2014 Events
2014 Events
2014 Events
THE HINDU
NATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: India terminates the Rs.
3,700 crore VVIP chopper deal with
Italian rm AgustaWestland International Limited for breach of precontract integrity pact.
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill,
2013 gets presidential nod.
The Sangita Kalanidhi title is conferred on vocalist Sudha Ragunathan
by the Andhra Pradesh Governor
E.S.L. Narasimhan at the sadas of
The Music Academy, in Chennai.
Jan. 2: The Maharashtra Cabinet
accepts the Adarsh Commission of
Inquiry Report. Action Taken Report lets off six indicted politicians.
India signs a labour cooperation
agreement with Saudi Arabia, in
New Delhi.
Jan. 3: Normal life across 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh hit following a bandh against proposed
bifurcation of the state.
Jan. 4: Nineteen workers are
killed and 16 injured following the
collapse of an under-construction
ve storeyed building in Canacona,
75 km from the Goa capital Panaji.
The Geosynchronous Satellite
Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) powered
by an indigenous cryogenic engine
puts the 1,982 kg GSAT-14 communication satellite into a perfect orbit
after liftoff from Sriharikota.
Jan. 6: The former Supreme
Court judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly,
accused by a law intern of sexual
harassment, resigns as chairperson
of West Bengal Human Rights
Commission.
The Supreme Court quashes Tamil Nadu governments February
2009 order appointing an Executive
Officer to manage the affairs and
properties of the Chidambaram Natarajar temple.
Telugu actor V. Uday Kiran commits suicide at his at in Srinagar
Colony at Punjagutta, Hyderabad.
The Mumbai police chargesheet
National Spot Exchange Ltd. CEO
Anjani Sinha and four others in the
Rs. 5,600 crore NSEL payment scam.
Jan. 9: Mahatma Gandhis granddaughter Ela Gandhi, Australian
senator of Indian origin Lisa Maria
Singh and the Ramakrishna Mission
among the 13 recipients of the 12th
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award
presented by the President Pranab
Mukherjee in New Delhi.
The former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa formally rejoins the BJP.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 1: Union Water Resources
Minister Harish Rawat is sworn in as
the eighth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand at the Raj Bhavan in Dehradun.
Feb. 3: One should not succumb
to unscientic prejudices against
Bt. Crops, says the Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, inaugurating the
101st session of the Indian Science
Congress in Jammu.
The Delhi Cabinet clears the Delhi Lokpal Bill, 2014.
THE HINDU
Seven A.P. Ministers quit StateCabinet. Union Minister D. Purandeswari resigns her Cabinet post and
party membership.
The Supreme Court commutes
the death sentences of three convicts
in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination
case to life terms.
Feb. 19: N. Kiran Kumar Reddy
resigns as Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister and quits the Congress and
Assembly membership.
The Tamil Nadu government decides to free all the seven accused in
the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
Rishang Keishing (94), Indias
oldest parliamentarian retires
after seven decades in
politics.
Feb. 20: The Rajya Sabha gives
nod for the Bill for creating Telangana amid bedlam.
Odia gets classical language status.
Former DMDK leader Panruti S.
Ramachandran joins the AIADMK.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
announces special category State
status for the Seemandhra region.
Six-point package for residuary Andhra
Pradesh,
including
tax
incentives.
Feb. 21: The country has the capacity to rise above partisan politics
to enact crucial laws in the national
interest, says the Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh on the last day of
the 15th Lok Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha passes the Whistleblowers Protection Bill.
Feb. 24: The Lalu Prasad-led RJD
splits after six of its 22 MLAs announce move to join the ruling JD
(U) in Bihar.
Mehair, a non-scheduled air services provider launches a unique
seaplane service, the rst of its kind
in mainland India, linking Mumbais
Juhu airport with tourist destinations of the State.
Feb. 25: Nine of the 13 rebel
MLAs who broke away from the
Rashtriya Janata Dal return to the
party fold.
India and Saudi Arabia sign a
breakthrough MoU on defence
cooperation.
Feb. 26: Navy Chief Admiral D.K.
Joshi resigns hours after a re on
board submarine INS Sindhuratna
off Mumbai leaves two officers dead
and seven others injured.
Feb. 27: The Supreme Court says
till March 6 the release of four convicts Nalini, Robert Payas, Jayachandran and Ravichandran in the
Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
In a rst-of-its-kind in the coun-
MARCH
March 1: The former Army Chief
V.K.Singh joins the BJP .
President Pranab Mukherjee gives
his assent to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill. Approves central
rule in the State.
