pengeri Dec. 26: The Centre releases Rs. pollution levels remain alarmingly in Assam's Tinsukia district. 1,981.54 crore for the Polavaram high. Aravakurichi in Karur district, project along the Godavari river in Nov. 7: India and the U.K. sign Tamil Nadu records 81.92 per cent Andhra Pradesh. two MoUs on ease of doing business voting and Thanjavur 69.41 in the Dec. 30: Eleven persons are and intellectual property-related Assembly polls. Seventyone per cent buried alive after a cave-in at a coal issues during summit level meeting polling registered in mine in Jharkhand. between Prime Ministers Narendra Thirupparankundram byelection. Dec. 31: The BJP forms Modi and Theresa May at Nellithope in Puducherry witnesses government in Arunachal Pradesh. Hyderabad House in New Delhi. a record 85.67 per cent turnout. Anil Baijal is sworn in Delhi Lt. Delhi orders de-registration of Normal life resumes in Kashmir Governor. diesel vehicles older than 15 years. valley after 133 days of shutdown. General Bipin Rawat takes over as Nov. 8: Five hundred and 1,000 Nov. 20: At least 146 people are Army Chief and Air Chief Marshal rupee notes cease to be legal tender, killed and over 200 injured as 14 Birender Singh Dhanoa becomes after Prime Minister Narendra bogies of the Patna-bound Indore- Chief of the Air Staff. Modi announces the decision in a Rajendranagar Express go off the National Disaster Response Force personnel removing the trunk of V.K. Sasikala takes over as surprise address to the nation. track between Pukharyan and Malsa a tree uprooted by Cyclone Vardah in Chennai city. AIADMK general secretary. THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 7 ND-X

March 19: Sixtytwo persons are Pakistan authorities book the INTERNATIONAL killed after a flydubai jet crashes in former Indian naval commander Southern Russia while trying to Kulbushan Jadhav, in their custody JANUARY land in bad weather in Rostov-on- for over a month, for terrorism. Don. April 13: Syrians cast ballots in Jan. 1: A new open-carry law March 21: “This is a new day,” parliamentary polls. allowing Texans to wear their U.S. President Barack Obama says April 15: Nine persons are killed handguns in holsters on their hips after holding historic talks with and over 880 injured after a 6.5 takes effect. Cuban President Raul Castro at the magnitude temblor rocks Japan’s Jan. 2: Saudi Arabia executes 47 Havana’s Palace of the Revolution. Kumamoto province on the island persons, including a prominent Shia March 22: At least 35 persons of Kyushi. cleric Nimr al-Nimr, the driving are killed and 316 injured after a April 16: Thirtytwo persons are force behind the 2011 protests. series of explosions triggered by killed after another powerful quake Jan. 8: Mexico recaptures the suicide bombers rips through the hits Kumamoto province in world’s top drug lord Joaquin “El Brussels airport and a metro station southern Japan, leaving over 1,000 Chapo” Guzman Loera in the city of at Maalbeek in the Belgian capital. injured. Los Mochis, six months after his People walking away after explosions triggered by suicide March 24: Former Bosnian Serb At least 350 people are killed and escape from Altiplano prison. bombers rip through Brussels airport. leader Radovan Karadzic is more than 2,000 injured after a 7.8 Jan. 10: The Revenant bags sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N. magnitude earthquake rattles three awards — best drama film, 100 homes in Tainan, Taiwan. Feb. 28: Newspaper drama judges who find him guilty of Ecuador. best actor in a drama for Leonardo Feb. 12: World powers announce Spotlight bags the best picture genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica April 18: The AP wins the DiCaprio and best director for a new ceasefire plan for Syria after a award at the 88th Academy Awards massacre. Pulitzer Prize for public service. Alejandro G. Inarritu — at the 73rd meeting in Munich, Germany. ceremony at Dolby Theatre in Los March 26: British newspaper Alisa J. Rubin of The New York Golden Globe Awards in Los British newspapers The Angeles. Leonardo DiCaprio wins The Independent ends print edition Times wins the prize for Angeles. Independent and Independent on his first Oscar, for a best actor in after 30 years and will be available international reporting. The New Jan. 14: The WHO declares an Sunday are set to close their print The Revenant. George Miller’s online only. Yorker bags two prizes, a year after end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak. editions on March 26 and March 20. post-apocalyptic chase film, Mad March 27: At least 72 people are magazines qualified for the award. Jan. 15: At least 23 persons from Pope Francis and Russian Max:Fury Road bags six awards. killed and more than 280 injured in April 21: The world’s oldest 18 countries are killed and hundreds Orthodox Church head Patriarch Best actress award is won by Brie a suicide bomb attack in the parking serving royal and the longest- taken hostage as Al-Qaeda attacks Kirill hold a historic meeting at the Larson ( Room ). area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in reigning British monarch Queen the Splendid Hotel and a nearby Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba. Feb. 29: Moderates backed by Lahore, Pakistan. Elizabeth II turns 90. casino in the Burkina Faso capital Feb. 14: Indo-British film-maker Iranian President Hassan Rouhani March 30: Htin Kyaw is sworn April 22: Eminent Nepali Editor Ouagadougou. Asif Kapadia wins BAFTA for his secure victory. in Myanmar’s first civilian Kanak Mani Dixit is arrested amid Jan. 16: The U.S. lifts sanctions poignant documentary Amy on late MARCH President in more than 50 years. allegations of financial irregularities against Iran. British singer Amy Winehouse. NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi from Patan Dhoka area of Taiwan’s opposition leader Tsai Feb. 15: The first train from March 2: Nine persons, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Kathmandu. Ing-wen wins presidential polls. China’s trading hub of Yiwu arrives including six armed terrorists are APRIL A total of 175 nations, including Author Anuradha Roy wins the in Tehran covering over 10,399 km killed in an attack on the Indian India sign the Paris climate DSC Prize for South Asian in its 14-day journey. consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. April 4: The Panama Papers, a agreement at the United Nations. Literature, 2016, for the novel Taylor Swift wins album of the March 3: The U.N. adopts a set of 11 million leaked documents, April 24: British astronaut Tim Sleeping on Jupiter , at the Fairway year for 1989 at the 58th annual resolution imposing new sanctions exposing the internal operations of Peake becomes the first man to Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka. Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. on North Korea. law firm Mossack Fonseca names complete a marathon on Space. Jan.23: At east 13 persons are Feb. 17: The University of Texas March 8: South Korea imposes many world leaders, celebrities and April 30: Miss Ghana, Rebecca killed in six States in road accidents at Austin allows students to carry unilateral sanctions on North more than 210,000 firms in 21 Asamoah is crowned the first-ever and six others elsewhere as guns into classrooms. Korea. offshore jurisdictions. Miss Africa in Johannesburg. ‘snowzilla’ pounds eastern U.S. Feb. 19: The U.S. President March 9: The Sri Lankan Oil and gas giant BP agrees to pay Iraqi protestors storm Parliament Metro and bus networks shut down Barack Obama signs into law a Parliament adopts a resolution to $ 20 billion to the American in Baghdad’s Green Zone and for the weekend in Washington, legislation passed by Congress convert itself into a Constitutional government as damages over the indulge in vandalism. buried under two feet of snow. imposing new unilateral sanctions Assembly. 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. MAY Jan. 24: British adventurer against North Korea. March 15: Htin Kyaw, a close April 6: French lawmakers pass Henry Worsley (55) dies in a Feb. 20: British Prime Minister aide of NLD leader Aung San Suu a controversial bill that makes it May 2: The Adonia becomes the hospital in Punta Arenas, Chile David Cameron calls for a June 23 Kyi is elected the first civilian illegal to pay for sex and imposes first cruise ship from the U.S. to during his attempt to make history referendum on EU membership. President of Myanmar. fines on sex workers’clients. arrive in Cuba in about 50 years. by crossing the Antarctic alone. The Golden Bear is awarded to The U.S. eases travel and trade April 8: Paris attacks suspect The team at Laser Interferometer Jan. 31: At least 60 people are Italian documentary Fire at Sea by restrictions on Cuba. Mohamed Abrini is arrested in the Gravitational Wave Observatory killed and 110 wounded by a car Gianfranco Rosi at the 66th Annual Sir Arthur Wiles, an Oxford Anderlecht district of Brussels. wins the Special Breakthrough Prize bomb and two suicide bombers in Berlin International Film Festival. University professor is awarded the In a spaceflight first, a SpaceX in Fundamental Physics. the Sayeda Zeinab district in the Feb. 21: A “provisional Abel Prize, “for his stunning proof Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from May 3: Donald Trump is Syrian capital Damascus. agreement” reached on Syrian of Fermat last theorem,” a 300- Florida on a NASA Cargo run to the declared the presumptive nominee FEBRUARY ceasefire. Over 119 persons are year-old mystery. ISS and its reusable main stage for the U.S. presidency. killed and 282 injured in car bomb March 18 : Salah Abdeslam, the booster lands on an ocean platform. May 7: Sadiq Khan, a human Feb. 1: The National League for attacks in Homs and suicide attacks most wanted fugitive from the April 11: Researchers produce rights lawyer of Pakistani descent is Democracy MPs in Myanmar for the near a Shia shrine in Damascus. November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, is evidence, published in the journal sworn in London Mayor at a first time take part in historic Feb. 26: Iranians cast ballots in arrested after a shootout with the Science to link Zika virus to brain ceremony at Southwark Cathedral. Parliament session. polls to elect both the Parliament police in the Molenbeek defects in babies. Khurram Zaki, a leading Pakistani Feb. 6: At least 37 persons are and the Assembly of Experts. neighbourhood of Brussels, , an Indian ex- rights activist and his friend Rao killed and hundreds trapped after a Feb. 27: The first major ceasefire Belgium. serviceman languishing in the Kot Khalid are shot dead at a restaurant powerful earthquake topples a of the five-year Syrian war that has The EU and Turkey reach a deal Lakhpat jail in Lahore for 24 years in Karachi. 16-storey apartment housing almost claimed 270,000 lives takes hold. to ease the migrant crisis. on spying charges, is found dead. May 10: Firebrand Filipino 8 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 politician Rodrigo Duterte wins Scotland and Northern Ireland Minnesota, the U.S. His fiancee presidency. choose to remain in the bloc. streams live footage of the May 11: Bangladesh executes June 25: More than one million aftermath on the Internet. Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Britons call for a repeat vote by July 7: Russian President Rahman Nizami at the Dhaka signing a petition on the official Vladimir Putin signs into law a Central Jail. government website. package of controversial anti-terror At least 94 people are killed and Iceland begins voting in amendments. 150 injured after three car bomb presidential polls. The German Parliament passes a blasts rock Iraq. June 26: Ranveer Singh bags the landmark “no means nó” rape law May 12: Brazilian President, Best Male Actor Award and Deepika broadening the definition of sex Dilma Rousseff is suspended for six Padukone is named Best Female crimes. months to face impeachment after a Actor and Priyanka Chopra named Five police officials are killed and nearly 22-hour debate in the Senate, Woman of the Year at the seven others injured in a sniper on charges that she broke budget International Indian Film Academy attack by army veteran Micah accounting laws. Awards 2015 ceremony in Madrid, Xavier Johnson in Dallas, Texas May 16: South Korean author Spain. during a march to protest the Han Kang wins the Man Booker Spain’s second general election in shooting of two African-American International Prize for her book six months results in a hung men by policemen. The Vegetarian and shares it with assembly. July 9: Hungarian film It’s Not her translator Deborah Smith. People waiting outside the Orlando Police Headquarters following June 28: Eighty people are killed The Time Of My Life wins the top May 17: At least 72 people are a shooting spree at the Pulse night club. in intensified fighting and air strikes prize at the Czech Republic’s killed and more than 140 wounded in Yemen. Karlovy Vary film festival. by three bombings in the Iraqi inaugurated. night club in Orlando, Florida. He is At least 42 persons are killed and Umar Mansour, mastermind of capital Baghdad. June 5: Swiss voters reject a later killed by police SWAT team more than 200 wounded after the 2014 attack on the Army School The U.S. Senate approves the proposal to introduce a guaranteed members after a three-hour suicide bombers attack Ataturk in Peshawar, Pakistan, is killed in a Justice Against Sponsors of basic income for everyone living in standoff. Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. U.S. drone strike in the Bandar area Terrorism Act that will allow the the country, in a first such national Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical JULY of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar September 11, 2001 victims to sue referendum. biography Hamilton on the first U.S. province. Saudi Arabia over its possible role in Emmy winning American Treasury Secretary wins 11 Tonys at July 1: At least 20 people, July 11: Japan Prime Minister the attacks. journalist David Gilkey and his the Tony Awards ceremony at the including Indian student Tarishi Shinzo Abe’s coalition and allies win May 19: All 66 people on board translator Zabihullah Tamanna are Bacon Theatre in New York. Jain, nine Italians and seven two-thirds of the seats in polls to an EgyptAir flight from Paris to killed after their vehicle is struck by The Islamic State’s leader Abu Japanese are killed by a group of the Parliament’s upper house. Cairo are killed after it crashes into shellfire in Helmand province while Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed in an air hostage-takers at Holey Artisan July 12: The Permanent Court of the Mediterranean sea. travelling with an Afghan Army raid by the U.S.-led coalition in Bakery, an upmarket café in Arbitration at the Hague, The May 20: I, Daniel Blake by unit. Raqqa, Syria. Bangladesh capital Dhaka’s high Netherlands rejects the legal British director Ken Loach wins the Former Maldives Vice-President June 14: The U.S. Senate fails to security diplomatic zone. validity of the nine-dash line — the Palme d’Or for Best Picture at the Ahmed Adheeb is jailed for 10 years recognise India as a “global strategic July 2: Six gunmen are killed and demarcation underlying China’s 69th Cannes Film Festival. on a terrorism charge following a and defence partner” of Washington one caught alive as security forces claim to most of the South China May 21: Afghan Taliban leader closed door trial. after a key amendment to the end a 10-hour standoff at a Dhaka Sea. Mullah Akhtar Mansour is killed in June 6: Hillary Clinton clinches National Defence Authorisation Act café. July 13: Theresa May takes over a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. the Democratic nomination for the could not be passed. Australia heads for a hung as Britain’s new Prime Minister. May 23: India and Iran sign a U.S. presidential polls. June 16: Jo Cox, a first-time Parliament after the counting of July 14: At least 84 people are series of agreements that will allow June 7: Prime Minister British Labour MP for Bately and more than half the votes cast in a killed and 308 injured after a New Delhi to use the port of Narendra Modi presents the Global Spen and a supporter of Britain national poll a day earlier shows a Tunisian Mohamed Bouhlel ploughs Chahbahar to access Central Asia Leadership Award to Amazon Inc. remaining in the EU is shot dead at swing against the ruling coalition. a massive truck through crowds and Afghanistan. CEO Jeff Bezos in Washington. the village of Birstall on the July 3: At least 292 people are celebrating Bastille Day along the More than 148 people are killed in June 8: Prime Minister outskirts of Leeds in West killed and more than 200 wounded seafront Promenade des Anglais in seven near simultaneous bombings Narendra Modi outlines his vision Yorkshire. in a suicide car bombing at the Nice, French Riviera. in northwestern Syria. for India’s partnership with the U.S. June 19: Actor Anton Yelchin, Karrada shopping district in the July 15: At least 265 people are May 25: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya in the 21st century addressing a best known for playing the young Iraqi capital Baghdad. dead and 1,440 wounded as Turkey Savchenko who spent 709 days in a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Russian starship navigator in the July 5: NASA’s solar-powered $ crushes a coup attempt by the army. Russian jail is freed by Russia as June 9: Maldives’ criminal court rebooted series of Star Trek movies 1.1 billion Juno spacecraft Qandeel Baloch , Pakistan’s social part of a prisoner swap deal. jails former Vice-President Ahmed is killed after being crushed by his successfully enters Jupiter’s orbit media star is killed by her cousin in Rishi Nair, an Indian American Adheeb for 15 years for plotting to own car against a driveway wall. after a five-year journey from Earth. her family home on the outskirts of sixth grader from Florida takes top kill President Abdulla Yameen. June 22: Amjad Sabri, one of A black man Alton Sterling is shot Multan. honours at the 28th annual National June 10: Singer Christina Pakistan’s best known Sufi dead by police outside a July 18: Turkey’s Interior Geographic Bee held at the National Grimmie, who starred in NBC’s ‘The musicians is shot dead in Karachi, convenience store in Baton Rouge, Ministry fires 9,000 police officers. Geographic headquarters in Voice’ is shot dead by a gunman Pakistan while travelling by a car. Louisiana. A video recording by a This follows the arrests of 7,500 Washington. after a concert in Orlando, Florida. June 23: Britons cast ballots in bystander posted online sparks military personnel, 103 generals and May 27: U.S. President Barack June 11: The Solar Impulse 2, the referendum on whether to stay in or protests. admirals and the suspension of Obma pays moving tribute to solar-powered airplane on a globe- leave the EU. July 6: South African nearly 3,000 judges. victims of the first atomic bombing circling voyage that began in March A deadlock in the U.S. Supreme paralympian Oscar Pistorius is July 19: Hyderabad model Rohit in Hiroshima, Japan, at the 2015 from Abu Dhabi, the UAE Court leaves in place an appeals given a six-year jail term by the Khandelwal becomes the first Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. capital completes a trip across the court ruling blocking President High Court in Pretoria for the Indian ever to win the Mr. World JUNE U.S. Barack Obama’s immigration plan. murder of his girlfriend Reeva title at the grand finale of the June 12: Fortynine people are The Colombian government and Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in competition held in Southport in June 1: The world’s longest rail killed and 53 injured in the worst FARC rebels sign a ceasefire and 2013. the U.K. tunnel, 57-km Gotthard Base mass shooting in U.S. history as a disarmament agreement in the Philando Castile, a black man is Donald Trump wins nomination Tunnel providing a rail link under lone gunman, Omar Mateen, an Cuban capital Havana. killed by a Minneapolis area police as the Republic Party candidate in the Swiss Alps between northern American citizen of Afghan origin, June 24: Britian votes to leave officer during a traffic stop in the U.S. presidential polls. and southern parts of Europe is goes on the rampage at Pulse, a gay the European Union. London, Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, July 22: At least nine persons THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 9 ND-X are killed in a shooting rampage by Philippines director Lav Diaz’s marriages. Ali David Sonboly, an 18-year-old revenge drama Ang Babaeng Sept. 27: The U.S. names Jeffrey student at a mall in Munich. Humayo (The Woman Who Left) DeLaurentis, America’s top Judith D’Souza, Indian aid wins the Golden Lion for best film at diplomat in Havana to be Cuba’s worker kidnapped in Kabul is freed the 73rd Venice Film Festival. first official Amassador in five from her captors ending a 43-day Sept. 12: A nationwide ceasefire decades. ordeal. comes into effect in Syria. Sept. 28: The U.S. Senate rejects July 23: At least 80 people are Britian’s former Prime Minister President Barack Obama’s veto of killed in a suicide attack on a Hazara David Cameron quits his Parliament the Justice Against Sponsors of demonstration in Afghanistan seat. Terrorism Act allowing relatives of capital Kabul, demanding that a Sept. 15: China launches the September 11 attacks to sue power line pass through their Tiangong-2, its space lab from the Saudi Arabia’s government. electricity-starved province of Jiuquan Satellite Center in Gobi Sept. 29: Afghan President Bamiyan. desert. Ashraf Ghani formalises a peace July 24: Nepal Prime Minister Sept. 16: deal with notorious warlord and K.P. Sharma Oli resigns, before Dorothy Cann Hamilton (67), Hizb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin facing a no-confidence motion in Soldiers securing an area as supporters of Turkey's President founder of the French Culinary Hekmatyar in Kabul. Parliament. Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in Istanbul's Taksim square. Institute, dies of injuries after an Sept. 30: Pakistan announces July 26: Solar Impulse 2 piloted accident on Cape Breton Island in indefinite postponement of the by Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard the Civil Hospital in the Balochistan militants allegedly involved in the Nova Scotia, Canada. SAARC summit. completes the first around the world provincial capital Quetta. Bilal 2009 attack on the visiting Sri Sept. 17: Belgium announces the OCTOBER flight without the use of fossil fuels Anwar Kasi, president of the Lankan cricket team are shot dead euthanasia of a minor becoming the in Abu Dhabi covering 42,000 km in Balochistan Bar Association is shot by Pakistan police in Lahore. first country in the world to do so. Oct. 2: The Colombian 17 stages across four continents. dead by gunmen earlier in the day. Aug. 29: At least 71 people are Sept. 18: Fantasy epic Game of government suffers a shock defeat Democratic Party makes Hillary Aug. 12: Actor Robert De Niro is killed and 98 injured as an IS suicide Thrones makes television history by in a referendum as voters reject a Clinton its nominee for the U.S. presented with ‘The Heart of bomber rams an explosives-laden bagging 12 Emmys at the 68th peace accord with the FARC rebels. presidential polls at the National Sarajevo’, the Sarajevo Film car into an Army recruitment centre Emmys in Los Angeles. India ratifies the Paris Agreement Convention in Philadelphia. Festival’s first lifetime achievement in Aden, Yemen. Sept. 19: The ruling United on Climate Change. July 29: Italy’s long-awaited award. Aug. 31: Brazilian Senate Russia party bags 343 of the total Oct. 3: Japan’s Yoshinori much-disputed law on gay civil Aug. 13: Protests rock impeaches and removes from office 450 seats in Duma. Ohsumi wins the 2016 Nobel unions takes effect. Milwaukee, the U.S. after a patrol President Dilma Rousseff. Confirms Sept. 20: The U.N. suspends all Medicine Prize for his pioneering July 30: Luke Aitkins, a skydiver officer kills an armed suspect who Vice-President Michel Temer as aid convoys to Syria following an air work on autophagy. with more than 18,000 jumps took flight after a traffic stop. President. strike on food trucks that leaves 20 The U.S. announces suspension of creates history by jumping without Aug. 14: SpaceX lands a reusable The first regular commercial dead in Aleppo. talks on Syria with Russia. parachute and lands in a net at the Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone flight in more than 50 years from Keith Lamont Scott, a black man Oct. 4: Three British-born Big Sky movie ranch on the ship after it sent a Japanese the U.S. lands in Cuba. is shot dead by the police triggering scientists, David Thouless, Duncan outskirts of Simi Valley in communications satellite into orbit. Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna and protests in Charlotte, North Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, are California, the U.S. Aug. 20: At least 54 people, crusader against manual scavenging Carolina, the U.S. awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in July 31: Turkish President including 22 children are killed and Bezwada Wilson among six who are Over 162 people are drowned Physics for revealing unusual states Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top aide Ali 94 wounded in a blast triggered by a presented with the Ramon after a boat carrying migrants of matter potentially helping work Yazici among 1,389 military 12-year-old suicide bomber at a Magsaysay award for 2016 at a capsizes near the Nile delta port city on future quantum computers. personnel dismissed by a new wedding in Gaziantep, Turkey, near ceremony in Manila. of Rosetta, Egypt. Hurricane Matthew pummels decree. the Syrian border. SEPTEMBER Sept. 22: A state of emergency is Haiti leaving 877 dead. AUGUST Mexican writer Ignacio Padilla, a declared in Charlotte and National Oct. 5: Jean-Pierre Sauvage of leading member of the so-called Sept. 1: Brazil’s ousted President Guard Troops deployed following France, Britain’s J. Fraser Stoddart Aug. 1: Five persons on board a ‘crack movement’ dies in a car Dilma Rousseff appeals to the two days of violent protests. and Bernard Feringa of the Russian military helicopter are accident in Queretaro. Supreme Court to overturn the Sept. 23: Five persons are killed Netherlands are awarded the 2016 killed after it is shot down in Idlib, Aug. 23: A news report in The Senate’s decision to remove her during a shooting at Cascade Mall in Nobel Prize for Chemistry for Syria. Australian reveals the leak of from office. Burlington, north of Seattle in the developing molecular machines. Aug. 3: The CPN-Maoist documents pertaining to the Indian Sept. 3: The U.S. and China U.S. State of Washington. Oct. 6: Pakistan’s National (Centre) chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Navy’s Scorpene submarine project. formally join the Paris Climate deal Sept. 24: Jeremy Corbyn is Assembly passes legislation against ‘Prachanda’ is elected Nepal Prime At least 16 persons, including at a ceremony in Hangzhou, China. re-elected leader of Britain’s honour killings. Minister for a second time. eight students are killed and 53 Sept. 4: Pope Francis proclaims Opposition Labour Party at the Oct. 7: Colombian President Three hundred people, mostly wounded in a 10-hour raid after Mother Teresa of Kolkata a saint at party’s annual conference in Juan Manuel Santos wins the 2016 Indians, have a miraculous escape militants storm the American a canonisation mass attended by Liverpool. Nobel Peace Prize. when an Emirates flight from University of Afghanistan in Kabul. 