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NATIONAL FEBRUARY aside the Karnataka High Court’s ac­ Assembly polls records 61% turnout. Feb. 1: The Union Budget for quittal of V.K. Sasikala, Ilavarasi and Feb. 27: Lowest turnout of 2017­18 is presented in the Lok Sab­ V.N. Sudhakaran in the dispropor­ 57.36% recorded in the fth phase of JANUARY ha by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. tionate assets case. Indicts former the U.P. Assembly polls. Jan. 1: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minis­ He cuts the minimum personal in­ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayala­ MARCH ter Akhilesh Yadav is named Samaj­ come tax rate to 5% from 10%. lithaa for conspiring to launder March 1: The Government noti­ wadi Party “national president” at a A corpus of  1 lakh crore for safe­ wealth. Appeals stand abated fol­ es the Specied Bank Notes (Cessa­ special “emergency national con­ ty and zero service charge on digital lowing her death. Restores ‘in toto’ tion of Liabilities) Act, 2017, which vention” in Lucknow. bookings major highlights of the trial court’s conviction of the three makes it a criminal oence to pos­ Jan. 3: The CBI arrests Trinamool Railway Budget presented in 12 on September 27, 2014. sess more than a certain number of Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay points in the main budget. Edappadi K. Palaniswami is elect­ the old  500 and  1,000 notes. in the Rose Valley Group chit fund The Tamil Nadu Assembly passes ed the AIADMK Legislature Party March 3: Noted Ambedkarite scam case. The carcass of a turtle that was unanimously the two NEET Bills. leader. Twenty leaders, including O. thinker Dr. Krishna Kirwale is found Jan. 4: Justice Jagdish Singh Khe­ washed ashore on Thiruvanmiyur Feb. 2: A special court in New Panneerselvam are expelled from murdered at his bungalow in Kolha­ har is sworn in as the 44th CJI. beach in Chennai after an oil spill. Delhi acquits former Union Telecom the primary membership of the pur, Maharashtra. The DMK general council elects Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his party. An Air India Boeing 777­200LR Stalin as the working president. BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, le­ brother Kalanithi Maran and the lat­ Feb. 15: AIADMK interim general completes an around­the­world Jan. 15: Kiran Doshi, a retired di­ gendary singer K.J. Yesudas, spiri­ ter's wife Kaveri Kalanithi of bribery secretary V.K. Sasikala surrenders at ight with an all­women crew and plomat and educationist from Guja­ tual guru Jaggi Vasudev, Prof. Udipi and money laundering charges in a special court in Bengaluru and is lands at the IGI airport in New Delhi. rat, is presented The Hindu Prize Ramachandra Rao, former Lok Sab­ the Aircel­Maxis deal case. jailed at the Central Prison at Parap­ March 4: Manipur records 84% 2016 for his book, Jinnah Often ha Speaker P.A. Sangma and former Feb. 3: The Supreme Court refus­ pana Agrahara. turnout in the rst phase of Assemb­ Came to Our House by Pulitzer Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Sun­ es to stay the Rajasthan High Court's ISRO’s workhorse PSLV places a ly polls. Prize­winning author Geraldine derlal Patwa (both posthumous) are December 9, 2016 judgment which record 104 spacecraft in their de­ Uttar Pradesh registers 57% vot­ Brooks at The Hindu Lit for Life fest conferred with Padma Vibhushan struck down a bill providing 5% quo­ sired orbits, in a single mission from ing in the sixth phase of Assembly in Chennai. awards by President Pranab ta for the Special Backward Classes. Sriharikota. polls. Jan. 16: The Supreme Court re­ Mukherjee. BSE Ltd., Asia's oldest stock ex­ The second phase of the U.P. As­ March 6: Navy decommissions vives hearing on a bunch of peti­ Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri change and the rst in India to get sembly polls registers 65.5% voting. INS Viraat, the world’s oldest air­ tions challenging the bifurcation of Sirindhorn, Cho S. Ramaswamy listed makes a strong debut on the Uttarakhand registers 68% tur­ craft carrier in service, at a ceremo­ Andhra Pradesh in 2014. (posthumous), Vishwa Mohan bourses. nout in Assembly polls. ny in Mumbai. Ritu Khoda and Vanita Pai are Bhatt, D.P. Dwivedi, Ratna Sundar Feb. 4: Punjab registers 78.62% Feb. 16: Edappadi K. Palaniswa­ March 7: Former Delhi Universi­ presented with The Hindu Young Maharaj, Swami Niranjana Nanda voter turnout in Assembly polls. mi is sworn in as Tamil Nadu’s 13th ty professor G.N. Saibaba is sen­ World­Goodbooks Best Author Saraswati and Tehemton Udwadia Eightythree per cent polling is re­ Chief Minister. tenced to life imprisonment for his Awards for the book Eye Spy Indian are awarded Padma Bhushan. corded in Goa Assembly elections. The probe panel headed by Jus­ Maoist links by a sessions court in Art. Singers Kailash Kher, Anuradha Feb. 5: V.K. Sasikala is "unani­ tice S. Rajeswaran begins inquiry in­ Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. Jan. 17: India becomes an asso­ Paudwal, mridangam maestro T.K. mously" elected AIADMK Legisla­ to the pro­ jallikattu protests in March 8: Over 60% voting is re­ ciate member of the Geneva­based Murthy, cricketer Virat Kohli, para­ ture Party leader. Tamil Nadu Chief Coimbatore and Salem. corded in the seventh and last phase CERN, the European Organization lympic athlete Mariappan Thanga­ Minister O. Panneerselvam faxes re­ Feb. 18: The AIADMK govern­ of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. for Nuclear Research. velu, Olympian Sakshi Malik, gym­ signation to the Governor. ment wins a trust vote in the Tamil Manipur registers 86% polling in the Jan. 20: The Centre clears the nast Deepa Karmakar, pioneering Feb. 6: Tata Sons EGM in Mum­ Nadu Assembly after violence in the second and nal phase. Tamil Nadu government’s proposal AIDS researcher Dr. Suniti Solomon bai removes former chairman Cyrus House by DMK MLAs leading to March 9: Eminent Konkani wri­ to promulgate an ordinance to hold (posthumous), journalist Bhawana Mistry as director from its board. their eviction. ter Mahabaleshwar Sail is selected jallikattu. Somaaya, chef Sanjeev Kapoor pro­ Feb. 8: The Supreme Court, in an Feb. 19: The third phase of UP for the Saraswati Samman 2016 for Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, the lone minent among 75 Padma Shri unprecedented move, issues a con­ Assembly polls records 61% turnout. his novel Hawthan. survivor of the September 29, 2006 awardees. tempt of court notice against Justice Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Ze­ The Lok Sabha passes the Mater­ massacre of four members of his fa­ The initial public oer of the C.S. Karnan of the Calcutta High liang resigns. nity Benet (Amendment) Bill, mily in Khairlanji village in Maha­ Bombay Stock Exchange is sub­ Court for his "scurrilous" letters Feb. 21: Natarajan Chandraseka­ 2016, extending paid maternity rashtra’s Bhandra district dies of a scribed 51.15 times. against sitting and retired judges. ran takes oce as Tata Sons leave to 26 weeks, up from 12 weeks, heart attack in Nagpur. Jan. 26: India celebrates its 68th Feb. 9: India formally requests Chairman. to women working in the organised Jan. 21: Over 39 passengers are Republic Day with a display of mili­ the U.K. to extradite absconding ty­ Feb. 22: Shurhozelie Liezietsu sector. killed and 50 injured following the tary might. coon Vijay Mallya. takes oath as the 11th Chief Minister March 10: The Rajya Sabha pass­ derailment of the engine and nine Jan. 28: Two cargo ships — MT The Supreme Court sends back to of Nagaland. es The Enemy Property (Amend­ coaches of Hirakhand Express Maple and MT Dawn Kanchipuram jail real estate baron Gopal Ansal for Feb. 23: The fourth phase of U.P. ment and Validation) Bill, 2016. bound for Bhubaneswar from Jag­ — collide at the outer anchorage of the death in 1997 of 59 persons in a March 11: The BJP gets three­ dalpur near Kuneru railway station Kamarajar Port in Ennore, Chennai re at Uphaar Cinema in New Del­ fourths majority in Uttar Pradesh in Vizianagaram district, Andhra leading to a massive spill of hazar­ hi’s Green Park area. His elder and Uttarakhand. Pradesh. dous oil and LPG. brother Sushil is spared. In Punjab, the Congress returns Jan. 23: As police move in to re­ Former Karnataka Chief Minister Feb. 11: The rst phase of Uttar to power after 10 years, winning 77 move protesters, the week­long jalli- S.M. Krishna quits the Congress. Pradesh Assembly polls records a seats out of 117. Goa and Manipur de­ kattu protests turn violent in many Jan. 29: Jats launch a stir for re­ 64.22% turnout. liver fractured mandates. cities in Tamil Nadu. servation in government jobs in Feb. 13: The Karnataka Assembly March 13: Manohar Parikkar re­ The Tamil Nadu Assembly at a Haryana. passes the Prevention of Cruelty to signs as Defence Minister. special sitting passes the Prevention Jan. 31: The Supreme Court de­ Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Jeevanantham Muthukrishnan, a of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu clines plea to stay the operation of Bill, 2017 to allow kambala and bul­ Crew members of Air India ight AI student of Jawaharlal Nehru Univer­ Amendment) Bill, 2017. the new jallikattu law enacted by lock cart racing. 173, on arrival at IGI Airport, New sity commits suicide in New Delhi.