March 2: The Union Cabinet
clears reservation for Jats in nine
northern states under OBC. Gives
special category status for ve years
to successor state of Andhra
Pradesh.
March 3: The Defence Ministry
puts on hold all deals with RollsRoyce the British engine maker. CBI
probe ordered into allegations of
kickbacks.
March 5: The Election Commission announces a nine-phase poll
schedule from April 7 to May 12 for
the 16th Lok Sabha and the Assembly
in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and
Sikkim.
President Pranab Mukherjee appoints former Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit as Kerala Governor.
The Supreme Court upholds the
conviction of Sushil Ansal and Gopal
Ansal in the 1997 Uphaar cinema
tragedy that claimed the lives of 59
people.
March 10: Expelled Samajwadi
Party leaders Amar Singh and Jaya
Prada join the Rashtriya Lok Dal in
New Delhi.
March 11: Famous poets Javed
Akhtar (Urdu), Subodh Sarkar (Bengali) and Ambika Dutt (Rajasthani)
prominent among 18 presented with
the Sahitya Akademi awards at the
annual Festival of Letters in New
Delhi.
March 13: The Delhi High Court
upholds the death sentence of all the
four convicts in the December 16,
2012 gangrape case.
March 14: The Cuttack sessions
Court sentences to 11 years Mittu
Patnaik, the main accused in the August 25, 2008 Kandhamal nun gangrape case.
Seven persons are killed and ve
others injured after a dilapidated
seven-storey building collapses on
APRIL
April 1: The Supreme Court declines to review its February 18 ruling in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination
case, commuting the death sentence
of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan to lifer.
Meghalaya gets connected to the
Indian Railway network.
April 2: The Delhi High Court
upholds the conviction of U.P. politician D.P. Yadavs son Vikas Yadav,
his nephew Vishal Yadav and their
employee and co-accused Sukhdev
in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder
case.
April 4: A Mumbai sessions court
awards death penalty to three repeat
offenders who gangraped a photojournalist on the Shakti Mills compound in 2013.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle puts into orbit the countrys second navigation satellite, the 1,432 kg
THE HINDU
Vice-Admiral R.K.Dhowan is appointed as the Navy Chief superseding Vice-Admiral Shekhar Sinha.
April 18: The DMK MP T.M. Selvaganapathy quits Rajya Sabha.
April 22: A Division Bench of the
Andhra Pradesh High Court acquits
all the accused in the August 6, 1991
massacre of eight Dalits at Tsundur
village in Guntur district.
April 24: Record voter turnout in
sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections
involving 117 constituencies. Seventythree per cent polling in Tamil Nadu. Five Jharkhand Armed Police
personnel and three polling staff are
killed in a blast in Dumka.
April 25: Constitution Bench to
hear plea for release by seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Supreme Court extends
stay on Tamil Nadu Governments
order freeing them.
April 26: The Supreme Court
rules that Muslim women are entitled to maintenance even after
divorce.
The President Pranab Mukherjee
presents the Padma awards at a
function in Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi.
The CJI Justice P. Sathasivam
demits office.
April 27: Justice Rajendra Mal
Lodha is sworn in as the 41st Chief
Justice of India by the President
Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.
April 28: The Supreme Court
stays the death sentence of Lashkare-Taiba terrorist Mohd. Asif in the
2000 Red Fort attack case.
April 30: High turnout marks the
seventh phase of Lok Sabha polls.
Divyanshu Ganatra becomes
the only visually challenged
Indian para-glider to have
own solo after undertaking
the ight at Kamshet, near
Pune.
MAY
May 1: Parchuri Swathi, a TCS
employee in Bangalore is killed and
14 others injured after two blasts
rock the Bangalore-Guwahati Express as it pulls into the Chennai
Central railway station.
May 2: The Army is called out and
an indenite curfew imposed in the
Bodoland Territorial Area districts
of Kokrajhar and Baska in Assam
after militants kill 32 persons in
three incidents in the past two days.
May 3: The President Pranab
Mukherjee presents the Dada Saheb
Phalke award to lyricist Gulzar at the
61st National Film Awards at Vigyan
Narendra Modi signs the register after taking oath as the 15th
Prime Minister of India, at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in
New Delhi.
seats in the 119-member Assembly.
May 17: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigns owning responsibility for the Janata Dal (Uniteds)
poor performance.
The Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh submits resignation letter to
President Pranab Mukherjee.
May 18: Congress leader Nabam
Tuki is sworn in Arunachal Pradesh
Chief Minister for the second consecutive term.