100,000 pilgrims at the Vatican, Sept. 25: Jordanian writer The U.S. lifts economic sanctions Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai Aug. 24: A 6.2 magnitude Rome. Nahed Hattar is killed by a gunman on Myanmar. crash-lands and explodes at the earthquake in Italy leaves 250 dead Sept. 8: “One country in our in Amman for sharing on social Oct. 8: At least 140 people are runway in Dubai International and 368 injured.The villages of neighbourhood produces and media a caricature seen as insulting killed and more than 525 wounded Airport. Amatrice and Pescara del Tronto exports terror”, says the Prime Islam. in Saudi Arabia-led air strikes on a Aug. 6: Rebels capture key are totally destroyed. Minister Narendra Modi at the 14th Sept. 26: Syria and Russia funeral in Yemen capital Sanaa. military positions on the edges of An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude ASEAN-Indian summit in continue air strikes on rebel-held Oct. 9: At least 11 persons are Aleppo, Syria. rattles central Myanmar damaging Vientiane, Laos and demands areas of Aleppo and the toll in the killed in the U.S. and two million Aug. 7: Thailand votes in a scores of ancient Buddhist pagodas sanction against Pakistan. four-day blitz reaches 128. businesses and houses go without referendum to approve a new in the former capital of Bagan. Sept. 9: North Korea conducts Colombian government and the power as cyclone Matthew, Constitution drawn up by the ruling Aug. 26: The Philippines its largest atomic test in the FARC rebel group sign a peace deal unleashes torrential rains. junta. government and Maoist-led rebels Punggye-ri area. to end their half century war. Oct. 10: The 2016 Nobel Prize for Aug. 8: At least 72 people, mostly sign a ceasefire agreement after Sept. 10: The U.S. and Russia Pakistan’s National Assembly Economics is jointly awarded to lawyers and journalists are killed talks in the Norwegian capital Oslo. clinch a deal on Syria after a passes a landmark bill giving its Harvard and MIT economists Oliver and 112 injured in a suicide strike at Aug. 28: Four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi marathon meeting in Geneva. Hindu minority the right to register Hart and Bengt Holmstrom for their 10 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 contributions to contract theory. Thomas Mair, a far-right Literature Nobel winner Bob Dylan Ankara. Oct. 13: American singer and extremist is found guilty of skips the event in Stockholm. America’s electoral college songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded murdering British MP Jo Cox by a At least 44 persons are killed and confirms Donald Trump’s election the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. jury at London’s Central Criminal 166 wounded following coordinated as the U.S. President. The U.N. General Assembly Court. bomb attacks on police outside a A French court finds IMF head formally appoints former Nov. 24: A suicide truck bomb soccer stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. Christine Lagarde guilty of Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio kills 100 people, at a petrol station Dec. 11: Italy's former Foreign negligence over a € 404 million Guterres as the new Secretary- in the city of Hilla, 100 km south of Minister Paolo Gentiloni is named payout to a tycoon Bernard Tapie. General. Iraqi capital Baghdad. Prime Minister following the Dec. 20: China returns U.S. The Maldives quits the A landmark judgment by the resignation of reformist leader drone. Commonwealth. Court of Appeal in London Matteo Renzi in the wake of a Dec. 21: At least 31 persons are Oct. 16: Trinity Gay, a rising (delivered on October 25), deals a referendum defeat. killed in a series of six massive track star and daughter of Olympic severe blow to a deportation Venezuela demonetises 100- explosions that destroyed a track star Tyson Gay is killed after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump programme affecting several bolivar bills. fireworks market in Tultepec, being hit by a stray bullet during a accused of falsifying proficiency Dec. 12: The EU and Cuba sign a outside Mexico City. shootout in Lexington, Kentucky, to elect its 45th President. tests acquired to stay in the UK. deal to normalise ties blocked for Dec. 22: Fortyseven civilians are the U.S. Nov. 9: Republican Donald J. Nov. 28: At least 75 people decades, at a ceremony in Brussels. killed in Turkish airstrikes on the Oct. 24: At least 61 persons are Trump is elected the 45th President including all but three of the Dec. 13: Texas tycoon and Exxon town of Al-Bab, an IS bastion. This killed and 118 injured in a gun and of the U.S. The GOP retains members of the Brazilian football Mobil Chief Executive Officer Rex follows the killing of 14 soldiers a suicide bomb assault at the majority in Senate and House of team Chapecoense Real are killed Tillerson is picked up for the post of day earlier by the rebels. Balochistan Police Training College Representatives. after a chartered plane hits a Secretary of State by the U.S. Dec. 23: A Tunisian, Anis Amri, in Quetta by three masked gunmen. Kamala Harris becomes the first mountainside in Cerro Gorda and President-elect Donald Trump. suspected to be the man behind the Oct. 25: Paul Beatty’s The Indian-American Senator after her disintegrates near the town of La Dec. 15: China seizes a Berlin Christmas market attack is Sellout, wins the Man Booker Prize, victory from California. Union outside Medellin in underwater drone in the South shot dead by the Italian police. in the process making him the first Pakistan deports “Afghan Girl” Colombia. China Sea, deployed by a U.S. The U.N. Security Council passes U.S. writer to bag the award. Sharbat Gula and hands her over to DECEMBER oceanographic vessel USNS a resolution condemning Israel over Oct. 26: Sharbat Gula, an Afghan Afghanistan. Bowditch. its settlement policy. woman immortalised on a Nov. 11: India signs a historic Dec. 1: Crown Prince Maha Dec. 16: Italy’s top court orders China tests the latest version of celebrated National Geographic civilian nuclear deal with Japan Vajiralongkorn becomes the new retrial of two top executives of its stealth fighter. magazine cover as a 12-year-old girl during the annual bilateral summit King of Thailand. Finmeccanica in the Dec. 24: A Sri Lankan court is arrested for living in Pakistan on in Tokyo and becomes the first Dec. 4: Fidel Castro is buried AgustaWestland bribery case. acquits five persons charged with fraudulent identity papers. non-NPT nation to ink such a pact. alongside national heroes in the London's iconic Big Ben closes the murder of a Tamil legislator At least 232 people, including 190 Nov. 12: At least 52 persons are eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. doors to visitors as it is to undergo a Nadaraja Raviraj on November 10, former Iraqi troops are killed by the killed and more than 100 injured in Former Greens leader Alexander £ 29-million renovation set to take 2006. IS militants in areas around Mosul a suicide attack by a 14-year-old boy Van der Bellen wins Austrian three years. Dec. 25: Ninetytwo persons, for refusing to obey orders. at the Dargah Shah Noorani shrine presidential polls. Dec. 17: Thirteen Turkish including 64 Red Army Choir Oct. 27: Chinese President Xi in Balochistan, Pakistan. Dec. 