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sworn in Goa Chief Minister. Palaniswami, revolts against jailed telecom partner NTT Docomo Inc. GM mustard. Lok Sabha passes the Enemy Pro­ party general secretary Sasikala and MAY May 14: The Chennai Metro’s perty (Amendment and Validation) decides to keep her family “com­ May 1: Pakistan troops kill two ja­ rst underground stretch between Bill, 2016. pletely away” from party aairs and wans and mutilate their bodies near Thirumangalam and Nehru Park, March 15: N. Biren Singh is the government. the Line of Control in the Krishna covering a distance of 7.6 km, be­ sworn in as the rst BJP Chief Minis­ April 19: The Union Cabinet Ghati sector of Poonch district, Jam­ comes operational. ter of Manipur. scraps rule that allowed VIPs to have mu and Kashmir. May 16: Bengali is made compul­ March 16: Congress leader Capt. ashing red beacon lights on top of May 3: President Pranab Muk­ sory in all schools in West Bengal. Amarinder Singh is sworn in as Pun­ vehicles. herjee presents the Dadasaheb May 18: The ISRO is presented jab Chief Minister. The Supreme Court orders a joint Phalke Award to lmmaker and ac­ with the Indira Gandhi Prize for March 18: Trivendra Singh Ra­ trial of the dual Babri Masjid demoli­ tor K. Viswanath at the 64th Nation­ Peace, Disarmament and Develop­ wat is sworn in as the ninth Chief Mi­ tion cases and revives conspiracy al Film Awards function in New Del­ ment for the year 2014. nister of Uttarakhand. charges against BJP leaders, includ­ hi. Best Actor award is bagged by May 19: The Odisha High Court Prime Minister Narendra Modi after March 19: BJP leader Yogi Adi­ ing L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Akshay Kumar ( Rustom). C.M. Su­ grants conditional bail to Trinamool inaugurating the Chenani-Nashri tyanath is sworn in as the 21st Chief Joshi and Union Minister Uma rabhi gets the Best Actress award for Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay Tunnel, in Jammu and Kashmir. Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Bharti. her role in Malayalam lm Minna­ in the Rose Valley Group chit fund Jat stir for quota in Haryana is torate conducts searches on 300 April 23: Tamil Nadu farmers minungu: The Firey. scam. called o following a marathon shell companies across 16 states. call o their protest demanding May 4: The Bombay High Court May 21: Climber Anshu Jamsen­ meeting in New Delhi. The Supreme Court ban on sale farm loan waiver and setting up of upholds the conviction of 11 accused pa of Arunachal Pradesh scripts his­ March 20: The Southern Bench of liquor on national highways the Cauvery Management Board, at and sets aside the acquittal of seven tory by scaling Mount Everest twice of the NGT suspends its nod for neu­ comes into force. Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, after others in the March 3, 2002, gang­ within ve days. trino project in Theni, Tamil Nadu. April 2: Prime Minister Narendra more than a month. rape of Bilkis Bano during the post­ May 22: Major Leetul Gogoi of March 21: Rajya Sabha passes Modi inaugurates the country's lon­ April 24: At least 25 CRPF per­ Godhra riots at Randhikpur village, the 53 Rashtriya Ries Battalion, the long­awaited HIV Bill. gest tunnel covering 9.28 km — the sonnel of the 74th battalion are near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. who is facing an inquiry for using March 22: The Election Com­ Chenani­Nashri Tunnel on the Sri­ killed and seven injured after a May 5: The Supreme Court con­ Kashmiri man Farooq Ahmed Dar as mission freezes the AIADMK’s “Two nagar­Jammu National Highway Maoist attack near Burkapal in Suk­ rms the death penalty to the four a human shield in Budgam district Leaves” symbol for the R.K. Nagar connecting Udhampur with Ram­ ma district, Chhattisgarh. convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape on April 9, is given the Army Chief ‘s bypoll. Recognises split and bars ban. Activist Prafulla Samantara is and murder case of 2012. Commendation Card. use of ‘AIADMK’ name. April 5: The Supreme Court dis­ named one of the six winners of the ISRO launches the 2,230 kg com­ May 23: The Centre issues a not­ Former Karnataka Chief Minister misses Karnataka's review plea chal­ Goldman Environmental Prize for munication spacecraft South Asia ication titled the Prevention of S.M. Krishna joins the BJP. lenging the abatement of its appeal 2017 for his 12­year battle to stall Ve­ Satellite or GSAT­9 on board a GSLV­ Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of March 23: The National Compa­ against the acquittal of former Tamil danta’s bauxite mining in Odisha’s F09 rocket from Sriharikota, And­ Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017 ban­ ny Law Tribunal, Mumbai bench, Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in Niyamgiri Hills. hra Pradesh. ning the sale of cattle for slaughter approves the Vedanta Limited­Cairn the disproportionate assets case April 25: The bandh called by May 8: The Supreme Court sets at animal markets across the India merger. and seeking payment of  100 crore the Opposition parties in Tamil Na­ aside the 2014 Jharkhand High country. March 25: Tanushree Pareek be­ as ne. du led by the DMK in support of Court decision in a fodder scam May 24: The Union Cabinet gives comes the rst woman combat oc­ April 8: India and Bangladesh farmers is near total. case against RJD leader Lalu Prasad nod for the phasing out of the 25­ er to be commissioned in the BSF. sign 22 deals. Prime Ministers Na­ The Bombay High Court grants Yadav and orders separate trials year­old FIPB. March 27: The Mental Health­ rendra Modi and Sheikh Hasina ag bail to Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, a key against him, former Bihar Chief Mi­ May 25: Uzma Ahmed, an Indian care Bill which decriminalises sui­ o the trial run of the Khulna­Kolka­ accused in the September 29, 2008 nister Jagannath Mishra and others national who had accused Tahir Ali cide is unanimously passed in the ta train service. Kolkata­Khulna­ Malegaon blasts. in fodder scam­related cases. of Buner, Pakistan of forcibly marry­ Lok Sabha. Dhaka bus service trial run begins. The NSE index Nifty ends above May 9: A seven­judge Constitu­ ing her returns to New Delhi follow­ The Supreme Court observes that April 9: Eight civilians are killed the 9,300 level for the rst time. tion Bench of the Supreme Court ing a favourable verdict from the Is­ Aadhaar cannot be made mandato­ and 170 injured as widespread vio­ April 26: The BSE’s benchmark sentences Calcutta High Court sit­ lamabad High Court. ry for availing of welfare schemes. lence mars the Srinagar Lok Sabha 30­stock Sensex soars past the ting judge C.S. Karnan to six months May 26: Prime Minister Naren­ March 29: The Supreme Court byelection which records the lowest 30,000 closing mark for the rst in jail. dra Modi inaugurates the Dhola­Sa­ orders a freeze on the registration ever turnout of 7.14% time ever on the back of positive glo­ May 11: The Genetic Engineering diya bridge, the country’s longest and sale of BS­III fuel compliant veh­ The Election Commission cancels bal cues. Appraisal Committee gives nod for bridge stretching 9.15 km over the icles by “any manufacturer or deal­ the April 12 byelection to the Dr. April 27: Prime Minister Naren­ Lohit river in Assam named after er” on and from April 1. Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly dra Modi inaugurates the rst ight lyricist­singer Bhupen Hazarika. The Lok Sabha Passes four GST constituency in Chennai. under the UDAN — Ude Desh Ka May 30: A special CBI court in Bills: the Central GST Bill, the Inte­ April 11: Parliament passes the Aam Nagrik — scheme for regional Lucknow charges senior BJP leaders grated GST Bill, the GST Compensa­ Human Immunodeciency Virus connectivity on the Shimla­Delhi L.K. Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi tion Bill and the Union Territory (HIV) and Acquired Immune De­ routes. and Union Minister Uma Bharti with GST Bill. ciency Syndrome (AIDS) Prevention Kalpit Veerwal, a student of MDS conspiracy in the December 6, 1992 March 30: The Lok Sabha clears and Control) Bill, 2017. Senior Secondary School of Udai­ Babri Masjid demolition case. the Finance Bill. April 12: Parliament gives nod pur, Rajasthan, tops the IIT­JEE May 31: The Strategic Partner­ March 31: The Gujarat Animal for four GST bills. main examination of 2017 with a ship policy, intended to promote In­ Preservation (Amendment) Bill April 14: Prime Minister Naren­ perfect 100% or 360 marks. dian private sector participation in awarding maximum imprisonment dra Modi launches the BHIM­Aad­ April 28: The Delhi High Court defence manufacturing comes into up to life but not less than 10 years haar (a digital payment platform declares as “enforceable in India” eect. for cow slaughter is passed in the that uses the Aadhaar number) in the arbitral award of $ 1.8 billion dat­ JUNE State Assembly. Nagpur. ed June 22, 2016, passed by a Tribu­ June 5: ISRO launches its hea­ APRIL April 18: The AIADMK (Amma), nal in London to be paid by Tata viest launch vehicle, the 640­tonne

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cryogenic engine technology and July 3: The China­India stando kaiah Naidu as candidate for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in­ places in orbit the 3,136 kg GSAT­19, over Beijing’s attempt to lay a road Vice­President poll. He resigns from augurates a memorial for former a communication satellite, after lif­ in the Bhutanese territory at Doko the Cabinet. President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and to from the Satish Dhawan Space La over the Zom Cheri ridge on June July 18: BSP chief Mayawati re­ unveils his statue at Pei Karumbu Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra 16 continues for the 18th day. signs from the Rajya Sabha. near Rameswaram in Ramanathap­ Pradesh. As many as 22 States, including Sensex sinks about 364 points to uram district, Tamil Nadu. June 6: Five farmers are killed Delhi and West Bengal, abolish post its biggest single­day plunge in July 28: The Lok Sabha passes and two critically injured in police checkposts. eight months and closes at the IIM Bill, 2017. ring during a violent protest in The Supreme Court stays the 31,775.54. July 31: The Madras High Court Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh. April 4, 2017 order of the Madurai July 19: T.R. Zeliang is sworn in dismisses an appeal against NEET June 8: The Army is called out in Bench of the Madras High Court di­ as the Nagaland Chief Minister in and upholds the order of a single Darjeeling as Gorkha Janmukti Mor­ Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister recting the Tamil Nadu Government place of Shurhozelie Liezietsu judge quashing the government not­ cha supporters clash with the police Mehbooba Mufti meeting injured to extend crop loan waiver to all sacked by Governor B.P. Acharya. ication providing 85% quota for and indulge in arson to protest Amarnath pilgrims in Anantnag. farmers, including those with land­ The Lok Sabha passes a Bill to de­ State board students. against Bengali being made compul­ holdings above 5 acres. clare the IITs set up under the PPP The Max group and HDFC Life sory in all schools in the state. cutta High Court judge is lodged in President gives assent to the Pre­ route as Institutes of National call o merger, announced in June June 9: The Supreme Court the Presidency Jail in south Kolkata. vention of Cruelty to Animals (Kar­ Importance. 