May 20: Jitan Ram Manjhi is
sworn in Bihar Chief Minister.
May 21: Naveen Patnaik is sworn
in Odisha Chief Minister for the
fourth time in a row.
Narendra Modi demits office as
Gujarat Chief Minister after being at
the helm for 12 years.
May 22: Anandiben Patel is
sworn in as the 15th Chief Minister of
Gujarat at a grand event in the capital Gandhinagar.
May 23: T. R. Zeliang of the Naga
JUNE
Gopinath Munde
THE HINDU
JULY
July 1: The Supreme Court grants
bail to former Tehelka editor Tarun
Tejpal.
The Madras High Court sets aside
a January 5, 1994 circular exempting
use of Tamil in lower courts.
Shah Rukh Khan is conferred with
the Knight of the Legion of Honour,
the top French civilian award at a
function in Mumbai.
State Bank of India launches six
digital branches (sbiINTOUCH)
across the country.
July 2: Sensex gains 324.86
points to close at 25841.21.
July 3: The Tamil Nadu government appoints retired Madras High
Court judge R. Reghupathy as the
one-man commission to probe the
Moulivakkam building collapse.
July 4: Goa Governor Bharat Vir
Wanchoo resigns.
July 5: The 46 nurses freed by
Iraqi militants arrive in Kochi to an
emotional reunion.
July 6: Gujarat Governor Kamla
Beniwal is transferred to Mizoram.
Vakkom Purushothaman, Governor
of Mizoram is appointed as Nagaland
Governor. Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva to hold additional charge
as Gujarat Governor.
July 7: Sensex surpasses the
26000 mark for the rst time ever
AUGUST
THE HINDU
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1: Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala is
sworn in Karnataka Governor.
Sept. 3: Sensex closes at an all
time high of 27139.94.
Sept. 5: India and Australia sign a
civil nuclear cooperation agreement
in New Delhi.
The former CJI P. Sathasivam is
sworn in the 23rd Governor of
Kerala.
An Armed Forces Tribunal Bench
quashes the courtmartial of Lt. Gen.
P.K. Rath, former 33 Corps Commander, in the 2008 Sukna land
scam.
Sept. 6: The toll in the Jammu
Kashmir rains touches 160. Over
OCTOBER
THE HINDU
NOVEMBER
Nov. 3: The former Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan quits the
Congress and oats new party.
Nov. 4: The President Pranab
Mukherjee dissolves the Delhi Assembly, in suspended animation
since mid-February.
Nov. 5: Sensex crosses the historical 28000-mark for the rst time.
Nov. 8: Three-time BJP MLA
Laxmikant Parsekar is sworn in as
the 11th Chief Minister of Goa.
Nov. 9: Manohar Parrikar is
sworn in Defence Minister and Suresh Prabhu gets Railway portfolio in
the Union Cabinet expansion.
Nov. 10: President Pranab Mukherjee confers the 49th Jnanpith
award upon Hindi poet Kedarnath
Singh, in New Delhi.
Nov. 11: Eleven women die after
undergoing faulty sterilisation
surgeries at a family planning camp
in Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh.
Nov. 13: The Army sentences ve
of its personnel to lifer for the staged
encounter killing of three Kashimiri Maharashtra Chief Minister
civilians on April 30, 2010 in the Devendra Fadnavis.
DECEMBER
Dec. 1: Fourteen CRPF personnel
are killed by Maoists after an ambush near Kasalpara village in
Chhattisgarhs Sukma district.
Dec. 2: Seventyone per cent polling in Phase II of Assembly polls in J
& K. It is 65 per cent in Jharkhand.
The Supreme Court sets up a Social Justice Bench to monitor social
issues.
Dec. 4: The SP, JD (U), RJD, Janata Dal (Secular), INLD and Samajwadi Janata Party agree in principle
to merge.
Sixty people lose their eyesight after botched cataract surgeries at a
camp at Ghuman village in Punjabs
Gurdaspur district between Oct. 31
and November 4.
Dec. 5: Twentyone persons are
killed in four separate militant attacks in the Kashmir valley.
The Shiv Sena joins the Devendra
Fadnavis Cabinet in Maharashtra.
A 27-year-old woman MNC executive is raped by a cab driver in New
Delhis Inderlok area.
Dec. 7: Over 30,000 people come
together in Chennai to create the
worlds largest human formation of a
national ag, a Guinness World
Record.
Dec. 8: Andhra Pradesh and Singapore sign MoU to build capital
city.
The MDMK quits the NDA.