5: Italian voters decisively soldiers are killed and 48 wounded members are killed after a Russian Jinping is made ‘core’ leader of Colombia’s Government and reject constitutional changes in a suicide car bombing in the city plane bound for Syria crashes in the Communist Party of China. FARC rebels agree on a revised mooted by Prime Minister Matteo of Kayseri, Anatolia. Black Sea shortly after takeoff. Two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad peace deal. Renzi. Dec. 18: Puerto Rico’s Stephanie Dec. 27: The Japanese Prime and Lamia Haji Bashar, who Nov. 13: Two persons are killed The British Supreme Court del Valle is crowned Miss World Minister Shinzo Abe, pays homage survived rape and slavery at IS as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake begins hearing on the Government’s 2016 at a pageant in Oxen Hill, at the USS Arizona Memorial in hands are presented the European strikes New Zealand causing appeal against a High Court ruling Maryland, the U.S. Honolulu, Hawaii. Parliament’s Sakharov human widespread damage and triggering a on triggering Brexit. Dec. 19: At least 12 persons are Dec. 28: Colombia’s Congress rights prize in Strasbourg, France. tsunami. New Zealand Prime Minister, killed as a truck ploughs into a passes a law granting amnesty to Oct 29: Deepavali is celebrated The $ 46 billion China-Pakistan John Key announces resignation. Christmas market at the foot of the FARC rebels. for the first time at the United Economic Corridor linking Western Dec. 6: French Interior Minister, Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church in Dec. 29: Russian President, Nations. China to the Arabian Sea becomes a Bernard Cazeneuve is named the Berlin, Germany. Vladimir Putin, announces a Mariano Rajoy is re-elected reality with the inauguration of the new Prime Minister. Andrei Karlov, the Russian nationwide ceasefire deal for Syria. Spanish Prime Minister after revamped Gwadar port by Prime Dec. 7: At least 97 people are Ambassador to Turkey is shot dead Dec. 31: The UNSC endorses winning a parliamentary vote. Minister Nawaz Sharif. killed after a 6.5-magnitude by a policeman at a photo gallery in Syria ceasefire. Oct. 30: The European Union Nov. 15: Indian-American Ami earthquake strikes Pidie Jaya and Canada sign the Bera is re-elected to the U.S. House district in Indonesia’s Aceh Comprehensive Economic and of Representatives for a third Province. Trade agreement in Brussels. consecutive term. Over 48 persons, are killed after a Oct. 31: The fighting to gain Nov. 16: The British House of Pakistan International Airlines control of Aleppo, Syria leaves 72 Lords gives nod for the final version flight crashes and bursts into flames Syrian rebels and 61 regime fighters of the Investigatory Powers Bill near the village of Saddha Batolni in and allied militiamen dead. dubbed the “Snoopers’ Charter.” Abbottabad district of Khyber NOVEMBER Nov. 17: The Marrakech Action Pakhtunkhwa Province. proclamation is adopted by over Time names U.S. President-elect Nov. 2: At least 239 migrants 200 nations attending the 22nd Donald Trump its Person of the believed to be from West Africa, are session of the Conference of the Year 2016. killed in two shipwrecks off Libya. Parties (COP22) in Morocco. Dec. 9: South Korea’s Parliament Nov. 3: Brexit cannot be Nov. 22: A powerful 6.9 votes to impeach President Park triggered without Parliament magnitude earthquake hits Geun-hye. approval, rules the High Court. northeast Japan triggering a Dec. 10: Colombian President, Nov. 4:The Paris Agreement on tsunami near Fukushima. Juan Manuel Santos is presented climate change enters into force. Nov. 23: Nikki Haley is named as with the Nobel Peace Prize at a Fans of Chapecoense Real soccer team mourn in front of the Arena Nov. 8: Voting begins in the U.S. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. function in Oslo’s City Hall. Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil. THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 11 ND-X

OBITUARY the Sri Jayawardanapura teaching hospital. Nov.7: Kanu Ramdas Gandhi JANUARY (87), grandson of Mahatma Gandhi , Jan.1: A.B. Bardhan (92), veteran at a private hospital in Gujarat. CPI leader, in New Delhi. Leonard Norman Cohen (82), Jan. 4: Sarosh Homi Kapadia Canadian singer-songwriter at his (68), former CJI, in Mumbai. Boutros Balram Jakhar P.A. Sangma Bud Spencer home in Los Angeles. Jan. 10: David Bowie (69), A.B. Bardhan Boutros-Ghali Umberto Eco Nov.17: Lt.Gen. S.K. Sinha (90), English rock star, in Manhattan, former Governor of Assam and J&K New York. March 8: George Martin (90), June 24: Neil O’Brien (82), Nadu Social Welfare Minister, in at a hospital in Delhi. Jan. 13: Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob legendary British music director, at former MP and quiz pioneer, in Chennai. Nov.22: M. Balamuralikrishna (92), a hero of the 1971 war with Wiltshire, the U.K. Kolkata. Aug. 14: Na. Muthukumar (41), (86), Carnatic vocalist, composer, in Pakistan, at the Army Research and March 21: ‘Film News’ Anandan June 26: Kavalam Narayana Tamil lyricist , in Chennai. Chennai. Referral Hospital in New Delhi. (89), in Chennai after a brief illness. Panicker (88), Malayalam Aug. 22: S.R. Nathan (96), Ram Naresh Yadav (90), former Jan. 14: Alan Sidney Patrick Andrew Grove (79), who made playwright, at his residence in former Singapore President at the U.P. Chief Minister, in Lucknow. Rickman (69), British actor , in Intel into the world’s top Thirukkanapuram, Singapore General Hospital. M.G.K. Menon (88), former ISRO London of pancreatic cancer. chipmaker, in Los Altos, California, Thiruvananthapuram. Aug. 24: Akhlaq Ur Rahman chairman, in New Delhi. Jan. 21: (97), the U.S. June 27: Carlo Pedersoli (86), Kidwai (96), former Governor of Nov.25: Fidel Castro (90), veteran dancer, at her residence in March 29: Patty Duke (69), Italian film actor better known as West Bengal and Bihar, in New former Cuban President, in in Ahmedabad. American actor, at a hospital in Bud Spencer, in Italy. Delhi. Santiago de Cuba Province. Jan. 25: Kalpana (51), noted Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. June 28: Isak Chisi Swu (86), Aug. 29: Gene Wilder (83), U.S. Dileep Padgaonkar (72), veteran Malayalam and Tamil actor, in APRIL founder of NSCN (I-M), of multiple actor, at his home in Stamford in journalist, in Pune. Hyderabad. organ failure in New Delhi. Connecticut. Jan. 30: K.V. Krishna Rao (93), April 21: Prince Rogers Nelson June 29: K. G. Subramanyan SEPTEMBER DECEMBER (57), pop icon, at his Paisley Park (92), one of the pioneers of modern former Army chief, at the Army Dec. 2: Ko.Si. Mani (87), former Research and Referral Hospital in residence in Minnesota, the U.S. Indian art, in Vadodara, Gujarat. Sept. 2: Islam Karimov (78), April 27: V. T. Thomas (87), Uzbek President for more than 25 Tamil Nadu Minister and DMK New Delhi Contonment. JULY veteran, in Kumbakonam. FEBRUARY Kerala cartoonist, better known as years, in Tashkent. Toms, at SM Medical Centre in July 1: Ramachandra Chintaman Sept. 15: Captain Ayub Khan Dec. 7: Cho S. Ramaswamy (82), Feb. 3: Balram Jakhar (92), Kottayam. Dhere (86), Marathi litterateur , in (85), former Union Minister and Tamil actor and Editor of Thuglak , former Lok Sabha Speaker (1980- April 28: Jenny Diski (68), Pune. 1965 war hero, at Jhunjhunu in in Chennai. 