2016 following reservations by The upholds validity of an IT law amend­ The Karnataka Assembly orders nataka) Amendment Bill, 2017 July 20: Ram Nath Kovind is de­ Insurance Regulatory and Develop­ ment linking PAN with Aadhaar for one­year jail term and a ne of  July 6: Achal Kumar Joti takes clared elected as India’s 14th ment Authority of India . ling tax returns and making Aad­ 10,000 each for two Kannada ta­ charge as the 21st Chief Election President. AUGUST haar a must to apply for a PAN card. bloid editors, Ravi Belagere of Hai Commissioner. The Landmark India­Japan Aug. 1: Arvind Panagariya quits June 10: Reviving the demand Bengaluru and Anil Raj of Yelahan- July 7: The Supreme Court freez­ Agreement for Cooperation in the as NITI Aayog Vice­Chairman. for Gorkhaland, the Gorkha Jan­ ka Voice for breach of privilege. es the status of “legal persons” ac­ peaceful uses of civil nuclear energy Aug. 5: M. Venkaiah Naidu is mukti Morcha calls for an indenite June 23: Punjab Excise (Amend­ corded to rivers Ganga and Yamuna enters into force. elected the 15th Vice­President of shutdown. ment) Bill, 2017 to make way for li­ by the Uttarakhand High Court on July 21: Leader of the Opposition India. June 11: Maharashtra agrees to quor sale near highways is passed March 20, 2017. in Gujarat Shankersinh Vaghela re­ Economist Dr. Rajiv Kumar is ap­ grant a conditional farm loan waiver by the State Assembly. July 8: Ahmedabad is declared signs from the Congress. pointed NITI Aayog Vice­Chairman. estimated at 25,000 crore. Ryots The ISRO launches 31 satellites, India’s rst World Heritage City by July 23: Shankersinh Vaghela re­ The marathon 78­hour IT search call o stir after 10 days. including 29 nano satellites from 14 the UNESCO. signs as the Leader of the Opposi­ against Karnataka Energy Minister Sarvesh Mehtani from Panchku­ foreign nations on board the PSLV­C July 9: The probe into the Adarsh tion in Gujarat. D.K. Shivakumar and rms allegedly la, Haryana secures the rst rank in 38 rocket from the Satish Dhawan housing society scam in Mumbai in­ July 24: Compassion and em­ linked to him leads to the unearth­ JEE­Advanced 2017. Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra dicts several senior military ocers, pathy the “true foundation” of In­ ing of undisclosed income of nearly Justice C.S. Karnan of the Calcutta Pradesh. including two former Army chiefs, dia’s civilisation, says President Pra­  300 crore. High Court retires. Punjab’s Navdeep Singh tops the General Deepak Kapoor and Gener­ nab Mukherjee in his last address to Aug. 9: The Lok Sabha holds a June 13: India raties two core NEET held on May 7 scoring a per­ al N.C. Vij. the nation as the head of state. special setting to mark the 75th an­ conventions of ILO on child labour. centile of 99.99 with 697 marks out July 10: On a day when the Sen­ July 25: Ram Nath Kovind is niversary of the Quit India move­ June 16: The government ga­ of total 720. sex gained 355 points to close at a sworn in the 14th President of India ment. zettes a notication dated June 1 GJM president Bimal Gurung and new high of 31,715.64, trading at by CJI J.S. Khehar at a ceremony in Aug. 10: The Hindu Playwright making Aadhaar mandatory to open all other elected members of the NSE, the country’s largest stock ex­ the Central Hall of Parliament. Award 2017 is presented to Gerish bank accounts and to conduct a Gorkhaland Territorial Council re­ change is stalled for three hours due July 26: The ruling coalition in Khemani and Akshat Nigam for transaction of 50,000 or more. sign. to a technical glitch. Bihar collapses with Chief Minister their play In Search of Dariya Sagar June 17: Violence escalates in June 24: Maharashtra Chief Mi­ Seven Amarnath pilgrims are Nitish Kumar submitting his resigna­ during the launch of the 13th edition Darjeeling hills with three persons nister Devendra Fadnavis announc­ killed and 19 injured after a Gujarat­ tion to Governor Keshari Nath of The Hindu Theatre Fest in killed and 35 security personnel in­ es a 34,000 crore farm loan waiver. registered bus carrying them is at­ Tripathi. Chennai. jured in widespread clashes. June 28: The Cabinet Committee tacked by militants on the Srinagar­ The Nifty closes above the 10,000 Aug. 11: The Supreme Court dis­ The 5,182­crore Kochi Metro Rail on Economic Aairs gives in princi­ Jammu Highway in Anantnag. mark for the rst time ever. Sensex misses Tamil Nadu's appeal on project is dedicated to the nation by ple nod for Air India disinvestment. The ood situation turns critical gains 154.19 points to close at a new NEET quota. Prime Minister Narendra Modi. June 29: ISRO’s 3,477 kg space­ in Assam with 12.55 lakh people high of 32,382.46. Venkaiah Naidu is sworn in In­ June 19: BJP president Amit Shah craft GSAT 17, the heaviest built by it, across 20 districts aected. July 27: Nitish Kumar is sworn in dia's 15th Vice­President in a brief declares Bihar Governor Ram Nath is launched from the South Ameri­ July 11: The Supreme Court stays Bihar Chief Minister and BJP’s Sushil ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Kovind as the NDA’s candidate for can space port of Kourou aboard an the Centre’s notication, banning Kumar Modi as Deputy Chief Aug. 12: The U.P. government in­ the presidential poll. Ariane­5 ECA rocket VA­238. cattle sale in livestock markets for Minister. itiates probe into the death of 60 June 20: Justice C.S. Karnan is June 30: President Pranab slaughter and religious sacrice. children since August 7 in the neo­ arrested by police from a resort at Mukkherjee launches the landmark Malayalam actor Dileep, arrested natal ICU and the encephalitis ward Malumichampatti, near Coimba­ unied tax GST, the new indirect tax for the kidnap and molestation of a at the BRD Medical College Hospital tore, Tamil Nadu. regime at the stroke of midnight in woman actor, is remanded to judi­ in Gorakhpur. The Kolkata Metro Rail Corpora­ the Central Hall of Parliament in cial custody. He is expelled from Aug. 15: Show collective will to tion completes the construction of New Delhi. lm bodies. build a new India, says Prime Minis­ India’s rst set of the 520 metre­long JULY July 14: The Supreme Court re­ ter Narendra Modi in his Indepen­ underwater transportation tunnels July 1: The registration of one fuses to nullify the NEET 2017. dence Day address to the nation. that will link the two banks of the lakh companies that had suspicious July 17: The presidential election Rohith Vemula committed sui­ Hooghly river — Howrah Maidan operations cancelled by the govern­ records the highest ever voter tur­ cide in January 2016 for personal and Sealdah on the one side with ment (on June 30), says Prime Minis­ nout of over 99%. reasons and not over eviction from Kolkata on the other. ter Narendra Modi addressing char­ The BJP’s parliamentary board the Hyderabad Central University

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Commission report which is made dent who had challenged the NEET Sept. 18: Tamil Nadu Assembly the Raj Bhavan in Chennai. public. in the Supreme Court commits sui­ Speaker P. Dhanapal disqualies 18 Oct. 9: The Gujarat High Court Aug. 16: NIA to probe Kerala cide at her home in Kuzhumur vil­ rebel AIADMK MLAs owing alle­ commutes the death term awarded ‘love jihad’ case and Supreme Court lage in Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu. giance to T.T.V. Dhinakaran. Defec­ to 11 persons in the 2002 Godhra sets up a panel under former judge The Punjab and Haryana High tion rules invoked and they cease to train arson case to life imprison­ R.V. Raveendran to monitor Court keeps in abeyance till March be legislators. ment. Upholds life term for 20 oth­ progress. 2018 the implementation of a Harya­ Sept. 20: The West Bengal Chief ers, while endorsing the acquittal of The Centre gives nod for Tamil na law providing quota to Jats and Minister Mamata Banerjee reconsti­ 63 other accused. Nadu’s NEET ordinance. ve other communities. tutes Gorkhaland Territorial Admi­ The Supreme Court suspends the Aug. 17: The Rajasthan govern­ Sept. 3: Nirmala Sitharaman be­ nistration and appoints rebel GJM sale of re crackers in Delhi and ment grants reservation for Gujjars. comes the rst woman in India to leader Binoy Tamang its NCR till November 1. Aug. 18: Vishal Sikka, CEO and hold charge of the Defence portfolio chairperson. Oct. 11: The Supreme Court Relatives mourning the death of a MD of Infosys resigns. child at the BRD Medical College full time in a massive reshue of the Sept. 21: Narayan Rane quits the holds that sexual intercourse by a Aug. 19: At least 24 persons are Hospital in Gorakhpur, UP. Union Cabinet. Congress and resigns as Maharash­ man with his wife, who is below 18 killed and over 156 injured following Sept. 5: Senior Kannada journal­ tra MLC. years of age, with or without her the derailment of 14 coaches of the killed and more than 250 injured in ist and activist Gauri Lankesh is shot Sept. 25: The government de­ consent is rape. Puri­Haridwar Utkal Express at Jagat protests in Panchkula and other dead outside her residence at Raja cides to reconstitute the Economic The Kerala Cabinet orders a vigi­ Colony in Khatauli near Muzaarna­ parts of Haryana after Dera Sacha Rajeshwari Nagar in West Advisory Council and picks Bibek lance probe against former Chief Mi­ gar, Uttar Pradesh. Sauda supporters go on a rampage Bengaluru. Debroy as its Chairman. nister Oommen Chandy and two of The Infosys board approves a  following the conviction of their Sept. 7: A TADA court awards Mukul Roy, one of the founding his Cabinet colleagues in the multi­ 13,000 crore share buyback plan. chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh by death sentence to Firoz Khan and members of the Trinamool Con­ crore solar scam of 2013. Aug. 21: The AIADMK factions a CBI special court for the rape in Taher Merchant. It jails for life two, gress quits the party. Trinamool Congress MP Mukul merge and O. Panneerselvam is 2002 of two sadhvis. including gangster Abu Salem, and Sept. 26: The GJM calls o its stir Roy quits the Rajya Sabha and re­ sworn in as Tamil Nadu Deputy Aug. 27: India and China agree to one to 10 years’ RI in the March 12, in Darjeeling after almost 100 days. signs from the primary membership Chief Minister. disengage from the 73­day stando 1993, Mumbai serial blasts. Sept. 28: A trial court in Mapusa of the party. The Supreme Court grants bail to on the Doklam plateau, disputed Nirmala Sitharaman assumes in north Goa frames rape charges Oct. 12: The Allahabad High the September 29, 2008, Malegaon between China and Bhutan. charge as the nation’s rst full­time against Tarun Tejpal, former editor­ Court acquits dentist couple Rajesh blasts case accused Lt. Col. Shrikant Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet woman Defence Minister. in­chief of Tehelka, for the Novem­ and Nupur Talwar and quashes Prasad Purohit. Ram Rahim Singh is awarded 20 Sept. 8: West Bengal to be Bangla ber 2013 sexual abuse of a junior their conviction in the May 16, 2008 Gujarat sets up a network to mon­ years RI in two rape cases registered hereafter. colleague. murder of their teenage daughter itor the swine u epidemic, even as in 2002 and a ne of 15 lakh in each Pradyuman Thakur, a Class II stu­ Sept. 29: A stampede on the foot Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj the toll touches 280. case, by a Special CBI Court at the dent, is found dead in a washroom overbridge at the Elphinstone Road in Noida. Aug. 22: Instant triple talaq is Sunaria Jail complex in Rohtak, of Ryan International School, suburban train station in Mumbai Oct. 13: The Supreme Court does “manifestly arbitrary”, declares a Haryana. Gurugram. claims 23 lives and leaves 30 a U­turn on its July 27 dowry harass­ historic 3:2 majority judgment by a Justice Dipak Misra takes oath as Sept. 10: Defence Minister Nir­ injured. ment ruling, saying it blunts the ve­ multi­faith Constitution Bench of the 45th Chief Justice of India at the mala Sitharaman ags o ‘Navika OCTOBER ry purpose of Section 498A. the Supreme Court. Rashtrapati Bhavan. Sagar Parikrama’, an attempt by an Oct. 1: The Meenakshi Sundares­ Oct. 16: Rajesh and Nupur Tal­ The Edappadi Palaniswami go­ Aug. 29: Life comes to a stand­ all­women Navy crew to circumnavi­ warar Temple in Madurai, Tamil Na­ war leave Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad, vernment falls short of a simple ma­ still in Mumbai as the city records gate the globe, at INS Mandovi Naval du is adjudged best Swachh Iconic U.P. jority in the Tamil Nadu Assembly 320 mm rain, highest in a single day training base near Panaji, Goa. Place in India. Oct. 22: Prime Minister Naren­ by two MLAs. Nineteen Dhinakaran since 1997. Sept. 12: AIADMK general coun­ Oct. 3: The Supreme Court ques­ dra Modi, inaugurates the rst loyalists withdraw support to the West Bengal Chief Minister Ma­ cil held in Chennai removes V.K. Sa­ tions the May 24 