An economic offences court in
Hyderabad sentences to six month
jail term B. Ramalinga Raju and
three others in the rst ruling in the
Rs. 14,000-crore Satyam Computer
accounting scandal.
Dec. 9: Jharkhand records 61 per
cent voting and J & K 59 per cent in
third phase of Assembly polls.
Dec. 10: The Union Cabinet gives
nod for raising from 26 per cent to 49
per cent the FDI cap in the insurance
sector.
The Government announces decision to decriminalise attempt to
suicide.
Dec. 11: Russia accepts Indias offer to make light-utility helicopters
jointly. Seven pacts signed after Modi-Putin talks in New Delhi.
Dec. 12: The Lok Sabha passes
The Coal Mines (Special Provisions)
Bill, 2014.
Dec. 13: Bangalore City Police arrest Mehdi Masroor Biswas, for waging war against friendly state.
Dec. 14: J&K records 49 per cent
voting and Jharkhand 61.65 per cent
in phase IV of Assembly polls.
Dec. 15: T.V. Gopalakrishnan is
presented the Sangita Kalanidhi
M.S. Subbulakshmi Award by the IS-
RO chairman K. Radhakrishnan in
Chennai.
Dec. 16: India bans the IS terror
group.
Sensex plummets by 538.12 points
to close at 26,781.44.
Dec. 18: The Supreme Court extends till April 18, 2015 the bail for
former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa.
The GSLV Mark III rocket is
launched from Sriharikota.
Lifer for four Anand Margis in the
L.N. Mishra murder case.
Dec. 19: The Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley introduces The
Constitution (122nd Amendment)
Bill in the Lok Sabha.
Tamil writer Poomani is chosen
for the Sahitya Akademi award for
2014 for his novel Angnaadi.
Dec. 20: The External Affairs
Ministry relieves diplomat Devyani
Khobragade of her post for failing to
inform authorities about her childrens U.S. passports.
J&K registers 65 per cent turnout
in the fth phase of Assembly polls.
Jharkhand records 66 per cent.
Dec. 21: The SASTRA-Ramanujam Award 2014 is conferred on Professor James Maynard of Oxford
University, in Kumbakonam.
Dec. 23: At least 75 persons are
killed by militants in Assams Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts.
The BJP gets absolute majority in
Jharkhand. Hung Assembly in J&K.
Dec. 24: The Centre confers Bharat Ratna on Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and Madanmohan Malaviya.
Ordinance route for coal blocks
e-auction and FDI cap hike in insurance sector.
Dec. 26: Union Cabinet nod for
Neutrino observatory in Theni, Tamil Nadu.
Dec. 28: Raghuvar Das is sworn in
Jharkhand Chief Minister.
A Chennai woman is killed and
three injured in a blast in Bengaluru.
Dec. 29: Union Cabinet nod for
ordinance to amend Land Act.
Dec. 30: A special CBI court discharges BJP president Amit Shah
from the November 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The A.P. Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 comes into
force.
Dec. 31: Presidential nod for setting up NJAC.
The ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan retires.
A Pakistani shing boat is set
ablaze by its crew after being intercepted by the Coast Guard off Porbandar, Gujarat.
THE HINDU
INTERNATIONAL
JANUARY
Jan. 1: Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian Ambassador in Czech Republic is killed in an explosion at his
home in Prague.
Latvia joins the Eurozone.
The Affordable Care Act, the U.S.
President Barack Obamas landmark
healthcare reform policy takes
effect.
Jan. 2: All 52 passengers of a
Russian ship MV Akademik
Shokalskiy are rescued by a
Chinese icebreaker Xue Long
after remaining trapped in the
ice off Antarctica for over a
week.
Jan. 6: Aitizaz Hussain, a teenager who tried to stop a suicide bomber
from entering his school in Pakistans Hangu district is killed after the
attacker blows himself up.
The Awami League led by Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina wins an absolute majority in parliamentary
polls.
Janet Yellen is conrmed as the
chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Reserve by the Senate.
Jan. 7: Temperature dips well below zero in Chicago as dangerously
cold polar air snaps decades-old records as it spreads from the Midwest
to Southern and Eastern parts of the
U.S.
Jan. 10: Aitizaz Hussain, the
young braveheart from Hangu,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in
Pakistan is conferred the civilian
honour Sitara-e-Shujaat.
Jan. 12: A 49-member Cabinet
led by Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina is sworn in in Dhaka.
American Hustle, the stylish
crime caper bags best musical/comedy lm and two acting awards at the
71st annual Golden Globes in Los Angeles. Historical drama lm 12 years
a Slave bags the coveted best drama
prize. Woody Allen receives the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime
achievement at the Globes.