89), in New Delhi. British novelist, , at her home in Michael Cimino (77), American Rajasthan. Dec. 8: John Glenn (95), U.S. Feb. 4: Edward Mitchell (85), Cambridge, England. producer who directed the Oscar- Sept. 16: Edward Albee (88), U.S. space legend, at the James Cancer Apollo 14 astronaut , at a hospice in Hospital at Ohio State University in MAY winning Vietnam War film The Deer playwright at his home in Montauk, West Palm Beach, Florida. Hunter, at his home in California. New York after a short illness. Columbus. Feb. 6: Sudhir Tailang (55), May 2: Balraj Madhok (96), one July 4: Abbas Kiarostami (76), Sept. 17: Charmian Carr (73), Peter Jackson (90), British well-known cartoonist, at his home of the founders of the Bharatiya Iran’s greatest filmmaker, in Paris. who played Liesl von Trapp in The scholar and tiger conservationist, in in Mayur Vihar, New Delhi. Jana Sangh, in New Delhi. July 8: Abdul Sattar Edhi (88), Sound of Music, in California. London. Feb. 8: Nida Fazli (78), eminent Dec. 10: V.C. Kulandaiswamy JUNE renowned social worker, in Karachi. Sept. 28: Shimon Peres (93), Urdu poet and Bollywood lyricist, of July 19: Mubarak Begum (80), former Israeli President, at a (87), distinguished educationist, at a heart attack, in Mumbai. June 2: Sir Thomas Bannerman legendary singer, in Mumbai. hospital in Tel Aviv. his residence in Chennai after a Feb. 9: Sushil Koirala (77), brief illness. (83), British physicist , in London. July 23: Syed Haider Raza (94), OCTOBER former Nepal Prime Minister in June 3: Muhammad Ali (74), Indian painter , in Delhi. Dec. 12: Edward Ricardo Kathmandu of respiratory failure. former heavyweight boxing July 28: (90), Oct. 4: Yusuf Arakkal (71), Braithwaite (104), British-American Feb. 13: O.N.V. Kurup (84), champion, at a hospital in Phoenix, Bengali litterateur, social activist , painter, sculptor, in Bengaluru. novelist, in Rockville, Maryland, Malayalam poet, at a private the U.S., of respiratory illness. at a private hospital in Kolkata. Oct. 13: Thailand’s King U.S. hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. Dec. 17: Henry Heimlich (96), June 4: Sulabha Deshpande (79), AUGUST Bhumibol Adulyadej (88), the Feb. 16: Boutros Boutros-Ghali veteran theatre and film actor, at world’s longest-reigning monarch, U.S. doctor and inventor of (93), former UN Secretary-General, her Mumbai residence after Aug. 5: Vietnam Veedu at a hospital in Bangkok. Heimlich anti-choking manoeuvre, in Cairo, Egypt. prolonged illness. Sundaram (76), Tamil script writer Dario Fo (90), Nobel Prize- at a hospital in Cincinnati, U.S. Feb. 18: Ustad Abdul Rashid June 5: Manohar Aich (104), and director, in Chennai. winning Italian playwright, in Dec. 18: Zsa Zsa Gabor (99), Khan (107), eminent classical celebrated bodybuilder and former Aug. 8: T.K.V. Desikachar (78), Milan. Hungarian actor, in Los Angeles. vocalist , in Kolkata. Mr. Universe at his home in Yoga exponent, in Chennai. Oct. 20: Junko Tabei (77), Dec. 20: Jagannatha Verma (77), Feb. 19: Harper Lee (89), U.S. Kolkata. Aug. 9: Panchu Arunachalam Japanese alpinist and first woman veteran Malayalam actor, in novelist, in Monroeville, Alabama. June 8: K. K. Katyal (88), veteran (76), Tamil film producer and to scale Mt. Everest, in a hospital Thiruvananthapuram. Umberto Eco (84), Italian scholar journalist in a hospital in New lyricist, in Chennai. near Tokyo. Dec. 25: George Michael, British of semiotics and author of The singer, at his home in Goring, Delhi. Aug. 11: Hanif Mohammad (81), NOVEMBER Name of the Rose, of pancreatic June 11: Inder Malhotra (86), Pakistan cricket legend, in Karachi. Oxfordshire, England. cancer at his house in Milan, Italy. veteran journalist, at a Delhi Aug. 13: S. P. Sarguna Pandian Nov. 3: Pandit Amaradeva (88), Vera Rubin (88), U.S. astronomer, MARCH hospital. (75), DMK leader and former Tamil Sri Lankan singer and composer, at in Princeton, New Jersey, the U.S. March 3: Ashok Ghosh (94), Dec. 27: Carrie Fisher (60), Star veteran AIFB leader, in Kolkata. Wars actor, in Los Angeles. March 4: Purno Agitok Sangma Dec. 28: Sunderlal Patwa (92), (68), former Lok Sabha Speaker, of a former Madhya Pradesh Chief heart attack in New Delhi. Minister, in Bhopal. March 5: Ray Tomlinson (74), Debbie Reynolds (84), Hollywood U.S. programmer who created email legend and mother of Carrie Fisher, and chose the @ symbol, in Lincoln, at Cedars-Sinai medical center, in Los Angeles. Massachusetts. Cho Ramaswamy Leonard Cohen M. Balamuralikrishna Mahasweta Devi Fidel Castro Shimon Peres 12 DIARY OF EVENTS 2016 THE HINDU TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017

APRIL Oct. 22 India beats Iran 38-29 to SPORT Apr. 3 West Indies wins the men’s win the Kabaddi World Cup. and women’s ICC World T20 titles Oct. 30 Dominika Cibulkova JANUARY in Kolkata. takes the WTA Finals title in Jan. 3 India wins the SAFF Su- Apr. 10 Sameer Verma and P. Singapore. zuki Cup football tournament in Thulasi win the National badminton India beats Pakistan 3-2 in the fi- Thiruvananthapuram. men’s and women’s singles titles in nal to clinch the men’s Asian Cham- Jan. 4 Mumbai boy Pranav Chandigarh; Englishman Danny pions trophy title in Malaysia. Dhanawade hits record-breaking Willett wins the Augusta Masters NOVEMBER unbeaten 1009 at an inter-school golf tournament Nov. 5 Bengaluru FC loses to Air cricket tournament in Mumbai. Apr. 17 Bengaluru FC wins its Force Club, Iraq in the final of the Jan. 7 PSPB squads win the maiden I-League title in Bengaluru. AFC Cup in Doha. Senior National table tennis team MAY Nov. 13 Aditi Ashok wins the In- titles in Hyderabad. May 1 Railways beats Punjab 6-5 dia Open to become the first Indian Jan. 10 A. Amalraj and Manika in the shootout to clinch the Na- Usain Bolt...an achievement of Olympian proportions— PHOTO: AFP to win on the Ladies European Tour. Batra win the men’s and women’s tional men’s hockey championship Nov. 20 P.V. Sindhu takes China Senior National table tennis titles in title. men’s singles Grand Prix title at the 100m Olympic gold; Dipa Karmakar Open to secure maiden Super Series Hyderabad; Railways men and wo- May 2 Leicester City wins its first Canada Open badminton. Manu At- finishes fourth in the vaults final of title; Andy Murray wins the ATP men win the Senior National volley- English Premier League; England’s tri and B. Sumeeth Reddy win the the women’s gymnastics event. World Tour Finals in London. ball championships in Bengaluru. Mark Selby wins the World snooker men’s doubles title. Aug. 15 South African sprinter Nov. 27 Nico Rosberg seals his Stan Wawrinka takes the ATP championship. Jul. 9 Serena Williams beats An- Wayde Van Niekerk breaks Michael maiden Formula One driver’s title at Chennai