annulment by the phase of the ‘roll­on­roll­o’ (Ro­Ro) Chief Minister. mata Banerjee holds talks with sikala as interim general secretary. Kerala High Court of an inter­reli­ ferry service between Ghogha in Aug. 23: The Kerala High Court Gorkhaland parties. Rejects state­ All her decisions between Decem­ gious marriage that took place in Bhavnagar district, Saurashtra, and rejects the CBI’s revision petition hood demand. ber 30, 2016, and February 15, 2017, December 2016 and the legality of Dahej, near Bharuch in south Guja­ against discharging Chief Minister Aug. 31: ISRO’s PSLV­C39 mis­ are declared invalid. The general se­ the woman's father keeping her in rat, at a rally in Ghogha. Pinarayi Vijayan from the SNC Lava­ sion carrying the replacement navi­ cretary post is abolished. his custody. Oct. 23: The Centre appoints lin graft case. gation satellite IRNSS­1H fails, after Sept. 13: The Hindu wins the Oct. 5: Akilesh Yadav is elected former IB chief Dineshwar Sharma Aug. 24: Privacy is an inherent launch from the Satish Dhawan best news website award at the Samajwadi Party chief. as a “special representative” to hold part of fundamental rights en­ Space Centre at Sriharikota. South Asian Digital Media Awards at Oct. 6: Banwarilal Purohit is talks on J&K. shrined in the statute, declares a Rajiv Mehrishi is appointed the the WAN­IFRA India 2017 confe­ sworn in Tamil Nadu Governor at Oct. 26: Abdul Karim Telgi 56, nine­judge Constitution Bench of CAG and Rajiv Gauba is made Home rence in Chennai. convicted for masterminding the the Supreme Court in a unanimous Secretary in his place. Former I&B Sept. 14: Prime Minister Naren­ multi­crore fake stamp paper racket verdict. However, it is not an abso­ Secretary Sunil Arora is appointed dra Modi and his Japanese counter­ dies at the Victoria Hospital in lute right. Overrules Emergency­era Election Commissioner. part Shinzo Abe lay the foundation Bengaluru. habeas corpus verdict. Six Union Ministers resign to fa­ stone in Ahmedabad for the coun­ Oct. 27: The Justice Arumughas­ The Supreme Court rips apart its cilitate Cabinet reshue. try’s rst 1,10,000 crore, 508 km wamy Commission begins probe in­ own 2014 judgment upholding Sec­ SEPTEMBER high­speed rail project between to the circumstances that led to the tion 377 of the IPC, which criminal­ Sept. 1: The CBI les a chargesh­ Mumbai and Ahmedabad. death of former Chief Minister of Ta­ ises consensual sexual acts of adults eet against retired Air Chief Marshal Sept. 17: Prime Minister Naren­ mil Nadu Jayalalithaa. in private. S.P. Tyagi, former Air Marshal J.S. dra Modi dedicates to the nation the NOVEMBER The Infosys board approves the Gujral and 10 others in the  3,700­ Sardar Sarovar Dam at Kevadiya in Nov. 1: Poet critic Satchidanan­ appointment of Nandan Nilekani as crore AgustaWestland VVIP helicop­ Narmada district, Gujarat, at a func­ dan is selected by the Kerala govern­ non­executive chairman. ter case. tion at Dabhoi, 55 km from the dam ment for the 2017 Ezhuthachan

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Sensex gains 387.14 points to o the Lakshadweep islands. Life hit probe into alleged leak of sensitive INTERNATIONAL in Olathe city in Kansas, U.S. Ian Mubarak is freed after six years in plant at Fessenheim near the border close at a new high of 33,600.27. in Kanniyakumari district. nancial information. Grillot, an American youth who custody. with Germany. Nov. 2: Torrential rain batters Dec. 2: The Andhra Pradesh As­ Dec. 23: The former Bihar Chief tried to stop the shooter, is injured. March 25: U.S. President Donald April 10: A Pakistani military Chennai city. sembly passes the A.P. Kapu (Reser­ Minister Lalu Prasad and 15 others JANUARY NASA announces the discovery of Trump’s bid to repeal Obamacare court sentences to death a former Nov. 3: Former Union Minister vation of seats in Educational Insti­ are convicted in a fodder scam case Jan. 1: Thirtynine persons, in­ seven Earth­sized exoplanets spot­ fails amid rebellion among GoP Indian Navy ocer Kulbhushan Jad­ Mukul Roy joins the BJP at a func­ tutions and of Appointments or by a special CBI court in Ranchi. cluding many foreigners are killed, ted around a small, faint star, lawmakers. hav, accusing him of espionage. tion in New Delhi. Posts in Services under the State) Dec. 24: T.T.V. Dhinakaran, as a gunman goes on a rampage at named Trappist­1, in the constella­ EU leaders sign a formal declara­ The Pulitzer Prize for national re­ Hindi litterateur Krishna Sobti is Bill. AIADMK dissident leader, scores a the Reina nightclub in Turkey’s cap­ tion of Aquarius. tion of unity in Rome, marking the porting is bagged by David Fahren­ chosen for the 2017 Jnanpith Award. Infosys names Capgemini veteran massive victory in the December 21 ital Istanbul. Feb. 26: Moonlight bags the Best bloc’s 60th anniversary. thold of The Washington Post. The Nov. 7: Air pollution in New Delhi Salil Parekh as CEO and MD. bypolls to the R.K. Nagar Assembly A landmark deal is reached to Picture Oscar at the 89th Academy March 26: Carrie Lam Cheng Pulitzer for commentary goes to reaches severe levels, turning it into Dec. 4: The Madhya Pradesh As­ seat in Chennai. end a political crisis in DR Congo. Awards at the Dolby Theater in Los Yuet­ngor, a Beijing backed civil ser­ Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street a ‘gas chamber’ and forcing closure sembly passes a Bill awarding death Dec. 26: Vijay Rupani is sworn in Jan. 4: The Laser Interferometer Angeles. The neo­musical La La vant, is chosen the rst woman Journal. The coveted Public Service of primary schools. to those found guilty of raping girls as Gujarat’s 16th Chief Minister. Gravitational­Wave Observatory (LI­ Donald Trump during his swearing- Land wins six Oscars, including Chief Executive of Hong Kong by a medal is picked up by New York Dai- The CBI arrests a 16­year­old A candlelight vigil being held in aged 12 and below. Rahul Gandhi Dec. 27: Jairam Thakur is sworn GO) detectors in the U.S. detect yet in at the US Capitol in Washington, Best Director (Damien Chazelle) and 1,200 person “election committee”. ly News. Class XI student for the murder of Chennai for Cyclone Ockhi victims. The Criminal Laws (Rajasthan in Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister. another merger of two black holes. DC. Best Actress (Emma Stone). March 28: U.S. President Donald April 11: Dr. Mark Arnold Wain­ Pradyuman Thakur. Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, Products (Packaging and Labelling) Eight accused in the 2008 Male­ Jan. 8: Damien Chazelle’s whim­ MARCH Trump signs an executive order to berg 71, Canadian microbiologist Nov. 9: Nationwide IT raids are sion of the Brahmos supersonic air­ lapses. Amendment Rules, 2014 on en­ gaon blasts case to stand trial on ter­ sical modern­day musical La La Feb. 8: The House of Commons March 1: Amjad Hussein B. Sial, undo a slew of Obama­era climate dies after a drowning incident while carried out on rms and private pro­ to­surface cruise missile from an Rebel JD (U) MPs Sharad Yadav hanced pictorial warning. ror charges, rules a special NIA Land bags seven statuettes at the passes the Brexit bill without any a veteran Pakistani diplomat is change regulations, mainly the on vacation in Florida, U.S. perties linked to V.K. Sasikala, jailed IAF SU­30MKI aircraft. and Ali Anwar are disqualied from Dec. 16: Rahul Gandhi takes court in Mumbai. Golden Globes ceremony in Los An­ amendments. elected SAARC Secretary­General. Clean Power Plan. April 13: The U.S. drops former aide of late AIADMK leader The Union Cabinet gives nod for the Rajya Sabha. charge as Congress president. Dec. 28: The Lok Sabha passes geles. Feb. 9: The Ninth Circuit Court March 2: In a nal ruling, British Prime Minister Theresa GBU­43/B, a Massive Ordnance Air Jayalalithaa. the setting up of the 15th Finance Gauri Memorial Trust launched. A special court in Delhi awards The Muslim Women (Protection of Jan. 10: White supremacist Dy­ of Appeals in San Francisco upholds Egypt’s top appeals court acquits May triggers Article 50. Bomb, a 9,797 kg GPS­guided bomb, Himachal Pradesh records its Commission. Dec. 6: India’s global initiative, three years’ RI to former Jharkhand Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 that lann Roof gets the death sentence a nationwide stay on the 90­day tra­ former President Hosni Mubarak of March 31:At least 314 people are on an IS base in the Achin district of highest­ever turnout of 74% in As­ Nov.23: The Election Commis­ the International Solar Alliance, Chief Minister Madhu Koda and makes instant talaq a criminal of­ for the 2015 killing of nine black per­ vel ban imposed by the Trump any role in the killing of protesters killed and 332 injured in a mudslide Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, sembly polls. sion allots the ‘Two Leaves’ symbol comes into existence. three others in a coal block alloca­ fence, with a jail term up to three sons at the Emanuel African Metho­ administration. during the 2011 uprising. following heavy rains that caused leaving 92 dead. The Kolkata­Khulna Bandhan Ex­ to the faction led by Tamil Nadu Karnataka High Court restrains tion scam case. years. dist Episcopal Church in Charles­ Feb. 12: British star Adele creates Snap Inc pulls o the biggest U.S. three rivers to ood Mocoa town in April 15: At least 126 persons, in­ press is agged o at the Kolkata sta­ Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanis­ the State government from taking Dec. 17: IAF’s Mi­8 helicopter Dec. 29: At least 14 persons are ton, South Carolina, U.S. history by winning the album, song listed technology share sale on its Colombia’s Amazon basin. cluding 80 children are killed as a tion by Prime Minister Narendra wami and recognises it as the action against Ravi Belagere, editor takes the bow after 45 years, at the killed and 54 injured after a re at 1 “Let’s be vigilant, but not afraid”, and record of the year for her come­ IPO, raising $30 billion. APRIL blast rips through an area west of Modi, his Bangladeshi counterpart AIADMK. of Hi Bangalore, and Anil Raj, editor Air Force Station in Yelahanka, Ben­ Above and Mojo restaurants in the says U.S. President Barack Obama at back album 25 at the 59th Annual March 6: The Donald Trump ad­ April 1: Venezuela’s Supreme Aleppo in Syria. Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Nov. 27: The Supreme Court and publisher of Yelahanka Voice. galuru. Kamala Mills Compound, Mumbai. his farewell speech in Chicago. Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, ministration issues a new executive Court abandons measures to seize April 18: British Prime Minister Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee frees Hadiya, who converted to Is­ Dec. 7: Mohammad Afrazul Dec. 18: The BJP wins in Gujarat The Lok Sabha passes the Insol­ Jan. 17: The deep­sea search for U.S. order temporarily banning travel power from the Opposition­con­ Theresa May announces plans to through video­conferencing. lam before marrying Shen Jehan, Khan, a labourer is burnt alive by Assembly elections (held on Decem­ vency and Bankruptcy Code the Malaysia Airlines ight MH370 Feb. 13: AP photographer Bur­ from six Muslim­majority countries trolled Parliament. hold snap polls on June 8. Nov. 10: The GST Council at its from the 11­month custody of her Shambhu Lal Raigar, a resident of ber 9 and 14), with 99 seats. It wrests (Amendment) Bill, 2017. that vanished in 2014 with 239 per­ han Ozbilici wins the 2017 World to the U.S. leaving out Iraq that was April 3: Fourteen persons are Industrialist Vijay Mallya is arrest­ 23rd meeting in Guwahati, slashes parents and allows her to return to Rajnagar in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand Himachal Pradesh from the The National Medical Commis­ sons on board ends. Press Photo Competition for his im­ in the earlier order. killed and 50 injured after a blast ed in London based on an extradi­ rate on 178 of 228 items from 28% to Salem, Tamil Nadu, to nish her district. Congress. sion Bill, 2017 which seeks to re­ Jan. 19: Mexico extradites drug age of a gun­wielding o­duty poli­ The U.S. House Republicans un­ rocks a train carriage in the St. Pe­ tion warrant. 