Jan. 13: Thai opposition protesters seeking resignation of Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra occupy major streets in Bankgkok .
Jan. 15: Egyptians cast ballots
wrapping up a two-day key referendum on a new Constitution as a precursor to presidential polls.
Jan. 16: China detains Ilham
Tohti, a prominent Uighur economist and scholar.
FEBRUARY
Feb.1 : Fourteen persons, including four schoolchildren are killed after being engulfed in scorching ash
clouds spat by Indonesias Mount Sinabung at Sigarang-Garang in Karo
district, North Sumatra province.
Feb. 2: Academy-winning actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman (46) is
found dead of an apparent heroin
over-dose in his apartment in New
York City.
Opposition protesters prevent
voting at thousands of polling stations in Thailand during the general
elections.
Feb. 3: Janet Yellen is sworn in
the rst woman president of the U.S.
Federal Reserve in Washington.
Microsoft appoints Hyderabad
native Satya Nadella as its new CEO.
Feb. 7: Eightythree children,
women and elderly people who sur-
for alleged vote buying which inuenced the outcome of three mayoral
polls in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Feb. 20: Ukraine violence toll up
to 94 and injured number 900 as
bloody clashes erupt again in Kiev.
Feb. 21: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition reach deal. Legislators vote to revert to
the 2004 Constitution.
Feb. 22: Ukraines Parliament
votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from power. Former
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is
freed from prison.
Matteo Renzi is sworn in Italys
Prime Minister heading the youngest government in the nations
history.
Feb. 24: Ugandan President Yoweri Musaveni signs into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals
jailed for life.
The Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi submits resignation
to interim President Adly Mansour.
Feb. 25: Outgoing Housing Minister Ibrahim Mahlab is appointed
Egyptian Prime Minister.
Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the
worlds biggest bitcoin exchange
goes offline.
Feb. 26: Michael Adebolajo gets a
life term and Michael Adebowle is
sentenced to 45 years in jail for the
May 2013 killing of British soldier
Lee Rigby on a London street.
More than 170 Islamist rebel
ghters are killed in a Syrian army
ambush near Damascus.
Feb. 27: Ukraines ousted President Victor Yanukovych ees nation
and seeks refuge in Russia amid a
growing revolt in Crimea. Parliament votes in a new government.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk is appointed
Prime Minister.
Feb. 28: Thierry Atangana, a
Frenhman kept in solitary connement in Cameroon for 17 years following
a
controversial
embezzlement conviction arrives in
Paris after a presidential pardon on
February 18.
MARCH
March 1: Thirtynine persons are
killed and 109 injured in knife attacks at Kunming railway station, in
Chinas south-western Yunnan
province. Four attackers shot dead
by police.
March 2: Harrowing historical
drama, directed by a black lm-maker Briton Steve Mcqueen 12 Years a
Slave wins the best picture Oscar at
the 86th Academy Awards ceremony
in California. Matthew McConaughey wins the best actor for role in
APRIL
April 1: Manuel Valls takes over
as Frances Prime Minister.
April 2: NATO suspends bilateral
cooperation with Russia.
Australias High Court in a landmark ruling recognises the existence
of a third non-specic gender that
is neither male nor female.
Eighteen countries ratify a landmark treaty at the U.N. regulating
the multibillion dollar global arms
trade.
April 4: Anja Niedringhaus (48), a
German photographer working for
Associated Press is shot dead and
Kathy Gannon, a Canadian colleague
wounded in an attack in the Tanai
district of Khost province in
Afghanistan.
April 5: Afghans cast ballots to
choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the countrys rst
democratic transfer of power.
April 7: Peaches Geldof (25),
daughter of Band Aid founder and
musician Bob Geldof and a media
and fashion personality is found
dead at her home in Kent, southern
England.
Hungarys Prime Minister Viktor
Orban wins parliamentary polls.
April 12: At least 13 persons are
killed and more than 10,000 evacuated after a huge re rips through
Chiles historic port city of Valparaiso, ravaging 2,000 acres.
April 13: The Hunger Games:
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The Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba les initial public offering in the U.S.
Pakistan human rights activist
and lawyer Rashid Rehman is shot
dead in his office in Multan.
May 12: Ukraines Russianspeaking eastern regions declare independence from Kiev following an
overwhelming vote for sovereignty
in a referendum.
Major General Kristin Lund is
named the rst-ever woman to serve
as the head of a U.N. Peacekeeping
Operation by the Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon.