Open crown for the third May 7 Bayern Munich wins the gelique Kerber to claim her seventh Johnson’s 17-year-old world record Abu Dhabi; Argentina defeats Croa- time in a row. Bundesliga. Wimbledon women’s singles tennis as he takes the men’s 400m gold. tia 3-2 to win its first Davis Cup title. Jan. 16 Services and Railways win May 14 Barcelona wins the La title. Aug. 16 American gymnast Si- Nov. 28 Flight carrying players of the men’s and women’s Senior Na- Liga. Jul. 10 Andy Murray beats Milos mone Biles becomes the first woman Chapecoense FC crashes in Colom- tional basketball titles in Mysuru. May 21 Mohun Bagan beats Aiz- Raonic to win his second Wimbledon since Romania’s Ecaterina Szabo in bia killing 71 people. Jan. 17 Delhi Acers wins the awl FC 5-0 to win its 14th Federation title; Portugal beats France 1-0 to 1984 to win four Olympic gymnastics Nov. 30 Magnus Carlsen retains Premier Badminton League in New Cup title. win Euro 2016, its first-ever major golds at a single Olympics. World chess title beating Sergey Delhi. China beats South Korea 3-1 to title. Aug. 18 Usain Bolt retains his Karjakin in New York; M. Jan. 23 Sourav Kothari wins the win the Uber Cup. Jul. 16 Vijender Singh beats Aus- 200m title Karthikeyan wins the National chess National men’s billiards title in In- May 22 Pankaj Advani wins the tralian Kerry Hope to become the Aug. 19 Bolt becomes the first championship in Lucknow. dore. Asian 6-Red snooker title; Denmark WBO Asia Pacific Super Middle- athlete to complete the “triple- DECEMBER Jan. 24 P.V. Sindhu wins the beats Indonesia 3-2 to win its first weight champion. triple” as he helps Jamaica win the Dec. 3 V.M. Ranjeet and Riya Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold Thomas Cup. Jul. 17 Henrik Stenson wins Brit- 4x100m relay. It is his ninth Olympic Bhatia win the men’s and women’s badminton title in Penang. May 28 Real Madrid beats At- ish Open golf. Dipika Pallikal beats Gold over three consecutive Games. titles in the National grasscourt ten- Jan. 30 Angelique Kerber wins letico Madrid to clinch the Champi- Joshna Chinappa 4-11, 11-6, 11-2, 11-8 P.V. Sindhu wins women’s bad- nis championships in Chandigarh. the Australian Open women’s tennis ons League title for a record 11th to win the senior National women’s minton Olympic silver, the first In- Dec. 4 Mukesh Kumar wins the title in Melbourne. time. squash championship. dian woman to do so. Panasonic Open golf tournament in Jan. 31 Novak Djokovic wins the May 29 Sunrisers Hyderabad de- Jul. 24 British cyclist Chris Aug. 20 Britain’s Mo Farah be- New Delhi, becoming the oldest Australian Open men’s tennis title; feat Royal Challengers Bangalore to Froome wins his third Tour de comes only the second man to retain first-time winner on the Asian Tour; Aditya Mehta wins the Senior Na- emerge IPL champion. France title. the 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic India women’s cricket team beats tional men’s snooker title in Indore; JUNE Jul. 31 American Jimmy Walker titles, matching the achievement of Pakistan by 17 runs to clinch the Asia K. Srikanth wins the men’s singles Jun. 3 Leander Paes wins the wins his maiden PGA golf champion- Finland’s Lasse Viren. Cup in Bangkok. title at the Syed Modi International French Open mixed doubles crown ship. Brazil defeats Germany to win the Dec. 5 Gaurav Gill wins the final GP Gold badminton in Lucknow. with Martina Hingis, completes his AUGUST Olympic football gold for the first APRC rally in Chikmagalur. FEBRUARY mixed doubles career slam. Aug. 7 Abhijeet Gupta and Tania time. Dec. 7 Novak Djokovic splits with Feb. 5 South Asian Games gets off Heavyweight boxing legend Sachdev win the men’s and women’s Aug. 29 P.V. Sindhu, Sakshi Ma- coach Boris Becker. to a colourful start in Guwahati. Muhammad Ali passes away. Commonwealth chess crowns. lik, Dipa Karmakar, and Jitu Rai win Dec. 12 Pankaj Advani wins the Feb. 21 Indonesia men and China Jun. 4 Garbine Muguruza wins Aug. 11 Michael Phelps wins the the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. World Billiards title (points format) women triumph at the Asia badmin- the French Open women’s title. men’s 200m individual medley SEPTEMBER in Bengaluru; Cristiano Ronaldo ton team championships in Jun. 5 Novak Djokovic wins Olympic gold to become one of only Sep. 10 Thangavelu Mariyappan wins his fourth Ballon d’Or award. Hyderabad. maiden French Open and completes three Olympians to win the same wins gold in the men’s T42 high Dec. 18 India wins Junior hockey Feb. 22 Uttarakhand men win the career Slam. individual event at four straight jump at the Rio Paralympic games. World Cup beating Belgium 2-1 in Federation Cup volleyball in Jun. 12 Saina Nehwal beats Chi- Games. Sep. 11 Angelique Kerber wins the Lucknow; Atletico de Kolkata wins Tirupur. na’s Sun Yu 11-21, 21-14, 21-19 to win Former Pakistan cricket team US Open women’s singles tennis Indian Super League for the second Feb. 26 In Pune, Mumbai lift the her second Australian Open Super captain Hanif Mohammad, who held title. time. Ranji Trophy for the 41st time. Series badminton title. the record for the longest innings in Sep. 12 Stan Wawrinka wins the Dec. 22 R. Ashwin wins the ICC MARCH Jun. 18 India loses to Australia Test cricket, passes away. US Open men’s singles crown; Deepa Cricketer of the Year and the Test Mar. 3 New Zealand batsman and settles for silver in Champions Aug. 12 Dipika Pallikal Karthik Malik bags silver in the F-53 Shot Cricketer of the Year awards. Martin Crowe passes away at 53 in Trophy hockey. beats Mayar Hany of Egypt to win Put event at Rio to become the first Dec. 24 India beats Sri Lanka by Auckland due to cancer. Jun. 19 Cleveland Cavaliers wins the Australian Squash Open in Indian woman to win a medal in the 34 runs to clinch the under-19 Asia Mar. 6 The Men in Blue lift the its first NBA championship, LeBron Melbourne. Paralympic games. Cup in Colombo. Asia Cup in Mirpur, defeating James wins the ‘Most Valuable Aug. 13 Sep. 14 Devendra Jhajharia wins Dec. 30 Sports Ministry suspends Bangladesh in the final. Player’ award. Michael Phelps with his 13th indi- gold in the F46 men’s javelin throw the Indian Olympic Association Mar. 14 ONGC and Kerala win Jun. 26 Chile defeats Argentina vidual gold, the 200m IM, breaks the at the Rio Paralympic games. after Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay the men’s and women’s Federation to clinch its second consecutive 2,168-year-old record of ancient Sep. 25 American Golf legend Singh Chautala are appointed life Cup basketball titles in Panjim. Copa America. Olympian sprinter, Leonidas of Arnold Palmer passes away. Presidents; Kerala and Railways Mar. 24 Dutch football legend JULY Rhodes. OCTOBER clinch the men’s and women’s titles Johan Cruyff passes away at 68 due Jul. 3 B. Sai Praneeth beats Lee Aug. 14 Usain Bolt out-sprints Oct. 2 USA beats Europe to win in the volleyball Nationals in to lung cancer. Hyun II of Korea for his maiden Justin Gatlin for his third straight the Ryder Cup golf championship. Chennai.