18% with eect from November 15. internship. Dec. 11: Congress vice­president Dec. 19: The Rajya Sabha passes place the MCI with a new body is ta­ kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman ceman, who killed Russia’s Ambas­ veil the ‘American Health Care’ that tersburg metro in Russia. Australian Prime Minister Mal­ The Centre grants infrastructure The Madurai Bench of the Madras Rahul Gandhi is elected unopposed the IIM Bill, 2017. Companies bled in Lok Sabha. to the U.S. to stand trial. sador Andrei Karlov on December seeks to dismantle several of the Socialist Lenin Moreno wins colm Turnbull announces scrapping status to the logistics sector. High Court orders the release of all as INC president. (Amendment) Bill, 2017, is passed by Dec. 30: Work begins on turning Jan. 20: Donald J. Trump takes 19, 2016. core aspects of Obamacare. Ecuador presidential polls. of the “457” visa programme that al­ Nov. 13: The Supreme Court ob­ 35 persons on board the U.S. anti­pi­ Dec. 12: A trial court in Tirupur, voice vote. the residence of former Tamil Nadu oath as the 45th President of the Kim Jong­nam, the half­brother of March 7: Tata Motors unveils In­ April 4: At least 83 civilians are lowed local rms to hire Indians in a serves that its July 11 order exempt­ racy vessel MV Seaman Guard Ohio Coimbatore, awards death penalty The Lok Sabha passes two bills to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in Chen­ U.S. in Washington D.C. Signs an ex­ North Korean President, Kim Jong­ dia’s rst connected car, TAMO Ra­ killed and 300 injured after a war­ number of skilled jobs. ing the December 2016 ban on sale arrested by the ‘Q’ Branch police in to six persons for the March 13, 2016 repeal 245 obsolete laws. nai into a public memorial. ecutive order to roll back parts of un is assassinated by two women cemo at the 87th Geneva Interna­ plane carries out strikes releasing April 20: of liquor along National and State October 2013 for illegal entry. murder of Dalit youth Shankar in Dec. 20: Former Calcutta High Dec. 31: Tamil actor Rajinikanth Obamacare. spy agents of Pyongyang at the Kua­ tional Motor Show in Switzerland. toxic gas in the Syrian town of Khan A police ocer Xavier Jugele is Highways applies to all municipal Nov. 28: Prime Minister Naren­ Udumalpet for marrying a caste Court judge C.S Karnan is released announces entry into politics. Jan. 23: U.S. President Donald la Lumpur International Airport in March 9: Donald Tusk is re­ Sheikhun in Idlib province. killed and two other ocers and a areas across the nation. dra Modi calls upon entrepreneurs Hindu girl Kausalya. from Kolkata’s Presidency Correc­ Assam publishes the rst draft of Trump signs a memo to pull Ameri­ Malaysia. elected European Union President. April 7: Leading Venezuela Op­ tourist are injured in Paris when a Nov. 15: Kerala Transport Minis­ from across the globe to “come, The Ernakulam principal ses­ tional Home. an updated National Register of Citi­ ca out of the vast Trans­Pacic Part­ Michael Flynn, National Security March 10: South Korea’s Consti­ position leader Henrique Capriles is gunman opens re on a police van ter Thomas Chandy resigns in the make in India, invest in India, for In­ sions court awards the death penal­ The CBI moves the Supreme zens listing 1.9 crore names. nership trade pact, signed by 12 Adviser to U.S. President, Donald tutional Court removes President banned from running for oce for parked on the Avenue des Champs wake of the High Court passing stric­ dia and for the world”, inaugurating ty to Muhammed Ameerul Islam of Court against the discharge of Kera­ Five CRPF jawans are killed after countries in 2015. Trump, resigns over his Russia Park Geun­hye from oce over a 15 years. Elysees. The attacker is later killed. tures against him for ling a petition the Global Entrepreneurship Sum­ Assam for the April 28, 2016 rape la Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by ultras target a training centre at Jan. 25: U.S. President Donald contacts. graft scandal involving the country’s April 9: France publishes a de­ April 21: At least 140 soldiers are against his own government. mit in Hyderabad. and murder of a law student at her the High Court in the SNC Lavalin Lethpora in Pulwama, J&K. Trump issues an executive order for Feb. 16: At least 88 persons are conglomerates. Prime Minister cree for closing its oldest nuclear killed and 60 wounded after Taliban Nov. 16: The Karnataka Preven­ Prime Minister Narendra Modi in­ house in Vattolipadi near Perumba­ corruption case. Telangana rolls out 24­hour free an “impassable physical barrier” killed and 200 injured after an IS Hwang Kyoahn is appointed acting militants attack the headquarters of tion and Eradication of Inhuman augurates the Hyderabad Metro. voor, near Kochi, Kerala. Dec. 21: A Delhi court acquits power supply to farmers. along the border with Mexico. suicide bomber strikes at the Su President. the Afghan army’s 209th corps in Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill, Morocco­born French director Dec. 13: The Supreme Court former Telecom Minister A. Raja, Indian­American Nikki Haley is shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in March 13: The Brexit bill is Balkh near Mazar­e­Sharif. 2017 is passed by the Assembly. Robin Campillo’s drama 120 BPM stays the NCLT order allowing the DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Sehwan city of Sindh, Pakistan. passed unamended by both the April 23: Prominent Maldivian Nov. 17: Global credit rating wins the Golden Peacock Award at Centre to take over realty rm Un­ and 15 others in the 2G spectrum al­ the United Nations. Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee is Houses of the British Parliament. blogger Yameen Rasheed is stabbed agency Moody’s Investors Services the 48th IFFI in Panaji, Goa. itech Ltd. location scam case. Jan. 27: U.S. President Donald arrested for his alleged role in a cor­ March 16: Dutch Prime Minister to death in Male. raises India’s sovereign rating to Nov. 29: A special court in Ah­ The Supreme Court gives its nod Tamil poet and dramatist Inqui­ Trump issues an executive order ruption scandal that led to the im­ Mark Rutte wins parliamentary April 24: Man Kaur 101, wins the ‘Baa 2’ for the rst time in 13 years. mednagar, Maharashtra, sentences for the Centre’s scheme to set up 12 lab is selected posthumously for the barring refugees from seven Mus­ peachment of South Korean Presi­ polls paving the way for a third 100 metres sprint at the World Mas­ IT ocials search the residence to death three persons for the 2016 fast track courts to try cases against Sahitya Akademi Award for 2017. lim­majority countries entering the dent Park Geun­hye. term. ters Game in Auckland, New Zea­ of late Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu rape and murder of a minor girl in tainted politicians. But his family declines it. nation. Feb. 18: Hungarian lmmaker Il­ March 22: Four persons are left land, the 17th gold medal for the In­ Jayalalithaa in Chennai. Ahmednagar’s Kopardi village. Dec. 14: Prime Minister Naren­ Dec. 22: The Bombay High Court FEBRUARY diko Enyedi’s love story On Body dead and 50 others injured after a dian athlete, dubbed the “miracle Nov. 18: Former Prime Minister Nov. 30: Cyclone Ockhi wreaks dra Modi commissions INS Kalvari, quashes the Governor’s sanction to Feb. 1: British MPs vote by 498 to and Soul wins the Golden Bear at terror attack outside the U.K. Parlia­ from Chandigarh”. Manmohan Singh is chosen for the havoc in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. the rst of six Scorpene submarines prosecute former Maharashtra 114 to support the European Union the Berlin Fim Festival. ment at Westminster. April 29: The rst freight train to 2017 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, DECEMBER into the Navy in Mumbai. Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the (Notication of Withdrawal) Bill. Feb. 22: Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an March 24: U.S. President Donald run from Britain to China arrives in Disarmament and Development. Dec. 1: Heavy rain continues to Dec. 15: The Karnataka High 2010 Adarsh housing society scam. Feb. 4: The U.S. suspends its ban Indian engineer, is killed and his Trump formally approves the $8 bil­ A member of the public being Yiwu in eastern China. Nov. 22: In a rst, India success­ batter Kerala and south Tamil Nadu, Court declares as unconstitutional The SEBI raids 34 entities in on travellers from seven Muslim­ma­ friend Alok Madasani injured by Na­ lion Keystone XL pipeline project. treated near Westminster Bridge in April 31: Nepal’s rst woman

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pended on the registration of an im­ by three assailants who drive a van vy guided missile destroyer USS force declares its disarmament com­ peachment motion in Parliament. at high speed on London Bridge be­ Fitzgerald are killed after a collision plete, bringing Latin America’s ol­ MAY fore assaulting people around Bo­ with ACX Crystal, a Philippines con­ dest civil conict close to an end. May 1: SpaceX launches rst U.S. rough Market. They are shot dead tainer ship south of Tokyo Bay o Venezuela’s army is put on alert military satellite known only as by police. the coast of Japan. after four grenades are hurled from NROL­76 from Cape Canaveral. June 5: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the June 19: French Pesident Emma­ a chopper at the Supreme Court and Venezuelan President Nicolas Ma­ UAE and Bahrain sever diplomatic nuel Macron’s Republic on the Move the Interior Ministry is strafed in the duro issues a decree for writing a ties with Qatar over its alleged sup­ and its centrist ally MoDem win 350 capital Caracas. new Constitution, hours after a big port for Islamists and Iran. seats in the 577­seat National As­ June 29: The ‘caliphate’ crum­ march demanding his ouster ends June 6: Sher Bahadur Deuba is sembly, which will have a record bles in Iraq as troops capture the in clashes between police and elected Nepal Prime Minister for the 224 women lawmakers. historic al Nuri Mosque’s ground in protestors. fourth time. Otto F. Warmbier, a student of Mosul in a “lightning operation”. May 4 June 7: : The U.S. House of Repre­ People being escorted from the At least 17 persons are Virginia University and Ohio native, The Trump travel ban on six Mus­ sentatives passes the Obamacare re­ Manchester Arena in Manchester, killed and more than 50 wounded as dies comatose at a Cincinnati hospi­ lim majority nations of Iran, Libya, peal Bill. England after a suicide attack. gunmen and suicide bombers attack tal just days after release from North Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen May 8: Emmanuel Macron scores Iran's Parliament in Tehran and the Korea, which held him prisoner for comes into eect in the U.S. a resounding victory over his Na­ May 19: The Japanese govern­ shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini out­ 17 months since January 2016. June 30: Germany’s Parliament tional Front rival Marine Le Pen in ment approves a one­o bill allow­ side the capital. June 21: Saudi Arabia’s King Sal­ in a historic vote legalises same­sex the French presidential runo. ing Emperor Akihito to abdicate. June 8: Britons cast votes in snap man ousts his nephew Mohammed marriage. May 9: The International Court May 20: Iran's President Hasan general election. bin Nayef as Crown Prince and in­ JULY of Justice at The Hague stays the Rouhani is re­elected for a second June 9: Conservatives fall short stalls his son Mohammad bin July 1: China’s President Xi Jinp­ death sentence imposed by Pakistan four­year term by a wide margin. of majority winning 318 seats well Salman. ing warns critics against crossing on former Indian naval ocer Kulb­ May 22: At least 22 persons are short of the 326 mark. Labour Party Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quits the “red line” in Hong Kong in a tele­ hushan Jadhav till further orders. killed and 100 injured in a suicide at­ bags 261 seats. DUP, the largest un­ the ride­sharing company. vised address after swearing in Car­ U.S. President Donald Trump dis­ tack at the close of a pop concert ionist party in Northern Ireland