May 13: At least 300 persons are
killed in an explosion triggered by an
electrical fault at a coal mine in Soma
town in Turkeys Manisa province.
May 14: The New York Times
res its erstwhile Executive Editor
Jill Abramson.
May 15: The U.S. President Barack Obama inaugurates a haunting
Ground Zero museum dedicated to
the Al-Qaeda attacks which killed
nearly 3000 people.
May 20: Japanese scientists unveil a pint-sized roller-skating robot
EMIEW2 with a sense of humour.
At least 130 persons are killed in
twin car bombings at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of
Jos.
May 21: China and Russia sign a
landmark gas deal ending more than
decade-long negotiations.
Akhil Rekulapelli, an IndianAmerican student wins the National
Geographic Bee Championship in
THE HINDU
JUNE
JULY
Major General Kristin Lund of Norway with the United Nations
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
his son Prince Felipe, ending a 39year reign.
Scientists announce the discovery of Kepler-10C, a Godzilla among planets that is 17
times the size of earth, at the
meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston.
June 5: Japanese mobile company Softbank launches Pepper, a robot that can read emotions
June 7: Two days of ghting in
northern Iraq between security
forces and militants leaves 59 persons killed. In Ramadi, gunmen inltrate Anbar University.
Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as
Ukraines
fth
post-Soviet
President.
June 8: Former army chief Abdel
Fatah al-Sisi is sworn in Egypt
President.
June 9: Thirtyseven persons are
killed as Pakistan military ghts an
all-night battle with Taliban gunmen
who besieged Karachi airport.
A Russian court jails two women
for life for the October 7, 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna
Politkovskaya.
Syrias President Bashar al-Assad
announces an unprecedented prisoner amnesty.
June 10: Jihadists seize Iraqs
second city of Mosul after launching
an all-out assault on the security
forces a day earlier.
Reuven Rivlin, a former Speaker
of Israeli Parliament is elected
President.
June 11: Militants belonging to
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seize the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
June 14: Afghans cast votes in
presidential run-off marred by vio-
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AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1: Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe announce
the Japan-India Investment Promotion Partnership in Tokyo.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief
Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami
Tahreek leader Tahir-ul-Qadri are
booked under the Anti-Terrorist Act
for bid to attack Parliament.
Sept. 2: The Islamic State posts a
video showing the beheading of U.S.
reporter Steven Sotloff kidnapped in
2013 in Aleppo, Syria.
Sept. 5: Ukraine signs ceasere
agreement with rebels to end nearly
ve months of ghting in the nations east, in the Belarussian capital
Minsk.
Sept. 6: Swedish Director, Roy
Anderssons A Pigeon Sat on a
Branch While Reecting on Existence bags the Golden Lion at the 71st
Venice Film Festival. Joshua Oppenheimers The Look of Silence picks
up the grand prix.
Sept. 8: Mathew Martoma, an Indian-origin portfolio manager is
jailed for 9 years by a federal court in
New York for his role in an insider
trading scheme involving $276
million.
Sept. 11: The U.S. President Barack Obama orders airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State.
Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius is
not guilty of premeditated murder,
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says the High Court in Pretoria.
Sept. 12: Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of culpable
homicide for the death of his girl
friend Reeva Steenkamp in February
2013.
Three men are handed down
death sentence and a woman lifer for
the mass stabbing on March 1 at a
train station in Kunming, China that
killed 39 persons.
Ian Paisley (88), former Northern
Ireland First Minister and Protestant leader dies in Belfast.
Sept. 13: Southern Cross Austereo, an Australian radio station at
the centre of a royal hoax call row
donates Aus $500,000 to the family
of Indian-born nurse in a British
hospital Jacintha Saldhana since
dead.
Islamic State militants release a
video that purported to show the beheading of U.K. aid worker David
Haines who was kidnapped in March
2013 in Syria.
Sept. 14: Swedens Social Democrat-led bloc ousts the ruling centreright coalition led by Prime Minister
Fredrik Reinfeldt in parliamentary
polls.
Sept. 16: The Ukrainian and European Parliaments ratify a landmark pact. Kiev adopts a peace plan
that offers three years of limited selfrule to rebel-held regions.
Sept. 17: The Appellate Division
of the Bangladesh Supreme Court
commutes the death sentence of top
Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee to imprisonment till
death
Sept. 18: Scots cast ballots in historic referendum.
Krittika Biswas, the daughter of an
Indian diplomat is awarded
$225,000 as compensation by New
York City for wrongful arrest and
jailing on February 8, 2011 on cyber
bullying charges.