The 850­year­old Grand al­Nuri rie Lam as the region’s new Chief Ex­ misses James Comey as FBI featuring American singer Ariana agrees to support May government. Mosque, along with its famous mi­ ecutive. Director. Grande at the Manchester Arena in India and Pakistan are admitted naret known as “the hunchback” July 2: Israel’s former President May 10: Moon Jae­in is sworn in England. to the Shanghai Cooperation Corpo­ that towered over Mosul, are des­ Ehud Olmert leaves prison after a South Korea’s new President, just a May 24: Nepal Prime Minister ration as full members at a ceremo­ troyed by retreating IS militants. parole board grants him early re­ day after a landslide election victo­ Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ ny in Kazakhstan capital Astana. June 22: Former Indian naval of­ lease. ry, at Seoul’s National Assembly resigns. June 11: Dear Evan Hansen, an cer Kulbhushan Jadhav les a mer­ The world’s oldest emergency building. May 28: Swedish lm The Square edgy new tale of millennial angst cy petition with Qamar Javed Bajwa, helpline 999 completes 80 years of May 13: Pope Francis canonises directed by Ruben Ostlund, bags the wins six awards at the 71st annual Pakistan Army chief. its existence in the U.K. two shepherd siblings believed to Palme d’Or at the 70th Cannes Film Tony Awards hosted by the CBS at June 23: Seventythree persons July 3: China opens itself to fo­ have seen the Madonna 100 years Festival. the Radio City Music Hall in New are killed and 140 injured in a sui­ reign investors through its Bond ago as Catholic Church’s youngest May 31: Ninety persons are killed York city. cide car bomb attack in Quetta and Connect scheme. saints at the Shrine of Our Lady of and 400 injured in a massive suicide June 14: At least 79 persons are two blasts in Parichanar, Pakistan. July 4: North Korea claims to Fatima, Portugal. truck bombing in the Wazi Akbar killed and many injured following a June 26: The U.S. Supreme Court have test­launched Hwasong­14, its May 14: North Korea res a bal­ Khan diplomatic area of Kabul, Af­ devastating re at Grenfell Tower, a revives parts of President Donald rst ICBM. listic missile ‘Hwasong­12’ that lands ghanistan. 24­storey residential block in Ken­ Trump’s travel ban on people from July 5: India and Israel announce in the sea near Russia. JUNE sington, West London, home to 120 six Muslim­majority countries. a strategic partnership after a meet­ Emmanuel Macron ocially June 1: India and Russia sign the apartments, close to Notting Hill. China releases Nobel Peace Lau­ ing between Prime Ministers Naren­ takes over as President of France. much­awaited agreement on setting Israeli author David Grossman is reate Liu Xiaobo on medical parole dra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu May 15: Life is disrupted and un­ up two more units of the Koodanku­ presented the Man Booker Interna­ for treatment of late­stage liver can­ in Jerusalem. iversities, hospitals and businesses lam Nuclear Power Plant in Tirunel­ tional Prize for his book, A Horse cer. Pro­Government activists storm are badly hit across 150 countries as veli, Tamil Nadu after talks between Walks Into a Bar, at a ceremony in June 27: The European Commis­ the grounds of Venezuela’s National a malware hits about 2,00,000 ter­ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and London. He shares the £50,000 sion slaps a record €2.4 billion ($2.7 Assembly and attack lawmakers. minals, demanding money in return President Vladimir Putin in St. award with translator Jessica Cohen. billion) anti­trust ne on Google. July 7: Over 122 nations adopt a for unfreezing computers. Petersburg. June 15: The U.S. Senate passes a Colombia’s leftist FARC rebel global treaty banning nuclear wea­ May 17: Pvt. Chelsea Manning, Indian­American Ananya Vinay, a sanctions bill targeting Iran and Rus­ pons, at the U.N. the soldier sentenced to 35 years in 12­year­old from Fresno, California sia. July 8: The G20 summit in Ham­ a military prison for giving classied is crowned champion at the 90th Neeru Chadha becomes the rst burg strikes a deal on trade. materials to WikiLeaks walks free Scripps National Spelling Bee con­ Indian Woman to be elected a judge July 9: Iraqi Prime Minister Haid­ from the Fort Leavenworth lockup test in Washington. of the Tribunal for the Law of the er al­Abadi declares victory in the in Kansas. The U.S. stops implementation of Sea (ITLOS). liberated city of Mosul after a nearly The U.S. Justice Department ap­ its commitments under the Paris cli­ June 16: Pop superstar Katy Per­ nine­month battle with the IS. points former FBI Director Robert mate agreement signed by 195 coun­ ry makes history by becoming the July 11: The Syrian Observatory Mueller as special counsel to over­ tries on December 12, 2015. rst user to garner 100 million fol­ for Human Rights ‘conrms’ the see the agency’s investigation into June 2: Leo Varadkar, an Indian­ lowers on Twitter. death of IS leader Abu Bakr al­Bagh­ alleged meddling by Russia in the origin doctor and Ireland's rst June 17: Philippine troops pound dadi, in a Russian airstrike in June 2016 presidential polls. openly gay Minister wins leadership Islamists holding parts of southern on the outskirts of Raqqa. May 18: The ICJ at The Hague role for the Fine Gael party to be­ Marawi city with air strikes and artil­ Israeli author David Grossman and July 12: Brazil’s former President stays the execution of former Indian come PM­in­waiting. lery. Toll crosses 300 in about a his U.S. translator Jessica Cohen Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is convicted naval ocer Kulbhushan Jadhav, June 3: Seven persons are killed month of ghting. after winning the Man Booker on corruption charges in the rst of pending its nal judgment. and 48 injured following an attack Seven U.S. sailors on board a Na­ International Prize. the ve graft trials he faces and sen­

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tenced to nine­and­a­half years in Jay Y. Lee, the head of South Ko­ Sept. 15: At least 30 persons are killed and 527 injured after a gun­ prison. rea's Samsung Group, is sentenced injured as an IED triggers an explo­ man Stephen Paddock opens re on July 13: Liu Xiaobo, 61, Nobel to ve years in jail for bribery by the sion on a rush­hour tube train at concert goers during the outdoor Peace laureate dies in custody at a Seoul Central District Court. Parsons Green in southwest Route 91 Harvest country music fes­ hospital in Shenyang. Aug. 27: Hurricane Harvey London. tival from the 32nd oor of an adja­ July 17: U.S. President Donald wreaks havoc in Texas. National After 20 years in space, NASA’s cent hotel in the Las Vegas strip, Ne­ Trump recerties Iran nuclear deal. Weather Services calls it an 'unpre­ Cassini spacecraft makes its nal vada, U.S. He is later found dead. July 18: Republican eorts to cedented event'. death plunge into Saturn. Catalans cast votes in indepen­ overhaul or repeal Obamacare col­ Aug. 28: More than 1 million peo­ Sept. 17: Veep and The Hand- dence referendum. lapses in the U.S. Senate. ple are displaced and 44 killed, in­ maid’s Tale win top series honours Oct. 2: Americans Jerey C. Hall, July 19: Puerto Rican singer Luis cluding six of a family as Hurricane at the 69th Primetime Emmy Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Fonsi’s Despacito is named the most Harvey swamps Houston. Awards in Los Angeles, U.S. Young are awarded the Nobel Prize An evacuee holding two dogs reacts streamed song of all time. Aug. 30: The U.S. approves the Sept. 19: At least 233 persons are in Physiology or Medicine. after his rescue by the Texas July 20: Chester Charles Ben­ rst gene therapy in the nation to killed as a 7.1 magnitude earth­ Oct. 3: U.S. astrophysicists Rain­ National Guardsmen. nington 41, American singer and ght childhood leukemia. quake, with its epicentre in the state er Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip songwriter best known as the front­ Aug. 6: Venezuela crushes a mil­ Aug. 31: Nearly 400 Rohinya in­ of Puebla, rocks Mexico. Thorne are awarded the Nobel Phys­ man for the rock band Linkin Park is itary rebellion. surgents are killed in clashes and Sept. 21: U.S. President Donald ics Prize. found dead in his home in Palos Aug. 8: ASEAN turns 50. Myanmar Army crackwdown, re­ Trump signs new sanctions target­ Oct. 4: A trio of Swiss, American Verdes Estates, California, U.S. Aug. 11: President Uhuru Kenyat­ veal new ocial data. Around ing the textiles, shing and IT indus­ and British scientists — Jacques Du­ July 26: The U.S. imposes sanc­ ta is declared winner of the Kenyan 73,000 have crossed into Bangla­ tries of North Korea. bochet, Joachim Frank and Richard tions on Venezuela. presidential polls. desh, says the UNHCR. Sept. 22: French President Em­ Henderson — is awarded the Nobel July 27: Gethsie Shanmugam, a Aug. 12: A paralegal Heather SEPTEMBER manuel Macron signs sweeping Chemistry Prize. Sri Lankan teacher and Yoshiaki Ish­ Heyer, and two police ocers are Sept. 1: Kenya’s Supreme Court changes to the country’s complex Oct. 5: British author Kazuo Ishi­ izawa, a Japanese historian, among killed and 19 injured as ‘Unite the annuls President Uhuru Kenyatta’s labour code into law. guro is named winner of the Nobel the six named winners of the Ra­ Right’, a White nationalist rally election. Sept. 24: German Chancellor Literature Prize. mon Magsaysay Awards for 2017. against the city council’s move to re­ Sept. 3: North Korea tests a hy­ Angela Merkel wins a fourth term in Oct. 6: Nuclear disarmament July 28: Pakistan’s Prime Minis­ move the statue of Confederate Gen­ drogen bomb at its Punggye­ri Nu­ oce. Her conservative bloc’s sup­ campaign group, the International ter Nawaz Sharif resigns after the Su­ eral Robert E. Lee from a park in clear Weapons Institute generating port slumps to its lowest since 1949. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Wea­ preme Court disqualies him from Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., turns a 6.8 magnitude tremor felt in South U.S. President Donald Trump is­ pons (ICAN), wins the Nobel Peace oce over undeclared assets. violent. Korea and China. sues a new open­ended travel ban Prize. The U.S. Senate passes a Bill im­ Aug. 14: At least 450 persons, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson involving North Korea, Venezuela Oct. 9: U.S. economist Richard posing sanctions against Russia, 105 of them children are killed and returns to Earth aboard a Soyuz cap­ and Chad and extends it to ve H. Thaler wins the Nobel Prize for Iran and North Korea. more than 20,000 left homeless af­ sule and lands in Kazakhstan after countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sy­ Economics. The U.S. Senate votes 51 to 49, re­ ter heavy ooding hits Sierra Le­ spending 665 days in space, setting ria, Yemen. Oct. 12: The U.S. and Israel an­ jecting the Obamacare repeal bill. one’s capital Freetown. a record for the longest time in orbit Sept. 25: The Republicans’ bid to nounce withdrawal from the July 30: Venezuelans begin vot­ Aug. 17: Thirteen persons are by any woman. “repeal and replace” the ‘Obama­ UNESCO. ing for a Constituent Assembly. killed and 100 injured as a van Sept. 4: The ninth BRICS sumit care’ legislation fails for the second Rival Palestinian factions Hamas AUGUST ploughs into crowds at the Las Ram­ in Xiamen, China, declares Pakis­ time in the U.S. Senate. and Fatah sign a reconciliation deal Aug 1: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is blas avenue, a tourist hub in Barce­ tan­based Jaish­e­Mohammad and Sept. 26: Saudi Arabia decides to following talks mediated by Egypt. sworn in as Pakistan’s Prime Minis­ lona, Spain. LeT as terror organisations. allow women to drive. King Sal­ Oct. 13: U.S. President Donald ter. Aug. 18: Five suspects are shot Sept. 5: The U.S. ends the De­ man’s decree will take eect in June Trump announces his decision to Aug. 2: U.S. President Donald dead by the Spanish police after ferred Action for Childhood Arriv­ 2018. disavow the Iran nuclear deal. Trump signs into law new sanctions they try to drive into tourists in the als, an Obama­era reform measure Sept. 27: Thailand’s top court Oct. 14: At least 512 persons are against Russia over interference in Catalan seaside town of Cambrils, that protected from deportation pe­ sentences ousted Premier Yingluck killed and 312 injured in a massive the 2016 presidential polls. near Barcelona, leaving a woman ople who had entered the nation il­ Shinawatra in absentia to ve years truck bombing in the Somalia capi­ Prince Philip of England retires dead and seven wounded. legally as children. in prison for criminal negligence. tal Mogadishu. from public life. Venezuela’s Constituent Assemb­ Sept. 7: At least 21 persons are Sept. 28: Japanese Prime Minis­ The Academy of Motion Picture Scientists for the rst time have ly assumes power to pass laws su­ killed as Hurricane Irma, the lon­ ter Shinzo Abe dissolves the Lower Arts and Sciences expels Hollywood successfully edited genes in human perseding the Opposition­led Con­ gest­lasting superstorm on record, House of Parliament and calls for mogul Harvey Weinstein over alle­ embryos to repair a common and gress. roars through the Caribbean. snap elections. gations of sexual harassment and as­ serious disease causing mutation, Aug. 21: Ten U.S. sailors go mis­ At least 61 persons are killed after OCTOBER sault dating back decades. according to a study published in sing and ve are injured after the an 8.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Oct. 1: At least 59 persons are Oct. 15: Sebastian Kurz, Austrian journal Nature. guided­missile destroyer USS John Mexico. Foreign Minister, propels his Peo­ Aug. 3: Iranian President Hus­ McCain and a Liberian­agged oil Sept. 9: The Shape of Water, a ple’s Party to rst place in parlia­ sain Rouhani is sworn into oce for tanker Alnic Mc collide in Singapo­ dazzling sci­ romance by Mexican mentary polls. the second term by Supreme Leader rean territorial waters. director Guillermo Del Toro wins Oct. 17: U.S. author George Saun­ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The iconic 13.7­tonne Big Ben in the Golden Lion at the Venice Film ders wins Britain’s Man Booker Aug. 5: The U.N. Security Coun­ London falls silent for a four­year Festival. Prize for 2017 for his rst full­length cil unanimously imposes new sanc­ repair. Sept. 12: British MPs vote in fa­ novel Lincoln in the Bardo. tions on North Korea in response to Aug. 25: At least 92 persons, in­ vour of the EU Withdrawal Bill. Oct. 18: The FDA gives nod for a ve nuclear tests and four long­ cluding 59 militants are killed in Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, a Sile­ second gene therapy for blood can­ range missile launches. Myanmar’s Rakhine state after the sian priest from Kottayam, Kerala is cer using the CAR­T technology, in Rwandan President Paul Kagame Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army freed by his Yemeni abductors after which T cells from patient’s blood wins a third term, polling 98% of the launches a coordinated attack on 30 being in captivity since March 4, Belongings lying scattered at the are reprogrammed to ght

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Oct. 22: Japanese Prime Minister Nov. 21: Zimbabwe President Bank, Gaza Strip following U.S. deci­ tion on Jerusalem to be withdrawn, Shinzo Abe sweeps to a resounding Robert Gabriel Mugabe resigns. sion on Jerusalem. even as 14 members vote in favour of victory in snap elections. Nov. 22: ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Rat­ Australia legalises same­sex the Egypt­drafted resolution. The body of an American toddler ko Mladic is found guilty of genocide marriage. Austria’s far­Right is sworn in part Sherin Mathews, reported missing and war crimes in the 1992­1995 Bal­ Dec. 8: Britain and the EU reach of the new government under Chan­ by her adoptive father Wesley Math­ kan conicts and sentenced to life a historic deal on Brexit divorce cellor Sebastian Kurz. ews, is found in Richardson, Texas. imprisonment by U.N. judges at the terms after talks in Brussels. Dec. 20: The U.S. Senate ap­ Oct. 23: Wesley Mathews is ar­ International Criminal Tribunal for The plenary meeting of the Was­ proves a sweeping tax bill, which rested by Richardson police. the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. senaar Arrangement in Vienna, Aus­ the House had passed a day earlier. Oct. 24: The Communist Party of The Lahore High Court orders tria decides to admit India as the Dec. 21: The U.N. General As­ China enshrines the “Xi Jinping the release of Haz Saaed, the chief 42nd member of the elite club. sembly adopts a motion rejecting Thought on Socialism with Chinese of Jamaat­ud­Dawa. Dec. 9: Sri Lanka formally hands U.S. President Donald Trump’s de­ Characteristics for a New Era” in its Saad Hariri shelves his decision over Hambantota port to China on a claration of Jerusalem as Israel Constitution at the closing session of A scene of devastation in the Iranian to resign as Lebanon Prime Minis­ 99­year lease. capital. the 19th Party Congress in Beijing. town of Sarpol-e Zahab in the ter, a day after his return from Saudi Dec. 10: Beatrice Fihn, leader of Dec. 22: Separatists win 70 of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s western Kermanshah province. Arabia. the ICAN is presented the Nobel 135 seats in Catalonia polls. 120­day travel ban on refugees ends. Nov. 23: Bangladesh and Myan­ Peace Prize won by the coalition at a U.S. President Donald Trump Oct. 27: Spain sacks Catalonia's declaration of independence. mar sign an MoU on the repatriation function in Oslo. signs into law a sweeping overhaul government, dissolves Parliament Nov. 11: Chief Justice of Bangla­ of Rohingyas in Naypyidaw. Dec. 11: Saudi Arabia lifts a de­ of the nation’s tax code. and calls a snap election. desh Surendra Kumar Sinha resigns. Nov. 24: At least 305 people are cades­long ban on cinemas. The U.N. slaps new sanctions on A federal grand jury in Washing­ Ministers from 11 Asia­Pacic na­ killed and 128 wounded after gun­ Dec. 12: Russia begins withdra­ North Korea for its November 28 ton approves the ling of rst charg­ tions “agree on the core elements” men target worshippers at a Su wal of troops from Syria. ICBM test. es in the probe into alleged Russian of the Comprehensive and Progres­ Mosque in Al Rawdah in Bir al­Abed Doug Jones becomes the rst De­ At least 300 persons are killed meddling in the 2016 U.S. presiden­ sive Agreement for Trans­Pacic in Egypt's North Sinai province. mocrat to win an Alabama Senate and 70,000 displaced as tropical tial election. Partnership on the sidelines of the Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn seat in 25 years. storm Tembin lashes Mindanao is­ Oct. 30: Kenyan President Uhu­ APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam. in Zimbabwe President at a ceremo­ Dec. 13: The British government land, Philippines. ru Kenyatta is declared winner of Nov. 12: At least 530 persons are ny in the capital Harare. suers a major Brexit Bill defeat in Dec. 23: A federal judge in Seat­ the protest­hit election. killed and 7,460 injured as a 7.3­ A South African appeals court in­ Parliament. tle partially blocks President Donald Oct. 31: Eight persons, including magnitude earthquake hits Kerman­ creases Paralympic champion Oscar Nepal’s Left alliance wins majori­ Trump’s newest curbs on refugee ve Argentinians and a Belgian are shah along the Iran­Iraq border. Pistorius' jail term to 13 years and ty in provincial and parliamentary admissions. killed and 12, including two children Nov. 15: Zimbabwe’s military ve months for the 2013 murder of polls. Dec. 24: Former Peruvian leader are injured after a terror suspect seizes power and connes President his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The 11th ministerial meeting of Alberto Fujimori is granted pardon. drives a truck along a bicycle path in Robert Mugabe to his home in the Nov. 26: Demi­Leigh Nel­Peters the WTO in Argentina ends in Dec. 25: Former Indian naval of­ Lower Manhattan, New York City. capital Harare. is crowned Miss Universe 2017 at the discord. cer Kulbhushan Jadhav meets his NOVEMBER Nov. 16: Puerto Rican singer Luis 66th Miss Universe competition in Dec. 17: Sebastian Pinera wins mother and wife in Islamabad. Nov. 4: Al­Waleed bin Talal, pro­ Fonsi’s viral dance hit Despacito Las Vegas, U.S. Chile’s presidency in the runo Dec. 26: China jails for eight minent billionaire and grandson of bags four major awards at the Latin Nov. 28: Uhuru Kenyatta is vote. years Wu Gan, a prominent rights Saudi Arabia’s founder Abdulaziz Grammys at the MGM Grand Garden sworn in Kenyan President for a se­ French sailor Francois Gabart activist, for subversion. ibn Saud, among “Princes, four cur­ Arena in Las Vegas, U.S. cond term. completes the fastest non­stop solo At least 68 people are killed in rent Ministers and dozens of ex­Mi­ Nov. 18: India’s Manushi Chhillar DECEMBER navigation of the world in 42 days two Saudi­led air raids in Yemen. nisters arrested in a sweeping purge is crowned Miss World 2017 in Sanya Dec. 1: U.S. President Donald and 16 hours. Egypt hangs 15 persons convicted in the desert kingdom. on the Chinese island of Hainan. Trump’s former NSA, Michael Dec. 18: U.S. President Donald of attacking security forces in Sinai Nov. 5: At least 26 persons are Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpra­ Flynn, pleads guilty to the FBI about Trump announces a new national Peninsula in 2013. killed and 20 wounded as Devin Pa­ gasam wins the 2017 DSC Prize for conversations with Russian Ambas­ security strategy in Washington. Dec. 28: More than 40 persons trick Kelley, a former member of the South Asian Literature for his debut sador Sergey I. Kislyak in December The U.S. vetoes the UN Security are killed and 84 wounded after sui­ U.S. Air Force opens re at a gather­ novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage 2106, in a federal court in Council call for the Trump declara­ cide bombers storm a Shia cultural ing at the First Baptist Church in at the Dhaka Lit Fest. Washington. centre in Kabul. Sutherland Springs in south Texas. Nov. 19: The Central Committee Dec. 4: Yemen’s veteran former Former football star George The U.S.­based International Con­ of ZANU­PF sacks President Robert President Ali Abdullah Saleh is shot Weah wins Liberian presidential ru­ sortium of Investigative Journalists Mugabe as the party leader and re­ dead by former Houthi allies in a no vote. releases ‘Paradise Papers’, data places him with former Vice­Presi­ roadside attack on his convoy out­ Dec. 29: At least nine persons from a leak of 13.4 million les that dent Emmerson Mnangagwa. side the capital Sana’a. are killed as a gunman opens re reveals the names of the world’s Charles Manson 83, convicted for The U.S. Supreme Court authoris­ outside a Coptic church in Egypt. rich and elite, who parked their the brutal August 1969 killings of es full enforcement of President Do­ Dec. 31: Iran cuts access to social wealth in secretive tax havens. nine individuals in California, dies nald Trump’s revised travel ban. media following unrest that leaves Nov. 6: Zimbabwe President at a hospital. Dec. 6: U.S. President Donald 10 dead. Robert Mugabe sacks Vice­President High stakes coalition talks col­ Trump recognises Jerusalem as the At least 18 persons are killed after Emmerson Mnangagwa. lapse in Germany. capital of Israel. a suicide attack on a funeral in Jala­ Nov. 7: In a blow to U.S. President Nov. 20: U.S. President Donald “The Silence Breakers,” the van­ labad, Afghanistan. Donald Trump, Democrats sweep Trump declares North Korea a state guard of #Me Too, a global move­ Ten Americans among 12 killed in state and international polls in Virgi­ sponsor of terrorism at the start of a ment by millions of women to share a plane crash in Costa Rica. nia, New Jersey and New York. White House Cabinet meeting. their stories of sexual harassment Richard Cousins, chief executive Nov. 8: Spain’s Constitutional India’s Dalveer Bhandari is re­ and abuse named Time magazine’s of British catering giant Compass, Court ocially annuls the Catalan elected a judge of the ICJ at The Person of the Year. Former Yemeni President Ali among six killed in a plane crash Parliament’s October 27 unilateral Hague. Dec. 7: Clashes erupt in West Abdullah Saleh. near Sydney, Australia.