Sept. 19 : Scotland votes decisively to reject the independence option in the landmark
referendum. Alex Salmond resigns as rst minister and as
the head of the Scottish National Party.
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OCTOBER
Oct. 1: Former Norwegian Prime
Minister Jens Stoltenberg assumes
office
as
the
13th
NATO
Secretary-General.
Oct. 3: Protesters in Hong Kong
call off talks with government after
clashes with pro-Beijing crowds.
The ISLS announces the beheading of a fourth Western hostage,
British taxi driver-turned-aid worker Alan Henning.
Oct. 5: Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff wins rst round poll.
Oct. 6: Anglo-American John
OKeefe and Norwegian couple MayBritt and Edward Moser win the
2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine for
discovering the brains internal positioning system.
Oct. 7: Two Japanese scientists,
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano
and a Japanese-born American, Shuji Nakamura are awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for inventing blue
light-emitting diodes.
Ebola-hit Liberia suspends na-
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NOVEMBER
Nov. 2: Daredevil Nik Wallenda
performs back-to-back walks on a
tightrope between Chicago skyscrapers without a safety net or a
harness, one of them blindfolded.
Nov. 3: Thirteen years after the
September 11, 2001 attack, the one
World Trade Center, a 541 metrehigh skyscraper opens again.
Nov. 5: Republicans gain a stronger grip of the U.S. House of Representatives and win Senate majority.
Indian-Americans
Republican
Nikki Haley and Democrat Kamala
Harris re-elected South Carolina
Governor and California AttorneyGeneral. The rst Hindu American
in Congress Tulsi Gabbard wins
from Hawaii.
South Carolina elects Tim
Scott the rst African-American to the Senate since the
years following the Civil War.
Mia Love becomes the rst
black Republican woman
elected to the House of
Representatives.
Nov. 9: Berliners and tourists
from across the world begin celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall 25
years ago.
Russia signs mega gas deal with
China.
Nov. 10: Chinese President Xi
Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold icebreaking dialogue on the sidelines of the APEC
summit in Beijing.
Nov. 11: The APEC members give
in principle nod for the Free Trade
Area of the Asia-Pacic (FTAAP) in
the plenary of the summit in Beijing.
Capt. Lee Joon-seok, the skipper
of the Sewol ferry that sank on April
16 killing more than 300 people is
jailed for 36 years by the Gwanju
District Court in South Korea.
Nov. 12: China and the U.S. agree
on a timetable to limit greenhouse
gas emission after Obama-Xi Jinping
talks in Beijing ending a 20-year
discord.
The European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft puts the 100 kg Philae lander on a comet for the rst
time in history, after a decade-long
journey through space.
Nov. 14: Historical thriller The
Imitation Game and Oscar-winner
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Khushwant
Singh
R. Umanath
OBITUARY
JANUARY
Jan. 3: Phil Everly (74), pop icon
who inuenced The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, in the Californian City of Burbank.
Jan. 5: K.P. Udayabhanu (78) musician at his residence in
Thiruvananthapuram
Jan. 11: Ariel Sharon (85), former
Israeli Prime Minister, at a hospital
in Tel Aviv after being comatose for
eight years.
Jan. 13: Anjali Devi (86), veteran
actor, of cardiac arrest at a Chennai
hospital.
Jan. 17: Suchitra Sen (82) veteran
Bengali actor of a massive cardiac
arrest at a Kolkata hospital.
Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (102), the 52nd spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim
community, of a cardiac arrest at his
residence in Walkeshwar, Mumbai.
Jan. 22: Akkineni Nageswara Rao
(91), Telugu lm actor at a hospital in
Hyderabad of intestinal cancer.
Jan. 27: Pete Seeger (94), folk
singer at New YorkPresbyterian
Hospital.
Ariel Sharon
Anjali Devi
MARCH
Zohra Sehgal
Yoga guru
B.K.S. Iyengar
U. R.
Sir Richard
Ananthamurthy Attenborough
Nageswara
Rao
Shirley Temple
Black
Balu
Mahendra
Eduard
Shevardnadze
Mandolin U.
Shrinivas
Nedunuri
Krishnamurthy S. Balasubramanian B.G. Verghese
JUNE
June 1: Dhondutai Kulkarni (86),
a noted singer , in Mumbai after a
brief illness.
June 2: D. Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy (90), Indian Cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church, in Rome.
June 22: Ramanarayanan, Tamil
lm director , at a Singapore hospital, of cardiac arrest.
June 24: Eli Herschel Wallach
(98), Hollywood actor in New York.