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JANUARY Jan. 2: John Berger, 90, British art critic, in the Paris suburb of Antony. Jan. 6: Om Puri, 66, veteran ac­ tor, at his residence in Andheri, Hashemi Mumbai. Om Puri Rafsanjani Nirmal Shekar Altamas Kabir Ashokamitran Vinod Khanna Gregg Allman Roger Moore Jan. 8: Ali Akbar Hashemi Raf­ sanjani, 82, former Iranian Presi­ former MP, at Noida, UP. Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, in ISRO chairman, in Bengaluru. Sept. 29: Tom Alter, 67, theatre dent, of a heart attack at a hospital Dr. Thomas Starzl, 90, liver tran­ Mumbai. Yash Pal, 90, scientist and educa­ and lm actor, in Mumbai. in Tehran. splant pioneer, in Pittsburgh, U.S. May 23: Roger Moore, 89, British tionist, at a hospital in Noida. OCTOBER Jan. 10: Clare Hollingworth, 105, March 6: Rabi Ray, 91, former actor who earned international ac­ July 27: Dharam Singh, 80, form­ Oct. 2: Tom Petty, 66, American British journalist who broke the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, in Cut­ claim playing secret agent James er Karnataka Chief Minister, in Ben­ songwriter, in Los Angeles, U.S. news of the outbreak of World War tack, Odisha. Bond, in Switzerland of cancer. galuru. Oct. 24: Girija Devi, 88, classical II, in Hong Kong. March 18: Chuck Berry, 90, U.S. May 26: K.P.S. Gill, 82, former July 30: Ustad Hussain Sayee­ singer, in Kolkata. Jan. 12: William Peter Blatty, 89, Rock n’ Roll pioneer, in Missouri. Punjab DGP, who put down Sikh duddin Dagar, 78, Dhrupad maes­ I.V. Sasi, 69, Malayalam lm direc­ American writer of the 1971 horror March 20: David Rockefeller, militancy, in New Delhi. tro, in Pune after a brief illness. tor, in Chennai. novel and Oscar­winning movie The 101, U.S. philanthropist, at his home May 27: Gregg Allman, 69, U.S. July 31: Jeanne Moreau, 89, NOVEMBER Exorcist at a hospital in Bethesda, in Pocantico Hills, New York. rockstar and music legend, at his French actor , in Paris, Ile­de­ Nov. 1: Krishnamoorthy Srinivas, Maryland, U.S. March 21: James Martin Pacelli home near Savannah, Georgia. France, France. 84, neurologist , in Chennai. Jan. 14: Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, McGuinness, 66, IRA chief of sta May 30: Dasari Narayana Rao, AUGUST Nov. 2: Dina Wadia, 98, daughter former Punjab Chief Minister, at the and a key architect of Northern Ire­ 75, lm director and former Union Aug. 1: P.M. Bhargava, 89, vete­ of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali PGIMER, Chandigarh. land’s 1998 Good Friday peace deal, Minister, in Hyderabad. ran molecular biologist , in Jinnah in New York. Jan. 16: Eugene Andrew Cernan, at the Altnagelvin Area Hospital, JUNE Hyderabad. Nov. 20: Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, 82, U.S. astronaut, at a hospital in Derry. June 2: S.Abdul Rahman, 79, Ta­ Aug. 3: Timothy Sydney Robert 72, Congress leader and former Un­ Houston, Texas. March 23: Ashokamitran, 86, mil poet, in Chennai. Hardy, 91, English stage and screen ion Minister, in Delhi. Professor C.V. Vishveshwara, 77, Tamil writer and Sahitya Akademi June 6: Era Sezhiyan, 95, veteran actor , in Northwood, London. Nov. 21: David Cassidy, 67, Amer­ who did pioneering work on black award winner, in Chennai. parliamentarian, in Vellore, Tamil Aug. 7: Haruo Nakajima, 88, the ican singer­actor , in Fort Lauder­ holes, in Bengaluru. APRIL Nadu. actor who rst played Japan’s movie dale, Florida, U.S. Jan. 26: Alexander Mikhailovich April 3: Kishori Amonkar, 84, June 9: S.S. Khaplang, 77, chief of monster Godzilla, of pneumonia. Nov. 29: E. Chandrasekharan Kadakin, 67, Russian Ambassador to Hindustani classical vocalist, at her the NSCN (Khaplang), in Taga, Aug. 8: Glen Travis Campbell, 81, Nair, 89, CPI leader, in India, in New Delhi. home in central Mumbai. Myanmar. American country music legend , in Thiruvananthapuram. FEBRUARY April 13: Robert William Taylor, June 12: C. Narayana Reddy, 85, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Feb. 1: E.Ahamed, 78, former Un­ 85, American innovator, at his home Telugu poet, in Hyderabad. Aug. 10: Vijay Nambisan, 54, DECEMBER ion Minister and Malappuram MP, in in Woodside, California, U.S. June 15: P.N. Bhagwati, 95, form­ poet, and journalist, in Chennai. Dec. 1: A.S. Anand, 81, former New Delhi. April 27: Vinod Khanna, 70, Hin­ er CJI, in New Delhi. Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau (87), CJI, in New Delhi. Nirmal Shekar (60), former di actor and Gurdaspur MP, in Mum­ June 16: Helmut Kohl, 87, former German­born nun known as ‘Pakis­ Dec. 4: Shashi Kapoor, 79, vete­ Sports Editor of The Hindu and bai of cancer. German Chancellor and architect of tan’s Mother Teresa,’ in Karachi. ran actor, at the Kokilaben Dhirub­ former Editor of Sportstar, in MAY the nation’s reunication, at his Aug. 20: Jerry Lewis, 91, U.S. co­ hai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. Chennai. May 5: Leila Seth, 86, the rst home in Ludwigshafen. median, in Las Vegas. Dec. 10: Lalji Singh, 70, ‘father of Feb. 5: Srilata Swaminathan, 74, woman judge of the Delhi High JULY Aug. 22: Rishang Keishing, 96, Indian DNA ngerprinting,’ in veteran CPI (ML) leader , in Udaipur, Court and rst woman chief justice July 15: Maryam Mirzakhani, 40, former Manipur Chief Minister , in Varanasi. Rajasthan. of a state high court (Himachal Pra­ Iranian­born mathematician and Imphal. Dec. 13: C.V. Karthik Narayanan, Feb. 18: Norma McCorvey, 69, desh), at her residence in Noida. rst woman to win the Fields Medal SEPTEMBER 79, industrialist, in Chennai. whose legal challenge under the May 11: P.R. Ramasubrahmaneya (on August 13, 2014) of breast can­ Sept. 16: Arjan Singh, 98, Mar­ Dec. 24: Heather Menzies­Urich, pseudonym “Jane Roe” led to the Rajha, 81, Chairman, Ramco Group, cer, in a U.S. hospital. shal of IAF, in New Delhi. 68, The Sound of Music actor, of U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in Rajapalayam , Tamil Nadu. Martin Landau, 89, veteran U.S. Sept. 17: Mohammad Taslimud­ brain cancer, in Canada. that legalised abortion, in Texas. May 18: Anil Madhav Dave, 60, actor, in Los Angeles. din, 74, RJD leader and MP from Dec. 28: Sue Taylor Grafton, 77, Feb. 19: Altamas Kabir, 68, form­ Union Environment Minister, of a July 16: Nar Bahadur Bhandari, Araria, in Chennai. U.S. author of the alphabet mystery er CJI, in Kolkata. cardiac arrest at AIIMS, New Delhi. 77, former Sikkim Chief Minister, in Sept. 27: Hugh Hefner, 91, foun­ series, in Santa Barbara, California. MARCH Reema Lagoo, 59, actor and Delhi. der of Playboy magazine at his Dec. 30: Erica Garner, 27, Black March 4: Syed Shahabuddin, 82, theatre artist at the Kokilaben July 24: U.R. Rao, 85, former home, near Beverley Hills, U.S. Lives Matter activist, in New York.

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JANUARY 8: Roberto Bautista Agut wins Chennai Open ATP­250 event. 15: Gujarat beats Mumbai in In­ dore to clinch its rst Ranji Trophy title. 22: Saina Nehwal wins the Malay­ sia Masters Grand Prix Gold in Sarawak. 28: Serena Williams defeats sister Pankaj Advani. Viswanathan Anand. P.V. Sindhu. Roger Federer. Venus Williams to clinch the Austra­ lian Open, her 23rd Grand Slam. Open Grand Prix Gold badminton in beats Venus Williams in the U.S. 13th overall to post two innings of 29: Roger Federer wins an epic ­ Bangkok. Open nal to win her rst Grand 200 in the same Test series. Don nal against Rafael Nadal to win the 8: Rohan Bopanna wins his rst Slam. Bradman had achieved the feat four Australian Open, his 18th Grand Grand Slam title, claiming the 10: Rafael Nadal beats Kevin An­ times, including three innings of Slam title. French Open mixed doubles crown derson in straight sets to win his 200­plus versus England in 1930. FEBRUARY with Canadian partner Gabriela third U.S. Open title, and 16th Grand He becomes the rst Indian cap­ 5: India beats New Zealand 4­1 in Dabrowski. Slam. tain to complete 1000 runs in a ca­ the Davis Cup in Pune. 10: Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 16: P.V. Sindhu defeats Nozomi lendar year twice. 26: Kalinga Lancers wins the bags maiden Grand Slam title at Ro­ Okuhara of Japan to win the Korea 7: Cristiano Ronaldo wins fth Hockey India League beating Da­ land Garros. Open Super Series. Ballon d’Or, pulling level with Lionel bang Mumbai 4­1. 11: Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the OCTOBER Messi. 27: The duo of Heena Sidhu and French Open. 1: Host India wins the ODI series 8: The visually­impaired swim­ Usain Bolt. Jitu Rai bags gold in the mixed air 18: K. Srikanth emerges cham­ 4­1 versus Australia. mer, Kanchanmala Pande, wins pistol event in the Shooting World pion in the Indonesian Open Super 13: With the last match called o, gold in the 200m medley event in Cup. Series. the three­match T20 series between the S­11 category at the World para MARCH 18: The Pakistan cricket team lifts India and Australia ends 1­1. championship, the rst Indian to 20: Tamil Nadu beats Bengal by the Champions Trophy. 22: India beats Malaysia 2­1 in the achieve the feat. 37 runs to clinch its fth Vijay Ha­ 25: K. Srikanth wins the Austra­ nal in Dhaka to clinch its third Asia 13: Rohit Sharma scores his third zare Trophy domestic one­day title. lian Open Super Series title. Cup hockey title. ODI double century in the second 28: India beats Australia by eight JULY 22: K. Srikanth beats Korean Lee match against Sri Lanka in Mohali, wickets in the fourth and nal Test 6: The Indian men’s football team Hyun II to win the Denmark Open becomes the rst batsman to do so. in Dharamshala to clinch the Bor­ reaches its best­ever FIFA ranking of Super Series title. 17: P.V. Sindhu wins silver in the der­Gavaskar series 2­1. 96 in two decades. 27: Lewis Hamilton joins select BWF World Super Series nal, los­ 28: R. Ashwin voted ICC Cricke­ 7: India clinches the series 3­1 club of ve drivers with four or ing to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi in Lewis Hamilton. ter and Test Cricketer of the year for against host West Indies. more Formula 1 World titles. the title clash in Dubai. 2016. 9: G. Lakshmanan becomes the 28: England beats Spain 5­2 in the Host India wins the ODI series 2­1 APRIL rst Indian to bag the 5000m and nal to win the FIFA u­17 World Cup versus Sri Lanka. 2: P.V Sindhu wins the Indian 10,000m titles in the Asian athletics in Kolkata. 23: Vijender Singh beats Ghana’s Open in New Delhi, defeating Caroli­ championship, in Bhubaneswar. 29: K. Srikanth bags the French Ernest Amuzu for his 10th consecu­ na Marin. 11: Ravi Shashtri takes over as the Open Super Series. tive win in pro boxing, retaining his 10: The Indian women bag the chief coach of the Indian team. Caroline Wozniacki beats Venus WBO Oriental & Asia Pacic super Hockey World League Round­2. 15: Spain’s Garbine Muguruza Williams to win her maiden WTA Fi­ middleweight pro boxing titles. 13: T. Mariyappan, Sakshi Malik clinches the Wimbledon crown. nals crown in Singapore. 24: Host India blanks Sri Lanka and Dipa Karmakar win the Padma 16: Switzerland’s Roger Federer NOVEMBER 3­0 in the T20 series. Shri. wins a record eighth title at 5: The Indian women’s hockey 28: Viswanathan Anand wins the 14: Pankaj Advani wins the sixth Wimbledon. team regains the Asia Cup after 13 World rapid chess championship tit­ Asian billiards title, beating Sourav 23: The Indian women’s team los­ years. le in Riyadh. Rafael Nadal. Kothari. es to England in the World Cup nal 8: Mary Kom clinches gold in the 16: Sai Praneeth wins the Singa­ at Lord’s. Asian women’s boxing pore Open, outlasting K. Srikanth. AUGUST championship. 30: Joshna Chinappa wins the 6: Justin Gatlin pips Usain Bolt in 30: Mirabai Chanu wins the wo­ women’s title in the Asian squash the World athletics championship in men’s 48kg gold at the World championship in Chennai. London. weightlifting championships in Ana­ MAY 26: Saurav Ghosal and Joshna heim, USA. 12: Chelsea wins the Premier Chinappa bag the men’s and wo­ DECEMBER League title. men’s National squash titles. 3: Virat Kohli hits his sixth double 13: Bajrang Punia bags the 65kg SEPTEMBER hundred, surpasses Brian Lara for gold in the Asian wrestling cham­ 3: India beats Sri Lanka in the most double tons by a Test captain. pionship in New Delhi. fth ODI at Colombo to win the ODI Kohli also becomes the second In­ JUNE series 5­0. dian player after Vinoo Mankad (vs. 4: Sai Praneeth wins the Thailand 9: American Sloane Stephens New Zealand in 1955­56) and the Serena Williams. K. Srikanth.

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