JULY
July 7: Eduard Shevardnadze
(86), the Soviet Unions last Foreign
Minister and later the President of
Georgia, in Tbilisi.
July 10: Zohra Sehgal (102), the
grand old lady of Bollywood in a New
Delhi hospital of a cardiac arrest.
July 13: Nadine Gordimer (90),
South African writer , in
Johannesburg.
July 28: Theodore Van Kirk (93),
the last surviving crewman of the
Enola Gay, the U.S. plane that dropped the rst atomic bomb on Hiroshima, in Georgia, the U.S.
AUGUST
Pollachi N.
Mahalingam
Director K.
Balachander
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JANUARY
Feb.2: Karnataka defeats Maharashtra in the nal of the Ranji Trophy in Hyderabad.
Feb. 3: J. Prithiviraj named the
President of Federation of Motor
Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) in a
press conference in Chennai.
Feb.4: Legendary golfer Tiger
Woods plays a round at the Delhi
Golf Club.
Feb. 6: Mahindra launches its
Formula E car in New Delhi.
Feb. 7: Kumar Sangakkara becomes the second batsman in history
to score a triple century in the second Test against Bangladesh in
Chittagong.
Feb. 14: England football great
Tom Finney (91) passes away in
London.
Feb. 15: Australias Mitchell
Johnson claims his career best
match gures of 12 for 127 in the rst
Test against South Africa in Centurion.
Feb. 16: Renaud Lavillenie of
France breaks Sergei Bubkas 21year-old record in indoor pole vault
with a high of 6.16m in the world
meet at Donetsk.
Feb. 18: Host New Zealand wins
the Two-Test series against India
1-0.
Feb. 20: Sri Lanka seals the
three-Test series against host Bangladesh 2-0.
Feb. 22: Sri Lanka seals the OneDay series 3-0 against host Bangladesh.
Feb. 26: Sourav Kothari wins the
National billiards championship in
Lucknow.
MAY
May 5: Englands Mark Selby
wins his maiden World Snooker
Championship in Sheffield.
May 11: Manchester City
crowned Barclays Premier League
champions.
May 12: Manipur women win the
National womens football championship in Assam.
May 14: Sevilla defeats Benca to
win the Europa League.
May 17: Atletico Madrid crowned
Spanish La Liga champion in Camp
Nou.
May 19: Australian Formula One
great Sir Jack Brabham dies in Australia, aged 88.
May 23: Cricketer Madhav Mantri dies in Mumbai, aged 92.
India settles for Bronze in Badmintons Uber Cup.
May 24: China wins Uber Cup in
New Delhi.
May 25: Japan wins Badmintons
Thomas Cup in New Delhi.
APRIL
Pankaj Advani
July 5: Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 to clinch her
second Wimbledon title.
July 6: Novak Djokovic defeats
Roger Federer 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4),
5-7, 6-4, to win his second Wimbledon title.
Lewis Hamilton wins the British
GP.
July 7: Former Real Madrid star
Alfredo Di Stefano dies.
July 8: Host Brazil bow out of the
FIFA World Cup losing 1-7 to
Germany.
Deep Sengupta wins the Commonwealth Chess championship in
Glasgow.
July 12: Netherlands beat Brazil
3-0 to nish third in the FIFA World
Cup.
July 13: Germany clinches FIFA
World Cup title beating Argentina
1-0.
First Test between India and England at Trent Bridge ends in draw.
July 18: Germanys world cup
winning captain Philipp Lahm announces retirement from international football.
July 20: Nico Rosberg wins the
JULY
July 1: Former New Zealand
cricketer Lou Vincent admits publicly to being involved in match xing.
Indias Jitu Rai was ranked number one in the mens air pistol list
released by International Shooting
Jitu Rai
Federation.
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Mary Kom
German GP.
Rory McIlroy wins British Open
golf tournament.
July 21: India beats England by
95 runs to win the second Test at
Lords.
July 23: Commonwealth Games
2014 begins at Glasgow.
July 25: Abhinav Bindra wins
gold in mens 10m air rie and sets
new CWG record with a score of
205.3 points.
July 26: Inaugural edition of ProKabaddi League starts in Mumbai.
July 27: Italian cyclist Vincenzo
Nibali wins the Tour de France.
Daniel Ricciardo wins the Hungarian GP.
July 28: South Africa beats Sri
Lanka 1-0 in the Test series.
July 31: India lose to England in
the third Test at Southampton.
AUGUST
Aug. 3: Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow ends. India nished fth in
the medals tally with 15 gold, 30 sil-
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